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And so we're not able to budget for this amount at this point. We I know the board with the uh board have um expanded the community schools to the five schools on the west side including Cypress, Lexington, Oxford, Kennedy, and Walker. And those positions is in the budget starting 2627 for the five schools on the west side. So we do want to make sure that uh the public know that that's in the budget. And so once we know what the state um allocation could look like for the rest of the community schools, then we'll bring that information to our budget. We do have something um good that's coming out from special education. The state um is proposing uh the governor's proposed in um additional dollars to raise the base funding for special education that's called AB 602. So currently we're receiving about $917 for each of the for the students and this dollar amount is proposed to go up to $999.
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>> Thank you. Elena Hopkins and Steven Cobbs, you're on deck. >> Sorry, I got to take off my glasses because with my age I can't see with them. Right. All right, good evening board members. My name is Anna Hopkins and I'm a teacher at Phoenix Academy. Just about a month ago, I was told I was nonreelected and I was given option to resign. I'm here to see if you'll give me a second chance. I start off last week when I received a text message from admin sharing a video. Thank you. A video from Tik Tok asking me if that's me. In the video, I watched a stitch video of my ex-colague recording me and my students without her permission. The video shows a teacher talking about me and siding with my classroom management, and so did the other 1300 people who responded. Then my admin sent me a second video of my ex-colague saying the most horrendous and disgusting lies about me.
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We are looking that additional increase is a $2 million. However, this is something that there's some uncertainties. So we were asked at this point do not budget that until we have clear picture. So there's a lot of proposals and I want to share with you what the dollar amounts are but some things we are we were asked to budget and some items we they were telling us do not budget for it. So I want to be very clear this $2 million is not budget and if we do get this money the goal will be this will be an ongoing ongoing amount that will start next year and so that will really help us with the um special education program. So, we're very very excited about this new ongoing dollars if it does happen. And I will now go through some of the key indicators um for our district.
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It hurt me to the core. I called my admin right after, and we're both upset and appalled by the things she was saying. This ex-colague quit back in September, over five months ago. I will hardly believe these false false accusations were told to admit and the district which led to my non-reelect. I have gone to admin about this ex-colague and the issues I was having with her not in all words but I was told she was put in there so I can babysit her an adult on top of 25 plus students. Since then I had since then I had sub after sub after sub. I never got a permanent pair. But yes, I do have high expectations in classroom management. That doesn't make me a mean teacher. I know I'm a good teacher and I know I'm not perfect, but my students are well behaved, independent, and very bright.
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And so, as you have seen, this is our enrollment chart. Um we have the certified numbers at um as of October 2025. So, we are now um our enrollment is about 25 um,000 students um or so at this point. and we we track our attendance um every month and we have all the attendance rates as well. So this is the enrollment and so I'm going to be very clear in a couple I'll show you we don't get paid based on enrollment we get paid based on when students come to our school attendance and this is a chart to show you how our decline has been um since 2011. And as you can see, we had just, you know, a some slight decline and then um really drained um when CO kind of hit and our biggest year was in 2425. We lost about,00 um students in that year.
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I got so many compliments on my students and my teaching style from my colleagues all the time around campus. I think I'm missing a picture. Um, I'm not sure what happened, but my students are aware of my departure and they told me that they don't want me to leave and they want to stay in kindergarten forever with me. My last year students come see me every morning before to go to class and give me gifts and drawings they made. I don't want to leave this school, especially this district. I want and I don't want to leave them and they especially don't want to leave me. Um I also have a few examples. I think that's what I'm missing a page here. Um, of some examples of when I was doing the progress reports last week and I noticed a dramatic increase of um, students from not knowing one uppercase letter, lowercase letter sounds from low students.
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Uh this year, uh we lost about 943. So we're hoping that we're not losing um as much as prior, but we are continue to project um a declining enrollment. until 2029 20 uh 2030 still at this point. So as I spoke earlier we get paid based on attendance not how many students we have enrolled and so this chart will share with us what we have done so far. So for a secondary district, we were at 95% prior to COVID. That is unheard of for students to show up day after day that they were um in school. And the one year that during CO 2021 um that was the year that um the state basically let us have the prior year because of CO. So that was a 97% but that was um a different formula for that year and we dropped to 91% in 2223.
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And you can I mean I can show you examples of like he's saying to I push my students. I know I have high expectations and then they they achieve it. They >> 30 seconds >> they meet their goal every sing they meet their goal every single time. Um I've had students reading at second grade third grade level as well. Um my madman tells me that the first grade students from last year are the most respectful, bright, um intelligent. They listen, they're they do their work and they know how to read right and do math. But um that's all I am. Sorry. >> Thank you. >> All right, Mr. Cobbs. That up a little bit. Thanks for having me. Superintendent Nelson, the board, cabinet, I want to start uh tonight just saying uh thanks to Jeremiah and your team for sitting in a room with us for a little over seven years.
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Now, we have since bounced back, but we are only at 92%. And so, this is something that we can continue to work on because we were able to be at 95%, which is really unheard of. I'm going to tell you that for high school district. So, there's some room there that we can continue to work on to bring the students uh back to into classrooms. And as you can see, our unduplicated pupil count uh using the three-year rolling average, we have kind of gone up. Our high has been about 81%. Current year we're about 80% and we're projected to go down to about 76% in the out years. This is the um retirement the stirs and pers district contribution. As you can see here the number continues to go up. But I do wanted us to kind of take a look at the difference between just in eight years between 20 2017 18 to currently.
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No, about a year, right? Um and working things. Um I wanted to encourage a yes vote tonight in order to get the benefits of uh the agreement that we have with Avuda and ABUSD on the April paycheck. Um during our ratification meeting um we uh ended up getting a unanimous vote and so we came together. We did what was best. Um I got asked a couple of questions and said all the stuff that's in it. Is this a always a great deal? No. Is it a bad deal? No. Is it a good deal? Yes. I'm not going to be around that long and so not everything in there pertains to me. But my role leadership put me in a position to be able to say let's do what's best for all and that's what we pushed for. And so given that uh reading the reports tonight it looks like congratulations.
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Back in 2017 we spent about about $21 million for the um stores portion and basically it almost doubled not not almost doubled to $37 million current year. At the same time the pers this is like the from people who are in the classified systems like myself. It was about $8 million. it has grown to almost $24 million in the eight-year period. So, it's tripled. So, the retirement has uh and all this is because of the how the market is doing as well. This is a retirement system. So, when they're not able to pay out for the retirees, then they come back to the district to for the uh contribution from the school districts. So, this is something that we continue to watch. We're hoping that the the rates are stabilizing at this point, but he I do want to show how how fast he has um increased the rates overall in just in eight years.
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We might have about 14.9 million of unexpected revenue found that's a good thing. It shouldn't affect the processes that were already put into place prior to the agreement. And so again I just want to encourage you leadership is tough and it puts us in positions. I got up a long time ago and I said, uh, I encourage us to do the right thing. I've tried to stand before you and do that honesty with integrity and not name calling and things like that. And so I've tried to to be there. I'm going to end that tonight hopefully with this agreement being passed that I can keep that. But I say that because secondly, again, leadership calls us into tough places. And I would just like to encourage you as a board to withdraw the resolution 252609. We were encouraged to move on and what I've heard from people and I just wanted to represent that to you.
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And this is the chart for the health and welfare um the district contribution for that. And as you can see, steady we've been going up um in the um from you know since 2010 and um last year in 2425 we were about 60 million and we're now at $64 million. Now in the budgets we project a 10% increase for the health and welfare and we work very hard uh with our health benefits committee. Uh I know that our um board president and also um our board member Ron Hosshi both serve on that committee. We meet once a month and the committee works extremely hard to make sure that we are able to control the the money as well. They're very very cognizant about the expenditure. They're very cognizant about what we can have for our employees as well. So, thank you so much for being on that committee.
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This resolution will only feel like a biased attempt by the board to choose sides instead of supporting the whole. I've tried in this whole process that we were in to support the whole and I want to encourage you for those two things tonight to do what's best for the whole. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right, we need to go into close session to discuss the following. Number one, pupil personnel expulsion cases. EXP number 14, 2526 through EXP number 16, 2526. Expulsion case stip number 22 2526 through expulsion case stip number 4 2526 and vacate expulsion EXP number 726. Item two, conference on litigation, government code section 54956.1A, current litigation, six cases, CVISB CIVVS 2550 506329, government code section 54954.5C and 54956.9D and E1 anticipated litigation two cases 202425-1 202526-1 government code section 54954.5D and 54956.95 Five, anticipated litigation one case claimment Jones, Shadrach.
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I know it's a lot of hard work on that. So, um I will now share with the second interim overall um numbers um that um you'll be approving tonight. So this is the budget assumptions uh for what we have. The first one I wanted to um highlight is the uh LCFF COLA the local control funding formula cost of living adjustment. So for next year is it is now down to 2.41 remember first in it was not that long ago in December it was at 3.02 and and then the 2728 we're now down to 3.06 it was at 3.42. So all the cola from first interim it was higher projected and so we have been uh we have to use a lower um cost of living adjustment at this point. Moving forward the overall revenue for the second interim we are now um it is at $568.4 million.
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Item three, public employee discipline, dismissal, release, reassignment, transfer, leave, title certificated and classified employees. Item four, public employee appointment resignation, retirement reduction, title, certificated and classified employees. Item five, conference with labor negotiator. A, agency negotiator Jer Jeremiah Harrison. B, employee organization Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association. Item six, conference with labor negotiator. A, agency negotiator, Christristen Depri. B, employee organization, California school employees association. Item seven, conference with labor negotiator. A. Agency negotiator Trenne Nelson. B employee organization unrepresented. Eight. Conference with real property negotiator government code section 54956.8. A. Negotiation parties. Matthew Schulenberg Apple Valley Unified School District. And item nine, security matters, government code section 54957, consultation with Apple Valley Unified School District Chief of Police. Can I get a motion to go into close session? >> So moved. >> Second. We will be taking a vote via roll call. Mrs. Longore. >> I. Mrs. Tucker.
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As you can see bulk of our expenditures is coming from the state in the LCFF um local control funding formula. And I do want to note here that because of measure K, we are now able to transfer, remember the 25.6 million, we were able to bring the money back because we now have the bonds to pay for those projects. Remember, we transfer that money before we pass the bond because we have a lot of projects that we needed the money for. So at second in that money is coming back. So just want to make sure that um we are aware of that. So it's a one time we transfer at one time it's coming back in one time. In total expenditures we um are projecting to be about $566.7 million and you will see the bulk of our expenditure over 80% is now on people.
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>> I. Miss Akara >> I. >> And Mrs. Buchanan I. So, we will head into close session at 6:10 Yeah. 8:18 p.m. Roll call. Maria Akapara, >> I'm here. >> Anita Tucker, >> here. >> Rick Raleigh is absent. Renee Longshore >> here >> and Amanda Buchanan I am here.
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So you have the certificate salaries, class size salaries, employing benefits. That's bulk of our expenditures. This is our multi-year projection. So we have our current year and then that next three years um by law we just have to have current years plus the next two years. You will see here we are now the available reserve is going down from 25.49% uh to 7.72% in 2829 and you see here in second in report that we are not projected to have deficit spending. You can see that we have a about a increase in fund balance of $1.6 6 million. But starting in 2627, $43 million in the deficit and in 2728 $67 million deficit and in 28.29 $77 million deficit. We saw deficits already back at first intim right. So please do not be surprised. It was $70 million back then in the out years, right? we have additional things that we have brought in and so um the deficit now is at 77 million.
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Um Anita, would you mind leading us in the pledge of allegiance? >> Kendover Hart. Ready begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. At this time, we would like to pause in a moment of silence to remember retired AVUSD family member Christina Ericson. All right. Um, thank you. Next will be uh recognition outstanding representation of district core values presented by Superintendent Nelson. I'm going to start the recognition and then ask the board to join me. But um let's get them. There's a little bit of a story here. Normally I have something very written about the can't hear. Normally nope, Jason's working on it. There we go. Um, normally I have an entire script that I read for the um, values.
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