Wellness, 10th Site, and Negotiating Interests with Teachers

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The Monday, September 19, 2022, LASD Board meeting will start its open session at 7:00pm and contemporaneous public comments may only be made in person in the LASD Board Room. If you plan to participate in person, wearing a mask is recommended in accordance with CDPH guidelines. We will continue to use the Zoom webinar platform for community members to follow our meetings at home, but public comment will not be allowed on it. If you cannot attend in person, and have a comment that you would like the LASD Board to consider in its decision making, please email all of us at [email protected] by 5pm on Saturday, 9/17/22.  To register to watch the board meeting from the comfort of your home, click here.  The entire agenda and supporting documentation for this week's meeting can be found here.

First up on the agenda, members of the LASD Wellness Team will give the Board a Wellness Update.  Erin Green, Kathryn Azevedo, Claire Griffin, and Wade Spenader will cover how the district is connecting LASD students, staff, and families to wellness services and scaffolding.  This is a discussion item and the presentation can be found under agenda item H.1 using the link provided above.  I look forward to learning more about our wellness initiatives across the district during this presentation.  

Next, Sandra McGonagle will give a 10th Site Community Engagement Update.  This is a discussion item and her presentation and supporting documentation can be found under agenda item H.2.  You can also read more on the LASD Website here.  The presentation and supporting documentation highlights where we were and ask for next steps in the process. After securing a short term facilities agreement with Bullis Charter School in May 2019, LASD worked vigorously on putting together and executing a Community Engagement Process in the Fall of 2019.  During that process, all participants were educated about the history and context of the facilities issues between the District and BCS, gave solutions to the facilities issues and were eventually surveyed as to their comfort with the over 50 solutions.  In early 2020, the Board received a report on the process from our consultant (MIG) and took over the process from there.  LASD went through the over 50 solutions and weeded out ones that did not meet the District's Guiding Principles and/or whose popularity was found to be low during the Community Engagement Process.  The last meeting in which the Board discussed Facilities Planning was on February 10, 2020 with plans to meet on March 12, 2020 for a Facilities Planning special meeting.  Then the COVID-19 global pandemic hit and forced us to focus all efforts on educating TK-8 students under such circumstances.  The District has finally come up for air and school started like any other school year prior to the pandemic this year with things mostly back to normal with COVID-19 handled.  The Board discussion will be focused on next steps in 10th Site Community Engagement and Facilities Planning.  Nothing will be decided at this meeting, we are simply starting to get the ball rolling and determining what more information we need and how much more of a process we will need before making a decision.  All your board members would love to hear your input!

Then, Sandra will present the 2022-23 Negotiating Interests for the Los Altos School District and the Los Altos Teachers Association.  This is a discussion item and LASD and LATA's negotiating interests can be found under agenda item H.3.  LASD and LATA participate in Interest Based Bargaining which require us both to "sunshine" (i.e. disclose) our most valued interests and what section of our negotiated agreement coincides with the interests.  

Erik will next present the Santa Clara County Treasury Investment Portfolio Status.  This is an action item and his memo explaining it and the county's Quarterly Investment Report can be found under agenda item H.4.  The portfolio is highly regulated for risk by state law and the depositors are the County of Santa Clara, all the school districts, and most of the special purpose districts of the county.  The Board is asked to accept the portfolio's status. 

Erik will then present two resolutions for the Boards approval.  One to be Become Subject to Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Procedures (CUPCCA) and another (prompted by adopting CUPCCA) adopting a Conflict of Interest Code. These are action items and the resolutions can be found under agenda item H.5 and H.6.  At the last board meeting Erik presented why CUPCCA is beneficial to adopt for our district and this week he is asking us to adopt it. 

Please note, this is just the highlights of what is on the agenda for the 9/19/22 meeting.  You can inform yourself about the rest of the agenda at the link provided above.  As always, feel free to email me with any questions.