001e e e all pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay let the record show that truste uh Hamilton Starks and trusty Barnes and trusty Delo are present uh and there was no action taken in closed session at this point I will entertain a motion to adopt the agenda moved second the moved and seconded all those in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously move on now to Communications uh members of the public May address the Board of Trustees regarding any agenda item during consideration of that item please note that if you wish to address the Board of Trustees on an agenda agenda item you should do so when
002that specific item is called for by the board president uh to submit a comment in person please uh complete a public comment card uh you can also provide your feedback online uh by via simbly gamut or live chat feature via YouTube comments submitted online will be read by the board assistants assistant and all remarks are limited to a duration of 2 minutes uh at this point this is an opportunity for individuals to address the board on items that are not on the agenda please note that because they are not agendized items we cannot take action on them uh but we you know but do know that we are listening and if necessary we will uh direct staff to uh to follow up is there anyone who would like to address the board on an item
003that is not on today's agenda okay uh and there doesn't appear to be anyone online so we'll go ahead and move forward to reports and we'll start with the Roa Education Foundation good evening and I'm going to try to lead by example and keep it nice and short uh tripping 10 books for last month's uh students were delivered yesterday terrific 10 books for this month's students that were here yesterday for their dinner have the order their order has already been placed uh moving on to fireworks hey I need we need to get this done you know fireworks I'm still waiting to hear back from Miss Chris she is going to be my lers on between me and the principals to see if they are all in on the idea of each School taking a particular
004day and Staffing that day and then have it uh once if they agree to that then I will be coming to the district to get District to agree to have all the different units here take a day and then everybody pitches in on the fourth as you know as you know from experience we're used usually pretty skinny on the fourth yeah so but that's where we're at right now and the golden one grant that uh Mr CF worked on that came through the foundation uh come next week on the 19th we're going to have a dinner over here at the uh School site and have the parents and the students of them 36 students come in and we'll go over the process with them what they're going to what the computers are for we have
005all the computers and they've already been set up thanks to Elliott so we are glad we're getting this thing off the ground any questions did I keep it short enough you kept it plenty short thank you sir can now move on to Roa Teachers Association CSEA superintendent report good evening I will keep mine short as well um read Across America was last week and we had wonderful activities at the school I just want to thank Mr Ramos um at Glennwood and Miss Brian at Taylor for having me as a guest reader to their classes it was great um we did have tfic 10 yesterday and the kids were wonderful we had a lot of young students um and usually when we have young students they don't engage in the conversation but they were very much
006engaged so and I'm really excited that their orders um for um the Scholastics given by you know roet Education Foundation are in because when I share with them I said oh I know Mr Raven's going to talk to your to your teacher so that's really exciting that they're taking care of it um our indoor soccer tournament is in full swing this is the second week it is every Thursday for the next few weeks so if you're available it's tough It's we start at like 2:30 um and then finally we will have two attendance challenges before Spring Break um one that starts Friday to Friday and then um the second one the following week I shared with their principles and uh they're already getting their uh advertisements to their class and motivation so we're excited that's
007it that's the end of my report excellent thank you so much uh let's go to board member reports we'll start with trusty Barnes um just one report and um it's more of a statement and uh I don't have anything written down I tried to write something down I couldn't quite get to that um so doing this off the cuff a little bit um we've had a couple of tough board meetings recently and that's part for the course you know um there are a lot of other districts that get tough board meetings um and we've been fortunate I've done this for this is my 13th year on the board and every year has been really good um even with the tough board meetings I I want to say a couple things one um as a board
008the way we operate we we operate as one unit after we vote and our board has been really good um we've had a lot of discussion before um sometimes that makes us late um so apologies um and you know we put our hearts into this and then we get to a vote and we vote and after that we operate as one unit even if you know we're on the other side of that vote we've always operated as one unit we've always given each other the Civility and the respect to say whatever we needed to say and after the vote we've all been unified and I've been really happy with our board because we've done a great job and we work well together um before we get to that vote we're we're we're five individuals five
009duly elected individuals and I know it doesn't always seem like that you just kind of people just kind of look at us as the board but we are five individuals and we do react differently and we receive things differently and that all that that sometimes gets gets lost so hopefully um people will see us as five duly elected individuals that react differently now I will say this too I've been really proud of the way that we have uh reacted individually and so when I say that everything that has come to me that I'm aware of I have investigated and looked into and and and and tried resolve I know that's true I know that's true of my my U colleagues up here so so I think we are a really good board and I'm very
