001Trustees, the time is now 501. Please stand by while the staff starts the live stream. President Davis, the live stream is now in progress. You may start the meeting. >> November 19th, regular board meeting of the Capistran Unified School District. The meeting is now in session. This time is 5:02 p.m. Mrs. Hayes, please or Miss Swanky, please call the role. >> Trusty Costianos >> here. >> Trusty Pritchard is absent. Trusty Zinger >> here. >> Trusty Adams is absent. Trusty Jones >> here. >> Trusty Bulockus is absent. And Trusty Davis >> here. Before we adopt the agenda, please note that staff has pulled agenda item 12B, notification of addendum to dashboard local indicators, teaching assignment monitoring data. May I have a motion to adopt the adopt the agenda? >> Second. >> Moved by Trustee Zinger, seconded
002by Trustee Jones. Mr. Swanky, do we have any speaker cards regarding the adoption of the agenda? >> We have none. >> Okay. Thank you. All those in favor of adopting the agenda, say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 4 03 to adopt the agenda. Miss Winky, before the board recess to close session, is there anyone who'd like to speak to a close session agenda item? >> We have none. >> Thank you. The board will now recess to close session to address the following agenda items. Conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, two cases. Conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, one case. Conference with real property negotiators, one case. Conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, four cases. Conference with legal counsel existing litigation four cases liability claims three cases. The board will now recess to
003close session. President Davis, the live stream is in progress. You may start the meeting. Good evening and welcome to the November 19th regular board meeting of the Capistrrona Unified School District. The meeting is now in session. The time is 6:09 p.m. Please note staff has pulled agenda item 12B, notification of addendum to dashboard local indicators, teaching assignment monitoring data. U Miss Swanky, can you please call the role? >> Student board member Hansen is absent this meeting. Trusty Costanos >> here. >> Trusty Pritchard. >> Trusty Zinger is absent. Trusty Adams is absent. Trusty Jones >> here. >> Trusty Bullus >> here. >> Trusty Davis here. Pledge of Allegiance will be led by former trustee Mc Martha McNicholas. Would you mind leading us in the flag? >> Put your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I
004pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you. >> Manki, can you please read the report from close session? >> On agenda item 4 A, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, trustees gave direction to staff. On agenda item 4 B, conference with legal council, anticipated litigation, existing litigation, excuse me, no reportable action. On agenda item 4 C, existing property with legal ne property negotiators, trustee gave direction to staff. On agenda item 4D, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. Trustees voted 601 to approve staff recommendation on the following ADR cases. Case numbers 2025 0925. Case numbers 20251031. And case number 20251130. On public employee complaint appeal, trustees voted 601 to approve staff
005recommendation. On item 4E, exist conference with legal council existing litigation. Trustees voted 601 to approve staff recommendation on the following OAH cases. Case number 2025 050761 and 202509 on agenda item 4F liability claims trustees voted 601 to approve staff recommendations on the following cases liability claim number 2310575 liability claim number 2311 1787 in rejection to government claim number 2412543. This concludes the report. >> Thank you. Now I'd like to ask you to turn your attention to our presentation screen as we have a short video to share about CUSD's Flex Academy which is housed at Marblehead Elementary in San Clemeni. Hello, my name is Jamie Goodwin and I'm the principal of Marblehead Flex [music] Academy. We have an amazing program serving families in South Orange County. At Marblehead, we believe the learning should fit [music] the
006child, not the other way around. Our Flex program supports families who value time together and students [music] who learn best with freedom, creativity, and balance. Taught by caring, credentialed [music] teachers, our students enjoy enrichment, flexibility, and all the friendships and experiences of a traditional school. [music] From field trips to community events, at Marblehead, we're more than a school. We are an [music] ohana. A place where every child belongs and every family feels at home. I like the structure. I was overwhelmed by the [music] idea of having to kind of do curriculum on my own and knowing what [music] books to buy and I don't know how to navigate all that. So, um, I [music] like that they give you the curriculum, all the paperwork, and you kind of keeps you [music] on track. It's, um,
007less intimidating. >> I didn't want to do something full online because I wanted her to have that interaction, [music] and I wanted her to have structured learning so that when she does go to high school, if we want to do fully, [music] you know, in-person high school or even college later on, she can um, know [music] how to sit in the classroom, how to have, you know, a structured learning environment. We did straight homeschool before and I really needed the support of [music] the school. Um Nolan, my fourth grader, came in [music] very low level of reading and just this last I think they do it trimester or [music] last semester. He got a reading award. So, thank you Miss Ricks. I'm doing a shout out to her. Um [music] and his reading is incredible.
008He just like shot up. It's like he gained his confidence [music] and being in a classroom environment with a teacher with peers and again it's only [music] two and a half days a week but that's what he needed to be able to grow and succeed. So my kids are getting an amazing education here. Thank you. So check out Flex Academy. It's a [clears throat] as she as they explained a little hybrid for those families that are looking for that. And I'd like to recognize Dr. Chris Brown who will present his opening comments followed by the trustees. >> Good evening everyone. Welcome to the November 19th, 2025 business meeting for the CUSD board of trustees [clears throat] and apologize for reading this one. Tonight I want to acknowledge the painful loss of a sixth grade Miguel
009Hills Middle School student who lost his life walking to school yesterday. This tragedy has been on the front page of the Orange County Register and several TV news outlets have produced stories. I am thankful for Prince Principal Vericio, our school counselors and psychologists, and all of the teachers and staff who are supporting Niguel Hills students as they mourn the loss of their classmate. I also want to share my appreciation for the Niguel Hills PTA, who's partnering with school administrators to support the students family. Please keep them in all of your thoughts. Next week is Thanksgiving break and I hope given this that you all enjoy a safe and peaceful week away from school and we look forward to seeing all of you back here in December as we finish up 2025 and move into 2026.
