Produced: Apr 25, 2025, 09:10 PM UTC - By Marcela Miranda
2025-26
Fiscal Declaration - Consortium Approved
- Consortium Name
- 53 San Mateo County Consortium for Adult & Career Education
- Funding Channel
- Direct Funded
- Narrative
- ACCEL San Mateo County is committed to ensuring that our funding allocation aligns with our 3-Year Strategic Plan for the program year 2025-26. Our strategic plan focuses on enhancing educational opportunities, improving student outcomes, and fostering community partnerships. The following outlines how our funding allocation supports these goals: Enhancing Educational Opportunities: Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Adult Secondary Education (ASE): We are working on implementing regional strategies for our ABE and ASE programs, ensuring that adult learners have access to high-quality education that prepares them for further education and employment opportunities. English as a Second Language (ESL): ACCEL members are utilizing innovative learning techniques and engaging in best practices in our ESL classes to support non-native English speakers in achieving language proficiency, which is essential for their integration into the workforce and community. Improving Student Outcomes: Career Technical Education (CTE): We have prioritized working closely with our workforce development board, NovaWorks, as well as our member community college strategic workforce directors to establish and guide the direction of our CTE programs so that ACCEL’s programs provide students with the skills and certifications needed to secure employment in high-demand industries. This includes partnerships with local businesses and industries to ensure that our programs are aligned with current workforce needs. Support Services: Recognizing the importance of comprehensive support services, ACCEL plans to survey our student populations to ascertain the support services our students need and work to develop relationships with community based organizations that may help to meet the identified needs. Fostering Community Partnerships: Collaborative Initiatives: Our goal is to continue to foster and develop partnerships with community organizations, local businesses, and other educational institutions. These partnerships are crucial for creating a seamless educational pathway for adult learners and ensuring that our programs are responsive to community needs. By aligning our funding allocation with our 3-Year Strategic Plan, we are confident that we will achieve our mission of providing high-quality adult education that empowers individuals to achieve their educational and career goals. ACCEL remains committed to continuous improvement and will regularly assess our progress to ensure that our funding is effectively supporting our strategic priorities.
- Changes
- Changes: ACCEL funded members each contribute to the ACCEL General Fund (the general fund in included in the allocation distribution). ACCEL's General Fund covers operating expenses of the consortium, including salary and benefits for the consortium's executive director and administrative assistant. The Consortium's executive director is hired by the San Mateo Adult School; as a result, ACCEL's General Fund is managed by the same. Therefore, San Mateo Adult School's allocation as reflected in NOVA consists of: $5,550,488, and ACCEL's General Fund allocation: $392,368 for a combined total of $5,942,856. ACCEL funded members will vote on the preliminary funding allocations in their meeting set for Thursday, March 20, 2025. ACCEL's Steering Committe meeting is set for Thursday, April 24th; the preliminary funding allcations will be discussed and voted upon.
Member Allocations
Member Name | (2025-26) | (2024-25) | (2023-24) |
---|---|---|---|
Cabrillo Unified | $428,674 | $417,220 | $413,728 |
Jefferson Union High | $1,828,506 | $1,779,651 | $1,764,759 |
San Mateo County CCD | $635,763 | $618,777 | $613,599 |
San Mateo Union High | $5,942,857 | $5,784,071 | $5,735,667 |
Sequoia Union High | $1,967,209 | $1,914,648 | $1,898,625 |
South San Francisco Unified | $1,390,713 | $1,353,555 | $1,342,228 |
Total Allocated to Members | $12,193,722 | $11,867,922 | $11,768,606 |
Total CAEP Funds | $12,193,722 | $11,904,448 | $11,778,411 |
Total Remaining | $0 | $36,526 | $9,805 |
I certify that this CFAD is true and accurate. Our consortium certifies that the allocations listed correctly represent all funded members and their respective amounts.
Carryover Threshold
Input a percentage of carryover that your consortium agrees will be considered an excessive amount.
Should a member, or members, exceed this carryover percentage upon certification of their Q4 report, they will be flagged as non-compliant with the carryover legislation (EC 84914). One year of non-compliance does not carry a penalty. However, should the same member, or members, have two consecutive years of non-compliance the consortium may agree, by majority vote, to reallocate an amount that does not exceed the carryover to other members.
A consortium does have the ability to opt-out. To do so, simply toggle the carryover threshold button to the off position.
Consortia Report on Governance Compliance of Rules and Procedures v.2
Member Agencies
Member Agency | Member Type | Contact | Phone |
---|---|---|---|
Cabrillo Unified | Unified School District | Drew Gamet | (650) 712-7140 |
Jefferson Union High | High School District | Mark Beshirs | (650) 550-7874 |
San Mateo County CCD | District | Nereida Angulo | |
San Mateo Union High | High School District | Angela Taylor | (650) 558-2120 |
Sequoia Union High | High School District | Tatiana Roganova | (650) 306-8866 ext: 77902 |
South San Francisco Unified | Unified School District | Seemaa Prasad | (650) 827-8455 ext: 2701 |
La Honda-Pescadero Unified | Unified School District | n/a | |
San Mateo Co. Office of Education | County Office of Education (COE) | Katia Sturtevant |
Certification & Assurances
By clicking "Approve" on the approval cards below, you are certifying the CFAD as well as confirming that you and ALL consortium members agree to the Assurances listed below.
