um welcome everybody um we do have a few
members of our audience so let me switch
over okay um
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6.1 um public hearing and discussion oh
wait are we doing the lcap first we are
doing the lcap first um public hearing
and discussion of the local control
accountability plan so we will go ahead
and open the public
hearing okay perfect so miss head I'm
going to turn this portion of the
hearing over to you regarding the
lcap again it's right on my desktop
okay see that's
yeah all
right well good evening everyone um this
is our public hearing for our local
control accountability plan I just want
to um hope you and enjoyed reading the
lcap
as much as I enjoyed writing it and
learning about all the new um all the
new diff uh there's definitely some
differences from last year um and
learning so I do want to say thank you
to all of the team on ed services who
help and some of the documentation
especially in the planning of the lcap
as well as well as all of our advisory
committee um really did appreciate
everyone's
input so as you know this is our local
control this is a new cycle of a
three-year plan and so our lcap as we
all know has provides our goals provides
our goals that then we have to create
actions that then we add our budget
items to it um we are must hold it uh
ourself accountable to any Reds on the
California school dashboard and as you
know we continue with that at schools to
support the sipsa plans who also have to
address those red dashboards so we
revise the the AL cap every year and we
adjust our actions and priorities so we
will be doing that in the next next
spring so just because these are some of
our adoption requirements that we must
hold this meeting uh public hearing to
solicit any recommendations from the
from the public at the same time we're
required to go over our budget overview
for our parents which Rick will do and
then next week we are hoping to be able
to adopt our 24 25 alcat Federal as well
as at our federal dentum next next week
um our budget and the budget overview of
appearance so as you know we had our
alcap advisory committee timeline um we
I met with both our English speaking
families and our Spanish speaking
families we had a total of six meetings
in total um on these advisory committees
we had board members teachers parents
lcap I mean um elac parents deac parents
we had our Union Representatives as well
as some County um supports from Sela and
some District directors who all help
lead um The
Advisory going to go into our highlights
of the 2023 24 school year um which we
have been going over in few over the
over the course of the school
year so for our 2324 annual review the
part of our annual we could see where we
are and where we fall as we know that
the on the area of our sarc we are at
71.8 2% we did have a number of
international teachers come and help
support as well of new teachers as um so
we're hoping next year we are fully
staffed almost fully staffed so we are
hoping to be able to continue to reach
100% so for our 2324 goal number one as
we look at um what our goal was was to
look at our chronic absenteeism we did
have good results from 23 24 although we
didn't meet our 5% goal we did reduce it
from 24.7 to
18.9 and even our all of our subgroups
were
reduced um for our attendance rate um
our rcsd we increased our attendance
rate from 92 to 93.7 again all of our
subgroups were Al increased our goal was
97% so we did not meet that in the
threeyear
cycle uh for suspension rates um we had
a reduction of suspensions from 3.2 to
1.7 overall um most all of our subgroups
had decreased and our goal was to be 1%
again we did not not meet this goal in
the threeyear cycle um that when it was
started and proposed and so for our
panor survey when we're looking at our
climate and how our students are doing
um we looked at our third through fifth
grade we seen that 62% of our
um students um stayed the same in terms
of the beginning of the Fallen winter in
terms of how they felt they were
belonging in school climate 58% stayed
the same in terms of Engagement we had
48% we were down 1% from the fall and in
terms of safety we were down 1% from
61 um for our student teacher
relationships we had 70% we were just
down two so not very much change in 3 to
five in sixth through the eighth grade
and our school belonging we had 34% and
it went down to one uh in the climate
41% went down to 2% in school engagement
24 went down to 1% and our safety they
stayed the same at 51 and our student
teacher relationships was 42% went down
by two so not much change from the fall
to the spring in terms of our Panorama
survey and what our students felt um
about
school so these are areas in which we
have found um about what is you know
we're doing two surveys and not very
much difference very similar to the past
years so in terms of our Alpac we still
are not do not have our full Alpac
results I believe the last Jenny had
checked before last week we were about
80% so we still don't have our year
three outcome of what that score is um
nor do we have our English indicator we
do have we know that we have
reclassified 167 students so we have
reclassified a little bit more um speci
specifically one of the focuses that
Miss R was trying to reca for our eighth
graders before they left because we did
get some good results um and was doing
some of that so I don't have that
current number because they were in the
process still um and so our rate we were
at um we're at 9% and our we didn't
reach our goal of 20%
rate um for that three-year
cycle so some of the highlights for 2023
24 is we did add supplemental curriculum
for English for language power um all
training was provided for all the
schools from K8 our Middle School
actually started a little earlier at the
beginning of the year we had our
newcomers teachers also getting train we
received training from teachers creative
materials to help support students as we
had many staff members um learning new
strategies on how to support our
students we provided financial support
to our unduplicated pupils at at various
sites we initially only had some a
specific science but because we did have
a large amount of families we want to
make sure all families attended so we
supported as many students as possible
um in terms of our B biliteracy
recognition we had 28 eighth graders who
got recognized um Spanish and Mandarin
this year at the eighth grade ceremonies
and as you said earlier had about 169
students and so Katherine is still
needing to update that
number in terms of go three I realized I
did not add the data from go three um on
here so I'm going to just go over it
really quickly in terms of our cast
reading
scores um we were at in June um we were
at
44.7% of students who were proficient or
Advanced and for our English Learners
and language we're only at 5% though um
and so for our rfep students we were at
49% if our for our ass associate
economically disadvantaged we were at
15.6% and then for students with
disabilities we're at 16 again that was
our
reading um we did not meet our goals uh
in the three-year cycle of 75% which was
overall in terms of our math um our
preliminary results show that we're at
37% of students who
um it just went blank on me 37% of
students who um exceeded um met or
exceeded but our English Learners are at
7% um our rfit was 28.7 and our
socioeconomically disadvantaged at 16.8
and students would dis at
13.5 again our goal was about 75%
overall which we did not meet in that
three-year
cycle um and so as we had seen already
previously in I ready we knew that in I
ready we had seen previously um earlier
that we had not met that goal either
so in terms of our goals and looking at
our Sciences so we also had a science
and science is going to be on the
dashboard in a couple of years as well
in two years so we went we're at 34% of
our students have met or exceeded in
fifth grade and in e8th grade we had
28.5 so a little bit more down from the
previous year again these are all our
preliminary um but some of the
highlights in terms of our data although
we we didn't meet we did do a do um we
had a number of new initiatives as you
know our K5 staff um we learned how new
assessment bpst we had our second and
third grade classes as well using hegr
foundational skills we had the new
curriculum the illustrative math in our
K8 we had our language power um we had
our special education teachers as well
using multiple professional development
for them throughout the year they had
new foundational skills curricul sips
and they also had six sixth to e8th
grade had read 180 so we had a number of
new curriculums this year that really um
provided our teachers with the ability
to learn new skills and provide more
supports for our students although we
didn't meet the goals there is a lot of
work that's being
done um as you know the majority of all
of our schools had steam teachers this
year as well as music and the middle
schools at Clifford had and middle
school students at Clifford had
accelerated math and that will continue
you um our reading intervention teachers
all of them use sips curriculum for
foundational skills that was purchased
um third through fifth grade use youly
for an intervention to support students
who had not mastered some foundational
skills um and so we also had tutoring we
had 40 teachers tutoring their own
students throughout the year we had cap
tutoring there was at six sites this
year and the a majority of students made
growth in either Ela and math and moving
those L levels on I ready
okay so in for our new goals so now in
recap of our new goals this all of you
have seen this we have our goals for
mostly about social emotional support at
the as a broad goal so we have our two
main goals of chronic absenteeism and
suspensions we want to be able for our
chronic absenteeism in a year we want to
be able to by 202 we want to decrease 3%
each year specifically we need to focus
in on a afan American students is
they're one of our Target groups that
are in red and our English Learners that
are specifically at Clifford and Henry
Fort so we those are Target skills that
we have to
address and for suspensions we want to
be able to improve by reducing 2% each
year specifically again one of our
dashboard um subgroups is
African-Americans and our students with
disabilities socioeconomically
disadvantaged and English learning so
those are areas areas in which we need
to reduce in the next 3
years so this is our Baseline I know
they're super small um but we're
starting off in our attendance rate
currently as a district we're at
93.7% um English Learners are at
92.3 and now we are adding our long-term
English Learners because it's a new grp
subgroup of English Learners and they
are at
93.4 we have our homeless that are 91.6
our foster youth are at
90.4 um social socio economically
disadvantaged at 93 and our social
disabilities at 92.1 and our
African-Americans are
91.7 so as you can see we're long way
away from reaching
97% which is our state goal right that's
where we want to be but we have a long
ways to go we've made
improvements um but definitely a lot of
work um for our chronic absen very
similar but as a districtwide we have
about 18 .9% of our students are
chronically
absent um the majority of those as you
look at this we have our English
Learners at 26.6 our long-term English
Learners at
20.5 our homeless at 30.4 Foster 33.3
are socioeconomically disadvantaged of
23.8 and 26% for students with
disabilities and as you can see our
highest is our African-Americans at 35%
so this is one of our areas to work on
in terms of suspensions again we need to
make sure oops
sorry not sure why this coming out there
um and we as an overall on our district
and I think something is hovering that
number I can't read
that I will have to it's probably on our
LC cap um but our largest number in
terms of suspensions again is long-term
English Learners at 5
.6% and our African-Americans at 5% so
we have a lot of work to do in terms of
suspensions and working with our
students and so in terms of our Panorama
as we just stated earlier you have seen
those that's that's our Baseline for the
starting year um we are lucky we have no
exposion rates and now we also have to
add a middle school dropout rates and so
if you look at our Middle School dropb
we have 0% right now that means students
who've gone on to high school and that
are currently School so that's a new
area that's we have to add this
year so these are the area schools in
which we need to work with in terms of
high absenteeism in terms of their
sipsas and in terms of the alap so you
can see we have a lot of schools on this
for uh in terms of chronic absenteeism
for our English Learners our students
with disabilities our socio economically
