Sep 03, 2026 Bond Oversight Committee

ITEM NUMBER ONE, WE HAVE A PRETTY SHORT, UM, AGENDA TODAY.

CHAIR HAMNER.

GOOD MORNING.

MY NAME IS ROBERT CAMPBELL, THE 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 WEB STREAM INCLUDES VERSIONS IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH.

THE BC WEBSITE ALSO INCLUDES ALL MATERIALS FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS, BOND MEASURES, AND OTHER INFORMATION RELEVANT TO THE DISTRICT'S BOND PROGRAM AND OUR OVERSIGHT ROLE.

I'LL NOTE THAT THE WEBSITE ALSO INCLUDES THE BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE'S RECENT CORRESPONDENCE TO THE DISTRICT ON ITS CONSIDERATION AND ULTIMATE DETERMINATION, NOT TO RECOMMEND THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRIC BUSES FROM OUR LAST BOC MEETING.

UH, AND, UM, WE'VE ALSO INCLUDED THERE BECAUSE IT'S RELEVANT TO THE OVERSIGHT ROLE OF THE BOC AND, AND RAISES ISSUES, UM, WHICH COULD HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE BOC, UH, HERE DESPITE NOT BEING IN OUR JURISDICTION.

AN ARTICLE, UH, RECENTLY FROM SAN FRANCISCO CONCERNING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT THERE IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE ITS BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AND ITS INDEPENDENCE, UH, THAT HAS RESULTED IN A LAWSUIT, WHICH HAS, UH, JEOPARDIZED BOND ISSUANCE FOR THAT DISTRICT.

UH, AND I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO TAKE A LOOK AT AT THAT ARTICLE, UM, SO THAT WE AND OUR PARTNERS IN THE DISTRICT HERE, UH, KIND GUARD AGAINST THAT SORT OF THING AT OUR MAY 28TH, 2026 BOC MEETING.

UH, AS I MENTIONED, WE DID VOTE NOT TO RECOMMEND THE, UH, UM, I'M SORRY.

WE, WE ALSO CONSIDERED THE DISTRICT'S, UH, PROPOSED REVISIONS TO OUR MOU.

UH, THE IMPACT OF THOSE REVISIONS AS THEY WERE PRESENTED, WOULD BE TO ELIMINATE LANGUAGE THAT DESCRIBES THE INDEPENDENCE AND, UH, OVERSIGHT ROLE OF THE BOC.

AND SO THOSE, THOSE CHANGES WERE, UH, REJECTED BY THIS BODY.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, A NEW OPPORTUNITY TO REVISIT THE MOU WITH THE DISTRICT IN THE FUTURE.

I'LL NOTE THAT 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.

AND 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.

MR. HAMNER, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CAMPBELL.

SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND THEN I SEE OUR ITEM NUMBER ONE, UM, IS READY TO ADDRESS.

SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE, UH, MEMBERS TO ATTEND A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY.

WELL, ACTUALLY, THERE ARE TWO OF 'EM TO CELEBRATE THE COMPLETION OF SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

AND THIS SEPTEMBER, THERE ARE TWO.

FIRST IS HUNTINGTON PARK HIGH SCHOOL, THE COMPREHENSIVE MODERNIZATION PROJECT.

THERE'S A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH AT 9:00 AM FOLLOWED BY THE FOLLOWING DAY ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH, BRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UH, OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PROJECT, ALSO A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY AT 8:30 AM SO IF YOU, AGAIN, I THINK WE'VE BEEN ENCOURAGED TO, TO, TO ATTEND THESE

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IF WE CAN.

AND, UH, I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THEY'RE EXTREMELY REWARDING AND IT SHOWS, YOU KNOW, OUR EFFORTS IN THE WHOLE PROCESS OF THE BOND PROGRAM IN TERMS OF THE IMPACTS ON THESE SCHOOLS.

SO PLEASE REACH OUT TO THE BOC STAFF IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST.

AND WITH THAT

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BUT ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A, IT'S GONNA BE A SPECIAL, UM, ITEM ON THE AGENDA.

IT'S, WE'VE INVITED AND IT HA HE HAS ACCEPTED SUPERINTENDENT SHADE, HAS AGREED TO COME AND, AND, UH, SAY HELLO OR ADDRESS SOUNDS A LITTLE FORMAL TO THE COMMITTEE THIS MORNING.

AND IN OUR INTEREST OF EFFICIENT USE OF HIS TIME, UM, THIS IS, UH, COMING UP NOW, AND I, I BELIEVE YOU'VE GIVEN US ABOUT 30 MINUTES, BUT WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU, YOU CAN JUST SIGNAL IF, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE GOT A RUNOFF.

UH, WE HAVE NO PROBLEMS DOING THAT.

SO I, I, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE, UH, SUPERINTENDENT SHADE UP, AND I'D WANNA MAKE JUST ONE COMMENT IF I CAN BEFORE HE, UM, BEGINS HIS WELCOME.

UM, I HAD A CHANCE TO MEET WITH, UM, SUPERINTENDENT SHA FOR, UH, ABOUT 30 MINUTES ON IN A ZOOM CALL.

AND I TAKE MY TAKEAWAY FROM THAT, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME ANYMORE, WAS, I FELT, UH, VERY WARM, UH, PROMISING.

AND, UH, I'M, I'M ACTUALLY LOOKING FORWARD, UH, TO THIS YEAR, UM, WITH OUR, YOU KNOW, OUR RELATIONSHIP AND WITH YOUR OFFICE AND THE REST OF STAFF.

SO, WITH THAT, WELCOME, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TIME AND FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.

UH, FIRST AND FOREMOST, GOING BACK TO THE PHONE CALL, THE ZOOM CALL THAT, THAT, UH, MR. HAMNER AND I HAD, THE, THE EMOTION BESIDES THE VERY NICE THINGS THAT YOU SHARED, THE EMOTION THAT I TOOK AWAY FROM THAT, FRANKLY, WAS JEALOUSY, BECAUSE YOU WERE ZOOMING IN FROM HAWAII .

AND SO I WAS THINKING TO MYSELF THAT THERE MAY COME A TIME, HOPEFULLY WHEN I, I GET TO ZOOM IN FROM A TROPICAL LOCATION.

UM, FIRST AND FOREMOST, JUST SHARING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MYSELF, UH, IN TERMS OF BACKGROUND, UM, I'M THE PROVERBIAL DISTRICT LIFER, STARTED WITH L-A-U-S-D BACK IN 98, STRAIGHT OUTTA COLLEGE, KINDERGARTEN, TEACHER, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, PRINCIPAL, ALL THE, ALL THE SORT OF THE, UH, TYPICAL ROLES, IF YOU WILL, UM, WAS THE, UH, AT THE TIME IT WAS LOCAL DISTRICTS, LOCAL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT FOR WHAT AT THAT TIME WAS LOCAL DISTRICT, NORTHEAST, ESSENTIALLY THE NORTHEAST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY.

A FEW YEARS AGO, UH, SUPERINTENDENT CARVALLO ASKED ME TO COME DOWNTOWN AS, AS MUCH AS I TRIED TO AVOID IT, UM, AND BECOME CHIEF OF SCHOOL OPS.

AND, AND AS PART OF OPERATIONS, UH, WE DID A LOT OF WORK THAT OBVIOUSLY INTERSECTED WITH WHAT THE BOC UH, SUPPORTS WITH, RIGHT? UH, IN TERMS OF PROJECTS AT SCHOOLS AND SO ON.

UH, IN, IN MY OWN LIVED EXPERIENCE IN A NUMBER OF THOSE ROLES, I'VE SEEN THE, THE NET POSITIVE IMPACT THAT PROJECTS THAT OUR SCHOOLS CAN HAVE ON NOT JUST SORT OF THE, HOW DO I PUT THIS, CERTAINLY ON HOW WELCOMING AND HOW MODERN A CAMPUS FEELS, RIGHT? THAT'S, THAT'S A GIVEN, BUT REALLY ACTUALLY ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF OUR STUDENTS.

THERE, THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT WHEN A STUDENT FEELS LIKE THEY'RE COMING TO A SPACE THAT IS MODERN, THAT IS REFRESHED, THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE MOMENT, UM, THAT ACTUALLY DOES HAVE A TANGIBLE, UH, IMPACT ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.

UH, SO, UH, AGAIN, LOTS OF INTERSECTIONS THERE.

I I VERY MUCH VALUE THE, THE ROLE OF THE BOC, NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, IN MY CURRENT ROLE AS SUPERINTENDENT, BUT ALSO FRANKLY, AS A TAXPAYER, RIGHT? AS A TAXPAYER AND A DISTRICT PARENT.

I KNOW THAT MANY, MANY TIMES WE ARE ASKING OUR FOLKS, OUR COMMUNITY TO PUT THEIR FAITH IN US AND VOTE YES ON BOND MEASURES AND GIVE US THE ABILITY TO, TO BUILD, REBUILD, AND SO ON, RIGHT? AND I THINK THE ROLE OF THE BOC IS CRITICAL IN THAT, IN THAT TRUST FACTOR THAT WE HAVE WITH THE COMMUNITY, BECAUSE AGAIN, I, I THINK OUR FOLKS KNOW THAT YES, STAFF LEADERSHIP IS ALWAYS GOING TO TRY TO DO THEIR ABSOLUTE BEST TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PROJECTS THAT ARE PUT OUT THERE ARE THOUGHTFUL, MEET THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AND SO ON.

BUT KNOWING THAT THERE'S THAT ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY BACKSTOP, THAT ADDITIONAL PIECE THAT THE BOC CAN WEIGH IN AND SAY, WELL, HAVE YOU GUYS REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT? WHAT ABOUT THIS FACTOR OVER HERE? I THINK LENDS A LOT OF CREDENCE, UH, WHEN WE DO GO OUT AND WE ASK FOR COMMUNITY TO PUT FAITH IN US.

SO I VERY MUCH LOOK FORWARD, UH, TO THE WORKING RELATIONSHIP HERE.

UM, CERTAINLY OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE THIS MORNING AND JUST COUNT ON ME TO BE AVAILABLE TO YOU ALL AS WE, UH, LOOK FORWARD TO THIS WORK.

I, I, I DO THINK THE WORK IS IMPORTANT.

THANK YOU WITH THAT.

AND, UH, THAT'S A GREAT OPENING.

I KNOW WE PROBABLY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS.

UM, I'D LIKE TO KIND OF, I, I'LL GET YOU, DO YOU MIND, MR. CAMPBELL, I KNOW YOU HAD MENTIONED YOU HAD A COUPLE.

GO AHEAD AND MR. PANSKY, THEN ANY, JUST LET ME KNOW.

OF COURSE.

THANK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING SO GENEROUS WITH YOUR TIME THIS MORNING AND FOR BEING HERE.

I, I, I COMPLETELY SHARE YOUR, YOUR SENTIMENTS ABOUT THIS BODY AND, AND AS A TAXPAYER AND LIFELONG RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, A PRODUCT OF L-A-U-S-D-I, I HOPE I'M REFLECTING WELL ON THAT.

I DON'T KNOW, BUT, UM,

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I, I ALSO UNDERSTAND THE LIMITATIONS OF, OF WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE.

WE'RE ADVISORY, RIGHT? AND WE DON'T SET POLICY FOR THE DISTRICT.

UM, AND SO WE TRY TO ASK MEANINGFUL QUESTIONS AND, AND GATHER AS GOOD AN UNDERSTANDING AS WE CAN WITH THE, THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE.

UM, WE'RE COMING OFF OF A CYCLE WHERE WE HAD WHAT I CAN MOST CHARITABLY DESCRIBE AS VERY UNPRODUCTIVE, AND, AND ULTIMATELY, I THINK, UM, DISTURBING, UH, REVISIONS PROPOSED TO OUR MOU, AND THAT PROCESS SORT OF DISINTEGRATED.

AND SO WE HAVE A NEW ADMINISTRATION.

I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO CARRY ANY OF THE BAGGAGE FROM THAT PRIOR PROCESS FORWARD.

UM, YOU KNOW, I, I'M, I'M, I SHARE, UH, THE CHAIR'S OPTIMISM ABOUT OUR ABILITY TO, YOU KNOW, WORK TOGETHER.

BUT I, I DID WANT TO ASK WHAT CAN WE EXPECT REALISTICALLY? UM, BECAUSE WHILE THE LEADERSHIP HAS CHANGED, YOU KNOW, THE INDIVIDUALS WHO, WHO, WHO THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO GO INTO THE MOU AND REDLINE LANGUAGE DESCRIBING THE BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AS INDEPENDENT , RIGHT? THAT WAS, THAT WAS A, THAT WAS AN EDIT MADE BY AN EMPLOYEE WHO'S STILL IN THE DISTRICT.

THEY'RE STILL HERE.

AND, AND, AND SO, YOU KNOW, FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, WHAT, WHAT WEREN'T REALLY MASSIVE CHANGES, RIGHT? A LOT OF MINISTERIAL CHANGES, CLEANUP CLARIFICATION, ADDING THE NEW BOND MEASURES, THINGS LIKE THAT.

HOW DO WE GET, AND WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT? 'CAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO, WE DON'T WANT TO COME AWAY IN TERMS OF HOW THAT PROCESS CAN LOOK MOVING FORWARD, BECAUSE THAT REALLY IS THE FOUNDATION, I THINK, OF OUR, OF OUR WORKING RELATIONSHIP IN TERMS OF INFORMATION GATHERING WITH THE DISTRICT.

AND, AND THANK YOU, ROBERT, FOR THE QUESTION, AND, AND YOU ARE FOR THE RECORD, UH, REPRESENTING ABLY AS A FORMER DISTRICT STUDENT.

UM, A COUPLE THINGS THERE.

ONE, IF THERE'S ONE THING THAT I'VE LEARNED, AGAIN IN ALL OF MY DIFFERENT ROLES IS THAT THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SETS THE TONE AND TENOR FOR THE DISTRICT.

JUST TO BE CLEAR, UH, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A PLACE WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET INTO THE WEEDS, AS IT WERE, ON, ON EVERY PROJECT, EVERY ENDEAVOR.

BUT YOU CAN CERTAINLY GIVE DIRECTION TO THE TEAM AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO END UP AT.

YOU ALL ARE TASKED WITH GETTING US THERE, BUT THIS IS MY NORTH STAR.

SO EVEN IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I STARTED AS ACTING SOUP IN LATE FEBRUARY AND SO ON, UH, I'VE HAD A COUPLE OF OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET WITH STAFF TO REVIEW THE, THE DRAFTS OF, OF THE, SORT OF THE BACK AND FORTH ON THE MOU FROM THIS, UH, SPRING.

AND OBVIOUSLY PRIOR TO THAT.

FOR ME, IT'S ABOUT, AGAIN, ONE COMING IN WITH FRESH EYES, LOOKING AT IT, TWO, PROVIDING THAT CLEAR DIRECTION TO STAFF OF WHERE I WANT TO END UP.

AND THREE, AND I THINK THIS IS, AND I DO NOT MEAN THIS IN ANY WAY, TO, TO DENIGRATE OR DIMINISH THE WORK OF FOLKS BEFORE ME ON THE STAFF SIDE OR ON THE LEADERSHIP SIDE.

WHAT I DIDN'T SEE WAS A LOT OF DIALOGUE.

WHAT I SAW WAS AN EXCHANGE OF DOCUMENTS, AND THAT'S OBVIOUSLY CRITICAL, DON'T GET ME WRONG.

BUT THAT HAS TO BE UNDERGIRDED BY A LOT OF CONVERSATION TO GIVE THAT CONTEXT.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO RED LINE SOMETHING PRO, UH, I ESPECIALLY SOMETHING THAT THAT'S CONSIDERED FUNDAMENTAL TO THE WORK, THERE SHOULD BE A CONVERSATION, SAY, LISTEN, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM.

THIS IS WHAT WE SEE AS THE ISSUE.

WE MAY STILL DISAGREE FOR THE RECORD, YOU MAY STILL SAY, NO, THAT'S NOT THE CASE AT ALL.

BUT IF THERE'S AT LEAST THAT PIECE, IT DOESN'T FEEL AS COLD AND CLINICAL AS JUST EXCHANGING PAPERWORK ACROSS THE PROVERBIAL TABLE.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

I, I, AND, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, HOPE, HOPEFULLY AT THE END OF THE DAY, AND, AND I'M, THIS IS THE WHERE I'M GONNA BE PROCEEDING FROM BASED ON YOUR REMARKS.

UM, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE BOC REMAINS FUNCTIONAL, THAT IT REMAINS, UH, YOU KNOW, CAPABLE OF, OF CARRYING OUT ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE LAW AND, AND TO THE VARIOUS CONSTITUENCIES THAT THE MEMBERS HERE REPRESENT.

AND SO, HOPEFULLY, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE ABSOLUTELY CAN DISAGREE ON, ON, ON PIECES.

AND, AND AGAIN, A LOT OF THAT'S IN THE WEEDS.

I DON'T EXPECT THAT TO BE AT YOUR LEVEL, BUT FUNDAMENTALLY, THAT THE, THE BOC DOES NEED TO BE INDEPENDENT, AND IT DOES NEED TO RETAIN SUFFICIENT ACCESS TO INFORMATION FOR IT TO DISCHARGE US RESPONSIBILITIES.

THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT I BRIEFLY WANTED TO BRING UP WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, AN ANOTHER ONGOING DISCUSSION THAT WE'VE HAD CONCERNING, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT THIS BODY RELIES UPON FOR A STRATEGIC VIEW OF THE BOND PROGRAM ARE THE BOND AUDITS THAT ARE REQUIRED BY LAW.

AND BY LAW.

WE ARE AN ADDRESSEE OF THOSE AUDITS.

WE'RE AN ENTITY CHARGED WITH OVERSIGHT.

AND, UM, SOMETHING AS FUNDAMENTAL AS, AS JUST BEING ABLE TO, UM, HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH THE AUDITORS BEFORE THE ONSET OF THE AUDIT, NOT TO PRESCRIBE ANYTHING WE'RE ADVISORY, JUST TO SAY, THESE ARE AREAS THAT ARE OF INTEREST TO US.

COULD YOU PLEASE CONSIDER THEM IN YOUR REVIEW BEFORE YOU START YOUR AUDIT? AND WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO COME TO EVEN A CONSENSUS ON THAT, SO I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO LITIGATE THAT HERE OR, OR, OR, OR PROVIDE AN ANSWER.

BUT, BUT I, I RAISE IT UP JUST AS, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO ADDRESS WHAT, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, AND THAT IS MY TRADE

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IS AUDIT IS, IS SUCH A BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE OF ACCESS.

UM, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD GREATLY, UM, MOVE THE NEEDLE FOR ME IN TERMS OF, OF, I GUESS, I DON'T KNOW, ADDRESSING SOME OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS THAT HAVE COME UP IN, IN, IN TERMS OF OUR ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND, AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT.

SO I, I LOOK FORWARD TO IT.

AND, AND AGAIN, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I'M ALSO A PARENT OF AN L-A-U-S-D STUDENT.

I, I GOT YOUR EMAIL THE OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

I SAW THE, THE CHANGE IN, UM, MESSAGING AND TONE, AND, AND I APPRECIATE IT.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M PERSONALLY ROOTING FOR YOUR SUCCESS.

UM, SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AGAIN.

CLOSURE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN PUT A MORE OF A FLOURISH ON IT IF YOU WANT, BUT IT'S REALLY JUST ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL COUNT, YOU KNOW, RELATIVE TO ENROLLMENT, RIGHT? SO I'M LOOKING AT A FEW THINGS THERE.

THANK YOU, ROBERT.

UH, I KNOW MR. PANSKY, WE GOT A COUPLE OTHERS.

MR. PANSKY, THANK YOU, CHAIR.

UH, I LOOK AROUND AND YOU SEE EACH PERSON ON THIS, UH, COMMITTEE, AND YOU'LL SEE WE ALL REPRESENT JUST DIFFERENT FIELDS.

SO THERE'S NO ONE ORGANIZATION WHO'S AGAINST L-A-U-S-D.

EVERY SINGLE PERSON HERE IS A VOLUNTEER.

I LOOK AT THE PICTURES OF ALL THE PREVIOUS SUPERINTENDENTS, UH, ON THE WALL OVER THERE.

AND I'VE SAT ON THIS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE THE LONGEST OVER, UH, 10 YEARS.

AND I'VE GONE THROUGH, I THINK, FIVE SUPERINTENDENTS DURING THAT TIMEFRAME.

I CAN'T AGREE MORE WITH WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT HAVING OPEN DIALOGUE, AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE DISCUSSED HERE MANY TIMES, BUT WE WEREN'T EVEN GIVEN THE DOOR REALLY, TO HAVE THAT DIALOGUE.

SO IT'S GREAT TO HEAR YOU SAY THAT WITH ALL THIS PRECURSOR.

I'D LIKE TO GET A COUPLE OF THINGS OUT AND, AND KIND OF REALLY KICK THE CAN A LITTLE BIT, UH, IS THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE IT.

