Board of Education Meeting --- June 4, 2024

[Music] [Music] [Music] like to call the meeting to order like to ask Chief Pina to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance thank you Chief Pino 1.3 approv of agenda move second to move the second are there any changes seeing none vote please M Scott bye the motion passed section two special presentation recognition 2.1 link learning go pathway recognition the Board of Education wishes to recognize Curtis Middle School steam stem Pathways for earning this PES designation as a link learning gold Pathways good evening my name is Mary ran Goodwin and I'm the director of communications and community relations for tonight's special presentations the Board of Education will recognize Curtis Middle School and sbc's team of dedicated School nurses before I introduce our award recipients I'd like to invite our board members and superintendent Ariano to make their way to the front of the Das at this time executive cabinet would you please make your way along the ramp as our team takes their places I'd like to share that tonight's honores are being recognized as part of the board of education's desire to Spotlight sbcusd at our very best with that in mind let us Begin by highlighting Curtis Middle School which was awarded gold certification status by linked learning on April 9th for its innovated stem pathway this is a testament to the dedication hard work and commitment to Excellence demonstrated by principal Mr guo Guerero Vice prin thank you [Applause] vice principal Sarah Gap and Denisha culson and stem teacher steam program specialist Chris Petron in providing supportive and inclusive learning environments for all students I now invite principal Gedo to come forward to receive a special certificate for Curtis Middle School Dr Alan K if you'd like to join them for a photo you may Curtis is the very first sbcusd middle school and only the second Middle School in the entire State of California to earn this designation and serves as a model for for career connected learning industry partner engagement and Hands-On integrated projects for Middle School school students congratulations principal Gedo and to all of the students and staff at Curtis Middle School for shining so bright and serving as a model of educational Excellence let's recognize Curtis Middle School and their gold certified team and with another round of applause Board of Education would like to take the opportunity to recognize the district's team of Highly skilled and dedicated nurses that serve our students with the highest level of care compassion and professionalism honores when your name is called would you please come forward by walking down the ramp to my left where you see my team member with their hand raised you'll be greeted by superintendent Mr Mauricio Ariano the Board of Education and your principal once you arrive to the front of the Das please pause at the gold plate cover at the center of the floor to have your photo taken before using the walkway to my right to return to your seat audience please put your hands together as we welcome our first honory Chelsea Bartlett [Applause] our next honory is Brandy Bennett Tia Brooks our next honor Tia [Applause] Brooks e next honory is Christina Brower [Applause] her next honory is Sylvia [Applause] Coleman please help me welcome Tammy debellis aians please welcome posha dorso next we have andrina Gallardo help me welcome Maria Garcia congratulations to Shandra Hensen our next honor is Wendy hang got Wendy's shoes make sure you get those shoes Karina our next honory is Sandra Kaiser congratulations to Nicole Lang audience please help me welcome Sharon lip congratulations to Lynn [Applause] Massie please help me welcome grow rrio Morales welcome to Blanca Moreno [Applause] please help me welcome Stella Norris audience please help me by welcoming kanako wanabi no um some years ago um when we had budget cuts throughout the state um we had a list of items to cut and a lot of districts were cutting nurses and our board chose not to cut nurses because we knew the value of having nurses in our district and since then we've added to the nursing population which is not the norm for districts across the state but we realized it was a priority and made sure that we funded uh nurses and it turned out to be uh one of the best things we ever did you know I don't get a lot of calls from parents but calls that I do get are parents that are concerned about the wellness of their kids and their kids have um specific medical problems that need to be addressed by nurses it is a good feeling for me to be able to make a phone call and say what school actually has a nurse on site because that's what parents are concerned about because you truly are saving lives a lot of times it's a situation and life life and death and even beyond that just giving a parent a peace of mind is a big deal so I just want to personally say on behalf of the whole board we truly do appreciate all of you thank you very much 2.3 District English learner advisory committee thank you board at this time we would like to present our daac president miss rodina Gamino to give the uh presentation from the daac board thank you Miss Camino you do have the report in front of you in English and Spanish hello good afternoon I Amina and I am the acting chair of elac here with you today this evening and outgoing president pretty soon so right behind me you see my team I know it's a little bit late it's my first report but let's hope everything comes out well well being that I just was assigned right after a pandemic so I also want to show what I am capable of today I want to talk about all of the achievements for El the support of the superintendent Aro to our executive board our hybrid meetings of after [Music] coab Anaheim Riverside the assistant for members of Dak in the conferences for cave laa cave Anaheim and Cave Riverside like shared a lot of information for our parents and for the community success for the parents and support through the elac committee being able to have increases in reclassification which met the requirements of the state and recognizing our bilingual students trainings for teachers and principls and support for our dual emerging programs and involvement of new parents opportunities of work for our University students thank you for that it's really [Music] important and now I would like to give some suggestions to our executive board to have more programs celebrations recognitions for all of our English learning programs and overall all ethnicity continue to support our dual programs or dual immersion programs to be able to support the parents that are English learners for the Cav conferences so that they are more aware and conscious of the bilingual education continue our regular communication levels with our new committee our deac committee and with the superintendent to continue working tirelessly with our directors of the programs and multilingual programs with Mr O and Mr aosta who are here support with for better services for parents in schools continuing to support these events for reclassification follow up with our deac meetings with the executive board to continue visiting our executive board and also our dual immersion programs well well the schools with our dual emerging programs trainings for the parents of elac andac to be able to promote more of that importance for that involvement parent and family involvement to have our executive board present in our deac meetings everyone is invited to participate with us I know that some have been present others your time doesn't permit but we do want to see you there and to continue following up with those School visits because it is extremely important for us the parents and I would like some deep support for the parents in their languages so they can get involved in the schools for the support of all of your students and I have nothing left to say but thank you and I want to continue working with you all because I'm not leaving anywhere you'll see me sitting here month after month and you'll be uh I'll be chasing you and that's it and remember United We Are the strength one p piece is Miss Missing in our puzzle then we're not complete it's gracias that's it thank [Applause] you thank you very much and miss Medina just wanted to say thank you so much um um I wanted to say thank you so much for your support and coming down and really speaking on the issues is is really important thank you thank you Mr BOS I want to also thank you so um I know that you know your involvement and your participation in different District events and things like that it's it's it's not a paid position and it requires a lot of commitment and and so I just want to say thank you um truly I wish I could have been there more often um but I'm a little new in my career so that took a lot of time out of my day thank you uh Mrs Alexander so first I'll apologize and will not be able to speak in Spanish but I wanted to say thank you for taking on um such a challenging task during covid to keep daac going and coming in and sharing with us your accomplishments and working with the community and the parents and always keeping the the kids first so we appreciate that keeping focused on the scholars and then in terms of just what you're asking of the school board in terms of call to action we receive that so thank you Mr shusi thank you I also will not be able to address you in Spanish which is to my great sadness um because I should have been bilingual but that's a whole another story um I just want to say thank you for all your your work I've been to several daac meetings and I appreciate appreciate the times that I've been able to attend um you run a wonderful meeting there's always good parent participation which I appreciate um being able to see our parental involvement I think that's a testament to the work that daac does um and that commitment um I also hear what you're saying there's several things on there that I made notes about um that I really wanted to see uh I attended cab for years as a teacher and a teacher leader and I know the importance and the value of that conference and the education that our parents get and I like the idea especially of expanding who attends to have more understanding of the benefit for this particularly dual immersion for all of our students so thank you very much thank you m Grand uh I haven't attended a meeting in a long time but I will attend your next meeting uh I welcome your invitation I do think it's important for board members to show up so I will be there okay Mr Ariano you president Tillman I'll first I'll say in English then in Spanish first of all I want to give Miss kamino huge uh thank you she has done a great job An Elegant job a classy job uh being the president of deac and we all appreciate your leadership and if you don't know she's also very funny so she makes the meetings very funny very light when needed so I do appreciate her Mr OA uh mrost I was wondering if maybe one of you could introduce uh who else is here with us and I know we have our future uh present as well so maybe it'd be nice to end it by introducing our other members thank you sure we've got with us our vice president for this last year and this is roxan cantes would you stand up and then we have our parliamentarian who's also our uh new president as well good afternoon my name is Elizabeth Romero I am the future president of deac here and as my colleague said you are part of that puzzle piece so we are going to be here working collectively and asking for your support and as I always say it our parents voices are extremely important because they elected me they trusted me and I am here to represent and be their voice and also to all of you thank you for all of the work and for being here with us because I do know that you listen thank you God bless and we will see you soon once again thank you 2.4 resolution and recogition of juneth day like to ask Mrs Alexander to read that for US president Tillman whereas juneth is the oldest African-American holiday observance in the United States and whereas September 22nd 1862 President Lincoln issued the celebrated amend Emancipation Proclamation and whereas prior to the end of Civil War on January 31st 1865 Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution which abolished slavery throughout the United States and its territories and whereas June 19th 1865 is considered the date that the last slave in America was freed almost 2 and a half years after President Lincoln issued the emancipation Proclamation and whereas on June 17th 2021 President Biden signed into the law Bill making juneth National Independence Day a federal holiday and whereas in 2023 Governor Nome officially recognized juneth as a state holiday and a third Saturday in June of each year to be known as juneth National Freedom day a day of observance therefore be it resolved the Board of Education of the San berino City Unified School District hereby recognizes June 19th as juneth National Independence Day and Via further resolve the Board of Education recognizes the third Saturday in June of each year in J in California as juneth National Freedom day a day of observance that urges people across the state and Nation to join celebrating juneth as a day to honor and reflect on the significant role that African-Americans have played in history of the United State and how they have enriched Society through their steadfast commitment to promoting Freedom Brotherhood unity and equality so move move by Mrs Alexander and second by Mr bies vote please I do want to note um can we start using enslaved versus the word slave um in in these um resolutions as well noted and thank you M Scott hi president tman motion pass section five close session no I should be sorry about that I apologize section three public comments 3.1 we see public comments this is the only time the public will have an opportunity to address the board on items not on the agenda and within their subject matter jurisdiction such as District policies procedures program services or fiscal matters public comments are limited to 5 minutes per person six or more people who wish to speak on one topic will be provided no more than 30 minutes total speakers are cautioned that under California law no person is immune from liability from making intentionally false or defamatory comments regarding any person simply because these comments are made at a public meeting and our first public comment is Mr Terry boins thank you uh president tman I appreciate it uh my name is Terry boyin executive director of project fighing chance uh I just want to say thank you all for the support you've given us this past years been a question a phenomenal um experience uh watching the city of San berardino produce a Heisman Trophy winner and a international gold medalist in boxing which has been Incredible Journey uh having come through a phenomenal training during covid and having a dream to uh reach the Olympics but option to to go pro which is another opportunity and so um superintendent Ariana I want to say thank you and Dr Rodriguez for attending uh Terry's uh Victory celebration he enjoyed it being able to see his Educators uh come back and see him and surprising him knowing his favorite teacher U was really kind of exciting um but you know with the celebrations being gone uh the individuals that are now young adults on their way um project chance gets back to work uh with all the other Scholars that are looking to do things and and deal with things and their respective Pursuit Of Education as well as their own family life and project Fighting Chance wants to continue serving uh this community and I know that Miss Goodwin has some promo cards that we've had um that is circulating throughout the city uh we can now get back to working on what we believe um we understand a little bit and that's working with kids that have been impacted by trauma and so boxing is what we do community is who we are uh that's what we're going to do uh come the 10th of June uh project Fighting Chance goes back to work um it's been nice creating Golden Glove Champions and international boxing champions but if you go to Ruben compos today and you notice that we've added something on that building uh and we worked with parks and rack as well as a compos family when you pull up to Ruben comp's Community Center you will see from Fourth Street big words that that says I am a champion and that is what we want to make sure that each of those young people that come into that building come into that property they understand um that yes we do have international celebrities and athletes in there but the reality of it is we want them to know that they are a champion uh without a question and the affirmations are all over the building we want to make sure we do that and this is reason why uh when the team was presenting the information about having a boxing Camp uh I wanted to make sure sure that not only were we focusing on the athletic proudness of some of these individuals but we were dealing with some of the adverse childhood experiences that are encountered with these individuals and as you'll notice that on the boxing Camp flyer it has for Champions individuals that only the athletes but we're also are going to make sure that our coaches are able to work with youth and train them in how to deal with some of their coping needs uh their mental health issues and so um that is something even tonight I think there's like 60 parents on the call tonight I'll be going to tonight on the zoom call uh getting ready but this Camp is not just for Champion but it's for trauma as well and uh we will be talking about what we need to do um to be more accountable and then also with that we're going to move right from the boxing Camp uh into uh another program which is called chill the violence and you'll get a chance to know a little bit more about that and what project finding Chance is going to do to address some of the issues that are in um confronting juvenile with regards to the influence of um violence on the streets and uh we do have a proactive approach um with regards to our organization to engage youth we think we have a vehicle that will basically appeal to them and we're going to use some of that influence to have conversations and get them the resources and the help and the intervention that's needed uh so they do make it back to the next school year because they do not make it past the summer as you know outside of after school that's one of the most vulnerable times uh is that Gap in between being out of school and coming back to school and we want to make sure that we're being responsible as an organization uh to participate in their successful return to school and on their way to graduation the other part we're going to do and I'll leave with this is that in July we know that a number of parents uh contact us wanting to know what do they do with their kids for July the summer schools out project finding chance has her enrichment program we will be available to this community from 8:30 in the morning to 6 o'clock in the evening to make sure that youth are able to involve in U physical activity and fitness programs enrichment programs and I just confirmed yesterday that we will have meals to provide three times a day to every child that walks into that building and so I just want to say with that that's our agenda for the summer we look forward to it it'll be a busy summer and our objective is to help these kids Scholars get back to school in August and ready to learn thank you thank you Mr Boykins and thank you for the work that you are doing in our community miss me and Mr Boykins go way back we went to Cal State sanino together he was a member of Kappa alaide fraternity I'm 58 signal fraternity and actually went to school with his wife at Roosevelt and aiew and Sam the high school and uh it's it's just amazing that you're doing this program you know Ian Franklin who's in your program also he and I met at a a summer summer program was called CEDA we're both about 14 years old and uh we worked together uh in that summer program and kept a relationship throughout the years and I know he's been um working diligently for over 30 or 40 years in the community helping our you so I can't thank you guys enough well you I want to say thank you Danny and I you know it's been great um you know being a coed and having the collegate experience and and growing and seeing and in the um you know the the stain put in the community uh has been really you know a humbling thing for me to experience and so I'm looking forward to working with you and your board and and the scholars and the parents that we get involved with um to do more because I do know that if we can um let these young people know that we believe in them I think they will believe enough in this city to want to stay and make a difference and so that's what we're going to be going to work on and so I'm going to going to get on this parent call tonight because they've been calling me all day so I'm going to get chance to get to the zoom and want to say thank you all once again you know the best thing on your flyer says $35 early registration May 1st May 31st 2024 but there's an as that says that not does not apply to San frino CIF School District students that is correct and that's because of the partnership we have you they're able to participate without having to pay the fee and that's a big deal that's exactly right with uh with with expanded learning and I want to give a shout out to Anne Pearson her team and Tiffany and Sean and Laura and and Tina um which um we have a chance to make sure that we don't put anything out unless they approve of it and so that's uh the partnership and I think that's the Partnerships that we want to make sure this community understands that uh of all the things that you hear about Sam berardino there are some very good things that are going on there some very good kids in this community and I guarantee you that um if we take care of them and treat them right they will be back to treat this city right than you much next we have Miss Amy I believe it's a Gary all right hi good even evening uh my name is Dr Amy Florence a uh I am a graduate of uh San Marino City Unified School District I attended from kindergarten at arbid to Richardson Prep High for middle school and graduated from kahone um all the way back in 2007 um I earned the recognition of a valedictorian and I owe that all to the incredible teachers and mentors that have been by my side throughout the years at this school district and I very grateful for all the hard work that we