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What wise words by a freshman? Think about your future. You can get through it. We got three weeks to spring break. It'll be okay, right? Sure. Sure. All right. Wow. Okay. I'm here with Ian. Isaiah. What year in school are you? Sophomore. Isaiah. Sophomore. Two sophomores. Almost halfway through high school. It's been a long nine weeks. Second semester. Been grinding away. We got three full weeks to spring break. How you doing? I think I'm doing pretty good. I'm good. Yeah, I can't complain. Any advice you have for our students to try to get all the way to spring break? Just keep pushing. Doing your homework. Just keep studying and you'll get through it. Keep pushing. Do your homework. Don't create stress by not doing your homework. Right, Isaiah? Any words of advice you got for our student? Just chill. Be mindful of what you got to do in school.

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edus do not trust sites like Wikipedia bias is something that holds people back from understanding an issue to its full extent it is a lock that holds Society back from the door of realization which contains the ability of seeing other perspectives being able to think this way is not something that everyone can do it is a skill to be able to see the world through another's eyes and try to understand an opinion despite the pride of our own the key to unlocking this door is diplomacy in which we can have debates and arguments in a way that respects the view of others and understands why they see things this way many times both sides can be right in certain aspects it is up to us as a society and as students to work together and educate ourselves and learn to see the world in a hue of Many Colors not just red and blue this is our key to unlocking New [Music] Perspectives I can't walk thank you reasia for that wonderful presentation we're moving on to our third presenter our next presenter is Evan Sergeant Evan is a junior here at DHS Evan loves to go climbing at the Caribbean he also enjoys long boarding Evan chose his topic because he loves the outdoors and he love going to visit his friends but has found that getting around his driver's license has been a difficult time Gathering going to traveling around the town due to the lack of areas for pedestrians to walk he has had some scary experiences in the past due to not having appropriate areas of for walking please welcome Evan Sergeant as he presents encouraging pedestrian [Applause] infrastructure throughout my childhood I was never really an at dorsy kid that is until about 5 years ago when I was given a longboard for Christmas I spent hours and hours on the road trying to perfect my riding and there is one main thing I took away from this being a pedestrian is terrifying you never really know if the person driving past you is paying attention or not I've almost been hit off the side of the road more times than I can count and the pen Aaron Bridge here is an example of an unsafe road I don't know about you but I would not want to ride a bike on the bike path here it's literally a part of the side it's a part of the road the ridiculous nature of this is what inspired me to present my T talk now what does it mean to encourage pedestrian infrastructure well if you've ever tried to walk or bike somewhere in our area you will find it's hard to go anywhere you normally travel to by car some might say this is obvious because cars go faster however that isn't the only great Advantage cars have to the tried andrue method of walking it's a well-known fact that the roads are catered to cars this makes sense because traveling by car is easily the most popular mode of transportation for us however that does not mean that the option of walking or biking has be thrown out the window while in many cases that appears to be just what happens our area in darmouth definitely has its fair share of safe and unsafe roads for example Elm Street in darmouth has a long stretch of sidewalk along the entire Road and for good reason it's a highly walked road while right next to Elm Street slokum Road the road you guys likely took in order to get here is a long windy road and a significant portion of the road has absolutely no sidewalks how can we fix this I bet you wouldn't guess this but in order to fix this issue we could Implement more sidewalks bike paths and traffic lights however this is a lot easier said than done in the perfect world we would just throw down some sidewalks alongside these busy roads and call it a day however it doesn't work like that unfortunately there are some important factors to think about like price how much do you think a single mile of sidewalk cost to implement $485,500 th000 per mile of bike path that isn't the only issue either finding space for these sidewalks going back to slm Road in particular where a sidewalk would be ideal is uneven grass long and windy terrain which poses issues and risks for construction workers okay all this seems like quite the bother you might okay all this seems like quite the hassle so why bother you might ask well many kids and teenagers rely on their bikes in order to get around and these long windy roads with little to no sidewalks or safety measures for pedestrians poses a massive risk to the people trying to get around this idea of safety concerns is not just an idea either it's proven to be an issue 7,255 people were struck and killed by automobiles in the year 2022 in the us alone that is almost 20 people a day a staggering number that can be avoided by implementing more safety measures into our roads and sidewalks you might have heard of this little thing called global warming and there's no doubt that it's having a great impact on our planet the summer of 2024 was the fourth hottest summer on record for the United States a root cause of this is the Greenhouse Effect and it is no doubt that the cars you and I use every day have a massive impact on our environment now if you had to guess what percentage of carbon emissions was accounted for by automobiles what would you say if you happen to guess 22% you would be correct almost a quarter of all carbon emissions in the United States so how is all this talk about global warming relevant at all well you see if we were to establish proper sidewalks along these roads that are often traveled it encourages people to use them and this will no doubt have a positive impact on our carbon footprint there are over 347 public bike trails in the state of Massachusetts however most of them have one thing in common there are woodsy trails in outer parts of town mainly focused on hobbyists like mountain bikers and people who go out of their way to bike ride for exercise our town hall actually has a department dedicated to energy and sustainability and they have passed Green grants like in 2021 which funded the implementation of electric vehicle charging stations and upgrades to the outdoor park lighting at a ponet UMass Dartmouth launched their one-year-long Bike Share program partnered with a company similar to Lime or bird V Ride in 2017 and saw great success they received 150 bikes and saw usage from over 1,700 students with over 177,000 rides all together over a 10-month period of time this raises hope for possible long-term Partnerships in the future for students on campus to lowerer um's carbon footprint as you may have guessed why aren't there more projects like this here in darmouth as you may have guessed the implementation of these Bike Share companies can be quite the pricey Endeavor a single bike can cost up to $5,000 meaning a small Fleet of 200 bikes can cost up to $1 million this is a lot to ask for but the benefits of these Bike Share programs do show one of these success stories is blue bikes you may have seen them in a day trip to Boston or in passing around local cities blue bikes is a bike Shear company owned by Somerville Boston Cambridge and the town of Brooklyn in New York City Blue bikes have seen 7 million rides since their launch in 2011 and the implementation of them has had a proven decrease in traffic congestion Harlem is a town in the Netherlands and is a prime example of a walkable Community unlike most areas in the United States the sidewalks and bike trails are almost endless and citizens are encouraged to commute day-to-day via bike the Netherlands is praised for the green lifestyles of their country and this can be seen in their statistics only 177% of the Netherlands carbon emissions are from automobiles compared to the 22% from the United States the this is a 5% difference how did the town of Harlem become such a Haven for walkability well Harlem is actually a very old town and was established in 1245 Back Then There Were obviously no automobiles meaning the only reasonable mode of transportation was walking so most of the important buildings are very close by making them easily accessible by walking or biking this is a photo of the city center of Harlem what do you notice in the picture it might be hard to see but there are rows and rows of bikes while there's not a single car in sight you can even see people walking around these statistics and proven facts about the Netherlands being a Green Country prove that the ideas of walkability and providing safe accessible sidewalks and bike paths leads to not only the decrease of a carbon footprint but also a significant decrease in traffic ingestion and this is my key to unlocking New Perspectives [Applause] thank you aan for providing us with A New Perspective are encouraging pedestrian infrastructure our fourth presenter a perod to is Savannah Riley Savannah is a senior here at Dartmouth High School she plans to attend Howard University in the fall her major will be political science with the go goal of attending law school and becoming a lawyer she would like to be involved in politics in the future savenna chose her topic for this presentation after listening to the song aleda by Solange lyrics from this song had her thinking about the impact African-Americans have on culture please welcome Savannah Riley as she presents African American presence in pop culture in the year 2025 almost everyone contributes in some way to pop culture whether it's participating in Trends or starting them themselves but what exactly is pop culture well Webster dictionary defines pop culture as a collection of widely accepted ideas beliefs and Trends it includes a variety of media such as film television and music for this generation one of the most ways that facilitates the spread of pop culture is through Tik Tok tick Tok oh so actually okay that's not my fault any day now would be great hold Tick [Applause] Tock do the use of Tik Tok and the functionality of Tik talk with its rapid Pace consumption of media trends are spread and brought upon even faster but what do your favorite Trends come from well a lot of them are derived from Black Culture pop culture involves many different art mediums and through the forceful migration of Africans through slavery Africans in America found ways to bond with each with each other even in the face of Oppression combined with segregation and the Civil Rights Movement these events are responsible for influencing a lot of Black Culture by destroying our roots in Africa and our connections with each other Black Culture needed to flourish to give African-Americans a slice for themselves and the worldwind that is American society although pop culture is a very vast topic it's easy to come ize it into three basic topics music fashion and language or a and today we will be starting with music music is a higher Revelation than all wisdom and philosophy this quotes by lck Van bethoven to quote Maya Angelou because slaves could not read or write because it was illegal his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing black Americans have sung for their freedom for literally centuries but one specific genre of music that is consistently left out of the conversation when it has anything to do with wisdom or philosophical meaning is rap music rap comes from um chatting or talking or conversating spawning a music genre that was composed of celebrating and con conversing through beats leading to the acony RP which stands for rhythm and poetry rap music and African-Americans stood started to come from in proveris black neighborhoods and was able to talk about the struggles in prized black neighborhoods such as gang violence guns and drugs African-Americans use rap as a platform to stalk and Show underrepresented voices because of the push of rap music a lot of record labels pushed African-Americans to only produce Rat music because of the thought process that leaning into African-American series types was the only way for us to get records and to sell records now rap has a really bad stigma Street rat ghetto hoodlum ghetto trash but that cannot be further from the truth rap music is used to highlight African-American experiences just like it has been for centuries it's used to bring joy and bring communities together it's art and we're using it to tell a story now love and hadam 20time Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar tackles a lot of multitude of problems that occurs in the music genre and is the only classical the only non-classical or jazz artist to win a polter prize for music growing up from compson California where he has the history of gang violence Lamar was exposed to many things that rap genre was originally created and emphasized last year Lamar was a big part in pop culture and stayed in the public eye when he won five Grammys and performed at the Super Bowl especially in the last year Lamar highlighted the fall The Faults through the music industry stealing he criticizes the music industry for perpetrating a caricature of the African American experience without ever having lived it while African-Americans live this experience and are belittled oppressed and deemed a ghetto toot Krick Lamar himself 40 acres in a mual this is bigger than the music and although you may not like rap music another music genre that is very popular is country music in light of the winning album of the year with the album Cal Carter Beyonce SE faced severe backlash for people thinking she's undeserving of this award now Everyone's entitled to their own opinion but people fail to recognize that this album is actually a concept album it's telling a story and once again it's bigger than the music Cowboy Carter is a stepping stone to make space for African-Americans in a country music and highlighting black country artists such as Tanner Adell Bernie Spencer tiar Kennedy and Raina Roberts and regained the recognition for starting a music genre that is now predominantly white while once again black people have been washed out and our culture is watered down now rap and Country Music are not the only music that was derived from Black Culture the blues Jazz rock and roll Funk Soul hipop disco house techno jungle jum and base garage Grime dubstep and punk are all derived from Black Culture fashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of imprisonment Alexander mqueen similar to music fashion is another medium for black people to be expressive and escape from the pressur surround them to quote Bill Cunningham fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life black people have been foundations for many fashion trends such as Nails wearing a variation of fake nails has been around for thousands of years since around 3,000 BC Egyptian women were thought to make nails out of bone and Ivory but in 1966 Donna Yuna was the first black woman to appear on the cover of Vogue combined with other stars such as Diana Ross who also wore brightly colored nails this created a chent and acrylic nails started to appear in nail Sals hoop earrings have been around since Sudan and the Bronze Age in the 4th Century they were made out of gold silver and of course Bronze in the 1920s the jazz performer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker wore her iconic large hoop earrings while rap and hip-hop culture in the 80s hips began to get bigger and thicker and had different variations such as bamboo style gemstones and phasin on the hoops this is popular uh popularized even further by artists like Missy Alia Lil Kim aana Lauren Hill and Erica B St jewelies such as chunky bracelets Rings grills and names and necklaces have been influenced by hip-hop but have also been meanings of cultural expression and being able to show black wealth sneaker culture started in the 1980s with the rise of hip-hop culture in basketball and the emergence of the Michael Jordan and a Jordan This helped produce Moder D sneaker culture the explosion of the signature basketball sneakers as a collection item while the hip-hop scene elevated their credibility as a symbol of status born from New York City's Harlem and Brooklyn streetwear is categorized as casual comfortable style and it has its roots in Hip Hop and skate culture from baggy jeans and graphic teas to sneakers and hoodies Street Wear has become popular all over the world being showcased on runways and everyday attire braids are derived from Africa and 3,500 BC Africans wear different braids patterns depending on different things like tribe age wealth marital status or even religion meaning behind braid shifted throughout the course of slavery in America now slaves were able to bring maps to freedom in their hair over the last couple years braids have made have been made in the heat of recent discussion on whether or not it's fair to gatekeep braiding styles such as box braids knots knotless or cornrows the truth is type braids can be suitable for are not suitable for most hair types and can tend to uh get people ATT traction alopecia or hair loss additionally braids are a important part of Black Culture braids are woven literally and figuratively into Black Culture they show us a map of where we have come and where we are going in conclusion black is the blueprint for many fashion trends in fashion and rap and hip hop are all correlated with each other but the acknowledgement of the African-American presence in pop culture particularly when it comes to Fashion has been overshadowed especially when African-Americans are show are started transs first and they become mainstream and popularized and the history of my people is forgotten a language is not just words it's a culture a tradition a unification of a community a whole history that has created what a community is it's all embodied in language n chopski what is a a stands for African-American vernacular English and is often regarded as a dialect than not all but a lot of black people speak due to slavery Africans were purposely separated from others that spoke the same language in order to prevent uprisings a spawn as a result of enslaved Africans learning English from other enslaved Africans due to the fact that slaves were not allowed in education a is a mix of British English and an influence of African and caribbian languages now a lot of a AE is now referred to as Tik Tok language or just sling but it's important to acknowledge certain terminology and use it in the correct context some examples of a sling words are finna Gunna yes and so many more certain names over the last couple of years have been stereotyped as black names such as cheniqua the reason behind these unique names has its part in black history due to families being torn apart by family members being sold to other plantations black parents you named their kids unique names so they could be easily identified now you might be wondering what's your point no one is saying to stop wearing Coop earrings no one saying to stop wearing sneakers no one saying to stop listening to music or stop singing period we just want recognition black hist has been overshadowed for far too long and is important to acknowledge us my culture is beautiful and it deserves its flowers I know I've been talking about pop culture but it's important to highlight the Excellence of my people from activists to poets from dancing to singing from basketball to gymnastics from Endzone to Stage to helping Implement free breakes in school to create world-renowned inventions and sending the first man to the Moon even in the face of Oppression my people can and will do it all highlighting my culture is my key to to unlocking A New Perspective thank you Savannah for informing us on African-American presence in pop culture this concludes our perod two presentations thank [Applause] you e can't e I don't know can we all take our seats please just waiting for people to take their seats hold on one second just please find a seat anywhere at this point thank you all right here we go ready okay Welcome to our 10th tedex DHS event the tedex ghs club is thrilled to present to you this exciting event here at Dartmouth High School the this is an independently organized event this year we have a live audience and will also be broadcast via live stream by DHS TV media Productions [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay as you saw there our theme this year is keys to unlocking A New Perspective you may be new to Ted and may be wondering who this Ted guy is I'm here to tell you that there isn't a person that's named Ted at this point at least for this instead Ted is an acronym for technology entertainment and design the Ted organization has covered many topics worth spreading in various fields of study you will see the same diversity in the topics that are being presented to you here today before we begin we would like to ask our audience to please be respectful of our presenters by keeping electronic devices silenced and refraining from Talking they have really put in an enormous amount of work and we really hope that you respect that okay our first presenter for period three is Adam Ola Adam is a senior here at Dartmouth High School and is hoping to attend suffk University in the fall his goal is to study law and become a lawyer Adam has been a member of both winter and spring track teams here at Dartmouth High School Adam chose his topic because of his of the pride he has about the accomplishments that have happened here in his home state of Massachusetts please pleas welcome Adam olera as he presents maid in [Music] Massachusetts did you know the most Googled question in Massachusetts is actually how to spell Massachusetts what's interesting about this is that throughout this presentation I account for maybe about half of those so as it was just said the T and Ted stands for technology and that's to say that I definitely used technology in my presentation uh as you do I was having a conversation with Chachi BT and I asked it to describe Massachusetts in two words in which it said it was historic and intellectual now throughout this presentation I'm going to try and find my own word to describe Massachusetts so let's start off with the history of Massachusetts which is almost inherently the history of America um all of these events on the screen culminate in the American Revolution um some of the colonial leaders that we uh we know for being American heroes like Paul Rivier and John Adams came from Massachusetts that's where they were born um we also have several reformers in Massachusetts the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglas uh made his Mark in New Bedford through his countless speeches as well as creating his newspaper the North Star two of his sons were part of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment which was the first uh all African-American regiment in American history we also have Julia Ward how who um created a union rally cry during the Civil War she um she also is part of the New England suffrage association and um Massachusetts also was the First National Women's Rights Convention we also have several uh famous Educators from uh Massachusetts like Horus man who was a big advocate for public education uh it's because of him that the Massachusetts uh state constitution lists education as a right we also have Abigail Adams who um very big advocate for public education more so extending for uh women's education we also have no Webster who created the first American English language dictionary Massachusetts has the guy who uh excuse me can we go back a couple slides it's not working properly thank you uh who created the yes as I was saying the um the American English dictionary so this is to say that we have uh several presidents who came from Massachusetts as well we have um the second and six presidents John and John Quincy Adams and Calvin kulage and John F Kennedy who weren't born in Massachusetts but are heavily tied because Calvin kulage was a governor and John Kennedy was a Senator all four of these men got their education in Massachusetts from our exceptional universities and col College um three of them going to Harvard we have uh colleges like MIT and Holy Cross as well uh Harvard actually predates calculus as a concept as it was the first uh public school in America um this is to say that because it is in our constitution as a right we are very uh particular about how our education looks and our governor Mara hey uh is a very big advocate for it as well as fighting for it uh to get Educational Funding uh she even cites it as the incredible students families Educators and school officials is the reason why we have such good education it's also because of the Department of educ uh Elementary and secondary education which focuses on equity which what this means is that obviously students who have plenty of opportunities are going to end up succeeding but because we prioritize those who maybe do not have as many opportunities they actually get to do great and find Suess through the education department um datadriven improvements like mcast although it is no longer a uh need to graduate it's still going to be used as Educators can find ways to improve their teaching we also have social and emotional uh help like counselors in schools in case a student might need help um uh solving a troubling problem so what happens after you get your education well you need a job so why not get one at one of the 17 Fortune 500 companies that uh originated in in Massachusetts we have retail and consumer goods like TJX and BJs uh we have Financial Services like uh Liberty Mutual we all love that advertisement with the Emu there's Healthcare and pharmaceuticals madna became a very big name after 2021 when they created the covid vaccine there's also energy utilities Technology and Manufacturing like uh General Electric so after you get this money you need a way to spend it so why not come eat at a place found uh that was founded in Massachusetts like Dunkin Donuts which has almost become a culture for people here um a fun fact about friendlies is that after here I'll be getting myself a chocolate chocolate chip ice cream from there there's also uh a very big entertainment uh industry in Massachusetts with our uh exceptional Sports where we have six Stanley Cups nine world series six Super Bowls and 18 NBA championships um the NBA Hall of Fame is located in Springfield because basketball is actually invented in Massachusetts if any state knows ball it's us we definitely know it this has led to having uh great Fields uh stadiums that overall make our uh our entertainment look spectacular which also makes our economy look great uh this is to say that our GDP which we uh the GDP is the gross um excuse me it is the gross domestic product or the total value of all goods and services which we rank number eight in um but I'm looking at the at it per capita which takes the GDP and divides it by our population which is about 7.2 million people around there and when we do that you'll see that Massachusetts ranks number three overall which shows that it's really uh exceptional um we also have um representation in the big government as all states do and our two senators are Elizabeth Warren and Ed Mary as well as our Representatives we have uh in the first district at uh Richard Neil in the SE uh Second District we have Jim McGovern in the Third District we have Lorie Tran in the fourth district we have Jake aen Claus in the Fifth District we have Katherine Clark in the sixth district we have Seth Molton in the Seventh District we have aanna Presley in the eighth District we have Steven Lynch and in the Ninth District we have Bill keading who is our representative in our area Dartmouth so we've been going over um how we look in the history hist as well as how we look currently but what are we doing to impact our future so Massachusetts has a plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050 now what this means is that um this plan started in 1990 and since then we've dropped by about 30% we also have the global warmings and solution act which helps regulate different emissions and uh different public transit Investments such as the South Coast rail which plans to be opening uh by March 24th so 17 days away what this does is because we uh no longer would be relying on fals fuels through cars it gives the ability to travel through Railway fun fact it'll be um it'll be free on the weekends in April so watch out for that we're also big for our windro energy which does a really good job at reducing our Reliance on fossil fuels and imported energy um we also have a partnership Vineyard winds has a partnership with the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and Dartmouth which it'll take people who are currently getting their education there and teach them how to work with the windmills which creates a really good um relation between the two all for the need of creating clean energy we're also really big in healthcare in Massachusetts um we had Clara Barton who was a big advocate for the um women's education she also started the American Red Cross Association in 2006 our former Governor Mitt Romney made the mass Healthcare reform law which was an act providing access to affordable quality accountable health care for all um we generally call it Romney care as it set the blueprint to what become uh what became the federal law the Affordable Care Affordable Care Act also known as the Obamacare Act and this was great it got um Massachusetts citizens all insured well a very good amount of them and it made it a lot to do so this is all to say that Massachusetts is the blueprint it's really great we are the number one state to live in as of 2024 we have top marks in things like education and Healthcare which really show that we are the method of creating a great state to live in every other state looks at us to really see what they should be doing correctly um if I went over all of the things that we were also first and we'd be here for a while but we have things such as like the first call uh the first phone call ever made we were the first state to abolish slavery we were the first state to make uh gay marriage legal and all this is to say that my word that I'm choosing is exceptionalism this is a book by Gerald deette that combines a bunch of different stories that show just how strong Massachusetts is as a state uh first in education second in healthare first in quality of life and so much more such a powerful state to begin with and I'm going to quickly go over a quote made by John Fitzgerald Kennedy and so it has been to the enduring credit of Massachusetts its leaders and its people that it has uh continued to be a model for what a free people can do for what a society can be and for what Humanity can achieve that is my key to unlocking A New Perspective thank you Adam for that thoughtful information about Massachusetts our second presenter for period three is Zachary Beno Zach is a senior here at DHS Zach is unsure of his future plans at this time which yeah he's 18 17 so I can see that Zach is a member of the DHS concert band marching band and indoor percussion Ensemble Zach would like you all to know that his favorite color is red so appropriate uh Zach chose his topic for his talk because he would like to encourage people to play more video games that are story based since the stories of many of the video games that Zach plays have changed his world Outlook please welcome Zachary Zachary Benoit as he presents video games the final frontier of Storytelling [Applause] all right today you're going to come with me as I show you how video games are changing how authors and creatives are telling stories now when I say video game there's a lot of things that come to mind maybe maybe highly addictive mobile games like block blast widely popular multiplayer games like fortnite or for the older folks in the audience Tetris or Pac-Man there's a lot of negative connotations associ with the word video game like they are Mindless fun or inherently violent but even the president of the United States believes that violence in video games is a cause for violence in real life but this couldn't be further from the truth a study from the journal Nature has shown that there is no difference in a long-term or short-term aggression in those who play video games and those who do not regardless of the aggressive nature of the game now instead video games pose an increased opportunity for storytelling because of these three things starting with interactivity unlike movies or books or music you are able to interact with stories and games like no other uh being able to interact with the games means being able to engage with the story in a new way this leads to increased emotional immersion which basically means that since you are able to affect the story you are more invested in it this is also caused by increased World building since you are able to explore the worlds in the games it is presented in a seamless manner that allows you to be more immersed so let's go over the history of how storytelling has evolved in terms of games so early in the life cycle of games um games in their stories were independent some games featured no stories at all and uh as games evolved though stories started to take place and even though they were separate they were still there most vonner games today have interconnected stories where the gameplay you are doing is the story of the game this is the most connected way to tell a story so an example of uh independent storytelling is Space Invaders what you see on screen on the left is just pixels you are aiming for a high score there's not much of substance but if you look in the game's manual there's actually a lot of descriptions of what is happening and what is being presented in the world that takes place an example of a uh story that is separate but starting to get more connected is Mario Brothers as you can see the world is much more colorful and you are able to uh take a gander at what is happening in the game that you are playing there's even flashes of narrative in between uh each level an example of a modern game is Halo uh the original Halo Combat evolve on the Xbox featured uh interconnected storytelling seeing as when you are playing the game there is dialogue happening and what you are doing is very relevant to the story so there are just like mus music movies or books there are different genres of games and each of these games presents a different mode of Storytelling and has a different device that they can use to tell that story even better so today I'm going to be going over visual novels role playing games campaigns multiplayer games and open World Games starting with visual novels visual novels are games where you are asked to read and uh respond to dialogue based on what is happening on screen great uh example of this is the game Ace Attorney this is Ace Attorney um as you can see you are presented with dialogue and then asked to make a choice this is a lawyer who you need to help solve cases is since you are helping him solve the case it is much more engaging than say a book where you are just told what is happening in the case you since you are engaging with the dialogue it is more interactive so in the visual novel the most important part is the dialogue right so the dialogue increases connectivity between the games since the dialogue is the gaml and the story it is what you are doing and what you are experiencing this leads to the increased immersion uh as I went over earlier and since it is a call to action from the player it makes you more likely to be engaged and attentive and appreciate the story being presented so next up is role playing games more commonly RPGs and the point of these games is mostly to level up your characters in order to defeat enemies in battle and these are really great at representing how the Avatar the character you play is really important and a great way for uh games to tell a story different than maybe other mediums so here are the protagonists for a few games on your right is the protagonist for Pokemon notice I said protagonists they do not have a name instead they are what is called a self-insert is expected for you to put your personality into this character and then that in influences how you experience the whole story on the left is IAS from Persona 3 the answer she has a name and she's actually a robot which is unlike all the other characters in the story this unique design allows the character to play as um a character in the story which allows them to be more immersed in that character as opposed to the Pokemon protagonists which allowed them to be more immersed in the overall story since they themselves feel as part of it next I'm going to talk about campaigns campaigns can be thought of as like TV shows where there isep one episode after the another like TV so TV shows uh campaigns can differ in how connected the episodes are but differently than TV shows campaigns have the opportunity to present multiple endings multiple endings are future narratives are stories that are created in real time based on the decisions you make a great example of this is Call of Duty Black Ops 2 where what you are doing in each Mission how far you explore what dialog decisions you make and what crucial optional objectives you do not only influence the ending of the game but also other story beats as you play along next is multiplayer games where I'm going to take a look at fortnite which many of you may not know has a story so the main ways that multiplayers games can tell their stories are either through text or the environment an example would be Rainbow Six Siege where there are descriptions of characters in menus but not much more more this is not very good at way of Storytelling it does nothing to innovate the way that the story is told nobody wants to read these descriptions and nobody will uh this is in stark contrast to fortnite where the story is happening all the time since it is based on the map you are always playing the changes that happen in the map from week to week and season to season and big live events that happen between large groups of players are able to tell a story in quite a unique way next are open World Games branching off and expanding on the environmental storytelling of fortnite is uh one of the most acclaimed games of the last decade Zelda breath of the wild this so in the game there was a an apocalyptic event a 100 years ago that left much of the land in Ruins much like these and the story since there are very few people left the story has to be told through the environment when you explore these ruins it can become evident through deep exploration uh what has happened here a 100 years ago what the rubble says what maybe lying weapons or corpses may tell of what happened it is very immersive since it is the ultimate showing not telling and this is what I see as the future of Storytelling in games so now when I say the word game hopefully you don't think of mindless fun with your friends or incredibly untrue statements about violence you think about a story waiting to be told this is my key to unlocking A New [Applause] [Music] Perspective thank you Zach different take on video games all right our third pres presenter for period three is another Zach except this time it's Zach Zachary Emeral Zach is a senior here at Dartmouth High School he plans to study architecture upon graduation Zach is a member of the DHS concert band the marching band and the indoor percussion Ensemble and is involved in dartmouth's finest Zach chose this topic because he has found that many students feel overwhelmed in high school as he has many times in his high school career Zach wanted to share that although people feel overwhelmed at times there are ways to cope and move forward please welcome Zachary ameral as he presents clearing your [Applause] inbox to live is to suffer this is a quote from Victor Frankle he was a Jew that survived the Holocaust and when documenting his experiences this was one of the first lines he wrote in his Memoir and looking back now it's easy to see where he's coming from across the world there's events such as War poverty and natural disasters that constantly wreak havoc across people's lives whether they are innocent or not in these disasters people's lives can get uprooted and it can affect them greatly however there is still a silver lying to these things things often times there are heroic actions that emerge such as a great example is the LA wildfires currently going on there's many people volunteering to help fight off these fires and people volunteering to try and provide uh Aid to those who suffered not all events have this Silver Lining and while this doesn't lessen the impact of them it does make them a little better however there are often smaller things in our lives that often go without any benefit to them things such as parents grades relationships and many more can still affect us greatly yet they're never mentioned they're the things that go under the radar if this is a little hard to understand how can something smaller such a small event be of Greater impact than something like a natural disaster think about it like this imagine you have a suit of armor if this armor is intact you're happy you're able to live your life go on with things however this armor breaks you're upset you can't control yourself and you're miserable for a few days so you're living life with your armor and suddenly bam a major stressor comes along this could be anything such as a pet dying or any other major event this crashes right into your armor and breaks it clean and two so for a few days you are overwhelmed you can't think straight it's all you can think about is this major stressor that's happening and you're like that eventually though you realize that you're okay and life goes on so you go to fix your armor and knowing exactly how it broke this time when you repair it it can be a little bit stronger so that next time a major stressor like this happens again you might be able to pre prevent it from doing as much damage to you now in the next scenario instead of having one major stressor come at you you're going to have just a minor stressor something small so it comes at you it hits you and nothing happened right so you go on with your life and another major stress minor stressor sorry comes along that hits your armor and again nothing happened but if you notice nothing isn't actually happening your armor is still taking damage except instead of breaking all at once it's just getting a little chip in it and so this adds up over time you keep going and more stressors come at you keep hitting your armor and while on the outside it looks like you're dealing with it just fine getting on through life it's still wearing away at you and So eventually something really it doesn't have to be big could be really small can hit you just in the right place and suddenly your armor is broken so just like before you're upset you can't think straight all you can do is think about what just happened happened and you're stuck like that for a few days eventually you go to put back together your armor but instead of having two pieces now you have a million you don't know what broke what you don't know how to fix it and you're stuck like this for a longer period of time you may think oh is this a result of modern society has our quick-paced lives influenced us to be affected by all of these small things more well that's not always the case according to Columbia University humans themselves are actually prone to remembering negative things more than positive things so let's say you get a compliment you'll remember that compliment for a few minutes maybe a couple hours at most before you move on to think of more important things whereas if something negative happens to you whether it's an insult or anything else you can think of you can think about that for days up to weeks on end about that and this makes sense in nature if you're out in the wild you're going to want to remember what's going to eat you versus where's your favorite resting spot so what now I just told you that life's suffering everything's miserable the small stuff's going to wear you away and there's nothing you can do about it because you're hardwired to remember it make your bed this may seem kind of odd out of the blue your life's crumbling and you want me to I want you guys to make your bed well this advice is from this man this is Jordan B Peterson a Canadian psychologist and author and instead of asking me this question you might be asking him why does he want me to make my bed well if you can't even clean up your own room who the hell are you to give advice to the world this is his reasoning behind it because if there's those little things that are wearing you away then how are you going to fix those little things without addressing them one at a time so maybe that's what you do you start off small you're even though you have so much to deal with you choose one thing clean your bed or make your bed so every morning you wake up and you make your bed that's one thing that you fix that's one thing you now have control over in your life but don't just stop there maybe after you start cleaning your bed you set an alarm so that you wake up at the exact time every day maybe now that you're waking up on time you can now have time to make breakfast and now you're making a routine maybe now that you have routine you might want to write stuff down so you know you're getting to everything so you make a list or a calendar maybe you now are starting to go for runs in the morning it's all of these small things that come together that really make an impact but even if this seems like too much even if there's just too much going on even making breakfast is just something that's going to take too much effort all you really need to start with is something as simple as clearing your inbox clearing your inbox is an example of just one way you can get rid of a little bit of clutter in your life just take that little bit of control back and so by doing all of these small things you're picking up the pieces of your life picking up the pieces of your armor and eventually now once you've have all this together you can now put it back together stronger than before and so at the beginning I didn't give you this full quote Victor Frankle said to live is to suffer but to survive is to find meaning in the suffering Victor Frankle wanted to show us about perseverance on how even though life isn't always fair to us even though we don't always get what we want it doesn't mean that we can't still have fulfilling lives still can't have good lives so we all struggle and I'm no different even doing this Ted Talk I originally thought that I wasn't going to be able to do it I was so wrapped up with other activities I was doing with my classes with extracurriculars that I actually told the advisers that I was not going to do a TED talk because I didn't think I could do it but then I realized it was those exact things those exact small things that added up and it broke my armor so to fix it I did one thing at a time maybe just one thing of homework maybe just plan out my day beforehand maybe just have it so that it's that little bit more of sense of control so that when you do get here it's seems like you've done nothing at all after just those incremental steps so it is important to focus on the small things and those small things have given me a key and that's the key to how I unlock A New Perspective thank you Zach very important message to persevere and clear that inbox all right our last presenter for period three is Grace adma Grace is a senior here at Dartmouth High School who plans to major in Psychology on the Premed track this coming fall she is very involved in our DHS Community she is a member of the National Honor Society student council Multicultural club dance team Medical Careers Club Christian fellowship and is secretary of the black student union she's also a member of the tedex DHS Club obviously uh this is her second time presenting with us here at tedex DHS and we are so happy she came back Grace chose her topic because she was inspired by a project which you will she'll talk about uh that she had completed in an art class she finds that many girls struggle with with self-image and want to talk about it please welcome welcome Grace admo as she presents beauty is in the eye of the beholder mirror mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all a famous line from Snow White that has echoed throughout Generations but what does it really mean to be the fairest in our daily lives we are constantly told what we should look like what we should wear and how we should act act in order to gain acceptance today I'm here to explore where these standards come from and how they impact us around the world beauty is seen through many different lenses shaped by culture history and Society it is not a single Universal idea as what is considered beautiful in one area may be entirely different in another let's take a look at the United States western cultures have long valued features associated with health symmetry in a polished yet natural appearance in the US and Europe tan skin became a status symbol in the 20th century as only the wealthy could afford vacations and travel Western Beauty often highlights strong defined facial structures such as high cheekbones and upter noses celebrities promote a sultry contoured look with full lips bold brows and glowing skin the Kardashians popularized exaggerated curves which increased the demand for procedures like bbls and lipos suction more recently the rise of weight loss shortcuts such as OIC Monaro and movi has sparked speculation about celebrity Transformations reflecting the West's ongoing obsession with the idealized Hollywood figure there's a heavy emphasis on anti-aging with Western Beauty Industries aggressively pushing Botox fillers and various laser treatments to erase signs of it women in Hollywood are pressured to look youthful while men are allowed to age more naturally this reinforces a double standard that extends to the general public additionally Western beauty standards shaped the entertainment industry with Disney favoring eurocentric features for protagonists while exaggerating ethnic traits and villains while the West take on beauty may be controversial it is significantly less rigid compared to other regions historic Eastern cultures have emphasized modesty and perfection in China fair skin signified wealth since only those who worked Outdoors had tan skin Korean and Japanese ideals favor delicate youthful features like large eyes and small faces Asian countries prioritize innocence with Korea's ago Japan's Kawaii aesthetic and China's saiao promoting childlike mannerisms and high pitch speech as attractive traits Asian countries heavily stigmatize being on the bigger side the preference for extreme thinness has led to trends like the A4 paper challenge in China where a person's waist should be smaller than the width of an A4 sheet of paper essentially anything above a us- siiz medium is considered plus-size and plus-sized clothing stores in Asia are often marketed with derogatory names K-pop Idols set unrealistic beauty standards in Korea their pale and slim appearances dominate the media and fuel public Envy Idol's extreme diets go viral one Idol named Momo from girl group twice said she ate one Ice Cube per day for a week in order to lose 15 PBS and many Koreans try to copy this diet Koreans also seek surgery to resemble Idols commonly requesting double eyelid and Chin procedures for larger eyes and a v-shaped face in addition to these procedures both men and women are introduced to K Beauty at a young age which is the elaborate South Korean skincare approach to achieving Flawless skin unlike the West and East ethnic Beauty focuses on authenticity and cultural heritage in African cultures Beauty has been tied to health fertility and strength body shape is a key indicator with curvier and Fuller bodies being celebrated deep melanated skin has historically been admired although some places favor lighter skin due to colonialism glowy skin is preferred throughout and the shea butter Market is thriving to help people accomplish it hair is a defining aspect with braids twists and locks being popular styles with historic Roots natural hairstyles such as afro and coils have also been embraced symbolizing resistance against eurocentric norms Hispanic Beauty ideals also emphasize the hourglass figure which is highlighted by form-fitting clothing their bold and colorful makeup coupled with their confident Nature has fueled the spicy Latina stereotype which portrays Latinas as feisty and leads to unwanted objectification events like the Miss kolita beauty pageant in Bolivia reject this sexualization by placing cultural Pride above sensuality contestants honor their heritage by wearing traditional prera skirts Shaws and Bower hats indigenous cultures celebrate long thick hair viewing it as sacred cutting one's hair is typically a sign of mning and transition warm copper and bronze skin tones are a point of Pride and unlike Western beauty standards that promote anti-aging indigenous people show off their wrinkles and gray hair as a sign of wisdom and experience face tattoos piercings and paint are all considered a right of passage and marker of beauty South Asian beauty values big expressive eyes often enhanced with a type of eyeliner called Kel hair is a big indicator of Beauty full eyebrows thick eyelashes and long silky hair are idealized hair oils such as coconut and castor oil are widely used to maintain healthy hair jewelry and other adornments also play a crucial role nose piercings bendies and Bengal are important cultural accessories Bridal beauty is particularly elaborate with South Asian weddings featuring intricate HED designs heavily embroidered attire and detailed makeup that highlights the eyes and lips many differences can be seen in the beauty standards of these regions Western beauty is commercialized Eastern Beauty values youth and ethnic Beauty focuses on cultural identity though these areas contrast societal pressures perfectionism and media influence are key similarities several more factors fuel the unrealistic beauty standards of today's society social media is by far the biggest contributor it continuously pushes various Aesthetics for people to follow in order to look good these micr Trends limit individuality as everyone wants to participate much trending right now people feel pressured to keep up and curate themselves to meet expectations social media fuels insecurities by constantly introducing viral Beauty terms that make users fix a on perceived flaws and desire Futures they don't have while the terms may seem ridiculous the resulting body dissatisfaction is very real social media also thrives on comparison with Tik Tok comment sections filled with self-deprecating remarks under videos of attractive creators this cycle of negative selft talk is very draining and many fall into this trap big Brands and corporations Fu harmful standards as well Brandy Mel's deceitful one siiz fits-all slogan excludes larger bodies highlighting the gap between inclusive marketing and product reality that other brands partake in too take Mattel's iconic Barbie doll with the message you can be anything Barbie dolls can certainly be doctors and astronauts but for years lacked racial diversity and body variety what example is being set for young girls if only a certain doll can really be anything the beauty industry also excludes darker skin tones by offering limited shade ranges often making drastic jumps from light to dark or leaving out deeper Shades altogether despite public criticism Brands rarely make make meaningful changes youth Foria for example face backlash for its lack of inclusivity and responded with a darker shade that looked like this almost as dark as black paint when put side by side completely unrealistic because beyond that the foundation does not have any undertones meaning that no person on earth is this color the foundation quite simply is not a human shade and it is very frustrating for black women to demand inclusivity only to be met with such blatant carelessness Hollywood has a history of ignoring black voices by notoriously casting light skin actors for dark skin roles this racial bias persists and is even reflected in Google's algorithms currently over 80% of Google search results for beautiful face or beautiful women feature white women black girls have learned to specify themselves in their searches in order to be reflected in the results by strategically advertising harmful ideals these contributors have reinforced narrow-minded beauty standards here are the effects girls feel immense pressure to change their appearance with 400,000 us teens undergoing cosmetic surgery in 2020 the $8.8 billion skin lightning industry driven largely by women of color reflects Conformity to eurocentric Beauty ideals the average adolescent gets a cell phone at around 12 to 13 which coincidentally is the same age body dysmorphic disorder often begins this disorder causes obsessive focus on appearance children are very impressionable in this stage of life and with such early exposure to social media they are at an increased risk of body dissatisfaction a dove study found that most girls have a face editing app by 13 the newer generation is skipping the crucial pre-teen phase of self-expression by appearing older and Desiring high-end products to keep up with current trends Sephora kids refers to young children overspending on skincare and makeup that they ultimately don't need there's a growing pressure to mature quickly and it's impacting Mental Health social media is strongly linked to low self-esteem and eating disorders a study found that 50% of participants changed their diet due to social media and 48% felt judged for their food choices teens with extreme body perceptions are twice as likely to consider or attempt suicide than their quote unquote normal weight peers as you can see beauty standards have caused significant harm but efforts are being made to address and change them in response to toxic Beauty ideals Dove's self-esteem project is helping children build a positive self-image Fenty Beauty by Rihanna set a new standard for inclusivity with its diverse shade range especially for darker skin tones the 50 shade foundation lineup promotes Beauty for all inspiring industrywide change the Cosmetic brand Olay has started an initiative called decode the bias to double the number of women in stem with the ultimate goal of eliminating the current racial bias that exists in search engines the social media app be real is encouraging users to share realtime unedited photos efforts to boost self-love online and in real life are increasing some ways you can practice self-love are by engaging with positive content avoiding negative selft talk and treating your body with respect this is the portrait I made in art class that shows me in a formal Nigerian dress with braided hair alongside my reflection in school clothes with curly hair the background features pictures of both a Nigerian and African-American headpiece this p portrait represents both sides of my identity showing that neither is more beautiful than the other I embrace my culture and hope you're inspired to see yourself positively as well beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this is my key to unlocking A New [Music] Perspective thank you Grace that is a very important message to send and I'm so glad you did it so this concludes our our period three presentations thank you very much for your kindness have a good day look J can't e e e spe e e good afternoon Welcome to our 10th Ted X DHS event the Ted X Club is Trill to present to you this exciting event here at Dartmouth High School this is an independently or organized event this year we have a live audience and will also be broadcast via live stream by the DHS TV media Productions our theme this year is keys to unlocking A New Perspective let's look back of our 10 years with different teams [Music] [Applause] [Music] you may be new to Ted and you may be wondering who is this Ted guy I'm here to tell there isn't a person instead Ted is an acronym for technology entertainment and design the Ted organization has covered many ideas worth spreading in various fields of study you'll see this the same diversity here in the topics being presented today before we begin we like to ask our audience to please be respectful our presenters by keeping electronic devices silenc and refrain from Talking the students have put in a lot of time and effort into their presentations we will start with our first presenter Mikey Burke our first presenter for Pure five is Mike Mikey Burke Mikey is a senior here at Dartmouth High School he is planning to take a gap here to work before attending Johnson New Wales University to study Communications Mikey chose this topic because he researched it for AP research class and he feels very strongly that we should spend more time discussing this issue please welcome Mikey Burke as he presents sexual health literacy good morning bro how many of you remember what you learned in health class I'm put your hand down I'm probably I'm pretty sure the answer is not many of you because I know I don't today I'm going to be talking about health literacy um but first I wanted to start with why I'm talking about health literacy I've always had a large interest in human sexuality it is complex and it's nuance and I've always found it so fascinating but my my interest was inspired by Dr Kate Burke who was my mom and her sexuality advocacy and occupational therapy and this interest has led me to my AP research project this year I will also be talking about sex positivity which is a term many of you may not know but the reason why I'm talking about it um is from my time on social media my experience with my peers and the shame that I felt as I've grown up on social media I have seen people fighting over different interpretations of their favorite media I've seen younger users shaming adults for being present in online spaces for their favorite media and I've seen these emboldened youth push their righteous opinions onto people growing up in Dartmouth I growing up in Dartmouth I was othered all my life but when I came to Dartmouth High I thought I'd found my people I met people that I thought I would be friends with for the rest of my life but I soon found out that they were just as mean and judgmental as many of my previous peers they made me feel bad about normal feelings that all teenagers experience and this internalized shame led me to project my hurt onto the people I care about so now I wanted to talk about health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find understand and use information and services to inform health related decisions and actions for themselves and others health literacy is important because uh low levels of health literacy have been related to poor health outcomes like increased hospitalizations and in incomplete understandings of medical issues a study published in um looked at the health literacy and health empowerment differences between gen Z and older generations and they found that older Generations prefer traditional media like magazines and newspapers interpersonal connections like friends and family and Healthcare Providers as main sources for health information whereas gen Z individuals exclusively preferred online resources barriers to health information include reading level most medical resources are written at a higher reading level than the average American can understand Miss and disinformation many Americans have a hard time Discerning Miss and disinformation from the truth and unlike genz many adults lack the computer skills to Access Health Resources but genz individuals have difficulty with media literacy and factchecking abilities other barriers to health information include medical jargon blocks of text lack of visuals and clinical terminology all of which make it difficult to understand health information sexual health education is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality this is the DHS sex head sex ed curriculum day it is it consists of five days day one and two is spent on anatomy and reproductive Health day three goes over gender and sexual orientation day four is spent on reproduction and team pregnancy and day five is the beginning of the sock baby project so these are the mass Massachusetts state standards for sexual health and it states that sexual education is not required by schools or schools are not required to instruct about health education like this um and if sex education is offered it must explain the benefits of abstinence it is not required to teach about gender identity or sexual orientation and they are not required to teach about consent there are two main types of sex education absence education focuses on the benefits of abstinence and comprehensive education teaches all aspects of human sexuality such as Anatomy consent sexual orientation gender identity and interpersonal relationships a study done on science direct found that abstinence education does not significantly reduce teen pregnancy or the likelihood of intercourse whereas comprehensive education does reduce both teen pregnancy and the likely of intercourse another study on science direct found that qualities of comprehensive sex sex education are sexual diversity intimate partner violence prevention development of healthy relationships prevention of child sex abuse improved social emotional learning and increased media literacy fosy which is an education advocacy group published the national sex education standards in 2020 and this document lays out important education resources like theoretical Frameworks characteristics of effective sex education and standard standards organized by grade level for example these are K through2 Core Concepts laid out in that document and as you can see it is age appropriate and simple language that is easy to understand that lays out the importance of defining consent and personal boundaries as well as being able to name your body parts this is an example of the gr the grade 3 through five Core Concepts and again it's simple but they're very important to building long life relation um lifetime relationships sex positivity is having or promoting an open tolerant or Progressive attitude towards sex and sexuality qualities of sex positivity include prioritizing safety setting and respecting boundaries communication and honesty body positivity reducing shame and encouraging enjoyment and these qualities are important because they ensure safety and enjoyment for all parties it reduces shame and anxiety promotes education and knowledge and and generates open-mindedness and how are these how are sex education sex positivity and sexual health literacy all connected this is a map that I made that expresses how Sexual Health touches all aspects of Our Lives it affects our relationships how we interact with others and the importance we bring to education think connection education leads to knowledge which leads to safety and this includes health literacy um building healthy relationships and practicing safe sex awareness of ourselves and the issues around us leads to empathy for others which removes removes shame promotes kindness and sex positivity so how did we get here because a lot of gen Z gets our information from the internet online Trends and behaviors have a lot of power over us and over the last 5 to 10 years there has been a rise in ignorance and a lack of curiosity in a world of confirmation bias and belief perseverance we are often not looking for new ideas and we are often only getting our information from sources we know we already agree with not only that but there has been an incre increase of in censorship of uncomfortable ideas so not only are we not always getting the right information but controversial information is often hidden from us and we're not allowed to understand the full scope of the world another factor that leads to chaos online is the ability to be completely Anonymous anyone has the ability to say anything often without consequences and this contri Utes to the lack of empathy and misinformation online if we continue on this path of censorship we will lack in-depth and formal instruction that back that sets student back both educationally and socially continued Reliance on internet sources would causes great um causes a lot of error and bias and we will never gain the important qualities of sex education like media literacy violence prevention and a curiosity that fuels life and this is my key to unlocking A New Perspective thank you Mikey for informing us on the very important um topic here our second presenter for uh this period is Desmond wait Desmond is a junior here at DHS Desi is a member of the forensic and Debate Club he plans to major in political science and minor in economics upon graduation he is very interested in politics and chose his topic Because he believes the misinformation is what is currently causing much of the issues in politics please welcome desm way as he presents how political bias affects interpretation of [Applause] data now when we talk about this subject it's important to talk about the relationship between data and bias you might think that it's a one-way relationship where it's either data just affecting bias or bias just affecting data but in reality it's more of a circular relationship with both bias affecting your interpretation of data and your interpretation of data affecting your bias bias can affect your interpretation of data by making you only consume information from something that's either one political Source or it can or it can also cause you to look at that data incorrectly additionally your interpretation of data can reaffirm biases and cause them to be stronger if you are interpreting false information and are becoming less informed now when we talk about bias it's important to talk about how the repetition of information affects this bias a study on prior exposure titled prior exposure increases perceived accuracy of fake news from 2018 by Gordon Penny cook Tyrone Cannon and David ran um took a group of subjects and gave them 12 headline news headlines and then these subjects were familiarized with these headlines and basically just shown these headlines multiple times later they were assessed on these headlines but also on 12 headlines they had never seen before and what did showed was that people who had the the St the headlines that people had already seen were much more likely for people to think that they are true than the headlines that they had not seen before and the second part of this study um did the same thing as part one but one week later um assessed these subjects again with those 12 previous headlines as well as 12 new ones what this this showed was that people's belief of headlines they had already seen further increased after this one week now what this kind of shows is how prior exposure and how repeatedly seeing information can affect your view on it if you are continuously shown the information regardless of whether or not it's true you going to be far more likely to believe it as true this study in found in fact that prior exposure doubled the perceived accuracy of news headlines compare to headlines never seen before now when we talk about bias it's also important to talk about the effects of social media um social media has done a great job at spreading information um and allowing more people to access information but what it also has done has caused a lot of misinformation to be spread Chen Shing wrote in the spread of misinformation on social media what contributes to it and how to combat it that misinformation from social media was the largest source of misinformation during the 2020 and 2024 elections this information we get through social media is really hard to validate oh sorry is really hard to see if it's true or not and it's really important that we are double-checking that information if we look at a variet if we check our information against other sources it becomes a lot easier to see whether or not that information is true or not additionally we want to check the credibility of the sources we are looking at figuring out whether or not they are trustworthy and they can be seen to show continuously show True information um again talking about variety of sources if we look at sources from multiple viewpoints and multiple multiple political stances it is a lot easier to find true information because you can continuously check information from One Source against information from another source and find the most factual information now when we're looking at information it's important to check if we are participating in confirmation bias confirmation bias is when you only look for facts and evidence that pertain to your beliefs if you are looking online and you only look at um sources that have the same political leaning as your own as the political leaning that you have yourself you're going to be um confirming your own bias and not really looking for true information but instead looking for information that is again going to confirm your bias a big example of this can be seen in citizenship and the effective political parties if you continuously look for information that is under your political party and you're not looking at any information from the other side you are going to be confirming your own bias you're going to be repeatedly looking at information that already shows you that already says that you are true without taking into account whether or not the information you're looking at is in fact true now there is a big difference between how we look at political information and how we look at non-political information a study by Dan cahan titled motivated uh reasoning and enlightened self-government gave um basically tested people on their numeracy so or their ability to look at numbers and compute numbers and gave people a set of non-political information um this was a this was basically just a table saying showing a skin cream and whether or not it is going to be beneficial to improving a rash um and what this and what PE they saw from this was that regardless of political party people were generally pretty able to differentiate whether or not that skin creep helped the rash it made it made sense people who had higher numeracy people who are better able to compute with numbers were better able to look at this question regarding numbers but then when they changed this information and made it a little bit more political and instead of talking about skin cream and whether or not it improved a rash they talked about gun control laws and whether or not it increased or decreased crime they actually found that people had a lot harder time of looking at this Democrats often times um would would look at the data and regardless of what it showed would think that it that gun laws decreased crime in an area even if the data showed that gun laws um increased crime in in the area and Republicans would often look at the data and think that gun crime increased um sorry gun control inre increased gun crime in a given area even if it in fact decreased gun crime in a given area now what this shows is how partian ship can blind us and cause us to be misinformed if we are consistently looking at information from um a specific political Source we can become biased and when we look at information our bias will spread into that information and change how we look at it think about how people who didn't look at who looked at non-political information were pretty effectively able to do it who were pretty effectively able to figure out whether or not you know it helped the rash while people who looked at the political information of gun control and gun lies were blinded by their partisanship and often times just chose the answer that validated their own beliefs now how can misinformation be fixed what can we do to solve this issue now a big thing that helps people a big thing that can cause misinformation to not happen is being open to other points of view making sure that you're looking at a variety of sources making sure that you take into take into account information from the other side of the political Spectrum if you are going to consistently absorb information that only confirms your own biases you're going to have a really hard time figuring out whether or not the information you're getting is true and will therefore become misinformed this is the key to preventing misinformation by making sure you're looking at multiple sources being open to being open to other points of view and making sure you keep your biases in check this is my key this is my key to unlocking A New Perspective thank [Applause] you thank you thasmin for providing us with good information there on that topic our next presenter is ashon spella Ashton is a junior year at Dartmouth High School and has been involved in tedx the HS Club since her fresh his freshman year we are so happy to have him back with us this year additionally Ashton is also involved in many other activities here at DHS he is the co-president of the robotics Club a member of the math theme a member of the Dartmouth High School Marching Band Ashton chose his topic because he loves to travel and wherever he goes He obtains money from the location for his collection Ashton has had extensive collection of currency from around around the world upon graduation Ashton plans to major in Pharmacy please welcome Ashton spella as he presents Money [Applause] Talks money is something we see every day not only that money is something we use almost daily but do we ever stop and wonder what's on our money money is all over the world there are currently 108 different currencies but what makes each of them unique is the way they're designed each currency has its own images on their bills and dollars that make it that are important to their people in the US we use the United States dollar well we do have many different bills and coins the one I'm going to talk about is the $10 bill on the front of the bill is Alexander Hamilton he was a founding father who served in the military he was an advocate of the Constitution and helped draft it he was also the first secretary of treasure and created the American Financial system on both sides of Hamilton there are two torches which are meant to be like the one the Statue of Liberty holds it is a symbol of freedom and on the back of the bill you see a building it is the United States Treasury building the next currency I'm going to talk about is the Canadian dollar this first bill is a $2 bill from 1986 on the front is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II the reason Queen Elizabeth II is on a Canadian dollar is because this bill is a part of the Commonwealth to her right is the Parliament building and to her left is the cat of arms on the back there's two Robins as this bill is a part of the birds of Canada Series this bill was taken out of circulation and stopped being printed in 1996 as it was replaced with a $2 coin more popularly known as the tuni this is the five Canadian dollar bill on the front is a portrait of s Will William L Laurier who was prime minister from 1896 to 1911 he was a member of parliament for 45 years and was the leader of the liberal party for 32 of those in the clear part to his right is the West block of parliament's original construction its name is the McKenzie Tower after Canada's second prime minister Alexander McKenzie on the back you see the cad arm 2 which is about 56 ft long it's a robotic arm that was used to build the International Space Station and was Canada's contribution to the project it's astronaut represents all Canadians that contributed to the space program and research done on the International Space Station the only identifying mark on this astronaut is the Canadian flag patch you see there another common currency is the pound it's the official currency of the United Kingdom as well as its territories this is the 10 pound bill a major part of the pound is that the bills Chang with each new queen or King the bill on the bottom has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II notes with her name came into circulation in 1960 and are still currently in circulation after King Charles II was crowned on June 5th 2024 fils with his portrait came into circulation although the front changed the back remained the same the woman you see on the back is Jane Austin she was an English novelist known for her six novels where she criticized and commented on the English land Gentry they were a social class of wealthy land owners that lacked Royal titles these two coins you see here are Queen Elizabeth II's Jubilee coin and a half crown these coins are no longer in circulation but I feel as though they're important this coin was made to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II which takes place during the 25th year of her Reign there were 37 m616 of these coins made of which I own two on one side is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II riding horse which as she was known for her love of horses made this design a bit more personal on the other side there's a symbol symbolic design that represents the coronation you see the crown and the spoon coming together the half crown on the other hand has a portrait of King George I 6 he is most known for his achievements during the second world war he visited severely bombed areas which caused him to gain popul it on the back of this coin is a shield with crowned Monograms on both sides the euro is a very popular currency used in many of the countries AP part of the European Union these countries include Austria Belgium Croatia Cyprus Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy lva Lithuania Luxembourg Malta the Netherlands Slovakia Slovenia Portugal and Spain the bill you see now is the 10 euro bill on Euro bank notes you see windows and doorways which symbolize a spirit of openness and cooperation on the back of the notes there are bridges which symbolize communication between Europeans but also Europeans in the rest of the world what makes each build different though is the architectural styles used on the 10 euro note you see a romanes style romanes is known for having thick walls rounded arches pillars decorative arcading and large towers on the 5eo note though you see a change in the architecture this is called classical architecture this style originated in ancient Greece and Rome classical architecture is known for symmetry proportion windows pediments and columns pesos are another important currency primarily seen in South America the pesos I'm going to be look at are from Mexico but other countries use pesos as well these countries include Argentina Chile colia Cuba the Dominican Republic the Philippines and Uruguay the first bill is the 5,000 peso bill it is dedicated to the nios Heros who were six teenage military cadetes that died defending Chapel toit Castle from US forces in 1847 those are the six men you see right there the back of the bill there's Chapel to pick Castle as well as a heroic Military Academy badge the next bill is a 100 peso bill and is the 2009 issue on the front you see a portrait of neak Kota who was the 15th century ruler of Texas Coco on the back you see the largest city in pre-colombian Mexican called tenot chitlan the next currency I'm going to talk about is the Frank there are many different kinds of Franks these two coins are Swiss Franks the Frank on the left is from 2009 on the back is a wreath with the amount and year inside of it on the front is helvetica a symbol of Switzerland in her left hand is a shield with the Swiss cross in the center and in her right hand is a lance the other coin is a five Frank coin from 1977 on the front is a hooded male figure that represents an Alpine herdsman on the back you see the coat of arms of Switzerland with a shield surrounded by wreaths these two coins are French Franks which are no longer in circulation the coin on the left is a five Frank coin from 1949 on the front you see a lurette head of maranne which is a national symbol of France on the other side is a wreath with the value and date in it the other French Frank is from 1975 on the front is a figure scattering seeds and soil and on the back there's a branch dividing the DAT in denomination the next currency is the Zimbabwean dollar this bill is a $50 trillion bill the government had to print bills worth this much due to hyperinflation where prices of food rapidly increaseed and the government had to match market prices on the back of this bill is the Kuba Dam which split its hydroelectric power between the North Zambia power plant and the zth Zimbabwe power plant there's also an elephant which is the largest living land mammal on the planet on the front is the trimba balancing rocks which was a common symbol on Zimbabwean Bank notes in 2009 though this currency was B abandoned as an official currency and in 2015 was demonetized for a while Zimbabwe used the United States dollar and others as a currency until in 2019 the reserve BAC of Zimbabwe replaced this multiple currency system with a new Zimbabwean dollar but the United States dollar is still used there and is actually used in many countries the United States dollar is the primary currency in Bonaire St Estus Inaba Ecuador El Salvador Paulo the Marshall Islands the Federate States of Micronesia Panama the British Virgin Islands the Turks and Kos Islands East Tour and Zimbabwe it is also an additional currency in Aruba the Bahamas Barbados biz Bermuda Cambodia Canada the Cayman Islands Costa Rica curau Guatemala Honduras Jamaica Lebanon Liberia Mexico Myanmar Nicaragua St kits and na St Martin Martin and Vietnam there are several reasons that countries use the United States dollar one reason is that the US dollar is the primary Reserve currency in the world many central banks across the globe hold portions of their reserves in US dollars International Trade transactions are largely conducted using US Dollars this simplifies transactions and reduces exchange risk key Commodities which are raw materials that are used to manufacture consumer goods like gold and oil are also usually priced in US Dollars when values of the dollar fluctuate it can have an impact on global commodity prices due to its stability it is also often used for international Investments and savings the value of the dollar can also affect global exchange rates affecting global trade investment and economic stability another reason is that International loans and credits are oftentimes denominated in US Dollars this can also apply to sovereign debt or national debt well there are mared different currencies each is unique and important to their countries in their own way and this is my key to unlocking A New [Applause] Perspective thank you ashon for ing the different money around the world uh very interesting our last presenter for today is Lea Leila is a junior here at Dartmouth High School and this is her first year as a member of tedex DHS Club additionally she is part of DHS Orchestra and plays the piano Lea chose her topic for her Tad um tedex talk because she remember her mom talking about trauma and the Vegas nerve and didn't know how much she wanted to this led Lea to research more about the topic and to peque her interest in learning about trauma and how impacts the way we act please welcome Leila as she presents mind and body the silent [Applause] response okay I am sure that most of you have presented sometime in your life your stomach starts doing flips your hands get sweaty and you can't breathe this physical feeling descri describes the Mind and Body Connection if my body has this reaction to me just presenting imagine what trauma can do to the body before I go into how trauma affects you I have to tell you what trauma is so what is trauma according to the American Psychiatric association trauma is actual or threatened death Serious injury or sexual violence this was the re this was the understanding for so long but does it go further than that the re understanding of trauma Bessel Vander a psychiatrist and author defines trauma as not just an event that happened sometime in the past it's the imprint on the Mind Body and brain this imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to live in the present so there are two types of trauma big trauma and litty trauma big trauma can consist of abuse being a victim of natural disaster or being in the war littley trauma can be verbal abuse legal trouble being a victim of divorce or watching somebody else experience trauma just because it is little trauma does not mean it it is any less it just means that is overlooked when talking about trauma so trauma affects trauma affects you in three different ways your brain relationships and body it affects your brain in three ways the brain stem which controls survival function is also called The Reptilian Brain the lyic system which controls the emotion part of you and social behaviors and the prefrontal cortex that controls rational thinking and decision-making trauma impacts these big three things and stops you from thinking rationally the second thing is relationships trauma gets in the way of relationships because of its self-destructive behaviors all of their energy goes into suppressing all the trauma that happened and no energy goes into to putting effort into the relationship brain and relationships with trauma have been studied and without this last part the body we miss the whole part of trauma the most important thing about trauma is how it affects you so the studies on the body have been more recent people assume when you talk about trauma it only affects the brain but the body is where the trauma takes root it finds your way into every cell and your body responds with symptoms like weight gain knee pain fibromyalgia autoimmune disease and back pain these symptoms can be the after effect of unresolved trauma trauma and physical health many people didn't know how much trauma affect you until the 1990s when the leader of a obesity Clinic Dr Fetti noticed that his patients either regained the weight that they lost or dropped out because it was too hard all of these were connected with childhood trauma so this led him to think is obesity and other physical symptoms a way that trauma takes roote and this led to the launch of the ace study so what does ace stand for adverse child experiences this is a questionnaire that consists of questions about abuse neglect and househo dysfunction this these questions indicate if you have disease later in life and it turns out three and four high school students have had an ace in the past and these stats were the leading causes of death like cancer diabetes and heart disease therefore the body keeps a score of trauma leading to these consequences there are many different types of trauma treatment like medication and then top down therapy this is working with the brain to deal with what happened the newer treatment like bottom up works with the biology using sematic treatments we feel emotions through our physical heart our gut and our muscles so with bottom up we can resolve emotions through your body there are two types of your nervous system the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous system the parasympathetic controls is the break of your body it makes your muscles relax you breathe and your heart starts to slow down the sympathetic nervous system is the body's accelerator fight or flight and your heart starts beating that's why in yoga when you take exhales the teacher tells you to pay attention to it because this calms you down the vegus nerve this is the biggest component of the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous system it runs through your body taking info from the outside world and putting it to your brain when your body's under stress the vagus nerve sends signals to your organs saying that there is a threat and the way to treat this inflammation is by stimulating the vagus nerve this can be humming breathing and facial expressions EMDR EMDR stands for eye movement desensitization reprocessing this replicates what happens in deep Sleep in deep Sleep we have something called REM rapid eye movement this is when we process things throughout the day the creator of RDR figured this out by recalling the pain from memories and moving her eyes back and forth this made these memories less painful and this made makes the patients realize yes this happened a long time ago and it's not happening right now another therapy is EFT emotional Freedom therapies this is also called tapping you tap the side of your hand your eyebrow under your eye your collar bone and the crown of your head EFT is about processing emotions and not suppressing them this is taking control of your body the use of these new practices going back to New York September 2001 911 experts recommended that they use cognitive therapies and hospitals set up free therapy for these people but nobody showed up Dr Spencer a therapist asked the people what did they do to cope instead they used acupuncture massage yoga and EMDR so safety and environment this is a big part of healing so imagine a kid gets bit by a dog this is a scary situation but if the parent says I see you're in bad shape let me help you the dog bite is not an issue anymore because the found the foundation of safety is not destroyed if your environment is supportive the trauma if the environment is not supportive the trauma can take root because we didn't get the help that we needed mind and body trauma is not a story that happened back then it's the current imprint of pain inside of you the new discovery of trauma of how the trauma affects the body are revolutionizing trauma support and helping people with chronic conditions and this is the first step into knowing your body and this is my key to unlocking A New Perspective thank you Ila that was a wonderful presentation um we would like to uh close our day this concludes our presentations for T xdhs 2025 however there are many people who have assisted with us with this conference that we would like to recognize we would like to thank the following people for their continued support uh of of our efforts principal Ryan Shay assistant principal Mike Martin Graham kouan please hold your applauses DCTV media and especially Mr Peter Chase whose work with the sound has been prival part of T Ted X DHS for the past 10 years Mr Rob perard and the DHS TV media student um pery nandu Molly Bell Arie Park Mason Lango and Ben Smith for their help with a filming of the conference and the live streaming of today's presentations our crew that is working hard behind the scenes Emma cavaro Abigail Lima Kevin Oliver and Trinity sington for their help with the tech and lighting our instructional technology specialist Jess brittingham for her help with a bunch of Technology library media specialist Megan Tully for her assistance with posters and for allowing us to use the LMC art teacher Morgan Morgan Boart for her help with one of our presentations as you saw Miss Harmony Pyers and her team in the cafeteria for their help with today's food our custodial staff led by Richie 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1 2425 second interim budget report Dr nean good evening president O'Neal members of the board superintendent matuda cabinet and members of the public thank you so much for uh being here tonight to hear our updated um budget report for our district why don't you kind of give over a theme of what what's happening being proposed for the 2526 um school year so Governor um Gavin new he releases the budget um proposal for 2526 um in the midst of the one of our most devastating natural disasters um and so many homes were were burned down and actually some of the schools as Al also in those areas are also burned down as as well um and so um but he was still able to uh publish the budget and overall budget um it's a balanced budget at this point and um still protected public education as um we are funded by prop 98 and that is critical to what we do here but the overall um California economy um is continue to grow with um mixed signals with the road ahead of us so inflation continues um um um at this point um and then the slowing of the interest rate reductions by the Federal Reserve is impacting the state's housing market so the latest fed um rate that we're looking at right now based on the latest ones I'm hearing from the UCLA School of Anderson is about 4.25 to 4.5% and they're thinking that rate will stabilize for the next three years now if any the market continues to drop or different things the FED could possibly adjust that but the housing market for example is not really helping especially in our area as you see are contined declining rment due to the pressure from the housing prices as well so um the overall um the budget for next year projects a $17 billion plus at the state level with healthy reserves and so the governor does um assume a St a steady and a stable National growth overall and so at this point we do have a lot of impact that we are seeing that it's actually already coming the first one obviously is the tariffs so they're coming I'm have extremely strong as well as the changes in the immigration policy as well and I'm going to talk about that a little bit when we get to the enrollment projections as well so this is the the financial projection um and I do want to highlight um what we're um what was being proposed at this point so we can see current year there's no change uh from January um the numbers uh that were being proposed at that time is 1.07 for curring year but you can see for the proposed budget year for 25 26 back at um in um December when we proposed the first inim it was at 2.93% and now that is at 2.43% so the number for NE going to next year the cost of living adjustment is already projected lower and we are hearing that that number will actually be even lower than what we are currently showing you right now and so that is a concern for us as we do get that cost of living adjustment to our base funding and that's very critical at this point there are some good news from the budget there are some one-time dollars that the governor is proposing first is going to be the student support and professional development discretionary block grant and um districts can use this money for the rising costs um uh to include professional development uh for staff uh teacher recruitment and retention effort career Pathways and do enrollment as we have heard we have really increased our do enrollment um numbers as well so the current um estimate is estimate to be at 323 per Ada and we are projected to receive about 7.6 million doll um if this money comes through currently we are not projecting this money in our budget because there is no guidelines on when uh the money could be expended untila so we would not know how much to or when to budget for that amount and so uh once we get um better language hopefully by the time we propose a budget um by June we should hopefully to get those numbers by then so that's the first um onetime dollars that is being proposed the next block grant is uh this is additional onetime dollars learning recovery emergency block grant and this um so the overall state level is at $ 378.5 million one time to support learning recovery emergency and this money is through 2728 so that's a a current uh projection at uh about $6.8 million um and as we get more information with this we will be incorporating that into the budget but right now we are just waiting to see if there's any other um figures we need to um to make sure before we budget these numbers and as as we all know we've been receiving a lot of one-time dollars almost like $250 million since Co and I'm going to show that um with online items for us so uh remember when Co first hit we had all those estra dollars that came through and with s one two and three and then also the state level also with the additional onetime dollars including the learning um recovery emergency block grant as well and also the Arts and Music instructional material discretionary block grant and I'm going to show a summary here these are all the M um $110 that we have already spent so the total um for this pot is $105 million and so all this has been sent you can see um they're in detail listed uh the funding sources how much our allocation is as well as how much was spend per year so we already have spent all these dollars here over $100 million at this point then the next slide we show you uh the remaining $144 million but as you can see we have spended almost all the dollars as well we have about $53 million um that was at the end of January 31st which was um end of um the second inum period so we of the about $250 million we have uh spent pretty much the 3 200 million and then just a $53 million left um that um we have access so I just want to share that there's a lot of one time dollars that we have seen and in my 20 years career so this is the first time we've seen this much money coming through a lot of one-time dollars and we just have to be very careful how we plan to use these dollars obviously with Co we were able to do a lot of things with with those dollars but as um more and more coming through in the future years there may not be as many one1 time dollars as what we have seen in the past right since we got Co started back on March of 2020 and so it's basically this is quite bit of money that since we have received from both federal government and the state government as as well so both feds and fed F fed and state we do see there's a lot of risk to to the state budget uh for example the stock market volatility it is wild you have 600 points up one day another day 600 points down it is a wild Market at this point um we are also facing extreme weather events obviously with um a lot of floods as well as uh the fires in California that's really not helping uh with overall economy because of the insurance Market that could be a a very very tough place to be um to come and there's all a possible of the delay of tax deadlines due the natural disaster so in certain counties it's being proposed that they are able to extend their tax deadline I believe around to October so this is going to be the same problem we had a couple years ago when the state already started the fiscal year and we did not get the tax receipts until November of that year so this continue to be a problem we're hoping that it's not that not going to be that much but if you think about if the entire County of LA is able to do this and they are a big part of the taxpayer for the entire state so that could be a problem for us and then um there's a lot of the federal policy uncertainties the Terrors immigration as well um and we are continuing to monitor the um interest rates right so we're you know they're looking about 4.5% or so um at the federal uh interest rate and but for example if to get a mortgage the rate's much higher than what the federal rates still at this point so it's really tough for the housing market with that as well I want to share what the state budget process uh from January to June that's when we first U receive the information from the governor to see what are some of the policies are and some of his proposals as you can see here uh right now we are U are you can see the uh go box down there with a second uh inm report uh being submitted tonight as you can see um some of the sub hear subcommittee hearings um but the state really doesn't adopt their budget and release other their stuff until basically by June right and so we are taking our uh budget to the board on June 5th with the first uh first reading and then with the board adopting their budget on June 12th a week later and once the state adopts his budget we have 45 days to come back to the board and then readjust those um line items as well and so we'll between now and then we'll hear different things that will come and we'll also get the guidance from our County as well as they oversee our budget to make sure we are adopting our budget based on their guidelines as well and so depending what can be budgeted and we will um budget those line items and so this is the our enrollment projections um for our district as well as for the County of Orange and you can see here um last year we're at 27,000 and this year we have dropped almost um you know um 1,000 students you can see to 26,000 uh and we are projected to decline to about 24,800 students the following year so this is a trend and um we go out down to 20 3334 we are down to about 20,000 students and so um we do based on our projection so this is spased on we we go back um you know three to five years and we look at all those different numbers and we have solved the help us project so this is based on what we currently projected for but if the immigration Factor does take into play we do think that that could be a possible factor and we ran those numbers I thank you so much Karen for running those numbers that if we were to lose an additional 500 students for next year right so right now we're about 1300 students that we possibly based on the projections based on all the rollups as well right um if we were to lose an additional 500 students what would that budget look like for us um as you know we're funded based on when student come to school now when they're enroll is attendance and it's based on current year prior year or the last three year threee averaging so if we were to lose an additional 500 students on enrollment next year the amount of dollars we could lose in the year 26 27 because next year will be guarantee from the prior years we will lose about $3 million and in 2728 we will lose an additional $5.5 million so every students coming through our system when they attend our classes it does count and so we I just we wanted to make sure that the public is aware that if there's additional enrollment drop um we are going to have to adjust our budget at that point but currently these are the numbers and we will be watching as we do our month we do pull the data every month and we will be looking at the trend to see if we're losing students between even now um and may as well and this is just another um way to show this is from uh where we were at Tai so going back about um you know back to 20112 we were at the height of almost 33,000 students and this is where we are projecting um for next year at about uh 24,800 students so this first um chart here will show you how much dollars we are bringing in for for the un uh for the general fund so this consists of the unrestricted plus the restricted for our um second interim for 2425 we're looking at about $561 million total revenue we're bringing in but just want um want us to see most of our money is coming from the blue blue uh box over there and that's about 74% and that's the lcff local control funding formula that's money coming from the state when our students come to school so that's the bulk of our funding you can see our federal funding is about 7% which is equalent to about almost 41 million dollar so we are look there is a possibility that we could possibly get some federal um funding reductions uh so right now we have talked to the county they have not said to budget less but uh in the past back in when during the last recession District's budget about 10% less so that's something that we may consider or if we're hearing other information then we would um adopt the budget at that time but there we probably need to start planning if there's going to be reductions on the federal revenue side as well at this point and that's something that we are um making sure that we're paying attention to that when when all the news are coming out as well so that piece of it the federal funding uh could be something that we want to look at um and then the other ones um the other state revenues about 14% um and then we have some um other local revenues but both of our money is coming from when student come to school and those are the dollars we want to make sure that we see and this is a total expenditures uh for current year uh projected to be about $550 million uh for current year you can see here all the salaries and all the benefits as well as the other expenses for a district so you can see here this is our total combined General fund uh unrestricted and restricted see where we're at as you can see here our current year um revenues at 561 and then the total expenditures 554 so this year we actually have a a increase in the fund balance $7.1 million but you can see the oute starting next year we have a deficit of 15.8 million and then the following year a 25.6 million and a 41.7 million in the um 2728 so do want to share that like so current year we're looking at it we're not quotquot deficit spending but the out years we most likely going to do that and this is the unrestricted and I want to focus unrestricted these are money that are comes through there's no strings attached there's not a grant so anything uned comes through here so if you look at the current year we are um were're good in the fund balance next year was still good but if you can look at the 26 27 20 million in deficit spending in that year and then $37 million um deficit spending in 2728 so those are the the figures we want to make sure that we're starting to address what are some of the declining rment what has done to our budget because our revenues are coming in less when students are not here and this one here is the restricted programs and as you can see we um we been getting quite a bit of dollars from all the additional onetime dollars and those will come through here and all the ERS and all that but we're coming down to a place where we're not getting as much dollars anymore at this point moving forward and these are some of the commitments that we have um we do this at the adopted budget as well as the first interim and as well as going to be doing that as as well as here so these are the online items um including uh the wellness program classifi summer assistance benefits um we also have site carryovers technology and then the board also mandate our district to carry an additional 3% Reserve which is amazing so we have total the state requirements 3% and the board also said we want to make sure we have additional 3% but just do want to to inform and I'm sure um the public understands this too our cash flow for example we need about a 10% Reserve each month right because we do have our our payroll Wise It's about about 10 months we do have people who are 12 month employees but a majority of our folks are about 10 10 months because given where the school years are at and so um to just have the the minimum fund balance it's not going to be enough to even make payroll and so we also um as you will see in our um our documents we do have the cash flow as well for 18 months as require at this point and so that concludes um my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have anybody have any questions I I I just first of all have a statement to make uh on page I don't know if public general public know this but on page three we're talking about the financial projection dashboard and um there's two line items there's a calsters uh and there's a cal Pur employer rates and the the the calsters shows that there's 19.1% um is what the district has to pay uh in the way of uh taxes I guess you could call it that um 19.1% of the cers of the um uh employees payroll we have to pay 19.1% on top of that in taxes on the next line for Cal Pur uh currently we have to pay 27.5% but in four years it's going to go up to 28.2% of the payroll total payroll so that's a huge part of of our expenses in the year okay so I just wanted to make sure the general public understood that right and it was not that long think that's a great comment and it was not that long ago that per Cal Pur rate was at 13.02% and basically since the market has not been doing as well they keep increasing the rate um and so that is a a concern because districts also pay more um and on the stir side our employees has has paid more they were at 8.25 and now they're 10.25 this this goes to our Collective pensions yes this is the pensions that we're all all the employees um most employees here do have that either in the stirs which is the the teachers um want plus all the certificate side and then the classify I'm myself as well in the Cal Pur system and that has a lot of implications as well yeah thank you okay then on page two uh there sort of like an oximoron here it says the governor presents a balanced budget that assumes steady stable National growth but then when you turn to page nine it says federal policy uncertainty okay which means it's not stable because we don't know what's going to happen with tariffs we don't know what's going to happen with immigration interest rates could be going up the market is on is being crazy right now so I'm not sure how we can say that we're going to be stable but yet we're going to be unstable so I think that was when January when the governor released his budget at that time that was what his Assumption of the bud like the overall ecy was so that was three months ago when or two months ago when he when correct correct so then yeah all our numbers right now are from all the releases that was released so thank you that was that was past it's not present or the future because we we don't need to comment on the future because we have no idea what's going to happen on a daily basis so we don't uh it's very volatile right now so very much so anybody have any questions of Sheamus no just to State oh go ahead oh uh one quick question the uh two block rants that you mentioned that are coming do are those restricted or unrestricted they will be one time I would assume that you follow you know that the restrictions will not be as much I think it's almost like the Arts and Music block ran they come through we can we're able to pay for various different things okay mhm but it will be coming into the restricted funding on the restricted general fund side okay thank you I I just wanted to make a statement I think um I can speak for all the board is just that um your department um is absolutely amazing because you're given uh a a deadline to come up with you know we have to have the second interim when you just got the budget in January and it's it's it's not uh stable and then you have to project three years out and we try to project four years out all the time and and then you have uh to get our budget done by the fif or the 12th I'm Sorry by the by the 15th and you just got the May revision that comes out it's just amazing um how uh you do it I know there's a lot of people out there that are um helping to project that but um I I just want to commend um our staff and every every year you you you help us to understand this extremely complex um budget system and you're always thinking ahead you're always projecting and helping us to uh save cost or in the event of having to make adjustments and changes and um I just want to give you guys a huge compliment uh from the board and from the the de up here from our thank you appreciate that it's really amazing well emry to keep on with what he just mentioned it sort of goes along to to show that our bond rating has gone up because of the financial stability yes based upon your department and the way you manage the the finan right so and what they do is um the with the credit ratings they do we we have a call with them and we have to produce different documents for them and so the fact that they have confidence in our district that's how we're able to uh increase both um standard and pors as well as Moody and that will also help us when we go out to sell the bonds um for the credit rating with the upgraded credit rating and so I think you so much boor you guys have given a lot um you know have given a lot a lot of Grace to to our department as well and um you know I do want to thank uh Karen and Joe we we spend a lot of weekends working on this I mean as we get closer we're like is there anything else we want to adjust we want the latest numbers we want to run additional scenarios we don't ever want to get blindsided that we did not see that coming because that's why I wanted to make sure that we understand if we do lose more students what the uh budget implications could be because we don't ever want to be in a boat where we do not know where we're in and I just also want to share that there are districts right now there about 30 districts in the state of California that are either negative or qualified budget that they have filed are there about I think about 10 districts that are negative that file negative at first interim that means they cannot meet current year or next year's budget at this point can you explain the ramifications those two ratings so h Huh expanding the ramifications of those two designations yes so negative means basically you are at the you are basically going to get a state takeover you are going to get a state loan meaning you cannot make payroll and some of these districts are pretty big um I can't just remember the off right now I just read the article um that they are not going to be able to even pay their staff so they would need to get a state loan and so there are about 10 districts uh in the state right now that are in that boat and the the other 20 they're saying that they may or may not be able to meet their obligation so they could be uh so most of the time the county office so in this County for example that would be the Orange County Department of Education they will send out fiscal advisors to go out to the district starting now when you file a qualified budget to help you to see what can be done um there are districts where when they're getting to um a very difficult part that even um because the board's responsibility and I want the public to know this you you have the fiduciary responsibility that's why you have to also approve the budget right and so um it is a it's a very important job obviously um but when you're at the vers take over they can basically come and and say they can move everybody out and that's one of the things that we don't want that ever to get to that point and that's why we always make sure we also have enough cash flow and cash flow also when we for example talk to the credit rating we are very confident in what we do and we're able to show them the knowledge that we have in our district as well and we have state leadership in in our district um they know we we we we know our stuff and that's extremely helpful when we do the presentations to them thank you anybody else thank you Dr I just want to add a gratitude and thank you for what you do your job is humongous and the changeability of it but the confidence that we have in you and respect and admiration is Untold thank you thank you thank you to you and your staff for all that you do thank you I want to thank all my directors everybody worked really hard um to get everything done so thank you thank you okay moving on to uh [Applause] 7.2 get a big hand for keeping us solvent here 7.2 measure H citizens Bond oversight committee the final annual report for March 2024 to February 25th Dr Nan yes um I'd like to introduce our chairperson Alan walker uh to come and present to the board this will be his final report for this Bond thank you very much I appreciate that uh president O'Neal and fellow trustees superintendent mana and your staff as well as the the guests that are present here should I take that personally it's only 10 minutes just kidding I don't mind it's all good uh as well as the people online too I I'm very excited to be here um and this is our final annual report which I'm fired up about because uh as you guys know probably most of you um I I had some real concerns and that's why I got involved with how things had played out in the past with Bond so um let me get to it I think you probably all have the presentation there in front of you okay so this is the executive summary that you're looking at in front of you there and between uh 2015 and 2025 this year we met as a committee 36 different times on different campuses uh as the projects were in process um very exciting to be around it and I suspect most of you have been out there and seen some of the different projects it's amazing what has been accomplished truly is um the general topics in the meetings uh typically we would receive the different design and construction of the projects and the updates uh we'd receive final cost reports that we'd uh oversee or View and review as well as the project budgets um we review the upcoming projects that measure H was going to be funding and we receiv we received and reviewed the expenditure reports which was very important now this past month in uh February on the 19th we met actually we met at Magnolia in the new cyber security building and I'm sure most of you have not been if you've not been there you've seen pictures of it amazing and if any of you folks uh guests online or here have not seen the cyber security building it's really impressive and I don't mean I mean it is from a building standpoint but I mean what it's bringing to the students to allow them to step into that Arena of cyber security and learn and project a career in it I I'm very fired up about that so anyway we met with uh the district's auditor Andrew Park and went through the final Year's budget or report audit report and that was good very very uh knowledgeable gentleman shared a lot of different insights with us which was nice uh flipping on we're going to the committee members and some of our committee members and we have some here tonight Blanca Hari and Peggy Cruz stacho oh yeah [Applause] sorry Brenda stto Brian and then also uh Moses Kim who couldn't be here tonight and actually I spoke with Robert Nelson on the phone and he had a class that he had to attend in Newport so he's not here but it was amazing to have their participation and and to have their expertise in each of the meetings that we had so uh some of the committee duties uh you can see them there uh to review the revisions and approval of the committee bylaws uh review the project the current projects and the facilities M master plan um visited the the sites and that was really amazing to see the work that had been done um we'll get to some of the pictures you you'll be excited I think to see it uh regular meetings as uh we attended those as the committee members the various reports and information including annual uh performance quarterly expenditures construction updates uh also reviewed the bond issuances and we'll talk about that here in just a minute we viewed the efforts uh of the district to maximize the bonds and I'll talk about that a little bit later too which very excited about what they accomplished they being Patty Neely and her team so let next uh we'll go ahead and flip the page the different dispersements we had three of them we had one in 2015 as you can see about 63 a little over 63 million and then uh 2018 83 million and then 2019 and that was a total of $249 million that the public gave to us and uh pretty excited about what they did there and we'll talk about uh measure K here in just a moment anyway continuing on you can see I don't want to we've taken a lot of you know time in the past on the different annual reports about some of these uh dispersements and uh Bond issuances so you can kind of look that at that in your presentation there if you'd like but bottom line This bond is closed because all monies have been expended to and all of it was towards projects for measure H nothing outside of that and not very proud to oversaw that and it it wasn't it wasn't really a big problem quite honestly because everybody did their job and they did it well okay then this next page this is really important to me and and I've talked about it in the past the state funding that has been in addition to in other words matching funds whether it's uh just from the state or from Grants the total that Patty and her team stayed on top of and have had the ability to get for this districts for updates in the campuses is 133,50 66 now out of that they've already received um the 58 million 336,000 the 75 plus there that's still coming that's money that we're going to be able to use on more projects in the future and that's because her and her staff and her team stayed on top of what was out there and they went and got it so Props to their to Patty and her team okay yes so they did diligence they didn't just rely upon you know the public passing the bond they went after more funds I'm I'm very very pleased as a taxpayer okay so let's move on to some pictures you can see that that up in the right leftand corner that that's the new cyber security building magn at Magnolia and down below and all the oh man all the stuff that they've done it's very impressive I mean I got fired up about going and being a student again go figure okay so the next page again some more the uh improvements and modifications and modernizations of Magnolia and their classrooms the next page is the new practice field that was put in at Western High School very nice and it's already I mean it's being utilized a lot a lot which is very exciting then we have some their pictures and the updates as far as catella the pool and the shower rooms some of the campuses have got um the new Mares kind of modernization there that's very nice also the uh solar panels that have been put in pretty much every has it been every campus yeah Junior High and high schools so that's going to cut some costs and help in the future so we're excited about that the culinary arts project at catella wow and then uh also the uh multi-purpose room at tell a lot of stuff let me I'm going to go ahead and just you can look through these I want to get to this page here that talks about there were over 32 projects that measure H was a part of that's very exciting very exciting so the total value was 253 million for all of those projects because of some additional funds and such that we were able to they were able to get I say we cuz I feel like I'm part of their team anyway so some of the campuses uh just read through them real quick Anaheim High School uh Ball Junior High Cypress High School Dale Junior High in fact have you guys seen Dale Junior High amazing it doesn't even look like a junior high it looks like a college oh oh really nice job there uh catella high school we talked about that Kennedy Lera Magnolia uh let's see the mares Oxford Academy Savannah high school or Junior High I pass there pretty regularly and uh they're just wrapping there in fact they're I think they're pretty much done but it looks really nice with then what they've done there Sycamore Junior High Western High School okay so all of those have been modernized and beautified I think uh this next page here just talks about some of the classroom furniture and that I when we first got started that was the first big project was classroom Furniture I wasn't wasn't that excited about it to be honest with you but then we went and saw the furniture and it's like wow it's it's really nice stuff that you I mean again students are encouraged and excited when they have new things and the furniture very exciting okay so in conclusion as far as the annual report and this is kind of the specific stuff that I have to State as the chairman and all that good stuff so based on the listed activities the CI oversight committee advises the public that the Anaheim Union High School is in compliance with the State Education Code there of California Bond proceeds have been expended on projects set forth in the ballot measure no bond proceedings have been used for teachers or administrative salaries or other school operating expenditures audits have been performed as prescribed by law and if you want to um see any of this part of the report or uh anything about the committee and what they've done you can go to the website the Anaheim Union High School blueprint.

