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[Call to Order]
UM, AND WELCOME TO THE, UH, FEBRUARY 26TH, 2026 BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEETING.MY NAME IS MICHAEL HAMNER, CHAIR OF THE BOC.
I WANNA WARMLY WELCOME ALL OF OUR MEMBERS, DISTRICT STAFF, AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
GOT A NICE LITTLE CROWD IN HERE TODAY.
UH, APOLOGIES, UH, FOR GETTING STARTED.
AND THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF ON OUR, ON OUR DAIS HERE, UH, GETTING ORGANIZED.
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AHEAD AND READ SOME ENTRY REMARKS.UM, AND THEN WE HAVE SOME HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS HERE TO SHARE, AND THEN WE'LL GET INTO THE AGENDA.
UH, THE BOC CHARTER AND MEMORABLE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING STATES THAT THE COMMITTEE HAS A SHARED VISION WITH THE DISTRICT AND BUILDING MODERNIZATION, OR MODERNIZING AND MAINTAINING SCHOOLS THAT PROMOTE THE FULL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD ARE EDUCATIONALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND, ENHANCE THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGH DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING AS CENTERS OF COMMUNITY, AND REFLECT THE WISE AND EFFICIENT USE OF LIMITED LAND.
THE MOU ALSO STATES THAT THE BOC HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO RECOMMEND AGAINST THE EXPENDITURE OF BOND FUNDS WHEN THE DISTRICT PROVIDE, DOES NOT PROVIDE ADEQUATE INFORMATION OR EFFECTIVE OVERSIGHT, OR WHEN A PROJECT OR PROGRAM APPEARS TO BE IMPERMISSIBLE OR IMP PRUDENT.
THESE ARE OUR DUTIES FOR THIS MEETING.
WE HAVE 14 MEMBERS ATTENDING IN PERSON.
UM, ACTUALLY, UH, WE HAVE 13 MEMBERS AND ONE IS REMOTELY.
WE DO HAVE ONE MEMBER, UM, PARTICIPATING REMOTELY.
I AM HERE AND THERE ARE NO ADULTS IN THE ROOM WITH ME.
I WANNA THANK, UH, KLCS AND IITS AND THE SPANISH INTERPRETATION STAFF FOR THEIR SEAMLESS WORK IN BROADCASTING OUR MEETINGS.
AND WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO ASK MR. CAMPBELL TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL REMARKS.
MY NAME IS ROBERT CAMPBELL, VICE CHAIR OF THE BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
THE BOC WEBSITE CAN BE FOUND@WWW.BOND OVERSIGHT.AD.ORG.
A LIVE STREAM OF TODAY'S MEETING CAN BE FOUND ON THIS WEBSITE UNDER THE TAB MEETING AGENDAS UPCOMING MEETINGS.
THE WEBSTREAM INCLUDES VERSIONS IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
THE BOC WEBSITE ALSO INCLUDES ALL MATERIALS FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS, BOND MEASURES, AND OTHER INFORMATION RELEVANT TO THE DISTRICT'S BOND PROGRAM AND OUR OVERSIGHT ROLE.
THIS MEETING IS BEING CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE BROWN ACT.
FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO ADDRESS THE COMMITTEE REMOTELY, WE ASK THAT YOU REGISTER ON A GOOGLE FORM PROVIDED AS A HYPERLINK ON THE MEETING AGENDA.
IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE BOARDROOM WHO WISH TO SPEAK, YOU MAY ALSO SIGN UP TO THE RIGHT OF THE SPEAKER PODIUM.
UH, FIRST, A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS.
UH, WE'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE A BOC MEMBER WHO HAS SERVED FOR SIX YEARS ON THIS COMMITTEE, THE MAXIMUM TERM, AND LIKE TO ASK CONNIE Y TO COME TO THE PODIUM AND BE RECOGNIZED.
WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION FROM THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
IT'S, IT'S TAKEN A, A, A A FEW MONTHS TO COORDINATE OUR SCHEDULES, UH, SO WE CAN HAVE YOU ADJOIN US.
AND WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE, AND I APPRECIATE HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE WITH YOU.
AND I ALSO HAVE, UH, SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO READ IN TERMS OF WHAT'S STATED ON THE PROCLAMATION WHERE CONNIE YEE WAS INITIALLY APPOINTED TO THE LA USD SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BOND CITIZENS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE BOC, ON SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2019, AS THE ALTERNATE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY AUDITOR CONTROLLER'S OFFICE.
WHEREAS MS. YEE HAS SERVED WITH DISTINCTION ON THE BOC FOR SIX YEARS, THE MAXIMUM TERM, WHEREAS MS Y HOLDS A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE AND ACCOUNTING AND A MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
SHE'S A CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT.
HER SERVICE ON THE BOC CONSISTENTLY EXPRESSED HER QUALITIES OF ASSIDUOUS ANALYSIS AND OUS INQUIRY IN CONSIDERING PROPOSED PROJECT PROPERTY TAX IMPLICATIONS AND FINANCIAL REPORTS RELATED TO THE BOND PROGRAM.
WHEREAS MS. YE SERVES AS A CHIEF DEPUTY AUDITOR CONTROLLER RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERSEEING THE ACCOUNTING DISBURSEMENTS PROPERTY TAX APPOINTMENT, AND PROPERTY TAX SERVICE DIVISIONS OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
SHE ALSO OVERSEES THE OPERATIONS OF THE COUNTY CENTRAL FINANCING AND PROPERTY TAX SYSTEMS, WHEREAS MS, SHE
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ALSO DELIGHTS IN BAKING AND WOULD BRING HOMEMADE COOKIES AND COFFEE CAKE TO SHARE WITH THE BOC MEMBERS AND THE DISTRICT SUPPORTING STAFF.NOW, THEREFORE, RESOLVED THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AS A GOVERNING BODY OF THE LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS EXPRESSED THEIR SINCERE APPRECIATION TO CONNIE Y FOR OUTSTANDING DEDICATED SERVICES TO THE STUDENTS, STAFF, AND COMMUNITY, AND EXTENDS BEST WISHES FOLLOWING HER SERVICE ON THE BOC.
SO THANK YOU CHAIR HAMNER AND, UH, THE BOC COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UM, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN SIX YEARS, BUT, UM, IT'S BEEN PLEASURE SERVING, GETTING TO KNOW EACH AND OF YOU, ONE OF YOU, AND JUST GETTING TO LEARN HOW LA UNIFIED AND THE BOND OVERSIGHT AND HOW, HOW THAT WORKS.
UM, THE BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE DOES REALLY GOOD WORK.
UM, YOU SURE THE FUNDS ARE SPENT AND ACCOUNTABLE AND TO ENSURE THAT THE MONEY IS SPENT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE.
UM, AS YOU AS BOARD BOC MEMBERS, I HAVE TO RECOGNIZE AND THANK THAT YOU GUYS ARE DEDICATED AND COMMITTED, AND YOU TAKE A SERIOUS PRIDE TO ENSURE THAT THE KIDS GET THE RESOURCES OR THE FACILITIES THEY NEED TO EXCEL IN THE SCHOOL.
AND, UM, SIX YEARS HAS GONE BY FAST, BUT I THANK YOU FOR THE RECOGNITION AND I THANK YOU FOR THIS HONOR.
THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE FUN.
I WANNA SEE THIS PICTURE IN THE BACK OF YOUR, THIS THE NEW ONE.
OH, BECOME ONE OF MY TEAM'S, UH, BACKGROUND.
OH, THAT'S RIGHT ON OUR ZOOM MEETINGS.
UH, CONTINUING ON, ON, WE HAVE TWO MORE ITEMS HERE JUST FOR OUR, UM, ANNOUNCEMENTS.
ITEM NUMBER TWO IS I'D, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE, UH, JOSH MARGRAVE, ASSISTANT INSPECTOR GENERAL TO DISCUSS THE OIG ANNUAL RISK ASSESSMENT.
MR. MARGRAVE, UH, PLEASE JOIN US AT THE PODIUM AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE COMMITTEE.
THANK YOU COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR HAVING ME.
UM, I'M THE ASSISTANT INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR AUDITS.
I JUST STARTED A FEW MONTHS AGO.
UM, WE ARE STARTING OUR PLANNING PROCESS FOR NEXT YEAR'S ANNUAL WORK PLAN.
UM, WE PROVIDE INDEPENDENT AND OBJECTIVE OVERSIGHT OF L-A-U-S-D PROGRAMS AND REPORT DIRECTLY TO THE BOARD.
PART OF THIS PLANNING PROCESS INVOLVES PERFORMING A RISK ASSESSMENT WHERE WE TRY TO SOLICIT AS BROAD A SPECTRUM OF L-A-U-S-D STAKEHOLDERS AS WE CAN TO GET THEIR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ON POTENTIAL RISKS AFFECTING THE DISTRICT.
AND ITS, UM, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS. WE HAVE A SURVEY THAT WE JUST LAUNCHED EARLIER THIS WEEK.
THE SURVEY WILL REMAIN OPEN THROUGH MARCH 20TH.
YOU CAN ACCESS THE SURVEY VIA OUR WEBSITE OR USING THE QR CODES.
UM, WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE.
UM, IT'S A LOT OF MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS, BUT THERE'S ALSO OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE WRITTEN COMMENTS.
YOUR INSIGHTS WILL HELP US SUPPORT L-A-U-S-D IN ITS EFFORTS TO DELIVER THE BEST POSSIBLE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND OPPORTUNITIES TO ITS STUDENTS.
AND, UM, WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND EFFORT, SO THANK YOU.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR COMING UP AND INTRODUCING YOURSELF.
LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.
OUR NEXT ITEM WE HAVE HERE IS, UH, UH, ITEM THREE OF OUR ANNOUNCEMENTS.
I'D LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING GROUNDBREAKINGS AND RIBBON CUTTINGS, UH, TO WHICH THE BOC MEMBERS ARE INVITED.
I'M GONNA QUICKLY READ THEM WITH THE DATE AND TIME.
RANCHO DOMINGUEZ PREPARATORY SCHOOL, A NEW ATHLETIC FACILITIES PROJECT RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY ON MARCH 3RD AT 3:30 PM GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.
GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY FOR MARCH 6TH AT 9:30 AM SAN PEDRO COMMUNITY ADULT SCHOOL, EARLY EDUCATION CENTER.
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GRAND OPENING AND OUTDOOR CLASSROOM PROJECT RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY.MARCH 12TH AT 10:00 AM THE SUN VALLEY BUS GARAGE ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT.
GROUNDBREAKING, GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY FOR MARCH 25TH AT 10:00 AM AND EL SERINO EARLY EDUCATION CENTER.
OUTDOOR CLASSROOM AND CAMPUS UPGRADES AT PROJECT RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY FOR MARCH 31ST AT 9:30 AM AND I BELIEVE THIS IS ACTUALLY ON OUR SITE AS WELL.
IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED, IT'S OKAY.
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GO TO ITEM NUMBER ONE, WHICH IS OUR PUBLIC COMMENT.UH, I UNDERSTAND WE HAVE A NUMBER OF SPEAKERS TODAY.
OUR FIRST, UM, SPEAKER IS, UH, EMILY TIRE.
MS. EMILY, ARE YOU HERE? YEAH.
I, I SHOULD READ THIS, OBVIOUSLY.
UH, SO ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
IF YOU WISH TO ADDRESS MORE THAN ONE AGENDA ITEM, YOU'LL BE PROVIDED SIX MINUTES TOTAL PUBLIC SPEAKERS PHONING IN SHOULD MONITOR THE MEETING THROUGH THE LIVE STREAM AND THEN TURN OFF THE LIVE STREAM VOLUME WHEN ASKED TO SPEAK TO AVOID AUDIO ECHO OR FEEDBACK, WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO SPEAK.
AS WE STARTED HERE, MS. IDLE WILL, UH, ANNOUNCE THE LAST FOUR DIGITS OF YOUR PHONE NUMBER, AND YOU'LL BE INSTRUCTED TO UNMUTE ON ZOOM OR PRESS STAR SIX TO SPEAK IN PERSON.
SPEAKERS WILL BE ASKED TO STEP UP TO THE PODIUM AND USE THE MICROPHONE.
GOOD MORNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AT TREE PEOPLE, UM, RUNNING THE SCHOOL GREENING PRO PROGRAM.
UM, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING GREETING PARTNERS TO PRESENT ON OUR COLLECTIVE CRITICAL WORK ON GREEN SCHOOLYARDS PROJECTS.
TREAT PEOPLE'S UNDERSTANDING OF MEASURE US LIKE PRIOR SCHOOL BONDS, IS THAT THE BOARD ADMINISTRATION, BOARD AND ADMINISTRATION CAN USE A PORTION OF THE RECORD HIGH $1.25 BILLION FOR GREENING ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS NUMBER ONE IS COVERING THE HIGH COST OF TESTING AND REMEDIATION OF CONTAMINATED SOILS, ASBESTOS AND LEAD PAINT.
THESE COSTS ARE UNPREDICTABLE IN THE GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS AND TAKE AWAY FROM OUR CRITICAL GREENING WORK.
NOTABLY, THESE COSTS ARE DUE TO LAD'S UNIQUE INTERPRETATION OF STATE LAW AROUND IMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN SCHOOL YARDS PROJECTS.
FOR EXAMPLE, CAL FIRE, WHO OVERSEES THE STATE'S GREENING GRANTS NOTES.
NO OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT SHARES LAD'S VIEWS ON THESE ISSUES.
UM, NUMBER TWO, L-A-U-S-D FEES THAT ARE PASSED ALONG TO GREENING PARTNERS, THE MAJORITY OF WHICH ARE NONPROFITS.
UM, THIS CONTINUES TO BE A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE.
THREE PEOPLE BRINGS MILLIONS OF GRANT DOLLARS TO THE TABLE, YET WE MUST DIVERT, UM, CRITICAL PROJECT RESOURCES TO PAY L-A-U-S-D FEES.
AND NUMBER THREE IS COVERING THE HIGH A DA COMPLIANCE COSTS THAT OFTEN UNDER STATE LAW REQUIRE ADDITIONAL FEES THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GREENING PROJECT WHATSOEVER.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ANN MS. ANN VINO.
I'M AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT FOR THE HOLLYWOOD LOS ANGELES BEAUTIFICATION TEAM.
AND I'M HERE TO TODAY REPRESENTING THE LIVING SCHOOLYARDS COALITION STEERING COMMITTEE, WHICH IS BEHIND ME.
LEBT HAS BEEN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH L-A-U-S-D FOR 34 YEARS, DELIVERING SERVICES AND GRANTS.
WE WERE NEVER CHARGED FOR L-A-U-S-D MANAGEMENT OR SUPPORT.
THAT CHANGED WHEN THE NONPROFITS WERE APPLYING FOR CAL FIRE GRANTS.
AND WE WERE INFORMED THAT WE'D NEED TO PAY FOR L-A-U-S-D STAFF.
WHEN WE WROTE THE PROPOSALS, WE HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE FEES THAT WOULD BE CHARGED, AND WE INCLUDED THEM IN OUR PROPOSAL BUDGETS.
AFTER THE GRANTS WERE AWARDED, L-A-U-S-D FEES AND RESPONSIBILITIES REQUIRED OF US INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY.
AS YOU KNOW, GRANTS ARE FIXED BUDGETS.
THERE WERE NO CONTINGENCY LINE ITEMS IN THESE GRANTS, SO FEES CAME DIRECTLY OUT OF THE GREENING PROJECTS, AND THEY HAVE GREATLY DIMINISHED THEM.
NO OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AS MENTIONED EARLIER, ARE CHARGING FEES TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ONLY L-A-U-S-D
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CHANGES REQUIRED BY L-A-U-S-D IN OUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE CURRENT INFLATION OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS HAVE BROUGHT FURTHER BURDEN TO THESE GRANTS.WE NEED THE L-A-U-S-D FEES RETURNED TO SCHOOL PROJECT BUDGETS SO THEY CAN BE RESTORED TO THEIR ORIGINAL DESIGN AND INTENT FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF L-A-U-S-D GREENING GOALS.
BOND MONEY INTENDED FOR THIS TYPE OF PROJECT DO NOT AFFECT THE GENERAL BUDGET OF L-A-U-S-D AND SUPPORTS L-A-U-S-D IN MEETING THEIR SCHOOL GREENING GOALS.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS, UH, MS. LAUREN AKIM.
I'M THE CLIMATE DIRECTOR AT THE LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR RENEWAL ECONOMY, WHERE WE ARE WORKING FOR CLIMATE PROGRESS WITH BUILDING COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC POWER, CREATING UNION JOBS, AND WINNING REAL CHANGE FOR WORKING CLASS AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.
AND WE, AS SUCH ARE WORKING WITH LABOR AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO S SUPPORT CLIMATE INVESTMENTS AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, SUCH AS SUPPORT FOR MEASURE US.
AND IN THE COURSE OF THAT WORK, WE'RE WORKING WITH SCHOOL AND PARENT LEADERS ACROSS THE CITY, UM, TO SUPPORT CHANGES AND ADDRESS CONDITIONS AT THEIR SCHOOLS, LIKE IN THE NORTHEAST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND IN BOYLE HEIGHTS.
AND IN THAT, WE'VE SEEN PARTNERS WHO HAVE BEEN, UM, WORKING ON GREENING PROJECTS AT THEIR SCHOOLS WHERE THEY'VE SEEN, DUE TO UNANTICIPATED COSTS OUTSIDE THE, UM, SCOPE OF THE GRANT FUNDING, THAT THEY COULD REALLY BENEFIT FROM ADDITIONAL DOLLARS FROM THE BOND TO PRESERVE THE SCOPE OF THE ORIGINAL PROJECT.
AND THAT, UM, SO I'M REALLY EAGER TO SUPPORT THE ABILITY TO HAVE THE DISTRICT PARTNER WITH SOME OF THE, UH, PROJECT DEVELOPERS WHO ARE WORKING ON THESE EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS TO SEE HOW, WHAT, HOW LEGALLY OR PROGRAMMATICALLY THERE MIGHT BE THE POSSIBILITY TO PARTNER, TO HAVE ADDITIONAL, TO HAVE THE FULL SCOPE OF THE PROJECT REALIZED SUCH AS THROUGH A PHASE TWO OF THE PROJECT, OR THROUGH AN AMENDMENT TO A DEVELOPER AGREEMENT OR WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN SO THAT SOME OF THE BOND FUNDS MIGHT BE ABLE TO, UM, GO TO SUPPORT THE FULL REALIZATION OF THESE EXTER OTHERWISE EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS TO REALLY LEVERAGE THOSE ASSETS AND ALSO BRING IN AN POTENTIAL FOR, UM, WE'D LOVE TO SEE THE BOND FUNDED PROJECTS.
'CAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE OUR, UM, THE DISTRICT'S PROJECT STABILIZATION AGREEMENT IN PLAY, WHICH SUPPORTS PATHWAYS FOR LUSD STUDENTS AND GRADUATES TO COME INTO, UM, WORK ON THOSE SCHOOLS AND THOSE PROJECTS.
AND SO THAT THIS IS A REALLY, UM, OPTIMAL TO PRESERVE ALSO THE CONFIDENCE OF THESE PARENTS AND SCHOOL LEADERS IN THE WORKINGS OF THE, OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT WE FEEL SO STRONGLY ABOUT WHEN THEY SEE THE, UM, THE PROMISE REALIZED OF THE POTENTIAL CHANGES AT THEIR SCHOOLS AND THEIR VOTER APPROVED DOLLARS AT WORK.
AND SO, UH, FIGURING OUT THESE PARTNERSHIPS AND HOW THOSE CAN ROLL OUT IS, UM, AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST IN THAT CONFIDENCE AND IN THAT COMMITMENT TO OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
AND WE URGE TO, OR REALLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUPPORT THAT, UH, CONSIDERATION AND PARTNERSHIP.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS? YEAH, HER SPEAKER IS, UH, MS. ERIN CROWLEY.
GOOD MORNING CHAIR AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS ERIN CROWLEY, AND I WORK AT NORTHEAST TREES.
I'M A PROJECT MANAGER IN CHARGE OF THE SCHOOL GREENING, AND WE ARE RECIPIENT, WE ARE A RECIPIENT OF A GRANT TO SCHOOL, TO GREEN SEVEN SCHOOLS WITH L-A-U-S-D, AND WE NEED YOUR HELP.
WE ARE ENCOUNTERING COUNTERING DIFFICULTIES AND PROBLEMS DURING DESIGN AND DURING CONSTRUCTION THAT REALLY BECOMES MORE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PROPERTY OWNER.
AND AS YOU'VE HEARD, THE BURDEN IS FALLING ON ON US, AND IT SHOULDN'T FALL ON US.
