001Ready to states of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Good evening. There was no action taken in close session and I'm going to turn it over to Lois for our presentations. >> All right, thank you very much. We have Valley Oaks Elementary School choir students and music teacher Omar Enzolua. I think they're trying to make their way through. Maybe they're outside. All right. So our section starts to get mixed up here. We're going to be singing a song that we learned about for um African-American history month. It is a um a song that was sung by enslaved people dreaming of a brighter day, a brighter future. It's called Yonder Come Day. Y MY SOUL breaking all my soul. Oh, you're there.
002Nothing. It rising my feet. Why arrow? Feeling catoul. Good job. >> Thank you. Awesome job. >> Good job. Thank you so much. >> Wonderful. >> And thank you parents for coming out tonight and bringing your students. Okay. All right. We'll move on with another presentation from Derivian and Castellano's architects. We have a student award. Go ahead. Come on up. We have architect Steve SOA. >> Thank you. Oh, can you use the microphone? Microphone there. Thank you. >> So, I have to start over, huh? >> Uh, my name is Steve SOA. I'm a principal architect for Derivi Kalano's Architects. Our office is not far from here in Stockton. Um, I'm here with Sandra who's taking pictures. Um, but we give out an annual award to a student that's deserving. We call it our technology award. This
003year we're giving out a I an iPad. So the deserving student, but it's given out to a student that's selected by the school district >> that shows passion for education, that has the drive, that's not necessarily the best student, but someone who shows a lot of enthusiasm for education and and wants to go on and so um can I announce the name? >> Sure, absolutely. I don't know if principal grooms if she wanted to say something about this placencia. I'll share a little bit about why Lucas was selected. Lucas has consistently dis demonstrated what it means to be dedicated. He's hardworking, creative, and has a natural talent for technology. His technology teacher says he's been taking the initiative to teach himself how to code when he finishes the assignments. And we really want to help
004um inspire that curiosity and that drive in him. So he is very deserving of this recognition. >> Thank you. Congratulations. Ready for board meeting protocols? I will read our board meeting protocol to get started or meetings being recorded, open to the public, and being broadcast live through Zoom. Public comments are three minutes per agenda item and will be timed. The board shall limit total time for public comment each for each agenda item for 20 minutes. With board consent, the board president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public comment. To make comment in person, there's cards at each side of the door there, and that would go to Miss Bach, our board meeting assistant. Email public comments can go to the superintendent email 24 hours before the board meeting. They'd be posted to the
005website. We have one email public comment that is posted to our agenda on the site. And board vote and connectivity. Each motion will be followed by a roll call vote for action items. Should a board member attend the meeting remotely, lose connectivity, we would delay by five minutes and regular board meetings shall be adjourned by 10:30. Thank you. First, we have public comments for topics not on the agenda. So, I have Malia Anderson first. It's very warm. >> Let me fix this because I am very short. Good evening everybody. My name is Malia Anderson. I am actually the PTKC president at Morango Ranch and I also am a short-term IIA at Morango. Um I am here because I am concerned about Mr. Jumper's full-time schedule being split into two at two different sites. I currently
006have a fourth grader and a first grader who actually are, you know, adore Mr. Jumper among other children. I don't want to cry because we all adore Mr. Jumper. Um, it will affect our school pretty much. He helps with intervention with our first grade class or actually the first grade team. He runs our running for program for the last 15 plus years. Um he's deeply involved in our school and gives a lot of his time and support to our students and not only our students but our staff um beyond his throw up description. Um our Friday sings are ran by Mr. Jumper. So with him not being on campus on Thursday Fridays, it's going to kind of affect our culture at Morango. Um he also works on our talent show as well. Teachers like Mr.
007Jumper who has heart and the time and energy. I don't know where he gets his energy sometimes but he does have a lot of it. um inter school is not easily replaced like many of our teachers here a lot of you are irre irreplaceable um splitting the time between school will pretty much take away a lot of our programs like our running fret he does that twice a week he had that today um not having him for Friday sing and for our talent show as well so I hope if you guys can considering either hiring a new teacher at Macaffrey and keeping our lovely other PE teachers at their sites because teachers like Mrs. Gomez, I not only help at Morango, I watch Miss Gomez at Valley Oaks because I also sub at all our
008other sites and I'll see all the amazing things she does with her students as well. So, I hope you take that into consideration when you guys redo your budget for, you know, our teachers. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next I have Christy Bernau. I wasn't aware of the three minute rule. So I'm going to see if I can get through this. All right. My name is Christy Bernau and I am a teacher at Valley Oaks and have been for over 30 years. And I'm here to advocate for the PE teachers, not just at my own school, but also the rest of the elementary schools that are going to be hijacked because of this. Um, it is my understanding that there is a teacher retiring at the middle school and apparently the solution is to just
009yank our teacher and then have like roving substitutes cover our school which would impact not just our school but three schools, three elementary schools. And I'm trying as best as I can to figure out why that was the solution that was chosen. What is a measure of a PE teacher? It is so much more than just someone who teaches PE for 30 minutes a day. Uh our PE teacher when she first started, the first thing she did was noticed that the upper grade kids didn't have enough to do and they were just hanging out and getting into trouble. She advocated for equipment and taught the kids a whole bunch of games, taught them the rules, and then held them accountable. She has taught all of the grades those rules and just in doing that our
010playground issues have gone down tremendously. She is also out there all the time teaching her classes but in between also taking care of these issues that every issue she solves out there is an issue that I don't have to solve in the classroom. It saves me and other teachers tremendous amounts of time not dealing with behavior issues. I can teach more fractions. She also knows every student in that school by name. She knows their personalities. She knows the ones that will get into trouble. She knows the ones that have asthma issues. She has a relationship with all of these kids. And when they do get in trouble, she's one of the few people on campus. They're not going to run away and pretend they don't hear her because she knows their name. She also knows
