Okay. Calling the meeting to order at 05:00. Can we have roll call, please? Here. Here. Here. Are there any public comments? No public comments. Okay. We will recess to closed. Okay. I'm adjourning closed. Can we call the open session to order? It's at 05:30. Roll call, please. Jennifer Holley. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Thank you. Here. Oh, thank you. Any public comment for the agenda? Okay, no public comment. So moving on to action item H1, certification of twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six second
interim budget report. Doctor. Kunal? It does feel a little far compared to normal. We're actually right on time right now. I can speak fast. Good evening, madam, president, board. Thank you for the opportunity to present on the second interim. Today, on the agenda will be three items, an overview of the second interim and the fiscal timeline, the state and district outlook and the multi year projection. As you know, the report will reflect the financial activity through the statutory reporting cutoff
times and action taken after that day will be, actions taken after that day will be incorporated into future budget updates. The information that we'll review captures, changes since June's adopted budget through January 31. Our recommendation this evening is gonna be for the board to certify the financial conditions of the district as positive. The district, the district is projected to meet its financial obligations in 2526 and in the two subsequent years. Some key points. The superintendent's budget advisory committee completed its process.
The district budget reductions recommendations including those resulting from the SBAC process and the layout resolutions represented to the board previously, in February 26. And part of its, approval, the district's adopted budget. LACOE required the district to submit a fiscal stabilization plan for first interim. A fiscal stabilization plan is now required by LECO as part of the second interim due to the Board's approval of the layoff resolutions of February 26. Some key points. As a reminder, the 20 four-twenty five ending balances becomes the 20 five-twenty six beginning
balances, as reflected at the September's 20 four-twenty '5 unaudited actuals that includes more fire related revenues. The projected unrestricted general fund increase and decrease with the FSP and fire revenue and expenditures are displayed. As a note, as a reminder, the fund 17 is to be used, is not included and we have it as part of the district's long term liability, used for other post retirement benefits such as OPEB, employee accrued sick leave, and vacations.
There's two different resolutions that have, addressed fund 17. One was in 2022, resolution twenty six seventy eight, and the other was in 2025, resolution twenty eight twenty seven. This is a slide that we're used to seeing that really outlines the fiscal timelines, where we're at today, the second interim. And the next time we'll come together will be during the budget adoption. But before that, something that will be coming up and we'll learn more information is regarding the May revise. As you know, and I'll talk about in a minute, the in January, the governor proposed the budget to the legislature, and we're gonna talk a little bit about what
that means for the state, and a little bit about what that means for us here in Pasadena. In terms of California, the fiscal outlook, the governor's proposed budget faces a $2,900,000,000 shortfall. The one of the concerns that has been, shared by different district has been the proposal of the delaying of the $5,600,000,000 shifting the cost to future years when the state must settle up its obligation. We usually refer that to a settle up. The governor has done that on previous occasions, and that continues to be a concern for, for us as a district. The governor has proposed quite a bit of one time, funding revenue for disc discretionary
block grant. Also restoring the remaining one time learning recovery block grant, that was deferred from the 2023 budget. We don't have estimates as to the revenue that are specific to Pasadena Unified for the learning recovery block, grant. The block grant sped at this time. We will wait for more information from the governors may revise a budget. There is sometimes, the the the different financial institutions, whether it's Figmaat, the, School Services of California or Capital Advisors.
