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Parental Involvement, Course Access and Implementation of Common Core State Standards. Our priorities are in line with the state priorities. A Local Control Accountability Committee (LCAC) was formed to receive input from the community to make sure the needs of all of our students are being met especially our subgroups. The committee consisted of 14 members: eight parents/community members, one student, one DELAC (District Engligh Language Advisory Committee) member, one representative from the Classified Bargaining Unit, one representative from the Association of Pleasanton Teachers and two senior staff(Dr. Douglas and Deputy Superintendent Cazares). This committee was selected and approved from over twenty applicants by the Governing Board and meets on a monthly basis. This advisory committee advises the Board and Superintendent about supporting the District Strategic Plan with resources from our Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). The committee meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:00 p.m. The committee has been holding listening campaigns and has met with students, parent groups, staff members, community members to get their feedback on the following questions. • What do students need to succeed? • What do students need to succeed given their unique circumstances? • The Committee then priortizes the entire list discussed and decides which areas are most impactful, moderately impactful and the least impacful. Questions/Comments from the Board/City Council: Councilmember Brown commented, "Thank you for the presentation. It's helpful to us as a City, community members and parents to see what's going on with the finances of the school district." She noted she sat on the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority (LAVTA) committee and referenced slide 4, the add ons of $693K for Transportation that was discussed in the presentation and asked, "Is this a part of a Wheels Transportation fee or what is that?" Superintendent responded, "We don't have transportation other than for our students who are in Special Education." Ms. Cazares explained, "These are dollars we have received historically from the State for providing transportation services for our Special Education students." Councilmember Brown noted, "As we work with developers coming forward with projects and new construction, we begin to discuss what the minimm state requirements is for funding to schools and then we look at additional funding from those developers to continue to keep Pleasanton schools great. Has there been any action from this Board to request an increase in the state minimum funding so when more projects come forward it's not as difficult to negotiate?" Vice President Laursen shared that Trustee Arkin brought this up at a meeting two weeks ago with Assemblymember Buchanan and stated, "The development community in terms of influence over the dollar amount that's set at the state level is a statute and is out of our control. We haven't been successful at moving that dollar figure." Councilmember Brown commented, "Would you say it's pretty well accepted that the dollar figure of the state mandatory is not enough to cover an education system like the Pleasanton schools?" Ms. Laursen commented, "I think that anyone is education would agree with that." Trustee Bowser added, that a State Facilities Construction Bond, which the State is required to pay for schools, which is their mandate, local funding (a General Obligation Bond) and developer fees. Developer's were very engaged in getting this measure passed. There is no state bond money left which would trigger a test 3 which would require the developers to pay 100% of the development that's required. In the past, legislative has passed a waiver for test 3, which is done by statute. He stated, "We will continue to push to change that treshold as it's adjusted for inflation, which is currently at$3.20." Superintendent Ahmadi commented, "It's important when we speak about facilities that we make that distinction and what you've heard about LCFF, at it's best in 2021 it's inadequate funding for Joint City Council Page 5 of 11 March 17,2014 PUSD Board Minutes