SCSD Regular Board Meeting 8-21-2025

001Welcome to the August 21st regular scheduled meeting of the San Carlos School District Board of Education. I am calling this meeting to order at eight, oh sorry, 630 p.m. Please note that a recording is being made at the direction of the board and the recording may capture images and sounds of those attending the meeting. Next on the agenda is approval of agenda. Dr. Frentress or the board, are there any changes you'd like to make to the agenda? Is there a motion to approve? I move to approve the agenda. I'll second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, agenda is approved five zero. Before we get started on the rest of the agenda, I'd like to state that the board appreciates and supports stakeholder input at our meetings. Part of our role is to listen

002to what members of the public have to say. Everyone should have a chance to express their opinions within the guidelines the board has established so that we are able to conduct the meeting effectively and efficiently. During tonight's meeting, there will be time for the public to comment on matters both on the agenda as well as not on the agenda. Please wait to speak at the appropriate time. If you'd like to address the board here in person, we ask that you fill out a blue card. If you're online, please use the raise hand feature. Next up is spotlight on excellence and it's back to school highlights and I will turn it over to Jennifer and Hans. Thank you. Hans and I will double-team this. We just wanted the board to get a glimpse of the kinds

003of experiences that were happening back to school which actually starts for us at the beginning of August and so the first images we have are from our professional learning for administrators. There were a lot of amazing themes. Inclusion factored pretty big in how we serve our students with learning differences. Navigating change is a big theme as well but one thing I'm particularly proud of is the way in which we have distributed leadership and many of the sessions were led by internal staff so principals, assistant principals, Hans, you know senior management etc. Leah of course. Hans, anything more you want to say about that work? It was nice to be off site. We were at the Redwood, I forget what it was called, the Redwood Redwood Room over in Redwood Shores and we previously used College

004of San Mateo but so it's just nice to be away, get your mind out of your school and your site and you know into a different space. And the space was great, it was huge and we did all sorts of, we also had fun, some great ice breakers and things that we did together so really really nice time together. Thank you. The next event some trustees were featured were the TK parent events. The Skeff and PTA put together events in the backyards of families and it's a really wonderful opportunity of highlighting something near and dear to my heart in our district which is welcoming and belonging but also for families to reach out to each other. Many of these TKK parents are first-time parents and get to meet other parents and hear about the wonderful

005things going on in our district and learn about the important role families play in our education foundation and the donations to the programs we have to offer. Many of you also got to be a part of our amazing ribbon cutting and the celebrations of the HVAC completion at Tierra Linda Mariposa and Arundel. You can see images there from that work and that's a real highlight for us. I know it's been a super important thing to improve the learning environment of our schools and a commitment of this board to make sure that the learning environment and the working environment is much improved. We also had some accessibility improvements at Threaden Acres and Heather. All right and we had some really great professional development sessions for teachers. Feel free to fill in on anything I might miss.

006Similar to our admin retreat we had a lot of internal presenters, teachers, principals and did some of the sessions, Chrisanne Curtis, Artosa and really seamlessly and we had some outside presenters but the outside presenters worked in tandem with us and developing a custom slide deck right that was something that related more aptly to our district instead of being some canned presentation so those were great. I mean they ran the gamut we did we had a speaker she wasn't really a speaker she's a professional developer for preschool through K teachers. Lindsay Astor Grant and she did a fantastic full day offering of sort of a soup to nuts look at early childhood education and all the things that you shouldn't be considering but really with a focus on what's the most appropriate environment for learners of

007that age and really thinking about how your classroom is set up and how best to engage students of that age in a play-based type environment so she was really great and Leah and Chrisanne and team worked really closely with her in developing what she was going to say. We had foundational phonics program put on by our own reading teachers which was great and really good reviews on that. The reading screener that you all know and approved in June also done by internal folks including Leah and team. We had sessions on universal design for learning at the middle school and that was put on in tandem with folks from the county and got some really strong reviews from teachers on that as well and then of course we had our gold standards our project-based learning was

008featured for third grade and a little bit in fourth and fifth and then fourth and fifth also hit the learner profile pretty hard so learning profile was sort of that overarching theme throughout the day. The only thing I'd say is trustees might recognize in the upper left hand corner an activity that we did during the session here. Taking to scale our work around teaching foundational standards some people call this the science of reading but we we're feeling really strong about that and I think the other thing that you notice in the themes in our professional learning is we've landed on a few strategies that really work for us so going deeper with those expanding to other grade levels and we're seeing you know good uptake of it as a result of that as opposed to

009the joke of the superintendent who goes to a conference and comes back with some new shiny thing every year we just have a few things we're sticking with them we're making sure we do them well and then building internal capacity to lead that that learning for the teachers. I'd like to point out that Dr. Frenchers actually participated in the activity on the right. I think I'm rolling on the floor. Which was awesome as an example the others that they should be participating as well and I can't remember exactly what she was illustrating. Well she was showing so it's pretty typical that students experience circle time and the rule of thumb is your age plus one to two minutes for how long you might be in a circle paying attention but it's pretty common that an

010educator might spend too long so what she did artfully was had all of us sort of experience this and then she also had this experience that you know a teacher might have a disposition of crisscross applesauce and eyes on me whereas some students might want to lay down and some might want to have mermaid legs and some might want their legs in front of them and does that really matter because for those students developmentally to have different ways they sit and work on their core but that's not all bad and so how can we integrate what we know developmentally and undo or unlearn practices that aren't really best for children. It's not easy to lay on your stomach. I'm here to report it went on too long for me even if we add my age

011in a couple minutes. We had a fantastic staff welcome breakfast obviously Skepp provides the breakfast and that's not the star of the show the star of the show is the relationships and people connecting on that morning and it was great to see a large crowd there as normal. Tracy was a featured speaker as was Jennifer and we had Dan and Kamala as well. It was really I think it really gives everybody a little bit of inspiration going into the year. We had a really common theme which I thought was great throughout the speeches a through line again to talk about the differences that we're making for students because of the things that we're doing with you as the people that serve them and I thought that that's shown through. Did you want to contribute anything

012about the spirit of that event? Well I think it's it was just it's so unique to have the whole district there and so I'm hoping can I share my idea? Like I think in the future why not any board member who can come come come rather than it just be one because there's so many people there and there's so many opportunities to connect. I only got to meet like a few because there's just you know so many people so it's a really great energy there and everyone's excited to be there and we're you know celebrating people's milestone years etc. It's just a it's a good it's a good time so I was like I miss my trustees I wish they were here. Yeah something to think about for next year. The rest of the slides

013are really just about the no big deal just the star of why we do everything no big deal the first day of school as you know is the biggest deal for all of the students and the reason that we get ready in proverbial air quotes is so that we're ready for them and to greet them with a smile and a welcoming environment in the classroom so most of the rest of the slides are really just about things that we saw on campus or pictures that we took with each other pictures of oh my goodness the welcoming crew at every school site was unbelievable. You know I was at a Rundle and they had a two coffee carts one wasn't enough so they had a coffee cart up on the blacktop on the upper blacktop and

