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Uh and then um you know then we hit all of our stuff for the end of the year. We've got a lot a lot of the field trips and then we've got our uh kindergarten, prek, sixth grade uh graduation that kind of finishing out our year. Um and then uh as we had shared before, we had sent out both for for family, students, and staff uh the climate surveys and those are starting to wind down. We're trying to just get all those results compiled and then we'll uh try and get those out to um staff and just really look at um yearover progress and and that as well. And then we're in the process of class placement. So we've gotten feedback from families. We're making sure that we're making decisions programmatically um taking all of that input across the board and putting that to practice.
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On Saturday, May 17th, we have Clean Danbury Day where sports teams and the community come together to help clean the city we love. We're going to go to the middle schools and give them a little pep talk, getting them ready for the big transition from their middle school to the big high school. Um, answer some questions that they might have and give them information for how to join sports. We have a little pamphlet with all of the coach's emails, their contact information so that they can get involved. I know a lot of kids, especially freshman, they don't know how to get involved. So, I think a big step is kind of getting out their contact information for coaches so that they can join the the like the summer conditioning and get involved early so that they can help secure a spot for the team. And then we also do uh the captain's fishbowl meeting with the class of 2026.
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It's pretty funny. Oh, and there's a blank screen. There we go. Um, upcoming events. We have tons of things happening. Tomorrow we have um Mrs. Archer found a BMX air show and they do uh it's like an anti-bullying assembly and so they come and ride bikes and so that's that's happening tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon at OES from 1 to 1:40. I'd love to have you guys come and check it out. On Friday, uh the third graders are going to the YHS play Alice in Wonderland. Um, first grade is going to the Chaffy Zoo and fifth grade is going to tour OCI. So, Friday is like, woo, it's a big day. Um, uh, the TK field uh, TKK kiddos are going to take a field trip um to Bass Lake coming up. We have fourth graders going to Fresno Phil Harmonic, I believe, with Wasuma, too.
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Um, yes. And so, uh, for the teachers, uh, we'll be figuring out how to do, you know, we're going to get together as, uh, uh, the festival, uh, board to figure out how we're going to disperse those grants. So, uh, you know, we'll get that information to you. So, be on the lookout for that. Thanks. Thank you, Dr. Himenez, and thank you to all who made it all happen. Very successful. Uh, we shall continue then to um item number 12. Do we have any comments or announcements coming from the board? That was it. All right. Thank you very much. You are ahead of me. Item 13, uh, let's continue to 14, excuse me, public hearing. Um a public hearing initial proposal of the California School Employees Association CEA according to government code section 3547. Dr. Fuentes, please. It is recommended the board conduct a public hearing on the initial proposal for our local chapter of CSEA.
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Thank you. me again question I don't remember that we were able to ask when we were putting this workshop together was um what happens when a student say it has selected a CTE topic course stuff and then before the completion they change their mind and and want to look at a different option what's the process they have to go through in order to do that speak for Chico. Yeah, go ahead. I just say they they can. They're just not a completer in that particular pathway. I mean, every year when the students register for classes, if they decide to go a different direction, um that's okay. We let them. Um and sometimes part of high school is just figuring out who you are and who you want to be. So, if you're not a, you know, a glass designer, that's fine. Maybe you're going to be an architect instead or or a computer engineer.
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So although we did see a decrease in that one month which caused the adjustment to the overall presentation tonight when we originally projected what we thought our ADM would be on the 100th day. We are still doing good. We we actually are going to put money back in the budget based on the ADM and the great uh group B weighted counts. page one and page seven for our M budget increased by $415,335. Our unrestricted capital, which you'll find on page four, was increased by $199,423. Other pages had some slight changes based on some information that was updated through ADM or changes in what our function and object codes were so that we can align the budget with our current and projected expenditures. Once approved, I will upload all of this to the AD website um so that we can meet our deadlines.
