welcome everybody thank you for joining
us we have a crowd in the audience
tonight I'm telling you I ran a board
meeting in July of 20120 with 900 people
in it no problem because it was on Zoom
but with this many people in the
audience are making me
nervous um Evelyn can we have a roll
call
please trusty Marquez here trusty
Weekley
trusty mavo president vice president
Wells here president Lawson
here the public is encouraged to pop up
uh the public is encouraged to speak to
the board on issues of concern whether
or not the issue is on agenda to address
the board please complete a speaker card
um where are they available right here
up front with Evelyn um and you can hand
it back to her public well I'll skip
that um as a reminder the board cannot
have discussion on public comments uh
however we may direct the superintendent
to follow up if you wish to speak to the
board on a subject listed on the agenda
you'll be called on at the time the item
is being considered by the board um
thank you with that I'm going to hand it
over to Dr Baker
great good evening everyone uh we're
going to do something a little bit
different this evening so uh I have not
done this in my tenure as a
superintendent so it's the first go
around for me in regard to how we're
doing things a bit differently when new
board members are coming on and we have
two long-term board members leaving so
I'm going to start out with um a little
bit of information and then I am going
to allow the people who have completed
speaker cards to come forward and also
do their remarks so with that I will
begin this evening we celebrate and
recognize the incredible service and
Legacy of two exceptional members of our
Redwood City School District Board of
Trustees Miss Janet Lawson and Miss
Alisa
McAvoy Janet and Alisa share more than
25 years of exceptional service to the
Redwood City Children and Families their
combined impact will be felt for
generations to come and tonight we are
here to celebrate them thank them and
acknowledge their tremendous
contributions serving on the school
board is no small task especially with a
superintendent I just I put that in
there
[Laughter]
horad uh it requires Vision leadership
and a dedication to the students the
families the staff and the overall
community
they have given
tirelessly of their time and talents to
strengthen our district and ensure our
students have access to exceptional
opportunities no matter the challenges
and they have witnesses W witnessed
several challenges during their
tenure their leadership has guided us
through financial hurdles critical
decisions and moments of
transformation both have been steadfast
advocates for equity and invas that have
shaped our schools into safe and
supported inspirational and rigorous
joyful and inclusive schools for all
Learners they are
today Janet
Lawson your commitment Public Service
stems from your deep connection to our
community as an MIT alumni and later a
Henry Ford parent as you stepped into
this role close to a decade ago you
brought the voice of the parent
Community to the board reminding us all
of the importance of centering families
in every
decision your focus on equity and
ensuring that every student has access
to the resources they need has been
inspiring you have never Shield away
from making the hard decisions always
keeping in mind the incredible
responsibility that comes with serving
as a
trustee Alisa
McAvoy a excuse me after 17 remarkable
years on the board your impact on our
schools our community and education
across California cannot be
overstated from day one you've been a
champion for students and families
leading not just here in Redwood City
but also on the road at the state level
through your work with the California
school boards
Association Beyond The Boardroom your
presence on campuses and your personal
connections with families have left an
indelible Mark your kindness compassion
and vision have truly transform the
Redwood City School
District the moments both of
you the moments both of you have shared
with our students whether
reclassification ceremonies promotions
or graduations and all the red city
school district schools throughout the
district speak volumes about your
dedication to their success to their
success you celebrated their milestones
and recognized the families and
Educators who support them always with
pride and
compassion on behalf of the entire
district and the community you've served
so well I thank you from the bottom of
my heart for your years of thoughtful
leadership advocacy and heart you have
truly made a difference thank you so
much and we have some other speakers
that would also like to come forward so
um Dennis McBride for uh
Janet microphone
the button on the
right is it red that's oh there we
go very rarely am I on this side
um so first thank you Janet for your
incredible nine years of service um to
the Reb City School District and those
were tough years um so thank you I still
vividly remember our first meeting when
you were considering running for the
school board at that time you were
actively involved with the rbit city
library foundation and you had three
young boys and one in second grade one
in first grade and a
four-year-old I often wonder how you
manage to balance your own business
raising young children and serving on
the school board I couldn't do that the
truth is you you've always been an
amazing mom wife School Board member and
friend to so many uh from the beginning
you truly internalized the role of a
school board member all us making
decisions based on a single unwavering
Criterion what was best for the students
you never compromised on this and we all
knew where you stood when it came to
advocating for students I often thought
that your perspective as a parent with
children in the district gave you a
unique Insight in some ways I imagined
it was harder for you than board members
without children in the district
especially as Henry Ford parents often
felt they had a personal board member to
get things done with I remember you and
I talking about that special treatment
despite this I never felt that you gave
Henry Ford or Kennedy special treatment
because your children attended there
your integrity and uh fairness were all
evident over the course of nine years on
the board you faced some incredibly
difficult challenges to name just a few
you helped close and merge four of 16
schools navigated the complexity of
covid-19 pandemic and managed the
emotional turmoil that accompanied both
of these Monumental
events you all remained calm and
compassionate but you also understood
your duty as an elected official to make
the tough decisions decisions that were
not popular but were necessary for the
greater good of the students in the
district and I think Oakland and San
Francisco Unified could take Direction
from Lisa and J um one of the things I
always admired about you was your
ability to remain calm in a crisis which
reassured everyone and could get through
any CH allow us to get through any
challenge together your hard work on the
successful 2016 construction Bond
committee also stands out when Hillary
left the board and subcommittee for
construction you were assigned to
replace Hillary where we met twice a
month your participation gave valuable
insight to both the construction
management team and the board and your
dedication played a significant role in
the successful completion of the project
significantly under budget and completed
early and not many districts have
delivered such results so uh you should
be very proud of that on a personal note
you were also a source of support for me
I could call you any time and you were
all calm thoughtful and Incredibly
helpful I'll never forget the time we
talked about what was going on in front
of your house Jude was hammering wood
and when I asked if I could help he said
no my mom is my best friend she can'
then he proceeded to tie me to your tree
and walked
away all while we were discussing
District matters these small moments and
your unwavering help are some of my
Fondest Memories in my in my mind what
made you such a stellar board member was
your fearlessness your respectful
approach to challenging me despite my 12
years on the board and you're being
brand new you didn't hesitate to
politely correct me when you thought my
logic was off many times you were
correct and I left our conversation with
a change perspective I thought that was
really cool like most people say oh you
got 12 years I'm going to just keep
quiet and you just were Fearless in
doing that U I also appreciate how you
represented the board by attending
school events Community Gatherings and
School site visits you all carried
yourself with Grace dignity and a sense
of humor making a positive impression
wherever you went I'm now Third Base
heading home so don't worry your
involvement went beyond the board I
remember you being a room mom at Henry
Ford actively participating in the PTA
and being engaged in the broader
community and now you're currently on
the union side Cemetery board it's truly
an honor to have served alongside you
for 5 years you made me a better board
member for that I am grateful uh thank
you Tim for your support Janet could not
have done this without your help and
support uh and thank you CA Caleb Asher
and Jude for supporting and sharing your
mom I'm thrilled to hear that you're
returning to school to become an
educator um your future students are
going to be so incredibly lucky I have
no doubt you'll be their favorite
teacher and from my perspective one of
the best things as I get to call you a
friend thank
you thank
you um just real quick uh Dennis
reminded me of something when you talked
about the bond construction committee um
because I have the principles in the
room is is Chandra here no she's at a
church okay so you can relay this to
Chandra for me um although I am a
Kennedy parent too so as part of the the
construction committee we were walking
around with Don Diaz um looking at kind
of the new construction of the office
and the parking lot with the EV Chargers
and I looked around and I said Don this
is just an accident waiting to happen
like there's nothing to block cars from
going from the parking lot straight into
the office and there's going to be
students and staff walking along there
can we put in some sort of barriers so
you know those big white rocks that are
out like the big mask those were Don put
those in because of my request so the
boys and I call it Mom rocks so anytime
you see him you can remember Mom
rocks and next we H we have Mario is it
rendan rendan or Janet
Lawson good evening board member
superintend Baker Mario Mone with uh
Congressman Kevin mullen's office and so
Janet um both the superintendent and
Dennis
have spoken far more than I possibly can
about your history and experience I just
wanted to touch on the aspect of public
service of how challenging it is um you
took it on I think I was actually
physically in the room when you took the
oath of office in 2015 and it's been
almost decade but I think the the the uh
the perseverance and the challenging
times that Dennis spoke about certainly
being an elected official during covid
was a trying time for many and
especially for schools we all know what
that was like so seeing the school
district those challenges seeing through
all the the waves that come at uh
locally uh elected public officials so
thank you for your service this is just
a small token of our appreciation for
your the services you have completed and
the service that we know you will
continue on behalf of our community here
in Redwood City so thank
you now jel dentler will come forward
thank you Dr Baker good evening uh board
my name is Joan dentler and I'm happy to
be here on behalf of state senator Josh
Becker I'm also here on behalf of
assemblywoman Diane papen and
assemblyman Mark Burman uh none of them
could make it here this evening uh but
they asked me to be here on their behalf
and I know that Senator Becker had the
honor of presenting Alisa with her
resolution uh on Friday evening and so
I'm we saw the great photos and he had a
lovely time and I'm very glad that he
was able to to be there in person um so
I but we do have one also for Janet this
evening and so I um will not read the
entire document um but I will read the
uh the last two paragraphs that really
sum up what the California state
legislature wants to say to our outgoing
trustees so I will add both names to
this one
whereas as a result of her tireless of
their tireless efforts and unwavering
commitment to the students faculty and
staff of Redwood City School District
Janet Lawson and Alisa McAvoy have
compiled an illustrious record of
accomplishments one that have earned
them the admiration and respect of those
who have the privilege of associating
with them now therefore be it resolved
by Senator Josh Becker and assembly
Members Mark Burman and Diane papin that
Janet Lawson and Alisa McAvoy be
commended for their dedication and
inspirational Service as members of the
Redwood City School District Board of
Trustees including as its president and
extended sincere best wishes for their
continued success in their future
endeavors and on a personal note I would
just like to say that as a staff member
of a state
legislature uh we leaded heavily on our
school boards and our and our trustees
especially during the early dark days of
Co and the work that this school board
did and the guidance that we received
from the trustees in particular in
particular Alisa and Janet uh was an it
it was so important to helping the
senator guide the policies that would be
set in
Sacramento um urging you know programs
like getting the V the teachers
vaccinated first I mean we were all
feeling our way in the dark but it was
um it was so reassuring to have the
experience and um really a lot of us
were Flying Blind but to know that we
could lean on you and on Dr Baker and
the school district to assure the
parents and the students and the staff
that we were trying to do the best thing
at the state level and Lisa your work on
on the California School Board
Association was also so important and so
helpful to those of us uh who are
helping uh two set policy and things
like State budgets and uh some of the
most complicated issues that the state
deals with so I'd like to just thank you
as a staff member and I'm happy to
present Janet with this that is signed
by uh The Honorable Josh Becker The
Honorable Mark Burman and The Honorable
Diane papen and Alisa you already have
one right
okay oh there
it yeah Joan in case you have to go
because I'm sure you got at gazillion
meetings to go to just thank you very
much I mean you're an amazing staff
person if you don't know Joan you've
been in you supporting politicians M I
don't know your whole career but for a
long ever since I've known you and she
does a great job she knows her stuff
there's a lot of Staff people you meet
with over the years who don't so we've
always really appreciated working with
with you Joan so thank you so much for
your work and please thank the uh
Senator and the assembly members
um for Alisa let's start out with Lori
McBride Alisa possesses so many
abilities
so many admirable qualities as a human
being as a parent as a community member
and Schoolboard trustee my husband
Dennis served on the Rood City School
Board with Alisa through
2020 and I got to know her not only
through the school district but also
through my serving on the 17th District
PTA which is comprised of all the ptas
in samon County and in 2020 I was
honored to present Alisa with a
California state PTA Golden Oak award
which is the most most
prestigious honorary service award
recognizing an individual who has made
significant contributions to the welfare
of Youth in a school or Community Alisa
McAvoy exemplifies this
definition here's a little bit about
Alisa's
background Alisa's parents were strong
supporters of Education her father was a
community college professor her mother
served on the PTA and was a school board
member for 16 years
oh no and her mother also received the
California state PTA Golden Oak award so
pretty impressive Alisa graduated from
Stanford with an undergraduate degree in
civil engineering and a master's in
energy and environmental planning and
she met her husband Neil over here while
attending
Stanford her professional career began
at the envir Environmental Protection
Agency where she worked for 11 years
until her first daughter Marissa was
born her volunteering and education and
serving on boards began with little
hands a co-op preschool and then
Carlmont Parents Nursery School Al also
a
co-op Marissa and Clara went on to
Clifford and then Northstar where Alisa
Alisa served on their pto's site Council
helped in the classrooms drove on field
trips helped at school events and
produced Northstar s
musicals moving on to sequa high school
she volunteered for and also chaired
many PTSA events including the
reflections arts program the debate team
the robotics team the swim team water
polo team dance shows the International
Festival football concessions senior
graduation activities I learned all this
back in 2020 when I was presenting her
with the golden o award but you can get
the picture about Alisa's
volunteerism then she continu to serve
on seoa High's Education Foundation even
when Marissa and Clara were at Stanford
students there I didn't are you off it
now or are you still doing that she's
not
okay for many years she served on the
