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[I. Welcome and Opening Remarks]
EVERYONE.WELCOME TO THE GREENING SCHOOLS AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE COMMITTEE.
THANK YOU ALL FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR BEING HERE.
UM, AND ALSO MY BOARD COLLEAGUES AND DISTRICT LEADERSHIP.
SO WE HAVE MS. HE NEW BILL, MS. CHRISTINA TOS, UH, BOARD PRESIDENT SCHON, MR. CHRISTUS CLIO, UM, MS. LAURA AKI, AND ALSO MS. MCKAYLA RANDOLPH, WHO IS HERE.
AND WE ARE JUST MISSING ONE PERSON, AND HOPEFULLY HE'LL JOIN US.
EDDIE ALBERT WILL JOIN US MOMENTARILY.
SO, UM, FIRST I WANNA START BY JUST, UM, SAYING OUR CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY OF DOLORES HUTA, AND THE CONDOLENCES ACTUALLY TO OUR ENTIRE NATION FOR LOSING SUCH, UM, A LEGENDARY PERSON, HUMAN BEING WHO FOUGHT FOR JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, FREEDOM, AND JUST FOUGHT FOR ALL THE MARGINALIZED AND VULNERABLE IN OUR COMMUNITY, IMMIGRANTS AND WORKERS, AND SO MANY, SO MANY FOLKS THAT SHE FOUGHT FOR.
OUR PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS ARE WITH HER FAMILY.
AND, UH, SHE'S A WOMAN WHO WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN AND LEFT.
UH, HER LEGACY WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE, UM, FOR, FOR MANY, MANY GENERATIONS.
SO, UM, YES, JUST VERY SADDENED TO HEAR THE NEWS OF THE PASSING OF DOLORES HUTA MISHI.
[II.1. El Niño and Stormwater Capture and Climate-Resilient Campuses.]
WITH OUR COMMITTEE.UM, TODAY'S CONVERSATION IS A VERY TIMELY ONE, I WOULD SAY.
UH, WE WERE GOING, WE WERE GOING TO DISCUSS STORM WAR, STORM PREPAREDNESS, UH, LONG-TERM CLIMATE RESILIENCE, AND ALSO WASTE REDUCTION.
SO THESE ARE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TOPICS THAT WE'LL BE DISCUSSING TODAY, GETTING SOME INFORMATION.
EACH OF THESE ISSUES AFFECTS THE DAILY EXPERIENCES OF OUR STUDENTS, OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES, AND FAMILIES.
AND EACH REQUIRES US TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO NOW, AS WELL AS WHAT WE NEED TO BUILD FOR THE FUTURE OF, UM, NOT ONLY OUR CITY, BUT JUST OUR ENTIRE WORLD AS WE'RE FACING SIGNIFICANT, UM, WEATHER AND CLIMATE CHANGES THAT ARE IMPACTING SO MANY WORLDWIDE.
AS WE PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF JUST SIGNIFICANT STORMS, PREVENTION MUST BE AT THE CENTER OF OUR WORK.
WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE DISTRICT IS IDENTIFYING VULNERABLE CAMPUSES, ADDRESS ADDRESSING RISKS BEFORE STORMS ARRIVE, AND KEEPING STUDENTS AND STAFF SAFE WHEN SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS.
WE ALSO WANNA LOOK BEYOND IMMEDIATE PREPAREDNESS TO THE INVESTMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS THAT CAN HELP SCHOOLS CAPTURE STONE WATER, REDUCE HEAT, AND BECOME MORE RESILIENT.
AND WE WILL HEAR ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES TO REDUCE WASTE AND EXPAND COMPOSTING AND PLASTIC DIVERSION ACROSS OUR SCHOOLS.
THROUGHOUT TODAY'S DISCUSSIONS, I HOPE WE KEEP EQUITY IMPLEMENTATION, ACCOMP ACCOUNTABILITY AND FOCUS, PARTICULARLY FOR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY FACED THE GREATEST ENVIRONMENTAL BURDENS.
SO, WITH THAT, WE'LL START WITH OUR FIRST PRESENTATION, WHICH FOCUSES ON THE DISTRICT'S PREPARATION FOR POTENTIAL STORMS. IN THE LONG TERM WORK OF BUILDING CLIMATE RESILIENT CAMPUSES, WE WILL KNOW, WE KNOW THAT A SEVERE STORM CAN DISRUPT LEARNING AND PLACE ADDED STRAIN ON SCHOOLS ALREADY DEALING WITH AGING INFRASTRUCTURE.
PREPARING AHEAD MEANS IDENTIFYING VULNERABILITIES, CLEARING DRAINS AND GUTTERS, ADDRESSING ROOF AND DRAINAGE PROBLEMS, AND ENSURING THAT SCHOOLS HAVE THE SUPPORT THEY NEED BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER A STORM.
AT THE SAME TIME, STORMWATER STORM WATER CAN BE A RESOURCE GREENER SCHOOL YARDS, PERMEABLE SURFACES, AND THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED CAPTURE SYSTEMS THAT CAN MANAGE, RUN, MANAGE RUNOFF WHILE CREATING HEALTHIER SPACES FOR STUDENTS.
I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING, UH, HOW OUR FACILITIES AND ECOS SUSTAINABILITY TEAMS ARE CONNECTING IMMEDIATE PREVENTION WITH LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS.
SO, UM, WITH THAT, WE, WE HAVE A FIRST PRESENTATION, UH, COMING UP TO THE PODIUM.
WE HAVE MR. CHRISTO LIO, CHIEF ECOS SUSTAINABILITY OFFICER.
WE WILL ALSO HAVE MR. DENNIS BRADBURN, FACILITIES MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, AND MS. JULIA, A KO, KO, UM, HAWKINSON FACILITIES ASSET DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, WHO ARE GOING TO BE PRESENTING ON THIS, UM, THE GREETING, THE, UH, THE ECOS SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE.
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GO AHEAD.GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, BOARD PRESIDENT, UH, MR. UH, BOARD MEMBER, NEW BILL AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE WITH YOU TODAY TO PRESENT ON SOMETHING THAT IS EXTREMELY CURRENT, VERY CURRENT, AND IT'S AFFECTING AND IMPACTING PRETTY MUCH, UH, THE ENTIRE NATION AND WORLD, I WOULD SAY, UH, IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.
AND IT'S NICE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW WE, AS A UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, HOW WE'RE APPROACHING AND HOW WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING TO OUR POWER TO MITIGATE SOME OF THOSE CHALLENGES.
SO THE FIRST PRESENTATION I'LL BE GIVING, IT'S MOSTLY ABOUT, I'LL BE DISCUSSING THE, UH, THE PREPAREDNESS IN TERMS OF THE LONG-TERM CAMPUS RESILIENCY.
I'LL BE, UH, SHARING ABOUT HOW WE ARE APPROACHING THIS IN TERMS OF THE DEVELOPING AN, WHAT WE CALL AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK.
AND THEN I'LL BE DISCUSSING STRATEGIES.
HOW DO WE MITIGATE THIS? WHAT DO WE DO TO MITIGATE? AND I'LL BE SHARING SOME OF THE, UM, UH, INFORMATION THAT WE'RE PLANNING TO MITIGATE, BUT ALSO HOW, HOW DO WE ADAPT AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
SO IT'S IMPORTANT, UM, TO POINT OUT, UH, AND FOR EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE DISCUSS ABOUT ON THE NEW END, WHAT THE CAUSES ARE TO UNDERSTAND HOW A LOT OF THESE EVENTS ARE HAPPENING AND HOW THEY'RE IMPACTING US TODAY.
AND THIS IS A SLIDE, ACTUALLY PRESENTATION THAT I'VE DONE.
I REMEMBER THIS SLIDE OVER 10 YEARS AGO THAT I SHARE SOME OF THE, UH, UH, EXTREME, UH, CLIMATE CONDITIONS THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH, INCLUDING OUR STORMS, UH, FLOODING AND FIRES.
SO YOU CAN SEE ON YOUR LEFT SIDE, YOU KNOW, THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH, AND WHEN I SAY WE'RE DEALING WITH, WE ALWAYS HAD FIRES.
WE'VE ALWAYS HAD, UM, UM, EXTREME STORMS, BUT NOT TO THE MAGNITUDE, UM, THAT WE HAVE TODAY.
AND NOT TO THE, UH, OCA HOW OCCASIONALLY THEY COME AND IMPACT US.
SO WE'RE SEEING, WE'RE SEEING THAT SEVERITY NOW.
IT'S, UH, IT'S MUCH MORE FREQUENT AND THEY'RE MUCH LARGER.
WHAT WE WANT TO BE, WHAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO SEE IS WHAT WE HAVE ON OUR RIGHT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT REALLY THEY IMPACTING OUR, UM, LAND, OCEANS ARE BIO BIODIVERSITY, UM, AND THEN OUR CLIMATE OVERALL.
AND WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN, MAINTAIN GREEN, HEALTHY, SUSTAINABLE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR OUR STUDENTS.
THE GRAPH THAT YOU'RE SEEING, IT'S ACTUALLY, UM, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE PULLED OUT OF THE NOAH, THAT'S THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION.
AND IT RECORDS THE TEMPERATURES BOTH ON LAND AND AT SEA, AND WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THERE, ANYTHING IN BLUE, IT SHOWS WHERE IT IS BELOW A CERTAIN, UH, UH, CELSIUS, UM, MEASURES IN CELSIUS ON THIS, UH, UH, ITEM THAT WE HAVE HERE.
AND THEN IT SHOWS IN RED HOW THAT IS MOVING UP AND, UH, REACHING WHAT WE CALLED, UH, WHAT WE CALLED BEFORE THE TIPPING POINT, WHICH IS THE POINT WHERE WE START SEEING A LOT MORE SEVERE, UM, EVENTS ON OUR PLANET.
AND, UH, WE'VE, UM, MEETING THAT TIPPING POINT, AND WE'VE, UM, AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE'RE TAKING A LOT OF ACTION TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE AT LEAST THESE EVENTS.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA BE FOCUSING ON TO SAY HOW WE, UM, AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, TO PREPARE AND PLAN FOR THIS, HOW WE, UH, RECOVER FROM, AND HOW WE ACCOMMODATE AND, AND ADAPT TO SOME OF THESE EVENTS THAT WE HAVE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO SEE AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
AND IT, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY BECAUSE WE OWNING THE AMOUNT OF REAL ESTATE THAT WE OWN, UH, AND, UH, OVER OVER 80 MILLION, UH, SQUARE FOOT OF BUILDING AREAS AND OVER 25,000 STRUCTURES.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO, UH, TO RECOGNIZE AND, AND WE ARE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACTS, UM, ON OUR COMMUNITIES, ON OUR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES, AND ALSO THE EDUCATIONAL AWARENESS THAT WE HAVE TO BE BRINGING TO OUR STUDENTS TO CONTINUE WHAT WE HAVE STARTED TODAY TO HELP US SUPPORT AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
SO WHEN WE DISCUSS ABOUT EL NINO AND, AND THE EL NINO EFFECT, AND, AND I'M GONNA BE FOCUSING MOSTLY, UH, SO ABOUT ON EL NINO ON THIS PRESENTATION, I'M NOT GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT, UH, FIRES OR, UM, UM, I'M NOT, I'M GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT ANY OTHER CONDITIONS THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH, BUT MOSTLY ON PREPARING FOR EL NINO.
I THINK IT'S, IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND, UM, THAT THESE ARE CLIMATE PATTERNS THAT THEY DEVELOP ON OUR PACIFIC OCEAN, UM, THAT, UH, ONCE YOU, ONCE THOSE START DEVELOPING, AND THEY'LL CURE EVERY, UH, FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS ON AVERAGE, WE SEE THIS TERM, UH, CALLED EL NINO, OR EL NINA, WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF EL NINO, BUT EL NINO IN TERMS OF HOW, UM, UH, ALL OF OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, UH, UM, AFFECT, IMPACT THE ENVIRONMENT, WHICH WE'RE SEEING A HIGH ARRAY OF TEMPERATURE, UH, TEMPERATURE AS I SHARED EARLIER ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE ON LAND.
AND, UM, AND, UH, AT SEA, WHICH IT CREATES, UM,
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THIS WARMING OF THE OCEANS.AND WE SEE THESE SEA LEVEL RISE AND, UH, CONTRIBUTE TO A LOT OF THE FLATS, A LOT OF THESE, UM, TEMPERATURES THAT WE'RE SEEING AND, AND HOW THEY DEVELOP THROUGH ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS.
IT'S ACTUALLY, UM, INTERESTING, UM, TO STUDY MORE ABOUT IT.
BUT THEY FORM AT THE EQUATOR, AND IT WILL COME ALL THE WAY THROUGH IN THE SPAN, SOMETIMES OVER, UH, HUNDREDS OF MILES.
AND SOME OF THEM, YOU HEAR, IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THE, THE TERM KELVIN WAVES, THOSE ARE WAVES THAT DID DEVELOP UNDER THE OCEAN.
UM, AND IT'S, UM, IT'S BEEN DISCOVERED BACK IN THE 16 HUNDREDS, UM, THAT, UH, KIND OF CALL THE, EXPLAIN ALL THESE EVENTS, UH, AS IMPACTS TO THE EL NIAN EFFECT.
BUT WHAT THEY ARE, THESE ARE BODIES OF WATER THAT THEY MOVE FOR OVER A HUNDRED, 150 MILES, AND THEY COME AND, UH, AND BECAUSE OF THE, THEY GET, UH, BECAUSE OF THE HEAT, THEY EXPAND.
AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE SEEING THE SWELLING.
AND WE SEE THE FLOODING THAT WE'RE SEEING TODAY IN MOST OF THE SPACES THAT WE, WE ARE HEARING ON OUR EAST, ON OUR WEST COAST.
SO THEY KIND OF PUSH ALL THE WATER TOWARDS US.
AND THEN ALSO THEY BRING THIS ATMOSPHERIC, ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO PULL A LOT OF RAINFALL AT SPECIFIC LOCATIONS.
SO WHAT WE DO, WE COME UP WITH MITIGATION, UH, UH, CONCEPTS AND IDEAS TO BE ABLE TO MITIGATE THAT.
AND, AND THAT'S HOW WE TAKE ACTION BY, UM, A LOT OF THE ITEMS THAT WE, YOU'RE SEEING HERE ON THIS, UM, IMAGE THAT I SHARE.
BUT IT'S MOSTLY, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT ANYTHING OF, STARTING WITH OUR EFFICIENCIES.
HOW DO WE LOWER OUR CONSUMPTION TO MINIMIZE OUR, UH, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, HOW WE'VE ADAPT MORE CLEAN ENERGY, OUR SOLAR SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE, UM, HOW WE'RE LOOKING AT SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION THROUGHOUT TRANSPORTATION, UM, UH, SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE AT THE DISTRICT.
AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW WE, UM, EDUCATE OUR STUDENTS SO THEY'RE MORE AWARE OF THE IMPACTS AND HOW THEY CAN HELP SUPPORT US AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT A LOT OF THINGS IN TERMS OF WATER CONSERVATION, NOT HOW THINGS ARE AFFECTING OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
AND, UH, AND WE, AS WE DO THAT, WE COME UP WITH ADAPTATION, UH, CONCEPTS TO SEE HOW IT CAN BE ABLE TO HELP US TO AVOID THIS RISKS OR TO MANAGE 'EM AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
SO SOME OF THE STEPS THAT WE'RE TAKING TOWARDS THAT IS, UH, BY LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FRAMEWORK, THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN, HOW WE'VE, UH, CAN OUTREACH TO MOST, UH, A LOT OF THE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS THAT, THAT ARE IMPACTED BY A LOT OF THESE, HOW BOARD OF EDUCATION COME UP WITH RESOLUTIONS THAT ARE ALIGNED, OUR PLANNING TO MITIGATE SOME OF THESE.
AND ALSO THROUGH OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY, OUR LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, WHAT THAT PLAN SHARES WITH US.
AND THEN THE GO SUSTAINABILITY PLAN THAT WE'RE FORMING TODAY TO TAKE A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION TO HELP SUPPORT INTO DELIVERING ACTIONABLE PLANS AND RESULTS AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
AND THEN WE DO THIS BY DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. WE HAVE A LOT OF PROGRAMS. SOME OF THE MORE PROGRAMS THAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS THAT IN TERMS OF MITIGATION MEASURES THAT I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, TO REDUCE OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, UM, TO REDUCE THE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT, TO REDUCE THAT.
AND THEN WE'RE DOING A LOT OF MEASURES, UH, THROUGH, UM, THROUGH THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, SUCH AS THE GREENING STORMWATER MANAGEMENT, UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE, AND, AND HOW WE EVEN START THINKING IN TERMS, IN TERMS OF HOW WE SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF DEVELOPING WHAT WE CALL, UH, RESILIENCY HUBS.
SO A LOT OF THESE THINGS ARE, ARE HAPPENING THROUGH, AND, UH, SOME OF THEM, THEY HAVE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT, UH, PLANNING IN PLACE, SOME OF THEM DON'T.
AND WE HAVE TO BE ALWAYS BE THINKING HOW TO HELP SUPPORT MANAGE SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS. BUT ALL THIS IS DONE, ALL THIS FRAMEWORK IS HAPPENING, IS HAPPENING WITH, UH, UM, UH, COLLABORATING THROUGH THE DIFFERENT DIVISIONS, DEPARTMENTS.
WHAT I'M SHARING HERE IS THAT THE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH IT BECOMES THE FOCUS PLAN IN TERMS OF, UH, SETTING UP THE, THE, THE SHARED VISION FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND HOW WE'VE, UH, PRIORITIZE AND MEASURING SUCCESS FOR ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR, UH, OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, WHICH LOOKS AT THE LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, WHICH TALKS ABOUT DIFFERENT TYPES OF HAZARDS AND HOW TO MITIGATE THEM.
OUR FACILITY SERVICES DIVISION ON THE STRATEGIC EXECUTION PLAN THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT, UH, DIFFERENT TYPE OF, UH, UH, CURRENT AND FUTURE NEEDS.
AND THEN, UH, SOME OF THE PLAN IMPROVEMENTS THAT THEY HAVE IN PLACE TO HELP MITIGATE SOME OF THESE ISSUES AS WE MOVE, MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THE FUNDING THAT THEY, THEY IDENTIFIED THE OFFICE OF, UH, EMERGENCY, UM, THE MANAGE PLAN IN TERMS OF HOW WE RESPOND, IF THERE'S ANY KIND OF EVENTS AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND HOW WE REALLY PREPARE AND RESPOND TO THEM.
AND THEN THE ECO SUSTAINABILITY PLAN THAT IS IN THE DEVELOPMENT RIGHT NOW, THAT SETS UP CERTAIN GOALS IN COLLABORATION WITH ALL THE DIVISIONS AND DEPARTMENTS TO ENSURE THAT, UH, OUR, UM, WE'RE OPERATING IN CONSIDERATION OF THE CLIMATE IMPACTS,
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AND WE COME UP WITH, UM, WITH, UH, AT LEAST GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, SO WE CAN BE ABLE TO, UH, PLAN FORWARD, UH, A LOT OF THE DIFFERENT, UH, UH, INITIATIVES THAT WE HAVE.SO WITH ALL THAT, EVERYTHING HAS BEEN CONSOLIDATED BACK TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH COMES FROM OUR OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT IN LINE WITH OUR BOARD OF EDUCATION.
THESE ARE SOME BOARD RESOLUTIONS THAT, UH, THEY DIRECTLY, UM, UH, LINKED TO THE, TO, TO THE
AND I WANTED TO SHARE TWO OF THEM.
AND AGAIN, THANK TO OUR BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP.
BUT THE 2019 CLEAN ENERGY, WHICH HELPS US REDUCE GREENHOUSES GAS EMISSIONS.
IT'S A REALLY, UH, A VERY POWERFUL RESOLUTION THAT HELP US ACHIEVE A HUNDRED PERCENT CLEAN ELECTRICITY BY 2030 AND A HUNDRED PERCENT CLEAN ENERGY IN ALL SECTORS BY 2040.
AND WE'RE MEASURING THIS, AND WE'RE HAVING A LOT OF PRO PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES TO HELP US ACHIEVE THAT.
THE OTHER ONE IS THE, THE 2022 GREEN SCHOOLS FOR OTHER RESOLUTION THAT YOU PASS THAT SENDS US, UM, AGAIN, A GOAL TO INCREASE PERMEABILITY ON OUR SCHOOLS, ON OUR PLAY YARDS BY 2035, WHICH HAS A, A HUGE IMPACT IN TERMS OF, UH, CAPTURING AND INFILTRATING, LOT OF THE WATER, PROVIDING SHADE FOR OUR STUDENTS, AND A LOT OF PLAY ACTIVITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS.
SO THOSE TWO ARE EXTREMELY, VERY IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS.
UM, OUR LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN IDENTIFIES A LOT OF VULNERABILITIES IN TERMS OF OUR CLIMATE.
AND, UM, ON THE SIDE OVER THERE, YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE, HOW A LOT OF THE ATMOSPHERIC EVENTS, YOU KNOW, HOW THEY'RE KIND OF RECORDED THROUGHOUT THE TIME, THEY'RE LOOKING AT, UM, DIFFERENT VULNERABILITIES, BUT INCLUDE ANYTHING IN TERMS OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE, ANYTHING FROM EARTHQUAKES TO WILDFIRES, AND, AND THEY IDENTIFY THE, UH, THE KIND OF EXTENT, UH, AND HOW IT'S IMPACTING THEIR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
THE, THE TIME OF OCCURRENCES OFTEN DO OCCUR, AND THE MAGNITUDE, AND THERE'S SIGNIFICANCE.
SO THE IDEA THERE IS FOR US TO KNOW AND BE AWARE AND START CONSIDERING AND PLANNING AHEAD, UH, SOME OF THE, UH, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES TO BE ABLE TO COMBAT THE CLIMATE, UH, CRISIS THAT IS UPON US.
SO THAT'S WHAT, UH, THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PLAN.
THE ONLY THING I'LL SHARE THAT THIS PLAN IS NOT FUNDED, THIS IS PRETTY MUCH, IT'S A STUDY FROM PROFESSIONALS MEETING WITH ALL OF US, ALL THE DIVISIONS, DEPARTMENTS HELD BY THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OFFICE TO, UH, MAKE US AWARE OF WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO FORESEE IN THE FUTURE SO WE CAN BE ABLE TO CONSIDER IN OUR PLANNING THE ECOS SUSTAINABILITY PLAN.
IT TAKES THE INFORMATION IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'VE DONE, IN TERMS OF, JUST TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE, THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.
IT DEVELOP, IT DEVELOPS A BASELINE.
AND, UH, SO WE CAN BE ABLE TO BENCHMARK AND IDENTIFY GOALS.
AND THE IDEA HERE IS TO BE ABLE TO START THINKING AGAIN, UM, AND MEASURE AGAINST, UH, ACTUAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, UH, AND THEN HOW WE CAN BE ABLE TO MAKE PROGRESS ON THOSE BY DEVELOPING WHAT WE CALL ROADMAPS, HOW WE GET FROM POINT A TO POINT, UH, B AND, UH, WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING.
AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME, WE SAID WE WE'RE DEVELOPING A DASHBOARD.
THIS DASHBOARD IS TO BE ABLE TO MONITOR OUR PERFORMANCE, SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE HOW WE ARE PROGRESSING AGAINST OUR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.
THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, AND YOU'RE GONNA BE SEEING A LOT MORE ABOUT THE PLAN ITSELF THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
AS WE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING COMMENTS, WE GOT PUBLIC COMMENTS, WE GOT COMMENTS FROM ALL OF OUR DIVISIONS, AND WE CONTINUE TO PUT THIS PLAN TOGETHER TO HELP GUIDE US AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
UM, A SAMPLE OF ACTIONABLE PLAN IS THE ONE THAT I'M SHARING WITH YOU NOW THAT SHOWS THE, THE FLAT RISK AND SOCIAL VULNERABILITY.
AND IT TALKS ABOUT, IT SHOWS WHAT WE'VE DONE HERE.
WE'VE LOOKED AT THE HAZARDS, THE SOCIAL VULNERABILITY, AND THE ACTUAL RESULTS, AND BY PLOTTING OUR SCHOOLS.
SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING AND PRIORITIZING IN TERMS OF, UM, DOING ASSESSMENTS OR MAPPING OF THE DIFFERENT FACILITY, UH, THAT WE HAVE.
AND, AND THEN COMING UP WITH A DETAILED SCOPE AND PLAN AND WHAT INVESTMENTS WE NEED SO WE CAN CREATE MORE RESILIENCY ON OUR, ON OUR SCHOOLS AND ENCOMPASSES.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, TO START IMPLEMENTING SOME OF THOSE PLANS THAT WE HAVE.