014they had a coffee cart next to the office and it was so great because the coffee cart I was I was like well not very busy and then they let the parents out of the tk rooms and here comes this big long line of like 30 people and they're mingling with each other and talking and where are you from okay yeah and you have is this your only child lots of great skef talk the skef rep was there and trying to connect with the new families and saying you know this is what skef is about just a wonderful way to show how welcoming our environments are and not just for the students but also for the families. Can I ask a question? Did ralph bring the ghosts? Yeah there is a story that goes with

015that because we're trying to be efficient this year the service called the pony which is delivery of mail and pickup of mail is done internally and I couldn't help getting a picture of the pony with the alpacas and so that is ralph being a pony with the alpacas. I did want to say one other thing jokes aside on the well on the first day of school we do deploy central office staff to help families know where are you going they're all looking for their classrooms and the thing that I was really struck with is how our teachers really dressed up and had bright colors on and so cheerful and how they were welcoming our students is just it's so heartwarming to see that and so that's why there's a few who wore it bests here

016with us. Where's that mural? The one with the arondel. I mean arroyo yeah it's cool it's really beautiful that's it thank you thank you for sharing. Okay now we'll move on to item four the consent agenda. The consent agenda contains items that are routine in nature and for which no board discussion is anticipated so we act upon them with a single vote. I am going to check the public comment meaning none. Any changes to the consent otherwise can I get a motion to approve? Move to approve the consent agenda please. Thank you Boris. Second. Thank you Sarah. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay consent agenda passes five zero. Now we'll move on to item five which is information discussion. The purpose of these items is for information and discussion only so no board

017action will be taken. Staff will present and then there'll be time to ask clarifying questions. So the first one is teaching and learning update early learning and I have Amber Lea and Ali Iglesia with us. And I get to start. Okay and many of you already know how excited I've been about early learning in San Carlos school district as part of this pivotal moment California Ed where this year we have full implementation of a whole grade a whole new grade in school for four-year-olds with the universal transitional kindergarten. It would it might be missed that there's a through line on our agenda and so I wanted to be crystal clear that we put this presentation in not because this is fully flushed out the way our model looks it's in development i.e. people rolling around

018on the floor and learning how to teach all of these children getting fully staffed and also this insane number of kids who showed up that we didn't quite anticipate and this is true really statewide. But there's a growing body of research around the human brain and how much development happens between zero and five and how much happens in relationship with others so this opportunity for all of our four-year-olds to be on campus is really super amazing. We also know the number of relationships for students can make a big difference so that earlier that they can form those back to our science of reading that you know it's easier to teach reading once they learn how to be in school together and enjoy themselves and that sort of thing. So I wanted to start with that

019because it sets our why because later in the agenda we're going to update the board on the district's bonding capacity and part of the reason for that is how fast we're moving on our facility master plan and one of those is around the expansion for UTK. We need lots and lots of spaces for that. We did have an increased assessed valuation in our community which allows us to access more resources. Why do we need more resources? Because we need to move forward on the UTK expansion and so later in the agenda the board will have an opportunity to evaluate the option for the advancement of our design bid build for accommodating our early learners. The steering committee met they followed a process that was set out by this board and scored a builder and so

020this through line is the UTK and the space needs on our campus. We wanted to make sure everyone knew that we do have the numbers. We also wanted everyone to know that we can get the money and that we need to spend the money. So I know that seems like a lot of a preamble but it could be missed that all of these things go together but also we didn't want to over promise on what this presentation is. We will be back to you about UTK but it is a day and a half into the school year of fall implementation. We're super excited but you'll hear more as we go into the school year. And over to Leah. This is Amber's piece and we're going to play musical chairs here for the evening board and

021staff. I just wanted to provide you an overview of what our UTK currently looks like a service enrollment. So we are continuing to grow enrollment as a district. We are almost two students this year from last year as of right now. We do still have a few days that will drop a little bit more as kids are coming in and parents are notifying us that they're not coming back. But I think we're pretty stable almost at 3,000 right now for district. But mainly what I want to talk to you about is the growth of kindergarten and TK. So TK has grown 77 students this year and kindergarten has gone up 90 students. So just early learning alone in those two grade levels is huge. So those are our biggest grade levels that have gone up.

022As Dr. Prentice said we're thrilled to welcome our youngest learners with a full year of four-year-old TK education. By comparison back in 2020-21 we only had 45 TK students with three teachers and no aides. This year we have over 270 students with 12 teachers and 24 aides which is a 500% growth in enrollment which is really a testament to our commitment to early learning. And our family's really growing in our preschool programs and really feeling comfortable coming here for preschool third fourth grade. Sorry I skipped you over. And just I believe our commitment to early learning and Dr. Prentice has been a real champion for that and as have our board members. So thank you so much for that and we can really see it in our families. Our families coming and trusting us with

023their littles. So this is a picture of the new White Oaks TK class which has the smallest furniture. You can't really tell but it's chairs about this big. So teeny tiny. But that is one of the classes that we expanded in this year. So AI is taking away my confidence in my own poetic skills. So I just asked my problem was you know make a blurb to explain the importance of the preschool foundational skills that are taught and how it connects to our UTK and kinder all P3 and through eighth grade program especially tying it to the learner profile and all the work we've done there to build these durable skills of citizenship and kindness and ownership. And so I started with this image and I actually really liked it. I think this was from

024Canva and just thinking of the preschool years as the roots becoming strong and allowing for the growth of the learner profile as students enter into UTK and then go through our district. We used to say it was the San Carlos decade right. Our kids are here for a very long time especially if they start with preschool and receiving that intentionality of instruction and what learning looks like in preschool can really lend itself into they're already coming in with skills that some of us adults never actually learned. So they're primed for academic absorption if you will right. They are little sponges. So I really liked what came out of here. I didn't really edit that much but the fact that the learner profile grows with them right and it's the skills starting with our two-year-olds. So

025really exciting that we are expanding in this way and giving these students this kind of opportunity. And then just we're expanding in preschool as well. I think 15 years ago we started with one classroom and now we are at 13. Last year we started our two-year-old program with two classrooms and we just opened up our third two-year-old classroom at White Oaks. Each of our sites have at least three classrooms with Heather now having four. And we are also providing our California state preschool programs both at Arundel and at Heather's school. And they are inclusion programs both at Arundel with a part-day program and then fees-based families joining that classroom as well. And then at Heather our inclusion program with our elite families and we'll talk a little bit about that later. But each of our

026classrooms when fully staffed we have two teachers and one aide giving us a ratio of about eight to one just depending on the number of students in the classrooms. And it's been very exciting to physically literally build these some of these classrooms this summer and then to actually see the kids in them yesterday was so fulfilling and made all that hard work very meaningful. And then just to go into a little deeper about what our inclusion classroom looks like at Heather we're calling it the bunnies. They're all woodland animals up there and so bunnies one but there yes lots of lots of discussions about woodland animals. But the LEAP program has been a long-standing program in our district over 20 years I believe. And we are so excited to be bringing LEAP and Enterprise together