disadvantaged we have students who have
right and two or more races so we have a
number of schools in which we need to
work with um to improve and for
suspensions again same uh group
subgroups English Learners students with
disability
Hispanic um and
African-Americans so there's a number of
of um suspensions we need to work and to
reduce at all of these
sites so what are we doing for 2425 so
we're going to be continuing with PBIS
we have a new cohorted group of of
schools that are coming on we have three
that stay on and three that are coming
on is new it's a two-year cycle we're
going to be continuing to outreach to
our families um for that are
experiencing chronic absenteeism
specifically our unduplicated pup pupils
we continue to support our community
schools rep laer on Services we are
going to continue with mental health um
we're continuing with class-based
behavior supports from and opportunity
school as an alternative to suspensions
our homeless students we want to
continue to focus on them and we're
continuing to build out our mtss system
that's monitoring um all of what we're
doing in order to improve as well as
create provide Behavior specialist which
we've done so some of the new actions
for us in this new year are we will be
having I believe I I put three here but
I think there's two schools that we
probably newal curriculum wayfinder um
we also have um a grant that will be
providing some support for trauma Based
training for for these specific schools
Kennedy Hoover and Garfield um and Taft
so they will be undergoing some trauma
based with Miss Miss Griffith we also
have added Thrive counselors who are
working with some of our homeless
families to really find um support them
in finding resources again that's
through a grant um we have our new
monitoring system for uh mtss we had
educ climber so we're now moving on to
power sco analytics and we for our
Behavior specialist we used to have two
we're moving down to one next year and
some
BTS so for goal number two this again is
our English Learners our goal is that by
2027 that we'll have 50% of our second
to eighth grade English Learners will
progress at least one level or more on
the Alpac each year as measured by Alpac
um we want our increase our
reclassification rate by 20% and we want
to decrease our ltels by 10% so again we
have schools that that are highlighted
with our subgroups of English Learners
um in which we need to make sure we are
supporting our Clifford Garfield Hoover
Roosevelt and Henry
Ford so again we don't have the results
yet from all of the Alpac um these are
just tenative scores we were still this
was on only 82% the 30% 32% of our eel's
progressing at least one level um so you
could see that there's still some work
to be done that was 22 23 sorry in May
24 May 2024 we had 40% so we've had some
growth there our rfet rate went to 9%
our ltels are at 27% and then we had our
Panorama survey with our families as
well um so this is a new area in which
we need to report on we have to have a
family survey information as to how our
families are feeling about our schools
so you can see here for we had 1,98
families respond about about 70% of our
population we had 77% favorable academic
care as well as school safety we had 76%
favorable School climate 58% of cultural
awareness and our lowest was 25% of
family engagement so an area again to
work
on so for 2425 we want to continue the
following actions we had in 2324 it's
continuing um our academic planning for
Success looking at how we're bridging
our families to high school we're going
to continue with supporting our families
with Outreach with Spanish speaking
families we're providing them additional
supports through various means through
homelessness through all of them however
they're unduplicated because they fall
into different areas we want to make
sure we're continuing to with our
newcomer student support systems just in
a different way at specific schools and
then we're really trying to work with
our sped department on the duly
identified students um and we're
continuing to program monitor through
our
elevation so one of the actions that
we're doing next year is a lot of
professional development around English
Learners and multilingual Learners um so
we have a series of PD that will be
coaching at specific School sites um so
our professional development will be a
coaching series which is also part of go
three um in which we have we're
partnering with Stanford's the sixth to
eighth graders and then we have TCM
which is partnering with third through
fifth grade and then we have them also
working at our atsi schools and CS with
the
coaching uh for English
learners for go three our goal is that
by 2027 we want to move um up in I ready
we want to have our students be at 4%
each year so that they can either exceed
growth in ela and math but for our calf
data we want to make sure our English
Learners are me and exceeding in the LA
to 20% because right now we're very low
and math to
16% so these are all of the schools in
the subgroups which have high absentees
and subgroups that are not doing well on
our cast data so as you can see our
English Learners our students with
disabilities are Hispanic and socio
economically
disadvantaged um are African-Americans
and white and are two or more races so
lots of schools lots of areas of need in
terms of language arts and math
so again these are our metrics our I
ready growth um we have our alel in
there which are 50% meeting 47% for
English learners but as a district we
are at
53 um for I ready math we're at 46 as a
district we are 42% for English Learners
and 45% lels and then our African
Americans are 50% meeting and exceeding
but then we go down to Casp and you see
a big difference um as a dist District
we're at
44.7% our English Learners are only at
5% and our lels at 3% so vast different
from I ready this year African-Americans
are 31% and students with is 16% so
quite a difference from where we were at
last year in terms of our I ready so
they're not last year our I ready was
sort of matching our cast data and it's
not this year um so you can see that in
math our district at
37% um English Learners at seven elel at
2% African-Americans at 24 and of
disability at 14 so lots of areas um in
which we need to focus on for next year
and then our science as I stated earlier
we went down we still don't have all the
data for English Learners or lels in
terms of
science
okay so our focuses for our goal three
is really looking at our professional
development um we continue with
supporting all of our teachers and
having staff we have our standard-based
materials um our Focus this next year is
really looking at our instruction and
really working on small group
instruction and ongoing monitoring we
want to make we continue to provide the
lower class sizes in K2 um and at our
high priority sites we continue to
support them with the instructional
assistant as well specifically for our
CSI and atsi schools for
academics um we we are providing
Staffing to support their k8s and
providing a full curriculum with an
Outreach to all of our unduplicated
pupils as well as we're continuing to
work with special education and making
those inclusive practices and of course
as you know we continue with um building
out our TK program and our Extended
Learning Time with summer school as well
as after school care so again the PD
next year will be very it will be
focused heavily on English Learners as
well as contining with math in the
K5 um and we still have the pilot
happening for Middle School we are next
year one of other things we're providing
coaches to high priority schools to
support tier one but we are also doing a
coaching series supporting our coaches
learning to coach a little bit more in
planning with our teachers next year as
well so it's a big
Focus so as you see this is our
contributing actions table I know Rick
will go over a little bit more of that
on the
budget can I just say yeah you sure can
go for it so on on this table uh the
work that we completed this week
actually and it will be updated in the
final version the contributing actions
are actually at
13.44% now which exceeds the requirement
of
13333 uh with a total plan uh total plan
contributing expenditures of 10 million
359,000 and some change so uh we went
through and made sure that all the
contributing actions were marked
correctly at that point we're still
going to go through it again uh but we
were able to meet the minimum uh
percentage of planed and improv
Services we've been working up to this
till
today um so all of our allocation again
just as a quick reminder of who are our
unduplicated pupils and what are the
percentag uat at each of our school
sites as you can see Hoover has the
highest at 98% Garfield is Right
following right under 97.5 then we have
MIT and Taft um and then we have in our
60 to 70 we have Roosevelt Henry Ford
adalante and Kennedy and then Clifford
46.5 or 38 and Roy clous and Northstar
so you can see this is where our
population of unduplicated pupils
are so our next steps is for next week
we hope to be able to adopt our new
alap um and submit this to the county
office I know I just realized that qu in
any questions on the
elcap I mean what's the procedure here
because it's the public hearing part do
we do we do discussion during it as well
you can do discussion during it also I
don't know if there are any public
comments at this point in time but maybe
so is this one for this item
is this for is this C is this on this
item or is it
different
do so why don't we do that when we get
to the budget that but we can this one
is soly on LC cap oh for l cap okay
um thank you if you can um turn on the
the mic too is it it's still three
minutes even
when okay so you have three minutes okay
hi good evening uh great presentation
I've been coming lately to come and see
who you are and then to speak with you
guys with
respect um what I see over here a great
presentation and then I'm trying to
learn over here how can I uh get uh help
for my daughter that she's an English
learner that she's a
struggle and she's uh she's going to
seventh grade and she's a Kennedy that's
is one thing and then uh I'm try to
learn and so that how can I approach you
guys and and to ask the right and the
proper way the other thing what I see
over here the African-Americans were
shown that they are very struggle right
and then so I just as I sitting over
here
hearing how what uh how should I say how
the district is GNA work to improve
those numbers up for the
African-American and the and the
Hispanics there I saw there in the chart
thank
you are you talking about the terms of
suspensions or absenteeism or both well
or
academics yeah I would say everything
because if you see it they the Hispanics
the African-American more the
African-American they were on the chart
that they for some reason they are
struggling to me all those goals and I'm
wondering what the school what the
district would do to make sure to be we
with the district over we here the city
how equally would everybody be on the
same
plane thank
you answer so I think some of the things
that we are doing in the district is we
do have for for example for um in terms
of uh chronic absenteeism because we
have a lot in our African-Americans and
our Spanish speak our English Learners
which are kind of high so we do have a
lot of Outreach with our MTS cyoas and
this year we've gotten uh we find to our
protocols on how we're outreaching to
parents as well as doing home visits and
trying to create a plan for them to come
back into school so we do have students
who have maybe some anxiety issues we're
also trying to give them more supports
um so that they can return to school
because we do have a number of students
who are chronically absent for many days
at a time for various different reasons
so part of that is what working with the
families
individually okay so we have our tosas
our MTS every school has a tosa who
works on attendance at each of the sites
that c calls families as well as Kennedy
has a community school coordin who also
supports in that endeavor and then in
terms of academics and um English
Learners we are putting a lot into our
next professional development next year
for all of our students because what you
do for one group of student is going to
help everybody so we are bringing in um
some support systems to teach work with
our teachers in terms of coaching and
ter of planning for our all of our
students um and making sure that they're
using different a variety of strategies
to help all of our students and build
vocabulary so one of the areas that
we're finding for many of our English
Learners is the lack of vocabulary
development in some of our students who
what they need in terms of reading um
and math because math today in the exams
