001Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Uh we will reconvene back into open session. Um which has us in moving to flag salute. And we are fortunate this evening to have one of our students Ree. You want to come around? Got a microphone plugged in and ready for you to go. Come on over. >> There you go. It'll capture your voice just by standing. >> Okay. >> Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [laughter] Ree. >> Yeah, >> thank you Ree. Appreciate that. We'll move on then to roll call at this time. Um, Miss White Spibo, Miss Hunter, Mr. Flity, and our superintendent, Mr. Shoemaker here. Wonderful. Thank you very much. If
002I could please get a motion to adopt adopt our agenda for this evening. that we adopt the agenda as presented. >> Thank you very much. Is there a second? >> Made in second. All in favor? I oppose. Great. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Um to report out from closed session this evening. The RUD board of trustees did meet in close session and voted in the affirmative on a stipulated expulsion revisiting the duration and condition to accept and adopt that recommended stipulation expulsion for student 25-26A. This has us then moving on to >> I just want to clarify that we're going to be revisiting it on December at our December 9th close session and making >> Thank you very much. We're going to capture that in our minutes as well. >> That then has us
003moving on to our superintendent report. >> All right, we'll move into something much more positive. So, it's been see feels like it's been a while since we've been together and um so I'm excited to share uh the superintendent report with you uh this evening. As you know, these are tied to our these are tied to our our board focus goals. I've got I usually try to have just one picture, but there's just so much good stuff to share. I will go quickly because I know we've got folks in the audience that are going to be presenting and we're excited about that this evening as well. But man, what a fall we had with our uh sports teams. You can read down there. It felt like every time I turned around, we're getting a banner for
004something. This doesn't even include the numerous uh schools like our Pleasant Grove volleyball team um took second, third. That doesn't these are just the first place or the league championships. And then there was so many individual medals especially at our elementary school sites at our cross country. Super fun to see our kids um doing that. And I I should have noted for those of you that are online uh our apologies for getting this meeting started late. We did have a lengthy uh close session. So thanks for uh sticking around with us. Um, so again, super fun. This student support piece, this was a class at Marina Village Middle School. They had a little lesson in civics. Supervisor Fero came down and presented to the class. I got to talk to a couple kids. Um, you
005know, Greg's a great guy and did a really good job of presenting to the class. This is in Julie Sam's class, I want to say. And on the right hand side, uh, you know, we have I'm married to a kindergarten teacher. The 100th day of kindergarten is like the that's like the big day. Well, at the our TK team has done a great job over the last few years of making the 50th day a really big day at TK and um this is uh Miss Rubau and her aid and they they do a great job of dressing as the 50s and the kids show up with their hair sllicked back and it's super cute. I just love how our staff just try to find mo so many different moments to say like day 50, day
006100, I could we could just could be any other day if we wanted it to be. And they really take they really pause and say, "How do we make how do we continue to do some really special things and I've really appreciated our TK team for doing this?" This is Ed Jackson. Um, as you know, we had our u massive professional development day. Dustin, uh, Haley and Jen did a just a, um, herculan job of planning this. We partnered with Bayside Church. They let us use their beautiful facility. It was free, amazing sound system, amazing technology. They had our, you could see the tables there decorated um, with a fall festive theme, tablecloths. We had a catered lunch. It was just a really good day and it grounded us in just, you know, that adults
007can learn as well. And that learning doesn't the most important part of this is that learning doesn't just stop on this day. So you can see um up there in the upper right that's a team of teachers there from Lake View that was working on the day. And then this picture down below is that was taken today. So this professional development day was in October. We're now late into November and we sent a we had a team that went down um Justin was that what that NUMAS thank you uh went down there today to tour there. They are a uh UDL visitation school and went down and uh met with staff, met with the principal. I got Dustin and I crossed paths earlier today for maybe 10 minutes and were able to get caught up,
008but he said it was a a great experience. We had um every single school sent someone. The only two that weren't able to attend were not there because of uh illness or surgery related. So really cool that our our leaders lean into this. And we have um several of our teams that are going to be taking that want to take teachers back down to um just look at what UDL looks like in the classroom. We're doing a lot of what they're doing. A lot of GLAD training they've had and we've had a lot some extensive glad training here in the district. But I just appreciate the fact that our professional development wasn't just a oh let's just do this on this one day and then we're going to walk away from it. It is embedded
009in our Wednesdays um that our professional development for the year and our leaders have uh leaned into that as well. Um I'm really excited about this on the lefth hand side that's uh Sydney Warner and her son Marvel. Thank you. Um uh this is with the Cameron Park Rotary. This is an organization that we've just not we just keep crossing paths. We just don't connect like like the Elorado Hills Rotary. I'm all in there. And the this one, like I said, we just keep missing paths. So the gentleman in the back reason I wasn't remember Marshall's name is is Adam Marshall is the um president of Cameron Park Rotary. And so um actually got to invite him and he our our Rotary invited him. He came down and met with the Elorado Hills Rotary the
010other day, but it was nice that they've reached out. We're going to be a we're going to be able to do this uh four times a year with them. They have a nice over at the CSD and they're right now it's just we're just doing a middle school student of the quarter, student of the year, whatever we want to call it, they're fine with. Um but nice that that we're extending that community into the not only the Cameron Park CSD, which at least and I just had a meeting with them two weeks ago. Um, and now we're partnering with the Cameron Park um, Rotary which is really nice. And then on the right hand side there is our our next community night is going to be uh, coming up. It's going to be at Lake
011Forest. These are being organized by Jen in partnership with Aspire Bayside Church and the Flity Impact Foundation. These are really great evenings. If you haven't been to one, uh, this one's, like I said, it's going to be six o'clock uh, on Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. And if you just want to pop by and see what it looks like, uh, Bayside Church shows up with a ton of really great food. They've partnered with, um, Whole is it Whole Foods, the Nugget, uh, here in town, and um, uh, they go by there, I want to say, three times a week and get very fresh pre-cooked meals, pre-made meals. Um, it's really well done. the Flity Impact Foundation. His family has helped with a lot of the games and the setup that goes on there and then
012Aspire um provides the food for the evening and we've uh we've had activities that have been there each night. We're not we've not been using the time to have like a lecture or a presentation necessarily. That may come at a later date, but right now it's just about getting people synced in um with uh the supports that we have. And then on the left hand side, this unfortunately has been cancelled because apparently the FBI has um operational operational what was it operational needs and said they've got to cancel this event on Wednesday night. So it's been postponed. So um we asked what the operational like hey would you tell us what's what is that? [laughter] But they weren't able to divulge that. So that I but I wanted to highlight that on there in that
013I really appreciate uh Levi and Marina. What a partnership to be able to say come to this event and then just walk right across the parking lot and come to to an FBI event. We we'll feed you. We got daycare and all that stuff. But uh like I said, the cyber event has been moved. Uh our fiscal accountability. I wanted to share this piece. This is not a direct tie, but I really want to show pictures of our bands. This felt like a really decent tie. both of these um performances that occurred at Marina Village in Pleasant Grove Middle School at at each event both of those um conductors uh Mr. Kane and and Mr. Manley stopped and acknowledging the administrative support that goes on at their school site but acknowledging just the leadership support
014that goes on here at the district level. and they both talked about Proposition 28, which voters approved. We um did I think did a really good job of working with each site to like how do we where do we want to spend this money? And the number of additional classes that are being offered at each of these schools as a result of our Proposition 28 money is these band performances are incredible. And the the musicians that were producing are only getting better because there was there was kids that are taking 7 a.m. jazz band and now then they're in the concert band. They're working with Oakidge High School and the marching band already. They go over there and participate. So, I'm I'm really happy with the way we've utilized our Prop 28 monies, especially at
015our at our middle schools because it is extremely uh I've been to a lot of middle school musical performances in my life and these are really nice to go to. They're so good. Um C uh our facilities management, we are off and running and drilling um at Lake View. This has been an incredibly difficult site to get this project going. There's a lot of underground um items there that aren't that are surprises. In fact, that picture right there was taken about 5 minutes before it hit a sewer line that uh we're in we're in discussions about whose fault that is right now. Um, so, um, but we are we are off and running and, uh, we still have a really good relationship with our contractor, but, uh, it's a reminder to me like once these
016projects start, there's we're constantly Lisa's I don't know how many emails and meetings Lisa has is attending to just keep this project online and Jeremiah and and then you have situations like this where it just like you just get started and it stalls out. And um so um I think we're doing a really fine job. It's but right where that picture right there will probably be looking like that [laughter] for a week or so until we figure out until we I think we're scoping the uh the sewer line to Is it tomorrow? Oh, you did. Okay, good. I I don't want Oh, okay. Um so we'll get that repaired and we'll be moving we'll be back up and running. I think that might be the last Oh, no. Uh there's something to make you smile.
