--------- Rossmore being here and Mrs. Dingelo. I'd like to call this meeting to order and I believe that we need a roll call. >> Mrs. Pisani here, Mrs. Davidson >> here, Mrs. Hill >> here, >> Mr. Forehand >> here, >> Mr. Bragman >> here. >> And I would ask if there is a motion to
adopt the agenda. >> So move >> and a second. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. All those in favor? I >> opposed. Passes 5. Wonderful. So that means we now get to move into our workshop. So um the board will come down
and we can't wait to get started. Good evening. I am Carter Good and I will be leading all of us in the pledge of allegiance. Please stand. Place your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge alce to the flag
of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Please be seated.
>> Thank you, Carter. I am Rose Mativo and I have the joy of welcoming Rossmore's Royal Choir tonight. See the stars of your glory shines on the sky. You're
as bright as we I say those love and pray. Every heart for
all right the end of the night has The lady of the shy. Mr. Anderson, on behalf of the board of education, this doesn't happen with people like you and kids like you. So
you get our highest award, the music. Let's get any family want to take a picture. Mrs. Wrap. smile. >> Not yet. >> Awesome. Good job.
Mrs. Reid, would you like to take it away? >> Thank you so much, President Hill. It's such an honor to start the evening with such amazing faces and voices. I think it really is the best part of our night to welcome a school here. And so, without further ado, we'd like to welcome the principal of Rossmore
Elementary School, Mrs. Amy Colt, to the mic. >> Thank you. Weren't their voices beautiful? >> The Royal Choir. You guys are amazing. Good evening, President Hill, respected members of the board, Superintendent Dr.
Pulver, Cabinet, and our wonderful Rossmore Elementary community. It's so great to see so many of you here this evening. Um, I am Amy Colt, as Mrs. Reid said, the proud principal of Rossmore Elementary. And um I'm really excited cuz I have two fifth grade knights that
are here to support me this evening. >> Good evening board members, Dr. Pulver and community guests. My name is Rose Mativo and I'm Carter Good. We are honored to be here and excited to begin.
>> All right. So, as we close one year and prepare for another year, I always reflect on really just everything that our school community has accomplished. And you may remember last year, our theme was centered around being our best
selves. So, as I looked ahead to this year, one idea kept shining through. The idea being that as Knights, we shine in all that we do. And from there, that was a spark. Our new theme began and we
embraced it. Our night threw mouse our night up there. You can see him threw some glasses on and so did our team. Smiles wide and we launched the year ready to shine our brightest. These images above remind us that the growth
we see each year from Rossmore from celebrating our seniors to watching our fifth grade knights step into middle school in their next journey and really welcoming our newest knights and youngest knights into our house system at Rossmore. Um and really it's just the
spirit of Rossmore. So this year too, that growth also meant opening our doors even wider um as we proudly welcome two SDC classes to into our Rossmore family, strengthening our commitment to inclusion, connection, and ensuring that
every night belongs. And of course, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that we were also honored as a 2025 California Distinguished School. At Rossmore, purposeful teaching creates safe, engaging classrooms where every
student is supported and empowered to learn. First, I'd like to thank educational services for their valued support through professional development and coaching, including our TOSAs who work sidebyside with our incredible teachers. But I am deeply proud of our
teachers commitment to strong first best instruction and meaningful tier one interventions providing scaffolded support for those who need it in real time while also challenging students with higher ordered thinking to push their thinking further. That brings me
to our focus this year. We are creating more intentional time to talk and reflect on instruction. How are we doing this? Well, we're using our staff meeting time. So, grade level teams share with me what their focus will be during PLC
time. And it's truly driven by teacher identified needs to analyze data, identify areas of areas of growth and to celebrate what's already working and then they can plan purposeful retaching. This work helps us clearly understand
where our students are at and what they need to grow. Um, so whether our nights are up there organizing their thoughts using thinking maps, exploring with curiosity in a UTK classroom, adding newly learned words to their word wall, or the art of learning to agree,
explained, and respectfully disagree, creatively responding to a book they've read and writing their very own book reviews. Um, or standing side by side with their teacher as they confidently present their thinking. This is the magic you see at Rossmore in our
classrooms every day. At Rossmore 2, learning grows stronger when it is shared through reflection, discussion, collaboration, and supporting one another in the process. We just started our book club last week
and I'm really excited because we're focusing on fantasy. Right now, my group is reading The Secret of Platform 13. Together, we created a book club agreement which shared norms to help us stay on track and do our part. And we all signed it as a promise to one
another. It's powerful to hear how my teammates interpret different parts of the story in their own way. Their excitement, questions, and even confusion help me think more deeply and see the story from new perspectives. In class, we also participate in
Socratic seminars using junior grade book stories. We first read independently, then come together to discuss meaningful questions and learn from each other's thinking. During our discussions, we practice explaining our ideas clearly, using evidence from the
text, and building strong race responses. Strategies like stop and jots help us reflect, organize our thinking, and communicate learning with confidence. Collaboration continues through projects like our
featured article where my group explored different sports. I took ownership of an article about soccer. Researching through books and online resources while also learning from my teammates, I discovered how soccer can influence people physically, mentally, and culturally. And it was exciting to
create something meaningful that connected our interests with real learning in math. Miss Ovalos challenges us through six minutes of six where we solve middle school level math problems in just 6 minutes. Recently, we worked on ratios. These challenges help us
stretch our thinking, build perseverance, and grow more confident as learners. Thank you both. So, taking a look at our cast data results, we're proud to see strong overall achievement across Rosmore
Elementary. While CAST measurements achieve or measurement achievement is really in grades third, fourth and fifth, these results reflect a true collective partnership across our entire school. Strong foundations begin in kindergarten or really UTK which early
literacy, numeracy, and learning habits take root and each grade level really builds intentionally upon the next. Every teacher, every classroom, and every year of growth contributes to the success reflected here. Our students
continue to perform well above state averages in both ELA and math, demonstrating strong academic achievement and consistent progress. While we celebrate the success, we also remain focused on continuous growth, using data to identify opportunities to
refine instruction, strengthen their learning, and to ensure every night continues to grow and achieve. And while CASS provides one snapshot of achievement, it is only part of the story. To better understand how our students grow through the year, we also
utilize MAP growth assessments as an important benchmarking tool. So up here you see our map growth. It allows us to track student progress throughout the year. The smaller white numbers represent the national norm averages. And as you can see, our
students began the year already above national norms in both reading and math and continue to grow from that strong starting point. This tells us that our Knights are not only achieving but progressing through increasingly rigorous learning. We use this data
intentionally to identify where small instructional adjustments can further accelerate learning and support every night, but that's also a process. So, thank you to educational services this year as well in providing that time, those data days in second through fifth grade to really give our teachers
dedicated time to review, to unpeel, and to truly make sense of this data so that we can plan purposeful next steps to help support every night's growth. At Rossmore, our n culture is all about uplifting and celebrating one another.
One of our most meaningful traditions is our annual Veterans Day assembly where we honor family and community members who have served or are currently serving in the armed forces. Another favorite tradition is Walk to School Day. Our community truly shows up
as we fill the streets of Rossmore with law enforcement guiding the way. And of course, we always know we're going to have fun once Mrs. Colty puts on the infamous night mascot ahead. As you can see up there, our welcome back spirit assembly is full of energy.
And our night leadership council helps kick off the year by welcoming new students and sorting them into their houses. We also recognize students who go above and beyond through our night pride awards. In addition, teachers can select students as a shining night and Miss
Colt surprises them by announcing why they're shining over the speaker. And you can't forget our millionword medal challenge. Nice work towards reading 1 million words to earn a medal. And many of us read far beyond that before heading off to middle school. It's a
tradition we're so proud of. At Rossmore, we believe that students shine their brightest when they feel safe to try. So that is why wellness and social emotional learning are the cornerstone of our school community. Throughout the year, we take part in
experiences that help us feel connected and make healthy choices. to name a few. We celebrate Unity Day and participate in Red Ribbon Week by riding healthy goals on the red shields with our big and little buddies. And right now we're celebrating kindness and neurodyiversity
week, which is helping us learn more about empathy and understanding that all our brains work in different ways. It's been a great experience so far. It's also been great to focus on the ruler this year. Each classroom has created a class charter on based based
on what we all value in our classroom. We check in using mood meters which is helpful in our classroom meetings as we solve problems together. We also know how to follow the steps you see up there when the night when we need to take a meta moment. This helps me during house meetings when I'm working with my little
buddy. Sometimes they need help taking a meta moment too. Don't we all? And um one way that we build connections as well at Rossmore, and you guys got a little glimpse of that, is through our performances. So in first through fifth
grades, we all have opportunities to shine on stage, and our nights absolutely love it. Just two weeks ago, our fourth graders put on an amazing performance of Susical the Musical, and everyone was just so impressed by their energy, their singing, their acting, and
their overall confidence. Each year I look forward to our annual variety show which is such a special event. I performed in three different acts and Carter was a jester so we helped host the show. One of the best parts of seeing our teachers join in too. They performed a fun Mario Brothers
act that have everyone smiling and cheering. We are also proud members of the night leadership council similar to ASB where we help lead assemblies, make morning announcements, plan spirit weeks like peace and kindness week um and create
posters to build excitement for school events. Sorry, and create posters to build excitement and awareness for school events. We also support star with hello days, making sure everyone feels seen, welcomed, and connected. Up there you see us with the high school ASB team
that came to work with us back in October. We even learned how to do the roller coaster. We love our house system because it helps us build friendships and stay connected across grade levels. During our house meetings with our big and little buddies, we work together to
serve our community. Whether it's collecting over 900 lb of food for our annual we care food drive, donating coins to guide of America, or preparing for our annual Save the Beach Cleanup Day. These moments bring us together as one Rossmore family.
Okay. And Rossmore really continues to thrive well for so many reasons, but the incredible support from our PTA and friends of Rossmore. This year, our Apex fund run, we brought in over $87,000. And yes, this earned me a wonderful ice
bucket challenge. You can see up there, it was extremely cold. Um, PTA support also makes opportunities like our visit to Tiger Woods Learning Lab that just happened a few weeks ago for fifth grade. Um, where students engaged in STEM workshops. They focused on AI,
rocketry, and design. And of course, we're super grateful for the continued treasured traditions like our fourth grade Sacramento trip annually as well as our fifth fifth grade outdoor science school. Just this week, we're excited to welcome Unstoppable Dogs for our neurodeiversity and kindness week. It's
a group of rescued dogs providing inspiration and animal assisted therapy. All meaningful experiences made through our PTA. Friends of Rossmore plays a vital role as well in supporting our STEM lab, our house system, our school
garden, and the innovative learning led by Mrs. Belaluya, who's our STEM lab teacher. And alongside LAFE, each year, Friends of Rossmore works tirelessly to fund our STEM lab teachers salary, which is an incredible commitment to our
students. Earlier earlier this year, we surpassed our STEMathon goal, raising over $22,000, and Mrs. Belu Belalooya and myself were up there on the wall. Again, something's happening to to me. We reached a goal and we got duct taped to the wall and the kids loved it, but I
have to be honest, um, even some of our teachers were very, very enthusiastic with the tape. The the line for me was really long. I'm just saying. And we are also looking ahead for Friends of Rosmore's um upcoming annual nightlife event and you guys can see that in the
top right. So it's a classy Hollywood night evening. So please make sure you mark your calendars. Last year um it was so much fun and we raised gosh I think about 76,000. So we're really excited to see what we bring in this year. And finally, I really do need to take a
moment to also just a huge shout out to LEAF um for supporting our STEM lab for our afterchool enrichment opportunities, our wellness center, um and their continued grant support. So, just the this year we got a lot of school garden items, um Ozobots, a playground
communication board that's in the in progress right now, and I think two additional classroom 3D printers. Um, so really LAF's uh impact I feel is really felt at Rossmore every single day. And communication is a priority at
Rossmore for sure. We work hard to keep our families informed, connected, and engaged. So our Monday morning message goes out like clockwork every week and it's really the hub of our communication. Um, but we also send regular text messages and emails through Parent Square and we help families plan
ahead. So this year we went back to paper calendar right there. You see like just they're they're wonderful and we try to get everything on there. In addition though, we have a digital calendar as well that is updated and live. So we're all about communicating. And if you haven't noticed, I would say the last two years we've really stepped
up stepped it up with our social media and it's a lot of fun. We're having a blast. So check us out. Um and you can kind of see everything that we're doing at Rossar. And I say this all the time, but Rossmore is gorgeous. We have such a beautiful campus, and I'm in awe every
day, but this year it's even more pretty. So, as you drive down Rossmore Way, you guys are going to be greeted by our beautiful Ross night sign up there. And that was a bunch of volunteers that include um teachers, staff, and parents that really came on the weekend. And we
we went for a few days, but we got it done, right guys? We did. And um we also have our wonderful, beautiful parking signs and valet signs that um they're just really attractive and nice, but they also help make our campus safer and you know a drop off and pickup. So it's been really nice to have that addition.
