LMSV Board Meeting, December 16, 2025

001am at this time our December 16th, 2025 Laame Mesa School Spring Valley School Board meeting. Um, I have some announcements. Oh, now it's beeping. Please be advised that this meeting is being recorded. Participants on Zoom who would like to make a public comment must submit the public comment form. It's linked in the agenda by 6:10 p.m. We will call your name during the public comment portion of the agenda. Sure. If I just add one thing to that, if anyone's here to make public comment, there's public comment cards on the back table and we'd need you to fill one out and give it to um Kathy up here in the front. >> Awesome. That brings us to our pledge of allegiance which will be led by students from Kemp Literacy Academy. Is there a button that

002we need to just let it off? >> Hello. Hello. Hello. >> There we go. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Place your right hand over your heart. >> Ready, begin. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please have a seat for the >> the board meeting. I guess it Thanks you guys. Okay, that takes us to the approval of the minutes of the previous meeting. I move to approve the previous minutes. >> I'll second. >> Any questions, discussion regarding those minutes? >> All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. >> All right. And that brings us to the approval of tonight's board agenda. I'll move to approve the board

003agenda with the uh one modification. I'd like to move item 5A to be heard prior to the public comment. 5A is the interim budget report to be heard prior to public comment. Item 4 D. Um I know that I've heard from the community there's lots of questions about the budget and um I think that people might be here to make public comment. I'd like think that it'd be good for folks to be able to hear the budget report. Um if you would and be able to make public comment if you have any questions on it. um for a second. David, did we align that with legal counsel? >> Yes. Okay, cool. >> Yeah, I'll second. >> Any other questions, discussion regarding that? All in favor say I. >> I opposed. >> Okay, that takes us

004to our spotlight on Lame Mesa Spring Valley Schools with a spotlight on Kemp Literacy Academy. >> All right, so we're really excited tonight to celebrate Kemp Literacy Academy. We have a video for you all first and then I'm going to ask um director Hosa to come to the stand and um share a little bit about the school, introduce your families and your students. All right, go ahead and press play, Matt. Talk a lot about it. Community, it can sound big. It could be hard to explain, but here at Kemp, we see it every day. We build it one small action at a time. One smile, one friendship, one voice joining another. This is how community grows. Community starts when people listen to each other. In our classrooms, we listen in English, we listen in Spanish.

005We share ideas in both languages. This helps us understand each other in deeper ways. It helps us feel connected. >> It also starts with feeling welcome. At Kempton, you can hear so many languages. You may hear a voice that sounds like your family or a voice from far away. Those voices come together here and make us strong. We learn from each other. We help each other with reading and math. We help each other with our English and Spanish. We cheer for each other. A strong community also needs support. Pimpton is a community school. That means we open our doors to families. We connect them with things they need to feel safe here. We have food programs, we have workshops, we have events for families, we have resources that help and with health and learning. These

006things take away stress. When families feel steady, kids can move forward. Miss Himemenz helps guide all of this. She learns what families need. She brings help together. She brings our school and study foundation. Her work helps our community feel whole. Another part of community is trust. Every student here knows an adult who believes in them. Someone who listens, someone who helps them stay on track. That trust helps us feel at home. >> When you feel safe, you can grow. You speak more. You try new things. You reach for harder work. You learn how to lead. Trust gives you room to find your place in the world. >> And when every student feels seen, the wall at school rise. We let each other up. We go together the day knowing we belong. >> This is how

007you build a community. You bring your story. You listen to others. You help when you can. You let others help you. You speak your language with pride. You honor the languages around you. We connect. We lift each other up. And when we do, our school fills with a sound you hear every day. The sound of joy. That's the sound of a strong community. That's the sound of Kenton. You'll see me. >> Wasn't that wonderful? Love it. Uh good evening members of the board, our executive team, family, staff, uh joining us both in person and online. Uh my name is Janet Nalis Hosa and I'm honored to serve as the principal of Kemp Street Literacy Academy. This is my fourth year here serving our Cougar families in Spring Valley. I'd like to begin by thanking students

008who led us in the pledge. Uh Paola Lopez Trujillo Paola and Santiago Teso resendes. um who will be sadly will be leaving us off to Iowa um in a couple more days. Uh but he has been with us since he was in what kinderg and and really helping her understand about um the pathway that it takes for a student to to develop that second language. We need time, right? And so, thank you to Paola's parents for entrusting her um you know, her to us and and trusting that um there is a um you know that there needs to be time to develop the second language. It takes four to seven years. And so, thank you both for being here and leading us in the pledge. And uh are we doing the picture later or when

009we're done? Okay. So, I'll continue. So, as you guys see, the video you just saw just captures the heart of our Kemp community. Uh, through our students voices, we're reminded that community or communad means coming together as one. Huntos, unidos. At Kemp, that togetherness is expressed in many languages. We actually have 10 different languages. Vietnamese, Cambodian, Pashto, Farsy, Haitian, Creole, Arabic, Dari, English, and Spanish. Each language carries a story as shared in the video and every story belongs at Kemp. I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Karen and Ron Cook who thoughtfully brought this video to life with their genuine love for kids. Like all the kids just gravitated toward them and that's how this video came about. Um as well for our courageous student leaders, Armani who's back there. Let's see.

010Raise your hand if I call your name. Armani, Camila, Elisa, Sienna, Jordan, LSE, Benjamin, Freda, and Rosio, who so beautifully shared a glimpse of our daily life at Campton. Kempton's also proud to be the district's one and only so far dual language immersion program. uh DLI fosters bilingualism, biiteracy, and cross-cultural understanding. Skills that our students need not only to succeed academically, but also to participate fully in a diverse democracy and to thrive in a global workforce. Just as important, um, our program intentionally develops the craft of cross-linguistic connections and students learn to analyze how languages work, um, how vocabulary, sentence structures, and meaning transfer across languages. And this metal linguistic awareness strengthens literacy in both languages and deepens comprehension and empowers students to become flexible thinkers, strategic thinkers, and to lean on each other depending

011on which language is their strength. At Kemp, DLI is not an enrichment program for just a select few students. It is an equity-driven model that affirms identity, celebrates culture, and nurtures socioultural competence schoolwide, including our our Englishonly strand. Our community is built each day by the dedication of our teachers and support staff. You guys can raise your hand. I see a lot of you here. >> Thank you for supporting us. for the engaged partnership of our families who are also here and leadership of students who are entrusted also to lead through safe school ambassadors, junior coach through playworks and even safety patrol. When adults and students believe in one another and share responsibility, um our whole school rises to higher expectations and outcomes and we see this collective community efficacy in action at Kemp. And

012so our students are taking ownership of their school, which is lovely to see. And again, as as witnessed here this evening and through our community schools model, Miss Pauline, we all chuckled because she's here and we love her. And um having a community schools facilitator has really helped tighten connections to families, families feeling safe, especially through all the immigration issues that we've had um recently. and they feel heard, they feel valued as well as with our social worker, Miss Del Toro. And they ensure that our cougar store also continues to run after Miss Cara and Miss Jessen uh Miss I'm sorry, Miss Rutled um moved on to other schools. So, we're thankful for uh Miss Del Toro and um Miss Himenez. I want to leave us with a quote from Cesar Chavez who said, "We

013cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community." With it with that in mind, I would like to take a moment to thank our ESS team, our San Diego youth services through Dino School and the CAP programs, Big Smiles Dental. We have like dental, we have um checkups that happen on site. uh Common Grounds who offer um food and food uh boxes and gifts for families. Grossmont Community College who offers free ESL classes. I have parents here taking those classes and not just for our Kemp parents but our entire community. We have Bankro parents, La Paresa parents, they come to take those courses. Tony Zambelli in the Center for Academic Education of San Diego who offers a family night, a family literacy night of fun for both parents and kids.

014And I also want to thank our family health centers and our dedicated T PTA and school volunteers. Their wraparound services and partnerships strengthen and uplift our Kemp Cougar families. So when families feel supported and students feel safe and valued, our entire community rises. And so that is the power of kunidad or as we say in English right community. So thank you all for your continued support and for having us here today. Thank you families for coming. I believe we call up our students now. Okay and Santiago come on up. Or is it everyone who's present? Just them first. Okay. I just want to say thank you to um all the Kemp families that are here tonight. It's really neat to see this many people out um to celebrate the the school. So, thank you for

015being here tonight. >> Okay, let's see. We have other staff communication and information, but I don't have anything listed there. >> Oh, we could take a short break. My family's from Kemp. If you want to go do something else tonight, we could take a little break for you guys to go, but we do have the first interim budget report coming up soon. So, you you might want to stop. Yes. >> It's okay. You guys can get >> it might be I mean >> you see people trick trickling out one by one as she's doing her measure presentation. >> Wait, maybe they didn't want us to say for this part. Then some people that do want to stay Okay. So then our next item will be for C, the report of action taken in close session.

