JUNE 17TH 2025 IS NOW CALLED TO ORDER AT 5:02 P.M. ROLL CALL PLEASE MR. ALEXANDER HERE MR. FISCHER HERE COMMISSIONER GUPTA HERE CAN HEAR OKAY. YOU STILL HOLDING HERE, COMMISSIONER? RIGHT HERE. COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WORK HERE AND COMMISSIONER KIM OUR PRESIDENT CAN HEAR ME. LET'S HEAR YOU. UM, FOUR ITEMS A TWO, THREE AND FOUR ACCESSIBLE CITY INFORMATION TRANSLATION INTERPRETATION SERVICES AND VIRTUAL MEETING INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ONLINE. UH, COMMISSIONER, WE DO HAVE A COMMISSIONER PARTICIPATING BY TELECONFERENCE. UH, COMMISSIONER GUPTA AS OF TUESDAY WILL PROVIDE CHILD CARE FOR REGULAR BOARD MEETINGS AND MONITORING MEETINGS IN THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE ENROLLMENT CENTER AT 555 FRANKLIN STREET FROM 6:30 P.M. TO 9 P.M. OR THE CLOSE OF THE MEETING WHICHEVER COMES FIRST. CHILD CARE FOR FAMILIES WHO'LL BE ATTENDING THE REGULAR MONITORING BOARD MEETINGS SPACE IS LIMITED AND WILL BE PROVIDED ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS FOR CHILDREN AGES 3 TO
10. FOR ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OFFICE AT (415) 241-6427 OR BOARD OFFICE AS OPPOSED TO EDU AT THIS TIME BEFORE THE BOARD GOES INTO CLOSE SESSION AND CALL FOR ANY SPEAKERS TO THE CLOSED SESSION ITEMS LISTED IN THE AGENDA THERE WILL BE A TOTAL OF FIVE MINUTES FOR EACH SPEAKER. FOR SPEAKERS SORRY ARE THERE ANY SPEAKERS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT BUT WE DO HAVE SOME SPEAKERS. I WON'T GRAB THEM NOW BUT I HAVE I HAVE THREE SPEAKER CARDS. YOU CAN READ THEM AT THE PODIUM. WE HAVE FIVE MINUTES TOTAL F PUBLIC COMMENT SO USE THAT HOW THE BEST WAY RIGHT AND AFTER THE TWO YEAR MEETING OF THE BODY OF SORRY. >> ALL RIGHT. SARA WILSON HI GOOD AFTERNOON. THANKS, NAOMI I'M MANIC LAUGHTER I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED ADMINISTRATORS OF SAN FRANCISCO AND I'M HERE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO GIVE OUR MEMBERS A RAISE. AS YOU KNOW, AS OF USD PAYS LESS THAN OUR NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS FOR PRINCIPLE AS ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AND OTHER ADMINISTRATORS. OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS I'VE WATCHED ONE MASSIVE USD
PRINCIPAL TAKE A JOB IN SOUTH CITY WHERE SHE'LL BE MAKING $60,000 MORE THAN SHE DID HERE . I'M ALSO SEEING ONE OF OUR ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS GO TO SAN MATEO WHERE HE'LL BE MAKING MORE THAN ANY OF OUR OWN HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS MAKE. I SAW A JOB LISTING IN ALAMEDA COUNTY WHERE THEIR PRINCIPAL SALARY GOES UP TO $200,000. IF WE WANT TO ATTRACT STRONG LEADERS WE NEED STRONG SALARIES. WE DON'T NEED TO BE THE UNPAID TRAINING GROUND FOR OUR SUBURBAN NEIGHBOR DISTRICTS. PAY US WHAT WE'RE WORTH SO WE CAN STAY IN S.F. USD. THANK YOU. HI. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS LETICIA SOME RUBIO AND I'M THE FIELD REP WITH SEIU LOCAL 10 TO 1. THE LAST TIME I SPOKE BEFORE YOU I HAD LOST MY PURSE AND I WAS A LITTLE DISCOMBOBULATED. SO HOPEFULLY TODAY I'LL DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER. BUT NONETHELESS, YOU KNOW, IN 2023 SEIU MEMBERS RECEIVED A HISTORIC CONTRACT WHICH INCLUDED A 6% RAISE FOR TWO YEARS AS WELL AS A THIRD YEAR
REOPEN HONOR. THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO OUR MEMBERS BECAUSE IT BROUGHT US CLOSER TO PARITY WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. PART OF THE CONCERN FOR OUR MEMBERS IS THAT AS WE CONTINUE TO TRAIL BEHIND THE CITY AND COUNTY, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO LOSE WORKERS AND MEMBERS TO THE CITY AND COUNTY SIDE. AND THESE ARE VITAL SERVICES THAT KEEP OUR STUDENTS SAFE INCLUDING CUSTODIANS, FOOD SERVICE WORKERS, CLERKS AND ALL THOSE THINGS THAT KEEP OUR SCHOOLS OPEN. WE'VE BEEN FOR ABOUT OVER A YEAR NOW REALLY KIND OF GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED AROUND THIS REALLY OPENER. AND WHILE WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF GRACE AROUND UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE ALSO HAVE TO RECOGNIZE IS THAT WHILE WE'VE BEEN IN WAIT EVERYTHING ELSE IS GOING UP, THINGS ARE INCREASING AND PEOPLE ARE
LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TO LIKE TO ESSENTIALLY MAKE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER NOT NECESSARILY A LOT MORE BUT DEFINITELY MORE TO KEEP UP WITH INFLATION. WHAT WE UNDERSTAND AND WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT INFLATION, YOU KNOW, DOES NOT NECESSARILY KEEP UP WITH THE SAME RATES AS WHAT THE RAISES WE DO. BUT YOU KNOW, WE FEEL THAT A GOOD FAITH EFFORT ON THE PART OF THE DISTRICT TO PROVIDE SOME TYPE OF FINANCIAL INCREASES TO THE MEMBERS OF SEIU 10 TO 1 WOULD GO A LONG WAY ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THEY DO FEEL THAT OVER THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF THEY'VE BEEN STRUNG ALONG AND THEY REALLY CLAIM THAT IT'S A BAD FAITH EFFORT AND I WOULD AGREE THE SAME. SO WE'RE JUST REALLY ASKING YOU TO REALLY CONSIDER THE BUDGET FOR 25 AND 26 TO REALLY CONSIDER THE LOWEST PAID WORKERS NOT ONLY IN S.F. USD BUT REALLY IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. SO THANK YOU AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION. >> I JUST WANT TO NOTE THAT WE
HAVE A FEW PEOPLE ON ZOOM AS WELL. GO AHEAD. HI, I'M SARA WILSON, A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT AND I'M A RESEARCHER ON STAFF AT SEIU 10 TO 1. I'M WANT TO ECHO WHAT THE PREVIOUS TWO SPEAKERS JUST SAID AND ALSO JUST MAKE THE POINT YOU KNOW, I THINK EVERYONE'S VERY CLEAR WHAT THE FINANCIAL SITUATION OF THE DISTRICT IS SO THERE'S NO ILLUSIONS HERE. BUT ALSO WE DID SEE THAT IN THE THIRD INTERIM REPORT THAT CAME OUT THERE WAS A HIGHER FUND BALANCE THAN THAN HAD BEEN PROJECTED PREVIOUSLY. AND SO YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT, YOU KNOW, OUR CONCERNS ABOUT PARITY AND ABOUT WORKERS HAVING TO LEAVE THE DISTRICT TO GO TO OTHER EMPLOYERS WHERE THEY'RE COMPENSATED MORE IS IS PRETTY ACUTE. AND YOU KNOW, WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE DISTRICT'S UNDER FISCAL ADVISORY SHIP AND THAT YOUR DECISIONS ARE THAT THE THAT THOSE ADVISORS HAVE STAYING POWER OVER YOUR DECISIONS.
BUT WE ALSO HOPE THAT YOU CAN PUSH BACK ON THEM A BIT IF NECESSARY AND CONVINCE THEM OF THE NECESSITY THAT THAT THE CLERKS AND THE CUSTODIANS AND THE STUDENT NUTRITION WORKERS AND OTHER WORKERS GET SOME KIND OF ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION BECAUSE THAT HASN'T HAPPENED FOR THE YEAR THAT'S ENDING IN TWO WEEKS. >> THANK YOU SO. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M KELLAN TAYLOR. I WAS A TEACHER FOR 25 YEARS AND THEN LAST YEAR WAS MY FIRST YEAR AS ADMIN. AND BECAUSE WHERE I WAS AS A TEACHER I MY DAILY PAY RATE IS THE SAME AS THE WHAT I DO AS AN ADMIN AT MISSION HIGH SCHOOL. AND I WOULD NEVER SAY I WORK HARDER THAN A TEACHER. TEACHERS WORK EXTREMELY HARD BUT I KNOW I DO WORK LONGER HOURS. THERE'S MANY TIMES WHEN THE TEACHERS LEAVE THE FOR THEIR CONTRACTUAL DAY IS OVER AND THE ADMIN WE STAY FOR HOURS MAKING SURE THAT THE DAY WILL START SMOOTHLY NEXT YEAR. AND AS A UNION REP FOR MANY YEARS I ALWAYS ADVOCATED FOR TEACHERS TO WORK TO GET COMPENSATED FOR THE WORK THAT
THEY DID. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE JUST ASKING IS TO COMPENSATE US FOR THE WORK THAT WE DO. THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES IN-PERSON. HOW MANY PEOPLE DO WE HAVE ON VIRTUAL? PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU IF YOU'RE ON ZOOM. WE CARE TO SPEAK DURING THE CLOSED SESSION PUBLIC COMMENT. WAS A GOOD ONE. ONE CAN WE DO THAT ONE? SURE. THANK YOU. GO AHEAD, MR. WINFREE FOR ONE MINUTE ON THE CLOCK PLEASE. THANK YOU, MR. STEEL. GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONERS. MY NAME'S ANDY HILINSKI AND I'M A SUPERVISOR IN SPECIAL ED AND I'M ALSO THE SECRETARY OF USF AND I AM ALSO HERE TONIGHT TO IMPLORE YOU TO FIND THE MONEY TO PROVIDE OUR SCHOOL LEADERS WITH A RAISE COMMENSURATE WITH THE 5% THAT USF MEMBERS RECEIVED THIS YEAR. IF ADMINISTRATORS SALARIES DON'T KEEP PACE WITH TEACHER SALARIES, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO FINANCIAL INCENTIVE TO MOVE FROM THE CLASSROOM TO
ADMINISTRATION AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO LOSE HIGHLY SKILLED LEADERS TO SURROUNDING DISTRICTS AS A QUICK EXAMPLE. WE CURRENTLY HAVE AN OPEN RELATED SERVICES SUPER VISOR POSITION IN SPECIAL ED AND IDEAL CANDIDATES FOR THE POSITION WOULD HAVE EXPERIENCE PROVIDING RELATED SERVICES LIKE A PSYCHOLOGIST OR A SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST. THE PROBLEM IS THAT AN EXPERIENCED SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST OR PSYCHOLOGIST LET'S ASSUME 10 TO 12 YEARS EXPERIENCE WOULD ACTUALLY TAKE A PAY CUT OF OVER $50 PER WORKDAY TO MOVE INTO THE SUPERVISOR POSITION. AND SO YOU CAN DO THE MATH FOR YOURSELVES. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. WE REALLY NEED ADMINISTRATOR SALARIES TO KEEP PACE WITH TEACHER SALARIES. THANK YOU. >> THAT YOUR TIME YOU FINISH YOUR THOUGHT? I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY IF WE WANT TO RETAIN AND ENCOURAGE ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATORS THANK YOU. >> THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT. THANK YOU TO MEMBERS OF THE
PUBLIC FOR JOINING TODAY. AT THIS TIME WE WILL RECESS THIS MEETING FOR CLOSED SESSION AT 5:12 P.M. ALSO GOV TV SAN FRANCISCO GOVERNMENT TELEVISION S.F. GOV TV SAN FRANCISCO NO GOVERNMENT TELEVISION NO OR S.F. GOV TV SAN FRANCISCO GOVERNMENT TELEVISION AND S.F. GOV TV SAN FRANCISCO GOVERNMENT TELEVISION S.F. GOV TV SAN FRANCISCO GOVERNMENT TELEVISION S.F. GOV TV SAN FRANCISCO GOVERNMENT TELEVISION HOW WILL AT THIS TIME READ OUT OUR MATERIALS FROM CLOSED SESSION ITEM C ONE VOTE ON STUDENT EXPULSION MATTERS AND MOVE APPROVAL OF THE STIPULATED EXPULSION AGREEMENT FOR ONE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT MATTER NUMBER 2024-202530 FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE CURRENT SPRING 2025 SEMESTER AND THE
FOLLOWING FALL 2025 SEMESTER DURING THE EXPULSION PERIOD THE STUDENT WILL ATTEND CIVIC CENTER. CAN I HAVE A SECOND SECOND ROLL CALL PLEASE? MR. STEEL MR. ALEXANDER? YES. COMMISSIONER FISCHER. YES, COMMISSIONER GUPTA. YES. MR. HEALEY. YES, COMMISSIONER RAY. YES. COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WARD. YES. PRESIDENT KIM YES. SEVEN YESES I MOVE FOR THE APPROVAL OF A STIPULATED EXPULSION AGREEMENT FOR ONE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. MATTER NUMBER 2024-2025-31 FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE CURRENT SPRING 2025 AND THE FOLLOWING FALL 2025 SEMESTERS OR UPON COMPLETION OF THEIR DIPLOMA. CAN I HAVE A SECOND SECOND ROLL CALL PLEASE, MR. STEEL? COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER. YES, COMMISSIONER FISCHER. YES. MR. GUPTA. YES. MR. ROLLING EWING. YES. COMMISSIONER RAY. YES. COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WORK? YES. PRESIDENT KIM.
YES, SIR. I MOVE APPROVAL THE STIPULATED EXPULSION AGREEMENT FOR ONE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT MATTER NUMBER 2024-2025-32 FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE CURRENT SPRING 2025 SEMESTER AND THE FALL 2025 SEMESTERS DURING THE EXPULSION PERIOD THE STUDENT WILL ATTEND CIVIC CENTER CAN HAVE A SECOND SECOND ROLL CALL PLEASE MR. STEEL. COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER. YES. COMMISSIONER FISCHER. YES. COMMISSIONER GUPTA. YES. COMMISSIONER HOOLEY. YES. COMMISSIONER RAY YES. COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WARRANT YES. PRESIDENT KIM. YES. SEVEN EIGHT AND THREE MATTERS OF ANTICIPATED LITIGATION THE BOARD BY A VOTE OF SEVEN EYES GIVES DIRECTION TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL IN ONE MATTER OF ANTICIPATED LITIGATION THE BOARD BY A VOTE OF SIX EYES ONE NAY FISHER GIVES DIRECTION TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL IN THE MATTER OF STUDENT AND MP J VERSUS SFD WEST CASE NUMBER (202) 412-0588 THE BOARD BY A VOTE OF SEVEN EYES GIVES DIRECTION TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL IN THE MATTER OF
STUDENT CASEY FIRST AS A FUZED CASE NUMBER (202) 503-1099 THE BOARD BY A VOTE OF SEVEN I'S CONSTRUCTION TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL IN THE MATTER OF STUDENT MH POSSESSIVE US D O H CASE NUMBER 202504058 THE BOARD BY A VOTE OF SEVEN A'S GIVES DIRECTION TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL RIGHT ON A VOTE OF SIX EYES THE BOARD TOOK THE BOARD TOOK ACTION TO ACCEPT THE RESIGNATION OF EMPLOYEE AND SETTLE ANY RELATED CLAIMS. THAT CONCLUDES OUR REPORT FROM CLOSED SESSION. MOVING TO OUR OPENING ITEMS BEGINNING WITH OUR LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT WE THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF EDUCATION ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE ON THE UNCEDED ANCESTRAL HOMELAND OF THE ARTIST ALONI WHO ARE THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA AS THE INDIGENOUS STEWARDS OF THIS LAND AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR TRADITIONS DRAMATIST COLONY HAVE NEVER CEDED LOST NOR FORGOTTEN THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES AS A CARETAKER OF THIS PLACE AS WELL AS FOR
ALL PEOPLES WHO RESIDE IN THEIR TRADITIONAL TERRITORY AS GUESTS WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE BENEFIT FROM LIVING AND WORKING ON THEIR TRADITIONAL HOMELAND. WE WISH TO PAY OUR RESPECTS BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE ANCESTORS, ELDERS AND RELATIVES OF THEIR ARMITAGE COMMUNITY AND BY AFFIRMING THEIR SOVEREIGN RIGHTS AS FIRST PEOPLES. ITEM TWO APPROVAL OF BOARD MINUTES REGULAR MEETING OF THE MONITORING WORKSHOP ON MAY 27TH 2025 CAN HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THIS ON THE MINUTES SO MOVED SECONDED. >> ARE THERE ANY CHANGES REQUESTED BY THE BOARD? SEEING NONE CAN I GET A ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE? >> MR. STEEL. MR. ALEXANDER? YES. COMMISSIONER FISHER? YES, COMMISSIONER GUPTA. YES. COMMISSIONER HOLDING YES. COMMISSIONER RAY YES. COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WARD YES. AND PRESIDENT KEMP YES. SEVEN EYES ITEM THREE HAS A LINK TO RESPONSES TO COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS ON THE AGENDA WHICH WILL BE MENTIONED IN JUST A MOMENT AND THAT'S IF YOU SEE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOLLOWS THE STUDENT OUTCOMES FOCUS GOVERNANCE MODEL BASED ON COMMUNITY INPUT THE BOARD HAS
ADOPTED OUR VISION VALUES GOALS AND GUARDRAILS IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE PORTION OF BOARD MEETING TIME WE SPEND HOURS IN OUTCOMES. EVERY OTHER REGULAR MEETING IS A MONITORING WORKSHOP. THIS MODEL ALSO CALLS ON THIS BOARD TO EMPOWER THE SUPERINTENDENT TO TAKE FULL OWNERSHIP OF THE STRATEGIES USED TO REACH THESE GOALS WITHIN THE GUARDRAILS SET BY THE BOARD. AS WE IMPLEMENT THIS NEW GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK THE BOARD WILL CONTINUE TO ADOPT NEW SYSTEMS, ROUTINES AND POLICIES THAT IMPROVE STUDENT OUTCOMES. WE ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC TO FOLLOW THIS WORK ON OUR WEBSITE AS A FEW AS DATA EDU SLASH GOVERNANCE AS WE COMMIT TO FINDING NEW AND IMPROVED WAYS TO MORE MEANINGFULLY ENGAGE WITH STAFF, STUDENTS AND FAMILIES. WITH THAT I TURN IT TO THE SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT AND TURN IT OVER TO DR. SUE. THANK YOU PRESIDENT KIM. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. LET ME JUST DIVE RIGHT IN. SO NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. I WANT TO BEGIN MY REMARKS BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDING RECENT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT
ACTIVITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. LET ME BE CLEAR SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS REMAINS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING A SAFE, WELCOMING AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES REGARDLESS OF IMMIGRATION STATUS. STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD COME TO SAN FRANCISCO AND ENROLL IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. AS SUPERINTENDENT I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE WELCOMED HERE ,THAT YOU BELONG HERE, THAT WE WANT YOU HERE. PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYONE ELSE SAYING ANYTHING OTHERWISE OTHER THAN THAT OUR SCHOOLS SHOULD BE SAFE HAVENS FOR EVERY CHILD AND AND WE HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DELIVER HIGH QUALITY ACADEMIC EDUCATION AND SAFETY WELLNESS AND SUPPORTS TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. MY LEADERSHIP TEAM AND I HAVE BEEN COORDINATING CLOSELY WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
FRANCISCO AND THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE RESOURCES AND THE PLANS IN PLACE TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES INCLUDING DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS. WE HAVE SHARED ALL OF THESE RESOURCES ON OUR WEBSITE SO I INVITE FAMILIES TO PLEASE GO ON OUR WEBSITE. UNDER IMMIGRATION AND POLICIES AND RESOURCES TO SEE WHAT ARE AVAILABLE ALL FOR YOU. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS TOO PLEASE GO ON TO THAT WEBSITE TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY APPROPRIATE RESOURCES THAT YOU CAN AVAIL YOURSELVES TO. I WANT TO ONCE AGAIN REITERATE THAT TOGETHER WHEN WE SUPPORT EACH OTHER WE ARE STRONGER PARTICULARLY DURING UNCERTAIN TIMES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO MOVING INTO MORE UPLIFTING NEWS, I WANT TO INVITE EVERYONE TO JOIN SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL
DISTRICT ON OUR IN OUR PRIDE PARADE. WE WILL HOST A PRIDE ON JUNE 29TH SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH. PLEASE COME JOIN US. WE'LL HAVE LOTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE OUT THERE. WE'LL HAVE LOTS OF OUR SCHOOLS . I'M HEARING A LOT OF SCHOOLS THAT ARE GOING TO BE MARCHING IN THE PARADE. THERE'LL BE LOTS OF ART AND COLOR AND JOY AND HONESTLY THIS IS WHAT SAN FRANCISCO IS ALL ABOUT. IT'S CELEBRATING DIVERSITY, CELEBRATING ALL THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE WITH US AND SHARE SPACE WITH US, PARTICULARLY OUR LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY AND MAKING SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO HONOR THE TRADITIONS OF SAN FRANCISCO. SO PLEASE COME OUT AND IF YOU DO WANT TO JOIN IN THE S.F. USD CONTINGENT PLEASE GO TO THE WEBSITE AND I THINK YOU CAN REGISTER YOURSELF TO JOIN THE CONTINGENT. I THINK IT'S S.F. USD.EDU BACKSLASH PRIDE PARADE AND CONGRATULATE ASIANS CLASS OF 2025. I HAD A FANTASTIC TIME GOING TO MANY MANY GRADUATIONS.
I ACTUALLY HAVE THE SUNBURN TO PROVE IT. AS MANY OF OUR COMMISSIONERS AS WELL. IT WAS SUCH A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL THREE DAYS OF NONSTOP GRADUATION AND CELEBRATE OCEAN AND JOY AND JUST IT WAS SO WONDERFUL TO SEE US LAUNCHING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THE WORLD WHERE THEY ARE GOING TO PURSUE SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS IN THEIR LIVES AND IT WAS JUST WONDERFUL TO SHARE A MOMENT OF OF THAT WITH THEM AND WITH THEIR FAMILIES. IT I JUST CANNOT ITERATE HOW MANY. HOW I GREATLY APPRECIATE ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO CAME UP TO ME AFTERWARDS AND SHARED THEIR MEMORIES AND STORIES OF THEIR EXPERIENCE AT SFO SD AND FAMILIES WHO SHARED THEIR THEIR MEMORIES AND STORIES AND QUITE FRANKLY GRATEFULNESS OF HOW WONDERFUL OUR SCHOOLS ARE AND HOW SD IS REALLY NURTURED AND SUPPORTED THEIR STUDENT. SO IT WAS SUCH A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE FOR ME AND OF COURSE FOR OUR SCHOOLS. AND SO AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS
TO EVERYONE. WE ARE EXCITED TO WELCOME OVER 100 PEOPLE TO OUR FIRST EVER SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES ON SUNDAY JUNE 7TH AT THE CIVIC CENTER SECONDARY SCHOOL. I WANT TO THANK DE LAC FOR HOSTING THIS INSTITUTE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR ADVISORY GROUPS AND NONPROFIT AGENCIES. FAMILIES WERE ABLE TO EXPLORE RESOURCES AND TOOLS TO SUPPORT THEIR STUDENTS SUCCESS OVER THE SUMMER BREAK. ALL OF OUR PARTICIPANTS ATTENDED WORKSHOPS ON LITERACY ,DIGITAL LEARNING, HEALTH AND WELLNESS AND COLLEGE ACCESS IN PREPARATION. FAMILIES ALSO RECEIVED A BACKPACK WITH SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND LITERACY GAMES. IT WAS A VERY, VERY WONDERFUL EVENT. SPEAKING OF WONDERFUL EVENTS THIS SPRING DCF S.F. USD AND OUR COMMUNITY BASED PARTNERS SUCH AS THE THE SAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER HOSTED UNITY EVENTS AT S.F. USD SCHOOLS.
THIS IS A PARTNERSHIP IN WHICH WE WANT TO CELEBRATE THE VITALITY AND THE JOY AND QUITE FRANKLY THE COMMUNITY OF OUR STUDENTS IN OUR SCHOOLS. SO WE WERE HOSTING THESE UNITY EVENTS AT DENMAN AND AT APTOS AT VISITATION VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND AT MARSHALL AND AT BURTON HIGH SCHOOL. THESE THESE EVENTS WERE WELL WELL ATTENDED BY A WHOLE BUNCH OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND IT WAS JUST GREAT TO SEE YOUNG PEOPLE IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER PERFORMING AND DOING ARTS AND YOU KNOW ENGAGING IN WORKSHOPS AND LEARNING TOGETHER AND IT'S TRULY WHAT A SCHOOL SHOULD BE AND IN WHAT COMMUNITIES CAN LOOK LIKE WHEN THEY COME TOGETHER. AND THEN I'M SOMEWHAT SAD NEWS BUT CELEBRATORY. WE HAD THE PLEASURE OF CELEBRATING OUR DISTRICT'S RETIREE SO WE HAD MANY, MANY PEOPLE WHO FILLED THIS BOARD ROOM IN JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO I MADE A'S WHERE WE
CELEBRATED RETIREES THAT HAVE SPENT MANY YEARS IN THE DISTRICT AND ARE NOW LEAVING US . SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL OF OUR RETIREES WHO'VE SUPPORTED US, WHO HAVE NURTURED OUR CHILDREN, WHO'VE TRULY, TRULY RAISED THE NEXT GENERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO LEADERS. WE THANK YOU AND WE GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR US AND FOR OUR STUDENTS AND FOR THE DISTRICT. AND THEN OF COURSE THROUGHOUT JUNE AND JULY, S.F. U.S. STUDENT NUTRITION SERVICES WILL BE OFFERING ONE BREAKFAST AND ONE LUNCH AT NO COST TO ALL YOUNG PEOPLE 18 YEARS AND YOUNGER AT 45 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS WITH SUMMER PROGRAMING . YOUTH DO NOT NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SUMMER PROGRAMS. THEY JUST NEED TO SHOW UP AND REQUEST A MEAL. HOWEVER YOU HAVE TO EAT YOUR MEAL ON SCHOOL SITE SO IT'S NOT A GRAB AND GO SITUATION. BUT PLEASE IF YOU ARE IF YOU
WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM, PLEASE COME TO ANY OF THESE SCHOOL SITES AND YOU CAN GRAB A MEAL IF YOU NEED IT. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHERE THE SCHOOL SITES ARE, YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE. AND THEN CONTINUING ON WITH THE CELEBRATION IN MAY. STUDENTS FROM S.F. UCSD'S MASTERING CULTURAL IDENTITY COURSE CHEERED ON BY FAMILY, CARETAKERS, TEACHERS AND OUR ALLEY. OUR ALLEY MEMBERS CELEBRATED THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RECEIVED A CROWN IN THE FORM OF A STYLISH BASEBALL HAT. THE EVENT THEMED THE POWER OF NOW WAS SPONSORED BY OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THOSE STUDENTS. AND THEN OUR COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE OUR CAC FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION WILL BE HOLDING ITS SUMMER PICNIC. I'M SURE THAT WE'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT
LATER. AND ACTUALLY THIS THIS SUNDAY OH MY GOODNESS. THIS SUNDAY, JUNE 22ND. SO PLEASE JOIN THE CAC AND CELEBRATE THE CELEBRATION OF THE END OF SCHOOL YEAR AND THE START OF SUMMER AND ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS IN BETWEEN. AND I'M SURE THAT THEY CAN SHARE MORE DURING THEIR PRESENTATION TIME. AND THEN OF COURSE SOME IMPORTANT SUMMER DATES TO SHARE. SO JUNE 19TH IS JUNETEENTH THE OFFICES AND SUMMER PROGRAMS WILL BE CLOSED. JULY 4TH OF COURSE IS A HOLIDAY SO OUR OFFICES AND SUMMER PROGRAMS WILL ALSO BE CLOSED. BUT WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING OUR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES BACK TO SCHOOL ON MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH. YES, THAT'S ONLY A FEW WEEKS AWAY. SO I'M SURE THAT YOU ALL WILL HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER AND WILL BE READY EVERYONE WILL BE READY TO COME BACK TO SCHOOL
ON MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH. AND WITH THAT THAT COMPLETES MY PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH PRESIDENT KIM. THANK YOU, DOCTOR TO WE SADLY DO NOT HAVE A STUDENT DELEGATE REPORT AS OUR DELEGATES ARE ON SUMMER BREAK HOPING THAT THEY ARE HAVING A GREAT TIME NOT IN A BOARDROOM. ITEM E PUBLIC COMMENTS TO ALIGN WITH OUR EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE MODEL PUBLIC COMMENT WILL LAST FOR ONE HOUR WHICH WILL BE 654 SORRY 755 WE AIM TO RESPECT STAFF FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITY TIME BY BEGINNING BOARD BUSINESS NO LATER THAN 8 P.M.. OUR HOPE IS TO CONDUCT BOARD BUSINESS IN AN EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE AND ACCESSIBLE MANNER DURING REASONABLE HOURS. EACH PARTICIPANT MAY SPEAK UP FOR UP TO TEN MINUTES. STAFF WILL THINK THE PARTICIPANT AT THE ONE MINUTE MARK AT ONE MINUTE AND FIVE SECONDS. I'VE ASKED MR. STEELE TO PLEASE TURN OFF THE MIC AND TRANSITION TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. I ASK MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO PLEASE RESPECT THAT ONE MINUTE LIMIT SO THAT WE CAN HEAR FROM AS MANY SPEAKERS AS POSSIBLE. I ENCOURAGE SPEAKERS WHO ARE
SPEAKING ON THE SAME TOPIC TO COLLABORATE AND COMBINE THEIR COMMENTS SO THAT THE BOARD CAN HEAR ALL VIEWPOINTS DURING OUR LIMITED TIME. PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT THE BOARD ACCEPTS WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENTS VIA EMAIL TO BOARD OFFICER S IF YOU EDU. WE WILL HEAR FIRST FROM STUDENTS IN PERSON ON AGENDA ITEMS THEN GENERAL PUBLIC IN PERSON ON AGENDA ITEMS FOLLOWED BY STUDENTS AND THEN GENERAL PUBLIC. NON AGENDA ITEMS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IN-PERSON PUBLIC COMMENT IS COMPLETE WE WILL SEE 15 MINUTES FOR REMOTE PUBLIC COMMENTS TAKING COMMENTERS IN THE SAME ORDER AS IN PERSON. AS A REMINDER BOARD RULES IN CALIFORNIA LAW DO NOT ALLOW US TO RESPOND TO COMMENTS OR ATTEMPT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS DURING PUBLIC COMMENT TIME IF APPROPRIATE THE SUPERINTENDENT MAY ASK THAT STAFF FOLLOW UP WITH SPEAKERS. >> PRESIDENT KIM CAN I ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT CLARIFYING QUESTION PLEASE. SO WE NOT ONLY HAVE A REGULAR AGENDA BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO WE HAVE ITEM H ONE ITEM H TWO AS WELL AS ITEM I ONE THAT ARE ALL
PUBLIC HEARINGS, CORRECT? WELL WE HAVE SEPARATE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THAT FOR YOU. OKAY. SO JUST MAKE SURE THE THANK YOU. YES. SO FOR THE ITEMS THAT DO HAVE A REQUIREMENT BY LAW TO HAVE A TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THAT ITEM. YES. FOR A PUBLIC HEARINGS WE WILL THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. THANK YOU, MR. STEEL. THANK YOU. WE CALL ON STUDENTS FIRST. I DON'T HAVE ANY CARDS THAT INDICATE THAT YOU'RE A STUDENT BUT IF YOU'RE A STUDENT YOU CAN COME UP WITH YOU. OKAY, GREAT. GREAT. THAT'S TOO HIGH AND GO OVER HERE TO PRESS THE BUTTON ONCE OR TO COME OVER HERE TO GO RIGHT. YOU DON'T NEED TO STEP AWAY A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WHICH BUTTON DO YOU WANT? LAST YEAR I ASKED FOR A P E TEACHER AND YOU GUYS GAVE ME A P EACH YEAR SO I WANTED TO SAY THANKS ONCE WAS TO ME. >> THAT WAS GREAT. OKAY. BECAUSE THE NEXT FIVE SPEAKERS HAVE OUR KELLY GLORIA BARTOWSKI, BRANDI MARKMAN
AND TO FIRE REMAINING SORRY FOR MISPRONOUNCING PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM OF ONE MINUTE EACH. >> HELLO BOARD AND MARIA SUE AND JUDSON THANK YOU. MY NAME IS GLORIA MESSAGE YOU SKI I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE I'M Q CAME OUT TO SPEAK TONIGHT ON THE TOPIC OF PEACE CEC I SERVED ON THE PEACE CEC I WAS ALSO A PEACE LIBRARIAN FOR MANY YEARS AND WHEN I STARTED IN THIS DISTRICT IN 2000 WE DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY. I'VE WRITTEN TO SEVERAL OF YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T SAT REPRESENTATIVES ON THE PEACE CALCULUS FOR PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD THAT DIDN'T THIS IS $100 MILLION THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MIGHT BE AN EFFORT TO COMBINE EL CAP AND PEACE. CORRECT. THIS IS A MISTAKE AND I'M HERE TO SAY THAT YOU CAN'T DO THAT. ONE IS STATE FIRST OF ALL, ONE IS CITY FUNDING. THIS IS WHAT MAKES OUR DISTRICT UNIQUE. IT SERVES AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF CHILDREN AND YOU NEED TO HAVE OVERSIGHT OVER IT. IF IT'S NOT IF IT'S AN ADVISORY OR IF IT'S AN OVERSIGHT EITHER WAY I DON'T THINK PEOPLE SHOULD BE MAKING THE DECISION TO ELIMINATE SOMETHING THE TOM MAMA YANO HAD THE GOOD SENSE TO BRING IN WHEN I WAS TEACHING MY
OWN PE CLASSES AS A AS A TEACHER AND TEACHING MY OWN ART CLASSES BACK WHEN I STARTED IN 2000 UNTIL THAT MONEY CAME IN ALSO WHEN WE HAVE FIVE SPEAKERS COMING UP I THINK ONE MINUTE EACH THANK YOU IS RIDICULOUS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR. STEELE GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS BRANDY MARKMAN. I'M A PUBLIC SCHOOL PARENT. I WANT TO REITERATE MY DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE BOARD'S SLASH AND BURN ATTITUDE ABOUT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES. THIS IS ALL A PART OF THIS. THE STUDENT OUTCOMES OF GOVERNMENT FOCUSED MODEL THAT YOU USE YOU'VE BEEN USING FOR SINCE 2002 AND IT'S NOT JUST ME THAT SAYS THIS MORE RECALL LEADER WHO'S A FORMER PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL MEMBER, A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, ALSO NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE ALLIANCE TO RECLAIM OUR SCHOOLS RIGHTS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THE STUDENT OUTCOMES FOCUSED GOVERNANCE MODEL IS TO DISMANTLE PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH REALIGNMENT AND TRANSFORMATION, SCHOOL CLOSURES AND PRIVATIZATION AND WHAT THIS HAS LOOKED LIKE
IN DISTRICTS ALL OVER LIKE LAS VEGAS, NEVADA WHICH REALLY RECENTLY GOT RID OF ITS STUDENT OUTCOMES FOCUS GOVERNMENTS COMMIT BOARD STYLE THE MANAGEMENT IT SETS UNREALISTIC GOALS BASED ON STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES, DECREASES TRANSPARENCY THROUGH ELIMINATION OF PUBLIC MEETINGS AND LIMITING PUBLIC COMMENT AND ELIMINATES OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE. AND I ALSO WANT TO NOTE THAT ALBUQUERQUE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS NO LONGER USING THIS MODEL BECAUSE IT'S NOT EVIDENCE BASED. THANK YOU. HI. I'M TOO FOR MANNING I'M AN EDUCATOR LESS OF YOU SEE I'M A PARENT AND THIS OF YOU AS THE FORMER AS HAVE YOU AS YOU STUDENT AND I'M SPEAKING ON WITH ALSO WITH A PAC I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP ETHNIC STUDIES HERE BY ALL MEANS IF WE'RE IN THE BUSINESS OF HAVING HIGHLY EDUCATED EDUCATED STUDENTS LIKE IF WE'RE IF WE WANT TO BE THE LEAST EDUCATED STUDENTS IN THE STATE IN THE COUNTRY, IN THE WORLD, WE CAN TAKE AWAY ETHNIC STUDIES. BUT IF WE WANT TO BE HAVE OUR
STUDENTS BE MORE EDUCATED, MORE COMPASSIONATE, MORE UNDERSTANDING, MORE UNDERSTANDING OF THEMSELVES AND WHAT WHAT THEIR PLACES IN THIS WORLD, HOW THEY GOT HOW THEIR CULTURES GOT INTO THE CONDITIONS AND IT WILL HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES, HELP THEM BE BETTER STUDENTS AND HELP THEM NAVIGATE EDUCATION AND SERVICES SCHOOL AND TO BE MORE CONNECTED TO EVERYONE. SO AND I'M TALKING ABOUT THE STUDENTS WHO ARE BEEN WHOSE CULTURES ARE BEING TALKED ABOUT AN ETHNIC STUDIES AND THE CULTURES THAT ARE NOT BEING TALKED ABOUT THEY'RE GOING TO HELP THE STUDENTS NAVIGATE SAN FRANCISCO ALTOGETHER. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU IS A BIOGRAPHY OKAY THEY'RE PRETTY GREAT. I CALL THE NEXT GROUP AMBER WITH THE SAME GOING TO DO LATER AS WELL OR YOU CAN GO TO JOSH DAVIDSON CHENAULT BLACKWELL HI ,I'M A PARENT IN THIS DISTRICT AND I KNOW THAT PART OF YOUR PLAN IS TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR KIDS HAVE THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF STAFF I WANT TO MAKE MY SON DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A TEACHER FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL YET
IT MATTERS WHO MATTERS. SO YEAH, THANK. HI THERE. I'M JOSH DAVIDSON. I COOK FOR KIDS AND MAKE IT TO YOUR KITCHEN. A COUPLE OF GOOD NEWS PIECES TONIGHT. THANK YOU, SUPERINTENDENT TOO FOR MENTIONING THE SUMMER MEALS. THERE ARE 45 SITES AROUND THE CITY. YOU SHOULD ABSOLUTELY GO VISIT THEM. EVERY MEAL SERVED SUPPORTS OUR PROGRAMS, OUR GROWTH, OUR OPERATIONS. YOU'RE NOT TAKING SOMETHING AWAY FROM SOMEBODY ELSE BY COMING IN AND GETTING A MEAL THIS SUMMER. AND YOU SHOULD DO IT. I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT MY KITCHEN. SO MCATEER KITCHEN IS ONE OF THOSE 45 SITES WE'RE AT 555 PORTOLA. BREAKFAST IS AT NINE LUNCHES AT 12 WE ARE HARVESTING ALL SUMMER FROM THE MACINTYRE CAMPUS COMMUNITY FARM. SO THERE'S FRESH SALAD BAR WITH LETTUCE GROWN ON THE FARM CARROTS, GREEN BEANS GROWN ON THE FARM. WE'RE GETTING IN GREAT CALIFORNIA PRODUCE RIGHT NOW THERE'S MELONS AND STRAWBERRIES. PEACHES NECTARINES ARE ARRIVING ON FRIDAY. LOTS OF GREAT FOOD AND YOUR KITCHEN IT'S FREE FOR EVERYONE
18 AND YOUNGER COME GET A MEAL. IT SUPPORTS OUR OPERATIONS. WE'D LOVE TO SEE YOU AND WELL AND THAT'S MY MINUTE. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. RIGHT. >> HI, I'M CHANEL BLACKWELL. I JUST WANT TO ADD ON YEAH, MY SON RESULTED LAST YEAR. FOOD IS GOOD. PLEASE RECOMMEND THAT. PLEASE. OKAY. I VOLUNTEER THERE AND I HAD LIKE FOOD THERE ALSO RECOMMEND THAT I JUST WANT TO SAY WELL LIKE I CAN SAY A PARENT OF AS OF US THE ALUMNI MY SON GRADUATED LAST YEAR AND I NOTICE IN THE ITEM 11 AGENDA TO UPDATE MATH POLICY AND I JUST WANT TO SAY GIVE YOU YOUR PROPS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT WAS FOR THE NINTH GRADERS THAT COMPLETED EIGHTH GRADE ALGEBRA. AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE NEXT STEP WILL BE GEOMETRY YOU SO THANK YOU FOR SO MUCH AND ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT UM PLEASE CONSIDER IT HE'S ONE OF MY SON WAS A PILOT AT APG AND HE DID THE EIGHTH GRADE
MATH AND CONSIDER THAT MAKE SURE THAT UM IT EXAMPLE FOR THAT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DROP A ELECTIVE WHICH WAS VERY GOOD HE THRIVED IN THIS AND THAT WE HAVE A LEFT BRAIN AND WE HAVE RIGHT BRAIN THE RIGHT BRAIN IS OUR LEFT BRAIN IS LOGIC SO IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THAT MIX, THAT BALANCE IN ORDER FOR YOU TO SUCCEED IN EIGHTH GRADE ALGEBRA. THANK YOU SO MUCH CONCLUDES IN-PERSON PUBLIC COMMENT GO TO A VIRTUAL ABSOLUTELY SO PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU ARE A STUDENT. AGAIN, I REPEAT WE START WITH STUDENTS TO LOWER YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE NOT A STUDENT PUBLIC COMMENT YOU CAN SPEAK TO ANYTHING SO TRANSLATION PLEASE REPEAT THAT BECAUSE COMMITTEE IS PUBLICLY SPLIT AND SET OUT TO BOTH THE ENROLLMENT BUT I JUST CONTAINS MOSAIC I YOUR YOU KNOW I GUESS YOU KNOW THEY OPEN GENERICALLY SO I DID I GOT THANK YOU THANK YOU AARON HI MY NAME IS AARON AND I'M ON BOARD PARENTS JUST HELP I WANT TO THANK THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR YOUR COMMENTS REGARDING PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN DURING
THIS VERY VOLATILE TIME AND IN LIGHT OF THAT IT FEELS LIKE A TIME THAT WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AS A NATION AND AS A CITY. AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO REQUEST THAT THE COMMISSIONERS AND YOUR BRIDGE HAVE TO BE PLEASE BE MORE AND FORTHCOMING WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING AND AND IN OUR DISTRICT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL CHILDREN THE INFORMATION IS EQUITABLE AND SHARED WITH ALL OR COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND THAT YOU KNOW WE ARE BETTER WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER THAN APART AND PLEASE HELP US TO WORK TOGETHER SO WE CAN SUPPORT ALL OF OUR CHILDREN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WHEN I MOVE TO AGENDA ITEM SO PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU CARE TO SPEAK TO AGENDA ITEMS THAT BE REPEATED IN SPANISH AND CHINESE PLEASE OUT OF THE MOST SARA LOS COMENTARIOS IN THE HANDOUT WHICH IS WHAT I YOU KNOW THE
PRODUCT LIKE IN CANTONESE YOU GO THE SENSE THAT YOU'RE USING A WHOLE FOLLOWING BODY OR IT GOES OUT OF A JURISDICTION. OKAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU ROLANDO SO GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. >> I THINK I MISSED THE KNOWLEDGE AND ITEMS BUT I DID WANT TO SAY HAPPY JUNETEENTH TO EVERYBODY AND LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT A PAC WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN THE PARADE ON SUNDAY, JUNE 22ND AND WE WILL HAVE A FLOAT FOR OUR FAMILIES AND FOR STUDENTS. IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION PLEASE REACH OUT TO MARI SHAY ROBINSON, OUR APEC PROGRAM MANAGER AND SHE HAS THE FLIER. I ALSO WANTED TO QUICKLY DO A SHOUT OUT FOR ETHNIC STUDIES AND TO EXPLAIN THAT IT EXTENDS MORE THAN JUST FOR BLACK STUDENTS AND I THINK THAT MIGHT BE THE NARRATIVE THAT IS GOING AROUND ETHNIC STUDIES IS FOR ALL STUDENTS AND IT SHOWS HOW WE ARE A COLLECTIVE AND WE DEPEND ON ONE ANOTHER IF WE WANT TO HAVE UNITY IN THIS CITY AND WE WANT TO OVERCOME THE PERVASIVE SEPARATISM THAT'S HAPPENING, THEN WE NEED TO BE A
COLLECTIVE AND OUR BABIES NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW THROUGHOUT HISTORY WE HAVE DEPENDED AND GROWN WITH ONE ANOTHER AND ETHNIC STUDIES HELPS TO KEEP THAT NARRATIVE GOING. SO WHAT I ASK AND I IMPLORE THE BOARD IS TO CONTINUE TO ALLOW ETHNIC STUDIES TO BE A REQUIREMENT THROUGHOUT HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL AS WE REQUESTED PREVIOUSLY AND TO JUST WORK ON THE CURRICULUM. >> BUT PLEASE DON'T THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER. IF THERE'S A QUESTION ABOUT THE CURRICULUM THEN WORK WITH THE ALLEY. THANK YOU, RHONDA IN ORDER TO GET THAT DONE. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU, CHRIS CLOUSE. I'M CHRIS CLOUSE, THE DEPARTMENT HEAD AT WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL AND A CURRENT EASTSIDE TEACHER AT LOWELL FOR THE SUMMER. THIS IS THE FOURTH YEAR THAT I'VE TAUGHT IT AND EVERY YEAR IT HAS BEEN CHAOS. TEACHERS DON'T GET ACCESS TO HIGH STUDENT IEPS UNTIL TWO DAYS BEFORE MEETING THEM AT THE EARLIEST. THIS YEAR I DIDN'T GET ACCESS TO THEIR IEPS UNTIL THE DAY BEFORE WHICH MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO BECOME APPROPRIATELY
FAMILIAR WITH THEIR GOALS SERVICE NEEDS AND BEHAVIOR PLANS BY DAY ONE. THE TRAININGS I ATTENDED LAST WEEK TO PREPARE FOR S Y HIGHLY ENCOURAGED ME TO USE TWO ONLINE PROGRAMS READ 180 AND I EXCEL FOR INSTRUCTION. TODAY WAS DAY FOUR OF YES WHY AND WE STILL CAN'T ACCESS THOSE PROGRAMS. MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO A PRINTER PROJECTOR OR SCREEN TO DELIVER LESSONS WITH MY STUDENTS DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO CHROMEBOOKS. MANY STUDENTS ACROSS THE DIFFERENT YES Y PROGRAMS ARE IN LARGER THAN NORMAL CLASSES BECAUSE OF A SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS OR MISSING 1 TO 1 PARENT SUPPORT AND OTHER IEP SERVICES BECAUSE THE DISTRICT FAILS TO PREPARE FOR S Y. IT IS TOO LATE TO FIX MANY OF THESE PROBLEMS FOR THIS YEAR BUT NOT TOO LATE TO START WORKING ON THEM FOR NEXT YEAR. PLEASE DEMAND THAT THE DISTRICT DO MORE TO PREPARE FOR S Y. THANK YOU. THANK YOU KNOW TINA. GOOD EVENING. I'M HERE TONIGHT AS A PROUD CAC BOARD MEMBER. I'M SORRY I WASN'T ABLE TO ATTEND WITH OUR TEAM IN PERSON BUT I APPRECIATE THIS
OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN VIRTUALLY AND EXPRESS MY WHOLEHEARTED SUPPORT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WILL BE SHARED IN OUR ANNUAL REPORT TONIGHT. AND TO ASK THE BOARD AND DISTRICT TO FULLY SUPPORT THESE SUGGESTIONS, I FURTHER WISH TO GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE MANY IMPRESSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE CAC THIS PAST YEAR THAT WE'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT DURING THE PRESENTATION GIVEN THE TIRELESS DEDICATION OF THE CAC WHICH IS PRIMARILY A GROUP OF UNPAID PARENT VOLUNTEERS. IT'S SIMPLY AMAZING. I ESPECIALLY WANT TO THANK HAVA KELLY WHO IS COMPLETING HER TERM AS OUR CHAIRPERSON THIS MONTH. OUR COMMUNITY AND THE ENTIRE DISTRICT IS FOREVER IN HER DEBT. JOIN ME IN CONGRATULATING HARPER. SHE'S MADE SUCH A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. HI. GOOD EVENING. THIS IS DR. MORROW CALLING FROM PBS. I WANTED TO APPRECIATE DR. MARIA SOOD FOR HER COMMENTS RELATED TO THE SUPPORT OF ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE UNDOCUMENTED. AND I'D LIKE TO REAFFIRM THAT
WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE POSITION IS FILLED AND THAT WE DO NOT TAKE AWAY ETHNIC STUDIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, ANA OR HONOR. THANK YOU. HELLO. MY NAME IS ANNA. I AM A PARENT OF AS A FIRST YEAR STUDENT. I JUST LIKE TO GIVE PROPS TO THE CEC AND ALSO TO A PAC FOR A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN DOING TO HELP WITH A MATTER OF ADVISORY COUNCIL. AND I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE ETHNIC STUDIES AND THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME. THANK YOU CHERYL. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS CHERYL. I AM THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AT SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES. I WANTED TO ALSO RECOGNIZE THE CAC IN THEIR HARD WORK AND EFFORTS IN THIS PLAN ALSO TO RECOGNIZE THE HARD WORK OF THE SPECIAL EDUCATION OMBUDSMAN JULIE MARTIN. AND TO SAY THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO FIND AND VERY DIFFICULT TIMES A
WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T SACRIFICE LONG TERM GROWTH BY SOLVING SHORT TERM PROBLEMS. AND I REALLY FEEL LIKE WE'RE WORKING TOWARD A SHARED GOAL. >> AND I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ARE THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ZOOM AND NON AGENDA ITEMS YOU COULD RAISE YOUR HAND ? COULD ALSO REPEAT THAT IN SPANISH AND CHINESE PLEASE. LAWS, COMMENTARIES AND SUPPLEMENTS AT OUR MANAS AIR AND COMENTARIOS PUBLICO IS GOING TO AUTOGRAPH CANTONESE. YOU GET THE SENSE THAT YOU THINK EATING A WHOLE BOOK FOLLOWING A THE OF AND FIGHTING A SECOND LANGUAGE OUT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU TOM. HI MY NAME IS TOM ANDERSON. I'M A SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER AND A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT. I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS COME TO THE SCHOOLS. AND TO ME IT JUST SHOWS THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO GET TO KNOW
THE PARENTS, THE COMMUNITY, THE STUDENTS AND THE TEACHERS. TEACHERS ARE TIRED AT THE END OF THE DAY THEY CAN ALWAYS JUMP ON THESE MEETINGS BUT YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING WHAT'S WORKING ,WHAT'S NOT. BUT IF YOU DON'T DO THAT, I FEEL LIKE THAT'S THE MINIMAL. SO I URGE YOU TO GET OUT THERE AND VISIT OUR SCHOOL. >> VISIT ALL SCHOOLS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS EVENING. PRESIDENT KIM THANK YOU MR. STEEL AND THANK YOU TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES WITH US TODAY. JUST ANOTHER REMINDER THAT THE PUBLIC CAN CONTINUE TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS FORMALLY BY EMAILING THE BOARD OFFICE. IF YOU WANT TO FAVORITES OR NOT THE PUBLIC BOARD OFFICER HAS A FEW WERE EDU TO ALIGN WITH SOON OUTCOMES FOCUS GOVERNANCE THE SUPERINTENDENT AND HER TEAM ARE TASKED WITH PROVIDING A DRAFT AGENDA 12 DAYS IN ADVANCE OF THE BOARD
MEETING. ONCE THAT DRAFT AGENDA IS MADE PUBLIC ON OUR WEBSITE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE MADE A COMMITMENT TO SUBMIT CLARIFYING AND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS AND STAFF HAVE MADE A COMMITMENT TO RESPOND TO THOSE QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING. THIS Q&A IS LINKED INTO INTO EACH BOARD AGENDA ON BOARD DOCS. WE INVITE THE PUBLIC TO REVIEW THOSE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALONGSIDE OUR DISCUSSIONS TODAY . I WILL REMIND THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC TODAY WE HAVE MANY, MANY ITEMS ON OUR AGENDA BOTH FOR TODAY AND NEXT TUESDAY. I ASK THAT WE WORK TO KEEP OUR COMMENTS BRIEF, THAT WE ASK DIRECT CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ESPECIALLY FOR OUR ACTION ITEMS ASK QUESTIONS THAT ONLY MAY INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF YOUR DECISION SO THAT WE CAN GET THROUGH ALL OF OUR MATERIALS IN A TIMELY FASHION. ADDITIONALLY, TO CREATE MORE FOCUS, MORE SPACE, FOCUS ON STUDENT OUTCOMES WE WILL BE MOVING MOST ITEMS TO OUR CONSENT CALENDAR AND IDENTIFYING ONLY OUR HIGHEST PRIORITY AGENDA ITEMS TO DISCUSS.