027to provide services and early intervention for our families. In addition to students from LEAP joining our classrooms we have students in our CSPP program. The difference between the CSPP program at Heather versus a Randall is that it is a full day program and versus part day. And while that does mean the students stay longer through the day it also talks about the length the number of days that we provide the program during the year. So the full day program also includes our summer program days and that's what really makes it the full day program and not part day. And so it is offering a variety of services for parents who have different needs. And then there are also students in the bunnies classroom that are we call them general education students or tuition-based families. So

028if you were to walk into the classroom you wouldn't be able to know you know which child is there based on what funding right. We have a co-taught class which is what makes this this the the inclusion class that it is. So co-taught means that we have a general education teacher working alongside a special education teacher. So we've invited in an amazing educational specialist who is an expert in the needs of these young learners in terms of early intervention and providing them with any type of services that are coming with their IEP. And then co-teaching with one of our other enterprise staff who has been an employee for a while. And so Ali right here she is our program specialist for LEAP and she has been a very integral part of building this classroom. I

029feel like Ali and I co-taught this summer to learn how to build this co-teaching classroom. We attended a conference in Sacramento about best practices and how we can bring those best practices into the preschool environment. We'll be providing training and professional development for our co-teachers this year as well so that they know both how to identify needs early and then how to provide an environment that allows students to grow in their potential. Along with our co-teachers we also have an aide and then we also have a para educator. So for adults in these classrooms with these very lucky kiddos. And Teacup, Amber I think that's back to you. The part of our San Carlos Early Learning, excuse me, expansion is our Transitional Kindergarten Extended Learning Program which we've had I think this is our third

030year, third year right? And it is staffed by our San Carlos School District staff. We have a program in each of the four sites and it is tailored specifically only for TK students. So it's just for our youngest learners and they do a great job with hands-on STEAM projects. They have Spanish language enrichment taught by staff. So each staff member, there's one or two staff members at each site that do language development with the kids. They have super fun exploration and creativity discovery activities that are planned by our current staff that work there. We are looking for more staff. So if anyone knows as well as I know preschool. So we are really looking for more additional staffing because we just have a huge amount of students enrolled in TKELP. So and it's called TKELP.

031So if you're wondering what the heck is TKELP, that's what this program is. That's the short version of it. But we currently have 170 students enrolled. So we've gone up even today. And last year we only had 121. So we've gone up almost 50 students this year, which aligns with the implementation of full TK for the year. So we really like to have a ratio of one to 10, one to eight, similar to preschool. And when you get in a room with 44-year-olds, you really understand that you need as much staff as you can get. So if you know anyone that's looking for an afterschool job, grandparents, moms that are looking for some extra hours, college students that aren't working or that aren't at school during the night time, send them our way. We'd love

032to have them. Is that it? That's it. TK. That's it. So just the purpose of tonight again was just to update you on the expansion alignment. So the next steps will be to continue to update you on the topic throughout the year. And next month's teaching and learning will update the will actually will feature the summer school program, which was a great success this summer as well. Yeah. Again, I want to say that I intended to connect the dots by having this be the lead because otherwise it's, you know, you take facilities and bonding away from why then people might not understand that this has been a very intentional thing. The inclusion class is a start and an opportunity for early intervening. We know that young learners who either need OT needs or speech pathology

033or might be on the autism spectrum disorder that the earlier you intervene, the better. And so there's this opportunity to start to screen students, do lighter touches, which would then provide them an opportunity for more general ed inclusion all the way through their experiences. So, but it's very early and we're building it as we go. Thankfully, we have so much internal expertise having been in the early learning business for a very long time under Sudali's leadership and with these really strong leaders in place. So I look forward to some visits on campus, but we'll also field any questions. I had a question. I noticed that we have around 270 total enrolled and 170 is said in the T-calc program. Is the difference of hundred primarily due to the demand not being as much a capacity

034or both? Both. Their biggest wait list is five students. So there's not a huge wait list of people, but we don't want to over promise for parents when we don't have the right amount of staff. So we wait until we can get the current staff to get what we need one more. It's actually at a Rundle. So I should say Rundle has five kids on the wait list right now. As soon as we can get one more person hired, we can bring those five kids in. So we don't always take everyone after school. Not all students want to come after school. Some parents want to pick them up. A lot of it is when they have a sibling that's staying after school or an older sibling. And so parents want to be able to leave

035everyone there together and pick up at the same time. So not too big of a wait list, but again, we want to make sure that we're in the right ratios and that we can serve students. That was my question too. Anyone have any other questions or comments? I have comments. I'll start with a question. That made me wonder, do the other on-campus after school programs serve the TKers or they start coming in? So what we've done is we have really encouraged them to have the four-year-olds and TK students come to TK Health specifically because it's age appropriate. What they've realized is if you have a third grader and a four-year-old, it doesn't really blend well. So as you know, they can be really challenging. So the principals, as we started TKELP and as it's become

036a bigger program, have really supported families enrolling their students in the TKELP program as opposed to one of the other school programs. Now they will take them if there's a sibling. So if you have a second grade sibling and you really want your TK student together, absolutely we'll honor that. And it's really up to parents how they'd like to manage and where they'd like their students. After school, I think tends to have a little bit more San Carlos Belmont after school, have a little bit more TK with the siblings where ACE really says, no, we really want you to go into TKELP. So we work with them and work with families so they can have the right fit for their own kids. Yeah, great to have options. It really is. Can I ask a follow-up

037to that? Then if people choose TKELP and then do they get priority somehow to get into both programs? They're not locked out for kindergarten. Yeah, that was a big piece of this and we wanted to make sure that we give the names to both of those programs so that they can get in before any new students roll in and ask for space. I will just say as a former TKELP parent, also the guaranteed placement, that it was available to anybody who signed up on time. I guess there's a deadline, but that was also because ACE and after school can be very, it can be gone very fast. And so the fact that it was sort of like, you don't have to worry about that rush was also very comforting. And then it's a great, again,

038as a parent who's seen it in action, I think it's great. So it's a really good program. It makes me wonder though, like so, because the capacity at ACE and after school, I think the demand has always exceeded the supply, right? And then now we have a whole new TK class. So it's grown, like you said, plus 70 from last year. So if they are on this list to then go into ACE and after school, then there's going to be. So what we look at is capacity. And so we have for ACE specifically grown them by rooms based on what their needs are. And so they just have to get licensed for more rooms. We have to have the teachers agree to let us borrow a room or use a half a day room. So

039we do a lot of it every year. I end up changing their contract for what they're renting from us because they just grow every year. So it really is, we tailor as much as we can so they can not only have the space, but the staff. Because again, it is really hard to find staff for that little half day timing. And so they've done a great job. And one of the reasons why we decided to split and have two different providers instead of just one provider was because of that, because they have different pools of people they draw from for staff. It gives families different options. If you can't get into one, then you can possibly get into the other. It really works well. And then just adding TK help on top of that to