016>> All right. In close session, the board voted unanimously to approve um Sorry, I don't have my notes up. Let me get them really quick. Um, uh, student expulsion number 2526-07. >> Excellent. And now that would bring us to item 5A, the report of the first interimm budget. Oh, I just shocked myself because my presentation. No. Okay. Welcome. Um, first interim report for 2526. Um, so I probably am going to be giving you um, a little bit more information as we go through. Some of this is going to be repetitive. Um, but just so that everybody is aware um, we are required to do um, a budget and we this is first interim. This is reporting our actual revenue and expenditures through October and then um the projections of where how we think we're going

017to end the year at the end of the um this fiscal year. We also have to do what is called a multi-year projection and that is a requirement of us. So we have to present a current year budget and a subsequent two fiscal year budget. So what you'll see here as well is our budget for 2526 and then our projections for 2627 and 2728. >> And I just want to mention there's lots of seats up here. So if anyone wants to sit down, come and sit in the front row, you're welcome to or you're welcome to stay back there. Just letting you know. >> I don't bite. So when we bring forward our interim reports, we're required to um provide the board with the certification. And there's either a positive certification, a qualified certification, or

018a negative certification. And a positive certification means that we are going to be able to pay our bills for the current and the subsequent two fiscal years. So over the course of our multi-year projection. A qualified budget means that we may um not be able to meet those obligations and a negative means we will not. Um you'll see here that we are certifying positive, but we're only able to certify positive because we have some plan budget reductions um embedded into that multi-year projection. And we'll talk a little bit more about that in a future slide. Without the plan budget reductions, we would be negative in year three. Um, and what we are required to do is have in our multi-year projection a 3% reserve. And that 3% reserve basically is a computation of 3% of

019our operating budget. That's our requirement. So, we we have that built into our multi-year projection. So, we're at our first um interim cycle. Um, like I said, there's a second interim that will come in March. the January governor's budget comes out or the governor's budget comes out in January. At that point in time, we'll be making some updates to our projections for year two, which is the 2627 fiscal year. Um, and then we'll be bringing forward some information to the board related to um any changes in the state budget at that point in time when we bring forward our second interim report in March. So, a couple of um pieces of information just to share. Um we as a state are consistently in the bottom funding of um states across the nation. Um California has

02042,000 fewer teachers than Texas. However, we serve 1.4 million more students. So, it just goes to show you really about the inequities of funding across different um states throughout the um United States. Um only one of six states is funded based on um attendance instead of enrollment or some other factor. We're one of those um states. So, we've had multiple conversations around how while we build a budget based on enrollment, we build our staffing based on enrollment and what and the students that are are enrolled in our schools, we actually only get funded for the students that come. Um, and so when we have declining enrollment and we have lower attendance rates, that means less funding to our districts. And then um we've talked a little bit about this before in other um spaces, but

021federal funding, I'm going to talk about this kind of throughout the presentation. When um IDA, which is the Individual Disability Education Act, when that was implemented um many moons ago, 50 years ago, I remembered from our parent meeting, um the intent of the federal government was to um fund special ed by 40%. um that was the intent. We are nowhere near there. And in fact, in our district um they only cover 7% of our um special ed program. And so I share that from the standpoint of not that um it is costing so much money for us to provide services to our students that need it, but really from a standpoint of we are grossly underfunded by the federal government for our special ed um programs that we have in place. It's not just Lamea

022Spring Valley. it is um everyone throughout the state of California and probably even beyond. So, I'm going to share um a video clip of some news coverage from um a recent um article. I think it came out last week. >> San Diego Unifi says it special education programs are hurting because they're not getting the money they need. >> Well, today district leaders announced a new vision to try to address the problem. NBC7 Michelle Delane has more from the district and also parents. About one in five San Diego Unified students have special education needs and the district says over the past decade that number has been climbing quickly while federal funding further and further behind. >> We've been making it work kind of for decades. Something needs to change and that's why we're here. Special education

023cost this district about $400 million, but it's less than a third of that back to the federal government. The district, >> they're not doing their job. And what we've heard for decades from the federal government is it's too expensive. >> The district says when Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, it promised to fund at least 40% of the gap, but never kept that promise. once in the 50 years that it's existed. >> If we receive the 40% we were promised, our disagreement would have a budget deficit. 51st District Congresswoman Sarah Jacobs responded to this with a statement. She said, "Urban promises from the federal government should never stand in the way of a child reaching their full potential and succeeding in school." And yet, the government has failed every year to fully fund

024IDA and keep its promise to support students with disabilities. She said that's why she's a proud supporter of the IDA full funding act and will keep fighting to deliver the support and resources needed for every child to succeed. >> Millions of dollars owed to our children that have never arrived. Sarah keeper son has autism. >> All across San Diego, families like mine have carried the cost in time, in stress, in lost opportunities. >> Let's talk about what the district says it plans to do about that. Starting with pushing the state for more federal funding. It also says starting next year, it plans to put a greater emphasis on the collaboration between general and special education teachers so that way they can address the gap before it widens. The wider issue of this $47 million budget

025deficit is the main talking point for tomorrow night's school board meeting. Well, San Diego Unifi's budget gap heading into next year is smaller than recent years before this school year, the district faced a 176 million gap at $94 million the year before that. >> Um, so while I know that that um clip was really about San Diego Unified, it's a similar story here in our district, just, you know, at a smaller scale because we're not as large as San Diego Unified. So, the same issues that they talked about there in that clip are the same things that we're dealing with here um in our own um district. Um in addition to that, we have just the cost over time have just increased um our normal increases in revenue. Um we've had um as San Diego

026Unified also shared, we've had an increase in our students identified with special needs, so one in five students in our district. Um and that leads to increases in our cost to the special ed program. Um you all know that we have had a $6 million um loss of federal funding that we had anticipated having um over the course of the next um couple of years and that um is sunsetting. We've had increases in health and welfare benefit costs. We've had increases in insurance cost. Um, and what I mean by insurance costs is like, um, our liability insurance and things of that nature. Um, and then of course, like I shared with you, um, before, our declining enrollment, um, coupled with our, uh, decrease in attendance rate since COVID, um, has really all kind of lended

027itself to where we are today with the budget deficit of, um, what I share is about a $13 million budget deficit. um going into this school year we were at about a 16 million and then with the budget reductions that we made um we're at about 13 million um now. So that's kind of just what's playing into our budget um going into in the current year and going into 2627 and beyond. So sharing with you if you recall um at our this year this time last year we had to bring forward to the board what we were going to be reducing. We needed to um come up with a $6 million worth of um budget reductions. And so these are the things that we um did going into this school year. So we were leveraging

028our restricted funds to pay for um positions. And you'll see here where where it's allowable. Um, so you'll see here, um, we had our assistant principles, um, at our middle schools that we moved over into some restricted funding. Same with our, um, librarians, um, we moved those over into restricted funding and really, um, leveraging those dollars so that we wouldn't have to make any eliminations or reductions in those positions. Um, at the elementary school level, we reduced um, 15 um, elementary teaching positions going into this school year. We had a freeze on extra hours. We also had a reduction in subs um substitute um positions um when at when COVID at the inception of COVID we had substitute teachers on um all of our campuses. Um in some campuses we had three. We reduced all

029of those down so we only had one um at each of our campuses. So that was part of our budget savings measure. Um we also did a 10% reduction to our department budgets which um was close to about $900,000 savings. Um and then in addition to that, we've had some reduction in our um uh district classified positions. And you'll see there we had a data technician, an accounting technician, an HR technician, a day custodian here at the um ED center, a business services um admin assistant position, um a transportation dispatcher, um IT site technician, specialed um program specialist, HR office assistant to uh two positions, um and then executive director of um business services. Um and we did that um really as we had um vacancies come up. We tried to not fill those positions

030to minimize the number of impacts that we had to people. Um we did have uh someone impacted last year as you recall. Um but but for the most part um with the exception of the one position we were able to um leverage vacant positions as they came up. Um and so that totaled about $6 million. So, we were able to get to that $6 million number going into this um school year. So, I'm going to talk a little bit more about future and 2627, but to share with you then how those savings impacted our multi-year projection for the current and the subsequent two fiscal years. You'll see here, this is just a snapshot of the SAX documents. That's the format that we're required to present our financial information to the state. So, um, you can

031see here really what we're looking at is column D, which is our projections of how we think we're going to end the year. Um, column C is our actual revenue to date. And then, um, column D is where how we think we're going to end based on projections that we have right now at this point in time. So, if you're just looking at projected year totals for now, you'll see that our projected revenue is about $26 million. And so what we share at first interim is really some of those changes from when we adopted our budget and where we are right now and why some of those changes took place. So for LCFF we um did um have an increase in revenue from our adopted budget and it was because we actually had a higher

032enrollment than what we anticipated. Um and really a lot of that came from our addition of our TK um classes that we added this year. We added 13 TK, no 13 13 TK classes um this this year. So that really has helped with um mitigating our otherwise declining district. So we really um kind of stayed flat going into this year and we had projected a decline. So that was the reason why our revenues increased from adopted budget to now. Um we also had carryover from some of our restricted programs that um increased um going into the new year. And then our state revenue again some we we build a budget based on assumptions that we know at that point in time and then we'll get like grant award letters finalizing what those allocations look like

033or in this particular case um we had a rate change at the state level um for ELO programs and so we update our budget um at the interims to reflect what our new assumptions are. So that was one of the reasons why our state revenue had increased. And then we had our local revenue um increase. And um if you recall um going back to 2024 in January, we had the flood. And so um we were able to get a insurance payment back for the cost that we um incurred from our flood damage. And so that goes into a local revenue um fund. Um and so that's why our local revenue increase. You'll see here um there's a dental and vision um benefit revenue. We had a transition this year um in our um dental and

034vision plan. We went to self-insured. Um so this revenue and there's there's a equal expense on the budget side um is going to be moved out to a self-insured fund. Um but we don't have one established so we have to bring a resolution forward to the board for an establishment of a new fund. But you'll see that probably at the next period you'll see a decline in local revenue because of that shift um going into a different fund. So those are some of the variances um from budget adoption to now in terms of revenue. And then if you recall the revenue um the projected revenue was about 204 I think it was and you'll see here our projected expenditures is about 219. Um and just you'll see the changes from column B the board approved

035operating budget to column D which is our projected year totals. The column B is our adopted budget. So what I'll share with you is what was the change from adopted budget to our current projections. Um and you'll see here just in terms of like staffing a lot of it was really um uh due to adjusting and making some of those shifts um into the ELO program that we had talked about um addition of TK teachers. So we hadn't originally budgeted for them. We didn't know how many TK teachers, how many classes or students we were going to have. So after the budget was adopted and adopted and we knew what that enrollment was, we had to increase staffing accordingly. Um and then of course increase in um health and welfare benefits. Uh our benefits increased

036um significantly this year. It was not something that we had anticipated. So we adopted our bud when we adopted our budget. Um after adoption, we got our rates in August and um it cost us about a million dollars more than what we had thought. So that's where that increase in benefits comes from. And then we typically will have um increases in books and supplies because at that point we're adding our budget in from any carryover funds that we had. So that's always a line that you'll see that gets increased. It's because we're um carrying over unspent budgets from last year to this year. And then um similar I shared about the dental envision while it's increasing now probably at second interim you'll see a decrease because we'll be moving that into a self-insured fund. Um

037and then some of the other changes from adopted budget our insurance premiums have been increasing um energy consultant facilities master planning and then um uh CDO um uh land field improvement. Um we, as you know, we've been working with the county on um uh improving our fields at Spring Valley Academy and so we have some money now from them to be able to do that work and then some water projects um as well. So those are some of the changes from adopted budget that we didn't anticipate. Um so making sure that the board understands why the numbers changed from then to now. Uh okay. So, going into multi-year, this is where we talk about, you know, what that three-year plan looks like. Um, and I'll share some of the planning factors that go into it.