that they take they have to be able to
read right and so you have a middle
schooler you know what the math is like
in Middle School so we need to make sure
that they have Proficiency in Reading to
be able to understand what is asked for
them in reading so we're working a lot
on making sure our teachers are prepared
in planning and supporting all of our
students next year
okay that's that's great uh because uh I
think uh you mentioned
U like my daughter she get a panic and
stuff like that and that's why she's a
struggle and she is not able to be uh at
at other level other students so that's
why I always curious to see okay what is
the steps to improve on that and what
the uh so the families and everybody
knows uh I want to add a little bit if
you could uh like for the elpac elpac
the Kennedy I found
the the meeting for the family to to
learn like for me the meeting for the
PAC is uh there were on on the website
at 3 3:15
p.m. I found like is is it's not helping
I work everybody I assume it
works it's hard to meet that line to
come to participate on that I went the
other day the last meeting they had I
asked the lady on the front desk and I
said I'm here for the meeting she said
oh she looked at the computer she said
okay Library I went to the library I see
it in the library for one hour
no one came to me to say what are you
doing over here or say hey the meeting
has been cancelled no one so that's why
I'm like okay I need to put myself over
here is a little nerve breaking to me
but I had to do it for my kids and the
community I I I I'm part of the
community and I want to do whatever can
thank you thank you thank you for
sharing I know you and I spoke last week
or last time we were here
just a
comment so the family engagement is
going to have to be a really big piece
next year and I'm sure that uh I know
Anna we just can't do it all ourselves
so we're going to probably have to tap
some of our toses and and and Michelle
Ramon because there aren't enough of us
that can go out and especially to the
engagement that he's looking for in
Spanish I mean
bring Cecilia with us to help us but um
that is something that's really going to
have to we'll have to look at and and
really try to move that needle in that
in that manner
gra can can I add um sir I want to say
uh my name is Alisa hi I I want to say
thank you very much for coming um I
appreciate that you know you care about
your daughter and you want her to do
well in school and I'm speaking sort of
on behalf of any parents who might be
listening tonight and the importance of
being engaged and you know it's at the
end of the school year so it's hard for
us to do anything at this point because
everybody's going off unbreaks and we'll
be coming back you know in a what six
weeks or so and teachers and others will
start their professional development and
get ready but my encouragement would be
that you and your daughter engage then
at Kennedy and again I'm saying this for
any parent in your same shoes because
clearly we have a number of students
that are struggling in different ways
right um and so my recommendation and
we've talked about this as a board you
haven't been to every board meeting so
you don't get to hear this is that you
know you and your daughter work with the
teachers um the principal the community
school coordinator those at the school
sites you could reach out and make some
appointments um I'm sure we could help
you if we have his name and contact
number and set your daughter up for
success for next school year and really
make sure that she has the supports that
she needs and we have a lot of you know
additional programs we have sort of the
academic day and we want to make sure
she's set up for Success there so
working with her teachers what else does
she need to do to either catch up or
engage and be ready to go um there may
be some tutoring or things like that
that we could help with or some online
tools and then I would also say you know
after school programming um maybe there
are some options there extended day
learning I don't know at this point if
we have some summer school options but
you know certainly we want to help your
daughter we want to help any of the
students out there that are struggling
and especially those who are saying hey
I you know I'm ready I I want to work
with you let's work as a team let's make
this happen so um thank you for for uh
being brave and courageous and and being
here we really appreciate we need to
hear from you because this will help us
do a better job so it's pretty clear I
apologize that nobody got to you in the
library clearly there was a
miscommunication and we want to do
better so um we will do that I know that
everybody's taking notes up here um but
I hope that we can uh re-engage with you
and your daughter and and
um help her be successful next year so
thank
you
so sorry um
gracias so I said thank you and of
course I was going to translate to you
guys so I told him I was very proud he's
one of our deac uh representative and as
we spoke we need to hear their voice and
do definitely um you know it's it's good
to hear from him and everybody is trying
to make the best to make our students
succeed um but again when you when we
don't hear from the community you know
we need to hear from that community in
other words so you ask him to bring more
parents and ask yes to bring more
parents everybody bring a friend yes
please keep coming please bring your
friends so thank you for speaking up and
hold us accountable for making sure that
everyone in the Community gets good
education if it' be okay if I could
share the budget overview for parents as
part of the lcap
presentation uh and then hand it back
over for questions or
whatnot she has a speaker cartoon for a
different there they
right so up on the screen is the budget
overview for parents which is included
uh as part of the lcap I will note that
we do not create this document it is
automatically generated so there are uh
you can't read some of the stuff uh on
the
graph um thank you California Department
of Education literally it's populated so
you can't even make changes no and it's
an image that's generated so I can't go
in and edit it without creating a whole
another graph representing
this yeah but it's written on the B um
in the first chart uh what it shows is
uh approximately $98 million are being
received by Redwood City School District
uh under the local control funding
formula of which
10 uh2 million uh are uh destined for
supplemental concentration grants to uh
help our students most in need uh on
that picture the other slices are the
federal funds state funds and other
local funds uh scrolling down uh when we
look at budgeted expenditures in the
outc cap and this is one of the things
that I had mentioned previously about
the contributing actions table uh we
have 143 million uh in budgeted
expenditures that we'll talk about U at
the budget public hearing uh and right
now 67.3 are identified in the LC cap of
that 143 important to note special
education uh which is approximately $30
million next year uh is not included in
the ELC cap right so uh as we start
adding up the layers of that we can see
how we get to 143 million but we are
going to uh check these numbers to make
sure that the expenditures everything is
checked correctly uh for giving credit
to uh lcff and to the
lcap uh on the bottom of this page
increase or improve services for high
need students uh right now in the uh
lcap uh we have identified
10359 million
of expenditures for our highest need
students which
exceeds uh the supplemental and
concentration Grant of
10272 million do on that uh there's no
neat graph for that slide or for that
information uh on the bottom uh the last
page of this uh this is for 2324 or
current school year uh what was budgeted
uh and what we uh our actuals un audited
estimated actuals at this point of
23,25 969 which shows we spent in excess
of the 15 millionar that was budgeted
this is another section that we're going
to check we know that we are above 15
million we just want to make sure that
that number is correct uh and we'll
bring that back uh at a future meeting
if uh if we determine that before next
week it'll come back next week if not
it'll come back in the fall uh if we
need to make any adjustments to that
number and certainly at the midyear
review um uh in January uh as
needed and that is the budget overview
for parents that is included in the AL
thank
you um are there any
other
comments or questions or questions Yes
actually yeah thank you uh thanks for
the presentation Rick and Anna and for
um the committee that worked on it um
for our speaker tonight for talking
about the needs of our emerging
bilingual student
um I I did have a couple like clarifying
questions on this um first I'm going to
start with that goal goal three I didn't
it says that only 4% are supposed to
reach the reclassification that that's
supposed to be 4% per year right and
that's going to be updated I before we
approve it next week okay great so then
yeah and I I know I asked this in email
so I just wanted to um just to hear the
answer again but the so the target rates
the target outcome rates will that also
change to reflect a 4% increase okay
because then I just noticed as we were
presenting it tonight that the year
three outcomes for goal
one like if it's a 3%
Pere decrease in chronic absenteeism and
a 2% per year increase in attendance it
didn't look like um that was reflected
in those numbers either so I'm assuming
that that'll get updated for for example
the attendance rate was
93.7% districtwide Baseline and then the
target year three is 95.7 but that
should be higher right if it's if it's
2% per year I I'm just wondering if all
this stuff is going to get a once over
before we approve it
okay um cool and then the family survey
that's added into uh goal two first of
all I think it's you know great that
we're continuing with um a high level
goal like the focus goal of really
focusing in our emerging bilingual
students I really think that that's just
an important goal for the district and
I'm I'm really you know I just I'm proud
that we're a district that has it as one
of our top three goals um but that
family survey that's just the families
of that only includes the families of
the emerging Bing students right okay
that's all
families that's everybody that includes
it okay oh that's interesting that for
that one they need it it's oh just
somewhere in the LC cap we have to have
it covered
okay okay okay cool that's interesting
to see and can I just ask a followup
question that just because it'll make
more sense if I think if I so yeah
because I was curious on when I looked
at the family numbers I think I wrote it
down that we only had you know 177% of
our families had responded so the 177%
would be of our total parent population
okay right and I we don't we don't have
a way through that because it's fairly
Anonymous we we wouldn't be able to tell
like who are the emerging bil lingual
parents and who are yeah okay that's
what I thought so it's sort of an
interesting thing that it's in
here but it's not going to necessarily
help us dial in I mean what you could do
I suppose is look at schools and we know
where we have higher percentages of
unduplicated count so because they do
tell you which school they're at because
the schools are getting that data per
school um anyway it was just I I had a
kind of a similar thing of you know how
how will that data be used by US to
really distinguish between the different
because I because I do think a lot of
the data what really helpful seeing all
the different subgroups because then it
helps us really dial in on on which who
are the groups we need to be working
with right and what kind of
interventions or extra programming we
need to do but anyway with that one it's
just a little more complicated right so
anyway thank you for asking because that
was one of my sort of just yeah anyway
thank you thank thank you for letting me
spound on that cool and then this is
something else that I hadn't realized
when I was reading the document over the
weekend but you you kind of pointed out
was that that I ready didn't match to CP
um and I don't know if we have theories
yet or if we can understand because I
just remember last year like it was a
really good kind of indicator of the
cast performance um don't need you know
just something' be interesting to follow
up at some later later time to to see if
we have any theories um that was kind of
interesting we are G to follow there is
especially one school because we were
meeting with the principles this week
um Warren Cedar said you know my third
graders did really really well on I
ready when it came to gas I don't know
what happened and my fifth graders did
poorly in I ready and cast They
