So, that was something that was really helpful to me and that's what I want to be talking about for my portion of time. It's the support system that I've been very blessed to have here at Crawford. So with that um couple months that I had with the opportunity seeing the classroom, seeing the kids and being able to experience that, it's very helpful for me because I'm a transition and teaching student like Payton. So I didn't really get student teaching or any experience like that. It was really a good opportunity for me to be able to see that a good experience. So, I'm thankful for Jenny and Jay for allowing me to have. Now, during the summer, I had a lot of questions. I asked Jenny a lot of questions over the summer. She helped me out with that. Uh Sean Gerald helped me as well.
They want it to be more anonymous but we need that information in order to be able to investigate those items. So, so there are several ways that you can report. Um, of course, you can email it directly to a principal or here at the um central office any of the administrators. Parent Square, if parents are using parent square, there's a way that they can communicate with teachers and and again principles through parent square. That's another avenue. Um they do we also do have a um a reporting site on the website where you can report anonymously any bullying events. Um so that would be an um as an option for again students or parents or any individual in the community. If you believe that you've reported something and that you don't feel like you got the satisfaction of or resolution um of that event, we would encourage you to reach out to central office.
There's a you know there's a meeting where we popped on the select board. There is I looked today. So the ones that [Music] are I don't know talk about that we're talking about minutes but it's generic so I don't know it's gen I think you can go ahead I think minutes are okay so then we can I I looked today so there's several that say like MBTA public hearing and I believe the way we handled those was like it was a public hearing and we just put a statement but there is one meeting missing from like 24. I don't remember the date. So, one meeting that's not one of those. Yeah. And sometimes, like I said, when we have a joint meeting um or we we go on the select board meeting, it's listed as a meeting, but we don't go back and put the little section that we have from hopping on another person meeting, which we need to do.
And that usually comes from the principal in the school, not necessarily the school committee. So when we talk about stability for kids or teachers, I think we need to think about what causes the instability like the state not funding the chapter programs. That's not going to change. And Doug Swellen wrote a wonderful email that I saw that said, you have to have your school districts band together statewide because you do care about the emotional and and physical well-being of the very child that you're educating. I don't know if you saw it, but I'd happy to send it to you if you'd like because he is right on and he has been up in front of you people on a steady basis which I have not done. I will also say that the mayor proposed something and the last school committee uh meeting I attended. I was thrilled to in the round robin which surprised everyone hear various school committee members saying they were willing to think outside of the box.
So, um, all those in favor of the motion that's on the floor, Miss Cullinin, can you just read it one more time for clarification? The motion, can you just read the motion again? That the Cheshire Board of Education approves the survey questions as recommended by the state department of education. All those in favor of the motion that's on the floor, it's unanimous. Thank you. Any further comments uh from the curriculum committee? No. All right, we move on to finance. Dr. Herrian, good evening. Um, we have in our packets lots of financial documents. Um as reflected in the summary that we see before us um the summary through March 31st 2025 our approved budget for the 202425 fiscal year is 89 million uh 542,609 and we have expended and encumbered 82 million 109,965 during the eight months of the fiscal year which includes our income encumbrances for our largest accounts, namely payroll and transportation.
I would like to invite all of our trustees to join us to not only meet the president of the largest labor union in the world, but also to see what we've been sharing with educators and community members from across the state and nation. Excuse me. What was the date on that? Uh, Wednesday, April 16th. So, it' be next Wednesday. Time. um from 8 to 3 in the La Palma room. Yeah, it's our last learning leading day of the year. Unfortunately, this month doesn't only bring good news. As we have all seen, public education is continuing to face new challenges. From the shuttering of the federal department of education to the real possibility of losing Title One funding, we see a growing effort to remake our society through force. These efforts are antithetical to what we do here in Anaheim Union. They violate our core values and seek to disenfranchise our school community.
Right in front. Okay, head on up to the podium. There we have Leah Costa, Remy Aldridge, Bella Coronado, Nicholas Coronado, Alexa Cortez, and Lenani Nicholas. You guys are up. Nicholls, I'm sorry. Thanks for correcting me. Hello.
there. Columbus is considered a title one middle school. Woodrow is not. But the percentage um of lo of um free and reduced lunch at both schools, it is lower at the one. It's higher at the other, but it's not like, you know, 9020 or 9010. It's more like 5545. So they're they're relatively close. And by maintaining this, taking a balance out, we're m we're creating a new school that's also balanced. So, we're maintaining a balance, a relative balance at both existing middle schools and creating a third school that will also be relatively similarly balanced. Commissioner here. So, I had two questions. Thank you again for the presentation. When I read it, I I did say, "Wow, this is long." Um and I quickly skimmed over to see which schools we would be um implementing at this new middle school that we're having. Just wanted to get it clear.
Can I get a second? Second. There any discussion? All those in favor? I motion. Thank you. J4 Street. I'm gonna try this maybe. Uh Arizona school boards association recommends updated uh policy language. So in your packet you have policy AA which is the district uh legal status. Uh this just provides uh simplifies the language around the the district's legal boundaries. policies ABA and policy ABA both it's just simplifying and clarifying the language of those existing policies and then policy A uh is is being removed from the policy manual because it's redundant information that's already listed in policy a motion please I move that the governing board approve revisions to policy AA school district legal status policy ABA community involvement in education policy AAA parental involvement and policy ad education philosophy/school district mission as presented. I get a second. Second.
He got me the Canvas pages, showed me how that worked, got me set up there. Coming in on the first day, I was really nervous, but once again, I was able to ask questions to Jenny and Jay at any point in time, and they would reply right away or I could go to the room. They were always present, able to help me. Just very thankful for that. Um, going into the school year, um, I had a lot of help from this them as well. I needed help like figuring out like what to do about discipline or what to do about sitting on my lesson plans or how I can make up that extra time at the end of the hour that may may occur unexpectedly. If my lesson goes too fast, I had a bunch of questions about that kind of stuff. I would ask Jenny, she would give me some advice.
Um the individuals in this room um here at the central office again we are dedicated to making sure that these um opportunities or issues are addressed. So Nikki and Carrie um so any any of the um Mandy I know Um, all of them will be you can reach out here at the central office and I believe Nikki left some business cards at the table just outside of the doors. Pick up those business cards and just reach out to us and let us know what you've heard so that we can investigate it. Um, the office number here, I think we shared it earlier, but um, you may not have written it down. The office phone number to the central office here is 812 3464483. Um, also any of their email addresses are available on the website and again on their business cards. Um, and again those are out on the table just outside the doors.
So, um I'll I made a note to take a look at those just so we can wrap it wrap it up before we get too far into the year here. We want to go through all the updates and then come back to the retreat items. Um, sure. We want I don't think I have any the comprehensive plan. I'll just say that we had a subcommittee that met for about five hours to review the strategies for the comprehensive plan. The subcommittee included me and Kate um, and I believe three or four other members of the committee. and then we bring our input from the strategies back to the committee which is meeting next Thursday. I will add a clarification that was specifically only strategies that a member of the steering committee had identified to talk about but there were too many to get through in a whole committee so we didn't go back to zero.
there were some other ways to look at these things and yet nothing was proposed because they know they're not going to get the majority. It's like the majority of the people aren't going to go with that particular idea, this particular idea. So, if closing the middle school and doing what the mayor proposed is such a nasty thing, there's all kinds of other proposals that have been coming out in my from what I can tell, and I'm not on the school committee, but there are other ways to reconfigure things. And I get that parents want to know what their kids are going to do. I think um Mohawk is trying to figure out what they're doing about Hollowmon. Like, this is an annual occurrence. And I have been pink slipped. so many times in April that I get how upset everybody is, including parents who thought that this is what's going to happen.
Um, uh, with that, I am going to knock the finance report over to Mr. Masiana. I'm sure he doesn't mind. and he will take us through also medical benefits claims and um also if we have if anyone has any questions on the energy price locks he'll he's available for that those questions as well. Thank you Mr. President. Thank you Dr. Harren.
It is beyond frustrating because we realize that often we have little or no control over these vengeful efforts. I encourage us to shift our focus on things we can control here in California, here in Anaheim. Soon we'll be facing the expiration of Prop 55 funding for Anaheim Union. This would be an annual loss of $50 million. I think back to Dr. Ian's budget presentation last month. How could we absorb that size of a loss and not make drastic cuts in everything we do? Our students and our school community would suffer irreparable harm. We can't wait to begin work to work together to keep this from happening. The California Teachers Association has a goal of 85% of its members to sign a petition to qualify a proposition to extend or if the political climate is right to expand funding for public education in California. That's an ambitious goal for CTA.
Good evening board members, superintendent Nelson and assistant superintendent. My name is Nicholas and these are my fellow student council members Alexis, Alexis, Leah, Remy, Leilani, and Bella. Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to speak with you tonight. It is truly it is truly an honor for us as students of Yakaloma Elementary to stand before you and share all of the wonderful things that are happening at Yakaloma. This year we hosted a bingo night which was an overwhelming success. Families came together for an evening of friendly competition, laughter, and fun. The eternal was fantastic. Another stout event was our paint night. Some created true masterpieces while others, well, let's just say abstract art. It's very popular these days. But the most important thing was that everybody had a great time and we all left with a little more pain on us than when we arrived.
It would be school 5, school 8, school 15, and school 17. Correct. That is the proposal. Yes. Um because those schools would again maintain that balance of taking a title one and a non-title one out of each existing school to create the new school. It also addresses the different regions of town um so that our school is fairly balanced from which parts of town everyone is coming to all three middle schools also creating that kind of one Clifton balance at all three schools. Definitely. And my followup to that is I know you mentioned that May would be the meet and greet with the new principal. Um how soon are we going to get the information to the new fifth graders that they will be attending the new middle school? communication will be going out to those uh parents tomorrow morning. Thank you. Included in that communication will be the date, I can say it, it's not a secret, of the meet and greet, which will be May 27th at Clifton High School.
Is there any discussion? All those in favor? I I opposed. Motion carries. J. Okay. J5 is executive session. Can I get a motion, please? I move that the governing board conduct an executive session pursuant to ARS 38-431.03 for the purpose of consulting with andor instruction instructing the board's representative regarding negotiations. I get a second. Second. All those in favor? I. We'll be going to executive session. We will return. If you'd like to leave, you're free to leave. We'll return when we come back. Just letting you know our next meeting is on May 8th at 6 p.m. here. We'll go to executive session. Oh, we might be able to stay here. How are you?
I would ask Chloe, she would give me some advice. the other science people in the science department always help me out with that kind of stuff. Another thing that is helpful, I've been observed several times by and I really appreciate that too because it's an opportunity to get some really valuable feedback that because I'm not I didn't get a traditional program for transition teaching. It's something that I really need to be able to grow as a teacher. This first year has been uh interesting so far, but I've learned a lot and I've been really thankful for the mentors and the support system that I've had and it's a the reason why I want to stay at Crawford'sville for a long time and keep learning and keep growing as a teacher. So, someone really near and dear to me just had her doctor dissertation defense. Did she maybe give a shout out to someone in her defense about having her for class and being taught the hot known and how important that was to her understanding love viruses that who would love viruses that much but I think it's it's testament that you know it's a lot it's 11 years later we're still thinking back to Mississippi and great things happening here they really do thank you guys you cannot [Music] Let me just So the first page I'm I'm sure Dr.
Um, direct contact and open communication of course is vital. We have to work together to provide these um, this safe environment to make sure that it we're supportive to the students um, to the staff um, and in our school corporation. So, um, again, I would say that I appreciate very much you coming. I've given a lot of information. Happy to, um, you know, if you missed any of that, I'm happy to go over it again with you after the board meeting. Um, if if you're a member of a Facebook group, it's um, social media is something that we struggle with because not always is that information identified where we can act on it, right? The information is is just not detailed enough. So have if you know those individuals and you're um you know you are representing them and you know information reach out and let us know so that we can investigate it.