South San Francisco Unified School District Board - Regular Meeting

identific Forew gracias. With that, we are reconvening into open session. Can I have roll call, please? Student trustee AOA here. Trusty Richardson. Trusty Richardson.

Trusty Shay. Trusty Lamb here. Vice President Murray here. President Anthony

here. All right. Item C, pledge of allegiance will be led by Ponderosa Elementary School fifth grader Josephine Co. Good evening trustees, cabinet, and community members. It's my pleasure this evening as principal of Ponder Rosa to introduce you to Josephine Co. A few words about Josephine aka Jojo. Jojo is a active participant in our school community. She is an advocate for herself and others. She is an office and classroom helper and has an overall positive attitude. Say

to this flag begin to the flag on America. as you reproduce for all. Thank you.

[snorts]

Item D, land acknowledgement statement. We acknowledge that the South San Francisco Unified School District is located on the unseated ancestral homeland of the Ramy Oloneyi 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 affirming and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Item E, reporting out from close session. In regard to item number one, to consider the approval for the return of a student from expelled status, the board took action to approve the return of student A-01 to the regular program at Ben High School. The motion was made by Trusty Shea, seconded by Trusty Murray, and carried by a vote of five eyes and zero nazs. In regard to item number three, conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation, the board took action to approve a settlement agreement between the South San Francisco Unified School District and Julia Rooza in the amount of $35,000. The motion was made by Trustee Sha, seconded by Trustee Murray, and carried by a vote of five eyes and zero nazs.

Thank you so much. Item F, review of agenda. Item G, PTA council remarks. Hello. Okay. Good evening, President Anthony, trustees, Superintendent Moore, members of the cabinet, and members of the community. My name is Natalie Long, and I am the president of Ponderosa PTA. This is my third year volunteering in the PTA and my first year as the PTA president. Here are a few upcoming events that are happening around the district. On November 14th, 2025, Martin Elementary PTA will be hosting the Ruby Bridges Walk to School event. On November 15th, the Bur Bur Elementary PTA has two events planned, a garden workday and a restaurant fundraiser at Red Robin. That same day, the South San Francisco High PTSA will be holding their South City High holiday bazaar from 10:00 a.m. to 2 pm. And later in the month, on November 25th, the Martin Elementary PTA will hold their annual Turkey Trot. And finally, on December 6th, 2025, the Westboro Middle School PTSA will host the WMS Holiday Bazaar. I'd like to share a little about the Ponderosa PTA. We are really proud of all of our parent volunteers. Uh we would like to thank them for all their hard work. So if you're here and you're a volunteer, please stand. Um, we'd also like to thank the excellent teachers and principal Erskin for supporting students and families at the school. This year, our biggest

events were our no fuss fundraiser, which successfully raised over $13,000. And our annual fall community carnival on October 18th was a very fun event with games, food, and raffles. and that raised over $7,000 for the PTA. [snorts] And our pumpkin decorating contest on Halloween attracted over 30 submissions. Many intricately decorated pumpkins competed, but the top prize went to a simple one painted with the number 67. Proof that sometimes it pays to know your audience. Uh we also are looking forward to our upcoming book fair in March, our red and gold ball community event in April, our first ever car show community event in May. Uh this year the PTA has supported the portrait of graduate Ames learn, navigate, thrive and impact. Thank you. If there are no questions, that is our report. Thank you. All right. Item H, staff association representatives remarks. We've got Elizabeth Bale Stutes from the South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators online. I think Good evening. Can you hear me now?

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Great. Thank you. Um, good evening honored board members, members of the cabinet, Superintendent Moore, and the school community. I'm Elizabeth Baleuits, president of the South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators. I am not able to attend in person this evening. So I want to thank Daudi Mulli and Nathan Tsunaram of technology services for making it possible for me to join remotely to address the board. Thank you as well to Marwan Hanan for facilitating communication. Uh life in the United States has been extremely eventful this year. The current social political climate presents many challenges for South City educators and for the students and families we serve. The weight of this administration's actions on our school population cannot be overstated. In my day-to-day duties, I work almost exclusively with immigrants, and I know the stresses and worries they face. In the wider realm, workers and families across the country are under intolerable strain. The recent cuts to SNAP and wick are only one of the stressors people are face people are facing. As the economy has slowed, workers in almost every sector have faced job loss or reduced hours in the face of reduced buying power at the supermarket or the drugstore. For example, my favorite Starbucks store closed on decept with less than 24 hours notice for some of the staff, only one of hundreds of closures across the country. Collective action is the only solution. In the realm of political action, in response to the announcement of mass ICE deployment to the San Francisco Bay area, the California Federation of Teachers teamed with Bay Resistance to rally in protest. On October 18, an estimated 7 million people turned out for No Kings rallies across the nation. These actions matter. In the realm of

labor, I want to call your attention once again to Starbucks. The employee union Starbucks workers united picketed stores in 41 cities today, calling for a fair contract. The action took place on Red Cup day, which is normally a highly profitable day for the company. For those listening who wish to support workers, I respectfully urge you not to patronize Starbucks for as long as the strike continues. Thank you for your attention. Thank you so much. Uh, South San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association. Good evening, President Anthony, trustees, South San Francisco Unified School District Cabinet members and community. Our teacher representatives reported positive news during October. Many had successful Halloween celebrations and fall events. Skyline reported how positive their parent community is and how successful their trunk or treat event was. Montaverie had a great fall carnival despite questionable weather. Martin Elementary reported that their instructional coach was very helpful with academics and behaviors. Since Dr. Moore is encouraging teachers to share positive news about what they or their colleagues are doing, I want to mention the incredible feat of one of our Monovery teachers who does this every year. Mary Musalum worked extra hard implementing a wonderful fall carnival event. She did so again this year even though it was a struggle to get enough parents to volunteer this year. This event helps the school tremendously

mostly because all the teachers donate their time to host an event for an auction. Students families bid on these events. So the students whose families win the auction get quality time with teachers outside of school hours and the school earns some extra money. Tomorrow, Monavvery will participate along with many other school sites in the annual Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day to honor the courage of one little girl who walked through a crowd of protesters as she entered a newly dis desegregated school. She is a model for others to stand up for what is right, even when it is difficult to do so. This week, I read the story of Martin Luther King Jr. to my first graders as part of the Wonders curriculum in our weekly theme, Make It Better. My students were shocked that there was a time when people were treated so differently because they were judged by the color of their skin. I love that they think this couldn't be possible today. But I also worry when I see the current political climate and realize how fragile government systems are. I don't want them to have to grow up in a country where they have to fight so hard for equality again. I guess the answer is we keep standing together and speaking up when we think see things that are not right. Our students need to know that they can change. They can affect change and I believe it needs to be taught. May we have the courage always to do so. I would like to acknowledge that SSF CTA and SSFUSD, we've been working behind the scenes on all kinds of issues from building trust, being responsive, and working together to meet goals. An SSF CTA continues to work on some

areas where growth is needed on specific things. I do have one small ask to bring up on behalf of teachers today. I am begging whoever is setting the window for completing report cards to so early to reconsider cutting off access to Infinite Campus a week before report cards are sent home. Before a few years ago, school sites set their own windows in infinite campus and teachers had the time to place wellthoughtout comments or input grades for students who were out sick, much closer to passing out report cards week. Tomorrow is the official date the window closes, but the report cards will not be passed out until next Friday or Monday. Please give us more time. I have asked others why they think it is being cut off so early and the answer I get is control. If this is the perception and it is not the case, please change it or give an explanation that makes sense. This trimester, teachers didn't even get the weekend to finish report cards. Teachers would be so thankful for giving them this extra time. On that note, I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. Good night.

Thank you so much. California School Employees Association, Chapter 197. I don't see here tonight. All right. Item I, Personnel Commission. Our next Personnel Commission meeting will be held on Monday, November 17th, 2025 at 5 o'clock p.m. in the district office boardroom. Thank you. Item J, items from the board, announcements, board calendar, board committee reports. I think we have a committee report, right? Facility subcommittee. Okay. Facility subcommittee.

Okay. Moving on to item K, superintendent report. Thank you very much, President Anthony. So, at each board meeting, it is customary in South San Francisco Unified to introduce new members of our leadership team to the board and our community. Tonight, we are pleased to welcome four new South San Francisco Unified School District team members, each of whom will take a brief moment to introduce themsel introduce themselves, excuse me, and share a little bit about their background. Uh, first I'd like to invite Mr. Vincent Chandler, expanded learning opportunity program coordinator. I can have Miss Chow line up next and then Roxanna and Christelle, please. Good evening all. My name is Vincent Chandler. Originally, um, well, one, thank you very much. Very excited, very nervous to be here. Um, I have been in youth education for over 20 years. Originally from East Los Angeles, relocated to San Francisco 26 years ago. My first job was at an all girls charter continuation high school, which was phenomenal experience. pivoted later to university instruction, lecturing, and then teaching uh your own middle college students at Skyline College in San Bruno. Um after 20 years in higher ed, wanted to do something different and really became fortunate enough to come upon the position of ELOP coordinator. I started July 1st. It's been phenomenal with just a bunch of wonderful people and stellar kiddos. And I'm fortunate and beyond blessed and fortunate and lucky to be here. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, we have Allison Chow, HR director of talent strategy.

Good evening. Um, my name is Allison. I joined the district in July after having consulted with the HR team last year on special projects. Prior to that, I was the chief of staff to the CBO at Belmont Redwood Shore School District, where I led strategic initiatives in our business services department. As I've continued to get to know the South City community more deeply uh in my new role, I'm struck by how tight-knit this community is. I've met so many of our educators who are also parents of current students or alums of our schools or related to another educator at a different site or department. Um these connections are part of what makes our district community special and builds a shared sense of commitment to our students and families. I'm excited to join this community and hopefully contribute to making uh it stronger as well by working to build talent pipelines that ensure at SSFUSD we grow our own uh and that we are a leading destination for missiondriven educators who are committed to excellent outcomes for our students. Thank you for welcoming me.

Next we have Roxanna Seenor, director of school leadership. Good evening, President Anthony, Superintendent Moore, members of the board, cabinet, and community. Um, and it's impressive that South San Francisco high school students leadership are here. So, that's pretty amazing. Uh, my name is Roxan Basenor. I am honored and excited to join the team as director of school leadership. I've been in education for over 25 years, primarily in the Sacramento community and neighboring areas. And my career began as a high school, middle school, and uh science and math teacher, and from there served as site and district leadership in various capacities. Throughout my career, I've maintained a commitment for equity and access and creating opportunities for students and working with our teams to build systems and develop leaders to have balance, competence, and purpose and the commitment to the work that we've devoted our lives to. What drew me to South San Francisco community is the strong sense of community which has um through my time here the brief time it's um it's been a true honor to recognize the the amount of community support the respect that is um demonstrated in in and out of the classrooms and it's been an honor to just interact with the people that I've engaged with briefly um and here also just recognizing the commitment to excellence and the the the desire that is driven within our teams and our leaders to provide the best education and opportunities for our students. I'm excited to collaborate with you, get to know you, listen, and be responsive to the needs and I feel very honored for the welcome that I have received and look forward to building more relationships here. Thank you.