040take off those extra 160 students off the top of the ACE and San Carlos Belmont after school has been really helpful. So we do expand almost every year and part of why we need new facilities because we are running out of space. And the teachers have been amazing. We share it every single school except for a Rundle this year. TK help has its own little room. But other than that, we are sharing classrooms and typically the TK teacher classrooms. So thank you TK teachers. And I feel like I met a lot of TK aides who are also then go and work at TK help. Right. So we definitely hit them up the minute they get higher than they come into interview for the daytime position. We say, Hey, would you like some extra hours? And

041so we're always recruiting, always recruiting, recruit paras that work during the day during at the other school sites. Preschool, typically our preschool staff, they're full time. Sometimes we have one or two might be a part time that we can poke or steal from them. We have a lot of elite staff that roll into our program after school as well. So we're working on it. Yeah. Yeah. I just wanted to recognize and thank all of you over there for making this happen. Cause I feel like just a couple of years ago, we were looking at this thinking where are we going to put all these kids? How many are there going to be? Are we going to have to do morning and afternoon? How are we going to make this work? So the fact that they're

042all in classrooms, they have this cute little furniture and made it work and made it work really well. I just can say thank you. Thank you for that, Sarah. The things behind the scene and previews of coming attractions. We have been doing lots of visits to gold standard preschool programs and learning. And it was, I can't remember who said this, but Leia's program was compared to Bing, which is a Stanford program, which is, it's really meaningful that now that's being recognized. Our inclusion grant was a really high scoring grant that was funded pretty high and has a lot of attention on it. So there's that opportunity, but I'm just really excited about the ways in which we're trying to do the best practices and provide this full service because it's also a huge service to

043our working families that they can trust that their children are on a campus with the very best activities and educators. One preview of coming attraction is partnerships with higher ed so that we can start building our own teachers as well. I was at Fulton College or Kenyatta, that you were Kenyatta. And then Leia and I had to talk to this employee union high school district and could we create a track for some of those youngsters who could get some internship hours. I think there's a real opportunity to start creating a pipeline of the educators. So thank you for acknowledging that it's been really deliberate efforts. I know that there are some districts who are really struggling with this implementation, but we embraced it. And there's just so much evidence in how strong it is right

044now. Just having seen the whole landscape since I got here and after school being like whoa what are we going to do in general previous to TK. It really is a thing. This is Amber's expertise area and then she just shines in it. I have to be totally honest and we're in such a much better place than we were seven or eight years ago with aftercare period. But you know the vision being carried out is really it is as as Jennifer's is very unique and we're in such a good position as we are. There's never going to be enough room for everybody. And I think that's the case everywhere. And we've really come close. It's been really fun to watch. And we've been on this for a while but I just want to celebrate the

045bunnies classroom and the comment you made Leia that if you just peeked in the door you would have no idea what funding source or referral or how that kid ended up in that classroom. That they are all there benefiting from the same early learning high quality early learning. That's really the dream. So I'm so thrilled to see us watching that. Okay moving on. Well let me check for public comment just to see. I don't see any hands. Moving on to item five B measure H bond issuance overview. So with that amazing program and everything going on with the early learning we need to make sure that the facilities are up to date and support those programs appropriately. So we have measure bond measure H bond update for you the issuance. So the first series of

046bonds generated 50 million dollars for the district about half of that will be expended on the HVAC project to avoid costs of Jennifer Gabri has done an excellent job setting up the next two projects with an accelerated timeline. These projects are the building envelope and the TK expansion projects which we know we're in desperate need of. The project costs for these two will exceed the original plan of series B measure H bonds of 50 million dollars. We have asked EGENT and so Jenny Bruner is here to do an analysis on bonding capacity for the district to meet the needs of these projects. We're looking at 75 million dollars for series two sales. So at this time I'd like to bring forward Jenny Bruner most of you know her if you have not she's with EGENT

047and I can help you want to pass it on I can help you pass it on. Right good evening for superintendents how are you all doing? For superintendents have it thank you for having me here tonight thank you okay now is that better okay sorry about that as you've heard we're here to do a refresher on measure H nothing to vote on or anything just purely to give you an update on where we are as you've heard the district has a need to expedite the amount of series B so just wanted to give you an update and kind of a background on where we were and where we are now so no electronic copy oh okay no problem I think we have hard copies so we can work with that so on page two just

048an overview on measure H the district's voters passed the election in March of 2024 for 176 million dollars the bond measure has its own tax rate of 30 dollars on page three we have a history of the district's assessed valuation as Dr. Frentris mentioned the district's assessed value came in higher than we've projected and it consistently does San Carlos is unique in that way and really San Mateo County has seen good growth this past year where we've seen other districts not grow at all so this is very significant the district grew 6.2 percent the most recent year we actually just got this data last week so very fresh and when we make any assumptions about bonds issuances going forward we look at your historical data so you can see your 20 30 40 year averages

049all over six percent so very healthy growth and we don't assume you're going to continue to grow at that high amount we use amount lower than that but still in line with kind of what we expect to see going forward oh perfect okay and on page four we have a summary page of interest rates we were all spoiled by COVID times of very very low artificially low interest rates as you can see on the far right chart you can see interest rates around that two two and a half percent range and then we saw increases from there on out most notably we saw an increase of April 2025 when the tariff policy was implemented so you'll see a sharp jump up there and then some stability since then but if you look historically back on

050the left hand chart these interest rates may seem high because we've just seen them increase you know so quickly but they're not historically high it's still a great time for districts to borrow municipal bonds if you were to issue bonds today you'd be in the four and a half percent range which if i could get a mortgage at four and a half percent i'd be happy that said the fed has indicated that they may lower rates twice this year we're hoping that happens but no indication so far when that might occur on page five this is a snapshot of when measure h was originally structured it is very common for us to structure an election equal issuances every couple of years and then once the district hits the ground running and has projects has a

051timeline gets costs that changes entirely so this was before voters passed the election we had planned for five issuances of about 35 million dollars the whole program spanned about 12 years fast forward to the series a issuance in on page six here the district issued 50 million for the first series you can see our interest rate assumption for the program was four and a half percent series a came in just under four percent so already outperforming our estimate and we had assumed growth of four percent and av grew about five and a quarter so again outperforming our estimated metrics at that time we had planned to issue 50 million in 2026 with equal 38 million dollar issuances subsequently thereafter but again we're here to change that which again as i mentioned very common for districts

052to change their plan as you know information and cost estimates come in as you've heard there are um some cost savings to moving these projects along faster we're seeing incredible inflation right now with projects so it's great if you can push them forward get them done sooner so the district has a need to issue 75 million for this upcoming issuance we've estimated for the interest rate of the program to be about 4.7 percent as i mentioned interest rates are a little bit lower than that if you were to issue today and hopefully they go down a little bit more but you can see on the top right chart these series b bonds are represented by those green bars and then we would fill in two smaller issuances 25 26 million a couple years later again

053that plan can change but that is just our projection for now and that is my last slide on measure h so is there any questions on the bone program i just one i noticed the repayment ratio increases a little bit um if we turn to this more aggressive schedule can you just talk a little bit about kind of the trade-offs there and sure we fit relative to other projects you work with repayment ratio is your total borrowing cost divided by your principal amount the state has a legal limit of four to one so yes we have estimates that have kind of went up from around level under two to one to up to around two to one so you're very well below the state maximum that said when you push up the issuance amounts and

