Yeah, I so people can come up to the microphone and anyone who's online as well. Um I'll start with anybody. Is there anybody in the room who would like to offer any public comment first? If you wouldn't mind coming up so we can see you and hear you, please. And then I I'll move to the folks online who might want to participate as well. Next, my name is Diane. Good. Good evening. My name is Diane Um Holtz and this is Heidi Hansen. Hello. Um, we're with the Ashlin Music Association and we want to start by saying thank you to all of you and to the administrators looking at these numbers. This is not an easy job and and it represents a multitude of hours that you've put into it. So, thank you for all that you've put into making our schools um a a bargain at excuse me as was um displayed on that slide.
And if there's any funds available at the end of the year, I went back because I anticipated this coming up. I have found emails between Liz Gilman and the business office and myself about the fact that she's bringing to our attention even though we knew it that there is a balance that is left in a local budget. What are you going to do with that? So, it's a practice to zero out the local. And as I said to you, mayor of your question in May of the 2024 meeting, I told you the order we spent it. I took grants off the table because the grants are spent in accordance with the parameters that the grant was written. Then we spend the local first which is why as I'm a broken record every report that I give to say we charge everything to the local first.
the six years that I've been here. And I think we'll I we can answer that fairly soon. Um and then the other part that we've been trying to do is in the fall, we've kind of carved out from that and said based on this previous spring survey andor things that we're noticing in the building, you know, what do we want to focus on this year um as we move forward? And so some of that has been you know like in previous years we've looked at like you know uh feedback from administrators or curriculum or you name it and we've tried to you know narrow that in for students. We've looked at like um you know how many trusted adults do you have and things like that. Exactly. That's exactly this one I'm talking. So that's that was that's been a huge one and we've seen a huge increase in that and part of that's been like mindful effort to really think about what helps a kid connect with adults in the building.
Are we are we going to be looking to have students go from one campus to the other like I thought we had talked about for music? I'm hearing something different. So, is this part of what we because I know we were talking about getting this transportation at the beginning of the school year. It looks like we might just be getting to the very end of the year before we figure it out. Is that part of it? We are looking at all of that as part of the transportation restructure. Thank you. Sorry. Do we have a transportation person yet? Uh right now we have been actively interviewing uh for the person. Um and uh we will be finalizing uh those interviews probably in the next week or two. Um in the meantime um we have uh utilized our prior transportation person for some support in terms of any more questions.
So, we're feeling pretty good about it. Uh, they were freezing, though, because the weather had been amazing up until the day they left. And then it was sprinkling on them and it was freezing as they went up the channel and totally windy. They didn't care. The adults cared, kids didn't. They had some hands-on activities to learn about erosion while they were there. And um the fun fact that they learned is that the biologists there have discovered that the eagles that nest at Melin Lake are actually from northern Canada. I know who knew. Um so I see some erosion. Hands-on is the way to go for sure. They will remember it forever. We're out in the community everywhere. We have a field trip over to see Ryan Madison cinnamon roll shop. um former board member over in Mariposa. So kids are learning about small business, the community, we've been to the Oak Library, we've been to Round Table, they're going to the pizza factory and Rayley's um CHP stations, post office, get them out in the community and see what's going on.
Let's continue to Roman numeral 3 resolution 24-9. Resolution to issue final layoff notice to classify the employees for 2025-2026 school year. Dr. Fuentes, please. It is recommended to the board that you adopt resolution 24/19 as stated.
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So, uh, with the exception of the turf, everything else does pretty well and a scores almost all of them above that 3.5 that I mentioned that I like to see because that's, you know, really skewing towards the somewhat important to very important scale there. Uh, but really there's nothing in here that really stands out as something either that is is sort of a no-go. The bigger thing though is that safety and security and career and technical education really rise to the top as priorities. From there, we do what we call reason testing. And the reason is if I asked 300 people, why are you voting yes or why are you voting no? I'd get 300 different responses. We could spend all night reading them to you. So, what we do instead to keep it uh affordable and to uh really get through the question is we measure sentiment through these reason tests.
Here are several findings. So this this um what see? Yep. The school buildings do not effectively manage the school special education program. As you know, I really advocated and I appreciate the board um believing in um the recommendation of adding assistant principles to all of our buildings to our elementary so that all of our building leaders had support. But because they did not have that support, a lot of the oversight and daily management of special education has really lived at the district level with Dr. Thomas and her team. If we want to start talking about improving and differentiated, specially designed instruction, and we want to make sure that those things are actually happening, that really needs to be monitored and supported at the building level. But we have to work with our building principles to increase their capacity. We've already done the move to certified interventionists and then again working with our building teachers to talk about how can we build their capacity so we can better implement accommodations and differentiation at the classroom level.
Um then we would bring it back before the board. So we'll be tableabling that for right now. So 2150 and 2150E both. Yeah. Okay. Um can I I do want to make a note and I so I will also in that time check with our attorneys which I I was pretty sure we did. the the reason why it fell in superintendent committees and I'm fine either way um just as long as the work gets done. But if you read under behavioral intervention advisory committee um it states that the yes the board does have to ensure that we establish one. But then if you look at the let's see last sentence of that paragraph it says at the superintendent's discretion the parent teacher advisory committee shall perform the duties assigned to the behavioral intervention committee. Nothing in this policy limits the authority of the superintendent or designate to create and use committees that report to him or her or to other staff members.