010proud to be on this board and anything and everything that has come to us I know that um based on what I know of my colleagues they have worked their best to resolve no matter what their opinion of it is we've always put our kids first and we've always put the district first always I just want every want to know that before we do get to the vote we we are five duly elected individuals and just remember that that's it that's all I have thank you Ken um for that statement um I have nothing to report okay um and I also want to say thank you and I very much appreciate that appreciate you sharing that a lot of people don't realize that that we are individuals and so uh the important thing though to
011understand is no no one individual has any Authority in and of themselves we have an our Authority comes as the board uh which is why it's important that we have deliberations that we work together and uh you know I'm involved in a lot of organizations and I can honestly say that uh I there is not one that I am prouder to be a part of than this one which is probably why I've been on the board for 20 years because I just I enjoy this and I enjoy working with you folks so thank you and and and when I say you folks I I mean the full government governance team and our staff uh y'all y'all make us look good and we appreciate that very very much um I also wanted to report this week
012the California school boards Association was doing our uh annual Lobby week uh we've been doing the meetings with our local state representatives uh via Zoom uh which is always Zoom meetings are always interesting uh because of the work that's being done at the C at the state capital there really aren't a lot of meetings spaces that are conducive for to have you know multiple Schoolboard members and me and the elected members uh meet um we met with uh I met with three different members uh assembly assembly member Krell assembly member Hoover and Senator Ashby uh who are in the various different areas that cover that cover our district uh we talked about all of the legislative priorities of the California School Board Association most specifically we talked about uh about budgeting and making making sure
013that the prop 98 guarantee was met that the cola was fully funded uh and that that they once again if uh if the governor decided he wanted to do his uh Creative Accounting once again to readjust prop 98 that they would reject that and uh each one each member to a person uh committed that uh they they they wanted to fully fund uh we wanted to fully fund the cola and that they definitely wanted to make would would make sure uh that there was no uh no fun business when it came to the prop 98 uh guarantee so uh always oh we also talked a lot talked a lot about buses electric buses uh there's a piece of legislation specifically that would extend the uh 100% uh uh zero emissions mandate uh right now it
014ends it it's right now it's set for 2035 it would extend at an additional 10 years um they got they have gotten an earful from a lot of folks about with concerns about that so I have a I I told them I'd like to just see the requirement go away altogether but having said that 10-year extension would be a uh we could settle for that so anyway but yeah no it was a they were all all very very good meetings and uh that is all that I have to report uh we will now move on to presentations and information and we'll start with item a the 20 2425 special education update we didn't do the public oh oh I'm sorry I I apologize I skipped the public hearings I'm a man ahead of my time
015unfortunately it's only about 10 minutes okay we're going to start with the first public hearing uh to Sunshine The Proposal from classified School Employees Association chapter 285 to the robless school district for the 2025 26 bargaining negoti ation this hearing is now open are we also looking for anything online or do we yeah they're looking online I move that we close the hearing been moved in second all in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously Item B public hearing Sunshine proposal from roess school district to classified School Employees Association chapter 285 for the 2025 26 bargaining negotiations uh this public hearing is now open I move that we close the hearing second it's been moved in second all in favor please say I I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously now we
016will move on to presentations and information and we'll start with the 20242 special education update thank you for your patience no problem I want to take a really quick uh birdwalk though and recognize our board because I've worked with a lot of boards over 25 years um and some people in here know that I came and saw a board meeting before I accepted this position and I accepted it because you guys were amazing the way you work together even if you have differences of opinion um just made me want to be part of the district so you were you were what sold me on thank you I've learned my lesson from last year you are getting cheat sheets on all of my acronyms you go good evening I'm Janet Horowitz the director of special services
017for this amazing District um and I just want to tell you as I start this presentation that I'm just so proud of the work this district has has been doing um in the area of special education so here are our 2425 numbers um our total District enrollment preschool through sixth grade is 2018 students um of those students 331 are eligible for special education supports that puts our percentage at 16.4% of our student population um across the state We Are Climbing they state is currently at 14.3% I expect that'll go up more um last year when I reported to you it was a 12.6% so about a almost a 2% increase we were similar in about a 2% increase um a lot of that um in my personal opinion has to do with covid has to
018do with um while we may have students with processing orders if we were able to have them in the classroom working with them from start to finish kindergarten through sixth grade I believe a lot of those students would have learned compensating strategies would have learned femic awareness much more solidly and we wouldn't be at 16.4% but we are so we're um addressing student needs you anticipated my first question thank you well there may be more questions now I get into my favor graphs so um I tried to give you last year I came in here and showed you our data from 2324 that is what is in blue the red is 2425 um as you can see we are um having a pretty significant increase in a number of students identified um as eligible under