And last, but certainly not least, Christelle Del Rosario, director of data, edtech, and accountability.

Thank you. Good evening, board of trustees and South City community. My name is Christelle. I'm really excited to be in the role of director of data, edtech, and accountability. I've been in public education for more than 10 years as a classroom teacher, as a district office leader in various departments such as HR, technology, and curriculum and instruction. It's quite a homecoming to be in teaching and learning. I am really excited to build reliable data infrastructure so that we can promote data literacy across our system and shepherd new instructional and operational ro uh practices that are enhanced by technology. All this so we can reduce any ambiguity around our accountability and success measures so that we can really tell the story of the student experience in our schools. I know that our schools are places where students can thrive and really meet the promise of the portrait of a graduate. So, I'm really thrilled to be here and thanks for having me.

Thank you very much all of you for being here this evening. My second item is a 2025 career and college e portfolios competition. So, I am really proud to share that South San Francisco Unified had the highest number of CTE e portfolio completions and award recipients in Sonteo County this year. The C2E2 competition celebrates high school students creativity, career readiness, and innovation through digital portfolios that highlight their skills, experiences, and goals. This year, more than 3,200 students participated with $5,000 in prizes awarded to the top entries. South San Francisco Unified students earned recognition across several categories including health science and medical technology, biotechnology, culinary, and art, media, and entertainment. These accomplishments reflect the outstanding leadership of our CTE team led by Jennifer Rockhead and the dedication and talent of our students. Our students achievements include five first place winners who each received $500. Five second place winners awarded 300 each. six third place winners receiving 150 each and one student who earned special recognition with a $100 award. Congratulations to all of our students for their creativity, professionalism, and engagement. Your accomplishments demonstrate the power of purposeful partnerships and exemplify the excellence of South San Francisco Unified School District students as they're learning how to navigate, learn, and prepare for college, career, and life. We're so proud of you. Fire Prevention Poster Contest winners. Last month in October, the city of South San Francisco announced the winners of the 2025 firerevention month poster contest, which encouraged creativity and safety awareness among our students. These outstanding students were recognized with certificates at a city council meeting and their winning posters were displayed at the Lynen Park Recreation Building. We just wanted to extend our appreciation to the city of

South San Francisco for celebrating our students achievements and supporting fire safety education in our schools. We're really proud of our students for their creativity and engagement and their efforts truly embody strategic plan two engage students demonstrating how learning connects to community involvement and realworld awareness. And last, but certainly not least, I too wanted to acknowledge the partnership between uh the South San Francisco Unified School District Cabinet and CTA collaboration. As President Ducey shared, we have really been intentionally working to strengthen our partnership with our CTA colleagues, grounded in feedback that we received from our colleagues. To support this, we have scheduled quarterly meetings where we can reflect together on successes, challenges, and opportunities to co-create new pathways forward in the most collaborative and inclusive ways. I just want to highlight some of the progress and positive momentum from our most recent meeting at the end of October. The tone of this meeting was open. It was honest and solutionsoriented, reflecting our shared commitment to deepening communication, collaboration, and trust. Both CTA and district leaders acknowledged that there's been some progress made in increased visibility of cabinet members at school sites and directors and during district events. That there's been uh improved responsiveness in some areas, but there's still opportunities from which to grow. That there's a stronger sense of partnership through regular standing meetings and an open dialogue that's helped to field concerns and address them more readily. and district and union leaders agreed that these visible shifts are helping to foster more of a culture of accessibility and shared purpose and an acknowledgement that there's still more that we can continue to do. We also discussed ways to continue celebrating staff through various means to share more of the why behind district initiatives to increase transparency and build shared understanding and we discussed uh possibility of coordinating joint messaging. Both teams reaffirmed our commitment to leverage our existing structures uh so that we can jointly

problem solve and ensure timely transparent communication. And so an area of focus will be to consistently follow through and a timely response as items emerge. And then we also talked about the importance of reciprocity, a willingness of both sides to listen, to adapt and to make shifts that strengthen the health of our organization to better serve our students. So we have some continued areas that we're going to be working on today together. The conversations were really constructive and forwardinking and um after the end of this meeting we asked how are we feeling and feelings of hope and calm and commitment came to mind. So it's a definitely a step in the right direction which we're proud of. I wanted to publicly thank President Justy and the CTA executive board for their partnership, openness and shared dedication for advancing the goals, priorities and mission and vision of South San Francisco Unifi. One final area connected to our partnership is about communication and I wanted to highlight um more about what the district will be doing with communications. Our goal is to really increase visibility of our strategic priorities and create consistent aligned communication that really does center and celebrate on our students and our staff while strengthening our community connection. As such, we focused on launching two monthly newsletters with a goal of featuring multiple schools with at least 50% of our content drawn directly from student or staff voices. We just launched, so we'll be tracking engagement trends and we'll be gathering reader feedback to work to ensure that all schools are featured and that it's meaningful uh a meaningful communication tool. We also as a cabinet have been working with our site leaders to think about new and different opportunities to come in and connect with our staff at at their school sites. uh having lunch or coming to visit a lesson or an activity that our staff is really proud of. So, we're continuing along this effort to build the relationship and build the capacity and keep the lines of communication open and really proud of the work that we're doing. And with that, that concludes my report.

President, thank you. Thank you so much. Very rich report. All right, moving on to item L. [laughter] Student trustee reports. We'll start with Jamie Leno, our fall student trustee and ASB president from South San Francisco High School. [screaming]

Good evening, board cabinet and community. My name is Jamie Lenoa and I'm honored to represent South San Francisco High School as this year's ASB president. I hope everyone has been doing well these past couple of weeks and keeping cozy with all the rain. On October 25th, our drama department hosted their annual haunted house. They had many activities that our students enjoyed, such as face painting, cookie decorating, and much more. As for ASB school community, they hosted our annual fall fest which was held during lunch on Friday, October 31st. A Halloween co contest, a Halloween costume contest was hosted and several students had a blast participating in the games and earning goodie bags. They also hosted a pie eating contest and had a cookie decorating station while many took up the opportunity to pie the ASB executive officers and a few of our favorite teachers, Mr. Schold, Miss Gour, Miss Braun, and Miss Clark. Even though getting rounds of cream smashed into our faces and smelling like cheese throughout the day wasn't exactly the most fun part, it was still the perfect way to bring our school our school community together and celebrate our festive fall mood. On Wednesday, October 29th, Earth Club had their annual dinner in the dark, which took place in SSVHS outdoor learning space for the fifth fifth year in a row. This year's theme was Halloween, and community members attending were invited to dress up in costumes. As guests signed in on Italian food made by the club members, they could they also enjoyed a jazz performance as well as other festivities such as stamp rally, tabletop games, and much more. This was an amazing opportunity for our community to bond and enjoy a delicious meal in an amazing atmosphere. Throughout the week of November 3rd to the 7th, our ASB's rally commission put together a bellgame spirit week and held quad rally game to boost spirit and get the student body hyped and involved for the 63rd annual bell game which was on Saturday, November 8th at El Camino High School. That being said, I would like to

congratulate both JV and Varsity for defeating our rival school once again for the third year in a row. It was an exciting time for our warriors as we managed to keep the bell where it belongs. Many supporters were seen sporting our new bell game merchandise which were being sold at the game. School spirit at an all school spirit was at an all high tie high in the stands blending in with numerous posters we put out all in support of our warriors. We're proud of our football team for boosting the values of portrait of a graduate on campus. Their successes throughout the season have lifted school spirit and sense of community as they advance to CCS. Tomorrow, our Warriors will have an away game where they will face Teranova in the CCS quarterfinals. Be sure to come on out tomorrow and support for our our South City Warriors at 700 p.m. As our fall sports come to a close, we'd like to acknowledge and commend all our hard all of the hard work our student athletes have put into their seasons. Our our winter sports are right around the corner, including wrestling, both girls and boys basketball and soccer. They all have been putting in hard work over the past few months. We can't wait to see what they have in store this season. Go Warriors. In the beginning of November, our student body had the opportunity to enjoy performances by our floro classes in celebration of the deos muertos. Students of all cultures had the opportunity to rejoice, celebrate, and learn more about the Adelos Muertos, as well as get the opportunity to enjoy a number of delicious food and drinks. We like to highlight all of their hard work they've put into this and all they've done for our community as they also performed at Sunshine Garden and Juniper Sera this past month. Please let me know if there are any questions. If not, then that finalizes my report. Thank you so much. I bet he's really good at football games. Um, all right, moving on to item

two. Izzy Ruiz, spring student trustee and ASB president, ECHS.

Good evening, board members, cabinet, and community. My name is Izzy Ruiz and I'm currently a senior serving as the ASB president at El Camino High School. I hope you all been dry and safe on this rainy day. It's been quite a while since I've seen you all, so I'm happy to share all the great things we've accomplished last month and what's in store for November. October was filled with events like our annual fall festival, Filipino American History Month, and Red Ribbon Week. Our fall festival welcomed many members of our community for a spooktacular evening. None of this would have been possible without our amazing clubs, sponsors, and commissions within leadership, all under the guidance of our ASB chairperson, Joey Lee. To celebrate Filipino American History Month, the ECS Barcata Filipino Culture Club visited Maki Baka, a living legacy, a museum at the YBCA that displays the stories, resilience, and contributions of Filipino Americans in San Francisco. To [snorts] wrap up October, our peer counselors planned lunchtime activities and spirit days to engage our student body with the important messages of Red Ribbon Week. One highlight was Save Buddha Drugs, where students wore their Halloween costumes and wrote their pledges to be drug-free. After a busy and festive October, we're keeping that momentum going. This month, I'm thrilled to announce that our cast and crew have been pouring their time and talent into preparing for our fall musical, Once Upon a Mattress. A hilarious twist on the Princess and the Pre, Princess and the Pee, sorry. It's full of magic, music, and mayhem. I cordially invite you all to enjoy this magical musical from Thursday, November 20th till Saturday the 22nd at 7:00 p.m. or join us for our matinea showing on Sunday the 23rd at 2 p.m. Tickets are linked on at EC Colts or available at the door. Our senior office is continuing their efforts to fund raise money for prom. So, if you're looking for dinner plans

next week, we've got you covered. Join us on Tuesday, November 18th for BJ's takeover from 4 to 11:00 p.m. 20% of your purchase goes to the class of 26. And if you show this wire at BJ's, um, it'll be valid for dining in, takeout, and delivery. So, I have a couple of these that I can pass out after my report if you're interested in joining us for dinner. And I know most of your cars have been cleaned after this heavy rain, but I can't guarantee it'll stay this way. So, our seniors will be ready for you at their car wash on December 7th during the Fungi Festival at El Camino from 12 to 3:00 p.m. On that note, our counseling team has been actively supporting our seniors as we face the final stretch of college app season. They've hosted several PIQ workshops and created the Flex Your Future speaker series where they invited professionals from nurses, tattoo artists, and engineers to share different career pathways for students to do during Flex. So, on behalf of the seniors at Elco, thank you so much to our amazing counseling team. As we look toward the holiday season, our service leadership commission led by Chris Gomez has organized a canned food drive in partnership with the Pacifica Resource Center. Collection bins are located in the main office until November 25th. All contributions are greatly appreciated, especially with the recent cuts in SNAP benefits. We're grateful for the opportunity to support our community, and I hope you all join in in our drive. The fall sports season has officially come to an end. I'd like to recognize and congratulate all 68 seniors who wrapped up their final fall sports season with dedication and cult pride. The ECS flag football team had a standout inaugural season, finishing with an overall record of 9 and4, placing them second in league. The program made history with the first ever El Camino versus South City Flag football game on October 29th. And as expected, the school rivalry was tough, but both teams fought hard to take home the industrial cup. I'm pleased to report that the cup is currently at El

