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okay good evening everyone good to see you all we will begin our Open Session this time at 6:04 and we'll begin with our roll call with you have all five trustees president won trustees I'm retrieving a water bottle and be with will be with us very shortly so we'll begin with our flag salute this doctor Baxter nevermind number I was ready for America for all thank you so much hey may I have a to read Our Land acknowledgement of this evening I can do that thank you we acknowledge our presence on the traditional ancestral and unceded territory of the quiche in tongue the peoples who are the original caretakers of the land Landing knowledge Man by itself is a small gesture it becomes meaningful apple with authentic relationship-building and inform intentional action on December 27th 2023 we were notified by the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation planning division Land Management and compliance that ccusd has successfully executed their MOA for the district's visitation and use of County Parks authorities specifically the store you park in the Baldwin Hills and urban Watershed Conservancy in the spirit we have entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Stoneview Nature Center the marks the beginning of a partnership solidifying commitment to this land and its peoples Stoneview Nature Center as an urban Sanctuary nestled in the Blair Hills of Culver City with Scenic views of the Los Angeles Basin from the Santa Monica Mountains to the Hollywood Hills and it used to be in elementary school called Linda Vista this five-acre site can offer our schools a chance to discover a new passion for the outdoors and respect and Steward of our environment fostering positive connections with our bodies Our Minds our food our communities and not ecosystems and closing let us remember that our words and actions and acknowledging this land the first step in our journey towards a lifelong process of building relationships based on trust consistency and accountability with Native Americans people and tribal Nation thank you thank you Miss on Missoula so 3.4 is Public Announcement of actions taken by the board in closed session and the board does have a directions to report out on this evening or geese number dn10 15232 for the Board of Education loaded by by zero needs in favor of approving a settlement agreement in that case and we will move on to adoption of the agenda now 5.1 and I would like to enter a motion to adopt the agenda I would like to adopt a gender with a proposed amendment thank you I would like to move item and item 16.99 at the resolution for black history how to super before superintendent action item 11.1 so that it would be a part of superintendents auction items and not a president do I have two items to pull from send this evening I'd like to pull 11.2 + 16.8 okay so your Amendment motion would include those my motion would be as amended as can I hear a second for this amended motion motion as amended and Ms so I'd like to discuss it just a little bit just to be sure we're on the same page in particular about moving the Black History Month resolution may I hear from other members their thoughts about that movement I support the movement II host receiving public comment and so that's an a good place to put it yes cuz I I feel concerned that it's too late in the agenda considering weight of the resolution I was wondering if we could manage to I understand It's tricky because we have to take action on it we certainly need to hear this from the public before we take our stand on it but I wondered if the board would enter reading it pending board approval so that we could read it out for the public in a more timely manner but then still approve it later but I will happily let us know if it's not preferred does anyone else have any thoughts if not we can Aries worthless emotion well then let's just take a vote on the motion that was amended all those in favor say aye hi so we'll proceed with 16.9 moving to 11 11th it'll be the Super first superintendent thank you for that will move to item 6.1 begin with our first award recognition and presentation with the girls volleyball team and would you like us to come or will wait to hear your presentation and I'm done later members of the board superintendent Lucas it is my pleasure to recognize the girls volleyball team Culver City Unified School District would like to highlight accomplishments of these students on the girls volleyball team the team made it to the southern section semi-finals and qualified for the state playoffs the team had an overall GPA of 3.0 674 during the first semester of the Season freshman outside hitter and naiah Thornton and Junior Setter Avis tvet Steins were named to the all the is Southern section team was also named to the second Team all day League congratulations to coach coaches Jade morning just to Smith's just in Cobb and the team for all their work and effort and now we would to present them with certificates so if the members of the board with please come forward so we can honor these wonderful athletes and at any time if I missed somebody's name please correct me if I even steins Jaden Smith Stella Moritz Alondra Lu Amelia Holly McAfee Abigail Reddit brother boxer Montana Satori Jamie Bowman Atlanta's bagala Valentina Legos Emma's pergola read Townsley Anaya Thornton and Riley Johnson okay this is Paparazzi photo time and everybody's food in a little and families who would like to come forward and I'm in a really good angles I'm very happy about that oh wait a minute I can do one two three trailer for my Texas game I'll keep smiling pictures smiling congratulations now it is my pleasure to also recognize the Culver City High School girls tennis team over City High School school district would like to highlight the accomplishments of the students on the Culver City High School girls tennis team the team defeated LaSalle St Margarets Dana Hills and Oaks Christian on their way to the southern section finals for the first time in the history of the tea the team had an overall GPA of the week points 562 during the first semester of their season congratulations to coaches Nick Market Murchison Bill Rothenberg and the team for all their work and efforts and now we call their names to be recognized forward by the Board of Education First We would like to recognize them just say thank you Autumn Jessie Judy Yamamoto Paola Fernandez Rachel Jerry Sarah Ashby Panda Wan Allison Robin Ackerman sorry Jordan Allison Anon bohemian Naomi cam Zion Jones but Egan Valentina Martinez kayaks thank you and thank you Betty mom who helped read the names everybody screwed in so we can take your pic sure again one two three one two three nice one more smile when we thank you thank you everyone we are now moving on to the public recognition portion of our meeting so I spoke to leave I will just remind everyone that are very brief executive. lines those persons wishing to speed should complete a speakers Car to submit it to the superintendent's executive assistant in the interest of time in order presentations from the public are limited to three minutes per per cent of the total time for non agenda items will not occur 20 minutes weird members May reduce that time if they see fit. This time we're going to move to 7.2 it says members of the audience items not agenda so this will be the time where folks from the public come bring an orange card to Miss Williams or raise their hand on Zoom to let us know that you would like to give us comment on items that are not agendize this evening will just wait. you know less than a minute for folks to collect themselves and raise hands and turn in cards and then we'll discuss invented time depending on how many people there are thank you everyone great so as those are brought us the cards are brought up to us Mister ground have a sense of how many folks are on Zoom or in person or do I just got two more I got to see where they're at I think that you move some stuff over there where is ungenerous send me a lot on the in person just so we can make it thank you yes I got that oh I say 7.2 is okay so knowing that we probably have more than 10 are I am going to reduce our timing for person 22 minutes and if you if you while you continue to organize is it okay mr. grow begin to get started with our line for us or we still have for online can we close that's at this time so we're going to take off for Zoom speaker and we have something on the order of 10 in person but will be sure to be called all of those folks and we'll start with the first three this time and we will ask that you speak for 2 minutes and there should be a timer shown on the screen there let me go thank you please can you see the timer on timer multiple times for 4 IV about enough thank you and if the subsequent speakers could get ready to speak right after IV we would appreciate it thank you we made it okay if that smaller classes for Algebra 1 is very necessary during covid-19 and I know a lot of other students missed out on a lot of math and it was a really tough time and with the smaller classrooms it's easier to go help with those like gaps in math knowledge and last year even though we weren't currently online I had a really tough time in math because of the size it was like the students and the teacher didn't have enough time to get around to all of us and it's a lot of the students had to help each other but not even a lot of the students work with each other really knew what they were learning and it makes me really worried to think about how next year we're going to like 31 students I think your classroom I know that personally if the class sizes were big then I probably wouldn't have any chances of passing and with the the smaller learning environment I think it helps a lot of Inspire and it helps the teacher also get around to where students and help them like personally went online and yeah I I hope that at least algebra one can stay at size and its current size and yeah just please keep it that that size has all thank you thank you ivy next week BL hello my name is a student at River City High School today about the number of students for Algebra 1 class at horsey high right now I'm in Algebra 1 and size is about Asian students and we all want to continue having small class sizes for Ultra one and the class size for geometry next year is going to be 30 students and that that's kind of scary sound in Sands right now it was really scary sounding right now it's like a it's fundamental it's like a PS4 higher my subjects and in my experience one-on-one like a I think that having one and also benefit students as they can get more destruction is crucial in that specially algebra to understand the concepts properly last year I was in math 8 at Culver Middle in the house about 30 students in it I didn't get a really good grade in that class it was because I was hit in the back of the class and it's really noisy in that class and the teacher had a really hard time you can control everyone and yeah so I came here I was surprised so small and it helps me really Excel and subjects and I'm hoping that I can in Geometry will have small classes and I'm hopefully hopefully next year either one students can have the same ability that I have to sell enough thank you hi my name is Jasmine Vega I believe me and my peers would appreciate more smaller algebra classes and next year going on for geometry algebra small classes can be helpful because they allow more personalized attention and support there's a geometry class has 32 or more kids per class they can make it down for teachers to give individual attention and communicate medication teach student it's important for students to have a chance to ask questions and get the help that they need smaller classes can create a Better Learning environment environment they're all pictures Mathis for my eighth grade last year because I got helped way faster and easier and they just improved my attention span throughout the class because there wasn't a lot of distractions what I like what about the smaller class sizes is the opportunity for more meaningful interactions with classmates and teachers in a small class you get to know your peers better and collaborate closely and build stronger relationships I thought the class the size being less than eighteen students created a but their focus and a my peers around me detention better and I will be given and if the second and third speakers with Stella and then I know and if you all could please get ready to come that will help us tomorrow thank you have a good evening everyone. My name is Donna Flynn says I'd like to bring a the topic of smaller math class sizes My Singing in my opinion I think that others and others classmates and me also agree that is a lot more helpful many people work well with others but I also do think it is important to get that one-on-one time with a I think this one-on-one time can help with more efficient like education and getting the point across not every student may understand the subject the same as another and I think that one on one time with a teacher can help another student understand the material I personally just don't think math is Daisy easiest subject for me and having the smaller class size up to 15 to 18 students per class did help me a lot get my grade up and understand the material also do think that teachers have such a limited time to get to every student for example in my 8th grade year in middle school I was in a class about 26 pushing 30 students per class do the very chaotic and Loud class where I couldn't not everyone has the same focusing skills not the same understanding skills and I think that a lot of students traveled looking at the board from far away or even hearing the teacher and now that my class is a lot of smaller I do hope that for my next year thinking about my future is that like to have my geometry class to be the same Wonder stand the same amount of Concepts to understand that not everyone learns the same and that best one-on-one time is very important throughout my years of education I do realize that sometimes learning cannot be the easiest and I've always struggled in math but this one class at specifically this year I walked and I was like really small but I realized I came to the realization of the lot better for me call my Pierce thank you. Is it for tonight maybe the next couple up HD yeah you want to line up Barry Meadows Ever After High have an amazing ultimate teacher doctor toenail class size is helpful for me to get one more one more one-on-one time help every student has a better chance to succeed and getting a greedy dessert gives everyone a chance to ask questions and Warren time for the teacher to answer a straight size was much bigger and there wasn't a lot of one-on-one time with Caesar with too many bands with different individual needs I love that in my tell me about 6:16 is that on time questions answered and not be so afraid to be judged by so many people I'm scared that geometry is going to be one of them you students how will I be able to get more one-on-one help other students be able to get help for individual needs I'm sure that the teacher will be amazing and how much can one teacher takes people say bigger is better but in this case smaller would be the more effective decisions not just for the students for the teachers thank you good evening board members District leadership and community members are the programs are small class sizes that we started this year and also math Chiron program you've heard about our small size 12 students and our Core math kyron's are the upperclassmen who have succeeded in math and now they are working as tutors in the algebra class with the teachers for the first time in my pitching career of almost 2019 years I am able to reach all of my students on a daily basis for the first time I'm able to Monitor and assess students levels of understanding detail for the first time I don't have to got my lunch to nutrition time to give us extra help although I still will and for the first time I've had the lowest DPS ratio that I've ever had in my classes I wanted to thank a doctor Baxter for guiding this change, it was her idea and along with Erica young and dr. Garner we had very many meetings to implement this and I wanted to extend my thing to you the board members for your support these changes in our district so often in these board meetings there are people who are here upset they're just like yelling about the state of things but I wanted to bring our team here to share couldn't do's and give Pops to the people who are bringing positive changes thank you dr. Baxter Erica young doctor Garner and our school administrators doctor Target and he missed my mod for their roles as well I feel like I'm giving a Grammy speech so I'm here to formally ask that as UNR District leadership evaluate the intervention programs that this will be one that is Bush to continue I would like to also Advocate that in the future these same kind of changes extend to other math classes like geometry and algebra two both of these courses are required for College admission and support Miracast scores good evening everyone my name is Henry w i m a math teacher at Culver City High School this is my first year at the high school and even though I wasn't here last year I would like to thank the board and I'd like to thank dr. Baxter making this change for having the smaller Algebra 1 class sizes the smaller class sizes they definitely made it easier for me as a teacher to monitor my students look at their progress during class it's been a lot easier since it's a smaller size I can kind of figured out where students are struggling and it's easier in her being it's important