001Okay. All right. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for being here tonight at our regularly scheduled meeting of the San Carlos School District Board of Education. I'm calling the meeting to order at 630 p.m. I will note that Trustee Q. Comorani is absent. And I'd also like to note that Superintendent Frentress is not at the meeting. She unfortunately experienced a death in the family and is with her family this week. So she is in our thoughts, but not here with us in person. Please note that a recording is being made at the direction of the board and the recording may capture images and sound of those attending the meeting. And now we will move to approve the agenda. Any changes? I'd like to approve all of this. Thank you. All in favor? I approve the agenda.
002And before we proceed, I'd like to review a few guidelines to help the meeting run smoothly. During tonight's meeting, there will be time for the public to comment on matters both on the agenda during each agenda item as well as not on the agenda towards the end of the meeting. Please wait to speak at the appropriate time. We also ask that if you're raising concerns about students, please refrain from sharing any information that may expose the student's identity. This is a public recorded meeting and we are obligated to maintain student privacy. If you'd like to address the board here in person, we ask that you fill out a blue card. And if you are online, please use the raise hand feature. According to our board bylaws, each speaker will have three minutes to address the
003board unless changed by the board. We appreciate and support stakeholder input at our meetings and have established these guidelines to make sure members of the public have a chance to express their thoughts and opinions and the board can conduct its business effectively and efficiently. And now we will go to item three, our spotlight on excellence featuring Heather Elementary School. All right. Well, it gives me great pleasure to introduce our principal at Heather Elementary, Mr. Peter Bonemeier. And we're really proud that he has a few students with him tonight. So without further ado, take it away, Mr. Peter. Okay. Good evening. I am Peter Bonemeier, also known as Mr. B. And I've asked three third graders to come and join me today. So please come up. And I'm going to ask the three third graders to
004introduce themselves. Hello, my name is Anna. Hello, my name is Parth. Hello, my name is Kylie. And today I'm very excited to be really highlighting our vision of kind citizens. And that includes civic engagement, cultural awareness, environmental responsibility, and also making sure that we have a positive impact on our school and our community. So first, we're going to start off with cultural awareness. In the month of March, earlier in the month, we had a school wide celebration with crafts and a lion dance. We also had a staff luncheon, which was very delicious. We appreciate the great food. And all of this was done through the hard work of the our community partnerships and also our parent involvement. We have a very active PTA at Heather and we are very lucky and very fortunate. And now
005Anna is going to share a little bit about what she learned. For Lunar New Year, I learned all about how everyone likes to celebrate, paint the holiday differently and how each way is incredible and unique. My favorite part of the Lunar New Year was the lion dance and getting to pet the lions. They were soft and nice to pet. Later on in the month of March, we had our multicultural day, which was possible through the hard work of 30 parent or more than 30 parent volunteers. And it represented over 21 countries. The theme for the year was learning about global sports and influential women. And this was All right, thanks. Okay, we're ready to resume. All right, the camera's not working. Oh, you're gonna see me doing this a lot. Apologize. Jennifer leaves for one
006reading and And then Gremlin that didn't mess up. Keep going. We are unmuted. Okay, now we're going to proceed with our consent agenda, which contains items that are written in nature and for which there will be no board discussion anticipated. So we act with a single vote and the public comment on the consent agenda. No hands. Right. Motion. Move approval of the consent agenda. All in favor. Aye. Thank you. And now for our information discussion items. We have two items tonight. And our first will be teaching and learning update on the results of the California Healthy Kids Survey. Please. Yeah, I'll get it started and I'll pass it over to Sheila. Thank you, Sarah. We're really pleased tonight to present an update to the board on processes and outcomes related to the Cal Schools Surveys,
007also known as California Healthy Kids Survey, and for students, staff, and caregivers that we conducted during February and March and how those survey results really become actionable at our school sites. So without further ado, we'll hand it over to Sheila. I'm going to display, yes, that I am. All right. As Hans mentioned, today we will go over the California Healthy Kids Survey. These are hot off the press results. I literally got the reports about a week and a half ago and school site reports this week. So this is very new data. So we'll do an overview of some of the metrics that are related to the LCAP, but spend a portion of time talking about how we actually use the data when it's collected and anecdotally what we also collect to give a little bit
008of color to some of the survey data. All right. And actually we went over most of this already. But again, at the district level, we take the California Healthy Kids Survey data and we track a certain set of metrics for the LCAP related to the three-year LCAP goals and their progress. At the school site, we'll talk about this in a little bit more detail later in the presentation, but administrators use the data to engage with their staff and their parent communities. And then they also target learning interventions. And some of the data informs what their school plans for student achievement or CPSS goals are. All right. So a quick overview of our site, the timeline of the reporting and the surveys themselves. So we start February, March, as Hans had said, give the surveys to
009students, staff, and parents and caregivers. Today is our initial presentation to the board. We'll also present some of the aggregate data to other district stakeholders, including the parent advisory committee and district English learner advisory committee. We'll then kind of look at the school site data and each admin will get a summary of their data in a three-year snapshot. And then we'll take that not only to their stakeholders, their staff and their parents, but we'll also use some of those data metrics to make their new CPSS goals for the coming year, 26-27. What we wanted to do different this year is in the fall, come back to all of you with some of those actionable points of the data. So after we take it to the school sites, come back and give a more comprehensive report
