5:00 p.m. Closed Session
6:00 p.m. Open Session

Agenda

1.0 OPEN SESSION / CALL TO ORDER / ROLL CALL

2.0 ANNOUNCEMENT AND PUBLIC COMMENT REGARDING ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED IN CLOSED SESSION

3.0 CLOSED SESSION

While the Brown Act creates broad public access rights to the meetings of the Board of Education, it also recognizes the legitimate need to conduct some of its meetings outside of the public eye.  Closed session meetings are specifically defined and limited in scope.  They primarily involve personnel issues, pending litigation, labor negotiations, and real property matters.

3.1 Government Code 54956.9 – Conference with Legal Counsel:

a) Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to subdivision (d)(2) of Government Code section 54956.9 (One Potential Case)

3.2 Government Code 54957.6 (a) and (b) Negotiations/Collective Bargaining SCTA SEIU, TCS, Teamsters, UPE, Non-Represented/Confidential Management (Cancy McArn)

3.3 Government Code 54957 – Public Employee Discipline/Dismissal/Release/Complaint

4.0 CALL BACK TO ORDER/PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

4.1 The Pledge of Allegiance 

4.2 Broadcast Statement

4.3 Stellar Student introduced by Board Member April Ybarra

5.0 ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACTION TAKEN IN CLOSED SESSION

6.0 AGENDA ADOPTION

7.0 PUBLIC COMMENT               

Members of the public may address the Board on non-agenda items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Board.  Public comment may be (1) emailed to publiccomment@scusd.edu; (2) submitted in writing through the district’s website at https://www.scusd.edu/submit-public-comment; or (3) provided in-person at the meeting.  The submission deadline for written public comments shall be no later than noon on the day of the meeting.  If you intend to address the Board in-person, please fill out a yellow card available at the entrance.  Speakers may be called in the order that requests are received, or grouped by subject area.  We ask that comments are limited to two (2) minutes with no more than 15 minutes per single topic so that as many people as possible may be heard.  By law, the Board is allowed to take action only on items on the agenda.  The Board may, at its discretion, refer a matter to district staff or calendar the issue for future discussion.  

WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT

8.0 CONSENT AGENDA                                                                           

Generally routine items are approved by one motion without discussion.  The Superintendent or a Board member may request an item be pulled from the consent agenda and voted upon separately.

  8.1  Items Subject or Not Subject to Closed Session:

8.1a Approve Grants, Entitlements and Other Income Agreements, Ratification of Other Agreements, Approval of Bid Awards, Approval of Declared Surplus Materials and Equipment, Change Notices and Notices of Completion (Janea Marking)

8.1b Approve Contracts Report >$15,000 (Janea Marking)

8.1c Approval of Unauthorized Vendor Payments (Janea Marking)

8.1d Approve Purchase Order Board Report for the Period of December 15, 2024, through January 14, 2025 (Janea Marking)

8.1e Approve Business and Financial Report: Warrants, Checks and Electronic Transfers Issued for the period of December 1-31, 2024 (Janea Marking)

8.1f Approve Personnel Transactions (Cancy McArn)

8.1g Approve Notice of Intent to Award for Professional Auditing Services ending June 30, 2025, to Crowe, LLP (Janea Marking)

8.1h Approve Mandatory Reporting to the Sacramento County Office of Education –Uniform Complaints Regarding the Williams Settlement Processed for the Period of October 2024 through December 2024 (Cancy McArn)

8.1i Approve Resolution No. 3478 Resolution of Intention to Convey Utilities Easement to Sacramento County for Nicholas Elementary (Ben Wangberg)

8.1j Approve Memorandum of Understanding Between SCUSD and USDA Forest Service to Evaluate District Urban Forestry Needs and Efforts (Nathaniel Browning)

8.1k Approve C.K. McClatchy New York City Field Trip April 13-18, 2025 (Mary Hardin Young and Jerad Hyden)

8.1l Approve Appointment of Board Member Chinua Rhodes to the California School Board Association (CSBA) Delegate Assembly (Board President Jasjit Singh)

8.1m Approve Election of Delegates to the California School Boards Association (CSBA) Delegate Assembly, Subregion 6-B (Sacramento County) (Superintendent Lisa Allen)

8.1n Approve 2024-25 Comprehensive Safe School Plans (Raymond Lozada)

8.1o Approval for four high school students to attend SXSW conference in Austin, Texas on March 3 through March 7 (Manpreet Kaur)

9.0 COMMUNICATIONS

9.1 Employee Organization Reports: 

• SCTA
• SEIU
• TCS
• Teamsters
• UPE

9.2 Student Member Report (Justine Chueh-Griffith)

9.3 President’s Report (Jasjit Singh)

9.4 Information Sharing by Board Members

10.0 SPECIAL PRESENTATION

10.1 National Eating Disorder Awareness Week Resolution (Noel Estacio)

10.2 Approve Updated English Learner Master Plan 2025-26 (Dr. Olga Simms)

PPT

10.3 Parent Participation Preschool Program Recommendation and Fee Based School Age Programs (Yvonne Wright)

PPT

11.0 PUBLIC HEARING

11.1 Ethel I. Baker Construction Prop 2 Public Hearing to Authorize Project (Chris Ralston)

12.0 BOARD WORKSHOP/ STRATEGIC INITATIVE

12.1 2025-26 Budget Development Update (Janea Marking)

PPT

WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT

12.2 Resolution No. 3471: Resolution to Eliminate Certificated Positions Due to a Reduction of Particular Kinds of Service (Cancy McArn)

EXHIBIT A

PPT

WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT

12.3 Resolution No. 3472: Determination for Tie-Breaking Criteria (Cancy McArn)

PPT

12.4 Resolution No.3473: Resolution to Determine Criteria for Deviation from Terminating a Certificated Employee in Order of Seniority (“Skipping” Criteria) (Cancy McArn)

PPT

12.5 Resolution No. 3476: Notice of Layoff: Classified Employees –Reduction in Force Due to Lack of Funds and/or of Work (Cancy McArn)

EXHIBIT A

PPT

WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT

12.6 2024-25 Local Control and Accountability Plan Mid-Year Review (Dr. Ed Eldridge)

PPT

12.7 2024-25 Local Control and Accountability Plan Mid-Year Review for Dependent Charter Schools (Amanda Goldman, Ed.D & Dr. Ed Eldridge)

PPT

12.8 2025-26 Governor’s Budget Proposal Update (Janea Marking and Leilani Aguinaldo)     

PPT

13.0 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION/REPORTS               

13.1 Business and Financial Information: Enrollment and Attendance Report – Month 4, Ending Friday, December 6, 2024 (Janea Marking)  

14.0 FUTURE BOARD MEETING DATES / LOCATIONS

• March 6, 2025, 5:00 p.m. Closed Session, 6:00 p.m. Open Session, Serna Center, 5735 47th Avenue, Community Room, Regular Workshop Meeting
• March 20, 2025, 5:00 p.m. Closed Session, 6:00 p.m. Open Session, Serna Center, 5735 47th Avenue, Community Room, Regular Workshop Meeting

15.0 ADJOURNMENT

NOTE:  The Sacramento City Unified School District encourages those with disabilities to participate fully in the public meeting process.  If you need a disability-related modification or accommodation, including auxiliary aids or services, to participate in the public meeting, please contact the Board of Education Office at (916) 643-9314 at least 48 hours before the scheduled Board of Education meeting so that we may make every reasonable effort to accommodate you.  [Government Code § 54953.2; Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, § 202 (42 U.S.C. §12132)]   Any public records distributed to the Board of Education relating to an open session item will be available for public inspection at the Serna Center, at 5735 47th Avenue, Sacramento, during normal business hours or on the District’s website at www.scusd.edu.        

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