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Local call, please.

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Present. Here. Here.

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Here. Okay, thank you. Now we will move to the resolutions. Item number one is approval of Resolution 2782, the revocation of Resolution 2411, which was the state-funded travel restrictions.

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Why? One, two, three, four. So let's roll through that. Can I go to the next one?

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All right, so I'm going to go to the next one, okay?

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All right, approval of Resolution 2777, which is supporting Proposition 2, kindergarten through grade 12.

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Schools and local community college, public education facilities, modernization repair, and safety bond act of 2024.

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Do I have a motion for this?

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This is a little approval, it's a minute, second.

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This is prop 2, prop 2 approval, we're on right now.

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So we're voting.

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We have a motion, do we need discussion on prop 2?

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Oh, we have a comment, public comment on this, so let's hear that.

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Renegance, all is?

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There we go.

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Good evening, everyone.

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I would like

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to voice my support for Proposition II and the resolution, the submission of the resolution.

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I'd like to congratulate this new Board of Education for

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hearing the community and moving towards a better accountability with the people that run the school bonds in particular to safe work that was removed as a vendor last year.

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And I want to encourage this new board and this administration to continue to work

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there's better public accountability and create a citizen's oversight and reform

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committee that can see faults and create checks and balances for a better physical future

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and to get better accountability for taxpayer money.

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I want to also encourage this board to move, start moving towards electrification items

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and procedures because we're not in any waiting list as far as electrification.

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As you saw, LAU has unified school district is already moving towards changing its entire

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fleet to electric buses.

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is we're not on anybody's list and we continue to repair all vehicles.

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There's one on the agenda, $3,000 for a transmission on an old truck.

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It's not worth it, it's not worth tax payer money.

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So please start taking the steps to move towards electrification of the entire district.

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And get all the incentives that are out there because we're not like I said on any waiting list for that.

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Thank you.

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there any more comments?

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All right.

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All right.

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So for 2777.

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So I'm sorry.

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Was there a motion?

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Yes, Tina?

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It's to address electrification that the community actually got us to add more

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greening language and sustainability language into the bond.

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So hopefully we can follow through with that when it passes.

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if when it passes.

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I just want to say that hopefully that voters will support Prop 2 because it'll allow us the opportunity to receive some state dollars that will help us to extend an augment.

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Matching funds for existing projects here in the district and they'll be able to make sure that the dollars that we have allocated will be able to go further.

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So this is a good thing and let's go Prop 2.

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right, if we're ready then we can vote on favor,

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6-0,

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all right, we'll go back to B-1.

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Keep forgetting I can't move that until I've heard it off.

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So this is an amendment to a resolution 24-11, which the previous board passed a few years

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ago, in response to a state initiative to discourage California public employees from traveling

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to certain states, there was at the time a bunch of states that were passing fairly outright

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anti-LGBTQA laws and the governor proposed this framework whereby the Attorney General

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will maintain a list of states that had done that and then California agencies would

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reference that list and not travel to those states. We as board passed our resolution before

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or the Attorney General's website was up, since that time California sort of changed its tactics on how it wants to encourage other states to not pass these laws, they've revoked the statewide prohibition on travel to those states, and the Attorney General no longer maintains that website.

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So, Resolution 24-11 as written didn't make any sense anymore because there was no list

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to reference for states that had passed those laws.

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So we talked about this a few times at policy.

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I volunteered to write a version of 24-11 that would keep, I thought, the spirit of the resolution

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as we as board intended it when we passed it the first time around.

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While also making it something that would be something that district staff could actually support.

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So here before us is that amended language replacing 24-11 with resolution 24-82, and I welcome comments.

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We can make a motion.

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You're moving.

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I will move approval, yeah, sorry.

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I will second.

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And then no public comment on this one, is that correct?

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So thank

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you for this resolution.

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I actually wanted to strengthen it to affirm our commitment to LGBTQ students in the community.

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And this actually is in line with the board policy 4131, which is reference in the resolution.

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And I had the hard copies printed for all the board members, so like see a red line version.

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which includes the, it says it remains a policy of the governing board to promote fairness and equality and to combat discrimination, the district staff development program assists all staff and developing knowledge and skills to include sensitivity to and ability to meet the needs of diverse student populations.

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including but not limited to, and this is the part I'm adding, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning LGBTQ plus students, and it continues with the original language which is students of various racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, English learners, economically disadvantaged students, foster youth, gifted and talented students, homeless and at-risk students, board policy 4133.

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I'll accept that as a friendly amendment.

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And then later on in the agenda, we have the board policy that will change as well to

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reference the new resolution.

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I don't know if it has the number in it or not.

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It is on the agenda and we might just have to put in, well maybe we don't have to put any

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resolution number in, that could be.

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We just remove the language referencing the old resolution.

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So that's probably.

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All right.

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All right, are there other comments?

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Just a point of information is since he accepted the amendment,

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does the seconder also need to?

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All right, then all in favor?

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And this is item B1,

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all right?

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Any opposed?

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All right, six, and then we'll call you in a presentation or you want to?

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Okay, 70.

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All right.

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Next on our agenda is Resolution 2783 National Hispanic Heritage Month.

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I believe Mr. Dorado is going to kick us off.

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Thank you.

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I would like to recognize those who come in support of the resolution and Mr. Dorado's

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representation.

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We obviously know our partners from the city, but in this capacity, I'd like to introduce

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our co-chairs for the Pasadena Latino Heritage Committee, Lisa Barrios and Vania de la

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and then also Dr. Lisa Pettis, principal of Madison Elementary.

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So, for our speaker, Mr. Martino Rotto is a fifth grade teacher at Madison

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who we have been proud to acknowledge in multiple different ways in his teaching

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attitude, but he is also serving as one of the grand marshals for the

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testing Latino heritage parade this year. So, take it away, Mr. Dorao.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, just thankful for my school, Madison Elementary without Madison.

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I would not be the grand marshal, so go Eagles go.

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So first of all, this is an honor just to speak on behalf of Madison.

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Thank you for this opportunity for our school.

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In our resolution, the word that was most prominent to me was the word family.

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Because you see in my opinion, one of the primary things culture does is connect us with our families.

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Me culture is the language that we speak with our families.

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And it essentially encompasses everything that language and dialect we actually speak

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from everything from the food that we eat to the language that we speak.

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And so I wanted to share a brief anecdote on the importance of honoring culture in the classroom.

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Currently, I'm a bilingual master's program at Cal State LA.

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And last fall, I had to devise a lesson in which I was to prove my class to my class the

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significance behind honoring culture in the classroom. And so thankfully, it was spooky season,

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my favorite time of the year. And I thought of our Latino cultural folklore stories.

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and when and how I first heard them and so what we did was we compared common folklore stories

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with Latino folklore stories not to tell which is better because there is no answer to that there

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is no culture that's superior to another but what we did was we compared El Cucui with the booge men

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and what we found was that these two types of folklore stories they have plenty of similarities

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But the fundamental reason why they were not equivalent was because their families were the ones that shared these cultural narratives with them.

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Going to the grocery store with mom, spending time with grandpa, talking to dad about spooky things when he got back from work.

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Failing to honor these cultural narratives and attempting to replace them with equivalencies would be like disrupting these memories and connections our students form with their families.

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and so as a public educator it is crucial that we respect the cultures our

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students bring to the classroom and ask what we can learn from them and if we

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take into account for a quick second what culture encompasses we see that an

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integral part of it is language as well and so honoring our students' languages is

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just as important as honoring their cultures and so this resolution brings me

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great joy, not only as a proud Latino, Chicano, Mexican, but most importantly as a human,

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because it is a humanizing practice to honor everyone's culture.

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By honoring our students

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cultures, we will be honoring our students' connections to their families and thereby their

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own individual identities. Thank you.

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Thank you very much to our distinguished guests. Thank you for all the work that you

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and community that thank you to the school board.

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Board at Pasadena Unified, not only for creating and supporting this resolution, but for attaching

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curriculum for schools that support instruction in all of our school sites.

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I want to talk a little bit about the term Hispanic that, while commonly used, is deeply rooted

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in a colonial history of Latin America.

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It emphasizes the Spanish colonial influence,

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often at the expense of erasing rich and diverse indigenous

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and after descendent cultures that have existed

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long before colonization and continue to thrive today.

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The continued use of Hispanic without proper recognition

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of these groups can perpetuate marginalization

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of indigenous and afro Latino communities

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whose stories and contributions are integral

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to the fabric of Latin American identity.

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And in many cases, the original cultural authors

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of many of the artifacts and sounds and movements

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of resistance that we use to celebrate are joint

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and communal experiences.

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So it is vital to include a specific acknowledgement

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of the indigenous communities that have contributed

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to the richness of Latin American countries and culture.

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And some of these include the Nagua, the Mayo,

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the Tetsal, the Mistecco, the Sapoteco, the Otomi,

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the Quechoa, Aymara, Guarani, Mapuche,

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Kiccha, Tosol, Chol, Masateco, Tuttanaka,

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Misquito, Una, Tainos, and in addition,

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We must also recognize all of the Afro-descendant groups, including the Garifuna groups in Honduras, Guatemala,

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Nicaragua, Belize, as well as all of the Afro-descendant communities throughout Central America,

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the Caribbean, Mexico, specifically in Guadrata. All of those who are deeply represented in our schools,

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and you can see it in the composition of our students undeniably.

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So, in fact, there are many of these groups that are under recognized as part of our Pasadena communities,

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and over represented in comparison to their populations in neighboring cities.

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So by explicitly naming and honoring these communities, we can move closer to a true

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decolonization of our cultural celebrations, ensuring that all voices that encompass the

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Latin American diaspora are acknowledged and celebrated.

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Thank you.

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I just want to make sure we recognize a very esteemed person in the room, Roberta Martinez.

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is yeah you can come up and I'm just going to introduce her this was sort of

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last minute but I reached out to her today because my daughter was volunteering

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at the library and during the summer and they tasked her with identifying 20 local

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Latina here, Latino heroes, and they gave my daughter a book to identify 20 people so

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they could create posters out of them.

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And so I asked my daughter, what book is this?

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And it was Roberta's book.

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And she wrote Latinos in Pasadena, so it's very local.

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And I just found out today that she and a handful of community members were the founders

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of the Latino Heritage Parade in Pasadena.

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So I do want to say, the little biography about Roberta Martinez is an actor,

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director, writer, and historian born and raised in East LA.

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She served as executive director of Latino Heritage, chair of the Arts Commission,

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and the Library Commission for the City of Pasadena.

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She served on the Boards of Army Center of the Arts, Pasadena Community Access Corporation,

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and Pasadena Senior Center.

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here, as well as she's been involved in the school district, PST 7 11 committee, school

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size and configuration study, superintendent search committee, and PST redistricting task

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force.

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And I don't have the language that you added to our resolution, but basically is a paragraph

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highlighting four local heroes, and maybe you can read that, but I also wanted to add Roberta

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Martina is into that list because without your book we would not have known about these heroes so thank you. Thank you for coming and

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I think it's here actually it's second to the last where as I think that paragraph.

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Okay, sure.

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Okay. So this all happened between about 10.30 this morning and now and it's been interesting.

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Okay, so one thing I want to do before I read this is to acknowledge a couple of things.

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Number one, it was my idea when I saw the Irish parade because I love things Irish.

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And I thought, my goodness, we have as many folk here who are Latino.

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We have all of these other parades, why not this?

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Luckily, I was working volunteering at the Latino Cultural Academy, Sandy Romero,

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knew the field rep for Councilmember Bill Crowfoot, who is now our mayor, Victor Gordel.

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And so we met in the office.

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He took the message back, and that was where that began.

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For the first 15 years, it was totally volunteer.

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On occasion we get monies from Northwest funds, and we would pay people who lived in the

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Northwest to do various and or sundry things. It was something that as time grew on, it was

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exciting to do it for 15 years. It was also tiring to do it for 15 years. And I was

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very happy that council members Steve Madison and city manager Steve Mermell were open to

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the idea of a conversation where I said, hey, what about if the city took it over and

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they did?

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And it's been a joy to see how it's grown and to see who the co-chairs are now and

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all of the wonderful things that they're doing this year.

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So there you go.

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And it's always about allies.

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I mean, that's the key.

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That's kind of what I'm hearing in what you've been doing in the six and a half minutes

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I was sitting back there.

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but it's all about the ally building and seeing the value, the shared values in

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experience, in culture and in just being who one is that that's how change

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gets made. I'm wearing the wrong glasses but here we go. The last paragraph you

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wanted?

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Okay. Whereas the Pasadena Unified School District Community is home to

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highly accomplished Hispanic.

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Latino leaders, including Chicana Roberta H. Martinez,

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writer, historian, and founder, Latino Heritage Parade,

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many Perez, the first Mexican-American

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P.U.S.D. teacher, Puerto Rican,

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Yvette Lightfoot, who co-founded P.U.S.D.'s

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Elementary Foreign Language Program,

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which also became the key for foreign language

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which being taught via television.

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It started here in P.U.S.D.

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and Ilias Galvan and Ms. Lightfoot, I never met her,

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were the people who actually started it.

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Filimon Gutiérrez, the first Chicano P.U.S.D. board trustee,

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who was nominated by Elbe Hiccombatum

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and seconded by Marge Wyatt to be on the board.

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and Ramon C. Cortinas, who was the district's first Latino superintendent and had ten years total

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as superintendent during some very trying times here at PUSD.

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Those are the paragraph and what this actually began with was I was telling Tina,

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I want to give a copy of my book to each of the high schools.

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so I have five copies here for our five high schools, so I don't know who I should give this to,

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and thank you very much.

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I look forward to seeing and hearing what you're going to be able to have come out of these books, including, I hope, the recognition of Hunipero-Sederah School and Chihuah-Witha Schools, which were two of the established schools as segregated Mexican schools.

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that was part of what was happening during the Southwest and also recognition of the deportations

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that took place in the late 1920s and the early 30s continuing when nearly a million Mexican

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Americans and American citizens were deported. The American citizens were 60% of those who were

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were deported?

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Well, if I may add, it seems fitting that it was the Irish that inspired you because

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the struggle for the liberation of the Irish worked in partnership with the liberation

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of many other countries and movements throughout Latin America, including Puerto Rico and the

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out.

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Did the co-chairs want to give us a brief update or information about the upcoming event?

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Good afternoon. P-U-S-D school board and staff. My name is Lisa Barrios Isa Guiree

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and I am a proud alum of Marshall Fundamental, joined by Vania de la Cua,

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proud alum of Blair High School. Today we join you as co-chairs of the 2024 Pasadena Latino Heritage

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Parade and Festival. It is a pleasure to be here this evening to invite you and the entire

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PUSD community. Those are there here to the 26th annual Latino Heritage Parade and Festival

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that will be held on Saturday, October 5th, starting at 10 a.m., the route will actually

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start at Madison Elementary along Los Robles and conclude at City Hall. This year's theme

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Somos, pasadena, seguimos, lo reciendo.

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We are passadena.

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We keep flourishing.

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Ames to highlight the growing Latino community's contributions to the city and country.

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We brought fires in English and Spanish that list the free and fun cultural celebrations

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for you all to join us.

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That will be held during the month.

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And again, just want to thank you for the opportunity and also we cannot be here without

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those that came before us.

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So, thank you for the opportunity and we look forward to your participation.

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Yes.

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I think my colleague said it all, but thank you all for having us here today, and we really

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do look forward to seeing you all in the parade.

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Each of you, some fans that get a little bit hot out there, but really want to also recognize

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Mr. Louralo and his words because I think it's what he's talking about in terms of our culture,

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celebrating all culture, honoring all culture, and being present for it is one of the biggest

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parts of our parade.

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That's what we want our community to see, we want our kids to see.

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And we are thrilled that we're going to have Ms. Lilerado writing with astronaut Jose,

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and on this, sorry, and we're hoping to have Jose and on this come to Madison Elementary

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on Friday.

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So the kids can see themselves going up the space with an astronaut, it'll be great.

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but thank you all again for the support. It means the world to us and as proud of Lums,

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thank you again. And yes, by the way, let me know. All right, thank you.

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Did we have a motion

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in motion to approve.

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Second.

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There's one public comment. René Gonzales.

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Good evening again. I also brought some Mexican candy to share with you guys. You're welcome

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to take one. And so I'm going to hand it.

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And I'm wearing a hand made hat from the central

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West Coast of Mexico, Michoacán, and Guerrero called Tierra Caliente, that's where my

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mother was born, so this is from that region, and so I want to say that as we celebrate,

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we begin to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, I want to thank this board for the

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a continuous investment on or Hispanic culture and art, and encourage the implementation

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and then you will see the last one, the last one, the last one, the last one, the last one,

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A full mariachi program, as well as the continuance of a folkloric dance program in the secondary and on the high school level, because the students and families' time invested on elementary or folkloric dance should be valued in the continued investment on secondary academic should be implemented, otherwise it would not be fair for those children.

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and families, as well as, you know, like it's been mentioned many times, the Latino or

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Hispanic arts and culture implementation and the curriculum encourage children to

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feel more proud about their culture and arts.

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So with that in mind, I look forward to a great amount of celebrations and thank you very

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much for, you know, the continuous support for our culture.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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we vote and then have a picture?

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All right, all in favor?

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Pass the 7-0.

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All right, picture time.

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All right, is there any public comment for closed session?

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If there isn't, then we will recess the closed session.

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Thank you, everyone.

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To do the public announcement of closed session actions

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taken tonight, concerning item D1, case number 909-959

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by a vote of 7-0, the board took action

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to approve the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of a written agreement.

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Concerned item D2, case number 2023-110-330, by a vote of 7-0, the board took action to approve of the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of a written agreement.

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Concerning item D3, case number 2024, 020, 944, by a vote of 7-0, the board took action to approve the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of a written agreement.

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Concerning item D4, case number 2024, 040409, by a vote of 7-0, the board took action to approve the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of a written agreement.

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Concerning Item D5, Case Number 2024, 040476, by a vote of 7-0, the board took action to approve

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the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of a written agreement.

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Concerning Item D6, Case Number 2024, 041-148, by a vote of 7-0, the board took action to approve

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the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of a written agreement.

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Concerning item D7, case number 2024-070-053, by a vote of 7-0, the board took action to approve

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of the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of a written

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agreement.

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Concerning item D8, case number 2024-070-934, by a vote of 7-0, the board took action to approve

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of the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of a written

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agreement, and we'll adjourn close session.

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And then I will call us to order, roll call,

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here, here,

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here, presente, here, here,

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here,

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here, here, all right, next is the Pledge of Allegiance, and we'll have our student board

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member Leslie Chi, lead us,

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all right, we will have public comment.

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How many parts?

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The Board of Education acknowledges receipt of public comments via email.

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It will be made part of the permanent record of this meeting.

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There are five public comments.

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First will be Dr. Gilbert Welton, followed by Helen Morales, followed by Dennis Mathemara.

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Good evening, thank you for this opportunity to speak to you all.

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I did not go to school here in Pasadena, but I am a strong advocate for public schools.

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I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and I went to schools that were segregated, and we didn't

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have an option for private schools, charter schools, or any of that, and so public school

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actually changed my life.

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And what I want to speak to is, because of that, years ago, I was reading Thomas Street

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month's novel, the world is flat, basically. And in that, he was interviewed David Baltimore,

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the Nobel Peace-winning former president of Caltech, one of the leading scientific institutions

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in the world. And he said that he was shocked that almost all of their students came from public

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school. They did not come from private schools or charter schools. He was surprised by that because

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was we generally think of our schools as failing.

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And so what I wanted to speak to was the use

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of underutilized PUSD property

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to house teachers, students, workers, and the like.

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Because what made a difference in my life

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wasn't just the cognitive things that my school instilled in me,

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but it was the character shaping and molding

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that they did in conjunction with my family,

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so that a community is important.

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And so I just want to see the Pasadena Unified School District maybe think about that when you decide how to use this property for people who otherwise would not be able to afford to live here that we can have that kind of community that would be synergistic thank you.

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Helen Morales.

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Good evening, board members.

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Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.

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My name is Helen Morales, and I'm the Director of the Rent Stabilization Division for the City of Pasadena, a new department that was started as a result of Measure H Charter Amendment Article 18 of the Pasadena Code.

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And I do want to invite your community, all of our families, who attend the schools here in the City of Pasadena to come to our office.

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if they need assistance regarding rental housing matters.

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And in addition to that more specifically on October 9th,

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we will be having a tenant session at 6.30 PM at 199 South Robeless Office on the first floor to provide input to our board regarding relocation benefits.

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And so we invite our tenants to come on October 10th and

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And our landlords to come on October 9th to provide us feedback to our board.

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And again, I thank you for your time in consideration.

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And I look forward to helping all of our families and our children in the Pasadena Unified School District.

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Thank you very much, and I have my staff member here, Leon Ariano, who is here, and he will be doing our outreach and helping all of our families.

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Thank you so much, bye bye.

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Thank you.

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Dennis McNamara, followed by Sandy Leish.

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Thank you.

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My topic is the evaluation of the superintendent, and in particular the contract which is on the agenda for tonight,

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specifically referencing the evaluation of which I can find no public details.

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And to be clear, very clear, I am rooting hard for Dr. Blanco and her leadership team.

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Leading a school district, especially with our myriad challenges, is difficult.

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The evaluation of the role must cover a lot of ground.

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But it must prioritize progress meeting academic proficiency standards.

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The number one LCAP goal is proficiency across all core subjects.

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To my mind, that means the superintendent would be held to that goal.

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Following short is failing.

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Progress is admirable, improvement is wonderful, but full achievement is the goal.

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That means 90 plus percent proficiency in literacy and math.

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Understand it would seem unfair to the newly named superintendent to hold her to that standard given that she is inheriting such a low base, but it is even more unfair to our children to graduate them insufficiently prepared for the real world.

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If we don't publicly and explicitly set an America standard, we surely will never reach it.

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In prior presentation of the board, district leadership has stated the goal of a 5% improvement annually in academic proficiency in three years that would approximate 60% proficiency in ELA in about 55% in math.

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Can we at least hold the district and specifically the superintendent to this metric?

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This requires, will require, focused support from the board, hyper-focus, actually, full support and trust to knock down impediments to change in improvement, numerical standards.

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Publicly stated, publicly monitored, we owe it to our children, especially the children we say we care most about.

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I'll repeat my initial comment. I'm rooting hard for Dr. Blanco and her leadership team.

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I root harder for our students. Thank you.

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Sandy Lee Shope.

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Hi, my name is Sandy Lee Shope, and I am a leader at the church we hope for here in Pasadena. And I'm here to advocate for the use of unutilized school property, the USDA property for affordable staff housing. 11 school campuses have closed. Most of the 11 campuses are being rented to outside entities such as charter schools.

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The campuses are being underutilized in our financial liability to the district.

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And these sites are a financial drain on the district using them for affordable housing for

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the staff or student families will turn them into financial assets.

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Staff and student housing will make the school district stronger and more resilient.

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And we don't have to keep closing schools if we can help families stay in Pasadena,

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including families of staff who send their children to PUSD schools.

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Both teachers and other PUSD staff tend to send their children to PUSD schools,

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but only if they are able to live in the district.

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But sadly, many can't afford to live here.

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So they end up commuting from really far away places, and then their children go to other schools.

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So affordable housing for staff could change that.

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and affordable housing for PUSD student families can help reduce the loss of families that move out of the district due to the housing cost.

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Additionally, because PUSD owns the land, it can both provide affordable housing and realize a profit from this.

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And this additional income can be used to help fix remaining school sites which have severe needs for repairs and upgrades.

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Staff housing would also help pay for, help the lowest paying employees of PUSD.

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Many of them can't afford to live in Pasadena, and so then they end up having to drive

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really far away, and then having to spend a lot of time on the road, which they don't

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get paid for.

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So for all of these reasons, I would really strongly advocate that we be able to use PUSD land

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for affordable housing.

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Thank you for your time.

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Thank you.

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All

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right, that concludes public comment.

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Now time for a comment from labor unions.

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Michael Delion, would you like to go first?

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So good evening, President Kenney,

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school board members, super tenant, Dr.

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Bronco, audience members and my team

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should brother and sisters.

446
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So I'm back.

447
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So I've for a little while, but it's nice to be back.

448
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So I'm here this evening to address a couple of pending issues

449
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use impacting teamsters.

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I would like to share a quick PowerPoint in regards to the

451
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custodial concerns that were brought up at the last board meeting I attended on May 23rd.

452
00:48:47,260 --> 00:48:56,980
So, concern is a lot of things that were mentioned was sort of caught a lot of my members

453
00:48:56,980 --> 00:49:02,960
should have, especially my custodial members off guard when those comments were made.

454
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We actually had the custodial lead, I spoke to him that night that was at the time during that school and just surprised to hear what was said.

455
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So these are some of the kind of things that they deal with on a regular basis is just to show some graffiti that happens.

456
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So it's not on a daily basis, well it's actually on a daily basis, a cleanup in the morning

457
00:49:30,540 --> 00:49:35,560
in the graffiti passing periods and then they got to clean them all over again.

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So one of the comments that was made was that they're not being cleaned on a regular basis.

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They are being cleaned on a regular basis.

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They are being monitored on a regular basis.

461
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:52,240
Unfortunately, what you're having there is you have a lot of graffiti going on during

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passing periods, you have a lot of kids in there smoking weed during the time and there's a lot of

463
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vandalism. Our members cannot say anything to the students. So they simply have to respond to

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when that happens. And then we heard that while the bathrooms get locked. Again, that's not our membership.

465
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That's an administration call. So when a lot of things get too bad, they just lock them up.

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which again, not our call.

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So the thing was as a consultative concern to us that was not a custodial concern, it was an administration concern.

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Fortunately, I think that has been addressed because I gave an example over a John Muir high school that principal has no problems with his restaurant.

469
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:47,120
So again, I think a lot of times and over through the time I've been here, custodial my members shake this sort of thrown under the bus that this is not being done.

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I just want to share, there's a lot of other factors in it.

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So especially here, there's more to it, but I just wanted to share that with you real quick.

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So the other reason I'm here this evening is support the Workforce Housing Project at Roosevelt Elementary.

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The teachers consider this to be an additional employee benefit.

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An overwhelming majority of my members want to live closer to where they work and

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the land for staff housing, which they get to live in.

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00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,180
Cutting out commute alone is a major benefit.

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Less gas, soar into their day, allows them to spend more time with their families.

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00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:34,580
For these reason, building housing that's affordable for the employees on the land that school district owns, but it's not unique, it's a good idea.

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Affordable housing will be a net financial gain for the district.

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A US-PUSD land is not only a waste of unused resources, but also a cost of the district's money to maintain.

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Unused POC land is the drain on the school district's finances.

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The land is used for staff housing, and it will not only provide a valuable resource for staff, otherwise cannot afford to live in the air, it can also bring income for the district.

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Free and affordable housing option district can help attract talented education staff to the district and encourage long term retention and reduction in turnover rates.

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00:52:08,420 --> 00:52:13,940
This is actually what's currently taking place in Northern California school district.

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So, I also work in the Inglewood Unified School District.

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The County Administrator is trying to bring the same plan into his district and

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shared with me that he had visited the school in Northern California where this has already been implemented.

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00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,660
And have been able to provide housing for their staff.

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00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:40,020
They've been able to fully staff their school district because this is a big incentive of going to work for

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that district have the opportunity to work and to live within the district.

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So just that additional benefit is drawn people.

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So as we see this, there's all these additional benefits that come with this program.

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We simply see it as a win-win for everybody.

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Thank you.

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00:53:04,260 --> 00:53:05,220
Johnson Gardner?

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I would like to use the transition in between to congratulate our labor partners as we celebrate Labor Day and Monday.

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00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:13,660
All

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right, thank you, Dr. Blanco, and members of the board, and including our student board member, and members of the public.

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00:53:26,900 --> 00:53:33,700
I am bringing you our UTP Labor Partner comments for August 28th, we'll do.

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All right, so some successes.

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00:53:39,100 --> 00:53:43,860
I just want to make sure we start with that, because I know previous years that's not where I started.

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00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:49,620
But classrooms were cleaned, for the most part we've, I think it's brought forward.

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00:53:49,620 --> 00:53:56,560
some of the concerns when our sites are used by multiple programs during the summer it can be

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00:53:56,560 --> 00:54:02,260
hard for that to get dealt with and I think for the most there were a few cases but those have been

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00:54:02,260 --> 00:54:08,840
addressed and then curriculum was distributed to the sites it's a better plan but my concern is

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the way it was done was not sustainable but we'll talk about that in May so that we can make that

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00:54:13,500 --> 00:54:19,560
work but even better the HVAC systems though seem to be working which is really a big deal

508
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:26,440
because especially for how hot it's been in the last couple of weeks so I think I

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was hitting like I have to 10 emails a day about that previous year so it's

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really nice to have not have that. And then of course our teachers and all

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00:54:35,420 --> 00:54:38,360
their professional educators are giving of themselves for the benefit of the

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students and they're fully able to do that because there these problems are being

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met. Some concerns. So teachers and our professional educators are still being

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00:54:49,260 --> 00:54:55,140
told they have five additional video-based hours of training to do on their own time by September

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00:54:55,140 --> 00:55:00,520
6, even though HR has already stated that deadline is September 20. We've adjusted a few

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00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:04,960
of the sites, but I keep finding other sites where they have not yet been told. And so hopefully

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00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:11,260
that will be dealt with. But our big concern is that these five additional video-based hours are a

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00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:18,080
for us to have to do that on top of getting our classrooms going and our curriculum and all these

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00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:23,520
other things, it's a lot. So we are hoping that we can work on a better solution for the future

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00:55:24,060 --> 00:55:29,300
and that the other thing is if we're watching these videos every single year over and over

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00:55:29,300 --> 00:55:34,480
and over, they're the exact same thing. It's really hard for our members to justify that time.