OR, UM, CAL FIRE WHO'S WORKING, YOU KNOW, WHO GAVE US THESE FUNDS.
THEY GAVE US THESE FUNDS TO PLANT TREES AND TO BEAUTIFY THE PLAYGROUND, NOT TO TAKE CARE OF PROBLEMS THAT WE ENCOUNTER.
UM, LIKE MANY THE LEAD ABATEMENT.
AND THE IRONY IS WE WORKED ON BUCHANAN ELEMENTARY IN HIGHLAND PARK, AND WE, WE NEEDED, AND WE WERE REQUIRED TO BRING IN SPECIALISTS FOR THE ASPHALT REMOVAL.
AND SO HERE COMES A TROOP OF, OF WORKERS IN HAZMAT SUITS, NEARLY HAZMAT SUITS, YOU KNOW, FOLLOWING THE CHAIN OF CUSTODY
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WITH THIS ASPHALT REMOVAL.AND YET, NOT FAR AWAY, THE CHILDREN ARE PLAYING ON THAT SAME ASPHALT PLAYING HOPSCOTCH.
AND YET WE'RE BEARING THE BURDEN OF THIS TOXIC REMOVAL THAT BELONGS.
THE RESPONSIBILITY IS THE PROPERTY OWNER.
AND THEN WITH THAT, WITH HELP WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT STEP, WE COULD HAVE BEAUTIFIED THIS SCHOOL.
WE COULD HAVE PLANTED MORE TREES.
IT'S UNFINISHED BECAUSE WE RAN OUT OF FUNDS, GRANT FUNDS, AND SO WE NEED TO LOOK FOR OTHER FUNDS TO FINISH THE JOB THAT WE REALLY WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE MANY ELEMENTS OF THIS SCHOOL THAT JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN.
SO WE NEED YOUR HELP, AND WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN FINISH THESE BEAUTIFICATION JOBS, LEAVE A LEGACY OF SHADE TREES, UH, FOR ALL THE STUDENTS, FOR EVERYONE, AND IT, IT BRINGS JOY.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MS. EILEEN NDA.
MY NAME'S EILEEN AL DENDA, AND I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTH.
A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT'S BEEN WORKING WITH L-A-U-S-D ON SCHOOL GREENING PROJECTS FOR OVER 10 YEARS.
WE'RE A MEMBER OF THE LIVING SCHOOL YARDS COALITION, AND I'M HERE TODAY IN SUPPORT OF THE PRESENTATION THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE LATER ON.
ADDITIONALLY, I'M HERE TO BRING ATTENTION TO SCHOOL GREENING PROJECTS FOR A FEW L-A-U-S-D SCHOOLS.
MIRA MONTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND PRIMARY ACADEMY FOR SUCCESS.
THESE THREE SCHOOL COMMUNITIES ARE WAITING TO IMPLEMENT GREENING PROJECTS.
COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTH HAS SECURED OVER ONE WELL, HAS SECURED $1.5 MILLION NEEDED TO REMOVE 31,600 SQUARE FEET OF ASPHALT AND TRANSFORM EACH SCHOOL YARD INTO A NATURE-BASED ENVIRONMENT THAT SUPPORTS STUDENT EDUCATION AND INTERACTION WITH NATURE ENHANCING PLAY OPTIONS, AS WELL AS MITIGATING HEAT AND LESSENING AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION WITH OVER 90 TREES.
HOWEVER, UNFORESEEN DISTRICT FEES AND COSTS AND ESCALATING CONSTRUCTION COSTS HAVE INCREASED THE TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET TO OVER $2.2 MILLION, RESULTING IN A BUDGET SHORTFALL OF 790,000.
THE DISTRICT HAS AGREED TO COVER $75,000 IN FEES AND COSTS FOR THE PROJECT, WHICH WE APPRECIATE, BUT THAT LEAVES A BUDGET SHORTFALL OF 715,000.
WE'VE SUBMITTED A LETTER, IT'S IN YOUR INBOX, DETAILING OUR REQUEST FOR THE 715,000 IN BOND DOLLARS, FOCUSING ON HARD COSTS WHERE BOND DOLLARS WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE DISTRICT OBJECTIVES AND HELP LEVERAGE THE GRANT THAT WE'VE SECURED WITHOUT BOND DOLLARS.
THESE SCHOOLS AND THE DISTRICT ARE AT RISK OF LOSING THE $1.5 MILLION GRANT AND POSSIBLY FUTURE CAL FIRE FUNDS.
THIS REQUEST CAN SERVE AS A PILOT PROJECT TO ESTABLISH PARAMETERS FOR THE USE OF BOND DOLLARS IN THIRD PARTY GREENING PROJECTS.
PROVIDING CWH AND OTHER THIRD PARTY NONPROFIT GREENING PARTNERS WITH AVAILABLE BOND DOLLARS WILL HELP L-A-U-S-D TO COMPLY WITH THE BOARD RESOLUTION.
STRENGTHENING GREENING INITIATIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ADVANCE THE DISTRICT'S GREEN SCHOOLYARDS FOR ALL GOALS BY DESIGNING, CONSTRUCTING, AND OBTAINING THIRD PARTY FUNDING FOR SCHOOLYARD GREENING PROJECTS AND SUPPORT EXISTING LEARNING AND CURRICULUM GOALS.
ULTIMATELY, THE ACCESS TO THE DISTRICT AVAILABLE BONDS WILL DELAY CRITICAL GREENING INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS NECESSARY FOR PROVIDING SHADE IN GREEN SPACES FOR ALL SCHOOLS.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, FOR THOSE IN MOST NEED, MIRA MONTE ELEMENTARY, HOLMES ELEMENTARY AND PRIMARY ACADEMY FOR SUCCESS.
ON BEHALF OF THE COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTH, I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO CONSIDER OUR REQUEST AND HOPEFULLY ENSURE THE TIMELY CONSTRUCTION OF THE CRITICALLY NEEDED SCHOOL YARD PROJECTS.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND YOUR TIME.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, UM, ETH MARTINEZ.
MY NAME IS NETTE MARTINEZ AND I'M A PROJECT MANAGER WITH NATURE FOR ALL, WHERE WE FOCUS THAT EVERYONE IN LA HAS ACCESS TO NATURE.
AND OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, I'VE BEEN WORKING DIRECTLY, UH, WITH PRIMARY ACADEMY, UH, ONE OF THE SCHOOLS THAT WE'RE REQUESTING, UM, THAT YOU ALLOW US TO KEEP GOING WITH THIS, UH, PROJECT.
AND WORKING WITH THAT SCHOOL, I'VE LEARNED SO MUCH.
UH, ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS THAT WE ASK THE CHILDREN IS LIKE, WHERE DO THEY PLAY? AND A LOT OF THESE KIDS ARE PLAYING UNDER THEIR PLAYGROUND BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY SHADE THAT THEY HAVE.
UM, THE SCHOOL COULD HIT UP TO 160 FAHR HEIGHTS IN THE HOT DAY, AND A LOT OF THESE CHILDREN ARE GONNA STOP GOING INTO THE REESE'S JUST BECAUSE IT'S REALLY HARMFUL FOR THEM TO BE OUTSIDE.
UM, THIS SCHOOL IS ALSO LOCATED IN THE NORTH HILLS AREA, AND AS YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE OF THE, IS THE HIGHEST IMPACT,
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UM, ICED AREA RIGHT NOW.AND IT ALSO HAS NO GREEN SPACE.
SO IF THEY DON'T HAVE THAT GREEN SPACE IN THEIR SCHOOL, THEY'RE NOT GONNA GET IT ANYWHERE ELSE.
IT'S ALSO REALLY DENSE AND MOST OF THE KIDS LIVE IN, UM, IN REALLY CROWDED APARTMENTS.
AND YOU COULD HEAR, AND YOU COULD SEE THEIR DRAWINGS AND EVERYTHING THAT, ALL THE INFORMATION THAT THEY HAD GIVEN US.
THEY'RE READY FOR GREENER, HEALTHIER SCHOOLS AND THEY CANNOT WAIT.
UM, THEIR, THEIR CHILDREN REALLY NEED THAT.
AND THE MOMS, THE PARENTS, EVERYBODY, THE THE WHOLE SCHOOL STAFF IS REALLY ENROLLED.
AND YOU COULD GO ANY DAY AND THEY WILL TELL YOU THEY'RE REALLY, UH, READY TO START PLANTING THE TREES.
UM, THEY ASK ME EVERY DAY, 'CAUSE I ALSO LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
THEY WANNA, THEY WANNA SEE THESE CHANGES, AND I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF YOU TO REALLY, UM, GIVE US THOSE MONEY FOR ALL THE THREE SCHOOLS THAT WE'RE REQUESTING BECAUSE IT'S ALARMING THE, THE WAY, UM, HA HOT THE CAMPUS IS GETTING.
AND IT'S NOT ONLY IN THE SCHOOL THAT I'M WORKING AT, BUT IN THE OTHER SCHOOLS THAT WE'RE REQUESTING.
SO I'M JUST HERE TO EXPRESS MY STRONG SUPPORT, UH, FOR THE COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED.
UH, FOR THIS BOND DOLLARS, UH, WE REALLY NEED TO SEE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS IN MONT ELEMENTARY AND HOMELESS ELEMENTARY AND IN PRIMARY ACADEMY.
I REALLY HOPE THAT BY THE TIME THAT THESE KIDS GRADUATE, THEY HAVE SOME TYPE OF ACCESS TO NATURE AND THAT THEIR DISCONNECT TO NATURE IS NOT, UM, AS BAD AS WHEN WE STARTED BUILDING THIS PROJECT.
THEY'RE READY TO TAKE CARE OF THE TREES AND WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
I'M A SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER WITH THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND.
I AM OVERSEEING FOUR L-A-U-S-D GREEN SCHOOL YARD PROJECTS AND BOARD DISTRICTS TWO AND SEVEN.
I WANNA EMPHASIZE THE LEVEL OF VALUE ENGINEERING AND SCOPE REDUCTION THAT ARE IMPACTING MY PROJECTS.
MY DESIGN TEAM AND I HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTING VALUE ENGINEERING STRATEGIES AT EVERY PHASE OF DESIGN.
HOWEVER, IT'S BECOMING MORE DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS.
IN MANY CASES, WE ARE NOW SUBSTITUTING OR ELIMINATING MATERIALS.
FOR EXAMPLE, L-A-U-S-D INITIATED OR APPROVED THE USE OF GRANITE CRETE AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO DECOMPOSE GRANITE, WHICH IS TG.
WHILE WE WERE REALLY EXCITED TO USE THIS MATERIAL, IT WAS VALUED, ENGINEERED OUT, WE COULDN'T AFFORD IT.
IT COST APPROXIMATELY $22 A SQUARE FOOT COMPARED TO $12 A SQUARE FOOT FOR STABILIZED DG.
RECENTLY I TOURED THE NEW GREEN SCHOOLYARD AT 120 SECOND STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WHICH IS A BEAUTIFUL PROJECT.
I NOTICED THAT THE CONCRETE MO CURB SEPARATING THE DG PAVING FROM THE MULCH AREAS WAS NOT INCLUDED.
GIVEN THAT CONCRETE COST, APPROXIMATELY $18 TO $20 A SQUARE FOOT OR $37 A LINEAR FOOT FOR MORE CURBS, I WILL BE SUBMITTING A FORMAL DEVIATION REQUEST TO LA USD TO ELIMINATE THIS ITEM FROM MY PROJECTS TO SAVE MONEY.
THE SCOPING ALSO IS ALSO A, IT'S ALSO TAKING PLACE, BUT WE ARE TRYING OUR VERY BEST NOT TO SACRIFICE THE QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WILL BE USING THESE SPACES.
BUT AGAIN, IT'S GETTING REALLY DIFFICULT VALUE AND ENGINEERING IS ALSO AFFECTING MY TIMELINE.
AND THE LONGER WE KEEP REDESIGNING THESE PROJECTS DUE TO BUDGET CONSTRAINTS, CONSTRUCTION COST INCREASE, IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE PROJECTS ARE BOND ELIGIBLE AND MEET THE GREENING CRITERIA OUTLINED IN MEASURES RR AND US.
IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF, IF THE PROCESS COULD BE STREAMLINED TO ALLOW THIRD PARTY PARTNERS TO BENEFIT FROM THESE MEASURES.
IN CLOSING OUR PROJECTS AND WHAT WE PROMISE TO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, VOTERS AND FUNDERS ARE AT RISK.
NEXT SPEAKER? YEAH, NEXT SPEAKER IS, UH, FLORES CASTILLO WONG.
MY NAME ISEL FLORES CASTILLO WONG, AND I AM A PROGRAM MANAGER OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION WITH RIVER IN ACTION.
UM, I AM HERE TODAY TO EXPRESS MY STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE LIVING SCHOOLS, UM, SCHOOLYARD COALITION'S PRESENTATION AND COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTH REQUEST FOR BOND DOLLARS TO IMPLEMENT CRITICAL GREENING IMPROVEMENTS.
AMIRA MONTE ELEMENTARY, HOMES ELEMENTARY AND PRI PRIMARY
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ACADEMY FOR SUCCESS.FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, RIVER IN ACTION HAS BEEN WORKING WITH MIAM MONTE ELEMENTARY TO BRING A GREENER, HEALTHIER CAMPUS TO THEIR STUDENTS.
MIAM MONTE IS LOCATED IN A COMMUNITY HIGHLY SURROUNDED BY CONCRETE, BUT NOT ONLY THAT, ALSO INDUSTRIES AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS THAT HAVE CAUSED CONTAMINATION OF THEIR AIR, WATER, AND LAND AND THEIR HEALTH, UH, FOR WAY TOO LONG.
THESE IN TURN, HAVE CAUSED THESE COMMUNITIES TO ALSO BE IMPACTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY RISING TEMPERATURES AND WORKING WITH MIAM TO BRING THEM A GREENER CAMPUS.
WE WANT STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE EXPERIENCE AND ACCESS OF WHAT A GREEN CAMPUS NATURE A HEALTHY COMMUNITY CAN PROVIDE FOR THEM WITH MORE SHADE, CLEANER AIR OUTDOOR AREAS THAT THEY CAN TRULY ENJOY.
AND MORE THAN ANYTHING, HAVE HEALTHIER LIVES.
HOWEVER, UNFORESEEN, UM, DISTRICT FEES AND ESCALATING CONSTRUCTION COSTS HAVE CONTINUED TO MAKE THESE KINDS OF PROJECTS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THROUGH TO THE FINISH LINE, UM, BECAUSE THERE JUST ISN'T ENOUGH FUNDING TO COMPLETE THEM YET.
NOW WE HAVE A POTEN, UH, A POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE COMPLETION OF THESE PROJECTS THROUGH BOND DOLLARS.
SO, YOU KNOW, THIS REQUEST IS NOT ONLY GONNA BENEFIT THE SCHOOLS, BUT IT'S ALSO GONNA BE ABLE TO BENEFIT, UM, THE, UH, THE, THE GOALS THAT LAU SDS ITSELF HAS FOR CREATING GREENER CAMPUSES ALL THROUGHOUT.
UM, SO ON BEHALF OF RIVER IN ACTION, I JUST, I REALLY WANNA STRONGLY URGE THE BOARD TO STRONGLY, UM, TO SUPPORT THE LIVING SCHOOLYARDS COALITION AND THEIR ASKS, AS WELL AS A FAVORABLE DECISION TO USE BOND DOLLARS TO COMPLIMENT THE COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTH AWARDED CAL FIRE GRANT.
BECAUSE IF WE'RE NOT ABLE TO GET THOSE FUNDS, WE'RE GONNA LOSE THAT MONEY.
AND IT'S ALREADY BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE WE STARTED THIS GREEN PROJECT WITH JUST MONT, AND THAT'S JUST ONE SCHOOL.
I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SEE ANOTHER GRADUATING CLASS WHO'S NOT GONNA SEE A GREENER CAMPUS AND CONTINUE SEEING EVEN MORE SCHOOLS WHO WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TO EXPERIENCE THAT.
SO I REALLY HOPE THAT YOU ALL HAVE, WILL LISTEN TO ALL OF OUR ASKS AND BE ABLE TO SUPPORT US IN GETTING THESE PROJECTS THROUGH COMPLETION.
ANY OTHER SPEAKERS, STAFF? YES.
UH, OUR LAST SPEAKER SIGN UP FOR VARIOUS ITEMS. SO SHE WILL HAVE SIX MINUTES TO SPEAK.
UH, FORMER BOC MEMBER MARGARET FUENTES, ARE YOU ONLINE? SORRY, YOU CAN'T HEAR? YEAH.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU NOW.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO, UM, WELL FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANTED TO CONGRATULATE YE BEING THAT I WAS, UH, HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING WITH HER ON THE COMMITTEE.
I JUST WANTED TO CONGRATULATE HER ON HER YEARS OF SERVICE.
AND THEN, UM, TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT, WHAT I WANTED TO ADDRESS WAS NOT SURE WHAT THE UPDATE TODAY WILL BE ON THE MOU.
UM, BUT I HAVE SEEN ON JANUARY'S BOC MEETING THAT THERE WAS AND HAS BEEN COMMUNICATION WITH MR. TORRES, THE SENIOR ADVISORS TO THE, TO THE SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE AS STATED COMPLETION OF REVISIONS.
THAT SHOULD BE DONE BY THE FIRST QUARTER.
BEING THAT IT HAS BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE MYSELF SERVING ON THE COMMITTEE AND ARA AND ADDRESSING THE MOU EVEN TWO YEARS PRIOR TO ME LEAVING, UM, I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHY IT WOULD TAKE SO LONG TO BE ADDRESSED, AND I FIND IT RATHER CONCERNING.
SO I DID WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE CONTINUED WORK ON THE MOU TASK FORCE AND EMPHASIZE TO THE PUBLIC ITS IMPORTANCE TO HAVING AN AGREEMENT WITH THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS NEEDED FOR TRANSPARENCY AND PROVIDING INFORMATION TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE SPENDING OF TAX DOLLARS.
THERE IS AND SHOULD BE THIS CERTAIN AMOUNT OF RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PART OF A USD TO COMMUNICATE THIS TO THE COMMITTEE.
IT IS CRUCIAL TO THE WORK OF THE BOND OVERSIGHT.
MY NEXT ADDRESSING AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, HAS THERE BEEN ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DISTRICT AND ITS BOARD WHEN IT COMES TO THE LEASING OF PROPERTIES? HERE ARE TWO CAMPUSES, CHIME INSTITUTE AND OUR COMMUNITY CAMPUSES THAT BOTH OPENED IN 1980 AND BOTH CLOSED IN 19 89, 9 YEARS LATER.
ACCORDING TO THE CDE WEBSITE, THESE TWO INDEPENDENT DIRECTLY FUNDED CHARTER SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN LEASING FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
SO NOW IN THE NEED OF FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS, DOES IT EQUATE SENSIBLY IN HOLDING ONTO PROPERTIES AND MAKING THESE INVESTMENTS OF
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25, $30 MILLION? YOU KNOW? UM, AND SO WITH THE IMPACTS OF ENROLLMENT, WHAT IS THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR FUTURE USAGE OF PROPERTIES OWNED BY THE DISTRICT? ARE THERE GRANTS FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT COULD BE APPLIED FOR FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS? BECAUSE THERE ARE, ARE PLENTY OF LEGACY AND COMMUNITY SCHOOLS NOT INDEPENDENT OF VALLEY USD, THAT COULD USE THIS AMOUNT OF FUNDING AND HEARING ONGOING CONCERNS OF SU SUSTAINABILITY OF AFFORDABILITY TO CAMPUSES WITH ONE OF THE HIGHEST ALLOCATIONS OF FUNDING CATEGORIES IN THE SUP OF 300 MILLION FOR MEASURE US FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS, CHANGES COULD BE MADE BY THE DISTRICT AND ITS BOARD MEMBERS TO ADDRESS NEEDS OF MORE AREAS IN THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.UM, SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I DID WANT TO MENTION IN SUPPORT OF THE OIG SURVEY, I JUST, UM, WANT TO SAY THAT I DID SEE IT LOGGING INTO THE WEBSITE AND THANK THEM FOR THEIR WORK.
AND AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE VOLUNTEERS ON THIS COMMITTEE.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR, YOUR TIME AND YOUR COMMENTS.
HAVE A GREAT DAY THAT CONCLUDED PUBLIC COMMENT.
THANK YOU, UH, TO THE SPEAKERS THAT SPOKE PRIOR TO MS. FUENTES, UM, KNOW THAT YOUR, YOUR MESSAGE HAS BEEN HEARD AND WE HAVE STAFF HERE TODAY, OFFICE ALSO.
AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW UP WITH YOUR, YOUR CO YOUR UNITED COMMENTS.