do collabora collaboratively as a team to make that happen um I was able to attend UC Riverside I earned a Bachelor's of Science and biochemistry I then attended Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy I graduated with my Doctorate of Pharmacy in 2015 um I was more than happy to come back and serve my community as a teacher uh right now as a CTE teacher at Curtis Middle School um I am very happy to see that our school was honored this evening uh with gold certification from linked learning which is a just Testament to all of the incredible work that we do as a team at our school site um I teach a medical pathway program um CTE program at Curtis Middle School and as we're recognizing the nurses up here in our school SCH District I can only think about our kids the kids that walk into my classroom every single day to learn about the medical field I have the incredible opportunity and honor to guide these students to pursue a medical field related career and encourage them and push them to exceed academically that will open up those doors for them um to pursue those types of careers um so at my site uh I am a Administration teacher I also have the opportunity to uh Mentor other teachers so I am um trying my best to make sure that I am leaving a lasting impact not only on my students but on my colleagues and other teachers as well um I am incredibly thankful for this board this school board has allowed me to teach that class um for the last three years um in 2019 my uh school was honored with the Innovation Grant which totally remodeled that classroom in 2019 as we know Co kind of put a little halt on the construction to that um it was finished in 2021 so this is the third year I've had the opportunity to use that classroom and I thank you guys um for funding it it was a $50,000 Grant to make that happen it's a beautiful classroom um so my um uh uh concern is that I would like the the program to continue um so I would just um have the board consider to uh continue with the medical Pathways program um as you can see we um just got gold certified for stem and um it just would be a a loss to the students and um the community to lose this type of program um all of my students are able to leave my class completely certified in CPR and first aid and they will save lives and have saved lives so um I would just ask the board to reconsider and make sure that we continue with these types of impactful important essential um programs for our students in our community did you did you hear that we were going to discontinue the program uh as far as I know the program will not continue for next school year we're looking into it thanks for coming out really appreciate it um you said you have your uh PhD I have a a doctorate of Pharmacy okay well you didn't write that on your name so so you're doctor or giri uh Dr giri yes okay well thank you very much we'll look into it because if it's a program that has uh participation has been successful I'm sure the board want to see it continued so we'll look into that okay thank you so much thank you, years there Doris Anew veros this button okay all right so good evening everyone my name is Doris anos and I'm the chair of the pharmacy technology program at sardino Valley College and just to piggyback on the speakers before me um you know our program is an entry-level training program for pharmacy technicians and within the last few years our program has been present in different high schools within your school district so you know there is a great importance in medical Pathways due to our Labor uh Workforce shortage so I just to so I don't get off track um I just wanted to to express my heartfelt gratitude for the continued partnership between our college and your District we're honored to have our program hosted at San gono kahone and Pacific high schools it brings us an immense joy to see successful completion of our program by now two of your students they graduated we had one student graduate a couple years ago with a pharmacy technician certificate and our we had a student this past spring also graduate with their pharmacy technician certificate and now they've transferred to our school um to continue their associates degree and we have more to set to finish their certificate program by the end of this new school year so these students um one of the courses that they're required to take is a clinical experience course where we place them in a pharmacy and they gain Pharmacy workplace experience by working alongside pharmacy technicians and pharmacists for up to 240 hours they both impressed our preceptors beyond measure and they didn't believe me when I told them they were high school students so they exhibited a lot of professionalism and maturity for being high school seniors so a little bit about our program we're accredited by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists and we rank higher than the national average in our national certification exam I credit that to our amazing instructors who working who are working pharmacy technicians and pharmacists they all believe knowledge is invaluable when teaching students about real world scenarios and practical applications for their future Pharmacy careers or any healthcare related field that they choose to go in in that way we feel we are successful in training future pharmacy technicians to meet those local uh pharmacy technician shortages so um one thing that I wanted to mention that is particularly um you know I'm very proud of is witnessing student interest in the pre- pharmacist pathway at our College we're thrilled about the educational Pathways we offer from our associates degree in pharmacy tech to the farm D pathway in collaboration with Lolinda University School of of Pharmacy so this educational Journey has sparked a sense of motivation and empowerment within our students especially within the Hispanic Community making higher education more attainable and enriching lives with transformative opportunities in addition we're also partnering with Lolinda University School of Pharmacy to host a national Pharmacy technology day so this o October uh historically is Pharmacy month and we're inviting several different high schools to come onto our campus to participate in this Pharmacy technology day and if any of you are available on October 15 I'd like to extend a warm welcome to you it's more geared towards a stem care uh or stem fair uh for our students kind of letting them know about different career paths that are available to them so in closing I just wanted to thank you for your unwavering support in nurturing these educational Pathways that are shaping the future of our students thank you very much can I your question you may not have the answer but how do we advertise uh and recruit students to get into the program do you know so we um we go into all the high schools um and usually it's during like career fair days or um reaching out to students within different classrooms um maybe it's like a medal medical pathway classroom or a class that's already um you know kind of those CTE type of classrooms and we present the information about our program program and we work with our CTE uh specialty instructors that are the designated Representatives at each of the school and we promote our program in that way so the unique thing about our program Pharmacy Tech versus any other pharmacy tech programs is that we're a um we're not kind of like a formal program where you have to apply to um the students are registered through dual enrollment so they're earning college credits as they're taking our courses so by taking this pharmacy tech certificate it actually gets them a third of the way done with their Associates career or associates of science degree and then that they can apply uh the prerequisites for a pharmacy school so it's possible to do an associates degree to farm D pathway which is one of the first in our areas thank you and it's not agendized so um I'm not going to elaborate but we have the budget presentation and I think during that presentation we can discuss uh ways that we can um ensure that we have enough student these programs that will give us the funding to continue because you guys have invested so much time and effort there's no way we're going to take a chance on losing this so we'll we'll find a solution but what we can't talk about it here we'll talk about it when we get to the budget next up to speak is Miss Med question definitely thank you so much for um speaking so I do maybe as a clarification and this can also go back to the school district just really knowing what the entry level of students who grad graduate from these programs what is their pay as they're entering into these programs and um you know in the career pathway once they graduate or get the certificate so I know that our district is moving into maybe providing some information that would be good for me to know um I know with the new laws that came out for like the fast food workers so entry level usually meant that when a technician was hired on um you know entry level may start $18 $19 per hour in a retail setting in a hospital setting it might be a little bit higher because they're required to take a national certification exam but with the new uh laws that have passed there's also been additional laws um forgive me because I don't know the exact name but it's like SB 285 or S SP 295 something around there where um because the new pay rate has affected food uh like you know um fast food workers it is also affecting health care workers where if they're below that minimum wage they will also be raising the wage to meet that new requirement or go above but it's something that's done over a period of time I think between now and 3 years thank you very much appreciate you next is uh Mr Omar Castro good evening uh board members my name is Omar Castro long-term uh resident in the area I'm actually a proud alumni of s Valley College just wanted to start off that way and I work very closely with uh Miss anos and I've been working at valy college for 10 years now and uh two years I was actually uh invited to work in the program uh more in the division area it's called the health life science but more to support the pharmacy technology program and the reason for that is uh I've actually been charged by the district level to actually do special studies uh in our area uh which basically the range is between Fontana Rialto Colton sardino uh Redlands and Yuka to really find the the need and uh so when I was invited to to be a part of the team I I didn't even hesitate I said you know when when can I start uh so I started two two summers ago and uh I I saw some areas where I felt like there was a need so we have been uh at Pacific High School where the program is in place for do enrollment and I wanted to send a shout out to uh Miss Lindsay she's uh such a firecracker out out at that campus um just her numbers alone I'm sure you guys know but through due enrollment through S valy College uh there's recorded about 1,200 students this semester a minimum of 50% of the students came from that school and uh so we're we're very proud to to work with them but one of the areas that I found the need was uh to really expand and open up to Opportunities within your district and so I've been working very close with Mr Mormon at sarono high school we went live this fiscal year uh and just to share with you we're we're very mindful as to how many courses we can actually have at a high school we've never had more than two going live in the first semester and because of the need uh not just there but also the uh support from also the families uh we went live with two schools so normally in a course we have about 30 to 36 students and uh we had nearly about 75 this fiscal year uh we had about 120 at um we found that there's also a need on the other side of the district and so we also are live at uh kahone High School uh kahone High School this fiscal year recorded about 150 students so ultimately this FIS schal year we recorded over 300 students uh from your district and that's why we hear more than anything because we wanted to really thank the board you guys for for your support very strongly for your advocation uh but also the members at each respective school starting from the front from the principal to all the career Specialists because we we really can't do it without them uh but just to share with you through our budget we have an instructor through our team and he or she is paid to teach at that respective high school and um the the course is live there once a week it's after school it's technically about two and a half hours or so and uh each course is always filled there's like not even enough room in there um and like Miss an was sharing we we highlighted a student not so long ago that graduated in the program but uh we're looking at the numbers now we're actually looking at between 25 to 28 students uh that are currently still in high school they will continue and they'll be recognize uh miday of next year and so that's that's a huge jump so we're really we're really happy about that um like missant were sharing our our graduation rate is much much larger uh but just at your respective district from all the students that uh registered and complete a course the retention is 98% and so we really look at nutrition it's extremely important uh from nearly our 200 programs that we have our our respective College we are the only program not just there but within our region being region n and I pay attention to the other junior colleges throughout the the within our state being that there's 10 regions in our state we're the only college that really uh focus on on retention because so I go out there and I speak to the students I help them with the whole process from a through z so when they're looking at someone through the support of admissions I'm your person if they need someone for tutoring I am your person uh I respond within 24 hours I can prove that to you but but um that's the support that that they're looking for and so that's what they can expect and so when I'm looking out moving forward my vision to continuously working with your district is visioning not what's coming forth the next fiscal year but more two years we know that time goes quickly um but we're really looking at uh hopefully getting your support with uh increasing more benefits at ceron high school as we're looking at a 5year strategic plan and so thank you for uh for your support again and and uh I look forward to seeing you guys hopefully October 15th thank you and um you know better than I do that retention number is amazing because even at Valley College itself the retention number is nowhere near that so you're doing a great job and we appreciate it and our whole goal is to make our students that successful as possible and I personally want our kids to out compete every other District so whatever we have to do to uh continue the success you're having we're going to do that thank you for that and I wanted to share with you so um I got bachelor's degree over 10 years ago and I believe very strongly in the program I didn't want to sound like a salesperson uh you know we we are not uh in in the private sector and things like that I wanted to make sure that I knew what I was talking about you know to to our respective students um so I actually took the leap about uh three semesters ago and I took the program myself pass a program because I I thought it was only fair for them and uh we're now seeing some of your students uh that are encouraging their parents so we're now seeing uh residents in our area taking the program with them so uh again we wanted to thank you for your support uh for Miss Mary Ellen also for being visible on our campus I know that you're one of our alumni Mr Maurice orano I saw you there a couple months ago uh Miss Myra saes for being uh in our pinning ceremony and I'm looking out for you guys for an invitation I can see some of you guys possibly being a a keynote speaker and guest speakers at our next pinning ceremony uh it's a really highlight to to know that we anticipate over 25 students uh next year from your District that are going to graduate so thank you for your support I'm also a alumni but before to have computers 19 1983 so they don't have any records of me I I remember meeting you for the first time at our uh at our veterans resource center and uh thank you for everything that you do in our community thank you thank you and Dr Scott Wyatt as well seen you there too as well yeah thank you next we have Dr Davis I good okay good good evening first of all I want to thank you for the 30 minutes you're about to give me to talk right now uh 35 thank you um my name is Willie Davis I am the associate Dean for student services at the lomin University School of Pharmacy and I want to tell you something here we have been around for 22 years at our school and we have been partners with this school district for the entire 22 years of this school and you have been our partners we have is part of our DNA for us to be involved in the school system and I'm going to bring things full circle Dr gir was my student she is a product of the S bero City Unified School District and has gone back to give back to the school district and that is really a microcosm of what we've tried to do with our school we have been involved in the school district since day one the work we've done with Curtis Middle School back in 2012 Dr Kay and I just saw each other for the first time in a while in 2012 my laboratory at a school I'm a biochemist my laboratory started teaching laboratory principles at Indian Springs High School to students and we did that for a number of years today we are still involved with the school district it is important to us two years ago our school became the first School of Pharmacy in the United States designated as this Hispanic Center of excellence and Pharmacy we received a $3.5 million Grant from Hera the goal of that Grant is to improve health care in this region and I'll give you some numbers of what we're trying to do this school this region is well over 50% Hispanic in Latino about 8% of the health care providers in this region fall into that demographic TR our school received this grant because we have been doing a good job of training pharmacists like Dr giri and we've only graduated 133% since the grant has started we are now up to 37% our last entering class was 37% hispanic most of those students came from this area we are focused on improving healthc care in this area by providing pharmacists who can go out and serve an area that needs to be served and make a difference in healthare we cannot do that job without our partnership with with you we are thankful for our partnership with San San berino Valley College um we teach we we don't teach they teach three classes in our building with their students who become our students so what we have done we realize that you can't if you keep looking in the same places for students that aren't there you won't find them so what we realized is we have to look for students where they are and students from our district tend to stay go to community colleges and what we realized is you can do the prerequisites from pharmacy school without getting a bachelor's degree and move right into Loma Linda and be successful this year we will have one of our first graduates from San Marino Valley College in our program we want to continue this partnership it is important to us it is important to this region and we are committed to doing whatever we can to make this go the people at San berino Valley College are amazing amazing colleagues of ours we are looking forward to what we can do together please in October come and join us during Pharmacy month it's going to be it's going to be a show it's going to be wonderful we want to see what we want to see is our first student from the high schools to enroll in our school after about two years after they finish high school that's what we want to see that's our vision we're going to improve Healthcare in this community one student at a time and it's because of our partnership with you thank you for this invitation thank you for your time thank you very much and um You can count on us U we'll be working with you it it's a win-win for both of us yes uh like you said our students benefited from it but the community also yes and so uh we'll make it happen we got some comments from fellow board members Mr bios yeah so I I mean just in general uh listening to all the speakers I just want to say thank you so much for coming out and really um you know making us aware of these opportunities and these programs and you know um I started to hear a little bit of about pharmacy tech um just recently I mean I didn't really know much about it it sounds like it's a growing program um I it's it's not as big as some of the other programs that we may have in the district but I definitely want to make sure that we do show it some love and show it some support um and talk about partner ships right I mean you have the school district and you have the Community College you know us working and then them you working Loma Linda working with them and so it just just it's such a beautiful streamline and you know we're working with students in high school but now we have you know a teacher from middle school you know in in a couple uh I don't know board meetings um you know back we had you know discussed a little bit about hey how can we get them started you know from elementary how can we get them exposed to some of these um you know different areas and Fields and stem and you know technology and all these different things so I really do hope that um this pathway at Curtis Middle School is is not going to be closing this middle medical pathway um uh because it's a it's a really good opportunity I don't know what other Middle School you know maybe there are other middle schools that have Pathways but even if we do medical Pathways even if we do or we don't um I think if the program is there and the program is thriving you know why get rid of it um I've heard a lot of great things too about the job outlook you know um like you're mentioning so again supporting um Pathways that are going to directly uh provide at the end a a a good job even if it's just you know an a um entry level thank you an entry level you know they may not stay there and that's okay but they they need to be able to you know a lot of our kids um often don't go to college because they want to go to work you know like I just want to start making money some of them have to and so what better way to be able to say hey there