board of family connections which is a
parent participation preschool for
underserved children Alisa is also a
member of the Redwood City Women's Club
which raises money and does service
projects she's a passionate
environmentalist and for over 20 years
has been been a volunteer and served on
the peninsula open space trust board
working to ensure all families can
experience
nature and Alisa started a nonprofit
called climate action Pathways for
schools that partners with schools to
provide climate education programs and
reduce greenhouse gas emissions while
saving money for the school
district she's she's mentored first
generation college students through all
four years of college through the
Peninsula College fund I don't know are
you still doing that oh she finished
that one she did that for a
while I'm sure this is bringing back fun
memories for your family of all these
things um so now onto the Redwood City
School Board that Alisa has served on
for 17 years she worked tirelessly on
four parcel taxes and the last
construction Bond Dennis said she worked
60 plus hours a week doing phone banking
walking pre thanks fundraising and
getting endorsements he said she did
whatever it took to help our students
Alisa was asked to get involved with the
Sam County School boards Association
where she served as vice president and
president she was a delegate and then
director of region five Sano and San
Francisco counties she served on
committees including legislative a
legislative advocacy identifying Senate
and assembly bills for the csba to
support she also worked on their annual
conferences their board development and
policy
committee she spends or she spent 20 to
25 days a year in Sacramento on
committee assignments and
meetings Lisa has also been involved
with some of the Sano County Office of
AD School Board Association
conferences on educating board members
and Community leaders on topics such as
mental health trauma informed learning
and atrisk students
so it's no surprise that with her
background she became involved with the
csba committee on climate change
environmental awareness and their effect
on Children's
Health in December of 2018 with the
support of regional directors Alisa was
running for vice president of csba the
annual conference was in San Francisco
and the war and the Marriott workers
were on strike some of the Striking
employees were families living here in
sale County the County superintendents
and Schoolboard members in Region 5 said
they would not cross the picket lines
every event except the board of director
meeting that Alisa was to attend was
moved out of the hotel Alisa asked if
she could call in but was told
no the San Francisco Unified School
District had offered space but the csba
president wouldn't agree to it and
shockingly said Alisa was derelict in
her duties and could not be loyal to csb
a and her region if she didn't cross the
pickup lines so she chose not to cross
the pickup lines so she was unable to
give her speech and lost her nomination
for vice president they selected someone
else who was less qualified and this was
an outrage to all her colleagues and
they felt she showed amazing courage
Carrie duah csba delegate and squir
Union High School District trustee said
we were heartbroken for her she showed
amazing courage I've never seen anything
like it and I'm around leaders all the
time in spite of how she was treated
Alisa continued to be an active csba
leader for the last six years Dennis
describes Alisa as The Little Engine
That Could her heart is larger than her
body he says she works tirelessly for
all children and always with a smile I
think of her as Dynamic she's full of
energy optimistic enthus I Astic
positive outgoing sociable passionate
vibrant a natural leader ready for
challenges who will take charge and get
things done she stands up for what she
believes in she's demonstrated her
dedication to all the students families
teachers staff and administrators for
the Redwood City School District and
will be greatly missed
and now we'll hear from Dennis
McBride
yeah oh sure do Mario next I don't
want
start again Mario rone for congress
member Kevin Mullen and Alysa um so
actually this is because of Dennis we
did something a little bit different for
you and I just want to go back to I'm
sure I met you early in 2013 when
congressman then now Congressman then
assembly member Kevin Mullen had just
taken office and out of the gate you
were front and center on education
issues not just for the Redwood City
School District but more broadly for our
County and of course the the Statewide
issues and you were always informative
you always brought us information that
we needed to have uh you helped us
navigate the local control funding
formula and helping us understand how
that would work or not work depending on
on the
situation and while I never was the lead
staffer on education to Joan Dutler's
point you were always available to our
staff in terms of providing the guidance
that we needed and just keeping us
informed of what was going on your
involvement with the Sano County School
boards Association and making sure that
Kevin was invited and participated in
all that was was just crucial to staying
on top of our education Community Uh
Kevin Fong sends his regards uh he's now
with um Mr Burman uh but what we did for
you was uh we we prepared a
Congressional Record which is basically
um for those of you not familiar with
that process it's basically the
Congressional Record is the proceedings
of Congress and so members have the
opportunity to speak on the floor on
behalf of a matter or on behalf of an
individual and so that gets printed and
published and so if you look up the
Congressional Record for November 22nd
2024 you'll find an entry for Alyssa
McAvoy and so that's what we have for
you um so on behalf of Congressman Kevin
and um congratulations 17 years is a
long time and you have seen Peaks and
valleys when it comes to education and
it's a never ending ride but thank you
thank you so much for your service so
congratulations
now Dennis
McBride this is my worst nightmare
following
Lori so I came here very excited to do
this and I'm leaving sad because you
have made such a
contribution um first thank you for 17
years I know what that feels like um and
you were amazing I still remember Chris
B and me meeting you at Clifford School
playground to see if you had any
interest in being on the school board
your response was I need to talk with
Neil Marissa and Clara I'll think about
it you then came back and said you would
do you would like to do it you'd
probably do four years but the most
would be eight years do you remember
that and if I remember your daughters
were like third grade in
kindergarten
um and I I feel I feel like it's a
mistake to only talk about your school
thing
um so I'm going to talk about some other
things um you're an amazing daughter um
you you drive back and forth to Humble
two three times a month you never said
this sucks I hate it you always said um
I'm happy to support my family my mom
and dad they were wonderful to me I feel
like I got to know them from all of our
conversations um you're a fantastic mom
if you if nobody thinks you're not just
look at your daughters right here
um uh so I gota quit ad living
um they have they have your gratitude
and kindness Jean uh you were extreme oh
I should point out that I wrote mine
last Friday to give Friday night and
then Lori wrote hers and then she may me
scratched stuff out so maybe a little
bit of duplication uh you're you were
extremely active in leadership positions
in your daughter's schools at Clifford
and Northstar I'll skip that um you were
a friend to so many people you have the
ability to know when someone is down or
hurting and show empathy and kindness to
them you have so many friends when you
have your birthdays ending in a zero you
have to rent the lake to hold everyone
which is pretty cool and if I asked them
all individually they would all say you
are their best friend you have a strong
marriage to a wonderful partner who
supports you in everything you do props
to Neil stand up
Neil and and uh at least I couldn't have
done this without you uh and thank you
to Marissa and Clara for supporting and
sharing your mom there's a theme here
huh sharing moms uh attitude you're one
of the most positive people I know your
positivity is remarkable you have an
incredible knack for turning negative
situations into positive experiences you
truly embody a yes we can Spirit you all
displayed Grace dignity and sense of
humor you're a fierce advocate for
Equity now we'll get the school board
since your first school board meeting
you have been all in I still remember
your second or third meeting I was
sitting over here where um Cecilia is
and we spent an hour on a vote and I
wouldn't change and everybody tried to
change me and I finally said uh let's
just vote and go on and we started to go
to the next item and Lisa goes wait and
she turns to me and goes are you okay
Dennis and then four years i' never
heard anybody say are you okay Dennis uh
so that told me how special you were uh
I have mentored many Schoolboard members
over the years and when I give examples
of how we work together the re the
reaction is wow I wish I had a board
like that you were a huge huge part of
that and Janet you were a huge part of
that you treated everyone with respect
even people that came and were very
nasty to us the one I undeniable truth
we all knew was that you had one
Northstar and that's not the school you
always had the best interest of the
students in the r City School District
at heart you work day and night to
benefit all students in the state in
addition to your roles at trustee in the
reev city school district you were on
the California school boards
Association um you were a first ad
delegate an officer for 12 years uh and
as Lori said you you had a lot of travel
um you worked tirelessly on um
construction Bond elections for new
facilities and parcel taxes to enhance
District funding so let's define
tirelessly when working on parcel taxes
and bond campaigns you would phone bank
four nights a week now most the people
in this audience would say well why not
more and the answer was that's all there
was uh and that freed you up for
weekends where you'd be out walking
precincts pass out literature calling
people for money uh being one of the um
um leaders that met independently on it
and you just um all us with high energy
huge smile and all us feeling like you
were at least gave me the impression you
were all in control of
everything for the past six years you've
been on the employee housing board
subcommittee and having been on that you
were a Fearless Advocate to get this
done you will make you all made big ad
of the supporters that were kind of
reluctant to step forward and they still
and I'm not using their name but I'm
still very disappointed I regularly
visit a schools and cheered the students
teachers and staff on and you made
everyone feel valued now this is one of
my favorites upon they're all my
favorites I I should point out I know
I'm over time and Dr Baker said I could
because it's hard to put 17 years of
awesomess into three minutes um upon
discovering that Stan Carlos Public
School excuse me the Stan Carlos Public
Library cold books monthly you arranged
to pick them up for our schools and yeah
they're laughing they know and wring
under resourc libraries and giving many
students their first personal book think
about it we have students in RIT City
it's their first personal book my my
kids had their first personal book like
day minus 20 um you even took books to
Hill crest juvenile hall library and
this is no exag exaggeration every month
you transported thousands of books for
distribution I can attest to this having
been your backup
my SUV my SUV often felt like it was
bottoming out and it was
75,000 books that she moved for our
students and we had libraries that were
really quite light in books and now they
had books now granted they were a little
old but a book's better than no book um
okay I gotta skip that what you told me
um you were extremely involved in the
Sano County School boards Association um
you made new school board members feel
welcome and offered to help them when
they first met met you it was literally
hi am hi I am Alisa welcome I'm here for
whatever you need I hope as you reflect
on your journey know that you have made
a profound impact on the Rev City School
District students and the students of
California your contributions are
immeasurable touching the lives of
countless students parents teachers
staff administrators and board members
when I looked up the school board member
in the dictionary uh the quick
definition I like this definition by the
way wish I'd had this a long time ago a
school board member a school board is a
group of elected or appointed
individuals not appointed since a lot of
appointed up there um Who oversee the
policies and management of public
schools and the specific District or
area their responsibilities include
making decisions about budgets setting
educational standards hiring district
superintendent and ensuring the schools
are meeting the needs and students of
the community they work to create a safe
and effective and inclusive environment
for students to learn this is my
favorite part it's like a team of
community leaders making sure the
schools have the resources policies and
support they need to help the kids
Thrive now here's what was
in the
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dictionary again thank you for being a
wonderful friend and thanks John for
letting me have the time oh one last
thing we should I'm sorry but we should
really thank all the board members and
we should thank all the staff up here
and the staff in the back of the room
because they all do a marvelous job and
I know we're here to talk about you we
shouldn't forget them thank
you and now uh Marissa
makoy okay hi everybody my name is
Marissa McAvoy I'm Alisa's daughter or
the firstborn and as I was called
earlier tonight um I'll keep this really
short and sweet so that we can get on
the road because I first came here when
I was 9 years old so I understand the
feeling from the the folks behind me for
like let's get this show on the road um
yeah so I first came here when I was 9
years old and my sister and I helped to
swear my mom in and we had no idea the
turn that that was going to take in our
lives um my mom has had a lot of roles
as you all heard in her biography you
know she's really done a lot and I know
that this you know is just going to be
the close of one chapter and the start
of the next one um Clara and I left the
roban city school district in 2014 and
many people would say that's when she's
going to start checking out and doing
other things and that is really the
moment that she checked in and really
started doing more and more work um it's
super impressive everything that she has
done I won't repeat all of her biography
you all know that she's a a wonderful
mom a wonderful Schoolboard member and
will definitely be missed so thank you
all for all your time she's devoted a
lot of effort here we love you
so before we before do we move forward
would you like to either you say
anything the floor is open to
you
um so um thank you everyone that's very
kind and means a lot um I have I've
written out some stuff
um try to be short but I'm sorry I I
kept on writing um
so looking back my journey with this
District it actually began in 1985 when
I started kindergarten at Roy cloud and
Dr Baker I think that's about when you
started with the district too um also
around R Cloud I think you were there
for a little bit I was there for a
little bit I think we overlapped um so
back then Cloud was a k6 school and I
went on to McKinley for seventh and
eighth grade and fun fact when I started
seventh grade there that was the year
they added sixth grade and there was
this brand new two-story building
that um was on McKinley's campus and now
belongs to Northstar that was for the
sixth graders so I never got to have
class in this air conditioning nice
building
um so fast forward a few decades um my
husband Tim and I bought our home in
2012 just in time for our oldest Caleb
to start kindergarten the following year
um and one of the reasons I loved the
location of our house was knowing that
our kids could walk to their Elementary
their middle and their high schools I
remember walking to Henry Ford for
school registration because it was in
person at the time um and I was timing
how long it would take to walk there and
then I doubled the amount of time to
account for walking with three little
ones for school drop off um from the
beginning I knew I wanted to volunteer
in the classroom as much as possible and
I started by spending about three
mornings a week in Mrs barad's class and
I want to shout out I saw she's in the
audience online tonight so hi Mrs
barstead um I did not want to jump into
PTA too quickly because I had plenty of
time for that um so that first year when
Caleb was in kindergarten the PTA needed
someone to help with graphic design for
the pasta dinner event and since I was
self-taught in graphic design and had an
Etsy business I offered to help um and
that led me to attend a couple of PTA
meetings because I had to present to
them um by the third meeting I was
introduced as the next year's PTA
president um during my first year of PTA
president um The principal asked me to