054you put a little more pressure on your program on the later issuance you're deferring the principal a little bit that said it only happens like that if our assumptions do come into play as we've laid them out as you've seen san carlos tends to outperform our projections as you saw on the measure or series a issuance the interest rate came in lower that helps us lower the repayment ratio so these are hypothetical it is a matter of kind of how we've structured it but every time we go to issue a series of bonds it will get reassessed and we'll look at the most you know economical way to structure it so hypothetical could change but still very low borrowing rate of two to one thank you jenny can you do a just a little reminder

055of the ways in which this board has saved voters money when we can restructure which we've done a couple of times right the district has taken every opportunity to refinance whenever there is an opportunity to save taxpayer dollars every time bonds are sold they are sold with a call provision typically around 10 years so that you can go out and refinance those bonds 10 years later the district did so last year with their series a issuance we are currently monitoring another series if interest rates do come down a little you may be able to refinance an additional series with the series b issuance so taxpayer savings on a prior one coupled with your new issuance it also saves tac the district staff time when we're able to do those together can you talk a little

056bit about so if i just understand the general structure of the debt limit essentially that we base it's tied to the assessed value and the thirty dollars per hundreds thousand of square foot how much are we bumping up against our limit with the 75 if we if we move to the 75 million as a series b how much are we bumping up against that limit and what does that mean for a series c issuance essentially you know how long do we think we're gonna have to wait until being able to go back out again obviously it depends on growth it depends on the amount but just kind of is the may 2029 projection sort of the earliest that we think is that sort of middle of the road where does that land us so if

057you look at the table on the top right of the most yes this one you see how those green bars get close to the top and it doesn't leave as much space for the blue bars so you're confined by that thirty dollar tax rate if your assessed valuation grows beyond what we've assumed here of 4.75 next year and five percent that space becomes bigger so if you outperform this and grow six percent again maybe you can get the next set a year earlier it's hard to know because it depends on that and also interest rates please interest rates come back down you could also access maybe additional dollars sooner or a larger amount if we see assessed valuation not outperform and interest rates come in higher that's where we'll see a delay in accessing the

058next issuance we haven't seen that with san carlos in history but there's always the chance that said it doesn't impact that you can get those dollars just the timing or how much sure okay thank you i have a kind of related question so the reason why we pick 75 versus in order to if you add up the 30 or 30 million plus 61.5 plus 35.9 which are the three projects that adds up to more than 125 million which is what the amount is or we're trying to collect so i guess my question is i don't know if i'm being clear but like the reason why we're not collecting let's say what would be the right amount 77.4 million or something amount is because we've we're at the very maximum we've hit that i think this

059is more of a jen question yeah how's jen going to make it work yeah exactly yeah i guess though but it's more it's also related to right if she's estimating that the cost is actually higher than you actually be actually more than 75 million yeah how like we can't ask for more than 75 million it's like you can um so i think jen has a plan we do have a plan okay um and jen can talk about it a little bit uh and we did expect to do it a little bit longer presentation eventually just as a reminder we don't have a resolution today we're giving you information we think that that's helpful to kind of set the stage and we will come back and talk about this but as a reminder we have things

060like developer fees we have savings on our projects because there's uh first of all by going fast those cost escalations that were built into our facility master plan we're still using that pricing for all of our planning but we're finding that they're more efficient um jen is there more that you would add to this and we know that we can do the first two but we might have to schedule out one for a little bit longer but we have plenty of space for everybody and we're okay to do that and we may do that we could put that in the addendum essential so every builder who responded to our rq is aware that this could happen and has plans for how to make it happen you can also save on construction costs um you can

061save on the other projects so that we might get that money that we expended back from other projects because they came in at a lower below budget and so um maybe i'm seeing that potentially happen with our h5 project and so that that's great and we might get so we are planning you know for those kinds of things we also have a backup plan in case we can't do it at the time that we want it to our timeline was dated but we uh also understand we may use that flexible um given the and knowing that we're making the decision to not think about a potential project but things may change just like we weren't expecting to come back at this point um you know to talk to jenny again about should we more when

062we made the initial plan but now that we have more hard costs and we are hoping to avoid a lot of the cost escalation that we built into our facility management by getting these projects done faster and so those are our goals for all three of them that we have okay i would be expecting that question well that's right it's ready okay make sure we talk about everything at the right agenda item too so so any other question thanks thank you thank you thanks jenny for coming all the way from seattle to i know you've heard sorry but you can stay just in case i'll stay yeah and i looking in zoom there are no public comments and move on to the next agenda item five c which is the annual report per board debt

063issuance and management policy 3470 thank you so this is a requirement that districts have to present to the board the debt assurance and management per policy 3470 so the district currently has over 140 million and outstanding general obligation bonds with the most recent issuance being the measure h 2024 series a bonds this report does show that the bonding capacity is only 57 million but that was based on a 24 25 assessed value and as you heard that assessed value has increased to 6.2 just recently i think august 13th is when that new number came out so this gives the district like you saw in the presentation a bonding capacity of 78 million and we could have had this um report redone and i guess that's something that i could have asked to do but i

064just missed that so it's a little bit out of date in regards to the assessed value from the information you just saw the district remains at a double a rating from the three major credit rating firms that's moody's standards and poor and vinch this reflects confidence in our fiscal management the triple a ratings are typically reserved for community funded districts so lcff districts i don't think i've seen one with a triple a rating so the double a rating for an lcff district is the highest that i've seen in the state so which is excellent finally i want to note that the district remains fully compliant with all post issuance requirements ensuring proper oversight and stewardship of the bonds and the board doesn't need to do anything correct and this is not an action item this

065is just an informational item reported to the board and there's no action needed at this time any questions or comments thank you well no public comment okay um moving on to oh we're now on item 5d which is the san carlos charter learning center local control account accountability plan budget overview for parents and the 25-26 budget and that i will turn over to hans and well yep i'll start and then ralph will do his piece about the budget um as you know uh our primary um one of our primary jobs as overseers to oversee and look at their l cap and make sure that they're meeting all of the statutory pieces that our l cap has to meet and any other local control accountability plan in the state um last year there were some suggestions

066that we made um and frank fran and his team has incorporated all those suggestions such that they are now meeting all of those and all the statutory pieces for their 2025-26 l cap annual update i'll hand it over to ralph yeah thank you as uh hans mentioned as as authorized agency it's our responsibility to review their adopted budget for 25-26 and their multi-year projections so very similar to how the county reviews our budget and our myp uh we have uh completed that review and uh based on that review uh we feel that they are in good position to meet their obligation and meet their uh the current subsequent two fiscal years based on the assumptions included in the proposed 25-26 state budget so we feel that they have done a good job in reporting and

