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Yet, you failed to clarify what I said. The Board of Education has a painting of one door in their bid in the budget that in a meeting with both Mr. Daniels and Bob Craig you felt that that number was acceptable. That is what I said on social media. Let me make that clear again. That is what I said social media. So, let's set the record straight tonight, Mr. Daniels. That's correct. Brian Craig. Thank you, Brian. Anybody else would like to speak? I'm sure. Yes, sir. I'm Jim Sawicki. First, thank you all for your service to the Board of Ed. Um I fairly short comments. I don't think we need to cut teachers or teacher salaries. I don't think we need to be pairing back tremendously, but we're being asked to sacrifice. I cannot see why this administrative budget can't be cut, too. If there's This is a top administrative department heavy organization.
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Working with this student during their time at CHS has been a joy, and I am proud to see the leader that they have become. So, I am pleased to present this award to Matthew Watson. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] >> The orchestra award is given annually to a senior orchestra member who has shown outstanding talent, dedication, leadership, and passion in music as well as contributes to a positive environment within our ensemble. The student receiving this award has demonstrated an outstanding dedication and care for the Cheshire High School orchestra. When this student and I first started out with the orchestra, it was around 15 members and has now grown to roughly 50. Throughout that process, tonight's recipient has been integral to fostering a welcoming community and a culture of growth while also tirelessly working on developing their own skills as a musician. Anytime there is an opportunity to perform in an optional small ensemble or to help someone else with a problem, this student readily volunteers.
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>> [music and singing] [music and singing] [singing and music] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [singing and music] [music] [singing] [music] >> Let's give it one more time for our choir. >> [cheering] >> I would now like to introduce our amazing principal, Ms. Jennifer Brown, to the stage. Please give her a round of applause. And I'm so much shorter. All right. Good morning. Good morning Cypress High School families, staff, guests, and most importantly, the incredible class of 2026. Graduates, take a moment. Look around. Look to your left. Look to your right. Look up into the stands to those who supported you on your journey. Give them a nod or point in their direction to show your appreciation. >> [cheering] >> Now look inward. This is it. This is your moment. You did it. And not just in the way people often measure success with grades, credits, or transcripts.
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OUR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTISTS. >> [screaming] >> JROTC. YEARBOOK. >> [screaming] >> ASB student leaders. Athletes. >> [cheering and screaming] >> And all of our capstone presenters. >> [cheering] >> Parents, as you can see, your students have been very active graduating and doing all the honors throughout the year, and we will miss their school spirit. Join me in giving them a well-earned round of applause. >> [cheering and applause] [screaming] >> Scholars, you may be seated. Good evening, Katella families, distinguished faculty and guests, and most importantly, the historic and incredible class of 2026. Four years ago, we began a journey together. You arrived on campus as freshmen, and I joined you as the new principal. We were both new kids trying to find our way. Because we started this chapter together, you will always hold a sacred place in my heart. You aren't just a graduating class.
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Principal's honor. Our achiever now AC profession award yas honor ability and statistics proficient high achiever in science and finance champion. JESUS ALISA TSA certificate in culinary arts and here safe and hungry. >> Hannah Hollywood Lucious John the girl. award achiever in science finest champion award in Jonathan Marquez. Hey, >> Frankie. Sanchez Roberto. That's right. Bagel. Oh, >> Katie or Basel. Sage University. Radio. Thank you. DEVIN SEPTEMBER. Once again, congratulations to all our senior fellows and to the example they have sent to our students. As we conclude the presentation of awards, we must take pride in the achievements of all our learners who have demonstrated excellence, perseverance, and dedication throughout the school year. We have a special guest this afternoon. We have our dual and welcome coordinator from the Autumn Community College. Let's all give Randy Esuma a big round of applause. Hello, it's Gash. Espa.
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Yeah. Yeah, do all the hiring. I just know you do sometimes we forget stuff. I appreciate you. Now I hear you. I have your help for another how many more? Okay. All right, uh next is approval of administrative new hirings. Item 5.1 approval of hiring a new principal at RMS. Steve. Yeah. So, uh right here we have Josh Lewis who we are recommending for approval for the Rotolo Middle School principal job. Um Josh has a lot of experience. He's a current standing middle school principal. He's been an elementary principal. And he was This doesn't happen a lot, but when we go through our process he was the unanimous number one choice of every single person on the uh uh RMS team which was made up of both BEA and Best Buy members. And then he met with our cabinet and Tom and he came forward as the right hire.
