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here Public Announcement of closed session at action items taken concerning agenda item C1 today the board voted 7 to0 to initiate litigation against responsible defendants including
Southern California Edison to recover damages resulting from the eaten fire thank you adjournment of close session we will call to order at 750 Fatima here
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here yet oh okay that's right special meeting so who would like to do the pledge please Tina Fredericks thank you now we'd like to go to item G public comment the Board of Education
acknowledges receipt of public comments via email and it'll be part of the permanent record of this meeting I'll be calling you in in groups of three uh and you can come to the lecturing the light should be green um
Francis no sorry sorry Amy Gonzalez Consuelo Martinez sa rman 3 minutes each because we have hi my name is Amy Gonzalez I'm a parent at Washington stem and I've seen you a couple of times hello and I wanted to
talk about um the budget cuts for the teacher I work really hard as a parent I'm one of those parents that really wants to see Washington Thrive and I do a lot of it to help out the community for my my child for everybody and um you
know it's it's really sad because we do have a lot of teachers that really make a difference in our school and I think it was Miss Marshall who asked a question one day when I was here and she said how can we bring people into PSD and I know that was more of a rhetorical
question but you know one of the things as a parent I want to see is see consistency and organization and I think consistency means going back to school from summer school um seeing the same teachers that Mak students feel safe um
I think it's good for the community and it really plays an important role so just picking off teachers doesn't really show um good faith and I think that that's really important to have that it really provides a substance for parents
for the students and so I wanted to share that with you um I know it's a hard choice to make but I would hope that you could find some way other to wean the budget instead of cutting teachers because they're so important and some of the teachers that I've
worked with with at school really help um and that's that's an important thing that we have that parent teacher participation because after all the first thing you see in a school is going to be that smile from a teacher and when those kids grow up and they see that
teacher year after year even if they're not in that class that means a lot to the students and a lot to the school and that gives it consistency so I hope you take that into consideration and when you're doing your budget cuts and see how that really affects the community thank you thank you for your
[Music] [Applause] time good evening um my name is Consuelo Martinez I would like to start off by thanking board member Tina Fredericks um
for being the one vote against our layoffs um I stand before you today not just as a teacher um but as an alumni of this Fair District um I want you to hear my testimony um and understand the depth
of my commitment to this community during this time of loss recovery and rebuilding um I received my K through2 education here starting at Burbank Elementary and then Wilson Middle School and I graduated from johir high school
in 2015 where I now have the privilege of teaching um it's a testament to the district's pride in alumni returning um to give back to to their Community yet today I'm here to address the painful reality that contradicts that Pride it
should be noted that Burbank um closed in 2011 and Wilson closed in 2020 um voted upon by our Board of Education at that time and now as I reach my 10-year High School anniversary um I'm being laid off by my alma modder um a bitter
irony that underscores the fragility of our educational system in the aftermath of the eaten s our our community needs stability and support instead we're facing layoffs that will impact teachers students and families as a buente educ
English teacher I Empower underrepresented students to pursue higher education and challenge systemic oppression and it's heartbreaking to see our efforts dismantled when they're most needed my journey began um with inspiring teachers like my bu English
teacher Miss parent my AP Lit teacher Mr and I now work alongside Dr Gonzalez huser who was my pente counselor um it's a full circle moment that fills me with pride and purpose however it's also a painful reminder of what we stand to lose Mr Vines who inspired me to teach
um will be losing his position as our site RTI coach alongside 50 other tosas Miss ASO our El coach who was also losing her job was my seventh grade Spanish teacher at Wilson this is only my second year of
teaching a time where many new educators are still finding their footing and statistically almost half of new teachers will quit after 5 years naively I didn't think my departure would come um as a layoff um a
packet signed by someone who's never met me yet stating that my services are appreciated and valued 10 years ago um I mentioned wanting to be become a teacher um and many warned me against it and still I
committed um at the beginning of this school year um the district probably shared a slogan called The Power of us and when I look around this room I do see the power of us thank [Applause]
you good evening my name is Sandy rofman and I am a parent of a grader at Octavia E Butler OE is a school that serves a predominantly black and brown surrounding neighborhoods that historically have been underresourced
and overlooked by our district city and county this has only been made more evident by the enormous blow our community has uh our community has been hit with following the recent fires that have decimated our region many of our students Educators and staff are
displaced which we expect to continue for a long time as a parent I can say that the single most important asset we can offer our children right now is continuity and routine we all witness the disruptive impact that covid had on our children
and we cannot afford for that to happen again in the aftermath of this fire our community and our school were on an upswing prior to January 7th as a parent volunteer assisting with School tours we saw more and more elementary schools represented among our perspect
prospective families after a hard fought recovery from the days of covid oeb was thriving again right now the only normaly our children have are the hours they spend at school with the familiar faces of their Educators in the programs
that will lay the foundation of their future we are a community in crisis keenly aware that we are at risk of losing an entire generation of children to these traumas traumas that they did not ask for nor
deserve we simp cannot afford another upheaval in these kids' lives I am asking today that when you the leadership within our district make your decisions about the future of our schools you will do so with OE and Altadena schools at the Forefront of
your minds and that you will continue to support preserve and protect the signature programs and the education staff at Octavia eutler thank you Denise ra Jonathan Gartner Sergio Lopez Lucero hi everybody I'm Denise Rob I'm
the PTA president at Blair uh and um I live here of course and first I want to thank you for all you do because I know this is essentially a volunteer position and I know it's hard and stressful so thank
you for the long hour hours and thank you for I was told you're keeping the international baloria program alive and if that is true I want to thank you for that yes um in fact right before I came here I
got an email from a new parent who said their kid was at I think he said St Phillip the Apostle some private school and because of the international Balor program they're coming to Blair next year so um that's exciting um but I
wanted to say don't um if you could resend the pink slips that you've given to the IB teachers and do not merge the IB coordinators into one coordinator because we could lose
accreditation I don't I don't think this is the only path I think there's another path here I I look through your 192 page budget most of it I didn't understand a lot lot of it by the way uh most of it was projected and theoretical
the new budget has millions more than the last budget we don't yet know how things are going to shake out and this is our history at PD over and over we lay off teachers we give them pink slips then we rehire
rehire them once we have more money and we know there's more money but it's too late a lot of them have found other jobs and there's been studies that show that teachers actually leave the profession all together and this is an important Noble profession we want people here
this is what keeps people coming to public school and this is our this is my number one mission in Pasadena is to get more children into public school so this this year this year especially this year just say no this is not a year
like any other year this year your report said you were advised by the State Board of education quote to move forward with any reductions that were already planned before the fire
