Okay, according to my clock it's 8 p.m. So we will call the meeting to order.
And we will start with roll call. Oh, wait. Wait, I'm sorry. Never mind. Yeah. No. Yeah, we have been told me you did. Oh, I see never mind. We will start with the the flag salute and that will be done by Windows Springs. So go ahead.
Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand and remove your hats for the presentation of the colors?
Color Guard advance
Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance ready begin. I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible for liberty and justice for all.
Prepare to post the colors.
Post the colors
Color Guard dismissed
Thank you. Please be seated. Hi, my name is Karina mascara and I'm an eighth grader and the student leadership team president at Windmill Springs and I am here with my sister.
Hi, my name is Natalia magana and I'm a proud sixth grade student at as we Mo Springs Elementary School.
Hi, my name is Rachel tang, and I'm a seventh grader at Windmill Springs. I'm joined here today with my dad.
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Okay, thank you again, when no springs and please drive safe in the rain if you leave early, but you're welcome to stay. Okay, you're now up to 3.0 to approve disapprove additions to the agenda. Are there any
3.03 approve disapprove order of the agenda there any
3.04 report of action taken in closed session
The board unanimously to it's in a 3-0 vote approved the January 22nd 2019 closed session minutes to there. No other actions to report.
Thank you, superintendent Cruz and number for oral Communications members of the public May address the board on any issue within subject matter jurisdiction of the Border agenda and items members of the public may also address the broad consent items before the board's consideration of the items in accordance with board by log 93 23 individual Marsh will be limited to three minutes each unless otherwise stipulated no action can be taken on any agenda items at this time questions may be referred to the administration or put on a future agenda. And our first or communication request is with is from Marie mcentee.
Hello good to see you. I am Marie mcentee. I'm a longtime teacher in the district. I but I'm here I've been granted a leave of absence for this year to support schools across the state implementing reading and writing workshop and I am thrilled that Los Arboles is one of the schools that I get to work with. So I just wanted to celebrate with you some of the really fun writing that I'm seeing their I'm excited. The teachers are excited. Tina is excited. And of course the students are excited. I'm prepared to do this in three minutes to talk really fast, but I'm wondering if I could just is it okay if I go a little bit slower? No, okay, so writing Workshop starts with of course a progression any any writing starts with the progression at the very beginning of the progression is just scribbling on a page.
And adding some letter sounds adding the initial letter sounds going to adding more words labels and all the way down to writing sentences with spaces in between the words and
So here's here's Jesus in November. This is right at the beginning of their first unit. And you can see he has initial sounds for each of these the sun and the heart and the rainbow. And of course this I said, oh, is that a rocket? It's a robot house. Of course. It's a robot house.
So you can see where he is. He's already passed scribbles on a page. He's already passed the letter-sound correspondence and he's all the way to first letter sounds on the progression. So a teacher conference with the student would be wow. You already have heard the first sound in the words that you wanted to write and he put them on the paper. You know what I think you're ready for next. You know what I think you could do you are ready to start putting more and more and more letters that you hear in the word. And so the teachers is nudging them forward. Here's somebody who's put lots of letters labeling the sun and the surf board I especially love this water and make it fit. And so with that student you can see they've already passed the first letter sound they started hearing more letters and sounds so it's like, wow look at you this good writing work that you have done. You've heard so many different letter sounds you know what you're ready for I bet you're ready to add.
More words in your label. I bet you could talk about not just water. But what kind of water?
Here's Jana. They were doing I like pattern books. So I like rainbows. I like snowflakes. I like my teachers. Look at that. It's like all those letter sounds so with Jenna is like wow, she hasn't just done two and three word labels. She started to write sentences. That is such great writing work Jenna. You know what you're ready for you're ready, you know would be it would help your reader if you put spaces in between each of those words so you can see how the teachers can just push them through the progression.
This was a second day of the unit bring something special from home that you could look at and study and then get the details on your paper. And so we had the elf we have the troll Roblox and they then two days later they started. Wow, what something so big you can't bring it into class, but we can think about it. And so they wrote about the beach water sand fish someone else another student wrote about the mountains the snowy Hills the birds up in the top and the snow Disneyland Mickey Mouse princesses castles.
Then there's Walmart photos you can get apples. You can use a cart.
Let's look at this for a second talk about our social emotional needs of our students this this young writer might not have had the vocabulary or the courage to go. Hey teacher your significant adult in my life, and I just had a very distressing experience at the Walmart Photoshop. But what he did do was he chose to write a book about Walmart and he chose to put this as the first page so maybe that Teachers Conference that day isn't around the writing but it's around. Wow, that's a powerful picture, you know, do you want to talk about that? What's happening there?
So it's through writing that we
For the next half through writing that the students show us who they are. It's through writing that teachers can build those relationships that are so important and our students often when we're giving them choice and voice people wonder we'll do our kids have enough to bring to write about but as you can see our students have so many Rich ideas and feelings and experiences.
And this was just some second graders who started putting their work in the classroom bookcase. The teacher didn't even know kids are going by I want my classmates to read my stories.
So many thanks to Marie. This is Los Arboles kindergarten Maria ponds and Heather Martinez second grade Giuliana Flores. Thanks to Tina for supporting her teachers in writing instruction, and I know that in the upcoming months are going to be making a lot of important decisions around curriculum and budget, and I just wanted to put in a reminder about the power and the beauty of student Choice student voice and writing. Thank you.
Thank you, Marie. Okay. And next on the list is Scott Schuman sin in Scott while you're coming up. I just would like everybody to know that board member Tantra and was not able to make it this evening. So he's absent.
So first, I'd like to speak briefly about the solar update. I'm looking forward to the presentation on the district's solar project and it is a disheartening set of numbers when we see the 23 million dollars in cost and I remember five or six years ago hearing all of the reasons why that was a good expenditure and now it looks like the savings has just been $700,000 in four years not counting the 1.8 million in tax credit and I just have to wonder why were the projections so off from from what the reality is and I know no one up here is to blame very few board members or even around that made that vote and I think the one who is here voted against it, but but in any case it is very concerning because a lot of promises are made for a lot of money to be spent by this district, and I'm shocked to see that so little electrical savings are being realized.
It seems like $700,000 in four years is extremely little and I keep thinking is there is there really no way for some accountability based on all the promises that were made here in this room about why this was I believe going to be a revenue positive expenditure. So I look forward to more details in that presentation. Secondly looking forward to the governor's budget presentation as well. I've been looking a lot at The District's adoption budget from June as well as the first interim and I am very excited to look at the second interim when it comes out next month. One thing that's really struck me is that the district actually has two point two million more dollars in Revenue realized in the first interim compared to the adoption budget and that may be because of the state budget passed in June. I'm not sure but we have 3.5 million dollars more in expenditures in the first interim than in the adoption budget. So I do think that as we
Continue to unfortunately decline in enrollment as a district. We really need to look at our expenditures diminishing because we can expect our revenues to be diminishing since we were serving a smaller community. So I will be coming to board meetings with little bits and pieces of information on the budget that I think are relevant for the district to consider certainly in terms of bargaining with Franklin with Franklin McKinley teachers as well as decisions made in general.