067they ask us for help if they need it but they have not needed the assistance and again this is not an action item this is just an informational item for the board anyone have any questions or hans or ralph no um um the comment okay um now moving on to section six which is discussion and action the items in this part of the agenda will end with the board vote prior to the vote staff will present and briefly describe the decision the board is being asked to make and then board members can ask questions comments or have a discussion we will also take public comment and possibly deliberate some more before we come to a vote so the only item in this section today is um 6a tk expansion project at arundel heather makers and

068jennifer gabrie to talk about that thank you so very much for um having me tonight as i can bring this to your attention and hopefully we can um have the third and final project that we're kind of getting off the ground in this year um so thank you very much for being so fleet of but um so tonight i would like to offer the tk expansion project for your consideration so we are looking forward to building spaces for all of the learners you just learned about um we do have a lot of healthy participation in our program in our early learning spaces we want to create a space that reflects current innovative practices things that we know to be good for young people and i have an excellent team that i learned so much about

069tonight during their presentation as well as to their plans and we'll draw upon their expertise as well as expertise of our board members who i know also share a passion for this so um tonight we have gone through a rigorous process i'd like to bring to your attention with the rfp rfq rfp process we had a robust response to our job walk and we had about 11 different firms show up for our job walk that was mandatory which was really healthy and as a result of that we had five competitive proposals that we received um that we went through our consideration for best value procurement method we um through the interview process we were able to get to know the shortlist a little bit better and so um we were able to choose a winner

070on the bidding process and so scored and they are here tonight so we have core lyonakis as um that we're presenting and tonight we are funding we are asking for approval of the resolution that allows us to do the design build a process delivery method and then we are committing to the design costs at this time so i wanted to make you aware there'll be a gmp then you know the guaranteed maximum price that you've experienced in the previous projects at a later date so tonight we are simply just committing to the design cost um with with the firm that was chosen through our process and so um that amount is two million two hundred and thirty eight thousand and four yes would any steering committee members like to share their experience with this process

071very involved i think that's me um i was involved in this process uh i guess i have a few comments i'll i'll i'll share so first i think just a bit before jumping into the specific project i just want to say you know it's been amazing just to watch jen your work in getting all of these projects going in parallel so as we're completing one set of projects this summer we've already teed up the uh building envelope project and now we're kind of looking at the one you know behind coming in behind that one but having all the lead-up things that take have to happen before you can actually go out and build anything uh means that we're giving ourselves the right schedule and time to actually do all that work and so um i

072really appreciate the pace at which we're going i think it's it's been great um you know as we were just talking about with the the bond measure getting all these you know bond is a set amount so we only have this much money so the sooner that we get all these projects going of course they provide the benefit of why we're doing doing these projects but it's also we're getting ahead of the escalation ahead of you know even some of our little bit of our budgeting and so we can deliver more projects um out of the facilities master plan as we know measure h doesn't cover everything in there so this is kind of um really really great progress um and then you know getting to sort of the specifics uh so i was part

073of the interview process and there's uh out of the short list that all three teams were incredibly impressive um they've all done these kinds of projects before and really kind of brought their a game i think everyone kind of we heard repeatedly about the collaborative environment that the genifers have set up for for working with the district and i think that's kind of led to the interest that we've had uh from sort of the industry and so attracting continuing to attract kind of different companies to who want to come and work with us um and what i really liked about the core and leonocas teams is you know you could see that they've really done this before this is sort of bread and butter for the kind of work that they do they start with

074a kind of proven designs and projects that they've already completed that are out there and being used and then they work with our team to customize and really make it what we needed to be here they had clearly done you know really thoughtful look at each site thought about sort of temporary housing they thought thought about sort of the challenges um at each location and so i'll just say from my uh being part of the interview process um that i have you know really great confidence in their ability to to do this and then they're going to be a a great partner for for the district and so i'm excited for them to this uh for their team to be brought forward tonight and for them to get going on on the project so um

075really really great uh outcome here thank you lords and thank you for your participation as well really helpful have the insight yeah sure um are there any questions related to the project or as i kind of alluded to in my comments related to the other board item i wanted to say that you know we do have a a broad stroke of you know how we when we would like to get this done but we also know that many things change we also want to build classrooms that we actually need so these estimates for the classrooms that we need were based on what we need maybe now we're in the spring of last year so you know by the time we get to the building stage or to the dsa stage or the discussion stage we

076really want to analyze all of our needs is that number still ring true is that how many we really need to satisfy our spaces and our interests you know as far as what who goes where in our buildings and so um i just wanted to share that as well because it's it's definitely something that is you know you try your best in the design phase to come up with what you you believe you're going to need and you know but it's really the design phase and the and the work we're going to do together hopefully that allows us to build the project that fits our needs um and what our projected needs are too so it will it will it will be a lot of analytical thinking and to your point we have to get

077in line at dsa the code is about to change in december and i know there's a lot of interest in getting projects and design submitted before december 31 and so um that is another point that we've been kind of trying to factor that into our pace here that's fast yeah yeah to state the obvious it's fast but can you remind me then is that the timeline for the design is that something we're striving for is to have approval by the end of the year so we're hoping to have a very interactive process with the schools that are going to have these buildings put on there so that we build things that are in the best interest of the communities that we are serving and so we do plan you know if you know this goes

078through tonight um to start immediately with that that's you know getting the buy-in and the interest and the brainstorming visioning from the school sites and from the communities so that we can you know meet everyone's expectations and also build spaces that make sense for the terrain and for the habits of the school and all those things that factor in that's very important work um but it's fun you know it's very engaging for people to imagine what could be in the space that they have there so um we will get started with that as soon as possible and then um try to come up with some plans there's always iterations of the plans there are some some things to consider with um you know some reuse of design plans it does save us money with the

079design costs and so we would want to consider that as our path forward and that sort of was part of the proposal so they've tried they've built these buildings before they they know what they're building they know how it's going to serve the community and you know we can adjust it to some extent but we also want to every decision that we make adds a little bit more to either the design or the materials or the construction cost and so while we want them to be personalized we also want to make sure that we are designing within our budget because we do have a lot to accomplish with this bond and we certainly want to give our our you know community exactly what they um what they asked for when they voted yes for it

080so so as part of our early learning program expansion we started with the dce task force four years ago and as i referred to earlier we have done visits so jen had us hard at work going to see sites that we liked and bringing back ideas we took preschool and tk teachers on these site visits and so what will be easy is to convene these folks look at some of the available design elements and you know we already have some good ideas i think the hardest thing for some people is they think that the portables are permanent and so we have to keep reminding them that's temporary housing like renting these we're going to replace those but the people who went on visits with us we saw some beautiful things over at stanford for instance

081they realized we're going to build something really elegant that is more consistent with what we'd like to see for our early learners other than portables just maybe an obvious thing i just want to confirm the reason why white oaks is not listed here is because they have sufficient capacity correct to expand yes and then if you look at the facilities master plan their their additional building if you will isn't until phase three so we know it's not going to be part of this fond measure and so are there any other questions i will check it's exciting public comment yes very exciting and i just want to confirm that what we need to do is kind of approve both entering into the design build contract with core and also the initial design cost note that are