019autism um the other areas have stayed pretty similar or possibly dropped slightly um if you look at the bottom three which is or mid three there other health impaired specific learning disability and speech and language impairment um I will address the question about why our autism numbers may be rising because I have a feeling that's going to be be one of those questions um one thing that we are seeing especially at the preschool level is during covid um there were quite a few students that were identified as having autism over Zoom that definitely um impacts the ability for a clinician to evaluate social interactions it's hard to do over video also a lot of our children were in isolation and um may not have been getting talked to as much may not have well certainly
020didn't have the social interactions that a preschool would provide so I I'm not surprised to see the increase that we've had um it's not obviously not us across the board we're seeing increases in autism but what we're also seeing as some of our preschool students come in eligible for autism when they turn three years old after two years in a preschool we're having conversations with those parents that their students no longer exhibit those symptoms which is amazing to see um looking at preschool levels again pre uh or by grade level preschool by far had the um pretty significant increase there across the board we're seeing increases um I tend to look at the previous year so the blue kindergarten students if you drop down to Red first grade that gives you an idea of how
021many have been identified over the past year um obviously we're going to see growth um one of the areas where we've seen the least amount of growth and actually a slight dip is from 5th to sixth grade um those sixth graders are students that got a solid year of kindergarten in um before we went into distance learning um those are also students I have to hypothesize that um may not have been identified as frequently in part because we were on hybrid and um we distance learning and so those students may not have been identified at the rights that others are um our fifth grade stud students as you can see was a pretty big jump um there's a lot that goes into identification of eligible students um part of that is ruling out a lack
022of instruction um but we're it's kind of relative because all of our students suffered so looking at where are students that are eligible for special ed reive services um the vast majority obviously are speech and language only a lot of those students are preschool kindergarten first grade with articulation delays um and so they may receive once or twice weekly speech therapy um our push pull pull out push in specialized academic instruction are students that receive what has traditionally been called a resource program students may come for small group instruction or a specialist may push into the gened program and support them there with our focus on um helping our special education students feel included in the general education classroom to have that sense of belonging we are moving more towards um pushin Services where a
023teacher goes in and helps support that gened teacher in um providing direct instruction to students our um what's called a mild mod self-contained classroom are students that spend the majority of their day in a special education environment um those numbers you're seeing that decrease um in part because we've had quite a few students how who have graduated out of that program and are either participating in the pull out pushin SI or in inclusion our extensive support needs students um the self-contained classroom are students with moderate or severe disabilities that would struggle to be in a gened classroom for more than half of their day um and then that last one that is growing is um for me very exciting uh Mr Raven mentioned our inclusion efforts we have truly focused on having all students feel
024part of the Gen classroom and receive meaningful instruction looking at our primary environment um again the blue last year red this year the green that you see are the three areas that CDE monitors us on those are their targets um the target for general education for more than 80% of the day we are slightly above now before I kind of get into this I do have to say the state um looks at data that is two years old when they're determining or monitoring so while we may not look fabulous uh there um part of that is because they use data from 22 23 so that's what's identifying us as um needing support our um other area they look at is general education students that are in um or special education students that are in general
025education less than 40% of the day our students that are in self-contained classrooms I'm really pleased to report that that has dropped from a high of 31% down to currently 18% which is starting to approach the state Target we're super excited about that um our numbers for separate setting those are students that require um education in a what's called a non-public school which is a setting that is a program licensed by the state but run by um a private entity we currently over the past two years have only had two students in that type of setting which means we're doing a phenomenal job of educating our students in our district or within our County resources I'm going to give a quick overview of the continuous Improvement monitoring plan that I talked about last year that
026um we wrote in November of 2023 our problem of practice too many of the district students with disabilities are placed in special education services for more than 50% of their day um our root causes that we identified as a team were insufficient support on inclusive practices and univers design for learning strategies resulting in barriers to implementation and that students with autism were placed in self-contained classrooms that a much higher rate than students with other disabilities our recommended activities I'm going to provide you an uh update on that in November of 2023 um we decided to add an inclusion specialist position for preschool through third grade and two Independence facilitators since that time we have actually added two inclusion special and six independent Independence facilitators which has allowed us to implement Implement inclusion at five of