when they need that help I've been able with a smaller class sizes to build a strong rapport with students and having a stronger for his help me get to know them better also encourage them Academic Alliance students might be a bit more shy initially I can really encourage them to attempt to retake on a test or get more help with their subjects or they can get it a passing grade in addition to having your students has given me more time for grading exams and planning what I bought some lessons this year with a lot more small group interaction learning some math vocabulary little scavenger hunts we do around the classroom games to play online we made posters last week about an algebra one word problems things I think about very well this year and I think that's part of the thing because the small class sizes and the school I was at last year the class has a much bigger and so when you have classes of 30 35 students it's not as easy to do but because there is a student is so foundational and they were right I mean this is such a punishment classic students need to excelling in order to master master the rest of the Facebook we're so again I'd like to thank the board and dr. Baxter performing these changes and I will the same thing is at the condo which is on I would like the class I just from a small child or one for the upcoming school year and I'd also like to consider if they can shrink of class sizes for other math courses at the high school thank you Liliana Garcia hello my name is Arianna mercy and I thank you for having me here one of my strongest reasons on why these small classes are helpful to me is because of the attention I see from my teacher I make more of a difference my important to the increase meaning I get extra help and more time for my instructor this is impactful because compared to my other classes I feel I can easily reach out to my peers and my teacher for guidance and help raising my overall grade my second reason is simply that I made different compared to Classic Authority and up my participation of my presents are significant in the class and more like a team rather than a classroom class average in a class of thirty and if I fail class but everyone else it's a better score my percentage doesn't matter as much barely affecting the average and the teacher can move on to the next lesson over in a smaller class at least you can see how I'm doing and I could be help me to raise my sport which is very impactful to My overall and how I do in school personally I have trouble with paying attention and anxiety so the smaller classrooms really help with that I get a better education and it helps me be more active in my world and I think this is why the fastest should be much smaller thank you Julian Rojas alright I'm good evening board members my name is Cole and broke as I am in my element here in education they fear teaching or sirach Culver City High School the National Council of teachers of mathematics stated that algebra is also referred to as a gatekeeper to fire learning math in mathematics and in other fields shows that students who completed mathematics course beyond the level of how to put two or more than twice as likely to pursue and completed post-secondary degree students who don't compromise their career options especially in stem fields had to have taught in two different schools where most of my bra sizes have been around 20 I have seen the impact that this is a dumb Student Success and the confidence and of course subject that is often challenging to students to provide students an opportunity to get caught up over material that they have often missed and can often be seen as an intervention to support students that some students often use this time to get caught up on Clash of Clans sent and material that they have been absent for smaller class sizes have provided the means to provide intervention to all students and support everyone I have also had more time to create more group work activities create lesson plans that are tailored and targeted to address any learning gaps and provide enrichment opportunities I also hope that you all are able to consider keeping Elder one classes at the current size at the ER right now and thank you to talk to Baxter who started this and hopefully look into I'm considering this option for other math classes and Dominic Parish hi my name is Dominic. This is my first year teaching at Culver City High School for the last three years I've part of the small-cap other school where class sizes were very small because I had heard that it was a great day as well and while I have found that's true I found that I really been missing and I respect that I love the most for my previous song beyond all the academic benefits of small class sizes. All the previous speakers have mentioned all the previous students have mentioned I want to emphasize just a human. Small class sizes allowed teachers to build play some chips a community with their students which are at the soul of teaching and which many does how many students are desperately in need of I find the my relationships my students are far deeper and more meaningful in my algebra classes are much smaller well I know that I have far less impact on my geometry class which have 35 students both academically and personally I do not have relationship with the students in the same way that I do when I can talk with each student individually and my other classes and larger classes Dunes are off and just a number if we can only do so much to help them they can only do so much to reach them both their work and as humans were smaller classes are able to give students the opportunity to present a deserve as people thank you thank you very much we have four other literature followed by Gina Tanaka's house by Lindsay Carlson followed by Melissa Sanders so. I don't know I don't do that I want him here tonight because I want to speak about the people who have contributed to the bond and this person wants to talk about the contractors who contributed to the Missoni campaign one is taller clue industry is $25,000 they're currently doing work at the Atlanta complex they have a giant sign over their $5,000 to yes on E I donated $15,000 to $5,000 since you could see that they don't break it relates to what six different Bond measures so actually in the community found this really strange particularly since measure CC the bond that was 10 years ago there were no outside contractors don't lady that's the only donations that we have seen as of a week ago there were no other individuals that were donated that total donations are about 80,000 so actually the parents to our contributing might as well save your money because $80,000 will go a long way towards whatever has to be done so I just find this it's not pay to play it's on the edge of it and since it didn't happen on measure CC it to the community it looks pretty unusual okay thank you Gina classes okay good evening board members District personnel so not so long ago at a school board meeting teachers had to show up and demand an eight percent raise versus the 2% that they were offered there was talk of how they could not get the phone because we wouldn't be running a budget deficit that was just hurting enough but hearing recently that we've paid or will be paying millions of dollars plus and Vines sorry hold on but I'm reading beautimous Management in alleged mismanagement an egregious errors is kind of mind-blowing in most Industries if this happened people would be getting fired I'm not a hundred percent is certain but I believe it was that same meeting shortly thereafter or shortly thereafter our new Earth came to make a presentation a number of parents and teachers spoke out against it when it was time for the board to speak one more member actually apologize to New Orleans for having to sit through that now all these months later it has become very that the people owed the apology were the ones who were sent the season 26 letters after their email addresses were provided by District Personnel I struggle to believe that District Personnel would do that alone the Direction came from somewhere else in any other District or any other industry rather these people would be getting fired finally as a citizen of Culver City I'm being asked to vote on measure e I'm torn between saying no guaranteeing that the school will continue to deteriorate or I say yes and hope that it will be different I'm asking if you can provide any guarantees that things will be different this time can you provide specific examples of we will see within the next two years before my child graduate thank you so much interject I just want to ask us all to be buried 4 worst sort of broaching a little bit on the verge here it is it is legislation that no person person shall engage in political activities with in Authority is used by the city for the conduct government business so this is been called out to the Public's attention both at Council meetings and now. We're meeting so I just we welcome all your comments and we're very interested in them I just want to remind everyone to be very careful about anything that could be perceived as campaigning a a good evening with the Carlson of a mom of a kindergartener and one of your constituents with others in the community may have had some similar experiences on this topic I'm speaking for myself and only a year ago the board had a closed session meeting with Brookwood advisors has violated the brown act I made a complaint to the LA County district attorney who spent aboard a letter of reprimand about a month later out of the blue I received a cease-and-desist letter that is a letter threatening to sue movie from Newark District Finder with which I had no prior contact contact what I said things I didn't say that even had I said them I would have been protected under the first amendment I suspected that this was an act of retaliation by one or more board members with the clothes a ship with the vendor because no one on this world would come clean and admit it I had no choice but to send public records request and eventually hire counsel is my own 8 months later I finally received responsive documents that showed the district personnel conspired with her to send that cease and desist letter to me as well as letters to a number of other residents that attempted to hold the board accountable but here's a really crossed the line last spring in connection with these retaliatory actions to assistant superintendent dr. Smith and dr. Baxter exchanged emails about my been five year old son who is a teacher a student at the time innocent District staff were involuntarily involved in this debacle when I saw that I was absolutely gutted other people got hurt not just me your District staff did not deserve this by little kid are little kids did not deserve this either sometimes I pause and reflect on Terry of state of the public conversation in this community by here all the time from fellow parents and caretakers to say oh I'm not political her I just keep my head down with a rippley signaling them is that they're afraid to speak up afraid to speak truth to power less they to be met with retaliation for us the ad hominem attacks when the people who are elected to represent the whole Community I'm long past due in a public apology and full apology from anyone involved in this including those who minimize it excused it or attempted to Gaslight me and others the district must immediately terminate its relationship with in any board member who participated in causing the cease-and-desist letters to be sent and thereby spreading their own first their own constituents First Amendment rights must resign now it's time to put an end to the self-healing and dysfunction is time for all of us to act like adults feed each other with respect and Melissa Sanders pick you up now me at least by now I'm still waiting for an apology I'm even still weigh for any acknowledgement from potentially Ellie and Paula but they lied straight out with cost because the three of you never know we begged for investigation thanks the three of you that did not actually conspire or complicit in that the fact that no one in this District or school board members that have no basis in from a pretty sketchy lawyer and not even sent correctly I also asked for records and was told I had a complete package or was that a lie the fact that someone else to get a lawyer to get you to do the legally obligated clearly covered up that is insane I'm telling you to be gone the Trust In This district is gone because mainly of Kelly and it definitely a koala it is unacceptable but they are still here acceptable with me and Tristan and Brian don't feel the need their constituents the parents that immunity and the students and do what's best for us resign if you want to get out of that's the only way it's going to happen the fact that you can't sleep at night is shocking you did this you lied I'd like to remind the public of the statement that I just made I'm just going to read it again because I do think that it applies to clothing and stickers that no person shall engage in political activities within facilities used by the city what kind of government business was just a friendly reminder and I do ask people to do their very best to abide by these rules regarding campaigning on public facilities in queue so we have three hands that were for before we might have lost one question are you seeing the timer when I do it on that okay I just want to make sure it's in the right all right so we have thank you for your patience we have three folks online first Melissa's iPhone S and misses because a third we also had Janine before so Jeanine if you put your hand down I would like to speak to you are in the queue but we have three possibly four online speaker Sami share my screen again and go ahead gym good evening and it's nice to see you again for the public in your Culver City say Francisco coordinator I just have a few things to me India upcoming events as well as things are happening in the city of all this coming Saturday the 17th we are hosting a bike safety class at the Cobra Palms YMCA one is free for all users have a lot of new e-bikes in the community a lot of kids are riding bikes and most of them are not writing very safely the families we encourage you to sign up for this free class family friendly so we want anybody 12 and up to join our parents and kids should take this together please I join if you can sign up on the website at CC Wok and Roll. Calm I'm also and we have two new parking walk zones have been installed by the city and your soul of our schools you're fairly innocuous but you're also extremely valuable a simple reminders I can the community of a receipt you can safely Park and walk just a few blocks from school he will see them alongside tell in your El Rincon as well as near El Marino you all see them in the Vets tennis court area as well as its high school complex parents going on another city funded project on The Sims find it there's roughly 130 + m s b updated with new crosswalks and stop area so they're more safer and more visible community spell think Iverson still down in a stop sign who are more clearly and hopefully families are more encouraged again if you blocks away and walk whenever possible thank you very much for your time and I thank you very much Melissa's iPhone I think you should graduations to all the amazing female athletes who were acknowledged tonight thank you to the coaches for all their support on May 23rd 2023 for community members addresses board about Ely activity of a vendor Newark giving community members cease and desist emails most if not all of us had not done nothing anything we were actually accused of doing that vendor new Earth obtained our personal emails Target at least seven community members including myself same evening superintendent Tran lied directly to the community and said the district was not involved in giving out personal information meeting after meeting some of those same community members came forward to asking about this new Earth corruption time and time again not one single one of you made it a point to change the course of action or even address the issue Brian Guerrero actually did 12 agenda is the newer subject at one point but it never became important nine months later after the digging deep and involvement of a lawyer the truth is finally revealed that in fact our district was involved in illegal giving out a personal information the ccusd employee giving you our system formation was in fact after Smith's he would never had my personal information I'd love to know which one of you actually gave my information out you continue to lie and cheat to this District how do you think that is portrayed to our community number students and staff you should step down as you have Dishonored this District in so many ways now you come to the community and ask for more money Community member staff and students I speak to you do not trust this board do not vote for madri they will steal your money and do absolutely nothing I want done with it and yes Kelly if it's political then what was vote 16 this was brought into the boardroom many times I don't care to present all the pretty presentations that their $80,000 worth of corporate dollar money has brought to them do not care about your children they do not care about the teachers or staff and they continue to do that that's the case not one of you is innocent none of you change course of action time and time again you failed to community staff and students who come here addressing these issues month your after year thanks to the students and teachers who stood up tonight and spoke knows no student should have to do next we have Miss Americas we text you you Shakira there