There's a difference of opinion about what will happen during the May revise in terms of whether or not, we will have that chew up, whether it'll go back to the districts, whether how much fun, one time money will come to the districts. We're hoping that more will be shared during the May revise, but there are some concerns that have been shared, concerns still with the state's budget, depending whether you look at school services, FCMAT, or if you look at capital advisors. So there's some distinguishing, points of view depending on who you look at. But what they do agree on is just shared concerns and waiting for the May
revise. Pasadena's fiscal outlook. Without fire related revenues and expenses in the general fund, the district expects a positive unassigned ending fund balance with a deficit spending, in year 2526. With fire related revenues and expenses in the general fund, the district expects a positive unassigned in the fund balance and a surplus in fiscal year twenty five, twenty six. As before, if the actual revenue increases and expenditures, and expenditure reductions fall short of those assumed in the fiscal stabilization plan, the general fund ending balance will be lower
than those projected at the second interim. Declining enrollment continues to be a concern, not only for us here in Pasadena, but across the San Gabriel Valley. Enrollment, we do a lot of work in terms of enrollment projections. We continue to update those through a budget cycle, and there's different things that are, impact that enrollment. Of course, we have, seen some new t k TK enrollments. We're monitoring out of district permits. We're also monitoring projections, and we find them as we as more information becomes available
regarding families returning returning patterns. So we'll continue to monitor those, and adjust our, financials and as well as our staffing based on those. But, of course, after, COVID, it really made, us to take a look at how we do our staffing and how we do our enrollment projections. The in fire has also impacted of how we do our projections, in the future, for us here locally. This is a slide, that we added to the slide deck of what you might be used to seeing. And it's just comparing from the first interim to the second interim, some key points
for you. Again, some adjustments that you might look for, in these would be, in the details of the financials. Is the adjustments we did to the COLA in the out years. There were some adjustments that were being made. We always take a look at health and welfare increases that are included in the multi year projection, in our part of our budget assumptions. And there are always adjustments that are being made when it comes to health and welfare. Particularly, in this year where we're still applying some of the reductions that were made, that are yet to be made, that's still something that we're gonna be working through
in business along with the academics and, HR. Because there'll be some adjustments that need to be made, considering, once we implement some of the reductions from, the decisions that were made on February 26. The second interim, general fund restricted. This is, taking a look at our revenue and our expenses, with a restricted ending fund balance. We'll show you a couple of others, that will compare the, charts. So here on the left side, you have the general fund, unrestricted with fire.
On the right hand side, the same information without the fire revenue and expenditures to provide a clearer picture. Some people look at this, and will look and see how, we're headed in the right direction. However, there's still some concerns, as we continue throughout this fiscal year to see, where things will be once we implement all of the reductions. As I mentioned to you in February 26, the vote for those resolutions is the beginning of the process. It's not at the end of the process, in terms of looking at, not only
from the staffing perspective, but also from the financials perspective. So that really began the second part of the phase in terms of us looking at the financials. The next slide is the general fund restricted. In the general fund restricted, there's a couple of different things that speak, to that. I mentioned, in one of the communications, the largest projected balances on those would be things like ELOP, LOP, medical billing, the routine restricted maintenance, and discretionary broad grants, among others, that add to that ending fund balance.
The general fund unrestricted unassigned fund balance with the fire revenue and expenditures, this chart here takes a look at the adopted budget, the first interim. Second interim, multi year projections, are seen side by side, with these bars. All received insurance funds are assumed as it was in the first interim to be expended by the end of the year of '20 '28. The second interim budget reporting fund 17 balance is now projected to be transferred in the 2526, and out years. In the adopted budget, as a reminder, the fund 17 was transferred was included in
the 2627 MYP. So that is a difference from adopted budget. Or unrestricted unassigned fund balance without fire revenue and expenditure, there again, you'll see the same, information provided to you but through the unassigned, fund balances without the fire revenue expenditures, providing a different lens to the same data. I'm gonna pause a little bit on, this slide. We talked a little bit about it, previously. These are the contributions from unrestricted general fund in these different categories.
And one of them that I'm highlighting in the arrows on the slide is in the 2526 school year, a lot of the work that has been done, by a lot of people, behind the scenes from the fiscal department, from the budget department, special ed. I mentioned last time when we were talking that we, have been working real closely with a consultant, who's been advising us on looking at our, special ed maintenance of effort and what we could do, to maximize, while we continue to meet our obligations
over time, how can we strengthen the monitoring and the fiscal practices? The slide reflects we have, begun identifying opportunities to refine how some of the expenditures are coded and attributed to special ed. The goal is maintaining the flexibility, meaning the special ed maintenance of effort requirements going forward. While the maintenance of effort requires the district to maintain the same level of the state and local spending for special ed from year to year, either in total or per pupil, one of the key recommendations was to strengthen how we track throughout the year the expenditures, including documenting allowable exemptions when they occur.
So this reflects a lot of that work that has been done. So, really proud of the team communicating and working together to accomplish that. Factors that are not reflected in the NYP, future changes in compensation, any increase in health and welfare contributions, any unknown liabilities as AB two eighteen. I'll remind us, we had seven cases. We have been, very fortunate to, put five cases behind us. So there's two cases remaining, that I'll provide more information in the future.
