South San Francisco Unified School District Board - Regular Meeting

Foreidentification. Forew gracias. Thank you. I'd like to resume our meeting into open session um at 7 o'clock. 7 o'clock. Roll call.

Student trustee Ruiz present. Trusty Lamb here. Trusty Anthony here. Vice President Sheay here. President Murray here. Thank you. Okay. The pledge of allegiance. Would you like to introduce Nolan Kak and Kennedy Joelle Raza?

Okay, Nolan, you want to come up? Oh, yeah. Thanks. All right. Come on.

All right. It is my pleasure to introduce you to Nolan Kak this evening. He lives in Daily City with his parents Cynthia and Jeffrey along with his siblings Benjamin and Leah. Nolan is an outstanding and friendly fifth grade student at Skyline. At school, he enjoys math and being able to see his friends. While he's unsure of what he wants to be when he grow up, if he grows up, he currently is interested in cooking. Nolan demonstrates what it means to be a Skyhawk every day. He is respectful, responsible, kind, and safe. As part of the safety patrol, he shows up early and stays late after school to ensure the safety of our community. Academically, he is a good problem solver and a strong writer, consistently taking pride in his work. Beyond his academic success, Nolan is known for being a responsible, patient, and helpful classmate, often assisting his peers. His commitment extends to extracurricular activities particip students to have students to have. She is on the student advisory council and has great ideas to help the school. She enjoys realistic art, writing about fun topics and playing volleyball. She wants to be an entrepreneur where she grows up. She is hardworking, trustworthy, and takes initiative in her learning. She is kind and friendly to others and is able to take leadership roles in group settings. She is reliable as can be seen with her attendance and performance in school. Over the years since kindergarten, Kennedy consistently demonstrate demonstrated leadership potential by supporting classmates and modeling respectful and responsible behavior in the classroom. I'm proud to say that Kennedy Bol Borlaza is a Pinto.

Hey, do you guys want to come to microphone? Okay. So, go ahead. You guys are stand.

Good evening. My name is Nolan Goak. Good evening. My name is Kennedy Burllaza. Please stand and get ready for the pledge. Place your place your right hand over your heart. One, two, three, begin. I pledge algiance 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. Okay. So, we have some certificates for you guys. Okay. You guys are gonna get

We're gonna get a picture. We'll do. You also have chocolate. Okay. Next, the land acknowledgement statement read by Trustee Lamb. Yes. 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 Ramatouch community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples.

Thank you. Reporting out from close session, Mr. Hanan. Nothing to report. Review of agenda. Any changes? Does anybody want anything poll? I have uh one change for action item 2A, approval of theou with classified school employees association, chapter 197 for the early notification retirement incentive. I have in hand an updatedou which reflects a date change which I will submit uh for the record. What page was that again?

Page seven on the agenda. Page 206 through 208 in the board agenda packet. Okay. Um, moving on. PTA council remarks. Thank you.

Hello. Good evening. I'm representing the Juniperosa PTA. Um my name is uh Joel Borlaza. I'm actually the uh co-fundraiser chairman. Our fearless great president Jen Galga is out sick tonight with a ill child. So mommy duties. Um, but just giving a couple remarks. Just wanted to say that Juniper Sera is incredibly proud of our strong school community and the willingness of our families to support our fundraising efforts. We are a close-knit community where families, staff, and students come together to support one another, creating a school environment where everyone feels welcome, valued, and a true sense of belonging. Just this fall, our PTA hosted the WackyWalk fundraiser with a goal of raising $25,000. But thanks to the generosity and enthusiasm of our families, we far exceeded our goal and raised an amazing $32,475 in just three weeks. These these funds raise help support many important programs and improvements for our students including new outdoor seating. We call them the buddy benches, transportation for field trips, school assemblies, PTA community events, and student enrichment activities. And just this week, we launched our latest fundraiser, the Readathon. For this fundraiser, our goal is to raise $5,000 to purchase brand new smart TVs for our classrooms that don't have one yet. It's only been three days since we started and we've already raised more than $3,200. And also to balance out our fundraising efforts throughout the year, the PTA also hosts many community events where families can gather outside of school

hours to learn about the PTA, enjoy some great food, and participate in fun activities. Next month, we'll be hosting our island luau events, and our bingo nights are the hottest ticket in town. Our families are always active and eager to support our PTA fundraising efforts because they know the funds raised directly benefit our school and our students. Every dollar helps improve our campus and provides opportunities and fun activities that support our students education. It is the dedication, kindness, and teamwork of our families that truly make Junipera such a wonderful place for our students to learn, grow, and feel connected to their school community. Go Pintos.

I've done fundraising before. It's really hard. the PTA um let's see staff association representative remarks South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators I don't think they have I think yeah um of adult Elizabeth Bales

good evening honored board members members of the cabinet superintendent Moore IT staff and the school community. I'm Elizabeth Bales, president of the South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators. As we draw closer to spring break, school for many begins to feel like an endurance event. At Adult Ed, we continue preparing for our full six-year WASK review in early May, as well as keeping us up our efforts to provide highquality instruction to our wonderful students. Please wish us well. I appreciated Jennifer Smith's memo stating that the leave balance issue has been addressed. As someone who had to take leave last semester, it has been stressful and dislocating to have no way to check my current balance, and I look forward to having that information available on the county office of education site. In addition, as leadership is aware, accurate and complete assignment memos have been an issue for my members for a few years now. So, I hope these efforts by the human resources department will resolve this ongoing problem. And that concludes my remarks for the night. Thank you so much for your attention.

Thank you. South San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association. Sherry Dusty. Somebody here talking. No. Okay. California School Employees Association, Chapter 197, Charlene Malfi. Okay,

good evening board president, trustees, superintendent more, cabinet, audience, and community. I don't have much to report tonight, but I will say in keeping with our CSEA mission to improve the lives of our members, students, and community, our chapter always looks forward to the toy drive. And this year, um, we had more toys than I've ever seen in 20 years that we've been doing that. So, um, we also were able to raise $1,000 that we gave to the fire department personnel who came and picked up the toys. So, they were giving us lots of accolades, and I certainly hope those toys helped a lot of our community's children last Christmas. So, it made me happy to see that. And in our last meeting, um we discussed the um candidates for Sonteo County Superintendent of Schools and we went over the um the professional bios of each candidate. Um and we voted to endorse Hector Kamacho for Santo County Superintendent Schools. So if you don't know him, um I hope this also sends a message to our students. He started out as a pareducator in our classrooms and was so moved by teaching and and changing the lives of students. He just worked his way up and I hope he is voted in as superintendent of our schools. He has so much experience to give and help the students and our educators and schools to have the students learn at the best rate they can. So other than that, we'll be we'll be

passing out his flyers. We'll be campaigning for him. If you want a yard sign, let me know. I'll get one for you. But other than that, um, I wish you all the best and we'll continue trying to help our member, students, and community. Thank you. Good night. Thank you. He um he started his professional career as a PAR educator, but he started in our district as a student at South San Francisco High School. Yes, that's true. Absolutely. Okay, moving on. Personnel commission. Mr. Han,

our next personnel commission meeting will be held on Monday, March 23rd, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. in the district office boardroom.

Thank you so much. I heard that the Skyline Elementary School PTA representative is here. Good evening, President Trustee, Superintendent Moore, members of the cabinet, and members of the community. My name is Priya Marcato. This is my fifth year volunteering in the PTA and my second year as the PTA president of Skyline Elementary. My current my children currently attend Skyline in Westboro and are in the third and sixth grades. We have a lot of upcoming events to highlight for sorry. We have a lot of upcoming events to highlight for our PTA this spring. Our online spiritware store starts Monday, March 16th and runs through March 30th. We have a Starboard restaurant fundraiser on March 26th. We are holding a free tie-dye event for all of our families on April 10th and we are holding our third annual glow dance on May 15th. I'd like to take a moment to share a bit about the Skyline PTA. First, I want to thank all PTA members and parent volunteers who are here with us tonight. We're especially proud of sponsoring our school's five basketball teams this year. our continued teacher reimbursement program and the purchase and installation of our buddy bench in remembrance of our beloved Mrs. Christopherson. The PTA is fully aligned with the portrait of a graduate and the district goal this year of building community and a sense of belonging at our schools. The

Skyland PTA is working on belonging and community by conducting more in-person meetings, holding free events, and continuing to help subsidize our team sports. Thank you. And if there are no questions, that's our report for the evening. Thank you very much. Okay, items from the board.

I just want to make one announcement. So, the South San Francisco Education Foundation, which has been a great partner in funding some of our programs, is having their very first um fundraising auction and lunchon next next Friday, uh the 20th. So, you can go to that if you want to, but they also have a silent auction and there's lots of fun stuff on there and starting bids are pretty low, so check it out. Thank you. Anything else? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Just a reminder that the city subcommittee city subcommittee meeting is coming up March 25th

at I think it's LPR. Are we doing city hall? City Hall, right? Is it city hall? Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. Superintendence report. Thank you, President Murray. Chaser.