So both of these those were supported by PTA. Thank you to PTA. And our district has recently installed a gate over by our CDC and kindergarten playground. And the buzzer systems coming shortly, but that'll really just help up with uh a smoother drop off and pickup for our CDC
families. And then of course a shout out to Mr. Justin and Mr. Josh, our amazing custodians, because they really make I mean look at that picture of Russ. It's just gorgeous. So they keep our campus beautiful. And not to change the subject, but speaking of a beautiful campus,
Rossmore's open house last week was amazing. We love seeing so many of our knights and families. From dinner to classrooms to the steam fair and garden, our nights were proud. Let's take a look at Rossmore shining
bright at open house. Oh my god. Oh yeah. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. So, as I close this evening, I'm reminded of the message shared across our district in this year's welcome back
video centered around the theme for good. It captures the heart of what we do. It's the low cell way. You see it in the way we welcome our newest nights in celebrating our seniors as they walk Crossmore one more time before they graduate. And how we surround every
child with love, care, and opportunity. It's our superintendent literally jumping into a joyful learning activity during a walkthrough. You see him up there. He just jumped right on in in first grade. And it's our Rossmore improv team stepping up and bringing
home the trophy. It's when we take that moment and we ask, how can we be extraordinary? Because of our tireless support of our families, um the dedication and passion of our teachers, our amazing board, um
the collective heart of this community, Rossmore has truly been changed for good. I would like to thank you all for having us this evening. It's been an honor to represent our school. Rossmore is such a special place and we
hope that shines through in everything we've shared. Carter and Rose, you were incredible. The board of education thanks you for being here. And we have your award is the our highest award. It's the you did
it award in front of all these people. >> Red, white, and blue. Carter, you're all in there, buddy. Thank you, Mrs. Colt, Rose, and Carter. Uh, excellent job. I'll let the board u make any comments that they'd like.
Mrs. Partzani. >> Well, um, thank you and thank you so much for such a wonderful presentation. Um, Rose and Carter, I'm in awe. You guys are such fantastic speakers, so articulate, so at ease. So any tips that
you have for us, I'm all ears. And I just everything that you said, Mrs. Colty, really rings true. I And it shows when you step onto the um the campus. I love the idea of that six minutes for six. I think that that's
such a great way to introduce our rising sixth graders to the work that they are um they're going to be doing and kind of help build that confidence and that perseverance. I really appreciate that because one of the things we hear from our fifth graders is how anxious they
are as they're about to embark into the middle school. And to have that as a as a program, something that you guys take out of your instruction to try to help kind of um build that comfort is is really appreciated. Um and the last
thing I want to say is your social media is just out of this world. I absolutely love it. >> I don't know. >> Where's friends at Rossmore? Where are you PTA? >> You know. Yes. Kudos.
I have to say kudos to you guys and the parents that manage the social media. It is uh with so much heart, so informative and um just I love how it really celebrates your school and your culture. So, thank you. >> Thank you,
>> Mrs. Davidson. >> First of all, choir, you are amazing. Mr. Braggman looked at me and said, "Another song we don't know." I I mean, when you've lived this many years on Earth, you expect to know all the patriotic songs. And you beat us on that one. And then you went to It's a Grand
Old Flag. And then you combined songs. I mean, that your rendition was absolutely incredible. You guys should go to Broadway. And Carter and Rose, you were outstanding. I'm absolutely sure you have a big role in ASB and future uh
endeavors at the high school. You'll be student leaders. And all of you just really shine. Um lot this I won't be saying this for very many more years because I won't be on the board very many more years but I will say Rossmore does hold a special place to me kids I I might it might scare you but I was
actually a second grader at Rossmore I I opened the school as a second grader so no it wasn't built 20 years ago um but so I always have it always touches my heart to be on campus and to see what you're doing and the STEM choir art
there are so many activities ities that make you want to come to school and experience joy. But what I really want to say, Mrs. Colty, I I was very impressed by your intentionality, the intentionality of your staff in the in all that you're doing academically, and it shows in your test scores, but the
the conversations, the discussions, you're choosing staff meetings to use time for conversation, important conversations. The um the kids talked about intentional thinking. And I uh I loved what you both of you shared about
the about the millionword reading and uh getting to talk with each other so that you could learn from somebody else's thinking. Uh it's obvious that you value the mind, the ability to learn and the ability to listen to other people. I love the arguments where you present
your where they're looking at the position and the opposite position and then finding commonality. There's great work being done and a whole lot of joy. And a lot of that comes from the staff. Incredible staff at Rossmore with hearts of gold. Yeah.
And a parent community. Parents, you guys get to pat yourselves on the back. I mean, you're awesome. You you kids need to thank your moms, dads, and community members because a lot of the programs you have are because of their efforts, their endeavors, and their sacrifices. So, it's an honor to sit
here and get to watch such a fabulous school share what you did and thank you for the open house. There's only five of us and six schools on having open house on the same night. So, we have to divide and I I missed the night so I got to see a bit of it and it was a beautiful presentation. So, thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Davidson, Mr. Bradman. Yeah, I when Miss Partisani said about the social media, it is whoever does that, it is it is really fun because you feel like you are on campus every day. So, whoever you are out there, I saw maybe someone pat their cell phone in
the back, but great job out there. Where's Kina? No. >> Well, tell Kina she's killing it cuz we we feel like we're truly >> too. The whole district, I think, is stepping up, but you set an example for for those of us that aren't there for parents, community members that want to know what's going on dayto-day. You really do feel like you're on campus
every day looking at social media. So, great work. Um the the choir, great job. I I especially as someone that's watching way too much of the Olympics, like the patriotic spirit and hearing USA being chanted was awesome. You guys were great. And I don't know how you do that cuz if one song going on, another song going on, I don't know what to
listen to. I don't know how I would sing it. You're amazing. The the way you were able to focus, that's its own feat. Um so that was amazing. the the other thing and you jumped this but I think looking at the way the night council is mentored and seeing the high school come and I know the high school goes to each of the campuses but I love seeing when I hear
about being able to do the roller coaster and things like that but your your leadership team your own version of a student council the night council is in preparation for the experience students are going to have as leaders when they get to middle school and then through high school and so I love that that for so many of you students if you haven't participated in night council be
a part of it take on that you might choose to do that you might choose to do something else but I love hearing how the leadership are developing there and they're mentored through the middle school and high school and up. Um, it's going to it's going to set everyone up for success. So, I love that and and again, you two as speakers. Um, amazing.
Truly amazing. We have speakers up here all the time, but the way you spoke, the confidence you had, um, I think you lit up the room. It was just, it was it was mind-blowing. So, I really appreciate the way you did that. You did set an example for us as leaders in the way we should speak, too. So, great job. Uh, and congrats to your parents and
everyone else for having leaders like you on campus. Thank you, >> Mr. Borham. >> Well, Mrs. Davidson, I did not attend Rossmore School as a second grader, but I could have probably cuz we are equal in age. But my I sat here and listened
and I remembered my two kids were both Rossmore Knights and the caring, strong, effective teachers then are you have exceeded that at this point and they didn't get book clubs. I don't know what
was going on back then but congratulations on a wonderful report. >> Thank you. >> Thank you Mr. Foreham. Um I I will I will start with that I did have the opportunity to be at open house uh for
Rossmore and I think of myself as an alumni since I had two my two sons went through Rossmore as well and it was just spectacular and so joyful and the garden was just extraordinary. I came on campus everybody says you got to go see the garden. It looks so pretty with the
twinkle lights and it was but also the the the art um the art display was wonderful. I had seen it at the high school already but it was really nice to be able to look at it again and just um the STEM fair and how many students
participated. I was in awe. I think there were three rooms and the media center completely full. >> We're close to like 250 >> 200. It was just I could have spent all day just looking at that. So, um,
amazing jobs and and teachers. I really enjoyed walking into each one of your classrooms and, uh, we did have the discussion that it was dark, so that was a little bit different for us for open house, but um, I know it was a big push and I just want to thank you again for a
really beautiful job that you did. Um, Mrs. Colty, I also want to say I love how you explained that um your students at all different levels and that doesn't mean we make the bar low. That means we make the bar high and we give all the
support we can to make um to make sure that our students are feeling successful wherever they are and and taking that bar higher and higher and you did a beautiful job with that. And then also explaining I think sometimes the public says oh student free day what does that
mean and so much work is done and it's so important that teachers have the opportunity to be reflective of what they're doing in the classroom to collaborate um that to look at data and to make those next best steps. So um
thank you for all that and Mr. Anderson, thank you for all the work that you do uh with the choir as well. And Dr. Pver, >> thank you, Madam President. Yes, I will try to be brief, but you know, that's hard for me, particularly uh to talk about some amazing students and what
what an incredible school. Rosmore is clearly shining bright. Uh you definitely need your sunglasses because uh it just radiates joy. It radiates um intentionality and student wellness and and just active culture. Um shout out to
our Royal Choir, by the way. I love that name, the Royal Choir. I had to like oo uh that that that got me. It was a spectacular song. I don't think we've had two better well-dressed uh student speakers. Uh they they were spectacular.
And I think uh some of you said yes. Let's hear for uh But the poise and the joy, your faces really do light up. And that's one of the things that we always uh our our staff try to do is to have our faces light up for kids. And quite honestly,
you did that for us. You lit your faces lit up for us. So, thank you. It uh really makes a tangible difference. Um Rossmore is just such an incredible campus on on so many levels. and you have things that have become so ingrained in your culture that you've
really made unique only to Rossmore and I think of your house system and how you bring our students in as soon as that whether they're at a at a TK or they're a brand new kid at any grade level and how your staff rally behind that too and all of your staff members also become part of a house system and it really brings this culture and this
collaboration across grade levels. Um it really gets to see a unified approach as being a Rossmore Knight. Um, the millionword medal is something that has just been iconic u at Rossmore and I and I love to see that. But I also loved hearing through the presentation from our students talking about Socratic
seminar um and just engaging in thoughtful conversation uh as well as teaching our students how to agree and how to disagree. And clearly I think this is something that society needs more of uh and more um particularly as as we live. Uh, and then I too love the
the six minutes for for six. It's just our our our teachers and our staff at Rossmore continue to find really creative and enlightening ways, but then they're so thoughtful and reflective about how to improve their craft. And I know that's exactly the time that they're uh spending in their staff
meetings and in some of the staff development of how we can continue to see that growth and obviously it's paying off. looking at the MAP uh growth scores from first benchmark to to to second um was was just spectacular. So clearly our students and our staff are working hard to make unlimited
possibilities. So thank you and thank you Amy for your leadership. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Good. >> Mrs. Colt, it's all yours. >> It's all okay. It is time to celebrate more. I'm excited. Okay, we did
questions. Sorry. But we have our hero of the heart and it is not a surprise here at Rossmore. I'm just saying we do know. And so a lot of people are here to help um help me recognize. So with great honor to recognize this heroes of the heart, hero of the heart, we have Mrs.
Tiffany Cap. Just a really light flash. >> Your name is on there. Isn't that beautiful? >> I know. >> Thank you so much. >> So, you're gonna stand by me, okay? >> Because we love you. So, getting to know Tiffany, I haven't How many years is this? Our
>> third >> fourth, I don't know. Well, I really started to get to know her a few years ago when I found her and I like pulled her in. So, getting to know Tiffany and having the opportunity to work alongside her over the past few years has been a joy. I do remember when I first met you
like where we had a long conversation and I knew right away I needed to invite her back in and ask her for help. That's exactly what I did. I think you were nervous. Do you remember? She's like, "Wait, am I in trouble?" And I'm like, "No, I just have a lot of things that I think you'd be really good at." So, I invited her into my office. I asked her
to help and she embraced the challenge. And just look at her now. When you asked about social media, she's a huge part of that. And she is truly amazing. And our school is stronger and better because of her care, her dedication, and her heart for our community. Anyone that knows her
out there knows that. Um, so now it's her second year as president of Friends of Rosmore and Tiffany leads with kindness and warmth and a deep commitment to inclusion. She has brought together an incredible group of parents and help transform Friends of Rossmore
into more than just an organization or parents getting together, but it's a welcoming, supportive, and empowering community for our Knight families. Um, her dedication to our school and especially to our STEM program is extraordinary. From supporting nightlife and securing
sponsorships and donations to her continued tireless work behind the scenes, Tiffany has created meaningful opportunities that directly benefit our students. And through this all, she remains incredibly humble, never seeking recognition and always focused on what's
best for our Knights. So, beyond friends of Rossmore, Tiffany is always ready to step in whenever we ask her. She supports PTA. She keeps our community connected through the uh Rossmore PTA Instagram and social media and shows up with positivity, care, and commitment.