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00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:41,060
POST bargaining team unfortunately was not able to meet with us until October, which is a concern.

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00:55:42,180 --> 00:55:46,560
We provided a number of dates and we're hoping to start in September, but I'll ask

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00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,240
Unfortunately, as of right now, the first dates are in October.

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00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:55,200
The POST UTP contract violations are not being addressed promptly.

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00:55:55,860 --> 00:56:02,740
We are hoping that this will quickly speed up, but because we understand at the beginning of the year it's really hard.

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00:56:02,860 --> 00:56:09,820
But there were a lot of issues with regards to placement of our teachers, the positions.

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And what subjects they were assigned and changes over the summer.

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And especially a lot of our psychologists had their schedules changed randomly without

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00:56:21,980 --> 00:56:22,640
following our contract.

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So we are hoping to address these promptly and quickly and hope that bringing it up here

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00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:32,920
but also making sure that our systems are followed so that we can get to a resolution quickly.

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00:56:34,660 --> 00:56:38,300
There was a district practice change this year that we're very concerned about.

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00:56:38,300 --> 00:56:45,420
So, we now have a split shift in child development for the first time in more than ten decade.

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Right now, the student, they come from 7 to 830 and then it's followed by a three hour break and

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00:56:53,640 --> 00:57:02,540
then 1130 to 6, which is 11 hours start to finish and it's borderline cruel to treat some of our lowest

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00:57:02,540 --> 00:57:08,280
compensated teachers in this way. And we hope that there will be swift, this problem of student

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00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,740
meeting care before school has existed for a decade.

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00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:19,240
It was dealt with previously, and now the change is to have that be on our members, our child development members.

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And we don't appreciate that, and we hope that there will be a much better solution come to quickly.

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And that we don't split our teacher's time in that way.

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00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:37,260
Superintendent's Budget Committee, so we appreciate that labor partners have a seat at this table.

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00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:46,180
Especially with our teachers, we want to make sure that we have a diversity of opinion

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00:57:46,180 --> 00:57:51,700
from within our ranks, and because issues on one side of town versus the other side

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00:57:51,700 --> 00:57:54,960
of town, different subjects that we teach different positions.

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00:57:55,780 --> 00:58:01,780
Unfortunately, we are only being a lot of one spot, even though there are more teachers

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00:58:01,780 --> 00:58:03,000
that are going to be on the panel.

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00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:11,880
We have no say currently in this election of those individuals that may be okay regarding

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00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:19,300
the letter of our contract, but it is not going to yield the best outcome for these budget

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00:58:19,300 --> 00:58:19,720
discussions.

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I hope that we will consider something different.

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00:58:24,180 --> 00:58:29,700
I really think that circumventing our unions in this process is undermining them.

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00:58:34,260 --> 00:59:01,860
We have been doing site visits now, thankfully this year I am able to be out of the classroom and visit all of our sites and we'll get to all of them very soon, but every single one I've gone to has had concerns and been told that they don't have supplies and they don't they have to share and they're going to have to rush their paper and while we understand that there are needs our teachers need to have what they need.

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to be able to teach their classes.

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00:59:04,260 --> 00:59:06,140
Some of this can be in the past,

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it's been like POs being processed too slowly,

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00:59:10,540 --> 00:59:11,680
so I don't know exactly,

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we haven't been able to get to the bottom of it,

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but we don't understand why year after year,

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00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:19,940
our teachers have to wait to have their materials,

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00:59:21,700 --> 00:59:24,680
they start teaching right away, they attempt to anyway,

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and if they don't have the materials,

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they need it, it makes it that much harder.

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Teacher time.

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So, POSD needs to value our teacher in educator time.

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Some of these critical POs that I just mentioned, but also, I don't want to speak to it on the

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mic right now, but there are some very concerning POs that need to be processed as soon as possible

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to make sure that our district doesn't wind up with legal liability, and that timelines

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are able to be adhered to.

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And I've sent emails, they weren't responded to, so hopefully that'll happen, but we really

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We need to make sure...

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We are working with our social education staff to meet all the needs that are out there.

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Shared decision making is a better way. The master's scheduling needs to be fixed. We only

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01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:23,680
had one school in the district to change their configuration dramatically, but the rest

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01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:28,760
of them there shouldn't have been nearly as many concerns, and yet there were. And since

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This may, UTP has offered to work with academics in HR and master scheduling, but we never

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01:00:34,580 --> 01:00:39,580
got something to work with, and so we were not able to help with the process.

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We need deeper conversations, long-term planning, and we can fix these problems, but cutting

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out UTP is not the way.

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Some potential solutions that are out there, some districts do this, they have thoughtful

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01:00:55,320 --> 01:01:00,900
overflow systems. They have schools that are designated overflow. We could have overflow

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01:01:00,900 --> 01:01:08,440
delip, overflow steam, or arts, and find ways to support some of our sites that are not

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currently favored, but it would help them to be able to have enrollment, and we would be

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able to keep these other signature programs growing without having to keep adding temporary

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structures on sites that are full. So hopefully that is the path forward that we will work

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together on solutions and we will be able to get ourselves to a better place. Thank you

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for your time.

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01:01:39,610 --> 01:01:44,010
Thank you. Is anyone from CSCA here,

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Pacti, or absent?

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01:01:54,060 --> 01:01:56,800
All right. The next

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on our agenda is our student board member report.

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Thank you, President Kenney, esteemed board members,

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and Dr. Blanco for your continued contributions

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and commitment to the Pasadena School System,

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and to your support for a newly formed student assembly.

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We are a young and developed structure.

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However, thanks to you, we believe we have the power

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and ability to create meaningful, long-lasting,

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and impactful progress within PUSD.

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The student assembly would like to recognize

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and commend the board's plans for creating affordable housing

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the options for district employees. These plans will foster stability among staff leading

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01:02:36,730 --> 01:02:41,050
to enhance collaboration and better educational outcomes for the district employees as well

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as students. Over the summer, the student assembly took a break to focus on individual

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personal projects. However, we are now back and ready to begin the process of researching

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structures and processes to create meaningful and long-lasting progress, including collaborations

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01:02:55,010 --> 01:03:00,430
with different segments of the district. Also, we would like to expand our student assembly

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representatives to include CIS and Rose City to ensure the best representation of the student body.

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This statement will cover the student assembly goals of improving

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communication in the classroom setting and ensuring district-wide accountability.

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01:03:14,470 --> 01:03:18,350
As mentioned by my fellow student assembly member in June 2024,

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one major objective of the student assembly has been to improve communication between students

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01:03:23,170 --> 01:03:27,050
and teachers in the classroom setting. We have been exploring different ideas of what

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01:03:27,050 --> 01:03:30,930
improve communication could look like and how to achieve it. The student assembly

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01:03:30,930 --> 01:03:36,570
recognizes and appreciates the immense work that teachers do to provide students us, with the best

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education. We hope to work with students and teachers to ensure the accountability on both the

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students and the teacher's ends. Decide my fellow assembly member Emilio from our last statement.

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It is important to note at this time we are not advocating for any specific tool that can help us

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achieve this goal as we respect that any major change to the student and teacher relationship should

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be done only with the involvement and active participation of the teachers union and the

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district administration. Building on top of that, the student assembly not only wishes

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to improve communication within the classrooms, but also improve communication lines between

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teachers, students, and administration on district-wide decisions, which could ensure accountability

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on what happens in classrooms and on campuses. We recognize that creating major systematic

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progress will be a research-intensive process, but we believe that with the

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collaborative effort of everyone involved, we will create a stronger district and

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01:04:29,410 --> 01:04:33,890
community. As stated earlier because of the honorable position that the

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student assembly is in, we are able to voice our goals of improving communication

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classrooms and ensuring accountability between students, teachers, and

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administration on decisions throughout the district. Thank you to the student

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think tank for creating such an amazing system and thank you to you, the esteemed

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board for enabling us to create change and provide a voice to the student body.

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Thank

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you.

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All right.

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We're on item K, board committee reports.

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Anybody have brief reports from their committees?

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Jennifer?

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It's very brief but safety committee met for the first time in a couple of months and we heard

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from young and healthy and we had a great time and I don't think there's really much else

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01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:53,020
to say but we'll meet again in October and it was wonderful. Thank you.

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01:05:55,540 --> 01:05:57,780
All right. We had a policy meeting

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in August and I just wanted to say we're caught up. I may have said that when I spoke to you at

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the beginning of August but it's wonderful. Ms. Sanchez was a great help and we are continuing on with

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01:06:15,460 --> 01:06:22,560
wonderful help. Our next meeting will be on October 2nd. One of the items that came up during

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this meeting because of one of the policies that's on the agenda tonight. It was

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governing

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board elections and there was some language that CSBA is suggesting and then we are under

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01:06:40,510 --> 01:06:45,610
the city charter, the Pasadena city charter. So a lot of what governs our elections is there.

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01:06:45,610 --> 01:06:55,850
So we did say it might be, there might be board interest on updating the city charter

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in regards to the section of the city charter regarding our school board and elections,

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but that we thought that something we could start in 2025, that doing it now before upcoming

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01:07:07,750 --> 01:07:12,210
election might not make sense, but that we would approach that in January.

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01:07:14,460 --> 01:07:23,280
So, to clarify what you're saying, we're talking about the evaluation of establishing term limits for school board members.

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Reviewing any and all of that language.

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01:07:26,100 --> 01:07:30,280
I mean, it's not our charter, so I think we would have to figure out the process.

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01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:33,840
Mr. Cahilin, if you want to talk a little bit more about it.

658
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:41,560
Yeah, so because we are not an independent government entity, but we're chartered under the City Council.

659
01:07:42,420 --> 01:07:53,260
and the city charter, typically what's happened in the past is whenever there's needed to be a change in the chunk of the city charter that applies to the school district,

660
01:07:55,200 --> 01:08:09,220
the formal, there hasn't really been a formal process, but the informal process has been the Board of Education established as it's a charter task force to make, to generate a report.

661
01:08:09,220 --> 01:08:14,240
The board then votes on that and then that goes to the City Council and we're basically we're asking the City Council

662
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,040
Please take this into account

663
01:08:17,300 --> 01:08:19,560
When the City Council does its own

664
01:08:20,300 --> 01:08:24,320
Charter committee task force it typically only organizes and

665
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:27,160
Focuses on the parts of the City Charter that applied to the City

666
01:08:27,700 --> 01:08:30,980
So if we don't take the reins on our stuff

667
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:38,740
The changes don't happen. I've mentioned before a couple of times that some of the language in the City Charter

668
01:08:39,900 --> 01:08:43,140
is it can lead to a case where there's a,

669
01:08:45,580 --> 01:08:52,780
us as a board are stuck between the City Charter and Ed Coat, because the Charter City Charter is quite old, and

670
01:08:52,780 --> 01:09:00,460
Ed Coat has changed several times since then, and many things that have come up regarding the timing of elections or

671
01:09:00,460 --> 01:09:09,640
the case when we switched to sub districts, that was something that was sort of pushed by the general political climate in the state of California, but

672
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:11,880
But we had to go through this hoop process.

673
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:20,140
So it's kind of been a low grade back burner thought of mine that we should encourage

674
01:09:20,140 --> 01:09:28,380
a charter task force to cover the PUSD parts of the city charter, including possibly

675
01:09:28,380 --> 01:09:34,740
even investigating what it would take, or if it's even possible for us to be a separate part

676
01:09:34,740 --> 01:09:35,880
of the charter entirely.

677
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:41,740
So that rather than petitioning the City Council, we could make our own decisions about the charter.

678
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:51,280
But that's a fairly substantial conversation and requires somebody who knows, not just California constitutional law,

679
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:55,660
but charter city law and what it takes to organize a school district.

680
01:09:55,940 --> 01:10:02,600
So I think that we're probably close to the state where getting ahead of this and

681
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:10,080
putting language in this city charter at the very least that makes it clear that the order

682
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:15,220
of operations is PUSD should first respond to the California Constitution and then

683
01:10:15,220 --> 01:10:19,800
Ed Code and then after that things in the city charter is probably warranted.

684
01:10:19,940 --> 01:10:25,880
So, but as Kim pointed out, it's a lengthy conversation, it's a process that we're never going

685
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:31,140
to undergo as a board during an actual election year because there's too many other things going

686
01:10:31,140 --> 01:10:37,540
on election lines and so we at policy thought it would be a good idea to sort of see if the board is

687
01:10:37,540 --> 01:10:41,980
interested in pursuing this and if so, a good time to start would probably be January 2025.

688
01:10:43,300 --> 01:10:48,620
So I was just thinking we would talk then about, you know, is this something that we have a

689
01:10:49,480 --> 01:10:55,020
like a task force committee that wants to go pursue this? You could certainly interest me in

690
01:10:55,020 --> 01:11:12,420
And removing ourselves from the city charter so that we would have control over making any of those decisions when we want to not by having to go through a full election cycle, you know, and take it to the voters most districts don't have to do that.

691
01:11:12,660 --> 01:11:15,120
So that was just a quick update from policy.

692
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:29,400
Well, I believe that given recent actions from the Pasadena City Council, they would support

693
01:11:29,900 --> 01:11:37,040
a conversation with us, especially in regards of term limits, given that that's a conversation

694
01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:38,700
that they're also having internally.

695
01:11:38,700 --> 01:11:41,300
So I

696
01:11:44,220 --> 01:11:51,320
don't understand the need to wait until 2025, we can start an ongoing conversation.

697
01:11:57,740 --> 01:12:02,280
Is there any other opinions that going forward waiting,

698
01:12:04,440 --> 01:12:08,020
someone has to volunteer to do this, so there's that.

699
01:12:11,620 --> 01:12:21,440
I'll work for this with this and I know that some of the board members have stress interest in tackling the issue of time limits with the City Council.

700
01:12:21,440 --> 01:12:24,900
So we can have a joint effort, right?

701
01:12:25,220 --> 01:12:26,740
Would it just be on one topic,

702
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:29,120
or would it be on actually doing a revision

703
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:32,760
to the city charter, because I don't know if,

704
01:12:32,900 --> 01:12:34,700
I don't actually don't know if that term limits

705
01:12:34,700 --> 01:12:35,580
is in the city charter.

706
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:38,800
Well, one of the other things that could come up,

707
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:43,060
for example, is I know that some local governance bodies

708
01:12:43,060 --> 01:12:46,780
are reviewing their rules about campaign finance,

709
01:12:47,460 --> 01:12:50,100
because we are not bad, there's no limit.

710
01:12:50,100 --> 01:13:03,940
For those in the public that don't know, there is no limit on campaign contributions for local educational agencies in the state of California, so technically you could build a war chest to run for Senate while you're sitting on a school board.

711
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:13,900
And there was a conversation about whether or not the city council wanted to have campaign finance caps for city council positions.

712
01:13:13,900 --> 01:13:21,180
But again, when they talk about these sort of things, they don't, they're typically not talking about the part of the charter that applies to the school board.

713
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:27,460
So that would be one other topic that this group could discuss.

714
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:32,620
There's a couple other things that have cropped up over the years.

715
01:13:34,060 --> 01:13:40,800
One of the interesting things is right now, we almost ran into this at the last election cycle.

716
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:50,160
Well, we almost had to seat people in the seats before the state certified the election results.

717
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:53,720
And we probably don't want to put ourselves in the pit.

718
01:13:53,900 --> 01:14:00,040
We've been lucky in that we haven't had a school board race come down to two votes and

719
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:02,280
have there be contested, provisional about it.

720
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:07,500
A lot of these things are what I would call very low probability, but

721
01:14:07,500 --> 01:14:17,080
but very high risk events, and so if you're going to do charter reform, you might as well just put a process flow diagram up on the board and scrub these things out where they come up.

722
01:14:17,440 --> 01:14:24,500
When I talk to Dr. Villescaz after the meeting and we can figure out how to move forward and see how that goes.

723
01:14:24,780 --> 01:14:27,540
All right. Any other committee?

724
01:14:27,540 --> 01:14:27,700
The

725
01:14:32,440 --> 01:14:40,580
facilities committee met on August 20th and our facilities department was really

726
01:14:40,580 --> 01:14:46,360
productive over the summer, and we've been communicating out the accomplishments of

727
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:55,680
our projects for measure O, the locks, the shade structures, the prometian boards, the

728
01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:58,560
playgrounds, the, you know,

729
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,860
Resurfacing lots of projects and in committee, we had what's new was some updates on the modernizations. We had some really detailed diagram. So looking forward to seeing more of that. And then just to highlight the school district was chosen for the Southern California Leadership Institute for Green School Yards. So that was a new item.

730
01:15:30,440 --> 01:15:39,000
and then we updated the facilities committee charter which is something we're going to go over today and our next meeting is September 10th.

731
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:47,600
So I think I'll hear me.

732
01:15:48,800 --> 01:16:00,640
So I do want to add that the presentations that we received in that committee from the work that's been done on measure.

733
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:26,640
I was hoping that we could get that on the board agenda or our September October meeting because there was some really good work done over the summer that I believe the community and and everyone needs to see they need to be privy to so that they can see that we are moving forward with some of our projects.

734
01:16:29,100 --> 01:16:36,060
So you're thinking what maybe a slideshow of photos in a summary of the work that's

735
01:16:36,060 --> 01:16:38,380
the same presentation that they brought to us.

736
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:40,240
I would like them to bring it to the board.

737
01:16:43,220 --> 01:16:45,900
For the main three projects, the three upcoming projects,

738
01:16:45,900 --> 01:16:46,900
not the work that was done.

739
01:16:47,180 --> 01:16:49,680
That's why I was to say the work that was done over the summer.

740
01:16:49,900 --> 01:16:50,160
Okay.

741
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:51,180
That's the presentation.

742
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:52,240
All right.

743
01:16:52,340 --> 01:16:53,900
Maybe I'm just not remembering it exactly.

744
01:16:54,980 --> 01:16:59,020
was the presentation that was presented to us in the facilities committee.

745
01:16:59,860 --> 01:17:03,300
It sounds very interesting to me. I'd like to see that.

746
01:17:04,820 --> 01:17:05,260
Yeah,

747
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:22,860
there's diagrams of like the mock-ups, I guess, what you call it, of the modernization.

748
01:17:23,260 --> 01:17:25,320
I think, is that what you're talking about? Trust you, Bailey.

749
01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:26,740
Mm-hmm. Okay.

750
01:17:29,540 --> 01:17:32,780
So the mirror and the Madison and Longfellow future projects,

751
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:37,300
and those are the future, they showed us some work that was done where they had already

752
01:17:37,820 --> 01:17:47,500
like they had worked on some playgrounds and they had done some work okay yeah

753
01:17:47,500 --> 01:17:51,020
I've worked a couple of things but there was that one presentation that I

754
01:17:51,020 --> 01:17:56,180
asked you about bringing it to the board do you remember what it was

755
01:17:56,820 --> 01:18:01,140
technically the work of the mock-ups is work that has been done over the summer

756
01:18:01,140 --> 01:18:06,680
because it's work that has been done with community in terms of all of the

757
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:13,220
different committees. That presentation, if presented on the board, needs some adjustments.

758
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:21,260
So that the effort that we put into all three sites looks more equitable. However, that

759
01:18:21,260 --> 01:18:29,760
is work that has been done over the summer, along with the report of jobs completed over

760
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:34,560
the summer, which was in like a presentation itself, but it was a report that it was-

761
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:35,660
It was at Hamilton's playground.

762
01:18:35,940 --> 01:18:37,640
It was one of the playgrounds that they had drawn

763
01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:41,760
that was very beautiful, and that was part

764
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:43,100
of the presentation.

765
01:18:44,140 --> 01:18:45,980
Yeah, I, yeah.

766
01:18:46,700 --> 01:18:49,620
So when I work with Mr. Krasko and we'll figure out

767
01:18:50,260 --> 01:18:54,740
a brief presentation that we can do that can highlight

768
01:18:54,740 --> 01:18:57,680
the work done over the summer with photos.

769
01:18:58,360 --> 01:18:59,560
I was surprised.

770
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:03,020
I didn't realize Elliot was getting new tennis courts,

771
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:09,480
Because I knew we're doing asphalt work and I just didn't equate tennis courts and asphalt don't ask me why.

772
01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:16,680
But then it could also include what we've done up to now on our major projects, which is finishing the schematics.

773
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:24,560
I think for me, the way the agenda is, I think Mr. Carosco had, you maybe had two or three presentations.

774
01:19:25,700 --> 01:19:31,240
So it's like really hard because it was a while ago to remember exactly which presentation

775
01:19:31,240 --> 01:19:41,020
in that I'm referring to right now, but I do know what I saw, and at that moment at that time, I said that it needed to come to the board.

776
01:19:48,020 --> 01:19:50,900
While I have my mic open, were you going to move on?

777
01:19:51,980 --> 01:19:58,180
So the ledge committee did meet, we didn't make any decisions on anything in particular.

778
01:19:58,180 --> 01:20:05,700
we are continuing to follow ACA. Is it seven?

779
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:09,640
And we

780
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:14,320
worked on revising the

781
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:19,580
charter as well. We're not done with that. And then our next meeting is I'm

782
01:20:19,580 --> 01:20:26,500
trying to get my calendar. It looks like our next meeting is probably going to be on

783
01:20:26,500 --> 01:20:30,100
in the 11th of September.

784
01:20:33,980 --> 01:20:38,320
The equity committee's next meeting is on September 9,

785
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:42,100
at which point we'll be talking about the implementation

786
01:20:42,100 --> 01:20:43,120
of the new programming.

787
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:48,500
So it would be really important if some of our labor partners

788
01:20:48,500 --> 01:20:52,000
join us in this conversation as we move forward

789
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:54,660
with the agenda for equity.

790
01:20:58,350 --> 01:20:59,150
OK, great.

791
01:20:59,150 --> 01:21:10,990
All right, let's then, so the next item L is approval of the revised charter for the facilities committee and Tina, you said you thought there was a public comment.

792
01:21:11,650 --> 01:21:13,370
I would like to pull this item.

793
01:21:17,050 --> 01:21:17,390
Okay.

794
01:21:19,310 --> 01:21:28,970
Some of the edits presented in the charter were not the edits discussed during committee so we didn't have a chance to really work through some of the challenges that are presented today.

795
01:21:38,300 --> 01:21:42,820
I would like to table it for our next meeting later in this month.

796
01:21:44,220 --> 01:21:49,460
I'm sorry, I think there's a misunderstanding, because what is being printed in front of us,

797
01:21:49,460 --> 01:21:51,720
it was not what's posted, so.

798
01:21:55,090 --> 01:21:57,110
The which version is it that we wanted to.

799
01:21:57,430 --> 01:22:00,950
So this was what I was going to propose as an amendment.

800
01:22:01,850 --> 01:22:05,270
But should that go to the facilities committee and then come back to us?

801
01:22:05,890 --> 01:22:06,970
That is what I propose.

802
01:22:06,970 --> 01:22:09,930
If it wasn't done at facilities, that.

803
01:22:11,030 --> 01:22:14,090
Well, when I looked online, there were two.

804
01:22:14,890 --> 01:22:18,930
Because I questioned, I initially said, wait,

805
01:22:19,050 --> 01:22:20,810
this isn't the revision that we worked on.

806
01:22:21,270 --> 01:22:24,090
But then there was another document now below that.

807
01:22:25,270 --> 01:22:27,770
So I was, I thought that's what this was.

808
01:22:28,850 --> 01:22:33,010
The hard copy is different than the two versions on the website.

809
01:22:33,010 --> 01:22:37,590
So this was just something I wanted to make a motion to amend.

810
01:22:38,910 --> 01:22:40,710
Is it okay if that goes back to facilities?

811
01:22:40,990 --> 01:22:48,270
And I had a couple, I had some input which I can then, I can just email you to share with the committee.

812
01:22:49,110 --> 01:22:50,110
But I don't understand.

813
01:22:50,230 --> 01:22:51,890
So then what was the point of having this?

814
01:22:52,790 --> 01:22:56,050
Well, I didn't know we were going to keep changing it, but I did want to.

815
01:22:57,790 --> 01:22:58,190
Okay.

816
01:22:58,190 --> 01:23:00,150
Excuse me, Tina.

817
01:23:01,670 --> 01:23:05,590
So this isn't even what we amended as a committee?

818
01:23:06,070 --> 01:23:09,710
If you remove the red parts, that was what we had approved.

819
01:23:11,210 --> 01:23:16,350
The red part is what I was going to make a motion to add.

820
01:23:16,970 --> 01:23:20,350
Just like when I added LGBTQ to the...

821
01:23:20,350 --> 01:23:23,390
Then this wasn't what was online because the online had this.

822
01:23:24,090 --> 01:23:25,510
This isn't the same document.

823
01:23:26,350 --> 01:23:34,130
online the dates you have this and there were two documents online okay let's

824
01:23:34,130 --> 01:23:39,910
let's just just push this to a committee and then we'll bring it back later yeah

825
01:23:39,910 --> 01:23:42,970
I'll second the motion to table so oh

826
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:47,580
yeah okay or we can just refer it back

827
01:23:47,580 --> 01:23:48,280
to the committee

828
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:54,940
let's table it and have a vote to table it so it has an action if

829
01:23:54,940 --> 01:24:03,620
that's a point of order point of order if the recommendation is to refer it

830
01:24:03,620 --> 01:24:06,140
back to committee, then you do not want to table said motion.

831
01:24:06,660 --> 01:24:10,460
The resolution should be to refer it back to committee, so that the appropriate

832
01:24:10,460 --> 01:24:12,660
action can take place and then they can come back to us for action.

833
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:22,860
So I don't want to kill it.

834
01:24:28,690 --> 01:24:31,030
So the motion on the floor was to table it, correct?

835
01:24:31,230 --> 01:24:36,970
And so that person has to retract their motion in order to refer to committee.

836
01:24:37,250 --> 01:24:37,830
No, it wasn't.

837
01:24:38,190 --> 01:24:40,570
I second it, but I'll withdraw my second.

838
01:24:40,570 --> 01:24:42,950
So, I

839
01:24:45,480 --> 01:24:51,120
do think we should table it for the full board and send it back to committee to

840
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:58,000
come back to the board, and I understand that there are many sets of parliamentary

841
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,320
rules that have lots of other motions, but

842
01:25:04,060 --> 01:25:06,480
so you're saying this is not a motion.

843
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:12,560
So, I would move that this go back to committee.

844
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:15,580
Okay, can somebody second it?

845
01:25:15,580 --> 01:25:16,400
I'll second it.

846
01:25:16,460 --> 01:25:16,700
Okay.

847
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:18,060
All in favor?

848
01:25:19,660 --> 01:25:20,540
Thank you.

849
01:25:20,740 --> 01:25:21,980
Actually, I'm so sorry.

850
01:25:22,480 --> 01:25:27,340
Can we have our reminds me again for the student to vote.

851
01:25:27,540 --> 01:25:28,420
They get to vote first.

852
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:28,980
I'm sorry.

853
01:25:29,360 --> 01:25:30,020
No, that's quite all right.

854
01:25:30,340 --> 01:25:30,980
I know.

855
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:32,300
It was a long summer.

856
01:25:34,440 --> 01:25:36,080
So student board member?

857
01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:38,240
Yes.

858
01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:39,120
All right.

859
01:25:39,940 --> 01:25:41,000
All in favor?

860
01:25:43,050 --> 01:25:46,090
7-0 plus 1 preferential to go back to committee.

861
01:25:46,430 --> 01:25:46,810
Thank you.

862
01:25:48,250 --> 01:25:51,190
All right, so we are moving on then with action items.

863
01:25:53,050 --> 01:25:55,130
First is item M1.

864
01:25:55,850 --> 01:25:58,350
Mr. Varo-Karemi is up.

865
01:26:07,410 --> 01:26:10,030
And just briefly, I want to mention that this,

866
01:26:10,370 --> 01:26:13,070
as a resolution for an emergency,

867
01:26:13,510 --> 01:26:15,230
needs to pass with a unanimous vote.

868
01:26:30,930 --> 01:26:33,170
Hello, good afternoon, Board of Trustees.

869
01:26:33,170 --> 01:26:36,830
expertise, Superintendent Blanco, and community.

870
01:26:37,550 --> 01:26:42,910
My name is Manuel Carrasco, I'm the Director of Main's Operation and Transportation for your Pasadena Unified School District.

871
01:26:46,440 --> 01:26:49,540
For your Pasadena Unified School District, we're here.

