I think we can start.
Evelyn. Yeah. Roll call, please.
>> Trusty Lee
>> here.
>> Trusty King is absent. Trusty Marquez
>> here. Vice President Weekly is absent.
President Welsh
>> here.
>> All right. Good evening. Uh welcome to
the today's June 25th, 2025 uh meeting
of the Redwood City School District
governing board. Uh Buenus Notes.
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solist.
All right, welcome to our last uh
schoolboard meeting of the 2425 school
year. Um, as we close out the year, I
just want to express my gratitude to the
students, um, all our staff and, uh, all
the families and other supporting
adults, you know, the partnership that
that all comes together to ensure the
success of students is really, really
invaluable. Um, and and really thank you
everyone for being partners in
education. Um, and with that, the board
encourages you and all members of the
public to participate and provide
comments on issues of concern, uh,
regardless of whether they're on the
agenda. So, if you're attending via
Zoom, please complete a speaker card
online or raise your Zoom hand when the
agenda item of interest comes up. And if
you're here in person, you'll find
speakers cards at the interest at the
entrance. I don't think anyone's here in
person, so we can go from there. Um, and
of course, if you're addressing a
subject on the agenda, we'll call you at
the time that that agenda item is being
considered. And if it's not on the
agenda, we'll call you shortly during an
oral communication. And then, of course,
we do limit public comment to three
minutes per person. Um, we apply that uh
regardless of the topic. So, uh, just to
be fair to all speakers, um, all right,
let's move on to changes for to the
agenda. I'm going to recommend two, uh,
that I didn't catch earlier, but, uh, I
think, uh, 10.6 and 10.7 after reviewing
the packet seem pretty, um, prefuncter,
and I thought we could move them to
consent,
unless someone has something that they
need to discuss about them. Those are
uh, the agreement for training for
credential candidates and 10.7 is the
approval of the personnel report.
All right, great. Then can we get an
approval of the agenda? I need a motion.
There's two of you, so you get to do it
all night.
>> Sure.
>> I will make a motion to make um 10.6 and
seven to put the model on consent and I
will make a motion to approve the
agenda.
>> Uh I'll second.
>> Okay. All in favor?
>> Uh great. Uh agenda's approved and we're
going to go on to oral communication. I
saw no speakers cards online. I see no
hands on Zoom and Evelyn has received no
cards. Great. Then we're going to move
on to our first agenda item which is uh
oh bond program consent items. Uh can I
get a motion to approve the two consent
items?
>> I will make a motion to approve.
>> I'll second.
>> All in favor?
>> I Great. Now we're on to the action
items. This is 7.1 approval of the HVAC
upgrade projects phase 2 for Kennedy
Middle School, Orion Alternative School,
and Clifford School. Rick,
>> thank you. Uh good evening members of
the board. Uh joining us tonight is Nick
Olson from BPCS, our bond program
manager, and Martin Cervantes to uh give
a brief overview of the HVAC upgrade
projects uh and the school sites
proposed for phase two. So, with that,
I'll hand it over.
>> Thank you, Rick. Uh good evening members
of the board and staff. Um so we come
tonight because we're excited that phase
one of the HBAC projects have started
for this summer. Uh they're going well.
Um and now that the board has approved
the facilities master plan, thank you.
Uh we would love to start design on next
summer's HVAC projects, phase two
that'll be uh anticipated for
construction in summer 2026.
So the schools that we're proposing
tonight moving forward with design are
Kennedy, Clifford, and Orion. Uh the
reason that we are proposing these
schools is based on the master plan. in
the master plan. These schools are
primarily scheduled for modernization.
So if we uh upgrade the HBAC, we could
still reuse those in any modernization
if they were chosen as part of the
implementation plan and the project
prioritization.
Um so again, the schools were
recommended moving forward with tonight
are Kennedy, Orion, and Clifford. Um and
I'm happy to answer any questions.
Does anyone have questions, comments?
No. Okay. Um, I'll just say, you know,
thank you for, uh, moving forward and,
you know, the intentional planning of
ensuring that this aligns with the
facilities master plan. Um, you know,
we've talked about this before. HVAC
systems aren't just comfort. It's really
about having a you know a learning and
working environment that uh is tolerable
um and actually um safe and supportive
like we want to have as part of our
mission. So I think we should make a
motion to approve this and move on. Uh
can I get a motion?