011who their cl whose class they're in and what grade they're in. She will find them and they will get in trouble. It's a big deterrent. Okay. She also does all kinds of extracurriculars at our school. It is so much more than just teaching PE. She has done everything from the ninja jump ropers to the pickle ball tournaments to the She's working now on a volleyball tournament. She has done um uh I'm forgetting one. Um h the ping pong ones. She has done all kinds of extracurriculars for our students. Our kids love PE. And now when I go out to the upper grade playground, I don't see too many kids just hanging out. They're playing volleyball. They're playing pickle ball. They're playing pingpong. They're playing basketball, soccer. They're interacting and they're behaving better. She's also a
012super important person to our staff. Every year, David puts out a list of committees that we're all supposed to sign up for. We all sign up for our committees, but there's always way more committees than there are staff. And she losing her would mean we'd lose another person to help us do all of those extra things. She has been running Sunshine at our school. She's not only trying to connect our students, but she's trying to connect adults. After CO, that was a real issue at our school. and she's been phenomenal in taking care of that. Okay. The the other thing I want to talk about is fairness. Fairness. Um if you're doing this to an elementary school, you are especially our uh elementary school. Valley Oaks is the largest elementary school in the district and
013we are growing. We are having the DLI program at our school which means within the next four years we are going to have at least four more classes at our school. The last elementary school that should be having a roving sub for a a PE teacher is us. We've got a huge campus. We >> I think your time is up. I think we didn't time. If you could just finish real, you know, the next 10 seconds, that would be great. >> 10 seconds. Can I have one minute? One minute. >> No, we need to move on to other comments. We have more. >> Okay. Anyway, the impact at Macaffrey would be one grade, one year, 300 kids, and there's another PE teacher there to help. the impact at the elementary school would be over a
014thousand kids every year. As a parent, whi which would you rather see? Okay. Uh would you want your kid impacted one year or would you want them impacted all of their elementary years? The best solution is to just replace the teacher. But barring that, what makes the most sense is that that the the school that takes the hit is where the school that has the vacancy, which is Macaffrey. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Gayen Gomez. Good evening. I want to say that I started today with a three-page letter. wasn't going to make the three minute mark. Then I went down to a two-page letter. And then I decided I'm not even going to bother doing that because I really want to tell you a story. And I have your email,
015so you'll get my three-page letter. You guys know that. So I want to tell you a story. And I want to tell you a story about a a kid who's in one of the classes that I service, one of my special ed classes. And I've had him since he was a second grader, and he's now a sixth grade student. When he came into second grade, he didn't talk, he didn't do anything. He just sat on his spot and that was okay. He was in there just observing and just kind of trying to, you know, process what was going on. As we've moved through the years, our relationship has changed as he's become able to trust me and know that I'm a safe place. In fifth grade last year, he started making a point of coming
016up and he would touch me and he would say, "Hi." Okay, that was big. That was huge for him. As you know, many autistic student or children don't have the ability and they they lack those well, I don't want to say lack, but they're working on those skills, those interpersonal skills with people. So, this year I have him and he actually will come up to me, still touches me to say hi at the end of the school day if I'm not looking at him. Um, and he's still um, you know, he's he's starting to use he'll talk to me in a full sentence now. Well, today I had his cl I had his mainstream class where he pushes in with two other special education students and they tend to want to group like group themselves
017together because it feels safe. But I've come to know this student well enough to know that I can push his boundaries a little bit. And I've also come to know my gened students to know when I can depend on them to help me do that. And so today I placed him with two of my gened students and the first thing he said to me was no. So I was like okay. So then I go on to his classmates to put them also in mixed groups and I turn around to deal with him and he's gone off with the group that I gave him to go with. There was trust in there to know that I was not putting him somewhere he would be unsafe. So they go off and they're doing we have a kickball
018game at Valley Oaks in case you're not aware. It's a little competitive and I still question whether or not the adults act with complete and total fairness. But anyways, so um I had they were practicing bouncing and rolling the ball to each other. They were practicing catching pot flies. And then I was working with a group cuz I have another student who has anxiety about kicking. So I was working with a little group that like anybody wants help learning how to kick and building their skills. So he came off with me. We have an understanding. He gets to just stay out in the outfield and he chose to come with me. We're working on that. So then when I'm done with that, I look out and I look at my little my little guy that,
019you know, went off and he's out there laughing and he's having a great time. Again, if I didn't have that relationship that I've had with him for 5 years, I would not have known this is where I could bring him and that's not going to be the case and that's not going to continue. If we see the schedule piece parted together with different teachers servicing different sites. Anyhow, um like I said, uh I I talked to him at the end and I said, "You know, I I really recognize I heard you tell me no, and I am so proud of you for actually going and doing it." And then I went and sought out the those other two GenEd students who happened to be in mischief because of a substitute teacher in there the last
020two days. And I sought them out and I'm like, "Hey, come over here." And and their teacher was there and um anyways, they kind of meandered over like they were in trouble. And I just thanked them. I thanked them for giving him that experience. And not only did he get that experience, so did they. They they got that experience to be inclusive. They got that experience. And again, that comes from a relationship I've built with those students. So anyways, you'll get my email. Thank you for your time and consent. >> Thank you, >> Ariana Aguilera. Hello. As um part of this process that we're going through with this proposed schedule, um I met with a couple of the music teachers and we started a shared document and we also shared it with the PE teachers
021to collect um some of the issues that we saw with this proposed schedule in one place and I sent that to you. Thank you so much for those of you who actually replied back to me. I appreciate very much that you took the time to do that. Um, so that was from everybody. Everybody contributed that. This is from me. Um, I've been working in this district since 2003. I came here because we had the most amazing music programs in the area. I had two job offers on the same day and I took G. We at one point I had 200 kids in middle school choir. Just choir, just middle school. 200 kids. And then the 2008 housing crisis meant we had some it horrible budget cuts. And that just completely wiped out our music program.