017You know, we con we just came off Constitution Day in September where where our sites did a great job. Our Veterans Day. It's it's amazing. It's really too bad that everyone does it on the same day practically that we don't get to everything. So, um I've got two pictures here um that I wanted and and Jamie was at the lake uh forest one with me. So, I'll do that the big picture there on the bottom right. They do a really nice job of having you can see a couple gentlemen there and that are standing up. They call out each branch and they have them stand up. There's a round of applause. At the there's singing. There's some speeches and then at the end all of them are invited up. I want to say there's probably
01835 Jamie. Yeah. 35 40 guys and women. There's I think there's three women there this year. Um and they go they have the microphone and they say their their name, their branch, and who their grandchild is or who their child is in the audience. It's really a special day. And if you don't, you leave that just feeling inspired by like we're doing really good by our kids because they just do a great job of honoring our veterans. And then on the uh upper um left was a photo op that occurred that veterans could take a picture with their family. I just happened to sneak a picture of this uh gentleman and his family. And then on the lower left, a really cool event that goes on at Green Valley. And I'm only speaking to those
019two because those are the two that I was able to get to. Uh, Green Valley does for the second I think it's their second year in a row, they do a veterans breakfast and so the librarian and and Michelle make the food, bring it in. We have kids that are there that serve uh tablecloths in the library. I had an opportunity to go to each table and talk with every single veteran about what their experience was like. They felt so appreciated and honored. As you know, my I've shared with my dad's a disabled vet, so this day means quite a bit to me. And I just love that our families um and our kids lean into this. Our custodian if you saw the um Monday memo, our custodian even sang at the Green Valley event
020and did a Mike did just did a great job. So some really really neat things and I wish I could show you everyone's pictures but these are the ones I was at. I'll leave it there. >> Awesome. Mr. Shimik, I was just curious. I know that Constitution Day is is titled Constitution Day, but I didn't know if it was worthy of exploring maybe Constitution Week and allowing our schools to choose one of the five days in the >> to give people the opportunity to get around to see more of the things going on campus. >> Yeah, I don't know. >> That's not They did We did do that this year with the um Veterans Day because it we're off on Veterans Day, but most of them chose the Friday Yeah. before. Um, I think a
021rescue did theirs on a Thursday and I was I was out so I was able to see the laundry. >> Great. >> Not a bad idea. Thank you. >> I just wanted to say one thing. I think because I'm always at the lake for them, so I'm always I'm going to put a mom hat on here. But I think it's worth giving a beautiful Thank you. And shout out to retired Mr. Tob. >> Oh yes. >> Always comes and plays taps. And I just so happened to be sitting next to a veteran that saw him walking up and turned to me and goes, "That's not he's not gonna play what I think he's going to play, is he?" And I said, "Yes." And so, thank you to him for being there. And also, thank you
022to making that such a true meaningful moment because it really is for all of our veterans. >> Okay, great. That is then moving on to the next item on our agenda this evening, which is celebrating excellence. and we have uh Marina Village Middle School and our principal, Mr. Cambridge, here today. >> Thanks for joining us. >> Thank you so much. Um I really appreciate the opportunity to be here. I think Jim did a great job with my presentation. You're going to see a number of things that are very very similar which will be great. >> We're excited about that. >> My apologies. We've got a cornucopia of pictures that we're going to add in and give you a big more much bigger smattering of things that we're we're going to talk about. >> Great gracious.
