Article six passes unanimously. Article seven, annual consent article, community pre preservation act items sponsored by the community preservation committee. See the town will vote the following items. Community preservation funds FY26 annual appropriations from FY26 estimated revenues to committee administrative expense $72,747. from FY26 estimated revenues to historic resources reserve to community housing reserve and open space reserve 138,218 each and und designated budgeted reserve $967,528 Oak Street bond payment to appropriate $131,150 from the undesated budgeted reserve account. C to High School Fields bond payment to appropriate $292,600 from the undesated budgeted reserve account. The Warren Woods bond payment to appropriate $148,125 from the following FY26 reserve accounts. Historic reserve $47,400. Open space reserve $39,994. Undesated budgeted reserve $60,731. the Valentine estate to appropriate $45,936 from the following CPA reserve accounts. Open space reserve $6,564. Undesated budgeted reserve $39,372 or pass any vote or take any action relative to there too.
Like we don't have to vote on our letter. So we don't really have we don't really have any power here. I think so. I think that's the Yeah. I don't remember exactly how we did it. You might be right. For whatever reason I thought it was like Peter put it together. We talked about it. we agreed to the changes together and then like one of us went and made them which is a little different from initiating a discussion outside of a meeting. So it just feels a little bit like a gray area. If you want to run it by Lisa that's a great idea just so that we're not accidentally as we get smaller and we don't have staff support. I don't want us accidentally because we have good intentions. I don't want us accidentally to do something that we're not supposed to be doing.
Um, so we hone in on these skills of planning and prioritization. A lot of students have trouble kind of planning what should I be working on today during study hall or during connections. what's the most pressing assignment that I need to complete? And we have a number of students who really struggle with organization, whether it's physical organization of their materials. You look in their backpack and it's just this sea of papers. Um, or even just the mental organization. How do I take all my thoughts and organize that into a cohesive paper? Um, so those were the executive functioning skills we decided to kind of really target this year. Um but again developing interventions with those with those teachers working with the students what you know let's come up with an organizational plan for you Leah and let's sit and look at what works best for you as a student and let's keep circling back to that um every week what's working what's not working.
So I look forward to hearing our students reflect on the experiences following this event May 19th. And now I'm going to introduce Crystal Miranda, community school coordinator. Good evening. My name is Crystal Miranda. I am the community school coordinator for independent studies and ILC's. For the past three years, it has been my privilege to participate in the evolution of how our district connects with and supports our students, their families, staff, and surrounding communities. As system thinkers and creators, community school coordinators gather satellite and street data to gain a deeper understanding of the communities we serve and bring their strengths and needs to the forefront of the conversations that are being had with school leadership teams. Thank you, Carlos. Community members, parents, and students to create equitable, effective, and sustainable systems of support in and outside of the classrooms. Just yesterday, the community schools district committee reviewed a proposal brought forth by three junior high schools who had each successfully piloted a reading program at their respective sites.
But I can't stop thinking about the cap capstone cabaret. I I went to Capstone Cabaret and I walked out of there and I thought if we had this once a month, I will not have a need to be surfing the web for where the entertainment is somewhere in San Bernardino County. Those students were exceptional. The performance was second to none. Their costumes were you you know it was like you can't get enough of it. And so for that I say thank you to the students at um at Granite Hills High School for for that performance and thank you for um those students who are doing the um CTE because that is an exceptional program. I I can't wait. I see this little gift that I received. It means a whole lot more than the person who gave it to me because I am going to hang it up and every time I look at it, I will think of the greatness of Apple Valley School District.
The community preservation committee recommends the town so vote. The finance committee recommends the town appro approve the CPC consent article as set forth in article 7. As with article six, due to the routine and recurring nature of this article, I will ask for a motion and then move directly to a vote. Uh entertain a motion that the town approve the CPC consent article as set forth in article 7. Do I have such a motion? Uh this will require simple majority. All those in favor, please raise your cards. Thank you and opposed. That passes but not unanimously. Article 8, appropriate CPA funds for the creation of the Ashlin Arboritum sponsored by the community preservation committee to see if the town will vote to appropriate up to $500,000 for the creation of the Ashlin Arboritum and that to meet this appropriation, the sum of $200,000 be transferred from the open space and recreation fund and $300,000 from the undesated account from the community preservation fund balance with unexpended funds as of December 31st, 2028 being returned to their funding source or passed any vote or take any action.