I also want to mention that I am in support of calendar be that is the option that is being brought to you tonight to vote on for the next two years and the calendar committee did come up with some very interesting ideas and calendar be is actually going to continue Franklin McKinley to have sort of a unique calendar. But in some ways it brings us closer to some of our neighboring districts such that we would have that February ski week or whatever you want to call it that February break would now be included. So it is it is a really interesting proposal and it certainly had the majority of teachers support. Although it was a close call. We never have anything close to unanimity on our calendars is a lot of teachers frustrated each year. But all we can do is support the one with the most votes and that's calendar be and I believe that was the same for CSEA. And so I hope the board will ratify that finally I just want to speak briefly that I believe since the last time this board met. We lost a member and that does happen from time to time. But this was the first time we've ever lost a sitting room
Council member and I believe most of you have heard it was it was our teacher. Mr. Andrew love and I just was flashing on the first time. I met him I heard about him for years. He was a teacher who many people knew and kind of unique character of you ever had a chance to meet him, but he was sitting in the back and he introduced himself to me and he handed me the law of success by Napoleon Hill and I still haven't read it, but it's on the bookshelf and his honor. I think I'll have to pick it up and take another look at it. So in any case, it's always a sad thing when we lose any member of our Franklin McKinley Community, whether it's a teacher classified staff a student administrator parent. It's one community and it hurts us all when we lose one of our own. Thank you.
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Okay, we will move on over there anybody else who would like to speak during or Communications that I did not call?
Seeing none. We will move on to number five informational items discussion and or action items. The first item on there is 5.01 energy conservation program in solar energy update Jason. Yes, good evening board members. This is an opportunity for staff to provide a update on our solar projects and initiatives based on goal solar California and Studies have done back in 2012. We're happy to report that there have been Savings in terms of our solar projects of seven hundred eighteen thousand by the end of the 44 years as well as a 1.7 million dollars in rebates that the district has received over that same period of time. So total of two point four million dollars worth of savings from our solar project at this point. I'm going to turn it over to Vanessa Arbor Batch who is our energy supervisor to provide more details on this program how it's both helped us from an operational standpoint as well.
Was an educational standpoint for our students.
Good evening.
And thank you for allowing me to take the time to share with you tonight our district energy conservation program as solar energy update as you have reviewed the agenda and the slides attachments. I will briefly highlight the key points and leave time for questions and at the end of the presentation.
California's energy challenge the introduces the Go Solar campaigned. It is a joint effort from the California energy commission and the California Public Utilities Commission combined. The campaigns go is to encourage Californians to install solar energy systems on homes and businesses by the end of 2016.
Keeping in mind. This was actually introduced back in 2007 by Governor Schwarzenegger making renewable energy a reality this open the doors for Franklin McKinley to promote conservation principles while reducing energy consumption.
The next task which is the project scope was to discover how we can promote energy conservation principles. So Franklin McKinley School District established a systemic approach to manage energy demand and Supply by first installing the panels to convert solar energy back to the grid which is the supply and there after installing the building Automation and controls Network, which is known as bacnet to manage the man's / California regulations. And that regulation is the California Title 24 building Energy Efficiency standards.
From California's campaign. Our districts goals are to not only go green and reduce our carbon footprint but also to promote educational opportunities for stem learning for our students in order to reach our goals. We needed to Benchmark our energy usage and monitor our progress through the years.
This page you see here shows a timeline from the day, California announced its Go Solar campaign through today's board meeting.
Frankel McKinley School Districts Investments includes commitment to the goal solar campaign involvement involving investing in a 20-year tax-exempt lease and the five-year annual maintenance as well as the five-year monitoring and verification fee as outlined in the display.
The following depicts the annual consumption analysis at the solar sites from pre-solar to the last completed school year for Bridges Hellyer Kennedy laronde Los Arboles and McKinley.
There was a question from one of the board members specifically on the high usage amounts at Kennedy site. And the reason why those numbers are so high compared to the other school sites is because we've had summer school programs running a few days after school is dismissed.
Through the middle of not the end of July and at the Kennedy School unlike the other schools that actually run time for the summer programs is from 8 a.m. Until 2:00 or 2:30 in the afternoon. So basically it's a full regular schedule in the summer. In addition to those years. Kennedy also has Cornerstone who is a charter on our district campus as well as the after-school programs running for Coral all the way up till 6 p.m. At night.
This is the showing of the other solar sites within the district as you can see also, the district office is a high consuming building campus. And that's just because we have offices and not students.
On this page energy consumption Trends Through The Years display that our district goals in reducing carbon footprint have been achieved in the first first complete year of solar in 2014-15. We have reduced consumption by 68% kilowatt-hour per student in four years after solar installation energy consumption is down to 72 percent kilowatt per student.
Monitoring the district's energy usage pursued at we also included annual utility payment analysis at the solar sites again here in here are only the solar sites depicted.
And this is the continuation for the rest of the solar sites.
I presented the charge from California Go Solar campaign and our districts history and implementing energy conservation principles. You've seen the timeline of vestments and monitoring of usage and payments here in I present you the district-wide analysis for the projected output from NG Energy Services in dark teal and pges Report actual output in the light teal column.
Production results for all solar sites since Inception are shown here in both output and savings.
In a nutshell the cost versus saving summary. We have reduced our usage, which is highlighted in Yellow by 68% pre-solar and this is from 2012 to 2015. And this is 2015 to current our net payments have reduced by 55%
In essence Franklin McKinley School District reduce our consumption from PG&E. We've reduced our utility cost from PG&E and we've conserved 4.4 million kilowatt hours through the years since solar installation.
As we look into the future we ask ourselves. What do we need to do to continue the savings and continue to reduce our carbon footprint for the district as well as be a part of a
Lifestyle that this state has adopted of going green.
And thank you for your time and ask if you have any questions.
Any questions from the board members?
I said have a question on the side with the timeline. I'll go back to that.
So I know that part of the objective was providing the steam opportunities to our students and so I'm just wondering kind of how that's evolved and I specifically it may not well just by looking on that the timeline specifically the energy themes professional developments as well as the Steam School steering committee. Is that still ongoing or has that kind of tapered off and if so why so the initial idea from the get-go from Chevron with the contract is that we do provide educational opportunities for the students as well as support for staff through professional development and Chevron back then sold their contract over to
Can't think of the name right now, but now it is.
I'll tear oh, yes. Thank you. I'll Tara and up Tara basically had educational professional Outreach perfect professionals coming out to work with Educational Services on these professional PD days for the teachers and setting up different fairs and participating in the gate fares that the district provides on an annual basis. Now at that time, I was not part of that educational aspect of the program and the former superintendent back then worked with ed services to lay out the the program relationship between up Tara and the district and so the so those those modules are in existence and teachers have access to the data that is produced through the solar panels so that they can use them to analyze and do some of those in so there's
Stand-alone modules that the teachers can can integrate in terms of their science curriculum. They also have the kits that they put together to see how the solar energy is captured by the the panels and produces energy. And so those are still available to our staff Tara no longer supports the district with their professional development, but we have all those inhales now.
My thought would be if we do have those in house. How are we continuing to make that a part of this objective of it's one thing to have the resources. But if we haven't provided our staff really the opportunity to engage with these resources since 2014 that might be something that we look at bringing back if this is going to be and that's something and that's something that we'll have our G ngss subcommittee look at it as that is a critical part of the new ngss standards and I would like to add on that that I've been attending every science fair the district science fairs options for a long time and every year in the science fair. There's at least two or three projects that are related to solar it in energy. So I know that some teachers are using those modules.
In addition, I've actually reached out to Angie who is the current provider of SAR support. I've actually reached out to them to have a furthering relationship with our district for more educational support for our teachers and opportunities for our students.