no no just say no you must say no to that things have changed drastically 90 PUSD teachers lost their homes in everything they own in the eaten fire some of these teachers and staffs
have been given pink slips you can't take their jobs away from them right after they lost their home and everything they own you just can't do that that's inhumane just say no find another way and there's still time for you to do the right
[Applause] thing hello um my name is Jonathan Gardner I'm the president of the United teachers of Pasadena I've been a math physics chemistry and geology teacher in my first couple years of teaching I was
that I was proud to be at Blair where the second year we experienced 50% of our teachers being laid off we were on an upswing at that time and after that point we went into doldrums for a number of
years and I just want to make sure that it's clear that that is what you have in store if you continue forward with this decision I proudly represent 899 UTP in unit members in pity unified we all as a
community just went through one of the most devastating fires in recent American history and yet the Wildfire you are unleashing on our schools is unconscionable the vast majority of the cuts you have enacted to balance your budget have been in our schools
resulting in 125 teachers being told they don't have a job next year that is more than two schools worth of teachers teachers who have poured their hearts and and souls for our PSD students this year and some even over a
decade not only has confusion gone out from PSD that these cuts are from central office but there even seems to be confusion about how many exactly you are cutting it is 125 the 65 individuals who were laid off
last week are in addition to 60 plus temporary teachers these teachers aren't even being afforded the legal protections of these 5 even though the Ed joint application nor neither the Ed joint application nor their principles knew that they were hired as temporary
the pattern this district has of layoffs and rehiring is the epitome of waste and abuse we must stop the churn prioritize the classroom and rebuild stable predictable schools our students deserve
stability thank you [Applause] okay we see you we hear you we understand your pain and frustration I'm Sergio Lopez I'm a product of PD I went
to Jackson Elliot uh class of 2014 at passina high school and now I am a math teacher at John Mir high school and I am a victim of the Eden fire and I got laid off this year my pain and frustration I don't think anybody here can understand
I don't think anybody here can can see the faces that my students made when I told them the news I don't think anybody here understands the pain and frustration of me and my dad trying to save our house and having to leave when we knew that it was too late and once I had to come to terms that my house was
gone all I had to look forward to was my classroom where all the things that I own all that I had left that I own was in my classroom and now that's getting taken away from me that's getting taken away from me the students that I worked so very hard to work with and inspire
how am I supposed to inspire them like the teachers that inspired me when I was in high school when I was a senior in high school Dr CLA verie both my parents lost their jobs and she helped me so much in order to mold me into the person that I am today and all I wish is that for her to see
she can't see me be the teacher I am now because she passed away to L gar as ALS and she turned a subject that I hated English into something that I that I love so much and I try to do the same with my with with my math class I have parents here whose kids I've worked with
for a year two years now and I love I love my job I love my I love John M high school I love everything that it is to be here in Pasadena my kids have been through so much and they've kept me up when I told the news
about my LOF the first kid to tell me to keep their head up was a kid who lost everything a kid I this is my second year being Rift so my pain and frustration I don't think anybody here sees that I don't think anybody here understands that understands how much
I've going through I don't think anybody understands how I had to step away from my classroom for 20 minutes because I was sobbing and my kids had to console me because my pain and frustration goes past anything this has been the worst
two two months of my entire life and all I want to do is to come back next year and to continue to inspire the youth that we have at this this this amazing City and this amazing School colleagues who have supported me throughout this this fire and throughout everything are
also getting laid off and it's it's it's unfortunate so we we see you we hear you understand your pain my pain my pain is a lot my pain goes through so much I there's days like today where I
feel like I'm not I can't even do my job anymore because I've been through so much and I doubt myself now but I want to return and I want to be back and I don't think yeah Francis
milus Francis milus hi I'm back good evening uh my my name is Francis milus I'm a teacher at Octavia Butler middle school but I'm also a parent of a PD
student my child has attended PD school since kindergarten and is currently a junior at John Mir high school yesterday they celebrated their 17th birthday and today they returned to school after being on
independent study for 3 weeks you see we lost our home in the eaten fire and to a person on the autism spectrum routine and structure are everything well all routine was lost with our house however
one thing my child did have though were the teachers who went out of their way to make sure they were okay because M teachers were there for my child not just now but throughout
their time at M the transition back to routine today was seamless teaching students is about content yes but it's also about building relationships that continue from year to
year to year I want to say thank you to miss Dow and Mr smallenburg and Mrs Drew and Miss Moore and Miss Chang for being there for my kid thank you to Dr Gonzalez for taking the time with hundreds of students to
serve to make my Elsie feel seen members of the board I hope and pray that those teachers will be there next year our kids need [Applause]
them that's the end of public comment thank you very much we will move to action items item one Mr Bravo Karimi certification of 2024 2025 second interim budget [Music]
report okay so I'm going to provide an overview of second interim and fiscal timeline as well as some information that we did discuss at the last board meeting but a general Outlook of the state and District's finances and then uh the district's multi-year
projection so I'm going to cover this quickly second interim is a required report that we submit we do a first interim in December second interim now in mid-march we are required to uh certify it as either positive qualified or negative um and then it's submitted
to the to the County Office of Education Leo um and second inter captures changes since June adopted budget all the way through expenditures and revenues and projections with actuals through January 31st the recommendation tonight is for the board to certify psd's Financial
condition as positive uh the district is projected to meet its Financial Obligations this year and the two subsequent fiscal years so that's through 26 27 however uh this is largely due to fire related Insurance revenues that
currently are exceeding fire related expend managers and I'm going to cover that in a little bit more detail later in the presentation so some key points as we discussed a couple weeks ago the budget uh superintendent budget advisory committee completed the prioritization process we presented recommendations
that came out of that process as well as our comprehensive planning process at the board meeting on February 27th um it should be noted also that as uh part of its approval of the current year budget Leo did require the submission of a fiscal stabilization
plan at first interm so if you remember first interm we came with a request to get uh an approval of the certification of first interm as well as a fiscal stabilization plan now an fsp at second interim is not required by Leo uh
because of the board approval of reductions back on February 27th as well as the details of the miip that I'm going to discuss in a moment so 2425 unrestricted general fund ending balances are projected to be $ 29.2 million at the end of the current
year that's the current projection um it's 6.4 million higher than at June adopted budget that's primarily due to the fact that the ending balances from last fiscal year were higher than anticipated so after June after the June budget for the
current year we came back in September with an update on our actuals for last year so last year's ending balances were higher than expected which flows through into the current year um they are however $ 39.3 million
lower than at the end of 2324 due to uh deficit spending so we we talked a lot uh uh in several previous board meetings about what's an operating deficit versus an operating Surplus and so again an operating deficit is when we
spend more in a fiscal year than we bring in in revenue and so here at the bottom in the table you'll see that 23 24 last school year we had an operating defic of $7.4 million that was uh the first time we've had a deficit in many