Potential impacts of economic downturns. As I mentioned earlier in the states, there's still concerns, regarding, the governor's budget and what's gonna come in the May revise and ultimately in the June adoption. Potential reductions in state or federal funding at the state level. Potential programmatic or operational investments, and potential expenses incurred due to the fire not covered by insurance or fire related grants. So those, are not reflected in the multi year projection. Factors not included in the second interim, I wanna say it was either two board
meetings ago, perhaps one board meeting ago. We talked about the additional submission of the j 13. Again, a lot of work that was done by Armani and her team, folks in actually doctor Reynoso's office and IT. A lot of work that was done to submit an additional, j 13 report for every day after we opened school after the Eden Fire, trying to account for every single day into the end of the school year. Happy to report that the we, got an approval letter from the CDE, although we
still have to wait to be able to account, for that in our record keeping. But that is actually really good news because it allows us, to, to look at that additional ADA funding moving forward because, as you know, we do a three year average. So this will happen three years out, so the work that was done, in these efforts. So that is not included in the second interim. It's not reflected. One time learning recovery, emergency block grant funding is not included, as well as the one time funding, through the student support and professional development discretionary block grant.
The SBAC reductions, the additional ones that were after the November, twentieth that were under discussion, those additional reductions are not part of this. That vote took place, February 26. This report takes us, as a reminder, to January 31. So the second in, accounts for everything reflected up until January 31. The votes for the for the reductions was on, February excuse me, February 26. So those are not accounted for here in the second interim as well. There's a lot of folks that put, took account into putting this together.
So their names are there just as a appreciation for their hard work and the time and energy that they spent in working with across different departments, whether it's with doctor Turley. I know there's a bit of several meetings that have been taking place already planning for next school year when it comes to the LCAP, but work with that happens with doctor Reynoso's office, doctor Chan Hill's office. So this is a group of people that, work to that effort. So I'm thankful for their, support and their work on that. And with that, I'll take any questions. Thank you, doctor Kanal. That was very quick and early.
So I just to remind my colleagues that follow the protocol four, where we start with inquiry, then we have the motion, and then advocacy. So just a reminder that this item is about voting on the certification of the second interim. So if we can please limit our questions to seek information that would help to inform your vote, close knowledge gaps, clarify understanding with respect to the budget report. If you have any additional requests, you can always email doctor Blanco and I.
Any questions for Doctor. Kunal? Trustee Kenny? Thank you. There's a potential liability that's listed in the, criterion standards for 1,600,000.0, I think, attributable to AB two eighteen. Is that for the current fiscal year, 2526? I believe it yes, it is. Okay. So it's not incorporated into the second interim, but we include it there because it's potential. Yes. Okay. And that would be maybe for the two cases that are still open?
Yes. In response to the question about our ongoing restricted ending balance, I think you showed that on one of the slides that the ending balance for restricted is staying fairly constant. They mentioned that one of the accounts that had quite a bit of funding was, of 6,400,000.0 was medical billing. And it said that there's a lot of restrictions though on some of this funding. What kind of restrictions are on medical billing? Like, what can it be spent on or what can't it be spent on? Sure. Obviously, the the expert on that would probably be Ria, but I can share a little bit from, my experience. Is things that are attributed typically the folks that, work with that, student population are
typically the ones, that will claim those funds, that have to fill out the documents to be able to claim the hours that they're spending on working with those particular student group. So it is to support that process. So what can we spend the 6,400,000.0 on? Well, things I know that, part of it is, for example, I know that we use nurses as part of that expenditure, in terms of including in there. And I could check on the rest of the other items, and I can provide that to you. Okay. Because I think we've been building up. That's why I just wondered. Yes. And so is would this have been considered part of grant maximization under That is
exactly correct. Okay. Under our fiscal stabilization plan? Yes. Sorry to finish that sentence. And then I think I noticed that our attendance percentage is gonna fall from 94.2% in 2526 down to 92.7 by 2728. That's on, in the, again, in the criterion standards. And I just wonder why do we think our ADA as, you know, our as a percentage of enrollment is gonna go down in the future? Aren't we thinking it's gonna go up? Well, we're always gonna work. I know that, doctor Benasso and her team have been doing a lot of work