thank you e e e okay we're good all right thank you okay we'll call this meeting back to order we're back in public session and we'll do another quick uh roll call Amanda banan here Maria okara I'm here Rene longshaw here Anita Tucker here and I'm here as well so um can you join me in the pledge uh the Allegiance please I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands na indivisible thank you okay we got a lot to cover here so we're going to start with the reports from the student Representatives first up Sycamore Rocks Elementary Conor Mir and Lily Hager yep good evening my name is Connor and I'm Lily first off we would like to say how excited we are to tell you all of the Fantastic activities and programs we have at Sycamore Rocks this year our sore Rocks Community has come together to continue to grow and flourish we have a variety of activities students can participate in from grades kindergarten to sixth grade A our after school programs include art astronomy cross country beating paper crafting student council and dance programs our school also has a play production each year I am in this school's production of Madagascar I have the part of Lars one of the seven Lemur in the play we have been working on the play since August I have been participating in our school's play productions for the past three years this is my last year and I'm sad to leave this group I have built within the past few years being a part of the play has helped me build confidence in longl lasting friendships we are both part of the student council and so far this year we have planned a variety of spirit word days helped to judge the Halloween costume contest and passed out kindness bracelets during kindness week this year we planned a pumpkin painting contest for Halloween our Day of the Dead theme was very successful and had an exceptional schoolwide turnout that we were able to display art at our Halloween festival where patrons were able to vote for their favorite pumpkins we had our annual Spooktacular Halloween trick or treat event on October 31st this year we did a candy donation contest which brought in more than we expected our event had an amazing turnout and a wonderful light show at the end of the night this is a hit among our families each year we had so much extra donated candy that we were able to package up the remaining candy and create care packages for their troops our school also holds two 5K runs every year every student and staff partici participates and we have a blast while we are promoting health and fitness we did the turkey 5K in November which was a successful event with lots of particip we will be having another 5K in Spring we hope to enjoy the beautiful spring day as we get hang out with friends and take in the fresh spring air in December we did our school did a winter wonderland family night where students and families go to come together to play games create crafts enjoy food and celebrate uh local vendors this was a very successful night where we were able to create winter themed crafts in even had pictures with Santa there was a directed drawing lesson hosted by our very own elf Miss Delo our school is an art focused school at the end of every year we have a schoolwide arts fair this year at arts fair is May 9th at arts fair students display artwork they have worked on throughout the school year each grade level does a music performance we also have lots of games and art focused activities such as a schoolwide mural that we hang up and display for years to come speaking of art this year we have a dedicated art class with Mrs Collins we get art once every two weeks Where Mrs Colin teaches us about a v variety of artists their art styles and their cultural historical importances during Black History Month we learned about Jean Michael Bas basat baskot in in addition to Art we also o participate in music class once a week with Miss Posta she is in charge of band inquire as well as helping with the play she is an import important part of arts fair and makes sure that all of the classes are successful in our musical performances lastly we have a variety of fundraisers so far this year the first one in the fall where students created fun art pieces and could have their art put on items like mugs bags and keychains we raised $1,000 $1,490 we we are currently doing two fundraisers at our school the first fundraiser has already been very successful and allows students to earn prizes and gives teachers the opportunity to order lots of supplies and books for the classroom the second fundraiser is p teacher on P day March 14th winning classrooms from each grade level get to p a teacher of their choice so far we have raised $1,024 64 we will collect donations until Thursday March 13th 2025 one last thing we would really like to thank all of our teachers and staff at syamore rocks they truly make our school special thank you for allowing us to speak about how exiding s rocks is have a great night [Applause] thank you Connor and LLY very well done up next Vanguard prep Samantha stto and annaya [Applause] Cervantes good evening before we start we would like to pass out a gift from our art and Graphics students we appreciate you guys having us here and thank you thank you and if you'll just give me a moment I'm gonna connect the to the screen and give you your presentation thank you I think Mr Buchanan I don't have conference room a on my no we don't Tyler worth the wait come back make sure it'sing yep [Music] [Applause] good evening District board members I am Samantha stto the ASB president at Vanguard prepatory and I am anniah santes the ASB vice president we're honored to be here today representing ASB and sharing all the amazing events and activities that have made this school year so special Vanguard is more than just a school it's a family and this year has been all about building our community and making Unforgettable memories together from rallies to sports dances to Spirit weeks our students have actively engaged bringing energy school spirit and teamwork to everything we do let's take a look at some of the incredible moments from this year Sports have been a huge part of our year our volleyball cross country and basketball seasons were full of hard work determination and teamwork our student athletes gave it their a showing true Falcon Pride on and off the court we are so proud of both our girls and boys basketball teams who just finished their season undefeated electives oh [Music] [Applause] electives here at Vanguard offer a wide variety that cater to diverse interests of students they allow students to explore passions and develop new skills there's something here for everyone after school clubs like cooking class art class drill team and Leadership provide students with the opportunity to explore their interest and develop new skills outside the classroom these after school programs Foster creativity teamwork leadership and help students build confidence they also offer a positive and engaging way for students to spend their time after school students have had the opportunity to go on many engaging field trips this year including a trip to the pumpkin patch and Calico Ghost Town our middle school students had the opportunity to attend and participate in a variety of Student Activities and events already this year our leadership class has hosted multiple dances and socials for grades 2nd through 8th grade as well as movie nights and fundraisers for the entire campus we held our first family paint night in November and now we are preparing for our next big event the annual Falcon 5K Color Run academic success is something we take pride in as Falcons Renaissance rallies are one of the biggest events each trimester we kick off the first trimester with a Spider-Man themed Renaissance rally the gym was transformed into a superheroes quadrants celebrating students achievements with thrilling games competitions and performance es our second rally is this next week with a Disney themed entitled the smart smartest place on Earth foro students will be able to attend a special event celebrating all of their achievements at Vanguard we focus on building community and school spirit by providing on campus activities Spirit weeks and lunchtime games that help promote a sense of belonging and pride in our school another highlight of our year was our seventh and eighth grade Community Day this was a time for older students to bond grow as leaders and strengthen friendships through activities that emphasized teamwork and service it was a meaningful experience that reminded us how important it is to support one another and give back our Vanguard drama program presented the production of Alice and Wonderland earlier this year and are currently wrapping up the last of four Children's Theater performances of their storybook production Once Upon a Time the staff at our school are dedicated hardworking and committed to the success of every student they go above and beyond to create a positive learning environment where students feel valued and encouraged to thrive their passion for teaching and helping students to succeed in is evident in everything they do we are so grateful to have an amazing staff that we can trust and appreciate our ptsl plays a vital role in supporting our schools Community by organizing events and raising funds for student programs they provide a valuable connection between parents teachers and students through their efforts ptso a school spirit and helps provide resources that benefit all students sore is a core saying at our school that emphasizes the value of self-control staying on task always respectful and responsible it encourages students to take ownership of their actions and Positive Choices both in and out of the classroom by promoting these principles we create a supportive environment where students can Excel academically and socially at Vanguard we believe that when we come together as a community we can achieve we can achieve great things whether through Sports performances or rallies every event this year has been a testament to our family Falcon spirit thank you for your support in making all of these opportunities possible for our students we can't wait to finish the year strong and continue building a school Community where everyone feels valued included and empowered thank you [Applause] thank you Samantha and anniah good job next up high desert Premiere Jasmine bracie [Applause] [Music] good evening president Raleigh esteemed board members superintendent executive I mean superintendent Nelson executive cabinet Apple Valley Unified staff and educational Partners I am glad to be back and speaking with you this month this week many of our students including myself were able to attend a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance we had we had the chance to see how families struggled during World War II and were able to hear their heartbreaking stories another group of students were able to visit the San King College earlier today and visit different College Pathways Esports started their fortnite competitions during preseason two of our teams won their tournament now it's time for the real game Golf Club has officially started taking their skills to the golf course this group meets every week to play a game or shots at the shooting range three of our 11th graders interviewed with the American Legion California boys and girls State program to take a chance at being able to participate in a trip to Sacramento to have hands on experience to learn about the structure of city county and state governments based on the California state cons Constitution Jason Johnson moved through the interviews moved through the interviews and was was selected to attend the trip this summer great job Jason this month on February 13th I mean last month on February 13th I was able to attend the pathway the pathways to success fair at the San berino Fairgrounds and I had an amazing time there were multiple students and staff we learned about different careers and what their jobs really look like for example we got to learn we got to learn how general atomic controls their drones from up high it was a very good experience they provided food drinks and swag I hope you have an amazing rest of your month staying safe and warm out there multiple of you have made me feel very welcome and gave me more motivation to come speak at the board meetings and I would like to thank you I'm really looking forward to doing this again have a lovely spring break and thank you for your time [Applause] thank you Jasmine Granite Hills Anna every time good evening executive cabinet board members and attendees my name is Hannah for and I'm the ASB governing council president at G Hills High School tonight I have a lot of updates for you but they're all pretty great so ASB worked very hard in February we had a be day for Valentine's Day which was a lot of fun and our entire senior class worked together to sell popcorn to raise money to lower grad Night tickets and thank you to some of our district personnel and board members who bought popcorn supported us we really appreciate you guys in March ASB is hosting a mini pep rally for the incoming freshman as well as participating in the districtwide field day uh this month also ASB applications and elections for next year's class officers are taking place we wish all of them luck last month our mock Tri team attended the county award ceremony for the first time in history we placed third out of 10 schools in the desert mountain region we even got to bring home a trophy and it's a huge accomplishment on top of that we also brought home eight individual student awards and one of our students received the civility scholarship that only two out of all competing students receive each year it was an incredible season and as one of the captains I'm extremely proud and grateful to our coach Mr ESN over there it was his first year and we could not have done it without him so we're extremely thankful last month we also held two blood drives on campus in partnership with livestream we are extremely thankful to the staff and students who donated to help save lives last week our skada students attend attended the knb farm engineering day on February 27th Belin Silva barera and Michael poxer won first place in the animatronics competition through the Garner H education they showed their imagination for the animatronic Bird design through programming engineering and artistic skills yesterday yday four of our gr Hill students join students from all over San berino County in their final day of the sbcss student advisory to present the research-based solutions to challenges that students face in our schools our students represented granite and absd well and provided meaningful suggestions to challenges like violence mental health and increased Mental Health Services for students tomorrow at 2 am our choir program is going on their annual tour and this year they are going to New York last year chamber singers won a competition which gave them the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall so besides prestigious opportunity they will be doing a lot of sightseeing and seeing a Broadway show and going to a master class with a Broadway professional we are very excited for them over spring break our theater program is also going on a 4-day trip to New York we'll be seeing two Broadway shows participating acting workshops and more and I'm very excited and I'm sure I'll have a lot to tell you about next month but theater's also getting ready for the production of lay Miz which will take place April 4th 5th 11th and 12th and I really hope you attend because you will be blown away I promise you next Monday Tuesday we are welcoming our incoming nth graders to campus they're going to go on a mini tour led by link crew attend a club rush and a pep rally we are very excited Granite Hills is also hosting the sixth annual district field day on Thursday March 13th this proud Granite tradition is part of us being recognized as a Special Olympics unified Champion school for promoting inclusion with the support of every Department of ausd 226 students with special needs ranging from preschool to adult are partner with 200 Gran Hil students and 80 Ava J students to participate in Games sports and activities ities when rain or shine it is sure to be a funfilled day and we hope you join us as one of the student volunteers it's one of my favorite events each year and I'm really excited our spring sports are off to a great start baseball is currently six to1 and won the AE tournament softball is looking to defend their title as League Champs and are 4-2 Boys Tennis is also off to a great start at 2-2 golf is golf is fall 4-0 and swim is ready to start their season our Tack and field teams also grown to over 100 student athletes for the first time in our program's history and we're ready to break some records as always we thank you for your support of Granite Hills I hope you all have a spring break incredible spring break and I look forward to seeing you all next month as always Mar and gray lead the [Applause] way thank you Hannah we'll be looking forward to the next report next month Alpa Valley High Fe a [Applause] all right hello and good evening superintendent Nelson president Raley and members of the board and attendees my name is Fen Avila but most people know me as Effie I'm Apple Valley High School's junior class president our line President Eden and the rest of our ASB couldn not make it tonight as it is our annual Mr sundevil event which I get to tell you about in a bit tonight I am so thrilled to be sharing with you what our students and staff have been up to at abhs to begin our athletics department has been Unstoppable girls soccer made it to CIF round one where they played Oak Christian it brought their season to a close but hey our girls are still the most high achieving soccer team in the High Desert Golf took their first swing of the season and ended with a victory scoring 34 softball and baseball continue to make us proud with boys beating those Victorville jack rabbits to7 just last week we had our yearly buff and tough where Junior and senior boys swap out with our female athletes and play volleyball in a fun-filled lunchtime competition class of 2025 took the win and went on to face our staff in the annual staff versus students volleyball game while staff may have beat us this year the real highlight was getting to see our history teacher Mr Moore play the game Barefoot on the 1 of February our ASB Juniors had a wonderful winter formal Spirit weekend dance a night in black and white surpassing the prior years ticket sales and attendance not to brag but our junior class is pretty good our senior class just had their annual senior meeting this is where we give out information on graduation prom and all other exciting senior events this included the highly anticipated prom reveal and students found out our prom 2025 will take place at the Majestic downtown in Los Angeles on Saturday April 19th our theme is Young and Beautiful with an old money GS be Fu to it our school is always looking for ways we can improve every few months students across all grade levels Pathways and backgrounds get the opportunity to join to join in on our Apple Valley High School Superintendent advisory council with our superintendent and assistant superintendent TR Nelson and Pat sler I personally look forward to these meetings as it is a chance to speak up for and represent several groups and voices on campus in our most recent meeting we spoke on topics like student safety engagement and College and Career Readiness admin teachers and support staff came in and helped us begin putting these ideas into action we are so grateful we get to do things like this as a student body our CTE programs have been thriving this month our culinary class just had their annual mdcp chopped cooking competition we got first place among 11 other local high schools and these talented chefs will go on to represent the High Desert at the Countrywide competition in May safe to say they ate this up every school year we participate in skills USA from nursing to graphic design and even community service we had 1,452 students registered 289 competing in regionals and we are so proud to say we have 197 students advancing to the state competition next month in Ontario yeah this wasn't just a big month for our school but a big month for our whole country February is Black History Month a month getting to highlight the past present and future of our black students athletes and leaders ASB got the chance to show our support in a few different ways we decorated the whole school in festive posters banners and inspirational quotes every week we highlighted four different black athletes in front of our ASB office where students could stop to learn about these icons in history last week we had a blackowned business on campus that's a pretzel food truck sorry as we know if food is involved our students will be there to finish off the month we had a black is beautiful spirit day to show her support of these important few weeks of the Year lastly yesterday was our College in career fair at Apple students had the chance to meet with so many different people from all career paths from Starbucks to Grand Canyon University we had something for everybody we loved getting to hear about all of our options for after high school this also gave students an inside look as to all the helpful resources we offer in our Career Center on our very own campus tonight is Apple Valley High School's annual Mr sundevil a night filled with fashion choreograph dances and competitive teenage boys this has been a tradition we have proudly put on for decades and after a few rounds of very high stakes competition our live audience gets to vote on who takes home the coveted title of Mr sundevil there are so many exciting things happening at Apple Valley high school and I just wanted to thank you all for your continued support we couldn't give our students any of these incredible opportunities and Lasting memories without you thank you for your time and remember sundal pride is contagious [Applause] good report Effie good job board comments Anita Tucker good evening uh I'd like to begin by expressing my gratitude to our students Connor Lily Samantha annia Jasmine Hannah and Effie for their wonderful presentations tonight and I must say you were Flawless in the face of such a large crowd you you totally rocked it um it's always exciting to hear all the events and activities that are taking place in our school and I look forward to attending more and more of them good luck with Mr sundevil and good luck with your trips to New York and all the other amazing events that are going on um as we move through the month of March Mar we are celebrating several significant events I know March 14th for all the math people is really big um congratulations on getting so much money on pying a teacher I used to bring pies to school for little pies for the kids because as a history teacher Pi Day anytime you could have food with math was good for me um tomorrow tomorrow is March 7th this marks Employee Appreciation Day while we traditionally honor our teachers and classified every May tomorrow is an opportunity for us to pause and express our gratitude for the hard work and dedication of all our employees it is a day to recognize the unique perspectives and talents that they bring to our district and to remind them of how much they are valued not only as professionals but as individuals March is also traditionally women's history month and Saturday March 8th is international women's day this year's theme is moving forward gather women educating and inspiring generations and we honor the countless contributions of women throughout history as well as the vital role women continue to play and shaping our society this is an important time for our students to reflect on the incredible influence of women that H that we've had in our lives in our families in our communities and the world and to celebrate these contributions in our schools um February 19th I had the pleasure of attending the Assistance League open house I was able to see firsthand the support that they provide to our students and families I also attended the state of the town of Apple Valley event on the same day and I learned more about some of the exciting plans for our town in the future uh and it's it's inspiring to see the ongoing development and growth within our community I was here many many years ago when our community was extremely small so the growth is really exciting for me on February 22nd I attended the high desert Honor Band concert held at Oak Hills High School where several of our talented musicians performed formed at the elementary junior high and high school levels along with our band teacher from Granite Hills High School who led the high school band and that's Mr Javier um alakara rooha sorry uh the students did an incredible performance I was blown away by how well they performed and I'm so glad that we continue to encourage and support the Arts in our schools I would like to extend a special thank you to miss Mariana Torres for her hard work in organizing the vision event on March 1st it was a great success for our families and I am also so appreciative of the time and effort she put into making uh this happen additionally I'd like to recognize our dedicated staff who stepped in to provide support during an accident at the event their quick response and Care were truly appreciated and looking ahead I'm excited to visit more schools later this month it's always a rewarding experience and probably my favorite part of the job to visit our students and staff and see firsthand the amazing things that are happening in our classrooms and schools and I'm continually inspired by the passion and commitment that you all bring to education thank you so much for your hard work and I look forward to continuing support our schools and community in every way I can thank you [Applause] thank you Anita uh moving on to um Renee longshaw yes good evening to you all welcome um I would like to just say thank you to our student representatives for your courage and standing up and talking to us I know how daunting that could be I personally did not have the courage to do that when I was in high school so my hat is to you entirely um I too have been going to the community events with Anita that has just been a pleasure to see our um hard work of our community all the contributions that are being made um to make Apple Valley the place that it is um I want to acknowledge specifically um Lily at Sycamore Rocks um totally coming to see Madagascar just FYI um so I'll be looking for you um at van guard undefeated in basketball amazing I am a baller too so just FYI um Jasmine Hi Desert Premier Academy um you just get better each time so well done my lady and the Museum of Tolerance was the place that I visited and it framed my worldview and my motivation moving forward so I hope you had as equally an impressive time there um Hannah at Granite Hills I'm coming to your field day I hear it's bomb so I'm totally excited I've even got my shirt tonight so that's exciting and um Bey at Apple Valley High School where did you go okay you are a Wordsmith can I just say amazing you had us all rolling um congratulations on that keep that up obviously a gift of yours um congratulations on the state competition I'm going to be looking into that um just my hats off to the women in the room specifically as we think about how far we've come in this world as we enter this month um I want to encourage us both young and old to continue to uh strive towards your own greatness and um continue to speak up and continue to speak loud um because the contributions we're making to this world are important so I look forward to that as we go into this month um I too was at the vision Fair um Mariana are you in here no I don't see her she is phenomenal helping to head up those outreaches to our community last time I talked to her 157 people were being serviced with vision exams and glasses um such a contribution uh to our community so I definitely wanted to recognize that as we paired um with the Lions Club um to meet that need um I also want to acknowledge by name I know uh truste Tucker uh mentioned three uh of our nurses that stepped up and and and responded to an event and um it was amazing just to watch um them and how they um you know just went to when there was need um those nurses Wendy Johnson Amber mullinex and Megan um Salsbury thank you for going above and beyond um in service to a community m in need and that is it thank you thank you Renee Maria par well thank you very much for uh giving me the opportunity to speak to you this evening but before I start I need to uh thank the student speakers uh all of you um they made you've made me proud and I think our future is in good hands um based on what you've just done I don't have to worry about what will happen to my Social Security because I know you're ready um for the student from uh syore rocks um um Madagascar has a special place in my heart uh as you all know I'm from Africa we always say there's no Africa without Madagascar so I definitely will show up to see how you represent that portion of Africa and in cartoon form yeah so um and then I had the opportunity to go to uh Vanguard um to join u a team of community members to read to students uh for the read Across America um they gave me a book that was small well Mighty book uh it's a small book he says he a Wacky Wednesday um but that book kept us working all the way to the last second that I was allotted to us um and I had no idea how bright those first graders in Mrs uh Khan's class were um polite young people um very attentive to detail and anybody that knows uh knows me knows that I pay attention to things that people don't even notice is there um and those little children showed me all of the differences in every page of that book of course when I finished reading that book Because I had never seen it I immediately went to Amazon to order mine um and uh coming to Vanguard was kind of interesting because as I was coming up as a as an educator in this District I also did serve as a summer school principal on that campus uh so uh I knew my way around before the new buildings came on um so it was uh like U coming home uh to Vanguard uh and for Jasmine um I wish to have the experiences that you have experience going to to LA to see the Museum of Tolerance I wish they brought that here uh so that many more students will have the opportunity to see some of the injustices done to people along the way and the problem is if we look away those things will continue to happen uh but it is important that when you see Injustice done to one you call it out uh and that is what we expect of you uh coming behind us of course granny Hills field day is my exciting time as you all know my background is in special education so anytime I'm around students who have special needs I have a different energy that comes into my body and I can't resist to play with them to go under the tent to dance to do silly things uh because I really want those students who have special needs to know that they are capable they are not incapable um of course app High School f um that school I bleed Orange um my student my children went to Apple Valley high school so that's you know I look forward to what happens at Apple Valley High School uh so I can't wait to uh go out and see what you have to offer at your schools uh today I had the opportunity to go to West End um Educational Center I would have gone yesterday but I made the decision to do read Across America so today I went to West End uh to serve as a a panelist um uh for to listen to student voices and I I was really impressed because the same student voices I would have heard yesterday I heard it from students from other districts down the hill and one of the things that struck me in their presentation was mental health uh they talked in in great deal about mental health mental health is not one of those things we we usually teach we talk about but it is important that we pay close attention especially in this time that we are all sitting in this room and I look around and I see the classified staff and I see the certificated staff and I see the children and I see the parents and we cannot underestimate the power of mental health so when people speak to you it is important for you to pay close attention to what they are not saying so what you are not saying is what matters to me the most and in one of those presentations they talked about things you can do to help with mental health such as giving active breaks and having a designated place for children to take breaks uh to have meditation Gardens and I know the elementary schools do have Gardens uh but maybe we need to pay closer attention to Gardens and like I said to the uh speakers in um West End there is nothing as exciting as putting your hand in the dirt and messing with the dirt and in two weeks something comes out of it based on what you put down and that is what I see each and every one of you in this room doing um you get those children and you do the best you can and you mold them to who they are and they become great people along the way I want you to know that whatever you have have shared with us today that we are going to pay very close attention to what you said and what you have not said and at the end something is going to happen for you that much you can count on for that I pause thank [Applause] you thank you Maria uh I'm Amanda you can good evening um and I'd also like to reiterate and extend a huge thank you to our student Representatives I I feel like you almost embodied Eden tonight like the podium like that was I don't know what you guys are doing over there but that was great keep it up um but it's always a highlight of our our meetings to hear directly from the students uh and I truly appreciate the time and effort oops there goes my purse it takes to prepare and present um but also a special thank you to all of the parents and the staff and um and just everybody who supports and encourages them and has brought them here tonight so thank you for that um as Mrs Tucker mentioned um I also had the pleasure of attending the county Honor Band concert and I was blown away by the level of Talent on that stage um the Elementary Honor Band set the bar high with an outstanding performance um then the Middle School musicians took the stage uh and I have to say they sounded way better than my high school band and we won a couple Superior placements at at various um competitions and I was like man is this really the middle school or was this the high school um it was just it was phenomenal um but then the high school band honor band took um took the stage and they closed out the evening with a performance that easily could have passed as a professional Symphony like it it was beautiful um so it was just it was truly inspiring to witness such dedication and musical Excellence from students across the county but especially from our district because our district was listed many many times of next to students names as to where um they were from yesterday I had absolute pleasure of being a guest reader at Vanguard for read Across America day um this is one of my favorite events um because I don't usually get to be around the littles um but it ended up being kind of an extra special day because um I had posted a picture on my social media and one of my former students said that's my son in the second row you read to his class and I was like that is so fantastic like that was just where I randomly got placed and it was the first time I've actually had a students child even though I'm not the teacher but for that little minute I got to be um I'm also looking forward to field day I so I don't say it often but I actually started in special education and that's what I got my master's degree in um in college and so I I really I did not attend the first year I was on the board because I didn't want to miss work and then um they all said you've gotta you've gotta go you've gota go so I took in a personal day and I went and so well worth it I will be there again next week so um finally just as we approach spring break I want to wish everyone a safe restful and well-deserved break I think everybody needs it so just take time to recharge and enjoy with your loved ones and thank you [Applause] thank you Amanda so I'm gonna take a couple things out of order first I'm gonna push over to superintendent comments and then after superintendent comments I'm going to go to recognition presentation with the uh Future Farmers of America so you guys will go up after coms I want to do it absolutely um several students participated in the Apple Valley rotary competition um there was a music competition and a speech competition first place winner was Jameson Pine from Apple Valley high school and will be advancing to the Area Regional competition in the second place was anarie Bell from Granite Hills High School speech competition winners were anarie Bell from Granite Hills High School and Joselyn caras I believe is the name um I maybe said that wrong Apple Valley high school and um third place was McKenzie esal so um always great when our students represent at the local um competitions and win scholarships coming out of that um I too want to acknowledge the Lions Club Vision event um came by and um checked on some staff that had had quite a heroic moment in the morning um not to mention some of our custodian our custodian staff that um took fire extinguishers and helped to extinguish a fire um what a day and I think the best um for them was to actually support the community um the room was packed and people were getting glasses and so I've I think that was a great recovery for them to then serve um but I do I did ask that we put together something to allow for us to also donate frames um to the Lions Club as a district because what an what an event what an event to um provide vision to people that are struggling to be able to read and see um I attended the chop competition and while I know that there was a live stream and some of our board members were able to um tune in there is absolutely no comparison to being there and smelling what's being cooked in the kitchen there's hardly any room for students to move they're all in competition mode and there were two always there's two um secret ingredients the CH the students are provided the day of the event this year it was tereso or green curry and I will tell you that um the students were amazing at um putting these things together and incorporating them into their meals um the Apple Valley High School students meatballs were because there was the main course was a ribey that they had to utilize so I watched the granite kids go to competition they had finished theirs they got to go be judged while I was there and they had an actual frame around their um steak that had a lobster tail on it and a sauce and I believe it was on Roto and I wanted to grab one of those plates as they walk by but I knew that that would not be appropriate um but all of it just wonderful to watch um the Apple kids taking first place watching them put it in the oven and realizing that they took the steak grounded up and made meatballs with it and so theirs was tereso as their um main ingredient so they move on to a county competition which is pretty cool because this is fairly new they'll go compete down at San Marino Valley College I believe last Friday I was invited to read in Wendy Kelly's first grade class at sitting bll Academy um for read Across America and I was glad that I got to do it because I was going to miss the um event over at Vanguard and so two books the kids went late to recess and they didn't even complain and I kept waiting for them to say hey it's our recess but they kept going and I kept reading um and then I did get to return to sitting bow on Tuesday to watch their um new after school elementary choir club um they're being led by teacher Delisa Krauss who is also an Apple Valley alumni and I can't wait to see their performance in the spring while I was there I noticed that there was some basketball going on and so I went into the gym and there was a basketball scrimmage between this eighth grade boys and the seventh grade boys um as I left they were going into overtime because it was tied and I'm talking some of these kids are on my advisory and they're taller than I am and then all the seventh graders are like running under them and they were still making basket so really great competition fun to watch um yesterday while many of the board members were reading it Vanguard I was at the county superintendent advisory um student advisory and I was a panel member which I've done annually just because I love seeing our students work with the other students in the high desert to create um plans that um focus on Mental Health injury and violence and prevention and chronic disease and they all every one of their presentations actually tied back to mental health so while there were some students that were totally focused on Mental Health every one of them got there at some point um they were great presentations and I came away for some considerations for our schools and our student advisories that I would like to there's some student advisories out there Lily's on my student advisory Effie is um Hannah is Jasmine is so um pretty cool that we can maybe tie these all together with the county projects too tomorrow our students will be competing in video production welding and Automotive again there will be a live feed there won't be great smells there'll be lots of noises but I'll be there to cheer them on and watch them um and then um just for the board members the Apple Valley um California stake of the um Church of Jesus Christ in Latter Day Saints is planning a teacher appreciation um it's an event where their seniors that um go to Seminary in the morning um down the street um have have to talk about who their teacher that impacted them and so from those students that are seniors this year graduating they'll go and recognize them there is an evening event that they would like the board to be invited to on April 25th um at 6 PM we'll get more information to you but Mr Schmidt um contacted me and wanted to make sure since we're about a month and a half out that you guys got that on your calendar that's it thank you thank you [Applause] turn okay I'm gonna skip down to recognition presentation just item one and then we'll go back into order so basically um Isabelle O'Hara from alab Valley High Future Farmers of America is going to give a presentation um I asked for this presentation uh little background FFA has been around well when I was at High School in the 70s it was big here we are 2025 still going strong very few schools in Southern California that have this program Apple Valley is uh it's one of the the better ones around so uh I'm going to um Isabelle I'm going to hand it off to you thank you good evening members of the Apple Valley Unified School Board superintendent and community members my name is Isabella O'Hara and I'm proud to represent the agriculture program at the Apple Valley High School our agriculture program is thriving providing students with Hands-On learning experiences that prepares for real world careers and Agriculture and Beyond one of the cornerstones of our program is our SAE supervised gulture experience projects where students take on the responsibility of raising and caring for Animals this year this year our students are raising 15 Lambs three steers 10 calves 36 pigs 15 turkeys and four pin of meat birds through these projects we develop critical skills in animal husbandry responsibility and teamwork these projects aren't just about raising animals they teach us life skills business management and the value of hard work we're excited to showcase our efforts at the San brino County Fair this May 24th through June 1st 2025 where're 60 of our 120 a students will be exhibiting their animals the other students who do not participate in the fair grow plants for our IND of the Year banquet and sell them there further contributing to our program a huge part of our success is thanks to our incredible teacher Miss Pearson her leadership has been instrumental in rebuilding and expanding our program because of our growth we're adding more pins to accommodate the increasing number of animals at our school farm with Mrs Pearson's guidance we've had the opportunity to participate in leadership conferences at the chapter section Regional State and National levels expanding our skills beyond the farm in leadership we recently took five teams to the section opening and closing ceremony competition and four of these teams qualified for the regional competition each team consists of six students showcasing the dedication and Talent within our program last October we took six students to the FFA National convention in Indianapolis where one of our students placed in the top four in the nation for Sheet proficiency an incredible achievement that highlights the Excellence of our program additionally we have a student who has once again Advanced to the state level for Diversified livestock production showcasing their dedication and skill we're also proud to have a candidate for State FFA officer position a testament to the strong leadership development Within in our chapter these accomplishments reflect the hard work passion and commitment of our students and the strength of our program in February we competed in the section Super Saturday event at app at Victor Valley College proudly representing our school and Community this competition showcased the talent and dedication of our students and we are thrilled to announce that three of the teams Advanced from the section level to the regional level in the Creed and impromptu speaking competitions Beyond compet petitions we are excited for upcoming opportunities to expand our knowledge and experience agriculture firsthand where we have a field trip planned to Apricot Lane Farm featured in the documentary the biggest little farm where students will gain insight into regenerative farming practices additionally we are taking 12 students to the state FFA convention in Sacramento where they will connect with industry leaders develop leadership skills and further their passion for agriculture these experiences continue to strengthen our program and Inspire the Next Generation of Agriculture leaders the avhs farm is more than just a place where we raise animals it's a space where we connect with what we learn in the classroom to the real world we explore farmtable Concepts learning where our food comes from and how to be responsible producers in a time where farms around us are disappearing it's crucial that we preserve and support agriculture in our community Beyond raising animals our program helps students develop valuable social and career skills we gain insight into a lifestyle that most people don't experience learning responsibility financial management and problem solving the Hands-On experiences we gain help us build Common Sense skills that are applicable in any career we also engage in fundraising such as our tritip dinners to help support our program making agriculture education more accessible for all students many of us plan to continue our education and careers in agriculture our program not only prepares us for college but also opens doors to scholarships and Creer opportunities in agriculture science Veterinary medicine business and Beyond this program played played a pivotal role in my academic success I've spent four years in it raising and selling six animals this experience helped me get into Montana State University's animal science program with an act business minor and secure over $80,000 in ag related scholarships as of right [Applause] now we also have a social media account on Instagram at Apple Valley FFA if you want to follow our journey and see all the great things we are accomplishing the CTE support at our school is noticed and appreciated not only financially through grants and also through the personal support that strengthens our program our agriculture program at Apple Val Apple Valley high school isn't just about animals it's about leadership responsibility and preparing for the future we appreciate your support in ensuring that agriculture remains a strong and vital part of our school and Community thank you for your time and investing in the future of [Applause] agriculture good to hear Isabella that it's going strong as always and uh congratulations on going to Montana State that's uh gonna be a big change from Apple Valley so thank you for the presentation thank you all right we'll dismiss the students you guys can um go add him to the rain and be drive safe on the way home and we'll we'll continue in a moment here just go this way thank you thanks guys J and I good night hanging in there oh yeah she was ready to go little chatter box I love the boot love okay we'll go ahead and continue we'll go down to item six is reports from Union Representatives uh JC Scott are you gonna give a presentation speak again and up after that we'll be Karen Sabres all right good evening Apple Valley Community I am JC Scott president of C Apple Valley 828 wow what a turnout it's amazing what we can achieve When We Stand Together teachers thank you for educating our students we couldn't do this without you some of you standing in this room today or sitting now because we're pretty tired I forgot to give you credit because some of you too were a part of my education at Granite Hills class of 2005 so go cougars thank you very much too from the bottom of my heart my dear classified members when you put your trust in me and elect me as your lead um to lead your chapter you expected me to fight for you but I can't do this without your support so thank you as well thank you for showing up tonight and showing everyone what the California School employee Association is about classified employees don't forget about the important role that you play every day for our students so smile like Dolly Parton says if someone's missing a smile let him have one of yours our students are counting on you I'm not going to repeat what I said earlier during our public comment because I think you guys got my point very clear so my sincere hope is that tomorrow during negotiations both of our bargaining units um come out to a fair and happy outcome so thank you Karen Sabers from Kuda so yeah if you want to share I'm sorry I even have color I ran out of colored ink and everything because it I'll printed out wrong sorry I'll send you guys copy okay good evening superintendent Nelson board members cabinet and audience I want to thank everyone for turning out tonight it really does mean a lot to have your support my name is Karen Sabers and I stand here as the abuda president a representative of our teachers our colleagues and as someone who deeply cares about the state of education I want to start by asking a simple question but yet a powerful one since when have we normalized extreme behaviors in education when did did it become okay for teachers to endure the kind of stress exhaustion and pressure that so many of them face in every single day I realize this is just not an Apple Valley Unified issue it's a national issue however we need to address what is happening here in avusd it is not normal to be a teacher and feel like you're filling so many roles the counselor data analysis disciplinary and social worker while still being expected to be a subject matter expert and a guide for our students Futures it is not normal for teachers to feel like they need to take anti-depressants to make it through the day it's not normal to get in your car and cry before and after work because the weight of the job is so overwhelming it's not normal to have panic attacks when you're sitting doing lesson plans or to gain weight because the stress we carry it's not normal to be a licensed professional and yet be paid poverty wages and yet we've come to accept these things in education why is that why do we normalize these unhealthy and unsustainable conditions in our profession and then we sit here and wonder why the teacher we have a teacher shortage and why teachers are leaving the profession in droves and why some are even leaving the district before the year ends it's clear we've ignored the reality of our teachers experiences for far too long AB budha recently conducted a survey to gather honest feedback from teachers and I want to emphasize that we did not track email addresses so that the teachers could respond freely and without fear we wanted to hear the truth The Good the Bad and everything in between I've handed each of you the results of the survey I'll make some more copies and I would like to quickly review them but I need my phone first because I know I know I'm so sorry okay so when you look at them um we had a total of 200 teachers respond which was outstanding um all different grade levels from every School site we also asked if they were an intern emergency credential probationary or a permanent um teacher we wanted to do that to see if our newer teachers are getting the behavior um issues in their classroom or if it's regular teach or veteran teachers as well as you can see 83.4% were um permanent teachers we did ask the question have you been hit kicked bit or physically harmed by student this current school year luckily 23% said yes um 78% we round up said no if so how often has it happened um those that are happening um is mainly only once or some are weekly next question have you other teachers or students been threatened by a student this school year unfortunately 58% of teachers that were surveyed said yes if so how often does it happen um mainly weekly or monthly next question have you other teachers or students been subjected to cursing or profanity with violent overtones by a student this current school year overwhelmingly 74% said yes how often is this happening weekly monthly and um second in line was daily um we did ask about workplace violence forms I didn't print those out but I can tell you that um 59% of who was surveyed does not know what that form is and um 69% does not know where to find it and only a small percentage has filled them out next question was and final question do you feel supported with student behaviors 54% said no and then we asked how would you rate the support you receive regarding student regarding student behaviors one being not supported at all five being um extremely support or completely supported 11.5% said 5 22% said 4 28% said three 24.5% said two and 14% said one so overwhelmingly it was three two or one they don't feel supported I did um print out a summary of all the comments we had a lot of comments come in there and I can provide you with the original comments I did not track them I did not track School sites we just um took the comments I can tell you that one that really stuck with me was a teacher said that she was um wanting to plan her family however because of behaviors in her classroom she feels um scared for her unborn child if she would um start her family that is a one that I can provide for you um we did go through student behavior issues I'm not going to read them all um there are many of those the second category is lack of discipline and accountability um third category is safety concerns fourth category support and Staffing um fifth category ISS isues with Administration six is parent accountability and lack of cooperation seven special ed and special education and inclusion concerns um a staff morale and well-being and finally inconsistent discipline policies but I can provide you with the original comments this is just a list of them being sorted out um the da the data is clear teachers need help with student behaviors we are not equipped to handle the extreme behaviors we see in our classrooms the stress caused by these behaviors compounded with the lack of proper support is pushing teachers to the brink And yet when we ask for help we often hear it's about classroom management or it's about relationship building with students I'm here to say it and and say it loudly 99% of the time that is not the problem yes classroom management and relationships matter but there's so much more going on and we cannot continue to place the blame on teachers alone we need genuine sympathetic support we need resources training and most importantly we need empathy and understanding from the administration not judgment teachers are Str strugling with behaviors that go far beyond what any single teacher should expect to manage alone we need support to recognize the complexity of the situation we need compassion not condemnation we need breaks when we're overwhelmed we need to be treated with dignity and respect especially when we're trying to do our best in the environments that are increasingly difficult to navigate so I urge you all let's stop normalizing and the unacceptable let's acknowledge the real stress and strain that teachers are facing if we are serious about addressing teacher shortage and retaining education Educators we need to take immediate action it's time for us to support teachers in the way they deserve because when teachers Thrive students Thrive and when teachers don't have to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders we can focus on what truly matters teaching and learning thank you and solidarity Karen [Applause] Karen Karen can you go back up to the podium I got a couple questions I want to ask you so this sir this this has been a hot topic for a long time yes sir you know we live in a society you have a son that's a police officer here in s County we live in a society where police are getting shot police are getting beat up uh there's lawlessness in the streets as a school board what do you expect when we have idiotic laws that are being written from California that we can't even expel students for bringing weapons into the class so it's real easy to uh you know say that we need help we we definitely need help if it was left up to me I would spell every student that was disruptive used profanity brought weapons on but we can't do that so I want you know what is the answer I mean you come here and you ask us and you bring us these charts and you say that the teachers are stressed we know that Society is stressed and it's more violent every day so as a school board what would you if you were sitting in my chair here what would you do why as a school board member as a school board get rid violence in the classrooms when they go to Coast to Coast they need to advocate for that um I just came back from Sacramento our County Superintendent really advocated for funding to help out we need kind what kind of funding would help out with that for violence in the classrooms we have we have organizations that don't even want police or probation on the campuses there are we spoke with Senators we spoke with legislators they are willing to take that back to their peers we need training I've asked I've asked for the CPI training the first part of it which is um the um self-regulation and deescalation I think we need that that is free of cost we have I think five trainers in our district that could go out and instead of a Wednesday that many teach teachers feel they're sitting in these plc's and it's not helping that could be something that could help um we need Administration that when we send Stu when they send students up they're not back in the classroom 10 minutes later but so let but we are not allowed by by Ed code and by state law to even discipline the kids we can't remove them from the classroom yes you can teachers can even suspend teachers can suspend from the classroom that day and the following day admin can help out and keep them in a um keep them in the office whatever they need to do to give that teacher a break because when those students come back for instance too we have the spsa and the bits teachers are very frustrated with that program because the students come back and they're holding up a toy or they're getting they're getting um chips and candy with red dye in them and I literally sat in a meeting with two of them two spsa that said we cannot service that student with a behavior plan or with anything unless that parent is willing to allow that student to take that toy or those chips or that candy we that's unacceptable we're talking chips and Candy we're not talking you were talking assaults profanity lace there was a teacher standing behind you that said she was assaulted at school this is these are issues that are Way Beyond what a a school board can do this is a societal problem today with violence lack of of and a respect for authority lack of respect to teachers and adults so I mean I'm sympathetic to it I'm just asking you you know flat out what would you do yeah there's training and things like that and I think it has not fallen on deaf ears here because we've talked about this me personally just me and you during some of our get togethers and that it's it's a serious serious problem it is a serious problem what if um but to what if we did a committee where we we took several sat down and tried to come up with some creative solu I I don't know what your job is as a school board member sure go ahead yeah that's why I brought her back up because we want Solutions but I I have a feeling it's really going to be difficult to do when we have wacky laws that are being made that are protecting these these uh kids that are being disruptive and they're disrupting not just the teachers but the kids that want to learn as well so it's a lose lose said social workers in school right I mean yeah well social workers yeah go ahead go ahead Mar you had a question for I I didn't have a question I just had a comment regarding this whole matter um you know we have these conversations that always comes for the laws that are out there but we do have Ed code that we have to follow and if we given the Ed code we have to follow it the teachers are well aware of those Ed codes 48900 is an ed code and it goes has letters of the alphabet that goes with it 48915 is Ed code there's a bunch of letters that go with it the challenge that I think the teachers are facing because I used to be one of you and I also used to be one of the people that used to assign the discipline is that sometimes you know very well that the student has validated one of those 48900 codes but they go to the office and they get candy back yes so as a teacher the teacher is PED yes so when they go to the office the teachers are asking just follow the Ed code and if you follow the Ed code there is a consequence if the parent comes you can show them this is the Ed code the government has hasn't taken it away from your hands the district and the teachers or the administrators are expecting the Ed code to be followed just follow it and when a student comes to us when this case comes to us as a board to now make a decision about expulsion we are also looking at that Ed code on part of those Ed codes says that if a student violates this particular Ed code the kid has no prayer there will be an expulsion there's no we don't have a wiggle room there that's that's the Ed code so the government may have had cases out there for law enforcement but for Education it is very clear I used to be in administration and there is a code in a penal code as a matter of fact that says that if you if you threaten a School employee you will have a six-month in jail or $1,500 fine we are not enforced ing it as a as a system and if you begin to enforce it as a system the message will go out to the community and it will go out to the parents it will go out to everybody to say we are done playing games so that's just what I'm seeing so as as far as I'm concerned I think we need to look at the Ed code we need to hand make sure every teacher has a copy of this Ed code the discipline the 48900 100 case that we deal with every teacher gets a copy of it so every teacher knows how to say this is the reason that I'm sending the student and the the teacher has to have a redress that when they send the student to the office and it doesn't happen the only person that we are responsible for or we supervis on this Das is the superintendent and if you don't get a response from your Administration let this the proper assistant superintendent or the superintendent know that this is not happening before we get it here because when we get it here there should be some consequence so a parent send us their child they expecting you to educate their child there are some things we don't have control over we can't control what parents do but we can control what we do in our classrooms so all we are asking is to support the teacher in their classrooms so that they can do the job for which they own the credentials that's all agreed because I can tell you I've had calls this year student had a knife blade wasn't long enough student got sent back to class um we've had others where teacher was P pushed student back in class 30 minutes later student um threatened to kill a class teacher was not notified of any like hey handled it don't worry about it I'll talk to you later but they see the student back out on campus 30 minutes later so it's that type of stuff that we need help with okay let me give you so that example of that student that had the 3-in blade or the under the the law and was back out there 30 minutes later so you're saying the Ed code would allow the Apple Valley School District to remove that student from the campus without because you just said it didn't suspend it suspension I would think okay well if a teacher can suspend a principal could Su well I think it's uh it's it's it's probably one of well it's the most one of the most important things is to get control in the classrooms like you said not just an Alpa Valley problem I mean you hear about it throughout the the country and mostly the state of California is the worst um so you know it didn't fall on De ears I appreciate you getting up here and bringing it up again because it's not the first time you brought this up yeah and even it like we they can't even take recess away from a student because can't do that that's a new law I know do that maybe we have a classroom that these students can be removed and go to for a little bit I I don't know the answers but that's why we asked in um negotiations we brought it up in negotiations as well because we'd like to get language in our contract for some help and we had talked about maybe doing a um committee that we could figure some things out it's it's it's a real problem know teachers are very stressed it's it's obvious I mean I talk to my grandkids and they say it's out of control in the classrooms there's no discipline at all it's just it's correct yes ma'am what would help if that would be smaller class sizes as well smaller class sizes enough counselors and counselors with case loes they can handle social workers with on the campuses these are all solutions that could be made um I don't think another committee or um more training for teachers I'm a teacher I'm not a therapist I'm not a psychologist I do all those jobs in one day and then I go home to my own kids and do it for them because they are in these classrooms dealing with this as well and I can tell you when we were in Sacramento um our county superintendent and many of us were also um lobbying for for smaller class sizes he is a big supporter of going to 20 to1 and trying to get some help with more funding for that okay well I appreciate you coming up here so keep us posted if there's any changes that you see that's maybe coming down the road that we can assist with and let us know R I'm sorry yes sorry I just want to make sure um that I make a comment there um and I appreciate the time to be able to do so thank you Karen um for your efforts to put that out there and protect our teachers so they could speak and I think it's important now that we've heard this from you that we are looking to uh address these issues and take a proactive stance um because it is important that our students learn um I I hear the concern about the students who are acting out um in class I understand as a teacher how that affects instructions in the class affects the learning of other students in the class I just want to uh make sure you understand that I I get it from a teacher's perspective and um and I want to know that I want you to know that this is valuable information and I appreciate you bringing it forward thank you and I just want to make it clear we're we're not talking about little Johnny who who you know cracks jokes or something we're talking about extreme behaviors we're talking about students that you just cannot get through a lesson or a day because the student is so disruptive so we're not talking about a whole class we're not talking about you know some may have five in a class but for the most part it's one or two that um cause a real disruption that's like 10% of the population creates 90% of the crime and it's the same with the students it's like 10% are no good and they disrupt the rest of the 90% so we get that but it's not fair yeah yeah it's not fair to those yeah that's exactly right yeah know a worse what we're right now against State preaching to the brother [Applause] BR okay Karen well thank you for the comments and it was a lively discussion can I add one more thing it's a good discussion that's what it takes right you know we water it down and it's vanilla it's like okay we want this done and we sit here we're like okay thanks we'll talk to you next month you know that's what it's gonna take I get it so last time issues behavor I well I had somebody else because up and a lot to get up there last time I just [Laughter] no you did well you did good I didn't try to put you on the spot I just like what would you do if you were sitting here you know so anyway thank you you don't like the pay is that what it is the 400 the $400 a month all right let's move along here so thank you um Clos session reports we really didn't even touch anything really much in Clos session so we're going to go back after it's all said and done here uh item eight adoption of the agenda the board May approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from the consent calendar for discussion and or action so move we have a motion Amanda you Canon second second Maria okara okay um all in favor I any opposed hearing then that'll be the order uh we already went to the FFA so we'll go down to discussion items review the alab Unified School District government's handbook uh superintendent This was um item was asked to be brought back for the um area on page 10 where it talks about um comments so whatever the direction is I'm help you to bring back some recommendations difficult difficult topic yes so managing difficult topics um it's on page 10 it says quote the board will not respond to questions or statements made by members of the audience my concern is that the board is asked after comments whether we have any comment and I think it shows dignity to offer words of acknowledgement for the hard work and the thought that goes into bringing something before the board so could we possibly change this in the governance handbook so that we can make sure to show dignity to those who speak before us I just need direction from the board of what you'd like I I don't make the recommendation of what it's what it says um this went through California school boards Association and recommended language from them so that's if somebody wants to recommend what to change it to I'm more than happy to bring a draft back I I think we need to acknowledge that somebody spoke you know when somebody speaks to us we should be we should be able to say thank you for what you said we don't have to give them a response to what they said but to thank them for what they said that shouldn't be dangerous don't think we're prohibited from thanking them at this point but we do have to be very careful about adding opinions [Music] or our comments because then we are opening oursel up for litigation under the brown act with when we decide to respond and when we decide not to respond I I think uh if somebody comes here and shares about issues that is happening to to their child at school or uh issues that is happening at the bus stop and they've come in here to share that this is something that is troubling um as much as we want to hear what that person is saying we also want to acknowledge that we heard it and at the end of hearing it we can say thank you for your input and if we have a reason to have further um discussion or further investigation we turn it over to the superintendent to ask the superintendent to look into it we are not giving any uh response we are just saying we heard you but we want to get more information and we pass it on to the only person that we we oversee to please look into it we've done it in the past and the superintendent will come back in the next board meeting or send us a letter to say I've investigated it and this is my response here's it doesn't stop anything each card has an address and most of the time a phone number on it a speaker card so as elected official if you want to ask Anna or Kylie at the time the next day can you give me that person's name and number you're will you could call them on your time off the next day and discuss you just can't discuss it from the dis yeah but we are not talking about discussion we are talking about acknowledgement so you acknowledge it you are not discussing you acknowledge that you heard the oh that's perectly fine you can say thank you Karen for the comments and that's it can is it my understanding you can say thank you for your comment we've we've heard your comment thank you that's that's it okay yeah the the basis of California school board's recommendation has to do with if you say more than that you are speaking as an individual but you are sitting as a board so you are your your comment is is represent presenting the entire board not you as an individual because when you're when you're in this setting you are a board and so that's why it is intended not to be a personal statement or um in some cases when there's a complaint we have to give due process there's all kinds of things that are related to this so miss banan's comment about um potential litigation that is open if we say something by one board member that is not necessarily all board members um in unison right and so you can acknowledge and say thank you you can say you've been heard um I appreciate you being brave to stand there that doesn't say anything about the content of what was said and so if if that's the worry about this we can we can change the paragraph to say something to the effect of we can acknowledge um the individual for their comments at the podium okay so I have word Smith it just real quick um I've heard the concern and a possible solution might be uh the board will not answer questions or address statements made by the members of the audience okay if you'll email that to me I'll bring it back as a draft you can just put it on the agenda and the president will read it off prior to public comments sure yeah that'd be great okay we can do both we'll put it in that and and I'll bring it back for something that's you seen it done before where we can't comment on it but um we we'll listen yeah okay thank you thank you actually Renee you don't have to email it because I can listen to the recording I'll type it up thanks okay um second uh item on discussion information is informational presentation 2025 second interim financial statements and this will be from Matthew sh thank you Mr Ry um as Mr Ry said this is the second interim financial report uh just to remind the audience in the board this certifies the financial condition of Apple Valley Unified in the current year and then two subsequent years all the way out to June of 27 um there are two required interim reporting periods each year this being the second one so this is reflecting our district financials as of January 31st I know it's it's about six five weeks ago um report is due to the county on March 15 and you will see later on the uh consent agenda you will see the actual item to approve the filing of a positive certification then we can forward those reports to the county uh there are three certifications possible again positive uh we're certifying we will meet our obligations for the reporting period qualified States we uh most likely or may not meet our obligations for the reporting period And there's just some statistics the last two years the number of districts across the state of California that have filed a qualified certification uh the last two fiscal years at second interim um negative certification district will not meet its obligations for the reporting period typically in a a negative certification that's a district that is borderline insolvent um on the the cusp of State takeover um not big numbers however I do believe at first interim this year um it's about uh eight districts Statewide that did file in negative at first interim those are some stats for second interim over the last couple of years um as I mentioned we're going to be filing a positive certification based on the assumptions that are built into our budget um and our multi-year projection we believe we are going to meet our obligations through June of 27 U there's some the the information that we use to generate this report of course there's lots of pieces that go into this beginning with the state adopted budget our current board approved budget the recent Governor's budget proposal for next fiscal year and subsequent years uh School Services dart board has important information on there typically related to Cola um employer retirement contributions uh the fmat lcff calculator that's the calculator that um districts use to calculate our portion of our local control funding formula and how that money is allocated I'll have some detail on that later again the last bullet point down there you'll see this particular presentation this is the the focus of this presentation is on fund1 our general operating fund um we have other funds that we operate for instance there's uh fund uh 11 is a deferred maintenance fund fund 12 is our preschool fund 13 is our nutrition services program fund 14 is deferred maintenance um 25 is developer fees 40 is reserve for Capital outlay and 51 is our bond Redemption fund and in the Sachs documents that are attached to the consent item you will see the interim summaries for each one of those funds um in those documents but again this presentation focuses on fund 01r General operating fund so just to remind uh everybody Ada drives our Revenue that's kids coming to school um average daily attendance you'll see we did adop we did adjust from adoption to First interim I'll Focus down on the second interim there in the current year 2425 we are budgeting assuming we're going to get 12,612 Ada and we're pretty confident in that because that's actually last year's P2 Ada because we have the opportunity to choose whether we funded on our current year Ada prior year Ada or threeyear average average Ada and the lcff calculator pretty much picks the best one when you're working through the calculator our P2 Ada for this year is projected to be lower than last so we are utilizing last year's Ada for our funded calculation you'll see I just uh I kind of pulled TK out of that that 355 is part of that 12612 but I just wanted to demonstrate that's our Ada Target in our transition kindergarten with our enrollment this year our enrollment this year is about 380 so that 355 may be a little high because unfortunately our TK students don't attend at the same rate as our upper grades um we are projecting 425 adaa in TK next year in the subsequent years and that is that's basically accounting for beginning in 2526 transitional kindergarten is a full grade level turn four by September 1st um we're projecting approximately 480 transitional kindergarten students across our district um that's 60% of our Kinder cohort which our Kinder cohort is about 800 right now has been a thousand um but the last five years we've seen a consistent reduction from a thousand stepping down to about 800 um so in 2526 we are projecting using that Year's projected P2 in our lcff calculation and in 2627 using that Year's projected P2 currently uh you would have seen this slide I kind of put this together for first interim I've added couple data points last month our enrollment was 13596 you see where we've dropped since December of 24 um just yesterday my accounting specialist in the business office handed me the month s preliminary Ada report and we were our yield of 91.6% you'll see back prior to that uh 2020 we right around 95 so we we have suffered uh we appear to be climbing back although this year we're uh we're struggling a little bit this spring uh to capture that ADA uh the March 6th enrollment report was produced by the enrollment office this morning Myra emailed it out so I put that number on there uh we're dropped a little more since February 13583 um that puts us March over March a year ago we're down about 67 kids systemwide but keep in mind that means we're down more than that in our K12 because we increased our TK so our increase in TK offset a little bit of the decline in our upper grades one of the other things that last bullet point um several months ago we did Engage The Services of Davis demographic which transitioned to MGT um and to do some resident and enrollment projections for us I did recently receive a draft of that report and I'm reviewing that it's not quite ready to bring to this group but um unfortunately in their preliminary projections they are projecting a continued decline for Apple Valley Unified uh mainly based on what the trend we've experienced in our incoming cohorts dropping from a, to 800 low birth rates in our ZIP codes and that's actually true across the state of California um and the outmigration uh folks leaving California but um I will review that and we'll finalize that and then that will be uh brought forward for your information at a future meeting our Cola assumptions cost of living adjustments um at budget adoption um this year was 1.07 that was that's the cola that we ended up with this year um in previous years the cola for this year was estimated at uh a little under 4% um at one point so we had that in our multi-year projection at one point and when that planning Cola dropped from 4% to 1% that was about a $5 million hit to the revenue side of our budget in that Cola adjustment that's one of the variables that um we have to deal with um in our budget uh you'll see at first interim this year stayed the same next year there was not a lot of good news at first interim for next year's Cola we pegged it at 2% it was anywhere from 1.8 to 2.2 depending on which expert you talked to whether it was school Services csba fmat casbo um at second interim uh this is based on the governor's budget proposal that he brought out in January of course current year did not change uh 2526 the school Services dart board is listing that at 2.43% unfortunately you'll see that little Aster um the data points are trending a little lower than that but we are using 2.43% in our multi-year projection in 2526 along with the 3.52% Cola in 2627 and those are right off the school Services dartboard um Governor's May revision comes out May 10th they'll change almost guaranteed 25 26 mostly will go most likely will go down 26 27 I'm sure will adjust based on the calculations so little detail on the lcff calculator Revenue in the current year I know this is a very busy slide I apologize for that I'm going to point out a couple points uh you'll see the funded Ada right there is the 12612 we using last year's Ada and that's just the grade spans um remember we get a different base grant for each of the grade spans in the lcff calculator that's why I've broken It Out by grade spans pulled TK out TK 355 is part of that 3912 for the TK through3 grad span so don't add those together that's just a piece of and you'll see the components of the lcff calculator our total lcff allocation just a little over 184 million that's what we're using in our budget for the current year and those are the pieces of the lcff base Grant the grade span adjustment there that is TK through3 and 912 combined they're different dollar amounts there's a add-on for tk3 for class size reduction there's an add-on in 912 for Career Technical Ed I lumped those together in this slide you'll see supplemental and concentration Grant that's based on our unduplicated pupil percentage Transportation add-on um is just they were gracious to give us a little bit of funding to run our transportation program and then of course a couple years back they did start the transitional Kinder add-on that's why I pulled out that 350 55 Ada that's how that transitional Kinder add-on is calculated it's a per Ada amount for TK but all of that money in the lcff revenue flows to us on the unrestricted side of our budget but keep in mind the supplemental and concentration grant funding really is attached to our lcap goals and and positions programs materials identified specifically in those lcap goals and we're required to spend all of our supplemental and concentration grant money each year um if not there are some implications in terms of carrying over that and then higher expenditure requirements in success in the future years so on the federal side um this breaks it into unrestricted and restricted you'll see the unrestricted section of the federal revenue is very tiny um I've had a disc discuss with my director of fiscal Services Cindy conle this is an assumption we've had in there for quite some time it's a very small amount it's very irregular um to get any unrestricted federal revenue so we're discussing removing that assumption because it's not something we can count on on an annual basis below that you'll see our federal revenue restricted at about 13.6 million that does include some carryover from the prior year see the breakdown there it's mostly the title programs a little bit for CTE a little bit for special education um Title One in our title programs um that title one number there does include some carryover from the prior year and Title One is something that's it's called an unearned Revenue program in each year the federal government allocates title one well they used to at least we'll see what happens moving forward but they they've allocated title one out to the states so the California Department of Education gets a big bucket of Title One money and they allocate it out to school districts for instance and just as an example if our Title One allocation for a year is $6 million that gives us the authority to budget that $6 million and what we do is we budget six million in revenue and six million of expenditures on the restricted side of our budget however if we do not spend all six million of those title one budgeted expenditures when we our books we then have to reduce the revenue to balance with the expenditures because we did not earn the revenue because we didn't spend it now we don't lose that Revenue we just didn't earn it in the year we were entitled to earn it we're able to move that revenue revenue forward a year well then that increases our title one then we increase our expenditures because we're assuming we're going to spend it all to earn that Revenue that's a cycle that an unearned Revenue program creates in our budget state revenue assumptions we get a little bit of unrestricted Revenue over and above the lcff about $5.3 million mandated cost block grant those are those are mandated programs it's programs that we have to do it's things we have to do um that for a long time the state didn't fund you you probably heard the term unfunded mandates they created this mandate cost block grant several years ago and lumped all these mandated programs into this block grant we have to apply for it every year which I do every August um to get that money and it does Flow To Us unrestricted to cover the costs of what the legislature tells us we must do one of those is to supply products in our restrooms we're required to supply those products therefore that's part of the Mandate cost block grant Lottery flows to us uh 2.46 that's unrestricted uh some of that is held at the district for expenses some of that is allocated out to the sites for expenses and then we have all Le state revenue $2.3 million that started a couple years back um they it's an additional Transportation reimbursement and Cindy was explaining it to me we report our expenses for instance we reported our expenses for the 2324 school year they reimburse us at a rate of approximately 60% but before we get that 60% they deduct our lcff transportation add-on and then that's what we get after that calculation about $ 2.28 million so we get 1.5 on the lcff 2.8 here that's three 2.3 here that's 3.8 to run a program that costs about twice that uh we have restricted state revenue that flows to us um I did not list all the revenues I've listed the major revenues on that side you'll see Lottery instructional that's often you'll hear a resource number 6300 that's the instructional Lottery it's restricted to instructional materials only pass through revenues we are the Fiscal Agent for a Consortium uh for Career Technical education so that Revenue flows to us and then flows out from us um it's a net zero in our budget but we do have to book the revenue when we book an expense as we pay the other districts that are members of the Consortium CTE incentive Grant that's our share of the incentive Grant this year that's including some carryover and then you'll see in the Sach forums when it starts when it seizing the the other the state revenue section all the way down at the end it says other state revenue plumps a whole bunch of items together those are the major components in there we have our elop that's our expanded learning opportunity program prop 28 art music education and stirs on behalf well a little bit about stirs on behalf we are required to book revenue and expense for the state's contribution to calsters on behalf of Apple Valley Unified School District it's not Revenue we actually ever get it but we have to book it it's a gby ruling so we book the revenue we book a corresponding expense to show everybody what the state paid to stirs on behalf of Apple valy Unified it's not what we pay we pay over and above that that's that's in the 3000s expense lines in our budget so the current year again expenditure assumptions we always include on negotiated settlements we always include step and column increases stirs and Pur employer contribution rates again those are that stirs on behalf I just mentioned that that's the stirs and Pur employer contribution rates on this slide they're totally separate that's over and above again that stir on behalf is the state's contribution this is Apple Valley unified's contribution to the Retirement Systems and of course we build in a local operating cost inflator of 1.5% um some years that's a little lower some years it's a little bit higher on the expenditure side in our current budget you'll hear some people talk about the ones ones twos and threes that's our people costs that's our certificated salaries that's our classified salaries and that's employee benefits employee benefits is Health and Welfare purs stirs FICA unemployment insurance all the different statutory costs that go along with that 4,000 books and supplies fives services at other operating expend expenditures and you'll see the other two you'll hear me talk about budgeted activity and cumed and remaining on the couple of the coming slides budgeted is just that it's budgeted we've budgeted some Revenue we've budgeted to receive a certain amount of Revenue we've budgeted to make certain expenses activity is actual activity what Revenue have we actually ex received what have we actually spent encumbered is what have we obligated you think about it it's a check you wrote that hasn't been cashed yet hasn't cleared you obligated those funds it's in your checkbook but you haven't checked it that it's cleared yet encumbered could be by a purchase order it could be by a contract with a consultant that usually then has a purchase order it's either for goods Services materials supplies remaining is just that anything remaining on a budget line means we budgeted an amount we've had activity we've encumbered and we have remaining which means it is has not been spent and has not been obligated or encumbered so looking at the 4000s there tends to be a lot of questions about this and this is the unrestricted side of our budget this is in resource Zer which is our lcff and resource 1100 unrestricted Lottery those are the two main unrestricted Revenue resources in our operating budget within 4000s there are several major object codes 41 42 43 44 and 47 you see there and in each one of those sections there's a whole list of Minor object codes depending on what exactly you're you're buying uh textbooks reference materials Material supplies custodial supplies non-c capitalized equipment so this year that is at first interim that was our projected year budgeted expenditures that's what we budgeted to spend in the 4000s on the unrestricted side of our budget this is made up of district and site funds so on this slide I broke it into here's what's held at the district and here's what's held at the sites only in the 4000s again there's ones twos threes fives six and sevens but this is this is 4000s books and supplies you'll see at the district level we budgeted to spend about 4 and a half million we have actually spent 1.3 through January 31st we have obligated an additional 2.2 and again that could be obligated in several different ways could be we've ordered something we have not received it yet as of January 31st could be we've entered an agreement with a somebody to provide a service that has not been completed and you'll see we have about a million remaining unspent unencumbered across all those different object codes all those different object codes in the district held unrestricted 4000s site-based funds same again that's spread across all of our sites that's in the 4000s um they at their sites have budgeted about 2.2 million spent about 1.2 encumbered another 600 and have about 400 ,000 remaining have these changed since January 31st absolutely we've either adjusted the budget spent some more reallocated um many times sites will budget in the 4000s but they decide heck I I don't need that anymore so I'm going to move what I budgeted out of the 4000s maybe into the ones or the twos to provide for some extra hourly so there's constant adjustments going on in the budget a little detail on the 5000s on the unrestricted side again this is district and site funds but I did not break this one out in District in sight because this is about 99% District held funds very little at the site uh travel and conference is just that it's for conferences dues and memberships insurance that is our property and liability insurance premium operations in housekeeping is utilities transfers of direct cost is direct you'll see those are actually negatives so it's a negative expenditure so it's a good thing as we capture direct costs from categorical or restricted programs as part of the um they they allow us to capture a portion of those programs for administrative reasons you'll see professional Consulting Services about uh 5.4 million on the district side and just to to break that down in the 800s uh 1.6 million of that is actually in contracted Services 2.3 million of that is computer and Tech related Services we have to pay for our student information system um filters uh Network Services um and about 600,000 is legal in election cost that doesn't account for all 5.4 but those are the major pieces in the 800s six thousands Capital outlay um 6,400 equipment the majority of that um was uh purchasing and equipping our police vehicles those were ordered three years ago uh the expense was originally budgeted three years ago we ordered first we ordered five and we got those five we ordered another five um we're still waiting to receive I believe one same conversation now I'm on the restricted side again same object codes ones through threes fours through sevens um budgeted activity encumbered and remaining one of the things I want to point out on the restricted side and this is a conversation I've had with my director of fiscal services in terms of an internal practice is we assume that we're expensing all available restricted resources that are in reporting periods and you'll see later on there's a financial slide where I look at the the actual numbers on the restricted side and you'll see a projected ending fund balance I think is $2 because we assume we're expensing all the restricted funds um that goes to the unearned Revenue programs we assume we're expensing all the unearned Revenue to earn that Revenue when when we close our books and we don't we we reduce the revenue accordingly in ending fund balance programs which U elop is an ending fund balance program Equity multiplier an ending fund balance program when those resources are not entirely spent you will see an ending fund balance when we close the books in the fours district and site based funds restricted resources um Cindy was training me in our financial system and I say that because it's been a couple years since I've taken a deep dive so I needed a refresher and it was great because as I was searching on the restricted side of the resource restricted side of our fundo one there's 29 distinct restricted resources all with different rules all with different regulations all with different spending parameters all with different expiration dates that are managed in Cindy's office um you'll see it's broken down there you'll see a large amount budgeted in the 40 4300s materials and supplies mainly because it has been our practice to budget expenditures in the 4000s until we know exactly where it's going to be spent and then we make budget adjustments accordingly and this right here is our assumption that we're expensing all of our restricted resources when it comes down to our estimated actuals and our closing the books we won't and this is where I've talked to Cindy about is there a better way to reflect the restricted activity in our fundo one because this inflates the expenditures on the restricted side of the budget but keep in mind these are all the restricted resources these are not resources available for just anything we want them available for this is your title programs this is your restricted state revenue this is our elop program elop has certain parameters this is our Equity multiplier funds which is only at three sites four sites right thank you Pat you knew where so this is not money that is unrestricted that has no strings attached again there's the breakdown district and site based funds and you see a lot remaining because we we don't have plans to spend it so that's where we are going to get better in showing our actual activity and actual expected expenditures on the restricted side of our budget with these restricted resources there's the fives again this 99% District held funds versus site held funds um you'll see we're projecting about 21 million on this side of the fives I want to call out object 5100 sub agreements for services NPS that stands for non-public school the Sela are local Sela provides us with the information um that is their estimate of Apple Valley unified's non-public school charges for this year so we have to budget that as an expense we don't get $5.3 million from the state or the feds to cover this so that's one of the factors that contributes to our contribution that I've mentioned before from the unrestricted side of our budget to the restricted side of our budget to to support restricted programs special education and routine restricted maintenance being the two major restricted programs that are supported by the unrestricted side of our budget special education of course there's laws IEPs that we have to follow the routine restricted maintenance we're required to contribute 3% to the restricted side of our budget operations in housekeeping as utilities uh professional Consulting Services again you'll see that the 58s uh just to give you an idea um currently 4 million of that 10.8 is in elop 1 million is in title one special education has about four million of Consulting Services outside agencies to provide services routine restricted maintenance has about 400,000 and and Lottery we have about 600,000 in agreements restricted lottery for instructional materials only sixes Capital outlay might ask what land are we buying we're not under the 60100s there's a whole list of Minor object codes in routine restricted maintenance when we make side improvements some of those side improvements are coded to 6,100 that's where they fall we're not buying land we're not budgeting to buy land right now buildings and improvements is just that it's buildings the majority of that budgeted expenditure is the portable build buildings that recently arrived at yakal Desert NS and Sandia for our transitional kindergarten um lots of pieces um I 12 pieces at each site because each building is six pieces um equipment and the most majority of that is uh routine restricted maintenance um Career Technical education um and some elop so now into 2526 now I'm moving into our multi-year projection that that was a a little detailed summary of the current year we're in now as we look forward there's our lcff Revenue you saw this slide same slide a couple things I'd like to point out our Ada now is the 2526 projected P2 Ada uh the increase in the TK Cola 2.43 unduplicated pupil percentage is 76.46 you can see the components there um this year's lcff as of second interim we're estimated to receive about 184 million in change next year we're at 188 million um base Grant goes up grade span adjustment goes up supplemental and concentration Grant both went up so we have more requirements in the supplemental and concentration Grant portion of our lcff transportation add-on went up and the transitional Kinder add-on went up little Aster one thing we're not assuming next year in our lcff calculation is the governor's proposed increase to the TK add-on he has proposed to essentially double the TK add-on to facilitate the requirement to move from 24-2 in a TK classroom to 20-2 um we're not assuming that because school services and fmat two of the organizations we rely on as do school districts across the state have suggested that you do not include that at this point because it is it is merely a proposal um we'll know more at the May revise uh but if that does come through as the governor proposed that transitional Kinder um would about double it' increase our lcf Revenue by approximately 1.3 million federal revenue about the same we'll see we've taken the carryover out Title One is back to our normal allocation as are all the other title programs um again I mentioned that 880,000 on the unrestricted uh that's something we're considering taking out of the budget um because it's just not reliable um state revenue unrestricted you'll see very consistent mandated cost block grant there may be some increases to that um Lottery typically sees small increases year-over-year um the additional Transportation reimbursement we're budgeting the same amount but again that's calculated on our actual expenditures so so that allocation will be calculated when we report our expenditures for this year minus our transportation lcff add-on for this year I'm sorry times 60% minus our lcff transportation so it might be a little bit higher but it all really depends on how much we actually spend on our transportation program and you'll see the restricted programs again Lottery instructional pass through revenues CT incentive Grant reduced because we have taken out the carryover that's in the current year and then all other state revenue again are Ela prop 28 and there's that stirs on behalf again couple things we're not assuming in this state revenue category is the one-time discretionary funding proposed by the governor um part of his January proposal it's a per Ada uh information was released by school Services they believe it will be distributed in a per Ada amount which will um which If part of the budget as proposed would be about $4 million for Apple value unified we are also not including the governor's proposal to restore the remainder of the learning recovery emergency block grant um the LBG was given out to school districts and then the governor said oh wait a second we're gonna take a whole bunch of it back but wait a second you can have a little bit of what I took back and now he's like oh well I'm going to give you the rest back but we're waiting on that because it's merely a proposal at this point and that small piece that we may get back has some strings attached to it now where the original LBG did not um based on a student assessment um SO waiting to hear how that plays out so in 2526 our expenditures again we're including any negotiated settlements step and column increases for all of our employee groups which come along with benefit adjustments per stir contributions um staff funded through short-term revenues is transitioning to ongoing revenues stirs and purs employer contribution rates I do believe the stirs is projected to be level at 19.1 for many years perss goes up slightly not as much as had been originally assumed and of course our operating cost inflator we're assuming some reductions and and some adjustments um ongoing reductions focused on the unrestricted side um we're looking at possible expenses on the unrestricted side that we can shift to ongoing restricted resources and we're looking at certain strategies to reduce our contribution to special ed and the probably the biggest is really reducing our Reliance on Contracting with outside agencies that's going to mean people though that's going to mean people that are our employees providing these services so it's not if if we have a contract for an outside agency to provide a service that maybe cost 2 $50,000 um and they provide the people to provide that service if we take that away then we're going to have to provide the people to provide that service so it's not going to be a savings of that entire consultant agreement because we will have to backfill that service because those services are still going to be required um just want to remind the room that in the 2425 in the current year adopted budget in the multi-year projection we had assumed assumed non-specific line item reductions in next year of 12 million at first interim we had to update those we assumed non-specific line item reductions of 14 million in next year back at the first inter room presentation and this year we're assuming some non-specific line item reductions um you'll see the ones twos and threes lumped together this is our certificated and certificated management staff classified and classified management staff in the corresponding reductions to the 3000s that's the pur the stirs $9 million of reductions in next year now the supplemental retirement program that the board authorized in the February meeting after the cut off for the first interim I'm sorry the second interim we're looking to based on pars estimates we're a little over6 A5 million dollar of savings um if we don't backfill any of those positions and I know our HR off is working very diligently to look at those positions but the fewer positions we backfill the more savings we can we can net in the fours fives and sixes we have line item reductions non-specific line item reductions of about four million that's 13 million so at budget adoption we projected we were going to need about 12 million in reductions in the 25 26 school year at second interim we projected about 14 million here I'm sorry at first interim we project projected about 14 million at second interim we're projecting about 13 million but the supplemental retirement program has gotten us some of that we're not assuming some Revenue so there's many variables that will affect us as we continue to move through this year and we'll continue to make budget adjustments expenditure reductions if there's something we have budgeted in the current year that we have determined that we don't need we can take that out of the budget and that allows us to reduce those expenditures which allows us to reduce our projected deficit spending in the current year which means then a higher ending fund balance and you'll see the Dynamics of that in the financial slides coming up again these expend expenditure reductions were based on assumptions as of January 31st adjustments have occurred and will continue to occur and any additional board action subsequent to January 31st like the supplemental retirement plan will have additional impacts on the expenses and reductions as we move through the remainder of this year seen this slide here it is again utilizing the current year the 2627 projected P2 the 3.52% cola you'll see our lcff goes up to about $195 million all those components increase the base Grant the the gr span adjustment the supplemental concentration the transportation and again we're not assuming the TK add-on again if the TK add-on comes through that doubles in this year also that is ongoing funding as part of our lcf here's our federal revenue slide you'll see that looks exactly like the one from 2526 because we don't make any federal revenue adjustments typically in our multi-year projections because they have been fairly consistent the state again that'll look a lot like the slide for 2526 because those revenues are fairly consistent we're counting on that elop that's Governor Newsome's baby and the legislature loves that program we're counting on that continuing we're counting on Prop 28 that was an voter initiative um and there's that stirs on behalf again on the expenditure side of course we conclude all negotiated settlements step and column increases minimal natural attrition we include include a little natural attrition in our multi-year projections every year because we have people retire every year we have people resign every year are we likely to get as many in 25 26 in 26 27 as we did this year absolutely not because we had that in retirement incentive this year so we're not assuming as much natural attrition as we have in the past and any expenditure reductions we're not assuming any non-specific expenditure reductions in this year but again ongoing focus of taking restricted resources to pay for what we can freeing up unrestricted resources and again strategies to reduce our contribution to special education so the multi-year financial projections this is the unrestricted side of the budget as of January 31st you'll see there's our revenues that's our lcff and our unrestricted State revenues the expenditures we have sources uses that's two lines combined there's a source 2 million we transferred in from fund 14 deferred maintenance that came in that's a positive 2 million 43.8 million going out to the restricted side to cover routine restricted maintenance and special education so a net deficiency of about 14.6 million taking our fund balance from 25.5 to about 10.9 again those are our financials as of January 31st you'll can see you can see 2526 and 2627 again 2526 with those $13 million of non-specific line item reductions built in and the assumption that we're not receiving that additional TK revenue and not receiving the discretionary block grant you'll see there if we receive that one-time revenue and the discretionary block grant and that ongoing TK Revenue that'll have a positive effect on the budget in 2526 and the TK will have a positive effect into 2627 here's the restricted side as I mentioned earlier in the current year we're assuming every restricted dollar we have is going to be spent and that's not going to come true um again we need to get better at reporting the actual Financial activity on the restricted side um across those 29 resources some large like elop some small like a vocational a grant of $75,000 they're rank combined ending fund balance components I'm going to take you all the way down to the bottom 3% required Reserve we meet that in all three years you'll see up top 108 is bigger than 8.3 76 is bigger than 7.4 and 10.4 is bigger than 7.5 however we don't meet the board policy Reserve requirement of 5% in any of the three years in our current cycle some highlights future um our P2 reporting period is here in uh just a couple weeks I'm looking forward to uh some good numbers um probably not higher than last year so we probably will not be making any adjustments to our lcf FF calculator in the current year but if there's a miraculous spike in Ada in the next six days um we'll definitely adjust um local programmatic decisions always very important uh look at that unrestricted deficit spending Trend um impact on services for our students they may revise what's going to change because things will the cola will change uh will there be additional categorical program requirements will that discretionary block grant come with strings will the TK add be as big as the governor proposed um and you that's actually more down into the state adopted budget that last line item so um one one of the things I haven't talked about yet um is the governor's proposal to manipulate prop 98 in the current year um he has proposed to under appropriate education or under appropriate prop 98 to the tune of about 1.6 billion dollars in the current year um and I know the folks at casbo csba AXA they're all fighting that um and I will be very interested to see how that plays out in the next months but that could mean some additional um I would suspect it'll it'll probably mean some one-time Revenue um maybe that's how he's going to pay for the discretionary block grant I don't know but it'll be very interesting to see how that works out and how it affects Apple Valley Unified thank you for your patience and your attention as anybody have any questions any questions for I can attempt to answer not questions thank you um I had a question just for um the reserves sure um that were spent down do you have a particular slide Miss Long that I can reference put back up on the screen slide number they're in the bottom right on the the packet yes well I had specifically looked at the budget itself the first interim okay um can I speak from that the first interim uh the second interim okay so um the ending fund balance so we're looking at f1a um we see um fund balance of the 22 m272 892 can you let me know Miss Longshore which page of that packet are you on um that's page one um which is actually the fourth page in right there um it's under f f1a 22,27 $ 72,8 n227 yes yes so and then I was looking at the ending fund balance on under two there $9.6 million yes okay um and then I was looking at so the beginning fund balance the ending fund balance as of June 30th um the original budget was um 12, 63169 and the actuals to date are1 19,1 49 can you help me can you guide me to a page you're looking at um it's on the same page where it says a net increase up above yeah um so I was curious as to um how that money was spent readen e oh well let me start at the top on this page the column you're looking at Miss Longshore is the original budget so that is the budget as adopted last June um for this particular year we adopted the revenue sources you'll see and this is the unrestricted side of the budget on page one you'll see that noted up on the top everybody 2425 second interim unrestricted original budget column A we adopted 184.