This uh Saturday, February 28th, the South San Francisco Education and Foundation in partnership with the South San Francisco Unified School District held our community learning exchange, which continue to be a valuable resource for our families and communities as they navigate their child's educational journey. Through wellplanned and informative workshops, our families received guidance on important educational transitions from early ed through middle and high school. Our most recent session, we had approximately 180 participants demonstrating strong engagement from our community and our families shared that the workshops are both educational and practical. The kindergarten presentation was especially wellreceived and families expressed a lot of appreciation for the clear, thoughtful information that helped them better understand what to expect as their kids begin their school journey. Families also particularly appreciated the Q&A panel with current students which provided helpful insights and real life perspectives as well as workshops on before and after school care programs. They felt like it was very informative. The cash for college session offered valuable guidance on college readiness and the FAFSA completion support. Parents also noted that they appreciated the support provided to help them begin and complete their form. So overall, our families reported leaving feeling empowered, informed, and excited about the next steps. And my second and final item is on the South San Francisco High School Wintergard achievement. On Saturday, also on Saturday, February 28th, the South City Wintergard earned third place at the California Color Color Guard Circuit Competition held at Fremont High School this past Saturday. Community members who were unable to attend one of their regular competitions may see them perform locally on March 21st at the Cappuccino High School Friends and Family Day event. Admission is $15. and we just want to congratulate all of our talented students and advisers on this accomplishment. Thank you very much. That concludes my report.

Thank you. Student trustee reports. Isabelle Ruiz, Izzy Ruiz, um, spring student trustee and ASB president for El Camino High School.

Good evening board members, cabinet, and community. My name is Isabelle Izzy Ruiz and I'm a senior El Camino and proudly serve as the ASB president and spring student trustee. I hope you've all been enjoying this lovely weather as we head into spring. This past Sunday marked at the final drama production on our campus this year. Our talented performers poured their heart and soul into the production clue inspired by the classic board game. Congratulations to our seniors who stood on stage for the last time at El Camino. We look forward to continuing to our support to our amazing performers in the future productions next year, including our fall musical prom and winter play Romeo and Juliet. I would also like to thank our drama teacher, Mr. Sullivan, for creating a space where creativity and talent can truly thrive. Speaking of creative talent, I'd like to take a moment to congratulate our very own Nathan Nan, a junior on our campus for being named this year's South San Francisco Youth Poet and residence. This program administered by the South San Francisco Public Library celebrates the diverse cultures of our community through artistic expression and promotes unity through poetry. We are incredibly proud of Nathan's for representing our school and you can learn more about his accomplishment on everything South City on all Instagram platforms. Congratulations again, Nathan. And as you all know, Pi Day is coming up this Saturday and we will be celebrating tomorrow during our annual pie a person fundraiser. During this event, students can purchase plates of shaving cream to pie participating teachers and students. In addition, our math club will be selling pies after school tomorrow to continue the celebration. This Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m., El Camino will be hosting our third annual gym Cresa car show. This event c brings together car enthusiasts from across the bay to honor our beloved autoshop teacher, Mr. Cresa. All funds raised funds raised goes towards the Jim Crescent Memorial Scholarship helping support one senior boy and one senior girl. So I hope to see you all there this Saturday. And as we look ahead to next week, our talented musicians will be performing at jazz night on March

20th at 700 p.m. in our little theater. This event is free to attend and we encourage members of our community to come enjoy a wonderful evening of music and support our incredible musicians. And I'm pleased to announce that it's officially election season and election day is March 27th. We have a total of 28 candidates running for various positions. Good luck to all our Colts. And as for sports, our teams have been off for a great start with most of our programs winning their preseason matches. We can't wait to see how they continue. And finally, one of our most exciting events of the spring is quickly approaching. Prom. This year's prom will take place at the beautiful San Francisco City Hall with the scene city of stars inspired by La La Land. Tickets will be on sale until spring break and after that sales will close, so students are encouraged to buy them soon. And to add on to the excitement, ASV will also be selling prom custom customizable promposal kits tailored to each student's request to help make some asking someone to prom an even more memorable experience. That concludes my report and unless there's any questions or concerns, I'd like to thank you all for your time.

Thank you and congratulations to Nathan. Um, next, Jaime Lynn Ooa, Paul, student trustee and ASP president for South San Francisco High School.

Good evening, board, cabinet, and community. My name is Jamie Leno Choa, and it's my pleasure to be representing South San Francisco High School. I'm not sure if anyone has felt the same, but it feels like the month of February felt flew right by. Our spring sports are in action with our boys golf having a start to a great season. Our baseball team has been winning their recent matches. They also had a game earlier today against Cha and their next one is on Saturday at 400 p.m. in our very own baseball field. So, make sure to go support if you can. Softball has a game tomorrow at 4 pm and we wish them the best of luck at their away game against Palo Alto. The track team had their first meet against Terteranova and El Camino yesterday in which they did incredible and our badminton team started off strong with the against with the win against Mills on Tuesday. We can't wait for all our athletes hard work to pay off this season. After a very competitive campaign campaign season, ASB elections have concluded. Congratulations to all those who won a class officer spot and a special congratulations to the future executive officers, President Jordan U, Vice President Ariana Fontella, and Treasurer Megan Atumi Feno. This week we're having a special election for the executive secretary position. The ballot opened yesterday during flex and students have been voting since then. We'll be posting the results tomorrow after school. Rewinding back to last week, our amazing counseling team, AVID members, and the ASB executive officers ended our middle school tour. We encouraged all eighth grade students to join clubs, sports, the AVID program, and the South City ASB as they chose their classes for the first year in high school. I would like to thank our counseling team for all the work they have put in for our students and for inviting us to join. All applications for a commission spot in the ASB class were due last Friday. That being said, we have officially started

the interview process with our ASB adviser and the current and future executive officers. We have been having an amazing time piecing the pieces of next year's class together and we hope to have it finalized by the end of the month. For all incoming eighth graders who are interested in joining the class in a commission spot, applications are due tomorrow. Our senior class officers held a splash to senior fundraiser on February 20th and March 6th during lunch at the quad. All students held had the option to buy a cup for $2, a small bucket for $4, and a big bucket for $10. Leading up leading up to the day, a lineup of people who were getting splashed were getting posted on our Instagram, including the senior officers, a few of our executive officers, basketball and football players, as well as many others volunteered to get splashed during lunch. We greatly we greatly value and appreciate their participation. This couldn't be possible without them as our class raised nearly $600 by this event. Last Saturday, the South City Competitive Indoor Percussion Team placed first place at Northern California Percussion Association competition. We're super happy for their big win at their first competition of the season. As we all know, prom is around the corner. Tomorrow is the last day to buy tickets for $125 before the price increases by $10 next week. Guest passes are being sold for $135 and are due by April 8th. Ticket sales are being sold up until April 10th with the highest price ending at $145. I highly recommend buying a ticket as soon as possible as we're super excited to see our students in Wonderland. Our annual Day on the Green event is right around the corner and we're excited to have our students come and enjoy some fun in the sun. This is one of our student body's favorite events and it is a day full of exciting activities and events for students to enjoy. We'll be having food trucks in our campus and many clubs will be saying

will be selling a variety of foods such as spamubias crema ice cream and much more. We'll also be having other activities such as inflatable obstacle forces, our famous our famous hamster balls that everyone seems to love, wigs matching games and f face painting. Many carnival games will be available for students to use for free. Students will have the chance to win tickets through the various carnival games and trade in for prices. Additionally, we encourage all to we encourage you all to come and support our drama department in their spring musical, Ride the Cyclone. Show dates will be on April 24th at 700 p.m. and April 25th. One show starting at 100 p.m. and the last one showing at 700 p.m. We can't wait to see all of the hard all of their hard work that they putting in all year. Finally, South City sent 22 projects to the National History Day County Competition. 20 projects advanced to the state competition in Sacramento on May 2nd and 3rd. We are excited to see all pro all projects represent our school at the next stage of the competition. Congratulations to all students and good luck at state competition. With that said, I hope everyone enjoys the sunny weather. I know I will. And if there's no further questions, this concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you. Public comments. Board welcomes public comment and values the input of our community. Members of the public may attend in person to address the board during this meeting which is recorded and streamed live. Process for speaking. to comment during the public comments portion of the meeting. Please complete a name and address a name address card located in the back of the room and give it to the secretary. The board president will call

upon individuals in random order. Each person may speak only once and must address the board from the podium. Speaking time is limited to a maximum of three minutes per individual per bylaw board bylaw 9323. However, if more than 10 speakers are anticipated, the board president may at their discretion limit individual speaking time to one or two minutes to accommodate everyone. Comments on non-aggenda items. Members of the public may address the board on matters that are not listed on tonight's agenda. This portion of the public comment is limited to a total of 30 minutes. Please note, in accordance with the Brown Act, the board cannot discuss or take action on items that are not on the agenda. However, the board may request staff to respond to your comments orally at the meeting or in writing at a future time. Comments on agenda. Members of the public may also address the board on specific items listed on tonight's agenda. Speakers may be heard during public comment or can be heard at the time of the specific agenda item is called for discussion. Um, we have one card here. If anybody else wants to make a public comment, fill out a a card in the back. Um, you know, I can't Can you read that? Lua Teimo Cervantes. I apologize if I misrepresented your name.