038Um, and what that looks like for the current and the subsequent two fiscal years. Um, what I want to point out here is, um, we get our planning factors. A lot of it comes from our the legislative analyst office. Um, a lot of it comes from school services of California. um obviously stirs and pers that gets set by them. And so we get our factors, we plug it into what our multi-year projection looks like and then come up with what that that um impact is. For 2627, you'll see here that the um cola is projected at this point in time to be 32%. What we're hearing at the state level, it's probably going to be more like two. So when we bring forward that budget in um March for the second interim report at that

039point in time the governor's budget will be out in January. We'll have new assumptions for that year because that's going to be our budget year and we'll be making some adjustments at that point in time. So what I'm sharing with you is that number is going to change. Um and probably the outyear will as well. They always update that. But I just want to make sure that you're aware that um um that that will be the first time that you'll actually see the impacts to our budget is once we get the January's governor's budget um in March and we bring forward our second interim. Um you'll see here that we're just projecting a slight decline in enrollment about 50 students um per year and hopefully that stays true. Um and then our ADA is um

040we're projecting at about 93%. Um I will also share with you that all the efforts that we have been um uh putting into and I say we not me but really the the teachers and some of our um health attendance techs and school office managers and the work that's really being done on attendance recovery and independent study agreements have really um been paying off um and has really been helpful. So, I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, so don't quote me on the exact numbers, but for last year, um, with the independent study agreements that we had recouping, um, attendance, it was about $745,000 that we were able to recoup. And so far this year, it's about $350,000. So, it is making an impact and it is making a difference. And that

041hopefully will continue to increase our attendance rates. Um, unfortunately it's one time in nature and I don't want to diminish the fact that that there's a lot of work going involved in that. It doesn't help boost our attendance rate ongoing. Really is making sure that the kids come, you know, every day um each each year. So um but it it really has made a significant difference. So I just want to put a huge shout out there to everyone who's been involved in that um because it is making an impact and we're seeing that. Um and then we have our Stirs um rates and our PERS rates. Um and you'll see there ST Stirs is now flattening out. So that's a flat rate. Um PERS is continuing to like eb and flow. So it's kind of

042going up and down. Um but those are the assumption the major kind of assumptions that gets built into our budget planning. So what >> really quick since you have it up on the board as a key assumption can you just say something quickly about what cola is and um its relation to like our increased costs sort of thing. >> Um so I'll share and um and I think I might have shared a little bit before but as an example for 2523 um again ba we get funding based on attendance. So the cola is 2.3%. So I've shared here that that doesn't mean we're going to get 2.3% increased revenue from the prior year. It our per student amount gets increased by 2.3%. But if we have less students coming in, that means less revenue to

043us. So when you look at 2526, the cola is 2.3%. When we plug in our numbers of where we are with enrollment and where we are with with attendance this year, it's actually only about a8% increase to us in terms of revenue, it's about a million dollars. So, we got a million dollars more this year than we had last year. Our health and welfare benefits went up by a million dollars. We already broke even, right? Our special ed costs increased by about $2 million. Our um insurance premiums increased by like half a million dollars. Um and so right off the bat we are already in a space of a deficit because our revenue is not even covering our our normal increase costs um on the natural. Um so that's what you wanted me to explain

044a little bit more. Okay. Um so yeah so that's and and I think two years ago um we were I the cola was about 8% and um it actually ended up being negative 3% revenue to the district. um just where where we were based on our decline in enrollment. So while the per student amount increased by that much because of our decline and because of our attendance rates we did not see any additional revenue and in fact in that particular year was less. So then looking at our multi-year projection based on those factors, you'll see here we're projecting um revenues of about two um 206 million this year, about 200 million next year. And in the third year in 2728, about 202 million and then if you look at our projected expenditures, we're at 219,

045208, and 207. So what you can see between the two then is we are still spending more money than the revenue that we are getting in in any given year. Um I also shared with you that we have a budget proje uh budget reduction projected at our multi-year. Um so what I want to point out here is you'll see in 2627 our projected budget reduction is 5 million. In 2728 our projected reduction is 6 million. But what I'll share with you um is that five million of that is ongoing. So it's not six million on top of the five, it's an additional one million ongoing in the third year. Caveat um I said that it's a projection, right? The numbers are going to change. Um what you don't see here is year four and when

046we bring forward the budget for um a consideration in 2627 we will have to add a year four that'll be year 2829 and in that year four I can tell you already that $1 million additional is probably going to be more than that. Um, so I say that what I'll share with you is when we're looking at what we need to make in terms of a budget reduction, there really is not a lot of magic to it. Um, we are really just trying to make sure that we meet our 3% minimum requirement in the third year out. Um, we obviously have a $13 million deficit that we are trying to eliminate. So in essence, you can say we have a $13 million problem. Um but at the end of the day when we're looking at

047what the magic number is for reductions, we're looking at what is that number that we have to reduce by in order to still maintain that minimum 3% reserve requirement. And that's what we've um done here. Um but like I said, when we bring forward the adopted budget um and probably at second interim, but when we bring forward the adopted budget, when you look at that fourth year out, um that it will necessitate more than an additional million based on what we know right now. I also will say year two and year three is still an unknown right and everything changes um but that's where um we are right now in terms of what we have and for assumptions for budgets and then this is the piece that I want to um share with you. The

048first line there is the increase in fund balance. You see they're in parentheses that that's our deficit. So that's what we're projecting our deficit to be right now. Um, in the current year it's about 13 million. Next year, um, if you recall, we have a built in a $5 million reduction. So, in year two, it's about a $9 million reduction. And then in year three, it's about a $5.5 million. Not I not reduction, I'm sorry. Um, year two and year three, those are the amounts for our deficit spending. Um, and then the other piece that I want to point out is if you're just looking at 2526, um, restricted, those are our restricted programs. We have to spend those dollars based on a very specific purpose that is specified to us when we receive the

049revenue. It might be our title programs and we have a very specific purpose that we need to spend those for. It's also special ed programs. We can only spend on spend it on special ed. Um we have that 3% state required reserve. You can see there in 2526. I'm just going to focus on that right now. That reserve is about $6.6 million. Um and then we have an additional 2% board reserve. So historically we've tried to maintain an additional 2%. That 2% for 2526 is 4.4 million. And then we have this enrollment reserve and that's 11.7 million. And that really is just um additional reserve beyond what we um set aside for those pieces. Um that um is helping us be able to make slower reductions over time. Um, what I'll point out in year

050three, we have our 3% minimum requirement. We only have about $300,000 in our board additional reserve and nothing left in that committed. So, we're basically spending down our reserves in order to have a fiscally solvent budget um at the end of the day. So, that's I'm sharing that with you because I that's important to know. Um, and so um that's really what we're trying to um address over time. Um, so that's that's where we're at in terms of our multi-year. I'm going to in another slide I'm going to talk a little bit about cash um because that's another piece that um you'll be seeing here um in the upcoming year. Um so we're continuing um and again just appreciative and thankful for the work that's being done on attendance recovery. Um we are um continuing

051to monitor anything that might be coming down from the state so that we can make sure that we're making adjustments over time. Um as I shared with you because we've um been able to have a larger reserve that has enabled us to kind of slow roll budget reductions over time instead of having to make one large budget reduction in any one given year. Um you can think of that reserve account as like the savings account if you will and that savings account is being depleted. And what I will share with you is um our reserve a 3% um requirement reserve. So it's about $6 million for us is about 7 days worth of payroll. So doesn't cover much of anything. Um and where we're going to be next year. So because the reserves are um

052slowly being depleted, next year we are going to be in a space where we are going to have to have to monitor our cash flow. So um that I said that cash that reserve acts as like a savings account. We have a budget. The state doesn't give us all of the money at the beginning of the school year. Here in July, here's your money. They do it on a schedule. I call it 995. We get 9% of it in July, 9% of it in August, and then 5% for every month after that. And so based on that, we and because we don't have that reserve level anymore, next year our cash is substantially low even at the beginning of the year. And so um we'll be bringing forward a um resolution for the board um

053to approve what is called a trans. and and you you've served on the board for those of you that have served on the board before, you've approved them in the past. A trans is a tax revenue anticipation note. In essence, it's basically we're borrowing money against future tax um revenues that come to us. And so that will be something that we'll have to do next year in order to make sure that we can continue to pay for our operating expenses because of that revenue that we've had on hand for our reserves um are starting to get lower and lower and now we don't have enough revenue to cover our operating expenses on a monthly basis going into 2627. Um so this year while it hasn't been a huge impact to us and we haven't talked

054about it much there was a small cash deferral um at the state level and and ultimately what that means is rather than the the state giving us the money that we were due in July they say oh we're going to wait we're going to give it to you in August and so um if that if that continues to be for us it really didn't have much of an impact because we've had a reserve that we've been able to use to carry us through depending on what that looks like in the in the upcoming year um and um beyond it's going to become more of an issue and ultimately what that means is we just may have to borrow more money in order to make sure that we have um cash on hand to pay for

055what we need to pay for. Um and we haven't had to have that conversation in a while because of the fact that we've had reserves that have been able to carry us um over the course of the last couple years. So then going into 2627. So um at budget adoption, we did have to bring forward a resolution to the board um saying that we would need to make um some budget reductions to our um budget. At the time we thought it was going to be about $2.7 million. And then as the um budget started to unfold and we saw our increased cost to health and welfare, our increased cost to insurance, our utilities, um special ed, etc. that number now is um about 5 million. And so these are some of the things that we

