[0:00] Here we go. We're going to go ahead and start our meeting at 5.51 and have embarrassing from royal

[0:10] high school leaders in the pledge of allegiance. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance.

[0:18] Right

[0:18] hand over your heart, ready, begin.

[0:35] Thank

[0:43] you so much.

[0:48] We're going to go ahead and report out on close session in item 3-1 with a motion by

[0:58] run in a second-by-james in a 40 vote with trustee-resonic

[1:04] absentee.

[1:07] We've passed, we're using the recommendation of the district, in 3.2 with the

[1:14] motion by small in a second-by-jorn in 4.0 with one absence, we're taking

[1:22] There's the recommendation of the district.

[1:29] 3.3 in a motion by Gibran in the second by Pietro Longo in a 4.0

[1:36] in a 4.0 vote with one absence by Trustee Reg's Vesnik,

[1:41] we're accepting the recommendation of the district.

[1:45] In 3.4, there's no action.

[1:48] And three, five, with the motion by Smollin, a second by Gibran in a four o vote with one absence by Trustee Vesnek.

[1:56] We're taking the recommendation of the district.

[2:00] And in three, six, also no action.

[2:04] Can I get an approval of the agenda?

[2:08] Some moved.

[2:09] Second.

[2:11] Motion by James, seconded by Gibran, roll call vote, Trustee James.

[2:16] Trustee Pietro Lungo?

[2:18] Hi, President Smaller. Hi, and approval of the minutes. So moved. Second. Motion by Smaller.

[2:27] Second and by Gibran. We'll call vote. Trustee James. Hi, Trustee Pietro Lungel.

[2:32] Clerk Gibran. Hi, President Smaller. Hi. And see, now we've come to the student report.

[2:40] So, Rambia, it's your turn. Good evening, President Smaller.

[2:45] Click the boards you bronze, trust these James Future Lungo and Resonate, as well as Superintendent Dr.

[2:50] Yousof, my name is Ranbir Jane, and I'm here tonight representing Royal High School.

[2:55] I'm so excited and honored to share the board report on behalf of my peers across the district.

[2:59] Not only Levinsky at Apollo reports, Apollo has had an amazing start to the new school year.

[3:04] Apollo welcomed 29 new students to the Apollo family on the first day of school, with some even getting during the summer school back in June.

[3:10] On Friday, August 28th, Apollo Hall is annual ice cream social to officially welcome the new students to the family.

[3:18] It was also a great way to end the hot week with the cold treat. Apollo also has great news to report regarding their graduate.

[3:23] For the fourth year in a row, Apollo's graduate has increased.

[3:27] This past year, the graduate was well over 80% up substantially from under 60% or years ago.

[3:32] This increase has been a true team effort with Apollo employees, both sophisticated and classified,

[3:37] coming together with the commitment to help all students live their best lives.

[3:41] Schuyler Brody at Monavis, the reports starting August 31st, labs have now officially started

[3:46] on campus. Kids have been running around happy to see friends and teachers ready to learn new skills

[3:50] and create new pieces of art. As for our first week back on campus, classes have been filled with

[3:55] and more kids are joining classes than expected, which is incredible, making it even more lively

[3:59] from when our campus was just in its summer slumber. We've had a brilliant time at back to school night

[4:03] in ice cream social on the 12th,

[4:04] with Dr. P. Gill and hot dogs

[4:05] that everyone looks forward to at our events.

[4:08] Senior Sunrise was held at our MPR-615-645 AM,

[4:12] bringing the seniors together

[4:12] with the beautiful Sunrise to watch and don't miss the eat.

[4:15] Maria Hosein at San Francisco Records,

[4:18] August is one of the busiest times

[4:19] for San Francisco's antis leadership class

[4:20] with freshman orientation activities,

[4:22] homecoming preparations, and planning collaboration fall rally.

[4:25] We decided to do our freshman orientation

[4:26] differently than we have in the past years,

[4:28] by hosting a in our campus in the late afternoon

[4:31] from 5 to 7 30 pm, rather than in the morning to alleviate the discomfort of hot temperatures.

[4:35] We had various stations like taking ID photos, getting schedules, and walk around campus,

[4:39] running simultaneously to make an effective use of all the staff and students' time,

[4:43] and give out tickets for free ice cream, for the Mr. Softee ice cream truck.

[4:48] When school began, our sophomore class launched into homecoming organization by deciding

[4:52] on the theme of into the night, ordering decorations and contracting a taco and coffee truck for the event.

[5:01] The rest of the class brainstormed the idea for Suzefest, music festival themed rally, with each class being assigned to genre, like pop, country, hip-hop and R&B, with all the students stressing, accordingly, and getting freehand out space on the genre they are part of.

[5:13] We also make arrangements to purchase large, rolling speakers that can play music at a high quality on various locations on campus, such as providing a boost to motivations to students during AP testing season.

[5:23] Julius, Julia Lopez Martinez at Senior Valley High School reports, the school years off to a great start with students actively involved in athletics activities arts and academics, athletics are in a full swing with 932 student athletes.

[5:36] Currently on campus participating in fall sports include football, volleyball, cross-country, flag football, girls, golf and tennis.

[5:41] For Pauze Audio hosted three consecutive home games bringing plenty of school spirit to campus,

[5:46] the Leadership Class hosted a freshman scavenger hunt during premier night.

[5:49] It was very well attended.

[5:51] This allowed the class of 2030 to find their classes while earning prizes such as student merchants and more.

[5:55] Sure performed.

[5:57] To welcome students and students received a free shirt.

[6:01] In the arts, dance and marching band have been performing a half time while choir has officially returned to campus,

[6:05] and students are already getting involved.

[6:07] Academically, which shop and auto shop classes are full and off to a great start.

[6:10] Doing enrollment opportunities are underway and our flex time was started a week earlier this year to help students focus on their grades early.

[6:16] Back to school night was also well attended showing strong support from families in school community.

[6:21] There's legacy to be left this year from the class of 27 and we cannot wait to see what's in store.

[6:25] Finally, our whole high school, the past month has been filled with tons of fun activities.

[6:30] The week before school, our link will welcome the class that 2030 at orientation, giving them school tours and making them feel comfortable on campus.

[6:35] Throughout the first two weeks, our official school spirit shirt was sold and we had a great

[6:39] turnout with our shirts at the first football game where our football team won 62 to 0.

[6:44] For that game, we hosted our annual freshman till gate where freshman meet an hour before the game

[6:48] to learn the chance and hype up the game.

[6:50] If they came, they were given free entry.

[6:52] On August 25th, our senior class council hosted senior sunrise, a long-running tradition

[6:56] where seniors meet at the field at 5.30 a.m. to watch a sunrise together.

[7:00] Students were served breakfast and tons of memories were made.

[7:02] On August 27th, we hosted our annual club rush with 50 plus clubs and attendance students

[7:07] were introduced to the wide variety of clubs on campus and we are extremely excited

[7:10] for the club to start meeting. All sports have started and Highlanders have been showing

[7:13] up to the games displaying their Highlander pride. The first four weeks at Royal High School have

[7:17] been filled with memorable and exciting moments and an overall weight to see what's in store for

[7:21] this year. Thank you.

[7:28] Okay, so moving on, we're going to do the public comments.

[7:36] Do you have any

[7:36] cards.

[7:39] We have two. First one is Adelaide Reyes and Harpreet Gill.

[8:09] Good evening, member of the boards of education. My name is Harpreet

[8:13] Courgile. I am a current senior at San Jose Center High School serving a part of the

[8:17] California Youth Climate Policy. Along with Adelaide Reyes, a sophomore also

[8:21] attending Sansa Zana participating in the same program.

[8:25] We have been working together to identify environmental issues

[8:28] within our school district and to help implement

[8:30] and develop realistic policies that can create

[8:33] meaningful change for our school and community.

[8:35] As a part of the process, we have been reaching out

[8:37] to a middle and high school students across the district

[8:40] through a student survey.

[8:42] The purpose of the survey is to better understand

[8:44] what environmental issues students experience

[8:47] and care about to make sure that our policy ideas are informed

[8:50] by the people who are directly affected by them.

[8:54] We have been working to distribute the survey as widely as possible, and we are currently

[8:58] collecting and analyzing responses as we receive them.

[9:01] As of now, we have reached over 250 responses, which is only a portion of the other responses

[9:06] we plan on gathering.

[9:09] One of the areas we are looking into is student transportation.

[9:13] Transportation has an environmental impact through fuel use animations while also affecting

[9:18] students daily experiences getting to and from school. If you drive past pretty much any school

[9:24] in the morning, you can see the lines of cars getting like a waiting drop off. We are exploring

[9:30] ways that our district could potentially make transportation more sustainable while remaining

[9:35] practical and accessible for students and families such as increasing the usage of our semi-valid

[9:40] public transport system. We are also looking into composting and food waste. Schools provide their

[9:46] students with breakfast and lunches, however, not all food is consumed by students.

[9:51] Therefore, leading to a significant amount of food in organic waste.

[9:55] And we are exploring what opportunities may exist to reduce that waste through composting

[9:59] and...

[10:00] Better waste sorting practices. We also need to increase awareness of the detrimental impacts of single-use

[10:06] plastic containers for our cafeteria lunches and encourage everyone to find alternate means of packaging

[10:11] prepared foods. At this stage, our goals are to listen, collect information and understand the needs of

[10:17] our fellow students in our district before proposing specific solutions. We would like to collaborate

[10:22] with you, as our senior valley school board trustees in order to find out what is realistically

[10:27] a cheap, well-considering, direct student input.

[10:31] Ultimately, we hope that our work and project gives students the opportunity to contribute

[10:35] to the decisions that affect our school and help our district make meaningful steps towards

[10:40] the sustainable future.

[10:42] Once again, my name is Harpri Khrigil, my name is Adelaide Rays, and thank you for giving

[10:47] us the opportunity to share our work and we look forward to continuing this journey towards

[10:51] the sustainability with the support and input of our school community.

[10:55] Thank you.

[10:56] Thank you.

[11:00] Thank you.

[11:01] Second card is Daniel Porter?

[11:10] Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

[11:13] My name is Daniel Porter, 33 year resident of CME Valley.

[11:18] I love all people and encourage them to show respect for each other.

[11:22] I'm excited for the good things going on in the school.

[11:25] The reason I'm here is the Prism Gender and Sexual Chaos teacher training that started last year

[11:29] and the school district is planning to repeat for four more years.

[11:33] The training requires teachers to introduce encourage and promote gender journeys, encouraging children to change their name to signal their open to sex.

[11:42] To encourage children to explore surgeries and chemical castration and to promote pornography.

[11:48] These things are harmful to children.

[11:50] These are not activities that are physically or emotionally safe for children.

[11:54] These are not what the community is paying taxes to promote.

[11:57] Links were provided so that others could watch the training for themselves.

[12:05] The reason the school board exists is to represent the community and inspect the schools

[12:09] to make sure the interests of parents are protected.

[12:12] In previous speeches, I explained how the Supreme Court of the United States stepped in

[12:17] to identify this attack as an attack on families and force parents to say no to gender

[12:25] chaos.

[12:26] the response was that the superintendent did not want to lose the money that the district was receiving.

[12:32] The results just came back from a freedom of information,

[12:35] act request to the California Department of Education to find out how many school districts

[12:41] did not do the disperseum training. Only 738 of 1,000 at 11 school districts completed the training.

[12:51] Many superintendents remembered their ethical responsibility and said no to financial

[12:56] incentives to harm children. They did not sell their children for profits from the sex industry.

[13:02] The real heroes and the results were the middle school and high school teachers that did not

[13:06] complete the training at the risk of losing their job. Only 39.5% of teachers completed the training.

[13:14] Only 55,000 teachers out of 139,000 middle school and high school teachers in California completed the training.

[13:23] Tencent of thousands left the online training when they found out what the prism training was

[13:28] depending they promote. Over 84,000 teachers did not commit to harming children.

[13:35] God sees us. God saw when he voted to shreds student health and discipline records.

[13:41] So no one would recall. God sees today's consent agenda item 1.2 limits of board member authority

[13:48] introducing new restrictions on investigating what is going on in the schools. This is a bold move

[13:55] by the superintendent to silence the community and hide what is going on. To remove an item from

[14:01] the consent calendar under Robert's rules of order, a single board member simply needs to request

[14:06] or object to the item and the chair must remove it immediately without a boat or a second.

[14:12] God encourages us to forgive the same way that He forgives. God sent Jesus who lived among us

[14:19] 2026 years ago. Jesus lived a perfect life so that so he could be punished in our place in heaven's court,

[14:27] so that we could be forgiven when we repent, ask forgiveness and commit to do what is right in his eyes.

[14:33] Those that do not want Jesus, do not receive this forgiveness. In summary,

[14:40] demanding teachers, promotes gender and sexual chaos as an attack on students and families. The

[14:45] community has a right to investigate what's going on. People may be forgiving, but this

[14:51] attack on families needs to be stopped. Last, the children of our community are gift from God to us.

[15:00] Please stop selling God's children to the sex industry. Thank you.

[15:06] Thank you.

[15:10] No more blue cards?

[15:18] Okay,

[15:24] so now we're going to convene a public hearing at 606,

[15:32] 3.1, the sufficient

[15:34] sufficiently, a menstrual materials, Educational Service Action item 1,

[15:43] 3.2, these of

[15:45] pupil textbooks and Structional Materials, Funds and Educational Services Action item 2.

[15:54] Do you have any public comments for this hearing?

[15:59] Hearing no public comments?

[16:06] Do we have

[16:07] to adjourn the public hearing at 607.

[16:17] We're going to convene another public hearing at 607,

[16:23] 4.1, the resolution adopting certain findings

[16:27] and approving energy services contract

[16:30] for energy-related improvements

[16:32] to see me value unified school district facilities

[16:35] with Pacific West Energy Solutions Inc.

[16:39] DBA energy systems group Pacific West.

[16:45] Do we have any public comments?

[16:49] Hearing no public comments?

[16:51] Do we have any board comments at this time?

[16:55] Hearing none, I will adjourn the public hearing at 6.08.

[17:05] Convening a public hearing at 6.08 on the adoption

[17:11] of certain findings and approve the financing contract

[17:15] With a financing company to fund, energy-related improvements at CME Valley Unified District

[17:21] facilities,

[17:25] do we have any public comments?

[17:28] Thank you.

[17:30] Do you have any board comments at this time?

[17:34] Okay, hearing none.

[17:35] And just so everyone's aware, these both of these subjects will be covered later in the

[17:40] agenda with further information.

[17:42] I'm going to go ahead and adjourn the public hearing at 609.

[17:48] So, employee organization comments, okay, hearing none, superintendent communications?

[17:59] Yes, thank you, President Smallman. It is always great to hear from our students, right?

[18:06] So, today, Adelaide, Harpreet, and around here, we're here to share different perspectives with us.

[18:13] And I wanted to let Adelaide and Harpreet know that Mr. Guzard Director of Secretary of Education

[18:18] is working with your principal also to get more information to you and to put you

[18:22] actually in contact with people who can help you with your venture, just love your professionalism

[18:27] and love your approach and love your, just desire to make the community better.

[18:33] So thank you for that and Ram Beer, do you have any family in the audience tonight?

[18:39] Who's here?

[18:39] the people with the cell phones out record you the whole time.

[18:43] That's awesome.

[18:44] Thank you for being here tonight, and your son did an amazing job for his first time out.

[18:50] And obviously, Principal Zepada here to support you as well, so thank you for being here.

[18:55] And with that, first month of school, the very first month of school is under our belts and it's been a very successful one.

[19:02] We have so many reasons to be proud, you know, every school site that I get to it reveals something very special about how happy

[19:09] students are now happy the adults are to be back and the most happy people are probably the parents

[19:15] getting their students out of their homes and back into school over the summer here and a lot

[19:21] of really good things happen when I visit school sites for example I don't know how many people

[19:25] realize our child nutrition department introduced to Molly's as part of the menu this year and

[19:33] there are a lot of students and senior valley who ate it to Molly for the first time and didn't

[19:38] realize you have to remove the corn husk from the tamolee so that was a fun thing and of course

[19:44] there's always a random kindergarten who wants to know why I don't have any hair so I just

[19:48] love getting out to our classrooms and to our schools and our students are special just like

[19:53] the three who are here tonight. Speaking of things happening at the schools, this Thursday.

[20:00] This day, an open event at Santa Santa High School, for the last number of years since I've been in

[20:04] Seamy, our college and career fair has been hosted at Royal or Seamy Alternating. This year at

[20:11] 530 pm, we're hosting our college and career fair at Santa Santa High School, and there are

[20:19] two sessions, six PM and six 45 for families who want to learn more about financial aid or the

[20:29] We're going to have representatives from the University of California schools, Cal State University

[20:34] Schools, private universities, out of state colleges, trade schools, community colleges,

[20:39] and the military, again, it's a college and career fair.

[20:42] So please join us.

[20:43] There's no costs.

[20:44] It's a free event and it's open to anybody in the community who wants to attend.

[20:48] On a more serious note, this Friday, actually, is the 25th anniversary of the 9-E-11 attacks

[20:57] that happened.

[20:58] And it's hard to believe it's been 25 years, but that's how long it's been.

[21:02] The heroic efforts and importance of first responders and others will be part of the

[21:05] recognition and learning throughout a number of our schools this Friday.

[21:10] Such tributes help us all to remember, honor and learn about the unfortunate part of our

[21:15] country's history.

[21:17] What I want to do is wrap up by actually thanking all of our parents, our guardians, and

[21:22] our community members for their support of our schools.

[21:25] I know that our school board, every time we meet here the four school board goals are always in front of us to remind us of our priorities and one of them is the family community outreach that emphasizes the homeless school partnership.

[21:39] With that, the homeless school partnership has outlined by our board is very important when it comes to educating all of our children.

[21:47] We have our teacher of the month events happening this week.

[21:51] Thank you to the Education Foundation as part of that home-to-school community outreach and community support.

[21:58] And on Monday, actually, we have our first PTA Council meeting on Monday morning, so trustee's if you're available, that'll be at Simvela High School at 9.30 a.m.

[22:06] And as a reminder, students do not succeed accidentally. They don't succeed on their own.

[22:12] They take a tremendous amount of people around them to help our students succeed.

[22:16] the more everyone works together throughout the community and our schools, to support our students,

[22:21] more likely our students will succeed. When one person succeeds, we all succeed and I look forward to all of us working together in the coming weeks, the months and years, and then as around beer pointed out, we have a lot to look forward to this school year, no matter what school year attending. So thank you for reminding us of that and thank you for being here. Thank you, President Spawn.

[22:41] Okay, so we're going to go in this order, trustee Gibran, trustee James, trustee Pitcholongo, and then myself.

[22:53] Okay.

[22:56] Good to see all the reports that we had.

[22:58] Ranberry did a great job.

[23:00] You know, I'm just wondering what the over under is for slam dunks this year for you.

[23:05] I hope it's in a positive number.

[23:08] All right. I can't anymore. You used to be able to. Now, I have a credit card jump where you swipe a credit card. That's about how far are you going to have to ground 29 students have joined a poll and 80% grad rate. That's a that's a great stat there.

[23:23] Monavista, Dr. Pete growing hotdogs. That's you're bringing them in that I like that. That's outside the box thinking.

[23:32] And then I heard 932 student athletes at CME High, which I'm sure is a comparable number

[23:39] at Royal, but student athletes emphasis on student first, but appreciate all that they do.

[23:46] And the coaches and the boosters and the staff that make all that stuff possible, a lot

[23:52] of life lessons that are being learned to make sure you're playing on a team, working

[23:56] through adversity, all those things.

[23:57] So it's an important part of the academic journey of our students.

[24:01] So I appreciate the people who make that happen.

[24:04] For me, I've just been in back to school nights recently.

[24:10] So I was the experts in elementary school.

[24:13] We were in the last year there.

[24:15] And then we are the new kids on the block in middle school.

[24:18] So we're learning as a regal.

[24:20] And I think our daughter is learning faster than we are.

[24:23] And she's got it all down by week one.

[24:25] and we're still trying to figure out the schedule

[24:27] and everything else, but there's a lot of great energy going on.

[24:31] I love the first day and everybody welcoming

[24:33] in the students and keep up the momentum,

[24:37] I think this will be the best year yet.

[24:39] So, with that I'll end my comments.

[24:40] Thank you.

[24:44] Great job, man.

[24:46] Like, I couldn't read it that well.

[24:49] I picked short one street publicly

[24:51] because my mind was faster than my mouth

[24:54] and then I can spend bad.

[24:56] Anyways.

[24:56] So, uh, this is...

[25:00] My first year, first beginning in the school year, where I didn't have to run to any schools,

[25:06] where I didn't have to check on any students. I was actually packing one parent. I want one parent to leave.

[25:13] Ah, funny. One student to leave, and unpacking one student coming home. And it's bitter sweet and on all ends.

[25:23] They all have great stories of being seen me school students, right?

[25:28] from my student who's going away,

[25:31] or in 33 units, taking AP classes, so I told her,

[25:36] maybe she'd take a gap here and get save on the tuition.

[25:40] And then my other daughter made some really

[25:42] sound, logical decision that said, you know,

[25:45] this isn't my life path.

[25:47] And I think that's what we're talking about with students

[25:50] is being able to say, you know, I was headed this way

[25:54] and it doesn't make sense.

[25:57] what happens if I go this way, you know this is the time where we should be

[26:03] encouraging our students to take a risk and be vulnerable and and learn new

[26:08] things so you're a prime example of that and thank you for you know representing

[26:14] the entire district tonight I know your shoulders were heavy when you got here

[26:19] but I think you're feeling better now so great job so I got

[26:26] a good evening you know

[26:29] was interesting, today in class, our topic was composting, and we talked about composting

[26:37] and over at Monadista, we have worm composting and little compost machine and big composting.

[26:43] And right up here, Ali, and I'm so excited, one of the comments was, what are we doing

[26:48] in our schools with composting, our food waste?

[26:51] Because there's a tremendous amount of waste and things that we got to take care of

[26:55] other nature and the composting certainly is the way and I think most of you people out here know that we have three different

[27:02] camps that we put out the street every week right so we got to start teaching our kids young and to see you ladies take an interest in the

[27:10] environment and the environment concerns it's something close in your to my heart and I really excited that you're doing the surveys and you're listening to what's

[27:18] because it's the kids are going to be our future leaders and we got to get those our students involved.

[27:26] Yeah, let's keep that momentum going and the, you know, getting composing and recycling and our schools.

[27:34] Rand Bear, you had a common theme. The school said, off to a great start, right?

[27:41] I heard you say that four or five different times. A great start. What we got to do, we got to figure out how to

[27:47] say we're not having a great start but it's a great second quarter, a great third quarter,

[27:52] a great fourth quarter, a great last two minute march into, you know, like that, two minute

[27:56] morning goes off in basketball. We get to have that same energy throughout the entire the entire

[28:02] game. And I hope next time we have students talk and they talk about how that great start

[28:08] is ongoing and continuing. So anyway, short report tonight, just love the energy in the room

[28:14] and the three of you guys did a fantastic job.

[28:17] So thank you.

[28:20] Okay, so now it's between.

[28:23] First, I want to thank our student representative,

[28:26] Rembe, are you?

[28:27] So I tried to give you some like a little peck talk

[28:29] before you started, and obviously you didn't meet it.

[28:33] So you really did a fantastic job

[28:35] and you're a great representative for real high school.

[28:37] So thank you for being here.

[28:40] Adelaide and her pre- from Stanisesana High School.

[28:43] Thank you for sharing your voices with us

[28:46] your concerns with us. Student voice is incredibly important in everything that we do here as a board.

[28:52] Our decisions are ultimately about students and hearing directly from you all

[28:59] and what your focus is really what matters most. September is already filled with some

[29:05] wonderful opportunities across our district. I'm especially looking forward to the September 11th

[29:12] presentation at Royal High School from Royal High Award-winning ROTC. They always do an amazing

[29:18] and amazing job. And it's a summer moment out there in front of the school, but it's one

[29:24] that I never miss. It's always meaningful to see that our students are recognizing the honor

[29:32] and the sacrifice and the significance of that day. I'm also excited about the upcoming

[29:38] called in Career Fair at San Francisco on a high school and the opportunity to provide our

[29:44] students and our families as they explore what comes after high school. You know we get them

[29:49] there but what they're next that are so so important and having a plan and sitting instead of just

[29:55] letting it all happen to you is a good thing it's a good thing to be focused on.

[30:00] Walk the school day for elementary schools is also coming up, which is another great opportunity to bring our schools, our families, and our community together, are reminding everybody about pedestrian and traffic safety around our campuses, which still goes back to what you girls were talking about.

[30:17] And speaking of safety, I'm very encouraged by the attention that is being given at the state and local levels to e-bikes safety.

[30:26] AB 1569 was recently signed by the governor within the last week.

[30:32] And it focuses specifically on students.

[30:35] It requires the development of standards in e-bikes safety and training program for students from 7th grade to 12th grade.

[30:42] And connects the completion of that training with the ability for students to park e-bikes on school campuses.

[30:50] With that being said, I know that our district preempted that and has been working on that through the summer.

[30:56] So we're ahead, but knowing that everybody else is also going to be keeping their students safer,

[31:01] brings me some peace personally.

[31:05] AB 2346 also addresses a concerns that we are seeing on e-bikes, including speed, equipment, and safety requirements.

[31:13] The legislation includes provisions, addressing speedometers, and lights on e-bikes, as well as speed restrictions and younger drivers.

[31:23] This isn't something that we're waiting as a district for Sacramento to address at our try agency meetings.

[31:31] We've been working collaboratively with the park district and the city, along with our police department to discuss additional safety protocols and how we can work together to educate our young writers, encourage compliance and keep our students in our community safe.

[31:48] E-bikes have become a big part of how many of our students get around our community and education and enforcement and accountability all need to work together.

[32:00] We want our students to have the freedom and the independence of having these bikes,

[32:04] but we also need them to understand the rules to write responsibly and be good partners in the community, keeping themselves in everyone around them safe.

[32:12] There are so many great things that are happening in our schools and I continue to be proud of our students, our staff,

[32:18] Our families and the community partnerships that makes me the only such a great place to live and those are my comments

[32:30] So we're gonna move on to I was in that suggested. Oh

[32:35] You don't have to stay

[32:38] You can stay you don't have to stay

[32:40] We're gonna go over the rest of the consent calendar in the action calendar if you'd like to say you can if you have homework or other things you need to address

[32:48] you can go. We will not judge. And thank you, family. And it's also

[32:55] a pate for being out to support this great student. We have a parent here also.

[33:01] Yes. So thank you for being here. Thank you.

[33:11] Okay. So we're going to go ahead and move on

[33:14] to the consent calendar.

[33:27] Okay. The consent items listed below will be approved by the board

[33:32] in all one action.

[33:34] However, for board member, we remove an item for individual discussion and action and I think

[33:41] it would be appropriate to potentially take two point.

[33:47] Our 1.2 app and have a short discussion about it about the board by law 9200 for clarification.

[33:57] The clarification on that and it was brought up by one of our public comments.

[34:02] is it's not strapping board members from speaking, it's about telling them that they don't

[34:08] have the authority to speak as on behalf of the board as one person.

[34:13] We're a board of five, we make our decisions as a board of five with the majority rule,

[34:17] and one person on the board cannot speak for the board as an entirety.

[34:22] So I just thought I'd make that clarification as it was brought to my attention earlier

[34:25] in the week with concerns on that.

[34:28] And there's my comments on it. Does anyone else have anything else to say?

[34:34] Well, I know that when I decided to run for office and did several trainings, one of the key factors was,

[34:45] yeah, you know, campaigning is one thing, but governing is another.

[34:50] and I need to trust district members and the people who work in our school.

[35:02] I have never sent an email to our district and not gotten well-thought out, well-prepared response that answered my questions and if I have additional questions, those are clarified.

[35:19] And so, the researching thing is for me, I don't need to go off on a wild chase, hunt

[35:29] down information, because I could be looking in the wrong area, you know, I'm still

[35:35] getting my legs around AB 126 or 135, or you know what the next thing is.

[35:43] And it's a lot to read and a lot to digest.

[35:45] And I do take the opportunity to clarify if I'm confused.

[35:53] Okay, so beyond that, are we ready to approve the consent calendar?

[36:03] Is that with two one point two removed?

[36:07] Does it?

[36:07] No, it wasn't about removing it.

[36:09] Okay.

[36:12] Yeah, I think my comments just reading the specifics of what's down there.

[36:17] The structure is the school board is to hire, inspire, and potentially fire the superintendent and the superintendent directs all other staff.

[36:29] So some of the things listed in here relate to an individual board member directing staff to do something that hasn't necessarily been through the quorum of the school board or

[36:43] not be the voice of what the school board majority is asking for. So I think that that is appropriate

[36:49] from what we've how we operate as a board specifically. So there are items in there about volunteering

[36:59] at your kid's school and you know informing you I think I'm going to be informing you right now that I'll

[37:05] be volunteering at my kid's school. I think the purpose of that is to have some understanding of where

[37:13] folks are and I think there's no limitation of actually being on campus or observing or

[37:19] being in classrooms or any of that. So I would encourage my colleagues to be as inquisitive

[37:26] as you'd like and bring those issues back to the board so we can have healthy discussions.

[37:32] I think the president would be open to having those items in an agenda so that we could talk

[37:40] about it in a public forum this way, so I think it's all about transparency being able to have

[37:45] discussions out loud in this forum where there actually is power to act on things,

[37:50] which is by a majority vote, which would be three out of five. So, in reviewing that,

[37:57] I think I'm fine with it remaining on the consent calendar.

[38:02] If there are no other comments, we have a motion by Petra Longo to approve the consent calendar.

[38:07] Second, we have a second by James to approve the consent calendar.

[38:12] Roll call vote, Trustee James.

[38:14] I just pitch along, though.

[38:15] I pledge to run.

[38:16] President Smallen.

[38:17] Hi.

[38:29] Thanks, sorry for that.

[38:31] Hot money.

[38:32] It was me.

[38:37] Okay.

[38:37] So on our action calendar.

[38:40] Under Board Administration.

[38:43] There is none under personnel and services.

[38:47] There is none under educational services.

[38:53] Adoption of Resolution number 10, 26, 27, on sufficiency of instructional materials.

[39:01] With the in a motion to approve.

[39:04] So moved.

[39:06] Second.

[39:06] Motion by Simone, seconded by Gibran, roll call vote.

[39:09] Trustee James.

[39:11] Trustee Pietroango.

[39:13] Clerk Gibran.

[39:16] 3.2.

[39:17] The approval of the use of pupil textbooks and instructional material funds to provide

[39:22] adequate textbook and materials for students.

[39:26] Someone second, motion by James, second of my

[39:29] petrolongo, roll call vote, trusty James.

[39:31] Hi, it's a petrolongo, I clicked a

[39:33] brown eye.

[39:37] Excuse me.

[39:37] Excuse me, present small one.

[39:40] Thank you.

[39:42] 3.3.

[39:43] I'm sorry.

[39:44] What?

[39:46] We didn't get a vote for me.

[39:47] Oh, I didn't.

[39:48] Hi.

[39:48] Sorry.

[39:49] She said it while you sneezed.

[39:53] Okay, 3.3, approval and acceptance of gifts for Simi Valley Unified School.

[40:00] We had a few left over from 2025, 2026.

[40:05] Okay, and I have the most of here. Check in the amount of $2,014 and 15 cents from Crestview Elementary

[40:13] PTA to Crestview Elementary School to help fund bus fees for field trips. Another check in

[40:19] the amount of $2,087.25 from Crestview Elementary PTA to Crestview Elementary School to help

[40:29] is $4,101.40 with the cumulative total for the $25.26 school year of $247,713.26.

[40:42] Thank you.

[40:43] Do we have a motion to approve?

[40:45] So move.

[40:45] Second.

[40:46] Motion by small and seconded by Jebron, roll call vote.

[40:50] Trustee James.

[40:50] Spread your language.

[40:51] Hi.

[40:52] Hi.

[40:54] Three point four, the approval and acceptance of gifts for

[40:57] Do you value unified school district 2026, 2027?

[41:02] Okay, I have that one.

[41:05] Action item number four,

[41:07] checking the amount of $7,500 from Madeira Elementary PTA

[41:11] to Madeira Elementary School to help fund field trips

[41:14] and student classroom supplies.

[41:17] Check the amount of $5,000 from the WISM or family

[41:20] charitable fund to services and elementary school

[41:22] to support school wide programs, activities,

[41:24] and resources that enhance educational experience.

[41:29] The total of the gifts donated for this item is $12,500,

[41:34] and a cumulative total, including this agenda item,

[41:37] for $12,026,027 school year, is $13,600.

[41:42] Motion to approve.

[41:44] Send moved.

[41:46] Second.

[41:47] Motion by James, seconded by Gibran,

[41:48] roll call vote, trustee James.

[41:50] Aye.

[41:50] Special angle.

[41:52] Ron, I'm Mrs. Follett. I. Under student support services. There is none. Under business and facilities.

[42:02] 5.1, the adoption of Resolution 7-2627, Appropriation, Limitation, Calculation for 2025-2026.

[42:15] That's a heck of an alliteration. That was great. Motion to approve.

[42:19] Thank you.

[42:20] So moved.

[42:22] Second.

[42:23] Motion by Gibran.

[42:24] Seconded by Pietro Lungo.

[42:25] We'll call it.

[42:25] Trustee James.

[42:27] Hi.

[42:27] Trustee Pietro Lungo.

[42:28] Hi.

[42:28] Clerk Gibran.

[42:29] Hi.

[42:29] President Swallon.

[42:31] Hi.

[42:31] 5.2.

[42:32] The approval of financial statements for 2025.

[42:36] 2026.

[42:38] And year-end.

[42:41] Unadded.

[42:42] Actual data.

[42:44] Thank you.

[42:45] Yes.

[42:46] Trustees.

[42:47] Members in the audience.

[42:48] and those watching at home, members of our community, our Associate Superintendent of Business Services

[42:54] Mr. Rontado has a presentation tonight about our unordered actuals from last year in what that

[43:01] means for us this year and with that Mr. Rontado. The first thing to do is to actually just thank

[43:10] the fiscal services department for the incredibly hard work they do over the summer.

[43:14] Well everybody's on vacation. They are closing the book so we can take care of the unordered

[43:18] Actuals. What does that mean? That make sure that everybody's paid the bills from the year before that our turnies of

[43:24] Patus that are contrary. We paid our contractors

[43:28] that people who

[43:29] They're chasing down a lot of different things in order to close the books and so I think they're forgetting this time

[43:35] Especially we do have a new director now and Carol love joy and also our our budget is with Chen Jang and so

[43:42] They both kind of go and do it for the first time and so big things to them on getting this all together as well as our team

[43:49] Because it does impact every single part of that department. So I do want to go over this this year not typically do I go over

[43:57] But I do want to go over it because if if you read it closely

[44:00] There are some things that may pop out or may pop out to people and it's good maybe to explain why did the numbers turn out the way they did and it's all positive

[44:09] It's not a negative thing, but in some ways we have to putting out a little bit of we have to pay attention to why are the numbers the way they are.

[44:18] So just kind of starting here and taking a look at things if you look at our unordered actuals as a whole.

[44:26] All of you know that I love to look at that line down there.

[44:29] One of all lines is what's our increase or decrease in our different balances on the unrestricted side.

[44:36] you see a number of 4.3. We'll look at a comparison, a 4.3 million. We'll look at a comparison in a minute here,

[44:43] but we see our restricted funding going down by 2.4 million. I always try to tell people,

[44:49] don't get stressed out if your restricted funds are going down because we've had an infusion of a

[44:54] lot of one-time money, which is restricted. We need to be and should be spending that money down

[44:59] over time.

[45:00] And so, combined, you can see that there's a slight increase. I think it's also important for all of you to recognize, if you'll see it in a minute, is the ending fund balance of almost $28 million.

[45:12] Different than what we projected at the projected budget, as well as second interim.

[45:20] So here's where the comparisons come in and just kind of a very quick conversation.

[45:25] is when we proposed the budget this year we anticipated a deficit spending almost to the

[45:30] tune of $3 million. By the time we got to second interim, we were anticipating

[45:35] deficit spending to about the tune of $2 million, but then you look, this is just on

[45:40] the unrestricted side, but you look at the unarmed actuals, all of a sudden we have

[45:45] $4.3 million to the positive, so that's really a swing of almost $6.4 million.

[45:52] Everybody goes like, what's going on to create that?

[45:55] So that's why we're here talking today.

[45:59] So first, there's two things that go on.

[46:02] One is there are assigned balances.

[46:04] And one of the most common ones we talk about that is our

[46:07] lottery, 1100 or student materials or student instruction,

[46:11] fund.

[46:11] And what we anticipated in that fund at second interim,

[46:15] versus where do we come at and add on to the actuals?

[46:18] The other one that's probably large and looming over us

[46:20] is the one-time discretionary funds.

[46:22] where we anticipated about $187,000 remaining in that fund.

[46:27] We actually have $853,000 in the fund.

[46:31] Partly because we transferred some of the projects we did,

[46:35] actually stadium lighting, stadium lighting sound,

[46:38] as well as gymnasium sound, we put that back in the general fund

[46:41] to meet our routine restricted maintenance costs.

[46:45] But that being said, you can see that those are big variances.

[46:50] So in our signed balances alone, it's about $3.8 million more than we intended to have there.

[46:58] And so that's one of the things.

[47:00] The other part ends up being what happened with our revenue.

[47:03] And some of our revenue changes that happened.

[47:05] One of them was that interest rates did go up just a little bit.

[47:10] And so sitting in the county treasury, we actually did see ourselves almost double what we anticipated

[47:16] an interest when we started out at the beginning of the year. That's always a moving target.

[47:21] It's always just something we have to take a guess at, but if you see there,

[47:25] it's about an increase of revenue just in interest alone about $1.3 million.

[47:29] The other one is that when we had our Tesla battery projects,

[47:32] more grants did become available and we were able to participate in that.

[47:36] Although Tesla was the ones who did the project and applying the background,

[47:41] we were able to receive just a little bit more out of it. So instead of 1.1 million,

[47:45] we almost had $1.9 million for an increase of $750,000 there.

[47:51] And then there's all these miscellaneous accounts.

[47:53] If I take all those and add them all up,

[47:55] a revenue that came in, it's about an almost $385,000.

[48:00] So you can see there about an increase of revenue of $2.5 million.

[48:05] So all those things come together to help us end up with what we

[48:09] rejected originally,

[48:13] as what was going to be $23 million in our ending fund balance.

[48:20] Now we are up almost at $28 million in our ending fund balance.

[48:25] But it's important to note, part of that is funding that should be going back into our

[48:30] signed balances, our lottery of $1100 funds, as well as when you look at the revenue,

[48:35] which I'll go back as slide, of the conversations that need to happen.

[48:39] Hey, we got this rebate from an energy infrastructure program.

[48:43] What do we want to do with that funding movie near the future?

[48:46] Is that something that we want to just say, hey, that's extra revenue?

[48:50] And that's going to help us to balance the budget.

[48:52] Or do we want to set some of that aside in the assigned line?

[48:55] So it's sitting there for when you need to do capital projects,

[48:58] being as it did come from a capital project at that point in time.

[49:02] So that's where the importance comes in those types of areas.

[49:05] And how are we going to spend some of that ending fun balance?

[49:09] Now, where it becomes a little interesting though is we don't get to go back in and if you

[49:16] looked at your unuttered actuals, we don't get to go back in and add those increases in the

[49:21] assigned fund back into our budget.

[49:25] So if you were to take a look at it, for those of you on a set up on my long reading the

[49:31] unuttered actuals, which yes, you'll note that we went from what we believed this upcoming

[49:36] In twenty-six twenty-seven we're talking about twenty-six twenty-seven right now of about an unappropriated

[49:43] balance of three million dollars to eight million dollars. Once again having a

[49:49] room or part of it eight million dollars comes from our assigned funds that most likely

[49:53] would be going back into things like our lottery fund as well as what are we going to do with that

[49:58] revenue to remove some of that revenue down into the...

[50:00] The signed area or put it actually into a facility's fund to make sure we put those things towards facilities.

[50:07] So those are some of the things that we'll grapple with this year as we look at budget and as we hit first interim.

[50:13] And the other big one that hits us and when we take a look at our 45 day that was presented at the last board meeting is we do have all of these funds that are coming to us that are increase funding over what we anticipated at the proposed budget.

[50:28] We have almost $6 million more of a special education money coming our way, and there are decisions to be made around that.

[50:37] Once again, if you look at it, we do contribute a large chunk of money from the unrestricted fund to the restricted fund to cover special education costs.

[50:48] You take some of that now and reduce what our contribution is.

[50:51] But at the same time, this will very, you have to be very cautious about doing that because we do have

[50:55] increasing special education costs or we do have some needs within special education to improve the

[51:02] services we deliver. So how do you possibly split those amounts out so some might end up back on the

[51:07] unrestricted side while on the other side we increase our services to special education.

[51:13] And then we do see in a couple areas over $14 million a one-time funds that have come our way.

[51:19] When you look at the student support professional development block grant, those funds can last

[51:23] a good five years. And so we have to map out what are our plans on how we utilize that,

[51:29] whether we want to last the five years, if there are different things coming our way.

[51:34] But I did think it was just very important to note that if you look at that paper alone,

[51:38] you're going to see this wonderful $8 million sitting down here on the unassigned, unappropriated,

[51:43] But it is made up of a lot of these funds over here have helped to increase that balance.

[51:51] And so it doesn't get inserted in and tell first-in or I'm in first-in or more of a much better look at what that number looks like.

[51:58] Once you put those a lot of refunds.

[52:00] And once we look at how we're going to utilize our one-time discretionary funds back into the budget.

[52:06] And what is first-in?

[52:08] First-in or are we approving in December?

[52:10] So, I'm sorry, wait.

[52:11] And December, you approve it?

[52:20] Okay, thank you, Mr. Toto.

[52:22] Appreciate that.

[52:26] A lot of information in a very few slides.

[52:29] That was so much.

[52:30] That was the goal, and that was a request.

[52:31] So, here we go.

[52:33] As you said, it's good information and a good position to be in.

[52:37] Well, it also gives, it's talking points to,

[52:43] when funds go down, why are they going down?

[52:46] because their grants, it's many that's tied to something else that needs to be used for those specific purposes.

[52:52] And so our ending balance changes because of that.

[52:54] So as always, say, first in and really is the first really good look at what our budget should happen to be.

[53:00] And if you do look at the variances, we did very, very well in our variances.

[53:04] Actually, we, uh, under spent in most categories, I didn't actually point it out.

[53:08] But, uh, some of our increased spending was, um, it looks like it was in, in the certificate it costs.

[53:13] But part of that happened would be because Dr. Bloc moved some one-time funding and was able to take our interventionist and put it into

[53:21] the supplemental funds, which is shows up as an online restricted side. And so we can

[53:28] with the goal of being able to sustain that over time, but just on one-time fund.

[53:33] So with that battery project, and there's an additional 755,000, is that

[53:38] can that go towards power shut off resiliency projects on some of the campuses that may not

[53:44] have the battery back up?

[53:47] It could go to it for us to be that on our own would be a fairly large endeavor.

[53:52] I would say based on what we're looking at fiscally right now as well as our next presentation.

[53:58] We need to have to be very strategic about making sure we're prepared for any emergencies

[54:03] that might come our way, whether it's roofing, air conditioning, probably being the big ones.

[54:08] But even as we start out the school year, we're seeing the need, school sites, reporting

[54:12] different things and safety issues. Just having had the williest settlement come through as we

[54:18] are looking at different things we got. We'll have to talk about whether it's the Royal High School

[54:23] track. Those things are coming up and it's been since I actually came into this position that we put

[54:30] that truck in in the inner 13 years now.

[54:34] So there are things that we have to be aware of that

[54:36] might be creeping up on as faster than we like them to be.

[54:40] And then the device replacement and technology

[54:44] and the exact end of life on what we have,

[54:46] look like we saved a little bit there,

[54:48] but there's still, when it all shakes out in December,

[54:52] or however we project it,

[54:53] is that something that we're looking at?

[54:55] Yeah, absolutely.

[54:57] It's being that point, the instructional funding.

[55:00] Can go towards technology. But we also have a couple of textbook adoptions coming our way and having the funding there to be able to purchase what we need to purchase is also a positive.

[55:14] Is that a math adoption? It's very important to get that one right. Let's do it.

[55:24] So switch the guyco on say 15% or more not likely you're dealing with insurance

[55:29] All right. Thank you, Mr. Toto. Thank you.

[55:38] Yeah, we need a motion to approve. So moved

[55:42] Motion by Debran seconded by small and roll call vote trusty James. Hi, I'm just a special on like much. Ron. Hi. Hi,

[55:53] so you're ready. Yeah, approval. Resolute. Resolute five point three approval of resolution

[55:58] for 2627 Energy Service Agreement with Pacific West Energy Solutions Inc. DBA Energy Systems Group,

[56:09] Pacific West, or Districtwide Energy Conservation and Infrastructure Improvement Project.

[56:17] So, and speaking of kind of finding ways to meet our some of our infrastructure needs,

[56:22] as well as providing cost savings and ways to get there. I do have a shoe chain here,

[56:27] Interestingly enough, did you guys notice that Rand Beer is also a Jane, so two and one board meeting, and so I do want to bring a show up, you'll introduce a proposal to you on how we can, for energy resilience is also taking care of some of the infrastructure needs we have here in the school.

[56:51] Thank you, Mr. Toto.

[56:52] Good evening, President Smallen, Board of Trustees,

[56:59] my name is Ashu Jain, I'm the energy systems group.

[57:04] Jain happens to be a very common last time in India.

[57:07] It's actually the religion.

[57:10] And then in India, everybody is in millions.

[57:11] So there's millions of us.

[57:15] So, you know.

[57:16] So, before I start, I'll just briefly introduce our team.

[57:20] That's present here.

[57:21] We have a year ago Jonathan Perra and Coach Lam and they helped us in putting this whole

[57:28] project together.

[57:29] So we've been working with the art staff since early this year and looking at various

[57:38] options on how we can upgrade sport district facilities as well as you know have some energy

[57:47] savings to fund those and we are very happy that we were able to come up with a project

[57:54] that not only upgrades a lot of your much-needed HVAC and transformers, but it actually

[58:01] more than pays for themselves through energy savings from various measures.

[58:08] So I will quickly take you through the presentation.

[58:14] So, this just gives you an overall look, you're spending around 2.8 million dollars on your electricity bill, and that's with Southern California Edison that does not include the PPA payments that you have with your solar providers, and I'll take it through the scope of work on the next slide.

[58:38] So, we worked with your, there were several schools which needed HVAC replacement staff that

[58:49] the three schools here, CME Valley High School, Wood Ranch, and Atherworld, the oldest HVAC

[58:57] equipment and were in the most in need of replacement.

[59:01] So, we included those, we are also going to include controls so that the maintenance

[59:07] staff can remotely monitor and control these air conditioning units from a handheld device

[59:13] like a cell phone with requisite passwords. Transformers are devices that are in your school

[59:23] buildings and they're not owned by Edison, they're owned by the district and technology is

[59:30] improved over the last 20 years and you can actually save a lot of energy by replacing these

[59:35] transformers and as well as their big safety hazard, one goes out basically to shut that

[59:42] part of the school down and it could be a safety hazard.

[59:45] We are also proposing to solo projects, one at the district office, one at Wood Ranch and

[59:52] these two locations did not have solar when you did it in the first way back in 2018.

[59:57] And then

[1:00:00] We looked at your electricity, rate tariffs and were able to find a substantial amount of savings

[1:00:06] by moving your rates to a different rate schedule, which was much better suited for your

[1:00:14] solar project. So we found a tremendous amount of savings there. Please let me know if you have any questions at any time.

[1:00:21] So I have a question about their remote monitoring.

[1:00:28] So are you referring to somebody up at the district office monitoring

[1:00:32] what's happening at a school site or are you talking about a principal monitoring

[1:00:36] and what's happening at their site?

[1:00:38] Usually, so this is just that most act for the air conditioning unit is all the monitoring

[1:00:42] I'm talking about, it's just that the thermal stat.

[1:00:46] So, your maintenance staff, let's say, you know, let's say, you have a, well, this is not a

[1:00:54] district facility, but you know, if you have a concern about air conditioning that the air conditioning

[1:01:00] is not working in a particular space, instead of maintenance having to dispatch somebody to take a look at that,

[1:01:10] They can actually just go on their cell phone and look at that air conditioning unit, see what the

[1:01:17] you know, what the temperature is in the space, what the temperature is coming out of the ducting and all of that.

[1:01:23] So it's limited to the thermostat, they're not monitoring anything else.

[1:01:26] Thank you.

[1:01:27] But where's that?

[1:01:28] Just to follow up.

[1:01:30] So San Francisco, right?

[1:01:34] I've been in a couple of plays where the AC didn't get turned on because someone didn't file

[1:01:40] the proper paperwork in time, yada, yada, yada, yada.

[1:01:42] So we have an audience in there, watching a show.

[1:01:46] We'll, this type of device allow for, you know,

[1:01:51] to get something turned on without, at the school site.

[1:01:56] You can, you can schedule an advance or you can,

[1:02:01] if somebody has an, you know,

[1:02:03] if there is an unsquick schedule meeting,

[1:02:05] let's say after hours.

[1:02:06] And usually the hidden distance is shut down.

[1:02:08] you can call them and they can just put the unit on from where they are.

[1:02:13] At the school site and not at the district office, right?

[1:02:17] I'll answer that really quickly.

[1:02:19] The answer is yes and no.

[1:02:22] Because we do allow at some sites access for the plant managers to be able to adjust it.

[1:02:29] The no part comes in is because sometimes those plant managers think they know more than they know.

[1:02:34] And so they start because there's more and there than being able to adjust the temperature, you can adjust

[1:02:39] how much the dampers open, you can be adjusted.

[1:02:43] Timers and things like that and then they forget to go change the timer.

[1:02:47] So there has been some access granted, but it's just to the level of temperature change.

[1:02:51] Okay, so it's right-level access, just like on a computer.

[1:02:55] Is the goal it doesn't always end up being that easy, it's kind of like you do or you don't, though, is the problem.

[1:03:00] So, it's a matter of playing the honor.

[1:03:02] But the scheduling may be helpful for those schools that are doing performances because they usually

[1:03:07] are to have their calendar for the year.

[1:03:10] Thank you.

[1:03:14] Going to the financial analysis, the total project cost is 10.36 million.

[1:03:20] The district is contributing 3.5 million.

[1:03:23] The rest is being financed.

[1:03:26] The district will receive 1.4 million from the inflation reduction act for the solar project.

[1:03:32] So that will be at the completion of the solar project.

[1:03:37] And the savings are outlined there.

[1:03:39] You're saving 169,000 in year one.

[1:03:44] Because the solar project and their savings on the transformers and air conditioning,

[1:03:48] that's 161,000.

[1:03:51] The rate optimization is 353,000 anyway.

[1:03:54] That's the.

[1:03:55] And then there are.

[1:03:56] ONM savings which are savings because you're not having to replace air conditioning equipment

[1:04:03] and repair air conditioning equipment and repair transformers and all of that.

[1:04:07] So that's a calculation using California Energy Commission guidelines.

[1:04:13] So, and then you have the lease payments, the solar maintenance costs.

[1:04:17] So, net net, you know, this project is financially very attractive.

[1:04:22] you're 3.5 million get to recover in the first 40 years and then over the life of the project which is 30 years for the solar project and 20 years for the rest of the equipment you're saving roughly 23 million dollars.

[1:04:38] Any questions there?

[1:04:40] So that's an ideal assuming all the components of the project are complete at year zero.

[1:04:46] But you will be, so we, if you, I'll skip a couple of slides ahead, so we think it'll take a year to complete this project.

[1:04:57] So year one would be here 2020.

[1:05:00] Calendar the year 2028 is what we are thinking this will be. The solar project needs to be completed by end of next year.

[1:05:10] To because the inflation reduction act requires that and we are pretty confident that will be that will happen.

[1:05:17] Okay, so the assumption is all those components are complete by the end of year one in that financial return by year five.

[1:05:26] look like the yeah it goes positive and that savings in cumulative savings I just added each year's

[1:05:36] saving so if you take look at the first year it's you're spending three and a half million in

[1:05:40] year zero first year you say three hundred and thirty thousand so a subtracted three and it's just

[1:05:46] cumulative for the year so like your five is give your five is year one through zero to five and that's

[1:05:54] 31,000. That's what I'm saying, saying sort of breaks even in the year four.

[1:05:58] And green is black, right? Green is the new black. That's positive number.

[1:06:03] Right. Right. Right. That's short. It has green and red. But yeah, it should could be black.

[1:06:08] Maybe should be black because we talked in finance in terms of black. That's fine. Yeah. Thank you.

[1:06:13] Yeah. So, yeah.

[1:06:16] Our investment of the six, the six, what, 65, no, no, 6.5 million doesn't come even until

[1:06:26] you're 13.

[1:06:29] Well, you're in less than 3.5 million.

[1:06:33] That's not enough.

[1:06:34] That's not enough.

[1:06:37] Your investment is 3.5 million.

[1:06:40] So the loan is actually, the lease payments are part of that so it's not like the lease payments are separately.

[1:06:51] So, so no truly you recover your funding in year four, after year four, your entire funding.

[1:06:59] Because your savings are paying your lease payment and then providing additional revenue.

[1:07:06] Exactly right.

[1:07:07] That was my question.

[1:07:08] So that's why I was living down here.

[1:07:11] So the solar degradation is a 0.5% efficiency year over year is that a conservative number

[1:07:19] is that the manufacturer recommends 0.35 okay we get in T. 0.5%. So these savings are

[1:07:27] all of the savings are guaranteed. And then the electricity costs is assumed at 6% increase

[1:07:32] year over year through that. No, that's the situation.

[1:07:35] really conservative today, we have statistics from, you know, just we ran the analysis,

[1:07:46] so if I, I'll just,

[1:07:51] we just ran some numbers for SE and over the last 10 years SE is increased rate by 7%

[1:08:02] five years, if you look at just the last five years, it's ten percent. So,

[1:08:07] how are per year? But year, per year. Yeah. So, and with AI and data centers, nobody's predicting

[1:08:13] that the cost of electricity will be going down. So, six percent actually is fairly conservative.

[1:08:19] Now, ten years ago, I wouldn't have said that, but today, six percent is very conservative.

[1:08:37] So, this just outlines the project benefits you're saving 23 million, the more you produce,

[1:08:42] and electricity costs, your boy, your, it's a hedge against electricity cost, your, you know,

[1:08:50] paying for your age back, old age back, and transformers through, through project savings.

[1:08:56] So that's really some of the main benefits. I think I talked about this. So that's a presentation.

[1:09:06] will be still happy to answer any other questions you might have with maintenance, repair, and

[1:09:13] what is that, but what does that look like? So that's the 192,000, so when we replace things

[1:09:26] like HVAC and transformers,

[1:09:31] you don't have to spend money out of the general operating funds

[1:09:34] to repair a compressor, like Mr. Trudeau just told me that the high school, you know, you

[1:09:41] are running a chill, a rental chill, you know. So it's those kind of costs that you avoid

[1:09:48] by replacing your HVAC. So the California Energy Commission said that to outline the other

[1:09:58] benefits besides energy.

[1:10:14] With the support,

[1:10:25] so we should all include in the

[1:10:29] What are we talking? What is the quality of the roofing currently and does it have to be?

[1:10:38] You know what I'm saying?

[1:10:39] The roofing that the air conditioning units are going on to.

[1:10:43] That is something that they take into account as we take a look at.

[1:10:47] Obviously, when you put the air conditioning in, you got to put the flashing in.

[1:10:50] That that works with it.

[1:10:52] So.

[1:10:53] I'm just trying to think.

[1:10:55] Homeowner.

[1:10:56] I have a homeowner brain.

[1:10:57] and I had a bit of a new roof on.

[1:11:00] So if we're not doing solar, we're doing solar in the shade structures in the parking lot.

[1:11:05] Yeah, solar, not the solar.

[1:11:06] But you're talking about air conditioning in the United States.

[1:11:09] I know that we've had, you know, we think we've had roofing issues, we've had air conditioning

[1:11:12] issues and some of the roofing issues that came in is that it was the contractor didn't put

[1:11:17] the flashing in.

[1:11:18] There you go.

[1:11:18] Not that the roof was the problem, so like those are, but those do come into play as

[1:11:23] you're doing your installs.

[1:11:26] Yes. So we will, of course, any unit that be replaced, we make sure that the flashing matches,

[1:11:33] or we raise the units so that it matches. And, you know, we're not, so yeah, anything we do will

[1:11:40] be guaranteed, but we are not repairing your roof like where we are not touching it.

[1:11:47] And then when would these, when would this be happening? Because I know semi-high schools been

[1:11:52] through quite a bit of construction growing pains

[1:11:55] and we'll continue to be for some time.

[1:11:58] Well, at least in a year and a half.

[1:12:02] Oh, that's a good slide, sorry.

[1:12:03] I have one quick question before.

[1:12:07] As the go back.

[1:12:08] It's probably for Ron.

[1:12:11] How did we calculate the district contribution of 3.5 million?

[1:12:16] So we're pulling that from.

[1:12:17] We do have facilities fund 40.

[1:12:19] A lot of that happens.

[1:12:19] to be modernization funds that we received back after we've already spent it.

[1:12:24] So we have about $14 million sitting in there.

[1:12:27] So we kind of went with, we started working with the number that's going to make sense without taking it all the way.

[1:12:33] Because once again, that might be for taking care of roofing over the next few years.

[1:12:38] That might be for addressing other issues that we encounter over the next few years.

[1:12:43] So but obviously we want to put a contribution in that's going to make the numbers work in a manner that we're going to see.

[1:12:49] positive on on the other side and that money's in a fund. It's in a fund. It's not part of the general fund. Okay. Thank you.

[1:12:57] And then obviously it says here for the record that the interest rate is 4.6 and it's a 20 year term.

[1:13:09] That is correct, but although you're not tied to that 20 year term, it can be paid off sooner. Yes.

[1:13:17] And that rate is because it's the what we're financing and we get a better rate than what's out there or what that's what we're able to get finance. Yes.

[1:13:27] Okay.

[1:13:27] So the payback periods like four to five years in there, I mean that seems like a pretty good time frame anything under seven years. Is that where you typically see for these analyses or

[1:13:38] It's the payback on the district's investment, so it's not exactly four years, and maybe that's what

[1:13:46] President Smallen was going going and I think I didn't understand it correctly, so

[1:13:54] you know the way we if you look at payback, I would say yeah, you know you're exactly right

[1:14:02] I would say it's here 13, because in year 12, you say it's 6.5 million, which is

[1:14:11] and you're financing 6.8. So somewhere 12.5, you were exactly like, I didn't understand your

[1:14:17] question correctly. So it's around 12.5 years. I just want to bring up the word math

[1:14:24] and point it at President Smallen. Good math. Thank you. Although this is where math becomes kind of

[1:14:31] most irrelevant because we're not necessarily looking at getting back

[1:14:35] or three and a half million dollars, it's sitting there to do a project, right?

[1:14:38] But we are looking for an ongoing savings impact to our general fund, which this

[1:14:44] will do within the five years, so that's the other side of the math there.

[1:14:49] And it is using matching funds, which we've talked about in another, yes, so it maximizes

[1:14:57] Those dollars

[1:15:03] And so the idea is that they're going to be working with the efficiency, which you quoted up here through your 30?

[1:15:12] Sorry, what's that mean?

[1:15:15] When you're talking about the efficiency, the solar panel degradation?

[1:15:21] Yeah, so half a percent, yeah, so that's guaranteed.

[1:15:26] And usually it's actually, that's conservative again.

[1:15:28] Solar panels actually lost around 35 years, but we have a 30 year cash flow here.

[1:15:37] We are guaranteed the savings over 20 years.

[1:15:41] And what happens in your 30?

[1:15:45] Actually, the solar panels are guaranteed that they will only lose 15% of their,

[1:15:52] There's a manufacturer guarantee that they will only lose 15% of their output in year 25.

[1:16:02] So, your 30, there could be, they could still be producing a percent.

[1:16:07] Are we paying for removal and re-installation potentially at that point?

[1:16:11] or like is our confidence on you know depends on how much are they I mean at some I mean it's free like the city itself yeah so

[1:16:22] at you know that that's a whole different subject about recycling and all that but there's more and more discussion about that and yeah you can recycle these panels but

[1:16:31] you know it's 30 years we still have considerable time to think about that and so when you choose

[1:16:40] panel providers, do you have a strategy related to that?

[1:16:47] It's really, there's hardly any panels being made in the U.S.

[1:16:51] It's being encouraged now with the inflation reduction act.

[1:16:56] So these panels, we are sourcing from, is it South Korea?

[1:17:02] So we are getting them from Hyundai, which is South Korean.

[1:17:05] Which they do more than solar panels?

[1:17:07] Of course, they are a big conglomerate.

[1:17:10] They've got some money that stand up their solar panels.

[1:17:22] Do you want to take us back to that timeline that you had?

[1:17:25] I know you had it up there a couple of times.

[1:17:28] Yeah, so I think most of the construction,

[1:17:31] we expect, like at least the air conditioning,

[1:17:35] will probably do it during,

[1:17:37] it'll take us some time to procure the units and all that,

[1:17:41] so we are planning on doing it during summer time and school is closed.

[1:17:45] So that's when we'll do the construction of the HVAC.

[1:17:49] And the solar structures are at Wood Ranch and at the district office.

[1:17:53] Yeah, so that people do.

[1:17:54] In fact, on the parking lot at Wood Ranch, is that where they're going?

[1:17:58] We are only doing Wood Ranch is a very small system.

[1:18:01] So it's only impacting two arrays, two parking rows.

[1:18:07] And so yeah, we will have to work on,

[1:18:11] We'll have to, like, fence those off when we do it.

[1:18:15] So, there might be some in that, but again, I'm not sure if we were planning on

[1:18:20] doing that during the, well, again, you know, going through DSA and all that.

[1:18:26] So, part of the urgency here is that DSA is changing the rules on solar, effective January 1.

[1:18:32] So, we want to have the submittal and everything done by end of the year.

[1:18:38] What are our assumed lead times for the air handlers and transformers?

[1:18:43] Are they a year? Is that less than that?

[1:18:48] No, no, no.

[1:18:51] Which one?

[1:18:53] Okay.

[1:18:54] What about the transformers?

[1:18:59] It's not going to be more than three to four months.

[1:19:04] Eight to twelve months again.

[1:19:06] It's not like electrical switch gear, which was like a set of 18 months and all that.

[1:19:10] This is not the same thing.

[1:19:12] We're not replacing switch gear.

[1:19:13] Okay. Thank you.

[1:19:20] Anything else?

[1:19:28] That was very interesting. I don't know if you expected all these questions, but

[1:19:32] Well, they really enjoyed that presentation and the information and

[1:19:37] We said it. Looks like a solid plan.

[1:19:40] I did tell him to make his presentation short, but I also said that the board members

[1:19:45] are the thing that you can't depend on how much time they take.

[1:19:48] I'm all the time when we're holding him accountable for his time.

[1:19:54] Thank you.

[1:19:55] Thank you.

[1:19:56] Thank you.

[1:19:56] Trust these if there aren't any other questions seen that this is enough.

[1:20:00] Section item 5.3 back to that. We would need to then move approval a second and then a roll call vote.

[1:20:11] Can I get an explanation from Ron from Mr. Toto about where the, just to clarify where the funds are coming from and what the financing looks like, just to just for clarification.

[1:20:25] Okay, and the finance good, because the financing is the next thing that you are approving.

[1:20:30] So the funding, the three and a half million, comes from a fund that is not part of the general fund.

[1:20:35] It's out of what we call fund 40 for facilities, and it has come from an accumulation as we have modernization funds that come back to us.

[1:20:44] We put it into that fund, it allows us more flexibility on how we utilize the fund, but it has to go to capitalized projects.

[1:20:51] And did you say it was like 13 million?

[1:20:54] About $14 million sitting in that fund currently.

[1:20:57] So that's where the funding is coming from,

[1:20:59] as far as the financing, it is through Bank of America,

[1:21:03] and the rates were very, very competitive,

[1:21:05] and it really, it was probably one of those deficient

[1:21:09] for us to get, but really it did come in

[1:21:11] and actually a shoe and his team did work

[1:21:14] on finding a different options for us.

[1:21:18] and trustees for clarification.

[1:21:20] So 5.4 when we get there, that would be you taking action

[1:21:25] on the financing.

[1:21:27] What is the project?

[1:21:28] Well, yeah.

[1:21:29] But I'd like to discuss the financing before.

[1:21:31] We're going to, of course, talk and do that.

[1:21:33] I'm going to group finance.

[1:21:33] No, I'm just making sure that.

[1:21:36] Make sure that we're not being burned.

[1:21:39] Just making sure that all four of you know you're doing two

[1:21:41] different things on one project.

[1:21:43] Understood.

[1:21:43] it. So do we want to discuss 5.4 further before we go to vote on 5.3?

[1:21:53] I think it's going to be a little different. I just kind of wanted to get the information.

[1:21:57] So there could be an informed decision made. And as far as, I think you already answered,

[1:22:04] but we looked for competitive loans for.

[1:22:08] Yeah, as well as we did look into whether we did a certificate of participation or a private placement.

[1:22:15] And all those rates just pretty much were in line when you do go for a certificate of participation.

[1:22:21] You are playing around with the bond market and bond markets pretty all right now.

[1:22:24] So that wasn't a direction we wanted to go.

[1:22:27] And we're the thing about with Bank of America as we were able to secure this three weeks ago, four weeks ago, the rates.

[1:22:34] So we were able to lock that in.

[1:22:36] So that was a positive on our end.

[1:22:40] I mean, 4.6 is a good rate.

[1:22:45] And then is that how you came up with 3.5 going towards the project?

[1:22:51] Was the return on investment?

[1:22:53] It was a matter of one, is looking at what's the return

[1:22:57] and what makes sense with still making us money,

[1:22:59] as well as trying to protect some of that $14 million

[1:23:02] for future projects.

[1:23:04] I think when we first went out, as we could identify

[1:23:06] even having more projects to do, but we would, in turn, probably want to put more money into it.

[1:23:13] And that doesn't mean down the road, we won't be looking at this again.

[1:23:16] But actually if you take a look at these things, wood ranch, which was open in what year,

[1:23:23] 1998, I still think, she was part of the first. It's original HVAC on that campus still.

[1:23:30] Afterwood, which was completed in 2000, the new phase of 2006, it's the air conditioning we put on there, and as we know, we need to finish the new high school, because we weren't able to do all of it in the last phase and we continue to see, so that's why we picked those as our top three at this point.

[1:23:50] Is that why they kill a lot of hours was double what Roya was or yeah, well, we haven't yeah, we haven't

[1:23:59] Much larger campus

[1:24:00] Yeah, it is a lot more ground. Yeah, so so that's why those three were picked

[1:24:05] I think if we were to go out after the whole district to do this project

[1:24:08] I think we're looking at the neighborhood of $35 million to kind of upgrade everything and

[1:24:14] We're probably not ready to take on a low in of

[1:24:17] 30, 35 million dollars. That's probably something we look at once we have a bond.

[1:24:22] It also might make sense to face it anyhow, so that in 30 years, that board of students who are

[1:24:29] coming here and sitting grappling with doing another $60 million dollars solution,

[1:24:39] that is correct.

[1:24:46] So, on 5.3, the Approval Resolution 8, 2627 Energy Services Agreement with Pacific West Energy Solutions, do we have a motion?

[1:25:00] Move approval. Second. Motion by Gibran, seconded by James, roll call, vote, trustee, James. Aye.

[1:25:06] Secure, roll on, vote. Clerk Gibran. Aye. President Smaller. Aye.

[1:25:13] So maybe there won't be a lot of questions for five point.

[1:25:16] Four, let's see how it goes. Approval of a resolution number nine, 2627, authorizing the execution and delivery of a lease agreement and escort agreement with the Bank of America.

[1:25:30] Public capital, corp relating to the financing of energy efficiency projects to be undertaken pursuant to an energy services agreement and approving related documents and actions.

[1:25:46] That hurt my brain.

[1:25:49] And then I did hear you say that we could, if so chosen, we could pay off early.

[1:25:54] We're not locked into the 20 years.

[1:25:55] That's correct.

[1:26:01] Second motion by Debran second of my small one roll call vote trusty James. I

[1:26:06] I'm a special uncle. I click to run. Hi. I'm president small. Hi. I'm going to just add one footnote to all this too. You did approve for us to have Jones Hall as our

[1:26:16] Ternies and on this project. They do our bond projects, but along with that we do have a tax attorney as part of that and

[1:26:24] Their goal is that $1.4 million that a shoot showed you is their goal is that they can get that number higher

[1:26:31] Because they help us with all that as they go through the incentives

[1:26:35] They actually are watching and they're tracking everything we do down to it could be even potentially my time on the project

[1:26:42] So that they can get the biggest rebate possible, so you did approve that contract. I just want to highlight that. I did see that. Thank you

[1:26:49] You and thank you for being here tonight. Appreciate it. Thank you

[1:26:52] Thank you

[1:26:53] Thank you for all your work on this and putting it together.

[1:27:01] Okay, so now we're going to move on to our information calendar.

[1:27:06] Under board and administration 1.1, first reading of the revised.

[1:27:11] Exhibit 1, 9270, the conflict of interest.

[1:27:18] Under personnel and services, 2.1,

[1:27:21] to see me educators association and the district contract re opener for proposals for the 2627 school year.

[1:27:30] 2.2 the first reading of revised board policy, 41 12.9 and new board policy, 42.

[1:27:41] Excuse me, 42 12.9 and 43 12.9 employee notifications first reading of revised administrative

[1:27:52] regulations, 41-12.5, and 42-12.5, and 43-12.5,

[1:28:00] criminal record checks,

[1:28:03] educational services, information

[1:28:05] on gifted and talented education.

[1:28:08] Yes, thank you, President Smallen, trustees, and members

[1:28:11] of the public.

[1:28:13] Earlier this evening, Clark Gibran made a comment

[1:28:17] about the board's authority to hire and evaluate and terminate the superintendent as the

[1:28:26] superintendent is your only employee. So in June of 2025, one of the board's wishes was to

[1:28:36] explore the opportunity to expand universal screening and assessments for gifted and talented

[1:28:43] education, so gate testing for students. So here we are, a year later we went to work on that

[1:28:50] over the course of the 25-26 school year and here we are in September of 2020-26 and Miss Erin Mahoney,

[1:28:57] one of our coordinators out of educational services is going to present to you the how we are

[1:29:04] carrying out to what it is that you asked us to do. With that, Miss Mahoney. Thank you, good evening

[1:29:10] just these. Thank you for having me in this evening and Dr. Yusa. Thank you. So we have been working

[1:29:16] in educational services to try to figure out how to make that universal gate testing happen

[1:29:21] and why it is so important as well. So what our, I'm short, I'm sorry, there was a lot of tall people

[1:29:29] up here. Okay, there we go, and I'm loud, so we can make a work. Okay, so what we are proposing

[1:29:37] is that we are going to have universal gate testing for what we're calling as our rising third graders.

[1:29:43] So every student in a second grade, the spring of second grade.

[1:29:47] And so it gives us a consistent opportunity for all of our third grade,

[1:29:51] or incoming third grade students to be tested for gifted and talented.

[1:29:56] And what we'll read in the same is our...

[1:30:00] Referral process, which has been in place for a very long time, which typically happens or a parent or a teacher can recommend a student in grades 3 and higher, 3, 4 or 5 to also have the opportunity to test this year for gate testing.

[1:30:18] So, our current system really limits the amount of students that would be able to take part in that gate testing because it's either a teacher or a parent recognizing that there's student that a student may benefit from gate testing and then the testing takes place on a Saturday morning.

[1:30:39] and so some families are not able to come that Saturday morning for a variety of reasons.

[1:30:45] So moving towards a universal process that happens during the school day will allow all students

[1:30:50] to have the opportunity to test. This is by no mean a prediction of outcomes, but based on research,

[1:30:59] when you move to a universal testing model, 170%, which is 170% for percent increase of identification

[1:31:07] of disadvantaged students, which is huge, and then also, I think, 118% of our students, our

[1:31:15] Spade Extendons is at 74% of our Black students, so, again, this is not a prediction

[1:31:20] of what's to come, but it just allows our students the opportunity.

[1:31:25] We are proposing that we move to the NNAT3, which is less language dependent and allows students

[1:31:34] to not have to rely so heavily on their reading skills or their vocabulary or verbal responses

[1:31:41] and and provides and reduces barriers to students who's not English proficient

[1:31:48] and it's also practical because it's just a 30 minute test. Our current testing right now was

[1:31:55] done on paper and pencil in the classroom and it could be there for a good hour to an hour and a half

[1:32:02] And now with a 30 minute on-light test, we're hopeful that that will also help our students,

[1:32:08] especially our rising third graders, those second graders in the spring, and they can be,

[1:32:12] you know, to sit down for 30 minutes of anything. And so I think this will help that.

[1:32:17] Is that the co-get test or what is the current test called?

[1:32:20] It's a oscillate.

[1:32:21] Awesome. Okay. Yeah.

[1:32:24] Um, which does not provide. So the reason why we looked at.

[1:32:29] So Pearson is the, um, publisher of both of these tests.

[1:32:34] Um, and so when I met with the Pearson representative, um,

[1:32:37] the Oslo does not have a, um, online portion for,

[1:32:42] uh, second grade students that begins in third grade.

[1:32:45] So, and this is what they recommend with Pearson recommends for our third grade students.

[1:32:50] I'm sorry, our second grade students, I apologize.

[1:32:55] Okay, so when students are identified, we are, this is very much work in progress.

[1:33:01] There's nothing set in stone.

[1:33:03] But Laurie Neiman and Jamie's progress, and I've all been talking about this, but really Laurie has been taking the lead on this a lot.

[1:33:11] In coming up with a way to then provide extra enrichment to students who are identified as gifted.

[1:33:18] So, coming up with a regional activities that are after school to provide enrichment for these students.

[1:33:26] That's periodic throughout the year.

[1:33:29] There's no model that is for sure happening, but this is what we are currently exploring right now.

[1:33:38] And we are looking at different ways, especially with STEM robotics.

[1:33:44] Art, all kinds of different to be able to meet all of our needs of the students to extend their learning.

[1:33:53] So, what we are proposing is that we move to this universal screening process for all second graders using the NN-83.

[1:34:00] Continue the referral process for this year for grades three, four and five.

[1:34:04] And then we're going to continue to explore gate enrichment and regional areas around the district

[1:34:11] for our students who are identified as gate.

[1:34:15] That's all I am.

[1:34:17] So I comment, in the old days, it seemed like students who were identified as gate.

[1:34:23] You're identified as gate.

[1:34:24] So here's more homework.

[1:34:26] And I'm really pleased to see that we're looking at enrichment.

[1:34:30] that extraactivity is still getting your hands involved rather than, oh, you're a gate.

[1:34:37] So instead of reading chapters one, you have to read chapters one, you have to read chapters

[1:34:40] one and five and answer every question in the back of the book.

[1:34:43] I do like that.

[1:34:45] My next question is, I'm curious about what is the cost of the test to the district?

[1:34:52] And on top of that, is do we have fun set aside for the enrichment for gate enrichment if

[1:34:58] this would be moved forward?

[1:35:00] Okay, so first first we're proposing and I think it's on the board agenda so it's to what we're proposing and that's why it's kind of an approximate number for this year because we don't know how many referrals we're going to receive.

[1:35:13] And so it's about $13,000 around approximately for all of our students for the University testing plus what we've had referrals in the past using that number, but then also there's been money in there to train our teachers on how to use that.

[1:35:29] assessment. So that's why that approximate 18,000 is there because we're just not sure.

[1:35:35] And I'm working with actively working with Pearson right now to try to figure out the best way to train our current.

[1:35:40] Second grade teachers involving our PLC coaches as well to be able to support that.

[1:35:46] It might be interesting we can pursue maybe even a grant to help pay for you.

[1:35:57] and the greater event greater. It was a big chunk of money and I was able to go out to the community,

[1:36:03] find people to help pay for it. And I think that's what we're looking for. Something like that,

[1:36:08] and with the after school enrichment, to be able to find the funds to be able to support that.

[1:36:12] And I think that is what Laurie Neiman has been actively pursuing and trying to figure out ways to do that.

[1:36:18] Thank you. I really like the idea of testing all of our students. So it's like the diamond and

[1:36:27] rough concept and it takes that barrier for having to have somebody

[1:36:32] referred you and then having to take time off and go on a weekend and whatever else.

[1:36:37] Yeah, yeah, I mean, that really is a challenge and then trying to figure out a

[1:36:43] way to have those enrichment activities to challenge some of our students to even go

[1:36:49] beyond what they're doing every day and eventually I feel like this will be what

[1:36:54] We've done with the AP classes that there's more sections that are provided because we've

[1:37:00] removed that supposed barrier in some way and meet in our students where they're at.

[1:37:05] So I think all four of that, I'm very interested to hear what these enrichment activities

[1:37:10] were.

[1:37:11] I remember back in my day, it was a gate pull-out program and we did have a little bit of homework

[1:37:17] then, but it wasn't too bad.

[1:37:19] But if there's something that we can do that actually challenges these students to make sure

[1:37:23] engaged in learning and achieving it, what the level they're capable of, that's fantastic.

[1:37:29] So, all for it, 18 grand approved, let's go.

[1:37:33] I just thought, but one quick thank you.

[1:37:36] I love the non-verbal approach.

[1:37:38] As a kid who is super hyperactive, I know you can't tell now.

[1:37:42] But I was not going to sit in another class for another test.

[1:37:48] I was suggested, and I'm not, no, it's okay.

[1:37:53] I don't want to go to that other room to come back with the, they look stressed out.

[1:37:58] So I like this approach.

[1:38:00] I remind me of play-based learning, and we're starting with that in the TK, and I think that

[1:38:09] this continuation of using our hands to solve problems is going to get us away from being

[1:38:16] So I think I see is what this also does at the elementary level, is it expands what's already happening at the high school and middle school level with open access, right?

[1:38:28] So currently in our district, pre-requisites are just recommendations and not actually requirements.

[1:38:34] So in this case, back to the board goals, student learning, you're expanding opportunities at the elementary level for all students.

[1:38:42] So thank you.

[1:38:44] Now, I'm wondering if you could provide some maybe examples of the differences between the old and the new and what that means as far as questions and what not.

[1:38:52] And what I'm really curious about. Yeah, the test questions. I'm really curious if I'm smarter than a third grader,

[1:39:10] but

[1:39:11] writing it down.

[1:39:12] Between you and Dr. Sondras, and this is Neiman, maybe we'll get some samples together

[1:39:16] and make sure that information with the board.

[1:39:19] That's great.

[1:39:20] Let me go.

[1:39:21] What I will say, because I'd like to share, is back in my day.

[1:39:25] You're talking back back in your day.

[1:39:26] Back in my day, and I've shared this with Superintendent Eosiff before, is they took

[1:39:32] all of us, and they put us all in the same classroom.

[1:39:35] So when you look at my class picture, when I was in elementary school, it says,

[1:39:39] Mrs. Brownie's class, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade.

[1:39:43] Oh, wow.

[1:39:43] So we were all put in the same class.

[1:39:46] Wow.

[1:39:46] And definitely was particularly soon.

[1:39:48] We got that time.

[1:39:50] But how?

[1:39:50] Yeah.

[1:39:51] How things have changed?

[1:39:52] She shared that story and I told her I wasn't gay and I didn't know if I was.

[1:39:55] Oh, please.

[1:39:56] Oh, yeah.

[1:39:57] That's good.

[1:40:01] So, thank you. I would like to see what I would like to see with the I agree with Creme. What it's going to look like and all the work you're doing to make sure that it's worth the parents' time to be involved in. And the fact that they don't have to be recognized by a, you know, a teacher and they can be pulled out because of what they know is very, very important and it definitely removes those barriers that's been said before. So, thank you so much.

[1:40:27] Thank you. Thank you.

[1:40:30] Thank you Ms. Mahoney.

[1:40:34] Okay, so now we're on to student support services.

[1:40:37] We have nine business and facilities annual disclosure

[1:40:41] of fixed asset disposal at 2526.

[1:40:46] By point two, the first reading of updated board policy 3417

[1:40:50] on parcel tax.

[1:40:53] 5.3, the first reading of updated board policy and administrative

[1:40:57] regulations, 72-14, general obligation bonds.

[1:41:03] Now we get to move on to announcements.

[1:41:08] Participated presentations are for convenience only, and are subject to change and

[1:41:12] or addition.

[1:41:14] So October 20th will be our next meeting at our closed session will start at five regular

[1:41:19] board meeting, City Hall, Council Chambers, right here at 2929, Tapal Canyon Road.

[1:41:25] The CME Spotlight for that day will be Santa Susanna High School,

[1:41:33] and we're very, I'm very excited to have the CME Valley Youth Council do their presentation as well.

[1:41:40] The California Assessment of Student Performance and Pros.

[1:41:46] Sorry, progress, the CASP testing.

[1:41:49] Information will be here as well.

[1:41:51] And on that note, I move to adjourn.

[1:41:55] second motion by small ones seconded by James on favor hi I'm 32

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