GROUP ITEM EACH ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORTS AND ONE HOUR CAP ADVISORY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SCHOOL YEAR 2025 2026. I TURN IT OVER TO THE SUPERINTENDENT TO INTRODUCE THIS ITEM. THANK YOU PRESIDENT KIM. AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE OUR ESTEEMED L CAP LEADERS. YES, ESTEEMED. >> I KNOW EL HAVE LEADERS WHO WILL REPRESENT THE PARENT VOICE AND AND THEIR TIRELESS WORK OVER THE LAST OVER THE LAST YEAR. GREAT. >> I KNOW, RIGHT? I HAVE ATTENDED SEVERAL MEETINGS COMMISSIONERS AND I CAN ATTEST THAT EVERY SINGLE PARENT ON OUR EL CAP WORKS TIRELESSLY TO MAKE SURE THAT NOT ONLY DO THEY REPRESENT FAMILIES AND THEIR SOURCES AND THEIR SCHOOLS APPROPRIATELY BUT ALSO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE TAKING THEIR RESPONSIBILITY AND THEIR ROLE ON THE L CAP EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY AND GUIDING
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ON HOW WE COULD ALLOCATE THESE FUNDS. SO WITH THAT I'M GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO TIM BERG, OUR EL CAP MANAGER. >> GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU. SUPERINTENDENT TWO. BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR REPORT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO HAND THE MIC TO ONE OF OUR PARENT LEADERS, LUIS WARONKER WHO WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME OPENING REMARKS. >> GOOD EVENING. WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE CLIMATE OF FEAR GROWING IN OUR COUNTRY AND OUR CITY AS STUDENTS AND FAMILIES DO NOT FEEL SAFE. IMMIGRANT FAMILIES ARE BEING SEPARATED. OUR LGBTQ COMMUNITIES ARE BEING TARGETED. OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH DISABILITY ISSUES ARE EXPERIENCING A ROLLBACK OF RIGHTS AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES. DRACONIAN STATE AND CITY CUTS TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS. COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND EVEN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION WILL WELL IMPACT OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. WE STAND WITH ALL OF OUR FAMILIES. THANK YOU THIS. >> SO WITH THAT WE ARE GRATEFUL TO BE IN FRONT OF YOU TONIGHT. AND GOOD EVENING PRESIDENT KIM
VICE PRESIDENT HULING AS A FIRST BOARD COMMISSIONER SUPERINTENDENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND AS OFFICERS THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS. MY NAME IS TIM BURKE AND I SUPPORT THE LOCAL PLAN THE LOCAL CONTROL AND ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN, THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH. AND I'M JOINED HERE BY OUR PARENT REPRESENTATIVES WHO WILL TAKE A MOMENT TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES AND THE RESPECTIVE SCHOOL COMMUNITIES AND OR ADVISORY BODIES. >> GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS STEPHANIE FALCON STEIN AND I'M AN SC REP FOR COHORT TWO REPRESENTING JACQUOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. MY PRONOUNS ARE SHE AND HER NEXT. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS LUCILLE YOUNKER AND I AM REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMUNITY. IF YOU LET THIS COMMUNITY COUNCIL. MY PRONOUNS ARE SHE HER HEIGHT . YEAH I BELIEVE IN I AM A PART OF THE TRANSPARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL. >> MY PRONOUNS ARE THEY THEM
JOSEPHINE ZHAO AGENT TURNED ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIR MY NAME IS JOSEPHINE ZHAO TO HER OF ASIAN PARENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. SHE HER. THANK YOU SO OUR OBJECTIVES FOR OUR TIME TOGETHER TONIGHT ARE THREEFOLD. THE FIRST IS TO INTRODUCE THE WORK OF THE L CAPP ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THE SECOND IS FOR COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES TO PRESENT FOR PRIORITY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE DISTRICT CAN CONSIDER FOR IMPLEMENTATION. NEXT SCHOOL YEAR IN THE 2526 SCHOOL YEAR. AND THEN LASTLY TO DISCUSS QUESTIONS CONSIDERATIONS COMMENTS FROM YOU THE BOARD. SO FIRST JUST TO RECAP WHAT IS THE L CAP WE MAY ASK? THE CAP IS A THREE YEAR PLAN THAT REFLECTS HOW DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA PLAN TO USE THE STATE. ALLOCATED LOCAL CONTROL FUNDING FORMULA TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING AND EXPERIENCES FOR ALL STUDENTS BUT ESPECIALLY FOR
THE STATE IDENTIFIED FOCUS STUDENTS THOSE BEING LOW INCOME SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS STUDENTS ENGLISH LEARNERS WHO WE HERE CALL MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS AND FOSTER YOUTH. THE STATE US IN THAT PLAN TO ADDRESS EIGHT PRIORITY FOCAL AREAS BUT BECAUSE WE'RE ALSO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION WE ADDRESSED TWO SPECIFIC AREAS OF HOW WE'RE SERVING EXPELLED YOUTH AND FOSTER YOUTH. >> NEXT SLIDE PLEASE ARE EL CAP . >> LAST YEAR IS THE START OF A NEW THREE YEAR PLAN WAS ALIGNED DEEPLY TO THE BOARD ADVISED GOALS AND GUARDRAILS AS WELL AS TO ALL THE STATE LCF PRIORITY AREAS IT. >> THE PLAN IS IN DIRECT SERVICE OF OUR MISSION AND OUR VISION OUR MISSION OF BEING THAT EACH AND EVERY DAY WE PROVIDE THE HIGH QUALITY AND EQUITABLE SUPPORTS STUDENTS REQUIRE TO THRIVE IN THE 21ST CENTURY UPON THE TIME THEY GRADUATE FROM. SUFFUSE THESE SCHOOLS ARE NOW LIKE THE PAST TO MAKE TO STEPHANIE TO INTRODUCE THE WORK OF THE EL CAPP ADVISORY
COMMITTEE. >> THANK YOU TIM I'M HERE TONIGHT TO PRESENT ONE OF THE FOUR L CAP ADVISORY COMMITTEE PRIORITY RECOMMENDATIONS. THESE RECOMMENDATIONS RATIONALE AND SUGGESTED ACTIONS REFLECT THE PRIORITIES ACROSS ALL OF THE EL CAPP ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND IS OUR PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO REPRESENT THE COMMITTEE AND SPEAK BEFORE YOU TONIGHT THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE COMPRISED OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM 12. PARENT AND STUDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEES IN ADDITION TO SCHOOLS THEY COUNSEL PARENT REPRESENTATIVES ACROSS OUR COLORED SCHOOLS. OUR WORK IS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE DISTRICT EL CAP PLAN CONVENE FAMILIES, SCHOOL COMMUNITIES, EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS TO GATHER THEIR INPUT . USING THAT INPUT TO GIVE FEEDBACK ON THE GOALS ACTIONS AND SERVICES AND THEN FINALLY TO ENGAGE IN PROGRESS MONITORING OF THE EL CAP THROUGHOUT THE YEAR I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THREE OF OUR NEW PARENT ADVISORY
COMMITTEES THAT WERE LAUNCHED JUST THIS YEAR STARTING WITH JOSEPHINE. >> THANK YOU STEPHANIE ABOUT ATION PACK AFTER FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING THE ASIAN PAC WAS OFFICIALLY FORMED AT U LAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN JUNE 2024 BY NINE FOUNDING MEMBERS REPRESENTING PARENTS FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS. ASIAN PAX FOCUSES ON AMPLIFYING THE COMMUNITY VOICE IN A WAY ADVOCATING FOR EXCELLENT AND EQUITABLE EDUCATION, SUSTAINABLE AND STANDARDIZED ASIAN LANGUAGE PATHWAYS AND SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS FOR ASIAN STUDENTS. I HANDED TO LOSE AS MUCH AS. AGAIN MY NAME IS LUIS THE LATIN NEXT COMMUNITY COUNCIL ADVOCATES FOR THE MULTIFAITH AND DIVERSE NEEDS OF LATIN STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHILE FOSTERING ENGAGEMENT WITH EDUCATORS AND ADMINISTRATORS WITHIN SFI USD. ITS OBJECTIVE IS TO BRIDGE THE EDUCATIONAL AND OPPORTUNITY GAP
BY FOCUSING ON STRATEGIES AND RESOURCES AIMED AT DISRUPTING THE LONG TERM PATTERN OF INEQUITABLE OUTCOMES. FROM THAT NEXT STUDENTS ARE. COUNCIL BY STABLISH BY BOARD RESOLUTION IN 2019 BUT IT HAS ONLY RECENTLY COME TO FRUITION . LATIN STUDENTS REPRESENT APPROXIMATELY ONE THIRD OF OUR STUDENT POPULATION AND WE ARE COMMITTED TO FINDING MEANINGFUL WAYS TO SUPPORT THEM. WE ARE HOPEFUL ABOUT THE WORK AHEAD AND LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH ALL OF YOU IN THIS IMPORTANT EFFORT. >> THE CLEAR TRANSPARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS THE Q T PAC FORMED AS A PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL THAT IS GUIDED BY EQUITY PAC BOARD RESOLUTION FIRST PASSED IN 2022. WE HAVE ESTABLISHED OUR MISSION STATEMENT AND BYLAWS. WE HAVE RECEIVED AN IN-PERSON STATUS REPORT FROM SFI USD. FACILITIES LEADERSHIP IN REGARD TO THE CONDITION OF OUR RESTROOMS AND OUR CHANGING
ROOMS AND WE HAVE STRONG MOMENTUM FOR THE WORK AHEAD NEXT YEAR. COME OUT AND GET INVOLVED IN SUPPORT OF OUR SFI USD TRANS STUDENTS AND FAMILIES. THANK YOU. I'M. I HAVE ONE CHILD IN THE DISTRICT WHO WILL BE ENTERING HIGH SCHOOL THIS FALL. IN ADVOCATING FOR HIM I BECAME FAMILIAR WITH BOTH THE RECLASSIFICATION PROCESS AND THE COMPLEXITY OF A454 PLAN. I'LL NEVER FORGET THE FIRST TIME I ATTENDED AN SEC MEETING I SAW THE DATA FOR OUR NEXT STUDENTS. IT WAS EYE OPENING. NAVIGATING THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS NOT EASY. IT TAKES A LOT OF PERSONAL TIME AND RESOURCES. I SIT HERE TODAY HOPING TO BRING INTO THIS ROOM SOME OF THE VOICES OF THE PARENTS WHO CANNOT BE HERE. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN OUR SCHOOL AND OUR BABIES HAVE ACCESS TO QUALITY EQUITABLE EDUCATION AND THERE IS NO LONGER THE NEED FOR COMMUNITIES LIKE THESE TO EXIST. THE FIRST SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS ARE AROUND STAFFING STABILITY A STRATEGIC
RECRUITMENT FOR RETAIN, RETAIN AND BECAUSE A STABLE WELL SUPPORTING STAFFING STRUCTURE ARE ESSENTIAL FOR STUDENT SUCCESS AS OF APRIL 25TH 2020 THAT'S FOR PEOPLE OF 2025. 98 CLASSROOM IS STILL DID NOT HAVE A PERMANENT TEACHER RAISING SERIOUS CONCERNS FROM PARENTS AND EDUCATORS. FAMILIES ARE ESPECIALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE GROWING NUMBER OF COMBINATION CLASSROOMS AND LARGER CLASS SIZES THESE ONGOING STAFFING SHORTAGES HIT OUR MOST UNDERSERVED SCHOOLS THE HARDEST. DEEPENING OPPORTUNITY GAPS AND MAKING IT HARDER TO ENSURE EVERY CHILD GETS THE QUALITY EDUCATION THEY DESERVE. SOME SUGGESTED ACTIONS ARE REBUILD THEIR STAFFING PIPELINES, REPRIORITIZE PROGRAMS TO HELP EDUCATORS AND STAFF EARN FULL CREDENTIALS TO BECOME TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS GROWING A STABLE TEAM WITHIN OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES MAKE HIRING MORE INCLUSIVE AND EFFICIENT. STREAMLINE THE HIRING PROCESS
AND EXPAND SUPPORT TO ENSURE SCHOOLS BRING IN EDUCATORS WHO REFLECT OUR STUDENTS DIVERSITY WITH A FOCUS ON BILINGUAL BLACK AND PACIFIC ISLANDER STAFF REWARD COMMITMENT TO HIGH NEEDS SCHOOLS RECOGNIZE AND RETAIN TEACHERS SERVING OUR MOST IMPACTED SCHOOLS BY OFFERING INCENTIVES LIKE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TRAINING. TIME FOR COLLABORATION AND OPPORTUNITY TO MENTOR PEERS PROTECT THE VALUE OF BOTH SMALL AND LARGE SCHOOLS IN OUR DISTRICT SMALLER SCHOOLS AND CLASS SIZES ARE ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR MEETING THE NEEDS OF NEURODIVERSE STUDENTS WHO BENEFIT FROM MORE PERSONALIZED SUPPORT. ENSURE OUR SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS RECEIVE THE SUPPORT AND TRAINING NECESSARY TO DELIVER GREAT LEVEL GREAT LEVEL INSTRUCTION ALIGNED WITH STATE STANDARDS. STEPHANIE THANK YOU. I'M HERE TO REPRESENT RECOMMENDATION NUMBER TWO. SUSTAIN SUPPORT OF MENTAL HEALTH WELLNESS AND HOLD CHILD SUPPORTS MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS ARE FOUNDATIONAL
TO ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND MUST CONTINUE TO BE PRIORITIZED ACROSS ALL GRADE LEVELS. FIRST I'LL START WITH A PERSONAL STORY WHEN MY MY SON BEGAN KINDERGARTEN AT JACQUOT ELEMENTARY I JOINED THE SCHOOL PSYCH COUNCIL. IT WAS THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE DECIDED TO SURVEY EVERY SINGLE STUDENT K THROUGH FIVE ACROSS OUR SCHOOL. TO UNDERSTAND HOW STUDENTS FELT ABOUT THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE ACADEMICS, I WAS REALLY DISTURBED ALONG WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SEC TO LEARN THAT OVER HALF OF THE STUDENTS IN OUR FIRST GRADE CLASSROOM WERE TERRIFIED TO COME TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY. AND IN THE LIGHT OF THIS WE ALSO SAW THAT OUR FIRST GRADE TEACHER SUDDENLY LEFT WITH 6 TO 8 WEEKS LEFT OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. WE'VE MADE GREAT PROGRESS SINCE THEN WITH NEW ADMINISTRATION A FOCUS ON RESTORATIVE PRACTICES, POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL SUPPORTS AND A REALLY STRONG AND. SO WITH THAT I WANTED TO SHARE THAT LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY PERSONAL SITUATION BEFORE I GIVE OUR JOINT RATIONALE.
FAMILIES ARE OF COURSE DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH AND SERVICE CUTS AND STAFF LAYOFFS DUE TO THE NECESSARY BUDGET CUTS. HOWEVER, WE FEAR THAT THIS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS LESS SAFE AND DISCIPLINE HARDER TO MANAGE. THERE IS A NEED TO SUPPORT ALL STUDENTS ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH THE HIGHEST NEEDS. SO THEY CAN ATTEND SCHOOL REGULARLY AND SUCCEED. CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM REMAINS A SERIOUS ISSUE, ESPECIALLY AMONG AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS STUDENTS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS LONG TERM ENGLISH LEARNERS AND STUDENTS WITH IEPS HAVING CLEAN, SAFE AND WELL MAINTAINED SCHOOLS HELP STUDENTS FEEL CARED FOR AND ENABLE THEM TO FOCUS ON LEARNING. STOCK BATHROOMS WITH FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS HELP STUDENTS FEEL INCLUSIVE AND IT'S ONE WAY TO SHOW RESPECT. I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO SHARE SOME OF OUR RECOMMENDED ACTIONS WHICH START WITH IMPLEMENTING CONSISTENT MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SYSTEMS ACROSS ALL SCHOOLS. >> AND WHEN WE MEAN THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT A MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
SUPPORTS INCLUDING STANDARDIZED EXPECTATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS THAT WILL BE PROVIDED BASED ON STUDENT NEED. TO ENSURE THAT THESE GO INTO PLACE OF COURSE WILL NEED TO ENSURE THAT EVERY SCHOOL HAS WELLNESS STAFF AND RESOURCES INCLUDING STRONG SECTORS ALSO IMPORTANT AS NOTED AS HAVING SAFE AND CALMING SPACES FOR STUDENTS BOTH WITHIN AND OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM INCLUDING WELLNESS CENTERS IN OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOLS. ALSO INTEGRATING SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING AND TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICES THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL DAY IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT JUST AS ACADEMICS ARE. AND FINALLY, ONE AREA THAT WE DO WANT TO STRESS IS BEING HAVING CLEAR COMMUNICATIONS WITH FAMILIES ABOUT THE SPECIFIC SUPPORTS THAT ARE IMPLEMENTED AND WHEN FAMILIES KNOW THEY WILL BE CONTACTED. I AM GOING TO HIGHLIGHT I'M GOING TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF OUR SUGGESTED ACTIONS AND SHARE MY PERSONAL STORY OF IMPORTANCE FOR TARGETED INTERVENTIONS
AND SUPPORTS. NUMBER ONE STRENGTHEN ACADEMIC SUPPORT SYSTEMS, DEVELOP AND COMMUNICATE A CLEAR PLAN FOR TIER TWO ACADEMIC SUPPORTS IN READING AND MATH USE DATA TO DRIVE EARLY INTERVENTION, CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS AND USE DATA CYCLES TO IDENTIFY WHERE STUDENTS ARE MAKING ARE NOT YET MAKING PROGRESS INTERVENE MORE QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY ALONG WITH IN IN SCHOOL MATH INTERVENTION AS WELL. >> PLEASE SUPPORT ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND DUAL EDUCATION DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMS. LASTLY SO EARLY LITERACY SCREENING AND SUPPORT DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR EARLY LITERACY ASSESSMENT FULLY ABLE PLAN A PLAN FOR UNIVERSAL SCREENING FOR READING DIFFICULTIES AMONG K THROUGH SECOND GRADE STUDENTS PER STATE REQUIREMENTS IN THE 2025 2026 SCHOOL YEAR DEVELOP A PLAN TO SERVE STUDENTS FOUND TO HAVE READING DIFFICULTIES ON THE SCREENER WITH APPROPRIATE INTERVENTION AND BASED ON NEED RETURN TO K THROUGH SECOND
LITERACY ASSESSMENTS WHERE AS OF USE THE TEACHERS RECEIVED A SUBSTITUTE TO SUPPORT TO ADMINISTER ONE ON ONE IN-PERSON ASSESSMENTS AS OUR DISTRICT DID TWO YEARS AGO STOP USING SCREEN BASED ASSESSMENTS FOR GRADES K THROUGH SECOND TEACH KINDERGARTNER KNOWS HOW TO READ WITH BOOKS AND NOT SCREENS AS SO MANY K THROUGH SECOND STUDENTS ARE IMPROPERLY ASSESSED THROUGH DIGITAL FOR THEIR CURRENT READING GRADE LEVEL EARLY INTERVENTION SUPPORTS ARE A MAKE OR BREAK FOR MANY OF OUR SFD STUDENTS ESPECIALLY OUR STUDENTS WITH IEPS AND OUR FOCUS STUDENT GROUPS FROM MY FAMILY MY AS A FIRST YEAR STUDENT WAS NOT AT GRADE LEVEL FOR YEARS AND LITERACY THIS WORRIED ME SO MUCH BUT BECAUSE WE HAD AMAZING ASSETS USD SPED STAFF READING INTERVENTIONS AND IN-PERSON LITERACY ASSESSMENTS THIS YEAR FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME MY CHILD IS AT GRADE LEVEL FOR LITERACY IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH NOT ONLY AT GRADE LEVEL THERE ARE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF
LITERACY FOR THEIR FIRST CLASSROOM. MY CHILD IS AN EXAMPLE THAN WHEN SFD WAS D COMMITS TO HAVING QUALITY EARLY LITERACY READING INTERVENTIONS AND ELEMENTARY AND OUTSTANDING QUALIFIED CARING SPED STAFF THAT OUR STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO REACH THOSE LITERACY GRADE GOLD LEVELS. >> THANK YOU RECOMMENDATION FOR BUILD STAFF CAPACITY ANCHORED IN CULTURE AWARENESS AND INCLUSIVITY THEME STATEMENT STUDENTS AND FAMILY VALUES SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS WHERE CULTURE IDENTITIES ARE AFFIRMED, RESPECTED AND CELEBRATED RATIONALE AS A PARENT LOVE TO SERVE US GRADUATES I'M DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR THE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION YOU HAVE PROVIDED MY CHILDREN. THANK YOU FROM DATA TO LIVED EXPERIENCE WE KNOW THAT STUDENTS AND FAMILIES VALUE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT WHERE CULTURE IDENTITY ARE AFFIRMED AND RESPECTED. OUR CHILDREN THRIVE WHEN THEY'RE UNDERSTOOD PARENT ARE
DRAWN TO VOLUNTEER SCHOOL WHEN THEY ARE WELCOMED EXCUSE ME IT IS IMPERATIVE TO STANDARDIZE A SYSTEMIC APPROACH FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING THE PARTNERSHIP WITH PARENTS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO ENSURE A SHARED OUTCOME, CLEAR COMMUNICATION AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR STUDENTS FIRST SUGGESTED ACTIONS STRENGTHEN STAFF CAPACITY THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP. THIS INCLUDES LEARNING FROM OUR PARENT COMMUNITY ON CREATING CULTURALLY AFFIRMING CURRICULUM AND TEACHING METHODS. SECOND ALIGNED ADVISORY RESOURCES FOR IMPACT WHILE PRIORITIZING EQUITY. BASICALLY THAT MEANS STREAMLINE ALIGN RESOURCES IN SCHOOL DISTRICT LEVEL ADVISORY BODIES ELEVATE PARENT LEADERSHIP TO SHARE WHAT WORKS SUCH AS AFFINITY SPACES AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS FOR CREATE PARENT STAFF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES ENCOURAGE TEACHER PAIRING COLLABORATION IS KEY TO
SUCCESS OF SHARED BEST PRACTICES. TEN THANK YOU. THANK YOU PARENTS JUST IMMENSE GRATITUDE FOR THE 25 PLUS PARENT VOLUNTEERS MANY OF WHOM ARE IN THE ROOM AND STAFF EVERY NIGHT IN THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT THERE IS A PARENT ADVISORY BODY MEETING LOOKING AT DATA WORKING HARD IN SERVICE OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS AND I'M JUST EXTREMELY GRATEFUL TO BE WORKING WITH YOU ALL FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS. >> PLEASE REVIEW AND REFLECT. THERE ARE MANY DEEP LAYERS TO WHAT WAS SHARED TONIGHT IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED IN OUR BOARD AGENDA AND NOW WE OPEN IT UP TO YOU FOR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS AND CONSIDERATIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WANT TO JUST BEGIN WITH AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT THIS IS A RELATIVELY NEW STRUCTURE FOR US IN RECEIVING THE REPORT THROUGH THE MANY DIFFERENT ADVISORY BODIES AND COUNCILS AND COMMITTEES AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOUR LEADERSHIP, THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR MANY PARENTS FAMILIES AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES BECAUSE THIS IS
DIFFERENT AND AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE KIND OF COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE, IF YOU WILL, OF THAT YOU'VE DELIVERED HERE TODAY IN A WAY THAT'S BOTH DIRECT, HONEST, DISTINCT BUT ALSO WHAT WHAT I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU. >> SO THAT BEING SAID, I WILL OPEN IT UP TO COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS. I WILL REMIND US THAT WE DO HAVE A LONG AGENDA TODAY AND SO NOTHING ON OUR EL CAP WORK AT ALL. BUT JUST WANTED TO REMIND OUR TEAM HERE OF THE MANY QUESTIONS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE. AND PRESIDENT KIM, CAN I JUMP IN WITH JUST A CAVEAT A NEW FORMAT LAST YEAR THE DISTRICT PRESENTED A RESPONSE AT THE SAME TIME AS THE FIRST READING. NEXT WEEK THE DISTRICT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO THESE RECOMMENDATIONS IN MORE FORMALITY AND MORE DEPTH OF WHAT'S ACTUALLY IN THE PLAN. >> SO JUST TO KNOW THAT THAT'S COMING NEXT WEEK. YES. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER YEAH, I HAVE A 25 MINUTE SPEECH PREPARED ON THIS TOPIC. SO NOW YOU REALLY BRIEF COMMISSIONER FISHER LIKE TO GO
REALLY VERY ARGUING THE GRATITUDE AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE AN OBSERVATION AND NOW YOU'RE TAKING IN MY TIME NOW I JUST WANNA MAKE AN OBSERVATION. I DO THINK THESE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ALSO VERY CONSISTENT WITH OUR GOALS WITH OUR GUARD RAIL FOR EXAMPLE. THE WHOLE CHILD RECOMMENDATIONS ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE GUARD RAIL. THE STAFF STABILITY HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT. I JUST AGAIN I FEEL LIKE THESE ARE VERY CONSISTENT AND WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE SPECIFIC STAFF RESPONSE INTEGRATED AGAIN AROUND KIND OF THE THEORY OF ACTION AROUND HOW WE'RE GOING TO ACTUALIZE SOME OF THESE THINGS MOVING FORWARD. BUT BUT JUST DEEP GRATITUDE AND I GUESS I WOULD ONLY THING I WOULD ADD IN TERMS OF A QUESTION IS ARE THERE ANY FEEDBACK FOR US ON THE PROCESS GIVEN WHAT PRESIDENT KIM SAID AROUND THAT IT'S NEW? DO YOU HAVE POSITIVE OR CRITICAL FEEDBACK ON THAT? IF NOT WELL I THINK WE MAY DELIBERATE AND MAYBE I CAN COME
BACK NEXT WEEK WITH AN ANSWER GIVEN THE PROCESS IS SOMEWHAT NEW FOR FOR OUR PARENT PRESENTERS AS WELL. BUT WE DO APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY AND I WILL JUST SPEAK IF IT'S OKAY ON BEHALF ALL OF OUR ADVISORIES RELLA SEE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT AND I KNOW BOARD MEETINGS ARE TIME OUR TIME IS LIMITED THEY CAN GO DEEP INTO THE NIGHT BUT I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT'S NOT JUST OUR REQUIREMENTS OF THE DEAL AND THE CSC FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION ALL OF OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEES WOULD RELISH THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE AND HIGHLIGHT THE GREAT WORK THAT THEY'RE LEADING IN SERVICE OF OUR MOST MARGINALIZED GIRLS. >> THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER FISHER YEAH, I ACTUALLY JUST I WANT TO PUSH BACK. THIS ISN'T NEW. THIS FORMAT OF HAVING MULTIPLE ADVISORY COMMITTEES SITTING HERE PRESENTING ON BEHALF OF THE LPAC EL CAP. THIS HAS HAPPENED FOR SINCE THE EL CAP HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE SO SO I THINK WHAT'S NEW IS THE RECOMMENDATIONS BEING TIED TO OUR VISION VALUES GOLDEN GOALS AND GUARDRAILS AND AND I ALSO APPRECIATE WHAT IS NEW IS THE INTEGRATION OF DISTRICT
RESPONSE BECAUSE AS A FORMER EL CAP TASK FORCE MEMBER AS A FORMER CAC MEMBER, ONE OF THE FRUSTRATIONS WITH SITTING HERE YEAR OVER YEAR OVER YEAR PRESENTING THE SAME THING AND THE SAME RECOMMENDATIONS WITH NOTHING EVER HAPPENING, NO CHANGES EVER HAPPENING. SO TO FOLLOW UP ON COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER'S COMMENTS, I THINK REALLY ONE I'D TAKE THAT A STEP FURTHER I WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE TO SEE ALL OF OUR VARIOUS ADVISORY COMMITTEES AND THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS BE INCLUDED IN OUR MONITORING REPORTS AND IN OUR MONTHLY WORKSHOPS WHEN WE DISCUSS OUR GOALS AND OUR GUARDRAILS. I THINK THAT THESE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE SHOULD BE INCORPORATED AND ANSWERED THERE IN LONGER FORM IT BY STAFF SUPERINTENDENT I SAID AN OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION TO YOU SO I DO WANT TO JUST THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE AND ALL YOUR WORK FOR FREE. YOU KNOW ALL THE WORK THAT GOES INTO THESE PRESENTATIONS THIS TIME OF YEAR WHEN THERE'S SO MUCH ELSE GOING ON HERE YOU ARE SITTING HERE REARRANGING YOUR SCHEDULES. THIS PRESENTATION WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN LAST WEEK. WE CANCELED THAT MEETING. HERE WE ARE TODAY.
THANK YOU FOR ALL PIVOTING AND BEING HERE. OH MY GOSH. THANK YOU. REALLY APPRECIATE YOU. I MEAN AS WAS MENTIONED, YOU ONLY HAVE ONE SHOT A YEAR IT BEING HERE WITH US. SO THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE IT. UM, JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I JUST WANT TO MENTION TARGETED UNIVERSALISM. IT'S THE CONCEPT WE USE A LOT AND JUST HEARING YOUR VERY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU HAVE ON BEHALF OF YOUR INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS AND YOUR EXPERIENCE AS MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY IS SO REPRESENTATIVE OF ALL. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF US WHO WERE TALKING IN THE HALLWAY ABOUT OUR CHALLENGES WITH BATHROOMS SO TO HEAR THAT THAT'S A PRIORITY FOR THE CUTBACK AND BEING ELEVATED IS IS SO CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. YOU KNOW THE THE TWO HERE ARE THE CHALLENGES WITH THE LPAC AND STUDENT RECLASSIFICATION HUGE WE NEED TO HEAR THESE KIND OF CHALLENGES MORE OFTEN SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO BRING THEM TO US AND SO WHEN IT COMES TO THE I THINK MY MOST SPECIFIC QUESTION SUPERINTENDENT WE'LL SEE LATER THE CAC PRESENTATION DOES HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS INTEGRATED. I APPRECIATE THAT YOU ALL DEVELOPED YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS
LAST WEEK LAST WEEK'S MEETING. SO THANK YOU FOR GETTING THEM SUBMITTED BUT WE'LL WE WILL SEE RECOMMENDATIONS NEXT WEEK IS THAT I GUESS WHAT IS THE TIMELINE ON THE RESPONSE FOUR SO THAT WE WILL SEE THAT NEXT WEEK IN TIME FOR UM WELL I. SO WILL THAT BE PRESENTED AGAIN HOW DOES THAT OR WILL IT BE JUST AN ATTACHMENT SOMEWHERE? HOW IS THAT GOING TO WORK? THANK YOU DR. SU YES WE'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT IT WON'T BE NECESSARILY THE FULL DEPTH OF EXECUTIVE CABINET MEMBERS. IT MAY BE ME AS A PROXY BUT SHARING FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT AND STAFF RESPONSE TO THESE RECOMMENDATIONS BOTH OF WHAT'S POSSIBLE AND MANY OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS AS WE HEARD ARE FREE AND CAN BE INTEGRATED AND SOME OF WHICH MAYBE AT THIS TIME GIVEN OUR BUDGET CONSTRAINTS MAY NOT BE BUT THAT WE'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT AS STAFF NEXT WEEK AT THE MEETING. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT BECAUSE THESE ARE I MEAN THESE ARE VERY IMPACTFUL ISSUES TO OUR STUDENTS BUT ALSO REPRESENT HUGE BUDGET CHALLENGES FOR US AS WELL IN PARTICULAR THE
STAFFING ISSUES AND THE PIPELINES I EVERY MONTH ARE ON OUR BUSINESS MEETING IN OUR CONSENT AGENDA WE HAVE THE ATTACHMENT OF ALL THE CONTRACTS YEAR TO DATE THAT'S LISTED AND SO I WENT THROUGH OUR APRIL CONTRACT LIST AND JUST IN FOR EXAMPLE THE THE PIPELINE THAT YOU SHARED AS ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS JUST TO PUT SOME NUMBERS TO THAT I CONSOLIDATED ALL OF THE CODES THAT WERE SPARED NON PUBLIC AGENCIES. WE SPEND 15.783 I'M NOT MAKING EYE CONTACT OVER THERE. I'M GOING TO FINISH MY THOUGHT . $15.783 MILLION ON CONTRACTS WITH OUTSIDE AGENCY SES WITH NON PUBLIC AGENCIES. IMAGINE HOW IMPACTFUL THAT MONEY COULD BE IF WE WERE BUILDING PIPELINES TO TRAIN THOSE PEOPLE INTERNALLY. SO JUST ONE AGAIN TARGETED UNIVERSALIST EXAMPLE AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN MORE DETAIL COMING UP I'M SURE WOULD SPEED
AND SO THANK YOU SO MUCH COMMISSIONER FISHER I HAVE A COMMENT ABOUT THAT NOW'S NOT THE TIME WE CAN'T THANK YOU BUT I APPRECIATE YOU. >> THANK YOU. AND YOU THE COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS. ALL RIGHT. SEEING NONE. THANK YOU AGAIN SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. I WILL TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR NEXT THREE MINUTES. >> DON'T WORRY. ITEM F TO COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION ANNUAL REPORTS I WILL TURN IT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT TO INTRODUCE THIS ITEM. THANK YOU. PRESIDENTIM. IT IS NOW MY HONOR TO CALL UP OUR OTHER SETS OF PARENT LEADERS TO THE DAIS TO PRESENT OUR COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEES ON SPECIAL EDUCATION REPORT WHEN A HAND THIS OVER TO OUR CAC FED CHAIR THE AMAZING HAVA. BEFORE I BEGIN I JUST ALSO WANT TO THANK THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS I SERVE ON THAT COMMITTEE AND I FELT THEY DID AN EXCELLENT JOB OF REPRESENTING A PARENT ADVISORIES ACROSS THIS DISTRICT.
SO THANK YOU. OKAY, HERE WE GO. OKAY. YES. OKAY. GOOD EVENING, SUPERINTENDENT. TWO COMMISSIONERS AND EVERYONE JOINING US THIS EVENING. SORRY I HAVE TO FIX THIS. OKAY. NOW CAN WE TRY AGAIN? OKAY. MY NAME IS HARPER KELLY AND I AM THE CEP. HERE IS THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIR FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION. THE CAC IS A STATE MANDATED ADVISORY AND OUR MAIN ROLE IS TO ADVISE THE SUPPORT IN THIS BOARD BEFORE WE BEGIN I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE MAJORITY OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS IN TONIGHT'S REPORT. WE'RE ALSO THERE LAST YEAR PRIMARILY BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE LONG TERM PLANNING AND RESOURCES AND WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO A CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT TO IDENTIFY REALISTIC SOLUTIONS TO MEET THESE GOALS.