056have um similar to last year, we had to present information to the board um and we have to submit the information to the county. Um we did that last year with the 6 million. So this is what we're looking at going into 2627. Um continuing to look at and move any qualifying positions out of our unrestricted funds into our restricted funds where we can. um looking at aligning staffing at our staffing ratios at ourmies um with what we did for grades three through five at our elementary schools. Um if you recall um I shared that was about a 15 teacher um reduction at the elementary school level. So this would be looking at um transitioning um ourmies from 7 to six periods. Um, and then additional vacancies as they become open, as they become vacant,

057we're looking at whether or not it is a required position to be filled or can we wait um to fill that at a later time so that um we can minimize any impacts to people. Um and so um these are a couple of the positions right now since um the 2526 school year um or or since our 2526 reductions that we um had. These are some other positions that we are not going to fill. Um so a buyer position, a nurse position, a warehouse delivery driver, and a health and two um roving health attendance checks. So no people in the positions right now. They're vacant. We're just not going to backfill them. We are looking at reducing our department budgets by an additional 10%. And then um we have not um reduced our site department

058our site discretionary budgets um at this point in time, but we'll be looking at reducing our site discretionary budgets by 10% um as well going into next year. So that will get us to about $5 million um in um budget reductions going into 2627. Not a fun conversation. Not a fun time for me to be up here. Um, so there's there's just a lot of uncertainty. Um, I will be the first to tell you that a three-year projection, there's so much that can change within a three-year period. And I think that's why I kind of take I take the approach of what's the minimum amount we need to cut in order to make that third year work. Um, because I know there's a lot of things that can happen over a three-year period of time.

059Um but the reality is it is a it we we are in um we are deficit spending and it needs to be addressed. Um so what we're going to be doing in preparation for budget development um we'll be looking at finalizing enrollment projections here before we go out on the break. Obviously those enrollment projections um help us with how we're going to be allocating staffing at each of our school sites. Um the governor's budget comes out in January. So we'll see what that um looks like um and and what that means for eleas once we get that information. It typically comes out about the 10th of January. So we'll have more information at that point in time. Um continuing to um monitor our enrollment um continuing to um do what we can to boost our

060attendance and getting our kiddos to school. Um, and really the space that we're in is really kind of looking at the lens of a multi-year projection. We we don't have the luxury of making decisions based on one year. We now are in the space where we really have to be looking at it from a three-year projection. And we always are in that space, but because we are in tighter budgets, like it really becomes about more conversation around sustainability. And so that's um basically the decisions that we make that we have to make are going to be based on that. Okay. So, before we go into um Dan Young is going to come up and present on our bond budget and a facilities update there. But before we go into that, does anybody have any questions

061related to this? >> Uh, sure. I mean, obviously for for us on the board, we is the cycle that you show us and we kind of get have uh ongoing touch points about the budget and what's going on. Um, obviously since joining the board, I mean, I think it was closer to $40 million reserve when I first joined. Obviously, each time each year as we go through the cycle, it's going, you know, lower and lower. Um, I mean, I believe doing this from memory, a lot of that uh reserve was built off onetime cash and and flow from the state that you're able to uh an abundant amount that you're able to save. Obviously, uh the business of schools is about making money, right? A lot of the factors are outside of the outside of

062the control. So I mean I know all the efforts that you guys are doing is what you are in control of what is happening on a greater scale. I mean I got to imagine we're not the only school district that are facing numbers like this. I imagine there's plenty of school districts with reserves that were not as healthy as ours you know 3 four years ago and yet we're still facing this ever you know this slow slow ticking to a you know budget crisis. So what is kind of on the larger scale going on to uh I don't know make make the changes necessary and uh hopefully turn this around where we at least can be sustainable. >> Yeah. Well, I think you heard um from the news uh clip that we had like San

063Diego Unifi's in the same boat. So I think that's pretty much what what you heard San Diego Unifi talk about and what I mentioned to you in terms of just like the gross underfunding of special ed. that is something that has continued to be a talking point um when when we're out advocating up at the state level, when we're going to Washington, like that is a big key factor in terms of what the conversations are is really funding special ed the way that it was intended. So, that's something that's continuing to happen. I also know that um the legislative analyst office is working on a report that I think is supposed to be coming out in January. And what that report is is really looking at whether or not a enrollmentbased funding model is sufficient

064or do we need to look at um I'm sorry whether an attendancebased funding model is sufficient and what would it look like for an enrollmentbased funding model and does it make sense? So the legislative analyst office is looking at that. That doesn't mean that there's going to be a change overnight or we don't even know like what the report is going to say, but I do know it's part of the conversation of trying to figure out what can we do to kind of help schools with where they are right now. So, I can say like those are some of the big things that are happening in terms of advocacy um you know throughout the state and and even at the federal level. And we were at a parent meeting and like one of our parents

065asked like does the governor know you know the situation that we're in? Um and so you know I told her if if you have any opportunity to talk to anyone like call me I'll give you some talking points um because that is what we are trying to do um at uh like I said in terms of advocacy because that's really where we are is trying to make some changes at that level. Um, for us, I'll say school funding is based on um what they like to say is a cap, but it was really meant to be a minimum guarantee and they've been funding us at the minimum, not anything more above that. Um, so that also is a challenge. um you know and then of course not only is education as a whole getting more

066expensive but just our normal like cost of living within the district everything is costing more um as well. So there there have been some advocacy efforts even on working with our utility companies on trying to put schools in a different bracket so that we have a different rate um as a non-public like government like service provided agency. didn't make a lot of headway on that, but you know that. So, those are just some of the things that we continue to try and do just throughout our own county that I know of and at the state and federal level. >> Yeah. I mean, it's kind of hard to believe that, you know, greater government entities don't realize the the state of our our funding and the state of our school. So, I mean, obviously, you would

067think that that would be a call of action, but apparently there's a little more work that needs to be done to to wake to wake everyone up. Uh I guess the one positive u I think the questions are much more limited from when I first joined the board. I think the additions of the additional columns in your presentation and the extra slides that kind of kind of give an explanation to all the changes are helpful. So um once again I appreciate all the effort that you and your team Seth does every every meeting we have that covers this topic and uh good work uh unfortunate news every time we meet but uh good work nonetheless. I wanted to mention one thing too just in terms of the climate and where we are right now and

068where everyone is right now or where most school districts are is um it actually the two key issues that you hear almost everyone talking about right now is the special ed issue and also the um attendance versus enrollment funding. And the reason why is because both of those go back to the pandemic. They're both uh something that you can point back to COVID that um in California as a for instance our uh ADA rate our attendance rate as a school district was typically 95 to 96%. Well now like we're feeling really good about the fact that it's like 93 and a half%. Yeah. >> What that means is that we are for the same number of students that we're serving um because the attendance rates are lower, the state is paying us somewhere between $3

069to $5 million less a year to serve the that same number of students. Um and so that's why the enrollment um attendance thing is such a big deal and the um the the special ed um issue. And you know, we had a whole budget for Tina to present on tonight. So that but really just that issue alone um there's so much good information to provide. But and something honestly that everyone predicted was that coming out of the out of the um pandemic that we were going to see much higher numbers of students with special needs. And that's exactly what we've seen. And yet there's been no response to that. it's been level funding in terms of the um federal government and um not much in the way of increases on the special ed side um

070from the state. So um it I thought that it was so good in that news report that um San Diego Unified because their their um superintendent made the statement that if the federal government fully funded special ed we would not have a budget deficit. That's 100% true for us as well. Yeah, since um 2019, our cost um of running our special ed program and and I I want to make sure that you all know I'm not saying this from the standpoint of those services are not important to our kids. On the contrary, it's really more of the fact of how grossly underfunded we are. Um but from 2019 to current, our special ed expenditures increased by $20 million. >> Yeah. Well, I will say as a following mean that I think with Brian Brian and

071I went with you to the CSBA uh conference when it first came on as kind of our orientation to being board members and obviously that was a major topic within um even that meeting. I remember vividly speaking about the you know enrollment versus attendance and and the impact obviously of co you know so it's kind of you know as we look upon the the blue the writing in blue here right that's that section right there all the individual everchanging needs yet the funding has not changed to to meet the needs so it's it's really a uphill battle for the district and for the the the important work that our staff and teachers do and so it's like you're going into you know kind of a battle without the right equipment right and so it's And

072unfortunately the unfortunately the result is further cuts to the resources that already there and by resources I mean people right in the end. So it's uh really unfortunate you know stand up as part of the community and father of a student at the schools. It's really hard to see that uh I don't know the the decision makers that really control the the purse of the state and of our of our funding is not moving and uh yeah so I think it's a lot of hard work ahead a lot of hard years ahead but we'll get through it hopefully. >> Yeah. Um I have a couple of questions slashc comments. Um so first obviously at the very beginning you talked about we need to certify either positive qual qualified or negative. Um what and the only

073way that we can certify positive is by making these cuts. What are the implications of certifying negative? >> You don't want to certify negative. That's when we have a state receiverhip. Um yeah. So if we if we certify negative, we're basically saying we cannot pay our bills and we cannot pay for any of our operating expenses. And at that point in time, you get a fiscal adviser that comes into your district. the board loses all its power and somebody else is making the decisions for us. >> Cool. >> Just just want to I know that I wanted to make sure that everyone else knew. >> There's also like a bailout. So ultimately when you're in that space like the state has to give you a loan in order for you to get there and you

074got to pay that loan back and and it's a like a very long period of time um to get out of that state receiverhip. So it's not a space that we want to be in. Correct. Um I also obviously we've been talking about special ed and enrollment. Um what are we seeing as the cause of the enrollment decline? Are we seeing it as students and families choosing private schools or charter schools or what is what's what what are we seeing there? >> Yeah, kind of hard to tell, but from what from information that we're getting um from like demographers um right now is really the fact that the birth rates are declining. Um, and then of course like a lot of people left during COVID because it just got to be too expensive to leave