interesting head it out of the park yeah
they says something is wrong something
is wrong so we it it brought me to think
after that conversation with him we need
to look at it again and I know we're
looking at other assessments because
we're not sure but we just have not we
checked with other school districts for
what they're using and how it is in how
it correl reles with right the cast but
we haven't gotten there yet to really
determine if we're going to go in
another manner have we asked I we've got
a contract right
hey we met I met with I we have another
meeting tomorrow um one of the things
that we have seen and I asked is are you
seeing other districts Plateau because
that's where we are we're plateauing and
they said yes they are they're also
seeing the same thing I don't know their
results on cast are similar to ours but
definitely we said you know in the last
three years we're seeing a plateau we're
not seeing any movement in terms of what
is happening so they are making some
changes in terms of the Middle School
curriculum um and the lessons that
they're doing sort of like an
intervention type um plan or lessons in
the Middle School not necessarily in the
elementary so they are trying to
differentiate what's happening in sixth
seventh and eth grade versus what's
happening in the primary grades um but
they're they're in still in Pilot phase
of making those changes but they are
seeing the same thing across um the
state as what they said so they're also
seeing that yeah and I kind of missed
that in reading the you know the doc
before it wasn't really until you kind
of presented it I was like oh wow that
looks different because we've already
looked at you know most of this dat none
of most of this data except for the cast
we've already reviewed and looked at
with through I ready through our
absenteeism data our panoram survey um
so I think we already knew the you know
the year reflection the annual update um
before it was presented here and so
there was nothing surprising there um
you know it's uh I'm glad that this this
version of the lcap is making more you
know annual goals that are going to be a
little bit easier to track and follow
and feel a little bit more right sized
um it seems like the goals were a little
bit too much of a stretch especially
coming out of a a global pandemic in the
previous version of the lcap because we
missed on I think on almost every single
one of them uh so great thanks for the
work yeah thanks so much um it's a lot
of data and you know I love data um that
said it's hard when a lot of the data is
grim um I I love our structure that
we're using to approach this uh I love a
lot about our approach our focus on you
know K to2 The increased data that we're
getting there on literacy progress The
increased investment that we're making
in Reading Specialists and tracking um
really important that we get the whole
student population fully English
literate by the end of third grade um so
just really seeing that explicit focus
on that is important given that Els are
more than a third of the students in our
district um in that light it's really
distressing to see that the percentage
of Els making meaningful forward
progress went from 55% to 40% right so
this is these numbers are going the
wrong direction um which is really
frustrating and certainly the some of
the Panorama survey results were also
frustrating to see that less than a
quarter of our middle schoolers felt
like they were engaged uh with their
with their school um
and where where I struggle is like I I I
want to come up with the Silver Bullet
answer and then we just need to do X
everyone right and then we we've got a
nice answer but I I don't have anything
like that in my pocket and I I feel like
the district is trying to be very
thoughtful about our approach there and
so I I want to applaud the
thoughtfulness in the structure at the
same time is you know candidly assessing
that the numbers aren't good and don't
seem to be moving in the right direction
which doesn't give me confidence that
just continuing forward we're going to
be able to hit some of these goals that
we have we have good goals they're the
right kind of goals that to have here um
but I just I feel a fiduciary duty to
say like
um if we've been doing a lot of things
that sound really good but they're not
getting us the results that we need what
is the change of appr approach that
we're planning on taking that will get
us to the results that we need here um
because we can't just keep on keeping on
and and expect to get to get get to good
outputs here
um so you know in terms of the focus on
Els it's great um I I think there's a
couple different things that we know uh
help uh a population like that more
tutoring great teachers with excellent
professional development engaged
families finding better ways to engage
the El families would would be great and
I I can see the focus on professional
development which is great um and I
think the acknowledgement of like
literacy is the root for all the other
subjects including math is something
that districts on board with and and
seeing as well so um yeah not sure what
to say I I appreciate having the data
even if it's showing me something that
I'm not happy to see and um I I wish I
had more explicit concrete guidance for
the course correction that we need to
make but I I'll just say that like it
feels like we we do need a a course
correction and thank you for all the
work that went into preparing these
hundreds of pages of documentation it's
a lot of hard work the other thing that
we need to acknowledge is you know we
are looking at this data and when you
look at the data I know Michelle is
working with the community school
coordinators the MTS to has and all that
yesterday no today and tomorrow and
they're looking at it and what we need
to start looking at is to concentrate on
that cohort because you you made a
comment that you want everybody to be El
proficient by third grade is that I'm
not sure if that's the comment you made
but it sounded like it you know that's
not going to happen if a child enters in
this District at second grade there's no
way that by the time they're at third
grade they're going to be proficient in
that manner where you what you just said
so it takes a period of anywhere once
you enter anywhere from three to five
that's the research and we've got the
data to show you if you want to see it
it's sure sure but I think we can caveat
that like we were all students that
enter in TK or k we want them fully
English proficient by the end of I to I
totally agree I agree with that but I
just wanted to make that one comment
that when they come in and they have not
been with us and here they are in second
grade there's no way they're going to
get there and they well they need to be
coming to school right because if you
look at the data then for some of those
same subgroups they have the high rates
of chronic apps and ISM and if you have
high rates of chronic apps and t t ISM
for tkk one two you're not going to be
ready by third grade right so there yeah
so anyway I feel your same frustration
because I look at this and I know we
have all these different programs and
stuff and there's so much that goes into
all of this and I interrupted you so let
I'll let you keep going
but but I want to see that the cohort
data is what I want to look at I want to
look at those kids that are right now
that have been with us TK wouldn't have
started right three years no they been
with us since kindergarten and they're
at third grade okay where are they
that's what I really would like to see
and they were they could be eel's and
maybe they could be rfet kids at this
point in time I mean I have to believe
that if we start getting more or all of
our students in TK so they come to us in
fourth grade and if they actually show
up on a regular basis so they not
chronics chronically absente ABS absent
and we have all of these new things that
we put in that I think will get better
this is really kind of you know maybe
year two for a few of them year one for
some of them I new curriculum new
instruction practices new literacy sorts
of things um that I have to believe in a
couple years we are going to start to
see a lot of those benefits I
mean otherwise I mean I mean I I do feel
like all of you professionals have done
so much research in terms of what works
and we we know it works in the ideal
setting right with but you have you know
that's why we need engage parents right
we need to make sure that parents and
Guardians are getting their students to
to school and then of course we need to
make sure that the teaching is great
that's why I love the idea of the
coaching um you know we've done a lot of
professional development we've done some
coaching but I think more coaching would
be great I know Dr Baker you talked
about um with me at least on the
oneon-one I don't know if all the board
members have heard that but your ideas
that you you've been doing it all along
but going to do it even more so next
year with your teams of Administrators
going out and really yeah I've been
talking to about the new the new manner
of how we are going to evaluate yeah
because I just want to say I mean I
think we all we look at this data and we
hear from a parent that I think
represents a lot of the parents in our
district and we know that we have a lot
of students who are struggling and we
need to do better and we're trying to do
better and we have a lot of things going
on and I do feel like pre pandemic we
were seeing an upward trajectory and we
don't want to keep blaming the pandemic
but it really did set us back I mean and
I feel like we're kind of starting from
where we were at you know several years
ago with that said we've also added a
lot of new things and then I also just
want to add that I totally agree with I
think if we can come up with more money
for the tutoring you said that the Caps
tutoring it does show some progress
whether it's caps tutoring in other
words I think some of these students
they just need some more one-on-one or
super small group instruction and in the
larger setting of a classroom they get a
little small group instruction but
they're not getting as much as they need
if we really want to move them I mean
that's my opinion and and I think we
know that people pay a lot of money to
get tutoring because it works right yeah
I mean we we we know from Decades of
academic research that tutoring is
devast inly effective um so just the the
more that we can throw that at a
population that needs it and find ways
to to accommodate um the better and
there may be some new options that are
available to us with AI tutors that are
multilingual to help supplement not to
replace humans but to help supplement
the education opportunities that we're
giving these folks um we also know that
for this population they are School
dependent the quality of the instruction
that they get from their primary
teachers the number one determinant of
their long-term academic performance the
other things can help like improved
curriculum but those are all secondary
relative to the quality of instruction
that they get from their primary teacher
who's responsible for them in the
classroom so a focus on what we can do
to make sure that our our very best
teachers and that we that we're
recruiting the best of the best and
we're getting them associated with the
priority schools in particular is I
think ultimately going to be how we're
going to move the needle for for this
population so I think if there's more
that we can do to review uh teacher
quality there and to help encourage
great teachers to go and teach at these
schools that are long tenured as well
experienced professionals um I I think
that would really move the needle for
us just on this topic I I just want to
say one thing about staying the course
is that we do have to give things
sometimes to to take in we put in a lot
of changes and I'm going to say this
hyperbolic I know that you don't you
didn't really mean this but like we're
not going to see a curriculum change in
one I ready cycle um you know from one
test to the next it's going to take a
couple years for that to happen so I do
think we have to be mindful about where
we're putting in change we put in in my
opinion a lot of change this year with
adopting two curriculums through K
through five um and I that is going to
take a couple reps to get through and be
able to make sure that it learns and see
that so while we should be looking for
um you know it's not going to be
instantaneous and so I I do think that
there are places where we do want to
stay the course having had made D change
yeah totally and I I want to emphasize
I'm not suggesting like hey it's been
one year in the new curriculum let's go
try another curriculum I what I'm saying