In corporate not only solar energy but wind power and water and whatnot.
Thank you for all the information as well. One other question. I had just came up as I was thinking when you talked about the 20-year lease. What is the no ongoing based on where we're at. Now. What is the ongoing physical implications in terms of what the district is obligated to contribute I go to the next slide so you can see the numbers.
So that figure at the end is all that we're obligated for.
Which which is the 23 million a hundred thirty two thousand three hundred ninety two dollars. And where are the 20-year lease and where we currently with the mom I can get back to you on that. I don't have the exact figure.
So you'd like to know what where how much we paid currently the kind of exactly so far. I believe the balance is around 14 and a half million that's left on the lease, but we can get back to you with the actual thing. Perfect. Thank you. Any other questions from any of the board members just a quick question in terms of I'm not the Chevron when the Chevron went out of the out of the business here right and then they transferred over to
I'm Tara so Chevron didn't go out our business basically the portion that was in charge of the
Yeah, Consumer Energy was sold to up Tara and then up Tara was bought up by NG. Yeah, so I'll tell her no longer exists right Chevron still does and Angie is now the new company that manages Energy Services.
Okay right. Now remember because I know it was one of the vote and no vote. It was one of my 41 votes against this. I just had some real concerns, you know that time the express to the superintendent fellow board members. And so that's something that's something I could not agree with, you know, so right now in terms of 23 million dollars is something that we are I mean, we're in we're in it right now, right? There's yes, we're going to vote on this tonight. We're taking a photo just information because it's okay cuz we can move out of order on this worker over. We're you got to stick with that with this he was just so just 2013. Yes. This was board approved. So sort of one. So one of the things that Jason and I have talked about is in the future if we're able to you know, when we go out to another Bond 2020 that we potentially can have some language to help us pay down the principal in
To be able to save on the interest because that is coming out of the general fund. I know that some districts and you and I work for one that sort of did that pay down early to be able to save the general fund the interest payments. So that's one thing that we will be looking at as a way to reduce that cost. I mean the one thing that you can look at is that which is one of the things I know she'll run at that time because I remember having the same discussions at Eastside was their guarantee of the output and so certainly the systems that are poor are outperforming what they projected in terms of the output of electricity. And so that's good to see obviously that will continue to provide savings especially as PG&E and the cost of electricity go up then the savings obviously to the district will continue to increase as a result of that.
As long as the the output continues to be at the level that it is right now and so the maintenance of it to ensure that the the output continues to be at that high level is important. And so, you know, that's something to kind of think about because one of the things that everyone at that time was selling was its it doesn't reach the output. We will give you that the difference and that was sort of the selling point for a lot of districts in terms of lowering the risk doesn't remember that time solar energy was still fairly new and people weren't sure whether the the panels were going to generate the kind of output that they were suggesting that good.
And then there's then only two schools currently that we don't have solar energy in that Ramblewood in that is Franklin Franklin because of the modernization project. It was slated and then at Ramblewood
All sin t as well because I also the EduCare modern project that was there and then Ramblewood simply because of the natural occurring Asbestos and having to drill past the barrier in that was going to be too costly.
Any other questions from just one more comment? I think I think there were reservations. I had a course with a the price and then the fact that there were other energy companies out there and I wanted to take a look at those where you have the presentation come back to us. But with those companies involved or give us giving in give us a presentation from their perspective and in that I had a talk with one of those companies and I just thought that we could do we could get a better deal but every but that's all history as we say, we can't we can't redo redo history. But anyway, but doesn't want to clarify in terms of my opposition and then one of the things that I think we also have an opportunity as sort of thinking about our usage, I think because we have solar panels there's a tendency to think that were not wasting energy because it's being produced by the solar panels. And so I think it has shifted some of that.
The old conservation in regards to turning off the lights and they'll doing some of that stuff that I think at the schools. We certainly can use a lot more of that. I think that you know, one of the things is all the appliances that are out of the schools and then the classrooms and so forth. So I think there's some opportunity for the district to continue to have some conservation around these things increase our our savings from there, you know with all the lighting projects that also is going to have an impact as we're using a lot less electricity with the new LED lighting. And so I think there you'll see some of that reflected in the the future years when we come back and give the update to the board. It's okay. No other questions. Okay. I have a few.
And I think that I think was what scared board members Sanchez from the beginning was seeing that 23 million dollar lease. And we actually we actually did have several proposals by other energy companies. So it wasn't like we just heard one and that was it. No, we did look at several companies and made the decision with this one. So we did do our homework. It took us I think it took us almost three years to make a decision on it. So we did the research for about three years before we made a decision. I was on the board and you can and I made it I voted to support this because you cannot go wrong with you renewable energy renewable energy is the future. It's today now, and I think that when we made that decision we were looking at the future.
And I think Jason we might need your help on this or maybe either one of you in five years. We saved about 2.5 million in and PG&E cost and also rebates, right? So if you multiply that times worth is 20 years. Am I doing the math? Right if the rebates continued that long you can on the math, right? But the rebates are doing the legal way. So that number is going to decrease over the 20-year period okay. I don't know that exact figure but those rebates are gone away and that was a significant piece. Okay. So and then also you add in the value of the education programs, you know, we we are going to recover the cost of that lease.
Easily and also with with the changes that are coming with PGE we might we might incur even less cost with PGE save even more because I know the right now, what is it about 60 70 percent were we reduced our yes savings 68% Yeah 68% That's I mean, that's or school. I think that's amazing because I don't know if homes that are saving that much or maybe they are but I think that's fantastic. I think we how have you researched other districts are we comparable to other school districts? I haven't researched other districts. However within the last year alone I the biggest reduction was through the energy management system where I've scheduled.
All the holidays for the HVAC units to be turned off, even on four-day weekends three-day weekends, you know as in previous years prior to my position. No one took care of that. We had an energy management system, but no one controlled it it stayed on from a at 7 a.m. In the morning 6 a.m. In the morning until 5:00 in the afternoon. And that was pretty much it. However, what I've done is on certain days like for instance on shortened days. I've actually shorten those schedules to have the unit's turn off and then also, you know, even on a Monday if we have a Monday off I turned that day off too as well.
So the constant monitoring and the schedule updating the schedules have reduced it significantly within the last year so far this current year. We've spent less than a hundred twenty eight thousand dollars compared to last year up till January. Okay. Thank you. And then I have one more question on that same screen the five year annual maintenance fee and in the five-year annual monitoring verification fee contract. It's been amended and it's less why is it less?
So for the first one the annual maintenance fee, it was waived the first feet a year simply because Veronica had noticed that they never came out to do service. Thank you Veronica. So Veronica fought that and said no, we're not paying this bill that you're charging us for and basically that is the decrease that you see from 301 to 245. And then on the bottom one, which is the monitoring and verification fee that is reduced significantly because in the year that I started Veronica and I looked through everything and we determined that it is not cost effective for the district to have NG guarantee us the savings and that we just need them to monitor.
And verify that the data loggers they have on our solar panels and the inverters are still working. Okay, so that's why it's been reduced from year for 50 mm to 23,000 and year 5 which is the current year 54,000 to 23,000 as well. So then and last question those are 20 year lease in your 20. I don't know who's going to be on the board. Maybe George will fit in your 20 what's going to happen. Do they just pick up all the materials do they say are you guys want to renew the lease or what usually happens to you know, usually I'm an option to buy for like a dollar or something dollar. Yeah, it's usually you own at the end of the 20 year lease. They're not going to come back and remove all these panels or move. All the steel say do you want to do when you have a buyout option it do they have a replacement option. You can pay for replacement panels if you want to do that for more High efficient panels, but they will not give that to you.
