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system concerning item C1, case number 2025111 012. By a vote of 7 to zero, the board took action to approve of the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of a written agreement concerning item C2, case
number 202512045. By a vote of seven to zero, the board took action to approve of the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of written agreement concerning item C3, case number 20260200037 by a vote of 7 to 0. The board took
action to approve the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of written agreement. Concerning item C4, case number 2026020434. By a vote of 7 to zero, the board took action to approve of a settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of written
agreement concerning item C5, case number 2026010660. By a vote of 7 to zero, the board took action to approve of the settlement of special education litigation in accordance with the terms of written agreement. Public employment discipline dismissal
release GC54957. In close session, the board of trustees approved a mutual separation agreement and general release between the district and employee employee number HQ4932249. Under the terms of the of the agreement,
the employee will res shall resign from employment effective June 30th, 2027 and receive health benefits that will cease as of September 1st, 2027 in exchange for the release of all existing claims against the district. The vote was as follows.
Uh I seven nos zero abstain zero absent zero. The announcement of close session actions is complete and the close session stands adjourned. >> All right. Um should have roll call >> here. Here.
Here. All right. Trusty Harden, can you do the honors of leading the pledge for us? Okay, we have public comment. >> We do. So currently there are 38 cards and due
to the volume of cards and we want to be able to honor everyone that has come out to speak to us. Making the recommendation that we give each speaker one minute so we can hear everyone. I also want to read that we are acknowledging receipt of public comments
that have come in by way of electronic email and these comments will be made part of the permit record of this meeting. >> Thank you. Would you like to read the first few names? >> Okay. >> The first three names for public comment are Jean Gwyn,
Sarah Rager, and Rebecca Pena. I appreciate if your name is called to please line up with um if you're next. Thank you. >> My name is Jeannie Gwyn. Uh I'm currently the librarian at McKinley School. I'm responding to PC contract
negotiation update referencing UTP's proposal to cap class sizes. Quoting the update said they said uh UTP's proposed class size language appears to represent internal inconsistencies as it allows the district to exceed proposed caps of the teacher is provided additional compensation per student over the cap.
As such language appears to shift concern away from overcrowding and the student experience toward one regarding compensation. To imply that this is some kind of get-richqu scheme is both laughable and offensive. It's already in the contract that if a secondary teacher takes on a six class in place of their prep period,
they get an extra 20% in their salary. So there's already precedent for paying people more when you give them more work. There is no plus 20% option for the elementary. But at any level, additional children in the room means more work. If you want to overwork us, it makes sense that you would pay us for that additional work. Just like it makes
sense for you to cap classroom sizes so we can focus our efforts on differentiating instruction and meeting the needs of each student. There's no internal inconsistenc appropriately paid for more work. >> Thank you so much. >> Hey, Miss Becky.
>> Good evening, Board President Frederick's, members of the board, superintendent, and the SLT. This public comment is for a resolution to adopt classified employees week 2026 at the May 2026 board of education meeting. In 1986,
Senate Bill 1552 resulted in California Education Code 45460, which officially recognizes the third complete week in May as classified school employee week to honor the contributions of classified employees in all public schools. To recognize the
event locally, sorry, to to sorry about that, CSCA Proena 434 requests you to adopt the following resolution. Whereas classified professionals provide valuable services to the schools and the students of PUSD. And whereas classified
school employees serve a vital role in providing the welfare and safety of PSU students. Whereas classified employees at PUSD strive for excellence in all areas relative to the educational community. Therefore, it be resolved that the board administrators
certificated staff recognize. >> Thank you so much, Miss Pena. I do have to go to the next speaker. Sarah Ragger Ragger. We'll hold her if she's in the next room. Matthew Struski.
Hello. Uh, my name is Matthew Stresski. I live at 585 Douglas Street in Pasadena. I'm here to implore you to do whatever it takes to keep Blair from closing. I've spoken in front of the board in the past about my daughter Rain who is a thriving sixth grader at Blair. Rain also has a disability and uses a
wheelchair as her primary source of mobility. One of the many reasons we felt like Blair was the right fit for Rain was the campus itself. Many of the schools in PUSD have been standing since before the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990. The middle school building at Blair was built in
2011 and the high school was built was fully renovated in 2019 which means they had accessibility and inclusivity in mind when they designed it. Blair is an inclusive campus at Blair Rain and students like her can access the can access the entire campus the same way all the other students can. All the
entrances to campus are fully accessible which means she enters and exits through the front door like everybody else. And that is not the case with many buildings in PUSD. And that may not sound like much to most people, but to Rain, it shows that she and students like her are equal and valued members of the community. So, please do everything you
can to keep the school. >> Thank you so much, sir. >> Sarah Rager. >> Hi, good evening. My name is Sarah Rager. I'm an fire survivor from Aladina, former student of PUSD and a 12-year public school teacher. I left my
job in seniority in LUSD two years ago when I was offered a position at Aladina Arts. I was surprised with the temporary contract during onboarding two weeks later. Over the last year and a half, my life has been in a constant state of flux. I have rebuilt a new world with my
family after losing everything. A new classroom in Allenale. And then my temporary contract was used to transfer me to Madison. I rebuilt again. I spent last summer moving between hotels and Airbnbs and reapplying for my job. And now here I am again. I'm here to speak
out against the unnecessary rifts and in support of those of us contracts whose jobs are forever in limbo. We are slated to lose the best of the best. Our teachers, our custodial staff, our community support staff. These are the people who keep our our schools running.
I call on the board to encourage PSD to halt this harmful and unnecessary practice and to honor its commitment to its greatest. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. The next three speakers are Ashley Lincoln, Nancy Hernandez, and
Lisa Cruzie. >> I'm here to express my concerns about scenario one. As the parent of two special needs students at Domanito, combining two sped heavy campuses like Dominito and Willard would create the largest bed population on one elementary campus in the district by far with
almost 200 students. How do you plan to equitably and safely serve all of those students and manage their unique needs? If I wanted to send my children to a sped super campus, I could have done that. There are other schools in the area that exclusively cater to special needs kids. Like other parents in this room, I choose to send my children to
public schools because they mirror the diverse community in which we live. My children also need to learn to live in a society that is not built for them. They need to learn to function successfully in a neurotypical world. That work begins in elementary school. I chose Dom Bonito because the school has a good reputation for special education in a
district that frankly doesn't. The teachers and staff at Dominito have never underestimated my children due to their disabilities and have created an inclusive welcoming environment where all children can thrive. On top of COVID and the fire, closing our school will just add one more trauma on top of what our children have been through in their
short lives. I urge you to keep Don Bonito open. Thank you. I'm here tonight as a parent and taxpayer who proudly supports PUSD. Our district serves over 8,000 socioeconomically disadvantaged students. After closures, COVID, and
fires, stability is not a luxury. You can't say you're putting students first and make choices that hurt students. Hearing your school might not be here doesn't build trust, it breaks it. Our schools aren't excess inventory. They are the heartbeat of our
neighborhoods. There are no savings in diverting bond funds to fewer campuses. Bond money must be invested in facilities. Three trustees who voted for consolidation opted out of sending their children to PUSD schools.
They do not seem to care if they make choices and cuts that harm vulnerable students and cause other families to opt out of PUSD2. This will be handing a victory to privatizers. That's unacceptable. Don't shrink this district. Fight for students
and grow it. >> Thank you, Nancy Hernandez. >> Good evening members and Dr. Blanco. I am a dedicated teacher at Domino School. I have been a Bobcat since 2004 and I am currently in my 29th year of teaching.
Our students continue to thrive and make academic strides. The strength of our community and PTA is telling of how unified the Don Bonito community remains despite the obstacles that we have faced. Equity is a word that I keep hearing while others talk about
schoolside upgrades. Don Bonito is waiting to fill the meaning of that word. We were once promised measure TT and measure O funds to complete upgrades to our school site. We have been talking about this since Dr. Reinoso was our principal. We have met two different
groups of architects and have been excited about the plans that have yet to come to fruition. Closing schools hurts students and breaks up communities. The last time the US the PUSD board voted to close schools, it left the district in a
weary state. Many felt betrayed and left the district altogether. Schools felt pinned against one another. And as you can speaker, it did not save us any money or get ahead financially. >> Thank you so much. >> And again, I'm asking people to really
honor this one minute. We have a lot of speakers. We want to get to everyone. And if you take someone else's time, you're cutting into someone else and it's not right. Michelle Donner um Dagar >> Dane, I'm sorry about that. Carla Lavender Verde,
Lindseay Amshields. Good evening board members. My name is Michelle Djane and I'm the parent of a student in the state trip. I'm here tonight because my child and our family have been uh navigating serious trauma related to domestic violence and other sensitive matters that have directly impacted my child's education, emotional
well-being, and sense of safety. I made the school aware of these circumstances, the matters. These matters were not only reported by me personally, but the district but to the district and was also contacted by outside agencies and provided relevant court
orders and documentation. I had hoped that the compassion that compassion support and appropriate accommodations would follow. Instead, the experiences added significant stress during an already difficult time. Because this involves a private family matter and well-being of a minor child, I do not
believe it is appropriate to discuss the details publicly in this forum. I am respectfully requesting a confidential meeting with the appropriate district leaders so these concerns can be heard responsibly, privately, and with urgency. My child deserves to feel safe,
supported, and able to learn without added fear or anxiety. Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Madam Superintendent. Might we ask someone to follow up with her offline? >> Good evening. I am Carla Land Verde, a parent to a first grader and a also a
fourth grade teacher at San Raphael Elementary where I have taught for 13 years. I ask on behalf of the staff and as a parent that the board vote to demolish and rebuild our school. It is time for PUSD to give Russel students, staff, and families what we require to
continue to thrive and attract Pasadena families. In 2009, San Raphael was the first school in the district to pilot the dual language program. Since then, countless families, teachers, and staff have dedicated their time and talents to make the dual language program a success
at San Rafael. Now, it's time for PUSD to invest in a school that has asked for very little to succeed. This can be best summed up by a quote that has resonated with me this week as I reflected on what I wanted to say. Just because I don't require a lot doesn't mean I don't
deserve doesn't mean I deserve the bare minimum. Also, a district that puts students first prioritizes classes rooms first. If you can buy new curriculum for students, then you can invest in the teachers who teach. >> Thank you so much.
Lindsay Amultz, I am a neighbor and current parent at San Raphael. We get nostalgic and fearful of change when we can't get excited about the future. when we don't believe there is something better. On behalf of 104 current San Rafael parents, we can imagine something better and encourage you to approve board
report 1941 this evening. We can imagine a school where kids don't need to bring blankets. A school with an elevator and ADA compliance so our school can be inclusive. A school where we could plug in multiple things at one time and not blow up the electrical. A school where music could be taught somewhere besides
a small auditorium with no AC. And a school where the best practices of teaching and learning are implemented. I live near the school and I care greatly about the charm and character and I hope that it is preserved. But it's also time for better. Thank you for approving those funds to improve San Rafael back in 23. Now with new knowledge of a
muchneeded seismic retrofit that wasn't accounted for and countless other approved expenditures that have been delayed and tacked on to this project, that number has gone up considerably. But PUSD's new circumstances make this decision even more necessary. Thank you.
>> Thank you so much. Enadina and Sakuro, Brian Buckley, Katherine Mickelson. >> Are you Brian Buckley? >> Come on up.
>> My name is Brian Buckley. I'm a Dominito parent. I reject the premise that the process of school consolidation puts students first. A student should not have to worry whether their school will be open again next year or not. A student should not need to think about a backup plan if their desired middle school ceases to exist. A student should
not have to stand up and bravely and eloquently argue in front of you that their school should exist so that they have a right to learn. I'm proud to be part of USD and I'm deeply ashamed to witness our school board watching as our school communities plead for their very existence. Um to board members that
oppose consolidation, I thank you. Thank you for seeing and hearing us. For those that support consolidation, you how many more please, how many more parents, how many more students need to get up here until you listen? I beg that you use your talents to avoid doing catastrophic harm to our students and
our communities. Stop dividing us. Provide us real leadership. >> Thank you. Calling again for Katherine Mickelson and Enadira and Soro. >> Yes. >> Okay. Good evening Dr. Blanco. Members
of the board. My name is Sakoro. >> My name is Inadina. >> And we're proud parents of Medicine Elementary. We are here tonight to speak out against the unnecessary rifts and in general unnecessary budget cuts.