That's all. Yeah. timeline that Alro is still there till first week of June and this meeting is end May. Does that help for us to still send it to him and uh he can even if it is just copy and pasting into one document for our review doesn't have to be formatted or things like that but just kind of Anna would that help at this point? I think I think that that's probably a good idea while Trisha kind of connects with Lisa. I think in general as we get smaller and we don't have a a regular size board and no staff that seems like a good short-term solution while Trisha connects with Lisa so that we can I I'll send Lisa an email on it, you know. Um um that that's fine. Like I know I know last time we we all worked on it.
Um we also were looking to build capacity within those students um to take a little bit more ownership for their work completion. Um, one of the things we developed was a progress weekly progress monitoring chart where the student sits with their MTSS provider once a week pulls up their grades in Power School and goes class by class. Let's look at how you're doing. Do you have any missing assignments? Do you have upcoming tests? What do you need to do next? And really trying to build that skill with our goal being those students being able to do that independently. Sure. So, we have some sample data. Oh, that's okay. Perfect. Right there. Yep. So, um one student um we're looking at this student's sample data. Um our goal for this student was we wanted um them to be turning in a minimum of 80% of their assignments um in their classes.
These reading programs were a result of the ongoing assets and needs assessment process. Each was uniquely designed in accordance with their site strengths in mind and the information gathered through conversations facilitated by our community school coordinators with staff, students, and parents. The conversations grew to include community partners, curriculum specialists, and district leaders, all offering support and guidance. This summer, Brookerst, Orange View, and Sycamore Junior Highs will launch the reading support initiative, Level Up, a joint effort to address students struggle with grade level assignments due to challenges in reading comprehension, decoding, and fluency. They will be partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank and Hope Builders to create a sustainable reading support system that will exponentially benefit all our junior highs moving forward. Level Up is just one example of many that highlights how the community schools approach better equips us to recognize challenges as they emerge and provide the capacity to respond swiftly with tailored support and resources from new and existing community partners.
Thank you again and have a wonderful summer. Thank you, Maria Amanda. [Music] Okay. Good evening everyone. Yeah, just the lights on but nobody's home. Um, as Oh, hey, there we go. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Buchanan. Um, not related. Not related. As we've approached the end of the school year, I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the students who I know already left, but um just especially the ones that have come and spoken to us throughout the year. Um their voices, their stories, and their pride in their schools have truly enriched our meetings. Um I also wanted to congratulate the students being honored tonight. Your hard work has earned you this recognition, and we are so proud of you. And to the students who may not be in the spotlight tonight, but are quietly celebrating the end of another chapter in their educational journey, please know that we see you and we are proud of you, too.
other action thereon. The community preservation committee recommends the town so vote. The finance committee recommends the town so vote. Mr. Lad. Uh thank you. Aaron Lad, chair of the CPC committee. Um I have a 2-year-old at home and when I come home sometimes it doesn't matter what I do, he just wants to say no data, no data, I don't want to help you. And sometimes I get a warm welcome hug. I felt like hearing from the town manager and our school committee. It was the no data, no data, no data. Hopefully this evening I can be the yes data, I love you, want to give you a hug. So, I have some good news from CPC to present tonight. Article 7 really illustrates that CPC is uh we have two bonds that will be paying off the next couple years. Our revenues are exceeding our current spending limits.
I I think it's kind of thing is it's it's actually my understanding it is that it's not a decision before our board in any way. It's a draft that you're working on. It's it's a letter. We have no deciding power about anything except what our letter contains, but that's not a decision over anything. So, um but um but I'll run it by Lisa to make sure that our that my understanding of that and that of our process is is is good, you know, is valid. So, yeah. I I just didn't want to get if we were working on a decision. Yeah. Like for a project that would be one thing, but but we're not. It's not even I mean that might be that might be appropriate. I just want to make sure we don't Yep. I always don't step on it over any lines. Yeah, exactly.
And we were looking at prioritization. So, like Jen was saying, um, you prioritize what you do. So, you know, um, the provider was working with this particular student on, for example, looking at the weight of assignments. You know, if you have an assignment that's worth 100 points versus an assignment worth 20 points, taking that into consideration, taking into consideration um, how soon is it due? How much time do I need um, to prepare for this? Um, building on skills. So some assignments um might be more important to build on later skills um than other assignments. And then whether the student can still turn it in. So in our power school um teachers know if a student if a assignment is still something that a student can turn in and get credit for. Um oftentimes they'll have a little note that will say you know send in by this date to get credit.