>> I move that we approve phase two of the
HVAC upgrade project.
>> Second.
>> All in favor? I. Great.
>> Thank you.
>> Thanks. Okay, we're on to discussion
items. uh 8.1 and this is a discussion
on the local indicator measurement for
the California school dashboard
>> would you be um presenting or do I share
Hi,
>> there you go.
>> Hi, Jenny. I'm trying to share my screen
and find it, but it's not coming up for
me. Let's see. No,
if you can share, you have it on. You
can share,
Jenny. Yes.
Does everybody see the screen?
>> Yep, we do.
>> Okay. So, good evening board members.
So, tonight um we're here to present the
local indicator section of the
California school dashboard. This back
this part of the dashboard highlight the
district local effort like beyond the
state test score that we see from Cass
and ELPAC um to support our student,
staff and families.
Um so this is how the school dashboard
look like um and it's available
publicly. School dashboard will be
published every year in the fall. this
year will be uh published early um in
November on November 15 that the
expected day.
So um with the California school
dashboard overall the parent, educator
and stakeholders can use a dashboard to
view how the district and the school is
doing under the California
accountability system.
Under our California school system,
there are 11 indicators to measure a
school and district performance. Six of
them are the state indicators which
we've seen through the previous year
dashboard that are related to academic
suspension, e-learner, chronic absence
and um other measures um if you're a
high school district that has to do with
graduation rate. Um today we focus on
the five local indicators um
that measure uh how the district is
doing in terms of um providing the
student support uh and parent parent
engagement uh implementing of academic
standards school climate and whether the
school and the district is providing
broad course of access to the courses
for the student.
So um each of the local indicators are
rated as met not met or netmet for two
years based on whether the district has
appropriate process and measure in
place. This report must be presented as
a non-conent item at the same public
meeting with the LCAP when it is
adopted. So today presentation would
will fulfill this requirement by summary
uh summarizing our district performance
on each of the local indicator.
The first state priority
measure whether the school um has
sufficient instructional material and
safe and clean functional facility for
the student. Um the local tool that we
use is the WAN audit that we have every
year as our site. And the result for
this year is that all all of our student
have access to their own copies of
standard line instructional material to
use at school and at home. Um also all
the district facility met the good
repair standard to ensure the safe and
well-maintaining learning environment.
the state priority to um look at the
district progress in implementing
academic standard across all the subject
including professional development and
instructional material. So the m the
local tool we use is um a survey that
sent out to all the credential staff at
the district. We have 67 participant um
in the survey. Uh I also include a link
here in case any board member in
interest is interested in how the the
score was broken down for each of the
answers or whether they want to see how
the questions is um is placed on the
survey.
So the priority two
um we report the result using fivepoint
scale and these scales are established
by the state. Um it's go from one to
five exploration and research beginning
development initial implementation full
implementation and then the last one is
full implementation and sustainability.
There are five area measure under
priority two. The first area focus on
the staff perception on the district
progress in providing development uh
professional development on each of the
academic standard ELA ELD math next
generation science and history social
science. For most of the standards, the
district is at the initial
implementation stage with an average
score of three. The exception is the
history social science where additional
work is still needed.
The next area measure the district
progress in ensuring that the standard
line instruct instructional materials
are available in all the classroom where
the subject is taught. Um so in
according to our staff we are in full
implementation of all the standard
except for history social science which
is a step behind and at the initial
implementation.
Um this area measure staff perception on
how well the school district is
supporting the staff in recognizing and
improving their instructional practice
aligned to the new um academic standard
through policies and program. So overall
we are an average at three initial
implementation with again exception in
history social science is at beginning
development.
Um because we are primarily an
elementary school district this measure
it is expected that our staff are
perceiving that some standards such as
CT and visual performing art we are only
at the beginning development stage.
And then the last area that prior
priority to measure is how well our
district is doing in identify
professional development need and
support the school site administrator.
The feedback from our staff indicate
that the district need to pay more
attention to identify the specific need
the specific PD need of individual
teachers. Right.
The next state priority is priority
three. This one measure the district
progress in engaging the family and
developing a family engagement policy
programs practice and partnership with
the local families.
For this year, we start to use the
California healthy kids survey to survey
our families. The survey is available in
both English and Spanish.
Pri priority three measure three key
practice in family engagement. The first
one is building relationship between
school staff and family.
