So they're going to give an update on the Boston Marathon preparation. Oh, we've got >> Kevin. Did you >> got handouts? >> Thank you. >> There's enough for you guys. >> Thank you. >> Hi. Thank you for inviting us uh to the meeting tonight. Um, I haven't started working out yet, so I don't know if I will be ready by the 20th, but um, anyways, uh, let's see. So, um, just an update on the Boston Marathon, where we're at. Um last month, um town police, fire, DPW, board of health, a couple other departments met with BAA officials, uh to pretty much discuss what what worked last year and what didn't work. Um so we're in pretty good shape as far as that goes. Um what I did is I invited Kevin to the meeting because Kevin is the mastermind behind the plan. um on the setup and everything.
Glenn Rooney, Jennifer Austo, and Deborah Casease. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. Uh, we'll move to the approval of board minutes. >> I move that the board approve the minutes listed below as recommended. Public budget hearing 12126, regular meeting 12126, special meeting 12426, special meeting 12926, and special trio board meeting 2426. >> Second. >> All right.
>> Yeah. No, thank you so much for this, V. I appreciate all the time you're putting into it. >> It could be a big win. >> Yep. Mr. Rosenberg. >> And just going back um to the solar. >> Yeah. >> Is it right on time or are we going to run into an issue with you know getting approval and moving it forward? >> Well, we shouldn't. It's just a question of when the construction can begin. >> Oh, okay. you know, so if you know, assuming we get the special legislation, we get our school construction grants approved, the timing of it, you know, may very well push the construction to next summer. >> Um, now that said, there's no reason we can't do some of the groundbased solar. Yeah. >> While students are, you know, in school because it's going to be away from the buildings, >> right?
Uh the ones that were W2 should be in that first section with all the salaries. So we moved uh we moved those um and then this year we moved a PTO. So anyone that's a physical or occupational therapist um if they are a W2 employee there while the budget was here the actuals were moved into uh the 51000 line. >> Sorry Angela, go ahead. >> Yep. That's okay. Um we go to page four. Thank you. >> So, we have some property services. >> The main driver here is that rentals. >> Yep. It's rentals. So, uh we were slightly under budget on uh on the rentals. Again, we've addressed that in fiscal year 27. Um, and we have an additional amount in uh rentals for next year in the budget uh for an additional um additional building that we plan to have uh rent in. >> That's the Granville.
Okay. Is it on now? Thank you. Thank you, President Conin, CSA school board and district office. Tonight, CSEA is focus focusing on our nutrition services team. CUSD nutrition services feeds almost all of Chico Unified students and is a vital part of our students education. To introduce tonight's CSA member of the month, I'd like to introduce Holly Poniano, Chico 110 vice president. Thank you again for having us here tonight. Um, I'd like to introduce to you our February uh member of the month. This is Alejandro Zarate and he is the nutrition services uh purchaser. So, he is in charge of um uh ordering, dealing with um vendors of of buying all of the food that feeds our children. So, and plus many more things. Um we're really grateful to have Alejandro on the team for nutrition services. Um he's a valuable valuable part of um almost kind of behind the scenes.
Again, it it is difficult. I think if it wasn't, we'd probably see it in larger scale. And so I think um you know, working with HARKC, I think working with the university and working with I think it is clear way trying to trying to see if it is practical for a larger scale and that is the goal that we'd all like to see. We we'd love to see uh dual uses on our egg land. right now uh it is uh our understanding is still in a pilot phase because it is very challenging. They're competing for the same resources. >> So my question was how long does a pilot usually last? >> I don't know if I can answer that correctly. I the pilot is is I I believe uh designed for short period of time or time certain to see if something is practical or not.
Uh, and then we're going to um, uh, make technical amendments. Uh, add in a defective date. I'll just note the language in which is this, uh, looks like section 18B. um regarding reversion we'll leave in the measure as it goes to ways and means committee.