attend a few facilities master plan
Community meetings so that Henry Ford
would um have
representation um so then I became the
parent representative for the elcab
meetings which Alisa I think you were on
that committe at the time um and those
were long all day sessions Wendy you I
think you remember I'm
sorry yes um uh and mult like every
month um so anyway somehow that led me
to attending Schoolboard meetings um and
one time I even sat in the back of the
room taking notes with a cray because
that was all I could find in my
purse um so by 2015 I had a second
grader a first grader and a preschooler
and a board seat was opening up um and I
know that Alisa had asked me if I would
ever consider running for Schoolboard
and I was probably quickly was like
nope and then I was sitting on my couch
at home and my phone rings and I was
like why is Dennis McBride calling me
how does he even know my number so I
answered and he wanted to get together
and talk about me running for school
board so um you know I agreed to meet
and talk about it and with um some
encouragement from the two of them and
other board members I decided to run so
here we are
today um I want to thank my family for
your support over the years and I'm not
going to make any of you stand up the
four of you raise your hands so we know
who we're talking to um
we're thank you so we have my husband
Tim um middle son Asher my mom Eileen
and on the end is Jude the youngest
who's a Kennedy student we're missing
Caleb he's a junior and he's at home
studying for finals right now um I told
him I thought that was more
important um anyway thank you Tim thank
you for stepping in when I couldn't for
leaving work early going in late helping
with doctors's appointments and sports
and making dinners um thank you to my
mom who has occasionally helped to um
had to step in to help shuttle kids
around to when I had meetings and other
District
commitments um to the boys I know I've
missed events like honoral celebrations
um I even missed a birthday uh for a
board meeting um so I just want to say
thank you to cayb Basher and Jude for
being patient with me um for always
helping me pick out my shoes when I
couldn't decide um I'd go out with one
one of each and i' you know pick up one
leg and they'd all help me pick out what
shoes um so we all know that our
families give up a lot to support us and
I'm grateful for
that um to our incredible staff of the
district um thank you not just the
teachers and structural AIDS and
administrators but the office staff the
yard duties nurses Mental Health
Counselors Food Service workers janitors
bus drivers facilities it team
communication staff everyone in the
business office HR student services and
I'm sure I'm missing a whole bunch still
um each of you play a vital role in
supporting our mission to create a safe
supportive inspirational and rigorous
joyful and inclusive environment for all
Learners um your dedication to this
district has made immeasurable impact on
our
students um thank you to my board
colleagues both current and former um
this board has a long history of
camaraderie and respect for each other
um and it's very unique to not just this
County but School boards in general and
it's um I'm getting ahead of myself
special to be a part of that um we don't
always agree but we listen and we
discuss thoughtfully and ultimately we
support the decision that the board has
come to it's been a joy to be a part of
such a cohesive impactful and
intelligent group of people people
they've learned so much from each of you
and you've helped me you've helped shape
me into a better board
member Dr Baker um you are a steadfast
leader you are always calm always
thoughtful and you always put students
first you've made some incredibly
difficult decisions over the years and
while it's impossible to please everyone
you always listen to every perspective
which I always appreciate I've always
appreciated and your leadership has made
it easier for us as a board to tackle
our own challenges so so thank you for
your dedication to the students and
families and staff of
rcsd um serving on this board has been
an incredible honor I will carry it with
me um all that I've learned over the
past nine years and I look forward to
continuing my commitment to public
education and to our robed City
Community for many more years thank
you that was lovely jet thank you well
thank you everyone this has really uh
been a very overwhelming couple of
months for me um feel like every meeting
I've gone to has been sort of a goodbye
or a see you later um and I really
appreciate just all the support uh in
this room um and people who have been
contacting me over the last couple of
months uh really means a lot um I think
you know some of the speakers really
spoke to how much I put into this work
really my heart and my soul um Allin as
they say which is sort of my personality
so I'm a little bit interested to see
what the next chapter's going to be like
try not to say Yes um too quickly to
things so um we can have a little fun
too um as as I said I I did want to just
shout out to my um father who passed
away this year he was a community
college instructor and really he was a
teacher his whole life even after he
retired he taught music and art and
bicycling and um rocks and minerals and
all sorts of things to people and so
I've always had such a fondness and um
and uh what do I want to say just
respect uh for teachers I mean really
teachers are so important so and I know
that we have some in the audience
tonight um and then my mother as they
said was a volunteer at the schools
reading in libraries and uh was a school
board member and both of them just
taught me the importance of Education
and certainly my experience has been
education is the most important thing
right it opens doors of opportunities
for all of us and I know that's why
we're all in the room and on the hard
days let's remember that we're here for
the students right um we're here to make
the world a better place um not only do
we teach them academics which is the
most important thing that we're doing
right we also teach them how to be good
citizens and good community members and
friends um and I know through my
experience here in the schools I've made
some incredible friendships I know that
all of you have as well and it's just
been
remarkable
um let's see I did want to you know
there's some I said a lot on Friday
night as well and then I think some of
the speakers have covered some of the
things I was going to say um but I think
you know we've just been through so much
together and Dr Baker I feel like you
and I have kind of grown up together so
um anyway I really appreciate your
leadership on the board um if you don't
know a superintendent has a very hard
job he's got five board members to
manage and to um work with as well as
all of you right um so really you've
been an incredible leader and I think as
Janet said helped us make some really
hard decisions the last few years and I
know that you know sometimes we don't
make a decision that people want us to
make but we're always trying to look at
the biggest P bigger picture and really
set the district up for success and
we've never had enough resources uh but
we always um you know do the best we can
and I do feel like we provide a high
quality a very inclusive loving
environment and education for our
students and I love hearing from our
students that go on to high school
college and in the world and so many of
them are just doing amazing amazing
things and many of them are giving back
uh to this community or to other
communities so we're really fortunate
there and I did want to say thank you to
my current board Janet you've been
amazing it's been so great to work with
you and if you don't know I think Janet
and I are in a lot of committees
together over the years so we've really
got to work together and I've always
just admired uh what an amazing person
you are you're such a great mom and uh
really always a focus on students so
thank you for all of that and Mike
you've been such a great addition to the
board um you're so thoughtful and just
also calm I think someone else mentioned
that about um uh Janet and I just really
appreciate um everything about you and
I'm looking forward to seeing you as
president I know you're going to do a
great job I know Janet and I wish that
we could be here to support you but
you're going to have two amazing new
board members to support you um David um
thank you for joining our board a couple
of years ago I love your passion and
dedication and your
friendliness um and I know that you have
the best interest for our students and
families um so thank you so much it's
been a pleasure to be your teammate here
last couple years and Cecilia I've known
you for so long I was thinking I guess
it was homework committee RCF um being
parents together in the district and
you're just an amazing person great mom
um as well and if you don't know her
oldest daughter uh works as a teacher um
as well so um anyway it's just been so
so wonderful to work with you really
going to miss you and then I'm GNA I
know we're short on time so I'm not
going to go through all of you I know I
wrote some thank you cards and I really
appreciate those of you on the the uh DS
up here with Das up here with us and um
I did want to give a shout out just to
everybody in the audience particularly
all the cabinet members our principals
uh Vice principls Educators teachers
Janet did a great job listing all the
classified and these are really the
really important people that support the
teachers in the classroom and we could
not absolutely could not do this work
without you um so I won't do the whole
list again but thank you um to all of
the people who support Educators thank
you to the parents and then the
Community Partners that we have again we
couldn't do this work without our
hundreds of Community Partners it's
pretty um
amazing and then finally I want to say
thank you to my family oh my gosh I'm
luckiest person in the world to have
Neil Marissa and Claire on my lives
we're uh we call ourselves the macavoy
team and we really try to support each
other and you guys have been here every
step of the way there's been a lot of
nights where I haven't been home
and you have all been supportive of that
and then you know usually the next day
we try to do a little something together
and regroup and anyway appreciate your
support over the years um and then uh
finally I just wanted to say welcome so
much to our new uh Schoolboard members
and I know we're going to have the oath
of office here um shortly um but I did
want to say I think David and Jennifer
as you get to know them they're going to
be remarkable and I know Janet and I
feel really good about leaving um this
District in their hands and you'll have
have an amazing board and superintendent
and I did actually want to shout out um
to my past board members I did this on
Friday night but Dennis who's here and
Lori thank you so much for being here
and the the nice words that you said and
we've always had a great board so I know
it'll continue to be that way thank
you so that brings us to the next
chapter uh of the Redwood City school
board so with that being said we should
have the oath of office for the new
board members that are moving forward so
if we could have who's coming
first before we do the Earth of office
um as tradition
uh you know we really um just wanted to
express as a as a board our real
appreciation for your leadership this
past year um it was you know not not
always easiest part of the Year probably
much easier than the co year that you
were president and you taught us all a
master class and how to transition
dramatically in a leadership role there
um but deeply appreciative of what
you've done we can't give you the gift
of time we wish we could it would be the
best gift that we could give anyone but
we can give you a little something to
spend your time with and hopefully you
can enjoy it with your family
thank you thank you very much
um uh Mike you reminded me when I sat
down in the seat a year ago I said last
time I sat here I ushered in a pandemic
and I'm going to do my best to not do it
again so I'd like to say I fulfilled
that
promise okay uh first we have David Lee
that's going to take the oath so David
if you'd come forward
David Le I David Lee do solemnly swear
do solemnly swear that I will support
and defend that I will support and
defend the Constitution of the United
States the Constitution of the United
States and the constitution of the State
of California and the constitution of
the State of California against all
enemies foreign and domestic against all
enemies foreign and domestic that I will
bear true faith and Allegiance that I
will bear true faith and allegiance to
the Constitution of the United States to
the Constitution of the United States
and the constitution of the State of
California and the constitution of the
State of California and I take this
obligation freely and I take this
obligation freely without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion
without any mental reservation or
purpose of evasion and that I will
Faithfully discharge the duties upon
which I am about to enter and that will
and that I will Faithfully discharge the
duties upon which I'm about to enter the
duties upon which I am about to enter
good
congratulations I just Jennifer ning
queen king I Jennifer ning queen king do
you solemnly swear do you solemnly swear
or affirm or affirm that I will support
and defend that I will support and
defend the Constitution of the United
States the Constitution of the United
States and the constitution of the state
and the constitution of the State of
California of California against all
enemies foreign and domestic against all
enemies foreign and domestic that I will
bear true faith that I will bear true
Faith an allegiance to the Constitution
of the United States and allegiance to
the con Constitution of the United
States and the constitution of the State
of California and the constitution of
the State of California that I take this
obligation freely that I take this
obligation freely without any mental
reservation without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion or
purpose of evasion and that I will
Faithfully discharge and that I will
Faithfully discharge the duties upon
which the duties upon which I am about
to enter I'm about to enter
forgot to tell
you I affirm I don't swear so so I saw
um I Mike Wells I Mike Wells do solemnly
affirm do solemnly affirm that I will
support and defend the Constitution of
the United States that I will support
and defend the Constitution of the
United States and the constitution of
the State of California and the
constitution of the State of California
against all enemies foreign and domestic
that I will hear true faith and
allegiance to the Constitution that I
will bear I'm sorry brought my
glasses that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the
Constitution am I repeating this aren't
I that I obey our true faith and
allegiance to the Constitution of the
United States United States and the
constitution of the State of California
and the constitution of the State of
California that I take this obligation
freely that I take this obligation
freely without any mental reservation
without any mental reservation or
purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion
and that I will Faithfully discharge and
that I will Faithfully discharge the
duties upon which I am about to enter
the duties upon which I'm about to enter
so what we're going to do is take a
little bit of a a break a celebration to
not only acknowledge both Janet and
Alisa but also acknowledge our new board
members there's cake and Evelyn how's
that going to move forward with the cake
she handled will handle
that I think she'll
and I've got more water upstairs
too thank you so much for being here I
really really appr I know
it's you're welcome
toay thank you my
thank
you to read a bylaw
910 which is one of our board bylaws on
Organization for the annual
organizational
meeting each year the governing board
shall hold an annual organizational
meeting in any year in which a regular
election of District board members is
conducted the organizational meeting
shall be held within 15 days following
the second Friday in December after the
regular election during all other years
the meeting may be held on any date in
December but no later than December
20th during any year in which a regular
election is conducted the board at the
regular meeting held immediately prior
to the second Friday in December shall
select the day and time of the
organizational
meeting for any other year the day and
time of the organizational meeting shall
be selected at the last regular meeting
held immediately before the annual
meeting on behalf of the board the
superintendent shall notify the county
superintendent of schools of the day and
time selected within 15 days prior to
the date of the annual meeting the
superintendent shall notify in writing
all board members and members elect of
the date and time selected for the
meeting at the meeting the board shall
assign following offer officers through
rotation president number one vice
president number two clerk three
representative Sano County committee and
School District organization and le as
onto California school boards
Association and Sano County boards
Association appoint the superintendent
as secretary to the board authorize