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Uh so, the laminated glass is definitely a lot stronger than the glass we have in those entryways right now. So, basically, all your exits we're going to get uh changed out to laminated glass. And then, more improvements are scheduled for next summer, 2027. Deerpath. Deerpath is going to be basically a brand new school inside. Um so, a new fire alarm panel, uh the new sound system for the audio enhancements, um the boilers and chillers, those are getting all changed out. New clock system, security cameras, the uh wireless door locks, so you would have to badge in and out of the or badge into the classrooms, uh LED lights, ceiling tiles, all new flooring, uh so, we're going to go away from the uh the VCT and get the luxury vinyl tile, what uh you've seen the floor in Three Oaks, basically a similar design to that.
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If you participated in solo and ensemble contests, please stand. If you are our spelling bee winner, please stand. Student council members, please stand. If you won any of our student spotlight nominations this year, please stand. [applause] Track members, please stand. Volleyball team, please stand. Please stand if you are in the yearbook club. If you are a young author winner, please stand. And finally, if you are a member of Youth Alive, please stand. This is a list of students who had no referrals their eighth grade year. Did not have to talk to you about any detentions or choices um that were not the best. So, if I call your name, just stand up and then you can sit back down. You do not have to wait. to students with no referrals their entire eighth grade year. Nyla Alers, Roman Alston, Ryan Hour, Max Baker, Kai Bar, Connor Barro, Gabe Blevens, Grayson Bosch, Gabriella Brooks, Violet Browning, Lily Bergamman, Harper Bryant, Miles Bunty, Riley Burton, Trevor Cole, Rose Quido, Anna Dob, Tyson Dabler, Kelly Dush, Ben Dy, Lily Dorg, Gabby Denny, Lily Dinklman, EMTT Dunham, Maxims, Elizabeth Edwards, Charlie Fis, Jaye Flowers, Gracie Fony, Haley Frame, Wyatt Fry, Avery Frederick, Ariana Garcia, Connor Garcia, Manny Garcia, Luke Green, Isabelle Gregor, Landon Hobmill, Emory Harris, Cassidy Hart, Genevie Hal, Brock Hodrick, Simon Han, Haley Hazes, Abby Hec, Caroline Herbeck, Morgan Hesterberg, Ella Hitzman, Kota Hudson, Isaac James, Tegan Janick, Noah Jansen, Payton Johnson, Malachi Keller, Abigail Kelly, Jackson Kimp, Emma Kennedy, Kayn Killingsworth, Andrew Kish, Amal Kouse, Max Lang, Marcy Laxton, Kaden Long, Max Lopes, Emma Mik, Ara Martin, Eve Martin, Cleo Matsonus, Edie Mayor, Eliza McFarland, Oliver Merins, Micah Mud, Steven Meeath, [snorts] Ella Mullen, Chloe Null, Leo Newire, Skyler Nukem, Ashlin Ni, Leilani Olow, Ian Patel, Lydia Peas, Aya Pelch, Barrett Peterson, Tucker Panel, Brooklyn Prior, Riker Ramirez, Brooke Randall, Edwin Randall, Llaya Randall, Lucy Rashenberg, Emma Reeing, Alis Emma Reeing, Alisander Reeman, Analise Ross, Sophia Saler, Vivian Seasich, Mason Schaefer, Olivia Schlimmer, Amaya Schneider, Elijah Senna, Owen Sharp, Nick Severs, Lucas Sites, Ty Smith, Leila Snell, Ellie Sproul, Grant Stapleton, Violet Steel, Kaden Stumpf, Gabri Gabby Stumpf, Aubrey Sullivan, Nolan Thomas, Quentyn Tune, Kaylee Tucker, Kaden Turner, Sophia Verbeck, Wesley Velker, Ian Walsh, Savannah Walter Waters, Avery Webb, Josephine Webb, Liam Web, Ian Wheeler, Sophia Whitmore, Lucas Woodcock, Annabelle Wy, Jacob Young, and Xander Verbecki.