UH, NOT ADVERSARIAL, PLEASE.

I, I DON'T, I DON'T MEAN THAT IN TONE IS THAT MOU IS IMPORTANT.

IT'S BEEN OVER TWO YEARS, IT'S RIDICULOUS.

AND I GUESS ONE I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF WE CAN GET YOUR COMMITMENT TO GETTING THAT MOU DONE WITHIN THE NEXT TWO TO THREE MONTHS, YOU KNOW, ENOUGH TIME TO BE ABLE TO GO BACK AND FORTH, BUT ACTUALLY HAVE A COMMITMENT TO HAVE IT FINISHED SO THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AND WHAT WE'RE DOING.

AND AS WE BRING IN OTHER PEOPLE TO JOIN US, THEY'LL UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY IS.

SO THAT'S ONE.

WELL, THAT'S PROBABLY THE EASIEST QUESTION I'M GONNA GET ALL DAY TODAY.

SO YES, YOU, YOU HAVE MY COMMITMENT THAT WE WILL WORK TOGETHER TO COMPLETE THE MOU.

THAT'S A LITTLE, UH, I TOLD MY TEAM THAT THE CURRENT VERSION'S A LITTLE DUSTY AND MUSTY, UH, SO TO GET IT COMPLETED BY THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR TO MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO DO THAT, ABSOLUTELY.

THAT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND AGAIN, I, LIKE I SAID, I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO PUT A TIMELINE TO IT, BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT JUST GOES ON AND ON AND ON.

UH, THE OTHER IS MORE ON A BUSINESS SIDE, UH, THAT ONE OF THE THINGS I HAD ASKED THE PREVIOUS SUPERINTENDENT WAS, THERE'S SO MUCH MONEY THAT IS ASKED FROM THIS COMMITTEE, AND YOU SAW THE DISCUSSION OR HEARD ABOUT THE DISCUSSION WITH THE ELECTRIC BUSES THAT WE HAD LAST MONTH, IS WHEN WE LOOK AT THOSE THINGS, IS WE'RE LOOKING AT SCHOOL POPULATION AND THE DECLINE IN SCHOOL POPULATION AND, AND MAKING SOME OF THESE DECISIONS AS, UH, STAFF COMES UP AND ASKS FOR TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR FIXING SCHOOLS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IF SOME OF THOSE SCHOOLS ARE GONNA BE OPERATIVE IN 10 YEARS FROM NOW OR FIVE YEARS FROM NOW.

UH, ARE YOU, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO WORK WITH STAFF ON BEING ABLE TO FORECAST WHERE WE ARE? SO FROM THE, THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE IS WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE THINGS FORWARD.

YOUR, UH, SUP UH, BOARD IS TRYING TO MOVE THINGS FORWARD, BUT WE HAVE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES BECAUSE OF THE STUDENTS.

WELL, SCOTT AND, AND, UH, FELLOW BOC MEMBERS, UH, THIS IS A, A TOPIC THAT I'M FRANKLY VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT.

UH, I CAN REMEMBER A TIME AS A DISTRICT WHEN WE SERVED OVER 700,000 STUDENTS AND UNDER SUPERINTENDENT ROMER, WE WERE BUILDING SCHOOLS LEFT, RIGHT, AND SIDEWAYS, BECAUSE FRANKLY, WE NEEDED THE CLASSROOM SPACE.

UH, WHEN I FIRST STARTED AS AN AP, I WAS ON A MULTI-TRACK CALENDAR, WHICH FRANKLY WAS LESS THAN IDEAL FOR PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE INVOLVED.

UM, AND, AND, AND WE'VE COME A VERY, VERY LONG WAYS FROM THAT TIME.

YOU KNOW, ONE, OBVIOUSLY IN TERMS OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS, CALENDARS, AND SO ON.

BUT FRANKLY, IN TERMS OF ENROLLMENT, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE AT A PLACE NOW WHERE OUR ENROLLMENT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF ALL IN IS CLOSER TO 400,000 AND 700,000.

OKAY? SO, PART OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, AND WE, WE SIGNALED THIS IN THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN FROM LAST SPRING, AND IT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT I'VE BEEN HONESTLY REALLY CANDID ABOUT, EVEN IN MY REMARKS LEADING UP TO THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, IS THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE A REALLY HARD LOOK AT THE FOOTPRINT OF OUR DISTRICT, RIGHT? AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, CONSOLIDATION,

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YOU KNOW, ONE IS, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, DO WE HAVE, HOW DO I PUT THIS, THE RIGHT PROGRAMS AT THE RIGHT SCHOOLS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THAT SPECIFIC COMMUNITY.

IN MANY CASES, WE DO, OF COURSE, BUT IN OTHER CASES, WE ACTUALLY HAVE PROGRAMMATIC DESERTS.

AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS WE MAY NOT HAVE A CTE PATHWAY IN A CERTAIN AREA.

WE MAY NOT HAVE AN ACADEMIC PROGRAM AS ADVANCED LEARNING AND SO ON.

SO PART OF ALL THIS IS MAKING SURE THAT ACROSS OUR 710 SQUARE MILES, WE HAVE THAT.

SO THAT'S ONE ELEMENT THAT'S COMING OUT OF THE LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS.

I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY FOLKS, UH, ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT WORK FROM LAST SPRING, BUT WE DID ESSENTIALLY A VERY IN-DEPTH, FRANKLY, ONE OF THE MOST IN-DEPTH THINGS I'VE SEEN IN MY 30 YEARS WHERE WE REALLY ANALYZE THE PROGRAMS WE HAVE.

SO THAT'S ONE PIECE.

SECOND PIECE IS THE MORE SORT OF CLINICAL SURGICAL CONSOLIDATION PIECE.

YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT LITERALLY HAS AN ENROLLMENT OF 68 KIDS.

THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THAT'S A GRADE LEVEL, RIGHT? YOU KNOW WHAT, WHAT I CALL IT, IT'S SORT OF, IT'S ALMOST LIKE THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE MODEL WHERE YOU'RE SHOVING ALL THE KIDDOS INTO ONE ROOM, AND YOU CAN HAVE THE BEST TEACHER, NBC CERTIFIED, ALL THAT GOOD STUFF.

IT'S GONNA BE REALLY HARD, EVEN FOR A MASTER TEACHER TO TEACH A COUPLE OF GRADES IN ONE ROOM AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL.

WHAT YOU END UP WITH IS YOU END UP WITH MASTER SCHEDULES WHERE YOU HAVE ALMOST NO ELECTIVES.

YOU HAVE ALMOST NO ADVANCED CLASSES, BECAUSE YOU JUST DON'T HAVE THE STUDENTS TO JUSTIFY THAT.

SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT PIECE.

THE THIRD PIECE, WHICH IS MOST RELEVANT TO THE BOC, IS HOW DOES THAT ALL FACTOR INTO OUR CAMPUS UTILIZATION? SO, A COUPLE THINGS.

ONE, AS WE GO INTO THIS WORK, AND BY THE WAY, THIS IS AT MINIMUM, IF I HAD TO PUT A TIMELINE ON IT, THIS IS AT MINIMUM A THREE TO FIVE YEAR ENDEAVOR.

IF YOU WANT TO DO IT THOUGHTFULLY, IF YOU WANT TO DO IT, YOU KNOW, FROM A COMMUNITY BASED MODEL, EVERYTHING WE'VE SEEN IN OTHER DISTRICTS THAT HAVE DONE IT, CHICAGO, PHILADELPHIA, SAN JOSE, WHEREVER THEY'VE DONE IT, THE FOLKS THAT HAVE DONE IT SUCCESSFULLY, AND SUCCESS IN THIS AREA IS A LITTLE HARD TO DEFINE, BUT THE AREAS THAT HAVE DONE IT, THE DISTRICTS THAT HAVE DONE IT WITH, WITH LESS BACK AND FORTH AND CHURN WITH THE COMMUNITY, IS BECAUSE THEY'VE TAKEN TIME AND THEY'VE ACTUALLY ENGAGED THE COMMUNITY IN, HEY, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE DOING, HERE'S WHY WE'RE DOING, AND HERE'S WHERE IT COULD END UP.

SO AS PART OF THAT TWO TO FIVE YEAR PROCESS, WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR CAMPUSES, WE LOOK AT A COUPLE OF THINGS WHEN WE'RE MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT CONSOLIDATION CLOSURE.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THIS CAMPUS WAS TOUCHED BY A COP, MA, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THIS CAMPUS HAD ANY KIND OF A MODERNIZATION PROJECT? SO FOR EXAMPLE, I'M, I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE NORTHEAST VALLEY.

YOU'VE GOT POLY, YOU'VE GOT BIRD, YOU'VE GOT S, ALL OF THEM HAVE HAD SOME LEVEL OF INVESTMENT OVER THE YEARS.

SO IF, AND THIS IS AN IF, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THINGS GET TAKEN OUTTA CONTEXT AND IT'S LIKE, OH MY GOD, CHASE JUST SAID THEY'RE CLOSING THE VALLEY.

CHA DID NOT SAY WE'RE CLOSING THE VALLEY .

RIGHT? IF YOU LOOK AT THOSE THREE, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY GOING TO FACTOR IN WHATEVER WORK, WHATEVER INVESTMENT HAS BEEN MADE IN TERMS OF WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO SHIFT STUDENTS IF YOU'RE EVEN GOING TO SHIFT STUDENTS, RIGHT? SO, AGAIN, PLEASE KNOW THAT AS WE DO THIS WORK, IT'S ABSOLUTELY BEING FACTORED IN BOTH IN THE PROJECTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN DONE, THE PROJECTS THAT ARE IN PROCESS RIGHT NOW, AND THE PROJECTS THAT WE WOULD BRING TO BOC AND ULTIMATELY TO THE BOARD FOR ACTION.

AND LAST QUESTION FROM ME.

RIGHT? MY WONDERING IS, AND THIS AGAIN, IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE THE TEAM WORKING ON ALREADY, IS HOW DO WE SYSTEMATIZE THAT, RIGHT? IN OTHER WORDS, INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, THIS BEING SORT OF THIS PIECEMEAL THING WHERE, YOU KNOW, THE BIG COMPANY REACHES OUT AND SAYS, WE REALLY LOVE SUCH AND SUCH SCHOOL, WE'D LOVE TO DO SOMETHING THERE.

UH, IS, UH, ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS, THERE'S A LOT OF INVESTMENT PUT IN TURF FIELDS, AND, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE CONTROVERSIAL IN THEIR OWN RIGHTS, UH, AND DOLLARS THAT ARE BEING ASKED FOR, FOR BONDS THAT I'VE PERSONALLY, I I QUESTION THAT COULD BE DONE WITH BUSINESS, PRIVATE BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, DO YOU PUT A TARGET LOGO IN THE MIDDLE OF A TURF FIELD AND ASK, UH, TARGET TO PUT IN A COUPLE OF MILLION DOLLARS TO BE A PARTNER? UH, BUT I AM CURIOUS ABOUT YOUR PRO-BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS OR NOT PRO-BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS AND HOW WE CAN ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE BOND FUND USAGE IF WE CAN DO PARTNERSHIPS.

SURE.

WELL, I'VE HAD A LOT OF VERY GOOD CONVERSATIONS WITH MARIA SALINA SINCE, SINCE I CAME ON BOARD IN, IN THIS ROLE.

UM, I THINK WE'RE DOING A DISSERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY IN A CITY LIKE LOS ANGELES IF WE'RE NOT CONNECTING WITH THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM THAT WE LIVE IN.

I MEAN, JUST TO BE PLAIN.

AND THAT, BY THE WAY, IS BUSINESS COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS, CHURCHES, ANY ELEMENT OF THE CITY, RIGHT? EVERYONE HAS A STAKE IN L-A-U-S-D, EVERYONE AT SOME POINT OR ANOTHER, THEIR CHILD WENT THERE, THEY WENT THERE, EVEN IF THEY'VE HAD NO OTHER TOUCH POINT THAN THE SCHOOL DOWN THE STREET THAT, YOU KNOW, TAKES UP ALL THE PARKING ON CERTAIN DAYS, RIGHT? .

SO THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING, UM, I I'M ACTUALLY LOOKING AT IN VERY, VERY EARLY DAYS.

SO NOT A LOT TO SHARE THERE, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M LOOKING AT, SCOTT, IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF TIMES WHERE BUSINESSES, BIG BUSINESSES, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NIKES OF THE WORLD AND SO ON, WILL REACH OUT TO US AND SAY, HEY, WE'D LOVE TO PARTNER ON A PROJECT AT SUCH AND SUCH SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, USUALLY HIGH SCHOOLS,

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HOW DO WE AS A DISTRICT PUT OUR SORT OF BEST FOOT FORWARD AND SAY, LISTEN, HERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR BRANDING, SPONSORSHIP, INTERNSHIPS FOR STUDENTS, BECAUSE THEY'RE THERE, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE OPPORTUNITIES ARE THERE.

UM, ONE OF THE HARDEST PARTS OF THAT WORK, AND THIS IS WHAT I'VE SAID WHEN I'VE GONE TO, TO MEETINGS WITH, WITH THE CHAMBER WHEN I'VE GONE TO OTHER, UM, EXTERNAL MEETINGS, IS, AND THIS AGAIN IS MY LIVED EXPERIENCE, L-A-U-S-D IN MANY CASES WILL GO OUT TO FOLKS AND SAY, WE WOULD LOVE TO PARTNER WITH YOU.

WE WANT TO BE PARTNERS WITH YOU.

WE GET FOLKS ALL EXCITED AND THEY SAY, OH, THIS SOUNDS GREAT.

WE'D ALWAYS LOVE TO WORK WITH LUSD.

AND THEN WE SAY TO THEM, LOVE TO PARTNER WITH U AS SOON AS YOU'VE DONE FILLING OUT THESE 600 PAGES OF PAPERWORK, GET BACK TO US.

WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THAT, RIGHT? THERE HAS TO BE, AND I KNOW THERE IS, BECAUSE I'VE SEEN THE INSTANCES WHERE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO FIND A WAY TO, YES, THERE HAS TO BE A WAY FOR US TO STREAMLINE THAT PROCESS TO SAY, IF WE REALLY TRULY WANT TO BE A PARTNER WITH SOMEONE, WE HAVE TO OPEN OUR DOOR A LITTLE BIT MORE.

I, I'M ALL ABOUT, I UNDERSTAND LIABILITY, I UNDERSTAND RISK.

I MEAN, I WAS IN OPERATIONS FOR PETE'S SAKE.

IF ANYBODY UNDERSTANDS LIABILITY AND RISK, IT'S YOURS, TRULY.

BUT THAT CAN'T COME AT THE EXPENSE OF NOT PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE FRANKLY, IN MANY CASES, LIFE CHANGING.

I UNDERSTAND THAT, AND I JUST LEAVE, LEAVE YOU WITH ONE THOUGHT.

YOU HAVE THE OLYMPICS COMING HERE IN TWO YEARS.

THERE WAS MISSED OPPORTUNITIES HERE WITH WORLD CUP THAT COULD HAVE HAD TONS OF DOLLARS COMING INTO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

DON'T LOSE THOSE LA OLYMPIC DOLLARS.

THEY'RE GONNA WANT PARTNERSHIPS WITH SCHOOLS.

A HUNDRED PERCENT.

WE ACTUALLY JUST MET WITH LA 28 LEADERSHIP, UH, WEEK BEFORE LAST, SO WE'RE KEENLY AWARE.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.

OF COURSE, MR. FARRELL.

THANK YOU MR. SUPERINTENDENT FOR BEING HERE WITH US.

I JUST HAVE A STATEMENT I WANTED TO, TO READ.

SO I SIT HERE ON BEHALF OF THE 31ST DISTRICT, PTSA, AND ALONG WITH MY COUNTERPART WHO REPRESENTS THE 10TH DISTRICT, PTSA, WE REPRESENT THOUSANDS OF L-A-U-S-D STUDENTS AND PARENTS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS.

UH, I CAN TELL YOU FROM A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE, HAVING THREE KIDS IN THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS AT L-A-U-S-D THAT I'VE HEARD NOTHING BUT GOOD THINGS ABOUT YOU AND THE ENTHUSIASM AND THE POSITIVITY THAT, UH, YOU USHER INTO THIS NEW ERA WITH THE DISTRICT.

SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU, AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S STRENGTH IN NUMBERS, UM, AND THAT WE'RE BETTER TOGETHER THAN WE ARE WHEN WE FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS.

UM, I'VE HAD PEOPLE ASK ME WHETHER OR NOT ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, AND I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, BUT I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT IN ORDER TO MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE, UH, YOU HAVE TO GET PAST THE GATEKEEPERS.

AND SO I WANTED TO BRING THAT TO YOUR ATTENTION.

I'M SURE YOU'RE AWARE, AND WE ALL EXPERIENCED THE GATEKEEPER PROCESS HERE ON OUR OWN SKINS WHEN WE DEALT WITH THE MOU PROCESS IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS.

UM, WE ALSO KNOW THAT JUST LOOKING AT SOME OF THE OTHER COMMITTEES THAT THE DISTRICT HAS, LIKE THE PAC AND THE CAC, THAT INCREDIBLE WORK HAS BEEN DONE JUST IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS ALONE.

SO WE KNOW THAT IT, IT'S POSSIBLE, AND WE KNOW THAT WE, WE ARE ON THAT LIST TO MAKE THESE THINGS POSSIBLE.

WE KNOW AS THIS BOARD RIGHT HERE, THAT WE'VE BEEN ENTRUSTED BY THE PUBLIC AND THE ELECTORATE TO MAKE CERTAIN THINGS HAPPEN.

AND SO WE HAVE A DUTY NOT JUST TO OURSELVES AND THE DISTRICT, BUT ALSO TO THE GENERAL POPULATION.

SO, HAVING SAID ALL OF THAT, AGAIN, I KNOW THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE TAKING A CLOSER LOOK FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE.

UM, WE'RE GONNA BE TAKING CLOSER LOOKS FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE HERE ARE RIGHT, NOT JUST FOR THE DISTRICT, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

AND WHEN YOU MENTIONED A MOMENT AGO ABOUT HAVING THE RIGHT, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMS IN THE RIGHT SCHOOLS, WE UNDERSTAND HERE THAT IT ALSO HAS TO DO WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE AT THE RIGHT PLACE, AT THE RIGHT TIME.

AND WE BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THAT PERSON AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME.

SO I KNOW THAT I'M READY TO WORK WITH YOU.

I KNOW THAT THIS BOARD IS READY TO WORK WITH YOU, AND I'M SURE WE CAN MAKE INCREDIBLE THINGS HAPPEN.

YOU GET PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER AROUND AN IDEA, UM, THE CHALLENGE THERE IS THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE, AND, AND IT'S ALMOST COUNTERINTUITIVE.

WELL, AS A PTA MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING AT MY GIRLS MIDDLE SCHOOL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.

PAY MY DUES ALREADY.

UH, YOU KNOW, UM, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU.

UH, SECOND OF ALL, YES, ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, BUT ONLY WHEN THEY WORK IN COALITION AND COMMUNITY, RIGHT? I, WHAT I ALWAYS TELL FOLKS WHEN I GO OUT AND, AND, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY ASK ME TO SPEAK, YOU KNOW, GOD BLESS THEM.

I'VE NEVER BELIEVED IN WHAT I CALL SORT OF THE SUPERWOMAN OR SUPERMAN, YOU KNOW, THEORY OF LEADERSHIP.

WHEN ONE PERSON CAN DA, AND I'M HERE TO SAY THE DAY, IT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS.

YOU KNOW, WHEN I'VE BEEN A TEACHER OR WHEN I'VE BEEN A PRINCIPAL IN ALL MY DIFFERENT ROLES, IT'S ALWAYS WHEN

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YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE STRENGTH TO BE VULNERABLE.

IF YOU COME IN AND YOU SAY, I'VE ALREADY GOT IT ALL FIGURED OUT.

I JUST NEED YOU GUYS TO BUY IN AND JUST DO WHAT I'M GONNA TELL YOU TO DO, THEN YOU'RE COOKED.

BEFORE YOU EVEN START, YOU HAVE TO COME IN AND SAY, LISTEN, I HAVE A NUT OF AN IDEA.

I HAVE SOMETHING HERE.

YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY COMMITTED TO THIS.

RIGHT? HOW DO WE GET, GET TO THE, THE END, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT WE ALL AGREE ON.

SO THAT'S ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT.

THE OTHER PIECE IS, IT'S INTERESTING, UM, A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I GET, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, UH, I THINK I'M THE FIRST DISTRICT PERSON TO END UP A SUPERINTENDENT, UH, SINCE DR. KING, WHO'S A PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HERO OF MINE, UM, I GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT, WELL, YOU'RE JUST GONNA KEEP DOING THINGS THE WAY THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN DONE, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN WITH THE DISTRICT SINCE, YOU KNOW, YOU WERE A MUCH YOUNGER PERSON.

UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE ALWAYS KIND OF PRIDED MYSELF ON IN MY CAREER IS, AND I'LL SAY IT, YOU KNOW, THE THE PROFESSIONAL WAY, BECAUSE WE'RE IN THIS SPACE, IS CALLING BS ON THINGS AND SAYING, JUST BECAUSE WE'VE DONE SOMETHING THAT WAY FOREVER DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE TO KEEP DOING IT.

UM, AND, AND SO IN ALL OF THESE SPACES, PARTICULARLY AS WE GO INTO SOME REALLY, REALLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE OLD PROVERB? WE'RE GOING INTO SOME REALLY INTERESTING TIMES, FINANCIALLY CONSOLIDATION AND SO ON.

UM, WE CAN'T JUST LEAN INTO WHAT WE'VE ALWAYS DONE BECAUSE FRANKLY, IF THERE'S ANY BENEFIT TO THE SITUATION WE FIND OURSELVES IN FISCALLY IS THAT WE CANNOT AFFORD TO KEEP DOING THINGS THE WAY WE'VE ALWAYS DONE THEM.

WE HAVE TO BE WILLING AND OPEN TO CHANGE.

WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT CHANGE IS SCARY.

UM, AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN IN A POSITION, IN THAT POSITION FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME USUALLY DON'T WANT THE CHANGE FOR, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANNA ROCK THE VOTE OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.

BUT I THINK, UM, AT LEAST ON BEHALF OF OF PTSA, I CAN SAY THAT WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE POSITIVE CHANGES.

SOME MAY BE ROUGH IN THE BEGINNING, BUT IN THE END, I THINK THE OUTCOME WILL BE WORTH IT.

SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.

THANK YOU, TAMARA.

I THINK WE HAVE ABOUT SEVEN, EIGHT MINUTES TO BE RESPECTFUL OF YOUR TIME.

WE HAVE A QUESTION FROM MS. KAISER, VERY BRIEF, UM, SUPER, UM, SUPERINTENDENT CHASE, IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO MEET YOU, AND I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR COMING SO EARLY IN YOUR, IN YOUR TENURE AND REALLY SETTING THE TONE FOR HOW YOU WANT TO ESTABLISH THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS COMMITTEE.

UM, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO SIT HERE, UM, FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND I DON'T THINK THAT WE HAD THE SAME, UM, SORT OF APPROACH, UM, FROM THE PREVIOUS LEADERSHIP, AND IT REALLY RESONATES AND SHOWS THROUGH YOUR AUTHENTIC CONNECTION WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, THAT, UM, AND JUST TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO YOU FORMALLY, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF REPRESENTING THE ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA, WHICH REPRESENTS ALMOST 900, UM, CONTRACTORS, LARGE, SMALL, THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, MANY OF WHICH ARE BUILDING SCHOOL AND DOING WORK WITH, UM, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ITSELF.

AND YOU, YOU HIGHLIGHTED A COUPLE THINGS.

UM, YOU KNOW, THAT STACK OF PAPERWORK, 600 PAGES, THAT'S ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE CONTRACTING COMMUNITY AS WELL.

UM, GAINFULLY AWARE, YES.

UM, BUT I, I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY JUST TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE, THE CHALLENGES AND, AND THINGS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE WORKED ON THROUGH, YOU KNOW, YOUR WONDERFUL TEAM WITH FACILITIES.

WE HAVE A GREAT PARTNERSHIP AND WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM AS WELL.

UM, BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN, UM, YOU KNOW, GETTING CAUGHT IN THE COG OF, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE DONE IT THIS WAY FOR SO LONG, AND YOU POINTED OUT EARLIER, JUST BECAUSE THINGS HAVE BEEN DONE THAT WAY DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY CONTINUED TO OR SHOULD BE, BECAUSE WHAT GOT US HERE ISN'T GONNA CONTINUE TO GET US TO THAT NEXT LEVEL.

AND SO THERE ARE A TON OF OPPORTUNITIES, AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT, UM, AS A RESOURCE, AS A, AS A PERSON REPRESENTING THAT COMMUNITY, UM, WOULD BE HAPPY TO, UM, INVITE YOU TO ONE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE WE DO MEET WITH THE FACILITIES OFFICE OR, OR BACK HERE, WHERE WE CAN SHARE, UM, WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN MAYBE MITIGATE WAYS THAT ARE EXPONENTIALLY COSTING THE DISTRICT AND THE BOND PROGRAM 40% MORE THAN OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS ON CERTAIN PROJECTS TO BE ABLE TO, TO FIND OPPORTUNITY FOR THE REVENUE TO GO TO OTHER PROJECTS IN A MORE IMPACTFUL WAY.

SO, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND I JUST WANTED TO INTRODUCE MYSELF.

WELL, THANK YOU, ASHLEY, AND, AND DEFINITELY LOOK FORWARD TO ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENT.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I ALWAYS LOOK AT OR LOOK FOR ARE COMPARISON POINTS FOR HOW, HOW WORK GETS DONE IN, IN OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

YES, WE'RE THE SECOND LARGEST IN THE NATION.

YES, WE'RE THE BIGGEST IN CALIFORNIA.

WE'RE AN OUTLIER IN, IN, IN SOME WAYS, SOME GOOD, SOME NOT SO GOOD.

WE HAVE THE PROVERBIAL TARGET ON OUR BACK.

I GET ALL THAT, YOU KNOW.

UM, BUT IF THE TEAM CAN SHOW ME NINE OTHER RELATIVELY LARGE DISTRICTS IN CALIFORNIA THAT HAVE SOLVED FOR X ONE WAY AND

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WE'RE SOLVING FOR X IN A DIFFERENT WAY, I REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE CAN'T GLOM ONTO THAT SOLUTION.

AND I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT SULLIVAN.

HONESTLY, SUPERINTENDENT, I DON'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY, JUST A LITTLE STATEMENT THAT I REALLY WANT.

I KNOW THAT YOU ARE ENTERING THIS, UH, REALM, UH, IN, IN A VERY CHALLENGING TIME.

UM, AND I JUST WANT TO WISH YOU THE, THE, THE BEST.

UM, AND TO SAY THAT KIND OF ECHO THE, THE SENTIMENTS OF MEMBERS, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, THAT I GUESS IT'S OUR HOPE THAT WE ALL GET TO WORK WITH, WITH YOU AND WITH THE, THE BOE IN, IN JUST MAKING SURE THAT THIS DISTRICT CAN ADVANCE FORWARD IN THE MOST POSITIVELY IMPACTFUL WAY FOR OUR CHILDREN, FOR OUR, OUR KIDS, OUR SCHOOLS, AND EVERYONE HERE.

SO I JUST, UM, I REALLY WISH YOU NOTHING BUT THE BEST AND, AND HOPE THAT WE SEE MORE OF YOU HERE.

SO THANK YOU, BRENDA.

WELL, DID YOU HAVE, WE WERE JUST SAYING HI.

WE, WE KNOW EACH OTHER.

IT, IT'S FUNNY, AS I LOOK AROUND, I'M LIKE, YOU KNOW, VERY FEW NEW FACES HERE TO ME, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.

SUPERINTENDENT SHA THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE.

I KNEW HIM BACK WHEN HE WAS LOCAL DISTRICT NORTHEAST.

UM, HE HELPED US WITH OUR SCHOOL WHEN WE WERE DOING OUR SCHOOL EXPANSION.

SO WE WORKED IN COLLABORATION WITH HIM AND WITH SUPERINTENDENT, UH, DEL COTO TO GET OUR SCHOOL EXPANSION FORWARD.

WELL, I THINK THAT PRETTY MUCH, OH, COME ON, CHARLOTTE, YOU OF ALL PEOPLE, I'VE NEVER KNOWN YOU TO BE A LAW FOR WORDS.

ASK FOR, I KNOW, I KNOW YOU ASKED FOR BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, RIGHT? I SAT ACROSS THE TABLE FROM ANDRES WHEN HE WAS STAFF RELATIONS, AND I WAS REPRESENTING THE ADMINISTRATORS UNION.

HE'S FAIR, HE'S HONEST, AND HE'S TRUTHFUL.

YOU KNOW, YOU ALMOST WANNA DROP THE MIC AFTER THAT, RIGHT? , YOU KNOW, I, I, I WRAP IT UP FOR YOU AND I'M SO APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR TIME.

I, I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW MANY WAYS YOU'RE BEING PULLED, YOUR ARTICULATION, THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE, UM, SHARED HERE TODAY.

I ALMOST FEEL LIKE I, THERE'S NO NEED FOR ME BECAUSE EVERYBODY ADDRESSED, YOU KNOW, EVEN SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, YOU ECHOED, UM, THE IDEA AND THE CONCERN THAT YOU SAW ON THE MOU WITH THE LACK OF DIALOGUE.

THAT WAS YOU, YOU RECOGNIZED THAT FROM THE GET GO CORRECTION THREE YEARS THIS MONTH.

UM, APPRECIATE THIS TIMELINE THAT YOU'RE PUTTING ON IT.

UH, AND THE ABILITY TO GET THE COMMITTEE BACK TOGETHER WITH WHOEVER YOUR STAFF IS SO WE CAN START DOING THAT.

I THINK THAT ITSELF, UM, ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL, YOU KNOW, AUDIT ISSUES, UM, YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING ELSE HANDLED THE WAY THAT YOU'VE, YOUR PERSPECTIVE.

I MEAN, YOU'RE VERY UNIQUE.

YOU KNOW, IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT WE BROUGHT SOMEBODY WITHIN, UH, THAT REALLY UNDERSTANDS ALL THE ASPECTS OF HOW THIS UNIQUE DISTRICT WORKS OF OFTENTIMES SAID, FROM SAN PEDRO TO THE VALLEY, FROM THE WEST SIDE TO THE EAST SIDE, THE DEMOGRAPHICS, THE DYNAMICS IS, SO, YEAH.

YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK ANY, WE MAY BE NUMBER TWO OR WHATEVER IT IS IN THE COUNTRY, BUT WE'RE NUMBER ONE IN THE MOST COMPLEXITY OF ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

I WOULD NOT DISAGREE.

SO I THINK WHAT YOU DID TODAY WAS I COULDN'T CONVEY THE WAY I FELT SPEAKING TO YOU.

I COULDN'T CONVEY, ALTHOUGH THEY ALL READ THE LETTER THAT YOU WROTE TO YOUR FACULTY IN RANK AND FILE, THAT THAT WAS, IF I WROTE TO YOU SEPARATELY, THAT WAS AMAZING.

UM, AND I THINK WHAT YOU, IT'S, IT'S TOO BAD THERE ISN'T MORE PEOPLE HERE TO HAVE HEARD YOU SPEAK TODAY, BECAUSE I THINK THAT I WOULD ENJOY WORKING FOR YOU IF I, IF THAT WAS MY TASK AND, UH, YOU KNOW, BUT I'M RETIRING IN LIFE.

SO I WAS GONNA SAY, IS THAT AN OFFER, ? THAT'S PRETTY FUNNY.

ANYHOW, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY, ANYTHING ELSE HERE THAT WANTS TO BE STATED BY ANYBODY.

UH, I, I FEEL COMFORTABLE AND GOOD ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GONNA GO.

I'VE GOT ONE LAST YEAR SUPERINTENDENT, SO IF WE COULD GET THAT MOU DONE.

I FEEL LIKE THAT MY SIX YEARS HAVE MEANT SOMETHING.

OTHERWISE I GOTTA COME BACK AND, AND LIKE SCOTT AND BE A LIFER ON ANYTHING .

SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY OTHER OR LAST THOUGHT YOU, YOU HAD, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

OH, REALLY? JUST THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR THE TIME.

THANK YOU FOR THE ENGAGEMENT.

YOU KNOW, UH, AGAIN, THE, MY DIRECTION OF THE TEAM HAS BEEN VERY CLEAR, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC TO THE MOU ALREADY.

AND, AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, REDOUBLING THAT TODAY, BASED ON MY CONVERSATION WITH SCOTT, UM, ONE THING THAT I THINK WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR ME, UM, WOULD BE MAYBE SOME SORT OF, SOME LEVEL OF ONGOING ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO OF US.

PLEASE.

YOU KNOW, IT CAN BE FORMAL, IT CAN BE INFORMAL, BUT JUST A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR DIALOGUE, UH, PLEASE, I THINK IS ALWAYS HELPFUL.

I, I APPRECIATE IT AND I EMBRACE THAT.

HAVE A GOOD REST OF YOUR DAY.

ALRIGHT, YOU TOO.

AM TAKING A, A DEEP BREATH AND READY TO, UM, TO REFOCUS HERE.

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UH, ITEM NUMBER TWO IS PUBLIC COMMENT.

I UNDERSTAND WE DID HAVE A, A SPEAKER YES.

ONE SPEAKER SIGN UP, BUT HE IS NOT IN THE ROOM AND HE'S NOT ONLINE.

SO WE CAN MAYBE, UH, I WILL LET YOU KNOW, CIRCLE BACK ON THAT.

THAT SOUNDS GOOD.

UH, ITEM NUMBER THREE

[3. Consent Calendar]

IS OUR CONSENT CALENDAR.

UM, THIS WOULD CONSIST OF OUR AUGUST 13TH, 2026 MEETING MINUTES.

MOTION TO APPROVE .

SHE'S QUICKER THAN I COULD EVEN GET MY BREATH OUT.

IS THERE A, A MOTION BY KAISER SECOND? SCOTT KY.

CAN WE CALL FOR THE VOTE? MR. CHAIR, WHO MADE THE MOTION PLEASE? THE, UH, KAISER.

KAISER.

MEMBERS, THIS IS THE VOTE ON AGENDA ITEM NUMBER THREE.

THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

MS. LURCH? MUL LURCH MUELLER AYE.

UH, MS. LEWIS IS ABSENT.

MS. MCDOWELL? AYE THAT WAS AN AYE? YES, THAT'S CORRECT.

THANK YOU MR. MCFARLAND.

THANK YOU MR. CAMPBELL.

AYE.

AND MR. HAMNER? AYE.

I COUNT 12 AYE VOTES.

THE CONSENT CALENDAR IS ADOPTED.

WHERE IT'S NOT AN ACTION ITEM, UH, BUT OUR NEXT ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS OUR CFE REPORT AND I WELCOME OUR CFE CHRISTINA TOS TO MAKE THE PRESENTATION.

UH, FIRST ITEM UP

[4. Chief Facilities Executive’s Report (Information Only)]

HOW YOU DOING? GOOD.

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

GOOD TO SEE YOU IN PERSON.

UH, SO I WANTED TO START, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE, UH, PARENTS OF CHILDREN, YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A FOUR DAY WEEKEND, WHICH IS PROBABLY WHY EVERYONE HERE IS BRINGING A LOT OF POSITIVITY AND ENERGY.

UM, SO WITH THAT I WANTED TO JUST SHARE A COUPLE OF GOOD NEWS STORIES AND THEN I'M GOING TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF THE SEISMIC PROJECTS BEFORE ASAM DUL COMES AND PRESENTS OUR PROJECTS.

SO, WANTED TO START WITH, UM, AN OVERVIEW QUICKLY OF OUR EARLY EDUCATION CENTERS.

UM, WE WERE JUST NOTIFIED, UM, THAT OUR APPLICATIONS FOR CAL FIRE GRANTS ON SEVERAL OF OUR EEC PROJECTS, UM, RECEIVED UH, FUNDING.

AND WITH THAT THEY MADE A REALLY WONDERFUL VIDEO THAT I'M GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT JUST TALKS ABOUT THAT WORK.

I THINK SOME OF YOU HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THOSE RIBBON CUTTINGS AND SEE WHAT AN IMPACT IT MAKES.

ALSO INTERESTING IS WE'VE SEEN ENROLLMENT INCREASE AT EVERY EEC CENTER THAT WE'VE DONE THESE PROJECTS.

SO REALLY A GREAT INVESTMENT.

UM, OBVIOUSLY VERY ATTRACTIVE TO PARENTS AS THEY COME AND MAKE CHOICES ABOUT WHERE TO GO FOR EARLY EDUCATION.

SO JUST A QUICK SUMMARY.

UM, WE HAVE 64 PROJECTS THAT HAVE COME BEFORE THIS BOC APPROVED BY THE BOARD REPRESENTING A TOTAL INVESTMENT OF 252 MILLION.

SO A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS.

UM, WE HAVE 37 THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED, 12 IN CONSTRUCTION AND 15 THAT ARE IN DESIGN.

UM, AND THESE OFTEN ARE COUPLED WITH, UM, INVESTMENTS IN THE HVC ROOFING PLAYGROUND MATTING OR FIRE ALARM IN THE BUILDINGS.

AND THEN WE DO THE OUTSIDE PIECE AS WELL.

AND SO WE APPLIED FOR UM, SIX PROJECTS FOR CAL FIRE FUNDING.

WE RECEIVED APPROXIMATELY $6 MILLION.

UM, IN TOTAL FOR THESE PROJECTS.

IT REPRESENTS ABOUT 16 OF THE TOTAL PROJECT COST.

WE MADE APPLICATIONS FOR THESE BECAUSE THE SCHEDULE WAS SUCH THAT IT ALIGNED WITH, UM, THE GRANT UM, APPLICATION.

AND THEY ALSO FIT THE FIT THE CRITERIA, THE BEST CAL FIRE SPECIFIC, UM, STATE GRANT PROGRAM THAT SUPPORTS COOLING AND GREENING EFFORTS AT SCHOOLYARD CAMPUSES IN VULNERABLE HEAT EXPOSED COMMUNITIES.

AND THAT'S WHY WE MADE THESE APPLICATIONS.

SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO ASK OUR FRIENDS TO PLAY THIS INSPIRING VIDEO.

I'M KIND OF REALLY KIND OF EMOTIONAL.

THIS IS GOING TO BE A LASTING DIFFERENCE

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FOR THIS CHILDREN IN THIS COMMUNITY HAVING THIS GROW TREE.

IT'S GONNA GROW A TREE.

I'M GONNA GROW.

OH, CARRIE, CARRIE, WHAT DO YOU MINE IS GONNA GIRL TO THE FLOWER TREE.

FLOWER TREE, THIS GROUND TYPE.

SPECIFICALLY WHAT HE DOES IS IT TURNS SCHOOLS, CAMPUSES AND CHILDCARE FACILITIES FROM K THROUGH 12 INTO BETTER PLACES OF LEARNING SURROUNDED BY GREEN AREAS.

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE PLAY IS HOW CHILDREN LEARN.

ENVIRONMENT MAKES OR BREAKS A CHILD.

SO ENVIRONMENT IS A LEARNING TOO.

SO THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WHEN THEY COME OUT HERE, IT IS NOT JUST THAT THEY'RE PLAYING BUT THEY'RE LEARNING FOR SOME OF OUR CHILDREN, IF NOT MOST OF OUR CHILDREN, THIS IS THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY THAT THEY HAVE TO CONNECT, YOU KNOW, WITH NATURE.

ANOTHER ONE, CAL FIRE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN IT BECAUSE WE HAVE THE EXPERTISE IN OUR ROLE AS PROFESSIONALS, AS FORESTERS TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO ALLOCATE TREES OR CERTAIN GREENERY IN ORDER TO MAKE IT ESTABLISHED PROPERLY AND PROVIDE THE BENEFITS, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, CANOPY COVER, DECREASING TEMPERATURE, ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS LIKE HABITAT FOR OTHER ANIMALS.

AND, UH, JUST ESTABLISH IT PROPERLY FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

AND WE MANAGE THE FUNDS, IN THIS CASE, STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS THAT WERE USED TO IMPROVE THIS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN IN SCHOOLS.

IT HAS MADE OUR WILDEST DREAMS COME TRUE.

AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER, I BELIEVE WE NEED TO SERVE THE WHOLE CHILD.

SO WHAT THE ENVIRONMENT DO IS HELP US CONNECT TO THE EARTH AND EMULATE OUR BRAIN AND LEARNING EARLY ON SO THAT WE BECOME CREATIVE SO THAT WE BECOME THE ENGINEERS, THE DOCTORS, THE FIREFIGHTERS.

THANK YOU CALIFORNIA.

I KNOW THAT IT'S GONNA MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LEARNING AND IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN EVERY ASPECTS OF, OF LEARNING.

'CAUSE THIS IS WHAT PRESCHOOL IS ALL ABOUT.

WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO BE ABLE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, A QUALITY, A HIGH QUALITY PROGRAM LIKE THIS ONE.

IT'S AN INVESTMENT THAT SHOULD ALWAYS HAPPEN.

CHILDREN SHOULD BE PRIORITY.

IT'S PRETTY COOL.

IT'S ALSO TO SEE TAXPAYER DOLLARS AND FEDERAL FUNDS BEING APPLIED INTO, INTO SOMETHING THAT'S GENERATING AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF WELLNESS TO THE, TO THE COMMUNITIES.

GREAT.

AND SO WITH THE MONEY THAT WE RECEIVE, UM, FROM THE STATE AND WE'RE ALWAYS APPRECIATIVE OF OUR STATE PARTNERS, UM, THAT MONEY WILL GO BACK INTO FUNDING FOR EARLY EDUCATION.