AND LASTLY I WANT TO SAY THAT THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED IN THIS PRESENTATION WAS COMPLETED BY A SMALL GROUP OF PARENT VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE DEDICATED IT TO IMPROVING SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES FOR ALL STUDENTS IN THIS DISTRICT AND NOW I'M GOING TO PASS IT TO IRENE, OUR PARLIAMENTARIAN AND THIS. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU HAVA MY NAME IS EILEEN BOUCHER AND I AM THE CAC PARLIAMENTARIAN PARENT EDUCATION IS AN IMPORTANT CAC RESPONSIBILITY AND WE HOLD MONTHLY COMMUNITY MEETINGS. THE CAC LEADS INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS WEEK AND WE CO-SPONSOR THE INFORMATION AND RESOURCE CONFERENCE A WONDERFUL FREE ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES. >> I HAVEN'T MISSED 1 IN 14 YEARS. THE CAC HOSTS THE ADVOCATES WORTHY OF EXCELLENCE AWARDS TO HONOR THOSE WHO ARE ALLIES TO OUR STUDENTS. OUR MEMBERS COLLABORATE CLOSELY WITH IPAC AND DELEK AND SERVE ON THE EL CAP AND JOINT
ADVISORY COMMITTEES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OUR MONTHLY BOARD MEETINGS WITH SLP LEADERS ARE CRITICAL TO UPLIFT THE ISSUES THAT AFFECT OUR COMMUNITY. THIS YEAR WE HAD FOUR COMMITTEES WORKING ON OUR PRIORITIES. PARTICIPATION WAS OPEN TO ALL FAMILIES EDUCATORS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. WE ALSO MET WITH OURSELVES A DIRECTOR AND FIC MET ADVISOR TO ENSURE THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS ALIGN WITH THE NEEDS OF OUR FAMILIES AND EDUCATORS. AND LASTLY OUR WORK WITH SOPA LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY DAY WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER CONSIDERING THE CHANGES THAT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AND NOW I'LL PASS TO LILLIAN LIM, OUR TREASURER. AND NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THANK YOU, EILEEN. MY NAME IS LILLIAN LIM AND I'M THE CAC TREASURER. TONIGHT WE WILL REVIEW OUR RESPONSIBLE ALITY ADVISING THE DISTRICT ON THE SUPPORT LOCAL PLAN FOCUSING ON THE SPECIAL
EDUCATION BUDGET DUE TO A BUDGET ERROR LAST FALL HIGHER WAS DELAYED WORSENING STAFFING SHORTAGES AND CAUSING SERVICE FAILURE THAT DIRECTLY IMPACTED STUDENTS. WE IEP. >> IN RESPONSE THE CAC MET WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT H.R. >> AND THE COMMUNITY PARTNER TO ADDRESS THE ERROR COLLABORATED WITH THE SUPPORT DIRECTOR ON THE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION GUIDANCE CALL FOR A TIMELY HIRING AND TRANSPARENT BUDGET REPORTING AND REQUESTED THAT SUPPORT DIRECTOR REJOIN EXECUTIVE CABINET FOR OVERSIGHT . >> WE APPRECIATE THE DISTRICT RESPONSE SO FAR ASSIGNING THEIR FINANCE STAFF MEMBER TO SUPPORT THE SPECIAL EDUCATION BUDGET THE RETURN OF SUPPORT DIRECTOR TO THE EXECUTIVE CABINET AND THE OPTION FOR FAMILY TO ACCEPT COME AT SERVICES TO PREVENT FUTURE SERVICE GAP AND COMPLY AT RISK. WE RECOMMEND ALIGNING SPECIAL
EDUCATION FUNDING WITH THE SUPPORT LOCAL PLAN ASSIGNING QUALIFIED FISCAL MANAGER AND REVIEWING THE ACTUAL AND STARTING THE BUDGET PROCESS EARLIER AS DISTRICTS TRANSITION INTO THEIR FRONT LINE A RETRIEVAL SYSTEM PLEASE ENSURE THE SYSTEM CAN GENERATE TIMELY SPECIAL EDUCATION DATA AND REPORT FOR PLANNING OVERSIGHT AND STUDENT OUTCOME. NOW I WILL PASS IT BACK TO HAVA. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY IS DIVERSE. >> OUR STUDENTS ARE FROM EVERY CULTURAL RACIAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND AND THE VAST MAJORITY LEARN ALONGSIDE THEIR PEERS IN A GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM. >> THIS PERSPECTIVE IS CENTER ALL TO OUR FIRST PRIORITY INCLUSION WHICH IS BREAKING DOWN SILOS TO BUILD ONE INTEGRATE A SYSTEM THAT BENEFITS THE NEEDS OF ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AND THE FOLLOWING
RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE INCLUDE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND ALL FOCUS GROUPS IN THE VISIONS GOALS AND GUARDRAILS AND IMPLEMENT A COMPREHENSIVE MULTI TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT FOR BOTH ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL NEEDS. THIS SHOULD INCLUDE THE ABILITY TO GENERATE AND PROVIDE DISAGGREGATED PROGRESS MONITORING DATA AND THE ABILITY TO MONITOR THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ALL INTERVENTIONS OFFERED BY PRIORITIZI SHORT TERM EFFECTS OF TARGETED INTERVENTIONS RATHER THAN CONTINUE THE LABOR INTENSIVE WAIT TO FAIL APPROACH, WE CAN DECREASE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO ARE OVER IDENTIFIED FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES AND MITIGATE THE ENORMOUS STRAIN ON THE SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AND STAFF AND OUR EDUCATORS SORRY AND ULTIMATELY BY BETTER SERVING OUR STUDENTS WE CAN REDUCE THE COST BOTH IN TERMS OF DOLLARS AND THE DIRECT LIFELONG IMPACT TO OUR STUDENTS
AND THEIR FAMILIES. SO THIS IS A MATTER OF STRENGTHENING AND EXPANDING WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE IN IMPLEMENTING IT WITH FIDELITY. AND NOW I'LL PASS IT ON TO MELANIE, OUR SECRETARY. HELLO. MY NAME IS MELANIE BAUZA AND I AM THE CURRENT CAC SECRETARY. THE CAC BELIEVES THAT STUDENTS OF ALL ABILITIES HAVE THEIR RIGHT TO BE SEEN, SUPPORTED AND FULLY INCLUDED IN THEIR SCHOOL COMMUNITY AS A PART OF OUR EFFORTS AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DISTRICT LEADERSHIP. THIS YEAR THE CAC LAUNCHED OUR INCLUSION SURVEY DURING INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS WEEK. WE RECEIVED 34 RESPONSES FROM PRINCIPALS MANY WHO MADE COMMITMENTS TO IMPROVE INCLUSIVE PRACTICES AT THEIR SCHOOL SUCH AS ENSURING THERE IS EQUITABLE ACCESS TO SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS, PLAYGROUNDS AND TOURS AND ENCOURAGING INCREASED REPRESENTATION ON SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL AND PTA. AND IN AN EFFORT TO SOLICIT ADDITIONAL PARTICIPATION WE HAVE REQUESTED A COMMITMENT TO
RESCIND THE SURVEY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE REQUESTED TRAINING ON DISABILITY AWARENESS AND INCREASED COLLABORATION BETWEEN ADMINISTRATORS. CAC FAMILIES AND OTHER DISABILITY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. WE HOPE THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WILL INSPIRE AWARENESS AND DIALOG AND ENCOURAGE A TRUE SENSE OF BELONGING WHERE FAMILIES FEEL WELCOMED AND STUDENTS FEEL EMPOWERED TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES AND CELEBRATE THEIR DIFFERENCES. REPRESENTATION MATTERS BELONGING MATTERS AND EVERY STUDENT DESERVES A RIGHTFUL PLACE IN OUR SCHOOLS. NOW I WILL PASS IT ON TO LILLIAN. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. STUDENT WITH DISABILITY NEET AND DEPEND ON QUALIFIED AND CONSISTENT STAFF FOR THEIR LEARNING SAFETY AND WELL-BEING . STAFFING SHORTAGES REMAIN CRITICAL. >> YOU SEE THAT VACANCY ON THE SLIDE OCTOBER AND MARCH. >> AND CURRENTLY IN JUNE WE HAVE 93 CERTIFIED SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER VACANCY 108
PARA EDUCATOR VACANCY 53 SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY VACANCY . >> IN ADDITION 90 SEVEN SPECIALTY TEACHERS ARE NOT FULLY CREDENTIALED. SO ABOUT 60% OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHING POSITIONS ARE FILLED IT FULLY ONLY 60 PERCENT FILL WITH FULLY CREDENTIALED TEACHER. >> THIS GAP DIRECTLY IMPACT OR IEP SERVICES STUDENTS SAFETY AND STAFF WENT OUT TO ADDRESS THIS. WE RECOMMEND THE DISTRICT STRAIGHT TO RECRUITMENT BY IMPROVING THE ONBOARDING PROCESS WHICH CURRENTLY TAKE A FEW WEEKS MANY WEEKS AND LEAD TO LOSING QUALIFIED CANDIDATES. ACCELERATE HIRING FOR AND MAKE THE PROSPECT PROCESS MORE RESPONSIVE. AND START HIRING EARLY IN THE SUMMER TO BE FULLY STAFF BEFORE SCHOOL YEAR BEGAN. IMPROVE RETENTION BY ANALYZING EXIT DATA. INVESTING IN STAFF TRAINING
AND MENTORING AND CALL PLANNING TIME. AND REDUCING ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN AND CASELOAD THROUGH AT WHAT LOW BASE MODEL. >> RETAINING QUALIFIED STAFF MUST BE A TOP PRIORITY TO MEET OUR STUDENT NEED AND FULFILL OUR LEGAL REQUIREMENT. >> NOW I'LL PASS THE BACK TO HAVA. >> NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. BY THE AGE OF 1,450% MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESSES LAST A LIFETIME MENTAL HEALTH AND BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES ARE INCREASING AND SURFACING AND EARLIER AGES. AND DESPITE ONGOING EFFORTS, 32% OF STUDENTS WITH IEPS ARE CHRONICALLY ABSENT. AND 63.7% OF THOSE STUDENTS MEET ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA UNDER EMOTIONAL DISABILITY. FOR THESE REASONS THE CAC HAS THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS PROVIDE PARENT FRIENDLY RESOURCES THAT CLEARLY IDENTIFIES HOW A STUDENT CAN ACCESS SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS. THIS INCLUDES INCREASED TRANSPARENCY ABOUT NONPUBLIC SCHOOL AND RESIDENTIAL
TREATMENT PROGRAM OPTIONS. AND IT INCLUDES IMPROVED COMMUNICATION AND CLARITY AROUND BEHAVIORAL INCIDENTS, REPORTING AND POLICIES PROVIDE TRAINING AND CULTURALLY AFFIRMING TRAUMA INFORMED STRATEGIES. AND LASTLY ADDRESS CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM BY IDENTIFYING AND IMPLEMENT A COMPREHENSIVE WRAPAROUND PLAN. THIS SHOULD INCLUDE IMPROVED ACCESS TO WELLNESS CENTERS, COMMON SPACES AND ALL SUPPORT STAFF FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. >> WE ARE URGING THIS DISTRICT TO PLEASE ADDRESS THIS CRITICAL ISSUE WITH THE UTMOST URGENCY THAT IT DESERVES. SO OUR STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS CAN HAVE ACCESS TO A SAFE AND WELCOMING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. WE WANT TO THANK THE CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT FOR YOUR COLLABORATION AND SUPPORT ON THE NEW LITERACY AND MATH CURRICULUMS. >> WE HAVE SEEN MANY POSITIVE
CHANGES OVER THESE YEARS AND THEY SHOULD BE CELEBRATED. HOWEVER, ACCORDING TO THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ARE IN THE RED OR VERY LOW FOR BOTH ELC AND MATH. AND THIS YEAR WE HAVE SEEN FURTHER DECLINE 20% OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND 10.6% OF STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES ARE PROFICIENT FOR MATH. SORRY FOR ELA FOR MATH. 18% OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ARE PROFICIENT AND ONLY 9% OF STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES ARE PROFICIENT. THEREFORE, IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR OUR STUDENTS WE ARE RECOMMENDING THE FOLLOWING IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT EVIDENCE BASED MATH INTERVENTIONS THAT CAN SUPPORT STUDENTS WITH DYSCALCULIA OR OTHER MATH CHALLENGES. IMPROVE THE WRITING CURRICULUM AND INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS
STUDENTS WHO STRUGGLE WITH THE SCRAPPIER. THIS INCLUDES HANDWRITING WRITTEN EXPRESSION, GRAMMAR AND SPELLING. PROVIDE EVIDENCE BASED LITERACY INTERVENTION FOR STUDENTS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. THIS CAN INCLUDE EXPANDING SPYR BEYOND LEVEL FIVE DISTRICT WIDE . AND FINALLY PROVIDE CO TRAINING OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW RECIPES AND GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHERS . >> WE BELIEVE THESE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG WITH PROVIDING OUR EDUCATORS THE AMPLE RESOURCES, MATERIALS AND TRAINING THAT THEY NEED IS ESSENTIAL TO IMPROVING LEARNING OUTCOMES. HOWEVER, THESE CHANGES WILL NOT BE NEARLY AS EFFECTIVE WITHOUT A COHERENT, COMPREHENSIVE MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT . >> AND NOW I'LL PASS IT TO MELANIE. >> ONLY 71.7% OF S4 U.S. STUDENTS WITH IEPS ARE GRADUATING WITH A DIPLOMA. AND OUT OF THOSE ONLY 32.5% ARE UC CSU READY. A SEVEN SIGNIFICANT DECLINE FROM LAST YEAR. THEREFORE WE ARE URGING THE DISTRICT TO WORK WITH THE CAC
TO ADDRESS THIS CRITICAL ISSUE STARTING WITH THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS. INCREASE COTA CAREER AND COLLEGE PATHWAY OPPORTUNITIES. COLLABORATE WITH OUR CITY PARTNERS TO INCREASE CAREER INTERNSHIP AND PEER MENTORING OPPORTUNITIES. MONITOR EARLY WARNING INDICATORS FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE AT RISK FOR NOT GRADUATING AND STRENGTHEN ACCESS TO SCHOOL COUNSELORS FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. INCREASE COMMUNICATION WITH FAMILIES ON THE VARIOUS REQUIREMENTS NEEDED TO TRANSITION INTO ADULTHOOD. THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WILL SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS, COLLEGE AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES SO THEY ARE EMPOWERED TO PURSUE THEIR INDIVIDUAL PROMISE, ASPIRATIONS AND FUTURE GOALS. AND NOW WE'LL PASS IT BACK TO HARBOR. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. BEFORE WE END THIS REPORT, WE WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO HIGHLIGHT JUST A FEW THINGS. FIRST, PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR APPENDIX. WE HAVE INCLUDED MULTIPLE ARTICLES, RESOURCES
AND LEGISLATION AROUND DISABILITIES IN EDUCATION. AND SECOND, PLEASE REACH OUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS OR WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE CRC. OUR EMAIL IS ON THIS SLIDE AND IT'S SPELLED S.F. AT GMAIL.COM. >> AND FINALLY WE WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK ACTUALLY TO EXPRESS OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE FOR THE ONGOING SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION WITH OUR SUPERINTENDENT DISTRICT STAFF AND OUR EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS AS WELL AS ALL OF OUR FAMILIES, OUR PARENT ADVISORY AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS. IN PARTICULAR WE WANTED TO THANK REGINA PIPER WHO HAS REMAINED STEADFAST IN A PARTICULARLY CHALLENGING YEAR. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR HER PARTNERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP AND FOR HER DEDICATION. PROFESSIONAL LIVES AND COMPASSION THAT SHE HAS SHOWN OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR FAMILIES.
THANK YOU AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOU COMING TO OUR PICNIC ON SUNDAY, JUNE 22ND. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND AND I BELIEVE I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND YOUR DEDICATION TO THIS WORK. IN ADDITION TO STAFF WHO I KNOW HAVE ALL BEEN IN LOCKSTEP WITH YOU AND IN THIS WORK AND TO THE PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS WHO ARE WITH US HERE TODAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. ENERGY AND THIS IS THANKLESS WORK. SO MUCH APPRECIATION. I'LL OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COMMISSIONERS AND I'LL PUT THE REMINDER OUT THERE THAT WE HAVE A LOT ON OUR AGENDA. SO TAKE NO MEANS BUT TAPE PICKED IT. >> DO NOT TAKE THIS AS ANY SORT OF STATEMENT ON THE PRESENTATION AT ALL. I HAVE ONE QUESTION. IN LIGHT OF THE CHANGES THAT ARE BEING MADE TO STAFFING MODEL AROUND BUDGET CHANGES, DOES THE CAC HAVE ANYTHING THAT THEY'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE
BOARD AROUND THEIR FEELINGS ABOUT HOW WE CAN ENSURE BETTER IMPLEMENTING MULTI-TIERED STUDENT SUPPORTS IN THE COMING YEAR? AND ANYTHING THAT WOULD HELP ESPECIALLY TIER TWO INTERVENTIONS BE BETTER EXECUTED IN THE DISTRICT? >> WELL MY HONEST NO I WOULD LOVE YEAH. >> I MEAN WE'RE CONCERNED BUT I THINK REALLY WHAT I WANT TO SAY IS UM AND THE BIG ISSUE BESIDES THE FACT THAT WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO BECAUSE WE DO IS THAT WE'RE ON ONE HAND BEING TOLD LIKE IT'S IN THE DYSLEXIA SCREEN. OUR PRESENTATION THAT THERE'S A MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT FOR ELA AND THAT INCLUDES ARTISTS AND SIPS AND ALL THESE THINGS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE HERE NEXT YEAR. SO WHAT WE WHAT WE MIGHT ASK WOULD BE IS THAT IF THERE'S A ONCE YOU FIGURE IT OUT THAT WE'RE YOU'RE HONEST WITH WITH FAMILIES SO WE ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT COMES NEXT. SO THAT'S FIRST.
AND THEN THE SECOND THING IS I WE REALLY BELIEVE IN THIS IN THE LONG RUN AS MUCH AS IT'S GOING TO TAKE INVESTMENTS AWAY. IN THE LONG RUN IT'S GOING TO SAVE THIS DISTRICT MORE MONEY. AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN INCLUDE HOW IT'S GOING TO BETTER THE LIVES OF OUR STUDENTS. SO THANK YOU. UM, THE ONE QUESTION I HAVE ACTUALLY IS FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT. WELL, I'LL START BY SAYING I THINK I CONTINUE TO REALLY APPRECIATE THE STAFF RESPONSE ALONGSIDE THE RECOMMENDATIONS THEMSELVES. THIS FORMAT I WILL JUST ECHO IS VERY, VERY HELPFUL TO SEE THE KIND OF 1 TO 1 CORRELATION HERE OF HOW STAFF ARE GRAPPLING WITH SOME OF THE IN SOME WAYS VERY SUBSTANTIVE FEEDBACK THAT WE'RE RECEIVING FROM THE CC. AND I KNOW IT FOLLOWS A SIMILAR MODEL OF OTHER PRESENTATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE. THE ONE CALL OUT SPECIFIC FOR THE BOARD IS JUST AROUND OUR GOALS GUARDRAILS AND INTERIM GOALS AND INTERIM GUARDRAILS.
AND I'M CURIOUS IF THE SUPERINTENDENT YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO KIND OF LIKE CHEW ON THIS RIGHT NOW AND JUST KIND OF YOUR THINKING BUT I KNOW THAT YOU ARE ACTIVELY THINKING THROUGH YOUR BOTH YOUR INTERIM GUARDRAILS AND ETC.. DO YOU HAVE ANY INITIAL THINKING ABOUT THIS WORK HERE? I DON'T BUT I FULLY SUPPORT IT BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THAT WE IF WE'RE HONEST AND TRANSPARENT ABOUT SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS WHO NEED ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS, THEN WE NEED TO CALL THAT OUT AND MEASURE OURSELVES AGAINST THAT. SO THANK YOU FOR CALLING ATTENTION TO THAT AND WE WILL DEFINITELY TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN WE DO DO THE REVISE INTERIM. >> THAT'S GREAT TO HEAR. THE OTHER THING I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE IS THE FACT THAT REPORT ITSELF I KNOW YOU ACKNOWLEDGE IT IN YOUR IN YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS BUT THERE CONTINUE TO BE A LOT OF GUIDANCE. WE'RE GETTING FROM BOTH THE STATE AND FROM OUR PARTNERS HERE AROUND THE WORK THAT WE HAVE TO DO. AND SO I JUST WANT TO TO KIND
OF LIFT UP THE FACT THAT WE DO HAVE A NET REPORT THAT WE RECEIVED. WE NEED TO BE THOUGHTFUL IN HOW WE RESPOND TO THAT AND IMPLEMENT THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ALONGSIDE THESE WHICH I DON'T THINK ARE ACTUALLY CONTRADICTORY TO EACH OTHER AT ALL. IN FACT THEY'RE QUITE COMPLEMENTARY TO THEIR WORK. SO I JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HERE AS WELL. COMMISSIONER FISHER WELL I THINK I'M GOING TO START MY THREE MINUTES RIGHT NOW TO GO FOR IT. GO FOR IT. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH CAC APPRECIATE THE WORK. THE CAC GETS INTO THE WEEDS FROM AN APPRECIATIVE DATA NERD TO ALL OF YOU LIKE THE AMOUNT OF COMBING THROUGH THE DATA AND THE JUST THE MINUTIA THAT YOU DO TO BRING TO US. I MEAN LIKE FOR EXAMPLE 32.5% OF OUR STUDENTS WITH IEPS ARE UC READY YET? WE'LL SEE IN THE SLP A PRESENTATION THAT 66.5% OF OUR KIDS SIT IN GEN ED. SO ONLY HALF OF OUR KIDS WHO SIT IN GEN ED FULL TIME WITH IEPS ARE ACTUALLY U.S. COLLEGE
READY. THAT'S RIDICULOUS. THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE. WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO TO YOUR POINT. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING ON THAT SLIDE FOUR PRIORITY OF RESPONSIBLE CITY. I WOULD EVEN TAKE THAT A STEP FURTHER INTO ACCOUNTABILITY. WE HAVE A LOT OF TRUST TO REBUILD FROM LAST YEAR FROM OUR FROM OUR BUDGET FIASCO DEBACLE AROUND SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING. SO MY QUESTION THERE TO YOU AS SUPERINTENDENT AND MAYBE THIS IS MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THE LOCAL PLAN BUT WHAT'S GOING TO BE ADMITTED. ALL RIGHT. SO THEN DON'T ANSWER YET. LET ME FINISH ASKING MY QUESTIONS AND BUT YES. SO WHAT'S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR? HOW ARE WE GOING ABOUT REBUILDING THAT TRUST WITH THE COMMUNITY AND BEING MORE TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABLE? I APPRECIATE THE FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS. WE JUST HAD A SUPREME COURT DECISION LAST WEEK I THINK IT WAS AGE 80 VERSUS A SALE WHICH AFFIRMED THAT DISCRIMINATION IS DISCRIMINATION, YOU KNOW, AND THERE IS NOT A HIGHER BAR FOR FAMILIES OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES TO MAKE A DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION CLAIM AND SO EVERYONE'S ENTITLED TO A
FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOUR PRESENTATION HERE TODAY IS HIGHLIGHTING ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DO BETTER TO PROVIDE EQUITABLE ACCESS AND NOT AND BREAK THE PATTERN OF DISCRIMINATION FRANKLY OH I HAVE MORE TIME. >> I CAN KEEP GOING TECHNICALLY A 55 SECONDS. >> OKAY. ALL RIGHT. >> WELL AND JUST BASED ON A LOT OF THE COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS THAT I SAW IN OUR Q&A DOCUMENT, THEN THE ONE THING I WILL SAY BOTH THE IDEA THE LAW THAT GOVERNS SPECIAL EDUCATION AND CALIFORNIA ED CODE PARENTS ARE MEANINGFUL PARTICIPANTS IN THE IEP MEETING. YOU KNOW THERE WERE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW MINUTES ARE CALCULATED AND HOW THIS IN THAT I CANNOT HIGHLIGHT ENOUGH THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PARENT OR THE STUDENT WHO'S 18 BEING AT THE TABLE WHEN THESE DECISIONS ARE MAKING IT'S IT'S THE LAW. AND SO I THINK THERE WERE A LOT OF QUESTIONS IN HERE THAT GO BACK TO TRAINING SO I THINK MY FOLLOW UP MY FINAL QUESTION TO
YOU, SUPERINTENDENT, IS WHERE DOES TRAINING AS A DEPARTMENT LAND IN YOUR ORG CHART NEXT YEAR? BECAUSE I SEE THAT AS A RECURRING RECOMMENDATION FROM YOU KNOW, THE EL CAP PRESENTATION FROM CASEY. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. SO WHAT IS OUR TRAINING PLAN OVERALL AND WHERE DOES THAT WHERE DOES THAT LIE WITH WHO IS THE RESPONSIBLE OWNER OF IT? THANK YOU COMMISSIONER FISHER I HEAR THREE QUESTIONS IN HERE. SO AROUND HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY? HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT WE'RE MOVING TOWARDS THE GOALS AND THE VISION THAT WE WANT AND THEN TRAINING? SO IN TERMS OF ENSURING THAT WE CONTINUE WITH OUR TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY PIECE ONE I HAVE I, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A STANDING INVITE FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ATTEND THE CAC MEETINGS. I HAVE ATTENDED 2 OR 3 NOW I'VE THOROUGHLY ENJOYED
PARTICIPATING IN THE CAC MEETINGS BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE I GET DIRECT FEEDBACK FROM FAMILIES, FROM PARENTS, FROM OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND I WILL I DEFINITELY WANT TO CONTINUE TO INVITE MYSELF TO THE CAC THE CAC MEETINGS. WE'VE ALSO MADE SURE THAT REGINA PIPER THE AMAZING REGINA PIPER WILL IS IS NOW OUR HEAD OF SPECIAL EDUCATION. SHE SITS AT THE EXECUTIVE CABINET LEVEL. SHE IS PART OF ALL LEADERSHIP CONVERSATION AND THAT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH BUDGET AND POLICY AND PLANNING. IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR US TO ENSURE THAT WE BREAK DOWN THESE SILOS AND DIVISIONS THAT HAVE LED THAT THAT LED TO WHAT HAPPENED PREVIOUSLY. AND SO MOVING FORWARD THAT IS NOT HAPPENING MOVING FORWARD WE NEED TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATIONS AMONG LEADERS WITHIN MY EXECUTIVE TEAM AND THAT MEANS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE ACTUALLY OUR HEAD OF SPEED AND CULTURE AT THE TABLE. SO THAT'S TRANSPARENCY
AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN TERMS OF MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE MOVING TOWARDS THE GOALS OF OUR OUR STUDENTS. IT'S WHAT I SAID EARLIER MAKING SURE THAT OUR FOCAL POPULATION, PARTICULARLY OUR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ARE REFLECTED IN MY INTERIM GOALS AND GUARDRAILS AND WE HAVE SOME ALREADY REFLECTED IN THE INTERIMS BUT WE CLEARLY NEED MORE AND I'VE ALREADY COMMITTED TO GO BACK AND LOOK AND SEE WHERE WE CAN ADD THE MEASURES AND THE PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR OUR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THERE. AND THEN FINALLY WITH TRAINING WE ARE VERY MUCH COMMITTED TO TRAINING AND YES IT IS A THEME HERE BECAUSE WE DO KNOW THAT THE WAY WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THIRD GRADE READING EIGHTH GRADE MATH COLLEGE CAREER READINESS IS THROUGH OUR AMAZING STAFF AND WE NEED TO EMPOWER OUR FANTASTIC STAFF WITH THE TOOLS AND THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE CLASSROOM AND THAT IS WHAT WE'RE COMMITTING TO DO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER RAY THANKS SO MUCH.
I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU'VE PUT IN. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET MANY OF YOU AND ALSO JUST I WANTED TO THANK YOU, MS.. KELLY FOR YOUR SERVICE OVER ALL OF THESE YEARS TO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN IN DEPTH AND TREMENDOUS. I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS THAT I WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON FROM THINGS I HAD ASKED ABOUT IN IN THE COMMISSIONER REQUEST FOR INFORMATION. SO PROBABLY THOSE ARE BEST ADDRESSED TO THE SUPERINTENDENT BUT IF ANY OF YOU WANT TO WEIGH IN ON THEM PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DO SO. MY FIRST QUESTION ACTUALLY WAS SOMETHING THAT I ACTUALLY FOLLOWED ON ALMOST DIRECTLY TO WHAT YOU JUST SAID SUPERINTENDENTS WHO WHICH IS ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE OF MS.. PIPER'S POSITION. SO ONE THING I HAD NOTICED IN THIS REPORT IS THAT THE CAC HAD PREVIOUSLY REQUESTED THE REINSTATEMENT OF THE SELF A
DIRECTOR TO THE EXECUTIVE CABINET AND THEN THIS ISN'T SUPERINTENDENT MS. PIPER TO JOIN THE EXECUTIVE CABINET. WELL THAT CONTINUED TO BE THE CASE IN THE REORGANIZATION OF CENTRAL OFFICE. I ASKED THAT AND THERE WAS JUST A THERE WAS JUST A COMMENT I THINK MAYBE WAS MISUNDERSTOOD ABOUT WHAT THE TITLE WOULD BE. WILL THAT WILL THAT POSITION CONTINUE IN THE CABINET? >> AND THEN I HAVE A COUPLE OF OTHERS. THANKS. DO YOU WANT TO ASK FOR YOUR QUESTIONS OR OH WOULD YOU RATHER ME MINUTES OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. OKAY THANK YOU. I ALSO WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON I ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT DYSLEXIA GUIDELINES AND WHETHER THEY HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO EVERYONE AND THERE WAS AN ANSWER THAT REFERRED TO VARIOUS TRAININGS BUT WHAT I WAS ACTUALLY DIRECTLY ASKING WAS ARE THEY ACTUALLY DISTRIBUTED TO ALL THE PEOPLE? I'M GLAD THERE'S TRAINING ALL IT THAT'S GREAT BUT I WANTED TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE DISTRIBUTION, SEE IF FOLKS ACTUALLY HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE.
I LOOKED AT THEM WHEN I SAW THE LINK IN THE IN THE APPENDIX SO AND THEN SORRY I'M JUST LOOKING FOR MY LAST ONE HERE. I FOLLOW UP QUESTION ABOUT HAVING NON ADMINISTRATORS BE ABLE TO SERVE AS LCA REPRESENTATIVES DURING IEP MEETINGS. I'VE HEARD THIS RAISED BY PARENTS BEFORE AND AS A WAY TO TO LESSEN THE BURDEN FOR EXAMPLE ON PRINCIPALS OR OTHER ADMINISTRATORS HAVE TO SPEND A LOT OF THEIR TIME AT IEP MEETINGS AND HAVE MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO DO THAT AND THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION IN THIS ANSWER ABOUT FOCUSING ON TRAINING TO ADMINISTRATORS IF THAT'S WHAT WE THINK IS BEST AT THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW BUT I'M JUST WONDERING ARE WE OPEN TO HAVING NOT ADMINISTRATORS DO THAT AND TAKE APPROPRIATE TRAINING? THANK YOU. I CAN I INVITE OUR HEAD OF SPECIAL ED EDUCATION REGINA PIPER TO COME TO THE TABLE TO HELP ME WITH THIS. >> SO FIRST QUESTION IS IS
REGINA PIPER, OUR HEAD OF SPECIAL EDUCATION? YES, SHE IS. IS SHE A PART OF OUR EXECUTIVE CABINET? YES, SHE IS. AND WILL SHE CONTINUE? YES, SHE WILL BE. THAT'S WHAT I WAS WONDERING. I HAVE AND I THINK I'VE SHARED THIS WITH EVERYONE. >> I HAVE RESTRUCTURED OUR THE LEADERSHIP TABLE AND THAT AND HAVE CREATED TWO DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENTS. >> ONE IS THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF BUSINESS SERVICES AND THE OTHER ONE IS A DEPUTY SUPERINTEND OF ED SERVICES AND THE HEAD OF SPECIAL ED WILL REPORT TO THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF ED SERVICES BUT I STILL WILL HAVE A EXECUTIVE CABINET THAT WILL INCLUDE OUR DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENTS AS WELL AS OUR HEADS. SO YES SHE WILL STILL REMAIN IN THE CABINET THEN. >> YES. OKAY. YES FOR SURE. THANK YOU. IN TERMS OF JUST DISTRIBUTION OF DYSLEXIA GUIDELINES AND QUITE FRANKLY THE QUESTION A VERY TECHNICAL QUESTION REGARDING THE NON ADMINISTRATOR
AS REPRESENTING THE DISTRICT I'M GOING TO YIELD TO REGINA YEAH THANK YOU COMMISSIONER RAY RELATED TO THE DYSLEXIA GUIDELINES THERE'S BEEN A REQUEST FROM FAMILIES I KNOW TO HAVE A FAMILY FACING VERSION OF OUR DYSLEXIA GUIDELINES THAT HAS BEEN SHARED WITH SPECIAL EDUCATORS AND THAT IS NOT YET DEVELOPED. HOWEVER THE DYSLEXIA GUIDELINES HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO GENERAL EDUCATION AND SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS. I THINK WE COULD DO AN IMPROVED WE CAN IMPROVE ON OUR CREATING AN AWARENESS COURSE AND HELPING FOLKS TO MORE EASILY FIND THEM IN OUR IN OUR WEBSITE. AND AGAIN THESE ARE DISTRICT CREATED DYSLEXIA GUIDELINES TO GUIDE THE WORK OF EDUCATORS I'VE SHARED RECENTLY WITH OUR TEAM THE NEED FOR US TO BE ABLE TO BREAK THOSE GUIDELINES DOWN INTO A FAMILY FRIENDLY VERSION SO THAT WE CAN HELP EXPLAIN IN TERMS OF LIKE HOBBIES REQUEST AND OTHERS REQUESTS FOR
TRANSPARENCY ABOUT HOW WE APPROACH OUR WORK TO ADDRESS STUDENT NEEDS THAT THIS WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT I THINK WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR US TO UH TO DEVELOP. AND THEN YOUR QUESTION ABOUT NON ADMINISTRA OR SERVING AS THE LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY REPRESENTATIVE OR A REP AT IEP MEETINGS WHILE APPOINTING SOMEONE WITHOUT A AN ADMINISTRATIVE CREDENTIAL IS DONE IN IN PARTS OF OUR OUR STATE IT ISN'T ADVISABLE TO HAVE JUST ANYONE SERVE IN THAT CAPACITY AND SO THERE ARE EFFORTS TO TRAIN SPECIAL OTHER SPECIAL EDUCATORS OR RELATED SERVICE PROVIDERS TO TAKE ON THAT RESPONSIBILITY. BUT AS I SHARED IN OUR RESPONSE THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THAT AN L A REPRESENTATIVE MUST HAVE WHICH IS THAT THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE RESOURCE SAYS AND THE SERVICES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS IN OUR DISTRICT THAT THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE DECISIONS ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRICTS AND THOSE EQUATE TO FINANCIAL DECISIONS IN TERMS OF ADDED
SERVICES AND PROVISIONS OF SERVICES THAT THEY HAVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE CONTINUUM OF SERVICES AND SERVICES THAT ARE ON THE PERIPHERAL OF OUR DISTRICT'S SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE. AND SO WE ARE CAUTIOUS ABOUT ENCOURAGING NON ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF TO SERVE IN THOSE ROLES. IT ALSO PUTS OUR STAFF WHO ARE NOT ADMINISTRATORS IN A VERY CHALLENGING POSITION BECAUSE THEY HOLD DIFFERENT THEY HOLD DIFFERENT ROLES IN A SCHOOL SYSTEM AND SO AGAIN WHILE IT IS POSSIBLE IT'S NOT ENCOURAGED AND SO AGAIN I THINK WE ARE FOCUS IS ON IMPROVING THE KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING OF OUR EXISTING ADMINISTRATORS TO UNDERSTAND THEIR ROLE AS A PROVIDERS TO HELP SUPPORT OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION CASE MANAGERS TO EFFECTIVELY FACILITATE IEPS IN A WAY THAT REALLY DEVELOPS ROBUST PLANS FOR STUDENTS AND OFFERS FREE AND APPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND THE SERVICES THAT THEY NEED TO ACCESS.
AND SO AGAIN I THINK WE HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO TRY TO RELIEVE SOME OF THE PRESSURE THAT ADMINISTRATORS FIELD IN IN HOLDING SO MANY AND OVERSEEING SO MANY IEPS. AND I THINK WE HAVE TO THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT WHO WILL ASSUME THAT ROLE IN THEIR ABSENCE AT THOSE MEETINGS. WE DON'T WANT TO JUST OPEN IT UP TO GROUPS OF FOLKS TO TAKE ON THAT RESPONSIBILITY BECAUSE IT IS A BIG RESPONSIBILITY ON BEHALF OF OUR DISTRICT. CAN I JUST SORRY AS A PARENT, UM I'M GOING TO BE HONEST KNOW WE HAD A I'VE HAD SOMEONE STEP IN WHO HAD THEIR CREDENTIALS BUT DIDN'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE ANY ACTUAL DECISIONS AND THAT IEP MEETING WAS OF NO VALUE. SO I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE THE DECISIONS THEN YOU'RE REALLY JUST HAVING A MEETING THAT'S TOO LATE. YOU KNOW YOU JUST HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER. AND THE SECOND THING THAT'S MORE IMPORTANT FOR ME AS A AS A PARENT IS THAT THE ADMINISTRATOR OR WHOEVER IS MAKING THOSE DECISIONS HAS THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE COMPASSION
WHEN THEY'RE MAKING THESE DECISIONS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE TO ACTUALLY FULFILL IEP SERVICES. IT'S CRUCIAL. SO I JUST I WANTED TO JUST SORRY, NINA, THANK YOU. I KNOW THAT THERE ARE A MILLION MORE QUESTIONS TO ASK AND THIS CONVERSATION IS NOT THE LAST OF OF THIS TOPIC FOR SURE. SO I WANT TO DO ONE LAST CALL AND DO I HAVE LIKE TWO SECONDS YOU CAN TAKE AS COMMISSIONER RAISE 30S THAT'S REMAINING. >> YEAH RIGHT RIGHT. I MEAN IT WOULD YOU CAN IF YOU WOULD LIKE WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE IT BACK BECAUSE THEN I WILL SAY NO YOUR TIME YEAH WHAT WOULD YOU UM I WAS TRYING TO KEEP THE OH REQUEST REQUEST THERE'S NOW 24 SECONDS LEFT SO NOT USING IT IS IT A COMMENT OR QUESTION? >> YEAH. OKAY. WELL NO, I JUST REALLY THE I SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN SPECIAL EDUCATION MEETINGS THROUGHOUT
THE ENTIRE BAY AREA AND I HAVE TO SAY S.F. UCSD'S APPROACH TO SPECIAL EDUCATION IS VERY STUDENT CENTERED AND VERY COLLABORATIVE COMPARED TO MANY OF OUR COUNTERPARTS IN OTHER DISTRICTS. SO I REALLY DO WANT TO COMMEND YOU HEAD OF SPECIAL EDUCATION PIPER FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR TEAM'S WORK AND JUST THANK YOU. I MEAN THE FACT THAT YOU'RE ALL HERE TODAY TOGETHER IS TESTAMENT TO THAT. SO THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENTATION. AND AGAIN, THIS IS NOT THE LAST. THANK YOU. THANK YOU EVERYONE. THANK YOU. >> I'LL GIVE YOU 32ND. I'M MOVING TO ITEM F3P COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ANNUAL PRESENTATION. >> I CALL ON THE SUPERINTENDENT TO INTRODUCE THIS ITEM AND YOU DO DELIVER THAT. OKAY. >> THANK YOU PRESIDENT KIM AND NOW I HAVE THE PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE EDWIN DIAZ WHO IS THE OUR CHIEF MANAGER OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DR..
TO PRESENT OUR REPORT THANK YOU WITH MAGGIE SORRY. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. I ACTUALLY AM JUST HERE TO SUPPORT OUR WONDERFUL PEACOCK CHAIR MAGGIE FUREY WHO'S GOING TO BE LEADING THE PRESENTATION TODAY. SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO HER WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO. >> ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONER SUPERINTENDENT AND EVERYBODY BEHIND ME. >> SORRY. MY BACK IS TO YOU AND EVERYBODY WHO'S A VIRTUAL YEAH. WE ARE HERE TONIGHT TO PRESENT THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE PIF PUBLIC EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FUND COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS. SO THIS IS THE ANNUAL PRESENTATION AND AT THE AND WE WILL PRESENT OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AND SO I BELIEVE THAT ALL OF THE COMMISSIONERS RECEIVED THE SUPERINTEND AND SOUP EXPENDITURE PLAN AND. >> ALL RIGHT.
DO YOU HAVE CONTROL? OH YEAH. NEXT SLIDE. YEAH. SORRY. UH, AND THEN AS WELL AS THE PIF CALC RECOMMENDATION MEMO AGAIN I AM HERE PRESENTING AS THE CHAIR MY NAME IS MAGGIE FUREY. SHE HER PRONOUNS I THIS IS MY THIRDEAR ON PIF CAG AND SECOND YEAR AS CHAIR AND I AM A SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER AND I WORK AT GUADALUPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. >> THIS IS MY JUST FINISHED MY SIXTH YEAR IN THE DISTRICT SO YEAH VERY EXCITING TIMES AND THEN YEAH AND WE HAVE OUR OFFICE STAFF SUPPORTING PIF WHICH IS MELANIE LA SMITH WHO'S IN THE SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE. EDWIN DIAZ HERE PIF DIRECTOR BUT MAYBE JUST GOT PROMOTED BY DR. SUE AND ALFRED LOH WHO IS OUR PIF AND BUDGET ANALYST. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO JUST AS A REMINDER FOR PIF, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS THIS IS REALLY UNIQUE TO SAN FRANCISCO. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PUT SAN FRANCISCO APART FROM OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS NOT ONLY IN THE NATION BUT IN THE STATE AND YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S A HIGHLIGHT THAT WE HAVE LOCAL
SUPPORT IN 2004 THE VOTERS IN SAN FRANCISCO APPROVED THIS BALLOT INITIATIVE AND ESTABLISHED PIF AN AND IN 2014 WE GOT REAUTHORIZED THROUGH PROP C WITH THROUGH 2040 TO 2040 ONE AND HOPEFULLY AT THAT POINT WE'LL CONTINUE TO EXPAND IT AND THE LEGISLATURE AND SO YOU KNOW IT'S ACTUALLY IN THREE PARTS BUT AS FOR US DO YOU GET 66% OF IT AND THE OTHER 33% IS FOR EARLY ED SO THE PART THAT WE GET IS HALF OF IT IS RESTRICTED FOR SLAM SPORTS LIBRARIES, ARTS AND MUSIC AND THE OTHER HALF OJAI YOU IS JUST GENERAL SO I KNOW OKAY WHY DO WE HAVE TO DO OR DO YOU AND THE OTHER IS UCF. I DON'T KNOW WE LOVE ALPHABET SOUP. WE LOVE OUR ACRONYMS BUT IT'S YOU KNOW, UNRESTRICTED MONIES AND THEN THE SUPERINTENDENT IS THE ONE WHO REALLY DECIDES HOW TO SPEND ALL OF THIS MONEY AND ALLOCATE IT AND THE IDEA IS THAT THE OG EU FUNDING IS SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT THE DISTRICT'S CARDS OR GOALS STRATEGIC PLAN AND PROVIDE ACADEMIC STUDENT AND FAMILY SUPPORT.
