CUSDWatch Comment

The goal is to make sand volleyball a CIF sport in order to provide more college athletic scholarship opportunities for girls.  Right now there is no place for CUSD to practice because there are very few sand volleyball courts available and to many teams interested in playing.

Maybe CUSD could use San Clemente High Schools upper campus which CUSD just spent $500,000 to demolish the main building to make room for future practice fields. 

Maybe we could get everything donated.

Volley Ball USA - How to Build Your Own Sand Court with Costs  

CUSDWatch Comment 

* These are Prop 39 Bonds that only require 55% approval to pass

During the 2016 Elections 186 of 206 Prop 39 Bonds passed representing over $50 billion in future property taxes for California taxpayers.

Defeat Prop 39 Bonds HJTA

Big Bad Bonds Richard Michael

Boundaries and Bond Options for:

San Clemente

Kitchell Report Repairs Maintenance:

Truman Benedict $5 million

Concordia $5.5 million

Marblehead $7.6 million

Clarence Lobo $4.5 million

Vista del Mar $7.3 million

Bernice Ayer $5 million

Vista del Mar $7.4 million

San Clemente $24.5 million

Total SC $66.8 million

If you Exclude Vista Del Mar ES and MS Total SC $63.5 million

plus

Palisades $12.75 million

Total SC + Palisades $80 million

* Any amount above the $80 million would be used for "Wish List" Items

Option I: Boundary All SC Schools + Palisades Elementary 

Bond Amount: $124 million Time: 10 years              Cost $29/$100,000 (Million dollar home $290 per year)

Option II: Boundary All SC Schools + Palisades Excluding CFD 90-2 Talega (Vista Del Mar ES/MS)

Bond Amount: $100 million Time: 10 years              Cost $29/$100,000 (Million dollar home $290 per year)

Option III: Boundary All SC Schools excluding Palisades and Vista Del Mar ES and Vista Del Mar MS

Bond Amount: $89 million Time: 10 years              Cost $29/$100,000 (Million dollar home $290 per year)

*Note: CUSD has abused Mello Roos Taxpayers by over collecting Pay As You Go. So now if they do not agree to be taxed yet again- their schools get nothing.

Option IV: 

Boundary All SC Schools excluding Vista Del Mar ES and Vista Del Mar MS + Palisades Elementary School

Bond Amount: $116 million Time: 10 years              Cost $29/$100,000 (Million dollar home $290 per year)

Minimum Assessment:

Bond Funds: $78 million      Tax Levy $19/$100,000

Maximum Assessment:

Bond Funds: $245 million    Tax Levy $59/$100,000

Coastal Communities: Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, Dana Point

Bond Amount: $286 million Time: 10 years              Cost $29/$100,000 (Million dollar home $290 per year)

Kitchell Report Repairs/Maintenance $130.5 Million. The Rest would be used for Wish list.

Aliso Niguel HS Boundary $57.8 million

Dana Hills High School Boundary $59.9 million

Palisades ES $12.77 Million

Wish List Funds: $146 million remaining

San Juan Capistrano Schools

Bond Amount: $58 million Time: 10 years              Cost $29/$100,000 (Million dollar home $290 per year)

Kitchell Report Repairs/Maintenance $81 Million. 

*Not enough so some schools would not receive any improvements

TWO REGIONAL BONDS:

Coastal SFID

DHHS + ANHS + J Serra, Del Obispo, Kinoshita, Marco Forster, San Juan

Souther SFID

San Clemente (w/wo Talega) + Palisades (w/wo Pacifica San Juan)

TIMELINE:

Dec 2018- Feb 2019 Decision to move forward with 2020 Bond 

Dec 2019 Trustees approve Bond Measure Statutory Deadline to provide documents to County is Dec 20, 2019

CUSD Facilities & Finance Advisory Committee Members:

• Marilyn Amato
• Gail Benda
• Bob Bunyan
• Anna Dickinson
• Linda Fong
• Marc Fudge
• Ellen Berg Gavitt
• John Harms
• Elizabeth Mordock
• Fred Olson
• Michele Ploessel- Campbell
• Trudy Pedobas
• Mike Pouraryan
• Mary Rebrukh
• Ron Ruef
• Davis Stine

CUSDWatch Comment

RED FLAG FOR STUDENTS WHO WANT TO APPLY TO 4- YEAR SELECTIVE COLLEGES OUTSIDE OF UC and CSU REGARDING MEETING A - G REQUIREMENTS

Students will NOT be aligned in (E) LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH

CUSD and the State of CA no longer require a foreign language to graduate.