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So >> and we started off with fewer teams than what we have now as well too. So >> yeah and just keep on growing which is good. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Any other questions or comments? So I'll entertain a motion to accept the Antioch Bible Church soccer and transportation facility agreement. So move >> second that. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Next is the uh youth first memorandum of understanding 202627 school year. >> This is another partnership that we are very grateful to have. Uh youth first provides us with our social worker Leah Lotus. She is phenomenal and she does serve our district K12 and does a remarkable job with our students, our staff and our family. The agreement has an approximate 3% increase in what we contribute. How that works is it's a matching piece to where we pay a certain percentage of the first fee and then they go out in the community and they fund raise and they provide the additional support and they do that on our behalf and so we don't have to do that portion of it.
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>> I do plan on partnering with them once we're all under the same roof. Yeah. >> But thank you. >> Thank you guys very much. Your work's very appreciated. >> Anyone else? I want to start by thanking you all for serving on the board because it truly is a thankless position and I know a lot of time and effort and thoughts go into what you do. So, thank you. I come today as I've heard and seen recent talkings of inappropriate conversations between a school employee and a student. I am glad the school andor parents turned it over to authorities and let them investigate. While I understand the school legally could not address this while an investigation was underway, I am under the impression that once charges were filed, you have been allowed to comment or make a statement. I question why any time in the last several weeks, at the bare minimum, Kis parents didn't receive some sort of communication and transparency about the situation.
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Harrison. You were asking me about that earlier. That was a nice And this gives you a little snapshot of where we're at on some roofing and repair in a a of our buildings. top building. And I again, it's kind of the same green. I use a little bit color different color code again on this. Uh DeKalb Middle School at the top, DeKalb Middle School, highlight that one. As we have some more work we've done some work on the middle school, not just the black paneling that we recall, we had this this ugly two-tone brown panels on our aux gym and main gym. We replaced that and we replaced several sections of roof. We have another section that will be happening this summer as part of the GO Bond project that the board approved last fall. That work again will start as soon as school's out.
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Um to me that is one of the best parts of being a school board member is to hand those diplomas to those students as they come across the stage and the look in their eyes as they come across to take that. It is priceless. It is something that I look forward to every year. Um but I want to commend Dr. Diggs for I know it's going to be a great event. You always put on a great event, so I continue for that and thank everyone that's going to be involved in that on Sunday because there's nothing better to do for those students when we get out and do that. So, I look forward to that and hope to see everyone there on Sunday. I can't wait. Me, too. Anything else? I will entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Wall. Is there a second?
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You're not allowed to hit the other stick down. >> Got it. You said it exactly how it played out. >> would've been in the face. Mack Whitwer Let's keep going. >> yeah, she'll If she gets a good head of steam, she'll do it, but right now she's got she'll switch that off and get the >> Cuz I know that's that's not as deep of a stick. >> She scored a bunch of goals this season doing that. So now we have Mack Whitwer and Sabina McKechnie looking to do a little two-man. Guys are sending a couple of the cutters. Everybody should want to clear out. McKechnie goes around the corner, nothing there. McKechnie goes back around the corner, finds a little bit of steam, goes left-handed, gets a shot off. Nice save by the Minnetonka goalie and Spartans will start Good heads up by Kylie Marino letting Mack just take that ball in over there.
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Maybe we can get a picture before you leave with the superintendent for the board. >> Thank you. >> Oh yeah, let's utilize the fireplace. Yep. Probably Okay, moving along. >> Can I get a motion to approve the approve the minutes of April se uh 27th, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> Opposed. Uh cash balance report. Uh I believe the superintendent's going to read it. Jerry and Melissa are both out. >> So, um, our account balance for February 28, 2026 is 3,61,712.18. Uh, deposits for March 1st to March 31st, 5,359,491.37. Uh, transfers in and out March 1st to March 31st. March 12th 1,277,15829 March 26 1,320,312.62 warrant 26 and 27 March 10th 20635,960.89 89. Um, March 28th, uh, I mean, excuse me, Warrant 28, March 24th, 956,742.74 warrants numbers of GLT balance. March 31st, 2026, we had a balance of 4,231,28.81.
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Um so, it does have three older air handling units. It has some older boilers. The mechanics in the building are older. Um It was built in 1915, so they're all about the same age. Um The floors are in all VCT floors. They're in fair shape. You get another 5 or 10 years out of them, but then you're going to have to start considering replacing some of the floors. So, Newton Street's probably one of the schools that would need more work than the other ones. Um The parking lot for employees and stuff for is a gravel lot. There should be some consideration of maybe doing something with that eventually to make it last longer. Um but the visitor parking lot and the horseshoe turnaround is all in good condition. Um the roof's in good shape. There's nothing we need to do to the roof. It's a brick building, so all the exteriors in uh fairly good shape.
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I get the fact that it's not easy to be done, but it needs to be done. We You can't ask everyone else to sacrifice and not do something to this budget. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I can spot Hi. Julia Roy. Oh, no. I just deleted my notes. >> [clears throat] >> Hold on. Sometimes I want to go to the picture by them. What's this? Any pictures you have in the same hard drive? You have my house number? No, I don't need it. be right. Um, thank you for being here. It's a consuming process this year, it's more consuming than others, and it's not fun. Not fun to make the cuts. Um, but the public is looking at this, right? The budget mailer that came in, and they're looking at this number, this 10% number. That's what they said last night, balance needed for local taxes, 10%.
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It has been an absolute pleasure to work with him and watch him grow for these three years. And so I am proud to present this award to Muno Jong. [applause] [applause] Up next, presenting the English department awards. Please welcome the English department head, Mr. Ian Werman. [applause] Uh the English department uh awards two awards. The first is the department award for excellence in English. Uh this year's winner is a deep and complex thinker who pours her effort and ability into every task or challenge in front of her. She's an invaluable classmate in any class she's a part of, sharing her insights and ideas in a humble, approachable, and welcoming way that brings out the best of all those around her, students and teachers alike. We would also like to thank her for inspiring leadership as president of this year's National English Honor Society, and we are excited for what she will go on to experience and accomplish as she continues her education next year at Tus University.
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You did something far greater. You became You became leaders. You became thinkers. You became creators. You became a community that learned what it means to lift one another, to persevere, and to dream bigger than what was placed in front of you. At Cypress, we don't just talk about success. We live it through who we are. We learn with empathy. We innovate with purpose. And we dream together. Those aren't just words on a wall. They are the foundation of who you are becoming. And today, I want to leave you with four simple, powerful life lessons. One you've already been practicing every day, whether you realized it or not. First, be there. In a world full of distractions, being fully present is rare and powerful. Be there for your friends. Be there for your family. Be there in your work, your passions, and your purpose. Because when you are truly present, you create connection.
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You are my first graduating class. >> [cheering] [applause] >> Over these four years, we've shared countless moments that have become the soundtrack of our lives. You have heard the call OF LET'S GO KNIGHTS 4,320 times echoing through passing periods, booming at rallies, and ringing out under the Friday night lights, and every Sunday morning. But as you sit here today, I hope you realize those aren't just words or a catchy slogan. They are the heartbeat of a 60-year legacy. This year marks our diamond jubilee, the 60th anniversary of Katella High School. Since 1966, these halls have been a sanctuary for academic excellence, a stage for athletic triumph, and the birthplace of birthplace of lifelong friendships. Today, you take the place as the latest and most vibrant chapter in that storied history of Katella pride. I see the five C's alive in each of you. I see in how you've lifted each other up, the character you've displayed to face challenges, and the compassion you've shown your peers.
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Hello everybody. My name is Brandy Eskuma. I am the health coordinator here at Community College. Um I am here just to recognize some special seniors that are have been working very hard in college courses while doing their high school graduation requirements. This is a big deal because they've already been succeeding in college for the past couple of years. I've been working with these students um very diligently every semester getting those classes sorted making sure that they excel throughout the semester. So I'm very very proud to recognize these seniors who have been working so hard as a college student as a high school student as someone within their community. So, thank you so much and please Audrey Morgan. Mendes. YEAH, >> Morgan Wilson. Princess Mon. Thank you. Good job. Good job. >> Thank you for taking the time to read the board's names for today's ceremony.
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