[Music] Much like our front lawn, there's been better days in the past. It's March. We've had nine straight weeks of school, only one e-learning day. We got three full weeks to spring break. We're checking in on our students today, seeing how they're doing, seeing what they are doing to get to spring break, and hopefully find some fun things to do over these next few weeks here at school. Want to be on Friday Funday? Want to be on Friday funday? Huh? Want to be on Friday funday? Nah, it's Friday funday. It's March. Who am I here with? Tia. What year in school are you, Tia? Freshman. Got three full weeks to spring break. Any advice you can give to kids to get us to spring break? This is the part that will lead you into your future. So, just do it cuz it'll be worth it in the end.

Stay mindful of what you got to do in school. Stay on top of things so you don't create stress, but also take some time for yourself. Chill out. Relax a little bit. Good advice. All right, wild cats. I'm here with Olivia. Olivia, what year in school? Aren't you? I'm a sophomore. Sophomore. So, getting close to halfway through high school. Can you believe it? No. The winter months are tough. January, February, it's a long stretch. Now, we got three full weeks still till spring break. First of all, how you doing? Good. How are you? Well, I'm good. Thanks for asking. You know, it's been a rough morning. I forgot my jewelry. Got your accessories, but you got your stand, you got your water, stay hydrated. What advice do you give to the your fellow Wildcats to keep pushing to the next break? Just think about your end goal.

[Music] hello and welcome back to the Views expressed uh we are here for more incredible Community conversation here with waca podcast and we have two incredible guests with us uh two of the uh two of the founding members of area and I'm going to have them introduce themselves and then we're going to talk a little bit about area what they do and specifically around Black History Month and how we've we've had these wonderful Community uh celebrations uh of the event in years's past so I'm going to start down at that end of the table for people who are listening I'm pointing to my left absolutely Makita thank you so much for having us here to this show uh looking forward to this conversation um my name is Maggie Moke and I've been a resident of Ashland for about 20 years now what a beautiful community and the work we've done with everyone in the community um I live in asheland with my family and uh I'm I'm happy to be here today happy to have you Maggie thank you Barbara do you want to introduce yourself sure thank you so much M for inviting us um we're excited to have to be here and um my name is Barbara SE zundu um and I'm here with my family I've been in Ashland for I think a little over 5 years now and so far I can't complain an exclusive town oh I don't know how exclusive we are I think I think thanks to to I I I I feel like we're very uh open and welcoming and I think it's it's to to uh a lot of folks Credit in town that we have been such an open and welcoming community and I think your organization has done a lot to to do that as well as as well as just our friends and neighbors of all backgrounds uh you know so I think that's what makes our community really special you know I've been here for I've been here for almost over 20 years 20 years wow oh my gosh don't tell anybody I about that um so I know like they say what do they say that townies they're townies and then they also all kind of you know as you can see here F 20 a little 20 over 20 years 5 years one year 30 years right so it's such a welcoming town and uh it's amazing it it really is it really is so um but let's talk a little bit about um some observances that you all have done for Black History Month uh you know I'll I can share uh I I can share some memories uh you know I when I saw yall with uh some of your your first celebrations here a few years ago and now I feel like they're just part of the community's fabric uh and and they're just uh just so much fun to to watch and be a part of but I'm going to shut up and I don't know Barbara maybe you want to get us started on some of the things that area has done to educate the community about black history um so as area we have um had a few activities we had in town um we've had celebrated our you know like our anniversary I remember the first time it was um when we celebrated yeah three within three years three years yeah CU it's going to be about five years now yes it's it's been a and we we've um included some other commit committees in town um that are doing a lot of meaningful work too trying to bring people together um Ashland and we have also been working with um our own you know the Greater Community the schools um you know the police so and we also celebrated juneth so now it's um it's like an annual celebration we know area will be there and it it brings in a lot of people in Ashland and just educating people a little more if they have any questions we try to you know help everyone everyone and like our name said you know area is Ashland residents for a in action so we try to help whenever we get a chance to if people wants to know more Circle back to you Barbara in a minute Maggie you know Barbara talked about some of the organizations that you've partnered with here in town and you've and and you you've partnered with a lot of great folks so there's some community- based organizations as well as some of the institutions that you partnered with too like who have you who have you worked with in the past oh my god um a lot of groups in town uh I I'll just start with why currently right now you know we're in discussions with YMCA and we've invited a few other members uh a little project we're hoping to get off the ground we've worked with decisions at every turn um Ash is United and of course other you know committees in town you know select Bard you know they've been there um and other communities and Al other local groups or G Scouts how could I forget G SCS GS have been involved in some of the project work we've done you know when we're U collecting food and clothes G SCS really involved so and um and regular folks in town they've been really welcoming to our group and I feel like it's just become it's not just our group it's been it's just become a community thing it's become normal like in the fabric Washland one of the things that I really admire about area and the work that specifically like you you two do and you know all of the gang over at area first off it's a very diverse group yes um you know so it's bring it brings together like people of all backgrounds here in town um you know but it's it's so and we learn about uh you know a whole bunch of things but it just feels like to to your point Maggie it's become such a fabric in town like the juneth celebrations I mean every time I go I always hear people in the crowd no matter who they are they're like this is incredible or like oh I didn't know this or this is really educational or like wow this is in you know so like you know I think like we all when we all learn together as a community and we celebrate together as a community I think it that really opens up heart and minds and I think you all have done a really great job of doing that well thank you so much with you know with your guidance I remember when we started you know we knew we knew what we wanted to do but we need also guidance so I feel like as a community you know yourself and very many other members came to you know we had uh various conversation on how who do we talk to how do we get started how do we get involved in this um you know how do we get involved in town how do we get involved how do we get on communities we did have this information so I mean like I mean Cara who's one of the founding members as well you know very influential like so many and that's the thing right it's not you know I think when when when you all were getting started like everybody was I think I don't think there was anybody in the community who was just like oh no you know I think everybody was just like how can I help you know how can I how can I do this um but steering the conversation a little bit more and focusing in more on on black history um you know we're doing this interview and observance of black history and black history month I have to ask both of y'all like why is Black History Month important for you and in general for you personally and generally like why is it important yeah so I'll go I use Black History Month as a it's important to me because I feel like it's a I take that as a focus time to educate myself about the you know very many hidden figures that we don't know about and that also actually inspires me to to do more by just that struggle and the uh Ingenuity that they had and using the little resources that they they had in those times to be able to come up with all kind of things and uh I feel like it's an inspiration for us an inspiration for like groups like area and any individual whether you're in a group or not to get involved in your town uh in your town or get involved in your community uh if if you like if if there's an issue that you um notice you also you can you don't have to wait for the next person you can get it started so one interesting lady I learned about her name is Mary betric Davidson Kenna um this lady um invented the sanitary pad I mean women come on you know each each time of that that month you know no I I never it's it's it's a big invention right right right right people don't think about it but yeah so when I hear about yeah women like that um of hidden figures like that I like to I I don't stop there I talk to my kids I talk to friends we have these open discussions and I I encourage them to also go look for this information and let's just have these conversations as a community regardless of your background race this is information that we all need to learn about um and also I like to recognize the struggles that they went through and how we can learn from history yeah that is good yeah what does Black History Month mean to you Barbara um why is it important uh is it just important well let me ask you a question I'm G to put you on the spot is it just important for for for black folks to know about black history or African-American folks to know about black history or should everybody know a little bit about it and why if so why yes so black history is not just for black people and it's not just like just celebrating black history it's also making you understand you know like Maggie said it's also gives you an opportunity to to learn even yes we are black but there's still a lot of things that because it was not our time we have to read it and learn it that's how we we know more of this information and I feel like it's good too like with a younger generation you know the more they read the books and yes we celebrated black history but then with the hopes that you continue learning more because this is just like an initial start so to give them like a push to say okay let's start when when they read about one person even their popular ones that pretty much almost everybody knows you know Martin Luther King um you know Max they read one and it hopefully it gives them that more interest to see okay let's me find more information but like you know we talked about that there's more people in in history who did more things that Inspire us that it just I I feel like it's also like I'm talking about the younger generation it helps them to say if you have something that you want to do if you voice it you know or you you go ahead and follow your your dreams it can be possible I I love that Barbara uh and I think one thing that I'm just kind of focusing in on I think that there's a lot to unpack with both of what you all said I can do this um you know knowing knowing history and understanding history is so important all history right and you know black history in the United States and and across the world is is a part of that world history is part of that history so you know number one it's just important that everyone understands history so that you know you can do many things especially what Barbara said I think draw drawing um strength and encouragement from some of the struggles but also some of the Ingenuity and some of the you know the the the uh creativity of some of these folks those are lessons that I don't care who you are I don't care what your background is like that's something that you can draw upon for strength you know whether you're black white asian you know whatever like you know or whoever whatever ethnic backgrounds you you lay claim to you know you can draw Inspirations to that I'm sorry go ahead go ahead yeah no absolutely to add to what you just said there's this lady uh one of the things that area has done now a second year in a row is um organize a group you know invite the community to uh go to Danforth Museum of art what a beautiful place what a gym I feel like everyone should go visit that little gym we have in firmingham if you haven't been yet you really need to go it's incredible I mean all the exhibits there are amazing I I mean it's right in our backyards folks we you know do it I'm sorry go ahead yeah no that's great that's a great and to all folks that work at done for you guys are great you guys are awesome they're amazing so we yeah so second year in a row we have this group um people just you know sign up and we we have food um so the main thing there is um there's we we learned about um a Woman by the name of metav Vox War Fuller I might have buted the name a little bit metav Vox War Fuller she's an African she was an African American Artist she right here in firmingham her artwork is amazing she was a sculptor painter poet a mother a wife a designer and also work did some work with theater we learned all that recently in you know when we went uh for the to celebrate uh Black History Month and her work talking about the struggles she she started out here in art school but she was not accepted in the American schools you know because she was a black student but she persisted to go abroad and this particular School abroad was offering American students you know a place so when she got there uh what was told to us at the museum that they were like oh we thought an American was coming here yes I am American you American didn't say you were black right right so they were like you know we we we can't have you here so she ended up going somewhere else and long story short persisted she never gave up so this is a story I I feel like a strength we can all pull from regardless like Mak say of color so long story short she came back here did her work as a mom got busy but on her off time did all the sculpting that you guys will see at uh Danforth um Museum of Art in firmingham uh so that shows the persistence and the struggles that the black people faced but on a positive point if you persist regardless and especially today just educate educating ourselves not only black history month but uh all months just understanding the struggle but also coming together to work together as a community to how do we help each other Equity that's what I'm I feel like that's where this um has to go yeah yes to get to move the world yeah could agree more and you know I think to to to hone in on that just the persistence right you know everyone regardless of background faces struggle you know and the funny thing about it is that you know I think I think sometimes we as human beings forget to have empathy for each other right wow um and you know no matter what your background is everyone has been through something I don't care if you're white you're black you're female you know you're male you know you've been through something and all of these stories the stories you're talking about and the stories that we've that we've talked about you know learning about Black History Month um to draw strength from people who were creative who who who figured out a way through persistence to keep driving at their dreams and their goals my goodness how inspirational but also like whenever you're kind of like at that point where like oh man I can't I can't figure my way out of this and like no yes you can you know look at look at this historical figure look at that historical figure like they managed to do it they're human beings like me I can figure out a way of my out of my mess too you know and and maybe even make the world a little better while I do it um I was very honored to be part of that group at the Danforth uh earlier and uh I was very impressed by seeing that collection and that that that artist actually has a couple of uh couple of works I think on display at the Smithsonian at the African-American uh Museum down in DC as well so again folks it's writing framing framing right here like world class art oh my God you know like right in your backyard um so go check it out um but yeah so just kind of moving on a little bit um you know I think I I want to I do want to Circle back on uh a point that both of you made about drawing that inspiration uh and from from black history and you know both of you have been very active in the Ashlin Community for some time and you know I how has how has your your understanding of black history and your your learning about black history informed like you and has inspired the work that you do you know with your friends and neighbors here in Ashland yeah it's a lot I mean in five years we just the stuff we've done with the help and support of our of our community and Beyond has been amazing so that that's a loaded question so and first of all I want to start with you know being appreciative that I guess the three of us were recognized at the state house um well I wasn't going to embarrass Barbara let's talk about let talk about talk about Barbara because in in the winter of 2025 what what honor and distinction did you receive Barbara yes so I did get uh recognition which was which I was nominated by our state representative yes um to um Jack Lewis to so I got an award from the state representative and I got an award from the senator president yes um Senator spiler so and also um so I did get three awards that night and so the other one from the president for black history Excellence So speaking of black history yeah so who knows congratulations congratulations I was gonna I was going to embarrass you at the end but like we can do that now but like all these accolades that you've Acquired and Maggie you are a recipient of that award as well um in the previous cycle but you know um as as people who are out here in the community partnering with other folks uh you know how how does how does uh black history inspire you to do what you do here in Ash right so I was answering that question I want to answer it backwards okay so by that just jumping off all those the recognition that was you know bar that she just received Mak you did too congratulations it goes back so it goes back to covering yeah the Massachusetts black and Latino legis legislative cus so it I I saw a a joint effort and force at the State House from between from the governor and lieutenant governor and all the folks that work there to recognize the Black and Latino uh community and the work they're doing and this I feel like has going back to black history where things were happening and people were inventing things and some of the recognition was not there just as America correcting this and fixing this to recognize not only the black Community or any other minority Community but any American or anybody trying to contribute to uh our society is is important so I drove my energy from black history when I read about like um Mary who invited the sanitary pad and you know people like that and I'm we're facing a tough day as area you know trying to figure things out or trying to uh get some event and we're facing uh obstacles I draw some energy from those people and the work they did and I get back you know we S as Community like we're going to get this done want to get this done so I feel I get inspiration and strength from learning about black history American history that's how that's how it helps me as well and even just sharing it with the young folks because a lot of them don't know but actually do appreciate it our young people do appreciate it appreciate this work so definely was very true yeah and you know like you said there's a lot of um black people or people of color that have done a lot but it was just never recognized so even just being at the state house to see all those people and you know you know something as simple as just having the first um superintend superintendent who's a female and black in in Springfield that was you know that was something huge very inspiring and yes very inspiring you know it just tells you that you know whatever you put your mind to it and we now know that the ones that were there before us if they can do it right there's no what should be stopping us you know in our communities to work together right Y and having these diverse Minds come together I feel it's a powerful to like we should all draw from whether it's in our communities or as a nation yes diverse Minds uh even in companies they say is increased productivity so uh true you know I feel um I'm all fired up every year every day to to keep to move the needle a little bit in forward in terms of let's come back let's come let's come as a community and continue this work to make it you know a very inclusive and happy happy Community for everyone one here in asheland and Beyond and uh it involves all of us just doing this work uh you know putting in time if you don't have the time to sit down and start an organization donate money to some organizations that are doing work you know in disadvantaged communities and um education in in schools or just give back in any way you can I you know I have this rule that I feel like we all have five minutes to give if you don't donate some money donate your finances uh to just make you know our communities um and something that we talk about too like in area that like most of these committees people feel like if they join a committee they feel like you have to put like hours and hours most of them they meet like once a month or even once quarterly like now with areas sometimes we meet once quarterly andless if there's something that's going on that we have um to talk about but it's just even just coming and listening when people are talking it's very inspiring just lifts you up just knowing that you know there are some people that you can go on and talk to and if there's things that needs to be done you know we work together and let's not get discouraged if you feel like you know you you try once to you know get open get the door open and it doesn't work and you know let's partner like area I guess our mission says it best we have we're not only working as black people we work with allies everybody's welcome and I would love to just end with this you know this Mission I feel like area is a group of people of color and their allies working together to ensure that our voices are represented in local and Civic organizations like you said government and the schools we also support and promote people of color run businesses in Metro West as engines of Economic Development um that benefit our community at large through Community Action we want to make Ashland a safe and inclusive community for all I mean that feels like history now because Ash has been you know yes yeah I mean and you know I think that's uh again there's there's there's a lot to unpack there but I think what some of the key takeaways I'm hearing is that you know uh especially with a lot of the work that you've done with area and both of you everyone on area because it's a very big and and devoted group of folks from all backgrounds um you know one thing that's inspirational when I when I do manage to get to your meetings it's not as often as I probably should be um is that uh there is um there is a lot of cooperation there's a lot of optimism there's a lot of community Spirit there um and I think people hold each other uh in high regard no matter what background and I think everyone there is dedicated to keeping Ashland and and and a beautiful place for everyone everyone everyone uh white black latino you know Asian you know and and making sure that we um we work together as a community to see the kind of community that we want to have you know um you know you're talking about black history you black history is part of American History absolutely and I think we've kind of come full circle you know um we should all know all of our history here in this country and uh and uh make sure that we all draw strength and inspiration from the many stories um that so many groups have contributed it's like that you used to call it the Great American Melting Pot you know so we've got so many people from so many diverse backgrounds um and that defines America you know all of us all of us you know and um we to your point you know Megan it's been shown like you know uh that diversity is part of our strength as Americans right so you know so I think that's that's uh something that we can all be proud of and and hold dear and uh draw from from that that optimism you know and uh keep going towards the future Al together um so thank thank you both so much for being here to talk a little bit about black history if people are interested in area how can they get in touch with uh the group absolutely they have a website yes Ashan equity.

I'm one of the other advisers uh the tedex club is TR to present to you this exciting event here at darkmouth high school this is an independent organized event this year we have a live audience and we also be broadcasted via live stream by dhsv media Productions [Music] our theme this year is keys to unlock A New Perspective now you may be wondering who's this Ted guy so if you're new to Ted let us explain what it actually means Ted is an acronym for technology entertainment and design the Ted organization has covered many areas worth spreading in various fields of study you will see the same diversity in the topics being presented to you here today that before we begin we would like to ask our audience to to be respectful to our presenters by keeping the electronic devices silenced and refraining the talking they have put in a lot of hard work into these presentations when we appreciate your cooperation okay here we go our first presenter for tedex DHS 2025 is Emma Cunningham [Applause] no no no I'm not not yet okay Emma is a senior here at Dartmouth High School and plans on becoming a clinical therapist at her University after her university studies she chose her topic for the tedex DHS talk because she has Puerto Rican Heritage on her mother's side she is passionate about bringing awareness to Puerto Rican culture and history because of her visit to the island itself Emma's full name is Emma McKenna Velasquez Cunningham please welcome Emma Cunningham as she presents the heritage of Puerto [Applause] Rico we start on the island of Boran in ad and on this island lived an indigenous Clan called Theo Theo had three social class the first class being the the highest level these are the only people that could do the spiritual rituals and then the second class is the nios these were the management and Rel layers and then the final class is the nabas these were the common people but they were also the farmers and Hunters buto focused on agriculture they farmed casava which is a vegetable and a root sweet potatoes and pineapples they also focused heavily on spirituality worshiping two main Gods yuchu the god of casava and of the sea and his mother ataba the goddess of water and of human fertility but what happened to the tyo on Christopher Columbus's F second voyage around the Caribbean he call he found the tyo on the island and colonized them for the Spanish Empire they were under Spanish rule for years the end of slavery was in March of 1873 but who led this fight Puerto Rican abolitionist leaders include Jose julan aasta or saguna Rus bis these men were journalists and politicians and they were the ones that fought for the abolishment of slavery we have to talk about the man who earned the name the father of the Puerto Rican Nation Ramon OS panes was a man who earned this name because of his dedication to Liberty in Puerto Rico but also because of his Brave leadership in the First Freedom quest in Puerto Rico called gito deas in 1868 he was also a surgeon and introduced the island to the first procedures surgical procedures using chloroform the Spanish American war in 1898 is the reason why Puerto Rico is now an American territory and under the John shafroth Act passed by W Wilson Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship at first they started to migrate in small groups but due to a labor conflict starting on the island they started to migrate in smaller groups in larger groups they usually migrated to places like New York and Manhattan as they started to migrate there they started to experience a lot of different kinds of struggles including racism discrimination and trouble realizing the full benefits of their citizenship on the mainland because of these struggles they built they created the Nationalist party led by pedroo Campos the Nationalist party's um goal was to create self-determination for the island Pedro Aliso Campos unfortunately did end up advocating for more violent revolution this landed him in jail and on March of March in March people took to the streets when they heard about his imprisionment they wanted to protest against this but they weren't just there for protest they were also there in celebration of the abolishment of slavery they had a permit to be there but it was revoked halfway through their celebration and the chief of police at the time sent 200 police officers armed with machine guns and they killed 19 Puerto Ricans and injured over a 100 more some other Puerto Rican struggles include the insular cases which is a series of decisions by the Supreme Court limiting the rights of millions of Americans including Puerto Ricans and the United States versus Vell medo voell medo was a man who was receiving Social Security benefits but when he moved to Puerto Rico those benefits became illegal and he was sued over $25,000 for the benefits he was accidentally given and as you can see here Puerto Rican inclusion is always a lot higher Puerto Rican challenges to inclusion in financial status is always a lot a lot higher in Puerto Rico including more Puerto Ricans having not having a checking account not having a credit card are having to take out more loans as we can also see here overall Financial well-being is much lower in Puerto Rico than it is in the United States it is also a lot lower for people in Puerto Rico to have higher Financial well-being than in the United States but as we acknowledge the struggles of Puerto Ricans let's acknowledge the beauty of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico is known for its tropical weather beautiful beaches and Rich culture here we have a map of Puerto Rico and as you can see the middle of the island is known for high elevation this is where all the forestry and where all the mountain ranges are you can find o Yun off a little bit off the center of this on the outer region is the coastal region it's known for its flat Plains and this is where most of the agriculture takes place and there's a unique region in Puerto Rico called the kst region this region is known for having Limestone formations caverns and one of the biggest cave parks in the United States Alon is the national rainforest of Puerto Rico although small for its size it makes up for it and it's great biodiversity having over 150 ferns and over a hundred different tree species San Juan is the Island's capital founded by Juan Fon Leon a Spanish explorer San Juan is known for its huge Fortress called aloto aloto stretches 70 Acres across and has six floors as you can see here the bright colors is called the bright colors of the city is called old sanan and it is law that no two houses can have the same color on the same street some Puerto Rican Traditions dance is very important to Puerto Rico L Danza is the national dance of Puerto Rico La Bomba is the umbrella term for music and dance created by African and Puerto Rican slaves to express their feelings through their hardships of being a slave some Puerto Rican instruments include the gum which is unique it has grooves on the sides and you play it with a fork-like instrument and it makes a raspy yet rhythmetic sound and the quatro and the Tipple similar to the guitar but the Tipple makes a lot more of a high pitched and sharper sound than that of the guitar some Puerto Rican Cuisine include Tres Leches which I'm sure you've probably had before here in Massachusetts and tropical drinks on the island are usually made with coconut pineapple and other tropical fruit papa renas is a more traditional Porto Rican Cuisine and it is a fried ball of mashed potatoes stuffed with seasoned meat and these are just to name the few of the most of some of the rich cuisine on Puerto Rico some important Puerto Ricans just include Emy hernes panana which was which is who which is a NASA engineer she builds designs and tests electronics that regulate solar array she designed a system which can measure the oldest light in the universe Pablo kic Kon is an oceanographer and chief scientist at I at the National Ice Center he provides remote sensing abilities for ocean Dynamics like temperature Andor Marine processes Ola Gonzalez she is a woman who is a chemical engineer who researched in energy storage at Nasa she worked to improve hydrogen fuel cells for better powering of spacecraft Puerto Rican artists both past and present past Puerto Ricans includes Jose Kache who was born into slavery but freed by his father through his father he learned how to paint and followed his Father's Footsteps by painting more religious artworks and restoration Franchesco oler was born by two wealthy parents and he studied movement since he was young he went on to paint more scenery traveling from places like Spain to Paris painting the scenery that he saw including paintings of slaves working on plantations Yami Suarez is a man who was incredibly influential in the Ceramics movement in Puerto Rico his artwork is incredibly diverse having something having artwork that is very public and large or a smaller P um artworks like deas Deo and other artists include daraa her artwork consists of her using the environment around her with her sort of extreme artwor she brings awareness to the environmental threats of Puerto Rico an arted artist like L Manuel moranda he has won a total of five Grammys three Tony Awards One pullit surprise two prime time Emmy Awards One Oliver award has been nominated for two Academy Awards you probably know him best for his lead role in the play Hamilton and other music artists include Bad Bunny who is doing a residency important Rico to bring awareness to the island and Ricky Martin who you might know for his hit song Liv in la loca and Daddy Yankee who did a collaboration with Louise fony on the song despasito which won song and record of the year in 2017 Grammy Awards all these artists bring awareness to Puerto Rico and show the rich culture of Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans are incredibly proud of their heritage and lineage as am I I wanted to do this Ted talk to bring awareness to a group that has always seems to be overlooked Puerto Rico and its people are important because we are researchers Freedom Fighters artists and engineers and this is my key to unlocking A New Perspective thank you Emma that was wonderful of you to share your Puerto Rican Heritage with us our second presenter for first period for tedex DHS 2025 is Tabitha K Elliott Tabitha is a junior who plans to study psychology and hopes to become an attorney in the future Tabitha is also a member of the DHS TV media and reads our morning announcements Tabitha has been a member of the DHS tedex DHS Club since her freshman year and has presented a talk each year with us Tabitha has chosen her topic this year due to her volunteering at the South Coast youth courts and because of her work helping rehabilitate juvenile offenders please welcome Tabitha cabal Elliot as she presents another chance juvenile Rehabilitation versus punishment [Applause] let me start us all off with a surprising or notable statistic that over two million Americans currently are incarcerated as of 2025 and prisons across the Across the Nation are over Capa are overcrowded often at 119% capacity so that begs the question of where this starts well obviously it starts in the youth and that's where we should focus on juvenile offenders and how whether or not to rehabilitate them or punish them for their actions so first let me start off by defining what a juvenile offender is a juvenile offender is an individual under the statutory age of adulthood so usually under the age of 18 who engages in criminal activities and the term juvenile offender is relatively new only rising in popularity in the late 18 1800s to 1900s due to the societal realization that they're more able to be rehabilitated and more apt to change than their adult criminal counterparts now the focus in terms of juvenile offenders is more that of Rehabilitation and I will show you why and why they are indeed classified differently they are classified so differently than adult offenders because as a quote from Brooke Hartley from the Boston Bar Association the system is built upon the principle that children who commit crimes have diminished culpability essentially responsibility and a greater capacity for change than adults and the reason that this is so major is that one in seven of crimes committed in the US from 2016 to 2022 involved at least one participating juvenile this issue is rampant and it leads to over incarceration in adulthood so again it begs the question do we punish these offenders or do we rehabilitate them to integrate them back into society there's a lot of conflicting evidence however one method notably comes out on top and before we begin discussing those two methods I want to take a moment to address the Adolescent brain as you see the prefrontal cortex is the area of the brain responsible for judgment decision-making and overall impulse control that part of the brain is not developed until the age of at least 25 Additionally the amydala which is responsible for emotional regulation and further impulse control is not developed into until the early to mid 20s that means adolescents or juveniles don't have a fully developed brain in terms of decision-making and executive function their judgment biologically is not fully developed therefore they should not be treated as the fully developed adult counterparts now let's compare the overall consensus between the two in a poll done in 2021 by the Connecticut Justice Alliance they surveyed general population Americans over whether or not they preferred punishment for juvenile offenders an incarceration or prevention and Rehabilitation and the results are pretty shocking that 75% support Rehabilitation and reintegration back into society 24% prefer punishment of course one 1% were undecided however the stats do not lie let's take take a deeper dive into what I specifically mean by punishment punishment such as fines community service detention and even incarceration for juveniles doesn't address the true cause of these criminal offenses which could be anything from lack of community involvement to substance abuse to Poverty it's higher cost and has a higher chance of reoffence essentially it's ineffective Rehabilitation on the other hand gives more opportunities for Education job training and employment for these youths and has a lower chance of re offense it is arguably the more effective option in fact 38% of juvenile offenders sorry messed up that quote juvenile offenders are 38% less likely to participate in criminal activity when in a rehabilitation program outside of a correctional facility in the United States over a third less likely to reoffend when they're placed in a rehabilitation program and that brings me to local programs known as youth courts in which they're basically a juvenile redirection it's a start contrast from the traditional Juvenile justice system in which they're evaluated by their peers peer volunteers pure jury members who hope to instill these three main pillars into these offenders so that they may get a second chance with no criminal record and be reintroduced back into society as productive and helpful Citizens First education on everything from addiction to job training addiction information about nicotine addiction drug addiction in general so they're more aware of the risks information about vocational training or higher education opportunities so that they may further their careers accountability whether it be through restitution AKA paying the victims for damages public apologies research projects on how to not commit the crime again accountability is one of the most important pillars just because this is a second chance does not mean that the offender gets off scoff free that's a common misconception accountability and responsibility still need to be taken and that leads into success where those two first pillars build up this offender in order to be a successful educated and informed citizen who has another chance at educating themselves at being productive and at being an important part of their local community that brings us to a little more of a local level South Coast youth courts I myself have volunteered there for over a year and I've worked with hundreds of juvenile offenders and hundreds of different cases and let me introduce you to some of the programs that they offer that really illustrate my points about education for example The Vape program which is substance abuse education especially in terms of nicotine but in all substance generally it educates the local youths about the dangers of addiction the dangers of certain drugs and how to get help and resources to quit these addictions itions Drive smart which is mostly geared towards youths who have driving related offenses especially distracted driving it basically encourages them and educates them on how to be more safe drivers and how to transport themselves and their peers effectively and safely and of course the traditional Youth Court sanctions which could range from anything from an apology to a research project to community service to peer jury duty which instills a sense of community in these offenders and reintroduces them back with their peers as productive reformed citizens because Rehabilitation IT addresses the root cause of offense not just the behavior it breaks the overall cycle of of offense punishment and reoffence it breaks the cycle of crime stopping juvenile offenders in the CLE to becoming adult offenders and therefore adding to our mass incarceration problem and that is my key to unlocking A New Perspective thank thank you Tabitha for enlightening us on the criminal justice system our third and last presenter for period one is Emma Emma Terk Emma is currently a sophomore here at Dartmouth High School and would like to become an orthodontist running her own practice in the future Emma loves to sing and often sings the national anthem at many of Dartmouth High School sporting events Emma chose her topic for her tedex DHS talk because she loves to sing and wanted to understand more about the impact of singing on emotions and how it brings meaning to our lives please welcome Emma trik as she presents the power of [Applause] song can you guess this song I was a girl in the village doing all right then I became a princess overnight does anyone know what this song could be for anyone who said Sophia the First you would be correct try this one the snow glows white on the mountain tonight not a footprint to be seen if you said Frozen you are partially correct but the song is called Let It Go try this one I've been staring at the edge of the water long as I can remember never really knowing why I wish I could be the perfect daughter but I come back to the water no matter how hard I try whoever just said how far I'll go is correct it's from Moana and finally guess this song all those days watching from the windows all those years outside looking in all that time never even knowing just how blind I've been now I'm I'm here blinking in the Starlight now I'm here Suddenly I See standing here it's all so clear I'm where I meant to be does anyone know what this song is called you guys are pretty close I see the light from Tangled now many of you may remember these songs because they were a crucial part in your child in your childhood like they were mine this brings me to my first topic music and memory music and memory a harmonious connection of those who reported often being exposed to music as a child 68% rated their ability to learn new things as excellent or very good compared to 50% of those who were not exposed to music this shows that music has such a big impact on our memory that we are able to learn more challenging Concepts faster if we listen to music as a child as you can see on this photo music tends to light up the brain oh music tends to light up the brain in multiple different areas I'm only going to mention a few the visual cortex the motor cortex and the sensory cortex music and memory a helpful tool for Alzheimer's music can help many people with Alzheimer's by decreasing their agitation it can also help them communicate with their caregiver well how much improvement can this really make it can help with their memory if you're playing an old song and they might remember it that's a really good thing it can help with their expression and communication if they start dancing to that song they're showing their expression it can help with their Stress Management along with pain relief since the music is music can be very calming it can help them be less stressed out and then that can help them uh relieve their pain and it can help with their physical rehabilitation music and emotion how can music affect your emotions this was something that I struggled to come up with an answer to for a very long time and then I watched two really good movies and thought back to these characters Joy sadness fear and and anxiety Now can anyone think of a song that could represent Joy because I'm happy that's what I thought as well I also thought Happy by farell Williams this song is about someone who's being happy and living um and living by the saying sky the limit so I think it accurately represents Joy anyone know a song that can represent sadness I didn't think of that I thought of Traer VI Olivia Rodrigo because the song is about heartbreak does anyone know a song that can represent fear how about somebody's watching me from walk Rockwell this song is about someone who's worried that they're being stocked and what about a song that can represent anxiety I didn't think of that one I thought of breathing by AR ana Grande which is about when you're having an anxiety attack and you're told to Just Breathe music affecting your emotions music just affects people's feelings it brings out emotions in you and it can make you happy and sad that was according to Selena Gomez music in the classroom music as a helpful teaching tool many teachers use music to help students understand new and challenging Concepts now raise your hand if you've heard any of these songs played in your CL in your classrooms anyone had heard the 50 States Song which can help us learn the 50 states no does can does anyone know the cleanup song that we learned when we were probably in preschool that taught us to clean up though some of us might not use it any anymore what about the ABCs I should see everyone's hand up I know people today that don't know how to do their ABCs without singing the song what about the Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes song This taught us our body parts and what about the Hokey pokei anyone do this song okay this song taught us physical movement my personal experience with music as many of you may know I do sing the national anthem for many of our school sporting events but the first time I ever sang it was at a Dartmouth hockey game last year and now whenever I go back to the rink the rink is almost as a comfort because it was where it started okay my personal experience I was singing at a smck wathon which really helped me learn how to connect with all of the older Generations which was really really helpful because I was learning to sing older songs this was at a Broadway brunch where I was learning to sing harder songs while also having a pleasant face this was the Portuguese Feast which I saw many of you there this taught me how to connect with all age groups and now not only am I a part of many other clubs but I'm also a part of Dartmouth show choir through Dartmouth show choir we have learned how to tell a story through our facial expressions and through song which is quite difficult not only that but we're learning how to tell it while dancing now I've been talking quite a bit about singing but I haven't sang so do you want me to sing okay I'm going to sing something from Hamilton and it's called burn and I'm only going to sing a little bit ready I'm searching and scanning for answers in every line for some kind of sign for when you were mine the world seemed to burn burn and this is my key to unlocking A New Perspective thank you Emma anybody want to sing all right this concludes our first period presentations uh teachers you have the option of keeping your classes here if you would like to return back to your classroom that is up to you thank you for top five AR all right we're going to be starting in a few minutes Welcome to our 10th tedex DHS event the tedex club is drilled to present to you this exciting event here at Dartmouth High School this is an independently organized event this year we have a live audience and we will also be broadcast via live stream by dhsv media Productions our theme this year is keys to unlocking A New Perspective [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] those have been our themes over the last 10 years it all started going to the zitan theater and looking at a production and from then we have been doing it for 10 years you might be new uh you might be wondering what Ted stands for um and you might be wondering this who this Ted guy is well I'm here to tell you that it isn't a person instead Ted is an acronym for technology entertainment and design the Ted organization has covered many ideas worth spreading in various fields of study you will see the same diversity in the topics being presented to you here today we're going to start at perod two uh presentations our first presenter is Tana the Silva tsana is a sophomore here at darkmouth high school and is currently an assistant teacher at the Learning House Preschool she plans to go to school for elementary education in English language uh Learners degrees and would love to pursue uh Ministry Tana has a photography business called sweet tea photos and photographed her first wedding in senior part portraits this summer by creating content to support her photography business Tana noticed that the algorithm impacts which photos that people will see online additionally she's hoping that everyone understands if the photographs are telling the story and wants people to understand the meaning be behind these photos you see please welcome Tana the Silva as she presents Beyond The lenses when you hear my title beyond the lens what's the first thing you think of when you hear the word lens do you ever consider the one that you have in your back pocket for us this is the normal but compared to the early ideas of Photography having that camera is revolutionary so how and when did easy access to photography open up to start we go all the way back to 4th Century BC the first concept of a camera known as the camera obscura this used sunlight and angles to create a projection of an image so how did this become a world where 5.3 billion photos are shared daily and 61,500 photos are taken every second to start we're going to go all the way back to history of cave art it's been evident that the use of art to record life has been a part of human history as long as long as humans have been alive we start with cave art ancient writings and paintings especially for the Rich and Famous and paintings is actually what led to the first invention of a camera in the early 1800s painters wanted to have a projection of an image so that they could more easily paint their subject however Joseph nfor neepy decided that he didn't just want a projection of an image he wanted an engraving of that projection so he took bitamin which is hardened petroleum put it in a sheet and left it in the sun for 8 hours at at a certain angle with his camera obscura to create this image which became known as the first photograph this definitely is not our conventional photograph however it led to the base of the first photography process known as the dagger type process this was the first publicly available process it wasn't just a science experiment it was a real process that could be used to take photos especially for the rich as you can see the same Camera Obscura was within this camera however instead of using biddy they used silver plates and different chemicals to create a lasting image and many people of royalty and Prestige were able to get their profiles and portraits taken with the dagger types But Not only was it portraits they also started started taking pictures of the events happening around them and this led to the birth of photojournalism photojournalism is known as the art or practice of communicating news by photographs especially in magazines this photo was the first photo to be published in a magazine in Paris showing during working strikes the barricades in the street after this picture people started realizing that their Weekly News would be better if accompanied by a photo and photographers started to be hired to go to every big event now this had become an art and as this quote by painter Joan Mio says you can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again you can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life and this is what photographers tried to embody now with photography we could fully tell the truth we could send keepsakes to our lovers and detectives could have true criminal evidence not just what they assumed was correct when things arose in society that brought questions it could be documented and that's how we know of these social changes and one of the biggest things that was docum mented was Wars the Mexican-American War being the first war to be documented completely by photographs eventually life especially in Europe and the us became a life documented on film in magazine workers found that not only were they getting the stories they wanted they getting the stories hidden underneath for example in this first Life magazine in 1936 the photographer was hired to go and pictures of the dam being built but instead she captured frontier life in America in some of the most iconic pictures that we have from this time period however the creators of cameras didn't want this to just be for magazine makers and photographers they wanted it to be for the general public to use as well and George Eastman came up with the brownie camera this was was one of the first commercial cameras and was relatively affordable and easy to use compared to the dagger type process now they are able to take family photos candids that weren't taking hours of posing wedding photos an amateur photographer was were born this led to a lot more similar pictures to what you might see in your own camera rule children would go around with their cameras pressing taking pictures from their own point of view however this was simply a click and wait process there is no viewfinder no way to see what images you had taken simply a button in that little lens and this was the problem with film you needed to have your film developed you couldn't see what pictures you were taking and by the time you got it developed it was too late to retake it if you didn't like how it turned out however a lot of retailers marketed off of this for example Walmart created a drop when shop program so that when you go to the grocery store you you would remember to bring your film with you drop it off and get it developed and Kodak even made a photoart a photo mat kind of like the laundromat except it's in the parking lot and you go to bring your film because of that long process the Polaroid was an amazing invention that shocked Americans as you can see by their tagline imagine finish pictures in 1 minute with this new Polaroid Land Camera this is a big thing for all Americans to be able to take the pictures and see them right away if something was wrong that's all right you can retake it however this was an expensive process and led mostly to the development of a Polaroid company and all the different cameras some of which you might still have in your bedrooms today however that was the end of photography of the past the more expensive photography which was reserved mostly for special occasions it was a tedious process in the dark room developing your film and it was limited what you could take pictures of and what would actually turn out however we solely transition into a World of Color into photography currently where there's a variety of options not only expensive professional equipment but also cheaper alternatives and it's much e easier to learn and this all started in 1977 with the or 1975 with the first digital camera Kodak created a camera that mixed technology from the movie camera and had 12 different circuits underneath it was one lens very bulky and hard to carry around but it changed America's thoughts of what a camera could be by the time 1994 came around Apple created their own version of the digital camera it might look a little bit more like a set of binoculars but it was revolutionary to the scene of digital cameras and by the time 2004 came around Canon had released their first digital camera leading to an industry that is still booming today however the big change that most important to us was the mobile phone 1999 was the first Camera and Video phone it had 1/3 of a megapixel and can only hold 20 images but to Americans during this time this was shocking and by 2007 around the time where some of us were born probably around the same age as most of us the first iPhone was created and as you can see that's a very tiny camera lens but it shocked Americans and since these creations mobile phone ownership has rised to the point where almost 100% of us adults own a phone and with this has come a rise of social media Facebook and Instagram are some of the main sources for getting photos and where photos are posted this has become a place not only for you to see photos and share photos with your friends and families but also for photography to grow this summer I shot my first wedding through a chance opportunity and I expected to be getting to be handing out business cards but instead I was met with the question what's your business handle and I realized that we had truly transitioned into a world of social media businesses I didn't think that my middle school Instagram account would cut it so I went and researched what I could do to create a business account Instagram has a very accessible and easy program for creating a business account anyone can sign sign up say what business they they're trying to start and create a business profile now you will get insights when you post and ideas for promotions and promoting your work however this isn't the only step of sharing on social media you also have to take into consideration the world that we live in with filters Ai and editing softwares it wouldn't be acceptable to post a photo like this one instead it would go through filters and AI until it got to a photo looking more little more like this one and this is what we have come to in this digital age so I had to learn how we can adjust the things that normally a camera would do on its own but instead now we have the tools to adjust the light adjust the color adjust the Optics and even things like generative AI to remove and add to your photos this is an amazing tool that can make photographers work even more detailed and elaborate however it can also be a dangerous tool my reason for sharing this is showing where photojournalism started and the truth that we need to get back to when we see photos it's a responsibility to truly acknowledge what we're seeing and the truth behind it as Henry cardier breast said as photojournalists we Supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images we pass judgment on what we see and this involves an enormous responsibility not only for the photographers but for us viewing it and this is my key to unlocking A New Perspective thank you tsana for that wonderful perspective with beyond the lens our next presenters are ree Alves Ford and Basia ravitzky Basia is a junior here at DHS in plans to pursue a degree in exercise science basia's goal is to become a sports physical therapist who travels the world with a team R junor DHS who plans to pursue a degree in law and have a career in the legal field they chose their topic because they believe that the world needs to understand there can be multiple opinions for every topic and people need to dig deeper to find quality information so that Society can be more diplomatic and informed please welcome ree Alves Ford and Basia Ovitz as they present blinded by red and the media do you ever catch yourself in an argument or debate and there seems to only be two options of outlook on the issue it's either this or that and there's no in between because both sides are fully narrowed to their own opinion this can be known as black and white thinking or more commonly classified as false dilemma in which an issue is misrepresented as mutually exclusive modern day politic ICS are structured on this way of false dilemma and it is where two political parties are acknowledged this is where the term red or blue comes in so where does argumentative polarization happen a major contributor to the polarization of debates is a physiological cognitive bias known as confirmation bias confirmation bias is a tendency to process information by interpreting or looking for information that is consistent with one's existing belief many are unaware of this and are only seeking objective facts people have the tendency to only interpret information to support their own beliefs and completely ignore potential outlooks some examples of this are not seeking out objective facts interpreting information to support existing beliefs remembering details that only uphold one's own beliefs or completely ignoring information that challenges your beliefs this is this very process is the leading factor of the growing spread of fake news or misinformation false information has a multitude of different classifications on account of the intent of the information the most common type of false information is known as misinformation it is unintentionally spread and caused by means of confirmation bias another type of false information is disinformation this is more dangerous than misinformation because for the fact that it is purposefully spread rather than spread by accident disinformation is deliberately F fabricated or manipulated to support an argument so someone is intentionally taking certain information and either taking it out of context or rewarding it in a way that upholds and advocates for their claim the most dangerous type of false information is Mal information this is sensitive information that can be confidential and is purposefully published in attempt to prove or disprove someone's opinion now we will look at and explore social media's impact on bias and polarization algorithms social media algorithms funnel content to specific audiences audiences this creates content that only reinforces users existing beliefs limiting their perspective on certain topics algorithms encourage the use of echo Chambers which are made to bind and isolate communities with similar views which AIDS the spread of factual Corrections rumors spread by misinformation C can not only impact the reputation of political office officials but also regular citizens or reg or IND individuals no matter who you are misinformation misinformation impacts your life for better or worse so the role of social media in stimulating bi also ties in with how the brain processes information there are three major parts of the brain that are associated with bias they're known as the amydala the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex when our brain is presented with information it uses things known as shortcuts to easily classify information as relatable or not we use what we've learned from our environment to make quick assumptions about who to trust and who to agree with these mental shortcuts are what lead to unintentional bias and develop into stereotypes so how can we use our brain to be aware of bias and see other perspectives despite our own opinion these can be done through various Solutions our first solution is seek out diverse perspectives ask questions to your opponents and understand where they're coming from and trying to see things through others eyes our second solution is understand that there is more than two sides to any debate neutrality is a position having an opinion does not mean you must narrow it and our final be aware of how SL where you are receiving information research and use reliable sources that can contain accurate information that is not taken out of context this could be done through sources known that have orgs or.

good evening and welcome to the where happened to my agenda I had it all open and everything oh here it is uh good evening and welcome to the Greenfield Public Schools executive subcommittee meeting Thursday March 6 2025 the meeting is being held fully remotely in accordance with the governor of Massachusetts order extending certain provisions of the open meeting law per open meeting law any member of the public may make an audio or video recording of this meeting is anybody else besides us um the meeting is being recorded by the executive subcommittee if any other persons present are also recording you must notify the chairperson of the subcommittee at this time okay no one else is um let's see we'll call the RO um member Den here member seon here and I Glenn Johnson mad him here so call the meeting to order at 5:32 PM um first item the agenda is approval of minutes from our last meeting which was April 2nd 2024 is a reminder um even people not present at the meeting are able to vote on that if they wish um just based on whether they think it represents a good faith um representation of what happened at that meeting I'd like to hear a motion to approve the minutes from April 2nd 2024 so move is there a second I'll second and any discussion all right not hearing any let's call a vote member deneve yes Vice chair ston I'll abstain and I'm a yes so the motion carries and the minutes are approved um next item on our agenda is mentorship of Vice chair and um Vice chair seon you asked this to be on the agenda do you want to set it up for us yeah so this this is emerging from a conversation that I had um prior to our organizational meeting with member den and a few others of just trying to more intentionally utilize the structures we have to prepare members now and in the future to be able to assume leadership roles and to understand what that entails before they get in there to hopefully make the doing of those rules slightly more effective or easier on people to to to sort of know what is going to be expected before they take it on and so part of that is me specifically me requesting mentorship from you currently you as the chair so there's like both this interpersonal one-on-one aspect of it but there is also me thinking about future individuals who might occupy these roles and how we might be able to build in structures that allow them to Mentor one another moving forward or just so that there's greater collaboration between the offices um so that's that's what I was talking about and then as a specific maybe outcome of this work also talking about um incorporating a new section to our member handbook that includes the roles and duties of the chair and also how to how to do that like what that actually means so that if somebody when they first come on to the committee might be like I don't know I'm kind of interested but I don't really know what it does they could read that section and decide for themselves if that's something that they would like to pursue and get more training around um or if they're like never mind actually yeah so that that's sort of intent behind me bringing this up and I know you and I have had for the like individual one-on-one you and me specific portion of it you and I have already had some discussions offline um yeah about that but curious to hear about them your all's thoughts about the more structural aspects of of the idea yeah remember Den do you have thoughts I think that being that the role of the chair has been sort of a guarded thing in the past it's great to see and hear how much work you're doing as the chair um not just so that we can appreciate you but because it gives us an idea of how how rigorous that job is and it gives you an idea of whether or not you want to strive for that as you know in the future or whether or not you just want to support that but having it be transparent I think also lets the public know how much work we are doing um and will be helpful if somebody has to step into that role like I'm afraid that if something happens and all of a sudden one of us has to do this we may not have the information so I think there's a lot of levels of this um and I think it's part of the forward thinking that we have chosen as a group to being more trans arent and inclusive in our work nice anything else you want to say member suon about it nice chair I mean I think that what member didn't even added was is right on and important so that there is like so that we do function as a body that any one of us could if needed pick up and fill in but I as the chair I'd love to know what you're thoughts about it are yeah uh I think it's a great idea to I think it's both documenting what is currently happening uh what the chair is currently doing and then also adding essentially a new domain of activities for the chair which is mentorship of the vice chair and documenting that as well and I feel like um this particular situation where we have a vice chair who's explicitly expressed interest in um taking on the role next year and where there seems to be support among the school committee for that to happen it's a great opportunity because we can really work on trying to meet your needs and just document as we do that so we can kind of both give you what you need for that support and also create documentation that can be kind of built into the expectations of the chair doing this in the future um obviously chairs and vice chairs will each have their own relationships and some chairs will invest more in mentorship than others but at least it could be written down on paper like we have a lot of things that are kind of there on paper as ideals and someone can always speak up and say hey our policy says we're we should be doing this you know and and if we if we put that in our handbook it gives someone that leverage to try to get that mentorship in the future um regardless of who his chair so I think it's a great idea um maybe one we can move on to um the next item which is school committee procedures list and um I can just kind of maybe talk and try to put things onto the record of these minutes of what I am currently doing as the chair um and then maybe answer some questions from you both um that might help to flesh that out a little bit how does that sound like a plan for how to proceed okay so in no particular order um any member of this school committee can approve the bi-weekly warrant but it seems to be that the chair is the one who approves the bi-weekly payroll warrant so that is not seen by the whole committee that's kept I think for personnel reasons kept to one person being the chair to approve um that has meant kind of by default I'm going in and approving that warrant anyway so I it seems like 99 out of 100 times end up approving the regular warrant as well but that's not explicit for the roll but the payroll warrant does seem to be um the other thing is the chair um responds to emails addressed to the school committee in a way that kind of represents the um represents the committee uh of been in consultation with the superintendent and Town Council to make sure we're um we're you know all uh working in concert and not working against each other um so that's part of the role um weekly meetings with the superintendent um the superintendent kind of maintains a list of items that she needs to consult with the chair the representative of the committee between meetings um they can't wait for the next meeting as well as calling um in between um meetings about you know giving a heads up about things that are happening in the schools or things that she may need feedback um from the chair on um that are times sensitive um there are also some ceremonial things such as um signing diplomas and and shaking hands with graduates attending the um Green Spoon Awards dinner um things like that where you're kind of uh representing the committee in a kind of ceremonial way um what else do I do is chair there's the building of the agenda um with the superintendent and now with the vice chair as well um think if there's anything else uh representing the school committee at City Council meetings you know getting requests from school committee members of items that they want on the agenda and I'd say some oh actually there are some logistical things like currently the chair is The Keeper of the keys to the John Zan Center and he kind of respond responsible for opening and closing that which also puts a limit on the amount of or it becomes a limiting factor for the school committee using that space at other times because the way it currently is the chair is the only one who is able to use to make that space available um other logistical things currently the chair is setting up the zoom with the go with the to be able to monitor um when people attending remotely wish to make public comment that's not something that necessarily needs to reside with the chair maybe that's something that could be a secretary Duty or I don't know but that is currently the way it's organized what else do I do the chair receives the draft minutes so I think the chair can I haven't really done this but could potentially write to Susan and say can you make this change before the minutes get submitted to the full committee for the draft for for approval oh yeah and some administrative Lea on things like I've worked with the superintendent on things like could you please reorganize the way that the meetings are organized on the website so that they're more mobile friendly or can we make sure that Chromebooks can be available to the school committee and business cards and giving school committee members instructions on how to request items like that how to request having their phone number added to the the school committee contact page uh the school the school committee chair is the supervisor for the recording secretary so Susan Farber [Music] um and I think meant to do an annual evaluation of her we just found that out last year that the chair was actually the we didn't know who was supervising Susan before she didn't have like an official job description or whatever we realized that was something we needed to clean up um and um the chair is um sometimes if there are items that need to be like I guess it's like talking to the Town Council about various things for example if it appears to the chair that certain members have broken open meeting law um Consulting with the um Council to confirm and coming up with a plan to address address that or communicate with this sometimes had the school committee chair is the U de facto enforcer of open meeting law and so kind of reminding members to um of the various aspects of of the law that need to be um observed so things like that sometimes we need to be we need to I need to remind members of different things that we're responsible for have to follow putting all this out makes me realize it actually is there are actually a lot of things was involved in it yeah you have to say them all out loud yeah yeah and then there are things that are written into the um existing policies um and maybe that could be a homework item for um one of you would be going through our existing policy manual and finding items that that are assigned to the chair to do such as committee assignments things like that that's all I could think of right now I think any questions workout I'm curious if there are things that are maybe not laid out in policy or duties but are just like past practice things that aren't required but that are habitual or commonly done I think almost all of what I just talked about Falls in that category yeah like there's nothing in there that says the chair has to be the the John on contact or or the lapt you know the Chromebook keeper or whatever yeah right um I don't currently have any additional questions about that but I might in the future yeah sure yeah um so maybe after the minutes from this meeting come out someone would one of you be willing to kind of write it up in a in the language of what could go into uh the policies and procedures manual the procedures manual yes that sounds like my job oh all right but also like okay all I do is take is like Shadow the minutes for Susan and run the alarm for public comment so I am really capable and able to assume other duties if you feel like I should things that are secretarial that you might like me to do I'm happy to take on those things if you want me to run the zoom I'll run the zoom okay great yeah I would like you to do that that'd be awesome I'm happy to run the zoom you'll just have to maybe show me next week so that I understand how it works but I mean sure yeah you just need to be able to log in as a Greenfield Public Schools and um you know so you can be the host and all but um do you do that on your school committee Chromebook Chromebook me do the way that you normally would do a um a hybrid meeting um I don't always like currently I'm using my personal comp computer so but yeah I guess so like some there yeah when I want when I need to be able to like today I'm using my personal computer but I logged in using the Greenfield school committee um Zoom account so I can do the recording and have that go right yeah but it's but essentially it's just like when we chare our individual subcommittees is I guess what I'm asking I guess so yeah except we're just monitoring the public comment yeah got it and when we're at the you know full school committee meetings at the johnan center gctv is doing all the recording so you don't have to worry about that well I'm very happy to take that on next week and learn it and help you that was something that Kate and I volunteered to do back when um chair petti was saying that we were going to maybe change spaces and have meetings at a different place and they needed somebody to trained to do the zoom so I'm happy to do that and that seems like a secretarial Duty wonderful thank you that's great um yeah would you like the chair duties typed up for the handbook or for it would go in our school committee handbook right yeah I think that's our idea right is to gather these things and put them into the handbook so people people understand you know and so maybe in that is not just the chair but also like the the what the what does the Secretary do what does the vice chair do what what are the what exactly do these officers do yeah okay let me make a note to do that because I've added all of the other things to the handbook so is is the handbook on the website yet um let's find out I will share my screen and we can take look together what is on the website I know that the um um uh we did get the um yearlong yearlong agenda up here um okay no I'm not I would expect to see it here in this see yet so do you want to maybe email this super and about that um Elizabeth and copy me and try and get it up there yeah uh yep I will handle that okay thank you um so now thinking about um mentorship of the vice chair um maybe VI chair seon you could say more I mean I guess what what have we we've started is involving the vice chair in the creation of the agendas which seems like a good Mentor type thing activity what else do you see as what you would like currently as Vice chair in terms of your [Music] development yeah I definitely agendas is is one but I also think that um warrants or any understanding any of the legal stuff that gets done is probably something that I should know a lot more about um in case I do ever need to be filling in for you for an extended period of time for any reason um that seems good and then um some of is some of it is also just being able to also build relationships with the people that you have relationships with so that they're not surprised if they ever see me um making sure that they're A Ware of at any given time who is the chair and who is the vice chair so that they have a good sense of like oh if I really can't get a hold of this one person or I know that this person is is you know out sick for an extended period or is traveling for a couple of weeks or something that I know who else I can contact yeah for anything um there's that um and then I would also be interested in and willing to be part of whatever relationships we are maintaining with the uh city council excellent okay great yeah yeah but the and the rest of the stuff it could be useful to just like spend an hour or so just poking around with you and like where would I find this if I you know the and I don't know exactly what that looks like for the duties that you listed at but the keys seems relatively self for like self-explanatory and straightforward uh and if member Den is gonna start taking over the zoom thing and I think I even know how to do that because I think I did that once with Karen um but yeah the other stuff it might just be a I watch you do it once kind of kind of a deal y you've seen me lock up the John on Center so I I know exactly how that happens yeah yeah and then I think the other thing is just maybe one-on-one meetings like you know between the chair and vice chair where got a chance to talk over things and um chair the chair can share their experience and you know they the chair and vice chair can think together about about things yeah I think that's it's good to have thought Partners it's yeah that's why we're an even executive team yeah yeah and I think it for me it also just feels really important because you've indicated that you you do not wish to seek reelection in the future and so you know it feels important to start getting all of your knowledge now from your many years of service um and it's already March you know so the year goes really fast yeah yeah I'll be have been on the school committee six years in May believe it or not yeah um yeah the other thing that occurs to me is you know a lot of times the things that come up during the week is like Aaron texting me and saying do you have a few minutes to talk and so maybe what I can try to do is like see if it's something where she feels comfortable doing it as a three-way call and if she is I'll just call you out of the blue and see if you can pick up I don't think we can do much more in terms of coordination of times and things like that but yeah then you could see what those kinds of conversations are like right anything else I think this one is one that we sort of start experimenting with and yeah see what we might need to revisit in the future so um then I think we'll move to adjournment but after adjournment I'll stop the recording and let's put our Calenders together for finding our next exe is there um on the agenda that I have there is item three which is reviewing and discussion of the year-long agenda did we already do that oh no we haven't done that sorry um yeah um should I share my screen and we can kind of review where we are on the yearlong agenda that would be wonderful [Music] okay let me see if I can get this a little bit bigger [Music] oops how's that for size that's good yeah it's good all right what month are we in March March had our budget hearing at the end of February um I guess the superintendent will bring the calend next year's calendar to us I have a whole report for you for legislative priorities that I'm going to send you tomorrow okay so we'll want that on the agenda for Wednesday night yeah so I'm I'm almost done with it I'm gonna Kate and I had a chat about all of the bills we reviewed all the bills from the uh Zoom that we had with our division five leader and um and I got your email about setting up a uh get together at the collaborative I just have to get back to back to Todd um and see when the best time might be nice and um yeah oh oh and I can talk about the summer Institute do we have dates for it yet I believe we do um I'll look all that up and just give the rundown in case anybody wants to go okay um I have not gone to the summer Institute I don't know if I can this year but Kate says it's great [Music] um what was intended by the spring professional development was it just for the the committee to have a little bit of professional development together at our April meeting yeah we are thinking that if there's if there's something that we have interest in learning about as a committee maybe it's oml training I don't know or I don't know what it could be something that we've identified that we need more training in or want you know or have an interest in for future work we could identify that at this time and then see if we could create a professional development opportunity for us because we're technically supposed to be working on professional development as a group specific to our district yeah um and we do have the results of our last um self-evaluation which would point to areas that where we need professional development as a group [Music] um I'm wondering if um someone might be willing to to review that and make a prop proposal at our at Wednesday's meeting about professional development we might be able to pull together for April where would I find the the data on our um on our evaluation results do you know offhand where I would find that yeah it was in our packet um it was the January um it was part of our January um agenda meeting regular meeting so it would be in that pack okay Stacy do you want to do that or would you like me to do that I can do that okay I mean I guess if there is no identified need for professional development then like there isn't but may but if we don't look and ascertain that so I think that's why we put that bullet point in there is just to make sure that we're reflecting on that and that we're not missing anything yeah just as a checkpoint yep am I also remembering right correctly that April is the the month where we also need to approve F like international field trips and things they come up they come up at different times um and now that we've um adjusted our policy that they we can basically approve them much farther in advance than we used to be able to I can't remember ins and outs but so yeah they just kind of come up as needed I think that we were thinking April because we always approved like the next year's big international trip then so because everyone needed so long to raise the money and plan yeah but right we changed the policy so that could probably be adjusted on the calendar well I mean I guess I'm not sure that we need it on the yearlong agenda because it just will I mean there will always be items that come up as needed right so right and also this year the yelo conference is going to be in April they uh postponed it so that's something else to add to the report yeah which I will do okay I believe it's April 10th [Music] yeah okay progressing along anything else on the review of the year long agenda that you that we should do okay good I think it's a useful tool so I appreciate your advocacy for it Elizabeth and you're both of you were the ones who created the rough draft that started there a car ride well spent well done all right anything else on our agenda before we move to adjournment um I'm going to count this as an item of new business and I don't want to discuss a lot about it but I do I am wondering if we will be getting an update next week from you about about what legal council has been saying regarding all of the emails we've been getting yeah I got a um I got an answer today so before Wednesday you you should see emails from me about that fantastic yep thank you sure any other items um and new Under new business all right hear a motion to adjourn I motion to adjourn from Member suton and a second for member denie is what I heard yeah that's fine any discussion uh secretary Den um sure secretary Den I'm yes chair Johnson mad oh am a yes and vice chair sexon m a yes all right we are adjourned unanimous ly at 6:04 p.m.