The parent feedback is collected using
the scale go from strongly agree agree
disagree strongly disagree and then
don't know.
The survey result shows that 94% of her
parent agree that school staff treat
them with respect and 85% believe that
the staff take their concerns seriously.
I might I think I might be blocking the
share screen a little bit.
Um
and then additional result also show
that over 80% of our parents agree that
our school does seek support does seek
the parent input welcome the parent
contribution and actively engage in
communication with families.
The second family engagement practice is
building partnership for student
outcome.
The survey results show that over 70% of
our parent agree that the school have
the capacity to provide different level
of support based on student need and
also offer resource to help families
support student learning and development
at home.
Additional survey result also show that
80% of our parent believe that school
are making progress in meeting families
and discuss the discuss with them about
the student progress and outcome.
The third and the final area that the um
prior pre3 focus on is um seeking input
for decision- making. Of the parents who
took the survey, 56% of them participate
in a parent teacher organization at the
site and 74%
I'm sorry 76% agree that the school does
seek the input before making important
decision.
And then the next state priority uh
state priority is um priority six on
school climate.
This priority measure how student feel
about a school safety and whether they
perceive a positive learning environment
through engagement and support.
This year we also used the California
healthy kit survey for grade four
through eight.
This priority aligns with our ELUP goal
one and was reported during last um last
week public hearing of LCAP progress.
Today presentation will just give you a
little bit more detail on the breakdown
of the survey result.
Um in the school engagement and support
area, the survey measure the student
academic motivation using different
question set for grade four through
fifth and then grade six through 8. I've
include here the sample survey question
that contribute to this measurement.
Um in general our elementary student
report higher academic motivation
compared to middle school student.
School engagement and support also
measure student to adult relationship.
The data data showing that um student as
the student advance in the grade level
they tend to feel less connected to
adult at school.
The last measure in school engagement
and support is school connectedness
where um consistent with the previous
result, elementary student also report
feeling more connected to the school
overall compared to the middle school
student.
The next area of school climate survey
uh measure school safety with only one
question. Do you feel safe at school or
how safe do you feel at school? And the
result saw that elementary students tend
to feel more safe compared to middle
school students.
Another area measure under the school
safety is also um cyber bullying.
On average, 25% of student in grade four
through eight reporting experience such
as some um incident such as rumors or
hurtful comment via social media or cell
phone. The preferred outcome for this
measure is expected to have a lower
percentage of Syrians saying yes, they
have experienced cyber bullying in the
past 12 months.
And the last local priority is priority
seven. This priority report on the
district effort to provide a broad
course of study that goes beyond the
core subject like math, English,
science, social science. It's also
include other subjects such as art, or
language, notation
and um like or visual performing art.
This to ensure that student receive a
well-rounded education. For this
indicator, we use power school, our
student information system as our
primary tool to review student schedule,
attendance, and engagement form.
Um, so this slide here just show you the
courses that are offered um for grade 1
through six. Beyond the core classes, we
also offer visual performing arts and
health for grades seven through eight.
Um, we also offer foreign language and
visual and performing arts.
And that is the end of the local
indicator presentation for today.
>> Thank you, Jenny, for the presentation.
Um, if no one else has anything to add,
then I'll turn to the trustees and see
if you have questions or comments about
the local indicators.
um question regarding the um priority
two is it based on teachers
um I can't think of the word I just went
blank um
>> yes
they when they talk about like social
science or history being like a two or a
three versus a three or a four is that
really true I mean
>> it's professional development which we
haven't focused on in professional in
terms of history and social studies
>> because we're basically more like
English and math.
>> Okay, that's what it was. Okay, thank
you.
>> Um, thanks for these slides, Jenny. I
I'm I'm just want to make sure that I
understand kind of the framing of what
is being displayed in this. So, correct
me if I'm wrong. I think there's, as I
understand, there's kind of two pieces
to this. One of them is purely through
the California state dashboard and
whether or not we have met that. And I
think that's kind of the the top line of
each of these slides. It says met or not
met. And that doesn't say anything about
the results. All that says is that we
have processes in place to start
measuring them. And that's all the
California dashboard is going to do.
>> Yes, that's correct. Okay.
>> So, um there is actually a window where
um it opened in June and closed in
August that we have to report all these
result to the dashboard. um we don't
determine whether it's met or not met um
but the dashboard the CD will collect
information review and say met. So
according to my knowledge as long as we
have um report out that there there has
been progress in place to um measure
this indicators then they will assign a
met status to us on the dashboard and we
will see it in the fall when they
publish it.
