Any opposed? It is unanimous. All right, let's move on to item 1031. This is a human resources item. We are looking at adoption of the student calendar for the 2728 school year. Thank you, President Lando. So, this is the annual um adoption of the student calendar. We try to adopt these three years out so staff and students and mainly parents um have that information um so they can they can plan future events. Very good. Um, I think we've all looked at this already. Anybody find anything we need to change or argue about? Uh, I'll just comment that um I when I'm when I'm looking at the calendar, it's a long slog from from September the 6th. Um, well, luckily there's there's the 12th put in there, which is the former Columbus Day. I was like, "Well, at least they threw him a bone there." But man, o September to basically until you get to November 11th is such a long hard go of it for teachers and for students.
Um, and I think that, um, we might want to see if there I don't know. I know Charlie's gone, but there might be some discussion about, um, the feasibility of doing something even if it's just a long weekend, um, to give a break to both students and and staff. um and and whether it would be actually increase attendance and you know cut down on on just being out of class because you're just exhausted. So, member Robinson, you had a comment that what you just expressed is exactly what we've looked at as we've tried to do exactly what you suggested every time. And because the calendar is set up so that they're trying to equalize the number of days in the first semester and the number of days in the second semester and and breaking the holidays and it it doesn't usually work. If somebody comes up with a change that will do that, we can do it after tonight.
So I wasn't proposing that. I guess one of Yeah. No, you're but you're exactly right on target with what is is in the minds of everybody that's setting up this this calendar each time is the length of time without a break. Well, in in response to your comment of having equal first and second semesters, um I will just say that I've never felt like having a second semester that was longer than the first is a disadvantage because there's all of the state testing and AP testing. and you know as an English teacher so uh typically English and social science teachers teach all students and so it's often that that kids are pulled from your class to go do the statemandated testing and so having a longer second semester was helpful because we actually lost instructional minutes with those kids because they were testing and so I would like to clarify just if I could interject in the bottom right hand corner of the of the calendar, you will see that the second semester is almost two weeks long to accommodate exactly what you're describing.
Yeah. And I I would also like to add that we do have the November 5th elementary pupil free day um and we have some elementary minimum days um to address some of that. But yes, it is a and honest candidly in the second semester, we used to have an extremely long um period of time from February to April's spring break until we moved spring break up to match Chico State. So um yes, it is a it's a long it's a long haul. Yeah. After all that, is there any public comment on this item? All right. Do we have a motion? Move approval. A second. All right. We have a motion by member Robinson, a second by member Hayes. Any further debate. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I.
Any opposed? It is unanimous. Thank you all. Um item what is it? 1032 is uh our declaration for the need for fully qualified educators. Thank you, President Landis. So each year we bring to you a declaration related to the insufficient number of certificated um staff who meet the um specified employment criteria. Um most of the time this these are estimates. Most of the time these are people that are currently working for us that we'd like to continue working for us because they're doing a fantastic um job. And this declaration, while an estimate of a declaration of need, does give us the freedom um to continue with those folks working in those positions and then also recruit when we start to get into um July and August when we're struggling to fill positions. Very good. Thank you.
Any questions on this one? No. All right. Any public comment? Do we have public? Do we have a You care. I know you do. Do we have a motion? I move approval. Al. Okay. Very good. Second by member Conkin. On a motion by member Robinson. Thank you. Uh any further debate? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I.
Any opposed? That one is unanimous. Thank you very much. Uh 1033 is resolution 1688-25, the elimination of classified staff due to lack of worker funds. Thank you. So I'm here to um to present the resolution um 1868-25 and basically it's an elimination of um some positions. So, we're cleaning up um our basically our our position control and after a while we replace positions. They go up and down, things like that. Um we always confer with uh CSEA or union and um these are this is a list that we came up with of so they don't have to budget for it for next year. So, just kind of cleaning up. Okay. And I always ask us are there any people involved in there are no people involved. That would be a different discussion. Absolutely. very just making sure it's always that case but I still ask that is a very different discussion.
Okay, any further questions? No, but thank you for clarifying that for for me and the public. We will ask that every time we try to keep track of very carefully when we have to let anybody go. Well, and I'd also like to say thanks for taking the time to clean it up. All right. Any public comment? Oh. Um, seeing none, do we have a motion? I will move approval of resolution 1688-25. I second. All right. Motion by Lando, second by Hace by Hair. Um, any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I.
Any opposed say nay. It is unanimous. Thank you. And you're going to stick around for resolution 1689-25. Absolutely. So this is our unrepresented groups. Um so the school aids and parent aids and the assistant superintendent of business services. Um so again cleaning up um either lack of work or lack of funds is why they're here. So again just there's nobody in these positions and that's the reason why we're here. All right. Thank you questions. Public comment. No, she's reading. Yep. Do we have a motion? I motion approve. Go ahead. I motion approval 1689-25. I'll second. Is that me? Thank you. Okay. Very good. We have a motion by Hayes and a second by Olsen. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I.
Any opposed. It is unanimous. Thank you very much. Thank you. I think that was the last we need from you. Right. We are on to um item 1041 which is our approval of revised updated board policies. So this is our second reading of the policies. the board has had the opportunity to review these um and the opportunity to ask questions. So, at this point, we're bringing the board policies forward and uh we are ready to either discuss or approve whatever the will of the board is. I suspect we do have some conversation about this one. Anybody? No. Are we good? I just I just wanted to um clarify the um the one that Jacqueline um provided the the change for. Jacqueline, if you could read that and then I would like to ask questions about it. Certainly. So, um which number is this? Please. Miss Hayes is referring to board policy 3100.
3100. Thank you. Entitled budget. And on page three under reserve balance, there is a sentence added in the first paragraph that says, "In addition, the board voted to add an additional 2% reserve for economic uncertainties." So, we did that a long time ago. It's been policy for a long time. But what was your question in regard specifically? Yeah. So, let me clarify. Uh the board did do that a long time ago and you did it through the budget process but um it was never reflected in board policy and there was a suggestion made by the board to put that into policy and because it is what the board did. I mean and it is now a policy of the board it made perfect sense to do that. So, thank you, Miss Hayes, for pointing that out. And Miss Krueger rewrote that so that it would reflect what the board has already acted on on the budget side.
And and the reason I I did that is that in the school district in which I teach there there the school board also adopted um language to to mandate that the CBO maintain a higher balance than the 3% mandated by the state. And so I was actually surprised when when I asked it was one of the very first questions I asked Jacqueline was does the board require that there be extra funds set aside and she said 2% and I was like really because the CSBA recommendation is far higher than that and the board uh where I work went with the CSBA recommendation and I was curious is like it personally I look at it and I think 2% when the 3% is mandated 2% more it's not even double and so 3% is like you're holding on by by your fingernails and so I look at the 2% and I I guess I'm would like to ask you do you think that three that 2% is adequate um now especially since as um member uh Robinson points out that it was done some time ago.
Yeah, great question. So when it was done at the time um basically that 5% was one month of payroll and that was kind of the board's rationale was we need at least right a minimum of one month of payroll in the event um that there are deferrals from the state or there's budgetary constraints um at that point in time. So, I did do a little bit of math. Um, right now this 5% um is about 11 million and our payroll last month was 14.6 million. So, we would need an additional 4% or a total of 7% to cover one month of payroll essentially right now. Um, that would be my recommendation. Um, that would get you through one month and we we are seeing glimpses of the governor's budget um that was released today. I've read I think two emails about it and he is continuing to do deferrals again which is your money in June we'll pay you in July.
So it is um that cash flow piece is something the district will have to monitor. On that note remind me that we have in the past run into a problem where we've had too much money unallocated. Right. So the board has taken action um for very specific items and they've set aside money for very specific items. Um so that is above and beyond this reserve. Um so those items historically have been like the volatility with the pers rate and our attendance rate. Um as well as I think we've had some IT infrastructure money very specifically. So that's above and beyond what this economic uncertainties reserve would be. I I guess I would just say that if um in in recent history, if there was ever a time of economic uncertainty, this might be the time. And so I um I would um I I would say that you you know that I'm very strongly uh you know I'm I'm a union president in my in my district and I certainly um and mindful of bargaining units and and yet um what we all want is to get a paycheck every you know we want to make sure that everybody gets paid.
there's nobody in in our employee that doesn't count on being paid. And so I really do think that if you we don't have a a one month set aside for payroll, um I don't think that that's probably meeting the needs of our of our district and our staff. So, so if I would like to um say that uh if 2% is no longer appropriate, I'm hoping that the board would um I would like to say that I would support having the policy save of 4% in addition to the 3%. I think that's a worthwhile conversation. I'm not sure something I want to commit to right now without looking at where the money would come from and what we wouldn't be paying for by paying into the reserve, please. I uh thank you. I I agree that it's something we need to consider. What I would like to know what you've done to build the budgets and bring them to us assumed the 5% the three and the two.
Yes, that's correct. Before we did anything, I'd like to have another information sharing where you can show us what you'd have to do with the budget hours in order to make that change. The the May revise came with a 2%. Was that what you just said? Because I tried to find it and couldn't find it. The May revision was released today. I've received two emails that have given really quick blurbs um about what's in it, but I'm hopefully I have assumed tomorrow that hopefully I can learn a little bit more about that. Yeah, because I I I couldn't get anything that made sense. Not that the mayi revise is going to make sense. So, what I can say is when we do bring the budget forward, um we have these items that the board's already taken action on, right? And then we have a 3% and the additional 2%.
But there are still monies at the bottom of the budget that that basically say unappropriated. So they're not designated for a particular item or specific use. So if we increase the 2% to 4% it would just make that value smaller and that keeps that keeps us okay too with the Prop 98 restriction. The Yes, it does. Okay. What I can do? Well, no, please. Can you hear that thought? I was going to say what I can do is um at the next board meeting, June 18th, the original budget for 2526 will be coming forward. Oh, that's right. Um and what we can do is assuming the policy gets changed, we can certainly put the 4% in or I can bring two different versions um for the board. One at 2% and one at 4%. At that time, I'd like to see the two different versions.
Well, at that time, uh, then would we would we go ahead and, uh, change the board policy again? I mean, is there any I mean, even though we have the first reading or the second reading tonight and it's been revised, there's nothing that would keep us from revising it again in June. As long as it's on the agenda, we can or we can postpone the vote on this item. We can table this, bring it back at the next just for the just for 3100 item. That's probably the best way to do it. Yep. Okay. I would say the other changes within the policy are um grammatical I think um and one ed code provision that talks about equity multiplier funding. So it could work it could wait till June 18th if the board decides to table. Okay. Thank you. That was fruitful. Any other questions of clarification on this one?
uh which is again an item regarding all of the uh um new policies. So um given that it sounds like maybe there's going to be a motion to adopt all policies except 3100. Do we have any motion like that? Any motion at all? So move, Mr. President. Okay. So the motion on the table is I'll second that just to get the discussion underway. Um motion on the table is to approve all of the revised and updated policies except policy 3100. Yes, sir. All right. Any further debate or discussion about that? Everybody's clear. Okay. Um public comment. I think I missed that step, but I know that you care about this. Um all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I.
Any opposed? All right. So, um, do we need to make a motion regarding specifically asking 3100 to come back in June? Is that will that be had it? We had it. It was part of this motion. Good. Glad that it was understood. All right. Are there any further items from the floor? Uh, we have no board member request to agendaize items. Is there a motion to adjurnn? Yes. Is there a second? Yes. All in favor of adjournment say I. I. That is more than three. We are adjourned and thank you all for your patience and hard work today.