872
01:26:50,180 --> 01:26:58,120
You see before you emergency resolution to approve emergency procurement for

873
01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:10,820
Our Chiller Unit Replacement at Field Elementary School at about August the 13th, about six days before schools started.

874
01:27:11,820 --> 01:27:16,820
Our Chiller Unit went down at Field Elementary School.

875
01:27:17,420 --> 01:27:27,380
The Facilities Department needed to act swiftly to ensure that we didn't disrupt the plant operations.

876
01:27:27,380 --> 01:27:34,140
for school start, so we acted swiftly.

877
01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:47,260
We contacted our partners, one of those partners was able to not only take on this work,

878
01:27:48,020 --> 01:27:55,180
but also a guarantee that they could provide a loaner-chiller while the

879
01:27:55,180 --> 01:28:00,600
The Chile is being ordered, abircated, and delivered.

880
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:07,520
So before you is a resolution, I request in that authorization.

881
01:28:10,290 --> 01:28:11,370
Any questions?

882
01:28:13,010 --> 01:28:14,090
I was going to move the roll.

883
01:28:14,470 --> 01:28:17,770
All right, second, any other discussion?

884
01:28:19,530 --> 01:28:20,830
All right, student board member?

885
01:28:23,280 --> 01:28:23,700
Yes.

886
01:28:24,780 --> 01:28:26,100
All those in favor?

887
01:28:26,100 --> 01:28:33,030
six with one absent, six zero with one absent.

888
01:28:33,990 --> 01:28:42,470
All right, we will now move on to M2 resolution 2779 to procure supplemental transportation services.

889
01:28:50,080 --> 01:29:03,250
Good afternoon everyone, again, this is in connection to resolution 2779, the procurement of supplemental transportation services.

890
01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:27,600
Less than 90 days ago, we went out to public bid to augment our transportation provider pool to ensure that we are able as a school district support our robust arts,

891
01:29:30,060 --> 01:29:35,580
Athletics and other programming in regards to field trips.

892
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:44,320
This is not in reference to home to school transportation that we provide to our children

893
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:47,420
with exceptional needs or special needs.

894
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:50,860
This is for field trip transportation.

895
01:29:50,860 --> 01:29:59,740
And 90 days ago we were able to secure only one additional provider of yellow bus.

896
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:13,400
Yellow bus units, we were able to provide ad for additional charter buses, which we don't really

897
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:23,920
utilize that often because of the cost and also the charter buses meeting, the luxury

898
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:32,280
three buses are more for our way trips or trips of longer distances.

899
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:38,320
So we come before you, requesting your authorization for

900
01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:44,440
the Transportation Department to seek additional vendors in order to support

901
01:30:44,440 --> 01:30:55,000
the last school year we did over 1,500 field trips across the district.

902
01:30:55,000 --> 01:31:07,520
So, we want to continue to provide that support and those opportunities to our educational community and that's why you see this resolution before you.

903
01:31:14,580 --> 01:31:22,400
Thank you for this. Now, it says here that the district had over 1,800 ill trips last year.

904
01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:31,840
Okay, now that I do know is a really high, high number, and I do know that there are companies

905
01:31:31,840 --> 01:31:37,780
that provide transportation who basically say one company can't do this, right, 1800

906
01:31:37,780 --> 01:31:38,320
trips.

907
01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:39,280
It's kind of crazy.

908
01:31:39,480 --> 01:31:43,980
And then you've got the mountains, so you need certain people who can drive a van up

909
01:31:43,980 --> 01:31:44,580
into the mountains.

910
01:31:44,580 --> 01:31:48,900
And that's what has really hurt us in this last year, correct?

911
01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:51,880
And-

912
01:31:51,880 --> 01:32:07,700
The question is what is the plan going forward and I can ask our superintendent that are plan going forward for this wonderful time for every student to be involved in 1800 field trips a year, but how do we manage this I

913
01:32:11,580 --> 01:32:23,820
think after the pandemic a lot of our parent groups had a lot of money that they had saved up they weren't able to use during those couple of years and they really wanted to provide like lots of extra opportunities for the students.

914
01:32:23,820 --> 01:32:32,200
We've also increased our opportunities throughout the city and just with partners allowing us to participate.

915
01:32:32,440 --> 01:32:40,700
So we are doing an analysis to see if there's some way we could have fair and equitable, so many buses per day.

916
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:46,340
Because what happens then when we weren't able to meet the need is some people were quite upset.

917
01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:53,300
And sometimes we didn't find out that a bus wasn't showing up until that day because they had trouble with their own employees.

918
01:32:53,300 --> 01:32:59,340
they didn't know they weren't showing up. So we want to add additional vendor

919
01:32:59,340 --> 01:33:06,520
opportunity so that we can meet the needs but also we will put some controls,

920
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:11,480
you know, at least, you know, per day because we'll see where we have the most

921
01:33:11,480 --> 01:33:16,480
trouble just like we do with, you know, conferences and workshops. We try not to

922
01:33:16,480 --> 01:33:20,340
have them on certain days because we know there's a higher absentee rate so we're

923
01:33:20,340 --> 01:33:22,780
in the middle of looking at that, the curriculum department.

924
01:33:24,040 --> 01:33:30,420
In addition to that, under the leadership of Dr. Blanco, we've already initiated a kind

925
01:33:30,420 --> 01:33:40,520
of like a strategic planning sessions, if you will, with academics to ensure that all

926
01:33:40,520 --> 01:33:48,120
of our processes are streamlined and also looking at the type of trips, the frequency at each

927
01:33:48,120 --> 01:33:55,280
of the schools and making sure that we're utilizing the best resources we can to provide

928
01:33:55,280 --> 01:34:05,340
these opportunities. Examples of that is maybe the use of smaller buses, maybe not

929
01:34:05,340 --> 01:34:15,460
as many three passenger vehicles for smaller groups. You know, it's nice for one student

930
01:34:15,460 --> 01:34:22,520
student to be in one seat, but in order to leverage our resources, we need to really work

931
01:34:22,520 --> 01:34:28,560
together with our academics, our coaches, our arts coordinators, and what have you just

932
01:34:28,560 --> 01:34:36,520
to make sure that we're utilizing those resources the best we can in order to offer and support

933
01:34:36,520 --> 01:34:42,700
the trips that our programs are initiating for our students.

934
01:34:42,700 --> 01:34:43,380
So,

935
01:34:47,290 --> 01:34:54,410
I know that, you know, one of the, I've got a lot of negative feedback about field

936
01:34:54,410 --> 01:34:55,410
trip buses last year.

937
01:34:55,790 --> 01:35:00,470
So I agree that we need to do this, and I think, you know, given the state

938
01:35:03,030 --> 01:35:03,710
of the current

939
01:35:03,710 --> 01:35:06,810
market and provisioning the services, this is the right way to go.

940
01:35:07,010 --> 01:35:12,970
So I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to vote to approve this as a sort of 50,000-foot

941
01:35:12,970 --> 01:35:14,450
question, though.

942
01:35:16,510 --> 01:35:23,340
I would, I don't know how other school districts handle this historically.

943
01:35:23,700 --> 01:35:27,760
Like most school districts used to have a driver cadre, and they had their own buses.

944
01:35:28,140 --> 01:35:35,640
I mean, this was the thing that school districts used to do before Prop 13, but even back

945
01:35:35,640 --> 01:35:40,900
then, you're not talking about a set route in the beginning of the day and a set route at

946
01:35:40,900 --> 01:35:43,640
the end of the day for something for a regular employee to have a regular schedule.

947
01:35:43,640 --> 01:35:53,320
So this is still effectively, if you were going to do this in-house you'd have to effectively have a pool of temporary bus drivers.

948
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:56,920
People who are already cleared for the district who could be on call to drive after hours.

949
01:35:57,540 --> 01:36:06,540
So I am interested in seeing if there is a way to do this in the long run, where we're making this something that's more in-house.

950
01:36:06,760 --> 01:36:09,680
But I think this is the best solution for upcoming here.

951
01:36:09,680 --> 01:36:13,580
And, well, are we ready for a motion?

952
01:36:13,740 --> 01:36:15,500
Does anyone have a rule?

953
01:36:16,800 --> 01:36:16,980
Good.

954
01:36:17,460 --> 01:36:17,780
Second.

955
01:36:18,540 --> 01:36:18,880
Great.

956
01:36:19,360 --> 01:36:20,500
Student Board Member?

957
01:36:21,100 --> 01:36:21,320
Yes.

958
01:36:22,180 --> 01:36:22,580
Great.

959
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:23,560
All in favor?

960
01:36:25,460 --> 01:36:26,740
Passes 70.

961
01:36:34,140 --> 01:36:34,480
All right.

962
01:36:34,880 --> 01:36:41,860
The next presentation is a resolution 2780 establishing a small business program and local business

963
01:36:41,860 --> 01:36:46,280
This outreach program for district construction administered by the facilities department.

964
01:36:48,690 --> 01:36:49,190
Good evening.

965
01:36:49,530 --> 01:36:53,770
Simone Brevo-Kremie, Chief Business Officer, and Mr. Krosk is going to stay up here with me.

966
01:36:53,970 --> 01:36:56,050
He's been working on this for some time,

967
01:37:01,160 --> 01:37:02,160
excuse me.

968
01:37:04,860 --> 01:37:09,100
Okay, so small business enterprise policies and project labor agreements.

969
01:37:10,360 --> 01:37:13,400
So there's a board item for your consideration, and

970
01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:18,560
this is just a brief presentation to give you a little bit more background about SBE policies.

971
01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:25,180
So, as is often the case in many communities, there's a huge interest in keeping local

972
01:37:25,180 --> 01:37:32,620
dollars with local companies to invest the funds that we have to support local businesses.

973
01:37:33,540 --> 01:37:39,860
On April 9th of 2024, our council did present to the facilities and capital projects committee

974
01:37:39,860 --> 01:37:40,980
on this topic.

975
01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:48,500
So the background is small business enterprise policy.

976
01:37:48,500 --> 01:37:52,800
So school boards obviously serve the unique and diverse needs of the communities represent.

977
01:37:53,740 --> 01:38:02,140
And for that reason, the legislature has granted boards with wide authority to set policies that create programs for those communities that they serve.

978
01:38:02,320 --> 01:38:07,760
In California, there are contract preference policies for both small business enterprises, SBEs,

979
01:38:08,160 --> 01:38:13,500
local business enterprises, LBEs, that are actually authorized by statute.

980
01:38:13,500 --> 01:38:17,020
So both types of policies provide essentially the same benefits.

981
01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:22,780
There are some risks with LBEs, which is why we're recommending moving forward with an SBE policy.

982
01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:30,180
So the public contract code defines an SBE as one independently owned and

983
01:38:30,180 --> 01:38:33,360
operated that is not dominant in its field of operation.

984
01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:37,260
Two, that has its principal office located in California.

985
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:40,680
And that the officers are domiciled in in California.

986
01:38:40,680 --> 01:38:57,720
which has 200 or fewer employees and average annual gross receipts of for construction companies services, 36 million dollars or less over the previous three years and for other services, 15 million dollars or less over the previous three years.

987
01:38:57,720 --> 01:38:58,720
So,

988
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:04,700
what can an SBE policy include, what are the allowed components?

989
01:39:04,920 --> 01:39:10,940
So, one, it can provide small businesses bid preferences of up to 70% of the lowest

990
01:39:10,940 --> 01:39:16,220
responsible bidder, up to a maximum value of $150,000 per bid.

991
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:21,960
You can establish a subcontracting participation goal for small businesses on contracts and

992
01:39:21,960 --> 01:39:28,280
grant a preference up to a maximum again of 7% to those bidders who meet the goal, and

993
01:39:28,280 --> 01:39:33,760
and also require prospective bidders to make a good faith effort to meet a subcontracting participation goal.

994
01:39:35,660 --> 01:39:39,400
The board, the district does have an existing policy.

995
01:39:39,720 --> 01:39:43,080
It was passed in 2009, a local outreach policy and

996
01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:46,360
what that policy did, what that board resolution did is it set some goals.

997
01:39:47,360 --> 01:39:51,020
So 25% are up at least 25% for small businesses,

998
01:39:51,580 --> 01:39:53,780
at least 25% for local service providers,

999
01:39:53,780 --> 01:39:59,960
25% for local tradespeople and at least 5% for female tradespeople.

1000
01:40:00,620 --> 01:40:07,100
So this existing policy can be integrated into the SPE preference policy that we would

1001
01:40:07,100 --> 01:40:07,480
implement.

1002
01:40:09,660 --> 01:40:11,900
Keeper visions on the resolution.

1003
01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:17,460
So the proposed program takes a different approach while the 25% SPE goal would remain.

1004
01:40:17,800 --> 01:40:24,140
So what was in the prior resolution, that prior 2009 policy would remain, setting specific

1005
01:40:24,140 --> 01:40:26,720
outreach goals on the basis of gender and minority status

1006
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:28,940
that fall into disfavor.

1007
01:40:29,660 --> 01:40:32,380
So the proposed program provides, and this is the quote,

1008
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:34,060
so the district may target these businesses

1009
01:40:34,060 --> 01:40:36,000
in their local business outreach efforts.

1010
01:40:36,560 --> 01:40:39,460
So as long as the specific outreach effort is targeted

1011
01:40:39,460 --> 01:40:42,720
at all local businesses and does not grant any preference

1012
01:40:42,720 --> 01:40:45,540
or preferential treatment to minority or women owned businesses.

1013
01:40:48,220 --> 01:40:50,020
So a little background on PLAs.

1014
01:40:51,460 --> 01:40:54,360
So PLAs is a project labor agreement.

1015
01:40:55,020 --> 01:41:10,060
The standard terms are, so registration is all employees of all contractors and subcontractors must register with the appropriate trade union workers are not required to join the union but they must comply with the union security provision of all applicable collective bargaining agreements.

1016
01:41:10,820 --> 01:41:14,520
Referral, so all employees will be hired out through that union hall of referral system.

1017
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:20,540
Contribution, all employees must contribute to that trade union's health fringe, pension, apprenticeship and other benefit plans.

1018
01:41:20,540 --> 01:41:24,960
and representation fees, so all employees must pay union, initiation fees, union dues,

1019
01:41:25,500 --> 01:41:28,620
or representation fees to the applicable union or council.

1020
01:41:28,760 --> 01:41:31,180
Again, these are what would be under a PLA.

1021
01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:41,310
So the pros of a PLA, it removes union work stoppages or strikes based on labor disputes or grievances.

1022
01:41:41,910 --> 01:41:51,270
There's vocational training, so the trade councils often include a provision in which the member trades agree to assist with a training of district students.

1023
01:41:52,030 --> 01:41:57,770
And if a district decides to an intense utilize a lease lease back delivery method, which

1024
01:41:57,770 --> 01:42:01,790
we're going to talk about on the next board item, or a design bill delivery method, a PLA

1025
01:42:01,790 --> 01:42:06,610
will allow the district and contractors to more easily comply with new skilled and trained

1026
01:42:06,610 --> 01:42:07,550
workforce requirements.

1027
01:42:08,690 --> 01:42:13,270
Some potential cons, so some contractors may not bid on the projects if there is a PLA,

1028
01:42:13,450 --> 01:42:17,450
which can be more severe in a really busy marketplace where there's a lot of projects

1029
01:42:17,450 --> 01:42:19,790
that are that these contractors can bid on.

1030
01:42:19,790 --> 01:42:26,570
If a non-union contractors, if non-union contractors are correct regarding an increased burden on their benefits to workers,

1031
01:42:27,110 --> 01:42:31,930
their bids will be less competitive and that can mean more costs so the price could be higher.

1032
01:42:33,090 --> 01:42:38,450
Implementation of PLA will come at a cost to the district and sourcing an outside entity to administer the PLA.

1033
01:42:39,710 --> 01:42:45,470
So, our recommendation at this time is to move forward with to approve the Board Resolution for SBE,

1034
01:42:46,050 --> 01:42:51,970
which will make the district take concrete efforts in keeping local dollars again within the local community.

1035
01:42:52,550 --> 01:42:58,110
Due to the fact that the administration costs associated with the PLA were not budgeted within measure O,

1036
01:42:58,250 --> 01:43:01,510
they're not currently accounted for in the five year plan.

1037
01:43:02,170 --> 01:43:06,530
And to avoid negatively impacting the project listed on that five year plan,

1038
01:43:06,990 --> 01:43:14,630
we're recommending that the board temporarily delay any consideration of a PLA until hopefully a new bond is approved by the voters.

1039
01:43:16,230 --> 01:43:21,150
So, well, help have an answer any questions that you might have on this board item.

1040
01:43:29,980 --> 01:43:30,720
Thank you so much.

1041
01:43:31,500 --> 01:43:39,440
Do you have a sense of how we are currently tracking SBE participation in order to make

1042
01:43:39,440 --> 01:43:42,560
sure that we are meeting said goals established in 2009?

1043
01:43:43,320 --> 01:43:44,160
I guess they're a mechanism.

1044
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:50,040
How do people, you know, register, are we using the same standards that the Department of

1045
01:43:50,040 --> 01:43:54,960
services, has for the state to register as an SBE, etc., like do we know what that is and

1046
01:43:54,960 --> 01:43:55,820
how we are tracking that?

1047
01:43:56,180 --> 01:44:03,700
Currently we're looking at what the district had in place back in 2009-2010 and we're looking

1048
01:44:03,700 --> 01:44:08,520
to see how we're going to activate that again.

1049
01:44:09,020 --> 01:44:16,880
At this point, there's no process, there's no solid process that's being tracked at this

1050
01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:24,400
time, but we are looking at it and seeing how after this is approved how we could move

1051
01:44:25,220 --> 01:44:33,200
this item along and ensure that we have a process to track these participation goals.

1052
01:44:34,060 --> 01:44:34,300
Okay.

1053
01:44:36,590 --> 01:44:42,270
And I think the other thing to just say for the record is that the reason that the

1054
01:44:42,270 --> 01:44:46,930
public contract code has the language that it has is because of Proposition 209, which

1055
01:44:46,930 --> 01:44:51,290
which explicitly precludes the state or any agency from being able to, specifically,

1056
01:44:52,110 --> 01:44:58,010
do average that is related to gender, race, ethnicity, et cetera.

1057
01:44:58,250 --> 01:44:59,970
So the only opportunity to

1058
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:06,820
We're going to do outreach has to be related to small business, veteran business, disadvantaged

1059
01:45:07,900 --> 01:45:13,980
So we're very, very limited in the way that we can do this kind of outreach to make sure that we are targeting

1060
01:45:15,480 --> 01:45:19,880
businesses and organizations that are in our community and folks that we want to be able to do business with.

1061
01:45:20,180 --> 01:45:25,080
So I certainly support being able to move forward with this initiative.

1062
01:45:25,400 --> 01:45:28,640
And I'm happy to offer any tools, resources that can be helpful to you.

1063
01:45:29,420 --> 01:45:34,700
And being able to help us identify, track, and get these goals and targets.

1064
01:45:34,700 --> 01:45:35,860
And

1065
01:45:38,520 --> 01:45:50,260
I can't remember if I'm remembering correctly exactly the resolution from 2009 may have actually explicitly talked about measure TT.

1066
01:45:53,080 --> 01:45:58,840
And so that is also, it wasn't necessarily implemented for measure O.

1067
01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:04,660
And so now that we're done spending the measure TT money and as we're moving forward.

1068
01:46:04,660 --> 01:46:11,140
So what you would ask about, you know, are we measuring it right now, but I don't know that that resolution was seen as applying to measure.

1069
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:17,060
So let me ask this question then. Is the recommendation that

1070
01:46:17,960 --> 01:46:28,140
this SBE plan come forward specific to a bond, or is it going to be a standard sort of practice for all of PUSD in terms of how we do business?

1071
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:35,340
Well, we're recommending is how we do business. Okay. It's not only applicable to

1072
01:46:35,880 --> 01:46:41,700
measure, it's how we conduct business, how we leverage our local resources.

1073
01:46:42,380 --> 01:46:42,740
Thank you.

1074
01:46:43,160 --> 01:46:50,420
So they might the plan be to, if there is a need for another resolution that we reaffirm our commitment to SBE,

1075
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:57,440
but make it so that it's now kind of a practice that will be applicable to all parts of our organization versus just a specific measure.

1076
01:46:57,440 --> 01:46:58,360
If

1077
01:47:04,540 --> 01:47:08,020
you can go back to the slide number eight,

1078
01:47:11,500 --> 01:47:15,460
key revision proposed on the resolution 2021.

1079
01:47:18,930 --> 01:47:19,510
Yeah, that one.

1080
01:47:22,070 --> 01:47:24,170
So I'm just trying to make sure I understand this.

1081
01:47:24,550 --> 01:47:35,040
So the current or the old way was sort of specifically favoring based on gender and minority.

1082
01:47:35,760 --> 01:47:36,140
That's right.

1083
01:47:36,140 --> 01:47:38,860
Wait, no, you had to write, yeah.

1084
01:47:39,640 --> 01:47:53,400
And then the new way is an emphasis on local and not using gender minority sets as a metric

1085
01:47:53,400 --> 01:47:53,920
at all.

1086
01:47:54,980 --> 01:47:55,560
Correct.

1087
01:47:56,120 --> 01:47:57,520
So the previous one.

1088
01:47:57,540 --> 01:48:04,440
You explain that, like, why it came out of favor and it might be misconstrued as, like,

1089
01:48:04,440 --> 01:48:06,820
not a good thing, so maybe you can explain it.

1090
01:48:11,820 --> 01:48:19,920
Yeah, we also have legal counsel here to answer more technical, but what we understand

1091
01:48:19,920 --> 01:48:34,180
is about ten years ago there was some cases that identified discrimination by using these

1092
01:48:34,180 --> 01:48:39,000
these groups as a means of increasing their business.

1093
01:48:39,380 --> 01:48:45,020
But we also have legal counsel here to be a little bit more technical in responding to your questions.

1094
01:48:45,220 --> 01:48:48,100
So I'll call on Glenn Gould if you guys don't mind.

1095
01:48:51,780 --> 01:48:52,080
Good evening.

1096
01:48:53,100 --> 01:49:00,380
So there was, as I believe you mentioned earlier, there was proposition in the interim between the Resolution 2021,

1097
01:49:00,820 --> 01:49:04,120
which was related to Measure TT, as you pointed out.

1098
01:49:04,980 --> 01:49:15,020
Prop 209 came down and Prop 209 said that you can, preferences based on race or gender are not permissible.

1099
01:49:15,760 --> 01:49:18,580
That's what causes this sort of change of direction.

1100
01:49:18,860 --> 01:49:26,240
We said these are great programs, these outreach programs, but we are just limited in what we can do given Prop 209.

1101
01:49:26,660 --> 01:49:33,020
So now we have to look at them from the small business perspective as opposed to specific.

1102
01:49:33,020 --> 01:49:38,460
like minority owned businesses or women owned businesses.

1103
01:49:39,020 --> 01:49:42,720
Okay, so it's more of a legal, legal conflict.

1104
01:49:43,300 --> 01:49:43,420
Yes.

1105
01:49:43,880 --> 01:49:48,040
Because the falling out of favor, it sounded more of like a

1106
01:49:49,150 --> 01:49:51,260
cultural thing, but now I understand.

1107
01:49:51,820 --> 01:49:53,320
Okay, thank you.

1108
01:49:58,830 --> 01:50:01,110
If there's no other questions, is there a motion?

1109
01:50:01,790 --> 01:50:02,330
I'm approved.

1110
01:50:04,640 --> 01:50:05,080
Second.

1111
01:50:06,840 --> 01:50:08,440
All right, student board member?

1112
01:50:08,440 --> 01:50:09,320
Yes.

1113
01:50:10,060 --> 01:50:11,220
On favor?

1114
01:50:12,800 --> 01:50:15,480
Passes 7-0 with one preferential.

1115
01:50:23,760 --> 01:50:26,900
I think going to move ahead with item 4,

1116
01:50:29,190 --> 01:50:33,330
which is the 2781 adopting procedures, valuing

1117
01:50:33,330 --> 01:50:36,290
qualifications and proposals for at least the SPAC contractors.

1118
01:50:40,360 --> 01:50:41,680
No, they're good evening again.

1119
01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:50,620
Board of Trustees, before you, I'll share with you a brief PowerPoint presentation.

1120
01:50:50,620 --> 01:51:03,440
That talks a little bit about the resolution 281 that talks about lease-back construction

1121
01:51:04,700 --> 01:51:06,300
project delivery method.

1122
01:51:08,420 --> 01:51:17,580
A quick background on this is due to the adoption of the robust five-year bond program

1123
01:51:17,580 --> 01:51:21,040
plan that the board adopted and approved.

1124
01:51:23,020 --> 01:51:33,540
We, in facilities, find it, find a need that we need to increase our tools.

1125
01:51:34,420 --> 01:51:41,660
Our project delivery methods are approved, project delivery methods in order to fulfill the

1126
01:51:41,660 --> 01:51:50,320
promised to our community and in order to fulfill and execute the robust five-year bond

1127
01:51:50,320 --> 01:52:01,140
program plan. On April 24th of 2024, staff and legal counsel presented to the Citizens

1128
01:52:01,140 --> 01:52:09,140
Oversight Committee, as well as on May the 21st staff and legal counsel presented at

1129
01:52:09,140 --> 01:52:15,880
facilities and capital projects committee, some information regarding this alternative

1130
01:52:17,210 --> 01:52:18,420
project delivery method.

1131
01:52:20,320 --> 01:52:30,320
As you may all know, there's three main construction delivery methods in California.

1132
01:52:30,640 --> 01:52:39,020
We have a design bid build, which is the traditional, which the district has used for

1133
01:52:39,020 --> 01:52:50,140
very long time. We've also exercised the use of the design build project delivery method.

1134
01:52:50,660 --> 01:52:59,260
Most recently, we used this method for the CERA-moderate central plant upgrade and

1135
01:52:59,260 --> 01:53:08,460
chiller upgrade, which was successfully accomplished on August the 18th, one day before school

1136
01:53:08,460 --> 01:53:19,540
starting. And last, the other available project delivery method is lease leaseback, which

1137
01:53:21,280 --> 01:53:23,840
has a best values selection.

1138
01:53:26,810 --> 01:53:36,870
The essential structure of the design bid build and the

1139
01:53:36,870 --> 01:53:45,690
very similar. However, the process and the engagement between the architect, the district,

1140
01:53:46,090 --> 01:53:58,130
and the contractor are very different, meaning one of the differences is that we can engage

1141
01:53:58,130 --> 01:54:25,450
a lot quicker, work collaboratively a lot quicker to ensure that when there's items or equipment that take long lead times, we have contractor to step in and provide some feedback, and even order that equipment a lot, a lot earlier to ensure that we meet.

1142
01:54:26,910 --> 01:54:30,470
the completion date or the proposed completion date.

1143
01:54:34,390 --> 01:54:42,470
The structure, this is the design build structure, a little bit different than the traditional

1144
01:54:42,760 --> 01:54:43,990
and the lease leaseback.

1145
01:54:48,060 --> 01:54:52,460
Just some statutory requirements on the lease leaseback.

1146
01:54:52,460 --> 01:55:05,980
This is a competitive election, so it's a process that does take into account competitive

1147
01:55:06,100 --> 01:55:11,240
or competition between our contractors and architects.

1148
01:55:14,160 --> 01:55:21,320
Contracts shall be awarded based on competitive solicitation process to contractor providing

1149
01:55:21,320 --> 01:55:31,140
the best value. This is not a low bid process. This is a best, best value process.

1150
01:55:32,100 --> 01:55:41,320
District can either do one RFQP or separate RFQP. This is a request for qualifications

1151
01:55:41,320 --> 01:55:49,500
and proposal or request for qualifications. In regards to subcontractors, the general or

1152
01:55:49,500 --> 01:56:05,600
The main contractor must competitively bid all subcontracts in accordance with the publication requirements applicable to competitive bidding process of the school district.

1153
01:56:05,600 --> 01:56:20,460
This basically means that the main contractor has to meet the advertisement requirements on

1154
01:56:20,460 --> 01:56:27,560
the newspaper and other periodicals when soliciting subcontractors.

1155
01:56:30,370 --> 01:56:36,650
A little bit more in regards to this solicitation of lease lease back contractors.

1156
01:56:37,470 --> 01:56:45,130
It does take board action to approve those contractors for a lease lease back project.

1157
01:56:45,630 --> 01:56:54,890
There is the element of request for qualifications or request for qualification proposals.

1158
01:56:54,890 --> 01:57:06,450
Those districts staff must follow a process and a criteria to ensure that there is competitive

1159
01:57:06,450 --> 01:57:07,310
selection.

1160
01:57:08,210 --> 01:57:13,930
Last but not least, the other element talks about public advertisement.

1161
01:57:14,830 --> 01:57:24,870
District publishes all notices of RFQ requests for qualifications in the newspaper and

1162
01:57:26,920 --> 01:57:26,920
in

1163
01:57:26,920 --> 01:57:37,260
There's elements of evaluation, selection, and board action, district staff utilizes a selection criteria.

1164
01:57:38,470 --> 01:57:49,820
District then recommends to the board, these contracts, and then there's board action that is taken based on that recommendation.