Sorry, my mic's going to get cut off here in a second. So, thank you very much. I'm going to go ahead and second Jason on that one because I it's a piece of paper that goes home along with 50 other papers and sometimes it makes the pile that my husband sees and sometimes it does not make the pile my husband sees. So, it is it would be one that it would be nice to also be able to see my child's score beginning of year, end of year, like make sure she is, you know, each year he is tracking upwards. Hopefully, we want to see our students grow. Um, and I have to go dig that old paper out to find it and compare. So, I agree. Anything else? Any other questions? Thank you, Miss Rivera. Uh, next up we have the committee the whole reports.
That's a little ongoing joke. Mr. law heads generally on the warm side and and our staff up here is generally on the chilly side. It's a battle of the thermostat. Who wins? Well, whoever the boardroom's named after, I guess, is going to win that one. So, probably Okay, I can't seem to get this to go to full screen, but this will work. Um, appreciate uh being here. I appreciate that we were supposed to present last month and I was unable to be here. Um, so I appreciate uh the opportunity. you don't get it. Um it was cool to see all the the kids that get uh honored and all of the little future scientists. Um and then it's cool to see what Anderson's doing. Um but I also know that means it's probably a long night, so we're going to be as quick as we can um with our presentation.
Thank you. So, um Heidi had pulled together some numbers that we just wanted to make you aware of regarding the music program. Oh, and oh my goodness, we're absolutely thrilled about the changes at the middle school. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. uh for just elevating the the the the music programs and as you saw today, we were just so excited with um the all the awards that our our music programs took this past weekend. We were just absolutely so proud. Yes. Very proud. So, thank you very much for the changes that were made to um for the music programs at the middle school. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. And I I don't know if you've heard, but the the middle school wind ensemble, who also won a gold this weekend, is getting an opportunity to perform at the Groten Hill Music Center on Sunday.
So it's local first grants in accordance with the grants and then revolving accounts as needed. So absolutely we have a plan to use the revolving accounts as you're saying this $300,000 that keeps being thrown out there. If we didn't need to use the $300,000 then we're not going to. were going to carry it over to use in subsequent years. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that being done on a school side as there is nothing wrong with it being done on the city side. I'm going to continue. I have one another question if I may. Um, Chair Mad. Yep. Go ahead. Um, so I was I'm curious about the transportation uh the receipts uh where where the credits were actually from. Yes. Uh I know you you sent that about 4:30 this afternoon, Mayor. I was able to get that. If you got a pen, get ready.
um you know and so we've really moved that needle pretty well on that. Um you know we'll have that we should have that out and able to report to you um middle to end of May um because we're going to be giving that out the end of April and then we're going to meet with the climate committee. Um they just met this Tuesday. Uh so on Tuesday we met as a climate committee, looked at all the questions um looking to get some feedback from them and then Miss Nathan's gonna um spearhead that and get it out to staff, students and families because there seems to be a huge change in the team and you know you seem to have a pretty successful year again. So I'm just kind of curious, are we going in that right direction or do we as a board need to do something to help you get where we need to be?
move on down before we uh go to our standing committee. Uh and I thought that was Ralph, but Ralph, it's good to see you. Good to see you. Okay, I miss the people, but not the problem. Okay, our standing committees, we're going to start with the sites and facilities first. Our next uh meeting is scheduled for April 23rd 23rd and it'll be right before our board. Okay. Thank you. Community relations. Okay. Um I don't have anything to report at this time. Uh but I do want to just reiterate what um Mr. Trish just talked about with the family university on April 26th. I hope that board members be able to attend. Thank you. learn commit curriculum. We had such a beautiful presentation. So, um we just had a fantastic presentation for curriculum right before tonight's um board meeting and then um we don't have another curriculum meeting for a little bit, but tonight's presentation was awesome.
Uh fire station, obviously, why wouldn't we go next door? We don't have a lot of options in Aani, so we're going to use what we have. The best part about this is this first first grade group, the engineers and the fire crew that was there didn't look like they were old enough even to have licenses. Uh they did a great job with a bunch of six-year-olds and the kids had an absolute blast. Oh, and you see uh we've got Miss uh original Mrs. Ecklland up there in the back. She keeps getting pulled in. of retirement is about like Glenn's. Uh we've decided just to embrace the chaos because it's spring. Um so teachers are pulling out all the tricks. So we've got a STEM activity over here with jelly beans uh and toothpicks where the kids had to make a house for one of those marshmallow pee bunny things.
Any questions from the board? If not, motion, please, for the resolution. Move to adopt resolution 24/19. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Again, it's a roll call vote. Miss Gomez, please. President Boak, I. Trusty Jimenez, I. Trusty Nuin, I. Trustee Shinas.
Any opposed? Motion carries four to zero. Next item up is possible new agenda items for the next meeting on the board. If not, then I will ask for a motion to I'll make a motion. I'll second. All those in favor say I. I.
We give them positive statements and we give them negative statements and we ask them how much they agree with them. And we try to take sort of the main themes and we don't pull any punches. We we test negative statements too. We'll see because it doesn't behoove me to get up here and tell you your your proposal has a good number if it suddenly can be knocked down because of some sort of criticism. So, we measure positive and negative statements. In this case, school safety and security uh you know is number is is the top rated with 66% giving that a strongly agree five. The safety and security of our students and staff should be our number one priority. 4.34 across the board. And you I give you the ages. So, those are the mean scores for all the different age groups. It's the number one across the board with all the different age groups we measured.