Um, it's a supplemental program that you can send your child to if you're in if they're in grades 1 through eight. Um, it's held this year at Woodro Wilson Middle School. It runs from July 1st through the 24th. There's a cost of $425 a student, but every day or virtually every day, I think every day, but Fridays, uh, from 8:30 to 12:30, students have an opportunity to expand their knowledge and experience in areas of art, math, science, music, uh, band, strings, and in the end, they even produce a musical uh, that they present on the last day of the course. Um, it's worth every penny. Um, my granddaughter was in it last year and there's no way I could stop her and I'm almost done. I don't usually talk that much, so I'll take all the stuff I have in the back and put it in there today.
Okay. But we but we're not being asked to put forward a report by that time. There isn't there isn't a request for a report in the motion. No. Okay. Thank you. Doesn't stop the committee from, you know, requesting certain deliverables from you in the future, but as of now, you have a pretty broad mandate. Okay. Um, we ready to vote? Secretary Denive. Chair Johnson. Yes. Vice Chair Ston. Yes. Secretary Neim. Yes. Member Goodwin. Yes. Member Childs. Yes. Mayor Disorger. Yes. Member Martini. Yes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. Um, I have another motion on this, um, which is to charge the redistricting and reorganizing ad hoc committee with putting forward any recommended changes to their functions and duties. I'll make that motion myself. Is there a second? Second. Second from Mayor Disorger.
Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed? That's 5-0. 11:113 agreement uh undocu LLC. So second motion in a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. opposed. 5 um 11:14 Initial contract proposal AUHSD to Anaheim Military Instructor's Union information only 11:15 public hearing initial contract proposal AUHSD to Anaheim Military Instructors Union. We open public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak? Close the public hearing. 11:116 initial contract proposal AMIU to AUHSD information only. 1117 Public hearing initial contract proposal AMIU to AUHSD. Open the public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak? Close the public hearing. 11:18 initial contract proposal AUHSD to MI managers association. Information only. 1119 public hearing initial contract proposal AUHSD to min manager association open the public hearing anybody wishing to speak close the public hearing at 11:20 initial contract proposal MMA to AHSD information item 11:21 public hearing initial contract proposal MMA to AUHSD we open the public hearing anybody wishing to We close the public hearing.
Uh would you like me to restate it? Excuse me. Would you like me to restate the information? No, no, it's fine. I just um I think that u we can just give a verbal here of asking uh Superintendent Nelson's office to provide the information that Trusty Long was asking for. Yes, please. Okay, I'll approve it. Do everybody else agree? Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. Do you want it sent in an email to each board member or do you want it as a staff um presentation at the next board meeting? Just email it. Okay. Okay. It'll take a few days. It probably will be sometime at least next week because we've got um several data sets to pull. Yes. No worries. Thank you. Okay. Was there anything else Renee you wanted to add on that before we move on to item two? Um that was it on that topic.
Um, uh, just to mention on board pass actions. U, that's like 2020 hindsight, right? These boards, they did what and the decisions they made were with the information they had at hand and in the best interest of the of the school community. Our focus is on what happens now, near-term, long-term. Um, and um I'm sure this board will make the right decisions uh for all our children in the district. Uh happy Easter to everyone. Happy Passover and everyone. And I hope every family and every student has a wonderful spring break. We do have Oh, we have new business. Any new business for this evening? I I have Commissioner Mia. So, I did want to bring something back to policy. I don't know if we could do it. Um I remember before we were talking about the free and reduced lunch forms on how not it's not not everyone f fully fills it out.
Any discussion? Secretary Deniv, will you call the vote? Hold on a second. The motion is for to charge the redistricting and reorganizing ad hoc committee with putting forward recommended changes to their functions and duties document. Okay. Who who made them? Who uh Glenn and Jenny? Glenn and Jenny. [Music] Okay. Okay. All right. I'm sorry. Yes. I I got it. Thank you. Okay. And will you call the vote? Yes. Chair John Massad? Yes. Vice Chair Saxon? Yes. I'm a yes. Member Goodwin. Member Childs. Yes. Mayor Disorger? Yes. Member Martini? Yes. It's unanimous. Okay. Thank you. Um it's 8:30. Um I guess I would propose that we keep going um through new business and then take our break between the new business and our um executive session. Does anyone have a problem with that? Okay. Uh any requests for uh new agenda items for future subcommittee meet school committee meetings?