023Thank you. >> We're we're excited about that. >> So, um we'll just start with our first slide here. Um our we have a superhero theme this year and so heroes heroes work here. That's that's what I see every day when I when I work with my my staff. It's amazing to see the amount of care and compassion and effort they put into everything that they do. So, um here we go. We'll go forward to the next slide. Oh, I get the clicker. Very good. All right. There we go. All right. So, we'll start with some start of the year activities. Um, this was our our some of our yard supervisors and office staff at uh at Halloween of all things. I don't know why they wanted to do Santa, but they did. So, that's where
024it's never too early. That's right. Um, again, athletics. We had some great uh initial athletic uh season uh seasons going on with our cross country and our volleyball. Um, we already spoke to about that. Uh, and again, just so so uh grateful and privileged to of the way that our students carry and represent our district and represent um our school. Uh we've always we always talk about wanting to go out and have now we're okay with beating everybody. That's fine. But we want them to be glad they played us because of how we carry ourselves and how what the kind of sports sportsmanship and and and um and gamesmanship we we have for for those competitions. So um I just I'm so thrilled. They've done a great job so far. Um assemblies and rallies, just
025a number of different things. Uh you can see we had uh kind of adjacent corners uh left and bottom right. That was our bright fest, our first dance on the top right. Um we had a rally here in the in the center. Bottom left we had a presentation by Mr. Brown. He came up and and spoke to the kids this year. Um center bottom we had uh a presentation on substance abuse. uh and and and so just different things a variety of things were getting the students together and and either presenting messages or um helping them enjoy uh their time together. Constitution Day which was fantastic. Again, uh Mr. Shoemake came and and and spoke which was fabulous. We had a a great experience. Um one of the first that we've done kind of at
026this scale and kind of a precursor to something we're planning for next year already. So, we're excited about about Constitution Day. We had a pretty uh pretty good um uh group come and participate with that. But just amazing messages. As a matter of fact, I I didn't tell you this, but I took the camera footage from one of our cameras and I've got pretty good footage of the presentation. So, we'll have to share it with you sometime. Is pretty awesome. But really uh just exciting day and and just a great way to um celebrate the birth of our nation. And I'll turn it over to Mrs. Lelesinger here. Okay. So, we wanted to just kind of celebrate and recognize staff. Um the bottom corner there is our PTC wanted to um give to the staff
027and so they were asking if we wanted an appliance or a refrigerator or something and um they decided to do a coffee bar. So, once a month somebody from PC PTC comes and puts like K cups and snacks and stuff. So, that's pretty fun for them. That's the first time we've ever done that. Um in the middle that's um Haria Diaz um on the left. She's our um lead custodian and then there's Lisa and Shawn Manley and they were celebrating um at the Sacramento Republic game. They just asked for um staff that we wanted to celebrate. So that was our custodian. Um the last picture up there in the corner is the um staff development day in October and we celebrated staff well the whole district did by giving um the pins for years of
028service. So we just want to talk about that. Um this was celebrating students and um their classwork and service. So same picture [laughter] that was um >> yeah [laughter] >> like there's a lot of duplicates in here. So that's good. >> No, great minds think alike there. So that was honor society teacher. He's correct. Julie Samri um invited district supervisor Greg Ferraro and he spoke to them. Below that is um Hot Wheel physics. So our eighth graders um in science were looking at speed velocity and they had to keep the the Hot Wheel car on the track. [laughter] It's probably the hardest part because they got really creative. Um in the middle that is honor society voluntary at Lake Forest and all the way on the right there that was um bucket drumming. Really fun.
029So Mr. Kane that was a regular regular band um all day instead of playing their instruments they drumed on buckets and it sounded like this huge drum line like all day they played outside right there and it was really cool. That was really fun. Um next slide you see it. Okay, just some that data that we're um we're proud of and some information for you. Uh right now we're at 753 students uh which is excellent. U 37 teachers, counselor, psychologists, classified staff. Um this is something that we report on every week in our newsletter. By the by the end of last year, we had answered 1.8 million math questions on we read 420 million words over 420 million words as reported through our AR quizzes. So, it's something we just kind of keep tallies of
030and just kind of keep track of just to not only to encourage the students, but also to mark our progress in these areas. The other thing we're really proud of is at the bottom there, you can see our positive messaging. So, one of the things that um we talked about a couple of years ago, and I think we've mentioned this before, but oftentimes we get a lot of we send a lot of messages that are negative when students are having some difficulties and we need some parent support. So, we decided, you know, we really need to emphasize sending positive messages home. So last year we averaged 76 positive messages a week for 3,100 messages home which is more than double what the negative messages were. So that's what we're excited about. We love the fact
031and we're still tracking that every staff meeting. We we have a little competition between grade levels who's done how many. We track to make sure that um as best we can every student has gotten a positive message. So, we're tracking it by student and by grade level just to make sure that um parents know that, hey, we're we're seeing your student and we're seeing the positive work that they're doing. So, we love the positive messaging piece. Um from an academic performance perspective, um you can see the cast I'll go to accelerated reader in a minute, but the cast scores on the bottom pretty pretty static right now actually. So, we we grew a little bit in math, 1 point uh 1.7% and we're down just a percentage in English. Science was pretty um 8% up
032from the previous year. And that 66 I think I'm going to need a new battery because I'm hearing it. That 66% um is I think about 40 more than 40 points above the state average right now. um which is really really great. We're seeing some really um positive work from our science teachers. It's not it's just hitting the dashboard this year. We're not getting detailed work and we're not getting breakouts really, but we're seeing very positive um information. Sorry to take your presentation, Dustin, which is what's coming up later. So, it goes around comes around, I guess. [laughter] That's right. >> We might be out here by 7:20. Thank you. >> Right. [laughter] Um, one of the things we really love too um is what what's going on with our reading in um school right
033now. I this was updated I updated this today which is one of the reasons why I sent you a new presentation. But so for the our November accelerated reader star test 83% of our students are at or above benchmark 13% on watch 3% um need intervention and 1% um on in the urgent intervention range. Um, all of the urgent intervention and intervention students, that represents 28 students. Of all of those students, all of them are receiving some kind of service right now to help support this need. Um, and there are about five that are not, but they're all getting A's and B's in their English classes right now. So, they're accessing. So, we're what I love about this is not only are we able to not only are they performing well, but we were able
034to identify and support those kids that really need the help. Um, and that's in in great response to what the teachers are doing and the focus they have on their kids to what we've been the support we've received from Jen Lawson and our tier 2 team. All of that feeds into our ability to support students and and just like Jim said, we are so grateful for the work that the board has been able to do to allow us to do this great work because if it weren't for you, we wouldn't be able to do it. So, we're thankful and we're grateful. So, we and I know the students are as well. Okay. after school programs. This is um Attack of the Gnomes, I think, from that concert. >> Okay. So, um this Yeah, Attack of
035the Gnomes. So, this is prop 28 like we were talking about um what we spent our money on. [laughter] Choir, theater, uh jazz band, which is before school, and then art and 3D design. So, for choir, there's some pictures. Um our choir is led by Gina Fellows. Um earlier in the year they performed um music from Hamilton and they will perform three more times. This is our theater club. It's run by um Ashley Oliver, sixth grade teacher at Marina. Um they're kind of doing little one act shows right now for the fall, but she wants to put on a larger production in the spring because this is brand new. >> These pictures aren't really I should say they're not really indicative of what we were getting. We've got over 40 kids in the program right
036now. These are just the ones I got from her. So, a lot of kids are accessing which I I love. >> Yeah, they did a performance on that band um stage outside and we don't have a picture of that, but yeah, there were a bunch of them out there. Um this is extended jazz band, Mr. Kane before school and after. And um this is art and 3D art um with Mrs. Lubik and part of the money is going towards a kiln which is going to be brand new for us. So, we had maintenance and the company come and figure out where to put our kiln. Um, so we're in the process of getting that, which will help with 3D art. >> And we'll introduce we'll introduce um our our ASB student body vice president, Reese
