That's uh the image on the left is what it used to look like. I think that's five or six years ago. The image on the right is somewhere between 2020. Um so that's a few years ago. If you went there today, you'd see somewhere between. It's been kind of uh loosely cleaned up. If you go to the next slide, 2023 again, walking trails been inserted. Um some basic cleanup of the site. And the next slide, what we're planning to do, uh, make our first Ashlin arboritum. Uh, it's a really exciting project to put in gazebo, seating, uh, tree species. Um, I feel like Ashland is getting more Instagrammable, maybe because I'm a millennial, but either way, uh, the bridge downtown, an arboritum. These are really exciting projects where people can really enjoy town. Um, and I hope for your approval. Thank you, Mr. Lad. To dis allow discussion, I'll enter a motion the town vote to appropriate $500,000 for the creation of the Ashlin Arboritum.
And although she's no longer, you know, she's no longer going to be a member of the board, I certainly hope as a member of the public, she's open to our reach out and picking her brain on things. And I, for one, you know, would enjoy that outside of this board. And so ultimately, although I did not do my homework for today, I plan to stay in touch with Kate and continue with her legacy, if you will, of continuing to work on these items and keeping her in the loop as a member of the public as appropriate. Um, and I hope the rest of the board will do the same. Yeah. So, Kate, just um I think we I think you already sent us that list of items. So, wasn't that distributed? Yeah. And I I guess I mean to Anna's thing I I too hope some stuff that I believe I did help institutionalize that that could be under the clerk.
So really looking at those skills as you can see with this um we have our you know baseline data um and initially um we saw that the student was struggling. That's the percent of work that was percent of assignments I'm sorry that were completed. You can see on the left it ranged anywhere from 33% to 72%. Um and everything in yellow is below that 80% goal. Um and if you can see as the year went on um they became more successful um consistently um handing in uh that 80% or more of assignments. Um it did take um a little bit for the student to initially uh buy into the process. Um they were not u you know initially weren't um totally thrilled to to go and get the support. But it's beautiful. The student actually comes more often than they're supposed to now. Um they've really bought into it.
So um we did have a debrief meeting after every single um LCAP meeting as well as we participated in the onboarding um um workshop for parents. And so, um, I'll be happy to share at our next board meeting, um, some of the results of that before we s, um, after we shared to our team here with, um, um, um, Robert and Sema, um, who with our partnership, it was really great, um, offering the space and just working in together. And um some of the results were um you know parents felt more engaged, felt more heard and um as um Blanca Alaskano shared at the LCAP um final meeting um you know one of the biggest things was interpretation and this year everybody really felt that they were really supported by that part. So I'm just really thankful for our partnership. We are one of the five partners um on the um steering committee and we look forward to keep on um working together.
And I know you're all thinking like, "Yeah, she looks like a runner." Um, but no, I threw the discus. Um, and I went to CIF, so I got my letter. But, um, you know, he just really believed in me like all around. And when I was in college, my younger sister had him as a teacher um or had had him like the year before and he unexpectedly passed away over uh Christmas break and to I just remember reading through the newspaper at the time like all the different stories people had sent in and that's what it's all about. Um I changed my major, decided to be an English teacher and um here I am. But also, you know, he when I graduated, one day we were practicing in the gym and I was practicing throwing. My bracelet flew off. It was like a beaded bracelet that were popular in the '9s.
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. Do I have a motion? discussion. Seeing none, we'll move right to a vote. This will require a simple majority. All those in favor, please raise your cards. Thank you. And opposed. That passes unanimously. Thanks that article nine appropriate CPA funds for the dig digitization documents for the historic preservation to see if the town will vote to appropriate up to $110,000 for the digitization of the town of Ashlin records for historic preservation and that to meet this appropriation sum of $1210,000 be transferred from the historical resources reserve account from the community community preservation fund balance with unexpected funds as of December 31st 2028 being returned to their funding source or pass any vote or take any action other action relative there too.
I mean I I picked up that from our retreat under basically clerk duty and because I do care about keeping us productive and planning and not just continuously commenting on um things that are pllopped in front of us because I think we I think we owe it to ourselves and the public to do that. So, um hopefully whoever takes the clerk or the people remaining from this board can sort of pray upon and say um that we morph the c clerk role um substantially under you know since I was on the board um and I don't think it's super hard and if someone does take that I could just I mean certainly give them any tips about it and that. Yeah. So, we'll have a number of uh you know, as we move forward, there's obviously um multiple um you know, multiple roles that are available um under the planning board and to see how those might be, you know, distributed between us and the and the new members to see what, you know, people want to want to do.