is like I think we've picked the good
curriculum I think we've made some great
upgrades I I think it's probably going
to take a few years to fully realize the
benefits of that that's not going to be
a single cycle and I am skeptical that
even the fully realized benefits of the
highquality curriculum that we've picked
is going to radically transform the
numbers that we're seeing here I think
they're going to be a nudge in the right
direction I I have no regrets about what
we picked about how we picked it um I I
and I don't think we we likely to be
able to find more lwh hanging fruit
there of uh some other tweak that we do
to the curriculum that sort of like
magically gets us to Great numbers um I
think it's a secondary thing I think the
primary thing is the the quality of
instruction that they're getting from
the teachers
so just to address it that's why at some
of these schols we do have specific
coaches this year at those sites daily
because we do know that to move that we
do need the teachers are doing all they
they're doing a lot and they've learned
a lot but when it takes the planning so
that's why we have dedicated coaches at
many of our sites um to do and start
planning and supporting the teachers to
really deep in their learning and their
thinking because it's not just our new
teachers it's all teachers um and and so
we all need to make sure we're planning
for instruction for all of our students
and so that's our goal this year with
our dedicating our staff to that to um
to that supports because it's it's a
critical piece to move the needle right
because there's a lot of curriculum so
we want to really put or put them to be
successful the teachers to be successful
having those supports and principales
being mindful about creating the time
opportunities for planning with them at
during the day during after school so
that they are moving the mo because
that's the only way we can do it is
really take honing in on those skills
and moving it forward so I just want you
to know that's one of our big big
efforts to sture that's awesome and it
also feels likely true that the in a
ideal Universe the principles are
themselves providing a lot of that
instructional oversight and guidance and
mentorship versus third-party coaches
coming into the classroom and so if
there's things that the district can do
to give explicit guidance to the
principles around expectations for
observ
for feedback and to free up their time
from some of these other things that are
maybe distracting them from that that
that would be warmly welcome on my
behalf that is our plan we have a plan
that that is our plan that was um
introduced Monday it was Monday I'm
happy to see these SM we um what was
well received I think it was very I
don't I didn't hear one negative thing I
think it was well received because I
think one of the things we being very
clear right um we're being very clear on
what our expectations are and we're
going to be very clear with the teachers
about what our expectations are and how
we all need to work towards when so
we're we are creating some cohesion in
the district that hasn't been there and
so that's our goal next year is really
trying to bait that cohesion so that we
all have systems that are aligned and
making sure we're all working towards
the same goal that's fantastic because
when I went on some of these School
tours I was hearing like from teachers
that a principal might only come by like
one or two days a school year to go and
observe and give feedback and and that's
obviously not
great um I just wanted to um highlight
one of the things that really stood out
to me in this presentation and if you
have it in front of you still open it's
slide 16 it's the California dashboard
um read indicators for chronic
absenteeism absenteeism and suspension
um I think this
is urgent that we address this um we
know if they're absent if they're
suspended they're not in the classroom
they're not learning um when I go
through this list of schools that were
all flagged red we have one that is
flagged seven times when the rest are
not more than three um we have four
schools that had zero Flags we have five
schools that have two flags one that has
one and one that has three and we have
one that has seven flags and so I'm
asking does this School site need even
more additional support in not just
getting the kids to school but dealing
with the behaviors that might get them
suspended um maybe you guys can address
this so you can talk about it offline
and and figure out how we can support
that school even more because um that's
that's a huge
number yeah thank you so that's the only
thing I really wanted to point out um we
have been on this for an hour did so
that's what I was going to ask do you
have more comments or are we ready to
close the public he hearing just a quick
one um can you remind me I know there's
some what do you want State exams that
the teacher
cannot I guess teach to the
test can you remind me are these it so
therefore parents cannot help their
students okay I I just wanted to make
sure that that's what because again
that's what makes it even harder right
so that's my only comment um I don't
want to take this longer and and I know
um it it's very important though to
understand
um that sometimes a student can be
progressing in the classroom but when it
comes to testing is different right
whether again you build the anxiety you
just go blank I mean there's a lot of
things that can take place during a test
so that was it that was my only comment
thank
you um so I guess we'll go ahead and
close the public
hearing and
um you have your card is for the next
item yeah so we're going to open the
hearing for the um rcsd 2425 proposed
budget she has a card in for another
item
later um while you're pulling up your
presentation I just want to say I I sort
of commented when other people were
commented but I did want to just say
thank you um Anna and the whole team and
the committee and just everybody who was
involved I know that Mike and David were
on the committee as well I just want to
say thank you it was a tremendous amount
of work I mean multiple documents
hundreds of pages um and I think I think
you've come up with a really good plan
and identified you know where we need to
be focusing our efforts I just want to
say thank you
good evening members of the board
tonight uh we are presenting the 2425
proposed budget uh in the public hearing
uh just like the lcap this is
uh required to be presented to the board
following the elcap public hearing uh
just as next week uh it will be approved
after the lcap uh is
approved excuse me uh as we go through
the uh school year as it near completion
we are at the budget adoption stage uh
the governor will sign the budget soon
uh so everyone continues to get paid in
Sacramento uh if there's any significant
changes we'll bring that back uh at the
first board meeting in August for a
45-day revision uh there's doesn't
appear to be me uh with the budget that
will impact us where we need to bring
something back but if we do uh it will
happen at the first board meeting uh un
audited actual will come in September
which will give us a better picture of
where we're actually at um for the 2425
school year uh taking into account some
things that we still don't know in terms
of uh some encumbrances that uh will be
invoiced and we will pay in the next
couple of weeks uh versus ones that uh
will not be paid and we'll regain that
money if you will or be able to bring
that money back to the general fund uh
and apply it to the budget for 2425 thus
reducing some of the items that we'll
talk about tonight uh we don't need to
get too far ahead of ourselves but you
know December's right around the corner
and first
inum so I think I covered this slide uh
already uh I think the most important
one on here
uh as we get enrollment for 2425 as we
get uh our un audited actual completed
uh the picture may change a bit uh
probably not you know significantly like
it did last year uh but there will be
some savings uh that we haven't
anticipated or realized in the budget uh
that should be coming forward uh as well
as having enrollment numbers and then
projecting out uh from that point in
time at the start of the school year as
we go into the 2425 budget uh here are
the major assumptions the same format uh
that we use at every
presentation uh showing District
enrollment for this year projected for
next year uh 25 26 and our brand new
oute as of July 1 26
27 uh with the average daily attendance
unduplicated pupil
percentage uh the local control funding
formula Cola uh it did go up from second
intrum by about a quarter percent uh to
1.07 for 2425 and you can see over the
next couple of years that's expected to
increase uh 2 and 3% perspectively which
will uh increase the funds for
supplemental and
concentration um that will be in the LC
cap in future years uh you can see
calers remain steady it takes
legislative action in order to increase
the calers retirement rate that is our
retirement plan for uh our certificated
employees Cal per continues to creep up
although it's not as bad uh as they
projected earlier uh this fiscal year uh
but still signific significantly more uh
over the course of the last few years uh
that's uh creating additional
opportunities for our budget to be able
to cover those
expenditures uh step and column uh
Remains the Same at 1.5% property tax
increased projected at 5% annually and
you can see the CPI index
um as we go
forward for fund one and tonight the
focus will be on our general fund or
fund one uh for the uh presentation and
here you can see the revenue for our
lcff the 9899 is what I mentioned with
the budget overview parents uh Federal
revenues uh other state revenues and our
local
revenues uh that come into Redwood City
uh giving a uh total revenues of
approximately 129 million for the 2425
school
year here's a quick breakdown of what
that Revenue looks like uh through our
lcff sources Federal sources Lottery our
local revenues uh including
leases uh and then measure you partial
tax uh and then here we show that uh at
budget adoption
uh an estimated transfer of 9.72 five
million from fund
25 uh and that makes up 138
m715
59 uh for the total amount of revenue
for
2425 here's uh that chart in a py graph
showing that about 60% of our Revenue
comes from lcff which is primarily local
property taxes
when we look at
expenditures
uh excuse me uh we're projecting in the
proposed budget 143,144
39 of expenditures between salaries
benefits books and supplies uh and
services and other operating
expenses uh here's a breakdown uh by the
category of salaries benefits supplies
expenses uh making up to
$143,400
as we get into here uh and there's a
couple there's one or two additional
slides in the presentation uh that we'll
talk about uh these are expenditures
broken down uh and you can see what
types of positions fall into those
categories uh pretty close to colorcoded
might be a couple Shades off uh
important to note on here uh that it
certificated classified uh and
Associated benefits make up about 80% of
our budget going into the 24 or EXC 2425
school year uh a little bit higher than
it was at last year's budget adoption um
thanks to the work in HR and our
departments uh we're staff uh we have
more Staffing internal Staffing or or
District Staffing uh and less contracted
Services out so that has
made at this point uh that jump from I
believe it was 74% or 75% to 80% that
we're projecting for
2425 uh this slide is a snapshot of fund
01 uh you may recall the conversation we
had at the uh board retreat uh where we
did a simple one just to get an idea
down uh these are numbers coming
straight out of our sax forms for fund
01 uh broken down as uh
um California Department of Education
requires for Budget uh adoption and
budget submission to the state or to the
county in the state uh and you can show
see that uh 143.5 million uh is our
anticipated expenditure budget for this
year uh and we have matching revenues uh
almost matching revenues with a transfer
of$ 9.7
million uh from our fund
25 so this slide is new uh and I'm not
going to go through everything on here
but this is color coded for the next
slide uh that shows uh teacher and
classroom support salaries that includes
both certificated and classified uh that
work directly with uh the classroom we
have Administration and supervisors
which in includes us sitting in this
room here from the district side uh as
well as our site principles uh Vice
principles our classified management uh
including directors supervisors
uh make up that beige color uh
classified support
uh is everything uh that's not
associated with direct classroom support
uh and you can see through that list
tech support office managers and
assistance translation services