010of how that was actually used and how that colored some of their CPSS plans and just to bring that. All right. So participation rates, we continue in San Carlos to have very high participation rates. There is a disconnect between some of the student participation rates and that is because in third through sixth grade, we require parent active opt in and in seventh and eighth grade it's opt out. So that's why you see the participation rates slightly different at those two levels. Our caregiver response rate is always very high. It's a little less than last year, but to give this some context, I've been looking at some of the caregiver response data for neighboring districts and there are districts that are probably two and three times the size of ours that don't get to a thousand
011caregiver responses and not even close. The 50% participation rate just wanted to let you know it's a proxy because we don't actually have a great way to figure out how many exact caregivers and parents we have. So we use unique mailing addresses by school site as number of households. So we're at roughly 50% because we're ideally aiming to get one survey per household. We may get two, we may get zero, but that's where we ended. So we just wanted to show how the CHICS survey is a part of our annual survey process. So we came in the fall and presented some data on our SCL surveys. So those are surveys given in the social-emotional learning platforms for grades four through eight, and then we gave a standalone survey in K-3. Then in the spring, we
012give the CHICS survey, but throughout the whole year, we're doing different types of feedback sessions. So over the last three years, we've done a couple different types of these student feedback sessions. We've done lunchtime surveys where we just have posters up and kids can add post-its, we'll ask a question and they can respond. We've done polls, and then we've also brought in smaller groups of students to talk to principals about specific things happening at their school, and most recently at Brown Bag lunch session with Dr. Frentreth and Amber at both TL and Central, that just happened over the last two weeks, to find out how they're feeling and a little bit about some of this data. So I just wanted to show the survey data is a single snapshot of a single day. So we
013ask kids on one day if they do interesting activities, right? And so 63% of seventh graders on that day said that was pretty much or very much true. They also said that only 21% that they actually get to decide class activities or roles. But if we go to the next slide, when we ask them further questions, we get a lot more interesting data, right? Like they get voice and choice in science. So they are having some autonomy in choosing their class activities, right? Because they get to choose what type of assignments they have. So again, the survey data is just one single piece, but I wanted to turn it over to Amber to speak to some of these comments as they were just from this last set of sessions. Sure, happy to help. So Dr.
014Frentreth and I went out to Central and Teal in the past month and had a brown bag lunch with some students. And these are some of the comments that came out of those meetings. Essentially what we noticed is that students say they value, consistently share that they value having choice and how they demonstrate their learning. So whether it be a project versus an essay or working in other formats, they really liked having that opportunity from their teachers. It increases their sense of ownership and their, you know, just their independence. So they really liked that. When you talk to them a little bit more about it, they really said that. Students express that they're most engaged during interactive class activities, including discussions and good work. And then when we ask them about engagement and what that
015looks like for them, they emphasize that it varies by individual. So they said what works for one student may not work for another student. So they recognize that they have different learning styles and different preferences for how they want to receive information and work together. We also noticed that by grade level, it was very different in terms of engagement. So for example, eighth graders feel like they have a lot of opportunities. They probably have a lot of clubs. They've been there for three years. They're a little more comfortable where the sixth graders were just sort of trying to still figure it out even into March. They're just trying to, you know, make their way through middle school, right? Which would make sense based on their maturity levels and their engagement. So it's interesting to see
016how that changed. And it was that way for both school sites. So that was kind of interesting. But our key takeaways were that providing voice and choice and varied instructional approaches appears to be central to increasing student engagement. And we're going to continue to go. We'll be going to O'Rio and Mariposa in the next month or so. So in a little bit more detail, what do these surveys actually inform? So they inform the LCAP goals and our progress within those over the three-year span. The report that's linked later on in this slide deck has two years of data, right? So for 24-25, 25-26, and then the target goal for the next year, kind of completing that three-year cycle. At school sites, again, that's where we kind of analyze a little bit when we disaggregate data
017and look at it by grade level. One piece that we'd like to try to do this year is actually look at a snapshot of 5th grade and 8th grade over a three-year cycle, but track their 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade data. So track the same class in 5th grade and 8th grade and to see what kind of trends we see there. So just we want to be able to look at some of that disaggregated data and see any trends and then see if that informs any practice, just like what comes out of these sessions, right? Increasing of voice and choice and autonomy over class activities. And then, again, we partner with all of our district educational partners as well as school site. We'll give a data to PAC, the DLAC groups. We also present this
018data internally to our mental health collaborative, which is our school psychologists, counselors, and mental health team. And they actually take a deeper dive into the mental health piece of that data. And we talk about trends that we see there, particularly within middle school. And they all follow developmentally the same types of things, but we want to make sure that we are providing support during those transition times, especially in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. And then we also do that same thing at the school site with our school site councils and PTA. That's driven by the principles. And just a little bit of background about the California Healthy Kids Survey. It is a requirement to give the survey in the state of California if you want to be considered, if you want to be a tobacco-free