1165
01:57:53,120 --> 01:58:08,260
What we like about the lease back construction delivery method is that it identifies a guaranteed maximum price.

1166
01:58:09,040 --> 01:58:12,980
Again, it doesn't, it's not a low bid procurement.

1167
01:58:12,980 --> 01:58:20,100
So it may not be applicable to all projects,

1168
01:58:20,880 --> 01:58:25,000
projects where we see that there might be some complexities,

1169
01:58:25,680 --> 01:58:36,260
some additional ADA concerns, or if buildings are more than 100 years old,

1170
01:58:36,260 --> 01:58:44,820
than we are unable to really look at the current conditions or assess the current conditions.

1171
01:58:45,300 --> 01:58:50,540
This would be one of the options, best options available to ensure that we account for

1172
01:58:51,840 --> 01:58:53,360
those discrepancies.

1173
01:58:54,280 --> 01:59:04,440
So the least least back, one of the elements is there's one advantage what I mentioned a little bit earlier is

1174
01:59:04,440 --> 01:59:17,720
The contractor is engaged in a pre-construction services, meaning in the typical design that

1175
01:59:17,720 --> 01:59:23,780
build you don't have a contractor come in until later in the process.

1176
01:59:24,480 --> 01:59:32,020
With this project delivery method, you're able to engage the contractor a lot quicker

1177
01:59:32,020 --> 01:59:42,820
So that year she or the entity can really start addressing those concerns or those items

1178
01:59:42,820 --> 01:59:48,500
of the facility that may pose an issue.

1179
01:59:49,260 --> 01:59:56,820
And they could start working with the architect to account for those items.

1180
01:59:58,160 --> 01:59:59,760
Final price element.

1181
02:00:00,020 --> 02:00:22,700
When the project is ready for final pricing, the contractor bids for the subcontractor pricing, per the subcontractor procurement process, and so on. And then the lease leaseback contract award, the board approves and awards that contract.

1182
02:00:26,030 --> 02:00:32,750
Some of the advantages, which we touched a little bit earlier, is that the district has

1183
02:00:32,750 --> 02:00:42,230
As a choice in this process, the district selects the builder based on qualifications and not on low bid.

1184
02:00:43,430 --> 02:01:00,950
One time and within budget, on time and within budget, there's more certainty due to the guaranteed maximum price that there's a little bit more control over the schedule of the project.

1185
02:01:02,550 --> 02:01:11,410
There's also elements of collaboration and early involvement which I touched on a little bit earlier.

1186
02:01:13,650 --> 02:01:24,570
Some disadvantages, district personnel should have some experience with negotiating construction contracts.

1187
02:01:25,050 --> 02:01:30,670
It can be more expensive than the low bid.

1188
02:01:31,510 --> 02:01:42,850
And last but not least, a skilled and trained workforce requirements that could be also disadvantaged

1189
02:01:43,590 --> 02:01:48,970
because the project might come at a higher price than the low bid.

1190
02:01:52,370 --> 02:01:53,510
I won't take any questions.

1191
02:02:03,380 --> 02:02:04,700
Thank you for a presentation.

1192
02:02:04,700 --> 02:02:12,440
at the advantage of seeing this presentation committee, tell

1193
02:02:14,720 --> 02:02:17,780
me how other districts are

1194
02:02:17,780 --> 02:02:26,800
they also, is this sort of like a best practice industry, best practice, easily back, and I

1195
02:02:29,130 --> 02:02:34,690
guess what for the contractor, what is their advantage?

1196
02:02:34,910 --> 02:02:37,130
Why would they want this approach?

1197
02:02:40,180 --> 02:02:47,280
So, yes, it is a best practice, it's very common, and one of the big benefits to a contract

1198
02:02:47,280 --> 02:02:53,900
or the construction company is those pre-construction services, construction you all out smoother when

1199
02:02:53,900 --> 02:02:58,320
the general contract is able to work with the design in the architects before construction.

1200
02:02:59,320 --> 02:03:02,920
Oftentimes, without those pre-construction services, when you're in construction you can come

1201
02:03:02,920 --> 02:03:03,320
up with.

1202
02:03:03,320 --> 02:03:13,920
I'm not disagreements but challenges when the contractor is trying to execute on the construction documents that the architect has submitted.

1203
02:03:14,280 --> 02:03:19,640
So that is one huge benefit to a contractor of this delivery method.

1204
02:03:20,040 --> 02:03:23,960
Is that ability to work with the design team before the shovels are on the ground?

1205
02:03:25,540 --> 02:03:31,820
And so why haven't we been doing this already or have we been not so much?

1206
02:03:33,100 --> 02:03:39,620
Based on my knowledge, we have not been using this construction delivery method.

1207
02:03:40,040 --> 02:03:43,920
I may need to go back a little bit further to confirm that.

1208
02:03:44,620 --> 02:03:52,380
But based on our research in the facilities department, I haven't seen it as a construction delivery method at this time.

1209
02:03:53,560 --> 02:03:58,820
And lastly, change orders, so what is the impact on change orders?

1210
02:03:58,820 --> 02:04:03,880
because I know that that can go too crazy in the other approach.

1211
02:04:04,180 --> 02:04:06,700
So how is it affected the year in this?

1212
02:04:06,780 --> 02:04:15,840
So essentially, a great question, essentially the element of the guaranteed maximum price.

1213
02:04:16,760 --> 02:04:24,120
This is the biggest benefit for the contractor or for the entities involved,

1214
02:04:24,120 --> 02:04:38,000
involved is that there's next to a zero change orders when it's identified because of the pre-construction services.

1215
02:04:38,200 --> 02:04:45,740
There's a lot more involvement, a lot more information when it's taken out to bid for the contractors.

1216
02:04:46,160 --> 02:04:53,000
So guaranteed maximum price, that's the guaranteed maximum price that has been negotiated.

1217
02:04:57,140 --> 02:04:57,700
So

1218
02:04:59,910 --> 02:05:04,690
I can speak to this because in my day job, I've been doing a lot of work around best value,

1219
02:05:04,950 --> 02:05:08,070
which is the common nomenclature around lease leaseback.

1220
02:05:09,550 --> 02:05:16,010
And the state just changed the statute maybe a couple of years ago to allow districts

1221
02:05:16,010 --> 02:05:22,110
stay wide to be able to engage in best value contracting bidding.

1222
02:05:22,390 --> 02:05:25,650
So now that the service is available more broadly than it was before.

1223
02:05:26,130 --> 02:05:29,610
It does significantly minimize the opportunities for change orders.

1224
02:05:30,170 --> 02:05:34,110
It doesn't really eliminate them, but it definitely kind of brings it down in scope significantly

1225
02:05:34,110 --> 02:05:36,190
and also makes them much more minor than it is.

1226
02:05:36,930 --> 02:05:42,850
Given the scope of projects that are going through DSA, when you have that alignment on

1227
02:05:42,850 --> 02:05:46,650
the front end, it makes it a much smoother process with people all have the opportunity to sort

1228
02:05:46,650 --> 02:05:56,410
to coordinate and be aligned and be in conversation on the front end so that when there are modifications

1229
02:05:56,410 --> 02:06:00,610
or adjustability to be made, everyone knows what it is that they're having to be able

1230
02:06:00,610 --> 02:06:06,770
to calibrate to versus if I'm here to take, I design the plans, I then hand it off to

1231
02:06:06,770 --> 02:06:10,730
someone else and then they're like, well, why would I do it this way?

1232
02:06:12,130 --> 02:06:15,950
So those discussions get a chance to happen up front versus on the backing, which then

1233
02:06:15,950 --> 02:06:18,330
and triggers the significant change orders.

1234
02:06:19,070 --> 02:06:21,470
So for the most part, it does really bring that change order

1235
02:06:21,470 --> 02:06:24,770
process down to very, very minimal things

1236
02:06:24,770 --> 02:06:26,910
and it also brings on that cost so you can control it better.

1237
02:06:27,390 --> 02:06:30,350
Now, overall design build may or may not always be

1238
02:06:30,350 --> 02:06:34,110
the least expensive route, but it is probably the most streamlined

1239
02:06:34,110 --> 02:06:35,890
in terms of being able to sort of manage

1240
02:06:36,470 --> 02:06:39,350
the overall project timeline so that you have a sense of

1241
02:06:39,350 --> 02:06:41,030
kind of like where you're starting, where you're going to end

1242
02:06:41,430 --> 02:06:43,830
and having everybody be aligned and on the same page upfront.

1243
02:06:43,830 --> 02:06:44,990
We

1244
02:06:48,770 --> 02:06:49,670
concur with that.

1245
02:06:51,130 --> 02:06:56,030
Do we have any numbers on how many public school districts are using this?

1246
02:06:57,840 --> 02:06:58,820
Public school districts?

1247
02:06:58,820 --> 02:07:10,660
I try to do my research, I know all I could come up with, if I'm not mistaken, is over 100 school districts in California are using this project delivery method.

1248
02:07:11,240 --> 02:07:15,340
I couldn't identify the exact number, I took about two hours.

1249
02:07:15,340 --> 02:07:16,180
Is

1250
02:07:18,550 --> 02:07:24,770
there a project that we currently have on the horizon that we have this in mind for?

1251
02:07:28,860 --> 02:07:38,780
The facilities team is identifying several projects, a handful of projects that are listed

1252
02:07:38,780 --> 02:07:43,340
on the five-year bond program plan.

1253
02:07:44,300 --> 02:07:47,780
We haven't made any decisions because this is not an approved method as of yet.

1254
02:07:47,780 --> 02:07:59,240
So, we're discussing that and we'll further study that and we'll take the lead from our

1255
02:07:59,240 --> 02:08:10,840
CBO as well, but yeah, they typically involve the more complex the locations or the school

1256
02:08:10,840 --> 02:08:14,160
sites that have more ADA kind of barriers.

1257
02:08:14,160 --> 02:08:22,860
So those are the kind of projects that we would initially identify this project delivery method to be the best fit.

1258
02:08:27,430 --> 02:08:29,690
Anything else, or is there a motion?

1259
02:08:30,870 --> 02:08:41,070
Just to offer as an observation that one of our previous facilities directors really didn't like these back projects.

1260
02:08:41,410 --> 02:08:45,730
And so that probably ties into the lack of those projects.

1261
02:08:45,730 --> 02:08:48,590
in the district history.

1262
02:08:49,650 --> 02:08:57,810
Yeah, the thing that I always thought was interesting about that as an objection is when you're trying to do construction projects,

1263
02:08:58,230 --> 02:09:05,270
sometimes your barrier is finding the company to do the job.

1264
02:09:05,890 --> 02:09:11,590
And if a company prefers to do leases, backs up, prefers to do design builds and you only do one and not the other,

1265
02:09:11,810 --> 02:09:16,810
you're sometimes limiting yourself in terms of who will respond to your initial RFP.

1266
02:09:16,810 --> 02:09:24,470
So, I don't have a problem with adding this to the district's tool bag of things to do.

1267
02:09:26,470 --> 02:09:37,470
But yeah, my only caution to the full board is that having many, many, many years ago worked

1268
02:09:37,470 --> 02:09:47,590
in the construction industry at the general contractor level, it can having more than one

1269
02:09:47,590 --> 02:09:53,850
method can result in internal process changes in the facilities department.

1270
02:09:54,070 --> 02:09:58,510
So, if the director of facilities thinks he's got that down, then that's fine, but do

1271
02:09:58,510 --> 02:10:04,890
keep in mind if the district has a change over in the future of whose managing projects

1272
02:10:04,890 --> 02:10:11,430
that things can go a little later, so just keep it high in the future, and I'll move approval.

1273
02:10:12,710 --> 02:10:19,750
I'll second. Yeah, I have a question really quick. On your last slide,

1274
02:10:20,170 --> 02:10:23,050
where you listed three bullet points for disadvantages,

1275
02:10:24,530 --> 02:10:28,410
the first bullet said, district personnel should have experienced negotiating construction

1276
02:10:28,410 --> 02:10:31,390
contract. That's a disadvantage.

1277
02:10:32,770 --> 02:10:40,950
Yeah, if you have a fairly new novel employees into construction, they may not have.

1278
02:10:41,090 --> 02:10:43,910
Right, so my question is how are you going to mitigate that?

1279
02:10:45,750 --> 02:10:48,030
So we're already mitigating that.

1280
02:10:48,150 --> 02:10:56,850
We have experienced professionals, part of our team, that have a negotiated contracts where

1281
02:10:56,850 --> 02:11:06,870
where we've developed and hired and sourced our core PUSD team,

1282
02:11:07,970 --> 02:11:16,570
facilities team, and these are the things that we look for in these positions with the great help of our HR department,

1283
02:11:16,690 --> 02:11:22,330
where we're able to force these positions and making sure that they have the capacity

1284
02:11:22,330 --> 02:11:26,330
to support the projects ahead.

1285
02:11:26,990 --> 02:11:28,210
Great, thank you.

1286
02:11:30,790 --> 02:11:36,730
So Mr. Krosco and I started talking about this quite some time ago and we wanted to make

1287
02:11:36,730 --> 02:11:44,310
sure that we were ready with appropriate staff and that the board would be ready to listen

1288
02:11:44,310 --> 02:11:52,570
to a presentation with this much detail to make a decision and I do agree with what Mr.

1289
02:11:52,570 --> 02:11:58,530
Mr. Kirkaylin said about stability, but Mr. Carrasco has promised me that he's not leaving until retirement.

1290
02:12:02,840 --> 02:12:07,000
All right, we have a motion in the seconds. Our student board member, would you like to vote?

1291
02:12:07,860 --> 02:12:08,060
Yes.

1292
02:12:08,740 --> 02:12:09,800
All right, all in favor?

1293
02:12:12,140 --> 02:12:13,160
Pass the 7-0.

1294
02:12:14,340 --> 02:12:16,140
Ms. Kenny, I would like to move.

1295
02:12:16,340 --> 02:12:22,040
Oh, I was just, I'm going to ask if it was okay if we could move item N1 up.

1296
02:12:22,520 --> 02:12:23,020
Yes, please.

1297
02:12:23,920 --> 02:12:26,380
Is that, okay, I just want to have concurrence.

1298
02:12:26,520 --> 02:12:26,920
Thank you.

1299
02:12:28,900 --> 02:12:37,100
So, Dr. Chan-Hill, Dr. Canal and Mr. Robo-Karimi, N1, 2526 program and budget planning.

1300
02:12:37,460 --> 02:12:41,700
So, I just wanted to say that this is an accordance with our governance calendar.

1301
02:12:41,900 --> 02:12:46,820
That staff is sharing the plan for our 2526 program and budget planning.

1302
02:12:46,820 --> 02:12:56,360
I appreciate staff bringing that to us this year for our board policy and earlier than in years past.

1303
02:13:03,380 --> 02:13:08,280
I'm going to begin with gratitude for the humanity of this board for moving this up.

1304
02:13:08,340 --> 02:13:11,280
I apologize for the mask, but I appreciate the accommodation.

1305
02:13:13,020 --> 02:13:19,120
Tonight we bring together as a collective to you a presentation that represents

1306
02:13:19,120 --> 02:13:26,200
of word policy that we have had in effect that notes an annual planning process.

1307
02:13:27,140 --> 02:13:33,300
This process results in the presentation of a timeline for components that will lead

1308
02:13:33,300 --> 02:13:40,520
to the eventual budget development, all inclusive of our staffing and our program decision making.

1309
02:13:41,400 --> 02:13:45,300
So two statements from the word policy are actually lifted here.

1310
02:13:45,300 --> 02:13:52,180
What we want to share is that the context of this programmatic planning is truly about

1311
02:13:52,180 --> 02:13:57,780
the academic focus and core of the school district in terms of student need and school

1312
02:13:57,780 --> 02:13:58,100
needs.

1313
02:13:58,800 --> 02:14:06,260
So while it is a times considered budget development, it is really the essence of how we

1314
02:14:06,260 --> 02:14:09,900
allocate budget accordingly centered around our academic programs.

1315
02:14:10,600 --> 02:14:17,520
So our next slide shows an image that you've likely seen in other presentations that we've

1316
02:14:17,520 --> 02:14:23,240
done before, which demonstrates the alignment of the various major plans that we have in

1317
02:14:23,240 --> 02:14:23,700
the district.

1318
02:14:24,680 --> 02:14:30,260
Dr. Renoso and I actually work pretty heavily around what is centered right there in the

1319
02:14:30,260 --> 02:14:37,440
red, the LCAP, which I thoughtfully heard somebody say was the academic equity plan of the school

1320
02:14:37,440 --> 02:14:37,800
district.

1321
02:14:37,800 --> 02:14:47,780
So it is in alignment with PUSD Strategic Plan, which is the overarching document that guides the decisions that we make.

1322
02:14:47,980 --> 02:14:50,060
But the LCAP does get updated annually.

1323
02:14:50,600 --> 02:14:59,120
And within that, you see in the blue are smaller school and department plans that individualize those needs in a more customized way.

1324
02:14:59,120 --> 02:14:59,980
But all of

1325
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:28,700
All of that really speaks to the fact that when we think about planning, we think about program. We think about what our students need and how we set up those structures and supports and utilize the strategies, training, et cetera, to make all of this manifest and reach the goals that we have laid out. But when it comes to the specific items and tasks that have to occur annually and year round in order for those decisions to be physically responsible.

1326
02:15:28,700 --> 02:15:34,220
We involve our operational partners here in business and human resources.

1327
02:15:35,180 --> 02:15:40,380
So what you're going to hear about next are the specific details that go into this annual process.

1328
02:15:43,630 --> 02:15:44,410
Thank you, Dr. Hill.

1329
02:15:45,350 --> 02:15:46,870
Considerations for comprehensive planning.

1330
02:15:47,470 --> 02:15:51,390
This slide represents the interconnected nature of our strategic planning process.

1331
02:15:51,930 --> 02:15:55,890
So on the core plans, you'll see our various types of data and projections.

1332
02:15:55,890 --> 02:16:00,750
These elements inform our planning by providing insights into the student performance,

1333
02:16:01,230 --> 02:16:03,710
enrollment trends, and financial realities.

1334
02:16:04,530 --> 02:16:06,950
Student data is fundamental to setting our learning goals.

1335
02:16:07,330 --> 02:16:12,510
This information allows us to make program adjustments to better support our students and improve academic outcomes.

1336
02:16:13,130 --> 02:16:17,830
Accurate enrollment projections are crucial as they impact our budget assumptions and allocations.

1337
02:16:18,470 --> 02:16:24,250
These financial considerations ensure that our resources are aligned to meet the needs of our students and our programs.

1338
02:16:24,250 --> 02:16:30,590
Fiscal data, including the budget assumptions and allocations that you see directly influence

1339
02:16:30,590 --> 02:16:35,510
our staffing models, or approach to staffing is informed by the negotiated compensation

1340
02:16:35,510 --> 02:16:38,290
agreements and projections for future staffing needs.

1341
02:16:38,970 --> 02:16:41,110
The central plans are not standalone documents.

1342
02:16:41,650 --> 02:16:45,970
They are constantly informed and adjusted by the data and projections surrounding them.

1343
02:16:46,330 --> 02:16:50,410
The interest shows that our district remains responsive and proactive.

1344
02:16:50,410 --> 02:17:00,590
The interconnecting nature of these elements underscores the importance of the collaboration across departments, each department plays a critical role in the success of all the district plans.

1345
02:17:03,790 --> 02:17:12,570
So the next two slides are the timeline that incorporates a lot of the different components of comprehensive planning.

1346
02:17:13,070 --> 02:17:19,250
So it includes, of course, some important milestones with respect to the budget, the districts budget, the states budget.

1347
02:17:19,250 --> 02:17:33,510
It includes important milestones with respect to different statutory deadlines related to staffing decisions as well as of course most importantly when certain academic and student data is available.

1348
02:17:33,870 --> 02:17:41,190
So in a perfect world, we would have as much time as possible for planning and with as much data as possible for planning.

1349
02:17:41,370 --> 02:17:47,530
And often these desires are in conflict because data becomes available at different points in the year.

1350
02:17:47,530 --> 02:17:51,410
financial information becomes available at different times in the year.

1351
02:17:52,050 --> 02:17:56,130
And so it's often more art and science when you're doing this kind of comprehensive planning.

1352
02:17:57,290 --> 02:18:01,790
So the three of us have been meeting a lot with our, the three of us with our teams

1353
02:18:01,790 --> 02:18:05,030
and getting a lot of feedback, of course, from Superintendent Blanco.

1354
02:18:06,350 --> 02:18:08,630
And so this is a work in progress, of course.

1355
02:18:08,730 --> 02:18:13,750
We're going to continue to refine the way that we collaborate, the way that we incorporate

1356
02:18:13,750 --> 02:18:18,310
the needs of our students and the ultimate outcome in our budget.

1357
02:18:19,050 --> 02:18:21,550
And I'm not going to go through every single milestone that you see here,

1358
02:18:21,730 --> 02:18:26,850
but you'll see it includes a lot of different information about financial information,

1359
02:18:27,150 --> 02:18:31,510
engagement and, again, most importantly, academic data.

1360
02:18:33,030 --> 02:18:36,770
So, you know, there are different formats that this information can be provided in some folks

1361
02:18:36,770 --> 02:18:41,010
for process maps or Excel spreadsheets.

1362
02:18:41,010 --> 02:18:42,950
So this is just a timeline where, of course,

1363
02:18:42,950 --> 02:18:45,830
working on different ways to communicate this,

1364
02:18:46,050 --> 02:18:48,210
not just to the board, but to the public.

1365
02:18:48,310 --> 02:18:52,090
But most important than the format of the information

1366
02:18:52,090 --> 02:18:55,050
is the actual day-to-day actions that we take

1367
02:18:55,050 --> 02:18:56,370
to collaborate on this.

1368
02:18:59,030 --> 02:18:59,330
Any questions?

1369
02:19:09,940 --> 02:19:10,620
Mr. Cannell.

1370
02:19:13,100 --> 02:19:19,080
Earlier, the teachers union mentioned that our negotiations

1371
02:19:19,080 --> 02:19:20,540
were moved to October.

1372
02:19:21,080 --> 02:19:22,980
Is there a relationship between these maps

1373
02:19:22,980 --> 02:19:25,900
in our move to October and the negotiations?

1374
02:19:26,880 --> 02:19:27,960
To some degree, yes.

1375
02:19:29,320 --> 02:19:35,200
Obviously, when there's an agreement for a result in agreement, compensation, for example,

1376
02:19:35,540 --> 02:19:39,660
if there's an agreement on the table, typically that has to be taken into consideration during

1377
02:19:39,660 --> 02:19:44,300
the budget development, which if you look at the timeline, it doesn't really occur, begin

1378
02:19:44,300 --> 02:19:46,840
into the spring in terms of something that has to be developed.

1379
02:19:46,840 --> 02:19:54,600
So, beginning in October, in my view, it doesn't impede the progress that needs to take place in order for this to occur.

1380
02:20:04,150 --> 02:20:16,340
So, the timeline, like the last two slides, so that's sort of like a template, right?

1381
02:20:17,520 --> 02:20:26,760
And you said that a lot of those dates are out of your control, like student data comes available when it comes available.

1382
02:20:26,760 --> 02:20:52,240
Are any of these points sort of something, so of the things that you can control, are there any here that you can control and are there maybe additional targets or milestones that you strategically use to drive

1383
02:20:54,900 --> 02:21:00,620
your own goals or to sort of integrate.

1384
02:21:00,620 --> 02:21:06,680
these departments? What is the strategy? Is there anything strategic about this timeline?

1385
02:21:09,240 --> 02:21:16,420
If I may speak from more of a historical comparison, because I do think I'm actually the longest standing person here.

1386
02:21:16,760 --> 02:21:25,160
So I'm going to give an example that demonstrates the great partnership that we have with our two new leaders in these divisions.

1387
02:21:27,160 --> 02:21:31,960
Something that is really important for program and school planning is your staffing allocation.

1388
02:21:31,960 --> 02:21:41,920
how many teachers who anticipate that you will have next year so that you can formulate your master's schedule so you can decide which courses to offer because you can lay out the sections, how many students are going to be in each class.

1389
02:21:42,180 --> 02:21:57,160
These are all really significant, but it leads back to one data point that is really necessary. And in previous years where I've been able to be perfectly involved in that, we begin discussing staffing allocations with schools, kind of in early spring.

1390
02:21:57,700 --> 02:22:03,420
And now, when we look at this timeline and think how much that sort of backs us up into

1391
02:22:03,420 --> 02:22:09,480
a very frenzied time period that is a little too compact, the ability to have the option

1392
02:22:09,480 --> 02:22:13,720
to move that discussion far earlier in the school year is something that we took advantage

1393
02:22:13,720 --> 02:22:13,960
of.

1394
02:22:14,300 --> 02:22:17,860
And so you'll see that we are actually beginning to look at, I don't know that we listed

1395
02:22:17,860 --> 02:22:22,800
in this exact term, but our base staffing ratios will get reviewed in October, so that by

1396
02:22:22,800 --> 02:22:26,680
November of the year will actually be able to give preliminary projections.

1397
02:22:26,920 --> 02:22:31,400
They won't be final, but of course, it will give people a pretty general idea of what they could do.

1398
02:22:32,120 --> 02:22:38,140
Whereas in the past, we have done that after the new year, and that's a difficult time period.

1399
02:22:38,300 --> 02:22:42,080
So those are the sort of things that are within our control that we can look at.

1400
02:22:44,340 --> 02:22:50,580
What is the, is there a spreadsheet that does integrate all of these departments?

1401
02:22:51,300 --> 02:23:01,660
And it's nice that Mr. Bravo-Koremi is sort of new and fresh and new and coming in with outside.

1402
02:23:01,940 --> 02:23:07,200
I mean, Dr. Kunal is also fresh and new. Sorry, everyone is fresh and new.

1403
02:23:11,440 --> 02:23:21,280
But with open, you know, more of an open mind, open eyes, so just like to hear your perspective.

1404
02:23:22,800 --> 02:23:30,740
So first there is on the board website a draft of more of a spreadsheet that's one that

1405
02:23:30,740 --> 02:23:34,760
we've produced over the last, I don't know how long, but we've produced.

1406
02:23:34,760 --> 02:23:41,300
It says draft on it because we are still making changes in modifying to conform with the best

1407
02:23:41,300 --> 02:23:46,360
practices that the three of us make the most sense for capacity in the unified as well

1408
02:23:46,360 --> 02:23:48,060
as drawing from our past experience.

1409
02:23:49,020 --> 02:23:49,980
That was your first question.

1410
02:23:50,100 --> 02:23:50,420
I'm sorry.

1411
02:23:50,520 --> 02:23:51,960
Could you repeat your second question?

1412
02:23:55,160 --> 02:24:03,860
I guess I was asking about your outside perspective and looking at how we do things here.

1413
02:24:03,860 --> 02:24:10,200
So, I'm kind of a little repeating what Dr. Hill mentioned, but if I only cared about

1414
02:24:10,200 --> 02:24:15,020
the financial accuracy of our allocations, for example, I would want to wait as long

1415
02:24:15,020 --> 02:24:15,520
as possible.

1416
02:24:16,060 --> 02:24:20,840
I don't want to wait until the state budget is adopted, and I know exactly what enrollment

1417
02:24:20,840 --> 02:24:23,080
is, but that's not what's in the interest of our students.

1418
02:24:24,000 --> 02:24:30,160
And so, we want to strike the bounds between starting this as early as possible so that our schools

1419
02:24:30,160 --> 02:24:35,120
and you know, all of our different department heads have enough time to make good decisions,

1420
02:24:35,340 --> 02:24:38,440
to inform schools so that they can then in turn communicate with their stakeholders.

1421
02:24:40,500 --> 02:24:45,860
While also, though, on my end, making sure that we're, you know, there's certain contingency plans

1422
02:24:45,860 --> 02:24:49,860
if things change once the state, for example, adopts its budget.

1423
02:24:50,680 --> 02:24:53,000
And things are, let's say, materially different than what we expected.

1424
02:24:53,560 --> 02:24:59,680
You know, let's say in February when we're starting healthy to communicate a lot of this information to our schools.

1425
02:25:00,340 --> 02:25:09,940
So that's kind of a sweet spot that I think I've seen work well is providing as much of the information and allocations and staff and all that information as early as possible

1426
02:25:10,520 --> 02:25:14,840
but also as responsibly as possible but knowing that if things shift, we know what we're going to do.

1427
02:25:15,980 --> 02:25:18,860
And what the impact is going to be and then of course being transparent about that.

1428
02:25:18,860 --> 02:25:21,620
So that was kind of a high-level response.

1429
02:25:22,180 --> 02:25:24,520
There are of course a lot more specifics than that.

1430
02:25:24,700 --> 02:25:26,480
Like what about these positions versus those positions?

1431
02:25:26,640 --> 02:25:29,220
What about this funding source versus that funding source?

1432
02:25:30,120 --> 02:25:32,320
But conceptually, I think that that I think is

1433
02:25:32,320 --> 02:25:34,520
the most important consideration that

1434
02:25:34,520 --> 02:25:36,120
we'll be collaborating on.

1435
02:25:37,320 --> 02:25:37,860
Okay, thank you.