Cutting teachers and closing schools only affects our kids. Cutting programs like our unique mariachi and forcloical programs which our kids love only going to make them less interested in school. You are here today because you got prepared. You got studied. Now you're
taking that opportunity from our kids, our future. We need the support from our teachers and community assistants. Our community assistant, Maria Perez, is always caring for our families and acknowledging our community needs. She's always on task
and gathering all the help and support from sponsors to help our community. Always going the extra mile. Please reconsider. You're damaging our kids and future and pushing us away from PSD. If we continue like this, there will be no more PSD
left. Thank you. Last call for Katherine Mickelson right here. Thank you. Good evening, board uh board members. My name is Katherine Mickelson. Nine years in this district, six six of them on the riff list. Six years of uncertainty and six
years of coming back anyway because I believe in the community that I serve. But I need to name what I see tonight. Only 33% of our students are proficient in math, only 45% in reading. And your response to that crisis is a zero cola
and 160 riff notices. That is not a budgetary strategy. That is a betrayal of every child in this district. We are ranked 717th out of 1543 California districts, and we dropped again this year. Yet, after eight bargaining
sessions, there is zero improvement on salary and zero improvement on class size. Meanwhile, 95 central office positions go unexamined and $30 million in contracts go unscrutinized. You found the cuts. You just keep on finding them in the classroom and polarizing the
classroom experience. >> The next three speakers are Martin Dorado, >> Susanna Castro, >> and Lisa Santiago. Good evening. My name is Martin Dorado and I teach fifth grade at Madison Elementary. I've been a teacher at P
I've been a teacher at PSUD since 2016. As a proud UTP member, I'm here tonight to speak out against the unnecessary layoffs such as my own. Whenever the budget is referenced, the conversation is always centered around sustainability. But what does
sustainability look like inside a classroom? 36 students in a room, teachers doing the jobs of three or more people, or perhaps teachers facing layoffs every other year. Is this the stability that we're referencing? Does that sound sustainable for public
education? As a district, the response to supporting the single most important role in public education has been bewildering to put it diplomatically. You send the message that you want your students to succeed and achieve, yet you have no problem breaking the stability
and continuity in their schools. Yes, I am this year's Pasadena Unified Teacher of the Year. And yes, I am one of those teachers ref facing a layoff this year. But what's baffling to me is not that you're laying me off the teacher of the year, but that you're laying off
teachers with 36 students in the classroom. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Good evening. I am here urging the board to reconsider closing schools and truly explore alternative ways to generate revenue for our district. I want to remind you that these closures will have
a significant negative impact on both our students, teachers, and families well-being, including their emotional and mental health. This decision will drive families away. Please make them a priority and keep our schools open. As a parent, I'm deeply concerned that my child would get lost in the shuffle of
this reorganization. Merging schools will inevitably limit school student opportunities. We chose Marshall for the opportunities it provides. And once again, I will share that I am proud that my daughter graduated in the top 1% of her class and now attends UCLA. My
sophomore is currently thriving in the top 10 of her class, taking AP and college courses. If this decision moves forward, I am left considering alternatives such as homeschooling in order to preserve those opportunities. Thank you. Sorry. Good evening, board members. My
name is Lisa Santiago. You say school closures are needed due to budget reasons. The reality is that shutter buildings still require large monthly maintenance expenses. If you include possible bus transportation for students to attend their new school
sites, this is another added cost. In the case of our beloved Thood Marshall, it serves a diverse population, including many low-income students with 59% of students classified as low-income. The the school provides academic support through specialized
programs like Upwardbound for first generation and low-income students. It maintains an all lottery open enrollment process for the PUSD district. Closures impact low-income and minority students. You have a legal and moral obligation to fairly serve this marginalized
community. Marshall's Beyond a Beloved School. It is a place where students belong and where community thrives. By closing our beautiful school, you will you will sorry it will affect the lives of so many that
already have endless struggles endless struggles in their everyday life. Please put students first. Thank you. >> The next three speakers are Lillian Coronado, Sandra Kim, and Denise Rob. Good evening. My name is Sandra Kim. I
am commenting on the ongoing consolidation discussions. I chose Don Bonito for my two children due to its unique neighborhood location and its tight-knit community. Uh Don Bonito is a non-magnet non dip school with a late
start. The proposed scenario one does not factor in these distinct characteristics. There was and is no other PUSD school that appealed to me and my family. If you close Don Bonito, we will leave PUSD.
If you close any schools, families will leave PUSD. If you you are denying families their school of choice by closing schools. If you close schools, families will leave. Please don't close our schools. Please
don't close our schools. Please don't close our schools. Thank you. Come on up, Denise. >> Isn't there somebody in front of me? >> We'll call her again, but while you're here. >> Okay. Hi, I'm Denise Rob, a parent at
Blair and a political science professor. Hi, everybody. Um, so first of all, I'm only going to make two points. One is that we're going to have thousands of affordable housing units built soon, so we're going to have a lot more kids eventually in the next couple of years. Um, so you have to
think about that. And the other is a study. The harm of school closures can last a lifetime. New research shows, fairly new study from University of Houston. Um, a new working paper shows the impact of school closures often
extends well past graduation. And specifically, students who attend a school that closes during their K through2 career have lower test scores along with worse attendance and behavior in the short term. In the long term, they're less
likely than their peers to complete college, have a job, and their earnings tend to be lower. I'm going to give you this research. Thank you so much, Denise. Last call for Lillian Coronado. >> Okay, next three speakers.
Leslie Stoler, Sawir Urate, Robert Milton. Br higher. Hi, I'm Lesie Stler. I'm a teacher at Marshall. I live here in Pasadena. I have had two kids who've attended Marshall school, Marshall and
other schools in Pasadena. Um, I've been teaching here since the plea scene. And I can tell you that one of the things that drew me to Marshall was the inclusivity. Uh, we opened up our arms to kids who were not going to be allowed in any AP classroom. The high school
that I attended here in California, if they didn't know you could pass, you didn't walk in the door. And at our school, we build trust with our kids. Uh we build trust in themselves. We build their trust in their families. A lot of the kids I have in my AP classroom have
never taken an honors class, would never be allowed in an AP classroom any place else. But because I had them in seventh grade, because I've known them because I've worked with their biology teacher, their chemistry teacher, the physics teacher, they feel that they can come and walk in my classroom and be successful. And because of that, it can
change the course of their entire life. Sorry, I'm short. Um, okay. Hi, my name is Sahara Uri. Good evening. I'm here to speak about an investment facility impro in improving San Raphael Elementary. I've spoken to you guys before and as a
parent whose family was affected by the eaten fire, school investment is an issue close to my heart. With our home gone, having moved out of our beloved Altadena, one of the only constants in our lives is our school community. San Raphael has been our refuge and a source
of stability during one of the most difficult times in our lives. I'm asking you to invest in San Raphael as it is an investment in our very fragile community. We're traumatized. We're displaced. And we need stability. Please
know that even though some of us really do care about restoration and preservation, we are absolutely asking you to vote for improving our facilities. Um, I have not seen what any of the
research is. We're trusting you on that and please remember us. Thank you. Hi, my name is Robert Milton. I'm the director of Alapasa Fast Pitch, the primary softball user group of uh Mir South. We support over 700 families per
year and have become uh a softball pipeline to uh all of our high schools. Um just to go over a few of our successes, our younger teams have won district and state championships. Our older teams are all nationally ranked and we've had over 82 college commits
since 2018, including 18 last year right after the fires because we're resilient and really 50% including myself, we've lost our homes. So, this is a huge thing for us. Um, but what we're most proud of is John High School. um after winning just four games in 12 years. Mer has won
nearly 60 games in the last four years and they've made the playoffs for second time in history. Reached the CIF semi-finals and last year was ranked number one in the playoffs. So we went from worst to first. Um I can't finish it all here, but right now it's just
unsafe. Gopher holes everywhere, injuries, broken ankles, and we'd love for you guys to approve the $2 million donation from Mamba and Mamba. Thank you very much, >> Milton. Lillian Coronado, last call. >> Hi, good evening. Thank you, everybody.
And I'm apologize I wasn't here at first call. I ran over to Mckenley to grab my son on whose behalf I'm speaking. Uh my son is Mattail Coronado Brown. He's a fourth grader at San Raphael Elementary School. And I had a conversation with him shortly before this meeting started
about what he'd like to ask this um body to do today with respect to Sam Raphael. And he said he would like to ask you um to allow blankets in the classroom because some of these
classmates get so cold. And I told and he wrote it down in this little note. Um and I told him I thought we could do better than that. I thought we could ask this board to make some investments in San Raphael, into our HVAC system, into our playground, into um all of the facilities that, as you've heard, and I
won't repeat what these wonderful teachers and parents have already said are so desperately needed. So, I thank you in advance and I appreciate your time. >> Thank you so much. The next few speakers are Julie Smith, Lton Gray, Sydney Sims.
Good evening board members. My name is Julie Smith. I'm a 1996 Olympic gold medalist, a current collegiate softball coach over at um your neighbor Pomona College. Um anyhow, I'm also a board member, a new board member of the Alta
Pasa Fast Pitch. I could give my time to any program, but I choose this program. And if some of you know this program, it's super super special. For almost five years, the Alta Passa Fast Pitch Thunder organization um that affects over 700 families has felt like family.
Um it is not for sure because of the facilities. In fact, they're among the most limited I've seen for a program producing this level of um talent. So, I need to speak plainly about safety. Right now, those kids are dodging gopher holes in the outfield like some kind of obstacle course. I was training a kid
one day and just in a dynamic warm-up, she tore her ACL and her dream of a division one college scholarship was erased right then. Um, still affects me. Um, during one of my sessions at Mirror High School, um, oh, anyways, a great
donation is here amongst us, so please vote yes on the Mamba um, donation for us. Uh good evening board president Fredericks, board members, superintendent Blanco and uh leadership. I'm here just to I'd be remiss if I didn't say thank you to some individuals
who are bringing us this opportunity that coming forward you today about accepting a great donation from the Mamba Mama Foundation. I want to first thank Miss Mary Harris. She's the special segment project manager for KNBC. uh she introduced me to Taboo from the Black IPs who later introduced me to
uh Ken Conland uh Cat Conlin uh who represent the Mamba Mamasita Foundation and to Miss Vanessa Bryant. And once again, this is just an amazing opportunity for us to uh improve our facilities and people really looking out for our community. Also, I want to take a minute to thank two individuals. Uh
Dr. Blanco, thank you. um with the absence of the CBO, everybody has done different jobs and you stepped up to do facilities and has been really appreciative of the work you've done um plus your regular job and to uh Mike Dunning who's worked over spring break. Me and him didn't sleep uh trying to get this done. So I just want to thank Mike
Dunning and Dr. Blanc and everyone else. Thank you. >> Good evening board members. My name is Sydney Stims. I'm a freshman at John Mir High School and I'm on the varsity softball team. Standing with me is my Cal Thunder teammate Bren Connelly. We
wanted to share with you what the John Mir field means to us. Mirror softball field is much more than a place to play. It's a place where I found my voice and become a leader. And most importantly, the Mirror Softball Field has become a
hub or home for our softball family. Bin, myself, and our teammates spend hours on that field. We not only play together, we support each other on and off the field. A prime example is when my family and I lost our home to the eat
and fire. Bren and her family along with many others supported us in many ways we will never forget. So, no, it's not just a field because while I have a 12-year-old sister who also plays softball, Ben and I have become softball
sisters. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. The next three speakers are um Monnique Sims, James Rioto, and Joanie Cassen Rioto. >> Um, good evening. My name is Monnique
Sims. That was my daughter. So, I'm gathering myself because I'm trying not to cry. Um, I am coming to you as an alumni of Jamir High School. I'm coming to you as a lifelong uh Al City of Pasadena resident and I'm just coming to you to say thank you for your consideration. Um this is an opportunity
that we have to not only extend our community um to but but to bring joy. Uh the softball program whether it's on the youth level um on the high school level or on the travel level. It is about leadership and it is about friendship
and it is about family. And our girls have found that. They found joy. We're thankful for the donation that is in front of you. We're thankful for this opportunity. Um, and as my daughter said, we lost our home, but Mir is our home, and it is home for a whole bunch
of people. So, we thank you for your consideration, and we thank you for the joy that this will bring. >> Hello, I'm James Riato. I'm a parent to three children, two of whom are at uh Normakums in PUSD. And uh I'm here to talk about um some
policy measures to to have safe and sort of reasonable uh limitations on technology use in schools. Um my daughter is on her computer sometimes. She says 70% of the day in class. And I
think that's not acceptable. she's uh exposed to things on the computer that she shouldn't be exposed to, frankly, and it should not be a replacement for um in person education. Um and she's required to come home and
be doing her homework on her computer. And I I think it's it we as parents spend so much time trying to limit our kids access to screens and yet we have the school telling them they have to be on them. So also we've emailed you about
this multiple times. So thank you. Is Joanie gonna speak? >> Uh Joanie is not here. Sorry. >> Very good. Emily Rosario, London Terry, and Brian Murphy Connley.
Good evening. My name is Emily Rosario. I'm the parent of a child at Altadena and Elliot Arts Magnets. In the aftermath of the eaten fire, our children need stability. And as much as we miss our old campus, we know that stability does not come from buildings. It comes from people. This is why the decision to rip nearly one-third of
Elliot's teaching staff along with our librarian, coaches, and other site staff is so profoundly damaging to our school community. I am a neuroscientist and I have shared this research with you all before. Chronic stress and trauma impair learning, attention, memory, and educa emotional regulation. U by contrast,
arts integration is evidence-based and supports executive function, emotional processing, and student engagement. Elliot, it's a arts magnet and it's in the final year of its arts magnet grant. A year that is for sustainability planning, not dismantling. After four years of training these educators in
integrated arts instruction, laying these teachers off raises serious concerns about the program continuity, grant deliverables, and non-compliance. Music, art, theater, dual language immersion, these are not extras. They improve learning outcomes and are what draw families to the district. I'm here today to stand with all of our teachers
to fight for them when the district does not. finds another way to balance your budget that does not come at the expense of an impacted school and the people our children rely on the most. >> Statement. >> Um, good evening. My name is London Terry. I'm a seventh grader at Elliot Arts Magnet and I'm here to speak on
behalf of many of my Elliot teachers who are getting laid off. Um, these teachers are phenomenal educators that change lives every day and that make Elliot so special. All the different activities that we do at Elliot make so unique and it's what makes families want to come
here. It's what makes us want to stay here. As a student, I just am so happy to be in these programs and to have these teachers and it breaks my heart to see that you are thinking of taking me away because I couldn't be more happy and I would not be where I am without
all these teachers. The experiences I have I will keep for the rest of my life and I want my siblings and my sib my sister to have the same experience. Please, please, please take another look at the riffs that you were uh trying to
lay off teacher teachers because it will make students lose hope and it will Elliot would lose so much. Thank you. >> Good evening. My name is Jade Mendoza. I am one of seven children. My mom and dad have five girls and two boys. My family
spend hours at the Mir softball field each week. My oldest sister plays on Mir softball team. My sister Fay played recently recently for Pina and was on the first team to win districts as a AU
player. My sister my little sister Sage and I played for Pastina girls softball team. Now I'm now and now I'm guessing that my baby sister who's almost 3 months will play softball for PGSA soon.