SO WE CAN DO MORE OF THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS.

ALRIGHT, SO WITH THAT, LET ME TURN IT OVER TO SEISMIC.

IF WE CAN GO BACK TO THE POWERPOINT.

ON IT FOR A SECOND THERE, ENROLLMENT, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THAT WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT OBVIOUSLY A MINUTE AGO TOO.

GREAT.

SO YOU MAY RECALL, UH, WE BROUGHT A OVERVIEW OF THE DISTRICT'S WHOLE KIND OF HISTORY OF SEISMIC INVESTMENTS WHEN WE BROUGHT THE FIRST ROUND OF SEISMIC PROJECTS.

I THINK IT WAS BACK IN JUNE OR MAY, THIS BOC.

SO I WANTED TO JUST HIGHLIGHT THE MOST RECENT PART THAT TALKS ABOUT WHY WE'RE INVESTING IN LIFTS LABS.

I KNOW THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS THAT CAME UP AT THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

SO THIS IS JUST A QUICK RECAP OF WHY WE'RE INVESTING IN LIFTS LABS AND HOW WE ARE SELECTING THE SITES TO GO THROUGH.

SO AS A REMINDER, IN 2022, THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE ARCHITECTS, WHICH IS THE AGENCY THAT WE WORK WITH ON OUR PERMITTING AND APPROVALS, ISSUED GUIDANCE, UM, AND CONCERNS REGARDING WHAT'S CALLED LIFT SLAB CONSTRUCTION, NOTING THE RISK OF PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE DURING SEISMIC EVENTS.

UM, AND ESSENTIALLY RECOMMENDED STRUCTURALLY EVALUATIONS OF ALL OF THESE STRUCTURES, WHICH LA THEN L-A-U-S-D COMMISSIONED AND PEER REVIEWED, UH, BUILDING SPECIFIC SEISMIC EVALUATIONS FOR ALL LIFT SLAB BUILDINGS IN THE DISTRICT.

AND THIS IS A GREAT PICTURE OF WHAT A LIFT SLAB LOOKS LIKE.

IT'S BASICALLY A TYPE OF STRUCTURAL METHOD WHERE THE SLABS ARE POURED AND THEN THEY'RE LIFTED, KIND OF JACKED IN PLACE FOR EACH LEVEL.

THIS WAS STARTED IN AROUND THE 1950S.

UM, THE FIRST LIFT SLABS AT L-A-U-S-D WERE BUILT IN 1955.

UH, BY 1987, LIFT SLABS WERE NO LONGER COMMONLY USED IN THE US AND THEN IN 2022 IS

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SO WE HAVE HAD A LONG HISTORY OF PRIORITIZING SEISMIC SAFETY.

I THINK I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, IS THAT IT IS NOT A BLACK AND WHITE SET IN TIME SCIENCE.

UM, WE'RE CONSTANTLY LEARNING NEW THINGS ABOUT SEISMIC SAFETY.

EVERY SEISMIC EVENT, UM, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS LEARN MORE ABOUT THE IMPACTS ON HOW THAT, UH, DEALS WITH SPECIFIC TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION TYPES.

FROM 2014 TO 2024, WE USED A CRITERIA THAT WAS BASED ON WHAT'S CALLED THE FEMA HAUS MH PROCEDURE METHODOLOGY.

UM, THE CRITERIA THAT WE'RE USING NOW IS BASED ON A NEW METHODOLOGY THAT FEMA HAS.

UM, LOOKING AT SEISMIC PERFORMANCE PREDICTION PLATFORM, WE USED A NATIONAL RECOGNIZED STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FIRM, JOHNNY A MARTINS AND ASSOCIATES, WHO HELPED US WITH THIS, UH, METHODOLOGY.

SO WHEN WE APPLIED THAT METHODOLOGY TO ALL OF OUR BUILDINGS THAT WE'VE STUDIED FOR SEISMIC VULNERABILITY LIFTS, LABS, NOT SURPRISINGLY RANK THE HIGHEST IN PRIORITY.

WE HAVE 43 BUILDINGS, UM, THAT ARE LIFTS LAB.

AND SO WE ARE GOING TO BE FOCUSING OUR MAJOR MODERNIZATION ON LIFT SLAB BUILDINGS.

SO THIS IS A LITTLE RECAP OF WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST.

I THINK MANY OF YOU HAVE MAYBE BEEN TO SOME OF THESE SITES, BUT WE HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS IN SEISMIC.

THIS IS NOT NEW.

SO SINCE THE COURSE OF THE BOND PROGRAM SINCE 1999, WE'VE INVESTED PROBABLY $6 BILLION IN SEISMIC.

NOT SURPRISINGLY, THAT IS THE TOP OF OUR LIST FOR SAFETY LIVING IN THE AREA THAT WE DO.

AND SO JUST A COUPLE OF PROJECTS THAT YOU MAY BE AWARE OF, SOSUS, A LOT OF OUR COMP MODS WERE DRIVEN TO SEISMIC VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTHENING.

AT SOSUS, WE DID THE PERFORMING ARTS, UM, AND EXTERIOR GRANT, HIGH SCHOOL, UM, UH, AUDITORIUM PROJECTS, NEW GYMS. UM, IT'S OFTENTIMES, IF THEY WERE NOT HISTORICAL, WE RECOMMENDED REMOVING THOSE BUILDINGS AND BUILDING NEW BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY NOT COST EFFECTIVE TO DO THE SEISMIC RETROFITS AND BRING THOSE COAL, UM, BUILDINGS FULLY UP TO CODE.

SO A REMINDER OF OUR CATEGORIES OF FUNDING IN WHAT'S CALLED THE MAJOR MODERNIZATION FUNDING CATEGORY.

WE HAVE TWO POINT BILLION SET ASIDE FOR MODERNIZING BUILDINGS ON TOP OF ALL OF THESE OTHER CATEGORIES, UM, LIKE UTK EXPANSION, GREENING REPLACING, PORTABLE BUILDINGS.

SO WHEN WE LOOK AT, UM, HOW WE'RE IDENTIFYING SITES, WHAT WE DID IS WE HAVE A LIST OF ALL OF OUR SITES THAT HAVE LIFTS, LAB BUILDINGS ON 'EM.

YOU'LL SEE ON THE MAP WHERE THEY'RE DISTRIBUTED.

A LOT OF THEM ARE IN THE SOUTH REGION.

THAT'S JUST WHERE WE WERE BUILDING BUILDINGS IN THE FIFTIES THROUGH THE SEVENTIES.

UM, AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THIS LIST LISTS THE SCHOOL SITES BY THE TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE OF SPACE IN LIFTS LABS.

THE ONES IN GRAY ARE THE ONES THAT WE BROUGHT IN JUNE.

UM, AND THEN ASSAM WILL BE WALKING YOU THROUGH THE FOUR THAT WE'RE PROPOSING THIS TIME.

WE DO HAVE A RUNNING TAB OF WHERE, HOW FAR DOWN THIS LIST WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO GO TO WITH APPROXIMATELY THAT, UH, 2.8 BILLION.

AT THIS POINT IN TIME, WE THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH THIS ENTIRE LIST.

WE'RE STARTING WITH THE LARGEST BUILDING.

SO THE INVESTMENTS THAT YOU'RE SEEING TODAY AND THE ONES THAT YOU SAW IN JUNE, UM, ARE THE LARGEST SITES THAT HAVE THE LARGEST, UH, SQUARE FOOTAGE OF LIFT SLABS.

AS WE GO DOWN THIS LIST, THE PROJECTS ARE GONNA BE MUCH SMALLER.

WE KNOW THERE'S A COUPLE OF SITES WHERE WE DON'T EVEN THINK WE MAY NEED TO BUILD BACKSPACE.

WE'RE GOING TO REMOVE THOSE BUILDINGS 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT NEEDED BECAUSE OF THE ENROLLMENT AND CAPACITY ON THOSE CAMPUS AND LOOK TO REPLACE IT WITH GREEN SPACE OR OUTSIDE PLAY YARDS.

SO THAT WAS, THOSE WOULD BE MUCH SMALLER PROJECTS.

AGAIN, WE HAVEN'T SCOPED EVERY SINGLE SITE AT THIS POINT IN TIME.

THOSE ARE VERY INTENSIVE DUE DILIGENCE OF WORKING WITH THOSE SCHOOL SITES, UNDERSTANDING THEIR ENROLLMENT, UNDERSTANDING THE LAYOUTS, DOING DUE DILIGENCE OF THOSE STRUCTURES.

UM, BUT BASED ON KIND OF A ROUGH MAGNITUDE OF EFFORT, WE DO BELIEVE THAT AT THIS POINT WE WOULD HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDS FOR ALMOST ALL OF THESE PROJECTS.

SO WITH THAT, I'M OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS AND, UM, ASSAM WILL BE FOLLOWING THIS PRESENTATION TO TALK IN DEPTH ABOUT THE PROJECTS AND SCOPES WE'RE BRINGING FORWARD.

I I'LL OPEN UP TO QUESTIONS.

UH, FIRST OF ALL, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT FOUR DAY WEEKEND, WHAT'S, WHAT, WHAT'S FOUR DAY WEEKEND? I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.

I KNOW, IT'S AMAZING.

I'M FAMILIAR WITH YOU.

UM, I THINK IT'S TO CELEBRATE CALIFORNIA'S ADMITTANCE INTO, UM, THE UNION.

SO FRIDAY AND MONDAY.

FRIDAY AND MONDAY.

OH, THAT'S VERY GOOD.

I KNOW.

ANY, ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, SCOTT? JUST A GENERAL, AND YOU TOUCHED

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HOW ARE YOU ALL MEASURING ENROLLMENT NOW AS NUMBERS ARE GOING DOWN? SOME OF THESE PROJECTS WOULDN'T START FOR A FEW YEARS.

HOW DO YOU KNOW? SO WE DO IN EACH OF THESE PROJECTS, UM, A VERY DEEP DIVE INTO WHAT THEIR ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS ARE.

NOT JUST LOOKING AT WHAT THEY'S CHANGED IN THE PAST, BUT WE LOOK OVER FIVE YEARS WHERE WE THINK IT'S GOING TO GO OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WITH EXACTLY THAT RECOGNITION THAT THESE PROJECTS ARE NOT DONE IN TWO YEARS.

UM, AND THEN WE LEAVE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTINGENCY.

WHAT ASSAM WILL WALK YOU THROUGH IN THESE PROJECTS IS, UM, WE DON'T EVER WANNA GET TOO CLOSE TO THE BONE, BUT WE DON'T WANNA BUILD ENOUGH CAPACITY THAT WE'RE WASTING RESOURCES, MAINTAINING CAPACITY THAT WE DON'T NEED, SO THAT WE HAVE A WAY AS THIS PROJECT IS PROGRESSING, THAT WE MIGHT TAKE OFF MORE PORTABLES OR LEAVE PORTABLES, DEPENDING ON WHERE WE SEE THAT ENROLLMENT, UM, GOING.

IS THERE A CRITERIA TO THE ENROLLMENT? I'M MAKING UP NUMBERS, SO THE SCHOOL HAS TO HAVE A MINIMUM OF 300 STUDENTS OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE.

HOW DO THEY LOOK AT THAT? SO WE ARE, WE'RE, UM, AT THESE SCHOOLS WE'RE LOOKING AT OR PRIORITIZING SCHOOLS THAT DO HAVE AN ENROLLMENT.

I BELIEVE IT'S OVER 200 OR 300.

AND NONE OF THESE SCHOOLS DO, WE ANTICIPATE WOULD BE CLOSED BECAUSE OF THEIR ENROLLMENT.

BUT WHAT WE DO IS WE LOOK AT WHERE WAS THEIR ENROLLMENT THREE YEARS AGO, UH, TWO YEARS AGO THIS YEAR, NEXT YEAR.

EVERY SCHOOL IS DIFFERENT.

SOME SEE SHARPER DECLINES, SOME ACTUALLY STAY STEADY.

UM, VERY FEW ACTUALLY GROW.

THEY MIGHT BE MAGNETS, WHICH HAVE A DIFFERENT, THEY'RE KIND OF NOT AS SUSCEPTIBLE TO RESIDENTIAL ENROLLMENT DECLINE.

SO THERE'S REALLY NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL.

WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS.

WE HAVE TO LOOK AT EACH SCHOOL INDIVIDUALLY.

WE HAVE TO SEE SOMETIMES THEY MIGHT HAVE TWO SCHOOLS ON IT.

ONE SCHOOL MAY HAVE, UM, A MORE, UH, UM, SIGNIFICANT DECLINE THAN ANOTHER SCHOOL.

WHAT IS THAT RESIDENT AREA? WHAT IS THE ENROLLMENT AROUND THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE ADJACENT TO IT? WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THAT LARGER AREA? UM, BECAUSE WE KNOW WE NEED TO START PLANNING NOT JUST AT A SPECIF SPECIFIC SCHOOL SITE, BUT LOOKING AT THE, UM, SCHOOLS IN THAT AREA AS WELL.

SO ALL OF THAT IS DONE.

THAT'S PART OF THE REASON THAT DUE DILIGENCE TAKES US A WHILE TO LOOK AT THAT.

WE'RE ALSO MEETING WITH THE PRINCIPALS, THE REGIONS, UM, UNDERSTANDING KIND OF WHAT THEIR PROGRAMMATIC NEEDS ARE AND ALSO UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S GOING ON IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE MIGHT NOT BE AWARE OF.

SURE.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO CHRIS? BRANDON? HONESTLY, JUST TO MAKE THE COMMENT, TO GO BACK TO THE, UH, THE SCHOOL YARDS, THE GREEN SCHOOLS.

JUST WANTED TO SAY MY, MY DAUGHTER IS, UH, ATTENDS VINE EEC AND THE WORK THERE IS BEAUTIFUL.

LOOKS GORGEOUS THEN.

AND TO SEE HOW HAPPY THOSE CHILDREN ARE PLAYING ON THAT NEW YARD AND WITH THE NEW EQUIPMENT IS REALLY PHENOMENAL.

SO SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT.

KIND OF RISK INSURANCE DEPARTMENT IS WORKING THROUGH INSURANCE AS WELL ON ALL OF THEIR ESTIMATES AS WELL.

THAT'S GREAT.

A VERY QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU, CHRISTINA, WHO, WHO WAS THE ARCHITECT FOR, FOR ROOSEVELT? I'M SORRY IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER.

L-P-A-L-P-A.

REALLY? LPA.

YOU KNOW, I HAVE A LOT OF STUDENTS THAT COME FROM ROOSEVELT, UHHUH, , AND I JUST THINK WHEN I SEE THIS, THIS IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPACTFUL COMMUNITY YEAH.

ENTRANCE, YOU KNOW, FOR THAT.

AND THAT SCHOOL'S GOT SUCH A LONG HISTORY.

I GOT, I KNOW SOME PEOPLE AT LPAI.

UM, THE, THAT'S AWESOME THAT WE WERE ABLE TO LEVERAGE CAL FIRE MONEY.

MM-HMM .

YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE I MEAN THAT BASED ON WHAT THESE PROJECTS ARE COSTING, THAT GIVES US ONE AND A HALF, TWO MORE PROJECTS, BASICALLY.

MM-HMM .

THAT WE CAN DO, UM, IN, IN TERMS OF GETTING MONEY BACK FROM OTHER PLACES.

ANY UPDATE ON, ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO RECOVER FROM FEMA OR OTHER PAYERS SO FAR ON THE PALISADES THING, SINCE IT'S A, YEAH.

UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE FACILITIES EXECUTIVE REPORT? UM, ABSOLUTELY.

I KNOW WE'RE MAKING A LOT OF PROGRESS OUT THERE.

SO, SO WE JUST HAD, I WAS JUST IN A MEETING, UM, WITH CAL OES AND FEMA, I THINK IT WAS ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.

UM, WE ARE, WE'VE MADE OUR APPLICATIONS, THEY'RE REVIEWING THEM.

UM, WE'RE GOING WITH A BACK AND FORTH OF WHAT OUR ESTIMATES ARE.

SO THAT'S VERY MUCH IN PROCESS.

I THINK WHAT I'VE SHARED WITH YOU IS FEMA IS A MULTI-YEAR PROCESS, SO WE'RE NOT EXPECTING TO SEE THOSE DOLLARS ANYTIME SOON, BUT THE APPLICATIONS ARE IN, THE ESTIMATES ARE GOING BACK AND FORTH.

AND THEN THE SAME PROCESS IS HAPPENING WITH INSURANCE.

THE TWO BIG SOURCES OF FUNDS, OUR INSURANCE AND FEMA WITH THE INSURANCE, WE DID GET A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, UM, UPFRONT.

THAT'S NOT JUST ALL FOR FACILITIES.

A LOT OF THAT IS ALSO FOR ALL OF THE THINGS THAT HAD TO DO WITH JUST AS THE FIRES REPLACING TEXTBOOKS AND ALL OF THAT.

UM, SO WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE PARSING THAT BETWEEN OUR THREE SCHOOLS AND OUR NON FACILITY ITEMS. AND THEN OUR

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SO WE'RE VERY MUCH INTERESTED, UM, IN MAKING SURE WE GET THAT MONEY.

WE JUST KNOW IT'S NOT GONNA BE RIGHT AWAY.

IT WAS, IT WAS HELPFUL TO HEAR THIS MUCH MONEY IS COMING BACK TO THE BOND PROGRAM IN THAT CATEGORY FOR THE CAL FIRE.

SO WHEN THAT DOES HAPPEN, UM, YOU KNOW, NONE OF US MIGHT BE HERE, BUT YEAH, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR SURE.

WHOEVER IS SITTING IN OUR CHAIRS.

UM, SO, OKAY.

WELL, THANK YOU.

AND, AND ON THE, UM, THESE EECS AND, AND THE, OUR, OUR ARE, ARE WE GENERALLY OR ADDING GREEN SPACE TO THOSE, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE ARE IN THOSE PROJECTS.

DO WE, DO WE KNOW LIKE WHAT IS, OR I GUESS, AND THIS IS A, I I DON'T KNOW BUDGETARILY HOW THE DISTRICT WORKS.

LIKE WHEN THEY, WHEN WE RECONFIGURE A, A PART OF A, UM, A DISTRICT FACILITY AND IT GOES FROM, LET'S SAY BLACKTOP OR, OR SORT OF LOW MAINTENANCE SURFACES TO MAYBE SURFACES THAT, THAT DO REQUIRE SOME UPKEEP.

HOW DO WE, LIKE, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT THEY PUT THAT INTO THEIR BUDGET AT THE FACILITY LEVEL? OR IS THAT DONE AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL TO LIKE MAINTAIN THAT, YOU KNOW MM-HMM .

SO, HEY, WE HAVE TO HAVE A LANDSCAPER NOW COME OUT AND CUT THIS GREENERY THAT'S, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, COOLING THE AREA AND PROVIDING THIS OUTDOOR CLASSROOM SPACE OR WHATEVER IT IS, RIGHT? YEAH.

IT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

SO OUR MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION IS, UM, MORE SET ASIDE FOR, OR NOT SET ASIDE, BUT IT'S CALCULATED BY WHETHER WHAT TYPE OF SCHOOL YOU ARE AND HOW MANY HOURS OF LANDSCAPE CREWS DO YOU GET.

SO HIGH SCHOOLS GET ONE PARTICULAR LEVEL OF SERVICE, MIDDLE SCHOOLS GET ANOTHER, AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS GET ANOTHER TYPE OF SERVICE AND EECS GET ANOTHER.

AND THEN WE HAVE ROVING CREWS THAT GO OUT AND VISIT SITES.

WE'RE NOT AS GRANULAR AS, OH, THIS ONE SCHOOL HAS MORE GREEN SPACE THAN ANOTHER SCHOOL, SO THIS GETS 3.5 HOURS AND THIS ONE ONLY GETS TWO HOURS.

THEY JUST KIND OF GO THROUGH THEIR DAYS, UM, TRYING TO GET AS MUCH DONE AS POSSIBLE.

UM, FOR THESE EECS WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS IT DOES TAKE A LITTLE MORE WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PLANTS ARE ESTABLISHED, UM, ESPECIALLY, AND WE'RE CONSTANTLY KIND OF UP, UM, UPGRADING OUR PLANT SPECIFICATIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED.

THE MORE SMALLER THE PLANT MATERIALS, KIND OF IN MORE, I DON'T WANNA SAY PRECIOUS, BUT INDIVIDUAL VERSUS LIKE JUST MAKING SURE THAT A TREE GETS ROOTED IN, YOU KNOW, UH, THRIVES.

SO WE'RE TRYING TO FIND WHERE WE CAN GET, YOU KNOW, MAKE IMPACTS, BUT STILL HAVE KIND OF A LOWER MAINTENANCE FOOTPRINT FOR OUR LANDSCAPING BECAUSE WE ARE VERY COGNIZANT THAT OUR LANDSCAPE, UM, RESOURCES ARE VERY LIMITED AND PROBABLY ARE GOING TO GET MORE LIMITED AS WE SEE FURTHER BUDGET REDUCTIONS.