UH, NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS
[2. Consent Calendar]
OUR, OUR CONSENT CALENDAR.UH, WITH THAT IT SHOULD BE OUR MINUTES, UM, FROM THE JANUARY 29TH, 2026 MEETING.
UH, ARE ANY MEMBERS, DO ANY MEMBERS HERE HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? A MOTION TO APPROVE? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? MOVE, MOVE BY CAMPBELL.
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER DOWN HERE.
MOTION BY KAISER SECOND BY PETERSON.
UM, ARE THERE ANY, UH, UH, OBJECTIONS OR ABSTENTIONS? I WILL, UH, OBVIOUSLY I WAS NOT HERE AT THE MEETING, SO ON THIS PARTICULAR ONE I HAVE TO ABSTAIN, UH, MI MR. CHAIR, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING, SINCE WE HAVE A MEMBER PARTICIPATING REMOTELY, THAT WE'LL NEED TO DO ALL VOTES BY ROLL CALL.
THIS IS THE VOTE ON THE, UM, CONSENT ITEM, AGENDA NUMBER, ITEM NUMBER TWO, THE MINUTES FROM THE JANUARY 29TH.
2026 BOC MEETING MS. BELL, AB SUSTAIN.
RECORDED AS AN AYE, MR. CAMPBELL.
AND MR. HAMNER? I'VE BEEN CORRECTED EVEN THOUGH I WAS ABSENT.
UM, THE MINUTES ARE ADOPTED WITH 12 AFFIRMATIVE VOTES AND TWO ABSTENTIONS.
[3. BOC Proposed Revisions to the BOC Charter and MOU (Update)]
ON THE AGENDA, WHICH, UM, TENDS TO BE JUST AN UPDATE IS REGARDING OUR BOC PROPOSED PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE, UH, BOC CHARTER AND MOU, UM, AS, AS, UM, QUICKLY ADDRESSED BY FORMER CHAIR, UH, MARGARET FUENTES.UM, WE ARE STILL IN PROCESS AND AS OF THIS MEETING TODAY, I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS.
UH, WE DID HAVE A, UH, A BIT OF A, A WORD A BIT IS MAYBE NOT THE RIGHT TERM.
WE DID HAVE ASSURANCES THAT WE WOULD HAVE THIS MOU RESOLVED OR COMMENTS AT LEAST FROM FULL COMMENTS, UH, FROM STAFF TO US BY THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER, WHICH WE ARE, UM, CURRENT CURRENTLY CLOSING OUT ON OUR FIRST QUARTER.
UH, WE DO NOT HAVE A MEETING FOR THE MONTH, TECHNICALLY THE MONTH OF MARCH.
OUR NEXT, UH, BOC MEETING WILL BE EARLY APRIL.
UM, SO WITH THAT, I DO EXPECT STATING
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PUBLICLY, UM, THAT WE SHOULD HAVE THOSE FINAL COMMENTS SO THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD TO RESOLVING THIS NEARLY THREE YEAR PROCESS OF A SIMPLE, UH, DOCUMENT UPDATE.UM, AND WITH THAT, I LEAVE IT IF THERE'S ANY COMMENTS FROM ANY OTHER, UH, BOARD MEMBERS AND WITHOUT ANY, UH, THIS IS NOT A VOTING ITEM, SO IT'S JUST FOR INFORMATION.
[4. Living Schoolyard Coalition Presentation (Information Only) ]
ON THE AGENDA IS ITEM NUMBER FOUR.THIS IS OUR LIVING SCHOOLYARDS COALITION PRESENTATION, AND THIS IS AN INFORMATION ONLY, BUT I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE MEMBERS OF THE COALITION TO THE PODIUM.
AND IF YOU'D PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELVES TO THE COMMITTEE AND THE PUBLIC.
UM, MY NAME IS MICHAELA RANDOLPH.
I'M THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF REGIONAL PROGRAMS WITH GREEN SCHOOLYARDS AMERICA.
TODAY I'M JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES ROBIN MARK, TORI JAR, AND CALEB HIRSCH.
AND, UM, THANK YOU FIRST AND FOREMOST, CHAIR HAMNER AND THE MEMBERS OF THE BOWARD OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU TODAY ON THE TOPIC OF GREEN SCHOOLYARDS AS EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT I GRADUATED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND L-A-U-S-D SCHOOLS.
I CURRENTLY HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR AT VENICE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I ALSO SERVE ON THE DISTRICT SCREENING SCHOOLS AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE COMMITTEE.
UM, AS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE LOS ANGELES LIVING SCHOOL YARD COALITION, JOINED BY MY OTHER COALITION MEMBERS, I JUST REALLY WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU TODAY BRIEFLY ON GREEN SCHOOLYARDS AS EDUCATIONAL, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE LOS ANGELES LIVING SCHOOL YARD COALITION IS COMPRISED OF RESEARCHERS, NONPROFIT PARTNERS, PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS OF SCHOOLYARD, GREENING, AND ADVOCATES FOR SCHOOLYARD.
WE'RE A COALITION THAT CREATES AND ADVOCATES FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS FOR LA COUNTY'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NOT JUST EXCLUSIVELY LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT.
OUR WORK IS BASED ON EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE TRANSFORMING SCHOOLYARDS AND IS BACKED BY HALF A CENTURY OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH.
AND THE COALITION CALLS FOR A LARGE SCALE SYSTEMATIC AND COMPREHENSIVE CHANGE ACROSS ALL LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS.
AS A COALITION, WE HAVE, UM, WE ARE CURRENTLY SECURED FUNDS FOR 52 PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
WE'VE REMOVED OR PLAN TO REMOVE NEARLY 1 MILLION ACRES OF ASPHALT.
CURRENTLY, OVER 21 ACRES OF ASPHALT HAVE BEEN REMOVED WITH PROJECTS FROM THE COALITION ALONE, MAKING MORE WAY FOR MORE GREENING.
IN ADDITION, AS A COALITION, WE'VE BEEN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DISTRICT FOR DECADES.
AS YOU'VE HEARD FROM SOME OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT SPEAKERS TODAY TO TRANSFORM SCHOOLYARDS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS ALONE, SEVEN ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE COALITION HAVE SECURED OVER $57 MILLION TO GREEN SCHOOLS ACROSS BOARD DISTRICTS 1, 2, 5, 6, AND SEVEN.
AS A COALITION, WE'VE ALSO SUCCESSFULLY SUPPORTED THREE BOARD RESOLUTIONS, INCLUDING THE GREEN SCHOOLS FOR ALL RESOLUTION, WHICH ESTABLISHES THE 30% GREENING METRIC FOR ALL SCHOOLS.
A YEAR AGO, THE COALITION SUPPORTED THE COMMUNITY CENTERED GREENING INITIATIVES RESOLUTION AUTHORED BY BOARD MEMBER RIVAS AND BOARD PRESIDENT SCHUREN TO LIMIT DISTRICT COSTS THAT WERE BEING CHARGED TO PARTNERS GREENING SCHOOLS.
AND LASTLY, THE COALITION WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN SUPPORTING THE $1.2 BILLION CALL OUT SET ASIDE FOR SCHOOL GREENING AND MEASURE US THE DISTRICT'S 9 BILLION BOND.
THESE RESOLUTIONS AND INVESTMENTS ARE IMPORTANT, AND AS YOU CONTINUE TO UNDERSTAND THESE PROJECTS, WE INVITE YOU TO VISIT, UM, WHAT WAS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, THE DISTRICT'S NEWEST PILOT SCHOOLYARD FOREST AT 120 SECOND STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND BOARD MEMBER ORTIZ FRANKLIN'S DISTRICT, WHICH WE HOPE TO BE THE DISTRICT'S NEWEST JEWEL IN ITS CROWN.
WE HOPE THAT DISTRICT LEADERSHIP CAN LEARN FROM THIS PILOT PROJECT AND MOVE TOWARDS THE STATUS QUO OF ELIMINATING COMPONENTS SUCH AS CONCRETE MO EDGES AS IT RELATES TO GREENING PROJECTS, WHICH UNNECESSARILY DRIVES UP PROJECT COST AND DOESN'T ALIGN WITH THE DISTRICT'S STATED GREENING GOALS.
WE KNOW THERE ARE CURRENTLY 42 PROJECTS TIED TO MEASURE US WITH A RANGE OF 8 MILLION TO $12 MILLION PER PROJECT.
42 PROJECTS DOESN'T EVEN COVER 10% OF THE DISTRICT'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAMPUSES.
AND IT NEEDS TO BE SAID THAT 8 MILLION TO $12 MILLION PER PROJECT SHOULD NOT BE THE STATUS QUO AS IT RELATES TO GREENING PROJECTS.
AND WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO TURN IT OVER TO ROBIN.
I DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE SHOUTING OUT OUR L-A-U-S-D EXPERIENCE, BUT I'M K THROUGH 12
UM, GOOD AFTERNOON, GOOD MORNING, UH, BOARD
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COMMITTEE.I'M WITH SALT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS.
UH, WE ARE A CONSULTANT, UH, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FIRM WORKING ON MANY SCHOOL GREENING PROJECTS.
UM, SO I, MCKAYLA GOT TO TALK ABOUT ALL OF THE, UM, INCREDIBLE WORK THAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED, AND I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE CHALLENGES
UM, SO, UH, MCKAYLA MENTIONED THE RESOLUTION THAT BOARD MEMBER RIVAS AND BOARD PRESIDENT SCHON, UH, PASSED LAST YEAR.
UM, ALLOCATING FUNDS FOR, TO COVER SOME OF THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH, UM, GREENING PROJECTS.
AND I DO WANNA STATE THAT THE 3 MILLION THAT'S BEEN ALLOCATED TO HELP COVER SOME OF THE COSTS IS, IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND HAS BEEN VERY, VERY HELPFUL.
UM, I WILL SAY THAT THAT MONEY IS, UH, WE UNDERSTAND IT TO HAVE ORIGINATED FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
UM, SO WHAT WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR AT THIS POINT IS, UM, SEEING HOW HOW WE CAN GET, UH, ACCESS TO THE BOND DOLLARS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT FOR GREENING TO HELP SUPPORT THESE PROJECTS.
UM, ONE OF THE OTHER COMPONENTS OF, UH, BOARD MEMBER RIVAS AND SCHON, UM, UM, MOTION WAS THAT PARTNERS WOULD BE REIMBURSED FOR THE COSTS THAT THEY'VE ALREADY PAID TO THE DISTRICT.
UM, THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED AT THIS TIME.
SECOND, UH, WE WANNA ALSO SPECIFICALLY DISCUSS WITH YOU ALL AS THE BOC UM, ACCESS TO BOND FUNDS, AS YOU ALL KNOW.
AND AS MIKAYLA JUST STATED, WE HELPED ALLOCATE OR ADVOCATE FOR THE, UH, $1.25 BILLION SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT FOR GREENING.
UM, WE ARE HERE TODAY TO WORK WITH YOU TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN, UH, HAVE ACCESS TO THESE FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE PROJECTS.
AS YOU HEARD FROM SO MANY PUBLIC SPEAKERS, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE FUNDS TO REALIZE THESE PROJECTS.
UM, AND THEN LASTLY, WE UNDERSTAND AND WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT THIS PROCESS, I'LL BE HONEST, WE HAVEN'T HAD ACCESS TO AS NONPROFIT PARTNERS.
WE HAVEN'T HAD ACCESS TO BOND DOLLARS BEFORE.
WE UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, INCLUSION IN THE STRATEGIC EXECUTION PLAN IS PART OF THE DEAL.
AND SO WE WANNA WORK WITH YOU TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN HAVE THESE PROJECTS INCLUDED NEXT.
AND I PRINTED OUT A LARGE, UH, LARGER FORMAT, UH, OF THIS SLIDE FOR YOU ALL SO YOU COULD GET A GOOD LOOK.
UM, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF MILES AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
THIS IS A PROJECT THAT TREE PEOPLE IS LEADING.
UM, AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF, UH, A VISUAL EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU HEARD ALL OF OUR PUBLIC SPEAKERS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THE IMAGE ON THE LEFT IS, UH, A FAIRLY ROBUST GREEN SCHOOLYARD, RIGHT? THERE'S A PLAY FIELD.
THERE'S, UH, LOOKS LIKE A, A FOREST WITH OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS. UM, AND IT'S COMPREHENSIVE ACROSS THE ENTIRE SCHOOL YARD.
UM, AND AS A RESULT OF, UM, LOW LEVELS OF LEAD IN THE SOIL, UM, ASPHALT CONTAINING ASBESTOS, ASPHALT IN THE PAINT ON THE YARD TREE, PEOPLE HAD TO VALUE ENGINEER THE PROJECT BACK TO ONLY INCLUDE THE FIELD AND THE TREES THAT YOU SEE THERE.
SO ALL OF THESE FEES, ALL OF THESE, SORRY, ALL OF THESE ISSUES THAT I'VE MENTIONED, RIGHT? THE CONTAMINATION, THE LEAD, THE ASBESTOS, ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE CALLED OUT IN MEASURE US AS ELIGIBLE TO BE ADDRESSED WITH BOND DOLLARS.
BUT YET, BECAUSE THIS PROJECT HASN'T HAD ACCESS TO THOSE DOLLARS, IT HAS BEEN SCALED BACK TO JUST THIS FIELD.
AND YOU CAN SEE IN THE STATS THAT I INCLUDED UNDER EACH IMAGE WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT TRANSLATES TO IN SQUARE FOOTAGE.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE HALFING THE AMOUNT OF ASPHALT THAT'S BEING REMOVED, WE'RE MORE THAN HALFING THE AMOUNT OF TREES THAT ARE BEING PLANTED.
AND THIS WITH EACH STEP GETS US FARTHER AWAY FROM DISTRICT STATED GOALS OF 30% GREENING ON CAMPUSES.
UM, WHAT WE REALLY HOPE TO DO IS TO RECTIFY THIS ISSUE AND ACCESS TO BOND DOLLARS TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES, HISTORIC CONTAMINATION DISTRICT COSTS, UM, AND OTHER ISSUES THAT DIRECTLY IMPACT, UM, GREENING PROJECTS, WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THE SCHOOL BOND.
AND, YOU KNOW, JUST TO PUT A FINE POINT ON IT, YOU KNOW, HAD HAD THIS PROJECT HAD ACCESS TO THOSE BOND DOLLARS, WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE WOULD REALIZE IS THE IMAGE ON THE LEFT, NOT ON THE RIGHT.
AND I'M GONNA PASS IT TO MY COLLEAGUE, CALEB, GOOD MORNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UH, I'M AN ATTORNEY AT CHU MAHALEY WEINBERGER.
UM, OUR FIRMS HAD, OUR FIRM HAS BEEN ADVISING THE COALITION ON A PRO BONO BASIS OVER THE LAST YEAR, UM, WHEN THE COMMUNITY CENTERED GREENING INITIATIVES RESOLUTION BY BOARD MEMBERS AND RIVAS WAS PASSED LAST YEAR, THERE WERE, WE, THE COALITION HAD HEARD SOME RUMBLINGS FROM DISTRICT STAFF THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME KIND OF BARRIER IN BOND LAW TO DEFRAYING SOME OF THESE INTERNAL FEES USING THE BOND DOLLARS, UM, THAT WERE RAISED AS A RESULT OF MEASURES RRR IN THE US.
SO THEY BROUGHT US IN TO CONDUCT AN INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS, UM, OF STATE BOND LAW AND THOSE TWO BOND MEASURES, UM, IN TERM TO SEE IF THERE WERE, IF THERE WAS ANYTHING TO THAT, THAT, THAT QUESTION OF, OF ITS PERMISSIBILITY.
UH, AND WE LOOKED AT THE STATE BOND LAW.
WE LOOKED AT THE, WE LOOKED AT THE TEXT OF, UH, MEASURES RR IN US.
WE LOOKED AT THE BOARD RESOLUTIONS,
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UH, CALLING THE ELECTIONS FOR THOSE, UH, MEASURES.UH, AND WE REALLY DIDN'T SEE ANY PARTICULAR LEGAL BARRIER IN, UH, IN BOND LAW.
AND IN THOSE, UH, THOSE MEASURES THERE, I MEAN, UH, BOTH ON THE SUBSTANTIVE LEVEL, MUCH OF THE CONTENTS OF THESE GRADING PRODUCTS ARE VERY EXPRESSLY CONTEMPLATED.
IN THE BONDS MEAN EVERYTHING FROM, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM THE, UM, NEW OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS, SHADE SHELTERS, ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE, ARE, ARE LANGUAGE THAT APPEARS BOTH IN MEASURES, RR AND UH, US, BUT ALSO SOME OF THESE ANCILLARY COSTS SUCH AS A DA UPGRADES THAT ARE TRIGGERED BY THE GREENING PROJECTS, UH, OR MATERIALS TESTING AND REMEDIATION.
THEY, THEY, THEY DIRECTLY APPEAR.
AND IN FACT, THE BOND PROJECT LISTS OFTEN SAY THAT MATERIALS TESTING, REMEDIATION, YOU KNOW, THE, THE SOME OF THESE ANCILLARY COSTS, UM, ARE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PROJECTS.
AND BOTH BOND MEASURES ALSO SAY THAT THESE PROJECTS, UH, THAT THE BOND PROJECTS AND THE PROJECT LIST MAY, THAT FUNDING MAY COME FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES.
SO AT LEAST IN, IN OUR ANALYSIS WITH THE RESULTS OF WHICH WE, UH, SUBMITTED AS A COMMENT LETTER LAST YEAR TO THE GREENING SCHOOLS AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD, WE DIDN'T SEEM TO SEE ANY, ANY PARTICULAR BARRIER THERE.
AND I, AT THIS POINT, WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE IS THAT IT'S JUST THE DEVIL'S GONNA BE IN THE DETAILS AND ADDING IT TO ADDING THESE PROJECTS THAT WERE, THAT WERE REDEFINING WHAT THESE PARTIC, YOU KNOW, AN A DA UPGRADE OR A, UH, REMEDIATION AS A NEW PROJECT OR AS A, AS A FOLLOW ON PROJECT.
THE DEVIL'S GONNA BE IN THE DETAILS THERE IN TERMS OF HOW THEY GET ADDED TO THE STRATEGIC EXECUTION PLAN AND PRESENT IT TO, TO THIS BODY AND TO THE BOARD.
BUT THE COALITION IS READY TO, TO WORK WITH THE DISTRICT AND TO WORK WITH BOTH STAFF AS WELL AS THIS COMMITTEE AND WITH THE BOARD TO, TO DO WHATEVER MIGHT BE NECESSARY TO, UH, UNDER DISTRICT PROCEDURES TO ADD THESE, UH, TO, TO, TO DEFRAY THESE, THESE, UM, THESE FEES USING BOND DOLLARS.
UM, AND SO I AM HERE TO ANSWER THE COMMITTEE'S QUESTIONS ON THIS ASPECT OF, OF, OF THE PROBLEM.
BUT, UM, FOR NOW, I WILL, UH, TURN IT BACK OVER TO, UH, TORI.
UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, BON OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOOD LAND TRUST.
WE HAVE SIX GREENING PROJECTS IN L-A-U-S-D RIGHT NOW, AND I AM HERE TO JUST SUM IT UP AND MAKE AN ASK.
UH, I, AS YOU'VE HEARD EARLIER, THE PROJECTS WE'RE DISCUSSING TODAY THAT HAVE, ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED BY NONPROFIT PARTNERS HAVE REMOVED ALMOST A MILLION ACRES.
I MEAN A MILLION, I WISH, A MILLION SQUARE FEET OF ASPHALT, WHICH IS ABOUT 15 ACRES OF ASPHALT TOTAL FOR OVER 50 SCHOOLS.
AND COLLECTIVELY, WE HAVE RAISED $58 MILLION FOR THE DISTRICT TO SUPPORT ITS GOALS OF GREENING SCHOOLS.
THERE IS URGENCY TO THIS WORK.
IT IS HOT ASPHALT ON A 70 DEGREE DAY REACHES OVER 120 DEGREES.
ESPERANZA ELEMENTARY THAT WE ARE WORKING AT.
YOU CAN SEE IT UP HERE OVER AN ACRE OF ASPHALT REMOVED.
UM, THAT SCHOOL, THOSE CHILDREN, MANY OF THEM HAVE NEVER TOUCHED REAL GRASS.
THEY HAVE BROKEN BONES, THEY GET CONCUSSIONS, THEY HAVE SCRAPED KNEES, THEY CANNOT PLAY OUTSIDE WHEN IT IS VERY HOT.
THESE ARE CHILDREN, EXCUSE ME, THAT DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER ACCESS TO NATURE IN THEIR LIVES.