082they are they can we just do um yeah authorization to to enter into the contract and also the resolution we just can i move to approve item six and everything that goes with it we don't need to be more precise than that that that what you recommend or two separates well that's one item so i want to i just wanted to make sure we're clear on what because the item is presented as approving the resolution as the contract i think the resolution states that we're entering the contract so we just need so i think we just need to approve the resolution because it includes it includes the amount that you're committing to and it describes the process and um i do believe it's the contract is just there for support for you to understand the

083resolution is what gives you authorization to enter to execute the design build contract and take any and all actions that are necessary to carry out give effect to and comply with the terms and intent of this resolution okay we just need so i think we approve the resolution yeah yep yep you do the rest just want to make sure we improve the right thing yes yes is there a motion so i would like to move up the resolution under items well i checked but i don't know if i verbally said that i checked um i will second okay thank you um all those in favor say aye aye okay so the resolution passes five zero thank you oh you're welcome we uh would it like to invite um michael keller who's here tonight from core

084um to just share you know a few brief words if you'd like you can sit here i just really wanted to say thank you for bringing us on as your building partner we're really excited to serve you in this project we look forward to future opportunities of course as well we want to show you you know and provide you everything that you need to make this project the most successful it can be for really the end users who are the kids at the end of the day right and the teachers and staff of those campuses as well so our team will be extremely collaborative we will work hand in hand to make sure that whatever the the goals are as we go through this process are met and that you are delivered everything that you

085need that's fine thank you thank you for coming to me thank you thank you now we'll move on to item seven a which is future agenda items identified one future agenda item will be a revised board uh meeting calendar because we will be juggling some things given the upcoming uh conversations around parcel tax for instance uh and we find that we may not need the september uh board study session so we'll make sure that we bring that forward very excited did we determine that we do need to approve that as a board every time we change the calendar every time we change the calendar i thought we did okay i wasn't sure yeah we'll confirm that thank you sir for bringing that up and then our next board meeting is actually the board retreat which

086happens on monday september 8th and then later that week on the 11th we have a regular board meeting so thank you in advance for spending two days the retreat are we going to be here um i think so yeah because it's school is already like in session so starting at that time might be um anywhere else might be challenging so yeah plan is here um okay now moving on to section eight communications eight a's public comment um so okay um so we can move on to eight b employee group comments i saw dan it should be called tired teacher comments yeah i took a nap earlier and i woke up and i thought i was in a coma oh my gosh so um i know you all work very hard hours too so i'd like

087to kind of say some of what i said at the back to school breakfast so i thank veronica rickson jennifer long and amber farina for organizing our breakfast and i thanked skeff for funding it and then i also thanked our uh administrators school secretaries custodians maintenance staff and district office staff for getting our schools up and running and i thanked jennifer uh frentress jankubori and ralph uh for and you the board uh for implementing measure h and um i also thanked the voters of saint carlos for passing measure h and in my speech to the teachers and all staff i said that i'd been asking school boards for 10 years as president this is my last year as the president um that um i'd been asking school boards over the years to cool us down

088and then i thanked jennifer and her team and this board for actually cooling us down and modernizing our classrooms and then in my speech i said uh applaud and wait so i actually made them applaud give us applause yeah because um i don't know i feel like in some ways people have started to expect that this is a normal thing to have air conditioning which it is but um for our district it's a really big lift and a huge accomplishment that's going to help our kids uh learn better it's going to make our learning environments better for teachers uh and so i just really want to celebrate all the work and effort that went into that from this board previous boards this superintendent um and uh so i really think it's amazing so um and

089i also acknowledged that in my 10 years as president that we lost some really great teachers like jan dresser kathy vinegar rhoda edwards and then also jean daner who passed away uh last week and so jean was my teacher jean daner at central middle school in the 1980s and then she was also uh my principal for one year she was an interim principal and um i think she and i were on a school improvement uh program fund or something through the state together because i was kind of a nerdy little eighth grader and um so she was an awesome teacher she taught a course called decisions and which was a kind of a cutting-edge course at the time about helping kids to make good decisions and ethics and she was an awesome teacher and so

090i know she's missed by many of us in the community and i'm just happy that she lived a good long life and she celebrated and uh she continued to give over and over to our district so um she'll be missed and i also told the teachers that uh i expect their help to pass a parcel tax extension which probably will be coming and with phone banking and i pushed them to maybe do a little more than they did for major h in the past so it kind of was a little tough with my members i also encouraged teachers to help with possible uh our possible state redistricting law to counterbalance the texas gerrymandering and then i encouraged teachers to celebrate um their roles as public school educators in a constitutional republic and i encouraged teachers

091to continue to teach their students to be kind respectful and responsible and that that sets them up to be good citizens and then i encourage teachers when age appropriate to teach the three branches of government the rule of law and um and then finally i just said that we have an amazing opportunity teachers to teach our students about kindness respect and responsibility and so um i just wanted to share some of what i said to them and i do hope you can all come next year if possible it is a great event just like tracy said uh it's the one time we're all together and you do get a real sense of what a special learning community and a small town that san carlos is and i'm really grateful to be part of it so

092thank you thank you dan um is there anyone from camilla on no iphone guest is no you might want to say a little louder okay um is there anyone here from csa to speak all right well then we can move on to board member comments i can go um just a quick thank you to our administrative team our school staff our teachers um for all you've done to get the school year started dan i know you're exhausted and all of your colleagues are as well it takes it's a huge lift um to get the school year off the ground so thank you for all you've been doing um i know it sounds like everything went well at every school and everybody had a great first day first two days um i also wanted to recognize

093jen gabrie and the facilities team for doing three huge hvac projects in eight weeks which is crazy and um just hugely appreciate you and what you're doing and i have to imagine that these past two days when it's been so hot that those hvac units are being much appreciated thank you dan we're coming for you next year anyone else have any comments okay um so as dan mentioned we have lost some education leaders um over the summer i think that um you're going to say a bit more about jean um but i wanted to take my time to talk about uh someone we lost from the larger san carlos education community who is stacy emery who was a leader in the charter learning center world um and i had the pleasure of knowing her over

094the last 10 or 20 years or so um so i'm gonna actually just read this because i might get emotional but um so stacy emery's roots go deep in san carlos having attended san carlos schools including the high school when that was still in existence here um she will be remembered as one of the founding educators of san carlos charter learning center over the course of uh charter's history she held several roles for the 26 years uh that she worked there she began as a middle school math and science educator transitioned to director of curriculum and resources and capped off her career as the executive director and then even after retiring she stayed on their board of directors um and i didn't know this but i learned that before uh entering education she was actually

095went to school and trained as a botanist um specifically a wetlands biologist um so as i said i was lucky to cross paths with stacy off and on through mutual friends i always found her to be witty and direct um and just so passionate in her love for charter but also in her passion for service to her community the last time i saw her we bumped paths at a democracy fair in palo alto and so i'll remember her smile her humor and her energy and i'm just going to read a little bit more from her remembrance page stacy was a titan of a human being it's impossible to express the sheer volume of love stacy brought into this world she altered the life of every single person she encountered she was never without a smile