019certified school. So it's 5th and 7th grade, which is relevant to us, but it's also given in 9th grade for high school districts. And to be a tobacco-free certified school also allows us to have access to the tobacco use prevention education program and grants. And we have been a part of that program for several years. So we do conduct this survey, but it also allows for many of our neighboring districts will also conduct this survey in 5th and 7th grade. So that allows us to have this California dashboard. This is just some examples of our data in the blue and the line down the middle for both the report card and the dashboard. The orange line is the state average. So that is compared to our 5th and 7th grade and that state 5th and
0207th grade averages. All right. So the big takeaway is from this year's survey. Students are reporting high levels of academic motivation at 80%, which was similar to last year. Caring adult relationships, three out of four kids are saying that there is an adult at school that cares about them across grade levels. So that's aggregated 3rd through 8th grade. And high levels of school connectedness. So that is a metric that is this year at 77% for elementary and middle school. And that is an increase of 2% from last year and another 2% from the year before. So it is school's connectedness is an upward trending metric for us. And so that's wonderful. Staff report a positive school climate at 95% effective collaboration, 94% parents feel welcome at school. Also in the 96% and also say that
021they have clear school communication. And this was at 97%, which is actually the highest rate that we've seen in years past. So there is always opportunities for more learning. Just like we were going to be continuing these student feedback sessions to understand a little bit more about belonging and what meaningful participation and engagement means to students. One metric that we've seen that has been increasing over the last three years is self-reported cyberbullying around 5th grade and only increasing as students go to middle school. So one of the things that we have started to do this year is leverage the STEAM program in the elementary schools to start to include some digital citizenship curriculum from common sense media and an even younger age to prepare students for being responsible digital citizens and learners when they get
022to upper elementary and middle school when they have more access to technology. And then linked on this slide is the report of the LCAP measures. And again, that's the data for the last two years on the metrics that we track for our student and parent and caregiver goals in the LCAP along with the target of what we would like those metrics to be next. All right, so now it's time for any questions. Thank you very much for that presentation. Questions or comments? A couple questions. I'm curious about the brown bag lunches. I can't remember. Have we done this? Have you and Jennifer done this before? This is the first time we've done this. She didn't know with Alana. And we did some staff brown bag lunches, Jennifer and I, and then I did some student
023engagement. But we also wanted to do this on a regular basis. So the principals have also leveraged different groups of kids and asked them questions as well throughout the year. And they'll take different groups. And so they gave them also a different group of kids. So trying to get as as many voices represented as possible. Yeah. I was going to ask them, how are the students chosen? Are they following told? The admin definitely try to get a range of students, not just the students that always will raise their hand for that same opportunity because, you know, you'll always get the same kids then. So they do a little bit of picking and encouraging to get different voices represented at the table. It's great to hear. I'm curious about the less positive note, the cyber bullying.
024And do we know how much do we know about where that's happening? Like in terms of what platforms were? Oh, so that would probably be a place of, you know, student questioning and maybe pulling in some student groups to start asking some questions about it because they are asked. And the question itself in the California Healthy Kids Survey does go over different types of cyber bullying. Like was it online or in a group chat? But it's not specific to what platform. So again, I think that's maybe another place to get some more information and we can leverage our student groups. I also think that information would be helpful for parents to see if they're not aware. No, we were thinking that actually with this not only talking about some digital citizenship in the elementary school,
025but maybe having some parent education and around all some of this. Thank you. Is there a specific question asking about cyber bullying? Yes. And does it start at fifth grade or does it start potentially even? I mean, not the act of cyber bullying, but the question is it also like we give that question as well. Fourth grade and I'll get that same question. Third grade is the most unique survey. It is just we take out several questions from the fourth grade survey to the third grade survey, also to keep it a little bit shorter and allow them to complete it. But fourth through eighth grade for the most part get the same questions except for substance use questions. Fourth graders don't get those questions. And we provided the aggregate questions in the report, but I
026can also follow up with a full list of the California Healthy Kids survey questions because that's publicly available. And then we provide third grade parents with a list of what their students will get. And so if you're saying the problem starting in fifth grade, that means in fourth grade the answer is basically that's not an issue. There is some, we're probably at like six percent, I want to say, that reported one or one time, but it jumps up drastically by fifth grade and stays that way. And it just keeps increasing in sixth, seventh and eighth. I will actually say there's probably an up in seventh and a dip down in eighth, which is what a lot of metrics show. And I think developmentally the middle of middle school is a tricky time. Yeah, but we