years um for the current year we are projecting a operating deficit or spending more than we bring in of almost $40 million okay so that $40 million as we've talked about many times that money has to come from somewhere it comes from our
reserves and that kind of deficit spending cannot last forever right it can only last as long as we have reserves and we are projected to spend those reserves down very quickly so 2526 we're currently projecting an operating
deficit of $29.5 million and then in 2627 a small operating surplus of $1.7 million but I'm going to explain why that is so this is the fiscal timeline where you are here at second interim we are
now at second interim and coming up after this is in May the state the governor will release an update to their proposed budget for next school year we'll get a lot of good information about the state's budget and then of course we'll adopt our budget in June so this is a information that we discussed
at the last board meeting but we continue declining enrollment those one-time covid relief funds that booed our finances over the last few years have been fully spent um and again I won't cover everything again but the one big factor
that's impacting our finances substan initially is that our unduplicated people percentage this year is 4 percentage points lower than it was last year and that has a sub substantial negative impact on our local control
funding our lcf funding uh specifically our supplemental concentration grant funding so declining enrollment you're well aware we've had declining enrollment for for some time and that of course is projected to continue into the future um I covered this again last time
but I'll just briefly mention that there's a bit of mixed bag of good and bad news from the governor's proposed budget back in January there is a discretionary block grant additional learning recovery emergency block grant funds an increase in the TK add-on and then of course a hold harmless for lost
enrollment and attendance for pad Unified School District as a result of the eaten fire for 2526 um on the negative side the cola for next year is about half a percentage Point lower than what was previously assumed in our
multi-year projection for next school year so as you're well aware I mentioned this earlier there were two big main processes that identified the reductions that are now reflected mostly reflected as second interim there was a superintendent budget advisory committee in the comprehensive planning process uh
something I mentioned at the last board meeting that I do want to mention again is that after consultation with fmat the fiscal crisis management and assistance team as well as Leo and the State Board of Education um they did advise to move forward with reductions that were planned before the
fire and and that is what we asked the board to approve on February 27th um it's important to note that um the proposed reductions are not sufficient to close the shortfall and I'm going to demonstrate in a few slides
what how that looks what that means um they were the reductions that while very very impactful very very painful um where not sufficient to address the fiscal issues that we're facing um right now the proposed Ada hold
harmless is only for 25 26 for next school year uh that's in the Budget Trailer language while it's not official law yet we have reflected it at second interim so the revenue impact the benefit of that is reflected in our
financials at second interim uh but it's not official law and I just want to make that clear it's not official law yet but we did consult with Lego and fman and they were comfortable with us assuming its passage at second interim so here's just some information uh some of the major assumptions average
daily attendance assumptions um you'll see that for 2425 and 25 26 the current Ada the current year Ada is the same that is the Ada hold harmless that I mentioned uh our ad our actual Ada for both this year and
next year will certainly be much lower than that but we will be uh using that as part of the lcsf funding formula and this is what's assumed in our multi-year projection in our Revenue projections at second interim on the bottom there you'll see the cola assumptions have
they've changed since first interim now to Second interim you'll see the 2526 what I mentioned before about a half percentage Point lower but you will see that in 26 27 about a half almost a half percentage Point higher so the key points the ada8 hold
harmless is not sufficient to to offset the negative impact of the lower unduplicated pupil percentage on lcff Revenue no doubt the hold harmless is very welcome we're going to continue to advocate for additional years of hold harmless but the negative impact on the
lower of the lower up on our revenue is greater than the positive impact of that hold harmless so the net impact on our revenue is negative can you say that sentence against in English sure so the Ada hold harmless that we're going to get we're back whereby next year we're
going to be funded based on enrollment and attendance that's higher than what we're going to actually have next year it's going to be based on a prefire number that alone is going to mean more Revenue than we otherwise would have received the unduplicated people percentage that's lower by four
percentage points has a corresponding negative impact on Revenue the size of that negative impact is greater than the size of the positive impact so it's a net reduction in our Revenue so I just wanted to make that point that the hold harmless is of
course very important it's very helpful um but the lcff revenue is still down overall because of the combined impact of these two things the reductions approved by the board on February 27th made an a significant impact on the multi-year
projection however the multi-year projection would not reflect positive general fund unassigned unappropriated ending balances if not for the fact that current currently today our fire related Insurance revenues exceed fire related
expenditures that's today the expenditures related to the fire will increase very substantially we are in the very early stages of dealing with the fire okay so it's just a fact of timing right now that today the
proceeds we've received so far from the insurance company exceed the expenditures we've incurred so far but that will not continue as it stands additional reductions will be necessary in the future so I'm going to go through a a a
few myps and I'm sorry I'm going to do my best to explain what each of them mean but I think I want to start with the one that is the most important that is first in the blue bars the first interim the balances that we would have had the unassigned unappropriated ending
balances that we would have had at first inter if there was no fiscal stabilization plan you can think of this of what if the board had taken no action what would the multi-year projection have looked like okay that's at first interim the the blue bars the orange bars are now at second interim so it reflects all the things I just talked
about the hold harmless but also the lower up the reductions that were just approved by the board um what is not included here are those fire related revenues or the fire related expenditures okay what would things have looked like if we didn't have those
Insurance revenues and the fire related expenditures you will see an improvement from first interim okay so even though there were some good news and bad news and and things that improved our balances and things that made the balances lower um we did make
significant progress but you'll see that without the insurance revenues we would still be projected to be negative $28 Million by the end of the 26 27 school year so when I said that additional actions will be necessary in the future
this is what I mean okay so this next one is first interim again it's still showing the first interim without the fiscal stabilization plan and then now the orange bar is showing second interum but the balances with the fire related expenditures and the insurance Revenue
so you'll see that because of the insurance Revenue the fact that the insurance revenues today are greater than the expenditures uh we do project positive ending balances just barely for both 2526 and
2627 and then finally uh this is what we actually submitted to Leo for first inm which is what our balances would have been for the with the fiscal stabilization plan and then now at second inter with those fire related expenditures and insurance revenues so factors now reflected in
that myp any future changes in compensation any additional cost related to compensation any cost related to any negotiated agreement not reflected to the extent those things cost money that will make the MP lower those ending balances will be lower any unknown
liabilities that we may incur in the future are not reflected the potential impact of an economic downturn we've been following the news there's been a lot of volatility and economic indicators uh any impact of that not reflected in the multi-year projection any potential reductions in state or federal funding you've probably also