And most importantly, she is a proud mom. I mean, that's why you're here, right? I know. Of two Rossmore Knights, Hunter and Wyatt, if they also want to come up. And her wonderful, loving husband, Sean.
Come on up, Sean. I see you. I know. Aren't they beautiful? They're so cute. Sean, you are too. I know. Sean puts up with us. I know. The fact that he lets us borrow his wife
so often. So really though, you model so much for your for your children and for all of us and what it means to lead with heart. So, and somehow you even find time to be a room parent and do all the other small things that just add up. So, Tiffany, your dedication and compassion
and support have left a lasting mark on Rossmore. Our school shines even brighter because of you. So, from all of us, thank you for being our hero of the heart. Thank you. I just I have a few that's a lot of kind words. Thank you so much, Miss Colt. It
makes me very uncomfortable, but I appreciate it. Um, do you Sorry. Do you mind? >> I I just want to come up here and say that I'm I'm in awe. Thank you so much. That's truly special to me. But I I just feel so bad accepting this because it
really does take a village. And I can think of several I mean, I could think of so many parent volunteers that are very deserving of this award as well. And I just want to share my appreciation and give acknowledgement to the friends of Rossmore team. Um to Mindy and Sydney as well for helping guiding throughout
this whole time of me being president. You guys have done so much. I mean to to the friends of Rosmore team that's here. I mean to Helen, Kina, Sky, Jazelle, all of you. You guys mean so much to me. You add so much value to my life. You guys show up for each other
and you also show up for all the friends of Rossmore events, but they also help out with PTA, they help out with all the school events, room parent activities, um the school garden, everything. And the reason why we do what we do is because I absolutely believe and stand strong for having uh diversifying the
curriculum. I believe in having a STEM-based education. Um I believe in having a strong house support system. The house system absolutely helps with peer-to-peer engagement. It helps with self-esteem, leadership. Um, and so I I also want to acknowledge Miss Bulliott's not here, but she's the wonderful STEM
teacher that we have, and she sees up to 600 students a week. And whether it's working on small projects or big projects, she does absolutely so much. And it takes a lot of attention to detail. It takes so much organization for to provide that level of care and teaching. So, I just want to give a
shout out to Mrs. Bullot, who's not here, but I think um I think she would love to hear that because she's very deserving of it. Um, but also Rossmore Elementary is truly the place to be. Um, I can drop my kids off at school and they walk on campus and my boys, I know
that they feel I know that they're heard, they're respected, I know they're valued, they they're they're held to a certain standard. They're held accountable at the school. And I think that driving force behind that is our wonderful school principal, Mrs. Colt. I mean, if you guys know her, she works tirelessly, endlessly. She's such a
perfectionist. Um, Mrs. Colt, as a as a parent, >> hi as a as a parent and a um a volunteer and a working professional, I admire and respect everything that you do. I think that you're the reason why Rosmer Elementary is thriving for our children
and you provide that platform for us to be connected um among the parents. So, thank you so much. And then, um I also want to acknowledge my boys, Hunter and Wyatt. Uh they're six and eight years old. And um boys, it's such a privilege to be able to share this experience with
you. Um, I've seen you guys, you're only six and eight years old, but you guys are growing into your own, you're growing into your own individual selves. And um, I'm very proud of you because your confidence is absolutely beaming. And I just want to say that I'm proud of you guys. Okay. Um, and then also lastly
to u my handsome husband, Sean. He is absolutely he is so patient. He's been so tolerant of our busy schedule for the last two to three years. And Sean, I don't tell you this enough. and I thought that this would be the appropriate place to share this with you, but I love you and um
thank you for keeping me grounded and and being such an anchor for our family. Thank you. Thank you for your time, >> Tiffany. The board of education knows greatly what the hero of the heart is all about, and you exemplify the hero of the heart. So, on behalf of the board,
guess what? You get a medal. Her medal says, "Thank you. You are awesome for making a difference and you're number one." So, congratulations. Sorry, Sean. I didn't get you one. >> I know. >> A wonderful
Anybody have any comments? Just wonderful. Thank you. And we are so grateful that you give so much of your heart uh to Rossmore and to our district. It it makes a humongous difference. Um and I will turn it over
to uh Mr. Reese Wright. Doc Dr. Ree right there. >> Oh yes, I will I will come. Thank you. After I corrected myself. >> Yeah. Yeah. Would you like to escort her up here, please? We are here today to recognize our
district teacher of the year, Miss Megan Avalos. So, please join us. Congratulations. Thank you. >> Well, we had the esteemed pleasure. >> Can you Can you give us that face just
once? No, just Oh, there we go. We had the esteemed pleasure to be able to uh surprise and and and recognize Megan as our district teacher of of the year. And as as a school district our size, the county only allows us to
recognize one certificated teacher to be our teacher of the year. And so it really has to be someone who is the cream of the crop and and absolutely everything that they do. And it's one thing to be an exceptional teacher. We have 430 of them and we are so blessed
to have so many amazing teachers. Um, but it's also someone who, like Megan, who goes above and beyond in so many different ways to support her colleagues, to support students, to support families, uh, and this community. And I think Megan just really
epitomizes what it means to be the consumate professional who's dedicated to her craft as teaching, who's always reflecting um, on on how to make things better for students. I'm sure that she will share, and it's absolutely true. She is part of an amazing team and when
you're on a great team, your teammates make you better as well. And so I know that she's been made uh better in her craft because of the people that she surrounds herself with. Um we're very fortunate. But she's also one who really gives back to the profession of teaching. And I think that's really noble. I don't know if there's a more
noble profession than teaching and serving the public's youth uh and and helping uh educate them. But she's been a mentor for for new teachers uh through their induction program. teachers go through a two-year induction program after they've received their credential. And she's been a bit mentor or an
induction mentor for over six years, really mentoring. It's a two-year commitment when you agree to be a mentor to to different um to to new teachers. And she has just really shaped the lives of the teaching profession by being a positive mentor for these incredible um
teachers as well. In addition, um she has stepped outside of her classroom. She's been our summer school administrator, I believe, for five, six years, uh, helping be an administrator at at summer school for our elementary level. She also, uh, when we were in a
pinch several years ago, right before COVID, we needed some support at a couple of our school sites through some um, some health situations going on with an administrator, she stepped in and was an interim assistant principal over at LE U, which is another one of our
campuses. So, she just has just this extremely wide lens of being able to support all students uh from a from a unified district and we're just so fortunate to be able to recognize and I know there's going to be others who want to say so many spectacular things but thank you for always being student
centered for being focused on what how to create amazing experiences for our youth as we saw in the presentation the six minute math uh I think that's did I six minute math uh for our sixth graders uh and then there was I don't know if you saw she was in so many of the
pictures throughout the presentation because she's really woven into the fabric of what it means to be a Ross Moore Knight um through and through. So with that, congratulations uh as being our district teacher of the year and I'm going to turn it over to our amazing illustrious principal Amy
Colt who also wants to share some spectacular impact that you make at Rossmore. Congratulations So, just hearing everything that the board was saying after we presented, you know, there's things that you said that we highlighted or that you loved. And it just a lot of that like kept going back
to like, oh, that was Megan. Oh, Megan had her hand in that, you know what I mean? Or, oh, Megan's a big part of how that developed. So, it's just such an honor to recognize her as our district teacher of the year. She's such she's the kind of teacher who just quietly yet
powerfully shapes the heart of our school through and through. She puts students first just as Dr. Pulver said all the time both inside and beyond the classroom. And really she's just deeply committed to our students and our community. She leads with her heart and
with purpose and I just feel like um there's so many things that she has done at Rossmore that have just developed into beautiful things. So although she's been in fifth grade about gosh for a decade at least, Megan is a cornerstone of her team. She brings structure,
organization, positivity, and joy, but all while keeping student growth and achievement at the forefront of what's important to her. Megan's also a leader across our campus. So as part of our house system team, she helps design meaningful experiences for our Knights
to strengthen connection and culture and belonging for our Knights. Just as Miss Cap was sharing, she is a driving force behind our night leadership council. So we you also brought that up and Megan has a lot to do with that alongside Mrs. Cochran. Together they work, they give their lunches away every Wednesday and
they meet with the kids and they're just in it with them weekly. Um I mean she's selling our kindness grounds and organized all of that with the kids. So she's just a huge part of what makes Rossmore Rossmore. Um, one of the things that someone reminded me of just last
week when we were um, honoring her was something special that she does every year. So, Megan, um, I always get these emails. They flood my emails like in the fall. You do it in the fall, right? And, um, she each fall she writes a personal email to every one of her former classes
and as they begin the new school year. And in those messages, they're all different, just so you know. every year there's like a different focus because it's to the juniors or 10th grade or seventh grade and um she encourages them to follow their passions and she kind of rem she reminds you know kind of thinks
about what did she love about that age when she was there and just tells them you know things are going to feel hard but like keep persevering and that's such a special thing that she's done over the years um anyone that knows Megan will tell you that she always shares the quote that has really become
part of her legacy success is not final Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Her kids know that when they leave fifth grade, and they know that it's you, every part of you. Um, and each spring, many of those students return to Rossar looking for
Mrs. Avalos and um, just remembering that they have a friend in their former fifth grade teacher. Um, when she needs support, just as Dr. Pulver said, anytime Megan's going to be there. And so, we're just so proud of her. Like, she is so deserving of this. and it's
just amazing. We're so proud of you. Congratulations. >> Congratulations, Mrs. Avalos. >> Thank you. >> All right. So, we have uh the honor in HR of identifying, as Dr. Pulver shared one teacher every year that represents our district and will be moving on to
participate at the county level and nobody is more qualified for that than you Miss Avalos for the joy that you bring to students for the hard work that you do and really just for your consent professionalism. So we're thrilled to honor you. Um we are going to let you speak right now or after president oh
madam president has something for you as well. Come on up. So, I get to I get to give the official um award from the district and then Papa's going to give the board award. But I just want to say really quickly that everybody has talked about your professionalism. Um, but there's two
things that I just want to highlight about you. And one is your love and there is no you feel the heart when you walk into that classroom and it is from love that you give and that you are also a servant leader. We're sitting there trying to give her an award and the
class um or the the council is trying to bring in the the yes the the tables back in and she runs out to go do that and I'm like oh no no you cannot go anywhere right now cuz she didn't know. So I mean that's just who she is and um we could
not be more grateful in this district to have somebody of your caliber be our teacher of the year. Okay. On behalf of the board, last th No, what day was it? Th Wednesday, she got her medal and a comment she made about her medal was, "Gosh, it's so big
and so heavy." Well, the board of education decided you needed something to put on your desk to remind you that you're the best in the district. So congratulations. >> Oh yes. Um thank you. I I'm going to
start off by introducing my husband because he was the last one to get introduced the last time I got an award. My husband uh Robert has is really a great sounding board for all the things that happened during the day. I come home and I share all my failures and he
reminds me of my successes. So that's always been um something that I look forward to at the end of the day. And I do do it for you guys. You're my family. Um my team, you're my family and the district, you're my family. I've been very fortunate to be here the last 14
years and I can't imagine being anywhere else. So, thank you. >> My parents are also here. My mom Rose and my dad Michael. >> Oh, >> I didn't break. >> It's solid gold. It didn't break.
>> It's a good one. Yeah, I've been hearing some of the Olympic medals have been cracking or breaking, but apparently not the medal from Papa. That's impressive, Chris. >> Does any other board have any comments? >> Okay, thank you. Well, we will go into
recess. and young people who are left, if it's okay with your parents, there are cookies. >> During Hold up. During the recess, we'd like to take pictures first. Uh all any Rossmore staff member, then we will take uh pictures of our students. We already
took the choir. So our students arose She does all your huge part of this. Part: 2
We are back into open session and in closed session we discussed um labor negotiations, public employee discipline and student discipline but no action was taken and uh we are now going into open session which is our business part of
our meeting and I am going to ask Bren if she would be so kind to lead us in the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you very much. And Mrs. Reid, would you like to talk a little bit about our workshop that we had at the four o'clock hour? >> Thank you so much, President Hill. We had a great start to our evening. We were joined by Rossmore Elementary in
the night community, Mrs. Colty, as well as two really amazing student speakers and a royal choir that did a great rendition of two patriotic songs. Really talked about the year shining bright on campus and some of the amazing things happening at Rossmore. We also uh got to
learn about their hero of the heart, Mrs. Tiffany Cap, who's really made a great impact at Rossmore. and then really um rounded out our evening by celebrating the district teacher of the year, Megan Ovalos, who is also a teacher at Rossar Elementary School.