>> Got it. So from the state's perspective
for the cash the dashboard they're not
looking really at the results per se.
They're looking at the process piece of
it,
>> right? For example, if you have last
year you have when you at a five, right?
And this year for some reason you're at
a one, they're not going to even look at
it. Don't they're not even wondering
what happened. Why didn't you progress?
Why didn't you maintain your No. No.
>> They're basically asking if we have an
effective survey to measure this.
>> Yes.
>> Okay. And then the second piece which I
think is more of the content that you've
also talked through is not California
dashboard specific but more for our own
internal purposes and our LCAP to
understand whether or not we're actually
making progress on the underlying
pieces. Is that a fair way to understand
it?
>> Um so so far among all the state
priority as a district we only have um
priority six is what we also focus on
our LCAP. We don't have any other state
priority as a focus on our LCAP. Um we
can do that if the district wants. I've
seen district with like 10 different
LCAP goals which they also cover all the
state priorities. But um as a district
we only measure and focus on priority
six of the state indicator on our LCAP.
>> And when you say priority six you you
mean school climate?
>> School climate. Yes.
>> Yeah. That just to clarify, I'm not
suggesting we make changes. I'm just
trying to understand um the different
information that we're seeing. Um
then maybe this is
saved for the LCAP portion of the
discussion but I'm I'm trying to
understand the I think in
metric 3.9 of our LCAP we have what what
I assumed was actually the
implementation of academic standards
piece or it says local indicator
and then it says priority to score to
beginning development as the baseline.
Is that is that referring to Is that not
referring to the state priority number
two?
>> I'm not sure what's on the desk that's
part was
>> it's on the
>> yeah he it's on the AL cap. It's
priority number two beginning and
developing what we had last year and
this year we have initial imp
implementation. So it is the priority to
the score of the three of where we're at
in professional development.
>> Okay that that's helpful just to
understand. So two pieces, California
dashboard met or not met because
processes and then separate question
again just discussion of like thank you
for showing us kind of where we are in
each of these pieces. I think that's
helpful. That's all I wanted to clarify.
>> Great. Um yeah, I mean I think one of
the things that uh you're kind of
getting at is like hey it's great to
make the standards but of course we want
to also use this as a you know an
opportunity to for reflection um on the
underlying data. And I, as you're
pointing out, I know that like the
healthy survey, the the climate survey
gets reviewed and acted upon. Um, a lot
of this is folded into the LCAP. Um,
I'll notice I noticed it again here.
That's 25% of students experiencing
cyber bullying seems really high to me.
I know that maybe that's not high out
relative to other districts, but that's
also called out in the LCAP as an area
for focus. Um, and so I think it's great
that, you know, the district is
continuing to use this data. Um, you
know, the dashboard's one thing. We're
meeting the standard. Sure. But the
important part is the district's
continuing to use the data to stay
focused on how students and families are
experiencing school. Um, so I just want
to say thanks uh Jenny, Anna, um, all
any staff that was working on
administering the surveys and
synthesizing the data. Um, you know,
it's clear that some thoughtful work
went into meeting all five of the local
indicators.
Um yeah, I don't know if anyone has
anything to close out otherwise.
>> No, this is just a discussion. Yeah,
>> just a discussion.
>> Okay, perfect. We can move on to the
next one.
>> Thank you, Jenny.
>> Yeah, thank you Jenny.
>> Thank you everyone.
>> Um 8.2 is a second reading and and this
is just a discussion again of the board
policy in AR 5123 and this is on
promotion, acceleration and retention
and I believe it's W.
>> Yes, thank you. So, thank you again to
the board policy committee that met to
review the discussion items from the
last uh board board meeting where we
were looking at different type of
language that might be stronger in the
board policy specifically around
acceleration and retention. And so, we
took that feedback to the board policy
uh committee again. And you'll note that
in these attachments, you'll um see the
highlighted version where the language
was changed and and rewarded to capture
the conversation that we had together as
a board. So, um a and some regrouping of
the information and then small editing
down at on the second page with bulleted
items. But I did want to open up this
discussion with this new language
brought to the board for consideration
um as our as our final draft. Um but
once again are able to capture any
thoughts that the board might have about
the changes and really what the
messaging is about this board policy to
the public.