read a lot in the papers about potential impacts on federal funding in particular not reflected in the multi-year projection and any new major programmatic or operational Investments anything that costs money again is is not reflected in the appendix I'm not going to go through the appendix slides they
were there just for the benefit of the public in the spirit of transparency um and now I'll pause for any questions thank you very much it was very informative do anybody have any questions Miss
frericks thank you presentation um you had said about the fire Insurance revenues exceeds the expenses at this point but in the future uh it won't so we'll be in the negative
and um so are are those numbers um that you're uh estimating or for the income or the revenues um are they estimates or are they confirmed by the insurance we we've received proceeds from the insurance company so even
though we haven't uh filed our final claim given the size of our losses the extent of our losses and this is very common um you given the substantial need for cash because we are paying substantial expenses the best example of
things that we've already begun to to pay are for the cleaning and testing of our schools and those are in the many many millions of dollars and so given the substantial need that school any any folks going any any organization going through the types of losses that we have the insurance company will give you kind
of advanced releases uh even before your claim is finalized and so that's what's reflected um the expenditures that we're going to incur in the future is still very unclear we don't we we we can't we I we don't know exactly what those costs will be um and and it's going to be a multi-year process whereby we're going
to be incurring expenses related to the fire but you feel like the net is going to be a negative net it's it's hard to say whether it'll be negative it it it may be um we're going to seek reimbursement for every expense that we incur um but it's not
going to be what you see now which is a positive um a net income as a result of it that's kind of a fluke of timing because of where we are right now in our in our spending related to the fire and then the last slide about the the
federal funding or volatility of the federal funding is not reflected that's right which means we are kind of U the budget is sort of um a if things go not well at the federal
level then this is actually a um safer scenario than or I I'm trying to think of there's there's a there's a risk that we're reflecting Federal revenues currently at a higher level
okay got it thank you just a clarification on federal revenue are you speaking to Dollars such as Title One or is that inclusive of what could be Potential reimbursements from
FEMA or comp of their right now the miip makes assumptions related to principally title one uh Federal funding we get for special education reimbursements we get for the national meal program um no
assumptions about FEMA potential FEMA reimbursements of course we're going to seek to be reimbursed for everything that we're eligible for um so the things that would have the negative impact on the multi-year projection that we're showing on the restricted side
um would be the examples that you gave so Title One um Ida funding for special education and and and also even our our our our our meals program will there also be any um federal grants that may be frozen or yeah it's possible
definitely are those dollars um calculated [Music] in let me ask a question again okay if we have any current federal grants that are either already Frozen or likely to
be frozen are those dollars backed out of our multi projection if we were aware of the loss of any funds yes we we we would we would reflect them but we don't we haven't assumed any reductions for that have been proposed or that are hypothetical at this point but but it is
a risk as I as I mentioned u a moment ago understand thank you thank you Miss Kenny I had a question on the assumptions so one of the things um was that Health and Welfare our assumption
um it says for the two out years 20 25 26 and 26 27 that health insurance will stay flat at adopted it actually said it would go up 5% each year how confident are we that
health insurance won't increase for two years so to the extent anything costs more than we've assumed that'll be a a hit to our multi-year projection okay I mean we haven't I know we had some really low Health and
Welfare increase years I mean we had some big and then we had a really nice little low is there anything kind of out in the marketplace that has okay we don't know yet all right um in the answers to some of the questions there was a comment about the number of tosa one
positions that we will be reassigning to the new job description and I think on February 27th that number was fairly [Music] vague the answer to the question seem to imply that we've picked a
number that we are going to put under the new job description so in other words uh the number of people that we uh signed the resolution for is going to be reduced and the number that I heard running around was 44 positions tosa ones will
be coming back is that and so is there a number that are in the budget so I I think what you and when I had asked this question um two weeks ago I said when you say that the total amount cut is 12 million how how did did that include all
of the tosas the 57 who it was net of any it was net of any Restorations so net of the Restorations to me says that you know the amount of the Restorations person number of people wise or else it would have we we had to make an assumption so that's I'm wondering can we share that Assumption of how many we
did not they include the Restorations correct I mean they don't include the Restorations so we don't know yet because that's depending on federal funding that's a desire that we have so right now we're not hiring any positions out of federal funding new positions
it's something we would like to do but we don't know if we're going to get Federal money that's still in flex and we learned about a grant from the US Department of Education uh yesterday that might be able to help us restore some of the positions that's why we
can't really say a number because we haven't you know that's an idea no no I'm just asking for the number that we did not include in the 12 million because that's already been calculated yeah we we didn't want to overstate the savings um so we can get back to you on
what the number is so we had a number of individuals and so we we we wanted to make a responsible assumption about what the savings would be um and not to overstate the amount of the savings um because it sounds like what Dr Blanco is saying is if there's
additional money then we might look into hiring additional people back but we did make some assumption okay and then I just I've been hearing kind of questions about the temporary contracts so two weeks ago the
PowerPoint Point talked about I think it was 24.1 temporary positions were being I can't remember the exact language but then I heard the number six today and can someone help me understand the difference between those numbers sure I can add uh sh some light
I don't know where the 60 number came from the presentation that came before you it showed you where there was going to be 24 with there was tempts where the positions were going to be closed there was an additional 20 I believe uh temps
but those temps are um will not be returning because they are making actually there are positions that we're holding for other teachers with greater seniority I mean the temp contract is a one-year defined dat absolutely and it's
only renewed if there's an agreement to renew it yes orbe it's a new contract per the edod and the collective bargaining agreement they're considered true vacancies each year so the person would actually have to apply for the position each year so they are aware when they sign the contract that it's a
temp contract and at the end of that temp contract they actually have to apply for the position for the Ed code and for their collective bargaining agreement it's considered a true vacancy so can you help me understand just a little bit better when would we hire someone on a temp contract is it a
certain type of job a certain type of vacancy is it used when there is budget uncertainty certainly and uh there was an RFI that that the association uh requested and we provided the information to them quite few months ago
uh never heard a a response the those are typically done when you have what's called a teacher on leave um the Ed code does Define when a teacher on leave U as an example would be when the union president's out out of the classroom we would backfill that Union president because we have to hold that spot they
have rights to go back to a position so we would hold that position for them atim contract is hired to allow for that person to return back to the classroom at some point uh teachers on special assignments are typically as well um so if there's somebody out on medical leave
um there's a a varied a miror of reasons of why you would hire someone on a temp contract in addition to funding sources related but our our all of our 10 positions have been back fills not based on funding source all right so approximately 40 it's be so even so if
I'm a teacher in the classroom and I get promoted to be a tosa one or a tosa 2 the position that I've left vacant because I have return rights is we use a temp contract that is correct okay and that we've been doing that for