037Lingham, and she's going to talk a little bit about where we are from a student perspective. >> Okay. Um so we've done a ton of stuff this year in ASB. We've had two meetings. Um at our meetings we've we have a lot of positive feedback coming back from students and we have a lot of areas where we where our students want to help our campus. We had students bring up recycling um and campus cleanup which are two things that we are really trying to work on. Um we also had lunch area seating and bike racks brought up and so we bringing all that stuff up. Um, for the leadership part of ASB or for the leadership part, um, we had our back to school party, which was kind of like our dance. We had our
038haunted house. We've had two rallies. Um, we've had a spirit week. Yes. Um, and then for Halloween, we did door decorating. We did candy that was all donated by parents. So, we did little candy bags for everybody. Um, we had our Halloween parade. And then we had or our toy drive just started. And then upcoming we have our winter dance which is in a couple weeks. We have holiday grams that are going for sale and just more fundraising. >> Okay. And we'll leave you with a a quote from our we always do a superhero quote every week. So our quote for the week, you are much stronger than you think you are. Trust me. That's from Superman. So, thank you so much, Ree, for your presentation as well. Questions we can answer. >> I actually
039have one. Can you um go back to the CASP testing scores? >> Sure. >> Mhm. >> Perfect. >> Oh, sorry. >> That's okay. >> Um Mr. Mr. Cambridge, can you help um or maybe shed some light on the percentage changes and maybe just a reflection on the the why behind them, the increases or decreases in your opinion? >> Okay. Um so the CASP test scores, so the percentage changes are year-over-year. These percentage changes are year-over-year and not in cohorts. These are um 8th grade to 8th grade. Sometimes we'll see bubbles of kids who are stronger performing in a year come through or we'll see things that are um anomalous that that maybe kind of throw numbers around. um for our for our math. What I think that particular eighth grade group uh that came through
040last year just had a they were a little bit weaker in math, but our seventh grade group was really strong and our sixth grade group was very strong, right? >> Um coming in and that contributed to I think to an improvement in math. Um, what's interesting about English is what we we we keep seeing an eighth grade falloff, I think, in our numbers. And you'll see that when we go to our um we go to our site uh presentation, our site plan. Um, and we've been wrapping our brains around this trying to figure out is it is it apathy? They they they just test it out. They've been testing for six years now and they're like, "All right, we don't care. We're done." I don't know. I'm not sure what is because we see really
041strong scores for these groups come in and then sometimes even with excellent teaching we're seeing some things fall off and we've looked at some individual examples where we're seeing kids who simply just are phoning it in. Right? We we've seen kids on the cast scores and we'll get flagged once in a while where all they've written is rap lyrics, you know, in their responses. We're like, "Okay, well that's not really going to demonstrate your knowledge." Um, but I will say one of the things that um, we saw that was super impressive was in our seventh grade in our writing scores specifically. Our seventh graders, I think we had close to 50% of our students um, exceeded standard, not just met, but exceeded. And then another like 25% met standard. They had a huge jump. They're
042up over 80% of students um meeting or exceeding standard uh in seventh grade. And it's particularly because our seventh grade teachers right now are focusing so heavily on the writing piece and really making sure students can um do the claim, evidence, reasoning part is what they call it. And they're really diving into that deeply. And they've I've actually they've actually built some um amazing uh amazing graphic organizers and structures to help students learn that to the point where I've said you've got to market this, show this somewhere because it's it's so good and we're seeing such great support and and success from our kids in their writing. Um so as far as that goes, our our the the numbers have been kind of interesting back and forth. the science numbers. Um, I just think we
043have uh we're doing just a bangup job on on all of the science pieces. Uh, we have some really dedicated teachers who are working so diligently to leverage all kinds of of not only um not only uh the curriculum, but also they're using AI to help generate content to help support student understanding. Lots of hands-on. The tricky part about science and what makes this score to me so amazing is that it's all three years. So the kids haven't had physical science in three years. They haven't had, you know, biological science in a year, two years, and they're just finishing their physical um science class. So the fact that they're doing as well as they are, and you can see it in the scores, right? They're they're strongest in the year that they're in, and then
044it they decline a little bit on the other two um depending upon how long it's been. But they're doing a great job. And I think um it's a testament to them on how much uh focus that they're putting into the kids, not only um not only with the hands-on piece, but they have a lot of writing in there, too. So, it lends itself, I think, well, to the performance on the cast test. Now, this is one measure, right? So, uh, is a it is a moment in time, which so something like the rap lyrics, you're kind of like, okay, well, it doesn't quite fit, you know, but, um, so we look at a lot of different things, but I think we're pretty we're doing pretty well. I'd like to see some, um, some improvement in
045these areas because we're not really back to precoid scores yet. And that is something we think about and talk about a lot. what is it that we need to do kind of get past this this hiccup that we've had but it's now six years of it right how do we how do we improve so those are things that we're considering >> great thank you for sharing that I know there's the unique bubbles that come through >> um you know K through 12 over over our time as in education I just didn't know if there was any new adoptions or new uh curricular patterns or anything that we were doing that we were seeing direct correlation to those changes or not >> oh good questions Um I I will be very interested as we go through
046the adoption process over the next year to see how we can help improve and hopefully as we um adopt a new math curriculum here in the next year, year and a half that we'll we'll see some bumps in that area. So >> thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> The solar situation going on, I know that really affects a thing. >> It's a thing. Um, you guys and your staff do such an amazing job in the morning times directing traffic. I have strong opinions on hugandgo situations and you guys are crushing it. >> Thank you. >> Huge compliments doing your staff pass though. >> Thank you. I will. I will. It's It's been quite a bit of work and a lot of thought has gone into it and and I
047think it's probably as smooth as we could possibly have made it. So, thank you. Appreciate that. >> Thank you very much. And I Jamie, I just want to thank you for noticing that because I how many times have we made out there with Lisa the the transportation Jeremiah to talk about what about this? What about I mean we've talked about even pick it up in Waterford on the back side of Lake of Lake Forest. Uh there was a lot of iterations that went and um Levi just requested, hey, can we get another staff member to help? you know, the the drop down bars, just very creative way to process what is a can be a tenuous situation. And I I'll share Levi and I had a one-on-one the other day and you've receive only had
048one well maybe maybe you've only shared with me one. There's only one person that has reached out and been really nasty about it. It was just recently and they're not they don't even have a student in our district. They're just trying to get home and someone hadn't pulled over close enough to the side to let them around. So I I I was anticipating this room might have more people in it this month sharing their or at least receiving emails. So I'm >> the work you put in is has been impactful. So thank you. >> Thank you. I will say if that person is listening. I I did listen and we I made an adjustment this morning which has helped a little bit and it was raining that day and so there's a lot more drop
049off and pickup so the traffic was a little heavier but we did like make a little adjustment this morning that has helped. So we're we're excited about that. the continuous improvement >> and I clearly we talk about alignment a lot with >> aligning our objectives. Clearly we were aligned today on what to talk about. So I'm I'm I'm going to have to do a better job of looking at uh the presentations and try not to step on people's toes. Thank you so much. >> Thank you so much for having us tonight. >> Thank you. >> Really appreciate it. >> Yeah. I just want to add on as a as a another Marina father drop off. You guys are out there. everyone can see you and it's really been seamless. I mean, I don't notice the
050traffic being that much worse >> than it was before. And, you know, I see all the teachers working hard to kind of huddle and parking's different, but >> you know, kudos to really nailing that because I'm sure there's a lot of work. >> Thank you. >> Behind the scenes. >> Thank you. And you're one of our favorite dropout parents and I know your kids think it's the best. >> I haven't been able to honk at you. >> I know. I know. It's been a little while. [laughter] >> My kids get so embarrassed. >> It's I love it. I always like >> [laughter] >> and Reese, great job. This is the second year you've done this, right? >> Yeah. Excellent. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thanks for being here. >> Thank you. >> Okay. This has
