BOARD COMMUNICATIONS Date: April 28, 2017...T.A.G. YOU’RE I.T. is a red carpet Teachers Appreciation Gala for Inspiring Teachers in the Sacramento City Unified School District. This

José L. Banda, Superintendent

5735 – 47th Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95824

(916) 643-9314

Board of Education

Jay Hansen, President, Area 1

Jessie Ryan, Vice President, Area 7

Darrel Woo, 2nd Vice President, Area 6 Ellen Cochrane, Area 2

Christina Pritchett, Area 3

Michael Minnick, Area 4

Mai Vang, Area 5

Natalie Rosas, Student Board Member

BOARD COMMUNICATIONS Date: April 28, 2017

SUPERINTENDENT – JOSÉ L. BANDA

BC NO. FROM REGARDING

S-213 José Banda Highlights of Calendar for the Week of May 1

DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT – LISA ALLEN


DS-139 Sam Starks Upcoming Community Events

DS-140 Sam Starks Teacher Awards Gala May 18, 2017

CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER – GERARDO CASTILLO


CBO-69 Gerardo Castillo Underwriter Selection to Sell Bond

CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER – ALEX BARRIOS


CCO-452 Alex Barrios Center for American Progress Report

Board Communication Form for 2016-17

SACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD COMMUNICATION

BC NO: S-213

CONFIDENTIAL ITEM - (Check a Box) No: ☒ Yes: ☐ Date: 4/28/2017

Approved by: José L. Banda, Superintendent

To the Members of the Board of Education

Prepared by: José L. Banda, Superintendent

Contact Email:

[email protected]

Subject: Highlights of Calendar for the Week of May 1

Monday, May 1

Cabinet Meeting

1:1 Meetings with Cabinet Members

Tuesday, May 2

School Visits (sites to be determined)

1:1 Meetings with Cabinet Member

Attending Intel’s Involved Matching Grant

Celebration

Wednesday, May 3

Office Managers’ Meeting

Operations Cabinet Meeting

1:1 Meetings with Cabinet Members

United Latinos Meeting

Thursday, May 4

Board Meeting Day

Friday, May 5

Board Meeting Debrief

Speaking at 18th Annual Public Safety and

Community Appreciation Luncheon

Saturday, May 6

First Lego League Jr. Showcase

Hollywood Park Elementary’s Golf

Tournament



BC NO: DS-139




Prepared by: Sam Starks, Director, Community Relations Contact Email: sam-

[email protected]

Subject: Upcoming Community Events

Attached is a calendar listing of upcoming community events that may be of interest to the

Board.

DATE TIME EVENT ORGANIZATION OPPORTUNITY LOCATION NAME CONTACT

28-Apr 6p.m. - 10p.m. Hard Hats and High Heels Gala Habitat for Humanity Gala The Railyards http://www.sacramento365.com/event/hard-hats-high-heels-gala/

28-Apr 5:00-8:00 pm The Art of Compassion Showcase SCUSD's SEL & Arts Departments Performance/Exhibit SCUSD District Office, Community Rooms Mai Xi Lee [email protected]

29-Apr 4pm. Doors Open 46th Annual Luau Hui O Hawaii's I Sacramento Inc Luau Ben Ali Shrine Center Mona Foster [email protected]

29-Apr 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Be Brave/Be You LGBTQ Youth Leadership Conf. SCUSD's Student Support & Health Services Education The Met High School Nichole Wofford 916-643-2360

April 29 11a.m. - 6p.m. Black Family Day Sac State Community Sac State https://www.facebook.com/events/850320725108952


3-May 8:30-10:30 a.m. SCUSD Adm. Bullying Prevention Training SCUSD's Student Support & Health Services Education SCUSD Serna Adm. - Indiana Rm Jessica Wharton 916-643-9076

6-May 9:00AM - 1:00PM FIRST Lego League Jr Exposition SCUSD Exhibition SCUSD - Serna Center Joseph Stymeist 916-643-9131