075here. But right now what seems to be that is really the decline in birth rates. >> Um, and this is um maybe an odd question, but you kept referring to our reserve as a um savings account and savings account typically get interest. Do we get interest from our savings account or are we able to um invest that money in like you know not crypto but like something stable are we to you know get interest um yes however we are required to have our money in the county treasury the county treasury are the only ones that are able to like invest the funds basically but the interest that rate that we get is like a zero. 023 or so very very minimal. So it's not a lot and and the interest that we do that get

076does go back into like the the reserve or the savings account, but it's it's very small. >> I will say if you guys go to crypto, I'd be pretty upset. So you're you need the money, right? >> I don't know how our how our staff feel about being paid in crypto. I know. I'm just I'm making light of the comment. >> What investing I feel like nowadays they assume crypto. So I wanted to make sure that that was clear like not not crypto. >> Um and then I just wanted to this is just more of a comment. I was talking to David the other day about like the numbers in terms of the special ed funding and I looked back the furthest back budget that we have on our website is from 2010 2011 and

077we it looked our our federal revenue from for special ed was 2.2 million we are currently getting 2.8 8 million. That is not very much increase during that time. That is a 30% increase. And um based on things that I've been looking at, it looks like the um our costs for special ed have gone up 330%. >> Um and so that's like putting that I think that that's a huge context of how much our costs have gone up and how much like you said we are just significantly underfunded. Um, and just want to throw throw that out there because that's, you know, it's not something that you realize. Um, >> yeah. Um, I don't think and you know, especially seeing the numbers of what we were getting previously cuz like, oh, you always hear that

078special education is being underfunded and that the federal government has never allocated the 40% that they said that they were going to allocate. But seeing I think that that stark contrast um is is really alarming >> and that underfunding comes from someplace, right? So ultimately where it comes from is our unrestricted general fund then covers whatever our federal government doesn't provide. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I have a question um because I know later in this meeting we will either vote to approve this budget or not. in voting to approve that. So where it's listed your projected reject reductions our vote in approving this budget is not saying this is exactly these are projected as of now of ways to reduce. >> Correct. Right. >> Okay. So the steps moving forward um assuming this budget is

079accepted what steps are are going to be taken moving forward to determine like which of these pro projected reductions will actually like >> play happen. Yeah. Yeah. So we have to provide this information to the county office. So if the board says yes, we approve the first interim report, I send basically that slide to the county office and say this is what we're looking for in terms this is what we're going to do in terms of what that reduction looks like. So what happens beyond that? So ultimately there's a lot of work that HR is doing right now in terms of we we look at our enrollment projections. We look at what our staffing is going to be like. We look at what the programming might look like at our middle schools and then based

080on retirements, based on natural attrition, um we would be looking at determining, okay, what does that look like in terms of a staffing reduction and then that would come forward as a formal board approval for a reduction of staff um in January, February, in February um and and at that point the board would be making a decision on the actual positions that we would have to reduce um at that point in time. So that's kind of what happens then at this point, >> right? So that's not happen that what would be approved or not approved today would not we're not at that step. >> No. No. It's just basically approving if if the board approves, it's basically saying yes, we agree with where we're going in terms of this um $5 million reduction. The final

081reductions in terms of staffing won't come until February. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? Okay. >> I just want to say thank you. you have a really hard job right now. So, >> yeah, we appreciate you. >> Yeah, it's not fun to be in um I was telling David today like for the first time since I've been here in the district, I was having anxiety over this meeting just because it's it's a tough conversation. Um so, yeah. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. Um so, I leave you on that sober note and I'm going to turn it over to Dan because he's got much better news to share and more exciting photos. So, I'll have Dan Young come up. Um he's our executive director of facilities planning. Thank you. >> Yep. >> So, thank

082you, Tina, members of the board and executive cabinet. Um, we have a couple of talking points in regard to our measure V update. As you know, we come a couple of times a year, uh, usually at adoption, also at second interim to give you an update. Um, we'll continue to talk a little bit about budgets, but we're going to shift gears a little bit as, uh, Tina's presentation is more in regard to uh, our fiscal year budgets. Uh these budget updates are in regard to the actual project budgets. So um little bit of a spoiler alert here. There aren't a lot of changes. Um as most of you know, bundle A has been um complete for some time, but we continue to report out on those project budgets. Uh not uh too long ago, we

083had one of the final deductive change orders for the OPC center here as part of bundle B. And so this project uh while we're not reflecting a budget update at this point, we will start to see these projects um go into closeout uh which means that the next time that we report back to you in June, uh you will start to see some of budget adjustments as um project budgets start to come back to us. Those monies go into our um project reserves or into our project contingencies or can be allocated to additional projects. um whether it's added scope to projects that we have ongoing or if we add projects to the program. Um with bundle C, uh we're also largely uh getting close to completion here on all of these projects. Uh probably the

084early part of next year, we'll have all of these projects complete. And so I do anticipate that we'll also start to see u coming to the board starting next year um final deductive change orders uh for all of these projects. Uh and same thing with those as we have project savings they will return back to project contingency or program contingency rather excuse me and uh can be allocated for future projects or uh additional scope that we have on ongoing projects. Uh you've already started to see in bundle D some um project closeout um with uh the Aendale Bankraftoft Kemp. The only thing that you haven't seen at this point is phase two of the steam at La Pressa project. Uh you may have otherwise heard that called the upper field project or phase two. Uh

085that project is actually in punch list right now and we'll talk a little bit about that. Um but I got to see Monday morning uh students using that upper basketball court for the first time in several years because it's in uh brand new condition and we have some uh photos of that here in a little bit. Um, looking at bundle E, uh, in the month of October and November, we had final deductive change orders for Lucardi construction at Murray Manor, Northmont, and Fletcher Hills. Uh, we're in our final punch at Parkway as well. Uh, we actually had our first um, furniture delivery for the new building or for the modernization of the uh, building three at Parkway. Uh, so in the next few months, we'll go through project closeout on all of those. And I

086anticipate the next time we come forward with a Measure V update for budget, you'll see some um um budget adjustments for that as well. But at this point, we're holding those budgets firm. Uh with our infrastructure improvements and our playground improvements, there are some good news. We had some uh and we'll update a little bit on the projects um regarding our playgrounds, but there were some budget um there were some projects that came in under budget. Uh so the facilities team and I will be touring some of our sites looking for additional playground projects that we can continue to um improve some of our playgrounds. And then uh the other thing that I want to point uh or bring your attention to is on our program contingency. This is the only actual budget adjustment that

087we're presenting tonight. Uh and it's just shy of a million dollars of interest that's coming back to us uh from as Tina was mentioning our uh project funds uh being held on account at the uh county treasury. So, the other talking point tonight is our u progress on our construction projects. And so, here at Parkway, uh back in October, we had our ribbon cutting. Many of you were there. We got a nice picture of the student band who was able to join us there and in our celebration, and this is a really key project for our district. Um not necessarily because of the nice new admin building, although that is a great feature. Um but it is indicative of all the projects that um have been done through Measure V because it enhances and increases

088our student safety and the security of our campuses. And that's really something, you know, while we are celebrating the new building, uh we're also celebrating um the fact that we've improved our safety and security at all of our campuses. Excuse me. Uh with the new admin building, uh we had building three, which was in the middle of the campus as most of you remember. um that space has now been vacated and our um admin team is functioning completely out of the new admin building. And so we had this space in the middle of the campus that presented an opportunity to modernize. And what we're looking at here at the top is the floor plan for three new classrooms uh there in the building three. And so as we go kind of left to right, actually

089I'm going to go right to left. That's backwards, I know, but uh helps me kind of uh explain what these what these classrooms are. Uh so the very first picture there on the right uh is a a multi- uh use space that can be both a general purpose classroom but it also has a multi-purpose floor uh so that it can be used for our our dance program. Uh so there are a couple of little added um things in that classroom that you wouldn't typically see. One of those being that we have uh some storage there that uh is shown on the back wall. And then we also have an audio visual system uh that's enhanced a little bit for those for that dance program. Uh in the middle we have a new computer lab. This

090is the furniture that just showed up today. So we now have computer tables in this middle classroom. Uh this was built with flexible technology uh so that we can um reconfigure if if needed. If we wanted to use this as a general purpose classroom, it certainly could be. U that the technology and the electrical infrastructure along the walls is such that it supports a computer lab in uh multiple different configurations. That room is actually adjoined as you can see by the double doors uh to the room that's on the very uh left of the slide uh which allows us to have um not only the classroom space but it allows this space to function as a lab uh for the computer lab. So if you think of it as a clean lab, dirty lab, you

091have the computer labs where the students can go and program and uh use CAD and then they can go into the other space um because it's a joint they can go out and actually um you know create the things that they programmed in the computer lab. I mentioned earlier that we had uh just punchwalked and opened up the upper fields at steam. So back in the summer we had done a lot of work. There were ADA requirements for our restrooms. And so we have two new restrooms uh in the locker rooms for our students. We have in the middle there the updated exercise equipment area. And I realize the picture is a little small now, but we have this upper basketball court uh which if you had been out there um to call that asphalt

092was a little bit generous, but now it is um brand new asphalt. uh we went through and over uh over excavated and brought in new soil so that the asphalt that we installed will be stable for years to come. Uh and it was it is always amazing to me that the the thing that I get out of this job is when I see something that I helped build uh that our students are using um is is always um what makes this job rewarding. So, you know, Monday morning, seeing kids out there first thing, uh, using this new basketball facility for the first time is is pretty awesome site. Uh, moving into our Bundle C Lemon Avenue specifically, we're still working on some of our perimeter enhancements. Uh, the first picture there is down Lemon Avenue.