051moving on to public comment and for items not on tonight's agenda. For items not placed on the agenda for the purpose of providing members and our public and bargaining representatives the opportunity to address the board on any items of business that does not appear on the formal agenda, um we'll give them the opportunity to speak. two minutes on the uh screen, but under the Brown Act, the trustees are not allowed to comment on items not on the agenda. But for items that are on the agenda, I'll identify for our community the best time to speak to those if we have anyone in the chamber to speak to that. But at this point, it does appear that the only thing that's here is a podium. So um this has us moving on to agenda item number
052two which um has to do with rough negotiations and assistant superintendent Mr. Haley you have podium. >> Well good evening. Um uh as the board knows uh annually when we engage in our u bargaining cycles we will bring to the board um a proposal or a sunshine items in which ru has provided what topics they have interested in for negotiations and um every two of three years each side that means rough that means the district can select two articles to open in which to discuss those interests and then uh the third article compensation is always open and so um for this site cycle. Ruft has elected to open article 10 class size article 11 duty hours and then compensations there. Uh the district intends to negotiate with interest in article 11 as well on duty
053hours. Article 29 on staff development days and professional development and then of course compensation as part of that as well. So part of the process here tonight is is to share that information with the board and then the board would have the opportunity as a requirement to set a date for public comment uh for anybody to comment on these items for opening and typically the next board meeting which would be December 9th would be the time to offer that hearing for anybody that would wish to speak. So at this time we just recommend that the board um set that date to receive comments at the next board meeting. >> Thank you very much for that. There is no [clears throat] public comment from our chamber this evening. I'll open up to discussion for our trustees.
054Seeing no discussion, I'll just need a motion then for action on this. >> The item on the December 9th, 2025 regular board meeting agenda. >> Thank you. Is there a second made and seconded by Miss White? Um all those in favor? >> I oppose. Well, thank you very much. Um sticking with the theme of Mr. Haley, this has us moving to agenda item number three, CAST update. And this is just a information. >> All right. Well, um I'm grateful that Mr. Cambridge and Miss Leinger talked a little bit about their CASP scores and it gave me as you were asking u Michael your questions about are there any indicators as to far as uh what is I I'm excited to speak to some of that. So, um just in in this is our annual opportunity
055to talk about our district's performance on um the annual California assessment for student performance and progress. And so, um see here try to click through these slides here. There we go. So, this is an opportunity to speak to our student achievement levels in language arts and math, to speak uh overall talk about those results at a glance, to give the overall district results in those areas, and then to speak to our student groups. And I I want to lead off and start by um really congratulating our students and teachers. They work very very hard uh to prepare our students for this. Um our students uh largely work very very hard when they do take that assessment. I know Mr. Cambridge alluded to uh as the kids get older just some of the challenges there. I
056have a high schooler so I know what he's talking about when they take it in the 11th grade but um there really definitely is some good there are some good things that are happening and as Jim always says there is still some work to do and some things we need to continue to focus on to improve and so we'll provide that data and then provide some analysis and some next steps for the board on what we're doing with this information. So to start off, um I know that that um the board is aware of this, but it's a great chance just as a reminder um the Smarter Balance assessment um they're aligned to those Common Core State Standards, those uh rigorous standards. They do challenge students to think more critically and it's not just wrote
057memorization. They have to really apply what they're learning. Um and then they have those in-depth performance tasks uh in language arts and math uh at the end that aren't just those computations, but they're given real life scenarios. they have to apply what they're learning. Uh, and it is it is a challenge for them because some of it is abstract thinking and they really need to dig into those real world real life experiences. Uh, and it does say at the end that um California school dashboard uh I will be presenting that information to the board in January once we we sift through and look at that. The board can actually go on as it was just released on November 13th and you're able to go in and to see how we're doing uh in there. There's
058some some uh information in there for the board as well. So, real quick, the the levels that we're looking at for student achievement, uh there are four standard exceed, uh standards met, standards nearly met, and standards not met. And um what's interesting is is that uh it seems like the pendulum swings every five or so years that they're going to be changing these levels next year and kind of reverting back to um that advanced proficiency uh nearly met and then not met model of just trying to focus on that. So, um, it's interesting because the the metrics that go into those four categories will remain the same. They've just changed the names. So, this is our overall list and how we performed in language, arts, and math. We did improve in both last year, and
059I know uh Levi talked about that we're not to those precoid levels, but we're inching our way. We're getting there. We're we're making uh some gains. And so you can see that we improved uh about uh a percent and a half um almost 2% in language arts and then a percent in mathematics. And so I do want to comment uh just because Michael talked about what were um were there any things that kind of related to that. And I'm proud to say that our teachers worked with me over the past year or two and this is going to go back to a previous presentation when we talked about our summer school program. And I know that the board really kind of leaned into our EXL program and to is that something everybody's utilizing? And I
060was sitting in my chair going everybody is utilizing that. And what that transfers in for our students is is that they take um and this is grades three through eight. So everybody that's assessed, they participate in what's called our diagnostic assessment. They do that once a trimester. And what that does is that that determines where they are at that time of year in terms of subject mastery. Uh what's great about those questions is they're very similar to the the questions they're asked on the Smarter Balance assessment. So there's that that that continuity there. But our um our teachers in grades 3, four, and five, when we went to standardsbased report cards, when we when we removed grades, we also identified assessments that the teachers helped create that will inform them on the marks that they
061give on the report cards. So currently we're in conference week uh at our schools and our our teachers are providing those report cards to parents but they're also in the areas of mathematics identifying these standards are based on these assessments that show where your student is today and then they will continue to take these assessments so that you'll continue to see their growth as they go. So I I love being able to talk about that because I know that that was something that really did show growth in our summer school program. In terms of language arts, we are continuing. We've we've always had high ELA um performance skills. Levi spoke to our writing that we're doing. And so, a lot of our teachers are really spending a lot of time on those performance tasks to
062really give students those skills and those abilities to read those real life situations. They have to read articles and they have to provide uh multiaragraph essays to demonstrate their knowledge and their ability to write, which I think is something to speak to the scores that have improved there. So this is overall from grades 3 through 8 and then overall grades at the end. And so the blue is the standard exceeds, green is standards met, the yellow is standards nearly met, and then the orange is standards not met. Our goal always, always, always is is to see the blue and that green really smash down to the bottom. We want to see that go as far as we can. We really want all students to meet those standards. You do see some bubbles that Mr. Cambridge
063did speak to. Seventh grade is one that really you can uh see really speaks to that we had a a large number. It was in fact our largest grade level in terms of standards exceeded and standards met. So there's definitely something with that cohort of students. And then um you can also just see as um for ELA just as we go that it does get to be more challenging for some of our students as they get older in terms of their um if they do struggle with their reading ability or their writing ability that sometimes does transfer as it gets uh as they get older. >> Um Dustin, do you know what the total population is of our seventh graders in our district? >> Total population? Um if if I was to um I would
064say it's probably uh in the the neighborhood of about 350 maybe close to 400. >> They considered a large size seventh grade um two campuses a smaller size average. >> It's about average. It's been consistent. We haven't added um you know additional sections of six or seventh grade at this point. So it's it's been pretty consistent. So our percentages there of um either exceeding or met is not tied to a smaller um sample size. >> No. And and I can actually share with the board the actual numbers and we could do a multi-year so you can see that um from a projection but we haven't added additional sections in seventh grade. So, it's been fairly consistent, you know, over year over years times. >> Dustin, you may have said this. When was this testing done?