9-May 3:00-4:30 p.m. School Climate Collaborative SCUSD's Student Support & Health Services Education SCUSD Serna Adm. -Kentucky Rm. Jessica Wharton 916-643-9076

9-May 7:30p.m. Neil Degrasse Tyson Private Lecture Sacramento Community Center Theatre

10-May 12:00 noon Sac Minority Youth Violence Prevention Collective Health Education Council Education Health Education Council Sam Starks

10-May - 11-May 8am - 2 pm Design Build Photographs CRC Southwest Parking Lot Andrew Woodward [email protected]

15-May 10a.m. - 5pm Pacific Rim Street Festival Pacific Rim Cmte. Festival Southside Park Sacramento

15-May 11:30AM-12:45PM Parent Information Exchange (PIE) SCUSD Family and Community Empowerment DepartmentLuncheon, presentation, TableSerna Center Community Rooms FACE 916-643-7924

15-May 6pm. Sweet Dream My Sister's House Production Crest Theatre 916-930-0626

18-May 5:30p.m. - 9p.m. TAG You're IT: Teachers Appreciation Gala Sacramento Unified Education Foundation Table Memorial Auditorium Sam Starks

20-May 10a.m. - 5pm Yarmarka International Festival Festival Southside Park Sacramento

18-May 5:30p.m. - 9p.m. OCA Sacramento Dragon Boat Festival Celebration Organization of Chinese-American Celebration Happy Garden 5731 Stockton Blvd Kinky Dolar [email protected]

20-May 11a.m. - 5p.m. 2017 Locke Asian Pacific Spring Festival Locke Foundation Festival 13916 Main St. Walnut Grove 916-776-1684 [email protected]

30-May Noon - 1:30p.m. 2017 Community Luncheon Salvation Army Luncheon McClellan Conference Center Sacramento

31-May 3:00-5:00 p.m. SCUSD Adm. Bullying Prevention Training SCUSD's Student Support & Health Services Education SCUSD Serna Adm. - Kentucky Rm. Jessica Wharton 916-643-9076


2-Jun TBD Book Fair Reception Sacramento Black Book Fair Reception Guild Theatre Faye Wilson Kennedy 916-484-3749

3-Jun 10a.m. - 5pm Sacramento Book Fair Sacramento Black Book Fair Read-in Read Crawl in Oak Park Faye Wilson Kennedy

15-Jun 6p.m. - 9p.m. Salute to Fatherhood Center for Fathers and Families Table TBD

June 16,17 10a.m. - 5pm Juneteenth Sacramento Juneteenth, Inc Festival William Land Park Gary Simon

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MAY

JUNE

http://www.sacramento365.com/event/hard-hats-high-heels-gala/

https://www.facebook.com/events/850320725108952

http://yarmarka.org/

mailto:[email protected]




BC NO: DS-140




Prepared by: Sam Starks, Director, Community Relations Contact Email: Sam-

[email protected]

Subject: Teacher Awards Gala May 18, 2017

The Sacramento Unified Education Foundation is all set for the May 18 Teachers Appreciation Gala

from 6 to 9 p.m. at Memorial Auditorium. What is the Teachers Appreciation Gala? In a few words,

it’s a “student’s choice awards” and foundation fundraiser. The students tell us how a teacher

inspires them, and if they can make a compelling story in 50 words or less, their nominee will be

selected as 1 of 7 honorees. The community can also “tag”/nominate teachers to be recognized by

purchasing a ticket for that teacher to the gala.

The event sponsors include Intel, Schools Financial Credit Union, Western Health, Lozano Smith,

Moroch Public Relations and Clear Channel. More sponsors are in the works. The keynote speaker

for the event is Doug Luffborough, who is a motivational speaker. You can watch a clip of Dr.