096and her leadership inspired all those around her there was never a task she wasn't up for nor a fight she wouldn't back down from stacy led a tireless life of service to others from san carlos charter's very inception stacy was an instrumental force who gave her blood sweat and tears in pursuit of the school's vision she embodied lifelong learning and inspired everyone around her whether leading by example sharing her sharp wit with colleagues or ensuring every corner of the school was cared for so though she was not a part of our school district family she's part of our larger san carlos family and i just want to express my condolences to her husband and sons and all of her family and friends thank you for letting me take the time to do that thank you

097sarah um maybe i'll i don't know if i want to follow that yeah i don't want to follow that either but i mean so i learned about jean daner's passing actually at tuesday's um staff breakfast from from hearing from dan and it it really shook me and i i've only known her for three years and yet she had um quite an impact on me um you know i met her through neil latin when i was running for school board um three years ago and he's he kind of said you know when you see stuff getting done in san carlos when problems being solved you'll often find jean daner at the center of it and i thought he was kind of being hyperbolic but it turns out he was not she is actually like often a

098part of whatever is happening or was a part of what was happening in san carlos um she's contributed so much to san carlos and our community and our district our school district she started off as a teacher and counselor and sounds like she taught dan and probably many others who are part of this school district still um she was a vice principal at central and then finally a principal at arundel from 1997 to 2002 um she retired in 2002 but that didn't stop her from um staying involved right she continued as she was a substitute teacher for the school district she helped with developing the bus routes with sam trans she i think she was also part of the um alameda corridor i don't know what the official name is that project um she states

099she's deeply involved with the san carlos history museum um lions club chickens ball i mean you anything that has the word san carlos in front of it like she's basically a part of it right um and and most recently which was very recently she served as on the city centennial advisory committee like this was just so recent right she just continued to stay involved and know everybody like anytime she shows up like everybody knows who she is and um she's so welcoming and warm and um you know she she would be greatly missed and her impact on the community is immeasurable and um you know she's touched so many lives including mine and it was for me it was just kind of you know very i would say brief right she lived a long life

100um a great life in san carlos and contributed so much and um it's really sad to see that she's no longer with us but just wanted to take some time to recognize her life thank you for letting me do that we can go next um i think it's just a big thank you to a lot of folks in the community from the district um leadership to scaf to um the community for passing things like measure h i'm my my son started tk this wednesday um so first time parent in the school district in tk and just from the tk experience just the amount of events that were put together for parents to meet from picnics to i mean it was it was seamless which which is a good thing because we were obviously very nervous

101dropping him on the first day to the support we got from everyone supporting the tk program from jesse and everyone who just kept all our questions had a lot of questions had a lot of anxiety but it went uneventful which is an awesome thing um so just wanted to thank and i know that's just one program right like we've got so much in the district going on for every class um every facility there's like feels like so much going on at any given time um but just thanks to all the stakeholders because it really does take a village it seems like and we're doing it all together i guess i'll close out uh you know i think first thanks to everyone who you know district and teachers and staff for getting the school year started

102i mean it's i can't believe summer's over but uh here we go again um and you know i'm certainly excited to see what this school year will bring uh i guess the only thing that you know i'll mention is i also got a chance to participate in the heather welcome for the tk and and kinder parents and um it's i thought it was just a really nice event to you know help families meet each other get a better understanding of the district and the program a little bit hear from some of the leaders at the school and at the district uh level so um thanks to skeff for putting those on i think that's a nice addition to the you know the the playground events and other things that can happen on the way into

103into the school year so um i thought those were very nice thank you um now we'll move on to superintendent comments well i'm going to start and then pass it to hans i am absolutely bursting with pride at um all of the impact of moving forward together uh this governance team this leadership team has done so much and it i couldn't be more proud of the results that we see every day and one that we can celebrate right now is the heroics of our tired teachers thank you dan because our academic efforts are showing a big payoff in the early returns on our state test scores we intentionally focused on some groups of students who were not performing well through inclusive practice and we see the results of those and so i'm going to ask

104hans to share it you'll get to see more when it's official uh but it's just amazing to think of all the things we're doing at one time and getting these great results and it's really thanks to our educators yeah it is and um you know i agree with jennifer i'm i've reaped the benefits of hard work of people that um are so dedicated out at the school sites including our principals our teachers our para educators are i mean everybody is really banded together especially post covid in supporting our students and wrapping our arms around them and every year i have as you can imagine a little bit of anxiety around what is going what are they going to look like can we continue to grow um and this year as i compiled the numbers with

105um j i said wait a minute i think we have to look at this again um because there were gains across the board we went we are gains we gained in math we gained in language arts we gained in science albeit a point or two but when you're already at 80 or near 80 percent proficient it's quite a lift to get up above that number and the way we're doing it is that we're focusing on students that are most vulnerable and students with learning differences um and and it's it plays out in the numbers um one uh there were huge gains for students with disabilities in english language arts just enormous um and uh all of our other you know student groups um either maintained or very close to what they had or went up

106by a point or two and including our reclassified students that have been reclassified um through uh the process that we have in place almost to the point where they're scoring as high as the all students group which means we're we we we have we're making the right play that's what that means that the aggressive reclassification so many things we're doing are the right thing but above all um you know our themes haven't changed as jennifer mentioned the themes are working and the themes are strong relationships with students and families um creating a sense of belonging for all students and it just results in our learner profile and our strategic plan coming to life so it just gives me great pleasure to be the one to to break that news to all of you and as

107Jennifer said you'll have some more granular numbers as we move forward i wasn't going to do this but could i talk a moment about jean um so uh going into my eighth year here i met jean almost immediately after i um was appointed to this position and jean uh was immediately a supporter all right we're gonna we're behind you and we're gonna do everything we can to support you and she sat down with me and she gave me historical perspective and she you know said and you know there's such potential here and i just see you know you being just such a great piece of what we're going to do moving forward and i thought wow this is amazing and um she joined our leadership team that year she was um she was uh involved

108at arroyo as the interim principal at arroyo that year um as uh you know we had a vacancy come about and alex frill was doing both schools and we thought who better than jean daner to help fill in so just continuing those relationships she helped after that with things like yard duty and you know whatever she could do to help out and we maintained a relationship over that you know the last seven years to the point where we would go and have lunch a couple times during the year usually in the fall and then again closer to the summer or during the summer and i had the pleasure of seeing her on july 17th for lunch and we reconnected and she was so excited to be moving to the east coast to be closer to

109her family and had just finished the big lift of selling her home and and and cleaning it out and you know i just i felt compelled to let her know because i wasn't sure how much more i was going to see her period you know she was moving within the span of a month and i just felt compelled to say listen i want you to know how um instrumental you were to my success here in the school district and i was set up really well thanks to you and some of the other folks that you introduced me to and i said ultimately i want you to know that i'm a better person for having known you and i think she left that mark on many many many people in this community so on that note

110thank you thank you thank you um okay so uh we have no closed item so we can just adjourn this meeting thank you thank you