They're really doing well. Um I did put our our May update in there, but that map is um yeah, is back up. Um but it's really been great and the um provider has most um that um engagement with the process uh feeling feeling good about it. Um and really that success and the student um is still involved in it. We're not feeling you know we'd like to see some a couple consistent months at that 80% before we left on their own. Um but and we will be reducing uh the frequency with which they come but um really really some nice success and obviously that is reflected in the students grades as well now that they're getting more assignments in because like Jen was saying we were noticing it wasn't it wasn't the assessment um that they were doing poorly on it was uh they were missing a lot of assignments and that was really um hurting their grades obviously you know would be hurting their preparation for exams as well but the thing that stood out to us with the large number of assignments they were missing that helped with that prioritization and initiation.
Thank you. Thank you, Mika. So, as Crystal des described the different impacts of the collective work uh through the community school staff members, you have three slides there just to give you some numbers in terms of the impact. Uh I want to get to uh Haley, our student, because the impact really is at the heart of the work for our students and our families that we serve. Um there are again as mentioned these are the the the increase in the impact um that Crystal described in the the work the collective work including the reading program. I'm going to bring up Haley and Jesse our two student and parent representatives to talk about the impact as a parent. Jesse Alvarez. Good evening. Uh as as Kenny mentioned and Crystal mentioned, you know, we have the community voice circles um and empathy interviews which has really given space for our parents to come on campus and have meaningful deep um conversations with staff that really leads to change.
Um, and so when I graduated, he had bought me a little set. Um, and it had a little stone in it that said wisdom on it. And some of you probably have seen it. I brought it when I got sworn in first, and it was just kind of sitting here. Um, and one of the bracelets I actually pinned inside my wedding dress when I got married so that he could kind of be there, too. So, you may not always know the meaning that you have in somebody's life, but it's there. Um, okay, I'm going to go back to my script. I'm sorry. I tried to make it between three and five. Uh, next week we'll be celebrating classified at school employee week. Um, and to our incredible classified staff, thank you. Um, you really are the heart of the campuses. I know, um, Maria says frequently, you're the first ones to greet our kids, the last one to see our kids.
Community preservation committee recommends the town so vote as does the finance committee. Mr. Glad I wish I had as good a pretty a pictures to show for this, but working with the town clerk um on um ironically a motion after planting trees of working on removing um paper records to make them digitized. Uh this is something that a lot of towns have done. Um this is really a a saver for you know long-term record keeping, reducing of paper waste. Um, you know, this is something that probably been done a long time ago and hopefully it will help Cindy for a long time to come of digitizing a record so people can look them up, know them um, in a digital format to allow discussion and a motion. Yes. Wait a minute. Oh, you weren't done. No, I didn't start. I wasn't told it was a two-part.
So the clerk is one of those and um along with the you know obvious the other seats that we need to fill around um around the community. So um I'm making a list of right now Okay. So, um, so nothing to go forward, nothing to discuss on those retreat items tonight. It's what I'm what I'm hearing. So, yeah, it's like um at the at town meeting last night, which um all of our our three warrant articles actually passed. Elro Elro was there. Our three warrant articles passed without a single comment from anyone in the P. No one came to the microphone for any of the three articles. Um people were tired. I think the article was read. I explained it extremely briefly. There were no comments. It was voted on. They all passed. So, um, but, uh, so now that some of those things are, you know, off our plate until the state ch has another change where we have to move that to high on the priority, you know, we'll start to plug away on the existing bylaws and other other things that we wish we could spend our time on until something else demands that we spend our time on something else.
Um so for our second student I question that the previous chart does this does the student see that chart um in yes actually is this their incentive to hey I'm going to do better on my next block. Yes it is. I was trying to figure out what's their incentive really like I can imagine starting off this just seems like more work do I get a cup I get so um so that so then you get this you do that and the nice thing is what Jen was saying that week they progress check too so the way it's set up you can that the providers are looking back as well to the previous like hey look where we were last week look where we are this week and you can see that progress um I also know you know from conversations with the students parents um they were really cheering the student on and um I know grading the student as well.