e e e Welcome to our board meeting this evening uh we will start by uh reporting out uh excuse me by we we'll have the Pledge of Allegiance by our uh student board rip Aaron please [Music] stand put your right hand over your heart ready begin i al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay on January 29th 2025 a tragic midair Collision occurred over the patomic river near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport claiming the lives of all 67 individuals abroad both aircraft this devastating event has deeply affected countless families friends and communities these days many plane crashes and disasters have been occurring like the ones in Korea and the recent one with the figure skaters I would like to give this moment a silence remembering not only the 67 thats but to honor many other families and communities who have been affected as well thank you thank you eron next is close session report by the clerk thank you 4.1 no report action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in Consolidated o ah case numbers 20241 0 368 and 0603 resolving all due process issues by providing reimbursements and releases 4.3 the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in Orange County suprior court case number 30-20 23-01 3141 32- C- p- CJC 4.4 the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement Orange County suprior court case number 30-20 23-01 07- c-- CJC 4.5 nor po action taken regarding existing litigation 4.6 no report action taken regarding negotiations 4.7 no report action taken regarding Personnel 4.8 the board of toes unanimously approved voted to approve the release of temporary certified teachers a full copy of the employee numbers affected by this action is available for inspection 4.9 the board Tres unanimously voted to accept the settlement agreement with employee hr- 20 24-25-4 and that concludes the report thank you now Aon Beck our student board representative of present a report for the district yes okay first looking at Anaheim anahim high schools learning walk highlighted state-of-the-art Community Schools Resource Center classrooms and teaching administrators from all over the nation toward the campus and were given an insightful presentation by a student panel as the quarter ends Anaheim also welcomes new foreign exchange students from Italy and Reams France these students will be engrossed in their community and learn what it is to be in a town now let's look into CVA for CVA their highlight was their Market day's cultural dance which was celebrated between Dale and CVA and Not only was a celebration of diverse cultures but also an opportunity to Foster and showcase student entrepreneurship the market day truly was a fabulous experience and day for CVA this month now let's look to Cyprus for Cyprus this month was an eventful month and first on February 14th Cyprus hosted the eighth grade visit where incoming freshmen from Lexington Junior High School experienced campus tours a high energy rally and informative sessions about class options all while getting a taste of centurion Pride their second highlight would definitely be their social justice stay filled with soapbox speeches slam poetry performing arts and boots that celebrated student creativ and promoted school spirit looking ahead Cyprus has school social worker week from March 3rd to 7th Centurion gains from the 17th to the 21st and California college application results all throughout March this month was very engaging and exciting for the Cypress centurions now let's look at catella catella started march with the community resource Fair the community schools at catella did an amazing job putting together this event it served as a One-Stop hub for individuals and families to access a wide range of of resources from Healthcare and education to Social Services next for Kennedy Kennedy High School hosted their winter formal on February 8th at the Bowers Museum the dance was highly enjoyed by those who attended and they look forward to even more upcoming ASB plan events in the future like prom now let's look to Laura Laura high school was open the new Wellness space providing students with a place to relax recharge and focus on their mental well-being this space is designed to offer a calming environment during school hours promoting self-care and stress relief a step forward in supporting Student Wellness on campus way to go laera now let's look at Magnolia Magnolia is so excited to welcome Brooklyn sharp as her 2025 to 2026 student ambassador at Magnolia Magnolia is incredibly proud of her and knows that their student voices are in good hands they are so excited to see what Magnolia Shar or Brooklyn sharp will do for Magnolia next year now let's look for Oxford Oxford helped their last Summit of the year with active participation and Candy students were engaged fostering a collaborating community another highlight was definitely their sweet love week where they focused on special days like kindness days and shared love throughout their campus now let's look to Savannah Savannah's highlight would be their Color Guard team where they attended a San Diego WGI Regional and Scholastic a division additionally Savannah continues their opportunity of inviting students from China to visit Savannah campus for a week from February 11th to the 14th students engaged as Tory guides for the Chinese students to show them Student Life at Savannah by the final day visitors got to express their gratitude and build memorable bonds with Savannah Rebels now finally let's look at Western lastly for Western they would love to highlight Isaac Gonzalez placing eighth in the state for wrestling senior Isaac Gonzalez W to CIF and truly has made Western so proud Western's boy soccer also became League Champs with the 6 to1 record congratulations Western and that'll be it thank you Ain always a nice report very colorful full of a lot of information throughout the district thank you next we have uh associations I'd like to recognize excuse me we have one guest uh speaker a student guest speaker and that is uh Alysa Den want to come after to the podium please our our schools aim to prepare students for the future as best as they can through the five can you get a little bit closer to the microphone thank you um through the 5 CS um I noticed that a lot of our schools tend to push that onto our students which is great but however I would like to bring more Awareness on driver's education I have reached out to several of the Board of Trustees and I have and I spoke with Miss Rand Trejo via zoom and through her um perspective I've learned a lot about what it's like in your position as people in charge of ahsd and the well-being of our students and about regarding the cost of the possibility of reinstating the courses back into our school and I would like to speak about um an alternative that hopefully everyone can agree with with so it doesn't um it doesn't drain the costs as well and it's possible for everybody um from my experience and a lot of others uh students experiences from my perspective um a lot of us don't really know how to get into driver's education and I think a lot of adults tend to forget that that's a large part of our lives especially at this age since it's uh your Norm but it's a very big part uh of our lives at the moment and and we need as much resources as we can for reinstating uh for driver's education so because reinstating drivers education courses into aohd is not yet um possible I request that instead we push uh more resources and Partnerships and I wasn't actually aware of these Partnerships until I um I spoke with Miss uh Guerrero I hope I'm saying her name right via email and she uh sent me some resources regarding driver's education and I thought that it was great that we have that but I hope that we can push that more towards our students as a resource because if I had never reached out I would have never known about it so that's what I'm hoping to push for thank you Bravo thank you thank you Alysa we appreciate your comments and Alyssa you look like you were a pro at this so good job well done no notes that's great very good uh I would like to ask if we can move up 10.1 item 10.1 to vote on sure we can we can do that since our student board rep has to leave a little early so uh we 10.1 do we have a motion so move second and can we take uh all five at one time yes okay all right any any discussion seeing none all in favor say I I I opposed that's 60 thank you thank you m r TR so next I'd like to uh recognize some people in the audience we have Jeff morger the ASA president is I saw him here there he is okay thank you J he's he's famous he gets an Applause but you're all famous you all get Applause James Gan the vice president of Asa Heather hutner the president of CSEA she over here Lacy Monger the the counseling apga co-president and we have Lauren kker who is um a board member with Fon joint Union okay and um Jennifer sasai she is the Ala president she there she is in the middle did I miss any other Association Representatives good thank you so first we will have Mr Jeff Morgan Stern reporting from the association I didn't see it um I didn't see him walking by I just told Mark Lopez from Orange County Community College District is in the audience thank you [Applause] Mark Mr Morgan Stern all right [Music] all right got a new microphone since the last time all right well good evening uh board president O'Neal trustees superintendent matuda cabinet Anaheim community and staff um any look at the news today would show that we are in the midst of a real crisis our laws and values are being upended and they're in danger from those who seek to turn the clock back in this effort we see a clear and deliberate attack on public education the dangers of privatization vouchers and a coordinated assault on history and Truth threatens our Collective work as public school Educators the well-being of our communities is at risk and our families students and staff are facing irreparable harm alongside our school board and cabinet AA is prepared to face this Challenge headon on February 18th asa's representative assembly adopted a resolution advocating for well-informed and compassionate policy decisions regarding immigration and possible deportation together our school community and Anaheim Union is well situated to meet these challenges yet there are still gaps and we can't wait for a labor opportunity to fix them through our community schools learning and leading Labs we've demonstrated to Educators and their school communities across the country to need the need to move beyond the traditional model of Education our community schools team made the effective case that we can't wait to have all of our educational Partners be a part of the decision-making process we've shown that to truly understand our school communities it's absolutely essential to take the time and effort to do a deep assets and needs assessment the approach to Community Schools should instill the belief that we should never do for but always with our students families Community Partners and staff our efforts have proven that building safe and stable schools through this approach is the right move forward in a post-pandemic post-election world tonight we begin the 2526 bargaining cycle by sunshin our initial contract proposal while our work through Community Schools has encouraged others to move Beyond traditional ways of thinking about the classroom our very own collective bargaining agreement still reflects outdated beliefs these beliefs inhibit in the center of relationships as a foundation of our safe and stable schools now more than ever our collective bargaining agreement with the Anaheim Union High School District must be brought into line with our current core values over the coming weeks and months our members and school Community will engage Eng in many discussions around the details of our contract proposal many more conversations than I have time to introduce here tonight I do however want to speak to an issue that's a top concern of our teachers and has a significant impact on our students we can't wait to address how urgently our contract language needs to include class siiz guarantees we are faming our students when we have 45 students in a freshman English class or 41 students in a junior high science class on the first night of this year's l cap Dr Jose Moreno shared important data about the Divergence between graduation rates and a through G completion rates in Anaheim Union a student needs to earn at least a d to graduate but must earn a c or better to be a through G compliant providing for class siiz guarantees will ensure that our teachers can provide the individualized instruction and support our students need to not only graduate but be eligible for college as a district we promis to our parents and community that the students have a that all of our students have a supportive learning environment yet according to our own lcap data students with disabilities have a much lower percentage for graduation rates a through G completion rates College and Career indicators and Career Technical education it's imperative that we provide class-size guarantees for our special day classes and establish guarantees on percentage of special education students in our kot talk classes we can't wait to move Beyond M promises to our students community and staff think of the ahsd educational pledge it's more than a promise it's a Concrete guarantee to our students and families that we will provide a secure path to college yet we continue to overfill classes in a way that directly harms our students outcomes we recognize that there are serious pressure points when trying to fit students classes into a school's master schedule Engineers have learned that if there's too much steam in a pipe there must always be a safety valve to relieve that pressure buildup to avoid catastrophic failure up to this point under current contract language the pressure points of a sites master schedule have been relieved at the expense of our students that is why we need updated contract language to provide a more balanced approach when trying to regulate the pressure of a SES master schedule our students should not have to continue to Bear all the ill effects of a stress system we can't wait to truly live up to our core value of making education and work for students and not the other way around without updated contract language we will continue to Common practice of issuing massive schedule changes to a large percentage of our students four to five weeks into the school year how does this Foster the building of relationships between students and their teachers we must move Beyond a system built on promises to a system built on righteous yet reasonable guarantees I fully understand what I'm advocating for here tonight it comes directly from our member surveys our street data difficult conversations will surely ensue around what these reasonable and righteous guarantees should look like the members of AA are well prepared and committed to these difficult conversations our bargaining team and executive board are here tonight because they know along with all of our members that we can't wait to provide the real guarantees our students deserve these difficult conversations are no different than the ones our teachers engaged in to endorse and secure the passage of measure K despite raw emotions and strained relationships from last spring our members understood they had to put the well-being of their students and their Community First and made measure K the first step along the path of genuine collaboration and healing AA is ready to engage all educational Partners in honest collaborative conversations to ensure that Anaheim Union fully addresses these current challenges we can't wait to reach our full potential by graduating students who will lead their families and neighbors to build a more just and compassionate this community thank you for your time [Applause] Heather hutner good evening president O'Neal Board of Trustees superintendent mitsuda cabinet staff parents students and community members thank you for the opportunity to address you on behalf of classified csca members as I look around me and as we've heard the words about we can't wait and I understand and I respect many of my colleagues message and we really support a lot of their things about better funding more stable schools and I agree that as a state that Prides ourselves on being one of the largest economies in the world we need to spend more on Public Funding that being said on a local level we really feel like classified staff are the ones that have been waiting we've waited through all of 23 24 for a classified salary study that was never released because of the district tension with the teachers at the beginning of the 2425 school year a new classified salary was done and finally released and tonight on the board's agenda there are the increases for five of the 62 positions that were identified as being below the 50% that leav 57 additional positions 15 of those are within cca's bargaining unit these are employees who are underpaid compared to people in a different field these are employees who are compared to others working in public school districts doing comparable work in comparable districts and are found to be paid less than the 50% Market average that was set by this board as the minimum level of a fair wage classified employees have been waiting for help while more and more tasks have been added to their plates we pride ourselves on being a district of innovation and actively seek grants to help us achieve the school which is great Community Schools Grant fantastic after all they pay for me the Community Schools teacher receives an extra conference period in a stien and recognition of all the extra work and time that they spend while this site senior admin has yet another budget to balance two additional people on the payroll and more stiens to process with no additional compensation because it's her job times this times multiple programs tupe aim Title One 5c's coach short-term independent studies Etc assistant principles have had more tasks added to their plates so tasks that used our secretaries used to assist with have now become solely their responsibility like class coverage when there isn't enough substitutes which is happening more and more but these issues don't just affect the senior admin there's HR classified who suddenly have to hire and onboard a large number of Arts assistant positions for the Arts and Music grants payroll who has to ensure all of these positions and steds are paid correctly yet over and over classified staff are told that your workload doesn't matter classified staff have been waiting for professional development because even when the lcap does say per professionals they are still rarely included in any meaningful training these are staff that spend their entire day with students and yet at a district we choose to consistently leave them out multiple cssea members this year have had conf conference requests denied with a response that classified don't go to conferences these were conferences with trainings on subjects directly related to their job descriptions of the requesting employees we send certificated staff to yoga retreats but we can't send CSEA members to learn about compliance when mistake can have detrimental effects on the district CA members have long been the quiet supportive force in the background but we're done waiting our underpaid members need salary adjustments now not in a year our offices that are underst staffed even according to your own current policy and HR Staffing study need to be properly staffed now we will no longer stand back while our members are expected to do more more work with less support so that the district can prioritize other demands at our expense thank [Applause] you Lacy [Music] Munger good evening president O'Neal superintendent matsuda aohd Board of Trustees executive cabinet and community members before we start I want to take a moment to recognize and celebrate School social workers week by expressing our deep appreciation for ah hsd's dedicated School social workers counselors value the strong partnership we have with the social work team as together we work toward a shared Mission which is supporting the mental health and well-being of our students speaking of mental health California has been actively advocating for school counselors to participate in medical billing recogniz recognizing that our work extends deeply into the domain of social emotional learning and mental health support last year ahc counselors took a significant step towards this effort under the guidance of Heather hutner who just spoke and oural counselor on special assignment Cecilia soberanis all 78 ahsd counselors successfully joined the Paradigm system to begin billing for the vital Services we provide to our students this achievement may not seem groundbreaking too many at first glance but it is a major Milestone especially for a veteran team like ours where 3/4s of our counselors have been in the district for 13 or more years change can be challenging bringing uncertainty in questions anxiety for many of us but our team has embraced the shift recognizing its potential to directly impact students and strengthen support systems within ahsd last week we were pleasantly surprised to get an email from Heather stating that ahsd counseling is the only group in the district with 100% of our members registered and ready to Bill appropriately a testament to our team's dedication and adaptability as situations change Beyond hsd's mental health initiatives I do want to highlight two other Key Programs where hsd counselors have been making a tremendous impact beginning with financial aid and our FAFSA completion rates typically at this time of year we would be reporting Financial final financial aid completion numbers as the FAFSA priority deadline traditionally falls on March 2nd however with the deadline extend extended another month to April 2nd counselors now have an additional month to support students in completing their applications as of March 3rd 2025 48.5% of our ahsd seniors which is 2,292 students have successfully submitted their fapa a significant increase from just 29% at this time last year 44% of seniors have started their FAFSA application but have not yet submitted it so with this extra time our counselors are focused on reaching these students and families to ensure they complete the process counselors on special assignment the district office as part of the Anaheim collaborative implementation team have updated a FSA inform information letter that has gone out to all senior families and this letter along with targeted social media posts has been shared with school sites and cross ahsd platform to raise awareness about the extended deadline while all High School counseling teams and college Partners contribute to this effort I would like to give a shout out to our grade level senior counselors who during this time have led bath completion efforts at each High School School site they have conducted classroom presentations small group workshops and parent nights and provided one-on-one support to both students and Families Our counselors understand the life-changing impact that faxa completion has on students futures and we remain committed to guiding every senior with care persistence and expertise as we finish out this season of financial aid dual enrollment expansion is the other topic that I'd like to touch on tonight and this is another major area of focus for our counselors as we have expanded the dual enrollment opportunities within our district allowing students to take college courses while still in high school last year in partnership with North Orange County Community College District ahsd applied for and received two grants with California Department of Education specifically aimed at expanding dual enrollment access for underrepresented students those who might not see themselves as College Bound or who have historically faced barriers to higher education these grants which are funded for three years allowed ahsd to hire five additional counselors each serving two to three School sites and dedicated solely to supporting students in dual enrollment courses the results of just one year of this effort have been remarkable and here's some a couple of Statistics fall of 2023 so last year we had 712 students successfully complete 1,42 college courses earning a passing grade or higher meaning they earned either a c or higher grade or a pass within the course that was without our five duel enrollment Court CL counselors fall of 2024 just this last semester 1,4 476 students successfully completed 3580 college courses more than doubling participation in just one year even more exciting is who's taking these courses we have ninth graders currently taking dual en rollan courses English Learners students with disabilities and students experiencing homelessness mckenny vento the list goes on but they are all earning college credit while still in high school this growth is proof that when resources are provided students will rise to the challenge and that's what our five dual enrollment counselors have provided to our school sites and our current grade level counselors who are supporting in this work with two years remaining in these grants the impact will only continue to grow and apj looks forward to sharing more numbers with you as the semesters continue on looking ahead honestly there's so much more that I'd like to share with you that counselors are doing but I'll be back next month more information um our counselors continue to bring ahs's Mission Vision and core values to life every day as you coni continue to visit School sites please apj welcomes and encourages you to stop by speak with the counselor and witness their dedication firsthand thank you for your continued support of our counselors and the critical work that they do for ahsd students and Families [Applause] Jennifer sasai good evening president O'Neal Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda executive cabinet students parents and school Community joining us both in person and online we would first like to thank our social workers for their special week and month actually we've come to find out it is a whole month from groups to 504s they make a huge difference on all of our campuses so we we'd like to thank them let's also take a moment to celebrate the success of the recent AI deeper learning Summit held in Anaheim where our teachers and District leaders showcased their expertise this event was not only a testament to our commitment to Innovation but also a demonstration of our ability to adapt and thrive in an everchanging landscape the fifth annual Black History Month celebration took place last Friday February 28th at the Kennedy Performing Art Center the evening was filled with incredible performances that highlighted the rich history and contributions of the African-American Community making it a truly memorable event the Sycamore Junior High Advance band performed at the scsboa music festival yesterday earning the highest possible rating Superior from a panel of Judges this marks the fifth consec consecutive year that Sycamore has received this top honor held at Kennedy Performing Art Center this annual event features bands and orchestras from across our district and Beyond Sycamore students perform beautifully representing their school with dignity and respect both on and off stage and I'd like to remark that the band director is a Kennedy bandala Mr Rich Gordon so we'd like to shout out to him Gilbert High School continues to serve as a model for alternative education hosting a visiting team of Educators from across the state recently they welcomed teens from Elba Community Day School in San Diego and Back Bay continuation school in Newport Beach both of whom conducted a learning walk and were highly impressed by Gilbert's whole child Community Schools approach additionally Gilbert received exciting news from the kuas club of Anaheim this year the club will award $20,000 in scholarships to Gilbert students in pursuing higher education at trade schools community colleges and fouryear universities laera high school has been buzzing with excitement last week they held their Soap Box speech competition where students showcased their powerful voices and perspectives they also celebrated the grand opening of their new Wellness space which held a special ribbon cutting ceremony providing a dedicated space for student wellbeing Savannah High School recently welcomed two groups of international students from China each visiting for a week at South Junior High student achievement was on full display with impressive 684 students earning honor rooll recognition out of a total enrollment of 1,156 principal Mahia extends her gratitude to trusty to president Brian O'Neal for attending and acknowledges the hard work of our ASB of their ASB director Ramone Palamino along with the ASB and pal students for the dedication behind the scenes our schools continue to shine and these celebrations are a reflection of the dedication of our students staff and Community thank you for your ongoing supports to make these achievements possible thank [Applause] thanks since I introduced us some Association members I want to recognize Alan Walker who is with our citizens oversight committee so Alan thank you for being here now uh is there anybody here from PTA that wishes to speak nobody okay seeing none we'll move on to presentations 7.

us okay now I want to if you'll indulge me here just a little bit I'd like to shift gears unbeknownst to Patty so Nancy you can't she's you're not going to have to get her a stake I guess cuz I'm going to probably go over two minutes actually you say two minutes no 10 minutes 10 minutes okay okay so not so bad anyway okay I think it's it's important and significant enough to make mention you know I've come here and reported these annual reports numerous times and I always mention that Patty Neely and her team have accomplished this stuff so I think since this is the last annual report I would like to expose who her team is for recognition purposes so we have Ley ha who's a senior administ ative assistant Jamie lungren who is the project manager Karen or who is the executive director of fiscal Services Canal Shaw and Brianna can cantar they actually are with the Cummings construction management team but they're side by side with Patty in these projects and they're always they've always been at our meetings to answer questions um very impressed with Cummings as a a support construction organization uh uh Leah J Jason also as a construction service administrator Jennifer Keys procurement contract specialist VES ninev who's the assistant director of construction and art lavanant who is the assistant director of planning that is her team and they crushed it and I know that's the trendy word whatever but they did they crushed it and what they did I hope that if you haven't seen some of the projects and what they've done on these campuses you need to go see it because when we were trying to pass measure h i I walked the neighborhoods the precincts and handed out literature and I had you know the the less than positive feedback from the neighbors I say oh we don't we've not really seen anything so what they paved the parking lot at Western big deal a guy actually told me that and I said well just hang in there cuz More's coming so hopefully he goes and sees what they're doing now it's incredible anyway so Props to Patty and her team okay let me wrap with this again some what I think is some very important recognition um measure H was 249 million that that's a lot of money and I want to say thank you to the Anaheim Union High School District voting public that were willing to put trust in the school and give that money because that's money coming out of their monthly budgets bottom line as you know taxpayers but the the great thing is in this La L latest Bond measure that was voted upon in November on the 5th with the election uh again bonds have to have a minimum of 55% of the voting the participating voting public so they have to have a minimum of 55% because of the collective energy and dedication and motivation of folks that were behind the scenes and in front of the scenes helping to pass measure K measure K passed with 66.9 4% that that's amazing yeah you bet that's [Applause] amazing and so with just a little bit of recognition for those folks that I mean the great I mean I'm going to name some names they were kind of the guiding force of it but I was so impressed because when we met for um phone banking uh at asked office or when we were out walking precincts um there there were students I mean just regular students student athletes there were parents of students there were teachers staff members it was such a collab get this collaborative effort I love that buzz word it was amazing I mean the energy was like nothing I'd not like nothing I'd been a part of even with measure H it was it was fun it was great measure K was even exceeded that it was pretty impressive okay so some of the folks that I think need recognition for just uh devoting their time and their energy is Mike matsuda Nancy nin now Ronda uh Amore and Leticia Ramirez they were uh two of the representatives for the consulting company that helped us kind of strategize what would be the best techniques and the best things to do and where to focus our energies very helpful in fact Leticia she was at every um phone banking session she was out at as far as I know she was out at all of the district walking when we were dropping and walking and dropping information she was at all of that so she really invested her time too uh barazza who was a co-chair for the measure K committee then there was Lisa e and Jeff Morgan Stern from Assa they I mean they kept things organized when we were there with phone banking that's huge it it went so smoothly then jiren Fred believe it or not he was there he was killing it Jason caller Rudy uh ESO and our own Robert saladar what yeah saladar no I've heard salad bar saladar it's good sorry brother but I tell you what it it was exciting to be a part of it and I'm again I I really want to thank the Anaheim Union High School District voting public for again putting their trust in the district and and you know the bond is like for 496 million so if I look at what you guys did with the 400 249 I it's it's going to be phenomenal I can just imagine I can hardly imagine what they'll do with this so Props to Anaheim Union High School District again I was the reason I even got involved with 2012 I think when it was was because of my concerns I I grew up in the district I mean I've been in Anaheim Union High School District's area since 1961 probably most of you weren't even around then but you know went to Orange v junior high school and Western High School I'm so proud to see what you guys have done to the campuses and I know the students have to like it as well so thanks for all you've done I feel good as a a chairman of the oversight committee I I think it was amazing what what they accomplished so [Applause] thanks Alan on behalf of the board I want to thank you and your team for the the number of years that you've put in on this uh I call it a project but it's it's a loving project I can tell especially for the district um so uh again thank you for you and your team we're going to give you some uh certificates here in a second we're going to recognize you but I also want to say that uh the board is looking forward to the final independent audit uh for 2425 fiscal year and that'll be in January of 26 so that's the wrap up of that so we're looking forward to that we have little ways to go before then but between now and then can the board come into the center and we're going to make some presentations here I'm going to have to stay here too much for me to go down there okay so first like to recognize Alan Walker for his dedication [Music] [Applause] Alan and it was mentioned Robert Nelson I don't think he's come in since no he he's not he's not here tonight uh Blanca Ji [Applause] Peggy Cruz St key she's not here okay Brent soda [Applause] Brian Jesse Alvarez not here and Moses Kim is not here so so we'll get those to them thank you [Applause] [Music] okay okay okay moving on to 7.3 Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance Dr freered yes it gives me a great pleasure to bring up Dr Dela Cruz who will introduce our team of presenters from okaa one of our trusted partners and friends thank you good evening um board president O'Neal distinguished board members uh superintendent matsuda cabinet and our community members uh it's my pleasure to introduce OK Capa um they're going to do a brief presentation on their program Luna and I'm going to bring um bring up John Gutierrez and his team thank you so much hello and good evening again superintendent matsuda president O'Neal and cabinet and Anaheim Community my name is Jacqueline Cortez I'm the program manager um of ok capa's Youth Department so we're really excited to talk about Luna today um and what it looks like in the district and um go to the next slide here for our journey for today um we're going to talk about why Luna so why is this important what is Luna and then we'll show you a Luna video actually which is a few minutes um so you can see some of our Luna leaders um from the different schools and then we have some Luna leaders here who are going to be talking about um what their impact has been um over the past year and a half that we've had this uh program and then some of their experiences good evening everyone so I'm John guz I'm the director of Youth and housing programs at okapa I'll give you a little bit of background uh about how L Luna came to fruition um we've been a partner with the district for probably 20 years and we've been running youth programs and mental health programming and services concurrently for about 15 years now um and I'll say through rudia which is our leadership development program over the last 5 years we've had students um directly voicing a need for ongoing mental health education and counseling services and at the same time as you can see on the screen we're we're becoming more aware of increases in both suicide and suicidal ideation amongst Youth and especially in the Latino community so um we've been fortunate to work with Dr Cruz for many years now on multiple projects both Youth and mental health related uh we pitched Luna to her as an idea to connect students kind of bring about togetherness increase peer mentorship opportunities and like a personal goal of mine was to have quicker mental health referrals um quicker and easier access to on and off-campus Mental Health Resources um yeah so that Dr Cruz helped us refine our proposal very quickly gave us valuable feedback we applied for this grant in May 2023 we were awarded funding in August 2023 and Luna started immediately in September we had a lot of help from Community School coordinators and just started recruiting youth immediately and I'll introduce Jenny our program coordinator who has been running Luna at the high school level since this beginning hello everyone um my name is Jenny Korea I am the high school program coordinator for Luna our Luna program has been developing mental health awareness and peer mentorship with a focus on Latino youth in both Junior High and high schools in the Anaheim district there are 86 students trained as Luna leaders this year alone and combining last year's Luna leaders we have over a 100 students that are trained to be mental health ambassadors for their own campuses we will now show you a video that we filmed at our Luna Retreat where Luna leaders will share the impact that Luna has had on them and if you could please click on that link so we are able to watch the video okay do you want to describe what we're going to see yeah so our students had a lunar Retreat where they all got together and then what we do at those programs I mean at that event is all of the students um from both Junior High and high schools it's one of the few moments where all the schools are together so they're able to bond with each other create peer connections um they did have a bonding moment where high school students and Junior High had to have a conversation just to get to know each other more um and I think it's working so we can just we'll just watch it nowon ands of con [Music] I believe that we [Music] problems [Music] for reality you're not [Music] en it's really um person because had aou [Applause] so I'm sure the video explained everything much better than I can um but we're just very proud of our students um and yeah this is just kind of a a video just to show you all what we do and how it has affected our students um so Luna is on campus at 8 uh ahsd schools I as I have mentioned so these are the number of Luna leaders at each site so at Dell Junior High there are 10 Luna leaders at Sycamore Junior High there are nine at ball there are seven and at Brooker there are six at Magnolia which is the um school with the most students at the moment um there's 20 Luna leaders at Savannah there is 16 at loera there are 13 and at Anaheim there are five and I will go ahead and introduce uh one of our Luna leaders anaeli from hello my name is anel labra and I'm a current senior at Anaheim high school as well as a first year Luna leader and today I'm going to discuss Luna leaders and our impacts so as you can see from February 2024 to February 2025 over 1,000 ahsd students have attended Wellness spaces um so far 76 Wellness spaces have been facilitated after school by our Luna ERS at our at a different schools at our Wellness basis we do promote promote resources such as self referral forms for short-term therapy through OK Capa through doing through doing this 60 uh students have referred themselves out of those 60 students 26 students have received therapy through o Capa and 12 of them have been uh linked out to long-term counseling for the remaining 36 students uh access to therapy was blocked due to the uh due to minor needing parental consent to receive these services and this just highlights how important it is for programs like Luna to exist on campuses to help break the stigma surrounding mental health thank you and now I'll pass it to [Applause] Andre hi everyone uh before to start I would like to say that it's a honor for me to be here and okay my name is Andre and I am a 12th grade L Luna leader at L High School I wanted to be a Luna leader this year due to the impact that the wellness spaces had on me last year every month when I attend the the spaces people will be talking about their problems and how to solve them and it Tau me how to be resilient I am an English language learner and these L spaces help me feel comforable having a conversations with people in English with the trust of knowing they will embrace me and not make fun not make fun of my accent now as a Luna leader myself show the mental health topics we talk about I I I see that students live with A New perspect Perspective and feel heard I really love that Luna is a part of me and I hope that more more more next Generations get to involv in this program so people like Jenny or Jacqueline can send him on a good path on a good path forward sorry thank you so [Applause] much good evening board superintendent everybody good to be with you guys uh talk about one of my favorite programs of the last two years and that is Luna um so for the last two years Luna has been an incredible addition to our campus as a coordinator I have a unique perspective on the many ways that Luna has positively impacted our school Community from our seventh grade Luna leaders who have found a sense of belonging and connection within the program to our eighth graders who have grown into confident Advocates using their voices to promote mental wellness and encourage their peers to seek support whether by visiting a wellness space we host uh Wellness spaces after school like everybody else and also during lunch speaking with the counselor or compet compet a therapy referral Luna is making a positive impact even for students who may not directly visit the wellness space uh they continuously surrounded by Luna's positive messages and invitations reinforcing the idea that mental health matters and that seeking support is both normal and encouraged through consistent programming and messaging our Luna leaders and our partners at okapa along with our mental health Team at Sycamore and across all the other sites are keeping these critical conversations alive month after month for our staff Luna is an invaluable resource complimenting and enhancing the work that we do to create a safe welcoming School environment that nurtures and supports the whole child the okapa team brings expertise consistency and a deep commitment to student well-being expanding the resources and the opportunities that are available to our students and strengthening our Collective efforts to support their social emotional needs so thank you you for your time thank you for supporting Luna and our partnership with okapa thank you to our Luna leaders and to our amazing Partners at OK capica for bringing this to our campuses and doing an amazing job with it so good night thank [Applause] you hello again now I would like to share my testimony for me Luna has become more than just an extracurricular activity it has improved myal health and has shed me the impact I can make in my community Through Luna I've discovered a passion for psychology while learning about important topics that that often get overlooked in traditional education such as Suicide Prevention drug abuse domestic violence and gender identity understanding these issues made me realize how important it is to provide Wellness spaces on campus Luna also helped students act Source uh access resources which are often not discussed in schools like the Statewide never bother campaign normally izing seeking help help as a Luna leader I've had the opportunity to connect with Luna leaders across the district sharing stories and experience that have made me feel understood and empowered seeing these impacts uh seeing these impact seeing the impacts of these conversation conversations on my peers has increased my desire to continue advocating for mental health awareness and supporting others in their personal Wellness Journey oh and fun fact my younger sister is actually a Luna leader as well as well at Dale Junior High uh thank you for your time tonight there are more slides showcasing our Luna leaders if You' like to view them at another time but for now we are happy to answer any questions you you may [Applause] have anybody have a questions when do the Luna uh leaders meet or the Luna organization meet how do you guys organize that yeah um each school has a wellness space and a meeting once a month that I'm I'll never know the specific dates but they alternate um we have it basically staggered so the groups meet before the space to discuss what they'll be doing and plan the activities and then they advertise the space for the rest of the month until that actual date so monthly at each school and then how do you like get students do you know what I mean how do we destigmatize this whole mental health thing and then get students to come to the space um I mean they do a pretty good job at advertising it whether it's on campus or through social media I don't know if anyone has any more specifics I think the probably the bigger issue we have had with stigma is with the parents not so much with youth yeah so we have the demand for Luna from the from the students has been almost more than we can handle we just kind of say yes to everyone but I never thought we never anticipated having I think 85 students at one time in the program but we just wanted to include as many people as we could I also just wanted to make one note we we do through the ambassador program that we have at each School site we do have what's called mindfulness reps so I don't know if you guys were aware of that and how maybe we could work together with the mindfulness reps and I know that some other schools also have like clubs for mental health as well so I'd like to see if we can connect the dots a little bit more and then like especially the work that you guys are doing are great and I love the fact that you are connecting with a feeder school because of your sibling and everything so congratulations definitely thank you absolutely any anybody uh just a a a huge thank you to OK Capa um you know we usually see OK Capa um uh uh supporting uh one type of student or a couple of type of of student or or and and so branching out to um the uh Latino Community is um I didn't know that you were doing that and um during these tumultuous times in our in our um in our lives I think that this is a fantastic idea and it's an example to um our community it's an example to um to the world um of how we Branch out and we connect the dots no matter what you look like and so um I I really um commend you for that students you are absolutely aming amazing and thank you for coming up and giving us your testimonial sometimes grown-ups come up and tell us what they're doing and um and we believe them but it has more of an impact when it's coming right out of your voices out of your moue to let us know how um it makes an impact on you and um also our um our adults and that are helping in this program it really impacts them too and it gives them the drive to continue and I like to see this continue thank you I would like to add a thank you the timeliness of this whole activity come the effect that Co had on our society and the world it affected everyone in different ways the need for mental health today in my lifetime I don't think has ever been greater and we've gone through Wars Etc but the whole um of what we are living in at these times with the international national local the effect on our communities and our schools and the love the love that you extend to these young people there's no greater price and I can't thank you enough it's a beautiful thing that you're doing thank you yes I just want uh it's very you're good I just wanted to Echo the all the comments from my colleagues uh thank you for being here tonight and presenting um on Luna and um it's great to see that there's a wide range of Luna leaders from 7 all the way to 12 so thank you so much for your impact in our campuses yes and as you were speaking earlier I was trying to connect the do because I wasn't familiar with Luna with Luna I have I live near a street called L Luna so sorry um and when Mr hosi asked about you know sort of connecting the dots and how it works so I'm assuming that all your I I've call them almost ambassadors from the group uh are just walking around the campus and talking I'm sure they are advocating uh what what you're trying to do and that uh where the wellness space is and how it works and and how anybody is welcome there so it's not just broadcasting through the through the online and and posters and that so thank you for the students being out there on the campuses and and advocating for your for your groups and thank you for your presentation tonight uh student voices are very important here so thank you appreciate it oh one other question um uh how much was the grant worth it's two years uh $500,000 from the Department of Public Health state level very good nice round figure very good thank you [Applause] okay next uh is public comments at at this time we'll we open to um the public to make comments you have they have a three minute uh window to speak and uh our parliamentarian here has the has the timer the first Speaker his name is Ron is Ron still in the audience here he is okay you guess that I'm from Western uh it's been a while since I've been here years ago 10 years ago was the first time I was here when I was the president of the Alumni Association the last four years I've just been the fundraiser but stupidly I am now the new president again so the first thing I want to do is I want to thank you 10 years ago we started advocating for a fence for a field for the gym thank you you guys came through you did all that you're not done and I'll be coming back to the meetings uh regularly to ask for more you can count on that uh also I have some bad news if you're from Anaheim Western played Anaheim in football since 1959 we won 36 times they won 24 we won the last 12 in a row and they quit they don't want to play us anymore I called up the ad I called the principal well I did everything and I says you can't dumb it down well they did so I'm asking you Mr matsuda to step to the plate this is a tradition I know this has been around forever since Western was orange View and a junior high they beat us 12 times in a row one time we didn't quit we came back and we battled and we're just a better team cuz we work harder and I told that to the ad I said go to your Alumni Association and raise money and get better players and they haven't called me back lastly one of the first things I'm going to ask for as the new president of the Alumni Association is what about handle Stadium I heard rumor that in 2025 you're going to begin to do something there and it's hopefully that's going to happen Mr matsuda you owe me lunch we can talk about it okay I want to thank you all I'm looking forward to this and Ron I'm you must be smart cuz your name is Ron like me we met at the football game and I'm looking forward to work with you because you're a representative to take Western to new heights now that orange view is coming over uh it's going to be a great situation we will be everywhere we had our first meeting last night and orange view was there so we're going to invite everybody we're going to be inclusive of everybody in the community now that Anaheim doesn't want to play the top dog we're going to take their spot thank you very [Applause] much next speaker is Victor ward he goes good evening board superintendent uh first I want to say thank you for your service um my company has created something uh that's called real time which is a digital video yearbook which allows students to upload their own pictures videos music and then download their own pictures videos and music or their friends transforming the traditional onesize fits all your B into something that's really personal and memorable we're not trying to get away from the traditional yearbook but just trying to supplement it um and one reason that we think supplement is needed is um well I think the best way is for me to tell you a story about 30 years ago I was a long-term sub in the Oakland UniFi school district and I had a fifth grade classroom it's graduation um all the kids are singing I Believe I Can Fly this is a great time people are crying I'm crying but if you think about it graduation is missed by the traditional yearbook every single year and the other thing that you'd never get in the traditional yearbook is you know a one page doesn't really do justice to your football program or your wrestling program or any of your arts media or Arts music programs your vapa program all those things are great you know again not trying to get rid of the traditional yearbook but it's so much better to have a video know they say uh picture is worth a th words and if my math is correct a video about a one minute video is worth about 2,000 pictures so it's pretty awesome and the last thing that I'll say is with a uh real time is something where it qualifies for prop 28 money and schools will be able to use that if they sold it then they'd be able to raise money raise funds transforming the restricted funds to something that's more General thank you very much for your [Applause] time uh next person is Virginia arvan good evening everyone my name is Virginia arva Sanchez I am uh a past parent of ahsd a current parent and a future parent um as I have a student coming in next year and I'm here um on behalf of sacred path indigenous Wellness Center as well um looking to um gain anou with the school district um I've been in I've been working alongside Mr L from Gilbert High School and um I initially contacted him because I had seen a flyer um in regard to a native task force and so um being a parent I know that you know the students feel very isolated the Native American students in the school district feel very isolated and um that's something that I kind of want to put an end to um our organization has done a lot of research within the Native American community in the United States and so um one of the things that we found is that as we help our youth get connected to their community and as we help them have a stronger sense of identity we've noticed that they've had less mental health challenges and they've also been able to either reduce or never use substance use and so that's those are some of the long-term effects but um one of the things that we would like to start off with is is having continuous meetings with these students so that way they can feel a sense of connectedness with each other and also with the larger Community thank [Applause] you next speaker is Alam Abdullah good evening members of the board my name is Alam Abdullah I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude um for providing the Ramadan kits um to the Muslim Students observing the month of Ramadan as a palestinian-american parent who like many others in my community has witnessed and experienced the painful reality of discrimination unfortunately my son recently became a target of discrimination within his school as a parent it was deeply troubling to see to see him subjected to an environment where he felt unsafe and unwelcome I want to acknowledge the district's um efforts in addressing the situation it is reassuring to see that steps are being taken in the right direction to ensure that my son feels seen heard and valued I truly appreciate everyone who has been working with him to create a more inclusive and understanding space I believe that we must take proactive steps to prevent incidents like this um from happening again I urge the board to implement districtwide religious and cultural sensitivity training for all staff members education is the key to fostering an environment where all students regardless of their background feel safe and valued with greater awareness and understanding we can work together to ensure that no student no matter what background they are has to endure the pain of discrimination thank you for your time and commitment on working to make uh on working to making our schools a more in inclusive place for all students I appreciate your leadership and working to ensure that every child includes my son including my son has the opportunity to learn in an environment of respect and dignity thank you mat good afternoon from the mishika tribe uh they know us as mexicos Mexican indigenous peoples um I want to thank you um all and I actually I was at a walk out I was coming from uid Street I don't know what was going on I saw a lot of students walking from Savannah this way down Lincoln I seen a lot of Mexican indigenous kids Cho CH indigenous kids and I'm pretty sure there was a state recognized Tribal member in between all of who look the same and I was what's going on and I heard walkouts and I saw signs and they're protesting for for their parents for our fathers our mothers that are undocumented against ice cuz I know there's a lot of fears a lot of students walked out it reminded me of when I walked out from catella high school when I first seen a beautiful lady uh uh uh doing mishika Aztec dancing I could tell at high school when I was 13 years 13 years old in 1993 so that being I I heard some of the speakers speak and I think it's time that we do support I believe it's item 10.25 and it is true thanks I'm very thankful that my grandpa meito taught me oral tradition of where I come from and thank to that tradition thanks to clubs like mea I was the president of meta Anaheim High School uh it really helped me create a high self-esteem even though I went to a high school called the colonist which is not a really good term it's very degrading very distasteful uh term I don't want to get into details we all know what they did to us to our ancestors my grandpa was teaching allal tradition so thanks to my grandpa thanks to mea and uh uh took um Advanced guitar creative writing and choir at Anaheim High School thanks to Mr Ingram a surfer teacher taught me how to play the guitar those things helped me and knowing who I was you know I never really called myself Hispanic or Latino Hispanics are people from Spain Latin people from Italy Columbus and Cortez colonist so I really encourage you that you take the time and really um really think about this you know I don't know if it's going to be a voting agenda item if it is I I hope that you vote Yes I still got a minute or is oh a minute but thank you so much and um I'm glad that uh with some of the police officers we took initiative to take care care of the students I know there is a police officer that tasered one of the uh junior high female uh uh students from manaheim high school I'm sorry not an one of the junior highs so I had to stick in the be in the middle and protect the children and tell the officer we got to work together you know so that's the point we must work together because that will create high self-esteem and having these type of programs 10.25 will help succeed and to graduate and go to further uh uh uh graduate with degrees High Masters phds doctor's degrees thank you so much gracias [Applause] miss arasu good evening everyone um my name is s arisu I'm um a descendant of the Gaba andum people I'm a descendant of the people of this land the boundar of this land of our people extend from the Santa Sant San Gabriel mountains down to Aliso Creek and over to the four Southern Channel Islands um I want to speak tonight in support of the memorandum of understanding that's going to be proposed uh between the school district hopefully um and sacred path indigenous Wellness Center which is a new organization in this area the organizations that service native Community are few and far between um in uh Orange County area there was the last one um that fully serviced our community became um defunct about 15 years ago and since then that was a Southern California Indian Center and since then um the programming in this area has been non-existent with the exception of a walking shield and which is another organization that provides primarily Workforce Development so it doesn't really address the needs of our youth in my experience um having been born and raised in Anaheim and having attend did um Walter school um Magnolia High School many of my siblings and my nieces and nephews and my own children attend Magnolia and Dale and other schools so um our experience um as Virginia said is one of isolation there's very um it's very difficult to be a community when um there's a lot of eraser there's a a feeling that we're invisible and so um having a an awareness as a school district as a um in education it's very lacking um we've had personal experiences in my family of um inaccurate information offensive information being distributed by the teachers in the school district from elementary to high school level and that needs to stop um that's a separate issue but I would like to express the fact that um I want to Echo what she's mentioned that the community um these youth really need to feel supported and fill a community and so I would hope that that um memorandum of understanding would help delineate a future for a relationship with the school district and for them to find support and resources to help support these students and furthermore I do support what the brother said over here about changing the name of the colonist uh at Anaheim high school thank you all for your [Music] [Applause] attention Okay that's the uh last of our uh comments moving on to 10.2 resolution number 20 pardon me I'm sorry I'm not used to that it's just a little I to make that make the letters bigger next time superintendent and staff report number nine yes I I have no report I have a couple quick things uh first of all um March 13th is our soapbox final soapbox finals at L High School would encourage all of you and of course our public to attend and just as a reminder folks who aren't aware our soapbox finals is connected to our work that we're doing around Civic engagement with all of our schools being California democrac schools students engage in performance task assessment around um creating a soap box speech or a TED Talk where they take an issue or a topic that they care about uh they do the inquiry and research around that topic and then do usually a gallery locks and then they ultimately do a writing about the pros and cons of that topic right the the one perspective versus the counter arguments and then they do a speech around that topic with most most importantly a call to action something to make make that topic or issue improve or better so that the finals each school went through a process and the finals so the uh proclaimed best Soo speeches at each school will be competing at Lera um next week also April 5th when we come back from our spring break we have our annual stea palooza event so I'm encouraging all of you in the C in our community to be a part of that it's a fantastic day where our students across the district are showcasing what they're learning and doing in their classrooms um whether it's soapbox beaches robotics competitions our vapa programs are they performing uh just a lot great things going on it's not just showcase on our students in the amazing work they're doing but of course the incredible teachers and staff that are providing these experiences with our students so that's one piece and I did want to Pro it's I'm sorry thank you that's at Magnolia High School on the Saturday the April 5th from I think it's from 9: to to noon or 9: to 1 um it's a great day the other thing I want to just clarify something I heard during one of the reports about a yoga retreat just to clarify we do not have a yoga to treat so I'm not sure where that came from we do have conscious communication train through aim or awareness em motion partner that's formally mind kind so we are sending four of our principles to a training where they're going deeper with conscious communication and the mindfulness practices um as you know um with mental health being a center point of our presentations today this is something we're doing to support our staff with the Executive coaching in the way that they lead and serve their communities and their sites so it's powerful training but I'm I'm not quite sure where the yoga retreat came in but it's an aim Retreat that's grounded in that work that we've been doing no report so just wanted to um um make that announcement we had the last week we had the booster club um training um that was very well attended by many of our parents about 60 uh parents showed uh for that training and then there's one in person coming up next week on Wednesday March 12th at 6 PM in the laama room there was an RSVP that was sent out already um so please do sign up and we so far we have about 70 parents that signed up so we're very excited that uh the parents are um are coming to our trainings that's for booster training for booster club trainings so it is a requirement that any booster club um in our district need to send at least one person to come to that training so we um encouraged us so we had one virtual that was last week and then one in person next Wednesday and so we do need the rscp so we can make sure we have um enough space for everybody thank you just want to remind everyone our um third outc cap session is Thursday the 20th at 6 o' and we want to thank everyone that's come out to the first two our all of our community staff parents students um everyone so we really appreciate your support and just so everyone knows we have a couple teams right now involved in the state playoffs playing right now I maybe I think one of the games might have already concluded Kennedy girls basketball is in the second round of the state playoffs and and Anaheim boy soccers in the semi-finals for the State Playoff so hopefully there's some promising results by the end of the night thank you okay now we can move on uh 10.1 we had pulled forward earlier so we're now on to 10.2 resolution 2024 25- b-13 adjustments to income and expenditures general fund and resolution number 2024-25 db-14 adjustments to income and expenditures various funds and the 2425 second interim report slow moved second we have a motion second is there any discussion and this is a roll call vote so Miss Smith I Mr hosi I m rjo i m Guerrero I and I vote I that's 5 Z next 10.3 resolution number 2024-25 db-15 zero emission school bus and infrastructure incentive project Grant so move second it's a motion and second discussion okay there's a roll call Miss Smith I Mr hosi I Mr rjo I Mr Mr Guerrero I and I vote I that's five Z 10.4 resolution number 2024-25 df-03 authorizing filing of applications for State allocation board administered programs I'm moved second Motion in a second discussion seeing none roll call vote Miss Smith i m Mr hosi i m r fro absolutely yes and Miss agero I and I vote I that's 5 Z a few more resolutions here 10.5 resolution number 2024-25 e-20 Autism Awareness Month move second we have a roll call vote it's we have a motion in a second any discussion thing none Miss Smith I Mr hosi i m r tro I miss Guerero I and I vote I that's 5 Z quick statement yes um I was just reading an article about um autism awareness month and the difference between awareness and uh tolerance and I just thought that um you know we we talk about um you know having an awareness month and and um having our students and in our in our classrooms and um and I just feel like um I just would urge a lot of folks to really start um doing some research Arch and and thinking about the difference between um being aware of students with autism and then kind of balancing your tolerance of awareness of students um there's a big difference with that and um I think uh uh these students need a lot um of uh we were talking about feeling included and feeling safe on campuses and I think um that this we need to go a little bit deeper with our Awareness on that just my opinion okay thank you okay 10.6 resolution number 2024-25 e-21 Caesar shavas day slow moved second motion a second any discussion this is a roll call vote M Smith I Mr hosi I Mr an tro i m Guero I and I vote I 10.7 resolution number 2024-25 e-22 National Child Abuse Prevention month so moved second so we have motion and a second discussion seeing none this is roll call M Smith I Mr hosi i m r tro I Miss Guerrero I and I vote I that's 5 Z 10.8 resolution number 2024-25 e-23 Arab American heritage month so move second Motion in a second any discussion seeing none this roll call vote Mrs Smith I Mr hosi I miss Rand tro i m Guero I and I vote I that's 5 10.9 resolution number 2024-25 e-24 take down to backod day so moved second motion of second any discussion seeing none it's a roll call Miss Smith I Mr hosi i m r fro i m Guero I and I vote I that's 5 Z last of the resolutions here 10.10 resolution number 2024-25 db03 compensation for board meeting so move second motion of second discussion seeing none this is a roll Co vote Miss uh Smith abstain Mr hosi I miss Rand tro I miss Guerero I and I vote I that's four z0 401 excuse me um next business services 10.11 agreement Alliance environmental and compliance Inc so move second motion of second is there any discussion seeing none all in favor say I I opposed 5 Z Educational Services 10.12 revised board policy 8601 electronic signaling devices first reading this is information only 10.13 uh revise board policy 7605 Arts education second reading some second so it's an action item we have a motion and a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say I I I opposed 5 Z 10.14 adoption of the Strategic plan for Arts education move second motion a second any discussion uh thank you for answering uh the questions that we had on this and looking forward to seeing this all come to fruition thank you all in favor say I I opposed five Zer 10.15 public hearing new course submissions for the 25 26 school year we open the public hearing anybody wishing to speak seeing none we close the public hearing 10.16 public hearing ethnic studies courses this is public hearing we open the public hearing anybody wishing to speak seeing no one we close the public hearing 10.17 home to school HTS Transportation reimbursement plan so moved second we have a motion in a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say I I opposed 5 Z 10.18 piggyback for Vape sensors software and related services so move second Motion in a second any discussion I had one uh quick question sure um Can someone speak how can someone speak to how the sensors operate and the possibility to expand to other sites yeah so I want to give Robert salar and Eric Ringwood I know a big shout out um they did a lot of work behind the scenes on this but the vapor sensors they are installed in the restrooms and so they were able to detect the senses from from vaping or tobacco products so it's not a camera so it's not a camera there's no cameras in the restroom the cameras as you know from our security system are outside restroom so with the sensors are connected to the the apps or the on on our administrator's phones and campus safety Aid phones so so if something alerts they notice right away they can go to the restroom if they don't get there in time they have access to the camera to see when students entered or left the restroom so it's it's not just something to to reduce vaping in terms of catching but ideally it's more proactive in preventing folks from from doing that we know many years ago I know Mr O'Neal knows when we used to have the dogs that was a proactive measure but they were only there once a month once in a while this is every day um those are the two schools that were asking for the pilot and it is a pilot uh we have a school OB in the East and a school on the west and then the idea is what we learned from this experience will'll determine with the board if we want to begin to expand um the main cost is the initial cost in installing the software and the and the sensors after that the ongoing costs are actually pretty minimal it and just a couple more things it also detects uh like unusual no like abnormal noise so more than the normal levels of noise so Poss a possible you know fight or something in the restroom because it integrates into our camera systems all bathrooms have a camera right outside of the restroom then it can detect it could capture who's coming out during that time and then obviously those those students can be identified by admin and other folks so it has a couple of other perks as well to help keep our campuses safe sorry followup question to that so is it is it the same vendor that anim used we don't we don't have these sensors in school this is new no I thought I did I thought Anaheim had a vape sensors yeah no they this is new stand corrected okay any more questions Zena all in favor to say I I opposed thank you uh 10 point uh one n Grant acceptance agreement the Mr Holland Opus foundation so move second motion a second any comment seeing none it's just a wonderful opportunity here so we thank you um all in favor say I I opposed that's 5 z uh 10.20 agreement Benjamin Gonzalez so move second Motion in a second any discussion see none all in favor say I I I just wanted to add that I heard um that this will provide um an additional uh space uh for students to we're capturing con concerts we're capturing um Coral events um on film and from what I understand this is going to help um with our uh Capstone projects because if we're capturing these students um uh um you know mostly Mom and Dad get the pictures right and and it's out of focus or whatever and the students you know can't use that film so now we're going to have somebody that's professional you doing this and then students can put this on their portfolio for uh job interviews and resumés and things like that yeah absolutely Mr you nailed it um our performance task assessments You could argue that what we see in our vapa programs or Visual and Performing Art programs across the board are performance task assessments all the time and so when a student is performing at that choir concert that band concert or in the the the play that's on the stage um they are they are actually demonstrating their performance task and the things that we believe in our district our drivers the 5c's The Voice purpose Etc and so this is a way to capture that so you're right it can be a part of their digital portfolio or a Capstone program so when they do their showcase they can use that as evidence to support how they're growing and building their 5 C's their student voice and their Tech skills thank you thank you okay thank you moving on to that was a five zero vote moving on to 1021 agreement Donald uh Briner so move second motion a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say I I I opposed 5 Z 1022 agreement John suton so move second Motion in second any discussion see none all in favor say I I opposed 5 Z 10.23 agreement music education Consultants Inc so move a second motion a second any discussion see none all in favor say I I opposed 5 Z 10.24 agreement the joyful child Foundation slow moved second motion a second discussion seeing none all in favor say I I opposed 5 z uh 10.25 community service agreement sacred path so moved second motion a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say I I opposed 5 Z there you go agreement excuse me 10.26 agreement blue Jack second sign company so moved second motion and a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say I I opposed 5 10.27 school linked partnership and capacity Grant service agreement Orange County Superintendent of Schools Department of Health Care Services so move second Motion in a second any discussion see none all in favor say I I opposed that's 5 Z 10.28 initial contract proposal ahsd to the Anaheim secondary Teachers Association AA that's information item uh 10.29 public hearing initial contract proposal auhsd to Anaheim secondary Teachers Association AA we open a public hearing anybody wishing to speak seeing none we close the public hearing 10.30 initial contract proposal Anaheim secondary Teachers Association ASA to a a uhsd information item 10.31 public hearing initial contract proposal anim secondary Teachers Association asset to ahsd open public hearing anybody wishing to speak seeing none we close the public hearing next item is superintendent's office 10.32 2025 California school boards Association delegate Assembly Election um if you will go to your uh exhibit I I there is a form in there if you haven't already filled it out please do so and our parliamentarian will walk around behind us or in front of us and we will hand it to him and he will tally it and give us the results in a few minutes I'm so sorry but it's exhibit I I yeah I'm leaving you don't have to vote for anybody or vote for I'm not going to fill it out you don't have to fill it out or you can if you want you don't have to sign it just to have to fill it out and hand it to him I just have a comment yes um there's an Angela Hernandez and nothing against her but she is not qualified she's only been on the board she just got elected so she it hasn't uh taken the time for two year I mean you have to be two years on the board to become it's on here I don't know how that got on there okay Mr parliamentarian can you if anybody's voted for that person can you adjust the vote because they're not qualified yeah just remove yes y okay while the parliamentarian does that we'll come back to it after we're finished here uh next is the consent calendar anybody wishing to pull any items um 11 four and five 114 and five 114 115 anybody else okay I'll be pulling 117 QQ and 118 motion for the balance second motion a second all in favor say I I opposed okay let's go with 114 and five together and 11 five together motion so mov motion second and a second discussion just wanted to point out uh that um you know in addition to that wonderful report that um Mr Walker made uh a lot of our projects are uh come in most of the time um on budget or under budget and uh I just wanted to point out another plus to our wonderful team thank you okay all let's let's see all in favor say I I I opposed okay 117 QQ and 118 so move second motion a second all in favor say I I opposed abstain I says s 401 Mr parliamentarian do you have a results on that I do and we have uh votes for seven people and there are seven uh slots so if if the board wishes they can move them forward uh Lauren kater with four votes Jessica Guerrero with four votes Beverly barryman with three votes Susie Schwarz with three votes Bonnie castry with two votes uh Rudy hasheed with two votes and Carrie Flanders with one vote do we have a motion to so moov second we have a motion and second any discussion on the on the vote okay all in favor say I I opposed that's four 5 Z thank you very much wait a minute who was that Jessica Guerrero person appreciate your confidence my who is that I don't know no thank you for the vote are you related to the police chief uh I am no no okay all right next is uh we're finished with that we're moving on to border of Trustees reports Mrs Smith short one I attended the insurance committee meeting and um the uh discipline committee meeting and we talked about um removing uh phones in the classroom for my ballot statement so I'm very happy that this is moving forward toward a policy okay Mr hosi yes so on the 18th uh Mr O'Neal and I went to the the district graduation meeting um on this and that evening a representative Luka came to Anaheim High School and did a presentation presentation for our families on know your rights and it provided valuable information for our families and then later on that night I went to the CIF basketball game at Anam High School uh Miss Randall tril and I went Wednesday to the PTSA Founders Day event here at the district office the next day Mrs Randall tro uh Miss Guerrero and and uh president O'Neal went to the naming of the uh the softball field for Su Hall at kened high school um on Friday the 21st and the 22nd we had Ambassador interviews we have uh the district is in good hands we have a incredible group of new leaders Miss Randle tro um and I were there at CVA and boy that room was cold and it kept us alive that night so um um um on the 27th there was also the dedication of the wellness room at laer High School school um NBC News was there and um it was uh the partnership that we have with um the OC Department of Ed um o cap uh I'm sorry Cal Optima and um there was one my brain is kind of going but um oh um let's see it was um chalk hospital and they have done Partnerships with seven of our schools and they're looking forward to doing more so it was really nice if it was on NBC News and I want to um just really acknowledge the work that Dr Cruz has done and um and so just want to thank her for that too um it you guys have to visit some of these Wellness rooms that Luna was talking about because I feel like I'm in a hotel and it just is so great for our kids um let's say the next day we went to Mrs uh Rand tro and I went to and we judged the Lexington Idol competition which was a lot of fun so much talent in our district um the AI Summit began and I just really want to give kudos to Mr Charles coup Allison Conrad for their organization thank you so much and I know SEMA you had some um background stuff that you were doing with a lot of the work and then uh our our our very own voice of God Brian bsky who did such a great job and announcing I mean I really I'm I love how really that just sets the experience for everybody there and then on top of that um our show or the summit opened up with our very own Kennedy show choir um who did a rendition of We Are the World so I think that was a really great way to to just um you know um start the show or start the summer um and I want to acknowledge really Mr matsuda I mean really to think that this has grown so much in one year and where we're at right now and all the incredible sponsors that we had to cover the cost of everything um that evening we had the black um History Month celebration and I it was just a great evening a great celebration and our very own Board of Trustees I mean gave a really incredible speech and I just you know it just was like Wow every single time I hear you speak it just gets better and better so thank you it was very inspirational um Miss Smith and I went to the um student discipline task force and then Mr matsuda and I at the beginning of this week we welcome the social workers um to the district office and again I want to give kudos to Dr Cruz because uh it was the first meeting that we had our Wellness coaches there that started and um Mr matsuda and I were there to welcome the work that they do just happens to be again social workers month uh I think the the real day to celebrate is the 19th but um we're going to be doing that throughout our schools and then um I had the privilege of speaking at the College and Career um Readiness class at Oxford Academy and um um just a a joy to speak to eighth graders I I miss my teaching days so I got a taste of that back and I just loved it and on my way out to the parking lot a group of seniors um stopped me um to just U ask me some questions so I got some really incredible Street data for us so I I just love speaking to kids um thank you um once again um Miss Cruz um tomorrow is maintenance workers appreciation day too if people didn't know so I want to uh say thank you to our our maintenance workers who just work through all kinds of just different we weather situations and then it's also Festival music season right now I know our bands are going through that this week and next week and um we have some uh pre-festival concerts so good luck to all of our music students and thank you very much thank you uh to continue the accolades for the AI uh Summit um there are a lot of people behind the scenes um you know Amy and Amanda and um a lot of folks um our teachers that presented um admin that were there and supporting their teams um just a a plethora of uh it was kind of like a Love Fest and um I was able to go to the bus tour that took uh some folks that came early on Thursday to Magnolia and Amy came up with this um uh ahsd artificial intelligence story timeline and it wasn't just started last year Ron it was just it it's been so many years oh I'm talking about the summit the summit the summit actually this is not the work the summit this is Summit three or four three okay I knew there was there was one there was one more we did yes yes and so um anyway uh I if you can get a hold of this everyone I think um this will just Amaze you it really floored me and it was really emotional to hear all of the things that um you know the district has um implemented and and celebrated throughout the years starting from 2008 um ran into Manuel cologne and he said that we should add the um uh furniture on here because that's Innovative Furniture um you know as as uh uh Mr Walker pointed out you know it's kind of like Furniture but it really made a difference and it touched every single one of our students lives and uh running into um Dr Moreno he also uh said that in addition to this we should add that we passed our bonds you know as a as a celebration and uh to show the work that that has uh Gone on but this is really amazing um uh and um including let's see all the other things that you said attended my gasela meeting um and the no crop meeting um I was able to uh go to our Roop vocational nurse graduation ceremony uh where 23 um uh vocational nurses uh were um had their graduation ceremony and if you ever go to that it's really um heartwarming to see um these students they're very well trained and they're very um knowledgeable uh I think four had gotten their five had gotten um their tests back they're actually um uh uh accredited and um now they're LVN they're now they're LVN um it's a candle lit ceremony and they have the lamps just like um a la light Gale yeah so it's really really moving uh our ambassador interviews you guys as uh Ron said um were in really really good hands I just want to point out that a lot of our students um were talking about the service hours and how really that made a difference and uh a lot of the clubs and things when they don't have those hours they it's kind of petered off and so um we might want to have a discussion about those those uh requirements because it does make a difference um attended I attended uh the lcap meeting one of the lcap meetings and um that was it and uh on the 18th I am traveling to Sacramento to uh advocate for um Roop thank you thank you um Mr on and I president o and I attended the budget committee meeting on Valentine's Day um so was fun thank you thank you there was cookies but thank you to everyone that attended it was a great presentation um I also attended I had my first uh csba uh Masters in government governments course uh in foundations of effective governance um attended the anim High School alumni golf tournament which is the annual event um also joined my colleagues for the field naming ceremony for Susan Hall at Kennedy High School also had the opportunity to attend the OC pathway showcase um and I want to give a shout out to um our schools that were present there we were well rep ahd was well represented with Pathways and Gabe Design Technology and Engineering and media production um also attended the excellent AI K12 deeper learning Summit I want to give a shout out to all of our staff and teachers that presented at the Summit um also attended the fifth annual Black History Month C celebration that just has gotten bigger and bigger every year and I want to give a shout out to the black lives matter task force for incorporating our students more and more each year um had the opportunity to attend the youth Leadership Summit um um held by the office of council member Carlos Leon and that was a really great to see our ah students participate um and then I want to take the time to thank our ahd food services for announcing the addition of meal kits for students observing Ramadan thank you so much for working on on that um and I want to give a shout out to the anim High School boys soccer team for just an incredible season this year which led them all the way uh to second place in CIF and a performance at the state regionals um and then I want to end my comments tonight congratulating our anim high school girls water polo team for winning the division 6 CIF championship this is yes [Music] app so uh this team actually made history as anim High School's First girls sports team to win I CIF ever um in the school's history so we're just incredibly proud of them uh the victory is a true celebration of these ladies hard work resilience and teamwork and I just want to give a shout out uh to the head coach Denise asario uh for all her dedication and commitment to the program so thank you thank you well they've mentioned almost everything that I've done almost just a couple um let's see Miss Rand Trail mentioned about the the uh vocational nursing through Ro and that costs because it's adult program now is high school students not in it they cost about $20,000 but if they have to go out into the world and take the exact same thing it's about 100,000 oh so it's a real bargain and our students that graduate are at the to are at the top in their tests so we have a an extremely high percentage of our students passed the L test to become an LVN versus the general public that goes out for the test coming graduating from whatever school they went to so kudos to our ROP program um I've attended the I I think the proper title is the immigration event on online the know your rights know your rights okay so I've I've listened in on a couple of those um I attended uh along with m r fjo the Roop celebration of success scholarship interviews uh for students that have applied for interview for scholarships through the Roop organization and then this morning Mr hosi and I attended every student suceeds in Cyprus which is from all the schools in Cyprus uh private public including the community college and East school has a student that they are acknowledging has um has had some adversity in their life and they've overcome it and they're working on it and they're being acknowledged for that so thank you one and all also the AI Summit was phenomenal I want to thank every it's a lot of work I know for everybody that touches it so thank you for your staff and and everybody that was involved in that you did a great job and I I I attended every single session so it was all great I tell you there were so many sessions it was it was overwhelming so hard to choose from so the next item is Advanced planning anybody uh wanting to request a item for the board agenda seeing none item um I jumped over future meeting dates that's obvious uh April 10th is our next regular board meeting at 6:00 p.m oh that's not on here but yes there's a study session next Tuesday at 3:30 3:30 at the RO Roop across the street so that is open to whoever wants to come and item 14 motion toour motion a second any discussion on that all in favor say I I I I've never heard a 3-2 the opposite way so