a couple years yes ma'am okay Miss Bailey yes hiom thank you for this um report can you go back to slide three please and um go ahead if you would elaborate on your last
bullet um about the funding the additional funding being largely due to the fire related Insurance revenues and because my question is why the funding from the
insurance companies is not going into a an account related specifically for facilities um not all the expenses are related to Future rebuilding for one um there are a lot of expenses we're seeking to be
reimbursed for um including for the replacement of furniture instruction materials um so there's a lot of different types of expenditure so that's maybe why we wouldn't put it in a facility specific fund how do you differentiate between the the the
amounts or or what's going towards say other needs versus rebuilding or the fire related building facili so ultimately it's through the process that we're working on with with risk management and of course uh Business Services um and it's
always going to be based on the insurance contract that we have um it includes all these different limits on different types of things that you get coverage for just like a lot of different you know insurance that you might have for your car or your home and
so our objective is of course to get the largest amount of uh claim as we're eligible for and we work with obviously risk management has a lot of experience in this as well as with uh Consultants that will help us prepare th
those those claims um but of course we track every fire related expenditure um and we have a lot of backup documentation for why it's Justified um so that's why we don't put it in a facilities specific fund if we had let's say put all the revenues and
expenditures in a separate fund not in the general fund then we would not be certifying as positive and we would be projecting negative ending balances uh through 2627 and even uh next school year at the end of next school year
so so H where is the transparency in that spending if it's in with the general fund how can we tell what when those funds are being used for fire related we're tracking
everything in a specific location related to the emergency so that everything is uh like coded if you will uh in our what's called you know in our account string uh so that we can easily report on and track uh not just their revenues but the expenditures related to the fund and we'll be able to see that
when we look at the yeah we could information about that yeah okay thank you Dr Velasquez uh okay okay so when we do a budget we have to project to three years so it's we don't only have to balance this year but the following too okay so
I'm concerned with the following statements proposed reductions are not sufficient to close the shortfall meaning that with the cuts that we've made we still don't close the the the need of meaning
we're spending still more than we you also said that we're using onetime emergency money for now to balance the budget does that mean that next year
we're going to a still be in a difficult situation B we're going to have even bigger problems because we use the onetime Monies to pay for this year's reductions and uh we're going to have to make up for that once we start spending
the money from the fire and three is it says here that PC is not implementing reductions but some potential loss of enrollment and so on top of that so is this a setup for a even worse situation
next year we will need additional reductions yes what I'm not proposing is that we spend the one-time Insurance revenues for ongoing operations I'm just saying that currently just because of the way we report our finances they're
resulting in positive ending balances um and it's temporary to your point um even I think a couple weeks ago when we came forward with those very difficult recommendations we said they were not enough um that we would need to make more reductions in the future um and
that's still the case a couple weeks later now that we have more updated projections uh we will need to unless something very material changes that we don't know about um we will need to make additional reductions uh next year for you know for the following school year
even if we get the hold harmless extended Beyond 2526 for many additional years that will help that will not be enough uh even if we get five years won't be enough the way that the funding works for lcff is the Ada for
2526 next year right we're getting the hold harmless next year that benefits the revenue in the following 3 years after 25 26 it doesn't in fact impact the L CF Revenue in 2526 itself just because of the way the formula works and
so those Revenue benefits even from a 5 sevene hold harmless will certainly be very very important and very very helpful but the benefits of those on our revenues are far into the future Mr Harden um kind of going back to the the slide three and and following
on On Board member Bailey's uh focus on the on the fire related insurance and then the issues brought up by uh Dr Velasquez what can you clarify for me what if we if this if our financial condition were qualified instead of
positive what would be the actions we would have to take or the effect of that typically Leo would require a fiscal stabilization plan um and so we would submit at as long as we're qualified we submitting fiscal stabilization plans um at first entm
second entm Jon adopted um you know Lake may ask for additional information about how we're going to address these Financial issues um you know it's not clear EXA Mike fine a couple weeks ago talked a little bit about kind of uh when
districts get into substantial financial distress um eventually there's no exact formula for like when that gets triggered you know it's not clearly defined but if we continued to have repeated qualified and even negative certification several interim reports in
a row um then yeah ultimately we could be in pre- receivership and then ultimately receivership I'm not sure if that was your question well and and the fact that fire related you know expenses revenues are seem a bit unknown to me that that's
the concern I have is just that that a lot of our a lot of what we're presuming is positive is right we may not be using the funds for operating expenses but we're sort of riding on the wave of the assumption that we will have that
that our fire that our insurance outcomes are keep us in a positive no I I I don't I don't want that to be the conclusion that you take from this yeah the conclusion I want you to take from
[Music] this is that because of a fluke of timing today our insurance revenues exceed our insurance expenditures I don't want you to take away and and because of that we can qu
uh certifi as positive we've talked to Leo of course before this presentation and then they've confirmed this what I want you to take away is that we have more work to do that onetime revenues to Dr vas's Point onetime even if we were going to have excess Insurance revenues above
excess Insurance expend fire expenditures ongoing expenditure should be paid for with ongoing revenues okay Dr blco um I think it's important that you're restating that Mr Bravo crey can
you go to the slide that talks about unforeseen things that can come up in the future so um you know we're negotiations right now our labor partners are asking us for things that cost money it's important to know none
of this is baked into what we're showing you today we've had an unforeseen uh circumstance come up already with our lcff funding when um we reched and people reapply it last for three years
for our supplemental in concentration money so we came in 4 percentage points lower than we expected that's a loss of 1.5 million this year that if it's compounded over three years will be $9 million right so we do have a plan to go
back out and try to you know capture some more forms right so uh she wants me to say English so maybe you can help me translate um what that means yeah so as I mentioned the unduplicated people percentage is for percentage points lower we of course going to make every
effort to collect the forms that would increase that percentage in the future um we have assumed that it will increase in the future this year's percentage is is is is calculated we we we can't change it so we're we're required to
conduct a survey and the survey came to the disadvantage of the district and that means that we're losing 1.4 million in addition to everything else and 1.4 million times 3 years is that no 1.4 million year it it escalates if we don't
collect more forms next year which you know we might have less students we don't know that right now that will be compounding so that's an examp example of an unforeseen circumstance that hits the budget it's 1.4 this year and next
year it could be two three in the following year can be four or five okay that's exactly right um and so I think that and it's a point uh board member Kenny mentioned earlier is there are some assumptions in here you know of course you know to to to be consistent
with accounting principles and of course to make sure that Leo approves our our our our projections you know typically of course we we air on the side of being conservative but there are some examples of assumptions that arguably are not very conservative and to the extent they're wrong to the extent they were