1436
02:25:40,110 --> 02:25:41,230
Is it okay if I go?

1437
02:25:42,170 --> 02:25:42,250
Yeah.

1438
02:25:43,130 --> 02:25:45,270
I just wanted to clarify something that was mentioned

1439
02:25:45,270 --> 02:25:46,310
earlier about the negotiation.

1440
02:25:46,670 --> 02:25:50,150
So we're in the middle of negotiations with UTP,

1441
02:25:50,150 --> 02:25:55,650
key, because we started in the spring, and so they had wanted to do some dates in September,

1442
02:25:55,910 --> 02:25:57,250
but we had some scheduling conflicts.

1443
02:25:57,410 --> 02:25:59,050
It wasn't that we put it off.

1444
02:25:59,670 --> 02:25:59,790
Correct.

1445
02:25:59,910 --> 02:26:00,290
Yes, ma'am.

1446
02:26:00,470 --> 02:26:03,230
And we did begin in the spring, or this one year.

1447
02:26:03,590 --> 02:26:03,770
All right.

1448
02:26:03,970 --> 02:26:04,690
Thank you for the clarification.

1449
02:26:04,790 --> 02:26:05,190
That is accurate.

1450
02:26:05,850 --> 02:26:12,610
I'm really happy on the spreadsheet that was attached to see the stakeholder engagement in

1451
02:26:12,610 --> 02:26:13,150
the fall.

1452
02:26:13,150 --> 02:26:20,290
That was something that our LCAP pack was interested in having our stakeholders understand

1453
02:26:20,290 --> 02:26:26,930
the district's kind of current status, student outcomes, and our staff's kind of diagnosis

1454
02:26:26,930 --> 02:26:33,110
of what issues they want to address, I think having all that background in the fall will

1455
02:26:33,110 --> 02:26:40,250
really help them have some context and give better informed feedback than when we go to

1456
02:26:40,250 --> 02:26:44,530
our stakeholders, sorry, educational partners, where's David Renney, we need him.

1457
02:26:45,950 --> 02:26:50,130
Give them that, when we give that feedback on the strategies in the LCAP in the spring,

1458
02:26:51,090 --> 02:26:57,050
I did have two questions on the documents that was attached, the draft.

1459
02:26:57,250 --> 02:27:06,090
It mentions an annual update on the LCAP in September, and I wasn't sure if that's for

1460
02:27:06,090 --> 02:27:19,370
Before the LCAP, I know we have to do contractually an LCAP update in February that it's not clear to me as helpful to anyone, but is that in addition and maybe that's just not a not final yet?

1461
02:27:19,890 --> 02:27:22,850
I wasn't sure if that was budget or LCAP because it says both at the top of the title.

1462
02:27:23,330 --> 02:27:23,970
Not final yet.

1463
02:27:23,970 --> 02:27:30,950
Okay. All right. And then as we're going through the budget advisory committee process

1464
02:27:31,490 --> 02:27:38,090
and considering how to implement the fiscal stability plan, given so in years where we're

1465
02:27:38,090 --> 02:27:41,950
not doing that, it doesn't really need to be part of this process. But will that get

1466
02:27:41,950 --> 02:27:48,150
incorporated and should it get incorporated into this so that we kind of have those touch

1467
02:27:48,150 --> 02:27:52,070
points are those steps, if you will, because it's part of this year's process.

1468
02:27:54,270 --> 02:27:59,010
So our discussion has actually been that what we are really presenting to you is the process

1469
02:27:59,010 --> 02:28:02,510
by which we would plan, that we would plan for the next year's budget development.

1470
02:28:03,230 --> 02:28:08,910
The Superintendent's Budget Advisory Committee obviously will inform that because we will

1471
02:28:08,910 --> 02:28:14,050
be acknowledging and recognizing particular reductions possibly, changes to the way things

1472
02:28:14,050 --> 02:28:14,330
will happen.

1473
02:28:14,330 --> 02:28:16,830
and all of that information has to reconnect back

1474
02:28:16,830 --> 02:28:19,810
into this typical process that is cyclical.

1475
02:28:20,770 --> 02:28:23,610
Since the Superintendent's Budget Advisory Committee

1476
02:28:23,610 --> 02:28:26,310
is really specific to the FSP's

1477
02:28:26,310 --> 02:28:28,290
that were presented in approved last spring,

1478
02:28:28,790 --> 02:28:30,810
its first duty is really to take care

1479
02:28:30,810 --> 02:28:32,770
of those already identified areas

1480
02:28:32,770 --> 02:28:35,870
where we think that we can kind of tighten things up.

1481
02:28:36,990 --> 02:28:38,950
That kind of information is also being,

1482
02:28:39,530 --> 02:28:43,310
the three of us are also, I can't say we're part

1483
02:28:43,310 --> 02:28:47,270
of the committee, we're not voting members, but we are meeting on a weekly basis with the

1484
02:28:47,270 --> 02:28:52,270
superintendent and the facilitators of the committee so that we are connected to this information,

1485
02:28:52,710 --> 02:28:57,370
they are going to actually codify that any decisions or recommendations that are made,

1486
02:28:57,670 --> 02:29:02,110
so that we can balance, and I know it sounds very silly to say that something that is

1487
02:29:02,110 --> 02:29:07,130
numbers based and has to be precise is fluid, but in that time period it's very fluid.

1488
02:29:07,130 --> 02:29:14,230
But I think what we've seen before for the timeline for the advisory committee on the

1489
02:29:14,230 --> 02:29:21,030
budget is happening in the October, November, December timeframe is still the intent.

1490
02:29:21,410 --> 02:29:24,170
The intent is for the recommendations to be ready by December.

1491
02:29:24,830 --> 02:29:29,870
So as you can see, that's why I'm not sure if you, because we didn't give you the comparison

1492
02:29:29,870 --> 02:29:33,390
for last year, a lot of these activities are actually moved a little bit further down.

1493
02:29:33,390 --> 02:29:39,850
not too much further down, because we still want to make sure that we have decisions early and up in the year, or early in the spring.

1494
02:29:40,270 --> 02:29:45,050
But some items are going to be moved because the recommendations won't come out till December.

1495
02:29:45,510 --> 02:29:48,570
So everything really is written as preliminary up until that point.

1496
02:29:49,910 --> 02:29:59,150
So I'll throw a plug in for an area that I don't know if we have time to look at, but if we did, it would be great, which is transportation.

1497
02:29:59,150 --> 02:29:59,370
information.

1498
02:30:01,560 --> 02:30:29,500
It's an area for our home school transportation. It's an area that has grown in cost quite a bit, even as we kind of keep transporting the same fixed number of students. But it impacts so many other things in terms of student placements, start times of schools. So if we're going to, if we're ever going to try and really tackle it, it is the kind of thing that has to be done this early in the year.

1499
02:30:29,500 --> 02:30:34,460
to be able to communicate to families, you know, your school to start time might be changing,

1500
02:30:34,800 --> 02:30:39,180
or, you know, those kinds of things. So, I don't know that this is the year to do it,

1501
02:30:39,200 --> 02:30:45,320
but some day soon, you know, I know that we have special education services on the fiscal

1502
02:30:45,320 --> 02:30:49,100
stability plan. It's a big expense that's in there. So,

1503
02:30:51,270 --> 02:30:52,590
literally noting it.

1504
02:30:54,010 --> 02:30:57,750
So, my question is simple. I'm looking at your timeline, and in November,

1505
02:30:57,750 --> 02:31:03,630
However, there is the social emotional and California Healthy Kids survey collection.

1506
02:31:04,330 --> 02:31:10,790
And then on the next slide, I forget there's another kind of school experience survey data collection.

1507
02:31:11,730 --> 02:31:17,390
And what I don't have a sense of is what is the turnaround time from collecting sand data,

1508
02:31:17,790 --> 02:31:21,610
being able to have results, and how do those results integrate into the remainder of the overall timeline.

1509
02:31:21,610 --> 02:31:23,830
live. Did you want to speak to them?

1510
02:31:25,210 --> 02:31:29,330
Great question. On the California Healthy Kids Survey, the fall administration is November

1511
02:31:29,330 --> 02:31:35,290
4 through the 22nd. And then we typically, it takes about six weeks for a turnaround.

1512
02:31:35,610 --> 02:31:41,510
So we have it about mid-January. And we've always provided an annual report to you for

1513
02:31:41,510 --> 02:31:47,090
that so that at the mid-year we have a sense of what's happening. What's different this year

1514
02:31:47,090 --> 02:31:53,090
for the Panorama. In the past, we've used a product called Review 360, which is an

1515
02:31:53,090 --> 02:31:59,170
externalizer, internalizer type behavior survey. And this year, we decided to collapse

1516
02:31:59,170 --> 02:32:05,490
that and build out the Panorama, which will give us a pre-identification of how students

1517
02:32:05,490 --> 02:32:10,110
are doing with the social emotional, as well as a spring post. So that'll be the first

1518
02:32:10,110 --> 02:32:15,150
time we've actually able to see growth with our SEAL. So we're really excited to implement

1519
02:32:15,150 --> 02:32:20,490
that they share and we've been building out the modules so that we can also capture certain types of behaviors as well.

1520
02:32:20,790 --> 02:32:25,610
So that our students can have support plans and have celebrations and goals that they're going to be set.

1521
02:32:25,910 --> 02:32:38,830
So hopefully by mid-year, but we do kind of intermittent time informal checkpoints with our students, but these are the formal ones.

1522
02:32:39,550 --> 02:32:44,170
Thank you for that doctor right now. So, and I guess the same question applies to the LCAP survey collection.

1523
02:32:44,170 --> 02:32:49,050
So that is happening in March, and when you're getting towards March, you're kind of near

1524
02:32:49,710 --> 02:32:53,590
the end of your process, right?

1525
02:32:54,230 --> 02:32:58,690
And do you have enough time once you receive those results to integrate that in and make

1526
02:32:58,690 --> 02:33:01,930
any necessary adjustments to your planning?

1527
02:33:02,250 --> 02:33:06,410
Yeah, certainly, especially I understand because the LCAP draft would be posted in April.

1528
02:33:06,910 --> 02:33:13,590
I think at the point of the survey for LCAP, it is actually to try to grab a broader, you

1529
02:33:13,590 --> 02:33:19,290
a wider range of potential feedback, but the educational partner engagement happening

1530
02:33:19,290 --> 02:33:24,290
in the fall, we think needs to be more personal and based around parent and group meetings

1531
02:33:24,290 --> 02:33:25,310
that are already occurring.

1532
02:33:25,890 --> 02:33:28,190
And so there is solicitation of feedback all the way throughout.

1533
02:33:28,310 --> 02:33:32,730
The LCAP survey itself is an open door for the entire community who maybe hasn't been

1534
02:33:32,730 --> 02:33:35,170
able to attend on these other sessions that happened earlier.

1535
02:33:36,710 --> 02:33:37,350
Thank you.

1536
02:33:42,490 --> 02:33:42,910
All right.

1537
02:33:43,070 --> 02:33:44,110
Well, thank you very much.

1538
02:33:44,770 --> 02:33:45,250
Oh, she does?

1539
02:33:46,170 --> 02:33:46,750
I'm sorry.

1540
02:33:46,950 --> 02:33:47,310
I missed it.

1541
02:33:48,350 --> 02:33:57,330
I was ambivalent about whether or not to say something because I've been looking at

1542
02:33:57,330 --> 02:34:03,690
the budget at the university level and there's a series of mandates that are unfunded and

1543
02:34:03,690 --> 02:34:16,330
that are politically motivated and that are most latest, most recent budget is we'll wait

1544
02:34:16,330 --> 02:34:26,410
until later basically this will wait until elections and so I am concerned about our timeline

1545
02:34:27,040 --> 02:34:35,970
and being in this position on an election here and how our budget will be impacted in

1546
02:34:35,970 --> 02:34:43,250
January once elections are settled and promises are going to the air.

1547
02:34:45,230 --> 02:34:53,190
So, I'm keeping that in mind and trying to understand that maybe we need kind of like

1548
02:34:53,190 --> 02:35:01,170
a plan A and plan B with degrees of how aggressive we have to be in tackling the issues that

1549
02:35:01,170 --> 02:35:01,670
we face.

1550
02:35:08,030 --> 02:35:09,090
Well, thank you very much.

1551
02:35:11,650 --> 02:35:12,010
All right.

1552
02:35:13,500 --> 02:35:17,670
We will then go back now to workforce housing and

1553
02:35:21,060 --> 02:35:22,660
is there a desire to have a break?

1554
02:35:25,380 --> 02:35:30,080
about seven minutes we'll come back at eight ten.

1555
02:35:37,180 --> 02:35:43,480
Now the public is back

1556
02:44:10,170 --> 02:44:10,390
to

1557
02:44:10,390 --> 02:44:10,670
order.

1558
02:44:13,100 --> 02:44:16,160
All right we're going on with item M5.

1559
02:44:24,940 --> 02:44:27,240
So our next presentation is on

1560
02:44:27,240 --> 02:44:31,460
the Pasadena Unified School Districts proposed faculty and staff housing

1561
02:44:31,460 --> 02:44:36,600
projects. I know you've received multiple presentations in the past but we

1562
02:44:36,600 --> 02:44:45,960
We're here with some recommendations. There's an item for your consideration for approval on the entitlement path that is being recommended.

1563
02:44:46,940 --> 02:44:56,240
So our agenda is to describe, to share with you the recommendations that come from the Superintendent's Advisory Committee on Workforce Housing.

1564
02:44:56,240 --> 02:44:59,980
So, first unit mix with a majority of 2...

1565
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:12,840
We have three plus bedroom housing units, the architectural style, which is a Mediterranean or Spanish revival, and most importantly, the SB-35 entitlement pathway.

1566
02:45:15,270 --> 02:45:30,790
So, just background, as you know, there have been multiple presentations and starting back in December of 2021, recommendation from the facilities task force. Then there was a feasibility study, and I'm not going to go through every item here, but then more recently,

1567
02:45:30,790 --> 02:45:35,530
only a advisory group on workforce housing was convened and has been meeting.

1568
02:45:36,430 --> 02:45:42,210
And you'll see the composition of that advisory group on slide four.

1569
02:45:42,950 --> 02:45:46,410
So of course we have two board members, board member Bailey and

1570
02:45:46,410 --> 02:45:50,550
Kay Halen, Bert Newton from making housing and community happen.

1571
02:45:51,210 --> 02:45:55,570
Jim Osterling from bridge financial advisors and Blair Miller from the city of Los Angeles.

1572
02:45:55,570 --> 02:46:09,350
We of course support staff, including Dr. Blanco, myself, Mr. Carosco, Mr. Dunning, and also our expert consultants, two of which, and our legal counsel, and Bruce Dorfman from Education Housing Partners,

1573
02:46:10,070 --> 02:46:12,030
Joanna Julian from Education Housing Partners.

1574
02:46:12,510 --> 02:46:21,010
Bruce Dorfman is here with us as well to answer any questions that myself and Mr. Carosco may not be able to provide detail on.

1575
02:46:21,010 --> 02:46:25,510
and Serine Abrahamian from Orbechhof and Henderson,

1576
02:46:25,590 --> 02:46:28,430
our legal counsel who's also here today.

1577
02:46:30,950 --> 02:46:35,750
So this table shows both the recommended unit mix

1578
02:46:35,750 --> 02:46:37,730
that we are coming forward with,

1579
02:46:37,850 --> 02:46:39,930
as well as on the right-hand side of that table,

1580
02:46:40,090 --> 02:46:42,810
you'll see the unit mix that had been included

1581
02:46:42,810 --> 02:46:44,370
in the Figs Ability Study.

1582
02:46:45,250 --> 02:46:49,390
Big change is basically the number of one unit

1583
02:46:49,390 --> 02:47:03,570
unit versus 2 and 3 plus bedroom units, so you'll see in the feasibility study there was an assumption that there would be 60% of the units would be 1 bedroom, 30% 2 bedroom, 10% 3 bedroom, and no 4 bedroom units.

1584
02:47:04,210 --> 02:47:12,590
What we're recommending tonight is more 2 and 3 plus bedroom units than what was included in the feasibility study.

1585
02:47:12,590 --> 02:47:19,770
So you'll see there, about 30% of the total units would be one bedroom, about 40%, two bedroom,

1586
02:47:19,950 --> 02:47:25,910
about 23%, three bedroom, and finally 7% for bedroom units.

1587
02:47:26,890 --> 02:47:33,610
So the recommendation, the changes since the feasibility study, the reason for the unit mix

1588
02:47:33,610 --> 02:47:40,070
that we're proposing is one to create more family housing for employees, so to have more of

1589
02:47:40,070 --> 02:47:48,150
units available for those with families. That in turn will mean potentially more students

1590
02:47:48,150 --> 02:47:57,610
at RPSD schools, so as more of our employees who are leasing these units, the multi-bedroom

1591
02:47:57,610 --> 02:48:02,310
units will likely have children and those children will hopefully attend our schools.

1592
02:48:03,210 --> 02:48:08,610
And then finally, they're still providing those lower price point one bedroom units for early

1593
02:48:08,610 --> 02:48:13,290
career employees. So we still have a good mix of meeting all those different objectives of

1594
02:48:13,290 --> 02:48:19,970
of course having units available for early career employees, but also those with families.

1595
02:48:20,650 --> 02:48:27,430
And of course, in addition to those and considerations, there's this important benefit to this

1596
02:48:27,430 --> 02:48:33,050
employee housing project in general, regardless of the unit mix, which is that more of our employees

1597
02:48:33,050 --> 02:48:38,090
will be living in the communities where they work, in the communities they serve, and of course some

1598
02:48:38,090 --> 02:48:42,350
some prior speakers mentioned, of course, some of the benefits of our employees living

1599
02:48:42,350 --> 02:48:42,850
where they work.

1600
02:48:45,050 --> 02:48:47,610
Next is the conceptual site plan.

1601
02:48:48,570 --> 02:48:53,550
So you'll see here also a different than what was in the feasibility study first because

1602
02:48:53,550 --> 02:48:57,690
there was those different, the different unit mix and what had been previously included in

1603
02:48:57,690 --> 02:48:58,610
that feasibility study.

1604
02:48:58,770 --> 02:49:03,390
On the right-hand side, there you'll see all the details of the number of town homes which

1605
02:49:03,390 --> 02:49:06,030
are in that kind of darker yellow orange color.

1606
02:49:06,030 --> 02:49:12,250
the lighter yellow is the apartments, there is a community building as well and that pink

1607
02:49:12,250 --> 02:49:16,050
which could potentially be for child care.

1608
02:49:17,250 --> 02:49:22,010
And so those colors kind of show you where the different types of units are but of course

1609
02:49:22,010 --> 02:49:26,890
even the, on the right hand side you'll see even the town home units have a different mix

1610
02:49:26,890 --> 02:49:29,570
of bedrooms as do the apartments.

1611
02:49:30,150 --> 02:49:35,450
So something I do want to note about the conceptual site plan that you're seeing here is that it

1612
02:49:35,450 --> 02:49:39,270
does assume that there's a street that needs to be vacated.

1613
02:49:40,150 --> 02:49:43,670
Of course, as we go through the development of this project

1614
02:49:43,670 --> 02:49:47,330
or the entitlement process, there is a backup site plan

1615
02:49:48,050 --> 02:49:50,350
if, for whatever reason, that street is

1616
02:49:50,350 --> 02:49:52,810
where I'm able to have that street vacated.

1617
02:49:54,030 --> 02:49:55,050
And then the other thing I mentioned

1618
02:49:55,050 --> 02:49:58,250
that's importantly different from the feasibility studies,

1619
02:49:58,270 --> 02:50:00,370
not only the unit mix, but now the inclusion

1620
02:50:00,370 --> 02:50:04,430
of those townhomes that you see in dark yellow.

1621
02:50:05,510 --> 02:50:08,010
Another change in from the feasibility study,

1622
02:50:08,150 --> 02:50:09,110
since the feasibility studies,

1623
02:50:09,250 --> 02:50:11,710
the feasibility study did assume that there would be

1624
02:50:11,710 --> 02:50:14,010
a utility easement that would be removed.

1625
02:50:14,210 --> 02:50:15,190
Based on the research we've done,

1626
02:50:15,290 --> 02:50:17,650
the work we've been doing with our experts,

1627
02:50:18,490 --> 02:50:20,050
that is no longer recommended.

1628
02:50:20,310 --> 02:50:23,050
We feel that this site plan gives us the best path forward.

1629
02:50:25,650 --> 02:50:27,770
Next is the recommended architectural style.

1630
02:50:27,770 --> 02:50:34,050
So you'll see here just illustration as a concept, the design of course is still in progress,

1631
02:50:35,070 --> 02:50:39,970
but it's the Mediterranean Spanish revival style, and of course we would always be using

1632
02:50:40,490 --> 02:50:45,670
cost effective materials that can be easily maintained moving forward.

1633
02:50:46,670 --> 02:50:53,590
Next are just some image board, these are again just concepts for some properties that are

1634
02:50:53,590 --> 02:50:56,810
in that style, that Spanish revival Mediterranean style.

1635
02:50:56,810 --> 02:50:57,770
So

1636
02:50:59,940 --> 02:51:10,760
next the entitlement process, so there was a previous presentation where we did provide information on these three different pathways, these three possible entitlement pathways.

1637
02:51:11,340 --> 02:51:16,980
The first was kind of a full city entitlement process. This is the longest process with no streamlining.

1638
02:51:17,780 --> 02:51:21,820
The estimates is that that pathway would take about two years.

1639
02:51:21,820 --> 02:51:27,660
It does include also a SQL review, so the second entitlement pathway was more streamlined.

1640
02:51:27,660 --> 02:51:33,300
It's expedited with some partial streamlining, so this second pathway would not have any

1641
02:51:33,300 --> 02:51:38,580
general plan amendment or rezoning required, but there is still that SQL review, and so the

1642
02:51:38,580 --> 02:51:42,420
estimate on this pathway was about 12 to 15 months.

1643
02:51:43,340 --> 02:51:49,140
What we're recommending is the SB-35 and AB-2295 pathway, it's the most streamlined.

1644
02:51:49,860 --> 02:51:56,440
This one is estimated to take six months, and the reason why it's so much faster is that there's no general in

1645
02:51:56,440 --> 02:52:02,600
plan amendment or rezoning required, and it's exempt from CEQA. And so not only is it faster, which is important,

1646
02:52:02,740 --> 02:52:08,260
we want this project to be done as quickly as possible, so our employees and communities can benefit from it.

1647
02:52:08,800 --> 02:52:14,420
But when it's faster, it often also can be cheaper. So that's an important consideration.

1648
02:52:14,420 --> 02:52:16,120
So that's what we're recommending.

1649
02:52:16,800 --> 02:52:20,360
We're very fortunate that these laws have been passed

1650
02:52:20,360 --> 02:52:24,480
that allow for this more expedited process for this project.

1651
02:52:27,330 --> 02:52:31,450
So next, these are conceptual rents by salary percent.

1652
02:52:31,630 --> 02:52:33,130
I want to stress the conceptual.

1653
02:52:33,850 --> 02:52:37,470
So what the board is acting on tonight is the entitlement pathway,

1654
02:52:37,710 --> 02:52:42,430
which includes again that the unit mix, the architectural style,

1655
02:52:42,690 --> 02:52:44,830
what's not being approved is the ultimate rents

1656
02:52:44,830 --> 02:52:46,530
that would be charged for each of these units,

1657
02:52:46,690 --> 02:52:47,670
but we wanted to give you an idea

1658
02:52:47,670 --> 02:52:49,490
of what those rents could look like.

1659
02:52:50,490 --> 02:52:52,670
So what you see here, there's a lot of data on this table,

1660
02:52:52,870 --> 02:52:54,090
but you'll see on the left-hand side,

1661
02:52:54,310 --> 02:52:56,210
the different unit type, so there's the one bedroom,

1662
02:52:56,510 --> 02:52:58,130
two bedroom, three bedroom, and four bedroom.

1663
02:52:59,330 --> 02:53:01,950
There's the quantity of each, again, this is conceptual.

1664
02:53:03,070 --> 02:53:05,170
But you'll also see within one bedroom, for example,

1665
02:53:05,710 --> 02:53:09,170
what rents might be set at for our employees

1666
02:53:09,170 --> 02:53:11,970
that are at the 10th percentile of income

1667
02:53:11,970 --> 02:53:20,270
for a PUSD employee, also 35th percentile, 50th percentile, 65th percentile, and 100th percentile.

1668
02:53:20,690 --> 02:53:22,130
So these are, this is again, conceptual.

1669
02:53:23,030 --> 02:53:28,170
So in this example, for a one-bedroom unit, an employee at the 10th percentile of income,

1670
02:53:28,470 --> 02:53:34,010
at the 10th percentile of our own employees of the distribution of their incomes,

1671
02:53:34,850 --> 02:53:39,150
the rent could be, let's say, $600 for that one-bedroom, and then so on and so forth.

1672
02:53:39,150 --> 02:53:44,630
So, for two-bedroom similar concept, we have different rents set depending on the income

1673
02:53:44,630 --> 02:53:50,410
level of our employees, and then for three-bedroom to same, and then of course also for four-bedrooms.

1674
02:53:51,350 --> 02:53:58,490
So, on the next slide, it's the same information, but in graph format, and so you'll see again

1675
02:53:58,490 --> 02:54:06,450
the one-bedroom, two-bedroom, three-bedroom, four-bedroom, units, and the salary percentiles

1676
02:54:06,450 --> 02:54:10,110
of the employees and the rents, and I really want to draw your attention to those dotted

1677
02:54:10,110 --> 02:54:17,430
lines for each of the unit, the bedroom units here, the one, two, three, and four bedroom

1678
02:54:17,430 --> 02:54:17,690
units.

1679
02:54:17,930 --> 02:54:24,250
So for the one bedroom unit, based on the research done by the team, the market rent for

1680
02:54:24,250 --> 02:54:26,710
a one bedroom apartment is $2,700.

1681
02:54:27,490 --> 02:54:32,750
And you'll see in each case, regardless of the salary percent, how that an employee may

1682
02:54:32,750 --> 02:54:38,790
be in, the conceptual rents here are below that, okay, so they're well below that.

1683
02:54:38,870 --> 02:54:41,190
In some cases, very, very well below that.

1684
02:54:41,870 --> 02:54:47,190
For two better units, the market rents are $3,500, and again, you'll see that the conceptual

1685
02:54:47,190 --> 02:54:49,730
rents here are well below that.

1686
02:54:50,810 --> 02:54:57,690
So I want to also mention that these conceptual rents, while I'm not final, they can change.

1687
02:54:58,250 --> 02:55:02,170
They do conform with the entitlement pathway that we're pursuing.

1688
02:55:02,170 --> 02:55:06,710
So that expedited entitlement pathway does come with some strings attached, right?

1689
02:55:06,830 --> 02:55:09,210
It's there's some requirements, some criteria that we have to meet.

1690
02:55:09,790 --> 02:55:13,890
And basically the most important criteria that we have to meet is an affordability criteria.

1691
02:55:14,110 --> 02:55:19,330
A certain number of the units have to be set at a certain rent that is affordable.

1692
02:55:20,950 --> 02:55:29,050
So these proposed rents, these conceptual rents, are far exceeding even those affordability thresholds.

1693
02:55:29,050 --> 02:55:31,170
those minimum thresholds that we need to meet here,

1694
02:55:31,450 --> 02:55:33,250
and they do exceed those.

1695
02:55:33,350 --> 02:55:34,410
I want to mention that as well.

1696
02:55:39,130 --> 02:55:45,870
So how are the affordability is defined?

1697
02:55:46,250 --> 02:55:47,470
And so here you'll see a table.

1698
02:55:47,910 --> 02:55:49,170
On the left hand side, you'll see what's

1699
02:55:49,170 --> 02:55:52,330
the term extremely low income, very low income, low income,

1700
02:55:52,490 --> 02:55:53,510
and moderate income.

1701
02:55:54,030 --> 02:55:58,570
And for each of those income levels, the actual dollar amount

1702
02:55:58,570 --> 02:56:01,890
that's the threshold depends on the household size.

1703
02:56:01,890 --> 02:56:07,510
So you'll see there on the columns for a household size of one person, two people, three,

1704
02:56:07,790 --> 02:56:08,790
so on and so forth.

1705
02:56:09,450 --> 02:56:15,310
So you really have to combine, so if there's a household of four, low income is at a household

1706
02:56:15,310 --> 02:56:18,430
income of $110,950, so that's how to read that table.

1707
02:56:19,050 --> 02:56:21,510
And the relevance of this table is this is what's necessary.

1708
02:56:21,830 --> 02:56:27,750
We need this information when we set the rents to ensure that we're complying with the requirements

1709
02:56:27,750 --> 02:56:29,610
of the entitlement pathway that we're pursuing.