OH, BRANDON'S GOT YOU.

AGAIN, UH, I'M JUST CURIOUS IF CURRENTLY THERE'S ANY USE OF, YOU KNOW, NEWER TECHNOLOGY OR FOR SOME OF THESE LANDSCAPING SYSTEMS AS FAR AS THE SPRINKLER SYSTEMS, YOU KNOW, SENSORS IN THE SOIL, IS THAT STUFF BEING EMPLOYED? WE ARE DOING THAT FOR ALL OF OUR NEWER SYSTEMS. SO I JUST GOT A, UM, UH, BRIEFING OF OUR EMS SYSTEMS WHERE, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN NOW RECOGNIZE ESPECIALLY HELPFUL WHERE, WHERE THERE MIGHT BE A LEAK WHERE WE JUST, BEFORE YOU'D HAVE TO HAVE SOMEONE PHYSICALLY COME OUT AND KINDA SEE THE DIAL SPINNING TO RECOGNIZE THAT.

AND NOW WE CAN SIT HERE CENTRALLY IN BERI AND SAY, HEY, THERE'S SOMETHING GOING WRONG WITH THAT SCHOOL.

THE CONCERN IS MORE THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF EXISTING SCHOOLS WITH OLD SPRINKLER SYSTEMS THAT WE DON'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO UPGRADE UNTIL WE DO A NEW PROJECT AND THEN WE PUT THOSE SYSTEMS IN.

UNDERSTOOD.

WON'T HAVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ON THOSE OTHER THAN YOU MIGHT SEE SOME CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY FOR A PROJECT LIKE THE SEISMIC PROJECTS WHERE THESE ARE TRANSFORMATIVE PROJECTS WITH IMPACTS, WE BRING THE COMMUNITY IN RIGHT AWAY, AND WE'RE WITH THEM FOR THE WHOLE FIVE YEARS OF THE PROJECT.

THAT WAS A GOOD QUESTION.

DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? OH, I, I'M SORRY.

MS. LAKE.

HI, CHRISTINA.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

UM, COMING FROM A PARENT PERSPECTIVE, IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS, YOU'VE SAID HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOR YOU GUYS TO GET COMMUNITY INPUT.

WHAT, UM, WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE CURRENTLY IN PLACE TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT EFFORTS ARE YOU MAKING TO MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENS? SO I'LL, UM, LET ASSAM TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

WE START COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TYPICALLY DEPENDING ON THE PROJECT.

ONCE WE HAVE THE APPROVAL FROM OUR BOARD TO ESSENTIALLY FUND THE PROJECT, THEN WE'RE ABLE TO BRING ON AN ARCHITECT AND THEN WE START ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY ON SHARING WHAT THE PROJECT KIND OF GOALS ARE WALKING THEM THROUGH.

WE HAVE AN ARCHITECT STARTING THEM WITH THE PLANNING SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND INTO DESIGN.

AND THEN ONCE OBVIOUSLY, CONSTRUCTION STARTS, THE FOCUS IS LESS ON THE DESIGN AND MORE ON WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS TO THE STUDENTS DURING CONSTRUCTION, ENSURING STUDENTS SAFETY AND ALSO NEIGHBORHOODS START TO GET MUCH MORE INVOLVED BECAUSE THERE MAY BE IMPACTS AROUND TRUCKS COMING IN AND OUT, OR NOISE, ET CETERA.

AND THAT DEPENDS ON HOW BIG THE PROJECT OR SMALL THE PROJECT IS.

IF WE'RE DOING A SMALL PROJECT, LIKE A ROOFING PROJECT WHERE THERE MIGHT NOT BE A LOT OF IMPACTS AND THE COMMUNITY REALLY DOESN'T HAVE IMPACT, WE

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I JUST WANT TO ADD TO WHAT CHRISTINA JUST SAID.

UH, MY KIDS WENT TO SCHOOL AT SOCIS, UH, IN THE VALLEY, AND THEY WENT THROUGH THAT.

THE ARCHITECTURE FIRM USUALLY HAS A COMMUNITY OUTREACH PERSON THAT GOES TO THE SCHOOL.

THEY MEET WITH THE PARENTS, THEY SHOW THEM THE DIFFERENT DESIGNS, AND THE PARENTS ACTUALLY HAD A LITTLE BIT OF INPUT INTO THE DESIGN AND, AND WHAT WAS HAPPENING.

AND THEN THEY WERE KEPT IN A LOOP AND WE WERE GETTING FLYERS AND OTHER INFORMATION.

SO, I MEAN, IT WAS VERY HELPFUL FOR OUR SCHOOL.

ENJOY YOUR, ENJOY YOUR FOUR DAY WEEKEND.

IS OUR, OUR LAST, UM, ACTION ITEM IS ITEM NUMBER FIVE.

TAKE CARE.

UM, NEXT ITEM, WHICH

[5. The Definition of Four Seismic Modernization Projects and Amend the Facilities Services Division Strategic Execution Plan to Incorporate Therein]

AND THIS IS, THIS COVERS FOUR SEISMIC MODERNIZATION PROJECTS, AND WE HAVE WITH US OUR FRIEND ISAM DUL, DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES PLANNING.

MIGHT BE LEAVING PORTABLES BEHIND.

HEY, HOW ARE YOU? GOOD MORNING.

BOC CHAIRMAN, BOC MEMBERS, UM, ASAM DUA.

I'M THE DIRECTOR FOR FACILITIES PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.

UM, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THESE SEISMIC MODERNIZATION PROJECTS THAT, UM, CHRISTINA KIND OF TEED UP FOR US HERE.

SO AS SOON AS IT COMES UP, I WILL START.

OKAY, HERE WE GO.

ALL RIGHT.

UM, SO TODAY WE'RE GONNA BE GOING OVER FOUR SEISMIC MODERNIZATION PROJECTS.

UM, AS CHRISTINA MENTIONED EARLIER, WE'VE BROUGHT SOME OF THESE, UM, PROJECTS WITHIN THIS UMBRELLA OF PROJECTS, UM, TO THIS BOC CHAIR OR THE BOC MEMBERS BEFORE.

A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND, AND CHRISTINA I THINK WENT OVER SOME OF THIS ALREADY, BUT I'LL GO THROUGH IT QUICKLY.

IN NOVEMBER, 2024 IS WHEN MEASURE US PASSED.

AND THE SCHOOL UPGRADE PROGRAM, UM, WAS SET, WHICH INCLUDED MODERNIZING, UM, AND REPLACING BUILDINGS WITH SEISMIC THAT HAD SEISMIC VULNERABILITIES.

UM, WE THEN HAD TO GO THROUGH AN EFFORT OF PRIORITIZING WHICH SEISMIC BUILDINGS.

AND SO AS, UM, WE, YOU JUST HEARD, WE WENT THROUGH AN ANALYSIS WITH AN ENGINEERING FIRM TO IDENTIFY WHICH BUILDINGS HAD THE HIGHEST RISK.

AND THE LIFT SLAB CONSTRUCTION BUILDINGS WERE THE ONES THAT WERE AT THE HIGHEST PRIORITY.

AND SO WE'VE IDENTIFIED 24 SITES, WHICH YOU JUST SAW THE LIST OF THERE, UM, EARLIER IN THE EARLIER PRESENTATION.

AND WE'RE SYSTEMATICALLY GOING THROUGH THOSE 24 CAMPUSES TO SCOPE PROJECTS AND BRING THEM FORWARD TO THE BOC AND TO THE BOARD SO THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AND BEGIN THE DESIGN EFFORT AND EVENTUALLY CONSTRUCTION, UM, OF THOSE, UM, CAMPUSES, UM, WITH THE GOAL OF BEING, OF REMOVING THE LIFTS LAB BUILDINGS, RIGHT? THAT IS GOAL NUMBER ONE.

SO OUR, UH, PRIORITIZATION EVEN WITHIN THOSE 24 SCHOOLS IS WE'RE IDENTIFYING SCHOOLS WITH THE MOST CLASSROOMS IN THE SQUARE FOOTAGE.

SO WE LOOK AT THE HIGHEST SQUARE FOOTAGE, WE WANT TO GET TO THOSE FIRST, WE CAN'T SCOPE 24 PROJECTS ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

THEY REQUIRE A LOT OF DUE DILIGENCE.

IT'S A LOT OF WORK.

UM, AND SO WE HAVE TO SYSTEMATICALLY GO THROUGH AND THE TEAM IS WORKING HARD TO, TO, UM, PRIORITIZE THOSE THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST SQUARE FOOTAGE AND BRING THEM FORWARD SO THAT WE CAN GET GOING ON THOSE AND THEN WE CAN KIND OF PACE THEM OUT.

AND SO WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO BE BRINGING PROJECTS, UM, FORWARD, UM, TO THE, UH, BOC AND TO THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL UNTIL WE CAN GET THROUGH ALL 24 OF THE CAMPUSES FOR THIS PROGRAM.

UM, WE ALSO, UM, ARE LOOKING AT, OBVIOUSLY SQUARE FOOTAGE IS NUMBER ONE, BUT IN SOME CASES WITH DECLINING ENROLLMENT AND WITH, WITH SOME CAMPUSES MAYBE NOT NEEDING CERTAIN CLASSROOMS, UM, WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT PLACES WHERE WE CAN, I'LL CALL THEM THE LOW HANGING FRUIT, WHERE IF THERE'S A POSSIBILITY OF, WELL, WE CAN REMOVE THAT BUILDING, DO A GREENING PROJECT, YOU KNOW, UH, LANDSCAPE, ET CETERA, WE MIGHT TARGET THOSE AS WELL, IF IT, SO WE MIGHT BE JUMPING THE LINE A LITTLE BIT IN SOME CASES.

UM, BUT OTHERWISE WE ARE GOING THROUGH SYSTEMATICALLY THROUGH SQUARE FOOTAGE.

AND THEN FOR SOME SCHOOLS WHERE WE MIGHT FEEL LIKE WE NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO DO ADDITIONAL DUE DILIGENCE, THEN WE MIGHT GO TO THE NEXT ONE ON THE LIST.

AND SO YOU'LL SEE, AS YOU SAW ON THE LIST BEFORE, THERE MIGHT BE SOME SCHOOLS WHERE WE'RE DO, WE'RE STILL CONTINUING DUE DILIGENCE, BUT WE DON'T WANT THAT TO SLOW DOWN THE PROGRESS, SO WE MIGHT CONTINUE TO GO DOWN.

SO ULTIMATELY THAT'S HOW WE'RE PRIORITIZING THAT 24, UM, CAMPUS LIST.

SO, UM, WE LIKE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SCOPING TENANTS.

THIS IS IMPORTANT WHEN WE'RE, UM, SCOPING A PROJECT IS WHAT IS THE GOAL OF WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE PROJECT BECAUSE, UM, OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T DO EVERYTHING THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO WHEN WE'RE ON THE CAMPUS.

WE HAVE TO BE FOCUSED AND FOCUS ON WHAT THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT IS.

AND SO THE MAIN GOAL OF THESE PROJECTS IS REMOVING THE LIFT SLAB BUILDINGS.

THAT'S FIRST AND FOREMOST.

UM, AND SO IN SOME CASES YOU'LL SEE, UH, WHERE WE

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'CAUSE REMEMBER THE GOAL IS REMOVE THE LIFT SLAB BUILDINGS, I I IF WE CAN, AND IF THE, IF THE SITE PLANNING ALLOWS FOR IT, OR IF THERE'S PORTABLE BUILDINGS THAT ARE UNCERTIFIED, UM, THAT WE NEED TO REMOVE IN ORDER TO GET THE, AN UPGRADED FIRE ALARM SYSTEM GOING, THEN WE'RE ALSO IDENTIFYING THAT AS PART OF THE PROJECT AS WELL.

SO WE TAKE THE WHOLE SITE INTO CONSIDERATION KNOWING THAT THE LIFTS LAB, UH, REMOVAL IS FIRST AND FOREMOST, BUT THEN OBVIOUSLY MAKING GOOD PLANNING DECISIONS AS IT RELATES TO PORTABLES, FIRE ALARM UPGRADES THAT ARE NEEDED, ET CETERA.

AND THEN JUST LONG-TERM VIABILITY OF THE PLAY SPACE.

UM, WE ALSO COORDINATE WITH OTHER PLANNED PROJECTS AT THE SITE.

AND YOU'LL SEE AS WE GO THROUGH THE FOUR, UM, IN SOME CASES THERE ARE OTHER PROJECTS ON THESE CAMPUSES.

AND SO WE MAKE SURE WE GO THROUGH A DILIGENT EFFORT OF WORKING WITH THE TEAMS, WORKING ON THOSE PROJECTS, AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE COORDINATING THE DESIGN AS WELL AS THE TIMING OF CONSTRUCTION.

UM, 'CAUSE AS YOU KNOW, WORKING ON A EXISTING CAMPUS WHILE IT'S OPERATIONAL IS VERY CHALLENGING.

AND SO WE CONTINUE TO TRY TO WORK WITH THAT AS WELL.

UM, AND THEN IF THERE'S AREAS WHERE WE'RE IMPACTING, OBVIOUSLY IF WE'RE REMOVING A LIFT SLAB, WE HAVE TO IDENTIFY THE AREA WITHIN IT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS BEING ADDRESSED AND ANY AREAS AROUND IT.

DSA, THE DIVISION OF STATE ARCHITECT REQUIRES ACCESSIBILITY UPGRADES AS PART OF ANY PROJECT.

AND SO, UM, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE PROVIDING ACCESSIBILITY AS PART OF THAT SPECIFIC NEW BUILDING IF WE'RE PUTTING IN A NEW BUILDING.

UM, AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, AS PART OF OUR LAST SCOPING TENANT, WE LOOK TO, AS WE'RE BRINGING ON NEW BUILDINGS TO A CAMPUS AND THAT NEW BUILDING WILL HAVE BRAND NEW PAINT, WE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THEN PAINT THE EXTERIOR OF THE REST OF THE CAMPUS SO THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, CONFORMITY WITHIN, WITHIN THE CAMPUS.

AND IT'S KIND OF GIVES A REFRESH AND IT BRINGS THAT CAMPUS TO LIFE.

ALRIGHT.

UM, AND SO THAT WAS SPECIFIC TO THE SCOPING FOR SEISMIC MODERNIZATIONS.

NOW ON ONE OF THESE PROJECTS YOU'RE GONNA SEE, UM, AND I THINK CHRISTINA TOUCHED ON IT EARLIER, AND WE'VE, WE'VE GONE THROUGH A PRIORITIZATION EFFORT OF ALL THE SEISMIC PROJECTS, WHICH IS THE 24 CAMPUSES.

WE'VE ALSO GONE THROUGH A PRIORITIZATION FOR GREEN SCHOOLYARD PROJECTS, GREENING PROJECTS, AS WELL AS WHAT WE CALL PACE UP PAVING REPLACEMENT AND, AND GREENING PROJECTS, IF YOU WILL.

AND SO THERE ARE SOME PROJECTS OR SITES I SHOULD SAY, THAT ARE ON MULTIPLE LISTS.

SO THERE'S THIS, THERE MIGHT BE A SCHOOL THAT WAS, THAT ALSO HAS LIFT SLABS, BUT ALSO MET THE CRITERIA TO BE GIVEN OR TO, TO, FOR US TO PROCEED WITH A GREENING PROJECT.

AND SO IN THAT CASE, AND THERE'S ONE OF THE SITES HERE, WE WOULD THEN FOLD IN THAT GREENING PROJECT INTO THIS PROJECT INTO THE SEISMIC PROJECT.

AND SO I'LL TOUCH ON THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT.

THE, THE, UH, GREEN SCHOOLYARD, UH, PROGRAM.

ULTIMATELY WE LOOKED AT SCHOOLS THAT HAVE, UH, IN THAT WERE CATEGORY ONE SCHOOLS IN TERMS OF AMOUNT OF, UH, GREEN SPACE THEY HAD NOW THAT WAS BASED ON THE GREEN SCHOOL YARDS FOR ALL PLAN THAT WAS PUBLISHED A WHILE BACK.

WE ALSO LOOK AT ENROLLMENT THAT'S OVER 275 STUDENTS TO MAKE SURE WE'RE TARGETING AS MANY STUDENTS AS WE CAN.

UM, AND THEN, UM, OUR GOAL AND IS REALLY OUR TARGETS ARE IF, IF FEASIBLE, 30% GREENING AND 20% SHADE IMPROVEMENTS TO THAT, UM, SITE.

WE ALSO LOOK AT CREATING OUTDOOR LEARNING SPACES AND THEN IF NECESSARY ON THESE GREEN SCHOOLYARD.

'CAUSE THESE PROJECTS ARE A LITTLE MORE, UM, WE TRY TO DIVE IN TO PROVIDE GREENING, IT'S NOT A FULL REPLACEMENT OF THE PAVEMENT.

UM, BUT IN SOME CASES WHERE WE HAVE TO DO RE-SCRIPTING AND RE UM, SLURRY, WE WILL DO THAT AS WELL.

AND THEN OBVIOUSLY ACCESSIBILITY.

SO, UM, LET'S JUMP RIGHT IN.

SO WE'VE GOT FOUR PROJECTS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE GOING OVER.

AND I'LL GO THROUGH EACH FOUR.

THEY'LL HAVE A SIMILAR FORMAT.

UM, SO WE HAVE MENLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 93RD STREET ELEMENTARY, 96TH, AND 120 SECOND STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

YOU CAN SEE THE MAP THERE, UM, WHERE THEY'RE ALL, UM, WHERE THEY'RE ALL LOCATED.

SO, UH, BEFORE I DIVE INTO MENLO, I, I WANNA EMPHASIZE A FEW THINGS THAT'S, THAT GOES ACROSS ALL FOUR OF THEM.

UM, NUMBER ONE IS SOME OF THE THINGS, AS WE'RE SCOPING THESE PROJECTS, WE REALLY TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO ENROLLMENT, RIGHT? I THINK, UM, IN THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION YOU HEARD, UM, ENROLLMENT IS SOMETHING WE OBVIOUSLY LOOK AT.

WE LOOK, LOOK AT FIVE YEAR HISTORY PROJECTIONS, OR SORRY, FIVE YEAR ENROLLMENT.

SO WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, HISTORICALLY WHERE, WHERE HAS THAT SCHOOL BEEN AND FROM AN ENROLLMENT PERSPECTIVE, WHAT THE CURRENT ENROLLMENT IS.

AND THEN WE PLAN OUT OR PROJECT FIVE YEARS OUT.

AND THAT FIVE YEARS IS USUALLY A RANGE.

'CAUSE YOU KNOW, NOBODY'S PERFECT.

WE CAN'T IDENTIFY EXACTLY WHAT THAT NUMBER'S GOING TO BE.

I WISH WE COULD, BUT WE USUALLY LOOK AT A RANGE OF WHAT THAT ENROLLMENT MIGHT BE BASED ON WHAT'S GOING OUT ON IN THAT SPECIFIC AREA.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE ALSO LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS ON CAMPUS.

HOW MANY CAMP CLASSROOMS DO THEY ALREADY CURRENTLY HAVE? HOW MANY DO THEY ACTUALLY NEED BASED OFF OF THE PROGRAMS THEY HAVE.

UM, IN TERMS OF INSTRUCTIONAL NEED, WHAT KIND OF SETA ASIDES, COMPUTER LABS, UM, YOU KNOW, TEACHER, UH, AID ROOMS. UM, SO THERE'S, UH, SETA ASIDES THAT ALSO NEED TO BE FACTORED IN.

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UM, SOMETIMES AN ART ROOM.

AND THEN WE LOOK AT HOW MANY SPECIAL ED CLASSROOMS THEY NEED.

AND SO IT'S INSTRUCTIONAL.

WE LOOK AT SETA ASIDES, WE LOOK AT SPECIAL ED, UM, AND THEN WE LOOK AT IF THERE'S ANY DISTRICT USES OF ANY OF THE CLASSROOMS ON SPACE THAT THE DISTRICT IS USING THAT MAY BE THE LOCAL DISTRICT, ET CETERA.

SO ALL OF THOSE FACTORS GO INTO HOW MANY CLASSROOMS DOES THE SCHOOL NEED? AND AS WE'RE LOOKING AT REMOVING BUILDINGS, HOW MANY DO WE NEED TO PUT BACK, RIGHT? AND SO WE TAKE THIS EFFORT TO WHAT WE CALL, WE LIKE TO CALL RIGHT SIZING THE CAMPUS, RIGHT? SO YOU DON'T NEED TO BUILD BACK THE SAME NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS THAT MAYBE THEY HAVE TODAY BECAUSE OF DECLINING ENROLLMENT.

AND MAYBE THEY'RE NOT UTILIZING ALL THOSE CLASSROOMS. SO THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO, LIKE I SAID, RIGHT SIZE THE CAMPUS, MAKE SURE THAT IT'S, UM, AND ULTIMATELY DECREASE OUR FOOTPRINT, IF YOU WILL, ON THAT PARTICULAR CAMPUS IN TERMS OF SQUARE FOOTAGE, WHICH HOPEFULLY WILL SAVE IN GENERAL FUND COSTS IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE THEN YOU'RE MAINTAINING LESS, UM, SQUARE FOOTAGE.

