Right. Um we have a a number of times in the contract that we work under where decisions are made in the best interest of students. And I understand difficult decisions get made. I think this board is in a challenging position. I understand that. Um the referendum outcome certainly was not um not welcome, but decisive and understandable in in many ways as as Chairwoman Daniels just alluded that that um but that whole idea of doing things in the best interest of students is really what brought me back out here tonight. Thank you. And um I appreciate our central office staff, superintendent, assistant superintendent, who worked very transparently with us and have really worked uh year and a half in advance of this particular budget to prepare this district, prepare our staff to be able to do the best job we can with um the resources that the community makes available.
Our awards are sponsored by the Buenus Club. The recipient for Laurel Girl State is Kayla Dwire. [applause] [cheering] >> [applause] [applause] >> The D good citizens program honors an outstanding young person in the senior class who demonstrates the qualities of a good citizen. This student exhibits dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism. This year's recipient is Sarah Reed. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] >> It is now my pleasure to introduce CHS assistant principal Dr. Moren Reed. [applause] >> Good evening, welcome and congratulations to everyone. Department leaders will now present their department awards. Presenting the department award for special achievement in art is Mr. Tony Aru.
And finally, I would like to thank all of our teachers and counseling staff, which includes Ms. Mary Benford. Ms. Carrie Vaughn. Ms. Tina Shires. Ms. Ela Wonder. Ms. Lucky Ann. Ms. Amanda Lu. And last but certainly not least, let's give a hand for our senior class counselor, Ms. Billie Lavrov. >> [cheering] >> All of these people have worked hard these past four years to make sure that we made it to this moment today. And now, I would like to welcome our very first speaker of today, our amazing ASB President. Please give a round of applause for Logan Henderson. >> [cheering] >> There's a universal truth that we all have to face. Whether we want to or not, eventually everything ends. As much as I've looked forward to this day, I've always disliked endings. The last days of summer, the final chapter of a great book, parting ways with a close friend, but endings are inevitable.
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. Please remain standing for our national anthem, which will be played by our Katella High School band and directed by Mr. Daniel Castellanos. Thank you. >> [music] [music] >> Katella! >> [music] [music] [applause] >> Thank you, Mr. Casillanos and band. That was amazing. Everyone, please be seated. Oh, stand. I would now like to introduce our distinguished guests. Jessica Guerrero, president of our Board of Trustees. Anne Marie Rainey Trejo, clerk of our Board of Trustees. Rhonda She, assistant clerk of our Board of Trustees. Ryan O'Neal, member of our Board of Trustees. Dr. Jerry Almendarez, and superintendent superintendent of the Anaheim Union High School District. Amy Kwong, assistant superintendent of Educational Services of the Anaheim Union High School District.
Our challenge to select high school students prepare something special just for you. Let's give them a big round of applause as they take the stage. That's Good. Hello. Hi there, chef. We can have more engine. Thank you very much. Another times you ask you where to go. Don't make the best of this test. And don't ask why. It's not a question about a lesson learned in time. It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life. and stomies in your mind and good health and good time and memories and dance on what it's worth. It was worth all of the unpredictable but at the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life. It's something unpredictable, but in The end is right. I hope you at the time of my life. It's something right.
Thank you so much for this opportunity. I really appreciate it. This is really exciting. Okay. All right, board and audience. Uh I want to introduce you to Arnaud Dutoit. He's probably going to have his name pronounced like 10 different ways. Uh but uh a little bit about Arnaud. Um very he's a well-rounded student first of all and uh let me say he's the rising junior. So uh Danielle pointed out that Claire uh our rising senior, Claire will be the rising junior and she'll serve a two-year term. So as we start this program uh one negative I guess you could say is Arnaud is only going to have one year uh within within the program. But going forward each person that fills these roles will have two years of experience uh in that. But um we know he's going to do a great job. But a little bit about uh Arnaud, well-rounded student um athletics-wise he's involved in football, track and field, wrestling, rugby.
In our investment slide that key thing to point out here you'll see that at the very bottom where you have your liquid and max that's the amount of cash that we have on hand that's not currently invested. You'll see that that number is fairly high. This coincides with next month when we we ask the board to authorize that transfer the $6 million from the ed fund these investments to capital. Keep in mind those funds are helping pay for the transportation center and the solar project. We are going to ask the board to transfer up to 6 million if we don't need all 6 million. We will of course reinvest in both long and short-term options. I will say on this note that last week Mr. Glanzman and I met with PTMA and we were we had a riveting lunch talking about cash flow strategy and how to maximize that for the district.