>> All right. Does anyone have comments,
suggestions? Yeah.
>> No, I just want to say um I mean I'm
fine with the changes. Um, I I also want
to say thank you to the committee for,
you know, putting all the time and
effort and updating the board policies.
So,
thank you.
>> I'm on the committee. Uh, but I'll just
also say thank you to Wendy for being
very proactive in putting this together.
And I I think it does reflect the
discussion that we had, which was um
pretty robust among the the full board
during the first reading. And I I hope
it I think it does capture um kind of
the essence of where we're trying to get
to, which is just really communicating,
yeah, we really want to make sure that
all students are being served to the
full full potential. Um and that means
adjusting as appropriate. So again,
thank you Wendy for putting this
together.
>> Yeah, thanks for putting the additional
language into the policy. Um
particularly around discouraging
retention as well. Um and I know that's
not something that that happens
regularly. Um you know, and we rarely
see it happen, but again, you know, I
think we spoke about it last time. It's
important to have the process in place
so that there's no question should it
ever come up. Um, and particularly
around ways for people to be able to
appeal uh any of that stuff in the home.
So,
>> yeah, thank you for that and thank you
to the board policy committee. We we
really focused on language and we have
an excellent word smithther too on our
team. Uh, and so really kudos to
everybody to re to capture what it was I
think the intent was. And that's what's
the great part about this discussion
process is to to be able to go back and
include things we may not have thought
of or a new nuance on how we look at it.
So, thank you again.
>> Great. Uh, we'll look forward to
approving this in August.
>> Yes.
>> Um, we meet again. Okay. Let's move on
to the consent agenda. We have a few
items on here and we're going to approve
them in one motion. So, can I get a
motion to approve?
I'll move to approve all the consent
items.
>> Second.
>> All in favor? I. Perfect. All right,
let's go on to the action items. Um,
we're up to 10.1 and that's approval of
the LCAP for the 2526 school year.
>> Yes. So, today we are now approving the
LCAP for tonight um for the rest of the
year 2526. I did make those changes um
that were on there and found some minor
adjustments as well as we went through
again um looking at it again. So, we are
requesting the board approve our LCAP
for the 2526 school year.
>> And so, just to clarify, nothing no
material changes between this one and
the one that we discussed. And of
course, last week we had this public
hearing. Um, you know, it's back here
tonight for uh adoption. Um, David Lee,
Trusty Lee, and I um and and Vice
President Weekly were all here last
week. He's not here tonight, but uh we
had a big discussion. Um Cecilia, I know
you weren't here. Do you have any
comments or questions that you'd like to
start with on the LCAP? Um,
>> I don't. Um, I do obviously just want to
say thank you. Um, I I know Redwood City
has come a long way. Um we've been doing
a lot of um improving again moving the
needle slowly like I've said before but
it's moving and so I do appreciate um
all the staff and particularly our
teachers and um teachers a there helping
our students on a daily basis. So um I
do appreciate everything that everyone
is doing.
>> Thank you.
>> Great.
Um, I'll I'll just add thank you Anna
and team for making the adjustments. I
appreciate the patience. Uh, I I have
lots of questions and I'm still candidly
getting up to speed on like all the
different pieces and trying to make
things digestible obviously for myself,
but hopefully for others who are reading
it because I'm sure there's a wide
audience. Um, but really appreciate
that. And then I think I said it last
time, but the it's just really great to
see the actual underlying progress as
well like the difference from baseline.
There's obviously there are many things
we can always continue to push on, but
like we've saw we saw some really
material results in the right direction
which I just thought was great.
>> Yep. I'll echo thanks uh for the
thoughtful rigorous work that went into
you know the LCAP um and acknowledge all
the not just the strategic thinking
reflected in the plan but the engagement
with families and students and educators
and the community members that shaped
it. Um, so you know, I'll be proud proud
to approve this plan tonight when we get
to it.
>> I don't know if you have any
>> Just to thank Anna and the team and
those who worked with her closely to get
this LCAP put together. I know by many
years that this has had it's an ordeal.
It's something that was not be to be
done in this fashion, but how it got to
be here, it has to do with state
legislation. And that's all I'm going to
say. Yeah,
>> we could do things so much easier.
>> Yeah.