022And ever since then, I've been advocating for the program and speaking up and coming to board meetings and building it back up to what we have now, which is much more than what we had right after those budget cuts. Um, during those years, I did a middle school, elementary school split for 12 years. I've done it more than any teacher in the district. There's a few others that have done it, but nobody's done it as long as I have. Um, so I know what it's like. And the schedule that they're proposing for me for next year is a lot harder than any of my previous schedules. Um, I can give you a sideby-side comparison because I still have those old ones if you're interested in seeing what it's like. Currently, I teach band level one,
023band level two, choir, and music production at Macaffrey. That's four different classes when the vast majority of Macccaffrey teachers teach one or two. The proposal for me for next year is for me to still teach three middle school classes. That's still more classes to prepare for than most of the rest of Macaffrey staff. plus kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, a sped class, and kindergarten. Again, I our contract hours are 35 hours a week plus adjunct. I already work minimum 45 hours a week, and that's not counting performances. By the way, I hope to see you guys at the music uh showcase next week. Um, that's what I'm usually talking about at this board meeting at in this month of the year. Um, I'm not I'm not going to work
024more hours and give up time with my family and risk my health and stress. So, what's going to give my instruction? Do do you want to push push us teachers to the point where we're in a situation where we have to cut corners to save our own health and mental health? That's what the schedule does to me. >> Thank you. And we have more. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Maria. Bernell. >> I don't think so. Good evening. I am actually not here as Maria Bernal. I'm here as Lupe Redlan, a parent. Good evening. I'm not here to ask a simple question is all I'm asking. How does it make sense to make cuts to people who work directly with the students? Our classroom staffs while at the same time cuts are being left and
025right. And yet you are hiring more positions like TOSA positions. Every day we are told that there is not enough money. We see hours are reduced, positions are cut in the classroom and the classrooms are stretching thin. Students lose support and staff are expected to do more with less. Yet somehow there is funding available for positions that are not directly in the classrooms. This sends the wrong message that people working face tof face with our students are not a priority. But we know the truth. Students succeeds based on the teachers and the aids that you see tonight. You need to support these teachers. You need to support and get more help in the classrooms because they are the ones that work every single day with the students. If there is resources to hire, then they
026should go where they matter the most, directly to the students, not to the positions that benefit the district and you board members and the superintendent. Thank you, Sheree Webster. Sure you have two different formats that I wrote. So I have copies for almost all of you. If you guys want to have a copy while I'm talking, maybe a couple of you can share. I do want to say one thing. Our kids deserve the very best. And I'm going to go ahead and read this and hopefully I have enough time. I'm going to start further down. I'm going to say at the very beginning when a specialized classroom like band, music, or PE is staffed by a rotating teacher that creates the same environment as having a substitute teacher rather than a permanent expert. The environment
027often shifts from active learning to mere supervision. I've witnessed that seeing a a substitute come in for a choir, I mean for a band, they knew nothing. Um, it would be very difficult for a rotating teacher to learn the rhythm of a school environment or each child's uniqueness. In these settings, a rotating teacher or substitute is essentially a babysitter because they lack the specific expertise to required to move the curriculum forward. They don't know the children. Teachers need to know who the children are and their uniqueness. And as a matter of fact, if you have a child with anxiety or ADD or any of those, they're going to fail when they have rotating teachers. Since the school receives funding for each student, I am asking the board to ensure these funds are used to fill
028every vacancy with a permanent educator. Our children deserve the consistent environment where they not only Whoops. where they are not at risk for lower test scores or academic setbacks due to staffing gaps. Now, I'm going to move forward here because I do want to share this um up to the third paragraph. I have seen the power of consistent consistency firsthand in my grandson's band class. He's at actually at Lake Canyon Elementary, but he also is in your other program for learning at home. So he goes to school for certain classes and does the rest at home. And I need to tell you that's an excellent program. Don't ever give it up. He is way up here academically. He's reading at a 10th grade level. But anyway, I want to read this children particularly those Oh,
029oops. Wrong run. Um, I have watched beginning I sat there every time he's at class in a beginning band class with students who have advanced in just two months to from beginning band to advanced band. This success is due to the teacher's unique ability to manage a room full of children with different instruments and learning their styles. The same teachers teacher has advanced the school choir tremendously under this direction. He's going into sixth grade next year. I'd like to see all these kids still have the same teacher, not be bounced around. And you can read the rest of it and I will email it to you. And thank you for your time. >> Thank you, >> Becky Bryce. Hello. I would like to start off by saying thank you for being here and listening to
030us. I am here to cons to express my concern over the potential changes in the band, choir, and physical education program. As a parent of a child who struggles severely with anxiety, he depends on routine. I cannot stress enough how important the consistency is for him to be successful and any other child in his position. Children who have excuse me children who are experiencing anxiety, especially those on the spectrum, they thrive on stable environment where they feel safe, supported, and with familiar people. Over the course of the school year, my child has developed a strong and trusting relationship with his band teacher and his PE teacher and others that he's with every day. My child feels comfortable, understood, and encouraged, which has helped him in his education. A sudden change in teachers, particularly in multiple