We love the Mirfield and our softball family. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you so much. We have our last three speakers for the general public comment. That is Justin Chapman, Jade Mendoza,
and Barbara Ishida. Hello, my name is Brenn Connelly and I've been a member of California's Thunder Club softball team for four years. Getting to work with these amazing coaches motivates me to advance my game and push myself. Although the field makes it an obstacle to push
myself even further. As an outfielder, I've had softballs hit a gopher hole in the outfield and hit my face. Rocks and dirts cut open my skin when diving full out and twisted my ankles many times when running on uneven grass. By accepting the donation from Mamba and Mombaca Sports Foundation, not only will
it force us to enhance our game even further, but it will place confidence in our willingness to go all out. I'm in favor for play for passing this motion for our fields, not only to make my teammates and I better players, but to ensure that our safety isn't at risk when playing the sport that we love.
Thank you. Um, hi. My name is Barbara Ashida. I'm a second grade teacher at Normakum's Elementary School. I have four things to say. Hopefully I can get them in. reinstate all employees like L US LA USD
did who found the money to um reinstate all 700 of the people they had laid off and gave a 24% raise out of its reserves. Demolishing San Rafale um rather than um remodeling or retrofitting it is the
environmental I mean not demolishing sorry um San Rafll rather than remodeling or retrofitting it is the environmentally sound and financially um fiscal thing to do. Um no turf
fields. I'm all for fields, but um no turf um because in second grade we study the life cycle, but artificial turf is a death cycle from production, extraction, and landfill. >> Good evening, board members and
leadership. I'm Justin Chapman, field representative to Pasadena City Council member Steve Madison, who represents district 6 in which San Raphael Elementary is located. Uh the council member is out of town today, so unfortunately he couldn't be here tonight as he wished. So he asked me to attend and uh on his behalf and deliver
this short but sweet message from him regarding item BR1941F on tonight's agenda. San Raphael Elementary is of course the only remaining public school in West Pasadena. So it remains it means a great deal to us and the community. We support the rebuild to ensure the future of the
school and a safe state-of-the-art school site for our students well into the future. Thank you. There any further public comments? Thank you. All right, we appreciate all of your input.
Now, the comments from recognized employee organizations. If you can keep it to three to five minutes, Good evening, Dr. Blanco, members of the board. I have uh labor partner comments for you. Um starting with uh really
great news. Uh CTA, California Teachers Association submitted the 1.6 million petitions for Proposition 55 renewal uh which includes our members 667 and the PSD superintendent leadership team. So we appreciate those five signatures
helped us get to that goal. Uh, also the California State Senate listened to teachers who lobbied up in Sacramento during spring break, including myself. And, uh, their version of the budget restores the 5.6 billion that Governor Newsome uh, proposed stealing from preK14. So, we hope that, um, this, you
know, cooler and, uh, ser will prevail like the state senate. Um, on the contract management side, we still have the concern that our full-time librarians are not being guaranteed at every uh, secondary site. um grievance is um in a weird place
right now, but the uh mir mirror is still short four teachers according to the ratio. Again, the math is simple. It is not hard to take 1242 and divide by 29.75. You get 42 teachers and only 38 were provided. Violating our contract um is a problem and it results in extra
cost for um the district and for our union in terms of uh dealing with lawyers and judges. and I don't understand why the district wants to solve its problems this way. Um and I hope that um we will solve other problems in better ways.
We also have a grievance um there are up to 70 students in OEB PE classrooms. We have taken steps to deal with sir Madre middle classrooms so that they don't have to deal with these kind of numbers but unfortunately at OEB they are not being scrutinized at the same level and
uh I hope that we fix that for the sake of uh all of our students who are deserving of that kind of safety. Uh what caused that was that 1.5 PE teachers were assigned despite a 100 extra students enrolling. Um last year we had two PE positions. So, um, we hope that better planning will happen for
next year and that we can fix this in the meantime and keep those kids safe. Um, on ELOP, PSD unilaterally paid a non-aggreed upon rate uh to teachers providing instruction and they did that without bargaining first. So, we're trying to fix that, but we believe that
the teachers who have taught this year should be paid that amount. Uh, if they are doing something that deserves to be paid 66, they should be paid $66 an hour this whole year. Uh there's another major concern that has cropped up and I hope that it's going to be addressed by
Friday. But um there are at least 10 members of ours who have been provided involuntary transfer notices despite being the most senior qualified staff. Uh one example is there's a librarian who is the only person librarian at that site and there's going to be a full-time librarian at that site and they were
given a transfer notice for some reason. um it's causing a lot of confusion and chaos and then as you can imagine in the midst of riffs this is uh very painful for them and the communities that are hearing about it to hear about. So I hope that will be resolved without agreements but just wanted to bring it
to your attention because it is a major issue. All right PSD needs safe, stable, fully staffed schools. Why is PSD laying off a hundred more teachers? Hopefully that's down to 80 now, but 100 more teachers than they need to. How does this help students? In three years, if
you actually followed through with laying off those hundred extra teachers and the savings that have already happened this year from other other things, we would have a hund00 million in reserves built up on the backs of our teachers, staff, and lost student experiences. Remember that you've laid
off uh art, music, and PE teachers who um are currently not planned to be brought back. There will be very real enrollment challenges that are likely to come from those lost experiences and from those lost staff because just like Miss Raer that you heard speak who
currently does not even have a permanent contract um we lose people that our students are know and love and when we lose them families leave as well. Um, some where places you could look to find
that money, there are 95 central admin positions. That's double what we need. Right sizing central office would save $10 million yearly because each of those positions costs at least $200,000. 20% of the unrestricted and non-fire budget is currently going to outside
contractors. That's $30 million. If you cut that in half, which is more normal for a district our size, you would save 15 million a year. That's 25 already right there that we have not examined.
We cannot wait to have student experiences our school communities deserve. Collaboration and shared leadership with parents, students, educators, schoolboard, and administration will lead to the best learning for our students. And I hope that you're committed to this as well. Thank you.
Thank you. That was exactly five minutes. Mr. Leon. >> Good evening, President Frederick's school board members, Superintendent Dr. Blanco, Superintendent Leadership Team members, and members of the audience.
I'd like to address two issues this evening. The first one is the school consolidation advisory advisory committee. I am a member of this committee and I have participated in several committees and study groups since I've arrived as a teacher representative. I know the possible
outcomes of what the committee is reviewing is very uh personal and emotional for the community members and rightfully so. I just want to share my opinion of my experience working with PUSD. They are doing their due diligence. Nothing is being rushed or
overlooked. Everything is being considered, shared with the committee and it's been full transparency, full transparency. This will take time and I'm convinced the final outcome will be in the best interest of the students in the
district. My second topic is layoffs. Another very emotional topic for my members that we've been impacted by this action. This is one of the worst parts of my job, trying to keep member spirits up between the day that layoffs are announced until the day they are
released from the district. Teams met again with HR today to review the list and to discuss some alternatives. Although many of my members feel is a done deal, I've explained that we will continue to work with the district to explore every possible avenue or
opportunity so we can come to an agreement that will meet both parties needs. We appreciate Dr. Blanco and her team's willingness to continue to meet with us to explore potential alternatives. Neither side of wanted these uh cuts to happen. Everyone knows
the negative impact it will have on the district. Again, I am confident we will come to a mutual agreement before June 30th before my members are scheduled to be separated from the district. Thank you. >> Thank you. Are there any other
uh labor groups? All right. Thank you. I appreciate your input. Now we are at item I with the student board member report. Trusty Rivera. >> Uh thank you President Frederick's senior board members, Superintendent
Blanco and PUSD leadership for your continued contributions and dedication to PUSD students. Before we start, the student assembly council would like to recognize the importance of the following resolutions. Day of the teachers, classified school employee work week, National Foster Care Month's
Asian-American and Island Pacifica revol resolution, and supporting the children's education healthcare protection act 2026. Thank you. As we're near the end of the school year, there's still a lot of worry in the air about potential layoffs, the uncertainty of who's getting the pink slips, who's getting retained, and of course,
possible school consolidations. Two students who are part of the superintendent school consolidation advisory committee feel feel that has been insightful to learn about how our district works. In the summary they shared with us. We learned that committee members generally agree that closing schools would not save as much
money as we hope. Last week's assessment found that an estimate savings of $600,000 would be saved if elementary schools were consolidated. The process has felt incomplete because information has been missing and at the end of the day perhaps the committee's
vote won't matter. They also report that there's been protests outside a room as there are today for the potential layoffs. On a more positive side, we the student assembly think tank would like to share the accomplishments that PD high school leadership team achieved this year. For starters, we are happy to
announce a first published book, The Learning Curve. TSC as we call it is an anthology of stories by students both past and present from all across PS high schools. The book consists of stories including the overcoming the struggles both physically and mental poems the caring
of teachers the impact of the eat and fire and many more. This fantastic book has been develop development since 2021 which is why we're so proud of public publication. We brought one for every board member to read. uh have a wonderful experience enjoying
it. There will be a book launched on May 2nd during Litfist and Adena where the books will be available for purchase. Our conference keynote speaker Nikki High has set up copies of Octivia's bookshelf which are available for purchase as well. Also on April 15th we had our second student le conference at
PCC. We have been working on this event since last summer. We raised money, create all the panels as well invite students and teachers all by ourselves. At our conference, students from all PUSD high schools participated and shared opinions on topics ranging from how students have used their voice to further progress the future of our
education to discussing injustices that we have seen our school and what we should do to fix the issues. This conference was nothing short of success for objectives that was created for happy to say that we received positive feedback from tennis. Also, the PCC
president Dr. Joseé Gomez noticed our purple sweatshirts funded and designed by PF and offered to light up the PCC campus with our signature purple. Another thing I'd like to share is feedback from another conference that I and four other student assemblies and think tech members were able to attend with Dr. Chan Hill and board member
Jennifer Holly. This conference was for the fivestar coalition that consists of Glendo, South Pasadena, Black Kanyatta, Burbank, Pasadena Unified School Districts. At the conference, we the students were able to share gratitude that we had toward our respective districts as well
as suggestions that we feel should be taken account when thinking about the future of the students. All student participants agreed that connections that we are able to build our schools with not only teachers but staff making it feel like a welcoming loving environment and further empowering us to continue our academic
journey. This relationship that we are able to build allows students to be who we want to be and make us feel that school is not a burden but a place to call our circ home. PS does a terrific job at making students and this districts feel these amazing benefits. And finally, as you know, one of our
student think members, Asus Bayz, spoke at the state of the school's gathering last night. We echo her words as she recognized the importance of practicing empathy and creating space for student voice. With that, I end my statement. Thank you. Thank you so much, Trusty Rivera. Now we're at item J, staff presentation
on summer preview, professional learning, and expanded learning. Dr. Chan Hill in the audience for questions. >> Yes. Um, good evening, President Frederick's, um, Superintendent Dr. Blanco, board and SLT. I know that you
probably saw our slides and saw that it was an abundance of information, but we are truly excited to share all the things that we get to do to serve our community um, and our students. This is my direct team in expanded learning, but we also pride ourselves in partnering with all of the departments, especially
CIPD, um, in order to reach those board goals. um and ensure that students are progressing in their academic su success. So, Fatima gave me control and I'm gonna try
not to mess it up. So, on our first and second slide, you're just going to see an overview of all the things that we do innately within our expanded learning um department. We have program partners, community partners, but we are growing
in what we just offer inhouse and how we're serving our students in the community. Um, so I'm not going to read them all to you, but we have a robust um afterchool program, before school program, which we're actually going to grow next school year to support
Longfellow, our summer offerings and partnerships. Um and then you'll see on the next slide our focus around academic support, athletic and elite training, enrichment activities, uh really um intentional field trips and
college career exploration and implementation with TK through our eighth graders within our program. On this next slide, you're just going to see kind of our umbrella of things that
we offer within our our department. So, you're going to see the Pasadena Learn. So, I I say that we have Pasadena Learns is what most of the community knows, but we're under this now bigger umbrella of expanded learning. And then when underneath that is Pasadena Learns, our
sports league, our cheer, um, and then our newly launched team PUSD. And then underneath that, we do partner heavily with CAP, college access plan. We offer drivers ed. So we are growing
um, what we offer in our 9th through 12th grade programs. Um, we also partner with Harambe in the summer freedom school and then also we've begun a really great partnership that came out of the Eat and Fire with the Pasadena
Library taking our kids to the library and exploring um a deeper relationship in hopes to reinforce literacy and a love of reading. And then I'm going to talk start with just what we've done this year in our
2526 school year. So you can see that we've been able to serve um more than 3,700 students and these are unique students. Um they may have done a variety of programs, but I only counted each student once. Um, and then you'll
see up there the percentage at each grade level that we have served this school year. And then the percentage of our ELOP, um, special education, English learners, and gate students. Um, our ELOP per our
grant gets pri uh, priority, sorry, enrollment. And, um, so they get to enroll early. They also receive free programming. And so they're really our target audience to support. and we're doing a better job of ensuring that they have access to our programs.