>> And with specific content and context
and still give more information and I
think it's a lot more clear to not only
ourselves and to the community. This is
a big job and there isn't, I believe, a
superintendent in this county that would
like to do it differently. We all
have our wos about it. Don't leave me.
But thank you, Anna, for all the hard
work that you put in the late nights
because some nights I'm leaving late and
you're still here.
>> Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. So your
team.
>> All right, let's uh make a motion to
approve.
>> I move that we approve the LCAP for the
2526 school year.
>> Second.
>> All in favor? I. Great. We're on to
10.2. Uh and that's approval of the 2526
proposed budget for RCSD.
>> Yeah. Good evening. Uh so as you
mentioned, President Wells, uh last week
we had public hearings both for the LCAP
uh and for the budget uh where we
reviewed the 2526 proposed budget. Since
the public hearing, there have been no
material changes to revenue,
expenditure, or fund balance projections
across any of our district funds. Minor
formatting adjustments were made to
improve the readability and presentation
of the document.
The budget continues to include
multi-year projections through 2728
reflecting uh our commitment to
long-term fiscal planning. It rem
remains aligned with the goals and
actions outlined in the district's 2526
LCAP which was approved in the previous
board item.
The proposed budget includes planned
transfers from fund 25 to help maintain
fiscal solveny in 2526. It also
identifies need for fiscal stabilization
measures in the two out years 2627 and
2728 to address projected structural
deficits.
The district is in the process of
developing a detailed plan and timeline
for identifying and implementing these
fiscal stabilization measures. This work
will begin in late July and continue
throughout the 2526 school year. Uh with
that, staff recommends the board approve
the 2526 budget as presented.
Thanks, Rick. Um,
Cecilia, I'm gonna point to you again
just because we David and I had a got a
chance to talk about this last week as
well. So, I don't know if you have any
questions or comments.
>> Um, no, actually, I did meet with Rick
uh this afternoon and he went over the
um information. Um, I did tell them I
appreciate obviously all the thorough
explanation and I also want to say thank
you to your team for helping you out
with uh putting the budget together. Um,
so other than that, I don't have any
questions.
>> And then Rick, I forgot to just clarify.
I didn't see any material changes
between this week and last week. There
were there were no like material changes
in the
>> budget. Yeah. Okay. Right. Right. Okay.
Um, David, questions or comments? Okay.
Well, then uh yeah, we had a discussion
last week. Uh, so I just want to, you
know, say thanks again for putting the
budget together. Um, you know,
obviously, uh, anyone that's looking at
it is going to see those big fiscal
stabilizations and the big transfer
coming in now. Um, and this is not an
issue unique to Redwood City School
District. Um, but it is something that
hits this district particularly hard.
Um, since, you know, we're kind of like
just basic aid. Uh, and so, you know,
post-pandemic era, those funding has,
you know, kind of ended. we're kind of
back to um cost exceeding revenue uh
kind of school district that that
happens be you know we saw before the
pandemic in the tens and probably even
before that um and you know we're seeing
we mentioned this last week too new
requirements are always coming to
districts and particularly for ones like
ours we don't get funding to go along
with it so universal TK as awesome as
that program is um is yeah is not cheap
and that that definitely comes and
affects the budget So, you know,
it's gonna, you know, for I think except
for Cecilia, for the rest of us on the
board, we've never really had to deal
with that kind of environment. Um, me
too. I came in when funding was going
up. It was, it was outstanding. Um, and
so, you know, we'll just have to
reorient ourselves and be ready for uh
that kind of environment and make sure
that we're just, you know, focused on
students and making sure that we're
doing the best decision that we possibly
can. Anyone else have comments?
>> Just thank you so much, Rick. Even
though I um saw that fiscal
stabilization plan that needs to come
before the board and others, and it's
there's a timeline uh already in place
as a draft, Jorge and I are working on
it again on Friday just to clean it up.
I will get it out to board members, but
I don't need it back until um first week
in August. Just give me your thoughts.
Yeah. But it should be completed on
Friday of how we're going to get there.
timeline put in place, the um ability to
garner support from our community, from
our staff, from our teachers, and our
administrators. So, it's like I say,
it's a draft right now, but it should be
in perfect cement condition for you to
view and then get back to me that first
week in August.
>> Yeah, that's great. And while there's no
need to drag out the timeline, and
there's something nice about doing it
compressed, we do have a little bit more
time than we do than we did last year.
Yeah. website. So, uh, but thanks again.
