Nina Goldberg - re environmental testing - Would like the board to ask the LAUSD representatives certain questions tonight on behalf of the stakeholders. Re flush testing, what anolytes they will test for when they do the next round; when they will share data; what particles the air monitors will pick up. Also wants answers from the school re air purifiers, monitoring, point of contact for parents re environmental questions. 

Abby Schiller - reiterates Nina's comments. Has deep concerns about long term health effects. Want the testing recommended by the consortium. She has found donors to replace floors, donate paint but nobody at the school has respnoded to her.

Caroline - reiterate Nina's comments. They want the complete testing recommended by the LA Health Fire Study. Questions about encapsulation. Removal and replacement of acoustic materials and porous materials such as the chairs in Gilbert Hall. 

Vienna - concerns about floors, ceilings, existing furniture, repairs. Want LAUSD to do full TO15 testing over spring break.

Anonymous - Ceiling tiles are a big concern. Why haven't porous ceiling tiles been replaced? Is it because of asbestos? What is cost of replacement.

Kim Wolensky - echo the concerns about upholstered seats especially in the auditorium 

Continuing Environmental Concerns

Questions about wrestling facilities - timing issues 

Questions about campus restoration projects 

Teachers have different ways of wanting things turned in. It's confusing to have multiple systems and turning in the work sometimes takes as long as the assignment itself. Also no unified grading system.

nothing to report

nothing to report

Thank you to faculty and staff for everything they've done during this transition period. 

Nick Albonico - 

• we need a safety plan including for evacuations. 
• Additional air quality tests.
• When will the copiers be functioning
• Teachers frustrated about orders of physical textbooks ordered in September that still have not been delivered

Maggie Nance - on the whole everyone is very happy to be back on campus and have more outdoor space and dedicated activity spaces 

Report stands as submitted. 

Teachers union contract bargaining will begin March 23. Would like the board to discuss before the bargaining committee convenes. 

Rafael Negroe - report stands as submitted.

Additional items -

• Pool final inspection scheduled for February 26 to give us clearance for use. 
• Turf installation completed. Conducting final tests.
• Track work began yesterday and will go through March 18. 
• Wrestling mats installation started today, will be done middle of next week. 
• All moves from Sears building are complete, demolition has begun.
• Addressing the mud coming down the hill from the Sunset Bl side as a result of the rain.
• Air purifiers received and are in the process of being delivered to all classes over the next couple of weeks. Need to assemble them, ensure the electrical circuits will be able to support them. 
• Bathrooms in J complex - LAUSD has received work order and is working on the key and locksmith issues in that area.
• Maggie - how often do the filters have to be cleaned or changed? Rafael has to check, he thinks probably 6 months. 
• Lisa - Please provide some explanation of how repairs and upgrades have been scheduled by LAUSD. Rafael cannot explain, it was handled by LAUSD contractor. Who is our point person? Rafael is. Why are they scheduling these things the way they are? Rafael says scheduling had to do with cleaning schedule and with delivery schedules. He's not the project manager, it's LAUSD so he can't explain. Did Pali give LAUSD the practice schedules or other guidance to minimize disruptions? Wrestling team had no place to practice in the week leading up to regional competition and state. Lisa says there needs to be more coordination between Pali and LAUSD. The point person here should be able to lay out what works and what doesn't work as far as scheduling. Doesn't seem like anyone at Pali was advocating to manage these things in a way that works for our students.  Dr. Magee says a lot of the issue is with delivery timing of materials. As soon as the delivery came LAUSD started installation. Yes there can be better alignment. They've been trying to do things as quickly as possible but this was a misstep and they will try to coordinate better. Lisa wants to make sure there is better coordination for remaining items and that a Pali point person is more involved. 
• Jessica - can we get the facilities updates info out to the community? 
• Negeen - Is there an update regarding flooring, painting, replacing furniture? Rafael says all remaining items will fall to Pali, not part of the LAUSD remediation. He will be exploring the donor options that have been shared, as well as proposals for budget. 
• There is a safety drill scheduled for March 5. They plan to use the stadium as an evacuation area. The parking lot is a secondary option but not preferable for evacuation scenario. Color coded evacuation maps have been prepared and distributed. All emergency equipment has been approved to be purchased by insurance. 