We were tasked by our wonderful superintendent to really support literacy in a deeper way. This was last summer and so we launched Power Up to Reading. This has been super successful and kind of a joyful project that we've
been able to engage in um with Carmela Ching. And so this is her baby and she she collected the data and created the program with the resources that we had and we've been able to really support students in growth. Um we have one
student who's graduated out of the program and then we love for them to get to pick a book to enjoy. Um, we have three more that are getting ready to graduate the program and then we're also going to continue to monitor them to ensure application and independence as
they move through the upper grades. This is more information and testimonials from a teacher and two students within the program. Um, since we created this, we have some updates. We have a first grader um who came in as
a one on ELPAC um and she the site anticipates she's going to reclassify. We have another student who scored a.37 which is third month of kinder um on her Amira and now she's scoring at a 1.67
first grade six months um and that's another first grader. So we're seeing a lot of tangible growth. We do start small and then roll out larger. Um, slow and steady wins the race. We want to make sure we're implementing with fidelity and doing right by the students
that we're serving. Um, well, you'll also see a growth in that program. So, um, I apologize. We are growing. We're like double and tripling the amount of kids that will serve this summer. So, we're hoping to bring back some better numbers, uh, bigger numbers of growth at the end of
this summer. grow by paper. So popular by uh the kids love it, the teachers have loved it and we've also seen a lot of growth in this program. You may know paper as the ondemand tutoring service, but this is a
separate entity where it's a 3 to1 ratio high impact tutoring and you know middle schoolers, they're my jam, but they usually don't like tutoring. And we got a lot of positive feedback from our middle schoolers saying, "My tutor was fun. It was engaging. They enjoyed math
more and that transferred into their classrooms. So, that's been a big win. And we're going to continue that in all all of our sixth through 8th graders. We have over 170 signed up for summer, which has almost doubled per our norm um
that are going to engage and grow this summer. This is our summer catalog. We not only share what we do here in PUSD, but we also share what's happening in the community. We really believe that parents and students deserve to be
engaged where they feel a sense of belonging and there's interest and connectedness. And so we do share all of the opportunities that are available to our families within the community. So, um, if you do click or scan the QR code or click the link, you'll see that
there's a lot of information about, um, the city of Pasadena and Boys and Girls Club, YMCA, and all of our other wonderful partners that serve our kids. These mirror the charts that you saw at the beginning, but this is for summer.
So, this summer, currently, we're still enrolling. That's my plug. Please sign up. Sixcrookeds.com. Um, you can still sign up for programs. Currently, we have over 1,700 kids enrolled. Just a breakdown of the grade levels. Um, and then the demographics of
who we are looking or we're currently looking to serve this summer. Um, one of our passion projects, um, really looking at the student athlete, really wanting to keep our students in
PUSD. My son is a PUSD student. Um, and kind of my own testimony of why he decided to stay and attend um, one of our high schools is he got to build a relationship with the coaches and the student athletes in the program that he
decided to attend. And so we wanted to mirror that. We wanted to give our middle school students the opportunity to meet our wonderful high school coaches and student athletes, build that relationship, feel that sense of belonging, and continue with us through
their high school career. And so, um, that's where this was birthed from. And we've had so much success with getting to know our students in a different way while also really highlighting that student athlete portion and really diving into what it means to be a
leader, what it means to have um this impact on your community and have people look up to you or have influence in your community. And so that's kind of an overview of team PUSD. Um, and we have a combine if you'd like to come check out
our combine on May 23rd where students get to compete um and get rated by high school coaches and win awards. Engaging Hearts and Minds, this is our summer curriculum. Um, this will be our third year of implementation.
Um, we have also partnered with CIPD to embed a coaching model. um 10 years as a teacher myself, then I spent time coaching and then in administration. Coaching is vital. It's vital in everything that we do. And so I've brought that model in to support my
classified staff. And so they're really loving um getting to know more about how to serve children, work with them, make an impact. And so they help support these um literacy lessons, these math lessons really that focus around um
social justice and community and restorative practices. Um this is the slide I meant to speak that I was trying to speak to earlier, but this is our growth about power up. So, kind of where we started as far as numbers, numbers in both um the students
that we served, the educators that participated and were trained. You do have to be trained. Um and so we're looking to grow from nine teachers to 37. Um and these teachers will not just see one group, which they did last summer, they're going to see two groups
of kids. And so really focused on the data, building relationships. And what's beautiful is these teachers go on field trips with their kids. They have their own little community. And so it was wonderful to see those relationships come out of something that can kind of feel overwhelming for kids or tedious
and they really enjoyed it and they embraced it and so they feel um excited about being a part of that. Sorry I set a timer for myself honoring everyone's time. Um so I will move along. Uh grow. So this summer last summer we targeted
specific students. We are all about aligning ourselves with the board goals, school goals, district goals. And so we really took to heart the goals that you guys um have set for our students and us. Um and so we have grown this from a
targeted group to everyone that's going to attend to really support mathematics um for our sixth through 8th grade students. AMGO, we're partnering with them for college and career TK8. So really looking at like what do I want to
be? What do I want to learn about? Um what do I want to explore? What does that mean for a career? And then what does that mean for my educational path? Right? And then we can talk about more specifically like okay well what middle school, what high school, what academy do you want to be a part of? So we're really trying to have this vertical
alignment around excitement around learning and what we want to be when we grow up. Um we're also embedding some quick quests. So really looking at um not Chromebooks, but we're using the Prometheium boards to do engaging things with students, have that edtech
integration um while also embedding SEAL, some science lessons um for our TK through 8. And then just highlights for everyone about our professional learning. I feel like every um where that I go, our core word is
really um intentionality. being intentional in everything that we do, being aware of our impact, making sure that we're moving kids in the right direction. That's our charge. Um, and so PD is very important. Making sure people feel a sense of belonging. Our PD is
about our staff belonging. And then how do they serve kids and create that space of belonging before and after school? And that's it. And so at this time, I know I went super fast. Sorry. Um, but I wanted to honor your time and then my team is here if you have specific
questions and thank you for letting us present tonight. >> Thank you, Miss Cono. Do we have any questions, comments? Uh, Trusty Bailey, then Trusty Harden. >> Hello. Thank you for being here. That
was a great report. Um, but I do have a question. is the um the growth of the individual students tracked um of for the students who participate
in your grow tutor program. >> So we have just begun tracking that data. Right now we're just tracking it internally. We haven't found a way to mark that where everybody can see it, but that's something that we're looking into. So we have access to tracking
that. But like if a principal went in or something like that, we haven't created a system for it to be forward facing for everybody that interacts with that student. >> Is that part of the plan or >> Yes. >> Do you know when something like that will be rolled out? >> Our data.
>> Okay. >> Hi. Um yes. Uh I have been working on tracking data from kids who started last summer. um especially our middle school students since we will be working or we worked with them this school year and then we will be working with them this
summer. Um we didn't have a ton of middle school students who were able to work with us last summer because of scheduling. Um but we are working on what does the progression look like. Um I think what we'll see because this
school year we didn't have the same students that we had over the summer. So, it's a gap during the school year. So, when we look at summer to summer, I'm hoping we see the continuity between the two. Um, but I did see a growth. If
I looked at students who we placed in grow um last summer, uh they grew a full two uh grade bands from the summer and uh actually ended up testing on grade
level when they started the school year. And so I'm looking at how they're currently growing and most of them are right at grade level or right around grade level this year. >> So at some point will the work that you're
doing with the students and the the student success be communicated to the the the math teacher, the actual teacher who teaches that student during the school year? >> Yeah.
Does my mic it works? Sorry. Not I have too many mics on. >> Shout out to Beth Leaden and student helper Isaiah Harris because they were problem solving with me in the back. So, um they're brilliant. Uh I think part of the issue that we have and we are hoping
to improve this is that so much of the data that happens in our expanded learning programs has to be manual because um we have different access rights between teachers in the school day and those who are with us after school. That's why you'll see so many people from the CIPD team and the um
ELOP team working together because they have to pull that. We will though have the ability to give this stuff to the principles. they'll have to get it to the teachers. It's just additional data points and we're trying to create a structure and a system that actually allows for that continuity like we have
during the school day. So, those are the the tools that we're looking into right now. >> Yeah. And I and I only ask because and I'm sorry, this is my last comment. I only asked because um when my kids were students here,
they both benefited from having tutors outside of the classroom teachers where they kind of struggled a little, but for some reason going to having the tutoring made things click for them. And so I
think you know once that happened to have the tutor be able to communicate with the teacher was very very helpful. And so that's the only reason why I'm asking. I think that you know there's a there's an opportunity here for students
who are struggling in the classroom but may be you know growing or finding success with working with your tutoring program. So, >> thank you Trusty Bailey, Trusty Hardy. >> Um, this is uh amazing work uh and a lot
of moving parts. So, uh thank you for the great presentation. Are there opportunities to sort of showcase um for the community all of the good work that happens over the summer? kind of wrap it up in a bow at the end and
say not only here's the achievement our students have made but also thanks to our community partners who have worked so hard to in conjunction with PSUD to uh help increase student success.
So, we do have um a community showcase in May where our sites come together, community partners come together, and so we talk about how we're serving kids, kind of what our vision and missions are and how that aligns with what we're doing here in PUSD. And there's
performances and there's artwork and there's testimonials about their experience. Um so, that's one opportunity. And then at the end of the summer, the sites do have um sitebased um times where it's typically parents, but we do invite the community to come
in and see what they have achieved for that summer. Um however, I would love to be able to put something something together and maybe put it on our website to showcase what we've done. And we've also created a very strong partnership with Klearn who has gone to our sites
and recorded footage and talked to students and they've started putting together some um community um footage so that people can see the experience that our students are having before and after school. >> Oh, and we also have lights on. So
that's something that happens in the fall. I can't remember what month. October. Thank you. Um, and so that's an opportunity to celebrate annually our afterchool programming. And so that's a really big celebration to talk about all of the programs that we're launching,
what's available at your school site, and just that celebration of coming together. And we do partner with um parks and wreck and and we it's a huge celebration. >> Absolutely. Yes. I was going to suggest
>> I >> was going to I was I'm going to stand. Can you can hear me? I can hear me. Um I was going to suggest that maybe we calendar much like we do back to school night. >> Yes, please come. Um we're going to have uh food and goodies and lots of student
performances May 23rd and it will be in the parking. Oh, sorry, sorry. The combine is May 23rd. We have lots of May dates. Um the 16th is the community showcase and so um please please join us in the morning and then you can hop over
to Mc Elliot for the Fella. >> Thank you and Trusty McKenzie followed by Trusty Velasquez. >> Thank you so much. Quick question with regards to the elite sports programming. Is that only occurring during the summer or is there plans to incorporate that
into the school year for year- round activities? And is there a way to align that with um programming that would be embedded within um academic year um supports for students? >> Yes. So when we do things, we go big and
we just say let's do it all the time. And so once a month there is a team PUSD clinic. It is free to all middle school students. It runs 9 to3. They have a leadership portion. They're provided with lunch and a chance to create
community and it's kids from all over the district. And then they work with the PUSD coaches from all four high schools. We invite them all to come out. Um and then they do some agility training with some of our internal coaches and we partner with No Finish
Lines, which is a nonprofit in our community. um and they do the leadership influence student athlete portion. So it's a rotation throughout the day and so we do that once a month and then the summer there's four weeks every high school gets a week that they host where
the students come and meet their coaches. Um and so it's also we're going to start doing them at the school sites. So the once a month is at P it's been at PHS just due to construction. Um we've had limited space. Um, so they've all
been at PHS, but our we want to get all of our kids on all the high school campuses. Um, and so these last few we're going to do at the end of this month will be located at the middle schools and the high school coaches are going to go to the middle schools and work with the students. Yes, you're
welcome. Trusty Velasquez. Thank you for so much for expanding the scope of the program. Um I was very happy last year to see some of the results of that particular program and I am even happier that the scope has been
expanded for this year. Um, we had our joint meeting in on Monday uh with the city at which point um we had a conversation about summer programs and about how all of our
efforts have to be directed no matter where they're coming from. Maybe it's from community, if it's from us, we have to be working together to um support the academic achievement of students. >> Um given that we have some very
aggressive goals for our city. >> Um I am sure that all of our partners are very committed and we we we have two two things moving forward uh which are is it
possible to uh provide our partners uh when requested for possibilities for u incorporating academic work into uh their programs based on our own
experience. And the second question is, is it possible to notify parents of children that do have uh intervention needs or uh to steer them towards
programs that will commit to academic enrichment along with other form of entertainments in the summer? So for question one, um I would say that since I've been in this role and this is
my second year, um our department has really been intentional um about who we partner with. And so even if it is athletics or if it is enrichment, we really look at how it's impacting the whole child. And if it's partnered with
um a separate academic piece that we try to align with or if it's integrated within the partnership that we are gaining, it is definitely something that we make a priority. And um we review our partnerships yeartoear. So if it's not
serving our students well um and they're not seeing growth then we need to entertain a new a new partnership. Um and for your second question for your second question my brain stopped. Um
yes so I I meant to speak to that um Dr. Velasquez about um we are integrating this summer uh opportunities for families in the morning at dropoff. Um CarmelaQ Ching is helping me work on this where we can doformational pieces
about the academics that we're offering. Really empowering parents to understand like it's not just summer camp. Um there are multi-layers to what we're providing your student. Here are things to get excited about. We wanted to do some book literacy nights for our families where
they could come and enjoy and learn about literacy. We wanted to do a literacy challenge um where families can post or share about what they're doing at home with their students around literacy. Um providing books in multiple languages so that parents have access.
So um that's how we're trying to engage parents. We have sent emails and sent stuff out, but we know catching them maybe when they come in offering them a little continental breakfast breakfast and saying like, "Come and learn about what your students are learning about." We're going to try that and we're going
to keep trying it. Um, and getting feedback from parents until we see what works. You know what I'm going for? Oh. Excuse me. I'm going to speak for Beth right now that you need to be in a mic because the parents I mean the people watching the live stream cannot hear
you. >> It's not here. Okay, >> all I'm gonna say is it's still green. >> We'll work on tech later. Okay, so we run our own expanded learning programs.
Other districts may outsource and partner with other entities to provide the service. The reason why this is such a huge benefit is Harmony, Miss Cono, her team have access to the student data. So we can actually pull the um the information on which students will need
the support that we would predict would need the support and benefit most and therefore provide specific letters that we did provide to principles to send to those families. So if you receive a special invitation, you're getting all of this and we're doing some academic
work with you. So >> she was able to anticipate my question which was It is important to communicate with parents once they are enrolled in the program. But how what type of outreach
are we doing to say, "Hey, your student benefits from an integration of recreational but academic work during the summer. So, please choose an option that includes that." And Yeah. Yes. And so, I apologize because those letters
did go out. Great. Okay. Um, you know, you have a team behind you and I'd love to hear from them. So, I'm going to ask some questions. I know they can answer. Uh, can you go to slide uh
eight with the nice pictures with the kids the power up reading? >> No, no, no. I do not. Slide eight. Power up to reading. >> There we actually
not that one. The one with the kids photos. >> I just want to comment. Thank you for putting the photos there so we can see the manipulatives and all the things that they are doing in the classroom. And the testimonies testimonials are
wonderful. And I I was the one that asked for so many more testimonials so I can get evidence of the middle schoolers and um and it's just so um interesting how this funding came out of COVID like
that is where it began and it's still here you know the EVO funding and that's why I kept asking the question about is this going to go away is it going to decrease because it's amazing I don't want it to go away and I worry that you know how can we continue to sustain this
if you know the we lose you know some of that funding or it gets cut entirely. So maybe someone can answer just generally um how we can handle the to sustain the funding. >> Um so the funding came about around the
same time as COVID right after um really supported by the state of California saying like we know not everything can be done during the school day. how can we create robust and safe spaces for kids to be before and after school and looking at the academic piece and the
SEAL piece. And so there has been um really great support at the state level where no one in my role or that supports my role and we just met with LEO and we've just met with CDE around what we're doing and so everyone feels very
confident that we're going to continue to see these funds. We do receive ASUS, so the afterchool um and safety grant which kind of sustains our staffing and then the ELOP allows us to add the extra layer of really being intentional about
serving those specific school communities um and going beyond that. So, not just myself, but I would say what we're hearing from CDE and from LEO is they don't foresee this going away. Um but we know things can change and so
we do have structures and systems in place that maybe not conso um replace those funds on such a great level but would create spaces for us to continue our practices ongoing. >> Thank you. Uh the grow by paper tutoring
is the next slide >> and I was just looking at the see it's just I just want to know about the photos. So >> we had more but you know you have to check those photo releases. So >> So I was looking at what the student is
doing and is that like a real person in real time talking to them? >> Yes. No AI. This is a real human. Um yeah this is a real human. Um they're building relationships getting to know the students. They meet with them. that is the person that they meet with all
the time and there's no more than three students in a session. And I I really want to hear what you have to say. You have to say something. Okay, here we go. How about professional learning at the end? Okay,
we have the youth leaders at the end. They're having their in their professional development. Fun fact, over 20 years ago, I was a Learn summer program teacher and I am so jealous of this training. So maybe some of you can
speak to that experience. >> Yes. Um good evening. So this year as we mentioned, we've really been very grateful to have this coaching model. And the coaching model is it starts with the area leads. Um we do our coaching
and then we also do site coordinator uh bi-weekly meetings. Um we share those practices with our uh youth leaders and we also give them um we do very intentional feedback forms. So we ask them what training do you want? It can
go from restorative practices to um to classroom management. So based on the feedback that the youth leaders provide us um that's how we create our schedule. Um we also want to expand their knowledge and make sure that they have transferable skills. So a lot of them
will ask for per you know professional development. They'll ask for um you know career guidance. Um this year we were really excited last summer to even do water safety training. So every staff member that worked with us, they all went through a certification where they're all water safety rescue um
trained. So we want them to make sure that they can apply. We do um CPR on an ongoing basis. And this really comes just from what we've observed and what the feedback that we get during our observations. >> Did you want to say anything?
>> Yes. So, uh, our recent training, we had, uh, two trainings this week at Wilson, um, for our summer staff, uh, youth leaders and site coordinators, um, based on relationship building, uh, how to create those relationships, how to,
um, do the micro connections with the kids. I love that part. Um, but, you know, just getting to know your students, getting to know your community. Um, they got, it was I think two and a half hours of training. um building relationships um how to use
edtech um what we're going to be using doing academically during the summer. Um and everybody left. We have feedback saying that yes, this is great. This is these are things that I'm going to put it into practice now with my students at my school site right now um and not wait
till the summer to use it. So, it it was it was really good to see um everybody who trained our staff to to do better. >> Very nice. Thank you. So I am partial to any sort of studentbased academic based
uh item on the on our agenda. So if we ever go over time if you have more questions I'm I fully support. Oh Trusty Rivera. >> Yeah. Um I just want to say thank you for all your support. You know uh I used to be in Lawrence back in middle school and things really affected me in a
positive way. So, I just want to say from the bottom of my heart and all the students from our group that we're really thankful for you and all your uh work. If you don't mind, I have a quote actually from one of our members because they're listening through. Uh she said, "Through learns, I was able to take the
best and only dance class I've ever taken. We explored new genres like Bollywood. We're given the freedom to choreograph our own dances. It was fun and empowering and we only had at Blair for one year. I later volunteer at Learns and got to teach Blolair middle schoolers how to crochet. Learn is so amazing because it encourages students
to do things like visual arts, book clubs, and science Olympia. Also, they have co-ed sports, which is really important. It helps fill the gaps that long school day leaves. It's so powerful and community focused. See, I I just want to say thank you for everything you're working.
>> Thank you, Shy Rivera. Uh, any other comments or questions? Thank you so much. Oh, can I just share one last thing? So, we love our students so much um that we have >> taken them back. So, we hire our
students to come back and serve after school in our school communities. And so, you know, if it's been impactful to them, they come and support students with academics or if they were in that DIP program or that focus. And so, it's like this full circle um of serving
them. they come back and serve others and really helping with the high school community to prepare them for when they leave us. So, it's been such a joy and thank you for sharing your story and we're taking applications. >> All right. Thank you so much.
>> All right. Um we are at the action items. Uh number one, a recommendation for expulsion student ID 973089. Motion to approve. Is there a second?
Second. Okay. All those in favor? No, I don't think I don't think he votes on this. All those in favor? All those against? Any abstensions?
Motion passes. Item K2, approval of resolution 2869, approving assignment of delinquent tax receivables for fiscal year 2628 to 28 and authorizing related actions.
>> Motion to approve. >> Second. Any discussion? Further discussion? All those in favor. Oh, I'm sorry. Trusty Rivera, your preferential vote.
>> Uh, yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All those in favor? >> All those against? Any abstensions? Motion passes. Thank you. Approve. Uh, item K3, approval resolution 2870 authorizing the issuance
sale of one or more series of its general obligations refunding bonds. Hold on a second. I have some specific language unless you know it. Um, okay. Can I please have a motion to
approve resolution 2870? authorizing issuance of >> sale of one or more series of general obligation refunding bonds with the condition that the bonds are issued with proportional savings. >> Second.
>> Um any discussion comments? Trusty Kenny. >> So you added something to the motion that wasn't on the agenda. I'm just confirming because I did ask I was um remote that the last meeting and so I wasn't clear if we'd chosen which
option the proportional or back. >> Yeah, it is a an amendment to the item. So there's two options. One is proportional savings and one is um savings in the final year of maturity. >> Okay. So we are choosing proportional and that's what everyone I just wanted
to make sure that >> yeah the earlier. >> Okay. So we're going with the 12 million savings that starts earlier. Correct. >> Okay. Any further questions or comments? Uh, what's your preferential vote? Trusty Rivera.
>> Yes. >> Okay. All those in favor? Any against? Abstensions? Motion passes. Thank you. Item K4, resolution 2874, Secretary of State for Student Achievement, calling on the state of
California to develop a co I'm sorry, actually Trusty McKenzie, why don't you introduce the item? >> Thank you so much. Um, this resolution is entitled Save Our Schools calling on the state of California to develop to
develop a coherent state focused plan for supporting local schools and closing achievement gaps. Um, this is a package of bills that is being sponsored by the California School Board Association for which we are members. And the goal of it
is to recognize that districts are working to accelerate student achievement, but there are structural barriers that stand in the way of them being successful, us included. So the goal is for
this bill package to address the barriers at the state level, be it funding, reporting, um accountability measures, etc. that may be um standing in the way of students being a school district being able to see greater
academic growth. So I ask my colleagues to support this resolution and this bill package so that we can work to ensure that there are less um gaps in the way of being able to meet our board goals academically. We have introduced a
robust set of goals and we want to be able to support measures that will help us be successful. >> I'll move approval. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. Thank you. >> Is there further discussion >> or
any advocacy comments? quick comments. >> Okay. >> Just said that, you know, we're supporting this bill because we can't do it alone as a local school district and this is a bill package that's designed to avoid new compliance burdens, but
instead focus on having state aligned um measures and accountability. We really just need to recognize that there are structural barriers that may impact us being able to be successful alone. So we want to make sure that we are able to be
consistent and predictable and aligned and not fragmented and disruptive. So with that I would ask for your support. All right. Any further comments? Advocacy. All right. Trusty Rivera, what is your preferential vote? >> Yes.
>> All right. All those in favor? Anybody against? Abstensions. Motion passes. Thank you. All right, we're now at item K5, approval to place a presentation on classroom staffing on a future board of
education agenda. And if I will um give a brief provide a brief opportunity for the requester, the trustee Kenny to uh clarify this item and the intent, the
scope of it. And if anybody has any brief clarifying questions for her, then we can ask it. >> Last fall, as we started to implement staffing datio, there were some issues in our DIP elementary schools where classes had to be merged and teachers
moved. At sites such as Aladena and Jackson with two separate instructional programs, a DIP and a non-dip. There wasn't the same flexibility to meet staffing ratios as at other school. At that time, I'd reached out to a board member at another school district, and he shared a presentation that had been
made to their board regarding the process and methodology for staffing classrooms at their district. It seemed that this might be good information for our board and our community to understand. At that time, I emailed the information to Dr. Blanco, Dr. Hill, and Dr. Canal. I reached out again in
January to see if it made sense to do this presentation prior to layoff notices. Dr. Dr. Blanco replied that HR didn't have the capacity to do this type of presentation until April. I reached out again in March to make sure this was still in process. We know that there will be more staffing to ratio this
coming fall. I think it would be useful for the board and the public to understand how classroom staffing works since it affects students directly and can often seem arbitrary. This topic relates to our board responsibility to support the instructional program with resources. I believe we all want to keep
class sizes reasonable and if the board wanted there could be an opportunity to make modifications to our district staffing ratio guidelines, not the ones in the contract that are annually approved with our budget. So I want to caution that this is not
agendaized. So we are just clarifying the request but not discussing the topic or the merit of the topic. So, does anybody have any brief clarifying questions for of what is being agendaized
as the request? Trustee uh Bailey. >> So, I just want to know um from staff. Is there >> Hold on, hold on, hold on. We're asking
Trustee Kenny. Okay. What? Yeah, >> I'll ask once. Is there any other time during our board meetings when school sta I mean um I'm sorry classroom
staffing is discussed. >> So the presentation that I viewed from the other district had the methodology like how it how it happens. So is that what you you're asking for specifically? >> Yes. So what did I say? Presentation about the process and the methodology
for staff in classrooms. So to help people understand better and and I Okay. Any other clarifying questions to understand what will be on the agenda? This is the information item >> when it comes
>> uh staff presentation will be you can ask clarifying questions and yeah we can have discussion about it. >> Can this just be an email? >> So we're at we are just voting on
whether to agendaize this. So that's it. Yes, trustee. >> I'm having some difficulty with this because it's an agenda. It's an agenda item to be voted on, but I can only ask clarifying questions because it hasn't
been agendaized, which is the item we're going to put. But I have questions. And what trustee Kenny said, she brought in the superintendent and said that our human resources chief doesn't have the time to do that right
now. And I think we all know why because we're doing all these layoffs. And I do have a concern about the staff that are already doing they've been doing several jobs and there's just a lot going on right now. So I don't understand why
this has to happen now. Even though it says and for to be agendaized in the future, but I don't know when that future is. It could be May. And Sergio, Dr. canal is still going to be doing the
layoffs. So it feels very foggy to me and I'm uncomfortable with this at this time. >> Right. So whether So let me clarify because you are voting on whether to agendaize but
it is up to uh superintendent and the board president to decide when it will come. So, it's not necessarily next meeting, >> but we're you're just voting on whether you want it to come back at some time in the future. >> I have another question.
>> Yes. >> Would this be under a want to know or a need to know? Trusty Kenny, I I can repeat what I've already said that I think that this would be good information for our board and our community to understand since it affects
them and that it often seems arbitrary to our parents. That seems like a want to know. >> Okay. All right. So, I think we have clarified what is requested. Is there any other clarifying questions?
Okay. So, uh what is your preferential vote? Trust Oh, I'm sorry. Uh is there a motion to uh place a presentation on the classroom staffing on a future board of education agenda?
>> I'll move. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Okay. Any further disc any further questions? Okay. So, Trusty Rivera, what is your preferential vote? >> Uh, no.
>> Okay. All those in favor, raise your hand. All those against? Any abstensions? All right. Motion passes. Right. Okay, we're at the board committee reports. Uh, anybody would
like to give us a brief update of their committee? >> Sure. If you don't mind, I'll start. >> Thank you, Trusty McKenzie. >> I chair the Legislative Advocacy Committee and we have had two really
productive meetings. One of which we were able to hear from State Senator Sasha Perez regarding um legislative updates and um the advocacy work that she's doing at the state level regarding um fire relief as well as we had a
meeting a speaker from capital advisors and Mr. Kevin Gordon around the state budget outlook. I think there is some opportunity to be a little optimistic, cautiously so, but um we could see some increased um revenue in the May revise
that comes forward, which that should happen in a couple weeks. The governor will make that announcement. Um I will also share at this point in time if it's appropriate that um on behalf of the school board I was able to attend the California School Board
Association coast to coast um federal lobbying trip where we had some productive meetings with um the Senate Education Labor Pension um health committee. It's help is the acronym. I just was trying to say all the correct words named out in that
right order. and also with our representative Judy Chu. Um the topics of um advocacy this year were around um artificial intelligence and education um the student online protection act and making sure that there's um appropriate data privacy and protections for
students um children's online safety privacy and mental health as well as workforce and career technical education funding. So, productive conversations. Looking forward to continuing to have more advocacy around those topics and it was a pleasure to serve. Thank you very
much. >> Thank you, Trusty McKenzie. And thank you for representing our district. Anybody else to report the own committee if you have one? Was there a policy? >> We have uh you have some policies
tonight and we'll be scheduling our next meeting for May 7th. >> Okay. And then for facilities, uh, we did look over a resolution on electrifying and decarbonizing PSD by
the end of 2030, but it had some it needed some work to align with our timeline. So, we will revisit that. And then all everything else is pretty much on our agenda today. I think the
most um lively conversation was about San Rafll in our committee and at the end of our meeting we had introduced a new item uh that is the workforce community
workforce outreach update which will be a standing item for our committee and the next committee meeting is Tuesday May 12th at six o'clock. All right. So, that is the end of the committee reports and we are at the
consent. Is there any polls? Uh, Trusty Bailey, >> I'd like to pull to be only because I just want to Yeah, I'll pull it because I want to
>> vote differently. You could still comment on individual items, but if you're going to vote the same. >> I just don't want it to get caught up in a sweep and I don't get a chance to say what I want to say. >> You'll get to say it. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, Noble, >> Trusty Kenny,
>> I'd like to pull M6H, Board Report 1941-F and M6L, Word Report 1945-F as in Frank. And then I do have some comments on on a couple other items.
>> Okay. M6L. Sorry. Okay. Any other polls? Okay. So, I'd like to entertain a sweep of all the consent besides M6H and M6L. Sweep to approve.
>> Second. Oh, I'm sorry. >> Oh, yeah. >> Motion to approve. >> Oh, okay. And Trusty Hard second. >> This is my favorite motion. >> Okay. So, Trusty Bailey, on your uh item you want to comment on?
>> Yeah. I just want to um call the board's attention to the week of May 17th through the 23rd is classified school employees week. And um just to read the now therefore be it resolved from the
resolution um I'd like to read that the governing board of the Pasadena Unified School District does hereby formally acknowledge recognize and wish to honor the contributions of our classified school professional employees to quality
education in our district and hereby declares the week of May 17 through 23, 2026 as Pasadena Unified school districts classified school employee week throughout the district. And I want
to make sure that um I bring this up because um so often classified employees feel devalued or undervalued and they don't get the recognition that they deserve and classified employees are the
foundation of the district. And so that's an important position to be in. So I just want to say thank you to all of our classified employees and um keep up the good work. >> I also thank you trustee Bailey. Um, I
do want to comment on briefly on the Asian-American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May and also to read the final res be it resolved that the governing board of Pas Unified School District declares that May is designated as Asian-American Native
Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month and encourages all schools to commemorate this occasion with appropriate and meaningful activities including utilizing local resources that include Pasadena Public Library scheduled events. for HPI Heritage Month
along with events of the aforementioned Pasadena institutions. Any other uh comments? Yes, Trusty Kenny. on uh the security guard contract board report 146-B.
I just wanted to note I when we did um our budget cut resolutions in November, our contract for security patrols was on that list. And so this coming back will still be a
savings of 150. Then it won't be the full savings that was reflected on that contract list is my understanding. Um my second uh item that I had a question on was for the student support and
activity aid positions. Um, I wanted to clarify. I believe that these positions do not require a high school diploma, at least from what I read on the uh job description. Can they act as
instructional aids in the classroom? >> They can assist and support, but their role is not to be a instruction. >> Okay? But they can >> assist inside with teachers in the classroom. Okay. And then so my understanding from a question that I asked and that I got a response is that
uh last in the past we've given one hour for each 100 students at an elementary school in terms of the amount of new support we've provided in the past and going forward this year we'll be providing one hour for every 130 students. I just don't know if that
number was available during the ESBAC process. So I wanted to to highlight that. Um similarly on the on the tossas that we're bringing back I wanted to highlight two things. It sounds as though the the shared totsas that will
go between schools will be somewhere between two to three days at each school site. um depending on the need at the school except for superintendent zones uh schools which will have their own MTSS
coaches and there was a concern um from the DAC about if there wasn't a dedicated coach at each school who would handle the coordination for the English learner advisory committee and it was confirmed um in one of the questions I asked that they these uh coaches would
still be performing that duty and then I just wanted A question I asked for the senior director of sped position um on board 39P was that we recruited and hired for this position because we just approved it even though the position is only
coming to the board for approval now. So that seemed more simultaneous than before but that's just a comment. Thanks. >> Any other um comments on the sweep? I actually have well what is it? Which for which items? >> Foster. I was going to say something
about the >> Oh, okay. Yeah, go ahead. >> Were you gonna say something? >> No, I mean I have another item. >> Okay. So, for um I just want to bring attention to everyone that the month of May is the National Foster Care Month.
And um now therefore be it resolved that the governing board of the Pasadena Unified School District urges all citizens to change a life by sharing their hearts, opening their homes, and offering help to children in foster care, families working towards
reunification, foster and kinship caregivers, and the child welfare professional staff working with them on this day and throughout the year. Thank you.
>> I appreciate that. I appreciate that, Trusty Bailey. Thank you so much for reading that. Okay, so we have um public comment on wait, so I have a comment on M uh 6S as
well. So then I will I'll I'll go first. Okay. So the I I know Mr. Dunning is back there. So I have a qu am I allowed to ask you a question. The M6s
on the Mamba Mombasita donation. So, I had a lot of questions and I just wanted to be clear because there was some concerns from the public about the environmental impact as far as the
you know preventing water drainage as well as the materials used in the synthetic turf and the concern was whether POS is part of that material. Can you answer those questions?
>> Oh. Oh, sorry. I didn't know there were other >> Excellent. Great. >> Yeah. >> I'm sorry. I didn't know. >> Yeah. I put myself on a list. My name is Eric Jennings with Byron Davy. We're the design builder. Good to meet you.
>> That was chosen to u build this fabulous project if it goes. Uh our history is that over the past 25 years, we've built over 800 of these sports facilities. um from elementary to higher education. We've actually had the privilege of
building some facilities with your district. Uh by the way, my background is I'm the vice president of the company. I'm an architect and we work really close with uh turf companies. Um specifically, we just actually got
bought by a turf company, uh Tenata. And what's different about this is that when Mamba and Mama asked us to uh be involved, we wanted to provide the most state-of-the-art material which is called pivot and it has no infill.
There's no PAS. PAS is basically a synthetic chemical that they used to use back in the day that would not break down. Uh and now the material that the polyethylene that we use is actually fully recyclable. So, a lot of the
information that you're hearing is outdated. Um, it's just like, yes, we have the car that has Bluetooth. Um, that's, you know, just a fun analogy, but we actually recycle the turf in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Um, it gets, uh, broken down mechanically. uh is is turned into virgin resin or pellets that gets reused to make plastic cups and all the things that the rest of your materials uh are made out of is
fully recyclable. And so I wanted to also give you a few more points is that um we've removed the PAS like you said from our processing or manufacturing as of 2023.
This is a constant improvement for the turf. Um there's no black crumb rubber in our our turf and it's recycling and then heat mitigation. We have a ballast that goes into the turf to help helps
with the heat mitigation. And this is the opportunity on this project that PUSD can be the leader of the standards for turf and and quash a lot of these concerns and a lot of stuff
that we're doing we're serving up to whether it's you know Mike or or the folks the stakeholders that this is what's happening. Uh I know that Mamba and Mama Sito was very concerned about uh the environment and those considerations and so we we have a
package that's available even to um called it the team um if you want to get more information. Now there's more pieces to building the field. I mean obviously it's underground and so you spoke to the drainage. Uh what happens
is that when you do a conversion from natural grass to synthetic turf, it's like changing out the engine. We go down, we rip everything out, at least 12 in if not more, and we design a fl a flat drain system that goes to the
perimeter and then there's base that actually infiltrates the water. So basically it purifies water so that when it reaches the storm drain system it gets rid of the pollutants. So there's definitely engineering and science
behind this method. And so we've had the privilege of working with a number of entities to really uh help them understand. We also have examples of other sites that you can go to. Okay. So I'm I'm excited if Obviously in favor if
you guys can accept the donation the name of rights we are working we this guy been bugging bugging him to death but he's provided in we actually have a over- thecounter appointment with DSA ready to go uh and if if this is
approved we want to show and prove all right so and I'm I'm available for any any more questions absolutely >> but yeah we didn't know that you here So, does anybody have any questions? That was a great presentation that
>> Okay. >> imprompt impromptu. >> Call me back up if you need. >> I have to say I'm a little bit disappointed. I prepped for nothing. I didn't know he was going to be here either. So, so perfect answers. Thank you very much. Yep.
>> No, Mr. Dunning, I have you. I did. You answer my question because I thought your question your answer was pretty good. Uh because you you mentioned olive pits. So now you gota >> so yeah that that was my mistake. Um originally uh when we first started with
this project there was a different turf system uh that was presented and that did use all the pits. U unfortunately this one not unfortunately this one does not. It has no infill if I'm correct. Right. So there's no infill whatsoever. So that actually saves us on additional
cost on maintenance. So uh for us we won't have to go back over it. disappointed. >> All of the olive pits is a good uh uh infill for replacing the rubber. It's currently being used uh pretty broadly. Uh but
this new system does not use it. So uh there is no infill. >> Trusty Bailey, >> you said that. So does the new material that's being used cut down on the injuries like the
>> Yes. burns or whatever they get from the rubber like is there a certain percentage? >> That one I wouldn't know. >> No, >> please if you have an answer. >> Okay, the these these these are great
questions. Um, back in the day when I played it was it was totally different. Nowadays, the mimicking of of natural grass is there. So, there's there's no burns. The ballast that's in there cuts down the heat um in terms of what the
fibers uh generate. Uh there's a lot of third-party testing. That's important because our our group can be biased if we wanted to, but we go out and we get the third party uh testing. It's published. Uh also we work with the athletes uh from
many levels even up to the pros to understand how the performance happens and so yeah it you know collective bargaining agreements with the professionals they don't want any problems of when they perform uh any
other >> I think you said ballast or something to cut down >> heat so ballast is different from infill it is a a chemical that's embedded at the bottom of the turf that allows it to
cool. And so what it the way the turf is made is you have fibers that are toughed into backing and then the ballast sits at the bottom and that's what provides the cool. And there's other methods to cool the field if you were to use what we call water cannons. Um but that's
pretty expensive system. all a sudden now you're you're using water >> and unfortunately whoever has a remote to to turn them on could can run up your bill but um there's there's that solution. >> Thank you. >> So there's a there's a reason that uh we
have like this impromptu presentation followed by some questioning and then the public comment because you know now we we have the benefit of all this information and then the public can then maybe adjust their comments accordingly. So yeah, >> why don't we have the public comment?
