In addition to being dedicated to her academics, she participates in a variety of clubs and activities at BCS, including art club, robotics, student council, book club, cross country, and more. You are busy. The past three years, she was also selected to participate in the Eastern Regional Middle School Festival with student council. This year, she has helped to organize a food drive, fundraisers, and school dances. Outside of school, she has also volunteered to help teach dance to younger students. Overall, Kora is an excellent representation of BCS by being involved in her school community and a leader to her cares. Congratulations, Kora. We are looking forward to all your future success. We do have your certificates coming in. The caps awards are all right. The next award is for Maline Rate. Does Maline count? Yep. Maline Rate has made a positive impact on our school community and beyond.
But it's more just the principle of it. If the new building is simply an extension of our school, then all the same classes should be offered. We are all DHS students and we want equal opportunities. I'm not saying we should demolish the academy program, but I feel we are rushing it and not taking all details into account. As a result of this, according to a survey we gave to students of all grades andmies, almost 90% of people have had issues with course availability, primarily culinary classes, because of the lack of kitchens at the new building and also the fact that those classes are now mainly reserved for students in the culinary pathway. The way the program is running now is undermining 90% of students high school careers. This is why I just want our administrators to wait until we can have all the proper facilities and a full staff to provide all programs to all students.
Nu, if you'll talk to us a little bit about the curricular alignment with the lens of constructed meaning for explicit language instruction. Good evening. So starting with the curriculum that we've been writing for the pathway at high school, we've undergone a process in the last couple years um and I stood before you to share that writing process um to ensure that we're thinking of a backwards design approach when it comes to not only embedding the standards of the courses that we're designing, but we're also embedding the portrait of the graduate attributes and skills. Part of that work this year has begun to look at our assessment tasks and think about how we're really creating opportunities for students to speak, to listen, to write, and to read with respect to the constructing meaning framework that our district is being trained on. What that means is you're going to see a higher level of assessment creation that now looks now that that looks like really specifying what kids will do in an assessment.
It had to be from July 1st, 2024 through June. Is that not what the date says on there? It says 24 to 25 for this school year. Yeah. Right. Okay. Right. But he's just making it end at it. It It began in July 1st when we're actually voting on it now. It didn't begin. We just had to use the services and their verbiage says you have to do the whole school year. Correct. Yeah. That's that's how they write their contracts per school year. So it's it's it's set up to correlate with the school year. Correct. Many school districts who use outside non-public agencies often will have these on file in case that's not been an issue for us. Um so that might be something we want to consider moving forward is just keep the these types of contracts on file in case we need to use their service.
But as you know, these solar panels often leak and don't extend to the entire seating area. So, they often so they offer little coverage for those that are lucky enough to get there first. For the unlucky, they hover under an umbrella or just bare it. Or like with my son and his friends do, they find a little space of the overhang of the roof for one of the buildings and they just huddle there and eat their lunch. So, um, and I didn't find out about this until one day, uh, my son, he brings lunch cuz he has food allergies. So, he his container was nearly full and I asked him about it. He's all well. I only had time to eat a couple bites before I could um go in the gym. They allow the kids to go into the gym only on really um heavy rainy days like like the atmospheric river days.
I was repeatedly targeted for my stature and lack of speed and was repeatedly put down because of it on a regular basis. I did not enjoy that season and made the decision to not play the following season. Going into basketball season that first year, I was hesitant about playing, but there was different coaching then wasn't the chance. Basketball that year was a completely different atmosphere. I was motivated to get faster rather than being faster. I was encouraged by the coaches instead of being made fun of and that made all the difference to me. Coach David helped me gain my motivation that year to work out and become more athletic. He's helped me see that nutrition and consistent training is the key to become a better athlete. He helped encourage me and helped me believe that I could start a basketball and make a positive impact on our team.
Um, State University and we had a successful mock interview as I know Mr. Scragam's going to talk about a little bit later this evening. Uh, band and choir also excelled uh, both at the high school and the middle school at the Disney competition. Uh, middle school group uh, scoring second in their division with an overall rating with excellence. and the high school band finished uh with 95 out of 100 points in first place. So, they're to be congratulated. Um Harmon celebrates. They're happy to announce that Pamiva Danielson was chosen as a finalist for the School Connect student champion of the year award. That will be a a ceremony that'll take place on May 1st. Uh we work with School Connect on a lot of community events and so we're happy to see that he will uh that that that recognition will take place. um uh and he may be a winner.