in terms of looking and and increasing their percentage, points. It that's part of, the process where I mentioned where we make adjustments as we move forward. I know that we've made some adjustments even this year from, in terms of P1 and the work that has been done, and making sure that we raised it. So even this year alone, there were some adjustments, in the ADA. Any further questions? Okay. Well, I can go. So you mentioned in the beginning about, well, I I read in the CSBA monthly
newsletter about the governor's budget being very optimistic scenario. And then you also mentioned FCMAT and school services had a maybe a different, outlook. So and, LAO, the Legislative Analyst Office, had a more conservative outlook. So does the FCMAT and the school services are more closely aligned with the LAO's, projections? And how does so I'm looking at a $35,000,000,000 structural deficit that the LAO, had
estimated by 2728. So what how does that affect you anticipate in our final budget, I guess? Sure. No. That's a great question. And that's the interesting, I was talking to one of the persons in one of those, fiscal firms. So I mentioned three capital advisors, school services, and Figmaat. And I was talking to I'll just say one of the individuals of one of those companies, and they themselves, mentioned how they were a little bit more optimistic than
the other two. So, so I think even then, there's some disagreement in terms of, the governor being a little too optimistic. Others believe that the legislative body will actually provide the governor with what he's asking for. Particularly with the, true what we some people refer to it as true up or settle up. The $5,600,000,000 in terms of that delay, that would be obviously significant for districts of, having some ongoing revenue. So I think there's still some concern and there's some disagreement in terms of what
ultimately will be adopted. People believe that, when the May revise comes, that will provide a much clearer picture about how what we will receive at the site level through the district. So, there's really, it's tough to tell, depending, depending on who you ask and depending how long. Every governor of the legislative office kinda responds differently to each governor. I know that there was a once upon a time when the governor put forward a proposed budget, and there was no changes. That hasn't happened, more recently.
There has been some adjustments that are being made. One of the ones that I had a conversation with, was about the settlement money, which is a something that is kinda novice. It's happened, two or three times in the last recent years, which is not something that has been traditional to be used. But, this particular governor has been using that as a tactic to, some would argue, to balance, the budget, without getting too political. So I think we'll know more in May, but I understand why typically, fiscal folks will try to be more conservative, to make sure that, you know, we're as we're
optimistic and conservative at the same time, we strike a balance. But maybe advice will let us know more about where we are at. Thank you. Two more. The SPED sorry, there was a slide on slide 15, contributions to unrestricted. It's been I yes. There were the arrows there. Yes. Was there sorry. I can you highlight what the arrows mean? Yes. Okay. That's that's slide? Yeah. Yeah. This slide. Yes. Yes. So, in the beginning when you adopted budget in June, you'll see that there was,
the contribution, was the 57,000,000 or was 58. The work working, and finding opportunities about where we can, where we can improve, and manage the cost, for special ed, meaning where was what were some of the allowable exemptions and where could they occur in terms of documentation? How can we, document fiscally some of the services? So it is not a reduction in services. It's not a reduction in, the maintenance of effort. The reports, that I believe the board, received does, goes into very detail.
I think it was 22 pages that goes into detail in terms of just some of the suggestions that they make. This is that report in action, if you will. So the fiscal team got together, with the special ed and to see where they can move some of the things that we are charging for special ed and where we where we can optimize some of that expenditure, but still not still making sure that the services were still not being reduced. The I believe it's on, I made a note of it on page 12 of, and I'm referring to the report by Anjanette that was provided to the board. It talks about, that we can still provide, that we the district can still maintain
the same level of, going forward, but maximize and manage the cost by strengthening how we track throughout the year the allowable, exemptions when they occur. And I think that's what you see there. So there wasn't that tracking before? There was no system tracking? I said that we've improved in that process. Okay. There was a system. Okay. Just tightening it up? Yes. And last thing is, you mentioned that this, second interim doesn't account for the the February 26 layoff, approved layoffs.
Is there some concern I wonder if that's something that we should be concerned about. Is that does that throw off the the numbers? Great question. I do not think so. The SBAC, up to November 12, there was a lot of consideration and thoughts about a lot of work that went into, and we recognized all of those in the first interim. This talks about in the reductions, I provided the board with the difference between what was SBAC and what was above, beyond SBAC. For example, I remember labeling them, staffing, for example. So the majority of it was SBAC.
So the majority of the reductions that you've seen in the first interim and that you see here have been recognized. For in the, resolutions that you saw, I provided some examples of those positions that were above and beyond from the November 20. So beyond the first interim. And those were actually the minority that was they were not the majority. We will recognize those. Of course, on February 26, I did not presume, to to assume that the board was gonna, vote in a positive, that the resolutions are gonna go forward. And even if I did, the second interim, as I mentioned, the ed code requires
me to go up to January 31 in terms of the fiscal snapshot in time. So even if the I believe it was, five days or nine days of a difference between the February 26 and today. And not even if we did have enough time to provide that information, this report again requires us to go up to January 31. But I do not think that it will, diminish this, the second interim. If anything, it will be helpful in particularly with the structural, spending. And I think the adopted budget will provide us here in Pasadena with a really
good picture in terms of our finances. Thank you. Trustee Hart. Just quickly on slide 17 that you mentioned, that one of the factors not reflected in the second interim was the learning recovery emergency block grant. And I believe that my understanding is that has to be written into the LCAP. So is there a time when you may not be able to answer that question, but in terms of a time line as to when that would happen. Which part I I apologize. Learning recovery emergency block grant funding. Oh, when will it happen? Indicated in in this report.
I understand that, but it does have to be indicated. It has to be written into the LCAP. Sure. Yes. Well, we're hoping to get more information, from the, county, sooner rather than later. I do know that they're already working on the, on the finances that we do. I know that there was a meeting yesterday, there was a meeting today with, doctor Turley. Excuse me. With fiscal, with HR. There's a lot of meetings in terms of looking, in terms of making some of the adjustments because of the things that were voted on in terms of the resolution to fulfill still the obligations of the LCAP.
But in terms of us finding out, from the states, in terms of this one time revenue for 2627, that we won't know. I presume that we would know sometime closer to in May, if not June. Sometimes There might be some opportunity to Yes. Restore some positions through that through that potentially. Yeah. I'll far short of, of of I think we will get a much clearer picture in May after the May revise, particularly in June. And I always would always warn us of the structural deficit that we're still under today. Sorry. Doctor. Yeah. I I think we have to be careful about statements of restoring positions with one
time money because that's been a historical problem that we have, right, is creating positions out of one time money, and that's something that we're trying to change our habits of doing. Do you have any more questions, trustee Hardin? Okay. Trustee Velasquez? Hi. Thank you for taking my question. Given the enrollment trends and, some of the staffing reductions, I hope, that you can mention or speak to what are some of the strategies that we're considering, for long
term alignment of staff and projected enrollment after this year. Thank you for the question. Now projection of enrollment is always, challenging in normal circumstances. The, what has happened in our community recently has added to the complication. But one of the things that we always, do is in in a an example that I can give you how we monitor our enrollment and monitor staffing is when, unfortunately, we do make some staffing adjustments, even after the school year ends, and when
the school year begins. I do not refer to that as errors in terms of projection. I act that's making an adjustment based on our enrollment patterns. We are very fortunate in Pasadena that we really allow our parents to move within schools, and we allow that flexibility for our parents to make adjustments in enrollment. We want our, kids to come our own kids to go to the schools that they desire with the parents, but we also want kids from outside the district to come in. So we do see some, working with, the enrollment office, students from outside the district coming in. So we always wanna allow for that to happen.
And because we allow for those enrollment trends to be very flexible for our families, that means then our staffing has to be flexible. Meaning, if, if there is a position that is needed at one side and enrollment fluctuated at another, we do transfers of one position from one location to the next, which is very common in districts to do. So that's us being prudent in our staffing, aligning to our current enrollment at that time. So I hope that my question is understood as a question about long term planning
in alignment with our budgets. Yes, ma'am. Any further questions? I do have a comment. Okay. Sure. Trustee Bailey? Yeah. I just, I have a comment, and I just wanna tell you how much I appreciate you taking on taking the lead on this and doing this work, you and your team. Y'all did a great job with this. And I know with given all the challenges that we're dealing with in this district right now, you know, you guys are to be commended for getting this out and
getting this done. And so I just wanna publicly thank you. Thank you for your leadership. Thank your your team. I hope they hear me because this could not have been done if you all had not pulled together and worked together on this under these stressful conditions. So thank you. Thank you. On behalf of Armani Armani and Roanne, and their leadership as well, I am very thankful to have them, by my side. Thank you, Amit. Thank you. Any further questions? Does trustee Holly have any questions? Trustee Heng or trustee Mackenzie?