Assurances
Membership & Decision-Making
- I certify that any community college district, school district, or county office of education, or any joint powers authority consisting of community college districts, school districts, county offices of education, or a combination of these, located within the boundaries of the adult education region shall be permitted to join the consortium as a member (EC 84905 (a)(b). (See Membership Box above).
- I certify that only members as described above (and in EC 84905) are allowed to join my consortium as members and participate in decision making and approvals whether in a public meeting, or via the NOVA planning, budgeting & expense reporting system.
- I certify that as a condition of joining a consortium, as a member, I shall commit to reporting any funds (as described in EC 84916) available to that member for the purposes of education and workforce services for adults and the uses of those funds through the annual Program Area exercise in NOVA for reporting leveraged funds, and instructional hours.
- I certify that as a member of the consortium my district shall be represented only by an official designated by the governing board of the member (EC 84905 (c)).
- I certify that as a member of the consortium, I shall participate in any decision made by the consortium (EC 84905 (d)(1)(A)).
- I certify that all decision made by the consortium and its members is final (EC 84905 (d)(1)(F)).
- I certify that I will adhere to the consortium rules and procedures and, as agreed upon by the consortium members, to any additional by-laws, charters, etc.
Public Meetings
- I certify that a proposed decision is considered at an open, properly noticed public meeting of the consortium at which members of the public may comment (EC 84905 (d)(1)(B)).
- I certify that the consortium has provided the public with adequate notice of a proposed decision and considered any comments submitted by members of the public, and any comments submitted by members of the public have been distributed publicly (EC 84905 (d)(1)(C)).
- I certify that the consortium has requested comments regarding a proposed decision from other entities located in the adult education region that provide education and workforce services for adults (EC 84905 (d)(1)(D)(i)).
- I certify that the consortium has requested comments regarding a proposed decision from other entities located in the adult education region that provide education and workforce services for adults (EC 84905 (d)(1)(D)(i)).
- I certify that the consortium has considered input provided by pupils, teachers employed by local educational agencies, community college faculty, principals, administrators, classified staff, and the local bargaining units of the school districts and community college districts before it makes a decision (EC 84905 (d)(1)(E)).
- I certify that in addition to the meeting requirements listed in EC 84905, and as agreed upon by the consortium members, that I will follow the public meeting requirements listed in the Ralph M. Brown Act as the Brown Act applies to the governing body of any “local body created by state or federal statute.” (Ed. Code, section 54952.)
Reporting Requirements
- I certify that I will participate in completing and updating any consortium long range and/or short range planning efforts and/or budget work plans (EC 84906, 84914(a)).
- I certify that all CAEP expenses have been expended in the CAEP seven program areas, and services provided are consistent with the 3-year plan, the annual plan, and my district’s work plan & budget as submitted in NOVA (EC 84913 (1-7), 84906, 8914(a)).
- I certify that my expenditures of CAEP funds match the objectives/activities included in the annual plan and the member work plan (EC 84906, 84914(a)).
- I certify that my expenditures of CAEP funds adhere to the allowable uses of funds as identified in the CAEP Fiscal Management Guide.
- I certify that I will report student level enrollment data and outcomes as prescribed by the State CAEP Office (EC 84920).
- I certify that I will share financial expenditure and progress reports with the members of my regional consortium.
- I certify that I understand that as a member if I do not meet any of these items I have certified, I will be deemed an ineffective member which may result in a loss or reduction of CAEP funding (EC 84914(b)).
- I certify that all CAEP expenses have been expended only for the education of persons 18 years of age or older (EC 84901(a)).
Cabrillo Unified - Member Representative
Drew Gamet - Director
- gametd@cabrillo.k12.ca.us
- (650) 712-7140
Jefferson Union High - Member Representative
Mark Beshirs - Principal
- mbeshirs@juhsd.net
- (650) 550-7874
San Mateo Co. Office of Education - Member Representative
Katia Sturtevant - ksturtevant@smcoe.org
Marcela Miranda - Execitive Director College, Career, and Community Partnerships
- mmiranda@smcoe.org
- (408) 386-1948
San Mateo County CCD - Member Representative
Nereida Angulo - Transition Coordinator
- angulon@smccd.edu
Lauren Ford - Strategic Partnerships & Workforce Development
- fordla@smccd.edu
- (650) 738-7124
Janet Ramirez - Transition Coordinator
- ramirezj@smccd.edu
- (650) 306-3473
Alex Kramer - Dean of Business, Design & Workforce
- kramera@smccd.edu
- (650) 381-2271
San Mateo Union High - Member Representative
Angela Taylor - Director
- ataylor@smuhsd.org
- (650) 558-2120
Shohreh Bahmanyar - Accounting Technician
- sbahmanyar@smuhsd.org
- (650) 558-2124
Sequoia Union High - Member Representative
Tatiana Roganova - Director
- troganova@seq.org
- (650) 306-8866 ext: 77902
Todd Livingstone - tlivingstone@seq.org
- (650) 306-8866 ext: 77934
South San Francisco Unified - Member Representative
Seemaa Prasad - Principal
- sprasad@ssfusd.org
- (650) 827-8455 ext: 2701
Clare Jackson - Assistant Principal
- cjackson@ssfusd.org
- (650) 877-2700