Mrs. M will hand them to the teacher if they're here, otherwise she will present them. Students, if you receive one of these awards, these are the top student awards for your class for your grade percentage as well as behavior. One, only one could be chosen for each class. So, it is an honor. We'd like you to come to the middle and take a picture, smile. Mrs. Boatman's ELA award. Mrs. Boatman's award goes to Gabby Denny. [applause] Mrs. Rep unfortunately is not here, but her ELA award is going to Emma Mesa. Mrs. Storm, her award is going to Alex Welch. >> [applause] >> Mr. Kindle's algebra award goes to Ally Reman. Mr. Kindle's pre-alggebra award goes to Owen Whitbeck. Mrs. Peter Science Award goes to Haley Hazes. Mr. Stump Social Studies Award goes to Leilani Ola. Prophase Spanish award goes to Vivian Seas. Mr. Nickerson's German award goes to Tegan Janick.
This one does mirror ISBA's model. I read through it and I do want to take a moment to commend all of you because as I read through it and stuff, you guys are an upstound upstanding board. The ethics that it goes over and the governance that you guys provide is very much appreciated. and then also letting the administration run the day-to-day side of things. So, thank you for that. And then the other one that I wanted to just point out on [clears throat] this one is there is a controlled substance policy for CDL and safety sensitive positions. Again, we already have this policy in place, but I do want to get with Chuck on it before it comes to you guys for a vote just to compare and see a couple different nuances on there, what his take is on that. So, it's kind of where we are with our work in progress on the ones for the second reading next month.
Any questions? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos the same. >> Motion carries. >> Creating a position. Sir, >> uh for for many years since the inception of of the special needs preschool um at Nightstown Elementary School, we have had our special ed teacher at that level also run um that classroom. Theresa Leisure has done that for us for a long time uh and has done a remarkable job, an incredible job. Um now that our preschool continues to grow and we are seeing more special needs um outside of just that classroom, it's become necessary uh that we create a new position to be that classroom teacher so that Teresa can be freed up to be providing services and minutes in our other preschool classrooms. Um that is a need that is is immediate for now for the next school year, but is something that will grow significantly in the 2027 school year when the early childhood center officially opens.
Valerie Armstrong, board member, please join me? McKayla Schmidt John Snyder Adeline Speece Alex Spanbauer Lexie Spanbauer Henry Stanglin Malia Stowell Grayson Sturgis Mason Sturgis Jace Sullivan Teddy Todd Claire Vetter Drew Weikel Ezra Worlser Adeline Wilcox and Aubrey Williams At this time, please join me in a round of applause >> [applause] >> At this time please welcome me in joining Mr. Ford of McKinney Harrison Elementary School to join Mrs. Archer. >> [applause] >> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. Congratulations to all of our winners here this evening. Our first recipient is Meredith Valentine. Charlie Beck. Ruby Blair. Evan Brown. Madeleine Brown. Owen Brown. Aubrey Carney. Brantley Carter. Matthew Chapman. Jack Christian. Dresden Criswell. Spencer Criswell. Emmett Conners Elliott Cooper Yes, I can. Alex Cox Violet Davis Grant Decker Titus Foltz Isaac Gaber At this time with word of the word, this is Katie Beaster, please join me at the front.
Previously served Huntington North, I am told, very well as uh as well, and excited, I know Dr. Diggs, to uh add uh that to his team at Huntington North. Uh after your vote, I know that uh either Dr. Diggs or Mr. Peters has something to read. Jamie is, of course, working tonight. Uh so I know they will read that on her behalf. So our recommendation for action item assistant principal Huntington North is uh Jamie Craft. Thank you, Mr. Wimberly. I will entertain a motion for this agenda item. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Wall.
You know that from basketball. Just stand there. You try to want to get a hip or a shoulder into that and the Spartans with another turnover and waiting to get that clock to be running out so Kylie Marino can get back into it. The game. As Lee turns around, goes around the cage. Good job by Byron to chase her off. Nice in and out move by Lee. Good save by Julia Gray. Hannah Eddy turns around and gets a couple of empty checks on her and she sees some open space. Kylie Marino back in. Spartans have the numbers. Hannah Eddy with just more one defender finds an open Pelletier. Pelletier gets stick checked from behind. Good job to stay with it and gets the ball over to Pellegrino. Pellegrino behind the net. Pellegrino up to McKechnie. McKechnie does a roll dodge. McKechnie goes in double teamed on her.
The following names are the names of the Adidas outdoor track national qualifiers. You can read them on the screen. There are more names that al um for ap the April athletes of the month which once again you guys can read on the screen the annual flag replacement. A message from Mr. from Mr. Sire. Thank you for all who participated in the interact club annual burning flag replacement at St. Mary's and Immaculate concert cemetery. Over 5,000 flags over 5,000 flags were replaced in just 3.5 hours dedicated by volunteer. A special thanks to staff, students and sta staffs and students and even more special thanks to Kate Kate Keys and Chris Waterworth for leading the deployment in the large areas and coordinating students. This is my special goodbye. I am a senior. My name is Amber Salomon. I am a senior. Thank you for the wonderful year serving serving as a student represented member of the district comedian.
So, you have four units on the roof that are 25-plus years old, which are getting towards their end of their life, and I believe it was just over a million dollars to replace them all. Um so, those energy recovery units are not in great shape, but um and what that does is that's for moving air throughout the school and recover energy. But, the actual heating for the school is done through two boilers. The boilers are new. All your mechanicals in the boiler room is new. Um we have an old control system called Schneider Controls that does 80% of the middle school, and then Siemens does the other 20%, so at some point it would be good for them to be on the same system, so there there should be an upgrade on your controls here. The rooftop units should be considered um being replaced. But, the rest of the mechanicals and the school condition is um good.
And resources are limited for everyone. The ceiling for our students we don't want to be limited. And so I want to thank the board for the work you do. I want to uh give you my sympathy for the difficult decisions you have to make. Maybe it's more empathy. We'll all be impacted by it. Uh I very much appreciate the continued work directly with the superintendent's office and all the central office staff. Um Jordan is is really good about being up front and looking for innovative solutions as opposed to I'm here to tell you what's going on. And that's a great partnership to have. So, we'd certainly like to see that continue. Um two two thoughts I want to leave you with. Um I have as every district member here knows, I have a school email. And many people have taglines at the bottom of their school emails.
[applause] >> Good evening everyone. The student receiving this year's award for special achievement in the visual arts has shown an exceptional level of dedication, creativity, and perseverance throughout his time at CHS. He has worked tirelessly to strengthen and refine his skills, always pushing himself to grow as an artist and thinker. His consistent effort, meticulous craftsmanship, and thoughtful approach to each assignment speaks volumes about his character and drive to achieve at the highest level. He was a mediocre ceramics one student if I'm being honest, but then began asking me qualifying questions and speaking the names of ceramic artists that only someone with a true potter's mind would know. Names like Vulcas, Hammeda, and Leech to name a few, the likes of which that none of you know either. This is when I knew that this student was not going to be my average ceramic student. instead the beginning of a teacher student relationship that only few teachers have the privilege to experience.
Leaves change, you close the book, and you say goodbye. Today is one of those days for us. Today we say goodbye to everything that was comfortable, everything that was familiar, and we're moving on. And yes, that can be scary, but here's what I've realized. Maybe endings aren't just about things falling apart. Maybe they're about things falling into place. Maybe this isn't just an ending, and maybe it's all coming together. High school isn't just a single story. It's thousands of small moments stitched together, awkward, hilarious, difficult, unforgettable moments that slowly shaped us into who we are becoming. And somewhere in all those moments, we found the people who made the journey unforgettable. The friends who stood beside us through everything and made the hard days a little easier. And for many of us, the quiet support behind it all came from our parents, the ones who believed in us before we even believed in ourselves.
We would like to take the time to thank our amazing principal, Mr. Hernandez, and our awesome assistant principals, Mr. Costa, Dr. Naldean, Mr. Saldana, and Mr. Ward, and our two teachers on special assignment, Ms. Solkey and Ms. Turkey. In addition, we would like to thank everyone who has worked so hard to make sure that we made it to this moment today. Our staff, counselors, and especially our incredible senior counselor, Ms. Janet Lowe. It is my pleasure to introduce the senior class officers, Joseph Cisneros, Aaron Gonzalez, Samantha Solis, and our incoming ASB President, Fabian Severiano, for the presentation of the senior gift. We are proud to present the class of 2026 gift to Katella High School in gratitude for all Katella High has given to us. Our gift will be a monetary donation to the incoming freshman, class of 2030. As incoming ASB President, I will accept the class of 2026 gift on behalf of Katella High School.
Thank you for such a wonderful performance. Now you can all get ready for presenting junior class. That's right. Ladies and gentlemen, A crazy LITTLE Let's begin. >> I have heard that before. >> Are you worried about? Not at all. He always looks pretty good. I'm going to break him. >> Break me. You finish the last fight. Save for Saturday night. All right, gentlemen. Keep it professional. You nervous already? >> That's enough. That's enough. The patient never listen. >> These two men truly dislike each other. But we shall see. That is fun. making his way to the offic. YEAH. HEAT. What do you want? Heat. Heat. Yeah. Hallelujah. Thank you very much. YOU WELCOME EVERYONE. GO AHEAD. referee has stopped this competition with 26 seconds in the first round. declare the winner BY DK AND HELLO. CONGRATULATIONS. That was an incredible performance tonight. But now you early to fight.