010This ends my report for the evening. >> Thank you trustees. Okay, Trusty Bulas. Well, today we had the opportunity, Trusty Jones and I, to go to our central kitchen because uh there's always amazing things going on there. Um if you'll remember, we spoke about it. Gosh, I can't remember if it was last month or the month before that. um where we had a tour of the new expanded um kitchen there and our student advisor um on the board um all of a sudden I'm thinking um Addie, sorry I lost her name. Um really enjoyed going. She was one of those who had shared that um if you recall uh she never particularly liked cafeteria food and would tell her siblings and friends you know not to eat it but after touring she was so impressed
011um with the recipes and the care um that our staff puts into it. So today was the um school lunch recipe contest and we had um students from elementary to high school that um submitted their recipes. Um I don't know the total that was submitted but we went there today and there was a whole group of different staff members along with us who tasted and voted. Um, and the whole point is is that the lucky winner of the contest, their recipe will be served to all of our students. So, um, it's a really fun effort on their part to support students and for students to become involved. And that was fun. I just wanted to remind you again, uh, going into the holiday season that there's plenty of shows, um, whether it's instrumental music, vocal,
012drama, plays, dance. Um, I'm going to the Midsummer Jersey play at Toro tomorrow night. That's this weekend. Uh, and then San Juan Hills High School has their winter dance show. Um, and I'm going to head over there Friday night. So, there's plenty of great entertainment to see our students talent. Um, check it out. It's on the uh calendars for the schools and highly recommend it and just wish you all a very, very nice Thanksgiving holiday. Thank you. Good evening. Um, like Trusty Bula said, we were at the recipe tasting today and this is in the central kitchen which is uh the old uh district uh headquarters. Um, kind of a small building. Um, and someone there pointed out that off in the distance was the instructional media center, which is where all the textbooks are
013kept. And I remarked that many years ago, our instructional media center was in a building over next to Union High School, quite a small building. And this person was very surprised uh because we have so many books. and that it reminded me how many more AP classes, honors classes, we have uh more electives, more career education, uh a language immersion classes, and all these things pro mean more books. So, I think this represents in our district how many more choices we have. And people often talk to me, people who either don't have kids in school anymore or uh haven't really learned what their grandchildren are doing or whatever about what school is like. And school is not at all like what we experienced. It's in many cases not even what our kids experienced. It's uh
014you know if you have young pe young students in school today, they're experiencing something totally different than even was available 15 20 years ago. I think that this is true throughout California, but it's especially true in CUSD. I think we have a great program going here. Um I want to uh show my t-shirt of the month. This one I got from San Juan Elementary a few years ago. Uh but I was there visiting earlier this year. It says Briamos and dosos. We are we shine in two languages. And I really like that sentiment. Um uh let's see. I Oh, I visited uh we have teacher inservice days a couple of days before school starts. And I visited that. I like to go when the teachers don't have students there so I can really talk to
015them a little bit. And I was reminded, I'd completely forgotten this, that maybe about half the teachers at San Juan Elementary went to San Juan Elementary themselves. And it makes a very different school atmosphere. They have a new principal this year, uh, Dr. Maria Christina Barrosa, who was at San Juan, uh, sorry, Los Palmus previously. So, it's a some changes, but I also think the community spirit is alive and well at San Juan Elementary. such a nice school. Uh Trese Bulicas mentioned plays. I want to bring up Capitol Valley High. Tonight, tomorrow, and Friday, they are uh producing a play called The Iliad, The Odyssey, and All of Greek mythology in 99 minutes or less. Uh at 700 p.m. each night, um general admission $18, student ID ID $16. I haven't seen it yet. I
016do plan to go either tomorrow or Friday, but it sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun. I have a friend whose child is in the play, and he says it's really funny, so I think it'll be worth going to. Other than that, I just want to wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving. Don't eat too much. Oh, uh, do the turkey trot [laughter] and, uh, I hope you have a nice break. Thanks. >> Thank you, trustees. >> Oh, I did want to bring up um, so I'd requested sensitivity training workshop stuff and I I haven't seen a followup about it so I am kind of interested in in the development of that and I know um somebody was telling me about Brown swell uh an Orange County organization that did some work with one
017of our cities I think it was in mission so I don't know if we're sort of sending out our request to Brown for what that might look like or shape but that would that would be my encouragement for board work. >> Yeah, staff is looking into different vendors for different types of trainings districtwide and for the board >> trust customers. [clears throat] Okay. I've been on many campuses over the last month in San Clemenia and in fact all nine and um it's great things are happening. Great things are happening everywhere. I love it. Um had the opportunity to attend Adam's family last weekend. Those of you that saw it, it was outstanding. I think it was a soldout show all the way through and they ended up bringing in extra bleachers along or extra chairs
018along the sides and just fantastic. Fall sports is wrapping up. Sincl High School had a playoff game last weekend where they played against Vista Muretta and St. Clemeny won 32-7. So, they are moving on. Exciting. and and today I had the opportunity to attend BAM's Swell which is um BAMS is a middle school Bernese era middle school and it is a model PLC school. So they had about 30 or 40 teachers that came from other districts to come and watch what they do during that intervention time where they take students and focus on very specific targeted skills that are needed. And to watch them in action was incredible. And the panel of teachers that spoke at the end after we um toured the different classrooms was just fantastic. And the the way that they engage
019and interact and get students and it was fun to watch the kids in four minutes get to their classes and you could see a thousand students with their agenda in hand because that's kind of the ticket into the door. And there's a way that it's all done and it's done so fantastically and the collaboration is incredible and principal Steve and the direction um for the staff there is they just do an excellent job and um we had one one other assistant principal from Vista that attended and uh it just was great to see and great to hear how that has come about and where it is now. And we went into classes where there is um specific targeted skills that need to that maybe they didn't quite get and didn't master. Um and then they
020go into that class, but it's not necessarily your your assigned class teacher. And then also into a class that is doing some frontloading. So maybe think students that are APbound, they um they are looking for more and they're preparing for the test that's coming tomorrow. So they want more time. They could have chosen to um have some other choice. Um but they are choosing to get extra extra help that way. So it covers the whole gamut. So anyway, I was uh I was grateful to be at that and to be able to see that in action. Lots of things happening. So thank you. And we will move on to I'd like to acknowledge the retirees listed on this month's agenda. the classified employees of this on this month's agenda with significant amount of years in
021our district. Cody Lacroy, custodian 1, 36 years in the district. Eddie Gardia, custodial 3, 30 years. Luis Rodriguez, custodian 1, 25 years. William Butler, heavy equipment operator for 24 years. Lesie Nettle, en enrollment technician for 22 years. And Ken Tulle, high school campus supervisor, nine years. Move on to or oral communication. And the total time for all communication shall be 20 minutes. Miss Schwanki, do we have any speaker cards for all communication? >> Yes, we have five speakers. So, per board policy uh 9323 meeting conduct, uh they will be allowed three minutes. >> Thank you. >> Right. So, I will call the names. Uh please line up. Uh student Cameron Fam, uh Lisa Meyers, William Strand, Linda Haddock, and Linda Moore. Miss Fam. Cameron, go ahead. Hi, good evening. Um, my name is Cameron Fam.
