And while I'm sure that many of you have learned valuable lessons along the way, I want you to remember, please be kind to one another. Please respect each other, but most importantly, please stay true to yourself and never give up. Keep on working hard to become a better version of yourself. Whether you are part of my community of Spanish-speaking people, I haven't forgotten about you. Mom and Dad, thank you so much for all the support you have given me. I couldn't have done it without you. Thank you to all the fathers who are present here, those who fulfilled the role of both and those who are in our hearts. [applause] Students, this day is for you. I recognize that the road to today has not been easy and will only get more difficult. Even so, this day is for you. We have to celebrate, and this day is for all of you who have traveled the difficult road, not knowing what the future holds, but have fought with a dream towards a better future.
That's the right thing to do. Um, I just fear for the kids what I saw was very concerning advocating for violating a federal law and obstruction of justice and and that's bad and I don't even know what the parents are not seeing. So, the fact that I even saw that was very concerning. I really hope my request this board is going to decide my request is that the teacher be terminated with cause and that that be put into his record. That's my recommendation. Uh wherever this person winds up, they may or may not teach other kids in other places and states, but I'm sad. Really sad that this is still happening. But I appreciate the time. Thank you. >> Thank you. With that, any other public comments before we go to close session for close session items? Seeing none, we'll adjourn to close session. Okay, we're back in session.
All right, congratulations to Jay. Okay, thank you very much. At this time, I'd like to um introduce CSEA Chico Chapter President uh Kelly Serol to the podium to announce um staff recognition for May. Sorry, I'm short. Well, good evening, everyone. Hello, CSEA School Board and District employees. I'm Kelly Serol, CSEA Chico 110 Chapter President. This week was Classified School Employees Week. And it was so awesome to feel the support from District leadership and School Board members with our job shouting program. The feedback from classified employees has been so inspiring and how much they love the interactions they had with leadership companions. We hope to see you all tomorrow night at 4:30 at Nash's. >> [clears throat] >> This month's Member of the Month is Jay Applegate. What makes this recognition so special tonight is Jay is retiring next month after 25 years as a campus supervisor for Chico Unified.
He is always willing to help out a classmate in need. Jiad is a true leader in and out of the classroom. So, congratulations to Jiad. >> Yeah, I take a picture of myself. Um, boys and girls, congratulations. Parents, congratulations. Thank you for raising wonderful, wonderful children. You're clearly doing everything right all the time, right? Um, uh, this is normally the part of the meeting where I say you can stay, but you really don't have to. You can you can go now. Okay. So, have a have a great evening. >> Bye. >> Thank you, everyone. You want to get home. >> The best part of the night. It is >> maybe. >> Yeah. No doubt. >> All right. At this point, um, we'll open the meeting to the public for the discussion of agenda items only. Motion in a second. >> Motion. Second. >> All those in favor?
It's uh it's remarkable. So um for the middle school, the teacher of the year for Mortontown Regional Middle School is Mr. Tomi. Tom is definitely not one for the limelight, but we're going to make him suffer through it. So, um, not to show Tom's age, Tom's been teaching for 28 years based on the information I got, and he's one, right now, he's one of our eighth grade math teachers. He did spend some time in the social studies department, a lot of time in the social studies department, but now he's one of our eighth grade math teachers. Um, Tom's a tremendous asset to our BRMS team, and he's the type of teacher who works tirelessly to his students to perform to the best of their ability. Um he will work and work and work with kids to the point where they get annoyed with him chasing them down and uh they they the students respond to that eventually.
Brody is an only child. >> [applause] >> His favorite subject in is also phys ed. His favorite hobbies are playing video games, drawing, art activities such as painting in his free time. And his future career plans, he is part of our um RVCC program and one of his future career plans is going on to trade school for welding and making a career out of that. So, congratulations, Brody. [applause] And our final Crusader of the month is Lily Baker. Lily has two siblings, Emma and Jonathan. [applause] Her favorite subject in school is history. Her favorite hobby is reading and spending time with her family. And her future career plans are to become a high school teacher. So, congratulations, Lily. >> [applause] >> Okay, at this time, we have the pleasure of calling forth our teachers of the year for each school. We will begin with Lamont School and Mr.