027our sites and return 15 of our students to their home schools it's our goal to have kids in their home school their neighbors are there we don't want to have them going to a different School even though we're a small District when they can be with their friends from the neighborhood um our second uh recommendation was to provide professional devel velopment for all staff regarding inclusive practices um I will touch a little bit on these when we get to the end um but since deciding to move forward at the professional development we have contracted with changing perspectives um we have staff participating in the sco inclusion of community practices and the inclusion facilitator Institute uh we also investigate professional development opportunities for all staff regarding udl Universal Design for Learning um and provided that with
028Mr Sam D we are also working on uh professional development opportunities to build understanding of the abilities and needs of students with autism this fan blows directly on you and just absolutely dries out so our partners in our work um changing perspectives last year I came to you with information about our contract Contracting with Mr dren for fall um since we uh approved that contract and I want to give a major shout out to college Futures nonprofit in Oakland Who provided us with a substantial gift to help fund this program um Mr dren has done two districtwide trainings focused on inclusive mindsets and udl in addition we selected Taylor Street and Robla as pilot sites for inclusive practices um Taylor has had two uh professional development sessions with all teachers participating a staff meeting focused
029on universal accommodations and tier one strategies um Mr dren has conducted two site classroom observations and one-on-one meetings with teachers um he continues to do coaching with our Administration as well as staff members one-on-one um Robla has also had two PD sessions one day of the class walkthroughs and a full day of teacher interviews where they were able to ask Sam questions about their strategies if they had students they wanted to uh kind of workshop with him about how to help support those students um Ro's Focus has been on teacher reflection on student participation and how we can make small changes in instructional design to make the classroom more engaging for all students uh last year I also mentioned to you that we would be working with The Playmakers um Playmakers is a program that
030provides inclusive um sports activities and games um typically in the um Community they work a lot with our feeder high schools to provide students who work with students with disabilities on um weekend activities football basketball um soccer all of those programs um we were able to get Playmakers to come in on a monthly basis um they are working with four of our self-contained classrooms second Friday of every month to do fun Friday activities and then we have fifth and sixth grade students working as peer mentors um to support those children as well um I'm currently in conversations with Coach RZ from Playmakers about how we can further incorporate their programs into our district um this has been very positive I would invite you to come check it out they're just it it's just so great
031to see everybody's smiles and just the activities as they engaging um in addition addition finally we have um Sacramento County Office of Education um I have not worked in Sacramento PRI prior to coming to Robla I have been absolutely amazed at the amount of professional development our County provides um in addition to the supporting inclusive practices program we have been the recipient of a grant for the inclusive Early Education expansion program which will provide funds to our preschool to increase inclusion opportunities as well as um provide equipment for accessibility um and other opportunities in addition um one of our um inclusion Specialists is working with a company called beginning together uh sponsored by westad which is um providing her with Independence uh I'm sorry inclusion facilitator status um so that'll be a certificate she is
032doing classes every every Thursday night on her own time um and just really excited to have all of this really coming together I look forward to being up here two years from now being able to look at this year's data with you and really getting an idea of how we've moved towards having all of our students feel like they belong any questions thank you actually I I did um I did have one question um I know the large usually we measure the success in terms of you know how much pushing in we're doing how inclusive our programs are uh what data do we use to determine whether or not these inclusive practices are making a difference for uh for for the students both those who are we're working to we're working to to be more
033included and and and and the other students what sort of data are we looking at to determine the uh the success in that in that way I am so glad you asked that because I have a list excellent so um and right now a lot of it obviously is anecdotal um we did do a um pre-s survey on um teachers attitudes towards inclusive practices in May we'll be doing our post survey to see how that's um it measures the teachers um commitment to inclusion their comfort level with it um and how they feel they're able to incorporate practices that help support all students um but I'm just going to give you a couple of quick examples one is um we had a student who has been in a self-contained classroom since preschool so two years
034of preschool kindergarten first grade second grade um we um had her return to her home school Maine Avenue and that student um recently got 100% on a grade level math test without any accommodations and without any additional support needed from the eclosion specialist um I was recently in an IEP meeting last month for a student at um uh roblo it had been similar sort of situation been in a self-contained classroom in second grade um currently performing at grade level in math and nearly grade level in um English language arts that student is also um an English learner so that just adds another layer um and really helps us feel that um we are truly making a difference um and I want to read you one from um one of our inclusion Specialists that supports students
035over at Glenwood kindergarten student initially struggled with disruptive behavior which is kind of an understatement often wandering around the classroom climbing Furniture refusing to participate in needing assistance with daily living skills he had difficulty communicating his needs to a limited vocabulary his support team worked with him to set clear expectations use visual cues create a designated break area limit access to furniture and provide positive reinforcement when he followed instructions over time his behavior improves significantly he now participates fully in morning meetings and carpet time communicates his needs and wants and can transition to and from Recess lunch and speech with minimal reminders he also demonstrates improved self-control keeps his body safe and has gained confidence in class academically he's thriving and performing at grade level so right now we you know I could go on