022I am currently a senior at Dana Hills High School. Um, I'd like to address um a recent policy implemented at my school, evidence-based grading. Um, I've noticed a few issues regarding this new policy, including myself, uh, peers around me, and concerning my teachers. This policy includes, um, has excluded late work penalties. So now students can turn in late work without there being any penalty. And now we have also implemented test retakes. So students are now allowed to retake tests up to full credit. Um, I've noticed that this has discouraged a lot of work ethic amongst students and has created increased workload for my fellow teachers and peers. Um, one of the policy articles lists that teachers will utilize multiple measures by which students may demonstrate mastery. I've noticed that very few teachers are utilizing multiple
023measures and instead of articulating their curriculum to fit this new policy, they've just implemented the no late work policy and the retake the retaking policy with their old curriculum. Um, I believe that teachers, in order for this policy to truly show the progress of students and for them to demonstrate mastery, that teachers should be assisted in um, reshaping their curriculum to help fit this new policy across all types of subjects. And that is all. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Miss Meyers. You may begin. >> Good evening, everyone. I am here once again to raise my concern for the well-being of our Latino students and family. As I'm sure we have all seen, ICE continues to do horrific acts such as invading a Chicago preschool and removing a teacher during school hours and abducting
024a mother and her children who are here legally on a U visa in Portland. Her four children, who are US citizens, were kept in detention for two weeks until they were released. But she was kept in detention for four months, separated from her children until she was released last week. The trauma that people have endured, I have no words. What is our school board doing during this time to support our Latino community? Community members are hiding at home and afraid to go out. students fear for their family's safety. One trustee recently publicly thanked church members for doing beautifification projects, making things nice. But what about the people? Our people, 40% of our school district who have Latino heritage. Have the trustees reached out to the community organizations to see what they can do to help
025and support? Charlotte, North Carolina was the scene of the latest ice raids this weekend. And if you don't care about students safety and well-being, perhaps this fact will make you reconsider your silence. On Monday, over 20,000 students stayed home from school in Charlotte. Maybe this financial implication can spur you to act. In this month of Thanksgiving, I am going to shine a light on the fact that there are amazing community organizations that are working behind the scenes to alert, inform, and educate the community about potential ice sightings around South Orange County. A few weeks back, there was a potential sighting near one of our elementary schools, one that I know is in your district, and a parent shared with me the feeling of widespread panic among the parents. This happened at 11:00 in the morning.
026So, you can imagine what that community felt like until those kids got home safely that day. Where is the district leadership on this? Where are the trustees? Where is the public comment? Where is the action? What is being done to support our students and our families? Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Mr. Strand. >> Good evening, trustees. My name is William Strand. I live in uh the Tlega neighborhood of San Clemente. My daughter attends the adult transition program in San Juan and our son recently graduated from San Juan Hills High School. Trustees, I'm here tonight to bring to your attention a major safety issue, discrimination and retaliation against our daughter at the adult transition program. I'm here tonight because I've worked my way up through staff and administrators and our concerns have
027been dismissed. Our daughter is in her second year at adult transition. She loves school. She sat home today because she doesn't have safe nursing at school. She started the year though with a great nurse who's kept her safe. But we were told about six weeks ago by the principles that they wanted to train a backup nurse. We've always collaborated with staff and participated in training. Unfortunately, after three weeks of training and two parent observations, the backup nurse is not picking up her daughter's care. She does not follow the training, is physically aggressive towards our daughter, and injured our daughter on October 24th. Pictures have been provided to staff and the principles. Our concerns were dismissed. When we raised these concerns, the principal, Lucy Copela, informed us that they were going to remove our daughter's full-time
028nurse and begin rotating the nurse who injured her every other week. This is why our daughter is home this week. For context, there is no other student in adult transition that's required to have a one week on, one week off rotation of two nurses. Additionally, other students within the last year at ATP have had safety issues with nurses and their children's nurses were switched. We're not asking that our daughter's nurse be switched. We're asking that her full-time nurse be restored. This is discrimination against our daughter and retaliation against her by Lucy Copela, the principal at ATP and Kathy Purcell in the district office for their prior discrimination scheme against our daughter when she was a student at Dana Hills High School. For context, Lucy Copela and Kathy Purcell kept our daughter out of school at
029Dana Hills High School for a year and a half by continually switching her nurse every time she had a good nurse. Additionally, they finally came up with a scheme where they said that they had found a male nurse for our daughter and our daughter could return to school any time she wanted with a male nurse. There is no student in Capistrano Unified School District that's required to have a male staff member toilet and dress them. >> Thank you, Mr. Strand. Our next speaker is Linda Haddock. >> Hi, my name is Linda Haddock. I'm both an employee and I have four children that went through this system and I am so glad they got out when they did. because this board is less than stellar. We have a board member who uses the n-word and takes
030months to even think about apologizing. We have another board member who last month, although she said it's not political. If you have to vote for it in a statewide vote, it is political. And taking her own forum, this forum to say how she feels about voting. She can feel what she wants about voting. I totally agree with that. But this is not the forum to do that in. You don't do it as the leader of this board to tell people how they should vote. And I think that is just totally appalling. Thank you. Our next speaker is Miss Linda Moore. >> Lower. Go ahead. I want to address uh something that came up during oral communications about two months ago. A parent of a student at San Juan Hills High reported that the school had