we go okay good evening my name is misery cast Ice Age 5 algebra classes I have been at Culver City High School for seven years now and I've been teaching for 12 I'm here today to express my gratitude for the small size the classes that we have this year it is a 12 18 ratio and has truly been a wonderful experience for my students and I for instance I have more opportunities to get to know the specific level understanding of each of my students I have had the chance to do more identify each of my students a specific strengths and weaknesses I know my students are understanding no matter how much better because I splain it to them one-on-one and getting some more detail on how to do certain problems with the small size classes and intervention that is needed for my students I can do during class time I am pleased with how my son is are doing and I am confident that they have are also doing better than other years I feel I know they feel comfortable asking questions to the whole class and also their peers these eligible students will be more prepared in geometry and Beyond because they have really learned the foundations of algebra it will be beneficial to continue this to this 1218 ratio in the algebra classes to see where it can take us so thank you for your time last call for June I don't see you on there anywhere if you got kicked off so you can if it's related to the gender you can always speak as I appreciate it thank you very much and I think it's okay thank you we're moving on its items7 Queen this is rccsd employee groups and we usually start with our 8th president and Stevia me are you with us this evening welcome back must tell me if you get a message or other you are your own person so she gets out and we'll come back to her yeah so is he 15th President mr. long good evening to major issues and talk about tonight episode of his bond in the budget I do want one other quick thinking that is about the meeting agenda so p.m. and 7 p.m. an hour later than I do now it's 6 yam and routinely they were finished by 9 maybe 10 on a bad night we have seriously cut back the amount of public input and it hasn't made me any shorter Bashar that last year we're limiting members of the community as well as my members that I represent who want to speak are being limited and how much they can speak to you the board I'd still not making meetings shorter so my advice would be to restore speaking time as it was prior to last year allowing people to speak on number to the agenda because it certainly didn't short meetings I'd also say that we need to go back to a system where the agenda is actually by the superintendent and that's it doesn't set the agenda the superintendent sets the agenda and that's how it was done for years in this district with much much shorter or meetings in which anyone could speak any Topic at a meeting what's a Doctor Wilkinson doctor to limit for continuing to engage staff and weekly Wednesday site visits to hear concerns and to bring the information to staff about the bond I'd also like to thank you miss me a lot more I can host and his marital Johnson of the ehsani campaign for taking time out to meet with myself and Debbie and the stop by our ccfd general membership meeting to answer tough questions in Dallas concerns from our members for taking the time out to meet with me as they do their work on the bond and listening to our concerns and how many things we had very similar to PTA with concerns in this District thank you also to miss Stephanie Laredo for attending our last membership meeting to also answer questions and listen to concerns from Members over the Box in all of these meetings including the ones with dr. Lucas and the meetings at the union meetings in the meetings I personally had with the people and with Council PTA just trust that is the theme that we hear over and over again they come up with every meeting it's important that we all listened to the general concerns and drown out the noise especially those engaging in dirty tricks to distort the oceans of the trust is a big issue and just these recent emails that were released and Community shows how much doubt I was actually shocked by the things I saw and I was shocked the people continued to support this organization writing them letters of recommendation and everything else just really really really breaking down that trust with staff even more so despite the CC of tienes will engage remember soon on a new poll to see about support of the bond and many of those things have been done including coming out to them things like I said so many people that are reaching out for our members from board members to people in these campaigns that we are going to engage our staff in that and we really look forward to working on a advisory Council that advice on the board that would be in addition to an oversight committee I know there's some logistical things that we probably need to talk about with that we wanted to make it an easy process for people to join and me but I think that goes a long way in building that trust as well so we will do that we engage staff in those meetings by didn't want to report out that we've had you do very good and very productive the meetings with the s-bahn certainly our general membership meeting in all the meetings that we've had at the on the budget we continue looking forward to meeting with management and partnership about a budget stabilization plan again want to make it very clear that the budget cannot solely be stabilized on the backs of certificated teachers on special assignment there must be significant to management and outside contracts on it would show that the prime ccusd was top-heavy in many different departments the district has added and the board has approved at least six new District level management positions California Edison requires districts Bentley's 55% other budget classroom teacher expenses the audit will be presented tonight shows the district is at 52% which is 2.8 million less than what should be spinners yesterday that number was run 100,000 and was fine for being out of ratio t.j. which ccft had warned open public and private we warn them that we need to stop this before we get fine call Lucas. don't you have no responsibility for what happened last year but board members went out of their way to our previous leadership on the great job they were doing last August huge amount of Praise from to sitting board members previous leadership that allowed this to happen that we see in this van it honest usually boring most people don't care about them and this is one that has people Papi I'm hoping our new leadership in some of that Revenue District cannot use Cola alone to keep salaries and benefits in line with the cost of living and cheap competitive with the rest of the county we must budget and work with the city on a better don't use agreement these are ways to improve our Revenue so we are always not dependent on Cola management and some of you on the board must stop making the solution to every issue and see USB is a new management position cuz I have court at 5 and time again something the classroom is also not okay as well as new contracts which were possibly being inundated with just seems like that's how we fix problems in this District management outside contracts and things that are outside of the classroom ccusd has some of the best and brightest let us utilize her can your people what they deserved realign their priorities I always cheer in this District about students being first as we heard tonight how students are affected by class size and what their teachers are able to do and not do with large class sizes if you believe teachers are first and you need to take care of the people that are with them first staff and teachers student learning conditions are staff working conditions and all the buildings are important trust and morale are the success in Culver City Unified School thank you thank you master long is an attorney online and then also mr. run Petty's is Instagram online okay thank you sweetie we'll move to our superintendent report and at this time I will invite you where applicable to respond to any of the comments if there's any already that you're able to provide ad hominem good evening board members thank you for your time this evening so this is Bristol Central superintendent report which I think we're pulling up real quick here here we go I want to start off with the big events of last week which is the winter storm Destiny you can see the image on the screen there but that was the first picture we got out of out 10 on Sunday evening from Mom Baker Lucy are going to see I'm a little bit later and our security team with Ted and another security officer and that was funny that was going on at Socastee High School so picking an action a little bit of panic mode that was the first picture on Sunday night next picture please it's not a sample of what's happening with side which I assumed we also saw this work and went there awesome bypass from survey done during the course of the evening and early morning and the next picture that's the Middle School field as we have all come to know sometimes ending draft a water is actually that is a picture that is not as bad as expanded into being if we saw that on Monday morning it was a challenging morning we had to close the medicine says to the school I want to I want to give you those pictures to let you see that we were looking at on the Sunday night in the Monday morning and making sure that you know the team instead of Lee hard to make sure that are safes that starts with saving ready for people to safely and then Connecticut any with their learning a key member of that team if you do one more slide for me this is our new director of Maintenance operations and transportation his name is Baker loose he and I started roughly about the same time at the zoo with a couple weeks out I started but incredibly pleased to have them on board I like I mentioned really has already knows our campus is very well it's already initiated several important repairs across the district and that we are at the service center today where I got some of the service our team and then be a part of that team and then recognized in their hard work so I just said hello to you also you can thank you so much for this up for today work with all the board members and be a servant to the community I should have waited 2 weeks to come and I'm bored but Jose full be he he looked at the weather reports and he's like you need to start on the 29th remember but again I'm very glad to be here and I'm hoping they'll do impact on the school district and that will help the students and the community as a whole and Happy Valentine's Day everybody Bank of America that's I like to bring to your attention that was one of our counselors at the love Iona Elementary School was recognized by the County Office of Education for outstanding work as a counselor I have I guess I'm not going to read this whole list but this was the application that was submitted you can see a lots of bullet points regarding this particular cancer that I know and these are some of the things that are said about her supervisor store two circles and Umbra times a week without prompting she helps organize our Hispanic heritage assembly on a black history assembly she conducts regular parent education sessions two in a row one in Spanish and one in English on various topics such as healthy friendships coping skills anti-bullying resilience and so on Jesus. It's a former pull out in counseling groups who stood in the teacher questionnaires she determines which students are most in need for small group counseling a prioritized has the student behavior chart in the other intervention top of system teachers who organizes daily entire kindness challenge week and this year she was able to recruit a bilingual and turn telling her capacity and she's working on trying to get a second of the term for the mental health needs of the students at the school just want to recognize that with you and with a public hearing public city that the county recognized one of our outstanding counselors here as well and thank you very much for your hard work Dianna and this was also that at the you have to work out of our principal dr. Godby I need the application to the county next day I'd like to just give you a brief update on his 100-day plan. Pages to tell you very briefly the work that I've been doing in regards to a hundred day plan many spoons some business I've joined the Culver City Council PTA last night I met this TCF so that was wonderful also spoke briefly at the city council several times throughout the first couple of weeks on the job but was able to officially recognized at the city council pointed out that we participating in Paradis. is Emma going on so people are getting to see me I'm just in a field of the service yard today actually met with my wonderful benefactors who who supports our type of work most notably the so they said I was out and then today and then participated in two wonderful events that were the highlight of my week last race so on Friday at 10 a.m. tonight Market which is that the celebration of Lunar New Year and that I also watch the boys basketball game which was really really great with principal and I don't have any button but I will I will shortly the best I'd like to give you a brief update on a fiscal stabilization work fun things I do want to point out in response to the audit that is coming up later on and we will discuss it in more depth with it. It we were actually able to identify some reductions the penalties that we had for the ticket has been reduced and broccoli and hash it is it is work that we are making absolutely sure it does not happen again that's what's wrong with the long and decay things happened but it will not continue under my watch and that that is an absolute definite steps to make sure that that penalty does not happen again and it was Best Buy Sentra Deuce from about that. That is taken care of and just the things that we are working on here within the fiscal stabilization plan is reviewing our position reductions and so yeah those are ongoing and conversations about what would be the least impact on our students we are gone also initiating a high interview some folks need to call it a hiring freeze but somewhat like a hiring review where we are just making sure that every single day I can see that we have within the district needs to be filled in the weirdest dream analysis around that we are a New York we are headed to new ORS contract without the board's support and bringing service a very important part of that work is it is the work of the CDC about the cars and the Culver but to help us make sure that we are not providing the same services and then lastly as we've mentioned we are conducting a review to making sure that a third-party auditor can take a look and make sure that we are meeting our budget calls and finding every single dollar that we can appropriately sign to support our for the stabilization plan so that a quick update for me a question I have one question with regards to the feasibility is there the last piece about is there a different audit you were talking about her that's the auditorium. Later on I just mentioned or budget review is getting a third party to come and take a look at our blogs Tom not that not in demand data. And it does. Independent viewed to make sure that we are spending our dollars in the best of Brookville way back just briefly just a couple points why we need a new but it sure is short so this is this is really just just getting a deeper dive into getting a deeper dive into the work right so making sure that we don't have unfilled positions on the books that were making sure that that is that is taking off so again impacts actual reductions in the classrooms but if we can find things in the budget that can assist in that that is says the point is the point of this that about your review thank you so much the better than Lucas are we hiding from anyone else in the executive team today are we hearing from anyone else in the executive team today thank you so much all right so we'll be moving on to item 7.5 drink from Mars Beauty represent in to my understanding is that we have one representative online that we will not be hearing from the Middle School today and that we have one representative here with us from Clover Park High School so we have two Representatives online I'm looking for both Sofia Gomez and amarachi IGA are they both online yes we're both going on take it away and I will invite you to if you would like to share any preferential votes our deliberations on our action items for information items we'd love to hear those as well thank you Ace be hosted our second was life on January 29th which was a success with you didn't they both we appreciate it or help on February 23rd we will be hosting our annual Cooper talk would you like a TED Talk style event where she was able to share top of that they're passionate about on March first BCS the singer First Animal Steele football it will take place in the library and Jim from 7:30 to 10 p.m. and more info will be coming soon about that this week is hosting the next time that begins with his class competition game and it's all centered around the Valentine's Day and do be new game each week last day on Friday the high school have their first schedule a during lunch and different classes and elective by to Showcase their curriculum distance they went really well I do want to cast a preference or blonde I danced 12.1 12.2 12.3 into 24 and I like to say I think they really good hi good evening everyone in my name is Sofia Gomez the student board member at-large at cchs I actually don't feel comfortable sharing my