>> Thank you so much. It was all Rossmore and it was wonderful. Um now we will move on to our student board report and Miss Schmidt, it's all yours. Good evening, Madame President, Superintendent Pulver, Exe Executive
Cabinet, and members of the Los Alamidos community. My name is Brent Schmidt, and I'm honored to serve as your student representative to the board of education from Los Alamos High School. Here is my report activities. Los Alamos High School recently hosted its winter formal themed Gossip Girl and
Night in New York at Hangar 21 in Fullerton. This evening offered students a well planned and engaging experience featuring activities such as poker, table of tennis, pool, a photo booth, and an impressive dessert display. The venue was filled with energy as students
enjoyed the opportunity to connect and celebrate together outside of the classroom. A highlight of the e evening was the court recognition with Sebastian Mock crowned crowned king, Ean Ash crowned queen, Remy Hong as princess, and Philip
Inglehart as prince. Winter formal was a tremendous success providing a fun, safe and memorable event that strengthened school spirit and reinforced the importance of positive shared experiences for our students. Academics.
The high school recently hosted its first ever Steam Day, welcome welcoming middle school students in grades 7 through 8 for a hands-on introduction to the wide range of STEM electives offered on campus. The event was designed to give students an early glimpse into the
innovative learning opportunities available to them as future high school students. Participants rotated through a variety of interactive experiences across campus. Students explored app development in computer science, observed the precision and teamwork of
marching band, and engaged in creative expression through drama and photography. Some additional hands-on activities included an automationbased projects in 3D design, life-saving skills in emergency medical courses, and design challenges in engineering.
Beyond academics, STEM day provided a meaningful opportunity for our Lions and Eagles to envision themselves as future Griffins, fostering excitement and confidence about the transition to high school. Athletics, the Lost Style High School girls
basketball team continues to demonstrate excellence both on and off the court this season. Led by captains Maya Ombredo and Tammy Oshida and guided by coach Maya Deanda, the team has earned an impressive 20-7 record. Their success
reflects not only strong athletic performance but also commitment to hard work. In addition to their success on the court, the team has been actively involved in supporting our life skills program over the past few months. The players hosted a building bridges event
leading a skills clinic during fourth and fifth period adaptive physical education and later welcomed life skill students to a JV girls basketball game where they sat together and cheered on the team. These experiences highlighted the team's leadership, inclusivity, and
commitment to building meaningful connections across our campus community. The team will host the first round of CIF playoffs this Thursday at home and the Loal Locos are looking forward to supporting them as they begin postseason competition. We encourage our Griffin
community to come out and show their support as a team represents Los Alamos High School with pride and determination. Arts. The Los Amidos Unified School District recently hosted its second annual all district art show featuring visual artwork from students across all
nine schools. The event showcased pieces created in art classes and was made possible through collaboration with lead art teachers at each school who were responsible for selecting the works displayed. At the elementary level, schools strive to include at least one piece from each
student, resulting in the largest volume of artwork and ensuring broad representation. This approach reflects the district's commitment to encouragement and inclusivity in the arts. At the middle and high school levels, selections are more curated and primarily driven by the
teachers to represent the depth and ri and rigor of their curriculum. The event was well attended by families and community members, creating a meaningful opportunity to celebrate student creativity and artistic growth. Student life. With graduation just four
months away, many seniors at Lassa High School are actively planning their next steps after high school. Students are pursu are pursuing a variety of paths including enlisting in the armed forces, attending 4-year universities, enrolling in junior colleges, entering trades
programs, or joining the workforce immediately. While this season can feel both exciting and overwhelming, it is encouraging to see students thoughtfully considering the options that best align with their goals and aspirations. There's no single correct path after
high school, only the path that is right for each individual. And our senior class is embracing that reality with resilience and determination as they prepare for the next chapter. We are especially grateful for the continued guidance and support from our counselors, teachers, and staff who help
students navigate this important transition with confidence. Student spotlight. To close out my report, I would like to highlight an exceptional Griffin, Connor Fox. Connor began his journey in the district as a Tiger at LE, then became an Eagle at
McAuliffe, and is now a proud senior at Los Alamos High School. He is highly involved on campus, being a part of several music courses, including jazz 1, wind symphony, marching band, pep band, and indoor drum line. He is he is also a
part of CSF, NHS, vice president of ACS and the president of Tri Music Honor Society. Recently, Connor won an award in Florida called the Beacon Award. It honors students who ignite pride and enthusiasm at every event on and off the
field. Through exemplary character, inclusive leadership, and an unwavering commitment to their team and school community, this recipient serves as a role model who inspires unity, motivation, and joy in all they do. He
was nominated by Mr. Buchanan and was presented the award at the D1 National School Spirit Championships. While still exploring college options, he wants to attend Florida College. His favorite part about being a Griffin is how he has the opportunity and ability
to do all the fun band related activities that have defined his time as a Griffin. Outside of school, Connor volunteers with the SoCal chapter of the Hutchinson Bell, but most of his time is taken up with the plethora of music activities. Connor's kindness,
leadership, and dedication make him an outstanding role model, and I am proud to feature him in this month's student spotlight. With that, I would like to close out my report with any and all questions from the board. >> Thank you very much. I have one quick question. What is I understand the king
and the queen. What is the prince and the princess? >> Um those are juniors. So juniors. >> Yeah. So Sebastian and Isla are both seniors and then Remy and Philip are both juniors. >> Great. Thank you for that. Does the board have any further questions?
>> Mr. bragman. >> I was just actually I really appreciate you highlighting the Steam Expo. I know that I wasn't able to make it. I had another board commitment that morning but had lots of friends sib uh children go and said it was amazing. And so that to have that and then have the art show following that there were people that stayed really for the whole time and got
so much out of it and I think really saw their paths. And I know there were some students that I talked to who said they were interested in ceramics because they had never actually seen ceramics before. So thank you for highlighting that. I think it's also a huge shout out to I know the middle school principles helped plan that and coordinate that along with Miss Crow. to have the whole team come
together to make sure their Lions and our Eagles are ready to go when they're Griffins. Uh that's that's awesome. So, thank you. >> Great point, Mr. Braggman. Mr. Forham, >> yes. I just want you to know you just shortened my speech during board communications by many items. So, good
job. >> Well done. Thank you. So, thank you so much, Bren. Great job. Thank you. We're really enjoying your reports this year and I'm really glad you're not doing a countdown because I don't want to think
about that. So, um, next we will have, uh, Dr. Pulver, superintendent report. >> Thank you, Madame President. Uh, esteemed members of the board, it's my pleasure to present on a number of different topics tonight, but one I just wanted to share. I'm always uh, amazed
by our parent community. Uh and and you know earlier today we we honor us uh each school gets to recognize a hero of the heart um of individuals who go above and beyond and give so much back um at the school. Today uh I was part of the Rotary Club in Los Alamito Seal Beach
and Cyprus and they had a Valentine fundraiser and Mrs. Davidson was actually one of the help key or organizers of the event. Um and Mrs. Hill attended as well in your role of um two two roles as the executive director of Pathways to Independence. And what
our Rotary Club is trying to do is to raise money for a lot of our nonprofits. Um and we are lucky to have a community. So many of our nonprofits are very youth centered and youthbased to to support uh or or family centered uh in that sense.
And so the fundraiser was to support uh various ones. And when I was there, I could not help but to suddenly see three individuals who just stood out to me. Um, they were parents when I was principal at Lee. Christy Putnham, who was our PTA president, Alli Jones, who
was our PTA president, and Debbie Ner, who is our project leap, uh, heavily involved and to see their kids have long gone through our district. Um but they continue they were there to support the weare uh nonprofit organization and just to continue to see how um people in this
community support one another and to support our youth and to support those in need is really I think what makes this such a rich and wonderful community to be part of. Um and then in that Rotary recognized uh Mr. Dave Appene as
the heart for service award and received um Mrs. Hill gave on behalf of the school board a certificate of appreciation. Um, which I'm sure she'll share a little bit more. Um, but just incredible people who do so much for this community. Um, and get very little
recognition. So, that was pretty expire um, inspiring. And then I also want to extend an invitation to the entire community. We have a very fun evening coming up this Thursday evening where Dr. Whisright and myself will be the
judges again. for our third annual district staff improv show. Uh and so they'll be uh this is headed up by uh Mr. Dave Barker who's a teacher at Los Alamos High School who runs the improv program for students. Uh and our staff
get to participate in in an improv. And so our our kids can see their teachers or their staff members or their principal um participate in improv. And so that will be Mon Thursday from 6:00 to 8:30 at February 12th that I would encourage everyone and the it's really
uh fun and silly today. Rossmore was our school. Uh and Rossmore staff is the one who took the the the first prize last year. Um and so we'll see who wins first prize. Um but the fundraiser also supports our drama students and so for
students who are having to travel for some of the thespian and other uh awards. So if you can make it out, we would encourage you um to attend. The other thing that I wanted to focus in on is really uh which I often do in the month of February is to really put a
spotlight on our career uh technical education programs that we offer here in Los Alamos Unified because as you heard even Bren earlier talk about there is no single pathway for students when you were talking about our our seniors who are really contemplating which way they're going whether it's a four-year
whether it's a a community college whether it's straight out into the workforce or really even some type of trade um last board meeting in in January, the board approved and recognized as February being uh honoring the month of February as career technical education
month. And so I thought I'd spend some time to really just kind of unpack and share to our community the vast uh ways that we offer career technical education programs and a new way that we're looking to expand um for next school year. Um and so currently our high
school has seven integrated pathways. Um and within those pathways then there's 18 different CTE courses that are being offered. Uh but here's the amazing thing. Uh 951 of our students um are
participating in in CTE. You know, if you think we're just shy of of 3,000 kids um and that that's pretty incredible. um that almost a third of our students are invol enrolled in some type of CTE program. And so um but I
thought I would just find a ways to be able to kind of identify what our core pathways are. Um and our CTE pathways when when students get enrolled in them, they're they're either a two-year pathway or a three-year pathway. So some of our courses um are three year some of
our pathways are a three-year pathway and some are two. It's probably a little bit easier where there's so many different um think competing needs for our students schedules for them to have a a two-year career technical education pathway, but some of them um are also
three years. So, uh engineering and design and you can see the courses that make up uh there are uh several ones um that make up that that is a three-year pathway uh from my understanding. Our biomed pathway is one of our more recent pathways that's now probably three plus
maybe four years. That's a two-year pathway uh that really opens up anatomy, physiology, forensics, um medicine, and research kind of two within that as well. We have a a really specified sports medicine as well, which is another two-year career technical
education pathway. So, the pathways, whether they're two or three, just really kind of vary on the on design. We have film and video which is uh another pathway and as you see our focus studios do so many different um uh videos and
pro projects for that benefit not only the Los Almeas High School but districtwide technical theater um and they do uh both uh stage design, costumeuming, lighting, sound, etc. That's a two-year program as well. public safety. It's really fire safety
uh and uh EMT. Um and that is a what's really powerful about that. We partner with North Orange County ROOP to provide the CTE pathway. Um and they are great partners. Um, and when our students finish, we're one of the few high schools that has a program that
students, they have to be 18 years old to get past the EM to get their EMT certification, but they uh will be able to take and pass that course uh and become EMTs right out of high school. Um, and so I think there's very few high schools that have that option available
to their to their students. And then software systems development um we have uh as well which is really kind of our um computer programming uh etc. And we're adding a new class that I'll talk about uh in a little bit um there which
is an intro class and they they're calling it so this will now kind of add a third uh level of class for that kind of an intro class and it's called AP kickstart cyber security and intro to computer science and so this is another area that AP is kind of trying to take a
look at expanding um a little bit different than the traditional AP program they're calling it AP kickstart that if they complete that course they will get AP certification We're still they haven't made determination yet if they're going to be um a formal test or just the completion. A lot of it is is some of it is project
based as well. And so that will kind of be integrated within our AP computer science principles um pathway as well. But I'm also excited to say and you've heard me allude to this and talk about this um different opportunities this year is that we are using this year to