Okay. All right, they'll Replace defective ones that are under warranty. There's no trade in. Okay, that's it any other anybody think of any other questions? Thank you very much for for just a little bit more of a time. If you don't if you allow me basically you said that eventually we're going to get the money back and how PG&E is changing and actually it has already changed effective the first of February PG&E no longer supplies energy. They are reverting to be the go-between company because they own the lines for energy. They own the pipes for gas. They own the electrical lines and the meters. So what they are that was the basis of pgd now exists to bill the customers because it's their equipment, but the energy suppliers are going
I swear it's going to San Jose clean energy, which we are using right now and then others areas and other cities they're using someone else.
So PG&E is not supplying energy.
So that is the direction that energy is going and costs are going so in looking at the last second to last slide about our next steps. That's something that I will seriously take into consideration in terms of what our district can do with PG&E stepping out from supplying the energy.
And that's why I have oh and also thank you to Veronica want oh and Jason for helping me with putting this all together and their support and guidance and giving you this presentation tonight. Thank you, and I'm curious to see what's going to happen implications on the cost with PG&E making all those changes. Well, they filed bankruptcy. Yeah. I saw that on the news, and I used to be an intern with the genie in college. So my job was energy conservation, and we were just starting renewable conservation in the 80s interesting how far it's come. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Okay the next item, I guess Jason again with the governor's budget proposal.
Good evening again. So I get to talk about some good news from our new governor Gavin Newsom and his proposal for 2019-20.
So just wanted to remind you that this is the start of our budget cycle when it comes to putting together our budget proposal for 2019-20. And as you can see here, we have a nice little cartoon here of our previous governor Brown passing the Baton to our new governor Gavin Newsom. And so Begins the race or Begins the cycle for our budgeting process myself and other cabinet members Juan Cruz polo bowling and also Joanne and also members of CSEA went to a presentation given by school Services of California, which talked about the governor's budget for 2019-20. So here are some of the themes that were summarized by school services that we wanted to share with you. I think it's no surprise that Governor Gavin Newsom has a place in his heart and his mind for the future of Early Education. So those are one of the themes of his budget proposal and
To be additional money out there for Early Education and we'll talk about that a little more in the future. He also wants to do more with lcff and funding for students who will talk about how that number has increased as well as looked at other things related to special education, which I'll talk about in a little bit in the future overall. The economy is growing not as fast as it was before but it's still growing. So that's great for us as a school district. Of course everyone tells us that we're in the tenth year of a growth period and a recession is bound to hit us because we have gone through such a long period of growth but no one can guarantee us win that recession is going to hit. So the best way to prepare for that is to have Reserves.
One of the other things that Gavin Newsom is looking at which is a little bit different than Governor Brown is Charter Schools. I think it was no surprise that Governor Brown supported a lot of charter schools. But Gavin Newsom want to take a harder look at Charter Schools to see how they're impacting our public educational program. And how is it serving our students? So it should be interesting to see what that study that he's putting forth is going to produce and how that's going to impact education going forward. We've already talked about early childhood education and he's also putting some money towards facilities specifically related to early childhood education, but he's going to put some additional money to have full day kindergarten available for all students within a state of California.
The big question is whether or not he's going to have the political will to make all those things happen. So we'll see that as the year progresses and there are more meetings with other parts of California's governmental team. What's not in the budget? So here's a couple of different things that we talked about in terms of the budget that has not been clearly identified in terms of special ed funding and early childhood funding and how that's going to proceed but one of the biggest things that is not in the budget at all is the one time discretionary grants. These are dollars that we've been receiving for the last four years, which are one time in nature which can be used for any purpose most districts in the state of California have used these dollars to help balance their budget, but in the 2019-20 school year there is nothing in the budget for these discretionary dollars in my personal opinion. Although I haven't heard this from Governor Newsom. I think he's taking a lot of those one-time dollars and putting them to other things. So when we look at calstrs, we'll talk about that in a little bit in the future. I think he's taken that one time.
Are inputting into something else to help reduce expenditures for districts going for it.
Here's a graph to showing you that our prop 98 funding which is the main funding source for education is continuing to increase as you can see there were some significant increases between 11/12 12/13 and 13/14 to 1415. But as you can see since then, it's been a steady client climb up in terms of funding and a lot of its based on Cola.
Sir, early childhood education there is money in his budget proposal to increase funding again. I talked about a little bit earlier. He wants to have full day. Kindergarten not have an AMPM schedule but have a full day of kindergarten for all students. So he's putting money towards that and in terms of facilities. He wants to make sure that school districts can have money to build additional classroom so they can have a full day kindergarten program. He's also looking at giving additional money for screenings Health screenings for students and young age children. So that's also something that's in his budget proposal and lastly. He's also looking for a way to provide additional one-time Investments related to special education. There is talk of a potential special education grant which is going to be very interesting because it's going to be something similar to the concentration Grant and I believe it's going to have a component of the more special education students.
Have as a district the more money you're supposed to receive under this particular proposal. But again, this hasn't been fully fleshed out from the governor. And we hope to hear more as the months continue under lcff. This is great news for us. He's continuing to fund lcff fully and he's going to increase it by the statutory Cola 3.46 is the statutory Cola for a 1920 on average. It's about three hundred and forty three dollars more per student of course under lcff. No one's average anymore. So what does that mean for Frank McKinney school district? Let's go forward to talk about that before I get to that actual number. Here are some slides just going over again how the formula Works under lcff based on your grades band you receive a certain number of dollars per student during the year that number has increased every year based on Cola. So as you can see here in this example K3 starts at 7500 approximately four 2018-19 base Grant increased by the
Of three point four six percent this year to the new 1920 base Grant number of 7700. I also highlight on this particular slide 9th to 12th grade. They have a significant larger number. Of course, we don't serve students in ninth and twelfth grade so we don't receive those dollars. So that's why when you look at lcff no one's an average District anymore because they're looking at all of these numbers to come up with that average of 343 again, there's a different there's additional funding factors grade span adjustments. And of course, there's a great span adjustment for K3 to make sure that we keep our class sizes at 24 to 1. If we do not do that as a district we can lose these dollars means we may have to even pay those dollars back if we find it out at the end of the year instead of at the beginning of the year. So we want to make sure that that stays at 24 to 1 and I think Administration has done a great job in keeping it at 24 to 1 and then we also have the concentration and supplemental Grant dollars that we receive under else.
Stuff and this gives you a simple demonstration of how that number is derived. You take the new 1920 Grant amount multiplied it by 20% that gets your supplemental Grant dollars you receive those dollars for any student who is an English learner who's eligible for free and reduced meal plans Foster Youth and then on top of that there's a concentration Grant if your district has a population that is more than 50% English Learners. Those were eligible for free induced Foster youth then you can get additional dollars in your concentration Grant above that 50% So if you're at 51% you get one percent more if you have 55% you get 5% more and that number is four thousand two hundred and sixty dollars per student.
Some other factors that have changed since first interim. I just wanted to highlight that here before we go into the final numbers for lcff talked about Cola changing to about unduplicated counts changing from adopted to First interim to Jennifer posle. All those have gone up which is great for us because as those numbers go up the funding per student goes up. There are some factors that have gone down and that's based on our Ada.