Uh the blue bar is your net full cash assessed value. That one is more closely aligned with what's going on in your overall economy. Uh because it's unrestricted as to growth. Uh it and it also is used to calculate your bonding capacity. Um, and I I have a that formula per statute here in a couple slides to share with you. Your bonding capacity. Um, the red bar is your net limited assessed property value. That's how you, the district calculates its tax rates, all of your rate, your rates, primary and secondary, anything voter authorized, and your general fund tax. Um, and so I'm going to hone in on the uh the red bar here. Um, you you'll see though that the the most recent estimates for in February here for next fiscal year, you have a 9.6% growth year-over-year on the red, which is really great.
N. know [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Say the monkey Oh my go. [Music] Mama. [Music] You know what I'm talking about. [Music] Keep holding [Music] on. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Yeah. [Music] Heat. Feeling [Music] [Applause] more. You tell me when to move on. Our friends from Philippines were incredibly awesome in celebrating and sharing their culture with us tonight. Good job [Music] guys. Welcome. Namaste. Namaskar. Swagatam. Now it's time for us to celebrate the one and only India which is widely known as Barat Ardesi. There are nine amazing Indian educators working at MUSD. We're all excited about showing you a taste of our country using a variety of popular things like food, dances, festivals, monuments, etc. which we are really proud of. My name is Da Emanuel and I'm here with my fellow brothers Mr. Singh, Mr. umbrella and our desert wind middle school volunteers and our adorable son Mundraj and who is Mr.
And um I really really am anxious to see how district 26 can help this program be in every school because it's all about STEM and kids creating solutions to big problems. So these kids did amazing. Um when I attended the meeting I was highly impressed but it took so much time my kids couldn't participate. So hopefully we'll be able to offer it at all our schools in the coming year. Um and then a little shout out. Um, I'm super involved in uh the CBA for the past couple years, uh, Carrie Basketball, and I love I think we all owe them like a thank you for how respectful their the coaches and their staff are to our schools. Um, I love getting emails from them that parents or children have acted bad and they hold everybody accountable. The first year was because of the cameras catching people vaping or or going behind screens and doing inappropriate things.
hearing none. Thank you, Mr. Shepard. Uh, next up we have the custodial bid. Mr. Shepard. Yes. So, the district's uh prior uh 5-year custodial contract was coming to an end as of June 30th. As the district knows, the prior U vendor was Alpha Building Maintenance. Uh they ended their contract early. Um however, we are still obligated to go out to bid for a long-term solution starting uh July 1 of this year. Uh so the district published uh that we were seeking bids. Uh we had a very good turnout uh at our mandatory pre-bid meeting in which we met with the the various contractors and took them on uh a tour of the the district uh and our facilities. In fact, a lot of them were thrilled that they got to ride the the school bus uh around the district that day. Uh we ended up having seven contractors submit sealed bids and they were publicly opened on February 27th at 10:00 a.m.
About a week before we had our donation drive, we contacted the PAD shelter and asked what specific items they needed replenishing. They expressed their need for deodorant, shaving cream, puzzles, planners, juice boxes, and a few other small things. After getting this information, we wanted to begin advertising our drive to the whole school. To do this, we talked with our principal, Dr. Clauss, to approve our plan and get it into full effect. We explained that we wanted to get as many items as possible within our week-long drives. Dr. Qu suggested that we make it a competition to get all students involved. Whichever first period class in the whole school could collect the most items in four days would receive an would receive an ice cream party. To spread the word quickly, we created posters to put around the school, reminders to put on school TVs, and spoke on the announcements each morning of the drive week.
Okay. So, go to diligent on this one community agenda. You want the testing one that we've been doing? should be able to just click that little arrow to the right of it and it should because we published it but not to the members. Well, they could see it if they log in, but we didn't notify them. So, click that and it should pop open in a new tab with So, this is it just and so this is what the public sees on the website, but also this is just the public. So, as you're running through your side, I would assume this is scrolling for them and then see the votes. Oh, as they're coming in because when I Because let's make this as big as we can. This one. Okay. See, because when I on my end, this is cuz on my end now, can you pull that all the way into the other screen?