Students can take CTE classes instead.

*Students who do not take 2 years (recommended 3) of a foreign language may be denied entrance into many selective 4- year colleges or universities that still require 2 years of a foreign language other than English.

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CUSDWatch Comment

Where did the $15,915,671 go?  

CUSDWatch Comment

Annual Budget Plan Fiscal Year 2018-19

A Funds Received $36,313,419

Federal Funds $8,876,815 

State Funds $27,436,604

B. Admin Costs $3,073,639

C. Special Education services to pupils with: (1) severe disabilities, and (2) low incidence disabilities 

Code 5170 $800,132
Code 5730 $7,181,073
Code 5750 $48,032,149

Total $56,013,354

D. Special Education Services to Pupils with non-severe disabilities 

Code 1130 $6,705,882

E. Regionalized operations and services, and direct instructional support by program specialists

Code 5050

Code 6060

G. The use of property taxes allocated to the special education local plan area EC 2572

"Statement is included in Local Plan"

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CUSDWatch Summary

CUSD Has record high revenues.

Enrollment is declining: 

• 2017-18 47,475
• 2018-19 47,051

ADA

• 2017-18 $8,293
• 2018-19 $8,822

Despite Record High Revenues- site supply budgets are unchanged at

• K-5 $21/Student
• 6-8 $25/student
• 9-12 $33 per student

Staffing Formulas also remain the same (no class size reductions despite record high revenues:

• *K =      30.5:1
•   1-3 =   30:1
•   4-5 =   31.5:1
• *6-8 =   32.5:1
• *9-12 = 34.5:1 
• *Staff Full Time K at 28.5:1
• *Includes Prep Time and Electives

Total Revenues $485,369,622

Total Expenses $501,740,890

Across the Board Compensation Increases for all employees (5th consecutive year)

• CUEA 1.5%
• CSEA 2.0%
• CUMA 1.5%
• Teamsters 2%

PERS

• 2018-19 18.062%
• 2019-20 20.8%
• 2020-21 23.5%
• 2021-22 24.6%

STRS

• 2018-19 16.28%
• 2019-20 18.13%
• 2020-21 19.10%

CUSD has entered into contracts for three years with all employee groups 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20

Employee Benefits

• STRS 16.28%
• PERS 18.062%
• OASDI 6.200%
• Medicare 1.450%
• Workers Comp 1.500%
• Unemployment 0.050%  
• OPEB – Active 0.80%
• OPEB – All 0.27%

Employee Compensation is 89% of CUSDs total budget.

CUSD Long Term Commitments

• Capital Leases $1,129,428
• Certificates of Participation $8,800,000
• General Obligation Bonds $24,408,787
• Early Retirement $16,192,730
• Total $53,773,979

Unfunded Liabilities for post employment benefits $52,818,201

To receive benefits employee has to be at least 53 with ten years of service.

CUSD is reducing its teaching staff:

• 2017-18 2,178.2
• 2018-19 2,135.7
• 2019-20 2,116.7
• 2020-21 2,099.7

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CUSDWatch Comment

California Department of Education: Instructions Protected Prayer

The Protected Prayer Certification meets the annual federal requirements specified in Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Title I, Section 9524(b) regarding constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary and secondary schools. This data entry form is designed to provide the written certification that the local educational agency (LEA) has no policy that prevents or otherwise denies participation in constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary and secondary schools.

20 US Code Section 7904 - School Prayer

(a) Guidance

The Secretary shall provide and revise guidance, not later than September 1, 2002, and of every second year thereafter, to State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and the public on constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary schools and secondary schools, including making the guidance available on the Internet. The guidance shall be reviewed, prior to distribution, by the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice for verification that the guidance represents the current state of the law concerning constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary schools and secondary schools.