Luffborough delivering a graduation speech at a commencement ceremony featuring former

President Bill Clinton here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aGoVwAvqTA

This week was the launch of a social media campaign, with the help of student leaders, to “TAG”

teachers for recognition at the event. Students can now start the process of nominating teachers via

social media using the hashtag #SCUSDTAG. You can view social media posts here:

https://www.facebook.com/scusdfoundation/videos/2306348049590468/

https://twitter.com/officialSCUSD/status/857969700373803010

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTb1qbOgllL/

https://www.facebook.com/scusd/posts/1493358917361916

Attached is the event flyer. We encourage all Board members and staff to participate by sharing on

social media, tagging teachers, promoting and attending the event. Feel free to reach out to me with

any questions you have.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aGoVwAvqTA

https://www.facebook.com/scusdfoundation/videos/2306348049590468/

https://twitter.com/officialSCUSD/status/857969700373803010

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTb1qbOgllL/

https://www.facebook.com/scusd/posts/1493358917361916

T.A.G. YOU’RE I.T. is a red carpet Teachers Appreciation Gala for Inspiring Teachers in the Sacramento City Unified School District. This event provides our students and community with a way to recognize and celebrate the contributions of inspiring teachers while serving as a foun-dation fundraiser. If you would like to nominate a teacher, click the “Tag a Teacher” button below. We hope that you will join us for what will be a fun-filled evening of food, entertainment and teacher recognition! The proceeds from this event will benefit the Sacramento Unified Education Foundation in their efforts to supplement the educational resource needs of our students and teachers.

Date: Thursday, May 18, 2017Location: Memorial Auditorium

Reception: 6PM-7PMGala and Program:7pm-9pm

Cost: $100 per person

To Tag/ nominate a teacher or to buy a ticket, go to: www.sacedfoundation.org

EVENT DETAILS

Sacramento Unified Education Foundation’s

CELEBRATING OUR TEACHERS, SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS

Sponsorship RSVP by April, 28, 2017For more information, please contact Sam Starks at (916) 479-1918 or [email protected]

Sacramento Unified School District | 5735 47th Ave, Sacramento, CA 95758 | 916-479-1918Tax ID - 52-2282810

PRESENTING SPONSOR: $10,000.00Superintendent’s Table SponsorPre-event Reception SponsorSpeaking opportunityTAG Award presenter Company table for 8 Table Host to 2 inspiring teachersStage recognitionFull page ad in event program bookYear around logo presence on foundation websiteProminent logo on program book

GOLD SPONSOR: $5,000.00Premiere table for 8 Table Host to 2 inspiring teachersStage recognitionFull page ad in event program book6 month logo presence on foundation website

TABLE SPONSOR: $1,500.00Company table for 8Table Host to 2 inspiring teachersStage recognitionQuarter page ad in event program book

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS: $100.00I will buy ( # ) tickets and donate them so inspiring teachers can attend the gala

PLATINUM SPONSOR: $7,500.00TAG Awardee table SponsorTAG Award presenter Company table for 8 Table Host to 2 inspiring teachersStage recognitionFull page ad in event program bookYear around logo presence on foundation websiteProminent logo on program book

SILVER SPONSOR: $2,500.00Company table for 8Table Host to 2 inspiring teachersStage recognitionHalf page ad in event program book3 month logo presence on foundation website

Sponsorship Opportunities

Sacramento Unified Education Foundation’s

CELEBRATING OUR TEACHERS, SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS


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Sacramento Unified School District | 5735 47th Ave, Sacramento, CA 95758 | 916-479-1918Tax ID - 52-2282810



BC NO: CBO-69




Prepared by: Gerardo Castillo, CPA, Chief Business Officer Contact Email: Gerardo-

[email protected]

Subject: Underwriter Selection to Sell Bond

The Board gave authority to staff to conduct an RFQ for a Bond Underwriter and to select a firm to

sell the district’s bonds. Please see the attached process and recommendation.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

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SACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

Bond Underwriter Selection For Measures Q and R

April 27, 2017

Interview Process On April 18, 2017, nine firms submitted underwriting proposals for the District’s upcoming issuance of $122 million of Measures Q and R General Obligation Bonds. All nine firms participated in a formal interview at the District Office on April 24, 2017. The table below identifies the firms that were interviewed.