Thank you. Thank you.

Good evening. My name is uh Quakmo Cervantes. I was the head wrestling coach at South City High School. I'm also the co-head coach at the South San Francisco Gator Wrestling Club based here in South City, which is a free club for our youth. Um, we have representatives from all nine elementary schools, all three middle schools, as well as both high schools. We train year round, uh, all free of charge. We don't discriminate. We are open to everyone. I'm here tonight to stand up for my team and my community over an incident that happened at the high school a couple months ago. Um, I'm here to shed some light on how the investigation was handled and there was allegations made about me and I am absolutely innocent and it's been proven. I'm here tonight to ask for an immediate discussion with Dr. Moore, Mr. Hannon, Principal Bleisey, Pr Vice Principal Mack, as well as athletic director Daniel Flores, and myself to discuss this matter. Um, what I hope to achieve with this discussion is to discuss what this program has given me personally and what I have given back the program in my 15 years of service. In 2021, I quit my job and blew through my savings to build up this program and this community from scratch. We had nothing and now we are the premier wrestling club in the Bay Area because of that. I wish to discuss what my team lost out on this year. One person I I noticed didn't get recognization was Khloe Misenbach on her CCS championship that she won a couple weeks ago and just recently she took top 12 in the state and because of the incident she missed out on a state medal as well as my girls team went missing out on a wrestling team title. I wish to discuss how the

investigation was handled. During those two months, I was treated like a criminal and sentenced to solitary confinement. In two months, I was unable to speak to my family because they had my nieces and nephews go to school in the district. I was unable to speak to my co-workers as well as my roommates for the same reason. So, for two months, um I had fully cooperated and because of that, I lost my job. My mental and my physical health declined. I reached out multiple times for help on my mental health and were was met with complete silence. Um I also wish to discuss me coming back to my position fully as well as going back to serve in the community fully. Again, I was completely innocent. I've been cleared by the SSFPD as well as the Sanonteo District Attorney. They had found no evidence of any wrongdoing. Yet my life was ruined because of it. And everything that I've stood for and built has been destroyed. 20 plus kids lost their season this year. We lost out on many accomplishments. And I wish to tell my side of the story. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Next. Information only. Individual presentations are limited to a maximum of 10 minutes. Teaching and Learning Skyline Elementary School. Good evening. At this time, I'd like to welcome Principal Lan Daniels to the podium as she provides us an update of everything that's happening at Skyline Elementary School.

You can see my team there. They have my picture on their hand. um JS and Skyline Lights to work together to bring you some survival um tools there. And thanks to the creativity of Mrs. Epilo, you have your um own little chip bags um with our pictures on them. Okay. Thanks. And I just have to share I had a very proud moment. Jamie Leno was one of my first graders way back. So I'm very proud of her. So well done. So very excited to see that.

All right. So good evening President Murray, board of trustees, Dr. Moore, cabinet skyline staff and families and members of the community. My name is Lann Daniel Libman and is my privilege to stand before you tonight to share the great work being done by the dedicated group of amazing educators, passionate students, and supportive families of Skyline Elementary School. At Skyline, we hope to build the joy of learning and pride ourselves on providing opportunities that allow our students to become critical thinkers in a supportive and nurturing environment. To guide our way is our strategic plan which incorporates our core values of care. And we focus on LCAP goals and five strategic priorities in order to make sure that the promise of a portrait of a graduate holds true for all of our students. Our priorities are aligned with the strategic plan and district priorities. By focusing on exceptional instruction, we increase our students intentional academic discourse, create strong writers and thinkers, and build foundational skills. Our third through fifth grade teachers have been working diligently to implement our new math curriculum. And as always, our focal point is to ensure our students have a sense of belonging so that they remain engaged throughout the school day and fulfill the vision of a portrait of a graduate. At Skyline, our mission is to serve the whole child, both through engaging academic endeavors and by supporting their emotional well-being. By working towards a more student centered approach, we encourage our students to take ownership of their learning and reflect on the work they do to achieve their academic goals. Many of our conferences this week were studentled as they presented their families their data binders. Our third through fifth grade teachers have put in long hours of learning and planning to implement illustrative math curriculum and we have

seen a shift in moving the cognitive load to the students and emphasizing that productive struggle is essential to lifelong understanding. Our math intervention teacher Miss Fox helps supports teachers through this journey as well as our TK teachers with implementation of SVMI strategies. We are fortunate to have Miss Classler providing targeted reading intervention while simultaneously supporting our K2 teachers in the implementation of the UFI phonics program, strengthening our foundational literacy instruction schoolwide. This year, our instructional leadership team completed a book study on the writing revolution and delivered professional development to all staff, establishing writing as a unified schoolwide priority. We have continued to expand academic discourse across classrooms and deepen our use of begad strategies to ensure every student is supported and engaged. We strive to increase our on-time arrival and attendance, recognizing that consistent presence is foundational to all the growth we are working to achieve. Our Skyline community is predominantly Filipino at 39.9% and 26.2% 2% of our families identify as Asian. 22% are Hispanic Latinx, 6.2 white, 1.3% African-American, 4% Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian, and about8 Native American Indian. Out of the 382 students, we have an even number of boys and girls. Over the last few years, we have seen an increase of students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, currently at 36%. In addition, 20% of our students have disabilities and 20% are English language learners with 4% redesated eels. And here is our attendance by month for

the last two years in the first seven months of the year. As you can see, this year we are averaging a daily attendance of around 96% with a slight dip since December and our chronic absenteeism is currently around 12%. This slide here shows our attendance by tier. With the support of everyday lab, our attendance clerk, Mrs. Rodriguez, and our teachers have been working diligently to communicate with families about the importance of strong attendance. We are targeting our atrisisk group with additional communication and conferences with families. On the 2024 dashboard, it showed us at 12.2% and last year we were at 11.6, six, which is certainly a step in the right direction and something we are trying to replicate this year. Moving on to our academic data, I want to start with some Dibbles numbers. As you look at this three-year comparison, the red line shows that in the previous two years, we saw a drop in our mid-year assessments at for our at or above benchmark scores shown in the green and the blue. However, this year we had an increase and we see this as a good sign that our UFI instruction is making an impact on our student learning. As we continue with our schoolwide dipple scores, we see our students are making steady progress. But we also notice that our third through fifth grade percentages in the red increasing. That indicates we need to focus on our foundational skills within those grades. But if you look at our fourth graders, 70% of those students are in the blue. We also understand that Dibbles is for screening purposes and we look forward to seeing how the growth math math growth assessment system next year will help to provide additional data to direct our instruction and support.

Taking a look at our L ELA CASS data, 59% of our students exceeded or have met standard, which is an increase of 3% over last year's scores. Each of our grades outperform both the district and state, and our fifth graders doing exceptionally well at 70%. George Orwell said, "If people cannot write well, they cannot think well. And if they cannot think well, others will do the thinking for them. Our analysis of our data highlighted the need for students to think critically and communicate their knowledge effectively. And to support this, we are prioritizing writing and academic dis discourse as a key focal areas for improvement. Our CASP math data shows that 56% of our students met our exceeded standards, which is up 2% from the previous year, and we outperform students in our district and across California. We have seen an increase in academic discourse with the support of sentence frames and scaffolding. In December, I attended the California Math Council North Conference with others from our district, including one of our teachers, Miss Meyers. Through this opportunity, she has been able to bring the building thinking classroom to life in her room and has shared her insights with other teachers. We increased our science scores by 25% last year with 56% of our students meeting our exceeding standards outperforming the district and state by a significant percentage. Thanks to the efforts and support of our science toa Jennifer Rossi along with our science lead, Mrs. Baliseros. Our teachers have been implementing TWIG for several years and these results show that their science knowledge is growing. And here we see our area of growth. Last

year's ELPAC scores decreased by 13% to 39% putting us in the red on the California dashboard. However, next week we will celebrate six of our students who achieved rec classification and along with the support of our EL Tossa Nal Macheo, we have increased our designated EL and support for our newcomers. Several of our teachers have gone to CRLPS learning how English works and we are dedicating staff time to sharing instructional practices. I am also wondering if the timing of this assessment had an impact on the test scores. Last February, we lost our one of our beloved teachers, Mrs. Christopherson, and testing was done during a time of collective grief. While examining our data more closely, we see that some of our target student groups are not yet at performing at the same level as our overall student population. In response, we are prioritizing instructional strategies that promote academic discourse and productive struggle with a strong emphasis on building vocabulary and strengthening writing skills skills across all content areas to support improved outcomes for all of our students. Along with our intervention programs, our second grade team has implemented a walk-to- read model where students rotate classrooms to receive differentiated UFI reading instruction based on their needs. And pictured here, we also see our teachers collaborating to review our mid-year writing assessments, using grade level rubrics, and determining next instructional steps. You also see Miss Meyer's students using vertical whiteboards to share their math thinking. In addition to classroom instruction and coaching support, Miss Castler and Miss Fox provide targeted small groupoup interventions to further support students.

Her MTSS team collaborates to analyze data, monitor progress, and coordinate interventions to support the success of every child. Okay. As part of our efforts to focus on student belonging and well-being, we place an emphasis on the five C castles and review one or two during our monthly on online character trade assemblies. In addition to partnering with Soul Shop for student digital lessons, we had a school assembly this year on free to be and provided two parent in-person workshops on bullying and screen time. While neither were well attended, the recordings were provided to the families. And also pictured here are some of my principles of the day and um last spirit day which was poem in your pocket. Here we have highlighting some of our activities like last month's lunar new year parade and lion dancers. In the fall, we held our annual pumpkin patch, Halloween parade, trunk or treat, and participated in the Ruby Bridges Walk to School. And I'm very proud that thanks to our PTA sponsorship and our hardworking parents and staff volunteers, we had six daily city park and wreck basketball teams, including two girl teams. I'm especially proud of how hard they work to learn teamwork and improve their skills. And pictured there on the bottom left, you see our fifth grade team. And this was a shining moment of empathy and strong character as they pulled together to ensure that one of the other team's players could make the final basket. Here, even the ref is celebrating the basket, which was happened perhaps about the 10th try. And another moment of pride came Monday night when our fourth grade boys team A finished their undefeated season with a championship win.

Through explor exploration and play, children turn into active investigators using curiosity to drive cognitive, social, and emotional growth. Here you see our kinders growing their imagination with the imagination playground. Our third graders playing collaborative kickball. And we enjoyed the Lawrence Hall of Science Festival so much last year, we brought it back. and kids successfully built and engineered with the help of many of our parent volunteers. Okay. I am incredibly grateful to our dedicated teaching staff, specialists, paraprofessionals who show up every day ready to champion our students, learn alongside one another, and support each other throughout the year. I'm also fortunate to work with an outstanding office team, a custodial staff, and of course, our hardworking students who inspire me every day. Next year, our staff will look a little different as we say goodbye to three teachers who are retiring and one who will be relocating to the Sacramento area. While we will miss them greatly, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our Skyline educators for their continued hard work and commitment and support. It is truly an honor to serve as their principal. The work we do together makes a meaningful difference in the lives of our students and it is a joy to be a part of it. And I'd like to now thank our volunteers because without them a lot of what we do would not be possible to our community and our PTA. But we want to highlight five of our volunteers. Let me see. Angelina, Angelina, is she here? Carol.

I saw Janette earlier right there. She's hiding. I saw her earlier. Oda, where is she? Xandra, there you are. I'm like, I know. I saw her earlier. Okay. Wayan, one of our coaches here and one of our coaches. Okay. All right. And so, do you want to do that before we do any questions? Okay. All righty. Okay. All righty.

Thank you very much. Okay. And that's it. Thank you very much. So, I'm going to open up if you have any questions. Um, what a great community you have and I'm so glad to see um, everybody out here. Um, I see your teachers, your staff. It's wonderful that you had everybody. Um, my I just wanted to comment on um, one thing, Dibbles, congratulations on on seeing improvement this year. That's great. And I really I hope that the UFFL UFI continues to to improve. And then the other thing is the science performance of your socioeconomically disadvantaged is like off the charts compared to the other things.

Yeah. The other things incredible. That means that twig is is working for a lot of students. Yeah. And I think they can connect a lot to that. That's great. And the fifth grade teachers do an amazing job to get them ready for that assessment, too. Very cool. Well, I look forward to seeing improvement and continuing to have you um come back and tell us all the great things that are happening at Skyline. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Lamb.

Yes, Principal Daniel Libman. Thank Thank you for being here. Thank you for the community for being here. Um yeah, yeah, just echoing what Trusty Anthony said, you know, great great job in terms of uh the growth in um all all the different subject areas including, you know, especially the reading and uh the the science. Um and um I know there's you know everyone seems like everyone's really really working hard to yeah uh improve and like create you know uh just keep iterating on those uh different practices to um yeah just kind of keep fueling that uh achieve you know helping our kids achieve um and you know it was great to visit you uh that one time a few maybe a couple months back I can't quite remember but u yeah I look forward to coming again and yeah wonderful community um yeah thank you for your leadership um on you know all the things but you know uh I know we talked a little bit about um I think you won an award in terms of uh reading and something yeah but I don't know I just know that's a big area of focus and I think it's really paying off so thank you

yeah thank you

thank you thank you for a very clear and comprehensive presentation about the work happening at Skyline Elementary. I was particularly impressed by the academic progress your school is making. Uh the increase in uh CASP results including 25% improvement in the science as my fellow uh colleagues mentioned. Um and then with continue growth in uh ELA and math is very encouraging. Uh this was also great to see how intentional the instructional focus is across the school and the implementation of uh I am Uli phonics and the emphasis on the academic discourse and writing shows a strong coordinated effort to strengthen instruction across grade level. So thank you for all that. And finally, the emphasis on the social emotional learning. Looking through those pictures is really telling uh and the community activities really stood out stood out to me. Programs like character counts uh student leadership opportunity and community events clearly help create a strong sense of belonging of our students. So, thank you for Skylines educators and community for the great work you are doing for students. Thank you.

Um yeah, thank you very much. The this report was very good regarding the alpac uh score. Um it's only one test on one day and so I I remember when my dad died and my nephew had to take some big tests the following day and he did very poorly. But he's now a um doctor of pharmarmacology. So I mean he he did okay. It's it's I'm sure that you guys will do better. Um but you guys have been doing very well. And what occurs to me is having belonging as as even though you have it as a priority this year, it's been a priority for years for you guys. And um they can't achieve the things that they achieve. and you can't move up like you're moving up unless the the kids have that sense of belonging. So, thank you very much to you and and to your uh your staff.

Thanks. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Do you want to have your uh teachers stand up? Your staff? Thank you. Okay, next. Juniper, good evening again. Applaud already. Welcome Principal Terresa Sayan to the podium to share the great things that are happening at Junip. You're here already.

Um, so I only have 10 minutes, so I'm going to try to really get through this. And thank you for the stool. Appreciate it. Um, good evening, President Murray, Vice President Sheay, Trustee Lamb, Trustee Anthony, Dr. more cabinet student trustees um community members amazing tech team skyline hawks and JS Pintos. My name is Teresa Sayen, principal of Janipera Elementary School, home of the Pintos. Throughout the presentation, the photos included will highlight learning and engagement at JS. They reflect our focus on two key priorities. exceptional instruction in academic discourse in math and creating an environment where students feel engaged, supported, and a strong sense of belonging. Thank you to principal um Daniel Libman who mentioned the next two slides. Um as stated, we believe we can achieve our um portrait of a graduate vision by adhering to our core values and accompanying accomplishing our strategic priorities. Our JS priorities are centered around SSFUSD's strategic priorities and show commitments to the portrait of the graduate vision. We continue to work on strengthening instructional capacity with the focus on math achievement, academic discourse, and ELD. We are committed to the emotional well-being of our students, our Pintos. We are we at JS are dedicated to raising the whole child. Looking at our ST student demographics, we have 300 students in K to5 in addition to our 12 preschool and TK Pintos. 18% of our Pintos are multil- language learners. 30% are students with

disabilities and 37% of our Pintos are socially economically disadvantaged. 85% of our students are Filipino, Hispanic or Latin X and Chinese. Here's a snapshot of our attendance data until February 26. JS Pintos have an attendance rate of 95%. The box on the left breaks down attendance rate rates by grade level and they're pretty consistent throughout. Here you can see our attendance trends over the past two years and this school year. The top shows average daily attendance and the bottom shows chronic absenteeism by month with yellow indicating at risk and green is where we want to be. Since 2021, our chronic absenteeism has decreased by 21% thanks to our strong relationships our teachers build with families, daily outreach from our fantastic duo, our front office team, Mrs. Dela Cruz and Mrs. Kim and targeted supports such as attendance meetings and home visits. At JS, we encourage a growth mindset and cash scores have increased by 4%age points in ELA, by 12 percentage points in math, and 12 percentage points in science. The slide shows CAS summitive data for spring 2025 disagregated by subgroups. As you can see, our SC subgroups, our student subgroups didn't perform as well. However, we are working on closing the gaps by focusing on data driven instruction, frequent progress monitoring, and adding interventions and supports in a timely manner. Excuse me. Here is a 4-year comparison of CASP data. Although there was a 4%

increase in ELA, there were bigger increases in math and science. Excuse me. Comparison dibbles data from the beginning of the year to the middle of the year windows show an increase of 5 percentage points of students performing at or above grade level and a decrease of 5 percentage points of students approaching um or below grade level. Beginning of the year, EXL data shows 69% of first through fifth graders were on or above grade level, increasing to 75% for K to 5 by midyear. Dibbles and EXL track growth three times a year. Teachers also monitor Dibbles progress every two weeks for students below grade level. Data analysis identifies student needs, guiding strategic supports and instructional adjustments, and targeting interventions based on frequent progress monitoring. Comparing ELPAC data from spring 2023 to spring 2025, our data shows that the majority of MLS at JS have somewhat developed English or a level two. To further develop fluency in English language, we in each of the domains, we are focusing on increasing academic discourse in the classrooms. Some instructional strategies are book talks and literature circles as well as a focus on phonics, morphology, and vocabulary. We are focused on strengthening our student support systems as early detection leads to early intervention. Through our student assistance program, teachers collaborate with specialists to develop targeted instructions and monitor progress. Every two weeks, the team reconvenes after six to eight weeks to review data, adjust supports, and to

determine next steps. During each um grade level collaboration, teachers engage in facilitated data drives, planning next steps and lessons accordingly and meet with our math and um reading specialists. Here are some of the resource that are used to support student learning needs. As you will see in the next few slides, the portrait of the graduate is alive at JS. One of our graduate aims is learn. Engaged Pintos learn constantly as their lives and world change. The photos on this slide show that Pintos embrace a growth mindset and a love of learning by seeking understanding, engaging in discourse, asking questions, and using data and evidence. In addition, Pintos explore their creativity and find new and innovative ways to show to solve problems. This year, our instructional leadership team with guidance from PSI consultants Jesse Row has focused on strengthening academic discourse across JS. Teachers are now working together to vertically align discourse practices from preK to fifth grade. JS Pintos thrive. At JS, we focus on developing the whole child by supporting both character and well-being. We teach self-awareness through programs like the zones of regulation, provide structured physical activity through Lagards of PE, and partner with YSB to offer counseling and friendship groups to students. Together, these supports help our Pintos build resilience, confidence, and the skills they need to thrive. Thank you for providing Lagar's PE and YSB counseling services to our elementary schools throughout the district. At the bottom of the slide is a photo of the JS student advisory council or JSSAC. I will highlight our JS leadership group during the next couple of slides.

Excuse me. A sense of belonging means that students feel safe, valued, and accepted as important members of their classroom and school community. When students feel that they are known, respected, and connected to others at school, they are more engaged in learning and more willing to participate, take risks, and contribute to the classroom. The photos highlight many of the ways we promote belonging at JS, including studentled assemblies and daily community time. With about 16% of our students on the autism spectrum, we intentionally teach acceptance and inclusion. During read across JS day, students were placed in cross grade families, bringing together kindergarten through fifth grade students to build connections across school community. JS Pinto's navigate their future. Last month, we held career day where family and community members share their professions with our students. Our Pintos heard from professionals including a biotech researcher, pediatric nurse, 911 dispatcher, police officer, airline pilot, a librarian from the South San Francisco Library, a South City High School wellness counselor, and even our very own Legarsa PE coach who was a former JS student. JS Pintos impact our community for the better. Our Pintos demonstrate empathy, teamwork, and respectful communication as they collaborate toward shared goals. One example is our student advisory council, a student leadership group that models respectful dialogue and helps amplify student voice through structured discussion. I would like to highlight the important work that they did this year. The think together project was developed in partnership with the Stanford deliberate deliberative democracy lab to engage elementary

students in civil discourse and democratic participation in a time of increasing societal polarization. This program was intentionally designed to teach students how to engage in respectful productive discourse around meaningful issues. Students participate in structured dem democratic discussions that emphasize listening, respectful disagreement, and consideration of multiple perspectives. The program is fostering a school culture that values student voice, civic responsibility, and thoughtful engagement. Our SACE has part participated in three deliberations. One in an actual Stanford classroom with Stanford students and today they were moderators for a third grade deliberation during which they helped facilitate and extend democratic discussions to their peers. I am super proud of their growth that they have experienced this year. At this time, I'd like our SATC to please stand. Please stand and let's give them a round of applause. Our community is deeply committed to the success of our Pintos. We are fortunate to partner with many organizations that support our students including leadership from South San Francisco High School, Abolico, El Camino High School, the Daily City Police Department, the Daily City Wreck and Parks Department, Boy Scout Troop Number Four, and Stanford University. In addition, our JSPTA plays an instrumental role in building and sustaining our school community, providing ongoing support that helps enrich the experiences of our students and families. We could not do this without the incredible support of our PTA and our

schoolite council. They they contribute in countless ways, hosting community building events, funding initiatives like our outdoor learning spaces, helping us purchase interactive TVs, providing assemblies, and sponsoring students to attend field trips and outdoor education. They've also made afterchool enrichment clubs possible, including film, Legos, crafts, and cooking, just to name a few. Their dedication truly makes a difference in the experience of our Pintos every day. Uh, please stand when I call your names. Um, let's see who's here. Whoops. Don't do that. Um, um, Eileen Diompo. Um, Joel Poraza Um I think Melina and Aaron Bergos is um sick today. They're sick. Is Rachel Breeze here? There's a lot of sickness going on at um JS. Um but thank you. And I'll have them come up after if you don't mind. Is that okay? Okay. Thank you. Let's give them a round of applause. Um, thank you for our JS volunteers for your hard work. Despite any challenges the world may bring, our team Pintos have always kept our students at the center of everything we do. Going above and beyond or to ensure that our Pintos achieve academically, grow in character, and feel part of a caring community. As Mother Teresa once said, "I can do things that you cannot. You can do things I cannot, but together we can do

great things." Here at JS, we believe in one another, and we truly believe that together we can accomplish great things. Team Pintos, please stand. Thank you for your resilience, your encourage to care so deeply for our Pintos and for each other, your openness to learn, your dedication to teaching and building up our Pintos. I applaud you and the heart that you put into your work every single day and I totally appreciate you. I am deeply grateful for this community, for our exceptional staff, for our dedicated families, and I see an and the DeLeon family or JS family. Thank you to the board of trustees, cabinet, and Dr. more um for the amazing tech team for allowing me to share a bit about JS this evening. I am proud and I am thankful to be a part of this family. Salamat say

thank you trusty Anthony. Yeah. Um first of all, thank you to both of you. uh for bringing really great quotes. I'm I'm going to go back to um principal Daniel's quote of from Orwell saying if people cannot write well they cannot think well and if they cannot think well others will do their thinking for them and then tie it to this amazing student advisory council and the work that they're doing this think together. Thank you.

That's incredible. Um this is things that adults are not critically thinking about. And what we see is that when students are challenged to think critically, they think critically. They rise to the challenge. And I think that's a takeaway that I I see a lot in in our schools. When we challenge our students, they rise to the challenge. And I see that in our math, right? We're doing new things. We're trying new talks. We're having more discourse. You're seeing the results. And um I I can only imagine that it's going to continue to get better. Um and I'm just really really impressed and say congratulations to the community that you built and the investment that you're putting into into students and their their own leadership. So thank you.