NEXT SLIDE AND THEN WE HAVE THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE WHICH WAS A BOARD POLICY AND CAME OUT OF THE BOARD TO SERVE AS A CONDUIT FOR INFORMING AS WELL AS RECEIVING INPUT FROM SFD SD STAKEHOLDERS. SO WE DO HAVE TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AT EVERY PUBLIC MEETING AND IT ALLOWS US TO NOT ONLY HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY BUT WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM YOU KNOW WE HAVE PARENTS, STAFF STUDENTS, WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT FOLKS WHO ARE ON THE OR CAN BE ON THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST TO REVIEW INFORMATION REVIEW DATA, KIND OF GET UPDATED ON OUR FINANCIALS. WE THEN CREATE THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO ADVISE THE BOARD OF ED AND SUPERINTEND FUNDING AND REALLY CONTRIBUTING TO PIF COMMUNICATION AND AWARENESS BECAUSE AGAIN THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY UNIQUE TO OUR TWO SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO HAVE THIS EXTRA POT OF MONEY TO SUPPORT SO MANY OF OUR THINGS AND PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT LIKE PEOPLE YOU KNOW AND IT'S THE THING THAT WE
CONTINUE TO EDUCATE BUT PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE THAT'S 10% OF OUR BUDGET COMES FROM THE CITY AND YOU KNOW AND IT'S LIKE THIS IS WHY WE HAVE LIBRARIANS YOU KNOW, WE SEE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN CALIFORNIA RIGHT NOW JUST COMPLETELY GUTTING THEIR ENTIRE LIBRARY PROGRAMS AND WE HAVE RESTRICTED PROTECTED MONEY TO ENSURE WE ALWAYS HAVE LIBRARIANS AND THAT IS REALLY COOL. BUT WE DO NEED TO CONTINUE TO GET THE WORD OUT SO THAT PEOPLE CAN BE AWARE AND CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR IT. NEXT SLIDE THIS IS JUST AN OVERVIEW OF OUR CACC MEMBERS. >> SO AGAIN IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE 24 PEOPLE AND YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEFT US IN 2425 SOME THROUGH BEING TERMING OUT WHICH IS BECAUSE THERE'S A LIMIT ON HOW LONG YOU CAN SERVE ON THE CACC. SOME OF IT IS BECAUSE OF THE ELECTIONS AND HAVING NEW BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS AND SO PEOPLE WHO ARE THERE FOR PREVIOUS COMMISSIONERS MAYBE ARE THERE ONCE THAT COMMISSIONER HAS LEFT THEY ARE OFF THE BOARD AND YEAH AND THEN LIKE YOU KNOW SHANE CHEN BEING
ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND YOU KNOW SO THAT'S FINE AND BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE STILL A FEW OF US ON THERE AND TWO OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY NOT GOING TO BE ON THE BOARD AFTER THIS MONTH SO ARE ON THE COMMITTEE AS OF THIS MONTH. SO IT WILL BE VERY, VERY SMALL AGAIN, IT'S REALLY SMALL NOW BUT IT WILL BE EVEN SMALLER IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS IS VERY WORDY BUT IT'S TURNING OUT ON SLIDE OF HIGHLIGHTS AND LSONS LEARNED. SO YOU KNOW THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR BEGAN WITH A CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP AS WE ALL KNOW. CAN'T BELIEVE IT WAS JUST THE SCHOOL YEAR WE WERE ACTUALLY THE CHIEF CLERK WAS ACTUALLY THE CHAIRS WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET WITH DR. WAYNE TO CONTINUE PART TWO OF HOW WE CAN IMPROVE THE PROCESS AND OUR MEETING WAS SCHEDULED FOR THE DAY HE RESIGNED SO THAT MEETING GOT CANCELED. WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE 4:00 AND I THINK THE BOARD MEETING WAS AT FIVE. THAT MEETING GOT CANCELED. WE WERE LUCKILY ABLE TO MEET WITH DR. SUE PRETTY SOON AFTER YOU STARTED. I WANT TO SAY LIKE WITHIN A MONTH OF YOU STARTING AND WE DID PROVIDE THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HADADE IN ORDER TO
ALSO HOPEFULLY NOT LOSE MOMENTUM BECAUSE AGAIN THIS IS LIKE TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING TO TRY TO ADDRESS THINGS AND WE WANTED TO NOT LOSE ALL THE MOMENTUM. WE MET WITH AL CAPP ONE TIME IN ORDER TO REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW COULD YOU KNOW WITH THIS POSSIBILITY OF US COMBINING COULD THAT WORK? WE SHARED SOME INFORMATION. WE HAD SENIOR LEADERSHIP COME TO DISCUSS THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET AND I DID MEET WHEN PROP JAY AS WE ALL KNOW WAS COMING UP I DID MEET WITH ONE OF THE AUTHORS IN ORDER TO REALLY TALK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, HONESTLY COMMUNICATE IT WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY. WE WERE A MAJOR STAKEHOLDER AND NOBODY THAT WAS WRITING PROJECT TALKED TO THE CEC SO WE HAD NO NO WAY TO GIVE INPUT ON WHAT WE ACTUALLY THOUGHT WHAT WOULD BE POWERFUL TO PUT IN THAT AND IT WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY. WE ALSO LEARNED THAT IT'S DIFFICULT TO CREATE AGENDAS WHEN THE MATERIAL THAT INFORMS OUR COMMITTEE IS BEING DELAYED WHICH HAPPENED AS EVERYONE WAS TRANSITIONING TO FRONT LINE THE CHANGES IN LEADERSHIP IN THE BOARD OF ED AND SUPERINTENDENT LED TO VERY SMALL CAP BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE APPOINTEES
AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO MAKE SPECIFIC PROGRAMMATIC RECOMMENDATIONS WHEN THE TIMELINES COMPRESSED AS WE KNOW AND THIS IS YOU KNOW A LOT OF FACTORS BUT BECAUSE EVERYTHING GOT DELAYED WITH BUDGETARY THINGS IT REALLY WE WEREN'T ABLE TO MEET WITH THE PROGRAM STAFF AS WE NORMALLY DO AND YOU KNOW AND THIS IS AGAIN IT'S THIS IS AN ONGOING FEELING THAT THE MEMBERS REALLY WANT MORE ROOM TO ENGAGE IN MEANINGFUL TWO WAY DIALOG WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT WITH THE BOARD OF ED AROUND WHAT IS BEING PRIORITIZED FOR PEOPLE SPENDING SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE AGAIN THIS YEAR ESPECIALLY LIKE WE FOUND OUT TWO WEEKS AGO RIGHT AND THE BUDGET IS DUE SO NEXT SLIDE THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR PEACOCK IS TO ESPECIALLY OFFER IMMEDIATE APPROXIMATE BENEFITS TO STUDENTS AND FAMILIES, ADDRESS ACCESS AND EQUITY WITH A VIEW TOWARDS ADVANCING SOCIAL JUSTICE, INCREASE THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SAFETY OF STUDENTS, PROMOTE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION AND DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY TO BE SUSTAINED OVER TIME.
AGAIN WE KNOW WE HAVE THIS FUNDING FOR ANOTHER AT LEAST 15 YEARS BUT HOPEFULLY LONGER AS THE VOTERS OF SAN FRANCISCO HAVE CONTINUED TO SHOW A COMMITMENT TO OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. >> AND WITHOUT FURTHER ADO SO JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BACK UP BECAUSE WE DIDN'T SO TYPICALLY THE CHIEF CLERK WILL HE BUDGET OR PROGRAMS WILL GET HEY, YOU'RE BEING FUNDED BY PIF THIS IS HOW MUCH THE PROGRAMS HAVE TIME THEN TO CREATE A MUCH LONGER NARRATIVE AROUND HOW THEY'RE GOING TO SPEND THE MONEY, WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO WHAT ARE THEIR GOALS AND DURING THAT TIME AFTER THAT'S FINISHED THEN THEY ACTUALLY COME AND MEET WITH THE PIF AND WE HEAR FROM THEM SPECIFICALLY WE HAVE TIME TO ASK THEM QUESTIONS ,THINK OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND REALLY DISCUSS THEM AS A CACC BEFORE WE COME UP WITH OUR RECOMMENDATIONS THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF THE COMPRESSED TIMELINE AND DELAYED BUDGETING WE DIDN'T AGAIN PROGRAMS DIDN'T FIND OUT THEY WERE FUNDED THROUGH PIF AND WHAT THE FUNDING WAS UNTIL MUCH LATER AND THOSE THEN THE PROGRAMS GOT THEIR TIME TO DO THEIR NARRATIVE AND THAT DIDN'T GET IT UNTIL ABOUT 2 OR 3 WEEKS AGO
AND WE DIDN'T GET TO REVIEW THAT AS A PAC UNTIL LAST WEDNESDAY WHICH WAS OUR LAST PAC MEETING OF THE YEAR. SO THESE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE NOT GOING TO BE VERY PROGRAM SPECIFIC JUST BECAUSE LIKE THERE WILL BE SOME BUT NOT AS MUCH AS WE WOULD LIKE AND BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH PROGRAMS AND ASK THEM QUESTIONS. >> SO YOU WILL SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE GENERAL AND THERE'S A LOT SO I THINK WE WENT A LITTLE OVER BECAUSE WE ALSO HAD LESS TIME TO WHITTLE IT DOWN. SO WE DO HAVE NINE RECOMMENDATIONS TRY IT. WE USUALLY TRY TO KEEP IT TO 5 TO 7. SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE I WILL BEGIN OUR RECOMMENDATIONS. SO WE THE FIRST ONE WE STARTED WITH IS THAT WHILE PIF CAN RECOGNIZES THAT PIF OPERATES WITHIN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF THE DISTRICTS BUDGET AND COMPLEMENTS EL CAP, WE RECOMMEND THAT THE TWO ADVISORY COMMITTEES REMAIN DISTINCT PIF AND EL CAP SERVE DIFFERENT LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES AND HAVE DISTINCT MANDATES HISTORICAL
SHIFTS IN FEDERAL POLICY FROM NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND TO THE EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT ILLUSTRATE THE VOLATILITY OF STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING CONDITIONS. THESE SHOULD BE REPLACED AS MAY OCCUR UNDER OUR CURRENT AND OR FUTURE ADMINISTRATIONS. TYING PIF TO EL CAP COULD SUBJECT LOCAL FUNDS TO UNINTENDED CONSTRAINTS AND WHILE JOINT BRIEFINGS AND MEETINGS MAY BE APPROPRIATE AT TIMES WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND AGAINST MERGING THE TWO COMMITTEES THAT PIF CANNOT FUNCTIONS MOST EFFECTIVELY WITH ITS FULL COMMITTEE OF 24 MEMBERS WE RECOMMEND THAT ALL APPOINTING BODIES THE BOARD OF EDUCATION THE SUPERINTENDENT USSF AND THE UNITED EDUCATORS OF SAN FRANCISCO AND THE STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL COMMIT TO FILLING THEIR VACANCIES AGAIN 24 PEOPLE YOU SAW WE HAVE SEVEN SO APPOINTMENT UPDATES AND CURRENT LIST OF OPEN SEATS SHOULD BE INCLUDED REGULARLY ON THE BOARD OF EDUCATION'S AGENDA AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH BOARD POLICY 1220 MEMBERS WHO MISS MORE THAN FOUR MEETINGS IN A CALENDAR YEAR EXCUSED OR UNEXCUSED SHOULD BE REMOVED
AND REPLACED. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE APPOINTING FOLKS AND THAT FOLKS ARE ENGAGED AND ATTENDING REGULARLY. NEXT SLIDE. IN LIGHT OF THE PASSAGE OF PROP J AND ITS ALIGNMENT WITH PIF GOALS, WE RECOMMEND THAT 3 TO 5 PIF MEMBERS BE APPOINTED TO SERVE ON THE OUR CHILDREN OUR FAMILIES COUNCIL TO ENSURE MEANINGFUL REPRESENTATION AND COORDINATION. AS YOU MAY KNOW NOW OUR CHILDREN OUR FAMILIES IS GOING TO ACTUALLY DETERMINE GOALS THAT PIF HAS TO FOLLOW. SO IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HAVE SOME REPRESENTATION THERE TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE ALL ALIGNED. THE FOURTH RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE RECOMMEND THE SUPERINTENDENT NOTIFY THE PIF WHEN PROGRAMS ARE ADDED TO OR REMOVED FROM THE PORTFOLIO. SO THIS COMMUNICATION SHOULD CLARIFY WHETHER FUNDING SOURCES HAVE CHANGED OR WHETHER THE PROGRAM IS BEING DISCONTINUED ENSURING CONTINUED TRANSPARENCY AND OVERSIGHT. THE DISTRICT IF IT ONE THE DISTRICT SHOULD REEVALUATE THE CURRENT NURSING MODEL FOR THE 2526 SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOL
DISTRICT NURSES PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN STUDENT HEALTH AND SCHOOL FUNCTIONING. WE RECOMMEND REINSTATING THE PRIOR STAFFING MODEL AND REOPENING AS 22 WHICH IS A PAIR OF PROFESSIONAL LPN POSITION IN LIEU OF CONTRACTING RATHER THAN RELYING ON EXTERNAL CONTRACTS. THIS WOULD SUPPORT SPECIALIZED HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND ENABLE NURSES TO FULFILL THEIR BROADER ROLES. NEXT SLIDE SIX IS SITE ALLOCATIONS FOR LIBRARIES AND THE ARTS DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE MADE TRANSPARENT AND APPLIED CONSISTENTLY THIS YEAR DISPARITIES IN ALLOCATIONS CREATED INEQUITIES. >> FOR EXAMPLE, WE KNOW THAT THERE IS A SCHOOL WITH TEN CLASSROOMS ONLY RECEIVING ONE DAY OF LIBRARY SERVICE PER WEEK EVEN THOUGH THAT IT IS STATED THAT WELL ON AVERAGE LIBRARIANS HAVE SIX CLASSES A DAY. WELL YES. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ENTIRE DISTRICT IT MAY BE ON AVERAGE BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IT IS MORE CLEAR. PE AND LIBRARY PROGRAMS MAY REQUIRE DIFFERENT ALLOCATION CRITERIA BUT BOTH SHOULD BE
REVIEWED TO ENSURE EQUITY AND CLARITY. NUMBER SEVEN THIS IS SPEAKING TO YOU KNOW WE ARE WE NOW HAVE $25 MILLION OF PIF UNRESTRICTED FUNDS FUNDING SPECIAL EDUCATION WHICH IS UP FROM $0 TWO YEARS AGO AND 8 MILLION OF THAT $25 MILLION IS TO BE SPENT ON CONTRACTORS AND CONSULTANTS. SO HUGH, OUR RECOMMENDATION IS THAT HUMAN RESOURCES SHOULD INTENSIFY RECRUITMENT FOR PERMANENT SPECIAL EDUCATION STAFF TO REDUCE RELIANCE ON CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACTORS WHICH ARE CURRENTLY COSTING OVER $8 MILLION IN FUNDS, HIRING PERMANENT STAFF IMPROVE STABILITY AND REDUCES LONG TERM COSTS AND NEXT SLIDE FOR OUR LAST TWO RECOMMENDATIONS ALL FUNDING FOR MATH CONSULTANTS NOT DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE DISTRICT'S MATH PILOT SHOULD BE ELIMINATED ESPECIALLY DURING THE BUDGET CRISIS. THESE EXTERNAL CONSULTANTS ARE OFTEN COSTLY AND LACK LOCAL RELEVANCE. AT THE SAME TIME THE DISTRICT SHOULD INVEST MORE IN MATH
INDUCTION COACHES TO SUPPORT CREDENTIALING FOR NEW TEACHERS REDUCED REDUCE VACANCIES AND IMPROVE RETENTION. AND LASTLY WE RECOMMEND EXPANDING MANDARIN SPANISH AND CANTONESE IMMERSION PROGRAMS FOR TK TWO EIGHT AS A STRATEGY TO ATTRACT FAMILIES AND INCREASE STRUCTURAL REVENUE. ADDITIONALLY, THE DISTRICT SHOULD INVEST IN THE GROWTH OF TK CLASSROOMS THROUGHOUT THE CITY WITH OVER 15,000 APPLICANTS. DEMAND FOR THESE PROGRAMS IS APPARENT AND THE DISTRICT SHOULD EVALUATE LONG TERM PROGRAMMATIC STRATEGIES BEFORE CONSIDERING ANY SCHOOL CLOSURES. AND SO THIS IS REALLY LOOKING AT WELL COULD WE YOU KNOW, LOOK AT OUR PROGRAMING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REALLY YOU KNOW I KNOW WE'RE THIS WAS LOOKED AT WITH THE NEW ENROLLMENT AND LOOKING AT OKAY WELL WHERE DO WE HAVE CANTONESE PROGRAMS AVAILABLE WHERE DO WE HAVE SPANISH PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE REALLY HAVE THOSE AVAILABLE? BROADLY BEFORE JUST CLOSING A SCHOOL, MAYBE A LOOK AT SHIFTING PROGRAMS, MAYBE LOOKING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR PORTFOLIO LOOKS BALANCED ACROSS THE CITY AND TO THE NEED INSTEAD OF JUST CLOSING AND AT THAT LAST SLIDE WE ARE ALL DONE
WITH OUR RECOMMENDATIONS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR LISTENING TO THE MOUTHFUL. THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH AND VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR CONTINUED WORK ON SUPPORTING PEACE. I WILL OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FROM COMMISSIONERS WITH THE REMINDER THAT WE HAVE A LOT ON OUR AGENDA AND I HAVE A TIMER FOR THREE MINUTES BEGINNING STAFF RESPONSE 10S DONE. SO AS MAGGIE MENTIONED THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE PREPARED LAST AT THE LAST MEETING ON WEDNESDAY THE 11TH AND SO WE HAVEN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY AS A DISTRICT TO RESPOND TO THE COX RECOMMENDATIONS YET BUT WE WILL HAVE A DISTRICT REC DISTRICT RESPONSE FOR OUR NEXT MEETING BOARD MEETING ON THE 24TH. VICE PRESIDENT HEALY FOR THE CAC RECOMMENDATION ONE COULD YOU EXPLORE MEAN TO ME A BIT MORE WHY IF THE EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT IS REPLACED TYING PIF TO EL CAP COULD SUBJECT
LOCAL FUNDS TO UNINTENDED CONSTRAINTS. WHAT WHAT COULD YOU JUST FURTHER EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THAT MEANS? >> I WILL ATTEMPT THE PERSON WHO WAS THE MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE ON THE CALC ABOUT THIS IS NOT HERE TONIGHT BUT ESSENTIALLY EL CAP IS A COMPLEMENT TO THAT LIKE IT WAS A RESPONSE TO EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS ACT WHICH WAS BROUGHT BY OBAMA AND AND SO EL CAP IS YEAH IT JUST IT'S BASED ON THAT SO IF THE FEDERAL LEGISLATION WERE TO CHANGE EL CAP COULD CHANGE BECAUSE THAT STATE RESPONSE TO FEDERAL IF THAT MAKES SENSE. SO IT'S THAT LIKE TRICKLE DOWN OF LIKE FEDERAL SAYING THIS SO THEN THE STATES DOING THIS AND SO IF EL CAP WERE TO CHANGE BASED ON THE FEDERAL THAT COULD CHANGE POTENTIALLY HOW IT'S MANDATED OR YEAH HOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO THE LEGISLATION. I CAN ALSO TRY TO FIND MORE INFORMATION AND SEND IT TO THE BOARD ON IT BECAUSE I KNOW I WAS ALSO DOING A LOT OF GOOGLING TO UNDERSTAND MORE. YEAH I WOULD JUST LOVE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND HOW THAT WOULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON HOW MERGING THE COMMITTEES
SPECIFICALLY COULD UNINTENTIONALLY IMPACT HOW WE SPEND OUR MONEY. YEAH AND I THINK TO EVEN EVEN THE MANDATES AROUND BECAUSE WE DO HAVE DISTINCT MANDATES OF HAVING TO COME UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS OR HAVING TO HOW WE SPEND THE MONEY AND NOW WITH PROP J WITH IT BEING WE HAVE TO NOW MEET THE GOALS OF OUR CHILDREN, OUR FAMILY COUNCIL VERSUS EL CAP IS DIFFERENT LIKE I THINK THAT'S ALSO A LITTLE DISTINCT AND SO I DON'T WANT IT TO THE PIF TO GET TOTALLY SWALLOWED UP IN THIS ONE RECOMMENDATION OR THIS ONE GOVERNING BODY WHEN WE HAVE NO A SECOND SET OF MANAGERS TELLING US THAT COULD WITHHOLD ALL OF OUR P FUNDS AGAIN 10% OF OUR BUDGET SO YEAH, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER WEISSMAN WE'RE THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. I KNOW IT'S STARTING TO GET LATE. I ALSO HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATION NUMBER ONE AND I DON'T WANT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT TO NECESSARILY ANSWER IT RIGHT NOW ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE TIMING. BUT I GUESS I'M WONDERING AS IT RELATES TO THAT FIRST
RECOMMENDATION, FOR EXAMPLE, MR. DIAZ, HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK TO I GUESS YOUR COUNTERPART IN EL CAP, MR. BURKE ABOUT THIS AND AND MR. FUREY, HAVE YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE HAVE THE EL CAP MEMBERS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO THE FACULTY MEMBERS OR JUST ONE IN TERMS OF LIKE IS THIS RECOMMENDATION COMING JUST FROM YOU ALL IS IT COMING FROM BOTH AND WHAT IS THAT COMMUNICATION LOOK LIKE? SO MR. BURKE AND I HAVE MET THROUGHOUT THE YEAR SINCE THIS SINCE THE IDEA OF MERGING THE PIF CAP AND THE EL CAP TOGETHER LAST YEAR AROSE. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER AND TRYING TO GET THE TWO BODIES TOGETHER AND WE HAD I THINK WE HAD ONE OPPORTUNITY TO DO IT THIS YEAR IN NOVEMBER AND THEN WE HAD ANOTHER PLANNED OPPORTUNITY IN MARCH BUT WE THE CAP DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MEMBERS TO BE QUORUM SO WE WEREN'T ABLE TO TO MEET IN MARCH. SO LARGELY THIS RECOMMENDATION COMES FROM THE PIF SIDE AND SO TIM AND I CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR
WAYS TO GET BOTH PARTIES TOGETHER AND HAVE COMMUNICATION AND SHARE INFORMATION. WE THINK THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO DO THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO MAYBE PRESENTING SOME IDEAS ON HOW THAT CAN GO. WE CAN DO THAT IN THE FUTURE AND I KNOW THERE WAS ONE TIME WHERE DR. SUE CAME WITH MELANIE AND IT YOU KNOW, CAME IN AND DID SAY OH I WE BASICALLY HAD THE SAME MEETING JUST NOW IN EL CAP. >> RIGHT? AND SO I THINK THAT THERE ARE THESE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE WE DON'T WANT TO WASTE OR DUPLICATE ANYBODY'S TIME OR DUPLICATE THESE EFFORTS BUT IT'S WELL AS WELL YEAH IF THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP IS COMING TO SPEAK TO THESE REPRESENTATIVES AND OUR MEETING HAPPENS TO BE ON THE SAME TIME LITERALLY NEXT DOOR TO EACH OTHER LIKE IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO COMBINE SO THAT WE CAN ALL ASK QUESTIONS AND YOU KNOW GET BUDGETARY INFORMATION AND I DO THINK IT IS IT IS THIS INTERESTING THING OF UNDERSTANDING WELL WHY ARE CERTAIN THINGS FUNDED IN CERTAIN WAYS? LIKE WHY DID SPEED MOVE TO PIF
THIS YEAR? WE DON'T KNOW. YOU KNOW THAT'S IT WENT FROM $0 TWO YEARS AGO TO $10 MILLION THIS YEAR TO $25 MILLION. YOU KNOW AND IS THAT A PROTECTIVE THING? IS IT A COVERING OUR WHOLE THING? IS IT A YOU KNOW, LIKE I DON'T KNOW AND I DON'T KNOW IF IN THAT EL CAP AND PIF WOULD WE HAVE THAT DISCUSSION OF HOW CERTAIN MONEY GETS DECIDED TO GO INTO WHICH COLUMN IT'S YEAH IT'S AN UNKNOWN AND AGAIN AND I THINK THAT'S WHY PART OF THAT RECOMMENDATION OF THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT ARE NO LONGER ON THE PIF PORTFOLIO THAT WERE AND IT'S LEFT US WITH THIS QUESTION OF WILL ARE THEY NO LONGER IN THE DISTRICT? IS IT PART OF THE CUT OR IS IT JUST NOW MOVE TO A DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCE AND YOU KNOW AND WE WANT TO KNOW BECAUSE AGAIN WE ARE WHEN THERE'S THINGS IN THE PORTFOLIO THAT ARE STRONG AND HAVE GOOD RECOMMEND WE WANT TO CONTINUE IT AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT PIF IS ALL OF THOSE PROGRAMMATIC DOCUMENTS AND THAT EVERYBODY DOES THAT IS FUNDED BY PIF AND WE GET TO
KNOW THESE PROGRAMS INTIMATELY AND WE GET TO REALLY SEE THE DATA AND NOT EVERYTHING IN THE DISTRICT IS THAT IS NOT FUNDED. SO ANYTHING IN THE DISTRICT NOT FUNDED BY PIF DOESN'T HAVE THAT SAME LEVEL AND SO WE ALSO CAN'T SPEAK TO THINGS IN THE SAME WAY TO SHOW LIKE ATHLETICS MAN WE CAN SHOW THAT WHEN KIDS ARE IN ATHLETICS, WHEN THEY ARE DOING GREAT BECAUSE THEY HAVE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THEY HAVE TO MEET WHEN STUDENTS ARE IN CTE EITHER YOU KNOW WE WE KNOW THIS DATA X, Y, Z AVID GREAT, YOU KNOW, SO I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF PIF AND WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT CONTINUING TO BUT MAKE SURE OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THOSE PROGRAMS STAYS THERE. I JUST HAVE A REALLY BRIEF COMMENT ON THAT POINT. CAN I AND THEN I'LL GO TO JUST TO SAY I THINK JUST AS A ONE OF THE LONGER SERVING BOARD MEMBERS WHEN THIS POINT THAT YOU JUST MADE AROUND THE THE FACT THAT PIF DOES ACTUALLY MORE MONITORING IS WAS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I THINK THE IDEA ACTUALLY OF MERGING THEM WAS FLOATED WAS MORE SO TO LIKE DO MORE OF LIKE THE PIF EXPERIENCE MORE HOLISTICALLY
ACROSS THE DISTRICT I REMEMBER A BOARD MEETING EITHER THE LAST YEAR OR THE YEAR BEFORE WHERE BOARD MEMBERS WERE SAYING, YOU KNOW THIS LEVEL OF DETAIL IS FANTASTIC AND WE'D LIKE TO SEE MORE OF IT. SO I DON'T KNOW AGAIN, I DON'T I DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT STAFF NEEDS TO DO THAT. MAYBE THAT'S TOO MUCH JUST TO BUT TO SAY I THINK THAT PART OF THE IMPETUS IN EVEN THINKING ABOUT THIS WAS TO SORT OF BRING MORE OF THAT TO AND AND TO ALSO HAVE THOSE QUESTIONS NOT BE LIKE OH THAT'S EVAPORATED FROM PIF NOW, RIGHT. BUT RATHER HAVE IT BE MORE HOLISTIC. I THINK THAT WAS SOME OF THE INTENTIONALITY IN THINKING ABOUT THE MERGING BUT AGAIN NOT WANTING TO UNDERMINE NOR WANT TO AT THE SAME TIME NOT WANTING TO UNDERMINE THE INDEPENDENCE OR ADVANTAGES OF PIF. SO I THINK BOARD MEMBERS WHO BROUGHT UP THIS IDEA WERE KIND OF HOLDING ALL OF THOSE THINGS. SO JUST TO REFLECT THAT HISTORICAL NOTE. THANK YOU. YOU HAVE A MINUTE LEFT, COMMISSIONER RAY, THANK YOU AS WELL FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK ON THIS ESPECIALLY HAD SUCH A SMALL CONTINGENT. SO I'M GOING TO ADDRESS MY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO THAT I SEE FROM FROM WHAT YOU WERE SAYING THAT YOU ARE ALL DOWN TO ONLY SEVEN MEMBERS AND THAT MUST BE EXTREMELY TOUGH.
WHAT IS THE BEST WAY FOR YOU KNOW FOR US WHAT CAN WE DO AS COMMISSIONERS? I UNDERSTAND WE CAN APPOINT FOLKS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS MORE RECENTLY COME TO MY ATTENTION. CAN YOU SORT OF GIVE US A SENSE OF HOW WE CAN DO THAT AND HOW QUICKLY THAT CAN OCCUR SO OR WHO SHOULD WE TALK TO ABOUT BEING ABLE TO ENGAGE IN THAT PROCESS? >> THANK YOU. TALK TO DOUG. TALK TO EVERYONE HERE. GOOD. YEAH I CAN WELL I'M GOING TO LOOK TO THE SUPERINTENDENT HERE BUT I BELIEVE THOSE SHOULD COME TO THE BOARD OFFICE BECAUSE THE BOARD OFFICE CAN SUPPORT WITH COORDINATING BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION WHO HAVE VACANCIES THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER. I WILL ALSO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THIS IS NOT LIMITED TO PIF AS WELL. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF BODIES THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER FOR APPOINTMENT AND ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS TAKING PLACE AMONG THE LEADERSHIP TEAM RIGHT NOW IS HOW DO WE TAKE STOCK OF THE MANY VACANCIES THAT WE HAVE ACROSS OUR ADVISORY COUNCILS
AND COMMITTEES KNOWING THAT WE HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY IN MAKING SURE THAT WE MEET THOSE COMMITMENTS IN ADDITION TO CONVERSATIONS JUST GENERALLY AROUND WHAT ARE WE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE LEVERAGE THE VOICE OF OUR ADVISORY COUNCIL COMMITTEES IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY? ONE EXERCISE OF THAT YOU SAW THIS YEAR WAS THE CONSOLIDATION OF SEVERAL COUNCILS AND COMMITTEES INTO A SINGLE PRESENTATION TO BRING TO THE BOARD. IT'S THOSE KIND OF SOLUTIONS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKSHOPPING RIGHT NOW AS A LEADERSHIP TEAM WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT. BUT POINT IS TAKEN WE DO HAVE OPPORTUNITIES HERE TO ENSURE THAT OUR BODIES ARE FILLED AND SO I DID NOT TAKE THAT FROM YOUR TIME. YES. AND THAT MAY BE FURTHER THAT WORK MAY BE FURTHERED BY AD HOC COMMITTEES THAT WE ANTICIPATE THE BOARD HAVING AROUND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT. AND SO THAT IS KIND OF PART OF THE WORK BEFORE US THAT THE BOARD IS COMMITTED TO UNDER ITS METRICS. OKAY. I THINK I'M PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO TALK TO ALL OF YOU
FOLKS MORE TO FIND OUT ABOUT THIS. BUT IS THERE A GENERAL TIME FRAME IN THE PAST IN WHICH YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, LOOKED OR BEEN ABLE TO OBTAIN NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS? IT HAS BEEN SORT OF RUNNING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. THE THE RESOLUTION THAT CREATED ALL THE ADVISORY SAYS THAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR OF THE SCHOOL YEAR BUT WE LOSE MEMBERS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR FOR VARIOUS REASONS AND SO IT SEEMS TO BE THE PRACTICE IS BEING A ROLLING NOMINATION. SO WE GET THEM MONTHLY DURING AFTER BOARD MEETINGS SO THAT'S SORT OF BEEN THE PRACTICE. BUT THE RESOLUTION SAYS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GUPTA THANK YOU, PRESIDENT KIM. SO JUST A FOLLOW ON COMMENT TO BOTH COMMISSIONER RAY AS WELL AS WHAT YOU'RE JUST MENTIONING PRESIDENT KIM PERHAPS THIS ALREADY EXISTS BUT IT'D BE GREAT TO SEE A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF IT WHEN WHEN WHEN WE PUT THIS TOGETHER COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NOMINATIONS, TIMELINES AND THE PROCESS BY WHICH WE
NOMINATE SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALL WE'RE ALL DOING WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. IT SOUNDS IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS COMMITTEE IS CERTAINLY PULLING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT IN TERMS OF DOING WHAT IT CAN WITH SEVEN MEMBERS. ONE QUESTION I HAVE IS THIS IS THE FIRST I'M HEARING OF POTENTIALLY A MERGE OR TALK OF A MERGE IF YOU WILL OR BETWEEN L L CAP AND PIF AND AND I'M CURIOUS I MEAN YOU KNOW THE COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER YOU KIND OF ADDRESSED THIS BUT I YOU KNOW IF THERE IS ANY CONTEXT AND I NEED NOT TAKE THE TIME RIGHT NOW IF IF WE ARE STRETCHED FOR TIME BUT ANY CONTEXT FOR THAT ANY FURTHER CONTEXT I SUPPOSE BESIDES I'LL KEEP ASKING THE PIF ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS IT DOES WOULD BE HELPFUL. COMMISSIONER GUPTA I'LL TAKE THAT QUESTION. I THINK THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS. ONE, THE DESIRE FOR US TO HAVE TO BE MORE EFFICIENT AS A DISTRICT IN TERMS OF RECOMMENDATIONS TO THIS BOARD
TO TO THE ADMINISTRATION ON HOW WE SERVE OUR VOCAL STUDENTS AND HOW DO WE DO IT BETTER. SO THERE WAS THERE WAS A DESIRE FOR US TO JUST ONCE AGAIN BE MORE EFFICIENT, BE MORE ALIGNED. NUMBER TWO, THE FOLKS THAT THAT PARTICIPATE ON THE PIF ARE SIMILAR TO THE FOLKS THAT PARTICIPATE ON THE EL CAP AND SO THERE WERE DUPLICATE DUPLICATION OF PEOPLE'S EFFORTS. AND THEN AND THEN LASTLY WE WE JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PIF AS WELL AS FROM EL CAP LINES UP AND AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, A LOT OF IT IS LINING UP AND AND SO YOU DON'T END UP HAVING TO TO DOCUMENT THAT SAYS THE SAME THING. SO I GUESS IT GOES BACK TO EFFICIENCIES AND WHAT MAGGIE WAS SAYING EARLIER IS THAT YOU KNOW, I ATTENDED TO BOTH THE EL CAP AND THE PIF CAG ON THE SAME DAY AND LITERALLY THERE WERE JUST ONE ROOM APART FROM EACH OTHER AND THE CONVERSATION WAS LITERALLY THE SAME. SO IT WAS JUST WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE GREATER
EFFICIENCY, BETTER USE OF OUR OUR EDUCATORS, OUR TEACHERS, OUR OUR PARENTS TIME BUT IT IS CLEAR THAT WE NEED TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATION SO THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE. OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS AND MANDATES FROM EACH OF THESE FUNDING STREAMS AND WE YOU KNOW WE DON'T WANT TO NOT FOLLOW THOSE RULES. OF COURSE WE WILL BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO NOT YOU KNOW, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD JUST JUST WASTE PEOPLE'S TIME, PEOPLE'S TIME. SO WE WANT TO BE MORE EFFICIENT IN THAT. BUT TO BE CLEAR, THERE'S NO RECOMMENDATION ON TABLE RIGHT NOW. THERE'S NO RECOMMENDATION. RIGHT. I JUST WANTED TO CONFIRM THERE'S A PROPOSAL AND WE'RE WORKING THROUGH IT. >> OKAY. COMMISSIONER FISHER, I APPRECIATE THIS CONVERSATION. I WANT TO PUSH BACK ON THAT A LITTLE BIT THOUGH. SUPERINTENDENT SUE BECAUSE FRANKLY IF WE'RE HAVING THE SAME CONVERSATION AGAIN IN THESE TWO MEETINGS, I WOULD SAY THAT'S A FAILURE OF OUR LEADERSHIP BECAUSE TO YOUR POINT, MISS FUREY AND THE QUESTIONS ABOUT ONE AND THE
CHALLENGES IN BRINGING PIF KECK AND EL CAP TASK FORCE TOGETHER IS THESE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING SEPARATE ISSUES. YOU KNOW, IN WE SHOULD BE TALKING IN PIF CAG ABOUT UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT SLAM PIF ARE AND AND EL CAP HAS THREE FOCAL POPULATIONS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR STUDENTS OF LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR FOSTER YOUTH AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EARLY ENGLISH OUR MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS, OUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS THEY ARE SEPARATE POPULATIONS, SEPARATE INTENTIONS FOR OVERSIGHT FRANKLY. AND SO TO CONSOLIDATE THEM AND SAY THAT THEY ARE THE SAME MEANS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HECK WE'RE DOING AND SO WE HAVE A LEARNING JOURNEY THAT WE NEED TO TAKE FRANKLY. AND REALLY WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT GA'S AND GO AROUND BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THIS REALLY WE HAVE A LOT TO LEARN ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND WE ARE MISSING I MEAN FRANKLY TO SEE SOME OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS HERE ABOUT NO ENGAGEMENT ON PROP JAY YOU KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION IN HERE ABOUT THE PIF CEC FOR YEARS ABOUT WHAT
AMOUNT OF OVERSIGHT IS I FEEL LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF DEJA VU. LAST YEAR WE HAD THE SAME LIKE HOW MUCH OVERSIGHT IS ACTUALLY WHAT DOES OVERSIGHT, WHAT IS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT? WHAT IS THE DECISION MAKING AUTHORITY OF THE PIF? CEC SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WERE SAID HERE LIKE YOU MENTIONED MYSTERY THE FACT THAT YOU'RE JUST BEING TOLD SPECIAL EDUCATION IS FRANKLY TAKING $25 MILLION OF THE PIF CAP NEXT YEAR. IT'S NOT IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT'S A COMMITTEE DECISION. IT'S A DECISION THAT'S BEING HANDED TO YOU AND YOU'RE BEING EXPECTED TO RUBBER STAMP THAT'S NOT THE INTENTION OF THE CEC AS AN OVERSIGHT. I WE SHOULD NOT AS A LEADERSHIP TEAM BE MAKING DECISIONS WITH THE PAC MONEY AND TURNING AROUND TO THE PIF CEC AND SAYING HERE YOU GO. ARE YOU GOING TO RUBBERSTAMP IT OR NOT? >> THAT'S NOT OVERSIGHT. SO I THINK WE REALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR BOARD METRICS COMING UP HERE SHORTLY AND WHAT OVERSIGHT MEANS THIS IS A HUGE AREA THAT WE NEED TO REFLECT ON AND I MEAN WHEN WE HAD THE JOIN ADVISORIES THERE WAS A WHOLE LOT OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN SAID CEC, A PAC DELEK YES, WE HAD A LOT OF THINGS THAT WHERE
WE HAD OVERLAPPING AREAS OF CONCERN BUT THERE WAS A LOT THAT WE ADDRESSED SEPARATELY TOO SO AND THAT WAS A LEADERSHIP ISSUE. SO I, I THINK WE HAVE A LOT WE NEED TO REFLECT ON HERE ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO OUR GUARDRAILS AND THAT WE I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EVEN YOU, MS.. FUREY OR SOMEONE HERE AT THE DYESS LAST YEAR WHO TALKED ABOUT PIF CEC AS A SLUSH FUND AND THAT WAS A SEEMED TO BE THE PERCEPTION BY SOME SOME AND THAT'S NOT UN THAT'S NOT FAIR AND IT'S DISRESPECTFUL TO YOU AND YOUR SMALL BUT MIGHTY COMMITTEE IN THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING. SO I THINK TO HONOR THE WORK THAT THESE FOLKS ARE DOING, WE REALLY NEED TO FIGURE THIS OUT . THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER FISHER COMMISSIONER RAY I'LL TRY TO KEEP IT PRETTY QUICK. I ALSO WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON YOUR RECOMMENDATION NUMBER FIVE ABOUT THE NURSING MODEL. I JUST WANTED TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHY YOU RECOMMEND RETURN.
IT SOUNDS LIKE REINSTATING THE PRIOR STAFFING MODEL AS OPPOSED TO WHAT THE DISTRICT IS DOING FOR THE 25 THE 26 SCHOOL YEAR. THANK YOU. >> I CAN SPEAK YOU KNOW I'LL SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO MY EXPERIENCE SO WE ARE ONE OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAT'S LUCKY TO HAVE A HALF TIME NURSE BILINGUAL. I CAN'T TELL YOU THE AMOUNT OF TIMES SHE'S HELPED CONNECT OUR FAMILIES WITH HEALTH CARE SERVICES OUR IN OUR SCHOOLS OVER 90 PER YEAR ABOUT 90% AND DUPLICATED PUPIL PERCENTAGE RIGHT SO I'M BEATING THAT EL CAP THE VOCAL STUDENT POPULATION AND NEXT YEAR WE'RE GOING TO BE SHARING ONE NURSE WITH THREE SCHOOLS AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY STUDENTS WITH SPECIALIZED HEALTH CARE SERVICES NEXT YEAR THAT WE KNOW OF SO RIGHT NEEDING INSULIN G TWO FEEDINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT THIS YEAR WE WE HAVE TWO STUDENTS GRADUATE AND WE'RE GOING TO BE SHARING WITH THREE SCHOOLS ONE OF WHICH HAS AN SDC WHICH HAS HIGHER NEEDS. SO WE WERE TOLD TO EXPECT TO HAVE A NURSE THERE MAYBE ONCE
EVERY OTHER WEEK ONE DAY EVERY OTHER WEEK AND THAT IS NOT SERVING OUR COMMUNITY. THAT'S NOT BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS. THAT PERSON IS GOING TO LITERALLY BE THERE TO DO VISION SCREENINGS FOR UPCOMING IEPS TO YOU KNOW ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS. OUR NURSE IS A KEY PART OF OUR COORDINATED CARE TEAM THAT NOTICES HEY THE STUDENTS ARE COMING IN FOR STOMACHACHES A LOT. HEY THE STUDENT YOU KNOW I'VE NOTICED THIS IS COMING UP. THEY'RE NO LONGER GOING TO BE A PART OF THAT, RIGHT? THEY'RE NOT PART OF OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY TRULY. THEY'RE GOING TO BE A PERSON THAT COMES ON WITH SPECIAL YOU KNOW, TAKES CARE OF WHAT'S NEEDED AND THEN LEAVES AND THEN WITH MANAGING THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOL SITES IT'S GOING TO BE A HOT POTATO. WHAT'S THE CRISIS? AND YOU KNOW AND I KNOW A PART OF THE REASON BEHIND THAT THAT WE'VE HEARD IS BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN WE CAN'T HIRE NURSES, YOU KNOW, PARTLY BECAUSE OUR WHAT WE PAY NURSES COMPARED TO ALL THE OTHER IN THE AREA IS MINIMAL BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE THE WORK WORK LIFE BALANCE
THAT COMES WITH BEING A SCHOOL DISTRICT NURSE AND WANT TO BE A SCHOOL DISTRICT NURSE. IT'S ALSO VERY EXPENSIVE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BY THE FIFTH YEAR YOU HAVE TO HAVE A CREDENTIAL THAT COSTS OVER $10,000 TO GET THAT NURSES HAVE TO PAY OUT OF POCKET FOR RIGHT? SO THERE'S MULTIPLE FACTORS BUT WE NEED YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO HIRE MORE NURSES SO THAT EVERY SCHOOL HAS A NURSE AND WE'VE BEEN USING CONTRACTORS TO FILL IN FOR A LOT OF THE SPECIALIZED HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND THERE'S BEEN AN ASK I THINK TO REDUCE OUR FUNDING OUR RELIANCE ON CONTRACTS WHICH I FULLY APPRECIATE. HOWEVER, WHAT THAT'S DONE IS THEN THAT SAYING WELL NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT NURSES DO THAT INSTEAD . >> IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE GOING TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF SERVICES WE PROVIDE JUST NOW OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT NURSES WILL NO LONGER BE PARTS OF YOUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY. THEY'RE JUST GOING TO BE SERVICE PROVIDERS THAT WILL COME IN AND PROVIDE AND IT'S STILL NOT EVEN FULLY FLESHED OUT AND BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE NEW NEXT YEAR IT'S REALLY YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE REALLY UNSURE WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE. AND SO THE PEACOCK REALLY WE WE WANT TO SEE A HIRING OF THERE
ARE PARAPROFESSIONAL LPN POSITIONS THAT ARE NOT REALLY BEING OPENED OR HIRED. WE COULD DO THAT INSTEAD OF SPENDING IT ON CONTRACTORS TO TO DO THAT FOR A LOT OF THESE HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND WE WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE OUR SCHOOL NURSES AT OUR SCHOOLS WE WANT TO INCREASE THAT NOT DECREASE IT. YOU'RE SEEING MIDDLE SCHOOLS THAT WILL HAVE PART TIME NURSES WHEN WE'RE USED TO SECONDARY HAVING FULL TIME NURSES TO DO A LOT YOU KNOW K EIGHTS I KNOW LIKE THE SCHOOL NURSE AT MY SCHOOL SHE IS GOING SHE ALSO WORKS AT A K TO E SHE'S GOING TO BE AT THAT K TO EIGHT HAS OVER 600 STUDENTS AND SHE'S GOING TO BE SHARING NOW WITH THAT AND ANOTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND WITH A REDUCTION OF SPECIALIZED HEALTH CARE SERVICE CONTRACTORS THERE. SO NOW MORE IS GOING TO BE ON HER PLATE AND SHE'S GOING TO HAVE TO DO MULTIPLE SCHOOLS. >> RIGHT. AND IT'S JUST YEAH, I KNOW WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE OUR BEST DO WITH LESS MONEY BUT I JUST THINK HOW WE'RE DECIDING TO SPEND THE MONEY WE HAVE THE PEACOCK HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT AND WE'D LIKE TO SEE MORE YEAH.