full agenda today because due to scheduling issues to do the three day weekend I wasn't able share my agenda with Dr Thomas so I don't want to share any concerns without reviewing with her although I wanted to use my agenda today to share my preferential vote on items 14.1 14.2 and 16.8 + on all these Adam is 50 yeah thank you would you state the numbers one more time for me Miss Gomez I'm sorry yes of course 14.1 14.2 and 16.8 thank you so much we appreciate hearing from you both and with Clover Park High School Vincent thank you would you like to give your marks good evening I'm Vincent Banky from cover high school and as we embark on the third quarter of the Academic Year are seniors are diligently forging ahead driven by determination and dedication to fulfill their graduation requirements and reach the Pinnacle of the of their educational Journey on that note a shout out for a First Call of Duty substance letters and Costa Ortega was accepted to Cal State Northridge Fullerton San Marcos Cal Poly and one sheet besides she will be majoring in criminology on her way to becoming a forensic scientist as well as Kristy Hernandez who's awaiting her acceptance to us see where she will study creative writing and do you say youth Source program has successfully placed its first four employees highlighting the program's commitment to fostering academic success by prioritizing candidates who demonstrate dedication to their coursework and consistent attendance the spring cover Park is launching a wellness program that will focus on building students social and emotional Wellness in the 12-week hybrid program students will attend in person support group once per week and simultaneously online lessons that focus on self regulation interpersonal relationships self confidence and power meant dealing with adversity and hopeful practices and habits the curriculum is based on the strength based program Body online platform drive me designed to help every learner develop self identity and agency so they can thrive in life and last but not least we are honored to be chosen as recipients of Sony and glow and eagerly anticipate the transformative beautification efforts that Sony volunteers will bring to our campus on April 26th thank you and have a good night thank you that's excellent news about the acceptances thank you so much for sharing those with us okay so what's that we can move to 7.6 and this is the portion of the agenda where we hear from our members of the public on the items are on agenda and so Zoom could begin to raise their hands at this time if there are any other members in the audience that wanted to turn in the cards for items on the agenda now is the moment I'll get it a little bit more time for folks to collect themselves explain so sensitive looking like six total we can do three minutes I'm just Master Lock when are you turning in a card so we will close public comment at this time and we will do 3 minutes per person thank you for public comments in person Crystal Alexander fall Pamela Sanders and and and an online we have Melissa's iPhone Angela gray and Casey triple the amount order Cher 3 + 2 after 3. My sister good evening I am Alexander one of your constituents and the farmer Food City Treasurer of Culver City as a former auditor when I read the recent Auditor's report on the ccusd I went from astonished too concerned two braids see this empty bags this is the financial state of the district that will be your legacy leave her kids and empty bag the Auditors found in finding number to that the facilities conditions were significantly less serious than the district reported and free of the school sites examined District school accountability report card which is the report to the community it stated that the disrepair was a lot worse than it really was which is very seriously considering the purposeful this represent has been done right before the measure he facilities Bond campaign this was noted as a significant discrepancy in the audit World means very very Darius this was not a clean audit report by any means you can think of a clean audit request find of a good credit rating for the school district right now sadly we don't have that Fleet when the ccusd did not clean up its act from the last. It's such as not ensuring that 55% has been spent in the classroom their implications from these findings the CC Westgate May well be on the hook for paying penalties perhaps of the 3.4 million dollars according to this audit also there is a very real possibility that an unclaimed audit report will make the secrecy USB ineligible for applying and receiving certain what kind of funding possibly the new school construction Bond on the November 24th ballot should it pass let's not forget it at ccusd is still dealing from the overhang from the superintendent when the district was assessed a $1000000 penalty you've now hired some Consultants to deal with that but I don't know if I was the powers-that-be that was reviewing it I want to see your audit report and then I'd say are not waiving any penalty they haven't got their act together so tragically at the end of the day this kind of mismanagement that has had more than short-term implications the kids end up holding the bag you have what is job to educate the students and make sure to provide them what's needed right now you're getting and managing the funds and transparency and providing our children at ccusd okay I'm going to go quickly go backwards and I apologize or back if it says anything to do with you but why on Earth are we just going over minutes from October of last year and there's a little Miss type I don't think we have October 24th 2024 minutes the fact that it isn't February 13th I went to go look at something and I couldn't because I don't like how the minutes are there but see most of the staff and stuff going to give me because they you don't have to go do the Banker's boxes but again I would love to one day actually rifle through a PO and not be Gaston shocked and confused by what the  you people are spending money on that would be great if pologize for the bad word okay to Crystal and Kelly be nice if you were once paid attention Paula nice if you paid attention to the fact that Shelly has been on the board the longest means that she has ruined the district the most and is fully aware of all the compliance requirements the fact that this decided to move ahead let's just go for a budget this out of compliance it won't matter it matters it matters a great deal the fact that you have incompetent staff discharging lunches actually done like by computer I don't even know what to say about that I mean I don't get it you literally lost over three million dollars because if you're in that do you do you have to do is help us teach our kids really well try to keep them you know from getting hurt during school make sure they grow up to be safe and teligence no respect for human beings as well maybe doing some painting classes with a gold not a yoga ball that be great but I do not have the decency bother to look everything about this Ford you have no respect for anyone else you don't care about anything if you did maybe you wouldn't have done that you knew was already out of compliance and gotten worse maybe you wouldn't have given Trend a raise and a ridiculous settlement and freeze the man who grade because you didn't pick up the phone telling Paula you wanted him to stay this is a board we have a board that has been copied in enjoys colluding with outside Matic are going to find out eventually how horrible you are Becca realtor okay good evening for I want to speak about a couple of things especially the purchase order stop before I do start I want to say thank you mister Longhorn Odean about the amount that and given for public comment many of us were here in the same Chambers last night the public comment on every single item on the agenda for the city council no matter how ridiculous am I no matter how ridiculous or call Matt's work sometimes I don't know yet it's pretty ridiculous but the city council wasn't that they listen to every single person within the timeframe that they work the oven so that's what it's kind of going we come here we see five people up there and we're giving so I see here that we have education there are being increased their purchase orders by $100,000 those are substitute teachers we should not be using an outside vendor for substitute teachers because I'm going to tell you how much that cost The Substitute that was about $200 a day and I know how much school cost because I work for them when I first retired teachers get paid $200 a day school that is charging but the district at least $400 for teacher at least I don't know for sure cuz I haven't seen the invoices but that's a general rule of thumb in nursing and all kinds of other professions I'll see that the office of Child Development where is their budget amount of money that they charge computers what's wrong with their computers all these people are over there really using so many computers upgrade Rangers I mean and only unified I have the same computer and printer for like eight years okay so and that's why I supposed to keep adding more dirt bicycle does anyone go over there and monitor I'm sorry mr. Lucas and somebody a doctor Lucas somebody needs to go over and see where is all the stuff that you ordered all the stuff is a really here so the one thing I saw in the budget that really everything but the $240,000 that was left on the table because it didn't build the state correctly for reimbursement for the lunches sing else but that's just one of the other items so thank you very much hello everyone just wanted to speak out with respect to 9.2 which is the audit and 9.7 I think looking at all of us we're all there concerned is an understatement we see lost opportunities understanding this was under some previous administration these are lost opportunity to send in a tight budget environment every cent that's loss is important and needs to be accounted for I was just reading the other day about Santa Barbara School District which is apparently having problem getting over the 52 the staying over the 55% limit is having some issues also with what they perceived to be oversized Administration and and issues with trust with the board but it's nice to know we're not alone in this in these issues but it but we have an opportunity to reset here we have new leadership, and before playing can make sure that we have get back to the regular order to make sure the other processes in place to make sure that these things don't happen and that when they do we have appropriate consequences and placed to make sure they were all held account hope for what we do and that's an opportunity I think we have and we should definitely take advantage of to make sure that this can't happen again there will be problems with all that there always will be but granted the records what would you been dealing with in the last year everyone just seems like another additional G paper cut that we need to worry about and we need to address and we're very excited and happy to see that we're going to be doing an additional review with on how and where we spend our money in maybe some of these situations will allow us to correct that as well with respect to the 9.7 I know it's an early-stage discussion on the paraprofessionals but it goes back to the same issue in terms of transparency and I want to know how are classified employees feel about some of those changes some of them required by regulations and I get it but also have our parents will feel with respect to some of the changes and then just proposed changes to disclosures to them because the transparency is important all of us and making sure that we know video who is in our classroom and the opportunity to be able to connect with them whether they are paraprofessionals or are are are teachers who are all doing the best they can and it in difficult and VY I meant we appreciate them being there thank you all right shifting two or three folks online first we have Melissa's iPhone go ahead and then Angela gray and Jason to Allah regarding 9.2 Financial audit report many community members have addressed assist you time and time again nothing has been done to change the course of action financial situation the district is in is a as explained multiple times throughout the entire year still want the 1 million plus fine for canceling three days classroom spending still is not 55% there's no excuse for this another exposure of lying and cheating with a financial budget crisis I'm curious how ccusd could actually budget for continued smaller classroom sizes in algebra 11.1 agreement for special services leadership mentoring and support our part of the new superintendent's contract apparently a little blown away by this especially with the corruption of the previous superintendent don't get me wrong I'm hopeful for new leadership Improvement the seems to be off already occurring but dr. Michael Matthews from Google California will be making $150 per hour to help support the superintendent it seems to be another blow to our teachers and staff and continually ask for support and instead have new worth taking job I cannot believe this is even acceptable stead of taking staff and teachers who are the ones who actually do all the hard work thank you next we have Angela gray whenever you're ready and look good evening I just want to dress a couple of three things that first one is the audit based on the facilities to find these have been there I'm asking for two things the first one is to please make sure that the new facilities being with the mass being drawn and everything that their bathrooms in the t.k. and kindergarten bathrooms and the kindergarten rooms it's essential for these young children the other thing I'm asking again is dishwashers in the preschool classrooms and the next thing I want to talk about it is, Nan is the comprehensive safety school safety plan I specifically looked Alibi Yona because that is the site that I work on and work at and I noticed on the map he had El Marino on and I love Iona so I don't know what's going on there and finally I just want to dress about OCD I'm a teacher at La bayona office of child development is self-funded and I can speak to the computers because my son used to go to Easter 10 University of Laverne and they gave out some computers to our department and donated them and so they're pretty much close to being refurbished at this time that we go around one more year for the bike my understanding is the opposite of vitamin C the grant and therefore the bikes were purchased with that grant money and the bikes for everybody to be aware of is being utilized also by the kindergarteners and the Tek at my Biome and I can only speak for nobody on that but brand new brakes are there thank you thank you and Mister Chihuahua please Pac-12 AC tube alarm pictures of Mariah i b e w price Mister chivo I apologize if it's there are technical difficulties Mr chabolla of course we can receive your comments oops maybe president can we do that from here one possible he is Thomas reachable of call and then we can still return to that one comment while we're taking comments from the board so I'm I'm open to that because he obviously is trying to come in okay thank you so much for the doctor pulling call and tonight and I I need to actually say thank you to a number of people I noticed on the purchase warrants that we are now moving forward to it the purchasing of AED devices or the High School athletics team in the middle school teams it was to years ago last night that we had a student claps on our fields and almost died if it weren't for the response from Culver City Fire Department paramedics as well as Marcos white the trainer couple parents so I don't know if that student would have survived so I'm just here tonight to say thank you to miss Nicholson at the high school for all the work she's done behind the scenes to get this done the doctor Baxter to Jeffrey Ford and so windy Foundation as well as Tony's for one of our students. emotional impact on all of our students with great tomorrow we kick off our American Heart Association at Lynn house where we're going to be teaching our students about hands-only CPR as kind of a follow-up to this very important thing. want to say thank you for the support and I'm glad that it's finally done I wish it had been a lot sooner in a lot quicker but sometimes things take time but I appreciate everyone that helps have a hand in getting this done thank you thanks again. Okay so we're going to hear from members of the board today so we'll start on my right with board members Amazon lived in Loretto then Guerrero then does Agora good evening everybody and for those who celebrate Valentine's Day happy early Valentine's Day and I'm going to take a point of privilege and say happy anniversary to my spouse my life song Love so today's our anniversary and I want to know the wrecked my focus for our students my remarks for today on a critical matter the urgent need to address our English Learners this is a group of students who we are currently under serving as a district it is imperative that we prioritize their me and taking media action to ensure they receive support and resources necessary to thrive academically and linguistically the English language learner progress indicator for the state is 48.7 and 4 our district is 47.2 we're even lower than the state if we look our English language arts are currently tell students 84.3% below standard this is a decline of 6.1 points we look at our this compared to our English only students this is 39 two points above standard where we find our English only students are math Arielle students are at 109.4 points below standard