The Williams case resulted in a new Education Code designed to address complaints or deficiencies at schools related to instructional materials, emergency or urgent facility conditions that pose a threat to the health and safety of pupils or staff, and teacher vacancy or mis-assignment.

The Williams Settlement Education Code 35186 requires that a quarterly report be made to the Board, of any complaints related to the Williams case.  There have been no complaints filed for the first quarter of the 2021-2022 school year.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ACCEPT THE QUARTERLY REPORT ON WILLIAMS UNIFORM COMPLAINTS.

On September 23, 2021, the Board received and approved the Investment Grade Feasibility Study, and recommendations, for Solar PV and Battery Storage.  The recommendations included a list of sites for solar installs, designations of the type of installation per site, a recommendation on how to finance the installations and proposed next steps including procurement.  The next step before the Request for Proposals and Qualifications (RFP/Q) is published is to file NEM 2.0 Grandfathering Interconnection Applications.  

Task Order 2 is to file NEM 2.0 Grandfathering Interconnection Applications with PG&E and any other required agencies, which increases the original contract approved on February 18, 2021 of $65,000 to $104,500.

Per Board Policy 3312, the Board may, by a majority vote, delegate to the Superintendent or designee the authority to enter into contracts on behalf of the District.  To be valid or to constitute an enforceable obligation against the District, all such contracts must be approved and/or ratified by the Board.  Contracts are available for review upon request in the Business Services department.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE THE LIST OF CONTRACTS AND CONSULTANTS OF $45,000 and UNDER.

Board Policy 3314 states the following: It shall be the practice of the administration to present the Board of Trustees with copies of all warrant registers for information and review at each regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Trustees. As Policies 3100 (budget) and 3110 (transfer of funds) provide criteria for Board authorization of all expenditures, both personnel and non-personnel items, prior to the actual payment of the obligation, warrants will be distributed to the vendors and employees after audit by the County Superintendent of Schools.

Education Code Sections 42631-36 requires the Board of Trustees approve all expenditures made by the District.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE THE ATTACHED DISTRICT EXPENDITURES.

San Mateo-Foster City School District is participating in the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF), a federal funded program that is supplying the District with T-Mobile Wi-Fi hotspots.  We would like to contract with LB Mobile Telecom Management for Mobile Device Management.  LB Mobile Telecom can interface with T-Mobile on behalf of the District, offering more control, greater insight (real time data monitoring) and ongoing support of K-8 hotspots.  Use of federal funds requires tracking the hardware and usage for three years.  LB Mobile Telecom has a program in place to track which device belongs to each student and monitor inappropriate or extravagant usage.  This program offers mobility security in compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE THE  AGREEMENT WITH LB MOBILE TELECOM MANAGEMENT to provide Mobile Device Management services for our district T-Mobile hotspots.

The original architectural design contract to CSDA Design Group was approved by the Board of Trustees on March 18, 2020 in the amount of $580,300.00, was previously amended on March 25, 2021 for Amendment 1 in the amount of $197,200, and is now further amended to include additional scope and staff hours for a contract amount increase of $161,090.00 bringing current contract amount to $938,590.00.

The additional scope includes designing a new fire water service to the site including a new hydrant, moving playground equipment and game lines outside of the foot print of the new MPR, changing the location of the new lunch shade structure,  changing the design of the kitchen and serving area to accommodate the flow of students, designing a new synthetic turf field where there is currently grass, and designing the paving maintenance scope along with path of travel upgrades.

Educational equity means that each child receives what they need to develop to their full academic or social-emotional potential as measured through multiple data metrics. Working towards equity involves: o Ensuring equally high outcomes for all participants in our educational system; removing the predictability of success or failures that currently correlates with any social, cultural, or racial factor o Interrupting inequitable policies and practices while examining and eliminating biases to create inclusive multicultural school environments for adults and children o Discovering and cultivating the unique gifts, talents, and interests that every human possesses.

By creating collaborative learning opportunities amongst leadership, the abilities to support the work and strategically approach and understand the challenges are being developed. Through the involvement of several layers of the community in shared learning experiences to create understandings of equity, including the barriers to and strategies for achieving equity while delving into specific areas of inequity, safe spaces for brave action are being created throughout the district. The resulting high level equity impact action plan demonstrates the complexities involved in examining and addressing inequities as a mechanism to create equitable systems that produce equitable opportunities for success.E

source: Equity Task Force

The San Mateo-Foster City School District Board of Trustees adopted Board Resolution Board Resolution No. 02/20-21to Address the Perpetuation of the School to Prison Pipeline.

From Resolution No.02/20-21:

WHEREAS, the SMFCSD is deeply committed to affirming the lives of our students and has been changing our institutional culture to align with that commitment and undo the normalization of inferiority and bias, as evidenced by the creation of Equity Task Force, Sanctuary Task Force, Special Education District Advisory Committee, and support of using an Ethnic Studies Curriculum; and

SO, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: to fulfill its responsibility for undoing the systemic racism that Black children and children of color face, the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) directs the Superintendent, upon approval of this Resolution, to terminate and redefine SMFCSD’s contract with the San Mateo Police Department for the services of school resources officers, and thus remove all school resource officers from SMFCSD schools, by no later than August 17, 2020, the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year.

FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that the Board directs the Superintendent to reallocate the funds previously used for school resource officers towards accomplishing the objectives set forth in this Resolution, such as increasing the number of District or school-based social workers, psychologists, restorative justice practitioners, other mental or behavioral health professionals, a District staff member dedicated to equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice within SMFCSD, unconscious bias training for teachers and staff, with the schools that will be transitioning out school resource officers receiving priority. 

School districts that receive Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds under the American Rescue Plan Act, referred to as ESSER III funds, are required to develop a plan for how they will use their ESSER III funds.  The plan must explain how it intends to use these funds to address students’ academic, social, emotional, and mental health needs, as well as any opportunity gaps that existed before, and were worsened by, the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff will present the ESSER III Expenditure Plan to the Board for review and approval.

$6,548,931

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