Moving on to the consent calendar. Anybody wishing to pull? I would like to pull 12.19.2. 1219.2. Yeah. 12 12 1292. 12192. Yeah. Okay. 12192. I'm pulling 129 and 1210. Anybody else? Uh 1212. 1212. Okay. Motion for the balance. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. Let's go with 129 and 1210. So move. Second. Motion a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed and abstain. I. So that's 401. Next is 1212. So moved. Second. Motion and a second. I just had a quick question. Um, how many more schools do we have? Yes. So, we have three schools left. This training will include the training for Cypress and for Oxford. Next year, we will finalize with Kennedy and then any other staff at any of our schools since this will be the last that haven't been trained.
Okay. So we'll move on to item two uh which is Fmap and again that is Trustee Long. Sorry you all have to listen to me so much tonight. In an honest effort for fiscal transparency and a clear understanding of our district's current financial position, the board and superintendent Renee Nelson unanimously agreed to move forward with a fiscal crisis management and assistance team, otherwise known as Fikmat on Thursday, March 6th. Four days later, I followed up with Superintendent Nelson via email to provide contact details for FICMAT, and she let me know she had already reached out. Two weeks later, I had not received any update and again emailed Miss Nelson. Superintendent Nelson was given clear direction by the board to proceed with Fikmat. When Tne Nelson spoke with Shayen Hart, deputy deputy executive officer for FICMAT, Hart explained, "The FHA or fiscal health risk analysis is more of a global look in terms of looking at processes and procedures to identify areas of risk within 20 different areas we've seen lead districts down the road to insolveny.
I was wondering if we could do a policy where before the student becomes enrolled here in Clifton High School that they have to. I don't know we are legally able to do that. We no we're not legally allowed to do that. It is an optional form. Uh but we do have it when they come to the welcome center to register they have they are given the option of filling it out and also when you go on um I think it's real time or whatever system we use for for a student portal. It is one of the first, if not the first document that pops up and you have the ability to fill it out on the spot or opt out. Are we able to do like nudges to tell them like, hey, you still have not filled it out? We do. So, we send them every Mr.
Secretary Denive. Yes. I would like [Music] to I would like to have us all look over the um functions and duties of subcommittees. You mean you want to look at all the functions and duties of the committees that have been presented and approved by the school committee on? Um, no. Let me see how to phrase this. Um, I want to make sure that we understand how ad hoc subcommittees work and have that uh crystal clear and put in our handbook and our policy. Okay. Um maybe we could just um vote now on charging the um policy subcommittee with taking a look at that and coming forward to the full committee with um with or with a review of that. Yes. Okay. Uh that motion was clear as mud though. So I guess I'll try again. Sorry. I'll move that the school committee uh charge the policy subcommittee with reviewing our policies on um ad hoc committees.
As you may recall, every year when we do this, we build an extra space for any new staff, both classified and certificate that have been hired to receive the training. Uh so I'm excited to to hopefully get to that place where we can finish all our schools and then just do re-ups and and and continue to rebuild uh skills in our in our staff and the way they build community on the campus. So that's 2526 for the two and then 2627 for is Kennedy and anyone else followup. Okay. And I would recommend that any um trustee that um would like to go should go. Yes. If you haven't been once we have the dates I can absolutely send the dates. Uh it's a two-day training. Um and we'll we'll get you situated. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That's 5.
This is the most comprehensive review of finances that FICMAT offers." Uh but Superintendent Nelson did not proceed. For clarity, the board did not ask for a forensic audit which would give a historical look. Given the current financial state of the district, we asked to move forward with Fitmat. Somehow in over one month's time, we have yet to begin the process. Our district's legal representation, however, has reached out to me repeatedly. Superintendent Nelson, why did you ask Mark Thompson, a lawyer for Atkinson, Anderson, Loya, RDE, and Romo, who is not affiliated with FICMAT, to take initial steps to set up an outside investigation in response to the board's request. I'm uncomfortable having a conversation that came out of close session. This is a close session discussion. We have violated the Brown Act and I would like to go on record that I did follow direction of the board and I did not put Mark Thompson into an investigative role.
Rose, correct me if I'm wrong, every Wednesday we send out the lunch reminder telling people like you owe a balance of X and fill out the form and then Mr. Rose has the link going right to uh the form. So, legally, we can't mandate them to do Okay. Um my sec my second one is going to be a new policy on response time. I know recently we've all been getting a lot of emails about people saying well it's been taking I know you guys have a lot on your plate. Um some people are saying well hey this is my third time reaching out in almost 3 weeks getting a response or at least saying that hey I see your email and I'll get back to you in a certain amount of days. Um because I know there have been some people saying, "Hey, it's been taking almost three weeks, four weeks, five weeks um just to get a simple link or something like that." I there's one person who um we stopped responding to because someone was disrespectful to Mr.
Great. Is there a second? I'll second that. Second from member childs. Any discussion? Okay. Secretary Den, will you call the vote? Hold on a second. Second was Child's. Okay. Um, Chair Johnson, yes. Vice Chair Sexton, yes. I'm a yes. Member Goodwin, yes. Member Childs, yes. Mayor Disorger, yes. Member Martini, yes. Okay, the motion carries. Thank you. Any other requests for uh future school committee business items? Secretary Deniv, I'm sorry, this isn't a new business item. I just realized that I do have a very very short legislative report. Could I give it very quickly? Uh yes. Seconds or less? Yes, absolutely. Yeah, we can consider an item unanticipated. Thank you. Um we have the day on the hill coming up on May 6th. So if anyone on the committee would like to attend uh you will need to get on the MASC website and uh register yourself and build to the district and then come and uh talk to us as we are putting together a group comprised of school committee members from various different districts.
Okay. That and now we have 12192. So move. We have a second. Second. Okay. Motion and a second. M uh yes. Sorry. Uh I am uh I'm just abstaining due to being employed by the supervisor Chavy's office. Oh, okay. So, all in favor say I. I. Oppose. Abstain. I. So, that's 401 again. Okay. Moving on to excuse me board of trustees report item 13. Mrs. Smith. Briefly, I just have a few things to uh talk about. I attended the insurance committee a couple of days ago and um we just go over a tremendous uh volume of work and um a board member is just there to listen not to participate but I so deeply appreciate the work that goes into that. And then I saw a quote uh the other day and I thought it was so interesting because it just really spoke to me of the Armac program at Magnolia and they said food security is a national security and I thought that was a very worthwhile co comment and then there was an article in the paper about vape technology in schools and we've put that into two of our schools and I'd like to see that increased to all of our bathrooms in our schools.
Renee, we went over this in close session too and told you that I think more than one board member said this is closed session items, but you want to move forward. So, you can keep you can keep going, but it's up to you. Okay. It w it was per Mark Thompson's um information given to me um that I spoke on that Superintendent Nelson gave him direction. Just to be clear, I have not made a request or filed a complaint. The board gave direction to the superintendent and this legal detour has cost the district both time and money. Our staff have larger class sizes and lower wages than Hisp Unified School District, Victor Elementary School District, and Victor Valley Union School District. As noted by many classified and certificated staff members who have recently spoken in open session, even with this and according to the San Bernardino County's first interim report, we are in deficit spending of over $15 million.
Shiada, so we stopped responding, but typically we respond to everyone who reaches out to us. Um I get probably 300 emails a day on an average day. Some of them are junk. Some of them I need to respond to. Some of them I need to send to somebody else to do something. But every single one I got to click on and open. So I would not recommend any type of policy that requires a response time. And the only time somebody wouldn't get a response from me is if I mean there is a chance I could just miss it, right? I could just make a mistake and miss it. But uh sometimes we do cut off communication with people who are disrespectful. Okay. Um, my third one is going to be I know people mentioned it before that they are okay with that 2% but many of the citizens are saying well I want to be able to interact and get an answer like on the spot.
Um we had a meeting on Monday night at the collaborative uh zoom meeting and we made plans to make appointments with various legislators and we identified the things that we wish to discuss um that was most top of mind and um we expect to be there as a large collective contingent. So if you would like to participate, please uh register and reach out. And tomorrow is the YLO uh conference at the high school, the youth engaged legislative officials. And um Vice Chair Ston and I will be present and um talking to the youth and we will bring back a report on that. Thank you very much. Uh, member child's. Um, so can any of us show up and join you there or is it really just you guys that will be there for that? I would have had to have s they sent a sign up sign up sheet out.
I've had u parents call me and tell me that their students are finding that problem when they go into the restroom that kids are vaping. And I think for us to help young people through our genetics training that I hope is augmented to from what we do in our schools to teach um that genetics is so important as a tool to learn about who we are and what we inherit. And I think that one of the things with this vaping and I see kids out in the community when I'm driving around vaping and I think that it really needs to be emphasized to young people that you could become addicted because of that. One thing can lead to another could lead to another and have a real de deficit uh impact on your future. And um I wanted to extend greatness to all the people that work in our kitchens with the producing the their food service and is awesome.
Tonight, we are even considering taking out a highinterest loan. As a member of a board elected by the people to help lead our district in financial solveny, this is unacceptable. When we ask financial questions and are not given clear answers, when our classrooms and programs lack supplies they need, as a district, we must respond. We need to be afforded clarity in regard to our current financial state and provide transparency in our management of taxpayer funds. In so doing, we the board can help give direction in the best interest of students, families, and the public we serve. in the spirit of truth and transparency and in light of our current spending freeze riffs of our entire classified and certificated staff and in agreement of the board. I ask that we move forward with FICMAT's most comprehensive fiscal health risk analysis otherwise known as the FH. Is that it?