Um and then also empowerment, right? um the intentionality of reaching out to our families that are usually not as engaged um most on the margins, our most at promised families. Um with that intentionality, it's really brought in a lot of diverse voices uh on campus and then making those connections as well. So making those connections on campus with resources, but also with staff feeling welcome and empowered and being able to see those families now being advocates for not just their families, but their community as well. and being able to see them now in more spaces, really advocating and just feeling like they have been given like true uh space to be partners with the district, with the staff, with their um schools. And so that is where we're really seeing the biggest impact. Um and it's and it's beautiful to see our families out there.
uh you keep everything running smoothly, making sure our students feel safe, supported, and cared for every single day. So, just thank you to all of our staff, and I know we had principal day um recently, too. So, just thank you to everybody. Finally, to our seniors, congratulations. You made it. As you prepared to cross the graduation stage and begin a new chapter, remember to carry with you all that you've learned, the friendships you've made, and the pride of knowing that you have accomplished something truly meaningful here in Apple Valley. We are cheering you on every step of the way. So, thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Amanda. I think everything's been said tonight, so I'm going to pass on comments and I'll pass over to TA for superintendent comments. I concur with all of the events that involved our students in um plays. I went to lay miz after the last board meeting because I had not been yet.
I apologize. Uh, Curtis Hoffman, 58 Hillale Road. Um, I as a recovering archaeologist have provided the town planner with a series of records of pre-EU European archaeological sites within the town. These records are not to be available except on a need to know basis. Uh, and so I don't see that those would be included in what gets digitized for public consumption. Dr. Hoffman, this this isn't discussion. Yeah, it's not discussion. We haven't haven't gotten there yet. Oh, sorry. So, I thought you were part of the presentation. So, just erase that from your memory. Banks. Don't go too far, Dr. Huffman. To allow discussion, I'll enter a motion to see if the town will vote to appropriate up to $110,000 for the digitization of the town of Ashlin records for historic preservation and that the me and that to meet this appropriation, the sum of $110,000 be transferred from the historic resources reserve 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 thereon.
That's that's how it actually works, right? you would like to do all this lists of things, but actually the state or or regulations or laws require you to actually do these things you have to do instead of these things over here that you'd like to do. Um, and uh except for Alvo, this isn't our day job, right? So, it's your day job, Alvaro. So, get busy. There you go. Unfortunately. So, um anyway, okay. So, I guess that will wait. Everything else on the I don't think there's any updates we need to do um I don't think there's any updates we need to do um from the reports unless someone has one. I do. So, so the comprehensive plan, um, I don't know if people got a chance to read the a I guess Ashlin access that was a stuffed in the, um, the monthly newspaper.
So that was also um you know a huge a huge support as well but also in the students grades the changes in grades um were also a really big motivator because when um the kids understand the impact of the zero or you know you know how much that impacts your grade well I imagine it takes some time before they see that. It does. It does. And that's what I love about your work because it shows them, you know, it's our data that shows them, hey, when you do this, look at the difference it makes. And that's great. So, thank you. Um, for student, um, it's our second student. This is one of our students who's working on math skills specifically. They were having trouble solving multi-step equations and math problems. Um and so quarter one, quarter two just consistently struggle with any quiz test. It was not it was not going well for this particular student.
Um and it's not just the same families right now. we're really seeing um a lot of new faces, a lot of new uh families, and it's just spreading out into the community. Um and so along with that, it's empowering and making huge impacts on our students. So, I want to give space to Haley, one of our exceptional students that serves on our steering committee. [Applause] Good evening, members of the board, family, and community members who are here and watching online. My name is Haley Soautello and I am honored to have a minute to share with you all the impact that community is having. I've been involved with community schools for three years now and I can say that the impact of community schools is evident. We make resources available and partner with community members. One example of this is Neutral Ground which has become a trusted presence in our district.
It was phenomenal. um Beauty and the Beast at Phoenix Academy was something else. I told uh Sherri Gleason the next night that boy, she's got a couple kids coming her way that are singers. Um Gaston and um Mrs. Potter are ready to be part of the great academy and I think they still have a little bit of time at Phoenix Academy, so they'll develop quite a bit. Um I've been able right after the last board meeting, we had it to gas to go to class. It would be um remiss of me not to say what a wonderful relationship that is of Victorville Motors to continue to support um attendance throughout the valley um by giving cars away and a ton of prizes. Of course, the first ticket that was pulled was an Apple Valley student. Um it wasn't for a car, but it was um to go get something pretty cool out of the next room.