That is a source of pride for all of us that teach and work in MUSD. for sure. It's an amazing it's it's amazing to be noticed in a document like that. But I want to say tonight that we have been given that nod only because of Dr. Strereer. He has made us believe that he spoke it into the universe and it's starting to come true. He has pushed us with demands and expectations, but he pushes in a kind and thoughtful way. He believes in us and doesn't get down on us. He tells us we are world class. He cares about us as individuals and respects us as people. He cares about the students in this district and he knows that what he can do to help all of our students is to help all of us employees to see our potential. I've never spoken publicly to the governing board in my 26 years here, but I'm doing it tonight because I didn't want to miss my last chance to do so without telling all of you that I know all of the administrators and teachers behind me feel the same way.
moderator and uh good evening everyone. Thank you for spending a Wednesday night with us. Um, as the moderator has uh noted, this is a transfer from the special education stabilization fund in the amount of $300,000. Uh, this is being used to help balance the FY26 budget. Um, one of the primary uh drivers uh in some of our costs uh for the town um are related to some of the out of district special education costs. So, um, this is necessary to, uh, help maintain a balanced budget and, uh, maintain our commitment to our kids. Thank you, Mr. Herbert. To allow discussion, I'll enter a motion that the town transfer $300,000 from the special education stabilization fund to the general fund. Do I have such a motion? Discussion. Come up to a microphone. We can't hear you from back there. Well, come up to the microphone, tell us who you are, and then you can ask me to ask him.
So, I'll fill it in after this meeting depending. So, yeah. No, that I I get that. So, we just three of us in in place of five. So, does that still meet your quorum count? Yes. Okay. Yeah. You mean like for the do m do my modifications only need a quorum? I assume that a three. Yeah. When Lisa reviewed this because I sent her the special permit with the three votes, she didn't comment on any on that. She said that it looked good. Yeah. So I assume it with a minor modification and I also sent her the draft of the site plan just to double check and she also said that it was good. Okay. All right. So I will make a motion that we accept the uh minor modification for [Music] um for the site plan review. Um I I was paused because actually overall it's it still says special permit on this document.
It was good row to Rosario. Rosario with the ball met by Jordan. She chucks it in. Nice pass and a nice What a What a great save by Jenna Holly. What a great shot by Mahoney to come sidearm and take a shot. Jenna Holly says, "No thank you. Give that to me." And quickly kicks the ball up to the East Lummit offense. M. Whitward goes by one, two, takes a shot, grabs her own rebound, stays with it. still stays with it. And that's a something call again. That's a something call. Mac Wilmer looked like as if it was Mac didn't give chase. So she probably thought it was off on a player, but that's not the case. And Agawan will start the ball deep in their own territory as they kick the ball up to Spalding. She loses it. Trulio's got it. Trulio takes it.
Hello. Sorry, I had traffic. Um that was the end of the celebration of excellence I presume. Oh when the when the students come in from their they're playing baseball. Okay. So we're going to move on to comments from the audiences or anyone out there would like to make a comment from the audience this evening. Eight. Um we don't have additions to the agenda, do we? Or do we? No. All right. On to routine business and the approval of minutes. We have a motion to approve the minutes of the April 9th, 2025 auto business meeting. I'll make a motion. The minutes. Thank you. Uh, anyone want to make questions, comments, or edits on these minutes? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. Anyone opposed or abstaining? That passes. And on to board of ed committee reports and curriculum. Curriculum was going to have a meeting, but we canled it due to everything being covered at our last meeting, but no new courses to bring forward going into the summer.
I want to thank Mr. Hosshi for coming into our classroom in Miss Ryza's class to share more about his experience and his parents' experience in the terment camps during the executive order of 1966. I want to share that the ethnic studies really allows students to not only explore their own identities but also um share like demonstrate solidarity with their community members and also learn more about themselves in that process. Thank [Applause] you. Hello, my name is Leslie Song and I'm a junior at Cypress High School. I'm also here to uh represent the ethnic studies task force and I would like to give um a great thanks to the board to listen to our input and I believe that ethnic studies is really important for our academic curriculum as it allows um students to build empathy and understanding of different perspectives. This is different from our traditional standard of um teaching and education which I believe has created more students to be open-minded and understand how different perspectives of our cultures and backgrounds are truly important.