027do know it's online versus text. So yes. And I guess there's only 68 percent participation in the opt-in grades. Then you have 32 percent and maybe the among those 32 percent there might actually be more or less. Yeah. Cyber bullying. I guess my other question is sort of already answered, but when I was thinking, hearing about the brown bag, I was like, if kids are self-selecting into it, then you're going to have probably the most engaged students giving you the answers. But so I was, I guess, worried about those who maybe rated kind of their experience on the lower side is disengaged in this community and just making sure that they. Yeah. So I know both principals do really try to make an active, it's an active process of who they're choosing to bring to
028the table. And they are bringing some of those, what we think of as, yeah, not the students that would raise their hand first and then report that they agree with everything. Right. So because in middle school then you'd only have a handful of kids at the table. So they do make an effort to get a wide range of students. And I know I saw the pictures from the teal feedback sessions. It was quite a range of students, I would say, by grade level and by who you would think would norm. Also, sort of part of LCAP engagement now is that you're hitting, both of you are hitting on the whole goal of student groups is to have a mixed group that represents the student body rather than going to the leadership class and saying, tell
029us what you think. It's the best thing ever. It's really purposeful in that we're supposed to get a full range of students. And that is the challenge that we give the principals when they select the groups. I had one question, which was, are you able and do you segment the data by different student demographics? I was thinking about your comment about sharing it with the English learner committee. Um, we do. And I was actually just commenting to Hans today because I was looking at some of the school connectedness data, student data, reporting for some of our underrepresented groups, particularly in thinking about some of the actions of our community liaison and the relationships that she's made. And I will say for our Hispanic families, our school connectedness is on the rise and it's been on
030the rise for the last three years. And I think a lot of that is due to the relationships that she has taken the time to build. And I wanted to also look in that with our parent and caregiver data. So the student data, you can connect it back to the student, but not the parent one, right? We have disaggregated data for student groups, but, but again, they're very, we have a small amount of data. So it's, it's hard to say what's statistically significant because our, our sample group in the beginning is small, but we can show upward or downward trends, but that parent data is, so it is, I just, I thought it was all like anonymous. It's not all anonymous. It's no, but you ask, you answer the question. We answer questions about our
031demographics. Yeah. It's self-reported. Oh, it's self-reported. Okay. And actually that is interesting thing that we deal with in third grade. When third graders are asked their race, many don't know how to answer that question. So, so a little bit, that's why we tend to look at the disaggregated, disaggregated data at the middle school level, just because some of those questions can be answered with potentially more. But yes, I actually, I forgot that I answered that demographic data too in the parent survey, but. Okay. Well, thank you very much. I look forward to hearing more in the fall. Yeah. Okay. No public comments. So we will go on to the San Carlos charter second interim. Yes, as well. Yes, it is. Thank you. So as the San Carlos charter authorizing agencies, our responsibility to review and
032present the charter schools to score according to the first and second interim and their budget. So then you have in the agenda, you have the second interim report. Charter has certified as a positive financial status indicating they're able to meet their fiscal obligations for the current year and the next two subsequent years. For 25-26, the charter's projecting an operating deficit of approximately $400,000 with an ending fund balance of about $1.85 million. Despite the planned deficit spending, charter maintains a healthy reserve of approximately 27%, well above the 3% minimum. The multi-year projection reflects continued deficit spending over the next three years with fund balance gradually declining to approximately 23% of expenditures by 27-28 school year. Revenue assumptions are driven by the local control funding formula, which represents about 61% of total revenues along with modest 88%
033growth in the out years. While charter remains fiscally stable, we are recommending continued attention to the ongoing structural deficits, state budget uncertainty, including the sell-up risk, and we're asking to pay attention to cash flow as flipping in and out of community funded status disrupts the revenue flow for the charter as well as ourselves. The charter remains fiscally sound with strong revenues, but like many schools, is planning deficit spending and should continue to closely monitor long-term sustainability. Based on our review, the charter's financial position is stable and they are projected to meet their financial obligations for the current and next two subsequent fiscal years. That concludes the report and questions. There's not an action item, this is just information I'll have in front of me. Just a quick question as a reminder for me. The charter
034gets a portion of the parcel tax revenue, am I correct in my memory of that? That's correct. And so it doesn't show up in 27-28, but if we just sort of were to do another year, we'd still have to do is their next kind of budget cycle starts. If the parcel tax is not renewed and drops off, they're going to start to face similar financial issues this week, is that right? Yeah, they're getting about $300,000 based on the percentage of students that they have in the charter. So yeah, they would have a revenue shortfall. Thank you. Any public comments? No. Thank you very much, Ralph. And now we will move to our discussion and action items, which will end with a board vote and we will have staff presentations and then board discussion. And we
035will take public comment on these items as well. So we will begin with 6A, which is approval of a resolution to establish the parcel tax rate for 26-27. Yes, thank you. So this is an annual requirement of measure N for the parcel tax. The support needs to approve this resolution. As outlined in the resolution, the 26-27 parcel tax rate will remain $334.60 per parcel consistent with the voter approved measure. The resolution also continues to honor senior exemptions for homeowners age 65 and older who occupy their residence. Based on this rate, the district anticipates generating approximately $3 million in annual revenue, which supports core academic programs and helps maintain class sizes and high quality educational offerings. With that, I recommend approval of resolution 10-25-26 to establish the 26-27 parcel tax rate of $334.60. Any public comments?