Really appreciate it. Okay, so this is
an action item. Can I get a motion to
approve the budget?
>> I move that we approve the 2526 proposed
budget.
>> Second.
>> All in favor? I. Great. Uh, we're on to
10.3. Uh, this is res resolution 26 and
this is the education protection act for
the next fiscal year 25266.
>> Good evening. Again, tonight we are
asking the board to approve resolution
26 for the education protection account.
Uh the education protection account,
otherwise known as EPA, was established
as part of Prop 30 in 2012 and extended
by Prop 55. EPA funds represent a
portion of state income tax revenues
that are allocated to school districts,
charter schools, and county office of
education to support instructional
programs. These funds must be used for
classroom related expenses and cannot be
spent on administrative salaries or
benefits. Each year, the governing board
is required to approve a resolution
identifying how EPA funds will be used.
Um, tonight uh funds uh for Redwood City
School District will be used to support
salaries for classroom teachers and our
estimated EPA funding for 2526 is
$1,27,250.
And with that, I'll hand it back to the
board.
>> Right. Does anyone have questions about
how the EPA funding is going to be
proposed to be spent next year?
Nope. Looks appropriate in accordance
with the requirements of the
constitution of California
constitutions. Great. Um, can I get less
comments? Any other comments? No. Great.
Can uh I get a motion to approve.
>> I'll make a motion to approve 10.3.
I'll second.
>> All in favor? I. Perfect.
10.4 is resolution 27. Uh this is
approval of education code and title
five options for teaching assignments
for the 2526 school year. Wendy Kelly,
>> thank you. Um, each year at this time of
year and also in August, there will be a
list presented to you uh for
consideration for approval in order to
allow for teachers who already hold
credentials or are in staff development
type positions or speech language um
teachers who need a waiver to do the
work that they're doing by the
regulations of the uh CTC. And so this
is an annual item. It usually has to do
with in classroom situations master
schedule changes or a new elective that
pops up that might be outside the
teacher's credential. But the state
allows uh this process to unfold so that
the board can consider a fully
credentialed teacher who may want to
stretch themselves in another area or
have some sort of competency in their
background to justify teaching an
elective class or what have you or or
another type of class. And so this
process um unfolds each year. I do want
to point out with the August 19th uh
board meeting that we will likely have I
don't have a crystal ball, but it might
happen. Um
uh additional ed code waiverss and title
five options that might need to be
brought to you. Uh we did alert the
county that the board meeting is after
the first day of school, which is
sometimes problematic. However, they
gave us an approval to move forward with
that. So, I just want to point that out
because I will be bringing very likely
the same type of document to you on
August 19th after school has started and
um we are good to go in that regard from
the county. So, anyway, this list is um
uh my staff did a great job really
working with all the teachers, the
principles with the master schedules to
put this together in advance, but we
will have some others coming to you in
August. Any questions?
>> Thank you. Yeah. Any anyone have
questions?
Nope. Thanks to the HR department for
putting this together. Uh we do this,
like you said, we do it every year.
These teachers are qualified, you know,
for the assignments and they're willing
to take on other roles. So, I think uh I
definitely appreciate it. I think the
board appreciates that, too. Um can we
get a motion to approve?
>> I move to that we approve resolution 27.
>> Second.
>> All in favor? I. Okay. Okay. 10.5 is the
2526 consolidated application for
federal funding programs.
>> Um and the audience
um
see can you unmute her?
>> Yeah,
>> I think I'm unmuted. This is Katherine.
>> Yeah, we can hear you, Greg.
>> Hi. Good morning. Yeah, good morning.
Good evening, trustees
and my colleagues. Uh this is our annual
consolidated application approval for
funding. Um this is um when we submit
our application each year for our
federal funding um in our different
federal categories. Um you can see on
the application it's a very simple
application that we submit each year to
the CDE. Um and we are applying for
title one funds which are the
supplementary funds. So anything that's
above and beyond um the basic education
for students um and title two you can
see is supporting effective instruction.
And in our LCAP um which you just
approved um there's lots of language and
how uh we have are using federal funds
to support our teachers and staff our
administrators this coming year um in
our English learners and for title three
um again a lot of professional
development and a lot of support um as
that is one of our major focus um folky
for this year is um professional
development and the support of our
English learners And um as as part of
title three, there is specific funding
for im immigrant students. And so you'll
see that as as well in our LCAP um
federal funds allocated to um immigrant
students, a lot of our newcomer students
and support through instructional
assistance and teachers. And then
ultimately we have title four which is
the um student uh and school support.