SO THE IDEA IS TO START THINKING, AND WE DEVELOP THE, THE THINKING OF HOW WE SHOULD BE, UH, APPROACHING THIS, UM, BY THINKING, CONSIDERATION ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE TODAY THAT IS AVAILABLE TO US TO ADDRESS THE ONES THAT THEY HAVE THE HIGHEST NEEDS OR THE, THAT WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST IMPACT IN TERMS OF STRATEGIES.
AND I'M GETTING NOW INTO, UH, BIGGER LONG TERM STRATEGIES.
WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, UH, PHOTO VOLTS, BATTERY STORAGE, ELECTRIFICATION, HOW WE ELECTRIFY OUR FLEET, AND THEN SOME OF THE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES THAT WE HAVE, LIKE THE STORM WATER MANAGEMENT, UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE, AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCY,
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UM, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE SEEN.AND WE HAVE, UH, OVER 20 MEGAWATT OF SOLAR NOW IN OUR SCHOOLS, APPROXIMATELY 68, 68 SCHOOL SITES.
AND WE ARE, UH, ADDING ANOTHER 15 MEGAWATT ON 21 OTHER SCHOOL SITES.
SO WE'LL CONTINUE WITH OUR SOLAR TO, UH, TO ACHIEVE OUR GOAL THAT WE SET UP ON OUR RESOLUTION BY 2030.
AND AT THE SAME TIME, UM, WE'RE COMING UP WITH ADDITIONAL PLANNING AND THROUGH OUR MAJOR MODERNIZATIONS AND, UH, CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM TO CONTINUE ADDING MORE, UH, UH, RESILIENCY ON OUR SCHOOLS BY ADDING ROOFTOP, UH, PANELS.
THE SAME THING WITH ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUSES.
WE, WE ARE REALLY TRANSFORMING OUR TRANSPORTATION TO, UH, ACHIEVING.
NOW WE'RE AT 17% BY, I WILL SAY BY, UM, ONCE WE FINISH, UH, SAN JULIAN, WE'RE GONNA BE ACHIEVING 25% OF, UH, SCHOOL BUS ELECTRIFICATION WITH CHARGING STATIONS SUPPORT THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT MECHANICAL SYSTEMS TO CONVERTING TO ALL ELECTRIC HEAT PUMPS THROUGHOUT.
SO WE'RE DOING OUR DUE DILIGENCE ON AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THAT.
AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE WORKING WITH ESTATE PARTNERS, UH, TO IDENTIFY, UH, SOLUTIONS TO HELP US OUT CAPTURE AND INFILTRATE WATER.
AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE DONE, UM, OVER FIVE, SEVEN YEARS AGO THROUGH A PROGRAM CALLED DROUGHT RESPONSE OUTAGE PROGRAM FOR SCHOOLS, WHICH, UH, WE'VE COMBINED THAT WE'RE REMOVING ASPHALT ON OUR SCHOOL CAMPUSES.
YOU KNOW, YOU SEE LIKE THE, THE SPACES BETWEEN, UH, THE FINGER BUILDINGS, UH, AT NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL USED TO BE ASPHALT.
WE DEVELOPED THAT INTO A BAR RETENTION AREA.
WE, UH, WE PLANTED PREVIOUS PAVERS, UM, YOU KNOW, IN DEVELOPED SITTING AREAS FOR THE STUDENTS.
WE INSTALLED DROUGHT TO PLANNING, AND WE, SO WE'RE DOING A LOT OF THESE, UH, STRATEGIES, INSTALLING BIOSWELLS.
UM, AND, AND, AND WE'VE DONE THAT ON FIVE SCHOOLS THAT WE'VE LEARNED A LOT, AND WE'VE, A LOT OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE AND PROJECTS MOVING FORWARD, THEY'RE ADAPTING A LOT OF THESE, UH, SYSTEMS THAT WE, AGAIN, COLLABORATED WITH THE STATE AND OUR PARTNERS TO HELP US IDENTIFY A LOT OF, UH, DIFFERENT CONCEPTS AND IDEAS AND SOME OF THESE CONCEPTS AND IDEAS.
AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE SECTIONS THAT I'M SHOWING HERE, UM, LIKE THE PERMEABLE PAVING THAT WE'RE USING ON OUR SCHOOLS AND HOW WE CAN CAPTURE MORE WATER, OUR RAIN GARDENS, DEPRESSIONS THAT ARE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO CAPTURE WATER IN SPECIFIC AREAS TO RECHARGE OUR LOCAL AQUIFERS, BIOSWELLS.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE STORMWATER CAPTURE THAT WE HAVE, UH, UH, ON SCHOOLS.
AND WE HAVE THAT ON MANY SCHOOLS.
AND WE CONTINUE DOING WHAT WE CALL LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT TO PROVIDE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN TERMS OF AS WE MOVE FORWARD ON ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS.
AND, UM, AND, AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE ADAPTED AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT.
WE CONTINUE TO DO THIS, I WOULD SAY VERY WELL.
UM, OUR SCHOOL YEAR GREENING STRATEGIES WE'RE INCREASING OUR, UH, SPACE, THAT WE CAPTURE WATER.
WE'RE REMOVING A LOT OF THE ASPHALT WITH THE RESOLUTION OF ACHIEVING 30%.
UM, UH, GREENING BY, BY 2035, UH, GAVE US, UH, UH, A GOAL AND SOMETHING TO WORK TOWARDS TO HELP GREEN OUR SCHOOLS.
AND YOU CAN, SOME OF THE PICTURES HERE, HOW, UH, SOME OF THE SCHOOLS, LIKE THE ONE WE SHOWCASING HERE IS BRONZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, HOW WE TOOK AN AREA THAT WAS ASPHALTED, AND WE PRETTY MUCH TRANSFORMED IT TO A BEAUTIFUL GREEN SPACE WITH MANY ACTIVITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS, TESTING NEW IDEAS, NEW CONCEPTS, SO IT CAN CONTINUE TO ADVANCE THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, AND THEN WE, WE DO HAVE, UM, OTHER CONCEPTS THAT WE'RE TESTING.
UH, WE'RE WORKING WITH LACEY, THE LOS ANGELES CLINIC INCUBATOR BY IDENTIFYING EVEN MORE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO HELP US CAPTURE MORE WATER.
SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THIS AS NEW TECHNOLOGIES COME UPON US, UM, THAT THEY GEAR TO HELP SUPPORT, UH, TO DEVELOP MORE RESILIENCY ON OUR SCHOOLS, THE UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, IN TERMS OF STRATEGIES, WE'VE, UH, WE DO HAVE WHAT WE CALL THE DEMAND RESPONSE PROGRAM RIGHT NOW, WORKING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER.
AND IT'S A PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE, HAVE ACTUALLY WINNING FIRST PLACE FOR THE LAST DECADE AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT IN TERMS OF SUPPORTING THE LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER TO MINIMIZE THE ACTUAL DEMAND OF POWER AT, UH, WHEN WE HAVE HIGH PEAK HOURS.
SO IT'S NOT A NEW PROGRAM TO US, BUT WE CONTINUE TO DO THIS, AND WE'RE EXPANDING THAT PROGRAM TO, TO, WHEN THERE'S A TIME OF NEED TO BE GOOD NEIGHBORS AND, AND SUPPORT OUR, UH, OUR CITY AS BEST AS WE CAN.
WE ARE HAVING, UH, UH, WE'RE TESTING NEW PILOTS WITH THE ENERGY POWER RESOURCE INSTITUTE, UH, WHERE IS, UH, HELPING US TO LOOK AT ALL, ALL OF OUR LOADS ON A SCHOOL.
WE'RE DOING THIS PILOT ON TWO SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW.
IT'S A TWO YEAR PILOT, AND IT'S GONNA BE ABLE TO HELP US OUT TO SEE HOW WE CAN, UH, DO WHAT WE CALL DEMAND LOAD FLEXIBILITY, MEANING LIKE WE CAN SHIFT LOADS FROM SOLAR TO, UH, ANOTHER NEED.
UH, SO WE CAN BE ABLE TO LOWER THE AMOUNT OF, UH, POWER THAT WE NEED ON A SPECIFIC SCHOOL
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SITE, AND ALSO BE ABLE TO MANAGE THE AMOUNT OF POWER AND, AND, UH, BEING ABLE TO, UH, USE IT ONLY WHEN WE NEED IT.WE'RE DEVELOPING WHAT WE CALL THE ENERGY AND WATER COMMAND CONTROL CENTER.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IT'S, UH, APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER, THE FUNDING IT TO HELP US OUT TO DEVELOP, UM, A HOLISTIC APPROACH IN TERMS OF LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN MANAGE OUR ENERGY AND WATER AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THAT'S GONNA GIVE US THE POWER IN SUPPORT WITH OUR FACILITIES TEAM, OUR MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS, TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND OUR EMISSIONS, BUT ALSO, UH, BE ABLE TO MANAGE AND CONTROL A LOT OF THESE SYSTEMS THAT HAVE ON OUR SCHOOLS.
AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING AT MICROGRIDS AND WITH BATTERY STORAGE TO HELP US ADVANCE AND BECOME MORE RESILIENT ON SOME OF THE SCHOOL SITES.
YEAH, A GOOD EXAMPLE WOULD BE THE ONE THAT WE'RE FINISHING RIGHT NOW AT SUN VALLEY.
WE'LL HAVE, FOR OUR TRANSPORTATION, WE'LL HAVE BOTH.
WE HAVE THE SOLAR, WE HAVE HEAVY CHARGING, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE, UH, AN ACTUAL, UM, HALF A MEGAWATT OVER BATTERY THAT WE CAN BE ABLE TO HAVE A MICRO GRID THERE TO HELP SUPPORT THE WORK THAT WE DO.
SO, UM, WE'RE CONTINUING THIS AND WE'RE EXPANDING THINKING IN TERMS OF WHAT ELSE WE SHOULD BE DOING, HOW WE CAN WORK, UH, ACROSS WITH OTHER AGENCIES.
AND, UH, WE'VE, UM, WE'RE DOING, UH, COLLABORATION WITH THE LA COUNTY, UM, AT ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS.
WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, WHAT WE CALL THE COM COMMUTE RESILIENCY HUBS.
AND THOSE ARE, UH, DIFFERENT INITIATIVES THAT WE'RE BRINGING UPON US TO HELP SUPPORT THROUGH GRANT FUNDING, LIKE THE MICRO GRID PILOTS.
UH, THEY ARE QUALITY MONITORS WITH WORKING WITH, UH, DIFFERENT, UM, UNIVERSITIES TO HELP SUPPORT US IN OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY, UH, WITH, UH, OUR FOOD SERVICES, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE WORK THAT, A LOT OF THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING AND HOW IT'S SUPPORTING US TO MITIGATE, WE'RE GONNA BE HEARING FROM THEM IN MORE DETAIL AFTER MY PRESENTATION, AND THEN HOW WE CONTINUE TO, UM, TO ADVANCE IN ALL THESE DIFFERENT AREAS.
BUT THINKING ABOUT THIS COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITY RESILIENCY HUBS, WE DID APPLY FOR GRANTS IN THE PAST.
WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE, UM, APPLYING FOR, BECAUSE WE WANT TO BUILD THIS RESILIENCY HUBS, NOT JUST TO SERVE ONLY OUR SCHOOLS, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE SERVE IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.
'CAUSE I, I THINK WE'RE GONNA NEED THEM AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE FUTURE.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IT'S, UH, WE CONTINUE TO PURSUE CONSTANTLY.
SO, WITH THAT, I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRE TO PRESENT BOTH THE FRAMEWORK AND THE STRATEGIES.
NOW, UM, WE HAVE OUR FACILITY SERVICES DIVISION TEAM.
THEY'RE GONNA COME AND TELL US SOME OF THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING ON THE SCHOOLS THEMSELVES AND HOW THEY'RE PREPARING FOR EL NINO, UM, AND THEN HOW THEY'RE, UM, THEY'RE ADAPTING TO SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGIES AND HOW THEY'RE MOVING FORWARD.
SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT.
I, I CAN TAKE SOME QUESTIONS NOW.
WE CAN WAIT FOR THE ENTIRE PRESENTATION TO TAKE QUESTIONS FOR ALL OF US, HOWEVER YOU LIKE.
SO I'LL ASK MR. MR. DENNIS BRADBURN, HE'S THE DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS, AND HE'S GONNA HERE TO CONTINUE THE PRESENT PRESENTATION ON EL NINO PREPAREDNESS.
THANK YOU, CHRISTOS, THANK YOU.
S BOARD PRESIDENT, SCHUREN, BOARD MEMBER, UH, NEW BILL, MY BOSS, AND, UH, ALL THE OTHER DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT IN FRONT OF YOU AND REALLY TALK ABOUT ALL THE HARD WORK AND, UH, DEDICATION, UH, THE WORK THAT WE HAVE DONE, THE WORK THAT WE WILL DO, AND THE WORK THAT IN THE FUTURE IS GONNA HAPPEN TO PREPARE US FOR, UH, THE POTENTIAL OF A SUPER SUPER EL NINO.
AND SO, WITH OUR AGENDA, UM, I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW THINGS BEFORE I REALLY GET INTO THE, UH, PRESENTATION IS WHY IT MATTERS.
AND CHRISTOS DID A GREAT JOB IN EXPLAINING WHY IT MATTERS.
UM, OUR ENHANCED ANNUAL EL NINO ACTION BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENTS, ROOFING REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT PROJECTS.
AND THEN MY COLLEAGUE JULIA, WILL PRESENT ON, UH, STORM WATER MITIGATION AND STORM WATER AND CAPITAL PROJECTS.
AND, UH, THEY'RE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB WITH THAT.
SO WHY THIS MATTER IS, OBVIOUSLY, WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS POTENTIALLY COULD BE A, UM, A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT RAIN EVENT.
AND EVEN WHEN IT RAINS A LITTLE BIT IN LA, THINGS GO A LITTLE HAYWIRE.
SO IF IT, IF IT'S GONNA RAIN A LOT, THEN WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE PREPARED.
AND I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT THE, UH, FOLKS IN M AND O, ALL 2,500 EMPLOYEES, WE'VE GOTTEN THE MESSAGE OUT, WE'RE ALL READY, WILLING, AND ABLE, UH, TO PITCH IN AND TO DO OUR JOB AND PROTECT OUR KIDS AND OUR STAFF, UH, WHEN CALLED ON.
SO, UH, THE WAY WE'VE PREPARED AND, UH, THE, THE GENERAL SCOPE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, I, AND THE, UH, SLIDE, DO I HAVE THE CLICKER OR CAN WE
AND SO THIS IS THE SCOPE OF IT.
UH, AS YOU, AS YOU KNOW, UH, WE HAVE A THOUSAND CAMPUSES, 6,500 ACRES OF, UH, DISTRICT PROPERTY.
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INFORMED PAST EXPERIENCES, UH, COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR GROUP TO REALLY FIGURE OUT WHERE OUR SOAR POINTS ARE.AND WE KNOW ONE OF 'EM 'CAUSE SIGNIFICANT 'CAUSE BECAUSE SCOTT ALWAYS CALLS US ON THE LAKE OUT IN HIS AREA.
UH, WE DO M AND O DOES, UH, PROTECT OUR, OUR, OUR PROTECTS AND EXECUTES REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT ROOFING PROJECTS TO IMPROVE OUR CAMPUS'S STORM RESILIENCY.
AND SO THIS INCLUDES ROOFING REPAIR, WATERPROOFING, AND ELASTOMERIC ROOF COATING.
AND THEN WE INVEST AS A FACILITIES DIVISION.
WE INVEST IN, UH, STORM WATER MANAGEMENT, AND THAT'S MORE OF WHAT JULIA WILL TALK ABOUT.
SO ON OUR NEXT SLIDE, UH, BEFORE THE WEATHER, WEATHER VENTS, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR PREVENTION AND INSPECTIONS.
SO SINCE EARLY FALL, WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF PREVENTIVE WORK.
A LOT OF THINGS HAVE BEEN UNDERWAY.
WE'VE PRIORITIZED SAFETY AND WATER, TRUSS AND RISK BY PERFORMING THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS.
WE'VE, UH, SECURED OUTDOOR ITEMS, PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT, TRASH CONTAINERS, MAINTENANCE MATERIALS, ET CETERA.
WE'VE BEEN TRIMMING TREES, WE'VE BEEN BUSY CLEANING GUTTERS, AND WE'VE BEEN CHECKING OUR EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT.
UH, M AND O LEVERAGES OUR HISTORIC DATA TO INFORM PLANNING, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, AND PRIORITIZATION OF OUR RESPONSE TEAM.
AND SO WE HAVE MANY, MANY YEARS OF DATA, I THINK OVER 20 YEARS OF DATA AND MAXIMO THAT HELPS US TO, HELPS AND GUIDES US TO WHERE TO PUT OUR RESOURCES.
SO BEFORE THIS SIGNIFICANT EVENT, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, EVERY SCHOOL'S SITES, PLANT MANAGER CONDUCTS AN INSPECTION OF THEIR PROSPECTIVE CAMPUSES IN A TYPICAL YEAR.
WE'VE DONE THIS, UH, USUALLY AROUND NOVEMBER, AND WE'VE DONE IT ONCE A YEAR.
THIS YEAR, BECAUSE OF THE EVENT, WE'RE GONNA DO IT TWICE A YEAR.
I THINK WE HAVE IT ALMOST COMPLETED BY THE END OF THIS MONTH, WHICH IS IN A FEW DAYS.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA DO IT AGAIN IN DECEMBER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CATCHING EVERYTHING.
WE'VE ALSO SENT OUR AOSS, UH, THE PLANT MANAGERS, SUPERVISORS AND MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS TO DO A RANDOM CHECK.
SO THEY HAVE THE CHECKLIST THE PLANT MANAGERS GO OVER, AND THEN THEY GO OVER AND DO A RANDOM CHECK TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF, AND IF THERE'S ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT THAT PLANT MANAGER MAY NEED TO PROTECT THE SCHOOL.
SO WITH THIS, THIS IS, THIS IS KIND OF OUR TASK, AND THIS IS A BIG ISSUE.
UH, WE HAVE 5,300, UH, DRAINAGE BASINS.
SO YARD DRAINS THAT YOU SEE TYPICALLY WHEN YOU GO OUT ON CAMPUS, 17,000 ROOF DRAINS AND OVER A MILLION FEET, LINEAR FEET OF GUTTERS.
SO IT'S QUITE A BIG TASK IN PREPARATION.
UH, RIGHT NOW WHAT WE HAVE ON HAND IS WE HAVE DISTRICT, UH, OWNED GENERATORS, AND THESE ARE THE LARGER GENERATORS, 125 KW GENERATORS THAT WE HAVE.
WE ALSO HAVE 20,000 SANDBAGS, UH, READY TO GO.
AND WE'VE PLACED THEM IN 16 DIFFERENT AREAS WITHIN THE DISTRICT, NOT JUST THE MAINTENANCE AREAS.
SO IF YOU COUNT THE MAINTENANCE AREAS, IT WOULD BE 23, UH, PLACES, BUT WE'VE PLACED THEM AT DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOLS SO THAT WE'RE READY.
SO WE CUT DOWN OUR WINDSHIELD TIME.
WHEN EVENTS DO HAPPEN, WE CAN GET, UH, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES TO OUR SCHOOLS QUICKER.
UH, SO WE HAVE 1500 TARPS, 200 PUMPS, AND WE HAVE THE ABILITY, WE HAVE VENDORS ON TASK, ARE ON CONTRACT RIGHT NOW TO BE ABLE TO GET US ANY OTHER MATERIAL THAT WE MEET THAT WE MAY NEED.
SO DURING THE, UH, SIGNIFICANT EVENT, WE, WE ALWAYS MONITOR CONDITIONS AND WE RESPOND TO REPORTS FROM SCHOOLS, PRIORITIZING CAMPUSES WITH THE MOST URGENT SAFETY AND FLOODING CONCERNS.
THIS ISN'T JUST DURING, UH, WORKING HOURS.
SO WHETHER IT BE SCHOOL POLICE, A PLANT MANAGER, UH, A COMMUNITY MEMBER, UH, WE'RE ON CALL.
WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO RESPOND.
24 7 SANDBAGS AND TARPS ARE DEPLOYED TO MITIGATE FLOODING.
UM, PUMPS ARE USED TO REMOVE STANDING WATER FROM PARTICULARLY IMPACTED AREAS TO ENSURE STUDENT AND STAFF SAFETY.
UH, WE'VE, UH, WE HAVE CONTRACTED VENDORS FOR ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY SUPPORT IS NEEDED, SUCH AS RENTING OTHER GENERATORS, UM, DURING POWER OUTAGES AND WATER REMOVAL DURING SEVERE FLOODING.
AND WE OBVIOUSLY COORDINATE WITH SCHOOL OPERATIONS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS TO RELOCATE CLASSES WHEN NEEDED.
UM, WE DO HAVE SWING SPACE AT OUR SCHOOL, SO TYPICALLY WHEN IT'S NEEDED, WE'RE ABLE TO, UM, MOVE CLASSES AROUND SO AS NOT TO DISRUPT THE, UH, INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESS.
AFTER OUR SIGNIFICANT EVENT, UM, WE ASSESS DAMAGE AND FACILITATE ENVIRONMENT AND FACILITATE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY INSPECTIONS.
WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THE OFFICE OF, UH, HEALTH AND SAFETY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY SEE THAT THEY, UH, WOULD WANT US TO REMOVE AND REPLACE.
AND THEN ALSO WE, UM, WE WORK WITH THEM TO, AFTER THE CLEANUP AND EVERYTHING HAS BEEN, UH, COMPLETED, WE WORK WITH THEM TO BE ABLE TO, UH, PUT KIDS BACK INTO THE CLASSROOM.
SO WE WAIT FOR THEIR, UH, RECOMMENDATION TO PUT KIDS BACK IN CLASS.
WE, UH, ADDRESS WATER INTRUSION AND, AND REPAIR IMPACTED AREAS.
OUR FIRST PRIORITY IS TO GET IN THERE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
IF WE GET IN THERE WITHIN 24 OR WITHIN 48 HOURS,
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IT LESSENS A LOT OF THE DAMAGE THAT WE, THAT WE HAVE.AND SO THAT'S A BIG, THAT'S A BIG ISSUE FOR US.
WE OBVIOUSLY DOCUMENT STORM, UH, STORM IMPACTS AND LESSONS LEARNED.
UH, WE INFORM FUTURE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLANNING.
AND THESE ASSESSMENTS ALSO HELP US TO IDENTIFY WHICH ROOFING REPAIRS AND REPLACEMENT PROJECTS ARE NEEDED FROM THE CAMPUSES, UH, IN OUR DISTRICT AND FOR FUTURE STORMS. OUR ROOFING REPAIRS, THIS IS A BIG ONE.
UM, WE RESPOND AND ASSESS, UH, REPAIRS AND REPORTED ROOF LEAKS AS PART OF ROUTINE MAINTENANCE.
AND SO WE HAVE A PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE EVERY YEAR THAT THE M AND O TEAM GOES THROUGH FOR EACH ROOF ON, ON OUR DISTRICT.
UH, THE WAY WE ADDRESS STORM IMPACTS IS WE HAVE A REVIEW COMMITTEE, UH, THAT GOES OVER THESE IMPACTS, AND WE DISCUSS WHICH ROOFS NEED IT BASED ON A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT NEEDS.
AND, UH, WE, OUR TIMELY REPAIRS AND PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE HELP US TO PREVENT AND EXTEND OUR ROOF LIFE AND TRY TO AVOID THESE EVENTS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, THERE IS A BIG DISCREPANCY FROM 2024 TO 2025.
AND SO 2024 WAS PRETTY, WAS A PRETTY DRY YEAR.
WE HAD JUST A LITTLE OVER SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN.
THE MAJORITY OF THAT RAIN FELL IN TWO STORMS, UH, DURING, UH, JANUARY AND, UM, AND MAR UH, JANUARY AND FEBRUARY.
AND SO THE IMPACT WASN'T THAT GREAT.
UH, YOU KNOW, IT WAS GREAT FOR, IT WAS GREAT FOR M AND O, YOU KNOW, NOT SO GOOD FOR, UH, RAIN RECOVERY.
IN 2025, WE HAD OVER 19 INCHES OF RAIN, AND YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH THE, UH, UH, THE, THE WORK ORDERS HAD WON UP.
AND TO DATE, WE HAVE 3,600, OVER 3,600 ROOFING CALLS.
WE ARE ADDRESSING THEM EVERY DAY.
WE HAVE, UH, FOLKS HELPING US.
WE HAVE OTHER, UH, VENDORS HELPING US, AND WE ARE ADDRESSING THOSE CALLS.
AND, AND THE REASON THEY'RE UP SO MUCH THIS YEAR IS, SO WE'VE HAD SOME PRETTY GOOD SIZE EARLY STORMS THIS YEAR, AND SO WE'VE SEEN AN IMPACT.