Camino, but both teams are in the top three spots of league, demonstrating the strength and talent of our school's district. Bell game closed out our fall sports season and while we may not have won the bell, we had a successful crowd truly embodying Colt pride with our red wave. Huge congratulations to the South City Warriors for taking home the bell this year and we wish you the best of luck in tomorrow's playoff game against Tteranova. While at the bell game, I had the pleasure of seeing Trusty Richardson and Trusty Lamb at near our merchandise tent. I hope you both got a good look at all our new merch like our beanies and polos. But that isn't the only new item in stock. As you can see tonight, I'm supported by many leadership members in our brand new leadership jersey. So, I just want to quickly thank you all for coming out tonight, especially on this cold night right before progress reports ends. It really means so much to me. But, we decided to go with hockey jerseys this year to keep us warm in the South City weather. So, if any of you'd like to wear our latest looks, please let me know and I'd be happy to send over an email of all our merchandise. That concludes my report and please let me know if you'd like any flyers and I'm happy to answer any questions or concerns. Thank you for listening and have a safe drive home. Thank you so much. All right, moving on to item M to comment in person. Public comment for items not on the agenda should not exceed 30 minutes. Public comments are limited to a maximum of three minutes per individual per board bylaw 9323. In order to accommodate more speakers, the board president may at their discretion limit the individual time per speaker to one to two minutes if there are more than 10 expected speakers. We only have two, so we will keep it at three minutes. To comment in person during the meeting, um name address cards are placed in the back of the room to be completed and given to the secretary. Uh the board president will call upon individuals in random order who have requested to speak. Each person may only speak once and is required to address

the board from the podium. The meeting is recorded in stream live. Individuals may address the board concerning school business not on the agenda, but public comment cannot be acted upon or discussed by the board unless placed on the agenda at a subsequent meeting in accordance with the law of the Brown Act. The board may request staff to respond orally in at the meeting or in writing at a future time. And with that, we have two comments. Julia Robosa.

Hello. Um, I wanted to be spontaneous so that I could be genuine when I express myself. I want to express my gratitude to the board for um coming to a settlement and I want to express my gratitude to the in support of labor and the difficult times that we're facing and to educators especially who are finding themselves I struggle trying to think of what to say because now we're afraid to use the words diversity or inclusion. What substitutes can I say? Why should I even be afraid to say those words? um should I say community, uh should I say embrace, um warmth when looking for many people may not be aware that the constitutional loyalty oath has a dark history. It was part of the levering act in the 1950s and it included additional language that has since been removed about not being able to be a communist. In fact, very similar language was imposed upon churches to say that if there was someone that had um that had knowledge of a communist in their midst that they had to report them to the government. very much like the type of persecution of ideas that we're seeing in our our uh government today. So when the school board looks for alternatives to the um constitutional oath and to the disaster worker oath understand that the words that lay on those paper mean very different things to different people. A and to be as broad-minded because I can't say inclusive but to support

a breadth of ideas that you look for a language that that uh includes conscience uh that includes um the different ways that people may express their religions whether they be ethical cultural practice whether it's a humanist whether it's a Quaker Muslim, whatever background that they come from that they will feel comfortable in in saying, "Hey, I can't sign this. I'm not comfortable with this and I have a place here. I belong and I'm part of your community." So, thank you for belonging because I can't say including. So, thank you for letting people belong and we hope you consider that in your language. And thank you for what you're doing in this very difficult time when it takes a lot of courage to be an educator, to be a human in a period where we're being put baited against each other. So, thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Chase Marzan. All right. Good evening board members, cabinet, and community. My name is Jace Marzan. I'm currently a wellness counselor at Lertos, but was a school counselor at Westboroough Middle School four years. Once a Wildcat, always a wild cat. That quote, that quote from Troy Bolton High School Musical 3 has been shared at every promotion ceremony I've participated in during my four years at Westboro Middle School and it continues to stay with me today. Last week, I had the privilege of meeting with all the wellness counselors in South City at Westboro, and it truly felt like coming back home. I also had to connect with staff that I deeply respect, including my former principal, Dr. Lorraine Rossi de Compost, who generously took time to sit with me after my meeting was over. Her support, perspective, and encouragement meant a lot as I navigate challenges in my new role. I've been out recently and hadn't been at Los Rios for some time, but when I returned today, I was welcomed by staff and students alike. That sense of belonging reminded me why our portrait of graduate goal of impact matters so much. Because our students impact us just as much as we hope to impact them. At Los Critos, a student drew a picture of the two of us and taped it to my door while I was gone. Another student told me today, "You made me feel comfortable and that it's going to be okay." In a recent counseling survey, when asked what students wanted from the wellness counselor from me and why, one student simply wrote, "I want the counselor to have a good time here so he can be happy." Their words speak to the care and community which truly has an impact on me. Last week, I also received an email from one of my former Wildcats, a current eighth grader at Westboro, letting me know she is thriving this year with all of the things she is doing. And when I visit South City or Elco, students still call out my name

across the campus as they did at Westboro. Two of my former students are now high school volunteers with me at Lositos for the exploratory program at South City. And I always remind them, we live and we learn every day because as they're learning, I'm right there learning alongside them. I'd like to end it off with a hope that everyone was able to celebrate World Kindness Day today. And if not, there's still time to be kind. With a quote from a poster that used to hang in the hallway at Westboro Middle School. I'm not sure if it still hangs out there, but the poster said, "In a world where you can be anything, be kind." And I also had a poster in my old Westboro office that said, "An act of kindness, no matter how small, is never wasted." Thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you. All right, moving on to item N, information only presentations. Number one, teaching and learning, Ponderosa Elementary School. Dr. Moore, thank you. It is my pleasure to introduce Julie Erskin, principal at Ponderosa, and she will share on goals, priorities, and progress happening over at Ponderosa. Welcome, Principal Erskin.

Thank you. Thank you, trustees, cabinet, and community. It's my pleasure to be here this evening, Julie Erskin, principal at Ponderosa, to present teaching and learning at Ponderosa Elementary School. This evening I will highlight how the core values the strategic priorities particularly exceptional instruction engage students and our graduate aims found in portrait of a graduate are demonstrated at Ponderos Elementary School. This is a picture of who we are. This year we did additional TK classroom to Ponderosa as well as a prek TK special education classroom. This is our CAST scores over the last few years. About 55% of our students are meeting an exceeding standard in ELA and approximately 50% in math. And this shows a cohort of students over time. This would be based on our last year's test scores. We're always working to better address our target student groups. And you can see at Ponderosa, we have three groups that are targeted um that we need to particularly pay attention to. our students with disabilities, our

multilingual learners, and our socioeconomic disadvantaged students. One of the things I highlighted to the side because this does come up as a question and it's a very good question is how do we know that students are achieving? So, I did highlight a number of students that were low performing but made huge gains and I think it's important that we remember progress. I will show how our Ponderosa goals um highlight our um belonging exceptional instruction through discourse and math at Ponderosa. So I always say we want to create a space to learn and our mission statement says the Ponderosa community encouraged and cultivates social and educational growth for all learners. We have made some common agreements and they're very much in alignment with our district priorities that we use common language both for socio um emotional learning and um for our academics. So in in mathematics and ELA we do have small groupoup instructions um both for belonging and for academics and we use two common assessments that um are driving this year's goals Dibbles and Il belonging we have chosen attendance to be a measure um we are looking for 97% satisfactory attendance and I've highlighted those common agreements to the right um that help promote um our students wanting to come to school. We have made gains over the last few years with attendance um particularly looking back over the last three years. But each day we work on attendance and assure that our students come to school and we always say better late than not. Um please come. Our doors are open.

You're welcome. This is our current um attendance rate. So about 95.8% of our students um are attending daily. Um we do have some gains to make with our preschool students. And this is what belonging looks like at Ponderosa. Um students are caught being good. Um we have our soul shop workshops so that each of our grade levels um know how to make things right with students. We continue to have PAX classrooms where students know what they need to do to make the classroom the way that they would like it to be. And we have great activities um field trips and visits in our community that that make uh Ponderosa the the place to learn. Our academic goal for math is we would like 60% of our students um meeting uh standards based on again we've highlighted some of our common agreements. We are using IM in grades 3 through 5 and SVMI practices in kindergarten through 2 grade. And here's what our current data tells us about math performance. We're very close to our our state standards, very close to matching how we performed on our our state test. And this is what math instruction looks like at Ponderosa. So we have students um working in partners in IM um highlights from a math talk. Uh students uh on the playground um doing science work that shares some of the common uh teaching practices that you see in our

math instruction. Um students with math norms and even our math night highlighted language within math and small groupoup instruction. Sorry, I had to tilt my glasses for that one. Uh, our goal in reading for Dibbles um is to reach 68% of our students meeting or exceeding. Um, again highlighting some of our common practices. We do have our kindergarten through 2 grade students um participating in UFly. All of our our um teachers have been trained. We also have trained all of our kindergarten through third grade uh teachers on Orton Gillingham. And here's what our Dibbles data looks like. What I did is I took our last year's end of the year goals and wanted to see how our students um began this year. So you can see on the left hand side um the students that were performing well below how they performed when they started the school year this year. And this is what um literacy instruction looks like at Ponderosa. So students participate in UFly, a small group instruction, um performing in Walkth through California, having uh community visitors come and and tell us about what they do in their job and our students um able to answer questions. Of course, we're very grateful for our partnership. It is one of our core values. Um, our parents show up, they participate with their students. Um, they share their culture with us. Our Cell City students and our Alma students share their volunteer talents with us. And we're very grateful for our POERSA

community. And our volunteers are a big part of what makes this happen. Um, special thanks to our PTA. Um, they give a lot of hours and they are there from the beginning to the end of every event. Um, so special thank you to Natalie Long, Margarita Chennowith, Jackie Chen, Heather Hefner, Daniel Lang, Nicole Longa, and Jeff Mitchell. We appreciate you. And to the Ponderosa team, we are about 60 strong this year. Um, certificate and classified. And here's us on Halloween. Um, we enjoy each other's company a lot and I'm very grateful for their partnership daily. Round of applause for yourself, please. Are there any questions before we thank our volunteers?

Jesse Richardson.