overly optimistic uh the forecast will be worse even than what I'm showing you so our plan will have to be again to bring together the superintendent's budget advisory committee and start over again in August right and I did hear
from our board that you would like to be more involved in some of the decision making and we'll try to figure figure out how we can you know uh make that that happen um it was brought to my attention that there was one chapter in the book that um where some of the presentations should have come to the
board and we'll work on improving the process but we will have to have a process again that involves you know multiple voices from um our educational Partners to continue to reduce the budget now the good news is the
governor's trailer Bill also is putting in some new revenues for us right that can help us reduce the amount of money that we need to cut next year so those are things that you know are positive unforeseen circumstances and we're going
to continue to advocate for pasaden UniFi who's been through this you know horrific challenge with the eaten fire um so that's why we have three iterations of the budget because things are continuously changing sometimes for the positive
any other questions Dr vasus so I think that the question the most common question that I hear is why does it seem like Baden is always cutting so we are cutting and then we're cutting again and then we're cutting again and they were permanently in this
state uh of in this particular State why why why does that happen yeah so I it it's cold comfort probably but I think most districts feel the same way um most School communities feel the same way
um part of it is that in California funding for education is a lot more volatile than in other states um because so much of State revenues that provide the the bulk of funding for
Education relies on income taxes capital gains taxes sales taxes um it's more volatile than property taxes in California property taxes compared to most states are quite low property taxes are much more stable from one year to the
next and so that's one reason why we see a lot more ups and downs in funding levels for education in California is because of how we get the revenues from the state how the state gets the revenues and how they give them that so that's one reason why we see a lot more volatility um and and right now we're
dealing with a unique set of circumstances where a lot of dis big districts a lot of urban districts even non-urban districts are dealing with declining enrollment and happened for a long time and we've been shielded from the negative impact of that for the last several years one because of covid relief funds and also because the state
itself held us harmless from the impacts to our revenue from declining enrollment that's over and so now a lot of the things that we would have normally experienced over the last few years that we've been shielded from we are experiencing in full so many different
factors uh a perfect storm if you will um all once so do we have a motion I'm Mo I'm move approval second did you well we can
still do advocacy right yes okay I need a [Music] second I second I was asking uh okay so do we have a discussion on on this yes Miss
Kenny um one of the items noted in the narrative about um potential future reductions is decreasing reduction in sight and Department supplemental and concentration allocations although that also may be current year as well but I just want to
say I am against decreasing the amount of funds that go to schools especially from snc um already in this last year only about 5% of the supplemental and concentration funds from lcff that we
get go to schools um I'm in favor of giving more money to schools directly rather than spending it on their behalf sensorly so that each site has the flexibility to decide do we want a wellness coach do we want a a el coach
you know what what is the thing that we need as oppos to maybe the district saying everybody's getting one of these everybody's getting one of these two um and we're only sending I think my calculation said we're only sending 40% of the title one money that we get goes to directly to sites and some of it has
to be allocated other ways but it's I I know there's a fear that sites won't spend it but one of the things and we saw this when we used to distribute title 3 Mony to schools when you give a School site $6,000 cuz that's back what
it was in the day there's nothing you can do with $6,000 that's very interesting so the smaller amounts we give a site and if they can't hire a person with it they end up spending it on little things that aren't as meaningful whereas back when my kids were Burbank and we
got you know $300,000 for an elementary school we could hire three tosas now you can't you can't get three toses for that amount of money anymore but I'm saying so I just want to think about are we are
we when we split the money up certain ways we may be disadvantaging um good decisions from the sites um I I want to advocate for a fiscal stabilization plan that has specific items on it with the amounts and the
expected instructional or operational impact I know that we approved layoffs two weeks ago but we didn't I don't know that we as a board were able to understand or approve budget cuts we've never seen kind of what's included I
know that the sbac looked at packages I know the board has access to the package information but the public does not and I've found it very difficult to understand even when you tell me well we're doing 90% package for that department I don't know what that means
I don't know what are the five or three or two things are that are getting cut and I think it's really important to explain the impact when we reduce the number of teachers at each School site to go back to Staffing to ratio what is
the potential impact for the programs we need to be able to explain to people what's happening the Board needs to understand the community needs to understand and the Board needs to be able to have conversations where we either are reassuring people or or confirming to them yes this is one of
those things that might happen um I sent Dr Blanco today a couple examples of um fiscal stabilization plans from 1718 and 1819 that were in that kind of format and I think just as again having that impact I think is really important and
and I want to Echo what Dr Blanco said about looking at how we're going to approach doing budget development and program planning next year um I thank you for talking about the board not really being part of it I think it's as with any process this was even though we
kind of did this process before this was I think different than the prior superintendent's budget advisory Council it's always good to do a recap what went well what didn't go well you know how should you know when should things happen next year when should we start maybe August it's too late you know I
don't know so I hope that that kind of discussion will happen um and and I think we should be open to input about how can we improve that process not make it more difficult not make it more time
consuming but but make it more that we're sure that we're making the budget decisions that align with our values and our strategic plan and we can communicate them well and then um on our on our certification for our budget
[Music] um you know because we on the screen that you showed the slide that you showed that had those continuing deficits so this year 39 next year it was 27 29 y well actually I don't think you show the deficits I'm sorry you
didn't show the deficits but it's between 20 and $30 million deficit this year next year and the following year um and you know when we sent Leo our fiscal stabilization plan at first interim it
said we're going to cut 27 million and we cut 12 so we're going to have to cut about 12 next year so the same pain we're feeling this year we're going to do next year and it looks when you know when you take the fire money out it looks like we're going to do it a third year too
about 12 each of these three years unless unless things change which they you know we don't know what's going to happen and we may have taken some of the easier I'm not saying they feel easier to the people who are being laid off or you know the ramifications for
class size but the next set of you know to get to 12 million is hard so we have we have a lot of work to do so again it's not oh we might have to make a few Cuts next year we have to make the same dollar amount for the next two years
potentially um and so I'm I'm just really hesitant about sending a message of of saying positive it's it's kind of I feel like it's kind of come back to us I you I've seen comments saying well if you're
positive all the time why are you doing cut I so again I I want to make sure our message actually reflects our situation and so I get that L goes like all on board with us declaring positive and if we add that fire money in but right now
it looks like we're using the fire money to keep the lights on and and using it all up and it and then it'll be gone I'm not saying that's what we're going to do but on paper that's what we're showing so um I would I would offer an amendment to