So a space that's moving very very quickly. Um so this should be expected to be something that is probably fairly fluid. Um and there's importance to keep in mind in terms of you know student data privacy uh age appropriateness uh when it's right to use when it's not right to use. um which is partially laid out by the Strauss estimate standards but I think there's more that we could do there. Um second uh there was a release uh Strauss estimate released an alert uh number 237 um that we are going to move a number of those policies and regulations forward tonight and also abolish some policies. There's a lot on the agenda. Um most of this is is streamlining uh getting the policies up in line with terminology that have changed in state statutes. Um but also removing a number of of regulations because their language has been just simply folded into the the policies themselves.
um because we as a board are doing the best that we can with the resources that we have. So, we wanted something on record and I'm not going to go through line by line and read this to you, but it explains why we have this resolution, why we want to talk about it, and most importantly why we need to keep this conversation going because this is not a problem that is going to go away in one year or two years. it needs to be spoken about more and hopefully we can start to see changes in the right direction. Just a couple lines I do want to point out down at the bottom of the page uh talks about an analysis that was released by the Treasury Department in March of this year and it said that based on the projected losses and building in the future trends, active premium rate increases for 2027 are likely to be in the double digits.
Many of them are here tonight. So, thank you guys if you're watching me on the stream for everything you're doing both behind the stage and in the back of the room. Thank you. Um, I need to give a big shout out to Mrs. Davidson. I'm not sure if she can hear me right now. Um, she's been such a pleasure to work with over the past couple years and um, I'm really excited for you guys to hear all of the awesome work these students have done in their choral portion of their concert. Um, finally, I believe there is a PTO fundraiser at Rita's tonight. Um, and I don't know if you know know this, these students have had a rough couple weeks with NJSLA testing, have worked really hard tonight. I think they all deserve some Rita's Italian ice or ice cream. So, little plug there.
So many things to talk about. Last but not least, I'd like to thank Jason for his math class and med worship. I know that I would have failed mathematics and may not have made it this far. And I would have been talking to these people together now. Although I had two very special stay ups, thank you. To my siblings and extended family, thank you all for your support. You may not understand it, but you have all helped me grow into the person I am today. I appreciate all the ways you showed me that you cared for me. To my classmates, as we enter this next chapter of life, I would like to encourage you to step out of your comfort zone. Explore. Speaking from personal experience, you may or may not be the best at everything you try, but you still develop skills and create great memories.
It's about where you finish. Thank you to the teachers who stepped up and took the wheel when we needed them the most. Mr. Kacowski, Mr. J, Miss FCO, Miss Carmona, your leadership truly inspires me. Thank you to the friends who gave me those rides when I needed them the most. Those really were some great trips. And thank you to my family, my mom, my dad, my brothers, who would move mountains to help me succeed and be on this stage today. Class of 2026, wherever life takes you next, I hope you all never forget about those who helped us get here. Congratulations and drive safe. We are most fortunate to be supported by a caring district administration and governing board. Governing board member Paul Ulan is with us this evening. Also with us is Superintendent Matt Beldin. Thank you both for being here tonight. Moon Valley High School confers its highest academic honors by designating the top 1% of the graduating class.
Ironically, when listening to the song in the past, I'd ignore the central message of the song and just skip to my favorite part. Eventually, I realized that skipping through the song was kind of similar to how I've been treating parts of life. I'm sure you've all been there. Sitting in class, bored out of your mind.