SO WE, TOGETHER WITH OUR PARTNERS AT L-A-U-S-D, ARE VERY EAGER TO FIND A PATH TO MOVE THIS WORK FORWARD, CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE DISTRICT'S GOALS OF GREENING, 30% OF ITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAY YARDS, AND GET THERE IN A PRETTY FAST PACE.
WE SEE A PATH FORWARD AND WE ARE EXCITED TO ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND WORK WITH YOU.
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE ASKING OF THE BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AND THE DISTRICT TOGETHER.
FIRST, WE'RE ASKING THAT THE DISTRICT COVER ITS OWN COSTS, ITS OWN PROJECT MANAGEMENT COSTS, WHICH ARE ESSENTIALLY SOFT COSTS FOR MANAGING THIRD PARTY PROJECTS.
THESE ARE NOT STANDARD DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
WE ARE NONPROFIT PARTNERS THAT ARE BRINGING OUR OWN RESOURCES TO THE TABLE, PAYING OUR OWN COSTS, FUNDRAISING, AND THEN MANAGING THE PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT.
WE ARE WORKING ON THIS TOGETHER YET FOR ESPERANZA ELEMENTARY THAT YOU SEE AT THE TOP.
WE HAVE PAID BETWEEN CHANGE ORDERS, DISTRICT DRIVEN CHANGE ORDERS AND FEES.
WE HAVE PAID ALMOST $700,000 OUT OF THE $4 MILLION THAT WE HAVE RAISED FOR THIS PROJECT.
THAT IS $700,000 THAT COULD GO INTO A LARGER PLAY STRUCTURE, LESS ASPHALT, MORE AMENITIES, MANY MORE OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS
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FOR CHILDREN.WE WANT THIS MONEY TO GO INTO THE GROUND, INTO DIRECT BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS.
WE DON'T WANT TO PAY THE DISTRICT THAT MONEY.
WE BELIEVE THE DISTRICT HAS ITS OWN RESOURCES THROUGH BOND FUNDING THAT CAN PAY FOR ITS OWN PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIME.
THE DISTRICT, AS ROBIN MENTIONED, THE DISTRICT DID AGREE TO REIMBURSE US FOR SOME OF THE FEES, 5% OF THE FEES, WHICH IS NOT GOING TO MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE ON SOME OF THESE PROJECTS.
BUT WE HAVE NOT YET ACTUALLY SEEN THAT MONEY.
WE JUST TOLD, WE WERE TOLD JUST RECENTLY THAT THAT $3 MILLION IS BASICALLY LIKE, THINK OF IT LIKE A CREDIT CARD THAT THE DISTRICT CAN KIND OF BILL ITS TIME TOWARDS, BUT THE MONEY'S ACTUALLY NOT COMING BACK TO THE PARTNERS.
SO WE HAVE PAID THIS MONEY OUT.
ESPERANZA ELEMENTARY WILL BE OPENING TO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY IN MAY.
THAT MONEY WILL MOST LIKELY NOT MAKE IT INTO THE PLAY YARD.
SO WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE FOLLOW UP AND A WAY, A PATH FORWARD TO GET THAT MONEY BACK INTO THE PROJECTS.
FINALLY, WE WOULD LIKE THE DISTRICT TO USE BOND FUNDING TO ENHANCE THIRD PARTY GREENING PROJECTS TO ENSURE THAT EACH GREENING PROJECT INCLUDES COMPREHENSIVE GREENING.
WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT PLANTING 20 TREES ON A SCHOOL YARD.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT RIPPING UP ACRES OF ASPHALT, REPLACING IT WITH SOFT SURFACES THAT CHILDREN CAN ACTUALLY RUN ON SAFELY, THAT THEY CAN PLAY ON WHEN IT IS HOT OUTSIDE AND THAT THEY CAN HAVE OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS TO LEARN IN.
WE HAVE THE SAME GOAL AS THE DISTRICT.
WE WANT TO FIND A WAY TO CREATIVELY WORK THROUGH SOME OF THE BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE AND FIND A PATH FORWARD.
WE BELIEVE THERE IS A PATH FORWARD.
THE DISTRICT ALREADY WORKED THROUGH THIS TO FIND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THIRD PARTY, THIRD PARTY GREENING PARTNERS TO DEVELOP AGREEMENTS TO COME IN AND BUILD THESE SCHOOL YARDS.
SO LET'S TAKE THE NEXT STEP AND FIND A WAY TO UTILIZE THESE BOND MONIES, THESE BOND FUNDS, SO THAT WE ARE REALLY DOING COMPREHENSIVE AND MEANINGFUL GREENING AND WE ARE NOT CUTTING CORNERS THAT ARE GOING TO DIRECTLY IMPACT THE QUALITY OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR OUR CHILDREN.
THE LAST THING I WOULD JUST SAY IS WE ARE ALL, I THINK WORKING TOWARDS THE SAME GOAL.
I THINK WE ARE ALL VERY EQUALLY CREATIVE.
WE ARE GOOD PROBLEM SOLVERS AND I THINK THAT THERE IS ALREADY A STRUCTURE WITHIN KIND OF THE CATEGORIES OF BOND FUNDING.
I THINK THERE'S A PARTNER FUNDED PROGRAMS CATEGORY THAT MAYBE POTENTIALLY THIS MONEY COULD FALL INTO TO SUPPORT AT LEAST SOME OF THE REIMBURSEMENTS FOR PARTNERS FOR THE OTHER GREENING FUNDING.
I THINK THERE'S A WAY TO, TO DO THIS.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PATH IS, BUT WE WOULD LOVE TO WORK WITH YOU AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE IT EASY TO DIRECT FUNDING SO THAT THE DISTRICT AND NONPROFIT PARTNERS CAN WORK TOGETHER TO PULL IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF STATE AND OTHER PUBLIC FUNDING AND USE, LEVERAGE THE BOND FUNDING WITH THAT.
SO I, WITH THAT, I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
LET'S SEE IF THERE'S SOME QUESTIONS.
ANY QUESTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE? MS. GEISER? YES, MR. CHAIR, THANK YOU.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND BEING HERE TODAY.
UM, A COUPLE QUESTIONS JUST ARE, UM, WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF DELIVERY METHODS THAT ARE BEING UTILIZED ON ON THESE SPECIFIC PROJECTS? DO YOU MEAN HOW ARE THEY BEING BUILT? YES.
SO TYPICALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS THE COMMUNITY WILL I OR A PARTNER WILL IDENTIFY A PROJECT, COME TO THE DISTRICT.
WE HAVE MANY GREAT PARTNERS WITHIN THE DISTRICT.
WE WILL SAY, THIS IS A PROJECT THAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS TO GREEN.
ARE YOU SUPPORTIVE? THEY WILL SAY, YES, THERE'S NO OTHER PROJECT ALREADY IDENTIFIED HERE.
THEN WE WILL WRITE A GRANT TO THE STATE FREQUENTLY FOR SOMEWHERE BETWEEN TWO AND $4 MILLION.
ONCE WE GET THE GRANT, WE ENTER INTO A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE DISTRICT THAT BASICALLY SAYS WE WILL DEVELOP THE PROJECT AND THEN THE DISTRICT WILL ACCEPT THE IMPROVEMENTS.
AT THE END OF THE PROJECT, WE GO THROUGH ALL OF THE STANDARD REVIEW PROCESS, INCLUDING DSA, UM, AND WE KIND OF WORK THROUGH COMMENTS, DESIGN COMMENTS WITH THE DISTRICT.
ONCE WE GET THOSE APPROVALS, THE NONPROFIT PARTNER HIRES A CONTRACTOR.
WE, UH, PAY THE CONTRACTOR, UM, MANAGE THE CONSTRUCTION.
THERE WILL BE A-A-A-O-R SIGNED BY THE DISTRICT WHO PARTICIPATES IN ALL OF THE CONSTRUCTION MEETINGS.
THEN ONCE WE HAVE COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION, THERE'S A RIBBON CUTTING AND THE DISTRICT OWNS THE PROJECT.
THE A OR THE DISTRICT CHARGES US FOR ALL OF THE A OR TIME.
THEY CHARGE US FOR ALL OF THE PLANNING, ALL OF THE REVIEW TIME.
WE ARE PAYING THAT OUT OF THE GRANT DOLLARS TO THE DISTRICT.
SO AGAIN, THAT'S I THINK IN ESPERANZA'S CASE, UM, I THINK WE'VE PAID $200,000 ABOUT IN FEES.
WE WERE JUST SHOWN A TRACKER WHERE THEY'RE STILL BILLING US FEES.
IT'S PROBABLY ANOTHER $200,000
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BEFORE WE'RE DONE WITH THE PROJECT IN MAY.AND THEN THERE WILL BE AGAIN, DISTRICT DIRECTED CHANGE ORDERS WHERE WE HAVE COMPLETELY COME FINISHED PLANS HAVE BID THE PROJECT, AND THEN THE DISTRICT COME BACK, COMES BACK AND SAYS, ADD IN A CURB.
SO THEN WE HAVE TO PAY THAT OUT OF OUR POCKET, THOSE CHANGE ORDERS, UM, WHICH IS NOT EXPECTED COSTS.
AND SO THAT COMES OUT OF, YOU KNOW, WE END UP HAVING TO REMOVE AMENITIES.
IF I MASK A FOLLOW UP QUESTION, THANK YOU.
UM, IN TERMS OF BARRIERS, UM, OF THE PROJECTS THAT YOU MENTIONED, UM, COULD YOU REFERENCE ANY THAT ARE SPECIFIC, CREATING THE BIGGEST COST ESCALATIONS OF THESE PROJECTS? THE ENVIRONMENTAL, UH, TESTING AND INSPECTIONS AND THEN SPECIAL REMOVAL OF, UH, ASPHALT THAT HAS LEAD OR ASBESTOS IN IT IS QUITE EXPENSIVE.
DO YOU WANNA SPEAK ROBIN? YEAH, I WOULD ALSO ADD THAT THE A DA UPGRADES THAT ARE REQUIRED, I MEAN, THIS IS NOT AT ALL WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THE GRANTS THAT ARE BEING SECURED TO CREATE, EXCUSE ME, AN ACCESSIBLE PATH OF TRAVEL.
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT PATH OF TRAVEL IS WELL OUTSIDE THE FOOTPRINT OF, UH, THE SCHOOL GREENING COMPONENT, BUT YET IT IS STILL OB YOU KNOW, IT'S STILL A BURDEN ON THE GREENING PROJECT TO CREATE THOSE UPGRADES.
AND SO IS IT WITH THOSE THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE FINDING THE CHANGE ORDERS ARE INCREASING? GO AHEAD.
WELL, SO FOR US, AND I THINK THIS IS PART OF THE CHALLENGE, THIS IS, I SHOULD JUST SAY WE ARE ALL FIGURING THIS OUT TOGETHER.
AND SO WE ARE IN A LEARNING CURVE AND I DO THINK THAT, UH, THE STAFF IS WORKING WITH US TOGETHER TO FIGURE THIS OUT.
IN ESPERANZA'S CASE, WE JUST TOLD THE DISTRICT FLAT OUT, WE CANNOT PAY FOR A DA UPGRADES WITH GREENING MONEY.
WE CANNOT PAY FOR NEW TOILETS WITH MONEY.
THAT'S, THAT'S COMES FROM THE STATE SPECIFICALLY FOR PLANTING TREES.
SO THAT ACTUALLY WAS COVERED BY THE DISTRICT.
BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE ON ALL PROJECTS.
AND THEN, SO IT'S KIND OF WHERE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A LEARNING CURVE.
BUT IDEALLY, IF WE ARE COMING INTO ESPERANZA ELEMENTARY AND GREENING AND THERE ARE UPGRADES, ABSOLUTELY THEY SHOULD BE MADE.
ONCE YOU ARE HIRING A CONTRACTOR OR ONCE YOU ARE DOING WORK ON A CAMPUS, DO IT ALL AT THE SAME TIME AND DO IT THOROUGHLY AND WELL DO NOT PIECEMEAL IT.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT, EVEN IN THE GREENING SIDE.
SO ESPERANZA, WE HAD THE LUXURY OF RAISING SOME PRIVATE FUNDING TO BRING IN AND BUILD THE PROJECT, BUT NOT ALL PROJECTS HAVE THAT LUXURY.
SO IF WE'RE ABLE TO RAISE THE STATE CAPS, IT'S ABOUT 1.5 MILLION PER SCHOOL TO DO A, A GREEN SCHOOLYARD.
WELL, TO BUILD IT COMPREHENSIVELY, 4 MILLION, $4 MILLION IS A GOOD NUMBER.
SO IF WE BRING IN A MILLION AND A HALF, THE DISTRICT CAN COME IN AND MATCH THAT AND WE CAN DO IT TOGETHER.
THE NONPROFIT PARTNER DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE ONLY ONE ON SITE BUILDING.
IF THE DISTRICT AND THE BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE IS NOT COMFORTABLE GRANTING BOND MONEY TO NONPROFIT PARTNERS, THAT IS OKAY.
WE CAN SHARE THE WORK, WE CAN FIND WAYS TO WORK AND BRING IN MULTIPLE CONTRACTORS DIVIDED UP THE LAND TRUST DOES THIS WITH THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, ANGELES ALL THE TIME USING PUBLIC MONEY WHERE WE KIND OF SPLIT UP SCOPES.
THE OTHER THING I WOULD JUST SAY, SORRY, I KNOW I'M DOMINATING THE MIC HERE, BUT THERE IS ALSO KIND OF A, A MURKY CATEGORY THAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT AROUND PROJECT SCOPE AND WHAT DEFINES A PROJECT.
AND I THINK THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CONFUSION IS A PIECE OF A GREENING PROJECT, A FULL PROJECT.
SO I THINK THAT'S LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF A TECHNICALITY AND WHERE I THINK MAYBE SOME FOLKS WITHIN THE DISTRICT ARE GETTING, FACILITIES ARE GETTING KIND OF CAUGHT UP ON OR TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WITH US.
AND SO I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD HAVE AS A LARGER CONVERSATION.
AS FAR AS WORKING WITH THE DISTRICT, IS THERE ONE PERSON THAT YOU DEAL WITH OR IS IT HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE? UM, NO, I, WE, WE TYPICALLY WORK WITH CHRIS'S TEAM.
AND, UM, AND THEY ARE INCREASINGLY MORE ORGANIZED AND MORE PREPARED AS MORE OF THESE PROJECTS ARE HAPPENING.
SO LIKE YOU SAID, IT'S A LEARNING CURVE.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO QUESTION.
UM, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR TAKING SO MUCH TIME TO COME AND SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH US.
UM, IT WAS MENTIONED ALONG THE WAY THAT, UM, YOU DON'T WORK EXCLUSIVELY WITH L-A-U-S-D.
CAN YOU SHARE SOME OF YOUR EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH OTHER DISTRICTS SPECIFICALLY ON THE ISSUES THAT YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU HAVE HERE WITH THE COSTS? I CAN SHARE A LITTLE BIT FROM THE, JUST FROM THE DESIGN PERSPECTIVE.
UM, WE'RE DOING SOME PROJECTS WITH TREE PEOPLE, UM, AND IF
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MY COLLEAGUE EMILY WANTS TO COME UP AND BACK ME UP, FEEL FREE.UM, BUT WITH LINWOOD, UH, SCHOOL DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, AS IT WAS MENTIONED, THESE, UH, COSTS TO REVIEW DRAWINGS ARE NOT CHARGED TO THE GREENING PROJECT IN OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
UM, SOME OF THE REQUIREMENTS FROM THAT ARE, UH, FROM THE, FROM THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION PERSPECTIVE, WHICH REALLY INCREASE THE COSTS OF THE PROJECTS AT L-A-U-S-D SITES.
THEY'RE NOT REQUIRED ON OTHER CAMPUSES.
AND IT'S, SOME SPECIFIC EXAMPLES ARE WHAT THINGS THAT MATILDA WAS BRINGING UP WHEN SHE WAS GIVING PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, THE LEVEL OF CONCRETE CURB THAT NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED, THE ANCHORING OF LOGS THAT, UH, WHEN THEY GO DOWN.
UM, EVEN THE REQUIREMENTS AROUND, UM, ABATEMENT FOR, UM, FROM PAVEMENT, FROM ASPHALT REMOVAL THAT HAS STRIPING ON IT, WHERE THE STRIPING MIGHT HAVE LEAD.
THOSE THINGS ARE NOT REQUIRED IN OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
I WANNA BE CLEAR, WE ARE NOT ASKING TO, TO, TO DO ANY, UH, ASPHALT REMOVAL THAT, UH, POTENTIALLY HAS SOME LEAD IN IT THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY BE HARMFUL TO STUDENTS.
WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR IS A COST SHARING OF SOME OF THESE THINGS.
WHY WE BELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN TO BE SAFE FROM POTENTIAL LEAD CONTAMINATION WHEN WORK IS DONE.
UM, WE JUST, WE WANT, WE WANT THE DISTRICT TO JUST MEET US HALFWAY.
BUT THESE OTHER COSTS, THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE JUST NOT REQUIRED.
UM, I THINK THESE ARE SMALLER SCHOOL DISTRICTS, UM, BUT THEY ALSO DON'T HAVE THE SAME CONCERNS AROUND LONG-TERM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE THAT LUSD, UM, SHARES WITH US.
AND THEN THESE, THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE, ARE MADE.
AND REALLY, I MEAN, YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED THAT A CURB CAN CREATE SO MUCH WREAK, SO MUCH HAVOC, BUT IT REALLY, WE LOOK AT OUR BUDGETS AND WE'RE JUST LIKE, WHAT'S THE BIGGEST LINE ITEM? AND IT'S CONCRETE CURBING, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE REMOVE SOME OF THESE REQUIREMENTS SO THAT THE PROJECT CAN GO IN AS ORIGINALLY INTENDED? WE DON'T WANNA HAVE TO SHRINK OUR FOOTPRINT SO THAT WE CAN PUT IN A CURB.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? YES, ALI, GOOD MORNING.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR COMING HERE AND SHARING, UM, THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING, AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, HOW TO POSSIBLY MOVE FORWARD IN THE FUTURE.
UM, THERE WAS MENTION OF THE, THE RESOLUTION THAT PASSED, WHICH WAS TO ELIMINATE DISTRICT FEES, BUT IN THE MEANTIME, THE BOARD WAS ABLE TO GENERATE $3 MILLION TO GO TOWARDS THE EXISTING FEES.
MY UNDERSTANDING WITH THAT $3 MILLION WAS THAT IT WAS BOND DOLLARS, BUT I'M ALSO HEARING, ACTUALLY IT WAS FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
SO I'M JUST WONDERING IF ANYONE FROM THE DISTRICT COULD CLARIFY WHETHER OR NOT THAT $3 MILLION TO COVER DISTRICT FEES IS FROM BOND DOLLARS OR IF IT'S, UM, FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
'CAUSE I THINK IF IT IS BOND DOLLARS, THEN THAT SETS A PRECEDENT TO CONTINUE TO START MOVING IN THE DIRECTION OF BOND FUNDING TO HELP CONTRIBUTE TO THESE PROJECTS.
NOT TO PUT STAFF ON THE SPOT, BUT IF YOU WISH,
SO THE, THE $3 MILLION WAS, UH, ALLOCATED THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND FOR THIS PROCESS.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, I HAVE ONE.
UM, SOMEONE MENTIONED LEAD REMEDIATION, AND I WAS JUST CURIOUS WHAT, UM, WHAT'S LIKE THE TYPE OF LEAD REMEDIATION THAT YOU SEE, UM, THE AMOUNT OF MONEY AND DOES THAT HAVE TO BE COVERED BY THE GRANT FUNDING THAT YOU ALL ARE APPLYING? OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE ALSO REQUESTING FROM LUSD? YEAH, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE REQUESTING, UH, THROUGH BOND DOLLARS TO BE COVERED.
SO, UM, THIS IS SORT OF AN EVOLVING ISSUE.
UM, IT WASN'T, UM, HISTORICALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, I WORKED WITH TPL ON A PROJECT A YEAR OR TWO AGO, TWO YEARS AGO, AND WE HAD SOME, UH, ASPHALT REMOVAL.
SO AS THESE PROJECTS CONTINUE TO GROW, LIKE WE SAID, THIS IS, WE'RE ALL SORT OF LEARNING AS WE'RE GOING.
SO THIS IS A RELATIVELY NEW REQUIREMENT FOR, AT LEAST FOR THE GREENING PROJECT.
SO ANY, UM, STRIPING ON THE ASPHALT, UH, WHICH IS REALLY COMMON, RIGHT? THAT'S HOW ALL THE MANY OF THE PLAYSTATIONS ARE LAID OUT, IS BY STRIPING YOUR BASKETBALL COURT, YOUR VOLLEYBALL COURT, ALL OF THAT STUFF.
