E-mail Comments: Submit your public comment to the Board of Education's Senior Administrative Assistant electronically. Comments may be emailed to mrizya@psusd.us. Written comments are limited to 250 words. To provide adequate time to compile and distribute, please submit no later than 12:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting. All written comments will be distributed to the Board of Education and will be included as part of the record.

Telephonic Comments: You may provide telephonic comments by calling the District Office at (760) 325-8760 no later than 4:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting to be added to the public comment queue. At the appropriate time, a staff member will call you so that you may provide your public testimony to the Board of Education. When called, please reduce the meeting video volume to reduce any echoes or feedback.

All comments are to be directed to the Board, be under three minutes and shall be devoid of any personal attacks. Members of the public are expected to maintain a professional, courteous decorum during public comments.

Public notice of this hearing was given at least two (2) weeks prior to the date of this hearing

In 2013, the District transitioned to a by-trustee area election system to ensure compliance with the California Voting Rights Act (“CVRA”). However, following each federal census, the Board must approve adjustments of trustee area boundaries, if necessary, to make sure the population in each trustee area is as nearly as equal as practicable, amongst other considerations. (Education Code section 5019.5(a).) In late September 2021, following a delay due to COVID-19, the 2020 Census data was approved and released by the California Department of Finance.

School districts in by-trustee area election systems are required to review and adjust their trustee area map to ensure population balance across the trustee areas. All school districts undergoing this process must conclude the process before February 28, 2022. 

After review of the current trustee areas in conjunction with the most recent Census data, it has been determined that adjustments to the District's Trustee Area map are needed to remain in compliance with the CVRA and California Education Code 5019.5.

Accordingly, the District’s demographer will give a brief presentation regarding the impact of the 2020 Census data on the District’s Trustee Area population balance. The District will commence the process of making adjustments to the trustee area map and will ensure the process is completed by February 28, 2022 deadline.

Education Code 52885 requires that the School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) is approved by the Governing Board and kept at each school.  Palm Springs Unified School District schools complete a uniform format to ensure that all required components of the comprehensive plan, including the additional requirements for schools identified for Comprehensive Support and Improvement, align to the 2021-22 LCAP Plan and Federal Addendum.  The state established guidelines and minimum requirements for SPSA's to include the need for approval by both the school site council, the Director of State and Federal Programs, and the Directors of Curriculum and Instruction that use state and federal resources for specific guidelines to legal requirements.  The school plan reflects collaborative planning and a broad spectrum of needs specific to the school.  Individual program budgets for the school are included in the plans.

The School Plan for Student Achievement is attached for the following schools:

TOTAL 2021-22 SITE ALLOCATIONS

• Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF): $4,659,507
• Title I: $5,840,661
• CSI (PHMS): $292,633
• CSI (DHSHS): $268,888
  

Allocations for CSI include 2021-22 allocations and carryover. 

Palm Springs Unified School District (“District”) has received and expended statutory and/or alternative school facilities fees (“Reportable Fees”) for the construction and/or modernization of the District’s school facilities in order to accommodate students from new developments (“School Facilities”). Pursuant to Government Code Section 66006(b), the District is required to make a report available within one hundred eighty days (180) after the last day of each fiscal year detailing certain required information. The District presents this report entitled, “The Palm Springs Unified School District Annual and Five-Year Reportable Fees Report for Fiscal Year 2020/2021, in compliance with Government Code Sections 66006 and 66001,” (“Report”) available to the public on or before October 26, 2021.  The following information is contained in the “Five-Year Report” section of the Report: (1) Identification of the purpose to which the Reportable Fees are to be put. (2) Demonstration of a reasonable relationship between the Reportable Fees and the purpose for which they are charged. (3) Identification of all sources and amounts of funding anticipated to complete financing of the Projects of the District. (4) Designation of the approximate dates on which the funding referred to in paragraph (3) is expected to be deposited into the appropriate account. Government Code Section 66006(b)(2) requires that the Board of Education of the District (“Board”) review the Report at the next regularly scheduled public meeting, at least fifteen (15) days after the Report was made available to the public. Pursuant to Government Code Section 66006(b)(2), notice of the time and place of the Board meeting, where the Report would be considered for adoption (“Notice”) was mailed at least fifteen (15) days prior to the meeting to any interested party who filed a written request with the District for mailed notice of the meeting. Additionally, the Notice was posted in the District’s regular posting locations and published in a newspaper of general circulation within the District’s boundaries.

(Annual report is attached with agenda item)

Work-based learning opportunities offered by the district may include paid and/or unpaid work experiences, including, but not limited to, work experience education, cooperative CTE or community classrooms, job shadowing, student internships, apprenticeships, service learning, employment in social/civic or school-based enterprises, and technology-based or other simulated work experiences.

Each year, a list of business and industry partners who participate in work-based learning opportunities is submitted to the Board for Approval. As additional business and industry partners are added, they will be placed on the Board Agenda each month. The district list will be reviewed and updated each September.

The district ensures that any student participating in a work-based learning program off
school grounds is covered under the employer’s or district’s insurance, as applicable in
the event the student is injured.

Board Policy 1230 Community Relations School-Connected Organizations requires that all groups desiring to be recognized as school-connected organizations request authorization from the Board of Education.  Administrative Regulation 1230 requires all groups to provide information annually to the Assistant Superintendent of Business Services by September 30, via submission of a completed Annual Organization Approval Form.

Attached is a listing of the school-connected organizations that have provided the required documentation in its entirety and are submitted for acceptance as recognized qualified school-connected organizations.

Additional groups will be submitted to the Board of Education for acceptance as completed documentation is received by the Business Services Department.

The Facilities Planning and Development staff solicited a Request for Qualification No. 22-02 for Geotechnical Services for its bond and capital improvement projects.

RFQ No. 22-02 received 12 statement of qualification proposals which were reviewed and rated by the staff members from Facilities Planning & Development department. The review consisted of overall qualifications, depth of school project experience, knowledge of all state agency requirements, qualifications of key personnel, and relevancy and quality of past experiences. Six firms have been selected as the most qualified to provide geotechnical services for future District capital improvement projects. 

The firms selected are, in alphabetical order, Earth Systems, Geocon West, Inc., Inland Foundation, Leighton, MTGL Testing Laboratories, and Terracon.

Upon successful negotiation, individual contracts with the firms will be presented to the Board of Education members for approval.

In accordance with Board of Education approved Resolution No. 2021/2022-02; Authorization to Dispose of Surplus Property July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, the District has accumulated miscellaneous furniture and equipment that has been discarded through various sites and departments that are no longer of viable use to the District. Additionally, instructional materials that have become obsolete, worn out or damaged beyond repair are discarded for disposal. 

Lists from the warehouse of declared surplus items are attached.

Presented for approval are the agreements ten thousand dollars or more and other contracts as presented for 10/16/2021 through 10/31/2021.

As specified for each agreement.

The Agreements Under Ten Thousand Dollars from 10/16/2021 through 10/31/2021 are presented for review and approval for the following funds:

As specified in the report.

The Purchase Order Report from 10/16/2021 through 10/31/2021 is presented for review and approval for the following funds:

As specified in the report.       

Administrative Regulation (AR) 3513.1; Cellular Phone Reimbursement is being revised to align with current education code and district practices.