okay we'll call the meeting to order it's 5: so we'll um GNA call the meeting to order please so thank you thank you so much so we'll call the regular March 6 2025 alpab Valley Unified School District regular meeting to order at 5: pm and uh with that we'll move on to roll call and amand Amanda banan I'm here Oar I'm here Renee longshaw here Anita Tucker she's on our way she's on way she's on she's she's stuck okay uh Rick G rly I'm here so while we're waiting for Anita if you guys would please stand and join me for the pledge oh here she is oh right she is hang on we'll let her we'll give her a chance to sit down [Music] okay okay let's put join me in the pledge please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to theic for it stands one nation God indivisible and justice for all thank you okay so we're gon to move on uh for public comments for close session items and uh have some speaker cards here so you know that we're limited uh to three minutes and 20 minutes per topic but I think we should be able to get through everybody here if everybody stays on track so first up is Karen [Applause] Savers good evening my name is Karen Sabers and I am proud to be speaking to you today as the abuda union president I want to take a moment to thank everyone for your unity and showing up tonight even over in the Overflow your presence speaks volumes about the strength of our unions in 2008 I was one of the teachers affected by the Rifts and received a pink slip back then I never imagined we'd find ourselves in the position again here in Apple Valley at that time we were misled and told that if we agreed to place a cap on our insurance all teachers would be able to return and that once we were in better times we would be made whole again unfortunately that promise has not been fulfilled over the years we've continued to slide in the rankings compared to other districts in the high desert in our negotiations we switched to interest based bargaining because we always had to fight for everything unlike other districts and even when we've receed something we've often been made to feel guilty for What Little we had been given after three years without being able to negotiate for help with Health and Welfare benefits and salary increases we were finally able to open these these discuss up these discussions only to be told that the district is running in a deficit and having to make severe cuts to positions in programs once again we were being told there was no money to help with Health and Welfare or a salary increase if the district cannot support us in these areas now we bu must be made a high priority after May Reis our work is essential and we deserve to be a priority I've spoken with different District St staff sorry and have been assured that changes will be made they've promised that our district will undergo a reset and restructure I truly hope this happens and I hope there is follow through the damage has been done and many teachers have expressed a desire to leave the district because of the instability they know they won't take a financial hit by moving to a surrounding district and I know this to be true it's heartbreaking to see the state of our district to hear the anger and mistrust so that that so many of us feel including myself the abusd family has been broken to the point where I'm not sure we can even call it a family right now many do not feel that they are treated with dignity and respect they deserve goal number four in the abusd governance handbook is fiscal responsibility and let me be clear we are absolutely not achieving that goal right now thank you for your time and in solidarity Karen sabers [Applause] thank you for your comments uh second speaker will be lesle [Music] [Applause] M good evening everyone I'm lesie MC nley lead negotiator and vice president of the Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association I came to this District in July of 1986 and on the day I received my job offer here I also received a job off offer from Victor Elementary there was no question which offer I was going to take Apple Valley was the place in this region where people wanted to work five of us came to this area from my previous district and we felt bad for the one guy who didn't get to come to Apple and had to settle for Victor instead my how things have changed Apple Valley has sadly become non-competitive with other school districts in the area our salaries continue to fall behind other districts student discipline and in too many cases a lack of consequences continue to be a roadblock to teachers walking out of their classrooms at the end of the day feeling good about the job they do the cost of our health care is going up and now we're facing Cuts in many crucial programs and materials that we need to be able to do our jobs well the hits just keep coming I was here at the January 23rd board meeting asking you to make us a priority in your budget and to give us some help with our health care and salaries your answer was zero zero is not an answer we can accept yes we understand the district is going through a budget situation we've heard that some of the reasons are that we settled a three-year contract two years ago and that that settlement was a problem increases in statutory costs lower colas inflation for the district and economic uncertainty are all contributing to the zero I mentioned earlier yet all districts are facing these same challenges and they are not telling their staffs zero the district costs are going up no doubt so are ours we are all considering taking out a small mortgage just to buy a dozen eggs and cringing when it's time to pay our Heating and Cooling bills I could go on but you get my point Cola is intended to address these concerns and we're being told zero last week I attended our district advisory committee which gives input into goals for our lcap plan nowhere in any of these goals did I see a goal for attack attracting and retaining quality staff how are we going to meet our goals if we're losing quality teachers to neighboring districts avusd desperately needs to become once again the district that people want to work in most of all that people will commute from Far distances to get to because it's such a great place to work at make that happen and student achievement will increase make that happen and your mission to serve our community with dignity by meeting the unique academic behavioral and social emotional needs of all students so that they may thrive in an everchanging world will be more likely to be a success thank [Applause] you thank you Lesley up next is JC Scott [Applause] and after uh JC will be Amy Carter my name is JC Scott and I am proud to stand here as the elected president of CCA chapter 828 APPA Valley good evening members of the School Board District cabinet Community my colleagues of Auda CCA and the other room in the NPR we see you guys thank you for showing up I stand here in solidarity to once again ask you to instruct the district to honor our bargaining request for both the classified and certificated units for fully funded Healthcare comparable to the plan that we currently have plus a fair cost of living increase there's no way possible any of us can afford what is currently on the table zero which is pretty much an insult to all of us is also insulting to learn that the district deliberately held on to and continue to fund positions that should have been discontinued once that fund ran out why must we suffer the consequences of mismanagement and carry the burden why must it become a debate to either pay a bill or feed our families it will force us to either take on a second or third job we must consider a second mortgage to obtain the better Necessities or put gas in our tanks to get to the school site where we teach and serve our communities every day we must even have to leave this District to another District who offers these much-needed competitive benefits it would be a real disservice to our students to lose severly hot excuse me would be a real disservice to our students to lose seever several highly qualified High deic highly dedicated loyal and very committed staff members to other neighboring districts because APPA Val Unified no longer Dev values their employees the fact that both bargaining units benefits and wages are now at the bottom of the barrel is sickening and disheartening Mrs Barbara claa a retired educator of app Val ified district and the only reason I stand before you today as both a graduate of Granite Hills High School a school I'm proud to say I work at and a college graduate yes class classified employees also go to college and get degrees too if it wasn't for Quality teachers like Mrs claa I wouldn't have you made it through high school she pushed me to my limit she believed in me and even when I didn't believe in myself she helped me achieve my goals and made me realize that I'm stronger and smarter than I gave myself credit for she was not only a teacher was a mentor and the reason I grew up to become the strong man of integrity and Justice I am today I wanted to be a meteorologist can you imagine me trying to predict the weather but because of Educators like Mrs Barbara kaaa I made it my new career goal to one day return to Granite Hills High School and change students lives like she changed mine I achieved that goal more like a dream come true in 2022 and I still continue to to change lives daily classified employees like me are equally as important as quality educators who also build rapport with our students and become mentors ourselves so many students look up to us as sometimes we're the only consistent things in their lives two years ago an administrator chastised me for addressing a students who was being detained by one of our school police after being involved in a fight a student I interact with every single school day a student this administrator knows nothing about yet I do because I get the privilege of interacting with these students daily during their four short four school years at Granite Hill though that student only got in trouble that one one time they never forgot that short two-minute conversation two weeks ago after not seeing me for a few days during Union business in front of my labor relations rep that student told me JC where you've been I miss you you make this place feel like home just two days ago that same student told me JC you the reason I get up and come to school every morning because I can't get through the day without your energy his words not mine so you see it's important to have quality Educators and quality support staff in this classified members look all around these rooms how do we get here why did it need to come to this we spent weeks pointing out where the problem is with the funds now let's get the move to the proper category and show us how much you value your students and your staff because we all deserve better than this it was recently said appal UniFi can't even buy crayons well we can't even buy eggs one our employee whose logos our employer whose logo States dignity Community authenticity and service give us ours and give us a helping hand a happy employee is a productive employee do this for our students because we certainly do it every day thank [Applause] you Amy Carter good evening ladies and gentlemen my name is Amy Carter I am a special needs par educator I work with mods severe preschoolers and I have been in my current position for 10 years I love my job I am proud of the work I do I like so many of my fellow classified employees are here on the front lines every single day now no off friends to my teachers some of whom are great friends of mine but the army that runs our school sites are comprised primarily of dedicated compassionate hardworking classified staff members be it the bus driver who lovingly greets his or her students each morning the nutrition worker who makes sure that that same student is fed the Proctor and the security guard who keep our students safe the support staff and our school offices who take care of the business side par Educators like myself who work tirelessly in classrooms with our students and the custodial staff who cleans up our mess the mess we all leave behind it takes an Army in my 10 years with AV USD I have witnessed firsthand the value that admin and you the distinguished members of the school board place on your teachers where is the value that you place on your classified staff I have not seen it in annual raises I have not seen it in a fair approach to negotiations with our CA Union Representatives over the years that practice needs to end we deserve a fair wage for the tireless hours we collectively provide to avusd we deserve a fair allocation of funding towards our Health and Welfare benefits we deserve no less than to be valued make no mistake we are all aware that education is a business business business is about the bottom line the bottom line here ladies and gentlemen is that without this Army of classified employees avusd would be out of business I ask that each and every one of you think about what that caring bus driver nutrition service worker proctor office staff par educator and custodian meant in the lives of you your children and your grandchilden then take out your calculators and show it thank you [Applause] up next Molly Nelson and then next will be Ashley andr ready come on up good evening Este stent members of the board my name is Molly Nelson and I am a first grade teacher at sitting Bowl Academy every day I teach my students the importance of standing up for what is Right today I am standing before you to lead by that example little bit out of my comfort zone but I believe that there is a significant issue that needs to be addressed the unacceptable 0% pay increase for our Educators as a proud native of Apple Valley I attended these very schools as did my three sisters my maiden name was Toms and to me that means something this is the town that shaped who I am and as I look around I would not be where I am today if it was not not for the educational experiences I had growing up starting early on with Paul swick's influence at yakala moving into this Middle School where this was my band room and then going on to Apple Valley High School where I was a proud alumni my family and I have always held our community and its educational institutions in high regard after graduating I had the opportunity to become a substitute in many of the surrounding districts yet I chose to come back here to Apple Valley because I believed in its promise and potential however I'm standing up here today because it pains me to admit that I'm starting to question that decision I'm seeing the neighboring districts offering better pay up to 20 years of service credit and it's disheartening as someone who has deep roots in this community I can assure you that if I am having these doubts there are many others who are feeling the same way I'm the main source of income for my family in including my husband who stays mostly at home with our two beautiful daughters we go to the store and notice prices are up we see restaurant prices increasing and don't even get me started about fast food so inflation is clearly amongst us and that needs to be considered we as Educators deserve better we're dedicated to shaping the future it's only fair that our compensation would reflect the value that we bring to our students in the community we're told often that we matter we appreciate you it's time to put action to those words and show our Educators that we do do indeed matter I urge you to reconsider our Pace structure and recognize the hard work and commitment of the teachers who make Apple Valley a place of Pride thank you Ashley andr and after Ashley will be Sharon Cheryl Larsson good evening board and community members colleagues staff I come again sorry my name is ashleen j I'm second vice president for chapter 828 today I stand before you with a heavy heart and a spirit fueled by disappointment and frustration our classified employees and our certificated staff those who are the backbone of our educational infrastructure continue to face an unacceptable reality a severe lack of funding for their Healthcare needs these are the individuals who greet our children every morning who maintain the safety and cleanliness of our facilities who teach our kids who support teachers and students likee yet they remain undervalued and unders supported far too long the school district has turned a blind eye to the critical issue that Health Care presents for our classified staff and certificated by failing to fully fund Healthcare for these for these essential employees and teachers the district sends a disheartening message that their well-being does not Merit the importance or resources it rightfully deserves the lack of prioritization is not just a budgetary oversite it's a moral failure failure the hardworking bus drivers custodians Food Service workers and administrative staff deserve and teachers deserve more than just our thanks they deserve ve tangible commitment to their health and livelihoods without proper Health Care funding our staff faces hard choices between paying bills or and securing health care and between their health and their fam's well-being we must ask ourselves what does this say about our community's values and in this case our District's values how can we expect to cultivate an environment conducive to learning when those who support it do not feel supported themselves the district must act not just not just by words but through decisive action by reallocation reallocating funds advocating for increased budgets and most importantly recognizing and addressing the true cost of neglect let this be a rallying cry we cannot be complicit in in the neglect of those who serve our schools with dedication it's time for the school district to rise to the challenge and fully fund healthc care for all our classified and certificated employees because their health is not a luxury it is a necessity thank [Applause] you Cheryl Larson and then after Cheryl is Brad sorry I can't starts with a C good evening members of the board administrators and community members my name is Cheryl Larson and I spent 37 years in the classroom dedicating myself in my career I'm sorry to the students of this District [Applause] [Music] come before you tonight for the teachers who are still here trying to do their jobs in a district that seems determined to make that harder every single day I may be retired but my investments in this District District hasn't ended I have friends and family who are still teaching here struggling under the weight of unfair expectations and financial stress more importantly I have grandchildren who attend these schools and I worry about what kind of education They will receive if you continue pushing good teachers out refusing to offer a fair rate and expecting teachers to cover Rising Health Care insurance costs is unfair and unsustainable you say you want better test scores and student achievement yet you refuse to invest in the people who make that happen how do you expect teachers to give their best when they are struggling to afford basic necessities how do you expect them to stay when neighboring districts offer better pay and benefits and most importantly respect because let's be honest this isn't just about money it's about the message you're sending you are telling teachers that their dedication extra hours willingness to go above and beyond are not worth supporting you are telling them they are replaceable and they will take that message to Heart they will leave and the experienced teachers the ones who know how to handle challenges who have built relationships with the students and families who have learned how to help kids succeed in ways no test can measure will go first then what you'll replace them with brand new teachers who will struggle without mentorship and support they will burn out just like the ones before them and the cycle will continue and when test scores don't rise and the district struggles to attract and keep quality Educators you'll wonder why the answer is simple you cannot demand Excellence while refusing to pay for it I'm sorry I'm losing you cannot expect teachers to give their all while making them fight for fair wages and health insurance rethink this decision before it's too late when you drive away good teachers you don't just hurt them you hurt students families and the future of this district and as a grandmother that is simply unacceptable thank you [Applause] uh Brad and then after Brad it'll be Stephen CBS my name is Brad s tour I work at Mariana Academy I'm a campus security assistant there and I'm also the communications officer with chapter 828 here in Apple Valley good afternoon everybody I'm here today as a concerned member of our school community and as someone who has witnessed firsthand the growing anxiety and hardship weighing heavily on our dedicated staff I'm here to address the direct and personal impact our administration's continued refusal to engage in meaningful negotiations for fair pay and Health and Welfare benefits we understand the board's commitment to responsible budgeting especially in these challenging times however we are deeply concerned about the uncertainty surrounding both staff Health and Welfare benefits and fair compens ation this uncertainty and potential for insufficient pay create undue stress for a dedicated support staff and teachers who are the Cornerstone of our children's education the lack of meaningful negotiation isn't just about money it's about dignity and respect it sends a message that the countless hours of dedication the extra effort put into lesson planning the late night spent supporting our students excuse me and the unwavering commitment to our children are undervalued it leaves our staff feeling unappreciated and invisible as if our hard work and our passion are being deliberately ignored by the administration sorry Additionally the burden of incre cost doesn't stop at the financial hardship it bleeds into every aspect of our school Community when staff were struggling to make ends meet how can we expect them to volunteer their time their talents and their personal resources to our students the after school clubs the extra tutoring sessions the fundraising efforts that enrich our students lives these are often EMP powered by the generosity of Staff members who are already giving so much when these staff are stretch to their Breaking Point those vital contributions will inevitably diminish we're not just talking about numbers on a spreadsheet we're talking about the people who shape our children's future and this beautiful community that you as board members represent we're talking about individuals who greet our students with a smile every morning who Comfort them when they're upset and who Inspire them to learn and grow I employ you members of Apple Val Unified School District board to understand the urgency of this situation please engage in meaningful negotiations for fair pay Health and Welfare benefits and the well-being of all staff members show your staff that you see them that you value them and that you are committed to creating a supportive environment where they can Thrive so that our students can thrive in this everchanging world I urge you to take immediate action regarding this personal and critical matter thank you Stephen Cobbs and after Stephen will be Javier uh thanks for being here my name is Steve cobs I'm a math teacher at gr Hills High School um I'm also on the negotiations team but really I'm just kind of nobody I'm one of us and so I come just speaking in that my goal since I've been on the district we've been in the community for well over 20 years I'm not a alumni of the schools my kids went through granite and so this is our community and so when Chuck brought me on eight years ago to be a math teacher it's been my goal to do what I could to do the right thing and so we've tried to get up our scores we've tried to do everything we could doing foundations classes to try to build up the kids that were lowlevel and get them and get them passing and do all of that but what I've seen in the last few years is just in my department my math department we've had three teachers leave to other districts because they were able to go and make money they were second year and first year teachers and they took off that was just in my department alone and then they contacted us back and they saidwell we're making more money where we are hisper or whatever it was and guess what we're only teaching 24 kids in a class and we're sitting at 38 to 40 in each one of our classes so it made it really hard for our department to kind of work through this and to see what was happening and I just want to say today perception is greater than reality the whole class siiz thing uh was one of those that got to us and I've heard this idea that we want to build trust and in order to build trust we have to fulfill those little promises that we do and speaking on class sizes we were negotiating that but when we got there we were saying told that if our class sizes go over we'll just go ahead and we'll have a meeting and we'll we'll promise some things and just a few weeks ago we we promised uh a couple of the teachers you know we're going to put TVs we're going to put desks in your room still hasn't happened and so as we're building trust it's those little things that kind of get there for the awing of Granite Hills High School we were told this whole me multimedia thing was going to go on and so we were going to get new projectors and but the a-wing had these little overhang things and so we could couldn't get the new projectors and so we were told it was going to happen this summer we would just get new ones now all of a sudden we've been told because of what's going on well that money that was set aside is gone and so you guys aren't going to get anything and so I just come to you today we're not trying to be a top but we're trying to be competitive so we can keep people here and how we do that again is fulfilling that trust in just even the little things those small things like getting those projectors in our room or if we're going to put TVs in your room when we go over the class sizes and we break those things we don't grieve yet but we do it we have some new one-time teachers that don't want to say anything because they didn't want to get let go and so it makes it really hard for us to stand and do that and so I just implore you again from a nobody from somebody that's just one of many do the right thing [Applause] aier I saw you walk in okay we can um is um Prisma Loya in here you can come up and then somebody can go back and let uh aier know thank you okay thank you all right hello my name is pris maloya and I'm a special education teacher at deser NS who is a non- reelect candidate for the next school year I've been evaluated for the last three years and received amazing feedback and it breaks my heart to think that the progress the consistency I've built along with my students has been taken away from them for that I have learned that not only with the 33 33 students I serve at Desert no and the Virtual Academy but also from all the other deser no students and staff we have become a community that meets unique needs and it Parts my heart to think that I came to this community to make a difference to be cons consistency in those classrooms and I'm walking away with tears and something in my heart that tells me be an example be a leader be the difference thank you for your time Javier you're up y thank you uh thank you very much dear esteemed board and cabinet uh first I want to say welcome to the newest board members thank you for your service to our Community um second I want to just reiterate all of the comments by all of my colleagues and everybody in abusd that we stand in solidarity together uh third I want to thank and commend Miss Buchanan for her support at the High Desert uh Community Honor Band concert where several of our teachers played to support the middle and elementary honor band it was such a treat to see so many a hardworking abusd music teachers supporting the San Bernardino County music educators Association honor band but on fortunately because of the poor planning of communications our music teachers feared for their jobs after the concert I must report that at the after concert dinner I had to reassure our scared M new music teachers who were afraid that they would lose their jobs although honest I tried to reassure them although honestly at the time I do not know their fate yet Hisperia and snowline Senior teachers who were also at that dinner I hate to characterize them this way but they were like vultures trying to lure away our music teachers because I don't need to tell you that we have a reputation for training amazing teachers who then go on to work for other districts because of the disparity in pay and benefits please let our young music all of all of our avusd staff know that their work is valued and that we have a commitment to support education in avusd lastly it pains me to say that roll out of the AMS funds is unorganized and not following the recommendations of the California Department of Ed or the California Arts framework standard why I have repeatedly address cabinet members and this board and volunteered to help why has my offer not been acknowledged in the nearly two years that I have been coming to board meetings now with the last year before funds have to be returned we are hastily trying to figure out what to do and with poor organization trying to spend money before we lose it this is not the way these funds were intended to be spent our district is woefully behind and risks having parents seek legal remedies which was the response from LAUSD unified parents which I support given these actions and the lack thereof what other options do parents and teachers have we are being ignored and marginalized I am the senior instrumental director for the great Academy a former model CTE demonstration site for the California Department of Ed a Yamaha 40 under 40 music educator a 202 n best school for music education I have brought over a $100,000 in Grants to our district and yet I am sidelined in all discussions regarding AMS please help me to make this make sense how is this beneficial to our music students we have no vertical alignment in any of our music programs this is shameful for our kids and Community we need to do better once again I stand ready to help I literally work with the individuals who disperse AMS funds at the CDE please allow allow me to help as is the recommendation and the framework standards we can do so much for our students if we work together and utilize the amazing talent we have a at Abus I saw it in full display at the honor band I hope my recommendations are not ignored and heed as always I am a civil servant please you use your judicious leadership and allow me to serve thank you okay that brings us to uh comments for Clos session so what we do is we uh we go into close session and then we come back at 7 o'clock prompt for the rest of the meeting so I have a lot to read here what we're going to be going in to close session 4 and then um we'll be back at 7 7 PM so we have one items one through 10 and um if you want to step out or you want to listen to you're more than welcome uh we will be back at 7 o'clock prompto item number one is superintendent evaluation item two personal correction pupil Personnel exposion case exp number 212 2425 and exp 222 2425 item three conference on litigation government code section 54956.9 subsection a current litigation 11 cases cvds 21111 83 Civ SB 211 1303 2220 303 221 8676 231 4073 23 241 2359 241 23 2 23211 612 44404 and CI VBS 24289 government code section 5495 subsection five subsection C and 54956.9 subsection D and subsection 2 and E ex1 correction E1 anticipated litigation one case 2024 2501 excuse me government code section 54.5 D and 5495 6.95 anticipated litigation one case claimant Roa Zayn item four Public Employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees item five public employees appointed resignation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees item six conference with labor negotiator agent negotiator jeremi Harrison B employee organization Alpha Val unified Teachers Association item s seven conference with labor negotiator agent negotiator Christen Dupri B employee organization California School Employees Association eight conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator TR Nelson B employee organization unrepresentative item nine conference with real property negotiator government code 549 56.8 a negotiation parties Matthew schulenberg alpab Valley Unified School item 10 security matters government code section 54957 consultation with alab Bella Unified School District chief of police okay so we might not get through all of that before seven but we will go back in again after the regular board meeting but I need a motion to adjourn uh to close session move second so we have a motion um you can and a second okara all in favor I any opposed hearing none that will be the order so back at 7 p.m.

6 million lcff you'll see state and local totaling 191 million of Revenue there's our expenditures 68 million on certificated salaries you can read those going down um you'll see the total expenditures of 163 million um and you'll see line C there in the middle of the page that Nets to about a $28 million positive uh between revenue and expenses however we have a couple things down here and this is the the sources uses I talked about this is a source this is a $2 million transfer in from fund 14 are deferred maintenance this is a transfer out at adopted budget we were estimating about $ 42.7 million that is a contribution from the restricted side of fund one I'm sorry from the unrestricted side of fund one to the restricted side of fund one to support restricted programs mainly special education and routine restricted maintenance so we come down so the net effect it adopted right here total other financing sources was a negative4 million so the 12.6 negative is a net effect of revenues minus expenses plus transfer in minus contributions Nets to $12.6 million of unrestricted deficit spending as of adopted budget thus reducing the ending fund balance from 22.2 to 9.6 and then there was another uh 1,938 n627 and and 2D and 2D so my Cur I was curious I'm Sorry Miss Longshore I'm not finding that in you didn't see it give me that number again um under 2D so it's same F fund balance reserves 2D it says other assignment so we're on page two thank you yes the million 938 yes yes if you look back to page one and look at the ending fund balance 9.6 million um number uh two a b CDE e those are components of the ending fund balance 9.6 million if now we carry that down here you take 7.7 that was the 3% Reserve required for economic uncertainties that's the minimum that has has to be held to meet that 3% Reserve requirement any additional is called out on that other assignment line if you add 7.7 and 1.9 you're going to get 9.6 those are the components of the ending fund balance yes so my question is um we have no actuals to date so have we spent that the actuals to date would be column C yes um so it's it's blacked out it it's it's just a component of the ending fund balance so it's not something that we spend out of the ending fund balance you'll look at projected year totals column D and we'll look at the projected ending fund balance of 10.8 million right here everybody see that um that's the projected ending fund balance that was on the final slide of the presentation that talked about the components of ending fund balance if we go to page two there's our 3% required Reserve which is the 8 point is that 8386 million and any over and above that that is not assigned or committed is other assignments 2.3 million you add those two that totals to the ending fund balance currently projected that we're going to end the year with we don't spend out of the ending fund balance thank you certainly any other questions thank you again for your attention thanks mat all right moving on to public comments Anna public comments we have one card here and it is Ida Torres oh there you are thanks for waiting all this time thank you for having me I'm excessively hot after 50 menopause kicks in yes thank you good evening board and directors I'm Ida Tes Romo who represents the Apple Valley seminal football and cheer who has a long-standing Community Partnership with Apple Valley Unified School District we have we have facility use with the history free of any incidents or issues at Granite Hills High School for years our organization supports local youth in the community by providing positive role models and organized Sports of football and cheer and baseball until the situation with the Granite Hills head coach who until actually coach with the seals until November 2024 there has never been even a question of our continued partnership for the benefit of the community on 2:8 I reached out to Mel or Michael believe that's her name yes entered thank you ma'am ma'am um yes right here I'm sorry can you start from beginning we had an interruption over here and it was uh kind of confusing to hear you and Mr Ro I'm hot I'm just okay okay let's start over you know what we want to hear what you had to say I know I get it I will start all over so good evening my name is Ida Torres I represent the Apple Valley youth football and cheer okay um who has a long-standing community relationship with Apple Valley Unified School District we have a facility's use with the history free of any incidents or issues at Granite Hills High School for years our organization supports local youth in the community by providing positive role models and organiz Sports of football cheer and baseball into the situation with granite head coach who until actually coached for the seminal until November of 2024 there has never been even a question of our continued partnership for the benefit of the community on 218 I reached out to Michael introducing myself after having a great relationship with Capri who has now now retired and I'm very sad about that on 220 submitted our field use agreement by 2:25 I was informed by mik Michael that Michelle denied our four dates which were 920 927 108 and 1025 since their football team will be adding weekends to their practice schedule never in 10 years have they had practice on Saturdays I can understand maybe one day being denied but all four were denied citing use of the field by the high school team I know CIF has limited practice hours and policies on practices and I do not see how this reasoning is truly what is going on it is also not worth noting that the head coach of granite um head coach of granite and football booster club is advertising and recruiting children for this feeder team boosters and coaches are not allowed to recruit for high school and colleges and with this new program taking over field uses being run by the head coach of granite and has booster members involved this does not look like an ethical situation I understand anyone can apply for fied usage I understand that we are not the only ones what I do understand is why since Inception of this new feeder youth football program by the head coach who by the way coach for us until the end of the season we are now denied access to our game day request I do believe that the denial of use was intentional an effort to remove the seals from using a field a quick note additionally after field use was deny I asked if they had another field which can facilitate the seals I asked for a copy of the denied facilities use agreement with nolu on receiving a copy as of today 36 2025 we were never allowed to perform any registrations at any school within the school district yet the wild cats are advertising the signups at Grand Hill scho High School um Apple Valley s is asking for Apple Valley Unified School Board to do what's right for the children of Apple Valley we're looking for equality and fair treatment for service of our children we're asking for the board to review the E ethical practices of the affiliation of the head coach of Granny Hills High School and the youth wild feater program who Granite Hills for Granite Hills football we maintain our working relationship with the district for the benefit of the children of the community I do hope there's a way we can continue to work together in a positive manner to serve all the youth in the community that we that need these programs thank you very much for allowing me to sign up and basically just discuss what's going on in our um with our you our Field Youth and I also have some pamphlets for you guys I meant to say that before I started but um I was having a conversation with Chief Molina I'm sorry ma'am thank you for your comments and uh we did this discuss this with staff today somebody will be contacting you from the superintendent's office so [Applause] okay thank you guys for waiting so long to get H wow yeah not sure anything's still open maybe breakfast okay I'm going to move over to board member comments but I'm sure nobody has anything at 10 o' in the evening right right okay superintendent comment nothing okay public hearing did you have a comment uh Renee board member comment anything it's that's what's on the agenda I was just kind of trying to shame everybody into not saying anything a message rece okay a comment oh okay you know I I can't let you get away um I just wanted to uh acknowledge uh women's History Month uh as you can see there are four women um serving on the board and I couldn't miss this day um and not celebrate the four women which is historical we've never had that and and I also wanted to celebrate every mother every female that is walking on this Earth Earth it is women's history month and I can't forget that thank you so much for all you do well thanks for the comment because my wife says that if you want something done you got a woman to do it so you know what you got four of them here so [Laughter] okay okay we're g to move on to public hearing hold a public hearing to receive comments on the annual fiveyear statutory School fee report I now open the public hearing regarding the annual and five-year statutory School or time at 94 9:46 p.m.

What wise words by a freshman? Think about your future. You can get through it. We got three weeks to spring break. It'll be okay, right? Sure. Sure. All right. Wow. Okay. I'm here with Ian. Isaiah. What year in school are you? Sophomore. Isaiah. Sophomore. Two sophomores. Almost halfway through high school. It's been a long nine weeks. Second semester. Been grinding away. We got three full weeks to spring break. How you doing? I think I'm doing pretty good. I'm good. Yeah, I can't complain. Any advice you have for our students to try to get all the way to spring break? Just keep pushing. Doing your homework. Just keep studying and you'll get through it. Keep pushing. Do your homework. Don't create stress by not doing your homework. Right, Isaiah? Any words of advice you got for our student? Just chill. Be mindful of what you got to do in school.

spring break is going to get here and then it's going to be super super fun. So, you kind of just have to push through the last bit of school and then you just you get to go to spring break. Have a goal in mind. Set a goal. We got three weeks. We can do this. Stay on top of things and we're going to get there together, right? Yeah. All right, Wildcats. I'm here with Ethan Godwin. It's March. It's gloomy. We got three full weeks to spring break. What are you doing to get by? How you doing? Well, I've just recently had a lot of retake tests. So, take advantage of the retakes. You know, improve those grades. That can reduce some stress, right? Oh, yes. Any other advice you have for the Wildcats these last few weeks before we get to spring break? Just hang in there.