1710
02:56:29,610 --> 02:56:30,590
So,

1711
02:56:33,040 --> 02:56:36,740
the actions that we're recommending, again, I mentioned this when we talked about the agenda,

1712
02:56:37,020 --> 02:56:41,740
but the actions that we're recommending is to proceed with the entitlement submittal under SB 35,

1713
02:56:42,440 --> 02:56:47,300
and that includes approximately 115 units with the unit mix that I mentioned before,

1714
02:56:47,760 --> 02:56:51,040
in terms of one bedroom versus two bedroom and three plus bedrooms,

1715
02:56:51,700 --> 02:56:56,040
and lastly, the Mediterranean Spanish revival architectural style.

1716
02:56:56,860 --> 02:57:00,120
There is an appendix in the presentation. I won't cover it unless there are questions about

1717
02:57:00,120 --> 02:57:04,380
those slides, but in the appendix, we'll see a lot more information about the site plan,

1718
02:57:04,600 --> 02:57:08,340
a little bit more details about what some of the units might look like, as well as information

1719
02:57:08,340 --> 02:57:14,080
on the salary distribution of our employees, and a little bit more information about the affordability

1720
02:57:14,080 --> 02:57:20,600
requirements associated with SB 35, AB 2295, as well as the city of Pasadena.

1721
02:57:23,050 --> 02:57:24,010
So with that, I will

1722
02:57:24,010 --> 02:57:28,910
pause for questions. Can we take the public comment?

1723
02:57:32,200 --> 02:57:34,200
Is that okay? Okay, great.

1724
02:57:40,050 --> 02:57:42,850
Ms. Sullivan, then Dennis McNamara.

1725
02:57:49,460 --> 02:57:50,660
Thank you very much.

1726
02:57:50,840 --> 02:57:51,620
Nice to see you all.

1727
02:57:51,740 --> 02:57:54,220
Appreciate the opportunity to speak to the board

1728
02:57:54,220 --> 02:57:56,080
and to the superintendent, so thank you.

1729
02:57:56,800 --> 02:57:58,820
My comment is, and I'm sure, you know,

1730
02:57:58,860 --> 02:58:01,060
I know that there's been a lot of positive comments tonight

1731
02:58:01,060 --> 02:58:04,500
about the workforce housing, which sounds fantastic,

1732
02:58:04,660 --> 02:58:06,340
and I just have a couple.

1733
02:58:06,660 --> 02:58:08,480
And I think we're gonna hear more from the presentation,

1734
02:58:08,480 --> 02:58:10,900
hopefully, and maybe some questions answered regarding

1735
02:58:11,480 --> 02:58:15,020
some of the numbers, and why it's pretty low density.

1736
02:58:15,020 --> 02:58:21,860
So, you know, the rationale on that, and I know I think what we just heard was that that was to receive the entitlements.

1737
02:58:22,360 --> 02:58:27,220
But to go back and re-entitle, it's on Mother Point in the future might be costly.

1738
02:58:27,460 --> 02:58:37,580
And so, if this is not the correct number of units per acre or a number of units, 115 units, then, you know, I think that that's something you have to really take a hard look at.

1739
02:58:37,580 --> 02:58:56,980
So that's, and then so great job, but I think hopefully the district will figure out a way to allocate those 110 units among the 2000 employees, which I think is going to be an interesting process, interesting to watch as well as managing and developing those units.

1740
02:58:56,980 --> 02:59:08,200
So I get from from my perspective, I think it's super important that you allow the developer who I think is here tonight to develop the project and possibly manage it going forward.

1741
02:59:08,420 --> 02:59:14,860
It's going to be a really big challenge for the district. It's not it's not easy to do. So anyway, thank you so much. Those are my comments.

1742
02:59:21,580 --> 02:59:29,460
I'm not sure I can do this, but I come from a world where organizational success, it

1743
02:59:29,460 --> 02:59:32,260
comes, you know, follows organizational focus.

1744
02:59:33,180 --> 02:59:40,240
And so I really appreciate the efforts that we're being made here and to work on behalf

1745
02:59:40,240 --> 02:59:43,680
of our staff housing, it's a noble cause.

1746
02:59:44,580 --> 02:59:46,060
It's just not the district's cause.

1747
02:59:47,120 --> 02:59:48,420
I truly believe that.

1748
02:59:48,420 --> 02:59:59,880
I think, again, while noble in such, it's not the district's mission, I really worry that attention, time, attention.

1749
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:29,920
Motion resources on housing while noble and valuable is not the district's mission. And it takes time and attention away from, you know, Dr. Hill's team, the academics, different people, I know, but it's focus. And therefore, I worry that we aren't going to meet the needs of the children. And that while this is, again, a noble mission, it's not

1750
03:00:29,920 --> 03:00:38,060
our mission. That's a philosophical position, and I think I'd like the board to think

1751
03:00:38,060 --> 03:00:45,380
further about that given that our duty is the education of our children who were not

1752
03:00:45,380 --> 03:00:48,380
yet meeting, so thank you.

1753
03:00:53,520 --> 03:00:54,680
All right, Yarmah.

1754
03:00:57,870 --> 03:01:05,810
Hi, everybody. Thank you for the presentation. I have a couple of comments. The first one has

1755
03:01:05,810 --> 03:01:11,110
to do with process because I feel like in the last two years we've voted so many times

1756
03:01:11,110 --> 03:01:18,490
approving this project and there has to be a way that we can stream like our work load

1757
03:01:18,490 --> 03:01:24,510
in a more efficient way so that we're not constantly voting again and again and again

1758
03:01:24,510 --> 03:01:33,590
and again and again on the same project so that is a reflection on how we manage work load

1759
03:01:33,590 --> 03:01:36,330
because it seems somewhat inefficient to me.

1760
03:01:37,210 --> 03:01:46,230
Okay, and I sincerely was not planning to be this counter to our public comment,

1761
03:01:46,450 --> 03:01:52,750
but it seems to be in the line that I've organized my argument because I

1762
03:01:54,960 --> 03:01:55,800
am an educator

1763
03:01:55,800 --> 03:02:00,600
and everybody that hears my interventions understands that my only priority,

1764
03:02:00,880 --> 03:02:03,520
my most important priority is student learning outcomes.

1765
03:02:03,520 --> 03:02:09,660
I am invested in student learning outcomes, but I understand the challenges of this

1766
03:02:09,660 --> 03:02:12,200
particular district, school district.

1767
03:02:12,500 --> 03:02:17,800
And some of those challenges have to do with a streamlining the way that we can afford

1768
03:02:17,800 --> 03:02:20,920
to provide those services to our students, right?

1769
03:02:22,020 --> 03:02:29,120
And figuring out how we can subsidize the spaces where both the federal and the state government

1770
03:02:29,120 --> 03:02:35,100
have failed us in giving us mandates to educate children in particular ways that they do not

1771
03:02:35,100 --> 03:02:43,280
provide our funds. The second concern I have with regards to facilities is how do we prove

1772
03:02:43,280 --> 03:02:54,220
to the people of Pasadena and gain their goodwill when it comes to managing or underutilize properties.

1773
03:02:54,220 --> 03:03:03,680
I think that that is the first step to having conversations about how do we limit programming

1774
03:03:03,680 --> 03:03:10,600
or look at schools or look at resizing any of those conversations have to start with

1775
03:03:12,230 --> 03:03:20,370
a conversation of what do we do by maximizing the resources that we have without disrupting

1776
03:03:20,370 --> 03:03:29,630
schools and communities and families, and that is why, in spite of being almost narrowly

1777
03:03:29,630 --> 03:03:38,310
focused in academic outcomes, I support this type of project because it helps us gain

1778
03:03:38,310 --> 03:03:44,450
the goodwill of what happens when we administer underutilized properties. Are we going to

1779
03:03:44,450 --> 03:03:49,230
to continue to accumulate properties throughout Pasadena

1780
03:03:49,230 --> 03:03:53,270
without a final or plan for them.

1781
03:03:53,510 --> 03:03:54,430
No, we have a plan.

1782
03:03:54,750 --> 03:03:56,150
We have a form and this works.

1783
03:03:56,590 --> 03:03:58,430
And this is how we generate goodwill.

1784
03:03:58,930 --> 03:04:01,350
Number two, the diversification of income.

1785
03:04:01,550 --> 03:04:04,390
Number three, addressing the issue of retention.

1786
03:04:05,390 --> 03:04:09,930
Because again, our ways and forms of making

1787
03:04:09,930 --> 03:04:16,930
are district desirable, are not going to be financially motivated because we cannot

1788
03:04:16,930 --> 03:04:21,210
keep up. We don't have the money to keep up.

1789
03:04:24,600 --> 03:04:29,420
So, we have to figure out alternative ways

1790
03:04:29,420 --> 03:04:38,320
in which we can motivate retention. And that's not to say that salaries are not an important

1791
03:04:38,320 --> 03:04:47,720
part of that component, but in anticipation of our challenges meeting the expectation

1792
03:04:47,720 --> 03:04:52,240
in that sense, there has to be other ways in which we become competitive.

1793
03:04:52,780 --> 03:05:00,780
And finally, we have in the state an issue of capacity in our all of the education system.

1794
03:05:01,120 --> 03:05:05,480
You can smell the desperation in the admissions offices, right?

1795
03:05:05,480 --> 03:05:13,920
And it's a bad look. It's a desperate look. Everybody has stickers and banners. And can I give you water? Can I carry your books?

1796
03:05:14,360 --> 03:05:20,600
We have a new service with administrators carry your backpack. Right? It's the you can smell the desperation.

1797
03:05:21,260 --> 03:05:25,320
And so in order to address that, we have to address the issue of affordability.

1798
03:05:25,320 --> 03:05:33,500
In the last ten years, my house has gone up 500 percent and my salary has not.

1799
03:05:36,770 --> 03:05:48,530
And so it is impossible for a person like me that has three degrees and my husband

1800
03:05:48,530 --> 03:05:58,360
who has several degrees themselves for two highly educated people in Pasadena to afford

1801
03:05:58,360 --> 03:05:59,440
a house right now.

1802
03:06:02,700 --> 03:06:09,120
And so, unfortunately, our mission transcends the issue of education

1803
03:06:09,120 --> 03:06:13,880
because we are now put in a position by our state government and our federal government

1804
03:06:13,880 --> 03:06:24,800
and their policies to be the locus of family services, mental health, community, affordability

1805
03:06:24,800 --> 03:06:30,120
housing and that is a decision that has been imposed by two school districts

1806
03:06:30,120 --> 03:06:34,240
because our moral imperative is always to deal with children and to address the

1807
03:06:34,240 --> 03:06:38,460
necessities of children we have to address all of those decisions and until we

1808
03:06:38,460 --> 03:06:43,420
as a society are able to put restrictions in that that will continue to be our

1809
03:06:43,420 --> 03:06:44,200
moral imperative.

1810
03:07:04,410 --> 03:07:07,750
So I have a question building on top of what Dr.

1811
03:07:07,930 --> 03:07:12,270
Velasquez said, I personally have known at least three of my friends who have

1812
03:07:12,270 --> 03:07:18,290
left PUSD because of unaffordable housing, so they have been forced to move into

1813
03:07:18,290 --> 03:07:24,550
cheaper housing and different school districts. I know that these affordable housing options

1814
03:07:24,550 --> 03:07:30,590
are available to staff. However, as an impacted PUSD student, I know a lot of other low-income

1815
03:07:30,590 --> 03:07:35,830
impacted PUSD families who would really benefit from these affordable housing. So my question

1816
03:07:35,830 --> 03:07:39,890
is would these houses also be available to PST families?

1817
03:07:40,770 --> 03:07:44,790
So, they'll be available to employees first, and part of the reason for that is because

1818
03:07:44,790 --> 03:07:48,910
how the project is proposed to be paid for, to be financed.

1819
03:07:50,650 --> 03:07:58,630
So, they'll be made available to PST employees first, and then if it's not fully rented by

1820
03:07:58,630 --> 03:08:05,250
PST employees, even though we expect it to be, then it can then be these two employees

1821
03:08:05,250 --> 03:08:10,550
of other school districts, then other government employees, and then finally to the public at

1822
03:08:10,550 --> 03:08:10,870
large.

1823
03:08:16,900 --> 03:08:21,280
Just can you clarify that this is an employee housing project?

1824
03:08:21,900 --> 03:08:22,300
That's right.

1825
03:08:22,480 --> 03:08:28,220
So it's an employee housing project, so it will first be made available to PSD employees.

1826
03:08:30,980 --> 03:08:32,160
Thank you very much for this.

1827
03:08:32,260 --> 03:08:35,560
I'm really happy that this is moving along so nicely.

1828
03:08:35,560 --> 03:08:39,100
and to the student trustee's point,

1829
03:08:40,240 --> 03:08:43,480
family housing has been talked about on this board,

1830
03:08:43,860 --> 03:08:47,400
and it is definitely the United States is moving

1831
03:08:47,400 --> 03:08:52,240
in this direction, much like we moved in the 1900s

1832
03:08:52,240 --> 03:08:56,100
to feed children because we realized they couldn't study

1833
03:08:56,100 --> 03:08:58,100
and learn if they were hungry.

1834
03:08:58,760 --> 03:09:00,640
So now nobody would think about taking away

1835
03:09:00,640 --> 03:09:02,320
the student lunch program.

1836
03:09:02,320 --> 03:09:24,860
So, I just wanted to point out a few things that Tony Thurmond did a study and they figured out that there are 75,000 acres of public school housing that can be developed into affordable housing and he wants to see 3.2 million units built on public school properties throughout the state.

1837
03:09:24,860 --> 03:09:34,160
We are doing exactly the right thing to the student board members, comments, homelessness

1838
03:09:34,160 --> 03:09:38,200
is a cause of students dropping out of schools.

1839
03:09:38,940 --> 03:09:40,960
So we will be moving in that direction, too.

1840
03:09:41,100 --> 03:09:48,280
And also, as I know some of my trustees say, our staff have children in our schools and

1841
03:09:48,280 --> 03:09:53,100
we want to make sure that they stay here, work here, and graduate from here.

1842
03:09:53,100 --> 03:10:05,200
So housing is a part of education in the United States, just like feeding children as public education can't calcify.

1843
03:10:05,520 --> 03:10:11,120
If it calcifies, it shrinks, and then we're filled with charters and private schools.

1844
03:10:11,120 --> 03:10:21,040
And then you've got this patchwork of education systems much like other countries, and there's no communication or cohesion of values and beliefs.

1845
03:10:21,040 --> 03:10:25,920
So it's important we hold the public education together.

1846
03:10:26,900 --> 03:10:32,140
And I love this, I'm just also wondering why the four bedrooms aren't in the board report.

1847
03:10:32,740 --> 03:10:35,380
It says two, one, two, three bedrooms.

1848
03:10:36,220 --> 03:10:37,220
The three plus.

1849
03:10:37,280 --> 03:10:39,420
The three plus, okay, I didn't see that.

1850
03:10:41,000 --> 03:10:43,180
We're moving along with the superintendent,

1851
03:10:43,540 --> 03:10:47,240
Terni Thurmond, and all of these legislators that have passed bills.

1852
03:10:48,160 --> 03:10:55,380
opening up public education for building houses, and we have to do this, and thank you for working on this.

1853
03:10:56,060 --> 03:11:15,660
Thank you. One thing I'm sorry that I should have mentioned that's on this slide. So in addition, of course, all the important objectives that we've all been talking about with respect to affordability and having our employees live close to where they work, the conceptual rents that we discussed on this slide would produce, again, conceptual, not final.

1854
03:11:16,780 --> 03:11:21,440
over $1.3 million in net operating income.

1855
03:11:21,980 --> 03:11:29,360
And so that would be additional resources to Board Member Velasquez's point that we don't,

1856
03:11:29,440 --> 03:11:32,760
we're not sufficiently funded by the state and federal government, but

1857
03:11:32,760 --> 03:11:38,420
this goes a small way towards improving the level of resources available to our students.

1858
03:11:38,420 --> 03:11:39,360
Okay,

1859
03:11:46,000 --> 03:11:52,320
I'm going to try to, I feel for everyone that said, you know, they're different sides.

1860
03:11:53,680 --> 03:11:58,420
Trustee, sorry, student board member, Trustee, what's your last name?

1861
03:11:59,600 --> 03:12:06,480
G, Trustee Chi, I thank you for speaking to this from the perspective of student body.

1862
03:12:07,380 --> 03:12:15,200
And I've said this at City Council before, where I say, if there is no housing, there is no public school system,

1863
03:12:15,820 --> 03:12:22,820
it's just, if they're not children, if they have nowhere to live, well, then they're not going to be going to our school.

1864
03:12:23,340 --> 03:12:34,120
But I also hear, we're in the, our institution is education, right?

1865
03:12:34,120 --> 03:12:50,800
So, yes, that is our ultimate mission, and I get what else the other thing I've heard is the idea of, you know, we're a school system, we're not landlords.

1866
03:12:51,220 --> 03:12:59,160
So, maybe you could speak to the management layer of okay, we build this housing.

1867
03:12:59,920 --> 03:13:11,920
What is our liability? If something happens on that property, who's managing that? Does that affect us, our premiums?

1868
03:13:12,060 --> 03:13:14,660
Like, can you elaborate on that a little bit? Anybody?

1869
03:13:15,580 --> 03:13:19,040
Sure. I'm going to invite Bruce to provide a little bit more color.

1870
03:13:19,300 --> 03:13:24,140
But when I said that operating income, that meant net of all of the operating expenses.

1871
03:13:24,140 --> 03:13:29,120
And some of the operating expenses that we would have on this property are the professional

1872
03:13:29,120 --> 03:13:33,740
property manager that would manage the property, of course, insurance cost, all of the other

1873
03:13:33,740 --> 03:13:37,360
costs associated with maintaining the property, but I don't know if there's any additional

1874
03:13:37,360 --> 03:13:37,660
color.

1875
03:13:39,770 --> 03:13:46,190
And I've said this before, where I've visited Santa Clara Unified's housing, I talked

1876
03:13:46,190 --> 03:13:53,950
to the tenants there, it seems to be working, so, but I know that out there, this idea is

1877
03:13:53,950 --> 03:14:00,150
new for a lot of people and they cannot wrap their brain around, wait, but you're teaching

1878
03:14:00,150 --> 03:14:07,090
you're educating not, you know, you're not landlord so can you speak to that concern?

1879
03:14:09,810 --> 03:14:20,170
And again, this will evolve as we go through the process, but the idea of as Simon was saying

1880
03:14:20,170 --> 03:14:50,030
hiring a third-party property manager having a, going back to specifically what Santa Clara unified did, they set up a subset of the board to be a housing board that actually dealt with hiring the third-party property manager, dealing with annual budgets and dealing with any sort of issues that come out of it so that frankly, the school district staff, the school district board.

1881
03:14:50,030 --> 03:14:52,110
or it doesn't have to deal with those items,

1882
03:14:52,570 --> 03:14:55,470
has proven to be successful over the past 20 years.

1883
03:14:57,050 --> 03:14:57,690
Thank you.

1884
03:14:57,970 --> 03:14:58,730
That really helps.

1885
03:14:58,850 --> 03:14:59,970
So the staff of the...

1886
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:28,320
The district does not have to do anything that involves management. Not in any, you know, regular concept, I mean, of managing an apartment community. So, your facilities people would not be handling the maintenance on the project. You know, the biggest thing that's actually a huge positive to manage these efficiently is the fact that.

1887
03:15:29,000 --> 03:15:31,820
The first priority is to house your employees.

1888
03:15:32,280 --> 03:15:40,340
By virtue of the fact your employees, you've already done a lot of this type of background checks that we would typically do for our residents.

1889
03:15:41,040 --> 03:15:42,540
So it makes life much easier.

1890
03:15:43,440 --> 03:15:49,580
Thank you very much and Mr. Bravo-Kareemit, sorry, I have to keep bringing back your experience.

1891
03:15:50,280 --> 03:15:54,960
Did you have any experience coming from LA, USDA on the workforce housing?

1892
03:15:54,960 --> 03:16:00,460
Yes, the district did work for housing projects that were successful.

1893
03:16:00,880 --> 03:16:14,240
Obviously, it's a much bigger district, a lot harder to meet the needs of the employees at a district with that size, given also the geographical spread of the district, and so one benefit of Pasadena is I think we're going to meet a substantial need, even with just this one project.

1894
03:16:15,420 --> 03:16:20,340
And then last one, so I'm trying to remember my conversation with the Santa Clara Unified.

1895
03:16:20,340 --> 03:16:23,560
I think, so I was talking to the board, trusty over there.

1896
03:16:24,200 --> 03:16:33,180
I think at one point, it was about there were more teachers or staff that had families,

1897
03:16:33,180 --> 03:16:37,640
which actually this address is because they had a lot of one bedroom units.

1898
03:16:38,400 --> 03:16:45,200
They couldn't fill them because a lot of employees have families, so they were, so,

1899
03:16:45,200 --> 03:17:00,780
So I guess if things, the proportions change as far as, you know, who are current employees are, there's more, you know, young entry-level teachers will, they're going to want the one bedroom.

1900
03:17:01,100 --> 03:17:04,740
So how do we accommodate those fluctuations in those proportions?

1901
03:17:06,050 --> 03:17:17,370
Well, I mean, once it's built, but I think there is a possibility for people to become roommates and rent it together.

1902
03:17:17,870 --> 03:17:23,530
So, and that is a common thing anyways in Los Angeles given the price of housing.

1903
03:17:24,070 --> 03:17:31,210
Actually, it's very common for first generation immigrants to have multi-generation care in our family.

1904
03:17:31,210 --> 03:17:40,530
So, you can be a 22 year old, that is responsible for your entire house, so you need a bigger apartment because your parents depend on you.

1905
03:17:41,510 --> 03:17:50,570
Maybe the committee can speak to how they came up with those proportions and how many variations of you.

1906
03:17:51,230 --> 03:17:55,850
I don't want to speak for the whole committee, because Michelle and I were just two members of it.

1907
03:17:56,690 --> 03:18:04,910
But it was a pretty common conversation amongst all of the people that were there, that

1908
03:18:05,970 --> 03:18:11,810
threefold, number one, we didn't want to get rid of the one bedroom units entirely

1909
03:18:11,810 --> 03:18:15,550
because there's going to be people who prefer to have their own place.

1910
03:18:16,430 --> 03:18:23,850
But as the CBO just pointed out, the advantage of having more multi-bedroom units is not only

1911
03:18:23,850 --> 03:18:29,510
can you put a family there, but also if you don't have a family to put there, you're

1912
03:18:29,510 --> 03:18:32,370
going to get somebody who's going to find a couple of roommates and they're going to

1913
03:18:32,370 --> 03:18:33,350
rent the place.

1914
03:18:33,610 --> 03:18:40,810
I lived alone for one calendar year of all of the years that I lived in Southern California,

1915
03:18:41,490 --> 03:18:45,050
and otherwise I had roommates and it was fine.

1916
03:18:46,810 --> 03:18:53,830
So that was a big, you know, if we have more of the bigger units, we can still put, you

1917
03:18:53,830 --> 03:18:55,490
if you have a bunch of really small units,

1918
03:18:55,890 --> 03:18:57,530
you can't do the opposite, right?

1919
03:18:57,910 --> 03:18:59,330
Without busting out walls.

1920
03:19:00,010 --> 03:19:02,150
So that was part of the conversation.

1921
03:19:03,510 --> 03:19:07,030
And the big one, I'm just gonna segue in my comment,

1922
03:19:07,570 --> 03:19:10,010
you can command the mic back if you want.

1923
03:19:10,150 --> 03:19:13,830
But one of the things that was a big deal to me,

1924
03:19:14,010 --> 03:19:16,550
and has been a big deal to me about this whole project,

1925
03:19:16,850 --> 03:19:20,230
I do want to acknowledge, I agree with people

1926
03:19:20,230 --> 03:19:23,690
in the public who think, well, you guys don't want

1927
03:19:23,690 --> 03:19:31,070
staff time spent on this. I think the design is such that we won't. I don't think the board

1928
03:19:31,070 --> 03:19:37,290
wants to be involved in setting rents for individual people. That would be not a good use of board time.

1929
03:19:38,850 --> 03:19:45,510
But the thing that I've been kind of pushing back on this question when I get it in the public is

1930
03:19:46,830 --> 03:19:52,010
people kind of need to make up their minds about what they want this board to do because

1931
03:19:52,010 --> 03:19:56,350
is they want us to use our property sensibly,

1932
03:19:57,230 --> 03:19:59,470
but then they always come up with a reason why,

1933
03:19:59,650 --> 03:20:01,390
whatever it is that we propose to do that,

1934
03:20:01,490 --> 03:20:02,530
well don't, don't do that.

1935
03:20:03,270 --> 03:20:06,630
That's not really your wheelhouse.

1936
03:20:06,790 --> 03:20:09,590
Well, our wheelhouse is providing school facilities

1937
03:20:09,590 --> 03:20:12,010
for children that are currently in the district,

1938
03:20:12,130 --> 03:20:15,850
and we have more land than we have need for,

1939
03:20:15,950 --> 03:20:17,050
for the children in the district.

1940
03:20:17,310 --> 03:20:20,590
So I mentioned this before, as trustees,

1941
03:20:20,590 --> 03:20:24,750
Our responsibility is to leverage the resources of the district for

1942
03:20:24,750 --> 03:20:30,670
the students that are here and leaving facilities under utilized and

1943
03:20:30,670 --> 03:20:31,930
paying for the maintenance cost.

1944
03:20:32,050 --> 03:20:40,070
That's something that's not even in the net is we're currently paying upkeep on the facility that's there right now.

1945
03:20:40,410 --> 03:20:47,770
We have to, when a bond passes, we have to replace roofs on these facilities that don't hold a house.

1946
03:20:47,770 --> 03:20:53,850
of students, it's a, we're changing a liability into an asset and that's the thing that

1947
03:20:53,850 --> 03:20:58,650
I say over and over again to the public, where you're saying you want us to use the land

1948
03:20:58,650 --> 03:21:05,210
more responsibly. This is turning a negative cash flow asset on the books into something

1949
03:21:05,210 --> 03:21:12,850
that generates funds for the district. Also, for years, we've been pointing out the declining

1950
03:21:12,850 --> 03:21:19,810
enrollment and the cost of housing and I remember Kenny recently pointed out that Davis

1951
03:21:19,810 --> 03:21:26,890
demographics has finally been able to update their projections based on the 2020 census

1952
03:21:26,890 --> 03:21:29,850
data because the 2020 census data is finally available.

1953
03:21:30,570 --> 03:21:37,070
And one of the sort of astonishing things is based on historical trends if we had just kept

1954
03:21:37,070 --> 03:21:43,950
going off the 2010 census numbers, we would have 4,000 more school-aged children than we have

1955
03:21:43,950 --> 03:21:51,490
after going through the 2020 census. Which kind of makes a point. I've said at these board

1956
03:21:51,490 --> 03:21:59,290
meetings, a little bit more clear, we can't just rely on the birth rate five years ago to tell us

1957
03:21:59,290 --> 03:22:03,830
how many students there are to capture here because people are being priced out of passing in

1958
03:22:03,830 --> 03:22:04,650
and they are leaving.

1959
03:22:05,130 --> 03:22:10,430
They have kids here, but they're a double-income family

1960
03:22:10,430 --> 03:22:13,630
in a decent-sized apartment in downtown Pasadena

1961
03:22:13,630 --> 03:22:15,470
neighborhood association.

1962
03:22:15,790 --> 03:22:17,670
And then when their kid gets to kindergarten age,

1963
03:22:17,810 --> 03:22:18,910
they're moving a glendora.

1964
03:22:19,170 --> 03:22:21,090
They're moving somewhere else where

1965
03:22:21,090 --> 03:22:23,610
they can afford to have more space for their kids.

1966
03:22:24,010 --> 03:22:27,210
They don't want, they get priced out here.

1967
03:22:27,530 --> 03:22:30,550
And if we don't do some,

1968
03:22:30,550 --> 03:22:42,070
We can't just wait for some billionaire to decide, angel investor decide to buy a whole bunch of PUSD property and build affordable housing on it.

1969
03:22:42,610 --> 03:22:49,830
And the city can't do it, they're contributing in many different ways, but that's not their mission either.

1970
03:22:50,850 --> 03:22:56,270
So I think that this is a responsible and main thing to do.

1971
03:22:56,270 --> 03:23:22,450
I think if we do it properly, we can show the public that we can produce this project, and it won't take the focus away from the kids, and it'll bring more revenue to the district, and then we can turn around and say, and now we want to do it again, and provide affordable housing on this site for students, or city employees, or county, whatever it is, the more housing we build here, the better.

1972
03:23:22,450 --> 03:23:29,230
So, I'm glad that we're still moving ahead with this project.

1973
03:23:29,590 --> 03:23:35,030
I really hope that the bond passes and we follow through on building this.

1974
03:23:35,750 --> 03:23:48,470
I think it'll be a real feather in the district's cap of showing the public that we can do good things with taxpayer money that benefit the students in this district.

1975
03:23:49,350 --> 03:23:50,390
I'll stop talking.

1976
03:23:50,390 --> 03:23:58,250
All righty. I have three questions and then I want to share a concern. So on page nine

1977
03:23:58,250 --> 03:24:09,710
of this PowerPoint, it says the selection of the pathway of SB 35 plus AB 2295. And

1978
03:24:09,710 --> 03:24:14,810
then it has an asterisk that says eligibility subject to qualifying criteria. So we determined

1979
03:24:14,810 --> 03:24:21,950
that we qualify? Yes, one to double-check. Okay, so that's not an issue, maybe great.