And it's really like more of an
enrichment piece. So we look at how
we're supporting our students through um
uh social emotional um learning and or
um academic enrichment. So things like
tutoring um and our DAC had a a large
voice um and in the development of our
um federal funding and one of the major
areas that they wanted to see addressed
for our English learners um is was to
ensure that there was adequate tutoring.
Um and so through our um DAC committees
um really bringing forward the voice of
our families and making sure that
tutoring, academic tutoring was part of
the plan in our federal funds.
>> All right. Thank you, Catherine. Um does
anyone have questions or comments before
approving the submission of the
application?
>> All right. Can we get a motion to
approve?
>> I will make a motion to approve. 10.5.
>> Second. All in favor? I. Okay. 10.6 and
10.7 we move to consent and approved
that earlier. So we are on to uh board
and superintendent reports. I know I
have nothing in the past from the past
week to report. I don't know if anyone
else does. Um okay. All right. David.
>> Uh the one thing that I attended was the
uh San Antonio County Office of
Education school funding task force
which is on Monday. And this is relevant
I think to our earlier budget
discussion. mainly, you know, obviously
there's limited things that we can do
from the district perspective on the
revenue side. So, a lot of the focus is
necessarily on cost, but uh um I
appreciate that the county office is
looking, as uh President Wells
mentioned, this is an issue that is
afflicting, you know, many other
districts beyond us. And so, it's
helpful that they're trying to
brainstorm ways or at least gather um
ideas from folks across the county on
potential legislation or other ways that
we can basically seek additional funding
for our county where we have very high
cost area. Um that that said is it's a
task force. It's brainstorming. We'll
see what that actually comes out with
and I think the next meeting will be in
uh in the fall to kind of recap what the
county office staff has been able to
pull together. So um we'll see how it
goes. But you know just want to mention
we are we we are there are many people
trying to solve this equation um from
multiple different angles.
>> Yeah. And I I wanted to attend that but
I couldn't make it on Monday so I had uh
um declined it. But uh would were they
still focused on LCFF funded schools or
did it
>> uh it I I spoke up for the for our
district. Uh I think there's there were
a few ideas that were bounced around.
One of them I think was about uh
focusing on the quote lowest um lowest
funded districts within the county. And
I I brought up that I think Redwood City
and Ravenswood, for example, are in a
little bit of a different situation
where if you look at the raw numbers,
it's yes, we might have more than some
others, but we I think we I think it
would be helpful to look beyond just the
raw numbers, right? Because it's also
based on needs and we have a higher
needs population than other places. And
so I think that's still something that
the county office is going to be
hopefully they'll be considering as they
develop their ideas. Um so we'll have to
see. And then there were two other ideas
um that are being explored. Um, one of
them that's more on uh specifically with
the districts that have gone back and
forth between base basic and and LCFF
and just ensuring that to the extent
that there are property taxes that are
being withheld and they're not given
back that they are given back which
makes sense. And then the third was um
about some workforce housing types of
proposals. Um but I think they're going
to evaluate them all and then we'll
we'll see what they come up.
>> Cool. Thanks for the update. and
managing that back and forth between
LCFF and basic aid looks like a
nightmare to uh navigate. So,
do you have anything to report from the
last week?
>> Okay, nothing to report. Okay, so now um
we received some information about San
Mo County Investment Fund. If there are
no questions, we can move on. Uh
correspondence,
I've received none. Reminder about the
board self-evaluation. And I don't know
if you've completed it or not, but we
received a those of us that have not
completed it yet received a reminder.
So, I'll just uh pass that along. Um,
okay. Uh, future agenda items, other
suggested items for the future agenda.
Okay. Board meetings calendar. Uh,
please note that it Evelyn's updated it
to the 2526
uh calendar and it's the one with the
adjustments or I guess we approved it,
right? Um,
>> it was approved and then the only one
that I added on was the August 12th
board retreat. Yeah. So, it's August
12th and then there's two changes at the
beginning of the year that we move to
different days for a variety of things.
Okay. Uh we're up to adjournment. Can I
get a motion to adjourn?
>> And a second. All right. Uh all in
favor?
>> I. All right. We are adjourned.