change is to qualified I don't know if it'll get a second though are you making a motion for an amendment yes is there a second second um vote oh did you want more sorry can you
explain the rationale and what amendments or modifications to the document that has been prepared or going to be made in order to reflect a qualified certification because based on what the document is that is the way it's been
prepared right now it may or may not meet [Music] the The Benchmark or the criteria for qualified I'm not an expert what did Pat always say I'm not a
lawyer I just play one on TV um so to I think to what Michelle said about putting that fire money even if it wasn't put into a separate fund because it might not all be fa for facilities because we know it's coming to us as a
you know prepayment reimbursement maybe it should be committed in the ending balance which would make that third year out we wouldn't be able to meet our reserves because it would be committed to something else now I'm not I'm not sure that you actually have to show
that because I think if you explain to anyone where our money is and what's what that is and San showed it I mean we have a deficit there this cash if you will is disguising it and so in real life it it is a qualified
situation but that that would beare that but I think what I'm trying to get at is based on the report that was prepared by staff based on the document that we are being asked to approve your amendment is
asking us to approve something different and what is the difference that we are directing staff to make in the report before it goes to Lego that is my question um Dr Blanco yeah I seriously object to us doing the cbo's job for him
that is really like crossing the line of what the role of the board is in my opinion um we have spent a lot you know a lot of time this evening in our Retreat discussing the role of the board and the role of superintendent and our
direction to staff is to do their their job right and so I um I don't understand this thinking that we should file our certification something different than what our financial documents are showing Miss [Music]
Kenny so the fiscal over site is the job of the board and and the district certification of the interim Fort is something that signed by the board president so this is our this is our job he he has presented the information to
us and and and he has put up there the fact that we would not even make our reserves in that third year except for this extra cash so I mean he's he's presented the case and I so that's what I'm saying it's this is not overstepping this is not doing his job this is doing
doing our job we are the first line of oversight and then leg go is the second Dr blco why didn't you take this position with the covid money then that is a good point all right uh no I'm so sorry I'm so sorry okay no side talk
here there's no side talk um Dr biley Miss biley so thank you I'll take that you've been upgraded I know so here's where I have a
problem I have a problem that San has brought this presentation forward he's been totally transparent with what's happening with the funding he has the approval of
Leo to move forward in this direction and so excuse me I'm not questioning the validity on how we're filing I'm not even questioning whether
or not we should change how we're filing because I don't I agree with patrice's position you know what what are the merits you know to US changing um
how this report is going to be presented to substantiate a qualified filing as opposed to what has been filed based on what has been presented that LEL obviously has already been made privy to
and has given their okay so I think that maybe this conversation that we're having um board member Kenny where you talked about future fiscal stabilization
plans that you'd like to see maybe we can start from that point but I would suggest moving forward tonight with what we have here and to not be labor this because I believe that it's the
right thing to do if not I I don't think that Lego would have said it's okay to move forward I think they would have advised staff to go back to the table and bring them something different and I do take my job
seriously um when you know it comes to my fiary role um oversight role as a school board member but like you said board member Kenny we are not the experts we don't do this job and
so if again if we as board members are going to make a request of staff to bring us something differently than what they've already recommended or brought forward to us we need to be able to articulate exactly
what that is and if we can't articulate what it is then it's not fair in my opinion for us to hold it up from moving forward and and that's my position thank you Dr
Velasquez I think that it is very complicated because it's a do SW um we uh were not able to participate in certain process of decision making and now we're a we are in a position where we have have to accept it right and so
um the question is yes I would like to act differently but we don't have that proposal and what would it take to make that proposal so it take the time machine and so at this point and I think that we've talked about it many many
times I think that we need to have a serious discussion about how we're going to move in the future and stick to it um because I don't I I think that we're in an impath where we are going to have to make some critical decisions moving forward um however here's my concern uh
Miss Kenny maybe you can clarify because I am too concerned about what you're bringing up and um in my previous intervention I did notice that the extreme difficulty or the difficult position that we're going to be next
year right but on the other hand I'm trying to balance it because um if we don't do if we don't move forward as is then it is my impression that in order to move forward in a positive way we
would have to even increase the number of cuts no and increasing the number of cuts at this point would mean even more the potential of more displaced people out of work so I I I I'm not sure how to
move forward while also being conscious of the situation that we're living Miss Kenny so unless we do use insurance money to pay ongoing teacher salaries
and keep the lights on we will have we'll have to make Cuts whether we file positive or qualified so I'll just read positive says we will meet the financial obligations for the current fiscal year and the subsequent two fiscal years
qualified says the district may not meet the financial obligations for the current fiscal year or two subsequent fiscal years so it's saying we have a little uncertainty that third year looks a little funky right now and yes we have
this cash that's kind of disguising it I'm just saying I think it's a more honest appraisal of where we are and it communicates to ourselves to the public you we got some work to do this
is not all it's not all great so that's why I I I'm I've been worried because I think people were very surprised that we had so many cuts to make but we've kind of known we've been talking about it since last spring but I don't know that that's
really I mean become a knowledge for anyone do you see what I mean just hold on we we're we want to kind of wrap this up you can say one more thing I'm going to say something and then it's going to Harden and then or Miss biley before Scott before
me and I'm just confused because this seems as like a preventative measure to avoid confusion but we've been talking about the implications of this budget and the cuts that we had to make this year in April
of 2024 in May of 2024 in August in September all last year we knew that this was going to happen and that we were going to have to make layoffs and January was awful but we knew and so
I I'm not sure what is the different in classification what is the problem it solves because we also know that next year we're going to be in a difficult position in fact what the only thing that we don't know is the extent of the
difficult position that we are going to be so I'm not sure how the amendment enhances Clarity because we have been constant and transparent in explaining I don't want to use that
phrase I guess another EDM for we're in crisis okayy there urgency yeah I didn't want to you know the roof is on fire but then it seems insensitive all right so Mr Harden then Miss B yeah I think think where I get on board with this is not
you know accusing lack of transparency but I think that the the main not meet is relevant I think and the the qualified rating means that we have to have a fiscal stabilization plan and I think that was prudent for us to do the
process that we followed to get there the work that we did with this superintendent's uh budget advisory committee was a start in the right direction in that process so so I think that's where I support that in that the efforts that we would it mandates that
we have to continue doing those things to address some of the uncertainties that we know that we've identified that that are before us so it doesn't say that we won't meet the uh uh reserve requirements it says that we may not and
to me that seems that there is a risk I mean there's a risk that we there's a lot of moving parts to this so I'm going to askk us all just to be a little brief but and I think the chances that we may are just the same so you're just