1980
03:24:23,110 --> 03:24:33,450
You talked, I think, about the vacating a street and changing the unit numbers, so I don't

1981
03:24:33,450 --> 03:24:39,410
remember when we first looked at the feasibility. Were we looking also at a project that included

1982
03:24:55,660 --> 03:24:56,320
Is

1983
03:24:59,620 --> 03:25:14,840
there a cost of the 115 that we're looking at versus the smaller, how does the cost change to us if we go forward with the smaller one versus the 115?

1984
03:25:14,840 --> 03:25:16,480
In case we don't get the,

1985
03:25:19,100 --> 03:25:23,160
I'm sorry, I thought if we don't get the street vacated, it had to be smaller.

1986
03:25:23,600 --> 03:25:24,460
Am I misunderstood?

1987
03:25:24,900 --> 03:25:32,100
There would be 102 units, I believe, if the street's not vacated versus 115 if it is.

1988
03:25:32,460 --> 03:25:34,180
Okay, and so we didn't see those numbers.

1989
03:25:34,460 --> 03:25:44,520
So, but can you give me like a ballpark with that decrease the cost of the overall construction, the cost of building it by like 10 million?

1990
03:25:44,520 --> 03:25:46,860
Maybe it's 5 million, I don't know.

1991
03:25:48,440 --> 03:25:52,380
I mean, we saw numbers for the projection of approximately what it would cost.

1992
03:25:52,600 --> 03:25:57,260
I just wasn't sure if it's still the same now that we've made these changes.

1993
03:25:58,520 --> 03:26:04,040
Yeah, we're updating those cost estimates, the projections, and can provide them.

1994
03:26:04,140 --> 03:26:06,220
But I don't thought my head, I can't say how much.

1995
03:26:06,700 --> 03:26:10,640
So before we were at, I'm going to say roughly 70 million, I think, okay.

1996
03:26:12,760 --> 03:26:20,220
So you provided all of the different meetings that we've had, and when I went back to the most recent, which actually was the, I think the May meeting,

1997
03:26:22,120 --> 03:26:27,120
there were the open questions to be addressed in the next steps.

1998
03:26:27,520 --> 03:26:36,500
And so a couple of these, and I don't know if we have answers on all of them tonight, were the applicability of city inclusionary housing ordinance and city income limits,

1999
03:26:36,500 --> 03:26:39,600
It's the historical status of existing buildings.

2000
03:26:40,560 --> 03:26:46,360
So the first one in the appendix there is a slide showing what the city requirements would be.

2001
03:26:48,080 --> 03:26:53,780
But if we do this, it means they're not applicable to us, is that?

2002
03:26:53,980 --> 03:26:55,420
Well, with a small caveat.

2003
03:26:55,740 --> 03:27:03,660
So by going through SB 35 using that entitlement pathway, we do need to provide at least 50% for low income.

2004
03:27:05,640 --> 03:27:21,320
The city is, we would be meeting most the requirement for the city, but the city also says 5% for very low income, which is kind of a layer in addition to the SB 35 requirement. So we would still be subject to that city of Pasadena requirement.

2005
03:27:22,880 --> 03:27:27,120
So would that look to us as we would do 5 to meet that plus 45?

2006
03:27:27,120 --> 03:27:29,200
Okay, we wouldn't have to do 55.

2007
03:27:29,520 --> 03:27:29,680
Correct.

2008
03:27:30,000 --> 03:27:30,600
Excellent, okay.

2009
03:27:31,120 --> 03:27:36,000
And I'm sorry, the historical status, is that something we're still waiting to hear from the city about or no?

2010
03:27:38,970 --> 03:27:39,410
Sure, please.

2011
03:27:40,170 --> 03:27:57,920
So, yeah, so the, the city, so the pathway on the historical designation is the, the historical preservation committee makes a recommendation to the city council.

2012
03:27:57,920 --> 03:28:02,740
Council. The City Council can either accept the recommendation or they can decline it.

2013
03:28:04,500 --> 03:28:14,320
And then the added wrinkle is we're not bound to accept the city's designation of historical

2014
03:28:14,320 --> 03:28:20,460
property as a board. So several things can happen. One, the committee can say we don't recommend

2015
03:28:20,460 --> 03:28:27,900
that this should be designated historic. They could recommend that it should be and the

2016
03:28:27,900 --> 03:28:29,600
We're not accepting a recommendation,

2017
03:28:29,960 --> 03:28:32,320
we're gonna go ahead with letting the school district

2018
03:28:32,320 --> 03:28:34,520
do whatever they want, or they could say,

2019
03:28:34,780 --> 03:28:35,920
we will accept your recommendation,

2020
03:28:36,080 --> 03:28:39,800
and then we can say, well, we don't accept your,

2021
03:28:42,220 --> 03:28:45,560
everybody kind of all has to agree that it's a historic.

2022
03:28:45,760 --> 03:28:49,260
Now, there are obvious political implications

2023
03:28:49,260 --> 03:28:50,300
of all of those steps.

2024
03:28:50,640 --> 03:28:52,300
So, I'm just trying to understand,

2025
03:28:52,520 --> 03:28:56,480
is there a defined timeline by which other things are happening

2026
03:28:56,480 --> 03:29:10,530
If, from what, what member Kellen said, it sounds like if we have the final vote, we can move forward because it doesn't, the rest of that is in material.

2027
03:29:11,070 --> 03:29:12,870
I'll let her answer that specifically.

2028
03:29:13,330 --> 03:29:13,450
Thank you.

2029
03:29:14,510 --> 03:29:24,530
So, just in terms of the current status, which I think the board is familiar with, is in mid-July the Historical Preservation Commission considered

2030
03:29:24,530 --> 03:29:33,390
and decided against calling for review of applicant Padres requests for designating the site landmark.

2031
03:29:34,370 --> 03:29:43,090
And subsequently gave Padres the opportunity if it wants to resubmit that they would consider again, that has not yet happened.

2032
03:29:43,490 --> 03:29:45,370
So I think that's the trigger for then.

2033
03:29:45,510 --> 03:29:48,010
What are the next steps that the district can consider?

2034
03:29:48,310 --> 03:29:52,570
And that, of course, there would be the process that occurs at the city level.

2035
03:29:52,570 --> 03:29:59,970
So the commission considers it and then it gets appealed depending on what occurs at the commission level and to the city council and then of course

2036
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:29,620
And of course, the district can assess its options at that point as well. And there are other things that the district can do along the way that we're still assessing and considering, um, to address the, if another application is brought. Okay. So it's, I guess I'm trying to place it on the timeline. Is it potentially something that holds us up? That's what I'm not really understanding? Hopefully not. Okay. Yeah. We'll go with hopefully not. And then the density, I think that was kind of mentioned in the public comment.

2037
03:30:29,620 --> 03:30:31,120
That was one of the open questions,

2038
03:30:32,540 --> 03:30:34,920
the density quieter under AB2295.

2039
03:30:35,000 --> 03:30:36,880
I think that was raised at the joint meeting.

2040
03:30:37,240 --> 03:30:38,980
So is that something we've resolved as well?

2041
03:30:40,060 --> 03:30:47,320
OK, and then so the, it was the density required under AB2295,

2042
03:30:47,320 --> 03:30:51,680
the 30-DU-slash-acre minimum maximum.

2043
03:30:51,940 --> 03:30:54,580
So, but if it's resolved, I just, these were, like I said,

2044
03:30:54,700 --> 03:30:55,560
these were just the open,

2045
03:30:57,840 --> 03:31:00,600
well, I don't know what the resolution was.

2046
03:31:05,260 --> 03:31:15,380
So a closer reading of AB 2295 just basically said that here are, they're not minimums.

2047
03:31:15,580 --> 03:31:21,180
There was a question from the city standpoint is this minimum density and it wasn't, it was just a guideline.

2048
03:31:21,860 --> 03:31:26,800
And so the density that we're proposing is consistent with AB 2295.

2049
03:31:26,800 --> 03:31:32,820
So it could be, I wasn't clear of the public comment was saying why aren't you making it more dense?

2050
03:31:33,540 --> 03:31:45,840
Well, and so the rationale for, to make it more dense, we're doing two things that we didn't look at more dense projects through the feasibility process.

2051
03:31:46,300 --> 03:31:54,860
Two of the issues that occur when you're building denser project is you lose open space, which frankly relative to the current

2052
03:31:57,180 --> 03:32:04,100
demographic focus would reduce the amount of area that we could have for children and families.

2053
03:32:04,680 --> 03:32:09,840
Number two is by making it more dense you create structured parking.

2054
03:32:10,420 --> 03:32:17,640
And so what we're trying to do is avoid structured parking because we incur a lot of cost for housing

2055
03:32:17,640 --> 03:32:26,000
cars as opposed to housing residents. And by doing that, again, budgets will increase

2056
03:32:26,000 --> 03:32:32,840
somewhere between 30 and 50,000 dollars per structured parking space. And we want to

2057
03:32:32,840 --> 03:32:34,420
avoid that cost if possible.

2058
03:32:35,380 --> 03:32:41,880
Okay. And then vacating the housing app. Is that on a timeline? Is that a decision?

2059
03:32:41,880 --> 03:32:48,700
We're working with the city on that right now, and we've had some substantive conversations about

2060
03:32:49,640 --> 03:32:51,460
that process and

2061
03:32:52,140 --> 03:32:57,980
The city is doing some homework as well. Okay, all right, so that one that one is still open

2062
03:32:57,980 --> 03:33:03,120
But everything else it sounds like pretty well, but then we make our decisions tonight

2063
03:33:04,600 --> 03:33:11,680
The last thing I wanted to raise was about the net operating income and so back when we

2064
03:33:11,880 --> 03:33:16,340
had the feasibility study, the beautiful documents from,

2065
03:33:16,660 --> 03:33:18,640
I think it was actually from last June.

2066
03:33:20,060 --> 03:33:24,820
In those proposals, I think one of the lowest annual net

2067
03:33:24,820 --> 03:33:27,540
operating costs was about 2.37 million.

2068
03:33:29,900 --> 03:33:33,900
It looks like as we've moved to, and at that point,

2069
03:33:34,040 --> 03:33:36,480
SB-35 wasn't in the feasibility study.

2070
03:33:36,700 --> 03:33:39,300
It looks as though when we moved to SB-35,

2071
03:33:39,300 --> 03:33:48,200
And then internally also decided to lower our rents, and it sounds like we increased some of our estimates of cost.

2072
03:33:48,700 --> 03:33:53,980
So now we've gone to the 1.37 net operating income annually.

2073
03:33:54,740 --> 03:34:02,880
I did want to say for Mr. Rambo community's information that when we approved this project in March,

2074
03:34:02,880 --> 03:34:11,900
We did say that the income would be used for facilities projects, not just we didn't leave it as it's just open-ended,

2075
03:34:12,060 --> 03:34:18,900
general fund, use it for whatever, because as we're going to the taxpayers and saying please let us, you know,

2076
03:34:19,000 --> 03:34:27,160
we're going to use approximately 70 million of your dollars and interest and have you, you know, pay that back over 30 years,

2077
03:34:27,160 --> 03:34:34,180
that that pass through ability of saying at the same time we're getting this revenue that we will also be using on facilities.

2078
03:34:34,660 --> 03:34:42,800
So your money as you're paying your taxes is really still going for the purpose that when you approve a bond it's going for.

2079
03:34:43,420 --> 03:34:54,480
I guess my inclination would be to want to move back closer to that 2.37 than the 1.37.

2080
03:34:56,960 --> 03:35:04,940
I mean, I understand that SB-35 saves us six to nine months, rather than the 2295.

2081
03:35:06,060 --> 03:35:11,180
So again, I'm just, I want to be mindful that as we're trying to pass this bond and we're

2082
03:35:11,180 --> 03:35:17,280
trying to make sure that this is an attractive proposition to our taxpayers, you know, I was

2083
03:35:17,800 --> 03:35:21,700
thinking we would be able to hit the 2 million net operating income.

2084
03:35:21,700 --> 03:35:28,220
It doesn't sound like we might get there, but I'm the 1.37 took me a back a little bit because I-

2085
03:35:28,220 --> 03:35:29,820
It's illustrative, it's illustrative, right?

2086
03:35:30,020 --> 03:35:34,660
So as I mentioned, it's not something the board is taking action on tonight.

2087
03:35:35,200 --> 03:35:40,580
It's meant to demonstrate that even by setting the rents quite a bit lower than what's required

2088
03:35:40,580 --> 03:35:49,160
under SB 35 and even lower than what the market rents are, it still produces 1.3 million dollars of net operating income.

2089
03:35:49,160 --> 03:35:55,720
So it's not a final number certainly, though I understand, you know, wanting to compare it to what was in the feasibility study.

2090
03:35:56,080 --> 03:36:03,300
Well, I understand. And here's what I'll say is when I said, well, what if we really just had two rent points?

2091
03:36:03,680 --> 03:36:12,360
And one was actually 70% of market and the other was the max, you know, the limits I think they were in the appendix.

2092
03:36:12,360 --> 03:36:17,300
It didn't really raise the rents very much for this.

2093
03:36:18,020 --> 03:36:23,920
It's really moving from the 30 percent that was in the feasibility to the 50 percent.

2094
03:36:24,340 --> 03:36:28,560
And later on top, our decision perhaps to have it even lower.

2095
03:36:29,160 --> 03:36:35,380
So that hinges does hinge tonight in the fact that we're choosing SB 35 versus not choosing

2096
03:36:35,380 --> 03:36:35,620
it.

2097
03:36:35,620 --> 03:36:42,760
So, I don't know that I'm saying we shouldn't do that tonight, but I just want to be mindful

2098
03:36:42,760 --> 03:36:48,300
of having as much revenue as we can that's being then spent on facilities.

2099
03:36:50,720 --> 03:36:56,480
So I just

2100
03:37:09,690 --> 03:37:13,130
want to say that schools

2101
03:37:15,530 --> 03:37:20,770
are the centers of our communities and they're also one

2102
03:37:20,770 --> 03:37:32,090
of the like bedrock entities that upholds democracy, so while in its purest sense housing

2103
03:37:32,090 --> 03:37:38,070
may not appear to be directly aligned with our mission, it's aptly vital to our mission.

2104
03:37:39,110 --> 03:37:45,930
And if in building community our goal is to try to create stability, create an opportunity

2105
03:37:45,930 --> 03:37:51,530
you can provide a service to people and also create safety which comes from having stable

2106
03:37:51,530 --> 03:37:57,850
communities, then we need to be on the right side of this trend of building housing.

2107
03:38:00,610 --> 03:38:09,230
In addition to the way in which Josie Velasquez laid out the ways that schools are having

2108
03:38:09,230 --> 03:38:14,650
to do more in terms of the role we're taking in educating our students.

2109
03:38:15,690 --> 03:38:20,770
One of those things is demonstrated in the community schools model that is being funded

2110
03:38:20,770 --> 03:38:26,270
at the state level, that is providing opportunities for schools to provide additional services

2111
03:38:26,750 --> 03:38:30,330
to students in and outside of the classroom.

2112
03:38:31,070 --> 03:38:34,570
And us being able to, as a district we had to provide housing is just one of those things

2113
03:38:34,570 --> 03:38:38,370
that will blend itself to strengthening that community school's model.

2114
03:38:39,650 --> 03:38:50,890
I will say that I am a huge fan of Spanish meta-training architecture, however, the site

2115
03:38:50,890 --> 03:38:55,950
that we are identified to build this housing on does not have any of that sell architecture

2116
03:38:55,950 --> 03:38:56,670
in its neighborhood.

2117
03:38:57,470 --> 03:39:01,890
And I think that we will run into significant robots on the design review committee if we do

2118
03:39:01,890 --> 03:39:12,690
We do not consider a craftsman-style architecture for being able to have this project move forward with the greatest amount of expedition.

2119
03:39:13,830 --> 03:39:23,010
Again, my personal preference is the Mediterranean, but I think that if we want to be able to have minimal delay, minimal criticism, feedback, etc.

2120
03:39:23,630 --> 03:39:29,190
In terms of the design aligning with the aesthetic of that particular community,

2121
03:39:29,850 --> 03:39:32,470
I think we should strongly consider another self-architecture.

2122
03:39:44,660 --> 03:39:45,580
Point will take.

2123
03:39:47,810 --> 03:39:49,170
I think that should be our plan B.

2124
03:39:52,980 --> 03:39:55,380
I know how that is, I have to deal with them.

2125
03:39:55,800 --> 03:39:58,300
So I just want to say a few things really quick.

2126
03:39:58,780 --> 03:40:03,500
Thank you for all of your work, it's been a pleasure meeting in the committee.

2127
03:40:04,780 --> 03:40:16,360
So I want to go back to one of Board Member Alaska's concerns about the number of times

2128
03:40:16,360 --> 03:40:18,620
that we keep bringing the same issue before the Board.

2129
03:40:19,380 --> 03:40:28,580
And I just, I want you to understand that this is a process and it's not technically we're

2130
03:40:28,580 --> 03:40:29,980
not bringing the same issue.

2131
03:40:29,980 --> 03:40:35,100
where we're coming forward to the board as we move through this process,

2132
03:40:35,260 --> 03:40:41,960
either to update you or for you to approve us moving to the next step.

2133
03:40:42,540 --> 03:40:44,720
So here's the thing though, if you want that to go away,

2134
03:40:45,320 --> 03:40:50,620
just make a motion that, you know, we just do what we got to do

2135
03:40:50,620 --> 03:40:54,360
and just keep moving forward and bring the finished product to you

2136
03:40:54,360 --> 03:40:57,520
and then you won't have to go through all these approvals.

2137
03:40:59,700 --> 03:41:12,480
So the other point that I want to raise is this notion that, you know, we are not in housing business, we're in the education business.

2138
03:41:13,080 --> 03:41:19,660
And I think, you know, a few of my colleagues here on the board have already done a great job addressing it.

2139
03:41:19,660 --> 03:41:26,720
But one of the things that I want to say that well, hopefully resonate with everyone is

2140
03:41:26,720 --> 03:41:34,520
that the whole purpose of the third party management company is to separate the two entities.

2141
03:41:36,240 --> 03:41:46,700
As a matter of fact, I'm hoping that the school board, actually after we get through this point

2142
03:41:46,700 --> 03:41:55,680
and everything is established that we actually have nothing to do with that housing piece that a foundation

2143
03:41:55,680 --> 03:42:03,560
and extension of the school district will be established to manage all of that and they will have their own board

2144
03:42:03,560 --> 03:42:11,640
so that we don't have to get mixed up in that as well as their own staff and their own

2145
03:42:11,640 --> 03:42:23,190
and relationship with facilities to make sure that the funding and the funds get to where

2146
03:42:23,190 --> 03:42:24,190
they need to get to.

2147
03:42:25,610 --> 03:42:31,510
And then one of the final things that I want to say is that it

2148
03:42:35,510 --> 03:42:40,720
is to Board Member Marshall's

2149
03:42:40,720 --> 03:43:02,830
It is important that we do our jobs here today in this 21st century, moving things

2150
03:43:02,830 --> 03:43:06,590
forward for public education, which is evolving.

2151
03:43:06,590 --> 03:43:17,350
And just as you and I, those of us who went to school in the 60s and 70s and 80s, we learned

2152
03:43:17,350 --> 03:43:23,310
how to do division a completely different way from the way they do division today.

2153
03:43:24,870 --> 03:43:31,670
It's the same with what's happening in society regarding housing, which is why more and

2154
03:43:31,670 --> 03:43:39,570
more school districts around the country and throughout up and down the state of California are getting into the housing business.

2155
03:43:40,210 --> 03:43:50,910
Unfortunately, that's just the way we have to go in order to stay relative as a public entity.

2156
03:43:54,970 --> 03:44:06,750
So, I'm hoping that you don't feel put down or, I don't know what word to use, as people

2157
03:44:06,750 --> 03:44:14,050
come to you with those kind of notions that this is the wrong thing for the public school

2158
03:44:14,050 --> 03:44:17,310
to be doing, you guys should not be building housing.

2159
03:44:17,310 --> 03:44:25,290
housing, it is important that we build houses to house families and our employees have families

2160
03:44:25,600 --> 03:44:33,230
and they are interested in willing and wanting to see a project like this happen.

2161
03:44:34,010 --> 03:44:43,390
And I am hoping that the laws will change to be such so that we can, it's in some day

2162
03:44:43,390 --> 03:44:51,470
We feel housing for our families as well because we know that there's a need there.

2163
03:44:52,210 --> 03:44:59,970
So, and I just want to commend Dr. Monkel and her staff for all the work.

2164
03:45:06,160 --> 03:45:28,120
It's been a long time coming. So I feel like we're at the front door. So just thank you all. Oh, did I say what? I know punitive exactly. But I, you know, it's still just overwhelming to me to really be a part of this idea.

2165
03:45:29,780 --> 03:45:38,600
this whole process so I just really, I think my colleagues and I just think

2166
03:45:38,600 --> 03:45:45,260
everybody for this because I mean this is the idea that I just put out there in

2167
03:45:45,260 --> 03:45:53,760
2017 and now to see it you know grow legs and feet and you know the whole body's

2168
03:45:53,760 --> 03:45:57,660
almost complete, so I'm excited, so thank you.

2169
03:46:01,750 --> 03:46:03,710
I just have two real brief things.

2170
03:46:04,190 --> 03:46:06,790
I just want to reflect back on this slide.

2171
03:46:08,290 --> 03:46:12,660
So I would encourage that when you get to the point

2172
03:46:12,660 --> 03:46:14,080
where this thing is actually built

2173
03:46:14,080 --> 03:46:16,200
and we're looking at hiring a management company

2174
03:46:16,200 --> 03:46:19,220
that the board provides directions to the management company

2175
03:46:19,220 --> 03:46:22,600
about what the board wants to see in the net pricing scheme.

2176
03:46:23,460 --> 03:46:27,600
I think the important thing to take away from this slide

2177
03:46:27,600 --> 03:46:36,780
is that we can meet the requirements of the pathway and still have quite a lot of leeway

2178
03:46:36,780 --> 03:46:43,340
on what we charge in the remaining units and still come in well under the market rent.

2179
03:46:43,600 --> 03:46:54,000
So then the real question is, is the employees that want this housing, where are they on their own?

2180
03:46:54,560 --> 03:47:01,960
How much are they willing to pay for the property because we can offer them a cheaper rent

2181
03:47:01,960 --> 03:47:09,640
than what they may be paying now in Glendora and still come in well over the color it's

2182
03:47:09,640 --> 03:47:10,660
parts on this slide.

2183
03:47:11,280 --> 03:47:17,420
But I do think that's a task that should go to a professional property management company

2184
03:47:17,420 --> 03:47:23,980
who can look at who's applying for these things and what their income levels are and then

2185
03:47:23,980 --> 03:47:29,780
You have to offer these many units at this amount because that's what SB25 says.

2186
03:47:30,260 --> 03:47:34,720
But then the remaining ones, these are the, this is what the applicant pool looked like.

2187
03:47:34,820 --> 03:47:46,200
This is what we think that we can fairly charge that they're still saving a lot of money by moving into these places, but we're making more than whatever that number is on that slide.

2188
03:47:46,580 --> 03:47:49,260
I think we will come in higher than the 1.3,

2189
03:47:51,790 --> 03:47:52,550
but

2190
03:47:52,550 --> 03:48:00,230
But I think that should be driven by the professionals that run the project and not by the board trying to twiddle numbers up and down.

2191
03:48:00,470 --> 03:48:13,050
I really do agree with Michelle that this should be a thing that's independent and we don't want someone who's upset about their rent level coming and putting a public comment card and you only get the board and a board meeting, that's not what we're supposed to do here.

2192
03:48:13,370 --> 03:48:15,090
I really do agree with that.

2193
03:48:15,090 --> 03:48:19,030
I'm trying to comment to the top of the list for rent, because there are many.

2194
03:48:19,750 --> 03:48:25,750
So there's that, and then I just wanted to provide a little gentle, not specific pushback, but

2195
03:48:26,770 --> 03:48:33,770
people who are on this committee who have done projects and put them through the design commission pointed out that

2196
03:48:34,350 --> 03:48:44,120
mission style, Spanish style really does not have the same level of commentary.

2197
03:48:44,120 --> 03:48:52,360
That the Craftsman style does from the design commission, speaking as someone who was part of the

2198
03:48:52,360 --> 03:48:56,660
bungalow heaven neighborhood association and was involved in people who went to the design

2199
03:48:56,660 --> 03:49:01,960
commission to yell at designs and stuff, there's nobody in this town that is more committed

2200
03:49:01,960 --> 03:49:08,240
to faithful adoption of Craftsman style than the city of Pasadena.

2201
03:49:13,480 --> 03:49:19,080
If you're going to shoot for a craftsman, you're going to A, be spending more to build it, B, be spending more to maintain it.

2202
03:49:19,180 --> 03:49:22,780
But also C, you're going to get a lot of, that's not real craftsman features, right?

2203
03:49:23,800 --> 03:49:27,200
And so that is an additional factor.

2204
03:49:27,480 --> 03:49:31,200
So I just wanted to mention that not, I mean, you still have a valid point about the neighborhood.

2205
03:49:31,200 --> 03:49:41,060
But I think for the purposes of making a decision tonight, I agree with the committee's recommendation that that's what we should go with right now.

2206
03:49:44,210 --> 03:49:46,950
So forgive me if you went over this.

2207
03:49:47,530 --> 03:50:02,130
So as costs rise with management, maintenance, costs that kind of pop up and all of that, how will the management company maintain that balance?

2208
03:50:02,130 --> 03:50:09,510
so that we don't get our profit eaten up with management fees.

2209
03:50:23,760 --> 03:50:45,600
There we go. Okay, excuse me. So a couple things. Number one is, first off, there are reserves that were built into the operating costs to deal with some of these ongoing expenses, and when roofs have to be replaced, there are funds that are being set aside every year from as part of

2210
03:50:45,600 --> 03:50:55,620
the operations. So you shouldn't be struck by some huge unanticipated capital expense.

2211
03:50:56,160 --> 03:51:02,140
That's number one. Number two is, yes, every year rents will go up. Good property managers

2212
03:51:02,140 --> 03:51:08,760
will keep them going up by at least CPI, which is allowed in the state. And consequently,

2213
03:51:09,680 --> 03:51:13,260
revenues over time will increase and should increase.

2214
03:51:13,260 --> 03:51:24,280
We looked at the other places, the other districts that have done workforce housing, and perhaps asked them about this.

2215
03:51:24,480 --> 03:51:26,480
Is there any anecdotal information on this?

2216
03:51:26,780 --> 03:51:35,040
Yes, and as a matter of fact, our underwriting was based upon working with the Northern California operators,

2217
03:51:35,500 --> 03:51:42,320
because that's actually where these projects were built that were owned and

2218
03:51:42,320 --> 03:51:47,320
operated by the school districts or owned by the school districts, hiring third party

2219
03:51:47,320 --> 03:51:50,800
property managers and that was the information that we were working off of.

2220
03:51:51,780 --> 03:51:58,700
I will raise one thing that's actually probably all experienced is the fact that one big change

2221
03:51:58,700 --> 03:52:03,860
from 18 months ago, thereabouts when we were putting together a feasibility study and now

2222
03:52:03,860 --> 03:52:11,260
insurance costs and so insurance costs which we reflected in this analysis have probably

2223
03:52:11,260 --> 03:52:17,440
We increased three, fourfold for apartments from what we anticipated.

2224
03:52:18,220 --> 03:52:22,160
So we are trying to anticipate some of those costs as we go.

2225
03:52:22,300 --> 03:52:25,660
But again, as we're going through this process, we will be updating.

2226
03:52:26,320 --> 03:52:31,560
Development costs will be updating, operating costs, and we'll keep you up priced.

2227
03:52:34,150 --> 03:52:35,390
I'm going to call for the vote.

2228
03:52:35,390 --> 03:52:36,390
So

2229
03:52:42,060 --> 03:52:42,580
the

2230
03:52:47,700 --> 03:52:50,320
original

2231
03:52:52,810 --> 03:52:56,330
scenario, 126, went to 115, right?

2232
03:52:57,630 --> 03:52:58,190
Number of units,

2233
03:53:00,330 --> 03:53:03,010
the feasibility was 126 and then went to 115.

2234
03:53:04,150 --> 03:53:13,050
So I'm just curious how it still stayed the same, like same number of units, and maybe

2235
03:53:13,050 --> 03:53:16,690
because it's more efficient to have larger units.

2236
03:53:19,990 --> 03:53:23,170
I'm sorry, could you repeat the question?

2237
03:53:24,450 --> 03:53:25,870
No, 123, say.

2238
03:53:26,190 --> 03:53:27,770
So, it was 123.

2239
03:53:28,650 --> 03:53:32,690
The feasibility had 123 and a version with 135.

2240
03:53:33,690 --> 03:53:33,890
Yep.

2241
03:53:34,010 --> 03:53:34,970
We're now at 115.