No questions. I just wanna make sure. Okay. Also, before I move on to the motion and advocacy, or once we get to advocacy, there won't be an opportunity for questions. So just double checking there's no more questions. Okay. So I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the certification of 2025, twenty six second interim budget report. So move. Second. Okay. Any advocacy? Trustee Kenney and then Trustee Heng. I did wanna say thank you for, the multi year projection without the fire figures.
I think that's really helpful to people to see, you know, to try and get a grasp on our structural deficit. And sometimes those big numbers of fire money get in the way. I was also really glad to see us taking advantage of the exemption for lowering our special ed enrollments in the maintenance of effort. I mean, I'm still a little bit concerned that the MOE costs, they are going up a thousand dollars per pupil. I know there there were a number of recommendations in that SPED fiscal review. And given that we contribute twice as much to special education from our base funding
as other districts, I I certainly would be interested in learning more about what other actions we're gonna be able to take and how that will impact the budget moving forward. One of the things I've also been thinking a lot about is the mismatch in timing for our educational budget system in California. It sounds like we're gonna have some potential additional revenue from the J13 waiver and additional cuts that will be reflected in our projections from the February 26 staffing, which might be $3,000,000 but by the time we see those in our projections, it'll be
after the May 15 deadline, you know, and then the governor's proposing more onetime funding for 2627, you know, the learning recovery block grants, which is the remainder of our money, the onetime, which some of the numbers I saw said our district might get 6,000,000. The fire money, that would be another 4,000,000, etcetera, etcetera. But all of that is one time, which doesn't help with our ongoing expenses. And even though we also then have our ending reserves of of 20,000,000 above our
3% required reserves. And I'm including the fund 17. That's still technically one time money. But I also think about whether we're going to use some of that at some point. But I'm just I'm just kind of being concerned about doing these really significant, reductions now. And then in the fall, being the recipient of a whole lot of one time money and how that will and again, this is the the the structure of the
system. But locally, we will be the ones that people want to come and talk to about it. Trustee Haim? The student assembly and council voted unanimously on this, and we have a statement. Student assembly and council had a long discussion, and we voted yes on this item because this fills the state requirement under the education codes. And where to vote no would signal that we do not believe PUSD can meet its financial quotas. It's deeply difficult to vote on physical items, and we are in such time of loss. Between the most recent rounds of cuts, ongoing talks about school consolidation, and the fires
in our community is hurting. We're losing people in the field of education or the backbone of American youth. We're concerned about the billions being spent on wars and international invasions, while PUSD and the larger education sector continues to lose its vital teachers, staff, and administrations, affecting the community as a whole. That being said, we also understand that the board has no power over federal policy. However, some USC, some community recognizes systematic issues that cause inequity in education and continue
to raise awareness. We'll continue to work on solutions to make a change. While this certification must be done to keep district legally solvent, this was a hard decision no matter what. Student assembly will always prioritize student experience in our district community. Thank you. Any other, advocacy statements? Okay. Trustee McKenzie. Thank you to doctor Kanell and the budget team for putting together this report. These are not easy. They are time intensive and doing so with a lot of, unknowns, I would say.
So to the best of your ability, you've given us the best prediction that you can in terms of where we are and where we're gonna go, and that I'm grateful for. I think that the opportunity that we have, as a body is to be vigilant in our advocacy to the state about, requesting the lifting of caps on one time money given our extenuating circumstances, continuing to monitor, changes in the state's economic projections, which,
you know, depending on who you ask, it's either like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow or the sky is falling. And somewhere in between is where we'll probably end up landing. I think that this is somewhat of probably more of an art than a science. We're gonna have to do our best with the information that comes to us. The timing doesn't necessarily line up and to Trustee Kenny's point about the statutory deadlines and what we're required to do and what we actually know in real life. Perhaps there's yet another opportunity for advocacy.