signatures confirm or update a schedule
of regular meetings for the year and the
board governance calendar designate
board representatives to serve on
committies or commissions of the
district other public agencies or
organizations with which the district
Partners District Partners or
collaborates uh the review and or
consider resources that Define and
clarify the board's governance and
Leadership roles and responsibilities
including but not limited to governance
standards meeting protocols board rules
and bylaws and other board development
materials this section is the the
rotation of officers and this is where
it's going to be a bit different for us
this school year at this point in time I
should say at the annual organizational
meeting the Board of Education shall
rotate so that each current and
reelected board member assumes the next
higher position in the officer rotation
order new elected or appointed board
members shall occupy the remaining
vacant positions if there is more than
one new board member or new board member
elected or appointed there will be a
lottery to determine the order filling
the board positions and that's what's
going to happen tonight and it's never
happened in my time as a tenure and I
don't know in the past I don't think it
has either um so the president of the
Board of Trustees will be Mike
Wells the vice president of the Board of
Trustees David
weekly the clerk of the Board of
Trustees is Cecilia
Marquez and now this is where the
lottery comes in or so there are two
names in here we have David's name David
Lee and we also have Jen king's name
here so this person will
take the representative to the samto
county committee on School District
organization and that
is Jennifer King so Jennifer King you
are right next
to
Cecilia and David you will be the layers
on to the California school boards
Association and the samon county school
boards Association
Association
congratulations congratulations to you
both now with that being said I will
turn this meeting over to president
Wells wow
um okay so first of all I just want to
say I'm really honored to step into this
role as board president you know I know
it's routine um but uh it's still you
know it's still a privilege to to have
this and I really look forward to
working alongside of all of you um and I
want to acknowledge this moment of
transition so thank you you got a bunch
of thank yous but it's now my privilege
to be able to say it one more time um
your wisdom experience and deep
commitment U you know it's left a
lasting mark on our district uh and so
we're just we're really profoundly
grateful for your service um to our new
trustees that are joining us you know
really looking forward to the work that
we're about to embark on together um I'm
excited that we're going to continue to
build on the progress that uh we've been
seeing in the the district and we're
going to continue to tackle the
challenges and opportunities ahead you
know and as we move forward we're going
to keep our Focus where it belongs um
we're going ensuring that every student
regardless of which school they attend
where which neighborhood they live in
what kind of challenges they face that
they have access to an excellent
education and the opportunity to thrive
and I really look forward to this being
a productive and collaborative
experience together and a year ahead um
so thank you and with that um do we have
any changes to the agenda
all right hearing none um is uh can we
get a motion to approve the agenda I
move we approve the
agenda
perfect and then we normally when we're
all in person just do a v Voice vote so
all in
favor
okay and then I moving on to oral
communication I don't see anything from
oral communication we've had plenty
already
[Laughter]
okay then let's jump into school and
Community reports this is a 9.1 report
on local indicator measurement for the
California
dashboard and that will be Miss Herrera
who will be
presenting so tonight um we're going to
be we have Jenny Tran who is our um will
be presenting our our California
dashboard information our state
indicators um just to quickly give you a
snapshot of how we did last year on the
assessments so I know Jenny's on online
so
Jenny good evening the board members um
cabinet members and the community so
today I'm presenting to you their rity
2324 dashboard status focusing primarily
on stateboard indicators um after three
years since the dashboard has returned
post pandemic um we now finally have
some meaningful growth data that
highlight how our school are performing
across out State measure next slide
please
okay so this is a snapshot of how where
city is doing for 2324 school year under
the state view for performance and
accountability um what you see are
indicators the indicators with the color
wheels are Statewide measure including
chronic absence suspension English learn
appr press and academics including EA
and math the indicators with um no
colors it's just a standard met Mark are
local indicators these are measure and
progress that are tracked locally by the
district um for each of the Statewide
indicators school and District receive
one out of five colors coded um red
orange yellow green or blue these
performance level are the combination of
the the school and the district current
status of how we're doing each year um
and the changes compared to previous
year uh for the local indicators what
we're seeing here um showing stand the
Met um I want to emphasize that you know
the dashboard local indicator does not
measure how well our district are doing
in our in those measure but rather did
we meet the requirement of the state to
have the tools and the process in place
ways to measure these things um like how
teachers are credentials um the parent
family engagement did we survey our
student and try to understand um the
classroom environment so those are the
local indicators tracking locally so for
our local indicators we always dendam
met because we do have process in place
to track these um for the state
indicators uh for 23 24 school year um
from the top left going to the right our
chronic absenteeism yellow is in yellow
suspension and English learning progress
are in green and both of our academic
indicators language arts and math are in
both um both in Orange I will go over
detail for each of the indicat in the
next couple slides next
please so for chronic absenteeism 23 24
we have
um achieve a rate of
18.4% of our student chronically absent
um with a decline from the last year
that landed Us in the yellow color of
the dashboard uh for the last year
dashboard by last year I mean previous
year 22 23 school year we were in Orange
though we declined our chronic abent
declined and that landed Us in
yellow um to the right you will see how
our each of our student groups are doing
um under chronic absentismo
the student groups are in the yellow
which is the average for the
district some student groups are doing
better more present in the classroom
which are Asian Asian white and two or
more races the student groups that have
higher chronic absenteeism rate compared
to the district aage are
African-American Filipinos and Pacific
Icelander
um if you look at at the
bottom right corner where there is no
performance color we have two student
groups are American Indian and Foster
youth um if the students um if the total
count of the student is under 30 um
there will be no performance indicator
for that group um just for the protect
the student
confidentiality um okay next slide
um this slide here is the distribution
of our school in different dashboard
status for chronic
absenteeism um the orange represent
previous dashboard which is which was 22
23 school year the green represent our
last year dashboard status which is 23
24 school year um if you're looking at
the green and you can see that we have
less School in the high and very high
status so for chronic absenteeism we
want our school to have a lower chronic
absentismo
our school towards the right hand sides
of the chart right
um so um for 23
24 we have reduced the number of school
in the very high and high status for
chronic absenteeism so that's a positive
change next slid please
so this chart show you so the previous
chart show you the count of how many
schools in each of the status this chart
show you what's are the changes so with
those status that the school landed on
did they actually decline improve um or
did they remain the same for 23 24 nine
of our schools have decline The Chronic
absenteeism that's a that's a very very
very well worthy celeb rating outcome
for our school in District um and then
three of our school decline in chronic
absenteeism none of our school increase
in chronic absenteeism for 23 24 school
year next slide please the next
indicator on the dashboard is suspension
rate um with the suspension rate of
2.5% and a decline from the previous
year that landed us on a low suspension
rate and a green status for the
dashboard okay and then on the right
side you will see how our student groups
are doing in terms of um uh how many how
what's the percentage of student being
suspended for student
groups um we can see that student who
are in homeless long-term English
learner and Pacific Islander or are in
the orange indicators they are more
likely to get suspended than other
student
groups next
slide um so this is also the school
distribution of where our schools are um
on the
dashboard um for suspension we also
similar to Chronic
absenteeism um we want our school to be
in the low and very low
bucket we can still note that none of
our school are in very high suspension
status so we only have high medium low
and very
low um for 23 24
dashboard we have less School in high
and medium status compared to the
2223 which is a positive
outcome um next slide please
for the change of how the school uh is
doing for their suspension rate we can
see an impressive I'm sorry we can see
an impressive change in suspension at
our school five of our school last year
have declined significantly compared to
only one school declin significantly on
22 23
dashboard um only three of our school
increase in
suspension compared to 22 23 we were we
had six School increases
suspension and then finally in the last
column we have no school increased
significantly for 2324
dashboard for
suspension next
slide so this the third indicator for
the state War um is English learner
progress um for those who are not
familiar annually our English learner
um all English Learner in the state of
California will take the summative Alpac
test which measure the English
proficiency level the El progress
indicator measure how much progress does
our English learner are doing each year
towards their English proficiency so
with
47.3% of our student making progress
that's a big increase from previous year
which brought status on the Das for from
Red straight to
Green for 23 24 um school year on the
right side you will see that this year
the dashbo also have a distinguish
between English Learners and long-term
English Learners they're tracking their
progress separately um before they all
group into one group English learner but
now they separate out and the new um
guideline for long-term English Learners
now are seven or more years
previously it was six or more years so
now it's seven or more years you can see
that um long-term English learner
actually making um there higher
percentage of student who are long-term
language learner making progress on
their language
proficiency next
slide so this slides are showing you um
the percentage student who increase or
decrease in their uh um test level for
elpac throughout the school
years what we try to focus on is the
last column of
2024 we have a good chunk of
47.5% in P those are student who
progress at least one lpac one LP level
compared to the 22 23 we only have 40%
so that that's a very positive um
outcome also for our English learners
next
please um so for our
school we do not have um every school um
in very we don't not have school in high
progress for English Learners so we only
have four level high medium low and very
low for Reid more than half of our
school are in high and medium progress
for English
learner only one school in very low but
um that is also a there is also a
positive change compared to 2223 when we
had preschool in very low
status next
please this graph CH shows you also
again the change how have the school are
doing towards the English learner
compared to previous dashboard we can
see that um six of our school go
increase significantly or increase so
the the four in Green in the increase of
the clly and the two in green and
increase six of school um have
significant growth and very impressively
that none of our school declin
significantly in English learner U for
23 24 while in 22 23 we have five now we
have none um that's a big Improvement
also um compared to the 2223 dashboard
okay next slide please so so far those
are good
news next is the academics indicators
which many of us are familiar with um
when the esack result was released back
in September we kind of have an idea of
how our school was doing um but compared
to other Statewide indicator our
district and school are not doing as
well as we've seen um with other
indicators
um we are now currently at
40.5 points below the Statewide standard
this is a um declined in performance um
that put it at Orange status we were in
yellow last year now we got down to
Orange um however the state is also in
the same level with us which is also
orange next
slide um this Li you can see the number
of school in each of the status bucket
are pretty similar between two dashboard
um nine of our school are in very low
and very low status so these are the
status that we don't want our school to
be in for academic we want them to be on
the left side very high and
high next
slide similarly here we don't see our
school are making many changes on their
s math dashboard
um we have more school in 23 24
dashboard decline or decline
significantly significantly compared to
222 23-4
though next
slide um so the last indicator on the
dashboard is um English learner language
English language arts we are at 16.8
points below
Stander that is also a decline from last
year however we didn't go down um we
stay at the orange
status um we also comparable to the
state they also in um Statewide
California Statewide they're also in the
orange
status next
slide in terms of the school
distribution we have more school going
from low performance to very low in esac
ela so for 23 24
we have three in low and five in very
low you can see that shift in the last
two columns of the
chart next
slide um finally looking at the
change most of our schools again similar
to math um are in a decline or decline
significantly so total seven School two
of the school maintain their score and
then three School increase their
language our performance um so but
overall we are not doing better compared
to the previous year
dashboard okay and that is the end of my
presentation so one of the things I want
to share is we've um because of our
dashboard last year um we also put many
things into place this year so far MO
board members there's a lot that has
been taking place in the last two years
um but this year we've really had taken
a focus on on our English Learners and
so part of our work this year with our
staffing there's been a lot of work
around English Learners making sure um
all our PD so we have h f five and a
half scheduled PDS with a half day and
all of them have been continuing in our
elementary K5 have been continuing with
our our new math adoption that we
started last year so we Contin with PD
this year in math we've also done um a
number of um integrated Al which is our
focus on English Learners and making
sure our teachers are actually using
strategies um some of our best practices
for students who are learning English in
their classroom so we have a partnered
with Stanford who's working with our
Middle School we have contracted with
teachers spay teachers um who also are
the publish for our ELD curriculum and
so they also are providing um integrated
ELD as well as more focus on language
power which is our curriculum as well
for supplemental ELD so we've done a lot
of PD this year um apart from that we're
also been doing goal setting and
conferences with our principles we've
also been doing um our professional
learning communities and so we've
partnered with a California reading
project and so they have been leading us
through um our professional lead
learning communities and so we've been
working with them and so we've had our
two cycles yet we're still going to
start our next one and so the way it
works is we do our first cycle We Come
Together We review what happened on the
first one then we continue so we're
going to go into our next one in January
so we try to close off and one of our
goals is um we're creating a foundation
this year for professional learn
Community looking at data teachers
setting smart goals and then reviewing
them as grade level teams um some
schools have even had teachers create
their own smart GRS with their own
students so groups of students so
depending on where they're at in their
Journey on the professional learning
community so we've been done a lot of
work um you've probably heard of our
students taking the fiab which is an
interm assessment which is similar to
the state test um we're doing a writing
assessment we've just administered the