2242
03:53:35,850 --> 03:53:40,570
I'm just observing that it didn't change much even though we have large units.

2243
03:53:41,810 --> 03:53:51,010
I guess, I'm speaking to the committee, people are watching, there's going to be critics.

2244
03:53:51,750 --> 03:53:57,510
Is there anything through the process of the committee where there were some common

2245
03:53:57,510 --> 03:54:06,930
themes, common doubts that you want to, you know, address that are probably some common

2246
03:54:06,930 --> 03:54:10,230
Concerns out there that have not been brought up yet.

2247
03:54:10,690 --> 03:54:17,570
So, Mr. Bravo-Koremi, just joined the committee recently, and we've been working on the committee for quite some time.

2248
03:54:18,290 --> 03:54:27,450
And I think the common theme was, and you've seen the change, as we want it to be affordable for every employee, regardless of the income that they make, right?

2249
03:54:27,730 --> 03:54:34,130
And so I can remember reviewing the feasibility study with SLT and

2250
03:54:34,130 --> 03:54:38,390
learning about the project probably a year or so ago, and we looked at it and we said

2251
03:54:38,390 --> 03:54:39,810
we couldn't afford to live here, right?

2252
03:54:40,090 --> 03:54:44,450
So because when you look at the feasibility and you only have some low and everybody

2253
03:54:44,450 --> 03:54:50,270
else has to pay really high, most people, it's market value, they can't afford.

2254
03:54:50,790 --> 03:54:57,150
So that was a common theme, and then when we had a lot of discussion regarding the one

2255
03:54:57,150 --> 03:55:04,450
bedrooms versus family units and we came to some compromises around that to meet the

2256
03:55:04,450 --> 03:55:11,090
needs of everyone. We spoke a lot about craftsmen versus the Mediterranean and the challenges

2257
03:55:11,090 --> 03:55:17,650
with craftsmen. So I think another common theme is you know we don't need to get rich

2258
03:55:17,650 --> 03:55:23,970
off this but we had a 7-0 vote because we presented as a revenue enhancement and we wanted

2259
03:55:23,970 --> 03:55:29,810
to make sure that it's still a revenue enhancement with the district and that's why a lot of work

2260
03:55:29,810 --> 03:55:35,450
was done on the back end with the salaries of our employees and you know it's not an exact

2261
03:55:35,450 --> 03:55:42,010
science yet but just playing with the numbers to see that it could be still affordable and we would be

2262
03:55:42,010 --> 03:55:49,050
able to still have revenue coming in to maintain our building. So you know that's not said in

2263
03:55:49,050 --> 03:55:55,250
we do need to get expert values, but moving to this next step is important.

2264
03:55:56,070 --> 03:56:03,250
And then another common theme, which had discussions of pros and cons, was fast track or not to fast track.

2265
03:56:03,750 --> 03:56:12,770
Because I think 50%, there was some concerns about limiting future boards with a 50% low income.

2266
03:56:13,530 --> 03:56:18,510
But once I think we looked at the numbers and saw that we have the flexibility to set

2267
03:56:18,510 --> 03:56:23,110
But the other 50 percent at higher prices in the future should things change.

2268
03:56:23,430 --> 03:56:26,190
We all came to agreement with the presentation this evening.

2269
03:56:26,930 --> 03:56:32,510
So I'll just take a moment to thank everyone, especially Ms. Bailey, Mr. Cahalin who had

2270
03:56:32,510 --> 03:56:38,870
to take time off work to be part of the group and Mr. Bravo-Karemi for jumping in and learning

2271
03:56:38,870 --> 03:56:40,470
about this along the way.

2272
03:56:40,690 --> 03:56:46,090
And Mr. Carrasco for being a champion on his own before Mr. Bravo-Karemi joined us.

2273
03:56:46,830 --> 03:56:48,130
I would like to call the vote.

2274
03:56:50,210 --> 03:56:51,070
I'm going to the approval.

2275
03:56:52,930 --> 03:56:55,900
I'm so sorry.

2276
03:56:56,000 --> 03:57:00,220
Dr. Blanco just said that we potentially could change rents in the future.

2277
03:57:01,240 --> 03:57:01,680
Okay.

2278
03:57:01,860 --> 03:57:05,360
Because I thought I heard you said we're restricted to CPI increases.

2279
03:57:05,720 --> 03:57:07,540
But we could just change rents.

2280
03:57:07,640 --> 03:57:11,840
On the affordable units, you're stuck.

2281
03:57:12,140 --> 03:57:12,900
There's two difference.

2282
03:57:13,660 --> 03:57:14,060
That's rules.

2283
03:57:14,240 --> 03:57:14,680
Okay, sorry.

2284
03:57:14,840 --> 03:57:15,400
That wasn't...

2285
03:57:15,400 --> 03:57:16,320
I didn't see that anywhere.

2286
03:57:16,320 --> 03:57:16,600
Okay.

2287
03:57:24,930 --> 03:57:25,410
Yes.

2288
03:57:30,820 --> 03:57:31,440
All in favor?

2289
03:57:32,160 --> 03:57:33,040
Any opposed?

2290
03:57:34,680 --> 03:57:40,120
And it's mainly to the faster route than just doing 50 versus the 30.

2291
03:57:46,270 --> 03:57:47,650
Thank you very much.

2292
03:57:47,790 --> 03:57:52,190
We will move to the consent agenda.

2293
03:57:53,470 --> 03:57:55,450
I would like to pull five B.

2294
03:58:26,620 --> 03:58:28,480
Michelle's looking for the one she won to pull.

2295
03:58:38,900 --> 03:58:41,460
Oh, board report seven A.

2296
03:58:41,460 --> 03:58:43,780
Okay, so 3C,

2297
03:58:46,880 --> 03:58:50,300
O3C, Agenda Item, Board Report 7A.

2298
03:58:50,640 --> 03:58:54,360
All right, and then I'm sorry, Yarmay, you said 5B.

2299
03:58:55,220 --> 03:58:55,860
5B.

2300
03:58:56,580 --> 03:58:57,780
Any other polls?

2301
03:58:59,960 --> 03:59:00,480
All right.

2302
03:59:00,780 --> 03:59:01,460
We'll begin to approve.

2303
03:59:01,880 --> 03:59:03,220
I'll start the remainder.

2304
03:59:04,260 --> 03:59:07,660
And just to note for everyone that

2305
03:59:11,280 --> 03:59:14,740
2H was pulled prior to the meeting.

2306
03:59:16,220 --> 03:59:17,420
Okay, just to make sure.

2307
03:59:18,960 --> 03:59:26,260
We had tabled it at policy to get Jeff's opinion on something, and so it wasn't supposed to come to this meeting yet, because we were waiting for his reply.

2308
03:59:27,220 --> 03:59:39,200
All right, so we have a motion in a second, and I have questions, I don't know if anyone else has questions on those, or maybe just mind more of a comment, I guess, on the new-certificated positions.

2309
03:59:39,200 --> 03:59:56,840
I just wanted to, I don't know that it's said in the board report, but I believe the two point two FTEs were positions we had reduced in the spring, but we're bringing them back, but paying for them with Prop 28.

2310
03:59:58,360 --> 03:59:59,860
It just didn't say that in the board report.

2311
04:00:01,460 --> 04:00:29,380
I'm sorry, are you talking about 6D or 6D? 6D is in dog. And then, just wanted to say that I know that the special ed teachers, it said they were coming out of AB602, but they'll really add to the general fund's contribution, because 602 is already maxed out, so I just wanted to clarify those two things. All right, student board member votes. Yes.

2312
04:00:29,380 --> 04:00:29,580
Yes.

2313
04:00:29,900 --> 04:00:30,360
All right.

2314
04:00:31,140 --> 04:00:31,840
Everyone else?

2315
04:00:34,160 --> 04:00:35,140
Pass a 7-0?

2316
04:00:36,000 --> 04:00:36,780
All right.

2317
04:00:37,060 --> 04:00:38,320
3-C.

2318
04:00:38,760 --> 04:00:40,660
The Green School Yards America.

2319
04:00:40,740 --> 04:00:41,300
That was beautiful.

2320
04:00:41,560 --> 04:00:42,900
I would like to commend this board.

2321
04:00:53,250 --> 04:00:53,670
Thank you.

2322
04:00:54,910 --> 04:00:56,970
I don't like when I'm Mike Messes up.

2323
04:00:58,990 --> 04:01:06,210
I just have a question about the fiscal impact portion of this.

2324
04:01:07,010 --> 04:01:25,790
And I'm going to tell you, I was reading this after work in school, so I want to make sure that I'm understanding that there's this is a grant and so funds will be coming in the district won't be paying anything out because I'm not clear.

2325
04:01:25,790 --> 04:01:38,710
I see one, two, three, four strings that say health initiative with a few different,

2326
04:01:38,750 --> 04:01:43,950
what are these, the objects, and I don't remember, but there are a few different codes there.

2327
04:01:45,270 --> 04:01:49,570
And then I see five different resources, one, two, three,

2328
04:01:51,750 --> 04:01:53,830
four different resources, five.

2329
04:01:53,830 --> 04:01:59,010
So I'm a little confused about what this is saying to me with regards to the funding.

2330
04:02:00,470 --> 04:02:06,410
Because the one resource with the four strings, I mean the four strings have the same resource.

2331
04:02:11,730 --> 04:02:12,490
Oh, yay.

2332
04:02:13,030 --> 04:02:14,250
Oh, did you hear me?

2333
04:02:14,650 --> 04:02:15,830
Oh, my God.

2334
04:02:17,850 --> 04:02:18,450
So.

2335
04:02:19,450 --> 04:02:20,050
Yeah.

2336
04:02:20,350 --> 04:02:20,570
Yeah.

2337
04:02:22,050 --> 04:02:22,950
Oh, yes.

2338
04:02:23,350 --> 04:02:23,430
Yes.

2339
04:02:23,770 --> 04:02:28,130
Because the anticipation is that we will receive the 10th

2340
04:02:28,130 --> 04:02:31,730
1000 stipend and so we broke up how we would spend it.

2341
04:02:32,150 --> 04:02:33,770
So mileage, materials,

2342
04:02:34,530 --> 04:02:38,410
several mill hours if we have a teacher joining the committee.

2343
04:02:39,390 --> 04:02:42,630
And then a subpay as well.

2344
04:02:43,270 --> 04:02:46,790
So and then the different resources for the different.

2345
04:02:47,650 --> 04:02:50,450
There's farm before in the paragraph.

2346
04:02:50,670 --> 04:02:55,330
Okay, yes, so I was asked to also include how we are paying for

2347
04:02:55,330 --> 04:02:58,150
the staff who are participating?

2348
04:02:58,570 --> 04:03:00,050
We are paying for the staff.

2349
04:03:00,150 --> 04:03:02,190
Well, it's already staffed.

2350
04:03:08,810 --> 04:03:18,050
So then when you show the funding strings in the board report with these resources,

2351
04:03:18,290 --> 04:03:23,530
shouldn't we see those resources with the funding string and the amounts of Japan

2352
04:03:23,530 --> 04:03:24,570
for staff out of that?

2353
04:03:26,450 --> 04:03:27,770
I think so.

2354
04:03:29,470 --> 04:03:34,370
That's more in kind, that's where they talked about, like that there would be a person

2355
04:03:34,370 --> 04:03:39,130
of time for the staff to go to training, but they were predetermining because it's

2356
04:03:39,130 --> 04:03:43,690
a collaborative effort between armed to school health services, different departments.

2357
04:03:44,170 --> 04:03:47,530
When the 10,000 comes, how they're going to split that up, that's what the different

2358
04:03:47,530 --> 04:03:48,150
strings are.

2359
04:03:48,650 --> 04:03:51,070
So the grant, we're going to put the grant when it gets there.

2360
04:03:51,970 --> 04:03:57,230
Okay, so we're not using any of our funds to fund anything related to this.

2361
04:03:57,690 --> 04:04:03,210
No, only like we as time to attend in somebody from facilities is going to attend to learn

2362
04:04:03,210 --> 04:04:03,650
about it.

2363
04:04:04,590 --> 04:04:08,570
And that's shown where on this board report.

2364
04:04:10,380 --> 04:04:14,830
The last paragraph where it's just the resource numbers that are identified.

2365
04:04:15,570 --> 04:04:21,970
So that would be, there are already staff that are going to attend.

2366
04:04:22,290 --> 04:04:27,510
Somebody from facilities, myself, are well in this coordinator and are farm to school coordinator.

2367
04:04:27,870 --> 04:04:30,690
So are we being reimbursed for your attendance?

2368
04:04:30,690 --> 04:04:33,550
We are not being reimbursed for our attendance.

2369
04:04:33,930 --> 04:04:40,650
So that's the amount that I'm thinking that those are the costs that I'm saying I want

2370
04:04:40,650 --> 04:04:47,050
to see on the board report so that where we have the fiscal impact and then we have these

2371
04:04:47,050 --> 04:04:53,710
resources we need the funding string so with the amount or at least that amount and the

2372
04:04:53,710 --> 04:04:59,130
number of different resources with their funding strings so that we can see that the district

2373
04:04:59,130 --> 04:05:08,470
is incurring some costs on this, and this isn't, it's not showing that, so that's it.

2374
04:05:08,650 --> 04:05:10,650
That's the point that I want to make to staff.

2375
04:05:14,340 --> 04:05:17,380
So I just wanted to kind of piggyback on that a little bit.

2376
04:05:17,560 --> 04:05:22,400
So it does say that we will be investing our own staff time to create an action plan.

2377
04:05:22,640 --> 04:05:28,000
And I think in terms of the stipend, we don't get the second half until after we've implemented

2378
04:05:28,000 --> 04:05:29,140
the action plan.

2379
04:05:29,140 --> 04:05:41,100
So there is a certain amount of our own staff time and efforts that will be going into this.

2380
04:05:43,860 --> 04:05:53,780
My question really was, do we need to devote staff time in this very constricted way to doing this work?

2381
04:05:53,860 --> 04:05:59,120
In other words, for that $10,000, they're saying we want you to do this and this and this and this.

2382
04:05:59,120 --> 04:06:01,340
this and I understand that we'll get training.

2383
04:06:02,140 --> 04:06:05,140
It's just if we are already going in this direction

2384
04:06:05,140 --> 04:06:08,980
and this is already incorporated into our facilities planning

2385
04:06:09,460 --> 04:06:11,120
when we're either doing upgrades

2386
04:06:11,880 --> 04:06:14,240
during the summer or as we're going forward

2387
04:06:14,240 --> 04:06:15,440
with school projects.

2388
04:06:18,610 --> 04:06:21,390
It's just very prescriptive.

2389
04:06:21,490 --> 04:06:23,470
You know, it's telling us you will do this,

2390
04:06:23,490 --> 04:06:24,290
this, this, and this.

2391
04:06:24,930 --> 04:06:28,470
And I'm not sure from a focus, you know,

2392
04:06:28,470 --> 04:06:34,350
So as said earlier tonight from a focus perspective, but I mean, stop spring it forward.

2393
04:06:35,670 --> 04:06:41,370
So for me, this was just as somebody who wants to be able to look at the board report

2394
04:06:41,370 --> 04:06:47,270
and the board report tell me the full story of what's happening, especially physically

2395
04:06:47,270 --> 04:06:48,950
or financially with it.

2396
04:06:49,410 --> 04:06:55,750
This was a little confusing because it looks like it's saying, yeah, the district is either

2397
04:06:55,750 --> 04:07:00,830
going to receive money that's going to go into these resources or we're going to be spending money

2398
04:07:01,450 --> 04:07:07,790
out of these resources. But I don't see how much. I get the stipend. I'm not concerned about any

2399
04:07:07,790 --> 04:07:13,030
of the work or the time that staff is going to be giving to this project based on

2400
04:07:14,050 --> 04:07:21,130
you know whatever's coming out of the stipend, the reimbursement. But for the staff cost that the

2401
04:07:21,130 --> 04:07:27,190
district will incur that they won't be reimbursed for. By this grant I think that

2402
04:07:27,190 --> 04:07:33,350
needs to show here as well and that's what I'm missing. So that's all because

2403
04:07:33,350 --> 04:07:39,270
it's it's it's unless it's what I hear Kim saying that it's already part of the

2404
04:07:39,270 --> 04:07:45,850
work that you're doing but it doesn't sound like it. It is part of the work

2405
04:07:45,850 --> 04:07:49,830
everyone. It is part of the work that we're doing in the sense that it's a

2406
04:07:49,830 --> 04:07:54,710
it's a goal for our district to green our school yards, so it is part of the work.

2407
04:07:55,710 --> 04:08:01,950
The benefit of being part of this institute is to learn from state leaders in this area

2408
04:08:01,950 --> 04:08:06,810
from other school districts and also to really set the time that there's a multi-departmental

2409
04:08:08,090 --> 04:08:09,890
approach for the district to.

2410
04:08:10,230 --> 04:08:13,530
So how much is coming out of the ELCAP for this?

2411
04:08:13,530 --> 04:08:20,330
There are four days that we go to the institute, so four days of our time throughout the year.

2412
04:08:20,990 --> 04:08:25,030
There may be a time that we're spent on that as well.

2413
04:08:25,830 --> 04:08:32,810
And how much is coming into, nothing's coming into the LCAP, it's all coming into the health

2414
04:08:32,810 --> 04:08:33,290
initiative.

2415
04:08:34,870 --> 04:08:42,810
That's where the stipend is going, and from that resource is where we'll put towards

2416
04:08:42,810 --> 04:08:52,390
It's milder dreamversament, materials, and then if we have a teacher coming on board to pay for their substitute or in their supplemental time if they work outside of contract hours.

2417
04:08:56,650 --> 04:09:11,190
I mean quickly, quickly saying $60 an hour which is I think what we pay teachers hourly times eight hours times four people times four times, roughly 8,000, maybe double that for actually doing the project, not just going to the meetings.

2418
04:09:11,190 --> 04:09:15,310
things. So I don't know that that's significant. I think it's more of the opportunity costs

2419
04:09:16,130 --> 04:09:21,870
of what the same staff members would be doing if they didn't do this for me. So I just

2420
04:09:21,870 --> 04:09:27,590
think anytime we expend money and there's a board report that's attached to that, that

2421
04:09:27,590 --> 04:09:29,470
the amount needs to be shown down there.

2422
04:09:33,460 --> 04:09:34,140
I'm on the phone.

2423
04:09:35,940 --> 04:09:36,380
Second.

2424
04:09:39,560 --> 04:09:40,000
Yes.

2425
04:09:40,000 --> 04:09:40,160
Yes.

2426
04:09:41,900 --> 04:09:42,520
All in favor?

2427
04:09:44,510 --> 04:09:45,110
Any opposed?

2428
04:09:48,280 --> 04:09:49,100
6-1.

2429
04:09:49,620 --> 04:09:50,940
And one differential?

2430
04:09:51,520 --> 04:09:51,700
All right.

2431
04:09:51,780 --> 04:09:54,100
We're going on to item 5b.

2432
04:09:55,540 --> 04:10:02,920
I feel like this board already voted no to this project once and then they divided it so that it looks like less at a different project.

2433
04:10:03,120 --> 04:10:07,440
And then we approved the first part that it was much less because it was such a deal.

2434
04:10:07,660 --> 04:10:13,320
And I still think that we should not vote and I wanted the opportunity to consistently vote no to this project.

2435
04:10:13,320 --> 04:10:22,360
It is a nice to have, and I must have only economy.

2436
04:10:31,160 --> 04:10:32,320
I move approval.

2437
04:10:32,720 --> 04:10:33,980
A second.

2438
04:10:35,620 --> 04:10:36,460
Now I can say something.

2439
04:10:36,860 --> 04:10:39,820
Okay, so this is phase two of the Promethean Board.

2440
04:10:40,080 --> 04:10:41,420
We already went through phase one.

2441
04:10:41,900 --> 04:10:45,380
I've talked to a few teachers about this.

2442
04:10:45,560 --> 04:10:47,160
One in particular is very excited.

2443
04:10:47,280 --> 04:10:49,000
It was excited about the first time.

2444
04:10:49,000 --> 04:10:56,040
And I did some research, and children are doing better, learning wise, when these are utilized.

2445
04:10:56,380 --> 04:11:00,540
And what I also found was sort of interesting is that girls do better.

2446
04:11:01,020 --> 04:11:03,760
And I don't know why, and I'd have to keep looking into that.

2447
04:11:04,080 --> 04:11:09,000
But these seem to be very helpful to student learning, from what I have found.

2448
04:11:09,100 --> 04:11:12,280
There's not a whole lot out there on it, but that's what I have found.

2449
04:11:12,440 --> 04:11:14,180
And so I think that's important.

2450
04:11:14,800 --> 04:11:17,800
And I just would love to hear from my colleagues what they think.

2451
04:11:17,800 --> 04:11:20,100
because I think these are very interesting.

2452
04:11:20,400 --> 04:11:20,640
Thank you.

2453
04:11:31,610 --> 04:11:33,890
Say, I was going to comment on Promethean boards.

2454
04:11:36,370 --> 04:11:37,630
I saw it for myself.

2455
04:11:39,470 --> 04:11:43,730
I went on a tour where we showed the parent and the student

2456
04:11:43,730 --> 04:11:46,790
of the board, and it's pretty cool.

2457
04:11:48,670 --> 04:11:51,610
And I hear, and I think I heard this from Dr. Blanco,

2458
04:11:51,650 --> 04:11:55,570
that some teachers that didn't want it now want it.

2459
04:11:59,070 --> 04:12:02,210
Is there student board member? Have you seen these new interactive boards?

2460
04:12:02,890 --> 04:12:06,970
I've seen a few around campus and all the teachers are pretty excited about it.

2461
04:12:07,390 --> 04:12:11,970
Yeah. I went to one of my teachers' classroom and then I was like, oh my goodness, is that new?

2462
04:12:12,050 --> 04:12:13,750
And then she was like waving her arms around.

2463
04:12:17,790 --> 04:12:22,970
All right, so let's go to the boat. All right, student board member.

2464
04:12:23,470 --> 04:12:26,430
Yes. All right. All in favor?

2465
04:12:29,020 --> 04:12:29,500
Any opposed?

2466
04:12:36,480 --> 04:12:40,320
I don't believe we have any other public comments.

2467
04:12:40,780 --> 04:12:41,620
Motion to adjourn.

2468
04:12:41,980 --> 04:12:45,980
So board requests or questions or future agenda items?

2469
04:12:46,900 --> 04:12:48,700
Does anybody else have any?

2470
04:12:53,050 --> 04:12:53,290
No.

2471
04:12:53,590 --> 04:12:56,350
Well, can we finish the agenda?

2472
04:12:57,790 --> 04:12:58,990
What can we finish the agenda?

2473
04:12:59,210 --> 04:13:00,770
Can she make a motion?

2474
04:13:02,540 --> 04:13:04,380
How can you make a motion to do something

2475
04:13:04,380 --> 04:13:06,060
that we haven't gotten to on the agenda yet.

2476
04:13:11,320 --> 04:13:13,500
I really would like to talk about October 10th,

2477
04:13:13,500 --> 04:13:15,660
and I would really like, well, what if there's a second?

2478
04:13:17,980 --> 04:13:18,700
Is there a second?

2479
04:13:20,840 --> 04:13:21,760
I'll make Michelle a liar.

2480
04:13:24,800 --> 04:13:25,760
All right.

2481
04:13:28,040 --> 04:13:35,460
So on 10-10, that was the meeting that wasn't

2482
04:13:36,100 --> 04:13:38,980
before on our schedule, but it's the second Thursday

2483
04:13:38,980 --> 04:13:46,480
that is potentially available. We wanted to, again, talk about input for negotiations

2484
04:13:46,480 --> 04:13:50,580
that we can move forward with negotiations for all of our different bargaining teams.

2485
04:13:51,740 --> 04:13:58,820
We may or may not be able to do a little bit of intro on September 12th, but staff has

2486
04:13:58,820 --> 04:14:04,900
other materials together, and so that's why we added October 10th. So I don't know that we'll

2487
04:14:04,900 --> 04:14:07,980
be doing significant other work that night.

2488
04:14:08,240 --> 04:14:10,180
So I think Dr. Blaske, as you just said,

2489
04:14:10,340 --> 04:14:12,740
you couldn't come as early as four,

2490
04:14:12,900 --> 04:14:14,340
but you can come later in the evening.

2491
04:14:15,300 --> 04:14:17,880
All right, and that works for everybody else,

2492
04:14:18,200 --> 04:14:20,340
or you're not working for you either.

2493
04:14:20,560 --> 04:14:22,980
Well, it's CIS is back to school night, but if,

2494
04:14:23,920 --> 04:14:26,940
I mean, we tell people not to schedule back to school nights

2495
04:14:26,940 --> 04:14:29,480
on Thursdays, they have to do what they have to do.

2496
04:14:29,980 --> 04:14:30,740
What time is it?

2497
04:14:30,980 --> 04:14:31,500
What time is it?

2498
04:14:31,660 --> 04:14:32,180
5.37.

2499
04:14:32,180 --> 04:14:43,100
seven. Yeah, it's just it won't work out. That's okay. All right. Um, one of the this is under the

2500
04:14:43,100 --> 04:14:47,500
brown act. This is totally an allowable email kind of conversation.

2501
04:14:50,740 --> 04:14:52,970
That is one opinion. I don't

2502
04:14:52,970 --> 04:14:59,970
know this. Well, it is a Google calendar. The content or the skin?

2503
04:15:01,720 --> 04:15:29,980
Okay, and I did have a request and it was kind of triggered by one of the items tonight, so let me know what you think. So, on the new certificate positions, it said that we needed two extra special education teachers for embedded instruction, otherwise known as inclusion. And the question I'd ask before the meeting has a presentation for this come to the board.

2504
04:15:29,980 --> 04:15:36,040
have we talked about it? I mean, I remember Devon Jacob sitting there and telling us we were starting it two years ago

2505
04:15:36,040 --> 04:15:42,180
when we were having a presentation on the strategic plan, but I don't know that we understand the staffing ramifications

2506
04:15:43,880 --> 04:15:47,500
and it's tending to feel like there's some extra staff involved

2507
04:15:47,500 --> 04:15:54,600
and I don't know what the rollout is, so at this point, I think we're in pre-K and TK.

2508
04:15:54,600 --> 04:15:57,520
I don't know that we've gone to Kinder, but we may have.

2509
04:15:58,300 --> 04:16:04,520
So is there, and maybe it's not a presentation, maybe it is some kind of Friday communicate

2510
04:16:04,520 --> 04:16:05,040
to the Board.

2511
04:16:05,200 --> 04:16:10,560
Just so that we understand what embedded instruction is, what the staffing ramifications are.

2512
04:16:11,020 --> 04:16:15,620
Is this rolling out, you know, all the way to 12th grade, and what's the time frame?

2513
04:16:15,740 --> 04:16:20,300
Is it one grade every year, is it, you know, we're going to work our way through elementary

2514
04:16:20,300 --> 04:16:23,280
in the next four to five years, and then figure out where to go from there.

2515
04:16:24,180 --> 04:16:30,360
I'd like, I'd love to hear more of a plan, is that I don't know if people want a presentation or if that's more of a Friday.

2516
04:16:32,590 --> 04:16:33,110
Is there?

2517
04:16:33,410 --> 04:16:54,730
Yeah, with you want a presentation we could certainly do one, but one of the things that Dr. Cannell and I have assured is that if you're 10 children in a classroom, they're going to have a teacher in an SDC anyway, so the ratios were pushing the ratios to be the same where it's kind of like half and half, but that it does lower the gen ad ratio.

2518
04:16:54,730 --> 04:17:05,870
So there are, you know, some cost and we are cautioning, you know, the special ed department not to move into another program model, one from another.

2519
04:17:06,390 --> 04:17:12,930
So we could have a presentation on that and really look at children's individual IEPs and inclusive practices.

2520
04:17:13,410 --> 04:17:20,230
But in the early grades, it seems to be working because remember the ratios in TK are going to go 10 to 1 to 2.

2521
04:17:20,230 --> 04:17:20,350
So.

2522
04:17:20,770 --> 04:17:21,150
Right.

2523
04:17:21,370 --> 04:17:29,210
And I think we agree that inclusion will lead us to better results for students, but in

2524
04:17:29,210 --> 04:17:34,910
a year where we're doing a fiscal stabilization plan and talking about lowering costs, just

2525
04:17:34,910 --> 04:17:36,990
want to make sure this all fits together.

2526
04:17:37,510 --> 04:17:41,010
So this Friday or I'm looking at other people.

2527
04:17:41,290 --> 04:17:43,850
It strongly feels to a Friday community at best.

2528
04:17:44,450 --> 04:17:44,650
Okay.

2529
04:17:44,650 --> 04:17:47,390
Is that for everyone to do this?

2530
04:17:47,690 --> 04:17:49,830
Okay, brighter communicators, thank you.

2531
04:17:50,090 --> 04:17:53,090
Anybody else, comments, questions, future agenda items?

2532
04:17:54,830 --> 04:17:55,990
Excellent, then we are.

2533
04:17:56,930 --> 04:18:00,410
So can I just adjourn us or do we need, okay, I'm going to adjourn us.