1 2425 second interim budget report Dr nean good evening president O'Neal members of the board superintendent matuda cabinet and members of the public thank you so much for uh being here tonight to hear our updated um budget report for our district why don't you kind of give over a theme of what what's happening being proposed for the 2526 um school year so Governor um Gavin new he releases the budget um proposal for 2526 um in the midst of the one of our most devastating natural disasters um and so many homes were were burned down and actually some of the schools as Al also in those areas are also burned down as as well um and so um but he was still able to uh publish the budget and overall budget um it's a balanced budget at this point and um still protected public education as um we are funded by prop 98 and that is critical to what we do here but the overall um California economy um is continue to grow with um mixed signals with the road ahead of us so inflation continues um um um at this point um and then the slowing of the interest rate reductions by the Federal Reserve is impacting the state's housing market so the latest fed um rate that we're looking at right now based on the latest ones I'm hearing from the UCLA School of Anderson is about 4.25 to 4.5% and they're thinking that rate will stabilize for the next three years now if any the market continues to drop or different things the FED could possibly adjust that but the housing market for example is not really helping especially in our area as you see are contined declining rment due to the pressure from the housing prices as well so um the overall um the budget for next year projects a $17 billion plus at the state level with healthy reserves and so the governor does um assume a St a steady and a stable National growth overall and so at this point we do have a lot of impact that we are seeing that it's actually already coming the first one obviously is the tariffs so they're coming I'm have extremely strong as well as the changes in the immigration policy as well and I'm going to talk about that a little bit when we get to the enrollment projections as well so this is the the financial projection um and I do want to highlight um what we're um what was being proposed at this point so we can see current year there's no change uh from January um the numbers uh that were being proposed at that time is 1.07 for curring year but you can see for the proposed budget year for 25 26 back at um in um December when we proposed the first inim it was at 2.93% and now that is at 2.43% so the number for NE going to next year the cost of living adjustment is already projected lower and we are hearing that that number will actually be even lower than what we are currently showing you right now and so that is a concern for us as we do get that cost of living adjustment to our base funding and that's very critical at this point there are some good news from the budget there are some one-time dollars that the governor is proposing first is going to be the student support and professional development discretionary block grant and um districts can use this money for the rising costs um uh to include professional development uh for staff uh teacher recruitment and retention effort career Pathways and do enrollment as we have heard we have really increased our do enrollment um numbers as well so the current um estimate is estimate to be at 323 per Ada and we are projected to receive about 7.6 million doll um if this money comes through currently we are not projecting this money in our budget because there is no guidelines on when uh the money could be expended untila so we would not know how much to or when to budget for that amount and so uh once we get um better language hopefully by the time we propose a budget um by June we should hopefully to get those numbers by then so that's the first um onetime dollars that is being proposed the next block grant is uh this is additional onetime dollars learning recovery emergency block grant and this um so the overall state level is at $ 378.5 million one time to support learning recovery emergency and this money is through 2728 so that's a a current uh projection at uh about $6.8 million um and as we get more information with this we will be incorporating that into the budget but right now we are just waiting to see if there's any other um figures we need to um to make sure before we budget these numbers and as as we all know we've been receiving a lot of one-time dollars almost like $250 million since Co and I'm going to show that um with online items for us so uh remember when Co first hit we had all those estra dollars that came through and with s one two and three and then also the state level also with the additional onetime dollars including the learning um recovery emergency block grant as well and also the Arts and Music instructional material discretionary block grant and I'm going to show a summary here these are all the M um $110 that we have already spent so the total um for this pot is $105 million and so all this has been sent you can see um they're in detail listed uh the funding sources how much our allocation is as well as how much was spend per year so we already have spent all these dollars here over $100 million at this point then the next slide we show you uh the remaining $144 million but as you can see we have spended almost all the dollars as well we have about $53 million um that was at the end of January 31st which was um end of um the second inum period so we of the about $250 million we have uh spent pretty much the 3 200 million and then just a $53 million left um that um we have access so I just want to share that there's a lot of one time dollars that we have seen and in my 20 years career so this is the first time we've seen this much money coming through a lot of one-time dollars and we just have to be very careful how we plan to use these dollars obviously with Co we were able to do a lot of things with with those dollars but as um more and more coming through in the future years there may not be as many one1 time dollars as what we have seen in the past right since we got Co started back on March of 2020 and so it's basically this is quite bit of money that since we have received from both federal government and the state government as as well so both feds and fed F fed and state we do see there's a lot of risk to to the state budget uh for example the stock market volatility it is wild you have 600 points up one day another day 600 points down it is a wild Market at this point um we are also facing extreme weather events obviously with um a lot of floods as well as uh the fires in California that's really not helping uh with overall economy because of the insurance Market that could be a a very very tough place to be um to come and there's all a possible of the delay of tax deadlines due the natural disaster so in certain counties it's being proposed that they are able to extend their tax deadline I believe around to October so this is going to be the same problem we had a couple years ago when the state already started the fiscal year and we did not get the tax receipts until November of that year so this continue to be a problem we're hoping that it's not that not going to be that much but if you think about if the entire County of LA is able to do this and they are a big part of the taxpayer for the entire state so that could be a problem for us and then um there's a lot of the federal policy uncertainties the Terrors immigration as well um and we are continuing to monitor the um interest rates right so we're you know they're looking about 4.5% or so um at the federal uh interest rate and but for example if to get a mortgage the rate's much higher than what the federal rates still at this point so it's really tough for the housing market with that as well I want to share what the state budget process uh from January to June that's when we first U receive the information from the governor to see what are some of the policies are and some of his proposals as you can see here uh right now we are U are you can see the uh go box down there with a second uh inm report uh being submitted tonight as you can see um some of the sub hear subcommittee hearings um but the state really doesn't adopt their budget and release other their stuff until basically by June right and so we are taking our uh budget to the board on June 5th with the first uh first reading and then with the board adopting their budget on June 12th a week later and once the state adopts his budget we have 45 days to come back to the board and then readjust those um line items as well and so we'll between now and then we'll hear different things that will come and we'll also get the guidance from our County as well as they oversee our budget to make sure we are adopting our budget based on their guidelines as well and so depending what can be budgeted and we will um budget those line items and so this is the our enrollment projections um for our district as well as for the County of Orange and you can see here um last year we're at 27,000 and this year we have dropped almost um you know um 1,000 students you can see to 26,000 uh and we are projected to decline to about 24,800 students the following year so this is a trend and um we go out down to 20 3334 we are down to about 20,000 students and so um we do based on our projection so this is spased on we we go back um you know three to five years and we look at all those different numbers and we have solved the help us project so this is based on what we currently projected for but if the immigration Factor does take into play we do think that that could be a possible factor and we ran those numbers I thank you so much Karen for running those numbers that if we were to lose an additional 500 students for next year right so right now we're about 1300 students that we possibly based on the projections based on all the rollups as well right um if we were to lose an additional 500 students what would that budget look like for us um as you know we're funded based on when student come to school now when they're enroll is attendance and it's based on current year prior year or the last three year threee averaging so if we were to lose an additional 500 students on enrollment next year the amount of dollars we could lose in the year 26 27 because next year will be guarantee from the prior years we will lose about $3 million and in 2728 we will lose an additional $5.5 million so every students coming through our system when they attend our classes it does count and so we I just we wanted to make sure that the public is aware that if there's additional enrollment drop um we are going to have to adjust our budget at that point but currently these are the numbers and we will be watching as we do our month we do pull the data every month and we will be looking at the trend to see if we're losing students between even now um and may as well and this is just another um way to show this is from uh where we were at Tai so going back about um you know back to 20112 we were at the height of almost 33,000 students and this is where we are projecting um for next year at about uh 24,800 students so this first um chart here will show you how much dollars we are bringing in for for the un uh for the general fund so this consists of the unrestricted plus the restricted for our um second interim for 2425 we're looking at about $561 million total revenue we're bringing in but just want um want us to see most of our money is coming from the blue blue uh box over there and that's about 74% and that's the lcff local control funding formula that's money coming from the state when our students come to school so that's the bulk of our funding you can see our federal funding is about 7% which is equalent to about almost 41 million dollar so we are look there is a possibility that we could possibly get some federal um funding reductions uh so right now we have talked to the county they have not said to budget less but uh in the past back in when during the last recession District's budget about 10% less so that's something that we may consider or if we're hearing other information then we would um adopt the budget at that time but there we probably need to start planning if there's going to be reductions on the federal revenue side as well at this point and that's something that we are um making sure that we're paying attention to that when when all the news are coming out as well so that piece of it the federal funding uh could be something that we want to look at um and then the other ones um the other state revenues about 14% um and then we have some um other local revenues but both of our money is coming from when student come to school and those are the dollars we want to make sure that we see and this is a total expenditures uh for current year uh projected to be about $550 million uh for current year you can see here all the salaries and all the benefits as well as the other expenses for a district so you can see here this is our total combined General fund uh unrestricted and restricted see where we're at as you can see here our current year um revenues at 561 and then the total expenditures 554 so this year we actually have a a increase in the fund balance $7.1 million but you can see the oute starting next year we have a deficit of 15.8 million and then the following year a 25.6 million and a 41.7 million in the um 2728 so do want to share that like so current year we're looking at it we're not quotquot deficit spending but the out years we most likely going to do that and this is the unrestricted and I want to focus unrestricted these are money that are comes through there's no strings attached there's not a grant so anything uned comes through here so if you look at the current year we are um were're good in the fund balance next year was still good but if you can look at the 26 27 20 million in deficit spending in that year and then $37 million um deficit spending in 2728 so those are the the figures we want to make sure that we're starting to address what are some of the declining rment what has done to our budget because our revenues are coming in less when students are not here and this one here is the restricted programs and as you can see we um we been getting quite a bit of dollars from all the additional onetime dollars and those will come through here and all the ERS and all that but we're coming down to a place where we're not getting as much dollars anymore at this point moving forward and these are some of the commitments that we have um we do this at the adopted budget as well as the first interim and as well as going to be doing that as as well as here so these are the online items um including uh the wellness program classifi summer assistance benefits um we also have site carryovers technology and then the board also mandate our district to carry an additional 3% Reserve which is amazing so we have total the state requirements 3% and the board also said we want to make sure we have additional 3% but just do want to to inform and I'm sure um the public understands this too our cash flow for example we need about a 10% Reserve each month right because we do have our our payroll Wise It's about about 10 months we do have people who are 12 month employees but a majority of our folks are about 10 10 months because given where the school years are at and so um to just have the the minimum fund balance it's not going to be enough to even make payroll and so we also um as you will see in our um our documents we do have the cash flow as well for 18 months as require at this point and so that concludes um my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have anybody have any questions I I I just first of all have a statement to make uh on page I don't know if public general public know this but on page three we're talking about the financial projection dashboard and um there's two line items there's a calsters uh and there's a cal Pur employer rates and the the the calsters shows that there's 19.1% um is what the district has to pay uh in the way of uh taxes I guess you could call it that um 19.1% of the cers of the um uh employees payroll we have to pay 19.1% on top of that in taxes on the next line for Cal Pur uh currently we have to pay 27.5% but in four years it's going to go up to 28.2% of the payroll total payroll so that's a huge part of of our expenses in the year okay so I just wanted to make sure the general public understood that right and it was not that long think that's a great comment and it was not that long ago that per Cal Pur rate was at 13.02% and basically since the market has not been doing as well they keep increasing the rate um and so that is a a concern because districts also pay more um and on the stir side our employees has has paid more they were at 8.25 and now they're 10.25 this this goes to our Collective pensions yes this is the pensions that we're all all the employees um most employees here do have that either in the stirs which is the the teachers um want plus all the certificate side and then the classify I'm myself as well in the Cal Pur system and that has a lot of implications as well yeah thank you okay then on page two uh there sort of like an oximoron here it says the governor presents a balanced budget that assumes steady stable National growth but then when you turn to page nine it says federal policy uncertainty okay which means it's not stable because we don't know what's going to happen with tariffs we don't know what's going to happen with immigration interest rates could be going up the market is on is being crazy right now so I'm not sure how we can say that we're going to be stable but yet we're going to be unstable so I think that was when January when the governor released his budget at that time that was what his Assumption of the bud like the overall ecy was so that was three months ago when or two months ago when he when correct correct so then yeah all our numbers right now are from all the releases that was released so thank you that was that was past it's not present or the future because we we don't need to comment on the future because we have no idea what's going to happen on a daily basis so we don't uh it's very volatile right now so very much so anybody have any questions of Sheamus no just to State oh go ahead oh uh one quick question the uh two block rants that you mentioned that are coming do are those restricted or unrestricted they will be one time I would assume that you follow you know that the restrictions will not be as much I think it's almost like the Arts and Music block ran they come through we can we're able to pay for various different things okay mhm but it will be coming into the restricted funding on the restricted general fund side okay thank you I I just wanted to make a statement I think um I can speak for all the board is just that um your department um is absolutely amazing because you're given uh a a deadline to come up with you know we have to have the second interim when you just got the budget in January and it's it's it's not uh stable and then you have to project three years out and we try to project four years out all the time and and then you have uh to get our budget done by the fif or the 12th I'm Sorry by the by the 15th and you just got the May revision that comes out it's just amazing um how uh you do it I know there's a lot of people out there that are um helping to project that but um I I just want to commend um our staff and every every year you you you help us to understand this extremely complex um budget system and you're always thinking ahead you're always projecting and helping us to uh save cost or in the event of having to make adjustments and changes and um I just want to give you guys a huge compliment uh from the board and from the the de up here from our thank you appreciate that it's really amazing well emry to keep on with what he just mentioned it sort of goes along to to show that our bond rating has gone up because of the financial stability yes based upon your department and the way you manage the the finan right so and what they do is um the with the credit ratings they do we we have a call with them and we have to produce different documents for them and so the fact that they have confidence in our district that's how we're able to uh increase both um standard and pors as well as Moody and that will also help us when we go out to sell the bonds um for the credit rating with the upgraded credit rating and so I think you so much boor you guys have given a lot um you know have given a lot a lot of Grace to to our department as well and um you know I do want to thank uh Karen and Joe we we spend a lot of weekends working on this I mean as we get closer we're like is there anything else we want to adjust we want the latest numbers we want to run additional scenarios we don't ever want to get blindsided that we did not see that coming because that's why I wanted to make sure that we understand if we do lose more students what the uh budget implications could be because we don't ever want to be in a boat where we do not know where we're in and I just also want to share that there are districts right now there about 30 districts in the state of California that are either negative or qualified budget that they have filed are there about I think about 10 districts that are negative that file negative at first interim that means they cannot meet current year or next year's budget at this point can you explain the ramifications those two ratings so h Huh expanding the ramifications of those two designations yes so negative means basically you are at the you are basically going to get a state takeover you are going to get a state loan meaning you cannot make payroll and some of these districts are pretty big um I can't just remember the off right now I just read the article um that they are not going to be able to even pay their staff so they would need to get a state loan and so there are about 10 districts uh in the state right now that are in that boat and the the other 20 they're saying that they may or may not be able to meet their obligation so they could be uh so most of the time the county office so in this County for example that would be the Orange County Department of Education they will send out fiscal advisors to go out to the district starting now when you file a qualified budget to help you to see what can be done um there are districts where when they're getting to um a very difficult part that even um because the board's responsibility and I want the public to know this you you have the fiduciary responsibility that's why you have to also approve the budget right and so um it is a it's a very important job obviously um but when you're at the vers take over they can basically come and and say they can move everybody out and that's one of the things that we don't want that ever to get to that point and that's why we always make sure we also have enough cash flow and cash flow also when we for example talk to the credit rating we are very confident in what we do and we're able to show them the knowledge that we have in our district as well and we have state leadership in in our district um they know we we we we know our stuff and that's extremely helpful when we do the presentations to them thank you anybody else thank you Dr I just want to add a gratitude and thank you for what you do your job is humongous and the changeability of it but the confidence that we have in you and respect and admiration is Untold thank you thank you thank you to you and your staff for all that you do thank you I want to thank all my directors everybody worked really hard um to get everything done so thank you thank you okay moving on to uh [Applause] 7.2 get a big hand for keeping us solvent here 7.2 measure H citizens Bond oversight committee the final annual report for March 2024 to February 25th Dr Nan yes um I'd like to introduce our chairperson Alan walker uh to come and present to the board this will be his final report for this Bond thank you very much I appreciate that uh president O'Neal and fellow trustees superintendent mana and your staff as well as the the guests that are present here should I take that personally it's only 10 minutes just kidding I don't mind it's all good uh as well as the people online too I I'm very excited to be here um and this is our final annual report which I'm fired up about because uh as you guys know probably most of you um I I had some real concerns and that's why I got involved with how things had played out in the past with Bond so um let me get to it I think you probably all have the presentation there in front of you okay so this is the executive summary that you're looking at in front of you there and between uh 2015 and 2025 this year we met as a committee 36 different times on different campuses uh as the projects were in process um very exciting to be around it and I suspect most of you have been out there and seen some of the different projects it's amazing what has been accomplished truly is um the general topics in the meetings uh typically we would receive the different design and construction of the projects and the updates uh we'd receive final cost reports that we'd uh oversee or View and review as well as the project budgets um we review the upcoming projects that measure H was going to be funding and we receiv we received and reviewed the expenditure reports which was very important now this past month in uh February on the 19th we met actually we met at Magnolia in the new cyber security building and I'm sure most of you have not been if you've not been there you've seen pictures of it amazing and if any of you folks uh guests online or here have not seen the cyber security building it's really impressive and I don't mean I mean it is from a building standpoint but I mean what it's bringing to the students to allow them to step into that Arena of cyber security and learn and project a career in it I I'm very fired up about that so anyway we met with uh the district's auditor Andrew Park and went through the final Year's budget or report audit report and that was good very very uh knowledgeable gentleman shared a lot of different insights with us which was nice uh flipping on we're going to the committee members and some of our committee members and we have some here tonight Blanca Hari and Peggy Cruz stacho oh yeah [Applause] sorry Brenda stto Brian and then also uh Moses Kim who couldn't be here tonight and actually I spoke with Robert Nelson on the phone and he had a class that he had to attend in Newport so he's not here but it was amazing to have their participation and and to have their expertise in each of the meetings that we had so uh some of the committee duties uh you can see them there uh to review the revisions and approval of the committee bylaws uh review the project the current projects and the facilities M master plan um visited the the sites and that was really amazing to see the work that had been done um we'll get to some of the pictures you you'll be excited I think to see it uh regular meetings as uh we attended those as the committee members the various reports and information including annual uh performance quarterly expenditures construction updates uh also reviewed the bond issuances and we'll talk about that here in just a minute we viewed the efforts uh of the district to maximize the bonds and I'll talk about that a little bit later too which very excited about what they accomplished they being Patty Neely and her team so let next uh we'll go ahead and flip the page the different dispersements we had three of them we had one in 2015 as you can see about 63 a little over 63 million and then uh 2018 83 million and then 2019 and that was a total of $249 million that the public gave to us and uh pretty excited about what they did there and we'll talk about uh measure K here in just a moment anyway continuing on you can see I don't want to we've taken a lot of you know time in the past on the different annual reports about some of these uh dispersements and uh Bond issuances so you can kind of look that at that in your presentation there if you'd like but bottom line This bond is closed because all monies have been expended to and all of it was towards projects for measure H nothing outside of that and not very proud to oversaw that and it it wasn't it wasn't really a big problem quite honestly because everybody did their job and they did it well okay then this next page this is really important to me and and I've talked about it in the past the state funding that has been in addition to in other words matching funds whether it's uh just from the state or from Grants the total that Patty and her team stayed on top of and have had the ability to get for this districts for updates in the campuses is 133,50 66 now out of that they've already received um the 58 million 336,000 the 75 plus there that's still coming that's money that we're going to be able to use on more projects in the future and that's because her and her staff and her team stayed on top of what was out there and they went and got it so Props to their to Patty and her team okay yes so they did diligence they didn't just rely upon you know the public passing the bond they went after more funds I'm I'm very very pleased as a taxpayer okay so let's move on to some pictures you can see that that up in the right leftand corner that that's the new cyber security building magn at Magnolia and down below and all the oh man all the stuff that they've done it's very impressive I mean I got fired up about going and being a student again go figure okay so the next page again some more the uh improvements and modifications and modernizations of Magnolia and their classrooms the next page is the new practice field that was put in at Western High School very nice and it's already I mean it's being utilized a lot a lot which is very exciting then we have some their pictures and the updates as far as catella the pool and the shower rooms some of the campuses have got um the new Mares kind of modernization there that's very nice also the uh solar panels that have been put in pretty much every has it been every campus yeah Junior High and high schools so that's going to cut some costs and help in the future so we're excited about that the culinary arts project at catella wow and then uh also the uh multi-purpose room at tell a lot of stuff let me I'm going to go ahead and just you can look through these I want to get to this page here that talks about there were over 32 projects that measure H was a part of that's very exciting very exciting so the total value was 253 million for all of those projects because of some additional funds and such that we were able to they were able to get I say we cuz I feel like I'm part of their team anyway so some of the campuses uh just read through them real quick Anaheim High School uh Ball Junior High Cypress High School Dale Junior High in fact have you guys seen Dale Junior High amazing it doesn't even look like a junior high it looks like a college oh oh really nice job there uh catella high school we talked about that Kennedy Lera Magnolia uh let's see the mares Oxford Academy Savannah high school or Junior High I pass there pretty regularly and uh they're just wrapping there in fact they're I think they're pretty much done but it looks really nice with then what they've done there Sycamore Junior High Western High School okay so all of those have been modernized and beautified I think uh this next page here just talks about some of the classroom furniture and that I when we first got started that was the first big project was classroom Furniture I wasn't wasn't that excited about it to be honest with you but then we went and saw the furniture and it's like wow it's it's really nice stuff that you I mean again students are encouraged and excited when they have new things and the furniture very exciting okay so in conclusion as far as the annual report and this is kind of the specific stuff that I have to State as the chairman and all that good stuff so based on the listed activities the CI oversight committee advises the public that the Anaheim Union High School is in compliance with the State Education Code there of California Bond proceeds have been expended on projects set forth in the ballot measure no bond proceedings have been used for teachers or administrative salaries or other school operating expenditures audits have been performed as prescribed by law and if you want to um see any of this part of the report or uh anything about the committee and what they've done you can go to the website the Anaheim Union High School blueprint.

thank you e e e okay we're good all right thank you okay we'll call this meeting back to order we're back in public session and we'll do another quick uh roll call Amanda banan here Maria okara I'm here Rene longshaw here Anita Tucker here and I'm here as well so um can you join me in the pledge uh the Allegiance please I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands na indivisible thank you okay we got a lot to cover here so we're going to start with the reports from the student Representatives first up Sycamore Rocks Elementary Conor Mir and Lily Hager yep good evening my name is Connor and I'm Lily first off we would like to say how excited we are to tell you all of the Fantastic activities and programs we have at Sycamore Rocks this year our sore Rocks Community has come together to continue to grow and flourish we have a variety of activities students can participate in from grades kindergarten to sixth grade A our after school programs include art astronomy cross country beating paper crafting student council and dance programs our school also has a play production each year I am in this school's production of Madagascar I have the part of Lars one of the seven Lemur in the play we have been working on the play since August I have been participating in our school's play productions for the past three years this is my last year and I'm sad to leave this group I have built within the past few years being a part of the play has helped me build confidence in longl lasting friendships we are both part of the student council and so far this year we have planned a variety of spirit word days helped to judge the Halloween costume contest and passed out kindness bracelets during kindness week this year we planned a pumpkin painting contest for Halloween our Day of the Dead theme was very successful and had an exceptional schoolwide turnout that we were able to display art at our Halloween festival where patrons were able to vote for their favorite pumpkins we had our annual Spooktacular Halloween trick or treat event on October 31st this year we did a candy donation contest which brought in more than we expected our event had an amazing turnout and a wonderful light show at the end of the night this is a hit among our families each year we had so much extra donated candy that we were able to package up the remaining candy and create care packages for their troops our school also holds two 5K runs every year every student and staff partici participates and we have a blast while we are promoting health and fitness we did the turkey 5K in November which was a successful event with lots of particip we will be having another 5K in Spring we hope to enjoy the beautiful spring day as we get hang out with friends and take in the fresh spring air in December we did our school did a winter wonderland family night where students and families go to come together to play games create crafts enjoy food and celebrate uh local vendors this was a very successful night where we were able to create winter themed crafts in even had pictures with Santa there was a directed drawing lesson hosted by our very own elf Miss Delo our school is an art focused school at the end of every year we have a schoolwide arts fair this year at arts fair is May 9th at arts fair students display artwork they have worked on throughout the school year each grade level does a music performance we also have lots of games and art focused activities such as a schoolwide mural that we hang up and display for years to come speaking of art this year we have a dedicated art class with Mrs Collins we get art once every two weeks Where Mrs Colin teaches us about a v variety of artists their art styles and their cultural historical importances during Black History Month we learned about Jean Michael Bas basat baskot in in addition to Art we also o participate in music class once a week with Miss Posta she is in charge of band inquire as well as helping with the play she is an import important part of arts fair and makes sure that all of the classes are successful in our musical performances lastly we have a variety of fundraisers so far this year the first one in the fall where students created fun art pieces and could have their art put on items like mugs bags and keychains we raised $1,000 $1,490 we we are currently doing two fundraisers at our school the first fundraiser has already been very successful and allows students to earn prizes and gives teachers the opportunity to order lots of supplies and books for the classroom the second fundraiser is p teacher on P day March 14th winning classrooms from each grade level get to p a teacher of their choice so far we have raised $1,024 64 we will collect donations until Thursday March 13th 2025 one last thing we would really like to thank all of our teachers and staff at syamore rocks they truly make our school special thank you for allowing us to speak about how exiding s rocks is have a great night [Applause] thank you Connor and LLY very well done up next Vanguard prep Samantha stto and annaya [Applause] Cervantes good evening before we start we would like to pass out a gift from our art and Graphics students we appreciate you guys having us here and thank you thank you and if you'll just give me a moment I'm gonna connect the to the screen and give you your presentation thank you I think Mr Buchanan I don't have conference room a on my no we don't Tyler worth the wait come back make sure it'sing yep [Music] [Applause] good evening District board members I am Samantha stto the ASB president at Vanguard prepatory and I am anniah santes the ASB vice president we're honored to be here today representing ASB and sharing all the amazing events and activities that have made this school year so special Vanguard is more than just a school it's a family and this year has been all about building our community and making Unforgettable memories together from rallies to sports dances to Spirit weeks our students have actively engaged bringing energy school spirit and teamwork to everything we do let's take a look at some of the incredible moments from this year Sports have been a huge part of our year our volleyball cross country and basketball seasons were full of hard work determination and teamwork our student athletes gave it their a showing true Falcon Pride on and off the court we are so proud of both our girls and boys basketball teams who just finished their season undefeated electives oh [Music] [Applause] electives here at Vanguard offer a wide variety that cater to diverse interests of students they allow students to explore passions and develop new skills there's something here for everyone after school clubs like cooking class art class drill team and Leadership provide students with the opportunity to explore their interest and develop new skills outside the classroom these after school programs Foster creativity teamwork leadership and help students build confidence they also offer a positive and engaging way for students to spend their time after school students have had the opportunity to go on many engaging field trips this year including a trip to the pumpkin patch and Calico Ghost Town our middle school students had the opportunity to attend and participate in a variety of Student Activities and events already this year our leadership class has hosted multiple dances and socials for grades 2nd through 8th grade as well as movie nights and fundraisers for the entire campus we held our first family paint night in November and now we are preparing for our next big event the annual Falcon 5K Color Run academic success is something we take pride in as Falcons Renaissance rallies are one of the biggest events each trimester we kick off the first trimester with a Spider-Man themed Renaissance rally the gym was transformed into a superheroes quadrants celebrating students achievements with thrilling games competitions and performance es our second rally is this next week with a Disney themed entitled the smart smartest place on Earth foro students will be able to attend a special event celebrating all of their achievements at Vanguard we focus on building community and school spirit by providing on campus activities Spirit weeks and lunchtime games that help promote a sense of belonging and pride in our school another highlight of our year was our seventh and eighth grade Community Day this was a time for older students to bond grow as leaders and strengthen friendships through activities that emphasized teamwork and service it was a meaningful experience that reminded us how important it is to support one another and give back our Vanguard drama program presented the production of Alice and Wonderland earlier this year and are currently wrapping up the last of four Children's Theater performances of their storybook production Once Upon a Time the staff at our school are dedicated hardworking and committed to the success of every student they go above and beyond to create a positive learning environment where students feel valued and encouraged to thrive their passion for teaching and helping students to succeed in is evident in everything they do we are so grateful to have an amazing staff that we can trust and appreciate our ptsl plays a vital role in supporting our schools Community by organizing events and raising funds for student programs they provide a valuable connection between parents teachers and students through their efforts ptso a school spirit and helps provide resources that benefit all students sore is a core saying at our school that emphasizes the value of self-control staying on task always respectful and responsible it encourages students to take ownership of their actions and Positive Choices both in and out of the classroom by promoting these principles we create a supportive environment where students can Excel academically and socially at Vanguard we believe that when we come together as a community we can achieve we can achieve great things whether through Sports performances or rallies every event this year has been a testament to our family Falcon spirit thank you for your support in making all of these opportunities possible for our students we can't wait to finish the year strong and continue building a school Community where everyone feels valued included and empowered thank you [Applause] thank you Samantha and anniah good job next up high desert Premiere Jasmine bracie [Applause] [Music] good evening president Raleigh esteemed board members superintendent executive I mean superintendent Nelson executive cabinet Apple Valley Unified staff and educational Partners I am glad to be back and speaking with you this month this week many of our students including myself were able to attend a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance we had we had the chance to see how families struggled during World War II and were able to hear their heartbreaking stories another group of students were able to visit the San King College earlier today and visit different College Pathways Esports started their fortnite competitions during preseason two of our teams won their tournament now it's time for the real game Golf Club has officially started taking their skills to the golf course this group meets every week to play a game or shots at the shooting range three of our 11th graders interviewed with the American Legion California boys and girls State program to take a chance at being able to participate in a trip to Sacramento to have hands on experience to learn about the structure of city county and state governments based on the California state cons Constitution Jason Johnson moved through the interviews moved through the interviews and was was selected to attend the trip this summer great job Jason this month on February 13th I mean last month on February 13th I was able to attend the pathway the pathways to success fair at the San berino Fairgrounds and I had an amazing time there were multiple students and staff we learned about different careers and what their jobs really look like for example we got to learn we got to learn how general atomic controls their drones from up high it was a very good experience they provided food drinks and swag I hope you have an amazing rest of your month staying safe and warm out there multiple of you have made me feel very welcome and gave me more motivation to come speak at the board meetings and I would like to thank you I'm really looking forward to doing this again have a lovely spring break and thank you for your time [Applause] thank you Jasmine Granite Hills Anna every time good evening executive cabinet board members and attendees my name is Hannah for and I'm the ASB governing council president at G Hills High School tonight I have a lot of updates for you but they're all pretty great so ASB worked very hard in February we had a be day for Valentine's Day which was a lot of fun and our entire senior class worked together to sell popcorn to raise money to lower grad Night tickets and thank you to some of our district personnel and board members who bought popcorn supported us we really appreciate you guys in March ASB is hosting a mini pep rally for the incoming freshman as well as participating in the districtwide field day uh this month also ASB applications and elections for next year's class officers are taking place we wish all of them luck last month our mock Tri team attended the county award ceremony for the first time in history we placed third out of 10 schools in the desert mountain region we even got to bring home a trophy and it's a huge accomplishment on top of that we also brought home eight individual student awards and one of our students received the civility scholarship that only two out of all competing students receive each year it was an incredible season and as one of the captains I'm extremely proud and grateful to our coach Mr ESN over there it was his first year and we could not have done it without him so we're extremely thankful last month we also held two blood drives on campus in partnership with livestream we are extremely thankful to the staff and students who donated to help save lives last week our skada students attend attended the knb farm engineering day on February 27th Belin Silva barera and Michael poxer won first place in the animatronics competition through the Garner H education they showed their imagination for the animatronic Bird design through programming engineering and artistic skills yesterday yday four of our gr Hill students join students from all over San berino County in their final day of the sbcss student advisory to present the research-based solutions to challenges that students face in our schools our students represented granite and absd well and provided meaningful suggestions to challenges like violence mental health and increased Mental Health Services for students tomorrow at 2 am our choir program is going on their annual tour and this year they are going to New York last year chamber singers won a competition which gave them the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall so besides prestigious opportunity they will be doing a lot of sightseeing and seeing a Broadway show and going to a master class with a Broadway professional we are very excited for them over spring break our theater program is also going on a 4-day trip to New York we'll be seeing two Broadway shows participating acting workshops and more and I'm very excited and I'm sure I'll have a lot to tell you about next month but theater's also getting ready for the production of lay Miz which will take place April 4th 5th 11th and 12th and I really hope you attend because you will be blown away I promise you next Monday Tuesday we are welcoming our incoming nth graders to campus they're going to go on a mini tour led by link crew attend a club rush and a pep rally we are very excited Granite Hills is also hosting the sixth annual district field day on Thursday March 13th this proud Granite tradition is part of us being recognized as a Special Olympics unified Champion school for promoting inclusion with the support of every Department of ausd 226 students with special needs ranging from preschool to adult are partner with 200 Gran Hil students and 80 Ava J students to participate in Games sports and activities ities when rain or shine it is sure to be a funfilled day and we hope you join us as one of the student volunteers it's one of my favorite events each year and I'm really excited our spring sports are off to a great start baseball is currently six to1 and won the AE tournament softball is looking to defend their title as League Champs and are 4-2 Boys Tennis is also off to a great start at 2-2 golf is golf is fall 4-0 and swim is ready to start their season our Tack and field teams also grown to over 100 student athletes for the first time in our program's history and we're ready to break some records as always we thank you for your support of Granite Hills I hope you all have a spring break incredible spring break and I look forward to seeing you all next month as always Mar and gray lead the [Applause] way thank you Hannah we'll be looking forward to the next report next month Alpa Valley High Fe a [Applause] all right hello and good evening superintendent Nelson president Raley and members of the board and attendees my name is Fen Avila but most people know me as Effie I'm Apple Valley High School's junior class president our line President Eden and the rest of our ASB couldn not make it tonight as it is our annual Mr sundevil event which I get to tell you about in a bit tonight I am so thrilled to be sharing with you what our students and staff have been up to at abhs to begin our athletics department has been Unstoppable girls soccer made it to CIF round one where they played Oak Christian it brought their season to a close but hey our girls are still the most high achieving soccer team in the High Desert Golf took their first swing of the season and ended with a victory scoring 34 softball and baseball continue to make us proud with boys beating those Victorville jack rabbits to7 just last week we had our yearly buff and tough where Junior and senior boys swap out with our female athletes and play volleyball in a fun-filled lunchtime competition class of 2025 took the win and went on to face our staff in the annual staff versus students volleyball game while staff may have beat us this year the real highlight was getting to see our history teacher Mr Moore play the game Barefoot on the 1 of February our ASB Juniors had a wonderful winter formal Spirit weekend dance a night in black and white surpassing the prior years ticket sales and attendance not to brag but our junior class is pretty good our senior class just had their annual senior meeting this is where we give out information on graduation prom and all other exciting senior events this included the highly anticipated prom reveal and students found out our prom 2025 will take place at the Majestic downtown in Los Angeles on Saturday April 19th our theme is Young and Beautiful with an old money GS be Fu to it our school is always looking for ways we can improve every few months students across all grade levels Pathways and backgrounds get the opportunity to join to join in on our Apple Valley High School Superintendent advisory council with our superintendent and assistant superintendent TR Nelson and Pat sler I personally look forward to these meetings as it is a chance to speak up for and represent several groups and voices on campus in our most recent meeting we spoke on topics like student safety engagement and College and Career Readiness admin teachers and support staff came in and helped us begin putting these ideas into action we are so grateful we get to do things like this as a student body our CTE programs have been thriving this month our culinary class just had their annual mdcp chopped cooking competition we got first place among 11 other local high schools and these talented chefs will go on to represent the High Desert at the Countrywide competition in May safe to say they ate this up every school year we participate in skills USA from nursing to graphic design and even community service we had 1,452 students registered 289 competing in regionals and we are so proud to say we have 197 students advancing to the state competition next month in Ontario yeah this wasn't just a big month for our school but a big month for our whole country February is Black History Month a month getting to highlight the past present and future of our black students athletes and leaders ASB got the chance to show our support in a few different ways we decorated the whole school in festive posters banners and inspirational quotes every week we highlighted four different black athletes in front of our ASB office where students could stop to learn about these icons in history last week we had a blackowned business on campus that's a pretzel food truck sorry as we know if food is involved our students will be there to finish off the month we had a black is beautiful spirit day to show her support of these important few weeks of the Year lastly yesterday was our College in career fair at Apple students had the chance to meet with so many different people from all career paths from Starbucks to Grand Canyon University we had something for everybody we loved getting to hear about all of our options for after high school this also gave students an inside look as to all the helpful resources we offer in our Career Center on our very own campus tonight is Apple Valley High School's annual Mr sundevil a night filled with fashion choreograph dances and competitive teenage boys this has been a tradition we have proudly put on for decades and after a few rounds of very high stakes competition our live audience gets to vote on who takes home the coveted title of Mr sundevil there are so many exciting things happening at Apple Valley high school and I just wanted to thank you all for your continued support we couldn't give our students any of these incredible opportunities and Lasting memories without you thank you for your time and remember sundal pride is contagious [Applause] good report Effie good job board comments Anita Tucker good evening uh I'd like to begin by expressing my gratitude to our students Connor Lily Samantha annia Jasmine Hannah and Effie for their wonderful presentations tonight and I must say you were Flawless in the face of such a large crowd you you totally rocked it um it's always exciting to hear all the events and activities that are taking place in our school and I look forward to attending more and more of them good luck with Mr sundevil and good luck with your trips to New York and all the other amazing events that are going on um as we move through the month of March Mar we are celebrating several significant events I know March 14th for all the math people is really big um congratulations on getting so much money on pying a teacher I used to bring pies to school for little pies for the kids because as a history teacher Pi Day anytime you could have food with math was good for me um tomorrow tomorrow is March 7th this marks Employee Appreciation Day while we traditionally honor our teachers and classified every May tomorrow is an opportunity for us to pause and express our gratitude for the hard work and dedication of all our employees it is a day to recognize the unique perspectives and talents that they bring to our district and to remind them of how much they are valued not only as professionals but as individuals March is also traditionally women's history month and Saturday March 8th is international women's day this year's theme is moving forward gather women educating and inspiring generations and we honor the countless contributions of women throughout history as well as the vital role women continue to play and shaping our society this is an important time for our students to reflect on the incredible influence of women that H that we've had in our lives in our families in our communities and the world and to celebrate these contributions in our schools um February 19th I had the pleasure of attending the Assistance League open house I was able to see firsthand the support that they provide to our students and families I also attended the state of the town of Apple Valley event on the same day and I learned more about some of the exciting plans for our town in the future uh and it's it's inspiring to see the ongoing development and growth within our community I was here many many years ago when our community was extremely small so the growth is really exciting for me on February 22nd I attended the high desert Honor Band concert held at Oak Hills High School where several of our talented musicians performed formed at the elementary junior high and high school levels along with our band teacher from Granite Hills High School who led the high school band and that's Mr Javier um alakara rooha sorry uh the students did an incredible performance I was blown away by how well they performed and I'm so glad that we continue to encourage and support the Arts in our schools I would like to extend a special thank you to miss Mariana Torres for her hard work in organizing the vision event on March 1st it was a great success for our families and I am also so appreciative of the time and effort she put into making uh this happen additionally I'd like to recognize our dedicated staff who stepped in to provide support during an accident at the event their quick response and Care were truly appreciated and looking ahead I'm excited to visit more schools later this month it's always a rewarding experience and probably my favorite part of the job to visit our students and staff and see firsthand the amazing things that are happening in our classrooms and schools and I'm continually inspired by the passion and commitment that you all bring to education thank you so much for your hard work and I look forward to continuing support our schools and community in every way I can thank you [Applause] thank you Anita uh moving on to um Renee longshaw yes good evening to you all welcome um I would like to just say thank you to our student representatives for your courage and standing up and talking to us I know how daunting that could be I personally did not have the courage to do that when I was in high school so my hat is to you entirely um I too have been going to the community events with Anita that has just been a pleasure to see our um hard work of our community all the contributions that are being made um to make Apple Valley the place that it is um I want to acknowledge specifically um Lily at Sycamore Rocks um totally coming to see Madagascar just FYI um so I'll be looking for you um at van guard undefeated in basketball amazing I am a baller too so just FYI um Jasmine Hi Desert Premier Academy um you just get better each time so well done my lady and the Museum of Tolerance was the place that I visited and it framed my worldview and my motivation moving forward so I hope you had as equally an impressive time there um Hannah at Granite Hills I'm coming to your field day I hear it's bomb so I'm totally excited I've even got my shirt tonight so that's exciting and um Bey at Apple Valley High School where did you go okay you are a Wordsmith can I just say amazing you had us all rolling um congratulations on that keep that up obviously a gift of yours um congratulations on the state competition I'm going to be looking into that um just my hats off to the women in the room specifically as we think about how far we've come in this world as we enter this month um I want to encourage us both young and old to continue to uh strive towards your own greatness and um continue to speak up and continue to speak loud um because the contributions we're making to this world are important so I look forward to that as we go into this month um I too was at the vision Fair um Mariana are you in here no I don't see her she is phenomenal helping to head up those outreaches to our community last time I talked to her 157 people were being serviced with vision exams and glasses um such a contribution uh to our community so I definitely wanted to recognize that as we paired um with the Lions Club um to meet that need um I also want to acknowledge by name I know uh truste Tucker uh mentioned three uh of our nurses that stepped up and and and responded to an event and um it was amazing just to watch um them and how they um you know just went to when there was need um those nurses Wendy Johnson Amber mullinex and Megan um Salsbury thank you for going above and beyond um in service to a community m in need and that is it thank you thank you Renee Maria par well thank you very much for uh giving me the opportunity to speak to you this evening but before I start I need to uh thank the student speakers uh all of you um they made you've made me proud and I think our future is in good hands um based on what you've just done I don't have to worry about what will happen to my Social Security because I know you're ready um for the student from uh syore rocks um um Madagascar has a special place in my heart uh as you all know I'm from Africa we always say there's no Africa without Madagascar so I definitely will show up to see how you represent that portion of Africa and in cartoon form yeah so um and then I had the opportunity to go to uh Vanguard um to join u a team of community members to read to students uh for the read Across America um they gave me a book that was small well Mighty book uh it's a small book he says he a Wacky Wednesday um but that book kept us working all the way to the last second that I was allotted to us um and I had no idea how bright those first graders in Mrs uh Khan's class were um polite young people um very attentive to detail and anybody that knows uh knows me knows that I pay attention to things that people don't even notice is there um and those little children showed me all of the differences in every page of that book of course when I finished reading that book Because I had never seen it I immediately went to Amazon to order mine um and uh coming to Vanguard was kind of interesting because as I was coming up as a as an educator in this District I also did serve as a summer school principal on that campus uh so uh I knew my way around before the new buildings came on um so it was uh like U coming home uh to Vanguard uh and for Jasmine um I wish to have the experiences that you have experience going to to LA to see the Museum of Tolerance I wish they brought that here uh so that many more students will have the opportunity to see some of the injustices done to people along the way and the problem is if we look away those things will continue to happen uh but it is important that when you see Injustice done to one you call it out uh and that is what we expect of you uh coming behind us of course granny Hills field day is my exciting time as you all know my background is in special education so anytime I'm around students who have special needs I have a different energy that comes into my body and I can't resist to play with them to go under the tent to dance to do silly things uh because I really want those students who have special needs to know that they are capable they are not incapable um of course app High School f um that school I bleed Orange um my student my children went to Apple Valley high school so that's you know I look forward to what happens at Apple Valley High School uh so I can't wait to uh go out and see what you have to offer at your schools uh today I had the opportunity to go to West End um Educational Center I would have gone yesterday but I made the decision to do read Across America so today I went to West End uh to serve as a a panelist um uh for to listen to student voices and I I was really impressed because the same student voices I would have heard yesterday I heard it from students from other districts down the hill and one of the things that struck me in their presentation was mental health uh they talked in in great deal about mental health mental health is not one of those things we we usually teach we talk about but it is important that we pay close attention especially in this time that we are all sitting in this room and I look around and I see the classified staff and I see the certificated staff and I see the children and I see the parents and we cannot underestimate the power of mental health so when people speak to you it is important for you to pay close attention to what they are not saying so what you are not saying is what matters to me the most and in one of those presentations they talked about things you can do to help with mental health such as giving active breaks and having a designated place for children to take breaks uh to have meditation Gardens and I know the elementary schools do have Gardens uh but maybe we need to pay closer attention to Gardens and like I said to the uh speakers in um West End there is nothing as exciting as putting your hand in the dirt and messing with the dirt and in two weeks something comes out of it based on what you put down and that is what I see each and every one of you in this room doing um you get those children and you do the best you can and you mold them to who they are and they become great people along the way I want you to know that whatever you have have shared with us today that we are going to pay very close attention to what you said and what you have not said and at the end something is going to happen for you that much you can count on for that I pause thank [Applause] you thank you Maria uh I'm Amanda you can good evening um and I'd also like to reiterate and extend a huge thank you to our student Representatives I I feel like you almost embodied Eden tonight like the podium like that was I don't know what you guys are doing over there but that was great keep it up um but it's always a highlight of our our meetings to hear directly from the students uh and I truly appreciate the time and effort oops there goes my purse it takes to prepare and present um but also a special thank you to all of the parents and the staff and um and just everybody who supports and encourages them and has brought them here tonight so thank you for that um as Mrs Tucker mentioned um I also had the pleasure of attending the county Honor Band concert and I was blown away by the level of Talent on that stage um the Elementary Honor Band set the bar high with an outstanding performance um then the Middle School musicians took the stage uh and I have to say they sounded way better than my high school band and we won a couple Superior placements at at various um competitions and I was like man is this really the middle school or was this the high school um it was just it was phenomenal um but then the high school band honor band took um took the stage and they closed out the evening with a performance that easily could have passed as a professional Symphony like it it was beautiful um so it was just it was truly inspiring to witness such dedication and musical Excellence from students across the county but especially from our district because our district was listed many many times of next to students names as to where um they were from yesterday I had absolute pleasure of being a guest reader at Vanguard for read Across America day um this is one of my favorite events um because I don't usually get to be around the littles um but it ended up being kind of an extra special day because um I had posted a picture on my social media and one of my former students said that's my son in the second row you read to his class and I was like that is so fantastic like that was just where I randomly got placed and it was the first time I've actually had a students child even though I'm not the teacher but for that little minute I got to be um I'm also looking forward to field day I so I don't say it often but I actually started in special education and that's what I got my master's degree in um in college and so I I really I did not attend the first year I was on the board because I didn't want to miss work and then um they all said you've gotta you've gotta go you've gota go so I took in a personal day and I went and so well worth it I will be there again next week so um finally just as we approach spring break I want to wish everyone a safe restful and well-deserved break I think everybody needs it so just take time to recharge and enjoy with your loved ones and thank you [Applause] thank you Amanda so I'm gonna take a couple things out of order first I'm gonna push over to superintendent comments and then after superintendent comments I'm going to go to recognition presentation with the uh Future Farmers of America so you guys will go up after coms I want to do it absolutely um several students participated in the Apple Valley rotary competition um there was a music competition and a speech competition first place winner was Jameson Pine from Apple Valley high school and will be advancing to the Area Regional competition in the second place was anarie Bell from Granite Hills High School speech competition winners were anarie Bell from Granite Hills High School and Joselyn caras I believe is the name um I maybe said that wrong Apple Valley high school and um third place was McKenzie esal so um always great when our students represent at the local um competitions and win scholarships coming out of that um I too want to acknowledge the Lions Club Vision event um came by and um checked on some staff that had had quite a heroic moment in the morning um not to mention some of our custodian our custodian staff that um took fire extinguishers and helped to extinguish a fire um what a day and I think the best um for them was to actually support the community um the room was packed and people were getting glasses and so I've I think that was a great recovery for them to then serve um but I do I did ask that we put together something to allow for us to also donate frames um to the Lions Club as a district because what an what an event what an event to um provide vision to people that are struggling to be able to read and see um I attended the chop competition and while I know that there was a live stream and some of our board members were able to um tune in there is absolutely no comparison to being there and smelling what's being cooked in the kitchen there's hardly any room for students to move they're all in competition mode and there were two always there's two um secret ingredients the CH the students are provided the day of the event this year it was tereso or green curry and I will tell you that um the students were amazing at um putting these things together and incorporating them into their meals um the Apple Valley High School students meatballs were because there was the main course was a ribey that they had to utilize so I watched the granite kids go to competition they had finished theirs they got to go be judged while I was there and they had an actual frame around their um steak that had a lobster tail on it and a sauce and I believe it was on Roto and I wanted to grab one of those plates as they walk by but I knew that that would not be appropriate um but all of it just wonderful to watch um the Apple kids taking first place watching them put it in the oven and realizing that they took the steak grounded up and made meatballs with it and so theirs was tereso as their um main ingredient so they move on to a county competition which is pretty cool because this is fairly new they'll go compete down at San Marino Valley College I believe last Friday I was invited to read in Wendy Kelly's first grade class at sitting bll Academy um for read Across America and I was glad that I got to do it because I was going to miss the um event over at Vanguard and so two books the kids went late to recess and they didn't even complain and I kept waiting for them to say hey it's our recess but they kept going and I kept reading um and then I did get to return to sitting bow on Tuesday to watch their um new after school elementary choir club um they're being led by teacher Delisa Krauss who is also an Apple Valley alumni and I can't wait to see their performance in the spring while I was there I noticed that there was some basketball going on and so I went into the gym and there was a basketball scrimmage between this eighth grade boys and the seventh grade boys um as I left they were going into overtime because it was tied and I'm talking some of these kids are on my advisory and they're taller than I am and then all the seventh graders are like running under them and they were still making basket so really great competition fun to watch um yesterday while many of the board members were reading it Vanguard I was at the county superintendent advisory um student advisory and I was a panel member which I've done annually just because I love seeing our students work with the other students in the high desert to create um plans that um focus on Mental Health injury and violence and prevention and chronic disease and they all every one of their presentations actually tied back to mental health so while there were some students that were totally focused on Mental Health every one of them got there at some point um they were great presentations and I came away for some considerations for our schools and our student advisories that I would like to there's some student advisories out there Lily's on my student advisory Effie is um Hannah is Jasmine is so um pretty cool that we can maybe tie these all together with the county