and English only there at point two points below standard so I heard dr. Lucas in the leadership team to take a proactive measure and prevent another year of this line and learning outcomes for English Learners as a member of this board for the past three years it has concerned me deeply that we have not received an updated plan for supporting English Learners it is imperative that we address the issues show me to ensure the success and Equitable education of all our students in our district hear my suggestions with a sense of urgency it is imperative imperative that we review research update in the ER which is currently more than three years old that we prioritize professional development for teachers book Christian structure collaboration and co-teaching between general education and content Area Teachers as well as English learner specialties we need to cultivate strong relationships with the families of English Learners and sharing their approaches are culturally responsive it is essential to respect and incorporate students native language with a goal of fostering bilingual rather than replacing English with their language furthermore technology should be leveraged to support student learning in the statistics in implementing differentiation strategies effectively it is crucial that we Embrace these practices to provide the best possible educational experiences for all our students in our district thank you so much for listening to this very urgent to help our students who are being under sea thank you thank you hello good evening I do want to thank mr. Shannon for his comment earlier I did attend to Safeway School monthly update this past week and as most of you will notice around town on a new crosswalks and signed into have been going in the crosswalk visibility is on going there were a little bit delayed because of the rain and so I'm hoping that the city will be able to get those in in before the next rain storm and we will be able to enjoy those on our walks and back to school and are pedestrians are going to be more visible soon including the new bulb out especially at at the bridge on the side of a Lindbergh Park and really looking forward to that because so many students at get dropped off over there instead in the front of the complex so I really appreciate that I do want to say that most of us were most of my colleagues were occupied in the park since it's the last board meeting and also at Rainbow day and we also celebrate needed a Asian American native Hawaiian Pacific Islander own business night market last Friday where there were a hundred plus have been partners and volunteers and for I'm just so grateful to all of our partners at the middle school of the high school in the security team and the custodial team and also our student volunteer as well as our parent volunteers who who really helped us make it up really Student Center at End Community Center event it was an opportunity to uplift folks in the community and as well as focus on their celebration that, cited with Lunar New Year but not all Asian Americans do celebrate Lunar New Year and this event was inclusive of all aan HPI community members interested in participating send a shout out to I read you who designed the new dragon Betty because the old of the lions that started in 2019 only served a few folks in their class and Betty was over 100 ft long beautiful and is a form of participatory art all the scales were contributed by elementary students and it was also an upcycling effort by using discarded comic board from one of our vendors at the time I bug here in Culver City and to see such a participatory Art In Action was just such so heartwarming and be able to share cultural event like this firming and space where representation does matter which brings needs to Pride in the park rainbow day night market and black history black history is American history lgbtq history is American his three Asian American history my history it is all of our history and we are here trying to treat affirming and safe spaces so that our students feel recognized and and feel safe and feel represented in the education that they are learning and the climate that they are in so that they can be their best selves so I want to thank all the folks that are supporting that kind of culture so that our students I also want to let you all know that I will be at the next two engagement meetings this week February 14th and February 5th at the high school there's a staff meeting at the high school on the 14th and a family meeting on the 15th at 5 and we continue to meet on the fiscal advisor I am planning on going to a budget meeting and legislative update with assemblymember Versace and set it up later on this month and I'm also planning on taking taking some time to do some legislative action was he is PA on February 19th is on committee with the city it will be cream this coming Monday and I will see y'all at the open house at cchs on February 21st as well so I wanted to say thank you thank you to everybody that participated with the Night Market on on Friday night and I such a warming Community event that is that were able to I'm just so proud of everyone thank you so much thank you very much just a couple of things I want to do one of two things dr. Lucas and everyone in the names this operations in Transportation Department for their work during the storm in and not that they can do anything about leaking roof at the moment but that just there they're being up late and getting go to school early to do what they could to keep welcome mr. illusion your work in that area also thanked the site administrators teachers and other certificated staff and the classified staff were keeping things running during the storm to minimize the you know that the inconvenience to students any kind of disruption of learning due to the storm we were able to keep things going and I know that took a lot of work on a lot of people's part so thank you headed presentations during the day from the tkmk story of time all the way through some of the discussions in fourth and fifth grade they were fantastic they were inclusive and joyful and affirming to to the students are the professional development in the afternoon was also very strong man and very valuable so thank you for that the night market was incredible I didn't realize the dragon had a name but the dragon was amazing what those scales created by students from across the District in my understanding is this week the dragon is visiting the elementary school so that students can see their work and how it kind of contributed to the the whole so fantastic you know several people have brought up the audit will it will he a little bit more about that tonight and is people who said you know audits the purpose of a non it is to find small errors to make adjustments to the DVD closing books are done correctly so on one hand I appreciate that since I found it can be corrected. I'm looking at the one for cafeteria the finding there while the recommendations is bi-district should file an amended claim to recoup that money so and knock on wood. That's not gone forever but the two $40,000 / side is is unacceptable in a in a bit of irony looking back at the unaudited actual for this year one of the budget deficit is for the Food Services Pond for this year too I didn't 39239000 the exact same amount as that the oversight so that's not okay to thousands just think they're fine since I misspoke on the millions in relatively small given some of the butt numbers we work with it's still not an acceptable waste of of funds that we are due this is an audit for last year the folks who who were in charge of this no longer here so I can't range of them but that's that's not an okay thing and then do we need these systems to be cleaned up and to be much more efficient looking at at our other programs not going to labor the 55% I didn't vote for the budget this year because of that 55% this isn't a new discovery this is something that we have known all along but it's it's been problematic since the beginning mention several years ago when this first appeared it was relatively small but it wrapped up over the years and we chose not to do anything about that so we are in this situation the biggest one is is the biggest one. want to speak on is the one about the transitional kindergarten and I appreciate the work of of doctor pulling in dr. Lucas for speaking with the Auditors and getting a correction on that though it is not quite the amount that it was but this is my day I work with this kind of thing every day I was elected myself and Loretta were ceded about a year ago December January of last year enrollment report and saw that we were over to the superintendent spoke to the business office let them know that there was a looming issue that we had time to fix it and ultimately the choice was made not to neither of those folks are here to yell at tonight but I continue to let fly by dr. Luke I know that is not something I have confidence that that is not something that you would have allowed to happen so I look forward to that I know we are working diligently with our our various Partners to find an excellent business the superintendent who will take care of this type of thing better Bob will not let things like this cafeteria oversized happen although it is not necessarily the choices of a single individual in that feeds and then I think we need get all of our practices were this type of thing is slipping through the last when I want to speak on tonight which is that system stabilization plan we're all involved in that particular a four-member Laredo and I are working with Dad because we have to do the partner thing on these two of us that time and just committing to to the public into staff that we are attempting to use data to make choices about what are the most effective programs and and how to continue those and which programs might be nice but not necessarily as effective or or delivering as much and trying to to that way as well as trying to keep the cat's away from the classroom it was interesting tonight and I really appreciate the students and the staff speaking about the algebra classes my understanding is that something that's been very effective and that's something that's in a classroom I haven't heard any proposals to change that we'll see if we get any but I would certainly want to know what type of changes are happening at the Des office before we start talking about changes to an effective algebra program at the high school and so it is going to be challenging to reduce some of the spending that we've gotten used to over the last couple years some of it was effective two years back into the classroom 2 years back in person the federal government is no longer spending some of that the state is no longer funding somebody extra covid programs we have to make choices but again the commitment is to focus on what the data and and what folks say is effective a Tiki Tan away from the classrooms as much as possible thank you very much thank you and good evening everyone history by people and those who love us as we observe Black History Month in this District I just want to take the time in my opening comments to recognize the commitment working vacation recognizing black history I'm usually inherited as a part of American History to kick off this month I was take it off this month I was proud to call host a screening in the panel discussion of a new movie got my Ava Duvernay called origin I'm alongside supervisor Holly Mitchell Lucinda dryzek by an armed AR gives me macmorran at a bunch of the organization's the movie based off of a book that we can really popular in Japan funny called as to the origins of our discontent Powerful movie I know my colleague board member has no that was there as well as some District stopping to dance music hey babe are powerful movie I'm going to see a part that I wanted to talk about here I think is most important and relevant education in the time that we're seeing right now is there was a scene in the movie medicine Memorial stands and it was an empty bookshelf to talk about interacting nized the fact that get rid of part of history and people's knowledge people were burning bucks I'm and in the context of this widespread national movement that we're seeing of banning bugs Banning American history from our schools on this very popular talk about I immediately went out in and out and bought the buck in there was a quote in the beginning of and I believe in the Billy before the event starts where they're talking about systems of farming the author says she could see what his countrymen chose not and his idea. Sam's Club, depression are first of all time a matter of seeing but also that seeing is a choice and I sit here on this side and it weighs heavy on my mind and heart, the idea that seeing the currents wasn't burned as reflective of the data that we look at each and every day we can see him to this work but also the guy that we're looking at only a state around the world when it comes to a black woman's maternal mortality rate I'm also thinking of the fact that in our district but Nationwide black students are over-represented in expensive and suspension expulsion down to underwear send it in a piano electric lemon so I sell this to say because although I understand people waiting. My election and then and my being on this body dies on on History not only being the first I like Manchester up here but the only incident like member deeply humbled to have received recognition and that being a conversation point but I really hope that we can maybe Vivid that conversation it's really talk about the work that we're doing I'm in our district when it comes to the betterment of the everyday lives of the students in the Park District to look like me I wanted to take the moment to talk to the Civic Glee about as a supplement of our blacks you don't even plan our summer literature Lake Camp designed for our growing readers from raids to 25 that we had this summer 36 students were enrolled in the program and those lower reading levels for entering the reading camp at Camp reading at least my grade level by majority of them reading higher than the grades of one so I'm just sitting here during this month reflecting on the the work that we are doing each and every day for the betterment of the students and the people that we were presenting this community and I just believe it serves as a reminder, the work that we'd stay I need to do in this District in the state and in this country and so I'll be back at you and I look forward to celebrating and doing much more when it comes to recognizing black Student Success by Sunnah treatment but knowing that we each have a very important and an integral opportunity to used the voice to men end of our in the boat and the words that we have to better the lives of the students in our district thank you thank you so thank you so much to all of my colleagues for their remarks and their work tonight it's really a pleasure hear from all of you and I just wanted to say thank you again for all of your thought leadership and all of your partnership is it shining a lot of seasoning in particular and so I don't have very much to add because so much text songs has been spoken to already get I will just add that it was a pleasure to attend engagement meetings around our facilities with staff and parents at Target in El Rincon last week and I definitely want to express at 2 to the folks who aren't in the room anymore but that were here the students and the teachers who were speaking about the algebra class size that is an issue near and dear to my heart I do appreciate that it was extended to dr. Baxter in particular because it's deserved and indeed it was a decision that was made last year to support this critical and foundational instruction and I do want to add my voice to publicly request and my whole or name my hope that we will continue to support the lower class sizes eat it even as he's fiscal costs low and I wanted to also appreciate very specific student-centered comments around our English learner and our black students in the Summer live at camp and I really do hope that we will continue and build around both of those types of programming by I would love to see that like Camp come back again in the summer I don't know it looks like I'm seeing some. really wonderful to hear her and then just said congratulations to the very well deserved recognition of our counselor miss terrano a lot by owner she's really she's so many things I don't know Angel doesn't even really describe it she's really doing incredible service to our students and to welcome Mister is good to see you on the job I look forward to Lino working with you more and yeah the sense of humor is going to serve you so we're going to take a recess we're going to be back at 8:18 thank you all okay it's 18 I'd like to call our members back okay so why don't we go ahead and begin on our information items oh actually maybe we're not ready I sure will not right babe one more moment so we can begin on their information items beginning with item 9.2 the audit of court extremely stop reporting on this is an annual report and we do have a couple of findings that we'd like to clarify we have our auditor Jeff with us he is on Zoom as he has covid I'm so we wish him well and are grateful that she has agreed to be a part of the zoom meeting I do want to go over the fact that our audit report for the fiscal year June 30th 2023 was a adds to our agenda and our board members received a executive summary and so starting with page 75 that's a summary of the auditor's report and I'm well we know that there are no material this is where identify the audit qualified as a low-risk audit our Auditors Jeff will go