looking at the glass half empty but the parcel tax also kicks in next year am I is that correct that's numers yes and that's already included in the numbers and then there's more insurance money that's going to kick in my so here's here's what makes it hard for me Kim
with your amendment is that it's almost as if you're asking us to not see the funding that is there and the funding is here and it has to be placed somewhere so I can understand how it contributes to the
existing fund balance right and so I I can't support the amendment because it just it doesn't make sense to me it's almost it's almost like saying you know we should just ignore the
funding that we have and keep this you know um this um information going out there that we don't have the funds when we really do and he already explained
that some of those funds are going to be used for not just fire related issues with our facilities but with other things purchases and and teacher coverages or whatever that needs to
happen that is related to the fires so I mean it's it's in there it's going to be used and I I I I have a hard time trying to separate that out now that it's there
so that's where I I'm Dr Blanco so there's also some timelines that were um required to meet in regards to turning this information in to Leo and you're ask asking us to do work with too many unknowns in a way that's too rapid fire
um you know we could easily create a um fiscal stabilization plan with that includes things that may or may not happen just for the sake of going through an exercise um and I think we were forced to do that in some ways before we can say we're going to cut you
know $12 million out of categorical funding or the special ed budget but I don't understand the reason that you would want staff to go through that unnecessarily when we don't know what the future holds and there is potential
that we will have to cut less than what is being shown this evening because we will get additional resources from the lawsuit that you just approved from the um Governor's trailer Bill and maybe many other
places I'd like to add something here um I know how serious this whole situation is and I know the absolute horrendous that we have all gone through and other people have gone through far worse however Leo does have that power
to put us into receivership and they're looking at this man's work and our approval and they say we're good to go right now to overstep that into the area
of the staff that has worked with Lego makes me feel really uneasy I would stay with this track and work towards where we need to go and just what Dr Blanco said we don't
know what's going to happen in the future and there may be more money for us but to reject a positive certification that Leo who has the power to put us into receivership and say you know what we don't believe you we're
going to do this I don't know if that sends the right message and I do feel that this amendment is overstepping the bounds of a trustee to staff in a time when there's so much pain and uncertainty economically and emotionally
in people's lives I don't believe this is the way to go thank you Mr Harden very quickly if if so if if it was qualified the fiscal stabilization plan that we would have to submit does that have to be submitted with this
certification and what we have I don't I don't know I we we'd have to talk to Lego unclear June in June okay almost certainly in June I'd like to call for for the question please we're going to call for the vote right now there's a motion and second on the amendment we're
calling okay roll call we don't oh we're just going to call all in favor on the amendment all opposed okay now we go to the motion I would like a chance for advocacy on the original
motion okay okay thank you sure um I just want to make a acknowledgement of uh I don't think what's I want to make sure what's not lost here is the um the
emotional impact of this layout off and the severity of it that while you know public education is grossly underfunded California is ranked 33rd per in per puple
funding and we have just um C come off the the fires but the repeated uh layoffs in the severity I want to emphasize the sever ity the the depth of the layoffs it has
a human toll and I I have talked to staff about this I know they I think they understand but I hope that we can somehow learn you know
it's staff can't control the the you know the stock market or whatever that helps with our revenue and but we we can do something proactive and I hope that we take this a moment
to really look at our process and hopefully not have the severity of these Cuts in the future my understanding is not all districts have this kind of cycle uh so frerick you're going to need to wrap it
up and then we to move on um so I just want to acknowledge that this does affect our retention and Recruitment and I hope we take this as a opportunity to improve uh continuously improve thank you
frericks I I'll be brief but I do want to acknowledge that m f is in fact correct we have had a tremendous harm to our community and again like I said last couple weeks ago nobody runs for office
to make these kinds of decisions this is a necessary decision that is not pleasant and not easy for any of us we may have differing opinions on the path forward but no one is taking pleasure in having to make any cuts at all
but despite the fact that pasina is in a unique situation financially and even more so having this be significantly more impactful due to the fire there are a number of districts across the state who are faced with having to make the same
terrible choices about how to manage their budgets for the next three years um Santa Ana Coachella Valley Poway down in San Diego real to just the name a few are all facing having to make significant layoffs to their staffs so
we are not alone in having to make this difficult decision um there's probably 30 so districts that have to file qualified budgets for way significant more financial challenges than we have um there's also probably
six districts or so that are really on the bubble of going into receivership we are fortunate to not be in that situation in that scenario but across the state of California right now um school districts are really really
struggling so this is a shared pain that is occurring in many of the Thousand or so school boards across the state so I think that we all take this responsibility very seriously and we all
are very trepidacious about having to be courageous leaders in making this very difficult decision so know that the work that staff has done to bring forward a recommendation
that um meets the needs of our financial obligations but also manages and balances to the best of um their ability the human impact of these decisions is very real
um I know that over the course of the several months that the superintendent's budget advisory committee has met these have been very difficult conversations and very difficult decisions about sort of what is something
that can be um eliminated right now and what is something that we absolutely must keep and none of those trade-offs have been easy at all so I just want to thank the staff for their thoughtfulness their diligence and
um their ability to bring forward a work product that um represents the best of what is an unthinkable situation so that with that I'm going to support the recommendation of staff
and hope that um we can be thoughtful about in the future where we go how do we make decisions for our continued um Financial well-being and continue to Pro to Center and prioritize how we continue to serve the students of passing unified thank you and uh we all received the
Kevin Gordon communic that said the majority of school districts in the state are undergoing what we're undergoing we are not not unique in this we are in a shared community and right now because of this incredible
stewardship we have a positive certification that's going to help us willingly going qualified is not going to help us so I am advocating for the original and Dr Velasquez I want to talk I want to say that I
am concerned about the trend and the implications of the trend moving into the future um but at this point I am going to have to support
this budget as proposed understanding the [Music] difficult consequences moving forward if if anybody in the community feels that they're having very restful
nights I encourage them to run for office [Music] okay uh are we wrapped up here on advocacy can we um have a vote Yes [Music] thank you very much Mr Bravo karey you
might as well just stand there aren't you up next okay no present it's under action items approval move approval of H2 thank you very much Kim Kenny I could have read that and let me do it approval of
amendment number one to law firms for fiscal year 2024 2025 sorry I was making a motion second so I want us to talk until uh 9 you want to talk for a while am look at
you you got lots to say oh wait I'm the closest all right so um we're we need to approve this going to approve we're still approving we have a motion in a second hello hello we're still working here approval Motion in a second oh
where'd she go yeah can we vote please I guess we can go ahead and call for it all in favor you should be paying
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