PERMANENT POSITIONS HIRED WITHIN THE DISTRICT. THANKS. I WANTED TO JUST UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR PERSPECTIVE OR RATIONALE WAS ON THAT. MY OTHER QUESTION IS JUST A QUICK QUICK FACTUAL QUESTION. I HAD ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT THE COLLEGE AND CTE PROGRAMS AND SOME CLAIMS THAT WERE MADE WITH REGARD TO THEM AND I JUST WANTED TO CHECK AND THERE WAS A LOT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, ADDITIONAL CHARTS AND WHAT SEEMED TO ME LIKE A MODIFICATION OF THE CLAIMS THAT WERE MADE IN HERE. BUT IS THERE ANYTHING THAT'S ACTUALLY INACCURATE ABOUT THE DATA THAT THAT'S IN HERE OR IS IT JUST THAT THERE'S A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF THAT'S BEEN ADDED IN RESPONSE TO MY QUESTION? YES. MORE INFORMATION WAS ADDED IN RESPONSE TO YOUR QUESTION. WE HAVE WE PLAN TO UPDATE THE PLAN WITH THE NEW CHARTS FOR THE 24TH MEETING. OKAY. >> OKAY. IT'S NOT LIKE SOMETHING HERE WAS ACTUALLY INCORRECT. NO, NO. >> THEY JUST THEY UPDATED IT IN RESPONSE TO YOUR QUESTIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION. >> I KNOW THAT WE'LL HAVE
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY NEXT WEEK TO HEAR FROM STAFF RESPONSES ON ON THIS REPORT. SO I AND THEN TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY OTHER FINAL REMARKS AND SEEING NONE THANK YOU FOR YOUR STEAL MY THUNDER THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR WORK ON THIS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING THE STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS NEXT WEEK. >> THANK YOU ALL. EXCELLENT. MOVING TO ITEM G ONE WE ARE BEGINNING OUR DISCUSSION ITEMS ITEM G1256-17SP1 SUPERINTENDENT'S PROPOSAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE PUBLIC EDUCATION INTERIM FUNDS EXPENDITURE PLAN FOR SCHOOL YEAR 2526 THIS IS COMMISSIONERS THE FIRST READING OF THIS REPORT AND WE WILL RECEIVE THE SECOND AT THE NEXT MEETING I WILL TURN IT OVER TO THE SUPERINTENDENT TO READ THIS INTO THE RECORD. THIS IS P SO THIS SHOULD BE A 20 THE DAY. THANK YOU TIM. I YEAH WELCOME BACK SO SO GO AHEAD GO FOR IT YES SO I'M BACK AGAIN AND WE ARE INTRODUCING THE SUPERINTENDENT PROPOSAL FOR
THE EXPENDITURE PLAN FOR YEAR FISCAL YEAR 26. THIS IS AN ITEM FOR FIRST READING. I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY OTHER THAN TO INTRODUCE THE ITEM INTO THE INTO THE RECORD AND WE WILL DO EXCUSE ME A FULL PRESENTATION NEXT WEEK ON THE 24TH SO ANYTHING YOU WANT I RIGHT THANK YOU. OKAY GREAT THANK YOU. THAT WAS SO EASY. YEAH, WE SHOULD DO THAT AGAIN. ITEM G TWO BOARD SELF EVALUATION FOR 2425 UM THERE ARE TWO COMPONENTS OF THIS BOARD'S SELF-EVALUATION. THE FIRST COMPONENT WILL BE A BOARD REFLECTION FROM LEADERSHIP ON THE SHORT TERM EVALUATION METRICS AND THEN THE SECOND WILL BE A EXERCISE WITH A.J. TO REFLECT ON OUR STUDENT OUTCOMES FOCUS GOVERNANCE AND A PROGRESS TO THAT. AND SO I WILL DRAW COMMISSIONERS ATTENTION TO THE BOARD SELF-EVALUATION MEMO THAT WAS SENT FROM VICE PRESIDENT HULING AND MYSELF. I WILL ACKNOWLEDGE A COUPLE OF
THINGS JUST IN TERMS OF PROCESS HERE WE TOOK OUR HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO ARTICULATE WHAT WE BELIEVE WAS THE PROGRESS SO FAR AND THE QUESTION AT HAND IS ARE THERE ANY CLARIFYING QUESTIONS OR THINGS TO ADD OR CONSIDER REGARDING OUR PROGRESS TO DATE? JUST DOING A QUICK VOICEOVER OF OUR REFLECTIONS SO FAR. UM, A COUPLE OF THINGS I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN PLANNING FOR AND ESTABLISHING OUR AD HOC COMMITTEES OF WHICH ARE PRIMARILY RELATED TO METRIC ONE, A1B AND TWO A AND SO YOU'LL SEE THERE WE JUST WE TOOK THE HEAD OF SAYING NOT STARTED YET BUT THE BOARD HAS TAKEN ACTION IN AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OR LEADERSHIP TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING THIS AND WE HAVE INVESTED IN OUR TIME WITH BOARD OFFICE AND STAFF TO GET THE WORK MOVING ON THIS FRONT. >> I'M HAPPY TO DIG INTO THAT MORE IF COMMISSIONERS HAVE QUESTIONS FOR ONE C FOR MIDYEAR AND END OF YEAR EVALUATIONS AS EVIDENCED BY THE EXERCISE WE ARE UNDERGOING CURRENTLY WE ARE EXCITED TO CONDUCT THESE
MIDYEAR END OF YEAR EVALUATIONS AND MORE FORMALLY ADDRESS OUR BOARD PROGRESS AND SUPERINTENDENT PROGRESS TO DATE. THIS IS ONE PART OF THAT. NEXT WEEK WE WILL BE HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE SUPERINTENDENT'S EVALUATION AND AN OPEN SESSION. WE WILL BE HAVING AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT HER PROGRESS TOWARDS HER SHORT TERM EVALUATION METRICS AS WELL FOR METRICS TO BE AND TO SEE. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FOR TO BE WE ARE IN ACTIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY PARTNERS TO DETERMINE HOW TO BEST ESTABLISH A DATE AND TIME FOR THERE TO BE A STUDENT OUTCOMES FOCUSED GOVERNANCE TRAINING FOR THE PUBLIC AND FOR STAFF. SUPERINTENDENT WILL SPEAK ON THE STAFF SIDE WHEREAS THE BOARD HAS TAKEN IT UPON OURSELVES TO DISCUSS HOW WE CAN DO THIS FOR THE PUBLIC. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST I THINK TO SEE IS WHERE A LOT OF OUR WORK SO FAR HAS TAKEN PLACE IN ESTABLISHING NEW ROUTINES AND STRUCTURES RELATED TO EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES .
WE CONTINUE TO PARTNER WITH STAFF ON ESTABLISHING A GOVERNANCE CALENDAR ALL OF WHICH WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE BOARD I BELIEVE AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING AND IN THAT YOU WILL HOPEFULLY SEE REFLECTED SOME UPDATES WE'VE MADE IN OUR IN OUR CONVERSATIONS AND WORK WITH STAFF. WE DO HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO AND SO I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE COME FALL WE WILL HIT THE GROUND RUNNING OUR WORK AS A LEADERSHIP TEAM WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE SUMMER AND MAKING SURE WE SET OURSELVES UP APPROPRIATELY FOR THE FALL. IN ADDITION, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE JUST THE CONVERSATION WE JUST HAD ABOUT ADVISORY COUNCILS AND COMMITTEES. THIS IS ALL PART OF OUR HOPE TO TACKLE THIS IN THE WORK WE DO AROUND ESTABLISHING BOTH EFFECTIVE ROUTINES AND EXPECTATIONS AROUND PROGRESS MONITORING BUT ALSO WHAT IT MEANS TO ENGAGE THE PUBLIC AROUND PUBLIC LEARNING
AND WHAT THAT MEANS TO BRING THE PUBLIC ALONG IN THOSE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE HAVE AS BOTH A BOARD AND A LEADERSHIP BODY. SO ALL OF THAT TO SAY IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS RELATED TO WHAT LEADERSHIP TEAM HAS POSED IN FRONT OF YOU HERE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RAISE THOSE. I WILL STILL KEEP YOU AT THREE MINUTES AND PLACE PERSON WHO LIKE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO ADD ? THANK YOU TO PRESIDENT KIM AND TO SUPERINTENDENT SUE AND HER LEADERSHIP TEAM FOR ALL THE SUPPORT THAT THEY HAVE PROVIDED THE BOARD LEADERSHIP IN THE WORK TO DATE THUS FAR INCLUDING MANY, MANY, MANY DIFFICULT TO SCHEDULE MEETINGS ON SETTING UP THE NEXT GOVERNANCE CALENDAR. SHOUT OUT TO ME OKAY SEEING NONE I OH SORRY SURE I JUST MAYBE WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT IN THE SELF EVALUATION PROCESS BUT YOU KNOW WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE METRICS HERE, WHAT I DON'T SEE IS THE EXPLICIT DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT PROCESS OR ADDITIONAL MECHANISMS FOR WHICH THE COMMUNITY TO ENGAGE WITH US AND US TO ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC AS IS REQUIRED FOR US AS A MECHANISM OF REFLECTING OUR COMMUNITY VALUES AND AS PART OF OUR GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE. YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. SO METRIC TO A IS INTENDED TO TO ADDRESS THAT DIRECTLY AROUND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE BOARD TO SET MINIMUM EXPECTATIONS FOR OURSELVES AND OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PUBLIC AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR US TO DO THINGS LIKE I THINK WELL I GUESS THEY CAN'T RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENT BUT ENGAGE SCHOOL COMMUNITIES ETC. ADMITTEDLY WE HAVE NOT MADE AS MUCH PROGRESS AS WE HAD INTENDED WITH THAT BUT THAT IS THE BODY OF WORK THAT WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US TO DO. THERE ARE KIND OF LIKE TWO PARTS TO THAT I WILL ACKNOWLEDGE. ONE IS THROUGH AN AD HOC OF ESTABLISHING WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE BOARD TO ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC. THERE IS A SECOND CONVERSATION HERE THAT IS ACTIVELY TAKING
PLACE WITH LEADERSHIP AND THE SUPERINTENDENT AROUND WHAT IT MEANS FOR US TO ENGAGE WITH STAFF IN THE AND SCHOOL COMMUNITIES RIGHT SINCE THAT IMPLICATES SUPERINTENDENTS STAFF THAT WE WE ARE PARSING THAT OUT FROM LIKE ACTIVE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT BECAUSE IT INVOLVES STAFF AND SO STAFF TIME AND STAFF INTERFACING AND SO THAT IS A CONVERSATION THAT WE WE DO NEED TO HAVE AS A AS A LEADERSHIP TEAM AND WILL ENGAGE THE BROADER BOARD AS WE PROGRESS ON THAT AT THE PUBLIC BOARD MEETINGS TO CLARIFY YES, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FROM A DISTRICT PERSPECTIVE IS DIFFERENT THAN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FROM A BOARD PERSPECTIVE. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO WAY WE'RE TALKING NOT THE DISTRICT AND DISTRICT STAFF BUT BOARD AND BOARD STAFF AND DEVELOPING AN AD HOC DO WE HAVE MORE WHAT'S THE TIMELINE ON THAT AD HOC GETTING UNDERWAY IN THAT WORK STARTING DO WE HAVE THAT YET? THAT IS KIND OF THE WORK THAT WE HAVE TO DO OVER THE SUMMER IN JULY ESTABLISH THOSE TIMELINES FOR FOR INTRODUCING
THE AD THERE'S BEEN INITIAL THINKING AROUND THE ORDER OF OPERATIONS HERE. LAUNCHING THREE AD HOC AT ONCE WILL BE CHALLENGING. SO WE JUST NEED TO HAVE AN HONEST CONVERSATION AROUND THE CAPACITY OF BOARD OFFICE STAFF AND THE BOARD IN DOING SO. >> PART OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR HAS ALSO BEEN AROUND IDENTIFYING OUTSIDE PHILANTHROPIC RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THIS WORK AND SO WE HAVE BEEN DOING A LOT OF THE KIND OF LEGWORK TO GET THAT ADDITIONAL SUPPORT NEEDED TO HAVE THREE SUCCESSFUL AD HOC COMMITTEES AND IT'S IN PLACE NOW AND SO I EXPECT THAT SHORTLY THERE WILL BE QUESTIONS ABOUT COMMISSIONERS INTEREST IN VARIOUS AD HOC AND AVAILABILITY FOR SCHEDULING AND WE WILL START ROLLING OUT FIRST ONES BASED ON COMMISSIONER AND STAFF AVAILABILITY AS SOON AS WE CAN. THANK YOU. >> NOW WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO
A.J. ARE YOU ON? >> YES, SIR. HELLO, MR. KRAYBILL. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO YOU TO WALK US THROUGH THE STUDENT OUTCOMES FOCUSED GOVERNANCE WORK. WELL, INTERESTINGLY, AS I WAS REVIEWING YOU ALL HAVE PUT A LOT OF WORK IN TO MOVE THE NEEDLE ON THIS. HOWEVER, THAT'S NOT READILY APPARENT. IF WE WERE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION AND PROBABLY 3 OR 4 MORE WEEKS IT WOULD BE MUCH MORE CLEAR THE PROGRESS THAT THE BOARD IS MAKING. BUT AS I REVIEWED YOUR PROGRESS ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUMENT IT REALLY DOESN'T SHOW A LOT OF CHANGE FROM YOUR LAST TIME. BUT THAT'S NOT A REFLECTION OF THE WORK THAT'S JUST REALITY OF THE TIMING. AND SO I HAVE TO RECOMMENDATIONS ONE I DON'T THINK IT'S WORTH YOUR TIME TO GO THROUGH THE INSTRUMENT SINCE NOT A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE THE LAST TIME AND YOU'LL SEE
SIGNIFICANT IMPROVED MINUTES IN YOUR NEXT SELF EVALUATION. SO THAT'S THE FIRST RECOMMENDATION. I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S WORTH YOUR TIME THIS EVENING. THE SECOND RECOMMENDATION HOWEVER, THERE IS ONE AREA WHERE THE BOARD HAS CONTINUED TO STRUGGLE THAT IT WOULD BE WORTH A CONVERSATION THIS EVENING. JUST TAKING A FEW MOMENTS OF YOUR TIME TO DISCUSS THE BOARD'S INTENTIONS REGARDING YOUR USE OF BOARD MEETING TIME THIS IS ONE AREA WHERE YOU ALL HAVEN'T SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED IN TERMS OF HOW ARE YOU DEVOTING THE TIME IN THESE MEETINGS AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE WORTHWHILE TO DISCUSS THIS EVENING OR YOU CAN CERTAINLY POSTPONE THAT FOR ANOTHER EVENING. BUT THE REST OF YOURSELF EVALUATION WOULD BE MUCH MORE REFLECTIVE OF YOUR ACTUAL PROGRESS IF WE HAVE THIS CONVERSATION EHER NEXT MONTH OR SIMPLY DEFER UNTIL YOUR NEXT QUARTERLY SELF-EVALUATION. OKAY.
I KNOW THAT COMMISSIONER FISHER IS SMILING VERY WIDELY RIGHT NOW AT THAT COMMENT. >> I REGRET NOTHING. I MEAN THERE'S YOU KNOW, REGRET. IS THAT HOW THIS SONG GOES? BUT I CHICKEN AND THE EGG HERE THOUGH GUYS. I MEAN I THINK PART OF THE REASON WE'RE HAVING SOME OF THESE CONVERSATIONS HERE IN OUR BOARD MEETING THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY STUDENT OUTCOMES FOCUSED GOVERNANCE IS OUT OF A RESPECT FOR THE WILL OF THE COMMUNITY AND WE'RE TRYING TO BE TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC AND ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT THE PUBLIC HAS. AND THIS IS THE SPACE TO DO IT. WE DON'T HAVE OTHER COMMITTEES. WE DON'T HAVE OTHER ENGAGEMENT MECHANISMS. SO THE SOONER WE GET THOSE IN PLACE I THINK THE MORE EFFECTIVE OUR MEETINGS WILL BECOME. AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO JUST RECOGNIZE THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE STUDENT OUTCOMES FOCUS GOVERNANCE PROGRESS IS MADE ONCE WE HAVE OUR FISCAL AND OPERATIONAL HOUSE IN ORDER. AND SO IT DOES MAKE SENSE THAT WE ARE NOT MOVING TOWARD
SPENDING AS MUCH OF OUR BOARD TIME ON MONITORING OUR STUDENT GOALS BECAUSE WE ARE ATTENDING TO IMPORTANT FISCAL AND OPERATIONAL MATTERS THAT WE'RE MAKING. I THINK GOOD PROGRESS ON. AND SO WE DO LOOK FORWARD TO SPENDING MORE OF OUR BOARD TIME ON OUR STUDENT OUTCOMES WHICH IS OUR WHOLE REASON FOR BEING. THANK YOU. IF COMMISSIONERS DON'T OBJECT I LET'S I'M GLAD TO TAKE YOU UP ON YOUR OFFER TO REVISIT THIS CONVERSATION PERHAPS EVEN IN THE JULY MEETING WOULD BE FINE. I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER THINGS TO DO. I'LL ALSO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE WE DO WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR TIME USE EVALUATION CONVERSATIONS GENERALLY BOTH IN TERMS OF PROCESS OF RECORDING THAT TIME BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT HAS BEEN DONE AT THE COMMISSION. FISHER HAS RECEIPTS AND SO WE WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T JUST RELY ON COMMISSIONER FISHER ON RECORDING OUR TIME
HERE. AND SO IF FOLKS ARE OKAY WITH THIS I THINK IT WOULD BE FINE AND APPROPRIATE TO BRING THIS CONVERSATION BACK PERHAPS IN A MONTH FROM NOW OR WE CAN THEN DO A MORE EFFECTIVE RETROACTIVE EXAMINATION OF OUR PROGRESS TO DATE. AND COMMISSIONER OR VICE PRESIDENT HEARING IS JUMPING AT THE BIT TO SAY SOMETHING RIGHT NOW I JUST WANT TO ASK A QUESTION TO MR. KRAYBILL IF WE DEFER THIS CONVERSATION ARE WE GOING TO LOSE POINTS? I JUST WANT TO GET YOU ON THE RECORD THAT THIS WAS UPON RECOMMENDATION OF OUR STUDENT OUTCOMES FOCUS GOVERNANCE COACH YEAH, DEFINITELY NOT. >> THAT'S NOT THE THE BIGGEST PRIORITY. AND SO NO I WOULDN'T TAKE OFF FOR THAT BUT I WOULD DOUBLE DOWN ON WHAT YOU HEARD FROM A LITTLE MOMENT AGO IS THAT A LOT OF WHAT I SEE HAPPENING IN BOARD MEETINGS I THINK IT IS REASONABLE TO DESCRIBE IT AS THE FOLLOW OUT OF THE BOARD NOT HAVING MORE ROBUST MECHANISMS
FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT EXTERNAL TO BOARD MEETINGS AND SO YOUR COMMITTEE COMMUNITY USING THE ONE ACCESS THEY HAVE. SO THE SOONER THAT YOU ALL HAVE A REALLY ROBUST PROCESS FOR WHAT IS A REGULAR ROUTINE ONGOING COMMUNITY OUTREACH, AN ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND AS YOU DESCRIBED SEPARATE AND APART FROM THAT WHAT IS OUR REGULAR ROUTINE FOR SCHOOL VISITS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE? THE SOONER THE BOARD HAS ARTICULATED THOSE THINGS HAS THOUGHT THROUGH WHAT IS YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT PROCESS? THE SOONER ALL OF THAT IS IN PLACE I THINK IT WILL ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE PRESSURE THAT YOU EXPERIENCE WITH BOARD MEETINGS FEELING LIKE THE ONLY WAY THE COMMUNITY HAS A VOICE WHICH IS JUST NOT A HEALTHY WAY FOR A BOARD TO FUNCTION. IT'S LIKE YOU LITERALLY JUST READ VERBATIM ARE TO A METRIC THAT WE NEED TO DO SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO OUR COACH
AND THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THIS. OKAY SO THAT BEING SAID I WILL I'LL WORK WITH COMMISSIONER OR VICE PRESIDENT HULING AND UH AND STAFF TO BRING THIS ITEM BACK FOR A CONVERSATION WITH SOME GOOD TEAM. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, A.J. FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR ONGOING COACHING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. >> YOU'RE WELCOME. WELL, YOU'RE WELCOME. OKAY. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY IS IT THAT MOVING TO ITEM H PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR LOCAL CONTROL ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN UH 2427 AND RECOMMENDED BUDGET FISCAL YEAR 2526 THESE COMMISSIONERS JUST TO LAY OUT ARE ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AND SO I WILL FOLLOW THROUGH WITH INTRODUCING ITEM 1256-17 SP2 SUPERINTENDENTS PROPOSAL ANNUAL UPDATE TO THE 2024 TO 27 LOCAL CONTROL AND ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN EL CAP FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
AND THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND ITEM 22526-173 SUPERINTENDENT PROPOSAL FISCAL YEAR 2526 RECOMMENDED BUDGET I NOW OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING TIME AT 9:22 P.M. ON THE SUPERINTENDENT PROPOSAL FOR THE 24 TO 27 EL CAP FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION. WE WILL NOW TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE 2427 EL CAP. I CALL ON THE SUPERINTENDENT TO INTRODUCE DESIGNEE THE DESIGNEE TO READ THIS INTO THE RECORD AND REPORT ON THE EL CAP. OKAY GOOD EVENING. THIS IS DRAFT ONE OF THE LOCAL CONTROL CONTINUITY PLAN YEAR TO UPDATE PER PUBLIC HEARING TO BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THIS INTO THE RECORD AND ALSO PER STATUTE TO ANNOUNCE THIS BEFORE WE HEAR AN UPDATE ABOUT OUR BUDGET I ALSO JUST WANT TO CALL OUT THAT THE EL CAP DRAFT ONE HAS BEEN POSTED TO OUR WEB PAGE BOTH AN EL CAP AND BUDGET PAGE OF OUR WEBSITE FROM THE BUSINESS SERVICES DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS IN THE EL CAP ADVISORY COMMITTEE SECTION AS WELL ALONG
WITH THE FORM TO OFFER FEEDBACK OR CONSIDERATIONS FOR OUR DISTRICTS TO CONSIDER. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. BURKE AND MR. STEELE, ARE THERE ANY UH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO LIKE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM? >> I DID NOT GET ANY SPEAKER CARDS FOR THE EL CAP I THINK AND NOT ONLINE. OH, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU CARE TO SPEAK TO THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE EL CAP RIGHT NOW. COULD THAT BE REPEATED IN SPANISH AND CHINESE PLEASE WHEN A NOTICE IS GOING UP AND SO IT GIVES THEM COMMENTARY CONTROLS. YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT TO WHY NOT JUST GO I HOPE YOU ARE GOING TO BE SENT OUT YOUR EL CAP CAN YOU TAKE MY PHONE CONTROL BY YOUR MIC WHILE I GOT THANK YOU. YES WE DO HAVE ONE HAND UP PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. HI THERE. GOOD EVENING. THIS IS DR. ROMERO AGAIN FROM PEACE. I WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW I THINK DEFINITELY YOUR DISTRICT STAFF KNOWS THIS AND THE PUBLIC BUT NOT SURE IF THE BOARD MEMBERS KNOW THAT WE PUBLISHED A REPORT ON OUR EL CAP SURVEY AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THAT.
I BELIEVE SOME OF YOUR DISTRICT LEADERS HAVE ALREADY VETTED IT AND STARTED TO COLLABORATE ABOUT WAYS WE CAN MOVE FORWARD. BUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE COMING UP ON THE SURVEY WERE RELATIONSHIPS WITH FAMILY FAMILY ENGAGEMENT, ADVOCACY, OPERATIONAL SUPPORT THAT ARE NEEDED ACADEMIC STRATEGIES ARE IMPORTANT WHICH I THINK HAVE A TALKED TO IN TERMS OF EMPTY ASSETS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. WE GIVE THE DISTRICT A NUMBER OF ACTIONS AND PURPOSES THAT IT COULD USE IN ITS WORK MOVING FOARD AND WE'D LOVE TO CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE WITH YOU ABOUT THAT. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT. I NOW CLOSE THIS PUBLIC HEARING TIME AT 9:25 P.M.. I NOW OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 9:25 P.M. ON THE SUPERINTENDENT'S PROPOSAL FISCAL YEAR 2526 RECOMMENDED BUDGET WE WILL NOW TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT. OH SORRY I CAN'T SUPERINTENDENT TO INTRODUCE THIS ITEM TO THE RECORD. >> THANK YOU PRESIDENT KIM
BEFORE I BRING UP OUR AMAZING BUDGET TEAM I DO WANT TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO SHARE DO WANT TO SWITCH IT? OKAY SO MAYBE JUST TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO SHARE A FEW SLIDES ABOUT THE VISION OF OUR DISTRICT, ABOUT WHERE WE'RE GOING AND AS WE HAVE EXPERIENCED REALLY PAINFUL DISCUSSIONS AROUND BUDGET CUTS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO AS A DISTRICT TO WEATHER THIS AND TO MOVE FORWARD AND MOVE THROUGH THIS SO DO YOU HAVE MY SLIDES PERFECT. >> OKAY. SO I WANT TO I WANT US TO START WITH SHARING MY VISION TONIGHT WE ARE BUILDING A PUBLIC SCHOOLS SYSTEM WHERE EVERY STUDENT THRIVES IN EXCELLENT CREATIVE AND INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS NO MATTER WHICH DOOR A STUDENT WALKS THROUGH, THEY SHOULD FIND THE SAME PATH TO LAW TO LIFELONG LEARNING AND SUCCESS. THIS VISION WILL TAKE A NUMBER OF YEARS FOR US TO FULLY
ACHIEVE BUT THE ACTIONS WE TAKE TODAY ARE SETTING US ON THAT COURSE DESPITE NATIONAL CHALLENGES LIKE DECLINING STUDENT ENROLLMENT, TEACHER SHORTAGES AND QUITE FRANKLY A HOSTILE FEDERAL CLIMATE. >> WE ARE COMMITTED AND PREPARED LOCALLY TO PROVIDE THE BEST EDUCATION POSSIBLE FOR OUR STUDENTS RIGHT NOW WE ARE MAKING TOUGH DECISIONS BUT THESE ARE NECESSARY DECISIONS TO BALANCE OUR BUDGET, STRENGTHEN GOVERNANCE AND POSITION THE DISTRICT TO EXIT STATE OVERSIGHT. THESE CHOICES LAY FOUNDATIONS FOR LONG TERM GROWTH AND QUALITY EDUCATION THAT OUR STUDENTS DESERVE AND THAT OUR FAMILIES EXPECT. OUR STAFF ARE WORKING INCREDIBLY HARD TO PREPARE FOR THE COMING SCHOOL YEAR AND TO ENSURE THAT EVERY CLASSROOM IN THIS DISTRICT WILL BE PLACED AND POSITIONED WHERE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE WILL SUCCEED NOT ONLY SUCCEED BUT THEY WILL THRIVE.
SO I AM REALLY PROUD TO SHARE THE STATEMENT THAT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS SHOULD REFLECT THE PROMISE OF OUR CITY. TOGETHER WE WILL PREPARE THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATORS, PROBLEM SOLVERS AND CIVIC LEADERS AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERY STUDENT IS SUPPORTED, VALUED AND INSPIRED TO LEARN. THAT STARTS WITH US GETTING THE BASICS RIGHT. WE WANT A TEACHER IN EVERY CLASSROOM ROBUST SUPPORT FOR COUNSELORS AND LIBRARIANS ACCESS TO THE ARTS CLEAR ACADEMIC GOALS AND EARLY INTERVENTION WHEN STUDENTS FALL BEHIND WE MUST ALSO PROVIDE THE SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES OUR STUDENTS NEED AND REQUIRE FROM OUR GROWING TECH PROGRAMS TO OUR HIGH SCHOOLS. EVERY STUDENT DESERVES STRONG SCHOOLS AND MODERN SYSTEMS WILL STRENGTHEN AND BUILD ON WHAT WORKS LIKE OUR LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAMS AND SUPPORT REFORMS SO THAT EVERY SCHOOL WILL BE YOUR FIRST CHOICE
SCHOOLS WE MUST STICK TO OUR PRIORITIES PAYING EDUCATORS ON TIME, MONITORING STUDENT PROGRESS AND USING EARLY WARNING INDICATOR SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE TARGETED SUPPORTS TO MEET STUDENT NEEDS AND WE MUST COMMIT TO DOING THAT WORK. IT'S NOT A ONE YEAR WORK. IT'S NOT A TWO YEAR WORK. IT IS A LONG TERM LONG HAUL WORK AND WE ALL NEED TO BE IN IT FOR THE LONG RUN. THIS WORK WILL NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT AND IT WILL TAKE TIME. BUT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU OUR CORE TENETS OF WHAT THIS WORK MEANS. NEXT SLIDE I JUST WANT TO TAKE YOU ON A QUICK JOURNEY. SORRY. SO THERE ARE THREE PARTS TO THIS WORK WE NEED TO FOCUS ON STUDENT LEARNING. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE STRONG AND WILL SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY INCLUDING OUR EDUCATORS AND STAFF. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SYSTEM WIDE STABILITY
AND EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE FIRST AND FOREMOST THE FIRST AND FOREMOST RESPONSIBILITY I HAVE AS A SUPERINTENDENT IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY LEARNING FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. THIS IS THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE HAVE. THIS IS ABOUT SETTING HIGH STANDARDS FOR OURSELVES. WE NEED TO INVEST IN OUR STUDENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE TRULY OUR FUTURE. THIS STARTS WITH DELIVERING ON THE BASIC PROMISE OF EDUCATING OUR STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO READ, DO MATH AND BE SUCCESSFUL IN COLLEGE, CAREER AND LIFE. WE MUST DO THIS AND WE MUST HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO DOING THIS. OUR STUDENTS SHOULD HAVE THE SKILLS TO BE SUCCESSFUL FROM CRADLE TO CAREER. THIS INCLUDES TARGETING AND TRACKING KEY INDICATORS FOR IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING LIKE THIRD GRADE LITERACY AND EIGHTH GRADE MATH. OUR STRATEGY TEACHES INCLUDE TARGETED LITERACY INSTRUCTION,
HIGH QUALITY TEACHER SUPPORT, DIFFERENTIATE DIFFERENTIATED SCHOOL BASED STRATEGIES DISTRICT WIDE CURRICULUM ROLL OUT SUSTAINED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOCUS ON INSTRUCTIONAL EXCELLENCE. WE WILL PROVIDE OUR TEACHERS FOR WE WILL SET UP OUR TEACHERS FOR SUCCESS BECAUSE WE WILL PREPARE OUR STUDENTS FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER SUCCESS NO MATTER WHAT PATH THEY CHOOSE BECAUSE WE HAVE TO COMMIT TO OUR STUDENTS. OUR STUDENTS SHOULD ALSO RECEIVE THE TYPES OF SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED WHEN THEY NEED IT. WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN AND DELIVER OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES TO OUR STUDENTS WHEN WE FIRST SEE THEM STRUGGLING. WE CANNOT JUST ALLOW THEM TO WAIT AND SEE. THEY JUST WANT A RESPONSE NOR A STRATEGY. WE HAVE TO ACT EARLY AND ACT QUICKLY. OUR SCHOOLS ARE THE PLACE WHERE OUR STUDENTS LEARN, OUR EDUCATORS CHANGE LIVES AND THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS ARE
SHAPED. WE MUST DELIVER THE RESOURCES, SUPPORT AND PROGRAMING TO MAKE EVERY SCHOOL A FIRST CHOICE SCHOOL. THIS INCLUDES DELIVERING EVERYTHING FROM NECESSARY STAFFING IN OUR CLASSROOMS TO PROGRAMS AND SUPPORTS THAT KEEP OUR STUDENTS ENGAGED HEALTHY AND LEARNING NO MATTER WHAT THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES ARE. OUR SCHOOLS SHOULD BE VIBRANT PLACES WITH CARING ADULTS WHO ARE INVESTED IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT. THIS MEANS THAT OUR SCHOOLS MUST BE STAFF TO MEET OUR STUDENTS NEEDS. WE MUST ALSO GROW OUR PROGRAMING THAT HAS HISTORICALLY SET US APART TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN FAMILIES. OUR SCHOOLS SHOULD BE PLACES WHERE STUDENTS ARE NOURISHED AND NURTURED SO THAT THEY CAN GROW. WE HAVE A GREAT BOND PROGRAM AND THE SUPPORT OF OUR CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE INVESTING
IN A CENTRAL KITCHEN AS IF USD YEAH AS IF USD STARTS IN TECH. WE ARE INVESTING IN STRENGTHENING OUR ENROLLMENT PIPELINE TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN FAMILIES CHOOSE US AT TECH THEY WILL STAY WITH US THROUGHOUT THEIR STUDENTS SCHOOL CAREER SCHOOLS SHOULD BE SAFE HAVENS WHERE OUR STUDENTS FEEL SAFE PHYSICALLY AND SUPPORTED SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN. THIS MEANS THAT WE MUST CREATE WELCOMING ENVIRONMENTS ON OUR SCHOOL GROUNDS WITH ADULT WITH CARING ADULTS AT EVERY SINGLE STEP OF THE WAY. FINALLY OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT MUST BE STRONG, EFFICIENT AND A TRUSTED ORGANIZATION THAT SERVES STUDENTS AND STAFF WELL. WE HAVE TO BUILD A CONNECTION WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT S.F. USD SERVES AND WHEREVER A DECISION IS MADE IT HAS TO BE CENTERED ON OUR STUDENTS. WE HAVE TO EMBRACE FINANCIAL STABILITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE AS CORE VALUES IN ALL OF OUR DECISION MAKING WITH A COMMITMENT TO MAKING SURE THAT WE GET TO THE FINISH LINE.
WE CAN'T JUST SAY THAT WE WANT TO DO THESE THINGS. WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO STAY COMMITTED TO SEEING IT THROUGH . WE MUST ALSO STAY LASER FOCUS TO REBUILD OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT SO THAT WE CAN FOSTER A CULTURE OF PREDICTABILITY AND STABILITY WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS AND THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. WE CANNOT JUST WE CANNOT GET DISTRACTED BY SHINY THINGS. WE MUST ADOPT OUR AND STAY TRUE TO OUR SYSTEMS THAT SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR STAFF. YES NO CHASING SHINY THINGS WE WILL BECOME RESPONSIBLE STEWARDS OF OUR ASSETS AND RESOURCES AND DELIVER ON OUR PROMISES. WE WANT TO BE A SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT STANDS ON OUR OWN TO FEET. WE CAN DO RIGHT BY OUR STUDENTS IF WE CAN. WE FORGE THIS PATH FORWARD AND MAKE THE RIGHT BUT HARD DECISIONS TO RETAIN LOCAL CONTROL AND HONESTLY CONTROL OUR DESTINY AND I BELIEVE WE CAN DO THAT. I TRULY DO.
OVER THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS NOW I'VE GONE AND HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THROUGHOUT OUR DISTRICT AND WHAT I'VE HEARD WERE TRULY CONCERNS. HOW WILL THIS BUDGET IMPACT ME? HOW WILL THIS BUDGET IMPACT MY STUDENT, MY CHILD, MY COMMUNITY ? AND THERE IS NO SUGARCOATING THIS THIS BUDGET WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT OUR SCHOOLS. IT WILL HOWEVER I KNOW THAT IF WE STAY TRUE TO WHAT WE BELIEVE IN THAT WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS. WE ADOPTED CREATIVE SOLUTIONS WITH AN EYE TOWARDS THE FUTURE AND OUR STUDENTS ALWAYS IS AT THE CENTER WITH THIS BUDGET AGAIN WE'RE NOT LAYING OFF OUR TEACHERS. WE ARE ENSURING THAT WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THE SUPPORT SERVICES AND THE SUPPORT PEOPLE THAT OUR STUDENTS NEED AND WE KNOW WE WILL SUBMIT A BALANCED BUDGET TO THE STATE ON TIME. WE ARE GRATEFUL WITH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE
BECAUSE THROUGH THIS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE THEY WERE ABLE TO LIFT THE HIRING FREEZE FOR OUR TEACHERS. THEY LIFTED HIRING FREEZES FOR OUR PARENTS, FOR OUR COUNSELORS, FOR OUR SOCIAL WORKERS BECAUSE WE DID THE HARD THINGS BECAUSE WE CAN DO HARD THINGS AND STILL MAKE IT RIGHT FOR OUR STUDENTS AND FOR OUR FAMILIES, OUR BOARD, OUR BOARD HAS ASKED MANY TIMES HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS BUDGET REFLECTS THE SUPPORTS THAT ARE NEEDED IN OUR SCHOOLS AND I WANT TO SAY WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO DIRECTING 84% OF THIS BUDGET TOWARDS OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY AND THAT IS BECAUSE WE ARE COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE THAT ALL OF OUR DECISIONS ARE CENTERED AROUND OUR STUDENTS. THERE WAS A REPORT THAT WAS DONE AT SFI USD SEVERAL YEARS AGO THAT LOOKED AT THE PROPORTION OF FUNDING BETWEEN CENTRAL OFFICE AND SCHOOL SITES
AND WHAT IT SHOWED IN 2020 THAT WE WERE ALLOCATING 25% OF OUR FUNDS TO OUR CENTRAL OFFICE AND 75% OF OUR FUNDS TOWARDS OUR SCHOOLS MOVING INTO NEXT YEAR WE ARE ALLOCATING 16% OF OUR FUNDS TOWARDS CENTRAL OFFICE AND 84% OF OUR FUNDS TOWARDS OUR SCHOOLS. PLEASE KNOW THIS IS NOT EASY. IT MEANS THAT THERE WILL BE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS. HOWEVER I BELIEVE I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT IF WE STAY TRUE TO OUR NORTH STAR OF THIRD GRADE READING EIGHTH GRADE MATH COLLEGE AND CAREER AND LIFE READY, THIS ALLOCATION IS GOING TO GET US THERE. I JUST THANK ALL OF OUR STAFF WHO HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY LITERALLY DAY AND NIGHT WHEN THEY'RE OFF ON VACATION ON THE WEEKENDS TO GET US THIS FAR TO GET US TO A BALANCED BUDGET THAT WE ARE GOING TO PRESENT TO YOU NOW I THANK THEM. I GREATLY APPRECIATE ALSO OUR ENTIRE SCHOOL COMMUNITY FOR COMING OUT AND TALKING
AND SHARING AND PROVIDING ALL OF THOSE FEEDBACK TO US SO THAT WE CAN BE GUIDED AS WE BUILD THIS BUDGET AND FINALLY I WANT TO THANK THIS BOARD FOR BEING WITH US AND AND AND GUIDING US AS WELL BUT ALSO LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND BRINGING IT BACK AND MAKING SURE THAT I AM I IN THE STAFF ARE AWARE OF WHAT'S WHAT YOU ARE HEARING ON THE GROUND AND HOPEFULLY THIS BUDGET WILL REFLECT WHAT YOU ARE HEARING, WHAT WE ARE HEARING AND WHAT OUR COMMUNITY ARE ASKING FOR. SO WITH THAT I'M GOING TO INVITE THE AMAZING MELILLO SMITH AND ANNE-MARIE GORDON TO THE DAIS SO THAT THEY CAN NOW TAKE YOU THROUGH THE VERY EXTENSIVE BUDGET PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SUPERINTENDENT AND GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS . >> I WILL REALLY SAY IT REALLY SHOULD BE THE AMAZING ANN-MARIE GORDON I INTERPRET IT AS AMAZING AS THE ADJECTIVE REFERRING TO BOTH.