031put on a club rush whereby their afterchool clubs set up booths for students to peruse. One booth belonged to the Turning Point Movement. At that booth, her daughter heard the speaker representing the club say, "If you're not willing to close the school, you shouldn't be on a school board. Buy weapons. Buy ammo. If you go into a public place, bring a gun with you." This same person adv speaker p person advocated for the elimination of federal and state departments of education. Top it off her daughter reported that visiting this booth were two members of our CUSD school board Lisa Davis and Judy Balakas. I cannot verify the veracity of all this but I feel it should be looked into. If true, I believe that there is no place for this type of club on any
032of our campuses and currently there are three high school campuses with this club. I would hope that all of the board members would be in agreement with that. Thank you for your time to discussion, action, information items. We're moving on to 12A Jones. Yes, I'd like to make a motion. We approved the agenda earlier, but we have an attorney here for item 12 um E, and I'd like to move that before 12A. Uh it saves us some money if he's able to leave early. Thanks. >> Okay. All those all those in fa or second >> second. >> Trusty Bulus. And all those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 502. Okay, we'll move on to 12E. May I have a motion to adopt resolution number 2526-14, resolution of the board of trustees of
033the Calpesta Unified School District, approving conditional authorization to distribute a request for proposals for the dis disposition of real real property [clears throat] and reaffirming and finding real property to be exempt surplus land pursuant to the surplus lands act, Los Ramblas property. >> So moved. Moved by Trustee Jones, seconded by Trustee Castion. I'd like to recognize Clark Hampton to introduce this item. >> Thank you, President Davis. The uh this item is a resolution authorizing staff to issue a RFP for the um Los Ramblas property contingent on receiving a waiver from the state board of education and uh legal counsel is here to answer any of your questions. >> And just for clarity for the public, RFP is a request for proposals. Sorry, I didn't >> just clarifying what an RFP is since we're going to
034use that term. >> Good evening, President Davis, board of trustees, Dr. Brown, cabinet, and those in the audience today. I'm Andreas Schultus. Uh we've met many times before, and I'm here to give you an update on the Los Ramblas property, as we call it, that the district owns. This is 7.292 acres uh in uh Pacifica San Juan. The district, just by a brief history, acquired this through an agreement that was entered into in 2016. That was with Pacific U. Um, Point Partners that owned that property that we're talking about here and the surrounding property. The option that the district had to acquire this property was for $6 million and it allowed you all the way through March of 2022. So, as that came due and knowing it was only $6 million and the property is
035worth so much more than that, uh, the district astutely acquired it for $6 million and has had it since. Uh, and let's see. So, going back a ways, there's been a number of things that have occurred since then. Uh we convene an advisory committee which is a cross-section of the community 7 to 11 members from various ilks um administration, landowner, renter, student, representative, etc. Um and we convened a number of different meetings in open session and they went through a process to learn about what options are available to school districts when potentially disposing of property. uh and essentially to make a recommendation after looking at student projection rates and the whole nine yards. Uh it then uh provided a final report which yes actually recommended that the board declare the property surplus meaning you don't
036need it for uh uh programs school programs and then the green light to sell it and or lease it uh and to uh seek a waiver from the state board of education of the traditional bid process. And I'm going to explain that a little bit more uh because it's important to to to clarify. Uh then in March 12th, the board actually took action to do those things. It accepted the board uh the advisory committee's uh recommendation and report. It declared the property surplus. It gave uh administration the green light to uh pursue a land lease or a sale of the property and gave a green light to seek a waiver from the state board of e education. Again, I'll explain that. And finally, um, uh, had a finding that the property is exempt surplus land
037under the surplus lands act. And I apologize for the length of that, uh, item, the resolution item. I know that's a lot of words. I promise I don't get paid by the hour. It's there for legal reasons. So, thank you for uh, you know, allowing me some some difference in having a long resolution. So, the post March uh, of this year, we had what we needed to proceed. Um the administration and I actually met with collective bargaining units and we talked about the waiver. We later submitted an application to the state board of ed to receive a waiver. And the idea with a waiver is that once received, the school board can send out a request for proposals to receive proposals from developers or anyone who might want to acquire the property either through a
038sale or through a ground lease and enter into up to 99 years of a ground lease scenario with the board and pay rent during all that time to you um without going through an auction process. The auction is the default, if you will. If you don't seek a waiver, in order to dispose of property, you'd have to conduct an auction, have everybody come and give you a bid, call for oral bids, just like you would with a gavvel, and do an auction. The problem with that is, especially with ground leases, but also with sales, is you have a document, and in that op in that scenario where you're doing an auction, you have to accept the highest bidder or reject all of them. You cannot negotiate. You cannot go with somebody that might have a
039better use for the property in your estimation or a better chance of getting that property entitled through city and through the finish line and built. You have to go with the high only. And it's impossible in my opinion to even determine who the high bidder is on a lease arrangement because they come in with a price of what they'll pay you in rent but a whole host of changes to that ground lease document. And those are material changes that, you know, somebody might say I'm going to give you more money per lease, but others will say it's less, but it goes up faster over time with rent increases. So, you get my point. It's difficult to actually know who the high is, seeking the waiver and receiving it and doing an RFP, request for proposals,
040allows you to receive those proposals, read them, call people, and confirm what you're reading to make sure it's apples to apples in your mind. You're corroborating what you see. negotiate, do a paper cut if you want, negotiate some more, interview if you want some of those entities who submitted, and ultimately choose one. When submitting those final um proposals and showing the world those proposals, we do that in open session. We actually show all the proposals received. OU was sort of shortlisted, if you will, and then the results of that. So these are the final proposals. These are the terms. And you will state for the record what is the most beneficial deal and why. It may be the best money. It may be the second or third in line in terms of money. But the