036All right, then can I have a motion to approve that resolution? Move approval of item 6A. All in favor? Aye. That passes. And now we will go to 6B, which will be a public hearing on the consideration of adoption of a resolution for a parcel tax election. So this is an opportunity for the public to be heard regarding this proposed parcel tax that is being considered for November. Just for the record, the resolution before the board tonight does include minor edits to the ballot language made after the initial agenda posting. These changes are reflected in the revised document that was shared with trustees and made available publicly yesterday. We do have copies in the room available for those who need them. And so I will now gavel us into our public hearing. Do we have
037any raised hands for public comment on the proposed parcel tax? I don't see any. Can I give people a few seconds? Yeah, another few seconds. Now we're in the room. Okay. Not seeing any hands. I will now gavel us out. And we will move to 6C, which is our board consideration of a resolution to call for an election for parcel tax measure in November 2026. I think Hans, you're going to lead us into this. You might be wondering out in the public why there's so many parcel tax items. Just to clarify, the first item was for the current parcel tax. And now this is about the possibility of putting a ballot measure onto the November ballot as an updated parcel tax. I wanted to clarify that for folks. Thank you, Sarah. Sarah, just want to
038reiterate part of what you said. There's been considerable consideration in discussion regarding the proposed resolution before you tonight. So this is not without great thought. The board participated in a full study session to consider options back in February, February 5th, and heard from staff and also through staff heard from superintendents advisory committee as well regarding some key elements which have been included in the resolution, including protection of excellent school programs, an increase in the per parcel amount, and the inclusion of an annual adjustment in the proposed resolution. We feel this resolution reflects the input from all of our stakeholders at this point in time. Back to you all. Thank you. Thank you. Board comments, discussion, pondering, folks, hopes, dreams. Can you just remind us of the timeline of all of this? That you know it
039in terms of when we have to make these decisions, if not tonight? We do have Dawn Field here for a legal question, but I believe you have to, was it, how many days was it, Veronica, do you remember? But I think it's August. Yeah, and the issue with waiting until then is we won't be in session. And so I, from what I recall, you would have to make this decision by June 14th, which is the, or June 11th, which is our final meeting in order to move forward with the resolution for the November ballot. And the benefit of doing it sooner? Well, partially that would allow any folks that are interested in helping out with the campaign. It gives them much more lead time to try to ramp up prior to summer, when we know
040that San Carlos goes a little dark during summer, if you will. And it allows them to build some momentum previous to that, and really allows us as staff to get the word out that, you know, again reiterating the why, providing information before folks leave for summer, and instead of trying to ramp up immediately when we come back. It's good for us to be on the public record. Thank you. I mean, I think this is an important moment. I know we've all been thinking about this for a long time, how to, what the right steps are here. And, you know, I think, I wish that the news that we had received a month or two ago was more encouraging for June than it was. And so this is maybe the next best option. But I think
041the timing makes sense to me, given that they had originally waited on the June decision until we had additional polling. We're not going to get any additional insights at this point. And so it's really handing it off to the folks who may be interested in supporting the campaign efforts. And this is sort of the starting point for that process to really begin. And so, you know, I guess to me, it makes sense to move ahead at this point. Yeah, I mean, I think doing it earlier rather than later, we already kind of in our minds know that we want to, wanted November, so we might as well have as much time to build awareness for the need and those who are running the campaign, raise money, et cetera, whatever that needs to get done. So
042I fully support that today. I can do it. I want to express appreciation to the volunteers who have helped with the Superintendent's Advisory Committee. I think their advice and enthusiasm is part of what is putting the momentum behind this and why I think now is the time to make a decision. So they have, as you said, a lot of runway to go out and carry this forward to November. I'm really glad that we're being honest about what we need and we're going out there and asking for the amount that we think we need to sustain our excellent schools and also adding the cost of living adjustment. I think we're just being frank about what is needed in terms of the support to keep the level of schools that we expect in our community. But at
043the same time, we're not putting all our eggs in this basket. We are still continuing to look for efficiencies wherever we can. And I appreciate the staff are on this cost cutting journey, regardless of how this goes. And so I appreciate the efforts to be really mindful about our spending and looking for those communities to save dollars. So I am wholeheartedly supportive of this. I am as well. I mean, I think it's very clear to all of us that there's a huge need for this. And I feel a little nervous, I think, given the polling results. So we will need to do everything we can to educate our community about the need and we'll need lots of public support from volunteers to run the campaign, given that once we pass this resolution as a board,
044we cannot campaign for its passage. So yeah, just to put it, I know there's not that many people here tonight, but hopefully people will watch or get the message that we're going to need your we're going to need your help to get this done. Right, approval. No, we did have the, well, we had the public hearing, but I don't see any raised hands now. So yes, please. Second. All in favor. Aye. Okay, this passes. Thank you. Thank you, everyone working time with themes to get us to this point. Okay, onward. Okay, and now we get to have another public hearing. Two items in one night, my gavel. So this is a public hearing on the proposed developer fee increase. So this is again, an opportunity for the public to comment on the developer fee study