The interview panel consisted of Gerardo Castillo, Amari Watkins and Cathy Allen. Capitol PFG, the District’s Municipal Advisor, was present and provided the interview panel with materials to assist in interview process, including criteria for selecting members of the bond underwriting pool. The table below presents the criteria utilized to select members of the underwriting pool.

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Underwriting Pool Of the nine firms interviewed, four were selected to be in the District’s bond underwriting pool: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Raymond James and Stifel Nicolaus & Co. These four firms are well qualified and may be utilized by the District to underwrite bonds and other forms of District debt as appropriate.

The process reaffirmed the selection of Citigroup and Stifel Nicolaus who were in the last pool, and Goldman Sachs and Raymond James who were previously not in the District’s pool of underwriters.

Underwriter for 2017 General Obligation Bonds For the upcoming sale of $122 million of Measures Q and R General Obligation Bonds, the interview panel selected Citigroup Global Markets (“Citigroup”) as the bond underwriter. Citigroup offered a unique approach for lowering borrowing costs through the use of an anchor order and also demonstrated key strengths, which will result in minimizing borrowing costs. The table below summarizes Citigroup’s key strengths.

Discussion of Citigroup’s Approach Citigroup’s approach brings several key strengths that will minimize borrowing costs to the District taxpayers. Most importantly, Citibank operates six branches in the District and is willing to support the District by investing $20 million in the District’s bonds. The investment is referred to an “anchor order” and is available to support low to moderate income communities.

Citigroup will maximize the value of the anchor order by placing it in maturities with the least amount of interest from investors, which will produce the best overall interest rate for the District. As a result, there will be fewer bonds for investors to digest. This increases the demand/supply ratio and can help the District realize lower interest rates on the entire transaction. The anchor order should reduce borrowing costs by over $1 million.

Additionally, Citigroup brings a strong approach to bond underwriting. Citigroup is one of the few banks with a full service underwriting desk in California. Bankers have direct daily interaction with the desk as well as retail and institutional sales professionals.

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Citigroup will maximize the District’s Fitch “AAA” rating by reducing interest rates using their unique investor database. The adjacent chart shows Citigroup’s success utilizing this strategy to maximize the pricing benefit of the Fitch “AAA” rating and on average has priced these bonds lower in yield than competing underwriters.

Conclusion

Staff is looking forward to working with its pool of bond underwriters, and is pleased to have the opportunity to work again with Citigroup. For the 2017 bond sale, Citigroup is bringing the District a new and creative approach whereby Citibank will leverage its local banking deposits by reinvesting in the community through its purchase of up to $20 million of bonds at the best available price. This strategy is extremely important as there are a number of adverse factors circulating in the capital markets, including geopolitical concerns and federal income tax proposals that may cause interest rates to increase. With the selection of Citigroup, the District is on schedule to complete the bond sale on May 11.



BC NO: CCO-452




Prepared by: Alex Barrios, Chief Communications Officer Contact Email: alex-

[email protected]

Subject: Center for American Progress Report

The Center for American Progress, a progressive ‘think tank’ in Washington D.C. is writing a

report on socio-economic integration in schools that will likely land some national media attention.

As part of their analysis, they relied on a national finance dataset produced by the U.S. Department

of Education, and using a set of data analytics, concluded that our district has a high level of

economic segregation. They are asking districts for comment by May 2, prior to release of the report.

Alex Barrios sent them the following statement:

“Parents in Sacramento City Unified have choices about where to send their kids to school because

we are an open enrollment district. If parents want to send their kids to another school within the

district, we offer them that option.”



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BOARD COMMUNICATIONS Date: April 28, 2017...T.A.G. YOU’RE I.T. is a red carpet Teachers Appreciation Gala for Inspiring Teachers in the Sacramento City Unified School District. This