For me, it's the people. So many friends, so many role models, so many people that make Apple Valley High School a place we look forward to spending these formative years. The relationships I have made through leadership are ones that will stay with me far beyond graduation. My goal is to be a part of something bigger, not just dances or school events, but creating those memories for people. We cannot do it without your support. So, we appreciate you for continuously being there for our student body. I look forward to furthering our connection to staff and students and I can't wait to be here next year bragging about how we are the high school. Thank you for your time and remember sunville pride is contagious. [Applause] I see that Jasmine Bracie showed up. You want to get up to the podium and say goodbye? We don't want to we want to make sure you get uh um get your time.
I understand and empathize. At the same time, I also have to recognize the context in which we are in and our society is changing and our values are changing and how we're able to adapt to that and how we use our resources will continue to change in order to best meet the needs of our students. There is no simple answer for this. That is what I also know. That is the challenge ahead of us. I will wrap up my comments, but I did want to mention that Rosie Dea Cruz is finishing up her year with us. It is June next month and she will be leaving us. Her position will be available and the acting assistant superintendent Orin Catchoff will step into that position. He will assume direct responsibilities for both our Tucson campus and the Phoenix campus as well as Odd and CTE. I will be assuming direct responsibility for the other parts of the assistant superintendent duties.
I wanted you to know that he inspires all of us and that he's doing an excellent job of making us, our schools, and our students excellent. Now, although I will never agree with him about who he roots for in the college sports arena, I still wanted you to know how awesome he is. Thank you, Dr. Strereer, for coming to MASD and showing us that we are all excellent. I wish all of you the best of luck and all of the love in my heart to continue to be excellent for many more years to come. [Applause] Thank you. Next up, Miss York. [Music] Just a second. Good evening, President Holt, members of the board, Dr. Strereer, senior staff, and community members. Um, first I do want to acknowledge the retirees and thank them for their tireless dedication to our schools and students. Um, the difference you have made will not be forgotten.
Hi. Um, I'm Penny Black and I live in Ashland. Um, I'm concerned about $300,000 when I think about the importance of spe special education and I'm wondering if we have fewer special ed kids and that's why we can go down or are the teachers saying that they want less money. This is going the other way. It's increasing funding the special educ is coming from the special education fund to move into the general fund to fund special education. I didn't understand. Could you explain it one more time, Mr. Herbert? Sure. Um, it's actually a good question. So, what we do each year, um, in the fall when we get what's known as our free cash appropriation is we take some of that money and put it in this special education stabilization fund. So when we do in incur some larger out of district special education costs, we've got savings built up that we can use to help educate them.
Yeah. Just make sure. Thank you. Yep. So, just make sure you change it before we uh before we sign. It's the one thing that's not highlighted, right? Um, of course. There we go. That's okay. Yep. Um, I will make a motion that we approve the minor modification for the site plan review for 501 Pond Street. Um, with that one little change in text, is there a second? I second that. And a roll call vote. Deepo and I. House. And Trisha Kendall I. So over will prepare those and I guess um um when Kate gets back Deep and I can stop in at any time and and get them signed. Chris, is there a is there a rush to get these signed or uh Well, so what's the timing? It'll be early next week, it sounds like. Kate, what what's your timing on when you might be able to sign?
Gives it to Lucas. With a feed. Addie Jordan ends up with it. Jordan goes through one, two. I don't even know how she held on to that ball, especially today. And what they called her with a They got Addy Jordan with a charging call. I don't know how that was a charging call when Addie seemed to evade every single one of the Awan players, but Giovanni throws the ball away and Kenna Marino ends up with it. Kenna's got room. She's got space. Uh kind of pulls back one on three and setting up the East Sense. See this every time one of the girls catches the ball in the light. You just see the whole netting, the spray from the the water. You saw him out moving the ball around, looking to find play a little two on two as he's at Kenna Marino. Kenna Marino gets it checked away and Addy Jordan ends up with the ball.
So, uh, finance So, the finance committee met yesterday. Um, you know, given where we are with the budget cycle, there's lots to talk about. So, it's pretty substantive meeting. Um, from a transfer standpoint, um, in the packet, there is a number of transfers, you know, to go through. At this time of the year, there's usually a number of transfers just because we're kind of shoring up the budgets and moving the last, you know, amount of funds around. Um, I won't go through every single one, but I'll pull out some of the more significant ones, unless we have to go through everyone. We'll go through. So, we had a 34 or $43.38 transfer from Psych um and SLP test to special education general testing supplies. Then, we had a reclass of $11 to purchase additional world language supplies. We had a reclass to transfer $500 in special education instructional supply from BHS to DCS for supplies.