We have seen an incredible surge of on-site support systems over the past three years, including dental, vision, and health clinics, community pantries that serve not only students and families, but the community at large, resource fairs, mental health support, the list goes on. Building upon the meaningful work our faces have done by focusing on the school as a whole, and establishing posit positive relationships with our parents, families often look to their school site for tier one support. This provides a foundation of trust, ensuring that the tier 2 and three supports community school coordinators help establish are being actively utilized by our students and families across the district. Our community school coordinators have their ears to the ground and are intentional when creating, managing, and leveraging uh relationships with community partners, creating systemic solutions to trending issues and acting as a catalyst for high impact change. To further in to further illustrate the strength and impact of our community partnerships, Marissa Bermudees from OKO will share some insights into the collaborative work that has been happening.
I had the opportunity to attend many events um over the last month recently that have already been mentioned, so I'm going to just let that go. But um I do want to thank President Raleigh for asking me to attend the multilingual recognition event in his place. Uh, so it was a beautiful celebration of the rich diversity and determination of our staff to see our students and their families succeed. I'm also going to embarrass you and say I would also like to offer a heartfelt congratulations to Superintendent Nelson for being selected as the countywide award recipient at the event. Um, it was a really incredible and welldeserved honor. Um, and now the only person to have received this award twice. So, congratulations. I know she hates this. I'm sorry. I told Mr. Schloer to take a picture and send it to Zoe so we could get it up.
We're growing our uh available funds. So, hopefully this is the good news of the evening and some of the fun projects we can do. Um because of those proposed uh outlays and inlays, uh the three projects we have for tonight hopefully are some exciting improvements for town. The first one presented here is the arboritum. So, what you're looking at on uh the blurriiest PowerPoint I've ever seen um is a locust area of what used to be the Cadillac paint site. Um so, along Elliot Street heading toward Sherburn about a quarter mile from the Sherburn line. Uh there's a piece of property there highlighted in green. Uh the town has cleaned up the property. Uh we put in some parking spaces. You can see in the aerial image that a rough um clean up of area has commenced. I don't know if you can go to the next image or not.
We've done this. We've had we've had open like whatever. I just want to avoid it because I know we're we're underst staffed. So, it's good to get it right. We don't want to get lazy and make a wrong move. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair enough. Okay. All right. So, we'll work on that as a team. Um, anything else on that? We If not, the next thing on our list is just a discussion review of any retreat items that anyone that anyone has. Um, I don't have anything to do the retreat items. I did not either. I'm ashamed to say I've been wanting to. I just have not had time. Has been busy. Kate was probably thinking more about vacation than retreat items. So, we're all in the same boat. I I will say that, you know, this is a strength of Kate's that she had us organized and thinking about these things and I'm going to miss that.
So really building those skills like Jen was saying, you know, our goal is that they learn to do this and they can do this on their own because these are the skills they need for high school and and well beyond. Um so they were working with that and then also initiation and initiation task initiation. So helping the student with a routine so that they got started because we were noticing um particularly within a student study hall um they were not um initiating they were not they were having a really hard time getting going on assignments. So supporting the student with that um and then initiation with teachers too. So reaching out to the teachers um to ask about if the you know if they saw they could still hand something in but they weren't sure when the due date was. Um so having those conversations or hey you finished it making sure they reach out to the teacher to let them know that it was finished so the teacher needs to go back and and degrade that.
Good evening. Thank you. Um like Crystal mentioned, my name is Marita Bmudees. I am the community organizer for Orange County Congregation Community Organization. Um where I lead the education work locally and statewide. I'm also a parent, so I'm proud of that as well. um and very um honored to do the work that we do here um in partnership with Anaheim Union sitting on the on the steering committee. Um and I just want to give a quick example of the work that we've been doing collectively which is um supporting um most recently in the LCAP process. Um this is the second year that we've engaged um with the district to partner up to really uplift and give a space for families and students to come together and be able to know what the LCAP is, right? the local control accountability plan and see how their participation is meaningful and how it can um impact the um the recommendations that are given to you as the board.
But, um, so this week is teacher appreciation week, and I want to say thank you to all of our amazing teachers. There's a saying that a teacher affects eternity. they can never tell where their influence stops. And your impact goes far beyond the classroom and we are so grateful for all that you do. Um, and I'm going to go a little off what I wrote because I was inspired by Anita. Um, when I was in ninth grade, I took honors English, Mr. Mueller. Loved him. Um, like most teen girls, I didn't have a great relationship with my dad. Like, you know, we always buted heads. I'm a Taurus. Um, this is my season. So he was just kind of like that mentor at school. And I went off to college. Well, so later in high school, he convinced me cuz I had my co-curricular letter and my academic letter that I should join the track team.