South San Francisco Unified School District Board - Regular Meeting

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Hi I'd like to reconvene into open session at 7 o'clock. Roll call. Student trustee AOA here. Trusty Lamb here. Trusty Richardson present. Trusty Anthony here. Vice President Sheay here. President Murray

here. Um, I'd like to we're going to do the pledge of allegiance will be led by South San Francisco High School senior and ASB president Jamie Lunachoa. Please rise for the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. Our land acknowledgement statement will be read by Amy Lamb. Thank you. Uh we acknowledge that the South San Francisco Unified School District is located on the unseated ancestral homeland of the Ramatouch Aloney peoples who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramatosh community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. Reporting from close session.

Nothing to report. Review of the agenda.

Okay. PTA council remarks. Good evening, President Murray, trust, fellow trustees, superintendent Dr. Moore, members of the cabinet, and members of the community. My name is Stephanie Tahara, and I'm the current PTSA and sports boosters president at South City High. I've been very involved with PTA and the SSFUSD community during the past 16 years. I have another two more years with SSFUSD and then I can finally retire from my volunteer duties. As we are all adjusting back to the daily routine after the winter break, the PTA PTSAs have been hosting ongoing events throughout the district. Here are some recent highlights and events that will be happening within the next few weeks from some of our schools. Bur Elementary just had their winter movie night last Friday and is hosting another one tomorrow night. They are having a restaurant night at California Fish Grill next Tuesday, January 27th at ceremony and have started their seeds candy fundraiser for Valentine's Day. The PTSA is deep in planning their glow dance on February 20th. They will also have a unit meeting in February. Martin Elementary is hosting a movie night tomorrow night at 6 p.m. The movie they will be watching is Dogman. Aloma Middle School PTSA is planning a school dance on March 6 and they are near and deep in planning. The Westboro Middle School is having a restaurant night at California Fish Girl on Wednesday, January 28th at ceremony. I want to thank all the PTSA members, parent volunteers, and students who are here with us tonight from South City. As a high school PTSA, it is sometimes difficult to get parent volunteers to help. With the portrait of a graduate,

the PTSA has thrived with welcoming back the teachers and staff with the lunchon the day before school starts, helped with our welcome back night at the start of the school year, organized a holiday bazaar, had a few restaurant takeovers, and supported the ASB and donating snacks for events. We are currently working with the counseling team to help with our upcoming eighth grade parent night for incoming freshman families for the next school year. The senior parents are in the early stages of planning and organizing senior breakfast, graduation plans, and potentially planning a grad night this year. I would like to thank Miss Bissi, the counseling team, and our ASB students for attending and presenting at our PTSA meetings. During our meetings, we learn about what's going on within the school from Miss Bissi and our counseling team. At every association meeting, our ASB representatives prepare presentation on upcoming student events and reports out on post events. Thank you. And if there are no questions, that's our report for the evening.

Thank you, Stephanie. And thank you for all your years of uh support with PTA and the schools. Um, next, South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators, Elizabeth. No. Um, South San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association. Sherry Good evening, SSFUSD cabinet, President Murray, trustees, and SSF community. I'd like to open with some positives our members reported from their school sites. Skyline reported a smooth transition after the break as well as a successful pep rally for their Skyline basketball team. Monoverie reported students seem happy to be back at school and Children's Center said that teachers are working well together. Parkway Heights had a fun community popup event back in October. Our Martin representative reported that the teacher workday before the students returned was appreciated and a mathematics focused professional development day for elementary school was needed. Also regarding the January 5th professional development day, our TOSA rep reported that the mathematics focus day got positive feedback. Not to mention, I heard lots of great comments about the food. Finally, I wanted to bring up Spruce's report. There were no negatives to report on from Spruce. Due to the regular meetings our representatives have with their principal, I appreciate the time Miss Gardinho takes to meet with them and how they problem solve issues that arise. I would

like to encourage principles to do this with our SSFTA representatives at each site. I am always happy to see such positive comments, but I know that concerns still remain regarding low morale in some areas. I remain hopeful that our increased communication regarding these areas of low morale lead to future improved conditions for affected members. Finally, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to President Murray for honoring my father later on in tonight's agenda. And I thank you for allowing me to say a few words about him here. My dad's name was Gerald Edward Scott Jr. He passed away January 15th at the age of 87. My dad was a fighter from a very young age. We differed on many topics, but that one was one thing we had in common. He was also a Marine. After the military, he was a successful salesperson, but being a Marine was a way of life for him. Marines are loyal, dedicated, and take care of business. Like a Marine, he was dedicated to providing for his family, defending us if necessary, and unapologetic for his beliefs. Watching him pass was one of the hardest things I've ever experienced because he had been so strong all of his life. My hopes for him, if he is in heaven, are that he is finally with my mom. He can fish for bass whenever he wants to watch NCIS round the clock and continue to root for the 49ers from a much larger stadium and then he can finally win publishers clearing house sweep stakes since he

thought he could do that here. Sumberfi dad se I love you. Thanks very much.

I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your dad with us. Um, CSEA Jolene. No. Okay. Personnel Commission. Our next personnel commission meeting will be held on Monday, February 23rd, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. in the district office boardroom. Thank you. Items from the board. I have one announcement. So, our next bylaw comm uh committee meeting will be on uh Friday, February 20th uh 3M at the district boardroom. So, please join us. Thank you. Uh superintendence report.

Thank you, President Murray. So, I too want to speak about our January 5th professional learning day. We had a successful professional learning experience. Uh the Monday we returned, we began with a welcome that outlined our three priorities, discussed the intention to share more data regularly regarding our progress on our three priorities and we indicated the importance of working through the data together in order to turn insight into action and how we're using data as a compass to guide our work for the remainder of the semester. We also had a panel discussion from both students and staff, played a game of family food, and both Dr. Campbell and Dr. Dr. Garcia shared data snapshots with the staff to orient them to the data and help them to see that there are things definitely to celebrate and things with which to continue to work on and grow. And then we provided very specific pathways for our educators. Um, as we seek to be datadriven and focused, we elicited feedback about the day as well and heard from approximately 350 educators and the themes and strengths were that most respondents either somewhat agreed or strongly agreed that the day felt intentional and connected to our priorities. Having the students and educator voices made the opening session meaningful and energizing and opportunities to collaborate with facilitators and peers were seen as a powerful part of the day. opportunities for growth is for us to continue to diversify and broaden the representation of our panels to strengthen staff sense of belonging. Give more time to dig into district data. Parking and other logistical considerations are things for us to keep in mind as well. Um I want to thank all of our design teams, our facilitators, our school and district leaders, our partners, our staff, our students without whom this day would not have been as successful as it was. And we really tried to elevate the voices of students as part of our day. as well. Um, and it was a living example of the power of purposeful partnerships and we sought to create a day to help empower our educators as well as focus on elements of exceptional instruction

and highlight the ways in which we can ensure that we elevate and engage our students. My second item uh is on an acknowledgement 2025 career and college e portfolio. So, Previously, the board and community may remember that I presented on this incredible efforts of our students. But this evening, I wanted to uh invite a member of the Sanonteo County Office of Education, associate superintendent of Ed Services, Chris Shouse, here with us who is going to acknowledge our e portfolio competition awardees and the incredible staff who make it all possible. Welcome, Miss Sh. I'll turn it over to you.

Thank you. Good evening, board president, trustees, superintendent more, and the community. Uh, it's a pleasure to stand before you this evening. My name is Chris Sha. I'm from the super I'm the associate superintendent the county office of education with the educational services division. I couldn't be more thrilled to highlight this even further. Uh, we had four categories and e portfolios of which four students place. That's 16 essential winners and South San Francisco took all 16 spots. Um this is deliberate. Absolutely. Um this is a deliberate result of the amount of time and energy that staff are putting into supporting students with their e portfolios. Uh to give you an idea of some of the pieces that are within these these portfolios, students are required to do a public speaking, a mock interview, digital media pieces, personal branding. These are pieces that when your students leave here have the first foot through the door to be able to have an employment or a piece that they can showcase in their portfolio for college applications. Um they are incredible to witness and see. Um I myself also read and I will tell you they are a standard rubric. So it's a high quality, high rigorous piece that your students are moving through in terms of making sure that students are earning those positions and those badges. I think one of the pieces that that Superintendent Moore may not have known, so this is going to be maybe even more additional good news to you. Um, over 800 application pieces for the e portfolios were put in. Your district put in over 150 of those e portfolios completely finished. The result though wasn't just the 16 winners. When we went back and looked at additional data, they call a mastery function of micro credentials to hit 75% of those standard pieces within the e portfolio. So what you're looking at for in that achievement line is that if your kids hit 70 75% of those pieces and they do it well enough on the rubric that shows a level of success. So then they may not

have won a category but they showed mastery of their capstone and their work of that over 66% of your students showed mastery in those e portfolios. Um yes it it's an incredible feat. Um, and and it's a feat that's done definitely within a community of teachers, but you also very much so have someone that is your centerpiece with with CTE work within your district. And I'd be remiss if I didn't actually have her come up as well, but um, if I can have your coordinator of CTE also join me up here, Miss Jennifer Rocket. I'm also here uh, with collaborative education. They are partners in the work and the grant work that we're doing around e portfolios. Miss Don Frosa and Tim Perez. Uh what I would like and she doesn't know this is happening so hopefully you can join me in an additional piece of awardees but um this does take a lot of direction and a lot of hours to be able to coordinate and get the results that you have. Um so what I would like to do is offer uh Miss Ruckett two things. One, she's received the excellence in CTE leadership award from the foundation for learning and innovation. So I will hand that to her. she she is humble and stepped backwards on that one. Uh but this takes a lot of work. So I want to make sure that we have the opportunity to celebrate her as well. In addition, the county office is providing an above and beyond award. We recognize that all of the coordinators invested in CTE are moving through a system. Um but she is doing that with a tremendous amount of grace and poise. uh and we want to make sure that we give her the above and beyond award for really in recognition of the dedication to this process and ensuring student achievement. Um so again congratulations Miss Ruckette.

You're welcome to

I want to finish and and wrap up this evening too to make sure that you guys know that you're always able to be a part. So, um, we are looking, shameless plug, we are looking for additional volunteers to be able to look at industry partners. So, we know that a lot of you guys work in different industry levels. Um, we are always looking for folks to be able to do student portfolios. Um, it is incredibly inspiring and the feedback that students receive, uh, really elevates their work in their pieces to the next level. So, we'll leave information for the community as well as all of you guys if you have additional interest in e portfolios. And I just thank you for the time and energy that you all are putting in. It's very clear that you guys are behind the work and I I just applaud the efforts that you guys have moving in this direction.

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Congratulations, Miss Rocket. Moving on with my report. Um, curriculum implementation walks. Over the course of this year, we have been closely learning alongside our educators as they implement our new illustrative math curriculum. What we are seeing is encouraging and worthy of celebration. Across two learning walks, the vast majority of classrooms were using illustrative math with nearly all teachers engaging with the materials for the full lesson. This reflects a strong commitment to highquality instructional materials and a willingness to lean into something new. No small feat in the midst of an already demanding school year. Importantly, our second learning walk, which included 77 classrooms, shows meaningful growth. We saw improvements in lesson structure, pacing, student engagement, and academic discourse. More classrooms are moving from not yet to partially and fully aligned, which is exactly what we would expect and hope to see during the early stages of implementation. This is how deep change happens through practice, reflection, adjustment, and perseverance. We also want to acknowledge that this is still a work in progress, shifting to a problem-based curriculum, strengthening academic discourse, ensuring access through effective scaffolds, and supporting students to engage deeply with grade level mathematics continues to be areas of growth where we know that continued learning and support are needed. But what stands out most is the professional courage of our educators. Nearly eight out of 10 lessons included thoughtful adaptations, evidence that teachers are not simply following a script, but actively responding to their students, taking instructional risks, and refining their practice while maintaining a focus on the intended lesson goals. We are proud of this progress and grateful for our teachers collective efforts across the system with an openness to learn, reflect, and grow together. The data does not represent a finish line. It represents momentum and together we will continue building the systems, supports, and shared learning that will help every student experience meaningful, engaging, and equitable math instruction. My

fourth item is a recognition for our outgoing student trustee, Achoa. This evening, we have the honor and privilege of recognizing our fall student trustee, Jaime Lynn Achoa. In her role as ASB president and through her involvement in numerous school activities, Jaime Lynn has demonstrated a remarkable ability to lead with purpose while maintaining strong academic focus and personal balance. Over the past several months, we have seen firsthand how deeply connected she is to her peers. Each board meeting, students from South San Francisco High School have shown up to support her, reflecting the respect and trust she's earned within her school community. Jaime Lynn has been a tremendous asset to the board. Her updates have been timely and informative, her perspectives thoughtful, and her communication style consistently poised and professional. She has represented the student voice with clarity and authenticity, helping us to stay grounded in the day-to-day experiences of our students. Although her term as the fall student trustee concludes, Jaime Lynn will continue sharing the exciting happenings at South San Francisco High School throughout the year, we sincerely appreciate her dedication and are eager to see what she and her peers accomplish next. Jamie Lynn, thank you for your incredible leadership, for your insight and your commitment. Everybody get

And I want to also end on a high note. Um I'm also extremely proud to share some positive ways that our educators are being recognized here in South City. We have two members of our district leadership team who will be receiving awards from region 5 AXA. They are both welldeserved and I'm so incredibly proud of them and excited for them to be celebrated. The two members of our team are Enelica Garduno of Spruce Elementary was selected as 2026 AXA Regional 5 Elementary principal of the year. Yes. And our very own assistant superintendent, Mr. Marwan Hanan, selected as 2026 AXA region 5 personnel human resources administrator of the year. We're also thrilled to noted that we were notified one of our special educators is also going to be receiving an award from the community advisory committee from the Sonteo County SOAPA. And so we're excited to honor Ralph for that award as well. Congratulations to all. Very proud of all of you. And with that, that concludes my report. Thank you, President.

Well, congratulations everyone. Um, so moving on, uh, student trustee reports. Jamin Achella, South San Francisco High School.

Good evening, board cabinet, and community. My name is Jamie Leno Choa, and I'm proudly representing South San Francisco High School as this year's ASB president and fall student trustee. Hope everyone had a restful winter break and an amazing 3-day weekend. After an event after an eventful finals week, South City went on their muchneeded winter break. Although much of the school was on a break, South City ASV was gearing up for the new semester. Our activities commission planned a culture week which took place this week. Many of us decorated the school with cultural posters, balloons, and streamers and had many activities during lunch all week long. On Tuesday, students had the opportunity to pin the map and represent their ethnicity. On Wednesday, our very own mariachi club performed for our student body to enjoy. On Wednesday, our Phil Am club hosted a game in the quad. And tomorrow, different culture clubs will be selling different types of food such as tamales and Hawaiian plates. This week has really turned our camp our campus into a space of connection, celebration, and community. Club Rush 2.0 took place yesterday, January 21st. During lunch in the small gym, our clubs had the chance to share what their club was all about and followed for a number of signups. The gym was packed with students and clubs alike. As our students took the chance to be more involved with our school community and to view many more of our wonderful clubs that we offer at South City. Our rally commission planned our spirit week for this week. We spar we started with snuggle day where students were invited to wear fuzzy socks and or blankets on Tuesday. Yesterday was around the world Wednesday where students dressed up like tourists traveling to another country. Today was ski lodge day Thursday and students showed show showed off their favorite skiing outfit. Tomorrow is blizzard blueout day where the students can wear blue or white. We will have a rally where we where we will enjoy performances from the South City Fotico

program and our very own poly club. There will also be various games for students to enjoy and a tugof-war match against our cheerleaders and our varsity boys basketball team. I can't wait to see how that turns out. Also, we will also be revealing our highly anticipated prom theme at this rally. Prom tickets will be sold starting February 16th up until the week of prom. More information will be coming soon. Now for winter sports. Both our boys and girls basketball teams are looking forward to the big quad game against El Camino tomorrow. The girls varsity game starts at 6:15 followed by the boys varsity which starts at 7:45. It's one of our biggest games of the year and if you can't make it to the game, you can watch it live on our SSFHS video art YouTube channel. Our wrestling program has been very successful lately with wrestlers placing high in every tournament that they've competed at. As for our soccer teams, our boys are in the middle of another successful season and they have a home game against Hillsdale tomorrow. Finally, our varsity girls soccer team are in the midst of an undefeated season and just last week won against Mills. The South City Mall trial team began their competition season against San Mato and Mills High School this past Tuesday and will be competing next Tuesday at San Mato County Courthouse against Nova and Oceanana High School. Persecution matches start at 5:30 p.m. and defense matches at 7:30 p.m. Election season is right around the corner and we are so excited for what is to come. We are proud to offer a variety of opportunities to join our ASB class ranging from six different commissions to our class officer positions. We will hold two mandatoryformational meetings this Monday January 26th and Wednesday January 28th. We will provide our future applicants and members the information necessary to sign up. South City students are gearing up for our annual history day competition.

Students have been compiling research since the beginning of the ski of the school year and will present their work from last from the week of February 2nd to the 6th in the LIC. We invite all board members to swing by the South City LIC any time during the school day to see the fruits of our students labor. This is a great opportunity to see the students of South City demonstrate all the aims of the portrait of a graduate but specifically learn as this project is the perfect opportunity to stimulate curiosity of human history and develop creative displays of their research. With that, I would like to say that it has been a true privilege to be serving on this board and to be given the opportunity to connect with my community on a deeper level as a student trustee. I'm so excited for Izzy's term as we continue this wonderful opportunity to share student voices as a part of this board. And with that, this concludes my report. Thank you for the privilege of serving in this position.

Thank you, Jamie Lynn. Um Izzy is not here this evening. The she's the student trustee for an ASB president at El Camino, but Jasmine Chang, the vice president, is here. Thank you, Jasmine.

Good evening, board members, cabin, and community. My name is Jasmine Chang, and I'm currently a junior at El Camino High School serving as the ASB vice president. Tonight, I will be filling in for Izzy as she's working hard at practice preparing for our first rival basketball game tomorrow night. On that note, tomorrow our Colts will be entering Warrior Territory. It'll be a packed and energetic night as all four of our teams will be competing. JV boys tip off at 3:15, followed by JV girls at 4:45, varsity girls at 6:15, and lastly, varsity boys at 7:45. Hopefully, you're able to stop by at a game tomorrow. No matter which school you're voting for, although I'm sure you'll root for El Camino, it's sure to be a good game for anyone to watch since both schools have been hard at work all season. Good luck to all our athletes. While we're on the topic of sports, I'd love to update you all on how the rest of our winter sports have been doing this season. Our wrestling team has been terrific overall with our varsity boys leaving with an undefeated record. Wrestling senior night is next Thursday. So, our spirit commission has planned a spirit week to commemorate our wrestlers like pit it to win it where we'll rear our ECL to cheer on our athletes. Both our soccer teams have been doing fantastic. Our boys varsity team has a league record of 9 to1. They also took home the bell trophy with score of 5 to1 in their rival match against South City over winter break. As for our girls, they've won their most recent match against Westmore with a score of 11 to zero. I encourage you all to catch a match before the winter season comes to a close. On January 9th, we held our annual winter ball at Gamaride in Foster City. Here, our students had unlimited food and a $20 game card upon entry to use on interactive ride simulators and arcade games. On top of that, we danced the night away to Junes by DJ Tossy. We hope all our Colts enjoyed it and we can't wait for many more fun events. Tomorrow, our lovely counselors are putting on an elective fair during lunch. This provides our students with the opportunity to explore the different APs, electives, clubs, and spring sports

offered on our campus. As a fun treat, they put together a bingo card that students can fill out by visiting the different tables in exchange for a donut and a raffle ticket. In addition to that, our counseling team has been visiting senior classes to help with financial aid and scholarships. and are moving on to the other grade levels as they look forward to their future at El Camino. Thank you to all the hard work of our counselors. On Saturday, we are hosting our puzzle, movie, and trivia night from 7 to 9:00. We'll be watching Zootopia 2 as we compete in time puzzle games as well as trivia. Join us for a night of entertainment, food, and fun. Admission is $5, so we hope to see you there. During Flex, our school has collaborated with the Boys and Girls Club of South San Francisco to hold a series of intramural sports each month. This month is badminton. The event following a tournament style format encouraging players of all levels to try the sport. So far, the turnout has been very good with 20 plus players, and we're looking forward to seeing how our new students explore the sport. Finally, our drama program has been hard at work as they prepare for the winter play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Join us for next join us next Thursday at Friday for a dazzling story on stolen and swapped identities. That concludes my report and unless there are other questions or concerns, thank you all for listening. Thank you, Jasmine. Next is public comment. Um, for items not on the agenda, public comment for items not on the agenda should not exceed 30 minutes. Public comments are limited to a maximum of three minutes per individual per board bylaw 9323. In order to accommodate more speakers, the board president may at their dis discretion limit the individual time per speaker to one or two minutes each if there are more than 10 expected speakers. Name address cards are placed in the back of the room to be completed

and given to the secretary. The board president will call upon individuals in random order who have requested to speak. Each person may only speak once and is required to address the board from the podium. The meeting is recorded and streamed live. Individuals may address the board concerning school business not on the agenda but not com but public comment cannot be acted upon or discussed by the board unless placed on the agenda at a subsequent meeting in accordance with the law the Brown Act. The board may request staff to respond orally or at a meeting or or in writing at a future time. We have two cards and if anybody wants to fill out a card and speak now's the time. Um the first one is Kimberly Quint Quintana.

Good evening board cabinet committee members. My name is Kimberly Kintana and I am current currently serving as senior social chair at South San Francisco High School. Thank you for allowing me to speak with you tonight about granite as it is my job to plan this event. After six years without a granite, I strongly believe it is time for a change. A change that reflects the dedication resilience and spirit of our graduating class. This year's seniors have worked incredibly hard to reach this goal and they deserve a memorable way to celebrate the end of their high school journey. In speaking with members of the student body, one idea consistently stood out. Disneyland. For many students, Grand Disneyland represents more than just a trip. It's a once in a-lifetime experience and a chance to create lasting memories with friends before we all move on to the next chapter of our lives. And it also helps lets us enjoy our childhood together one last time. After repeatedly asking for support from PTSA to go to Disneyland, my idea always got turned down. As social chair, my job was to fulfill those promises I made to the student body when I got elected. And with that and with that not happening, there's no purpose for my position if my job isn't being done. Having Disneyland as our granite also provides a positive environment that promotes school unity, school spirit, and student safety. It's an event students genuinely look forward to. Bringing granite back, which would which shows students that their voices are heard and that their experiences matter. I'm here today not just on my own behalf, but on behalf of the senior class to ask you consider this opportunity. Thank you for your time, your consideration, and for always supporting our students. Thank you.

Next, Megan Connory.

Good evening. There we go. Good evening. My name is Megan Connory. I am a teacher at El Camino High School. Uh, welcome back from winter break. Uh, it's been a while. We were It's been a month off. Um, I froze while visiting family in Canada, but I am very glad not to be there right now. It's even colder. Um, I am The issue tonight is I am concerned with some emails that some teachers are receiving about getting emergency credentials and asking the teachers to pay for it out of their own pockets. um this for classes they were asked to teach by the district. I am sure that Dr. Garcia will be mentioning it in his presentation tonight and I know that Mr. Hanan is aware. Um I would like to end with please wear blue tomorrow. Take a few minutes when you have a chance to Google wear blue on January 23rd. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Information only. presentations, teaching and learning, teaching and learning presentation for South San Francisco High School. Dr. Campbell, do you want to introduce it?

Good evening. I would like to welcome Principal Sher Bissi to the podium to give us a presentation on the priorities and come on and progress of South City High School. Thank you. Give a round of applause. I hate to bring you guys every day with me. Good evening everyone. Let me just put this there. Good evening everyone. Sorry. Can you guys hear me? Good evening, Trusty Anthony, Trusty Lamb, Trusty Sheay, Trust Board President Murray, Trusty Richardson, Superintendent Moore, Assistant Superintendent Hanan, Super Assistant Superintendent Garcia, Assistant Superintendent Campbell, Assistant Superintendent Mr. O, and South San Francisco Unified staff and committee members. And can we just give a round of applause to the students, please, for coming out tonight? I am. My name is Sher Biss and I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to serve as principal.

Excuse me. Do you do you think you can bring the the mic? Okay. How's this?

Okay. So, I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to serve as principal of South San Francisco High School and to share both our journey and our vision for where we are going as a community. Tonight, I'll walk you through who South City is, what our data is telling us, how we are strengthening school culture, and the partnerships that make this work possible. When I came to South City, South San Francisco, I immediately felt the pride, resilience, and deep care that exists within this community even as we navigate very real challenges. So, who is South City? Are we folklorico rooted in culture, identity, and pride? Are we football champions learning teamwork, discipline, and resilience? Are we a CTE pathway school preparing students with real world skills and purpose? Are we color guard, band, national history day, artists, scholars, and leaders? The answer is yes and more. South City is all these things and at our core we are a community committed to helping every student find belonging, opportunity and a path forward. Our vision grounds everything we do graduating resilient, empathetic lifelong learners who are prepared to contribute meaningfully to an everchanging world. This vision is not aspirational alone. It is a responsibility, especially given the students and families we serve and the barriers many of them face. To truly serve our students, we must be honest about the data and use it as a tool for reflection, not as judgment. South City serves a richly deserved student population with a majority of our students identifying as Hispanic, Latin X, or Asian, many of our whom come from historically underserved communities.

Nearly half of our students are soioeconomically disadvantaged and many are multilingual learners, students with disabilities or experiencing housing instability, groups that require intentional systems of support. Our attendance data shows clear disparities with our most underserved student groups also experiencing the greatest attendance challenges. We see attendance decline and chronic absenteeism increase as the years progresses, signaling unmet needs related to engagement, mental health, and stability. Despite these challenges, our graduation rate continues to trend upward, reflecting the strength of our staff, our programs, and student perseverance. We're also seeing growth in college and career preparation particularly through our CTE programs. We have nine in total which is amazing. We have AVID and our dual enrollment opportunities. Our English language arts gains show promising progress of an overall increase of 16.9 points and with even higher increases with our multilingual learners and students with disabilities populations. Math growth reflects a similar story. Progress overall but with a lower point increase for students with the highest needs. The data reinforces that are traditionally underserved students continue to face the greatest academic barriers underscoring the need for equitable access and tiered support. I'm proud to share a decline in suspensions reflecting a shift away from punitive practices toward more restorative and instructional approaches. Our increased use of alternatives to

suspension shows our commitment to keeping students connected to the school while addressing behavior through support and accountability. Universal screener data highlights significant levels of anxiety, trauma, and mental health needs among our students in the district. It is slightly lower, but similar percentages at our school, South San Francisco, 114 students show signs of needing a therapeutic intervention, which is about 17.57%. And 535 students could benefit from additional or lightweight intervention, 82.43%. These graphs show the percentage of students interested in therapy and support. The discrepancy from the students who need support makes it clear that academic success cannot be separated from the social emotional well-being. In response, we be we began grounding our work in vision, redeing redefining school culture through the portrait of a graduate and strengthening tier systems of support. As a school, we're working on redefining our vision and values, refocusing on restorative pro processes and a tiered system of support and restructuring our leadership teams. This work was not done in isolation. It was shaped by faculty, staff, students, parents, and partners through surveys, focus groups, and shared reflection with the staff. In November, we sat down and we looked at what we value and we came up with strive for growth, strengthen our community, and foster empathy. SSF, serve as a foundation for how we teach, lead, and support students. These values align directly to the district's portrait of a graduate, ensuring our work is coherent and

student centered. Our high our south city high values SSF is a mouthful along align with the graduate aims. Learn, thrive, navigate and impact. This is a full expansion of defined teams that will allow the school to function in a systematic way. As the DO, the district office has restructured, we at the site must also mirror those these systems so that we can best serve students, create opportunity for more certificated and classified leadership and participation, student voice in a variety of pathways. So this is the highlight the gems. Um when I started at South City, I called this a gem of a school and slowly discovering all the little gems at South City. So these are the gems. Besides the students, South City has incredible programs. We have nine CTE pathways. We have an AVID program, the bar program, advanced placement courses, middle college. But our next step is ensuring equitable access so all the students can benefit from all these pathways. Our students bring this work to life every day through leadership, arts, athletics, cultural celebrations, and community engagement. This work would not be possible without the voices of our students and families. I just want to acknowledge right now I'm deeply grateful for our PTSA president Stephanie Tahada, ASB President Jamie Lenachoa for their partnership, advocacy, and commitment to South City. They both welcomed me and began to collaborate with me even prior to beginning of the school year. So we started working sometime in July. I would like to bring up the volunteers as well as Jaime Lynn and Stephanie Tahada. So thank you to our outstanding South School volunteers there. You are

the heartbeat of the school among the students generously giving their time and talents to support students beyond the classroom. Jamalyn, can you come up here so I can get certificate? Jim Choa PTSA President Sebie Tahada just Celeste Wong PTSA board member Lincoln Crew PTSA and sports booster Alicia Werta and Andrina Adriana Torres, folklorical parent volunteers, Oliver Gavara and Melissa John Yip, the board booster volunteers. I just want to say every single night they volunteer till like 10 o'clock at night making sure the students are fed, the staff are fed. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Let's get

Thank you for the presentation. Thank you everyone and thanks for your contribution to our school. Um Mina, would you like to do you have any questions or comments? Joy, your your presentation because you are where we want to be now with our students. And as far as suspensions is those are my uh watch um numbers and I like to hear that we are doing better. I think our students are much more happier now. Are we are we happier now? Yes, I think you are.

Yes,

I really do think so. You know, I look at little things. I I try to go to as many events that you guys have and the folklorico is by far the Bay Area uh best. I mean, it's just renown. Everybody knows the excellence that our um Mr. Cruz has these students uh keeping them up with their culture. It is just wonderful. Every year that that he puts on a performance, it's better than the previous year. It's never repetitive. And um as far as our activities, that's you're absolutely right. you know, if people in the public sector knew all the things we offer, a beautiful fields. I mean uh we just had a wonderful presentation by our superintendent of where we are in the portrait of the graduate and I feel very good that we're going we're doing something right and I appreciate you bringing all these positivity to the board because I worry about our students but we've come a long way and we're going to a better place. So, thank you so much for that re great report. I feel real good about South City. Thank you.

Thank you, Trusty Anthony. So glad you're on board. Um it's you bring a great energy to the school and I'm I'm really excited that you've you've joined our district. Um I wanted to talk a little bit about the the rebuilding school culture and and thinking about that. I I think that's a really wonderful thing that that the school has needed. um especially being able to come in look with fresh eyes and and say, "Hey, how can we do this together?" I think um the the structures you're putting in and I am one for a love of acronyms. So, thank you for the SSF, strive for growth, strength, and foster empathy. I think that's a great way and I'm excited to see how it keeps moving. Thank you,

Trusty Liam.

Yeah, I I am also I'm glad that you're here u presenting. U yeah, thank you for uh joining our school. Um you know, just to mention, you know, my son's there right now. Um so shout out to Well, I see at least one of his friends in the audience. Miss Hi, English teacher, Miss Sigiraa. Um yeah, just um I I think uh I just wanted to highlight, you know, the supports for freshmen. Um I'm just so grateful for that. Um so that's a credit to, you know, Miss O, you know, your staff um for in the bar program. you know, I I wonder, you know, I hope that those kinds of supports can keep, you know, growing, you know, throughout all the grades. Um, I think even as a new parent new to that school, um, I just really appreciate having u, yeah, the what, you know, whatever opportunities to uh, engage with the school, get to know what's kind of going on. Um, and um, yeah, just all the opportunities are so great. Um, I I loved the the report, you know, all the data that you walked us through. Um I think uh hearing your uh narrative about what's kind of going on um may maybe it's your background as a counselor. I don't know. Like it sounds like you're kind of diagnosing okay well this is kind of what I'm noticing. Um and uh so where do we go from here? I think the the vision um kind of yeah setting um the vision and so forth is great. Um I I'm actually curious um maybe if you can name like one or one or two things that you're thinking about in terms of like uh this is something that new that I want to try, you know, you know, either near-term or next year or what whatnot that you think might make some impact um on these issues going forward.

Really highlighting our CTE programs. So we have nine CTE programs at our school site. So students should be able to pick these pathways down from an EMT program, our folklorico, um we're going to have a business program as well. So there's about nine of them. Um and students are able to pick these pathways and by 11th and 12th grade they're able to go to a community college and actually get um credits as well as certificate to then go on to the um the workforce. So that's one big thing, right? The other thing is having our AVID program. Having our AVID AVID program there for our students who need that extra push um to go to college in the workforce I think is also valuable. And we have our our middle college as well that's there for our students. Um these are the programs I just want to uplift more and to and to have these programs of true fidelity meaning again making sure that these students pick these courses by the time they're in 10th grade so we take full advantage by the time they're 11th and 12th. That's one. Um, also the student voice. Student voice is at my core and it's very important to me. So, starting with, you know, starting with the ASB, um, Jamie Lynn and I have been meeting every other week as much as we can, but continue that process, continue the process that students will be in our instructional leadership team meetings um, as well as, um, joining our school site council. So, those are all those things are important that student voice have to be in there. So, those are my two concentrators for for next year. Thank you, Trusty Shade.

Thank you. Thank you so much for your uh strong and thoughtful presentation. Uh we appreciate the positive trends in graduation, academic performance and the shift toward restorative practices align with the portraiture of uh graduate. So as we move forward um it will be helpful for the board to understand how chronical chronic absentees and achievement gap will be addressed and which outcome measures we should monitor over time. So we're addressing that right now. Um over the years I noticed that truency was in the kind of a um in our IC the infinite campus and instead of being punitive how can the counselor support these students and um make sure why are they not coming to school let's have that connection with that student um as opposed to be a punitive process right I wanted the counselors to actually sit down talk to students what can we do as a school to support them we have a fabulous um family liaison in Fatima How do we utilize all the things that we have at our school site? Um we are getting together hopefully every other week is what we're trying to do with our counselors, our attendance clerk, looking at the data and then trying to also think of ways that we could improve. Um talking to ASB and met them I think sometime in December and I went to them and said how do we do this? Why are kids coming to school? Like let me know what can we kind of draw in and what do they need supports in. So, um, that's the biggest thing right now and it's it's a kind of nationwide thing with with absenteeism, but as South City, because we have all these gems and all these resources, how can we do how can we bring the school back, all the students back?

Thank you. Thank you for your report. It was wonderful. And um, your community is obviously wonderful as well. Um, if I asked the students to stand up, I think it would be like half the room, right? Can the students stand up?

Thank you for coming to our meetings. Um, do you have any staff here? Yes, I do. Um, please stand. Miss Dearborn, our ASB coordinator, our assistant principal, Miss Ing, our fabulous English teacher, Miss O. Did I miss anybody? Mr. Oh, that's right. Mr. Bradley, stand up. Oh, and Miss Juicy is right here as well. Thank you for all you do. And parents, thank you. Stephanie, thank you. You can't leave after two years. You have to stay. She is. She's staying. She doesn't know yet. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. Okay, next, Mr. O. Uh, yeah, thank you. Yeah, I we have tonight uh uh uh Mr. Andrew Park from Eddie Bailey who's here virtually to present uh the audit reports for the prior year. Uh Mr. Park, are you there? Yes. Can you hear me fine? Yes.

Okay, awesome. So, I I'll get started. So, it looks like I have three pieces. So, I'll uh make it quick since I only have 10 minutes. So, uh beginning with the main district audit report, do we have printed? Oh, looks like we have printed copies of the audit report. Okay. So, um as far as the district audit covering the 2425 fiscal year, the fastest way to gauge how the audit went is to refer to page 93 of the audit report. The header is called summary of auditor's results. I'll give it a little bit until everybody has flipped to the pages again. It's page 93. The header is called summary of auditor's results. Okay, looks like we are there. Okay, awesome. So, as you can see on this page, we focus on three main areas. First and foremost, the most important, which is the financial statements. Secondly, the district's compliance with federal awards. And lastly, district's compliance with state compliance. Now, um, as a quick reference, when we're talking about the financial statements, we're talking about the unodudited actuals that you were presented back in September of 2025, if you recall. It's it's a while ago, but that's what we're really opining on. So, I'll quickly summarize this. Seeing that there's no new board members, I'm going to skip the usual spiel that I do, just covering some of the technical terms. So from from a professional responsibility standpoint, auditors appine once we audit, right? So again, just as a quick uh reminder, highest level of assurance is an unmodified opinion. So I'm going to quickly go down each of the three areas that we audited with respect to the financial statements. Uh year ended June 30, 2025, our opinion was unmodified, highest level of assurance. Now, just to quickly add, we also did not have any audit adjustments to realign the

financial statements to what it should be. So, what was presented to the governing board back in September on your own audit actuals, those are the true numbers that you uh saw. We also did not identify any type of types of what we would call internal controls or checks and balances that have been implemented to ensure the correct financial reporting of your financial statements. So, nothing to report in that arena. Now moving on to federal awards. We were required to audit your special education cluster. This is basically a federal subsidy that the district receives for your special education students. Um and then we also required to audit your child nutrition cluster. This is basically a federal subsidy for your free and reduced meal program. Um let's see. Based on the audit procedures that we performed, our opinion was unmodified with respect to two of these programs or both of these programs that we audited. Um, we did however report uh non-compliance and uh uh internal control deficiency which has nothing to do with these two programs. So our responsibility as governmental auditors is to follow up on prior year's findings to ensure that non-federal entities such as school districts are making corrective action plans. So what triggered the finding was that we followed up on a prior year finding which is basically 23 24 and we noted that the issue still persisted. So that's that was reported in the following pages after this. Uh moving on to state compliance requirements. Now state compliance requirement is an evolving piece that changes every year. I would say about 80% remains and 20% evolves depending on what the legislators want. Based on the audit procedures performed on all the applicable state compliance requirements, our opinion was unmodified. We also did not identify any

types of checks and balances or internal control issues that are in place to ensure compliance with the state compliance requirement that are applicable to the school district. So, um that pretty much summarizes the results of the audit pertaining to the district's financial statements covering the 2425 fiscal year. Are there any questions that I could try to answer for the board?

Any questions? Trusty Richardson. Thank you. Thank you for pointing out the non-compliance and deficiency. Now I'm would like to ask what does this refer to if it doesn't uh refer to the meal program because you mentioned of the you you mentioned the these two items or these non-compliance. So would you explain to us what it was this these two terms refer to?

Sure. Um so the finding pertains to our audit of 2324. During that fiscal year we were required to audit your title one part A funds which are basically federal subsidies for underprivileged kids. So during the course of our 23 24 audit um there going through each of the compliance requirements that the feds mandate we identified an issue pertaining to a very specific tracking requirement for graduation rates specifically related to underprivileged kids. There are basically steps where you track them and then if they basically get out of the school district you need to have some sort of a written documentation. And again this is not something that I make up. this is what the feds mandate and they tell us exactly what to look for. So that piece as far as retaining written documentation was an issue in 2324. Okay. So as I've mentioned to the board when there is any sort of finding in the prior year as auditors of governmental agencies we are required to follow up and to report back to the governing board in terms of what the corrective action was if there was one or if the the the issue persists. So uh unfortunately during 2425 we followed up on the issue that we that we identified in 2324 and we noted that it still persisted. Unfortunately the the missing the uh missing written documentation still persisted in in during the 23 2425.

Was that kind of helping? Yeah that's helpful. So we don't have a plan I suppose Mr. to correct that or must should we worry about that? What do you say, Mr. Bailey?

What' he say? Do we have a corrective action or will the funding we don't? Yeah, we need to work with the school is actually under the uh uh different department is not under business services. So I'm not too familiar with uh what type of documentation is maintained at the school for this for this other item to know what is needed. So carry on.

Yeah, if I may quickly address the board as far as a question regarding uh penalty. So this is a weird requirement. There's no fiscal penalty. There are a lot of components of federal compliance requirement that we test where there is no fiscal penalty component but however it becomes a reportable component so that that corrective actions are made. So so federal compliance is kind of a weird piece where there is a fiscal component for some especially related to costs and this is specifically pertaining to a reporting issue but there's really no fiscal impact tied to this so it's just a reportable instance. Any other questions? Thank you.

Thank you. Next one. The Measure J report.

Okay. So, looks like I'm doing Measure J and T. So, for both of these reports, we do a two-part audit. First half is the financial audit, financial statement audit, specifically pertaining to both measure J and T. So, my opinions are going to be the same. And then second part is what everybody's interested in. Second part is what we would call a compliance audit. Right? So this is um a lawable cost type of audit that everybody's interested in in terms of how the district is spending the bond proceeds. The question becomes is the is the bond proceeds being spent in accordance to what the voters have approved. So I'll go through uh measure J rather quickly. So measure J with respect to the financial statement again we issued the highest level of assurance which is an unmodified opinion. We believe that the financial statements pertaining to measure J as of June 30, 2025 was fairly stated in all material respects. We also do not have any internal control deficiencies related to measure uh J. Um now moving on to the second half of measure J's report and the primary focus if if you want to follow is going to be on page 16 of the measure J report. This is where you're you're most interested in as far as what the results are. Now, with respect to measure J, there wasn't much activity. The district had spent $1,74 during the 2425 fiscal year. We audited the entirety of that amount as part of our audit. Based on the audit that we performed on the full $1,074 coming out of me measure J, we did not identify any type of exceptions that we have to report to the board. In other words, the district had spent the bond proceeds in accordance to what the voters have approved. Okay? So, there's really no exception to report and it was a clean audit. Any questions on measure

J before I hop into measure T? Any questions? Trusty Richardson. Thank you. Now a,074 is minor, but do we have to list where this $1,000 is spent on the report?

That that is not a requirement. Our sole responsibility is to determine whether that expenditure is aligned with what the voters have approved. Well, I understand that in order to spend these funds, there has to be a citizens bond oversight committee. And as far as I know, we do not have one. Therefore, one penny should not be spent. Is that correct, Mr. Bailey? Oh, um, that part, the legality of it is not something I could answer. I think that'd be a better question for Mr. O.

Yeah, I could mention that this is actually the bank fees associated with the uh the bond. So, it's not really anything that the district spent. It has to be spent uh based on the bank fees that the bank charges us to maintain that bond. Mhm. And we It's good that we have it, you know, documented it separately from the rest of the other bonds because people in the community have asked me because some of them have been watching this bond uh proceeds and they wondered what's happened with the money and until recently we never had an accounting. So I appreciate that. Now, thank you, Mr. O.

We We have an accounting every year. We have an audit every year. Um, were there any other questions? Yes, but they didn't include the J. They did. I'm sorry, but that's incorrect. Um, any other questions? Thank you. Measure T.

So, uh, Measure T, same deal. Um, it's a two-part audit. So pertaining to the financial statements, our opinion was unmodified with respect to measure T funds as of June 30, 2025. Um we also did not identify any type of internal control deficiencies when it comes to the preparation of the financial statements related to measure T. Moving on to the second half of the report, which is where everybody is a little bit more interested. Again, it's going to be on page 16 as far as how much we've covered from a coverage standpoint. Um, for the 2425 fiscal year, we tested roughly 6.4 million, which represents 77% of total expenditures of roughly $8.3 million. Now, just in case there's questions about why didn't we test 100% on this, please keep in mind that no auditor will test 100% unless it's there's just one or two transactions where we are required to look at all of them. But we do everything on a statistical basis and we select all of our samples on a random basis. So, as a result, it is representative of the entire population. Based on the audit procedures that we performed, we did not identify any type of exceptions that we are required to report to the board. In other words, the district had spent all of its bond proceeds in accordance to what the voters have approved. So, it was a clean audit. Any questions pertaining to measure T.

Any questions? No. Thank you very much, Mr. Park. We appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Presentation with potential action. Presentation. Dr. Moore. Good evening, trustees, cabinet, incredible community. This school year marks just our second year of a five-year implementation plan for our strategic plan. And I want to begin by just expressing my deepest appreciation for the collaboration, the support, and the belief that we have in this community to do this work in service of all of our kids. Today and together, we first dared to name a bold vision for who we wanted to be and what we wanted to be true for every single student in this district. And this year, we didn't just admire that vision. We continue to take real intentional steps to move closer toward making it a reality for every single student that we serve. We have been working together to make bold moves. Former President Barack Obama once said, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones that we have been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." I see that quote coming to life every day in South San Francisco Unifi. This year, we introduced new priorities, some new ways of working together, and I have watched our staff lean in. I've seen educators shift their practices, try new resources, and take thoughtful risks and center students in a deeper and more intentional way. In very real ways, we are seeing the change in which we seek. Tonight I want to share two important tools that complement our strategic plan that was already approved by our governing board. The first is our

scoreboard and the second is our strategic plan targets. You've often heard me and site leaders and cabinet members talk about the importance of data not as a compliance exercise but as a tool for learning, for reflection, and for continuous improvement. These tools are about grounding our work in evidence so that we can clearly see what's working, where we need to continue to grow, and where we're actually making progress. This is also a commitment to our community for transparency, providing the board and our broader community with a clear, honest picture of how we are doing as we move forward together. As a reminder, our strategic plan was co-created with our wonderful community. It outlines our shared vision for our student success, including our portrait of a graduate, our care core values, and our five strategic plan priorities. The scoreboard and the strategic plan targets that you'll see this evening are all well aligned to these frameworks. Our 2526 scoreboard, which is really our internal tool that we are using to track our progress against our initiatives this year. It's organized by our five priorities. exceptional instruction, engaged students, purposeful partnerships, empowered educators, and equity- centered systems. We have included key indicators about what success looks like for each of our initiatives, including key actions and deadlines, as well as quantitative goals. Our cabinet members are responsible for updating their scoreboards each quarter so that we can review progress and challenges together. I also want to introduce to the right side of the screen our updated strategic plan targets. As you know, when we adopted our strategic plan, we set highle goals and outlined some illustrative sample metrics. This fall, I asked cabinet to propose updates that would allow us to concretely outline our vision and measure our progress through 2029. Like our scoreboard, these specific

targets that you'll see are organized by our five priorities. And for each goal, we've shared baseline data or we've noted where we will be collecting baseline data. By the end of this school year, these targets that you see will be incorporated into a public-f facing dashboard uh through Open Architects, one of our partners. Together, these two documents represent a really important step forward for South San Francisco Unified where we are planning further ahead. We are being more ambitious and probably more visibly ambitious and bold about our vision and clearly naming the ways in which we intend to monitor our progress. To start with our 2526 initiatives, these are the things that make up our scoreboard. You can see again that they are aligned to our priorities. You will see our focus areas in these uh these two priorities here. sense of belonging for all of our students, increasing access to high quality instructional materials, which we're doing with illustrative math this year, um, and enhancing students academic discourse, which is essentially making their learning visible so they can concretize their knowledge and understanding of the content. In addition to these priorities, we have several other initiatives that are key in supporting our schools and working toward the vision of our strategic plan. And we as a cabinet recognize that all of our work is really in service of the exceptional instruction, the student experience on our campuses. These are the initiatives for empowered educators and equity- centered systems. And cabinet has been really intentional about how we spend our time and coming together to just step back and reflect on our initiatives recognizing that they all connect and depend on one another. In doing that, it allows us to really move forward in true collaboration and alignment as a cabinet level team and we can do the same thing within our departments so that we can lean into the ways in which we want to support schools. It is a deliberate shift that

we have taken in order to be working more interdependently less in silos for each initiative and this one is specific to priority one exceptional instruction. There's a cabinet member who's responsible for updating each of our each updating these each quarter. Cabinet then shares the associated data associated with the key actions and deadlines for the initiative and then assigns the initiative with the status on track, at risk, off track or NA. And you can see the legend at the bottom of the slide. This allows us to see if we've done what we said we were going to do in that quarter. In addition to the status for key actions, the cabinet member also shares data and their reflection on the impact of the initiative. We recognize that sometimes it takes a consistent focus over time to actually realize and see the impact and see the progress, but it's something for which we want to hold ourselves accountable to making sure that we know what we are doing is having the intended impact. This second status allows us to see the connection and it also sometimes allows us to see the disconnection between our inputs and our actions and the impact that we're trying to have. As we gather data each quarter, we also reflect on our progress at quarterly stepbacks and those are with our principles, district leaders, and our partners. And we're using data to ground our discussion to deepen our shared understanding of our current priorities. This year it's around belonging, academic discourse, and implementation of high-quality instructional materials with math. We use the time to identify high leverage actions that each team can take before the next quarterly stepback. And we use the time to strengthen cross role collaboration by using each other's perspectives and insights on our priorities to sharpen our thinking and to sharpen the plans moving forward. And on this particular side, we have are making some meaningful progress on launching our learning walks. the instructional rounds which are problems

of practice and our dashboard and um certainly I believe that these are moves that we need to make and moving in the right direction. These are the initiatives and statuses for engaged students and purposeful partnerships. And just as a reminder, if you see gray or I don't think there's any um not applicable here, that simply means we're planning we're in the planning phase or we haven't collected the data yet, which will happen later this spring. These are the initiatives and statuses for empowered educators and equity centered systems. So you can see where we are there. A lot of on track. And finally these are the last initiatives and status updates for equity centered systems. Across all of these side slides you will see every color. The statuses are not meant to be a destination. They are meant to mark our journey toward our goals. By looking at the data each quarter and reflecting on our status point along the way, we are able to better monitor our progress and then make real-time decisions if we need to pivot or course correct in order to be on track. Now, while our 25 26 scoreboard helps us to track progress on annual initiatives, these strategic plan targets focus squarely on impact. They reflect the outcomes that we ultimately want for all of our students. By working towards these targets, we are intentionally living into the vision of our portrait of a graduate where students can demonstrate their ability to learn deeply. They can navigate their futures with purpose. They can make an impact in their communities and they can thrive as people. As we develop these these targets, some members of our team did have an ask honest an honest and important question. What if we set ambitious goals and fall short? And I want to reiterate that we measure progress over time, not by a single data point. Falling short doesn't mean that

we failed, but it means we need to continue to learn. We need to keep what's working. We need to adjust if it's not working, and we need to continue forward with an unwavering belief in our students and our shared collective responsibility about our role in their success. I've also heard directly from leaders, our site leaders, about the ambitious nature of our year-over-year growth targets, particularly in areas like ELA and math because there's some new curriculum implementation. That feedback also is valid and it's important. But let me be clear, the targets are not a demand for immediate perfection from our current systems, but they are a declaration of change that we are committing to building together. The growth that we are aiming for definitely depends on deep wellsupported implementation, highquality instructional materials, job embedded coaching, strong instructional leadership, and meaningful professional learning over time. The 2029 targets that you see assume that we execute this work with integrity and coherence. In that way, they're not just a measure of outcomes, but they are also a reflected. They are reflective commitment of our collective commitment to implementing the work really well. The next few slides will show the targets under each priority. And you will see most of our targets focus on student outcomes or outcomes measures related to student engagement. But we also recognize that some of these are lagging indicators. And so we will also we also have leading indicators so that we can pivot more readily. This means as we look at the adult actions and the system conditions that we know drive these outcomes, we will continue to track implementation. We will celebrate growth and progress along the way. And this is purposeful partnerships and empowered educators. And for these we

are looking at metrics that will involve our families and our staff. Finally, for equity centered systems, we are looking at input from our principles as well as our teachers to measure our progress and our success. And before I conclude, I want to take an opportunity to really thank everyone who's contributed to the tools, the insight, the data, the feedback, the conversations because it has informed cabinet's thinking about our path forward. We absolutely believe our scoreboard and our strategic plan targets are helping us to be more transparent and accountable to the goals that we have set, the goals that our community told us they wanted for every last one of our students. These targets definitely represent a shared ambition. They are our compass. We recognize that the work is hard. The targets don't indicate a need that we need to suddenly work harder. People are working harder and they are working hard. Excuse me. But these do represent a commitment that we need to work differently. More focused, greater focus, greater coherence, and greater strategic support in order to move the needle for our our students. We plan and are committed to holding ourselves accountable, not to the fear of missing a number or not meeting the dashboard mark, but a collective commitment about being relentless and collaborative on building a system that will make these outcomes possible for every single student that we serve. And finally, I want to end where I began with belief. As a system, I know that we haven't always been this bold or visibly bold about the goals that we're aspiring to to hit and the outcomes that we know our students deserve. Doing so can absolutely feel daunting and yet we are

still choosing to lead with clarity and coherence and courage. I also believe deeply in the efficacy of our staff and I believe in the brilliance and the potential of every single student we serve. And I also believe in who we are becoming together as a system. Our leaders, our teachers, our students, our educators, our families, our community, and our partners, walking this path side by side, shouldertosh shoulder in service of our students and their future. And with that, I say thank you, and I'm happy to answer any questions that the board may have. So, we need to take a break. So, we're going to take a a 10-minute break for um the translator to have her break. And um so, starting now, I don't We'll be back at 8:35. Thank you.

Okay, I didn't wait for the the beeps. Welcome back everybody. Okay, so do we have any questions or comments? Trustee Richardson. Well, Dr. Mora, I I'm so uplifted by listening to your, you know, concise and targeted answers. And those answers, a lot of things that I have percolating in the back of my mind that I I worry about. And I said, "How are we our students?" Uh, you know, we all went to the um uh visit the schools and we saw firsthand that this is doable. And I have I've held my collective breath ever since in hoping that our schools will respond to all the work. I mean, I have to thank you because it was you were the engine that pushed us forward and you had the faith. So, I'm happy to see where we're at right now and I I look forward and it's exciting what we what what we can expect in the future. I see already in our students and our young women who are very um uh how should I say they they're very eloquent. They speak well. They're so so this is all part of the uh new strategic program that we have going on. And I know it's a lot of hard work. So my thanks to the staff and everyone. I know we have some little glitches along the way, but we'll get through it. I I'm very uh optimistic and I thank you for that um presentation, Dr. Moore. Thank

you very much, Trusty Richardson. Trusty Anthony.

Yeah, I really like the range of metrics uh that we're using. Uh it's one of those things that if you if you're not measuring it, if you're not looking at it, then you're probably not going to make progress on this thing that you think is important. Um, I know that that's sounds cliche, but from a data perspective, it's just true, right? You you work towards what you can measure, which I think is hard in a lot of school contexts because there are things that come out years later or months later that are not showing up in in the data that we can measure. And so, I think it's a good to have a real thoughtful range of of metrics that are here. And I know it can be scary to put numbers to it. and we deserve it, right? We know that people rise to the challenge and they want to achieve. People didn't enter education because they thought that they couldn't help kids learn better. They didn't. And so, how do we do it? Let's do it and let's do it together. I amum I'm really optimistic. I am looking forward to there's a couple things that are just not in progress which I'm a little bit surprised about because I thought that I mean we have wellness counselors. It does feel like a piece of that belonging of of how do I get my mental health in. So I'm curious where where that is or it's just whatever action we said we were going to take we just haven't yet taken uh in regards to it. Um that's helpful. But I'm I'm looking forward to continuing to see us make progress on these on these metrics, but also make progress in our classrooms, make progress on our campuses and um make progress in our in our front office, too. I mean, these are metrics that that each each one of us

can support. So, thank you for the presentation and I'm, you know, happy happy we're pursuing excellence here. Thank you. And you're right, some of the things if it wasn't in progress, it's because we had things planned for the spring semester that we haven't started yet. and thank you for your comment and feedback. Trusty Lamb.

Yeah, thank you for uh yeah, your um presentation and yeah, I echo what Trusty Bridges and Trusty Anthony have said. Um I just want to name some of the targets because I know maybe the table was a little bit small but you know things you know I did have that thought too. was like, "Wow, you like the a lot of the targets for um I forget how many years is 2028, 2029, not that far away." But, you know, we but I I think as we talked um before um about these measures and these goals, I just realized, oh yeah, you know, actually it's better I think to to have well, one, we should always have ambition and be bold and you not aim low, right? Aim high. But I think if we talk about well what you know what is our vision if we step back and like what's our vision for you know what uh what success looks like I mean I think it really is these things it's this and I'll just name it out loud you know like for third grade uh eighth third eth 11th grade ELA um math um proficiency we want that to be at 80% you know by 2028 20 29 I mean is that not what we want I mean really we want you know 100% but I mean I think to aim you know very high and say like the the the vast majority of our students are going to be successful in um our core subjects and beyond. um and also have high sense of belonging like we talked about like here there's on slide 11 you know 90% of students feeling a sense of connectedness you know those kinds of things um that uh first to have the vision of like yes the vast majority will have a sense of these things these this connection this achievement and this is the number we're going to put to it um because that's the the vision the goal that we're aiming for um so and I had I did have some questions. Sorry to uh to go on, but um I was curious about

on on some of the dashboard things. Um you know, you talk about um well, let's just say like on slide six about um that you know, actions have been taken to implement uh certain initiatives like the learning walks um and um the instructional rounds. Um so these are like practices I guess that are going to be you know ongoing for you know now and you know onward. Um but then uh status impact. Yeah, I know like these just started so there's not much yet in terms of impact but I guess my curiosity is more about what is like how do you quantify impact um in relation to the initiatives because like the initiatives in a way are just like a practice and action um thing as you know a system of actions but impact is like how do you like do you have a direct tie to like a learning okay we did learning walk therefore the impact is I don't know you know it's a little I guess I just want to I don't know if you that makes sense I just want to know how you're quantifying impact in relation to action. Yeah. So if you recall we set our own goals ambitious goals for what we wanted to accomplish. We also have internal goals of what we want to accomplish. So as we are engaging in learning walks there are specific things that we're looking for. And really this year has been a baseline year. It's been a very coordinated effort to get in to see business as usual how we're teaching. So we're collecting data. But when we think of impact in terms of academic discourse or seeing things in action, ideally the impact is in student outcomes, right? So if we have a system of assessments and we're doing A, B, and C, the impact will be when we see the results of the work that we've done and how it's contributed to the outcomes for student metrics. And so for us, you only see here's what we've implemented, but because these learning walks just

started, we we don't anticipate that we're going to see an impact right away. But over time, ideally, as we're providing professional learning and we're targeting instruction and we are getting in and we're monitoring and we're coaching and we're fully engaged and we give assessments to students, we want to be able to see the outcomes. Those are the outputs based on the inputs, the things that we have done, the actions that we have taken. And then one last little question, um what um in terms of like a public facing dashboard, you mentioned that open architects will be the platform for that. uh any um I don't know t uh I guess timeline of when that might launch. Right now the timeline is before the end of this year. Um I think part of that is because we just concretized and solidified these targets. These targets are then going to be what's part of our dashboard so we can monitor progress towards where we said we were trying to go. And so we have the internal one. We began that and it is really internal with like school leaders and district leaders. And so we are just now going to be beginning to build the outwardly facing one. And part of that just for the board and the community, we had one last year. It's what uh Dr. Hugh presented to the board. It was with a different system. And so because we didn't want to use two different systems and we are finding this system to be easy to navigate, easy to play around in, easy to upload and get information in. And that's why we made a pivot this year to shift. Otherwise, had we gone forward with that one, we think we would have been a little bit farther along.

Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, Vice President.

Thank you. Thank you. I want to echo my uh fellow board members and I also want to add uh my full and sincere appreciation for the strategic plan progress updates uh presented today. Dr. more you and your team has done exceptional work in translating our community's vision into a concrete and measurable road map. This isn't just a report my opinion it's the operational blueprint for our district's future and I want to highlight a few elements that are particularly powerful to me. One is the estab establishment of clear ambitious five-year targets as you mentioned earlier for every priority that moves us from aspiration to true accountability. Number two is courage. Courageous transparency in presenting baseline data builds essential trust and sets an honest start line even where it reveals difficult challenges as we saw the data. And the last one is the holistic design that connects academic achievement, student belonging, family partnership, and educator empowerment shows the systemic thinking required for sustainable success. And the scoreboard scoreboard concept in particular in my opinion is a brilliant management tool that provides clarity and ownership for the administration. So it is exactly what it need to implement the plan. So thank you and there's more. So my two my thoughts today come from this strength. Our job as a board uh is

governance focusing on the what and why. So a little bit of uh Amy mentioned a little bit and then we trusting administrations with the how. So in our training many many of those trainings we need to focus on the what and why and leave the how to the administration. So this report is a great did a great job blending both to help us stay perfectly focused on our oversight role. I have a simple suggestion and you can take it or leave it for future updates. So if if we can um structure the update in the future two parts one is the governance for us governance dashboard addressing the why and the what. So as uh Dr. Moore you mentioned earlier it's the outcome from our students. So with the key outcome matrix on student success, equity, proficiency and attendance and then another separate operational summary which is about how we implement curriculum. That's really not our job but a a overall summary on those operational initiative status that will help us um focus our questions on the high level and not get into the operational level. So for example this will so we we want to ask the question is are we closing the gap are we meeting our goal instead of how is that program running and how do we implement the curriculum really that's into the operational level so if we live it higher we will help us to sharpen our oversight and support. So that's my tiny suggestion. Excellent work. Thank you for you and the team.

Thank you so much. Certainly a collective effort by an incredible cabinet, uh, incredible staff, incredible leaders, district and site and educators because a lot of the feedback has come from our community that enabled us to be able to do this, but really leaning into solidifying what it was. So, I appreciate that and I just want to say thank you. I think it was a wonderful reminder uh about what we've learned as part of the board governance team, really being clear the what and the how. And so, thank you for doing that. and I'll certainly check talk to my team and think about that before our next update that we bring back. So, thank you very much for your wonderful words and your support.

Yes, thank you. Um, but I wanted to thank you and your cabinet for the wonderful work that you do like all the time. I know this is hard work. I think that, you know, you know, part of our direction was that we wanted to see systems changed because we wanted to make sure that all of our students were meeting um meeting their needs and and that we were providing that for them. We wanted them to to excel and you know go into the world being better than functional adults. Um, so to that end, you guys have done amazing work. And then your leadership shows in in everything that you do, the walks, the the um inclusion of of students and teachers and site leaders and and it's just been amazing work and I'm happy to be a part of it and I want to thank all of you for allowing us to um to see the work that you do.

Thank you very much. Um, I think on behalf of the cabinet, we all deeply believe in the work that we're doing in service of kids and wanting our students to have the most exceptional experiences. We want our staff to have equally exceptional experiences here so that we can move the needle in service of kids. And I want to thank the board for your leadership and your oversight and your support in really leaning in. We took made some bold decisions and moves because we believe in the work that has to happen. And I just wanted to say thank you to all of you. It is hard work. It's not always easy. Not everybody is going to be happy all the time, but I do believe collectively that there is uh the will that we have in this district to do everything we can in service of kids. And I just want to say thank you and let's keep going. A lot of hard work to do. Thank you very much. So, next is an action item, approval of the district strategic plan 2029 targets and measures. Staff recommends the approval of the SSFUSD strategic plan 2029 targets and measures. Do I have a motion?

So, move second. Okay. So, we have a motion by Vice President Sheay, second by Trustee Anthony. All in favor? I I All any opposed? No. Um motion carries. Five to zero. Okay. So, next is the consent agenda. The following items are submitted for the board approval. One motion will authorize action for those items so designated. Um, do does anybody want to pull anything?

Um, well, I would like to just mention uh item 2 M. Um, if the board would uh uh set that aside and vote on it separately because I would like to recuse myself from voting from that since I work for the Exploratorium. So, which one was that? I'm 2M. So, it's on 2M. Okay. So, we'll vote on that separately. Um, I'd like to pull one A um either for discussion now or um discussion vote at the next. It just shouldn't be in the consent agenda.

Okay. So, that's one A. So, do I have a motion to um to move the rest? So move except one a except one a and two and then aim two. Okay. Okay. Um I'll second the motion. All in favor? I motion carried. Okay. So 1 A and why don't we bring that back to at the next meeting? Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. And 2M. Um do I have a motion for 2M? So moved. Second. All in favor? I I

motion carries for 2. Oh, I'm sorry. 40. Can Why are we pulling 1 A? You just want to talk about it more? Well, because it shouldn't be in the consent agenda. It's I mean, we can discuss it now, but it it can't be an action item now because it was in Okay. Oh, it can. Okay. Okay. Okay. We can discuss it now. We can. So,

um, so the one that was pulled was permission for Trusty Lamb to attend the chamber Santo County Progress Seminar in Santa Rosa, California, April 17th through 20 through 19. Yes, we are discussing it now. You want to or do do if if we don't have any discussion, we can somebody can make a motion and we can move forward.

I just uh I just had a question about this. Uh I never got anything in my email. Is that something that you received in your uh email that for the board or?

Um, no. I um this is an annual conference that happens every year. This is a a Sanonteo County like a centric uh conference um for uh it is hosted by the Chamber of Sono County, but it's it's been a conference I've known about for years. So, it it wasn't something that was emailed to us, but um it's something that was I've been kind of interested in going um and participating and uh so forth. So, that's why I put in the request. Um I can elaborate more if you have more questions.

Oh, well, because I saw the link that that was in the agenda and it were 40 pages of items that they were going to cover. It's pretty extensive and I was just wondering how uh the board or how many people are educated based uh topics during those I didn't really see many they basically is the chamber deals with business and things like that so I was just wondering if it's

yeah I think the the the link uh well there is some uh uh like in the memo um there's a mention of like there's you know topics like of that pertain to the region. So it is more about the region rather than um not uh education specific but you know but they do uh open up the conference to um education and business government uh leaders and just uh generally um the I think the I I did include um there's like past topics that they've talked about like things like climate resiliency and so forth. Um but uh the the I think the topics for this coming year have not yet been like publicized.

Only reason I say is because when I go to a conference it's sort of uh based on all the things that we deal with students governance and so forth. And I really didn't see this that this was more of a municipal um uh bent on to to it. And so I was thinking that maybe it's out of what our uh education code says. It's 9220 is based at that they encourage professional development so that board members understand how to um conduct meetings and read uh agendas and so forth. And it's studentbased basically. That's why I I wasn't sure I couldn't make I was trying to find a connection how I could Yeah. You know,

I can I can speak as a as a past progress seminar attendee. Um Oh, you went.

I I've been um I I it is part of uh the programming that Chamber Sono County uh provides for chamber members and and folks throughout the county. So, Chamber of Sanonteo County not only does an annual leadership training uh program for helping people understand how government works and really understanding all the players, the progress seminar then kind of brings everybody together to um get to know each other as humans uh outside of the confines of their work. Um, and you know, collaboration, cross collaboration between uh, cities and school districts and other agencies and business is all really important, right? I mean, part of the reason that we're able to have a successful South San Francisco Education Foundation is because we have contributors who are business owners. Part of the reason that we are able to have a really successful CTE program in biotechnology is because we have Janentech who is interested in partnering on on that kind of thing. And so from my perspective, it is not an education conference, right? The topics are not going to be education. Um, but they are political and it is about how do you build relationships and connections uh across the county to do it. And the second thing I'll say is uh it looks like you're just asking for the registration fee. You're not asking for the district to pay for your hotel or transportation here. Is that right?

Uh yeah, that's correct. Um, yeah, I'm just asking for the registration fee and I think it's listed what's included with that. Like there's meals and those kinds of things included. Um, and then I also just mentioned too that um like we do have um an allowance per board uh member to like I believe it's like $2,000 a year. Um, I was very, you know, knowing that, you know, this is still a I'm sorry, that's my going to bed. Yeah, it's under it's under 2,000 within. Yeah. And it's still within my um allowance and I can provide do I have a motion? So moved. I'll move pass this.

Second. All in favor? I I I will abstain or you'll say you'll vote no. No, the record should show abstain. I am allowed that. Thank you. Okay. So, four yeses and one abstension. Okay. So, next we we're moving into a a public meeting a public hearing. So, I am going to suspend our regular meeting and open a public hearing. The time is 9:00. Do I read this or do you read this? President Murray, I'm happy to read the public hearing.

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Han. uh in accordance with education code sections 455245, 455246B2, 455247, and 45248, 88065, 88866B2, 88067. And any school district which has a three member personnel commission, one member of the commission shall be appointed by the governing board of the district. A board meeting shall be held no sooner than 30 days and no later than 45 days following the public announcement of the candidate. During this meeting, the board will conduct a public hearing to provide the public, employees, and employee organizations the opportunity to express their views regarding the qualifications of the individual recommended for appointment at the last regular board meeting on December 11th, 2025. A public hearing will provide an opportunity for members of the public to comment on the recommended personnel commission appointment made by the board.

Okay. Um so is this where we make the appointment? Uh, President Murray, at the last regular board meeting on December 11th, 2025, the board uh re made a public announcement to recommend incumbent Ree Nasra. So, at this time, do we have any comments from the audience? Okay. Well, then Ree Nzra is it. Congratulations, Ree. You will need to uh take a vote. Oh, okay. Um, do we just I thought we gave direction. Yeah. If before we vote, may I comment?

Sure. Mr. Hanan, how many members are on the committee at the moment? How many members or how many seats are on the commission? No, at present. How many members are on the committee? We we we have three seats total. Two of those seats are filled. Of those two seats filled, one of them is expired and that would be the seat currently held by incumbent Ree Nasra.

Oh, because I had missed that there was a vacancy before Ree's uh presentation tonight. So, I was wondering if they ever filled that vacancy. Interviews were held. They have identified a candidate. However, until we secure the second seat, we cannot move forward with the third appointment taking action to appoint the third seat. It just seems like the whole year there was nobody, you know. So, do we have a motion? They only had two seats. I move to approve re second.

Second. All in favor? I Okay, so congratulations Rezra and with that I'm going to close the public hearing at 9:04 and I'm going to re resume the regular meeting. Um so next we have um update on the governor's 2026 2027 budget proposal. staff will share with the board information on Governor Nuome's proposed state budget for the upcoming fiscal year as well as any potent potential implications to the district.

Okay. Thank you. Uh good evening, President Murray, members of the board, Dr. Moore, cabinet, staff, and community members. So, tonight I'll be presenting a update on the governor's 2026 27 state budget proposal. So on Friday uh January 9, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsome released his state budget proposal for next year, which is 2627. Rather than the governor presenting his uh budget proposal, it was done by Joe Stefenshaw, the uh director of of the department of finance. So on January 20th, my staff and I attended an in-person workshop given by School Services of California in Sacramento to gather the details of his proposed budget. We will be using that information to update the district's 2526 second interim financial report. Uh but keep in mind that this is still a proposal at this time. So the governor has another opportunity to make changes from now through early May before he releases his May revision in midmay. So uh just to give an overview the director noted that the budget proposal is largely a workload budget and does not introduce any new initiatives and focuses on funding existing programs. He cited a 2.9 billion shortfall, but stated that the budget is largely balanced uh continues investments in existing programs and bills on the state's long-term resilience. Over 70% of new spending is proposed for core education and key enrichment programs and nearly onethird of available funding is used to replenish the rainy day fund. He also emphasized that the budget does not come without risk which include as the stock market volatility and declines, the unpredictable federal policies changes and budget, the

continued uncertainty regarding tariffs and immigration as well as the impact on inflation, the labor market investment and overall demand and uh also per school services of California the projected deficit of 22 billion in 2728 8 and shortfalls totaling 45 billion in 2829 and 2930 are also huge risks to the state budget. In terms of the state rainy day fund is projected to be about 4.1 billion at the end of 2026 27 and tonight I'll be providing update some of the areas of the proposed budget that's and it impact on education. So on the local control funding formula, the governor proposes to fully fund this for 2627 with ongoing dollars. The proposed 2.41 cola for 2627 is a revenue reduction of about uh 61% uh points from the school district uh from the proposed 3.02% cola uh during the final 25 26 day budget for the fiscal year. So lucky for us, this doesn't impact us because as I mentioned in the past, you we're a basic aid district and can really fund this. So we get a bulk of our revenue from property taxes and not from the state. So in terms of for categorical program funding, the governor's budget proposed an ongoing increase about 62.4 million to the expanded learning opportunities program to to sust, 1800 per student. The governor's budget also proposal also maintains funding levels for special education and provides about also the 2.41% cola. Uh the the governor's proposal also includes a several one-time funding grants. One of them is called the

student support and professional development discretionary block grant. The so these funds may be used for uh some of these purposes. assist districts in managing declines in attendance and enrollment to address unspecified rising costs. Professional uh PD for teachers on the English language arts and English language development framework and literacy road map. Uh PD for teachers on the mathematics framework. Uh teacher recruitment retention efforts and career pathways and dual enrollment. So, so these are some of his uh suggestions, but according to school services California, these uh funds actually can be used to uh cover the operating cost of the district. So, here he's proposing allocate about 2.8 billion for this onetime block grant. Uh this is more than the 1.7 billion allocated uh in the current fiscal year. So the the next thing is the learning recovery emergency block grant. The governor's budget proposes 757.3 million to the learning recovery emergency block grant. So this grant was initially established in 2022 but was cut by 1.1 billion the following year due to a lack of funds. So this repayment brings the total learning recovery emergency block grant uh for to 2.7 billion and is supposed to be the final investment in this program. The blacks supports learning recovery initiatives. Uh for nutrition services, the governor continues his commitment to fully fund the universal meals program which ensure that all uh TK to 12 students have access to two free highquality school meals each school day. His budget includes an ongoing reduction of about 67.9 million reflecting the updated 2526 participation estimates as compared to

the 25 2025 budget act projections. So other onetime investments uh include 250 million to support educator residency programs due to through 2029 30 40 million to continue screening students for reading difficulties. uh 239.2 million additional funding for home to school transportation to reflect higher costs in this program. Uh a 22.9 million to support district recovery from the uh 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires. So again, these are just proposals for the governor at this time and during the next few months the legislature which includes the state senate and state assembly will go through the proposals uh either pushing back on the governor's priorities or proposing their own. In midMay, based on the latest financial information, the governor will release his May vision which is an update to his proposed budget for next year and staff again will be attending a workshop uh from from school services of California to gather more information at that time and also share that with the board. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Any questions?

Thank you very much. Any questions? Trusty Richardson,

I just happened to go to the capital advisor's budget perspective workshop today and uh I was actually pleasantly surprised that there's not going to be an axe of this and that program, but uh I asked them about the uh uh the schools funding for some of the Palisades fires and cuz uh they said you know the you don't read anything true anymore in the mainstream media. So you don't know what's all rhetoric and posturing and so forth. So they said that they were not going to send any money to California to rebuild the schools over there at the Palisades fire. But it after I asked I said he said they ended up sending us a lot of money. So I was really happy to hear that because you hear the president is keeping money and we send the most money to Washington. But I was listening to the um adviserss and they said that they actually did send quite a bit of money and more actually than they probably

Excuse me. Do you have a question? Anyway, I just wanted a comment. Are there any other comments? Thank you so much, uh, Mr. Okay, thank you.

Okay, so moving on. Resolution number 26-01, African-American History Month. Trusty Lamb. Yes, I'm happy to read this. Um, so resolution number 2601, African-American History Month, February 1 to February 28 to 2026. Whereas Negro History Week was established in February 1926 and grew in popularity to eventually be designated as African-American history month by presidential proclamation in 1976. And whereas this year's theme is a century of black history commemorations marks 100 years since Dr. Carter G. Will Woodson establish Negro History Week with national and local events led by organizations such as the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History to honor Black Resilience, Labor, Culture, and the countless contributions African-Americans have made to the United States. And whereas the month of February was chosen as it marks the birthday of the abolitionists Frederick Douglas and President Abraham Lincoln, both of whom dramatically affected the lives of of African-Americans. And whereas the purpose of African-American history month is to recognize the important role that African-Americans have played in the history of our country and to acknowledge the injustices they have suffered and the challenges they continue to face and strive to overcome. And whereas African-Americans have contributed economically, culturally, and socially to the development of the United States history, especially in the area of human rights. And whereas African-Americans have progressively served as elected and appointed officials at the local and national levels, including B Paty Joe Hillard, who is the first African-American and woman to serve on the South San Francisco Unified School District's

Board of Trustees from 1975 to 1980. And whereas California Education Code section 51204.5 specifically calls for instruction in the social sciences to include the study of the role and contributions of African-Americans to the economic, political, and social development of California and the nation with particular emphasis on portraying the role of this group in contemporary society. And now, therefore, be it resolved that the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees hereby recognizes and wishes to honor African-Americans during AfricanAmerican History Month, regularly passed and adopted this 22nd day of January, 2026.

Thank you. Do I have a motion? A motion. Second. How about seconded, Dr. Shay? Yes. Um, roll call. Trusty Lamb. Yes. Trusty Richardson. Trusty Anthony. Yes. Vice President Sheay. Yes. President Murray. Yes. Thank you. Um and Trusty Lamb, do you want to read the next resolution?

Yes. Uh resolution 2602, week of the school counselor, February 2nd to the 6th, 2026. Whereas the week of the school counselor focuses attention on the unique contributions of these highly trained professionals who guide students in their educational journeys by providing educational, career, and personal social development. And whereas this year's theme is school counselors amplify student success, emphasizing how school counselors enhance student achievement and overall well-being through comprehensive programs and personalized support. And whereas in the K through2 education system, school counselors ensure students have the social and emotional skills to be successful now and in the future while providing opportunities for exploration to help students forge their best path forward. And whereas they provide a safe and comfortable space to meet students needs whether in group settings or in one-on-one sessions, often before students even realize they require the support. And whereas in the last few years when students, teachers, and families have required more extensive support than usual, school counselors have faced new challenges, but have always been there to lend a helping hand and transform anxiety, confusion, or fear into positive, supportive, and productive action. And whereas through their work in helping to build a positive school climate, school counselors model effective conflict resolution and collaboration. and their leadership has had a positive effect throughout the SSFUSD community. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees hereby commends the school counselors for the contributions they make daily to advance the health, well-being, and academic achievement of students during the week of the school counselor regularly passed and adopted this 22nd day of January, 2026.

Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Okay. Roll call. Trusty Lamb. Yes. Trusty Richardson. Yes. Trusty Anthony. Yes. Vice President Sheay. Yes. President Murray.

Yes. Okay. Moving on to teaching and learning. Um 2A is approval of the California State Preschool Program, CSP, continued funding application, CFA, and adoption of resolution number 2603. Staff recommends approval of the California Department of Education CSP application and adoption of resolution number 26-03 authorizing CFA and delegation of signature authority for the 2026 2027 school year. Do I have a motion? So move with the waving of the reading. Thank you. Second. All in. Oh no. Roll call. Trusty Lamb.

Yes. Trusty Richardson. Yes. Trusty Anthony. Yes. Vice President Sheay. Yes. President Murray. Yes. Thank you. Okay. 2B. Resolution number 26-04. Authorization of the child care and development services contract with the California Department of Social Services, CDSS. Staff recommends the adoption of resolution 26-04, authorization of child care and development services contract with CDSS for the 202627 school year. Do I have a motion? I'd like to make a motion with a waving of the reading. Second. Second. Uh, roll call. Trusty Lamb, yes. Trusty Richardson,

yes. Trusty Anthony, yes. Vice President Sheay, yes. President Murray, yes. Okay. 2C. Approval to reallocate special education department budget. Staff recommends approval for the special education department to reallocate budget expenses from one publisher to another in order to better meet the curricular and coursework needs of students with individual education programs, IEPs. I had a quick I had a quick question. Okay.

Um, these programs have different prices. Do we require an invoice or why is it presented like this where before we've been given a program or a um contract to review or we don't have to we don't have to rewrite the program the I mean the the contract is this what will be presented to the uh vendor I don't think so. I mean, my understanding is that we have approved these contracts in the past and now we're we're we're being asked to reconsider reallocation. So, we probably would have to revise the contract or at least inform the vendor that we're not going to be using it. Is that right?

Have they been Yeah.

Have they been notified that we've we're moving in that direction? This is what I want to know. So the board approved certain contract maximum amounts and so the way I am reading and understanding this is that director Yakub um wants to be we haven't used the maximum contract amounts and so she wants to take some of the amounts that are listed here and utilize them for other uh to increase the amounts in other areas. That's how I'm reading the memo. And so because the board had a maximum level and we haven't hit that maximum level, I'm seeing that she wants to move some of the music and or music some of the funds, excuse me, to other areas. That That's how I'm reading it.

Okay. Does that answer your question? Well, yes, because I wanted to know what's going on and why uh we are we have I I just don't understand. I usually I mean I think she's being responsive to student needs here, right? If if we we approved it, we tried it. If it didn't work, then she's saying, "Hey, this school specialty spire is working. Let's let's shift some of the funding to how we can meet more kids needs there." I think it's just program management. So move second. Trusty Anthony, a second. All in favor? I I I Okay, moving on to human resources.

Okay. Uh 3A, approval of agreements for United States citizenship and immigration services, USCIS, non-immigrant O-1A, um teacher visa petitions. Staff recommends approval of agreements with Corpus and Associates PC to provide legal services for USCIS non-immigrant O-1A teacher visa petitions and with the following teachers Lima Raviche Bahano and Maria Jessica Roa

I'm sorry I just have a really quick question I saw that the UC USCIS fees for a number of visas went up this year. Is this this not for this visa? Okay.

Okay. If I may, are you finished? These are for three tiers. This is the uh the legal end of it. So, the we'll be paying the attorney, but what if it goes up? who pays the extra amount because we don't know with the climate of things happening now in the federal government whether we'll be liable for more money.

Thank you for your question, Trusty Richardson. So, if I may to clarify, uh you're right, we are living in current times where there is a lot of uncertainty. What we are certain is that there is a pathway potentially through the 01 visa process for us to potentially qualify some of our current J1 international exchange teachers who may then be able to continue their employment with us. Uh they have committed 5 years, many of them away from their home countries and have been in service of our students and families. And this is an option that many other districts, including in Sonteo County, are exploring, which is how I came to learn about this potential pathway. So, what we're asking is for the board to approve uh this item so that we can begin to explore and pilot this potential option to continue to retain our educators, particularly in hard to staff areas like special education. I appreciate that, but I was wondering if we're our liability is limited to this number because knowing how uh legal fees can go up. I was just I know that it says that they will pay a portion of it and we pay the other portion of it, but that's okay. But what I was also wondering is are these teachers obligated to stay within our district at all or is this a contract that they sign with us?

All great questions. So what we are trying to establish right now is a mechanism for them to qualify for a visa. And what we are exploring is as part of this agreement that if they were to be supported by us then they would in fact continue their service with us for a certain number of years. So we would be requiring a commitment. Okay. Do I Yes. So move second. Second. All in favor? I I I. Motion carried.

Okay. 3B. Approval of agreement with New Direction Solutions LLC. DBA Proare Therapy. Staff recommends approval of an agreement with New Direction Solutions LLC. DBA Proare Therapy. Oh, doing business address. um to support with certificated and classified substitute staffing for the 202526 school year. Any questions? I'm sorry we're still having so much trouble with substitutes. I mean I thought I we had done so much at the beginning of the year but this is just more huh. Th

Thank you for the question. This is actually very specifically targeted around mental health and wellness. Uh and part of this is driven by the fact that uh we've had some uh staffing changes as so this is a temporary stop gap. Got it. Thank you. So move. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carried. Okay. Four. Student and family services. Approval of the updated multilingual learner ML master plan. Staff recommends approval of the ML master plan and the proposed updates and changes. I have question.

Yes, just comment. Yeah, I want to acknowledge the tremendous work that went into this plan. Uh it's clear that our teams, Dr. Moore and the team was thoughtful and collaborative and deeply committed to our students. So, thank you for the great work on this plane. Any other questions or comments? I was going to say the same thing. Thank you very much. It was like amazing. So, you guys, you know, um, do I have a motion? So, move. Second. Second. All in favor? I I.

Motion carried. 4B. Approval of the service proposal with young audiences of Northern California YNC. Staff recommends approval of the service proposal with YC to provide 2026 steam summer school services in an amount not to exceed 30 $345,000. Any questions, comments? Motion. So move. Second. Second, Trusty Lamb. Okay. All in favor? I

I motion carried. Um For C, approval of theou with Silicon Valley Education Foundation, SVEF. Staff recommends approval of theou with SVEF to implement the Elevate Math Summer 2026 program in the amount of $155,600. Questions or comment? Um, I I know I had a question. Oh, sorry. Yeah, I had a question about um where the 40,000 uh or 40,560 in credit came from. And I know that was answered, but could you uh share? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, okay. So, this is 4C. Yeah. The theou with Silicon Valley Education Foundation for Elevate Math, the summer program. So, you know, we're um we've got a hot Yeah. If you could sure I could I could clarify that. So last year um our contract was for uh 16 uh educators and due to enrollment we only had uh 10 10 sections. So that's the the credit that we're going to be using for this year.

Okay. And um I I had a question too. So, I know I think in theou there was some something about like I don't know it's actually said there was a nine slash10 like it could be 9th 10th graders attending the ninth grade unit. So, is that kind of how they work as well? So, typically we've um offered the class to uh rising ninth graders um and so they've had like one additional day of programming. We're still going to go ahead and continue to offer it to ninth graders, but all students are going to have a 20-day program.

Okay. And then I guess if we have Yeah. If we're short on I'm sorry I keep asking is if we have fewer people enrolling than there are classes, then we I hopefully we'll get credit, but hopefully we'll fill them too. But right, that's our goal. Okay, great. Thank you. I was going to say I hope that we have a strategy to get more students enrolled this year, but I mean I'm just throwing it out here. I think it's probably from a different fund, but I know that we are partnering with SVEF on uh math coaching and math instruction for um IM implementation. So if we don't have students, maybe we can use that money for training more teachers.

So do I have a motion? I'll move. Oh, she's moving. Dr. Shay had the motion. Trustee Richardson made the second. All in favor?

I I motion carried. Okay. 4 D. Approval of the amendment. Approval of amendment to the agreement with Daybreak Health PC. Staff recommends approval of the amendment to the 2025-26 agreement with Daybreak Health BC, which allows the provider to continue delivering medical covered mental health and substance use disorder services to students through the CYBHI program with state with the state reimbursing providers directly. Any questions or comments? Make a motion. Second.

Second. Okay. So, a motion by Trusty Lamb, second by Trust, Vice President Sheay. Um, all in favor? I motion carried.

Okay. Business services 5A, approval of amendment number one with SIM Architects Incorporated for Monty Elementary School modernization program, I mean project. Um staff recommends approval of amendment number one with SIM Architects Incorporated, excuse me. Um for design and construction administrative services for Montyver Elementary School modernization pro project in the amount of 1,334,735. Any questions or comments? Quick question about this project that I didn't see much about what it was going to do and um I wish do we have something to offer us and this is an itemized list of amount of estimates and I have no idea what they're going to be doing. Does anybody know?

Yeah, this this is the second part of the u modernization phase. Uh, I have Lori Shelton on the line and she can provide a little more details about that. Oh, hi. Hi, Miss Shelton. Good evening. Um, I'm off camera. Sorry. Okay. Um, all right. For the uh amendment number one for SIM as well as for the other two uh architectural firm

um amendments that are coming forward. both are the uh part two portion of uh a two-part contract that we are looking to uh have you approve for the uh architects. Um what we did in the first part was the project assessment. We've completed those assessments for uh this project and we are moving into the design phases. Um and uh what that includes is is that we have several uh levels of design phases and then we will also have a phase where we're doing construction documentation. We will take that to our um division of state architects for review and approval. And then once we receive approval, we'll move into construction and the design team will provide construction administrative services as well as closeout services. So this uh amendment is for services starting with design through the end of construction.

What kind of designs? We already fixed the bathroom over there, right? It's the next modernization. This is yeah this is the modernization. So we um for mon verde we will be doing mainly um work to uh address a lot of site infrastructure issues um and there are some accessibility issues within the building the various buildings. Thank you. Do I have a motion? So move second. All in favor? I I

motion carried. Um 5B, approval of amendment number one with DSK Architects Incorporated for Spruce Elementary School modernization project. Uh, staff recommends approval of amendment number one with DSK Architects Incorporated for design and construction administrative services for the Supru Elementary School modernization pro project in the amount of 1,854,334.

Could I ask a question on this since Director Shelton uh you're you're kindness enough to join us online? Um yeah, I guess similarly to um uh Trustee Richardson's question, um just like a brief overview of what the the plan uh scope of the pro I mean just what will be happening. Um I also noticed that the timeline for this project is much longer. So I presume there's a lot more extensive work u being planned for spruce. All of the uh projects are different scopes of work, but we will are looking to modernize um several of the buildings. There is one kindergarten classroom building which we're calling building D. Um is that it's a two um classroom building I believe TK and K are located in that building. That will be a totally new uh new building. Um there's there is really no point in trying to save that building. Um we would put more money in than what it's worth. Um as well as doing some utility upgrades and other modernizations for the site.

I have a question followup from Trusty Anthony. Um, does that building that you plan to replace was um one of the defected buildings from the previous Braum program? Can you say that? Or we're not addressing any buildings that fall in from the Measure J. This is a building uh that was not uh updated in the Measure J bond program. Okay. So, it's part of the old school cuz that school's about a hundred years old.

Well, the oldest building that you're thinking of is is the old high school. Um, we're doing very very minimal work in that building because the extent of work required is more than the funding that we have. Um the building that uh building D which is the kindergarten TK classroom building is one of the older buildings as well um and was not uh has not had any work done for a significant period of time. Okay. Do I have a motion? Second.

All in favor? I I Okay. Um 5C, approval of amendment number two with multi-studio architects for El Camino High School modernization project. Staff recommends approval of amendment number two with multi-studio architects for design and construction administrative services for the El Camino High School modernization project in the amount of 3,736,924. Any questions?

I guess I might as well ask. Yeah. What what is exactly happening? I I kind of got a gist from the schedule, but yeah, if you could elaborate. Um, for the El Camino High School, we there's several buildings on campus. There's uh a lot of different types of work that will be happening happening in various buildings but uh a big portion of the scope will be addressing some of the issues that that are occurring at the um gym and the um um building surrounding the gym uh locker room etc. as well as uh one of the issues that we need to address for the campus are um accessibility issues, access issues. So those scopes vary um from just you know dealing with slopes um and addressing uh how uh uh students would and students and staff would access sites. So um it varies. There's a lot of different things that will be happening on El Camino since it's such a large campus.

Thank you. Just going to say one more thing. Um I know that this is something that um Miss Connory brought up last year just it's a very open campus and and people can just kind of go on it and I I recall that there was some absences of of security guards and there was this question of like oh how are we monitoring this? So, I don't know if if uh you know, you don't want your high schools especially to feel uh like they're in lockdown, but this one feels like it's like super open. Are we doing any fencing or other accessing or anything like that?

There are no uh fencing proposals. We'll be looking at um security cameras and uh improving security from that perspective. Okay. Super. Thanks. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. All in favor? I.

Okay. 5D. Approval of amendment number three with Atlas Technical Consultants LLC for Westboro Middle School Field and Pavement Improvement Project. Staff recommends approval of amendment number three with Atlas Technical Consultants LLC for geotechnical and geological hazard evaluation services for the Westboro Middle School Field and Pavement Improvement Project in the amount of 62 is it 62,638.75. Um any questions? Oops. Okay. Do I have a motion?

So move. Eager. All in favor? I I. Okay. 5. Resolution 26-05, an agreement with Proare Technologies Incorporated for Measure T bond program. Staff recommends adoption of resolution 26-05 and approval of a five-year agreement with ProAre Technologies Incorporated for project management software and services for the measure T bond program in the amount of 320,000500 $320,583.18 questions motion. So move with a waving of the reading. Yes. Thank you. Thanks.

I will second the motion with the waving of a reading. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carried. Okay. President Murray, we need a roll call for this one. Oh, yeah. That's roll call. Oh, I'm sorry. Right there. Trusty Lamb. Yes. Trusty Richardson, yes. Trusty Anthony, yes. Vice President Sheay, yes. President Murray,

yes. Thank you. Motion carried. Okay. 5F. Approval of change order number three with zone 4 construction for district office accessibility project. Excuse me. Staff recommends approval of change order number three with zone 4 construction for additional construction services for the district office accessibility improvements project in the amount of $45,6859. Questions? Motion. So move second. Did you Oh, good. Trusty Richardson second. All in favor? I I I.

Okay. 5G. Approval of change order number two with zone 4 construction for Parkway Heights Middle School building D alteration services. Staff recommends approval of change order number two with zone 4 construction for building D alteration services at Parkway Heights Middle School resulting in a credit of $22,000 $22,536. Any questions or a motion? Move. Second. All in favor? I I

Okay. And last, approval of change order number one with CWS construction group incorporated for Spruce Elementary School security gate and fencing project. Staff recommends approval of change order number one with CWS construction group incorporated for the new security gate and fencing project at Spruce Elementary School resulting in a credit of $12,484.77. Do I have a motion?

No questions but a comment. I got to see the fence in action on on on Monday and it was great. I mean, they're still working out the kinks of like which buttons to push when, but it is it is awesome and it it's really great. It really it works. So Oh, cool. Just wanted to say I appreciate seeing credit here, credit there. I love it. Plus, I wanted to say quickly how much I appreciate the detailed in these um explanations throughout the agenda. So, my um compliments to the staff, Dr. Camp. Great job.

Okay. Um did I have a motion? I love it. So, move second. I'll second. All in favor? I

Motion carried. Okay. Review of future agenda items and meetings. Any additions or Okay. list of board directives. None. There are none. Okay. Um so, uh good and welfare. And if we get out of here fairly quickly, then we don't have to um don't we have to to do a break at 10 o'clock?

If we talk fast, we can talk fast. So, so if we can quickly and we're we're we're adjourning and I have like a list that I have to read as well. So, u trust Richard,

I'll go first. Um yeah. Um so, I attended the Sanonteo County School Boards Association presentation on um career and technical education on Febru or January 16th or 9th and it was really wonderful. also assistant superintendent Shus was here earlier tonight talking about uh the great work that our district is doing. she really presented a lot about CTE and the importance of having the pathways um having the core course and then the completer course and South San Francisco is doing a really great job with that not just having you know kids have the opportunity to dip their toe into something but really be able to complete the pathway and so I just really want to commend our instructional team and particularly uh Miss Rocket for the work um on on building those pathways uh identifying teachers who can teach these who are in our staff already and and really building that into our program core. So, I just wanted to say thank you. Um it makes it a lot better for our students to explore. And then the second thing is I did attend Spruce's uh I was at Spruce on Monday. Um and I wanted to thank Kaiser Permanente and um Hands-On Bay Area who organized a work day in honor of Martin Luther King Day of Service. Um and so we spent a lot of time uh cleaning up the gardens. We we had a group of volunteers putting in the slats to block the wind. We had a group of volunteers painting the walls so that they had a nice mural. And then we had a group of volunteers including myself weeding and pruning trees. So I just wanted to say thank you uh to Kaiser Permanente for giving your time uh to come and help our campuses. And um that's that's my report.

Thank you Trusty Richard. President a few things basically really fast. Um on December since it's been a long break I had I've went to the final um jazz concert by our high school at Elcomino High School. It's very good. And then I went to uh see uh Mrs. Brown who passed away. I went uh two of our principles went. Principal Erskin and principal Mert was there. It's in a very rainy afternoon or night. And then I went to the very first youth concert. Um it's called uh prevention and in action schools, communities and youth voices conferences in um CSM. It was put up by the juvenile justice delinquency and prevention commission. So that was a very uh wonderful gathering of law enforcements. uh you see get to see what happens after the students leave our protective high schools and what they do and what programs follows them uh if they are uh uh at risk and all the support that they have and I was happy to attend and that concludes my report. Thank you.

Thank you Trusty Lamb. Oh yeah, I'll just mention briefly um at the when school got back from winter break um I was uh fortunate to attend the uh classroom visits uh at Altaloma Middle School. Uh so that was a really great uh opportunity to uh get to know Principal Mendes uh a little bit better uh understand the work that she's been doing for uh the past few years uh to help promote uh student wellness and belonging. uh learned a little bit more about the Son Grow uh uh program that uh she uh implemented the past few years. And there's like and it it was it's just beyond that program just a very uh intentional approach to uh the supporting students. Um it was great to see all the different clubs and um you know the lunch bunch lunch bunch program. I mean it was just really nice to visit and uh we uh I think we we did visit math classroom. I think Miss Miss Hans just shout out to her. Um, yeah. So, it's just great to get to uh meet the community and get to know them a little better. So, thank you.

Thank you, Trusty. Okay. Um, so as we adjourn this evening's meeting, we would like to take a moment to honor Judy Brown, who began her career as a kindergarten teacher at Ponderosa Elementary School, where she taught for 20 years. Judy became the principal at Spruce Avenue I Spruce Elementary School um where she was an outstanding leader for 21 years before retiring in 2008. Um we would also like to remember the fathers of two valued members of our South San Francisco Unified School District community. Gerald Scott, father of Sherry Juy, Monty Birdie Elementary School teacher and South San Francisco classroom teachers association president and Issa Ibra Ibrahim Baba, father of our personnel commissioner Ree Nazra. Thanks Sherry for sharing about your father. We appreciated it. Um Issa Ibrahim Baba lived a life rooted in faith, service and love. Born in Palestine, he came to the United States with a hope with hope and determination, building a life defined by hard work, integrity, and generosity. As a devoted husband and father, Issa led by example, instilling the values of compassion, resilience, and responsibility. His commitment to serving others extended beyond his family to to his Palestinian community where his quiet leadership and humanitarian work touched many lives. We extend our deepest condolences to both families and hold them in our thoughts during this time of loss.