last couple of days and what we're going
to be doing in January is they're going
to be scoring them we're going to be
then doing some data analysis on that so
that teachers can then plan for
instruction before we take the state
standardized test so it's giving us an
idea of what needs to be done in the
writing which is an area that we haven't
focused in as much but we know our
students need it um and so one of the
goals next year is really our
professional learning communities is it
that we begin the year looking at data
creating goals and just doing a cyclical
every six weeks and getting into the
practice of of creating smart goals and
looking at our data more consistently
and so some schools are a little ahead
of that they have teachers who've
already done that before um but really
trying to get everyone on the same page
and creating those cycles of inquiry
which are really important to moving um
the students forward and also making the
students also be aware of where they
need to go through the goal setting
conferences as well so really trying to
focus on the students and what we need
to do to set them in
place last year we had a number of
schools um the state because if you see
the red indicators we have a number of
schools who those indicators then tell
us what schools we need to focus on so
last year we had uh five schools who
were considered an atsi and we had two
who are in the CSI um areas and so what
that means is as a district we have to
create on our lcap goals for how we are
going to improve the work in our with
those those teachers and those those
schools so we have partnered with
teacher created materials um we have had
they've been working with our coaches
our district mtss to not tosas I mean
our staff development and we are going
through a series of coaching so that
they're learning to do coaching as well
and we are reviewing best practices
they're uh planning at sites with
teachers um they're on site for days a
week at just designated sites so we're
really truly we understand we know that
how important it is for teachers to have
someone to plan with and be there when
they need you know they may have a a
question about curriculum so we're
really looking at those School sites and
this year um we've been very fortunate
that we have moved some of these schools
out of these statuses for this coming
year um but our focus is still there
because we're still in red indicators um
so for our atsi status we've also
partnered with TCM and CSI we've done
three cycles of what we call coaching
Cycles so we have our TCM coaches who
are Masters are really College
professors who come in and they do some
demonstrations we debrief
and then teachers now so our first one
was a lot of demonstration lessons a lot
of debriefing the second one was uh
demonstration by them one our coaches
then did a lesson and then they were
debriefed and then there was some
planning time for teachers um we're
going to ENT our third cycle um coming
up in January and so we're working on
what that is going to look like a
demonstration bringing actually other
school sites together to view grade
levels and then plan so it's a little
different model because they were just
at their own level at their own School
sites um but our we know that the
benefit of having others see and
demonstrate also providing them good
planning time on standard based
instruction is one of our goals and so
that's what we're going to be focusing
on focusing on and for our CSI schools
we have two extra Cycles um that will be
coming at we're still planning those as
we go through the cycles then we look at
what are the needs of the schools um but
all of them have some form of
demonstration some form of coaching for
our coaches as well as planning time for
our teachers so really we're really
trying to make sure that we're covering
all of these sites because all of these
sites have engl had English Learners and
red indicators in both math and mini in
math and Min in ela um but as you can
see we have made huge improvements in
our English language um development with
our students we have a long way to go
still in our language arts and math
we've put a lot of new curriculum into
play in the last couple of years um and
so we know that it takes time for
everyone to become solid in the teaching
practices of our new curriculum but I
think this year um we have also put into
play our cohesion what we call our
cohesion program model at the district
where we're really looking at as a
district making sure everyone's doing
standard-based instruction we're looking
at the curriculum and that we're seeing
it in action and as all of us cabinet
members are out and about at school
sites we're really looking to make sure
that is implemented um because we can
only be part of that information is we
use that information to do our PLC work
which we want everyone to be doing so
that means common assessments that
really in looking at the data and so we
can't do that if we're not on on the
same page so this year we're really
putting a lot of that into practice so
that next year will be much more
stronger in having a cohesive system and
alignment and we have now our data of
what we'll be looking at with our
staff um so there's a lot of work had
gone into all of that just wanted to
bring you to on board to all the
information that um so everyone
understands there's been a lot of work
and so we're now starting to plan for
next year as well and trying to figure
out what are our next steps next year
because we only actually have one school
in atsi status next year so we have
moved a lot of them out um you don't
need a lot but it just means there's
been a lot of movement and so we really
want to focus on this one school neure
but we'll continue to focus on the
schools that have red
indicators so any questions
yeah okay yeah we can open it up to
board questions um and comments just
David you look like you were ready to
jump in first do you David Lee um no no
no no no please go ahead it's your
turn um that's super helpful to get the
context and to see the data um my big
questions were kind of just like seeing
what the results are knowing kind of
where we are at that point and then
tying that to qualitatively what we've
been doing to one see what's causing it
as well as how we're addressing it it
sounds like there's been quite a bit um
especially on E the English ler English
learner progress but super super um glad
to see all the progress being made and
it sounds like there's a clear or sounds
like we have a clear idea of what is
causing that which is the large
investment in English uh learner PD Etc
and then sounds like there's a lot of
best practices that you're taking there
not only for English learner but also
across the board with math and Ela is
that
fair um I guess my questions are uh a
little bit on the ma
ela1 do we um do we have a sense of how
this data Compares across the state in
terms of like if other areas are
generally seeing declines but the
question is more of do we think that
this is kind of like Co rebound kind of
thing where it's widespread or do we
think that there's something a little
bit more isolated that we're
experiencing I think in terms of the
state we're probably very similar um
when they look when we look at their
math scores um it's very very similar
our we're probably comparable to them I
don't think that this you know maybe Co
maybe many other things one of the
things that you need to we need all need
to know is that our focus in Reading has
been really um immense because the state
standardized test is no longer just
arithmetic it is reading word problems
and then having children explain so if
they can't read it they're not having
the access to be able to explain their
thinking so we are really putting a lot
of effort into making sure our students
are reading um because that is a big
need if they're not reading by third
grade and that's their first assessment
in third grade um we're doing a
disservice to them because they're not
going to be able to assess the test
they're not be able to take the test in
a way and show really what their
knowledge is one of the things we are
putting into play and and we've heard
this um I've heard this from teachers
and we're moving forward to that is
trying to figure out how do we in the
pastors we were over we did a lot of
Assessments and I ready and constantly
so we've looked at um what other
assessments can we do and so one of the
things the teachers are asking for is we
did interm assessments which are mimic
right the state some of our curriculum
actually has some of those practices as
well and so we're really teachers are
asking can we put that into our cycle of
inquiry so this year is a slow roll out
because we're barely getting back so
hopefully next year we'll be doing a
little bit more of that just so that
we're preparing the students for what
the test will look like as well as
giving them those exposures for our
students um but we tell teachers be
patient because there's a lot of this is
the first time we're doing it in a
number of years and so there's we just
this month there's been a lot of hiccups
and things aren't working the way we
want them to do so we're hoping that
that state the state will fine-tune that
so that next year if we're doing it more
cyclical on a regular basis um it will
be able to address some of those things
and give the students opportunities to
actually practice which we hadn't done
in the
past that's super helpful um the only
other question I had was and I might
have missed it um was just on the
chronic absenteeism and the suspension
also encouraging to see the progress Are
there specific things that we are tying
to that Improvement like make sure we
keep on doing that there's been a lot of
work on that um I would say our director
of student services Antonio has monthly
meetings on attendance with our we've
been working on T since pandemic he has
put into place some protocols that now
are being used at all the sites there
are teams that are really looking at
that we have our osas who also support
um so there's an assessment team there's
an attendance team at each School site
that meets monthly or regularly um we
have a new system in our power school
our power school analytics that actually
provides us information right away about
our attendance which we didn't have in
the past so this year people are
actually able to see it very quickly and
say oh this student was absent or not
you can actually track it a little bit
better um but there's been a lot of work
in it and a lot of emphasis in the last
two years um calling parents um really
trying to get them into school we are
seeing that schools students are you
know starting to come back we still have
some students who are struggling um and
so trying to put into place what do we
do for those students who have high
anxiety um because we still have some
students who are really anxious and
aren't coming to school because of high
anxiety so really trying to put things
put things into place um how do we bring
them back and working at those families
and bringing them back slowly if they're
not ready to be here all day but trying
to transition um so there's been a lot
of work done in terms of
suspensions um I know our director
Services last year met with every single
principle in terms of it had high
suspensions and really went over how can
we create an alternative to suspension
what can we do let's look at why we're
suspending what are the reasons what is
suspendable and not so going through all
of that really helped I think our
principles understand what is actually
suspendable versus not there are some
things that are just you know egregious
you have to suspend and there are those
that you figure out how to I manag that
in a different way um in the past vaping
was huge and we haven't had as on what
as much vaping this year but there was a
lot of suspensions for vaping and
smoking which this year we haven't and
so again looking at how do we what's the
alternative to vaping how do we provide
those students those support so that's
been a huge amount of our time in the
past couple of years so I think that's
been a change that we're looking at no
longer suspending for that just that one
area brought in a lot of suspension so
so looking at our our reasons for
suspension and going through with the
fine to comb really helps um has helped
us put a different light on why and
continue to work on our PBIS models
across the district as
well thank you you're
welcome Jennifer are you ready no no
okay
Cecilia um sure thanks Jenny of course
like always for the presentation um and
my question my question regarding
long-term English learning when we talk
about seven plus years are we referring
to students that are in our district
seven or more years or are we counting
them as seven plus years in this
country are we seven for seven plus
years since the day they were identified
as English Learners because the state
would basically say you've been learning
English for seven years you are a
long-term English Learners um so they do
collect the time and the date the
student will first assess with the test
and they take it and they do seven years
um the the tricky part was that um if
just let's say the student was an
English Learner in May last year right
it's like one month before the school
end then they consider two years of
English learner this year so as long as
you are English learner at any point in
time during the Academic Year that's
counted with one year so you can have a
student who just came to the country
last may they are now two years of
English learners
um that's just how they simplifies their
followers then that's how they calculate
okay great thank you um and then my more
of like Kudos regarding again the
absentismo
and calling the families because
obviously we've heard this in the past
and how that's making a big difference
so thanks to all those involved um and I
don't have any other questions just want
to say you know thank you because again
the needle is moving so I appreciate it
so I feel like we got kind of a mixed
bag on this there's clearly lots of
effort that was spent on uh absenteeism
every message that I get for my kids at
my school is like remember you got to
send your kids to school right and so
it's it's very clear that the district
on lots of different axes is trying hard
to to drive up attendance and drive down
chronic absenteeism and we see that
reflected that that effort seems to be
bearing fruit so I think that's
fantastic we also are seeing good
progress in terms of uh English language
Learners which is which is great um I
find it the change in definition for
long-term English language Learners um
that that definition change from five
years to seven years I I I feel like
it's a step back and I'm kind of
disappointed by that's is the state
level right um because again I think
there's such clear data that we have
that English proficiency by the end of
third grade is such a clear determinant
of long-term academic outcomes that if
we say like well if it takes 5 years six
years for them to become English
proficient that's fine we know it's not
fine right so we we have to however the
state wants to do this and sort of lower
the bar a little bit I think we need to
have a high bars like we really need to
have a goal that especially with TK now
we've we've got that whole extra year of
uh being able to intersect kids that by
the end of their third grade that we
need uh those those students to be
English proficient that really needs to
be a target for us um David Lee uh you
asked a good question about the state
level data and sort of how our data
Compares against that um fuss around on
my laptop here there's the open website
at CA schoolboard.org uh that includes
the state level data um it's interesting
to see looking back the last couple
years that uh English proficiency across
the state um is is a hair below standard
but relatively static uh holding just a
little bit below standard um whereas
we're seeing in our priority schools a a
continued Decline and increasing
separation from the standard so there's
a deceleration that we're seeing in the
priority schools in Redwood City that we
are not seeing more broadly reflected
across the state um that deceleration is
also evident in math now the math bar
for the State of California is
significantly below standard for the
whole for the whole state but does not
seem to be experiencing a a deceleration
to the same degree that we're seeing in
our priority schools so there's
something that's going on here in the
district in terms of um the level of
academic attainment in in English and
math um that is is going beyond what
we're seeing in the in the state and
it's frustrating because it feels like
we're doing a lot of the right things we
had a very thoughtful curriculum search
for illustrative math you know talking
with teachers talking with the teachers
union like we got like really Positive
Vibes out of that we know that um
professional development is really the
way forward to help teachers continue to
master their profession and like we're
it feels like we're doing a lot of the
right things but it's not showing up in
in the data and falling further and
further behind um so it's it's kind of
frustrating I I I I don't have any sort
of magic advice for for how we can get
better but just I think we need to start
with an acknowledgement that we are well
behind especially for our priority
schools if we were to group those and