So the bill cycle may have passed for this year, but perhaps we can submit some legislation ideas next year to Capital Advisors to carry on our behalf to think about, making some adjustments to those timelines. Ultimately, I think that, we are being responsive to our, responsibilities as trustees to adopt this financial report, and we will continue to do so and be hopeful that additional dollars that do come to us are able to be used in ways that will
help us, sustain, programming and services to our students. Thank you all. Any other advocacy? Oh, no. This is advocacy actually for voters. Yes. I actually wanna say something. I'm sorry. We'll talk later. I have I'm listening to I see some patterns of, you know, people pointing out one time month one time funds and, I'm glad we are sensitive that to that. It's I mean, I honestly have to condition myself to to say, okay.
Oh, look, there's money. Oh, wait. Is that one time? You know, you have to ask that question. So I'm glad it's good to see that multiple leadership is recognizing that, including doctor Blanco. And, I think that's a good path that we're on. And, it is really a hard time right now. I do appreciate the student assembly and trustee Heng's, comments. It's I appreciate the larger lens of this world, this community, this world.
There's a lot on us. And, I wish that we had the resources to empower our young leaders to tackle those global issues. You know? We have so much challenge, but I'm glad we are unified in moving forward. But, yeah, I think that's the end of my comment. Thank you. Okay. So I will Did Trustee Hawley have a No?
Okay. So I think we are ready to have the roll call vote. I'm okay. I'm here listening. Okay. Great. So we will have Can I have can I have some time too for advocacy? Yes. Go ahead. I will yield my time to Doctor. Blanco. I'm sorry. That's out of order. Actually, no. It is. Okay. So I will ask for the preferential vote from Trustee Hain. Point of order prior to the vote, please. In the Sorry. I didn't acknowledge what what did you say? Prior to the vote. What is your what I said. What is your point?
I'd like to get clarification on whether or not doctor Blanco has an opportunity to make a statement during advocacy. I think that her responding to us is more than appropriate, and I don't know that there's anything that is precluding her from being able to make said statement. It is this is a vote of the trustees, and the advocacy is She's not voting. She's not voting. She's not making a statement. Advocating. The board. She should be able to participate with us. That's why she's The board I'm sorry. You're all out of order, actually. So let's Yeah. Let's discuss this at at the board retreat where we're training on what the procedure
is. Point of order, please? What is your point? By law are you preferring to by not allowing doctor Blanco to speak? What by law or what protocol? Protocol four. Okay. What delivery read protocol four because I haven't heard that. I haven't read that. You can address this at the end And until we do that. Outside the meeting. Until we do that, then I think that she should be allowed to speak until it is established clearly that we should be changing our mode of operation up here when it comes to the superintendent's voice. Her voice is just as important, and she should be allowed to speak.
Okay. I hear you. So let's let's allow doctor Blanco to speak, and we will discuss, the protocols afterwards. Sorry to have caused so much discussion. I only wanted to, thank the board for, you know, having the courage to do things in these very difficult times. And also, you know, thank doctor Kanal and, you know, the entire SLT for taking on extra work while we were missing a chief so that we could keep continuity in the school district.
And, you know, our long term goal is to be able to have a sustainable budget that we can give our employees raises and the compensation that they deserve. And I know that, this is a really hard time for us right now, but that that is the ultimate goal, right, that we can protect the instructional core and really value everyone, in a in a situation where it's sustainable and not these ups and downs. Thank you. This is regarding your your vote or I just wanna publicly apologize because you're right.
I researched it and you have the right to control the order of speaking. So I apologize, chair. Thank you. All right. We will, continue with the, statement from, I'm sorry, the preferential vote from trustee Heng. Yes. Roll call on the vote. Jennifer Holley. Yes. Pam Harden? Yes. Mister McKinney? Yes. Mister Chairman Jackson Bailey? Yes. Miss Marshall McKenzie? Yes. Doctor. Jamila Velasquez? Yes. Tina Frederic?
Yes. K. Motion passes seven zero. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. We are at the end of our agenda. Motion to adjourn. All those in favor? Send that. That's your favorite motion. Motion to adjourn. Alright. Thank you so much. Moving adjourned.