THAT PAINT CONTAINS SMALL AMOUNTS OF LEAD.
UM, IT IS JUST THE WAY THAT IT IS.
UH, AND SO WHEN THERE IS REMOVAL OF ASPHALT, UM, THAT HAS STRIPING ON IT, THEN THERE IS THIS, THERE IS A, A REQUIREMENT TO REMOVE THE ASPHALT IN A WAY WHERE IT IS CONSIDERED, YOU KNOW, QUOTE UNQUOTE ABATEMENT, RIGHT? WE ARE, WE ARE CONTAINING THE, UH, THE REMOVAL OF THE ASPHALT IN A WAY THAT YOU WOULD, A CONTAMINATED SITE.
AND SO THAT CAUSES THE COST OF THE ASPHALT REMOVAL TO JUMP SIGNIFICANTLY.
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ASPHALT HAS STRIPES ON IT, RIGHT? IT'S ANOTHER STORY NOW THAT WE'RE LEARNING AS SOME OF THIS COOL COAT, WHICH IS SORT OF SLATHERED ON MANY, MANY CAMPUSES, UM, MUCH MORE EXTENSIVELY THAT, UM, ANYTIME YOU'RE GONNA REMOVE THE ASPHALT WHERE THE COOL COAT HAS BEEN PAID, YOU ALSO HAVE TO DO THIS ABATEMENT PROCESS.I MEAN, THAT'S PUTTING THE DISTRICT IN A PLACE WHERE ANY PROJECT DOWN THE LINE IS GOING TO BE FIVE TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN IT WOULD IF YOU HADN'T PUT THE COOL COAT DOWN.
UM, SO THESE, THESE FEES ARE SORT OF, WE'RE, WE'RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THEM AS WE GO.
BUT, UM, AN EXAMPLE I CAN GIVE YOU FROM A PROJECT WE'RE WORKING ON WITH TRUST REPUBLIC LAND RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE GOT AN ESTIMATE FROM A COST ESTIMATOR OF INCREASING THE COST OF JUST THE, UM, ASPHALT REMOVAL BY $30,000.
AND THIS IS ONLY BECAUSE THERE HAPPENS TO BE SOME STRIPING IN THE AREAS THAT WE WANNA REMOVE ASPHALT.
I, UH, AND IF I WAS GONNA SAY, IF I MIGHT ADD, I MEAN, THIS IS ALSO A COST THAT IS WRITTEN RIGHT INTO BOTH BOND AUTHORIZATIONS AS ELIGIBLE TO BE FUNDED WITH BOND FUNDS.
I MEAN, BOTH OF THE BOND AUTHORIZATIONS SAY THAT ALL PROJECTS, UH, IN, UM, IN THE BOND PROJECT LIST ARE INCLUSIVE OF INSPECTION, SAMPLING, ANALYSIS OF GROUNDS, BUILDINGS, BUILDING MATERIALS TO DETERMINE THE PRESENCE OF POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS OR SUBSTANCES, INCLUDING LEAD, UH, AND ENCAPSULATING REMOVAL DISPOSAL OR OTHER REMEDIATION OF THESE SUBSTANCES.
SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY AN ISSUE HERE WHERE THERE ISN'T A CLEAR AUTHORIZATION IN, UH, OR A CLEAR CONTEMPLATION THAT YOU KNOW, THAT THE VOTERS DIDN'T KNOW THAT THEY WERE APPROVING, UM, POTENTIAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS REMEDIATION.
IT, IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE LANGUAGE OF BOTH BOND ISSUES.
SO, MR. UH, SULLIVAN, UH, THIS MAY BE MORE OF A QUESTION FOR DISTRICT STAFF, BUT IF YOU GUYS HAD THE ANSWER, I'D BE LIKE TO KNOW, UM, AND, AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, BUT, UM, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, UH, IN REGARDS TO THE REMEDIATION, ARE THESE REMEDIATION OF THIS ASPHALT OR ABATEMENT PROCESS, IS THIS, WOULD THIS BE REQUIRED BY A QMD BY THE AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT? OR IS THIS OPTIONAL THAT SOMETHING THAT THE DISTRICT IS REQUIRING JUST OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION? YEAH, I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
SO I, IT'S ACTUALLY REQUIREMENTS BY THE EPA, THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, AND THAT APPLIES TO ALL OF OUR PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE, AND WE'RE FOLLOWING JUST STANDARD PROCEDURES, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IT'S BEEN MONITORED AND OR REVIEWED BY THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY.
REAL QUICK, I, I'LL JUST KEEP YOU HERE REAL QUICKLY, JUST SO, AND, AND LET YOU GO UNLESS THERE'S ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM ANYONE ELSE RESPECTFULLY.
UM, AS YOUR PRESENTATION AND YOUR SPEAKERS, THE COMMON, UM, MESSAGE HERE IS THIS SHARED COST, ADDITIONAL COST THAT GOES BEYOND WHAT YOUR BO, WHAT YOUR GRANTS THAT YOU'VE OFFERED, UH, OR ACQUIRED, UH, YOUR DIFFERENT PARTNERS THAT YOU HAVE THAT ARE BRINGING, COMING INTO PLAY ARE NOT ACCOUNTING FOR OBVIOUSLY OUR REMEDIATION UNIVERSAL ACCESS REQUIREMENTS, UH, YOU KNOW, AND SO FORTH THAT COMES INTO IT.
AND AS YOU STATED, ONE OF YOU BOTH STATE, I THINK, YOU KNOW, IT'S, YOU'RE KIND OF PIONEERS RIGHT NOW, AT LEAST WITH L-A-U-S-D.
SO YOU HAVE STAFF HERE, AND I, I KNOW PERSONALLY CHRISTOS, I KNOW HE RUNS OUR, OUR GREEN INITIATIVE, UH, PROGRAM HERE FOR THE DISTRICT.
UM, YOU'VE GOT THE EAR AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE WORKING ON A, A, A PATHWAY OF SOME TYPE OF SHARED COST AND SO FORTH.
SO I, I GUESS I WANNA LEAVE THEM IN THEIR PRESENTATION IN A POSITIVE LIGHT AT LISTENING TO US.
AND OF COURSE, WE'RE GONNA TAKE DIRECTION FROM YOU, UM, AS A POLICY IS DEVELOPED, BUT I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE WORKING ON THE POLICY NOW.
LET ME JUST START BY SAYING THAT HOW FORTUNATE AND HOW THANKFUL I AM FOR THE WORK THAT OUR, OUR GREEN PARTNERS ARE DOING FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, IF IT WASN'T FOR THEM, WON'T BE ABLE TO ADVANCE THE RESOLUTIONS THAT PASSED BY THIS BOARD, BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION SEVERAL YEARS AGO, SPECIFICALLY THE GREEN SCHOOLS FOR ALL RESOLUTIONS.
SO THE WORK THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING IS VERY, IT'S TREMENDOUS.
THEY'RE REALLY HELPING US ADVANCE GREENING, UH, ADVANCING SCHOOL YARDS ON ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS.
AND REALLY, UH, IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE WORKING WITH THEM.
SO SPECIFICALLY ON SOME OF THE GRANTS THAT THEY HAVE APPLIED FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS AND THROUGH THE LAST YEARS THAT WE HAVE SEEN IS THAT OUR PARTNERS WERE ABLE TO RAISE A LOT OF CAPITAL TO HELP IMPROVE OUR SCHOOLS.
BUT CERTAINLY WITHIN THAT, WHEN YOU APPLY FOR A GRANT AT THE TIME, YOU APPLY FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONIES AND THAT MONEY IS WHAT YOU RECEIVE, UH, THROUGH THAT GRANT.
AND THINGS HAPPEN ALONG THE PROJECT.
AND THAT'S, WE'RE HERE, THEY'RE HERE FOR, TO, I THINK, MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, TO SHARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THEY'RE FACING AND WE'RE FACING ON ALL, ALL OF OUR PROJECTS AS WELL.
UH, ANYTHING FROM ITEMS THAT YOU FIND OUT AFTER, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY REALLY FINDINGS IN TERMS OF WHEN YOU START A PROJECT, ANYTHING FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES THAT THEY, THEY SHARE WITH US, ANYTHING WITH THE DSA, UH, AND REVIEWS ISSUES, BUT ALSO, UH, FOLLOWING UP SOME OF OUR GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS THAT THEY, THEY HAVE TO COMPLY WITH.
SO ALL THOSE ADD INTO ADDITIONAL COSTS, SPECIFICALLY THE ESCALATION THAT WE HAVE SEEN THE LAST FEW YEARS.
SO THE, THE OPTIONS THAT WE GAVE THEM, IT WAS TO ACTUALLY CUT PART OF THEIR PROJECTS BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ADDITIONAL FUNDING, UH, FOR
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US TO HELP SUPPORT THE PROJECTS.THAT'S WHAT WE COMMUNICATED IN THE BEGINNING.
UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S AN IMPACT TO THE ACTUAL PROJECT ITSELF.
AND UNDERSTAND THEIR REQUESTS, UNDERSTAND THE, THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR REQUESTS.
SO FOR US IS TO REALLY, UM, THINK THROUGH IT AND, AND LOOK AT THE, THE WORK THAT THEY'RE HELPING US DEVELOP AND BEING ABLE TO CONTINUE AND CREATE, CONTINUE THE MOMENTUM THAT THEY HAVE TO HELP ADVANCE THE SCHOOL YEARS THAT WE HAVE.
SO, THEIR COMMENTS, THEY'RE VERY CAREFUL.
CONSIDER, WE HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH THEM FOR THE PAST, I WOULD SAY SEVERAL YEARS.
WE HAVE STRUCTURED MEETINGS AND WE DISCUSS ITS ISSUES.
THE CHALLENGE THAT THEY'RE FACING, AND I THINK THEY WERE BRING IT FORWARD, IS MORE HOW THEY CAN ACCESS BOND FUNDS.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR LEGAL TEAM HAS TO REVIEW AND EVALUATE AND HELP, UH, PROVIDE A STRUCTURE PROCESS OF HOW THEY CAN BE ABLE TO DO THAT TO MAINTAIN THE PROJECTS THAT THEY'RE SHARING HERE WITH US TODAY.
THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION.
AGAIN, THIS WAS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND YOUR PREPARATION.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORTERS AND YOUR, YOUR TEAM MEMBERS AS WELL AS COMING UP AND GIVING YOUR, YOUR EXPERIENCES AND TESTIMONY.
UH, VERY QUICKLY, I WANT TO GO BACK TO, UM, ITEM NUMBER THREE.
AND I DON'T USUALLY READ MY PHONE WHEN WE'RE CONDUCTING BUSINESS, BUT I DID RECEIVE A, UM, A TEXT MESSAGE FROM, UM, JAIME TORRENS REGARDING OUR MOU PROCESS AT, UH, JUST BEFORE THE START OF THE MEETING.
AND, UH, UNFORTUNATELY, HE, HE'S UNABLE TO, UH, ATTEND, UH, THE MEETING TODAY, BUT HE WANTS TO, UM, CONFIRM THAT THEY'RE CONTINUING TO WORK ON THE MOU AND WE EXPECT TO HAVE THE ALL PROPOSED REVISIONS TO YOU BY MID-MARCH.
AS WE KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE A MEETING IN MARCH, SO I WOULD SU SUSPECT OR ASSUME THAT WE WOULD BE HEARING FROM THEM, UH, BEF BEFORE OR, UH, AT OUR APRIL, UH, MEETING.
AND, UM, HE OFFERS HIS APOLOGIES AND THE LATE NOTICE.
AND I THINK WE CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE IS, IS, UH, UH, BIT DISTRACTED, UM, AND HE CAN'T MAKE IT TODAY'S MEETING, BUT AGAIN, UH, OFFERED THAT TO US.
SO I WANT THAT TO BE IN THE RECORD AS WELL AS MY EARLIER COMMENTS WHEN THE ITEM WAS UP.
GOOD MORNING STILL, UH, MONICA, IT'S
[5. ITS BOC Quarterly Program Status Report Q4 2025 (Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2025) (Information Only) ]
YOUR ITEM NUMBER FIVE I-T-S-B-O-C QUARTERLY PROGRAM STATUS REPORT FOR Q4 2025.MY NAME IS MONICA NOLAN AND I AM THE DIRECTOR OF IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
AND I'M HERE TODAY TO PROVIDE THE BOC QUARTERLY REPORT FOR Q4 2025, WHICH COVERS OCTOBER 1ST, 2025 THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST, 2025.
TODAY I'M GOING TO COVER FIVE IMPORTANT PROJECT UPDATES.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THE OTHER PROJECTS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND WE CAN COVER THOSE AT THE END.
FOR Q4 2025, WE HAVE THREE NEW PROJECTS, UM, THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE REPORT.
THESE PROJECTS WERE APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION IN DECEMBER AT THE DECEMBER BOARD MEETING, AND I WILL CALL THOSE PROJECTS OUT AS WE GO ALONG.
OUR FIRST UPDATE IS ON SLIDE NUMBER NINE AND IS FOR THE CAMPUS SAFETY SYSTEMS INTRUSION SYSTEMS PHASE TWO PROJECT.
THIS PROJECT AIMS TO ENHANCE THE PHYSICAL SECURITY AND MONITORING CAPABILITIES AT 398 K THROUGH 12 SCHOOL SITES THROUGH REPLACEMENT OF AGING, UM, THE REPLACEMENT OF AGING AND NON OPERABLE INTRUSION ALARM SYSTEMS AND INTEGRATION OF THOSE SYSTEMS INTO THE DISTRICT'S CENTRALIZED SECURITY DASHBOARD SYSTEM.
THIS IS ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, UH, IN Q4 2025.
AT THE DECEMBER MEETING IN Q4 2025, THE PROJECT TEAM BEGAN WORK ON THE DETAILED PROJECT SCHEDULE AND ANTICIPATES COMPLETION OF THAT AS WELL AS THE START OF THE PROJECT IN Q1 2026.
OUR NEXT UPDATE IS ON SLIDE NUMBER 13 AND IS FOR THE SCHOOL NETWORK ALTERNATIVE CONNECTIVITY PILOT.
THIS PROJECT PILOTS A DARK FIBER RING ACROSS 44 SCHOOL SITES TO PROVIDE AN ALTERNATE CONNECTION TO THE INTERNET, THE RING INTERCONNECT SCHOOLS TO EACH OTHER USING FIBER OPTIC
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CABLING, PROVIDING ALTERNATE PATHS TO THE INTERNET INSTEAD OF A SINGLE POINT WHICH CAN BE INTERRUPTED.THIS IS THE SECOND PROJECT THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD, UH, IN Q4 2025.
AT THE DECEMBER, 2025 MEETING IN Q4 2025, THE PROJECT TEAM BEGAN WORK ON THE PROJECT SOLUTIONS PROCUREMENT, AND THEY ANTICIPATE COMPLETION OF THAT ACTIVITY IN Q1 2026.
OUR NEXT UPDATE IS ON SLIDE NUMBER 14 AND IS FOR THE SCHOOL NETWORK SYSTEMS UPGRADE PROJECT PHASE ONE, GROUP TWO, WHICH IS 108 SCHOOL SITES.
THE CURRENT PHASE OF THIS PROJECT FOCUSES ON INSTALLATION OF NETWORK EQUIPMENT TO ENABLE SHAKE ALERT AND GATEWAYS TO ENABLE MULTICAST BROADCASTING ON CAMPUSES IN Q4 2025.
WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE COMPLETION OF ALL SHAKE ALERT, SHAKE ALERT UPGRADES, AND GATEWAY INSTALLATIONS.
AND THIS SCORECARD, UH, WILL FALL OFF OF THE NEXT QUARTERLY REPORT.
UM, OUR NEXT UPDATE IS ON SLIDE NUMBER 18 AND IS FOR THE SCHOOL NETWORK SYSTEMS UPGRADE PROJECT PHASE THREE, ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT SITES.
THIS PROJECT REPLACES OBSOLETE END OF LIFE AND FAILING NETWORK TELEPHONE AND PUBLIC ADDRESS EQUIPMENT TO MODERNIZE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. THIS IS THE THIRD PROJECT THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION IN Q4 2025.
AT THE DECEMBER MEETING, UH, IN Q4 2025, THE TEAM BEGAN WORK ON THE DETAILED PROJECT SCHEDULE AND ANTICIPATES COMPLETION OF THAT SCHEDULE, AS WELL AS THE, AS WELL AS THE START OF THE PROJECT IN Q1 2026.
AND OUR FINAL UPDATE IS ON SLIDE NUMBER 19 AND IS FOR THE TELECOM AND NETWORK UPGRADES PROJECT AT 83 SCHOOLS.
UH, THE CURRENT PHASE OF THIS PROJECT FOCUSES ON INSTALLATION OF NETWORK EQUIPMENT TO ENABLE SHAKE ALERT AND GATEWAYS TO ENABLE MULTICAST BROADCASTING ON CAMPUSES AND Q4.
WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE COMPLETION OF ALL SHAKE ALERT UPGRADES AND GATEWAY INSTALLATIONS.
AND THIS SCORECARD TWO WILL FALL OFF THE NEXT REPORT.
SO OVERALL, IN Q4, WE ADDED THREE NEW PROJECTS AND WE COMPLETED TWO PROJECTS.
AND THAT CONCLUDES THE Q4 2025 QUARTERLY REPORT FOR OCTOBER 1ST THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU.
ANY QUESTIONS FROM, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBERS? THIS IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY, NOT A VOTING.
THIS QUESTION IS A, A LITTLE BIT OFF.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE APPROVED A LOT OF, UM, TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS, BUT THAT I UNDERSTAND FROM SOME OF THE CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT IN READJUSTING THEIR PROP 39 LEASE RATES, THEY'VE ADDED BACK COST FOR, UM, TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING IF AT SOME POINT YOU CAN SHARE WITH US HOW YOU ALLOCATE THE COST BETWEEN WHAT YOU'RE GETTING FROM THE BONDS AND SOMETIMES, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S FROM THE CHARTER BOND POT FOR TECHNOLOGY, AND THEN WHAT HAS BEEN DECIDED THAT'S NOT ENOUGH AND WE NEED TO CHARGE THE SCHOOLS BACK AND INCREASE THEIR LEASE RATES.
FOR, UM, FOR TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS RELATED TO CHARTERS, BECAUSE WHEN THE, UH, WHEN THE BOND IS APPROVED, THERE IS A SPECIFIC BUCKET THAT IS CARVED OUT FOR CHARTER IMPROVEMENTS.
SO TYPICALLY WHEN WE'RE BRINGING THE PROJECTS FORWARD FOR APPROVAL, WE BRING FORWARD THE PROJECTS UNDER THE TECHNOLOGY BUCKET, AND AT THAT TIME, IF THERE IS AN IMPROVEMENT FOR CHARTER, THEY WILL BRING FORTH THAT OR IT WILL BE BROUGHT FORTH ON BEHALF OF THEM THROUGH FACILITIES.
DOES THAT ANSWER WELL, YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT, BUT I ALSO UNDERSTOOD THAT IT'S ALSO BEING CONSIDERED AS A FACTOR AND A REASON FOR NEEDING TO, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE RATES HAVE WENT UP 18%.
I COULD BE A LITTLE OFF ON THAT.
AND IT, AND PART OF THE EXPLANATION IS THAT TECHNOLOGY WAS DRIVING THE NEED TO CHARGE THEM MORE.
I'M SO A CAPITAL CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER.
UM, I THINK, IS IT MOURNING? YES, YOU'RE GOOD.
SO, UH, THE, THE CHARGEBACK MODEL IS FOR OPERATION, NOT FOR CAPITAL EXPENDITURE.
SO WHEN WE BUILD THIS CAMPUS NETWORK, UH, WE ACTUALLY DON'T TAP TO THE, UM, CHARTER BUCKET.
CHARTER BUCKET IS USUALLY BEING DONE AS PART OF THE PROP DATA, UH, PROP 39 ADJUSTMENT AS BEING READJUSTED.
WHEN, WHEN WE DO THE CAMPUS UPGRADE, WE CAN UPGRADE THE ENTIRE NETWORK OF THE CAMPUS, INCLUDING THE CHARTER AREAS BECAUSE THEY ARE USING THE SAME PLATFORM, BUT THEY'RE BEING RECONFIGURED
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TO USE THAT AREA FOR THE CHARTER.NOW TO THE CHARGEBACK MODEL, THAT NETWORK NEED TO BE OPERATE, UH, OPERATIONALIZED, WHICH WE ABSORB THOSE COSTS TO OUR NETWORK, GENERAL FUND.
THOSE ARE THE CHARGEBACK MODEL THAT YOU'RE SEEING CHARTER ARE PAYING.