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Go ahead. I'm so sorry. You got the floor. Okay. So, the um I might jump around here. the 352% inclusion because of how it says inclusion in preschool students. Is that also that much of a jump because of how we restructured it? 100% part of that restructure. Yes. Okay. Um and then are we keeping data now? Are teachers keeping IEP goalbased data? So, if we get a parent that comes and says, "I would like a copy of the data to support this decision," we now have those records. We are actively working on making sure we're taking that appropriate data. I know. Perfect. Everybody struggles with data and that's been a point of focus for us, but we're getting there. We're getting there. Perfect. um seniors with transition plans versus compliance on post-secondary transition plans. What's the difference there? So, every single student by the time they're 16 prior to a recent law change has to have a post-secondary transition plan in their IEP.
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Um we still have other projects that are still on on on books. Valentine Property, Warren Bond. Um, these would be great to have these things complete. Had the funding to do it. We have one-time funding that we helped this year uh have a a balanced budget. Not the right thing to do, but we voted to get to do that. And that was the Apple money and had nothing to do with the stabilization. I'm going to I'm going to stop you because I want you to talk specifically about strengthening community engagement as we make these decisions. And if you want to think a little bit or Brandy, do you want to jump in? I'll jump in. Go ahead. Um, I agree with a lot what of what Joe's saying. Um, one of the things that I think that I would do from day one would get involved with any type of uh technological dashboard.
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So, um, as Sarah said, our school improvement plan reflects the district's strategic plan with the four buckets. Um and so we're constantly thinking in those terms which where things lie. Um so with equity we took on implementing some aspects of MTSS which is multiple tiered systems of support. Um and that is a way of looking at how we educate all of our children um with an equity lens. And this year we did explicit work with teachers around the language talking about tier one means what tier one means and what tier two means. Um, and tier one is your core basic of instruction that you're finding in every general education classroom. And tier two might be small group with a bit more frequency and a bit more duration. And we've started using that language at all of our meetings when we meet to talk about children's progress.
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We're just pretty confident. I just want to make sure. They're finicky tonight. They are um they are increased from last summer. So, uh Greta wanted to make sure they were posted so she can post the positions and um she usually has a lot of interest, so hopefully that will suffice. Thanks. Any other questions or comments on the consent agenda? Okay. Secretary Jane, will you call the role? Chair Johnson, a yes. I'm a yes. Vice Chair Ston, yes. Member Goodwin, yes. Member Childs, yes. Mayor Disorger, Mayor Dorger left at 7:18. Okay, thank you. Uh, member Martini, yes. Okay, it passes with one abstension. The mayor not being here. Okay, thank you. Um, next we're on school committee reports. I'll just say I want to uh thank you all so much for our special meeting last night to discuss the budget moment that we're in. And I appreciated the discussion um and working to kind of broadcast the message that we um re reolved on together last night.
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We're just pretty confident. I just want to make sure. They're finicky tonight. They are um they are increased from last summer. So, uh Greta wanted to make sure they were posted so she can post the positions and um she usually has a lot of interest. So, hopefully that will suffice. Thanks. Any other questions or comments on the consent agenda? Okay. Secretary Jane, will you call the role? Chair Johnson, a yes. I'm a yes. Vice Chair Sexton, yes. Member Goodwin, yes. Member Childs, yes. Mayor Disorger, Mayor Dorger left at 7:18. Okay, thank you. Uh, member Martini, yes. Okay, it passes with one abstension, the mayor not being here. Okay, thank you. Um, next we're on school committee reports. I'll just say I want to uh thank you all so much for our special meeting last night to discuss the budget moment that we're in. And I appreciated the discussion um and working to kind of broadcast the message that we um re re resolved on together last night.
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So staff the last two staff meetings have been working on that um in the morning as teams with other certified staff support. So that's kind of what we've got going and what's going. So it's been pretty quiet now. Yeah. Really not very much. It's kind of boring. It's really really kind of lowkey. Oh, sorry. Um and then drama club. Uh very exciting. So we've got drama club uh has our evening performance on the 30th. Uh and then our afternoon performance on the 1. Really excited about that. and we just got the t-shirt order in. We've been working uh with a a local company over in Prospect. So, that's really great. Um so, just super exciting about that. Are you still doing those coffee hours? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Every month, uh every month, uh 9:30 or so. Um and that's a thing. So, uh so spoiler alert on the climate surveys, that's a thing that's come through often.