065For instance, is this this school year, seventh grade or last year? >> This is last year. Oh, thank you for saying that. So, we give the the Smarter Balance assessment, we give it every spring and so this would be spring of 2025. We typically start the window will open in April and typically our schools will take or start taking the assessment at the end of April through May. It's about a two to three week process that they'll give those assessments. And the tests are they're made up of four basic tests. Um with well science is for for eighth grade only. So they take an additional assessment but everybody else takes they'll take a a computer adaptive version for uh language arts and for math. So that's two. And then each one of those has a
066performance written task as well. So here this is a comparison for ELA. But what this is is this is on the left you have the state of California and and their overall um scores. We have our county as a whole just with an amalgamation of all of the school districts. And then on the right is are our scores as a whole. That's all grades three through eight. Um I'm always really pleased that you know how we perform and we obviously um we want to compare ourselves against ourselves because it's important to see what we're what our gains are and what we're trying to do from an improvement. But it is always uh incredible just to see um how great our school district does. For mathematics, you can see similar from grades 3 through 8. Um
067I do know that as the rigor in math becomes more challenging, we do see students that do struggle as they do get older, you know, as far as that pathway goes. We actually this week had a um had a conversation um with our math teachers at the middle school regarding our math pathways. And if uh the board has seen uh it's been a number of years since we've actually talked about this as as a group, but we have on our website just a document that was developed I want to say some 11 12 years ago that shows students that can you know achieve an accelerated pathway or an advanced pathway and we've had really good conversation um making sure that students are placed appropriately and we have members in the community that really are kind
068of mapping backwards from calculus you know B C A B all the way back to try to make sure that their kids are really hitting those potentially college math classes. And now that we're utilizing Common Core State Standards the way that we have, that critical thinking component is beyond what um just having good wrote computation skills, like we'll have students that are really good at getting the answer, but then explaining the process or the why. If they do it paper pencil, they struggle. And so this here, that's one of the things that I really think is um challenging about this assessment with the performance task is is that they can go through on the computer adaptive piece and those students that are really good at that road computation skill can do that, but then they
069have to get to that real world, real life example and create it and write about it and explain it. And that's where I think our students really um that's something we're working on. That's something where I think that they need to improve because that is that real life skill, that application skill that you need in the real world when we talk about, you know, real world application. So again, this is the comparison between um uh the state of California, our own county, Elorado, and then our scores um as a district. And so um you can definitely see that um we're doing good things. Good things are happening. Um and like I said, we're not at those precoid scores yet, but we're moving in the right direction. Um towards the end of the presentation, uh it's
070not a part of of the presentation, but I'm going to talk a little bit about our current adoption that Levi referred to that we're in the process of as a district with new curriculum. >> By chance, um just because it's been so long, what we keep referencing the precoid numbers. I I I don't even recall what they were or are. Any chance maybe in future presentations we can >> reveal that? Absolutely. Kind of put the >> absolutely >> the finish line out. >> Yeah, we're probably and just just as a back of the napkin just without giving the exact, we're probably about fourish% away. So we're not like, you know, light years away, but we would, you know, we want to get there. So, so there's definite improvements we want to see there. It does
071provide >> to echo that. I love to see that trend, you know, a five or six year trend >> where we were to where we are. And and then I was going to save this for to last, but it's just so it so proud to see these numbers. It's so hard to achieve this sort of excellence and to be able to improve on it, >> you know, year-over-year uh is incredible. So, but I'd love to I'd love to see that overall. >> Absolutely. So, moving to our student groups. And so, this is speaking to um four or five of our student groups that we have that are u significant, meaning that there's a certain number that make them significant and they do show up. And when I present on the dashboard, we'll speak to them
072um specifically. Um and again I do want to acknowledge that we have students that um where we [clears throat] looked at that um compilation where you saw those really high numbers and then we get into some of these student groups and you see yeah there definitely are um percentages of students that aren't meeting standard but um they are making improvements and we're continuing to work towards that. Uh we do have students that have um they have modifications or they have um just supports that they're given in the program for them and um for example uh they may you know receive the ability to use a multiplication chart where others aren't given that option. There's different tools that they're given access to. Um you do see the state, you do see the county and you see
073us. Um we definitely would would like to see um us improve. We did drop a little bit in our students with disabilities numbers from the previous year. Um those are, as Levi said, those aren't the same. It's not apples to apples. Those are um different students that come in, students that go out. And so identifying those students and what their needs are and making sure that um that those needs are appropriately placed so that their scores demonstrate where they are. And so um and again, it is one measure. I do like to make sure we emphasize that. Um, we do have some students that when they sit and take that assessment, especially the written portion, it is difficult for them when their IEP goals uh only uh assess for them to write maybe a paragraph
074and they're expected in terms of when this is drilled out a multiaragraph essay. That's not the goals that they have been focusing on or trying based on their disability or their level of support. So for mathematics um you can see the same uh in terms of the state uh the county and then our district as well. Uh there's there's there is definitely students that when we provide that um they're provided their curriculum that they are given based on the standards where they are and there are um options that they are given to have that those accommodations those modifications for them. they're assessed just like everybody else on here with what they're expected and um with those disabilities or those areas where they're focusing on, you know, there's some of those things that they are struggling
075with. And so, but we continue to work with them on that for our EL students. And this is an area that um Jen Lawson and I are going to be talking about in a couple of months when we talk about the dashboard because I know that we celebrated just the improvements that we made last year. We had we had uh you know where we kind of went backwards a little bit with this and um some initial analysis that um we went to and looked at is we looked at the ELPAC assessment which is what we give all of them and then we also looked at how they did on the CASP assessment. We had a number of students in our third grade band who um while they made growth, they in terms of their LPAC,
076they didn't make what Jen said, her words were enough growth where you're supposed to hopefully grow a level each year, they didn't quite see those gains. And so she's working right now with Heather McClean, our EL teacher, as we have students that are receiving those EL supports as to how can we provide those additional needs that they have um to help them because there was definitely um just a drop. They went down about 4% in our ELA, which um obviously we have eyes on right now and we're taking a look at for um our FEP or RFEP students. These are students that have been reclassified. You can definitely see some strong scores for the students that have tested out or have RFP into that. And so 86 students there uh made uh some growth there.