031classes, can be very overwhelming to a child like this. Destruction in this routine could cause him to quit. He will completely shut down. Um, however, I respectfully ask that you guys take this into account and the importance and consistency for students who rely on it. If at all possible, please maintain the current band, choir, and PE teachers that are in place. And again, thank you for your time. >> Thank you for Veronica Calfman. All right, you guys got me off the cuff here tonight. Um, so after seeing Miss Gomez's public comment that was on the website, I went home and I discussed things with my daughter because I think you guys need a student's perspective as well. So my daughter has not sure how much I want to share a medical condition which can lead
032to her passing out to episodes of syncopy. Okay. When you are talking about rotating PE teachers, that is going to be extremely harmful and unsafe for students like my daughter. While at Lake Canyon several years ago, she did have an episode. It was only because of one staff member who actually knew her, who knew the signs that they were able to catch her, that I did not have to worry about her cracking her head on the black top. We're potentially having a concussion. I'm good. Thank you. You guys are making all of these cuts. They're affecting our children. You're not making any cuts to the district office. You are not rotating into these classrooms. You do not know what these teachers go through every day. The work environment that these teachers have is a learning
033environment for our kids. And I have to say, you guys, you're really up and you need to stop. And you can give me that look, Miss Yacht, but you are. You just had your review. No doubt you're going to get a raise. They're not going to get a raise. And you continue to take from our kids. And enough is enough. Thank you. and Tracy Watt. Uh, good evening and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak tonight. I'm going to keep it short. I respectfully ask the board to direct the cabinet to immediately post an opening for a PE teacher at the middle school and allow our elementary PE teachers to remain at their sites. This is the time to hire a strong candidate early and not reshuffle effective programs. Thank you. Hilda Gimenez.
034>> Hi, my name is Hilda Gimenez and I am a constituent. I live in the city of G and as a concerned citizen. I don't have any children here. I don't have any friends that are teachers here either. But I have grown up in a community that lacked music resources, that lacked teachers, that lacked um board members that did their job. We lacked people with some type of integrity that backed up their schools, that backed up their teachers, the parents, the students. Excuse me, ma'am. I'm talking to all of you. It's important that we think about these children that will be sitting in your seats one day. It's important that we give them an opportunity to have consistency. Rotating teachers for a substitute is not appropriate, just like it would not be appropriate for me
035to come in and rotate for one of your seats. I ask you to please think about these teachers, think about these students, think about this community. You ask us to come and to be present. You ask us to want to participate. This is your opportunity to make a difference. So, we ask you to please stand up for our community. So that's all the public comments that I have. So thank you. I appreciate everyone coming out um and expressing your opinions and telling from your perspective. So it's um so thank you truly. Do we have anything any questions or when you're ready to move on to the next topic? Okay. Okay. So, we're going to move on to um H, which is reports and LCAP goal one. >> All right. Stephanie Simmonich, director of curriculum for
036district reading assessments. Okay. Good evening. Um I'm going to start by just introducing again the district reading assessments for uh winter. They're administered three times a year. This is our second um administration of the multiple assessments that children take in um kindergarten through their third grade classrooms. There are also students in fourth through sixth grade that take the assessment if they uh score below the 40th percentile on the MAP assessment. Um, part of our LCAP goal number one includes the increase of the results of these assessments by 10% each year and the growth is measured from spring to spring. Um, the data set included in your packet reflects the overall results for the percent of students um, who met all of the second trimester um, reading benchmarks. And so the first um the first set
037of data is um the table includes the district and all of the sites and the percent of students in grades kinder through third who met or exceeded um all of the second trimester reading benchmarks. And then if you would just slide just slightly. Um just wanted to share with you the growth that the elementary primary grade levels have made. Um again there are different assessments in every grade level and um fluency begins in spring for first grade and continues through third. Um so you'll see um first grade currently um moved from the 61st percentile to the 70th percentile um of the students who are meeting the six uh the benchmarks. Um so they had a really nice increase. Um you can see the the color coding shows their spring 2025 baseline. So um their end
038of the year goal is 80% of the students will meet districtwide. That same pattern follows for each of um the following grade levels. And then we're not we're not asking sites to share this evening regarding their data, but if you have any questions or comments, >> they'll be happy to answer. >> Okay. No, looks like some good growth has been made. >> Yeah. Mhm. >> And they'll take this assessment one more time at the end of the year and then that's when we determine if they met their growth goal for the year. >> Okay. >> Right. And probably like I said the the one of the challenges is the fluency assessment. Um I think the the benchmarks for end of third grade are 112 words per minute. Quite a big jump from first grade where
039they leave at 60. So um but yeah, looks really good. I I know some of our um change ideas that the PLC's have um are specifically addressing some of the um needs that are shown through the district reading assessments as well. >> Thank you for that. You're welcome. And for LCAP 2, the Williams report. So this in the fall, our district, two of our schools in the district was chosen for a Williams visit or a Williams inspection. That was Macaffrey in Valley Oaks. And they look at sufficiency of instructional materials and they look at the condition of your facilities. It's an on-site um visit, usually over a day or two at each campus. They count textbooks, they look in bathrooms, they look in kitchens, um they look everywhere. And so we received an exceptional report.