that might be an interesting request for
like the Futures to go and like group
the priority School data and we're
falling further and further behind the
the State Bar and we need to figure out
how we're going to course correct to to
close that Gap so I just want to
reiterate we did this is our second year
in our new curriculum so it does take 3
to 5 years so I just want to say we're
not there yet put that yet on there
because it does take time and I do think
walking around our classrooms and we're
visiting and seeing math in action yeah
it's been very inspiring this year to
see how many of our kids are really
rising to the challenge of the math and
all in all priority schools and the
consistency of the curriculum I think is
very important now that we have very
because in the past we did we didn't
have a consistent curriculum and there
were some curriculum was working really
well but we just weren't consistent and
now that we have consistency I think
it'll get us it'll get we'll get there
David I promise it's just going to take
some time as teachers are honing in on
their skills it is a different way of
teaching math than our own teachers ever
learned or you know learn themselves so
they have to also learn the skills of
open-ended questions and guiding
questions versus giving the students the
algorithm it's really hard when you know
the algorithm and you just want to give
it to them right and but there's a
process to the inquiry of the math and
that takes it's it takes a while for a
teacher to adapt to that but what we
have been seeing in the classrooms is
they are doing the curriculum um much
more than they were last year because
last year was a first year and there was
a lot of new changes but
definitely I am H been happy to see in
all our priority schools that we're
visiting that the curriculum is being
done to see the level that the students
are really answering those questions
there's still going to be struggles
again because if they're not accessing
the reading but really trying to figure
out what are the tools that we can
provide for them so that if they can't
read it how do we access the reading for
them because it really is about do they
understand the concept can they explain
their thinking so really getting there
and I do believe we'll get there and I
think this year we we should be getting
stronger at that it's our first you know
full full full year of that
implementation um so we can only be
hopeful that if we will make the that
it'll move the needle I've heard nothing
but good things about the the curriculum
selection so yeah I'll just one more
question I think this just want to make
sure I'm understanding correctly the
data that we're looking at is we are
currently in the second year and
therefore the data that we're looking at
was the first year cor correct correct
correct so hopefully when we move
forward and we see next year we'll see
this progress the thing that really
concerns me most is that um and yes
David it is the state says seven years
but if we get a child who's in the third
grade and the child is not speaking
English there's a lot of catch up to do
a lot a lot and as Anna pointed out if
you don't have act it's in English and
you're read and it's it's a lot of
reading to do and and if you are not
proficient you're gonna bomb out on that
test it it's ridiculous that they still
have to take that same test and our
English Learners newcomers have to take
the test in Spanish they don't have to
do the ELA test for one year they're
exempt for one year but they have to
take the Spanish
I mean the the math test regardless the
regardless they have to take
it so I I think as we move forward and
as what you see when you visit
classrooms you see the type of
instruction that is happening in the
classroom you will see it's a different
way of how teachers are teaching math
the the reading is really coming along
especially with the different types of
materials that we've um Acquired and
we've been trained on with with um not
only the California L project but also
with integrity and moving that forward
so it it's it's definitely moving in the
direction we want it's not moving as
fast as we would like I think one thing
that has been really good at the
priority schools is the amount of
support this year we have put in we put
in extra support at those School sites
to especially work in the area with
those students who need that extra nudge
to get them where they need to be and
then also um meeting with their parents
on even though they cannot re they don't
speak English at this point in time but
there are things that they can do at
home to make sure that what they're what
we're asking the child to do that they
can just um follow up on so hopefully
that's another piece that would be more
supportive
too I think it's just a little bit
frustrating for everyone that the date
always comes in a year after right
because
then wasn't it supposed to start like
you were supposed to get it back
actually got a little bit early next
year we're supposed to get it so if we
got it earlier this year next year is
supposed to be earlier eventually in two
years are supposed to start getting in
October we get the results right away
now I mean we leave the just we leave
this school year and we have the
majority of the results um but it does
take them long to process the whole
dashboard and you did present the
results to us in September our September
25th meeting we saw the math and Ela
results from last year at that meeting
this is just now the dashboard this is
the dashboard data correct yeah I think
to the point of um I am certainly eager
to see how things play out in the second
year and forward um but it was also
great to hear that a lot of the work is
also going to incorporating some of the
into the interm assessments a lot of the
same sort of stuff so hopefully you know
we can get a little bit more real- time
data on like how we're getting there but
sounds like you know you guys are way
ahead of me so thank
you yeah um and you know also I'll point
out that we did hear this at the
September 25th one and at the time um
you know you you spoke a lot about the
all the things that were changing this
year for um to be able to help it most
notably uh and I just want to
acknowledge the amount of time that you
and your cabinet got to put on your
inner principal and go back and um help
go visit the schools and see you know
how to what kind of support they need
and what what where you can help and how
to get it in there and from listening to
the Roosevelt report last year it sounds
like that's been making a tremendous
difference um Tina had told us that you
know in her data that she seeing now
they are seeing movement uh in the
direction that they want to go um and so
I think that's that's really positive um
one thing I wanted to ask is was
language language power new this year or
did we start that last year I know TCM
coaching the coaching is new this year
right yeah language power we adopted it
I mean we started it last year we had a
slower roll out um because we had to
purchase all the items it's a very
different type of curriculum where it's
leveled so we have three levels in K K3
three K2 three levels in 35 and three
levels in 68 so it's really about where
are the kids if they're on their lpac
score um if there are ones they you're
going to get level a if there are two
you get level two so it's about how you
regroup and so one of the things that
the challenges last year was you have
kids who are moving or you know they're
not stagnant right that you have moving
so you're trying to see on their LP
level where do they need to go which
unit where do we start them if they're a
one a high one we want them in the two
right so we don't want them just in the
level one so it's looking at that we
were learning how that curriculum works
so there was there was a lot of work on
that we're still this year we've
fine-tuned it a lot better we still have
a lot to do to refine so that we start
the year with the program because it
does take time to look at their levels
and figure out the right kits in which
group and who they do regrouping in in
the schools and so making sure that all
of that before we leave our goal this
year is that by the end of the year
principes leave they'll have their
groupings they'll know and so that we
start the year right away with the right
kits because we've had movement of kits
and so because of the movement of kits
you start with one then you move to
another because you may whatever was
identified so but this is our first full
year again some still schools last year
got their curriculum sort of like
January because they were ordering the
wrong they had got the wrong kits and so
we were waiting but this is the first
full year with that yeah and the other
thing is the the regrouping the
regrouping that's occurring now which
didn't uh didn't happen before which is
really good where you have a grade level
say there's three teachers at a grade
level and they're each taking X level
yeah or making sure they don't have
multiple levels in their classroom and
then cycle through those groups and do
do an analysis of the data after they've
given a test and then regroup again so
that's something that is also that's
very positive as and I think we started
a lot of that Dr Baker last year of
making sure in their schedules it was
getting done
so one of the things the states is we
need to make sure if they're identified
as English they must have ELD and so our
doc um Katherine has been super Miss
rera has been super about visiting
classrooms is it happening when you say
it's happening what do we need to do and
so we're continuing that even through
our educational rounds as well so we're
really seeing the consistency this year
we started last year but really being
looking at it now because it those kids
deserve what they need to have and they
need those support so we're really
making sure that that's happening this
year so when you visit schools ask for
the schedule ask for their schedules
that they've have these schedules are
relatively new we we have asked them to
put schedules together and let review
the schedules with us we sometimes make
changes which are not um appreciated
let's put it that way but we want them
to go in that direction and we always
explain why we want that and uh
sometimes they're not received well but
but they move forward with it and I said
let's try it let's work with that and so
we've been quite promised and successful
with it and then the professional
Learning Community sound like they're
you know great support to be able to get
everything aligned across grade levels
um one of the things I think you'd
mentioned in September was trying to
align the formative tests with when they
meet so that they'd have that
information did that happen has that
been effective I mean I don't know if
you know yet but so in um we did when in
math we haven't quite in math where
we're sort of doing our because this is
our first full I mean our second year in
it but one of the things that we've
developed I wouldn't say I develop our
math coach developed was making sure we
had certain um right before report card
a certain assessment this year and
certain and some so we're actually
looking at the data like who did the
assessments reminding principles hey we
need you to insert there but we want to
see how kids are
doing um so that we can then start
tracking that looking that information
how are we doing on this chapter so
really and our goal next year is that
they will be doing the every so often um
because the teachers are still learning
there is a lot of checkpoints in between
the math curriculum so they're really
doing that we have it for the hegr for
bpst we have that down everybody does
that recording um and that data analysis
it's just the math that we're trying to
get into play and so again because we're
trying to get the cohesion and because
for the PLC in order for have a PLC you
all have to have a common assessment
you're looking at and so we're really
trying to get that rolling out better
this year and so we have our middle
schools have are looking at common
planning time as well and what do we
need to do for them so that they can
have these assessments um that they're
looking at so everybody's working on
it's just going to take time so that
next year we are we have it all in place
great thanks um and thank you uh Jenny
and everyone who worked on putting
together this report um and you know
getting it ready for the dashboard um I
also want to celebrate the progress that
we saw right I think people had
mentioned it but a great great progress
on chronic absenteeism the suspension
rates and the emerging bilingual
progress um so that's awesome we don't
want to forget about that we talked
about math and we hadn't I don't think
we'd seen that data from last year yet
so that was uh that was good to see um
and it was good to hear the updates um
on all of the efforts that you'd started
this year and how that's progressed
since uh we last heard about it in
September um anything else dad
moment all right I say we move on to a
discussion item
on uh this is yes assignments for uh
School assignments and committee
assignments for the board members for
the remainder of the school year so you
have in front of you uh a draft and what
you see marked through are the school
assignments here that uh Janet was
assigned to and the school assignments
assignments that Alisa was assigned to
my recommendation is just to move
forward with with those so um for
Janet's assignments that David take
those on for the remainder of this
school year and huh David Lee that's
right David L David Lee David L um and
that Jennifer uh take on the assignments
that Alisa had and then we can talk
about those assignments on our 101
meetings when we meet together okay is
that all right with you
perfect the next one is a dis definitely
a discussion these are the
superintendent committee assignments and
where uh we need representation is on
the policy
committee on the audit
committee you will see the citizens Bond
oversight measure T
committee the bond construction
committee uh superintendent's advisory
committee and then Workforce housing
committee so those committees that are
the superintendent committee are up for
you know our new board members and for
any of our veteran board members that
would like to participate so this is a
time to ask questions
um let me know I think sometimes we also
allow shifts and trades if people want
do that as well too yeah just yeah
pointing that out if there's something
that just uh point of order the citizen
Bond oversight is now measure s
committee right um for on S and not t oh
yes that is s c
t wait wait is still there's still some
it's a combined committee so maybe we&
all right yeah that's right I forgot
about the little solar
piece would it be helpful maybe for the
new board members um to know like for
example one of the things is like I
usually join the Committees that are
later in the afternoon rather than
during the day right so I don't know
that would be helpful for them to know
like when this committee how of they me
or so the policy committee Wendy would
you like to take that on when you meet
and um definitely so uh this committee
reviews board policies and
um in advance so I I would send them out
a week in advance to review we look at
about 10 at each time the meetings um
have been about an hour but we might
schedule them an hour and a half just to
start off until we get our um our groove
back here and I'm very flexible on when
we schedule it so it's just we calendar
it we strive for once a month um we've
gone every six weeks and we don't meet
over the summer but in general that has
been our time frame that we have
historically been using
uh with the goal of bringing about 7 to
10 board policies to most uh board
meetings throughout the
year
questions Aid no questions I'm I'm
interested okay
perfect Ian I'll jump in and say that um
you know I'd like to stay on the two
Bond committees um the construction
committee and then the oversight one uh
and I'd like to join the workforce
housing committee um and I think is I
don't remember do we usually put the
board president on the 2 by two by two
um yes it would be to one's advantage to
do that yeah um so anyways I I can I can
for the right I was I'm okay perfect
great I wasn't down there yet oh that's
sorry you're superintendent one yeah
okay so wait pass on that one
I know take it away let's say at the top
part of the boxes um so uh anyone else
for the policy committee if there isn't
anyone else we'll just go with David for
this this round right
now I would love a
[Laughter]
partner okay Jen perfect thank you um
let's come down to the citizens just for
completeness also um this is g to be the
wrong time to litigate but I'm realizing
that there's probably uh it would be
good for us to have a Comm somebody on a
committee with uh folks from the
surrounding High School Districts as
well right um so like to to form a
committee where we get somebody from
sequa somebody from R that's a two by
two that is the two by yeah it's two
from squ two from City two from
the city manager on it and there Council
memberse good good idea
yeah uh so the measure s and t committee
we have Mike on there anyone else
interested the citizen Bond oversight
committee okay
Jen and just for reference that meets
three to four times a year yeah in and
in the evening on like usually Thursdays