expand uh our pathway our eighth pathway now that will start next year and it's a business and entrepreneurship pathway uh and this will be u potentially a three-year program as well. It will our first course will start off another uh
AP kickstart class and so it's AP kickstart business with personal finance and so it's a college level introduction to the disciplines of marketing accounting and and management and in that they'll do some portfolio projects that'll be part of the way that they get
certified um for the AP um certification and they'll do a a business canvas project um they'll do a financial advisor project and then um over the course of the next two years we'll be introducing um the other two courses so that there will throughout that process
there'll be a three-year pathway that builds into the entrepreneurship and and leadership skills for future business leaders and I share this at our state of the district but our uh district was recognized by Orange County Department of Education for the having the highest growth of student participation in CTE
programs uh number one um um so really really impressive and so you can see as we're looking uh to really kind of um merge this concept of advanced placement with career technical education as well. And so that's kind of a neat marriage, I think, taking a look at these AP career
kickstart uh opportunities. And so we're excited to take a look at that um and be able to offer that to our students next school year. In addition, as part of the CTE uh aspects, um we do uh even have some of the seeds of it really quite honestly um
through at our middle school programs and a lot of it is through middle school exploration. But both McAuliff and Oak STEM classes bridge CTE aligned lessons through engineering and computer uh science. They'll do 3D modeling, battlebots, and game design. And then
we've also tried to provide more internship opportunities. And so, um, here at the high school, uh, and with our partnership with North Orange County ROOP, our juniors and seniors can gain, if they're part of that internship program, 80 plus hours of on-site
industry experience while earning high school credit, which is really uh, phenomenal. And so, it's kind of this overarching uh, collaboration with with us along with the Orange County Department of Education, OC Pathways, etc. So, we're really excited. Um, and there's just a plethora of options um to
be able make make things possible for for all of our our Griffins. Moving on from CTE, I wanted to be able to highlight our rock stars of the month. It's a wonderful program that HR uh really um kind of highlights. Our
staff get to nominate uh other employees for who was a rock star for that month. And we recognize a certificated and a classified uh employee. And so last week we got to recognize and honor Matt Maya who is a science teacher. He's a lead science teacher at McAuliffe Middle
School and was mentioned was named our rockstar of the month for the month of January. And he's brought so many other ways to he was teaching at another one of our middle schools at Oak Middle School and has came over to to Mclliff and as part of the there were astronomy night that that Mclliff created um and
just really finding ways to kind of make uh science come to life. Um, and so we're really pleased to be able to recognize him. And then Carrie Mcc uh McKe who is an instructional aid uh with working with our students with special needs. Uh, and she works at Hopkinson
Elementary and she just does goes above and beyond and finds so many ways to kind of support some of our students who need us the most. And she does so with always just a smile, compassion, and care. um and is such a a wonderful support both to um our staff um that she
and and our students. So, congratulations to Matt and Carrie as being our rock star of the month. And then this has been the season where we've been able to kind of announce our employees of the year. And so we now have finished all of them. Um and so I want to just recap because I don't know
if I've brought them forward in my superintendence report. uh but you will see them at future board meetings when we recognize them and we've already recognized now too. But uh for classified we were able to recognize three classified employees in different classifications. Miss Carrie Palone
who's the school office coordinator um at McGaw Elementary is the our classified employee of the year and for classified because there's so many different categories. Um she is representing the clerical and administrative services. Uh and then that will will move forward in the
Orange County um classified employee program. We have Lillian Ford Patterson who works at Los Alamos High School. Um she's the workbased learning technician. She works within the college and career center as well. Um and she just does an amazing job to really keep our kids um
connected to find different ways to different programs for them. Um and so she's always someone who goes above and beyond. Such such joy. that smile you just uh radiates uh always and so we're pleased to be able to recognize her when
it's um when it's the high school's um board report. And then uh April Quinon who's an instructional aid uh and she's currently has been working at Oak Middle School but works at so many has worked at multiple school sites, summer school,
etc. She is another one who just will take on any challenge and does so with such dignity and such grace and poise and enthusiasm and passion u and just can can find ways to make um just provide additional support for our students who need us. Uh and so she's
really was was fun to be able to recognize at Oak Middle School. And then our district employee of the year went that we've created this classification a few years ago because there are certain categories that the county doesn't offer and that's our TOSAs, our counselors, our psychologists
um etc. And so Jenny Bane, who is our district u uh program, she's not quite a program coordinator. I think she's a behavior specialist uh and she is our employee of the year who has worked uh flawlessly and she's just really unflapable. goes above and beyond
supporting our our students. She was provides a lot of support to our um we have no almost 200 instructional aids uh and if there's a last minute change or someone's sick or someone needs additional coverage um or additional behavior supports um and she'll help support the team. So, she does just a
phenomenal job. So, we uh got to recognize her. And then, as you uh saw earlier today at the workshop, we got to recognize Megan Ovalos as a district our size. We only get to recognize one teacher of the year through through the county program and Megan Ovalos was was
selected and um I hope you tune in to the workshop because we said a lot more uh uh things about her but she's worked for us for 14 years and she has been a a mentor uh not only she's superb in her craft and always wanting to improve her her craft but she's also wants to help
improve the profession. She's been a mentored teacher for for new teachers for six seven years. Uh she's been uh our um assistant principal or principal of the summer school for five years at our elementary program and in a myriad of
other ways. And then Dr. Dan Bennett uh has been selected as our district administrator of the year and Dan really serves kind of two roles. His true title is is edtech coordinator. But in a small district, as you guys well aware, we wear a lot of hats and he actually uh
through his through that as well oversees a lot of and support for our career technical education programs along with um Mrs. uh Davis. And so Dan kind of supports both programs there both with CTE and edtech. And that
concludes my report for this evening. >> Thank you so much, Dr. Pulver. And that was really wonderful um information that you shared about CTE and how important that really is in our district. I think that sometimes there's a misconception
um about our district and those things that we support and thank you very much for doing that. That was extraordinary. So we will now go on to board communication and I think I'll start on my right with Mr. Bragman. >> Thank you, Madam President. Uh I I can
be shorter probably than lot. And I know a lot of us probably will talk about open house, but really the first thing I really want to highlight was open house last week for our elementary schools. Um I know board members, many of us were able to attend open houses at sites throughout the district and just I know I was able to be at McGaw and it was just an unbelievable night. We heard
from Rossmore who talked about their STEM expo. I actually had my number that I was told over 200 participants in the STEM expo at McGaw. It was same thing three rooms. It was the art room, the library media center. It took over the tech space. It was just vibrant and it was alive. It was so fun. It was hot
with how many kids there were there, but it was dark and cold outside, but it was hot in that room because it was crowded. Um, but to see students also, I know I really wanted to be a student. So, to go in and talk to kids. I had one student whom who made cookies and what was the difference if you change one element of a cookie every time, right? And so, she
talked about what was going to be drier or softer or harder or saltier or whatever. And then she had the cookies, you could try them. She even had gluten-free ones for the gluten-free audience. Um, but we had students that were really engaged and it was really fun to see also how much of the student work was there. Not parent work because sometimes you see those STEM expos but
student work and it was really really a fun thing to see and so I'm glad to see that that happened in many other schools across the district. Um, and then to follow it up by going to every classroom. I know Miss Wood I really appreciate it was probably the same experience people had but Miss Wood took me class to class getting to experience it and it was also fun to engage with
parents. There was the parents that were there that were learning from their kids. Open house is always fun because it's not the teachers leading it's the kids leading it right the kids are talking about why they have created these different um creations whether it was you know I saw what would I do if I was president my favorite part of my of
myself that students are explaining to the people and I even caught a few parents of non uh Loel school district kids that were checking it out I was in a TK classroom where there were some parents in there that were wanting to learn more about our TK program and and getting to visit and scope it out. Is this right? Is my kid ready for this next year and to talk to to parents. So
I I love also that it's an open house which is really open to the community so that people can come and explore and see what it's like. So I highly recommend for people to be able to take that opportunity and visit schools and be able to have that in the future and looking forward to seeing it at the middle school it coming up soon too. So
great time at open house and and the other thing I wanted to to share is I know we often talk about the committees that we're on. I really want to give a big shout out to Miss Garcia for planning leading a really informative safety and wellness committee. I know you're sitting there in the back. Um, the meeting that we had last week was super informative talking about all the
things that happen behind the scenes to keep our schools safe. But I really loved that you brought our one of our district nurses on. So Miss Katana, Jessica Katana, who's a district nurse. We all so often think about nurses at the site that are putting band-aid on kids that trip during lunch, but we don't think about all the work that happens behind the scenes. She was talking about working with Annie Rayu in
food services and making sure we're aware of food allergies and how many things we need to order. She's talking about making sure we have the right epipens and that we have AEDs and that we have Narcan and when are we keeping the expiration dates and and so to understand all of the things we do to make sure that we keep our students safe and well on our campuses. We talk
sometimes about their physical health. We talk about their mental health but you don't think about all the things we do and this is a nurse not like your again not like the nurse we often times think about in school who's just there to help the kid that fell and scraped their knee at lunch. So really thank you for highlighting her and bringing that together and seeing all the things that
happen behind the scenes to keep our students well and safe made me really joyous to be part of that committee. Um anyone that that is a part of that committee would come away from it more educated and more informed about what we do every day and and I also huge shout out to Miss Katana and all of our nursing staff that that do that every
day. So um with that I will hand it back off to you madam president. >> Thank you very much Mr. Forham. Well, Brenn took almost all my speech, but I will start out with how great it is to see us reaching back to the middle
school for the STEM event. And then also, I felt like I was in New York at the Metropolitan Art Museum because of the display of student artwork. It was just great. But a shout out to all the staff that were there to make this happen. And speak of reaching out, you
did not include this one. We have a loal dance team at McAuliff and at Oak and I want to compliment our high school kids and teacher for reaching down there. We have two staff members that take each
one and recently they finished first and second in their competition. And I am the rep for our and now I'm the president of the Sula board. But the sub the sub board, I want to remind board, I want to remind everybody that everybody that they will be honoring they will be honoring parents and staff parents and staff in our district with
in our district with their CAC, that's their CAC, that's their community their community advisory committee advisory committee awards on April 15th. awards on April 15th. So now is the time So now is the time to submit that type to submit that type of application to of application to honor those that make honor those that make a difference. But a difference. Then Saturday is the model United Nations team where they host an event
right here at our high school and kids from surrounding school districts will participate in debates similar to the United Nations on topics such as equity, climate change, and other current civic events. And I've been there before and I
also see how much they've developed their ability to lead diplomacy, conflict resolution and teamwork. And I'm always convinced that the world would be better placed just because of these kids. And then the CTE, Dr.
Pulver, went into great depth, but they also produce a monthly newsletter and I think it's wonderful. They always highlight a student who is in addition to attending high school in doing some type of work. And this time they chose
someone his name is John Park who really exempl exemplifies CT path way in computer science and he's taking what he's learning in the classroom at LOSAL. then he's interning at Loal and maybe perhaps he'll take it
on to college as a major and then perhaps a career in computer science. So, it's all good. You mentioned the STEM fairs were incredible. And I want to make a comment about open house. Although it was early, um, you could see
on the 110th day of school, it was simply amazing everything the kids have now already learned. And it's just kudos to the staff for how they show visitors all they've done this part of the year.
And then again, Bren, you took Connor Fox off my ending statement, but I wanted to just shout out again as the senior drum major at Losal. He placed first in the whole nation for the Beacon
Spirit of the Year National Winner. He truly embodies leadership, character, and community spirit. Way to go, Connor. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Forham. Mrs. Davidson.
>> So Bren, I have a lot of cross crossed out parts, too. So, thank you. That was good. And Dr. Pulver, a few too. I first I want to comment on Matt Maya getting rockar. A few days ago, I had one of uh one of my close friends who teaches math at the middle school was over at our
house and commented he's at McAuliffe commented on how vibrant how exciting exciting the atmosphere is at McAuliff now with this a whole a whole new science staff with some new math teachers and Mr. Maya coming over and
taking on this leadership role. He said it's just like everything is energized and we're ready to go. So it was and this is a person who's highly revered and very uh doesn't throw out praise unless it's deserved. So thank you Mr. Maya. Um I went was able to go through a
a couple of walkthroughs at Hopkinson and Weaver, two absolutely outstanding schools with fabulous administrators in Mr. Farre and Dr. Schmidt. What you see in the classrooms never ceases to astound me. the the quality of
leadership engagement, um the kind of work that students are doing and the way they can tell you about it. Even if they're in second grade, they understand what they're supposed to be learning, how they're learning, and what the and the process because it's been so well articulated to them and they've been
given so much support. So, both schools are absolutely outstanding on a in a million ways. I could I could be here till midnight. Um I went to Los Alamus Elementary for open house. Same feeling. I went first to CDC to the preschool and it was just adorable. It was one
classroom and the the teacher had given them little drawn out maps for them to take their parents on a a mapped tour of the classroom and showing them their work and they were so proud and showing them the babies that they dress and take care of every day and their Lego work
and their artwork and the the little animals in the aquarium. Some of them a little strange, but they it was a wonderful experience. and then to go through classrooms. Um, as a parent, you you get to spend that whole hour, hour and a half if you don't have to split it with your child's work. I felt like I
was on this in a race because there are so many classrooms you don't want to miss anything and you step into the classroom and I having taught for 25 years I will tell you saying to me that the open house will be this early in the year would be terrifying because you're
you're building towards something and in the midst of it we're also doing a lot of assessing and and so to be able to create the kind of work that I saw in the walls student produced I mean multiple paragraph essays in third parade. I you know it and and I could
tell you what science units were going on by the work that was displayed there and so much of it very visual, very very beautiful. Um I walk into fourth grade and you know you're they're doing I'm in fourth grade there's California history everywhere. So the classes really reflected the learning and made me so
proud to to be in this district. Uh that I agree with Matt with Mr. Bragman the safety wellness committee. Thank you. Thank you Mrs. Garcia. You were absolutely outstanding. And and what I want to say, you work at the very minute one-on-one student level. You take care
of individual students, but you and your team take care of the rest of the district in such ways that you build training, you build knowledge, and you build safety nets for our students by educating all of us. So, thank you so
much um T and to cabinet and your teams for TK uh information night. That was absolutely amazing. The auditorium, the PAC at the high school was full and it was full of very young, very nervous
parents and you could just see their loads being lightened as you informed them, answered their questions. Some of them were hysterical. Um, but you dealt with them with such honesty and truth and comfort and knowledge that by the end of the evening, you could see that
they were all walking away smiling and ready to launch their their children. So, thank you. Um, the STEM experience at the high school was amazing. So, I'm not going to elaborate on that anymore than to say every classroom they were accomplishing in 45 minutes what I can't
imagine doing in a month was absolutely incredible. But what I want to thank is the staff. Those teachers volunteered their time. That was all they were not paid for that day. It was voluntary and they created all of the curriculum. They created the lessons they did. It was all
self-directed, self-motivated. And and so they gave up their time for our kids in order to build a bridge from middle school to high school. And you could see the kids really engaging and enjoying it. Um and as to for uh choir, we got to
see the choir performance. Um it was absolutely outstanding. They've they they previewed some of their acts for for the national competition and they were absolutely incredible as always. Look forward to them doing really well and wish them the best of luck. I'm on
the um board of trustees for North Orange County RO. So this CTE month is really very relevant to my experience and as a member of this board I get to go go visit other campuses. And so I went I got to go to Pl Placentia Access
which is a special small campus where we have kids a few that go but they draw students from all over the county who may have missed out on units. It may have been sickness. It may have been a behavioral issue when they were pulled from school for a while but I had no
real picture in my mind of what that program was like. We went into the classrooms and they were learning how they there there was a CTE program in which they were learning how to do stenciling and create stickers and screen t-shirts. So for for kids looking
for a trade, young people looking for a trade. But then they also get to complete units and they had each student's name up with a map of each as and they moved along this map as they created their as they finished their English units, as they finished their math units. and and I saw the the
language arts books they were using, they were using highquality novels and I it made me feel way so much better to know that if you if you have to leave our campus for a while, there are really good options. We just want you to come back. Uh and I also got to go to Western
High School, which is very was precious to me because I graduated from Western High School. We were the last class to be bust out of Rossmore and Los Alamas before Los opened. Once again, I am very ancient. Um, but at Western, we visited
their CTE and ROOP programs and RO and CTE are uh they cater to the population on a campus. So, yes, our entrepreneurship and business is what a calling that is a class that a pathway
we want to offer students in our community because there's a there's a market for it, there's an interest for it. Um other schools uh Western we visited their uh construction site and they were bu they literally have gigantic machines that you know require a lot of safety
training um and we had to wear the goggles in and the first year students were building wooden birdhouses where you had to cut the angles do all of the wood but if you stuck with it in the midst of this gigantic warehouse was a tiny house. Those are the houses that
they build and it has plumbing, shower, sink, it has plumbing in it. And that is a third-year project that the whole class builds this house and then it's donated for someone to live in. So, it's pretty amazing what they accomplish in a in three years of training. We also went
to the public health pathway and the students were working in partners. They didn't they had they had interviewed people a select group of people about what are your issues in in getting health care? What problems do you encounter? How how what kind of help
would you like? And each each partner each two uh group of two students uh identified a need, did research, and they're working in conjunction with um was it Providence St. Jude? They're they got a grant. They're working with
Providence St. you to create a solution to the problem in which they do a whole visual online presentation. They create they do their speeches. They take the information from the research and link it to the questions and create a response to how to deal with the issues
these people specifically addressed. Um and then they they each class presents each group presents to the class. The class there are four classes. Each class picks one group and then from the one group they pick they the four
classes compete from the uh amongst the one best team from each room and then pro they will go present their program to Providence um St. Judes and what I found in all of these programs and we went to industrial design too and they
were working to with the art department to create murals on the walls of Western High School. But one of the most important parts of CTE and RO that I see is are the leadership qualities that they're developing in these students. Not necessarily the students in all every case that would have been student
government leaders or out there up in front of everybody, but they each room had they they assign ambassadors. We had students lead us through everything. These ambassadors come to ROP board meetings and present. But they develop skills for interviews. They tell you how
to dress. They te they teach you how to listen to other people and respon respond appropriately. So CTE is much more than just building the birdhouse or even learning how to do CPR. It's like it's training these kids in ways that develop them as human beings and put
them out in the business world so that they can they can function at a much higher level. So I'm so appreciative of the fact I get to be part of this program and I'm really looking forward to the entrepreneurship the business pathway. So that's it for me
>> Mrs. Bartisani. >> Okay. Thank you. Well, I will just share some um highlights that have not been touched on. Uh so, uh first I went to the um well, I am part of the AI task force uh that is underway and their
first meeting for a grade 6 through 12. There's two task force, one for upper um level and one for elementary. And the uh task force for grades 6 through 12 had its first meeting and they dug into some recommended AI policy. They proposed
some thoughtful changes and the team is meeting again this week to keep building some practical guidance for teaching and learning and I'm just really encouraged by this because um of how collaborative this effort is. We had lots of people in the room but also um the focus is on
learning on how do we make sure that effective learning takes place in the world influenced by AI. Next, as you all may know, um, as it is important to all of us, but it's very important for me to have two-way communication um, with our community.
And as part of that, I'm just really glad that we revised the PT council format so that every board member can engage with this key group. And last month, I got a chance to um go to their meeting and hear firsthand from parent
volunteers uh what's working, where some extra support could be helpful. And I just find this um sort of feedback from the people that are on the ground on our campuses just invaluable. So I appreciate that opportunity. Then I got
to attend the LEAL improv show and um led by Mr. Barker and what a gem of a program that is. You know, it's watching our Griffins take risks. Um, I mean, have an amazing time. Be hilarious. And
it's all done in this really supportive and safe environment created by Mr. Barker. And I was just so um it was just such a joy to watch. And um yes, I will be there on Thursday because I like to see our staff um you know, give it give
improv a try and let's see how they do. So I'll I'll make sure to record back for those who um may not participate or may not be there to observe. And finally, I want to um end it with two quick shoutouts. First um a big shout out to Hopkinson um
their second grade team for making learning come alive. You know, you heard Dr. Pulver talk about that that how on each of our campuses our teachers really go above and beyond to make learning applicable um and like we said come alive and their second grade team what I
learned during a recent walkthrough was um that they take a yearly field trip to In-N-Out where kids learn about goods and services um firsthand. They get to, you know, really understand from the employees of how um how, you know,
In-N-Out operates and then they take that learning and they write personal narratives. And this is second grade. They write personal narratives about what they learned in the classroom. And you know, as we were going through, I kind of leaned over and I looked at some of the writing and I was just in awe and
I said, you know, it this is such a fun realworld way of teaching our kids. And I just really appreciate it that that team does this on a yearly basis and I hear it's really hard to get into In-N-Out. So, the fact that they're able to make that happen every year is a big
um deal. And then secondly, I want to give a shout out to our wonderful ASB team um at the high school under the leadership of Mrs. Lavos and Mrs. Shanner. Um I got a chance to watch the all school winter assembly that's put on
by ASB students for students. Um watching the collaboration between ASB film, the winter sports teams, um dance, cheer, uh band, our staff gets involved. um was just and many more that I
probably just you know apologies if I didn't didn't see you but I there's a ton of people behind the scenes that are really supporting this assembly. Um and it's you know they're able to keep 3,000 approximately 3,000 students engaged
cheering participating in these games. It was just such a such a magical experience to observe and really my hats off to our ASB team. you know, they are always behind the scenes doing so much for our students to really elevate all of our students. And I I'm just so proud
of that program. And just lastly, you know, um I know I it was really hard to really choose these two to shout out because really a big huge thank you to all of our amazing teachers that go above and beyond making learning meaningful and really creating
an environment where our students thrive. So, thank you. >> I'll give that to you, >> Mrs. Davidson, >> I I did goof up. I had promised the superintendent at ROP that I would mention in the summer. Uh so we talk about the wood the building the
buildings or um the public health pathway if if something isn't provided in a district. This is a consortium of districts. In the summer, our students can go and and take a course in in building. They can take a course. they can go they can pursue the pathway
through through another district and bring the units back. And I said, "Wow, I don't know. I I mean, I guess we don't know about that." And they said, "Oh, no, no, your school's doing a really good job of sharing it. You just didn't know about it." And uh that you're that Los Alamas High School has one of the
highest percentages of students participating in their summer programs. So, if we don't offer it, then it's available another way. and we our fire science uh courses are taken by other students during the summer. So, it's a it's that's the point of having a
consortium with other districts. Thank you. >> No problem. Um I will be uh pretty quick. So, I I like to tie my communication to our our goals and our core values. And I had an opportunity to
go to a boys basketball game and while I was sitting there I realized that there were a lot of teachers. I was there with my husband and there were a lot of teachers um in the crowd and he pointed that out and I didn't think twice about it because I'm used to seeing so much of
our amazing staff at um various events. But I love that and I really tie this to core value of care that we're trying to teach teach our students. We foster a culture of kindness where everyone is treated with dignity, respect, individuals seek to understand all
points of view and the um players invited their teachers to this game. Um and I just thought that that was really amazing and that they reciprocated and that they actually came and were there
to cheer them on. So I I love that those things are so embedded in who we are and in our culture. So that was and we won. So um that was always good. Um in when we talk about communication and having
open communication, um our bargaining units and LEA, which is um an I had an opportunity to meet with some of their some of the teachers that are in leadership and really listen to what
their main concerns were and do it. they understand that we're one I am one board member and we work as um as a five member board but being able to hear from different perspectives and I think also
them hearing from me from my perspective them not knowing who I am or what experience I have or where my values lie and how much I got an opportunity to just really express how much I value them and professionalism the
professional ism that they bring and that they want uh and the care that they want to um give our students. So that was a really wonderful opportunity as well. Um, on a little personal note, I have um my neighbors uh have three
children and one is a senior in high school and two are eighth graders over at Oak. And the senior in high school had went to winter formal. And his mother asked if they could take pictures in front of my house. I don't know why. She said, "Cuz I had twinkly lights."