040There were no deficiencies in instructional materials or facilities. Um the letter here is from the county. They actually quoted that we have exemplary conditions for facilities at Valley Oaks and Macaffrey. So it was a very good report. Um just wanted to share that with you. Next month we will have the report on the school accountability report card and our teacher vacancies or missed assignments. That comes next. Any questions on that? I want to also thank Valley Oaks and Macaffrey staff. It takes a lot of work to get ready for those visits and also the curriculum department because it was just we were counting textbooks, making copies of things. I mean, it was it was a lot. It was a good month to prepare for these visits and our maintenance team because they did a lot
041of working on custodians to make sure the facilities were up to par, but it was a very good report for our district. Do we know which schools will be getting the next Williams sites visits? >> No, we don't. And this was the first Williams visit that we've had since I can remember. Um, but I we had actual site visit. Yeah, they'll be back at the beginning of the year. The same two schools will be revisited. >> It's a Yeah. >> Yeah. You can continue with two. >> Okay. So, we have food and nutrition report. >> Yes. So, I have Nick, our food nutrition supervisor, um, presenting you a midyear update on our nutrition department. I just want to say you guys have been doing such a great job. Everyone, you the whole team takes feedback,
042it improves, and works well with all our principles. And I I appreciate everything you do. We appreciate everything you do. So, we're very thankful. So, we're excited to see what you're presenting. Well, thank you and thank you for letting me present, you know, our annual update on food nutrition. Uh this year I'm calling it the rise and shine nutrition department and you'll kind of get uh you'll kind of understand why in the on the next slide. Uh well, not on the next slide, but because there's a little bit about our district. Uh we have 3,600 students. We feed about 2200 lunches a day, about 700 breakfasts, about 700 suppers. Uh we have six sightbased kitchens. Each kitchen is fully equipped. We're very blessed. I came from a district where it was just a heat full
043heat and serve. But uh here we have our convection ovens, our steamers, till skillets, planetary mixers. We have all the equipment and that's a great thing in this day and age. Uh and currently we're upgrading appliances and all of our equipment. We have 29 food nutrition team members including myself. We go our experience ranges from last month we hired a uh yard staff is which is our newest hire to over 30 plus years of of knowledge within the team and myself. I actually started in the 1900s. So that's a long time ago but so what we're do working on is scratch cooking and modernization. That's our goal for this year. Uh the end of goal the end goal is to achieve student approved recipes and that's the key. Student approved recipes that are scratched made
044eliminating ultrarocessed items and eliminating unwanted ingredients. And it's all about student approved. we can make everything, but if it just ends up in the trash and my staff is frustrated and I'm wasting money, then it's it's it's just feudal. So, that's what it is. We got to make sure it's all student approved. And why is this important? Because we can do better. We can do better than what we currently are. My motto my whole career has been if I wouldn't eat it, I'm not going to feed it to if I wouldn't eat it or feed it to my daughter, I'm not going to feed it to your students or the children. And I tell my staff the same thing. If it doesn't look right, if you've burned it, if it's dry, if you don't like
045it, we're going to do something else. So, it was time for me to put my money where my mouth is and get rid of our Wednesday breakfast pizza, our heat and serve pizza that the students love. And I've tried many times to get rid of it, but I took a new approach. And so, with the approach that I took action steps, first I did training with the staff. We've created recipes. We've gotten new equipment. This is my saw awesome threesome. They're a team that are working together developing recipes, doing taste tests, learning how to do things, and then they're also going in and training other staff members. And so it's it's really developing key team members that can replicate the process over and over. One of the things I've done personally is I was part
046of the Chef Anne Fellowship this year. It's a 13-month program where um I went all over the country. I um learned recipes. I learned uh I'm sorry, let me back up. It was a competitive application process and there's only 28 of us that were that were in the cohort. Uh we visited different sites, learned different techniques, uhworked, we learned procurement, team building, food safety, staff, staffing, uh techniques, and menu development. Uh I had a capstone project. Uh that was the rise and shine pizza. So that this is what we're working on now is we've created a from scratch seven ingredient preservative free dough that we're making on site. It's 51% whole grain. And then we're p we've purchased uh one dough sheet. Well, we purchased them all. We haven't gotten them yet, but it's going
047to be replicated throughout all the sites. And the dough sheeter, it actually makes the pizza dough into the into the sheet. Uh we'll be able to use that for breakfast pizza, for cowzones, for lunch pizzas, for all kinds of different things. So, that's that's what we're working on. This is one of the this is the breakfast pizza on the left. It was the old heat and serve pizza. on the right. That's what uh what we're doing currently is our breakfast, our scratch made rise and shine pizza. I wasn't going to put that uh picture in there because it look the tray looks dirty, but then I realized it's the cornmeal. And that's one of the key things. We we're grating our cheese from scratch because uh pre-shredded cheese has cellulose in it, which is wood