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So, we have to do interviews to induct our next year's class act group. So, we kind of give them advice. We took what we learned from the CIA and FCI conferences on what it means to be a leader, what it means to be a captain. We put that on. We show them, you know, this is what it means to be a true captain. Um, and we just pass our knowledge on to the younger class. And then I just have a little story. I'm sorry. I don't want to take a lot of your time, but over the course of my time at Danbury High School, I've watched many of my peers struggle, but specifically those who have been on my sports teams. Many students you all have will show up to class with a smile on their face, and you will never know the struggles that they're experiencing at home.
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Yeah. So, um, Tamara Dent has has organized that amazingness. So, we're jazzed. Um, we are bringing in our end of the year, uh, PBIS experiences that the kids have earned lots of points for and worked hard for that. So, we have somehow I removed the dates and didn't put them back in. But we are going to the PBIS um I mean the go play party zone um 23rd. Thank you. It's a surprise. Yes. Uhhuh. May 23rd um uh third graders on the 29th are going to visit the Mariposa Grove. And woot woot May 30th spirit night carnival. So from 5 to 7. I hope you all can join us. Uh, we have just tons of field trips coming up. Second grade's going to Happy Goat Farm. We're doing our PBIS reward movie experience. Um, we're going to watch Dog Man, grades K5 could earn that.
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Thank you very much. I will now open the public hearing. Do we have any comments from the audience or from the board? If none, I shall close the public hearing. Do we vote on this one? No. Okay. Thank you very much. We shall continue to review an action. A coming from the superintendence. Uh number one, resolution 24-21, declaration of the month of May, 2025 as Beressa Union School District employee recognition month. Superintendent, please. It is recommended the board adopt resolution 2421 in recognition of all of our Beressa Union School District um employees for the employee recognition month this month of May 2025. Thank you very much. Do we have any motion please for adoption? I move to approve. Seconded. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. And before we vote on it, I would like to read the employee recognition month resolution 24-21. Whereas Beressa Union School District concurs with the governor and the state in recognizing public employees that play a vital role in the educational well-being of students.
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I don't know. Um but yeah, it it would it would um mean that they might not have the time to complete, but sometimes a lot of times kids squeak it in. So at least that's for two. Yeah, it's very similar at Pleasant Valley High School. We don't deter them if they want to do a a pivot and switch to something else. Um I will say this though that um we are looking at how we can um continue to increase our completion rates and if you that that uh link up there will show you that we have been doing that and we'll continue to do that. And so we are having more conversations with students about being completers and what that looks like. And along those lines too, offering incentives of like the chords at graduation and making it very um obvious if you do this, you earn this type of um honor.
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[Applause] [Music] I know it's been said a hundred times, but I am so proud of you guys and I look forward to your bright, bright futures. Junior attendants, can you please um be prepared to dismiss the class of 2025? Staff, if you'd like to rise and make your way back to form the receiving tunnel, as is tradition, now would be the time to do so. Class of 2025, I have been honored to have the opportunity to serve as your principal. Always persevere, keep supporting each other, and stay passionate about your core beliefs. And remain hopeful above all. Parents and guardians, guests, we ask that you please stay in your seat until all of the graduates have processed out of the Cloon Arena. They will need to pick up their diplomas and then you can meet your graduation outside of the arena on the east side of the ice rink parking.
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Are there any questions about tonight's budget? I have one. Mhm. So, when I when I look at this, are we supposed to have last year's board members on there on the attachment? Yeah, I see the attachment. Yeah, the one I have for you tonight does not. Okay. Um, so that page probably did not update before I ex uh exported the file into a PDF. Okay. Um, but I promise the cover sheet I have for you tonight all has your names. Okay. And we'll load to the ad that way. It's going to be hard to get Bob back here. Well, I drove over there, maybe. Okay.
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Yep. So, all of our students by the end of their freshman year now legally have to, but all of our seniors do. Now, they don't have to master those goals, but we have to show that they're making progress to those goals to then help them in the workforce or whatever they're going to do postgraduation. And then are we is there plans to eventually do that uh for fifth grade going into middle school and middle school going into high school. I've actually met with my program specialist on that and we're starting we had several conversations especially with our middle school teams to make sure that they're already having those conversations with parents because I know it was me as a former ESS middle school teacher. Those conversations are so important to happen earlier. So, we're hoping to continue to just trickle that down to all the grade levels.
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