So all of that to say that based under this January proposal from Governor Newsom, we will receive approximately 1.2 million dollars more on going under lcff. If all other factors hold true, the one caveat is of that 1.2 million large portion of it 909 thousand dollars is related to supplemental and concentration Grant dollars and under lcff supplemental and concentration. Grant dollars should be going to the students that helped build that funding so English Learners Foster youth those who are eligible for free and reduced meal plans should be receiving something above and beyond the normal educational program that is paid for with supplemental and concentration Grant dollars. Unless you can do something district-wide and show that this program even though it's affecting all students has a significant impact to that particular demographic.
Again, this is the one piece that talks about there aren't one-time discretionary dollars going to school districts, but I believe he's taking a lot of that money that the governor the previous governor would have done and given it to districts and actually putting it towards the calstrs program the retirement program for teachers. It's taking a lot of that money and putting it into future years to reduce the cost that districts pay to help fund the calstrs program.
Here's a graph illustrating the contribution rates that we use in our projections for a multi-year program. As you can see the future years are going down. The green line represents assembly Bill 1469, which governs our current monthly your projections based on a proposal from the governor, as you can see those contribution rates go down. Every time a rate goes down. That's a greased savings for our district looking at these proposed rates going forward. We could potentially save approximately $400,000 in year, 19 20 21 and another $200,000 in the out years.
Going forward next steps.
Her more from the state on how their budget committee hearings are going how that's going to impact the budget for school districts going forward and then for us going through our planning process and the one thing I wanted to highlight on this page here, is that unfortunately because of the way budgeting Works in school districts, we have to adopt our Budget prior to hearing the state adopting their budget. And so what we're going to be adopting our budget on is based on the May revise and that may revise may be different than the June adopted budget by the state so there could be some changes between those two periods of time and those two periods of information in that we're going to receive
So at this time, I just wanted to open it up for questions.
Eve word members have questions
Yeah.
Question was just a follow-up on me a question that I had sent on slide 30. I know it's further possible. Sure varied. So in terms of
Not involvement, right? If you could just explain that a little bit more. I'm still not clear on the conditions and sure the risk of us going through that process. And I know it's more just precautionary to some extent.
In terms of what they
Would support the district with but if you could just explain that a little bit so fiscal crisis management and assistance team is an additional fuel are more branch of the fiscal oversight process that the state has four school districts. So normally school districts are being reviewed by the County Office of Education to make sure that their multi year projections show that the district will continue to survive as an operating entity local educational agency without needing any additional state aid to bail them out so we can talk about places like Oakland and La unified and so on and so forth. So fiscal crisis management assistance team is the second layer if the County Office of Education can prevent a school district for making better choices to help their program continue each year, thereafter fiscal crisis management assistance team can come in and try to provide
Additional assistance to the district to make future choices decisions to help bring their program back to not deficit spending but operating and continue as a going concern if you will, so that's the general role of fiscal crisis management assistance team. There are new conditions that are being proposed by the governor and the state of California that will automatically kick in fiscal crisis management assistance team before it's usually okay, you're in Dire Straits have fiscal crisis management team come in and help the district or you can pay them and then they can come in and they can analyze you at Services Program the business department. What have you and try to provide suggestions on how you can improve your program your services your processes to help the district evolve under this particular new change, they talk about various factors that automatically say hey thick mat go in there and provide additional.
I'm services to this District to help make them right the ship. So this approved budget that means resubmit a budget in the June time period of our 1920 process and then the county says we don't like that budget. We're not going to approve it because it's their right as part of fiscal oversight on a be 1200 that the county has to either approve or disapprove your proposed budget. If the county says we are disapproving it and thick mat immediately shows up at the district office and says hey we know you guys have some issues here. Let's dive into the numbers. Let's dive into your program. Let's try to see what we can do to help you guys out if you have a negative interim, so that means that you know, you cannot meet your fiscal obligations in the current year or two out years then thick mats shows up at the door and says hey, how can we provide services to help you? The next option here is three consecutive qualified reports. So at first interim we had a
Reports that basically says that we may not be able to meet our obligations in the current year or the next to out years and a multi-year projections. So if you have three in terms that way so say if you had a first interim second interim and then the following first in term of the next fiscal year thick mat shows up at the door and says, how can we help and down great of intern certification. So if we present to the County Office of Education A+ certification of our interim and then they come back and say no it's not positive. Look you're going to be negative in the second year. This has got to be either qualified or negative fit Matt shows up at the door and says, how can we help and then the last one lack of going concern designation so that basically says you can no longer operate as a district as you currently are you're spending way too much money, you're gonna run out of cash to help pay salaries to pay bills and so on and so forth thick Man shows up at the door and says, how can we help?
So that's the process and I'm saying, how can we help it's going to be a probably a little bit more than how can we help like it's going to be more this is what you need to do right now and figure it out and there could be various ways to do that. They could be changing staff. I could be out of a job, you know, so it's it's a very serious situation. You don't want to go through that and I think school districts have the knowledge and resources to make Positive Choices for the students and staff going forward and it's a lot easier for for districts to do it at a local level than have the state come in with various sources to try to come up with an answer because they're going to spend probably half the year just trying to understand the numbers trying to understand the programs and figure out what they can do to help and it creates a big upheaval in the educational process communities are negatively impacted. And is that what's best for kids?
Can we do something now to prevent that upheaval in the future?
Quick follow-up, then would be if we continue to deficit spend. Is this an area that we could potentially be? Yes at first interim in the fourth year out which is not in the multi-year projection. We showed a negative fund balance of 2.7 million. If we do not write the ship. They will be showing up at the door.
These are projected deficit spending not we're not actually there yet. Its projected budget proposal based on our current enrollment projections exactly and we will always up them update these projections as we get more because we are going to grow right and that was also prior to the January budget as well. So yes, so obviously the additional funds make that
Changed in terms of the Outlook. So, you know the tricky part of school budgeting it is that it is always changing the based on the current information at those key times Governor received releases his budget in January the May revise the final budget. And so those are key moments in time in District budgeting that we know will change sometimes positive and sometimes you know in the negative in regards to the different factors that go into budgeting so it's always it's always a moving Target understanding how all those factors playing into our budget.
And to clarify we are not deficit spending right now those are projected deficit spending we've deficit spend it's in the books for last year audited and but yeah, it's close going going forward there's always an opportunity to change as a result you have any questions any church now, I just want to say thank you Jason for that report and it's good to see that we are getting much better in terms of our monies that are coming to the district's know we had that down trend for many for many years by seven eight years
So we've of course overcome that to what percentage are. We now above that, you know because we have to build back up. Yeah. So one of actually I don't have the percentage for you. But one way we could calculate that is go back.
Okay, so all 708 was the last year of the reduced funding per student. So since then we have grown considerably so almost you know a hundred percent growth if you consider about 45 million, I know 708 and now under lcff, but even with that growth a lot of it's just based on Cola. We're still 45th in the nation in terms of the funding per student. So there's still a long way to go and on top of that our expenditures as a district has increased significantly case in point calstrs and Calpers and the contribution rates as those continue to increase the cost of US operating as a district continues to increase so even though we've had significant growth in funding over the years from old 708 till now,
There still is a long way for us to go to be a more stable and more appropriately funded educational program in our nation.
Now I'm gonna ask you to what concerns I have is of course because we've been doing so well that yeah, there's probably going to be a down Trend somewhere, you know the future.