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Wait anyway. Don't worry about it. The person that Angela was looking at didn't do it. Was there electric to it? I don't know. I'm asking you. Do you know if you know somebody that worked with the utility or the electrical outlet that were on the pole there for the vendors or were those live all the time or could you tell if they had to turn on the lights? Typically to the right. He was the one that was working on that electrical outlet that was there. Several of those. I want to see what they were doing too. one more Anything else? Got German. I'll make a motion to adjourn now. I'll second it. All in favor? Aye. Aye.
Um and so I but I do just want to say thank you. I I am excited to start this second term. Um and I um I we have a lot of work to do. And so I do hope that people will stay engaged. Um it is important that, you know, we get a lots of feedback and input from the community. And I know that that is going to be um something that we will work um hard on. You want to add anything? Good? Okay. Ms. Manal. Good evening. You can unmute Okay. Hi Connie. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Okay, great. I'm sorry I'm late. I I have never done this before and I had a hard time figuring it out, but I finally did. Um just want to give a congratulations to everyone who has won in the election and uh congratulate the town on a smooth um difficult time.
Yeah, as I said before, I think the key for her really is just to be around the plate, right? To to limit walks, limit the free pass. Um, let let them hit the ball, make your defense play behind you. The Clackers have for the most part played pretty good defense this year. They've had they've had that occasional inning where they've where they've made one too many mistakes. But if they can not let one mistake turn into two mistakes and and really support Nico behind her, uh this should be this should be a game where they come out on top as long as they can get their bats going and we'll see what uh the pitcher can do when she starts off here in the f first. >> Yeah, it's the sophomore Alexis Cahill who's pitched 76 and 2/3 innings uh for the Wolverines this season.
So, very proud of both of those fine arts programs. Um leadership related this month, our leadership team started examining um and asking ourselves the questions, what information do we use to know if students are learning? And so, when you really look at that throughout the year and what's the frequency of that and how do you know, uh you start to map out throughout the year like what do we use and what do we have and then um where might we be strong and where might there be some gaps in in things that we could maybe learn more about how our students learn. Uh to me that starts to have us really spin our wheels around if the end goal for students going through our pre-K to 22 program is that we understand along that continuum what they're learning and we can make adjustments to help support them to be the very best learners that they can be along the way, then we're doing what what we set out to do, right?
Um and also the uh expenses and the placements are becoming that number is going up. So it could be a >> Sorry Cara. Uh that's that's what I was trying to understand if this was um you know just increases in the rates. I know that that continues to be um an issue that we struggle with. >> It is it's either tuition that was unanticipated or an increase across um a group. So we can break that down and I can get that from Kelly. And if we dig a little deeper in and go through POS and stuff, we could probably figure it out without even asking her. But um just quicker to ask her about the expenses for the month. I appreciate it. Thank you. >> Of course.
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 the national anthem sung by our very own La Quinta High School Choir under the direction of Ms. Kelty. Oh, say [singing] can you see by the dawn's early [singing] light, what so proudly we hailed >> [singing] >> at the twilight's last gleaming, whose broad stripes and [singing] bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts [singing] we [music] watched, were so gallantly [singing] streaming. And the rockets' red glare, >> [singing] >> the bombs bursting in air, gave proof >> [singing] >> through the night that our flag was [music and singing] still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner >> [singing] >> yet wave >> [singing] >> o'er the land of the free and the [singing] home of the brave?
Today we are witnesses that it can be done . And I encourage them to follow this message. Our efforts and hard work are not in vain. We have to put in the effort and keep going because today they obtained something that no one can take away from them, and that is the power of education. May all be blessed with love. Thank you so much. [applause][ovation] It is a pleasure to present to you the Anahim High School choir. who will perform an American folk anthem arranged by Andy Beck, How can I keep from singing? Oh! My [song] life falls on in endless song [music] of [song] lamentation. I hear the real [music] go far [singing] that hs a new creation. [music][singing] No [singing] sword can shake [music] my inmost calm. I [singing] hear the music ringing [music] sounds [singing] and in my soul. How [canto] can I keep from singing?