041product they're going to build, their ability to get it through the entitlement process, what have you, might determine in your mind who the highest and most beneficial is. Not highest value, but best most beneficial. So that's the flexibility we're looking for with the waiver. That's why we've submitted it. and we just have not received it yet. Because this has taken a while, we want to make sure once it's re received, we can move forward with sending out an RFP, distributing that RFP, the request for proposals for um um biders to come in forward and tell us what they might want to do out on this property, how much they're willing to pay for it. So, this resolution tonight asks you to give a conditional approval for the distribution of that RFP, conditioned only upon receiving
042that waiver. So once the state board of ed gives us the waiver, we don't have to come back. We go straight out to distributing that RFP and receiving proposals. So that's one of two things that this resolution does tonight. The other one is related to the Surplus Lands Act, and that's what made that a little bit wordy. The Surplus Lands Act, the the that body of law is there to um promote affordable housing on public agency land, all sorts of public agencies. With school districts, there's a lot of exemptions. You can exempt the land. You can call make it an exempt surplus land finding exempt land finding for a number of reasons. One was if you followed an advisory committee which you did. So last March you exempted this property from the surplus lines act
043because you followed the advisory committee process in June of this year that that exemption went away. The code changed. You're still exempt. You did it well before June 30th. You're golden in that respect. But because of that change and because there are other exemptions available tonight, we're simply bringing another exemption forward. That one is what we call a catch-all exemption. And it says that this land is also exempt from the surplus lands act because you in this resolution make a finding that any revenue coming from the transaction will be put to your uses, the district's direct use. it's, you know, maintenance, it's it's um modernization, it's programs, it's initiatives, just funding those things. And you make that finding here just to say, yeah, the district money that we received through this lease revenue or this
044sale revenue will be put to district uses. That's all it says. So, that's the reasoning for those two. And I want to underscore that when we receive all of this, it'll be plenty more opportunity to talk about what those proposals look like. and ultimately the whole community will see what all was received and why you're choosing who you're choosing. With that, any questions at all. >> Thank you trustees. >> Okay. Good. >> And thank you. >> And if we could please and we we're going to need a Yeah, we're going to need a roll call. >> Trusty Costanos. I >> Trusty Pritchard. >> I >> Trusty Zinger is absent. Trusty Adams is absent. Trusty Jones >> I. >> Trusty Bulicus. >> Hi. >> Trusty Davis. >> I And the motion carries 502. Thank you. And
045we'll move on. I'm sorry. Oh, you know what? Thank you. Um, did we have any speaker cards on that item? Thank you. >> There were none. >> Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. And we'll move back over to 12A, the Panorama Education Student Success Dashboard Implementation Update. This is information item only and no board action is necessary. And I'd like to recognize Clark Hampton, deputy superintendent, to introduce the item. >> Thank you, President Davis, trustees. So, um earlier the school district, uh was has implemented a new data dashboard um for gathering different student information for um student performance data. And I'd like to introduce uh Stephanie Aera, our chief technology officer, to give an update to the board on where we are with its implementation and highlights of what the system can provide
046to us. President Davis, trustees, Superintendent Brown, thank you for allowing me to give you an update on our new student success dashboard. This dashboard gives us a panoramic view of our students. It helps us see their stories, their strengths, and opportunities for growth. Until now, our information such as attendance, behavior, academics, assessments, social emotional data, all lived in separate systems. This dashboard is a single comprehensive comprehensive 360deree view of how our students are progressing. It helps us move from simply collecting data to using data to drive meaningful action. If there are questions as I'm going, I'm going to pause after each slide. And so if there's questions, I'll just pause and we can have a conversation. Okay. All right. So, the student success dashboard helps us connect the dots. It seamlessly integrates with ARIES, our
047student information system, and other district systems. It helps us identify patterns early. It helps us address needs quickly and ensures that we give students the right support at the right time. As you can see by this slide, it shows that it pulls together academic, behavioral and social, emotional data in one place and it connects every part of the students COD journey from dibbles and I ready and early elementary to ACT, SAT, AP scores in high school. Just if you remember, one of the things we've talked about over the last two years since I've been here is that infrastructure for gathering data um and gathering actionable data. So, for example, one of the things that we've implemented is the Panorama surveys, which meets our LCAP survey requirement for the state, but also allows our sites to
048gather much more timely information and actual information about student well-being, student sense of safety, student sense of academic uh progress, growth mindset, self-efficacy, those types of things. Um, and instead of having that have to stand alone in its own login, um, it'll be pulled into this dashboard to go right alongside with the I Ready and the Dibbles and everything so that our staff has one place to go where they can see all of our new infrastructure data as well as old stuff that we did. >> Okay. At the district level, it allows us to monitor trends across schools and ac across student groups to ensure equity and consistency in academics, attendance, and interventions. At the school view, at the school level, principles and leadership teams dig into attendance, academics, behavior, and trends to make data
049informed decisions about their students. And at the classroom level, teachers will have the opportunity to view student profiles, bringing everything together, grades, attendance, behavior, and wellbe well-being, so they have a complete picture of each learner in one place. One of the most impactful tools is the attendance dashboard. This allows us to track chron chronic abs absenteeism in real time. It helps us identify which students don't have an intervention plan and put one in place in real time. This uh platform also gives us access to a library of more than 900 evidence-based intervention strategies in their playbook. These resources are embedded into directly into the platform and teachers and administrators can find and apply these strategies to support their students. And the part of the platform that I'm most excited for teachers and administrators to see
050is the AI tool which is called Silera. Silera is specifically designed for education. No data ever leaves the platform. It does not make decisions for us. It just helps us uh find insights faster and focus time where it matters most. Supporting students. >> Can I interrupt here with a question? >> Absolutely. So, uh, not necessarily for anyone's screen, but, um, particularly in our elementary schools. I mean, it's so important to have that foundation in elementary, which some students don't really get when they ought to be getting it in our opinion. And I've been in some schools where they have uh a data wall somewhere where they've got um it it's away from the students. So they're they're not going in and seeing what their friends uh data looks like, but you know, this student in