YES I KNOW SHE DID SAY AND BUT I WAS JUST SAYING I REALLY THINK EMORY IS AMAZING. THE SAME FOR MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. >> IT'S BEEN INCREDIBLE. WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THIS EVENING OR I GUESS TONIGHT TO PRESENT THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2526. I DO WANT TO SAY ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND EMORY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR QUESTIONS AND FOR ALL YOUR PATIENCE. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE WE ONLY STARTED DOING THIS IN FEBRUARY. IT SEEMS A LITTLE BIT LONGER THAN THAT. SO IT'S BEEN A JOURNEY AND WE ARE HAPPY TO BRING THIS INFORMATION TO YOU TONIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE IN THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE AN OVERVIEW OF THE RECOMMENDED FISCAL YEAR 2526 BUDGET AND UPDATE ON THE 2526 FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN AND THEN THE COUNTY AND THE DISTRICT RECOMMENDED BUDGET AND MULTIYEAR PROJECTIONS GO NEXT SLIDE THE BUDGET THAT WE'RE PRESENTING TODAY REFLECTS THE STAFFING ALLOCATIONS THAT
WERE BASED ON THE 2526 STAFFING MODEL. IT ALSO INCORPORATES THE REDUCTIONS BASED ON THE 2526 FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN. IT INCLUDES A $90 MILLION UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND BALANCE WHICH IS BROKEN UP INTO FOUR COMPONENTS AND THIS FUND BALANCE IS A LITTLE BIT BELOW THE RECOMMENDED MINIMUM OF WHAT WE WOULD SAY OF ABOUT 100 MILLION TO $110 MILLION UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND BALANCE BE THE GOAL. NEXT SLIDE THE 2526 FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN WAS FIRST INTRODUCED IN JUNE 2024 AND IT OUTLINED IN THE REDUCTIONS NECESSARY TO REDUCE DEFICIT SPENDING IN 2627 WE HAVE INCORPORATED THE REDUCTIONS FROM THAT PLAN INTO THIS BUDGET AND WE CAN SAY THAT THE 2526 BUDGET DOES REFLECT THE $113.8 MILLION OF REDUCTIONS THAT WERE OUTLINED IN THE PLAN. THE RECOMMENDED 2627 FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN. WE WILL BE BRINGING TO NEXT TUESDAY ON THE 24TH WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE IN TERMS OF MAINTAINING THE FUND ABOUT THE RECOMMENDED
FUND BALANCE AND ALSO WORKING TOWARDS ENSURING THAT WE AND ELIMINATE DEFICIT SPENDING AND REALLY GET TO THAT PLACE TO WORK ON A PROGRAM QUALITY AND OTHER THINGS THAT WE WANT TO WORK ON. >> AND YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS IS THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE SHOWED IF YOU REMEMBER I THINK AT SECOND INTERIM WE WERE AT 103 MILLION AND I THINK AT THIRD INTERIM WHERE WE WERE ABOUT 111 MILLION AND NOW WE CAN SAY THAT THROUGH THE THE 2526 BUDGET PROCESS WE HAVE ACHIEVED I THINK IT'S ONE 13.9 MILLION I CAN'T READ THIS FAR BUT WE WE WERE ABLE TO DO THAT AND THIS IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU WILL SEE THE MULTIYEAR PROJECTIONS INCLUDING THOSE REDUCTIONS. BUT THERE IS NO CERTIFICATION TONIGHT AS YOU REMEMBER, THE FIRST TIME THAT WILL HAPPEN WILL BE AT THE FIRST INTERIM IN DECEMBER. YOU GO NEXT SLIDE. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SHOWING THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN, BREAKING IT DOWN SORT OF I GUESS I WOULD SAY ABOVE THE PINK LINE IS
LOOKING AT THE SALARIES SAVINGS THAT WE ARE PROJECTED TO RECEIVE BASED ON THE SUPPLEMENTAL EARLY RETIREMENT PROGRAM WHERE OUT OF 345 EMPLOYEES WHO OPTED INTO THE PROGRAM, 315 POSITIONS WILL REMAIN IN THE DISTRICT AND WE WILL ACHIEVE SALARY SAVINGS AS NEW PEOPLE COME INTO THOSE POSITIONS WHERE WE LOOK AT THEM AT THE AVERAGE SALARY VERSUS ON THE HIGHER END OF THE SALARY SCALE AND THEN BELOW THE PINK LINE IS LOOKING AT THE SAVINGS THAT WERE ACHIEVED THROUGH POSITIONS THAT WERE ELIMINATED EITHER THROUGH THE SERP OR POSITIONS THAT VACANCIES WERE ELIMINATED OR POSITIONS THAT FOLKS WERE IN AS WELL AS SAVINGS FROM WHAT IS SOMETIMES CALLED NON-PRICE SCHNELL OR NON FTE FOR FULL TIME EQUIVALENT COSTS BOOKS AND SUPPLIES, SERVICES AND OTHER EXPENSES. WE DID OFFSET THE REDUCTIONS BY THE SURF SUPPORT PAYMENT OFFSET TO TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION AND THAT'S WHERE WE GET THE 113,000,900 AND SO THOUSAND DOLLARS AND THAT HAS BEEN
INCORPORATED INTO THE 2526 RECOMMENDED BUDGET. I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO ANDREY TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE NUMBERS AND THEN WE'LL GIVE YOU A SUMMARY OF WHAT THE 2627 FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN WILL INCLUDE AND THEN WE'LL TURN IT OVER FOR QUESTIONS. >> THANKS A GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. I'M ANN MARIE GORDON, INTERIM FINANCIAL SERVICES OFFICER AND I AM I'M EXCITED TO SHARE THE 20 2526 BUDGET WITH EVERYBODY THIS EVENING FOR BOTH THE COUNTY AND THE DISTRICT. BEFORE WE GET INTO THE TABLES LOOKING AT ALL THE DIFFERENT SNAPSHOTS OF THE BUDGET AND MULTIYEAR PROJECTIONS, I DO WANT TO BEGIN WITH A NOTE THAT THE BUDGET IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND WE DO ANTICIPATE SOME CHANGES BETWEEN TONIGHT AND SECOND READING. OVERALL WE ARE WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS A VERY NEARLY FINAL PRODUCT BUT WE DO EXPECT A FEW FURTHER ADJUSTMENTS IN PART
BECAUSE WE ARE LEARNING HOW TO USE FRONTLINE AS WE ARE BUILDING THIS BUDGET. AND SO WE'VE REALLY I WANT TO GIVE A LOT A LOT OF CREDIT TO THE BUDGET ACCOUNTING HUMAN RESOURCES TECHNOLOGY TEAMS WHO HAVE BEEN SPENDING SO MUCH TIME LEARNING HOW TO USE FRONTLINE IN PREPARATION FOR GOING LIVE. BUT WE DID GO LIVE IN FRONT LINE FOR BUDGET DEVELOPMENT AND SO AND A LOT OF THAT WAS REALLY GOING LIVE AS IT WAS HAPPENING AND SO THAT'S WHY THERE ARE STILL SOME ADJUSTMENTS UNDERWAY. WE ARE ALL LEARNING THIS STAGE OF BUDGET DEVELOPMENT IN REAL TIME. WHAT YOU'LL SEE AND I'LL NOTE THIS WHEN WE GET TO A FEW SLIDES AHEAD BUT THAT IN PARTICULAR WHEN IT COMES TO OUR RESTRICTED RESOURCES THAT'S ONE OF THE AREAS WHERE THE FIRST READING BUDGET IS A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN WHAT WE HAD PROJECTED AT THIRD INTERIM AND I EXPECT THAT TO INCREASE A LITTLE BIT FOR A SECOND READING.
AND BEYOND THAT WHAT WE WILL SEE IS THAT AS WE GO LIVE AND AS WE MOVE INTO THE NEW FISCAL YEAR, THE TEAM WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND REVIEW THE BUDGET. WE WILL CLOSE OUT THIS FISCAL YEAR, BE ABLE TO KIND OF MOVE THROUGH OUR STANDARD PROCESSES. THERE WILL BE SOME LEARNING IN FRONT LINE THAT THAT WILL OVER THE COURSE OF THIS NEXT YEAR REALLY BUILD ON THE TEAM'S ABILITY TO MONITOR WITH A LOT OF PRECISION AND ACCURACY AND THAT'S NOT TO DETRACT FROM WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TO GO THROUGH IN THE BUDGET NOW. BUT I THINK JUST AN IMPORTANT NOTE BECAUSE WHEN WE SWITCHED TO EMPOWER WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY CHANGE OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM. SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME THAT WE'VE WE HAVE CHANGED OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND SO THERE WILL JUST BE SOME NEW LEARNING ALONG THE WAY THAT WILL USE ALL OF OUR STANDARD REPORTING TIMELINES AND PROCESSES TO KEEP YOU ALL APPRIZED OF. >> SO WITH THAT I'M GOING TO START WITH THE COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
IT'S ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT EASIER TO START WITH THE COUNTY. IT'S A BIT SMALLER OF A BUDGET AND JUST HELPS ORIENT EVERYBODY TO ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT I KNOW CAN BE A LOT FOR THESE FINANCIAL PRESENTATIONS. >> SO WE WILL GO THROUGH THE SAME STRUCTURE OF SLIDES AS WE HAVE FOR PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS AND YOU'LL ALSO SEE THE SAME SEQUENCE OF INFORMATION FOR BOTH THE COUNTY AND THEN FOR THE DISTRICTS STARTING WITH THE COUNTY OFFICE UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND, THE 20 2526 RECOMMENDED BUDGET INCLUDES $14.7 MILLION OF UNRESTRICTED REVENUE AND 14.1 MILLION OF BUDGETED EXPENDITURES WHICH DEMONSTRATES HEALTHY ALIGNMENT BETWEEN ONGOING BUDGETED EXPENDITURES AND ONGOING REVENUE FOR THE RESTRICTED GENERAL FUND FOR THE COUNTY. WE HAVE A PLANNED DEFICIT HERE PLANS OPERATING DEFICIT WITH REVENUE AROUND 4.4 MILLION AND EXPENDITURES OF ABOUT 6.3 MILLION. THIS IS BASED ON OUR PLAN TO SPEND DOWN ONE TIME FUNDS WE HAVE OUR EDUCATOR EFFECTIVENESS BLOCK GRANT IS ONE OF THE
REALLY THE MOST NOTABLE THAT IN THIS CASE WE'VE HAD A FIVE YEAR EXPENDITURE PLAN FOR THIS GRANT THAT EXPIRES AT THE END OF NEXT YEAR AND WE BUILT A PLAN THAT COMBINES AND OUR DISTRICT AND COUNTY FUNDS. SO UP UNTIL NOW WE'VE BEEN USING OUR DISTRICT FUNDS AND FOR THE FINAL YEAR WE'LL SPEND DOWN OUR COUNTY FUNDS AND SO WHERE DO WE HAVE THE EXPENSES HERE TO SPEND DOWN THE COUNTY PORTION OF THAT GRANT SO THAT WE UTILIZE THE FUNDING THAT WE HAVE WE FULFILL THAT FIVE YEAR PLAN AND THEN WE'LL MOVE I'LL EXPLAIN IN THE MULTI-YEAR PROJECTIONS THE PLAN FOR THOSE SERVICES AND SUPPORTS MOVING FORWARD. I THINK SOMETHING WE DISCUSSED AT A PREVIOUS PRESENTATION WAS SEEING THE TOTAL GENERAL FUND ALL TOGETHER ON ONE SLIDE. SO WE HAVE THAT HERE. I KNOW THAT WHEN WE REALLY GO INTO THE NUMBERS WE DON'T TALK THAT MUCH ABOUT THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES. SO I THINK MAYBE JUST I'LL TAKE ONE MOMENT OUR COUNTY OFFICE CONSISTS OF A NUMBER OF COUNTY ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS.
WE ALSO HAVE CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION THAT IS A PART OF OUR COUNTY OFFICE SERVICES. >> WE HAVE TRYING TO THINK WE HAVE A FEW OTHER A FEW OTHER THINGS THAT COMPRISE THIS $20 MILLION THAT ALL RIGHT ARE WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT HOW WE CAN DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN OUR COUNTY AND DISTRICT FUNCTIONS AND I THINK OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS IT WILL BE AN ONGOING PROCESS TO CONTINUE TO DIFFERENTIATE IN A WAY THAT MAKES SENSE FOR OUR FUNDS AND TO MAKE SURE WE'RE STRATEGIC ABOUT HOW WE USE THE DOLLARS THAT COME INTO THE COUNTY AND THE DOLLARS THAT COME INTO THE DISTRICT ARE MULTI YEAR PROJECTIONS FOR THE COUNTY LOOK PRETTY GOOD FOR THE COUNTY. WHAT SOMETHING THAT WE'VE THAT HAS BEEN THAT WE'VE NOTED AT AND I KNOW THAT I'VE MENTIONED AT THE LAST FEW PRESENTATIONS IS THAT WE DO HAVE AN UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE IN THE COUNTY THAT WE WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO USE TO THINK ABOUT HOW AGAIN HOW TO BE
THOUGHTFUL AND STRATEGIC ABOUT THAT FUNDING IT IS ONE TIME SO ONCE IT'S SPENT IT'S GONE AND ONE APPROACH THAT IS MAPPED OUT HERE THAT I THINK WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR SOME OF THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT WE OFFER IS BEGINNING IN 20 2627 TO MOVE THE EXPENSES THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING FUNDED BY THOSE EXPIRING ONE TIME FUNDS ON TO THE COUNTY OFFICE GENERAL FUND . MANY OF THOSE SERVICES ARE RELATED TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATOR SUPPORT AS THE NAME OF THE GRANT INDICATES WHICH IS ALIGNS TO COUNTY OFFICE SERVICES AND WHAT THAT WOULD DO IS CREATE A VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF DEFICIT SPENDING THAT YOU SEE HERE UNDER $1 MILLION THAT WOULD SLOWLY AND GRADUALLY DRAW DOWN THAT FUND BALANCE OVER THE PERIOD OF MAYBE A DECADE. AND SO IT WOULD CREATE SORT OF A STABLE PICTURE OF OR A STABLE WAY TO USE THAT FUNDING ON ONGOING SERVICES THAT WOULD ALSO BE SORT OF A RESPONSIBLE OR RESPONSIBLE DRAWDOWN OF THE FUND BALANCE AND OUR LAST SLIDE HERE IS THE COUNTY OFFICE RESTRICTED MULTI YEAR PROJECTIONS WHICH ESSENTIALLY
SHOW THAT WE WILL SPEND DOWN OUR ONE TIME FUNDS THIS UPCOMING YEAR AND THEN MOVING FORWARD WILL REALLY BE WILL BE VERY FOCUSED ON ENSURING THAT ALL OF OUR ONGOING EXPENSES AS FUNDED BY RESTRICTED RESOURCES ARE ALIGNED TO THE REVENUE THAT WE RECEIVE AT THIS POINT IN TIME THERE THERE ARE NOT PLANS THERE IS NOT NEWS OF NEW ONE TIME FUNDING COMING IN FOR COUNTY OFFICES THAT WOULD FALL INTO THE RESTRICTED GENERAL FUNDS PORTION OF OUR BUDGET AND SO REALLY IT WOULD MEAN THAT THINK FUNDING LIKE TITLE ONE RIGHT OTHER OTHER CATEGORICAL PROGRAMS THAT WE RECEIVE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS WE WOULD ALIGN OUR BUDGET TO THE REVENUE THAT WE THAT WE RECEIVE EACH YEAR. ALL RIGHT. SO ON TO THE DISTRICT. YES. SO EVERYBODY TAKE A DEEP BREATH MYSELF INCLUDED. SO BEFORE WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I THINK IT'S VERY IT'S VERY EXCITING TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT THIS BUDGET BECAUSE FOR
OVER A YEAR GOING ON TWO YEARS WE HAVE SEEN RIGHT. WE'VE SEEN WE'VE HAD A PLAN TO IMPLEMENT THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN. WE HAD REDUCTIONS THAT WE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING BEFORE THAT. RIGHT. IT'S BEEN MANY YEARS OF MAKING CUTS TO TRY AND GET OURSELVES TO A PLACE WHERE MULTI YEAR PROJECTIONS LOOK STABLE AND WHERE WE'RE MAKING A DENT IN REDUCING DEFICIT SPENDING AND OUR BUDGET ACCOMPLISHES THE MAJORITY OF THOSE THINGS FOR THIS UPCOMING YEAR WE'LL GO THROUGH WHERE THERE IS STILL WORK TO BE DONE BUT I THINK THAT AT SORT OF AT BASELINE IT'S REALLY VALIDATING TO SEE THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO WHAT WE'VE SAID FOR THE PAST YEAR WE WERE GOING TO DO BY THE TIME WE GOT TO THIS POINT IN BRINGING THE 2526 BUDGET FORWARD. SO I THINK I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT NOW WE'RE GOING TO SEE IT THROUGH THE NUMBERS BUT EVEN WITHOUT SEEING THE NUMBERS, I THINK RECOGNIZING THAT WE ARE DOING WHAT WE'VE SAID WE WERE
GOING TO DO AND THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY AND AUTONOMY OF THE DISTRICT. WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN FOR 20 2526 YES. SO THE TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR THE 2526 RECOMMENDED BUDGET INCORPORATE THE REDUCTIONS THAT WERE FIRST INTRODUCED LAST JUNE . THE BUDGET ITSELF THE 788 $789 MILLION IS WITHIN A COUPLE MILLION DOLLARS OF WHAT OUR PROJECTIONS HAVE BEEN OVER THE COURSE OF THE PAST YEAR. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME CHANGES TO OUR REVENUE THAT AFFECT THE OVERALL PICTURE OF OUR DEFICIT SPENDING. SO BASED ON THE STATE'S BUDGET, THE MAY REVISE CAME IN AND OUR COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT THE COLA IS A LITTLE BIT LOWER SO THAT RESULTED IN A LITTLE BIT LESS STATE REVENUE AND OUR ADA AS OF OUR MOST RECENT REPORTING CYCLE IS A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN WE HAD BEEN PROJECTING. SO WITH THOSE TWO ADJUSTMENTS OUR REVENUE FOR BOTH 24, 25
AND 2526 IS A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN WE HAD ANTICIPATED FOR 2526 IT'S ABOUT $8 MILLION LOWER THAN WE HAD PROJECTED AT THIRD INTERIM. SO IT CHANGES A LITTLE BIT THE NUMBER OF WHAT THAT NET THAT DEFICIT SPENDING LOOKS LIKE. RIGHT. IT HAD BEEN IN THE IT HAD BEEN AROUND 30 MAYBE 37 OR 38 MILLION. AND SO WITH THE CHANGE IN REVENUE AND A SLIGHT ADJUSTMENT IN THE BUDGET WE'RE SHOWING 47 MILLION. THAT SAID THIS IS ALMOST CUTTING DEFICIT SPENDING IN HALF FROM THIS YEAR BUDGET TO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET OR OUR ESTIMATED ACTUALS TO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET ON THE RESTRICTED GENERAL FUND SIDE WE SEE A SIMILAR PATTERN TO WHAT WE SAW WITH THE COUNTY WITH LARGER NUMBERS WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ONE TIME RIGHT ONE TIME FUNDING SOURCES BLOCK GRANTS ONE EXAMPLE THAT IS WE'RE PLANNING TO USE NEXT YEAR IS THE ARTS MUSIC AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS BLOCK GRANT WHICH
EXPIRES AFTER THE 2526 YEAR. AND SO WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT THESE WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED THIS FUNDING. IT'S SITTING IN THAT $150 MILLION ENDING BALANCE ACTUALLY SITTING IN THE UP AT THE VERY TOP IN ROW A IT'S SITTING IN THE $238.6 MILLION BEGINNING FUND BALANCE AND SO IN ORDER TO SPEND THOSE FUNDS WE HAVE TO DRAW DOWN THAT FUND BALANCE. WHAT I NOTED AT THE VERY BEGINNING IS THAT BOTH THE REVENUE AND THE EXPENDITURES ARE LOWER IN THE NUMBERS YOU SEE HERE ARE LOWER THAN WHAT WE HAD PROJECTED AT THIRD INTERIM. SO WE ARE REVIEWING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE CAPTURED EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO IN OUR BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR WE DO EXPECT TO SEE THIS BUDGET. WE DO EXPECT THE RESTRICTED BUDGET TO GROW WHEN WE LOAD CARRYOVER AFTER THIS YEAR'S SPENDING HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AND WE KNOW HOW MUCH WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO BUDGET FOR THE NEW YEAR. SO THIS IS ONE AREA WHERE THERE WILL BE CHANGES THROUGH OUR REPORTING CYCLES BUT ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR
FOR THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET FOR SECOND READING IS THERE AND HERE WE HAVE THE TOTAL GENERAL FUND WHERE YOU CAN SEE OVERALL OUR 2526 RECOMMENDED BUDGET INCLUDES $1.2 BILLION OF EXPECTED REVENUE AND $1.3 BILLION OF PLANNED EXPENDITURES OR BUDGETED EXPENDITURES ARE MULTI-YEAR PROJECTIONS ALSO DEMONSTRATE THE PROGRESS THAT WE ARE MAKING WHILE ALSO ILLUMINATING THAT OVER THE LONG RUN OVER THE MEDIUM RUN THERE ARE STILL DECISIONS TO BE MADE TO SUPPORT THE GOAL OF LONG TERM FISCAL SOLVENCY. ONE NOTE AS YOU LOOK THROUGH EACH OF THESE YEARS YOU CAN SEE THAT IN THAT THE THE AMOUNT OF DEFICIT SPENDING OVER THESE THREE YEARS IS CONSISTENT. THERE ARE NO ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS BUILT INTO THIS MULTI-YEAR PROJECTION PROJECTION RIGHT NOW ALL THAT'S BUILT IN IS THE REDUCTIONS THAT WE HAVE MADE FOR 20 2526 AND SO WE DO HAVE SOME GROWTH ACROSS ROBY IN OUR UNRESTRICTED REVENUE. WE ALSO WILL BE INCREASING OUR
CONTRIBUTION ON THE UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND TO SPECIAL EDUCATION OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS. WE'VE USED PEER FUNDING OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS AS A WAY TO UTILIZE ONGOING RELIABLE RESTRICTED FUNDING TO SUPPORT PRIORITY PROGRAMING BUT ALSO WANT TO BE ABLE TO USE PE FUNDING FOR OTHER PROGRAMS AND SERVICES AS WELL. AND SO EXPECT TO USE UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND DOLLARS FOR THAT SUPPORT MOVING FORWARD. AND ONE FINAL NOTE IS THIS THE MULTI-YEAR PROJECTION DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY PLAN TO REDUCTIONS. IT ALSO DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT NEGOTIATED SALARY INCREASES AT THIS TIME. SO IF WE WERE TO LOOK AT IF WE WERE TO LOOK AT THAT, WE WOULD NEED TO THEN EVALUATE THE IMPACT ON DEFICIT SPENDING ON OUR ENDING FUND BALANCE AND HOW WHAT BALANCE BUDGET BALANCING MEASURES WOULD BE NEEDED TO
CONTINUE MAKING PROGRESS TOWARD OUR FINANCIAL GOALS. AND MY FINAL SLIDE THANK YOU ALL FOR LISTENING. IS THE RESTRICTED GENERAL FUND MULTI-YEAR PROJECTIONS WE START WITH THIS YEAR THIS UPCOMING YEAR OF PLANNED DEFICIT SPENDING UTILIZING OUR AVAILABLE ONE TIME FUNDING WHAT WE'LL SEE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS THERE ARE $13 MILLION OF PLANNED REDUCTIONS BUILT INTO 2026 TO 7 THAT HAS BEEN PART OF THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN FROM THE BEGINNING. AND SO THERE IS A REDUCTION IN EXPENDITURES THERE BUT THEN 2728 CONTINUES IS WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL WITHOUT ANY ANY CHANGES IN ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT OUR INVESTMENTS. SO WHAT WE WILL WHAT WHAT WE EXPECT TO SEE HERE IS THAT THE THE DEFICIT SPENDING WILL GO DOWN AND THEN THE FUND BALANCE WILL AND BOTH WILL SORT OF BOTH THE DEFICIT SPENDING AND THE FUND BALANCE WILL SORT OF
SETTLE AT A LOWER LEVEL THAN THEY'VE BEEN AT FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS BECAUSE OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS WE'VE RECEIVED FEDERAL STIMULUS FUNDS LEARNING RECOVERY DOLLARS, BLOCK GRANTS, OTHER ONE TIME ALLOCATIONS THAT HAVE REALLY INCREASED OUR RESTRICTED GENERAL FUND OVER THAT PERIOD OF TIME. AND AS MANY OF THOSE HAVE EXPIRED BEGUN TO EXPIRE, WE EXPECT TO SORT OF RECALIBRATE OR AT AT A LOWER LEVEL OF BOTH ONGOING REVENUE AND ONGOING SPENDING WHERE WE NO LONGER HAVE THE FUNDS TO SUPPORT SOME OF THOSE THINGS. ALL RIGHT. SO THANKS MAMMARY GOING ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE IS TO TALK ABOUT THE FISCAL STABILIZATION ACTION PLAN THAT WILL BRING TO NEXT TUESDAY AS A RECOMMENDATION. SO ADDRESS SOME OF THE BUDGET INFORMATION THAT YOU JUST RECEIVED. SO THE STABILIZATION PLAN WILL WILL BASICALLY MAINTAIN AN ONGOING MINIMUM FUND BALANCE AND RESTRICTED BETWEEN 100 AND $110 MILLION. WE RECOMMEND THAT THAT REALLY IS SOMETHING THAT THE DISTRICT
SHOULD SUSTAIN AND NOT SPEND DOWN. WE'VE HAD SUCH A LARGE FUND BALANCE THAT WE HAVEN'T REALLY HAD TO THINK ABOUT WHERE DO WE WANT TO BE AND WHAT IS A FUND BALANCE WE WANT TO CARRY FROM YEAR TO YEAR SO THAT IS THE RECOMMENDATION LOOKING AT THE RAINY DAY RESERVE AT 4840 MILLION, THE STATUTORY RESERVE AT 2% WHICH IS ABOUT 28 MILLION THE NON SPENDABLE IS 1.9 MILLION AND THEN THE OTHER COMMITMENTS THINGS THAT YOU CAN USE IF THERE'S FEDERAL FUNDING LOSS, IF THERE'S OTHER DIFFERENT TYPES OF RESERVES WE'VE BEEN USING THIS MONEY FOR THE BUDGET STABILIZATION RESERVE ETC. REALLY CONTINUING TO USE ONE TIME FUNDING FOR ONE TIME COST PER SE PER THE BEST PRACTICES SO WE DON'T END UP DIPPING INTO FUND BALANCES OR BEING IN A POSITION WHERE WE GET BELOW THE 100 OR $110 MILLION RECOMMENDED RESERVE TO REALLY CONTINUE TO REFINE THE STAFFING MODEL. I THINK WE ARE GOING INTO THE SECOND YEAR BUT I WANT TO SAY THE SECOND YEAR OF THE SCHOOL STAFFING MODEL. SO THERE HAVE BEEN CHANGES FROM THE FIRST YEAR OF
IMPLEMENTATION. WE'VE DONE SOME MORE REFINEMENT FOR 2526 AND THEN TO CONTINUE REFINING REFINING IT AND REALLY LOOKING AT OUR ONGOING VACANCIES AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT OF THOSE POSITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN VACANT FOR OVER TIME DO WE NEED TO CONTINUE THEM? SHOULD WE THINK ABOUT DIFFERENT USES OF THOSE FUNDS AND JUST TO CONTINUE TO HAVE OUR BUDGET SUPPORT, OUR STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS AND OUR PRIORITIES REALLY TO GET INTO THE DISCIPLINE OF MONITORING THE MULTI YEAR PROJECTIONS AND MAKING ADJUSTMENTS, THE MULTIYEAR PROJECTIONS ARE DESIGNED TO HAVE US THINK ABOUT WHAT DO WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT NOW AND TO DO NOW OR POSSIBLY NEXT YEAR FOR THE YEARS IN THE FUTURE AND THEN TO REALLY BE MORE CLEAR AND MARIE MENTIONED A LITTLE THINGS ABOUT THE UNREST, THE RESTRICTED MONIES THAT IS COMING TO AN END AND WHAT ARE THE POSITIONS, PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT ARE BEING FUNDED BY THAT MONEY AND THE DECISIONS WE HAVE TO MAKE WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE THOSE SERVICES WHICH MEANS THEY HAVE TO GO ON TO THE UNRESTRICTED FUNDS OR YOU HAVE TO FIND MORE RESTRICTED FUNDS OR YOU END THOSE PROGRAMS
AND THEN REALLY JUST THE MULTI-YEAR PROJECTIONS AND ALL OF THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN IS ABOUT PLANNING AHEAD AND MAKING BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE DECISIONS AND CONTINUE TO INVEST IN OUR STAFF TO GET US WHERE WE WANT TO GET WITH OUR STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS AND OUR PRIORITIES. SO WITH THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE INFORMATION. WE ARE HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN QUESTIONS. FIRST THING WE NEED TO DO IS EXTEND OUR BOARD TIME. I'M SO SORRY. SO IF I CAN GO AHEAD IF WE CAN DO ROLL CALL PLEASE MR. STEEL TO OH SORRY IF I MOTION TO EXTEND OUR MEETING TIME SECOND INDEFINITELY FOREVER AND EVER. THANK YOU, MR. FISHER. >> TENDER MR. STEEL. OH, SORRY, XANDER. >> YES, MR. FISHER. YES, MR. GUPTA. YES, MR. HELM. COMMISSIONER HALLEY? >> YES. COMMISSIONER RAY. YES, COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WORK? YES. AND PRESIDENT KIM. YES, I THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
THIS IS A HERCULEAN EFFORT AND I DON'T THINK ANYONE ON THIS BOARD WILL EVER FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT TAKES TO GET HERE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. MY MY BIGGEST QUESTION IS JUST AROUND THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN ITSELF. AND SO THE WHAT YOU PROVIDED HERE ARE RECOMMENDATIONS OF OF HOW THAT PLAN SHOULD EVOLVE. ARE WE TO EXPECT AN UPDATED FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN BROUGHT TO US NEXT WEEK? YES. OKAY, GREAT. AND I'M ASSUMING WE WILL BE WE WILL BE TAKING ACTION ON TO APPROVE THAT FISCAL STABILIZATION. >> CORRECT. AS PART OF THE ADOPTED BUDGET PLUS A FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN BOTH REQUIRED BY CDC SO THEY'LL COME TOGETHER. THANK YOU. I'M I'LL OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS KNOWING THAT IT IS 1010 NO PRESSURE MR. ALEXANDER YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THAT HEROIC EFFORT AND THE PROGRESS WE'VE MADE. I HAVE A A COMPLIMENT AND A QUESTION. SO THE COMPLIMENT FOR US ALL IS AROUND THE CENTRAL OFFICE.
I JUST WANT TO LIFT UP AGAIN THE POINT THAT YOU ALREADY MADE AROUND THE CENTRAL OFFICE SPENDING AND THE FACT THAT IN 2020 2021 WE WERE SPENDING 25% OF OUR CENTRAL OFFICE OUT OF OUR GENERAL FUND BUDGET AND CENTRAL OFFICE NOW WE'RE DOWN TO 16 REALLY PRIORITIZE SCHOOL BASED FUNDS BUT THAT'S ALSO BETTER THAN THE PEER DISTRICTS THAT WERE IN THE REPORT. THE BUDGET LETTERS, THE LEGISLATIVE ANALYST REPORT OUR PEER DISTRICTS WERE AROUND 18%. SO WE'VE NOW ACTUALLY PASSED THEM AND I JUST THINK THAT'S BEEN I JUST THINK THAT AGAIN SHOWS THE COMMITMENT TO OUR STUDENTS, OUR SCHOOLS, OUR FAMILIES AND IT'S MUCH APPRECIATE I KNOW THAT WORK'S ACTUALLY GONE ON. EMERY YOU'VE BEEN PART OF THIS FOR YEARS NOW TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT AND MAKE IT HAPPEN AND I JUST SO GRATITUDE MUCH GRATITUDE FOR THAT. AND THEN THE OTHER PIECE AND MR. SMITH AND I HAVE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH THIS BUT ABOUT THIS BUT I AND ALSO ANOTHER NUMBER THAT I HAVE BEEN MONITORING I THINK IT'S GOOD FOR THE PUBLIC TO MONITOR IS
THE PERCENTAGE OF THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET WE SPEND ON INSTRUCTION. >> SO IF YOU LOOK ON PAGE 12 OF THE BUDGET DOCUMENT ITSELF, THERE'S THE FUNCTION CODES WHICH ARE THE KIND OF PURPOSES OF FUNDING IN THE FIRST THE 1000 CATEGORY IS INSTRUCTION WHICH IS MONEY THAT IS ACTUALLY SPENT IN THE CLASSROOM AND THERE'S INSTRUCTION RELATED SERVICES AND LOTS OF OTHER CATEGORIES. SO THAT PERCENTAGE ACTUALLY ALSO HAS BEEN GOING UP AS A RESULT OF AS WE'VE MOVED MONEY FROM THE PERCENTAGE OF THE BUDGET FROM THE CENTRAL OFFICE MORE TO THE SITES AND MORE TO THE CLASSROOMS. THAT NUMBER HAS ACTUALLY INCREASED OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS FROM 54% TO 58 I BELIEVE RIGHT NOW. BUT WHICH IS ACTUALLY I THINK AT THE STATE AVERAGE PERHAPS BUT THERE ARE SOME OTHER LARGE DISTRICTS IN CALIFORNIA THAT SPEND AS MUCH AS 63 OR 64% OF THE GENERAL FUND ON INSTRUCTION. SO MY QUESTION WHICH MAY NOT BE ANSWERED TONIGHT BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE STILL WORKING BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE BY NEXT WEEK BEFORE WE VOTE JUST A SENSE OF WHY YOU THINK THAT'S THE CASE
OR WHY IT HASN'T GONE UP MORE I THINK IS MY IS MY QUESTION BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE WE'VE REALLY TARGETED OUR FUNDING TOWARD THE CLASSROOM AND I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THAT TO MAYBE GO UP UP EVEN MORE SO IF AND IT'S FINE IF YOU WANT TO ADDRESS THAT NEXT WEEK INSTEAD OF TONIGHT. BUT I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF RAISE IT AS A BECAUSE I ALSO THINK, YOU KW, THESE BUDGETS ARE REALLY COMPLICATED. SO I THINK I LIKE TO TRY TO FIND THESE INDICATORS THAT ARE JUST YOU KNOW, THERE ARE DIFFERENT SLICES AND WAYS OF LOOKING AT A REALLY COMPLEX BUDGET. THE CENTRAL OFFICE SPENDING IS ONE THE INSTRUCTION SPENDING IS ANOTHER. I'M SURE THERE ARE OTHERS THAT COLLEAGUES MAY WANT TO RAISE. BUT THANK YOU AGAIN. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE YOU CONTINUING TO RAISE THAT AND MARIE AND I DO SPEND A BIT OF TIME THINKING ABOUT IT AND TALKING ABOUT IT AND YOU'RE RIGHT, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS I THINK ON THE ON THE LOOKING AT THE UNRESTRICTED AID AND THE AMOUNT SPENT ON IN THE CLASSROOM THAT'S THE INSTRUCTION. THE 1000 IS A GOOD INDICATOR
AND IT IS INCREASING. AND ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK AS YOU AS YOU FIND THE STAFFING MODEL AND YOU REALLY ENSURE THAT THE LCF BASE AND SUPPLEMENTAL CONCENTRATION GRANTS ARE PAYING FOR SERVICES IN THE CLASSROOM IS WHERE YOU'LL SEE THAT RIGHT NOW IT'S A BIT OF A MIX. WE USE SOME OF IT FOR THE DISCRETIONARY MONEYS THAT SCHOOLS RECEIVE AND THAT COULD GO INTO THE CLASSROOM OR IT COULD BE FOR PUPIL SERVICES POSITION AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO I THINK THAT'S REFINING YOUR STAFFING MODEL AND REALLY GETTING IT TO TALK ABOUT I USE LCF BASE FOR INSTRUCTION RELATED THINGS. I USE LCF CONCENTRATION GRANTS FOR THINGS I USE RESTRICTED SUPPLEMENTAL FOR SUPPLEMENTAL. SO I THINK THAT'S WHY YOU'RE MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION AND WE DID SOME SHIFTS THIS YEAR MOVING LIKE SOCIAL WORKERS ONTO DIFFERENT RESTRICTED MANAGED THINGS THAT WE USED TO PAY OUT OF LCF CONCENTRION SUPPLEMENTAL. SO I THINK THAT'S WHERE THAT'S GOING AND THAT WOULD BE THE RECOMMENDATION TO KEEP THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT MORE DEEPLY AT TO UNDERSTAND THAT AND THEN AS OUR
RESTRICTED MONIES INCREASE AND COME IN OFTEN THEY'RE NOT FOR INSTRUCTION RELATED ITEMS. SO REALLY BEING DISCIPLINED AND SAYING LET'S LOOK AT THAT UNRESTRICTED MONIES THAT WE CAN USE FOR INSTRUCTION AND HOW ARE WE INVESTING THOSE MONIES AND HOW DO WE INVEST OUR RESTRICTED MONEY SO WE'RE THINKING ABOUT DIFFERENT WAYS TO LOOK AT IT SO THAT WE CAN TELL THE STORY A LITTLE BIT MORE PRECISELY AND THEN YOU CAN HAVE YOUR INDICATORS TO LOOK AT IN THE FUTURE. THANK YOU. I THINK THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW WE'RE GETTING MORE AND MORE TRANSPARENT AS WELL ON THE AROUND THE BUDGETING. I THINK THAT'S THAT FOR ME IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS IN THE BOARD I'VE SEEN SUCH HUGE PROGRESS AND SO AGAIN CONGRATS TO WHERE WE'RE AT. I KNOW IT'S HARD AND I KNOW THE CUTS ARE WE'RE GOING TO FEEL THE IMPACT NEXT YEAR IS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT BUT IT'S ALSO THIS ISSUE OF KNOWING HOW WE'RE SPENDING OUR MONEY AND BEING ABLE TO BE MORE TRANSPARENT WITH THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT ARE WE PRIORITIZING IS CRITICAL AND I'M JUST EXCITED FOR THE PROGRESS THAT'S BEEN MADE AND TO CONTINUE IT MOVING FORWARD.
10S LEFT JUST FOR THE RECORD I I'M SO SORRY I HAD INTENDED TO CALL ON MR. DESHAWN IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE COMMENT HERE. >> THANK YOU PRESIDENT KIM FIRST OF ALL, THIS WAS SOMETHING JUST MAJOR MISSING FROM THE SLIDE PRESENTATION AND THAT WAS A PICTURE OF ANN MARIE GORDON AND NOW LOUSMA THEY ARE TRULY YOUR HERO. THE WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE IS IS INCREDIBLE. I HAVE TO HEARKEN BACK ALMOST FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN I FIRST CAME AND A LOT OF THIS MAYBE NEARLY ALL OF IT WAS AROUND THIS MASSIVE SPREADSHEET THAT EVERY AS THE DEBT ALLOCATION STORM AND EVERYTHING AND WHILE IT TOOK A LONG TIME TO LEARN WITH THIS INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION NOT ONLY HAS INSIDE AND FROM THAT OUR NOW FRONT LINE SO YOU HAVE YOU GOT A MAJOR NEED EXIST AND HOW DO YOU HANDLE SO WHO KNOWS TO BOTH AND REALLY KNOWING AND KNOWING THAT STARTED THIS PROCESS EIGHT
MONTHS I I NEED TO SEE EITHER ONE IF WE'RE GOING TO BE A BIGGER ONES. THAT BEING SAID SO IF YOU'VE EVER HAD AN IPHONE AND OH MY GOD YOU LOOK AT THIS AND THAT IS JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON WITH MY STAFF AND YOU ARE IN THE MIDST OF THESE MASSIVE SYSTEMS AND THAT'S GOING TO TAKE PROBABLY AT LEAST ONE CYCLE FOR SO AND I SPOKE WITH PRESIDENT TODAY AND I JUST HE ASKED IF I HAD ANY CONCERNS ABOUT THE BUDGET AND I SAID THE MAIN ARE THE DATA THAT ARE GOING AND SO AFTER YOU MAKE THIS LITTLE WITH WOMEN YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND YOUR G AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO EDIT PICTURES AND WHEN IS IT IMPORTANT? OBVIOUSLY A VERY SIMPLE ANALOGY FINDING OUT ARE THE DATA IN THE FRONT LINE PERSISTENT INACCURATE? IT HAS TO BE RECONCILED AND YOU COME UP WITH A A CONTROL FILE THAT IS SINGULAR WHEREAS THERE WERE SIX FIVE YEARS AGO ONCE TOMORROW AND AFTER X AND SO THAT SYSTEM CHANGE WHICH HAS BEEN THE BACKGROUND OF WHERE SKEPTICAL THE INCREDIBLE
BUSINESS PEOPLE HAVE WORKED IN THE BACKGROUND THIS IS GOING TO WORK WITH THAT SO WE KNOW THAT THERE IS A LOT OF WORK IN SUPPORTING YOUR FRONT LINE OF IN THIS NEGATIVE THING. SO IF YOU LIKE AND I WANT TO TALK FOR A MINUTE AND THE MOST SIMPLE THINGS AND AND AT THE SAME POINT YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT YOU ALL SEE IT ON WITH MR. DUSHAN IF YOU COULD ALSO ADJUST YOUR MIC PERHAPS SO WE CAN HEAR YOU A BIT BETTER AS MR. STEELE PULLS UP THE SLIDE I'LL SHOW YOU 45 SECONDS SO IF YOU DO ANYTHING LIKE HOW GOOD NELLIE AND MARIA ARE ARE YOU HEARING ME? YES. YES. OKAY. SO BY 18 IS VERY CRITICAL AND THE FIRST LESSON FROM SLIDE 18 IS THAT WHEN THEY BRING YOU A FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN THAT IS GOING TO MITIGATE AND MEET AND BUYING THAT TO PUT IT IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS IF YOUR DISTRICT WERE SOLVENT LIKE BE WOULD BE GREATER THAN LINE C IN LINE AND D WOULD BE GREATER THAN ZERO AND THEN THAT'S NOT
TRUE IN ANY OF THE CASES IN THE NEXT THREE AND IN FACT NOT ONLY IS LYING IN A ZERO BUT IT DEPLETES A LOT OF THE MONIES UNDERLYING E AND ONE OF THE LAST THINGS THAT SMITH SAID WHICH WE FULLY APPLAUD IS THAT YOUR 2% RESERVES ARE REALLY NOT ADEQUATE FOR YOUR BUDGET AND THE AMOUNT OF RESERVES KNOW. SO A VERY GOOD INTENTION IS THAT FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN AND PRESERVE ANY RESERVES AND DIMINISHING AND ULTIMATELY ZEROING OUT THAT SHORTFALL. SO THAT LINE OF THAT'S GOING TO BE CRITICAL. YOUR SHORTFALLS SHOULD NOT BE REALIZED. YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE A LOT OF GOOD WORK. SOME OF IT YOU CAN ONLY DO LIKE A SURVEY LIKE BE ABLE TO DO IN SEVERAL YEARS FROM NOW BUT HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO ONE IN THE NEXT BUDGET. IT'S LIKE THEY'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK WITH STAFFING.