AND THEN OUR ROOFING REPLACEMENT PROJECTS, THIS IS OUR NEXT SLIDE.
UM, WHEN THERE GETS THE TIME TO WHERE THE ROOF IS JUST NO LONGER GONNA TAKE REPAIRS, SO WE HAVE TO REPLACE IT.
AND SO WE, WE DO THIS BY DIFFERENT CRITERIA, UM, ROOF CONDITION AND AGE, INCLUDING OUR FACILITIES CONDITION INDEX, OUR ROOF RELATED SERVICE CALLS, UH, REPORTS FROM OUR M AND O TEAMS AND SITE VISITS TO VERIFY CONDITIONS.
AND THIS IS WHAT WE'VE DONE IN 25, 26, WE HAD 25 PROJECTS COMPLETED.
NOW, THESE ARE BIG, YOU KNOW, FOR M AND O, THESE ARE BIG PROJECTS OF REPLACING ENTIRE ROOFS AT A SCHOOL.
WE'VE HAD, UH, 85 MILLION, 85 POINT $85.8 MILLION WORTH OF ROOF REPLACEMENTS.
WE ALREADY HAVE THREE PROJECTS COMPLETED.
AND, UH, TOTAL COMBINED VALUE WILL BE 93 MILLION.
AND IN 27 28, WE EXPECT TO HAVE 14 PROJECTS TO BE COMPLETED AT 43.5 MILLION.
SO IM O IS ACTIVELY ON NOT ONLY REPAIRING ROOFS, BUT REPLACING ROOFS WHEN, WHEN NEEDED.
THAT DOES IT FOR THE M AND O PORTION OF IT.
UM, IF YOU WISH, I CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS NOW.
JUST WAIT TILL THE END OF THE, TO THE END OF THE PRESENTATION AFTER JULIA.
THEN I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE MY ESTEEMED COLLEAGUE, JULIA HAWKINSON.
THANKS TO CHRISTOS AND DENNIS FOR THE EXCELLENT SETUP TO MY PART OF THIS STORY.
I'M REALLY HAPPY TO BE HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND LONG-TERM STRATEGIES.
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF PLANNING FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT IN FACILITIES.
AND OUR TERM TEAM WORKS ON ALL THE PLANNING STAGES FOR ALL OF THE MAJOR PROJECTS.
WE'RE KIND OF AT THAT FIRST INITIAL PLANNING STAGE.
WE ALSO DEVELOP AND UPDATE THE DISTRICT STANDARDS AND DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR ALL OF OUR PROJECTS.
AND WE WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH ALL OF OUR PARTNERS AND TEAMS IN THE DIFFERENT, UH, BRANCHES TO MAKE SURE WE'RE STAYING UPDATING, UPDATING THINGS FROM LESSONS LEARNED THAT WE SEE IN OUR PROJECTS THAT WE COMPLETE.
SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY WORKING TO IMPROVE.
AND I DO WANNA SHOUT OUT THAT WE WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH M AND O ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING SERVICES, CIVIL ENGINEERS ON THIS PARTICULAR TOPIC, BECAUSE THEY REALLY ARE OUR GUIDING LIGHT AND OUR EXPERTS WHEN IT COMES TO STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND MITIGATION.
SO THE LASD DESIGN STANDARDS VOLUNTARILY INCORPORATE, OH, I FORGOT TO DO THAT.
WE IMPLEMENT DIFFERENT STRATEGIES OR BMPS BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, UM, THAT SOME ARE STRUCTURAL, SOME ARE VEGETATIVE, OR THEY'RE MANAGEMENT THAT
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PREVENT OR REDUCE STORMWATER POLLUTION AT OUR SITES.AND WE, UH, TYPICALLY IMPLEMENT BMPS FOR ANY PROJECT THAT DISTURBS MORE THAN ONE ACRE OF LAND.
SO IT'S, UM, A GOOD PORTION OF OUR PROJECTS THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING.
STORM WATER IS CAPTURED ON SITE THROUGH INFILTRATION AND RAINFALL AND SURFACE RUNOFF SOAK INTO, INTO THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND AND, UH, RECHARGE OUR GROUNDWATER WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
BUT THE METHODS FOR INFILTRATION VARY BY SITE.
OUR SOIL CONDITIONS ARE DIFFERENT, OUR SITE CONDITIONS ARE DIFFERENT.
SO WE LOOK AT EACH PROJECT WITH OUR EXPERTS, OUR CIVIL ENGINEERS, AND OUR TEAM THAT LOOKS AT EVERY SITE AND DEVELOP WHATEVER THE BMPS WILL BE APPLICABLE AND APPROPRIATE FOR EACH PROJECT.
SO THE, SOME OF THE, AND I THINK CRYSTAL'S SORT OF SET ME UP REALLY WELL FOR THIS BY TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THESE, BUT SOME OF THE BMPS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ARE INFILTRATION AREAS, BIO BIORETENTION AREAS, BIOSWALES, PERMEABLE PAVEMENT, THOSE ALL DIRECT AND CONTROL THE STORM WATER, SO IT GOES INTO THE GROUND.
WE ALSO DO UNDERGROUND INFILTRATION TANKS THAT ARE MORE STRUCTURED TYPES OF, UM, BMPS THAT ALLOW TO STORE AND INFILTRATE STORM WATER.
AND WE DO DETENTION TANKS THAT, UM, USUALLY WHERE WE, OUR SOIL CONDITIONS DON'T ALLOW FOR INFILTRATION AND THAT WILL STORE OUR STORM WATER AND THEN SLOWLY BE ABLE TO RELEASE IT IN AS WHEN, WHEN, WHEN POSSIBLE.
THE KEY TO ALL THIS IS FILTERING OUT THE POLLUTANTS, RIGHT? THE WHOLE, ONE OF THE MAIN ISSUES WITH STORM WATER IS NOT LETTING THOSE POLLUTANTS GET TO OUR NATURAL WATERWAYS, WHICH FOR US IN OUR LOCATION IS THE OCEAN AND PROTECTING THAT OCEAN.
SO, UM, THAT'S KIND OF ALL OF THIS IS ABOUT HOW DO WE FILTER IT THROUGH BIO, THROUGH MECHANICAL MEANS, HOWEVER WE'RE DOING THAT, THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING THE STORM WATER THAT LANDS ON OUR SITES.
THIS, UM, PHOTO IS FROM, UH, MAYWOOD CENTER FOR ENRICH STUDIES, AND IT'S A BIO FILTRATION AREA.
AND, UM, THIS, I THINK WE TOOK THIS LAST YEAR.
IT LOOKED REALLY GOOD AND IT WAS EXCITING TO SEE.
AND I JUST WANNA POINT OUT THAT TREES DO REALLY WELL IN THESE AREAS, AND THAT'S GOOD TOO.
UM, SOME, HERE'S A FEW OF OUR RECENT COMPREHENSIVE MODERNIZATION PROJECTS AT HIGH SCHOOLS, AND I THINK THESE PROJECTS REALLY DEMONSTRATE HOW IMPROVING PERMEABILITY OF OUR SITES AND GREENING REALLY, UM, AND LANDSCAPING INCREASES THAT ACCESS TO GREEN AND NATURAL AREAS FOR OUR STUDENTS.
SO WE GET THIS DUAL DUTY OF IMPROVING THAT STORMWATER INFILTRATION AND MANAGEMENT, BUT ALSO PROVIDING A GREAT PLACE FOR OUR KIDS AND OUR STUDENTS GET TO BE MORE COMFORTABLE.
IT'S OBVIOUSLY FEELS MORE NATURAL.
THE THE TEMPERATURE IS DIFFERENT, THERE'S MORE SHADE.
AND WE'RE ALSO CONNECTING TO NATURE AND BUILDING THAT ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP AND LEARNING.
BECAUSE OF OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WITH OUR MAJOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, WE USUALLY HAVE SOME KIND OF SIGNAGE THAT EXPLAINS TO OUR STUDENTS WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.
AND SO WE HAVE ANOTHER GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, TO DEMONSTRATE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND THE ROLE OF STORMWATER IN OUR CLIMATE, WHICH IS, AS WE POINTED OUT, RAINS A LOT SHORT TIME A YEAR.
OUR, OUR WORLD HAS TO TAKE THAT IN AND HOW THIS KIND OF DEVELOPMENT CAN REALLY HELP AND SUPPORT THAT.
WE ALSO DO THESE INVISIBLE STRUCTURED BMPS.
I SAY INVISIBLE 'CAUSE YOU DON'T SEE THEM, THEY'RE UNDERGROUND, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF HARD WORK GOING ON IN THESE KIND OF SYSTEMS THAT THESE ARE THE INFILTRATION TANKS, A EDA HIGH SCHOOL AND VENICE HIGH SCHOOL THAT STORE AND INFILTRATE STORMWATER TO RECHARGE THE GROUNDWATER.
AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW THE LATEST NUMBER ON THIS, BUT THE, THE DATA I SAW SHOWED THAT WE HAVE WAY OVER 50 OF THESE TYPES OF SYSTEMS ACROSS THE DISTRICTS.
IS THAT ABOUT RIGHT? CHRISTOS? UM, AT VENICE, THAT WAS A PROJECT I WORKED ON.
WE, WHEN WE GOT TO THAT SIDE OF HER, WE TALKING ABOUT A LAKE, THERE WAS A BIG FLOODING ISSUE AT VENICE HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL IN THE MAIN PLAZA AREA.
AND WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT THAT WHEN WE GOT THERE.
AND WE DID EXTENSIVE HYDROLOGY STUDIES TO FIGURE OUT WHERE ON THE SITE THE SOIL WAS ABLE TO DO INFILTRATION.
AND THE SYSTEM IS LOCATED UNDERNEATH THE NEW FOOTBALL FIELD THERE, AND IT'S, IT'S THERE.
WE DON'T SEE IT EVERY DAY, BUT IT'S WORKING HARD AT JOHN BURROUGHS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
THERE IS A DETENTION SYSTEM, AND THIS IS USUALLY BECAUSE THE SOIL CONDITIONS REQUIRE US TO, TO STORE THE WATER AND THEN GRADUALLY LET IT GO INTO THE SYSTEM.
AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE ABOUT 17 OF THESE SYSTEMS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE VERY BIG STRUCTURED SYSTEMS LIKE LITTLE BUILDINGS UNDERGROUND THAT DO THAT WORK FOR US, BUT WE DON'T SEE IT EVERY DAY WHEN WE DO SEE IT, IT'S LIKE OUR GREENING PROJECTS.
WE HAVE QUITE A FEW GREEN SCHOOLYARD
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UPGRADES AND PACE UP CURRENTLY IN DESIGN.AND THESE PROJECTS REALLY WORK HARD TO BALANCE IMPROVING PERMEABILITY LANDSCAPING WHILE MAINTAINING THE HARD SURFACES THAT WE NEED TO SUPPORT OTHER FUNCTIONS OF THE SCHOOL, WHETHER IT'S PHYSICAL EDUCATION OR FIRE LANES OR, OR ACCESS OR OTHER ISSUES.
SO WE HAVE THIS BALANCE BETWEEN HARD SURFACE AND IMPROVING THE PERMEABILITY AND THE NATURE-BASED, UM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING, AGAIN, THAT DUAL DUTY OR TRIPLE DUTY I SHOULD SAY, ABOUT IMPROVING STORM WATER, UM, INFILTRATION, ALLOWING FOR A GREENER COMFORTABLE SCHOOL YARD FOR OUR STUDENTS AND PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO TEACH ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT AND THE IMPORTANCE OF STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AT OUR SCHOOLS.
SHENANDOAH COMPREHENSIVE MODERNIZATION PROJECT WAS COMPLETED A FEW YEARS AGO.
UM, THIS PROJECT HAD A LARGE NUMBER OF RELOCATABLES ON THE SCHOOL YARD, WHICH WE REMOVED AND BUILT A NEW CLASSROOM BUILDING.
SO WE HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DO A WHOLE NEW GREEN SCHOOL YARD.
AND THIS HAS BECOME A GREAT LEARNING LAB FOR US AS WE'RE EMBARKING ON ALL THE NEW PROJECTS, WE CAN GO BACK AND SEE WHAT WAS WORKING, WHAT WE COULD DO BETTER WE'RE, WE'VE BEEN OUT THERE WITH OUR PARTNERS IN MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS AND, AND ALL OF OUR LA REALLY A LOT OF OUR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS WORKING ON OTHER PROJECTS TO USE THIS PROJECT AS THIS GREAT LEARNING LAB.
BUT I THINK ONE OF THE COOL THINGS ABOUT IT IS THAT OUR STANDARDS REQUIRE, I THINK I MENTIONED THESE DEMONSTRATION AREAS WHERE WE ALWAYS WANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH ABOUT THESE THING, THE, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE DOING IN TERMS OF IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES.
SO THE PHO PHOTO IN THE LOWER LEFT SHOWS THE INFILTRATION BIO, UH, RETENTION AREA, WHICH IS ON THE LOW PART OF THIS SITE WHERE THE STORMWATER COLLECT GOES TO INFILTRATE, AND THERE'S A SIGN THERE.
UM, THESE SIGNS ARE THROUGHOUT THE CAMPUS DEMONSTRATING DIFFERENT FEATURES OF THE CAMPUS, BUT THIS ONE SPECIFICALLY SPEAKS TO THE STUDENTS ABOUT STORMWATER MANAGEMENT.
AND IT SAYS, RAINWATER FLOWS OFF STREETS AND BUILDINGS AND CARRIES POLLUTANTS LIKE OIL AND TRASH INTO THE OCEAN.
GARDENS HELP FILTER THE DIRTY WATER BEFORE IT LEAVES THE SCHOOL.
HOW DOES RAINWATER FLOW THROUGH THE SCHOOL YARD? SO SETTING UP SOME OF THE BASIC INFORMATION.
SO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND WE ADJUST LANGUAGE OBVIOUSLY PER OUR GRADE LEVEL, AND WE WORK WITH INSTRUCTION TO WORD THINGS IN WAYS THAT WORKS FOR THE GRADE LEVELS.
UM, AND THEN LEAVING THEM WITH A QUESTION TO THINK ABOUT, TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT THEIR FACILITY, ABOUT THE SCHOOL AND HOW THAT SCHOOL BECOMES AN OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH.
THIS IS, UM, A SIMILAR EXAMPLE AT A HIGH SCHOOL.
THIS IS KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL, AND THEIR DEMONSTRATION AREA TALKS ABOUT A BIOFILTRATION GARDEN THAT IS PART OF THE PROJECT.
AND THIS EXPLAINS HOW THAT WORKS.
IT ALSO DOES A GREAT JOB OF SETTING THE SCHOOL IN ITS CONTEXT OF ITS REGION IN THE WHOLE LA RIVER BASIN AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THAT SCHOOL? AND THROUGH VERY INTERESTING DIAGRAMS BASICALLY TALKS ABOUT JUST EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY, EXPLAINING TO THESE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HOW THESE SYSTEMS WORK.
AND YOU KNOW, HOW THE, THE DIFFERENT LAYERS THAT WE TALK ABOUT, WHERE THE WATER COMES IN, IT GETS FILTERED, GETS LET, EITHER GOES TO THE GROUNDWATER OR RELEASED.
AND, UM, I, I THINK THAT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO, TO TEACH OUR STUDENTS IS SOME OF THE BEST STUFF WE GET TO DO IN FACILITIES BECAUSE I ALWAYS LIKE TO SAY THAT EVERY DIME WE'RE SPENDING, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH.
AND YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THE TERM I, CRYSTALS HAS USED IT, PROBABLY MANY SCHOOLS IS TEACHING TOOLS.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE.
AND STORMWATER IS PARTICULARLY ONE OF THOSE AREAS THAT'S VERY ACCESSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND.
SO TO SUMMARIZE, WE ADDRESS STORMWATER AT ALL OF OUR PROJECTS, LARGE AND SMALL THROUGHOUT IMPLEMENTATION, UM, THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT BY IMPLEMENTING VARIOUS STRATEGIES AND BMPS DEPENDING ON THE PARTICULAR SIZE OF THE PROJECT AND THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT.
AND WE ARE CONSTANTLY WORKING TO UPDATE OUR STANDARDS AND WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS IN M AND O AND ESO TO SEE WHAT WORKS AND HOW WE CAN DO BETTER.
UM, THE, THIS IS A BIG ISSUE BECAUSE IMPLEMENTING EVEN THESE, ANY ONE OF THESE BMPS REQUIRES MAINTENANCE.
SO WE HAVE TO THINK THROUGH THAT WHOLE LIFE OF THOSE PROJECTS.
I WAS JUST THINKING WHEN CHRISTOS WAS PRESENTING, I'D LIKE TO GO VISIT THAT DROPS PROJECT AT NORTHRIDGE AND SEE HOW IT'S DOING.
I'M SURE WE HAVE SOME LESSONS LEARNED THERE.
SO ADDRESSING STORM WATER HELPS OUR CAMPUSES THROUGH, NOT JUST THROUGH THAT STORM EVENT, BUT UM, IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO OVERALL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
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BY REDUCING THAT RELEASE OF POLLUTANTS INTO OUR NATURAL WATERWAYS.WE'RE PROTECTING OUR WORLD, WHICH IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
AND IT ALSO IS PROVIDING THESE WONDERFUL NATURAL GREEN SPACES FOR OUR STUDENTS WHERE THEY GET TO CONNECT TO NATURE.
MAYBE YOU HAVE THAT MOMENT OF RESPITE OR RELAXATION OR MAYBE JUST FEEL COOLER ON A HOT DAY.
AND THAT'S SUCH A GREAT THING WE CAN DO WHILE ADDRESSING OUR STORM WATER.
UM, AND THEN GIVING US OUR OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO, UM, TO, UM, SUPPORT AND CREATE ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP IN OUR STUDENTS.
THE MORE THEY CONNECT TO NATURE, THE MORE THEY UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT THAT HUMANS HAVE ON NATURE, THE MORE THAT WE ARE CREATING THAT STEWARDSHIP THAT HELPS US TOWARDS THE FUTURE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE VERY COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION.
AND YES, I, I LOVE HOW YOU ENDED.
'CAUSE EVERYTHING HAS TO BE DONE WITH INTENTION RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END, AND OBVIOUSLY THE END IS MAKING SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE ALSO, UM, PART OF THAT LEARNING LESSONS THROUGHOUT.
SO I'LL OPEN UP THE FLOOR, UM, FOR ANY QUESTIONS FOR ANY OF OUR THREE PRESENTERS? YES, MCKAYLA, UM, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR PRESENTATIONS.
THAT WAS INCREDIBLY INFORMATIVE AND VERY EXCITING AND I REALLY LOVE, JULIA, YOUR CONNECTION BACK TO LEARNING.
I WAS LISTENING TO YOU ALL AND THINKING FOR CAREER DAY.
WHEN YOU, WHEN IT HAPPENS WITHIN THE DISTRICT, EACH ONE OF YOU ALL AND THOSE PLANT MANAGERS, THOSE SITE PLANT MANAGERS SHOULD REALLY BE IN THE CLASSROOM TEACHING TO, UH, THE STUDENTS ABOUT THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF UNSEEN AND THERE'S LIKE AN INVISIBILITY TO IT, BUT IT'S SUCH, SO IMPACTFUL.
UM, I HAD A QUESTION WITH REGARDS TO, UM, DENNIS, WHEN YOU WERE GIVING YOUR PRESENTATION AND YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE ROOFS AND LIKE, YOU KNOW, SO MUCH INFRASTRUCTURE THERE'S NEEDED AND I WAS CURIOUS IF ANY OF YOU ACTUALLY COULD GIVE SOME INSIGHT INTO PROP TWO, UM, KIND OF THE FUNDING OR THE PROCESS AND WHAT THE DISTRICT IS DOING IN TERMS OF LIKE GOING FOR THAT FUNDING OR WHEN AND IF YOU ALL ARE GETTING ANY AWARDS FOR THAT.
'CAUSE I KNOW THAT'S LIKE A LOT, SO MUCH DEFERRED MAINTENANCE.
I'M JUST TRYING TO GET INSIGHTS THERE.
WHEN IT COMES TO PROP TWO, I DEFER TO CHRISTOS AND AWARDS CHRISTOS OR MY BOSS TO, TO DEAL WITH THAT.
I KNOW I'M MORE OF THE HANDS-ON GUY
SO, UM, PROP TWO IS THE STATE BOND.
UM, IT'S APPROXIMATELY $10 BILLION, UM, UH, WHICH SOUNDS HUGE, BUT WHEN YOU THINK OF HOW MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE ACROSS CALIFORNIA, OUR OWN BOND MEASURE IS $9 BILLION JUST FOR L-A-U-S-D.
SO WE HAVE A PROGRAM, UM, WITHIN FACILITIES WHERE WE APPLY FOR STATE BOND FUNDS FOR THE MANY DIFFERENT ALLOCATIONS THAT THEY HAVE.
THEY HAVE FUNDING FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION, THEY HAVE FUNDING FOR, UM, SEISMIC MITIGATION.
UM, THEY HAVE FUNDING, UM, FOR REPAIRS AND MODERNIZATIONS.
AND SO WE LOOK ACROSS OUR PROJECTS AND SEE WHERE WE CAN MAKE APPLICATIONS.
UM, THEY ALWAYS REQUIRE A DISTRICT MATCH, SO WE LEVERAGE THE BOND FUNDS THAT WE HAVE FOR EXISTING PROJECTS, THEN WE APPLY FOR STATE FUNDS AND THEN WE MIGHT YEARS DOWN, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY, YOU HAVE TO MAKE APPLICATIONS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE DSA APPROVAL.
UM, WE FIND OUT WHETHER OR NOT WE'VE ACTUALLY GOTTEN THAT ALLOCATION, BUT FOR A LOT OF OUR PROGRAMS, UM, THEY'RE ALREADY OVERSUBSCRIBED FOR THE AMOUNT OF NEED THERE IS IN THE STATE OVER HERE.
START OVER THERE IF YOU WANNA START.
AND A PREEMPTIVE APOLOGY 'CAUSE THIS IS A, A VERY EXCITING AND IMPORTANT ISSUE TO ME.
UM, I WONDERED IF, IF ONE OF YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO TELL ME A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE PROCESS FOR HOW, UM, OVER TIME SOME OF THE OBSERVED FLOODING IMPACTS CAN HELP INFORM THE POTENTIAL FOR A LARGER INTERVENTION AT A SCHOOL.
UM, LIKE THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE VERSUS LONG-TERM PLANNING ASPECT AND, UH, LIKE HOW THAT WORKS GIVEN THE ALL THE DIFFERENT DIVISIONS AND UM, BUDGETS AND, UM, PROCESSES THAT WERE LAID OUT.
AND AS A KIND OF SUB-QUESTION TO THAT, TO WHAT EXTENT ARE INTERVENTIONS LIKE THE, UM, INFILTRATION OR, UM, DIVERSION TANKS BEING PLANNED FOR ALL OF THE UPCOMING MAJOR MODERNIZATION OR ATHLETIC UPGRADE PRO ATHLETIC FIELD UPGRADE PROJECTS? IF, IF I CAN TAKE THE FIRST PART OF THAT QUESTION, I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES WHEN PROJECTS ARE BEING DEVELOPED, UM, THINGS USUALLY START WITH MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS.
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WE HAVE A GREAT WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH ALL THE, UH, WITH ASSETS PECS, UH, FACILITIES DIVISION.WE WORK REALLY WELL TOGETHER IN TRYING TO IDENTIFY WHICH AREAS NEED TO BE FIXED FIRST.
AND SO TYPICALLY WHEN A LARGER PROJECT COMES ALONG OR EVEN THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, WE DO SUGGEST LARGER PROJECTS AND, AND TYPICALLY WE'LL BRING IT TO CHRISTINA AND TEAM AND AS A TEAM WE DISCUSS WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND WHEN.
UH, BUT IT HAS TO BE BALANCED WITH ALL THE OTHER, UH, PROJECTS AND NEEDS THAT THE DISTRICT HAS AND ALSO WITH THE RESOURCES THAT THE DISTRICT HAS.
BUT WE DO PLACE 'EM IN, IN PRIORITIES AND, AND NEEDS AND, AND THEY DO GET ADDRESSED AS FAR AS THE, UH, UH, THE STORM WATER.
I THINK JULIA CAN BE A BETTER ANSWER FOR THAT OR HAVE A BETTER ANSWER.
IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE SCOPE AND THE SCALE OF THE PROJECT.
UM, MOST OF THE TIMES THAT WE'RE DOING THOSE INFILTRATION OR DETENTION SYSTEMS, WE'RE TOUCHING THE WHOLE SITE AND IT'S A LARGE SITE, SO IT'S JUST A LARGE QUANTITY OF STORMWATER.