045that we are looking at tonight and the proposed fee increases. So I will gavel us in. And now I will check for any public comment on the proposed increases to developer fees. Okay, I will gavel us out. And now we'll go to 6E, which is when the board will consider a resolution to make this fee increase. And Ralph, if you have additional context for us. Yes, thank you. So every two years, the State Allocation Board, it's SAB for short, reviews and may adjust the maximum allowable developer fee rates based on construction cost inflation. The most recent time that they met was 20, January of 2026. And they did increase the maximum rates to $5.38 per square foot for residential development and $0.87 per square foot for commercial and industrial development. Our current rates here in
046San Carlos are $5.17 for residential development and $0.84 for commercial industrial development. In order for the district to increase our fees, we must complete developer fee justification study, which is included in the agenda item. The study analyzes current projected student enrollment, plan development in the community and the students those developments will generate the district's facility capacity and long-term modernization needs. For San Carlos, the study projects approximately 8,016 new housing units over the next 25 years, generating about 1600 students and creating about $72 million in facility modernization needs. That's over 25 years and there's no particular grade level. It should be at any grade level when they really need developments. For San Carlos, the study, oh, I, San Carlos School District shares developer fees with the Sequoia Indian High School District. San Carlos receives 60% of
047the developer fees and Sequoia receives 40% of developer fees. For our agreement with Sequoia, they collect the fees and then distribute them to us for our share. We appreciate this partnership as it streamlines administration and ensures consistent collections. Affordable housing is an important ongoing priority across the Bay Area. However, it's important to clarify developer fees are set by state law and districts do not have the discretion to waive or reduce fees for specific project types, including affordable housing. There are limited statutory exemptions. Examples are certain government, religious, or small remodeled projects, but affordable housing is not exempt under these current laws. However, SB 937 provides flexibility. It allows for deferred payment of developer fees for certain qualifying developments, including affordable housing projects. This means fees are not eliminated but are collected later, typically at occupancy
048rather than the building permit issued stage. In summary, new development creates a real and measurable impact on school facilities. Even at the maximum rate, developer fees cover only a portion of total costs, about 47% in this particular study. This resolution ensures a district is collecting the maximum allowable under state law to help offset those impacts. I now ask for the approval of resolution 122526 to increase the developer fees we collect. Yep. Questions or comments? Any public comments? Okay. And we're actually approving two items, correct? We are accepting the developer fees, adopting the developer fee study and the resolution, correct? Okay. I move to approve item 6E. Does that work? Sounds good. Okay. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Aye. 6E passes. And on to our last action item, which is the approval. This is an
049annual declaration of need for 2526. Thank you, Sarah. Our annual declaration of need contains credential needs and certification extensions for current employees making progress toward obtaining their non-emergency authorizations or credentials on our internal credential audit. The need also lists credential areas in which district anticipates needing to cover teacher leads of absence. Inclusion of this item is required as an action item by the commission on teacher credentialing and it's important to note, you might recall earlier in the year we did a full report on our misassignments of teachers and the most up-to-date information we have is what is in this declaration of need as opposed to what was reported out. The data that we received as public is two years old and so we are acting regularly on trying to get folks properly credentialed and with
050the proper permit. As I said, the other important part is the moving target is you never know how many folks are going to go out on leave and generally when they go out on leave we always try to find a credentialed person first. We're not always able to do that and in order to provide them a temporary certificate we have to have this declaration. This is for the current school year and we'll be bringing the 26-27 declaration of need at the end of June and that will be our new pattern is to bring those at the end of June in anticipation of needs for the following school year. Should we ask for your approval of the declaration of need? Questions or comments? So this is a point in time as of right now. This is
051need applies a little bit like what we need in the future but that's just reflecting the current state of care. Correct and in order for us to move forward with plans that we're making with folks that need those certifications we have to have this on file. Moving forward the reason we're saying we're going to do it in June is that that goes along with the cycle of the local indicators which is when we're supposed to actually report about our misassignments and this goes hand in hand to know that we have this many misassignments and this many folks that need a different type or an updated certification in order to continue to work towards their credential. So it's it's transparency. That alignment sounds like it would be much better. Okay any public comments? One other point
052Sarah if I may you can also amend your declaration of need. So you might say well what if we need more and you know we do this in June and we need more that's okay we can bring it back and amend later in the school year if that's actually what happens. Is there a motion to approve our anti-declaration need? I move we will amend. Second. Thank you all in favor. Aye. That also passes. And now we will go to agenda settings. So we will not meet again on the 23rd. That meeting was canceled. So at our May 7th meeting we will be seeing the guaranteed maximum price for the TK expansion and the building envelope project. So Jenji you'll be up with us. And then we also will be considering and approving the nutrition contract.