THEY MENTIONED STAFFING IS GOING THROUGH SCHOOL BY SCHOOL AND IN THE STAFFING MODEL AND THE YOUR DEPARTMENT THERE, YOUR BUSINESS DEPARTMENT YOU HAVE WORK ORDINARILY HARD AT WALKING THE FINE LINE BETWEEN STAFFING THE SCHOOL WITHOUT OVERSTEPPING AT THE BOTTOM LINE YOU'RE SPENDING MORE MONEY IN YOUR UNRESTRICTED BUDGET THAN YOU GET. YOU'RE SPENDING PURPOSEFULLY MORE MONEY IN YOUR RESTRICTED AND THAT ACTUALLY WAS ONE OF THE THINGS YOU WERE GIVEN ADVICE ON EARLY ON WITH FROM THICK MAT AND FROM THIS THING. SO YOU'RE GETTING TO WHERE YOU NEED TO GO WITH YOUR RESTRICTED IN YOUR UNRESTRICTED YOU REALLY NEED TO BE SET UP AND FOLLOW THROUGH AS YOU DID THIS YEAR WITH $117 MILLION IN CUTS WITH WHAT ARE GOING TO BE THE CUTS NEEDED FOR NEXT YEAR AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR IN ORDER TO ZERO OUT AND GET LINE BE ABOVE ZERO AND MAINTAIN LINE AT THE KINDS OF LEVELS THAT IT IS FOR 2526
CERTAINLY NOT WHEN 729 A LONG WAY ON YOUR STAFFING MODEL GOT A LONG WAY IN MAKING CUTS AND CUTTING THE CENTRAL OFFICE THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT EARLIER. I THINK ONCE YOU GET FRONT LINE IN PLACE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GET MUCH MORE ACCURATE READ ON THE AMOUNTS OF INSTRUCTION THE STATE ACTUALLY GIVES YOU A FORMULA FOR DOING THAT AND I WILL GET MORE ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT WHY IT'S IMPLEMENTED. I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO THE WEEDS LESS BECAUSE I THINK OF RID OF THAT REMIT AND LIKE THE BIBLE THE ADVICE THEY BRING IN NEXT YEAR THEY WILL PLAN AND GET TO THE ROOT CAUSE OF WHY YOU'RE SPENDING MORE OF YOUR UNRESTRICTED FUND THAN YOU HAVE BASICALLY. YET THAT'S THE DIET EVERY DISTRICT HAS TO LIVE ON AND YOUR OTHER FUNDS SHOULD BE SUPPLEMENTARY. BASICALLY WHAT NEEDS TO BREAK THE AND SO I THINK WITH THAT ALSO A POSITIVE COMMENT OF JUST
HOW HARD YOUR STAFF IS TO WORK AND YOU HAVE SEEN THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG AND REALLY WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE STAFF LITERALLY WORKING 24 HOURS A DAY AND THEY WILL BE FOR A WHILE. SO WHO GOES TO THEM? WHO GOES TO AGAIN? NO, I AM REALLY I GO I'M STILL NOT CONVINCED YOU'RE REALLY GOING TO GO IN AND MAKE A CALL WITH SOMEBODY. ASK THEM THE WAY. BUT THANK YOU BOTH. WE ARE YOU'RE BOTH TO ADVISE WE ADVISE ALSO ON YOUR AGENDA TONIGHT IS HIRING IN THE BUSINESS OFFICE THAT WAS NUMBER ONE ON THE LIST FOUR YEARS AGO. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ELLIOT. AND I WANT TO AFFIRM THAT I JUST HEARD THE SUPERINTENDENT AND ASKED HER IF SHE CAN PLEASE PROVIDE A FINAL UPDATE ON FRONT LINE AS PART OF HER PRESENTATION NEXT WEEK AND SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. I ALSO WANT TO AFFIRM THAT BOTH IN STAFF BUDGET BRIEFINGS, A BRIEFING WITH YOU PERSONALLY LAST WEEK I THINK ALL OF THIS
RESONATES AND IS ALIGNED TO THE FEEDBACK AND KNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE AS A BOARD TODAY. THAT BEING SAID, THIS IS OUR FIRST READING SO WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY NEXT WEEK TO ENGAGE IN ANOTHER CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE I MOVE ON KNOWING THAT IT IS 1025 AND WE ALL DESPERATELY WANT TO GO TO BED THREE MINUTES. >> TWO MINUTES. COMMISSIONER FISHER I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION ON SLIDE 18 ABOUT THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN. ACTUALLY I THINK IT WAS 19 IT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION SLIDE IT MISSED LAST MONTH. WERE YOU TO SAY ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IS TO CONTINUALLY MONITOR THE MULTIYEAR REVENUE PROJECTIONS AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AS NEEDED. SO BUT DOES THAT BY WHO'S DOING THE MONITORING STAFF BOARD BOTH HOW OFTEN WHAT ARE THE BEST PRACTICES? HOW OFTEN SHOULD WE CALENDAR THAT? >> WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE THERE? SO THE BOARD SHOULD BE DOING THAT AT EACH OF THE INTERIM REPORTS THAT'S WHEN YOU'RE RECEIVING THAT INFORMATION AND I DO THINK IT IS A REALLY
GOOD PRACTICE TO HAVE SORT OF I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'D CALL THEM FISCAL STABILIZATION PLANS BUT HAVE PRESENTATIONS WITH EACH INTERIM TO SAY WHERE WE ARE. IF YOU'RE NOTICING ANY LIKE OH LOOKS LIKE WE MIGHT BE SLIPPING IN THAT. BUT ELIOT WAS SAYING THAT LINE GETTING TOO CLOSE TO ZERO AND MAYBE GOING BELOW I FORGET WHICH ROW IT IS THOSE TYPES OF THINGS AND THEN IT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULD JUST BE DOING CONTINUALLY. I THINK I'M SURE YOU'RE THE NEW PERSON COMING IN WILL HAVE EVEN BETTER IDEAS THAN ME BUT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO THAT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOUR MULTI-YEAR PROJECTIONS ARE FOR THERE TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF WHERE YOU'RE GOING AND WHAT YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT NOW THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN WILL BRING NEXT YEAR, NEXT YEAR NEXT WEEK WILL GIVE YOU WE WILL BASICALLY MAP OUT WHERE YOU GET TO THAT ZERO OR ABOVE AND THEN IF YOU GET TO THAT PLACE YOU DON'T WANT TO JUST BE LIKE OH WE DID IT. WE DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING ANYMORE BECAUSE YOU'LL START CREEPING. SO IT'S JUST THAT DISCIPLINE BUT THE INTERIM REPORT SO THE GOOD TIME TO DO IT FOR THE
BOARD NOT ANYMORE. >> OFTEN LIKE WE USED TO HAVE THE HOOK FOR FISCAL AND OPERATIONAL HEALTH OR YOU KNOW JUST THAT THE THREE INTERIM SHOULD BE ENOUGH. YEAH AND HOPEFULLY IT'LL BE TWO WHEN YOU'RE QUALIFIED OR POSITIVE. >> THANK YOU. LOVE IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ON THAT NOTE, WE DO NEED TO FORMALLY OPEN THIS UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. VICE PRESIDENT HULING APOLOGIES. I JUST I DO WANT TO REALLY THANK EVERYONE IN THE CENTRAL OFFICE INCLUDING OUR FEARLESS BUDGET TEAM FOR GETTING US TO THIS POINT AND TO ECHO, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN MENTIONED IN OTHER CONTEXTS. BUT YOU HAVE BEEN UNDERGOING A REORGANIZATION. YOU HAVE BEEN UNDERGOING A REDUCTION IN FORCE. YOU HAVE BEEN UNDERGOING FRONTLINE TRANSITION WHICH HAS REQUIRED FULL PERSON POWER FROM THE CENTRAL OFFICE. IT'S ALSO INVOLVED COMMUNITY SUPPORT FROM OUTSIDE
PHILANTHROPIC DOLLARS TO GET US ADDITIONAL POWER TO GET TO THIS POINT. SO THE FACT THAT THIS BUDGET HAS EVEN BUILT IN FRONT LINE IS JUST A MASSIVE STEP FORWARD FOR THE DISTRICT AND SHOWS THAT OUR FRONTLINE TRANSITION IS ON TRACK. SO THIS REPRESENTS NOT JUST ONE THING SUCCEEDING IN THE CENTRAL OFFICE BUT MANY THINGS SUCCEEDING EVEN AS YOUR NUMBERS ARE SMALLER. AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR MOVING MOUNTAINS AS PUBLIC SERVANTS FOR ALL OF THE STUDENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND AND GETTING US TO THIS POINT AND I DO HAVE A QUESTION I'M NOT JUST PONTIFICATING 55 SECONDS ON REGARDING THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN I DID NOTE THAT YOU HELPFULLY POINTED OUT THAT THE MULTI DISTRICT OR THE MULTI YEAR PROJECTIONS FOR THE UNRESTRICTED FUNDS ON SLIDE 18 DO NOT INCLUDE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SALARY INCREASES AND I WONDERING IF THE ITEM D ON THE MINIMUM UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND BALANCE OTHER COMMITMENTS ASSIGNMENTS IS INTENDED TO BUILD THAT IN BUILDS
IN ESSENTIALLY A CUSHION TO OUR FINANCIAL PLANNING TO PLAN FOR RAISES OR IF WE WOULD NEED TO MAKE EVEN FURTHER BUDGET CHANGES TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO RAISE PAY FOR OUR LABOR PARTNERS AND ATTRACT THE BEST TALENT AND RETAIN THEM. IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE 40 7 MILLION RIGHT AND THE 2627 PROJECTED BUDGET WE'RE LOOKING AT 18 D WHAT THE FISCAL STABILIZATION IS GOING TO BRING TO YOU IS HOW TO ELIMINATE THAT DEFICIT. WHAT YOU NEED TO CUT TO GET TO THAT SO THAT AND WHERE YOU'VE REBUILT YOUR FUND BALANCE TO BE 100,000,110 IF YOU WANTED TO BUILD IN RAISES THAT WOULD INCREASE THAT 47 MILLION TO A LARGER NUMBER TO GET TO THAT AND I THINK THAT THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE SORT OF EMERY MENTIONED IT ELIOT MENTIONED IT THAT YOU MAY NOT YOU DO NEED TO LET THE DUST SETTLE ON FRONT LINE, REALLY GET YOUR POSITION CONTROL AND REALLY IDENTIFY IF YOU HAVE COSTS RIGHT NOW THAT YOU COULD ELIMINATE
AND REPURPOSE THOSE TO INVEST IN YOUR STAFF. SO I THINK IT MIGHT BE A BOTH AND YOU MIGHT HAVE TO MAKE MORE REDUCTIONS TO GET TO THAT AND YOU MAY BE ABLE TO LOOK AT YOUR REFINING YOUR STAFFING MODEL AND THINKING OF THAT. SO WE'LL BRING SOME OF THOSE IDEAS TOO. BUT I THINK THAT WORK IS GOING TO HAVE TO HAPPEN AS WE THE COUPLE OF THINGS THAT ELIOT SAID YOU KNOW THE FRONT LINE IS A HUGE TASK THAT THE STAFF DID AMAZING THINGS. I, I MOSTLY JUST WATCHED SHOTS OF EVERYBODY TRYING TO ASK QUESTIONS AND FIGURE THINGS OUT AND I WAS LIKE GO TEAM AND IT WAS AMAZING WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND YOU DO WE WILL HAVE TO DO THE POSITION CONTROL. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO VALIDATE THE AMOUNT THAT ARE IN FRONT LINE AND OUR CLOSING AMOUNTS COMING OUT OF OUR CURRENT SYSTEM TO MAKE SURE THOSE ARE RECONCILING AND GET ALL THAT READY AND THEN I REALLY THINK THAT AUDIT OF THAT ONCE YOU DO THAT POSITION CONTROL YOU MAY IDENTIFY POSITIONS THAT ARE NO LONGER NEEDED IN THE DISTRICT AND YOU CAN REPURPOSE THAT MONEY FOR INCREASES. >> SO IT'S A COMBINATION OF THINGS SO MY QUESTION I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT I AND THAT
I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY ARE YOU SAYING THAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO MAKE CUTS MORE THAN THE 47 IN ROW D ON PAGE 18 OR WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO MAKE CUTS MORE THAN THE 110 MILLION ON ITEM D ON SLIDE 20 JUST BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE I THAT THOSE ARE JUST VERY DIFFERENT NUMBERS. >> SO I THINK YOU HAVE A FINAL SLIDE ABOUT THE FISCAL STABILIZATION, RIGHT? IF WE LOOK AT SLIDE 18 THAT ALREADY INCORPORATES THE $113.9 MILLION OF REDUCTION SO THAT IS ALREADY BUILT IN TO WHAT YOU SEE HERE BECAUSE WE ARE STILL DEFICIT SPENDING BECAUSE WE RIGHT. WE STILL WE BECAUSE WE HAVE THAT -47 ACROSS ROAD IT MEANS THAT IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE THAT WE WOULD NEED TO MAKE $47 MILLION OF ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS IN THE FUTURE IF WE WERE TO INCORPORATE RAISES SAY FOR EXAMPLE BEGINNING IN 20 2627 YOU WOULD SEE THE MAJORITY OF THAT INCREASE THE NUMBER THE GRAY TOTAL EXPENDITURES THAT'S
566.97 MILLION THAT RIGHT IF WE MADE IF WE HAD SALARIES LIKE THAT'S WHERE THEN THAT WOULD OUR ONGOING EXPENDITURES WOULD INCREASE WHICH WOULD INCREASE THE -47 RIGHT I THINK IS KEY ON THIS ON THIS TABLE. >> YEAH. REALLY REALLY DO YOU SEE THE OTHER THE OTHER THING TO NOTE IS IF YOU SEE IN ROAD FOR 2627 IT'S 47 MILLION AND THEN YOU SEE IN ROAD D 2728 IT'S 48 MILLION RIGHT BECAUSE EACH YEAR YOU ALSO HAVE ABOUT A 1% INCREASE OF YOUR EXPENDITURES SO YOU CAN'T IF YOU ONLY CUT 40 7 MILLION AND YOU GO INTO THE NEXT YEAR AND YOU HAVEN'T ACCOUNTED FOR THAT EXTRA INCREASE IN EXPENDITURES, THEN YOU WILL CARRY THAT 1 MILLION. SO YOU REALLY SHOULD CUT TOWARDS THE D IN 27, 28 AND 2627 BECAUSE THEN YOU HAVE ELIMINATED THE DEFICIT SPENDING GOING INTO THE NEXT YEAR. AND THE OTHER THING IS YOUR FUND BALANCE HAS GONE A LITTLE BIT BELOW SO YOU WANT TO CUT A LITTLE BIT MORE TO TO RESTORE IT BUT THIS IS ALL WHAT WE CAN
WE WILL BE SHARING. >> YOU'RE GOING TO BRING THIS NEXT WEEK. YES. YES. DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT OR QUESTION ONE QUICKLY PLEASE. >> OKAY. I'M GOING TO TRY THIS FROM A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ANGLE. I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT SLIDE 20 INSTEAD OF THIS SLIDE THERE'S A REFERENCE TO OTHER COMMITMENTS SLASH ASSIGNMENTS OF 30 TO 40 MILLION. I THINK PERHAPS COMMISSIONER HULING WAS WONDERING IF THAT COULD COVER SALARY INCREASES OR IF IT IS MET FOR SOME OTHER PURPOSE THAT IS ONE TIME MONEY SO YOU DON'T WANT TO USE ONE TIME MONEY TO COVER SALARY INCREASES. SO THAT IS MEANT AS THIS YEAR FEDERAL FUNDING GOT CUT. WE LOST $12 MILLION. I HAVE A $30 MILLION UNASSIGNED AMOUNT. I CAN COVER THAT BUT I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ADDRESS THAT. IT JUST BUYS YOU TIME TO ADDRESS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN A IN A VERY QUICK MOMENT AND JUST TO CONFIRM SALARY INCREASES WOULD BE ONGOING STRUCTURAL INCREASES THAT WE'RE
HAVING TO OUR BOTTOM LINE BUDGET. THIS IS REPRESENTING ONGOING ONE TIME FUND RESERVES AMOUNTS JUST TO CLARIFY THAT CASH SMART OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE DO NEED TO OPEN THIS UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT IF THERE IS ANYTHING BEFORE WE CLOSE THIS FIRST HEARING OUT. >> I DON'T HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS BUT I KNOW THAT THERE WAS SOME INTEREST IN PUBLIC COMMENTS. SO ARE WE DO WE REQUIRE SPEAKER CARDS FOR THE HEARING? >> I BELIEVE THAT WE DO, YEAH. YEAH. SO SO NONE IN PERSON THEN? OH DIDN'T YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THE SUPER COMMITTEE? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I MEAN IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK DOES GO THROUGH ALL RIGHT BUT WE'LL CHECK IT ONLINE SO PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU CARE TO SPEAK TO THE BUDGET ITEM, PLEASE REPEAT THAT IN SPANISH IN CHINESE WHEN THE NOTICE TO GET A I'M SORRY I STOPPED IN THIS MANNER. YES. YOU LISTEN TO WHAT YOU'RE USING. I THOUGHT HE GOT ALL YOU GUYS OUT AND GOT THANK YOU PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS THANKS JUDSON.
GOOD EVENING. THANKS. THANK YOU ALL FOR STAYING SO LATE TONIGHT. THIS IS A REALLY PACKED AGENDA IN TERMS OF THE CONVERSATION RELATED TO THE BUDGET. IT IS CLEAR THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE THERE IS GOING TO BE A NEED FOR MORE CUTS FOR THIS OF SUBSEQUENT THREE YEARS MAYBE AND I WANT TO JUST REMIND YOU ALL THAT CLOSING SCHOOLS DOES NOT AND THIS FACILITY CLOSURE BUDGET SO I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN HOW YOU'RE GOING TO ENGAGE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE FURTHER BUDGET CUTS AND WAYS THAT THOSE BUDGET COULD CANNOT CLOSE SCHOOLS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CHRISTINE CHRISTINE ,ONE MORE TIME THAT ENDS UP FOR A LONG TIME SO THEY MAY NOT WANT TO BE SPEAKING. THANK YOU. I NOW CLOSE THIS PUBLIC HEARING AT 10:37 P.M.. WE HAVE ONE FINAL PUBLIC HEARING AND ADOPTION ITEM I WANT TO 56-17 FOR PUBLIC HEARING AND ADOPTION OF THE A LOCAL PLAN AND THE ANNUAL BUDGET AND AN ANNUAL SERVICE PLAN FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR THE SAME SCHOOL UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION AND NOW OPEN THE
PUBLIC HEARING AND ADOPTION OF THE LOCAL PLAN AND THE ANNUAL BUDGET AN ANNUAL SERVICE PLAN FOR THE SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR THIS SCHOOL UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION AT 10:38 P.M. I CALL ON THE SUPERINTENDENT TO INTRODUCE THIS ITEM. THANK YOU PRESIDENT KIM. I AM GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO REGINA PIPER AND JULIA MARTIN THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING DR. SUE PRESIDENT KIM COMMISSIONERS AND TO OUR FAITHFUL COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE HERE SUPPORTING US IN OUR PRESENTATION. IF I HAD A BASKET OF FIDGETS AND WIGGLE SEATS AND A LITTLE ELASTIC BAND TO PASS AROUND, I WOULD. >> SO I HOPE THAT YOU'RE MOVING AND ENERGIZED THROUGHOUT OUR PRESENTATION TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO BE PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW OF OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND ESPOSTI AND WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO OUR PUBLIC HEARING ON THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SOUTH BAY LOCAL PLAN. >> THIS IS OUR PROPOSED SPECIAL
EDUCATION BUDGET AS WELL AS OUR ANNUAL SERVICE PLAN AND THE GOALS AND RECOMMENDED ACTIONS OF OUR SELF AND IT REPRESENTS OUR TRUE COMMITMENT TO PROVIDING SERVICES AND SUPPORT TO OUR STUDENTS WITH IEPS ACROSS OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM AND I'M GOING TO PASS THIS ON TO MISS JULIA MARTIN OUR OMBUDSPERSON FOR SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED I THINK SLIDE PLEASE. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. SO I'M GOING TO TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT OUR SOPA, CALPERS, OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION LOCAL PLAN AREAS WITHIN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IT IS HOW WE DISTRIBUTE OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDS THROUGHOUT OUR STATE TO ENSURE THAT EVERY CHILD WITH A DISABILITY RECEIVES THE SUPPORT THEY NEED TO RECEIVE AN EDUCATION. I ALSO JUST WANT TO COMMENT BRIEFLY ON WHAT OUR LOCAL PLAN IS AS WE'VE GOTTEN MANY QUESTIONS. SO OUR LOCAL PLAN IS REQUIRED
BY EVERY SINGLE CELL IN OUR STATE. THERE ARE THREE COMPONENTS OF THE PLAN THAT YOU WILL SEE THIS YEAR. NEXT YEAR'S PLAN WILL BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT BUT THIS YEAR OUR PLAN IS AS MISS PIPER SAID, OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION BUDGET, OUR SERVICE PLAN WHICH IS AN OVERVIEW OF EVERY SINGLE SERVICE AND EVERY SINGLE STUDENT'S IEP IN OUR DISTRICT AND THEN CERTIFICATIONS. SO THOSE ARE SIGNATURES FROM OUR SUPERINTENDENT OUR BOARD CHAIR, OUR STAFF, OUR BOARD OF EDUCATION PRESIDENT AND OUR CAC CHAIR. SO ALL OF THOSE TWO REALLY AS MS.. PIPER SAID, SHOW THE PUBLIC AND THE STATE MOST IMPORTANTLY THAT WE STAND BY OUR COMMITMENT TO PROVIDE THE LEGALLY REQUIRED SERVICES TO OUR STUDENTS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO ON THIS SLIDE YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR SOPA. WE HAVE 10,000 STUDENTS IN OUR
SOPA AND THE MAJORITY OF THOSE ARE STUDENTS IN SFI USD. BUT WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER 12% THAT ARE STILL PART OF OUR SOPA AND THOSE ARE STUDENTS IN OUR CHARTER SCHOOLS AND OUR COUNTY SCHOOLS IN OUR NON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND EARLY EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND IN PRIVATE AND PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR STUDENTS IN OUR SOPA OR IN OUR DISTRICT, WE DO REALLY WANT TO POINT OUT THAT 66.5% OF THE STUDENTS WHO HAVE IEPS IN SFP WITH C ARE IN GENERAL EDUCATION. THE MAJORITY OF THEIR DAY RIGHT. SO THOSE STUDENTS ARE RECEIVING THE SAME CURRICULUM AS EVERYONE ELSE IN OUR DISTRICT. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SLIDE ON THE RIGHT YOU'LL SEE THAT THE PRIMARY DISABILITIES AND THE PRIMARY ELIGIBILITY OF STUDENTS WITH IEPS IS SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY THAT'S WHERE YOU FIND A LOT OF DYSLEXIA TYPE ISSUES. YOU WILL SEE AUTISM SPEECH OR
LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT AND OTHER HEALTH IMPAIRMENT WHERE YOU COULD HAVE ELIGIBILITY RUN THINGS AROUND ATTENTION AND THEN SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE LISTED THERE THOSE ARE PART OF THE ADA ELIGIBILITY CATEGORIES. THERE ARE 13 OF THOSE AND THOSE ARE SOME OF OUR LOW INCIDENCE DISABILITIES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. ON THIS SLIDE YOU WILL SEE JUST THE REALLY RISING TREND THAT WE WANT TO CALL ATTENTION TO. SO ALTHOUGH DISTRICT ENROLLED IS DROPPING, WE CONTINUE TO SEE YEAR OVER YEAR INCREASE AS IN OUR STUDENTS WITH IEPS AND RIGHT NOW OUR CLOSE CAPTION IS OVER THE BOTTOM NUMBER. BUT I WILL TELL YOU WE ARE NOW FOUR S.F. U.S. STUDENTS AT 7004 STUDENTS WITH IEPS IN OUR DISTRICT. RIGHT? SO IT'S A THOUSAND MORE STUDENTS AND WHERE WE WERE IN 2017. AND AT THAT POINT 11% OF OUR STUDENTS HAD IEPS AND NOW 14% OF OUR STUDENTS HAVE IEPS. AND NOW I'M GOING TO PASS BACK TO MISS PIPER, OUR SUFFOLK DIRECTOR. >> THANKS, JULIA.
I WANT TO GIVE YOU A MINUTE TO REVIEW THE TABLE BEFORE I BEGIN AND I'M GOING TO BE WORKING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT AND TOP TO BOTTOM AS I DESCRIBE THE BREAKDOWN OF OUR PROPOSED BUDGET BUDGET. I WANT TO GIVE BEFORE I START SOME LIKE VERY SINCERE KUDOS TO OUR SMALL BUT MIGHTY TEAM IN OUR SPECIAL ED SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND IN OUR CENTRAL FISCAL DEPARTMENT FOR REALLY DIVING IN SLEEVES UP READY TO LEARN A BRAND NEW BUDGETING SYSTEM AND TO DO THE TYPE OF FORENSIC ACCOUNTING THAT WAS REQUIRED FOR US TO BE AS CLOSE IN OUR PROPOSED BUDGET AS POSSIBLE SO THAT AS WE PRESENTED TO YOU I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT IN THE FIGURES THAT WE'RE SHARING TONIGHT. GRANTED, AS ANN-MARIE GORDON SAID EARLIER, THERE MAY BE SOME SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS BASED ON RECONCILIATION THAT'S HAPPENING BETWEEN OUR CURRENT SYSTEM AND FRONTLINE BUT BASED ON OUR PROJECTIONS THIS PROPOSED
BUDGET IS SOMETHING AGAIN THAT I HAVE GREAT CONFIDENCE IN. SO I WANT TO START WITH THE FIRST CATEGORY WHICH IS OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION SITE BASED SALARIES AND BENEFITS. THIS REPRESENTS OUR SITE BASED STAFF, OUR TEACHERS, OUR PARA EDUCATORS, OUR SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS, SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST BOARD CERTIFIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS AND OTHER RELATED SERVICE PROVIDERS WHO ARE SERVING STUDENTS ACROSS OUR SCHOOLS IN SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED. THAT REPRESENTS 73% OF OUR BUDGET WHICH IS AGAIN QUITE QUITE LARGE AND IT REPRESENTS OVER 1800 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT OR POSITIONS FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMING YEAR. THAT AMOUNTS TO $203 MILLION MORE THAN $203 MILLION TO SERVE OUR 7000 S.F. USD STUDENTS WITH IEPS IN OUR SCHOOLS. I'M VERY HAPPY TO REPORT THAT PART OF WHAT'S REPRESENTED THERE ALSO IS AN INCREASE IN POSITIONS SUCH AS
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS AND PHYSICAL THERAPISTS WHICH WE'VE POSTED SUCCESSFULLY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A DECADE. AND SO OUR EFFORTS TO START INTERVIEWING AND HIRING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE QUALIFIED FOR THOSE ROLES AND WELCOME THEM AS MEMBERS OF OUR DISTRICT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. WE'VE ALSO INCREASED THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS SO WE'VE HIRED 15 ADDITIONAL SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS SO FAR ANOTHER TEN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND OUR RECRUITMENT EFFORTS ARE CONTINUING. SO IF YOU'RE OUT THERE AND YOU'RE LOOKING TO JOIN A FINE ORGANIZATION AND YOU WANT TO SERVE THE STUDENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, PLEASE SUPPLY TODAY WE HOSTED ANOTHER PARA EDUCATOR HIRING EVENT. AND OUR GOAL IS TO ASSIGN PARA EDUCATORS TO THE OPENING TO THE OPEN POSITIONS SO THAT AS WE OPEN SCHOOLS STUDENTS HAVE
SERVICES IN PLACE AND I SPEND TIME SPEAKING TO YOU ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE WANT TO SHOW OUR DEDICATED SUPPORT TO GROWING OUR STAFF AND CONTINUE TO RECRUIT AND SUPPORT THEM SUCCESSFULLY IN OUR DISTRICTS AS WE MOVE DOWN TO THE NEXT CATEGORY SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTRAL OFFICE SALARIES AND BENEFITS THIS INCLUDES ROUGHLY $10.8 MILLION AND REPRESENTS 66 STAFF MEMBERS THAT SERVE IN OUR CENTRAL OFFICE TEAM THAT WORK TO SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE 0 TO 22 YEARS OLD. THIS IS A GROUP OF POSITIONS THAT RANGE FROM DIRECTORS, SUPERVISORS, PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS CONTENT SPECIALISTS, MANAGERS AND DATA ANALYSTS AS WELL AS CLERICAL STAFF MEMBERS. AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE HARD WORK AND DEDICATION OF THIS TEAM THROUGHOUT WHAT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR. THEY REALLY WRAPPED AROUND THE CHALLENGES WITH STAFFING AND OTHER ISSUES AND REALLY
UPLIFTED THE WORK FOR OUR DEPARTMENT AND I'M VERY PROUD TO REPRESENT THEM TODAY. OUR NEXT CATEGORY IS EXTENDED CALENDAR SUBSTITUTES AND BENEFITS. AND THIS CATEGORY REPRESENTS THE TYPES OF INVESTMENTS WE MAKE IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR OUR TEACHERS EXTENDED CALENDAR HOURS ADDITIONAL SUBSTITUTES SO THAT TEACHERS CAN ATTEND REQUIRED TRAINING SUCH AS DE-ESCALATION OR POSITIVE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONS AND SUPPORTS PARTICIPATE IN PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES ALONG WITH OTHER COLLEAGUES TO UPLIFT INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES AND THE USE OF REQUIRED CURRICULUM. AND ALSO LOTS OF OTHER SET ASIDES THAT SUPPORT OUR EDUCATORS ABILITY TO PROVIDE COMPENSATORY SERVICES TO STUDENTS WHEN MS. SERVICE SERVICES OCCUR. MOVING ON TO CURRICULUM INSTRUCTION. YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE A MORE
MODEST SOME $567,000 SET ASIDE TO TO USE TO SUPPLEMENT THE CORE CURRICULUM THAT'S PROVIDED TO STUDENTS AND THIS INCLUDES ADDITIONAL RESOURCES SUCH AS FIRE READ 180 TEACH TOWN AND OTHER LICENSES AND SOFTWARE THAT OUR STUDENTS NEED TO ACCESS CONTENT STANDARDS AND ALSO DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE AND ENGAGING CURRICULUM. MOVING ON TO NONPUBLIC AGENCY AND A NONPUBLIC SCHOOL NPS AND CONSULTANTS CATEGORY. THIS REPRESENTS A WIDE VARIETY OF INDEPENDENT AGENCIES THAT PROVIDE REQUIRED SERVICES TO OUR STUDENTS. WE RELY AND HAVE IN THE PAST MORE HEAVILY ON NONPUBLIC AGENCIES THAN WE HOPE TO IN THE FUTURE AND YOU CAN SEE OUR CONTRIBUTION IS STILL HIGH. WE HAVE REDUCED OUR NONPUBLIC AGENCY INVESTMENT BY $10 MILLION FOR THE COMING YEAR BECAUSE WE'RE DEDICATING THAT $10 MILLION TO INVEST IN OUR OWN STAFF.
AND OUR GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO KEEP THOSE POSITIONS POSTED AND OPEN AND CONTINUE RECRUITING AND HIRING THROUGHOUT THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR AND CONTINUE TO REDUCE THE NONPUBLIC AGENCY INVESTMENT. WE ARE ALSO USING THIS CATEGORY OF FUNDING TO SUPPORT COMPENSATORY SERVICES REQUESTS FOR INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENTS FOR FAMILIES TO MAKE THOSE REQUESTS AS WELL AS TO PROVIDE EMOTIONALLY EDUCATIONAL RELATED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO MANY OF OUR STUDENTS WHICH THE NEEDS SORELY EXCEED OUR ABILITY TO PROVIDE THROUGH OUR OWN STAFF. AND SO WE'RE RELIANT ON THAT. AND I'M GOING TO KEEP MOVING ON. I'M SURE YOU'LL HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS IN TERMS OF OUR LEGAL CLAIMS AND PARENT REIMBURSEMENTS. THIS ALSO REFLECTS OUR COMMITMENT TO WORK AND PARTNER WITH FAMILIES ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE STUDENTS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED MISSED SERVICES AND WE NEED TO PROVIDE COMPENSATORY SERVICES. THERE CAN BE TREMENDOUS EXPOSURE AND VULNERABILITY FOR US AS A DISTRICT IN THIS AREA.
AND SO WE DO SET ASIDE FUNDS FOR THIS PURPOSE AS WE ENTER INTO MEDIATED AGREEMENTS OR SETTLEMENTS. I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT WE'VE REDUCED THE AMOUNT FROM THIS PAST YEAR FROM THE YEAR PRIOR AND WE'RE GOING WE HOPE TO CONTINUE TO REDUCE THAT THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIPS THROUGH OUR USE OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION, THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH FAMILIES AND FOR OUR EFFORT TO RECRUIT AND HIRE AND SUSTAIN HIGHLY QUALIFIED STAFF AND POSITIONS WHICH FRANKLY OFTEN RESULTS IN THE NEED TO PAY OUT LEGAL FEES. GOING TO MOVE US ON TO OPERATIONS. OUR OPERATION BUDGET IS QUITE HIGH AND OUR CLOSED CAPTIONING IS OVER THAT BUT WHAT THAT REPRESENTS IS A ABOUT $6 MILLION IN INDIRECT COSTS THAT WE MUST SET ASIDE FOR BASIC OPERATIONS AND CROSS OVER TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND OUR DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS BUDGET IS MUCH SMALLER AT ABOUT $300,000 AND THAT REALLY ENCOMPASSES ALL
OF THE DIFFERENT MILEAGE AND REIMBURSEMENTS TELEPHONES, POSTAGE SUPPLIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT OH GOODNESS. AND THEN WE'RE GOING ON TO EXTENDED SCHOOL YEAR AND THEN YOU CAN SEE OUR TOTAL PROPOSED BUDGET. I'M SAYING OH GOODNESS BECAUSE THAT WAS MY TOTAL TIME. NEXT SLIDE. THANKS JUDSON. IT IS LATE. IT'S RIVETING THOUGH. RIVETING. I WANT WE WANTED TO BREAK DOWN AND USE A DIFFERENT WAY OF SHOWING HOW WE DISTRIBUTE ESPECIALLY OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO SHOW THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FUNDS ACROSS THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES THAT I'VE JUST DESCRIBED AND I THINK WE CAN GO ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE JUST AND WE ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE TO SHOW HOW OUR FUNDING IS PROVIDED TO US SO THE GREAT MAJORITY OF OUR OUR FUNDING IS IN GREEN AND COMES FROM A GENERAL FUND CONTRIBUTE ACTION WHICH WE ARE ANTICIPATING WILL BE A 184,392,069 $695 FOR NEXT YEAR WE HAVE A MUCH SMALLER
PERCENTAGE ABOUT 18.7% COME FROM OUR STATE REVENUE AND EVEN SMALLER AMOUNT FROM OUR FEDERAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT 9% THAT IS COMING FROM ALMOST 10% COMING FROM LOCAL FUNDS. THE PE FUND AS YOU'VE HEARD EARLIER TONIGHT AS WELL AS A ONE TIME FUNDING SOURCE FROM DC WYETH FOR A TOTAL PROPOSED REVENUE OF 279 MILLION PLUS DOLLARS. NEXT SLIDE WE WANTED TO JUST TAKE A MINUTE AND JUST SHARE SOME OF THE THE STAFFING UPDATES THAT WE HAVE AND AGAIN I'VE DESCRIBED SOME OF OUR INVESTMENTS IN HIRING BUT I ALSO WANTED TO SHOW THAT FOR THE THIS CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR OUR TEACHER POSITIONS ARE A FULL TIME EQUIVALENT AMOUNT AMOUNTED TO JUST UNDER 500 AND FOR THIS COMING SCHOOL YEAR WE'RE SEEING A CHANGE OF AN ADDITIONAL 4.8 TEACHER FTE WHICH CAN BE ACCOUNTED FOR IN SOME OF THE NEW PROGRAMS FOR OPENING UP AT THE K KINDER
LEVEL AND AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL. ADDITIONALLY PARA EDUCATORS WE SEE A BIT GREATER INCREASE IN THE FALL OF 22 FOR 25 WE HAD 1330 PARA EDUCATOR POSITIONS AND WE'RE STARTING IN THE FALL OF NEXT YEAR WITH 1392. THIS IS A VERY DYNAMIC NUMBER CHANGES BASED ON THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO. I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT OUR CDE ADVISORS HAVE BEEN TREMENDOUS PARTNERS TO OUR TEAM THROUGHOUT THIS WORK WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE TO THEM A VERY CREDIBLE SET OF DATA THAT DEMONSTRATES POSITION CONTROL AND WE'RE ABLE TO VERIFY THE NEED FOR THE SERVICES THAT WE'RE PROVIDED SO THEY HAVE FULLY APPROVED THE POSITIONS BOTH AT THE SITE LEVEL AS WELL AS OUR CENTRAL OFFICE DEPARTMENT LEVEL AND SO NOW WE'RE ACTIVELY WORKING WITH H.R. TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO POST TO INTERVIEW AND TO HIRE FOR ALL OF THESE POSITIONS. NEXT SLIDE.
SO WE'RE MOVING INTO OUR LOCAL PLAN GOALS AND AGAIN I HOPE THAT YOU'LL SEE ON THE LEFT ARE WHAT WE'VE TRIED TO DO IS DEMONSTRATE OUR SELF GOALS AT THE TOP AND THEN THE CONNECTION TO OUR CAC SPECIAL EDUCATE OUR CAC SPECIAL EDUCATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS WELL AS OUR VISION VALUE GOALS AND GUARDRAILS AND THE ALIGNMENT TO THOSE. SO I WANTED TO JUST TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO SORT OF WALK YOU THROUGH MAYBE SOME HIGHLIGHTS AND I'M SURE WE'LL ANSWER FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS. BUT OUR FIRST IS TO STRENGTHEN THE CONTINUUM OF SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES ACROSS OUR SCHOOL KNOWING THAT WHEN WE DO THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO MORE SUCCESSFULLY SERVE STUDENTS WITH IEPS CONSISTENTLY ACROSS SCHOOLS WITH GREATER SUCCESS AND HIGHER OUTCOMES AND INCREASED ENROLLMENT IN OUR UC SYSTEM AND OTHER CAREER PATHWAYS FOR OUR STUDENTS WITH IEPS. SO AGAIN THE GOAL IS TO REALLY ENSURE THAT WE ARE USING
EMBEDDED STRUCTURES TO PROVIDE MEANINGFUL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO OUR SITE ADMINISTRATORS AS WELL AS ALL STAFF. WE KNOW THAT THE WITH SHRINKING FUNDS ARE OUR ABILITY TO LEVERAGE THOSE EXISTING STRUCTURES AND EMBED THOSE THE TYPE OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING THAT OUR STAFF NEED TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL IN SERVING STUDENTS WITH IEPS IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT AND SO OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT LEADERS AS IT BECOMES EVEN MORE IMPORTANT WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE ALSO BOLSTERING OUR STAFFING AT OUR EARLY INTAKE UNIT. THIS IS A LOCATION IN OUR SYSTEM WHERE OUR YOUNGEST LEARNERS ARE COMING TO US AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE REQUESTING ASSESSMENTS FOR SUSPECTED DISABILITIES AND SO ONE OF OUR EFFORTS TOWARDS STRENGTHENING THAT CONTINUUM IS STARTING EARLY AND REALLY SUPPORTING STUDENTS AS DR. SUE SAID AT THE EARLIEST POINTS IN THEIR CAREER SO THAT WE HAVE THE MOST SUCCESS IN SUPPORTING THEM AS THEY ENTER THE GRADES
AS THEY GO UP AND TYPE. OKAY, NEXT SLIDE I'M GOING TO MOVE ON. OUR SECOND GOAL IS TO IMPROVE OUR DATA SYSTEMS AND AGAIN YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT AN ALIGNMENT TO OUR CAC PRIORITIES AS WELL AS OUR VISION, VALUES, GOALS AND GUARDRAILS. THIS HAS BEEN EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT THIS YEAR WE'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY SCRUTINIZE AND INTERROGATE OUR DATA SYSTEMS WHICH IN SOME CASES WERE NOT RELIABLE OR YIELDING COMPLIANT REPORTING TO OUR CDE OR TO RECOUP FUNDING. AND SO WE'VE SPENT A GOOD PART OF THIS YEAR REALLY LOOKING AT THOSE SYSTEMS AND MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT HOW TO BEST ENSURE THAT WE ARE USING RELIABLE DATA SETS TO INFORM OUR DECISIONS STARTING WITH TEACHERS AND AND RELATED SERVICE PROVIDERS. WE WANT TO BE SURE THAT TEACHERS AND STAFF HAVE ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND TOOLS THAT HELP THEM TO DEVELOP ROBUST IEPS FOR STUDENTS SO THAT AGAIN ARE THE PLANS FOR THOSE STUDENTS ARE CLEARLY ARTICULATED AND OUR PROGRESS
TOWARDS IMPLEMENTING THOSE PLANS IS CLEAR AND THAT WE HAVE A WAY OF REPORTING THAT TO THE STATE. WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR OUR CASE MANAGERS ARE USING OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION INFORMATION SYSTEM CASE IN THE MANNER IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE USED AND AND AND ENSURING THAT THEY ARE REPORTING DATA ACCURATELY TO NAME A FEW THINGS. JUDSON NEXT SLIDE OUR NEXT GOAL AS YOU'VE HEARD ECHOED THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY OUR CEC PRESENTATIONS TONIGHT IS TO HIRE AND RETAIN SPECIAL EDUCATION STAFF FOR US THIS IS A CRITICAL NEED AND ONE OF THE UNDERPINNINGS OF ALL OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING AND SO OUR ABILITY TO DO SO WILL HELPS US TO REDUCE OUR OVERRELIANCE ON NONPUBLIC AGENCY. IT HELPS US TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO DELIVER A FREE AND APPROPRIATE PUBLIC EDUCATION TO OUR STUDENTS WITH IEPS AND IT REALLY BUILDS MORALE AND CREATES CONSISTENT, RELIABLE, DEPENDABLE SERVICES FOR OUR STUDENTS AND GIVES THEM
WHAT THEY DESERVE. WE ARE MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF NONPUBLIC AGENCIES THAT WE WORK WITH SO THAT WE CAN FOCUS ON QUALITY SERVICES AND OVERSIGHT SO THAT WHEN WE DO HAVE TO RELY ON OF PUBLIC AGENCY AND CONTRACTED SERVERS WHO WE VALUE VALUE VERY DEEPLY, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY AGENCIES THAT WE CAN FIND AND SHRINK THAT NUMBER. K WE'RE GOING TO KEEP MOVING AND OUR FINAL A GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO DEEPEN AUTHENTIC PARTNERSHIPS. WE STARTED THE YEAR ON ROCKY GROUND AND WE'VE WORKED HARD THIS YEAR TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR FAMILIES AND TO OUR PARTNERS ACROSS OUR CITY AND OUR SYSTEM TO BEGIN TO REBUILD TRUST. AND I HOPE THROUGH OUR EFFORTS THAT WE'VE DEMONSTRATED THAT CARE TO OUR PARTNERS. ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE ALSO WANT TO CONTINUE TO DEEPEN PARTNERSHIPS IS BY BRINGING A FOCUS TOWARDS BUILDING TRULY
INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS, SCHOOLS AND DISTRICT THROUGH PARTNERING WITH US SUPPORTING INNOVATIVE PRACTICES SUCH AS A TEAM THAT'S FOCUSED ACROSS THE STATE ON REALLY ADDRESSING ISSUES OF MINDSET, CULTURE, POLICIES AND ACTIONS THAT INTENTIONALLY AND UNINTENTIONALLY CREATE EXCLUSIONARY PRACTICES. AND SO THROUGH OUR WORK WITH THE CIP TEAM WHERE WE ARE REALLY EXCITED TO BE BRINGING THIS WORK TO OUR SITE SCHOOL SITE ADMINISTRATORS AND CENTRAL OFFICE ADMINISTRA IS TO REALLY HELP TETHER ALL OF OUR WORK TOWARDS OUR DESIRE TO REALLY TRULY SERVE THE STUDENTS WHO ARE MOST MARGINALIZED IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM AND REDUCE OUR DISPROPORTIONATE OVER REFERRALS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS TO SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES AS AN EXAMPLE. NEXT SLIDE. SO I WANT THAT IS THE CONCLUSION OF OUR PRESENTATION. IT WENT LONGER THAN EXPECTED. WE HAVE A LOT TO SAY AND I APOLOGIZE THAT WAS A LITTLE TOO VERBOSE IN MY DISCUSSION BUT I
WANT TO EXTEND GREAT GRATITUDE TO OUR PARTNERS OUR FAMILY EMPOWERMENT CENTER SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES. TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE HELPED TO SHINE A LIGHT AND UPLIFT THE WORK OF SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES IN OUR DISTRICT AND TO OUR AMAZING TEAM AND OUR DEPARTMENT PARTNERS ACROSS THE SYSTEM. AND WE'D LIKE TO DIRECT YOU TO OUR VERY WELL CURATED APPENDIX WITH LOTS OF HYPERLINKS AND THINGS FOR YOU TO PERUSE AT A LATER HOUR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WHAT A GIFT IT IS. THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I SAY THAT WITH ALL THE LOVE. IT REALLY IS A GIFT AND SO I WANT TO THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. I WANT TO THANK THE CAC WHO STUCK IT OUT NOT JUST FOR TONIGHT BUT WE KNOW YOU ALL HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT AS WELL . AND SO THERE WAS A MOMENT WHERE VICE PRESIDENT HULING AND I WERE ABLE TO JOIN THE CAC AND HEAR DIRECTLY FROM SOME OF THE BOARD MEMBERS THERE AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY NOT JUST TO CONNECT BUT TO LEARN FROM YOU ALL. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I WILL I FEAR THAT I HAVE TO OPEN THIS UP FOR QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS PUBLIC COMMENT I WAS JUST GOING TO DO IT AFTERWARDS LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS ON WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY? I COULD WOULD YOU IS THE REQUEST FOR ME TO DO PUBLIC COMMENT BEFORE I JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH. GRANTED WE HAVE PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE NOW WONDER FIND THAT THAT'S NOT FINE. THANK YOU FOR THAT REQUEST. LET'S GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT. >> MR. STEEL PLEASE. THANK YOU. PRESIDENT KIM WE DO HAVE TWO PUBLIC COMMENTERS OF OUR KELLY AND LILIAN LIM. PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM FOR ONE MINUTE EACH FIRST. THANK YOU. I REALLY WANT TO GO HOME SO THANK YOU. >> YES. OKAY. >> FIRST I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALIGNING THE CAC KEY PRIORITIES TO THE SOUTH BUT IT MEANS A LOT TO US AND IT'S SORT OF THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. SO THANK YOU. BUT REALLY I WANTED TO I STUCK
IT OUT BECAUSE EVERY TIME THE SPECIAL EDUCATION BUDGET COMES UP OR THERE'S AN INCREASE, THERE'S COMMENTS FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT I SOMETIMES COME ACROSS THAT ARE CONCERNING. ONE OF THEM WAS WHY ARE WE SEEING AN INCREASE FROM P FUNDING? WHY ARE THE SPECIAL EDUCATION BUDGET TAKING FROM P FUNDING? THAT'S THE MOST RECENT ONE I'VE SEEN OTHERS AND I JUST WANT TO NAME THAT THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT AGAIN DO NOT FULLY FUND I DEA SO IF PEOPLE WANT TO ADVOCATE STOP DIRECTING IT TOWARDS THIS DIRECTION AND DIRECT YOUR ADVOCACY TOWARDS THE STATE AND FEDERAL PLEASE. AND THE SECOND THING I WANT TO SAY IS SORRY. PLEASE. WHAT HAPPENED THIS YEAR? WHAT ACTUALLY HINDERED THIS DISTRICT AND THIS INCREASE IS APPROPRIATE. THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WITH IEPS. THEREFORE WE NEED AN INCREASE. THAT'S THE LAW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS LILLIAN LIM AND SNCC MEMBER AND PARENTS OF STUDENTS
IEP. >> I'M HERE TO SUPPORT THEIR SUPPORT LOCAL PLAN ANNUAL BUDGET THE BUDGET NUMBER OF A FLAT DOWN FOR PLANNING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF A STUDENT WITH DISABILITY THANK YOU TO SUPPORT DIRECTOR AND TEAM FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND FOR YOUR STRATEGISTS PROPOSE ACTION PLAN AND BE RESPONSIVE TO CC RECOMMENDATION AND THANK YOU TO SUPERINTENDENT FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOUR COMMITMENT AND SUPPORT OF THIS BUDGET. APPROVING THIS BUDGET WILL SHOW COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, INCLUSION, EDUCATION ACCESS TO ALL STUDENT THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES IN PERSON. I WILL CHECK ON ZOOM. PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU CARE TO SPEAK TO THE SUPPORT PRESENTATION PLEASE REPEAT THAT IN SPANISH AND CHINESE BUT I'M NOT JUST FOLLOWING THIS AMENDMENT. NOBODY ELSE THERE MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE ASPECT OF IT I SEE, TINA . GOOD EVENING AGAIN I AM A CHC BOARD MEMBER COMMENTED TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT OF THE SUPPORT LOCAL PLAN. I'D ALSO LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONVEY MY DEEP
GRATITUDE TO OUR SUPPER DIRECTOR PIPER AND OUR CAC BASELINE MS. MARTIN FOR THEIR INCREDIBLY HARD WORK LEADING THE CREATION OF THE PLAN IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH THE CAC. I URGE THE BOARD TO ADOPT THE PLAN AND MOST IMPORTANTLY TO ENSURE THAT THE DISTRICT ADHERES TO THE PLAN IN THE COMING YEAR. THIS IS NOT ONLY LEGALLY REQUIRED BUT I ARGUE IT IS ETHICALLY AND MORALLY REQUIRED AS WELL. THE DISASTROUS FAILURE TO RESPECT THESE IMPERATIVES THIS PAST SCHOOL YEAR MUST NOT RECUR. THIS COMING YEAR NOR ANY FUTURE YEAR AND I'M HAPPY TO ADD THAT I AM CONFIDENT THAT THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP SHARES THIS VALUE WITH ME AND THE CAC. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, VANESSA. HEY, THANKS JUDSON I WANTED TO JUST MENTION TWO THINGS. ONE IS THIS PRESENTATION AT LEAST THE PAST FOUR YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ED FOR PBS IS ALWAYS LATE AT NIGHT AND IT'S HARD FOR PARENTS WITH STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES TO ACTUALLY LIKE LISTEN IN AND ENGAGE. AND SO MY HOPE IS NEXT YEAR YOU GUYS WILL PLACES EARLIER TIMING
IS EVERYTHING. THE OTHER PIECE IS I WANT TO COMMEND REGINA PIPER FOR HER LEADERSHIP. I THINK SHE CAME IN SHE SWIFTLY DID HER THING AND MADE SURE THAT A LOT OF THESE PRIORITIES WERE BEING WORKED ON. THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT. THANK YOU. ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? NO NOTES. OH OKAY. I'LL PUT TWO MINUTES ON THE CLOCK. I WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED AND THANK YOU. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I'LL GO. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO FOLLOW UP ON A LOT OF THE WHAT WE HEARD FROM CSC MEMBERS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO DIRECTOR PIPER. THANK YOU TO MS.. MARTIN, BOTH OF YOU THIS YEAR FIRST OF ALL THAT IT WAS YOUR FIRST YEAR MS. PIPER AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM WAS SHRUNK BY MULTIPLE PEOPLE. SO YOU WORE LIKE FOUR HATS AND DEALING WITH THE DISASTROUS
BUDGET FIASCO LAST YEAR AND YOU'VE GOT MULTIPLE PEOPLE OUT ON FMLA RIGHT NOW LIKE THANK YOU FOR I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN WORK . IT'S BEEN SO MUCH SO THANK YOU MS. MARTIN I KNOW YOU ALSO HAVE ABSORBED MULTIPLE JOBS THIS YEAR AND WORKING WITH THE CAC AS A CAC MEMBER IT'S LIKE HERDING CATS. SO THANK YOU FOR FOR THAT AND ALL YOU DO FOR US AND KEEPING US MOVING FORWARD. APPRECIATE THAT. AND I REALLY WANT TO HIGHLIGHT JUST INCLUSION AND THE NEED FOR AN INCLUSION IN THE CAC RECOMMENDATION AND YOUR FOCUS ON IT BECAUSE IT'S THE LAW, RIGHT? I MEAN 66.5% OF OUR KIDS WITH IEPS SPEND ALL OR MOST OF THEIR DAY IN GEN ED AND THE WAY THE LAW IS WRITTEN IT SAYS SPECIAL SPECIAL CLASSES SEPARATE SCHOOLING OR THE REMOVAL OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES FROM THE REGULAR EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT ONLY OCCURS IF THE NATURE AND SEVERITY OF THE DISABILITY IS SUCH THAT EDUCATION IN REGULAR CLASSES
WITH THE USE OF SUPPLEMENTARY AIDS AND SERVICES CANNOT BE ACHIEVED SATISFACTORILY. THAT'S THE WAY THAT THE ED CODE IS WRITTEN SO I STATE THAT BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS YEAR'S BUDGET IN OUR LOCAL PLAN SECTION D, TABLE TWO AND OUR BUDGET AS YOU LAID OUT HERE IS 279 MILLION 1882 FTE IS 41.2 MILLION IN NON PUBLIC SCHOOLS NPS IS NPAS CONSULTANTS. THIS TIME LAST YEAR THE PROJECTED BUDGET WAS 234 MILLION WITH 1930 19 I'M SORRY 1493 FTE AND 21.3 IN NPA AND PSB. SO A HUGE INCREASE BECAUSE OF OUR FAILURE IN THE PAST AND FRANKLY I THINK A LOT OF THIS IS DUE TO OUR INABILITY TO DO INCLUSION THE WAY WE NEED TO. SO I APPRECIATE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS. CAN YOU HELP US UNDERSTAND THEM, HELP US UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT MORE HOW WE'RE GOING TO NOT REPEAT THE SINS OF THE PAST THIS YEAR.