AND THOSE COSTS, OBVIOUSLY DISTRICT HAD THE SALARY INCREASES, UM, IN, UH, LAST, UH, ROUND OUR STAFFING, UH, EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE NETWORK.
OVERALL, THE COST AND COST ESCALATION INCREASES THE COST OF OPERATING THE NETWORK, BUT IT'S NOTHING DIRECTLY TO DO WITH THE CAPITAL EXPENDITURE WE ARE DOING.
ANY OTHER, UH, QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS OF NO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[6. 65 Board District Priority and Region Priority Projects and Amend the Facilities Services Division Strategic Execution Plan to Incorporate Therein]
THESE ARE, UH, THIS IS, UH, 65 BOARD, DISTRICT AND REGIONAL PRIORITY PROJECTS.SO YOU WILL BE PRESENTED BY MR. MARK CHO, DEPUTY DIRECTOR M AND O WILL PRESENT.
GOOD MORNING TO YOU MR. NER, MEMBERS OF VOC.
WE MISSED YOU LAST TIME, MR. NER.
SO IN YOUR MATERIAL PACKET, THE EXHIBIT A SHOWS 65 PROJECT ITEMS FOR THE COMBINED MARCH BOE.
HOWEVER, IF YOU REMEMBER, UH, JANUARY 29TH, BOC MEETING, I HAD PRESENTED 44 ITEMS WHICH WERE ADOPTED BY BOC AT THE TIME.
SO THIS TIME I ONLY HAVE 21 ITEMS THAT WILL BE SHOWN ON THE SCREEN.
THAT IS YOUR EXHIBIT PACKET C.
SO AS USUAL, I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU A BREAKDOWN OF THIS 21 PROJECTS.
WE HAVE FIVE BOTTLE FILLER INSTALLATION PROJECTS, THREE FENCING, FIVE FURNITURE SUPPORT, TWO INTERACTIVE DISPLAY, THIS PURCHASE.
UM, THAT'S A PROMETHEAN BOARDS.
THEN WE HAVE TWO MAREE PROJECTS, ONE HVAC CATEGORY, THEN ONE SECURE ENTRY.
THEN LASTLY, TWO VIDEO CAMERA INSTALLATION PROJECTS.
THE TOTAL PROJECT VALUE IS $852,791.
YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION? I'LL TRY MY BEST.
ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE? SEEING NONE, I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
SO WITH THAT, UM, IS THERE A MOTION I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THIS ITEM? I CAMPBELL SECOND.
SECOND MILLER, UH, ARE THERE ANY, UH, ABSTENTIONS OR, UM, MR. CHAIR, WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL.
WE STILL HAVE TO DO A ROLL CALL.
MEMBERS, THIS IS THE VOTE ON AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SIX, THE BOARD, DISTRICT, AND REGION PRIORITY PROJECTS.
AYE, UH, MS. PERONE HAS LEFT THE MEETING.
MR. SULLIVAN? UH, I'LL ABSTAIN.
MR. HAMNER? AYE, UH, THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED, RECOMMENDING THE PROJECTS WITH 12 AFFIRMATIVE VOTES AND ONE ABSTENTION.
[7. Three Charter School Facilities Upgrade Projects and Amend the Facilities Services Division Strategic Execution Plan to Incorporate Therein]
SEVEN, UM, WAIT A MINUTE.ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, THREE CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES UPGRADE PROJECTS.
UH, MR. CHO IS GONNA CONTINUE TO STAY WITH US AND HE'S NOW BEING JOINED BY MR. UH, ISAM.
DUL, WHO WILL NOT RIDE THE ELEVATOR WITH ME.
UM, JUST STATING THAT FOR THE RECORD, LONG STORY
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WITH EQUIVALENT FACILITIES SUPPORT FOR THEIR UPGRADE AND EXPANSION PROGRAM.ACCORDINGLY, UH, A SEPARATE BOND FUND HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO SUPPORT THEIR CRITICAL FACILITIES NEEDS AND THIS BOND ALSO SUPPORTS THE ANNUAL PROP 39 CO-LOCATION PROJECTS YOU, WHICH YOU'LL SEE IN MAY OF THIS YEAR.
SO FOR THE CHARTER CRITICAL REPAIR CATEGORY, WE HAVE THREE PROJECTS.
AND LIKE YOU MENTIONED, I'LL COVER THE FIRST ITEM THEN, UH, ISAM, THE DIRECTOR OF ASSET MANAGEMENT, WILL COVER THE REMAINING TWO PROJECTS.
TOTAL PROJECT VALUE IS LITTLE OVER $55 MILLION, AND THE FIRST ONE IS AT FENTON CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
THIS IS TO REPLACE DETERIORATED EXISTING MATTING PLAY STRUCTURE.
ON TOP OF THAT, UH, WE ARE INSTALLING THE INTEGRATED SHADE STRUCTURE.
THE ENROLLMENT IS AT 696 STUDENTS.
CONSTRUCTION CAN START IN QUARTER TWO OF 2027 AND COMPLETE IN QUARTER FOUR OF THE SAME YEAR.
THIS IS A DSA PROJECTS, THEREFORE WE WILL UPGRADE PARKING PATH OF TRAVEL AND ACCESSIBLE DRINKING FOUNTAINS.
UH, BOC CHAIR AND BOC MEMBERS.
UM, FOR THE RECORD, UM, IT LOOKED FROM MY VIEW THAT THE ELEVATOR WAS FULL.
ALRIGHT, I SHOULD INTRODUCE MYSELF.
ASAM DUL, UM, DIRECTOR OF ASSET MANAGEMENT.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THE CHIME CHARTER SCHOOL AND OUR COMMUNITY SCHOOL HVAC PROJECTS.
UM, BOTH OF THESE PROJECTS TODAY WILL BE ADDRESSING THE CRITICAL REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING BUILDING SYSTEMS. UM, THESE PROJECTS WERE PRIORITIZED DUE TO THE EXISTING HVAC SYSTEMS, UM, THAT DO NOT MEET THE LAUD STANDARDS, UM, SPECIFICALLY FOR CLASSROOMS. 'CAUSE THE CLASSROOMS RIGHT NOW.
UM, THE CLASSROOMS RIGHT NOW ARE UTILIZING, UM, WINDOW, AS YOU SEE IN SOME OF THE PICTURES, THEY'RE UTILIZING AIR CONDITIONING UNITS IN THE, UM, IN THE ACTUAL WINDOWS, UM, WHICH DOES NOT MEET DISTRICT STANDARDS.
AND THESE ARE THE ONLY TWO SCHOOLS THAT, UH, WE ARE AWARE OF THAT HAVE THIS CONDITION.
SO, A LITTLE BIT BEFORE I GET INTO THE PROJECT ITSELF, I THINK IT'S PROBABLY USEFUL TO UNDERSTAND OUR COMMUNITY SCHOOL, UM, UTILIZES THE FORMER DEVEN SHIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SITE.
SO IT'S AN L-A-U-S-D CAMPUS, L-A-U-S-D OWNED.
UM, THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THE DEVEN SHIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAS CLOSED BACK IN 1989 AFTER IT WAS CLOSED.
IT WAS USED BY THE DISTRICT FOR 10 YEARS, UM, FOR A REGION NORTH NURSING SERVICES AND A COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL.
SO WE HAD DISTRICT PURPOSES, BUT THEN IN 2011, OUR COMMUNITY SCHOOL, WHICH IS A INDEPENDENT CHARTER SCHOOL AT LEASE THE CAMPUS FROM THE DISTRICT, UM, AND WE ENTERED A 40 YEAR LEASE WITH THEM.
AND THE 40 YEAR LEASE, UM, IS DUE TO THEY WERE UTILIZING STATE FUNDING, UM, AS A PART OF A PROGRAM TO REHABILITATE THE SITE.
AND SO DUE TO THE STATE FUNDING THAT THEY WERE GETTING FROM THE STATE'S CHARTER, UH, PROGRAM, THIS DISTRICT ENTERED INTO A 40 YEAR LEASE AND THAT'S HOW THEY, UM, OCCUPY THE SITES.
SO WITH THAT SAID A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ACTUAL PROJECT ITSELF.
UM, THIS PROJECT WILL REPLACE THE HVAC SYSTEM AND ALL OF THE BUILDINGS THAT YOU SEE, PERMANENT BUILDINGS THAT YOU SEE IN PURPLE, UM, IN THE DISPLAY THERE, UM, IT'LL PROVIDE A NEW ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IT WILL MORE THAN LIKELY, AND WE'RE DOING ADDITIONAL STUDIES REQUIRE US TO UPGRADE THE, UH, SITE ELECTRICAL SERVICE.
SO THE SERVICE COMING OFF OF THE STREET AND A NEW TRANSFORMER.
SO WE'D WORK WITH DWP AND THE CAMPUS WILL REMAIN OPERATIONAL, SO IT WILL REQUIRE SOME INTERIM HOUSING AND WE'LL PHASE THE PROJECT.
SO TO MINIMIZE DISRUPTION, THE PROJECT, UM, WILL, UH, START CONSTRUCTION WE ANTICIPATE IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2028 AND BE FINISHED BY SECOND QUARTER OF, SORRY, THIRD QUARTER OF 2030 AND APPROXIMATELY $29 MILLION.
SO JUST HERE'S SOME PICTURES YOU CAN SEE, YOU CAN SEE THOSE, UM, WINDOW OR TRANS UNITS AT THIS PARTICULAR SCHOOL THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
AND THEN SOME OF THE OTHER PERMANENT BUILDINGS AT THE ADMIN AND ASSEMBLY, THOSE WOULD ALSO BE REPLACED AS WELL.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE THE MULTI-ZONE OVER IN THE LIBRARY BUILDING.
MOVING ON TO CHIME CHARTER SCHOOL.
UM, THIS SCHOOL, JUST IN TERMS OF BACKGROUND AGAIN, SORRY, GIMME ONE SECOND.
SO THIS IS A, AT THE FORMER COLLIER ELEMENTARY, LEOC COLLIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SITE.
THE DISTRICTS CLOSED, UH, COLLIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BACK IN 1989 AND FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS IT WAS LEASED TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL.
AND THEN SUBSEQUENT FROM TO THAT,
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IN 2002, CHIME CHARTER SCHOOL AND INDEPENDENT CHARTER SCHOOL STARTED LEASING THE SITES.THEY, UM, ARE ALSO UNDER A 40 YEAR LEASE BECAUSE THEY ALSO WENT IN TO DO SOME IMPROVEMENTS.
THEY BUILT THE TWO GRAY BUILDINGS, NOT THE ONES THAT ARE HATCHED, BUT THE OTHER TWO BUILDINGS JUST TO THE SOUTH WERE BUILT USING STATE CHARTER FUNDS, UM, WHICH, UH, PROPELLED US INTO ENTERING INTO A 40 YEAR LEASE, UM, AT THE SITE AS PART OF THE CHARTER SCHOOL, UH, THE STATE'S CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES PROGRAM.
UM, SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROJECT.
THE PROJECT ITSELF IS ALL THE BUILDINGS AND PURPLE THAT YOU SEE WILL RECEIVE NEW HVAC SYSTEM.
UM, THE TWO MAIN BUILD, THE TWO PERMANENT BUILDINGS TO THE SOUTH THAT I WAS JUST REFERRING TO, THOSE BUILDINGS ARE FAIRLY NEW.
UM, AND WERE BUILT IN THE LAST, UH, 10, 15 YEARS OR SO, SO WILL NOT BE A PART OF THE PROJECT NOR WILL THE TWO, UH, BUNGALOWS, WHICH CURRENTLY HAVE BAR UNITS THAT ARE FUNCTIONALLY FINE, THAT ARE HATCHED ON THE RIGHT.
THIS WILL ALSO REQUIRE A NEW FIRE ALARM SYSTEM BASED OFF OF OUR IN, UH, INITIAL STUDIES UPGRADE TO THE SITE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AS WELL IS WHAT WE'RE ANTICIPATING.
UM, AND THEN THIS SCHOOL WILL REMAIN OPERATIONAL, UM, DURING CONSTRUCTION.
SO THEREFORE WE WILL BE BRINGING IN SOME CLASSROOMS FOR INTERIM HOUSING AND PHASING THE CONSTRUCTION TO TRY TO LIMIT, UM, ANY, UM, ANY ISSUES DURING CONSTRUCTION.
THIS, UH, PROJECT 2028, UH, Q2 START SECOND QUARTER OF 2030 IS ANTICIPATED COMPLETION AND APPROXIMATELY $25 MILLION.
AND WITH THAT SAID, IF THERE ARE ANY, OH, ACTUALLY LEMME SHOW YOU THE PICTURES FIRST.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE HERE WE'VE GOT THE PICTURES.
YOU CAN SEE THOSE WINDOW UNITS, UM, IN THOSE BUILDINGS.
UM, WE WILL OBVIOUSLY REMOVE THE EXISTING SYSTEM.
THE EXISTING WILL REPLACE THEM IN SOME CASES WITH THIS.
UM, SOME OF THE CLASSROOMS WILL RECEIVE BAR UNITS, SO THEY MIGHT ACTUALLY BE WITHIN THE WALLS THEMSELVES, BUT ANY REPLACEMENT OF THE WINDOW UNITS WOULD BE REPLACED WITH, UM, WINDOWS, OBVIOUSLY.
ANY QUESTIONS? THE COMMITTEE? YES, MR. PETERSON.
UH, JUST A QUESTION IN REGARDS TO THE TWO DIFFERENT SITES THAT ARE DOING THE HVAC REPLACEMENTS.
THERE'S NOTES IN HERE IN EACH PROJECT, UH, AND YOU MADE MENTION OF IT, OF UPGRADING THE ELECTRICAL SERVICE AT EACH LOCATION THAT GETS VERY EXPENSIVE VERY QUICKLY.
AND YOU GUYS SAID YOU DON'T HAVE A ESTIMATE RIGHT NOW FROM WATER AND POWER AS FAR AS WHAT THOSE THINGS ARE GONNA COST.
SO WE, WE DO A LOT OF, UM, WE HAVE TO REPLACE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS AT SCHOOLS ALL THE TIME.
SO MOST OF OUR PROJECTS, UM, WHEN WE'RE DOING COMPREHENSIVE PROJECTS OR CLASSROOM REPLACEMENT PROJECTS, BECAUSE OF THE ADDITIONAL ELECTRICAL LOAD WE ARE REQUIRED TO BRING IN EITHER THROUGH DWP IF IT'S IN THE CITY OF LA OR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
AND IT'S IF, IF IT'S IN, IN THE, ANY OF THE OTHER CITIES.
UM, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE AND WE DO BUDGET FOR, UH, SO OUR BUDGET INCLUDES WHAT OUR ESTIMATED COST OF BRINGING IN THAT SERVICE IS GOING TO BE.
WELL, WHAT I MEANT TO SAY WAS, WE ARE WORKING WITH, WE WILL START WORKING WITH DWP IN MORE DETAIL, SO THEY'LL HAVE TO COME UP WITH A SITE PLAN OF WHERE WE'RE GONNA DRAW THE POWER FROM, THEY'LL BRING IN THE TRANSFORMER, UM, AND WE'LL PLAN FROM THERE.
UH, YOU'VE ALREADY BUDGETED THAT MONEY INTO THE CORRECT PROJECTION? YES.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR YES, MR. SULLIVAN, I JUST WANNA ASK, HOW EXTENSIVE IS THE ELECTRICAL SERVICE UPGRADE? IS THIS JUST, UH, UPGRADING THE ELECTRICAL SERVICE COMING INTO THE PROPERTY OR ARE THEY GOING FURTHER AND, YOU KNOW, RUNNING NEW WIRING TO THE CLASSROOMS, ADDING OUTLETS, ANYTHING LIKE THAT? YEAH, SO WE HAVEN'T STARTED DESIGNING YET, BUT I CAN TELL YOU, UM, AT A MINIMUM WE'RE BRINGING IN A NEW TRANSFORMER AND A NEW SWITCHBOARD THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED AND THEN BACK FEEDING ALL OF THE EXISTING BUILDINGS AS NECESSARY.
SO WE'D AT LEAST TAKE IT TO MORE THAN LIKELY TO THE SUB PANELS OF THOSE EXISTING BUILDINGS.
ANYTHING BEYOND THAT? HOPEFULLY NOT, BUT WE ANTICIPATE THERE MIGHT BE AT, AT A MINIMUM, UM, FOR THE ACTUAL HVAC SYSTEMS THEMSELVES, BUT NOT NECESSARILY GOING IN AND REWIRING EVERY SINGLE CLASSROOM.
JUST, JUST TO COMMENT AND UM, TO TOUCH ON MY COLLEAGUE JASON'S POINT.
UM, I KNOW THAT WITH A LOT OF THE DATA CENTERS, UM, THAT ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, A LOT OF THE SWITCHBOARDS ARE, UM, IN HIGH DEMAND.
AND SO, UH, COST ESCALATION, I KNOW THAT OUR MEMBERS ARE SEEING THAT AS A RESULT OF, UM, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE, THE DATA CENTERS TAKING PLACE.
YES, WE'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE ISSUE OF GETTING SWITCHBOARDS, UM, IN TERMS OF THE LONG LEAD TIME AS WELL AS THE COST.
SO THAT'S TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN WE'RE PLANNING THE PROJECT.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS WITH THAT? IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION MOTION? KAISER SECOND.
I SECOND BROOK FELL SECOND? YES.
AND THAT WAS A MOTION TO APPROVE
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STAFF, CAN YOU TAKE ROLL? YES.MR. CHAIR MEMBERS, THIS IS THE VOTE ON AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING THREE CHARTER UPGRADE PROJECTS, MS. BELL? AYE.
ROLLS, COULD YOU REPEAT YOUR VOTE? YES.
THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED WITH 12 AFFIRMATIVE VOTES AND ONE NO.
[8. Chief Facilities Executive’s Report (Information Only)]
ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, AND THIS IS THE CHIEF FACILITIES EXECUTIVE REPORT.CHRISTINA TO CHIEF FACILITIES EXECUTIVE WILL MAKE HER REPORT.
MIGHT EVEN COMPLETE BY MORNING.
MEMBERS OF THE BOCI KNOW WE HAVE SOME NEW MEMBERS HERE, AND SO I THOUGHT IT'D BE, UM, HELPFUL TO JUST KICK OFF 2026, WHICH ALREADY SEEMS SO LONG, UM, WITH A UPDATE ON OUR SCHOOL UPGRADE PROGRAM.
OUR SCHOOL UPGRADE PROGRAM IS THE DISTRICT'S CURRENT BOND PROGRAM, HOW WE MAKE ALLOCATIONS, WHERE WE ARE AT, AND THE PRIORITIZATION.
SO THIS IS JUST A BRIEF OVERVIEW.
I WANNA TALK ABOUT THE SCHOOL UPGRADE PROGRAM, THE CATEGORIES IN IT, THE KEY INVESTMENT AREAS, OUR IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE, AND SOME NEXT STEPS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE.
SO THE SCHOOL UPGRADE PROGRAM, UM, UH, FORMALLY WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD IN 2014.
WE'VE HAD OUR BOND PROGRAM FOR OVER 25 YEARS.
UM, BEFORE IT HAD KIND OF TWO DIFFERENT COMPONENTS.
THERE WAS A NEW SCHOOL'S CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM AND AN EXISTING FACILITIES PROGRAM AND BOTH HAD ALLOCATIONS.
UM, AND THEN THEY MERGED WITH THE SCHOOL UPGRADE PROGRAM INTO ONE PROGRAM.
AND REALLY THE INTENT OF THIS WAS TO MODERNIZE OUR EXISTING CAMPUSES.
WE HAD TAKEN KIDS OFF OF YEAR ROUND SCHOOLS OUT OF MANDATORY BUSING, AND NOW THE EMPHASIS WAS HOW ARE WE GOING TO MODERNIZE OUR EXISTING LEGACY CAMPUSES? UM, AND THEN WHAT IT DID IS IT ESTABLISHED DISTINCT CATEGORIES OF CAPITAL NEED WITH SPENDING TARGETS UNDER THOSE.
AND THEN WHEN THE VOTERS APPROVED MEASURE US IN 2024, THE BOARD UPDATED THE SCHOOL UPGRADE PROGRAM WITH APPROVAL OF THE MEASURE US IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH.
SO EVERY PROJECT YOU SEE FALLS UNDER THESE CATEGORIES.
SO THIS IS THE MEASURE US PRIORITIES AND TARGET SPENDING.
YOU'LL SEE THE TOTAL MEASURE US AT THE BOTTOM IS 9 BILLION.
THE AREAS IN BLACK ARE WHAT WE CALL THE FACILITIES, UM, BOND PROGRAM.