custodial M fall into this bucket of
expenditure we have our retirement and
benefits this is the only one that's
still broken out on the next chart that
you'll see in a minute so I tried to
make the color somewhere in between the
Green and the bluish on there uh so that
that can be combined in terms of
explanation and you can see what that
makes up uh stirs the State teachers
retirement system ORS the public
employees retirement system which uh is
to the benefit of classified employees
and then the normal other um taxes on
wages as well as Health and Welfare
benefits are included there books and
supplies include textbooks and other
core materials uh General materials and
supplies as well as equipment uh and
then contracted Services insurance and
operational expenses uh include uh a lot
uh of sped Services enrichment programs
that we pay for uh you know pe+ comes to
mind that would come under uh this
category uh our insurance for uh
property and liability fingerprinting
Services legal expenses utilities and
waste disposal and this is not an
exhaustive list but just to give you an
idea of the different types of of
expenditures that fall into uh our 5,000
series or services and other operating
expenses so now if we look at this chart
this is breaking those bands down uh to
show uh where each of those fall in and
the amount of money that's spent on that
we're still adding up to 143.5 million
uh but as as we know School District
budgets are complicated ated uh how
funding is uh not only received but then
allocated uh we'll continue to work to
break some of these down into different
silos and combine some other things uh
but when we start talking about
splitting some of them it becomes really
hard because benefits are all in one
bucket employees are all over the place
that are tied to a benefit and trying to
break out exact numbers which I was
trying to do but was a little more than
I could do for this uh this graph but in
the summer we're hoping to get some
templates together where it'll be easy
to plug and play in the future uh so
this simply is uh that uh visual legend
or the legend on the previous slide in a
graphical form uh showing those seven
bands of
expenditures so when we look at the
ending fund balance for fund
01 uh in the proposed budget uh you can
see ending fund balance of imately 15.4
million at this point in time uh so
showing uh not only uh are we still
deficit spending but we also brought in
money from fund 25 uh and that'll be
important as we go through the next
couple of slides uh as we continue to
strengthen our budget and our
reserves when we go into multi-year
projections uh I did include estimated
actuals on here uh for 23 24 uh and then
once again the introduction of 2627 that
comes into play starting July
1 uh you can see that uh revenues are uh
slightly increasing over this time
period uh through a combination of lcff
and increase in property taxes
primarily uh others are relatively flat
uh of note in the revenue section
transfers in uh we are still estimating
9.3 million for 2324
uh estimating 9.72 five million for 2425
and then we are not transferring in
money or at this point not allocating
money from fund 25 and
2526 or
2627 uh because you can see uh as we
look through expenditures uh we are
getting stronger with budgeting uh we do
know there's still work to be done that
we've talked about throughout the 23 24
school year uh the actions taken through
December January and February uh in
preparation for March uh as well as the
work uh that the Departments have done
um you know uh I got to give a lot of
credit to both of uh my friends sitting
over here with the work they did this
year between Staffing uh and really
examining uh the lcap the lcf and the
expenditures in there uh we do show that
there will have to be a fiscal
stabilization plan as of today because
they are unidentified measures of 7.5
million in
2526 and 4.85 million in 2627 but I
think uh as daunting as that may seem at
this point I think it's still a
a huge win for us looking at those
numbers and not transferring money in
right so we'll still have money in fund
25 uh but if we can look at uh looking
at our programs and services and making
sure that we're aligned with the amount
of enrollment and the programs that we
want to have uh this may become easier
than we think um and also as a reminder
it's 7 and a. half million if those are
ongoing Cuts they carry forward to 2627
and that 4.8 is
removed uh there's also a good chance
that once we get through uh un audited
actual that that number will adjust as
well going into first inum from the sub
and a half million so there's a lot of
moving Parts in June uh that'll be you
know they'll get a little bit stronger
as as we get enrollment uh once we get
our first estimates of enrollment of
people or students that show up in the
first 10 days of seabeds day and early
October un audited actual in September
these numbers will fluctuate some uh but
I think it's still positive that we're
not showing a transfer in at this point
uh and that uh it's uh not an
unreasonable number we're not looking at
20 or 25 million in that next year uh
that I know some districts are right now
right
so
yeah uh so I think that's important to
note as we go through this uh and if we
do all of this you can see that we're
making uh our reserve for economic
uncertainty uh with very little uh
unassigned or unappropriated balance um
in the future years uh but that will uh
move forward and that will change as
well uh still with the goal of being
positive in December positive in March
uh as we go into the
2526 budget cycle U that's a little too
far ahead to talk about
that so on that fiscal stabilization
plan uh you know I'm going to highlight
again that we're we're showing zero
transfers in in 25 26 26 2 7 7 a. half
million and 4.85
respectively uh and why we're doing this
is because uh we want to reduce deficit
spending as much as
possible uh and have a stronger budget
overall uh we want to uh you know goal
is to reduce or eliminate transfers in
from fund
25 uh increasing costs we have to pay
attention to um you know Healthcare
premiums uh uh goods and services
uh other contractual services that we
use prices are going up uh they're not
staying flat uh the settlement
agreements and I'm referring to our
bargaining units
rcta uh
CSEA uh and the rest of our employees
that don't fall under those two uh units
uh as we know we are settled with rcta
we have uh what management agreement
that will be coming to the board uh but
we're still unsettled with ca for this
this fiscal year
2324 uh as well as 2425 at this point so
uh hopefully sometime in the near future
we will reach settlement uh with CSA and
then we'll be able to adjust the budget
accordingly for that uh which then may
change those numbers uh in the opposite
way right as we look at the impact of
those
settlements uh and then the full
expenditure of one-time
funds U Anna next to me has done her
best to allocate as much as she can to
the remaining one-time funds knowing
that those uh for the most part will be
fully expended by the end of the
2425 uh school and fiscal year uh so
we'll have decisions to make on those
programs and services that are being
funded uh if uh there is a need to keep
them uh we know some of them there is uh
some of them will make a decision on and
then we'll have to find other funds um
that we have to free up in order to pay
for those programs and services that are
funded from those onetime funds
so there's a lot of work to do uh it's
you know not just as simple as a line on
uh number in a Cell uh but a lot of work
that needs to happen uh over the course
of you know starting the summer really
going into the fall uh in preparation
for first inum you can see on the right
hand of this right side right hand side
of the
slide uh we need to evaluate all
district expenditures evaluate Staffing
based on
enrollment um develop our uh plan for
outreach uh Dr Baker and and staff have
already been discussing this uh we'll be
working on that through July and early
August and then be able to bring
something back to the board to discuss
how we're going to solicit input on uh
budget decisions through the uh probably
through the year but specifically in the
fall as we prepare for first and second
inim
reports uh that'll provide opportunities
for input from uh our community and
stakeholders uh will provide regular
updates on progress through uh those
means once determined uh for inclusion
as I said in the first and or second
interim report depending on what it is
and how it takes
place another thing that we have to uh
talk about during the public hearing is
balances in excess of a minimum Reserve
requirement uh on this slide although
very
small uh we're 80,000 over the minimum
Reserve
uh the 880,000 of it is for prepaid in
stores uh and another 100,000 is used
for substitutes uh and health care as
needed
um certainly not a large amount I'm very
similar to what it was at this time last
year I
believe this is our other fund balances
uh expected for
2425 uh with the proposed budget uh
obviously for some of these it's very
early uh specifically the one I'll pick
on a little bit is F21 we know that
that's going to have a different ending
fund balance than what it shows now once
we get some projects uh up and going uh
and slated for uh starting next year and
next summer right so that likely will
not be that same number uh as we go
through these we still have money in
fund 35 that we're going to use to
offset some of the solar costs so once
we have contracts on that we'll see a
difference there uh so this is you know
uh very early and we'll change as some
of these bigger programs uh have
projects and Associated funding with
them uh going
forward so areas to monitor uh I've
already mentioned CCA negotiations for
the current year 23 24 uh and next year
2425 uh fully expended onetime funds
enrollment Staffing uh California
proposed state budget which I don't
think will have a huge impact on us but
there may be
some uh and then still the economy and
what's happening uh Nationwide but
specifically in this area with uh goods
and services as well as uh home sales
right that directly impact
us so next steps uh next week will come
back uh and bring the lcap and the
budget uh for adoption on Wednesday
night September un audited actuals uh
and then in the fall I made it a very
generalized fall 24 we'll be going
through uh the expenditures review and
start making those budget decisions for
2425 uh that will come first inim second
interim and then uh any Associated
changes to Personnel in March uh and
then the first inim report in December
so with that I'm happy to answer any
questions thank you Rick um we do have a
speaker card on this so are there any
clarifying questions before and then
we'll take the
card okay um Katherine Stuart you can um
you have three minutes and just make
sure you turn the microphone on
please no press the button um on the
right yeah hello thank you um so I
didn't see it in there but I was just
wondering how many dollars specifically
are set aside for a homework Club after
school tutoring specifically for math um
until 6: p.m. uh my son had some really
good results with uh Mr coranza which
was he had a math teacher and the math
teacher would do after school tutoring
and stuff like that um and so for a lot
of people who are working parents which
of course I'm not I just eat bone bones
all day and all that kind of stuff but
for normal people um who don't want to
Shell out thousands of dollars for um
private tutors and stuff this is a
really helpful thing is having the after
school tutoring so I just wondered I
didn't see it on the budget of how many
dollars we're setting aside for after
school tutoring and can it last until
six because for example with my kid
after about an hour he falls apart
anyway and I just pick him up but for a
lot of kids if they can stay until six
like with programs like reach and all
that kind of stuff um if they can St
stay until six or so their parents can
pick them up at the end of work and it
just makes things smoother for people
that are working parents so uh I just
wondered about that is um I know some of
the teachers um actually stay after
class and help kids anyway but uh I
wondered what exactly do we have in the
budget for that particular area of after
school tutoring um in particular and
then another question was about uh
supervision and safety during uh before
and after school recess lunch and PE um
I know we sometimes have uh lunch ladies
and yard people and things like that
supervisors but I think that that is an
area that we could do more of um and the
reason is because uh if you don't feel
safe at school and things are not being
supervised then you're not likely to
want to show up and so a lot of the you
know melodramas of childhood and so
forth play out on the um areas where
you're not in a classroom so um I think
that's another area that I I didn't see
specifically I saw that there was like
classified sort of I thought that's
where it sort of be loved in but I
didn't notice it in particular so I
wondered how many dollars do we have for
after school tutoring and until six or
so and then how many hours do we I mean
how many dollars do we have for
supervision and safety in particular um
during those sort of out door times
where people are running around doing
assorted things some of the things are
great and some of the things are not so
great so that's what I'm uh wanting to
know about in particular oh and one last
thing was about the parent meetings is
um I found over the years that if you um
want to have like a PTO or PTA meeting
or anything like that um and it may help
for their situation also is if you
provide a room that has child care with
a couple of people who will supervise
and you provide free pizza what happens
is then the parents can just have their
kids with them and the kids can be
eating their pizza and doing their thing
while the parents are doing their
meeting and make the meeting start like
say for example at 6:30 or something so
the parents can just swoop in after
school maybe the kid went to the
tutoring up until that time and then you
know then that way the parent doesn't
have to stop off get food figure out
what the kid will actually eat because
they'll all eat pizza that's just their
I mean that's the food Jour you know so
um but that helps on some of the
meetings is you know provide something
that's easy for them and then the
parents don't have to stress about it
and they can do a quick meeting and get
get the kid home to bed in a reasonable
amount of time so that's just um
something I've seen that seems to help I
think the the daytime meetings are easy
for people like me who can just pop in
after I drop somebody off at school or I
can pop in during the day and stuff like
that but for a lot of people who are
working on a 9 to5 or you know 8 to6
type of schedule it's not so easy so um
that's just something that might um
might help with with making it more
convenient for people so that was it
thank you and by the way we've had
really great experiences with all our
teachers so yay thank
you this movement address that regarding
the specifically how much goes to math
tutoring because it's going to be
different at every School site it's
different at every School site and it
depends on number one those School sites
that who have the unduplicated students
there is a set amount of dollars that
are specifically for those students now
for a School site like norstar which is
is different um there is within either
the zp budget that dollars are allocated
or you can also use your parcel tax
dollars that each school can determine
how that's going to be
spent
tax the
sips site Improvement plan
yeah I would just respond generally that
I think you know your questions are good
ones and probably better done at the
site level because uh the overall budget
I mean what we prepare doesn't
necessarily dial into that that I mean
eventually it all gets from you know
where it is up to the budget um but
those are good questions and I just want
to say I appreciate hearing from you I
mean I think all of us believe that yard
duty is important I mean I think that's
sort of what you're saying is
supervision out on the playground is
important so thank you for that comment
and then it kind of you know the whole
tutoring comment is sort of what we were
talking about earlier the importance of
that and it's great to hear that you've
been having good results at your school
site I think we've been hearing that
from others as well so thank
you uh just for the record I actually do
not agree with the yard Duty extra
supervision comment there's a fair
amount of evidence that uh excess adult
supervision has negative impact on uh
Teen Mental Health in particular teens
maybe yeah yeah yeah so I think for like
K to five you'll find me a little bit
more empathetic but I I think kids need
unstructured and unsupervised playtime
together to become well adjusted adults
and I feel like the evidence is pretty
strong
on have to be really careful
that okay of the supervision is for for
safety of the kids who okay but Captain
we can't have it back and forth sorry um
were you done with your comment I was
just going to say I think with our yard
Duty we just make we have to make sure
that they have good professional
development so they understand what
their roles and responsibilities are and
I know when I've been out on the School
site I've seen some of the yard Duty do
a really nice job with bringing like
there's been a conflict right bringing
those individuals together and kind of
helping them have the conversation that
they need to have and frankly if we
didn't have supervision we could have
some really hurt people out I mean I any
anyway so but but we don't need to this
is a big group we don't need to talk
about it here but anyway it's
interesting to have a good conversation
about it we should um so I'll bring it
back to the board for comments or
questions on the public
he U you know the one thing I want to
say Rick is thank you so much for the
work that you did on the extra kind of
infographs or whatever we're calling
them um and just the explanations
because I do think you know we often
talk about it here and I think you know
we've had the opportunity to have a lot
more one-on-one time thinking about the
budget and understanding what goes into
it but I think for a lot of lay people
they don't understand what those buckets
mean and so I think this is great and I
think it's a really you know I think
you're well beyond a good start I I I
really appreciate the work that's gone
into that and I know it's not easy so
thank you for doing that um and I and I
hope that we can then I know we've got
different Community groups and things we
can start sharing that and getting
feedback from them like so to have a
draft in your mailbox tomorrow of how we
are going to move forward with
communicating this process and as I
spoke to one board member already today
um feel free to look at this draft um
make comments make suggestions take
things out take things put things in
it's up to you but I need to have um
everything back by the first week in
August because I know um I want to send
it out in one of my first communic that
goes out to the public yeah and I think
it'll just be great because we get so
many questions from the community where
they don't really understand how the
money is spent so I really appreciate
that um and I just want to say I mean I
don't have a lot of specific questions
on the budget but I just want to say
thank you very much clearly a lot of
work goes into creating the budget and I
think it looks good to
me thank you RI you know I've been on
you for some time to uh take have us
take steps towards having a more legible
budget and this is really meaningful uh
in terms of a Ford
uh motion there as I think was evident
the required documentation from the
state of California is almost anti-
legible we're GNA force you to produce
graphs that literally nobody can read um
and and I think pushing back against
that to have something that not only
that we can present to the community as
a clear artifact of this is where our
spending is I think clarity about our
spending enables higher quality
discussion at a board level about where
our spending is and whether or not that
spending matches the real priorities
that we have for for the district um and
so I'm really happy to see us making
forward progress in that way um and I
think that's a really useful input to
the required fiscal stabilization
measures that are going to be needed
because they let us have a more coherent
plain English plain Spanish discussion
um about where we want to uh put our
chits put our investments um because
there's going to have to be some really
tough calls and um I I I feel
like last time we we had to you know go
around this Rodeo it was a little bit
less clear to the public you know what a
fiscal stabilization plan means and I
feel like we've learned from that and
we're going to be improving our
Communications with the community on
this that it means cuts um it's probably
not going to need to be all of seven and
a half million things things are going
to be not quite as Grim as that U but
there are going to need to be some some
tough decisions that are going to need
to be made and I feel like I feel
optimistic that we're going to do a
better job connecting with the community
letting them know early like now that uh
cuts are forthcoming and we're going to
have a really thoughtful process to
focus our invested dollars to maximize
the educational opportunities for the
for the kids who are are in the district
um quick tiny typo page 14 uh says 2025
2027 I think that meant to say 2026 2027
um cool but yeah looking forward to
continuing working with you Rick on
making the budget super digestible so
thank
you I don't see
that
oh it's the last
call oh on
Multi yeah just it shows a a two-year B
I think it just the column header was
2026 20
Co
reinv I love
it I just want to say thank you and of
course the business office for all their
um hard work um for you obviously for
putting this um and
really um making it understandable
um and I just went blank what I was
going to say um besides my thank
you yes I know what I was gonna say
sorry I appreciate the draft that
obviously we haven't seen yet one of the
things that I'm curious as a classified
employee in another district and
obviously not everyone knows about
budget have we in Redwood City I know
that I hear like HR does some kind of
communication to the class class ified
employees and not necessarily just
classified but certificated as well
right like a town hall or somehow um
back like four superintendents ago at my
district we used to have a
um I I just I think it's just it's not
that late but I've had a long day um
with the superintendent yes that's what
I'm
doing lunch with the superintendent but
it was not a lunch it was more of and I
can't think it was
it's a bag linch with the superintendent
that we started it was like we just got
together actually in the boardroom and
they pretty much gave us almost like the
newsletter a feed you know information
of what was happening um and I'm just
wondering with the budget I think it's
important for our employees to
understand what really happens and not
necessarily just the the negotiating
team um so that everyone can be informed
right and so again it's more of a
comment you know you guys can think
about it but I think it's it would be a
good idea um to communicate that with
because again you could send it out on
the newsletter but some people might
just like kind of scan through it but
not really understand so if it could
just be a quick you know 10 minute intro
this is what happens this is what it how
it works um I think that would be great
so thank you again and your
team yep thanks for putting together the
budget um I don't think there was
anything well you know earlier today I
didn't think there was anything
surprising but I did notice one thing
that I just wanted to ask about the um
the cafeteria fund sort of really
dropped in the next year's budget and is
that something we're gonna have to watch
in the future it it looked like it went
down about a million and a half and I
wasn't sure because we don't do mips for
non yeah so I just wasn't sure is there
something there that like is going to be
lurking or not not a problem it's just
normal abs and flows of
balance yes yeah okay I I think it's
normal e and flow but we're also going
through significant change right now uh
with with our uh CNS program the CNS
meal service next year is going to be
completely different uh we look we're
looking to see some Savings in uh
contractual prices because of uh our new
director uh Richie Willam and and the
actions he's taking now uh at the first
board meeting in August uh there will be
uh five six or seven I'm not quite sure
on the number of uh contracts coming
back for doing self off food uh in the
district uh so those are going out on
Monday uh due date in July uh so we're
are going to see significant changes um
and I'm not concerned about that at this
point I think we'll also see some
additional
savings uh next year with lack of uh a
significant contract super exciting uh
looking forward to hearing about those
changes um yeah so the rest of it wasn't
I mean I didn't see anything surprising
in there um I think that you know the
the fiscal stabilization you made us
very aware that it was coming um we kind
of knew the amounts that was coming so
that didn't surprise me at all I think