051their uh beginning of the year they did so and so and then maybe they didn't get very much of an a boost in middle year or end of year. So they need some uh extra attention. So it sounds to me like what's what you're saying is this either powers or takes the place of the data wall. This is no longer something that has to be produced separately. Does that make sense? >> Right. There's no longer silos of data. So we don't have a silo of data data in a in a principal's office or wherever they may be displaying it and it's just in one platform where all the data is integrated into this one system. So instead of going into the room where the data wall is is kept, a teacher can just bring this
052up on their screen. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> And we think about like the the teacher hours required to gather all these disparate sources of data and put them together that that that's now done, right? It'll be there and it'll be AI queryable. So you could ask um plain language questions that could query the data and pull together things that you didn't even think to pull together because they were so hard and far for us to find to pull together into one side. So the idea is that it's quicker for principles, quicker for teachers, more accessible um and we can look at insights a little quicker. >> So question, so the teachers have the ability to query what they want to look at and and bring it into like their
053own report. >> They they will teachers do not have access yet. Right now, we just have administrators in there, but eventually teachers will be able to pull up their classroom and they will be able to use the AI tool within there and ask for insights based on all the data that has been um siloed into into this program. >> And when do we anticipate that being rolled out for teacher access? >> We're hoping the fall of 2627. Um this spring we're going to bring counselors into the program. Administrators have already been um trained and we're going to move with counselors in the spring and then hopefully our teachers in the fall of 2627. Right. Yes. Any other questions? >> I have a couple questions. >> Okay. >> So no no longer silos. >> Right. And
054does this dashboard look different to the participant that like for instance a teacher versus an admin? >> Yes. >> So a teacher is only accessing maybe their information that's pertinent to them. Yes. And the administrator is looking at the school as a whole. Is that my understanding? >> Yeah. That was one of the big parts of the RFP is making sure that they could do what's called permissioning correctly. Right. Okay, so we're going to have all this data that's pulling on the back end, but as a teacher, when you log in, your permissions are only really to see your students, right? So your dashboard looks different. The principal, you get to see all the students at your school, but you don't get to see the school next door, all of their students, right? So that's
055the permission level. And then when you move up to a district level administrator, we can see the district. It also changes the insights, right? We look at the trends. We're looking at trends across middle schools or across elementary schools. They're looking at their site and what their individual kids are growing. So yes, the the dashboards and the readouts change because they don't get to see everyone's data. >> And is this a internal dashboard only or is this a public facing dashboard with I mean not with any confidential information but allowing some information out. This is only internal dashboard. >> It is only internal. >> Only internal. Okay. Thanks. But could um I can understand that a principal can't go look at this other principal's data, but could they see it aggregated that let's say 90%
056of fifth graders are are wellprepared in math over at your neighboring school? Not >> I would say this is our ed services, our um associate superintendents who work with all the principles at the schools can show them an aggregate of all their fifth grade >> students. So they would have access to all the schools to be able to pull that data. >> So they would have to go through someone in the district office. >> And as we build dashboards, as we work with principles, there'll be certain sort of stock dashboards and then other data sources they can query. So as they build them, if they wanted to see what the district average is, they could have that in their dashboard. They wouldn't be able to drill into it because it has kids that aren't theirs.
057Right. But Right. Right. But that's part of the dashboard building process is is what specific data, which is why it takes a while to lift one of these things off the ground because if you launch it with all the wrong dashboards, people stop using it immediately. Right. So you have to get all the stakeholders involved to figure out exactly which dashboard. So because before they become power users, they just look at it, right? And it's got to look useful right away. >> Okay. >> What about department heads? Do they have access to their whole department if they're or would that just be admin on site? >> It would at at first the the teachers who are department heads would have access only to their classrooms. Yes. That they teach. >> I have a question. So,
058I was at a K through eight today um at the council advisory committee meeting and one of the key um conversations was chronic absenteeism. So, you mentioned that the counselors will receive this in the fall and I would guess that there will be nuances and things like that, but since the counselors have been chosen, um will they have everything up and running? Will there be just segments like let's say absenteeism where we try to work with families and students on that? Um, and then maybe those getting D's and Fs to focus or will they have the plethora like ready to go this fall? I just wondered how much they'll get in the beginning. >> We'll have counselors in there in the spring. >> I'm sorry, in the spring. I'm saying fall. We're in fall, >>
059right? So, we're bringing um the company back, Panorama, back to train our counselors on what they will see in the platform. Um what ED services decides to give access to the counselors will be up to them. Um basically, if it's their school site, they should have access to what's at their school site so they can help the students that they are in charge of. >> And that's what part of the first round of training looks like, right? Okay. So, as we do the first round of training, we meet counselors and we based on our initiatives, based on what you're working on, what do you want to see on your first screen? What should that first dashboard be? So, rather than us trying to assume we know that's why we do that training process. So, so
060counselors will be involved in that determining what they see first, what rolls out first, and then what builds in later. >> So, this is being rolled out essentially to us tonight to learn a little bit more. Do the schools, do the teachers know about this yet or the counselors? >> Admin knows about it. teachers I don't think know about it. Um counselors don't. They'll get it in the spring. Right. So this was we talked about this. We did the contract for this last spring. >> Last last March I think. >> Yeah. So so this is just a status update. So we we did the contract last March. They spent the summer building the APIs to bring the data from all of the different vendors into the the data lake or data warehouse architecture that they're