036I have pages of it which is just so exciting for me no that that's actually very helpful unfortunately it seems like sometimes in the in the area in the area of Education it's like we always look for and reward Innovation we don't necessarily and we do it because it's oh it's Innovative but we don't necessarily determine whether or not it's actually successful in doing what we want and and what you're talking about there those those anecdotal that is anecdotal evidence I'm hoping that we can develop some tools over time to put some some statistical numbers to that to show the difference in behavioral issues to show M areas of Mastery because you know that then then we can start just not just the fact that we're doing more of it we but we could also
037recognize the success that it's having for our students and i' be happy at the end of the year when I start crunching numbers on goals Matt share that with you perfect but I do want to add one more because one of our parents drove by Roa playground the other day while her child was out there um and this is a student who is now in her third year of inclusion um she really struggled with remaining engaged with her classwork and had Li limited engagement with her peers when the parent drove by the other day um she witnessed her child out on the playground playing tag and the other kids just running up giving her hugs and she was just a you know a typical student at recess which is what we want for all kids
038thank you so much and I apologize I am going to run out because it snowed at my house this morning and I'd like to get home before the ice so thank you all thank you thank you okay we're now going to have Item B the 20242 second interim report and positive certification good evening president delus um board members superintendent Chen everybody who is here present and everybody who is online uh we're presenting our 2024 second an keeping in mind our vision statement every student reaches their potential in the growth mind environment reach and challenging practice and reflect the learning for all um don't worry about this is the only slide that I will read um that overview um the package that that you approv in the second intern is 155 Pages LA today we will
039present um a summary where what I believe is the important parts that you need to be aware we will cover every item this in this overview our buet assumtions what I call the buet exensions the local control funding formula what I think about is about three legs too one is the average daily attendance the UND duplicated count and the third leg is the cola our funded Ada is going to be based on prior year because we are on declining enrollment and it's about um we will we will funding about 8,000 06 if we are in declining enrollment for the following year the Ada from this year will be funding 2025 26 uh all federal um care funds we are done uh as some September 30 2024 our projections are our Lottery is um restrict unrestricted
040and restricted um I don't think I have mentioned this before um I'm very our unrestricted lot we found all our Librarians at each of the elementary schools that's how we use the fund and that restricted is has to be only spent for instructional materials and that is very volatile it a lot of it could change depends on the sales on the state but that's the the estimated as this point in time um this is a new slide um what is not in the budget I uh it's as important as what it is in the budget what is the in the sanctions the governor released the budget in uh in January before the Los Angeles fires and in his budget includes um significant um onetime funding for um two two gr two grants two black grants
041one is for student support and professional development blogr and another one is for learning recovery emergency blogr those these are one-time fundings and are not included in the assumtions for 25 26 there is also funding for um transition of kindergartener to me a ratio from um 10 to one um or 20 students for for two adults and it's not in that's not included and also we're in the negotiations and negotiations are not included in the in the assumptions um in um we are in the process the city of Sacramento manage um ACS Grant after scho after school education safety there about $750,000 those funds will be transferred to roess school district to be managed for 25 26 and that is not in the in the budget um yet so those fund is the running program
042they are spending it now we have to manage we have to to to expend it um buet exensions um enrollment determines our average daily attainment unfortunately uh this is not good news we have been in declining enrollment from four or the last um five years um prior to co we have lost 175 students you think about it as seven classes seven seven classes and just from last year to this year we have lost um 28 28 students that alone is over $400,000 from that so now we will discuss what what is our our general fund um our our the reports are unrestricted restricted and combined for the purpose of this presentation I I presented in as unrestricted and comb buy our total unrestricted general fund is $ 28.9 million of which the majority 27.1 million
043is from um local control funding formula combined our total revenue is about $ 38 million 37.9 this is um exactly the same data just on a pi chart so we can see that our general fund unrestricted is 94% when we combine it with a total is um 72% I want you to pay attention this Federal revenues is I know it's only 5% this used to be like 15% when we used to have our resert our res fund that's about $2 million that's kind of like what we expect we are assuming that our federal revenues will continue at this point in time now let's switch to the other side of the passle our Spanish es um our unrestricted expenditures is 23 um3 million and combined for 4 41.8 million the majority we are a people business
044kids and we need adults to 8K our kids and 83% of our unrestricted um general fund is for salaries and benefits for certificated salaries classifying and and benefits again this is um in a pie chart um with the the previous numbers 83% what where you have that on the other operat expenditures includes contracts and the majority of that expenditures and all the utilities that the the we that we use in the district within the um general fund there's some programs where we the word is is encroachment I like to use the word contributions so these are programs that we receive some revenue or we don't receive any Revenue where the general fund unrestricted has to contribute more and that is addition and is a a total is $5.8 million the greater is um special special
045education it's $4.2 million and we have increased this is always has been our biggest portion of contributions but during the last four years that amount has has also been increased and we just hear the special a uh presentation you we just have more students in special at um every year where now our district has greater percentage than the average within the within the state and the restricted maintenance we this is we don't have we don't receive the fair revenue from the state to maintain our buildings but we are required to spend at least three % or general fund to maintain our buildings and that is the one one $1.3 million so U we're talking about U um fun fun balance and well I took this page right from the page there is a significant um
046ending fund balance there are for restricted programs that means we cannot use this fund for any other than this purpose and two of these programs make up about 77% that is the spended learning opportunity program and the learning recovery emergency blogr and we also have the arts arts and music or proposition 28 we do have plans to start spending the funds for 25 um 26 so in summer this is a um um this this page is is a summary of 27 pages in your report you know we start uh the beginning the year with 37.3 million we are we will be down to 33.5 so we do have deficit spending this year and the following two years there two kind of deficit spendings one is where we receive the funds previous years we have fund
047balance so there's no new Revenue so we have to spend those restrictive programs but we also have some deficit spended in the unrestricted unrestricted portion so even though with our def spending our ending fund balance is still strong at this point so as to after to this point everything we has been all about the general fund the top light we also manage other funds within the district and this is a summary um the cafeteria fund is the bigger ones in there we uh the deficit spending here is plan we have a plan with a CD we cannot have a fund balance greater than six months or parat expenditure so we are we are investing in that's that that one the building fund as you know that's where the bond money is we don't have any
048bonds we Sol our bonds so every expenditure it reduces the fund balance we will not allow to end any of these funds in a negative we will be positive for for for G this is where where where we are um so what what is the opportunities and challenge um there's a lot of uncertainty in the budget so most likely will change by the M Revis and one is that at the federal level it's it's all over the news is that the use the Department of Education will close down so really what does that mean for for the school district what does it mean for us um we don't know uh we are operating as it will continue we do receive $2 million in federal funding or about five about almost 5% of total revenues um
049our decline in enrollment is a concern you know just almost we we have a trend of declining enrollment and that that is that's concern is very concerning um we are in the middle of negotiation it's very difficult to um you know you're getting this Cola you have all of this fun balance but when you are in declining enrollment our revenues are coming in are less than what we we will have this this current year so therefore our Reser reserves are critical to to to maintain our our programs our next steps we have to continue um uh our initiativ is to increase enrollment and average Del attendance that's number one I also put it separate and our staff will will attend a May revised Workshop our 25 26 budgets will be based on the May Revis
050so we will have very short period of time to sharpen our our our pencils to find to so you bring you to approve our budget in the El for um 25 20 26 um our based on this and it is we recommend the war to um approve the uh 2024 um secondo with posst certification this means that we are able to meet our obligations for this year and the following two years and thinking available to answer any any questions I have one unusual question and this goes back to the slide you had a couple couple slides ago with um the opportunities and challenges um those are a lot of um challenges and I you we've always had do you do you anticipate that we will need another meeting sometime soon if uh some of these
051challenges uh come true fruition um we we could and uh we could provide um in a day of the May Revis that is a significant um significant changes in the January um you know one one thing unfortunately is um the majority of the Spanish are in stuffing and we have some deadlines stor deadlines for uh like the March 15 notice so um you know after that there is not um the there something we could do you know um contracts supplies do something but you know that this is could is there is a lot uncertainties yeah yeah um I you know um after the the the la fires I was curious but now as you mentioned you know uncertainty in federal funds as well um I'll be paying attention yeah um yeah I mean it seems
052like every day uh some news about the federal government about that so we so so I do think there will be some reductions in the federal R I don't think it will be the whole the whole team that's just that's just my U my projections uh and I know you can we can read a lot of a lot of information and we have try to keep upd what is the latest information but that's that's what we're thank you any additional questions or comments thank you so very much we very much appreciate all the work that you do to help us to remain uh fiscally solvent and aw aware and planning for the future sure you uh you provide us with a lot of really good information help us uh you definitely help us make good
053decisions so thank you do thank you effort thank you all right we're going to move on to the consent agenda I'll entertain a motion to approve removed second removed in second all those in favor please say I I opposed abstentions motion carries unanimously now on to action items number a approve Aruba network switch solution proposed by team one networking under RFP 25-105 go moved second the mov in second and discussion uh this item is for uh essentially replacement of infrastructure that is outdated Obsolete and or not supported by the manufacturer any longer any additional discussion or debate 39 we'll move forward to a vote all in favor wait oh I'm sorry I did have a question why why why are we waiting for Bill and roord for next next year uh thanks for the question
054uh board member Barnes this um this equipment is funded in large part by a federal program called eate uh which um uh reimburses the district between 80 and 90% the overall cost uh of these items depending on on the category that the items fall into and quite frankly we just didn't have enough funds in um eate to pay for the equipment for all of our schools and so we've been uh rolling them out in a phase Manner and when the e- rate uh cycle it's a five-year cycle funding cycle is um restarted next year the funds will be replenished and we'll be able to complete uh the two remaining schools um phasing them in is also somewhat a standard practice in particular because this equipment is new to us so phasing it in allows our
055staff to um to learn about the equipment to receive training and to become conversent in maintaining it and uh the other thing about phasing equipment in is that it uh both protects our budget from large it expenditures that will come in a cyclical Manner and it also protects um it from budget um inconsistency that we might experience so in any given point in any given year if we suffer uh you know a budget crisis a budget shortfall we aren't necessarily going to defer uh a large purchase that would have districtwide impact in instead we'd only be uh impacting a small portion of the district by by deferring that purchase when you say Network switches you're not you're not actually you know the oldish defin just whiches no one's going to be put to any detriment
056by no these devices um they they live in the closets that don't have any signs on them that nobody ever goes into and essentially what they do is they just um route data to the different uh ports and to the wireless access points that um exist across the district and so the ones that we have now are functional we cannot receive support for them any longer um and there are a couple other issues that are moving away moving us away from the the uh model and the brand that we're currently using uh but they but uh no one is being detrimentally impacted right now uh because we haven't replaced the switches at their schools thank you any additional discussion or debate hearing none we'll move forward to a vote all those in favor please say
057I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously Item B approved contract with T-Mobile for expanded bus Wi-Fi access moved second it's been moved and second in discussion so this is an item that we discussed a couple of board meetings ago when we talked about technology infrastructure and some of the improvements that we've been making across the district uh we have been rolling out uh Wi-Fi to our school buses which already are connected uh to uh cellular networks for the purposes of um streaming video to our transportation services uh department so that they can monitor those School buses for safety and security purposes uh transitioning to this uh service contract allows us to sort of um multipurpose that connection to include Wi-Fi uh it also happens to make that service e rate eligible which reduces its cost
058to the district overall oh I um I had a couple questions when I was looking over this so um we can this this basically makes our bus a Hotpot our bus is a hot that's great um and we have uh now we have three electric buses and I keep hearing something about some problems with the electric buses um as far as I know the buses are in use every day um so I I know there are certain you know differences in the way that electric vehicles operate from traditional internal combustion vehicles but my understanding is that our transportation services department does use our electric buses every day okay okay that my next question thank you my pleasure any additional discussion or debate here we now we'll move forward to a vote all those in favor
059please say I I opposed abstentions motion carries unanimously item C approve contract with Sacramento Valley Lock Works for digital door locks moved second moved and seconded discussion so this uh contract is for the purchase of additional door locks um we currently use digital door locks on uh the majority of the doors here at the district office however uh for whatever reason a number of them never received those digital door locks we recently transitioned to a more secure internal process whereby folks receive Badges and we're able to track and monitor access to our um District Office Buildings more effectively uh digital badges are more uh secure or than the keys that were being distributed to staff in the past and essentially uh we can't eliminate the use of traditional Keys unless we convert those remaining doors
060to these digital door locks will the board be getting badges I'm sorry will the board be getting badges the board can receive badges absolutely what do we have in the rest of the district the uh the remainder of the district does not have digital uh uh door locks um our offices have traditional um door locks they have to remain open for Public Access during the day and then our uh classrooms have keys and have to remain uh locked during during the day so the requirements for our school sites are a little bit different than they are here at the district office what about like the um the offices in the school sites like the administrative officer they don't need something like this no they don't at this time well they they aren't a good fit
061for the solution that we have at the district office because of the the access that's being provided um to different types of folks okay what kind of access uh and this can be a future but I'm just curious no it's a great question so a lot of the district um office is uh off limits to the public for a variety of reasons uh we have uh uh equipment as sets uh information that needs to be secured um and for that reason some of the buildings here have to be um secured in a manner that's different than our school sites which have uh Public Access in certain areas and have to be closed off in other areas so it just has different egress and Ingress requirements and certain areas are have to be more accessible at
062school sites than they do here at the district office but can something like this be applied in the school sites in a useful way it can technically I mean we would have to undergo like a cost benefit analysis and determine um logistically if it would be feasible and or if it would be an improvement to the current u means of securing our school sites and so that that analysis hasn't really been conducted this kind of solution isn't targeted for school sites per se I I get that I guess the reason I'm asking is this goes a while back um my very first school board meeting was the day before Sandy hook and so you know I had my school board meeting and it was great and I was super jazzed from it and I woke
063up super jazzed and then I turned the TV on and I saw Sandy Hook and I've always been curious about um security since then and we've made a lot of improvements I'm always looking for you know other areas absolutely yeah the Safety and Security of our school sites is absolutely top of mind we're constantly making uh changes uh to our strategy on that front we've made a ton of improvements as you say over the last year and a half or so I think we talked about it a little bit at the last board meeting when we discussed uh the new safety plan that was approved by the uh or the updated safety plan that was approved by the board and it is absolutely something that we think about all the time thank you thank you
064any additional discussion or debate hearing none we move forward to a vote all those in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously item D approved 20242 second interim Report with a positive certification moved second moved in second and any discussion or debate hearing none we'll move forward to a vote all those in favor please say I I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously item e adopt dismissal of certain certificated probationary employees resolution number 920 moved second moved and second second any discussion or debate hearing n we move forward to a vote all those in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously item F adopt dismissal of certain certificated temporary employees resolution number 921 moved second moved in second and any discussion or debate hearing none move forward to a
065vote all those in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously item G adopt first day of school for the 2025 26 School Year resolution number TW number 922 moved second the moved and seconded discussion yes um establishing the school calendars is in collaboration with our teachers union we are in negotiations with that um however we feel we're already in March we need to establish the first day of school so this um resolution is to establish the first day of school um consistent with what our first day of school has been in the last few years so that would be August 13 2025 any additional discussion or debate hearing none we'll move forward to a vote all in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously item H approve Sunshine proposal
066from classified School Employees Association chapter 285 to roas school district for the 2025 26 bargaining negotiations moved second moved and seconded any discussion or debate hearing none we'll move forward to a vote all those in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously item I approv Sunshine proposal for robas school district to classified School Employees Association chapter 285 for the 2025 26 bargaining negotiations moved second it's been moved in second any discussion or debate just to say that even though these things sound identical they they are different yes one is the proposed the the first was their proposal to us and the second is our proposal to them those for those of you watching at home [Laughter] yeah any additional discussion or debate hearing none we'll move forward to a vote all those
067in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously item J approve additional ground repairs at Bell Avenue preschool by school sa's landscape construction company did I pronounce that right Yes sounds good okay so moved second moved in second and any discussion um part of the new construction of our preschool TK building on the preschool campus um Landscaping The Outdoor Learning environment was not part of the Grant and while the construction company did return it to how um they first received it we felt it was important to um enhance their learning environment any additional discussion or debate heing none we'll move forward to a vote all those in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously item K approve contract with Kya campus fields and play area Court Renovations at Taylor Street
068Bell Avenue and Glenwood moved moved and seconded discussion this is another great opportunity where we can enhance our learning environment at the three schools so we will be um making significant significant um upgrades um into for the fields so I'm super excited um I know most of our events are held on the main campus so this provides an opportunity not only for our after school programs to use our um our outdoor space right to enhance their learning but um we will be able to offer additional um programming with with the new Fields Mr Castile you want to show the cameras the the samples I just want to say how I proud I am of the work that we're doing with our outside spaces and I know you know we I think we've already had a
069lot to be proud of with the work that we've done with with with our campuses and with the the stuff that we still have planned with the the structures the uh indoor structures but I also you know the outdoor spaces are part of that learning environment and I really just appreciate the work that you've done and the rest of our staff have done to work to make sure that uh our outside is as is as useful as our inside any additional discussion or debate hearing none will'll move forward to a vote all in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously we now move on to board member requests for future agenda items or reports Rusty Barnes nothing at this time Rusty uh Hamilton Starks um I would like to get some more
070clarification about the aces uh program I know that um before it was managed by the city of Sacramento um I would like to get more clarification as to why that is and why do we need to change and how that might impact our current after school um programming so I would like to just understand why and I have nothing so with that uh this meeting is adjourned thank you thank you for watching for