through and if she needs to sitting Peaches I can go ahead and share those with you as well to Jeff I invite you to unmute your cell and we share a little bit about our audit and if you could provide specific clarification around the state reimbursement for the severe need breakfast program and specific information around the district exceeded maximum average CK and there are two different numbers and I was like for our board members in our community to hear from you about the calculation hello first of all, everyone yes again rage first of all thank you for allowing me to do the silver Zone instruments best my voice that sounded all day it worked out good with the timing gear and as mentioned this is a 2022 23 fiscal year audit it was completed in December and filed with the state controller by the December 15th deadline as required we are first of all I'd like to really just address with the audit is because I think a lot of times people have misconceptions about what an audit is and their different types of audits for sure this is an annual Financial audit that required by the education code in the primary objective of the. It is very Audrey give an independent opinion financial statements and railing to determine whether the financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles now in order to do that there's a lot of things that have to happen a lot of planning goes into a we start you out early on in fact you know we're already doing the 2324 physically Rod we're already playing that we come out to the district to visit some of the school sites to look at the attendance accounting as well as ASP accounting at your secondary schools we come out to the district office before the books or even close to look at procedures start looking at some of the compliance areas and they are numerous. areas that we are required to audit just keep growing every year thanks to the state on a guide and then we come back after you adopt your Amana Naturals in September we come back in the fall and do the final audit where we look at the finance numbers and start belching out the numbers verifying that they are stated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles me outcome of all that is to be harder to give what's called an opinion in our audit we're giving it in the unlock I think that's what you want to get basically that the financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles now there's a lot of other information I'm not going to take a how much time going through the report itself but I'll just describe some of the major areas of the required as I mentioned the Auditors opinion is the first part followed by a discussion Management's discussion and Analysis section which is the section of the audit that I refer people to if you're not in numbers person you really don't want to read the whole lot of you just want to get it no review of what the audits about you can read through that section that talks about some of the financial highlights for the year adult thurston's imperative information and it talks about the different types of financial statements that are present in the audit now the actual numbers themselves and the notes to the financial take up the large section of the report because they're quite lengthy I'm lots of different Financial views of the district have to be presented and the notes have a lot of descriptive information in their press accounting nerds or other people that are interested in understanding how did transactions are accounted for in the district lots of description about pension plans and and retiree benefit plans and things like that there's other information. It is well information that's required by the Gatsby which is your governmental Accounting Standards Board National agency that gets to make up accounting rules for governments cities and states and school districts and such as well as schedules that are required by the state can office 2% very special information about the district that's extracted from the financial statements and then there's some letters to the back of the report that describe the standards we have to follow in conducting the audit such as Government auditing standards which requires us to look at compliance with state laws and regulations the state audit guide which in order to do an audit of the school district you're bound follow the procedures in the audit guide which outline over 30 different areas of compliance that we have to look into inverify complaints with and then we also have to follow the the federal guidelines I love your federal programs make sure that those programs are following Federal compliance guidelines and now that takes you to the back of the report which is ironic because it's always the section that people refer to first the findings in question cost the finding section I'd like to walk you through that briefly There's a summary page but then the findings themselves begin on what page 76 of the report I'm not sure what PDF pages but it's essentially the findings are broken out by section there's a section that refers to at findings that were neither federal or state compliance issues financial reporting and so there is a finding on the cafeteria meal reimbursement claims and this is a somewhat I don't want to say it, fining in school district however anytime a district under reports the number of meals on its claim forms to the state the state will not process those revised claims for increased meal recording unless it's reported as a finding in the outer part now if the district had over reported it would simply have to revise and refile those claims with their with the lure numbers but the state won't allow the finding one allow the additional funding for underreported meals without it being reported as a signing yacht so that's in here and as you can see their finding went through April 2023 that was discussed fairly early on and ordered and basically Grossmont took care of that already there were no fight Federal findings so in our federal we looked at the ID United federal federal education program as well as the Acer money the federal covid relief money so we looked at a sampling of those programs and found no findings we're Federal programs and then finally the last action or the next-to-last section is the finding Silver State programs I'm not going to go through each one individually but I was asked to discuss specifically the tky and in particular because that's a new complaint area a 2020 223 what year was the first year of implementation of the program was the first year was subject to audit and guidelines were to verify that the district to not exceed the 12:36 student-teacher ratio in any school of the district the ad code language the guidance from the city requires us that when there is an a class in Access the district is penalize based on the district-wide GK 88 not just at that school now I do want to clarify that the audit report is incorrect as it stated now in the number and the penalty amount after issuing the report we discovered in subsequent Joshua tdv because this issue came up in a lot of school districts that the penalty is based on the lower add-on running right not the full Tek find the great and so that does reduce the amount of the penalty from where it stated down to about 125,000 rather than 369000 but the penalty is still there nonetheless so and that was again the first year of this refining because its first year of the program and so that's going to be an ongoing compliance area that we will be looking at again in this upcoming year and then finally the back of the report starting on page 82 is the schedule prior audit findings and I always like to point this out because sometimes people look at these men think these are current your findings they are not wheel able to schedule our audit findings in the running a different format just so it's a little more clear but we have to report every year the status of the audit findings that reward in your previous spot we have to look at the 2021 2022 fiscal year audit and report back the status of those bindings and so we're reporting back for the independent study and attendance reporting findings if those are implemented the instructional time instructional materials by and then you just see the classroom calories one repeat this year and then finally the very back of the report is AR management letter which are issues that did not rise to the level of what we would consider finding but they were matters of discussion that we had with management that were brought Management's attention and we felt that they should be addressed to the board as well and so they're in the back of the airport but they're not fine anyway that's about as quickly as I can go through it without skipping over anything but I'm happy to take any questions I think you might. thank you so much for that presentation that was very helpful and you all can feel free to comment on your own by do we need to there were five comments about this thank you for saying that you my understanding about this 55% with teachers is that many districts are having the same hardship and you explain why this is happening right after the light during a seizure and you know what federal and state who had money coming in and how that was spent and all that change the percentage of the budget but I would greatly appreciate for the audio to know this is something that is happening and we're not unique all right that's that's accurate with all of the federal covid money that school districts. In California how many districts went from meeting that Reserve or that spending requirement to being out of compliance with it this is only our second year as your Auditors so I'm not sure what your history was prior to that. But what it did was a lot of District started spending that Federal release money on other things I can turtles and supplies things at not count towards that percentage spending requirement there is an allowance in this was something that I have discussed subsequent to the issuance of the audit something I did discuss with management was that there are some exclusions that will allow you to meet that requirement even though Federal covid-19 you still being spent and it has to do how the dollars are being coded and whether some of the classroom Leonard weather some of the dogs simplified if you use all of that Federal East money on things outside of the classroom and you can exclude it from population because it does Fortescue the percentage that's being spent in the classroom I hope that made sense thank you that's all for me thank you you been to the report allows us to refile that so we should be able to recuperate that 204 thousand that's my understanding that's based on what other districts in them in my past experience has been able to do it yes okay so an up-to-date on wind that gets refiled and women have gets approved because I'd like to just keep track of that one also you mentioned that if this report was filed in December with the state will it get refile with that change in the teak a penalty or is that something that we are going to be responsible for alerting the state to no well yes to the first power question yes it will be refiled it was unfortunately the guidelines from the CD when the penalty was first put out when were very clear until when we asked me to penalty amount we were basing it on the T K allowance right and Rob and then we found out subsequently that it's actually only on the add-on amount so we were able to do so will be refiling the report with the County with the CD in with the state controller when an audit gets posted it'll be that corrected version not the original version and then I do appreciate thank you also for pointing out some of the federal places where there's not finding you know we all jump to the findings but there's no list of not finding so it's good to hear that there are no findings around ID yay or around the extra spending so that's that's very positive, and I also appreciate the section at the back where it shows all of the things previous years that were findings that have been corrected so thank you for that and then just question for your staff again Tyrion and a couple other places any thoughts on what we will be doing to change back just so that we don't run into that type of an air again but first and foremost I will be and that's the view of this would stop buzzing fiscal Services Department in the suicides in regards to the finding so that everyone is aware of what were meant to find his word and what are recommendations input it without being verified so I'm assuring is assuming adding a second layer of review that bad idea to do any place we're submitting it and that wasn't the practice with cafeteria I hate to find out that's not the practice somewhere else on the future audit so maybe we bring that up with other other departments and other services as well I have my faith that we are going to fix this moving forward and reason why we have our audit is so that we can find stuff like this and minimize our exposure you hear or I risk of being out of compliance and I will say this to you because you haven't heard it from you before but science has the floor and we can we will do better and we can do better and we will I want to say I think you for a d audit and hopefully we'll be able to really take a look at this data and just grow from there and improved and I'm sure that we are going to do that with the work we have laid out in front of us and in Waldo on the fiscal advisory committee were looking at stuff moving forward into the future I think that was all these mornings now there is stuff that we can do for 2324 to make sure that we are perpetuating these kinds of things this in this current year so thank you that that you're on now that dr. Lucas is on board and thank you before we continue that we did verify rtk numbers for this sure and we are not over enrolled in any of our classes we do have a doctor indelicato and I'm director Tony Valdez if who are verifying our numbers and are confident their system and so this opportunity to review our findings in the audit gives us an opportunity to the nests are our internal mechanism for verifying that what we're doing is Dragon consistent with it but the state requires and also that we are consistent in our internal controls moving forward and so it is an opportunity to grow and get better thank you for that. The pool and that's a perfect segue to and I have so how what is the response when a family with a tkr needs to enroll like today tomorrow about how do we cuz it's feels like we're full or let's say we purple at particular site that sale in how get the family in their District they need to enroll a tkr and all the other two items are full to how do we proceed so I think doctor Baxter it may be able to add to this but what I heard from Veronica Montes was that sffs within bring up the enrollment numbers and they review the numbers by asking the schools to call them before they enroll and they report that and to add services are reported to HR resources and two business so that everyone has a sense of the numbers are maxed out and I'm there's a question about enrollment at a specific site the superintendent in cabinet convened make that informed decision because what we know this year is that I'm too concerned last year with 12:36 this year it's drop-down 12:40 and with adults in the classroom it's 12:50 and so we want to make terrorized evaluating our numbers everywhere and you. That is very accurate we immediately enroll students if they need sir criteria and requirements and if we need to open another classroom we will do that so we stay within that 2 to 20 ratio and we make sure we don't go over so quite literally means if we get a student that goes beyond that to 2:20 we would open a new classroom and yet we don't have new classroom space so what would the logistics be of. And where do what about f t e from we wouldn't create if we have to find a a space with a lot of support from labor and administration and we would get an f t e Mr alarcon's office and we would find the most qualified person to serve the students so at this time though we have a bit of a cushion for this exact reason so we don't spill over again how do you build in a crochet what's up principles and look at every available space there is some of the sites are fairly far under the app but it is. And is that something we share rated or we are lucky this year this is what I'm wondering so what I know is that we always leave room for even if they wait for the year and so I'm got the cushion that we I'm familiar with already but TK's new so what does it mean to build a cushion what are the logistics of that we were able to add a teacher classroom this year which is really helped a district-wide so we are continuing to look for space as we possibly might might be able to grow in different ways but we will be strategic about that great... snowcaster and helps me understand and we play students we also place them strategically I said that there are more spaces across the district also thank you both for helping me understand that my my only comment again thank you so much for walking us through this audit it was very very helpful and I'm sure for the public as well to hear that professional I'm kind of hand-holding helping us navigate to document and I would love and I don't know if this is already in its planned but I would love if this could come back to us like at the board meeting once it's read filed is that a child for already is that necessarily what would happen and if not could we do that bossy that's not wholly appropriate I mean it would be another document with that particular change and make sure that's in the public record that the chance