AND THEN WE REALLY DO RELY ON OUR ENGINEERS, THEY'RE THE EXPERTS ON THIS.
THEY RUN THE CALCULATIONS AND WE DO THE SOIL TESTING TO SEE IF IT'S A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR INFILTRATION OR SOME OF OUR SOILS IN OUR AREAS ARE NOT.
AND THEN WE, WE MAY LOOK AT A DIFFERENT SYSTEM.
UM, AND I THINK THE, THE BIGGER PROJECTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE THE LARGER SYSTEMS JUST BECAUSE THERE'S MORE SURFACE AREA AND MORE WATER TO COLLECT.
I THINK LAUREN, LAUREN, I THINK I, IF I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION IS, UH, IT'S ACTUALLY PERHAPS A LITTLE BIGGER IN TERMS OF FLOODING WITHIN PERHAPS OUR PERIMETER OF THE SCHOOLS AND, AND, AND SCHOOLS ITSELF.
AND, AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE, UH, WE'VE BECOME AWARE, UH, OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE SEE THOSE ISSUES AND IMPACTS AND WE WORK, WE DO WORK WITH, UH, CITY AGENCIES TO, UH, IDENTIFY HOW WE CAN RESOLVE THIS.
WE HAVE FEW SCHOOLS THAT WE SEE FLOODING OUTSIDE OUR SCHOOL JUST BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THAT.
AND, UH, WE, WE DISCUSS AND WE LOOK AT BOTH INTERNAL PROJECTS AND SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT THAT, UM, AS WELL AS EXTERNAL.
UH, THE CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE, UH, AND I'LL TOUCH ON THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE OUR NEXT SPEAKERS, THEY'RE GONNA BE DISCUSSING, UM, THROUGH THE SAFE CLEAN WATER PROGRAM, UM, AN ONGOING DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ACCEPTING OUTSIDE WATER SOMETIMES.
AND, AND THAT'S A CHALLENGE AND WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS NUMEROUS TIMES IN TERMS OF THE LIABILITIES AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH FOR ACCEPTING OUTSIDE WATER.
WITH THAT SAID, THERE ARE DISCUSSIONS, FOLLOW UP DISCUSSIONS TO SEE IF WE CAN COME UP WITH A RESOLUTIONS.
UH, LAST FRIDAY AT THE STATE LEVEL, THERE WAS, THERE WAS, UH, SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS WITH, UM, EPA AND SOME OTHER AGENCIES TO SEE HOW THEY CAN HELP, UH, SUPPORT, UM, THROUGH SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE'VE SEEN OR EXPERIENCED THROUGH TIME.
BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES A WHOLE SEPARATE APPROACH, I WILL SAY, TO, TO BE ABLE TO, UM, TO DO THAT.
UH, BUT IN TERMS OF ON ONSITE WATER AS A TEAM SHARE HERE, DEPENDING ON THE SOIL CONDITIONS, DEPENDING ON THE, UH, PERMEABILITY OF THE SOILS THAT WE HAVE, WE'LL, UH, INCLUDE OR WE INSTALL THE APPROPRIATE, UH, MECHANISMS TO BE ABLE TO CAPTURE AND INFILTRATE WATER ON OUR SITE.
YEAH, I HAVE A LOT OF OTHER SAFE CLEAN WATER PROGRAM RELATED QUESTIONS AND I WAS TRYING TO DECIDE IF I SHOULD SAVE THEM AND ASK THEM AFTER THE NEXT PRESENTATION, EVEN IF THERE MIGHT BE QUESTIONS THAT THE LESD TEAM IS MORE POSITIONED TO ANSWER.
SO I MIGHT DO THAT IN CASE ANY OF THE THINGS ARE MENTIONED BY OUR NEXT SPEAKER.
THE, UM, BUT I WAS CURIOUS WITH THE, UM, AS THE, UM, GIVEN THE POTENTIAL DISCUSSIONS THAT HAVE HAPPENED OVER THE YEARS, AND MAYBE THIS WAS ADDRESSED IN THE CONVERSATION YOU MENTIONED LAST WEEK AT THE STATE LEVEL, I KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN A KIND OF BACK AND FORTH DISCUSSION AROUND WHETHER SCHOOLS WOULD AT SOME POINT BECOME PART OF THE MS FOUR COM, UH, PERMITTING.
UM, AND SO CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT KINDS OF GUIDANCE OR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR POLICY CHANGES COULD HELP LUSD TO BE POSITIONED WELL FOR IF THOSE, IF SCHOOLS ARE BROUGHT IN UNDER THOSE, UM, MS FOUR PERMITS? UM, I ALSO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE TRAINING FOR THESE TYPES OF INTERVENTIONS AND, AND HOW, UM, THAT IS BEING, HOW THAT'S GOING AND HOW THAT'S BEING APPROACHED.
'CAUSE THAT ALSO THOUGH, TO ME, FEELS REALLY WOVEN INTO THE OPPORTUNITY OF MEASURE W AND THE SAFE CLEAN WATER PROGRAM FUNDING.
UM, AND I AM REALLY CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT KINDS OF PERMITTING OR REGULATORY LIABILITY OBSTACLES THE DISTRICT FACES IN ADVANCING SOME OF THESE PROJECTS AS WELL.
SO I DON'T, THERE'S A LOT OF SPEAKERS HERE, SO I'M NOT SURE WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO SPEAK.
I I CAN, I CAN RESPOND TO YOUR QUESTION AT A HIGHER LEVEL BECAUSE I THINK THAT REQUIRE PROBABLY A WHOLE MEETING AND MEETING TIME TO BE ABLE TO GET INTO THE DEPTH OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
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I WAS INVOLVED IN THIS DISCUSSIONS FOR OVER, I WOULD SAY 15 YEARS RIGHT NOW, UH, WITH INTENT THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS ALWAYS WILLING TO DO THE RIGHT THING TO SUPPORT FIRST OUR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO, UH, THE, THE COMMUNITY ITSELF.UM, THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE, AND LEMME TOUCH ON THE MS FOUR, YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE MS FOUR, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, UH, DOES, IS NOT REQUIRED TO COMPLY, RIGHT, CURRENTLY WITH MS FOUR.
BUT WE ARE, IN TERMS OF THE SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE AND, UH, THE GUIDELINES AND THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE IS TO BE ABLE TO BE IN COMPLIANCE, BUT WE'RE NOT REQUIRED TO DO SO.
I THINK IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO, AND THE DISTRICT, UM, AGREED TO BE ABLE TO, UM, AT LEAST ADAPT, ALLOW OF THESE REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE.
AND SOMETIMES MORE DEPENDING ON THE SCHOOL SIDE.
UM, IN TERMS OF, UM, THE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT NOW ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND IF THAT BECOMES A REQUIREMENT, THE CHALLENGE THAT THE DISTRICT IS GONNA FACE IS ADDITIONAL FUNDING.
UM, HOW DO WE MITIGATE AND MANAGE SOMETHING WITH NO ADDITIONAL FUNDING FROM THE STATE? AND SOME OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS ARE HELD WITH THE STATE TO SEE IF, IF SOMEONE IMPOSE SOMETHING ON US, IT HAS TO BE A FUNDING MECHANISM TO HELP SUPPORT US TO DO SO AS WELL.
AND WE'RE WILLING TO DO, TO DO THAT.
SO I THINK, UH, FROM DISCUSSIONS FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND, AND PRIOR, UH, LEADERSHIP AND CURRENT LEADERSHIP IS THAT WE ARE HERE TO BE GOOD NEIGHBORS, BUT AT, AT THE SAME TIME, TO SAFEGUARD OUR STUDENTS AND, UH, THAT WE SERVE MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN OUR, UH, STAFF.
SO, UM, YEAH, PERHAPS ON A FOLLOW UP DISCUSSION, WE CAN DISCUSS SOME OF THE DETAILS OF THE REQUIREMENTS AND, AND THE LIABILITIES THAT WERE EXTENSIVELY ANALYZED.
AND, UM, AND SEE, MY HOPE IS THAT IN THE FUTURE WE'LL HAVE SOME SOLUTIONS, UM, IF WE REMOVE A LIABILITY FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND, UH, WE DO WHAT'S RIGHT AND THEY HELP US, UM, AND INDEMNIFY SOME, SOME OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS THAT, UM, CURRENTLY, UM, ARE UPON US.
UM, APPRECIATE THE, UH, YOU JUST MENTIONED THE PARTNERSHIP.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, ARE WE ABLE TO, UH, WORK ALONGSIDE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES WITHIN OUR COUNTY? ARE WE LOOKING AT THEIR WORK? ARE WE COMPARING OR ARE WE JUST DOING THIS ON OUR OWN? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION ACTUALLY.
AND WE CAN DO THAT A DIFFERENT SKILL AND MORE, BUT I WILL SAY RIGHT NOW, UH, WE DO WORK WITH, UH, DIFFERENT AGENCIES LIKE EVEN, UH, WP, I MEAN THE, OUR WATER AGENCIES.
'CAUSE THEY HAVE SIMILAR INTERESTS IN TERMS OF CAPTURING AND INFILTRATING WATER.
SO WE, UH, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK IN THE PAST WITH THEM IN TERMS OF IDENTIFYING WHERE OUR LOCAL AQUIFERS ARE, WHERE OUR SCHOOLS ARE, HOW DO WE PICK UP WATER ON SPECIFIC AREAS AND HOW WE COME UP WITH PROGRAMS, UH, TO INCENTIVIZE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
UM, WE'VE WORKED WITH, WHAT, WHAT CALL OVER FIVE, SEVEN YEARS AGO, I WORKED MYSELF LEADING THAT FOR, FROM THE DISTRICT, WHAT WE CALL THE WATER, UM, UH, ONE WATER LA INITIATIVE.
AND IT WAS ACTUALLY ALL THE DIFFERENT, UM, UH, MUNICIPALITIES THAT PARTICIPATED.
THAT WAS A GREAT EFFORT TO BE ABLE TO HELP US ADVANCE THE WORK THAT WE DO TODAY.
AND MOST RECENT, WE'RE WORKING WITH A LOT OF THE STATE AGENCIES TO HELP SUPPORT, UH, THROUGH DIFFERENT INITIATIVES AND IDENTIFY MORE FUNDING.
I MENTIONED ON MY LAST FRIDAY CONVENING THAT WE HAD, BUT IT WAS A, A CONVENING AT THE STATE LEVEL WITH, UH, ALL THE AGENCIES, INCLUDING THE OCEAN PROTECTION COUNCIL, THE CAL FIRE, THE CA, CALIFORNIA NATURAL RESOURCES AGENCY, UH, THE STATE ARCHITECT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE MISSION COLLEGE PA, UM, TO DISCUSS AND COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS TO GREEN OUR SCHOOLS.
AND AT THE SAME TIME, BEING ABLE TO CAPTURE AND INFILTRATE WATER TO SUPPORT, UM, OUR LOCAL AQUIFERS AND, UM, OUR LOCAL WATER SUPPLIES.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF MOMENTUM AND I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THAT, THAT, UH, AT THE SAME TIME THE STATE IS, UH, PUTTING THAT INTEREST ON US AND GATHERING ALL THE DIFFERENT AGENCIES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND AGENCIES TO COLLABORATE AND COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS.
AND I SEE REAL PROGRESS, UM, THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN FOR A WHILE.
SO I'M VERY PLEASED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
UM, I MEAN, AS WE GO INTO THIS SEASON, AND, YOU KNOW, AS TIMES CHANGE AND LOOKING AT THE LIST OF LOCAL HAZARDS, I MEAN, SOME ARE, YOU KNOW, LIKELY, BUT SOME ARE HIGHLY LIKELY.
AND THEN OF COURSE THOSE ARE CATASTROPHIC.
WANTING TO KNOW WHAT IS IT THAT OTHER FOLKS ARE DOING IN CONNECTION IN THAT WE ARE KIND OF WORKING ALONG THE SAME LINES.
'CAUSE SCHOOLS BECOME, UH, HUBS FOR THE, FOR THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS LOCAL AGENCIES LIKE OUR REC AND PARK, AND WONDERING WHAT ARE THEY DOING, UM,
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ALONGSIDE US BECAUSE MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS MAY BE IN ADJACENT OR A MILE AWAY AND FIGURING OUT ARE WE DOING SOMETHING SIMILAR? CAN WE, YOU KNOW, WORK TOGETHER TO BUILD CAPACITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, YOU KNOW, MAKING OUR, UH, OUR COMMUNITIES AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE FOR, FOR OUR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES.WHAT I WANTED TO MENTION, SORRY, I DIDN'T MENTION EARLIER, BESIDES THE AGENCIES, AND I GIVE A LOT OF CREDIT TO OUR PARTNERSHIPS, UM, AGREEING PARTNERS, UH, SCHOOLYARDS OF AMERICA WAS UP THERE HEADING THIS, I MEAN, ORGANIZING IT WITH CAL FIRE.
WE HAD PRETTY MUCH ALL THE DIFFERENT AGENCIES, AND I WANNA NAME A FEW, BUT, UM, WHAT I SEE NOW, UH, THE CLIMATE IMPACT IS BRINGING US ALL TOGETHER TO WORK COLLECTIVELY AND COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS.
AND, AND IT'S IMPRESSIVE TO SEE THAT ALL OF US, JUST LIKE THE LA 28 AND THE GAMES BRINGING ALL OF US TOGETHER NOW, I SEE THAT THE SAME TIME THE CLIMATE IMPACTS THAT WE'RE SEEING IS IMPACTING ALL OF US THROUGHOUT.
SO I SEE ALL OF US, UH, WORKING TOGETHER.
SO THAT'S A, A GREAT EFFORT FROM EVERYONE.
DO YOU KNOW HOW FREQUENTLY THESE CONVENINGS WOULD BE FOR, FOR US TO BE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THEM? IS IT AN ANNUALLY YEAH, BI-ANNUALLY.
ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS RIGHT NOW, THIS WAS THE FIRST ONE THAT HAPPENED, UH, THAT, AND I COMPLIMENT THEM AND I DID ASK HIM.
SO, YOU KNOW, TO EXTEND THE INVITATIONS TO OUR BOARD.
'CAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE BOARD REPRESENTATION AT SOME OF THOSE CONVENINGS, UM, TO HEAR THE LATEST AND ALSO ADVOCATE FOR SOME OF THE WORK AND NEEDS THAT WE HAVE.
UM, SO, UM, I HOPE WE CAN HAVE THEM AT LEAST, UM, I WILL SAY EVERY SIX MONTHS, BUT I THINK FOR NOW, PERHAPS YEARLY, BUT WE DISCUSS COMING UP WITH MORE MEETINGS AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
UM, YOU, YOU MENTIONED AND THE CLEAN ENERGY AND ELECTRIFICATION STRATEGIES THAT THERE'S NEW SEISMIC MITIGATION TO THESE UNITS, IF REPAIR IS NEEDED, IS THAT DONE THROUGH US OR PARTNERS? HOW DOES THAT WORK? SO, SO ALL THOSE HAZARD MITIGATIONS THAT THEY'RE IDENTIFIED, UM, AND, AND SO WHEN THE, UH, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY LOOK AT THE LOCAL, LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN? UM, UH, IT'S ACTUALLY AN UPDATE THAT WE'VE DONE EVERY SO MANY YEARS.
THREE TO FIVE YEARS IS AN UPDATE TO THE PLAN.
AND THEY IDENTIFY, UM, EVERYTHING CAN THAT, THAT, UH, THE DISTRICT COULD BE VULNERABLE FROM, UM, EARTHQUAKES, WHICH CHRISTINA IS GONNA TALK ABOUT, IS IT BEING ONE OF THEM.
AND ONE OF THE MAJOR ISSUES THAT WE DEAL WITH, UH, AND I WOULD SAY JUST LIKE A PLOTTING OR EXTREME HEAT WHEN IT COMES TO FIRES AND A FEW OF THE OTHER ONES.
SO, UM, SO THE, THE, THE CHALLENGE WITH A LOT OF THIS, UM, THERE'S NO FUNDING IDENTIFIED FROM THE STATE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE DISTRICT AND, AND YOU KNOW, UH, I THINK CHRISTINA WILL TOUCH ON THIS IN TERMS OF HOW WE IDENTIFY AND PRIORITIZE OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR STUDENTS AND OUR EMPLOYEES TO, UM, AT LEAST STREAMLINE AND COME UP WITH PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT WE TO RESPOND TO.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, UM, THERE'S A REQUEST FOR FUNDING TO, TO BE ABLE TO HELP US OUT.
THERE'S A LOT OF THESE, A LOT OF THESE THINGS ON THE LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, WE'RE ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING AND WE CAN APPLY THROUGH PROP TWO OR THROUGH OTHER PROPOSITIONS.
AND WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT NOW THAT, UH, EVEN MORE, UM, MORE OF THESE REQUIREMENTS THAT COME UPON US, AGAIN TO IDENTIFY STATE FUNDING, THAT CAN OFFSET A LOT OF THIS COST BECAUSE WE CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH.
AND THE CHALLENGE THAT THEY, WE HAVE.
AND I THINK THAT'S BEING RECOGNIZED RIGHT NOW TO SEE WHAT ELSE, UH, THE STATE SHOULD BE DOING TO HELP SUPPORT THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
SO, AND CHRISTINA, IF YOU WANNA TOUCH ON EARTHQUAKE, UH, YEAH.
I, TO JUST THEN TAKE THE CHRISTO'S LARGE PICTURE OF IDENTIFYING ALL THESE DIFFERENT HAZARDS.
WE KNOW, LIKE WITH THE EARTHQUAKE, THE MAGNITUDES AND VERITY, YOU KNOW, IS LISTED AND THE ONLY ONE HERE IS CATASTROPHIC, SIGNIFICANCE IS HIGH.
UM, AND THE LIKELIHOOD OR THE LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE OCCURRENCE IS LIKELY, WHICH IS WHY, UM, YOU KNOW, THE CATEGORY IN THE BOND MEASURE THAT THE BOARD APPROVED FOR MAJOR MODERNIZATION, THE LARGEST ONE IS FOR SEISMIC, UH, VULNERABILITY.
'CAUSE OUR PROGRAMS ARE REALLY PRIORITIZED ON WHICH ONES HAVE THE HIGHEST IMPACT TO STUDENTS AND THE OPERATIONS OF OUR SCHOOLS.
AND WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS SEISMIC VULNERABILITY.
THAT'S PART OF MAKING OUR SCHOOLS MORE RESILIENT AS THAT THEY CAN WITHSTAND THOSE TYPES OF DANGERS.
AND THEN ALSO OUR INVESTMENTS INTO, UM, AIR CONDITIONING AND INTO ROOFING AND INTO, AGAIN, ENSURING THAT THOSE BUILDING FACILITIES ARE RESILIENT AND OUR STUDENTS CAN CONTINUE TO LEARN.
AND WE HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF INFORMATION ON HOW WE PRIORITIZE FOR SEISMIC STRENGTH AND WHERE WE MAKE THOSE INVESTMENTS.
IS THAT INFORMATION PUBLIC? IS THERE SOMEWHERE THAT OUR FAMILIES CAN FIND IT? SO THEY ASK THE QUESTION, HOW DO WE KNOW IF OUR SCHOOL IS ABSOLUTELY A PRIORITY OR NOT? SO YOU CAN GO ON TO THE DISTRICT'S
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WEBSITE, THE FACILITIES WEBSITE, UM, WHERE WE HAVE PRESENTATIONS THAT WE'VE GIVEN IN THE PAST THAT SHOWS HOW WE'VE PRIORITIZED FOR SEISMIC SAFETY.UM, RIGHT NOW PROBABLY WILL SOUND FAMILIAR TO YOU.
WE DID AFTER KIND OF EXTENSIVE ANALYSIS, WE WERE PRIORITIZING WHAT'S CALLED LIFT SLAB STRUCTURES, UM, WHICH THE STATE GAVE US GUIDANCE TO GO LOOK AT, UM, MORE SPECIFICALLY WHEN NEW INFORMATION CAME TO THEM.
UM, AND WE ARE NOW IMPLEMENTING, ADDRESSING THESE LIFTS LAB STRUCTURES, AND WE HAVE A LIST OF ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES THAT HAVE THOSE, AND WE HAVE A PLAN OF HOW WE PLAN ON ADDRESSING THOSE.
NOW TO CHRISTINA, BECAUSE OF MY PREVIOUS JOB WORKING WITH FACILITIES, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE, AND IT'S VERY HELPFUL, UM, AFTER THE AB 300, THE ASSEMBLY BILL 300, WHICH IDENTIFIED THE TIME BACK IN EARLY 2000, THE MOST VULNERABLE BUILDINGS, AND THIS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT CHRISTINA JUST MENTIONED ABOUT ANOTHER VULNERABILITY IS ON THE WEBSITE.
I, I THINK IT'S STILL THERE, CHRISTINA, THAT THERE'S, UH, ON THE FACILITY'S WEBSITE, THERE'S A LINK THAT PEOPLE CAN GO AND LOCK IN AND, AND PUT THEIR ACTUAL SCHOOL AND, AND SEE HOW THAT SCHOOL HAS BEEN MITIGATED.
AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAD, UH, UH, AND I THINK WE PROBABLY STILL HAVE IT BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DEVELOPED.
'CAUSE QUESTIONS CAME UP JUST LIKE, UH, UH, THE QUESTION YOU ASK RIGHT NOW IN, IN TERMS OF HOW WE COMMUNICATE WITH THE SCHOOLS AND WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE TRANSPARENT.
WE HAVE THAT OPEN COMMUNICATION.
AND JUST SOME QUESTIONS ON OUR GOOD EL EL NINO AS IT COMES IN OUR ROOFS.
YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE WAS 12 YEARS OF DATA.
WHAT ARE THOSE METRICS THAT WE'RE USING TO, TO GAUGE THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING? UH, THERE'S, I I MAY HAVE MISSPOKE.
UH, THERE'S OVER 20 YEARS OF DATA.
UH, WE, WE USE TRIPLE CALL INFORMATION, THE FACILITIES CONDITION INDEX, WHERE WE'VE ACTUALLY SENT EXPERTS UP ON OUR ROOFS TO GIVE, UH, EACH OF OUR, UH, ROOFS A SCORE.
AND, AND, AND THEN, UM, UM, ISSUES THAT HAPPEN DURING THE YEAR.
SOMETIMES IF WE HAVE, WE MAY HAVE ONE LEAK IN A ROOF DURING, UH, LAST YEAR, AND THEN THIS YEAR IT'LL BE SEVEN OR EIGHT IF THAT ROOF HAS THE SAME, UH, UH, LIFE IN IT AS ANOTHER ROOF THAT HAS NO LEAKS, WE'LL REPAIR, OBVIOUSLY WE, WE, WE WILL REPAIR THE ROOF THAT LEAKS THE MOST.
UM, SO WE PRIORITIZE AS WE GET IT, BUT WE HAVE 20 YEARS OF DATA, FCI AND ACTUAL EXPERIENCE ON THE ROADS.
AND THEN JUST CURIOUS, UM, WE HAVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BUILDINGS, RIGHT? WE HAVE SOME THAT ARE, ARE MODULAR BUILDINGS, AND THEN WE HAVE SOME THAT, YOU KNOW, BRICK AND MORTAR FROM THE BOTTOM UP.
HAVE WE SEEN, JUST FROM THE DATA, WHAT, AS FAR AS THOSE ROOFS ARE ONE BETTER THAN THE OTHER? ARE WE LEARNING FROM THAT, WHETHER WE REPLACE IT WITH A DIFFERENT TYPE OF ROOF, OR ARE WE LEARNING THAT AS WELL FROM THE DATA AB ABSOLUTELY.
WE'RE USING ACTUALLY NEW TYPES OF ROOF.
PVC ROOFING IS QUITE PREVALENT HERE IN THE DISTRICT.
IT'S, IT'S SOLAR REFLECTIVE, IT LASTS LONGER.
THERE'S WELDING, THERE'S ACTUALLY CHEMICAL WELDS AND THINGS THAT HAPPEN WITH THE ROOF THAT MAKE IT MUCH MORE DURABLE.
AND THEN OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, SCOTT, YOU KNOW, I GOTTA TALK ABOUT MY A HUNDRED YEAR OLD SCHOOLS NOW,
UM, NOW WITH OUR SCHOOLS, YOU, YOU TALK ABOUT THE ROOFING REPLACEMENT PROJECT HERE.
IS THAT THE ENTIRE ROOF THAT GETS REPLACED YOU, OR IS IT JUST A BUILDING ON THAT SITE, OR IS IT JUST THE LEAKS? WHAT IS THE PROCESS TO ELEVATE? ESPECIALLY WITH THE AGE OF THE SCHOOL, WE BASE A LOT OF OUR DECISIONS ON ACTUAL DATA.