So I hope that more people can continue to empower these students into learning the importance of ethnic studies. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you ladies. Always a pleasure to hear students make a presentation. Next, we recognize our associations in the audience. We have Lisa E from [Applause] CTA, Jeff Morgan from ASA, Lacy Monger from APGA, our counseling staff, Jennifer Sasai, Alta representative, and I think that's all from that. We also have Juan Alver from Anaheim Elementary School District as a board member. Did I miss anybody? No. Good. Next, we'll have reports of associations. So, Mr. Aa want to come forward. Mr. Morgan. Mr. Morgan's turn. Well, it wasn't Mrs. Asta. I had a picture of a sash right across. I don't know. Well, good evening. Uh, happy May and almost happy summer. Um, board president O'Neal, um, board of trustees, superintendent Matsuda, Executive Cabinet, colleagues and community.
Okay. Well, I don't really know what to say, but thank you guys for having me come speak at the board meetings, and I really appreciate you guys for listening and having me here and having this opportunity. Um and I hope to see you guys next year before I graduate at least. And I would be excited to I'm so sorry. um to speak more with you guys and yeah, I hope you guys have a good summer, you know. [Applause] Thank you, Jasmine. Okay, so we have a lot of uh recognition, student recognitions tonight and so I want to move the agenda around. So I'm going to move to amend the agenda for this meeting to recognition presentations item D1 and D2 occur between public sessions items C4 and C5. So what that means we're going to move forward with a recognition. So I just need a second.
That includes our early learning program, itinerant services, special education department, deaf programs, and blind programs. That will be starting July 1st of 2025. That will give us a full year to figure out how we can restructure our educational programming for two years and it also is able to save the agency some money. I also want to express my appreciation for your work, your support and you have been attending meetings on a monthly basis. Last February, we had our work study session and we talked about our budget in depth. By the way, that is online. If you want that information, you can check what's called Diligent Community on our website. Go back to February 13th. There is a PowerPoint with many slides with a lot of information. We reviewed that with the board. And then again in April on April 10th, you all met again to look at our capital budget, our capital needs and predictions for the future.
But tonight I am here um because I have the honor of presenting the MEA Friends of Public Education Award to someone who has had an immeasurable impact on our schools, our staff, and our students. Mr. Dan Canno. Dan has been a fixture in the Morirana Unified School District for more than 30 years, not just as our chief financial officer, but as a true partner to the educators and a quiet force for good behind the scenes. He has sat at countless tables, sometimes across from us, often beside us, and he always brought calm, clarity, a smile, a joke, and a willingness to find common ground. In Morirana, a CFO is not a desk job. primarily because Dan chose to be available. I know at Twin Peaks, he was our go-to for many unwelcome critters on campus. I am sure that that was not the uh in the original job description, but he showed up when we needed him.
Thank you very much. You're welcome. Anything further? Because this involves removing money from a stabilization fund. This will require a twothirds vote. We'll start with cards. All those in favor of the motion article 3, please raise your cards. Thank you. and opposed. That passes unanimously. Article four, fiscical year 2026 budget sponsored by the town manager finance director to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate from available funds and or transfer from available funds in the treasury. Such sums of money as are necessary to defay charges and expenses of the town, including debt and interest for the ensuing fiscal year or pass any vote or take any action relative there too. I've made some changes this year and I'm providing both the school committee and town manager with a few minutes to make comments on the budget before we hear from the finance committee.
No, I won't I won't be back. I will be back for the 15th for a comprehensive plan meeting, but I will be probably sliding in the door for that at 7 PM on the 15th. So, the earliest would be the 16th. I mean, if something needs to be four, we could try to figure out some FedEx thing. I don't that I'm not sure, but I would definitely try if that needs to be earlier. Yeah, if there's any way that you could do it sooner, I think it would go a long way. Um, I'll follow up with Alro to uh confirm the timing needs, but uh I do believe that as early as possible would be a huge help. Do you want to um is it Kate? Are you able to sign the document and uh email it back if if Alvo sends you a Yeah, I could the last page and then we will add for like places to print.