AND THEN THE OTHER AREAS ARE AREAS IN GRAY THAT ARE MANAGED BY OTHER DIVISIONS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN YOU SEE IT PROJECTS COMING TO THE BOC FIRM APPROVAL, THOSE ARE NOT FROM THE FACILITY SERVICES DIVISION.
THAT'S FROM THE ALLOCATION FOR ITS.
THERE'S ALSO AN ALLOCATION FOR BUSES, WHICH COMES OUT OF THE TRANSPORTATION DIVISION.
AND THEN THERE'S FUNDING FOR THE OIG.
THERE'S FUNDING SPECIFICALLY FOR THE IG THAT'S ALSO NOT MANAGED BY THE FACILITY SERVICES DIVISION.
SO THE 7.8 BILLION IS, UM, THE FACILITY SERVICES DIVISION BOND PROGRAM.
UM, AND I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH WHAT THOSE COMPONENTS ARE.
THIS IS THE SAME INFORMATION, BUT JUST IN A PIE CHART YOU'LL SEE THAT THE LARGEST IS MAJOR MODERNIZATIONS AT APPROXIMATELY 4.9 BILLION.
AND THEN SECOND TO THAT IS CRITICAL REPLACEMENTS.
SO MAJOR MODERNIZATIONS ARE WHERE WE'RE REPLACING BUILDINGS.
CRITICAL REPLACEMENTS ARE WHEN WE'RE, UM, REPAIRING, REPLACING COMPONENTS OF BUILDINGS.
UM, THEN WE HAVE KIND OF A CATCHALL, WHICH YOU'LL HEAR STAFF CALLED WHALE, BUT IT HAS WELLNESS HEALTH.
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UM, A COUPLE OF OTHER SPECIFIC THINGS.A DA YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH, UM, ALLOCATION FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS, WHICH IS WHAT MR. DUL JUST PRESENTED.
AND THEN WE HAVE SOMETHING CALLED OUR CLIENT PROGRAMS WHERE WE WORK WITH, LET'S SAY THE DEPART, UH, DIVISION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.
WE WORK WITH FOOD SERVICES, WE IMPLEMENT THEIR PRIORITIES FOR THEIR FACILITIES.
UM, BUT WE REALLY WORK WITH THEM ON THEIR PRIORITIZATION AND DIRECTION.
SO LET ME JUST WALK YOU THROUGH EACH OF THESE BUCKETS, 'CAUSE THOSE ARE HERE REAL QUICKLY.
WHAT DOES, WHAT DOES D STAND FOR? OH, THAT'S THE DEPARTMENT OF ADULT EDUCATION.
YEAH, THEY, THEY ALSO HAVE AN ALLOCATION AS WELL.
SO I'M GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH EACH OF THE KIND OF COMPONENTS OF THIS PIE HAVE THEN SUBCATEGORIES UNDERNEATH THEM THAT WE THEN DEVELOP PRIORITIZATIONS FOR AND BRING PROJECTS TO YOU.
AND THEN THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL.
SO THIS LARGEST ONE, UM, THE 4.9 BILLION REALLY COVERS SEVEN PROGRAMS. THE ONE IN YELLOW ARE NEW PROGRAMS THAT WERE PUT IN UNDER THE 2024 MEASURE US IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
AND THE ONES IN GRAY ARE ONGOING PROGRAMS. USUALLY OUR, UM, KIND OF ACHIEVEMENTS WITH A MULTI-DECADE BOND IS YOU'RE NOT GONNA DO EVERYTHING IN ONE BOND.
IT'S INCREMENTAL AND YOU GET AS FAR AS YOU CAN.
AND THEN IF YOU PASS ANOTHER BOND, YOU CAN KEEP GOING AND KEEP GOING.
SO REPLACE, UH, MODERNIZED BUILDINGS FOR SEISMIC SAFETY.
THAT HAS BEEN OUR COMPREHENSIVE MODERNIZATIONS, OUR MAJOR MODERNIZATIONS, REPLACING PORTABLE BUILDINGS, UM, SOMETHING YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE, CAMPUS UPGRADES AND ALTERATIONS.
THIS IS IF WE HAVE A SCHOOL THAT LET'S SAY IS GOING TO DEVELOP A NEW PILOT SCHOOL OR A NEW PROGRAM AT THAT SCHOOL, THEY MIGHT NEED ALTERATIONS TO SUPPORT THAT NEW INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM.
WE HAVE SEEN AN ENROLLMENT INCREASE AS WE HAVE, UM, MADE UTK, UM, ALLOWED THROUGHOUT DISTRICT-WIDE.
SO WE'RE SEEING SOME NEEDS FOR UPGRADES TO, LET'S SAY, BATHROOMS OR NEW FURNITURE AS WE HAVE MORE UT K STUDENTS, GREEN SCHOOLYARD UPGRADES AND PLAYGROUND RESTORATION AND PLAYGROUND AND CAMPUS EXTERIOR UPGRADES AND SHADE SHELTERS.
THESE ALL GO TOWARDS UPGRADING OUR OUTDOOR AREAS AND PLAY SPACE SHADE SHELTERS IS NEW.
THIS IS SPECIFICALLY OVER PLAYGROUND APPARATUS.
AND SO YOU'LL BE SEEING PROJECTS, UM, NEW FOR US AND WE'LL EXPLAIN THE PRIORITIZATION.
UH, GREEN PACE UPS IS SOMETHING YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE.
THAT'S WHAT WE CALL PLAYGROUND AND CAMPUS EXTERIOR UPGRADES.
IT REPLACES, UM, DETERIORATED ASPHALT AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME DOES A LARGE COMPREHENSIVE GREENING TO GET TO THAT 30% GREEN AND GREEN SCHOOLYARD UPGRADES IS NOT ABOUT REPLACING, UM, ASPHALT.
IT'S SOLELY ABOUT INCREASING GREEN AT OUR SCHOOLS WITH THE GREATEST NEEDS.
THEN IF WE LOOK AT THE NEXT TWO PROGRAMS, CRITICAL REPLACEMENTS, YOU'VE SEEN THESE BEFORE.
IT'S THE AIR CONDITIONING, IT'S THE PAVING.
WE ARE MAKING SOME REFINEMENTS TO THAT, UM, WHICH WE'LL BE SHARING WITH YOU.
BUT AGAIN, THAT'S AN ONGOING PROGRAM.
SECURE ENTRANCES, WE'VE ALREADY BROUGHT THAT TO YOU.
WE DID SECURE ENTRANCES AT ALL OF OUR, UH, OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, OUR EECS, WE'RE NOW EXTENDING THAT.
AS, AS WE PASS A BOND, WE CAN NOW DO SECURE ENTRANCES AT OUR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS.
THE A DA PROGRAM IS, UH, CONTINUING.
AND THEN THIS IS WHAT I CALL WELLNESS, HEALTH, ATHLETICS, LEARNING AND EFFICIENCY.
IT'S A LARGE, UM, MOUTHFUL, WHICH WE CALL WHALE.
SO WE HAVE UPGRADE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS.
THAT'S AN ONGOING PRO UH, PROGRAM.
SOLAR AND ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY AROUND PV.
THAT MONEY HAS BEEN ALLOCATED WITH, UM, PROJECTS THAT WE BROUGHT TO THE BOC AND THE BOARD STUDENT WELLNESS FOR OUR, UM, WELLNESS FACILITIES, SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
THIS IS A NEW PROGRAM, A SMALL AMOUNT WHICH WE'RE WORKING ON PRIORITIZING.
WE HAVE SOMETHING CALLED PARTNER FUNDED PROGRAMS. IF A PARTNER COMES TO THE DISTRICT WITH SOME ALLOCATION OF FUNDING THAT THEY'VE GOT, THEY GIVE IT TO THE DISTRICT AND THEN WE IMPLEMENT THEIR, UM, THEIR PROJECT SEEDS YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR BOARD MEMBER AND REGION PRIORITY PROJECTS, WHICH IS ONGOING.
NOW WE GET INTO WHAT WE CALL OUR CLIENT PROGRAMS. SO CAFETERIAS, CHARTER EARLY EDUCATION AND ADULT EDUCATION SCHOOL CAFETERIAS.
WE HAVE THREE NEW PROGRAMS THAT OUR FOOD SERVICES DIVISION HAS EXPRESSED AS THEIR PRIORITY.
ONE IS TO DO A REGIONAL KITCHEN, WHICH WE'RE CURRENTLY UNDERWAY ON SOME DUE DILIGENCE AND PLANNING EXERCISES OF THE OTHER ONE IS COMBI OVENS AND ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, SERVICE KIOSKS AND ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
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AS WELL.AND THEN WE ALREADY HAVE A PROGRAM TO UPGRADE WALK AND FREEZERS CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES.
WE TREAT THIS VERY MUCH LIKE OUR CRITICAL REPAIR AT OUR DISTRICT SITES, EXCEPT THEY'RE AT CHARTER SCHOOL SITES.
SO WE ARE A PRIORITIZATION FOR THAT.
ALSO, THE PROP 39, UM, ANNUAL RENOVATIONS THAT COME TO OUR BOC AND BOARD EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.
WE CONTINUE TO DO THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS ALONG WITH, UH, CRITICAL REPAIRS AT OUR EECS WHEN NEEDED.
AND THEN ADULT CAREER EDUCATION FACILITIES, A LOT OF THE SAME THINGS IN OUR OTHER PROGRAMS. UM, THEY DID ALSO WANNA INVEST IN EXTERIOR UPGRADES FOR THAT CURB APPEAL, AND THAT'S A NEW PROGRAM FOR THEM.
UM, AND UNDER OUR BIGGEST ONE, WE HAVE COMPLETED THE PRIORITIZATION METHODOLOGY FOR THE SEISMIC.
THAT IS OUR LARGEST CATEGORY AT 2.8 BILLION.
UM, YOU'LL PROBABLY START TO SEE SOME PROJECTS HOPEFULLY BEFORE, UM, WE GO INTO SUMMER BREAK AND WE'LL EXPLAIN THAT PRIORITIZATION BEFORE WE BRING THOSE FIRST PROJECTS TO YOU.
THESE ARE FOCUSED ON WHAT'S CALLED THE LIFT SLAB BUILDINGS.
THOSE HAVE HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE ARCHITECT TO BE, UM, OF HIGH PRIORITY.
AND WE DEVELOPED A WHOLE RUBRIC OF HOW WE'RE GONNA PRIORITIZE THE LIFT SLOT BUILDINGS THAT WE HAVE THROUGHOUT DISTRICT SITES.
THEN WE HAVE, UH, REPLACING PORTABLE BUILDINGS.
WE'RE WORKING ON THE PRIORITIZATION OF THAT, AND WE'LL BE BRINGING THAT TO THE BOARD IN THE FALL OF 2026.
GREEN SCHOOLYARD UPGRADES, PACE UPS, AND SHADE SHELTERS.
WE HAD TWO MEETINGS WITH OUR BOARD REGARDING THE PRIORITIZATION OF THAT.
JUST COMPLETED THE PRIORITIZATION WITH A LIST OF ALL OF THE CAMPUS.
AGAIN, UM, THE TWO GREENING ONES ARE TO ADDRESS WHAT'S CALLED CATEGORY ONE SCHOOLS IN THE BOARD'S GREEN SCHOOL YARDS FOR ALL PLAN, WHICH IS TARGETING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT HAVE LESS THAN 10% GREEN.
WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE STARTING WITH ABOUT 50 PROJECTS WHERE WE'RE LOOKING TO BRING THOSE PROJECTS TO THE BOC AND THE BOARD.
UM, BEFORE WE GO ON SUMMER BREAK, THINGS THAT WE STILL YET, UM, NEED TO PRIORITIZE, AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AS OUR NEXT STEPS IS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS.
THAT PRIORITIZATION IS UNDERWAY.
WE HOPE TO COME TO THE BOARD IN THE FALL OF 2026.
WE KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF USE OF THE DISTRICT'S HIGH SCHOOL COMPETITIVE FIELDS, NOT ONLY BY OUR STUDENTS, BUT ALSO BY THE COMMUNITY.
SO THIS ONE IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, WE'RE WORKING WITH THE DISTRICT'S ATHLETICS, UH, DEPARTMENT ON, AND THEN PORTABLE REPLACEMENTS.
WE HAVE A PRIORITIZATION UNDERWAY AS WELL.
AND THEN THE CRITICAL REPAIR AND REPLACEMENTS REFINEMENT TO THAT PROGRAM AS WELL.
SEEING HOW OUR DOLLARS CAN BE MOST IMPACTFUL.
AGAIN, WE CAN'T DO IT ALL AT ONCE.
THIS IS ALLOWS US TO CONTINUE OUR PROGRAM AS ONGOING AS WE MAKE REFINEMENTS AND BRING, UM, NEW PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS TO THE BOC AND THE BOARD.
IN TERMS OF THOSE PROJECT DEFINITIONS.
WE'LL BE SHARING WITH YOU HOPEFULLY BEFORE THE SUMMER BREAK.
UM, SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING ON OUR LIFT SLABS, UH, STRUCTURES, SHADE SHELTERS, WANNA BRING THAT TO YOU BY THE SUMMER.
UM, AND THEN IN THE FALL OF 2026, UM, WE'LL BE BRINGING OUR FIRST PACE UP AND GREEN SCHOOLYARD UPGRADE PROJECTS.
WE'LL ALSO SHARE WITH YOU BEFORE WE BRING PROJECTS, HOW THOSE PROJECTS WERE PRIORITIZED.
AND WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
ANY QUESTIONS OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR? YES, MS. BETTS.
UM, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS FOR THE REPLACING THE PORTABLE BUILDINGS AND THE DETERMINATION OF WHICH ONES SHOULD BE REMOVED? SURE.
SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT PRIORITIZATION FINALIZED.
THAT'S THE ONE WHERE WE'RE LOOKING TO HAVE THAT, I THINK PRIORITIZED BY THE FALL OF 2026.
UM, BUT WHAT WE LOOK AT AND WHAT WE'VE USED IN THE BEFORE IS KIND OF TWO CRITERIA, IS WE LOOK AT THE PERCENTAGE OF PERMANENT CLASSROOMS TO PORTABLE CAMPUS, UH, PORTABLE CLASSROOMS ON A GIVEN CAMPUS.
WE HAVE SOME CAMPUSES WHERE THE NUMBER OF PORTABLE CLASSROOMS IS MORE THAN THE NUMBER OF PERMANENT BUILDINGS.
THEY'RE REALLY ALMOST, UM, THEY COULD BE 75% OF THEIR CAPACITIES IN PORTABLES AND 25% IS IN PERMANENT BUILDINGS.
AND THEN WE ALSO LOOK AT SOMETHING CALLED, UM, UNCERTIFIED PORTABLES.
THERE WAS A TIME WHERE THE DISTRICT PUT ON PORTABLES AND DIDN'T NECESSARILY MAKE ALL THE 80 DA UPGRADES ARE NECESSARILY REQUIREMENTS.
AND ANYTIME WE DO A PROJECT THERE, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BRING IT UP TO CERTIFICATION.
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IT'S ALMOST NOT WORTH IT OR COST EFFECTIVE TO MAKE THOSE, UH, PORTABLES COMPLIANT.AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT REPLACING THOSE AS WELL.
SO THAT'S THE CRITERIA THAT STAFF IS LOOKING AT.
UM, BUT WE'LL HAVE FINALIZED THAT AND REFINED IT BEFORE WE COME BACK TO YOU WITH PROJECTS.
SO IF A SCHOOL WAS INTERESTED IN DETERMINING IF THEIR PORTABLES COULD BE REMOVED, WHAT'S THE PROCESS FOR THAT? SO THIS ONE IS NOT AT A SCHOOL REQUEST.
UM, THIS WILL BE DETERMINED CENTRALLY BASED ON CRITERIA THAT'S LOOKING AT ALL SCHOOL CONDITIONS DISTRICT WIDE.
UM, AND THEN WE'LL BE RECOMMENDING BASED ON KIND OF OUR EMPHASIS IN ALL OF THESE PROGRAMS OF WHERE IS THERE THE GREATEST NEED, UM, BECAUSE WE WANNA BE FAIR ACROSS THE DISTRICT, UM, ADDRESS WHERE THERE'S KIND OF THE GREATEST INEQUITY OF CONDITIONS.
UM, SO THIS IS NOT A PROGRAM WHERE SCHOOLS MAKE A REQUEST.
WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY SCHOOLS THAT HAVE PORTABLES AND MANY OF THEM ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING THEM REMOVED, AND WE WANNA GO TO WHERE THERE'S THE HIGHEST NEED.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? YES, MR. CAMPBELL.
THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
SO I KNOW YOU ARE, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER AS INFORMED A, A PRIORITY LIST AS POSSIBLE.
HOW, HOW DOES THAT, UM, PROCESS INTERSECT OR, OR BENEFIT POTENTIALLY FROM DECISIONS THAT POLICY MAKERS ULTIMATELY MIGHT MAKE AS PART OF THE, UM, FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN THAT THE DISTRICT APPROVED BACK IN JUNE OF 25? SO I, I KNOW A COMPONENT OF THAT HAD TO DO WITH CONSIDERATION OF POTENTIAL CONSOLIDATIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN THE FUTURE.
AND OBVIOUSLY AS YOU'RE PRIORITIZING PROJECTS THAT THOSE GOALPOSTS COULD BE MOVED ON YOU IF, IF THERE ARE LATER DECISIONS BEING MADE, YOU DON'T HAVE THE BENEFIT OF THAT UNTIL SOMEONE TELLS YOU.
AND, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF YOUR FOLKS ARE ALSO AT THE TABLE OR BEING INVOLVED IN THOSE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT UTILIZATION OR, OR CONDITION OR, I, I'M JUST, I I GUESS FROM A UNDERSTANDING THAT A LOT OF THINGS HAVEN'T BEEN DECIDED, TRYING TO, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FROM A BIG PICTURE STANDPOINT, HOW, HOW DOES THAT PROCESS ALSO HELP INFORM THE PRIORITIZATION DECISIONS THAT YOU'RE MAKING? SURE.
SO I WILL JUST SAY AT THIS TIME, THERE IS NO PLAN TO CONSOLIDATE, UM, SCHOOLS.
AND WHEN WE USE THE WORD CONSOLIDATION, IT CAN MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
THE DISTRICT IN THE PAST HAS CLOSED SCHOOLS WHERE THERE ARE MULTIPLE SCHOOLS ON ONE CAMPUS.
SO WE HAVE MANY CAMPUSES THAT MIGHT HAVE THREE OR FOUR SCHOOLS.
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN SMALL SCHOOLS WAS, UM, VERY POPULAR ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO.
AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ONE HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS WITH FOUR PRINCIPALS OPERATING FOUR HIGH SCHOOLS.
BUT AS ENROLLMENT HAS DECLINED OR SOME PROGRAMS HAVE MAYBE NOT THRIVED AS WELL AS OTHER PROGRAMS, AND WE'VE ALSO SEEN REDUCTIONS IN BUDGET, IT HAS CLOSED OR CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS, BUT IT HASN'T CLOSED THE CAMPUS AS THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS THAT THAT REALLY DOESN'T HAVE MUCH OF AN IMPACT ON THE FACILITIES.
YOU STILL HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF STUDENTS AT THAT CAMPUS.
YOU MIGHT HAVE SLIGHTLY LESS ADMINIS NEED FOR ADMINISTRATION SPACE.
UM, BUT THAT'S REALLY KIND OF, THERE'S NO BEARING ON ON THE FACILITIES NECESSARILY PLANNING.
UM, SO THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT THE DISTRICT KIND OF USES AS ONE OF THE TOOLS IN ITS KIND OF TOOLBOXES.
YOU'LL ALSO SEE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PRIORITIZATION ON SPECIFIC PROGRAMS, WE DO LOOK AT ENROLLMENT IN SOME OF THOSE, RIGHT? SO WE WANNA TARGET, ESPECIALLY AS I TALK ABOUT KIND OF GOING DOWN THIS LIST WHERE WE CAN MAXIMIZE OUR IMPACT FOR STUDENTS.
SO IN SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS WE'RE LOOKING AT WHERE IS THERE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE THE GREATEST NUMBER OF STUDENTS SO THAT WE CAN DO A PROJECT THERE AND BENEFIT THE MOST STUDENTS.
OR WE ALSO USE A CAP WHERE WE'RE GONNA SAY, WE'RE GONNA START THIS PROGRAM, BUT A SCHOOL NEEDS TO HAVE OVER 350 KIDS.
SO WE'RE KNOW WE'RE NOT MAYBE DEALING WITH SCHOOLS THAT HAVE LESS STUDENTS.
WE CAN SEE THE GREATEST BENEFIT.
UM, AND THEN WE DO WORK, WE HAVE, UM, THERE'S A OFFICE OF STRATEGIC ENROLLMENT, OUR REGIONS, UM, THERE IS A VERY INTERACTIVE KIND OF PLANNING PROCESS THAT OUR TEAM HAS WITH THEM.
SO AS THEY ARE, THEY MAY BE CONSIDERING PROGRAMMATIC CHANGES, ALSO PROGRAMMATIC CREATION THAT WHEN WE LAND ON A SPECIFIC CAMPUS, WE KIND OF HAVE BOOTS ON THE GROUND AND WE'RE WORKING THROUGH WHATEVER THE SPECIFIC PROGRAM UTILIZATION REQUIREMENTS ARE AT THAT CAMPUS.
ONE LAST QUESTION ON A DIFFERENT TOPIC.
UM, I, I SAW IN THEIR HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC FACILITIES, UM, I RECALL
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FROM, UH, A PROJECT THAT WE CONSIDERED, I WANNA SAY LAST SCHOOL YEAR.UM, THE DISTRICT HAS SORT OF TEMPLATE PLANS FOR SOME OF THE FACILITIES THAT IT BUILDS, LIKE AQUATIC FACILITIES FOR EXAMPLE, RIGHT? WHERE WE, WE TRY TO FOLLOW A, I GUESS A MORE CONSISTENT DESIGN AND REPEAT THAT IN, IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS WHERE IT MAKES SENSE TO DO.
HOW, HOW DO WE, I GUESS AS WE PLAN THESE FUTURE PROJECTS, HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE INFORM THOSE DESIGNS NOT JUST FOR, YOU KNOW, BUILDING STANDARDS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY INCLUDE ALL OF THE COMPONENTS SORT OF JUST NECESSARY FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF AN INDIVIDUAL SPORT.
AND I, AND I'LL ASK THIS WITH CONTEXT TO LIKE A SPECIFIC QUESTION.
UM, ONE CAMPUS WHERE, UH, THAT WAS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN THE LAST 10 OR 15 YEARS, YOU KNOW, HAS A POOL FACILITY.
THAT POOL FACILITY HAS NO LOCKERS AT ALL.
LIKE THEY'RE JUST, THEY'RE NOT THERE.
AND UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, AQUATICS IS A SPORT WHERE IT'S LIKE YOU GOT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE KIDS WALKING AROUND CAMPUS WITH WET STUFF.
THEY, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S AN ISSUE.
IT, IT, IT MAKES IT LESS FUNCTIONAL.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WASN'T DELIVERED IN THAT PROJECT BUT WAS CALLED FOR OR IF IT JUST WASN'T IN THE PLAN.
SO I GUESS DO, DO WE GET DOWN TO THE LEVEL WHEN WE'RE DESIGNING THESE TYPES OF THINGS, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE GONNA BE TEMPLATES THAT ARE REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE RUNNING THOSE ATHLETIC PROGRAMS ARE, ARE INCLUDED IN THE DESIGN PROCESS? LIKE HOW DOES THAT WORK? YEAH, I CAN, I COULD TALK FOR A LONG TIME ABOUT THAT.
I AM ALMOST POSITIVE YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT THE OLD GEEN CAMPUS OF SAN PEDRO.
I'M, I'M SURE THERE'S A STORY ABOUT THE LOCKERS AT SAN PEDRO, SO I'M GONNA SEE IF THERE'S ANYONE WHO MIGHT HAVE SOME HISTORICAL, UM, INFORMATION WHEN WE, OR WHO CONSTRUCTED THAT 10 YEARS AGO
'CAUSE IT'S A BEAUTIFUL FACILITY AND I'M NOT, I'M NOT REMEMBERING WHY THAT THAT MAY BE.
UM, WE DO, SO WE HAVE, UM, A DEPARTMENT THAT'S CALLED OUR DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS DEPARTMENT, AND THEY KIND OF CODIFY, UM, NOT ONLY THE PLANNING CRITERIA FOR, UM, OUR VARIOUS BUILDINGS, CLASSROOMS, ET CETERA, BUT THEN THEY ALSO GET INTO OUR SPECIFICATIONS, WHAT TYPE OF AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS, WHAT TYPE OF FLOORING TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S SOMETHING THAT THE DISTRICT CAN MAINTAIN.
SO YES, THEY DO WORK, UM, VERY CLOSELY WITH WHAT WE CALL OUR CLIENTS OR USERS.
SO IF WE'RE DESIGNING CHEMISTRY LABS, WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR INSTRUCTIONAL PARTNERS WHO ARE TELLING US HOW CHEMISTRY LABS ARE USED.
AND AS THAT CHANGES, BECAUSE IT DOES, WE'RE ALWAYS UPDATING THOSE SPECIFICATIONS.
UM, AND SO WE'RE ALWAYS KIND OF UPDATING THEM IN THE CASE OF THE LOCKER ROOMS, I'LL HAVE TO FIND OUT WHY.
BUT YES, WE DEFINITELY, UM, ARE UPDATING ALL THE TIME BASED ON HOW THE USES OF OUR SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD HAVE ISSUES AROUND SECURITY, AROUND NEW INSTRUCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS, ABOUT NEW IDEAS OR PEDAGOGY OF, YOU KNOW, HOW THINGS ARE TAUGHT.
AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING SPACES THAT WORK WELL FOR THEM.
YOU ANYTHING ELSE? YES, MS. LEWIS.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MS. TOS, NICE TO SEE YOU.
UM, I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE, UH, PAGE SEVEN, THE MAJOR MODERNIZATION UPGRADES AND RECONFIGURATIONS.
THE YE THE PROGRAMS IN YELLOW ARE CITED AS NEW PROGRAMS. THOSE ARE NEW PROGRAMS AS OF MEASURE US.
WHEN THE BOARD, UM, PASSED ESSENTIALLY, UM, PUTTING MEASURE US ON THE BALLOT, THEY ALSO APPROVED SOMETHING CALLED THE MEASURE US IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, WHICH SPELLED OUT THESE CATEGORIES AND THE AMOUNTS IN EACH OF THESE CATEGORIES.
SO HOW, COULD YOU JUST DESCRIBE MORE ABOUT, UH, PROGRAM NUMBER FIVE, THE GREENING SCHOOLYARD UPGRADES AND JUST WHAT THAT ENTAILS? SURE.
UM, SO THAT ONE IS, LET, LET ME BACK UP.
THAT CAME OUT OF, I WOULD SAY NUMBER SIX.
SO NUMBER SIX IS WHERE WE WERE DRIVEN TO SCHOOLS THAT HAD THE WORST AMOUNT OR WORST LEVEL OF ASPHALT.
UM, WHERE WE SAW AND HAD RECORD OF SCHOOL TRIPPINGS, UM, CRACKED SURFACES, REALLY DEGRADED ASPHALT AND THE DISTRICT FOR PROBABLY ABOUT THE LAST 10 YEARS, I WOULD SAY BEFORE 10 YEARS AGO OR MAYBE 2015 YEARS AGO WHEN WE REPLACED ASPHALT, WE JUST CAME BACK WITH ASPHALT.
IT WAS PURE ASPHALT OUT NEW ASPHALT.
IN ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, WE SAW THE OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE SCREENING.
SO WE DIDN'T JUST REPLACE ONE-TO-ONE ASPHALT, BUT WE WERE STILL DRIVEN TO THE SCHOOLS THAT HAD THE WORST ASPHALT CONDITION.
SO WE WEREN'T ADDRESSING SCHOOLS THAT HAD NO GREENING.
SO YOU COULD HAVE REALLY PRISTINE ASPHALT AND NOT
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HAVE ANY GREENING AND YOU WOULDN'T GET ANY GREENING BECAUSE YOUR ASPHALT WAS FINE AND YOU DIDN'T NEED ASPHALT REPLACEMENT.SO NUMBER FIVE WAS BORN OUT OF, UM, THE BOARDS GREEN SCHOOL YARDS FOR ALL PLAN, WHICH ASKED THE STAFF TO BASICALLY DIRECT OR PRIORITIZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT HAD LESS THAN 10% GREENING.
SO THIS CATEGORY ADDRESSES SCHOOLS THAT HAVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT HAVE LESS THAN 10% GREEN INDEPENDENT OF THEIR CONDITION OF THE ASPHALT.
SO WE DON'T LOOK AT YOUR ASPHALT FACILITIES CONDITION ASSESSMENT.
WE LOOK AT THE PERCENTAGE OF GREENING AND THEN THE GREEN SCHOOLYARDS FOR ALL PLAN ALSO ASKED US TO NOT JUST LOOK AT THE, WITHIN THE, I THINK IT'S OVER 200 SCHOOLS THAT HAVE LESS THAN 10% GREEN SPACE ON WHAT WE CALL THEIR PLAY YARD TO ALSO FACTOR IN SOME SOCIAL AND VI CRITERIA AS WELL.
SO WE THEN RANKED ALL OF THOSE SCHOOLS, UM, PRIORITIZING THOSE SCHOOLS THAT HAD THE HIGHEST CAL ENVIRO NUMBERS, WHICH IS KIND OF A STATE TOOL THAT LOOKS AT HOW BURDENED YOU WILL BE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS.
AND THEN WE USED A HEAT INDEX.
SO IT'S SUPPOSED TO DRIVE US TO SCHOOLS THAT NOT ONLY HAVE THE LEAST PERCENT OF GREEN SPACE, BUT ALSO ARE THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY BURDENED AND THE MOST HOT AND SO WITH THAT RANKING, WE'VE GONE DOWN AND HAVE BASICALLY SAID WE WILL ADDRESS ALL OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAT DON'T ALREADY HAVE PROJECTS.
AND I SHOULD SAY WE HAVE ABOUT OF THE OVER 200 SCHOOLS, 50% OF THEM ALREADY HAVE PROJECTS UNDERWAY.
SO THE DISTRICT HAS MADE REALLY IMPACTFUL GAINS JUST OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS OF ADDRESSING KIND OF THE WORST SCHOOLS.
NOW WE CAN BE WITH THIS PROGRAM, WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THAT WORK.
AND OUR, YOU'LL SEE OUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO BASICALLY GET TO ALL OF THESE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE OVER 275 STUDENTS.
SO THAT WILL BE A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT.
AND THEN IF WE PASS MORE BONDS, WE CAN START TO ADDRESS WHAT WE CALL CATEGORY TWO SCHOOLS, WHICH ARE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE 12%, IT'S STILL PRETTY BAD.
WE WANNA GET TO THOSE SCHOOLS AS WELL AND CONTINUE DOWN THE LIST.
IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN, MS. TOES.
UM, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
I, I'M ACTUALLY GONNA, MY QUESTION IS SORT OF IN REGARDS TO THE PEOPLE FROM THE, UH, LIVING SCHOOL SCHOOLYARD COALITION THAT WE'RE IN HERE TODAY.
WHAT, IF ANYTHING, CAN YOUR OFFICE DO TO HELP THESE NONPROFITS ELIMINATE SOME OF THESE CHANGE ORDERS AND ITEMS THAT ARE REALLY, YOU KNOW, BURDENING THEM? YEAH, SO, YOU KNOW, THAT HAS BEEN, UM, UH, ONGOING CONVERSATION THAT THE DISTRICT HAS HAD.
OUR OFFICE OF ECO SUSTAINABILITY IS THE LEAD WITH OUR THIRD PARTY FACILITIES PROVIDES WHAT WE CALL KIND OF THE BACK OF HOUSE SUPPORT.
UM, WE HAVE OUR O UM, DESIGN MANAGERS ENSURING THAT THOSE KIND OF DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS THAT THEY MEET, UH, GSA, A LOT OF OUR SCHOOL YARDS, THE SCHOOL YARD, IT ALSO COMBINES WITH THE FIRE LANE.
SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING, YOU KNOW, FIRE LANES OPEN AND THAT THINGS ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED IN A WAY THAT IS SAFE.
SO WE KIND OF PROVIDE THAT LEVEL OF OVERVIEW.
UM, WE'RE HOPEFUL, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE WAS, UM, SOME NOTATION THAT THIS HAS BEEN A LEARNING CURVE, UM, AND THAT WE BE REALLY CAUTIOUS, I WANNA SAY CONSIDERATE, UM, THAT THESE ARE VERY LIMITED DOLLARS AND THAT WE NEED TO WORK VERY CLOSELY TOGETHER ABOUT HOW WE CAN MINIMIZE OUR DISTRICT RELATED PROJECT COSTS, UM, WITH THE, UH, DOLLARS THAT THEY HAVE FROM THEIR GRANT SO THAT THOSE DOLLARS CAN GO AS FAR AS POSSIBLE.
IF I MIGHT ADD, IS, IS THERE ANY ATTEMPT IN THE, IN THE GREENING PROJECTS THAT YOU HAVE COMING UP, DOES THE DISTRICT OR, OR REACH OUT TO SOME OF THESE PARTNERS ABOUT SPECIFIC UPCOMING PROJECTS THAT YOU GUYS WOULD BE DOING ANYWAY? OR IS IT KIND OF BACK FLOWING THE OTHER DIRECTION WHERE THEY HAVE PROJECTS THAT THEY THEN BRING TO YOU IS, AND WITH THAT SAID, IS THERE A WAY THAT THE TWO COULD WORK TOGETHER SO THAT YOUR PRIORITIES, YOUR PROJECT PRIORITIES ARE BEING ASSISTED WITH THE NONPROFITS? WE HAVE, UM, THIS LIST THAT WE, UM, WE PUT TOGETHER AS PART OF THE GREEN SCHOOL YARDS PLAN HAS ACTUALLY BEEN INCREDIBLY HELPFUL AS A PLANNING TOOL SO THAT WHEN, UM, NONPROFITS COME TO THE DISTRICT WITH, THEY WANNA APPLY FOR A GRANT, AND OFTENTIMES, LIKE THE LATEST ROUND OF GRANTS ARE CALLED CAL FIRE GRANTS, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS NOT ABLE TO APPLY FOR THOSE.
UM, NONPROFIT PARTNERS CAN APPLY, AND WHAT WE DO IS THEN WE TARGET THEM
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TO THE SCHOOLS THAT WE DON'T HAVE PROJECTS ON.SO PART OF THE, WHEN I SAY ABOUT 50% OF THOSE SCHOOLS WE'VE DONE, UM, HAVE GREENING PROJECTS UNDERWAY THAT WILL TAKE THEM TO ABOVE 10%.
THAT INCLUDES THE 40 PLUS PARTNERS, UH, PROJECTS THAT THE GREENING PARTNERS ARE DOING ON THOSE SITES.
SO IT'S MORE OF A, HEY, WE CAN DO THESE.
IF YOU HAVE A GRANT, PLEASE COME TO OUR HIGHEST NEED SCHOOLS.
DON'T GO TO NUMBER 512, GET TO SCHOOLS ON THIS LIST OF 200.
HERE'S WHERE WE ALREADY HAVE PROJECTS.
SO IF YOU COULD DO THESE SCHOOLS THAT WOULD BE MOST IMPACTFUL TOGETHER, WE CAN GO FARTHER.
AND MY LAST FOLLOW UP, UH, IN REGARDS TO, YOU SAID THE, THE REVIEW PROCESS THAT THEY GO THROUGH, DESIGN, REVIEW, SAFETY, ALL OF THAT, IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE THEY ARE BEING CHARGED FOR THAT REVIEW.
SO THAT WE CALL THAT PART OF OUR PROJECT COSTS, RIGHT? SO WHENEVER WE BRING A PROJECT TO YOU, IT'S AN ALL INCLUSIVE COST.
UM, AND WE'RE ABLE TO CHARGE THAT PROJECT BECAUSE IT IS A BOND FUNDED PROJECT.
UM, THAT IS ALSO WHEN THOSE GRANTS WERE APPLIED, THERE IS A PROJECT COST, IT COVERS WHAT WE SAY, THERE'S HARD COSTS, WHICH ARE THE COSTS TO ACTUALLY CONSTRUCT IT, AND SOFT COSTS, WHICH ARE ALL THE OTHER KIND OF COSTS FOR THE DESIGN, THE INSPECTION, THE DSA REVIEW.
SO THE DISTRICT HAS HAD, UM, BASICALLY WHEN THOSE PROJECTS WERE BROUGHT TO THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL UNDER A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, UM, THE UNDERSTANDING AT THE TIME WAS THERE WOULD BE NO DISTRICT COST FOR THESE PROJECTS.
IT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT THE DISTRICT HAD ALLOCATED COSTS FOR.
THEIR GRANTS WERE SUPPOSED TO COVER ALL OF THE PROJECT COSTS, UM, OVER TIME.
AND YOU HEARD SOME OF THAT FRUSTRATION OF FEES CHANGE, NEW REQUIREMENTS COME OUT, LIKE THE TESTING OF THE PAINT OF THE LINES, WHICH, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL ALSO HEAR FACILITIES FOLKS ALSO EQUALLY
BUT AGAIN, THESE ARE COMING FROM REGULATORY AGENCIES DOWN, UM, THAT THE DISTRICT HAS TO MEET THOSE FEES CAN CHANGE, RIGHT? AND SO I THINK THE DISTRICT IS TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO COVER THOSE COSTS.
YOU HEARD ABOUT THE $3 MILLION THAT WAS USED.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF A, AS AS YOU HEARD, UM, LESSONS LEARNED.
AND WE ALL UNDERSTAND, ESPECIALLY WITH CONSTRUCTION COSTS ESCALATING, YOU KNOW, OVER 20% OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS.
WE ARE ALSO LOOKING INTERNALLY OF HOW ARE WE REDUCING OUR PROJECT SCOPES FOR THE BUDGETS THAT WE HAVE.
UM, YEAH, ALONG THOSE LINES, I JUST WANNA ENCOURAGE, YOU KNOW, ALL THE DECISION MAKERS WHO HAVE THE ABILITY TO CONSIDER HOW BOND FUNDS CAN BE USED TOWARDS THESE THIRD PARTY PROJECTS, UM, TO REALLY THINK ABOUT, AS WE'VE MENTIONED, THE LEARNING CURVE AND THE NEW INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE, BUT WHAT IT REALLY DOES TAKE TO MAKE THESE PROJECTS BE AS IMPACTFUL AS THEY CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PUTTING AS MUCH GREEN SPACE ON THE PROJECT, ON THE CAMPUSES, PROVIDING AS MUCH SHADE FOR STUDENTS THAT IT, IT DOES LOOK LIKE THE, IN ORDER TO MAKE THAT IMPACT, HAVING A PARTNERSHIP OF MORE FORMAL FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THOSE PROJECTS AS SUCCESSFUL AS THEY CAN BE.
SO I, WE HAVE A RECORD HEAT WEEK COMING UP THIS WEEK.
WE'RE IN MARCH
AND THESE PROJECTS REALLY DO MAKE AN ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE, NOT ONLY FOR OUR STUDENTS ON A DAILY BASIS AS THEY PLAY RECESS, PE AFTER SCHOOL, THE POTENTIAL FOR THESE PROJECTS TO BE THESE SCHOOLS, TO BE OPEN ON WEEKENDS AS PARKS.
AND JUST THINKING ABOUT THE LIMITED SPACE WE HAVE IN LOS ANGELES, LIMITED OPEN SPACE, THESE GREEN SCHOOLYARDS REALLY CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST BEAUTIFICATION FOR THE SAKE OF SOMETHING BEING PRETTY, BUT IT REALLY DOES HAVE A ENORMOUS IMPACT ON THE WELLBEING OF OUR ENTIRE CITY.
AND I JUST, FOR THE, THE LOW DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT IT ACTUALLY WOULD COST TO HELP MAKE A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS SUCCESSFUL, IT SEEMS WELL WORTH IT FOR WHAT WE ALL GET OUT OF IT.
WELL, WITH THAT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT.
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AGENDAS, ITEMS, ANYTHING FROM THE REST OF THE COMMITTEE? COMMENTS, THOUGHTS? MR. CHAIR? I JUST HAD A COMMENT.UM, NEXT WEEK, THE FIRST WEEK OF MARCH, UH, WILL BE WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION WEEK.
AND SO ON THE THEME THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT PROJECTS HERE TODAY, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT.
UM, AND SO IF YOU KNOW ANYONE THAT IS
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IN THE INDUSTRY, UM, FEEL FREE TO TO CELEBRATE THEM.I GOTTA CELEBRATE SOMETHING MORE WITH MY WIFE.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE? WELL, WITH THAT, THANK YOU.
UM, AGAIN, FOR THE RECORD, UH, MR. TORRANCE DID ATTEMPT TO REACH OUT TO ME BEFORE THE START OF THE MEETING TODAY, SO I APOLOGIZE NOT HAVING THAT INFO.
UM, SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO SEE HOW THE MOU UH, PROCEEDS PROMISED BY BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING.