You'll see. You'll do the right thing. I know you will. Thank you. [Applause] That was the last of our speakers who submitted cards ahead of time. However, if anyone else wants to speak on this topic, um the microphone is right there. If there are no others, I just like to say thank you all again very much. You make some really great encouraging arguments and seeing you guys come out and participate like this on a school night especially, um we love it. Thank you very much for being here. Any other comments or questions from the board? I I have a question. [Music] Um, part of the problem seems to be the because of the lack of the CIF uh sanctioning for the schools in our league area. What does it take to become CIF? Just to clarify, is the question, can Chico unified um lacrosse be sanctioned by the CIF?
What does it take? Yeah, I guess the the the question is if we have interest um what does CIF consider when they talk about sanction or you know authorizing it? Yeah. So CIF has already sanctioned lacrosse across the state. It's really up to individual districts to decide if they want to offer the already sanctioned CIF sport. So lacrosse has already been sanctioned by the CIF. So it's really up to districts to decide if they want to offer the the sport um in you know in their own district. It sounded as though part of the problem for us, Chico Unified, is um teams to compete with that are CIF. Is it true that most of the CIF lacrosse are quite a ways away? There are relatively um close current CIF sanctioned high school lacrosse programs. Um Few were mentioned um by one of our speakers earlier.
Um for example, some are in the the um Lincoln, Rockland, Roseville area, very similar distance to to the reading schools that we play. If you could put a list together of say within the 150 miles radius is about what we do with Lassen and Chaston and those to see so that as a board member I'd like to see what would be available out there to compete with if that's possible to put it together. But there's a lot more. Okay. Thank you. So, but it's only males. It's only a male team that is CIF, right? It's technically they um females can play on the male teams for technically. Yeah. So, as I was noticing on the slides, we already have a there there is a disparity between the number of female athletes and the number of male athletes. Um, and how how would this how how does it impact uh Title N?
Um, if there's a So if there was a lacrosse team, it would be considered a male sport. My understanding is yes, it would be considered a male sport. For title N compliance, it the fundamental aspect of that is significant disproportionality. The key is significant. So we've been through was it 2012 It's been a while, but we have um we've been through an audit and so far we are not significantly dis disproportional. Um we have a compliance component every year. So that's where we are with that. Thank you. Any other questions for staff? Please. Are there any girls currently on the Rebels team? And do you know it's fairly common among the like the Sacramento area teams to have uh girls on the teams as well? So there is girls. Okay. And every school that we're talking makes sense. Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you. It sounds like there's interest here in maybe doing some more research and gathering some more data.
And I know that you guys have been pushing for this for a while and I appreciate how your persistence. I mean, it pays off, right? Like for real. It's it's great. It's it's great to see um people who want something and they keep and they keep aiming for it. That's that's what we need. Um that said, as some one of the speakers mentioned, this is anformational actionformational item only. So, we're not going to take any action tonight, but I do again want to thank you all for coming out and making your voices heard. Thank you very [Applause] much. Just let suffice to say it is definitely on our radar. You've definitely done your job in that way. and conversations are continuing internally about what that might look like. All right, so thank you guys. Um, at this point, um, we might take a little five minute stretch break.
Some of us up here need to move and we'll give you guys time to, you know, head out and do what you need to do with the rest of your evening. Again, thank you very much for for coming, you guys. Appreciate it. So, and a thank you to everyone who is still here. I know a lot of you are here for the charter school talk. Um, it's been a long meeting and I appreciate you're all still here. Um, don't mean to put you out this late. Uh, that said, we are on to item uh, 1012, which is our annual report on our spring charter visits. Uh, Mr. Fuentes, please. Good evening. So, every spring, Chico Unifi visits each of our charters that we authorize. Um, I had the honor of visiting with each of them over April and May. And it is a super fun task to get out to the sites and see ahead of time.
They get a a set of questions that they respond to. That's kind of the foundation for our discussions. And it is interesting and collaborative and was a great experience to learn the different approaches and instructional strategies that each of our charters are putting into place. And we do this every year in the report there is the more formalized responses and a review of kind of our conversations as well.
So I have some of the charters are here this evening also and if you have any questions ask away after all the other presentations that was are you sure there's not a a 30-minute PowerPoint because I'll watch one.
That said, do we have any questions? Um, I know we've all reviewed ahead of time, do we? I just Okay. The work you do to put those summaries and reviews together is wonderful. And I just wanted to express appreciation from this board member to how much you are able to give us a picture of, you know, the overall what's happening with our our uh authorized charters. I just want to let you know it do appreciate all the work and the charter staff too because they provide they provide the information for you for us. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, Chico often feels almost unique in the way that our charters and our district work together um with an eye on, you know, student achievement across multiple different modalities and I really appreciate that. Um and if there is more that we can do to support the charters, we would, you know, we continue to be excited to hear from all of our charter school partners.
So, thank you very much for that. Do we have any other questions? We're just going to sit here and pat each other on the back, which we can certainly do. I mean, we're almost done with the school year. It feels like we need it, right? Like, we're getting there, you guys. I'm the next item also. So, yeah. Okay. If there really isn't any more discussion on this. Wow. Um, then please let's just move on to a slightly less uh backpatty topic here. Um, take it away. All right. So this is a resolution um accepting the surrender of the charter of Achieve Charter School of Chico. The governing board of achieve charter has resolved to cease operations and surrender its charter effective at the end of the 2425 school year. Chico Unified had authorized them through June 30th of 2027. And so their board aim is to provide timely notice to the students, parents and staff to ensure the orderly transition and proper handling of student records.
So the board as authorizer is asked to approve and adopt the attached resolution accepting CUSD's surrender of the charter and then moving forward we'll put it through to CDE. I have Steve Wright and Casey Taylor from Achieve and they just wanted to speak real briefly. Well, hello everybody. Um, just wanted to say, I think most of you know and we've been working with the Chico Unified staff that we are consolidating our charters in Paradise and Chico will be authorized by But County Office of Ed with just one charter. And so, this is part of the process. We need to surrender them with all of our authorizers. Um but we um have felt so much gratitude actually to this board and the staff at Chico Unified for giving our families and students and staff a soft place to land after the fire and a place to really heal and thrive and build a lot of capacity that is in turn supporting our return back to paradise in our work rebuilding that community too.
And so, um, we're just so grateful for all that you guys have done for us over the years and plan to continue the really good relationships that we have with the Chico Unified staff as we continue to serve students in Chico just being authorized by BCOE. Steve, you want to say anything? Yeah, thank you board and um, Chico Unified staff like your support over the years has been great. I just wanted to say one of the things we talked about is how can we make sure we take steps to continue that good working relationship. So, Achieve Chico is not going anywhere. We still have Achieve Chico campus, same location, same students, everything. And we want to make sure that we just continue to be um a collaborative part of the Chico um the greater like Chico educational community like Corbute is also, you know, a huge part of Chico community, but not a part of Chico Unified.
So, we still want to be here in Chico and work with everybody here. So, thank you. Thank you staff for all the support over the last few years. really amazing, especially as we were landing um after the campfire. And now I know for like myself and many of our students, we just feel like super proud Chico citizens, not really so much like refugees anymore. So, thank you. It has been a wild ride, but we've been happy to have you. Thank you very much. You guys appreciate it. So that transition will happen in 2027. How does that affect um like the measure money um being delegated in the meantime? So achieve will still participate with the measure C charter money. Yeah. That the authorization of the charter school is not impacted does not impact the measure C dollars bond dollars. Right. Do we have any other questions from the board for staff?
It's a good one. Um, do we have any public comment on this item since it is an action item? Uh, in that case, uh, we are discussing formally a resolution 1687-25. Um, do we have a motion associated with this, uh, resolution? I motion to approve 168725. I'll second that motion. Very good. We have a motion by Hayes and a second by Robinson. Uh any further discussion from the board. Uh seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I.
Any opposed? It is unanimous. All right. Um, and I realize that I didn't actually give chance for public input on the previous item. Are there any other members of our community out here who wish to speak about anything regarding the state of the charters in in Chico? I just don't I hate skipping steps. I'm sorry that I did. Okay, we'll call that done then. Well, thank you guys so much for being here. I really appreciate it. Hope you all have a wonderful evening. But we are going to head on into item 10.2.1 which is a look at our 2025 summer projects. Hi everybody. So I'm here to uh go over our summer project list for this summer. We uh it's a little different scope this year. We spent a lot of money last year on the roofing project over at Chico High that thank goodness is finished and and going well.
Um the list that we have in front of you here is basically for beautifification of a lot of our campuses. Um there are a couple of items on there that we are waiting for bids on which is a roofing project for Emma Wilson and a will a roofing project for PV the M the Michigan wing. So we are still waiting on on quotes for those but most of the other stuff as you see there will be a lot of it be done in-house. So that is a nice nice thing to have and looking really excited to get started to work on beautifification of all the campuses. There goes my question mark again. Sorry. Um, you mentioned that you were waiting for bids, but what we have here does not represent a bid that we're waiting on. Sorry, that would be a quote for the So, those are estimates for the for the roofing projects that at U PV and Emma Wilson.
So, for clarification, the roofing projects are at the very very bottom. Very very bottom. Yes. Under the yellow section under the yellow section. You're hiding them for me. So the values that are in those two for those two schools, Emma Wilson and Pleasant Valley High School, those are estimates. Estimates. And Joe's waiting on on the quotes. Yep. Okay. Next question. during the summer um especially with as many in-house projects that you have listed. Do you have a problem with um staff availability because of the scheduling of vacations during that period of time for our 12-month employees? We we really we don't we rarely run into that because the way I set the schedules is we're we're off on different times. Um, a lot of the times we take a lot of our time off during during the years during the year and then during the summertime we we offset it by making sure that we have staff available all summer long.
Is there a a cost difference if you have to use a limited term or substitute employee because one of your 12-month permanent employees is not available. How does that affect what the cost of this project? That would be a good question as far as like when we have our subs, right? Is that what you're asking? If we have a sub that's subbing in. Okay. So, largely the expense here is really related to supplies and materials for the in-house because the labor is essentially a fixed cost. So, if someone's out on vacation, yes, we will hire a sub to replace them. Um, the cost is minimal on that. They uh all subs are at step one of the position that they sub for. And really the values here are the materials and supplies to get the said project completed. That makes sense. Thank you, Jacqueline. Let's see.
This is a Sorry guys, I'm skipped group there. This is a discussion action item. Are there any other questions for Mr. Morris or for the rest of staff? Do we have any public comment regarding this item? All right. In that case, um the action on the table then would be to approve all of these uh summer projects as listed here. Um uh anybody want to make a motion in that regard? All right, we'll make a motion to approve the summer projects. All right, I'll second. All right, a motion by member Olsen and a second by Vice President Conchin. Any debate on this one? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose say nay. It is unanimous. Thank you so much. Appreciate Thank you very much. And with that, we're going to jump on to item 1022, which is um a look at measure C charter school projects and their applications.
Therefore, good evening. Thank you for having us here this evening. Uh the first item we have in front of you tonight is uh the first application round for the measure C65% uh charter school project applications. Um applications were due on May 2nd and we received three impressive applications. Um Blue Oak Charter School, Inspire School of Arts and Sciences and Sherwood Montasauri School. and those applications were included in your board agenda. Um, all three applications have been scored and um, Blue Oak um, had some areas that we were hoping to ask them to elaborate more on um, for the next deadline. Um, some of those things are um a breakdown of I'm sorry, Julie, could you be just a little tiny bit closer to the mic and move closer to you? One of the two. Thank you. Sorry about that. On the secured leveraged funding portion of their application, we would like to see more information on a breakdown of the funding that they plan to use.