Well, no wait, we are never going to grow but you know, what concerns me is is are butting heads with the federal government, you know, in terms of the support from the federal level. And so that's a so we know that we get, you know, quite a few funds for our students from from that entity. And so hopefully hopefully we'll be able to go ahead and continue getting our fair share from the feds. And so that's a concern that it did that I have and then and then of course and I know Rudy will probably be in touch base on this in terms of art our own future student enrollment, you know with with our school. We know we know that's going to be important in terms of us being a solvent correct District, you know, right, but I'm glad I've got all of you went up there and heard it firsthand in Sacramento and it hopefully things
No, knock on wood that will continue having some good good news and good tax returns. And that's a concern I have to in terms of fun with the tax returns will be you know in California anyway, so but some things we can control and other things are hard to control but it would thank you for that report. Okay, and Jason I have some questions. Yes, that's so
Did the governor mentioned at the when he did this when you went to this meeting he mentioned the about the review of charter schools or did you learn that afterwards? I actually learned that afterwards and just to be clear Governor Newsom was not at this meeting. It was school Services reporting out about the governor's budget proposal. They didn't mention anything about Charter Schools, but he did I did not remember hearing School Services talk about this review of charter schools. I heard that afterwards right and we read it in the news and I think I think the CSEA for for passing on the article to me. The only thing that they mentioned was obviously the fact that the AG had already issued the guidelines in regards to some of the oversight in some of the concerns of their governing boards with the brown act and I know that that was mentioned there in regards to what implication it has and and certainly that's not all that's going to happen. Oh, absolutely. That's just one aspect. That's just an agent.
He doesn't legislate our are we have a legislature that legislates and I think that the governor I read from what I read in the article was that the governor has asked the superintendent of Public Instruction to put together a panel to look at how charter schools are affecting districts. So actually I'm going to write a letter to the superintendent of Public Instruction and let and let him know that to look at this District because I want him to know how its impacted our district with enrollment that's decreased by what 25 to 30% We're barely hanging on and I don't want anyone to panic but we have to grow and well whatever happens to the Charter Schools, we have to grow we have to there's no way around it because this new lcff funding is going to help us best if we have more
Our students so it's vital that we continue to grow. Okay. So I also noticed on slide 27 of the addendum you had there's some talk about a Senate Bill 751 cap on District reserves. Oh how that could that affect our districts. Well, it could eventually right now Reserve is over the cap, right, but we're going to quickly get underneath that cap unless
The funding source is no we won't because we're going to grow. No, I'm we are going to grow. I just know we're going to it's going to happen, but eventually this could impact us if we're over 10% in terms of combined assigned to unassigned Reserve balance, then if this cap actually kicks in if the four characteristics to make this cap kick in or achieved then we would have to have a plan to spend on our Reserve to get underneath that cap and it'll be an interesting situation to be in but this cap has been in place for a number of years now and the cap actually was lower it was at six percent for a district of our size and actually has been increased due to various lobbying groups. The minimum is always room been three percent right 3% is not a cap a minimum wired. Yeah, right, right. And so this is a cop in terms of how big your Reserve balance can correct and
They're saying we know you need at least 3 percent but you can't get higher than 10% if this cop kicks in and I think maybe part of the reason was because there's some element some K through 8 districts that have been up to eighteen nineteen percent reserves in the state and they still are all right. So we're actually not as bad off as some of those other districts are in terms of what to do if that if that bill passes and signed by the governor. That's correct. Okay, and then the LC are you how are you going to looking forward? How are you going to make our
Projections now with these new proposals are you getting because you can't you have to do it before the May revise comes out, right? So for second interim. Yes, I'm going to be using the governor's proposal in January to help update our multi year projections in terms of enrollment numbers. What I would like to bring to the board at the next board meeting is a contract to work with a democrat demographer in terms of figuring out what our enrollment numbers will be going forward based on our current population birth rate. So on and so forth. So those are two major factors that I'd like to be able to look at and use in future multi year projections. So do you think that we're going to still project declining enrollment at this point in time? I think it will still decline but it hopefully will be at a slower rate and start to level off and then we can see some growth in the future, especially with the addition of the new home.
On communication hell and potentially new families moving in there's opportunity for growth. And as long as we continue to show that we can compete with the charter programs. We have an opportunity to bring some students that may be out of charter school back.
And you know, our neighboring school districts are taking students out of Education Hill. So I think we need to look at that as well. It's not just Charter Schools any other questions before we
Okay. Thank you Jason.
Okay, next on the agenda are our consent items. I'm going to go ahead and open for the comments for all the consent items if anybody has any right now so members of the public May address the board on consent items for the board's consideration of the items in accordance with Port by lot of ninety three twenty three individually Marshall women to three minutes each and that's others. Otherwise stipulated. Is there anyone who would like to make a comment on the consent items?
Cinnamon start with oh, mr. President. You know what I want to do on what we haven't gone to seven-year, right? So I was going to say something about 7.01 it we're going to go to okay. We're going to go in order. So we'll start with 6.
All except emotion
So can I pull you want to pull it if you want to pull an item under six? You're welcome to do that like to 6.01.
Okay, so that will be placed under under action items.
And didn't know others I will accept a motion.
And okay, this is this problem of six because it because I'm going to want to pull one and item 7, but no, we're I'm jumping around sticks right now.
Items
Six point zero two through six point zero four. Is there a second I second that it's been moved and seconded to approve the consent items 6.022 6.0 for all those in favor. Say aye hi and it's it's unanimous. So that is approved. Okay. So item seven board members Sanchez you want to bowl one item. I just wanted to deploy them 7.01. Okay. Well, I wanted to put that under okay. Yeah, we'll just put it in the action item. Right and I like to pull items that bass and .02. Okay, then put that in the action item and we will go move since there's no are no other ones. We don't need a motion to approve the consent items under seven. So item consent items construction number eight construction items.
If I'll accept a motion.
Yes.
Items 8.9
Second the clarification for the record on the Santee which is six point or 8.06.
On the Santee Frontage, so we'll move that in whoop. So would you like to restate your motion?
I move to approve items 8.01. Yeah, all of them except for a point and you accept that yes, I accept that with the chains. Correct. I say in there with a change. It's been moved and seconded to approve a point zero one two eight point zero nine with with the exception of 8.06 all those in favor. Say aye hi and that is unanimous. Okay. So action item 9.01 Personnel report.
Mr. President I move the personal report be approved of some as submitted and that a the employment for the following employee be approved Priscilla Montes and be the release during probation for the following employee be approved. Then Tha bus driver Transportation effective, February the 6th 2019.
Their second
Second that he's moved and seconded to approve the 9.01 Personnel report all those in favor. Say aye hi and that is unanimous that is approved item 9.0 to the January 22nd board meeting minutes.
And we'll accept a motion when a board member is ready.
I move to approve item point 9.02.
Second it's been moved and seconded to approve 9.0 to the 22nd, January 22nd, 2019 board meeting minutes all those in favor. Say aye hi and that is unanimous item nine point zero three Sunshine proposal between the school district and the CSEA proposal by the district.
I'm bringing forward the sunshine on this evening on the district is sun shining the CSEA to open to open negotiations and we've outlined them the for articles that we would like to open on any questions on that you board members have any questions. If not, he'll accept a motion to approve item 9.03.
Second it's been moved and seconded to approve 9.03 the sunshine proposal between the district and the CSEA all those in favor. Say aye bye and that is unanimous item nine point zero for the sunshine proposed between CSEA in the Franklin make the disc fragment County School District Paula. That's Justin. Yes. Yes. I'm bringing forward the sunshine that CSEA has presented the district with and this is the proposals that they will be opening for negotiations.