here's this option um and you could do it while you're in high school I love the fact that Valley is sending their instructors over to our campuses and they are paying for it out of their pocket so again when I started to to hear about little bit bits and glimpses and pieces of the of this program I was like oh my gosh can you guys come and share more you know before the board and so I'm so glad that that you know um you've joined us and so anyway thank you I really do do hope that we do take a closer look into it and continue to expand that Middle School pathway you know and eventually start getting to to the elementaries as well so thank you so much can I share with you full circle how this works our students have gone to Amy's classroom for years and they do presentations their students have actually done presentations in the community of the things they've learned in the program so they have helped they have helped teach their parents and other people in the community the things they've learned it's a full we're all one it's one Circle we're just part of a big a big big uh process here thank you Mr husk yall stealing my thunder but um first thank you to everybody for your presentation tonight um one of the things that I was thinking about was just like you know when we talk about it takes a village and I was to to raise our children and I was thinking about all the partners that we have that stepped up in the room tonight to talk about how they wanted to support our our children in their success our students for their futures um and I was also thinking about you know when we talk about Pathways and pipelines and you know um you know how uh uh you know K12 to college to career and I was I didn't know as much about the pharmacy tech I mean I know what pharmacy techs are and I know about pharmacists but I didn't really understand as much I think as some of my colleagues did about what we were doing with that and just the idea that we our our um our our students from our middle schools can you know have a pathway to Loma Linda University that they might not you know there's probably parents out there watching right now that didn't know that we have a pathway for them to get there and that midpoint at that pharmacy tech they're that they're going to actually have something that could potentially um you know uh talk about the work that they'll be able to work and sustain them M while they're continuing their career so I really appreciate you bringing this uh to our attention um highlighting it for us um I appreciate that you're highlighting it for our community as well um and I'm you know hopeful that we can at some point have a little more discussion about you know how we can support this um moving forward um and and do that and I look forward I looked to see if I had anything on my calendar October 15th so I'm putting that on there send Miss Cunningham more information on the on that um so that we can we you know know those of us that can attend um Miss Cunningham would be the one to send that to for us so thank you very much thank you very much that uh is the that is all of the people providing public comment tonight that takes the section four public hearing 4.1 local control and accountability plan this time we like to open a public hearing for the Lo control and accountability plan are there any comments no comments close the public hearing I will now open a public hearing for our fiscal year 2024 2025 preliminary budget is that here here no it's not I'm going to do that later so right now we're at section five close session thank you like to call the meeting back to order action reported from closed session 6.1 Educational Services be resolve the board ucation approv settlement agreement jhg 232404 in the amount of $133,000 board education authorizes the purchasing directed to sign all related documents so mve second been moved by me Danny Tillman and second by Dr Wyatt vote please [Music] motion carried 6.2 a-23 24-5 be resolved the board education approved settlement agreement ac23 24-5 in the amount of $15,000 Bard education authorizes the personing director to sign all related documents so moved to move by me and second by Dr Wyatt vote please motion passed 6.3 certificated reassignment HR certification 23- 24-4 B res the board education has determined the following certificate employee be given notice that he she shall be released from assignment as a principal effective at the end of 2023 2024 school year and reassigned to an assignment consistent with his her credential authorizations affected at the beginning of the 2024 2025 school year and that the superintendent or his design is hereby authorized to get written notice of this action pursuant to education code 44 951 so moved second moved by me and second by Dr vote please motion carry 6. for exposion of students board education exception adoption recommendation and findings of the hearing panel based on the review of the panel's finding of facts and recommendations and orders the exposion of the following students with identification numbers as listed below in accordance with the board rules and regulations in compliance with Education Code section 48900 441 918 466 376 482115 44296 and 53931 one so move move second move by myself and second by Mr chusy vote please ption carry 6.5 recommendation for suspension expulsion excluding mandatory offenses but remanded to Youth Court or other means of Correction the board education acception and adops recommendation and findings of facts of positive Youth Development and orders the suspension or explosion of the following students with identification number as listed below in Accords with the board rules and regulations and in compliance with Education Code section 48900 465 448 move by Mr Husky and second by Mrs Alexander vote please motion carried 6.6 recommendation of suspension but deleted from student assertive discipline due to completion of Youth Court or due process errors the following students were recommended for suspense for suspension but the suspension was deemed inappropriate based on the due process errors insufficient evidence and or the availability of other means of Correction in compliance with Education Code section 48900 therefore although they were recommended for suspension the suspension was reversed or modified 46118 484 609 48346 465 933 and 436 242 move move by Mr hus second by Mr Alexander vote please motion carry 6.7 other Clos action be resolve the Board of Education accepts the notice of recommendation for disciplinary action and statement of charges to dismiss the following certificate employee from his her employment with the district HR 23- 24-19 19- so moved second moved by myself and second by Dr Wyatt vote please motion carry section s student board members uh 7.1 reports by student board members Miss Crystal Scott hello everyone my name is Crystal Scott and I am the African native woman who is 17 years old and I graduated from goone high [Applause] school as a student board member student leadership advisory council rep and soon to be Swan deutan District advisory counselor and parliamentarian uh I have to say I'm very happy that I have the opportunity and I'm very grateful that I'm here to be able to bless others with this position and I'm so glad to be involved in uplifting over 50,000 students in this school district but not only have I involved myself in my community but in my school as well sadly this is my last meeting and I want to thank the board of education for allowing me to have this amazing opportunity to serve beside them and see what they do to make hope happen daily I plan to attend RC CC study political science and join their ASB group um their yoja program and their BSU and maybe start a program where we focus on promoting wellness centers for students and teachers after that I will transfer to the University of my choice and continue thriving um if you would like to support me in my college journey I have a QR code for the GoFundMe and I can email that to you if you would like um I also want to congratulate all of our seniors who graduated congratulations class of 2024 I'm so proud of us for surviving our 12E sentence I want to say thank you to the Board of Education our director our executiv superintendent our assistants and our staff for making this so easy I don't think we could have done this without you guys and you put in so much work to help every single student here in the sbcusd and I want to say it's an honor to have worked with you all also if you know of any paid internships this summer please please let me know immediately I would love to gain more knowledge and experience this summer and don't forget to vote for me in 2043 for a stay cator thank you everyone and have a blessed night thank you Mr Scott and we're going to miss you it has been wonderful having you here you've done a great job and giving us some great input and we really do appreciate the work that you did as a student board member I know you're going go on and do great things congratulations Section 8 administrative reports 8.1 local control of accountability plan thank you board good evening president Tilman vice president seos um superintendent Ariano the rest of our board cabinet um tonight we are going to be presenting to you the lcap um plan this is the final presentation for the public hearing and then I will be turning it over to Mr comnick who will then be discussing the presentation for the preliminary budget so I'll go ahead and hand it over to miss Kimber Sergeant today and Dr Will Greer is with her as well all right good evening thank you so much for having me oh we'll try that is that better okay uh thank you to president tman uh superintendent board and cabinet members um I am here today again this uh for our public hearing for the local control and accountability plan um as you know this is sort of the culmination presentation um that has taken a journey beginning in October um with our presentations to our parent advisory and Community groups uh Gathering input to develop our plan for the 20124 2025 school year um I'm very honored to share here our time with Dr Greer who will be sharing some information about a particular program that will be in our lcap this is a new requirement um so he'll be sharing some information as we get into the presentation um as an overview of our funding that's found within the local control and accountability plan um normally this plan would contain our supplemental and concentration funds that are generated by our low our low income English learner and Foster youth students last year uh we had a little bit more funding so we are decreasing our funding by 1.6 million but in our supplemental and concentration funding you'll see that we are just over $21 million the percentage that we need to increase or improve Services these are Services beyond what we provide for all of our students um is 42.5 N7 that percentage is increasing along with the percentage of our unduplicated students and that is the percentage of our low-income English learner and Foster youth the actions uh that are tied to our supplemental and concentration funds you'll see in the presentation today have that gold Banner along the bottom uh to let you know that those actions will total up to 21 million there are other budgets that are included in our lcap for 24 25 um so these are not things that took away from other programs but yet are added into our plan to give us a more comprehensive look at the supports that we provide for our students um Beyond those that are in the supplemental and concentration budget in total for the 2425 l cap you'll see an amount of funding that exceeds $223 million uh there are a few new requirements so as I get to those I'll make sure to pause to share that new requirement and where that funding source comes from as I stated this is taking place um beginning in October with our parent advisory groups over 23 meetings we offer these meetings as a hybrid option um with English and Spanish interpretation um this included Schoolboard presentations with our annual update which took place in January our Union partner collaboration uh District staff present presentations uh presentations to our parents and Guardians as well as our students with our student leadership um with Crystal Scott actually being one of our slack um board members that serves on our DAC as well as community members with our community meeting we held uh two this year at each of those meetings we offer an opportunity for questions and answers any clarifications that they might have as well as time for them to provide us input um with the direction of our superintendent we incorporated thought exchange as one of our platforms to gather input from our educational Partners uh we had more than 7,000 participants in our thought exchanges over these 23 meetings those participants provided over 7,000 thoughts it's an average of one per participant um and then once you provide the thought you're able actually to rate what others have provided as a thought thought as well um it provides an open form for uh the input if you are participating in the thought exchange you can see what everybody else is putting in in real time and you're able to rate those thoughts on a scale of one star to five stars and then it will show you the top themes uh that will come from your input so you'll see that here in the graphic with the Wordle uh these were the most common items that were provided as input with um related to our lcap uh with a strong emphasis on our smaller class sizes our instructional support and intervention and having those supports located at the school sites the goals that are associated with that supplemental and concentration funding with that gold Banner um are our three goals that we have the goal number one um has been Incorporated with our shines 2030 initiative um of our superintendent goal number one is our high expectations for academics and Innovation with equity and inclusion lens as a foundation to be College and Career ready goal number two safe and SEC safe secure and attractive learning environments and Facilities promoting nutrition wellness and mental health and goal number three involvement of students families community staff and parents for each of those goals there are actions that are assigned to them to help us meet our objectives for goal number one you'll see that there's an investment of of over $160 million for goal number two you'll see there's an investment of over $36 million and goal number three an investment of nearly $5 million uh this again is just one of our budgets I know Mr comnick and his team will be sharing our entire school budget um our lcap supplemental concentration this is just one of our budgets and um priorities that our board has had so you'll see here a breakdown of our actions these again are the gold Banner actions that are our contributing actions for lowincome English learner and Foster youth you'll see on the table on the slides in the First Column the name uh there is a shortened name within the template uh the template was provided to you in a binder I know you love binders um this one is tabbed for you I did give you a table of contents to help you just navigate through it and some of our new funding sources I provided a special tab um so as we get to those points if you want to flip to those I'll I'll give you a little reminder um but the details for each of the actions are also found uh within this plan um so on this slide you'll see for example we had our deac um members are here tonight to give you an update and share some of the things that they would like to see many of those events and many of those activities are funded with our supplemental and concentration funds um so those things that they're looking for under the direction of Mrs Applegate um we'll be utilizing our elcap funds to support the second column provides you the scope of where the action takes place they are either Lea wide which means it's available throughout the district uh schoolwide which means there are particular School sites that this action is targeting or limited the and you'll see that in that last action on this slide for English Learners uh limited means that it's for one of the student groups that are on an unduplicated population so this is only for our English Learners so that is what it means by limited it's not in any way to exclude anybody it's just the term within our lcap in the last column you'll see the data that we Ed to identify our needs uh so for our first one Advanced learner programs it was our data for English Learners lwi income and Foster Youth and you'll see the amount that's allocated for that action go number uh go to to the next page there we go um on the next page one of the changes that you'll see in the 2425 uh plan is Middle School support class teachers uh this is based on input from our educational Partners over the last two years we have begun the implementation of the multi-tiered system of supports mtss uh we get we began that with providing our School site somebody to oversee that process and oversee our intervention practices we provided intervention Staffing to build a Learning Center or learning Lab at our elementary level and we are now in this year extending that up to the Middle School level level uh to provide them with teachers to specifically Target the needs of the school and provide additional Support classes for our students uh so this is Staffing that will be at our school uh the setup is the same with the action title scope and then our unduplicated students the remaining actions here um these actions are continuing from the previous school year anytime there's a change I'll make sure to uh Point those pieces out you will see an increase in the uh Transportation cost from last year of $6 million um and that is uh the ending of our Esser funding and picking this up here in our lcap to support our students on the next slide um you'll see there is a new action on the last row there multi-tiered system of supports teacher on special assignment that's a whole mouth po uh we had input from our educational Partners they wanted to see specifically in the plan where we had that Staffing at the school site to oversee intervention um and ensuring that that was a districtwide initiative so that was pulled out as a separate action in the alcap for 24 23 24 it was in Action 19 um and now it is a set Al loone on its on its own just to be clearer to our community on the next slide um you'll see these actions are also continuing we have a lot of strong support for our educational field trips um this comes not only from our community but also from our school sites and our teachers at the bottom you'll see as we expand our program offerings at our school sites under our steam program we had 10 pilot schools in 2324 we are extending that now out to more schools so each year adding um little by little in a way that we're able to sustain and build practices that we can replicate throughout the district so we started with 10 in 23 24 and we'll continue to add on to that next year that's under the direction of Dr Clyde um and so you'll see the investment there um also increasing from last year to uh make sure that we are thinking of all of the the pieces the working pieces that it takes to integrate steam within the curriculum as well as providing the materials that the students might need so that will round out goal one in goal two uh you'll see again these are gold Banner actions for English learner lowincome and Foster youth gold two centers a lot of our support from our student wellness and support services our Swiss Department uh last year in our lcap we split the actions up to provide Clarity to the community and make it clear how we're supporting our Wellness programs and you'll see here that that is continuing so all of the actions that we have here were actions in last year's plan that are continuing into 2425 on the next slide you'll see right up at the top um we had a celebration of our registered nurses and I agree with Mr Tillman they literally save lives um even personally for myself they saved my life and I was having an issue and she said I think you should go to the emergency room and it was something very serious so I very much appreciate and connect with your comment that you made um you'll see here a continuation of our supports from Swiss as well as programs offering crossing guards we've increased our crossing guards in particular with the implementation of late start um with our ending times being very similar it can there's an increased level of traffic we also under the direction of Mr vitier have a process now to for our community to ask for a traffic study if they feel like there's a very busy Community or intersection near the school uh they're able to fill out a Google form on the website so that we can go out and take a look but I know that's something he regularly monitors as well and then at the bottom you'll see a new action for student wellness and support services materials many of the areas under the Swiss Department overlap so there may be materials that are both for wellness and for mental health both for mental health and uh counseling services and before each action had materials in it so it was separated out as its own action since many of the items are interrelated again just to provide Clarity for our community and how we're supporting our students this is uh one budget again as a reminder in our community meeting we had uh questions around our community schools initiatives and whether we were going to apply for the grants um that would be additional funding that would further support our work towards providing mental health and wellness services for our students and then on goal two uh actions continued you'll see here these are all actions that are continuing with our student leadership advisory Council on this action um this student leadership advisory is not only where we get our board members but also our student representation on our district advisory Council um we are expanding that I know um Dr Rodriguez has shared uh we had high school only and then we invited in middle school and we'll be looking to bring in our Upper Elementary as well so that's an expanding program um just to enhance the voice of our excuse me of our students and ensure that we are um sharing with them information I share uh the budget with them just as I share it with the community we ask for their input just as we ask for it in our parent advisories as well that will take us to goal number three this is still under that golden Banner of English learner lowi income and Foster