Orinda Union Elementary School District board meeting, date not confirmed yet
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What happened
What happened at this meeting
Orinda Union trustees approve 2025-26 unaudited actual financial report and resolutions 37:20
- Leadership students and the principal at OIS presented on the school's core values and how leadership students put them into action on campus. 2:09
- Motions to approve the unaudited actual financial report and the district's collective bargaining proposal were each announced as carried. 1:06:29
- A district staff member presented the annual technology update on the district's artificial intelligence guidelines and instructional technology, and staff described a planned technology workgroup to develop guidelines by the end of the school year. 1:15:44
Item by item (15)
- Opening and closed session report 0:07
- Student presentation on school core values 0:25
- Leadership students presented the school's core values of kindness, accountability, growth and respect, along with a focus question for each. 3:37
- Students described activities including awards for acts of kindness, a leadership-run spirit week called Camp Week and a planned lunch line chat activity. 8:14
- Students invited the board to a Bulldog Blue Out this Friday at 8:15 at the traffic circle. 16:51
- Public comment 27:51
- Katie Shogan opened the public comment period and said comments are limited to not more than 3 minutes. 27:51
- A speaker at public comment listed suggestions for local school districts, including cybersecurity systems, professional development for teachers, early reading programs and math and science programs. 31:37
- Awareness and recognition resolutions 32:37
- A district staff member presented Resolution 2704 recognizing October as Bullying Prevention Awareness Month and said the district monitors student surveys and an anonymous tip line. 32:59
- A speaker said Dawg Week is moving to January this year, and the resolution read aloud said the district serves approximately 456 students formally identified with disabilities or requiring accommodations, about 17% of the total student population. 37:54
- A staff member said the California Education Code designates the 2nd full week of October as the Week of the School Administrator. 43:08
- The board approved the bullying prevention, diverse abilities and school administrator resolutions, with the motion announced as carried after each vote. 37:20
- Resolution on high school district parcel tax 45:10
- A district staff member brought a resolution in support of the partner high school district's Measure W parcel tax, which the staff member said is intended to provide local funding for core educational programming. 45:10
- The staff member said the high school district is one of the lowest funded in California, its current parcel tax has lost purchasing power and it has made millions of dollars in reductions. 45:40
- The motion to approve the resolution carried. 48:15
- Unaudited actual financial report 48:30
- A district staff member said 61% of revenue came from the state and that about $420,000 in local revenue came from home-to-school bus pass fee collection. 51:41
- The staff member said the ending fund balance is about $8 million and the unassigned amount is $380,000. 58:13
- Asked whether recording the home-to-school transportation revenue would affect the audit, a staff member said the revenue was in the bank under the district's name and was recorded as the district was supposed to do. 1:03:23
- The motion to approve the 2025-26 unaudited actual financial report carried. 1:06:29
- Annual limit resolution, board goals and handbook 1:06:38
- A district staff member described the limit resolution as a required annual resolution intended to keep the government entity from spending too much money. 1:06:47
- A staff member said the board met in a special workshop on September 3rd and the goals document was adjusted based on the board's input. 1:07:50
- A staff member said the board handbook was updated to include the new goals and minor grammatical changes. 1:09:18
- The motions on the limit resolution, the board goals and the revised board handbook were each announced as carried. 1:07:42
- Collective bargaining initial proposals 1:10:14
- A district staff member said the district's proposal with the Orinda Education Association covers compensation, Article 10 teaching hours and Article 14 evaluation, with negotiations starting October 14th. 1:10:55
- A representative of the association said it chose to open articles on teaching hours and class size. 1:13:08
- The board approved the district's proposal and accepted the association's proposal for the 2026-2027 school year, with both motions announced as carried. 1:12:18
- Sufficiency of instructional materials 1:14:05
- Educational technology and AI update 1:15:29
- A district staff member said commercial AI engines like ChatGPT and Claude are blocked on all student accounts and devices, and students in grades TK through 5 do not have access to AI software. 1:18:20
- The staff member said the district selected BRISK Teaching as a student-facing AI tool at OIS for 2026-27 after a 2-year pilot, and that teachers can see student interactions on live dashboards. 1:21:07
- A staff member said the district will form a technology workgroup with parent input sessions to develop guidelines on screen time and app usage by the end of the school year. 1:53:55
- Deferred maintenance plan update 2:01:23
- A district staff member presented the updated maintenance plan for 2026 through 2030 and said the 4-year plan totals $7.8 million, with a focus on roofing and mechanical, electrical and plumbing infrastructure. 2:01:41
- A staff member said the district's first Prop 2 allocation from the state is scheduled for December 2029 and must be used on repair of facilities. 2:11:26
- A staff member said asphalt work could potentially be covered by remaining bond money. 2:12:34
- School day schedule implementation update 2:13:49
- A district staff member said grades 2nd through 5th now start at 8 AM and are dismissed at 2:35 PM, and a spring update will focus on instruction and student learning. 2:13:56
- A staff member said elementary assessment days at the start of the year went from 12 to 8, with days moved to the end of trimesters 1 and 2. 2:21:25
- Retiree benefits funding report 2:31:57
- A district staff member said the retiree benefit trust started with $1 million in 2015 and grew to $2.2 million, and the net liability is about $20 million. 2:32:08
- A staff member said staff is not recommending the actuarial transfer of $2.2 million and the district pays about $750,000 a year as it goes. 2:33:06
- A staff member said the district wants to work with a consultant on strategy. 2:33:30
- Bond program update and construction approvals 2:34:25
- A bond program presenter said Measure E is projected to have a balance of $2.7 million and Measure I almost $5.5 million at the end of the projects. 2:35:17
- A staff member said the bond executive team will meet to determine priorities for remaining funds under the bond language. 2:41:58
- A staff member said HVAC is a work in progress with failures more at OIS and that the district is getting pushback from the manufacturer on the warranty. 2:47:05
- The motions on the DSA closeouts, the Wagner Ranch additional service requests and the no-cost time extension change order each carried. 2:46:28
- Item 2:55:36
- An association representative said the issues brought to bargaining are class size, teaching hours, benefits and compensation. 2:57:01
- A staff member said the next board meeting is October 19th, with assessment reports and a demographer study among the topics. 3:01:52
- The motions to approve the board policies and the consent calendar were each announced as carried. 2:56:27
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Video: posted by the district as “Orinda Union School District Regular Board Meeting 2026-09-14 Part 2”