I'll accept a motion to approve item 9.04.
I can that it's been moved and seconded to approve 9.04 the sunshine proposal between CSEA in District as proposed by CSEA all those in favor. All those in favor. Say aye aye and that motion is unanimous. Okay, the item nine point zero five school calendars in earlier. So I'm bringing forward the recommendation for the calendar for the next two years for a 1920 and for 2021. The creation of these calendars was a collaboration between Administration FMEA and CSEA. There was a full process of input and feedback from all of the constituents and Franklin McKinley School District, which resulted in a voting process and calendar be the one that I'm presenting to you this evening.
Um was recommended by all of the constituents FMEA CSEA.
There any questions just had a quick follow-up to did parents have any input on the these calendars? No. No, it's just the employees in the district.
And I have a question. I don't recall us ever approving two years unusual know we we did two years last year. Also. I mean the last two years we years ago eat into your yes. And you know, I wanted to catch to just piggyback on what you had said about parents. We do look at the like for example East side's calendar. We do take into account the needs of our parents and our families and the district when we are making decisions, we want to make sure that the calendars, you know match as much as possible to our local districts and especially our feeder District like East Side, so that families have some common vacation time.
Pause real quick in February to 2020 does that week off is that is that going to align with each side too or do we know? Yes it is. Okay, that's good. I know we've always had differences there. Okay. Thank you. Scott. Ski week will know where to find him.
Okay, I will accept a motion that there's no other questions.
Move to approve item 9 .05 the 29
In 2010 to 2020 and 2022 2021 school calendars. Is there a second I second that it's been moved and seconded to approve the school calendars for the years that may monist at nine point zero five all those in favor. Say aye aye and that is unanimous item nine point zero six resolution number 2019 - oh three
And I think that are you are Jason. So this is an opportunity for the board to approve a resolution with the intent to provide an easement to Echo site as they work on building a cell tower as on part of our property at Bridges Academy. That would be in a location that would not negatively impact educational program both inside and outside of the school but offers an opportunity for us to increase Revenue as a district. So this is just a resolution of intent to move forward with this is not approving the actual agreement or the easement, but because it is an easement and that we're giving access to land. This is the process that we need to go through. We went through a similar process with the property at McKinley with the Improvement of the sidewalk. It's requiring ahead code that we have first an opportunity to have a resolution to talk about the topic and then next board meeting.
Have public hearing on the property. So the public can provide comments and whether they want to have this happen or not have this happen and then the board can approve a resolution ranting the easement to Eco site if they so choose after that public.
Any questions on this board members? She's in the you know, the south tower that would be that would be there. What kind of stopped our would that be?
In terms of its look out our function. So it's just like any other cell tower is providing service to medication error. Yeah for communications for cell phones. We were looking to try to find a cell phone cell tower that is actually similar to a tree and it's look right that it's not as much of an eyesore But ultimately. Yeah, it's going to be a normal cell tower that you would see on our neighborhood. So are we leasing the land to them? Yes, so it'll be a lease agreement between us and Eco site, correct? And okay. So we're its resolution is to approve the looking into it looking into correct. So we are going to look at Health implications. Yes, we're going to do an all-around study in terms of how this is going to impact our district. We're also going to finalize location and impact to the school site in terms of square footage and make sure that it's
Feasible, and then we'll come back to the board at the next board meeting with our findings.
Interesting. Okay, so I know how technology has changed but actually over 20 years ago actually about 25 years ago. Now I was on a community board in Los Angeles and we actually leased land to a cell tower. Yeah, if I might be so bold as to talk about my past experience at my previous District. We had to flag poles for cell towers at one of our middle schools, which was actually a nice way to improve the look of the campus while hiding the fact that the cellphone Tower and actually incur the revenue or earned the revenue for leasing out the space.
Any questions and I'll accept a motion Madam 9.0 sick RS6 resolution number 2019 second. It's been moved in seconded to approve item. Nine point zero six resolution number 20 19-3 all those in favor. Say aye hi and that is unanimous. Okay, so we will now go on to 6.01 under formerly under the consent item, which is approval of text smart contract for coding program at LaRon Academy. And I guess one you want a follow-up question on when the trainings will be taking place for this.
They are being planned now and they are going to be the first couple of days are pullouts. And because the program is supposed to start this year and there's a number of hours that were required to make sure that the students are actually doing coding so that the two teachers have been identified that they said that they will do it and training will believe it's in three weeks. So will they is that something they're doing after hours or so, that's correct. So this is in the after-school program with the intent. The reason why the state wanted to have regular classroom teachers be part of that alongside with the after-school program staff is that then they could potentially gain the skill sets that they can also do some of the thinking and the same preparation during the school day.
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I know just 6.01. Okay. Thanks for that tip provide them 6.01 their second second that it's been moved and seconded to approve item 6.01 that text smart contract for coding program at LaRon Academy. All those in favor. Say aye hi and that as unanimous, okay item 7.01 acceptance of the aces or a SES kids code Grant.
Well, I guess if we don't approve this we can't do the text Mark thing have a certain kind of way. Well, this is accepting the the ground that has already been approved by the state that will fund both the platform that the students will be using for coding but also funding the cost of the teacher and the after school program or the training and for then actually providing the program in the after-school program who I did because I wanted to just have some information from the superintendent. I guess like 13 fights that got the grant so I'm glad that we were one of them, you know, so that's 13 sites Statewide. And actually, I believe we were one of two in Santa Clara County only yet submitted for every single one of our sites. But LaRon was the only school that was selected. Let's go
What are we have some good coding stuff going on at LaRon? Yeah, and you know just so right. There's just a little side note that actually did you Lisa help with this submission? Yes. Are you Lisa and myself have been working collaboratively with the Catholic Charities choral program. Are there grant writers? They're the ones that we work with in submitting our proposal for Applied Materials Google Sensei learns and Adobe. So she's been our Keepers in here at the FM SD working with Catholic Charities to secure the additional funds that we're looking for our after-school programs. Yes, at least we owe a lot of credit for her work is putting a lot of this together.
The other questions
I will accept a motion on 7.01. I move that we accept some important other one the AC cases gets code Grant your second. I second that it's been moved and seconded to accept 7.01. He says kids, it's Coke Grant that's hard to say all those in favor. Say aye aye and that is unanimous item 7 .0 to admit meant to the 2018-19 contract between the district and Spectrum Center.
And who did you pull that off? Yeah, just two questions one. I noticed that the MPS contract only shows Counseling Services. What about speech OT and transportation for the students. So transportation is handled outside of the MPS because they do not provide the transportation that's through our district or the jpa. The other services must not be in the students IEP. And only the only thing that they are requiring outside of the regular Academic Program would be counseling and that's why it wouldn't show on the contract as the student doesn't need additional services. And then the other question is the behavior Specialists that we have for the district. It was hired to provide training to staff to support in regards to behavior are they not able to train the staff to support these students currently the setting in the district? So yes, and without knowing the specifics of what the has already been tried the
Team felt in working with the family that an MPS would be the best placement for the student at this time.
Any questions and I will accept a motion on 7.02.
To approve item 7.02 the amendment to the
The 2019 contract between the district and Spectrum Center.
Is there a second?
Second it's been moved and seconded to accept the 7.02 the amendment to the contract between F MSD and the Spectrum Center Incorporated all those in favor. Say aye hi me and so that's three eyes in one day.