I think they're really what drove my love for the sport as well, you know. >> Yeah. Um, so wrestling can be a very physical um is a very physical sport um and can definitely come with a lot of injuries. So like are there any challenges throughout your career so far? >> Uh definitely. Yeah, that's for sure. Um every year at state I have somehow been sick. So that has definitely been a challenge. It's set me back a little bit, but you know, I'll get through it. Last year I got mono and my it spread to my liver and spleen and they almost exploded on me at state. And then this year my hip labum is torn. So >> Oh no. >> Yeah, it's a little rough. Yeah. What about you, Gracie? >> I can definitely say sickness because there's a lot of physical and some people don't know how to take showers, but that's okay.
It will not be hard to me for me to add um representatives and then for these that are pending add who the sponsors are. That's also not hard. >> Absolutely. >> There's a section updates in the newslet about calendar next year. This MLK or President and I know that it's scheduled for next year as well. Is there any way we can make it like a Friday half teachers? >> Well, I'm glad you while I've been here for two months. I have been in four other places. accountants and I never a PD on that day and I would I live with a teacher who did not have to work on that who told me how cruel and unusual it was for me as the superintendent who did not make the calendar I may add and also did not make the calendar for next year I will add so I would be happy to take a look at next year's calendar and see if there are any proposed changes that I may have.
We are grateful for her expertise, her compassion, her commitment to excellence. Please join me in congratulating and celebrating Miss Suzang, our academic support teacher of the month. >> Congratulations. Another round of applause for our district educator of the month and education professional service of the month. Okay. At this time, I'd like all parents and students of the month to come up to the stage to take a group picture. Congratulations. with your email, right? >> Congratulations. We are at the >> All right. And at this time, can we have our employees of the month make their way up front? >> Should have read close. Are you ready? Well, I think that one >> I know you want to be there. >> Well, are we Yes. I'm super obsessive. If you can't tell, >> I get it. I get it. You should be good now. And we'll we'll adjust the >> Okay.
Um, you know, by the end of that month of August to send them back. I think those, you know, first two days will be good days to get kids acclimated. And like I said, once Memorial Day comes, once you go beyond that third week of June, I'm not sure our instructional time is as productive or as fruitful and trying to kids keep keep kids focused the longer you go into June really does become a challenge. So ultimately, I think that's what we were thinking about is where are we going to get the most um productive instruction for the time that we were choosing. Another thing I see like the chance that we've seen this since 2012 weather thing that makes me a little nervous about pushing back. I mean last this year you know last year we had three days. So what we're talking about is functionally pushing back two extra days.
So uh and then the third tier is uh when when the first two tiers haven't necessarily helped a student in the way that we want uh them to be helped. uh we bring in another another team and involve uh more intense instruction. So we wanted a schedule that maximizes not only the time to uh do those interventions uh but also the time to collaborate and recognize those kids. Um that's job embedded for our teachers. Um stakeholder involvement is a very important thing to us. Um I'm going to talk on the next slide about the process that we've gone through. Um through this process uh we are going to continue to involve uh stakeholders. Uh we will especially bring in our parents. um when we start talking about things such as uh electives, advanced courses, the things that we need to um we need to uh ensure that we're being compliant with the latest legislation.
And so if Kevin Kevin can walk you through uh the setup if you want or um if you have any questions, he's the guy. >> Thank you guys. Um any questions to start off with before I get into anything? >> All right. >> Sorry, Kevin. >> No, go right ahead. If you can give a quick overview, that would be great. Hey. Um, marathon preparation involves extensive months in advanced safety, traffic, and security coordination among eight communities, including numerous meetings with police, fire, board of health, and the BAA. Uh, over 48 public agencies, local, state, and federal, coordinate on race day using resources like the MIMA bunker, and some latest state-of-the-art equipment to keep everybody safe, etc., etc., drones, state-of-the-art equipment. Um, speaking on behalf of the public works, uh, our kickoff usually starts in March. We start sweeping, start paving, get everything all cleaned up.
Um, all any discussion on that on the meeting minutes? >> All right. All those in favor, please indicate by saying I. >> I. Any nays? >> One nay. Okay. All right. And now we welcome for the first time Mr. uh first superintendent update from Mr. Steven Fesy. Welcome aboard, sir. It's been a pleasure working with you thus far, I've got to say, and I'm looking forward to what we have uh going forward. So, for you, >> thank you so much. And uh I'd first open with uh just thank you all for such a great warm welcome. It's been a wonderful sixth day. and um and and I can't thank you enough from everything the board has done to be welcoming and uh collaborative and communicative uh to all the folks in the buildings. Um, I've gotten to meet some nice staff. Uh, our great administration.
So, you know, that's all TBD, but you know, I think the worst case scenario would be that we do the bulk of the work next summer. >> Okay. >> The uh just uh pardon my ignorance on this, but you said you're going to go to the new new school building committee for money. Do we have to approve that or they have their own budget? >> No, they have their own funding. Th those both projects are well under budget. Um, and so, you know, and we're getting pricing, so I I can't quote what it would cost, but all they would be essentially advancing is laying the underground pipes so they can pull the electrical lines, you know, from the building to the solar arrays. Yeah. >> And they want, you know, the school building committee and OMG, the construction company, they're really anxious about doing this relatively soon because, you know, they want to get the site work completed.
>> Granville, correct? >> That's preschool. Yeah, preschool expansion. >> Oh, okay. other purchase services. Uh like I said before, I also included tuition because it's a big item, not just the transportation. Uh we have tuition for sped, private, boad, uh sped public. Um the sped private we have um an overage of 1.0 Uh oh. We're 1.1 million. >> Yeah. >> We get people all the time coming in the district. So, uh children coming in, they have special needs. >> If we don't have the services here, we have to outsource and we have other um districts or schools that we send them to. >> Yeah. It's always a a watch for me that the the tuition um just because >> um one individual uh that comes in uh that we would have to outplace um some of those we we see are several hundred,000. Um so if you have one or two of those.
Um and uh we're glad to have him here. Um he was nominated by Thane Poniano who said that Alejandro goes above and beyond his duties to make sure the sites get items they need to feed their students. He approaches issues and take and tasks with a very professional mindset that's helpful to us all. Vince Ensero um the director of nutrition services also told us a little bit about Alejandro. Um he said that you can see that he's a real go-getter over the years. He's challenged himself to create good relationships with all of the nutrition services team. Alejandro is one of the few people that I work with that takes advice to heart and finds ways to continue to grow. This year he and I have worked very hard on our bid for next year. Alejandro gets excited about finding ways to be more efficient and loves saving the department money.
>> Thank you. Thank you chair. >> Senator Richard. >> Yeah. There we are. Right. Um [clears throat] I've puzzled on this for a while for agriculture and agropolvaics. Um reason being is because the photovotayic is competing for sunshine which is what agriculture is also competing. I completely agree with the sheep grazing and taking care of underbrush and helps fire control and all that that works out fine. Has the Farm Bureau looked at this from a national perspective and evaluated um because we're going to have a reduce in production because we're robbing Peter to pay Paul, meaning we're using the the sun for energy instead of agriculture. Have we looked at that? Because I've wondered about the the metrics that we're talking about here for leases. Do you know of any work that's been done to evaluate reduction in agriculture productivity because of that? >> Thank you Senator for the question and I that's what I meant by competing for the same resources not just the land but the solar energy and even water.
So any discussion any comments if not oh vice chair? >> No. >> Okay. Uh chair's recommendation on for the committee on waterland culture and the arts is to pass SB20003 with amendments. Chair Lee. >> Hi. >> Vice Chair goes I senator Chang >> is excused. Senator Lamos. >> Hi. >> Senator Deort. >> No. >> Measure is adopted. Mr. Chair. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Same same recogni recognition. Same recommendation for the committee on education to amend uh Senate Bill 20003 to an SD1.
>> Um, but yeah, sickness is definitely one of them. Um, I don't very I don't get very much injuries, but there is a lot of turning s uh your like your uh shoulder, so you get like a lot of shoulder injuries, but that's about it. >> Yeah. And see this can come with kind of like almost fasting a little bit to kind of make weight or maybe eating u overeating or maybe not eating enough, drinking enough. So like I see how trying to make weight can definitely bring on sickness. Um who are our high school coaches and kind of like what is your future in wrestling and are you excited for your senior year? >> Our high school coaches are Cooper Ross, Cody Woods, Don Chambers, and Lily Wagner. All great coaches. Love them all. >> All great people. I know Cooper Cooper Ross. He's a he's a great guy.