the how you know so more so than even
the what is it it's the how we get to
that I think that's the part that I'm
really interested in so I'm looking
forward to um reading that draft sort of
being able to provide feedback and then
coming back together in August to sort
of see how that's going to execute um
because I just think that that'll be
really important to make sure that we
have to do something um and so we just
want to make the best informed decision
um with the most amount of reasonable
input that we can get um and bring
everybody along with that so uh yeah
that that's that's the part that I was
most interested in uh so I'm glad to
hear that we have that coming
thanks okay thank you Rick very much um
thank you Rick um compared to my
neighbor and to a colleague to the north
with sa
slides oh my
God David you want to see something that
you can't understand travel up north a
bit it's in my other neck of the woods
where I own property it's just this is
amazing compared to what that looks like
it is like oh my
God so that's all I'm gonna say thank
you and thank you Anna for all your hard
work with your staff
thanks okay so we can oh I was just
going you know one thing I did notice
with both presentations I think you
added a few slides that we saw tonight
that are not in the um yes presentation
so I would just encourage you to take
the final that we talked about tonight
and make sure that gets uploaded because
some people may look at it later yeah I
think Anna you may have just had one
slide that was but I think he had
several missed one about okay maybe I'm
I'm on my present I okay all right
so we'll go ahead and close the public
hearing it's still coming oh I'm sorry
um so we are on consent with um we
pulled 7.4 the uh measure U funds
dispersement and that's going to be on
action do we have a motion to
approve some moved second all those in
favor I thank you so that brings us to
7.4 approval of dispersement of measure
U funds for the 242 school year yes I
need to pull Hoovers and taffs because
of some of the amounts that are not
correct so um I need to pull those two
and I will bring them back uh next week
I should hopefully we can get at least
tapped next week I'm waiting for Hoover
yeah
so okay so we would be approving minus
Hooper and tff
correct okay and now we have a hand
raised um we have a speaker card from
Karen Lyford um if we can give her
speaking access Karen you'll have three
minutes you can go ahead and
unmute oh
hi hi uh just wanted to say hello and uh
introduce myself and uh I uh I'm
enjoying being at Hoover this year and I
know I want to thank you guys for all
the work that you're doing for the
district and also um I know budgeting is
incredibly difficult work um I just
often reflect after all the years I've
taught uh how much of a cost it is to
not have music in our schools uh and I
would love to see as many electives as
we could have present in our schools and
I think that starting in Middle School
um is so important and we talk a lot
about social emotional learning uh and
certainly arts and sports are a big part
of social emotional learning for these
kids um I really commend the man that
spoke earlier about uh his need for
tutoring and access for his daughter and
I I see a lot of that at Hoover that I
feel that um these kids really deserve
uh something that they can um grab on to
and be involved with and um you know
there's been so much data which I'm sure
you've heard over and over again about
the the effect of Music on Brin
development and test scores and and all
of that and that's that's we all know
about that but I think this is also a
huge part of um the larger picture and
being part of something larger than
ourselves um and I just uh I just want
to speak out because I've been doing
this a long time and I really appreciate
the opportunity to be a part of
something at Redwood uh in Redwood City
and my local community um and I taught
at menow for 14 years and I can tell you
that I saw a lot of kids there that
could afford to do music outside of
school and I see this as I guess I see
this as kind of an equity issue that I
feel like I want all our kids kids to
have all those opportunities that my
former students at Menlo school had um
so I just wanted to to say hello and
gratitude for all that you do and um
this was really interesting I've never
listened to a board meeting before so
this this is a this is a first for me
and I've learned a lot um and have a lot
of gratitude for all the work that that
people do in this
District thank you so much Karen thanks
for sitting through our meeting too
appreciate it
no worries thank you
welcome um were there any comments on
this item it's an action item so we need
a motion to
approve I'll make a motion to approve
without who we in
t second all those in favor I thank
you uh reports from board members and
superintendent who would like to
start uh is graduation season so I went
to you know the graduations that
Clifford tapped and uh Kenny Middle
School which included our biliteracy
recognition which was mentioned earlier
in the um uh in the outat presentation
uh and then on Monday um uh the the
Garner Center I guess had put together a
round table on belonging and
particularly for the transition from um
you know Middle School to High School uh
and how kids can feel belonging there
especially kids that are uh in our
underrepresented population and how they
make that transfer so it was really
interesting to have sort of
practitioners um Dr Baker was there you
know and many people from the um cabinet
were there mixed together with you know
professors and academics that are not
necessarily in the classroom some of
them weren't even in education as a
field uh and just sort of getting those
differing opinions and hear you know
hear some thoughts and stuff and ideas
that you
want um yeah I'll start with the
belonging Workshop one of the things I
found interesting was uh one of the
professors who just knew so much about
the research around belonging you know
he spoke on the panel and that was kind
of interesting to hear from him um but I
appreciate it we we had the strongest
showing of all the school districts we
had more than a table full so um they've
been working very closely with you know
our community schools yeah no it it
really shows and I certainly appreciate
their um partnership with us right and
all they're doing so anyway that was a
good way to spend the morning and then
um I was able to go to
Garfield uh graduation and it was really
memorable um Lupe's husband actually sat
on the stage and he did speak and they
had a chair um for Lupe with some of her
favorite things on it it was really well
you were there with me right no who was
there with me
um gosh oh Michelle Michelle was yeah
thank you so m Michelle was who was also
um very close colleagues with with Lupe
it was it was a very one you know really
nice ceremony and they they give out so
many awards to so many students it went
on and on it was actually it was great
to see so many students recognized and
then I went to the Roosevelt promotion
ceremony and then finally I just wanted
to mention that we did have a Redwood
City 20 I Redwood City
together uh Retreat or wasn't a retreat
but it was a three- day three-hour
meeting today um and uh Dr Baker and Dr
gerstein from Stamford actually led us
through a strategic planning exercise
and we're going to be doing work there
really trying to come up with some
collective data uh goals and
measurements that we can use as a
collective which is a little more
complicated than just us as a school
district because we've got the city and
the county and nonprofits and health
care providers and all that so anyway
thank you for all the he's been doing so
much work on that it's it's it's uh
truly incredible and and I do feel like
the conversations we had today there's
just a lot of opportunity for how do we
help our youth and families that then in
turn will absolutely be supporting our
academics in the school so thank you and
I have a few things that if people are
interested in and then Wendy I'm going
to talk with you after they had a as an
employer you can and they have some
suggestions on where we can do some job
posting and stuff so there might be a
few new things you probably already
you're doing them at some these some of
these places but anyway right that's
it graduation season um went to
graduations at Roosevelt norstar and Roy
Cloud um all three of which were very
hot
um one of which there was a very sweet
girl in the front row who was trying
desperately to not pass out um and it it
it it does have me wonder about whether
the district could possibly provide uh
temporary shade structures because these
were all outside on fields so it's
beautiful was gorgeous wonderful
lighting for the photography but um
probably not in the right Spirit of
things to have students killing over
either um so it's just uh if that's
possible for us to arrange next year for
graduations that might be a thoughtful
thing that we can do the other thing
that we um I brought up with some of the
principles is you know McKinley has that
gorgeous Auditorium and we used to do
the graduations there it's air
conditioned we just need to you know
caler them out the other piece I need to
talk to our my colleague and see if we
could use Carrington Hall also for some
of our schools and don't we pay for the
custodian but not for the I don't want
to pay for the rent you know what they
charge us for don't want to pay you're
going to have to bat your eyelashes
John I know I know I know at least
Northstar I don't know about MIT but
they've gone over to the Carrington hall
because they can walk over there you
know what what I've been told it's it's
so expensive expensive I'm gonna talk to
Crystal can we just wave that and well
definitely pay for the custodial because
that definitely will need to happen but
wave the the Fe we're getting into
agenda I know
that if we could get some even that' be
one option another option be like a
temporary shade structure t or something
but um yeah anyhow um wonderful
graduations um had a number of
discussions with uh various parties
about Ai and education trying to follow
up on an action item that John has given
me to see if we can drag some uh vendors
in here to present us with options for
AI tutoring and the like um the highle
bit is gosh AI state-of-the-art is ADV
ing really really quickly um to the
point where there was a meaningful
advance in the state-ofthe-art this
morning with the launch of Claud one uh
3.5 Sonet uh beating a bunch of the AI
benchmarks and uh some of the sample
videos that they give to Showcase how
powerful these AI models are are uh
students remitting like homework and uh
teachers putting together lesson plans
in the like so there's uh we're on the
one hand kind of squarely within some of
the use cases they're imagining on the
other hand a lot of these AI companies
mainly interface with the world offering
apis versus offering you know ready to
go kits for K to8 districts um they're
couple years away from being that level
of maturity but um some very interesting
discussions we we'll get
somewhere um graduations I attended
Henry Ford Adelante and mckenley um all
very different very hot too of course we
you know we talked about that um but
very very nice nice um um it was good to
see obviously the promotions and the
eighth graders moving on to high school
um and then as far as other meetings I
was also a part of the RIT City together
which was great and I do appreciate Dr
Baker's um just many hours of
involvement because that surely is a
collaboration with you know Stanford and
R City together and all the partners so
when when we talk about Partnerships I
mean I always say hats off to City so I
I really appreciate it and that's
it I attended um a very hot Orion
promotion um stayed in the shade as long
as we could and I know that they're
actually discussing moving it into the
morning for next year too that's another
option um and then I attended a very
nice cool Hoover graduation in their
beautiful new
gym uh and then we had a Citizens Bond
oversight committee meeting recently um
among other things the committee
reviewed the facility's master plan plan
process with Ben Pelt and they were
Architects from the list that we had
recently approved Q qk were they all
from qk I
thought
okay everything's been discussed I was
at a lot of the same items Roos that's
we were at Roosevelt together but we
were in the shade
yeah great
any
correspondence quiet quiet yeah okay um
other business suggested items for
future
agenda
Ki changes to the board meeting calendar
we have a meeting one meeting left
yep excellent so that brings us to 8859
and 20
seconds look somebody wants to make a
motion
to to ajour Second all those in favor I