093So, we added some additional fencing, uh, decorative metal fencing for security purposes, uh, there at the front of the school and then the, uh, the gates there in the upper middle. Uh and then on the other two slides, um this is a little bit of a change that we had, um brought to the board back, I think in June, um where we're adding some privacy and security from the street view. So from the right of way, you're not able to see as easily into our kindergarten playground areas. Uh it also because this is so close to the ride ofway, uh it also helps, you know, prevent students from reaching through the fence for people walking their dog by. Uh so it just adds that little bit of safety and security. Um we have two different

094approaches and I'll talk on the next slide about a different approach that we have for this >> question. Obviously the picture is that black and is that going to get super hot in the in the warmer months for kids to be playing against? >> It will be warm because it's black. Yeah. >> Um no doubt about that. >> Uh but it matches the aesthetic of the um >> right up against the the kids playground for for Kinder. I'm sorry. Is it right up against the playground for the kids? >> It's very much in the proximity of that playground. Yes. U one of the other approaches and we'll talk a little bit about that is in Maryland is we use landscaping to create this screen. Uh unfortunately here at Lemon there is no um there's no

095space to to create planting here. Uh so this was the the screening option that provided that security. I will say you'd be surprised they don't it doesn't get hot like your typical like piece of black steel out in the sun would because of the um venting that's in it and then just the type of I don't know powder coat or whatever they use on it. It it doesn't get hot like you would >> just making sure kids aren't leaning and especially during the 100 degree weather days in September. So no thank you. Um yeah, so here on the right, the other approach that we're looking at and and Maryland has a very similar um situation where the ride ofway is right up against the kindergarten playground area. Um but here we did have a little

096bit of space. Uh we have the infrastructure in order to add the irrigation and so we planted a green privacy screen. The downside obviously is that we have to wait for it to grow in a little bit. It's not as immediate as throwing up the the panels that we have at Lemon. Um but it doesn't have um it creates a little bit more of a barrier for students staying away from the fence and it doesn't have the heat issues. Uh and then also here at La Mesa Dale Elementary um we added the monument sign and the uh security fence there as well as some new gates for the parking lot at LMA. Um the water district, Otai Water District, uh required us to update our um backflow device uh for our fire main and I

097think the last time we had talked we had just kind of approved this project and we're getting started on it over the summer. This project is now complete. Uh it was very close in terms of getting it complete. I think we actually energized this fire main the day before school started at 3 p.m. But uh we even had a water truck on standby in case we needed it. U but it was not required. Uh but this project is now complete and this is another one that you'll start to see uh at the next budget adjustment. There's um some project savings on this and you'll see those project savings come back. Uh other things that we were able to do uh from summer until uh most recently uh were a couple of of additional playgrounds. If

098you recall uh last year we made some uh changes to the district standard regarding the surface of the playgrounds. And so these were the first two playgrounds that went in uh brand new with the uh um synthetic turf both at Sweetwater Springs and Casadoro. But we also went back and we updated a number of the playgrounds that we had installed to make sure that we had the synthetic turf on those as well. And one of the big features of this, although the students do love it, uh is that it provides a better accessible pathway. While the wood chips are ADA approved, um this allows for some of the student chairs that have the smaller wheels uh to navigate these surfaces a little better. So, it's a huge improvement for our students with special needs. And

099then these next two projects are a little bit tied together. Uh they're both parking lot improvements. Uh this one's at LMA Elementary. If you've been to LMA, you understand that our pickup and drop off lane uh goes on the wrong side of a playground. And so this project envisions uh adding some parking, improving uh pickup and drop off circulation, as well as relocating the U playground onto the um the other side of the pickup and drop off to make that more secure for uh our students during uh those those periods. Uh as well as reestablishing that uh front perimeter of the campus. and directly related is a similar project with a few more challenges. Uh so at Murdoch we have much like LMA one way in and one way out. Um but we have a

100little bit more traffic here and we have a lot more challenges when it comes to the layout of the of the campus. So from a from a layout perspective, this campus is built on a slope as you know. Uh and anywhere we try to expand the pickup and drop off lane is either met with challenges from physical obstructions or we have slopes that are going to require major grading operations andor retention um retaining walls. So, as we're working through both of these projects, we have both a civil engineer and an architect as well as a traffic engineer. Um, in particular at Murdoch, both our traffic engineer and our civil engineer have commented that this is one of the biggest challenges they've seen uh at an elementary school. Usually, I say on a project like this,

101there's a lot of moving parts, but in this case, there's a lot of immovable objects. Uh so as we work through this um we're also uh ex you know we're expanding our design efforts to work with the county because there are some uh challenges there at the corner of Conrad Place and Conrad Drive and if you've been to Murdoch you know that traffic backs up 500 ft plus in either direction on Conrad Drive uh and really impacts uh not only our buses getting in and out, our emergency services getting out and certainly the circulation of having our stu our parents uh have access to the campus to pick up and drop off their students. Uh so this is a project that will continue to do some additional traffic studies. Um there will be a couple

102of design proposals uh in the next few months. Uh we'll have to do estimates on those projects or on those on those design proposals. Uh and then we'll have to engage with the county uh to see uh if any improvements can be made either to Conrad Drive or at the intersection at Conrad Place. And then some of our other district-wide projects, we have the room signage project. Uh I don't know that we've shown this before, but uh we have our uh signage that we've probably seen at some of the um campuses in Spring Valley. I think Kemp and Steam Steam have these. Um, we're looking to expand this project to include some room signage and of course that has some implications uh as that room signage also ties into our fire alarm systems and our

103energy management systems. Uh, so we're still in the process of programming this project as we look to bring this forward. Um, hoping that during the summer break we'll be able to uh make some progress on this. Um, I mentioned that we're looking at playgrounds. Um, the facilities team and I are going to take a look at a couple of playgrounds. We have uh some opportunities where we have good playgrounds that don't necessarily have the best surfaces. You've seen some of these projects before where we've had the Dina calls it the squishy stuff. It's the uh port in place rubber uh where it actually still meets the safety standards, but it is uh you know physically in kind of some some rough condition. So, we've been able to cover some of those in turf. Uh we

104think we have a few more opportunities to look at those kinds of improvements to our playgrounds. We also have a few more playgrounds that have wood chips that we think we have opportunities to bring the turf product in. Uh and then we have a a planned project for updated irrigation controls. Uh this is a project that will help us from an infrastructure standpoint just save some money which you know obviously is a key talking point at this at this juncture. And then at Fletcher Hills, this is a project you may have heard at one point. There's a playground in the Kinder area. It's kind of come and gone. It's it's on the planned list. We have DSA approved uh drawings for this. So, this project will be going out to bid early next year uh

105with the plan to if we can take advantage of a spring break to install. If not, it'll it will be installed over the summer. And with that, are there any questions? >> Yeah. Um the two parking lot um I thought in planning, but are there any barriers that would stop it from happening? know that I have a parent of someone at Murdoch and a neighbor to Bulma. Uh obviously this, you know, those are two safety issues. Um I mean if I'm sure you've been to Murdoch during pickup and drop off, not the safest environment with multiple cars trying to make extra third or fourth lane going up a two-lane road. Um I would I would hope there's no other barriers and that a project that would be going full steam ahead once planning complete. Also,

106obviously, LOM was being uh cars cutting through a playground. So, are there any barriers that those wouldn't happen or those would get pushed out or are those pretty much set to go once planning is complete? >> So, there are always barriers in a project. Um, some of these are coming up >> forable barrier like like potential that would would hinder it from happening in a timely manner. Uh I don't see anything that that prevents it from uh from moving forward in terms of um the timing though because of the challenges. Um I don't expect that the Murdoch project or even the LMA project would be uh through design and DSA approved in a timeline that we could get to those in the summer of 26. Uh and they're challenging projects. um no matter how you

107look at them to try them to do them during a school year just adds you know even more of a logistics um challenge that I'm I'm not sure at Murdoch or LOM we really have space to try to con conduct construction operations and keep um pickup and drop off safe. I I there may be some intermediate improvements that we can make and our traffic engineer is working on delivering some of those to us that that would be maybe operational uh additional signage or some additional striping. Um but honestly I think what we're looking at because of the challenges from a design perspective and making sure that we get these projects approved the division of state architect probably looking at and and because of the challenges logistically we're probably looking at a summer of 27 before

108a major construction project starts on these. Okay. and uh the the use of uh green uh you know the plants and trees obviously I'm a fan of that especially you know the blending of the artificial turf which is you know safer and easier to maintain but also the opportunity for for shade on our some of our campuses as I'm sure all of you have walked the campuses and noticed we have a lot of uncovered areas and and we live in a a hotter part of the the county so I hope that's as we continue on with future projects and future um opportunities that that's uh further are uh implemented. Thank you. Thank you very Thank you for the presentation. >> I just wanted to say to make sure that everyone's clear, this is different from

109the budget. So this all of this came from a different source. I don't want it to come across like we have no money, but we spend look at all the great things we did. So it's separate funding that this is. So that's why um we were able to do these things. It's not from our budget. And I also had a question. Murray Manor had that has a new stop sign and then parking spaces in front. Was that us or was that the city? >> Nope, that was the city. >> Okay. I wasn't sure. >> And then I just I have a question. So, I know you mentioned that you're going to um with uh you're going to be looking at the playgrounds again to see I know um I just noticed the privacy fencing at

110Lemon Avenue. Would would you guys consider other schools for the privacy fencing? Because like I live a block away from Kemp and the kindergarteners like the the sidewalk is just right there. So like when you guys mentioned that you know they could reach or I know there's times that I walk my dogs or something and the kids like gravitate to the fence. So I was just curious if um if that's something that you guys will be also reconsidering when you guys look at the playgrounds. we we are looking at those and we've had a couple of um site administrators ask for us to look at u certain playgrounds in particular. So, thank you for bringing that up because that is something that we could look at as well. >> Part of why it ended up

111happening at Lemon um the way that it did is because the whole front of the school was reoriented in terms of the entry um and actually but as I say that the whole front of um um Kemp was as well. Um, but the way that it's fenced in, we just we lumped it in with the rest of the fencing project that we did. We didn't end up doing refencing down at that portion of Kemp, but it's definitely something we should look at. And we have some other places, too, where we have some privacy issues with playgrounds and that sort of thing that we're looking at what we can do. I I just wanted to say I just think it's so amazing because I remember this talking stages of even proposing a measure V and you