I think of a place gas and then okay and then I do think it's going to be really important for us to communicate with our community about the amended numbers and on the steps were taken to try to read read rescue know what's the word the Food Services dollars I think it would be really important for us to communicate with the public about that so hopefully we'll be talking about the messaging and some professional Communications go out okay are there any other comments and we did hear from the public 5 times on this matter anything else we need to question our staff around okay thank you so much again Jeff and we hope you feel better please take care of yourself thank you thank you for this opportunity to highlight our enrollment the documents that you have in front of you are 10 9 through 11 34 that first page and looking at that table will be highlighted in Gray tells you our current number so for elementary wear 3047 the number the find Underneath It Is 2020 to 2023 last year we were at 3069 give end of the same month and if you follow that chart down you can see the secondary numbers again at secondary 3591 and you see where we were in 2020 to 23692 you can see the iacademy number we're currently at Sea and in 2020 to 23 34 and 2 I'm going all the way down you see our numbers for preschool in addition our number for The Adult School enrollment numbers for these last two we don't have a glimpse of last year at the same time but he sense looking at the second page it's eleven 6 through 12 one again following the same for match and on page 3 of this document it's 12 or 3:29 and again a chance to see and what I did was to compare my numbers from October through December 29th and we saw that there was a dip in our enrollment for you can get a glimpse of comparing those by looking at page 1 and page 3 in the same goes for the secondary Academy and we get a chance to see where we are preschool and adults school so this document we serves as a function to give you a glimpse of the last three months of where we are and to also be able to compare them to the year before and Alex Drummond but nothing thank you there wasn't any public comment specifically on the enrollment report as far as my own comments I didn't see I had some internal questions about like our waitlists and if we had but I guess I didn't directly if we guessing we don't have anybody currently on a on a waitlist right to also start thinking about and we do have this Ben icademy I think it's been something that we've been we've talked about before in terms of and bumping I Academy is for our secondary students for our high school students and in some cases it's really like the most appropriate place where they need to be depending on their needs are in terms of their environment but I would also ask that late you know we may be there being that we're doing in terms of not being able to support them in an independent study situation rather than I care to me and also just continue to support them in a way that we are making sure that all the best options are being given to them so this is something that I'm definitely going to continue looking at because in the past we've enrollment I mean in the past he said oh declining enrollment is not is not an issue for us but we're definitely seeing a small Trend and also it's it's not just that we're seeing a small Trend it's also that we need to be aware of how we now that we have both by Academy and Clover Park you know in addition to a comprehensive High School is that you know what are we doing in order to scaffold and support and provide the best environment for those those students and I just I just want us to be aware and intentional. So thank you very much so are we stuffing inter-district permit applicants the eligibility criteria all the time are there ever folks that we are denying entrance to your lack of space for instance so my current report doesn't give me those numbers I wonder doctor Baxter if you could provide some insight into that that would that would depend on if we had the space and we would do a bear permit review process if we don't have if we don't have space that's it that's a difference it's a different decision so I'm trying to ask a question this way because I still I do not I genuinely do not understand why our numbers are declining and I have been I've been asking this question and I have not and I don't I'm sure that there is no intention ality here but I continue to not be clear it has always been my perception that people continue to want to other students here from outside of Culver City and so I'm still very unclear on are we siding that we have less space than we have had in the past which was always around 7,000 and as much as 70 100 is that an internal decision that has been made and not communicated to the board and therefore we are using that you declined some of the students were applying for inter-district permit it is that is not the case is it that we getting to your application or the more students are leaving thank you for that question and thank you for clarifying it as this has recently come under my direct attention I would love to research that and get more information so I can sir this in a more relaxed way for you okay I appreciate that I will just reiterate that I do I feel that I've been asking for a long time and I I really hope that that we can get it clarified in a way that we can come because the community continues to notice that it obviously has a tremendous physical impact we need Ada thank you so much okay we'll move on to item nine points for and this is the first Street 9.4 this is our first read it is recommended for it is a recommended practice that the governing board of education regularly review board policies and administrative regulations that are significant to the op pictures of Culver City Unified School District this is the first read for the board policy and the ar6200 for the Adult School the last update was in 1998 and to comply with recent set program monitoring ccusd was asked to update more policies and administrative Bragg's specifically this version is the most updated version from September 2022 in gamut there are any changes that we have made and just a few additions and that we would like to maintain the last section titled diplomas and certificates as they fit with the adult school previous administrative regulation related to the high school diploma and to add language that clarifies the current and future Pathways for adult education students to earn a high school diploma and high school equivalency certificate both the 180 credits that it details have always been in play this is not a change the 60 credits plus the high school equivalent equivalency exam are Pathways their currents requirements for the adults earning a high school diploma at ccas and the pathways are common practice amongst adult schools throughout the county and the region as significant as it is adding the national external diploma program as an option for students earning a high school diploma from Culver City Adult School Additionally the high school equivalency test this is not new the tests are the GED and the hiset for students 8 10 years and older and 17 years in some instances so this is presented to you all for information tonight thank you Kelly, dozen questions there were no comments about this okay and I'm seeing no comments and questions from other colleagues so we will remove this and I have none so we'll move it for a second read or what you don't come back to us for a sec and 9.5 are comprehensive school safety plans please thank you and these are draft for your review and we we are aware that there might be some some tweets that needs to happen and occur but it's important to note that the fire department the fire chief more specifically and the emergency preparedness coordinator girl along with Captain Martinez from ccpd have been reviewing the plans and are providing feedback School site Council Zavala I'm working with director ronchetti to develop the template and to provide feedback as they move forward the plans are approved by each School site Council there are notes that the summer not completed this is a draft for 4 reading is these are going to come back to you for Action if the end of the month the plan can be modified as the year goes on for echoed which we would bring back to you for changes the it is the district's responsibility in terms of Edco to develop a school and a comprehensive school safety plan and you leave before March one of every year they have engagement with the community and to have them approved by School site Council there specific statues in Ed code which are listed in your board agenda that detail the reasons and rationale as to why and at our next meeting I believe we will have representatives from fire and the police department present to support this work thank you this is presented for information tonight colleagues there are no comments from the public just want to say thank you for highlighting the role of of the Fire Department of Law Enforcement events I know that was a question last year on these would have been included in the process so thank you for highlighting that I only have one question and I will first one to say thank you so much for answering some of my questions that I before the meeting but one question that is still pending is one important aspect of School site Council sorry school safety plan is checklist and that this checklist is reviewed and ensure that it is completed by the end of the year how will we be receiving that is this going to be a Jen dies in this be put on the plants so that the administrator teacher staff everybody who is reviewing this now is like hey we approve of March 1st by the end of the year the board should receive an account of what things were done in the checklist absolutely we can present that back further information for all of you as it will be complete speaking of safety we're getting out an alert so thank you for that I appreciate that we will we will definitely prioritize that my comments are just if we could for the second reading update with it more inclusive language to replace or remove gendered language and remove and use words like interest holder and party and we're so thank you thank you I look forward to seeing the thank you for that suggestion thank you nothing else and I have no comments thank you so much and we look forward to that coming back and we can move to item 9.6 who's this it's me to apologize so this is presented to you all tonight or information as this provides students with who might have a Nike or who do have an eye. with an alternative Pathway to a diploma so and it would be a nice Heat team decision if students meet certain criteria and the team decides to move this forward that a diploma would be the path in which students can earn rather than any other certificate or or or what have you from previous previous bills and this is a result of California location code section 51225 31 and this has this has gone through and this is only applicable to students who meet criteria who were freshmen in the 2220 33 school year thank you so much for that Collies mr. Guerrero or your green Publix this proposal is not a blanket reduction in graduation requirements for students with disabilities it would allow it if CIA team which includes teachers admin designee parents and pretend to do students selves decide this is the best for that individual student and their unique needs there were no public comments about this particular item thank you for bringing this to our attention I really appreciate this coming on what is a state initiated change but none the less you know it's a standard standard space to diploma and really there should be no child receiving non-standard based instruction and but apparently and sees you as the children in our district are receiving non-standard space construction so I'm very grateful for the legislation because it's it's forcing our hand honest to to continue to move away turn on standards-based instruction I do hope that we will not wait for further State mandates to continue to move away from non-standard base instruction for all students and that we initiate eliminating that all on our own and you know for example or a conclusion facilitators are a tremendous help because they support our teachers and providing standards-based instruction to every single student with disability and modifying Everest and as needed to get to a diploma including through this c a a and so I just looked I just wanted to use this as an opportunity to highlight. And I really look forward to hearing about her Starburst and getting urgently 20 classrooms that are receiving Don standards-based curriculum thank you thank you move us onto item 9.7 please thank you it was determined through a federal probe monitoring review that there was a lack of alignment between the job description and job description and the board Wallace Lee Ward policy / administrative regulation for a teacher sisters paraprofessionals and so Ed Services work with human resources to to create that online match which uc4 reflected in the revision of the of the board policy and administrative We are continuing to work on this document as what we found through this process is that there's a different standard for Title 1 schools and non Title 1 schools whereas the title 1 schools require the basic skills test the ninth non Title 1 schools do not so what we're trying to do is create a a board policy and also a job description where we can write language that will allow us to attract more applicants continuing to work on this any comments from colleagues know any problem, then there were there was one public comment on the thank you for this Mister Alarcon I I I understand now that we are trying to and I just hope that this is giving us the opportunity to be more inclusive I guess about 10 be direct about where we can open up our our job descriptions for certain of our employees or potential candidates for certain schools and because we have had a high Reliance on our contract and contractors for these positions are if this will help us be more attractive or not just more attractive but be more inclusive so that we we are not having that behind the lines on contractors then I'm I'm hoping that when you get that job description the job description or job descriptions because it looks like there may be more than one is that correct the possibility we've been having discussions about this topic V and cabinet. I was in our human resources department looking at the requirements contacting the CDC and and really seeing how we can maximize the applicant for both I don't want and non-title want paraprofessionals that's that's really what we want we want to maximize that while still being with all of the necessary I'd code for each and every one of those policemen thank you very much thank you very much so we have completed that will come back for a second read we've completed our information items moving on to action items and we'll begin with superintendent action items and in this case we have moved Barb items 16.9 to be the first superintendent action item and so what we will do is entertain a motion and second Proclamation or resolution and then we will move through voting and so I don't think it needs a staff report first so I'll entertain a motion to approve I move to approve thank you and I see and we should note that the attachment is still not present and so we will be reading the resolution into the record for dual purposes this time I'm so what we'll do is three each and if we could please start on my right and move this way thank you resolution number 31 for the year 324 endorsing February 2024 as national black African American History Month to be celebrated in all schools of Culver City Unified School District were the history of black African the United States as well as throughout the ages is indeed unique and buy rent and is appropriate to celebrate this history during the month of February which has been proclaimed as black African American History Month and whereas The History of the United is Rich with inspirational stories of Great Men and Noble women whose actions words and achievements have United Americans and contributed to the success and prosperity of the United States there is among those Americans who have enriched our society are members of the black African-American Community individuals who have been steadfast in their commitment to promoting solidarity equality and justice for all and whereas from the earliest days of the United States the course of its history has been greatly influenced by black African-American Heroes and Pioneers in many diverse areas from science medicine business and education to government industry and leadership and whereas the official national week-long celebration of black African American history initiated in February 1926 and the black scholar and historian Dr Carter G Woodson as its 10 to a month-long of disturbance during February and each year black African American History Month focuses on a theme reflecting the history of African American people and the national theme for 2024 is African Americans in the yards getting the money impact black Americans have had on Visual Arts music culture movements and more and whereas the Culver City Unified School District black families Council and the diversity equity and inclusion departments will celebrate this can highlight black history celebrated educate Elevate during the month of February 2024 and whereas McNeil on African Americans lived and died in obscurity never achieving the recognition as individuals deserve and yet the way for future generations to succeed and whereas black African Americans continue to serve the United States at the highest level of business government and the military and whereas the story of black African Americans is a story of resilience and perseverance has a people who refuse to accept the circumstances under which they arrived on these Shores and then want to go to generation who fought for in a man and that truly reflects the ideals and shrines in our founding document is The Narrative of the enslaved to shepherded others along the path to freedom and preacher to organize against the rules of Jim Crow people who starred in that lunch counters an ordinary man would marry men and women whose extraordinary risk to change our nation but it better during national anthem American History Month we celebrate the rich Legacy of black watch African Americans in the palm of the remarkable contributions they have made to perfecting our Union and whereas this annual designation pumps are diverse communities to become aware of recognize and celebrate the many cultures social spiritual in economic contributions of blacksmith happy American to the United States as well as to promote understanding and Harmony among all people and Unified School District provides its diverse student body with rope the services that emphasized sx540 sensitivity Buzzard Intergroup relations and cross-cultural communication and ensures the inclusion of the black African-American experience extends to our curriculum design such as I renew a b African in studies the black student achievement plan and prioritization on cultural inclusive instructional strategies that include the use of the four tenets of social justice standards identity diversity Justice and action and whereas the black the national black African American History Month we pay tribute to the contributions of past generations and reaffirm our commitment to keeping the American dream alive for the Next Generation in honor of those women and men who paved the way for us and with Great Expectations those two fellows let it continue the righteous cause of making America what it should mean a nation that is more just and more equal for its people and where is the Culver City Unified School District open into the curriculum the study of black African-American now therefore be resolved that the Board of Education of the Culver City Unified School District of approves resolution number 31 in the school year 2324 endorsing February national black African American History Month to be celebrated in all of its schools passed an adopted by the governing board of the Culver City Unified School District on February 13th thank you very much discussion colleagues pay all of those in favor say aye thank you for that we will move to a live tomorrow if I'm remembering correctly 11.1 and being reduced. Restock report thinking about a present this is the contract of personal services in agreement for my mentoring and support I start the job dr. Matthews is in season the superintendent and that is able to provide me advice and guidance says I work to this this new journey together with Silver City thank you man just an emotion play I moved to a great discussion can you start remember Lord I do thank you because of that when public comment I do want to clarify or our audience I was the president when this contract was executed and one of the board requirements was for this car attract a advisory consultant mentoring for your choosing doctor Lucas and so I can I do want to make sure that the audience in our public understands that the for the board the five of us made this requirement in your contract and so I just I want to say thank you for bringing this for and compliant with your contract and we really appreciate you ensuring that your growth continues as you helped all are almost 7,000 students to grow and our staff and teachers and develop professionally other than the other comments okay thank you yes I was going to say something to the effect of Miss some of those comments so thank you so much I'll take all those in favor say aye item 11.2 so we're moving to Educational Services items beginning with 12.1 and we'll start with a staff report thank you you this first is coming back for a second read and approval this is the new C-TEC course Child Development one the course will be paid for out of the CTE childhood halfway Grant which Twiggy has recently been awarded $304,000 so we're very excited about our partnership with OCD and we can as we move forward and offer this important Morse to our students requested it thank you so much motion to approve lease second discussion thank you for making thank you for making the changes that you said you were going to make for 4 yes sir that was America I will take a boat all those in favor say I buy thank you items 12.2 + you can make it as brief or lengthy as you like what president there's no really need if these are all the kind of the similar cuz we've heard these before would you mind us taking them all together or it's it's often that Miss Williams prefers even if we do it quickly but we just do them one at a time I've ever been on this question yeah but we can do them one at a time with should we didn't know it would you like to have no staff report we understand the nature of these items are going to leave the group discussion and we did get a preferential I from massage and all those in favor say aye we had a preferential a premise I from massage a 12-point please okay without a preferential voting favor all those in favor say aye 13.1 with a I can read and it changes it's just a technical change in language as was found in fpm the gamut language language and what is required needs to say it needs to not say a homeless student and rather stay experiencing homelessness throughout all the documents so it's all been updated and attached for your review motion to approve move to approve I just have one point and I think it's like it's crucial that on this it says that and I put it on the on the Excel sheet so you know what I'm talking about clarify that the training is not or District stuff but the training is for our administrators teachers Liaisons at the school site right like for our students were experiencing because I believe there's some language there that feels like the training is for District staff and I know that our School site is this trip but I think it needs to be more specific California Education Code and I believe I would love for us to learn when these trainings are occurring because we continue to see a rise in suspending children who are on house and and that the mean means that we we need to do more intervention before that happen right or training more words for student more training for staff and teachers and support for students so that they do not get suspended and that we're supporting them in another ways thank you for that question a liaison and the training does take place and location and end dates and times and in all of those things we can share it at a different time it is highly sensitive especially because we have to protect the information but thank you for question Thunder Easton training new content or is it a training that we I'm doing for a while met some really great question is so part of it is it connecting all of the rich resources that are in the Culver needs committee with ensuring that others are are of what can the offer part of the training is just all of the new laws that and different pieces so it's yes and no I think it's evolving as we're evolving because two dude or number I miss our suspension rates for students experiencing homelessness is too high just doing more of the same training would not be okay I'm glad to hear that it's evolving but whoever oversees that and makes the decisions about the content of a probably direct Montez I think helping our staff understand these pension rate is too high and it shows processes need to be in place to intervene and support long before we get to the point where somebody's having to make a decision about suspension emphasizing that in the next round of training would be helpful I think you are coming on this item the business services items will begin with 14.1 please we bring forward 14.1 ratification of agreement with a parent Institute for Quality education begin this program is a Time designed to develop skills and techniques which will Empower parents to address the educational needs of their school-age children most excellent discussion and we did have a boat a preferential vote in favor from this, remember, there are no public comments received multiple emails and I do have a statement that I want to read I I want to say that I have a heart from gratitude to everyone involved and bring him fika to see see you as this initiative has been in the works for for two years it really started with Miss fans worse I hope she has Departed the families Alibi Yona are eager to see greater engagement from their peers and collaborating with adult schools help us achieve just that it's important to know that the contract is 100% funded by the adult school and the adult who has a separate funding source that it's not part of our budget according to csb a authentic engagement and some pieces for key strategies and forming increasing awareness about school district and County Office of Education educating our families Consulting seeking their views from abroad perspective of views and involving actively connecting fan at least in the decision-making process I believe became will play a crucial role in addressing that education piece of this puzzle I'm fully supportive of this collaboration the adult schools financial support and fictional classes one piece is that that the school will be teaching some of these parents to learn English and in the return hopefully this new section of the English Language by the parents can't support the learning of English Learners at La bayona the dogs and I'm looking forward for families at La bayona to become more active participants in their children's education journey and hopefully be kitchen and gate and power and transform our families by providing them with the knowledge the skills partners' actively with our schools and communities ensuring that their students achieve their full potential and I went to and I hope that all of our five board members that fought by the bus support this because together and only together we can make a meaningful difference in a lot of Summer students and their families it really quick at work if he came before they're great organization and do really fantastic work with parents I had some questions answered before this meeting but in some money speak to Ida Mae the calculation please I'm sorry what was that question again to itemize you said that they would be an amendment or something about cancellation yes thank you so our mou was revised we did remove section I cancellation this was because it really spoke to counseling if a class was based on the size and really the recruitment is going to be handled by doctor Godby and her car and so this really becomes a service that will not be canceled and so it allows us to do our own Outreach by therefore did not apply to this contract that's why it was removed from the mou so do we need to move the as Amanda done or it without I as amended please since we did make this revision right before the board meeting thank you well you know good well I'm just asking are you okay I'm asking if you're done with your your comments yes okay okay I do want to clarify that it is bad I requirement is difficult for me to accept just because I thought that it was going to do that Outreach that is part of their successful and so this is news to me that we they're not going to do the Outreach and I hope because this is the second time that this happens in the first time it was counts they have very low enrollment of parents and so I feel like again we're doing the same thing and then we might get again very low enrollment if we don't do active Outreach to the parents and we across the district and list of our committees seed very low parent involvement when we don't do active outrage which active Outreach included contacting para and attending events and having it so speaking to any beds so our Outreach will be centered around dr. Cardenas she will be the one making phone calls to be following up on invite and the outs Liars is she and dr. B will make sure that there's a robust Outreach so that we can invite families then again the idea was that that Outreach would be centered around the efforts around dr. Cardenas and the principal that sounds like soccer kindness is 9/8 of court let me know I speak Spanish okay I change the motion amend and remove section I of the mou a second I understand that we were also paying attention to another area of language on this document regarding contact information is that resolved a matter of this change that was section J and that was removed last okay thank you okay any further discussion I'm assuming that's not for us to have all those in favor say aye to please do we need a stock report I could share the quickly thanks it's okay thank you I'm so that we're asking for a ratification due to the deadline that the grant required and so we went ahead I did and submitted the application this is really a grant that will build more sustainable and Nursing School Meal programs throughout our district by developing relationships with local food systems and with a bowl of increase the amount of locally-sourced foods served to students our goal is to make sure that we can increase and improve our lunch menu planning food and Supply German staff training the art of scratch cooking this will feature recipe development for students in grades t k through 12 grade recipes will feature locally purchase fresh fruits and vegetables as well as being culturally inclusive a cooking instructor will be brought on board for this purpose necessary equipment such as ovens and mixers will need to be purchased to support these efforts so it's a highly collaborative and comprehensive that will help us with securing procurement of foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables fresh green whole grain bread and bakery products and other food products that meet age appropriate USDA nutritional permits from local farmers and producers located and historically marginalized communities within a 250-mile radius of Culver City service department will work with listed Partners in building Community really chips with producers Distributors businesses farmers markets community members parents caregiver staff and students to build best practices for d k through 12 grade in system in a more sustainable manner yes it was lovely to see her that's not report thank you motion with the proof we did hear a preferential go to support bra remember comez and colleagues okay so I do have a question if no one else does the the appliances that will be required of those also going to be covered by the grant yes some of the ovens and mixers okay that's pretty fantastic because it could potentially bus of money that we would want to be spending where we to get a facilities budget so that that's wonderful it's making a limited dollars go farther if it happens I'm really grateful for all of the Community Partners have done to help us do this great. All those in favor say aye by 14.3 please 14.3 is appointment to the measure e and oversight committee grateful to the board for approving the independent oversight committee should Bonsai misery pass and we are now bring for your consideration and what station for the senior citizen Oregon patient promotion please okay great and we did not have a preference vote on this one and there were no public comment so all those in favor say aye okay so do we have those we've already pulled 16.9 and 16.8 was told by the superintendent's do regarding 2 through 7 are there Bulls is there were two preferential votes for 16.8 call me the 106.9 Wii motion that we move all of these so it's please do that move to approve all but 16.8 and 16.9 all those in favor say aye dang all right corner so it works really well to have three essentially three weeks worth of content the last time we met and we were able to push those out Friday after Friday the Friday hopefully that work on your end what would you like this time reportcrash glasses classes Black History Month to the ones that are often in they're on their own right in the Culvert in the main body of Cobra Pride Black History Month is not right anything else let's find another thing or two cuz we have at least two weeks I'm interested in putting in PJ well because of done deal the ones I really said anything else we we're going to clarify some points around the audit so I think we should have like one week There's Something About the audit we are preparing a separate messaging around that and what we can do is add it to one of the board Corners that goes out as a reminder at 6 okay just pick two or three right now we have four and that's plenty one moment just I just want to be sure are there items we should put on I'm aware of some items that I'm behind I'm bringing back to the agenda some board policies so I'm I'm going to get on that for future meetings any others that need to be rain I had expressed previously to superintendent that there were some transportation-related trellises that we need busted last year that didn't come back to us but I'm hurting right now because it's done in March and not during spring break this time I have did my email okay thank you no that's actually on my list for the next meeting thank you thank you thank you we're good okay I will entertain a motion picture it'd be funny if it didn't get a second of all those in favor say aye but wasn't that wasn't you think you will be

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