Oh, thank you. You know, I you know, Ponder Rose is one of those schools that's in our orbit, but it just seems like it's a country school and everybody's so happy to be there. And it's when I go and visit, it's just like going to the country. So, I could see why a lot of people say, "I tried to get into Ponderosa this year, but it was just I couldn't get in." So I can I appreciate um just the um the atmosphere that happens every year and I had occasion to go to your um graduation and it was very unique. You just have such a different way of just celebrating everything and everybody looks so so good to go to school. you know, 95% attendance is pretty good. So, I appreciate all your efforts to making it such a wonderful place for our students. And I know we're getting there, but um it's still one of the choice schools in our district of the many that we have. So, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you, Trusty Richardson. Trusty Lamb. Hi, Principal Erskin. It's it's so great to uh have you here. Thank you for taking the time uh to be here and to uh just share a little bit about your school. Um I know I had the pleasure of visiting the campus, you know, when it was I I think I mentioned before of, you know, my daughter's gone for summer camp, but yeah, never seen it the the school, you know, during the school year. So to visit during back to school day, um that was just a great um yeah, it was it was wonderful. I I was just really um well, first of all, I'm very grateful that you took the time on a busy day to show me around. I didn't expect that at all, but um I find it really helpful to just kind of walk the different campuses. You know, I'm still trying to learn all the different sites. Everyone, every school has its own character. Um and you know, Ponderosa has a great I don't know, it's just a great vibe, you know, walking around. Yeah. even on that first day where people still trying to figure out everything and um and you know I could tell that you you know you knew everyone's it seemed like you knew every kid's name and and all this it was just like great um you know I hope to you know come again and you know just to get to know the community a little bit more but um yeah I just wanted to share my appreciation for that so thank you

thank you for coming thank you [applause]

Sy thank you thank you so much for your wonderful presentation uh the I want to point it out several of the it really well done and I want to provide my feedback how great they are. So all the three goals you have a clear of the the goal and then you have a clear [clears throat] strategies and then you have the outcome. So I don't need to look for the answer what is the results of that goal. It's right there. So I really appreciate how you organize the the slide for our belonging for the math for the uh English. So those are very well done. I appreciate the clear logical thinking behind. So thank you for your great work and then your community for all your support with a wonderful uh principle. Thank you.

Thank you. It's always a pleasure to have a visit from you and and your community. Um you have such a great community. I I was going to say the same thing. Thanks for the goals and thanks for having it so organized that yeah everything is there and and I appreciate the goals by May 2026. Right. [laughter] So thank you very much. Thank and thanks to the community for being there and making this such a great school. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.

I echo everything my colleague said. Um you've got a great community. Um you've got a great PTA. you've got a great family uh network, great teachers, staff. Um thank you so much for for having everybody row in the same direction and um I'm so glad that you guys get to continue to use Soul Shop. I know that that's a really meaningful program for you. So, thank you and appreciate you coming tonight. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And we'll take a picture with the volunteers,

please. All righty. If I could invite the volunteers up, please. Thank you for your care. Let's see. This work. Thank you. All right, we do not have an item O, so we will move on to item P, the consent agenda. The following items are submitted for board approval. One motion will authorize action for those items so designated. Uh, any questions or comments on this item? Consent agenda item P.

So move. Second. All right. We've got a motion by Murray, a second by Sheay. All in favor? I I I. Item P, consent agenda. Let's see. Was this the one?

Yes. Um on one A for the minutes um on page 28 we had uh we approved uh trustee Murray's absence that day but I'm thinking that we always include that it was an illness and it didn't doesn't say so on the minutes. Shouldn't we say that? I don't remember saying it, but I know it was was due to ilment on page 28. Trusty Moore, do you want to respond to that? Trusty, superintendent more, I'm sorry.

I think it's just a an administrative thing. We can include that language in there. It was included in the resolution um as to Oh, okay. I don't remember that you all approved. It was included. Okay. All right. I'll let it go. But it usually I remember Nani, you always used to put down illness. So thank you. Oh, I will recall for the vote. We have a motion by Murray and a second by Sheay. All in favor?

I I motion carries 5-0. All right, we have a public hearing. In accordance with government code uh California government code section 3547, prior to commencing labor negotiations, all um initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of public school employers which relate to matters within the scope of res representation shall be presented at a public meeting of the public school employer and thereafter shall be public records. The South San Francisco Unified School District D district and the South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators, SSF FAE, will be negotiating a successor agreement, a successor collective bargaining agreement for the 2025 2028 term. Uh at the public meeting on October 9th, the district submitted its initial proposal to the board of trustees. Um at the next public meeting, which is this meeting, the SSF AF FAE will submit its initial proposal. Um, so after that presentation, a public hearing will be conducted to provide an opportunity for members of the public to comment on the SSF FAE's initial proposal. And so I will call you back, Miss Bale Students, uh, to present your proposal.

Thank you. Um so we have submitted proposals for article 11 leaves, article 12 compensation, article 13 benefits and article 19 assignments to summarize. Super. Thank you so much. Thank you.

All right. A public hearing will provide an opportunity for members of the public to comment on the SSF FAE proposal. I'm opening the public hearing. Hearing no comments. Having no comment cards, I will close the public hearing. All right. And now we can move on to our next thing. Um information discussion number one, student and family services, an update on safe school plans. Uh yeah, Mr. Garcia, do you want to introduce?

Good evening. I'd like to introduce uh Director Severs uh to present our safe school plans.

Fantastic. Thank you very much. Uh so good evening to uh to our board, to Dr. Mo, our cabinet, to our community uh both at home and here. Uh these are the dieards. I always say the ones that are in person here. So thank you for being here especially sticking with us. Appreciate that. Okay. I am here to talk about a very important topic and that is the issue of school safety. So we're going to just talk a little bit about our purpose. We're going to connect that to our vision, our values and our priorities. Uh and then go into some specific measures that we are taking. um also looking towards next steps and hopefully if there's any questions we can answer those. Uh so again why are we here? Well because safety is our highest priority. Um as we see in looking at the connectivity to our portra graduate learn navigate impact thrive all of these components are affected by a sense of safety and well-being. We see that in our core values and looking at community, building authentic relationships, the resilience that we can demonstrate and the equity of our environments. All of this is dependent upon trust, communication, safety, a sense of foundation, connectivity. We see this in our three priorities. Looking at our our strategic plan, obviously our focus is on our three priorities this year. for academic discourse, math, and belonging and well-being. Clearly, safety is the foundation of belonging and well-being and allows our children to connect not only to their environment, to trust others, but to be able to be in a place both mentally and physically where they're capable of achieving academically. So, some of the things that we are doing specifically with safety and our safety

plans, all of this is built upon the structure of the Sanonteo County Office of Education's big five. And this is a standardized set of emergency protocols that we take for specific situations or incidents that may cause us to enter into a particular state of readiness. You can kind of see those at the bottom of the screen there. So those five states of readiness would be one is our drop, cover, and hold. And that's for earthquake related situations or anytime we think there might be a substantial chance of needing to have cover over your head and to be hanging on to an object. We have evacuations, which are situations when being outside is safer than being in. And then we have the opposite of that which is sheltering in place when we believe the environment inside is much safer than out. Um but that is not for situations where there's any kind of eminent threat. We have our lockdown barricade which is the most immediate state of readiness for any kinds of situations where we believe there is a threat of danger um immediately on campus. And then we have a state of resident uh state of readiness called secure campus which is when we think there's a potential for something to come onto campus and that allows us to control movement um but to continue instruction. So those are the main key actions and that's the basis on which we start then building the rest of our emergency response and procedures. So we take the big five and we incorporate that into our district emergency management handbook. And that handbook is uh a comprehensive set of procedures and protocols obviously including the big five. But we have

things such as uh people crises, natural disasters, uh plant hazards, how to release students to parents, um what is our communication process. All of that is detailed in our district emergency handbook. So then we take that and then we build on our school plans. And so a part of every school plans, you have both the big five, you have the district office plan and you have the comprehensive safe school plans. They are called the CSSPs. And so each school must have an annually updated comprehensive safe school plan. So we take those, we scrutinize them, review them and look uh to ensure that everyone is in compliance and we do that on an annual basis. And so all of our safe school plans adhere to all of the national, state, and uh county standards as you can see here. um not only the national incident uh management system and California's standardized system but also in compliance with ED code and our board policy and admin rerecks. So as I said each school updates their safe school plans uh but they do so in collaboration with a safety committee. So each school establishes a team who look at uh all prior year uh information and then they look at some uh areas for improvement and how they're going to make changes. Uh and then they uh also engage with our law enforcement agencies and emergency response representatives. And so as a team uh they then update two major sections. One is a public section and the second is an internal. I'll get into a little bit more detail on that. All of this goes into our document tracking system called DTS. Um, and that

ensures that we are all following exactly the same template and so we have coherence among all of our plans and also with all schools, districts throughout the county. So, some of the things that we would include in the public section. Um, now I I missed I have a little typo there. I put 22 modules. It is now 43 modules long. Um, we do have new legislative requirements that come into play. And so, uh, you know, we work with those and and add pieces to the public, uh, plan. But you can see some of the main ones would be things that, uh, would be common among all school sites where we have mainly our district protocols and procedures that all schools would follow. So student threat assessment, suicide prevention, child abuse reporting, some of the main things that we would follow uh in the course of any school day. Then we have the internal section uh which is composed of eight modules and that is where you see very specific information as to how each school would respond to an emergency in addition to what we cover in the district emergency handbook. So this is where you find evacuation locations, who are on certain roles and duties and responsibilities in emergency situations, where we find our supplies, all of that critical information. And so we take the plans and then we also build upon our practices. So within the plans and as practiced in our drills, uh we really focus on first of all our immediate response. And so you can see some of the things that we do here to ensure uh that we comprehensively respond to a crisis situation. So we always look to secure the school. We look to determine needs. We engage in in an appropriate state of

res u readiness that corresponds obviously with the level of need and then we engage our incident command structure and our staffing roles. Um we use our communication protocols at that point and then we also look at possible re-engagement processes if needed. When we look at things after an incident occurs, um that is where we go into more of a uh postcrisis management system. And so some of the things that we also ensure are a part of our plans are well how how do we you know conduct an after discussion? How do we debrief about that? Making sure that we would have a staff meeting, ensure that we have mental health supports in place. um making sure that we're debriefing with law enforcement and our emergency responders as well. And then we take this information and we get better and we make adjustments. And so safety plans, this would imply very clearly that all safety plans are a live document. Uh they never come to an end. There's never a final version. They're always in a state of revision. And so just a note to say, you know, we have all of this information um but nobody's going to commit an entire protocol to memory. So you have to practice as often as possible. So we do have drill schedules that all of our site leaders follow. There are a prescribed amount um a number of drills that you must do of each type. So there are three of them that are required by law and that is the drop cover hold the evacuation and one at least of a lockdown barricade. The other two shelter in place and secure campus. Uh we do those as good measures because our staff, our students need to know the difference among all of these states of readiness. Some of the other things that we want to

make sure to do is we test our emergency broadcast system. We uh test our communication protocols. Um we make sure to utilize our crisis uh communication messaging um functionality. We have school messenger, parent square. We use our district website. Um we communicate with parents and staff and schools through our uh public information uh and how we write statements, how we collaborate with law enforcement to do so. So all of that is part of our communications process. We have uh updated medical devices that are maintained, our AED devices, and we continue our partnership in collaboration with our law enforcement and emergency response agencies. So just as a reminder, I know it's kind of we we go by the name of South San Francisco Unified School District, but we have a portion of Daily City, we have a portion of San Bruno. And so that makes things a lot more complicated when we look at the number of agencies that we engage with on a regular basis. Those are some of the representative agencies. Daily City, San Bruno, South City, Fire and PD, we have Sheriff's Office, we have BART PD, um and there there's many more. Santo County Probation, etc. So within these partnerships, we also are closely partnered with Sanonteo County Office of Education and they provide support uh through building policies and procedures and models that we can help emulate. Um they help us in developing our practices. Um they do that through the coalition for safe schools and communities. They also have a really great department um that we as district leaders have access to which is the safe and supportive schools division. Um and then of course they have an ongoing safe schools framework that we can always uh look at and model

should we have any further health related uh crises in our future which we hope is not the case. And so some things that we're doing as a district also to supplement our safety procedures, things that we're doing with being responsive to our student needs. So our expansion of restorative practices, this again, a lot of these things are multi-year. This isn't just something that we do and we say, "Hey, oh well, this is our current thing and we're done." Restorative practices and uh the way that we are offering support and well-being for our students um becomes very comprehensive. And so we're adding more components to that. Um we've just added a substance education uh measure through effective school solutions. Thanks to your approval, um we are able to offer uh our students an additional measure of support along with and in conjunction with their school counseling. And we as a new team, as a new uh student and family services team under the leadership of Dr. Garcia. Um, we are organizing and optimizing how we're able to deliver our services. We have counseling as a as a a major service with under our hood now. And so we are finding ways to connect and uh utilize our our wellness counselors, our academic counselors, and how we are providing more comprehensive uh services to our students. And then finally, again, we're trying to work towards that wellness wellness center model. Um, and we have implemented a family resource center at South San Francisco High School. Um, so we continue to progress forward. We have some other areas that we're going to be trying to extend training for uh, South San Francisco staff, restorative practices. We're looking at PBIS support, our MTSS systems under our

alternative to suspension hood. We're trying to continue to bring in more and more substance abuse education. how we do our brief intervention strategies, how we customize for certain levels of need of our students. We've also newly uh implemented the stop it anonymous reporting program that is now operating at all sites grades 4 through 12. And that allows uh a reporter to essentially electronically interface through either a uh the web app or a mobile app to be able to report some things that maybe they don't feel comfortable about coming and talking to an adult at school. And what we do is we leverage that interface to encourage uh speaking to trusted adults and to learn um how reporting things is actually going to make things better not only for their life but for the lives of their friends and so forth. So um this has been um very good for us um and we've built layers of support to ensure that we are responsive uh to the things that are being reported through this system. We have we have found this in fact to be a very valuable implementation. Some other things that we're considering, Cintic, Bluepoint Alert, Raptor Technologies. These are things that we've mentioned in the past. Um, but these platforms have changed their technology significantly since we last revisited them. So, we were focused on stop it implementation, but what we want to do now is to look deeply at what our district needs and why. Um, there are a lot of flashy new technologies out there, but there's only a certain number that actually add value to the existing programs and integrate with what we're doing in a sensible way. So, we're continuing to explore uh those technologies. And then just a note for those who are watching at home for families to know that uh emergency preparedness is not just a school related thing. Um, but

it's also home preparedness is equally important. And so we want our families to understand and know the big five as well. And so we have resources on our website. The Sanio County of Office of Education does as well. Um, we also have a set of emergency procedures that we post within our student services page. And that families can also reference uh the ready.gov resources to build a family plan. Similar to a safe school plan, you can build one for your family. You can build an emergency kit at home. And there's checklists and resources and how to do that through ready.gov. So those are always highly recommended. And so with that, that is uh an overview of the very very big topic of school safety. Uh that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Seers. Uh comments, questions. Dr. Shay, you want to start? Uh questions and comment. Thank you so much for this uh comprehensive plan. It's very comprehensive. And as you mentioned, safety is always our top priority. Without a safe environment, we cannot learn. So, I have couple questions for you. Uh I I'm really impressed with the stop it that uh solution page 25. Is this only for students to report or it's also for staff and faculty teachers?

Yeah. So for now uh now anybody could technically download the app and use it as an anonymous user technically but it's directed towards students and their families. So students oftentimes confide with their parents. parents can assist students in reporting. Okay. Um but it is it's student centered at its root. Uh and we have school leaders who have the accounts and who do monitoring. So there's the multi-layering that you heard me refer to in terms of monitoring is Sanonteo County office representatives, the stop it platform employees and then you have a few of us at the district office who have that role and site leaders. So if certain uh school staff are assisting in the monitoring process, they can come to a mutual agreement with their site leader that they should be a part of that communication process, but otherwise it would not necessarily be for their reporting. So yeah, we do we have some other uh measures for employees to be able to report or to receive support through EAP and so forth. Um but yeah it's it's very much a uh student rooted uh yeah platform.

And another question is uh this is just my curiosity uh on page 18 um because in the college we also face this we have to do lots of drill right and then also got complaints from faculty. So how advanced you announce the time because total counted is about seven times a semester and so that takes time every every uh drill it's probably 5 10 or 15 minutes. So how did you organize that make it happen?

Well for for the uh legally required ones th those are a set timeline. So if you look at drop, cover, hold, um, evacuation, and lockdown, uh, that is prescribed by the state of California. Um, but in terms of finding time, well, well, obviously there's finding time for them and in the instructional program, uh, that is a a sacrifice to be made. Uh, but to insert the other ones as well, um, what we do is we basically have site leaders plan their schedule out in advance. um and they just look we have a we have a mechanism called an emergency drill log in which uh the administrators will keep comprehensive notes as to how the drills went or if there was some other way to optimize them. So they use that data to then inform when they planned the next set of schedules. And so they kind of reflect on things like, well, maybe there was a difficulty at a certain time when they tried to do a drill or maybe they intentionally tried to do a drill because it was at an inconvenient time when you wouldn't expect something to happen. So we kind of they kind of mix and match. Um, but the best thing to do is to set a schedule and just stick to it and be consistent so that they happen. So is this all the across the entire district all the same time? No

for the required or it's all by sight? Yeah, you you you have to stay within the time frames of the requirements, but each school can customize exactly when they're doing it. So when they report their schedule, they have to have that in place before they leave for the summer. That's something that they submit to me each year. Okay. Yeah. Wonderful. Thank you. Excellent job. Thank you. Thank you. I don't have any questions.

No problem. [laughter] But I this is pretty specific for an overview. You must have a really big job. [laughter] Um this is so thorough and and I appreciate it because I agree that kids can't learn unless they feel safe and this is amazing really and I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Trusty Mary. Trusty Richardson. Hi Mr. Severs. Um

hi there. You know, I worry about the students who are texting their parents when something goes on. How have we responded to that concern? Because it is a concern to me, but I'm not sure how to handle it myself. So, how does it work over there in in the uh central?

Yeah, command central. I think the reality is of course, you know, devices are a part of everyday life. Um, for not only our young people, but I'm sure you asked our students here, how often are their parents using their phones? I mean, adults are using phones as much as as young folks. So, um, everybody's got a device in their hands. And yes, there is a propensity uh for people to uh react and start sending messages to those that they know, whether it's their parents or their friends and so forth. So yeah,

the only way to really manage that is well we do have rules about using cell phones. So there's using cell phones during instructional time, non-instructional time. So we do have at the root a way to manage that. But more importantly, it's giving everyone the sense that hey, we have to trust that communication will be managed and that we do know what we're doing in these emergency related situations so that people don't have to freak out and turn to their phones. So, we're trying to set through our drills, through the way we communicate with our public, um we're trying to set a cadence of of predictability. Hey, the the district will tell us what's going on. Now, we don't always message as humanly fast as some would would prefer, but we do work on messages that are accurate and get those out to the public as quickly as possible. And so, when you do that and we're transparent, that helps reduce some of the need for people to panic and want to start sending messages through text and so forth. On slide 15, I saw something that I had to ask you about. Um, positive school climate policies and um, school discipline policies and guidelines. How have they changed in the last five years?

Well, that's a that's a pretty big world. Uh there are many many education codes. Uh there are board board policies and administrative regulations. Uh even some that that you would see on on some of the board committees as well. So there are always changes being made to just about almost every every uh law that there is in the in the school discipline, school behavior sort of guidelines realm. A lot of what we're seeing a shift is in more into mental health support um less punitive discipline. So more into restorative practices being embedded within our discipline policies. Uh so you'll see things like uh regulations about suspensions incorporating uh more about supports that should be in place before suspension is utilized or using suspension and expulsion as a last means of resort essentially if other means of correction are not feasible. So um those I would say probably that's where you'd see more of the changes over the years. Um and in terms of things like uh positive school climate um you know that that has a kind of a wide range of topics within it. Um but some of the things that uh we ensure would be anti-bullying policies, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, uh fair practices within our instructional policies. All of that is also built into the structure in addition to to discipline. You

think it's working? Uh if you look purely at data um we have reduced suspensions by 80% over the last 15 years. Uh I'd say so we've reduced expulsions to near zero minus one case in the past four years we've had 0% expulsions. Uh I would say that's in support of yes that they were. Yeah. Sounds great.

Yeah. Well, I this is a um what you call it a dynamic u document if you will. So, we're always in flux and changing things. But I think and hope we're going in the right direction and I appreciate the extensive research that you provide us because you're the our first line of knowledge of what's happening in our schools and I hold my breath every time I go I hope we're doing something right. And I think you're right because we don't get any expulsions or that many expulsions anymore. you I remember six years ago when I first came here I we had about three or four and it was like man I don't know what we're going to do because we don't know how to turn it around but it little by little I think we're making some progress and I appreciate that. Thank you so much.

And I I would give credit to it starts at the classroom level. Our teachers are working incredibly hard to uh not only they're preparing their instruction, but they also have to be somewhat psychologist, child psychologists as well. So, our teachers at the at the instructional level are having they're introducing better and better methods for direct instruction and classroom engagement. And so that reduces the number of kids that are getting referred out to the office and therefore you have less administrative response and then that leads to less minor discipline, less suspensions. It's kind of a cascading effect. So it's teachers, counselors knocking it out of the park, doing a great job every day.

Super. Thank you, Mr. Severs. We're going to pause. Uh it is 8:30. We need to take a break for the captioner. So we will resume um in 10 minutes.

All [clears throat] right, we are back. Uh, Trusty Murray, I know you had a question. Maybe we'll start with that. Oh, you don't want to ask it publicly? Oh, I can ask you. Okay. So, I'm wondering, do all of our schools have Nar Narcan in them? Yeah. Uh, so so they do. All schools do. All the health offices have uh NARCAD. Um and then all of our district emergency handbooks have very specific procedures uh not only for reading symptoms but also how to administer Nlloxxone. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Lamb.

Uh yeah, I'll just jump in a couple questions. Um, so I was I think I was curious because I I know we've had some incidents, you know, this year and um I mean fortunately things have gone smoothly, but you know, we've had security campus situations and then I think I had was curious also about like last year, you know, we had that kind of scary incident with the intruder at um in South City High like right before winter break. Uh maybe just on a higher level like how these how have these procedures in terms of like like the actual you know incident itself and then the debriefs and you know lessons learned like could you speak to how uh the plan has been working or you know been put to actions

cases. Uh so you know there there's a couple of unique situations but I think within any unique situation you can pull from what's going to be applicable to anything else that happens in the future. Uh so in particular when you're talking about a the campus uh intruders that that you're specifically referring to um that led to just procedures for how to be more v vigilant on campus, how to staff supervision uh because you have uh teachers, staff, administrators, counselors. There's an increase and a need of an increase of vigilance between periods. um during lunch periods you have teachers with a protected time but you still have to have staff that are out and how is that managed. So all of that um I think there were steps to optimize that not only at that particular school but um as also transcended across as just best practices. Um and then you have general communication that came out of that too and how we optimize in speaking with uh law enforcement agencies and um how we could fine-tune um you know sort of the order of operations, right? It's it seems obvious that someone would, you know, call 911 or inform police and then somehow magically the word's going to get down to the school level and then everyone's going to know, okay, it's time for lockdown. um that's a lot harder than it actually sounds. So there are a lot of in between steps that need to lead to the correct calls and the correct notifications being made. So I think we that we um establish some better steps in between um that that are leading to more effective readiness. Um and you even see that in some of the cases where um you know maybe not in a lockdown type situation but in a secure campus. um how we went about that, where we got our information from, how we were updated, and who are the point people for the

emergency response agencies and specifically with South City PD um being exceptional in that regard. Um and uh having immediate and ongoing accessible communication. So yeah, there's a there's sort of inter agency and within ourselves we've made adjustments. Yeah, that that sounds okay. Well, I'm glad to hear that. And um and then I just uh just another random question popped in my mind in terms of uh so it sounds like we use Remind uh I mean for reaching out to parents and students um you know remind or well it'll be parent square.

Yeah. once we transition over. But that seems to be the primary mode of communication just because it's, you know, sort of like texting, but you know, because it's on our own channel that that's the way to keep it um I guess monitored. But um do we know generally how um I guess how widespread it's you know, how do do we know that people actually reading them or like even have it on their phones? and how can we make sure that you know we have put out the message that you know you got please get your parent square on your phones and and so forth.

It's uh so so a couple of things that would be responsive to that one would be the encouragement piece and and how we promote it but we also have multiple layers of communication to ensure that people are getting the message. So in emergency related situations it can be remind but can also be school messenger. Um we also use again our district website and how we use Remind or school messenger to refer to information that could be on the website. Um but in terms of uh promotion and encouragement that's just something that's you know embedded within um each of the departments that are utilizing the communication systems uh just to to continue to publicize that with our school communities. Great. Thank you.

Yep. Sure. All right. Um, thank you so much for these school plans and the general update. Um, I I will never stop thinking that it's awful that in America we have to do lockdown and barricade drills. It's just unacceptable. Um, and I hope that we can continue to advocate for for better gun control laws and better rules. So, that's my only comment and I appreciate you being here tonight. Thank you, Trusty Anthony. And just so you know, we do the trauma informed version of those lockin drills as well. So, thank you so much. Thanks. All right.

Moving on to the action portion of our agenda. We'll start with number one, administration related to online public comments. Uh the board will discuss and provide direction on the future of online written public comments originally implemented during CO 19 to determine whether to continue, discontinue or modify this practice in alignment with district values and legal requirements. Uh Dr. Moore, will you introduce? So this item is presented to the board uh for you to have an opportunity to discuss it and to take action regarding the future of public comments at our board meetings. Our public comment process is governed by California Ralph M. Brown Act and it is the public's right according to the Brown Act. It guarantees the public's right to address address the board on any item of public interest. What's within the board's authority is that this act also grants the board the authority to adopt reasonable regulations to manage the time, the place, and the manner of public comment. And so the decision is not about whether the public can comment, but about the method or the manner that the district provides for that comment. So, the board is going to have an opportunity to determine if the temporary online portal remains a necessary or effective manner of participation now that the in-person manner has been fully restored. And you have before you benefits of continuing online comments and potential challenges of continuing online comments. And so, I turn it over for the board to discuss and give me direction and take action.

Thank you. and thank you so much for preparing the memo with the pros and cons um sort of the benefits and and drawbacks of this. Um uh a few weeks ago there was a public comment um from one of our audience members that uh addressed the fact that some of the public comments have been pretty unkind and it made me start thinking that it was something that we should talk about as a board as to whether this is something we wanted to continue. Um so I will open the floor um for discussion with our colleagues. Dr. Shay, you want to start? I can start.

So um thank you so much for putting this agenda uh this item on the agenda. Really appreciate that. Um thank you for Dr. Moore and the team for this very comprehensive analysis which is very helpful. So I'm in favor of option B to discontinue the temporary online comment portal. My reasoning is that the board's primary role is governance and policy setting not and not not acting as a frontline customer service desk. So the online portal as ne as noted is ineffective for problem solving. It creates a dead end for complex issues and prevents the dialogue necessary for real resolution. So continuing it may give a false sense of engagement without delivering delivering substantive outcomes. Our primary duty is to ensure our public common process leads to effective pro problem solving and the analysis clearly show the online system is a poor vehicle for that. However, to be clear, my point is not about the online portal for public comments section of our my point is only about the online portal for the public comment section of our meeting agenda. As Dr. Moore uh mentioned earlier in the introduction, we are not limiting the public's ability to to be heard. In fact, we are steering them toward channels that are more likely to resolve the concerns. So to that end, I would like to reemphasize uh the following that are highlighted in the memo. One is reinforced and

publicizing communication channel. Have a communication on our website, newsletter or at the meeting that clearly outlines four the four effective ways to be heard. In person comment at the board meetings. Email to board. Direct contact with relevant dis district leadership. Schedule meeting for complex issues. Number two is reaffirm our anti-retaliation position that is also highlighted in the memo that I suggest we include this statement as part of the regular public comment instructions at the start of every board meeting. And my another two points is why not the other options. Option A is continue the current form. This perpetuates the problems identified. It maintains a channel that is largely ineffective for its stated purpose and may undermine the goal of direct collaboration. And I'm also not supporting option C. Suspend the current form and explore potential modification. This is compromise that legs believe. It kicks the can down the road and creates unnecessary uncertainty. This analysis in the memo is already thorough. So if the board is not ready to fully discontinue, this is a fallback, but it delays a necessary decision. Thank you.

Thank you, Trusty Shay. Other trustees? Trusty Lamb. Yeah. Well, I uh I think I I I take the opposite view. So, and I I think I know I I' certainly hear and know I've I've read the analysis and I've been trying to debate, you know, back and forth on the on the merits of it. And I, you know, I certainly understand the the the drawbacks and the, you know, of the online public comment. Um, but I'll just cut to the chase of why I am in favor of, uh, keeping it. Um I think you know public comment is you know it's not really meant to be a measure of popularity or or to be a survey of everything. You know it's it's at its core is about maintain transparency, accountability, um connection with the public and um I think and I I understand that the online we're not required legally to provide the online public comment form but um I think it's um I don't know. I think people are are um used to it and it's part of our kind of our our our civic culture here in in South San Francisco and or in in the district. Um and uh I I think that's something would be lost um to uh just to remove it. I I've seen I mean I think back to the recent decisions we've uh made um the past year and um and reading um the online public comments you know both the uh you know even it when even though maybe a lot of them were negative or critical of of certain directions but um I think there were uh you know more than a few that

were at least you know I you know read them and reflected on And um so those I think to to lose that access to lose the accessibility um to um not have an avenue for folks who may not be able to make a meeting um because of you know needing to take care of the kids or or whatnot. I think that something would be lost and I I'd hate to um just to cut that off just because um you know unfortunately there are people who use it to you know as a complaint box and um for unproductive uh criticisms and whatnot but I think on the whole I I think it's been a benefit. So I'm in favor of keeping it. Thank you.

Thank you Trusty Lamb. Trusty Murray. Um, I'm in favor of going with option B, which is discontinuing the the temporary online written public comment feature. Um, as of December 11th, um, I'm not afraid of criticism at all. I mean, that's trusty Mary. Can you speak? Can you speak on the mic? Sorry.

Oh, sorry. That's how we learn about what our community wants. But sometimes, but um the public comments that we receive on this this um what did you call it? Temporary um means of communication of public comment. oftentimes, in fact, very oftent times, they're anonymous and or they don't have um who they are to the district. You know, are they a community member? Are they a teacher? Are they a staff member? Are they um a student? We have no idea because a lot of them are just anonymous. They don't say who they are and they they give their comments. Sometimes we get the same comment many times and they're anonymous. So, you don't know if that's that's the same person over and over again. Um, I I would be happy to get emails if somebody wants if they really want to express themselves. I'm happy to get an email. We all have published email addresses. Um, I just think that this is in in my opinion, it's just um not something that I put a whole lot of credence in most of the time.

Thank you, Trusty Murray. Trusty Richardson. Um because in the one hand I don't want to limit somebody but then I don't want somebody to be unkind and raise and bash teachers or staff. I don't like that. It's just not right. So, I say let's keep it, but allow somebody to sift through the the comments and perhaps if it's an HR issue, give it to HR. If it's a teacher issue, give it to the collaborative bargaining uh people. And maybe they I don't pay too much attention to the name because, you know, it's they're anonymous, but we read it for what the message says. Is there something that that's bothering them or they feel it's wrong? Um, I've I go to social media sometimes and people put their names, but I don't know if that's what they are. And sometimes they use this method and it's not necessarily our our methods, you know, before a meeting, but it's this is in public domain. And so there you get people saying things un uh complaints on the district that may or may not have uh value. But if I see it and people are

saying uh something I'm I'm going to send it to the administration and let them look into it. even if it's not it's a public comment on social media but and it's I I liken it to this type of um exchange or report. I just don't want to see um unkind things being said about people. It just doesn't help the narrative in any way. So I I'm for option C. Uh suspend while a broad subcommittee or district leadership explores potential modifications. That would be something that's splitting the baby in some way, if you want to call it that. I don't know. I I don't want to muzzle anybody. It's not I wouldn't want to be muzzled. I I like to write things down to the newspaper sometimes and I hope they just listen to what I say, not who says it.

Oh, could I could I add it? Having somebody Oh, I'm sorry. You trusty Murray had asked for the floor, so I'm going to give it to um having somebody sift through the email or the Yeah, the emails and decide where they should go. seems more problematic to me. It lacks transparency. Somebody writes uh something that they want to come to the board and then there's somebody a third person who says, "Ah, I don't know if that should go to the board. I I'll send it here. I'll send it there." So, for me, that would be more problematic. Um Trusty Lamp,

I mean, I I guess I Yeah, I I know I mentioned I'm in favor of keeping it. I would uh I'm I I think some modifications are uh uh should be considered. I I don't I mean I could suggest some [laughter] but uh I I don't know if I don't think I'm in favor of suspending it while those modifications are decided and discussed because then that further erodess trust and like oh well there's this form ever going to come back or I mean it's I think it's either we if we're going to keep it and you know make some tweaks we just keep it. Um, but if we're going to get rid of it, then I mean that's on whatever the decision is tonight. Um, that's what we have to figure out.

I just say keep it, but put it under uh, how do they call it under um, examination or what is that term? I see. Yeah. Um, explore potential. Uh unless we we don't want to, you know, uh stretch this further.

Yeah. Um I'll just weigh in with some thoughts. Um I have found many of the public comments to be I wouldn't just call them negative, but like inflammatory and unkind. Um, and like Trusty Murray and Trusty all the trustees like I don't mind you telling me that you think I'm doing something wrong. Public comments are to tell us that we're doing something wrong. Um, but insulting your colleagues anonymously is just really like beyond the pale. Um, I'm I'm honestly tired of coming to board meetings with sort of a bitter taste in my mouth knowing that my neighbors are willing to say things that are not nice. um because they know that that anonymity protects them and that makes me sad uh when I come in and I've like read that. Um and I do recognize that public comments can be about anything, but I believe strongly in standing behind what you say rather than making anonymous comments that can't be meaningfully addressed. So to go back to what Dr. Shay said, I really liked this comment of having a false sense of engagement. Um I I really don't think that many of the comments are about problem solving but are just venting. And I I really feel if you want to vent, you can do it. You can do it to your friends and family. You can even come here and do it to our face and you can also email us and do that same thing. But I if you want to make disparaging statements about your colleagues and how you think that they do their job, that's your choice. But I don't think that doing it an anonymous public forum represents the values that we have of kindness, teamwork, effective communication, and respect. Um you know, as I said, like if you want to solve problems, email the board. come here. Uh there's lots of ways. Um if you want to get a response, again, you can email the board. If you can't make a public meeting, you can still email the board. Um and I will say, you know, we may disagree uh with each other and you may not get the resolution you want. You may get information that says we can't share that because that's a

thing that's private. Um but you will be heard. We read our emails. Um we look at that and I think that that's uh a very positive way of engaging with us. I do find it ironic and and I think it's interesting that you too uh Trusty Lamb said this that the reasoning provided in the anonymous public comments tonight supporting anonymous public comment say that anonymous comments are a way of strengthening transparency and building trust because I feel totally the opposite. I think that anonymous public comments do exactly the opposite of improving transparency and rebuilding trust because I don't know who these people are who are saying it. As Trusty Murray noted, um we don't know if they're community members, if they're teachers, if they're staff, if they're students, if somebody just has a bone to pick because they don't like me or you or whoever. Um I really think they undermine trust. And so, um I'm I'm in favor of option B, but I'm interested. I mean this is an interesting conversation. So any other thoughts? Okay. Then I need a motion. I move for us to move forward with option B which is discontinuing the temporary online written public comment feature.

I second. Have one question. What does check temporary online mean? Uh this is the the Google form. Um right that's just a Google form. That's how the public comments are being collected for the online. It's just on a Google form.

All right. So we've got a motion by Murray to direct the superintendent to discontinue public comment. Trusty Shay, did you second? Yes. Okay, so we've got a motion on the floor. Um, all in favor? I I. All opposed? No. Okay. So, we have a motion that carries three to two.

Thank you so much for the discussion. Uh, moving on to item 2, A, teaching and learning, approving approval of the South San Francisco Adult Education SSFAE courses for 202425 and 202526. Staff recommends the approval of the SSFE courses as listed for the 2025 2024 25 school year and the 202526 school years. Any comments or questions on this item? Will these get um AG credit at all? This is adult education. So I don't think that's relevant, right?

They won't they won't be considered for um college uh credit for when they transfer. They can use it as a I don't know. Um, I'm going to invite I don't believe so, but I want to invite director Villisor Via Senor to come and address this one. We've talked about this and I sort of had that back in my mind. Thank you so much.

Good evening. Um, for adult education, the courses are typically for English language learners acquiring a second language or job skills or um perhaps even a high school GE completion. So, the college dual credit opportunities or advanced placement doesn't apply to the adult education program. So, the list the course catalog consists of a list of courses that are offered and approved. Um, and it's just a a recognition for the courses that are available for student adult students to take within our program. Super. Thank you. Um, can I get a motion?

So move. Second. Um, I got a motion by Shay, second by Murray. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Approval of physic uh 2B approval of physical education credit for dance courses. Staff recommends approval of the elective dance courses eligible for physical education credit pending required conditions for the 2025 2026 school year and future school years. Any questions or comments on this item? So move second. All right, we got a motion by Murray, a second by Sheay. All in favor? I I Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0. Great job. Thank you for this one.

Yeah, I'm glad to see that, too. To C, approval of a new course, AP psychology. Staff recommends the approval of the AP psychology course for implementation at South San Francisco and El Camino High Schools. Any questions or comments on this item? I'll move. Second. All right, we've got a motion by Murray and a second by Sheay. All in favor? I. Any questions or any opposed? All right, motion carries 5. Uh 2D, approval of new course, technical theater 1. Staff recommends the approval of technical theater 1 course for implementation at South San Francisco and El Camino high schools. Any questions or comments on this item?

Um not not a question, but a comment. I'm just really excited um about these courses, the technical theater courses. I'm I'm I'd audit them if I had the time or or was allowed to, but um it's not unlike kind of what I do at my job at the Exploratorium. There's a lot of, you know, inter disciplinary things happening with um um design, construction, art. Uh maybe we don't do costume and makeup at the exploratorium as much, but it's um I think these are great skills to uh to engage students in, and so I'm really looking forward to what comes out of it.

May I have a comment along your line? I've sat through some of the drama productions in the high school and they do need people with knowledge with how makeup and so forth. So I think this is really uh very good. Uh all I wanted to know if um this is uh uh one year or how many terms are the students allowed to um take this class? How many terms are they allowed to take the class?

When just one semeth grade or when do they start? Okay, it's in the memo. Oh, great. So, in the memo, if you look on page 219, it's 9 through 12. It would be a year-long course. I missed that. That's okay. It would be a year-long course and then it fits under A throughG category F for fine arts.

Oh, wonderful. I do appreciate it that students sew their own curtains and things and they're very dedicated and they were calling for volunteers the last production that I had at South City High and I'll be going to the Aloma production coming up. So, um I was invited by Miss Kelly. Okay. Thank you. Super. Yeah, this is um this is great. We we didn't have something like this when I was in high school and I'm glad to see that our students have something like this. It's cool. All right. Can I get a motion? So moved.

All right. We got a lot of excited people on this one. Trusty Richardson with a motion. Who's second? Second. Trusty Richardson has the so moved. Who's our second? All right. Trusty Lamb. All in favor? I I I. Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. 5-0 2E. Approval of new course technical theater 2. Staff recommends approval of the technical theater 2 course for implementation at South San Francisco and El Camino high schools. Any additional comments on this one? I'd like to make a motion. All right. Trustee Lamb with a motion. Second by Murray. All in favor? I I

I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. 2F. Approval of the South San Francisco Unified School District program planning handbook. Staff recommends approval of the 2025 2026 SSFUSD high school program planning handbook. Any questions or comments on this item? When will it be ready for everyone to use? Is it ready now? Yeah. As soon as if we approve it, then it's ready. Okay. So move. All right. We got a motion by Shay, second by Murray. All in favor? I I

I motion carries 5-0. All right. Approval of personal services agreement and interim assignment. Staff recommends approval of the personal services agreement with Carla Krenshaw, retired director of special education and theus with Jonathan Berg, current program specialist, and Luca Tierelli, MTSS coordinator to provide interim special education program specialist support from November 14th, 2025 through June 20 June 15, 2026 or until the position is permanently filled, whichever occurs first. Any questions or comments on this item? So move second. All right, we got a motion by Murray, a second by Sheay. All in favor? I I

I. Motion carries. 5-0. All right. Item 3A, approval of the contract with Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center, PCRC. Staff recommends approval of the contract with the PCRC to provide consultative services in support of building a positive school climate at Los Certos Elementary School during the 2025 2026 school year. Any questions or comments on this one? So moved. So moved. Okay. Second. Got a motion by Lamb, a second by Murray. All in favor? I

I uh any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Um 4 A, student and family services, approval of the expanded learning opportunities program, ELOT plan. Uh staff recommends approval of the ELOP plan for the 2025 2026 school year and authorization to post the approved plan on the district website within 30 days of board approval. Questions or comments? I was wondering why Vincent was was still hanging out here. Forgot this was on the item on the agenda. I was just like really excited to introduce himself and keep staying here. So move. Second. We got a motion by Shay, second by Lamb. All in favor? I

I uh any opposed? Motion carries 5-0. Go forth. All right. Uh item 5A, approval of denial of claim. Staff recommends the denial of the claim and referral to the district's insurance carrier. Any questions or comments on this item? So move. All right. We've got a motion by Shay. Second. Second by Murray. All in favor?

I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 50. [snorts] All right. 5B. Approval of amendment number two with Project Support Services Incorporated. Staff recommends approval of amendment number two to the independent consultant agreement with Project Support Services, Inc. for Phase 2 Legacy DSA Project Closeout Services in the amount of $134,000 400 $134,465. Any questions or comments on this one?

I have one. Okay. Um this [clears throat] is from the previous bond program as I understand it. When this is is finalized at the state level what will that do? What happens? I mean do did we complete I could not understand all the jargon used in describing every one of the projects. I know that we finished a few projects because I walked over there at El Camino High School and saw the bridge and it was very nice and everything, but there are others in other parts of other schools that I'm not sure what those um uh those projects um entailed. So, um could somebody clarify that for me? No,

it's true. Just slow on the slow on the mic. Just give him a second. Oh, do you do you need a mic? Yeah. Uh, actually I have um Miss uh Shelton on the line. I think she's there. Are you there, Miss Shelton? I am. Okay.

Good evening. Um so to clarify these uh projects date back further than the previous bond. Um some start back in uh 1999. So these are all legacy projects that were um at in some level uh uncertified with the division of state architects. So these um the second um amendment um is for projects. We have nine projects that um need to have some additional work done. Uh each one is um unique in what their needs are, which is why um it it's going to take a lot more effort to get these completed. So there are things that um require uh additional inspection services that we'll have to engage in. Um this uh consultant is going to walk us through the process to help us close out all of these projects. What we don't want to happen is any of these uncertified projects prevent us from doing any future facilities or bond uh projects um with the measure tbon.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I sort of get an idea now that if you don't put these in in a category of sorts, it'll impede the progress of what we want to do with the rest of the But will we finish any of those projects? That's my main I I have no idea what that means.

Uh most of the projects have been um completed in some form or fashion. they are just uncertified. So if there was work um undone um we'll we'll discover that with inspection but we can't know that at this point. Uh this is the process to to come to that understanding and get them closed out. When you say close out, that means finality to me. But the DSA may say, "Well, you can't close this out because of X, Y, and Z." Um, are you prepared for that or do we have to will this come back to the board and say, "Well, the DSA said we couldn't we'll give you this money, but there's more that they need." Is that what

that's a possibility? Again, this this is for the consultant to walk us through the process so that we can get it closed, but we don't know all of what is needed at this time. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. I I also want to add that if we don't close these old very old project with DSA, they might not approve some of the new projects that's coming up. So, that's the consequences if we don't get them approved. So move. All right. Second. Got a motion by Murray, a second by Lamb. All in favor? I I

I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. 5-0. 5C. Business services approval of agreement with Cornerstone Earth Group for Juniperosa TK classroom project. Staff recommends approval of the agreement with Cornerstone Earth Group for geotechnical services for the new TK classroom project at Juniperos Sarah Elementary School in the amount of $35,450. Any questions or comments on this item? So move. Second. All right, we've got a motion by Shay, second by Murray. All in favor? I I

I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Uh 5D, approval of agreement with Cornerstone Earth Group for El Camino High School Athletic Field Restroom Project. Staff recommends approval of the agreement with Cornerstone Earth Group for geotechnical services for the El Camino High School athletic field restroom project in the amount of 39,545. Any questions or comments on this one? All right, we've got a motion by Richardson, second by Murray. All in favor? I I I motion carries 5-0.

Item E, approval of contract with Joseph Kamiski Construction Corporation for the district office maintenance painting project. Staff recommends approval of the contract with Joseph Kamiski Construction Corporation for the patching and painting of the district courtyard maintenance building at the district office in the amount of $65,790. Any questions or comments on this item? So move. Second. All right. Motion by Murray, second by Sheay. All in favor? I

I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Uh item F, approval of contract with Casey Construction, Inc. for Altaloma Middle School. Staff recommends approval to award a contract to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, Casey Construction, Inc. for the partial storm drain replacement project uh project 0625 at Elma Middle School in the amount of $138,700. Any questions or comments on this one?

I have a quick comment on that one. Um I know that this has been a pain point for Aloma and so I'm glad that u or I know that we've done some work on it last year to like make it better but great to see us fixing it going forward. So I don't think we can get it fixed. I've given up actually. So you don't think this is going to fix it? No, I just, you know, every there's always been some issue with the, you know, lockers and the moisture. Hopefully, this will fix it. All right. Maybe they'll get it right this we got. Okay. So, we got a motion by Murray.

Second by Shay. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Item G, approval of change order number two with Meguire and Hester for Westboro Middle School Field and Pavement Project. Staff recommends approval of the change order number two to the contract with Meguire and Hester for the Westboro Middle School Field and Pavement Improvements Project in the amount of 39. Oh, not 39,93,576. Any questions or comments on this item? Uh, I had a couple questions just because

Trusty Lamb love Westboro. [laughter] Um, so, uh, I think I was trying to understand the documents. Um, but, uh, in terms of when they're going to mobilize to repaint or not repaint, but to finish painting and and applying asphalt to that front half, it's u, so this is going to be after the school year. Is that correct, Mr. O? Yeah, I think if everything goes well, it's probably uh I think I believe March, April, uh around springtime, but I have Lori. I think she can maybe a bit more.

So, for the uh front half of the uh paved area, um it'll it's going to take about 2 to 3 weeks to finish painting and curing. So the only opportunity that we have to do that is right after the uh end of school. Spring break is not long enough. Um and we also need to have that uh area available for uh parent parent and student drop off. So um it just behooves us to just do that at the end of the school year.

Okay. And then um and then I always ask about the field because you you know I I see it as I walk by the park. Um but um so originally the um the the anticipated um finish date was around February, but but now I've heard it it may be pushed out a little bit longer. Could you speak to that as well? Uh yes, we um have some additional work to do and we're still negotiating the added time. Uh so we're looking at about April at this point in time.

Okay. And do you think there will be another item coming up? um because you know the field has um some delay or or needs something else. Uh we're working on a change order uh for the December board currently. Okay, great. Thank you. Super. I don't think we have a motion on the floor. Second. [laughter] Okay, we got a motion by Richardson, second by Murray. All in favor? I

I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. All right. Review of future agenda items and meetings. We've got one and a half meetings in December. Regular business and a special meeting for reorganization. Summary of board directives. There are none. Thank you. And then good and welfare.

Trusty Lamb.

I'll go first. Um have been busy. Um I was uh pleased to join Dr. Moore and Trusty Murray um to visit uh Skyline Elementary and and Juniper Sarah. Um and uh thank you to Principal uh Daniel Libman and uh Principal Sen for welcoming us. Um I really uh got a greater appreciation of their dedication to um serving all their students um with you know many uh different uh abilities and uh different needs. Um but uh and also understanding the ways that they're connecting the students and families to different resources uh and mental health supports and also um that they're looking into providing uh leadership opportunities for the um elementary school kids. Um I I think something that really uh struck me, you know, we were visiting some of the math classrooms um and I was able to observe, you know, the IM uh curriculum um and the practice u happening. I I mean I've sort of saw bits of it before, but I think this is the first time I saw you know kids really engaging with each other uh to solve uh you know show each other how explain how they're solving problems. And then I I sort of had this like Russell Crow in a beautiful mind moment where you sort of like look around and then like all the math equations start floating around imag [laughter] and and because you're seeing like kids doing the problems a little bit differently but you know they're all like engaging really deeply in the math. So that was an inspire inspiration to watch um that vision of you know our learning vision coming to life. So that that was just a moment to share. Um I I'll just mention a couple events um that I attended. Um past Friday was the Project Reed fundraiser. Um, and that's been a program for, and I'm sorry, I forget the anniversary, but um, they've been doing this for many years, um, to help literacy adults and families in,

uh, KMA, Daily City, San Bruno, and South San Francisco, um, to reach their personal literacy goals. Um, so I I got to see uh students from the key clubs in El Camino and South City compete. Um, as well as some of our South San Francisco youth commissioners compete um alongside our uh council members um on certain teams. And former trustee John Baker's team finished third. So, congrats to him and all the participants and Project Reed. Uh also attended the bell game for the first time with my family. um even though we have that spirited rivalry um you know it was great to see all the different uh friendships you know you know no matter what school they're attending um so that was just something uh really nice to see um to see other alumni coming back and watching this game and and you know just to see that beautiful tradition uh that was really nice and um and I just lastly I want to uh speak to um this recent crisis with the the federal shutdown and um the blocking and the delaying of the SNAP food benefits, really unconscionable that that had to happen in this country. But um even though the shutdown's ending, um I know you know folks are just been you know really pushed to the edge um with food insecurity um in our community. But I want to commend Dr. more in the cabinet. Um to the uh student family uh services team and nutrition services team for really stepping up to figure out ways to support our families uh during this difficult time. Um I had heard that you know we're organized and provide surplus meals um through you know the the meals that we give to our you know the the the breakfast and lunch that we give every day. We're able to provide free some of those surplus meals for uh families to take home during the weekend. Um, and I know like some of the other schools sites, uh, PTAs, students are taking action to organize food and clothing drives. Um, so I just really want to

thank the community for, uh, really, uh, coming together, uh, to help the most vulnerable in our community. Um, also thanks to South San Francisco City Council for distributing uh, some uh, grocery gift cards. Uh, I think they were able to put out about $50,000 of grocery gift cards um during the immediate uh in the beginning of the month to um South San Francisco families through the YMCA. Um looking forward to celebrating re Bridges um and uh the CSBA conference um early December and also the holidays. So um until then, happy Thanksgiving and uh see you all next month. Thank you so much, Trusty Lamb. Trusty Richardson,

we'll start with the falling in love with reading and then I was that was the same night that we had the community forum and I snuck away for about half an hour and I came back about six a few about 40 minutes later. But it was interesting to me to see how our district is handling the babies and improving and encouraging the parents uh to in to fall in love with reading with free books and uh to reading primarily to the babies so that they won't be learning to read at that age just yet. But that falling in love step by reading with him is one of the first steps and that was kind of what I was thinking about how they did that. But it's and then they came to uh Martin's school and they were wearing their little costumes and they were saying that they weren't going to go or encourage trick-or-treating and the we're going to have a movie at the learning center and deal with not going trick-or-treating doortodoor or house to house. And then I I went to have coffee at the district office by our ATP students and that was such a treat. There was three of them and I sat and chatted with them and they I they served the most delicious cup of coffee. And then uh the next day diia de lo muertos that was fun in the cafeteria at South San Francisco High School. Mr. Truth just always has those students engaged and the students were learning

about this holiday and they explain what the salt means and the traditions and the p place had all full of candles lit up and the dancers in the cafeteria and it was a very short program because it was during school and I enjoyed But nonetheless, the next um event will be for the uh Christmas holidays, which is going to be after we get back from our conference on December 8th. That will be available. And I of course went to see the Warriors, keep the bell another year. And boy, what it was a beautiful day. Uh Mr. Hanan was there. Mr. Briano and his his bike just and everybody was just having such a wonderful time. I saw Miss Connory there as well. We just, you know, buying trying to buy um some of the merch little high $85 for a I didn't bring my credit card. Okay. So, I just said I'll stick with the t-shirt. And then, um, yesterday I went to the Sanonteo County um, board of s not board of education and um, it was um, um, it was the um, how the response to ICE. That was the name of the event. And they they showed us different um forms and how to handle ice coming to

the schools and whether if they brought a a form this and they showed us and gave us samples of what to look for. Um it was given by a um an attorney for the county and given us pointers. Mr. Kovatcha was there. Mrs. Hong was there and another member of a assistant principal in South City High School and that it was a room full concerned educators and I was really great. Then um oh before then I went to the groundbreaking for um the Boys and Girls Club and it was going to be a dynamic uh building that's already begun uh demol demolishing demolition and it will have two stories and invite the um it'll include somebody uh the high school students now and it will be finished uh next year. We'll they'll keep the gym and this was a great time. All the donors were there, Mr. Rosman. It will be a clubhouse and that was a beautiful day for a groundbreaking. So, Mr. Chandler was there, Mr. Seers, and that was great to see them all. And tomorrow is Ruby Bridges day. We'll see everyone over there at 8:45.

Oh, if you Oh, you're gonna go to the school. I was like, it's at 7:30, but I'm going to be there at 8:45. Okay. Mr. Katcha said, okay, at the school it is at 8:45, but if you're planning on walking there from city hall, meet at 7:30. 7:30. Okay. All right. I just have one at 50. So, uh, for our community and, uh, cabinet and staff and board, happy holiday. Happy have a great, uh, amazing and safe Thanksgiving. Thank you. Thank you, Sh.

I wish our community [laughter] lots of love and community for a happy and a happy Thanksgiving.

Super. All right. Um, I have a short uh statement to read tonight. Um, that SSFUSD's litigation with USS Cal has been resolved. In December 2016, USS Cal Builders, Inc. commenced litigation against the South San Francisco Unified School District regarding disputes over payments related to 16 school facility modernization projects that began in 2013. After more than eight years of litigation involving over 60 parties, numerous motions, and multiple mediation sessions, the litigation finally concluded earlier this year. In pre-trial motions, the district the district successfully disputed USS Kell's affirmative claims for additional compensation. The district then reached a settlement with all parties, resulting in a financial recovery to assist in remediating modernization and work modernization work defects. The district is pleased to have concluded this dispute and the litigation and looks forward to managing its current and future school facility upgrade projects. Uh, and with that, yes, happy Thanksgiving. I'll see you tomorrow morning at Ruby Bridges. Pink, purple, maybe. Are they purple this year? Okay.