048pulp or cotton. Um and so it doesn't it doesn't clump. So, we're shredding our cheese, we're making our dough, and then we're using cornmeal. So, it's like a three-step process. And we've and we've changed our sauce as well. It's a very simple, clean sauce, and eventually we'll hopefully make our sauce. But that's that's where we're at with that. We did taste tests. Uh, one of the students said it was an exquisite taste on my palette. It was great. Uh the other one said, "This pizza should be the breakfast pizza in my school," which it is. That's that's where it's at. And even the students that um didn't like it, they still appreciated that we're we're asking their input. Uh staff that we talked to about it, they liked Parbaked pizza crust better than the regular
049pizza crust, which is basically we're cooking the pizza crust before we dress it. uh and they said it tastes like it has more of the herbs, but uh the students really don't care about that. So, it just it just depends on which which application we're going to do. Like I said, the student reviews, there were 67% of the students liked all three categories. 28 would change one component and 5% didn't like it all. And most of the time there's some students that just don't like breakfast pizza and that's how it is. Um but students do come back and ask for seconds. These are some of the recipes going on to recipe development. Uh you can see this is like a Mediterranean garbanzo bean and feta cheese salad. Something that we would all love to see
050and our your students are getting that at the sites. Uh we've done Italian pasta salads. We're making pico de gallo. We've done chili verde bowls. Uh we've tested buffalo chicken mac and cheese. It was delicious. Uh we took our heritage macaroni and cheese recipe. Added some other ingredients to it and that that's what's coming out. So uh if you have students, they may come home and said, "I tried this today. I tried pickled vegetables. I tried esaviche. I tried all kinds of different things." We're we're rolling them all out. Uh for next year, I'm com I'm working with the high school district to kind of work with some uh recipes. We're looking so we have some continuity from what we're cooking to what they're cooking and we're going to combine with a p sole recipe,
051broccoli beef recipe, chicken tinga recipe. Uh we're going to change our breakfast menus for next year. I'm going to try something different. Build your own breakfast bars. So on Monday it's going to be items like waffles, pancakes where the students can come in and pick which ones they want, what kind of meats they want. Tuesday it's going to be a combination of yogurt and oatmeal bar where they get to pick their fruits. would if they want white uh vanilla yogurt, strawberry yogurt. Wednesdays, we're going to do a variation on pizzas. Thursday, we're going to do skillet bars where it's different kinds of eggs, different kinds of proteins, different kinds of uh grains that they get to pick. And then Fridays, we're going to do bakes. So, French toast bakes, different kinds of casserles. Some of
052the staff said, "Don't use the word casserole. You need to use the word bake." Great. >> So, I am getting over using the word casserole. and learning to say bake. >> We have upgraded kitchens or our equipment at uh six of the schools. Uh we've gotten rational combi ovens. We're still in the process. Uh we've gotten Avario tilt skillets and they're energy efficient. They cook better. Uh combi ovens are a combination that replace steam steam uh steamers because they can cook full steam, they can cook full convection or a combination in between. Uh for example, uh they we've learned when we cook our grilled cheese, it only takes two and a half minutes to cook them. So the staff is able to right before the students come in cook those grilled cheese off and they're
053beautiful, golden, everything's melted and serve it right away. Just like all the other things, we're serving it really quick. And just a side note that we are spending money but a lot of people don't understand that cafeteria fund is from fund 13 which is a separate fund from the general fund. So we do not um infringe on this general fund. When I started here 10 years ago we did. We now are in a spending plan. So the state says that I have over 10 months worth of funds and we legally only supposed to have six months. So I have to spend money and the way we're doing is by investing in my staff, investing in better foods. Uh we brought on Boris Head meets, we brought on new equipment. So yes, I'm spending money and
054even a lot of district people come to me and talk and say you're spending money, but it's a totally separate fund than the general fund. So it's it's completely I'm self-funded. Uh I get my money for my reimburse reimbursements uh from kit funds from G grants and things like that. So just and so we're using it. We got our dishwasher grant. You can see on the left that was one of our old dishwashers. We I upgraded all the dishes all the dishwashers. The Hobart AM16. Uh it's the T stands for tall. So the staff can slide the trays in without without having to load it inside. They're energy efficient. They are water efficient. We are uh reducing san chemical sanitizers as a sanitizer. So they're all heat sanitizing. So that's that's the the good thing
055for that. And that was all a grant that I got last year. We were able to replace new walk-ins at Moringo Ranch. We had a leak issue between the walls and on the floor and we had to replace them. So, we're able to do that this year. Additional equipment we've purchased is Berber slicers, uh full full automatic, uh we're slicing a lot of different things, uh different meats and everything. We've got new warming units that are energy efficient, uh ready to go. Um I'm currently looking to buy a mixer at Moringo Ranch. Everybody else has a mixer. Morang, not I'm sorry, not Moring. McCaffrey McAffrey doesn't have a mixer yet. Uh or they used to have one long time ago. It got taken out. And then the next slide, we're putting it all to work.