WHAT ARE WE DOING TO IMPROVE INCREASE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW LIKE I SAID, WE'RE PAYING FOR THE SINS OF THE PAST. HOW ARE WE HOW ARE WE DOING IT IN A WAY THAT'S ACTUALLY SERVING STUDENTS THIS YEAR AND NOT LEADING TO ALL THESE EXTRA COSTS THAT WE'RE INCURRING BECAUSE OF OUR PREVIOUS FAILURES? >> FIRST, I THINK THAT THE NUMBERS THAT YOU REFERENCE THAT WERE THAT WERE AVAILABLE REGARDING THE FTE AND STAFFING AND THE AMOUNT SPENT ON THAT WAS SUBJECT TO SOME REDUCTIONS THAT WERE NOT TRANSPARENTLY COMMUNICATED TO US. AND SO I THINK THAT OUR INCREASE IS FAR LESS THAN THE ACTUAL INCREASE THAT WAS PROJECTED IN LAST YEAR'S PLAN AND BUDGET. OUR GOAL IS TO DID YOU WANT TO. YES. SO IF I CAN. SO IF I COULD SPEAK TO MY MY CARE JULIA HAS SOMETHING IMPORTANT SHE WANTS TO SAY SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE SHE SAID THAT
. >> SO I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS THE PART ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WAS PROPOSED LAST YEAR OF 230 VERSUS WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND YOU ARE CORRECT THAT IS ALMOST A 21% CHANGE. WHAT WE LOOKED AT THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT FORENSIC ACCOUNTING AND REALLY INTERROGATING THE NUMBERS AND I CANNOT COMMEND OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT MORE IN THE WORK THAT THEY DID TO REALLY LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS AND WHAT WE SAW IS THE BUDGET THAT WAS PRESENTED LAST YEAR WAS FALSELY LOW LIKE I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER WAY TO SAY IT RIGHT. IT WAS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR WHAT WE NEEDED AND SO WHEN WE LOOKED AT OUR ACTUALS THAT WAS A NUMBER THAT WE BASED OUR PROJECTED BUDGET ON FOR 2526 AND THAT WAS ACTUALLY ONLY AN 8% INCREASE WHICH PROVIDES MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT BUT IS NOT ABOVE IT'S COGNIZANT OF WHERE WE ARE AS A DISTRICT AND OUR OVERALL BUDGET AGAIN I THINK TO SOMETHING ELSE THAT I WANT TO ASSURE YOU OF IS WE'RE
TRYING TO REDUCE THE VARIANCE IN WHAT WE BELIEVE OUR PROPOSED BUDGET IS AND WHAT OUR ACTUAL IS THAT WE PRESENT TO YOU NEXT YEAR AT THIS TIME. AND SO AGAIN WE TRIED TO LOOK VERY CAREFULLY ABOUT AT OUR EXPENDITURES AT OUR EXPECTED EXPENDITURES GIVEN THE NUMBER OF CHALLENGES WE'RE HAVING WITH HIRING IN PARTICULAR CATEGORIES AND THE NEED TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE COMPENSATORY SERVICES OR TO PROVIDE SERVICES IN DIFFERENT WAYS. AND SO THAT IS REFLECTED IN OUR BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR WE WILL MAINTAIN OUR EFFORTS TO TO STAFF THESE POSITIONS AND TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS HAVE THE SERVICES THAT THEY NEED. BUT WE'RE ALSO READY WITH PLANS TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN PROVIDE REMEDIAL ACTIONS IF WE NEED TO . SO AGAIN, I THINK THAT OUR BUDGET THIS YEAR IS REFLECTIVE, MORE REFLECTIVE OF OUR PROPOSED EXPENDITURES THAN LAST YEAR WAS AND IT'S WE'VE USED WE'VE INTERROGATED OUR DATA PRETTY CONSERVATIVE CONSIDERABLY. I JUST WANT TO COMMENT ON THE FIRST PART OF THE QUESTION
AROUND INCLUSIVE PRACTICES AND SO SOMETHING THAT CAME UP IN THE SEGMENT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WAS IN THE CAC REPORT AND VERY STRONGLY THAT WE HAD TO KIND OF GO THROUGH QUICKLY AT THE END IS STRENGTHENING MULTI-TIERED SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT MS. PIPER IS REALLY LOOKING AT THAT OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IS REALLY WORKING ON IN COLLABORATION WITH CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION AND LOOKING AT AS THE SUPERINTENDENT HAD IN HER REPORT THIS EVENING THAT EARLY INTERVENTION THAT WE ARE NOT WAITING, THAT WE'RE PROVIDING EARLY SERVICES BECAUSE THE MORE INCLUSIVE WE CAN BE IN GENERAL ED, THE MORE WE WILL SEE OUR COSTS GO DOWN. THANK YOU ARE THERE WE DO HAVE TO HAVE A ROLL CALL VOTE ON THIS CORRECT? MR. SEELY ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT MAY INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF ONE'S DECISION ON THIS VOTE? SEEING NONE. ROLL CALL. VOTE PLEASE. MR.. OH, I THOUGHT I DID. >> I MOVED TO ADOPT THE LOCAL
PLAN. I SECOND THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER YES. COMMISSIONER FISHER? YES. COMMISSIONER GUPTA. IS HE GONE OR COMMISSIONER HULING? YES. COMMISSIONER RAY YES. COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WARD YES. PRESIDENT KIM YES. SIX EYES. THANK YOU. I NOW CLOSE THIS PUBLIC HEARING AT 11:17 P.M.. THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. VERY MUCH APPRECIATE MUCH. MOVING TO ITEM J ACTION ITEMS WE HAVE TWO ITEM ACTION ITEMS ON THE AGENDA FOR TODAY FOR BOTH ACTION ITEMS. I'M GOING TO REQUEST THAT WE WE MOVE THROUGH. WE SKIP THE PRESENTATION AND GO TO THE DIRECT RECOMMENDATION SO THAT WE CAN MAKE A DECISION ON THAT RECOMMENDATION. THE FIRST ITEM HERE IS ITEM 1256-175 IMPLEMENT CONTRACTS FOR DECISION EXECUTIVE EMPLOYEES HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND PLEASE. >> SO MOVED. SECONDED. I CALL ON THE SUPERINTENDENT TO
INTRODUCE THIS ITEM. THANK YOU MADAM SUPERINTENDENT . THE BOARD WILL CONSIDER APPROVING AN EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT WITH CHRISTOPHER DEAN MOUNT BENITEZ FOR THE POSITION OF DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF BUSINESS SERVICES. THIS AGREEMENT WILL COMMENCE ON AUGUST 1ST, 2025 AND RUN THROUGH JUNE 30TH 2028. THE ANNUAL SALARY FOR CHRISTOPHER DANE MOUNT BENITEZ WILL BE $320,000. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS THAT MAY INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF YOUR VOTE? OKAY. SEEING NONE CAN WE DO A ROLL CALL VOTE? MR. ALEXANDER YES. >> COMMISSIONER FISHER YES. DO WE NEED TO MOVE THIS FIRST THOUGH? YOU DID OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU DID THEN JUST A YES. >> OKAY. JUST SEE US. OKAY. MR. COMMISSIONER HULING. YES. COMMISSIONER RAY? YES. COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WORK? YES. PRESIDENT KIM? YES. AND COMMISSIONER GUPTA. I'M SORRY HE'S ABSENT, I HAVE
TO SAY HIS NAME STILL? YES. OKAY. COMMISSIONER GUPTA, I WANT TO JUST CONGRATULATE THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR THIS HIRE WELCOME THE NEXT DEPUTY SUPERINTEND FOR BUSINESS SERVICES AND OPERATIONS TO OUR DISTRICT. THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE FOR US GIVEN THE MANY YEARS OF NOT HAVING STEVE ALL LEADERSHIP FOR THIS POSITION. SO I THINK IT'S AT 1120 WORTH MENTIONING THAT PROGRESS HERE SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WAS GOING TO DO A WHOLE THING AND THEN YOU WERE LIKE OH I'M SO SORRY. YES. >> YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. MM YEAH, YEAH. WHEN THAT PRESENTATION ITEM JAY TO KNOW THAT 256-17 SIX K TO READING DIFFICULTIES RISK SCREENER ADOPTION CAN I HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND PLEASE TO INTRODUCE THE ITEM THAT SOME SECOND I CALL ON THE SUPERINTENDENT TO BRING THIS FORWARD. THANK YOU PRESIDENT KIM THIS IS THE I THINK THE THIRD TIME THAT WE'RE GOING TO ATTEMPT TO BRING THIS IN FRONT OF THE
BOARD AND I TRULY BELIEVE THIRD TIME IS A CHARM. SO I KNOW THAT STAFF HAS PREPARED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT COMMISSIONERS MAY HAVE. HOWEVER, THE RECOMMENDATION AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME IS FOR THE BOARD TO APPROVE OF WHAT STAFF HAS RECOMMENDED WHICH IS FOR THE THE FOR US TO USE DOUBLES WHICH IS A A A TOOL TO SCREEN KINDERGARTNERS IN KINDERGARTEN AND FOR US TO USE A MIRROR FOR SCREENING OF FIRST AND SECOND GRADERS AND THIS IS A LITERACY SCREEN AND THAT IS THE RECOMMENDATION RIGHT NOW AT STAFF WITH FROM STAFF I KNOW THAT WE HAVE GONE THROUGH MANY MANY ITERATIONS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR THIS I THINK IT WAS SINCE IT WAS COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WARD WHO MADE THE MOTION THINK THIS HAS TO BE DIRECTED TO YOU BUT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT IN IN COMMUNICATION WITH STAFF TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO M CLASS DOUBLES FOR GRADES K THROUGH TWO AND THAT THE
CONTRACT BE FOR ONE YEAR WHILE WE DO SOME ADDITIONAL POTENTIAL LOOK INTO PARTNERSHIP WITH UCSF AND DO A LITTLE BIT MORE DATA COLLECTION AROUND THEIR MULTITUDE NOW BECAUSE THE DATA THAT WE HAVE IS FROM ONLY WHEN IT WAS PILOT NOT THAT IT IS NOW A FULL FUNCTIONING SCREENER AND JUST COLLECT A LITTLE BIT MORE DATA AND RE VISIT THIS TIME NEXT YEAR I'M ON BEHALF OF STAFF WE WE AGREE WITH THIS FRIENDLY AMENDMENT OUR INITIAL RECOMMENDATION WAS FOR ONE YEAR SO WHEN WE PRESENTED THIS IT WAS ALREADY ONE YEAR WITH REGARDS TO THE SECOND THING WE DO HAVE TO BE ALSO MAKE THE BOARD VERY AWARE OF THE MONETARY COST THAT IT'LL COST TO DO AK2 IMPLEMENTATION AND THAT'S ACTUALLY PART OF THE REASON THE SO THE MULTITUDE SCREENER IS FREE AND DOUBLES IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE OF THE OPTIONS ON THE TABLE AND SO THAT'S PART OF THE REASON TO REVISIT IT YOU KNOW AND SEE OUR FRIENDS AT UCSF ARE VERY INTERESTED IN REINVIGORATING THE PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAD
WITH PREVIOUS LEADERSHIP TEAMS THAT THROUGH THE PANDEMIC AND LEADERSHIP CHANGES AND FOR YOU KNOW, STAFF AS WE TALKED ABOUT WITH SPEED INCREASE, YOU KNOW INCREASING JOB FUNCTIONS AND LOTS OF TURNOVER. SO JUST IN SPIRIT OF OUR GUARDRAILS IN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE WE DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE WITH UCSF BEFORE CUTTING OFF A VERY WELL-RESPECTED LEADER IN RESEARCH IN THE FIELD SO YEAH COMING BACK TO THE COST THE COST REALLY IS FOR THE SUBSTITUTES THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO GIVE FOR ONE ON ONE. SO WHETHER IT'S MULTITUDE OR DOUBLES THAT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE COST THAT IS HIGH IS FOR THE SUBSTITUTES THAT WE'LL HAVE TO GIVE THE FOR THE KEY TO ONE ON ONE TESTING WHICH THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRAILER BILL HAS BEEN AMENDED SO THAT WE CAN USE THE FUNDING FROM THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRAILER BILL FOR THAT AT THIS POINT AS
I UNDERSTAND AS CURRENTLY PROPOSED THAT I MIGHT DO WE HAVE A FINANCIAL IMPACT OF THIS DECISION YET WE DO OKAY AND THAT'S BEEN SUSTAINED IN THE REPORT THAT WAS GIVEN I'M ASSUMING THAT PRIOR TO THAT FRIENDLY AMENDMENT THAT THERE THERE WAS AND THAT WASN'T INCLUDED IN THE REPORT. BUT I CAN GIVE YOU A HIGH LEVEL RUNDOWN IF THAT'S HELPFUL. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND YOU'RE PREPARED TO WORK ON THAT OR ACT ON THAT GIVEN THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. YES. OKAY. I WILL SAY I WILL I WILL I WILL SUPPORT WHATEVER THE FINAL RECOMMENDATION IS. I LOOK TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND STAFF ON THE FINAL GO AHEAD OF THAT THAT RECOMMENDATION I WILL JUST ACKNOWLEDGE I THINK THE CHALLENGE THAT I HAVE RIGHT NOW IS THIS IS NOW THE THIRD TIME THIS HAS COME TO THE BOARD . THE RECOMMENDATION HAS CHANGED SLIGHTLY SINCE THE SECOND TIME THIS HAS COME TO THE BOARD AND I AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE AS A BOARD ARE BEING CAREFUL AT THIS TIME WITH HOW WE TAKE THE RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM STAFF WHO HAVE UNDERGONE THEIR OWN PROCESSES FOR SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION AND WHAT THAT MEANS IN TERMS OF OUR ABILITY TO TAKE A RECOMMENDATION AND MOVE IT FORWARD BECAUSE WE DO NOT DO STAFF WORK. SO I, I FEEL A TENSION HERE. I JUST WANT TO NAME IT OF OF WHAT THAT MEANS FOR OUR WORK AND I AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE MULTIPLE FULL ROUNDS OF THOUGHTFUL PARTNERSHIP STAFF HAVE MADE WITH OUR BODY HERE TO BRING US ALONG IN THAT JOURNEY AND AND I THINK THAT THE ONE THING THAT THAT IS THAT IS MAKING THIS AMENABLE IS THE FACT THAT IT IT WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE A ONE YEAR TRIAL. IS THAT CORRECT? OKAY. SO I, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT IT WILL GO DOWN. COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER AND THEN COMMISSIONER RAY THANK YOU. >> YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO SORT OF BUILDING ON YOUR COMMENTS PRESIDENT KIM MAYBE DISAGREEING SLIGHTLY BUT I THINK IN A SIMILAR VEIN I'VE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH THAT QUESTION I WANT TO SAY BECAUSE I DON'T I
DON'T WANT TO MICROMANAGE STAFF AND I WAS ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS THAT HAD RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THIS AND I THINK MY SO I WAS TRYING TO TAKE IT FROM THE FRAME OF YOU KNOW, THIS THIS RELATES MOST DIRECTLY TO GOAL ONE. SO IS THIS HAS STAFF PRESENTED A COMPELLING CASE THAT THIS IS A STRATEGY, RIGHT? IT'S A IT'S A MAJOR DECISION. IS IT A STRATEGY THAT'S GOING TO HELP US MEET GOAL ONE AND I JUST HAVEN'T BEEN CONVINCED THAT WELL PARTICULARLY AROUND AMIR I TO ME THE THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAD RAISED AROUND IT BEING A COMPUTER BASED TYPE ADMINISTRATION MAT YOU KNOW MORE OF A GROUP STANDARDIZED TEST TYPE COMPUTER BASED THING THAT I'VE MANY EXPERTS HAVE SUGGESTED THAT THAT'S LESS LIKELY TO DELIVER ACCURATE RESULTS ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG KIDS WITH A PARTICULAR CONCERN THAT I'VE HEARD AROUND, YOU KNOW, SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS. SO THE LPAC IS IS DONE THROUGH TEACHER ADMINISTRATION KATE K-2 BECAUSE SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS YOU KNOW CAN'T IT'S HARDER FOR THEM TO ACCESS THE
COMPUTER GENERATED TESTS SO THAT YOU KNOW THINGS LIKE THAT I JUST I HADN'T GOTTEN ANSWERS TO THAT. SO I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR FOR ME I FEEL LIKE THERE'S I HAD RAISED SOME SERIOUS CONCERNS APPARENTLY ABOUT STUDENTS WHOSE FIRST LANGUAGE IS NON ENGLISH WHO ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH TECHNOLOGY, THINGS LIKE THAT. I ALSO HAVE AND MAYBE THIS IS SIMILAR TO COMMISSIONER FISCHER I GUESS I IT SEEMS TO ME BECAUSE I'VE ALSO RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY WE'RE NOT PARTNERING WITH MULTITUDES. IT'S RUN BY THE UCSF DYSLEXIA CENTER. IT'S THE FREE OPTION THAT THE STATE HAS RECOMMENDED OR THEY WANT TO UCSF DYSLEXIA CENTER THE SEXY CENTER SAID THEY REALLY WANT TO SUPPORT THEIR LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND HAVE THIS KIND OF BE A FLAGSHIP FOR MULTITUDES AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVEN'T SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED IT AND WE HAVEN'T DONE VERY MANY TESTS OF IT. WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IT SINCE IT'S BEEN FULLY DEVELOPED. SO I GUESS TO ME ALL THOSE WERE QUESTIONS THAT JUST I HAVEN'T GOTTEN ANSWERS TO. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE DEVIL'S SWITCH OUT QUESTION BECAUSE TO ME WHAT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT MULTITUDE IS SORT OF A
BETTER VERSION OF DEVILS IN SOME WAY BECAUSE THEY'VE SORT OF TOOK A SIMILAR THING AND BUILT ON IT BUT I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR ABOUT LIKE WHAT I HAD A SKEPTICAL BECAUSE I HAD CONCERNS ABOUT THIS AND SKEPTICISM I FEEL LIKE HASN'T BEEN ANSWERED. >> SO MY PLAN HAD BEEN TO VOTE NO ON THE ON THE RECOMMENDATION RELUCTANTLY BECAUSE I BECAUSE I DON'T AGAIN I THINK YOUR POINT PRESIDENT KIM IS A GOOD ONE THING THAT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS THE ALTERNATIVE BUT THIS IS THAT'S WHERE I KIND OF WAS THAT ON IT I CAN APPRECIATE THAT AND I'LL JUST JUST TO RESPOND I MEAN I THINK REASONABLE PEOPLE CAN DISAGREE AND AND AND BECAUSE I I WILL SAY LIKE I THINK I DISAGREE I THINK FROM THE CONVERSATIONS I'VE HAD WITH STAFF IT WAS MORE THAN ENOUGH INFORMATION FOR ME TO FEEL CONFIDENT IN MOVING FORWARD AND FRANKLY, YOU KNOW, MY OWN PERSONAL BIASES ASIDE AS AS SOMEONE AS AN EDUCATOR WHO'S WORKED WITH DEVILS, I SURE I HAD MY OWN OPINIONS TOO ABOUT WHAT WAS STRONGER AND NOT STRONGER. AND AT THE END OF THE DAY I THINK I HAVE TO MY MY ASSUMPTION HERE WHICH ASSUMPTIONS ARE DANGEROUS
AND SO WE SHOULD THIS IS WHY WE ASK QUESTIONS, RIGHT? MY ASSUMPTION HERE AND WHAT I HEARD FROM STAFF WAS THAT THEY TOO CONSIDERED ALL OF THESE FACTORS AS WELL. SO SO AT THE END OF THE DAY I THINK THAT'S WHERE MY THAT'S WHERE MY TENSION LIES IS IS REASONABLE PEOPLE CAN DISAGREE I WOULD I DON'T WANT THIS TO BECOME IS A PROXY FOR OUR OWN LACK OF CLARITY AROUND WHAT GUARDRAIL ONE IS NO NO AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT ON THAT POINT AND TO TO SAY THAT MY OBJECTIONS ARE I HOPE AND I THINK AROUND KIND OF FEELING NOT CONVINCED BUT BUT AGREEING WITH YOU ON THE CRITERIA AND APPRECIATING WHAT YOUR POINT AROUND THE CRITERIA THAT THE BOARD OUGHT TO BE TAKING HERE THAT IT SHOULDN'T BE YOUR PERSONAL OPINION BUT IT'S MORE LIKE HAVE THEY MADE A COMPELLING CASE THAT THIS IS ALIGNED TO OUR GOALS AND GUARDRAILS? YEAH. THANKS. I DO HAVE A RESPONSE THAT I DO HAVE A RESPONSE AND THEN WE'LL GO TO WE HAVE GIVEN DETAILED RESPONSES WITHIN AFTER ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE POSED AND THE ONE RESPONSE WHICH I DO
WANT TO MENTION IS THAT WE DID NOT CHOOSE THESE SCREENERS. THE STATE DID. THERE WAS A WHOLE READING PANEL THAT MET FOR THREE MONTHS TO REVIEW MANY SCREENERS OF WHICH THEY PICKED THESE FOUR AND ASKED DISTRICTS TO CHOOSE FROM THESE FOR ALL THE ELEMENTS THAT YOU'RE MENTIONING IN TERMS OF CAUTION, THE STATE PANEL DID I'M SURE LOOK AT BEFORE THEY ADOPTED THESE COMMISSIONERS IT I SHARE SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT HAVE BEEN EXPRESSED FOR INSTANCE ABOUT USING COMPUTERIZED FORMS OF SCREENING FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. AND SO WHEN THIS WAS PREVIOUSLY DEFERRED WHILE I DIDN'T ASK FOR THAT TO BE THE CASE, I WAS FINE WITH SEEING, YOU KNOW, MORE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, MAKING SURE THAT GROUPS, YOU KNOW, HAD PROPER OPPORTUNITIES FOR INPUT AND SO FORTH. AT THE SAME TIME I WAS PREPARED PREVIOUSLY TO VOTE YES BASED ON THE STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS AND BASED ON THE FACT THAT THEY SEEMED REASONABLE LIKE WE CAN DISAGREE ON SPECIFIC THINGS BUT
FRANKLY I YOU KNOW, I WAS GLAD THAT THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK AT THIS FURTHER. I AT THIS POINT FEEL LIKE I NEED TO VOTE NO ON THIS BECAUSE I AM NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THESE TYPES OF LAST MINUTE CHANGES. THERE IS FISCAL IMPACT POTENTIALLY FROM THIS. I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT IS. WE HAVE NOW BEEN THROUGH THIS THREE TIMES. I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE ALL DONE VERY MUCH AND I APPRECIATE YOUR WILLINGNESS TO GO AND TALK FURTHER TO COMMUNITY AND SO FORTH AND I PERSONALLY AM NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THIS MANNER OF PROCEEDING IF FOLKS LIKE I HESITATE TO SUGGEST PUTTING THIS OFF AGAIN BUT WITHOUT EVEN ANY SENSE OF WHAT THE FISCAL IMPACT IS OF THIS AND THIS TYPE OF LAST MINUTE CHANGE THAT NOT HAD ANY OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT OR CONSIDER, I WOULD BE MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE GOING WITH THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION AND SO IF WE ARE VOTING ON THIS TONIGHT I AM GOING TO VOTE NO IF IT'S PRESENT HERE I'M INCLINED TO
AGREE WITH COMMISSIONER WRAY. >> I REALLY RESPECT ALL OF THE WORK THAT STAFF HAVE DONE AND I THINK THAT IF WE AS INDIVIDUAL COMMISSIONERS DISAGREE WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF STAFF, IT IS OUR JOB TO USE OUR TOOL WHICH IS OUR VOTE TO VOTE AGAINST THAT. BUT IT IS NOT OUR JOB TO SUBSTITUTE OUR KNOWLEDGE AS NON EDUCATORS AND NON ADMINISTRATORS FOR THE CONSIDERED JUDGMENT AND WORK OF THAT STAFF HAVE PUT IN AND FROM THE WORK THAT I CAN SEE AS MUCH AS I LOVE UCSF I'M A PATIENT AT UCSF AND DRAMATICALLY RESPECT ALL OF THE WORK THAT THEY DO AND THEIR VALUE AS A COMMUNITY PARTNER FOR US IF USED FOR THE SURVEYS THAT ARE STAFF DID THERE'S NOT A SINGLE GROUP IN A SINGLE MEASURE WHERE IT SCORED THE HIGHEST IT THERE'S NOT A GROUP OF PEOPLE FOR WHOM IT SCORED THE HIGHEST AND THERE WAS NOT AN ELEMENT OF MEASUREMENT ON WHICH IT SCORED THE HIGHEST AND I THINK THAT DYSLEXIA IS CARRYING IS VERY IMPORTANT AND IT'S IMPORTANT
THAT WE DO THAT. WE SELECT A PATH, WE DO THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AROUND IT, WE IMPLEMENT IT AND WE MOVE FORWARD AND THAT PEOPLE CAN GET MORE AND MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THE SCREENER AND WITH ADMINISTERING THE SCREENER. AND SO I'M KIND OF WE I FEEL LIKE THE WITH ALL RESPECT TO COMMISSIONER FISHER, I FEEL LIKE THE AMENDMENT AT THIS LAST MINUTE WITH AN UNKNOWN FISCAL IMPACT DISREGARDING THE INPUT OF STAFF AND ALSO PUTTING US IN A SITUATION WHERE WE WOULD ESSENTIALLY BE PROCURING ALL THREE SCREENERS OVER TWO YEARS POTENTIALLY AND TRAINING EDUCATORS ON ALL THREE SCREENERS IS KIND OF THE WORST OF ALL WORLDS. AND SO I WOULD BE INCLINED TO VOTE NO ON THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. >> MAY I RESPOND? YES, PLEASE. OKAY. SO DUE TO THE BROWN ACT I COULDN'T OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS BE HAVING INDIVIDUAL CONVERSATIONS WITH ALL OF YOU TO BRING YOU UP TO SPEED ON THE PROGRESS. BUT I HAVE BEEN HAVING CONVERSATIONS BEHIND THE SCENES ABOUT THIS FOR WEEKS NOW AND THE CAC HAS REQUESTED TO
TAKE THEIR NAME OFF OF THIS. >> THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN FULLY ENGAGED IN THIS. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ROBUST COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LIKE I SAID, I DON'T THINK WE'VE MET THE GUARDRAILS. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS BEHIND THE SCENES AND GET A CONSENSUS. OBVIOUSLY WE'RE NOT THERE SO I WILL SHARE THE PATH. I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO EDUCATORS AT SCHOOLS WHO HAVE USED THE FOLKS AT UCSF MULTITUDES HAVE SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT THEY WERE INVOLVED IN THE PILOTING A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO I HAD TO ASK SO OKAY, YOU KNOW OUR OUR PARTNERS AT MULTITUDES HAVE OFFERED MORE LODGINGS, MORE OPPORTUNITIES NOT ONE PERSON, NOT ONE AS ONE AS A FIRST PERSON I'M SORRY ONE AS OF US PERSON HAS TAKEN US UP ON TAKING THEM UP ON THAT TO TO DO THE DUE DILIGENCE OF COLLECTING DATA. IF YOU LOOK AT THE DATA ON THE SLIDE 25 DATA POINTS VERSUS OVER A THOUSAND LIKE I SAID, UCSF SAYS THAT THE VERSION THAT WE REVIEWED AND WE INCLUDED HERE WAS A PILOT NOT THE FULL SCREENER. SO THEY DON'T THINK IT'S AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON. SO ONE TWO ARE I HAVE BEEN
IN CONTACT WITH MULTIPLE SCHOOL SITES USING A MIRROR WHO HAVE ACTUALLY SHOWED ME VIDEOS WHERE THE THE THE SCREENER THE THE EYE IS NOTAPTURING STUDENT VOICE CORRECTLY OUR TEACHERS ARE SELF-REPORTING THAT THEY SPEND MORE TIME THEMSELVES ON GOING BACK IN AND CORRECTING THE REPORTS THAN IT WOULD IF THEY DID THE ONE ON ONE ADMINISTRATION. SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COMPARING REAL COSTS HERE. SECONDLY, IN IN A SPIRIT NOT TO MICROMANAGE AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT WE ARE YOU KNOW, I RECOGNIZE I HAVE A BIAS TOWARDS UCSF. I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE MULTITUDES PROJECT AND THE UCSF DYSLEXIA CENTER FOR A LONG TIME SO I ASKED A COUPLE WEEKS AGO SHOW ME A CLASSROOM WHERE A MIRROR IS BEING USED SUCCESSFULLY. SHOW ME WHERE THIS IS BEING DONE. I WILL HAPPILY REARRANGE MY SCHEDULE TO GO IN AND SEE IT AND USE THAT WAS THAT OPPORTUNITY WAS NOT EVER AFFORDED TO ME SO I BASED ON WHAT I AM HEARING WE DON'T HAVE GOING BACK TO OUR GUARDRAILS, WE DON'T HAVE ROBUST COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. WE DON'T SO I HAVE TO TAKE THE INFORMATION THAT I AM HEARING
FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT IS ENGAGED WITH THIS AND A MIRROR DOES NOT SEEM LIKE AN OPTION FOR ME AS FAR AS MEETING GUARDRAILS NUMBER OR GOAL NUMBER ONE I CAN'T IN GOOD CONSCIENCE VOTE FOR IT. SO THAT IS PART OF WHY IN DISCUSSION AND WITH STAFF I'M MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. I'M TRYING TO BEEN I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS BEHIND THE SCENES FOR A WEEK BUT AGAIN BROWN ACT VIOLATION TO BE HAVING CONVERSATIONS IN CLOSED DOOR WITHOUT ALL OF THIS SO HERE'S WHERE WE ARE SO IF IT'S A NO AND WE MOVE FORWARD ON THIS SO BE IT. BUT I HAVE GRAVE CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT USING A MIRROR WOULD MEAN FOR OUR ABILITY TO MEET GOAL ONE AND I THINK IT IS OVERPROMISING AND UNDER-DELIVERING SO SO THAT'S IT. I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK YES I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF COMMISSIONER SCHILLING.
BUT JUST TO BE CLEAR, I THINK THE CHALLENGE RIGHT NOW IS THE LAST MINUTE NATURE OF THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT AND THE FACT THAT IT'S BEEN TWO AND A HALF MONTHS OF ENGAGEMENT WITH THE BOARD. I'LL JUST SAY IT FROM THE BOARD'S PERSPECTIVE ON THIS TOPIC. RIGHT. AND SO AT SOME POINT THERE THERE IS WE COULD HAVE HAD THIS CONVERSATION PUBLICLY RATHER THAN PULLING IT TWO WEEKS AGO SO OR FOR THE PAST TWO BOARD MEETING. SO HERE WE ARE I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY COMMISSIONER. I PLAN TO MAKE A SIMILAR POINT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE VARIOUS DISCUSSIONS WERE BETWEEN LEADERSHIP AND OTHER FOLKS SO I CAN'T COMMENT AS TO THAT BUT I AM DEFINITELY NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE LAST MINUTE NATURE OF THIS THAT IS THAT LIKE THIS IS AS SOMEBODY WHO MYSELF HAS CONCERNS ABOUT COMPUTERIZED SCREENERS BUT I DON'T FEEL THAT IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR US TO THAT FROM MY PERSPECTIVE TO GO FORWARD WITH AN AMENDMENT THAT WE DON'T HAVE FULL INFORMATION
ON INCLUDING FISCAL IMPACTS AND THAT AFTER A PERIOD OF OF HAVING GONE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND HELD ADDITIONAL CONSULTATION IF THIS IS A SERIOUS ENOUGH ISSUE THEN WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THIS AGAIN LATER. BUT AT THIS POINT I THINK THAT THIS IS THAT IS APPROPRIATE FOR US TO GO WITH THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION AND TO IN A MATTER OF DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONS WITHOUT LIKE A SOME FURTHER REPORT OF WHAT THE FISCAL IMPACTS OF THIS ARE OR WITHOUT SOME FURTHER INDICATION OF SOME KIND OF RESEARCH OR WRITTEN REPORT ON WHAT COMMISSIONER FISHER IS TELLING US. I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WITH WITH GOING WITH AN AMENDMENT AT THIS POINT. THANKS. I DON'T I DON'T KNOW WHERE OTHERS ARE AT BUT IT GIVEN WHAT I'M HEARING FROM COLLEAGUES IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO JUST VOTE UP OR DOWN ON THE STAFF PROPOSAL. >> YES, SIR. I THINK WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW WAS JUST THE ORDER OF THAT VOTE. SO OH, I DON'T THINK ANYONE'S
SECOND IN MY MIND CORRECT. >> SO SO I THINK WHAT'S ON THE TABLE RIGHT NOW IS STILL THE ORIGINAL STAFF VOTE WHICH WHAT I FEEL WHAT I FEEL COMPELLED TO DO RIGHT NOW IS DO A ROUND OF VOTING ON THE ORIGINAL STAFF VOTE IF THAT FAILS THEN WE WILL CONSIDER THE AMENDMENT. ASK IF THE AMENDMENT IS LIVE. IF IT PASSES THEN WE WILL VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. YES. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? OKAY. >> FROM THAT FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT I REJECT CHECKED ON THAT THAT THAT IS CORRECT. IT SOUNDS LIKE THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT WAS NOT ACCEPTED THEREFORE IT FAILS. THE CURRENT MOTION DID RECEIVE INADEQUATE SECOND AND THEREFORE YOU'RE FREE TO CALL THE QUESTION SO THIS IS AN UM BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL WAS WAS MOVED AND SECONDED THE VOTE RIGHT NOW IS FOR THE ORIGINAL STAFF RECOMMENDATION AND SO I WILL ASK FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE MR. STEEL. COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER NO COMMISSIONER FISHER NO. COMMISSIONER GUPTA YES.
OH, COMMISSIONER HEALY. YES. COMMISSIONER RAY YES. COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WARD YES. PRESIDENT KIM YES. THAT IS FIVE EYES WHAT PASSES. THANK YOU. OKAY. CAN I CLARIFY THE CONTRACT WE JUST VOTED FOR ONE YEAR THOUGH THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL STAFF RECOMMENDATION, CORRECT. OKAY. THANK YOU. WE WILL BRING THE CONTRACT WITH ME NEXT TIME BECAUSE THIS WAS JUST TO APPROVE WITH SCREENER AND IF I CAN JUST STAFF AS YOU ARE PACK UP I KNOW THIS IS A LONG PROCESS SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR EFFORTS TO GET US HERE AND APPRECIATE YOUR TIME IN THIS MATTER. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND I DO TOO EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T END UP BEING CONVINCED. NO, BUT HONESTLY I DIDN'T MEAN TO BE CONVINCED BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS AND THAT TO ME THIS IS PART OF THE PROCESS. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL SO THANK YOU. OKAY MOVING TO ITEM K CONSENT CALENDAR OH I AM GOING TO I
MOVED TO ADOPT THE CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER YES COMMISSIONER FISHER YES. MR. GUPTA YES. COMMISSIONER HULING YES. COMMISSIONER RAY YES. COMMISSIONER WISEMAN WARD YES. COMMISSIONER KIM OUR PRESIDENT. KIM A SIX EYES ARE THERE ANY MEMBER REPORTS FOR MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS SEEING NONE. >> UM I ADJOURN THIS MEETING AT 11:45 P.M.. I LIKE