youth um and this is our our three goal our three actions they are the same actions that we had last year we are continuing to implement those actions we have a lot of um educational partner input and support especially of the work of our family engagement services our family engagement Department with our parent volunteer workers the workshops that they provide and the support that they provide at our meetings and helping our community to connect with resources and remove barriers uh so that are able to not only participate in the education of their child children but now also we're bringing them on to the school sites as parent volunteer workers We are continuing to increase our interpretation and translation services as you heard tonight we had our interpreters here um We are continuing to increase that making sure that we have um adequate funding to replace equipment of our headphones and uh the tools that they need to be successful and then lastly for our targeted enrollment ensuring that we are offering our signature programs our bilingual programs and have making sure parents have access to support to use our Aries online portal and that will round out our first three goals um those three goals in total um add up to the excess of the 2011 million and that will transition us from what was traditionally in our lcap that would have been the end of our Pres presentation um but there are some new funding sources so I'm going to go into those again those new funding sources did not take away from any of our programs um but we'll complement those programs and allow us to expand uh some of those services so I'm not sure if you want me to pause Mr Tillman or you want me to keep going keep going okay uh so we'll take uh we'll take you into the um next section in your binder this is tabbed with a green tab this is a new program that will begin in the 2425 school year called Equity multiplier uh this program originally started as an assembly Bill uh 2774 from assemblywoman Weber and that bill went all the way to the governor's desk and was vetoed with a promise to come back uh with a way to support our lowest achieving uh students that came out in this budget cycle as Equity multiplier the school schools were identified by the California Department of Education based on demographics so this was not an identification based on uh their Stu their California dashboard data this was an identification based on the students that attend the schools there were two areas that a school had to meet in order to be eligible so of all of our schools the schools that you see here their School logo in addition to ALC and home and Hospital these were theol that met the two pieces of criteria the first one is something called a non-stability rate uh this is also known as Mobility or transiency it's the movement of our children um they take a cumulative enrollment of the school so if a student is enrolled even if it's just for one day that will count in that cumulative enrollment and they will count that through the entire school year so the more movement there is in the School the higher their non uh their non-stability rate is you had to have a non-stability rate in excess of 25% so these schools all have a non-stability rate that exceeds 25% so that was the first piece the second piece is the school had to have an socioeconomically disadvantage rate or free and reduced priced meal is also um a term for it or low income could a term for it um a rate greater than 70% now the majority of our schools meet that 70% um but they did not meet the other piece which was a non-stability so these schools met both pieces this is a totally separate funding source um that is 13.3 million these are School site allocations so the school sites that you see listed here um the funding was based on the number of students that were enrolled at seabeds last year year uh so some of our schools have a very high non-stability rate by the design of their program a school like Sierra and San Andreas they have every six weeks where they will have new students joining them that causes them to have a very high non-stability rate their non-stability rate at San Andreas was over 62% and you only had to be at 25% so just by the simple design of the program that helped help them in becoming eligible they will select schools each year under this program as it is designed right now the funding is a is able to be spent over a three-year period so there is a scenario where the school that you you schools you see listed here could be identified again in January of 2025 and receive another allocation so they have three years to spend this 13.3 million next next year they will identify schools we will have another allocation and that will have three years to spend down right now this is an ongoing funding source but the funding is considered one time and you have three years to spend it so hopefully you're you're with me here uh the schools that you see here we met with to do a formal notification to make sure they understood how they were identified uh the requirements under the program they have to address all of the red areas on the California dashboard so they were identified based on demographics but they have to address their performance on the dashboard so we made sure that they understood what the requirements were we met with them a second time to do a pre-planning session they had to complete their school plan for student achievement and write that plan out and everything under this program Equity multiplier is now on top of that in addition it does have a supplement not supplant so we do need to make sure that these are new and additional or we have what's in our spsa and it's more than that now we have what's in our lcap and it's on top of that it's another layer of support for these schools uh so we met with them so that they would understand that they're adding a layer on we look at the we looked at their data to ensure that they understood what area they needed to address they took that back to their school Community to draft a plan they drafted that plan and it went through School site Council as our parent representative Community um and they also would if they had English learners for example they would present it to their elac or if they had African-American students that they had to address they would address it to their APAC if they had an APAC some of our schools did a coffee with the principal or just a general community meeting to make sure that their school Community was aware of it and each of the schools had a thought exchange that was set up so we also gathered input through thought exchange for the equity multiplier program so under that green tab you're going to see one goal for every single school so San Andreas will have its own goal it's goal number four and the actions underneath San Andreas is that plan that the school developed with their school community and input from their educational partners that are all supplemental programs for them their plan is to spend that money over the three-year period that they have anything in the first year that they don't spend will carry over to year two and would carry over then to year three uh so each school has its own um its own goal number and its own action plan ALC and Home in hospital they don't have a logo ALC the principal of Virtual Academy also oversees our ALC program so she led that process with ALC home and hospital we did in collaboration with our special education department to ensure that we were getting input from them I also presented at the community advisory Council the CAC to ensure that I got input from those parents as well and how we can better support our home and Hospital students what services can we add to those uh schools on the next slide uh you'll see here the themes of the actions uh what we were looking for are things that would help to address the areas that are read on their California dashboard and areas that would help to build sustainable practices so you'll see for most of our schools they built they built up their Intervention Program and their professional development program if they have that action in in their Equity multiplier plan you'll see the school listed so the first two have Staffing that they are going to use from their normal allocation of teachers they're going to use them to either Provide support classes or they're going to use them to provide coaching as an example at San Andreas they have teachers who are highly skilled in areas that will teach for part of the school day and coach for part of the school day uh so the school schools that have the additional teachers or the academic coaches are are high schools or secondary because they had more funding their allocation was higher than what the elementary schools were um but you'll see intervention is a common theme for many of our Equity multiplier schools as well as professional development tutoring and intervention as well as providing some materials for these increased services that they'll be providing to uh the students at their school Mr Tillman that is the second type of funding that's in the lcap if you want me to keep going I can keep going on to the next one okay so that'll take us to the next new requirement in our lcap which is differentiated assistance differentiated assistance is not a new program uh the new requirement is to incorporate it within your lcap um and to gather educational partner input to develop an action plan to address the identification the identification comes from an analysis of the California dashboard of our student groups and these are our student group performance at the district level in the past we were in differentiated assistance which is under the system of supports from the California Department of Education uh we were identified for differentiated assistance for African-American students and students with disabilities because over a 2-year period their data was all in red or orange in one of the at least one of the California dashboard indicators uh we improved with our students with disabilities and they came out of differentiated assistance our action plan that we had in place led to improved outcomes for our students with disabilities uh for this year we were ident or for 2425 it's we're right in the middle of two years so it's it's hard um in 2425 uh we were identified for differentiated assistance for African-American students which means for two years on the California dashboard they were either red or orange in these three indicators so it's English language arts math and suspension and these are districtwide not individual School sites districtwide so the systems that we need to build would be to to support districtwide initiatives and I know our superintendent had has shared this um with our site leaders as a priority for us to address our African-American students we didn't need the identification from the state for our board to know and our superintendent to know that this is a priority these are things that we already had in action and we are already making strides towards uh what this does do is help with the community feedback that we'd like to see a plan we we want to see something written out that shows what we're doing and the funding that we have associated with it so I have my colleague here uh Dr Greer who's going to share some of that work as much of that work is uh started with his department and LED under Mrs Applegate with the support of the other directors in elementary and secondary um really all of us pulled together he says we need you and and we're there for him so I'm going to turn it over to him uh to share about some of the actions that you'll see on the next page thank you Kimber and thank you so much uh board president Tillman vice president saos uh Mr Ariano our superintendent all of our board members our cabinet I'm just really really grateful glad to be here um and just really excited about the support that we have um in fact since we have been back with Mrs appgate our assistant sou of ed services just the capacity for the etsa department and the work that we've been able to engage in this year and looking forward to next year it's just been unprecedented and so I'm just I'm here uh truly with the full heart because I'm really really grateful so I really wanted to start with that um as you all know the etsa department was established from the tip policy the targeted instructional Improvement plan um past many years ago now 2007 board policy 6012 .1 and that policy outlines um a lot of tasks objectives and goals for us right and so it it's a Herculean policy that asks us to really be intentional about and to work across our district on improving African-American student outcomes in math in Reading in high school a through G um in access to Advanced courses um it lifts up other elements other pieces and goals like um making sure that more African-American kids have access to preschool um really reducing the number of African-American students who are disproportionately referred to special education as well as a number of African-American kids who are suspended and expelled right so it's it's a lot of things um and then we have in addition to that we have a San Kofa magnet program that we' brought back we have um launched some work this year around racial slurs to help our sites our our principles and and counselors and Folks at the schools who are wrestling and grappling with this issue um and we have a Pacific Islander uh piece of our work as well and so some some objectives around that that important work too and so making sure that we're meeting the needs of all of our kids who need support so I'm just very proud to be the director of etsa and to have this support I want to lift up some of the items that are here under differentiated assistance because all of those objectives and goals that I just mentioned that are from the tip policy or that are otherwise a part of our work um thanks to Mrs Applegate our superintendent cabinet my good colleague Miss Sergeant uh we're going to really be able to get after it in ways that are unprecedented and in ways that we just yeah I'm I'mma leave it there we're GNA be able to get after it I'm excited about that so this first piece here if you are looking at the uh different differentiated assistance actions and goal 21 uh intervention Staffing this is critical this is a crucial crucial piece and so because of this support we are going to be able to uh deploy train 35 resident guest teachers we call them Equity guest teachers most of them will be at the elementary working with our African-American kids who are in Upper grades but who on the Casp are state test who have consistently scored at a level one or a level two and so those would be our students who are either not meeting grade level standards in reading or nearly meeting them right and as you know last year in 2023 in Reading almost 80% of our African-American students uh were a one or a two right and so so they're going to be doing some really important work at some of our elementary schools that have the highest populations the highest concentrations of African-American kids who are struggling they will be working with them every day in small groups around specifically around reading comprehension and working to help them improve and build those crucial skills we'll have another set of equity guest teachers who will be working at the middle school specifically on math and so they'll be pushing directly into math classes I'm helping Middle School African-American kids in math class at the point where uh where support is most needed right so in class during the day so this was a piece that this past year this year we we piloted so next year will be our second year this was our pilot year and so we train our Equity guest teachers twice a month we're going to beef that up continue to strengthen that and make sure that we are refining that and supporting them so that they can do the work that's necessary the second piece there and I won't speak to everything here but I do want to lift up a few of the actions here the high school push in tutoring this has been tremendous for us um as you all know one issue one challenge that we have wrestled with for African-American kids for some time has been the DF rates right so if you've been around if you've looked at um High School outcomes the DF rates critically impact so many of the other variables they certainly impact a through G they impact graduation even though we still get a lot of kids that graduate but they gra they impact the College and Career Readiness indicators um and then really just our kids likelihood of being able to go to a college not be stuck in remedial classes for one or two or more years and really having the chance to graduate so this past year we were able to contract with Valdez tutoring and we were able to deploy um t math tutors directly in the high school math classes to to support students right at the point where they needed it the most we'll be able to do that again um and last year our when we piloted this model this system for our first time ever what we saw at the three Equity high schools where we piloted this we had some of the lowest DF rates for African-American 9th and 10th graders in the district and lower than I'd seen at any point in my tenure as director um and so I'll just say when I um first came back to sbcusd in 201920 we had DF rates for African-American 9th and 10th graders at some schools that were in the 70% range in the nearing 80% range last year we saw those DF rates um and this was not just because of this program certainly this was the hard work of principles and teachers and other systems but all of these systems working together we saw those DF rates as some of our high schools be in the 20% range right and in the 30% range so it was literally it had flipped so we're going to continue to do that equity counseling this is an important piece for our high schools as well we um are we have two full-time High School Equity counselors right now one at Pacific high school and one at Indian Springs and we're hiring a third over at San Bernardino High School that one is being flown right now on Ed join our Equity counselors function kind of like our El our English learner counselors they work they don't supplement or they don't supplant rather they supplement the rest of the work that our high school counselors are providing our kids and they help our students specifically around grades attendance and wellness so making sure that they understand their four-year plans making sure that they're getting access to college courses through San Bernardino Valley so that they can be in concurrent enrollment making sure that they're working with those tutors to push into the the classes of students if Will is getting a d or an f and integrated math too then the equity counselor is a person who's looking at those grades every week and who's putting that tutor right there in that class with Will so that he getting the support that he needs so the equity counseling piece is is critically important I really want to thank Miss sgent as well so so we have um our staff this year we or going into next school year we'll have um eight full-time program Specialists who will be working specifically on math and reading Equity so they'll be working with kids with teachers with administrators with parents specifically around closing these gaps and so this is going to help us uh make sure that we can even afford these people uh bring these folks on so that they can do the much needed work and most of these folks we have now but we're hiring a couple of more a couple more now so we're really looking forward to that um and then I want to lift up our San Kofa piece as well and I want to thank um again Miss Applegate uh Mr Ariano um and um her evaluator Dr funz for for bringing Tama Casey back over into the etsa department so she's with us now as a principal on assignment doing some really really important work around the San Kofa magnet program that is a program that many of you you've heard that name you're familiar with it you remember the Golden Days The Glory Days of Sankofa yester year we brought it back um last year or right after we got out of covid there were some challenges around making sure that teachers had support and that students were supported and so thanks to uh again our cabinet Miss Applegate we're able to bring Tama Casey back in the fold and she's really providing some much needed support so that we can beef up San Kofa really strengthen it and and the goal is to begin to compete with some of the charters that have taken some of our African-American students but moreover we want to make sure that we have a system um and really a program here in our district that we can all be proud of and where we can say African-American kids are not just meeting and exceeding the standards but they're comparable to any student group in the state of California they're among the highest performing kids in the state of California I've heard our superintendent say you know that he wants to see he's given us the Mandate of having Sankofa be a golden Bell winner right so that's our goal and and thanks to miss Casey's help we're going to be able to get there pretty soon here so I'll kind of I I'll stop there because I could talk about this all night but again I want to make sure that you heard me say thank you thank you thank you thank you because this level of support is really giving us capacity it's empowering us it's equipping us to really get after the work in a way that we have not been able to do uh before now thank you Mr G Miss Fales Medina I just want to say thank you so much for the presentation on both aspects I mean it was really detailed and and some of the things that even when I had additional questions you answered it which was great and it was just you kept going that's a skill that I wish I had because sometimes you can go all over the place and you were on it so I just want to say thank you um and then of course when it comes to sofa I was with uh s Tama um Casey when she was an elementary school teacher and just walking in her classroom and the ma The Scholar the the the high level teaching and learning these students were um were achieving was amazing and it was unfortunate that after a while it started to um you know diminish a little bit and then now we're bringing it back I'm so grateful that we are and that there's a goal for it you know um and I'm wondering I maybe you can explain a little bit more is this not just going to be an elementary school is this something that's planning to progress into middle and maybe possibly