And the motion carries
Item, let's see. We're down to
Oh 8.06. That's right. That's right. 8.06. I'm more or less. Just wanted it noted in the record.
About the Santee Frontage improvements. So it's not exactly the clarifications that I heard. It's not exactly the frontage that's being improved if we could just Clark so so it is it is the Frontage that have been improved but it's part of the the title of the project encompasses not just the front which was the major part of the project but also the blacktop the kindergarteners shade structure and the ball wall. And so the additional work and regards to the soil was in relation to the Ball wall and the kindergarten State structure. And so that's I believe what was being brought forward it just the title of the overall project that combine all that was primarily the front edge. So it's just for the public to if going through the memo, there's nothing about it's all just looks like it's part of the actual Santi Frontage. So that might be confusing in terms of is a
Checked and finished in terms of the physical Frontage of Santee and that's it. That's a very good point and we'll make that note to approve item 8.06.
Second second that little 6 has been moved in moved and seconded to approve 8.06 that edification of amendment to the Santee Frontage improvements which I paraphrased all those in favor. Say aye aye and that is unanimous. Okay. Now we are on item 10 Communications from the superintendent. Yes. I'll keep it short slate. Just wanted to let the board know that we remember I just and I were at the reopening of the Seven Trees Community Center Gym beautiful, you know brand-new floor restriping. It just looks like a brand-new facility and remember scientist actually hadn't been in the gym or it's tucked in the back of that for the community center in the library, but we had the war the war in conjunction with the Warriors.
Nation and Pepsi in the city as I know saying that Jim was completely redone in they had a scrimmage there with the some of the students in the one of the Warrior players. So that was that was good to be there also had the opportunity to attend the Lunar New Year festivities at Franklin, even though it was raining and it was cold. It was packed. And this was a great collaboration that we're seeing at Franklin between our Vietnamese parent groups and or Latino parent group, they were selling tacos and they were selling, you know, traditional Vietnamese food had the the the line dancers and singers and it was just great to see the community come together like that like that like that on a day that was miserable to be outdoors.
Still where they are and so looking forward to and then have been visiting various Lunar New Year festivities at various schools. And the last one I think is this Friday at Windmill spring. So, you know great to see that our schools are our basic acknowledging and honoring the other cultures. They are predominant in our district and making sure that that our families have that opportunity to connect with us.
Thank you. Superintendent Cruz. Okay, so we are now an item 11 Communications from the Board of Education start with board reports and we'll start with Carrie. Yeah, so I recently visited Kennedy and I was really impressed with the fact that they have a sec class. The instructor is actually actively participating with the students in some other extracurricular activities. Those really nice to see that because oftentimes these special ed students get overlooked for the extracurricular. So it's nice to see that school implementing that I look forward to seeing that in the rest of the schools as well. And the other thing I wanted to mention is due to work. I'll be out of the area from February 25th through June 14. So I'll be connecting remotely to meetings from that point.
We will miss you in person.
Okay and my Mona
So there's been a couple of events that I've had the privilege of participating in the bridges College and Career night and the solvent little fundraiser which was we had a guest award-winning chefs that it was amazing and the ASB did a really great job just putting together highlighting all the work that's happening at Sylvan Dale and then got to tour actually early morning pre-tour for of their steam lab before my class. So great just to see the connections between east side and how you know at the middle school level. It's often times that students aren't really sure what careers that they're interested in. So it's great that they're getting some of that exposure to different career Pathways before they get to high school and then it's in alignment with a lot of the programs that you side is doing anyway, so they kind of get like the the early introduction to that was also able to attend the McKinley open house and it was great that Head Start was there also so it was kind of like
Acting the pieces for our families and students as well and then just was able to meet with CSEA and FMEA today just to retouch on the priorities for the school for 2019 specifically, so it's good to be able to hear what both of those organizations and our staff are being working on and how we can continue to work in collaboration.
Thank you, George. I just a couple of things I did attend to some of their dinner. That was very very nice with that Ramona and I in Rudy and took my son and he attended some Adele so he proudly showed me the picture up there when he was a rustling, you know on the wrestling team very nice. We had a great auction and as trying to get the 50 inch screen, but it didn't happen Rudy and I were bidding for it. But somebody else beat us a song. Anyway, it's a good it was a great deal. I went to the Santa Clara County School Board Association meeting and we had the delegates present their case in terms of being elected or re-elected and so we should have that ballot probably coming up at the next meeting later this month. Also turning the school board retreat this past Saturday, and it was very good to have all the board members kind of meat in a different setting, you know, and and
And kind of have some time with each other in terms of discussing our roles as board members and our interactions with the super intense. It was very very good. I came to the partners in education luncheon here. There was held so I want to thank one for that and that was our third time or second time second. That was our second time inviting all our partners. Our first time was our faith-based partners and but the second and third time I've been all inclusive. I think we had about 200 people here. Yes. It is very very nice Gathering and I just thank everybody for being here on behalf of the school board. So again a great great event. So thank you one for putting that together also went to the Europa reopening of the basketball courts. That was really really nice Funny Valentine ever been all the way back there. I've been in there but never got all the way to the very back that was impressive. What a great basketball court. That is that
Is for that for the kids the way it is right now, so definitely a definitely be used quite a bit and then and then also tending the Ted festival at Seven Trees community center on Saturday Saturday afternoon went over there and spend some time. That was really nice a lot of our performances by many of our kids in the different schools. So they did a great job and that's my report.
Thank you George busy. And so I just wanted to mention that I did go to the Sylvan Dale fundraiser and I'm a silent auction. I'll admit it. I'm a silent auction. Junkie, so I actually bid on about six items. I only did it to to raise the minimum bid so that the school would make money and I ended up not even winning any of them so that they save money but it's made money for solving Dale. How's that for strategy? And thanks to George. I didn't get the TV and had the pleasure of going to The Retreat as well. And it was a great. It was a great Retreat. Well, well done by the facility are like to thank the former superintendent of the Campbell school district, and she did a great job. So that was good.
Okay, so we will move onto 11.0 to agenda item requests are there any
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With the with the charter schools. Yeah, we're bringing those four will bring those forward. These were just items that are in by board members. Yours is coming. Okay.
All right any others?
Okay number 12 is no future business, except we do have future meeting dates. I just like to remind the board members that coming up next Wednesday. I believe it is on the 20th. We have our RS safety plan board study session. Then we have our regular board meetings after that for the following weeks in February and in March before the 20th, we will have the the goals the safety plan goals available for the board to start reviewing them no later than the Friday prior to the 20th. That should give the board in some time for reviewing the goals. And yes.
There's a distance. Yeah this Friday.
Yeah, next week is already XX. Wow, and we'll have a piece of like we had so for those of you that are coming. We will have a something for you to eat that day.
Okay, and then so we'll get a communication on that by Friday. Okay, we don't need to go into closed session. So we are ready to adjourn and well, okay. However, I before there's a second to adjourn. I would like to mention that we should probably you know, in memory of mr. Andrew love I think we should we should adjourn the meeting in his memory because he's been in the district a long time and his passion for the Arts specifically music and his contributions at at schools. Like Sylvan Dale are still discussed, you know by alumni on the impact that he made on the music program in our district as a whole. So so I will accept us it's been moved to adjourn in memory of mr. Love I will accept a second second. It's been moved and seconded to adjourn all those in favor. Say aye.
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