(b) Certification

As a condition of receiving funds under this chapter, a local educational agency shall certify in writing to the State educational agency involved that no policy of the local educational agency prevents, or otherwise denies participation in, constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary schools and secondary schools, as detailed in the guidance required under subsection (a) of this section. The certification shall be provided by October 1 of each year. The State educational agency shall report to the Secretary by November 1 of each year a list of those local educational agencies that have not filed the certification or against which complaints have been made to the State educational agency that the local educational agencies are not in compliance with this section.

(c) Enforcement

The Secretary is authorized and directed to effectuate subsection (b) of this section by issuing, and securing compliance with, rules or orders with respect to a local educational agency that fails to certify, or is found to have certified in bad faith, that no policy of the local educational agency prevents, or otherwise denies participation in, constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary schools and secondary schools.

(Pub. L. 89–10, title IX, §9524, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title IX, §901, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1980.)

Prior Provisions

A prior section 7904, Pub. L. 89–10, title IX, §9204, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, §101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3798, established the Native Hawaiian Education Council and island councils, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110. See section 7514 of this title.

CUSDWatch Comment

CUSD owns Capistrano Connections Academy.

Capistrano Connections Academy is CUSD's Virtual School.

CUSD Trustees should not approve this as a "revision". California Online Public Schools should have to apply for a new charter based on the following:

Change of Name

page 66:

"Capistrano Connections Academy, Incorporated" and "CapoCA" shall be replaced with "California Online Public Schools" or "CAlOPS"

page 67: 

The Board has engaged Connections Academy, LLC to manage the school under the terms of the professional services agreement (also known as a management contract). Exhibit "I" 

There is no Business filing with the California Secretary of State for "Connections Academy LLC" 

“The District shall not be responsible or liable for the operations of CalOPS.”

Board Composition:

page 69

“The Board seeks out at least one Board Member who resides within the
geographical boundaries of CUSD and the geographical area served by the charter schools it governs, in order to provide input from the local community.” 

“Any current employee of CapoCA or any current employee of any of
the other charter schools governed by the corporation are not eligible to serve on the Governing
Board. No employees of Connections are eligible to serve on the Governing Board.”

Operating Charter School:

page 70

“The day-to-day management of the principal is the responsibility of the Executive Director, subject to oversight from Connections Academy, or its successor if Connections Academy is terminated, under the terms of the professional services agreement, as well as subject to oversight by the
Board.”

page 72

The words “locally based” will be removed “This independent board has overall governance authority over the charter school.”

“non-charter public schools” shall be replaced with “an independent study
program of a California public school”

This is a completely new entity and should not be approved as a renewal.

CUSDWatch Comment

Three Trustees seats are up for election in November 2018:

Martha McNicholas Represents Trustee Area 4  which covers portions of Laguna Niguel and Dana Point. 

Hidden Hills ES
John S. Malcom ES
Moulton ES
George White ES
Dana Hills HS

Gila Jones Represents Trustee Area 6  which covers portions of Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel, and San Juan Capistrano. 

Marian Bergeson ES
Del Obispo ES
Carl Hankey K-8 School
Kinoshita ES
San Juan ES
Viejo ES
Marco Forster MS
Niguel Hills MS
Capistrano Valley HS
Junipero Serra HS

Judy Bullockus Represents Trustee Are 7 which covers portions of Rancho Santa Margarita, Mission Viejo, and Coto de Caza. 

Arroyo Vista K-8 School
Bathgate ES
Castille ES
Philip Reilly ES
Tijeras Creek ES
Newhart MS
Tesoro HS

CUSD elects Trustees by Area so only voters residing in these specific areas will be able to vote for a CUSD Trustee

The Resolution that Staff is asking Trustees to Approve does not comply with Education Code Section 5322 "Specifications of Election Order".

The Resolution should be amended prior to a vote.

CUSDWatch Comment

This is the 5th Consecutive year of across the board compensation increases totaling over $150 million dollars.

At the same time, CUSD has $189 million in EMERGENCY Facilities and maintenance repairs.

CUSD always makes the "CHOICE" to spend money on adult jobs... not to foster the education of students.

CUSDWatch Comment

What does the Statutory Declaration of Need have to do with the Current Consideration... "Acceptance" of Williams Settlement Legislation Uniform Complaint Third Quarter Report"?