053So two important contracts we'll be looking at in May. Those are the big items that I'm aware of. We also have the LCAP and the budget which are generally the star of the thing and you know so if they're fairly important we'll have the proposition 28 annual report and then you hit the other important things that are coming up. So now we will move to the public comment portion of our agenda. This is time set aside for the public to comment on items that were not on the agenda but are under the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. Comments are limited to three minutes and please be aware that provisions from the Brown Act prohibit us from engaging in discussion with you on your comment if it is a non-agenda item. We can only discuss
054items if they have been properly agendized but we do appreciate input and we are listening and taking notes. So I know we have a raised hand. I believe this is Adrienne Ashcroft. So Adrienne feel free to unmute. Yeah hold on I think my camera might be turned off but yes we are not seeing you but we could hear you now we are not hearing you either. Okay can you hear me now? Let me see if I can try to for some reason my video isn't turning on and I don't know why. I don't think you're required to turn it on so you can give your your comment. Okay so hello my name is Adrienne Ashcroft. I'm a sophomore at Carlmont High School and I'm a senior Girl Scout in troop 62818 and the reason why
055I'm making this comment today is because I'm working on my Gold Award and I need help from the school district. So the focus of my project is to improve the volleyball programs in the district's middle schools such as TL and Central and as a TL graduate myself I played in the school teams run by La Garza and after my middle school season ended I joined club volleyball which is an outside source thing and continued to get even better. This will actually be my fifth year of playing volleyball and when I reflect back on my school season experience I feel like there are certain aspects of the program that can be made even better than they are right now. For example coaches having prior knowledge of volleyball gameplay such as rotations or substitution rules would make
056the game go smoother and would be more fun for the players especially since they're new so this would just make the learning process more interesting. However my main concern is teaching the improper techniques when it comes to how to play. Since volleyball is a sport where you use your hands a lot being taught the wrong technique can lead to injuries such as sprained wrists or jammed fingers especially when learning how to set which is an important part of the game. I myself jammed each of my fingers at least one time during the school season before going to an outside club clinic and learning the correct way to set which I just find is a little dangerous. Since that clinic I've not jammed any of my fingers since and despite the fact that I know now
057the know the proper way to set and so I'm personally in the clear I feel that a student should not have to find outside help in order to learn the basics of the sport they've decided to play and this leads to my reason for standing here today because as my goal awarded project I'm going to create a training program for coaches and I'd like it to be adopted by the district in La Garza would that be contractually or through other means and I previously reached out to the district through the TL principal in Mesquite but I was told they were busy so I'd like your advice on how to move forward. Thank you that's all I have to say. Thank you Adrian for your comment. Hans is there a staff person that? Yeah it would
058likely be me. Okay. Reach out to her. I know that she talked with Ms. Galati. Okay. Yes. Do you have contact information? I will get it from Ms. Galati. Okay so we will have staff follow-up. Thank you Adrian. Any other public comment? We none and none in the room. We will now go to employee group comments and we will begin with Dan. Yes I see you Dan. Hello. Good evening. This is a time of the year when teachers all over the district are preparing our students for our opinion writing prompt and so it's a fun time of the year to teach writing because our students are so much more capable than they were in the beginning of the year and it's awesome because every kid has an opinion about which the best season is or
059what the best sport is and so it's a great tradition in our district and gives us valuable data on how our kids are doing in writing and then many teachers have been teaching about the NASA launch to the moon and it's been a great way to incorporate science and math and get kids excited about real life science. Today I taught my kids about the Apollo 11 which was happened when I was six months old and which was a long time ago 57 years ago and they were very interested to learn about that launch and then we watched video footage of yesterday's launch so that's been a really fun thing to do with our kids and then finally we are the St. Carl's Teachers Association fully supports the parcel tax and we will work to help
060pass it so we are appreciating that the board is taking this on and we look forward to volunteering to help it pass. Thank you. Thank you Dan and now we will go to Kamala. Hi okay so I'm outside because my kids are inside doing a project so hopefully you can hear. I just wanted to start off by saying that I was a little bit disappointed about the start of the meeting. There were a bunch of Heather staff that were on zoom and we were looking forward to hearing our third graders because they've been working hard on their presentation so it was a little disappointing not to be able to hear them and I know that there's you know sound problems are a part of electronics but it was disappointing for us and then I also
061wanted to praise our maintenance and custodian because they're down members right now but they were working really hard before the rains to prepare our schools so that you know we didn't have a lot of debris and flooding and taking care of all the trash and stuff so I'm really proud of them and they did a lot of hard work in kind of difficult situations so and we're also getting ready to do our negotiations so we're excited about that and getting ready for that. Thanks. Thank you Kamala. I know Amber was taking some photos so hopefully in our board share out from this meeting we can at least have several of the other photos highlighted in that newsletter as well. Thank you. All right and now we will move to board member comments. Keep looking at
062Sarah first so I'm going to look at that end of the table. Do you have any comments? Sure I guess this is like gala season so March 14th was a Healthy Cities tutoring Perfect Pairings event which is always inspiring to hear about student tutor relationships that are formed and the good work that's being done in Redwood City and San Carlos schools and being able to raise money help raise money for that and then I guess was last weekend was the Skeff gala also always inspiring. Very fun this year with 1920s attire and you know just seeing the generosity of our community opening up their wallets to help our school districts. Thank you for that and I think that the online option is also very fun and competitive and everything I wanted but you know I