056We also purchased RoboC like we're shredding the mozzarella cheese. Uh we've got our ovens going there and they're very happy with uh the new ovens and they play music different. They can set it different, but they all we've all learned that they cook extremely fast. I was over at one of the sites on Tuesday and uh I was talking to one of the staff and then she goes, "Oh, I got to check the food." And half of it had already burned, so we replaced it. We didn't eat it, but So, yeah, it cooks very quick. Benefits, we have students with full stomachs. We have emptier trash cans. We have healthy foods that the students actually want to eat. We're energy more energy efficient. And the staff are proud of what they've chosen to do with
057their career. I fed into them. They're seeing how um the training that we're giving to them, the equipment, they're they're growing. They're happy with what they're producing. I'm taking the input on their recipes. They're creating. They love the input from the students. Half those things that are on there, this the staff came up and said, "Let's do this recipe. Let's do this recipe." And they've done it. And so that's one of the big things I the staff here are excited and empowered and we're gonna get continue to grow with that. And uh do you have any questions? >> Just a comment. I thought it was cool that you took input input from the students and actually had them handwrite what they thought. And I thought that was cool because it plays into your goal of
058like okay student approved and it's like well how would you know if it's approved if they're not telling you? So I thought that was nice. >> Yeah. And and we when we do the taste test, we have to be very careful uh explaining how to do it because if we say, you know, don't just say it's yucky, that it's it's salty or it's hot or whatever, they tend to say those same words on there. So, we have to be very careful how we tell them to use descriptive words, not just generic words, but to tell us exactly what they don't like it. So, a lot of them actually said, "Well, I like the sauce or the sauce was too sweet or the sauce was whatever, you know, like that." So, thank you. >> And then
059I just had a comment. Um, I just want to say, you can tell you have a lot of pride in what you're doing and a lot of initiative. And so, I just want to say thank you for that. And I don't think we can underestimate the value of good food in our bodies. And, you know, if we put bad things in there, it impacts everything. So, I know the students can only benefit from that. So, just wanted to say thank you for your creativity and commitment. >> Oh, thank you. Yeah, food is food is medicine. That's the upand cominging thing is and it's true, you know, it's we've got to eat right. We got to eat healthy and eliminate the the simple things. You know, so many people have said to me they didn't they
060didn't know what cellulose was and you know it's nice to buy the shredded cheese, but if you can just take a couple minutes and grate it, it's such a different product and reduce that. Yes, it's edible. Wood pulp is edible, but it's not something that you want to eat. And then I just really want to thank my team. They are superstars that go in before 6 a lot of times and they stay late. Uh they come in on weekends when uh their refrigerator alarms. They're they're just amazing and they take feedback and they're very creative and they work very hard and they're very um proud to be food nutrition professionals and uh they're it's they're growing as a team. And a special thanks to the maintenance team, Stan and Jason and Greg and Pat and
061Nick. They've really stepped up there. We've had a lot of issues with the installment of the uh Avarios and dishwashers and uh they've really done a lot to help. And uh that's it. >> Thank you, Nick. Okay, we'll move on to security and safety updates. This has been a pending agenda item for a couple of months. We have Kool Nar. We'll start it and we also have Officer Walters with us tonight as well. >> We have a guest speaker today, too. But, um, yes. So, thank you, Lois. Uh based on the board's request, we would like the opportunity this evening to share with you practices we have in place to ensure a safe learning environment, school safety. Oh, um quite is it there's we'll get the PowerPoint up here. School safety is a multi-layered facet.
062It's not just about security measures, but also the relationships, prevention, and communication. A safe school includes four core areas: physical safety and campus security, emergency preparedness and response, prevention and student wellness, culture, climate, and communication. We have strengthened our campuses with layered security measures. We have fencing and locked gates to control access. All campuses have camera systems to monitor activity. There are visitor check-in procedures to ensure accountabilities. And all of these practices help to prevent incidents and maintain awareness of who is on campus at all times. We regularly conduct drills so staff and students know exactly how to respond in emergencies. We have fire drills monthly lockdown and shelter in place drills that are conducted once a trimester. And one of those drills is conducted with uh the Gul Police Department to provide us with
063uh specific feedback on um any types of barriers or concerns that could arise if we have to do a lockdown. We have identified clearly identified off-site evacuation locations, radios for immediate communication. Our radios were also upgraded I believe couple of years ago. So our channels allow us to communicate with other school sites. We have a strong collaboration with G PD. Um they are instrumental in in addition to the um the consumist fire department when we are updating all of our safety plans annually. We work very closely with them to make sure that we have safe practices in place. A couple of years ago, we launched the Catapult emergency notification system. This um was uh launched as a way to provide realtime feedback in the event that there is an emergency so we can communicate with
064school staff, Gulp PD district office and be able to account for staff members and students in in a very quick and efficient manner. We launched this year we tip as our anonymous um call in hotline. Currently we are um it's implemented through um it's implemented at Macaffrey and our goal is to launch this districtwide for other school sites and for community members that want to um provide us some information around safety. We is monitored 24 hours a day. We have um set parameters around what incidents we need to be notified im like outside of school hours. What incidents we would be needed to be notified immediately versus things that can wait until the next day. Those um incidents that are warranted as an immediate response, we have a phone tree that they call they call
065each number until someone answers and so that way they have made contact with the school district. Um, anytime there is a threat assessment, whether it is on campus or off-campus, we work very closely with GU PD in terms of making sure that um a whether it's credible or not and or are our campuses safe and that is communicated. Prevention is one of our strongest safety tools. We support students through our school resource officer, our counseling staff. We have um Skoey and that the counseling staff has grown over the years to in to include the Skoey mental health clinicians. Each of our school sites has different tiered systems to support positive behavior. We provide social emotional curriculum for all of our students prek all the way through 8th grade. So really kind of working with students