I'm like, "Okay." Um, but it was wonderful. And I I looked out I left them to do their thing, but I looked out my window and it was really such a gift to be given to see them all there and so excited and all dressed up. And I
learned that now um and Bren correct me if I'm wrong, but instead of necessarily corages, it's like a little bouquet is more seems to be more the flower thing. At least that's what I saw. So, you know, I love seeing these trends, but that was a real gift. Um, and our
students are so beautiful. And I when I say beautiful, I mean they're beautiful inside and outside. They are so well behaved. They their parents are there and they're all um they're all in and so respectful. So that was a little a
little bit of a joy I got. Um, and just to piggyback on what Dr. Pulver said about the Rotary event today. Um, you know, to me that really goes to goal three, which is really fostering um collaboration, partnership, shared
responsibility among students, family, staff, and the community as a whole. And to see so much of our community come together to support um our local nonprofits, to support our Rotary Club, and um really to honor a very, very
special gentleman. Um, Mr. grappling to me is um that role model of who I hope that I can be in this community. And he um I said today
he when he tapped me on the shoulder um to get involved with life um it was a lesson in learning service about self and how to give back to a community um when you are not benefiting from anything. all you're benefiting from is
the future and what that future looks like. And this gentleman in so many different ways in our community, in our school district, um has done that. And it was um just an honor for me to get to present him with a certificate from the
board and from the district. So, thank you all for that opportunity and that honor. And thank you for being a Rotarian. Thank you for being a Rotarian. It was a an amazing job. So yes, Mr. Bragman, >> you made you reminded me of something I
was going to say with Brin and then I think it's important to call attention to if anyone watching on YouTube is bored the next few days. There is a lot happening in the district. We have McGall choir show tomorrow. And then CIF sports, we have boys soccer at 5:00 tomorrow on campus. Boys basketball at
7:00. There's food trucks that are going to be there, so you can just have dinner and stay for both. And then on Thursday, excuse me, tomorrow's Wednesday. On Thursday, girls soccer and girls basketball will be on campus, I think, too. So, amazing time for our sports and athletics. So, I know ASB is always out there and we heard about the locos that
we saw the girls basketball highlighted, but like go to games, show them support. If you like sports or you don't like sports, you want to watch the cheer or the band or whatever. There's something to do the next few nights. You should not be at home bored on your couch. >> I love that. Thank you so much. Um,
thank you very much. That um concludes our board communication and now we have the opportunity and really welcome the opportunity to hear from our public and so this is public comments and I have to I have one card so I will read this um small uh short decla disclaimer. Um the
board welcomes input from the public. This is an opportunity for community members to provide public comment to the board on agenda items and items not listed on the agenda. Persons wishing to address the board should complete a speaker request card at the start of of
the meeting and each speaker is limited to 3 minutes of public comment um and limited for a total of 30. Comment cards can be submitted to the district office anytime after 9:00 a.m. on the day of a board meeting and will also be accepted
up until 6:00 p.m. of the board meeting. A speaker may not relinquish their time to to another speaker when addressing the board. Speakers are requested to address the board from the podium, state their name, and adhere to the time limits. The board may not take any
action or discuss the item not appearing or post on a posted agenda and cannot immediately respond to public comments. That's the hardest part for us. speakers um are cautioned that under California law, no person is immune from liability
for making um intentionally false or dislam defamatory comments regarding any person simply because those comments are made at at a public meeting. So with that all being said, I have one card and it is
from Diana Newton. Good evening everyone. Um, thank you so much for allowing me a couple moments here to speak. My name is Diana Newton and I am a member of the Lif board of directors. I began serving on the board in July, but I have been supporting LEF
since 2013. In fact, before I had children, so education is a big part of my heart and soul. Uh I now have two wonderful boys who attend Rossar Elementary School and my husband also attended the school in the district proudly graduating from Los Alamidos in
2002 somewhat surprisingly but it was really wonderful to hear uh the report that was given by Mrs. Colty earlier about Rossmore. I'm at the school almost every day of the week so I see all the wonderful things that are happening and uh it's an honor to be in this district.
LA is a nonprofit partner of Los Alamos USD. Our mission is to prepare every child in our district for college and beyond. We enhance the educational excellence that is well established in LA USD and it is our honor to partner
with you to support our kids. With great pleasure, I'd like to share some great things that are happening at Leif. Spring afterchool enrichment classes began on January 26th. We have 233 classes running serving 1,560 kids at
all nine campuses. As a personal point, my children are enrolled in soccer, break dance, art party, flag football, fun food factory, and the free Spanish class. And they love being able to go to a number of different activities right after school. But I love the
convenience, the variety, and the affordability of these classes. We have a big fundraising event coming up, Lace Night Out. That's on Saturday, February 28th at 6 PM at the Seal Beach Tennis and Pickle Ball Center. The whole community is invited to attend this big
party where we raise critical funds for Loal kids. I especially enjoy the musical stylings of Flashpants. I have to be honest. If you are unable to attend, please shop the online auction that that launches uh
Friday, February 13th. And if you're not interested in shopping the auction, please consider donating even $50 per family, excuse me, will make a big impact on Leaf support for Lowell Kids. Anything and everything helps support our mission. And you can visit
leafforkids.orgn to participate. And of course, you're then probably wondering where do all the fundraising dollars go. Leif was able and absolutely thrilled to fund 90 innovation grants for the district uh for the 2025 2026 school year totaling
over $154,000. And we also donated stipens for seven counseling interns at a total of $69,000. Since 2012, LA's total giving to the district is now over $3.6 6 million in
accounting, which is awesome. Uh, thank you for your time and allowing me this opportunity to share some LEF updates. And again, we thank the leaders and the staff within LUSD as well as this this board for your partnership and service. Thank you for your time.
>> Thank you, Mrs. Newton and a neighbor, too. I appreciate it very much. Um, next we are going to go into the really exciting business part of our meeting. And so, um, we're going to go into information
and presentations. And next will be the presentation of the district's 2024 2025 financial audit. And Mrs. Schneer. >> Yes. Thank you, Madam President. Tonight we are joined by Mr. Alan So from I
Bailey. They are our district's independent auditing firm. He will be presenting the results of the 2425 financial audit, including the auditor's opinion, key financial highlights, and any required communications to the
board. So, welcome Alan. Good evening, everybody. Um, my name is Alan. I'm a senior manager that oversees the audit of the district. Um, our I'm here to present the audit. um results and also um answer any questions at the
end. Um our audit can be broken out into three key pieces um or three opinions. Um our audit consists of the financial statements audit, the state compliance audit and then the federal compliance audit. Under the financial statement audit, we audit the financial statements
of the district after they close their books to ensure that it's free from material misstatements. During the audit, I'm pleased to um announce that we um issued an unmodified opinion on the audit on the financial statements. Unodified opinion is um the highest
opinion that a school district can get, meaning that the financial statements are free from material misstatements. In addition to the uh opinion, a modified opinion, we also review the district's internal controls and we noted that we didn't
find any internal control deficiencies. The next piece is the federal single audit or the federal awards where we audit the federal programs of the district. Uh we audit the program based on rotational basis and this um 2425
fiscal year we audited the child nutrition program for the audit of the child nutrition program. We issued an unmodified opinion as well meaning that the child nutrition program were free from um any issues of compliance. So the district was in in
compliance with all the federal requirements for the program and also addition to the review of the compliance, we also reviewed the internal controls for the program specific. And during our review of the child nutrition nutrition program, we
did not notice any um control deficiencies. Um the final piece of our opinion is based on state compliance. This audit is based on the state audit guide that's issued every year by the state and we it we audit it strictly from the state audit guide and based on our audit of
the programs and the and the audit guide of all the programs that offered by the district we did not notice any non-compliance. Therefore, we issued an unmodified opinion for state compliance as well. Any um questions? >> Well done.
I I have a just a quick general question. So I run an organization, we go through an audit and I last year there was a new requirement for us going through an audit that where we had to um show the security of our um financial
um information and data and does does that come into play at all with a school audit? It doesn't because um the school districts are under audit under what we call GAsby which is government auditing standards and that um requirement that
you specified is under fazby which is more for like the nonprofits and the other entities. >> Great. Thank you very much for that answer. I appreciate that. >> Before I end, I want to thank Elia and her team and her team for um giving us all the documents. I know we request
hundreds of documents and um her team is always um responsive and always providing the documents in a timely manner. Without them, we wouldn't have been able to have a smooth audit. Thank you. >> Thank you so much and thank you for taking the time to be here this evening
um and to give us the report. Um we're very grateful for that. So that was the presentation of um our financial audit and then we will look to vote on that a little bit later. So, um, next, um, pre presentation is a presentation of the
local control and accountability midyear plan and Mrs. Reid. >> Thank you so much, President Hill. I'm actually going to be welcoming up our director of education services, Melissa Davis. So, Melissa handles completely the LCAP. does a phenomenal job managing not only
our document, but working with all of our stakeholders to really make sure that we have a comprehensive document that really supports not only how we're going to spend our money, but also tracks if our services are actually showing progress in the areas that we're monitoring. So, Melissa, >> perfect. Thank you so much. Good
evening, President Hill, members of the board, Dr. Pulver, and cabinet. It's my pleasure tonight to give you the update, the midyear update for the LCAP. Um bef sorry there we go. Um before we kind of get into the nuts and bolts um just a re
reminder of the difference between LCFF and LCAP. LCFF as you know is our local control funding formula. So those are really the monies that we receive um to help fund public education. And then the LCAP um the local control accountability plan is really the plan that we write of
how we're going to um outline our goals and actions of how we're going to expend our LCFF funds. So the LCAP is the plan portion. And then the LCFF is the money portion. Um there's three different pots of money with LCFF. You have your base funding, your supplemental funding, and your
concentration funds. So on the left there, you can see our LCFF base is really the funding level for all. So that's our average daily attendance and the amount we receive per gradspan for students. Um on the right you'll see our LCFF supplemental dollars which is based
on our district's unduplicated counts of students which is our foster youth English learner and lowincome. And then unduplicated meaning that they're only counting in one of those three subgroups even if they are in more than one. So for 2526 this current school year our LCFF supplemental funds is about $3.4
million. And then as we develop our 2627 LCAP we'll be including our projections um for next year. as a district in whole, we have a 17.63% of unduplicated students in Los um which is a little bit different than it was from last year. So the supplemental funds is what we use
that those funds to write the plan of how we're going to spend those. And so there is a third pot of funds called the LCFF concentration funds. As a district, we do not qualify for those. That's for districts that have an unduplicated account of 55% or higher. So just a quick overview of the LCAP.
It's a three-year plan that describes our actions, goals, and services um and expenditures to support the positive student outcomes and address all of our state and local priorities. Um the LCAP provides an opportunity for districts to basically tell their story um of so as a parent that's reading the LCAP, the
whole idea is from our um annual update through all of our metrics and stuff to kind of tell a story of who we are, what we're about, and what we're doing to address students. Um, so the midyear LCAP, which I'm presenting on tonight, is really looking at the 2526 LCAP, and it's looking at all of our expenditure and implementation data so far this
year, really to make sure that we are on track with what we said we're going to do um before we start writing for next year. The first portion of the LCAP is the budget overview for parents. So last June when we adopted the um and approved the board approved our 2526 LCAP um
there's the budget overview for parents has a dollar amount for our LCFF funds in there as well as our supplemental um funds. And so you can see there when it was adopted um it was about $104 million um of LCFF with about $3.59
um million of funds for supplemental. So, what we're just showing here is that it was adopted there once the actual budget, the annual state budget isn't um formally adopted. Sometimes there's a shift in those funds. And so, on the right there, you'll see what our actual funds are, which was our sub
supplemental funds went down just a little bit to $3.4 million. So, when we review all of our um midyear data, what we're really looking at with our metrics in the LCAP as it in the middle of the school year, are we um are
our metrics known, unknown, or in progress? And so, we went through and anything that we're currently working on this school year that we don't have an actual um metric that's been that's reportable, we would show that is in progress. Um anything unknown, which we actually don't have many I don't think
we have any unknowns. We've actually started implementing all of our actions. So far u majority of ours were known and then we also looked at the expenditures and the implementation to see have we started them again are they in progress or are they completed based off of the budget and where we are. So I am proud
to report that for goal one um in our LCAP which is exemplary teaching and learning that we reviewed all of the goals um the metrics in the goal one and that we determined that they are all um in progress and on target. So really that goal one for us talks about our professional development, our MAP
assessments and implementing um all being implement implemented as planned and that all students have access to standards aligned curriculum. You'll also see on the bottom there we're still in process um with goal one and the implementation and that the actual um funds that we've expended so far are
about $1.1 million and we had about we have $2.2 million. So we're right on track midy year of expending all those funds. For goal two, exemplary student outcomes. Um after reviewing the goal two metrics for 2526, um it was determined that all metrics are again in
progress and on target. Um majority of our goal metrics, I'm sorry, our metrics and goal two um are known because a lot of our metrics um are based on 24 25 data. So like our CAST scores from last spring um because they won't have all those data like all the data points from
A through G completion, AP data, all that in time before we write this year. So, you typically would use the year prior. Um, as far as funds for goal 2, we've spent about 932,000 and we budgeted 1.6. So, again, we're right on track at that midway point of expending
those funds and the implementation progress is still in progress. Lastly, goal three. Again, um all of our metrics in goal three are in progress and on target. Um we'll continue to monitor our chronic absenteeism, which is also part of goal three um through the end of the school year. And a big portion of goal
three for us is our annual um community partner survey that'll go out in March. Um so when we look at goal three overall, it's in progress. We've expended about $1.2 million so far on goal three. Um and we've budgeted about 1.7. So again, we are on target um and
on track for goal 3 implementation. So overall, we are implementing our 2526 LCAP as planned. Um we are currently in the process of developing our 2627 LCAP. We've had one DAC meeting so far um back in January. So, our next steps is we'll
be sending out a community partners survey in March to all families. We're in the process right now of doing a deep dive into our dashboard. That's really what helps us write our annual update portion of the LCAP. And then we have our next district advisory committee meeting on April 20th. Um we are on
track to have a draft of the LCAP available to all um families, staff, and the board in May. and then we'll bring forward the 2627 LCAP for board approval in June. Are there any questions? >> Thank you, Mrs. Davis. Any questions for
Mrs. Davis? >> Yes. Um, hi. Thank you so much. I love this. I'm part of the DACK, so I've I've heard you presented and every time you presented, I learned something new. So, I really appreciate uh you know, I know in the past we've had some challenges
with people participating in the LCAP survey. Are we doing anything to encourage um family participation? >> So we are in the process of brainstorming all those pieces as you as we speak. So we um last year I think Mr. Bragman had brought up looking at doing like a friendly not competition but like
a reward of some sort incentive at the sites um for classroom participation and stuff. So we um that's definitely something that we're thinking of looking at and partnership us also with um uh Nicole as far as getting out in front of everything with the principles and the newsletters and getting out there. Um we traditionally it's es and flows I think
as I shared last year with the board on our participation and so um we have seen that went down a few years ago but it's starting to kind of come back up so we're trying to you know market as best as we can. >> Yeah. No thank you. >> Yes.
>> Great job. And >> thank you. And this was a midyear presentation so there'll be no vote at this point in time. >> Correct. >> Thank you very much Mrs. Davis. >> All right. We are now moving on to our consent items and I have consent items
10A through AC. I don't see any polls. Are there any polls? Okay. I would like a motion uh for approval. >> So move. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Okay. You pick which one. Um Mrs.
Dangelo. >> So um uh moved and seconded. Um all those in favor I >> opposed passes 5. >> Um now we move on to action items and uh
Dr. Reese Wright will uh have items A, B, C, D, and E. We can start with A. I caught him off guard. >> I'm sorry. Thank you, Madam President. Uh yes, tonight we are bringing forward a first reading of board policy or sorry
we're on 11A. Is that right? >> 11A. Yes. >> First reading of our uh board policy on comprehensive safety plan that reflects um updates that were recommended from CSBA and the philosophical statement that in addition to high expectations for student conduct, there are high
expectations for staff conduct as well. Additionally, the policy is updated to reflect legislative intent to provide staff training on the comprehensive school safety plan. >> Thank you. And these I just want to uh also make clear that all of the um
policies that we're looking at are existing policies and these are updates as were recommended by CSBA. Um do I have a motion for 11A? >> So moved. >> Second. discussion
any questions or concerns okay um then I will call for a vote all those in favor >> I >> I >> second we'll move to 11B which is policy 4158 uh employee security
>> mad president if you want with employee board policies they are slightly this they're largely the same but differ if it's for certificated classified or non-represented employees. So you'll probably see that B, C, and D are pretty
much the same. Okay. Just for different groups of employees. If you want to bring them all together, that would be an option for the board to consider. >> Okay. Um, uh, Dr. Ree Suite, do you have anything to share on those and then we'll look at taking >> Yes, absolutely. Thank you, Madam
President. So, uh, for our three different employee groups, um, this revision is updated to authorize collective bargaining representatives to seek restraining orders on behalf of employees facing workplace violence or threats. Um, to incorporate executive order 14127 on school-based active
shooter drill guidance and to align references with current law, including updates from the labor code to the government code. >> Great. So, I would look for a motion for 11 BC and D to take all together if everybody was good with that. So move >> second
>> um discussion. I do have a question. Um I did notice in there and um I read very quickly uh and I could have read it incorrectly, but it talked about pepper spray and that pepper spray is it's not we don't allow
our employees to have pepper spray on their person on school sites. Is that correct? >> That is correct. Yes. >> Okay. And has is that anything we've ever educated um anybody on? Because I would imagine that there are some people that just
>> have it on their keychain or >> Yeah. have it on their keychain or whatever. >> I don't know of any specific education that we've given to employees about it. Um but it's certainly something that now that it's reflected in our board policy, we can add to our safe uh when Miss Garcia does our school safety plans with
each of our principles to make sure that that's included. >> Great. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. >> You got it. So I have a first and a second. Any other discussion? All those in favor? >> I >> I opposed.
A uh B, C, and D. It passes 50. Now we're moving on to E and that is approval of the first reading of revised board policy 3112.3. Um and Dr. Reese Ray. >> Yes. This board policy is on uniform
complaint procedures. Um, the policy updates clarify that discrimination or harassment may be based on multiple protected characteristics. Align protected characteristics definitions with current law. Prohibit the use of mediation and complaints that involve sexual assault. add instructional
materials and curriculum, diversity, and school or athletic team names, mascots as uniform complaint procedure categories, and reflect recent Title 9 legal updates, confirming that pre-Augustugust 1st, 2024, Title 9 regulations apply, consistent with OCR guidance to sexual harassment complaints
involving conduct between August of 2020 and July of 2024 on or after July January 9, 2025. Essentially, it makes sure that uh our policy is reflective of the current Title 9 guidance um that has made adjustments for any incidents that
happen within those specific time periods. >> Thank you, Descright. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I. And then I'd also just like to um we had
discussed before this was the first reading of a policy. That's the way that um it works with school districts. And if we had had any changes or needed any clarification or anything like that, that would come back in the second reading. Since we did no changes or
anything, um I would just suggest that maybe um these can go into consent in um in our next one rather than having to bring them up in action items. Dr. Pulver, is that reasonable? >> You got it. We can absolutely put them since they've already been formally
approved as an action item uh for we can do the second reading of the board policy and consent at the March board meeting. >> Great. Thank you so much for director. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um, next, uh, we are looking at
11F and Mrs. Schneer, I'm I'm like, she's leaving. She can't be leaving. >> No, >> not yet. >> Not yet. >> Not yet. Uh, thank you, Madam President. Good evening. Uh, today I am honored to present our 2627 forward funding plans.
Um, I bring this forward every year and every year I am impressed and just amazed on how amazing our community is when it comes to forward funding. I begin working with every school site um sometime in November where principles
need to start working with their either their friends of their PTA to come up with a goal and their implementation plans on how they're going to fund any staffing positions in the following year. Um the grand total of our forward
funding plan, it's about $435,000. That's an amazing uh contribution from our community to continue to support our students in areas. Um for example, Hopinson is continuing to fund a part-time media STEM teacher, a media
center um technology IIA, as well as a part-time PEIA. This is the same as last year, but as you know, our March 15 deadline is coming up. So, that's the reason why we're bringing forward this uh plan now, so we can make sure to
continue to solidify these staff members going forward. So, it's impressive. So, this is Hopinson. The next one we have is Project LEAP continuing to fund a STEM teacher, part-time STEM teacher and a part-time media center. Um IA
Los Alamos Elementary School. Um they're friends of LA. Same thing as same as last year. A part-time media center STEM teacher and a part-time PEIA. Project. See at MGA is also forward
funding a part-time media STEM teacher, a part-time media uh technology. IA as well as uh Leif continues to support um MAGA with a part-time art lab teacher. >> Yes.
>> Just want to clarify um go back to MGA. Project seek actually funds it. Lif does not. Lif becomes the employer versus the school district. It becomes a little bit of a more economical pathway for um some of our friends of groups. Um, but I
didn't want people to think that LAF is supporting MAGA over another school. Um, Lif is just being the employer uh for that. >> I really appreciate that clarification. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Oliver. Uh, Friends of Weaver and PTA is
continuing to fund a part-time STEM teacher, a media center IIA, and a PE IAA as well. and uh friends of Rossmore also a contract with LA uh to support a part-time STEM lab teacher.
And then uh LA continues to be an amazing support system for our schools. Um again like it was mentioned earlier during the public comments uh STEM and innovation grants for all sides of $154,000 for the fiscal year of 2526.
Overall since 2016, $846,000 has been donated from LA to all of our school sites. They continue to support mental health donations. This year in 2526, they donated $82,000. Grand total since 2017,
$722,000. Impressive. And I couldn't be more uh thankful for their generosity. And with that, I ask for approval of the forward funding plans for 2627. >> Wonderful. I will um look for a motion.
>> So move. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Great discussion. >> I just wanted to actually I mean I think this is a great opportunity to come back to the conversation we had earlier about open houses. When you see those STEM expos, you saw the artwork and that we all talked about and we saw Rossmer share about that's possible because of
this forward funding. when you see these STEM teachers and you walk into their classes and a lot of these folks are not there five days a week and they're not there full-time, but they sure give more than we could ever ask for. So, I huge shout out and thank you to these STEM teachers, these art teachers, and we always talk about the donations the end,
but the donations really what make the magic happen in this district. So, thank you to everyone for for allowing us to be in this place. >> We'll put Mr. Bragman. Anybody else? >> I think we can all second Mr. Bragman. >> Yes. >> All those in favor? I I
>> opposed. Passes 5-0. Thank you, Mrs. Mrs. Schneer. Now, we're going to approve the financial audit. >> Yes. Thank you, Madam President. As you heard earlier today, um the the financial audit is clean. We have no audit findings and we request approval.
But before I do that, I would really like to thank Tim Golden, our director of fiscal services, as well as his entire team of fiscal services, because it really does take a lot of time to prepare the documents and submit them to the audit and just to not have any
findings is it's amazing. So, great job, fiscal services. Thank you. It >> it absolutely is. Um, do I have a motion? >> So, move. >> Second. >> Any other discussion? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> We love a clean audience. >> Amazing job. >> Really appreciate it. Yep. And I did
learn I as long as I've been on this board, I didn't realize that the federal um portion of the audit is a program that that it's picked. It's not everything. That was news to me today. So, we can always learn and get better.
Um, so I have a first, I have a second. All those in favor? I opposed. >> Passes 5. Uh, now approval of warrants. 56 pages. Um the warrants are the checkbook of the
district and so uh as um board members part of our responsibility and fiscal responsibility is making sure that all the money that comes into the district is budgeted correctly and then spent correctly. And so do I have a motion to approve the warrants?
>> Second. >> Pro first and second. Any discussion? All those in favor. >> I I opposed. >> Passes 5. Uh we will now move on to what seems to be many of our topics this
evening, which is donations. Um so this is the acceptance of donations. Um and Mrs. Schneer, is this where some of the forward funding is showing up? >> Yes, absolutely. You will see uh quite a few there. Like the first one, Hopinson,
that's their forward funding. Um, some of them came in earlier. Project seek $100,000. That's uh forward funding, but we did receive some in November in December. >> Great. Thank you. And I do I do remember
from being um in that position that it was always a little stressful to understand that we had to fund raise for the whole next year because of the responsibility of making sure that staff was coming back and so on and so forth.
So, thank you for that. Um, so with uh that uh we have a total monetary donations of $31,832 and some change year to date. Um, and we are only in February um $86,000
um and some change. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> A second. >> Second. >> Great. Any other discussion? >> All those in favor? I It'd be very funny if somebody said no, we're not going to.
Um, so now we are going to um this is 11J and K. We'll take them together. It's the classified personnel report and the certificated personnel report. Uh, Dr. Reese Wright. >> Thank you, Madam President. Yes, the two personnel reports reflect uh the changes
since our last board meeting. We recommend approval as submitted. >> Thank you. Do I have a motion? So move >> a second. >> Second. Any comment? >> Yeah, I have a comment. Congratulations to HR. I mean, all the numerous IAS for
special ed and then the huge number of substitutes for classroom teachers. Great job. >> Anything else? Anything else that stands out to anybody? Okay. Um, all those in favor? >> I oppose.
>> Passes 5. Um, we have now finished uh the business part of our meeting and we will return to close session. We're returning to close session at 7:32. We will come back out um if there is uh we will come out back out period. But if
there's anything to report, I'll report at that time. Thank you.