063also appreciate seeing all the teacher outings that are available and the principal for a day, secretary for all of those things are so fun and appreciate that you know outside of the classroom time that teachers are donating their time and to take kids on these great outings so it's fun. I'm so happy we have partnerships with both Skeff and Healthy Cities tutoring. That's all I have. I can go next. I would echo Tracy's comments on Skeff Gala and you know certainly grateful to Kathy and team for continuing to put those on because it's really important. I did as I was thinking about what to say I was thinking and what we just passed with the resolution on the parcel tax I think maybe just because we've been so close to it that we didn't really
064fully explain kind of the need for the extension and putting in on the ballot in November and why we're asking the community to take this critical step now and so I just wanted to at least give my thoughts on it to have it out there as why it's so important but you know the parcel tax at least for me represents kind of our major source of funding for our schools and teachers it's had no adjustments to it since it was passed in 2020 so the number of teachers that it can pay for has fallen and continues to fall with each year as inflation continues to rise while staff has continued to find efficiencies to continue to maintain our current programs and staffing levels that's not going to be possible if the parcel tax is not
065extended and so while getting two-thirds of the community to agree will take a concerted effort to me this is an essential step to maintaining wonderful schools that we have here in San Carlos and the last thing I would say about it is since I know that not everyone who owns a house and will be paying the tax necessarily has kids in the schools every property owner in the school district benefits from the desirability of the school district and so this is really an investment in our own community and so I'm hoping that people will rally around it and I just wanted to make sure that that was somewhere in today's conversation since I didn't quite articulate as much of this when we were talking about that. I just want to thank Principal Tong and Noyce
066for inviting me and Mayor Pranita to some very cool events this I guess it's last month now in March we went to the White Oaks Heritage Day which kicked off with a flag parade and a bagpiper it was so cool and then that evening we were at BA for their multicultural festival I ate lots of delicious food that day and it just underscored to me that celebrating diversity can happen in a really organic natural way especially when we are so lucky to live in a community that has families from dozens of different countries dozens of different cultures and languages and it can be joyful and wonderful and so I just felt a lot of love for San Carlos after those events and I appreciate the schools for hosting us that's it for me. All right
067well thank you Sarah thank you to all of you I want to talk just briefly about some of the things you mentioned a lot is happening in March I think as an educator March is a very long month and it still feels like March even though it's April 2nd it's trust me that everyone out there would say it's still March and it can be grueling and it could be rewarding and some of the things you mentioned you know the way that we're celebrating diversity in our community the multicultural events ability awareness week which was spotlighted as part of the heather presentation you know almost every school had some sort of multicultural festival celebrating owner new year whatever it might be it's a really really active and busy time the galas that you talked about you
068know healthy cities tutoring and skeff and in particular we're so grateful to skeff for the partnership we have and all the folks that go to that tremendous event that takes so much effort for a very small group of people to put on such a enormous celebration and party it's really wonderful we benefit greatly from that our students obviously we have a new rotation happening in our tk to three schools directly related to steam and what that allows us to do is say is this the right thing we want our kids to be doing with this maybe it is maybe it's not but you know what we have the dollars to say we want to change it up and we have dollars to back that up which is wonderful i also had the opportunity to go
069to the queue conference down in in in palm springs with nine other educators eight teachers and christy brany the assistant principal at cms also not possible without those contributions from skeff and the level of learning and what brought what was brought back was absolutely amazing and the enthusiasm and support for a number of efforts in technology but particularly around artificial intelligence and and how to properly use and safeguard and all of those pieces was so important and very influential on my own thinking as well as pushing the thinking of the folks that went and how we're going to move forward together as a planning team above all though one of the most impressive things that we have going on that we discovered today as we looked at our end of period two attendance was that
070at the beginning of march the attendance was 96.4 88 which is not bad it's a little bit it was a little bit ahead of last year but not much and during the month of march until the march 27th our attendance in our schools actually increased to 96.45 which i know it's 500 but that's impressive when i just told you this is the longest month and uh that is a testament to the wonderful opportunities we're offering students on our campuses and that's not possible without the work of every single one of our staff members you know whether that's the custodian is doing the extra work to clean up after some of these celebrations whether that's the school administrative assistant who's welcoming those folks in or the librarian who's you know designing an activity around some of
071these multicultural celebrations adding to the learning let alone what's happening in our classrooms and from the leadership of our principals so it takes a village literally and i just felt like that was a great way to end um is to say wow our attendance went up and that's a huge testament and we just want to thank our employees so much for all of their hard work and digging deep with our students every single day and to please enjoy a much needed spring break next week so thank you all thank you all right that brings us to the end of our meeting we do not have any closed session items so i will adjourn us at 7 47