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all right hello everyone it is uh it is Tuesday is it this audio is not on hello hello okay great uh it is Tuesday January 28th um currently 5:00 p.m. and I would like to call this meeting to order let's start with public comments on closed session items There's No 1 in the room I'm saying you know what on the zoo I'm going to assume there's no public comment on the closed session items um can I entertain a motion to recess to closed obsessed to close second all those in favor say I hi hi good evening everyone sorry for being a little late from clothes we had a lot of business to talk about um I wanted to call this Open Session to order at 612 p.m. let's please start with the flag salute uh Dr Lucas latest on the flex slip put your right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America the Republic for which it stands 1 nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you sorry Miss Williams I to do the roll call by all members are present I think we have 1 member maybe using the restroom um colleagues can I get someone to do the land acknowledgement maybe oh yeah good evening uh we acknowledge our presence on the traditional ancestral and unseated territory of the kishin Tonga tribes uh people who are the original caretakers of this land thank you all right and then 3.4 Public Announcement of actions taken by the board in closed session we do have something to report by unanimous vote the board discussed and took action in closed session an agenda item 2.2 to approve the presented agreement um great now we can adopt the agenda thank you uh Mr rezidor I do have 1 um change to the agenda for your consideration and I need to pull item 9.3 for future consideration okay so can I get a motion colleagues I'll second it thanks okay so just to be clear we're moving the agenda without item 9.3 and we have a second by member Carlson all those in favor say I um great now what everyone's here for 6.1 rising star awards all right good evening everybody I am delighted that you are here for this special award and I'm going to call up the uh presentation real quick all right we're a tight um group in here today so we'll probably do Elementary first and get a group picture with the board and then we'll do secondary second so we will start off with our Rising Stars for January 2025 with Linwood e Howe Elementary and that is Logan Berlin Logan is empathetic and always looking out for others he's the first to let me know if someone needs help in class and is always willing to lend a hand respectful kind and inclusive Logan shows these qualities every day he is a hard worker who is determined to keep pushing until he feels successful Logan Embraces challenges and sets goals for himself demonstrating resilience and dedication he is a role model for his peers at Lynn how and an excellent example of all our pride expectations keep up the amazing work Logan your kindness determination and positive attitude make for a difference and you inspire others to do their best congrats Logan our next rising star from Lynnwood who is Arya Samuel come on up Arya Arya is an outstanding student who embodies perseverance respect in inclusion determination and empathy in every aspect of our school life she approaches challenges with the Positive mindset and unwavering determination showing resilience in overcoming obstacles or your treats peers and adults with utmost respect for fostering an environment of trust and kindness with empathy Aura listens attentively to others offering encouragement and understanding when someone is in need these qualities combined with a strong work ethic and commitment to growth make are you a role model and a vital contributor to the classroom Community congratulations Arya okay next from wabaya elementary we have Jaden Tales come forward Jadon Jaden is a prime example of a rising star he is an incredibly responsible and Trust trustworthy student always treating others with respect and empathy his character sets a high standard for his peers and he is a true role model Jaden's president makes Liana a better place and his teacher is privileged to have him as a student this year keep up the amazing work Jaden your this hard work and dedication will take you far continue to shine brightly and Inspire others along the way our next rising star is Allison maximiliano step is come on up Alison Alison maximilliano Estevez is a true role model demonstrating pause Behavior every day she comes to school with a positive attitude ready to learn and is always willing to help others Allison is kind caring responsible and works hard she takes pride in her work and goes out of her way to make new friends and spread kindness she truly deserves this award for her outstanding care character we are lucky to have her as an inspiration to others keep shining Allison your kindness responsibility and dedication are making the world a better place and there's no limit to what you can achieve congratulations our next rising star is from El Marino Elementary matio i-minus come on up Mio Mio is a Matthew is a very hard worker always eager to engage in classroom discussions he tackles new problems with enthusiasm and approaches challenges with a positive attitude Matthew is also quick to help others with kindness and is always ready to lend a hand his dedication and helpful nature make him a valuable part of the class keep up the great work Mario your effort and kindness are truly inspiring congratulations mu next we have use sites in AB did I say your name correctly you sigh you say Okay I want to make sure I get it right for your mom you today is always attentive to others others needs and constantly helps without hesitation he gives his best in everything he does and leads with care and kindness you say is a true leader in our class setting a wonderful example for others keep up the the amazing work you say your dedication and caring nature make a big impact on everyone around you congratulations and also from Marino we have Mia Salvador Mia treats her classmates with genuine respect and kindness always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need her ability to empathize with others makes her a valued member of our school Community Mia's compassion and thoughtfulness make her a wonderful example for others keep shining Mia your kindness truly makes a difference congratulations our next rising star is from L sorry Elder ring con Elementary Riley B Riley come on up Riley daily comes to school every day ready to learn and be the best caller she can be when faced with a tough math problem or a word she doesn't yet know she works through the challenge and preserves insert giving up Riley said it's a wonderful example for us all she's truly a great role model keep up the amazing work Riley your determination and positive attitude is inspiring congratulations Riley next up we have Walkin Montreal come up walking Walken has made great progress this school year both both academically and socially his Improvement is evident in his literacy scores showing how hard he has been working whim became a more independent scholar in its exciting to see his growth keep up the Fantastic work your dedication is paying off and there's no limit to what you can achieve congratulations and now moving on to Farragut Elementary we have uh 2 winners uh together here it's Calvin jub and Zion kunce Calvin and Zion have truly impressed everyone with their collaboration on the book series at school they worked together to write and illustrate demonstrating creativity teamwork and a passion for learning their project has sparked excitement throughout the classroom inspiring other students to pick up their own pens and start writing books during recess beyond the creative work Calvin and Zion are always respectful to their peers and teachers and they take full accountability for their learning their dedication and initiative make them Stand Out role models in our school what fargate rock stars keep shining Calvin and Zion your hard collaboration and positive energy are making a lasting impact on our school Community congratulations the board members and audience I think at this time will do a picture of the of the elementary folks and then our next rising star is from Culver City Middle School of her blood so coin come on Christopher CJ is an outstanding student and even and an even better human being he's always willing willing to lend a helping hand and greet others with a bright smile hardworking kind and considerate CJ truly embodies the values of Pride every day his positive attitude and dedication to other just make him an incredible role model we are fortunate to have CJ at CCMS he makes our school a brighter more supportive place keep being awesome CJ your kindness and efforts at an example for us all congratulations cind next from Culver City Middle School we have Violet roise Garcia come on down violet Violet Ruiz is an exceptional eighth grade student who consistently works hard and seeks help when needed she attends pause and works diligently the entire time always putting in her best effort Violet is also kind and supportive to her peers creating a positive and everyone around her keep up the Fantastic work Violet your hard-working kindness are making a difference and you're setting yourself up for great success congratulations violet and from Culver City High School we have Andrea annaya Andrea come on down Andrea is a remarkable individual who excels in all areas of school and embodies true leadership when a teacher was unexpectedly injured Andrea immediately took the initiative to assist handling the situation calmly and effectively compassionate nature quick thinking and unwavering dedication make her a wonderful and inspiring presence in our school Community Andrea your actions and character set an incredible example for others and we are fortunate to have you in our school keep shining congratulations our next rising star is from high school again Blake Don Blake come on up Blake Blake is demonstrated exceptional leadership compassion and dedication to fostering an inclusive and Equitable Campus Community as co-president of the tolerance Club he's a natural advocate for his peers ensuring that all students feel heard seen and valued his strong academic record and commitment to positive change make them an invaluable asset to CCI conversity high school we are incredibly proud of plague and the POS positive impact he continues to have on our school keep up the amazing work congratulations plague next from cover Park High School we have Reuben Leon RJ come on down RJ RJ Leon joined Culver Park and immediately hit the ground running from day 1 he has shown remarkable adaptability enthusiasm and a commitment to Excellence RJ has quickly immersed himself in academics Embrace new challenges and build positive connections with both peers and staff he exemplifies resilience and determination making a strong impression as a dedicated and motivated student we're excited to see RJ continue to thrive and Achieve great things that cover Park keep up the Fantastic work our J your passion and drive will take you far congratulations and also from uh Culver Park is highly Bosley Riley Riley is an exceptional student who consistently excels in her class assignments while also fostering meaning connections with her peers she is a supportive and integral part of our Culver Park Community always ready to contribute with enthusiasm and dedication her leadership skills truly shine as demonstrated when she served as the MC for our board president Tristan azador SW bearing in ceremony Aurora she carried out with confidence and Poise risley's Riley's ability to lead and Inspire others shows her potential for greatness we are excited to see all that Riley will accomplish in the future keep up the amazing work your positive impact and Leadership will continue to inspire everyone around you congratulations Riley our next rising star is from Culver City Unified School District I Academy program Alejandro so I'm hoping that I'm saying prancing your name correctly Alejandro so is a standout senior and racing Stars over the past 2 years she has excelled academically taking on a rigorous course load and earning an impressive record of Ace and Bs while maintaining perfect attendance Beyond her academic achievements aleandro is fully bilingual and has a passion for weightlifting which he enjoys outside of school remarkably she also helps care for her 3 toddler siblings showcasing her responsibility and dedication next year Alejandro plans to attend Cal State Northridge to pursue a degree in Radiology with a strong work ethic determination and ambition there are no limits to what she can achieve alhandra truly embodies the spirit of an eye academic star and we can wait to see all the incredible things Sheila accomplished in the future congratulations alandro next from I Academy we have Isabella Ybarra Isabella Isabella is a determine creative and compassionate student who consistently inspires those around her her dedication to environmental work such as preserving wildlife and organizing Beach cleanups reflects her deep commitment to making a positive impact in her community Isabella collaborative Spirit shines through in her ability to work seamlessly with others blending diverse perspectives to develop effective Solutions she approaches every challenge challenge with resilience focus and an unwavering drive to succeed Isabella is a true I Academy star in her passion and leadership are an inspiration to all we can't wait to see the amazing impact she will continue to make in the future congratulations okay that concludes all of our Rising Stars so we want to take a picture with all of our secondary recipients yeah right yeah moving on to item 6.2 cover City Middle School improv group thank you so I am honored to welcome our Culver City Middle School improv group or members of the group that are here with program head teacher Eric price and fan producer Heather Davis so I asked that we go there they are already at the podium thank you very much uh thank you for uh introducing your team to the board and public here which I see them do amazing stuff so thank you thank you thank you superintendent Lucas and board members for inviting us here tonight my name is Heather Davis I'm the lucky person who gets to be the parent producer for CCMS improv um I've also had 2 children who've gone through this program and benefited um from the skills they've learned in Improv this program was started 14 years ago by by small group of visionary parents who had the wisdom and about the power of improv and the Arts and it's a they fostered a passion that we get to carry on today um our program has grown over 350% since we started um both in scope and size we're still the long largest long longest running program at CCMS um and we're completely administered by parent volunteers um we also received support from Panther partners of CCMS and the Culver City Education Foundation supports our scholarship fund which allows us to never turn away a student based on finances we'd also like to thank CCMS admin counselor staff and teachers for their full support of our program year after year in this program students make astounding developments in self-confidence radical acceptance trust collaboration responsibility listening courage flexibility commitment these skills Translate directly to academic performance emotional social intelligence and students Lifelong Love of learning I'd like to now pass the mic to Eric Price He has been with us since the beginning he's our head teacher he has positively impacted the lives of hundreds of ccusd students there his knowledge his time and his commitment we're so lucky to have you Eric thank you thank you thank you so we were brought to you a little performance for you um looking at the room can you hear me okay out there you actually you need to use the mic the online folks well bring the online absolutely everybody that way so that everybody but I just feel bad for the state picture for everyone if we're setting up here and you're it's not our kind of program um uh so yes uh Heather's we've been doing this program for a very very long time these kids work really hard thank you very much for having us letting you you know this is going to be a very short show this is not a comedy show so we're not going to be like oh you're making eye contact with me get up here um so feel free to make eye contact 30 any fear of reprisal we will be making up everything as we go along we're going to need some just some suggestions from you um I love this program I get to work with these kids in um some tough ages this is a tough age and these kids they are in their formative years and I get to try to sculpt and mold them it's they're not willing uh but I work with them and I get to see these little you know uh wall flowers and sixth grade become these bold brilliant Brave improvisers that come up and give me 100% every time I have 6 of the kids from my program today so um let's bring