112know doing the whole walk all the schools and find out all the need and um just listening to those reports at the time and then going through the process and having it passed and like being at this point it's really neat. It's like it feels like, wow, we did something really great for like every community that we serve, every family that we serve, because it really did touch every school in the ways that each school needed it. So, I just it's been really cool being here for that whole process and getting to see these pictures and even just when you're out in the communities and driving of like, >> yeah, that's one of our schools. You could tell like that's what our schools look like now. Um, has been really neat. So, thank you. I'll

113second that with the orange signs like just give them a nice touch like even the video the Kemp video like it starting off as like that's that's Kemp. Um but I wanted to just note I would like to the team to make sure that we're really considering the heat issue. Um, I was at one of our schools. It wasn't fencing related, but I was at one of our schools and the intercom button was in the blasting sun and um, what had gotten a little toasty when I went to click the intercom button to get led onto the campus. And so that was I was like, "Oh, this is a >> this is not feel like that." Yeah. >> And so uh but yeah, I think that making sure thinking about especially when we can most

114of these are already done, but when we can moving forward with orientation of things and sun and you know where can we shade um uh yeah provide minimiz minimization of that heat issue. >> Okay, any additional questions? Thank you. >> Great job, Dan. Okay, now I have to remember that we went out of order. So now we're back to 4 D, which is public comment. During this time, individual comments are limited to three minutes per person. Please refer to the timer displayed on the screen. While board members are not permitted to engage in dialogue or respond to questions during public comment, please know that we value and appreciate your input. Questions or comments requiring a response will be referred to the appropriate staff member for followup after the board meeting. If you would like a

115response, please be sure to provide your contact information on the public comment card or in the online comment form. Do you have a comment card for me? >> And I think the comment card that you have is um to speak on behalf of the charter school. Is that right? Okay. So, we'll hold that one for the public hearing that we have for um College Prep Middle. And um uh Matt, we do have um comments on Zoom. >> Uh yeah, we have uh two comments on Zoom uh that I can uh ensure that it's matching the name and the form. So I'm going to let Jamie in in just one second. Uh here Jamie, can you please unmute your mic and you have three minutes to address the board. Good evening board members and superintendent. My

116name is Jamie Jenkins. I'm the parent of a sixth grader at Elmac um who's been enrolled in La Mesa Spring Valley since kindergarten. I want to thank you for your thoughtful consideration of the interim budget. Um you all really are faced with some tough decisions moving forward. These times of economic shortfall will challenge you to think outside the box as you strive to keep cuts as far away from students as possible. I know in the end students and staff will feel decisions made by the the board to their very core. In light of the anticipated budget deficit, there are already many many um versions of solutions floating around. Change is inevitable. Um, when considering the future of your students, I would like to request the following from the board and district administration, speaking specifically on

117behalf of my middle schooler. Number one, please hold steadfast to your truth and to that of your staff. You're best equipped to know what middle school students need to prepare them for high school and beyond. Even when the state doesn't mandate minutes and core classes, you know what your students need. District district test scores also speak to this. With only 48.17% of your students meeting or exceeding the state standard in English, it leads me to conclude that more ELA instruction is necessary. At a minimum, continuing the same amount of ELA instruction is essential. Number two, continue to pursue options that minimize impact to students and achievement. When money is abundant, districts become heavy at the administrative level. We don't need to fund positions where people pontificate all day. I've been sucked into those meetings like

118this in which there's never a solution and there's always more meetings. Before dramatic changes are made to a school day or curriculum, I hope you'll consider cutting administration who aren't essential to the district's vision of academic achievement for your students. And number three, uh make decisions with transparency to families and staff. You're the experts, but as families, we also know our what our students need and they are our everything. Parent listening sessions would be valuable if the district anticipates making sweeping changes that impact the delivery and/or content of instruction to our students. Um, additionally, I think parents could be quite enlightened by what the district is doing to advocate at the state level for increased funding because I think you'll be able to recruit plenty of parents to support you in that effort. Um, I

119hope you'll make decisions that serve in the best interests of all learners that you are tasked to serve. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> All right. Our our next uh parent uh participant on Zoom to speak is Karen Dunin. I'm going to unmute her in just one second. Uh that's Cara. Cara, can you please unmute your mic? and you have 30 minutes to address the board. >> Good evening, members of the board, and um I thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. Um I currently have a sixth and an eighth grader uh in La Mesa Spring Valley School District. Um I recognize that the district is facing difficult financial decisions. Um but I'm concerned about the budget cuts that directly affect the academic instruction. um such as the proposed reduction from

120seven periods to six. When instructional time, staffing, and classroom resources are reduced, the impact is felt most by students, especially those who need consistency and support to s to succeed. Instruction is the heart of what this district does. While budgets require balance, protecting student learning should remain the top priority. I urge the board to carefully consider any reductions that diminish classroom instruction and to seek alternatives that keep students at the center of these decisions. As a parent, transparency of ideas being discussed within La Mesa Spring Valley School District would be appreciated. Thank you for your time and consideration. >> Thank you. Any additional? Um yeah, >> uh we had one more um that signed up, but I can't match the name on Zoom, so I can't have the person join. >> Okay. Um so that

121would move us along to our public hearing. Our first public hearing is for the extended school year waiver. Do we have any anything for that, Kathy? No public hearing. Which moves us on to the second public hearing, which is in regards to the college prep middle school charter renewal. And I do have a card here. Um, Cameron Wheeler. Hello. Um, good evening board members and members of the community. My name is Cameron Wheeler and I'm grateful for this opportunity to speak to you on behalf of College Prep Middle School. I wanted to share my personal experience with college prep. Uh particularly the transformative impact it's had on my daughter. So at the end of fourth grade, my daughter was struggling academically where she was at. She was performing at a second grade level in ELA

122and also in math and she was one of those special co babies. It happened when she was in second grade. So we know that there was a real impact on the kids that were that age. But we were really really concerned and I could literally see her like falling through the cracks. So we uh tried to work with the school that she was at and then I'd heard about college prep and I talked to my daughter about it and I said, "I think it's going to be a challenge, but what do you think?" And she said she was all for it. I will fast forward for you, but at the end of her fifth grade year, she tested at grade level in ELA and she just missed grade level for math. So, if you're doing

123the math with me, she skipped almost two grade levels in a single year. Uh, but the positive changes for her really extend beyond academics. It's really helped my daughter learn what I call the art of being a student, which is amazing. It's by building organizational and study habits. Um, taking responsibility for her schoolwork and her own personal academic achievement. These are skills that I recognize in her that I see her doing are things that I feel like I wasn't even doing until I was an upper classman in high school. You know, it really is a college preparatory experience. But I think the most important thing for me and for her is that she she really believes in herself now as a student. Um going from a place where I think she was really painfully aware

124that she wasn't maybe the smartest kid in the class and she could see that other kids could do things that she couldn't. she now really has faith in herself that she has the ability to learn in any environment, in any subject that she wants to. So, um I think what sets college prep apart is really this unwavering commitment. It's really academic rigor. Uh but it's paired with a culture of accountability, high standards, preparedness, I think curiosity, and personal responsibility. It's really a special mix that college prep fosters um with the students. It also helps them achieve academically. It provides a after-school tutorials four times a week, which my my kiddos go to, my eighth grader and my fifth grader. They have academic interventionists and wonderful school counselors who know my child, who know her challenges

125and her strengths, but mostly her challenges, and they reach out to me on ways that they can help her get caught up and can achieve. Uh, college prep has really, I think, created opportunities for my eighth grader and now she's going into high school. I feel like she's ready, like she's okay. I'm not worried about her academically making that jump. Um, I just wanted to thank you again just for your consideration and for hearing my perspective. And I really hope that you um consider what I've said and I urge you to renew College Prep Middle School's charter uh so that the administration, the staff can just continue this amazing work and support that they provide to our community. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay, we have to skip the one we put above. All right,

126that brings us to item 6A, which is an action item for board policy updates. Oh. Oh, yeah. Um, did you guys you guys didn't submit a card, right? But you want did you want to make a comment? Um, in Thanks. Sorry. We just got our lines crossed. Otherwise, we would have um put you down for it. >> No, it's okay. >> Don't be sorry. I told you you didn't need to fill one out. >> Thanks. >> I wasn't going to tell. Um, >> good evening board, superintendent, and the cabinet. I just wanted to take two seconds to tell you because it's a busy time of year as we know um to thank you so much for your consideration and your kind um gracious collaborative effort in uh reviewing our charter petition uh for our renewal

127and um just wanted to say that and thank you so much and we we look forward to a a wonderful collaborative relationship with you. That's that's our hope. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. So then we'll go back to 6A with the action item. Uh board policy updates. >> Um I'll move to approve item >> uh 6A. >> I'll second. Any questions or discussion regarding these board policies? All in favor say I. >> I. I. Opposed. Okay. Which brings us to 6B. This is our annual board of education schedule of meetings from January 2026 through December 2026. >> I approve item 60. >> I'll second. >> Any questions, concerns regarding these dates? All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed, which brings us to item C, which is our annual selection and appointment of board

128president, vice president, clerk, and secretary. Sorry, the secretary one always throws me. >> That's me. >> So, this item is up for discussion. I would like to say I've absolutely loved serving as board president for the past few years. I'm happy to continue that role moving forward. Um, I like how well we all work together and I feel like everyone's approachable. Um, but I just wanted to put that out there that I'm happy to continue, but I'm also happy to hear other ideas. I'll um I'll move to keep us with our same organization. >> Yeah, I'm supportive of uh maintaining our current setup. Um I spoke to David. I think um he has said it many times over the year and and also from feedback from members of the community that this group as a

129whole kind of all share that same kind of belief in like one purpose. And I mean I think the the writing on the walls, you know, is really what is the focus and I think having I think we all work together. We all kind of are rowing the same way. I think especially with the struggles of the next few years, having stability and you know good leadership by you know you I think you do a great job um being the president going through COVID being a teacher being a parent. I think all that helps keep and you work well with David and work well with all of us. So happy to keep it the way it is. Yeah, I'm happy the way things are and I know we're a united board, so I would um

130I wouldn't want to change anything, especially what with what we have coming. >> I think I just need a second. I'm not sure. I think >> I wasn't sure if you did or not. >> That's fine. Let's do it. >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I opposed. >> Okay. Now um we are going to appoint ourselves to the special committees for the next year. So there's the audit committee, the district parent advisory council, district wellness policy committee, um the PTA president, special educate education parent committee, and the facilities and operations committee. >> I have a quick question. Did the student council one get dropped off? So the student the student advisory councils are going to meet at individual school sites this year and so we took it off as because logistically we

131didn't think that would work for you as a board committee. >> Yeah, I appreciate appreciate that. It it was cool to you know the few times I actually got to do it. Um interact with the kids and get their perspective. It's uh it's you know eye opening as always. But, uh, yeah. No, it's great. >> And we'll we'll add them to your calendar so you know when they are. So, you certainly can if you can make it, you're welcome to be there. >> Yeah. I was going to ask if you could at least add those to the board calendar. >> Absolutely. Yeah. >> And then are they going to change? I know the date pack change from Tuesdays to Thursdays. >> Um, are they going to change um from dates? >> So, they'll they'll stay

132on Thursdays. Um we when we talk to parents and then our um principles because they attend principles attend with their parents. Okay. >> Doing it on the early release day was a real challenge especially for principles and for parents getting back to pick up their kids. So that's why we moved to Thursday this year. We surveyed our members last year. >> Um I would like to continue on DPAC the PTA presidents and facilities and operations. Um, >> is anybody write it down? Are you taking notes? >> Yeah, thank you. Then we'll be like, wait, did we get everyone? >> I don't know about the rest of you. >> Corporations and audit committee, the two that I participate in, and I'll stick with those >> and I think PTA, the president's, and then special ed parent

133committee. >> Um, I could um the special ed uh parent committee and that's Yeah. And then till it it will be on a Thursday, right? >> So I can >> special ed. >> Yeah, special ed. I I think those vary. >> Okay. >> Um and I don't know that they've all been scheduled this year. Um Eileen's sick today, so I can't give you that answer. But um I'll make sure that she lets you know when they're scheduled. >> Okay. Then I would like to stay on the facilities and operation committee. And we just rotated, right? That was fine. Um and then I'll do the district wellness policy committee. And then I think we got them all. Yeah. >> Yep. Yep. Got it. Thanks you guys. >> Um do we need to vote or we Yeah,

134I think so. It's an action. So >> yeah. So we would need to motion that that discussion. >> I'll move to uh everyone's like, you know, selected uh committees. I move to pass that. There you go. >> As presented. >> Thank you. Sorry, I didn't know what to say. All I'll second. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Okay. Next is our annual resolution. Um this is a roll call vote. I like that it's all bold right there. Um this basically is just uh came it came out of when we did separated from the atlarge district to having the areas. And so I'm just going to read the summary part. The attached annual resolution affirms that together the five trustees form one governing board that represents and serves all schools

135and students within the Lameisa Spring Valley School District. I'll move to approve the annual resolution. I think that it's great that we do this. I know that there's some um other school districts and I think it's more on like higher or larger much larger school districts that um the trustees get um pretend you are like I'm only this and like you know feel like you're stepping on each other's toes if you visit schools in each other's um areas and I love that we are collectively you know anyone parents anyone can come up to any of us and um with their concerns and um That's really, you know, great that like we're so grounded in that. >> I'll second and I will recommend those districts going to the uh conference that we went to um where

136they really kind of hammer this in, right? That you are even though you may represent the trustee area, you represent all students and um all all communities of the district. So, I think everyone should know that. Okay. >> All right. Anything else? All in favor say I. >> So, it's a roll call. >> Oh, it's a roll call. You're right. I even said that. >> I >> All right. Next we have an action. It's an invitation to nominate representatives to serve on the CSBA delegate assembly. Um, so last year we nominated me and there's a snafu with getting me actually on the ballot. Um, so I would like to nominate myself again for this. Um, I really enjoyed I, as you guys know, I went to DC with um, CSBA in April this year and

137it was an incredible opportunity to be able to talk to other school boards across and schoolboard members across the state. Um, and the timing hasn't worked out for me to be able to go to the conference, annual conference since my first year, but um, this, you know, what CSBA does with the advocacy work at the state level, at the federal level is huge. and being able to um be part of this um the the delegates that you know really talk about where our priorities lie as a collective um is is great. Yeah. >> So you asked to nominate yourself to we make a motion to approve that nomination. >> I Yeah, >> I'll make a motion to approve that nomination. >> I'll second. >> All in favor say I. I. I. opposed. Okay. Which brings

138us to our business services um 7A, our business consent items. >> I'll move to approve action 7A. >> I'll second. Any questions or discussion around these items? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Okay. Which brings us now to our first interim financial report, the incorporated budget revisions. >> I'll move to approve action 7B. >> I'll second. Any additional questions since we've discussed. All right. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> 7C, the actuarial valuation. >> I'll move to approve item 7 C. >> I'll second. Any questions around this? All in favor say I. >> I oppose. >> 7D is our developer fee reports. >> I'll second. >> Any questions, discussion regarding this? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. And that brings us to our action item on

139the college prep middle school charter renewal. >> Um yeah, I'd like to take a second here. um as a parent of a current fifth grader at college prep, I will need to um recuse myself from this discussion and vote. But um yeah, thank you very much. >> Okay, thank you. >> I'll second. Um, I think that I, you know, we have a legal obligation. The obviously CPMS has been a high performing school and is doing, um, you know, really, as we heard from the parent today, um, great work with the students that they're working with. Um, I do have my concerns, but based on our legal obligation, they're, you know, we I have my concerns about the students that we are from our district getting, you know, that end up at College Prep Middle and

140it's taking away from our students one right here. But, um, but I um but like I said, the you know, they've been high performing. they meet all of the um requirements for a renewal. Um and so I'll I'll second that motion. >> Any other discussion, questions? All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Okay. >> Um now we're on to educational services. We have our educational services consent items. I'll move to approve item 8A. I'll second. >> Any questions or discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. Um 8B is the extended school year waiver reun renewal. >> I'll move to approve this one as well. I had the opportunity last year to visit ESY. Um and it was so cool seeing the, you know, enrichment that the students were getting. Um, and

141all of the classrooms that we went into were so fun. There was dancing in one of the class. It was just it was very creative seeing also some of the art projects that were being done. Um, and I think that it's this waiver to reduce the number of days but increase the number of hours and you know that really makes it so everyone's able to maximize their um summer that they're able to have which is important. So, I'll move to approve it. >> I'll second. >> Any other question, discussion regarding this? All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Um, we have an action item, the memorandum of understanding with San Diego Foundation grant, the mindful leaders program. >> I'll say I'll say it. >> All right. Okay. Any questions, discussion? All right. All in

142favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. And then we also have another grant agreement. Save the music foundation. >> You can have the fun ones. It's all right. >> I'll second this one. as an alumnest of SVA that played flute and band my fresh or my sixth grade year. I think it's great that we're bringing back um music to our school and um musical instruments are expensive. So having this grant to be able to provide for that is is important. So I'll second. >> Excellent. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I opposed. >> Okay. Now we're down to human resources. human resources consent items. >> I'll move to approve item 9A. >> I'll second. >> Questions, discussions? Um, just quick little note about the two training programs on here. I love what

143our school district is doing with the training programs. Um, it's something that when I have talked to schoolboard members at other school districts are like, you guys are doing what? Like, that's so cool. Um, and you know, it hopefully helps to keep folks in our um in our district, which is um important especially right now. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I opposed. Okay. Um and then we have this is the hiring incentive for school busless driver position. >> I'll move to approve item 9B. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion, questions? All right. All in favor say I. I >> I opposed. >> Okay, which brings us to our closing communications, announcements, reports, communications from the board and superintendent. >> Um, I just wanted to say everyone have a happy holidays, merry Christmas, enjoy your

144guys' break. Congratulations to college prep and um and teachers enjoy the break. >> Yeah, I'll second that. Um, those who get a break um Enjoy. Those who get extra special time with their children, enjoy that as well. Uh, no, no, I'm good. No, I'm good. >> Yeah. Bad thing about kids in sports is they have energy. When they're not at school, they got to burn it somehow while I'm working. Anyway, but uh yeah, well deserved break for all the all the hardworking staff and teachers at our schools. Um uh hopefully everyone enjoys the holidays of those who celebrate or just a time off and uh get ready for the second half of the year. Um yeah, that's it. Um, I will echo the happy holidays and for everyone to have a safe break. Um, there's

145been some obviously exciting always exciting things going on at our school sites. Um, I know our community schools have been really involved with toy drives and getting um, support for families in this. It's we're not our school district is not the only one having economic issues. Um, everyone's having economic issues and so um, you know, getting support for our families is so important right now. and it's been great seeing that happen at um various school sites. Um I also wanted to wish our superintendent a very happy early birthday. Um yes, >> happy late birthday to you, Brianna. >> Brianna's birthday was yesterday and my birthday is tomorrow. >> And that's that's it for me. See you all next year. I just want to say happy holidays to everyone and of course everybody just please make

146sure that you check on your loved ones. U again mental health a lot of people who are uh maybe they're going through um uh going through their first holiday that they've lost a loved one. So definitely check on those people and um and then also make sure that you take care of yourselves also especially if you have little ones that um are asking for a million things from Santa. I'll echo the happy holidays and I'm excited for students, families, teachers to enjoy some time because we do get a break um to enjoy some time with one another and you know pay attention to the little things and we'll come back next year. Yeah, and I just share the same thing. Want to wish everyone a merry Christmas, happy holidays. Um, thank everyone for coming out

147tonight. Really appreciate um those who shared and and just those that are here, Kemp, seeing all of the families here and students is and staff. It's just heartwarming. We love it and um appreciate you all. These are hard times. Um, you know, they're uh hard times for everybody and it's uh yeah, it's just we got to stick together and and we got to say the truth and try and do what's right for kids. So again, I think that the um values that we have on the wall behind us are are are um the guiding light in terms of the direction we go as a district and um how we difficult how we deal with difficult times. Um just appreciate everyone so much and hope you have a wonderful holiday with your family. And with that,

148we will adjourn the meeting at 802