Jeff - 

report stands as submitted.

team has been inundated with service tickets and have been doing a great job.

Amir - how is the connectivity in the village? Jeff says it's virtually identical to the rest of campus. 

Teachers say wifi is working great. Mr. Hoag's class is back at normal capacity for graphic design and other classes.

nothing to report

Monthly financial report stands as submitted. Discussion is below in Finance. 

Stands as submitted.

Big shout out to the whole community for being flexible, patient and adaptable through this whole process. 

Prospective student tours have been going very well, lots of families and lots of positive feedback. 

New construction planning is very exciting. 

Enrollment for next year is holding same level as current. 

Weekend tours are well received. 

Randy Tenansnow and Michael Friedman - 

The committee started off with some old questions sent to departments, collected a lot of information. Then Michael presented some other questions to the committee and they started asking these questions instead of sending them to departments or analyzing the information. Then Fati and Negeen raised some new questions as well. So the committee has not done any analysis. They would like to stop discussing questions and spend March doing their analysis and making recommendations. They should have gone through this process at the beginning of the year and asked all these questions at that time. Will produce a report this spring on how to make improvements in the departments and PLCs to the student experience. Hopefully by April so we can discuss in May. 

Amir - what information did you solicit? Randy says strengths, weaknesses, areas of improvement. Randy says we have a lot of data but have not distilled it yet. 

Negeen - suggesting using AI to distill everything to improve efficiency. 

Maggie - appreciates that everyone has good intentions and if we can get a report this year it will be a good start.

Negeen - We need a report sooner than later so we can actually get to some results to improve things. It's not enough to have good intentions. 

Lisa - it seems like there's a lot of effort going into a process but we won't be able to implement anything within a meaningful time. Maggie says if we get a report in May it will be tight but the admin can make it happen over the summer. 

This committee needs more oversight and guidance and possibly a calendar to follow. 

Sara Margiotta - 

No new updates beyond the minutes submitted. 

They have not yet discussed the financial impact of the Sole Occupancy Agreement 

Election committee should meet next month re board elections. 

Audit Committee

Survey Committee - needs to meet

Carlos Torres - Director - LAUSD Office of Environmental Health & Safety

• Rigorous sampling completed. 
• Fire Health Study Recommendations - LAUSD in contact with them before, during and after the completed assessments. He says the consortium have specifically said the testing that was done was appropriate and that the TO-15 was not appropriate but that it would help reassure people even if it wouldn't address the scientific needs of the school. Most of the recommended items were already in place before the letter. LAUSD has created best management practices for facilities that they will provide to Rafael in writing. They have already discussed with our team. 
• Follow up verification of indoor testing - They are going to do spot checks to confirm conditions haven't changed. 
• Recommendations to address community concerns - broaden scope to include more anolytes, not just the fire specific VOCs. TO-17 or TO-15. Not saying there were shortcomings. Everything was scientifically appropriate, guided by certified professionals. 
• Ultrafine particles - LAUSD have spoken with the air quality monitoring vendor Clarity. They are working on modifications, it's new technology for ultrafine particles, no specific thresholds to guide this analysis so would be helpful to have some agency guidance. Lisa asked for clarification of this point. Carlos says the air quality monitoring systems we are working with are in their infancy. This vendor is working on advancing the tech, but the air quality monitoring agencies have not yet established the thresholds for these contaminant particles.
• Real time monitoring in classrooms - 4 monitors running now. The consortium suggested TVOCs but the technology is not quite there to have accurate consistent data on these compounds, and it's too broad, there are so many out there that it's not really meaningful analysis. 
• Ceiling Tiles - Tests did not indicate off-gassing. They will sample again and let that guide their decisions. 
• Periodic Monitoring Plans - Wipe sampling, air sampling, subset of what was already conducted. Will not be reflective of fire impacts. Will include the TO-15 and full suite of anolytes. Will be done during spring break. 
• They cleaned every room as if it was contaminated. They didn't just clean based on what they found. 
• Spring break follow up testing - Will do a representative sampling scheme. Will not do flushing as period monitoring. That was during remedial process. The first day that kids are not on campus they will start. Then a 1-2 days to do the sampling. 
• Periodic spot checking. Then will expand sampling if they find anything. 
• Andy asks about impacts of rain and mud and changes in weather. 
• Construction process will bring out other things from the soil so they anticipate that tests might pick up things during construction. 
• Jessica - asks about sharing of data to the community in a way that's easy to understand Carlos say they will share data and explanations. It's important to provide thresholds and context and not look at test results in a vacuum. They will provide risk assessment and analysis summary so it all makes sense.
• Lisa - what is the timeline for results from the spring break testing? Carlos says they will take action based on preliminary data but they have to verify their data before they publish it. Will be at least a month, maybe more. 
• Maggie - cleaning was not universally well done. Some classrooms and areas were missed or not cleaned as well. You are speaking as those these are universal truths, but it's not the case. Teachers who are in the classrooms every day see that things were missed, so it's hard to take LAUSD at their word. There were still ash and things in some places when we came back. She gives Carlos credit for how fast they got to work on this and how quickly they made it happen, especially in comparison to people getting into their houses. She trusts his word that he believes TO-17 is enough but there are a lot of credible scientists who say TO-15 was good to do so she's happy they are doing it now. Is urban wildfire something that most industrial hygienists trained in? She says it's a new situation that most people and experts have not been through before. But LAUSD reps say it's something that has been discussed in conferences and training provided. She just does not think people's concerns are unwarranted. Our priority is the kids and everyone's health and safety. 
• Maggie - Many sports teams and activities planning to be on campus over spring break. Will there be an access issue for them? If they can't be here we need to know it now to start making arrangements. We need advance communication and coordination.  Carlos says portions of the campus will not be accessible so they will try to coordinate things and try to accommodate. 
• Carlos - if they missed something in cleaning they want it brought to their attention
• Lisa - Is the mud flow being cleaned up and tested? Does it make sense to do some mitigation to prevent and abate future mud flows. Planning on sand bags and looking at k-rails.
• Negeen - what is the plan for testing after spring break and what is the scope of testing? Carlos says spring break testing will be a subset of original testing areas. Not all of the same locations. Randomized, representative. Plan for testing after spring break - quarterly monitoring. 

Dr. Magee - This is still being reviewed and analyzed. Still working with district representatives to try to negotiate better terms. We will need a special meeting to approve it.

Marie Arce - Financials stand as submitted. 

The budget was presented to the board but contains errors and discrepancies particularly under Goal 3. The board has reviewed the budget, flagged a few errors to be corrected. The budget needs to go back through the budget and finance committee.  

Alexis Duston - stands as submitted. Budget and Finance committee approved it already. 

Tyler Farrell  - 3 year document re strategic budgeting of state and federal monies to meet the needs of all students. We are in the 2nd year of this cycle. There's no reporting requirement but it has to be documented and has to meet requirements set by the state.

Key identified goals - 

1. Increase Proficiency and academic Achievement 
2. Prepare Graduates for Post-Secondary Experiences 
3. Safe and Positive School Environment
4. Modernization 

Discussion about the low student satisfaction with school issued laptops. They are low powered and don't perform well, the students don't want to use them. We have security, equity other concerns re school devices and personal devices but budget is the primary obstacle. We would need to increase budget to fix this issue. 

Martha - submitted for review. Unions are sunshining the initial proposals for bargaining. To begin March 23. 

Initial proposal submitted.

Entered closed session at 7:44. Only non-interested members remain 

Return to open session at 8:12 pm. 

Amir - non-interested board members in closed session pursuant to Government Code Section 54957 to release the employees listed as further detailed in the discussion notes associated with the resolutions below.