>> And if I may, just one more thing. I we can send was whoever is appropriate. We've have plenty of science material and everything that backs up what I'm sharing with you tonight. And if we I should give it to Mr. Dunning, we can do that >> and we can share with the board. >> Absolutely.
>> Thank you so much. >> So Mr. Jennings, are you yielding your public comment time? >> Yeah, unless you have more questions. >> Thank you kindly. Next is Dr. Mimi Narte. >> Uh good evening everyone. Uh my name is
Dr. Mimi Narte. I'm an environmental biologist, a climate change scholar trained at Columbia University, and a doctor of public health and youth sports philanthropist uh focused on uh providing access to safe play for students. As an environmental scientist
trained in life cycle and systems based evaluations. I want to uh emphasize that sustainability decisions um and impacts need to consider complete system impacts not isolated concerns. So, as people are
raising certain issues about plastics and the viability of plastics, I just want to um lift up that real sustainability decisions are going to include water use, land constraints, infrastructure durability, and public health
consequences of reduced physical activity. Um, so across Southern California, we already have severe field shortages for children. Children are not getting access to play. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I had a minute. Okay. Well, let
me just um say I I'm sorry. I didn't realize there was a time thing. I just want to to offer up that um there are many innovations with regards to turf that have made it much more sustainable product. And the turf industry is not a
monolith. It's really important that children get access to play. And decisions made here in Pasadena don't just stay in Pasadena. If you decide that you don't want to use turf systems, it's going to really limit opportunity for kids that are underresourced in nearby communities. So, I'm just here on
behalf of all children just asking that you consider um allowing this project to move forward and support the innovation that's there. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Vince Ramos. And remember, you have a minute. Sorry, it's just equal treatments.
>> I'll be quick. Thank you for the board for giving me the time to speak. My name is Vince Ramos, business rep for the Brazilian floor and decorative covering local 1247, which is part of the painters and allied trades. I represent 650 working floor layers, which 180 are
synthetic turf installers. In my 20 years representing my members, the turf industry has changed for the better. I'm aware you may have uh up-to-date information how the industry has changed and please consider that information.
You may have uh heard some negativity towards synthetic turf. Listen to the manufacturers. Listen to the scientists. Uh we support high road manufacturers and oppose any efforts in banning synthetic turf. We're in favor of the John Mir High School and the uh donation
from the Bomba Foundation. Thank you. Menu Suk. >> Hi, good evening. Um, I'm here representing Painters and Alli Trades District Council 36. You just heard from our leader uh in the turf industry, the professional installers, uh, and many of
the members that are here with us. Uh we're just here just to uh wholeheartedly support the acceptance of the donation uh by the foundation to the John Mir High School. And just as a uh as a precaution because there's been so
many different discussions about the turf industry, the installation of turf in public agencies and whatnot. Uh we sent all the board members a position letter by the painters union supporting the industry and opposing any uh efforts
to ban uh turf installation in in your district and uh uh also sent uh attached lot of scientific data that you guys might want to take a look at to see how advanced the technology has become and
the industry has modernized. Thank you. two more speakers on um the consent agenda. That's Lisa Cruzie and I'll be followed by Samuel Eggman. I'm Lisa Cruzie. I'm here as a mom of three daughters in PUSD schools. I know
nothing about turf. I know that Kobe Bryant is a fantastic basketball player, died tragically. I hope that you will not name anything in our district after Mr. Bryant, I do support you receiving these funds and I hope that you will
consider changing the name and um I think it's would be more appropriate to name it after Gianna Bryant. And I sent a public comment because there's graphic nature to what I would say. So I emailed
my comments um since it's sensitive. I do want to make sure that the district protects um children's voices, teenagers voices, and women's voices. Thank you. >> Thank you. My name is Samuel Ecman. I
live at 285 Glenn Summer Road. I have a daughter and TK at Centeral Elementary School. Um and on the consent agenda, we're discussing the modernization plan. I support of the options that are on the plan, uh the full rebuild. I do want to say I'd appreciate if the board looks
into the implementation of the Spanish immersion program at the school. Though in recent years that they previously um screened for Spanish fluency coming in to ensure that there's a critical mass of Spanish speakers within each classroom. That's no longer the case. At least for new entrance into the school
at TK and kindergarten. Would estimate probably five or six students in the TK class are proficient in Spanish. My daughter's one of them. That's all thanks to my wife and not to me. Um, and she's been losing her Spanish at a rapid rate, which I'm very disappointed to
see. I'm love the teachers there. I love the community, but that is something that I think the board should be looking at as we move forward with San Rafael. Thank you. >> No further uh public comments. Okay. So, we have finished the sweep of
the consent discussion. No more comments on that. Okay. So, um, Trusty Rivera, what is your preferential vote on the sweep? >> Um, yeah. Yes. >> Okay. All those in favor?
Any against or extensions? All right. Motion passes. And the pool would be M6H. Uh M6H, which is the rebuild of San Rafll.
>> Yes, Trusty Kenny. >> I um would like to make a motion to table this item until the school consolidation plan has been decided. Um I think This would bring clarity to how San Rafale will be used in that plan as well as may identify other facility
needs that will need to be funded. For instance, one of the current proposals closes the neighborhood school that's zoned for the San Rafll area and that could cause other changes. >> Okay, there's a motion to table. Is
there a second to the table? >> I'll second. Is there any further discussion on tableabling? Oh, I guess yeah, advocacy or Yeah, I think we're just open. I think it's clear. I think it's clear what that is. Oh, question. Yeah, go
ahead. >> Um, my question about uh the full rebuild. Um, one of the concerns I had was the capacity of the full rebuild. Um, and so I know in our Q&A there was some
indicator that if we were as we moved forward with the facilities master plan and after consolidation, if we had determined that the location needed higher capacity um
uh and we were to approve the plan as presented tonight, how would that affect that plan? Could it or where is the point of no return where we could identify that the need of Sanraville needs higher capacity than 500
>> point of uh yeah point of u information trusty harden does this affect your vote on the tableing that your question should be relevant to that >> yeah it it is it could yeah >> okay but then Mr.
Yes. Uh the question was asked uh if we could uh if we'd looked at the capacity, right? Um if I remember correctly, >> yeah, you're 500 is the current capacity recommended. >> It's just just under 500. Uh right now we'd be looking at increasing it by
adding the TK that would filter properly into the Kinder. Right now that's that's uh the only thing that we've uh been discussing. If the master planning process uh felt that we needed a higher capacity at John at San Raphael that is definitely something that we could uh
incorporate as needed right um again it's if it by the time the master plan comes out we'll be well into design uh there's nothing stopping us from making adjustments or adding and from our current uh outlook on the project we do
have the space to add if we need to okay >> is Is this relevant to your vote to table or not? Because we will have another opportunity if >> Yeah, sure. I just want to know is the likelihood of
the increased funding that the rebuild would take, is there a likelihood that it would impact a potential uh project at the end of the the priority list that we're going to establish.
So, right now we have infrastructure being built for all of our campuses uh through Measure O and and we're uh all of that infrastructure is in play and will be built. Uh there's money there for all the infrastructure in Measure O.
Um what the only thing that's in flux right now, at least within the current plan, uh is the state match funding that was applied to that process. the state match funding um uh that that was approved with the board was $125
million. Right. We know that that uh state match funding has not been um has not gone through the process that would very likely be uh we're identifying every dollar that could possibly be added. Now uh right now we've ident
we've identified about 80 million and we expect it to go much higher as we go through each application. There's applications as well that we could do. We definitely see at least 118 and possibly 125. That money will go to the back of the plan um four to six years
which would fall right behind where we expect to be spending measure R. So with the funding supporting the infrastructure um with the current outlay all the modernizations that we're doing uh in the current plan the infrastructure that we're doing in the
current plan if we were to take the funds that are left in measure R and reapply them uh you're looking at a pretty good outlook for all of our campuses that are open. >> And where would the Sanra students go during the rebuild? Allenale
>> Allenale. >> Oh, Allenale. Wait, when >> Okay. When is Longfellow going to Allen? >> Okay. A little bit. Does this affect your tableling vote? >> Well, yeah. >> When are you are those When are the How
are the projects starting? >> So, Longfellow starts this summer. Uh they are moving into Allenale for next year. We do have one year turnaround. Uh our contractors are there. They've confirmed it. We have schedules that show it that we'll be back within the
year and we're ready to accept the next. >> Correct. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I need more clarification. Yeah. Question. >> Yeah. I need more clar clarification on matching funds. Can you say it to me again differently? Um like how much can
we get? What does it look like? Because I I think that people get worried about not having enough money right at the end of a process. So I think it needs I need real clarity that the money is going to be there. Thank you.
>> Sure. Uh again, right now we have the funds uh between measure O and measure R to fund everything in the five-year plan that's currently approved >> to fund everything in the five-year plan for all the sites that are in the plan. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay.
and >> and uh we plan on identifying, applying and securing the state match assuming uh another state bond is is >> uh surfaces. Uh we expect those funds to
be returned somewhere around six years. Uh which again would put us right towards the end of our spending plan with just measure O. >> Um we would still have plenty of money to measure R. Once those C those 125 or$18 million surface, we expect to then
allocate those funds once they're legitimate, once they're real. >> We're not going to put any money in the plan that doesn't exist. >> That way, no one is missing out. >> So, currently, no one lose anything loses anything out of the current plan
or what we're proposing in any of these uh uh additions to the five-year plan. >> There will be a lot of clarity coming for next month. Uh we're putting everything together so it's uh very clear on what's there, what's being spent, and what's left. Um as we go
through the master plan process, uh we do expect to have quite a few answers by August on exactly uh a good very good outlook on what our district needs. >> Uh the deliverable for the master plan architect is expected somewhere around
January of next year. >> Okay. Thank you. I have to give everyone an opportunity before I do another. Okay. Trusty Mackenzie. >> Uh just two quick questions. Um the matching funds would come by way of Proposition Two. Is that correct?
>> Correct. >> And if I'm correct, the bulk of that money has not yet been released. So there's a lot of runway ahead of us still in terms of being eligible to receive those dollars. And I think that um the position that our district is in with um
fire recovery is going to bump us up at the top of the list to be eligible for those Prop 2 dollars. So there's some win there for us. And then the second question is um we already have allocated a good chunk of measure O dollars toward
the San Rafael project. I do understand that the scope has now increased and the cost has increased. So it only would be the difference that's not in measure or that would come out of measure R. Is that correct? >> Correct. >> Okay. So the dollars are there. We can
fund the project. Is that >> Absolutely. Yes. >> Thank you, sir. >> Trusty Harden, I'm going to take my turn and then you can have your turn because I didn't get one. Um so the I believe the motion and trusty Kenny, I just want
to confirm you want to table until after the um vote on the if there is any vote to close schools which is in on June 11th. Is that correct?
>> I I said and the reason I gave a a a sorry the reason I um gave a time for the tableabling is that there's been some concerns in the past about how Rosenberg's rules uh work. But it does um I don't know that we actually need to
say when it's tabled to because we can bring it back legal guidance that says we have to say when we table it, >> but I did say >> no, you you can table it without that and it's just there's an extra step to bring it back. >> Sorry, Rosenberg's the ones that we
follow. And um but I said until the school consolidation plan has been decided. I didn't say a date. I just said until that plan has been decided. That's what I stated. >> Until the plan is decided. What is that?
What does that mean? Sorry. Because we have a recommendation on the May 28th. Is it after May 28th or I'm trying to understand when you say plan, what does that mean?
I'm trying to get a date at because I want to know. >> Can I say decided by the board? Does that help you? >> Does that clarify for you? >> So, the vote happens on Oh, I thought that was June 11th. Oh, is
that just the That's just the hearing. Okay. So So at on June 25th is when we could potentially be voting to close schools. And so if we're voting right now to
table, we will be tableabling this project to come back potentially because we're blackout in July as no earlier than no earlier than August is what we're saying. Correct.
Trusty Kenny, I can repeat the words I said again that I put in the motion. I I I don't know when that decision will happen, so I can't You said proposed and speculated. I mean sure. >> So Mr. Dunning. >> Yes.
>> Based on the understanding of us delaying this um what does a delay of um would be May, June, July
like three months delay of this project. What would that mean to the project? >> Uh well, we wouldn't be able to procure until after the approval, >> right? >> Uh right. >> That would extend it significantly and
>> I think he wants to say one year. >> No, I did not want to say one year. Uh >> in other words, it would move the potential time from the moving off-campus from this summer of 2027 to the summer of 2028 at the earliest.