projects too tomorrow our students will be competing in video production welding and Automotive again there will be a live feed there won't be great smells there'll be lots of noises but I'll be there to cheer them on and watch them um and then um just for the board members the Apple Valley um California stake of the um Church of Jesus Christ in Latter Day Saints is planning a teacher appreciation um it's an event where their seniors that um go to Seminary in the morning um down the street um have have to talk about who their teacher that impacted them and so from those students that are seniors this year graduating they'll go and recognize them there is an evening event that they would like the board to be invited to on April 25th um at 6 PM we'll get more information to you but Mr Schmidt um contacted me and wanted to make sure since we're about a month and a half out that you guys got that on your calendar that's it thank you thank you [Applause] turn okay I'm gonna skip down to recognition presentation just item one and then we'll go back into order so basically um Isabelle O'Hara from alab Valley High Future Farmers of America is going to give a presentation um I asked for this presentation uh little background FFA has been around well when I was at High School in the 70s it was big here we are 2025 still going strong very few schools in Southern California that have this program Apple Valley is uh it's one of the the better ones around so uh I'm going to um Isabelle I'm going to hand it off to you thank you good evening members of the Apple Valley Unified School Board superintendent and community members my name is Isabella O'Hara and I'm proud to represent the agriculture program at the Apple Valley High School our agriculture program is thriving providing students with Hands-On learning experiences that prepares for real world careers and Agriculture and Beyond one of the cornerstones of our program is our SAE supervised gulture experience projects where students take on the responsibility of raising and caring for Animals this year this year our students are raising 15 Lambs three steers 10 calves 36 pigs 15 turkeys and four pin of meat birds through these projects we develop critical skills in animal husbandry responsibility and teamwork these projects aren't just about raising animals they teach us life skills business management and the value of hard work we're excited to showcase our efforts at the San brino County Fair this May 24th through June 1st 2025 where're 60 of our 120 a students will be exhibiting their animals the other students who do not participate in the fair grow plants for our IND of the Year banquet and sell them there further contributing to our program a huge part of our success is thanks to our incredible teacher Miss Pearson her leadership has been instrumental in rebuilding and expanding our program because of our growth we're adding more pins to accommodate the increasing number of animals at our school farm with Mrs Pearson's guidance we've had the opportunity to participate in leadership conferences at the chapter section Regional State and National levels expanding our skills beyond the farm in leadership we recently took five teams to the section opening and closing ceremony competition and four of these teams qualified for the regional competition each team consists of six students showcasing the dedication and Talent within our program last October we took six students to the FFA National convention in Indianapolis where one of our students placed in the top four in the nation for Sheet proficiency an incredible achievement that highlights the Excellence of our program additionally we have a student who has once again Advanced to the state level for Diversified livestock production showcasing their dedication and skill we're also proud to have a candidate for State FFA officer position a testament to the strong leadership development Within in our chapter these accomplishments reflect the hard work passion and commitment of our students and the strength of our program in February we competed in the section Super Saturday event at app at Victor Valley College proudly representing our school and Community this competition showcased the talent and dedication of our students and we are thrilled to announce that three of the teams Advanced from the section level to the regional level in the Creed and impromptu speaking competitions Beyond compet petitions we are excited for upcoming opportunities to expand our knowledge and experience agriculture firsthand where we have a field trip planned to Apricot Lane Farm featured in the documentary the biggest little farm where students will gain insight into regenerative farming practices additionally we are taking 12 students to the state FFA convention in Sacramento where they will connect with industry leaders develop leadership skills and further their passion for agriculture these experiences continue to strengthen our program and Inspire the Next Generation of Agriculture leaders the avhs farm is more than just a place where we raise animals it's a space where we connect with what we learn in the classroom to the real world we explore farmtable Concepts learning where our food comes from and how to be responsible producers in a time where farms around us are disappearing it's crucial that we preserve and support agriculture in our community Beyond raising animals our program helps students develop valuable social and career skills we gain insight into a lifestyle that most people don't experience learning responsibility financial management and problem solving the Hands-On experiences we gain help us build Common Sense skills that are applicable in any career we also engage in fundraising such as our tritip dinners to help support our program making agriculture education more accessible for all students many of us plan to continue our education and careers in agriculture our program not only prepares us for college but also opens doors to scholarships and Creer opportunities in agriculture science Veterinary medicine business and Beyond this program played played a pivotal role in my academic success I've spent four years in it raising and selling six animals this experience helped me get into Montana State University's animal science program with an act business minor and secure over $80,000 in ag related scholarships as of right [Applause] now we also have a social media account on Instagram at Apple Valley FFA if you want to follow our journey and see all the great things we are accomplishing the CTE support at our school is noticed and appreciated not only financially through grants and also through the personal support that strengthens our program our agriculture program at Apple Val Apple Valley high school isn't just about animals it's about leadership responsibility and preparing for the future we appreciate your support in ensuring that agriculture remains a strong and vital part of our school and Community thank you for your time and investing in the future of [Applause] agriculture good to hear Isabella that it's going strong as always and uh congratulations on going to Montana State that's uh gonna be a big change from Apple Valley so thank you for the presentation thank you all right we'll dismiss the students you guys can um go add him to the rain and be drive safe on the way home and we'll we'll continue in a moment here just go this way thank you thanks guys J and I good night hanging in there oh yeah she was ready to go little chatter box I love the boot love okay we'll go ahead and continue we'll go down to item six is reports from Union Representatives uh JC Scott are you gonna give a presentation speak again and up after that we'll be Karen Sabres all right good evening Apple Valley Community I am JC Scott president of C Apple Valley 828 wow what a turnout it's amazing what we can achieve When We Stand Together teachers thank you for educating our students we couldn't do this without you some of you standing in this room today or sitting now because we're pretty tired I forgot to give you credit because some of you too were a part of my education at Granite Hills class of 2005 so go cougars thank you very much too from the bottom of my heart my dear classified members when you put your trust in me and elect me as your lead um to lead your chapter you expected me to fight for you but I can't do this without your support so thank you as well thank you for showing up tonight and showing everyone what the California School employee Association is about classified employees don't forget about the important role that you play every day for our students so smile like Dolly Parton says if someone's missing a smile let him have one of yours our students are counting on you I'm not going to repeat what I said earlier during our public comment because I think you guys got my point very clear so my sincere hope is that tomorrow during negotiations both of our bargaining units um come out to a fair and happy outcome so thank you Karen Sabers from Kuda so yeah if you want to share I'm sorry I even have color I ran out of colored ink and everything because it I'll printed out wrong sorry I'll send you guys copy okay good evening superintendent Nelson board members cabinet and audience I want to thank everyone for turning out tonight it really does mean a lot to have your support my name is Karen Sabers and I stand here as the abuda president a representative of our teachers our colleagues and as someone who deeply cares about the state of education I want to start by asking a simple question but yet a powerful one since when have we normalized extreme behaviors in education when did did it become okay for teachers to endure the kind of stress exhaustion and pressure that so many of them face in every single day I realize this is just not an Apple Valley Unified issue it's a national issue however we need to address what is happening here in avusd it is not normal to be a teacher and feel like you're filling so many roles the counselor data analysis disciplinary and social worker while still being expected to be a subject matter expert and a guide for our students Futures it is not normal for teachers to feel like they need to take anti-depressants to make it through the day it's not normal to get in your car and cry before and after work because the weight of the job is so overwhelming it's not normal to have panic attacks when you're sitting doing lesson plans or to gain weight because the stress we carry it's not normal to be a licensed professional and yet be paid poverty wages and yet we've come to accept these things in education why is that why do we normalize these unhealthy and unsustainable conditions in our profession and then we sit here and wonder why the teacher we have a teacher shortage and why teachers are leaving the profession in droves and why some are even leaving the district before the year ends it's clear we've ignored the reality of our teachers experiences for far too long AB budha recently conducted a survey to gather honest feedback from teachers and I want to emphasize that we did not track email addresses so that the teachers could respond freely and without fear we wanted to hear the truth The Good the Bad and everything in between I've handed each of you the results of the survey I'll make some more copies and I would like to quickly review them but I need my phone first because I know I know I'm so sorry okay so when you look at them um we had a total of 200 teachers respond which was outstanding um all different grade levels from every School site we also asked if they were an intern emergency credential probationary or a permanent um teacher we wanted to do that to see if our newer teachers are getting the behavior um issues in their classroom or if it's regular teach or veteran teachers as well as you can see 83.4% were um permanent teachers we did ask the question have you been hit kicked bit or physically harmed by student this current school year luckily 23% said yes um 78% we round up said no if so how often has it happened um those that are happening um is mainly only once or some are weekly next question have you other teachers or students been threatened by a student this school year unfortunately 58% of teachers that were surveyed said yes if so how often does it happen um mainly weekly or monthly next question have you other teachers or students been subjected to cursing or profanity with violent overtones by a student this current school year overwhelmingly 74% said yes how often is this happening weekly monthly and um second in line was daily um we did ask about workplace violence forms I didn't print those out but I can tell you that um 59% of who was surveyed does not know what that form is and um 69% does not know where to find it and only a small percentage has filled them out next question was and final question do you feel supported with student behaviors 54% said no and then we asked how would you rate the support you receive regarding student regarding student behaviors one being not supported at all five being um extremely support or completely supported 11.5% said 5 22% said 4 28% said three 24.5% said two and 14% said one so overwhelmingly it was three two or one they don't feel supported I did um print out a summary of all the comments we had a lot of comments come in there and I can provide you with the original comments I did not track them I did not track School sites we just um took the comments I can tell you that one that really stuck with me was a teacher said that she was um wanting to plan her family however because of behaviors in her classroom she feels um scared for her unborn child if she would um start her family that is a one that I can provide for you um we did go through student behavior issues I'm not going to read them all um there are many of those the second category is lack of discipline and accountability um third category is safety concerns fourth category support and Staffing um fifth category ISS isues with Administration six is parent accountability and lack of cooperation seven special ed and special education and inclusion concerns um a staff morale and well-being and finally inconsistent discipline policies but I can provide you with the original comments this is just a list of them being sorted out um the da the data is clear teachers need help with student behaviors we are not equipped to handle the extreme behaviors we see in our classrooms the stress caused by these behaviors compounded with the lack of proper support is pushing teachers to the brink And yet when we ask for help we often hear it's about classroom management or it's about relationship building with students I'm here to say it and and say it loudly 99% of the time that is not the problem yes classroom management and relationships matter but there's so much more going on and we cannot continue to place the blame on teachers alone we need genuine sympathetic support we need resources training and most importantly we need empathy and understanding from the administration not judgment teachers are Str strugling with behaviors that go far beyond what any single teacher should expect to manage alone we need support to recognize the complexity of the situation we need compassion not condemnation we need breaks when we're overwhelmed we need to be treated with dignity and respect especially when we're trying to do our best in the environments that are increasingly difficult to navigate so I urge you all let's stop normalizing and the unacceptable let's acknowledge the real stress and strain that teachers are facing if we are serious about addressing teacher shortage and retaining education Educators we need to take immediate action it's time for us to support teachers in the way they deserve because when teachers Thrive students Thrive and when teachers don't have to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders we can focus on what truly matters teaching and learning thank you and solidarity Karen [Applause] Karen Karen can you go back up to the podium I got a couple questions I want to ask you so this sir this this has been a hot topic for a long time yes sir you know we live in a society you have a son that's a police officer here in s County we live in a society where police are getting shot police are getting beat up uh there's lawlessness in the streets as a school board what do you expect when we have idiotic laws that are being written from California that we can't even expel students for bringing weapons into the class so it's real easy to uh you know say that we need help we we definitely need help if it was left up to me I would spell every student that was disruptive used profanity brought weapons on but we can't do that so I want you know what is the answer I mean you come here and you ask us and you bring us these charts and you say that the teachers are stressed we know that Society is stressed and it's more violent every day so as a school board what would you if you were sitting in my chair here what would you do why as a school board member as a school board get rid violence in the classrooms when they go to Coast to Coast they need to advocate for that um I just came back from Sacramento our County Superintendent really advocated for funding to help out we need kind what kind of funding would help out with that for violence in the classrooms we have we have organizations that don't even want police or probation on the campuses there are we spoke with Senators we spoke with legislators they are willing to take that back to their peers we need training I've asked I've asked for the CPI training the first part of it which is um the um self-regulation and deescalation I think we need that that is free of cost we have I think five trainers in our district that could go out and instead of a Wednesday that many teach teachers feel they're sitting in these plc's and it's not helping that could be something that could help um we need Administration that when we send Stu when they send students up they're not back in the classroom 10 minutes later but so let but we are not allowed by by Ed code and by state law to even discipline the kids we can't remove them from the classroom yes you can teachers can even suspend teachers can suspend from the classroom that day and the following day admin can help out and keep them in a um keep them in the office whatever they need to do to give that teacher a break because when those students come back for instance too we have the spsa and the bits teachers are very frustrated with that program because the students come back and they're holding up a toy or they're getting they're getting um chips and candy with red dye in them and I literally sat in a meeting with two of them two spsa that said we cannot service that student with a behavior plan or with anything unless that parent is willing to allow that student to take that toy or those chips or that candy we that's unacceptable we're talking chips and Candy we're not talking you were talking assaults profanity lace there was a teacher standing behind you that said she was assaulted at school this is these are issues that are Way Beyond what a a school board can do this is a societal problem today with violence lack of of and a respect for authority lack of respect to teachers and adults so I mean I'm sympathetic to it I'm just asking you you know flat out what would you do yeah there's training and things like that and I think it has not fallen on deaf ears here because we've talked about this me personally just me and you during some of our get togethers and that it's it's a serious serious problem it is a serious problem what if um but to what if we did a committee where we we took several sat down and tried to come up with some creative solu I I don't know what your job is as a school board member sure go ahead yeah that's why I brought her back up because we want Solutions but I I have a feeling it's really going to be difficult to do when we have wacky laws that are being made that are protecting these these uh kids that are being disruptive and they're disrupting not just the teachers but the kids that want to learn as well so it's a lose lose said social workers in school right I mean yeah well social workers yeah go ahead go ahead Mar you had a question for I I didn't have a question I just had a comment regarding this whole matter um you know we have these conversations that always comes for the laws that are out there but we do have Ed code that we have to follow and if we given the Ed code we have to follow it the teachers are well aware of those Ed codes 48900 is an ed code and it goes has letters of the alphabet that goes with it 48915 is Ed code there's a bunch of letters that go with it the challenge that I think the teachers are facing because I used to be one of you and I also used to be one of the people that used to assign the discipline is that sometimes you know very well that the student has validated one of those 48900 codes but they go to the office and they get candy back yes so as a teacher the teacher is PED yes so when they go to the office the teachers are asking just follow the Ed code and if you follow the Ed code there is a consequence if the parent comes you can show them this is the Ed code the government has hasn't taken it away from your hands the district and the teachers or the administrators are expecting the Ed code to be followed just follow it and when a student comes to us when this case comes to us as a board to now make a decision about expulsion we are also looking at that Ed code on part of those Ed codes says that if a student violates this particular Ed code the kid has no prayer there will be an expulsion there's no we don't have a wiggle room there that's that's the Ed code so the government may have had cases out there for law enforcement but for Education it is very clear I used to be in administration and there is a code in a penal code as a matter of fact that says that if you if you threaten a School employee you will have a six-month in jail or $1,500 fine we are not enforced ing it as a as a system and if you begin to enforce it as a system the message will go out to the community and it will go out to the parents it will go out to everybody to say we are done playing games so that's just what I'm seeing so as as far as I'm concerned I think we need to look at the Ed code we need to hand make sure every teacher has a copy of this Ed code the discipline the 48900 100 case that we deal with every teacher gets a copy of it so every teacher knows how to say this is the reason that I'm sending the student and the the teacher has to have a redress that when they send the student to the office and it doesn't happen the only person that we are responsible for or we supervis on this Das is the superintendent and if you don't get a response from your Administration let this the proper assistant superintendent or the superintendent know that this is not happening before we get it here because when we get it here there should be some consequence so a parent send us their child they expecting you to educate their child there are some things we don't have control over we can't control what parents do but we can control what we do in our classrooms so all we are asking is to support the teacher in their classrooms so that they can do the job for which they own the credentials that's all agreed because I can tell you I've had calls this year student had a knife blade wasn't long enough student got sent back to class um we've had others where teacher was P pushed student back in class 30 minutes later student um threatened to kill a class teacher was not notified of any like hey handled it don't worry about it I'll talk to you later but they see the student back out on campus 30 minutes later so it's that type of stuff that we need help with okay let me give you so that example of that student that had the 3-in blade or the under the the law and was back out there 30 minutes later so you're saying the Ed code would allow the Apple Valley School District to remove that student from the campus without because you just said it didn't suspend it suspension I would think okay well if a teacher can suspend a principal could Su well I think it's uh it's it's it's probably one of well it's the most one of the most important things is to get control in the classrooms like you said not just an Alpa Valley problem I mean you hear about it throughout the the country and mostly the state of California is the worst um so you know it didn't fall on De ears I appreciate you getting up here and bringing it up again because it's not the first time you brought this up yeah and even it like we they can't even take recess away from a student because can't do that that's a new law I know do that maybe we have a classroom that these students can be removed and go to for a little bit I I don't know the answers but that's why we asked in um negotiations we brought it up in negotiations as well because we'd like to get language in our contract for some help and we had talked about maybe doing a um committee that we could figure some things out it's it's it's a real problem know teachers are very stressed it's it's obvious I mean I talk to my grandkids and they say it's out of control in the classrooms there's no discipline at all it's just it's correct yes ma'am what would help if that would be smaller class sizes as well smaller class sizes enough counselors and counselors with case loes they can handle social workers with on the campuses these are all solutions that could be made um I don't think another committee or um more training for teachers I'm a teacher I'm not a therapist I'm not a psychologist I do all those jobs in one day and then I go home to my own kids and do it for them because they are in these classrooms dealing with this as well and I can tell you when we were in Sacramento um our county superintendent and many of us were also um lobbying for for smaller class sizes he is a big supporter of going to 20 to1 and trying to get some help with more funding for that okay well I appreciate you coming up here so keep us posted if there's any changes that you see that's maybe coming down the road that we can assist with and let us know R I'm sorry yes sorry I just want to make sure um that I make a comment there um and I appreciate the time to be able to do so thank you Karen um for your efforts to put that out there and protect our teachers so they could speak and I think it's important now that we've heard this from you that we are looking to uh address these issues and take a proactive stance um because it is important that our students learn um I I hear the concern about the students who are acting out um in class I understand as a teacher how that affects instructions in the class affects the learning of other students in the class I just want to uh make sure you understand that I I get it from a teacher's perspective and um and I want to know that I want you to know that this is valuable information and I appreciate you bringing it forward thank you and I just want to make it clear we're we're not talking about little Johnny who who you know cracks jokes or something we're talking about extreme behaviors we're talking about students that you just cannot get through a lesson or a day because the student is so disruptive so we're not talking about a whole class we're not talking about you know some may have five in a class but for the most part it's one or two that um cause a real disruption that's like 10% of the population creates 90% of the crime and it's the same with the students it's like 10% are no good and they disrupt the rest of the 90% so we get that but it's not fair yeah yeah it's not fair to those yeah that's exactly right yeah know a worse what we're right now against State preaching to the brother [Applause] BR okay Karen well thank you for the comments and it was a lively discussion can I add one more thing it's a good discussion that's what it takes right you know we water it down and it's vanilla it's like okay we want this done and we sit here we're like okay thanks we'll talk to you next month you know that's what it's gonna take I get it so last time issues behavor I well I had somebody else because up and a lot to get up there last time I just [Laughter] no you did well you did good I didn't try to put you on the spot I just like what would you do if you were sitting here you know so anyway thank you you don't like the pay is that what it is the 400 the $400 a month all right let's move along here so thank you um Clos session reports we really didn't even touch anything really much in Clos session so we're going to go back after it's all said and done here uh item eight adoption of the agenda the board May approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from the consent calendar for discussion and or action so move we have a motion Amanda you Canon second second Maria okara okay um all in favor I any opposed hearing then that'll be the order uh we already went to the FFA so we'll go down to discussion items review the alab Unified School District government's handbook uh superintendent This was um item was asked to be brought back for the um area on page 10 where it talks about um comments so whatever the direction is I'm help you to bring back some recommendations difficult difficult topic yes so managing difficult topics um it's on page 10 it says quote the board will not respond to questions or statements made by members of the audience my concern is that the board is asked after comments whether we have any comment and I think it shows dignity to offer words of acknowledgement for the hard work and the thought that goes into bringing something before the board so could we possibly change this in the governance handbook so that we can make sure to show dignity to those who speak before us I just need direction from the board of what you'd like I I don't make the recommendation of what it's what it says um this went through California school boards Association and recommended language from them so that's if somebody wants to recommend what to change it to I'm more than happy to bring a draft back I I think we need to acknowledge that somebody spoke you know when somebody speaks to us we should be we should be able to say thank you for what you said we don't have to give them a response to what they said but to thank them for what they said that shouldn't be dangerous don't think we're prohibited from thanking them at this point but we do have to be very careful about adding opinions [Music] or our comments because then we are opening oursel up for litigation under the brown act with when we decide to respond and when we decide not to respond I I think uh if somebody comes here and shares about issues that is happening to to their child at school or uh issues that is happening at the bus stop and they've come in here to share that this is something that is troubling um as much as we want to hear what that person is saying we also want to acknowledge that we heard it and at the end of hearing it we can say thank you for your input and if we have a reason to have further um discussion or further investigation we turn it over to the superintendent to ask the superintendent to look into it we are not giving any uh response we are just saying we heard you but we want to get more information and we pass it on to the only person that we we oversee to please look into it we've done it in the past and the superintendent will come back in the next board meeting or send us a letter to say I've investigated it and this is my response here's it doesn't stop anything each card has an address and most of the time a phone number on it a speaker card so as elected official if you want to ask Anna or Kylie at the time the next day can you give me that person's name and number you're will you could call them on your time off the next day and discuss you just can't discuss it from the dis yeah but we are not talking about discussion we are talking about acknowledgement so you acknowledge it you are not discussing you acknowledge that you heard the oh that's perectly fine you can say thank you Karen for the comments and that's it can is it my understanding you can say thank you for your comment we've we've heard your comment thank you that's that's it okay yeah the the basis of California school board's recommendation has to do with if you say more than that you are speaking as an individual but you are sitting as a board so you are your your comment is is represent presenting the entire board not you as an individual because when you're when you're in this setting you are a board and so that's why it is intended not to be a personal statement or um in some cases when there's a complaint we have to give due process there's all kinds of things that are related to this so miss banan's comment about um potential litigation that is open if we say something by one board member that is not necessarily all board members um in unison right and so you can acknowledge and say thank you you can say you've been heard um I appreciate you being brave to stand there that doesn't say anything about the content of what was said and so if if that's the worry about this we can we can change the paragraph to say something to the effect of we can acknowledge um the individual for their comments at the podium okay so I have word Smith it just real quick um I've heard the concern and a possible solution might be uh the board will not answer questions or address statements made by the members of the audience okay if you'll email that to me I'll bring it back as a draft you can just put it on the agenda and the president will read it off prior to public comments sure yeah that'd be great okay we can do both we'll put it in that and and I'll bring it back for something that's you seen it done before where we can't comment on it but um we we'll listen yeah okay thank you thank you actually Renee you don't have to email it because I can listen to the recording I'll type it up thanks okay um second uh item on discussion information is informational presentation 2025 second interim financial statements and this will be from Matthew sh thank you Mr Ry um as Mr Ry said this is the second interim financial report uh just to remind the audience in the board this certifies the financial condition of Apple Valley Unified in the current year and then two subsequent years all the way out to June of 27 um there are two required interim reporting periods each year this being the second one so this is reflecting our district financials as of January 31st I know it's it's about six five weeks ago um report is due to the county on March 15 and you will see later on the uh consent agenda you will see the actual item to approve the filing of a positive certification then we can forward those reports to the county uh there are three certifications possible again positive uh we're certifying we will meet our obligations for the reporting period qualified States we uh most likely or may not meet our obligations for the reporting period And there's just some statistics the last two years the number of districts across the state of California that have filed a qualified certification uh the last two fiscal years at second interim um negative certification district will not meet its obligations for the reporting period typically in a a negative certification that's a district that is borderline insolvent um on the the cusp of State takeover um not big numbers however I do believe at first interim this year um it's about uh eight districts Statewide that did file in negative at first interim those are some stats for second interim over the last couple of years um as I mentioned we're going to be filing a positive certification based on the assumptions that are built into our budget um and our multi-year projection we believe we are going to meet our obligations through June of 27 U there's some the the information that we use to generate this report of course there's lots of pieces that go into this beginning with the state adopted budget our current board approved budget the recent Governor's budget proposal for next fiscal year and subsequent years uh School Services dart board has important information on there typically related to Cola um employer retirement contributions uh the fmat lcff calculator that's the calculator that um districts use to calculate our portion of our local control funding formula and how that money is allocated I'll have some detail on that later again the last bullet point down there you'll see this particular presentation this is the the focus of this presentation is on fund1 our general operating fund um we have other funds that we operate for instance there's uh fund uh 11 is a deferred maintenance fund fund 12 is our preschool fund 13 is our nutrition services program fund 14 is deferred maintenance um 25 is developer fees 40 is reserve for Capital outlay and 51 is our bond Redemption fund and in the Sachs documents that are attached to the consent item you will see the interim summaries for each one of those funds um in those documents but again this presentation focuses on fund 01r General operating fund so just to remind uh everybody Ada drives our Revenue that's kids coming to school um average daily attendance you'll see we did adop we did adjust from adoption to First interim I'll Focus down on the second interim there in the current year 2425 we are budgeting assuming we're going to get 12,612 Ada and we're pretty confident in that because that's actually last year's P2 Ada because we have the opportunity to choose whether we funded on our current year Ada prior year Ada or threeyear average average Ada and the lcff calculator pretty much picks the best one when you're working through the calculator our P2 Ada for this year is projected to be lower than last so we are utilizing last year's Ada for our funded calculation you'll see I just uh I kind of pulled TK out of that that 355 is part of that 12612 but I just wanted to demonstrate that's our Ada Target in our transition kindergarten with our enrollment this year our enrollment this year is about 380 so that 355 may be a little high because unfortunately our TK students don't attend at the same rate as our upper grades um we are projecting 425 adaa in TK next year in the subsequent years and that is that's basically accounting for beginning in 2526 transitional kindergarten is a full grade level turn four by September 1st um we're projecting approximately 480 transitional kindergarten students across our district um that's 60% of our Kinder cohort which our Kinder cohort is about 800 right now has been a thousand um but the last five years we've seen a consistent reduction from a thousand stepping down to about 800 um so in 2526 we are projecting using that Year's projected P2 in our lcff calculation and in 2627 using that Year's projected P2 currently uh you would have seen this slide I kind of put this together for first interim I've added couple data points last month our enrollment was 13596 you see where we've dropped since December of 24 um just yesterday my accounting specialist in the business office handed me the month s preliminary Ada report and we were our yield of 91.6% you'll see back prior to that uh 2020 we right around 95 so we we have suffered uh we appear to be climbing back although this year we're uh we're struggling a little bit this spring uh to capture that ADA uh the March 6th enrollment report was produced by the enrollment office this morning Myra emailed it out so I put that number on there uh we're dropped a little more since February 13583 um that puts us March over March a year ago we're down about 67 kids systemwide but keep in mind that means we're down more than that in our K12 because we increased our TK so our increase in TK offset a little bit of the decline in our upper grades one of the other things that last bullet point um several months ago we did Engage The Services of Davis demographic which transitioned to MGT um and to do some resident and enrollment projections for us I did recently receive a draft of that report and I'm reviewing that it's not quite ready to bring to this group but um unfortunately in their preliminary projections they are projecting a continued decline for Apple Valley Unified uh mainly based on what the trend we've experienced in our incoming cohorts dropping from a, to 800 low birth rates in our ZIP codes and that's actually true across the state of California um and the outmigration uh folks leaving California but um I will review that and we'll finalize that and then that will be uh brought forward for your information at a future meeting our Cola assumptions cost of living adjustments um at budget adoption um this year was 1.07 that was that's the cola that we ended up with this year um in previous years the cola for this year was estimated at uh a little under 4% um at one point so we had that in our multi-year projection at one point and when that planning Cola dropped from 4% to 1% that was about a $5 million hit to the revenue side of our budget in that Cola adjustment that's one of the variables that um we have to deal with um in our budget uh you'll see at first interim this year stayed the same next year there was not a lot of good news at first interim for next year's Cola we pegged it at 2% it was anywhere from 1.8 to 2.2 depending on which expert you talked to whether it was school Services csba fmat casbo um at second interim uh this is based on the governor's budget proposal that he brought out in January of course current year did not change uh 2526 the school Services dart board is listing that at 2.43% unfortunately you'll see that little Aster um the data points are trending a little lower than that but we are using 2.43% in our multi-year projection in 2526 along with the 3.52% Cola in 2627 and those are right off the school Services dartboard um Governor's May revision comes out May 10th they'll change almost guaranteed 25 26 mostly will go most likely will go down 26 27 I'm sure will adjust based on the calculations so little detail on the lcff calculator Revenue in the current year I know this is a very busy slide I apologize for that I'm going to point out a couple points uh you'll see the funded Ada right there is the 12612 we using last year's Ada and that's just the grade spans um remember we get a different base grant for each of the grade spans in the lcff calculator that's why I've broken It Out by grade spans pulled TK out TK 355 is part of that 3912 for the TK through3 grad span so don't add those together that's just a piece of and you'll see the components of the lcff calculator our total lcff allocation just a little over 184 million that's what we're using in our budget for the current year and those are the pieces of the lcff base Grant the grade span adjustment there that is TK through3 and 912 combined they're different dollar amounts there's a add-on for tk3 for class size reduction there's an add-on in 912 for Career Technical Ed I lumped those together in this slide you'll see supplemental and concentration Grant that's based on our unduplicated pupil percentage Transportation add-on um is just they were gracious to give us a little bit of funding to run our transportation program and then of course a couple years back they did start the transitional Kinder add-on that's why I pulled out that 350 55 Ada that's how that transitional Kinder add-on is calculated it's a per Ada amount for TK but all of that money in the lcff revenue flows to us on the unrestricted side of our budget but keep in mind the supplemental and concentration grant funding really is attached to our lcap goals and and positions programs materials identified specifically in those lcap goals and we're required to spend all of our supplemental and concentration grant money each year um if not there are some implications in terms of carrying over that and then higher expenditure requirements in success in the future years so on the federal side um this breaks it into unrestricted and restricted you'll see the unrestricted section of the federal revenue is very tiny um I've had a disc discuss with my director of fiscal Services Cindy conle this is an assumption we've had in there for quite some time it's a very small amount it's very irregular um to get any unrestricted federal revenue so we're discussing removing that assumption because it's not something we can count on on an annual basis below that you'll see our federal revenue restricted at about 13.6 million that does include some carryover from the prior year see the breakdown there it's mostly the title programs a little bit for CTE a little bit for special education um Title One in our title programs um that title one number there does include some carryover from the prior year and Title One is something that's it's called an unearned Revenue program in each year the federal government allocates title one well they used to at least we'll see what happens moving forward but they they've allocated title one out to the states so the California Department of Education gets a big bucket of Title One money and they allocate it out to school districts for instance and just as an example if our Title One allocation for a year is $6 million that gives us the authority to budget that $6 million and what we do is we budget six million in revenue and six million of expenditures on the restricted side of our budget however if we do not spend all six million of those title one budgeted expenditures when we our books we then have to reduce the revenue to balance with the expenditures because we did not earn the revenue because we didn't spend it now we don't lose that Revenue we just didn't earn it in the year we were entitled to earn it we're able to move that revenue revenue forward a year well then that increases our title one then we increase our expenditures because we're assuming we're going to spend it all to earn that Revenue that's a cycle that an unearned Revenue program creates in our budget state revenue assumptions we get a little bit of unrestricted Revenue over and above the lcff about $5.3 million mandated cost block grant those are those are mandated programs it's programs that we have to do it's things we have to do um that for a long time the state didn't fund you you probably heard the term unfunded mandates they created this mandate cost block grant several years ago and lumped all these mandated programs into this block grant we have to apply for it every year which I do every August um to get that money and it does Flow To Us unrestricted to cover the costs of what the legislature tells us we must do one of those is to supply products in our restrooms we're required to supply those products therefore that's part of the Mandate cost block grant Lottery flows to us uh 2.46 that's unrestricted uh some of that is held at the district for expenses some of that is allocated out to the sites for expenses and then we have all Le state revenue $2.3 million that started a couple years back um they it's an additional Transportation reimbursement and Cindy was explaining it to me we report our expenses for instance we reported our expenses for the 2324 school year they reimburse us at a rate of approximately 60% but before we get that 60% they deduct our lcff transportation add-on and then that's what we get after that calculation about $ 2.28 million so we get 1.5 on the lcff 2.8 here that's three 2.3 here that's 3.8 to run a program that costs about twice that uh we have restricted state revenue that flows to us um I did not list all the revenues I've listed the major revenues on that side you'll see Lottery instructional that's often you'll hear a resource number 6300 that's the instructional Lottery it's restricted to instructional materials only pass through revenues we are the Fiscal Agent for a Consortium uh for Career Technical education so that Revenue flows to us and then flows out from us um it's a net zero in our budget but we do have to book the revenue when we book an expense as we pay the other districts that are members of the Consortium CTE incentive Grant that's our share of the incentive Grant this year that's including some carryover and then you'll see in the Sach forums when it starts when it seizing the the other the state revenue section all the way down at the end it says other state revenue plumps a whole bunch of items together those are the major components in there we have our elop that's our expanded learning opportunity program prop 28 art music education and stirs on behalf well a little bit about stirs on behalf we are required to book revenue and expense for the state's contribution to calsters on behalf of Apple Valley Unified School District it's not Revenue we actually ever get it but we have to book it it's a gby ruling so we book the revenue we book a corresponding expense to show everybody what the state paid to stirs on behalf of Apple valy Unified it's not what we pay we pay over and above that that's that's in the 3000s expense lines in our budget so the current year again expenditure assumptions we always include on negotiated settlements we always include step and column increases stirs and Pur employer contribution rates again those are that stirs on behalf I just mentioned that that's the stirs and Pur employer contribution rates on this slide they're totally separate that's over and above again that stir on behalf is the state's contribution this is Apple Valley unified's contribution to the Retirement Systems and of course we build in a local operating cost inflator of 1.5% um some years that's a little lower some years it's a little bit higher on the expenditure side in our current budget you'll hear some people talk about the ones ones twos and threes that's our people costs that's our certificated salaries that's our classified salaries and that's employee benefits employee benefits is Health and Welfare purs stirs FICA unemployment insurance all the different statutory costs that go along with that 4,000 books and supplies fives services at other operating expend expenditures and you'll see the other two you'll hear me talk about budgeted activity and cumed and remaining on the couple of the coming slides budgeted is just that it's budgeted we've budgeted some Revenue we've budgeted to receive a certain amount of Revenue we've budgeted to make certain expenses activity is actual activity what Revenue have we actually ex received what have we actually spent encumbered is what have we obligated you think about it it's a check you wrote that hasn't been cashed yet hasn't cleared you obligated those funds it's in your checkbook but you haven't checked it that it's cleared yet encumbered could be by a purchase order it could be by a contract with a consultant that usually then has a purchase order it's either for goods Services materials supplies remaining is just that anything remaining on a budget line means we budgeted an amount we've had activity we've encumbered and we have remaining which means it is has not been spent and has not been obligated or encumbered so looking at the 4000s there tends to be a lot of questions about this and this is the unrestricted side of our budget this is in resource Zer which is our lcff and resource 1100 unrestricted Lottery those are the two main unrestricted Revenue resources in our operating budget within 4000s there are several major object codes 41 42 43 44 and 47 you see there and in each one of those sections there's a whole list of Minor object codes depending on what exactly you're you're buying uh textbooks reference materials Material supplies custodial supplies non-c capitalized equipment so this year that is at first interim that was our projected year budgeted expenditures that's what we budgeted to spend in the 4000s on the unrestricted side of our budget this is made up of district and site funds so on this slide I broke it into here's what's held at the district and here's what's held at the sites only in the 4000s again there's ones twos threes fives six and sevens but this is this is 4000s books and supplies you'll see at the district level we budgeted to spend about 4 and a half million we have actually spent 1.3 through January 31st we have obligated an additional 2.2 and again that could be obligated in several different ways could be we've ordered something we have not received it yet as of January 31st could be we've entered an agreement with a somebody to provide a service that has not been completed and you'll see we have about a million remaining unspent unencumbered across all those different object codes all those different object codes in the district held unrestricted 4000s site-based funds same again that's spread across all of our sites that's in the 4000s um they at their sites have budgeted about 2.2 million spent about 1.2 encumbered another 600 and have about 400 ,000 remaining have these changed since January 31st absolutely we've either adjusted the budget spent some more reallocated um many times sites will budget in the 4000s but they decide heck I I don't need that anymore so I'm going to move what I budgeted out of the 4000s maybe into the ones or the twos to provide for some extra hourly so there's constant adjustments going on in the budget a little detail on the 5000s on the unrestricted side again this is district and site funds but I did not break this one out in District in sight because this is about 99% District held funds very little at the site uh travel and conference is just that it's for conferences dues and memberships insurance that is our property and liability insurance premium operations in housekeeping is utilities transfers of direct cost is direct you'll see those are actually negatives so it's a negative expenditure so it's a good thing as we capture direct costs from categorical or restricted programs as part of the um they they allow us to capture a portion of those programs for administrative reasons you'll see professional Consulting Services about uh 5.4 million on the district side and just to to break that down in the 800s uh 1.6 million of that is actually in contracted Services 2.3 million of that is computer and Tech related Services we have to pay for our student information system um filters uh Network Services um and about 600,000 is legal in election cost that doesn't account for all 5.4 but those are the major pieces in the 800s six thousands Capital outlay um 6,400 equipment the majority of that um was uh purchasing and equipping our police vehicles those were ordered three years ago uh the expense was originally budgeted three years ago we ordered first we ordered five and we got those five we ordered another five um we're still waiting to receive I believe one same conversation now I'm on the restricted side again same object codes ones through threes fours through sevens um budgeted activity encumbered and remaining one of the things I want to point out on the restricted side and this is a conversation I've had with my director of fiscal services in terms of an internal practice is we assume that we're expensing all available restricted resources that are in reporting periods and you'll see later on there's a financial slide where I look at the the actual numbers on the restricted side and you'll see a projected ending fund balance I think is $2 because we assume we're expensing all the restricted funds um that goes to the unearned Revenue programs we assume we're expensing all the unearned Revenue to earn that Revenue when when we close our books and we don't we we reduce the revenue accordingly in ending fund balance programs which U elop is an ending fund balance program Equity multiplier an ending fund balance program when those resources are not entirely spent you will see an ending fund balance when we close the books in the fours district and site based funds restricted resources um Cindy was training me in our financial system and I say that because it's been a couple years since I've taken a deep dive so I needed a refresher and it was great because as I was searching on the restricted side of the resource restricted side of our fundo one there's 29 distinct restricted resources all with different rules all with different regulations all with different spending parameters all with different expiration dates that are managed in Cindy's office um you'll see it's broken down there you'll see a large amount budgeted in the 40 4300s materials and supplies mainly because it has been our practice to budget expenditures in the 4000s until we know exactly where it's going to be spent and then we make budget adjustments accordingly and this right here is our assumption that we're expensing all of our restricted resources when it comes down to our estimated actuals and our closing the books we won't and this is where I've talked to Cindy about is there a better way to reflect the restricted activity in our fundo one because this inflates the expenditures on the restricted side of the budget but keep in mind these are all the restricted resources these are not resources available for just anything we want them available for this is your title programs this is your restricted state revenue this is our elop program elop has certain parameters this is our Equity multiplier funds which is only at three sites four sites right thank you Pat you knew where so this is not money that is unrestricted that has no strings attached again there's the breakdown district and site based funds and you see a lot remaining because we we don't have plans to spend it so that's where we are going to get better in showing our actual activity and actual expected expenditures on the restricted side of our budget with these restricted resources there's the fives again this 99% District held funds versus site held funds um you'll see we're projecting about 21 million on this side of the fives I want to call out object 5100 sub agreements for services NPS that stands for non-public school the Sela are local Sela provides us with the information um that is their estimate of Apple Valley unified's non-public school charges for this year so we have to budget that as an expense we don't get $5.3 million from the state or the feds to cover this so that's one of the factors that contributes to our contribution that I've mentioned before from the unrestricted side of our budget to the restricted side of our budget to to support restricted programs special education and routine restricted maintenance being the two major restricted programs that are supported by the unrestricted side of our budget special education of course there's laws IEPs that we have to follow the routine restricted maintenance we're required to contribute 3% to the restricted side of our budget operations in housekeeping as utilities uh professional Consulting Services again you'll see that the 58s uh just to give you an idea um currently 4 million of that 10.8 is in elop 1 million is in title one special education has about four million of Consulting Services outside agencies to provide services routine restricted maintenance has about 400,000 and and Lottery we have about 600,000 in agreements restricted lottery for instructional materials only sixes Capital outlay might ask what land are we buying we're not under the 60100s there's a whole list of Minor object codes in routine restricted maintenance when we make side improvements some of those side improvements are coded to 6,100 that's where they fall we're not buying land we're not budgeting to buy land right now buildings and improvements is just that it's buildings the majority of that budgeted expenditure is the portable build buildings that recently arrived at yakal Desert NS and Sandia for our transitional kindergarten um lots of pieces um I 12 pieces at each site because each building is six pieces um equipment and the most majority of that is uh routine restricted maintenance um Career Technical education um and some elop so now into 2526 now I'm moving into our multi-year projection that that was a a little detailed summary of the current year we're in now as we look forward there's our lcff Revenue you saw this slide same slide a couple things I'd like to point out our Ada now is the 2526 projected P2 Ada uh the increase in the TK Cola 2.43 unduplicated pupil percentage is 76.46 you can see the components there um this year's lcff as of second interim we're estimated to receive about 184 million in change next year we're at 188 million um base Grant goes up grade span adjustment goes up supplemental and concentration Grant both went up so we have more requirements in the supplemental and concentration Grant portion of our lcff transportation add-on went up and the transitional Kinder add-on went up little Aster one thing we're not assuming next year in our lcff calculation is the governor's proposed increase to the TK add-on he has proposed to essentially double the TK add-on to facilitate the requirement to move from 24-2 in a TK classroom to 20-2 um we're not assuming that because school services and fmat two of the organizations we rely on as do school districts across the state have suggested that you do not include that at this point because it is it is merely a proposal um we'll know more at the May revise uh but if that does come through as the governor proposed that transitional Kinder um would about double it' increase our lcf Revenue by approximately 1.3 million federal revenue about the same we'll see we've taken the carryover out Title One is back to our normal allocation as are all the other title programs um again I mentioned that 880,000 on the unrestricted uh that's something we're considering taking out of the budget um because it's just not reliable um state revenue unrestricted you'll see very consistent mandated cost block grant there may be some increases to that um Lottery typically sees small increases year-over-year um the additional Transportation reimbursement we're budgeting the same amount but again that's calculated on our actual expenditures so so that allocation will be calculated when we report our expenditures for this year minus our transportation lcff add-on for this year I'm sorry times 60% minus our lcff transportation so it might be a little bit higher but it all really depends on how much we actually spend on our transportation program and you'll see the restricted programs again Lottery instructional pass through revenues CT incentive Grant reduced because we have taken out the carryover that's in the current year and then all other state revenue again are Ela prop 28 and there's that stirs on behalf again couple things we're not assuming in this state revenue category is the one-time discretionary funding proposed by the governor um part of his January proposal it's a per Ada uh information was released by school Services they believe it will be distributed in a per Ada amount which will um which If part of the budget as proposed would be about $4 million for Apple value unified we are also not including the governor's proposal to restore the remainder of the learning recovery emergency block grant um the LBG was given out to school districts and then the governor said oh wait a second we're gonna take a whole bunch of it back but wait a second you can have a little bit of what I took back and now he's like oh well I'm going to give you the rest back but we're waiting on that because it's merely a proposal at this point and that small piece that we may get back has some strings attached to it now where the original LBG did not um based on a student assessment um SO waiting to hear how that plays out so in 2526 our expenditures again we're including any negotiated settlements step and column increases for all of our employee groups which come along with benefit adjustments per stir contributions um staff funded through short-term revenues is transitioning to ongoing revenues stirs and purs employer contribution rates I do believe the stirs is projected to be level at 19.1 for many years perss goes up slightly not as much as had been originally assumed and of course our operating cost inflator we're assuming some reductions and and some adjustments um ongoing reductions focused on the unrestricted side um we're looking at possible expenses on the unrestricted side that we can shift to ongoing restricted resources and we're looking at certain strategies to reduce our contribution to special ed and the probably the biggest is really reducing our Reliance on Contracting with outside agencies that's going to mean people though that's going to mean people that are our employees providing these services so it's not if if we have a contract for an outside agency to provide a service that maybe cost 2 $50,000 um and they provide the people to provide that service if we take that away then we're going to have to provide the people to provide that service so it's not going to be a savings of that entire consultant agreement because we will have to backfill that service because those services are still going to be required um just want to remind the room that in the 2425 in the current year adopted budget in the multi-year projection we had assumed assumed non-specific line item reductions in next year of 12 million at first interim we had to update those we assumed non-specific line item reductions of 14 million in next year back at the first inter room presentation and this year we're assuming some non-specific line item reductions um you'll see the ones twos and threes lumped together this is our certificated and certificated management staff classified and classified management staff in the corresponding reductions to the 3000s that's the pur the stirs $9 million of reductions in next year now the supplemental retirement program that the board authorized in the February meeting after the cut off for the first interim I'm sorry the second interim we're looking to based on pars estimates we're a little over6 A5 million dollar of savings um if we don't backfill any of those positions and I know our HR off is working very diligently to look at those positions but the fewer positions we backfill the more savings we can we can net in the fours fives and sixes we have line item reductions non-specific line item reductions of about four million that's 13 million so at budget adoption we projected we were going to need about 12 million in reductions in the 25 26 school year at second interim we projected about 14 million here I'm sorry at first interim we project projected about 14 million at second interim we're projecting about 13 million but the supplemental retirement program has gotten us some of that we're not assuming some Revenue so there's many variables that will affect us as we continue to move through this year and we'll continue to make budget adjustments expenditure reductions if there's something we have budgeted in the current year that we have determined that we don't need we can take that out of the budget and that allows us to reduce those expenditures which allows us to reduce our projected deficit spending in the current year which means then a higher ending fund balance and you'll see the Dynamics of that in the financial slides coming up again these expend expenditure reductions were based on assumptions as of January 31st adjustments have occurred and will continue to occur and any additional board action subsequent to January 31st like the supplemental retirement plan will have additional impacts on the expenses and reductions as we move through the remainder of this year seen this slide here it is again utilizing the current year the 2627 projected P2 the 3.52% cola you'll see our lcff goes up to about $195 million all those components increase the base Grant the the gr span adjustment the supplemental concentration the transportation and again we're not assuming the TK add-on again if the TK add-on comes through that doubles in this year also that is ongoing funding as part of our lcf here's our federal revenue slide you'll see that looks exactly like the one from 2526 because we don't make any federal revenue adjustments typically in our multi-year projections because they have been fairly consistent the state again that'll look a lot like the slide for 2526 because those revenues are fairly consistent we're counting on that elop that's Governor Newsome's baby and the legislature loves that program we're counting on that continuing we're counting on Prop 28 that was an voter initiative um and there's that stirs on behalf again on the expenditure side of course we conclude all negotiated settlements step and column increases minimal natural attrition we include include a little natural attrition in our multi-year projections every year because we have people retire every year we have people resign every year are we likely to get as many in 25 26 in 26 27 as we did this year absolutely not because we had that in retirement incentive this year so we're not assuming as much natural attrition as we have in the past and any expenditure reductions we're not assuming any non-specific expenditure reductions in this year but again ongoing focus of taking restricted resources to pay for what we can freeing up unrestricted resources and again strategies to reduce our contribution to special education so the multi-year financial projections this is the unrestricted side of the budget as of January 31st you'll see there's our revenues that's our lcff and our unrestricted State revenues the expenditures we have sources uses that's two lines combined there's a source 2 million we transferred in from fund 14 deferred maintenance that came in that's a positive 2 million 43.8 million going out to the restricted side to cover routine restricted maintenance and special education so a net deficiency of about 14.6 million taking our fund balance from 25.5 to about 10.9 again those are our financials as of January 31st you'll can see you can see 2526 and 2627 again 2526 with those $13 million of non-specific line item reductions built in and the assumption that we're not receiving that additional TK revenue and not receiving the discretionary block grant you'll see there if we receive that one-time revenue and the discretionary block grant and that ongoing TK Revenue that'll have a positive effect on the budget in 2526 and the TK will have a positive effect into 2627 here's the restricted side as I mentioned earlier in the current year we're assuming every restricted dollar we have is going to be spent and that's not going to come true um again we need to get better at reporting the actual Financial activity on the restricted side um across those 29 resources some large like elop some small like a vocational a grant of $75,000 they're rank combined ending fund balance components I'm going to take you all the way down to the bottom 3% required Reserve we meet that in all three years you'll see up top 108 is bigger than 8.3 76 is bigger than 7.4 and 10.4 is bigger than 7.5 however we don't meet the board policy Reserve requirement of 5% in any of the three years in our current cycle some highlights future um our P2 reporting period is here in uh just a couple weeks I'm looking forward to uh some good numbers um probably not higher than last year so we probably will not be making any adjustments to our lcf FF calculator in the current year but if there's a miraculous spike in Ada in the next six days um we'll definitely adjust um local programmatic decisions always very important uh look at that unrestricted deficit spending Trend um impact on services for our students they may revise what's going to change because things will the cola will change uh will there be additional categorical program requirements will that discretionary block grant come with strings will the TK add be as big as the governor proposed um and you that's actually more down into the state adopted budget that last line item so um one one of the things I haven't talked about yet um is the governor's proposal to manipulate prop 98 in the current year um he has proposed to under appropriate education or under appropriate prop 98 to the tune of about 1.6 billion dollars in the current year um and I know the folks at casbo csba AXA they're all fighting that um and I will be very interested to see how that plays out in the next months but that could mean some additional um I would suspect it'll it'll probably mean some one-time Revenue um maybe that's how he's going to pay for the discretionary block grant I don't know but it'll be very interesting to see how that works out and how it affects Apple Valley Unified thank you for your patience and your attention as anybody have any questions any questions for I can attempt to answer not questions thank you um I had a question just for um the reserves sure um that were spent down do you have a particular slide Miss Long that I can reference put back up on the screen slide number they're in the bottom right on the the packet yes well I had specifically looked at the budget itself the first interim okay um can I speak from that the first interim uh the second interim okay so um the ending fund balance so we're looking at f1a um we see um fund balance of the 22 m272 892 can you let me know Miss Longshore which page of that packet are you on um that's page one um which is actually the fourth page in right there um it's under f f1a 22,27 $ 72,8 n227 yes yes so and then I was looking at the ending fund balance on under two there $9.6 million yes okay um and then I was looking at so the beginning fund balance the ending fund balance as of June 30th um the original budget was um 12, 63169 and the actuals to date are1 19,1 49 can you help me can you guide me to a page you're looking at um it's on the same page where it says a net increase up above yeah um so I was curious as to um how that money was spent readen e oh well let me start at the top on this page the column you're looking at Miss Longshore is the original budget so that is the budget as adopted last June um for this particular year we adopted the revenue sources you'll see and this is the unrestricted side of the budget on page one you'll see that noted up on the top everybody 2425 second interim unrestricted original budget column A we adopted 184.