try to make it on Thursdays yeah
Bond construction
committee that normally meets there for
a while it was meeting every week right
now um nothing is in motion at this
point in time but once it starts ramping
up it will be every me it will be every
week because it'll be a board item at
every board meeting and I like to have
that representative we haven't pick the
time for that yet okay good so that's
still negotiable that's still negotiable
great still negotiable but
Thursday time won't work so okay okay
that's it'll be
negotiable can you remind me what the
induction what does that entail Wendy
I'm gonna give that to you this is a a
fun Feelgood committee working with
learning about our new teachers progress
and Success Through to meet their clear
credential uh it's up to two meetings a
year uh usually one in the fall one uh
in March for sure that is no more than
two hours we try to keep it to an hour
um and then there is the colloquium at
the end of the year that is a a nice
reflective get together about the
success of the year and and the teachers
progress sure I'll join
that so that is and so Mike are you the
only one on the bond Construction
committee at this point in time at this
point yeah okay
right uh and then the superintendent's
advisory committee that is normally we J
are we doing how many times per year now
we used to meet every
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month four to six meetings a year and
there are topics and there's a
representative from each School site on
that plus Cecilia I do one now in
totally in Spanish but I do that on a
Friday morning and I and Cecilia's the
rep for me since she's bilingual because
all done in Spanish I don't do any
translations in
English but for this one this is the
English
one uh it normally is it a Monday it's a
Monday normally and it go and we start
at six
o'clock we go from 600 to 8 normally and
depending on who's presenting also
be interested in joining
that David
Jen
okay all right uh Workforce housing we
have
Mike all
right okay then I think we're fine with
the exception of the audit commit video
you find being on it by yourself um yeah
I mean if others want to join that's
okay uh it's a once a year meeting where
you just review the audit before it
comes to the board to the board for
things so that if there are any
questions or clarifications that need
prior to it coming to the whole board
meeting once a year I'll do it once a
year yeah although you usually I think
historically you've not had um budget
committee members on the audit one I
don't remember why if that was on
purpose or not you care it doesn't
matter it doesn't matter done
done David
W I will get my I'll wrap my head around
and then while we're here I've done four
years on the lcap um I love the lcap
committee um I'm happy to continue to do
it but it's a good one for I was gonna
say i' well I would love to take it but
I'm also don't want to take
everything you okay D yeah David
Lee David David David on the
outc
okay all right did I miss
any
have perfect all right let's go on to
board Representatives then Redwood City
together that's uh an organization which
is a collaborative among um not only the
Redwood City school district seoa school
district AOA healthc care district there
are a lot of different entities Kaiser's
with us um um sooya uh no Dignity Health
there's other uh the county health is
there there are a lot of different uh
representatives from the county that
make up this
collaborative it meets I think it's
three times a
year um and it's normally on Thursdays
from 9 to 10:30
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good and Cecilia sit on that
too all right um the wells Wellness
committee uh is with our Wellness
director Patrina red and it meets I
believe she has her meetings down now to
just a couple times a year
right yeah two maybe three times a year
and and for a few
hours and she is funded the majority of
of the manner and how she's funded is
through the seoa healthcare district and
there are different initiatives that we
have that move forward in this District
that are under this um Wellness
department and and anyone interested and
they normally meet in the afternoon
since
it's okay
Jen anyone
else it'll just you okay sure okay David
David L all right so the measure you is
just Mike you okay with that yeah you're
fine
I measure measure use the partiel tax um
it goes through what twice a year
uh yeah and uh they just review the um
all the plans you'll you'll see all the
plans come through as as a board member
you're going to see them all on the
agenda anyways because we'll always
approve them usually on consent fact we
have one tonight um and uh they so then
the committee is just the oversight and
they review
it I'm fine okay uh two by two by two so
I know that's
Mike anyone else they we meet anywhere
from two to three times a year it's
normally in the late afternoon it is at
City Hall um it's a pretty grou pretty
good group uh the chief of police who
sits on it
also one of the
Davids or he'll do the you
know they're they're not virtual you
have to be in person is that
okay what days
Norm they always send out this doodle
right and then everybody's all over the
place she handles the
doodle so it's a doodle and and so um
Evelyn takes care of that no set date
it's just whenever people are
available as a combination of both yeah
yeah how much advanced
notice anywhere from two to three weeks
yeah if if everybody completes their
doodle everyone does mine so I have no
worries about that mine s right away
yeah and there are times where we'll
have to do a second doodle because the
times that are sent do not work for
everyone so sounds fun for you guys uh
wait what was the frequency again it's
about three times a year three times a
year I mean I think I could figure it
out but how do you feel I'll let you
that's at some point I'd like to go okay
David
L
okay uh Stanford University rcsd
committee
um we haven't done one really say I was
very excited to join as a Stanford
alumon I don't think we've met once
probably not because and I still need I
need check with Stanford because the
meetings that I go to have to deal with
the collaborative that we're part of
with them and and the collaborative
meets we meet several times a year and
then um all the other pieces with this
group are the relationships that we have
with Stanford um one being mental health
the other one being
um Community Schools and the other one
being long-term English language
Learners so um but it hasn't this this
one has not met this one here oh let me
check into
that and then the Chamber of samon
County Education committee it's every
month it's the wedes first Wednesday of
every month at 12:00 it's all
virtual and I'll point out that
historically you only had one person on
it um Janet when Janet got was worried
that she wasn't going to be able to go
she asked for someone else to join as
well but right so didn't get two or or
stay and then if one can't make it the
other one I know Joan dentler is there
you know Mario was there they always
they're always doing reports from State
legislation and they we always have to
do superintendent out there need to do
education updates what's happening in
the district
they're virtual and I like I said
they're from 12 to 1 they start at 12
and they end at 1 because you know we're
all
busy go
ahead Bas on what Bas on one Mike just
said um they usually is one person is
the second person like the alternative
in case the other person that's to go
they both okay you can both go you have
sometimes you have people from both or
two people from sing or I mean if it's
virtual I could probably do that and
yeah they're all virtual they're not in
person anymore they haven't been in
person since the pandemic okay sure I'll
do that
okay all right I think we got them right
Perfect all right uh let's move on to
the consent agenda um can I have a
motion to approve the consent agenda I
move we approve the consent agenda uh
second
okay all in
favor awesome then we're on
to action items um 12.1 is approval of
the first and term budget wait um just a
second uh we normally would take a break
at nine obviously today we had a huge
break in the middle but I just wanted to
make sure that that's okay with everyone
that we're just gonna I was thinking we
would just power through because we had
the reception in there but I just want
to make sure because okay great let's go
make sure not to take more than an hour
our don't you
dare and can I say something before you
begin yes just because now we don't have
the old board members are we supposed to
vote on how much time we're GNA extend
past 9 o'clock that's a 10 that's a 10
yeah okay see break at nine extension at
10
yeah and I'll try and make sure that I'm
not the reason we have to extend the
meeting um
tonight good evening uh members of the
board tonight uh we are here for the
presentation of the first interim
financial
report slideshow works there we
go uh that goes over our our financial
condition between July 1 and October
31st of our current fiscal year uh This
falls in line with the annual budget
cycle that you see up on the screen uh
highlighted uh at step number four is
the first interim report our annual
budet cycle starts uh at step one with
the budget and lcap adoption which
includes a public Hearing in June uh
going through un audited actuals uh till
we get till tonight starting in January
we'll expect the governor's proposed
budget uh then going into the second
interim report in March uh that covers
expenditures between July 1 and January
31st excuse me and then we start budget
development again to start the cycle
over uh once again in June uh with the
same cycle going forward with the public
hearings uh and the annual
adoption overview of uh the first inum
I'll go through this briefly Education
Code 42 130 requires that we have report
uh for the first inum that cover July 1
through October 31st as I said the
second inum report through January 31st
uh and then if we're in the position
where we self-certify as qualified or
negative at second interim we would then
be required to uh provide for approval a
third interim report uh that covers
through April
30th uh each interim report uh not at
budget adoption uh we do
self-certify uh either positive
qualified or negative
positive means we can meet our financial
obligations in the current plus our two
out years qualified means we may not and
negative is saying that we will not
essentially for that uh so going to the
end of the presentation right now so to
speak uh we are certifying our first
interim report for uh fiscal year 2425
as
positive so as we start this and we go
down this uh we build the budget we look
at first inum and second inum based on
assumptions of the current year uh and
the two out years on here are some of
the assumptions that we Ed in the
creation uh of the first inum I will
note that for 2425 any numbers that
could be updated at this point have been
and incorporated into the first interim
such as District enrollment uh that we
use our number based off of our uh data
day or referred to as ceds day as the
first wednes day in October uh as well
as our unduplicated pupil percentage um
our lcff uh funding Cola remain
unchanged from uh the assumptions that
were made uh in the fall uh our Cal
sters and calp employer contribution
rate to our Retirement
Systems uh The calsters Remains the Same
at
19.1% calers employee rate employer rate
was updated during this time step and
column is traditionally 1.5% which
covers movement on the salary schedules
uh and then as uh people retire or leave
the district uh new employees coming in
with a blended average of about
1.5% our property tax increase uh which
is notable to a district we are a
community funded District uh which is
different than an lcff or local control
funding formula District where our
property taxes exceed meet or exceed the
amount the state would have funded the
district on a per pupil basis so we
closely monitor this our first property
tax report of the
2425 fiscal year uh puts us at about
4.02% increase in property tax so we are
seeing a revenue increase not quite as
high as we uh made the Assumption at
budget adoption of 5% uh we are at this
point uh with the information we have
staying with 5% in our two out years uh
and now will be subject to change uh
likely will not increase uh but would go
down if we have uh better information
when the second inm or budget adoption
comes where we would update those
numbers now going into uh fund 01 which
is also known as our general fund this
is the bulk of our spending in the
school district uh these are the
revenues uh adopted budget uh or first
inum compared to adopted budget uh so
remember that uh the adopted budget uh
the public hearing is in early June the
adoption is in later June uh the Govern
govern's budget the trailer bills all
usually happen right around budget
adoption or a little bit later so we
don't always have all the information at
the time that we're asking our board to
approve the budget uh so with that we
make uh any noted changes uh additions
as well as closing of the previous
fiscal year through the UN audited
actuals process uh and then we take our
expenditures encumbrances to date uh and
add them into our first interim report
so when here on revenues you can see
it's a total we've gone up by about $4.2
million in revenue of note the majority
uh of that money is in the restricted
column right so it's not unrestricted
general fund dollars uh and you can see
that the almost 1% uh difference in our
property tax base lowered our lcff
sources of revenue by about
$650,000 right what's important about
that as we look into our multi-year uh
right we base our multi-year projections
off of the current year so our 5% even
though we're going up in our out years
is going to be a little bit less than
each of those years uh because our
starting number is now
$650,000 less uh Federal revenues uh and
local revenues Federal revenues increase
mainly because of title funds uh a
difference in title funds coming in this
year and local revenues were uh grants
uh that we've received as well as
carryover from the prior fiscal year uh
that makes up the difference of that $4
million to the
positive here's a breakdown of our
Revenue in fund
01 uh breaking out our lcff base uh our
EPA it's our education protection
account uh which is part of the lcff
formula funding
formula uh later on in the year at Bud
adoption you'll see where we've spent
our education protection account money
which is on teacher salaries right so
that goes 100% to teacher salaries our
supplemental and concentration funds
that are uh I'll say uh gained or or
brought through the lcff base uh is
based on our unduplicated pupil count uh
that provides us supplemental and
concentration funds to assist uh the
students that are oftentimes highest in
need that meet our three subgroup
categories uh Federal revenues other
state revenues Lottery is about 1.6
million along with our major up parcel
taxes bringing about 1.6 million to our
school district uh and this year uh at
first intrum uh we are transferring in
8.72 five million from our fund 25 and
we'll talk about that uh in a couple of
slides so here's a a breakdown showing
that about 56% of our money uh comes
from our lcf base uh or about 63 or 64%
in total from lcff uh and then the
percentage breakdown of our other
Revenue
sources going into expenditures uh you
know a big difference of about $8
million compared to uh our budget
adoption in June uh it was primarily in
two areas where those differences uh
came to fruition if you will uh the
first being the CSEA settlement uh that
was board approved in early August uh
that also included retro back to July 1
of 202 23 24 fiscal year uh so those uh
Associated increase in our classified
salaries and employee benefits are
captured in our first interim report and
then the other area with a significant
change was our services and operating
expenses uh of about $4.2 million which
was
predominantly um increases in uh
services for our special education
program so here's uh the breakdown of
our expenditures by
percentage uh showing that you know
nearly 80% of our expenditures are for
our
employees and another uh graphical
representation with uh I'll say a
snapshot of the types of positions or
the types of expenditures that we're
making in each
category uh and once again showing that
if we add employee benefits classified
salaries and certificates certificate
salaries together we're at around
78% uh generally speaking most school
districts in California are somewhere
between 77 and
81% uh at any given point uh based on
their current
expenditures uh here is a Sand Key chart
just showing the fun one snapshot these
are taken directly from our saxs forms
broken down as saxs breaks them down uh
there is another slide in here that
we'll talk about in a minute uh but this
shows the different Revenue sources
against all of the different
expenditures that we have to identify in
sacks as we prepare this for submission
to the county and the state so this
snapshot Legend is really for the next
slide uh that groups some of our uh
expenditures together uh into this slide
which shows our total expenditure budget
of 1514 million uh and then teacher
classroom support uh administrator and
super both certificated and classified
uh General classified support that is
outside of the classroom such as our M
Department custodial