them up real quick uh give Charlie a round of applause here ha a round of applause Kira a round of applause Gia a round of applause Nico a round of applause and Brendan a round of applause okay thank you everyone thank you so we're just going to do some fun little make them ups there's no none of this is scripted everything's off the top of our head but you are a very important part of our show where we ask for suggestion please yell it loud and yell it proud and I'll just take the first thing that we hear clearly if I were to ask for a color you might say blue great uh red quick second um room of the house living room kitchen uh I would ask for your social security number I'm broke um so uh we will take whatever we hear clearly and we will use that we're going to start off with a silly stupid game it is a game full of dad jokes it is a game called 185 it is a standard pun-based joke game that goes like this 185 blanks walk into a bar bartender says I'm sorry we can't serve you blanks here so the 185 blanks reply with a punchline now you will be feeling in the blanks we will be stumbling along trying to fill in the punch lines if I were to say hey let's get an article of clothing and somebody said shoes it could go 185 shoes walk into the bar bartender says I'm sorry we can't serve your shoes here so the 185 shoes say well do you mind if we just stay here Converse thank you they're not all going to be that funny that took me weeks to write so uh we will be making these up on the spot these are Groner achievement games they are dad jokes if we get you to grown chuckle turtle gefa tick we know we're doing a good job if I hear nothing but stunned to Paul silence like that uh we will try to move along as quickly as we possibly can let's get an occupation of someone in this room maybe uh an occupation that you have super tend it oh they got so many okay so think anything with schools but the biggest you know the biggest position all right great superintendent of schools let's play some 185 can you guys give them a little encouragement give them a round of applause this is going to be a very short game I promise hey guys I'm gonna also thanks superintendent I'm also going to take teachers too so if there's I'll take also teachers you guys might not really be really honed in on what superintendent do you talk passionately about a normally in class right we talk about it often about like how great superintendents are but um for now we'll go ahead and give you a teachers as well all right hey guys hey uh players are you ready yeah let's do it all right 105 teachers or superintendent dependence go well I think by superintendent walked into a bar and the bartender said sorry we don't serve you here in the superintendent said sorry I was bored they are on the board they are on okay 185 teachers walk into a bar the bottcher says sorry we don't serve teachers here and the teachers say that's not cool algebra 185 superintendents walk into the bar bartender says sorry we don't serve you superintendency and the superintendents are like really upset and they're like well I'm like taller than you and the bartenders like well let's measure that 185 teachers walk into the bar and bartenders like sorry we don't serve teachers here and then the teachers are like but I thought we really had some chemistry going 185 teachers walk into the bar the bartender says sorry we don't serve you here they say we they you don't dismiss us that we do oh my God 185 teachers walk into a bar the bartender says sorry we don't serve teachers here and the teachers say well that divides our chances of ever coming back here again all right let's get another suggestion that went really well nicely done how about this you open up your fridge the first thing you see is cheese great great 100 you guys so many cheese jokes we have so many cheese jokes 185 cheeses cheeses walk into the bar 185 cheeses walk into the bar the bartender says sorry we don't serve your cheeses here and the teas are like well you stink 185 cheese walk into a bar and the bar tender says sorry we don't serve cheese here my joke was going to be gouda but I forgot it no good 185 cheese walk into a bar the bar Turner says sorry we don't serve of cheese here and the cheese say how dare you 185 cheeses walked into a bar and the bartender said sorry we don't serve you here and the cheese said even though we're shredded sorry that joke was a b**** cheesy 185 cheese is walk into a bar the bartender says sorry we don't serve cheese here and the cheese say guess that's just how it's going to breathe oh boy you guys I I need to take this on the Road extended front of the road we have shows this Saturday and Sunday uh just to let you know 112 and 5 112 and 5 and 230 and 530 on Sunday please come out and support these kids get pretty good let's get let's any other job or application that you would like to oh yes sorry any other occupation that you would like to use um construction worker fantastic you guys we have like 20 of these okay 185 construction workers for it 185 construction workers walk into a bar the bartender says sorry we don't serve you construction workers here in the construction construction worker says I had a joke but I'm still building it 185 construction workers walk into a bar the bartender says sorry we don't serve construction workers and the construction workers say what this isn't part of the drill all right you guys are done with pies we get it we can feel the room we've done this before so we're going to play it real quick round of a game called radio where we're going to make up radio stations and then um these kids I had to teach them what a radio dial is remember when we used to have to like find station so I'm going to be going up and down the dial trying to find these stations um so let's make up some radio stations and let's give them some existing radio stations let's get a radio station you'd love to see right now country okay great um I want uh I want country I want NPR National Public Radio um let's make up a radio station please R&B that's that's real that's real and it's real smooth all right so R&B uh Brandon you are nothing but smooth let's get a made-up 1 like the the silly radio station great um hi Charlie uh you're born for it yes sir what is your space radio fantastic space radio space radio and now I just have Gia this is just Gia let me get anything for Gia because she can do everything hi Rich perfect all Pirate Radio oh don't get her started okay so in the game of radio whenever I'm ready pointing to that radio station we will hear what that radio station has to offer let's review our radio stations real quick your radio station space silly country all right all right here we go let me just turn on the Dutch hello there I am from another world and I'm very excited today we're a trampoline the first step we need to do is harvest the gunk there's a saddle you know most people think that that ain't important but I think it is because people always doing it wrong and the last time I tried to tell somebody to ride a horse they fell on off faster than the top oh hey mies we're here to find the treasure whom we are going to search through the Pacific Ocean today and in breaking news there are weather storms all over the country especially in Mississippi Mississippi always has those storms you know and come back for an hour of ad free list on the smooth R&B Channel uh next is a word from our sponsor houses are being blown away now we've had the now we start to Ocean and now we found a treasure wife left me because of that and I said girl you ain't got to do all of that anyways we're divorced now but I don't think that that works cuz she come back your uncle you can't steal our Gunk say gunkle no gunkin and here's a song from my hometown beer beer trucks and beer trucks oh my God we're under attack it's the rivals oh my God we got to set our sponsor the new Tela vacuum with the all new new Tela vacuum vacuum Nutella Nutella and peanut butter Living Without You girl under the ocean of now being we got them we got them America is free and now we have our bounce I love my treasure a new species of moles real smooth all right let's give them a round of applause 10 minutes 10 that sure okay great we'll do 1 1 last 1 and it's going to be so fast you guys um you 3 you 3 we're gonna do a real quick letter letter to sometime sorry I I'm I'm used to I'm I can play this room but I need this um we're gonna have 1 here and 1 there and this is going to be a strongly worded letter they are writing a strongly worded letter to somebody who are they writing a strongly worded letter to could be the superintendent fantastic what's the letter about what's the problem with the superintendent bullying okay great so this might hit a little home okay all right uh let's keep it light bullying right but uh you're going to be riding the superintendent a strongly worded letter about bullying here's the uh here's the rub they can only use 1 word at a time per person and they have to play 1 person and then you will be playing the superintendent responding to said letter as fast as you possibly can a little bit of information just kind of lean into it and take away guys dear superintendent I believe that you are bullying my kid my kid said that you are bullying him way way too much yesterday my child was very appalled that you bullied him he cried so much that I had to stop him from crying sincerely Edna Mode dear Edna so your child is an stinky little jerk I did not think that they should be Exempted from The Bullying that I do not do sincerely the superintendent dear the super intendance I ma'am furiated that you are bullying my child along alongside your own rude uncle you're rude uncle and I will attack you very very soon sincerely Edna Mode dear Edna Mode my uncle has many guys but you have not many times like he does my uncle is not smart so you aren't being nice to him of your uncle's don't deserve the hate that you present to them sincerely the superintendent dear the superintendent I am appalled that you could bring that Injustice to me and my kid and I will attack your family and I will attack your children and will attack your pets and I will attack your self self sincerely Edna Mode clarify I was terrified of the response to that um we didn't want we didn't talk about this ahead of time hey uh thank you very much for uh letting us be here um we really appreciate you giving these kids another round of applause thank you so much thank you very much thank you I'm sorry oh yeah 11 oclock 2 oclock and 5 oclock on Saturday in 2:30 and 5 on Sunday so please come and check this at at the at the frost theater thank you so much everybody thank you guys thank you all sunshine yeah we just thanks everybody thank you thank you what it is okay great now we'll move to the public recognition section of the meeting we will start with items 7.2 members of the audience on items not on the agenda so now would at the time for those who are online or in person to either raise your Zoom hand or submit your card to the superintendent's assistant and you'd be giving comments on items not on the agenda do we the online and who's your mic on 567 in person 3 online Chan okay can do 2 minutes each um where now oh 5 online okay so we have what how many total 12 yeah okay so we can do 12 public comments at 2 minutes each uh we can start off with those that are in person sounds good dillian Jenkins that I have that correct delay so don't come in for like 15 okay thank you now are you closing it yeah we're gonna close public comment right now are we going to call the oh yes I did my name is Deon Jenkins sorry we got timer going go ahead okay hi my name is Deon Jenkins I'm with CF Fitness that's convenient fun fitness convenience because we like to facilitate these fun because who gets tired of having fun if Fitness is just a buzzword we like to add value to your active play and recess and structure program we collaborate with carers program we've been a business over a decade we're in a 16 school districts and we would like to provide a free service to your District I can tell you I can show you better I can tell you so I like to quickly bring you tomorrow if you could be my students can you guys stand up real quick if you don't mind let's go let's go stand up or bring it tomorrow I'm no longer dealing I think it's I Am Co all right you gonna do what I do say what I say you gonna do what I do say what I say say hey coach be hey say dip dip dip it they dip dip dip it in the sauce all right freeze everybody clap your hands thank you thumbs up by clicking subscribe thank you and once again that's just a snippet of what we bring to the table and like I said with the budgets going on I know you guys are always spending money once again I like to re reiterate that this is free of charge I would like to talk to whoever I need to talk to in order to bring these to your local sites and your community once again free of charge thank you thank you Keith Puckett oops hey good evening members of the Culver City city council educator parents boards and members of the community I stand before you today as an advocate for justice accountability and the basic human rights of every child to feel safe and valued within the walls of their school let us not sugarcoat the issue at hand a young girl a 7-year-old child has been tormented degraded and physically harmed within the of Albert Corrin Elementary School this is not merely a story about bullying it's a story about systemic failure to protect our most vulnerable the pain this child endures is not her own it reverberates through her family her peers and this entire Community her suffering is a over collective in action tonight I say this if we are not ready to stand up and speak out and act decisively for the safety of dignity of our children then let us stop calling ourselves Educators and leaders let us abandon the illusion that we are creating safe spaces for learning when in reality we're allowing harm to Fester unchecked to the school board administrators I asked what will it take for you to act with the urgency and moral Clarity the situation demands how many more bruises must this child bear how many more tears must her mother cry when promises to Monitor and protect are made but not kept when investigations yield no meaningful change and when the response to a parents plea for help is to vilify and silence her this is not leadership this negligence this fight is not about 1 family it's about ensuring that every child in this District can go to a school free from fear and that every parent can trust this system meant to protect an educate their child this is a pivotal moment not just for elra clone Elementary for the Culver City Unified School District how you respond will act a far beyond these walls will you act with courage or will you succumb to complaint will you prioritize the safety and well-being of your students or will you protect the status quo and to give on the mother who was banned from the child's campus for refusing to stay silent in the face of Injustice I stand with you your anger is not a threat it's a mother's love and its fiercest form your fight is not the problem it's a solution this District bestlee needs also like to call out that you know Elsa gundo School District went through this recently and they had to pay out a million dollars for a bowling let's do better appreciate it thank you for your time Javon Ward my understanding is that I had 3 minutes um someone would like to give me a minute at a time oh 2 someone would like to give me a minute at that time the website said 3 minutes the website 3 minutes I am the mother of the 7 year old daughter that's being abused I think I deserve an extra minute if someone wants to give it to me because I'm emailing you all and you're doing nothing about it so I'm going to speak my piece in first grade my 7-year-old Daughter by the way I'm cavon Ward I'm that 7 year old daughter's mother my 7-year-old daughter was jumped by 3 boys at El ring con Elementary she was called names like fat and ugly and racial epithet like nappy-headed Dr Hajj said she'd investigate the incident and after asking her for 3 months for a copy of that investigation report she finally gave it to me superintendent Lucas was copied on all of those emails they said they were keep an eye on my daughter they were protector and they didn't the bullies persisted and continued to bully her and you all know about it and you did nothing about it second grade she's 7 years so 7 years old now my daughter continued to be bullied by those 3 boys from the previous year she had objects thrown at her she had been kicked in her stomach by her primary bully she was punching her face and had to be taken to urgent care and you all did nothing to hold those bullies accountable my daughter has been emotionally and physically harmed on close to set 10 separate occasions but Dr Hajj and Dr Lucas did nothing of substance to remedy the harm at the verbal altercation between myself and Dr Hajj about the lack of discipline and her negligence she did something about that she called the police on me and she Banned Me from campus in fact Dr and delicado Banned Me from campus without doing a thorough investigation VK Shaw a volunteer at El rinkon Elementary a PTA member at El rail rinkon Elementary and the head of my daughter's math program he doxxed my daughter and then he defamed my character and my daughter's character you all did nothing about that He Still Remains on the PTA he is still a volunteer and he is not been banned from campus but I was just last Friday my daughter's bully went up to a parked car in front of el ring Khan Elementary pointed to me and told 2 women that I'm the 1 that they should go go after they belligerently accosted me then proceeded to tell me they were going to quote unquote beat my daughter's  and beat my I emailed the entire District along with the principal and no 1 did anything about it you all didn't even have the decency to respond to my email you all don't know how to hold anybody your time has expired gonna show you what accountability looks like because you all will be held accountable thank you okay uh chance Davis um I'm also here for the same reason I think that kavan summed up the situation pretty well so I don't necessarily need to go into that but what I think is really hilarious is um how quick you all are to have a little laugh about bullying um just a few minutes ago but all of the sudden when it comes to a real situation it seems like none of you actually want to do anything about it so um I'm just curious if the bullying of an actual student at 1 of your schools is also a joke to you that's just a question I have for you guys um because it seems to me that honestly ridiculous that we had to come spend our evening down here talking to you guys because you guys are unable to respond to to emails you're um unable to handle the situation uh that Dr Hodge abject failure to actually protect a student at her own Elementary School I'm a tutor at a middle school and frankly conflict resolution is not rocket science I don't see why it's so hard for them to do their jobs that we have to come down here and bring it up to a higher level is just nuts and um the disrespect from all of you towards the mother who is suffering and towards a literal child who is being abused and harassed um this has been an ongoing problem for far longer than it should have been and frankly everybody sitting here should be ashamed especially you sir um I don't know why you have that stupid smart smile on your face this entire time because um yeah is actually serious for some people and I know this is funny to you and um you know what I don't have anything more to say to you thank you okay Najee Ali Mr President honorable school board members nausea Ali long time uh later in the city of La organ er uh I'm just here uh because I just heard about the situation of cavan's uh daughter being bullied I spoke to kavan uh I think last week for those of you who don't know but I do know she's asking 1 of the Premier activists and organized in Southern California responsible for the Bruce's Beach campaign uh which restored the property to Black homeowners uh in Manhattan Beach so we communion from your activism not just for the community but more importantly for your daughter uh who's being bullied at the school of the she attends uh so I'm just hopeful that this can be resolved because at the end of the day uh we look for the adults for leadership and for guidance uh but also for protection for all students so I'm hope that this can be addressed and uh we can work together to make sure that all children can come to school and learn but also be safe and Andrew my Jewish brother congratulations man expect to see you here but we got to know you're on the school board and uh we'll talk offline uh but certainly uh we want to make sure that all children are safe and I commend you combine for everyone for taking time to be here to speak and ask their voice to put a comment thank you for listening honorable board members Shandra Elmore hello my name is Shandra Elmore and I can't help to notice that when combined was speaking to everyone here miss Stephanie has not let her eyes off the piece her computer since we started I don't understand how you don't I don't understand how you cannot take any action over a 7-year-old being bullied why would you let the principal call the police on a mother who's protecting her child but all of you are sitting here typing on your computer it's like you have nothing better to do January 28th 2025 you can no longer say that you are not aware of the problem and anything that happens from this day forward you all will be personally accountable thank you Giovanni Hilton good evening board honestly in this current moment being a student that also attended public school after attending private school for several years I'm offended and more than ever Mr lachman is your pay on California transparent we're not allowed to answer comments from well I insulted because I'm pretty sure your high salary does not deserve to sit here and throw up at 30 seconds sign when a parent that is passionate about her child has been dismissed by your Culver City School District school on behalf of her advocating for her child I hope you guys all will go home tonight miss Stephanie and take a moment to put yourself in this parent's shoes to understand she's dealing with on a daily basis how do you expect someone to go to work and make a living salary when your child's being bullied what's the protocol when we've went through every protocol that the school has put in place what is the actual protocol I feel we've exhausted those and at this point everyone in this room I wish you guys the best honestly and again my name's Giovanni Hilton and this will not be the last time that you guys hear or see of me because bullying is not tolerated anywhere around this world globally it's unacceptable thank you and I wish you all the best okay all right we will now move to online a moment there we go uh let's start with uh Bill Hustler and if I up any of these names I apologize do I need them are they okay Bill Hustler okay uh if Bill is not there we will move to Jack Williams I'm here I'm here okay um sorry my name is Bill Heisler and I've been educator for 22 years and a parent for almost 11 I teach High School in South La and I have 3 young children in the Redondo Beach Public Schools I'm calling to voice my support for Kavon Ward and her daughter Samayra who have experienced bullying harassment at Al Alvin Kahn Elementary for months now as a parent I know the most important thing to us is the safety and well-being of our children while at school as an educator I know how important it is to take all necessary action to prevent bullying if possible and to address it when it happens it seems that the in administration at elran Khan has failed to take the steps necessary to stop the bullying and instead has launched an attack on cavan for standing up for her daughter if a school cannot guarantee the safety of our children what are we supposed to do where else are we supposed to turn cavana's repeatedly requested that the school protect her daughter from several bullies and yet the behavior continues without accountability for these actions bullies are only involved in to keep repeating Behavior as it sounds like happened just last Friday with the open threats made in front of adults and the victims of bullying learn at a young age that school officials are not trusted adults who are there to help them both messages are incredibly damaging and will have long-lasting effects I'm asking if the school board step in and support cavan it was only advocating for the safety and well-being of her daughter policies need to be put in place to keep her daughter safe and if the can't do that which to date it has not then the Board needs to look into different Administration that can protect the safety of its students Dr Hodges have many months to handle the situation has not been able to and superintendent Lucas has been aware of the situation as well and has failed to take effective action if School leadership is unable to protect the safety and well-being of the students then they should be replaced otherwise the message to the families at elring Khan and all of colors Culver City will be loud and clear victims of bullying are on their own but bullies themselves are allowed to Target students school is unwilling to stop them I thank you for your time good luck cavan thank you very much and uh Jack Williamson hi Drex Williamson here um I'm a junior with uh cchs avpa um I'm here on behalf of my art teacher she just wanted to announce that there is going to be a Paint and Sip event um at the wende Museum um February 8th from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. $60 per person includes wine snacks canvas paint supplies instruction and inspo um again just here because she can make it tonight um besides that um after attending the meeting I have to say that that is not top priority and hearing about the negligence of the school and the board for Somaya and cavan is sickening and unacceptable um I stand in solidarity and ask that the school board and this doesn't do better so thank you thank you um Alicia Wargo yes hello um I am here um also in support of Kavon Ward I am an educator with 20 years experience and I am a former principal I'm a former public school principal um I know firsthand the complexity of dealing with bullying I also know there are clear District guidelines for supporting young people who are victims and targets of bullying my understanding of this situation is that the progressive discipline in those guidelines weren't was not followed I also want to mention that fura was violated by that email that went around disclosing um details of cavan's daughter who is a minor so that is a problem um and the last thing I want to say is when you become a principal or an educator you take an oath to Center needs of children and part of that is navigating the complexity of when a parent is upset because they believe that their child is being unfairly treated and so in my opinion the fact that Kayvon was borrowed or from campus I'm just going to say this last thing it's a disgrace and people need to be held accountable thank you Maria Gutierrez oh I'm sorry Melana Davis hello my name is Mona Davis and I have been by cavon side this year and witnessed firsthand the treatment that she has received which is deplorable um I would just like to take this time to read a letter that I wrote to several board members uh in response to the incident last Friday that we received I received absolutely no response to sew my letter is to all concerned or should I address this to those who are actually concerned for the well-being of the children entrusted to their care as a first-hand witness of these events the events errors and failures that have occurred during this school year I am living that due to an absolute lack of accountability for bullying behavior that has been ongoing since last school year things have escalated to this level the awful ineptitude bungling and mishandling the elring calm and the CC USD have exhibited in regard to The Bullying has been enduring I State since last school year has led to an environment wrought with fear and anxiety for this family no child and most certainly not a 6 or 7 at 7 years of age should have to attend school in fear of mistreatment and harm to her physical and mental health from children bullying parents doxxing her and at this point the principal harassing her this is far too much for any child in her mother to bear you are aware of the timeline of events that was shared with you previously and regarding all of the ineffective faulty and outright incompetent means that have been enacted thus far in response to this issue here we are in a new year and the timeline of incomprehensible and unnecessarily sad events continues to grow when will this be handled efficiently so that it may stopped and this young girl who loves learning and was doing quite well in her studies can be allowed to once again focus on learning rather than the threats to her being that she continuously encounters at your school El ring con if this is the state of the educational system today given all the research and resources that exist on the subject of bullying I can emphatically emphatically and inform emphatically Proclaim that I am extremely grateful that my 3 children are no longer a part of the spineless primary school system that would rather leave a girl subjected to Relentless bullying rather than enforcing a functional form of accountability it's gut-wrenching to watch thank you all that has unfolded and all the cavon board has gone through in her efforts to protect her child from an ineffectiveness we are now at the point this mother has to worry about being attacked thank you very much uh we will now move on to uh gazelle Clemente oh sorry Miss Maria Gutierrez was before that hi good evening thank you for taking the time listen to me my name is Maria I'm a parent of a student at Culver City High School um I'm calling in today because I would have some concerns in regards to the recent uh Mass deportation laws that have been taking effect um and I'm just wondering how the district planning on informing and supporting families and students in the district um I'm wondering I know that the that ice requires a signed warrant in order to enter the school however just wondering in the district has contacted or has been in contact with dcsf in order to work with them to see um other ways to protect the rights of the students and the children I feel that the children at this moment have enough uh to worry about with the m shootings that are going around uh without having to have somebody externally come out and question them without their parents' consent um I just want to know um what policies have been established what kind information is being put out um also um I mean that's pretty much it I just need to know what policies are going to be implemented also is DCs if dcsf is currently working on policies with the district thank you for taking the time to listen to my concerns thank you um just South Clemens good evening my name is Jazelle Clemens I am um coming to you support of Kavon Ward and the um just the the requests of the local community I found out about cabannes story because it's picking up national traction and activists across the country are looking to see how this board responds to what has been what has been brought to your attention here um because bullying is a national issue and so we all look and wait in anticipation for you to do the right thing thank you okay uh just Clemens well that was just the cell Ron levenson the hands are still up thank you hello everyone yes this is Ron levenson chair of the Middle School site Council and for purposes of these comments past chair of the Farragut site Council and chair of the uh Farragut Safety and Security committee for of all big thanks to Eric Heather and the incredible talented kids on the Middle School improv team that was so much fun and I also urge everyone to attend this weekend they're a ton of performances both Saturday and Sunday and they are guaranteed to be a great time uh next and I wasn't planning on bringing this up but since Dr Lucas did bring it up publicly in last weekend's Culver Pride I will mention it I want to send a big shout out to both him and Dr Baxter for their proactive Outreach to the Jewish Community to hear our experiences and look for suggestions on ways to do even better and I know they're doing this to celebrate diversity among all the groups not just the Jews and I think this is a huge win for everybody and it is greatly appreciated unfortunately the following day there was a very distressing display of anti-Semitism at the middle school that involved a group of 6 grade 6 graders doing the Nazi salute and um it was not a pretty picture but turning it around to a positive another shout out goes to Dr Williams and her team for immediate hello are you guys hearing me you dropped off but your time is also expired okay then all right what was that okay thank you so much thank you those are all those are all now concludes the portion of the public recognition section where we hear from members of the audience on items not on the agenda uh colleagues if I could just digress for a second we had a student who accidentally went to City Hall I know that there was a a bit of confusion because we normally meet in City Hall who's really excited to um get a rising star war and so I suggested that uh Mr Logan Berlin still come down to the Chicago office and we could honor him ourselves uh or himself we have a certificate for you um I think someone's going to read it I think we're going to read it out and do a picture somebody have the script yeah so we're now going to introduce 1 of our rising stars from Linwood e Howe Elementary School Logan Berlin come on down Logan is empathetic and always looking out for others he is the first to let me know if someone needs help in class and is always willing to lend a hand respectful kind and inclusive Logan shows these qualities these every day he is a hard worker who has determined to keep pushing until he feels successful Logan Embraces challenges and sets goals for himself demonstrating resilience and dedication he is a role model for his peers at linha and an excellent example of our all of our pride expectations keep up the amazing work Logan your kindness determination and positive attitude make a difference and you inspire others to do their best congratulations thank you colleagues for doing that uh we will now go on to item 7.3 you will hear from my CC USD employee groups we usually start with Miss hammy um so if you're on zoom and Sammy now would be the time to unmute so I am here president Isador good evening to all the members of the board and all the District administration that are present at the meeting I really don't have anything to update you with concerning classified issues this evening but I would like to take the time to congratulate all of our Rising Star Award recipients and also to give a shout out to the Middle School improv group I thought that was a hoop you guys are very talented and you're probably going to be doing marvelous things in the future and with that I'm just going to turn my time over the ray long thank you everyone have a good evening all right good evening everyone so uh the first thing is um I just wanted to um just mentioned um you know give a thanks to the mou that um I believe is on the agenda tonight um dealing with the effects of the LA wildfires on our staff so I'm very appreciative that that was done very quickly um and the staff themselves are very appreciative of actually gone and um visited with all of them uh dropping off some things from the CFT as well cfts also have has a disaster relief fund and we've been getting that to um our 2 teachers at the middle school and at the high school as well too um I do want to point out that uh currently right now on our website we actually do have another GoFundMe um for another 1 of our teachers at El Marino Elementary um who also suffered a tragic loss so I just encourage um people to go onto our website www Culver City teachers.org um we have information under news and updates about a GoFundMe for 1 of our El Marino teachers as well um we also have information about a Town Hall being hosted by Randi Weingarten the president of aft uh to deal with a lot of the new executive orders from the Trump Administration including things uh specifically about uh immigration and ice and things like that as well as this latest move I guess to uh freeze money and things like that so Randy and aft is hosting this um urgent as she called an urgent Town Hall um and that information is on our website as well too um I just finally want to talk a little bit about the budget and I'm probably going to talk about that at every meeting so I'm going to once again asked uh that the district and the board make a commitment to the benefits package that was approved last November that be ongoing so we have never had a benefits package that is 1 year every benefits package that we've always had has been something that is ongoing uh because what would happen is if it um expires we'd actually go back to 20 only 3 benefits as you know the benefits go each year um I've also said that we need to every year budget for benefits and we know about benefits are around 600,000 approximately is what the increase will every year and we need to budget that and just have that as a line item on the budget whether it be through measure K or now measure o or something that's in the budget but we should do that every year so we don't have to come here time after time you know basically graveling over benefits the costs are going to go up we know they're going to go up let's go ahead and set aside money to make sure that our employees don't at least have to worry about benefits and then when the cola comes in then we can start looking at the cola toward you know salary increases or reducing class size and things like that that you know the cola really is supposed to do so again I asked for that commitment from the board to make our benefits that we agreed to in the fall ongoing like every benefits package that we always had every year in ccusd um I continue to look forward and working with the digits of District I should say sorry to see where um we can do to right size uh the district I'd like that terminology right sizing uh you know for our enrollment and things like that I do want to point out 1 thing on the enrollment report that I want to bring up tonight um and I had a conversation with Dr Thomas the enrollment that's on the current report tonight is actually lower than what the enrollment is at cchs so the enrollment on the enrollment report for the high school for November was something around I don't know 19 something I'd have to take a look at it again and unless we've added 180 students in the last month that number is incorrect as a matter of fact I was on Aries before this meeting just to check what cchs enrollment was and we are currently over 2,00 students at cchs so just curious why that number is wrong because that's a big thing with funding and when you know we're talking about enrollment because at the high school it does not look like we've really lost enrollment we're pretty much where we were last year and we've actually in a slight growth in Culver Park as well too so if someone could take a look at that and see why that number is under reported and like I said Dr Thomas confirmed what the actual enrollment was which is over I think it's 2047 is what our enrollment is at cchs so those things all matter when it comes to budget but again right sizing the district and again making sure that the coal of the cost of living adjustment which I believe is 2.43% right now and the government's initial budget we know that that can change but making sure sure that you know that goes where it should go and that's toward our employees um and their cost of living increases because as we know prices are going up for everything there is no magic wand I guess that fixed prices overnight and prices continue to climb so thank you very much all right we'll now move on to item 7 points for superintendent report thank you Mr President I just have a you um updates I don't have a presentation for you tonight but um Ray actually already started talking about the governor's budget so you know the governor did release his budget for this coming school year um and uh there's I guess some good news in there in that Revenue for the state are currently outpacing projections um but however uh the caveat there is there's lots of unknowns we have now fire costs that weren't you know of course attributed in the budget work um and then you know delayed tax receipts may also affect kind of revenues on the part of the state um but revenues did outpace expectations um the news right now in the governor's budget is that we are currently seeing a maintenance of the TK to 12 budget um that there are not uh substantial decreases nor other substantial increases but as Ry also mentioned there is a a modest Cola in line for 2.43 percent so that's a quick update on the governor's budget and as you know now the legislature and the governor works on negotiating things and we will have some final numbers uh in May which will inform um our budget more uh more um definitively um I want to also just address uh some of the safe schools questions in regards to do um the recent uh changes in Immigration enforcement just to reinforce that uh we do have a proclamation a resolution sorry that the board had passed resolution 21 um which uh re reify our commitment to keeping our students safe uh we did send out communication and it's available on our website as well about student writes that every child has the right to a free public education regardless of their immigration status or LGBT lgbtq Identity or those of their family and that our schools are safe spaces for students we absolutely maintain confidentiality the cover City in fact School District does not collect or share information about students or families immigration status or lgbtqia identities and our students in uh uh privacy is Paramount to us and we respect that right we are committed to provide guidance support and resources to help families navigate these challenging times we have provided um inservice information and documents to our administrators in um in a response to uh uh the situation and um also communicated with our staff around uh some of their um support mechanisms that are in place and uh last thing I would like to say we're talking um now we can still about the federal I know this concerned about the freeze that took place over the last day or so I understand now there's actually been a um Mr ready you told me at the break or a uh a stay right that that's not happening you know at the moment um you know we were uh of course in a lot of confusion as I think many many agencies and Across the Nation were um it it might have potentially affected us in our federal funding which is Title 1 funding uh that supports our um low-income students title 2 fund which supports professional development Ida which supports special ed um and then Head Start program which was which supports our preschoolers so um I guess the news right now we don't have any information on that definitively uh but we do have that stay of the action but we keep everyone posted on that information thank you very much thank you Dr leas we'll now move on to 7.5 student Representatives report uh hello and good evening board members um so just a kind of a recap of what's happened in ASB last couple of weeks um the first 7th grade sneaker ball dance was a huge success the seventh graders had an amazing time and um well for me and Ralph's experience we also had an amazing time just watching all of them in the little awkward phases it was awesome um and we are currently selling tickets for the seventh grade uh field trip medieval times it was a personal favorite of mine last year and the eighth grade field trip to Dave in is coming up and we will be selling tickets soon um next week we will also begin our fundraising with Apex uh color games and we're very excited for that it's a 2 week fundraising thing where students can raise $30 to participate in a color games it's really fun I enjoy a lot and um um I like kinds of plug improv again um please come to the shows if you're able to um it's just an amazing experience and I'm so grateful to Eric and everyone who's there um my show is at 5:30 on Saturday but I'm going to be attending all of them because I just want to see everyone on so uh thank you so much good evening everyone um Benny you want me to tell you guys you won't be able to get today of course because he has the equality human and revolutions advisory committee for the City Board and yeah hello everyone I am Justin pouncy today is the vice president at the high school I don't have much to report except that that as we had our second UCLA blood drive yesterday and we reached our goal of 65 pints of blood so thank you so much to UCLA and everyone that donated and shout out to are supposed to be events coordinators na Kumar kumano ranada and kayn who did a great job and very proud of you guys um we also have our lunar year Spirit day tomorrow during school look out for fun activities from AC see you and also don't forget to wear a red and gold to support and then also also ASB has our amazing Spirit where available for purchase online through the ASB link Tree on Instagram and we also have our talent show coming up on away 17 7 sorry next Friday and yeah thank you so much that's all report thank you um we will now move on to item 7 point thanks members of the audience for items on the agenda so if you have a public comment on the items on the agenda now would be the time to turn in a speaker card to uh the superintendent assistant or to raise your hand all right so uh at this time uh there are no uh cards I believe and there are no there's nobody online is there yes I'm online oh wait a second I have them all I don't see oh there's his hand raised sorry um my apologies Ron um before I start on this I'm going to start this as a as a regular thing parliamentarians job here is to keep track of the time we will let people know when the time has expired uh and uh it's part of the part of the fun of the job and is to enforce that so thank you very much Ron you have uh how long do we have uh uh 3 minutes 3 minutes sir all right time to begin have I been called on their Andrew yes yes Sean go ahead all right thank you again Ron levenson This Time speaking as past chairperson multiple years of the uh DAC and Farragut elac committees I am thrilled uh by the way this is uh I regarding item 9.2 the master plan I'm thrilled that the team has finally updating the El master plan it's been due overdue for a long time and it's great that it's being done however I have a number of notes comments and edits that I believe will make it much stronger so if someone would please let me know who I should turn these over to to get them uh evaluated but I really think it'll make it a much stronger plan uh I'm just going to go on with with some of the suggestions and uh uh Mr lachman you can just cut me off when the 3 minutes is there but just to give you a feel for the type of things number 1 the DAC stands for uh District English language advisory committee yet throughout the uh plan it's used the interchangeably committee and council with some people believe uh inaccurately that it's called the council is actually committee so that just is a minor cleanup um on the more substantive notes um article 4 section 7 delegation of responsibilities of elac to the school site Council um it states that following 3 months of operation elac may vote to turn it over to site Council as chairman of our side Council I'll tell you this is a terrible idea at site Council we are so busy between Simpson cssp the El program and elac deserves its own time and attention it shouldn't be turned over to um site Council just keep it as elac and give it the attention it deserves um we also have um the place of meetings specifies in person that needs to be updated to the way we do it today which is zoom needs to be added Minor Details like that uh we should that 1 of the functions is ensuring that parents are aware of the latest resources including El practice Pages this is 1 of the most important functions of el pardon we have elac we should add working in conjunction with site admins to ensure that parents of else are aware of the latest resources which includes online practice tests its communication to the parents so anyway I've got uh I understand I'm winding down here but I've got a lot of suggestions based on the experience of having been on the board for the last 5 years that I think will make it a much stronger plan so if someone could just let me know who I could get these notes to that would be greatly appreciated but I don't think we're ready to approve it quite yet thank you thank you I see no other people online at this time thanks sure um we will now move on to item 7.7 members of the board colleagues as a reminder the order will go remember Carlson member lockman member Guerrero vice president lauretta and then myself okay um well thank you for president um I just wanted to give a couple of quick comments just about some of the things I've been doing in conjunction with my work on the board here and just some general comments as well um so I've had opportunity now to actually get started in this position it's um I think maybe 6 weeks or something now um I did have a really great conversation with the executive director of ccef and we talked about some of the initiatives that they're working on and she shared some thoughts and ideas with me and and vice versa um I just want to emphasize the critical role they play in funding and important District initiatives um they do say Foundation but really it's a fund essentially that you know we pay into and that funds the district it's not you know like the Annenberg Foundation or something like that this is us giving for the most part um as well as other you know Community organizations and businesses that are supportive as well um been happy to serve serve but I guess be a member of the superintendent Circle for the entire time my son's been in the district um and I just want to highlight also that there's the taste of Culver City Event coming up on May 4th if you want to save the date for that that's a really event and uh the proceeds benefit ccef uh the second thing is um the Baldwin Hills Community advisory panel that was kind of a fun Zoom meeting last Thursday um it's a group from kind of all-around the Englewood oil field that's focused on in the field and just um some of the operations there and the things that happen 1 of the things that I thought was particularly interesting um I want to reveal too much about exactly where I live but I my my home almost abuts the uh Kenneth Hahn area um I live in a very high fire hazard Zone um and back on the 7th if you remember there was a fire that started over in that um uh you know the oil field area uh they did explain a little bit about that um for anybody who might be interested it was actually caused by a couple of uh that SoCal Edison wire is touching each other it was put out rather quickly thankfully um you know that just kind of some interesting information for maybe some of our community members um last night I attended the elcat meeting as well that was very interesting we discussed the youth truth and the chick survey results on questions of inclusion safety and engagement um really pleased to see some positive direction in particular at the middle school and high school and those survey results and particularly on safety issues um just kind of transitioning out of some general comments um no no surprise to anybody who may have been following my campaign or me generally that I'm not a supporter of this current Administration uh it's a really angry and fearful time for much of our community there's a lot of heightened emotions um going on um and just want to emphasize this really our job here to educate and protect our students Model Behavior as adults um and address problematic Behavior at our campuses and anyone in the district um that would include things such as misogyny and sexism racism homophobia anti-Semitism um and Mr levenson brought this up earlier I was actually going to raise this as well I just wanted to give a shout out to the Middle School administration and particularly Dr Williams for handling a situation on campus that was quite troubling um and you know really engaging with the families and and dealing with it last week I was um really really well done um I just want to encourage the community to approach us and not necessarily and this is not relating to any comments that would happen here tonight I actually wrote these comments before we arrived but not necessarily just to confront us but approached us with the you know sense of you know wanting to solve problems together we're really here to help um and try to you know work things through um you know this is not the same group of people that was here a couple of months ago 2 of us are completely new and you know I know that both of us ran on a position of trying to collaborate with the community and we really want to hear from you um in line with that next Saturday I'm having my second listing session on the 8th 9:30 mm at the spot um encourage you to attend that just wanted to also note for the community my availability is fairly Limited outside of these plan times because I have a really demanding full-time job but if you want you can always reach out over email we can figure out a good time to connect um I'd also consider adding a second listening session every month to if there's a lot of interest in that um lots of things going on this week I think there's a downtown Business Association Winter party tomorrow night Middle School Bingo night on Thursday and uh Asian Night Market on Friday that I'm really looking forward to I'm sure we'll hear a lot more from board vice president on that but that was a really good time last year and been planning on attending that with my family as well so thank you very much all right thank you um so uh I'll update on a couple of happenings before I do that um something we didn't get to do when the folks came in earlier and I think it's important to note so each of of us has a role up here on the board in terms of how we run things and uh we definitely understand uh without question the great Passion that people feel as a parent of a child who has gone through bullying myself uh and who someone is experienced that I understand and the anger uh and the desire for uh to be heard on this uh the job of the parliamentarian though here is to keep track of time and make sure that everyone is treated equally and fairly uh with the time allotted and so uh that's why we have our little our time cards up here uh we want to treat everyone the same and everyone gets the same respect that they deserve and we appreciate everyone sharing their feelings and what their experiences are going through here at the schools uh I will then uh talk a little bit here about um what is happening uh at this I've been up to so first of all uh on uh on on a light note and a non-policy note I got the chance to uh attend the Ave PA JazzFest uh which was phenomenal um uh I will just point out that satin doll is 1 of my favorites 1 of my family's favorites and they just these high school students and middle school students just did an amazing job uh the instruments that they were playing uh and um I I would dare say the the talent and the professionalism that these students showed I wouldn't say professionalism because no 1's getting paid for it but you know these students could be professional they were that amazing and I just enjoyed every bit of the show and as much as possible um would like to urge everyone to attend as many of these events that happen at Frost uh and other places and just to Showcase of talent that we have there um I also had the chance to uh uh attend the LA County uh school trustee association meeting we went over a couple of items uh some which are very topical what's been happening 1 is we talked about the requirements for dual enrollment um it is worth noting that uh when I was at the uh California School Board Association meeting uh I heard from 1 District they had a student who finished their AA degree the day before they got their high school diploma it is a great way for students to uh save money on College and do it through the schools and we have some amazing programs and I know there are other ones on the way that we're working on and there's a lot of a lot of paperwork and requirements that are required for this in order to occur uh the other item covered which was covered also by the superintendent is how we respond to ice um you know we went over what the rights are of students what the rights and what the limitations are and the powers of the federal government in these cases no student should have to live in fear and we passed their resolution uh that made clear We Stand by our students and we stand by the rule of law and protecting those rights and that the idea of the Constitution is a limitation of government as much as it's an exercise of power um uh so I also uh serve on the facilities and sustainability uh committee I want to thank um Vice chair Laredo for walking me through and uh taking me through this new experience and working with these 2 committees um I will just say that there is a a lot of focus we're hearing from the um from both I'll talk about sustainability first very quickly we have a limited budget we're following a classrooms approach first and foremost but there are steps we can take plan to find ways to not only have sustainable uh development in terms of how we fix up our schools and that sort of thing but also how we use our resources so whether it's Greening of campuses or finding ways in which we can uh address nutrition and have reusables which were required to to do um by the city to uh make sure that we're which also can save us money um making those plans uh make sense and uh we look forward to working with the committee on that which moves me over to the facilities committee uh standards Committee in which we talked about similar items uh as well as uh ideas around classroom design uh and making sure how we can uh have a nourishing environment supportive environment and our for our students and our classrooms um on a personal note I also brought up uh the idea of we should talk with um a special education and neuro about how we can design classrooms to support our nuroad Divergent students uh as well so with that I just want to uh close by echoing the comments uh by Lindsey Carlson that we are all in this together um and how we work to address problems make a big difference I think uh what we heard earlier about some of the 1 of the instances that happened at the middle school um a number of parents followed up talk with the principal talked with the superintendent that's the process and we want to make sure that we're all working together to resolve and address these problems as a team so that we're getting the best outcome and we're following the right processes so thank you to the parents that did that did that thank you for all of us uh because there are other things that I think we can do in order to address um and make sure that our students understand uh how to avoid a legacy of uh the legacy of of hate uh particularly when I heard stories about Nazi signs and not understanding what that really meant so I I think that's going to be very important I am planning in February I'm specking out a couple of coffee houses around the city to have similar listening sessions in various locations so that I get the chance to meet with everyone and hear everyone's input so as soon as um beginning of February will be coming out with that because we want to hear from you about what we can do better and how we can do it better and how we can all work together we have some we have some challenges coming up and if we're all in this we all work together we can get through this rough period thank you thank you sir good evening everyone uh first just want to wish uh it's tomorrow but happy Lunar New Year to anybody who who celebrates that and even folks who don't because it's fun um second I I also just want to Echo board member Carlson the lcap uh partner meeting last night was fantastic it is the most diverse and representative group that we have had in a long time we've got parents from all different uh campuses and different student groups and things like that and that really makes the discussion much more richer because we hear from more perspectives on what's working and what isn't working and what we need to do different as we look at the lcap um as again was mentioned it was kind of looking at uh the the affective side and things like school campuses last night but even that uh we have surveys that we put out and look at the responses from um as many of our decisions as possible need to really be anchored in data um and even if that's climate surveys and how people are dealing whether it's how staff is feeling how students are feeling how families are feeling um 1 of the things that we notice is participation rates in some of these surveys are low we were seeing some sites where what we were seeing about the school climate was based on a 15% uh return right that gives us a slice it gives us a taste of what's going on but you know we need to find and we're looking at ways as a committee of increasing student participation to get a broader uh representation of students telling us what their experience is like of staff of families um just to really make sure that's rich and then we'll continue looking at other data sources over the the next couple of months um budget I do want to just say something and this is me being the teacher um it's a budget proposal it's not a budget yet for the state it's an estimated Cola it's not a cola yet you know all of this stuff is is very is very up in the air and the fires were happening just as this happened so we got to keep an eye on that um you know and and really keep our our fingers crossed and and do our lobbying with our various elected representatives uh about what we want that budget to look like as it more finalized version comes out in May and is then eventually passed by the legislature um you know we'd love to there's a a good gnome is Governor noem has been good about protecting education but uh there's you know some some Shenanigans in the budget this year around school funding too um and we'd like to see those eliminated and and schools funded well because there's such the centers of our community um I want to make a couple comments about the SARS the school accountability report cards it's on the consent agenda later tonight I don't want to pull it out of the agenda I'm going to vote for it um but I just want to make a couple comments in case you were not familiar School accountability report cards come out every year around this time for every campus it's a wealth of data um I'm all about data tonight um for families to take a look at it talks about things like the the history of test scores at your campus the history of attendance at your campus and enrollment it talks um some information about teachers and teacher uh qualifications at the site 1 of the things that we've been trying to do over the last couple of years and you've seen you can see the growth is making sure everybody has properly credentialed we we wait had to do waivers for a couple of teachers at the beginning of the year who did for example have the right English learner credential but they're working on it um you know we want to get away from that completely but we had more teachers who are in that position a couple years ago so that's something that we're working towards um 1 thing that I always interests me um and I kind of wanted to flag it for everybody tonight toward the end it talks about funding at each campus and how much you know per pupil funding there is in uh unrestricted money and that's money that can be spent on anything restricted is that kind of categorical programmatic money um we're getting better at spending similar amounts per pupil at each site um 1 of our sites gets a little bit extra because it's a Title 1 school um but the red flag for me is always the middle school because the per pupil funding at the middle school is much lower than the other campuses um we also you know when we hear about school safety or things going on a lot of times that's the Middle School and we don't spend as much um on that if these numbers accurately reflect uh what's going on on the campuses so as we do budgeting this year and as we look at that I think we really got to keep an eye on the needs of the Middle School um and how much funding in the middle school is getting um the kind of programs that we offer at other sites but maybe we're offering less of at the middle school or um and the middle school is also a Title 1 school so 1 would expect it to be higher than that um so just wanted to kind of put that on everybody's radar um and then just 1 more I was talking to some parents um who were like so many of us have already commented on tonight concerned about many of the the orders coming down from the federal government um particularly around immigration and there's a group of parents at lab Iona who are organizing kind of an information night reaching out to some Community organizations um there's not a flyer for this yet but I understand it's it's February 4th which is next Tuesday um at 6:30 kind of keep track of that if you're interested in that a flyer should be coming out with the exact time of the details of that um but that should be really good information for anybody who's concerned about that I know the district is certainly doing things to keep people informed um but there's also some family who have some connections to that kind of thing and are working with the district and working with the school site at lab wanted to bring in some information on that so if that's relevant for you um keeping keep an eye out for that so thank you very much that concludes my comments good evening in November I cautioned that ccusd receives about 2.5 million dollars in federal funding this includes funding for Title 1 schools Ida which our students with disability and and more and that change in federal Administration may not just impact funding but also impacts our students staff and families and how they feel about their identity these well-being health and safety this is why I initiated what would eventually become a resolution 21 an inclusive statement revisiting our shared values and purpose we are here as a board for the health and a achievement of all of our students it is not just those of us who are historically marginalized who are new Americans those who identify as lgbtqia Plus or those with disabilities Dr Martin Luther King Jr said whatever affects 1 directly affects all indirectly and so when 1 or some of our students may feel that their safety is is is um is being threatened all of us suffer as we navigate these political events that may be deeply impacting members of our school community other than um these folks that are directly um impacted I want to let you know that we see you and it's valid to acknowledge the feelings of uncertainty or concern and grief that may you may be experiencing and you are not alone and we stand in solidarity our work is not only about academic Excellence but also about encouraging a community that values belonging and the dignity and Humanity of every single 1 of our interest holders even in the face of challenges whether they are climate disasters or uncertainty in political leadership we will stand up for justice together so I I say please join us join our board as we move forward with a shared purpose success for all takes us all our students deserve themselves reflected in the world that they see and be empowered to dream big connecting with 1 another finding strength in unity in both commonalities and diversity is the key to unlocking the potential of what we can achieve together so even in the face of challenges to our very being whether native or immigrant Heritage in solidarity we're going to ate build forward together and so I invite you all to come join us on Friday in continuing this celebration of belonging um at Asian-American native Hawaiian Pacific Islander owned business Market um we will be celebrating the diaspora of um of our community and enjoying um the admission is free it's open to the public and uh we charge no fee to our vendors it really is in support so uh of the community and to to show our students and um our community that um there there is resilience creativity and ingenuity in our community um so um I would like to see you there Friday uh February uh Friday January 31st 5 to 8 pm at the high school cafeteria 4401 Olinda and uh they'll be free entertainment and uh and plenty of delicious food from many different types of Cuisines thank you thank you so much colleagues I'm just gonna be brief in plus 1 while the colleague said about just the growing concern um and inks that I think we all collectively feel um out of what's coming out of the uh federal government in the white house um I just want to talk about 2 quick things that have happened since last time we met um as there's no uh vice president and I sit on the city district liaison um committee meeting and we had a really um I think is really exciting meeting um last week we talked a lot about um Partnerships most excitingly to to me and perhaps you all is around Partnerships on what we can do um during the 2028 Olympics it's a very exciting stuff I know um mayor O'Brien and vice mayor Pusa sit on the ities um Olympic subcommittee and so they brought some ideas about um perhaps using some facilities that we have in our district as well as uh maybe even showcasing some um are are some performances or something of some sort from some in our districts are really exciting stuff um coming out of that committee I also went to the cpy youth and government um they had a mock uh assembly session last week at Westar Lake College it was really exciting to see I feel like it's always really exciting to see um our students really civically engaged and involved in legislative the legislative process and and really advancing their legislative priorities most notably I I what was really impressive to me was seeing students advocate for really transformative legislation more transformative than I think that we sometimes see coming from our actual our actual government um and so it was just really exciting to hear uh students so passionate about issues like using absences for students who uh walk out in Mass protests and so just really exciting stuff coming from cpy I know they're going to uh Sacramento to do their Statewide conference and and to Advocate Statewide for these for these issues and so that's just really really really exciting um that's all I have for you all today I think we're going to take a hopefully 5 minute break now okay cool so we'll be back at 812 English learner we have a staff presentation then 9.2 is the ground uh thank you Mr yes so this is information item um which was our first read of the revised um English learner master plan which has been in conjunction with um DAC work um so I want to thank the board members who recognized that this was a a needed addition and change that we are updating um first read and I have received some feedback from community members and also some feedback from board members reviewing um the work and uh we'll work to incorporate that into the future iteration of the plan which will bring back to you for the final read but this is information on uh information only uh first read we comment yeah I mean is that okay do we have common colleagues I do not my my 1 on on uh on this is that uh with respect I this is this is good it goes over the basics and I know talked a little bit earlier about wanting to how we include our parents on this which is so important um I I think it would be beneficial to include the parental Outreach strategy and as a part of this I know we have a document that does a lot of this but I think adding that as a component to make clear you know that this piece is so important because you have um not only do you have language barriers but you also have cultural and education barriers depending on the experience of where parents are coming from so making sure that we're reaching out educating and involving parents about how to advocate for their kids and how the system works and how to get them through this system in a way in which you know maximizes their potential and help them through this very trying process is going to be important as well yeah I definitely just want to second that um board member lachman and I were kind of talking about this in our Brown act permissible buddy their speaking to know 1 else but the 2 of us uh nothing nothing decisive um about want ideally wanting to see kind of an a section in the eel master plan about parent resources parent ways to get involved you know as as Mr levenson mentioned you know they can certainly get involved in elpac and I mean in elac and DAC or the School site Council but there are other ways um and we did a little bit of research um Santa Ana South Whittier have added sections just focused on how parents can can get involved because a lot of times when you talk to parents about you know the whole redesignation process they just want to know how they can help their kids and and having a section really devoted to parents even though technically they're not the target of this um they really are the target audience in a lot of ways and having that um I also sent a ton of questions which I always do um and I appreciate staff getting back on this I always feel a little bit bad just saying I had questions they got answered to the public though um just a couple of highlights you know some things that I I had asked for in the questions um you know we're in a PDF world at this point there's a lot of references and it would be ideal I think if when there was a reference to you know refer to the elac handbook let's just have a link to it right there so if somebody's looking at this they can go to the elac handbook they don't have to go try to find it somewhere on the website or something like that we can do a lot of things to kind of hyperlink throughout this document um some suggestions I made about the way we refer to students with disabilities in this you know some of the the references were a little bit Antiquated not you know not offensive or anything but just really remembering person first language instead of saying sped students students with disabilities and things like that um is is kind of the common parlance these days um and we want to be as as current on that and as as inclusive as we can um some other places where we talk about oh we do an annual evaluation of the Dual language program we do an annual language of the English to learn your program and things like that some of that gets rolled into the lcap but I would like to see some of that stuff as kind of a standalone as well um because sometimes what you end up hearing is oh feedback was given but what feedback okay well there's not a document that pulls all that feedback as a separate and and kind of a distinct thing um you know always just looking at uh professional development um our our English Learners unfortunately and this is not unique to us are 1 of the student groups who struggles the most according to a lot of the different measures and things like that so are we really prioritizing um professional development around this um you know I I all about educating their freedom and Educators determining what professional development they need um but I also think there's a time when the district makes a commitment to we are going to make sure that every single educator has a certain set of strategies to support uh English Learners and and you know I taught in the district where you know 90% of the kids were English Learners so it was kind of just a common understanding that we are all teachers of English language even if we're a math teacher even if we're a physical education teacher even if we're an we're all teachers of English Learners it's not it's kind of like special education it's not a place over there where they go for it um you know and whatever we can do to support all of our Educators regardless of their content area having the skill set to really support English Learners um comments like that and again I appreciate staff getting back to us uh quickly on that or getting back to to me quickly on that um but just really want to make sure this is a a good working document um that really points people in right direction thank you so I'm going to press 1 on a cleaning up some some language if we can uh let Dr Baxter's team know um that we should good modernize some of that to be person first um I'm also going to reiterate that um there has been from previous bodies and I think that from this body as well there's like this um desire to recognize and celebrate our reclassifications and um you know right now no matter what your document like what your documentation status is I think that folks feel um you know fearful uh or you know uncertain about you know what it is like to engage in our community um I think we still need to create spaces and where um where we're celebrating the reclassification and and achievement of our students and find ways that we can build the belonging so that they feel safe uh participating in this way and this is why we have our at least at the high school the affinity group so that we can get better engagement there because when you have parents that are more involved in the success of their students than their students are going to be feel more supported and uh more enthusiastic about school and so if we can continue to um find ways um to do that and maybe recognize them before we had said that you know we'll recognize our all of our fall reclassifications at you know in the beginning of this year I don't know whether this is the right time for that now considering you know considering the climate um but I want to find a way that we can that we can do that um I also had asked and um Dr Lucas if you could um provide in your um if you can provide the changes or plan changes to actual protocol procedures or Staffing and or different in uh the changes in school culture that could lead to quicker reclassification prior to this document so that or because we already knew that this is an ongoing concern of ours a challenge of ours that we want to make sure that our English Learners are um are reclassifying faster and so could you I mean you've already provided me with the answer but could you please provide the public with that with with that answer well yeah I mean the 1 of the key things we're taking a look at is using our um data uh more regularly to identify student that um are uh basically on the on the verge of red designating and and being aware of that and uh having um monthly or quarterly meetings of school staff in regards to uh basically understanding where the child is and understanding what they need to be able to read re-designate um and creating action plans for that thank you and I just I I'm sorry I didn't say this you know I didn't let you know note that this was a concern before but listening to um 1 of our commenters earlier who did comment on this particular item is that uh we really need to you know I'm gonna reiterate my that um as a district we are making sure that all of our especially the ones that are need to be compliant with not only the brown act but with you know that that they are legally required committee um are uh easily accessible but that the meeting notifications and the way that they're meeting which um in some cases needs to be at least hybrid if not in person and that all of those um things are being accounted for and being publicly noticed properly with agenda and minutes and um and I I I think that we just need a central ized way for our district to make sure that this is uh that this uh that these things are being um being done easily and they don't have to click through to too many places on our website in order to find out where uh where these meetings are taking place because they see this action coming here but um it you know uh Mr levenson is right like a lot of the energy and effort that they spend to do some of this stuff it's like it goes unnoticed to the public and um I want to make sure that they know that their engagement is appreciated and that we're doing everything in compliance and making sure that they're um uh that their efforts are not all for naught and we're not burning them out so thank you all right colleagues will now move on to item 9.3 over City High School New education course women engineer studies oh yeah 9.4 Financial audit report I'm happy to introduce um good evening what president Mr aor um superintendent Dr Lucas board members um we have Jeff Mr Jeff nikro who is a partner at Nigro Nigro professional accountancy Corporation who is your auditor who's here to present the 23 24 independent Financial audit report thank you Jeff thank you good evening um sorry to see all the audience left I guess they weren't as interested in the audit as you all are and and somebody drops when he sends back there so I just found 20 cents for your budget don't say the auditor didn't do anything um so as as she mentioned this is for the 2324 fiscal year which you know 7 months in the rear window now but it's important to understand the timeline of how the audit works so um we start the audit actually in the spring and um by going out to a sample of your school sites uh all grade levels uh which really means 1 of your elementary schools in the middle and high school and we look at the attendance accounting practices because the state's very interested in making sure that you're accounting for Ada properly um and we also look at the ASB processes we come here the district later on in the spring um before the books are closed and we look at your internal controls checks and balances uh things like that but we also then at that time start on our huge laundry list of state and federal compliance that the state gives us the state issues and audit guide every year that keeps growing and growing and growing as they add new programs that have string attached and where the strings are attached that's where we're supposed to look uh so we'll start looking at some of that work back then and then uh over the summer District closes its books um in September you uh approve your un audited actual financial statements and then we come out and we audit those numbers and then we go through our final processes um of auditing the numbers wrapping up all the uh federal and state compliance work come up with an opinion on those financial statements whether they comply with generally accepted accounting principles we have to do our internal quality control on our side so all of that roughly takes 350 or so hours um and all that has to be done before December 15th and it was and I'm pleased to report that the opinion on the financial statements is unmodified which is what you want to get that's basically a clean opinion um and that means that the financial statements here are in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles I know that's not terribly exciting but that's I I don't think you want any exciting in your audit so I think that's generally good news now the report itself has lots of information in it um it goes through different sections there's a management discussion and Analysis there's financial statements themselves if you really want to get into the numbers and then they're followed by notes which really tell the story behind the numbers and how certain numbers were arrived at and so forth it really gets into a lot of gory detail which I generally most people don't find interest unless they're a governmental accountants but it's all in there um there's some schedules that are required by uh the the state controller's office or the agency up in Sacramento that receives and approves audit reports for all School agencies in California so there's schedules in there that they want to see um but I think the thing that uh most people are interested in is when they get the audit report they go right to the back I want to see the findings so um District did have a few findings this year there was 1 um having to do with uh meal Accounting in the cafeteria program um it was a repeat finding uh pleased to report there were no findings in our testing the district's Federal programs and there were some State compliance issues um 1 of them having to do with the tenants accounting is frustrating because it didn't need to be a finding except for the fact that the state doesn't wouldn't allow the district to go in and amend the Ada reports like it used to in past years um so we have no our hands are tied we have to report the finding in that situation fortunately the other 2 findings had either no or very little Financial impact on the district um and given the the significant new requirements uh in the audit guide this year for the elop and and the prop 28 um that's a pretty good achievement then finally there's uh some pages that talk about previous audit findings from your 2223 audit report it shows that 2 of them were repeated the other 3 were corrected and okay and then finally there's some comments on ASB accounting which are relatively minor but still important enough that we thought we needed to include them and so that concludes my presentation I'm happy to answer any questions you have on that colleagues questions not for me thanks um first of all I was thrilled to see that we're over 55% again continue to be so I know uh there is that initially a rough patch some of it because of coid but because of a number of other issues and I just want to you know commend everyone for all the great work to to get us back over that so that we're not seeing any fines which was item number 2 I was excited about um and uh I know that this as I understand it this report had to be put together before we could relay what we've done to address the meal issue is that correct so if I heard the qu the response to it while this isn't while this was a problem it it has been or we have the processes in place to address it it's not that we're losing money because we can always amend it but you know why would we say the chance to be able to make sure that we're maximizing every dollar we can to help our students do you want me to respond to the question now or do you want me to present recommend the Management's Corrections later yeah so I think for this particular 1 um we couldn't correct the error we had to wait for the window to open but um sometimes the period of submitting the amended claims you need to have uh evidence that there was an error and this in this case we had to have the audit report so we just received the audit report you sent it to the CDE now the CD will approve this audit finding and then they'll open the window for us to submit the claim and then we'll have 10 days to submit the claim okay I think that the point is is that we can proactivity of you know making sure we we we uh we we we we try not to have this for a third year in and from what I understand that actions already in process I just wanted to highlight the the you know that that that it's being worked on we've already added a changes step actually we were doing a manual entry so we assess the cost of the error was the manual entry combining all the numbers from each School site and then that there was a error in data entry that's what happened and then the verification 1 of the steps were also ignored so right now what we have done is we've changed the process of connecting rather than inputting data from another system manually now we have connected both the systems automatically the data will be dropped there won't be any error but we still are going to add a step to verify the numbers we've added a responsibility to an uh an official to verify and then fiscal services to follow up and then um double check before um the claim is completed all right thank you this was all very helpful and perhaps all of us because we know that there's outlines some of the budget challenges we're going to be facing in the next year uh you know we have a like every other District in the date we have a bit of a uh a hole we have to deal with and making sure that we're on it and all working together to address it uh is going to be important thank you thank you Mr yeah thank you for bringing that 1 up and and thank you um Mr for the explanation I mean obviously I'm not thrilled to see this up again we were told last year that this was uh going to be corrected um this is kind of a a legacy because different staff at that point um but I'm I'm pleased to hear that a a final solution you know just connecting to systems together it's like we're in the 21st century um so that the same thing with with the SARS again not not pleased to see that that's there on there for a second year in a row but but I appreciate the uh solutions that that you're is is coming up with so that won't be on their third year um and then as I come in it just uh when I sent things in advance there's a finding on attendance um which again is is an understatement on our part so we're actually weren't claiming as much money as we could and the home to school transportation are are new findings and I really appreciated the thoroughness of the responses to this is what we're going to do so this doesn't happen again and you know things happen you know as as uh board member lachman said sometimes we actually need of finding before we can do the adjustment um but I'm really looking forward to this audit next year um after you and your team have been together for a full year um and you know maybe there's going to be something minor but I really expect to see these uh ongoing ones um resolved and Mr nagar I wanted to ask are you nagro or are you nagro in are you the first or the second in the company name well my wife's not here so I am the first 1 here thank you very much I love how excited you are for audits sir um I think uh I don't know if board member Guerrero is uh referring to the answers that he received but my but um uh if you could please go over what steps are already in place for school year 2425 to address findings from previous year because I feel like our we have been seeing ASB for a file now and we haven't still gotten that resolved because this is not the first time that we've seen it so um if we could um just go over I think you addressed 1 thing but uh if you can go over the other things absolutely so on the second 1 the dark 1 that's a repeat finding so when we looked at it um it was transposing the information uh definitely if we had a second set of eyes looking at the report before it was um you know added to the agenda or or the report was submitted deaf so that's what we have done um basically you know how do we um the entry is coming from a form a fit form is used to transfer information from the fit form it goes into this um forms so there is no step added as to how these numbers are transposed that's why we we now added a step as to when they are inputting the data from this form to this form what exactly goes where so that's what the procedure is and we have as in this task to the director of iot right now to verify and then once he finishes that work um I'll be stepping into also do a double check because this is a repeat finding we want to make sure that we are addressing it um to levels of um verification is there before it gets the sock the sock is submitted and printed um that's for this sock and um it's a data mapping actually there was a mistake um you know how we map the data from 1 columns and um that's why I think um um we definitely have fixed that step in fact what we did right now um when we presented it in the last board meeting the sort for 2324 we corrected that we use the same procedure and the report was presented and I remember you asking me why there is a change the change is because of that finding that we had so we already corrected it but I know um they haven't they will come back and give their comments next year when they come in um reviewer order that interest statements and the attendance accounting um so this is a data entry error um so what we have done right now is separating the data in 3 portion and the data review so we've added 2 Bodies 2 positions checking the data tree and the data review and in this case actually what happened was when we submitted we knew we could go and correct it but then the window the window was not open for us to correct it and that's the reason we couldn't um there is a proper time when we go back and correct your P1 and P2 there are different times where we um report our Ada so we had to um average daily attendance numbers and so we've added that step um now which requires a physical director director fiscal services to approve this report before it is submitted to CDE through the pads the system that we have is the people at data collection system so we've added additional steps to to eliminate this error next year and the last 1 is the transportation so this is again the if you see the the mistake was 597 but then it's it's just um the the code what you use as there are different um functions and resource course we use it's just a question of the staff who's entering also knows and whenever we have transportation because we have strict requirement to not to code anything incorrectly there so we have given a cheat sheet to our staff to make sure when you see a request submitted with 36,000 resource you double check the resource and the function is matching what it's supposed to be and then the direct revenue is approving is also has to make sure that the non-home school transportation is not charged to this function and I think um we've added that step and I don't think we will have this mistake again and then and few of the things is we sorted um when we started we came to know about these errors too late to make a correction and that was 1 of the reasons if I had known at the time when I started definitely we could have fixed it so that's something we also again you know share our expectation with the Auditors to make sure so please involve the CBS office to make sure that we know so we have the time to correct it and the last 1 for ASP um Raffles is not an allowed 1 so we have now what we have done is after seeing that error we have um signed up all our ASB um advisors and the administrators they are actually attending the ASB training on January 31st at Leo and now they will go over the figma manual uh which actually talks about what are the allowed um activities and fundraising activities so we have this training scheduled this Friday and hopefully we will again um we have this um you know we have added a step to look at all our ASB transactions on a quarterly basis rather than looking at it at end of the year when you cannot correct it I think that's how we are trying to mitigate all of these errors for next year I want to thank you for that I think that was very thorough and um and you know also it shows to our public that like it's not that it's not that we're okay with having findings it's that like there is a time to correct but also we don't stand for a broken record either right is that like you know now that you know this now is the time for us to fix and moving forward and it sounds like especially with um the last 1 uh for ASB I didn't expect that like they would need to be sent to a training but like I feel better that they would be educated about what is appropriate or compliant and what is not so I want to thank you for that thank you I have no questions um I'm gonna we're gonna move on to item 9.5 facility update thank you so much good evening board president Mr aidor super or do you want me to wait until it comes up here no I think okay good evening board president Mr edoor superintendent Dr Lucas board members and members of the K City Community were watching online today's update covers or activities since the last update on December 10th board meeting although my presentation covers all the activities at all School sites I'll just highlight a few I just I know it's a long presentation this is for the community um next few slides um shows the program design phase at all School sites next slide please okay thank you um because I'm not logged in so I cannot see okay oh thank you um so this next few slides shows a program design phase at all schools right so what's the program designed face this is a face where Architects are creating a site plan using the original master plan that outlines the overall vision for the facilities concerning things like capacity space requirements accessibility and educational needs the site plan will prioritize the projects that align with the district schools and Community needs based on the input from students Educators community members and and administrators the design team The Architects have revised the original master plan to meet the current and projected needs of students and staff at each School site so the slide 3 yeah the slide 3 actually is a program design phase at eldering con so I'm just going to go highlight few of the things what they have done not all the things so at eldering con the site facility committee has recommended option 2 which will replace all Portables with new buildings for preschool TK and Kinder classroom nature of the campus also the option to replace is the 2-story building that we have at the back um replacing all the 86 classrooms slide 4 this is the program design phase at Farragut and OCD I'm going to skip the slide 4 because this is an update from December 19th I'm going to present to you the next slide slide 5 which actually shows you the latest 1 that we met last week um with the Farragut and OCD team they've to explore and hybrid of option 2 this plan will have brand new Kinder Pre-K and after care classrooms the next slide is the program design phase at lab Ione Elementary School we met with the facility um committee on December 16th and also on the January 17th the committee recommended to explore option 6 with the goal of having 7 new classrooms Early Childhood childhood Enclave separately with an option maybe for an additional parking lot and a shaded lunch structure that's a new ask and there the Architects are now working on it um when they come back in 2 weeks they'll be presenting that option and slide 7 and slide 8 is a program design phase at El Marino Elementary School in December they selected a layout but there was a a challenge their due to the Edison's easement on the Kinder area now they had to revise the plan because they cannot ask originally they thought they could they couldn't do it now so now they've come back and taken the inputs from the committee and they're going to revise it to slightly modify the layout but at the same time make sure the Kinder and the TK all classrooms are together as a separate Enclave with a separate um uh play area when you say Edison easement that's like the electric company yes okay um so we could have actually seen that if you had done the underground utilities mapping which is currently happening so that's why um I think maybe uh now we have a remedy for that situation and the slide 9 and the 10 is the pro um program design meeting at Lynwood hole I'm skipping I'm going to slide 10 um this site committee requested a refined version of option A which they selected last time which provides more outdoor outdoor play area for students so that's why they're going to go back and revise other way this layout is kind of ready and slide 11 and 12 the program decent face at the middle school the proposed new buildings actually has new classrooms and a collaborative space and they also show shared some of the models of how the um the design will look like and the rendering um they've create some of it and now um that's where we are at middle school and the next slide 13 and slide 14 is for the high school in January meeting slide 14 is a January meeting um the the design team The Architects presented at 3 story with 21 classrooms and a new parking lot but they also add an Administration also there so we've requested them to revisit that Administration remove that part and add it back to modernizing all the classrooms so that's a request we have given it to the architect now and slides um 15 actually Culver City Fire Department we've requested them to come and visit our high school and middle school that's a part of the process they come and check whether you know we get their feedback also on the accessibility requirements to each reading because as we are developing a layout we want to get their feedback right on time so if you if you have to make any changes this is the time to make the changes so they've come and uh looked at our plans uh for the high school and the middle school and slide 16 the design engineers they visited the high school and middle school um basically what they have done is they able to looked at a critical infrastructure you see our emote staff over there um they look at our mechanical systems electrical systems fire alarm and utility rooms the decent basically identify areas for upgrades or you know are we in compliance that's what they're looking at and the slide 17 so this will be happening whatever I'm showing here this is happen this is going to be happening at all School sites slide 17 is the program disinfect at Calver Park High School and in December meeting the design team got bad feedback on how the space utilization could support both the current and the future programs because Culver park has um in the unique unique space we have a Academy we have other program spaces over there so that's why we it got a little late but we are on track to move forward uh and then um slide 19 so we are going to be this is about the developing the district district by standards so we had a meeting on December 11th and then on January 16th the decent team meet with the standards committee discussed how standards can serve as a template for the future projects so the we reviewed the input from the committee redefined the district-wide goals we want we wanted to um you know board members brought an idea to include the health and um student achievement as 1 of the primary goals to be added to our existing goals so we we we we've added that and then our Architects also showcase the Innovative outdoor and Les hommes outdoor and indoor layouts based on the previous visioning exercises they have done with the committee and then some furniture options some technology integration in the classroom design but for on and there are some things the technology integration this is again Dr Lucas brought this to the attention of the committee that we will be taking it to our all indicators will be asking for their feedback in a we will have a focused group later to get their input and slide 20 is developing the district standards with our emote staff they are basically incorporating feedback to tailored technical specifications to the district unique needs for example you know what kind of proofing what kind of um you know um the the window the the tiles so all of that technical um specification it runs into 10 to 15 pages of lists of things which will come back and share with you later when it's at a preliminary stage to come back and share um now next slide 22 to 27 it's a district-wide aerial typography project so we have n nv5 who are topographic company who visited all schools to do a topography measurements marking each site boundary and taking the aerial shots and then end result is actually a high resolution map of the elevations and slope of each School site these maps are used to understand the existing site conditions and Aid with grading during the planning phase so all setup topography files have been sent to the Architects right now because they've completed their work now moving to from slide 22 to slide 27 I am just sharing that this project has happened at all schools sites so I'm skipping and then moving to slide 29 so this is a scanning and digitizing of record times this is overdue right right now we have this bundles and bundles of the documents drawings there it's a massive effort 30,000 documents are there so we icing and this will be there forever after we are all not you know for many years so crisp Imaging is starting and digitally documenting all the physical drawings for our existing facilities and it'll be stored in house and it's accessible to anyone Architects um uneven faurot staff in the future when they do a maintenance project they need to look at these drawings and they need to go back and update the drawing and slide 30 and 31 is a 3D mapping at Elm maranon eliwood cope so what you really see is the end result of the 3D mapping it looks like a real picture so you can go on enlarged so the 3D mapping creates a digital 3D database of the entire campus both interior and exterior of each building The Architects can access this software view zoom into every elevation it'll be cool if you want to watch we can give you access and you can see you know the walls floors and ceilings as if you had inside the classroom so this can also calculate the Heights and lengths and dimensions and square footage area it's a very useful um 1 for The Architects actually the images that you see are all from that um software moving on to slide 32 um these are the action items that we have for your approval today in today's meeting um so the district code roofing project I'm happy to share we did not use the 11th we kept aside we're watching our budget every single dollar so that's why you see it's a deductive change order it's a good thing normally we come back to you to increase the change order but this is a deductive change order what it means is the unused District allowances that we kept aside is coming back to me especially bucket the money is coming back and then the next 1 is the artcore roofing they've completed at eldering Kahn Elementary and love and Elementary Roofing replacement completely the notice of completion is going to be done and you're approving that so that that money is coming back to us and the third item is a detect to change order for am Builders who have worked at the middle school and fargate elementary school but the middle middle school they haven't completed yet there are 2 more buildings we have to do so that will be done at summer so that's why we are only acknowledging the change order but we are not giving symptom notice of completion yet because they have some more work to do I'm almost at the end of my presentation last slide is 34 um the share structure product is Project is now complete yes students are using that and the closer process is ongoing but the outdoor lunch area is fully operational now and we are we are we are glad really that we are going to be showcasing that shade structure it's really lighted well lighted on January 31st for that Asian first week thing even we definitely are happy to have it there I'm happy to answer any questions you might have I'm trying to make I was trying to maintain the time calling questions um I don't so much have a question as much as I just want to briefly thank you for this really thorough report and as well as all the work that you've been doing particularly with respect to measure e and you know making sure that all of our our vendors are compliant with you know the desires of the community I know you know measure Eve passed kind of barely frankly um in the spring and a lot of trust issues there and I think that you know everybody in the community we don't have really anybody here in the room but I hope there's some folks on zoom and definitely going to encourage them to watch this presentation because um you're doing some really great work and I thank you for that thank you Miss just want to thank you for the classrooms first approach um something that we heard everywhere uh when we were out talking with people this last fall and it's reflected in the very thorough work that you've done on all of this and making sure that we're listening to their site councils following their guidance and at the same time keeping in mind sustainability and you know creating a nurturing environment for our students thank you yeah I also appreciate the the frequent and thorough uh reports and updates on this just so anybody who's really interested can follow along I did want to ask 1 thing in the designs for the new campuses I don't want to jinx anything but all of our our elevators are currently working um but some of those have taken a really long time to get repaired are we looking at any alternatives you know that there was that 1 slide with the potential for a a free story building or something like that um which becomes useless at the elevator is not working any thoughts to upgrading the elevators they don't break I don't know if they're breaking because they're old I mean I know why they broke but I I don't know if it took that long to replace them because they were old and and looking for a complete replacement or some redundancy putting in a second elevator so if that 1 elevation we've still got another backup or something like that because because long term that's just unacceptable that they take that long to repair um and and is there any way we can deal with that with some of the new we do have an Antiquated system we should not we should have eliminated that long time ago but unfortunately that's uh very old um um elevator system that we have and then Otis is trying to maintain it's hard to get parts because it's old so I think definitely that's in the grounds like when we are doing modernization the elevators are being looked at I know bayona we recently upgraded it so we are going to see whether they really need to change or not but that's something that we have the Architects are aware that um you know elevators and the 3 story building yeah every new building that we are constructing will have an elevator and there's all is a backup plan that we're thinking about yes thank you I want to reiterate our appreciation but also just um the uh the fact that you are going through this in um um you've left no stone unturned all though you are trying to be as brief as possible um I do want to I know that we made a little bit of light out of the um idea that the digitized documents will be there quite much longer than we all will and I think that we need to um to really consider this because uh this is our 75th year as a district that we've been doing business as ccusd the district did um um was doing business uh or doing education for a much longer than that um and uh you know what a lot of people don't know about the history of us is that our High School uh campus was um uh lee a large parts of it were granted to the school district through eminent domain uh from a family who had just returned from Japanese internment Japanese American internment camps and so you know I really want to make sure that you know we understand where we're coming from and that we are continuing to pass on information and the history of what we're doing in meaningful way to our students and to those that are taking up this work um far after we are going to be gone because we are just here for a blip and uh this uh this District or or some form shape it's going to continue educating our students for a very long time so thank you thank you Miss presentation thank you 9.6 the enrollment report so the enrollment report um is is this is comparing um the monthly and month 4 um for the current school year so if you see um the the report shows the tk1 numbers slightly dropped from 6,541 students to 6,536 students and then preschool gained um um 2 students um I know um there was a comment that was brought that the the numbers for high school is not correct so I'm just going to go back and verify and come back and report next time colleagues questions no no great thank you I will now move on to action items we will start with item 12.1 thank you Mr asador this is a uh um expert Services contract in regards to working on up ating our inclusion plan and our inclusion work and assessment uh and it is uh paid for through an educator Effectiveness block grant which is part of our professional development efforts here in the district moved to approve second great all those in favor say I I I anybody have any questions too late get me too excited excited uh excuse that um I'm 131 13.1 is the acceptance of the audit report by the board and you know um the audit department just presented the audit report and we shared how we are going to um avoid these errors next year move to proof second questions colleagues great all those in favor say I I 132 so this is an item um change order at code Roofing um this is not using the so we are actually returning the crediting is back 25,140 and 34 cents back to approve second uh questions colleagues um I I have a comment um and and it's about all of these I like it when we get money back so thank you let's do more of that let's do more of that ditto all those in favor say I 133 so this is the notice of completion for um completing the roofing project is at eldering corn and laba and Elementary School to approve second questions colleagues all those in favor say I I 134 this is a deductive change order where we are getting a credit back for the 1 building uh artists um the middle school that they have AME Builders have completed and they're fully completed at um Elementary School 2004 dollars is a credit I'm happy to to see the credit move to approve second again questions colleagues all those in favor say I I I 135 so this is a e rate agreement um this every year we we are using 88 dollars and 60% of it is paid by using mate and then 40% is paid with the district dollars so this is being used for high-speed network connectivity at eldering Khan and labana elementary schools these 2 Skies these 2 School sites we are using AT&T um the connectivity will improve the digital learning and it helps the learning and the you know the the the speed of the um internet connection will be better move to approve second questions colleagues I do have a question why those 2 schools is this something that we're rotating in each kind of hitting different schools or is there a the reason why we started with why it's these 2 this year um because I think um the other other schools actually we are we have different um spectrum is we are working with Spectrum some sites we cannot use um this is a lowest responsibility but for other schools such there's another site we cannot use AT&T and then we are also using Leos um Spectrum for from the district office and the middle school and high school and Target um area so I think this is to do with certain networks to not work that's why we're using um AT&T for this but other Agreements are all um we just completed the competitive bidding process because this is a federal funding so that's why why we had to do that now but the next 1 is not due yet we'll come back to you alright alright thank you so just um in case anybody missed it I I some of the providers based on location cannot serve us is that what you were trying to say okay thank you thank you very much appreciate that because sometimes I get questions about Ting you know but they also haven't completed their roll out their other issues as well great all those in favor say I I I so the next item is a 3 person 3 cents increase in our mileage reimbursement move to approve I'm calling all those in favor say I 141 good evening president azador 14.1 is the memo of understanding between CC USC and CC ft um to provide excuse me to provide relief in the form of substitute days for that were affected by the wire wildfires moved to approve questions colleagues no just thank you I know this is difficult time for all of those who are affected and we're all behind want to do whatever we can to help them get back to what we assemblance of a normal life granted what has happened to them in their property yeah same thanks all in favor say I I 142 14.2 is mou um with the same content and this is for Ace to um cover our our um our classified employees so moved second question is colleagues all those in favor say I I great consent move to approve consent as presented is there a second sure second any discussion just 1 question we fixed the misspelling of 1 you need to pull it items so yeah so which which oh sorry um uh 15.2 so so I amend my uh uh move move 15.3 through 15.9 you have to second again second okay all those in favor say I I 132 member Carlson yes there's just a misspelling of 1 individual's name which I raised with Dr yeah thank you Miss Carlson yeah so we will make the correction uh and my apologies to Gina her last name is petty p o l e s e t s k y and we will make those edits to the minutes I um I move to approve with that Amendment with that change second question no those in favor say i i i p corner any suggestions guys is the mou about the wildfires exciting in that Forum I mean it's yes it's good for the employees community second idea um would it be worthwhile to reiterate any of the guidance we've been receiving around safe students you know with with respect to some of the immigration raids and things like that yeah great idea sure great feature on the items I think I brought up something last time about the gift policy I don't know if we're planning on putting that on the agenda anytime soon but um do something to revisit really a time talk to we have that on the list right yeah yes gonna read it from last time but there's The Proposal with respect to uh the Sova project which I think would benefit our students and I believe we have a process for this I I don't know but in terms of how we would review some of the legislation that's coming before uh the assembly and the Senate which would benefit our students so want to make sure you have a process to make sure we vet it if exists that's great to start bringing some of those items forward so in general if you would like to um mend a specific resolution to come before us or or write it um you you are welcome to do so oh I love writing resolutions sure okay thank you I'll have 1 on the support of 1 for starters um that that's all we have I'll entertain a motion to adjourn I will make that motion second all those in favor say I I'm and hopefully I will be working with you guys at a later date to get some awesome stuff done but it's important to make connections and platforms Santa Monica College camper you got some beautiful night thank you sir

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