AND SO A 30 YEAR ROOF AT ONE, AT ONE SCHOOL IS NOT EQUAL TO A 30 YEAR ROOF AT ANOTHER SCHOOL.
AND SO WE USE CURRENT DATA, UH, WHO'S GETTING THE MOST LEAKS, WHO HAS THE MOST ISSUES, AND WE TRY TO REPLACE THOSE ROOFS FIRST.
SO IT'S, IT'S A BUY, IT'S BUY NEED BASIS.
AND, UH, M AND O CURRENTLY, WE WILL DO SOME PROJECTS THAT ARE, UH, SCHOOL-WIDE, BUT WE USUALLY DO BUILDINGS, UH, WE DO BUILDINGS AS THEY COME ALONG.
WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE BUDGET OR THE RESOURCES TO DO ALL THE SCHOOLS AT ONCE AS MUCH AS WE WOULD LOVE TO.
AND SO WE'RE KEEPING DATA, LIKE YOU'LL DO ONE BUILDING ON THIS ENTIRE SCHOOL.
SO IT'S THE ROOF OF THAT BUILDING, CORRECT.
THAT IS CAPTURED AS, AS FAR AS THE TIMESTAMP? CORRECT.
THE FACILITIES CONDITION INDEX.
WHENEVER WE HAVE A SCHOOL THAT GETS RE-ROOFED, OUR TEAM GOES OUT THERE, SCORES THE ROOF, UM, RECORDS THE DATE AND TIME THAT IT WAS, UH, UH, GIVEN BACK TO THE DISTRICT.
WE KEEP THE WARRANTY INFORMATION IN CASE THERE'S SOME WARRANTY ISSUES WITH IT, AND THEN WE HAVE THAT DATA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE ROOF, THE REMAINDER OF, OF THE LIFE.
THEN LAST THING WITH THE PLANNING FOR MAJOR PROJECTS, WHAT ARE THOSE MAJOR PROJECTS SO THAT,
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UH, OUR FAMILIES KNOW A MAJOR PROJECT VERSUS JUST A ROOF, WHICH SEEMS MAJOR, BUT THAT WOULDN'T BE A MAJOR PLANNING PROJECT, CORRECT? WELL, I, THAT'S KIND OF THE, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROJECTS THAT WE MANAGE IN ASSET MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS.SO THE PROJECTS THAT I WAS REFERRING TO THAT ARE OUR MAJOR PROJECTS ARE OUR GREEN SCHOOL YARD UPGRADES, OUR PACE UPS.
WE HAVE A DA PROJECTS, AND THEN WE HAVE CLASSROOM REPLACEMENT PROJECTS AND ALL THE LIFTS, LAB PROJECTS, THE SEISMIC MODERNIZATIONS, UM, ARE ALL PROJECTS THAT WE MANAGE IN, IN ASSET MANAGEMENT.
AND IN THE PAST, THE COMPREHENSIVE MODERNIZATION, THE MAJOR MODERNIZATIONS WORLD PROJECTS, SO USUALLY MAJOR NEW CONSTRUCTION.
UM, BUT I DON'T, YOU KNOW, IT'S ANY PROJECT THAT IS, HAS, UH, IS BIG IN SCALE BUT ALSO HAS MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES IS ONE WAY WE, WE LOOK AT IT, WE NEED MULTIPLE ENGINEERS AND DESIGNERS ON IT TO, TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES.
UM, JUST TO GIVE A PLUG FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WANNA KNOW WHAT TYPE OF PROJECT THEY MIGHT HAVE ON THEIR CAMPUS.
YOU CAN GO TO THE FACILITIES WEBSITE AND THERE'S A LINK WHERE YOU CAN LOOK UP BY, UM, YOUR BOARD DISTRICT OR BY YOUR REGION, OR BY YOUR SCHOOL NAME OR BY A PROJECT TYPE, WHAT, UH, PROJECT THERE IS.
AND YOU CAN SEE IF THERE'S A PROJECT AT YOUR SCHOOL, WHAT THE BUDGET IS AND WHEN IT WOULD BE DONE.
AND LAST THING YOU SAID TEACHING, I DON'T KNOW, ABOUT SEVEN, EIGHT TIMES.
HOW DO OUR STUDENTS LEARN ON THESE PROJECTS? WHAT IS THAT? IS THAT AN ASSEMBLY? IS THAT AN ARCHITECT COMING OUT TO SPEAK TO THEM? ARE THEY BRINGING THEM TO THE SITE TO SHOW THEM EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING AND THEN THROUGH THE PROCESS, WITHIN A YEAR THEY COME BACK AND SHOW THEM ANOTHER PHASE? HOW DOES THE TEACHING PORTION HAPPEN ON THE SITE? WELL, I WOULD SAY MULTIPLE DIFFERENT WAYS DEPENDING ON THE PROJECT THERE, DURING THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT, WE DO HAVE INVOLVEMENT FROM OUR DESIGN TEAM AND CONSTRUCTION TEAM TO WORK WITH STUDENTS.
AND THAT IS USUALLY OUR PROJECT TEAM WORKS WITH THE SCHOOL SITE TO SAY, HEY, OUR ARCHITECTS WANNA COME AND TALK TO YOU GUYS, HOW CAN WE MAKE THAT WORK? AND SO THAT MIGHT LOOK DIFFERENT SITE TO SITE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, BUT I KNOW THAT THAT DOES HAPPEN DURING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.
THE MAIN THING THOUGH THAT WE DO IS SIGNAGE WE PROVIDE, AS PART OF OUR FACILITY CONTRACT AND OUR FACILITY PROJECT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE IS SIGNAGE AMONG ACROSS THE SITE THAT EXPLAINS THE SUSTAINABLE, UM, DESIGN FEATURES OF THE PROJECT.
AND THEN THERE'S INDIVIDUAL DEMONSTRATION AREAS AS WELL.
SO THAT KIND OF SIGNAGE IS THERE, UM, FOR TIME, YOU KNOW, ALL TIME.
IT, IT DOESN'T END WHEN WE LEAVE.
UM, OTHER WAYS THAT WE CAN DO THAT ARE, UM, I MEAN, THERE'S LOTS OF WAYS THAT WE CAN INTEGRATE MORE BETWEEN FACILITIES AND INSTRUCTION AND IT, AND IT, AND IT, IT'S A LOT ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT THE PROJECT TEAM MAKES WITH THE SCHOOL SITE, BUT I, I THINK THE, THE, THERE'S, I DON'T WANNA SAY THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS, BUT THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS.
I JUST, THE MAIN ONE THAT WE REALLY WORK ON IS THE SIGNAGE, THOUGH.
DOES THAT HELP? THAT'S HELPFUL.
I MEAN, AND DEFINITELY WANT TO ENGAGE AND EVEN HEAR ABOUT MORE OF WHERE THE STUDENTS ARE ABLE TO, TO COMMUNICATE TO US WHAT THEY'VE LEARNED THROUGH THESE PROJECTS, BECAUSE WE HAVE QUITE A BIT THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
AND IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HEAR THEM PRESENT ON WHAT THEY'VE LEARNED FROM WHAT THEY'VE SEEN, AND WHETHER IT'S PIQUED THEIR INTEREST TO GO INTO THESE FIELDS OR NOT.
WELL, IT'D BE GREAT FOR CHRISTOS TO TALK ABOUT ZERO HEROES FOR ZERO, RIGHT? WE KNOW THAT PART.
ONE HE COMES, HE COMES HERE, WE GOT THAT PART.
NO, AND, AND I WOULD, I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE A JUROR THIS YEAR, AND IT WAS SO GREAT TO SEE OUR STUDENTS SUPER ENGAGED IN THEIR SCHOOL SITES AND UNDERSTANDING THEM, UM, IN A GREAT MOMENT.
SO YEAH, I THINK THAT THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR THINGS LIKE THAT.
IT DOES, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE A SCHOOL SITE THAT'S REALLY INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING WITH US, INVITING US TO THEIR CAREER DAYS, I DON'T THINK CHRISTINA, THERE'S ANYBODY ON OUR TEAM WHO WOULD SAY NO TO BE INVITED TO A CAREER DAY.
UM, OUR TEAM LOVES TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY DO.
SO, UM, SOMETIMES WE JUST NEED AN INVITATION.
I THINK THAT'S AN ADVERTISING MOMENT FOR THE HEROES FOR ZERO
WE, WE ARE RAISING, I SAW THAT WE ARE RAISING THE HEROES FOR ZERO, FOR THOSE, FOR OUR LISTENERS, FOR THE FINALISTS TO FROM FIVE TO 10,000.
AND THEN, UH, WE'RE GETTING 25,000 TO THE TOP WINNERS ALSO INCLUDED, INCLUDED WASTE MANAGEMENT AS PART OF THE THIS INITIATIVE.
WE HAVE A, A QUESTION FROM MR. SCHON AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR SECOND QUESTION QUESTIONS? YES.
SO I WANNA START WITH THE SCHOOL AND THEN MOVE ON TO THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES AND WHAT THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES HAS LEARNED FROM US.
NOT WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THEM, BUT WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED FROM US.
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THERE'S BEEN A ENORMOUS CUT IN, UH, GARDENERS.FIRST OF ALL, WE KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN AN ENORMOUS CUT IN B AND GS.
SO MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE THAT AS LONG AS B AND GS ARE NOT WORKING OUT OF THEIR CATEGORY, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT CERTAIN DEPARTMENTS OF B AND GS, LET'S SAY WINDOW WASHERS, LET'S SAY, UH, WALL WASHERS, THAT THEY BE TEMPORARILY MOVED DURING RAINY SEASON TO CLEAR GUTTERS AND TO CLEAR DOWNSPOUTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE READY.
NOW, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THEIR JOB IS NOT IMPORTANT WHAT THEY DO, BUT I I, IF POSSIBLE, I WOULD LIKE THEM TO MOVE TO THE SCHOOLS AND BUILDINGS AND CLEAR ALL THOSE GUTTERS AND, UH, DRAINS OUT.
THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
UM, MR. MOLSEN, WE, WE, WE CURRENTLY HAVE, WHEN IT DOES RAIN, UH, TYPICALLY GARDENERS, OUR GARDENERS DON'T MOW IN THE RAIN.
SO WE USUALLY WILL SEND THEM OUT ALONG WITH ANY OTHER, UH, BUILDING AND GROUNDS WORKERS THAT WE HAVE IN M AND O THAT ARE NOT ALREADY STATIONED AT ANOTHER SCHOOL FOR ANOTHER REASON.
AND THEN IT'S ALL, IT'S AN ALL HANDS ON DECK APPROACH.
IF I'M NEEDED, I'LL DUST OFF MY TOOLS AND GET TO IT TOO MYSELF.
BUT YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO WORK OUTTA THEIR CATEGORY.
IF YOU'RE A B AND G WORKER AND YOU HAVE A MULTI CREDENTIAL, YOU HAVE A MULTI-CATEGORY, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY, WE DO HAVE, WE, WE DO HAVE, YEAH, I KNOW SAFETY ISSUES THAT WE FOLLOW AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY DON'T WORK OUT.
BUT AS A REGULAR, AS A REGULAR IDEA OF BEFORE RAINY SEASON STARTS, CLEAR ALL THESE GUTTERS OUT.
'CAUSE WHEN I VISIT SCHOOLS, I CAN SEE THOSE PINE NEEDLES HANGING OUTSIDE OF THE GUTTERS, AND I KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
GETTING TO THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES.
OLSEN, CAN I, CAN I MENTION YOU MAY SOMETHING? YOU MAY, YOU MAY, OF COURSE.
I JUST, I JUST WANNA SAY, UM, AS THE DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS, I, I'VE BEEN HERE ALMOST 31 YEARS, AND, UM, WE HAVE 2,500 EMPLOYEES, UH, BASED IN MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS, PROBABLY ANOTHER 3000 OF OUR CUSTODIANS AND PLANT MANAGERS IN OUR SCHOOLS.
UH, I WANT THE BOARD TO KNOW, THE COMMITTEE TO KNOW, UM, THE PARENTS AND STAFF OF L-A-U-S-D TO KNOW THAT, UM, ALL OF THESE MEMBERS ARE REALLY DEDICATED TO, TO, TO PROVIDING THESE SERVICES FOR OUR STAFF.
I'VE NEVER BEEN HERE WHERE WHEN THERE'S BEEN AN ISSUE, WE HAVEN'T COME TOGETHER AND, UM, ADDRESSED THE ISSUE.
UM, WE HAVE A, A TON OF HARDWORKING FOLKS.
I, I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES IN SUMMER WE FOCUS ON AC BUT WHEN IT RAINS, UM, OUR, OUR FOLKS ARE OUT IN THE RAIN CLEANING GUTTERS, DOING THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, A A LOT OF PEOPLE WON'T DO TO KEEP OUR KIDS SAFE.
SO I WANNA RECOGNIZE THEIR EFFORTS.
UM, THE HARDWORKING FOLKS OF, OF M AND O AND ALSO LEADERSHIP.
I'VE NEVER, AS, AS THE DIRECTOR FROM A PLUMBER TO THE DIRECTOR, I'VE NEVER, I'VE NEVER HAD A LEADERSHIP ISSUE WHERE WHEN WE HAVE A, WHEN WE HAVE AN ISSUE, OUR BOARD MEMBERS, UM, DON'T RESPOND.
DR. RIVAS, WE'VE TALKED, SCOTT, WE'VE TALKED A LOT.
UM, BOARD MEMBER NEW BILL, WE'VE TALKED QUITE A BIT.
YOU GUYS ARE ALWAYS OPEN LISTENING.
UM, ANDREAS IS ALWAYS OPENING, LISTENING TO COMMENTS.
UH, IT, IT'S A WONDERFUL TEAM.
WE, WE, WE HAVE EXPERIENCED A LOT OF ISSUES.
I'M SURE WE'LL EXPERIENCE SOME NEW ONES.
I JUST WANT LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT REST ASSURED WE'RE, WE'RE READY TO DEAL WITH IT.
WE'RE READY, WILLING, AND ABLE TO DEAL WITH IT.
WE, WE HAVE THE, WE HAVE THE SKILLS, WE HAVE THE THINGS IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH ANY ISSUE THAT COMES.
AND I AGREE, AND I'VE NEVER HAD ANYBODY SAY NO WHEN I ASK THEM TO DO SOMETHING.
SO I KNOW THE VALLEY PRETTY WELL.
IT'S CONSTANTLY FLOODING WHEN IT RAINS.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THOSE, UH, CHANNELS.
AND ALL THAT WATER GOES TO THE OCEAN, RIGHT? THE, IT'S NOT SAVED AS FAR AS I KNOW, THAT WATER GOES RIGHT TO THE OCEAN.
AND WHEN I DRIVE DOWN VICTORY BOULEVARD IN THE RAIN, THAT VICTORY BOULEVARD IS FLOODED.
IT'S FLOODED EVERY SINGLE YEAR FOR THE LAST, WHO KNOWS, MAYBE A HUNDRED YEARS.
AND I SEE THE SEWERS ARE ALL BACKED UP.
AND TO ME, IT'S NOT A MATTER OF PUTTING MORE SEWERS THERE.
IT'S A MATTER OF WHERE IS THIS WATER GOING? AND WATER IS SO PRECIOUS TO US.
WHY, WHY ISN'T THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DOING A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WE'RE DOING AT OUR SCHOOLS TO SAVE WATER? AND THE ONLY OTHER PLACE I CAN THINK OF IS ALONG BURBANK BOULEVARD, WHERE I REMEMBER ONE YEAR THEY HAD A, HAVE HELICOPTERS PICK PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CARS BECAUSE IT WAS SO FLOODED, AND IT'S RIGHT NEXT TO THE DAM.
SO SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG, SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG.
WHY, UH, THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, IF THEY ARE NOT PARTNERING WITH US, TO SEE WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING? WE'RE MUCH SMALLER THAN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES AS FAR AS ALL, WELL, WE'RE NOT THAT MUCH SMALLER REALLY, WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT.
BUT WE'RE REALLY DOING A LOT AND WE'RE TEACHING AND LEARNING.
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ARE THEY LEARNING FROM US? COULD ANYBODY ANSWER? WHAT ARE THEY LEARNING FROM US? COULD ANYBODY ANSWER THAT QUESTION? AND I HOPE IT'S MORE THAN NOTHING.WHAT ARE THEY LEARNING FROM US? SO, UH, CERTAINLY, I MEAN, THIS ISSUE, IT'S NOT, IT'S AN ISSUE THAT WAS CREATED THROUGH, UM, I'LL SAY POOR PLANNING FOR A LONG TIME.
AND, AND, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE I WOULD SAY BACK IN THE SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES ON OUR SCHOOLS, WHEN WE PAVED EVERYTHING, UM, THE, THE IDEA WAS TO PICK UP THE WATER AND JUST TAKE IT DOWN TO THE OCEANS.
AND A LOT OF THAT PLANNING, UNFORTUNATELY, THAT WAS DONE THEN IT WAS TO MITIGATE ONE ISSUE, UM, UH, AND MOSTLY FLOODING.
BUT THE VALLEY, IT'S A LITTLE MORE CHALLENGING, UM, FOR PRISON BECAUSE THE VALLEY ITSELF, THE WAY THAT IT IS, IT IS A VALLEY AND IT'S SURROUND BY MOUNTAIN.
SO YOU HAVE A LOT OF THE, YEAH, THE WHOLE VALLEY ACTS LIKE A COP.
AND ACTUALLY THAT BRINGS A LOT OF THE WATER IN OUR REGION.
AND, AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF WATER THAT IS BEING CAPTURED THERE TO SUPPORT, UM, THE NEEDS OF THE CITY.
AND, AND UNFORTUNATELY NOT ALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE SAN FERRAN VALLEY WAS INSTALLED.
THERE'S A LOT OF AREAS, LIKE YOU MENTIONED IN OUR SCHOOLS, THAT THEY'RE LACKING INFRASTRUCTURE.
WE HAVE TALKED TO THEM, WE HAVE TALKED TO THE CITY, UH, TO PROVIDE THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND COMMON SOLUTIONS WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY, UH, WHEN THE AMOUNT OF RAIN THAT RAINFALL THAT WE HAVE, IT'S HARD TO CAPTURE ALL THAT WATER AND INFILTRATE IT BECAUSE THE, THE CONDITIONS OF THE SOIL AND SPECIFIC, UH, AREAS CANNOT BE ABLE TO INFILTRATE THROUGH AND, AND, AND CHANNEL THAT WATER DOWN INTO THE LOCAL AQUIFERS.
SO THEREFORE, A LOT OF THIS STAYS, UM, AND THEY HAVE TO COME UP WITH, UH, SOLUTIONS, ONE OF THEM BEING, UH, ONE, ONE AREA THAT I KNOW VERY WELL, AND IT'S SUFFERING A LOT.
EVERY RAINFALL IS THAT SUN VALLEY, UH, THAT AREA IN, IN SUN VALLEY, OBVIOUSLY, UH, THE WAY THAT IS DESIGNED HAS A LOT OF ISSUES.
WE MET, TALKED TO THE CITY, AND MY HOPE THAT, UH, THEY'LL PUT MORE ATTENTION TO, TO COME UP WITH A SYSTEM THAT PICKS UP THAT WATER OR PUMPS THAT WATER SOMEWHERE TO, TO BE ABLE NOT TO HAVE THE CHALLENGES THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH, UH, TODAY, WHERE YOU HAVE SIX, EIGHT INCHES OF WATER ON STREETS AND OUR KIDS CANNOT EXIT THE CAMPUS, UH, SAFELY AND, UH, AND GO TO GET PICKED UP OR WALK TO THEIR HOMES.
UM, BUT WE NEED MORE DISCUSSIONS AND MORE, I THINK MORE, UH, DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CITY AND ATTENTION AND MAYBE PRESSURE TO HELP US MITIGATE SOME OF THOSE REGIONAL ISSUES THAT WE HAVE.
SO SHOULD WE REACH OUT TO THE CITY AND WELCOME THEM TO COME LOOK AT OUR SCHOOLS AND SEE WHAT WE'VE DONE? I, I THINK WE SHOULD.
CAN I ADD A LITTLE BIT TO THAT REAL QUICK? WELL, I, YOU KNOW, THE CITY SANITATION HAS OUTLINED 20 SCHOOLS THAT THEY THINK WOULD BE REALLY GOOD STORM WATER CAPTURE SITES THAT LUSD SCHOOLS THAT THEY THINK WOULD BE COMPETITIVE.
BUT I THINK ONE OF THE, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN TRICKY ARE SOME OF THE LIABILITY OBSTACLES OR SOME OF THE OFFSITE STORMWATER CONCERNS.
SO I LOVE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, AND I THINK IT COULD BE REALLY INCREDIBLE TO CONSIDER HOW THERE MIGHT BE ABLE TO BE JOINT APPLICATIONS WHERE THE CITY IS DOING SOME WORK ON THE EXTERNAL PART OF THE SCHOOL TO ADDRESS FLOODING OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL AND IMPROVE STREET TREES AND GREEN STREET CONDITIONS AND OTHER KINDS OF POTENTIAL CREATIVE WAYS.
I THINK LIKE CRISTO SOUNDS LIKE HE WAS STARTING TO TALK WITH PEOPLE AT THE STATE ABOUT, AS WELL, WHERE MAYBE THE CITY OR OTHER AGENCIES CAN HELP BE AND BEING PARTNERS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN STORMWATER CAPTURE OBLIGATIONS.
THEY, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY HAS THIS BIG STORMWATER FUNDING, WHICH THE NEXT SPEAKER IS GONNA SPEAK TO.
SO THERE'S, THERE ARE RESOURCES AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE CITIES REALLY ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT TOO.
BUT LUSD PLAYS IS SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF THE LARGEST, OR THE LARGEST LANDHOLDER IN THE COUNTY.
AND SO IT'S, UM, IT'S REALLY TO ALL OF OUR BENEFIT IF WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO FIGURE IT OUT.
WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, FOR YOUR PRESENTATIONS AND, UM, ASKING, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, ANSWERING SUCH REALLY THOROUGH QUESTIONS.
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LITTLE LESS THAN AN HOUR TO FINISH TWO MORE PRESENTATIONS IN PUBLIC COMMENT, BECAUSE THERE'S ANOTHER COMMITTEE RIGHT AFTER HOURS.SO I, I, I THINK I KNOW WE CAN DO IT.
SO I WANNA BRING UP OUR NEXT PRESENTER, UM, WHO'S GOING TO PRESENT SAFE CLEAN WATER ABOUT THE SAFE CLEAN WATER PROGRAM.
AND WE HAVE MS. TARA DALES WHO IS GONNA BE GIVING US SOME VERY, UM, USEFUL INFORMATION.
SO GO RIGHT AHEAD, FINISH YOUR SITE.
UM, SO AS DR. RIVERS MENTIONED, MY NAME IS TARA DALES AND I'M PART OF THE REGIONAL COORDINATION TEAM FOR THE SAFE CLEAN WATER PROGRAM.
IT IS AN LA COUNTY GRANT PROGRAM THAT FUNDS STORM WATER INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO, UH, MEEL, IT WAS A WONDERFUL SEGUE TO MY PRESENTATION, YOUR
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QUESTION,SO I BELIEVE THAT A COUPLE OF YOU, I KNOW CHRISTOS, YOU'RE VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE PROGRAM, BUT I BELIEVE THERE ARE A COUPLE OF YOU THAT ARE NOT AS FAMILIAR.
SO I'M GONNA START WITH A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM, AND THEN MAJORITY OF MY PRESENTATION IS JUST LOOKING AT WHAT SCHOOL APPLICANTS HAVE DONE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING FUNDING FROM US.
SO, UH, FIRST AGAIN, SO QUICK OVERVIEW.
UH, THE SAFE CLEAN WATER PROGRAM HAS FOUR MISSIONS.
SO TO CAPTURE AS MUCH OF THAT RAINWATER AS POSSIBLE AND PUT IT INTO OUR GROUNDWATER SYSTEM, CLEAN IT.
SO STOP THAT TRASH FROM GOING INTO OUR RIVERS AND GETTING INTO THE OCEAN.
STOP TOXINS FROM GETTING INTO THAT WATER SUCH AS BACTERIA OR ZINC OR NITROGEN AND PREVENT AND BEING A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE.
AND THEN ALSO PROVIDING COMMUNITY BENEFITS BECAUSE THESE ARE LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
AND SO HOW DID THE COMMUNITY ALSO BENEFIT ON, ON THE SURFACE TO THEM? SO THIS PROGRAM IS, UH, IT'S GENERATES ITS FUNDING FROM A PROPERTY TAX.
IT'S 2.50 CENTS PER SQUARE FOOT OF IMPERMEABLE SURFACE AREA.
UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THOUGH, THAT THE FUNDING, UM, ONLY COMES FROM PARCELS THAT ARE, THAT ARE THAT PAY PROPERTY TAX.
SO SCHOOLS ARE EXEMPT FROM THIS PROPERTY TAX.
IT WAS PASSED FROM TO ALL BY ALI COUNTY VOTERS NOVEMBER, 2018 AS MEASURE W.
IF YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT, AND I KNOW THIS GRAPHICS SHOWS 285 MILLION, BUT WE ACTUALLY, IT'S, I THINK IT'S ABOUT 280 MILLION THAT'S BROUGHT IN EVERY YEAR TO FUND THESE PROJECTS.
IT ALSO IS A MEASURE THAT DOES NOT HAVE A SUNSET.
SO IT'LL CONTINUE IN PERPETUITY, UM, AS AN ANNUAL GRANT FOR LA COUNTY.
SO THE FUNDING IS DIVIDED UP INTO THIS LITTLE PIE CHART.
SO YOU'VE GOT 40% THAT GOES BACK TO EACH CITY, SO EACH MUNICIPALITY, AND IT'S PROPORTIONAL TO THE AMOUNT OF TAX THAT THEY'VE COLLECTED.
SO ESSENTIALLY HOW URBAN AND HOW MUCH PAVEMENT THEY HAVE, 50% GOES BACK TO THE REGIONAL PROGRAM, AND THAT'S FOR LARGE REGIONAL PROJECTS THAT CAPTURE WATER AND CLEAN WATER TO YOUR QUESTION.
SO DEALING AND, AND TRYING TO, UM, PRESERVE AS MUCH OF THE STORM WATER THAT WE DO GET SO THAT WE'RE NOT IMPORTING AS MUCH FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
AND THEN THERE'S A 10% THAT GOES BACK TO THE LA COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT.
SO THEY ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM.
UM, I ALSO WILL SAY THAT IN THIS 10%, THERE IS SOME MONEY ALLOCATED FOR A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, UH, PROGRAM, WHICH IS CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED.
AND SOME OF IT WILL BE LOOKING AT MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF THESE PROJECTS.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO SOME, WITHIN THAT 10% THAT'S ALLOCATED FOR A SCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAM, WHICH IS ALSO IN THE, IN THE MIDST OF BEING DEVELOPED.
SO WITHIN THE REGIONAL PROGRAM, WHICH AGAIN, THE BULK OF THE PROGRAM, THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF PROJECTS THAT CAN GET FUNDED.
SO THE BULK OF THAT FUNDING GOES TO INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
SO THAT'S ANY PROJECT THAT HAS A FEASIBILITY STUDY ATTACHED TO IT.
SO IT'S, LOOK, YOU KNOW, IT'S DONE THE SOIL ANALYSIS, IT'S DONE THE ENGINEERING, IT'S GOT AN OPERATION MAINTENANCE PLAN IN PLACE.
IT'S GOT A BUDGET IN PLACE FOR THE, LIKE, LIFE CYCLE OF THE PROJECT.
WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS, WHICH, UM, REALLY SETS THIS GRANT APART IS THE FACT THAT AN APPLICANT CAN APPLY FOR JUST DESIGN OR JUST CONSTRUCTION, OR THEY CAN APPLY JUST FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION FUNDING.
AND I KNOW A LOT OF GRANTS DON'T HAVE THAT THIRD ARM.
UH, THE APPLICANT CAN ASK FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS OF MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION FUNDING, AND THEN THEY JUST CAN COME BACK FOR THE NEXT CYCLE OF FIVE YEARS.
SO, UH, THAT WAS A KEY ASPECT THAT WAS PUT THROUGH WITH THE ORDINANCE, UM, TO ENSURE THE LONGEVITY OF THESE PROJECTS THAT ARE BEING BUILT.
THE OTHER BUCKET OF, UM, PROGRAMS THAT COULD GET FUNDED ARE THE TECHNICAL RESOURCE PROGRAM, UM, PROJECTS.
SO THESE ARE AN IN KIND FUND WHERE THE FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT PARTNERS AN APPLICANT WHO HAS AN IDEA BUT HASN'T GOT A FEASIBILITY STUDY YET DEVELOPED WITH AN ENGINEERING FIRM TO ACTUALLY DO ALL THAT WORK.
SO, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY THE SOIL ANALYSIS ENGINEERING, ASSESSING WHAT POTENTIAL STORMWATER ELEMENTS COULD WORK ON THAT PARTICULAR SITE.
AND THE INTENT IS THAT ONCE THEY'VE GOT THAT FEASIBILITY STUDY, THEY CAN THEN COME BACK TO THE PROGRAM AND APPLY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM FUNDING DESIGN, THEN CONSTRUCTION, AND THEN OPERATION MAINTENANCE.
SO REALLY LIVE WITH THE PROGRAM THROUGH THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE PROJECT.
AND THEN WE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF FUNDING THAT IS USED FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDIES.
SO THAT'S ANYTHING THAT LOOKS AT HOW TO
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INCREASE OUR CAPTURE OF STORMWATER AND DECREASE THE POLLUTION THAT'S IN THAT RAINWATER.SO THESE PROJECTS ARE SCORED LOOKING JUST UNDER 50% OF THE SCORE DOES GO TO THE PROJECT'S ABILITY TO CLEAN THAT CAPTURED STORMWATER AND REMOVE POLLUTANTS FROM IT.
THERE ARE, THERE ARE SCORES THAT ALSO GO TO ITS ABILITY TO ACTUALLY FEED THAT STORMWATER INTO OUR GROUNDWATER SUPPLY SYSTEM.
UM, THAT BEING SAID, NOT AS TO WHAT JULIA MENTIONED EARLIER, NOT EVERY PROJECT, UM, SITE IS ABLE TO ACTUALLY INFILTRATE WATER AND INTO GROUNDWATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS. SO, SO NOT EVERY PROJECT CAN SCORE IN THAT CATEGORY.
PROJECTS ALSO SCORE BASED ON NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS.
SO THOSE ARE A LOT OF THE, UM, LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENTS AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE EXAMPLES THAT JULIA AND CHRIS'S TEAM ARE ALREADY PUTTING ON CAMPUSES SUCH AS BIOSWALES, REPLACING PAVEMENT WITH PERMEABLE PAVEMENT, PLANTING TREES, AND ALSO REMOVING ASPHALT.
THERE ARE, THERE ARE SPECIFIC SCORES ATTACHED TO IF AN APPLICANT ACTUALLY PULLS UP HARDSCAPE, AND THEN THERE ARE SCHOOLS ATTACHED TO HOW, UM, HOW MUCH COST THE APPLICANT'S BRINGING, HOW MUCH COMMUNITY SUPPORT THEY HAVE, AND THEN WHAT COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS THEY'RE BRINGING.
AND THAT RANGES FROM WHETHER THEY'RE ADDRESSING FLOODING, WHETHER THEY'RE PLANTING MORE TREES, PROVIDING MORE OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL SPACE FOR COMMUNITY, PROVIDING MORE, UM, COOLING DOWN AND DEALING WITH HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS IN THAT SPECIFIC AREA.
AND THEN SPECIFICALLY GREENING OF SCHOOLS IS CALLED OUT IN THE ORDINANCE.
SO WE ARE IN OUR EIGHTH YEAR OF THIS ANNUAL GRANT PROGRAM.
AND SO WE'RE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT OUR EIGHTH YEAR OF APPLICATIONS, BUT PRIOR TO THAT, SO OVER A BILLION HAS ALREADY BEEN INVESTED IN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS.
OVER 300 INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS HAVE BEEN FUNDED, OF WHICH 46 HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONSTRUCTED.
AND SO A NUMBER OF THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, BY VIRTUE OF THEIR SIZE ARE CITY OF LOS ANGELES INFRASTRUCTURE, STORMWATER CAPTURE AND CLEANING PROJECTS.
AND THEY ARE CURRENTLY EITHER IN DESIGN OR INFRASTRUCTURE.
HELPING ADDRESS YOUR QUESTION, MEMON, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS THOUGH, SO WE'VE, WE'VE HAD ABOUT 30 SCHOOL APPLICATIONS, AND THAT'S A MIX OF COLLEGE AND SCHOOLS.
SO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION APPLICATIONS OF WHICH 15 HAVE BEEN FUNDED.
AND OUT OF THOSE 15 TWO HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN WITHDRAWN BY THE PROPONENTS, SO THAT THAT ACCOUNTS FOR JUST UNDER $60 MILLION THAT'S BEEN INVESTED TO DATE IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION PROJECTS.
IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THERE IS IS AS THE PROGRAM IS MATURING AND GROWING AND THE MONEY'S BEING INVESTED, THERE IS A HUGE PUSH FROM ALL STAKEHOLDERS AND THE MANY MUNICIPALITIES INVOLVED ACROSS THE COUNTY IN THIS PROGRAM TO SEE MORE SCHOOL GREEN PROJECTS.
IT, UM, IT'S A COMMON THEME THAT COMES THROUGH IN THE REGIONAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, WHICH IS THE COMMITTEE THAT DEFINES THE STRATEGIC VISION OF THE PROGRAM THAT IN THEIR PROGRESS REPORTS THAT COME OUT EVERY TWO YEARS.
AND ALSO IN WATERSHED PLANNING THAT WAS DONE BY THE, BY THE DISTRICT, WHICH SET SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY WATER CAPTURE AND COMMUNITY BENEFIT TARGETS FOR THE PROGRAM TO ACHIEVE BY 2045.
AS WELL AS IT ALSO ASSESSED WHERE ARE WE TO DATE WITHIN THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO GET THERE? WHAT ARE POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITY AREAS ACROSS LA COUNTY TO ACHIEVE THE TARGETS? AND THIS WAS A VERY EXTENSIVE PLANNING, UM, EFFORT THAT WAS DONE.
AND IT LOOKED AT A LOT OF OTHER COUNTY AND CITY PLANS.
AND I, I BELIEVE THAT IT DID LOOK AT YOUR GREENING RESOLUTION.
I THINK IT ALSO LOOKED AT THE SCHOOL GREENING VULNERABILITY INDEX.
UM, FORGIVE ME IF I'M GETTING THE EXACT NAME RIGHT, THAT WAS DEVELOPED A FEW YEARS BACK BY EU CHRISTAS.
AND SO BETTING THAT IN ONE OF THE EXPLICIT TARGETS FOR THE PROGRAM NOW IS NET AREA OF GREEN SPACE CREATED.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE TARGET IS TO HAVE 19 ACRES OF GREAT GREEN SPACE CREATED AND FUNDED THROUGH THE SAFETY AND WATER PROGRAM BY 2045.
SO IN 2024, THE REGIONAL TEAM, WHICH I'M PART OF THROUGH STANTEC, UH, WANTED TO SEE WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT ARE THE COMMON THEMES AMONG SCHOOL APPLICANTS THAT ARE SUCCESSFUL VERSUS THOSE APPLICATIONS THAT MAY NOT BE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
SO WE LOOKED AT THE FIRST FOUR YEARS OF APPLICATIONS AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE WERE 25 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES THAT APPLIED NINE WERE SUCCESSFUL.
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SO THAT'S A 36% SUCCESS RATE, WHICH IN FACT, UNFORTUNATELY IS, IS MARKEDLY LESS THAN THE OVERALL, UM, SUCCESS RATE OF OUR OTHER APPLICANTS, WHICH IS 73%.WHAT WAS INTERESTING IS THAT THE SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION APPLICATIONS THAT DID COME IN DURING THIS TIME PERIOD TENDED TO PASS THE SCORING THAT WE HAVE, UH, WHERE IT'S, WHERE THEY WERE CONSIDERED AND THEN NOT, UM, FUNDED, WAS IN THE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES THAT SERVE DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS, THEIR DISCUSSION AND ASSESSMENT OF THE PROGRAM.
M AND FOR THE MOST PART, THE, THE DISCUSSIONS FROM THESE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES AND THESE COMMITTEES ARE MADE UP OF MUNICIPALITIES FROM THAT GEOGRAPHIC REGION, THAT SPECIFIC WATERSHED, WATER AGENCIES AND LOCAL COMMUNITY BASED GROUPS.
THE FOCUS PREDOMINANTLY WAS TRYING TO ASSESS WHETHER THAT SCHOOL PROJECT WAS A REGIONAL ENOUGH PROJECT, SO PROVIDED LARGE ENOUGH WATER QUALITY AND WATER SUPPLY BENEFITS AND HOW THEY COULD SERVE AND SUPPORT THEIR SURROUNDING COM COMMUNITY BEYOND JUST THE SCHOOL, UM, STUDENTS.
SO THAT WAS THE SORT OF THE KEY DISCUSSION ITEMS. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS, THERE'S SORT OF THREE BUCKETS OF THEMES AS TO WHAT THEY DID THAT GOT THEM THROUGH THOSE COMMITTEE DISCUSSIONS.
SO THE FIRST BUCKET, I'M SORRY, I KEEP HITTING MY LAPTOP
SO UNFUNDED PROJECT APPLICATIONS OFTEN CITED THE PRIMARY NEEDS FOR FUNDING IN THEIR SAFE, CLEAN WATER APPLICATION BEING SCHOOL ENHANCEMENTS LIKE REMOVING ASPHALT OR UPDATING OLD BUILDINGS.
THE CAMPUS ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS THAT MENTIONED STORMWATER IN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT OF OTHER ENHANCEMENTS WERE, RATHER THAN INTEGRATING STORMWATER MANAGEMENT INTO THE PROJECT FOCUS, WERE UNSUCCESSFUL.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, THE APPLICANTS THAT WERE SUCCESSFUL CENTERED THEIR APPLICATION AROUND STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS, UM, BY VIRTUE THE FACT THAT IT'S A STORMWATER GRANT.
AND SO THAT IS OBVIOUSLY COURSE THE FOCUS OF THESE COMMITTEES AND TENSION.
THEY WERE ALSO SUCCESSFUL IN DESCRIBING AND BEING REALLY ASPIRATIONAL IN THEIR DESIGN ABOUT IDENTIFYING ALL THE POTENTIAL WATER SUPPLY, WATER QUALITY, AND COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT THIS POTENTIAL UPGRADE, UM, COULD PROVIDE TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE APPLICANT WAS REQUESTING FUNDING FOR NATURE-BASED SOLUTION LIKE A RAIN GARDEN OR ADDITIONAL SHADE TREES OR ADDITIONAL BIOFILTRATION OR BIOSWALES, THEY WERE VERY CLEAR IN THEIR APPLICATION THAT BY DOING THIS, IT WOULD HELP OUR WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM BECAUSE IT WAS HELPING NA PROVIDE NATURAL STORMWATER CAPTURE.
IT WOULD HELP OUR WATER QUALITY BY REDUCING, UM, THE AMOUNT OF RUNOFF GOING INTO OUR STREETS, INTO OUR LOCAL WATERWAYS AND ENHANCING NATURAL WATER FILTRATION.
AND THEN IT WOULD PROVIDE A RANGE OF COMMUNITY BENEFITS FROM COOLING, IMPROVING AIR QUALITY WITH THE PLANTING OF TREES, AND THEN VARIOUS RECREATIONAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.
SO THEY WERE VERY CLEAR IN REALLY MERGING THE NARRATIVE OF ALL THESE DIFFERENT BENEFITS TOGETHER FOR THE COMMITTEE.
SECONDLY, UM, IF FOR EXAMPLE, THEY WERE DOING GRAY STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE, AGAIN, THEY, THEY WOULD BE VERY CLEAR IN THEIR APPLICATION THAT IT WAS HELPING REDUCE DEMAND FOR NON-POTABLE WATER USE, UM, PROVIDE ONSITE WATER FILTRATION NEEDS TO HELP REDUCE RUNOFF TO LOCAL WATERWAYS, AND THEN ALSO PROVIDE MULTIPLE COMMUNITY BENEFITS FROM LOCAL FLOOD MANAGEMENT TO PROTECTING WILDLIFE HABITATS FROM STORMWATER POLLUTION TO ENHANCING THE AESTHETIC AND RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF THE SCHOOL.
THE SECOND COMMON THEME WITH THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS THAT THEY, UH, AUGMENTED THE FANTASTIC EDUCATIONAL SIGNAGE THAT THAT IS AVAILABLE, THAT REALLY EXPLAINS STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE TO STUDENTS AND THE COMMUNITY AND TEACHERS, BUT WITH DETAILED OUTREACH PLANS AS TO HOW THEY'RE GONNA ENGAGE STUDENTS COMMUNITY MEETINGS.
AND THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS ALL INCLUDED STUDENTS IN THE PLANNING PHASE.
AND SO I LOVE THAT JULIA REFERENCED THAT AS SOMETHING THAT HER TEAM IS OPEN AND WANTS TO DO.
UM, THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS USED OBVIOUSLY AGE APPROPRIATE DESIGN WORKSHOPS WITH
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DIFFERENT, UM, SCHOOL SITES ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT KIND OF GARDEN WOULD WE WANT TO SEE? WHAT KIND OF OUTDOOR CLASSROOM WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE? THEY ALSO ENGAGE DIVERSE STAKEHOLDER OPINIONS.SO BEYOND JUST THE SCHOOL, THE STAFF, THE SCHOOL, UM, PTAS, THEY ALSO BROUGHT IN VARIOUS COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS.
SO WE PARTNERS AND TO ALSO WORK THROUGH THE POTENTIAL VISION FOR THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT.
AND SO A LOT OF THEM CAME WITH AMPLE LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM MANY LOCAL COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS.
THE THIRD THEME ACROSS THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS WAS TAKING THE FANTASTIC IDEA OF, AGAIN, EDUCATIONAL SIGNAGE AND THE IDEA OF CREATING OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS AND READING, READING AREAS, AND ACTUALLY BEING VERY SPECIFIC WITH HOW THAT THOSE IMPROVEMENTS COULD BE WOVEN INTO ENVIRONMENTAL WATER SPECIFIC LESSONS AND CURRICULUM.
AND THEN ALSO IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOW SCHOOL STAFF NEIGHBORS COULD CONTINUE ENGAGING WITH THE NATURE-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO A LOT OF THAT WAS DEFINING THE, THE PROJECTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOW STUDENTS COULD HELP WITH PLANTING THE PLANTS AND ACTUALLY BEING STEWARDS ALL OF THE LANDSCAPE, UM, GOING FORWARD AS PART OF THEIR EDUCATION S SYSTEM SYSTEM.
SO ONE EXAMPLE THAT HAS BEEN FUNDED THROUGH US FUNDED IS THROUGH MONROVIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THEY, IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOP OF THAT MOCKUP, THEY'RE ON A U STREET, WHICH HAS, AND THEY HAVE DOWNHILL OF THAT U STREET.
SO THEIR ENTRANCE WHERE ALL THE STUDENTS GET DROPPED OFF WAS HAVING IN, UM, TERRIBLE FLOODING APPARENTLY, LIKE STUDENTS WOULD HOPPING OVER LIKE THREE FEET OF WATER TO GET TO SCHOOL.
AND IT WAS JUST, IT WAS A HUGE, BECAUSE THEY'RE DOWNHILL, A HUGE FLOODING CONCERN ACROSS THAT AND ACROSS THE PARKING LOTS OF THAT CAMPUS.
SO THEY ACTUALLY WORKED WITH THE CITY, SO THEY PARTNERED WITH THE CITY OF MONROVIA, UM, STORMWATER TEAM, UM, TO ADDRESS HOW THEY COULD ACCEPT THAT OFF OFFSITE WATER AND INFILTRATE IT BECAUSE OF THEIR LOCATION BEING DOWNHILL.
SO THE APPLICANTS DID STRATEGICALLY CHANGE OUT QUITE A BIT OF THE ASPHALT FOR PERMEABLE PAVEMENT.
AND IN ADDITION, THEY REDUCED THE VOLUME OF GRASS ON, ON, ON THE CAMPUS AND THEN DID A HUGE AMOUNT OF BIOS, SWES, NATIVE PLANTS, UM, I THINK THEY PLANTED 75 TREES AND THEN THEY, TO THE COMMON THEMES, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY SPENT ABOUT TWO YEARS DOING, WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THE NEIGHBORS ON VISIONING.
UM, I MEAN THEY'RE DOING THINGS LIKE BRINGING LOCAL RIVER ROCKS FROM THAT WATERSHED AND PICKING OUT AND WORKING WITH THE STUDENTS BE LIKE, WHICH WILL BE THE PERFECT SEAT SIZE FOR YOUR OUTDOOR CLASSROOM.
UM, AND THEY, TO THAT POINT, THEY HAD 25 ORGANIZATIONS IN THEIR, IN THEIR APPLICATION, UM, SHOWING SUPPORT FOR THE PROJECT.
I WILL SAY THOUGH, THAT, SO THAT 600,000 THEY GOT FROM US WAS AUGMENTED BY OTHER FUNDING SOURCES.
I THINK THE PROJECT CAME TO, CORRECT, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, SOMETHING LIKE 3 MILLION.
AND SO THERE WAS FUNDING FROM CAL FIRE AND RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY PROP FUNDING IN ADDITION.
UM, THE OTHER APPLIC, UM, EXAMPLE I'LL SHOW YOU IS PIERCE COLLEGE.
SO THIS IS UNLIKE THE, UH, PRIOR EXAMPLE, WHICH WAS PREDOMINANTLY ABOVE GROUND IMPROVEMENTS.
THIS ONE WAS FOCUSED ON IMPROVING A FLOODING ISSUE ALSO ON THE CAMPUS AND DOING A LARGE INFILTRATION GALLERY UNDERNEATH THEIR FIELDS.
UH, I BELIEVE IN THEIR APPLICATION.
THEY ALSO INDICATED THAT ONCE THEY DIVERT THE RAINWATER CLEAN IT AND PUT IT INTO THAT UNDERGROUND GALLERY, UM, THEY WOULD HAVE TECHNOLOGY IN PLACE TO DO SUBSURFACE IRRIGATION OF THAT FIELD, WHICH IS AGAIN, HELPING AUGMENT AND REDUCE, UM, THAT CAMPUS'S, UM, USE OF POTABLE WATER.
THE LAST, UM, AND THIS IS MORE OF A PLANTING A SEED, UM, IS A SCIENTIFIC STUDY THAT WAS FUNDED, UH, WHICH WAS L-A-U-S-D IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THREE PEOPLE THAT LOOKED AT 10 SPECIFIC SCHOOL SITES TO ASSESS WELL WHAT STORMWATER GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE COULD WE PUT ON? UM, SO INCREDIBLY IN DEPTH, UM,
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THOROUGH STUDY AND ASSESSMENT OF THE SITES.UM, AND PART OF THAT ASSESSMENT WAS ALSO DISCUSSING AND CHARTING THE CURRENT CONSTRAINTS.
AND I KNOW CHRISTOS HAS ELABORATED AND TOUCHED ON THEM, UM, ESPECIALLY AROUND WHAT THE LIABILITY MAY BE FOR ACCEPTING OFFSITE WATER, WHAT THE LIABILITY MAY BE, IF THERE IS LARGE SCALE CONTAMINATION OF STORMWATER.
HOW DOES LONG-TERM MAINTENANCE OPERATION WORK, ESPECIALLY IF THE, IF THE SCHOOL SITE IS PHASED OUT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS A PARCEL OF LAND OR IF IT NEEDS FUTURE UPGRADES.
AND THEN HOW DOES THAT WORK WITH DSA APPROVALS? SO I SHARE THIS BECAUSE IT IS OBVIOUSLY COMPLEX.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF THOUGHTS AND EFFORTS AND HARD WORK PUT INTO DISCUSSING AND FIGURING OUT THE CONSTRAINTS.
THIS PAPER DOES CHART SOME SOLUTIONS AND ONE OF THE, THE COMMON THEMES IN THOSE SOLUTIONS IS THE NEED FOR PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CITY COUNTY AND L-A-U-S-D TO WORK THROUGH THESE CONSTRAINTS.
SO I WOULD STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT THE THREE PEOPLE COME AND ACTUALLY, UM, PRESENT ON THESE SOLUTIONS TO YOU ALL.
UM, BECAUSE AGAIN, A VERY THOROUGH JOB IN COLLABORATION WITH CROSS CHRISTO'S TEAM.
SO THAT'S AGAIN, ACKNOWLEDGING THE CONSTRAINTS THAT YOU, YOUR DISTRICT IS UNDER.
UM, ON THE OTHER SIDE, OF COURSE, THE SAFE CLEAN WATER PROGRAM, IT'S VOTER, IT'S A VOTER MEASURE.
AND SO IT IS OBVIOUSLY CONSTRAINED BY ITS ORDINANCE AND WHAT IT WAS COMMITTED TO.
AND AGAIN, IT IS A SAFE, CLEAN WATER PROGRAM.
SO IT IS CONSTRAINED BY THE NEED TO HAVE WATER QUALITY AND WATER SUPPLY IN SOME DEGREE WITH, WITH THE PROJECT.
BUT WE ARE SEEING, UM, THOSE THAT ARE SUCCESSFUL, MOST OF THEM TEND TO BE USING, DOING JOINT USE PROJECT CONFIGURATIONS WHEN THEY APPLY.
SO THERE ARE DIFFERENT VARIATIONS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE ONE, I THINK IT'S THE CITY OF CONVI COVEA THERE, UM, THEY HAD A UNDERUTILIZED FIELD.
UM, THEIR SCHOOL POPULATION HAS DECREASED IN THE SPECIFIC SITES.
SO THEY PARTNERED WITH THE CITY OF COVENA TO CREATE A COMMUNITY SCHOOL PARK AS PART OF THEIR APPLICATION.
AND SO THEY HAVE APPLIED FOR TECHNICAL RESOURCE PROGRAM FUNDING TO NOW LOOK AT THAT FIELD TO SEE WHAT STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE THEY COULD PUT THERE.
BUT AGAIN, THERE'S A, THERE IS A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY.
UM, SIMILARLY SOME PROJECTS ARE TRYING TO DIVERT THEIR RUNOFF ON THEIR SCHOOL CAMPUS OFF SITE.
SO TWO CITY STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND THEN OF COURSE, AS I MENTIONED IN THAT EARLIER EXAMPLE, WE DO HAVE SOME APPLICANTS THAT ARE WILLING, SUCH AS MONROVIA UNIFIED DISTRICT TO ACCEPT RUNOFF, UM, ONTO THEIR SITE TO CLEAN IT.
UM, I ALSO WILL ADD HERE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PROGRAM AGAIN IS ALSO EVOLVING.
AND ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STATED IN THE ORDINANCE IS THAT THE REGIONAL PROGRAM SHOULD FUND PROJECTS FROM SMALL, FROM A VARIETY OF SIZES, SMALL, MEDIUM, AND LARGE.
INITIALLY A LOT OF THE PROJECTS FUNDED WERE LARGE.
UM, BUT THE, AS THE PROGRAM EVOLVES, I THINK THERE'S MORE AND MORE DISCUSSION AMONG COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPORTANCE OF SMALLER PROJECTS.
AND SO THE COMMON DISCUSSION AMONG COMMITTEE MEMBERS ABOUT, OH, WELL, YOU KNOW, IS THIS A REGIONAL ENOUGH PROJECTS CAN BE WORKED THROUGH WITH THOSE COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE, IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING THAT SMALL PROJECTS ARE ALLOWED WITHIN THE ORDINANCE.
AND MOST OF THE SCHOOL PROJECTS DID PASS SCORING.
ANOTHER THING THAT WE'RE SEEING, AND I DON'T THINK IT'S HAPPENED WITH THE SCHOOL APPLICATION YET, BUT WE ARE SEEING SOME OF THE SMALLER CITIES ACTUALLY PARTNER TOGETHER AND PULL A BUNCH OF PROJECTS INTO ONE APPLICATION SO THAT THEY, TO A COMMITTEE.
UM, SO I I WILL REFERENCE THE BEACH CITIES, UM, PULL TOGETHER A COUPLE OF GREEN STREETS AND PUT IT INTO ONE APPLICATION.
SO WHEN THEY'RE LOOKING AT THEIR SCORING, THEY'RE GOING, THIS IS HOW MUCH WATER WE'RE CAPTURING, THIS IS HOW MUCH WE'RE CLEANING, BUT IT'S ACROSS MULTIPLE SITES.
SO I DO SEE THAT AS A POTENTIAL AVENUE, UM, FOR L-A-U-S-D, ESPECIALLY IF YOU, IF YOUR PREFERENCE IS DOING ABOVE THE GROUND LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT VERSUS LARGER PROJECTS THAT MAY HAVE, AGAIN, MORE LIABILITY CONCERNS.
UH, AGAIN, I WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I KNOW IT'S AN ONGOING CONVERSATION AND AN ONGOING NEED FOR PARTNERSHIP AND DISCUSSION BETWEEN COUNTY, CITY AND L-A-U-S-D TO DISCUSS THE CONSTRAINTS YOU'RE UNDER.
UM, THE WATERSHED COORDINATORS WHO CHRISTOS WORKS WITH VERY CLOSELY ARE THERE TO HELP SUPPORT, UM, L-A-U-S-D.
YOU ARE A CRITICAL STAKEHOLDER TO THIS PROGRAM AND HELP FIND, UM, AND OPEN UP THE DISCUSSION FURTHER.
THEY, THEY ORGANIZE LOTS OF SCHOOL TOURS AND I KNOW THEY'VE, UM, PROFILED MANY OF YOUR
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DROPS CAMPUSES.UH, THEY'RE THERE TO WORK WITH THE DIFFERENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO HELP CONNECT AND FIND OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE AN APPLICATION THAT IS COMPETITIVE AND PROVIDE AND SOLUTIONS TO AN APPLICATION.
SO THE PROGRAM COMES WITH TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND ALSO COMES WITH MAINTENANCE OPERATION FUNDING IN PERPETUITY.
THAT BEING SAID, I WILL CLOSE 'CAUSE I KNOW WE ARE AT TIME.
I JUST, I'M SO SORRY THAT TO YOUR, TO CHRISTUS, I THINK YOU'RE OUR NEXT PRESENTER.
I WOULD UM, ENTERTAIN AT LEAST THREE QUESTIONS SO WE CAN GO ON TO OUR LAST PRESENTATION.
SO WHO'S OPEN YOU DID YOU WANT? OH, YOU WANNA START IT OFF? YEAH, I, I, YEAH, I CAN, I CAN WAIT FOR ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
I THINK I'LL JUST ASK FOR THE SAKE OF TIME.
IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S SO MUCH WE COULD DISCUSS HERE, SO MAYBE WE COULD HAVE SOME KIND OF FOLLOW UP CONVERSATION EITHER IN THIS SPACE OR WHATEVER MAKES SENSE TO BE ABLE TO DIG INTO A LOT OF THE NUTS AND BOLTS AND THE NEXT STEPS POSSIBLE WITH THIS HUGE OPPORTUNITY.
'CAUSE I WOULD LOVE TO SEE OUT OF THAT FUNDING AND I SIT ON THE REGIONAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE FOR JUST, UH, CLARITY OR, UM, TRANSPARENCY FOR THAT FUNDING PROGRAM.
AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE ONE OF THOSE, UM, STORM WATER IMPROVEMENT PLAN PROPOSALS COMING BEFORE US FOR APPROVAL.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE LUSD ON THERE.
IT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPIER THAN ANYTHING.
SO I WOULD LOVE TO JUST CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION.
AND I JUST HAD A SIMPLE QUESTION WITH THE FEASIBILITY PLAN, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S FOR YOU TO ASK OR YOU TO ASK WHERE WOULD WE FUND IT AND HOW WOULD WE FUND IT AND WHAT IS A FUNDING LIKE BUCKET FOR FEASIBILITY? 'CAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE THAT HAS TO BE DONE IN ORDER TO, FOR NEXT STEPS.
YOU CAN ANSWER THAT BOARD MEMBER.
YEAH, SO, SO THE FEASIBILITY, UH, STUDY WAS DONE.
SO THE, THE APPLIED, THE ACTUAL THREE PEOPLE DID APPLY, UH, FOR 10 SITES FOR THE SAFE CLEAN WATER PROGRAM.
AND THEY HAVE DEVELOPED THE ACTUAL ANALYSIS, UM, WITH, UM, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT BECAUSE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE.
BUT WE WANTED TO, UH, EXPLORE AND SEE WHAT, WHAT ELSE IS THERE THAT WE'RE NOT SEEING.
AND SO WE WANTED TO HAVE THIS INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS TO COME AND LOOK AT OUR SITES AND TELL US WHAT THE FINDINGS WERE AND THEY DID.
UH, THE NEXT STEP IS, UH, FOR US WAS TO DISCUSS, UM, SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FOR ACCEPTING OFFSET WATER, WHICH GOES BACK TO LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFY INDEMNIFICATION FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
'CAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WILL SHARE WITH YOU, AND I, I KNOW THAT'S PERHAPS THE NEXT, UH, BIGGER MEETING DISCUSSION IS WHEN YOU ACCEPT WATER, YOU ACCEPT EVERYTHING THAT COMES WITH THE WATER.
AND IT'S NOT JUST THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE SEEING, IT'S THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE NOT SEEING THAT ARE INSIDE THE WATER AND OFFICE OF, UH, OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY HAS A LOT OF CONCERNS FOR EVERYTHING THAT, AGAIN, COMES DOWNSTREAM AND COMES TO A SCHOOL SITE.
AND THEN IT GOES BACK TO THE RESPONSIBILITY AT THE STATE LEVEL, WHICH MAKES US RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY, UH, ANYTHING THAT, UH, UH, COMES TO OUR SITE AND THEN LEAVES OUR SITE TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR FUTURE CLEANUP.
SO IT'S A BIG LIABILITY ISSUE.
THAT'VE BEEN DISCUSSED WITH THE CITY FOR, LIKE I SAID, OVER A DECADE.
AND, AND WE HAVE THIS, WE BRING OUR LEGAL TEAMS TOGETHER, BUT THEY DO NOT REACH AN AGREEMENT.
UM, BUT SO THAT, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YES.
THE, THE STUDY IS THERE, UM, IT IDENTIFIES SOLUTIONS.
AND I, I CAN TOUCH RIGHT AFTER IN TERMS OF, UM, WHAT'S COMING NEXT.
I MEAN, IF YOU, UH, AND, AND I, I THANK YOU, CHRIS AUSTIN.
I WILL ADD MEMBER NAL THAT THE, THE PROGRAM HAS TECHNICAL RESOURCE FUNDING TO DEVELOP A FEASIBILITY STUDY.
AND AGAIN, THE FEASIBLE STUDY IS JUST TO LOOK, IS IT FEASIBLE? SO, SO I'M GONNA ECHO THE, LET'S GET TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT IT, BECAUSE AS CHRISTO WAS SAYING, YOU KNOW, IT HAS BEEN 15 YEARS IN THE MAKING.
I KNOW BETWEEN FACILITIES AND ECO SUSTAINABILITY, WE'VE MADE 10 APPLICATIONS.
UM, THEY, WE WITHDREW ONE, NONE WERE ACCEPTED.
UM, AND THEY'RE VERY INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS TO MAKE.
UM, AT A CERTAIN POINT, WE REALIZED THAT, UM, BECAUSE WE WERE NOT GOING TO SCORE, MOSTLY BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO TAKE ON OFFSITE WATER, IT WASN'T, UM, AN EFFICIENT USE OF STAFF'S TIME TO KEEP MAKING APPLICATIONS THAT WE WERE NOT COMPETITIVE FOR.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS, AND THIS IS JUST MY DREAM IS, YOU KNOW, GIVEN THAT JUST L-A-U-S-D ALONE HAS 6,400 ACRES, IF YOU COULD CARVE OUT PART OF YOUR GRANT FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPUSES THAT WOULD MAKE US COMPETITIVE, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO UNDERTAKE STORMWATER.
BECAUSE THIS TAKING ON POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED WATER OFFSITE ONTO
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THE DISTRICT IS REALLY THE ISSUE AND THE LIABILITY ISSUE.AND UNTIL I THINK SOMEONE IS ABLE TO SAY, WE'RE NOT LIABLE, IF YOU LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, OUR SCHOOLS ARE OFTEN IN HEAVY INDUSTRIAL AREAS.
WE'VE HAD INCIDENCES LIKE EXIDE, LIKE LINEAGE, LIKE JET FUEL, ALL OF THAT WOULD COME ONTO OUR SITES.
AND WE DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT, NOR DO WE WANNA TAKE ON THE RISK TO OUR GENERAL FUND OF, UM, DEALING WITH THE FINANCIAL EXPOSURE AND THE LIABILITY EXPOSURE.
UM, BUT WE DON'T GENERATE ANY OF THAT STUFF ON OUR SITES.
SO WHEN WE'RE WILLING TO, LIKE, WE APPLIED FOR THE VENICE HIGH SCHOOL PROJECT, AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT ONE WAS NOT ACCEPTED, BUT ONCE WE TREAT THE WATER ON OUR SITE THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE CONTAMINATION, IT'S PRETTY MUCH MAYBE SOME PESTICIDES AND SOME FERTILIZER.
UM, BUT IF YOU, IF THERE WAS A WAY TO CARVE OUT AND JUST SAY, HEY, SCHOOLS ARE DIFFERENT.
UM, WE CAN'T CREATE, YOU KNOW, UH, THE RISK OF HAVING KIDS PLAY ON FIELDS THAT MIGHT HAVE POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION ON THEM.
UM, BUT CARVE OUT FUNDING FOR K THROUGH 12, CHARTER COLLEGE, ET CETERA, UM, THEN I THINK WE WOULD BE MUCH MORE INTERESTED IN MAKING APPLICATIONS, AND THERE WOULD BE A WAY TO GET FUNDING THAT WOULD BENEFIT OUR STUDENTS AND THE COMMUNITY.
WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS. LES.
I APPRECIATE YOU COMING HERE AND GIVING US JUST REALLY GOOD INFORMATION THAT WE'LL FOLLOW UP ON.
[II.3. Reducing Waste, Greening Schools: Organic Waste and Plastics Diversion.]
MOVE ON TO OUR FINAL PRESENTATION OF, UH, THAT TURNS TO WASTE REDUCTION, INCLUDING COMPOSTING AND PLASTIC DIVERSION IN OUR SCHOOLS.AND MR. CRI GLIA WILL START IT OFF, AND HE'LL, UH, INTRODUCE SOME SPECIAL GUESTS WHO WILL BE PART OF THIS PRESENTATION.
BUT YEAH, I ALWAYS LOVE THE TIME SCHEDULE, SO I, I ALWAYS LOVE THE CHALLENGE, SO THANK YOU.
UM, AND, AND JUST, UH, IN TERMS OF THE, THE CLOSING NOTES, IS THAT, OR AFTER OUR LAST PRESENTER, MR. SI MEAN, UH, WE'RE SETTING UP MEETINGS.
ACTUALLY, THE STATE IS COMING OUT HERE TO MEET WITH US.
THE GOOD NEWS IS, UH, THE REGIONAL BOARD IS COMING TO MEET WITH US AND THE COUNTY.
SO IT'LL BE, UH, WE'RE SETTING UP A MEETING TO TOUR SOME OF THE SITES TO SHOW THE SUCCESSES THAT WE'VE DONE UNDER THIS PROGRAM.
AND THEN, UM, DISCUSS AS CHRISTINA WAS, UH, ALLUDING TO, TO LOOK AT SCHOOLS DIFFERENTLY, NOT TO PUT US ON THE SAME PATH WITH ALL THE APPLICANTS, BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT AND WE WANT TO BE TREATED A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
AND, UH, AND I THINK ONCE WE DO THAT, WE'RE GONNA ACCOMPLISH A LOT AND FOCUS ON, ON ONSITE WATER, BECAUSE ON ONSITE WATER, SIX AND A HALF THOUSAND ACRES, THAT'S A LOT OF WATER WE CAN CAPTURE AND HELP, UH, SUPPORT.
UM, I WILL SAY THE, THE REGIONAL WATER BOARD AND, UH, OUR COMMUNITY.
SO WITH THAT SET BACK TO MY, FOR 10 MINUTES RIGHT NOW, SO I'M HERE TO PRESENT ON WASTE REDUCTION AND DIVERSION.
AND, UM, WHAT I WANTED TO SHARE MORE THAN ANYTHING HERE IS, UM, IN TERMS OF WA DISCUSSING WEIGHT, UH, REDUCTION, DIVERSION.
AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE ACTUAL, UM, AGENDA THAT I HAVE, AND I'M, I'M JUST GONNA GO THROUGH TO GIVE THE BIGGER PICTURE OUTLOOK, BECAUSE WE HAVE FEW GUESTS HERE WITH US TODAY TO SHARE WITH US.
ALSO LESS LESSONS FROM THE FIELD.
I THINK IT, THOSE ARE VERY IMPORTANT AND WE SHOULD LISTEN TO THIS BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH OTHER LISTENERS HOW WE CAN IMPROVE THINGS AND DO THINGS BETTER ON OUR SCHOOLS.
BUT, UM, A HUGE POTENTIAL IN TERMS OF WASTE MANAGEMENT.
UM, UH, ON OUR SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW, WE'RE, WE'RE SENDING OVER 120 MILLION POUNDS OF MU MUNICIPAL WASTE TO LANDFILLS.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT, UH, WE STARTED TO TACKLE THE LAST FEW YEARS.
AND I SAY THAT IT HAS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO REDUCE, UM, OUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT THAT WE HAVE.
AND, UH, THERE'S MANY THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING IN PLACE, INCLUDING THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE HEARING SOON ABOUT A, A NEW CONTRACT THAT, UH, OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY IS GONNA BRING UPON YOU, UM, FOR, UM, A NEW, UM, CONTRACT THAT WE'LL HAVE FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT, WHICH INCLUDES RECYCLING, INCLUDES, UH, ORGANICS, WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ALL THAT.
UM, AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, UH, 'CAUSE THE CURRENT CONTRACT, IT EXPIRES.
SO, UH, CREDITS TO OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY, UH, MR. CARLOS SORES AND HIS TEAM, UM, FOR BEING ABLE TO NEGOTIATE AND HAVE SOMETHING READY FOR YOU TO COME AND PRESENT TO YOU.
SO WE CAN PLAN HOW WE'RE GONNA MOVE FORWARD.
BUT THE, UH, WHEN WE LOOK AT ALL THE DIFFERENT STREAMS WE'RE DISCUSSING MUNICIPAL WASTE, HAZARDOUS WASTE, AND SPECIAL WASTE.
AND, UH, AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE, THE ACTUAL PERCENTAGE IN TERMS OF WASTE, AND I'M SHOWING SOME OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS HERE THAT SHOWING, UM, UNDER OUR CONTRACTS THAT WE HAVE THE ORGANIC STU UH, DUMPSTER THAT WE'RE SHOWING AT THE BUDGET BUILDING IS
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WHAT, UM, WHAT WE SHOULD BE PUTTING IN INSIDE.AND YOU SEE, IT IS GREEN, IT IS FOR ORGANICS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND, UM, BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF NEW THAT IT WAS IMPLEMENTED BY THE CITY, THAT WE HAVE TO BE THINKING, UM, THAT ON THE GREEN BEANS, WHEN WE PUT THE LANDSCAPING, WE CAN PUT, UH, ORGANICS.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE STARTED TO DO.
AND WE CAN, THIS CAN BE PROVIDED TO OUR SCHOOLS TO HELP SUPPORT, UM, UH, IN TERMS OF THE, UH, UH, WASTE MANAGEMENT.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY RECYCLING, UM, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, IMPROVEMENT IN TERMS OF OUR, HOW WE CAN RECYCLE AND NOT ONLY NEW CONTRACTS, IT'S GONNA BE A LOT OF TRAINING TO TRAIN OUR SCHOOLS, UH, HOW, HOW TO MOVE FORWARD.
UM, SO THESE, THESE CONTRACTS ARE MANAGERS THROUGH OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY AND, UH, AND WE THE PROVIDE THE DUMPSTERS THAT PROVIDE THEM MEANS TO, OF HOW WE CAN BE ABLE TO DO THIS.
UH, THE, UM, UH, THERE'S SEVERAL PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE THE CAFETERIA TO COMPOST PROGRAM THROUGH, UH, FOOD SERVICES.
ONE OF OUR PRESENTERS WILL BE EXPANDING ON THIS, THE CLIMATE ACTION AND ECOSYSTEM FELLOW PROGRAM.
IT'S A GRANT THAT WE APPLIED FOR.
WE HAVE ONE OF OUR CLIMATE CHAMPIONS HERE TODAY.
WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT PROGRAM, AND THEN I'LL BE TOUCHING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE THIRD PARTY COMPOSTING THROUGH DIFFERENT SCHOOL PROGRAMS THAT WE APPLY FOR.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, OTHER, UH, OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAVE AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
SO THIS IS ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT REALLY, IT'S EXTREMELY, UH, SUCCESSFUL.
AND, UH, IT WAS THROUGH A GRANT AND, UH, IT HELPS US LEARN, UM, ON A SETS OF SCHOOL SITES.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE RACHEL BLACK.
SHE, RACHEL BLACK, SHE'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION THAT, UM, UH, CAN EXPLAIN TO US MORE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM.
UH, SHE'S MANAGING THIS PROGRAM, UH, WITH OUR FOOD SERVICES DIVISION, AND IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM TO KNOW.
SO FOR THE NEXT TWO, UH, TWO SLIDE, THIS ONE IN THE SIT TO TABLE, UH, MS. BLACK'S GONNA SHARE WITH US MORE INFORMATION, SO PLEASE.
UM, AS CHRISTO SAID, I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION, AND WE'VE BEEN A PARTNER WITH THE DISTRICT IN SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION SINCE 2005.
OUR CAFETERIA TO COMPOST PROGRAM IS A FOOD WASTE RECOVERY AND DIVERSION PROGRAM THAT WAS FOUNDED IN 2018 AT 24TH STREET ELEMENTARY.
IN RESPONSE TO THE FOOD WASTE WE EXPERIENCED DAILY IN THE CAFETERIA, WE THEN EXPANDED THE PROGRAM TO FOUR OTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS BEFORE GETTING OUR USDA GRANT WITH NUTRITION SERVICES IN 2025.
THIS PROGRAM IS FACILITATED BY OUR STAFF WHO ARE IN THE CAFETERIA DAILY, WITH THE GOAL OF GETTING MORE FOOD INTO STUDENT BELLIES AND LESS FOOD INTO THE LANDFILLS.
THEY'RE THERE CUTTING UP FRUIT, OPENING CARROT BAGS, AND GUIDING STUDENTS TO THE CORRECT RECEPTACLES AT DISMISSAL.
THIS PROGRAM HAS REVOLUTIONIZED THE CAFETERIA AND OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES.
WASTE AUDITS SHOW THAT WE'VE DECREASED LUNCHTIME LANDFILL WASTE BY 75%.
WE HAVE DIVERTED ALMOST 225,000 POUNDS OF EDIBLE FOOD FROM THE LANDFILL.
LAST SCHOOL YEAR, WE DIVERTED 63,000 POUNDS FROM THE LANDFILL, REDISTRIBUTED 14,000 POUNDS OF UNE FOOD TO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITIES, AND GENERATED 15,000 POUNDS OF COMPOST FOR OUR SCHOOL GARDENS.
OUR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITIES, AS YOU KNOW, ARE ON THE FRONTLINE OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS.
AND THIS PROGRAM OFFERS STUDENTS TANGIBLE WAYS TO COMBAT THAT.
STUDIES SHOW THAT GIVING KIDS ACTUAL OPPORTUNITIES TO CREATE CHANGE IS THE ONLY WAY TO COMBAT THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THEIR MENTAL HEALTH.
SO THIS PROGRAM PARTNERS THE DAILY PRACTICE OF SEPARATING THEIR FOOD WASTE BY PLACING HONEY IN FOOD INTO THE SHARE CARTS, FOOD WASTE INTO COMPOST BUCKETS THAT EITHER GO INTO GARDEN COMPOST OR MUNICIPAL COMPOST, LEFTOVER MILK INTO POUR AWAY CADETS, AND THEN REMAINING ITEMS INTO LANDFILL TRASH CANS WITH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES.
STUDENT COMPOST CHAMPIONS SUPPORT OUR STAFF WITH THE COLLECTION DATA TRACKING AND COMPOST PILE BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE THAT THIS PROGRAM REQUIRES.
THESE HANDS-ON OPPORTUNITIES PAIRED WITH OUR CURRICULUM, TEACHES STUDENTS ABOUT OUR FOOD SYSTEM AND HOW TO ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE, GIVING THEM A PATHWAY TO BE CHANGE MAKERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
WE ALSO SEE THAT THESE IMPACTS ARE NOT ONLY HAPPENING WITH THE STUDENTS, BUT BASED ON PROGRAMS THAT WE RUN FOR THEIR FAMILIES.
50% OF OUR FAM SCHOOL FAMILIES REPORT THAT THEY'VE STARTED COMPOSTING AT HOME.
WE'RE ALSO SEEING A LOT OF SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CHANGES IN THE CAFETERIA.
UH, PRINCIPALS REPORT THAT SHARE CARTS ALLOW FOR FEWER ACCIDENTS, LIKE A SPILLED MILK, UH, TO BLOW UP INTO LARGER CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN STUDENTS.
INSTEAD, THE OFFENDING STUDENT IS ABLE TO JUST REPLACE THE MILK.
UH, PRINCIPALS ALSO REPORT THAT SHARE CARDS REMOVE THE SHAME AROUND HUNGER AND WANTING MORE, AND THAT STUDENTS ARE ALLOWED TO TAKE WHATEVER THEY WANT FROM THE SHARE CARDS, REMOVING BARRIERS TO MORE FOOD.
AND THEN THE LAST REPORTED CHANGE IS REALLY AROUND OWNERSHIP OF THE CAFETERIA SPACE, WHERE STUDENTS ARE MUCH MORE AWARE OF THE MESS THEY CREATE AND ARE INTENTIONAL ABOUT THE SEPARATION AND CLEANUP, OFTEN REALLY WANTING TO BE THOSE STUDENT LEADERS WHO ARE SUPPORTING THE PROGRAM.
UM, OUR USDA GRANT WITH NUTRITION SERVICES HAS
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BEEN HUGELY BENEFICIAL FOR US AS AN ORGANIZATION, BUT ALSO MOVING THIS PROGRAM FORWARD.BEFORE GETTING THIS GRANT, WE'VE INVESTED OVER A MILLION DOLLARS OF OUR OWN MONEY IN THIS PROGRAM, UM, IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY BELIEVE IN.
UM, WE OPERATED THIS PROGRAM AT THE DISTRICT WITH THE KNOWLEDGE.
WE REPORTED OUR DATA MONTHLY AND HOSTED L-A-U-S-D EMPLOYEES TO OBSERVE THE PROGRAM, BUT THERE WASN'T LARGER DISTRICT SUPPORT.
UM, THIS GRANT REALLY GAVE US THAT FORMAL SUPPORT FOR THE PROGRAM, ALLOWING US TO COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING NUTRITION SERVICES, ECOS, SUSTAINABILITY, HEALTH AND SAFETY M AND O AND MORE.
AND THIS GRANT REQUIRES US TO MEET MONTHLY WITH NUTRITION SERVICES, AND THEN QUARTERLY WITH A TASK FORCE REP OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
UM, I WOULD SAY AN A CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE IS THAT THERE'S STILL RESISTANCE IN THE DAY-TO-DAY.
SO OUTSIDE OF FUNDING, THERE'S STILL SOME PUSHBACK AROUND HOW EACH EMPLOYEE AND DEPARTMENT CAN SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM.
AND IT'S NOT A STREAMLINED PROCESS ACROSS THE 13 SCHOOLS.
AND REALLY MOST OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING DEPENDS ON OUR STAFF THAT WE EMPLOY.
UM, AND THEN THIS PROGRAM, WE GET $150,000 FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR, FOR THIS PROGRAM FROM USDA, BUT THIS PROGRAM COST US $400,000.
THE SECOND PROGRAM THAT I'M GOING TO QUICKLY TALK ABOUT IS OUR SEAT TO TABLE PROGRAM, WHICH IS OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FEATURING BOTH GARDEN BASED SCIENCE AND NUTRITIONAL COOKING CLASSES THAT WE'VE OPERATED IN THE DISTRICT SINCE 2005.
OUR WEEKLY, OUR BIWEEKLY CLASSES ARE EMBEDDED INTO THE SCHOOL DAY, WHICH MEANS EVERY STUDENT ON CAMPUS GETS TWO HOURS OF EDUCATION EACH MONTH.
UM, THESE CLASSES OFFER STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES TO SAFE ACCESS TO SAFE GREEN SPACES, KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WHERE THEIR FOOD COMES FROM, AND HANDS-ON LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, OUR STAFF FACILITATE THESE LESSONS, UM, PAIRING THESE TWO PROGRAMS, CAFETERIA TO COMPOST NC TO TABLE TOGETHER ALLOW STUDENTS TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE FULL LIFECYCLE OF OUR FOOD AND SUPPORT A C CIRCULAR ECONOMY WHILE CREATING ROBUST AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CAMPUSES.
UH, THANKS TO OUR PARTNERSHIP, 24TH STREET ELEMENTARY, WHICH IS OUR FLAGSHIP SITE, WAS RECOGNIZED AS A CALIFORNIA GREEN RIBBON SCHOOL AT THE BRONZE LEVEL IN 2024, AND THE GOLD LEVEL IN 2025.
AND THEN WE'RE ALSO VALUABLE PARTNERS TO TWO OF LAD'S ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNET SCHOOLS, KARTHA AND ALESSANDRO, WHERE WE RUN BOTH OF THOSE PROGRAMS. SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE OUR WORK WITH YOU ALL, AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE SEEING WHERE YOU'ALL HEADING.
APPRECIATE YOU FOR BEING HERE NOW.
UM, WELL, THERE ARE SOME GREAT INFORMATION UP HERE.
I WANT TO INTRODUCE OUR NEXT, UH, SPEAKER, MS. MABEL WONG.
SHE'S AN AP BIOLOGY TEACHER AND CLIMATE LITERACY CHAMPIONS.
SO WE GET TO BE IN ONE OF OUR CHAMPIONS THAT, UH, SHE'S GONNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME OF THE WORK THAT THESE FELLOWS, UH, ARE DOING AT OUR SCHOOL.
THESE FELLOWS WERE SELECTED, UH, AS A PART OF A GRANT THAT WE APPLIED FOR THROUGH THE SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE, WE'RE ABLE TO GET 190,000, SO FOR ONE YEAR.
SO WE'VE, UH, PAYING THESE FELLOWS TO BE OUT THERE AND, UH, I HAVE THEM COME ANOTHER TIME TO SHOW LESSONS LEARNED, WHAT THEY'RE LEARNING FROM, UH, THE, THEM BEING ACTUAL THERE AND DOING THE WORK AND TEACHING ALL THEIR SHARING HERE.
SO WITHOUT, UH, ANY FURTHER ADO, I WILL ASK MS. MAPLE WONG TO COME UP HERE AND JUST PRESENT TO ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
I'M REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE.
YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? THE PROBLEM IS THAT, UM, L-E-U-S-D GENERATES ABOUT 600 TONS OF ORGANIC FOOD WASTE PER WEEK.
UM, AND STUDENTS ARE TURN, UH, ARE TOSSING OUT ABOUT, UM, A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF FOOD A DAY, WHICH EQUALS TO ABOUT $18 MILLION, UM, ANNUALLY.
UM, BUT JUST THE, YOU KNOW, THE MONEY ASIDE, THIS ALSO EQUALS A LOT OF CARBON AND METHANE EMISSIONS THAT ARE BEING SQUANDERED.
UM, AND HISTORICALLY, UNFORTUNATELY, ONLY A FEW PILOT SCHOOLS, UM, SUCH WERE MENTIONED, HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DIVERT, UM, THE ORGANIC WASTE, UH, FROM THE LANDFILL.
SO, UM, SO I'M GONNA START FIRST WITH THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING WELL.
UM, SO THANKS TO THE ECOS SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE AND MR.
JOHN MARSHALL HAS ABOUT 18, UH, 1,850 STUDENTS, AND ALSO SALT MAOR, WHICH HAS ABOUT 570.
SO, UM, AND I'M THE SCOPE LEAD AT JOHN MARSHALL.
SO BETWEEN BERI AND THE SCHOOL SITE, UM, THE CALIFORNIA FELLOWS ARE WITH US 40 HOURS A WEEK.
ONE OF THEIR TWO MANDATES IS TO DIVERT FOOD WASTE APPROPRIATELY.
THE FELLOWS HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES.
ONE, FOOD WASTE DIVERSION IS CONDUCTED THREE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE DAY IN THE CAFETERIA AREA.
DATA IS BEING COLLECTED, TWO DATA IS BEING COLLECTED, INCLUDING TYPES AND WEIGHT OF FOOD DIVERTED VIA SHARE CART, GREEN DUMPSTER SERVICE BY
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REPUBLIC AND DONATION TO PARTNER FOOD BANK.UH, THREE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING HOW TO DROP OFF UNUSED WRAP UTENSILS AND PAPER TRAYS, SOIL TRAYS, NAPKINS, FOOD WASTE AND JUICE, AND MILK CARTONS AND PLASTIC BOTTLES ARE BEING COLLECTED FOR COMPOST AND RECYCLING RESPECTIVELY.
UH, FOUR STUDENTS HAVE MADE A FEW POSTERS TO EDUCATE OTHERS, AND FIVE, DELIVERING.
UH, THE FELLOWS HAVE BEEN DELI PHYSICALLY DELIVERING THE COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS TO THE APPROPRIATE PUBLIC DUMPSTERS.
UH, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, SOTOMAYOR IS EXPERIENCING SIMILAR CHALLENGES.
ONE IS STUDENTS TAKE THEIR LUNCH OUTSIDE OF THE CAFETERIA WHERE COMPOSTABLE OR RECYCLABLE TRASH IS THROWN INTO SINGLETON LANDFILL TRASH CANS SCATTERED ACROSS THE CAMPUS.
UH, TWO IS CUSTODIAL STAFF COLLECTS ALL TRASH INTO ONE LARGE BIN WHEN THEY GO TO CLASSROOMS TO EMPTY OUT THE TRASH CANS.
THREE, THERE IS NO CONSISTENT ORGANICS COLLECTION IN CLASSROOMS AND NO WAY FOR CUSTODIAL STAFF TO SEPARATE ORGANICS AND RE RECYCLERS WITH ONLY ONE BIN.
AND FOUR IS DUMPSTER CONTAMINATION.
SO HERE ARE SOME PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO THESE CHALLENGES.
UH, REPLACING THE SINGLE LANDFILL TRASH CANS WITH CATEGORIZED BINS IN HIGH TRAFFIC AREAS.
UH, NO MORE SINGLE LANDFILL TRASH CANS.
UM, TWO IS CREATE PSAS FOR STUDENTS.
IDEALLY, STUDENTS WILL BE CREATING THOSE PSAS THREE CATEGORIZE BINS FOR CUSTODIAL STAFF TO COLLECT TRASH FROM CLASSROOMS. FOUR STUDENTS NOT ALLOWED TO EAT IN CLASSROOMS OR TEACHERS HAVE COMPOST BINS IN THE CLASSROOM.
FIVE EDUCATION SIX HAVE AN INCENTIVE, UH, LIKE A CHALLENGE OR A CAMPAIGN WHERE STUDENTS CAN EARN SOMETHING LIKE A DAY WHERE THEY CAN BRING A REUSABLE MUG AND GET A DRINK FROM COFFEE BEAN AND TEA LEAF OR MAYBE A FOOD TRUCK.
GET STUDENTS EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE A CONTEST, LIKE SEE WHICH SECONDARY SCHOOL CAN BE THE FIRST ZERO FOOD WASTE CAMPUS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, RIGHT? UM, AND LABELING THE DUMPSTERS APPROPRIATELY, BECAUSE AS MR. CLIO MENTIONED, UM, THIS COULD BE A NOVEL CONCEPT FOR PEOPLE.
LIKE, WHAT ARE THESE DUMPSTERS FOR? UM, SO HERE ARE OUR GOALS.
WE WANNA COLLECT BROWN PAPER TOWELS FROM THE BATHROOMS, NOT JUST FOOD WASTE, BUT ALL THE OTHER ORGANICS.
WE WANNA GET ZERO CONTAMINATION IN THE REPUBLIC GREEN DUMPSTERS.
WE WANT OUR FELLOWS TO PRODUCE, UH, REGULAR AND PERIODIC METRICS REPORTS.
UM, WE WANNA HAVE COMMUNITY EVENTS WHERE COMPOSTING CAN BE DEMONSTRATED TO PARENTS, STAFF, AND STUDENTS.
WE WANNA CREATE A VISIBLE COMPOSTING DEMO AREA IN ONE OF THE GARDENS NEAR THE CAFETERIA.
AND, UM, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT ACTUALLY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND INTENTION.
AND I KNOW WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME, SO I'M GONNA BE QUICKLY IN, IN CLOSING WITHOUT NEXT SUCCESS THAT I HAVE.
SO WE WORK WITH THIRD PARTY GREENING, THIRD, THIRD PARTY COMPOSTING PROGRAM, UH, PARTNERS.
AND WE HAVE A, A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM HERE AT ARM ARMINTA STREET ELEMENTARY.
AND WE'RE TRYING TO END NORTHRIDGE, UM, THROUGH, UH, THROUGH SOME, THROUGH NERI, ONE OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE VERY PASSIONATE IN TERMS OF COMPOSTING.
I TOUR THEM, INCREDIBLE PROGRAMS, AND WE'RE TRYING TO SEE HOW WE CAN EXPAND THIS PROGRAM THROUGH GRANTS.
WE'VE, UH, IN TERMS OF DIVERSION, WE'VE, WE HAVE COMPANIES THAT WE, WE WE'RE WORKING WITH, LIKE THE ONE PLASTIC LIFE.
UH, WE HAVE OUR OWN, UH, AND ACTUALLY THAT'S DONE WITH, UH, NO COST TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO HELP US WITH RECYCLING.
SO THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, UM, IN LINE, BUT, UH, I WILL SAY WE HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL TO GROW IN TERMS OF THE PROGRAMS. UM, AND THEN WE SETTING UP THE DIVERSION GOALS THROUGH THE ECOS SUSTAINABILITY PLAN.
UM, SOME OF THEM, YOU SEE 'EM UP HERE IN TERMS OF HOW WE WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, DO REDUCTIONS, THOSE, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UH, WE'RE DISCUSSING AND SEE, SO WE CAN SET UP A TIMETABLE TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THIS.
BUT WHAT IT TAKES TO GET US THERE, UM, WITH ALL THESE CHALLENGES, IT IS, UM, IT'S A, AND SOME OF THE CHALLENGES, YOU CAN SEE THE INFRASTRUCTURE, SOME OF THE CHALLENGES, THE, UH, THE STAFFING TO BE ABLE TO DO THE WORK, THE TRAINING AND EDUCATION, UH, THE, UH, BEING ABLE TO COME UP WITH NEW PROGRAMS AND, UH, PEOPLE THAT WANT TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE, THE, THE PROGRAMS FOR, UM, UH, WASTE MANAGEMENT.
UH, WE CAN DO THIS THROUGH, UM, TRAINING.
THE, MY PLAN CAN BE A VEHICLE THAT CAN HELP US AND EDUCATE PEOPLE IN TERMS OF HOW WE CAN BE ABLE TO SOLVE SOME OF THESE CHALLENGES.
BOARD POLICY OR, UH, INFORMATION IN TERMS OF HOW WE CAN SET UP GOALS.
I THINK ALONG WITH A PLAN WILL BE ABLE TO HELP US, UM, SET UP SOME GOALS TO MOVE FORWARD.
AND THEN, UM, SOME MORE OF THE GUIDANCE THAT WE'RE SEEING HERE IS TO BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN A LOT OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE'RE FACING WITH AND HOW WE CAN GIVE MORE GUIDANCE TO THE SCHOOLS.
UM, THERE'S A LOT OF FUNDING COMING, UH, AND ACTUALLY WE CALLED, I CALL, I CALLED MEETINGS WITH OUR PROCUREMENT AND FOOD SERVICES.
SOME OF THE BIGGEST FUNDING THAT IS COMING OUR WAY IS SB 54,
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WHICH HAS, UH, UH, HALF A BILLION ON THAT TO HELP US COLLABORATE WITH AND BE ABLE TO PROVIDE ALL THE ITEMS THAT YOU'RE SEEING UP ON THE SCREEN THERE, INCLUDING DISHWASHERS, HARD DISHWASHING VENDORS, PURCHASE SOME OF THESE SUSTAINABLE PLASTIC ALTERNATIVES, AND ALSO PAY FOR INTERNAL STAFF MANAGEMENT AND TIME.SO WE, WE ARE WORKING THROUGH THIS AND, BECAUSE IT'S GONNA COME VERY QUICKLY IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, SO I'M TRYING TO LINE IT UP SO WE CAN APPLY FOR AND TAKE ADVANTAGE FOR SB UH, 54, BUT ALSO PLASTIC FOR AMERICA.
IT'S ANOTHER ONE THAT WE WILL, UH, WE'LL KEEP EXPLORING.
SO WITH THAT SAID, UM, I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT.
I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, GREEN, IT TOOK US OVER A DECADE TO BE WHAT WE ARE TODAY.
UH, WHEN I WAS DISCUSSING GREEN 10, 15 YEARS AGO, WHEN I TOOK THE, UH, SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES UNIT WAS A CONCEPT IN THE MAKING AND HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE AND MOVE FORWARD.
IT TOOK US A LOT OF TIME, BUT WE HAVE GREAT SUPPORT THROUGH EVERYONE, THROUGH OUR PARTNERS, THROUGH OUR INTERNAL FACILITIES, THROUGH OUR BOARD.
I HOPE THAT WE, UH, ACCELERATE THE NEED FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT BECAUSE WE CAN DO THIS WITHIN A YEAR OR TWO YEARS.
WE'LL HAVE, UH, TOOK US 10 YEARS TO ACCOMPLISH SOMEWHERE ELSE.
I THINK WE CAN DO A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF IMPACT ON OUR SCHOOLS IF WE LINE UP RESOURCES, UM, AND REALLY DO SOME OF THE, UH, I WOULD SAY SOME OF THE, UH, SOLUTIONS THAT THEY WILL SHARE WITH US, UM, BY ENGAGING OUR STUDENTS AND OUR SCHOOLS TO HELP SUPPORT US.
I WOULD SAY WITHIN THE SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE, WE'RE NOT, UH, 10 PEOPLE STRONG.
WE'RE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS STRONG BECAUSE THIS, THIS IS NOT JUST ECOS SUSTAINABILITY'S IMPACT, IT'S, UH, IT'S, UH, THE CLIMATE CRISIS.
SO I WELCOME EVERYONE, ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, UH, ALL OF OUR, UH, ALL OF OUR, UH, STAFF TO HELP SUPPORT US TO ACHIEVING THE, THE GOALS THAT WE SET FORWARD.
AND, UH, MS. WONG, IS THAT CORRECT? IF YOU COULD SHARE, UH, WITH, UH, CHRISTOS THE CHALLENGES AND THE GOALS AND, AND YOUR, UM, YOUR TIPS OR SOLUTIONS, I THINK, YEAH, I LOVED EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAID, SO I DEFINITELY WANNA FOLLOW UP ON, ON, ON YOUR, YOUR PART OF THE PRESENTATION.
I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH, ESPECIALLY AT MARSHALL.
UM, ANY QUESTIONS THAT Y'ALL REALLY WANNA POSE? LIKE, 'CAUSE THIS WAS GREAT.
THIS WAS, THIS IS SOMETHING I'VE BEEN ASKING CHRISTO TO PRESENT.
YEAH, I WOULD JUST SAY THIS IS LIKE THE FIRST STARTING OF A CONVERSATION THAT I WOULD LOVE US TO LIKE DELVE INTO DEEPER IN FUTURE MEETINGS.
UH, DR. RIVAS, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE, UM, OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE, OR, OR THAT THEY'RE OUT IN THE FIELD RIGHT NOW, UM, TO COME AND SHARE LESSONS LEARNED BEST PRACTICES ALONG WITH, UH, SOME OF OUR, UH, CLIMATE CHAMPIONS.
I THINK IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE ANOTHER SEGMENT ON THE UPCOMING MEETINGS.
UH, TO HEAR FROM DIRECTLY FROM THEM, BECAUSE I THINK THAT WILL INSPIRE A LOT OF PEOPLE OF WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
'CAUSE I, I MET WITH THEM THIS MORNING AND LAST WEEK, AND IT WAS NICE TO HEAR ALL THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING.
'CAUSE IT TRULY MAKING AN IMPACT YES, FROM OUR FELLOWS.
AND JUST SEEING THE PICTURES HERE, UH, OF THE STUDENTS HERE IS, IS, UH, SHORT AVENUE ELEMENTARY.
AND I WOULD LOVE FOR THEM TO COME, YOU KNOW, AT, AT A FUTURE DATE AND JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT IS PRESENT.
EVERYTHING THAT THEY'VE BEEN WORKING HARD, ALL THEIR HARD WORK.
ALSO, MS. BLACK FROM THE GARDEN, UM, SCHOOL FOUNDATION.
I KNOW MY SON ACTUALLY WENT TO A SCHOOL YEAR PROGRAM, UM, AT ROCKDALE, UH, VAPA MAGNET AND HE JUST LOVED THAT PROGRAM OVER THERE AND I SO DID I AS A PARENT.
SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
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TO THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION, MR. MCLEAN.DAVID KOSKI, I SEE YOU'RE OUT THERE.
YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN, AND THEN WE'LL CALL ON THE FOLKS WHO ARE SPEAKING REMOTELY.
LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE LETICIA GUINO AND LUCY GUTIERREZ ON THE LINE, READY TO SPEAK AFTER MR. KOSKI.
YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN.
$10 BILLION AT THE STATE IS A LOT OF MONEY AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
AND IF YOU CAN'T GET IT FROM DISTRICT STAFF, IT'S EASY TO CALL THE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION OF WHICH YOU PAY MEMBERSHIP TO, AND GET A LIST OF WHAT HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR AND WHAT HAS BEEN GRANTED OUT OF $10 BILLION.
IT'S NOT A HARD THING TO GET IT'S PUBLIC RECORD.
IT'S INFORMATION IN THE OLD DAYS WHILE THERE ARE A THOUSAND SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY MORE THAN A THOUSAND.
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CHARTER SCHOOLS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THAT MONEY, AS ARE OTHERS, WE WOULD AIM FOR EIGHT OR 10% OF THAT AS A GOAL FOR STAFF.THAT'S A LITTLE AMBITIOUS ON THIS PARTICULAR ONE, BUT YOU CERTAINLY SHOULD BE HEADED FOR 300 OR $400 MILLION OUT OF THAT STATE BOND.
AND IF NOT, YOU SHOULD BE TALKING TO YOUR LEGISLATORS WHO REPRESENT YOU TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE GETTING THAT KIND OF MONEY.
THAT MONEY CAN SUPPLEMENT ISSUES LIKE STORMWATER, WHICH OBVIOUSLY THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS BIASED TOWARDS SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR DIFFICULT, BUT TOGETHER, THE STORMWATER TEAM AND, UM, THE DISTRICT COULD APPLY FOR STATE MONEY.
IN ADDITION, OUR STATE SENATOR ALEX PADILLA REPRESENTS THE EAST VALLEY.
HE AND I WORKED OFTEN WITH THE LEVELS OF WATER THAT HIT SUN VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND OTHER PLACES AS SOON AS CONGRESS CHANGES ON JANUARY 4TH.
BEFORE THAT, YOU SHOULD HAVE IN THE SENATOR'S HANDS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE INTRODUCED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER INTO THE UNITED STATES SENATE FROM THE LARGEST, SECOND LARGEST DISTRICT IN THE COUNTRY.
AN EFFORT TO GET THAT OUT OF FEDERAL MONEY ON BEHALF OF HIS CHILDHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS.
THAT'S WHAT MOVES ELECTED OFFICIALS TO THINK GLOBALLY, BUT ACT LOCALLY.
AND IF YOU DON'T DO THAT, THEN YOU SHOULD REFORM A LOT OF YOUR PROCESSES AND YOUR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS.
THE NEXT SPEAKER IS LETICIA GUINO.
PLEASE PRESS STAR SIX TO UNMUTE YOURSELF AND YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN.
LETITIA GINO LETITIA GINO, ARE YOU THERE? PLEASE PRESS STAR SIX TO UNMUTE YOURSELF AND YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN.
UH, LUCY GUTIERREZ, I SEE YOU'RE ON THE LINE.
PLEASE PRESS STAR SIX TO UNMUTE YOURSELF, AND YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN.
LUCY GUTIERREZ ES LUCY GUTIERREZ LAST CALL.
UH, WE'LL JUST TRY, UM, IF YOU DON'T MIND, UH, LETICIA GUINO.
LETICIA GUINO, LAST CHANCE, PLEASE PRESS STAR SIX TO UNMUTE YOURSELF, AND YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN.
UH, WE DID OUR VERY BEST HERE TODAY TO GET THEM TO SPEAK.
SO THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, WELL THANK YOU TO ALL OUR PRESENTERS COMMITTEE MEMBERS, OUR DISTRICT STAFF AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
FOR TODAY'S DISCUSSION, WE LEARNED QUITE A LOT ABOUT STORMWATER, CAPTURE, EVERYTHING THAT GOES IN FACILITIES AND ALL OF OUR PROJECTS, AND ALSO HOW TO RETAIN SOME FUNDS.
AND, UM, AND IN THE FUTURE, UH, PRESENTATION, UM, THE COMMITTEE OF THE, I'M SORRY, NOT COMMITTEE, THE WHOLE, THE GREETING SCHOOLS COMMITTEE.
WE'LL DELVE MORE INTO, UH, THE WASTE, UH, REDUCTION AND, AND HEAR SOME STUDENTS.
SO THANK YOU EVERYONE, AND THIS ADJOURNS THE MEETING.