Thank you. Thank you Jesse Lamb. Yeah,

Principal Sai. Yeah, thank you. And uh well welcome to JS community. Uh and yeah, just to echo, I mean, I think, yeah, congratulations on, you know, all the growth, you know, that's happening across all different areas. Um, yeah, keep it up. Um, yeah, I was also very impressed by the the student advisory council. Um, yeah, I think it's great. I mean, I think uh I haven't heard that of that many um like leadership uh groups like in elementary level. So, I was certainly impressed when I heard about it and and the collaboration with Stanford. So, um, yeah, that's, um, yeah, so I'm looking forward to hearing more about that. Um, um, and, um, I think, yeah, just what to offer a testament to the the community at JS. Um, you know, experienced it firsthand at well, there's back to school night was pretty awesome and um, but then that that Halloween haunted house was pretty wild. So, um, I mean, you guys go all I don't know. I mean, you're like a small but mighty team. I mean, it's very vibrant, very everyone seems to be having a ton of fun. Um, so yeah, definitely, yeah, one of my favorite um events to be at so far. So, I look forward to coming back to that, too. Um, yeah. So, yeah, thank you. And, um, yeah, we'll come back and Oh, thanks for letting me judge the the Halloween costumes, too. Or like I know, Miss Miss Han, we were thanks for the trust, I guess. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Dr. Shay,

yes. Thank you so much for the great presentation and I really appreciate seeing how clear your work connects to the district strategic priorities and the portrait of graduate and I also uh especially encouraged by the academic progress you shared the improvement of CASP results increasing uh in our student meeting or exceeding standards in math and science by about 12% and show that the focus on math achievement and academic discourse is having a real impact in classrooms. And I also want to acknowledge the work your team has done around the attendance reducing chronical absentees from about 33% a few years ago to around 12% uh this year. That's a a significant accomplishment. Reflect strong collaboration with families and the community. And finally, I want I want to share the strong focus on student belonging and wellness including programs like a zones of regulation and the student advisory council as the my colleagues mentioned that is amazing and I want to point it out. I'm very intrigued with those questions. The central question should students have cell phone in school and at what age should students have social media? Should JS be a uniform school? How much screen time should students have? Those are very intriguing questions that we are all uh you know wrestle with. So thank you for those uh very uh spicy questions for the student advis advisory council. So thank you for the entire Pinto team and for your dedication to students and families. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Hi. Um thank you for your report. um your school. I love going to your school. Um because I that sense of our priority of belonging has is something that you've been doing for years as well. you have so much heart and and you know all the parents and all the kids and and uh but you know the first time that it kind of struck me that you really lived that inclusion was at your holiday um holiday shows and and I always try and go to that one because you have all the kids participate special needs kids and you know the the special ed classes the the kids with autism who have to they put the thing, but they all they're all there. Kids in wheelchairs, they're all there. And I just I adore that. I mean, I just think that it's it's so special. And so, I thank you and your staff. Thank you very much.

Thank you, President Lori.

May I call the volunteers, please? Eeno and Joel for Joel here. Okay. What have you guys? the SACE come up please.

And this one Uh, principal S. focus

principal sen I I wanted to ask one last just a quick question because I I know Dr. uh Shay um you know brought up the the spicy questions and so but I'm actually really curious too what uh what came out of those discussions. I mean I don't know that there's a way to to in the future share out some learnings or things from

Sure. I'd love to do that and um our next one is April 10th and I would like to invite um some board members to be on the expert panel. I've already extended the invitation to Dr. more. Um, but it would be great to have a board member on the expert panel and you're more than welcome. We'll have third and fourth grade deliberations then and then we're actually doing a screen sense um with the parent community a deliberation. So, but I'd love I Mrs. Juan will be more than happy. We'll share them the results with you. All right. Intriguing. Thank you. Okay.

Did you want to do it now or next time? It's all good. Okay, next we have a present pres presentation with potential action. Individual presentations are limited to a maximum of 10 minutes. Um presentation business services um second interim financial report. Assistant Superintendent Ted O will present to the board the 202526 second interim financial statement for the period ending January 31st, 2026. Okay, good evening uh board of trustees. Okay, so tonight I'll be presenting the uh 20 25 26 second in financial report. So there are not too many significant changes from the first interim financial report. So um so I'm just going to go over a few important slides and uh shorten the presentation. Uh so let's first skip to slide 11. Okay. So so this slide shows the projected general fund expenditures as of the second interim financial report. uh includes both the restricted as well as the unrestricted program funds. So at the last board meeting a speaker under public comments mentioned that the district was sitting on 40 million in books and supplies category which was from the first interim financial report that I presented. So for the second interim so you can see the amount has been reduced to approximately 39 million. So I wanted to take some time to clarify this uh for everyone. So the bulk of the 40 million is the amount budgeted for restricted one-time and

ongoing federal, state, and local grants as well as gifts, donations, and fundraiser revenue received by the schools and the district office. It also includes the unspent restricted program funds carried over from the prior year. And these uh restricted funds must be used for a specific purpose. And you you heard me say that I guess in the past also too. uh federal, state and local grants have strict requirements regarding how the funds must be spent. So these restrictive funds cannot be used for things such as employee raises or for reducing class sizes uh at the schools. It's al it's is also standard practice for school districts to park the grant fund which includes carryover program funds and uh school gifts donations and grants under the books and supplies category until the administrator or principal determines how to spend these funds. Some of the restrictive grants allow the district to spend it all over a couple of years. So for example, Prop 28 arts and music funding we receive each year. The grant allows the district to spend it over three years. So these uh funds are parked under the books and supplies category until there is a plan on spending these funds. And so so when the district hires a music teacher, for example, your part of the funds under books supplies will be moved over to the certificated salaries category to cover that salary. So lastly, the amount in the intro report is only the budgeted amount. It does not include any amounts spent or encumber as of the second in report which is you know half of the year we spent about 6.7 million of the 39 million shown in the slide. So so part of it has already been spent for half of the year.

Okay. So let's go to slide 14. Okay. So this slide shows a comparison between the first interim and second interim financial reports. Net change in revenues is approximately 1.1 million. The net change in the expenditure budget is approximately 1.8 million. And I'll be going over the details in the coming slides. The projected ED fund balance is projected to decrease by approximately 657,000 from the first interim to the second interim. And this is before the state required and district designation shown at the bottom of the slide which I'll probably also go over later in the presentation. So, so with that let's go over to slide 16. Okay. So, so the total net change in revenue from first insurance second is approximately 1.1 million as I mentioned. Uh so this is mainly due to the net increase in federal, state and local categorical restricted funding about 1.7 million with 400,000 of that related to the new one-time learning recovery emergency block grant and also uh increase in the expanded learning opportunity program grant about 552,000. So this is also a decrease in revenue due to transfers to a charter school for uh district students attending uh there which is about.1 million. We also have a decrease of our projected interest income due to the now lower interest rate by about by about half a million. And so the net total change for expenditures about approximately 1.8 million and a major change here include an increase about one time state uh categorical restricted program budget about 1.1 million uh net increase in federal, state and local grant allocations and various budget adjustments about 700,000. And with that, let's go to slide 21. Okay. So, so this is a high level

summary of our budget for the current and next two years. This is the state uh requirements to have a balanced budget for all three years. The net increase decrease in fund balance row uh which is on the screen there shows the district is deficit spending about approximately 3.5 million next year about 6.3 million for the following year. Uh similar to other school districts, the district all district is also needed to make some budget reductions in the future to address the deficit spending especially since the staffing and programs charged to one-time federal state stimulus funds is expiring or used up. The amount of reduction will depend on whether additional revenue comes in from property taxes in the future and whether the state provides additional one-time grants uh which they has been doing the last few years. The bottom row shows the projected ending fund balance. Uh it's important to know that this ND5 ball includes state uh required and district designations as I mentioned earlier uh which I will go over. So so so let's jump to 22. So these are the basically the categories that we break the ending fund balance into. So based on the five categories uh here are the destination that make up the ending fund balance. As I mentioned earlier, some of the state require and some of district designations. The district designation are reported under the heading uh assigned slashdesated is able to balance the budget for all three years as required by the state which includes meeting the state reserve requirements for economic uncertainty. Okay, let's go to 25. Okay. So, so these two slides you seen from my first uh intro presentation I'm not going to go over it. So these are basically some of the position programs charge of one-time funds and then u then there's some uh these are the areas concerned you also seen that in my first interim report so I'm

not going to go over that and then uh looking ahead so some of these uh presentations coming up in the future and you seen that also on the first interim so I'm going to pass on that one as well and that concludes my presentation thank you thank Do we have any quick questions or I just want to say I appreciate the uh clarification on the uh books and supplies line. I think that's a really important line. Um and thank you for your expeditious uh presentation. Thank you. Thank you for the great presentation.

Thank you so much. You always do a great job and I appreciate it and you always make it feel like it's so clear. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, with that we're going to take a 10m minute break so that the translator can take her break. Thank you. So 38 Eight.

Okay, welcome back everybody. So where we last left off was Mr. with Mr. O's presentation of the second interim financial report. So the next thing is an action item for business services. Approval of the second interim financial report and positive certification of financial condition. Staff recommends the approval of the second interim financial report and positive certification of financial condition for f for fiscal year 2025 2026 declaring that the SSFUSD will be able to meet its financial obligations for the current year and subsequent two two fiscal years as presented to the board. Are there any questions? Do I have a motion? So moved.

Second. Okay. All in favor? I. So, there was a motion by Trusty Anthony, a second by Dr. Sheay, and it was a unanimous um movement of the motion. Okay. So, next um is the consent agenda. The following items are submitted for board approval. One motion will authorize action for those items. So designated. Does anybody want to Oh, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor? I.

So there was a motion by trustee Lamb, a second by Dr. Sheay, and the movement. And the motion is carried. Um I noticed that Lisa Tucker, our registar, is retiring. She was a mom with me at Montyver many years ago. Okay. So, next um are our action items. So, first is a is resolution number 26-11 for trustee compensation. The board will discuss the adoption of resolution 26-11 to allow stipen payment for trustee Richardson who was absent from the February 26, 2026 board meeting. Is there any um discussion there?

Yeah. Do you do you want to read the resolution to the record? I mean, we can also wave the reading. It's kind of standard, I think, when we have Do you want to wave? I mean, I'm motion to wave the reading. Okay. Okay. Sure. So, I'll second it. Um, all in favor? I Oh, we have to take a roll call, I think. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Trusty Lamb. Yes. Trusty Anthony. Yes. Vice President Sheay. Yes. President Murray.

Yes. Thank you. Um, next is approval of the district's new and updated board bylaws and policies. Staff recommends the approval of the following new and updated district's board bylaw and policies and wave a second reading. Um I would um like to um just set aside well not set aside but just uh pull it for or to discuss amongst ourselves um the BP1445 response to immigration enforcement. I I just had some comments and um suggestions but you know I think we can talk it through before deciding anything.

So which one did you want? Oh BP 1445. Yeah. So number 19 on this list. Okay. 19. Okay. Um, are there any other ones that we want pulled for discussion? That was the only That was the only one for me. Uh, okay. Um, so do you want to So, do you want to do the Why why don't we do the rest of them and then we'll discuss this one. So, does somebody want to

move to you? So, I move to uh approve those listed except number 19 and then wave the second read. Okay. Second, second. Okay. All in favor? I I motion carried with a first by Dr. Sheay and a second by Trusty Anthony. Okay. So, board policy 1445. Okay. Do do you want to pull until next? Um, I could well maybe I'll make some

Yeah. Quest share some thoughts and um and then we can discuss what to do. Bring that back. Yeah. I mean, I think No, I don't want to bring it back. We can't bring it back. So, we were supposed to have adopted this by March 1st uh per uh the uh ED ed ED code. This is a policy that changed. We do need to adopt it and if we want to make changes to it, we can make changes to it, but we should discuss what you want and what you're thinking about making changes to it, but we should have a policy on the books. Yes, I can agree.

Oh, I see. So, um Okay. Well, um well, I'll just say say my things and yeah, we can Yeah. Um, so yeah, I think overall it's the policy is pretty solid. I I think I was um really looking at um kind of the our our district's um you know protocol um that we we know and it's a pretty we have a very solid um protocol. I think um that's been worked through um like the the county um like the county has advised us a lot on like what to do in case of these situations. And so I just wanted to ensure that there's like really tight alignment between the board policy and the the protocol that we already have in place. Um I think the only two things that I would ask for um us to consider is whether to include um something about um that that as part of the um like as part of the reporting process that we also report to the California Department of Justice. um that that was that is part of our protocol. And then the second thing is um like to include a piece about um that if should a you know a immigration enforcement officer arrive that um that we uh immediately contact district legal counsel and the superintendent. Um, so I felt like those pieces weren't I I know and we don't have to be uh, you know, I feel like the the policy as it stands does cover a lot of the the protocol we have, but I felt like those two pieces um, in terms of uh, contacting the California Department of Justice and then also contacting legal counsel and the superintendent, you know, should a enforcement uh, law enforcement arrive. Um, those were two pieces I thought might help strengthen the policy um, just to make it a little bit tighter

aligned with the protocol and I can write it out in more if I may. President Murray. So um, the board of course at its pleasure may want that to be included in the board policy but we have an internal protocol and everything that Trusty Lamb said is outlined in the protocol. We our team has gone and worked at the county office of ed to make sure that these updates are actually included in our protocol. And so it does indicate that we will make a timely report to the California Department of Justice of any attempt. Um it also specifically indicates they'll notify the board president, the superintendent, and in our protocol. It also lists who the county council is and his contact information. All of that has been shared with all of our administrators. a few times this year. We most recently two weeks ago I believe to make sure that should this happen that we're all following the same consistent protocol.

Thank you.

Um I have a question because when I hear the word protocol I it sounds like a different word to me than policy and I think policy protocols are typically addressed in an administrative regulation which you can adopt without having to bring it back to the board. Is there right? So that would be my only push back is that having the having the protocol and an administrative regulation would be a little bit more flexible for us. As you can see like we are behind on adopting new policies and we are still considering policies from June of 2025. And my fear is that if we don't if if we have a protocol that can be adaptable in our administrative regulation, it would be better uh rather than trying to bring back a policy which always has to go through the board by bylaws committee and then come to a board meeting. So you know we're bringing this is this is March 12th. Dr. Shay and I had our board bylaws meeting on the 20th, right? And if and we happen to have two meetings this month. So I I just just from a like a a flexibility and responsiveness standpoint, I think it would be better to have that in in AR than the policy.

I I totally agree with your your suggestion. Yeah. Okay. So without discussion, is there a motion or um Yeah, I'd like to bring back or no, not like to bring back, I'd like to move to adopt this board policy as written. Um, I'm also fine to look at whether we can finesse a couple of the things because we, you know, if we want to look at this, we can put still put it on the next board bylaws committee, but I I don't know if we'll recommend that we adopt the entire protocol in the policy. Is that okay?

Yeah, I think um yeah, and I'm I'm fine with that and I I'll second the motion to pass because I think yeah, you are Yeah, you do have a good point in terms of we we ought to have Yeah. something updated um as soon as possible and it is very solid as is. So, um, and I do appreciate, um, yeah, and I I can share notes or whatever, please, we can certainly put it on the calendar. But, yeah, so just to consider and you know, and whatever you guys decide second time. Um, but yeah, we we should pass something today just to have it in there. I love having an allwoman board. Okay, so we have a first by Trusty Anthony, a second by Trusty Lamb. All in favor?

I. Motion carried. Okay. So, next is human resources approval of theou with classified school employees association CSEA chapter 197 for the early notification retirement incentive. Staff recommends approval of theou with CSEA 197 for the early notification retirement incentive effective for the 2025 2026 school year. Any discussion? And this is um uh Mr. Hanan, you said that this is the one where we've got update updated date. I thought it did say something that we were like signing this on March 1st or something.

That is correct. So we worked closely with our CSEA president Jolene Malfati and we agreed to extend it to May 1st 26. Thank you. Super. Great. And so I move that we adopt uh thisou with the change of the date as outlined by Mr. Hanan. A second. Okay. So we have a first by trustee Anthony, a second by Dr. Shay. All in favor? I

I motion carried. Okay. Okay, next is approval of theou with Greenheart International doing business address greenheart exchange for the teach USA program. Staff recommends approval of the teach USA programou with greenheart international dpa greenheart exchange for the 2026 2027 school year to support participation in the J1 visa exchange visitor program. Any discussion? Um, are these new J1 visa holders?

Uh, we currently have a few J1 visa teachers who are through this program and in anticipation as part of our recruitment strategy, we wanted to tee up renewing the partnership. Okay, great. Because I know we were having some J1s apply for 01, right? Correct. Separate matter al together. Got it. Thank you. Have a motion. So move second. Second. Who is the second? Me. Anthony. Okay. So we had a motion by Dr. Shay, a second by Trusty Anthony. All in favor? I

I motion carried. Okay. Um C. Approval of the elimination of classified positions in the nutrition services department and the adoption of resolution number 26-10. Staff recommends approval of the elimination of two supervisor positions in the nutrition services department and adoption of resolution 26-10 reduction in force. Any questions?

I mean I I had asked some questions ahead just knowing that you know there's you know a potential layoff situation involved and you know restructuring is um certainly I think the justifications for restructuring is sound. Um but you know just still wanted to just touch on you know what the impacts are. Um so uh it's um I'll just restate the questions I asked before. So you know there um basically are there currently uh folks employed in the two nutrition uh services supervisor positions that are going to be uh eliminated.

Okay. Yes. Uh yeah we have a two nutrition services supervisor. Uh however uh one of the nutrition service supervisor just uh obtain a new job that's closer to home. So uh his last day was actually this past Monday. So so we have one uh position to eliminate and staff has spoken to that nutrition supervisor that also encourage her to apply for that new position that we're creating to to better meet the needs of the department which is that a nutrition services manager.

Yeah. I well I hope I hope things work out for that person but you know obviously you know it's a you know internal hiring decision. So um and then I guess um you know a part of this is tied to kind of like we didn't quite get the the student uh participation you know in the meal uh program that we were hoping for. Um I mean I hope we do increase that in the future. um and hopefully and also encourage healthier eating and whatnot, but I know that's a little bit of a bigger maybe a longer term problem or uh challenge. Um but uh in terms of like you know should the those rates change in the future um yeah what's our kind of uh like capacity to handle any uh participation you know changes.

Yeah, that's a good question. So, you know, when that time comes, we're going to re-evaluate the the staffing and the needs at that time. And, you know, there's more likely that we'll be adding more staff that's on the the kitchen floor and the the schools rather than a supervisor. But you know, we're going to uh wait until the time comes and we're going to re-evaluate if it's increase uh participation significantly in terms of student participation and we get more revenue from from the reimbursement from the state then you know we might bring back another supervisor but we'll play by ear and I I just curious I don't know I didn't ask this specific question but in terms of like where like it sounded like we're a little bit under 60% participation but and we were hoping for more than that did like is that actually le like compared to say previous years where there wasn't you know the state funded you know universal meals I mean is that is our current participation less than even like before

yes so so uh you know about three four years ago the state implemented the you know universal meals program which means any student can have two meals regardless of their family income right so when when that happened we were anticipating at least a you know 80% of students participated in the meals which mean that we'll get a lot more revenue from the state for reimbursement. However, you know a lot of students uh chose to either bring their own meals or they go out you know to get their own food. So uh the the participate has been hovering around 50%. You know, and we we wouldn't get as many uh participation as we were hoping you even though it's free. No, lot lot of lot of people were thinking it's free. Everyone's going to go for it, but it didn't happen that way. So So that's why we decided to to um based on the current needs and then the amount of participation, we're going to reduce the the uh management. And so has has it actually dropped then like or is it just kind of like flat or like it hasn't grown very much flat 50%? Yeah. Around the area hover around there.

Okay. Thanks. So I move with a waving of the reading. Yeah. The waving of the reading. Okay. So Dr. Shay a second. A second. Okay. So Dr. made a motion to um accept the resolution with a waving of the reading and we have a second by Trusty Anthony. All in favor? Resolution. Oh, roll call. I have it written down right here too. Roll call. Trusty Lamb. Oh, yes. Trusty Anthony. Yes. Vice President Sheay. Yes. President Murray.

Yes. Motion carried. Okay. So, next, approval of the nutrition services manager job description. Staff recommends approval of the nutrition services manager job description. Any questions, comments? Motion. So, move. Second. Who made the second? Oh, I did. So, we have a motion by Dr. Sheay, a second by Trustee Lamb. All in favor? I I motion carried.

Okay. I approval of a amendment number two with Rogers Stinger and Mlen Incorporated RSM for the El Camino High School Aquatic Design Services. Staff recommends approval of amendment number two to the agreement with RSM for additional engineering design services for the El Camino High School Aquatic Center heating system replacement project in the amount of $29,500. Any questions?

Just a comment that I am just amazed that every single time we do a project, we discover how old and outofdate all of our stuff is and how much work has to be done to bring it even into the lowest level of compliance. And I'm just I know that we are not discussing any new bonds because we are only about a third of the way through this bond, but I just can't even imagine not going for another bond to get more facilities money for upgrades to our facilities. That's it.

Yeah. And also, you know, whenever we involve DSA, division of state architects, there's always additional things that is required. So, so we're kind of, you know, we have no control over that. Yeah, I know. We'll probably need to like replace the water fountains in the pool area and then, you know, like re tile the whole pool. Like, I would not surprise me if we brought this back one more time. Well, I think that when I was at El Camino about 50 years ago, I don't think the pools were heated. They were very cold. But, okay. Anyway, I approve this or I mean I mo I move to approve this. Okay, second.

Okay, so we have a a motion by Trusty Anthony, a second by Dr. Shay. All in favor? I I motion carried.

Thank you. Okay. Approval of amendment number one with Sim Architects Incorporated for the Montyver Elementary TK classroom project. Staff recommends approval of amendment number one to the agreement with SIM Architects Incorporated for additional design and construction administrative services for the Montyver Elementary School TK classroom project in the amount of $8,850. Any questions, comments? Um well I guess since I my since I go here and pass by every day I I just had a thought because um I my understanding is this amendment is to you know part of it includes like placing the playground equipment um so is is it true that the existing playground equipment in the kindergarten yard will be have to be removed because of you know we need to make space for the TK and the I separate. Is it like two play areas or play playground equipment for the the two grades like the kindergarten and the TK or what what exactly is happening with with that area?

Yeah, I I believe the they have to move the play structure in the location where they're placing the new uh you know new TK module building. So, they got to move that. So, I think that that I think this is related to that uh piece of it. Yeah, it's just a very tight area, but we also want to keep the the smaller kids kind of in the same area, but okay. Um, anyway, I make a motion to approve. Second. So, we have a motion by Trusty Lamb, a second by Dr. Shay. All in favor?

I motion carried. Next is approval of amendment number two with Hibser Yamali Hy Architects Incorporated for the Sky Elementary HVAC replacement project. Staff recommends approval of amendment number two, the agreement with HY Architects Incorporated for additional architectural and electrical design services for the Skyline Elementary School HVAC replacement project in the amount of $6,500. Any questions, comments? So move. Second.

So we have a motion by Dr. Sheay, a second by Trustee Lamb. All in favor? I I motion carried. Okay. Review of future agenda items and meetings. Any questions? Any Does everything look okay to you? Okay. Let's see. Summary of board directives. There are none. And last but not least, good and welfare. Can I stop?

Can I go? Okay. So I I do want to share I was not able to share after the presentation. I've I've uh really touched by hearing those two presentation tonight and I'm really encouraged by two things. Um the first one is the the strong instructional focus across schools because those presentation was backtoback. we can see it very obvious um particularly around literacy, math and academic disc discourse and second is the clear commitment to supporting the whole child through belonging wellness and community partnership. So really this is all those elements really bring our portraiture of of a graduate to life for our students. So I'm really impressed with the work that our district uh leadership uh especially Dr. Moore supporting those and I also what I also see is the the relationship and trust you can see from among principles, teachers, staff and families for both uh elementary schools. That's very telling that that energy you just can feel it and also among principles that's even harder and I see how they collaborate how they trust each other. So I truly I see the outcome a little bit of outcome the all the work of our strategic plan and then portraiture of uh graduates and also the leadership how we work together and and that is the role model for our students and our community. So thank you so much for all the great work.

Thank you. you you always have the best observations and I I learn things from you every day when you you know every meeting when you you know point out things I'm like oh yeah you know or you know you sum it up and you know point out the very specific things happening so um uh okay so um I guess some things that happened well there well I'll mention a couple of things was the well there was a St. Patrick's Day dinner. We went to March 1st. Um we also saw each other at the Clue or after the Clue. Um was it musical? No, it was not a musical. It was a play. Yeah, it was a play. Yeah. Um it was a re you know. Yeah. Re re reperform like performance of the movie. Um so I was getting a lot of flashbacks to the movie. But um yeah, I think the kids did a great job. Um my first time kind of going there. So thank you to Mr. Sullivan for um you know, inviting us. Um so uh but I want to talk about yesterday. So um a funny thing happened yesterday. Um I was invited by uh Mayor Mark Adgo um to the city of South San Francisco uh city council meeting. They were presenting um their you know they have their women's history month uh proclamation. So, I was um invited um it was kind of in secret because they didn't want my husband who's the vice mayor to know. Uh but I was invited to uh just you know speak, you know, say whatever and uh accept the proclamation. Um and then so uh Mayor Adgo uh presented he read the proclamation and then at the end of it he said, "Oh, and then uh also you're the mayor's selection for uh women of the year." And I was like, "What?" Okay. So, that that was very unexpected. Um, but uh and it's a little bit hard for me to I mean it's a little awkward for me to be talking about this because I think it's like a little bit against my culture to be like saying, "Oh, yeah. I got this I got woman of the year. I got this award." So, um but um I I actually

I just wanted to say, you know, during my remarks, I really wanted to make a point to share all the great work that we've been doing. Um first of all, the fact that we're an allwomen uh school board. Cool. We're led by a woman superintendent, you know, a strong leader, uh, you know, woman of color, you know, just um, and, uh, you know, with so many, uh, you know, leaders, um, you know, who are women, uh, throughout the district. Um and um and I guess and I just learned that we have a couple of you know your your fellow woman of the year Darcy Anthony and I guess at my predecessor former Trustee Luha and also uh yeah Dana Luhan uh yeah hello Dana uh also for u previous woman of the year recipient. So, um, yeah, thank you, uh, Mayor Adgo, for this honor. And, um, oh, also a happy Pi Day to all who celebrate, uh, this Saturday, 314. Uh, go eat some pie.

Yeah,

um, I just want to note, um, how much I've enjoyed learning about, uh, all of the career days that our schools are having recently. um I don't recall those being such a focus in previous years and so I don't know if this is something that everybody's co coalesing around with the pro portrait of the graduate and thinking about what what are kids futures um but I think it's really really important that we are exposing kids to a wide variety of careers and and those careers in their community and so I'm I'm just really impressed and glad uh and noticed that that is something that has really come up a lot this year And um you know, shout out to Parkway for being the OG, but uh everybody else, I'm really glad that you're doing it, too. Thanks.

Thank you. So, I just wanted to say congratulations to Trusty Lamb and you know, yay for us. We're doing good work. Thank you. about uh meeting a journ.