077It was um ultimately about two two and a half% in terms of their gains in terms of meet and exceed standards. And you can see that over the course of comparing the state and the county um where students are. So our students that do make it and are reclassified are doing very very well. um those students that um I was speaking to previously if I go back um we don't have any students that are those LTEL students at this time but we have students that we really do need to work with to help them to make the necessary progress towards being reclassified so they don't become long-term El students for mathematics um definitely um a similar circumstance there's a lot more written a lot more um academic vocabulary that's there. And we saw the students
078that are struggling in the e uh the ELA portion also struggled in the math portion just because of the the amounts that they had to read and then that they had to apply with the written portions as well. So um it's definitely an area where we definitely have some work to do and again uh speaking to our reclassified students you can definitely see the gains and especially for mathematics you can see where last year 59% met exceeded and this year it was almost 70%. So there was definitely some gains through our reclassified students um in mathematics which is great. So, socioeconomically disadvantaged students, we have about 400, which is a little over, it's about 11% or so of our maybe 12% of our overall population. Uh, definitely see um some improvements there. 51 a.5% uh
079metric exceeded in 2024 and then this past year it was about 56%. So, about a 5%, you know, growth and improvement there. mathematics uh same as far as that goes. We had 40 almost 41% met or exceeded in 2024 and this past year it was about 40 a little over 46% so about 5%. So consistent growth there for our um student group for Latino uh and Hispanic students. uh we did have um a little bit of a drop went from 55.7 to 50 uh 53 and a half 5 a little bit like that. So a little bit of a dip there and again that kind of correlates with our our EL students and so seeing some some correlations there. Um however for math as a whole we went from 46% to 49% almost 50%. So
080almost three three and a half% improvement there in terms of mathematics. So um so there was definitely some some improvement overall from this group. Um obviously we have other languages that that fit into our e band. It's not just um Hispanic or Latino students. And so what I would say um just with what we've done with this is is that we get this information at the end um and it's inform it's informal in August. And so teachers get at the beginning of the year, they get their um their projected CASP scores for how their students did the previous year. They also get a list of their students that they have currently for this year and how they performed. And then I provide a report for them of the standards that were taught on CASP or
081that were assessed on CASP. And what that provides is for each standard it will assess u how the students did as a collective were was their performance on a standard a relative strength was it a similar to how they did on the rest of the test or was there a relative weakness and the teachers during collaboration get together and they talk about how they taught certain standards. So if they see a measurement and geometry and go, "Oh yeah, we really rushed through that at the end because we're trying to get ready for the test. That was an area that was a relative weakness or they're looking at those power standards which are there's more of an emphasis." If you look, they get a list of how many questions go with each standard. And so they'll
082look at fractions, they'll look at decimals, they'll look at those specific areas and try to identify where did we get the most bang for our buck so that when we are helping students review where are we spending the most of our time? And so teachers spend the time on that. Um, as I mentioned with EXL, they will give for math and actually for language arts the diagnostic assessment at the beginning, middle, and at the end of the year, which demonstrates where students are coming in. So I know the board asked um Renee about summer school. How do we let the summer school data transfer when they come back? Well, the answer to that question is is they take that diagnostic assessment. So when students come in that first month of school, they take that diagnostic
083and that will show after summer where students are in those areas. And then with EXL, they will not only be learning uh with our our regular curriculum, but they have individual tasks or recommended concepts that they work on throughout the year for those students that have those individual needs. So that that is something that I think our teachers are really utilizing. And then we have our local assessments that we give at the end of each trimester to be able to inform parents on our report cards where our students are meeting their standards. Um if they're not kind of where are they, what do they need to work on and really have that that data to really to share with them. And I would say last but not least, we are in the process of um
084purchasing a U student uh data system called Edgic Climber. that's uh part of uh accelerated reader and what we utilize for our our ELA reading program to be able to provide a one one-stop shop to hold all of our data so that in future meetings here that we would be able to share with the board kind of like a whole picture so it's not just CASP it's kind of our local assessments state assessments so you can see kind of a a continuum of student achievement and where they are in terms of their progress in terms of mastering standards We just uh signed the agreement for that. Um our our leadership team is going to be working with it um in the spring with the hopes of sharing it with teachers and giving them their data
085for next year's or next spring's assessments so that they can start looking at that in more of a big picture. So that's coming. >> I didn't know if there's sliding. Sorry. >> No. is so so I I think I kind of editorialized that a little bit and so yeah any questions I guess [laughter] I should do that. There we go. >> There we go. >> Thank you, Dustin. >> Uh let me open it up to our trustees with any questions and comments. >> Okay. Um, I would like to say one thing, Dustin, and I think um, first off, this district is lucky to have you. And one of the reasons is the humility that you often demonstrate because the numbers that you just showed, I think anyone could start doing um, cartwheels and sharing from
086the rooftops. Those are incredible numbers. Really, really are. And I think um I'd like to classify these learning teams in our district, teachers, administrators, support staff that are all about the care and concern for student success. >> And it's evident and clear that we absolutely hit it out of the ballpark in rescue. >> And if you were just to put those numbers up of rescue, they're impressive. But when you do a comparison between our county and then our state and see what those numbers reveal, it's not happen stance. Like we got great kids. There's no doubt about it. But those great kids don't get those numbers by themselves. Starts at the top. I think we have incredible leadership. But the work that our teachers and our learning teams are doing to help those kids, I
087mean, those are just amazing amazing numbers. So great, great job. >> So I um I mentioned that I was going to talk a little bit about our math adoption. So we currently have um approximately 30 teachers uh participating in this pilot program and we have uh the state just passed their approved list which was about 65 different programs that we could choose from and the bar to make it onto the state list. It's like really low. It's not great at all. And so um Jen Lawson and I spent quite a bit of time initially reviewing those programs and we were able to whittle it down to about 10. And so our teachers uh met. We had um K through eight. So we had this full room was filled with with folks. And so they had
088the opportunity to identify what is our district's vision for math when we want students to learn and to um present math. And when I do bring this in the spring and talk about it, I'll share what that specific vision is so you can see that. But they also identified what are the musthaves in rescue. If we look at a math program, what are the absolute halves? Not what the state wants, what what do we want for our kids? And these are teachers that have expertise teaching, I mean, like I said, K all the way through eight math concepts. And so they identified those and then we reviewed those 10 programs. And the the joke about it was is we did what was called kind of a speed dating experience. We're going to have the speed