061using. And now we're going to go start training our end users to use it, right? And working with our end users. It's just a multi-step process and we wanted to share where we were with it with you guys. >> Okay. Can you imagine a time when parents would also have a view of this dashboard so could see what an educator sees with their child in at a school site and give some >> I mean I I imagine with AI parents are already putting their kids into chat GPT at some level and going what do I do if and and so I I don't know of anybody that isn't using AI to some level to explore >> the whatifs of the world and this seems somewhat tame um version of that because that dashboards have been
062around forever and it's data quality usually is people's like well this is not the picture that I had and what's wrong and then you try to figure out well what are we not collecting or what's o being overemphasized and the AI is supposed to sort of fine-tune that kind of >> exactly I will say right now that there is not a parent facing part of this product however a teacher that is having a parent conference with a child could pull their students data and share it with them while they're in the conference with >> encourages a change in the conversations that you might have because you just you had to guess at some of this or have your feelings about it and then now you have some hard numbers to go well I know what
063we felt and what we thought but that number there is a problem and so absenteeism right is right >> kind of the focal point and if you see that go into the eight or nine% absentee, it starts sending because how do you educate a child if they're not showing up to school and that might be the larger symptom to >> it is very obvious when you pull up a child's profile when they are missing a lot of school and their grades kind of match that if they're not coming to school what's happening. And so it it's it's very obvious when you pull up that screen that this is an issue. You can't hide it anymore because it's right in front of you. You don't have to go to another system to pull that data. It's
064right in front of you right next to their grades. So it's very obvious. And it also does, not to get into too much detail, but it also will say period by period absent. So if like this student has a D and they have eight absences in that period >> and they have an A and zero absences in that period, it's very obvious what's going on and it's right there. >> Predictive analytics as well. I would imagine you start incorporating the AI. So right before the >> the individual starts doing certain things, there's behaviors that a system of data can actually start detecting before >> a human does. It's kind of like with medical records and your physician, there will be >> millions and billions of different keystrokes and and clicks give a different world of
065understanding of something than >> and I I would say with the AI the um the playbook that is part of it will help teachers with that predictive analytics deciding okay I can see this student going down this road. What can I do? what intervention strategies can I use to support them before >> it's too late >> then the literature on that stuff improves because of all these data sets that are being incorporated from all of the districts throughout the country right >> now we're it's kind of like medical records right that whole well we we're able to figure out things we never even thought we knew about patients about products all kinds of things and this is another level of that kind of awareness that we really never had as educators. >> Yeah, it's very
066exciting. >> It's fascinating to me. >> Yes, it's very exciting. Me, too. >> Any other questions? >> So, in summary, uh this empowers every student, their strengths, and their opportunities for growth. And um this is just like Dr. Brown said, this is an update of our implementation. It's been a journey to get all of our data in there to say the least. and we just wanted to share you share where we are right now. And so, thank you. >> Thank you. I love the roll out and I love the markers and the way we're going to be able to look at attendance with grades with behavior all all together and um just having all the data in one location will be great. Thank you. >> I wonder if I could just make a quick comment.
067Years ago when I was still a programmer, [snorts] I hardly even remember those days. Um, I worked with a company that was a startup doing a very early AI project and they were tasked with um helping banks determine what home loans to fund and they couldn't redline. They couldn't say, "Well, you know, you live in this neighborhood or this race or whatever." They had to do it on some objective criteria. And and it was so interesting to me and this to me is what AI really is all about more than sort of what we hear about it today. This predictive uh capability where maybe it was like your middle name had five letters in it or you uh were under six feet tall or something like that. it it had all this data about you
068and it figured out based on things that one might not suspect were actual predictors of you paying off your loan or not. So I really appreciate what Dr. Pritchard talks about that that the predictive ability is awfully awfully important and we don't always think of this in in AIs but how I mean that was my first exposure to an AI many many moons ago and I think it is really much more important than finding out like how to a bathtub or something. >> I think you're right and the predictive analytics on it will be able to benefit all of our all of our districts. I love it. Thank you. Okay, Miss Swinky, do we have any speaker cards on this item? >> There are none. >> Thank you. Hey, trustees. Any other discussion? Okay. And
069this is information. This is information item only. Okay. We'll go on to 12B. >> 12 C. Just kidding. May I have a motion to approve board policy 9270 conflict of interest on the first reading and return for a second reading on consent? >> So moved by trustee Jones seconded by Chris Trusty Costiana. I'd like to recognize Dr. Chris Brown, superintendent to present the item. >> Thank you trustees. Uh this is a new action item. Board policy 9270 conflict of interest was first adopted in 2004 later re uh updated in 2016. Um, and there's been a a significant change in the law that requires changes to this. Uh, and specifically how you approve it through resolution. Um, and so based on that, we're we're bringing this policy this year. It will now be approved every two
070years. Um, and it has to be approved not only with policy, but also through resolution. So you'll see we have a resolution uh later that goes with this policy for conflict of interest. Um, and rather than showing one with track changes due to the the legal complexity of the wording that has to be required in a policy like this, we're proposing the deletion and then the recreation of the policy. So the artifacts um show the original policy has a deletion. And the reason the new one is all green is because a lot of the language comes across but it comes across in a in a streamlined form as opposed to uh making a giant document of of red lines and and whatnot. So, uh, staff recommends, uh, approval with a return for a second reading.
071>> Do we have any speaker cards on this item? >> Yes, we have one speaker. >> Thank you, Mr. Samuel Penrod. >> Good evening, board. My comment tonight begins with a basic question. What benchmarks did the board use when drafting the revised conflict of interest policy? Despite tonight's resolution suggesting that the current code needs no substantial change, the revised policy still contains serious gaps. First, the new there's a new requirement that trustees or staff obtain permission before seeking independent legal or ethics advice. Introduce and it introduces gatekeeping. It undermines transparency and may discourage trustees or staff from asking compliance questions at all. Instead of strengthening ethical safeguards, it signals to the public that this board may be erecting barriers to transparency rather than removing them. For comparison, LA Unified explic explicitly provides staff and board
072members with direct access to ethics to their ethics office. No permission required. Corona norco unified comparable to here imposes no such restrictions. Second, the revised policy introduces v the vague phrase other personal interests. This term has no definition in FPPC regulations uh government code paragraph 1090 or the political reform act. Without objective standards, it cannot be enforced fairly and it creates ambiguity where ethical policy requires clarity. Third, the revised policy includes no reporting, no enforcement pathway for potential violations. Districts such as LA Unified clearly outline how concerns are reported, logged, reviewed, and resolved. CUSD leaves all of that undefined in this policy. And finally, let's be honest here with one another. Across California, partisan groups aligned with culture war, anti-public education, and school choice movements have been strategically targeting school boards. Their goals are clear.
073So, public distrust, push culture war agendas, and ultimately redirect public resources into private or religious charter school networks. When trustees accept campaign contributions from organizations that standard profit, that's not a hypothetical conflict. That is a textbook one. So my ask tonight is straightforward. Address these gaps in the policy. Our community deserves a policy that strengthens public trust and ensures decisions are made transparently, fairly, and in the public interest. Thank you. Okay. Trustee discussion. Okay. All those in favor say I. >> Oh. Oh, this is a roll call item. Thank you. >> Trusty Costianos. >> Hi. >> Trusty Pritchard. >> Hi. >> Trusty Zinger is absent. Trustes Adams is absent. Trusty Jones. >> I, >> Trusty Bullus. >> I, >> Trusty Davis, >> I. >> Okay. Motion passes 502. And we'll move on to 12D. We
074have a motion to adopt resolution number 2526-13 adopting a conflict of interest code. moved by >> Trusty Costiano, seconded by Trusty Bulakus. And I'd like to recognize Dr. Chris Brown, superintendent, to introduce the item. >> This is the follow on to the item we just considered. Uh based on government code 873000-87313, every public agency, including school boards, um are required to adopt a conflict of interest code and are required to do so via a resolution. So um the code will come back, the policy will come back along with the associated AR as needed for a second read, but this is the resolution that has to go with it to comply with law. >> Okay, Mrs. Manky, do we have any speaker cards? >> There are none. >> Okay, discussion. >> I would just like to
075say the the speaker just left. Um, this speaker to best my knowledge did not um, email any board members. Um, and I would have liked an opportunity to perhaps talk to him on the phone or, you know, anyone who had an issue with this. And it is uh discouraging to me sometimes when people come and make comments in uh public session which we're not really able to respond to and we're not able to really do much on a practical uh basis here on the dis at the last minute. But I I read all my emails. I think everybody on the board reads all their emails and I think a lot of us respond to emails and engage with um the public when they uh bring items to our attention and and I would have liked
076to have had this brought to my attention and uh I just I'm just sorry that that doesn't happen and I I do hope that people will do that. Uh you're this is not your only opportunity to talk to the board. really the best opportunity is an email and and anybody who is here or is listening, I hope that in the future if you have an issue you'd like to to bring to our attention, you will email us. Thank you. >> Well, also since we voted in the affirmative, if we take the speaker's queue and we review some of those comments, we can always pull it. So, if you voted uh not in the affirmative, then you'd be in the minority and wouldn't be able to. So, this puts it on the next calendar item. So
077if there is some concern and then you can look at the ARS and see how the regulate have more informed opinion. But I I don't disagree but I I don't think this vote is uh is against that speaker. It's just simply >> No, I agree. I agree. Uh and and you make a good point. It's just that I I find this often that um that member of the public seem to believe that the only bite of the apple is speaking in a board u meeting and frankly I think that's not your best bite of the apple at all. Um, and uh, I mean, anybody who has ever emailed me and gave me their phone number got a surprise because I called them up um, in most instances and we talk about stuff. Um, and I
078think many other board members uh, call people uh, uh, that that write to us. So, I just wish that the public would do that. But, but yes, I I appreciate your comment, Dr. >> Mrs. Mr. Winky, do you have any speaker cards for this item? >> There are none. >> Thank you. Can you please call the role? >> Trusty Costanos. >> I. >> Trusty Prard. >> I. >> Trusty Zinger is out. Trustee Adams is out. Trusty Jones >> I. >> Trusty Bullus >> I. >> Trusty Davis >> I. Motion carries 502. >> Okay. And we are moving on to we'll be moving on to the consent calendar. M. Swinky, do you have any speaker cards for these items? >> We have none. >> Thank you. Okay, trustees. Do we have any trustees that have uh
079would like to pull any consent items? >> Okay, we have a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> Moved by Trusty Jones, seconded by Trusty Bulockus. Mr. Swin, can you please call the role? >> Trusty Castianos. >> I. >> Trusty Pritchard >> I. >> Trustee Zer is out. Trusty items without trusty Jones >> I. >> Trusty Bulicus. >> I. >> Trusty Davis. >> I. Motion carries 502 to pre approve the consent calendar. >> And with that, may I have a motion to adjourn? Oh, yes. May I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> Before doing so, I just wanted to st thank the staff for their hard work on all of these board policies. I I I mean truly I was impressed with the work the staff did and we got through a lot
080of these well we got through all of them on uh the last workshop which was also a major lift by the staff but I I really wanted to thank the staff for what they did here on but am I making a motion to adjurnn? I will do that. >> Okay. >> Jones and second by second trusty bulkus. And before we close, I'd like to just um let you know we'd like to close this meeting in honor of the student that's passed away from Niguel Hills Middle School. Thank you. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries 502 to adjourn the meeting. The time is now 7:17 p.m. Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving.