001I 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. Is there um Okay. Um before you start your comment, you may provide your name and address. Please do not provide your name if you wish to remain anonymous or if you do not want your information included in the meeting minutes. There's a 3 minute time limit on public comment. This public forum is not structured as a question and answer session but is offered as an opportunity to share your thoughts with the board. Is there anyone present who wishes to publicly comment on items not on the meeting agenda? Thank you. We're going to get into presentations. Um, we'll begin with 7A, recognition of student representative of the board, Andy
002Martinez. Okay. And we are very excited. And I have a couple things I'd like to say, Andy. Um, here we go. I wrote them down. Okay. So tonight, we want to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude to Andy Martinez for his outstanding service as our student representative this past school year. Being a bridge between the student body and the board is no small task, but Andy handled it with remarkable poise. Each month, we looked forward to Andy's school site reports, which gave us a clear and vital window into the daily lives of our students across the entire district. Beyond the reports, whenever we asked for a student perspective, Andy provided thoughtful commentary and honest opinions that helped with our decision-making. Perhaps most importantly, Andy brought a calm presence and consistently positive attitude to
003this DAS. Andy, thank you for your dedication and your service to the school district. You have been a powerful voice for your peers. Don't ever forget that. And a pleasure to work with. We wish you the very best in your next chapter and we're going to miss you a whole lot. Thank you so much. [applause] [applause] I just want to say a few things. Um, thank you guys so much for the opportunity. It's been a wonderful experience being with you guys. Thank you to my parents who are in attendance right now. [applause] I just want to say thank you for the support and this is this has been a wonderful experience for me. Great. Thank you guys a lot. Great. Great. And on behalf of the district and the board, we have a little present
004for you, too. And we have a certificate of appreciation. So, thank you. Could we take a picture with the [applause] Brand? Yeah. for a second. [applause] Okay. One, two, one more. Thank you so much guys. [applause] Thank you. I just want to make one comment about Andy. When you talk about a well-rounded student, the epitome right here, whether you play soccer, you played football, you do the board. I mean the the list of things you do is amazing. So you are the perfect allaround student. Thanks. I wish you I want to I wrote some notes as well and I was just saying like not only to acknowledge you know the courage it takes to sit in a room full of adults. Never underestimate how qualified you are at that because you've done it for a
005full year and um that's a testament to who you are. So know that that will carry you far. And to to ditto that comment because balancing academics, sports, this, friends, family, it's a lot and you you you did it well. So congratulations. Yeah. All righty. And my comment is I agree with all of those and you're making your mom and dad very proud and I'm sure that they're very [laughter] proud. Yeah. Thank you for all of your work. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay, we are going to move on to 7B and that is recognition of the Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year and I'd like to call on Nick Haley. [laughter] It's going to be me. I'm Cat. Hi, Cat. Um, hi. Uh, hello. My name is Cat. Um, I'm the St.
006Lina Teen Center site director. And I'm Megan. I'm the program director. Uh so every year uh we select two students from our site to recognize um and in 2025 we awarded Saul the youth of the year award um and Odali's the Elaine Jones reach award um and this award is uh for teens who we feel like uh need to be uplifted in our community. Um and so today they will come up to say a couple of things about their award in the teen center. Um and thank you so much for your time. Thank you. [applause] Good evening everyone. My name is Ois Abila Santos. I have been a part of the club since first grade. In 2025, I was awarded by the club $1,000 through the Elaine Jones reach award. This was a big moment
007for me because I felt seen by my community. I'm grateful for the club because of all the activities and the Oregon teen retreat. Both have helped me create different friendships and encouraged me to open up and and express my emotions. [applause] Hello, my name is Saul Rias Mesa. I have been a part of the boys and girls club since I was in third grade. In 2025, I was awarded the club by the club $2,500 through the youth of the year award uh from the St. Lina Teen Center. I believe the club and the teen center have been a great help to spread to spreading my horizon horizons from the people I've met and interacted with to the experiences on the team retreat I've had with them. Also, being able to rely on the staff and
008have a sturdy a sturdy support system with them hasn't impacted my life. I appreciate you all for listening to me talk about my experience with the program. [applause] Um and um I had the privilege of being um on uh working with two other um adults to listen um I cannot get my words out tonight. Um but I had the privilege of meeting Saul. He was one of the candid candidates. There were three of them between the Kalisoga and the St. Helena um clubs. and he went through a rigorous process of question and answer, sharing his story, having to be [snorts] really brave and share some personal things about himself, um, which were wonderful to learn your story and what you're doing currently in high school. And I know that you have a interest in cooking
009and your endeavors with um, being a chef someday. And so I really appreciated learning that sto those stories and then honoring you at the beautiful Krug Winery. um along with the other finalists. So that was a wonderful experience and it really is wonderful to see um how invested Boys and Girls Club is with all of our students and uh children in the valley and um how well you do with with the club and the school's support. So it's wonderful to see you again. Thank you for being here tonight. Congratulations. Yes, congratulations. Thank you. [applause] Okay, we're going to move on to 7C performance by St. Helena High School Choir. And I would like to call in Mrs. Alba Gonzalez Ardondo. Hello. Let me bring them. Okay. Where? Where? Good evening uh ladies and gentlemen, board
010members and me, uh people of in the community. Uh we have tonight the san the sanina rls 8th grade choir. Um it's this choir has been very special to me. Um, these students, most of them have been with me and the wheel since sixth grade and um, and they continue their path in a year-long class this year for 8th grade. I'm very proud of their work and everything what they have accomplished this school year and um, yes, they are moving up to the high school and I hope uh, you enjoy this performance. We have one song for you and this is um a rock song uh from [laughter] Living on a Prior. We have two soloists and yes and that is um over here we have Gavin Colin and we have over here in the
011soprano area uh we have Emma Taus. [applause] [applause] That's great. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] used to work in the dark. [singing] He's not on his [music] soldier. [singing and music] He works [singing] and all day working [music] for her man. She brings home [music] [singing] [singing and music] what we make it or [singing] not. We got each other. [music] [singing and music] [singing] I swear [music] you [music] always [singing] [music] now [singing] [music] running away. [music] She in the night [singing] whispers [music] [singing] [singing] [music] what we got. Does it make a difference if we make it or [music] not? We got each other. [singing] [music] [singing] [music] Oh, [music and singing] my hand. [music] [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music and singing] Heat. Heat. Heat. [singing and music]
012[singing] Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] Heat. [music] [applause] Thank you everybody. [applause] Thank you so much for coming. Guilty pleasure confession. Bonjovi is my favorite band. So I loved it. That was great. Okay, we're going to get into 7D. That is information on the vine trail vine trail project. And I'd like to call in Dr. Mcclelay. And we have two visitors with us tonight. I'm going to turn it over to Sean Casey White and I believe that Mr. McInn is also here. Um, but they are going to do an information item. We're not voting or taking any action on anything, but this is your opportunity to ask questions, seek clarification. You also have a packet of all of the handouts in front of you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, thank
013you for having me. Um, and to have Chuck. Um, I'm just going to introduce things and then Chuck is going to go over a few of the details um of the progress that we've been making um on the trail and specifically um the safety measures um in front of the elementary school. So, I think it's been probably a year and a half since I was last in front of you um at least in this body. Um and we've been making progress on the environmental impact report for the Vine Trail connection between Yachtville and St. Molina and uh we're excited to say that that report will be submitted for public circulation in September. So you'll be seeing announcements um of community meetings and um other opportunities to have feedback on the impact report and then we'll
014um complete that and then submit it to the county supervisors for um approval the spring of 2027 and that will take us to the to progress to civil engineering. Um but we um wanted to share with you in advance of that a few of the things that um have been coming up in those discussions. You are not only interested because of the schools in the area um but also because you're a land owner and invested in the project um both at the co-op and um in front of the high school. But because this trail is on the west side, the design and the alignment of of the trail is so that we can connect our communities and we can make safe routes to school and that we can bring connected sidewalks to St. Alina. So
015if you live on the east side or you live say south of in town that you can walk to school instead of um maybe skip through the vineyard rows um in the way to get to high school on the back end. I hear all kinds of stories. Um but we um are are really um excited to see the progress. This is also the time when a year and a half ago I I was here because we're applying for the ATP cycle 8 grant um and the SF4A grant. This is the critical path. Um if our plans are to break ground by 2028 um these are the construction grants. the coalition which I Chuck and I represent. We are the private entity that does the support for the trail um and also provides the 25% match
016for construction. Um that is the catalyst or the seed money that gets um the federal and state grants which provide 75% of the total budget. Um so that's these are critical grants. Um the SS4A is the federal transportation grant and we're applying for $12 million specifically for the city of St. Alina and those alignments Chuck will be talking about just in a few sec in a few moments. Um and that grant specifically will focus on emergency response but also the importance of separating pedestrians from vehicles. And the story that you can see on the slide here is no surprise to anyone in this room. Um that our schools are aligned on the high injury network on Highway 29 that have speeds of excess of 45 m an hour and 35 m an hour with a
017traffic volume of 32,000 cars a day. Even Calrans recommends that we need to have sidewalks and separation of pedestrians from these vehicles. And so that importance of the SS4A grant um we think is a part of this and the alignment that was approved by the city of St. Alina four years ago is part of the general plan. And so we're excited that this funding um will come through this year and that the story that we tell and the way that we're connecting our schools um um really is significant. The second grant we're applying for is the cycle 8 of the active transportation grant for the state of California and we're asking for $46 million for the total project um between Yville and St. Molina and that focus is specifically active transportation and again the work
018that the city is already doing to connect streets like Mills and Grayson um the new um signal alignments um the new development on Fountain Court um and other projects we're incorporating into that which are significantly important as we as we build um this plan. These are the documents that I've given to the superintendent to review that are part of that application as we simply just identify the schools, the demographics of the schools. And again, that's how we emphasize the importance of um the audience that we're um impacting and we're really trying to emphasize how this is the connecting these schools are so critical in this grant application. Um I will emphasize it one more time. this is the critical path. These are the dollars that we need and the timeline to keep if we going
019to break ground in 2028 and start these improvements. Um so I'm going to turn it over to Chuck though to tell you um some of the examples that we're submitting to the city of St. Alina for review shortly. Thank you Sean and thanks for the opportunity to give you an update. Um, we did not get the grant last year, either of these two grants, is which is one of the reasons we're back today to try to another shot. We were four points short on the on the uh on the federal level on the statewide level for ATP last year and we were actually above the cut line for MTC the local money but the amount of money that we needed was more than they had left in their kitty by the time they got to
020our project. So they skipped over us. So, we are right on the hairy edge of where we need to be and we've we've taken some of their comments into consideration. We've really doubled down on making sure that we uh we do everything we can to uh qualify and we think we have at least four more points to gain this time around. And the other thing is that there are more there's more money in the bucket this year than there was last year and that will help I think everybody in terms of their ability to be funded. So, as Sean said, in the fall, the environmental document will be out for public comment. We're happy to kind of give you a preview in draft form over the summer as we collect that information together. And then
021just the the time the timeline is that once that environmental document goes to the public is reviewed, comments collected, comments are responded to, a final environmental document will be put out uh again for review and then come to the board of supervisors to be uh adopted and approved. And uh one thing that has changed from the last year to this year is that during the process of looking at uh the environmental document, several uh community members south of the in the south part of uh the the run between Yville and uh roughly the Napa Valley, welcome the Napa Valley uh sign suggested a potential alternative of putting the that piece of the Vine Trail on the east side of the highway. and we took uh the extra time we had because we did not get
022the grant to look at that in detail. So the environmental document will actually have two different alternatives in it as it affects the run from Yanfell up to around the Napa Valley sign. It doesn't affect anything that we're talking to you about because that's all north of there. Uh so one thing before I get into the slides here, a slide I didn't have is what happens in front of the preschool. I know that um Maren Kelly is very concerned to make sure that we uh do the proper thing in terms of especially the trees there and the traffic and trees and traffic are both part of the next phase of engineering what what Sean called civil engineering. It's really taking the plans from the 35% level to the 65% level. And that really nails down
023all of the details of of traffic and trees and and and mitigations. And one of the things that we have decided is to go, we have hired the arborist that we're going to use, which is the arborist that actually uh Miss Kelly recommended, Pacific Tree Care. They have agreed to be part of the team and they will be getting into their activities around the actual measures that need to be taken with those trees around the end of the year. And so they they haven't started any work yet, but they have been retained by the lead engineering firm, Kim, Kimbley Horn. So getting into what's happening in St. Elena and what we're looking at, as you know, the trail comes into town along Main Street. It cuts over one block on Mitchell to Oak. It goes
024down Oak to Adam Street. It goes back across Highway 29 on Adams to Railroad. It goes up Railroad to Fulton. It goes down just a little bit to jump on the railroad right away uh south of U railroad and then goes all the way up to Pratt then Pratt back to the highway and on up on the existing section to Kalisoga. So some of the things I think that really are local to this area. The top screen there shows a potential what's called a mini roundabout at the intersection of Mitchell and Oak. Mitchell is running east and west on that picture. Oak is running north and south, but that roundabout is what's called a mountable roundabout. So, fire equipment can go straight over it, but it tends to uh steer the traffic in a way
025that makes it a little bit safer than the existing crossing for kids and adults and anybody else using the trail. You can see some examples of what a mini roundabout does on the bottom two pictures. And if we could go on to the next slide, I think the next document uh here and this is a little bit of an eye chart, but uh the uh it's it's some of the features and you have all this in your hand. It's some of the features that are going in we are looking to put in place on Oak and Adams and Railroad. Uh I'll point out some the uh the there is a gray air a gray box with two arrows, one pointing in each direction. Those are what's called speed cushions or speed pillows. And they're specifically
026designed to not be a contiguous bump in the road, but to be one that has gaps in it, and those gaps line up exactly with the wheels of a fire engine so that we don't impede any of the emergency vehicles, but a normal car's wheelbase is not aligned that large, and they then tend to slow down. And the reason for the slowdown is that the while the pedestrians are on the sidewalk here in order not to lose any parking on Oak, the bicycles are in the middle of the road with the uh with the cars. And it's called a bike boulevard. And if you take some of these protective measures to slow the traffic down to less than 25 m an hour, preferably less than 20 m an hour, it is safe. The survivability of
027some of a of a bicyclist being hit by a car at less than 20 miles an hour is well up in the 80 or 90% range. When set gets to 35 or 40 mph, it drops to well less than 50%. So very important to slow the traffic down. Uh, another feature that is is in the middle of that diagram at Tainer and Oak is a bulb out of the uh, curb on the east side of Oak to narrow the intersection there and to put crosswalks in on all legs of that intersection to again make cars aware that this there is there is pedestrians crossing or uh, that intersection making it a little bit safer. There's also some similar features being discussed at Adams and Oak, but nothing really that it that's firm yet. But one
028block south on Adams at Maine and Oak, the similar bulb out making making the curb area stick out into the traffic flow on three sides of the atom Adams and Main Street intersection are being planned. And then similarly uh a treatment uh similar to that at the at the turn from Adams onto railroad. Uh some necking down of the width of uh railroad in one place uh again to slow the traffic and an alignment of a couple of the creation of of some crossings and the alignment of some crossings at the north end of railroad. All these features are going are being considered in the environmental document for the purposes of creating uh safety for pedestrians and for bicyclists. Uh we'll have a lot more information in the summer. We'll get back to uh Superintendent
029McCoy. Uh but uh anybody else who wants to have more information, let us know. And then be aware that in the fall these documents will be out for public comment and uh and free and the purpose is to look at things we might have missed in order to uh make the document as robust as possible. Uh I think that's really pretty much everything I have to say. Uh the last year you authorized uh Dr. We're going to um to validate the information that's in our SS4A grants, safe routes, safe school, safe streets for all that. And so this again, we're asking that that documentation be confirmed that it's that's a requirement of uh the SS4A grant. And other than that, we would love a letter of support if you're if you're so up for that.
030Thank you. Thank you. Any questions? We're happy to take them. Okay. When are letters of support due? The the um letters of support would be due for the SF4A or just the the authorization um is is due for SF4A by the end of this month. Um the ATP is not due until the 20th of June. Okay. Thank you. Other questions? Anything else? Just actually to piggyback on that question on Trusty Pelos's question, how many uh other uh letters of support have you received and from whom? Oh, I I have over 30 letters of support already. One of the things that will be coming out as a land owner, if I can just call you that, um is that we we are doing again the same thing that we did a year and a half ago,
031which is um a um it's a general letter of support. It's not individualized. It's just it's one that's authored by Chuck and myself. And then we send out a docu sign and we're sending that out to all 45 of the land owners. Um and just for an e signature. The last time we did that, we had um over 90% of the land owners that sign it. We have 99% um you know approval from the land owners um with the alignment. So um so we'll expect to get the same um in that signature. So that letter will be going out on Monday um as another confirmation if if that's um approved. and um but we have letters of support from the fire department, the police department, the sheriff's department, the CHP um and um chambers of
032commerce. We have the letters of support from business owners um you know including TrinO or and Gallow um or and also um the public um Napa County Land Trust, the grape growers. Um, but we've been specifically working also with Burbank Housing and our town um because we really want to draw attention to um the fact that Up Valley Family Centers, for example, has 3,000 clients that do not have regular um or vehicle transportation. And so connected um walkways and and improved sidewalks are critically important to all of the residents that live in our communities um and particularly within this corridor. And so we are in order to get those four points um really focusing on how these treatments will improve the walkability particularly of the metro metro area of St. Alina. And so those letters
033um are really paramount. So that support has really been my focus for the last couple of months and working with those groups to um make sure that their projects that they're working on like Fountain Court um are included and considered as we try to connect all of our of our community. We think we have one more. You know, I have just a quick question. I'm sorry. Excuse me. I'm sorry I'm kind of late to the game here. Um, so my question is, and I think I know the the answer to this, but so that letter of support now, does that I'm not sure if this is the correct terms, and does that is that any kind of a binding agreement to anything in the future how it looks or anything? Are we still is part
034of the plan still to look at different options at the St. Helena Co-op and here at our district? Exactly. Right. Um in fact it says in that the the first the letter that will come out on Monday for an e signature is non-binding. It's just that in principle you know we support that the trail we understand that this is still going through SECA squa and NEPA and that you know we'll be involved in the design process. So all of that is clear in that letter. In fact the letter that the board signed cuz last year it was the board that signed or didn't that authorized that letter. That letter worked wonderfully and it was there's no binding agreement on that letter. Um and it your statements clearly stated that um you know you were still
035participating in the design and the alignment. So um you know that worked just perfectly. You should have at least four or five more tough times to look at plans as they continue to be developed and say they still look okay or they don't quite look okay. Can you change it? So you got lots more opportunities to you'll get sick and tired of Chuck and I because that's our role and our roles are going to get really busy over the next year as we move beyond SQA and NEPA because we plan on having more time with you as we get to those designs and incorporate your ideas and and talk with you. So um you know we're on this together and we're we're working on that 2028 breaking ground deadline. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you.
036And I just one more I just I think it's just more to educate myself and particularly on this slide when you were speaking when you were talking about you know the need to slow down traffic and there would be modifications to roads and sidewalks. So what is the role of the city of St. Helena in in this process? I mean cuz you know traffic that's a it's a hu it could really impact traffic. Right. Right. So the city of St. Elena is a partner in all this. There are many engineering meetings and Eric Jansen in the city. Is that all of them? We just had one yesterday morning or this morning for two for two hours going through various aspects of it. Not only are they involved from a techn technical side, but they but
037the city of St. Louis is also a contributor to the project. Okay. The city has pledged $900,000 toward the project. Okay. I should say the county has also pledged $5 million toward the project. and the Vine Trail Coalition has has pledged $5 million toward the project and all that money is being used for engineering and it's being used as part of the match for these construction grants that we're going for. So, they're intimately involved. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. Okay, Sean and Chuck, thank you so much for being here tonight, updating us. Thank you. Thank you. 7E presentation on the 202526 food services program. I would like to call um Mrs. Tina Leisma. Good evening everybody. My name is Justina Leiddesma and I'm the food service director. I wanted to thank m President Simon trustees Dr.
038Mccclelay, Mr. Heler, Dr. Bang and everyone else here to allow me to speak today on my presentation. Um so today I have our food service report um for 2025 2026 and our topics today go ahead. Our topics today are program overview, menu development, staff development and successes and our opportunities for the program. our program overview. Um, our district our district is a part of a free meal program through California. Um, all meals are free to our students regardless of status. All meals are USDA and CDE approved meals. So, everything we serve are within meal pattern and meal guidelines. Um, we also combat student hunger by doing a couple of items. So, we have an unlimited salad bar for our students which is offered during our lunchtime. The students may get an unlimited salad with their
039um entree on a daily basis. Um and we also have a shared table for our students as well. So any uneatened unwanted food that is served to students may be placed at a shared table for any other student who may want a second helping of something else. Um this program is implemented in most school districts. I think in all districts if I'm not mistaken. Um, go ahead. And our menu development. I just want to first off thank the board of trustees to approving our new menu software, Healthy Pro. Um, this is going to help us develop new recipes um and be in compliance for all meals. This software is a huge improvement into creating um our program in compliance. This also will help assist staff with reading and following recipes using sorry I apologize in
040our efforts to move forward with improvements we be using monthly we've been using our monthly team meetings to taste test talk about and discuss what our students are not liking. Um and nutrition education if you want to click the next one. Um I have been posting monthly menu flyers. We call this nutrition facts. This is posted monthly for our families to kind of get to know our program. Um, we have our pizza here that we serve on Fridays. Our pizza is made with whole grain with local Californiaifornian cheese and pepperoni turkey made with turkey with with no added nitrates or any preservatives. Everything that we do have and do serve are no deree and preservative free items. [snorts] I'll go ahead and the next item and our opportunities and successes. So, I want to start
041with our opportunities. Um, menu development as we t taste test and check more diverse menu items. We, my team and I have pitching ideas and doing taste testing during our meetings. Um, our focus is to get more scratch meal items on our menu next year. Um, and most importantly getting the staff training. We need to focus on making sure we have our staff producing efficient meals. Um if you want to go to the next one. And then I wanted to highlight our successes for this year. We served the Fiesta De um my team and I had served 600 prepared and served 600 and we got to showcase um our homemade scratch reffried beans with um side street corn that was really really um a hit with families. And then um I continued to network with
042other food service directors. I invite them to our district to come see our kitchens. Give them give them uh a chance to give me a chance to a different opportunity and in other ways we can be more efficient and maybe get to know their operations a little bit to try to see what we can introduce to our district. And um as for this year as well too, we have a few new improved items that I wanted to kind of hone in. Um, we started making homemade sauces just to kind of add to our salad bars to get students more excited about our meals. Um, and sourcing higher quality proteins. Um, we changed to a whole meat chicken patty for our chicken sandwiches along with our um, for our hamburgers it is USDA approved and grade
043less than 20% fat and with minimal processing. Thank you. I'm sorry. With mineral processing, we try we changed over to higher quality proteins in our meals and we continue to research our new recipes for the future. Go ahead. And I wanted to thank everyone and if [clears throat] you had any questions or comments. Okay. Um sorry. Um Okay. Is there any public comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? I do. Okay. Okay. Thank you very much for your report this evening. Thank you. Um and this might be outside of the scope of this of this report and we certainly in the future would be fine too. But as far as the meal count, are we are we pretty steady right now as far as going breakfast lunch
044or we actually have a 9% increase on breakfast and a 9.5% increase on lunch. Okay, great. So we've been doing pretty well this year compared to last year. Okay. So, it's from last year then I compared it from last year. Okay. Awesome. Thank you very much. Thank you. I have a quick question. I know you mentioned that in your staffing you talk about what meals really work and which don't with the kids. Have you done any type of parent parental can't talk either parental survey? I've just heard some some of the primary school parents unhappy or too much this or that. And I just wondered is that an idea maybe to reach out to the parents as well to see what they feel good about maybe what they might like to see different. Yeah, that
045is a focus for the next coming year. We also I am creating a survey for our DAC parents um just to kind of get their feedback. Um I think the meeting is next week um or the week the end of the month sometime in May. Um, I'll be meeting with them and getting their advice and how we can better educate what it is that we serve. I think that's a lot of work that, you know, I need to focus on as far as getting the information out to parents that the meals that we are serving are in compliance within the sodiums, no additives, preservatives, um, sugars. We're getting that information out that that is a focus for next year. But for now, we're starting with a survey with our DAC parents just to kind of
046get their feedback on what ideas, menu ideas I can start off with next year. So, okay. Um, I also wanted to thank you for um we got to have a meal served by you um in April. Yeah. Yeah. With the orange chicken and the roasted broccoli and the brown rice. It was delicious. Yeah. So, that was a meal that we do I introduced for the students as well. Um, that will be I think in next week's menu as well. The kids seem to really like it. Um, again, it was brown rice, you know, whole grain breading on our chicken. So, trying to get the most nutrient-dense foods into our students is is definitely a goal. And Healthy Pros actually helped with that because they also have sample recipes that we can actually piggyback or, you
047know, get ideas from from other districts that decide to share. Okay. So, I had a quick question about quantity. Um, if you could help me understand, um, we've, you know, I I look at the high school kids. I have a high schooler and they come in all different shapes and sizes and you've got, you know, I think about just my son in general. He's 61, has the appetite of a rhinoceros. And so, how how is it how is it how does quantity work depending on the student? Uh, Unfortunately, USDA and CDE have very strict guidelines when it comes to serving grains and our protein, which is are considered MMAs. We're we have limits on what we can and can't serve students. This is why we also offer the share table as an opportunity for a
048student who doesn't want their food or got served an item that they don't want to deposit there. Okay. And then another student to grab. And our salad bar is unlimited to the student. So encouraging to eat fruits and vegetables. Sorry. But we do. But is that like an on So how would an entree entree? Do entre go to the shared table? Yes, but with after as long as the entree isn't opened. If it's a wrapped like a hot dog or a wrapped burger, that can go on the share table. If it's an open entree is not it's just not sanitary at that point. It just depends. There are some limitations of what can be on the share table. Okay. A packed item essentially can be on the Got it. Okay. And then we also add
049beans and and I would like to incorporate the salads like that you tried the edetamame um yeah the salad the corn edetamame salad. I would like to incorporate more protein dense items as an option in the salad bar. Unfortunately we are limited on like how much meat and cheese we can serve a student and how many calories. So at least the salad bar gives another opportunity for students to get more nutrients and more food in their day. So Okay, great. Thank you. That's helpful. Yeah. Um, any other question? Oh. Oh, Andy, I just want to comment. Um, from a student perspective, I actually think the school lunch and my friends as well, they all think it's very good. Like we we love we love the chicken sandwich day as our [laughter] favorite day. That was
050a new protein that we did uh did introduce. We introduced a spicy and a and a regular one. It is a whole grain breaded whole muscle um chicken breast that is like minimally processed. Um, I used this brand in my previous district and it just seemed to be such a hit with the kids and it it it's it's a filling sandwich. So, it feels nice, heavy, and dense. So, thank you. And you just said something that made it kind of made me think of something. So, when you said like burgers come wrapped or hot dog, something comes wrapped. So that's being wrapped by our own staff by in our own kitchen for sanitary and presentation versus something that's prepackaged. Yeah. No, no, no. Like the burgers, hot dogs, everything that we wrap on our own,
051right? Because when you hear if there are parent comments about, oh well, all these things are wrapped or packaged. The packaging is actually in some cases done inhouse. It's not like it's a processed prepackaged type of item. Yes. Okay. I just thought I thought that's a good some important clarification, I think, so people don't assume that just because you've wrapped something it meant that it's was prepackaged. Correct. Thank you for clarifying that. Yeah. Okay. Great. No, I I think that's important for your for the hard work you and your staff are doing. So, thank you. Yeah. Okay. And thank you for being so aware of um less processed foods and quality of protein. So, thank you. definitely going to be a process changing the menu. Um, getting the team to accurately and follow recipes, it
052is going to be a learning curve, but like I said with this program, it makes recipe reading very simple, straightforward, and like this program also gives sample recipes that other districts use that decide to share. So, it's nice to see what other districts are using and piggyback on those ideas because all items, all the ingredients are coming from the same vendors or similar vendors that we have. So, so it's easy to tweak a recipe just to, you know, whe whether it's local items, you know, making sure that the cheeses are local and all that stuff. That's the only changes I would have to do, per se. But everything else, it's like it's already ready for us to inherit and then start producing. Great. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank
053you. I'd also like to share with the board. Tina didn't share this. um she's so humble, but uh she did apply for a grant. We were just notified late last week that we um received the grant. Um the grant was open to all school districts. Tina took the time and the effort to apply and we were just notified. So, it's a little over, I believe, 53 55,000. And that is going to help us with our um training, upcoming trainings with staff equipment. Um, lack of equipment that we may or may need for these newer recipes. Um, you guys sampled that chocolate hummus. That's a potential breakfast item. Um, but we do need something that could blend and smooth it out a little bit more. Um, but yeah, that'll be going towards those those items and
054making sure that the staff has the adequate equipment to make scratch recipes. So, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for going above and beyond and doing that. That's great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Yay. [applause] Okay. Um, we're going to move past 7F and on to 7G. presentation from us. No, you'll recall that we pulled item 7F when we opened the meeting and that was at the request of the DAC president who will be making the presentation. She's just requested to do it in June. Thank you. The 7G presentation from Eco Green Solutions regarding the California Public Utility Commission's on bill financing program for LED lighting retrofit retrofit project. Dr. Vang, thank you. President Simon, I'm going to hand this over to Anthony Mitchell with uh Eagle Green. Also in the audience,
055we have um Mike Flores, our facilities director, so that after the presentation, if there are any questions, we can answer those questions and ensure that you have the information you need. Thank you. Good evening, council staff. Uh my name is Anthony Mitchell. I'm the president and man managing director of Echo Green Solutions. Um I'm honored to be here again with you guys this evening. Um, I'm hoping that we can hopefully give you guys some information about more about the program, the funds, where they come from, who's they are, and what you're already paying into as far as the program goes. Thank you. Okay. Um, Suhar, who is Echo Green Solutions? We were founded in 2008. Um, we originally started through a program with San Diego Gas and Electric, which was piloting this concept of how
056to get the energy mandates for the state and how do you get it to market. Um, dollars and cents were always an issue. And so from there we were able to pilot this program with SDG& which then became so successful it was picked up by Southern California Edison uh early 2010 and then Pacific Gas Electric late 2010. Um Echo Green Solutions is also federally recognized. We are on the federal list of energy services companies. Uh we've been there for about 4 years. It took us about 5 years to get that accreditation. Uh we are also a licensed C10 electrical contractor. Um that's what we are by trade. So all electrical work we do in house. Uh the majority of the work that we have proposed to the school district is all electrical which is our
057employees. There are no subs. It's our individuals on our payroll. Um also too we have uh several award-winning um uh recognitions between San Diego Gas Electric, Pacific Gas Electric and uh Southern California Edison as well. Uh we do about 70% of their entire portfolio in the space. Um this is an example. It's actually there's a link on the bottom which is a live hot link. Um, these are just the contracts that we have completed full turnkey with installation. Uh, there's literally about 7,000 on there. Um, the closest ones to the district would be the Culinary Institute here in Napa. Um, the city of Kalisoga, CalFire, which is not too far down the road. Um, then as you go towards more towards the bay, uh, the Dixon Unified School District is about to they're a little
058bit further behind you guys, but they're about to embark on this. But the fairgrounds here in Napa is also a customer of ours that have used this program. Um, as far as the references here, these are some other school entities that we've already completed years ago, um, and some as recently as last year. Um, but it's the Santa Canalina uh, school in Monterey. It is the Tascadero Unified School District, which we actually did three phases for them. Uh, based upon what was available and as we did a program, uh, you're allowed to take multiple bites of the apple, so to speak, with this program. And so we started doing some outside work, then it went to inside work and then it was the third phase was kind of a fill-in as the program became more
059liberal and allowed more content. We did a third phase for Tescadero and they were also the poster child for the concept of the program. That district was done probably in 2014 15 something like that. um also to the Dunn school and then uh the East Nicholas High School and that high school was uh heavily focused on their sport lighting and their football stadium. Give an example. So through the program and the state initiative through the Department of Energy, this is pretty much the four-step process that we try to do for uh our customers. The first step is to reduce. It is always much less expensive to reduce your energy footprint before you start building solar or produce any sort of energy on site. Um the next step would be some sort of an adback where
060you would look at either EV charging or battery storage. Um a lot of times that comes sep separate because if you started that first you don't have enough space on your power grid. So we want to do that reduction piece first to free up space in your breaker boxes and your panels. So that way you don't have to pay for this extra transformers or switch gear or hardware which is very expensive. And so if you reduce first, you free up space on your grid which allows you to add back some sort of EV charging or battery storage. Um there is a battery storage program coming where the utility will pay for that as well. And um after the battery storage would then be some sort of a solar solution which there are still solar funds
061available to the districts till the end of 2027. Um, so as long as you have a conceptual design submitted or actually completed by July 4th of this year, and we've already done a lot of that work, so we could do that for you, uh, for the for the district before council. Um, there are still funds available for that. And then you bundle them all together to try to capture as much of other people's money to make sure that the district has as little liability or exposure to any sort of out-of- pocket exposure on any sort of renewable process. Um, there's one other thing before we go there. There is a hydrogen program for the federal government. Hydrogen is becoming a thing. We are trying to work with the culinary institute down the road um because
062their lack of space so they don't have enough room for solar production and the rates are supposed to increase by about 14% over the next 12 months or so. They've already passed it through the PUC and [snorts] we've been told because the credits are going away at the end of 27 pretty much 28 is no rebates, no credits on solar and battery that they're telling us to prepare our customers for a doubling of whatever your cost is today by 2031. Um so this all ties into that to keep your operating cost down and your um obviously your your energy cost down, your exposure down and also increase the quality of your infrastructure. Okay. So there are um technologies available, there's incentives available. The program that we are talking about with the district today is the
063incentive currently for the district. Um we handle again the full turnkey installation. It's our employees. Um and then there are warranty supports and service contracts because once it's done, you don't have to call anybody else through the life of the program. So, we have a 12 months labor warranty on everything that we touch. And then there are factory warranties that are up to 10 years on the material. So, if something does go out, staff just takes a photo of what is out. We work with the factories to get you the parts. If it's out of the labor warranty, we send you the material so you don't have to buy anything else through the next uh the lifespan of the program. Okay? And that's handled inhouse. Um, pretty much this slide right here at the bottom
064basically is echoing, and this is from the uh state department of energy. It's on the energy.gov website. [snorts] It's basically echoing the it's less expensive to reduce your existing footprint with energy than it is to just produce with solar battery or renewable first. You always want to reduce that. The program for every dollar you get from the program it's worth about $3.50 of a renewable system. So right now I want to say the district's got a little over a million dollars uh from the public utility commission funneled through the peny program that's worth about 3.5 hot water heat pumps uh your pool pumps your lighting and what came through the program majority was lighting oh and also refrigeration in your cafeterias. Um so [snorts] all your walk-in refrigerators and coolers did have uh an upgrade
065piece to that. Uh it's a very simple piece of replacing a motor and putting in a new motor. That was also included in those areas that were applicable through this program as well. The majority what we're talking about is the lighting which was banned as of 2025 January 1st. If you have them and you if you're a licensed contractor, it's illegal for us to even touch them or install them. So our program is full turnkey. So all of your fluorescents that you have, which many of our customers in the municipal space are sitting on boxes of old lights, please give those to us because we will recycle those through this program if the district decides to move forward. Okay. Um this process basically gives you an outline of all the different steps that we have
066to go through. Really, I won't go through all the minutiae or the nuances of the details. What I wanted to focus on was the um the yellow section because the very last yellow cell is an engineering QA review. And so everything that goes through the program, realize this is district's money. This is not P Gen money. And I've got some slides that'll be coming here in a minute that shows you how much the district is already paying into this program. So because it's the utility and we are a a contractor or subcontractor of the program and you guys are the customer, the utility commission puts a clause in place where a third party quality assurance engineer has to do a sanity check on all the claims, the calculations, the product and your usage and your
067old technology. We did an assessment. So we have all the documentation of all your old lights and refrigeration and things that they approved. [snorts] We take that and we suggest what we would replace it with that is on the approved list from the utility program. From there they take it and say, "Okay, this is great. What does the third party say?" And they have no skin in the game, right? So they're paid completely separate and all their job is to make sure that there's no funny business and that the calculations make sense and that it's a like forl like replacement and that um that it's supposed to do what it's supposed to do, right? So the the quality assurance review is on the front end before we actually do the work. They review all the
068paperwork and the scope of the engineering and then we do the install. They also do a review on the back end to make sure that everything matches with what it was supposed to be to make sure that there's everything was done correctly. All that stuff happens before Pion decides to pay anything. Nobody gets paid anything. There's no prepayment. There's no um initial payment. Nobody gets paid through this program. It's all pro bono until the job is complete. The widgets are installed and the district says you guys are happy with the installation. And then you sign off a post install agreement that says we're happy it's done correctly. you can now pay the vendors that are involved. Okay? If something goes wrong and you don't like it, you just don't sign that. Nobody gets paid a
069dime, right? And there's over a million dollars that the district has that everybody wants to make sure that you guys are happy and that you're satisfied. Okay. Um so this is the checklist that we had been provided by Kay and her team. It [clears throat] was a month's bill of the utility company. You guys gave us an hours of operation which basically was like what holidays are you closed, when is the schools open, etc. um from those hours. That's basically the premise of what the calculations were based upon. There was a third party authorization letter which allows us to look at your historical data and your bills because your bills are confidential. So you had to allow us to actually look at your bills. So that way you basically gave us authorization through PG to
070look at them. Okay. Uh the third was the uh financial supplement which was non no binding, no financially binding. It's just a matter of if the district is going to get any commitment from the utility company, they will not give it to you in writing unless you actually completed that application, which K and her team already did. Um, the last two uh pieces of this were an affidavit that says that everything is working. And then the last piece was basically that the lights are going to be about 20% brighter in certain scenarios. And so you understand that. And during installation, if that happens, we can always put dimmer on them because they all come dimable. And many times there's certain offices or certain areas where we're like, "Hey, can you dim this down a little
071bit or give us a dimmer to where we can select that?" And that's always included in the process, right? We want to make sure that you guys are satisfied with the final product. Okay. Um, these right here as we go into the next handful of slides are directly from uh the program where this is just noting that this is not uh puny money. These are public purpose program funds. Every bill, even on her house, the second to last page of every single bill has generation charges, transmission charges, decommissioning charges. Well, there's this little fund called the PPP fund, and it's the public purpose program fund. It's not cheap. It's about 8 to 10% in some cases 12% of every bill. That is the fund that we're pulling from to basically pay for all the upfront
072cost. Well, that's what they pull from, and that's the collateral that they use to basically say we're going to be able to set aside this much money for the district. On the next couple of slides, you'll see that these are actual costs from your bill. And I don't have the it's hard for me to see cuz I don't have my glasses, but you're paying thousands and thousands of dollars per site into this program every single month. So, this is a monthly charge. So, we've got three of the four schools. We couldn't, for some reason, they wouldn't give us the last school, but we've got three or four schools already identified of how much we're paying in. One school alone is over $3,000, right? So, what we're trying to do is access those dollars the district
073is already paying into it, use the technology that they'll let let us get access to that's already pre-approved and install those items here on site to make sure that it works to your satisfaction and their specification. Okay. Um, yeah, your total right now just across three schools is about $3,620.76. Okay. So, that's basically the fund we're trying to get into to basically upgrade the facilities that we're talking about. Okay. [snorts] Um and that's it. Okay. Um there are four contracts that are available for the district now to sign. Um just so you know also to Napa Community College down the road. Uh we're actually going to be at the board meeting on the 21st next week. Uh they've got about 2.7 million that we're doing this exact same content for them. Um half of it
074is lighting, refrigeration, and air conditioning. The other half is EV charging and maybe some funds to help them fix the solar system that didn't work. So, um, bottom line is there's other things that could come after this to help the district save more money after you go through this first phase, which is the reduction phase. Okay. Okay. Trustees, any questions? Thank you so much. Um, I feel like this second time is really helped me grasp the project a little bit better. So, thank you very much for coming back. um on the dimmers uh is there additional expense to that or is it just happen when the installation problem pro process usually it's not like rampant it's not 100% replaces right so what we will try to do is just make our our thing is we
075want to make sure that you're happy right so there is a um a fund that we have that we uh have like a clause of a couple points that we either invoice for less or we use that to do the dimmers or sensors in the in the closets or what have you to make sure that that it's the way you want it yeah cuz that is with the new lighting. To your point when you were saying everything is brighter there, there is great benefit to being able, you know, particularly like students may be feeling overloaded with light or it's a hot day and you need to be able to just chill those lights out a little bit. So, I would encourage us to really consider that where needed. Um, oh my gosh, did I just
076lose my second question? Oh, I think you clarified this the first time, but fixtures are reusable. It's the internal guts, if you will, that have to be retrofitted with the new bulbs. Correct. Yeah, you do have some schools that have brand new fixtures and some schools where they didn't give us it didn't have enough savings, so they gave us like a retrofit kit to go inside the existing shell or the Right. Okay. Um, we're not touching any of the seismic, so it won't trigger any of that that all that seismic stuff is already in the ceiling. So, when we retrofit the fixture, we're removing the bulbs, which again is the expensive piece cuz you can't get them anymore. the ballast, which if you can get them, get them while you can because you can't get
077them anymore. The tombstones, which are also the little ceramic ends that are the placeholders. You can't get those anymore, right? So, we're getting rid of all that stuff to get that out of your hair. And then you have a whole brand new pretty much system inside your system to make sure that it works for the next decade at least. Okay. And if any of those parts fail, and I'm I apologize that it's probably in the internal writings of this contract, but it's uh what's the warranty on that that if those retrofitted parts fail? Yes. So, you have well, one, there's a 12 month labor warranty. Okay. Okay. And so, typically with the new technology, there's what they call the um the infinite mortality, which you will see within about the first 3 months which ones
078are going to fail out of the box. Right. Industry standards about 2%. I think we've got about 7,000 lamps going through the district, right? Through the proposals we gave you guys. So that's like 140 lamps, let's say. Right. Okay. Last year, our percentage of failure was 5% a half% out of the box. All right. So, we do the 12 months labor to make sure that if it poops out early that we basically come back and fix it so you guys don't have to touch it. Okay. Now, the material itself dependent upon which ones are inside and outside and which ones are what have you. Some are five, some are seven, some are 10 years, right? And so we could give the district uh we will give you a breakdown to show you which ones those
079are, right? So that way you can understand what that is. Okay. Sure. Any other questions? I have two. Um in looking at what we paid into PPP, am I maybe guessing it's the high school that has such a high amount with their stadium lights and cuz it's such a huge difference. Is that probably why that one's so much higher? I to be honest, I'm not totally certain which one. I don't believe they gave us the high school. I believe that the $3,000 one was the middle school. So, it's the high the high school is the big one, which is the one that I we we've been asking them for months to give it to us and we knew this was coming, but they gave us three of the four. Um because the information that you
080guys had was like a spreadsheet with all the usage and what have you. So, we had to do a special request and they just kept sitting on their thumbs. That's through PG& you mean? That's through PG. Correct. But it's just interesting. $96 358 and then 3,164. That's a huge jump. Correct. Um Okay. And my second question is so you've done all this research and work and compiled all this. Have we spent money? How Dr. K Dr. K Dr. Bang um are we in for so much right now? Like have we already invested X amount of dollars to get to this point where we are today? Okay. Zero. There's zero. Okay. Okay. Okay. True. Yeah. We don't get paid anything to do anything until it's done, installed, you're happy, and you sign off in writing that
081says you're happy. Okay. And then they don't pay us for like 90 days after that. And if you don't get the savings, they don't pay us either. So that's our risk of participating in the program. And that's why there's only about five entities that do different bits and pieces. We're the only entity that does all of it. Um, and because it's not for the fan of heart and you better know what you're doing or you don't get paid. So, we started the program in 2007 down in San Diego when it was a concept program and we've been doing it ever since. And we, like I said, about 70% of all of PG contracts, we do most all of them. Okay. But when the money is due, it's due in one lump sum. No. Okay. Great.
082Just making sure. So, maybe that's my question. How does that look? What is the how does how do we disperse money and how often will we disperse money out? So every single bill you're just going to pay a normal bill. Okay? So your normal bill, and just for reference, so for every $100 of savings, which we've broken it out by school district, every single month has, you know, let's say $100 in savings. They're going to take $95 and pay it into the program towards all the work that got done, and they're going to give you five bucks. So you actually do get a slight discount on your bill for joining the program. And then they they will tell you this much of every bill goes into pay for the program. Now, your monthly budget stays
083the same for what you're paying at the time they wrote it. Now realize if we save 45% at the elementary school, your 14% rate increase is still coming. So that 55% left over that we're not touching is subject to those rate increases. As soon as we are done, the items that we touch are not affected by that because we got rid of 75% of it, right? Which is usually the lighting is about 25 to 35% of your entire load of each school. Refrigeration is about 15 to 25% and HVAC is the rest. So you guys do have an HVAC program going in. Um there are some HVAC units that was not being affected by the Calshape program. I think is the program you guys are using to replace the HVAC. Anyway, you got a big
084HVAC job going. There was other HVAC units that were not part of that scope that we tried to get P gen to pay for. It pays for itself in under 3 years. I did give K a proposal to know what that would cost that cost would be in case you wanted to do that just cuz additional savings that the district could get, but it's an out of pocket which we're focused on no out of pocket for this phase. Okay. Okay. So, just to reiterate, there's no out of pocket. So, I'm not going to come back to the board and ask for funding. It's going to be our monthly bills. We will continue to pay that. The savings is what's paying for this program. Um, but again, keep in mind, PG&E will constantly raise, you know,
085their rates will constantly increase. So this program will help us to, you know, make make sure ensure that when the rate increase does hit, we've got the savings to offset some of that. Okay? And then theoretically using new lighting, if you will, LED light is going to be just in itself energy efficient and consu consume less energy. So, our bills, while they're still going to be seeing a percentage increase, we're not necessarily paying for more expensive electricity because we've now installed energy efficient lighting. Okay. Sorry, I just had to like I feel like I'm doing a book report and I'm saying this out loud, but um but just so that I understand it, right? That's kind of correct. Perfect. And and the other thing too is realize that most lighting maintenance, bulbs, ballast, tombstones, light
086lenses, what have you, that's a budgeted item that you guys pay for every year. Take that money invested somewhere else because you don't have it anymore. It's gone. Okay. Yes. Yeah. So, good evening. So, that was my point. Sorry. [laughter] He said it better than I did. Um, literally I'll I'll tomorrow will be like my 2-year anniversary here. And the lighting here is it's hard to triage because so so many fixtures are old. I have a great team. We do the best we can, but it's usually a reactionary thing. Um just being honest, we're good at it, but we just can't we just can't keep up. Um Okay, that's good. The awesome benefit too is like we literally start back over. So, not only will they take all the bulbs that we get charged to
087get rid of, like it's just part of it. And we the custodians are changing out light bulbs. Summertime coming up. I mean, we're going to have probably 200 light bulbs alone. Okay. That we get changed out. And it's just we're doing the best we can. Okay. But yeah. Okay. Yes. Very helpful. Um, so I have a quick question. Thank you for being here. Thank you. This the second time, I think. So, thank you very much. I I appreciate that. Um so my question would be um you mentioned something the lifespan of the program what is that what exactly does that mean? So they create a return on investment time period where the energy savings pays for itself. The collateral the utility company uses is they basically quantify the savings and they say okay you're going
088to save you know $100,000 over the next 10 years. Um to get that savings what they do is they say okay we pay for this upfront so the district doesn't have to. They break it up to to um um Dr. Ving's point, they break it up into bite-sized chunks on a monthly basis to where your bill the intention, it's not a guarantee, but the intention is to keep your bill bill neutral to where there's no budget increase, there's no operating cost increase, there's no utility cost increase, the savings pays for itself. They [snorts] quantify and calculate every site has a different payback. Most of them are anywhere from 7 to 9 years, right? And that's just because elementary school you have less hours cuz the kids aren't there as long. High school, you have more
089hours cuz you have more activities. So usually you've got an expedited time period of payback where the again the usage is what pays for it. So the more you use them the more savings you generate which basically pays for the project faster. The less you use them they create a very conservative approach to make sure that no matter what over a maximum of 10 years the items will pay for themselves so that way there's no negative impact to your fiscal budget. Right. So each one has its own kind of footprint. And then so what happens then after the 10 years? You get all the savings. Okay. Yeah. And I got to tell you, really what we typically see is that you guys save. So if you have an increased schedule, you've got more kids in
090class, you're operating more hours, they don't come to you every month and say, "Hey, you save more energy, you owe me one." The program is a fixed monthly payment that's baked into your bill every single month. The, like I said, the premise is to keep it bill neutral. And the savings typically is conservative where they don't let us claim all the savings because they want to make sure that it doesn't have a negative impact on your monthly budget. So, we can only use a percentage of the actual savings versus what's reality. And usually reality is about 20% more savings is realized than what they actually claim on paper, right? Okay. It sounds like a long-term legacy green uh green principle to endorse. it is um and Anthony correct me if I'm wrong but also within
091the duration of the program so that those 10 years we cannot close down any of the the schools that we have entered into this agreement with otherwise our contract becomes null and then the responsibility becomes the districts to pay upfront am I correct on to pay for that yes so if you were going to shut a whole school down in 10 years or less um they're going to to me and say, "Hey, we had a a 9-year savings program here. You shut it down at year 7." So, before you could open up another school in that replacement, they'd say, "You owe us 2 years of savings," which equates to this much money, right? Um, now, have they ever done that? No. So, I can tell you that we did 272 sites for Calire and PG
092burned down a 100 of them. [snorts] So, at the end, PG is like, "Well, you owe me." They're like, "No, you burned down my school or my my firehouse, right?" And so really they're kind of like all right like take my toys and PG licks their wounds and that's all kind of happens right. Um we've seen it happen in commercial spaces. We've seen it happen we less than I'm going to say I think the last number I saw was like 1.57% of the people that participate in the program have defaulted. It's such a good program that if you guys feel like you are going to be operating there's there's no lose unless to Dr. Ving's point, you're going to shut that down, right? And if you're not going to shut it down, uh, your future
093dollar is worth more than today. It's going to cost you twice as much to operate. And then my final comment is I was I'm interested in that that solar unit funding or kind of the So, I'm certainly not doing any kind of directing or anything, but it's kind of interesting to learn more about that if it's something that we would would help our district at some point. Yeah. But it sounds like that it's the timing is tight with the July July deadline. Yeah, we already have the So the biggest thing that we would need for that is the the interval data. So what they do is they bill you in every 15 minutes. Okay. Um they passed a new rate April of 2023 for every dollar. So if you don't use all your power in
094that 15 minutes, let's say you use, you know, half your power and you give them half of what you produced. Well, if you gave them a dollar today, they'd say, "Thank you so much. I'm going to give you 25 cents for that dollar. So that was the rate that you're in right now. So if you start a program, you should not do a solar project unless you have a battery cuz the battery acts as your piggy bank. And so what you do is you have the battery then for all your excess power that you don't use goes into your piggy bank. And then you use all that power uh during the day to operate from the solar. And then at night, your most expensive time period is from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m. So then what
095happens is is you go off the grid, go to your battery and say, "All right, piggy bank, I want you to power us during this time period, which avoids the 3* 3x weight. And then at 9:01, you go back onto the grid, and then you use power through the evening." And then come sun up, it charges everything up and just rinse, repeat over and over and over. Yeah. So there's some complexities to it, but there's more money coming for that. Um, but you've got to, like I said, we have the data. We can do a very basic design to make sure that you guys in the district are compliant. That way, heaven [snorts] forbid, whether you use us or somebody else, at least you have a conceptual design which allows you to at least participate
096and use those dollars. Heaven forbid they go away, right? And so, we can do that already because we already have the data, right? Which is the next conversation. Y Okay. All righty. Anthony, thank you so much for being here again. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Mhm. Okay. We are going to move on to 7H presentation on the St. Helena opportunities program and I would like to welcome Mrs. Rebecca Roachcha and Mr. Nick Joy. Actually, it's not Mr. Dr. Joy. Good evening members of the board and um district office staff. Um it is our we are thrilled to be able to give you this exciting report about um the shop program St. Helena opportunities program. Um I'm Rebecca Roach. I'm the administrator um of that program. And then with me is um Dr. Nick Joy
097who's the speech and language pathologist for secondary and shop and he's the transition lead. I also wanted to give acknowledgements to Mary O'Donnell the shop teacher um who helped us with this presentation. Um she couldn't be here tonight but she definitely is a big part of the program. Um, so are we next slide, please? Sorry. Um, just a little I won't read you all of these bullets, but a little bit about what is a transition program. Um, it is mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Act. So, every school district um is obligated to provide this program for adults with more um impactful disabilities ages 18 to 22. Um it's really important because it prepares students for successful employment and independence before they leave um really what is just the um the safety net of a
098school district and then they they enter into the world of of transition. And so our shop mission has always been to provide the skills of education, employment and independent living for students with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities. And so we want to create these opportunities to leading to gainful employment and we are now on around year five of the program. Great. And so a [clears throat] little bit more about our program uh which is Oh, thank you. Sorry, we got a clicker. Another clicker. Perfect. Uh it's designed for students ages 18 to 22 uh who've completed high school with the certificate of completion and they're ready uh for transition services as they move into adulthood. Um we're located in two classrooms on the corner of the St. Helina Elementary School campus and right now we
099have students uh from we've had students from St. Angelina Unified, Kalis Stoga, Middletown Unified School District, and they've all um participated in our program. Currently, we have six students. Uh we possibly may have eight students next year. Um and our support team, again, you said, Mary O'Donnell, uh myself as the SLP, and our PAR educators, Don Modal, and Brenda Fernandez, and Kate Scuddero, our district nurse, our administrator. And we also have Nikki Meyers and Rosia Alisar as our secretaries and office team leaders. So this is just a list of some of the partnerships that we have had in the past and current. Currently the program is partnered with Hall Winery, We Care Animal Rescue, Trader Joe's, Students Take Adaptive PE and Napa Valley College. Um and the other um or agencies or companies listed on
100that list are people that we've partnered with in the past. And so currently we are have partnered with Hall Winery and we're using an internship type program with them. And a huge thank you to the incredible team. I have to put my glasses on because I want to thank them. Uh to make this possible at Hall Winery is Amy Barbar, the director of uh people development, Mariah Moltric uh Mutrix, the director of hospitality, Jeff Drifus, the visitor center manager, and Ali Del Rario the private experience manager. And what's also interesting is and wonderful is that Hall Winery went out and developed a specialized training program about shop and our students for their staff and they provide a liaison for each work session. And so with this internship program, we now have had a student who
101has secured employment on the weekends at Hall Winery. and I'd like to introduce Eli Karpy Willyard to speak about his experience. Great. [clears throat] Hello everyone. My name is Eli Willard. I am a student in the shop program. [gasps] This program is important to me because it has helped me learn how to be independent and gain confidence and getting ready for the real world. We worked on everything from life skills, finding jobs that I like. One of the best parts of my journey it right now is Hall Winery. I had to go through application and interview process. I have learned how to take ter [clears throat and cough] transportation after school. I helped polish the glass, set out dishes, set up tours and tastings. [gasps and sighs] It has g it has uh given me
102the confidence to apply [sighs and gasps] for a additional jobs. Working at the winery and working at Hall Winery has taught me how to be a part of a team [gasps] [sighs] and how to be a no how to how to take pride in a job well done. Plus, it's a beautiful place every every day to be every day. Thank you to my teachers and my my family and the team in my and the team at Hall Winery believing in me. Thank you for listening. Any questions? [applause] I know that Eli was at work this evening before he came to to the to this meeting that we asked him to present at. Um, and they might want to ask you some questions at the end if Yeah. So, another place oops where the students are
103working is at We Care Animal Rescue. I have to give a shout out to Nikki Meyers, our um office lead, because she said, you know, there's an animal rescue in St. Alina. And so we went and explored that last summer and then u Mary and Nick reached out to the staff there and one of the things that we really appreciate is that they have just been able to really work set up jobs and interest for the students with a wide variety of skills um and abilities. So they've really been able to tailor what the different students can do there at at WeCare. And there's just some pictures there for you. Great. And then within our own program on site uh we have and we've just started uh the beginning stages of our living lab and
104it is a dedicated functional replica uh of a modern hotel apartment suite and includes a bedroom living area dining space and uh we want to make it serve like a realworld training environment so everyone learns those essential skills for hospitality uh housekeeping, meal preparation, uh guest services, communication. Um but it all aligns with the individual transition plan and their goals for independent living and employment. And a big big thank you to the Napa Valley Education Foundation for helping fund our reception and bedroom area because this is just starting. We're getting it started. So, we're still looking and we're hoping to future and partner with future uh groups in funding our other areas of the lab. So, love it. And so, here are some pictures. The next slide, this is our lab. We're actually creating it.
105So, our students built the beds. Uh we've put up the different walls and it's been really fun. What a great experience. And we also want to thank Dr. Vang and u Mr. Heler and and Mr. Flores for and and the staff at the elementary school um for their support of the space and working with the team to really um allow the program to have this this learning lab living lab, excuse me, living and learning learning. And then within that we have started micro businesses which are studentrun ventures designed to teach the different skills uh for students with disabilities. And so one of ours is the soap micro business. And so they've been making handmade soaps and lavender sachets with this and also taking public transportation um going to the different school sites uh and selling
106their products and working with the other classes within the school district. They've been going teaching the students, working with the students on how they make the soaps. And so now we're also uh exploring uh different places that we can sell these items but also how to use because we're cash only. know what other things we can explore for uh non-cash payments and how we can go about that and then the floral micro business which has been a really fun venture uh partnering with Trader Joe's of Napa who donates the flowers and now we are able to work with hands-on experience looking at horiculture the retail operations um and then customer service but we've also a Big huge thank you to the St. Helina Public Schools Foundation uh for their support which provide which will now
107provide all of the materials to actually have a working floral studio. Um, so we're very very excited for that and we've so far have created bouques for district employees, for events for the school district, staff appreciation, make your own bouques, and we look forward to going out into the community and working with the different organizations and uh businesses in providing any floral needs. So I believe that was the last board meeting. I don't know if you remember the flowers, but they were brought provided by shop and also the DAC. There's a picture of the DAC reclassification ceremony. Those bouques were created by shop students. Um we also have been um students have been involved in some different community events. They since last school year, they've been participating in the Special Olympics in Soma County. So
108that happens three times a year that they're joining um most of the all of the high schools in transition programs um for these three events. There's um track and field, there's basketball, and there's um soccer. So throughout the school year, um uh Mrs. O'Donnell, the teacher, also worked with Mila's preschool. They refinished some chairs. You can see one of our students who's here in the audience, Parker. Parker, do you want to wave at everybody? He helped refinish those chairs for Mila's preschool. Um and like Mr. Joyce said, they also have gone to the other special day classes in the district to make soap with students. Uh so future goals and program development that we are hoping for um we would love to develop um some sort of internship with um St. Helena Unified uh departments.
109There are many school districts that are able to take on internships with many of the classified staff and that's something that we would love to pursue. Um the the the classroom is located on the I'm so bad with street names. The corner of Oak and is it Adams? Um, so you know that that corner area, we would love to develop that outdoor space to make it more appealing for adults like between besides picnic tables and maybe some recreational things um for adults that age. Um, we would love to partner and we've started conversations with the St. Helina Boys and Girls Club about our students staying on after school until they're 22. Um, as long as they're students in our district. Um, and we're always looking for other community partnerships for these um, different workability or
110job experiences for our students. So, with that, we do have um, some gifts for you, but we also want to see if you have any questions. And we would also love to invite you to come see the living lab. You would be very impressed with the space. Any questions? Any questions for Eli? Question. Yeah. I don't Well, I don't know if it's a question, a comment. So, um, the other night or I guess it was just last night when they did the little makers [clears throat] makers market at the elementary school and I guess the parent group was talking about next year maybe doing it as a Christmas my voice like a Christmas bazaar Christmas market and I want automatically thought there would be fun for your students to maybe be able to sell their
111soaps or their products whatever would be in season at something like that. And I think they did like cash or Venmo, so they'd figure something out. But I thought of you guys. That would be fun. So, I just want to say that in a time in our lives where things feel hard and draining, this has been the most inspirational and uplifting presentation that we've had at our at our dis in a while. So, I just was really I mean, you know, it this is just so amazing. And thank you for the invitation because I would be great to go there and and to see this and um I don't know. I'm a little bit I'm a little bit lost for words, but other than just feeling so uplifted and and the work that they're do
112doing, Eli, I think that was great what you told us. I guess what is your favorite part about your job at Hall? Um um polish the glass and set up the t um tables for the tours and the tasting. Great. Yes. Okay. Oh, and I wanted to comment. Dr. Bang brought us all a soap. So, we're all very excited and appreciative of our new soaps. We'll be getting a second soap tonight. Oh, you can gift it or [laughter] promote shop with a gift of soap. And those pres the MA's preschool chairs, are they those made for or they sold to them for like families to purchase or I Mary so Mrs. O'Donnell's son happens to go to Mila's and I believe it was just a project that um they put together. So they're for the
113preschool they had a little freshen up. Okay. Yeah. It was wonderful. Thank you for all the all the work you do with that program to your team. Thank you for being here this evening. Thank you. Thank you so much. Absolutely. Oh, thank you, Eli. You're gorgeous. Oh, they're bouquets. Watch out your Yes. Eli, thank you so much for being here. I know you have a busy day, so appreciate it. Thank you. This is Did you make this? I love it. [laughter] Thank you. My neighbor works at home, too. Thank you so much. Thank you. This is the first time we're receiving flowers. I feel very special here. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you so much. Oh my goodness. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah. I'd like if we could set up the tour right here. That would
114be great. Thank you. Look how beautiful that is. Thank you. Thank you so much. My hands are wet. I would like to How about a fist bump? Thank you. Okay. [laughter] Thank you so much. Thank you, Mrs. Roacha and Dr. Joy. Thank you. Thank you. All righty. We are we've completed presentations. We're going to take about a five minute comfort break and then we'll be back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We're going to continue with student learning and achievement 8A written report on the 202526 local control and accountability plan federal addendum and I'd like to call on Mrs. RSLi Roma Flores. Good evening, President Simon, board of trustees and Dr. Mcclelay. So, it's really hard to follow that presentation, right? Next is note to self like bring a tissue box next time. That was
115um just wonderful and inspirational. Um I do want to do a shout out though to uh principal Rebecca Roachcha. I don't know if you all know but she actually requested to oversee and support to take that on to take on shop in addition to doing the fabulous job she does as a principal. So, it was just really great work that she's done in these last two years and it's just wonderful. Yes. Um, okay. So, it's going to be hard to follow that act, but um the federal addendum um is a plan that I must share with the board annually and it's a plan for how our district is going to use federal dollars, our title dollars to support our LCAP goals and to support our students and through the LCAP goals. So, the students that
116we are charged to support with the title um funds are our unduplicated students. So, students that are English learners, students that are so socio-economically disadvantaged, homeless, and foster youth. So, um that's what that is. So, it doesn't require um board approval. It's just a report to the board on how we plan to use those title funds. Any questions about that before we move on to the LCAP? Okay. All right. And so moving on to the St. Alina Unified School District 20 2026 2027 LCAP draft. This is a draft. Um this is um the draft for our year three LCAP. So it's it's a three-year plan. We just completed our year two of the LCAP and next year will be our final year in this in this process for this LCAP. [clears throat and cough] And
117um what we're doing is oops I forget I have the controller. So, um, we are required to share this update with the board and, um, at the next meeting, we're going to ask you to approve it. It is a draft, however, and so I just want to call out that, um, there can be some minor changes to it, um, next at the next meeting because, you know, we're we're going to have a hearing tonight and, um, we're still soliciting feedback. We also submitted this plan to the Napa County Office of Education. they have to um give us their seal of approval. So they might have some recommendations for us that we'll need to include for the next edition of the LCAP. So this LCAP though we did um look at the data points that are
118available to us now. Um as you could see in the report there's a lot of information that we that is still outstanding. Our students are currently testing with STAR and with the LCAP but we do want to call out where we did see growth. But um in terms of our cast reports or results and our star results, those will be coming soon. I do want to highlight one um data point though that we did we are able to see is that we had um 35 in our baseline we had 35 long-term English learners and the California dashboard um identifies long-term English learners as students that have been in the in this uh US system for seven years and have not been reclassified. And so, um, we started off with 35 long-term meals and we are
119now down to eight. [clears throat] So, for goal one, um, we, um, we're looking to see like what we can do to support our students. Um, the students that we are called out to support are our long-term eels. We have to address in the LCAP any areas that we are read on the dashboard. And where we were read on the dashboard were our long-term EELs for language arts, math, and suspensions. So that that student group um was read in those three areas. And so we have to make sure that our LCAP is um addressing that subgroup. And um but as we know that when we do things to improve for one student group, it really has a ripple effect and affect and supports all other students as well. We also had a red um on
120the dashboard for um socioeconomically disadvantaged students in the graduation rate. So those are the areas that we need to address. So what we um have in our um services and actions and services for the 2627 uh LCAP are purchasing supplemental English language development curriculum, exploring AVID for elementary students, um providing additional time uh [clears throat] to support newcomer students and multilingual learners. And that's through staffing. We're hoping to provide more um hours at both of our sites that are more heavily impacted with newcomers of the high school and the middle school and uh providing additional targeted learning to support students requiring two tier 2 and tier three supports. So making sure that our students that um need more time to learn the essential standards are getting that. And then for professional development, all sites will
121continue to uh participate in learning to deepen the PLC work. Also, all all sites um will participate in learning opportunities to support English learners. And then for goal two, so these are some of the highlights um in our spring 2026 uh data, we got that back. So we have that to report again. Um our goal was a hefty goal goal right we want 90% in our LCAP that's our target and so these are the areas where we met that 90% which is a very high high expectation right so it's wonderful that we were able to accomplish that in these areas so high expectations at she's at Staint Alolina elementary school is at 90% no substance abuse at RLS 97% St. Molina High School 93%. And then for local data targets met, all grade levels um
122or departments took at least three district sponsored field trips. Uh that has been an allcap goal. Um and this is the first year that we've were able to achieve that goal. So for goal two, these are areas um that I wanted to call out. Although we didn't meet the 90% uh target, we still had really nice growth. And so I just wanted to call out those areas where we saw some growth in our in our California healthy kids survey and areas to watch and consider. Um these are some of the areas where um we had a little bit of a decline and so we are just going to watch those and you know and also um next year we hope to have more actionable data. We're we're really wanting to make sure that we're using
123the Kelvin. I know that RLS is using the Kelvin and it's getting really um good data. So, it's different than what the California Healthy Kids Survey um you know, reports. And so, it's kind of nice to have another tool, another measuring piece to be able to assess how well we're doing with our um school culture. And so, we're hoping that all schools will be able to um use the Kelvin next year. It was a goal for this year and we just weren't able to pull it off districtwide, but um RLS is kind of the champion for that. So, want to piggyback on that. And then um what we're planning to do for goal two is um continue to understand our students experiences. Uh we want to continue with the empathy interviews, equity walks, focus groups,
124Kelvin survey, uh behaviormies, those have started up this year um as u as a result of the MTSS work and um student mentors and ambassadors and then partnerships investigate other partners to provide wraparound services and those include so one of the one of the um areas where we needed more support this year and we just didn't have partners to do to do is um substance abuse treatment and prevention services. That was one thing that um in the past we used to have with ALDA and Ala wasn't able to provide that service this year. So, we're trying to find additional partners to help us out in that area. Uh we also have a lot of families, especially in these times, that are really struggling financially and are, you know, asking for support with like food and
125um uh gas money or um you know, they're just having a really hard time making ends meet. And so they're reaching out and you know we we just we're trying to find how we can be some more supportive of families with uh connecting them with some community resources. [snorts] And then um we also therapy some of our students need intensive therapy and for the most part we've been able to meet that need but we do have I can't remember if it's four or five students um at RLS that are on the wait list for therapy right now. So we do need some additional partners for that. and then um develop a comprehensive MTSS model. So we have been working as a district this year. We formed the district MTSS task force and we're really just
126trying to um take stock stock of how each school is um doing their MTSS program and trying to get more alignment districtwide. And so there is a lot of alignment. We have some work to do still districtwide, but um we um have found where those gaps are and we're really trying to support a system of multi-tered system of support for our students. And then professional development provide culturally responsive training to staff and trauma-informed practices. So that was one of the things that came about as um an area that we wanted to address and um the reflective tool that we'll be presenting next. And so we're trying to figure out how we can um bring some of that training to our staff. And then attending the RTI conference, we um think it's really important to um
127continue to grow and expand our MTSS services and deepen that work. And so we are um really interested in continuing to learn as a committee or as a team at the RTI conference, the response to intervention conference. And then for goal three, these are our targets metund. Well, I won't read those to you because I know we're going to be here late, but um so these are the areas that we did meet our goal. And then this is where we saw some growth parent participation um parent square interaction data. The parent square interaction data um it's 41% parent part parent interaction um but that's assuming that there is a two parent household and so if we consider that it we're about 80%. So the the parent square interaction has been really impressive, almost too impressive
128because some families are complaining about you know about just the overcommunication but um we're really proud of that. And then areas to address for goal three build parent capacity and agency by providing programs such as project inspire. Project Inspire is a program that um our DAC representatives learned about at CAB at the California Association of Bilingual Educators and just came back really excited about that and wanted um to make sure that we included that in our LCAP. And then the Latino Family Literacy Project um a collegegoing culture and RLS is um planning on providing that for our district and um he's done that before. They've done that before at RLS and it was a huge success and so we want to continue that this year this coming year. And then providing more training opportunities on
129how to use parent square for all families because um we want to make sure that our incoming families, new families to our district understand how to use it and creating online resources. This is um an area that Selena has discussed trying to create online resources so that we have a bank of uh all of the offerings that we've provided to families virtually so that they can click on the website and you know get the information that they need. And then budget for food and child care. So we put that in the LCAP because we want to make sure that we can provide that for all of our events and so we included that in as an action and service. Any questions? Any questions, trustees? Um, depending on if these answers would take a while, it
130could be you could get them to us later just in terms of time, but I was just curious. Um, I think it was goal one extending AVID to the elementary level just understanding what that is. I assume it's different than the secondary level. Um but yes, so there's two different programs that we're looking at. Um there's the AVID like um [clears throat] foundational AVID piece for elementary that you know like organization. Uh but then there's another component that the elementary school is interested in which is more tied to English language development. I I believe it's called Excel Abid Excel. And so it's it's a it's a way to make sure that students are accessing the curriculum through all through additional language supports. So there's two different programs. So then that is more EL focused versus
131AVID which is open to so AVID um yeah so the Excel is EL specific. The AVID piece is not it could be schoolwide for organizational skills. And then one other thing you mentioned in one of the slides and this doesn't need to be uh shared here but I'm just curious what the newcomer experience newcomeumber newcomer experience is what it is by sight cuz it's very different uh what it looks like within the I guess it's one year is 12 months yes any you don't have to share that with us now but I was just curious what that looks like differentiated by site because that was something that I remember I wasn't at the table at the uh LCAP community uh forum, but it was something I wanted to learn more about. Please. Yeah, that would
132be another presentation for sure. But yeah, we could totally do that. I just have a a quick question. In goal two, um under professional development, provide culturally responsive training to staff andor trauma informed practices. I have no idea what that means. It's probably Can you just kind of give me an idea of what that that means? So culturally responsive um it's really about making sure that the students are um seeing themselves in the curriculum. So like the literature that we're reading, does it represent them? Um are we um making sure that the questions that we're asking on test questions are not biased? Um so those kind of things. Anything else? No. Okay. Thank you so much and we will keep you right there for um 8B information on the California dashboard local performance indicators. So
133this Okay. So, as part of the LCAP, we are required to measure our progress um as a district. And so, what we are required to do is we are required to use a self-reflection tool. And so um what we've done is we've asked every instructional leadership team at each site to rank the district uh in the on the questionnaire and then all of the sites uh submitted that to me and um we basically average the scores to get the district score. So, um it's all of the instructional leadership teams at each site that really um gave this rating that you'll see. Okay. So, um in order to um get a standard met on the California dashboard, we must engage in this process. and they look at the um it's actually 11 indicators. Um it used
134to be 10 and now it's 11. And uh we're going to just go over what how we rated ourselves in each of those areas. So for qualified teachers, we have 100% of our teachers are are considered qualified teachers. Um they all have um the necessary credentials, textbooks for all students. All students have the necessary um textbooks and materials. All of our schools are considered clean and safe. And in priority two um this is for implementation of academic standards and professional development. And um they're looking at providing professional learning for all of these um areas, content areas, uh aligned instructional materials, and supporting staff in delivering instruction. And you can see that we're either full implementation or full implementation and sustainability in all areas, but math. Um we do have a three there. And we are
135in the process right now of um our elementary team has just completed piloting one of the math curriculums and next year um the middle school will participate in piloting two math curriculums and we the elementary team will pilot the second program that they've selected. So we understand why that's a three and we're hoping that that will eventually be a four or five, ideally five. And then for implementation of academic devel um standards and professional development for these areas again we are at full implementation or full implementation and sustainability and same for our support for teachers and administrators and parental involvement and family engagement. [snorts] For parental involvement and family engagement, we did have under professional learning, providing professional learning and support to teachers and principles to improve a school's capacity to partner with families. That
136was rated at a three. And um so that's an area that we need to look at. Um that's clearly a a need um that that has been identified. And so we just we need to see how we can build something in. We do needed to do a little investigating in terms of what's out there for professional development. Um and um try to find some time to build that in. It's unfortunately to be transparent, it's really hard to build everything in because um we have limited time and right now our focus area is math and language arts and serving our English learners. [snorts] Um this is our parental involvement and family engagement ratings and then our California healthy kids survey strengths. The majority of students believe there are high exper expect expectations at school. The vast
137majority of our secondary students report no substance abuse. So those were our strengths and areas to address. Um less than 50% of students believe there's meaningful participation at school. 84% sorry 64% of secondary students report low violence victimiza victimization um and less than 70% of secondary students believe they have a caring adult relationship. So just things to consider as we move forward. Course access that was met. All students have access and are enrolled in a broad course of study. That's the seven priority areas. Any questions? Um, any questions, trustes? No, I don't. Thank you. I have a quick question about that last slide with the 64%. So does that mean the rest of the students do experience it or do have a comment or do experience it? So 64% of secondary students report low violence
138victimization means that um that percentage of students have not been victimized. But the other percentage does that include all those students have felt that way or is it also is part of that answer doesn't know you know um so so I mean could I just assume that the rest have felt that way okay and I think mine tag to you Laura the less than 70% of secondary students believe they have a caring adult relationship is that in the school system or just in their life That's I'd have to look at the question. Okay. I think it usually says they there have with a caring adult on campus is the way. Okay. And Mrs. Roma Flores, if I may, would you go back to the one category that had a three a couple of slides ago.
139Right there. I had a couple of trustees ask me questions on this. And the first one there, providing professional learning and support to teachers and principles to improve a school's capacity to partner with families. Can you expand on that just a bit? Like what is the state wanting us to do professional development on like how to more successfully engage families? Okay. Okay. Okay. Exactly. And and like you said, like well, what would that look like? Like I don't know that I've seen much in that category. Yeah, I think we'd have to do some research on that to be honest. Okay. Because I believe one slide further, we had a five in what looks almost identical to that in terms of supporting sites. Okay. And I know I had a couple questions. So, thank you. Yeah.
140Yeah. I think it's just the fact that they haven't received that training, right? So, it's like they had to give it a three because we haven't dedicated time to that, but it hasn't really been a huge need. And so, and that's not training on parent square and how to use it better to communicate or features. I mean, that could help with respectful relationships, but yeah. Okay. And part of me interpreted that as like engagement. And we we know that engagement is always a challenge. I mean for a variety of reasons for parental engagement, you know, employment, family, health, all those things. So um but if you know if there if the state's kind of requiring this and hasn't provided much framework, then we're kind of left scratching our heads a little bit. Yeah. Okay. Yeah,
141I do believe Selen um Roberto has done a fabulous job and she's really um you know done a great job of making sure that they feel families feel included and and supported and um yeah so I think I feel like we're really removing barriers as a result of her work and um I know that all the principles are doing their principal coffee chats and you know parents are coming and um sharing their concerns or questions And um so we're providing a lot of opportunities for parents to be involved and really trying to be supportive of them. DAC I mean that um LCAP community forum I thought was a beautiful event right we had so many people in the room and it was just great to get feedback um and I do want to make a
142call uh a concern that was brought to my attention within the last 24 hours about um some of the parent feedback that we received or educational partner feedback that we received. I know that there was some concern about um a statement in there about ELD feeling like a um holding pen and that was offensive to um some of our team and you know that was what the parents conveyed I mean or the parent the educational partners I don't know who if it was a parent or who if it was a student um basically what I did is I took all of the feedback from all of the tables because you remember there was a recorder at each of the tables and I basically put it into Gemini and I said can synthesizes for me and
143that's what came back as a concern. And so um that was after you know translation and um and a concern from it was in the notes from the table. Yes. The Spanish speaking table. Yeah. Yeah. And I you know and it's um you know Jim Collins says you know good to great that we've been reading as a as a team a leadership team we have to confront our the brutal facts right and so if that's a perception out there how do we change that perception that's our responsibility just uh one of the slides congrat congratulated ourselves on low substance use self-report um I and just say that that is absolutely not the feeling I get from parents nor from students at the high school. So I I I wasn't going to say anything, but it's
144on the slide as a well done, but it's student reported and I I actually think that's something that is an issue at the high school from from this year's feedback. So thank you. Um and I wanted to thank you on the very large not the PowerPoint but I don't know how many pages the other document is. Uh, but this is the first year where I felt the comments in there were actually specific targeted, not just generic. Year-over-year I see the same content. Um, so I had kind of stopped reading the document for a little while in depth I should say. I read them. Um, but this is the first year where in a while where I really learned a lot from reading the comment areas in each se each section. So, thank you for the
145effort you put into that. Thank you. All right, we're not going to let you go quite yet. Um 8C public hearing regarding the 2026 27 local control and accountability plan. Um okay, Mrs. Roma Flores. Yes. So, we um need to have a public hearing before it can um we can bring it back to adoption next at the next board meeting in June. And so um yeah, it's a public hearing. So, if anybody has questions or Okay, here we go. The public hearing for the 2026 22nd local control accountability 27th sorry local control accountability plan is now open at 8:21 p.m. Comments during the public hearing should be limited to the LCAP. However, we aim to hear from all who wish to be heard. We now invite members of the audience to address the board of
146trustees only on the 2026 27 LCAP. Okay. Okay. We thank you very much for your in No, we don't. Um, thank you very much. The public hearing is now closed at um 8:23ish. Um, do the trustees have any questions about the 202627 LCAP? I do. Um, sorry. Uh, well, I could tell the page number was of 24, but it was the A to G completion rate goal. Um, I I wanted to clarify from what I remember, our goal was to increase the A to G completion rate for all by 10% a year. The way it's written looks as if it's an increase by 10% over the 3 years. So I wanted to clarify I thought it was every year because the starting point was well the overall was 46% in 2023. Um I would just
147like this is a draft. Okay. So it it would be nice to clarify because I my memory is 10% a year. Um and then also the data that you share for the progress in 2024 2025 we can't compare it because it has all and then a breakdown. The next year it has all but no breakdown and then the next year doesn't have all just a breakdown. So if we could have that consistently uh filled in just to for us to be able to track the progress I would appreciate that. And then I was confused because I thought I remember principal Cinto saying that the high school was a 70% A to G last year. Um, which couldn't be from this data. So I just to have the data aligned would be just to double check.
148Thank you. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Any other questions? Okay. Okay. We'll move on to 8D, approval of the new novel for adoption at um RLS Middle School. Mrs. RSL Flores. Yes. Um, the science department at RLS would like to incorporate the novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey into the eighth grade science curriculum. The book aligns with u several of the following or several of the science standards which you can see there. Um, the novel captures the human condition and our connection to the earth through a scientific lens. It explores the physics of space and space travel and its effects on living organisms, the relationship between the earth, sun and moon, our place in the universe, earth's geological geological history, and the dynamics of weather, climate, and human impact. And so we um would like uh pending
149the board's review, the novel will be available for public viewing um and community input at the district office. And should no objection arise, the board will be asked to formally approve the text for the 2627 school year and beyond at the June board meeting. Is there anyone present who wishes to publicly comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? I do. Just a quick question. So is it what is being used um currently? Is there anything in this? Yeah, just the curriculum. I don't believe just the curriculum. So, no, there's not a novel. This is just kind of a supplemental then. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Perfect. My question is just to make sure that this book has gone in front of the RLS parent group just to make sure
150that they're aware. So, if it goes out for viewing for so if the board approves um we will put it out for viewing for the whole district and they um can have one at their office as well, but we will have one here at the district office before we approve. Isn't this a No, no, no. information, right? So, I guess what I would would like to ask is if at least the parent group is some sort of awareness because otherwise they're not going to know to come look at the book to see if they have an issue. Yeah, we will do a parent square notification to all the entire district because we need to make sure everybody knows that it's being considered for adoption. Thank you. And so, um yeah, we will do a notification
151letting them know where it is, where they can come view it. I don't know if you have an extra copy of the ROS so that people can look at it there as well. I don't. Yeah. Okay. I can. Okay. We I I purchased one for the district office. So, I'll have it here. Great. Doesn't it usually sit out right at the top of the stairs? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Um is there a motion to approve the novel orbital as No, because this is it's just mislabeled. President sign. It is mislabeled. Okay. Thank you. Um, any other questions? Okay. Thank you so much. We're going to move into communications 9A superintendent report. Dr. Mcclelay. All right. My comments keep getting shorter as the night goes on because you still have a lot of agenda items to cover.
152So, I'm just going to hit three quick things. First off, a huge thank you to our staff. I know there's only a few here left. Um, but those watching or hear about it, May is staff appreciation month. We've done a small activity to kick it off event last week. Our U PSGs have been doing some amazing things for each of the sites and honoring our staff. May and the first week of June are hard times in education. It's stressful. There's a lot to do to get those kids across the finish line and a lot of extra pressure on folks. So, I just wanted to give a public shout out that we recognize that. That ties into my next point which is this is also the season of celebration and there are so many events between
153now I really they started about two weeks ago almost every night so um we're seeing a lot of each other I want to thank the board for going to so many things um as well as staff but really this is the season where so much of the hard work the collective efforts of the year are validated and you saw it with the chorus tonight you saw it with the shop program kind of the fruits of our labors right so um just enjoy And I always tell staff the same thing, like really take stock in what these students have accomplished as a result of the adult mentorship and guidance and teaching that they've been receiving really all the way down since they were little. So, lots of events coming up. And then my final message, um,
154you know, there's lots of ways to say it, but really it's to staff and it's don't sweat the small stuff, right? Um, with the end of year and all the celebrations comes extra stress and getting it all done, but really keeping our minds on we're here to celebrate our student accomplishments. Let the minutia go. We'll deal with it later. Um, and really just kind of take stock in the moment. Thank you. It's always an important reminder. 9B, Chief Business Officials Budget Update. Dr. Van, right, thank you. Um, thank you, President Simon. So, I have three items to update the board uh tonight. First, I'm going to start off with the summary of the outstanding general obligation bonds. Um, at last month's meeting, if you recall, I share the final audit reports for both measure B
155and measure C general obligation bonds. And what I shared with the board was that although these both um bonds have been fully spent, the community will continue to um pay for these bonds um through 2038 and you see the chart right here showing that the last year of maturity would be 2038. Um so here's the table. Um, also I've been speaking with our financial advisors who have uh shared with me that some of these bonds, some of these um series will be eligible for refinancing to um help lower interest rates and taxpayer costs. So, I will continue to explore that with the um with our financial advisors and I will keep the board updated when those opportunities um um come to fruition. and I'll bring them back and let you know because we want to
156lower those interest rates and costs uh for our taxpayers. Um the second thing I wanted to share uh is that um I've also been told by our financial advisors who have this S&P global ratings for us that the district is actually um uh has a we are maintain our AAA credit rating and it is the highest possible designation on a scale ranging from D to AA. So, um, SMB Global Ratings is one of the big three credit rating agencies alongside Moody's and Fitch. And in order to get the AAA, um, credit rating, um, our our finances is a huge factor in that, right? It's all about, you know, your reserves. Do you have a healthy reserve? Um, do you have any structural imbalances? And so I just want to remind the board that this AAA
157credit rating um if we if there's a structural budget imbalance or a significant draw down of of our reserves, it could lead to a downgrade um downgraded rating. So I do want to just make sure that we're all aware of that. So again, it's going to be critical that we um [snorts] ensure that we have great credit rating just in case we need to borrow any monies in the future, we have this rating that will allow us to do so. Um the last thing I wanted to share, I want to continue having this conversation around property taxes um especially within our the district's boundaries. At the January 8th uh board meeting, if you recall, John Tutor was here with Josh and Kelly from the county office and John had shared with us that uh the
158wine and and hospitality industries are not doing as well. They're facing significant headwinds due to over supply and uh waning demand. And John had estimated that approximately 20% of the uh district's property tax revenues generated by the wine industry. I have a chart here that I wanted to share with the board. This is a chart that I was able to obtain from our financial advisors because they um worked with us on our last two bond measures. This is information that they have readily available. So they were um willing to share this with me and the data here is uh for fiscal years 201516 to this year and it shows that the assessed valuation of the top winery taxpayers has remained consistent representing approximately 15 to 17% of the district's total assessed valuation. So when you
159look at this top 20 um the list of the top 20 taxpayers, you'll notice all but one is in in the wine industry, wine and hospitality. So um on this next chart, this is a chart that also shows that um we have the the wine industry has has they've been pretty st you know they're consistent. They're right there at that 15 to 17% as I mentioned. Um however, when you look at the top um the top 20 taxpayers on this um chart here, you'll notice that the year-to-year um assessed valuation data for top uh taxpayers and just in the last two fiscal years, the um assessed valuation for the top winery taxpayers grew only by 22% while the assessed uh valuation for all top taxpayers combined uh nearly remained flat at a 01% increase. So
160uh this marginal growth among the district's primary taxpayers likely contributed to the overall slowdown in the AV growth district-wide. Um at the March board meeting, I also shared um an article um that Gallow plans to close one of their production facility and layoff workers. If you if we go back to the previous chart of the top 20 tax uh payers, you'll notice that Yallow is right there on number four. re um a colleague in this room recently also shared an article titled how much does regulatory compliance cost Napa wine grape growers. It was a recent study um done by Calpali and the research reveals that staggering regulatory costs are also hurting the Napa County wine industry. This financial strain is especially severe as it coincides with a downturn marked by declining consumer demand, a surplus
161of wine and plummeting grape uh plummeting grape prices. So as I have shared with all of you um at the last um spring symposium SF square [snorts] uh has recommended that we work closely with uh John Tutor's office stay you know in tune as to what's going on with industry trends. Um just last week uh there was an article in the paper um stating that Constellation Brands, the wine and spirits company behind labels including Robert Mandavi and the prisoner plan plans to close a large winery south of Soma. If you look at Constellation Brands on this list, they are right there in number 10. So again, just information for the board, keeping an eye on the wine industry and hospitality industry. As you know, we're a basic aid district fund off of property taxes. Our
162top payers pro uh taxpayers are in the wine industry. So, um I will continue to monitor this and share information as I become aware of them and work closely with John Tutor's office. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Any questions? Trustees question. Um, so I I I remember refining I'm talking about the bonds right now. Um, I recall that we refinanced our bonds bonds in the past I think 2013 maybe something like that. So my question is if we were to you mentioned something about possibly um looking into refinance in front of the year would that just extend out the maturity date for a longer period of time then? So instead of like from 2038 would it when you refinance that does it push out the date? It depends. It depends
163which series. So on the very first page when I show that the series the different um series of measure B and C bonds it depends. Okay. So, as we as I work with the financial advisors and we nail down which series we can possibly save taxpayer costs, I'll bring that back and I'll let you know all the information in terms of will it extended or will it not. Um, for example, we did just uh refund did a refund in 2023 right before I came on board. And that uh maturity day is actually 2033 which is before the last series which will um go up the um the maturity date is 2038. So it just depends on on the series. Okay. Mhm. Okay. And refinancing doesn't necessarily mean worse. Kind of like when you're refinancing your
164house and you're pulling out some kind of equity and stuff. It doesn't mean additional funds to the for the district. It's just refin it's just a straight refinance. Correct. Correct. We're not pulling out any more money cuz that would be a completely different refinancing that would cost taxpayers and that you would have to bring back to the taxpayers to vote on. This is not Okay, that that's perfect. Okay. Thank you. And when will you have that information for the the question that trustee Kerr asked about um when will you have that for us? Um I have a call with the uh financial advisors next week. We have a Zoom call to look over some of these um series to see which ones are could we possibly refinance. So I will hopefully have something for you
165in June. If not, then early next school year. Okay, great. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Vang. We'll move on to excuse me, [clears throat] 9C superintendent subcommittee reports and the only one we have is the Monrovia group with which met on April 16th and um Dr. Clay and I provided you the St. Helena teen activities survey results and the Monrovia agenda minutes. Um so those are written reports that you can take a look at. I just wanted to share that um Selen and Dr. Mcclelay created the survey and received feedback from leadership and the middle school and the high school participated in it participated in the survey and it gave us great information about um what kids are interested in doing in our town after school and what they would
166like to see um to help um increase social engagement and enrich their their lives after school. So, we'll be discussing uh the results with our community partners and see how we can come together to liven things up a little bit in this sleepy town for our our middle school and our high school kids. Yeah, I mean that was that was nice survey. It was good to read those answers. Really valuable information. So, thank you Dr. Mcclelay. Yeah. And and to the uh middle school and the high school for participating in the survey. Um 9D St. Helena Teachers Association. I would like to call on Mr. Ldorf. Good evening trustees. Good evening. Um so, uh congratulations to Andy. All right. His last evening here, so nicely done. And I've heard we've roped in another person. So
167good. So as one of our swimmers, so she'll be great. Um I'm looking forward to having her to seeing her out here. Um, and yeah, we're 3 weeks out. You're right. It's uh this is like the final push. So the next time I see you, the kids will a whole group of kids will be graduated and off on their new adventures. So um, one thing I I some members have been talking to me and asking questions. So they and and it's kind of a it's this weird juxiposition. So, some of our teachers are a little confused when we see like the budget updates and and people get like we hear that there's, you know, put out and maybe not the best words, but a kind of a gloomy outlook, so to speak. Um, and then
168we we see a job posting for math teacher and and then we hear we're overstaffed and it and it kind of is a reminder to the group that you know we're in a situation I mean I remember when uh 55day Bob was the superintendent about 10 11 years ago uh and he said hey we have declining enrollment and yet at that time we kept uh hiring teachers this is nothing that teachers have asked for and then it puts us in a sit situation where the teachers bear the brunt either through budget constraints or through potential riffs. And um it just this is not something that the teachers of their making. And yet we have an opportunity um we feel like when we see that we're we hear we're overstaffed, we could keep this internal, but
169we're choosing not to. So it's a mixed message that we're getting as a staff to say the least. So um and so it it just creates confusion amongst the group. So I just wanted to pass that on and uh yeah otherwise um looking forward to the end of the year and uh we hope that everything goes smoothly and a good graduation and yeah the weather cooperates. It's not 100. So all right thank you. All right. Have a great rest of this. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay. 9E California School Employees Association report to the board and I would like to call on Do we have a CSEA representative tonight? No. Okay. Nothing written. You received nothing. Okay. Um 9F Oh, the um communications 9F through I are the written reports from the site principles. And as
170always, we appreciate you compiling those for us and highlighting student achievement and parent participation. Thank you very much. We'll move on to business operations 10A, approval of contracts over 25,000. I'd like to call on Dr. Vang. All right, let me open up this document. I believe we have three contracts over 25,000. The first is waves. Uh this is an annual um contract that I'm bringing forth uh for approval. And the second one is for Proare for um uh our uh to support with our special ed program. And the last one is ADOY Advanced Technologies. Um, we may or may not need this service for next year, but just to be on the safe side, I did bring it to the board just in case we need it. Um, our student may not be participating in
171a non-public school placement for next year. And if that is the case, then we will not need this um contract. But I did bring forth just in case something changes, then I'm ahead of the game. So, um, this is a contract that you've seen in the past. Um, it's it may be for one student, it may not be. So, thank you. Okay. Um, any other questions? Oh. Um. Um, [snorts] is there anyone present who wishes to uh comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions? question um about that um adroid is that how you said a ad a um so I'm assuming that we can we can we can get out of that contract without any kind of penalties and things then yes okay okay if we don't use their services then
172there's no charge to us but if we don't have this contract in place and we need their services then difficult yes so we're have I'm going to if if the board approves this it's ready to go next year should we need it if not Then we don't. Perfect. Okay. Okay. That's what I wanted to hear. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? No. Okay. Is there a motion to approve contracts over 25,000 as presented? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those post say no. Motion carried. 10B public hearing regarding the draft 2026 27 original budget. Uh Dr. Vang. All right. Thank you, President uh Simon. So I am bringing forth the um budget for next year. This is the public um hearing. I
173will be back next month for the adoption. Mhm. But let's start with this month. All right. So, [snorts] you've seen this um chart before. This is our budget/inancial cycle and it starts with the fiscal year in July 1st going all the way through June. So before July 1st, we have to adopt a budget. So today, like I said, it this is the public hearing. that will come back next month um with the final budget for the board to review and hopefully adopt. The public hearing um not only includes this year but also the two subsequent years. So it's just like all the other budget reports that you've seen. It'll include the the base year and the two subsequent years. Um, and this is required by ED code 42127 prior to the June adoption, prior to
174me bringing this back to you next month. Um, we the governor's May revision should be released shortly here and that will provide me with the revised dart board and an LCFF calculator which I will use to update my numbers and then bring back to you. um should there be any additional uh tentative agreements uh that will also be included in my budget and I will bring that back. Otherwise, I will finalize the budget um work with Mrs. Romos uh to ensure that we have the LCAP ready for adoption as well. So, the budget and the LCAP will be brought back to you at the same meeting but in different action items. These are the key assumptions used for the uh budget for next year. And again, please keep in mind that because the governor's uh
175May reise has not been released yet, the assumptions are based on the January governor's budget dart board and the LCFF calculator that was most recently released. However, it is not the May revice. You'll notice here the property taxes. We are a basic aid district and as I just shared with you earlier, our top taxpayers are wineries. So you'll see here that the uh property taxes are set to remain flat for next year and the outy years per John Tutor's recommendation. We are keeping our um percent um increase at a 0% per his recommendation. And you'll notice uh these are the other uh key assumptions that are listed here. And you'll notice on the bottom the cola the statuto statutory cost of living adjustment. Um preliminary numbers show that for the May reise this number is
176slightly up. I believe it might go. It's at 2.87, but don't quote me on it just yet until I bring it back. Um when I do use the revise uh the May revise LCFF calculator, it may change our supplemental grant uh portion here which is right here in the middle uh these numbers here. So um I will ensure that I point out the changes next month when I bring it back. Key assumptions also include negotiated salary increases and you'll see zero not because we're not giving any but because we haven't settled yet. So until we settle I won't have those numbers uh those uh percentages to include in here. However, again based on the um governor's um January uh governor's budget dart board. These are the assumptions that I'm using based on that dart board.
177um multi-year projection also known as my this is our best guess of the revenue we will earn and the checks that we will write um next year and the two out years um I do want to go down to the very last row where you see project the reserve including fund 17 fund 17 currently uh uh the The funding there is about $3.8 million. So that number is included in our projected reserve. Uh the unrestricted ending fund balance is at 12.6 um it's approximately 12.6 million. We are meeting our minimum uh requirement for reserves and that's a 3% and that's a 3% of general fund expenses. So as our general fund um expenses increase, this number will increase. When our general fund expenses decrease, this number will decrease. So it's a 3% of general fund
178expenses. So as our general fund expenditures fluctuate, this number will also fluctuate in the middle here. When you're looking at unrestricted ending fund balance, this 12.6 6 million. I do want to get out of here and I want to show um this chart right here. You'll notice that where it says transfers out, this 1.1 million that you see being transferred out, this includes 800,000 that the board approved in a in a prior resolution. 800,000 will be moved from general fund into fund 14 to address deferred maintenance. And then you also approved resolution 2440 for facilities. So you'll see that 4.5 million across all three years being set aside to address facilities needs for uh for next year summer of 2027. This 4.5 million is set aside for the high school. If you recall, this is
179part of that 5 something million that the board recently approved to address the high school facilities needs. That's the high school modernization project. And then the following year, this 4.5 will be to um we will use these funds to address facilities needs over at um RLS. Then we will circle back to the elementary school. So, if you recall, we have a facilities master plan that we've put in place with stakeholder input and um we will utilize these um um funds to address our facilities projects at each of the schools as we rotate through. And um what you also what you see here was the information ad that I had currently at the time when I was putting this budget together. Since then, lots of things have changed. So due to recent changes, the final budget
180for the June board meeting will reflect the board approved um reduction force positions. Additionally, we've been notified by some of our vendors that they are going to start applying fuel search charges whereas that didn't happen before. So, we're getting a lot of notification in terms of rate increases or or additional costs that we weren't used to paying. Um, so those are things that I will need to update the budget with. um our title um our federal title allocations I just received our preliminary allocations last week and all of our title ones 2 3 4 the title funds that uh Mrs. Roma Flores alluded to earlier those revenue um the preliminary allocations show a decrease compared to this year so you'll notice less in our federal funds. Um, additionally, we've been told that our technology uh
181needs will what I budget will not be sufficient because of all the things that are going on in today's economy that there will be an increase in any of the technology needs for parts and pieces. So, um I want the board to be aware that when I do bring back the final um budget next month, you will see changes in the MYP due to these recent notifications and um changes that have been made aware of. Next slide. Um this is the most recent um chart that was shared at the spring symposium SF square spring symposium. So, I wanted to reshare this with the board. Keep in mind that 3% of uh 3% reserve is about 2 weeks worth of salaries and 17% is about 2 months. Currently, these are the statewide average ending fund balances
182as of the 2425 school year. They don't have this year yet. As you all know, we're still in this fiscal year. And so these are actual numbers, actual percentages for unified school districts, uh, communityf funed unified school districts such as ours, uh, the average is about 24.33%. On this slide, um, our general fund contributions to restrictive programs, again, uh, restrictive programs are like many funds, they should be self- sustaining. when they're not, then there are contributions that need to be made in order to keep these restrictive programs running. And so the two big ones I I'm showing here are routine maintenance and special ed. And you can see the projected contributions not only for next year but the two out years. Cash flow, we are projected to show uh to have positive cash flow uh
183throughout next school year. Our beginning cash is projected at 14.4% uh million and then uh with the ending cash projected at 15.6 million. So this is my preliminary budget for the board to review. Um again um I will bring this back once it's finalized next month for the board to review and hopefully adopt. Are there any questions? And this is just for public hearing. So, um the public hearing for the 2026 27 budget is now open at 900 p.m. Comments during the public hearing should be limited to the budget. However, we aim to hear from all of you who wish to be heard. We now invite members of the audience to address the board of trustees only on the 2026 27 budget. Okay. The public hearing is now closed at 9:01 p.m. Do the trustees
184have any questions about the 202627 budget? No questions. I'm formulating my question if I I don't know if I have it formulated to the right. Um Dr. Would anything move us from the black to the red next year? Any unforeseen, unplanned expenses, knock on wood, litigation, any increases that we may not have anticipated. Um [snorts] any sort of project with some sort of our emergency facility facilities needs. Um just like you saw this year when we had to replace the heaters. Um all that would just come directly from the reserve. There's no other pot of money. It would come from the reserve and um that's the only pot of money I can tap into. Right. And so that would decrease your reserve. Okay. Yeah. Okay. The reserves are what we're going to tap into for
185a variety of things. Correct. Correct. Correct. And you heard earlier, we're anticipating a rate increase with PG&E. Utilities cost is going up pretty drastically. So that will come out of reserves as well. Okay. I do and this is kind of at a at a at a a a state level. Um recently we've been um trustees have been um sending out letters to the governor and and folks there um just because of the Prop 98 where Governor Nuome is thinking about with this holding some of the money and things. Now is that Prop 98 is that is that in the form of LCFF funding? Okay. So we may we may see a little I know we don't have a lot of revenue from LCFF but we may receive a little bit if he decides not to
186withhold some of the funding. Is that is that correct? Okay. Correct. Okay. So that and that sounds like that's coming up soon. We will find out. Yeah. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? Trusty. Okay. Um Okay. Thank you so much. Um before we move on, Well, you know where to find us. Keep us posted. [applause] I will and we'll see you in your next came in just with my guys. Okay, we're going to get into facilities 11A written report on the SHUSD aquatics program 2026. Um, I'd like to remind the board that this is a written report. Is there any public comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? I don't have a comment, but I do appreciate that it will now be open
187on Sundays and will be extended by one week in the summer. So, thank you so much for making that happen. I really really appreciate it. I I did have one question. Is is there do we is there a potential for July family swim night? I noticed that was just a June and an August. So, um we are partnered with this, uh City of St. Helina Parks and Wreck. And right now we're being told that they have two planned uh swim nights, family swim nights. Um should that change, we will update our um schedule, but for right now, we've been told that offering just two. Mhm. Okay. Thank you. And then they're also coordinating with ways to ensure that we have sufficient lifeguards. Okay. Thank you. I was planning to reach out though tomorrow, Mrs. Pelosi
188because I did think it was odd when she pointed it out that those family swim nights don't line up monthto month. There's a missing month in the middle and so we thought maybe that was an oversight but I I will reach out tomorrow and ask. Okay. Thank you so much. [snorts] Great. And and my question is is I I noticed the fees for that. to the um youth for dollars, you know, put you know, is there do they ever offer like passes where you can buy like something for $40 and it reduces the price just because of those that like to swim a lot? I mean, and having to pay $6 each time, not that I'm aware of. Okay. Okay. because that would be that would be great just just to to help with the
189cost a little bit because I know that I do I do hear comments kind of through the summertime where it's like we you know that Kalisoga doesn't charge you know that that whole thing so and I don't want to get into that conversation but any way that we could reduce it would be awesome but I also know that there's a lot of things to pay for the swimming pool in order to kind of keep it going as well. I kind of asked that too cuz I know where we used to live in a college town there was like you could pay when you went or you could buy a pool pass for the [clears throat] summer and made a big difference. Um my question I noticed on swim lessons private by appointment will they offer
190do you have any idea public swim lessons and if so how does one find out about that in the community? Well there is a new um board that we put up by the aquatic center. So Kevin with Waves has been posting announcements there. Um so do you think it would go through like will the city promote that on their summer programs? Do you think this little partnership with the city? But Mike and I have been working with the city and we are actually meeting with the other Kevin from city parks and wreck um I believe is it next week or the week after that um to review their schedule, their summer um schedule. So okay, if I hear of anything, I will let you know cuz I do know a lot of parents with young
191kids would love to have swim lessons that aren't private that are a little more affordable. So yes, I think part of the struggle, part of the challenge is um lifeguards. Yes, it sure it has been consistently for many years. The district doesn't own this, correct? This swim program. No, nor do we set the rates. No, we work directly. I just want to clarify. We We work with I shouldn't say no. I should say we work with Waves and the city. We provide the pool. Yes. Yeah, I just cuz we don't have any say I thought that's I was just clarifying on if they have passes or how much they charge. I thought that was a city or waves owned component. Is that true? We work with waves to set that. Whatever we bring in offsets
192our cost to waves. Say that one more time, please. So we work with waste. So anything any any revenue earned from the summer swim program that that revenue offsets our costs to waves. So paying for it. Yes. And whatever they bring in, we pay less. So we're subsidizing. Yes. Basically. Yes. The community swim program. Okay. Oh, okay. [snorts] Which then would beg the question, that's why I'm asking that there could be a bit more dialogue about a swim pass or public swim lessons that might But that's for another night. Maybe it does say students swim for free. I thought on there. No, no. I I'm talking about the swim lessons and and a pass to, right? So, just let's put that in the parking lot. It's an ongoing conversation that Mike and I are having
193with um Waves. Okay. Thank you. [snorts] Good. Good. Good. Glad that conversation is. Appreciate that. Thank you. Okay. Um any other questions? Okay. 11B. Approval of amendment approving fee adjustment to the professional services agreement for construction management services for the St. Helena Elementary School roof drainage and HVAC at buildings A, B, and E project. Dr. Vang, thank you, President Simon. So, if you recall um at the November 2025, um board meeting, there was a budget increase of 620,000 um and added uh uh scopes of work added to the um overall project over at the elementary school. And that increase was due to the fact that our insurance carrier NBSIA is now has changed their practice so that rather than when there's a claim sending over to them, sending all the invoices and having them take
194care of everything, it is now in our books. And because it's in our books, we pay for upfront and then we get reimbured. We submit for reimbursement. And with that uh that piece that the 620 this increase really lives with NBSIA but it's in our books. And with this increase also comes an increase in construction management. So the increase that you're seeing this 23,000 is actually a cost that we will pay upfront but NBSA will reimburse us for. Um there's about $900 that we'll be responsible for, but the majority of this will be paid reimbursed by NBSIA. Is there anyone present who wishes to publicly comment on this agenda item? Do [snorts] the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? A quick um what is the lag time in the reimbursement? What have you
195seen kind of like with the Boys and Girls Club and things when with reimbursements? Um, it's a process that we are still working through within BSIA. It's a process. Okay. It's a new process. Mhm. I remember you talking about that previously with the Boys and Girls Club. So, great. That's my only question. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Is there a motion to approve the fee adjustment to the professional services agreement for construction management services for the St. Helena Elementary School roof drainage and HVAC project as presented? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? A second. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. Motion carried. 11 C. Approval to award a contract to EVT Builders LLC for the St. Helina Unified School District maintenance yard gate project. Dr. Vang.
196All right. So, this was a um this is not a new gate. This is a gate that you've already approved. The money is already there. But as the board, you have to until you formally approve these contracts because it is a contract over 25,000. I can't allow anyone to start any work or pay them. So, I'm bringing this forth for your official formal approval. Okay. Is there anyone present who wishes to comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? Okay. Is there a motion to approve the contract to EVT Builders LLC for the St. Helena Unified School District maintenance yard gate project as presented? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. I..................... All. Those opposed say no. Motion
197carried. Human resources 12A approval for the 2026 27 Declaration of Need. I'd like to call on Mr. Heler. All right. Wait three hours. You get to speak. All right. Good evening. Um each year, uh we're required to fill out the declaration of need, um for potential short-term credential waiverss with the Napa County Office of Education and the Commission on Teacher Credentiing. This is if we have to employ teachers that don't have clear credentials. Okay. So this declaration need intends to assure our educational partners that we're making a genuine effort to hire fully credentialed teachers um before we'd have to consider resorting to a candidate on an emergency or limited credential basis. Okay, this [snorts] is different than what the board sometimes authorizes in August or September when we do consent to teach authorization. So I
198don't I want to keep those separate. Those are two different things. This is about our efforts to recruit um teachers each year. So [snorts] we typically don't have a problem attracting teachers and when we have vacancies exist. We have a number of applicants. So we have not run into uh this situation previously. However, we do have to file this annually. It has been something we've done since I've been here 10 years. We do this every year. Um and we we just adjust the numbers periodically just to reflect what we might need. So, um we don't foresee anything occurring that would generate a need for what's called a short-term um short-term uh permit. So, it's a step or a preliminary, which is a PIP. So, those are things that other districts are using when they don't
199have teachers that are fully credentialed. We don't anticipate that need, but you know, weird things happen. So, we do have to fill it out and we do uh put numbers in there as placeholders, but we don't anticipate that this is something that we're going to need. So, be happy to answer any other additional questions. Is there anyone present who wishes to publicly comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? What do they do with it? What do they do with this information? Well, so if we don't file it and there is a need, they would this commission on teacher credentiing would say you didn't file this and you so therefore you cannot use a teacher um with a permit. I got it. So it's for us it's a
200a safety net of sorts just to do it um just in case. But in other districts, I saw um something I did a little research and there's a school district that has 500 uh special ed teachers that they're going to employ with a step or a PIP, which is terrifying. So, I imagine it's one of the larger districts in the state. But, you know, we we do see that the there are teacher a teacher shortage and that there is a need to recruit teachers and sometimes teachers aren't fully credentialed. So, this is a way these waiverss allow districts to begin that process of onboarding teachers. Um, again, like I I don't anticipate we would have that need, but you know, like I I was thinking of an example of, you know, a drama teacher, let's
201just say, where it's kind of a hard position to fill with a unique credential. If Patty were to go and we had a difficult time recruiting a drama teacher, but the only one available uh didn't have a full credential and was on a permit, this would give us the opportunity to employ that person while they obtaining their uh credential. Okay. Okay. Is that wondering about the dance teacher? We were like, we have a dance teacher. Any other questions? Okay. Is there a motion to approve the 202627 declaration of need as presented? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? I will second. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. Motion carried. Board related items 13A, adoption of resolution 25-32, SHUSD employee appreciation for May 2026. And I'd like to
202call on Dr. Mcclelay. I referenced this earlier um and we are um requesting that the board designate May as our staff appreciation. You know that historically we've combined most districts do in the state California certificate as well as classified. So I believe we had our student rep prepared to read this tonight with the assignment. Trusty Kerr Trusty Kerr is reading it. Beautiful. Yes. Awesome. Absolutely. Trusty Kerr, take it away. Okay. uh Saintin Unified School District resolution 25-32 staff appreciation week 2026. Whereas providing quality education to our young people continues to be our greatest challenge in education as well as our most vital responsibility. And whereas we rely on our teaching and support staff to ensure quality instruction in a wide variety of subjects in and out of the classroom. And whereas in addition to teaching
203academics, teacher and classified staff members provide guidance, support, and encouragement to the children of St. Helena, a commitment that we as a community are proud of and deeply appreciative, deeply appreciate. And whereas our staff members go far beyond their contractual obligations, demonstrating a level of dedication and commitment that we deeply respect and value. And whereas it's it's appropriate that we recognize and express appreciation to the employees of St. Unified School District and acknowledge with gratitude the care and concern that they have for our students. And therefore be resolved that the Saint Helina Unified School District Governing Board acknowledges the month of May as staff appreciation month. And be it further resolved that the board extends its its sincere appreciation to the instructional and support staff of the St. Helina Unified School District for their extraordinary
204dedication and professional commitment to the students of the Saint Helena community during this week and throughout the year. Okay. Thank you, Trusty. Absolutely. I'm happy to. Thank you. Is there anyone who wishes to publicly comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? I don't have a question, but I do want to make one comment in appreciation. Um, you know, I've been working on the 150th and last month I want to publicly acknowledge Dr. Mccclelay because she decided that this wasn't okay, that the district needed to be in the parade. And I think uh, Seleni made a flyer and they recruited. She came Saturday morning with her family. And I was just most appreciative of you making that effort and exemplifying what a part of the community our school
205is. and I I just want you to know how much that was appreciated. It was a really really above and beyond. So, thank you. It was my honor. It was super fun. And I would have to throw it back to you as well because I think you did an inordinate amount of work kind of being the the master of ceremonies down Main Street. Um and then also to Lindsay Swickard, a public acknowledgement. She and Judy Ashwandon and Randy Menddees. They already had an event planned for that day originally when I asked, but I think they sensed the desperation that we really wanted more students out there and they did a divide and conquer and literally split kids and had them at two different events with two different staff members on a Saturday. Lindsay came early
206or Mrs. Wickard and was outside really helping to coordinate. So, lots of people involved to to make it a good success. So, FFA has just been outstanding in volunteering. you know, for three different events that I've worked with, the 150th, excuse [clears throat] my voice, um they've sent volunteers and they've just been great. So, I'm most appreciative of FFA, too. Wow. Okay. Yes. Extraordinary dedication from our teachers and we um honor them this month and every month. So, thank you very much to our lovely staff, especially the ones that are here right now at 9:20 p.m. [laughter] Thank you for your professionalism and your dedication. Thank you. 13B, adoption of resolution 25-31, Pride Month, June 2026. Want to Oh, yes. Got ahead of myself. Um, is there a motion to Excuse me. Oh, is there
207a motion to Okay, we're back at 13A. Is there a motion to approve resolution 24-35 as presented? I'll make that motion. Um, is there a second? Second. Oh, sorry. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Motion carried. [snorts] 13B. Adoption of resolution 25-31, Pride Month, June 2026. Trustee Wolf, would you like to read this resolution? Of course. Okay, let me see. Make the right thing. Oh, Dr. Mcclelay, I am sorry. Let's start with Dr. Mcclelay. No, [snorts] I just wanted to point out this is part of board policy uh that students bring this forward and we actually had two groups uh request. Uh it came from the high school ASB as well as the middle school unity club and so we put it together representing really the the desires and requests of both of
208the schools. Thank you. Okay. The resolution. Yes. All right. St. Helena Unified School District resolution 25-31 Pride Month 2026. Whereas the vision and mission of the St. Colleen Unified School District promote a safe, supportive, and inclusive learning environment where all students can fully develop as resilient, caring, and responsible individuals and citizens. And whereas the St. Telina Unified School District celebrates diversity in students, staff, and the school community. And whereas the district is firmly committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and tolerant environment in our schools. And whereas the district is firmly committed to school safety for all of our students, staff, and family members, including the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, LGBTQ plus community or those who may be perceived as such. And whereas board policy 5145.3 prohibits discrimination in its programs and activities based
209on gender or sexual orientation among other characteristics. And whereas June is a symbolic month in which LGBTQ plus their families, friends, and allies come together in various celebrations of freedom and pride. Therefore, be it resolved, the St. Helina Unified School District proclaims the month of June 2026 to be LGBT LGTQ plus Pride Month and will honor and highlight the accomplishments and contributions of LGBTQ plus students, staff, and their families. Pride Month is an avenue to ensure that bullying, harassment, and discrimination based on real or perceived orientation, gender identity, and gender expression are deemed unacceptable in our community. Be it further resolved by recognizing Pride Month, the district continues to support all other policies, practices, and curricula that honor and respect LGBTQ plus students, staff, families, and the greater community. passed and adopted 14th day of
210May at a regular board meeting. Thank you, Trusty Wolf. Is there anyone present who wishes to publicly comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? No. Okay. Um I do appreciate that we have this resolution and um while I think St. Helena does a great job with our equity, our unity club at the RLS and at the high school. I know we can always do better. So, that is always a work in progress, I believe, for all of our students. Thank you. Um Okay. Um is there a motion to approve resolution 24-35 as presented? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. Motion carried. 13C information on the CSBA governance self- assessment tool and
211timeline. Dr. Mcclelay. Okay, this is another one that you are familiar with. You see this each year and we are simply asking um for the twoe window and I believe we put it in there. I had the item up. Where did it go? Here it is. Um, we're suggesting May 18th. So that means you would receive the survey on Monday. It would be open through Tuesday of June 2nd. That's because there is a Monday holiday in there. This gives you the opportunity to self-reflect on our collective board um practices and then we will collate it and bring it back at the June meeting for you to review as a whole. Okay. Is there any public comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions? No, the window sounds totally acceptable to me. Yeah,
212absolutely. Okay, great. So much for the test. Yes, exactly. Okay, fantastic. 13D. Request to accept gifts, donations, or earmarked funds. Um, we Let's see here. Um, Trusty Pelosi, would you mind reading? You got it. Thank you so much. Uh the board is asked to accept with immense gratitude the following donations. St. Alina High School has received the following donations totaling $2,200. Uh the amount of $1,000 from Sir Optimus International of St. Alina donated to FFA general from the crab fee. Uh $700 from the Napa Valley Marathon uh donated to track and field. $500 from Sport Orthopedic Physiootherapy, I think I got that right, to donate it to also to track and field. And um there were it looks like the donation was various shop tools that were uh donated by Gary Ericson and Kathleen Crawford
213to the um the egg shop program. Um again, thank you for those donations. Wonderful. Is there anyone present who wishes to publicly comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? Is there a motion to approve the gifts, donations, or earmarked funds as presented? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. Motion carried. Okay, we're going to get into the consent agenda now. The cons um hold on one moment. So sorry I do not have that clicked. Okay. The consent agenda contains routine items judged as appropriate to be acted upon in one motion. If a board member requests that an item be removed from the consent agenda, the item will be considered under discussion action
214items. Is there anyone present who wishes to publicly comment on this agenda item? Do the trustees have any questions about this agenda item? No, I don't. I I have a question. It's not that I need to pull something, but I know one of the contracts um had to do with our speakers. Um news is here and I think we did get an explanation about the middle school, but I I'm just curious justformational if at a later date I know on our our report uh Dr. Mcclelay you had said the principles could speak to it, but we don't have them now. But I I just think it would be and maybe in Friday memo or something, could you tell us what those presentations are like or what it involves? Um I'm happy to I actually was
215able to get more information from us this afternoon so I can collate it and get it for you in your weekly. I mean I'm all for it. I was just for my own personal knowledge would like to know a little more. Okay, no problem. Great. Thank you, Trusty Wolf. Any other questions? Okay. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those post say no. Motion carried. Okay. We're going to be at 15 future agenda items. Um let's take a look at the June 11th meeting, regular meeting of the board. Any additions, trustees? I don't it's not certainly nothing that's it's it's not necessary for it to be immediate by any means, but I'm
216interested in learning more about our deferred the deferred maintenance projects that are coming up for the next year. Like a list of what we're planning on we're planning on doing. Yeah. Make the short list for for 26 27. Exactly. Thank you. Thank you. Nicely said. Okay. I think it might be in Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you very much. Um, and I don't know this if this is an agenda item, but I think it would be interested to kind of get a final recap from the high school like how many students are going to different programs or colleges and where I've heard talk about, oh, somebody's going to Stanford, somebody's going I just think it would be really informational for us and I don't know whether that's in a board meeting or a attachment to a
217Friday memo or something just to kind of see where our kids are going andformational. He said, "I apologize. I'm I'm looking up there for where that list is. I think where that missing bullet is, we had a list of five or six student data pieces and we've been speaking in cabinet about there were things like um attendance, so end of the year attendance data, a to data, um college postgraduation plan data, um I'm drawing a blank, it's late. There were five or six of those. I believe we took it off because there was no way we could have that data ready for you by the June 11th meeting when the last day of school is June 5th and 4th and we would be posting the agenda that very next day. So, we took it off
218thinking we'll plunk these in during August, September, and October as that data becomes available. But I love that idea of making sure we get that included. Thank you. You could also get the uh slideshow from the senior rally because they included a picture. I mean, it's like a baby picture, but at least you can see the names and where everyone is going next year or what they're doing next year. That might be an easy way to satisfy it. Absolutely. Thank you. Yeah. And even that could maybe even be included on Mr. Sinto's principal report as Yeah. A link. Okay. Anything else? Trustees, what is the one below the blank one? What's a con app? spring that that's the annual um con app. That's where I report out on our title funds like title one, title
219two, and so it's just accepting it, bring it forth, um and then having you review it. It's an annual thing. There's a spring one and a fall is the name of it. Yes. It's always called con app. Mhm. Wow. Start holiday. Oh, okay. Well, that one I Sorry. There you [laughter] Great. And we'll have our board self-evaluation reflection, so we'll be prepared with some notes to discuss. Okay, fabulous. Any Yes, President Simon, are we doing anything festive for the board meeting? Oh, I didn't know. In past years, we've done some fun things. Just curious. Oh, I'll let you know. I'll think on this. Absolutely. Um, okay. Your time. Yeah. Okay. Um, let's go to adjournment. Is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? I'll make a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting. Is there a second?
220I'll [laughter] second. All those in favor say I. I. Motion carried. Um, meeting ended at 9:34 p.m. Thank you so much. Thank you.