089dating, look at this, and then decide if we want to go on a second date with this program. And so they were able to both our elementary and middle school to to whittle down the 10 to six. And so uh when we come back from break December 3rd and 4th, they will then do a more comprehensive deep dive into those programs to hopefully then identify those that we want to receive a more comprehensive presentation from the vendor. And then we'll be looking to pilot in the spring and actually with students work with these programs and then to hopefully in May, end of May, bring a recommendation to the board on a program which we want to adopt and we want to commit to. We've had the same programs in our that we've been utilizing for
09011 years and not to say that they're not good, but the frameworks have changed and we need to adapt with those frameworks to continue to move our students forward. So, we're doing that work right now. >> Great stuff. Looking forward to that. >> Um, okay. Okay, with that being said, we're going to move on to agenda item number seven while we have you here, Dustin, and that's um our Teachtown Sped curriculum adoption. >> This is a hearing as well, so it requires some action. >> All right. Well, thank you. This has been a long time coming. I'm super excited to present this. And so, um, our district, our, um, our SDC teachers and our, um, student services director and coordinator, they, it's been a few years we've really been spearheading this is to really adopt
091a specific special day class curriculum for that program. They've been utilizing kind of I, we'll just be honest, patchworking a lot of things together to work with our students, but we really need something that is going to uh, be comprehensive. And so this program, Teach Town, um, not only offers the academic subject areas, the lessons, the assessments, all of the pieces there, but there's a social emotional um, component with it as well, but what really drew our teachers to this and all all of our STC teachers piloted this program was is to visit a program that would um, meet the individual needs of students and their IEPs because we have students that have specific skill sets, specific strengths, areas where they need support. And when you have programs that they slap a a label or
092a sticker on it and say you can you can differentiate, this does that intuitively for our students that are more than two grade levels behind because of their disability. And so we really need something that's going to meet those needs. This program, our teachers piloted this for six weeks. they had mandatory office hours with uh the representative for the program to make sure that they understood what was available to them. And um coming out of this, they felt like that this was really going to serve our students. And so um in that recommend recommendation, there was a consensus it was 100% that they thought we need to adopt this for our our SDC program. And so, um, to give you the details, uh, this is a five-year adoption commitment, um, costing $135,000 and that that
093provides the the teacher and the student materials that we have for the duration of that time. And so, accordingly, um, coming to the board, uh, uh, just asking for them to, uh, for you to consider adopting our Teachtown program. We've had um as a mandatory requirement of having a public notice of 10 days so that families could um review the materials if they had questions. We did have a few that reached out uh to me and to our director of student services uh to go over the program to make sure it was something that's going to best meet their students needs, which to me that's the litmus test. Parents advocate for their kids and getting their endorsement is is good enough for me. >> You know roughly how many students this curriculum will be servicing?
094it will be supporting um because you're you're you're looking at our um elementary because it is elementary and it is middle school. Um, I'm thinking that it is it is approximately um I'm going to say probably about two no it's not quite 200 about 150 students give or take. Right. Thank you very much. Uh there is no comment at this time. So therefore, we'll be opening up to a public hearing at 7:51 p.m. Go and close the hearing at 7:52 and open up to discussion for our trustees comments inquiries. None of the house has movement actions or motion teach program for grades K through five for special day classes. made second. All in favor? I oppose. Motion passes. Thank you very much. This then has us moving on to facil. Thank you, Dustin. Uh to
095facilities and our CBO Stson has the floor on this item. This is our annual five-year developer e report. Hi, good evening. [clears throat] Um, so this is our developer report. Uh, each year we bring this to you. Um, that reviews all of the expenditures and the revenues that we've received for our developer fees. Um, really short, you have the whole report. I'm not going to read the whole thing for you, but I will bring you just a few highlights. Um just starting in 1987, school districts were authorized to charge developers um fees that go towards um as they're developing in neighborhoods, the impacts that it causes to the school districts. In 1998, that was revised and um three different levels were [clears throat and cough] put into um into law. Right now, rescue is only
096eligible for level one. So, we don't collect on level two or level three. Um, on November 16th, 2021 was the most recent time that our board has approved a developer fee report. It's called a justification study that actually approved what rates we are currently collecting. We do share those rates with the high school district because we are not a unified school district where we don't have K12. We we are only K8. We share the portion of those rates and that is listed on page one of the the report on how we split it. Uh whether it's residential or commercial. Um it's roughly well not roughly it's a 61 39% split. [clears throat] Um just a couple of the highlights of the report. Our beginning balance for our developer fee fund because we do keep this
097in a whole separate fund. So it doesn't go into our general expenditures. We have very specific uses we can um uh spend this these funds with. Our beginning balance is 8 was just under 840,000. Ending fund balance is just um right around 949. So just a little over 110 or under $110,000 is what we increased our fund balance with this last year. This is ending June 2025. Um from last year we collected uh just under 556,000 in developer fees and we earned just under 61,000 of developer um on that. Uh within that, we did transfer about $500,000 over to our modernization fund to help cover some of the cost with our rescue uh multi-purpose project. Um and then we did have a refund, one I I think it was only one refund all of last
098year for the amount of uh $1,163. Um the rest of the report is there. I'm I'm happy to answer questions. There isn't really much else to highlight within the report. There is um also a uh detailed attachment a that goes through a little bit more details on the overall expenditures. It does include some costs for EDCO for managing our developer fees. So they actually work with the developers to collect the funds, deposit it on our behalf. They work with developers for the refunds and then so they do some administrative work that costs about 16 just under 17,000 a year. Um and then we do have some administrative expenses um just under 30,000 and that is for our um facilities director for his time managing projects related to um the funds that were used from the
099developer piece. And then the last page is a five-year summary of all of our budget for that fund. >> Awesome. Thank you very much. Um, no public comment it appears. Discussion, questions, comments. >> Quick question. Sure. I should probably know the answer, but I can't remember. So, in in 2324, we transferred out about uh 2.6. Yes, that was also for the rescue multi-purpose. >> That was for Okay. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Question. The 16 or 17,000 that we pay for the management of the funds, is that a percentage or is that like a standard fee every year? Does that change depending on how much? >> It's a percentage. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Yes. >> Any other questions? Now, this is an action item. So, therefore, I do need
100a motion. Please, >> we approve the annual accounting of developer fees collected by the district. >> Second. Is there a second? >> Second that. >> That sounded so good I wanted to second. [laughter] >> Motion made. Second. All in favor? I oppose. >> Wonderful. Thank you very much. This I believe um Christina, we're clear for consent. Is that correct? Thank you. Um can I get a motion on consent, please? >> I move that we approve um set agenda >> 637. Is there a second? >> Motion made second. All in favor? >> I oppose. Thank you. Motion passes. Miss White, >> I would like to move that we adjourn at 78. >> Great job, everyone. Thank you very much.