UM, SO LET'S DIVE RIGHT INTO MENLO.

ALRIGHT, SO, UH, MENLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THIS PROJECT, AND YOU CAN SEE HERE, ULTIMATELY WE HAVE, UM, TWO LIFTS, LAB BUILDINGS.

WHAT WE'LL BE REMOVING ON THIS CAMPUS IS THE TWO IN RED.

UM, ULTIMATELY THAT HAS 20, UH, SORRY, 18 PERMANENT CLASSROOMS AS WELL AS THE MAIN ADMINISTRATION.

WE WOULD BE BUILDING BACK THREE KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOMS AS WELL AS ADMINISTRATION IN A PERMANENT BUILDING.

AND THEN YOU CAN SEE YOU'VE GOT PORTABLE CLASSROOMS THERE, UM, THAT ARE UNCERTIFIED WHERE YOU CAN SEE LITTLE NUMBER TWOS AND THEN LIGHT BLUE AND OVER IN GREEN.

AND SO THE IDEA WOULD BE WE WOULD REMOVE THOSE PORTABLES AND BRING BACK, SO WE'RE REMOVING 10 PORTABLES, BRINGING BACK 10 SO THAT WE CAN CERTIFY THEM.

'CAUSE WE HAVE TO UPGRADE THE FIRE ALARM FOR THE ENTIRE CAMPUS.

AND IN ORDER TO DO SO, YOU NEED TO HAVE BUILDINGS THAT ARE, UM, ALL CERTIFIED.

SO IN THE END, WE'RE ACTUALLY, UM, DECREASING THE FOOTPRINT AT THIS, UM, CAMPUS.

UM, ULTIMATELY WE'RE BUILDING, UH, 13 CLASSROOMS, BUT WE'RE REMOVING 28.

UM, IN ADDITION TO, UM, JUST THE BUILDING, UH, THE CLASSROOMS ITSELF, WE'VE, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, WE HAVE THE FULL ADMINISTRATION THAT NEEDS TO BE BUILT OUT.

THERE IS A LOT OF UTILITY WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AS WELL.

ANYTIME YOU'RE TAKING OUT PERMANENT BUILDINGS, THERE'S A LOT OF UTILITIES, THERE'S MAIN PANELS.

UM, THERE MIGHT BE MAIN ELECTRICAL SERVICE RUNNING THROUGH.

IN THIS CASE, THE FIRE ALARM SYSTEM IS RUNNING THROUGH THE MAIN ADMIN AS WELL.

AND SO WITH THAT, WE WILL HAVE TO ADDRESS ALL OF THOSE UTILITIES.

SO IT'S NOT JUST THE NEW BUILDING.

THERE'S A LOT OF UTILITY WORK.

UM, AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, PAINT, UM, AND A DA WILL BE ADDRESSED.

THE PROJECT BUDGET FOR THIS, UM, CAMPUS IS 73.8 MILLION.

I DO WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE A DESIGN YET, RIGHT AT THIS POINT.

IT'S ALL, WE, WE'VE GOT A SCOPE.

WE, WE IDENTIFIED WHAT SQUARE FOOTAGE, GENERALLY SPEAKING WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE BUILDING AND HOW MUCH WE'RE GONNA BE REMOVING AND WHAT AREAS OF THE CAMPUS.

AND WE GO THROUGH A, A PROCESS OF INTERNALLY GOING THROUGH A BUDGET ANALYSIS, UM, AND ESTIMATING TO THEN CREATE A, WHAT WE CALL A PROJECT BUDGET WORKSHEET, WHICH ULTIMATELY HAS WHAT WE ANTICIPATE THE WHOLE PROJECT WILL BE, WILL COST, AND THEN WE BREAK IT DOWN BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT, UM, CATEGORIES, SITE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANS, WHICH WOULD BE THE DESIGN WOULD BE THE ARCHITECT CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS SELF-EXPLANATORY.

AND THEN MANAGEMENT COSTS BOTH IN DURING DESIGN AS WELL AS DURING CONSTRUCTION.

UM, AND THEN WE ALWAYS HOLD A PROJECT RESERVE FOR EACH OF THESE IN CASE WE FIND WE RUN INTO ANY UNFORESEEN CONDITIONS OR AS, UH, COSTS POTENTIALLY ESCALATE.

UM, WE ANTICIPATE STARTING CONSTRUCTION ON THIS PROJECT.

UM, WE CAN'T SEE IT UP THERE, BUT IT'S, UH, SECOND QUARTER OF 2029 AND COMPLETING IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2032.

UM, ENROLLMENT ON THIS CAMPUS IS 457 STUDENTS.

WE HAVE SEEN, UH, AT THIS PARTICULAR CAMPUS A A BIT OF A DECLINE.

UM, AND WE PROJECT OUT THAT IT WOULD BE MA RELATIVELY STABLE, UM, AROUND 400 TO 450 STUDENTS.

UM, WE DO HAVE AN ACTIVE PROJECT ON THIS CAMPUS THAT WE'RE COORDINATING.

IT'S A GREEN SCHOOLYARD PROJECT THAT IS RUN BY FACILITIES.

UM, THAT PROJECT, UM, IS SUPPOSED TO BE BIDDING THIS FALL WITH SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION IN THE, UH, DECEMBER OF 2027.

AND THEN WE HAVE A WALK-IN FREEZER PROJECT, WHICH IS A LITTLE MORE OF A MINOR PROJECT.

SO, UM, I'M GONNA CONTINUE GOING THROUGH AND THEN I'LL, UM, OPEN UP FOR QUESTIONS.

SO 93RD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

UM, THIS PROJECT IS TO REMOVE, UH, THE TWO LIFT SIDE BUILDINGS YOU SEE THERE, A AND B.

THIS ONE ALSO HAS A LOT OF UTILITY WORK BECAUSE OF, UM, I THINK THERE'S AN ELECTRICAL, UH, MAIN IN ONE OF THE LIFT SLAB AS WELL AS A BOILER.

AND SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO A LOT OF COORDINATION DURING CONSTRUCTION TO KEEP THE BUILDINGS UP AND RUNNING TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE IT FEEDS SOME OF THE OTHER BUILDINGS.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, LOGISTICS THAT HAS TO BE FIGURED OUT.

THIS PROJECT WILL CONSTRUCT, UM,

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LET'S SEE.

WE'VE GOT HERE, UH, SIX PERMANENT CLASSROOMS PLUS A LIBRARY.

AND WE'RE DEMOLISHING 24 CLASSROOMS IN THE PERMANENT BUILDING AS, UH, AS I HAD MENTIONED ON THE PREVIOUS ONE.

THIS ONE ALSO HAS UNCERTIFIED PORTABLES.

WE WOULD BE REMOVING NINE PORTABLE CLASSROOMS, UM, MOST OF WHICH ARE UNCERTIFIED, AND THEN BRINGING IN FOUR, UH, PORTABLE CLASSROOMS. AND YES, SIR, DIDN'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT YOU, BUT I THINK MAYBE RELATED TO THE MENLO SITE, UH, ONE OF OUR MEMBERS OFF, UM, ONLINE HAS A QUESTION.

OH, SURE.

MS. MCDOWELL, YOU HAD A QUESTION? YES, THANK YOU.

I'M, I'M APOLOGIZE FOR INTERRUPTING THE PRESENTATION.

HOPEFULLY THIS WILL PROVIDE CLARITY MOVING FORWARD.

I KNOW YOU REQUESTED QUESTIONS AT THE END, SO THANK YOU.

UM, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT UM, REPLACING RELOCATABLE BUILDINGS IS NOT THE PRIORITY FOR THIS, UH, PROGRAM.

HOWEVER, I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF YOU COULD PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY, UH, AT LEAST IN THE MENLO, UH, PROJECT THAT YOU ARE PROPOSING TO REPLACE RELOCATABLE BUILDINGS INSTEAD OF BUILDING THOSE INTO THOSE, UM, DEMOLISHED CLASSROOMS INTO THE NEW PERMANENT BUILDING.

YEAH, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

SO, UM, AND AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE PRE MY PREVIOUS STATEMENTS, I WAS VERY MUCH EMPHASIZING THE, THE PRIORITY OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO GET TO THE 24 SITES, UM, WITH THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE.

AND SO WE ARE REALLY TAKING A FINE LOOK AT MAKING SURE THAT OUR TARGET IS TO REMOVE THE LIFT SLAB BUILDINGS.

UM, THAT'S FIRST AND FOREMOST BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT WE WANT TO GET TO ALL 24 OF THE CAMPUSES.

UM, SO THAT'S GOAL NUMBER ONE WHERE WE CAN, WE WOULD INCORPORATE THE NEW CLASSROOMS INTO THE, UM, INTO A NEW BUILDING.

UM, HOWEVER, WE HAVE TO BE BUDGET CONSCIOUS AND THEN WE ALSO ARE BEING, ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE OURSELVES SOME FLEXIBILITY WITH THOSE PORTABLES BECAUSE AS ENROLLMENT SHIFTS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, THEN WE CAN USE PORTABLES AS A WAY OF NOT PERMANENTLY PLACING, UM, MONEY INTO THESE BUILDINGS.

UM, AND THOSE PORTABLES CAN BE, UM, USED OR REMOVED IF NEED BE.

SO THAT, THAT ALLOWS US TO KIND OF FLUCTUATE BETWEEN, UM, THE, THE ONLY REASON WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING IN AND REMOVING OLDER PORTABLES AND PUTTING IN NEW PORTABLES IS THESE ARE UNCERTIFIED PORTABLES, RIGHT? SO THESE ARE PORTABLES THAT IF WE GO AND UPGRADE THE FIRE ALARM SYSTEM FOR THE CAMPUS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT GONE THROUGH BECAUSE OF OLD PAPERWORK BEEN APPROVED OR CERTIFIED, I SHOULD SAY, BY THE DIVISION OF STATE ARCHITECTS, THEN IT MAKES IT A MUCH MORE CHALLENGING, UH, GO AROUND WITH THEM.

AND FRANKLY THEY DON'T ALLOW IT TO THEN TIE IN A FIRE ALARM TO A BUILDING THAT HAS NOT BEEN CERTIFIED AND IT'S MUCH, UH, MORE, MORE COST EFFECTIVE.

AND WE GET TO PROVIDE THE STUDENTS WITH A NEW PORTABLE, UM, BY JUST REMOVING THE OLD UNCERTIFIED PORTABLES, PUTTING IN A NEW PORTABLE AND THEN CERTIFYING IT.

IT'S MUCH EASIER THAN GOING IN AND TRYING TO CERTIFY AN OLD BUILDING THAT WAS PLACED THERE, YOU KNOW, IN SOME CASES 30 YEARS AGO.

SO I HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION, THAT GOODNESS IT DID.

AS YOU MOVE, IF I COULD MAKE ONE MORE REQUEST AS YOU MOVE THROUGH THE PRESENTATION, IF YOU COULD PLEASE INCLUDE THAT RATIONALE FOR EACH OF THE PROJECTS, IF YOU ARE REPLACING THE RELOCATABLE BUILDINGS, THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.

AND I KNOW AS I GO THROUGH IT, 'CAUSE I GO THROUGH THE PERMANENT, WHAT WE'RE WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE DEMO DEMOLISHING ON THE PERMANENT, WHAT WE'RE REPLACING ON THE PERMANENT, AND THEN WHAT WE'RE REMOVING ON THE PORTABLE SIDE AND WE'RE REPLACING ON THE PORTABLE SIDE.

SO HOPEFULLY THAT'S AN EASY WAY TO FOLLOW ALONG.

IT'S WRITTEN THERE, BUT I RECOGNIZE IT'S A LOT OF WORDS, SO I'M TRYING TO MAKE IT AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE.

UM, SO FEEL FREE AND STOP ME AND ASK ME TO, UM, ELABORATE IF YOU NEED ME TO.

ABSOLUTELY.

UH, WITH, UM, L-A-N-L-T-A COMMUNITY PARTNER.

SO 93RD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE BUILDING A AND B, WHICH HAS 24 CLASSROOMS AS WELL.

AS I MENTIONED, A LOT OF UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE.

THOSE TWO BUILDINGS WOULD BE DEMOLISHED SO THAT WE COULD REMOVE THE LIFT SLIDE BUILDINGS.

WHAT WE WOULD BE BUILDING BACK, UH, IN PERMANENT BUILDINGS WOULD BE, UH, FOUR GENERAL CLASSROOMS AND TWO KINDER CLASSROOMS, AS WELL AS BUILDING BACK THEIR LIBRARY.

AND I'M GONNA EMPHASIZE AGAIN THE UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE 'CAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY ON THIS PROJECT.

AND IT, UM, ADDS TO THE BUDGET.

UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE'RE REMOVING THE NINE PORTABLES THAT YOU SEE AGAIN IN, YOU CAN SEE THEM DASHED IN BLUE, UM, AS WELL AS THE GREEN ONE IS, IS ACTUALLY A CERTIFIED ONE, BUT THE OTHERS ARE UNCERTIFIED.

WE'RE REMOVING NINE PORTABLE CLASSROOMS AND THEN BRINGING BACK FOUR PORTABLE CLASSROOMS. SOME OF THAT TOO IS, IS WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN PHASE THE PROJECT AND MAYBE BRINGING IN THE PORTABLES FIRST.

SO THEN THAT ALLOWS US TO TAKE DOWN THOSE BUILDINGS WITHOUT, UM, HAVING TO PROVIDE TOO MUCH INTERIM HOUSING.

UM, JUST LEAVING THOSE BUILDINGS BEHIND.

UM, THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, AS I MENTIONED, SO WE'RE REMOVING, IF YOU ADD UP THE TWO, WE'RE REMOVING 33 CLASSROOMS AND WE'RE BUILDING BACK A TOTAL OF 10 CLASSROOMS, INCLUDING THE PORTABLES.

SO THERE'S A NET DECREASE ON THIS CAMPUS OF 23 CLASSROOMS. UM, THIS PRO THIS SITE ALSO HAS A, UM, CAL FIRE GRANT,

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AND THEY ARE IN PRE-CONSTRUCTION NOW.

UM, AND I THINK THEY ANTICIPATE COMPLETING CONSTRUCTION, UM, IN EARLY 2028.

SO WE'RE COORDINATING WITH THEM.

SO ALL OF THAT BLACK ASPHALT AREA THAT WE DON'T THINK IS GOING TO BE PART OF OUR PROJECT, UM, THAT WILL BE A GREENING PROJECT THAT THEY'LL BE WORKING ON.

THE ENROLLMENT AT THIS CAMPUS IS 711 STUDENTS.

UM, AND WE'VE SEEN OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, UM, ENROLLMENT HAS DECLINED AT THIS CAMPUS, UM, KIND OF STEADILY.

UM, AND WE HAVE A FIVE YEAR PROJECTION SOMEWHERE AROUND SIX TO 700 STUDENTS.

UM, 96TH STREET.

SO THIS IS THE ONE THAT I HAD MENTIONED EARLIER THAT HAS BOTH A SEISMIC PROJECT AND A GREEN SCHOOLYARD PROJECT.

UM, AND SO WE'VE COUPLED THE TWO OF THEM TOGETHER.

UM, THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, WE ARE REMOVING 20, UH, 20 CLASSROOMS OUT OF THOSE TWO LIFTS LAB BUILDINGS.

AND THEN WE ARE BUILDING BACK, UM, EIGHT CLASSROOMS IN A PERMANENT BUILDING WITH THE LIBRARY.

AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE UNCERTIFIED PORTABLES UP IN THE, UP IN THE RIGHT, UH, THERE IN THE DASHED BLUE.

UM, AND WE WOULD BE REMOVING EIGHT OF THOSE, UH, PORTABLE BUILDINGS AND REPLACING THEM WITH FOUR.

UM, AND SO ULTIMATELY THERE IS A, A NET DECREASE AS WELL ON THIS CAMPUS.

THE ENROLLMENT ON THIS CAMPUS IS 493.

UM, WE'VE SEEN STEADY DECLINES AS WELL ON THIS CAMPUS.

UM, AND THEN A PLANNING ENROLLMENT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN, UM, FOUR 50 AND 500 STUDENTS.

UM, THE PROJECT BUDGET, UM, IS $90 MILLION AND WE ANTICIPATE STARTING CONSTRUCTION IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2029 AND COMPLETING IN 2032.

AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER PROJECT WE HAVE ON THIS CAMPUS IS A WALK-IN FREEZER PROJECT.

THEY ARE CURRENT, THEY CURRENTLY HAVE 43 STANDARDIZED CLASSROOMS AND JUST POINT THAT INCLUDES THE PORTABLE CLASSROOMS THEY HAVE.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, 122ND STREET, YOU CAN SEE BUILDINGS A AND B, UM, DASHED AND RED THERE.

UM, THIS ONE ALSO HAS MAJOR UTILITY WORK.

THERE'S A MAIN SWITCH GEAR IN THIS BUILDING, SO THERE IS GOING TO BE A LOT OF, UM, SITE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THIS PROJECT.

UM, IN BUILDINGS A AND B, WE HAVE 22 PERMANENT CLA 22 CLASSROOMS AND PERMANENT BUILDING OBVIOUSLY, UM, AS WELL AS THE LIBRARY.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE FOUR CLASSROOMS AND PORTABLES THAT WE WOULD BE REMOVING THAT ARE UNCERTIFIED.

UM, WE WOULD BE BUILDING BACK SIX PERMANENT CLASSROOMS, UM, AS WELL AS THE LIBRARY AND THEN ANY M AND O SPACE NEEDED.

'CAUSE I THINK THERE'S SOME M AND O SPACE ALSO, UM, KIND OF IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO BUILDINGS AND THEN BUILDING BACK FOR, UH, OR PUTTING BACK FOUR PORTABLE CLASSROOMS. UM, SO THIS PROJECT ALSO HAS A NET DECREASE, UM, IN THE NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS. UM, AT THE END OF THE PROJECT.

THIS SITE, UM, ALSO HAS A GREENING PARTNER AND THIS THROUGH A CAL FIRE AND IT WAS COMPLETED, UM, BACK, UH, AT THE END OF 2025.

AND YOU CAN SEE WE DASHED IN THERE WHERE THAT, UH, PROJECT WAS.

UM, ENROLLMENT AT THIS SITE, UH, IS CURRENTLY 552, UH, FOR 25 26 SCHOOL YEAR.

UM, AND WE'VE SEEN ENROLLMENT AT THIS SCHOOL HAS BEEN FAIRLY STEADY, UM, ALTHOUGH WE'VE SEEN SOME SLIGHT DECLINES.

ALL RIGHT.

WITH THAT, UM, I'M SORRY.

AND IT'S A $77.5 MILLION, UH, PROJECT.

SO WITH THAT I WILL, UH, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, BUT UM, I WILL OPEN IT TO QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, MS. MCFARLAND, AND THEN I'LL GET TO THANK, THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT.

I, I THINK I'M JUST LOOKING FOR SOME CONTEXT IN, IN A SCHOOL SITE THAT LOSES LET'S SAY 15 OR 20 CLASSROOMS, WHAT WOULD BE LIKE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS THAT IT'S STARTING WITH? YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

SO I CAN GO, SO I COULD TELL YOU AT, I DON'T WANNA BE GENERIC, SO LET'S GO MORE A LITTLE, A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC.

SO AT A SCHOOL LIKE MENLO, WHEN THERE'S 35 CLASSROOMS THERE TODAY, THEY HAVE 35 STANDARD CLASSROOMS THERE TODAY, PLUS THEY HAVE NINE WHAT WE CALL SMALL CLASSROOMS, WHICH CAN BE, WHICH IS BELOW 720 SQUARE FEET.

SO USUALLY THOSE, THEY CAN USE THEM AS CLASSROOMS, BUT IN A LOT OF CASES THEY USE THEM AS SET ASIDES AND OTHER THINGS.

UM, AT THE END OF THAT, THIS PROJECT, UM, AS, AS CURRENTLY SCOPED, THEY WOULD END UP WITH 20 CLASSROOM, 20 STANDARD CLASSROOMS AT THE END.

AND THEN THEY'D ALSO HAVE THEIR NINE SMALL AND WITH AN ENROLLMENT AROUND RIGHT NOW, 450, THOSE 20 CLASSROOMS WOULD SUFFICE.

UM, THEIR ENROLLMENT.

AND AS I'VE ALWAYS MENTIONED, AND I THINK CHRISTINA MENTIONED AS WELL, WE HAVE THE PORTABLES AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH TO KIND OF HELP WITH THAT.

IF, IF THEY GROW, AND THIS IS WHAT WE TELL THE SCHOOL, IF THEY, IF YOU'RE, IF THE ENROLLMENT STAYS STABLE OR IF ENROLLMENT GROWS, THEN WE HAVE THAT AS KIND OF A, UM, A WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE SCHOOL.

RIGHT.

WE'RE NOT TRYING TO HANDICAP THEM ON 93RD STREET.

UM, THERE WILL BE 37 CLASSROOMS AT THE END OF THE PROJECT.

UM, SO THEY ACTUALLY HAVE 60 STANDARD SIZED CLASSROOMS NOW.

AND SO THEY WOULD BE GOING DOWN, UM, AT 96TH STREET.

THEY CURRENTLY HAVE 48 STANDARD SIZED CLASSROOMS AND THEY WOULD HAVE 31 WITH ALL THAT MATH THAT I JUST, THAT I DID FOR YOU GUYS.

UM, THEY'D HAVE 31 AT THE END AND THEN, UM, 120 SECOND STREET,

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SO WHEN I SAY 43 STANDARD SIZE, THAT INCLUDES PERMANENT CLASSROOMS AND PERMANENT AND PORTABLES.

AND THEN AT THE END OF THE PROJECT THEY WOULD HAVE, UH, 27.

GOOD QUESTION.

UH, THANK YOU FOR THAT.

I THINK MY HEAD IS SPINNING WITH ALL THE NUMBERS.

YEAH, PERFECT.

BUT , UM, SO I'M GONNA PIGGYBACK ON, UM, THE QUESTION THAT WAS JUST ASKED.

SO, SO IF I UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT THESE NUMBERS AND THESE BUDGETS ARE, ARE OBVIOUSLY THE COST OF IT.

IT COMES WITH, YOU KNOW, DEMOLISHING THESE EXISTING STRUCTURES AND ALL OF THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE WITH INFRASTRUCTURE AND ELECTRICAL AND ALL OF THOSE OTHER THINGS.

UM, SO YES, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE CAMPUSES WILL BE LEFT WITH NEGATIVE CLASSROOMS AND WHAT THEY HAVE RIGHT NOW, AND THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE MAKING THOSE UP AS ASSUMING THE NEED IS THERE IN THE FUTURE WITH THESE PORTABLES.

AT WHAT POINT IN TIME DOES THE PORTABLE TURN INTO ANOTHER STRUCTURE? THAT'S MY FIRST QUESTION.

OR HOW MANY PORTABLES EQUALS ANOTHER STRUCTURE AT SOME POINT ON THESE CAMPUSES? IF WE GET TO A POINT WHERE THESE CAMPUSES START GROWING IN, IN ENROLLMENT, YOU MEAN A PER LIKE IN A ANOTHER PROJECT IN THE FUTURE, RIGHT? YEAH, SO WE HAVE A DIFFERENT, UH, WE HAVE ANOTHER PROGRAM, A CLASSROOM, UH, REPLACEMENT PROGRAM, SO SEPARATE FROM JUST THE LIFT SLABS THAT IDENTIFIES SCHOOLS THAT HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS IN PORTABLES.

AND THAT PARTICULAR PROGRAM IS PART OF MEASURE US, WHICH WE'LL BE BRINGING TO THE BOC AT SOME POINT IN THE, UH, NEAR FUTURE, UM, PROJECTS KIND OF ROLLING OUT WHERE WE'RE IDENTIFYING WHERE THERE'S SCHOOLS THAT ARE RELYING VERY HEAVILY ON PORTABLE CLASSROOMS AND SO WE WOULD TARGET THOSE.

WE'VE GOT SOME PROJECTS THAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING AT SOME OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, UM, MOSTLY.

UM, AND SO IT WOULD DEPEND ON THE PRIORITIZATION OF THAT.

AND IN TERMS OF WHERE THEY WOULD LAND ON THE LIST OF WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS, IT WOULD MAKE SENSE BASED ON THEIR PERCENTAGE OF PORTABLE CLASSROOM VERSUS PERMANENT, WHERE WE WOULD THEN IDENTIFY BUILDING ANOTHER PERMANENT BUILDING.

AND MY SECOND QUESTION IS ON THESE, SOME OF THESE SITES AND OTHER SITES, AS YOU BRING THEM UP TO US WHERE THEY HAVE AN EXISTING PROJECT HAPPENING.

NOW THIS, THE BUDGETS THAT YOU'RE PRESENTING ARE SOLELY FOR THE PROJECTS THAT'S CORRECT FOR THE SEISMIC WORK.

UM, BUT WHERE YOU HAVE THIS, THESE OTHER PROJECTS, DO THE BUDGETS THEN GET REVISED BECAUSE THESE OTHER PROJECTS ARE NOW INCORPORATED INTO THIS PLAN? OR ARE THOSE OTHER PROJECTS DONE AS STANDALONES AND THEN THIS IS DONE AS A STANDALONE? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

SO THE PROJECTS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THOSE ARE ALL STANDALONE PROJECTS.

THEY HAVE THEIR OWN BUDGETS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN SCHEDULE, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN DESIGNERS.

SO THE GREENING PROJECTS THAT I MENTIONED, THOSE ARE NOT THE DOLLAR VALUE OF THAT.

THOSE PROJECTS ARE NOT IN THIS PROJECT.

THE ONLY ONE THAT WHERE WE'RE COMBINING IS THE, THE ONE PROJECT WHERE WE HAVE A SEISMIC AND GREEN SCHOOLYARD WHERE IN ADDITION TO REMOVING THE LIFT SLABS, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE DOING A FULL, UH, GREENING OF THE, UH, PLAYGROUND AREA.

BUT THAT PROJECT DOESN'T HAVE A GREENING PROJECT HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

CORRECT? IT'S PART OF THIS PROJECT.

GOT IT.

BUT THE OTHER ONES I MENTIONED LIKE THE WALK-IN FREEZERS OR THE GREENING PROJECTS THAT ARE PART OF EITHER THE, AN OLD MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS OR, OR OLD FACILITIES PROJECT, THOSE HAVE STANDALONE BUDGETS AND STANDALONE SCHEDULES AND THEY'RE NOT INCORPORATED INTO THIS ONE.

GOT IT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

UH, REAL QUICKLY HERE CAMPBELL, I'LL COME BACK TO YOU MR. SULLIVAN.

GOOD MORNING.

UM, JUST A QUICK QUESTION ON, ON DIFFERENT SOURCES OF FUNDING.

SO, UM, THERE'S AN ASK OF THE BOND PROGRAM HERE.

ARE WE, ARE WE ALSO, UM, I UNDERSTAND WE CAN LEVERAGE PROP $2 FOR SEISMIC RETROFIT OR IS THIS, IS THIS ALL COMING OUT OF THE DISTRICT'S BOND PROGRAM OR ARE WE DRAWING DOWN MATCHING DOLLARS FROM PROP TWO OR FROM ANY OTHER SOURCES? STATE ALLOCATION BOARD, ANYTHING LIKE THAT? OKAY, GOOD QUESTION.

SO IN REGARDS TO HOW WE DO OUR MATH TO SAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO TARGET GETTING TO ALL 24, WE'RE RELYING ON MEASURE US AND MEASURE US ONLY, HOWEVER, WE HAVE A, UH, FACILITIES, UM, GRANTS AND FUNDING GROUP THAT IS, THAT IS AS PART OF FACILITIES WHOSE SOLE GOAL IS IT IS TO GO AND APPLY FOR PROPOSITION TWO OR ANY OTHER FUNDING SOURCES OUTSIDE OF JUST MEASURE US.

AND SO I DON'T HAVE ALL THE DETAILS OF WHICH SPECIFIC PROJECTS WE'RE APPLYING FOR, BUT IF ELIGIBLE THEN OUR, UM, GRANT TEAM IS GOING OUT AND APPLYING FOR MATCHING FUNDS THROUGH VARIOUS GRANT PROGRAMS, INCLUDING PROPOSITION TWO IF, IF FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE.

FLOW BACK INTO THE BOND PROGRAM OR THEY REMAIN AVAILABLE FOR OTHER OTHER PURPOSES.

YEAH, I I MEAN AS I UNDERSTAND IT, THEY'RE AWARDED SORT OF ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE BASIS AND UM, I KNOW FOR, OR AT LEAST MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE, UH, LIKE THE STATE ALLOCATION BOARD FOR THE FACILITIES DOLLARS THERE TOO, I MEAN ONE OF THE PRIORITIES OF SEISMIC RETROFIT THAT I THINK THEY'VE SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFIED LIFT SLAB BUILDINGS.

SO JUST IN, IN UNDERSTANDING HOW, 'CAUSE THEN TO THE EXTENT THEY'RE OFFSET, RIGHT, THOSE DOLLARS EITHER

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UM, HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE I GUESS, MAINTAIN SOME VISIBILITY INTO THAT? SURE, YEAH, I THINK, I KNOW THAT'S NOT YOUR YEAH, YEAH, THAT'S OKAY.

UH, SO I THINK IN THE, THE NEXT TIME WE, BECAUSE AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE GONNA BE BRINGING FORWARD A LOT MORE PROJECTS UNDER THIS UMBRELLA SO WE CAN, I THINK WE CAN, I CAN GO BACK AND TALK TO THE FOLKS THAT PROBABLY KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT THAN I DO AND THEN COME BACK TO YOU WITH SOME OF THAT INFORMATION.

IT, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THOSE FUNDS FROM THOSE SOURCES OUTSIDE OF L-A-U-S-D WOULD REQUIRE SOME LEVEL OF MORE DEFINED BUDGET THAT YOU DON'T HAVE? SO THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IN TERMS OF MATCHING? I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CRITERIA IS.

THAT'S WHY I'M, I'M THROWING IT OUT THERE AS, YEAH, WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN THE PAST, NOT ONLY THROUGH NEW SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION, BUT ALSO EVEN SOME OF OUR OLDER SEISMIC PROJECTS OF APPLYING TO THE STATE UNDER VARIOUS PROGRAMS AND BEING ABLE TO GET, UM, STATE MATCHING FUNDS.

I, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW THE SPECIFIC SPECIFICS ABOUT PROPOSITION TWO, SO I DON'T WANNA SPEAK OUTTA TURN.

UH, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK INTO.

BUT IS IT EARLY IN THE PROCESS? LIKE THIS IS, IN FACT, I'LL HAVE A QUESTION AT THE END OF ALL THIS ABOUT WHERE YOU'VE USED THIS SORT OF BUDGET THAT YOU'VE DEVELOPED NOW, WHICH YOU STATED, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY TYPE OF A E YOU DON'T HAVE ANY, UM, YOU KNOW, DESIGN SITE, UH, YOU KNOW, EV EVALUATION AND SO FORTH.

UM, SO I DON'T, I DIDN'T KNOW IF SOME OF THESE OTHER FUNDING, FUNDING SOURCES WOULD WANT THAT NUMBER TO BE MORE DEFINED.

I'D HAVE TO LOOK INTO THE SPECIFIC, YEAH, IT COULDN'T, UH, I DON'T, I DON'T, AGAIN, I DON'T WANNA, UH, SPEAK OUTTA TURN IN TERMS OF SURE.

WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE PROPOSITION TO, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

APPLICATION IS SAYING, UM, IT MAY BE HAPPENING IN THE DARK AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT YOU'RE GETTING SOME MONEY BACK ON THESE THINGS.

SO IT'S KIND OF NICE TO, IF IT IS HAPPENING.

RIGHT.

I, I, I HOPE IT'S HAPPENING 'CAUSE IT'S, IT'S AVAILABLE MONEY.

UM, IT, IT, IT IS, IT REQUIRES A COMMITMENT OF LOCAL FUNDS, AT LEAST ON THE PROP TWO SIDE.

I'M LESS FAMILIAR WITH THE, THE, UM, THE STATE ALLOCATION BOARD AND HOW THOSE FACILITIES DOLLARS, UH, COME TO US.

I ASSUME WE HAVE TO ASK FOR THEM, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, AND JUST WE, WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE MORE NEEDS THAN WE HAVE RESOURCE TO THE EXTENT WE CAN LEVERAGE OTHER DOLLARS AND, AND PRESERVE THESE FOR THINGS WHERE THERE ISN'T THE AVAILABILITY OF A MATCH.

UM, IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR US TO KNOW WHAT THE DISTRICT'S DOING TO MAXIMIZE THE LIKELIHOOD OF THAT.

THANKS.

OH, DID YOU WANNA SULLIVAN? SORRY, CHRISTINA MIGHT WANNA, OH, SORRY.

HOLD.

SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO ADD, SO WE HAVE A, UM, ENTIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED THE FACILITIES, GRANTS AND FUNDING DEPARTMENT THAT I CAN INCLUDE IN, UM, MAYBE ONE OF MY UPCOMING CFE PRESENTATIONS TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE WORK THAT THEY DO.

BUT THEY DO ACT, ACT, UM, EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR.

THEY KIND OF COMB ALL THE DIFFERENT, UM, GRANTS OUT THERE.

OUR LARGEST ONE IS STATE PROPOSITION FUNDS AND THEN THERE'S VERY SPECIFIC FORMULAS ABOUT WHICH YOU'RE ELIGIBLE FOR.

IN FACT, EVERY CAMPUS HAS KIND OF AN ELIGIBILITY POINT SYSTEM OF HOW MUCH WE CAN MAKE APPLICATIONS ON THAT CAMPUS.

AND WE HAVE TO TRACK HOW MUCH WE'VE APPLIED AT THAT CAMPUS, WHAT TYPE OF PROGRAMS THEY ARE.

LIKE THE CAL FIRE ONE I PROVED IT HAD TO BE IN SPECIFIC AREAS, UM, THAT HAD, UH, MORE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CLIMATE HARDSHIPS AND THAT'S HOW WE CHOSE THOSE SITES.

SO DEPENDING ON WHAT WE'RE APPLYING FOR, THERE'S DIFFERENT KIND OF CRITERIA.

WE HAVE APPLIED FOR SEISMIC BEFORE, WE'VE ACTUALLY I THINK GOTTEN, UM, APPROXIMATELY 140 MILLION FOR THE SEISMIC WORK WE'VE DONE FOR COMP MODS AND WE ARE MAKING THOSE APPLICATIONS.

THESE ARE TOO EARLY ON.

TYPICALLY YOU HAVE TO HAVE DESIGN FURTHER ESTIMATES WHEN YOU MAKE THAT APPLICATION.

UM, BUT HAPPY TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON HOW WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THANK, THANK, THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPONSE.

THANKS FOR THE QUESTION.

'CAUSE THEN AGAIN, IT JUST SHOWS MORE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE EFFORTS THAT YOU GUYS ARE PUTTING IN THAT DON'T COME THROUGH THESE PRESENTATIONS YEAH.

HERE AT THIS.

SO THIS IS, THIS IS GOOD NEWS AND THEY'RE OFTEN RE UM, THEY'RE REIMBURSABLE, SO YOU HAVE TO SPEND THE MONEY TO GET THE MONEY RIGHT.

WHICH IS WHY WE'RE NOT UPFRONT.

WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY WOULD BE ELIGIBLE OR HOW MUCH, AND THEY REALLY COME LIKE OUR FEMA AFTER YEARS AFTER THE PROJECT.

PERFECT.

THANK YOU MR. SULLIVAN.

SORRY ABOUT THAT.

NO, NO WORRIES.

UH, I WILL SAY IT IS, IT IS NICE TO HEAR BECAUSE WE DON'T GET TO HEAR IT, THAT THAT MONEY DOES COME BACK AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, NOT SOMETHING THAT WE HEAR ALL THAT OFTEN.

SO FOR THE, THE REASON STATED, UH, MY QUESTION IS, UH, THERE WAS ONE PROJECT, AND I FORGET, I BELIEVE IT WAS EITHER 93RD OR 96TH STREET, UM, WHERE THERE WAS ALREADY AN EXISTING, UM, UH, GREENING PROJECT THAT'S ALREADY, I GUESS APPROVED AND IN THE WORKS, I THINK YOU SAID IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE 93RD STREET.

CONSIDERING THESE ARE KIND OF, THAT THESE ARE LARGE, ESSENTIALLY LARGE REMOVAL DEMO PROJECTS AND THEN RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS OCCURRING AFTER THEY'VE JUST GREENED TO SPACE.

93RD.

WELL, IT WAS A COUPLE OF THEM.

UM, MENLO ALSO HAS A, UM, GREEN SCHOOLYARD PROJECT THAT IS RUN BY FACILITIES.

WHAT, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS WHAT, WHAT MEASURES ARE BEING TAKEN TO MAKE SURE THAT NO DAMAGE IS BEING DONE TO THOSE PROJECTS?

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YEAH, IT'S A, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THOSE TEAMS AS SOON AS WE KNEW EVEN PROBABLY OVER SIX MONTHS AGO THAT THESE PROJECTS OR THESE SITES WERE GOING TO BE IDENTIFIED.

THE FIRST THING WE DID IS LOOK TO SEE WHAT OTHER PROJECTS ARE GOING ON IN THOSE CAMPUSES AND THEN COORDINATE WITH THOSE TEAMS TO SEE, OKAY, WHERE DO WE THINK WE'RE GONNA BE TOUCHING THE CAMPUS? OBVIOUSLY IN THE AREAS WHERE YOU SEE THE LIFT SLAB BUILDING, THAT'S OBVIOUS WE HAVE TO DEMOLISH THE LIFT SLAB BUILDING, BUT WE TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER AND WE SAY, WHERE DO WE THINK WE'RE GONNA BUILD A NEW BUILDING? WHERE DO WE THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO TRENCH UTILITIES? AND SO THEN WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THOSE TEAMS TO MAKE SURE THAT, OKAY, IF WE HAVE AN AREA, AND IT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST AND I'M NOT SURE IF THESE PROJECTS, BUT SOME OTHERS WHERE THEY MIGHT HAVE AN AREA THAT'S CLOSE TO ONE OF THE BUILDINGS WE'RE GONNA DEMOLISH, WE SAY, WELL, DON'T INVEST MONEY IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA.

SO THEN THEY HAVE TO GO AND REDESIGN BEFORE THEY START CONSTRUCTION TO ELIMINATE CERTAIN AREAS SO THAT THEY'RE NOT SPENDING THAT MONEY.

AND THEN WE MAY SAY, OKAY, AS PART OF OUR PROJECT, IF YOU WERE PLANNING TO GREEN A CERTAIN PART OF THE CAMPUS AND WE'RE NOW GOING TO STOP YOU, PREVENT YOU, THEN WE MIGHT PICK UP SOME OF THAT SPACES.

HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.

BAM.

SO I UNDERSTAND, AND I HOPE I'M HEARING THERE IS COORDINATION BETWEEN PROJECT A, B, C, D, ET CETERA.

THERE IS MORE COORDINATION THAN LOTS OF DANCING, LOTS OF COORDINATION, THANKS.

YOU KNOW, THE GOOD NEWS IN YOUR ANSWER IS THAT PROJECT'S ALREADY BEEN EXECUTED.

SOMETIMES IT'S UNFORTUNATE, BUT IF IT'S IN DESIGN, THAT RESPONSE WAS VERY POSITIVE BECAUSE IT MEANS OKAY, WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE YOU MOVE FORWARD, YOU KNOW, AND CAUSE YOU KNOW, AND HAVE SOME DUPLICITY AND IN EFFORT OR COST.

UM, SO GOOD QUESTION.

DO YOU HAVE A FOLLOW UP, UH, JUST TO FOLLOW UP? SO I I I'M GETTING THAT WE, I'M APPRECIATING THAT YOU DO THAT AS A STANDARD PART OF THE PROCESS OF THESE TAKING ON THESE PROJECTS WITH THESE FOUR PROJECTS IN SPECIFIC, WAS THERE ANY CONFLICTS THAT NEEDED TO BE, OR PROJECTS THAT NEEDED TO BE CHANGED RE-SCOPE AS A RESULT OF THE UPCOMING SEISMIC? I THINK THE, THE MOST COMPLICATED WAS, IS, IS, I WAS NOT GONNA SAY WAS 'CAUSE IT'S, WE'RE STILL ONGOING IS, UH, 93RD STREET PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE, UM, A GREENING PROJECT THAT'S GOING TO OCCUR ALL IN THAT BLACK ASPHALT AREA.

AND SO AS WE WERE WORKING THROUGH IT WITH THEM, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEREVER WE'RE PUTTING THE NEW BUILDING, NOT ANYWHERE NEAR, THEY ACTUALLY IN THE SCHOOL WAS VERY, UM, INTERESTED IN REMOVING THE TWO PORTABLES AT THAT.

I THINK THAT'S THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE CAMPUS.

BECAUSE THEN THAT ALLOWED THE DESIGN FOR THAT PROJECT TO ALSO THEN INCORPORATE MORE GREENING BECAUSE THOSE PORTABLES ARE KIND OF OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE .

SO, SO THERE WAS A DESIRE TO REMOVE THOSE SO THAT THEY COULD EXPAND THEIR GREENING FOOTPRINT, IF YOU WILL, AND, AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PLAYGROUND.

SO I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THE MOST COMPLICATED ONE.

'CAUSE WE ALSO HAVE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF SPACE.

WHAT WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING TOO IS, IS WE BRING PORTABLES IN, WHETHER IT'S FOR INTERIM HOUSING, LIKE TEMPORARY HOUSING OR AS FOR PERMANENT TO REMOVE THE UNCERTIFIED, THEN THE STRIPING ON THE PLAYGROUND HAS TO CHANGE BECAUSE YOU MIGHT HAVE, OKAY, THIS IS WHERE THE HANDBALL IS OR THIS IS WHERE, AND THEN NOW THAT'S, THAT KIND OF HAS A SNOWBALL EFFECT ON WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE OTHER SIDE.

AND SO THOSE LITTLE THINGS DO GET WORKED OUT.

FACILITIES THAT THEIR WHOLE JOB IS TO MANAGE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, WHICH MEANS MAKING SURE WE'RE SENDING OUT BULLETINS, WE'RE HOLDING COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND THEY HELP US ORGANIZE AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING THE BEST THAT WE CAN TO NOTIFY STAFF, PARENTS, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, NEIGHBORS, ET CETERA.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR, YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO ADD ON TO, UM, THE QUESTION ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

AND I KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN A COUPLE OF BIG PROJECTS AT CERTAIN SCHOOL SITES WHERE THERE HASN'T BEEN CONSISTENCY.

AND I KNOW I THINK THAT WAS TOUCHED ON IN THE LAST MEETING ABOUT HOW RELYING ON THE PRINCIPALS AT EACH SCHOOL SITE TENDS TO BE A BURDEN ON THEM SINCE THEY ALREADY HAVE SUCH A HUGE SCOPE THAT THEY HAVE TO MANAGE.

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT FSD COULD CREATE A DOCUMENT FOR LIKE, UPDATED CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES AND THE SCHOOL SITE COMMUNITY THAT THAT COULD, CAN BE, CREATE A CONSISTENT COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY? YEAH, NO, THAT'S GREAT.

SO, UM, A COUPLE THINGS.

ONE IS WE, SO WE'VE ALREADY BEEN REACHING OUT TO EACH OF THESE SCHOOLS.

SO WE'VE ALREADY TALKED TO THE, THE PRINCIPALS WE'RE HOLDING STAFF MEETINGS.

UM, THE GOAL IS TO HAVE STAFF MEETINGS AND COMMUNITY MEETINGS EVEN AHEAD OF THE BOARD, UH, MEETING ON NINE 15.

SO ALL FOUR OF THESE PROJECTS, I THINK ONE OF THEM, MY TEAM WAS, UH, SENDING ME A MESSAGE SAYING THAT ON NINE 15, I THINK THERE'S ONE MEETING, BUT ALL THE OTHERS WILL OCCUR BEFORE THE BOARD MEETING.

SO WE'RE ALREADY ENGAGING, WE'VE, WE'RE ALREADY ENGAGING WITH THE STAFF.

UM, SO IN REGARDS, AND THEN WE'LL CONTINUE TO, RIGHT? SO THEN THAT'S JUST THE FIRST STEP OF LIKE, HEY, WE'RE MOVING FORWARD.

HERE'S A PROJECT, LET US TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT.

AND THEN WE'RE GONNA COME BACK AND WE START TO ENGAGE WITH AN ARCHITECT AND GO THROUGH THE DESIGN PROCESS.

AND THEN WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE A COUPLE OF DESIGN MEETINGS AND THEN EVENTUALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, COUPLE, MAYBE A YEAR OR SO OUT, WE HAVE PRE-CONSTRUCTION MEETINGS.

UM, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, THERE IS A WEBSITE.

SO WE HAVE A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UM, GROUP WITHIN

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THERE IS A WEBSITE THAT WE DO POST ALL OF THE INFORMATION FOR ALL OF OUR PROJECTS.

AND SO, UM, I DON'T HAVE THAT WEBSITE MEMORIZED, BUT I'M SURE YOU COULD FIND IT OR WE CAN SEND IT TO THE BOC TEAM TO MAYBE DISTRIBUTE IT.

YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT IT.

BEFORE WE CALL FOR THE MOTION, UM, I'M GONNA GO BACK TO A BASIC QUESTION AS I STARTED TO RUN THROUGH IT IN MY HEAD.

UM, MAYBE IT'S A, IT'S A TOUGH QUESTION TO ASK AND I KNOW WE'VE ASKED IT BEFORE.

I THINK THERE'S BEEN MANY TIMES WHERE YOU, OBVIOUSLY YOU STATED EVEN TODAY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DEVELOPING A BUDGET WITH, WITH ALL THESE UNKNOWNS.

THE CURIOSITY, AND IT'S, I'M SURE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS PROBABLY FOLLOW TOO AS YOU SEE WHAT YOU'RE ESTIMATING PROCESS WORKS LIKE, AND YOU SEE THE ACTUAL COST.

I KNOW THAT THE ACTUAL COST IS, THERE'S A MYRIAD OF VARIABLES THAT COME TO PLAY, BUT JUST HOW CLOSE ARE WE IN THESE BUDGETS SOMETIMES WHEN THE ACTUAL, AND THERE IS, THERE ARE TIMES WE, WE'D HAVE TO WAIT THE DURATION OF FOUR YEARS, YOU KNOW, FOR A PROJECT FROM DESIGN TO CONSTRUCTION, IF NOT A LITTLE LONGER.

MOST OF US WON'T EVEN BE ON THE BOARD ANYMORE.

BUT IT, IT, YOU'VE HAD THIS IN PAST HISTORY, IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING.

AND THEN THE ECONOMY CHANGES AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

SO MAYBE THERE IS NO REAL ANSWER TO IT, BUT IT'S JUST AN INTERESTING, YOU KNOW, QUESTION TO ALWAYS ASK, OKAY, HERE WE ARE AT 80 MILLION HERE, WHAT DID IT ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, COME OUT TO BE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND IF THERE WERE THOSE, THOSE FACTORS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULDN'T HAVE ASSUMED IT WAS THIS OR IT WAS GREATER THAN WE HAVE ASSUMED IT'S NOT OUR FAULT, NOBODY'S FAULT.

IT'S DISCOVERY.

YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT IMPACTED THAT BUDGET? SO WE CONSTANTLY GO THROUGH LESSONS LEARNED, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE'RE, WE'RE ALWAYS LEARNING.

WE'RE ALWAYS LEARNING.

OKAY, WE BUDGET, WE MAKE THESE, THESE ASSUMPTIONS, AND THEN A PROJECT GOES THROUGH ITS CYCLE AND WE LEARN THAT, OH, WELL, WE RUN INTO THIS KIND OF PROBLEM, THIS KIND OF PROBLEM, THIS KIND OF PROBLEM.

AND WE, WE GO THROUGH AND WE HAVE A LESSONS LEARNED KIND OF GROUP THAT CONTINUES TO, TO TRY TO DOCUMENT THAT.

TO SAY, OKAY, WHERE ARE WE RUNNING INTO ISSUES? AND THEN HOW CAN WE DO MORE DUE DILIGENCE UPFRONT SO THAT WE CAN LIMIT THOSE ISSUES.

NOW DUE DILIGENCE, WE, WE ARE MAKING AN EFFORT TO GET AS MUCH DUE DILIGENCE AHEAD OF THESE PROJECTS BEFORE WE EVEN PUT DOWN A BUDGET AS POSSIBLE.

BUT AS YOU KNOW, YOU CAN DO DUE DILIGENCE FOR 10 YEARS IF YOU WANTED TO BEFORE, AND YOU STILL WOULD MAYBE NOT KNOW EVERYTHING.

UM, SO WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN.

UM, IT'S A HARD QUESTION TO ANSWER TO SAY SPECIFICALLY WE'RE AT THE, WE SAVE, IT'S THIS NUMBER AND IT COMES OUT AT THIS NUMBER.

UM, SO I, I PREFER NOT TO PUT, TRY TO PUT A NUMBER TO IT 'CAUSE I DON'T HAVE A NUMBER THAT I CAN, OR A PERCENTAGE THAT I CAN GIVE YOU.

UM, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE'RE CONSISTENTLY FEELING LIKE WE'RE GETTING CLOSER AND BETTER AND WE, UH, TAKE THOSE LESSONS LEARNED AND WE FEED 'EM BACK INTO OUR, UM, ESTIMATING GROUP TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE CAPTURING THE TRUE ESSENCE.

'CAUSE A LOT OF WHAT HA WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IN TERMS OF UM, COST ESCALATION, SOME OF IT IS UNCONTROLLABLE, THE ECONOMY, THERE'S COST GO UP AND EVERYTHING ESCALATES FOR A, A WIDE VARIETY OF REASONS.

AND SOME OF IT IS, WELL, OH, HAD WE KNOWN THAT WE HAVE THIS SEWER LINE THAT WE WERE CONNECTING TO DOESN'T ACTUALLY EVEN EXIST OR IS A, OR IS NOT REALLY, YOU CAN'T EXTEND TO IT OR CONNECT TO IT.

THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO CAPTURE AHEAD OF TIME, UM, THROUGH LESSONS LEARNED OR YEAH, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE BETTER NUMBERS, AT LEAST EVEN ON OUR ESTIMATING TO SAY, WELL, LET'S ASSUME CONTINGENCIES, LET'S ASSUME AND PUT CONTINGENCIES IN THESE NUMBERS TO SAY, LOOK, WE KNOW THAT A PROJECT OF THIS MAGNITUDE ON AN OPERATING CAMPUS THAT WAS BUILT IN THE 1950S IS GOING TO HAVE THESE PROBLEMS. SO LET'S NOT SUGARCOAT IT.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND SAY UPFRONT WE THINK IT'S GOING TO BE THIS NUMBER.

SO WE ARE TRYING TO DO A BETTER JOB OF THAT.

GREAT.

MR. PANSKY AND THEN I THINK WE BREAK, YEAH.

JUST A FOLLOW UP TO WHAT YOU JUST SAID IS, UH, TO CHAIRMAN HAMMER'S POINT, YOU'VE ALREADY FINISHED A COUPLE OF THESE PROJECTS LIKE SOCI.

SO WHAT I'M WONDERING IS, COULD YOU PROVIDE A CASE STUDY FOR US? COULD YOU COME BACK, YOU KNOW, NEXT MONTH AND SAY, ALL RIGHT, HERE'S WHAT WE DID AT ASSOCIATES.

WE ASKED YOU ORIGINALLY FOR, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NUMBERS WERE, BUT WE'LL SAY A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS AND WE ENDED UP COMING IN AT 110 OR WE CAME IN AT 89 AND HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE RAN INTO.

SO WE COULD SEE AN EXAMPLE OF A COMPLETED, UH, RETROFIT PROJECT.

SO WE CAN WORK WITH BOC STAFF, UM, TO THE SIDE TO SEE WHAT KIND OF PRESENTATION WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO.

SO THAT'D BE HELPFUL.

THE RESOLUTION TO RECOMMEND FOUR SEISMIC MODERNIZATION PROJECTS.

I'M GONNA HAVE TO MOVE THIS 'CAUSE WE'RE GONNA LOSE A COUPLE OF, UH, MEMBERS.

SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND, AND CALL FOR A MOTION ALL MOTION.

MOTION BY MEMBER SULLIVAN.

SECOND PANSKY CALL FOR THE VOTE MEMBERS.

THIS IS THE VOTE ON AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE REGARDING

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MS. KAISER.

AYE.

MS. LATHE? AYE.

MS. LUR MUELLER? AYE.

UH, LEWIS IS ABSENT.

UH, MS. MCDOWELL? AYE.

THANK YOU MR. PETERSON.

MR. PANSKY? AYE UH, DR.

THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU BOTH HAVE A GREAT FOUR DAY WEEKEND.

UM, NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA

[6. Discussion of Non-Agenda Matters]

IS ARE NON AGENDA ITEMS. AND I REALLY WANTED TO QUICKLY SAY, UM, TO THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE TO THE SUPERINTENDENT, ESPECIALLY MS. PERONE, THAT WAS WELL STATED.

I THINK YOU CAPTURED FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, KIND OF A, A FEELING THAT I HAD AND MAYBE YOU'VE HAD, YOU'VE GUYS HAVE HAD INTERACTION WITH HIM PERHAPS BEFORE OR SOME OF YOU HAVE.

UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW THE REST OF YOU FELT, BUT REALLY EVERY ONE OF YOU THAT, THAT CON THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE COMMENTS TODAY, ESPECIALLY YOUR STATEMENT.

YOU KNOW, WAS I, I FELT VERY, I HOPE THAT IT DOES EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY PERSPECTIVE IS TO WORK TOGETHER AND, AND, AND HONESTY IS WHAT I'M FEELING.

HONESTY AT THE END OF THE DAY.

UM, CHAIR HAMNER, IT, IT, IT'S NOT, I HAVE A LOT OF FAITH IN HIM AS AN INDIVIDUAL.

I'VE, I'VE INTERACTED WITH HIM, UM, OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS, UH, WHEN HE WAS, UH, SUPERINTENDENT OF REGION NORTH, UH, IN TERMS OF THE WORK THAT HE DID THERE AND OR NORTHEAST I SHOULD SAY.

UH, BUT MY BIGGER CONCERN IS THAT THERE'S SUCH AN ENTRENCHED BUREAUCRACY THAT I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE HARD, BUT THAT'S WHAT THE REST OF US ARE HERE FOR, TO HELP GUIDE AND WORK TOGETHER AND MAKE IT HAPPEN.

HE DOESN'T HAVE EYES AND EARS EVERYWHERE.

WE ARE THE EYES AND EARS AT REPRESENTING ALL THE DIFFERENT CONSTITUENCY, CONS, CONSTITUENCIES THAT WE REPRESENT AND PLUS THE WORK THAT WE DO HERE.

AND SO I'M HOPEFUL THAT WITH THE OPENNESS AND INTERACTION THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO GUIDE EACH OTHER THROUGH THE PROCESS.

I THINK THAT WAS A GOOD STATEMENT SHE MADE AND IT, IT SHOWS THAT WE'RE NOT AN ADVERSARIAL ROLE, THAT WE'RE ALL PARTNERS ANYWAY, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY COMMENTS, BUT HOPEFULLY THIS IS A GOOD SPRINGBOARD.

I'LL JUST SAY IT WAS REFRESHING.

IT WAS COMPLETELY REFRESHING.

YOU KNOW, I, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, I'VE SAT THROUGH FIVE DIFFERENT SUPERINTENDENTS AND WHAT I LOVED IS THERE WAS NO POSSE THAT CAME UP WITH HIM.

HE CAME BY HIMSELF.

UH, HE SPOKE IN NORMAL TERMS THAT WE COULD ALL UNDERSTAND HIS AGENDA TO, UH, TODAY FELT LIKE IT WAS OUR AGENDA AND UNDERSTOOD WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO COME ACROSS.

AND I LIKED THAT HE WAS OPEN TO ACCOUNTABILITY.

UH, AND AGAIN, IT'S JUST I WALKED AWAY FEELING LIKE HE WAS HUMAN.

AND IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST REFRESHING PRESENTATIONS BY A SUPERINTENDENT I'VE SEEN IN 10 YEARS.

MR. PENSKY'S GONNA BE KNOWN FOR THE ONE WORD WONDERS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY.

REFRESHING.

WE'LL SEE WHAT COMES UP ON THE NEXT MEETING.

, UH, YOU KNOW, I JUST TO TO KIND OF ECHO THE SAME THING, I, I WENT INTO THE, UH, YOU KNOW, TODAY, UH, HAVING REALLY NO IDEA WHAT TO EXPECT.

I HAVE HONESTLY HAD NO BUSINESS OR NEVER MET THE SUPERINTENDENT PRIOR TO.

I THINK I SAW HIM SPEAK ONCE AT A RIBBON CUTTING AND THAT WAS ABOUT IT.

UM, SO I REALLY WENT INTO THIS WITH AN SOMEWHAT OF AN OPEN MIND, BUT HAVING FOR NO ONE HERE REALLY KNOWS, BUT I HAVE NEVER HAD THE BEST, UH, UH, FEELINGS ABOUT THE WAY, THE DIRECTION THE DISTRICT'S HEADING.

BUT I FEEL A LOT BETTER AFTER HAVING, YOU KNOW, SEEN THE SUPERINTENDENT SPEAK.

AND I ACTUALLY REALLY DO FEEL A LOT MORE POSITIVE.

I'M, I'M ACTUALLY HAPPY TO KIND OF GO, I HAVE A PTA MEETING TONIGHT AND I FEEL EXCITED TO TELL EVERYONE THAT I DO FEEL THAT THINGS MAY BE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION WITH, WITH THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT AND CAUTIOUSLY, BUT, UH, I'M OPTIMISTIC AND YOU, YOU REMIND ME IF YOU GET A CHANCE, IF YOU CAN READ HIS LETTER AGAIN.

IT'S, IT'S REALLY A SHORT LETTER TO THE FACULTY AND THAT LETTER TO ME IS TELLING SECOND FORWARD I FORWARD YOU FORWARD, HE'LL FORWARD IT AGAIN.

HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM ALREADY.

YEAH, IT IS WORTH READING A COUPLE OF TIMES BECAUSE AS YOU READ IT, I TELL MY STUDENTS THE SAME THING.

YOU READ EVERYTHING THREE TIMES AND YOU FINALLY COMPREHEND EVERYTHING.

BUT THE POINT BEING IS, IS THAT IF YOU READ IT, YOU JUST FEEL EXACTLY WHAT YOU, YOU WERE SAYING AND YOU

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SO YOU KIND OF KNOW THIS.

UM, MY ONE TIME WITH HIM IN A ZOOM MEETING FOR A HALF AN HOUR, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE I WAS DUPED A LITTLE BIT BUT IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAY WITH THE PRIOR SUPERINTENDENT, YOU KNOW, WHO WAS ENGAGED ME, BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE I WAS BEING HANDLED.

I'M NOT BEING HANDLED HERE.

I DON'T FEELER SUCKER PUNCHED ME.

HE DEFINITELY COMES ACROSS DEFINITELY GENUINE .

ANYHOW, I DUNNO IF THERE'S ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR ANYTHING ELSE OR THERE'S NOT.

YES MA'AM.

I JUST WANTED TO ADD, UM, WE HAD PERSONAL EXPERIENCE FROM OUR SMALL LITTLE SCHOOL IN LOCAL DISTRICT, NO, E EAST WITH MR. TATE.

AND WHEN WE WERE FIGHTING FOR OUR SCHOOL EXPANSION, FOR US AS PARENTS, IT WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT OUR KIDS WOULD THRIVE IN THAT ENVIRONMENT.

AND FROM THE MOMENT WE APPEALED TO IT WAS SUPERINTENDENT LINDA DELTO, WE APPEALED TO HER AND WERE GRANTED THE EXPANSION.

MR. TATE STEPPED IN AND JUST MADE SURE EVERYTHING WENT ACCORDING TO PLAN.

AND AS A PARENT THAT MEANT SO MUCH TO US TO HAVE THAT KIND OF ENGAGEMENT.

AND IT FELT LIKE THERE WAS CARE AND CONSIDERATION TAKEN FOR PARENT CONCERNS.

SO I'M HOPEFUL FOR WHAT HE HAS IN STORE FOR THE DISTRICT.

I WILL NOT, IS THAT LAST COMMENT.

SUCKER PUNCH IS REALLY GOOD.

'CAUSE THAT'S, I DO FEEL THAT THERE IS, THERE IS THE OTHER LAYER THAT WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT THAT HE HAS TO ANSWER TO AS WELL.

AND THAT'S THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THEN THAT'S WHERE THE POLITICS IS.

AND DEEPER THEY CHOSE HIM.

THEY DID CHOOSE HIM AND THEY BROUGHT HIM, THEY HAD CHOICES TO MAKE AS INTERIM, EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T INTERIM ACTING, WHATEVER THEY WERE USING, THEY HAD CHOICES AND THEY MADE THAT CHOICE RATHER THAN OTHER CHOICES.

SO THEY SOME INTELLIGENCE THERE.

SOMETHING TELLING THERE.

IF I MAY, HAVING WATCHED SOME OF THOSE BOARD MEETINGS, UM, AND HAVING MY PERSONAL INTERACTIONS WITH SOME OF THE BOARD MEMBERS, I THINK THE BOARD CAME TO REALIZE THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO'S GROWN UP IN THE SYSTEM FOR A CHANGE.

UH, AND BECAUSE THE DISTRICT DOES NEED THE CHANGE.

UH, AND I THINK THAT IT WAS ENLIGHTENED OF THEM FINALLY.

SO, UH, KUDOS FOR THAT THOUGHT.

WELL, WITH THAT, IF THERE'S NOTHING MORE, THEN WE WILL ADJOURN TO OUR NEXT MEETING, UH, IN OCTOBER, DECEMBER, SEPTEMBER.

HOW DO WE HAVE SO MANY MEETINGS IN ONE MONTH? YOU MUST BE GOING BACK ON A HAWAIIAN VACATION.

EPTEMBER 24TH.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

OUR NEXT MEETING IS IN THREE WEEKS ON SEPTEMBER 24TH TIME.