High School yes absolutely so this year next school year uh we'll have K3 we'll be able to serve as K3 at Hunt Elementary uh we'll be servicing it looks like grades six seven and eight over at Delo middle school and then because we have the high school Equity counselor over at Pacific the students can go from DV right over into Pacific um and they'll still be in you know General Leed sort of mainstream either College Prep or AP honors classes but they'll have the equity counselor there who will be able to support them yeah and and I do want to make sure that we kind of advertise this and promote this because you are right you know we have law students to Charter Schools and you know I've been to a few of the charter schools and what's different with Sankofa is that they're learning about themselves they're learning I mean it's so much that they're learning and a lot of times other programs um they're not you know yes they have have high achieving but they're not necessarily fully learning about themselves so I think this is going to be a great great marketing also to bring students from other school districts you know what when we offer programs that other school districts are trying to dismantle even with the the diversity Equity inclusion programs um we're bringing you know come down to our district that could be definitely a way to increase our student um numbers thank you Miss Medina uh Mrs Alexander thank you both um that's great it was a very thorough presentation and um made sense of the numbers and how they're being allocated I had a question related to the equity multiplier I I heard the three years however um the concern or the question that comes to mind is how are how's the funding going to be managed within a three years so the um report there'll be reporting each year and I work with our School site princip to give them regular updates for their budget uh we have other funding sources that are onetime funding but you have multiple years to spend it for example the Arts and Music money prop 28 is the same pattern um and so we utilize already our current budget monitoring Tools in collaboration with our fiscal Services team here um to ensure that the school understands how much they've expended down in one year the expenditures that they have will align to their plan um in our purchasing system that we have now they actually put in from their plan they'll cite it as a justification to ensure alignment um with the purchases that they're making so they'll have not only the ongoing budget monitoring but then each year as we come to the annual update process for the lcap you will receive an update on the implementation of the program as well as any adjustments for example if they get identified again you might see new actions that are added in or if they make adjustments to their Equity multiplier you'll see those adjustments within the lcap so it'll be part of our uh budget monitoring that we have now but also infused with our lcap cycle okay thank you um because I read the goals and I was trying to understand strategically how are we how are the how are the principles I guess putting together your strategy and defining their Baseline each year so one they have a goal and they don't supersede that goal but also an understanding of where they're starting so they know what they can achieve I mean I did read the goals though yes so the goals you'll see are assigned um metrics are right below the goals and in the metrics you'll see the data for the Baseline information so that's year one that's where we're starting in year two I will give you a data update of where they are in year two and then again in year three what you see right now is year one and then the next two years are obviously not filled out because we're not there yet um but there's a projected um Target outcome so this is what we are expecting them to get to if they are implementing these pieces here and again those are the red areas on their dashboard yeah just an question related to mitigation so if there's something that happens that precludes them from meeting their goal or they see a problem achieving that because of whatever factors it could be something that is out of their control what kind of U I guess considerations are they given so in the um in the plan just below the metrics you'll see the goal analysis section and there are four prompts there that will be filled out next year during the annual update process and part of that process is to explain we anticipated to spend this amount but we were only able to spend a certain dollar amount and they'll explain it so you're able to um explain if there were any differences in the implementation of the plan versus what you wrote out as well as the expenditures versus what you budgeted so the prompts will help guide them through that and that follows the same process that we do with each of our actions within our lcap we have a goal analysis for each one so you see where if we you know spent more than what we budgeted or we spent less than what we budgeted um if for example a position is vacant obviously that salary safe savings they would be able to utilize those funds for other actions that they have in their Equity multiplier so they are able to if they need to make adjustments and then it is explained during the annual update process thank you I have one more question so related to the differentiate differentiated assistance actions Dr GRE so um the equity Counseling Services I wasn't clear are there only two counselors is that what I heard you say or there there more than two Equity counselors we have we'll have three fulltime within the month one at Pacific one at Indian Springs one at sanin oh high okay we have two now we're increasing it to three for the 24 25 school year um and then in terms of the plan non-contributing expenditures is 8.8 million and that's specifically for the differ iated assistance correct and those come from a variety of sources of our unrestricted general fund as well as our restricted Federal funding Title One title two um title one being our intervention services title two our professional development as well as some of our onetime money with our learning recovery emergency block grant so there are multiple funding sources that are coming in um to our lcap that support this differentiated assistance goal 21 so the goals are listed here however is there room for opportunity if you have if you can increase the four if there's a need is there a way to do that or is it three is a hard fact number like you can only have three counselors Equity counselors so Dr Greer and I obviously we we are right down the hallway from each other so we meet regularly um and I know in our director's meeting with Mrs app gate if there are needs that come up she's very good about asking what our needs are and how they might be supported that goes to our executive cabinet and obviously input from our Board of Education as well um that's why you see many of these actions increasing um because we have the input from not only our etsa team our ed services team and direction from the board I have one more question related to sanova um are we for sanova the amount that's being allocated to sanova are you also taking consideration like robotics AI um any of that because I I mean I know it's related to new knowledge but I was just trying to figure out what does that mean and how are we allocating the funding so so again many thanks to Mrs Applegate because we've gotten a ton of support for San Kofa um and so one of the pieces that I know we're going to be implementing next year is we'll have Aids in each Sankofa class so that's been a pretty big lift just in ter of making sure that the teachers have additional support we're looking at different contracts as well to bring in just cultural enrich enrichment the Arts to support our students in San Kofa we certainly can partner with our steam Department to to make sure that that they're included and some of the good science and technology right that's coming out so so we can support them there too um but one of the big pieces though too is we just really want to make sure that our teachers are supported to provide a very robust very very strong high expectations culturally relevant uh model for students right we want to make sure that they are getting access to um African-American history um and to to cultural knowledge about themselves and their communities that's positive um and then we want to make sure that in those classes our students are are really every day being given the highest expectations for Learning and academic achievement we we really mean it when we say we want our sanova kids to be among the highest performing students in the state so uh Miss Casey and I really sort of honed in or lasered in on those areas as areas where we need to beef up in support so that we can make the program tight but I think there's space in there to get some steam in there too so we'll work on that as well thank you m Alexander next we have U Miss Scott I only have four short question question the first one is how does nwea work for our English Learners our English Learners take the same assessments as our students who are not identified as our English Learners um and so when we pull the data from the nwea we're able to break the data up by all students who take it just the English Learners who take it just the lowincome who take it um so we're able to monitor their progress through that assessment along with other assessments we have very similar tools that we can do that then is there any way to mandate that all campuses have a Wellness Center I think Wellness is a shared goal that we have not only from our site principles but also from our school board uh Dr Rodriguez is really implementing a lot of exciting things throughout Wellness um with the expansion coming with our community uh grant our community schools I'm not sure if you'd like to share some information absolutely thank you all of our schools in our district all 73 have an integrated Wellness approach of services on the Continuum um that provide a variety of different services from Dental Care to um mental health supports uh positive behavior supports and they all look a little different at each level the district is looking at opening multi multiple School BAS Health Centers um that include that are kind of named there's we use it synonymously but they actually provide medical care as well as mental health um at um our high school so we're looking at creating hubs at school-based health clinics at our high schools and so we have one that will be coming on board in January 2025 right behind us um we also have uh one being done at San Andreas one at Indian Springs and one at um that's in discussion at a royal Valley but our goal is that all high schools will have a functioning school-based Health Clinic um that's able to support the school as well as the neighbor neighboring schools in the cluster before we move on crystal to answer your question also we do have NWA in Spanish so for our English Learners that are predominantly Spanish speaking they do take it in Spanish as well and then I saw in the packet there was something called bringing hope to Saturdays can you explain what that is bringing hope to Saturdays is a program through our student services Dr Rodriguez if you'd like to share I can share it to you yep so it's an enrichment program that's offered to our students it happens on Saturday it's a halfday program it's not at all of our school sites um it is at a growing number of our school sites where they invite students to come uh the students participate in movement activities academic activities um they're not only able to work with peers in different grade levels but also to uh you know have some extra time at school if they've missed school for example they're able to come so we do invite our students to come they have lunch also at school on those days um it is not at all schools though it is at only some some of our schools and just to add to that um just to kind of be very focused it is our um intervention to be able to support students who are chronically absent as well as attendance so it's our Saturday school for students to be able to make up their attendance and then is it possible if I could join the African-American task force absolutely um so our last meeting of this school year is coming up on Tuesday so it'll be um June 11th over at the Inland Career Education Center formerly ad doed so yes absolutely please join us it'll be from 5: to 7: um and we'll certainly my staff and I we will be going uh more in depth on the work that we did this year how we used the funds that we were allotted this year um the successes that we had for African-American students some of the lessons learned so we we would love to have you come join us miss Scott you said it was where at the Inland Career Education Center it's uh 1200 North D Street E Street 1200 Northeast street thank you very much M Scott uh Mrs shusi thank you very much first um I want to thank you Miss Sergeant uh I was recently at the csba delegate assembly and the lcap was a large uh part of our conversation and just the work that it takes to compile it so I I know people don't understand like how much work goes into that so I just wanted to say thank you because I know that it is a huge lift um and so I appreciate you for that um my questions um on the um Equity multiplier um I know that it's a threeyear year one but if they're they're still they still qualify in year two that they would get a new rent my question is really about what is the consequence like like how long do they keep qualifying or you know if they're not moving I mean I know we would have some issue with that but is there something from the state or do they continue to get money or how does that how is that going to work so the um identification right now the criteria it it looks to be that it would be the same um that non-stability rate and the free and reduced price meal so there's no penalty if your dashboard data does improve I think this is the question you're asking um but I do think that comes from the oversight of our cabinet team who are our site leader prin you know principal evaluators as well as the cluster leads that support our schools um as they set targets within their school plan for student achievement they have goals within those um plans that they should be improving student academics so the accountability would happen locally here it wouldn't happen at the state level um because the identification is not Based on data it's based on demographics yet you have to address data it's a little it's a little tricky trying to figure how that how that actually worked within their like you know hey we get to keep this in perpetuity yes um and then will it survive the the budget year because I know it's 2425 and we don't actually have that budget yet and I don't know if that's a Mr Comet question or so not no intention to cut it as far as it is stands right now um it is a has a mixed reception um because the initial assembly bill was very targeted towards African-American student achievement and when this came out as Equity multiplier um and it is the lowest performing that's based on the lowest performance level which is red in our district um we have seen gains as Dr Greer said so for many of our schools our African-American students are actually coming out of that red and into the orange because they're growing so it's not meeting that original intent of the assembly bill so it has a mixed acceptance um as of right now it is it is still there it's maybe down the line I don't know I don't have a crystal ball but they could change the eligibility of it um but as it stands right now it would continue thank you just kind of like how's that going to work for us um on the differ easy for me to say differentiated assistance um I'm really happy to see the equity uh counseling services I'm I'm hoping that we can expand that to all of our high schools ultimately um I want to make sure you know one of the things a lot of our C our Counseling Services now at the high schools tend to be around um you know grades and and college and academics and that's such a thing and and at at that level where I know we have a lot of Wellness needs we don't often get the wellness piece of that for our kids and I know um you know engagement like one of the reasons our kids aren't succeeding is they're not engaged they have and when they they become not engaged whether it's either trauma on campus or trauma outside of Campus they their attendance drops and you know we see something there so I'm hoping that in that Equity counseling piece that there will be a piece that that were it's not that they're working in tandem with the the the the regular school counselors who are really focused on the academic you know the academic um scheduling classes all of that kind of stuff um and that also kind of helps them more on the attendance engagement piece so that they're able to actually succeed is that because I know you mostly talked about the other part but you did sort of mention that Wellness so I just kind of wondering what is that supposed to look like no I'm in full agreement with you miss chusy this is a crucial part of the work of our high school Equity counselors um and so when we hire them and on board them we are very explicit about the need to focus on grades attendance and wellness and this is where again they don't supplant but supplement the work of the counselors because we recognize that our African-American students like many of our students right just have these um these needs and these concerns specifically around just Wellness anxiety depression disengagement um some of the things that they are struggling and wrestling with at home and and cannot don't have the luxury of checking them at the door right and sort of walking into the school without these sort of invisible worries on their shoulders so it's really important that our Equity counselors build relationship ship with them uh really support them uh but really kind of play both roles because on the one hand we we want to have we want to make sure that there are additional Folks at the schools who have good relationships with our students who our students can go to and feel like you know this person really cares for me but at the same time we also want to make sure that the that we're moving our our kids towards a through G and towards college and towards careers and towards a viable future for their lives so I really put our high school Equity counselors and our high school Equity team to really make sure that we're serving those twin goals those twin needs of our kids um and so I'm I'm this it's a support that I'm really grateful that we have uh working with Mrs Applegate we've been able to establish his role it didn't exist before a year and a half ago so it's a fairly new role that we're still kind of piloting to but um yeah they do some critical work agreed and thank you I mean you heard it from Miss Scott tonight but we have nine student board members and every single one of them in some way when they're up here has asked for more Wellness wellness centers more Wellness mental health support whether they were our student going to Harvard or our students who are are you know more struggling academically um or student board members they've all been asking for more at the high school level mental health and wellness support so I'm hoping that this will you know bring at least some supports for our kids um my last thing um is really around um and this isn't direct well first off I just want to say thank you because there's a lot on here and I appreciate what ETA is doing to try to address all of this and your work on on all of this because it is a huge lift and and I I get it and I'm glad that we gave you a little help with Miss Casey so that's all all good news um but I would like to see I know um we we used to um look at and sort of evaluate um every monthly the like suspension data and really looking at U looking at suspensions from our particularly from our high schools um who was getting suspended what they were getting suspended for how many times they were getting suspended patterns between them I know you know as a hearing panel member that used to be one of the jobs that I had um and I would really like to kind of see like what is it you know if we're we're if we're going to be targeting the particularly for African-American students in in light of this um and and trying to move them out of the red um I would like to see sort of some kind of assessment maybe of of this last year's data of what are our africanamerican students being suspended for or expelled for um and are there patterns you know certain schools that are are you may be suspending more or things that we can kind of help address um so that we can give you the supports that you need and that our school sites need to to support those students the teachers and the administration at those sites to to bring down the those suspension data because I I I don't think we've taken in a couple years that deep dive into that data uh that we used to you know used to be every month we had to look through those suspension reports so um if we could maybe get something like that and I know that's actually more to you but um I just think it would be helpful data you know for what you're doing here um as well as for us in in decisioning thank you very much again for your your um presentation tonight and for all the work that you're going to be doing and putting this forward thank you Mr huski M Grande just uh real quick I just want to say thank you so much for the clarity and the and the heart and everything of this report it's only been the second time my whole life i' I've heard one of these so this year it really makes a lot more sense and um I think you did it last year too and I just I just want to thank you for making it really simple to understand and there was only one question of course as always just one question um I had about the's Educational Services and what they do and how are they doing by the way they did really well so I'm really anxiously looking forward to our second semester final grade data we should have that available pretty soon and and my team will go through it and analyze it um but looking at last year's data um they were a huge help so again our high school Equity counselors It's a Kind of a two or threefold system of support but basically we have our African-American kids in our high schools at the sites where we have our high school Equity counselors they pull their realtime Gradebook grades every two weeks like clockwork so they pull those grades and we take a look at it the students on the list who have the most D's and Fs in math at those sites we have usually two to three of valdez's math tutors so My Equity counselors then appoint and sort of direct or coordinate the tutors to go into the classrooms with the students who are most struggling and the only time that the students don't get the support is if they're absent right and so the chronic absenteeism is another piece that we're sort of working on and wrestling with with our African-American students because that sometimes kicks our butt too to be frank but um but our counselors though they're able to put the tutor directly in the classroom with the students who need the support the most and then the kids get help so you'll be there at their dinner Awards dinner tomorrow night right I think it's from I think it's at 5 o'cl 5 or 5:30 yes I I want wanted to go but I really wanted to hear something about them you know I just didn't want to go over there Mr Valdez has been a very supportive partner he's been a great partner for that thank you for that clarification thank you thank you Mrs Grande you have something El related to the math Excellence program is that a part of the differentiated assistance action yes so it is over there Extended Learning time Saturday and programs and I got to thank you Miss Alexander you we did the um we piloted a math Excellence Saturday Academy this year so right be or or during spring break right before testing uh my team worked really really hard to put this this math academy together I think we had something like I want to say 17 to 20 teachers who volunteered their time they got paid but they still gave up basically their free time during spring break to come on Saturdays and teach half a day and so we supported kids from first to eighth grade specifically in math again I want to thank you you brought us some snacks that first day and really helped us out it and and the kids loved it that was super helpful um and so we're still kind of going through those data but our ultimate hope is that we were able to give the students a little bit of an extra boost as they went into testing and that we kind of helped um battle just you know that spring break brain drain so that's something that we'll continue to do next year we may even look at it expanding it if we if we can thank you and great presentation what year did you say that the targeted instruction policy was implemented 07 yeah I I just want to give some historical perspective U because I go to conference a lot I hear about these districts that have these Dak programs almost a lot of districts have them now it all started here in San mardino but the the backstory is Westside action group had committee and they had some concerns and at the time the leaders were uh ratiu JX and Walter Hawkins Walter Hawkins yes and um they had given me a long list of all these things they wanted like L like 20 things I was talking to R TI on the phone we were going over the list and we had talked and then we talked again later and I um the one thing that struck me was they wanted a policy and and while T said we need the policy because you know the work we're doing now if you were to leave then how we how we know for sure that the district is still going to continue and that made sense to me at the time you know we needed we needed a policy so that no matter who was on the board at the time the direction was still going to be there to um Target those students because even then the numbers were just terrible in terms of the performance and so that was the uh the way that the tip policy came about at that time it was Dr do was a superintendent and Dr Judy White was the deputy superintendent and they created all those the the policy and the board approved it and and and and don't lose sight of the fact it was a lot of controversy behind it I was on KFI radio and uh uh some boans didn't didn't support it so it wasn't a easy lift it seems easy now but it wasn't at the time but I I just want to get that perspective but I I have to say this um since 2007 this is the first time that I feel like everything's in line at the district to truly do what the initial thought was to impact the students in a way that uh the Hope was there yes sir because so many pieces have to be in place in order to make it happen and uh we we we've never been there but I can tell you from my perspective this is the first time we have a chance of um doing what we wanted to do at that time and if we do it we'll again um be a leader not only in the state but in the country because the numbers are bad throughout the state and throughout the country and we're doing things here in San berardino that no one else is doing anywhere else and uh I want to commend you all for your work uh all the the assistance s because that's what it takes the whole team all the employees that work day in and day out to make it happen and have that go but I I really do have a sense that um something big is going to happen within the next five years if we can continue in the direction that we're in right now and uh you know there no small small part that we have Mr Ariano because uh you know he gets it he understands it uh he he wants to see the success and I think a large part is because he worked at grou Time Records that's real San Bernardino right there real San Bernardino really can't fake you can't fake the fun but um no I feel I feel really good about where we are at a dist right now so I want to commend you and just look forward to the work that you all are going to continue to do thank you very much thank you with that I'll close that public hearing and I will open a new public hearing for our uh fiscal year 2024 preliminary budget and under that hearing I'll let Mr comnick give his presentation good evening president Tillman vice president miss sabios superintendent Ariano Board of Trustees and executive cabinet uh my name is ter comic super associate superintendent of business services along here with Miss trius huy director of fiscal Services uh for the preliminary budget fiscal year 2024 presentation I just want to uh mention that uh I I am very thankful of a board such as as all of you that take your fiduciary responsibility for our budget uh extremely serious and look to maximize our our funding uh in the most strategic and uh allowable ways that make this District shine tonight's objectives we're going to talk a little about the governor's May revise uh the proposed budget update uh some budget assumptions that we've built into the 2425 uh budget multi-year projections and what that budget calendar will look like at the uh at the end of the June cycle so just a a brief uh overview uh for the board on the uh state budget update some of the highlights uh the May revise came out and and uh the shortfall was right around 45 billion uh in January to about 27.6 billion with about 17.3 billion uh reduced uh due to early actions and solutions applied uh to that shortfall uh by the governor um the May revise proposed an increase in funding uh the a funded col of 1.07% which would for sanino City Unified would be approximately $2.1 million uh in additional funding there uh you may be uh have heard in on the news about a conundrum uh a maneuver um a potential early deal uh regarding the prop 98 funding concerns and CTA csba uh and some legislative agreements out there to be finalized not yet finalized but suffice it to say that the course of action that the governor has now taken in light of this uh these these potential agreements has put prop 98 k14 education in the best possible position considering where we were uh so we we are um in in a more positive light than we were uh just a short time ago um some of the notable delays uh that impact the budget proposal for 2425 from the state are delays in uh in the preschool TK kindergarten facilities program of about 550 million now we've already received approximately $8 million of that that we're utilizing so in short term we won't necessarily be impacted directly because we have received some of that funding uh so we'll have to wait and see how this plays out in the next coming years also the Governor has reduced the uh school facility program by $500 million down to 375 million with the hope that the the uh Governor will put a state Bond uh near $15 billion uh on the ballot November which can be beneficial to to us as well next please so there are some risks that we need to be cautious of and and kind of that eyes wide opened uh mindset uh we've got that sticky inflation I I know that the the gas prices have kind of ticked up uh OPEC has spoke the other day and said that they're not going to uh release any additional oil so that may have an impact on on fuel prices and so forth then we look at California employment rate kind of ticked up I believe at 5.3% um we've got slow growth going on we also have high interest rates which will impact our high income uh Learners perhaps and also our investments in in purchasing houses and and uh high-end uh products as well as geopolitical factors that are occurring currently oversees so our budget assumptions for 2425 I did mention earlier about the cost of living adjust adjustment of 1.7% we're looking at our average daily attendance to increase about a half percent uh to 92 in 2425 our we have some increased costs now I mentioned that that that the cola was going to be about a $2.1 million increase but looking at the next two bullets you'll see that that's easily consumed by our step and column increase of about 7.1 million and our Health and Welfare increases by 2.73% or roughly about two 2.1 million there about uh pension costs uh remained stable for stirs and then for purs it ticked up about 37% for uh 2425 next slide what I wanted to point out here uh to the board is our enrollment versus average daily attendance you got a lot of action going on here that that crossbar which is the seabeds uh enrollment number it it still is on a decline and uh but I but I'd like to point out to the board that that decline is not a precipitous Cliff it's it's if we go back to 2223 and moving into this year it reduced about 1260 students in seabeds what we're projecting next year is an 859 student drop and the subsequent year going in from 2425 to 2526 we're looking at 438 student drop so it is still declining but it's slowing uh so I I think we are um in the right uh mindset in terms of the presentation that came before us and looking all the all the wonderful things that are happening um in our in and at our schools uh can definitely serve as a draw to bring uh additional uh students back to our district next looking at the uh multi-year projections we'll start with uh the 2324 estimated actuals and then look at on the right side of the of the slide the 2425 uh proposed or projected budget what you notice uh here I'll just I'm going to work from left to right and down so left down and then I'll go to the right top and work down so as we look at the blue bars we see that the top one is the beginning fund balance I want to focus on the unrestricted side of 114 million coming into uh this school year and as you see as we go down that uh to the ending fund balance you'll see it drop to 78.4 million approximately uh $36 million um deficit spending is occurring and then as you look over at the combined general fund for the end of this school year the estimated actual is right about $258 million that is both restricted and unrestricted combined now that goes up to the next uh top part uh the 2425 projected budget you'll see that that 78.4 billion million billion million uh projected ending fund is now the beginning fund balance for 2425 you'll notice that there's an uh a fair increase in not only in expenditures Revenue ticked up a little bit there in the unrestricted uh partly because of the cola and also partly because of our uh increased uh Transportation costs so we get a little tick up in that capacity but you'll notice that the costs have uh seemed to increase almost 100 million we are losing our eser 3 funding we have exhausted it and that ends this year so what we had been covering with eser three will now fall to our general unrestricted for the most part we're trying to be very strategic and how we absorb those those identified costs that are what we'll call Lever lever uh Turners in terms of the uh productivity and outcomes uh with our student uh data um and then you'll see that the uh uh the deficit spending increased um up to 50 million to where it's now impacted our ending fund balance for the unrestricted down to 27.8 million combined with our restricted it's at 163 so you can see from this year to next year at this time we're projecting it to be about 163 .4 million now there there might be some additional uh fallout as we go into next year that will show itself as we go through un audited actuals and then we get to First interum in December we'll get a better picture on where the dust settled and where these uh what are actual dollars look like uh for our next school year next slide please this is uh part of the required uh multi-year projection so we take it two years out and this is very difficult because it is two years out and a lot of things can happen uh between now and the time these come to fruition but we do have some um uh colas built into this uh consistent with what the uh School Services uh dart board has shared with us so in 2526 looking at a 2.93% um Cola and in 2627 we're looking at a 3.08% cola um also you'll see that the revenues are are increasing from one year to the next uh partly because of that Cola but also because of our our transportation cost we get that 60% uh from the prior's expenditures uh you'll you'll see that we've taken steps to be very uh intentional and strategic strategic on the programs and activities that are serving the district students well and what we're trying to do here is look at uh some of those um cost items that might be able to be released or um let go if you will to bring us into a more solvent not a deficit spending um situation as you see uh on the unrestricted side of 2526 a $5 million uh on the plus side if you will which increases our eding fund balance from the beginning fund balance uh to 32 million and then that carries over to the top of 2627 again looking at the unrestricted side and you'll see that we've again are very uh conscientious about our our expenditures V of VR revenues and the programs and and activities that we're finding to be most productive um and and beneficial to our students and we we also see here the potential of a $6 million increase to our unrestricted uh ending fund balance to bring it to almost $40 million um with a combined of 75.3 million um at that out year of 27 June so those are um are projected um based on on assumptions and the best information that we have to date next SL on this slide I just wanted to break down um the the contributions there's a there's a uh$ 103 $104 million contribution that comes out of our general unrestricted funds and just to uh be transparent with the board what what is that comprised of well if you look at the red arrows that I have highlighted for you to the right you'll see that of that 103 million for 2425 um 71 million of it is uh augmenting our special education program uh 31 million is required at 3% set aside for routine repair and maintenance um and another 1.25 million for CSA advancement excuse me per uh negotiations and you can see that Trend more or less stays constant um throughout the uh the next couple of years little uh slight tapering as as expenditures uh tend to tend to dip uh that 3% will be uh a little bit less than the prior year the budget calendar uh the red arrow is showing uh where we are uh right now in June uh July 1 starts the brand new fiscal year although the fiscal year has already started in a way with purchase recks and so forth so we've already begun the 2425 school year in effect uh we just don't affect anything until the uh board has adopted the uh the budget um and in September we'll start our unoted actual presentation first inter room and so forth with that uh president Silman uh we're here to field any questions that the board might have um couple questions on the uh 1.07 Cola what is that total amount to us about 2.1 million that's the total yes sir all right and then um I know I even had discuss with you Terry about some of this stuff already but I just had a question on number on page [Music] seven which the on page seven yeah like on the restrict I know we did took the $96 million from the unrestrictor and put it in the restricted right yes sir but my question is the beginning balance was 188 million right yes sir and your ending balance after you move the money in is still 179 million right so why did you have to move it if you had enough money and restrict it already just out of curiosity is that um as I shared in that one slide Mr tomman uh that is accommodating our special Leed overage if you will so that is specifically a contribution to special ed as well as our restricted routine maintenance okay and and if you had let me ask this question if you had not moved it what would happen so the restricting restricted balances are for specific programs so part of that is Arts music instructional materials Equity multiplier they are held for specific things well there's 96 million with for things that um didn't qualify for expenses that the restricted money was not qualified to pay for correct and example of those type of things are what the routine repair maintenance account which we are required to put 3% in fund 14 uh every year 3% of our total expenditures and then for special education services so our services our expenditures go beyond what we receive in Revenue all right and uh I I think too you know um it's no matter what the the governor's done I appreciate what he's done to be creative about not allowing the cuts to affect K12 or school dists that's a big deal to me but I I do get the sense that we're going to have budget problems for the next couple of years so I just want to make sure we're positioning ourselves to uh be able to accommodate the cuts that are coming it's obvious more cuts are coming so I know like we had the discussion today about the um some of the pathway program and some discussion about what whether or not there were um enough students in some of the um um classrooms what's the minimum right now what's the minimum what what do we have set as a policy for the ratio in classes is it 24 to1 what is it right now we 24 to1 is is part of our our K3 and then you have I mean TK is going to be less than that but then we get into our uh primary upper grades which I believe are 33 to1 and then we have our Middle School which I believe are 29 to one and then um our high schools let's use middle school as an example yes sir so let's say we have a pathway and you don't have 29 students in that class at a middle school that means that that uh class is costing you more than what you're being reimbursed for from the state right those are those are negotiated numbers that I shared with you we did it based on what we think uh yes we could afford right right correct and you base your budget on that right correct yeah so my only my only point is I really think that we need to be cognizant of that and then I really think we have like programs that are we think are good and we have these relationship with these different organizations that somehow we are able to advertise across the district and maybe have students get recruited into uh the programs because times are changing now and and the money is not it's getting tight so we I don't think we can run the risk of having programs that don't have enough students in a specific class to pay for that class because then it becomes unsustainable and if I tell people all the time if we were to not uh produced a positive budget certification meaning a balanced budget and we went to qualify or we default it people wouldn't say the district did it because they were doing such a good job with the pathway they would say we were fiary irresponsible so um I guess I'm saying if we have a lot of programs where we don't have enough students in them somehow um Mr we need to know know about that and then we can make decisions on you know advertising or combining the programs or doing something uh to make sure that financially they makes sense I'm looking for board consensus on that to get the feedback M saos uh thank you so much for um for the presentation uh just a couple of questions and I guess I'll start with um kind of going back to um what Mr Tillman was saying um you know it makes perfect sense that if a classroom's not being filled you know it's costing us more than than we're getting back from it right but I I I do appreciate um the fact that we want to get that information ahead of time because if if there are going to be cuts that are going to be suggested in the future which we don't know right we want to make sure that we are not um appearing like we are favoring one program versus another program right that we are really making decisions based on data and then also you know some of these programs that may not be sufficiently um uh filled what can we start doing now to help them fill those those spots right um because a lot of times you know a teacher at a specific School may not have the capacity or the resources necessarily readily available to that individual person to be able to do an Outreach you know um or you know whatever is necessary to be able to attract and fill in those spots and so I would really like to see you know what the pathways are you know all of that information and then give them an opportunity give the community an opportunity to be able to say hey this is what we have available um we are and be honest and transparent you know we are um looking to either fill it up or we're going to have to get rid of it right but it doesn't come from Left Field nobody side blinded right um and then the other question that I had was specifically related to that 96 um number that Mr Tilman had pointed out so you said that it went to two different areas one was like facilities um and the other one was facilities and maintenance I think you said in the other one there there were three areas that that that split up and you're right on the special ed side um there's also 60 for that specific amount of 96 million 63.3 million went to special ed support 31.6 went to maintenance uh routine maintenance and repair and then 1 million went to the csda uh Advanced degree Ty so with regard to uh special education what was what was um the number La last year specifically for special education the number last year for 2223 well the but that's combined the contribution was 50 million but they re they the special ed receives I want to say about 48 million in state and then there's another Ida I think another 12 million from the feds so between those two that would be 605 about 110 million plus or minus combined um of of resource availability to support the special ed program so let me make sure I'm understanding correctly um that 96 um and that 63 really that went to to the special education that is supplementing funds right so yes ma'am yes ma'am okay so that 100 what was it one about 110 million if I add all the resources together so that 110 Million last year was money um that was also contributed to special education because that's the question I have oh I'm sorry the the the amount contributed to special ed is the 63 the amount that came in from the unrestricted money from the unrestricted yes sir thank you the the there is special ed identified money do we receive from the state about 40 48 million and then from the feds another 12 million that's specific special ed but that is not that's not enough funding to execute all the responsibilities that we have in special ed that's why we contribute the unrestricted side to that to the level that you see right so I guess a question that I'm asking is this year we're having to contribute 63 um million um additionally from the unrestricted the question that I have is what did we contribute last year additionally to that 50 million is right here but is that is that just solely for special education or was that combin the combined no that's just um okay so we saw a slight increase from last year to this year yes thank you yes thank you Mr B Mrs Alexander thank you for the report I actually have a question related to the routine repair and maintenance required because I heard Transportation but I don't see Transportation on here so I was trying to figure out exact what is that referencing in terms of retur and repair transportation is not a contribution so you won't see it on the contribution listing it's um well we have transportation expenses but then starting two years ago I believe it was 2223 the state passed a transportation reimbursement um program where every year now we will get 60% of the previous year's expenditures reimb burst back to us and so for 2324 we received 60% of our expenditures from 2223 and because our expenditures went up so much this year next year our reimbursement will be increased by $1 million so the it it's just shown in the revenues line it's just unrestricted state revenue you won't see it under the contributions you'll see it it'll be part of the unrestricted revenues okay thank you um so how do we qualify for the reimbursement or the we don't qualify it's automatic and the state provid there's no criterias for that we do I'm sorry go ahead there there is a a transportation plan that was board approved back in March that we do in review annually and we update the uh the actions are and what the estimated uh Revenue costs are those are included in the plan so then going back to the routine repair maintenance and required um from 2425 to 25 26 26 27 what's your methodology behind the reduction why why is it reducing it's based on 3% of our total expenditures for Combined expenditures so as our expenditures go up or down that contribution follows no but what is the criteria like what are you looking at what are you basing that on for that reduction like what are the factors that play into that reduction I think it's because your actual revenues are going down now because of the esa money and some of the other money running out right correct so you take 3% of a lower uh budget then those numbers go down I get it but when I look at your risk slide I just don't understand how we would think that that would reduce that's why I don't looking at I'm sorry M Alexander which slide are you looking at specific the first one where it says risk state budget just when you look at just factors I'm trying to understand based on the factors and then your number your reduction how does that equate like what oh on this oh this slide I was just trying to show uh the the national and then the state of California the impacts that might have on our economy and then our economy would have the impact on our Revenue capacity from The Big Three uh tax uh taxations that we we take uh whether it's personal income or uh corporate or um property taxes and then also there's retail thank you yes thank you m Alexander Mr husky I just wanted to clarify if you go back to the contributions page make sure so I I was hearing U Miss sao's questions so in in I'll say Carmen parlance the special education contributions is the what we would what folks call the encroachment on general fund right that's the encroachment on our general fund for the unfunded liabilities of the state and the federal government that they have not been paying us for special education so the not fully funding EA and only giving us 40% plus the fraction that we get from the state as well leaves us with an encroachment on our general fund of each of those um so uh this year 63 million next year 71 million which is really the responsibility right from that is correct well said m j just clarifying the state's using the term contribution instead of encroachment now but they are exactly the same yeah but if that sounds like they're contributing and they're not contributing I just want to make it clear that this is the the encroachment that that the that the state and the and the federal government have to fund our education special education program and that has been promised and that is not funded and is impacting our general education services um with the encroachment not that I I believe that we need to provide the services for our kids but I just want to all of our students and our special legislation students and that we should be providing those services to them but I just wanted you know very clear that this is an encroachment on everything else that we do by by that so um I just wanted to you know kind of piggyback on that to say okay this this is how I understand that to be thank you Miss shusi uh Miss Medina thank you uh for the presentation I also looking on page number six which is the enrollment um versus average daily attendance um the 8 and and then I know that we were looking at um 94.9% enrollment rate um preco and so um realistically uh what's our goal to reach uh because I know it says there an estimated 93% is is what our District's goal is is um what what prevents us from going up to where we were preco I I I think what what prevents is just getting the I think the mindset of our students to and and and families to return back to our schools on a regular occurring basis um in you know to to be present uh I think the uh Vision 2030 will will have a definite impact um the programs that were shared by Dr G and Miss Sergent uh I think those will impact um the more engaging and and enriching we offer our our educational and instructional programs I think that's the ticket to bring our kids back to us okay because I know that for every percent it it increases the amount of money that we also receive that can also help with our budget 100% yeah so then um um one of my things that we're and I'm I'm glad we have an amazing we've always had a great team but just with the addition um with our Communications is looking at how do we increase the amount of students coming to our school districts also recruiting from outside areas I mean the the amount of program that we do offer this is an opportunity if there's school districts that like I mentioned earlier shutting down programs well we're offering it here and just marketing to others in surrounding districts hopefully that can open up and increase the amount of enrollment students enrolled in our school district um but also of course looking at the attendance rate so I think those are extra monies that we realistically we can achieve um on that level so I just want to that thank you thank you very much see no further questions and presentation needs to be over we will close the public [Music] hearing section 9 9.1 discussion of possibly naming of the welcoming Center at the May 7 2024 board meeting meeting uh member Medina asked to agendize a discussion on the possible renaming of the welcoming Center resorce Center currently being built in honor of Francis gra the Civil Rights activist who played a role in the desegregation of sarino schools Miss Medina and then Dr Wyatt and there was an EXT that I read um in in a newspaper article it was until 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled a guilty verdict over semer Dino's School District for its role in segregation and discrimination a victory for her City and Grace was who helped fight the 10year suit so um when I had spoken to her and I had the privilege of speaking with her um you know she really supported me back in my earlier years when I was running and um she really worked with our Mexican American our Mexican Community as well as our African-American community and really looking at desegregation and she fought not not not only here in California for our students in our area but also in Washington DC so it was something that she always asked me Abigail we should have like a community center um before her passing and so I think um the welcoming Center honestly I wish this place would have name be named after her but I know that it was recommended um um with u Margaret Hill but you know she she is really what um advocacy is what parent engagement is where you bring programs to our school district and not only that she was she would tell me that sometimes leaders are are not courageous and um you know she she mentioned a few leaders within our community that weren't courageous and she fought regardless we had the klet gland we had so many things going against her and she still fought again she was courageous she didn't let down while others might have just stayed silent she stood up and she fought for our children as a parent and as a community leader um regardless of others that were staying silent so I I really do wish that we name um the welcoming center after her she is an example of what true family and parent engagement is Miss Dr Wyatt thank you board president uh tman and um I wouldn't argue at all with Miss Rosas Medina on her recommendation I've been giving it some thought myself and you know there's a number of names that come up for me uh in regards to welcoming Center and U how would that represent our community um not just now and not before but also in the future so it should be significant in my opinion on who it is and um I came with three names just I think we should look at options and one was the first Latino superintendent of our our organization our district that was AR delato Dr AR delato and then second was Dr Harold buer for his over 40 years of service to our community and then the last one was one of our longest if not the longest standing board member which would be president Danny tman and those are my recommendations [Music] Miss Grande well I'd like to maybe make sure all of us have can come up with three names to submit and then have a further discussion because this is kind of like surprise to me I'd like to uh and although I do honor uh Miss Francis Grace you know she I'm certain she's all of those things and much more but the truth is that uh I never heard of her before up until this moment so I I don't know if I could support someone whose name I I have yet to understand and and I know there are a lot of people and I know that the next few years we're going to have a lot of new rooms and areas and beautiful buildings we might find a place for every single one um and so it's just real early I think uh to just decide just like that for something that's going to be with us and uh be with us and our children and our children's children uh so I I do have hope that we could have something that children of right now and tomorrow will find a little bit relevant in them you know to to someone that they can align to um even now there's children that by the time they get here they won't know who Margaret Hill is or was uh so I I would like to at least start out in the 21st Century with people that have some kind of knowledge and if not if we do decide to go with someone then let's promote that person and Market it and uh you know I for one would look at somebody like Nicholas Cataldo um you know that's just one but I can think of a few others uh you know that that are around so that that's all my suggestion is maybe each and every one of us could find three names and remember just just and then maybe there'll be n them maybe we'll table the whole idea for a while that's all that's a fair ask so what I would suggest is that we um agendize it for the next meeting and have a process where everybody submits uh three names that they if you if you want if you don't if you don't want to submit a name you don't have to but each board can submit up to three names and then we'll do a ranking like we always do with the numbers and decide on uh a name right but it's it's fair I mean this was agendized but we didn't see it coming so let's just be fair about it and give everybody a chance to ponder it talk to the community get community input and then agenda do I see a consensus for [Music] that Mr hus I just have a question is there like criteria or are there some criteria that we should there is board policy in in in terms of uh the regular way to name buildings and we usually use that but are it's not it's not unusual for there be an exception you decide that hey because we have this big building going up across the street that we want to name it after somebody and the Bor and take his privilege to suspend that policy and then uh do it ourselves I just wonder because the last time I did it was when we named a Royo um was the last time we went I went through any kind of a process for naming so I just didn't know if there's like criteria or if there's do that so okay I'll look for that thank you but the policy was suspended to name his room after uh Dr Hill so you know and we and I just wanted to know so for bringing three names like it's I it's just any three names or if it's like oh no they have to you know time I just didn't know yeah I just said that because it made sense I no that wasn't my question was more like you know they have to they have to have lived in the community or they have to you know there is there is board policy you can read it but I'm tell what I would do if we're going to do this we would I would have um um Mr arano to meet with Council pass the U item to suspend the policy and then allow the board to uh vote on something okay we have uh Mrs Alexander now we have Miss Medina oh and and I I understand that we all want to make our recommendations but um I just want like um like for instance the name was named I I don't know who that person is either um but I if we can um at least for some type of respect with Francis Grace she she was um the the civil rights movement of dis segregation in in this District in this building not the way it is now but just here in samon ardino so um for those that do not know who Francis GCE is please read up search her name samon ardino um you will um really understand uh the type of work um she did for our school district thank you very much that takes us to oh M Scott ask if I could name too yes you may that brings us [Music] to 9.2 C State University sanino Latino education advocacy days I brought this forward um this is uh something that we've sponsored previously um hold on a second oh sorry Scott your light was on was it for this item it was president but I'll defer to Mr husky right now since she did bring it up I I just we've sponsored it in the past and I would like to continue to sponsor it and we we we we have a lot of participation a lot of our students attend um at no cost and it's uh it's been very powerful and how much what what level of sponsorship are you looking at I'd like to be a pyramid sponsor this is for uh so what's the the lead Summit do we you know education advocacy We Ready didn't we didn't we agenda this already next year September 27th we've we they had one this year this next one is me is we historically have contributed more money than this yeah not to lead it's not the you said not the Latino Future Leaders 10,000 five to 10,000 yeah what did we give last year I think we gave 5,000 last year before that we gave 10 that's five I think we gave 5,000 last year I think I made that motion last year so what is this group do they give money to our students this is they uh this is Dr Moro at Kel State and they do an international Summit um and it's at Cal State it's a whole day of education and learning and we have a number of our students that attend this this conference and and as well as other Educators Community leaders um it's it's very powerful if you have an attended I would recommend going and and our our Educators and students don't pay the participate okay so we have a motion a second been moved in second vote please section oh miss Scott Miss Scott hi motion passed uh section 10 10.1 personel report pass present it move by Dr Wyatt second by Miss saas vote please motion pass 10.2 approval of the 2023 2024 School plan for student achievement modifications be resolve the Board of Education approves the modified 2023 2024 school plans for student achievement for the attached schools move second been mooved by Dr W second by Miss saos vote please motion carried 10.3 resolution of District emergency harmy elementary school second moove by Mr Husky and second by Dr Wyatt vote please motion carry 10.4 request approval a resolution declaring intent to convey public utility easement to Southern California Edis and Company move I can this is Alexander and second by Dr Wyatt vote please Dr Wyatt Mr bios motion carried section 11 can send items need to pull 11.49 I need a motion been moved by Dr wse second by Mr B any to pull yes 11.49 sorry 11 and 1150 for me 1150 you'll pull 11.49 1150 vote on all others please e M Rosales Medina motion Carri 11.49 business and in service California Association Youth Court 19th annual Youth Court summit summit positive Youth Development move second move by Mr second by Dr W vote please motion carried 11.50 ratification of the business and end service the 62nd annual signature headdress ball move move by Dr W second by Mr Bas vote please motion car section 12 12.1 reports by reports and comments by Union organization 12.1 Cino Teachers Association no report 12.2 California School Employees Association no report 12.3 communication workers of America no report 12.4 sanino school police officer Association no report section 13 mandated policy PR Provisions revisions 13.1 board policy differential graduation and competency standards for students with disabilities resolve the board education adop Bo policy 61464 differential graduation and compy standards for students with disabilities as presented second move by Dr y second by Mr husky vote please what Carri section 14 14.1 reports and comments by board members I start with Mr Husky she's always very very brief yeah I will be today um I wanted to say uh something on the priority Pathways um I really think that when if we're if we're looking and reviewing them that we really kind of need to look at the high need professions um it's not that they're not all perform but if we have to start choosing a earing um I've been thinking about it and I think like if we look at things like Med you know medical Fields education the trades Transportation things that are are high need and easy you know uh good job prospects in our community I think that would be helpful um I went to the loram career day and first off I owe my my third grade class an apology because I forgot my notes but they gave me some really good uh recommendations for things that they think that we should do um and some things around their playground um around our our nutrition program and lunches um they they they they feel like their playground is rather small and needs more equipment and they're um they had some equipment decisions and things um but they were the the cutest class ever and I I got thank you notes from them today and I'm like I forgot their notes and I told them I said you need to watch the board meeting because I'm going to talk about you all um but I really want to tell them how much I appreciated my time with them how wonderful they were and I will be getting their recommendations to you Mr Ariano so that you will have them um to for cons your consideration um and then I just wanted to say congratulations to all of our graduates and to our wonderful graduation ceremonies um I was able to attend several and uh they were they're just always so beautiful and moving and I'm so proud I was you know talking to different students as they were walking across the stage and all the different things you know going in the military going to work going in the trades going to so many different colleges Berkeley and and Cal Baptist and you know Valley and calade and you see San Diego a lot of kids that you see Irvine I got to go z z z a lot for my daughter so um I just want to say congratulations to everybody and and and to our teachers and our administrators our staff um have a really restful summer um and because you know we're going to hit the ground running next year so um we hope that I hope that they have a wonderful summer vacation um and that everybody gets a little bit of break while while school's off this summer including you Mr Ariana I hope we going to take a vacation or something because we need you fresh and refreshed for the next year and that's it thank you thank you Dr Wyatt I'm real proud of Mr husky first of all so I'll take her extra two minutes but I'll try to do a bullet point like you as well Mr husky but um just want to start off chronological order since our last meeting um law enforcement recognition dinner first of all our colleagues we are well represented by the board as well as the district and congratulations to officer joshuaa which is even more important he was a alumni a graduate from Royal Valley high school so talk about grow our own great story and I'll talk a little bit about him at the end of my comments as well um he was at another event uh electrical pathway uh graduation over at Sano high school again we are very well represented four of us were over there with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers which I think is huge because it gives our students a direct pathway into the apprenticeship program right out of high school so learn how they earn kind of they're saying and had a ton of kids there and that was just a really great event and what we're looking for in regards to our career pathways bunch of graduations so middle college high Virtual Academy kahone High School were just a few and a lot of great events a lot of good things happening with their kids and gosh just listening to some of their stories from our um what do you call VCT Toran Salud torans just overly impressive overly impressive that what our kids do in this city I just again every year I'm impressed by them and again another year just blown away by their achievements and just outstanding job to them and then the last event was this past weekend where we had the inaugural event with the arrowhead United Way and it was called the the brave event I believe and providing services to our veterans specifically as homeless veterans as well and that was just really really nice event I'll be honest I was just asked to go cook for our veterans and next thing I know was a huge event and just a really really honor to our bets and also our um active personnel as well and officer atra varia was there again with a number of our school police and our Explorer Scouts so Chief uh they did an amazing job as always they're there from the very beginning to the very end so it was a long day and uh they show a little bit of hesitation to get the job done the entire day so hats off to them and again representing samio City UniFi School District I'm very dignified and honorable way thank you Dr W Mr BOS also just want to say uh once again congratulations to all the graduates and uh really uh want to you know give a big thank you and shout out shout out to um all of the different high schools and administrators and executive cabinet and you know superintendent and you know us board members um it's it's it's it's a lot of events in a very short period of time and so you know it can really take its toll sometimes um I know myself I was under under the weather for this past weekend um and so but you know every year um I I've had the opportunity to attend at at the very Le least minimum one graduation um uh if not more every every every year since I've been on the board and each year is is really really amazing um as it's been shared you know to hear students um stories and yeah it's always nice it's it's always really a a treat um for me personally um so so congratulations to all of us um and thank you to everybody out there for you know making making this happen this is a huge accomplishment for students and their families and so um it's a really special moment um I want to say um thank you uh president Tillman for your uh responsiveness and your leadership um I also want to thank you know just just the board in general um for the conversation earlier um it was a really good conversation and um this you know conversations like that um really feel me we're we're having honest discussions and even though we may not agree sometimes on certain things the fact that we just you know speak and listen you know um and share our our thoughts and our perspectives um I think I from for me I I feel very um heard and um you know supported and I just want to really extend you know my my deep gratitude um around you know there's they're tough conversations sometimes and so anyway um so thank you so much um and let's see yeah and and you know again can't can't uh say enough about the I think I think I have but I want want to mention again the pathways right and especially if we're going to be moving in that direction let's make sure that we that we are well informed and we have a plan and we support you know um uh individuals and different um programs out there um other than that thank you so much thank you Mr bios Miss Grande I was a sleep I think I waking up right now I just can't believe it I was elected in the fall of 21 and uh 22 went by like a blur and then this past one this was 23 so this is 24 that means 2 and a half years I've been here already I can't believe it how fast it's gone I'm really behind on my karaoke just so you know but I'm going to make up for it this summer uh and ramy's Report brought brought it up to me um H I keep wondering how do we train our principles at dual language sites what do we do to recognize our principles at our dual language sites and if not much can we offer more conferences and professional development for not just the principales though for any interested staff that's on that site teachers and office personnel and support staff uh I visited uh Anton and um I was uh impressed and and and got an idea for them to that they could do more is because it it seemed like there was just a a small uh percentage of the people that were really um excited about it and it's almost like uh we have to Market it to the whole entire school because it's like not everybody knows what's going on or that they are a duel that what a big deal it is and so I hear some disparaging remarks like oh all principal cares about is uh dual language and you know we all know that's not true but but if there's a perception like that even if it's just from the janitor or an office staff then then we we want to make sure and and make sure it's all about you know love and and teamwork throughout the whole school and and so that that I made a mental note and then also would like to get a list of all the Dual language sites so I can visit next year I'm going to make that my my uh thing you know you you already know I do special education uh classrooms and uh and I took on ICC because remember I was a high school dropout and uh and I don't share this too often I was also a Beauty School Drop Out I did try beauty school for a while and it had once it got to that math part with the science and the chemicals I was out of there but uh uh I do pretty Prett good I do my own hair now so I'm I got pretty good so anyway I do want to he said I me too that's what he said he does his own hair when you get your hair clippers over it like this so I just want to thank all of you these wonderful relationships that that I have made this year and and gosh I I don't know I just my heart gets really really full and and Abigail just gets more beautiful every time I look at her over here look look look at I feel like she's doing it for me did do you feel like that no but uh but I just want to thank you all you every time I come here it's like I have a feast you know a feast over there and A Feast for the eyes and I I go home excited takes me an hour to get to sleep so thank you I honor you and I I for one would like to name a building after Danny Tillman not what not sure which one but you know one so thank you you miss Grande Miss Grande just to just to correct correct you though you haven't been on the board 2 and A2 years I haven't feels that way it's been a year and 7 months oh see feels like three yeah okay Miss Medina I even fixed my hair I was like what what oh my goodness okay well I I I I you know that's why I love the board I mean because we we like you mentioned earlier um missos there's issues that we don't necessarily agree on everything but we're able to have these conversations these candid conversations and really um work um with what we what we feel um our students are at our Tri our topest our top priority and how we feel that we need to achieve those goals I mean it really we are working in that direction I also wanted to say congratulations and how much I appreciate I know we mentioned at the last board meeting but I can't say it enough um for our our student school board members um you know Crystal Scott uh our board member Crystal Scot who's here you know who has been an amazing and she's always um when we're in um you know different events she's there and you have been consistent and and I can see a great leader in yourself and and I look forward to maybe you coming back and and being one of our school board members um in the future so I'm really excited um for your future and and thank you for serving so I just wanted to mention that on your service um I did meet with several students and she did mention earlier with regards to the wellness center so I met with students with ICU students um from um sarino High School San Goro High School um Pacific High School I mean a royal Valley high school and the students one of the things is that they were mentioning is that they felt although there are Wellness programs within their sites they're not fully receiving it they're not um it's not really marketed as it should be maybe it is marketed to a certain extent so so maybe if there's a way for when we start the new school year for 2024 25 really marketing and and showing it we have um our buildings that are painted beautifully and maybe there's ways to incorporate mental health and and where this location may be if it's a room within a campus if it's um some type of Center um or resource we want to make sure that they're they're receiving that information and that they can't say well I didn't know that there was this program know that there's this program offered for them um because that is that is one of their priorities one of their top priorities and another thing that I do feel like we can support it's a it's a ab27 um 2724 which is done by um assembly member um Eloise Gomez Rey is and this is basically a voter Outreach in our high schools that they would we would have like designes at each of our sites and so this if uh right now it's I believe it's moved to the Senate um would be a great resolution if we could try to support it is supporting our students in voter registration um in voter Outreach so if uh maybe we can have this as a uh on on the next board agenda and possibly passing a resolution like this um for our at our next board meeting um at least to have the conversation and this is AB 2724 and that's basically it thank you than you miss Medina Mrs Alexander thank you um I too would also like to congratulate all the graduates our our our student board members I know Crystal you're here and even your colleagues that all four of you are doing great and want to wish you the best of luck and just keep doing what you're doing stay vigilant stay aware what's happening in your community and we look forward to you coming back so best of luck in college and everything else that you're going to do um also like to congratulate all the graduat just like my colleagues attended several graduations um it was a very interesting and good you know in terms of seeing the students and the scholars doing great things and um just being together was awesome as well um I also would like to to say thank you to the staff members that help put on the graduation because it takes a lot of work and a lot of effort and just the preparation making sure that Communications on point with pictures and just are overall social media engagement so thank you for that and then all the staff members at each one of the high school sites um I know that you know there's been you know I know superintendent Ariana has been in contact with all the principles and said thank you on behalf of the board and just letting them know that we really appreciate what they did in terms of just making sure that the high school students that were um graduating they were prepared they were ready we didn't have any interesting scenarios maybe you not a lot there might have been a couple and those scenarios that were outstanding or just it went against our core values I know that the superintendent you're going to be following up with those particular sites so I want to just make let the community know that you know we are definitely um addressing any concerns that have been raised related to lack of equity or just going against our core values but again thank you for the leadership because for the most part everything went well was smooth and those incidents that did happen I know they will be addressed accordingly and then in addition to that um I wanted to talk about a couple other things so um the time is point and count or point and time count um just recently came out uh for the County of San Bernardino and I think it's important for us uh to get a report uh from our department on what we're doing for the Foster Youth and homeless uh just to see you know how we're addressing that because when I looked at the different cities within the Inland Empire I think our numbers are growing but I know we have a department depart I know we're doing great things it's just that we need to present to the community what we're doing um so like that documented that will like for us to get a presentation in addition to that um the pathway program I know that there was some mystery about if that's being deleted I guess the for um Curtis Middle School so if we can get clarity on what's happening there um and get get that addressed so we can make sure that um the right narratives being shared and then I also attended the state of the city and I thought that was good and I know that super Ariano you're going to be attending one of the City Council meetings and one thing that came out of the state of the city it was great actually I ran from the graduation to the state of the city and um they did highlight the school district however I also saw that there was an opportunity maybe if we could revisit our governing body between the city and the school district many of our school board members are also sitting with the council and I know that that's part of the discussion but I think there's other opportunities to probably build that bridge and that's it thank you Dr W thank you Mr President and just two things I did forget forgot to give Miss uh Alexander a thank you because she covered for me at sanino high school end up having to work really late Friday night and she said Scott you're supposed to speak I said oh my gosh I can't get out of here so thank you Miss Alexander and then um uh young lady on Saturday I forgot to mention mention her our wonderful student at kahone she's going to be a senior next year but miss Juliana Aila I said I give her a shout out she was amazing as well and uh just super excited I mean great kid what just like what we see in all our kids and it's just it was emotionally overwhelming just to be with her she spent gosh Chief how long did she stay with us a couple hours two three hours with us right Miss Alexander and just 4.5 GPA she runs cross country track plays soccer uh she plays the flute and just a balanced kid and going to go a long way in life and I want to say hello to her and her family and thank you again for volunteering your time so thanks Mr President thank you Dr Wyatt Mr Ariano thank you just very quick I want to just start off by saying uh big thank you to Kimber and will on a great presentation and as it was said uh yeah very very well done want to thank Terry and trius and everybody in your department for your presentation on the budget today it's amazing how you guys can take very complex issues and make them very understandable for us so thank you very much and I just want to say congratulations and thank you to Crystal for everything she's done I will always remember her as being the very first student I met as superintendent when I was here in the district um she was the first Brave student to walk up to me and said hi my name is Crystal who are you and uh ever since then you know uh we we've been uh friends and I also want to recognize her mom mom who's been very supportive and been here uh to support not only Crystal but the district so thank you Mom uh for all you do and Crystal we're looking forward to hearing about your life and and uh I I I want to double up on what uh Abigail said we'd love to see you come back to be a board member someday I think you would be great so uh good luck to everything that you do moving forward yeah yeah yeah and then I too I want to once again congratulate all the 20 24 graduates across the district uh we're very proud of all of our students uh we will always be here for you if you need support after you have graduated from us uh but we're very confident that you're going to thrive in school in career and or Life As you move forward so congratulations to all the families thank you to all the high school staff and principles and support staff that put together all these ceremonies because it takes a great deal of planning and and intricate uh planning so thank you and I do want to Echo what uh Miss Alexander said we have we are having and have had after Action reviews of our ceremonies I have asked our principles to reflect and notate all the great things that happened but also the notate some of the things that maybe we didn't see coming that maybe we should see coming next year so we will be addressing and have addressed a couple of issues that I noticed that have come to my attention and we will very happily uh be addressing them and making sure sure that next year all of our ceremonies uh meet all of our core values and our expectations so thank you to all our high schools for great work if you can show me the first picture it was mentioned today congratulations to officer Joshua aaria uh who was recognized for his outstanding service uh at the 46th annual law enforcement dinner put on by the San Maro Chamber of Commerce and I was said he is in the Royal Valley high school so we're very proud of officer chavaria and thank you Chief Paulino for all the leadership that you've provided him I know he's very grateful for for your leadership next picture and I want to give out shout out to our campus security officers uh today was uh day two of their two-day training again uh Chief Paulino puts on for our staff and I had the opportunity to thank them for all their great work this year and all their uh empathy and uh connection building they have kids I thank them for the anticipation of some of the data that we think we're going to see where there's some reduction in expulsions reductions in suspensions uh we believe that those connections that they are making are uh are making a difference so I know today's training was about trauma informed strategies and making sure I know the message was make sure you love our kids because no matter what they do no matter what uh bad choices they made they're not bad had kids they just needed a Moment of clarity and so uh we want to make sure that we love our kids but I wanted to thank them on behalf of the board and it was a great event so thank you uh Chief Paulino for your leadership and I know up here Scott Mr Tilman and I are very competitive with each other and we give each other a lot of pressure when we're asked to throw out the first pitch at any stadium and one of the first uh I think first months I was here Danny said to me don't embarrass us and bounce it I said okay well the same goes to you so I wanted proof that Mr Tillman didn't bounce the first pitch so I wanted to enter this into evidence as proof that Mr tman did as proud dman [Music] [Music] Mr Tillman was money so we're very proud of him very proud of him and I want to end tonight by wishing my daughter Aaron today is her 24th birthday and I know she's watching and I just want to tell her that I'm very proud of her and that I love her and we will be celebrating her birthday this weekend so happy birthday sweetheart that's all I have thank you thank you Miss happy birthday and I just and I totally um and I was really excited um my son had his baby today this morning my my little son so I'm a grandma uh Second Time Around and I'm really excited so um yeah I just want to sh did your son have the baby was that he he he had well no well he was there to support he was there to support um his wife who had the baby but you're right it was but you know in my mind it you know yeah I got you thank you congratulations and that brings us to section 15 summary of board members request good evening the first request is from Miss Rosales Medina she requested to use the word enslaved instead of slave in the resolution in recognition of juneth day president Tillman requested to look into the medical pathway at Curtis Middle School based on a public comment received this evening Mr Medina requested to know what the starting pay is for students exiting the pharmacy technician program you can go ahead and delete that it they mentioned it during the presentation so it's fine you don't have to we don't have to have that thank you Miss chiusi requested an analysis of African-American students suspension data president Tillman requested consensus that the board be notified if there program in Jeopardy of being cut due to lack of enrollment Mrs abos requested to know what the pathways are and give the community the opportunity to see what we are advertising to give it the opportunity to either fill it up or get rid of it she requested that we are well informed and supportive of the pathways Mrs Grande requested consensus to have each board member have three names to recommend for the naming of the welcoming Resource Center um she requested to agend agendize the next board meeting and have up to three names for submission Miss chuski requested to sponsor lead for the 2425 school year for $10,000 consensus was granted Miss chusy requested to look at the high needs Pathways that could help with employment Miss Mrs Grande requested to know how we are training our principls on dual immersion and how we can expand our professional development to other staff who are interested Miss Rosales Medina requested to Market and showcase our wellness centers across our district Miss Rosales Medina discussed about AB 2724 voter Outreach requested to have designes at each sites requesting to have at our next board agenda and possibly support it um I'm checking for board consensus for ab to have that on the as a resolution as a resolution thank you it's for voter engage for um student voter um engagement Outreach and um it's in the it's moving into the Senate um but we can have the whole language in case you want to review it as well thank you Mrs Alexander requested to get a report on Foster Youth and homeless and requested a presentation from that department Mrs Alexander requested Clarity around Curtis Middle School pathway being deleted and that is it thank you thank you in SE section 16 and memor me Memorial the board would like to recognize and close the board meeting in memory of Aiden Elias a 14-year-old 8th grade student who passed away on May 21st our condolences go out to his family can we get a moment of silence please very much entertain a motion to adjourn second meeting is adjourned [Music]