to blame. it is a matter of what we want to do about it, and when you talk about the doctor sitting down with the groups of people, it is not just reviewing data. when we bring down the ethnicities for every school and how the kids are doing, it is not just seeing the data and saying, "ok, that is great." what are you going to do to turn around this data? what are you going to be specifically at your site to turn this around, and this is the conversation that we are having today that years ago i believe people did not want to have that conversation, and unless we have that conversation, it is never going to occur, and i think we should be proud that we are having these conversations and demanding action plans to do something about it. president mendoza: questions? commissioner norton? commissioner norton: that is

called algebraic thinking? is that which you call it? >> the national trading network. it starts in two days. thank you very much. >> i will also go through the program myself, to make sure. president mendoza: ok, any other questions? great. thank you very much, a team. go, team. great job. commissioner: we still have not voted on that. president mendoza: item l was an item on the consent calendar, and it was moved and seconded. can we vote on the consent calendar?

clerk: [reading role] president mendoza: as, except for some k items and those that are retroactive. clerk: those retroactive? president mendoza: yes. item k-19, and i actually pull this, and i have a couple of questions, guadalupe, on the services that are being offered. $125,000 that is going to mission neighborhood centers, and i see a lot of work focused on some of the college readiness work in our medders goals -- in

our middle schools. they run our begin centers, so i just want to figure out how we are partnering with what koran exists, if we're working under the bridge to success programming support an advocate doing a lot of work on college readiness. i do not know if mission, mmc exists, so that is kind of what i am doing. >> i will frame into a bit, and then i in here the exhibits a director who can enter into further detail. this is our begin agency. this represents some of the extended learning we are making at everett middle school, which in this case includes a very deep focus on establishing a college going culture at this goal. i know you have some specific

questions around what some of that looks like, along with some of the activities that are listed here. kevin, do you want to describe how that partnership is? >> so, of course, this is one of our funded schools, and one of the goals is to become stronger community schools, which is to create greater articulation as well as optimizing community resources. we have communities " organizers at the school, and you probably know tracy brown. she is a great person and a great dynamic programmer, and she is working to coordinate this and is very well aware of sf promise, which is at everett. this is one initiative. i think the feeling there is that we need multiple initiatives if we are to get a culture going.

this is on big event planet, making sure there are weekly clubs. they do some other very good specific work, but this is about organizing student clubs, the focus on college readiness and academic success. this is not about covering the walls of the school. this is about targeting newcomers who are latino and specifically working with their parents in collaboration, along with the begin. ? she as the communicator and working with the team everett are working to coordinate all of these services. i think it might be this week that they have a meeting with some of the sf promise folks. this one is not so curriculum focused. what they want to do, for instance, a college advisor

listed here, and sf promise, this would be an adult that is a college advisor, and they want to have their kids get their feet on college campuses more often. they stops: 12:30. they need someone to organize all of that, so they want to organize events and have clubs. it is a very robust culture shifting kind of thing, not so much a curriculum, which is also a very important piece, which i noted that is what sf promise and others are doing. >> the others that are participating in this, it is 125,000 that i do not want to have someone creating new stuff for our schools because we have so many resources. this was as we started to build

out a lot of work with the bridge to success, and tracy love, i think she is a great community organizer. been she the one is going to be thinking about with their college adviser is? >> she and the beaten together, and i think this is very much customized. this is not about a growing in the program. i think there are the city-wide programs, and i think what they are looking at is what do they need customized to our student population and to the community and looking to grow something from within. i know they are especially concerned with the newcomers at the school and what the newcomers know about going to college, making sure that they actually -- in fact, i think they are writing early jon college applications. what is it like to write the college as they? and then also looking at the

ways to have it be a good match for them. commissioner: what is the whole 125,000? the salary of one person? >> that will pay for the college advisor who will be hired by the mission neighborhood center, with a high reading which will include, i am sure, the principal, said there would be a number of people involved in the hiring of that position. it is fortress i think to the colleges, as well. and it is for some of the articulation. the other thing they want to do is that there are things that happened during the day, but the won to strengthen the way the program offers college and career-ready opportunities, so it will be working with the --

if i want to go into this kind of career, what kind of education is it i need to have proved so those kinds of activities. i do not know if that answers your question. >> sort of. i know they have combined this so it is in one place, so we are leveraging those dollars as well, presumably? >> yes, and we are making sure the we are asking them to be very clear about the contracts, -- commissioner: the of our established cbo's, some of the folks to do this on a regular basis, as well, folks that are ready have things set up.

i feel like this is a big chunk of change, so i do not want to spend this money to rebuild something when we have so many resources, to agree with folks that want to help in these communities. our priority and our focus. starting something new and bringing in new folks, but working more closely with the community. this means bringing in people who are well established and doing the kind of work that we want to support. commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: yes, thank you for doing this. now that i have had an explanation, i have some questions.

what about the engagement plan that we really have, -- we already have. i worry about this going off in fragments, for example -- i understand why we would not hire a financial person that we know, that we actually have control over about their knowledge of college applications and updated college education, so i guess i do not -- i can see some of these coordinations before school programs. when you start talking about things like. engagement, -- like parents engagement, we have that. i would hate to say this not run by our director of parent engagement.

at different sites, we invent what we want to invent for these sites, so this money, quite frankly, is for a very short time. we will not always have it. i worry about spending it on things that is not going to build a foundation for our schools to be able to do it themselves. when we contract out, it means that we're not teaching school site to do it themselves, and it is the same thing with community schools, that we are trying to teach sites on how to get those resources themselves, and when this money is gone, it is gone, and if we just say, "oh, we have not gotten any more -- got it anymore," we have lost our ability. i am always worrying that we only have so much. it is only for a short period of time, and i think we are given

this to set up an infrastructure so we can do it on our own and that we can build on our own, too, so this is not something that once you pull the money out, nobody knows how to coordinate with other people or to work with community members because we have hired someone to do it for us rather than teach us how to do it. that is my only real concern, and also, with our parent engagement plan so that we do not have one school doing something and another school doing something else. i have met many. there are many organizations and have spoken with many parents and never graduated. i mean, -- spoke with many parents and who have graduated. constantly, i see things being

bought with some of this money that is not teaching us how to do it ourselves, so what are we going to do when this money is gone? really? do we have that $125,000 to keep on this? that is what i am worried about. commissioner: i would differ a little bit because i think this is about capacity building. we had this before, and i assume we will have it when this is gone. this is about not only transforming the during the day school day and building this between teachers and counselors administrators and others, but it is also changing the way some of these after-school programs operate in ways they can continue to do with the finding they have after this is gone, so i think, and i just want to be very clear, this is not funded under this particular. i mention this as one that they

would be coordinating, collaborating wrath. not trying to -- collaborating with. not trying to recreate the wheel. i think it is about to pass the building, both at the site and in terms of the counselors, and they are trying to do this, as well, and i know everett and other schools are very concerned with crisis kinds of management. they are not doing counseling around college going. they are worried about truancy rates that have been talked about. there are so many things that are consuming them that they almost need an opportunity to have colleagues come in and breathe some fresh air into what it means to think about some of these other issues and pull

yourself out a little bit and actually create a college-going culture, and i think that will build capacity that was day after the funding is gone, and there are some specific ways, with the instructional leadership team, of trying to do that, so they are very aware of trying to build capacity, i believe. president mendoza: so i just want to emphasize that this money is for a very short period of time, and if you say it is capacity building, then i expect to pass the building, and i expect that when this money is pulled, everything is not going to fall apart, because we have to start teaching our folks out to do some of these things that we have not done before, or we are losing an opportunity to train them, so what does this look like with the way it is sort of written, it was to look a little bit like someone else

was doing it, quite frankly, so if you're telling me in his capacity building, then i believe you, and then we can expect capacity building, right? that is fine, thank you. commissioner: commissioner, thank you. you say that the $125,000 is going to be used for the advisers, that a person is going to be court notting all of these other efforts with tracy? >> yes -- that is going to be coordinating all of these efforts with tracy? >> yes. commissioner: this is one of the things that was being pushed, around college readiness, too. you guys really hesitated. you do not like it? it is not the strategy? >> it is great. it is great.

it was more -- there is just some confusion about the appropriateness of working with the esl students, so that has been coming up recently, and that is why i hesitated, because that is what we have been thinking about recently, but in terms of avid, avid is great. president mendoza: commissioner maufas? commissioner maufas: i to turn this from president mendoza. $125,000 is going to one person -- i just heard this from president mendoza. >> is part of our work. we are six months in. we are being mindful of those milestones. commissioner maufas: i just want

to know the salary. the $125,000, what is going to a person and their benefits. i want to know what their money is pulled out of this contract amount, and then what is left to do this. that is what i want to know. >> right, we would have to pull it. i do not have that off the top of my head. i have seen it before, and it did not look unreasonable. i will have to look it up. commissioner maufas: maybe we should have the budget for this, because it is a long laundry list. we are not sure how this is going to get allocated. what we want to see and be able to report. >> just to shout out, everett is our most improved middle school in our district. also, i appreciate there is always a balancing act, because you ask for a very short dollars

for things that are often very complicated, and then you do not -- because you ask for budgets for things that are often very complicated. commissioner maufas: it sticks out, kevin. this is one about priorities and what we are trying to change across the board, and if this is all it takes to make this happen at everett, maybe we need to be thinking about these kinds of investments at all about other middle schools. it is malta and layered in my mind, but i just to understand all of this stuff, what the $125,000 is going to go for -- it is multi layer. -- lay herridge. -- layred.

-- layered. people are reaching a lot of other schools. building that capacity, as well. president mendoza: any other questions or comments? thank you, you guys. if you can share that budget with us. >> absolutely. president mendoza: ok, we need a vote. clerk: ms. fewer, maufas, doctor, ms. norton, ms wynns, ms mendoza, mr. yee. president mendoza: item s, the

board members reports. you already commented. commissioner: we had a very interesting presentation from the information technology department on the information systems. this is going to cost us a little over $8.50 million, and so, we looked at the budget. we looked at what it was going to be spent on. everyone i think on the committee agreed that this is needed, because we needed a new information system, but, however, it is going to be a very expensive one, a little over $8.50 million, and if other board members would like a brick out of it, i think it is actually fairly interesting -- if other members would like a break out of it. i think we can get a copy. oh, and then we had a very dismal report, yes, and, in fact, actually, i think it is

worth spending may be about three minutes now so that the deputy superintendent can give us sort of the bleak outlook for our school district in the next coming years. would you mind? it does not have to be really fancy. >> i will keep it short for tonight, because i think your plans for the retreat on sunday also include some discussion on budgetary issues and planning and the like, but just in a nutshell, we provided staff a report to the committee about the state budget, which i believe the commissioners did receive some information along these lines, but just to recap, there were about $4 billion of revenues that were basically speculative in the final state budget that was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, and in the language of

the budget act, there were cuts that were identified for shortfalls if they should occur, so this is for revenue is through the end of the year. if the department of finance makes a determination that the state will likely be short by some amount of revenues, then there are a certain amount of cuts that are predetermined as part of the budget act. the cuts would need to be at least $2 billion, so -- i am sorry, the shortfalls would need to be at least $2 billion. there is a laundry list of things. if it is between $2 billion and

$4 billion, that is where the cuts start to be triggered, and we can provide more information about that, but in essence, the major cuts that we are at risk of seeing in that type of scenario are cuts to general- purpose revenue funding. the same types that were mentioned earlier, and there is also one other earmarked cut for transportation, categorical funding for transportation, which is also not a good thing for us, so we will see monthly updates about revenue collections statewide, and i think we are about to see updates for august revenue collections, but the one month that we have received information about, which is july, was quite bad. it was quite discouraging. i think the estimates are about 10% off for that one month, so there is some time for that to be made up, but it is not an

encouraging sign, as much as that one month's worth of data goes. it is not a great backdrop at this point in the fiscal year, and we're going to keep close watch on it from now until december. president mendoza: commissioner? commissioner: we were talking about that today, but could be set up in our budget discussion about ab-114, about the bill that incorporates a trigger? as a political reality, i think it is unlikely that even if anything, the worst-case scenario takes place, there are probably going to be some legislative changes to what gets cut when the triggers are pulled, because, for instance, the transportation would wait -- would wipe out home them as good transportation, and there are so

many in the state where they would just have to close their doors if they did not have this transportation money in the middle of the year. at any time, but in the middle of the year. the students could not get there, period, so that is kind of bizarre that that happens, but what it means is there is a reopening of the discussion about how they could make cuts, so we need to look at that, but there are also some structural changes to the budgeting process in 114 that i think we should understand, the board members should understand, so i think it is something that we should at least think about. president mendoza: thank you. any other questions? thank you for that depressing report from the deputy superintendent. >> the next budget meeting will be held on september 22. president mendoza: curriculum

committee, we covered the metro. commissioner: correct. we had two other informational issues. on the district's efforts for community schools, they had actually, tracy brown was there and other community school coordinators, and it was a really interesting presentation actually about what we are doing at some of the schools, and particularly, and hillcrest, they were cited as two sides that if you want to see kind of what our efforts are to go visit those two sites and talk to them because they are the first in these efforts, and then we had a presentation, an informational presentation, on response to intervention and positive behavior support, and we got kind of an overview on what some of the strategies lookalike, quick responses,

various concepts, or having various issues. we are not very far along at all in implementing this, so we kind of thought was here is what it would look like in a perfect world, and, yes, we are not anywhere near close to doing that yet, and it is not clear given the budget that we were just reminded of when we will be there, but if we are ever in a position to move them forward, i think there is some pretty interesting stuff that can be done, so i know it is not really a cecilia'a department that is doing it, -- it is not really cecilia's department. the next meeting is monday the 19th at 4:00 p.m., and i wanted to take special note to the board. we are going to get