so basically Matthew schulenberg assistant superintendent services will provide some information regarding this item her her hearing must be open for at least one minute Matt do you have anything you want so Rick if you'd like I could talk really slow to take a whole M this is just the Public's opportunity to comment on our use of developers fees those are fees that uh we we assess on new construction in the town of Apple Valley a residential and Commercial fee um they're held in fund 25 typically used utilized for improvements to offset the costs of the um kids that come from new construction and housing okay any questions comments from members of the board regarding annual five-year statutory Fe report all right and another there any public comments regarding this uh fiveyear stat any comments okay thank you okay if no comments are given after one minute being open hearing no further public comments I now close the public hearing for the board regarding the annual 5-year statutory report at 9:47 pm.

Stay mindful of what you got to do in school. Stay on top of things so you don't create stress, but also take some time for yourself. Chill out. Relax a little bit. Good advice. All right, wild cats. I'm here with Olivia. Olivia, what year in school? Aren't you? I'm a sophomore. Sophomore. So, getting close to halfway through high school. Can you believe it? No. The winter months are tough. January, February, it's a long stretch. Now, we got three full weeks still till spring break. First of all, how you doing? Good. How are you? Well, I'm good. Thanks for asking. You know, it's been a rough morning. I forgot my jewelry. Got your accessories, but you got your stand, you got your water, stay hydrated. What advice do you give to the your fellow Wildcats to keep pushing to the next break? Just think about your end goal.

Don't fight. Take a breath. Take a breath. There we go. Thanks, Ethan. Those are all good pieces of advice. All right, Wildcats. I'm here with Antos Kummore. Antos, we've had nine straight weeks of school. It's kind of a grinding part of the year. You know, it's tough. How are you doing? We're checking in on our students. How you doing this time of year? Doing pretty good. Hanging in there. Any advice you have for our Wildcats to get through these next three weeks before spring break? Do your best. Don't skip out on your work or like studying or anything like that cuz it really does help. Stay on top of things and that'll create less stress in your life, right? Yes, sir. Officer Lovado, you want to be on Friday funday? I don't talk to the press. All right, Wildcats. I'm here with Chloe Sam. We've had a long winter.

6 million lcff you'll see state and local totaling 191 million of Revenue there's our expenditures 68 million on certificated salaries you can read those going down um you'll see the total expenditures of 163 million um and you'll see line C there in the middle of the page that Nets to about a $28 million positive uh between revenue and expenses however we have a couple things down here and this is the the sources uses I talked about this is a source this is a $2 million transfer in from fund 14 are deferred maintenance this is a transfer out at adopted budget we were estimating about $ 42.7 million that is a contribution from the restricted side of fund one I'm sorry from the unrestricted side of fund one to the restricted side of fund one to support restricted programs mainly special education and routine restricted maintenance so we come down so the net effect it adopted right here total other financing sources was a negative4 million so the 12.6 negative is a net effect of revenues minus expenses plus transfer in minus contributions Nets to $12.6 million of unrestricted deficit spending as of adopted budget thus reducing the ending fund balance from 22.2 to 9.6 and then there was another uh 1,938 n627 and and 2D and 2D so my Cur I was curious I'm Sorry Miss Longshore I'm not finding that in you didn't see it give me that number again um under 2D so it's same F fund balance reserves 2D it says other assignment so we're on page two thank you yes the million 938 yes yes if you look back to page one and look at the ending fund balance 9.6 million um number uh two a b CDE e those are components of the ending fund balance 9.6 million if now we carry that down here you take 7.7 that was the 3% Reserve required for economic uncertainties that's the minimum that has has to be held to meet that 3% Reserve requirement any additional is called out on that other assignment line if you add 7.7 and 1.9 you're going to get 9.6 those are the components of the ending fund balance yes so my question is um we have no actuals to date so have we spent that the actuals to date would be column C yes um so it's it's blacked out it it's it's just a component of the ending fund balance so it's not something that we spend out of the ending fund balance you'll look at projected year totals column D and we'll look at the projected ending fund balance of 10.8 million right here everybody see that um that's the projected ending fund balance that was on the final slide of the presentation that talked about the components of ending fund balance if we go to page two there's our 3% required Reserve which is the 8 point is that 8386 million and any over and above that that is not assigned or committed is other assignments 2.3 million you add those two that totals to the ending fund balance currently projected that we're going to end the year with we don't spend out of the ending fund balance thank you certainly any other questions thank you again for your attention thanks mat all right moving on to public comments Anna public comments we have one card here and it is Ida Torres oh there you are thanks for waiting all this time thank you for having me I'm excessively hot after 50 menopause kicks in yes thank you good evening board and directors I'm Ida Tes Romo who represents the Apple Valley seminal football and cheer who has a long-standing Community Partnership with Apple Valley Unified School District we have we have facility use with the history free of any incidents or issues at Granite Hills High School for years our organization supports local youth in the community by providing positive role models and organized Sports of football and cheer and baseball until the situation with the Granite Hills head coach who until actually coach with the seals until November 2024 there has never been even a question of our continued partnership for the benefit of the community on 2:8 I reached out to Mel or Michael believe that's her name yes entered thank you ma'am ma'am um yes right here I'm sorry can you start from beginning we had an interruption over here and it was uh kind of confusing to hear you and Mr Ro I'm hot I'm just okay okay let's start over you know what we want to hear what you had to say I know I get it I will start all over so good evening my name is Ida Torres I represent the Apple Valley youth football and cheer okay um who has a long-standing community relationship with Apple Valley Unified School District we have a facility's use with the history free of any incidents or issues at Granite Hills High School for years our organization supports local youth in the community by providing positive role models and organiz Sports of football cheer and baseball into the situation with granite head coach who until actually coached for the seminal until November of 2024 there has never been even a question of our continued partnership for the benefit of the community on 218 I reached out to Michael introducing myself after having a great relationship with Capri who has now now retired and I'm very sad about that on 220 submitted our field use agreement by 2:25 I was informed by mik Michael that Michelle denied our four dates which were 920 927 108 and 1025 since their football team will be adding weekends to their practice schedule never in 10 years have they had practice on Saturdays I can understand maybe one day being denied but all four were denied citing use of the field by the high school team I know CIF has limited practice hours and policies on practices and I do not see how this reasoning is truly what is going on it is also not worth noting that the head coach of granite um head coach of granite and football booster club is advertising and recruiting children for this feeder team boosters and coaches are not allowed to recruit for high school and colleges and with this new program taking over field uses being run by the head coach of granite and has booster members involved this does not look like an ethical situation I understand anyone can apply for fied usage I understand that we are not the only ones what I do understand is why since Inception of this new feeder youth football program by the head coach who by the way coach for us until the end of the season we are now denied access to our game day request I do believe that the denial of use was intentional an effort to remove the seals from using a field a quick note additionally after field use was deny I asked if they had another field which can facilitate the seals I asked for a copy of the denied facilities use agreement with nolu on receiving a copy as of today 36 2025 we were never allowed to perform any registrations at any school within the school district yet the wild cats are advertising the signups at Grand Hill scho High School um Apple Valley s is asking for Apple Valley Unified School Board to do what's right for the children of Apple Valley we're looking for equality and fair treatment for service of our children we're asking for the board to review the E ethical practices of the affiliation of the head coach of Granny Hills High School and the youth wild feater program who Granite Hills for Granite Hills football we maintain our working relationship with the district for the benefit of the children of the community I do hope there's a way we can continue to work together in a positive manner to serve all the youth in the community that we that need these programs thank you very much for allowing me to sign up and basically just discuss what's going on in our um with our you our Field Youth and I also have some pamphlets for you guys I meant to say that before I started but um I was having a conversation with Chief Molina I'm sorry ma'am thank you for your comments and uh we did this discuss this with staff today somebody will be contacting you from the superintendent's office so [Applause] okay thank you guys for waiting so long to get H wow yeah not sure anything's still open maybe breakfast okay I'm going to move over to board member comments but I'm sure nobody has anything at 10 o' in the evening right right okay superintendent comment nothing okay public hearing did you have a comment uh Renee board member comment anything it's that's what's on the agenda I was just kind of trying to shame everybody into not saying anything a message rece okay a comment oh okay you know I I can't let you get away um I just wanted to uh acknowledge uh women's History Month uh as you can see there are four women um serving on the board and I couldn't miss this day um and not celebrate the four women which is historical we've never had that and and I also wanted to celebrate every mother every female that is walking on this Earth Earth it is women's history month and I can't forget that thank you so much for all you do well thanks for the comment because my wife says that if you want something done you got a woman to do it so you know what you got four of them here so [Laughter] okay okay we're g to move on to public hearing hold a public hearing to receive comments on the annual fiveyear statutory School fee report I now open the public hearing regarding the annual and five-year statutory School or time at 94 9:46 p.m.

thank you special meeting none at this time discussion action session has recommended the Board of Trustees discuss and take action on the following items mutually agree on no more than five candidates for the 202 5 California School Board Association delegate assembly for sub region 16b and you see the names that you have in front of you there uh so we need a motion to approve or change or write in anybody I'd like to make a motion that we approve the five that are on here that are well there's six but the five that are currently serving okay so which which one is the asteros so we've got Maria Gomez Ronald Newton Gwen Dr Rogers Eric Swanson and Kathy Thompson okay great so a motion by um you Canon any second on that I'll second it any discussion all in favor I I I I any opposed hearing then that'll be the order thank you Amanda um adopt resolution number 2 42519 reduction of discontinuance of certific certificated Services any discussion I do have a question okay well let's go with a motion do we have a motion to approve so moved I'm sorry who was that Anita Anita okay I'll second and the second by um V by you can I'm sorry I'm getting we out here um okay any discussion go ahead uh Renee um yes so the um certificated staff I I believe I counted 48 um does this include the reading intervention Specialists who wants to address that okay yeah yes uh not there are some uh not all I believe there are several sites were disproportionate in terms of um the number of what we we call lli teachers I point it lesie because I know she's one um and I think the decision has been made to uh continue to fund one at each of the 10 uh categorically fund 10 one at each of the 10 schools elementary schools and anything beyond that would be reflected in this list I'm I and I speak from a place of concern as a teacher of the elementary ages um we're reading interv attention is a Saving Grace to so many um young students who need that early intervention I think it would be a shame to remove those supports at this time when I think about reduction I don't think of reducing our reading Specialists that provide that support to those struggling students um I think it's essential to set them up for success in the rest of their education and so I'm concerned about that thank you okay we have a motion and a second on the table so we'll do a roll call vote because I think there's opposition to this um Amanda you made the motion so you support this make a roll call on support uh yes okay okara yes um Anita Tucker yes no no okay Longshore so I'm sorry we're voting on yes or no on the adoption of the resolution of discontinous of certificate Services um so I would have to say no because that's good uh I vote Yes motion passes three uh two with Longshore and Tucker voting no Ry Buchanan oart voting yes item three adopt resolution number 2 42520 reduction of discontin of classified Services again any will we'll need a motion to approve I'm by a par yes and second second by bu Canon any discussion okay all in favor I I any opposed hearing then that'll be the order item four approve certif certificated and classif personal actions as listed make any a motion to approve I'll second that all in favor I I I no we don't have a discussion oh any discussion go ahead I'm sorry I'm just curious about this particular one uh even though I moved for it um those if you have certificated or classified Personnel that were issued a letter of to to transfer or to move to another position after we made the decision are we going to open up our retirement so that if they choose to go in the retirement block that they go into that retirement block without penalty we need to um be sure that that is open for them and give them even if it means just one week for them to submit their retirement paper so that they can also benefit from that service yeah that's actually agendized under the close session that we're going back into and so we will um hopefully have a readout when we come back out okay okay so we have a motion in a second uh all in favor I I any opposed hearing none that'll be the order item five approve the recommendation for requested leave as noted so moved second you Canan and opara all in favor any discussion okay any discussion okay all in favor I I any opposed them that'll be the order item six approve the course study adoptions for serenade Bravo incor and Chambers so moved and I'll second it we have a motion by Anita yes and a second by Buchanan any discussion all in favor I I any opposed hearing none that'll be the order item seven approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately on expulsion case exp number 2425 so moved second you can I made a motion second by Tucker all in favor I I I any opposed hearing none them will be the order exposion case 22 20 24 25 so moved second second by okara you can I made the motion all in favor I any opposed I sorry everybody said I so on I8 was there discussion on that at all no we're not yet not yet okay yeah we're coming up to that right now so item eight adopt the Apple Valley Unified School District long range facilities master plan uh we call for a motion first and then we'll open it for discussion so move it was moved by I'm sorry Mar tuck Tucker second okay any discussion um yes I I just needed clarification um for this particular item that no additional spending for Capital outlaying outside of what is needed for safety and upkeep is being approved here m do you want to address it I I can no this particular master plan does not have any spending tied to it yet this is a this is a start for Apple Valley Unified we have not had a long range facilities master plan in the past um The Next Step would be for our facilities Department uh to work with our schools to prioritize projects and then um identify possible funding sources which could consist of general fund um fund 40 our Special Reserve for Capital outlay uh cops cop proceeds or general obligation bonds but no spending is tied to the adoption of the plan at this time great thank you okay so we have a motion and a second all in favor I I any opposed hearing then that'll be the order number nine approve the calers health program resolutions resolutions 24255 certificated bargaining unit resolution 2425 16 classified bargaining unit resolution 24257 unrepresented employees and resolution 24258 Board of Trustees motion bu Canon second Tucker Tucker uh any discussion all in favor I any opposed hearing then that'll be the order okay so we're going down to consent to recommend that the Board of Trustees consider approving a number of agenda items and they are one through 29 so let's go ahead and uh I'd like to pull eight okay so eight and then anybody else i' like to pull six and seven I think six and seven yes eight six six S8 okay so do we have a motion to approve one two three 4 through 28 Minus 6 7 and 8 actually skip seven seven is in seven you don't want to I don't want wait which ones are we pulling six and eight six and eight six okay so we have a mo we need a motion to approve items one through 28 other than 29 I'm sorry yeah 29 six and eight so moved okay I'll second it you Canon and a second op par we'll start with item okay so um we have a motion to approve uh we'll have discussion on six and seven so go ahead and um should we vote on vot on those okay okay so we have a motion in a second all in favor I I any opposed hearing none that'll be your order so we have six and eight to okay so go ahead and uh who wants to um I start with six go ahead what's your concern six U the concern that I have I noticed that we the change was made regarding this contract with uh the probation Department however it did mention something about the cost to the district and my the last understanding was that it was there was a grant and it didn't cost us anything but when I went back to read it it says that the district is responsible for 70,000 per person so was that Grant from our district or was it Grant from the county it's from the county probation so the original contract does come through with the dollar amount and then when they get the funding they send us the letter so the original contract we did not have the funding source yet it would have been a cost to us but um right as we were bringing it to the board the last time the letter came through and it was um approved for another year of us not contributing anything for the cost so the language should be uh uh clarified in the document that we're going to check off because the document that we have for this particular board meeting today did state that the board was respon the district was responsible to pay yes I was I'm a little bit curious about that for the um fiscal implication it says on February 12th the district received notification that sanino County Juvenile CT um coordinating Council has agreed to have our district portion of the probation officer salary funded through ab19 ab1 1913 Juvenile Justice crime prevention act so that's the indication we've got the letter they won't change the original contract because they have to State the amount then they tell us by the Grant and that's why it's stated in our in our background so they'll have to attach it to this documents so that nobody is confused down the road to say well that is the missing paper is here and we we want you to pay up we do we we um submit that to the business office along with the contractor once it's approved okay okay the next question that I have regarding this particular contract is um it gives us the information about what the probation officer can and cannot do um but I'm a little bit I'm still concerned that um if the if the probation officer begins to not notice this child and gradually this child now ends up in juvenile court system to become part of the juvenile system to to have a record um I'm just wondering when when the um our social workers that we have on campus or the mental health counselors that we have on campus and all of these people that we have Place put in place when do they come in before the child becomes a word of record yeah so um for clarification if a probation officer is on campus the only um normal contact with students is for intervention purposes training of Staff um but they do have case loads of students that are on formal probation from the court system those students if there is an issue on campus that they have violated something the probation officer can come assist with that situation they cannot notice things on campus and add any new um like they can't violate a student that has not been put on formal probation they can't um site them they have no jurisdiction over those students that would go through the normal process of if there was a a penal code violation it would be our Police Department or the sheriff's department so um they don't get to do anything like that they really are just there so that they can supervise before and after school they can be out supervising they can be supervising at lunch and at both campuses our probation officers are actively out there greeting kids talking to them getting to know them um the majority of the things that they help us with is are cessation programs and um referrals for um students to get support that they may need even if they're not in probation good thank you along with SAR they're part of the SAR panel okay so we'll um move on to can we vote on that one well we can just do them both let's go ahead okay go ahead and disagree with you but we'll go ahead SE uh motion to approve item six so move okay I'll second oara and you can you can all in favor I I any opposed hearing then that'll be order okay eight Eight's one that uh you wanted to pull yeah so just in the interest of avoiding any conflict of interest yeah so you guys would excuse yourselves at this point for a moment we leave yes okay see because we can't even vote or in the room for the discussion I got you I'll slow I see why you wanted to do by I didn't want to argue sorry it's okay I made a note when we were back I didn't know you were gonna throw them out well that's what they said should do okay so we don't need a report on it we just want to vote with the three of us here so motion to approve eight so moved and I'll second it okay Long Shore yeah made this the motion and if you can in second all in favor I I thank you you bring them back in real quick they went to the ladies oh yeah we did it okay so basically um we do need a second closed session so um we will need a motion to going to close session um I'll make the motion that we go into close session at 103m you have a second I'll second it okay so Raley made the motion and you can second it all in favor now we're going be talking about them time discuss Y St your Ps e e e okay okay so we're back from Clos session we'll call back the meeting the order at 1122 pm and we'll just do a quick roll call Amanda here Maria yes Renee here Anita here I'm here so um we recommended that we're going to reopen pars uh that was what was in closed session that was one item so the clerk will read um any report of action taken in closed session so um in Clos session the Board of Trustees took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent item B3 conference on litigation government code section 549 54.5 section D and 54956.9 five uh subsection nope just kidding Z Roa versus avusd on a motion by Rick Ry seconded by Maria oara the board voted unanimously to Den the claim of Zane Rocka uh b um on a motion by Rick Raleigh seconded by Amanda bu Canan uh with a unanimous vote the Board of Trustees approved the following do I read it's not yellow what that I can't see it and okay uh so to approve the non- reelection of the following certificated probationary employees identified by employee number number 0478 and number 8607 number 1548 effective June 30th 2025 and direct that the superintendent or her design give written notice thereof as required by law right item B7 conference with labor negotiator on a motion by Maria akara seconded by Anita Tucker the Board of Trustees approved the following uh approved the memorandum of understanding with the California School Employees Association CSEA Chapter 828 dated February 28 2025 regarding transfer processes through December 31st 2025 that it yep okay so we just have one more item is there any future items for any board members that want to agendize anything um I would like to put on the agenda um to discuss um Equitable access across our high school campuses okay so that'll be a staff report at some future time and with that um um our next regular board meeting will be April 10th 225 2025 at 5: PM uh there being no further business to come before the Board of Trustees recommended that we adjourn the meeting do have a motion so moved second okay did you catch all that um it was it was it was Buchanan and um Tucker Oh Maria okay all in favor I I I hearing none that'll be the motion or that'll be the order so I think this was a record 11:30