I look up to her on and off the court. I hope to carry those lessons with me as I continue my journey in basketball and beyond. Thank you, Juliana, for being such an incredible role model. Juliana [Applause] Davis. Uh, like I said, I couldn't think of any better way to introduce those two. So, um, they're they're great, uh, student athletes. Um, and as you can see, like Miley was nervous about what she was wearing, but we've we've already been back in the gym, so she Good job. [Applause] I'm gonna have uh Dustin Bence come up and he's going he also double double duties. He's a volunteer uh wrestling coach for us. So, he's going to introduce our girls and boys wrestlers this evening who received academic all state. Dennis, you're so short, man. What the heck? All right. Um, thank you guys for having me.
they're going to be able to um you know I would give them little tasks and things like I have all these ideas of what I want them to do while we're there um and we'd be able to join forces with um this teacher group and he's he's experienced with this particular company Jump Street Tours. He says it's fantastic. They even provide um nighttime chaperoning as part of the whole package. So we don't have to stay up till you know I've taken many trips over the years in my career. And that's the most unfun thing to have to do is but it's important to check in on the kids, make sure everybody's safe and sound all night long, so forth and so on, you know, taping doors, all that stuff. We don't have to do that as chaperones. Um that is taken care of for us uh through this tour company.
I wanted to share with you what I went through in 2007 as well as 2008 when the district then brought up the fourth grade to the middle school. At that point, many families started to leave. Most choiced out due to the uncertainty of what was going on in the district. Families and staff do much better when things are stable as well as predictable. We lost many children in those years. As you all may know, students who choice out rarely if ever come back. My request as someone who's experienced the upheaval in 2007 and 2008, seeing our district struggle with the closings and movings, please put these decisions on hold. The variables are changing. They are different from where they were before. You know that there's going to be some changes happening to our educational foundations in the very near future. Having a stable school system can allow informed decisions to be made carefully.
Have you ever anybody have any questions, comments for Angela? All right. If not, we'll move on to finance. Amy, I sp your time there. It's all good. Uh the finance committee met last evening via Zoom and you'll see in your packet a copy of the operating budget summary as of March 2025. Under general education, you will see that salaries is now showing a deficit of $1,539. Uh Donna reported that she has tried to estimate sub costs for the next couple of months. It's a moving target, but our costs seem to be coming down a bit, which is positive. benefits is now showing an increased surplus of $139,250 as an additional insurance cushion was released. And again, we should have a better idea of benefits projections in the next month or so. Services is now showing a decreased deficit of $3,411 as we found some savings in grant offsets.
The Bolton Center school community has benefited from her consistent involvement in the student council, helping out with spirit weeks, middle school dances, and food drives. They're also very busy. The town of Bolton has benefited from her active involvement in Girl Scouts, participating in food drives, and trail cleanup efforts. She has maintained a strong academic record through her time, receiving honors through middle school, the band award, as well as the ELA award. We are so proud of Meline and congratulate her on this honor. Award goes to Michaela Maynard. Michaela is a model student at Bolton High School, demonstrating respect. Is Michaela here or is she in Florida, too? I don't know if she I don't think she's in Florida. We're not sure. Okay, so I'll start. She's a model student at Bowen High School, demonstrating respect, responsibility, and bringing an overall positive energy to all that she encounters.
Thank you. Thank you. Henry or I'm sorry. Hello everyone. I'm Tala, a sophomore who's enrolled in the LA health pathway in scientific innovation and medicine academy that's going to be in the west campus. I wanted to raise some concerns I have regarding the new academy program and I'm also speaking on behalf of my friend Caitlyn who couldn't make it to go track me who also wanted to talk about the specific class AP cal PC. I'm currently in precal and while signing up for classes next year, I was told that I wouldn't like to be able to take AB Cal PC because there weren't enough students in the new building who wanted to take it. And then I asked for Cal AB, AB Cal AB, but was also told that there's not a great chance that I couldn't take it as there weren't enough students in the new in the new campus that were willing to take it.
So, are they comparing and contrasting? Are they explaining? Are they writing a sequence or um of instructions? By spelling that out for teachers, we're now giving them the opportunity to really design instruction that focuses on what does a kid, a student need to be able to explain and describe. What are those words they should be using? What do they need to compare and contrast on the continuum of K through 12? Because obviously what a kindergartener is going to do will be different than a 12th grader. So this new focus on embedding the ability for stu for teachers to design instruction around students um skill of constructing meaning about around the use of language um is our next iterative level of curriculum work that we've begun to implement this year. So um in a very few weeks I'm sure we'll be talking about our introduction courses that for the pathway we started with our exploration we did our essentials and now we're on the introduction and you're going to see more of these embedded language functions if we did that correctly.