technology uh our benefits books and
supplies and then the bottom two are our
contracted Services also referred to as
our
5000s uh and that's broken out between
uh contracted services for pupil support
so those are approximately 19.5 million
that are going to direct support of
students uh for programs and students's
programs and services uh and then about
9.91 million uh for our other uh
services that we have to pay for uh you
know water garbage electricity turning
on the lights uh that type of
thing so when we look at our uh ending
fund balance uh and the change really
from here is the decrease in our
transfer in from 9.7 to5 million at
budget adoption to 8 . 725 so we're able
to reduce that which we'll still be
working on reducing throughout this
fiscal year through second interim and
through budget adoption we expect that
to uh lower uh I'll say significantly at
this point and we'll know more at second
inm as we go through this uh and you can
see the decrease in ending fund
balance so when we get to multi-year
projections uh the district is required
to do current year plus our two out
years to show fiscal solvency
uh this first slide is our multi-year
projection at budget adoption right so
uh and this is a combined restricted and
unrestricted the other uh attachment on
the board cover uh and that we've
discussed is where it breaks out
restricted and unrestricted but this is
a simpler version to have a discussion
about and to show just overall where
we're at of note on here and really the
only numbers that I'm going to point out
on this one at budget adoption is the
fiscal stabilization plan
uh that's highlighted in very light red
and red numbers uh in June uh we were
projecting uh needed uh cuts and at that
time unidentified of 7 A5 million for
2526 and 4.85 million or
2627 so when we move forward to our
multi-year projection at first intrum
this one is now current uh there are
some significant changes first I'll note
that fiscal stabilization plan measures
are no longer on the multi-year
projection uh we are showing the
transfer of
8.72 this year which I said will reduce
uh the 4.8 and 3.2 in each of the out
years I expect those to probably be Zero
by the time budget adoption comes um as
we've talked about internally as well uh
after we get back from winter break uh
then we start the normal business of the
school year right that we do on an
annual basis between our HR Department
business services along with ed services
uh and of course our superintendent
right getting into a small room
hammering it out then working with our
sites individually working with our
sites together and our departments to
make those decisions that we need to
that we would in any given year uh and
that's taking into account our current
enrollment our projected enrollment kids
we know that are coming um kids we don't
know are coming and kids that we don't
know are leaving yet uh parents and
students are really fast to tell us
they're coming and really slow to tell
us they're leaving uh which creates our
own challenges as we try and project out
uh for our staffing needs for the next
year so that's the work that starts
immediately um we do have those
transfers in we're not calling them
unidentified now because we're back to
kind of a normal place in time the work
uh that uh staff did all of us here our
school sites our principles our student
or School site committees and that was
brought to the board last week for
approval with the um one budget renewal
process that was also approved along
with the PKS that came um really helped
our budget when we look at our
multi-year right not a lot in the
current year uh there was some savings
but really what we did was we eliminated
the onetime funds uh that we had no more
of after this year right so some of
those position that were one time funded
went away through the PKS process and
because of the work done with the school
sites some school sites descended
decided not to do other programs and
services and keep some of those programs
and services but we've accounted for I
would say you know 97 98% right now and
we're still going through it to make
sure that we have 100% of the onetime
money uh eliminated uh from the future
budget right that's going to help us be
more stable uh as we go forward and we
go back to I know I've already said it
once or twice but kind of that normal
process in the school year that we go
through every January and February in
preparation for March and in preparation
for the next school
year uh so with this uh those uh what
was approved last week has been taken
out of our 2526 fiscal year as well as
our 26 27 fiscal year um which
dramatically changes our picture as we
look forward uh to the better right it
doesn't mean we're pretty and clear and
we have no work to do but the work is a
little bit different now uh and we get
to move forward and and try and do the
best we can for all of our students by
providing all the necessary resources
and programs uh both that we want to do
and those that we are legally required
to do and that's the work that
continues so when we go into this you
can see on here uh the ending balance
and each of those out years ass says
combined uh unrestricted and restricted
or unrestricted ending fund balance is
pretty stable or pretty flat through
these
years uh which is really determining
Health uh of our district we are able to
meet the reserve for economic
uncertainty in each of these three years
um at 4 and a half 4.3 and 4.4 million
respectively uh one of the questions
discussions we have is the board
mandated Reserve uh which we're working
towards that again uh we'll have further
discussions with the board about that in
the future uh but as a community funded
District it will be important if we can
start putting money back back into that
in order to have that stability when we
have fluctuations and property taxes um
that we're counting on on an annual
basis uh but don't always materialize
right we're still fortunate that we're
continuing up uh but even you know one
or two% could make a difference if we're
looking at funding positions with that
and keeping programs and services
operable going forward into this this is
our expected balances at the end of 24
25 for funds 12 through 40 uh I will
make note of just one on here uh that's
our cafeteria fund where you see quite a
big difference in comparison to other
years of minus 1.2 million between now
and then a couple things are happening
one we have a large fund balance uh
traditionally in that
um uh fund and we've made a complete 180
in our CNS program this year before we
were Contracting out for the majority of
our service other than our employees at
the school sites uh but we've gone to uh
from uh Contracting out for our food
service to 100% self-operating food
service we are bringing in higher
quality foods uh we are bringing in um
different ways uh from cooking to how
we're doing uh Linens and towels that's
our discussion right now with Food
Services uh trying to rid ourselves a
waste and having higher quality products
even for our staff to use uh so the work
going on there um you know the budget
work there uh the initial outlay of
funds for that but one thing we are
seeing uh and we'll have numbers to
share with the board uh probably late
winter early spring uh we are seeing you
know anywhere between a 15 and 25%
increase in participation rate at school
sites which is huge right on a
year-over-year basis uh which will bring
in more money to the program as well so
we're going to pay more to get higher
quality but we're also increasing our
participation rates which will bring in
more money for the program so right now
we're spending a little bit more than
we're bringing in but if we can see this
continued trend of upward um uh
participation it's a positive for that
program uh and I think we're doing some
really neat things there that we haven't
been able to do in the district before
changes slow but it's making an impact
already
going on uh areas to monitor um as
always we have negotiations that will
start again with both of our bargain
units I believe both in February Wy if
I'm correct um we fully expended the
onetime funds as of this year we've
taken action for that last time but we
still have to make sure we've got
everything we're going through and
checking everything twice so to speak um
enrollments going to be a big one uh and
we'll start that uh as soon as we get
back along with Jorge and his teams
uh on what they're seeing and then
looking at our demographer reports and
making decisions about school sites
classrooms uh and grade levels which
directly Impact Staffing uh and then
we'll eagerly await the anticipated
state budget uh really for specialized
programs and services that it may fund
more so than the lcff cola which will be
included in that uh because of our basic
Aid or Community funded status
so uh next steps the proposed budget our
second report in March and then in the
spring with budget development and then
uh honor and I bringing back the lcap
and the uh budget for public hearing and
adoption respectively I will say before
I turned over for questions I think
we're in a much stronger place than we
were in August or excuse me in June uh
certainly in August as well uh but when
we had budget adoption um the work
that's happened uh the I'll say the
sense of urgency and the thoroughness
that we went through on that uh I can't
understate how important that was uh to
you know eliminate that in future years
that funding and those that and whatever
position came of that right uh and being
able to unfortunately go back to a place
where it's almost pre-pandemic in some
ways in terms of funding uh but knowing
that we brought in a lot of programs and
services and the schools that needed
those programs in service we able to
keep the majority of them uh by making
decisions at the school site level uh
for what their School site needs so um
you know everything could be better but
it could be a lot worse and we're
working towards better every time so
with that Al turn to for any questions
or comments thanks Rick for the
presentation um and thanks I know you
took some time to meet with many of the
board members I don't know if you got to
everybody all of them great beforehand
to sort of dive through that um with a
Tuesday night meeting that must have
been speed rounds over the last two days
so yeah appreciate it and thanks for
adding in the nyp from budget adoption I
think it's helpful to see sort of where
we were and where we are now um with
that I'll uh I'll see if anybody wants
to start David why didn't you start
again you did such a great job the first
time like we'll go we'll go right to you
if you have questions or comments it was
so comprehensive but I have nothing at
the
moment okay
great okay
Cecilia that's be the same thing we
actually spoke this afternoon and so you
know thanks again to you and your team
obviously for doing all this work and
obviously everyone right and BR City
involved so thank you great to see all
the hard work of getting to something
that we can stand by and that um can be
a path forward for stabilized budget for
the for the district something that um
that Rick and I talked about um was just
sort of like refresher for members of
the public that you because we're funded
by property taxes um that funding
increases generally when properties turn
over because property taxes are capped
in their increase year-over-year so we
count on turnover but we've got high
interest rates right now on mortgages
which means the rate at which properties
are turning over is low because not a
lot of people are super excited to
finance a 30-year mortgage at like a 7%
interest rate um looking like rates may
be coming down that could bring up
turnover rates the the actual value of
real estate property seems like it's
ping pretty well terms people want to
live here in the Bay Area Housing stocks
relatively restricted so things have
held their value and I I have some hope
that uh rates will come down and that
we'll be able to see more turnover and
that'll in turn provide more funding for
our school
district yeah the um budget renewal
initiative that that you all ran it was
you know kind of a big significant step
from the budget adoption um to you know
it sort of let's say stabilize it in the
miip so that that was great um so thank
you staff and Leadership and I know it
was pushed out to the sites um you know
of identifying it and and really making
these decisions while keeping student
learning really at the center um student
learning and wellness actually at the
Forefront um and it's encouraging that
it gives us a you know goes back to the
normal kind of planning that you you
keep saying and gives us kind of a
breathing room to really think about
like strategically how we want to deal
with the budget um and so that that's
good um at the same time though you know
we are still deficit spending it's still
predicted to be deficit spending so I
don't think that you know it's always
like you know we have to keep it just
means we have to keep a focus on it uh
and make sure that the diligence is
there and there's probably still room
for further optimizations in the future
um but obviously we don't have to do it
now um and then uh the there's still
room for advocacy for people that want
to get involved uh if you see sort of
the rates of CP Pur notably Cal STS too
in the past uh the state has taken
action to help reduce that burden on on
school districts um and that's an
opportunity to sort of say hey is there
something that can happen there to to
help out for for schools here um anyways
I look forward to you know continuing
these conversations in the future thanks
thank
you this is an action item uh so we need
to approve the interm budget uh do
anyone want to make a motion to approve
it I move we approve the interm budget
so second second all in favor I I
perfect okay board and superintendent
reports
um does anybody have anything to report
we met just last Wednesday um yeah great
perfect awesome just a quick little
thing um so I actually went with Alisa
to Clifford this morning um I'd never
been to a k through eight school before
so that was an interesting experience
for me but that made me think about a
question for Anna um the dashboard is
that just K through five or is that k
through eight it's k through eight for
us do we ever split it that we look at K
through five and look at Middle School
separately um not in the k8s but just as
comprehensive we do we can Jenny would
have to disate just the six to eight to
see the differences um but typically we
get the each school gets their
information as a group a lump of that
information we can disaggregate it a
little bit she gets all the information
she have to disaggregate it um if you'd
like to see it that way okay follow up
with you later I just yeah for me just
seeing a k through eight and also seeing
the difference between an elementary
school and a middle school it's a
interesting kind of
melding Dy week Le is Dr
Baker well I was invited to Henry Ford
last week the kindergarten teachers and
I see Miss barad still on uh three
kindergarten classes were making
gingerbread houses it was really great
to see teachers did a wonderful job of
making sure that everything was ready
for them very well organized and no
chaos no there was none I mean kids were
making their gingerbread houses and went
around and talked to some of them at the
same time and this little guy future
architect and I thought is this a fence
no it's a retaining wall and they
go retain we just had one of those
retaining walls put in several months
ago and I go I know about retaining
walls about the water and I was was not
even thinking the water so great
conversation um but they did a wonderful
job the K teachers in putting that
together they were in the cafeteria uh
right before lunch and kids did a great
job all different types of different
candies that they were putting on
pretzels and so forth it was great it
was did a f fantast fantastic job so a
big shout out to the uh K teachers at at
Henry Ford and you reminded me that you
hosted a wonderful District breakfast on
Friday oh all the staff and so what
reminded me was just seeing the all the
principles that were coming in s and
teachers and sort of spirit wear because
they were all doing seasonal activities
and stuff that was a lot of
fun all right moving on um
correspondence anyone have
correspondence to report um how about
other business or suggested items for a
future
agenda any any changes to the board
calendar there is one January 10th 10
you all have that calendars as site and
it'll be different times and
that's to plan but um we're starting out
with David Lee and Jennifer
first oh we're starting out with uh
David Lee and Jennifer first so from
about 9 we'll go from about 9: to
probably about 11:30 and then with the
others starting at 12 and ending at 3
all of us um I'm trying to see if we can
get the czi
czi on that day so um and then lunch
will be provided like breakfast for for
us and then move
forward so just a note on that I believe
we have a Spanish soup advisory schedule
for the day so we would just have to Res
we're going to resched
okay so this will be a study session
it's going to be an offsite so um I'll
work with um Lauren Lauren to get the
wording for
you all right um okay first meeting is a
new board uh does someone want to make a
motion to
adjourn I move we
adjourn all in favor hi we are adjourned
first meeting