>> Yes. If we if we got an approval in August, >> sorry, it will delay all of the other bond projects. Correct, Mr. Dunny? >> As well, yes. The fiveyear plan will be off schedule which we already have some projects off one year and Madison off
two years. >> Correct. >> San Raphael once once one's delayed because we only have two swing spaces. They all become delayed. >> I would reiterate um again we're trying to follow the direction of the board to
spend this money in a way where we're being thoughtful. the delays are costing right uh every year we delay everything gets goes up in price so it is something to consider delaying this project a year
will impact the budget >> not to mention all of the cascading effects it will have by pushing the other projects one year >> Mckenzie >> Mr. done at this point. Are you estimating 20 or 30% for cost
escalation? >> That's a high number. Uh we are seeing quite a bit. Uh right now we're we're staying right around 6% per year. Um that's expected most likely to go up to eight for next year in the current
climate. Uh so when you're talking hundreds of millions, this is this is getting uh pretty expensive. >> I only ask because my I'm seeing cost escalations at near to that 20% mark and some even higher than that 20% mark. So
>> some industries >> just want to be realistic about what the time clock ticking means in terms of um the value of our dollars, how far our dollars will go and how much cost the project will ultimately cost us
once it is completed. So I will caution you all colleagues to think about that as you make your deliberations. Any other questions to influence your vote on tableling?
Um Oh, not I have I think I have one more. Um >> I I I don't have a question, but I do have advocacy. I haven't used my turn. >> Right. I didn't I'm not in advocacy. >> Okay. So, um, it seems like we're in
sort of inquiry mode and I'm not sure if we'll make it through the tableabling. Um, so my question actually was directed to our consultant and maybe you can I'm not sure if you can answer it, but I I asked
I did have a similar concern about consolidation process has not finished. We don't know the outcome. how can we be, you know, making this major decision? And so my question was, you know, was San Rafll considered for
closure and consolidation um such that we can rule it out and so we would be confident that this investment was, you know, solid. Um I don't know,
can you answer that question? Oh, you or Dr. Blanco, please. Stop touching it. >> So um that was not one of the scenarios presented or recommended to the committee. The rationale presented by
the consultant has to do with capacity and moving um 500 so DIP children that we don't have the capacity to move them to another site and the two sites that we do have um Spanish DIP at we would
have to make a decision to displace all of the English only students and split San Raphael. So the way that it was presented was that didn't make sense. That rationale was used for more schools than San Raphael. But no, it's not
recommended. But again, the board has the ability to adopt, adapt, or abandon the committee's recommendations and make their own. >> Thank you, Dr. Blanco. Okay, that was my questions. Any other inquiry questions?
Okay, now we're in advocacy. Trusty Kenny and then Trusty Velasquez. So, I guess I did want to share a little bit about I I tried to understand better the state bond funding situation and so I looked up Proposition 2 and and how
much it was um we voted in 10 billion as a state. It was then divided up and so about 4.4 billion is what was put aside for modernization. Uh there is money for new construction, but that doesn't apply if you tear down a school and build a new one. It only
applies if you're building a school where there wasn't one anymore. As far as I can tell, and I I did call school services of California to try and help me understand what was going on. There seems to be at this point 1.7 billion of
applications that have come into the state allocation board beyond the bond authority. So in other words, they have enough applications for all of the bond and they have another 1.7 beyond that
bond. So our applications will go in but they will not be part of Prop 2. They will have to wait until the next voter approved state bond. So that 125 and I think it's a little bit closer to 130 now that we built into our five-year
bond plan to come out of Measure O, those funds aren't there. So that 130 if we move forward and and that would probably be the four big projects that are the last four big projects are if we if we are still intending to
move forward with them we'll be coming out of measure R. We've also put the staff housing in measure R for 85 million and we're certainly on the path to spend 56 million for solar. So that's about 275
of the 900 million of measure R and we haven't really planned kind of how to spend that chunk of new money. The almost 100 million additional for this San Rafll project will add on to that 275 and then we'll be at 375 of the 900
spent of measure R without waiting for our new facilities master plan. Um, I mean, this is an a significant increase. Even if we didn't do the rebuild, which I think the rebuild makes more sense than the modernization. If we did the modernization, it's still
doubling the price we initially put into the our five-year bond plan, but it's we're tripling it if we do the rebuild. Um, I just think it's it's pretty my personal feeling is that to allocate
this much of measure R without a plan is not doing right by our district. There's a lot of things we need for our districts. We haven't done anything around TK classrooms. There are other schools and I do think that there could be decisions that come out of the
consolidation plan. So, it's unfortunate that this has already been delayed um and that even another month would delay it an entire year. But I still think because we don't have a facilities
master plan and without knowing more about what we're going to need that money for from our consolidation plan, we should table it for now. >> Are you done? Yes, Dr. Vasquez.
Where to start? Um, in 2023, we voted to approve a fiveyear plan for Measure O. And since we voted that plan,
um, Miss Kenny, you have requested for that decision to be re litigated at least four other times. So in this case tonight, it is a new reason why we are
reitigating a decision that has already been made and that has been ratified multiple times by this board. That's the first. Um there's many reasons why each time is
brought up as a re a justifiable reason why we have to relitigate a decision that has already been made. Um this is just one new iteration of that same pattern. Um that's the first thing. The
second thing um is that um the case of San Rafael is a very interesting case because
um it's a it's a case of absolute neglect. Um and in each bond, in each occasion, there has been a reason why this particular campus cannot be renovated. So, we're
talking about neglect. Since 1998, there's a need for infrastructural changes in terms of electric, plumbing, HVAC that we keep finding reasons why we can postpone.
This is the pattern for this particular site. If I tell you or any school district in California, I have a school that has
the number one um weight the the biggest number of students in their weight list, the number one application in my district, uh PTA engagement that exceeds enrollment. and you say,
"We're not going to support the modernization of this particular school." I'm not sure which district in California would say yes, that is a good choice. It is very hard to understand that. And
if you ask me, the difference between um St. Raphael being identified, clearly being identified as one of
the schools uh in the first round of uh yeah modernization is because of perceptions of demographics. We have two other schools
that have ranked second and third in terms of applications. And those two schools are perceived as saved because the only distinction between those two between those three
schools is the physical structure of San Raphael. Like that is the difference. We have schools that are 94% socioeconomic and ethnically
um that where 94% of the students share the same socioeconomic and ethnic background and we strive to work to have the richness of programs that
incorporate socioeconomic, linguistic and academic diversity. And yet again, we find another reason to justify the delay. It is puzling to me
trying to understand the reason the the the intellectual reason behind it. And I want to discourage my fellow board members
to continue on this path. It was very interesting to see the surprise of some of the board members when they saw the conditions of
that particular school when they are personally responsible for it. Are you finished? >> Um, it's almost 10. It's 7 minutes to 10. I We have to make a motion to extend, but we are in the middle of a
motion. So, um, Trusty Harden. >> Okay, I better get going. Um I so I um I I think unfortunately this issue has it it's just over the course of of the
of the deliberations on this and the approval of the original master plan this some binary thinking that's developed and I think it maybe unfortunately has has gotten in the way of the best path forward. Um, I think that, you know, where I'm coming from on
this is that I want to make sure and I agree that um the San Raphael community deserves the best site possible and the community at large deserves the best usage of of uh taxpayer dollars. So, what that means to
me is that to make sure that the school uh benefits the most students possible. Um, and so to me, my concern in in all of this is not to decide to do the work, but to ensure that the capacity of the
site is adequate for the district of the future. Um, we're about to go through this consolidation process which is going to uh change the nature of how sites can accommodate additional students. Um, there may be a potential outcome where a site like San Raphael
may have to take take on uh n neighborhood kids, who knows? But and we're building a site that's, you know, that we're we're developing a plan that is uh supposed to be viable as a school
site for 50 plus years. And so um I believe that our district uh facilities will be uh the best facilities if they can accommodate the most students possible. So I appreciate the sentiment of of delaying till after the
consolidation work is done. But I also appreciate and this is where I struggle. I appreciate uh the real risks involved uh in delaying because of the compounding uh costs uh in action as I always say action action compounds
itself and inaction compounds itself. So, this one is a struggle for me, but I I want to be clear from my perspective that I do support the rebuild. I just want to make sure that we have the flexibility to potentially increase the
the capacity of the site. >> Okay. I have a final comment and we will vote. Um if we table this we will guarantee that this will be more expensive than we have estimated and it will guarantee that we
will delay other projects. Okay, we will guarantee that by tableabling. Okay, so I want to make that clear and um plain and simple just like Dr. Velasquez says the data shows that this is the most highly desirable school in our school
district. It has the highest weight or largest longest weight list. Okay, I'm in Sierra, my area, Sierra Madre, and I was like, okay, wow, you beat my Sierra Madre Elementary over here. Uh so it's obvious that we need to support schools that are
successful that have the most engagement and is like busting at the seams but we are not investing in the safety of this school. I mean we are safety first right? So um
so that is why I am um not going to table this. So um I think we're ready for a vote. Um, Trusty Rivera, what is your preferential vote? >> Abstain. >> Okay. All those in favor of tableabling, raise your hand.
All those against, any abstensions? Motion fails. Okay, we're back to the original item. Is there a motion to approve? >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion?
Uh, quickly in like one or two minutes. Yeah, let's retract the motion. >> I retract the motion. Motion to extend the meeting till 10:30. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Okay. >> Motion to approve. >> Second.
>> Okay. Any further discussion or advocacy at this point? >> So, um, how will we factor in? So again the question that was first asked at facilities committee was what is the intended size of the school and the
answer was approximately 500 is it what do we need to do to change that to a larger number so that this school has a larger capacity and won't be constrained again. I I don't know who answers that question because I I I'm not sure how the
decision was originally reached that it would only go up to 500 because again without other thoughts about what this school will represent in the future, it's kind of hard to know how big it should be. But can we at least make it
large enough to hold more so that if we're not if we're going to move forward without making those decisions? facilities feels very confident that if that decision was made to increase the capacity, we do have the space uh to do that. >> But what time when do you need to you're
going to start the design process? Tomorrow. So how late in the design process? Maybe not tomorrow. Um how late in the design process or can the how can we adapt that into the design process? >> Kim, do you have a recommendation for
what you think the capacity of the schools should be that you could just >> Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. >> Sure. 600. >> Okay. >> Just keep >> But I'm just I don't understand the process of of making that happen. >> What would be the process of making that?
>> I'm sorry. I point of point of order. This is not within the scope of the of the >> We're approving the rebuilds and if it's a rebuild, >> we're talking about the finer details of it. We're just saying, are we going to move forward with it? >> You're way ahead. You're way ahead.
So >> I don't think so because we want to design >> about >> Well, I'm asking how do we influence that decision? >> Does this question affect your your vote? >> Yes. >> Whether you're going to vote yes or no?
>> Because if we're going to build it too small, >> yes. >> Okay. >> And short response and we'll be done. We'll be done with this. >> Okay. uh based on when we feel that we'll have a decision I don't think
it'll impact the major design work. So if we added a second building at the south end of the campus it could be twotory we can easily accommodate another 100 students. So if the decision was to increase from five to 600 we can make those changes.
>> Okay. Okay. I'm just trying so someone at some point can tell me how we can make that decision and when it has to be made by I mean that's what I'm trying to find out is who makes that decision. >> Okay. That is a new item that you're you are giving guidance that we have not even agendaized.
>> I know I'm asking is the question >> we are not there yet. >> Dr. B I would say that you would request if you if this is approved you would request an agenda item and have it come to fac first with telling Mr. Dunny what
capacity you would want he would present to the facilities and then it will move forward here for action. >> Thank you Dr. >> I would like to call for the vote. >> Okay. If you call for the vote we got a vote on whether to call for the vote
>> then I are there any further questions or advocacy? Okay. Uh Trusty Rivera what is your preferential vote? Abstain. >> All those in favor of approving the rebuild.
All those against. Okay. Sorry. >> Trusty Kenny, are you ready to make a decision on the vote? >> Hey, all those in favor of the rebuild. Any against? Are you against?
abstensions. Okay, motion passes. Thank you. All right. Did we finish? >> I have a motion for >> Oh. Oh, one more. >> 56L. I'm sorry. M6L. >> Okay. Go ahead.
>> Um I would um like to move approval of this with and allocate the 6.6 million for health and safety for the coming year. Um, I know that the item asks for 40 million. We've already committed and the board
has already approved spending 6.6 million, the first year's worth. Um, in our five-year bond plan, we did only allocate 33 million total over the five years, 6.6 each of the five years. Um I think there was a concern from staff
that they wanted to be able to move forward expeditiously um with these um funds, but I think 6.6 for the next six months to a year probably is sufficient. If they need 10 million, that's fine, too. But I don't know that
we should do 40 because that's more than our five-year bond plan originally had, and we've already allocated 6.6 of it, so it's already been committed and spent. So there's only the difference between 33 minus 6.6 even
available for us to approve. Um but also see some of my other comments about you know we we're overallocated on measure O at this point as well. So I would move approval of this with 6.6 if that's sufficient. If Mr. Dunning feels he would like 10 right now but 6.6
will do it. I would move this with that amount rather than the 40. Any comments, questions? >> Is there a second? >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Oh, so the motion was 6.6. Is there a second?
Okay, there is no second. So, we're back to 40. Is there a motion to >> Don't have 40, but okay. >> The original item is 40 million. Move approval. >> Is there a second? >> Second.
>> Any further discussion? Hearing none. What is your preferential vote? Trusty Rivera >> abstain. >> All those in favor? Those against? Extensions. Motion passes.
Okay. Uh no more public comment on non-aggendaized items and meeting a journ. Thank you.