066on appropriate social skills and uh emotional regulation. All of our staff have the mandated trainings that we do at the beginning of the year. We've also um required these for our volunteer. There there's mandated trainings for our volunteers. We have student supervision through our yard supervisors and crossing guards in addition to um health office requirements for emergency supplies and AED um on the school campuses. So in totality, these are things that we have in place to be able to support a safe school environment. Okay. A positive school culture directly impacts safety. We monitor different data sets. We monitor our suspension and expulsion data, our behavioral referrals to kind of identify trends and situations at school sites that could be creating unsafe behavior. We also um are in the midst of the California healthy kids survey
067and that also helps us to look at what are some gaps on campuses that could be safe uh safety concerns. We have engaging school environments with our afterchool clubs and expanded learning opportunities. Um, as I mentioned earlier, when there is a threat assessment and or we need to communicate some safety con concerns, we do uh communicate with families in a very timely manner. Timely enough for so that we can get the information and be able to provide accurate information to our families um and our principles work very closely with district office staff when that is needed. In addition, um our facilities, we want them to be safe and um safe and clean and so annual facilities inspections are uh completed not only for maintenance but also for hazards. Um all of these practices are then
068documented in our school safety plans which we took to the board last month. And so I'm going to hand this over to Ally to talk about the safety grant. And this is additional funding to upgrade additional items kind of districtwide. >> Yeah. So our safety grant we were awarded um what they refer the cops grant community oriented policing services. It's a school violence prevention program which helps us to improve our security overall and safety for our students. So this program supports installation of technology that allows faster notification to our local law enforcement as well improvements in locks, lighting, and other deterrent safety measure measures. So the district was awarded about 500,000. Um we have began our planning phase this week. Um and we started looking at Greer, Fairite, and Valley Oaks at this time. And
069then once we finish the plan for those three sites, then we'll jump on the other sites. But some of that includes the dark the classroom door locks across school sites similar to what our new school and val uh buildings in Valley Oaks you can lock from the inside and out for safety. um enhancing our campus camera systems, improving the some lighting where there's blind spots um and some of the cameras are there but since the lighting is not there we're not able to capture um the issues and some upgrades in our fencing and um and gates um some of our fence need some upgrading very it's minimal but we know that needs to be upgraded some of our gate doors to be automatic to be able to lock from the inside and out. So for
070emergencies, um we we're looking at those upgrades. So we always are are our intent is to strengthen our campus safety and and provide more of a secure learning environment for our students and staff. So we this is such an amazing opportunity to be able to do that and provide that ease to our community and our parents and even our employees too. So this is exciting. I like doing this part. >> All right. Thank you, Ali. And so lastly, um I I have asked officer Walters to come in today and kind of speak on his roles and responsibilities. G Police Department and the school resource officer program is an integral part of safety and relationship building on our campuses. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. Uh yes. So we work really close with the I believe
071the school staff administration and the kids. And I think building that bond and relationship is a huge uh priority. Um because students need to see if they see something they can trust us and say something and that could end a lot of things. Um we work really closely in teaching classroom um demonstrations as far as I know the uptick has been ebikes, e- scooters, um helmets. I've contacted pretty much um a few months ago every fourth through eighth grader um demonstrating helmets, the importance of helmet safety um helmet laws um and ebikes and e- scooters which I hope to make almost a yearly thing because I think I want to benefit those younger generations coming up and getting that information. Um we assist of course school administration in emergency crisis planning um and security such
072as evacuation routes and school safety planning. Um we use CCIC and if you want more information about this I'll be happy to share. We are um able to do it as well. It's always nice to have outside help but it stands for California Critical Information Center. Um they come on school grounds I think we did Macccaffrey I'm not wrong. I think last year last two years maybe. Um they come out and evaluate school sites on major security issues as far as natural ladders uh which could be a tree on the roof where students can get up. Um those push bars where students can reach under o over um so that's always open for each school site. Um we generally like to do it on winter break or uh spring break um when kids are not
073in classrooms. Um number one we like to be visible within the school. It is a deterrent. I just wish there was more of us. Um, my primary school is Macaffrey. I try to make my time, you know, reasonable and be at every site. Unfortunately, making a schedule is really difficult. I found out to, uh, dictate a time on, you know, I'm going spend this time at Valley and this time at McCaffrey. Um, I do get pulled away. Um, we conduct home visits for a variety of reasons. Um, kids all sided don't want to go to school that's been going to school for months at straight A's. And there's of course some underlying issue um comes to bullying or friends or lack thereof. Um so we talk to the students and even the parents are receptive.
074Um so that goes I think a long way. Um you got to be real on school campus. You they'll see right through you. You got to be human. Um talk to them. I let them know, hey, I have three kids. I know it's not easy. Um all that good stuff. um if you be open and honest with them and real and build that relationship and don't make it fake because they can read straight through that and I think both myself sater and officer wares are good at that we build these relationships with school administration um students um and it shows uh we handle a wide variety of calls and if I would go through the list I would be up here all night and I don't want to take your guys' time um but some
075of the calls are unauthorized person at school grounds um domestic violence restraining orders Um custody issues of course are high um within all schools. Um servant member on the SAR team, SAR board. Um professional service within the community and schools referring students to what services uh crime prevention within students. We have developed I think last year we did a vape student information parent information night on vaping um sexing um information on internet maybe some kids don't know they shouldn't post some things um kind of educate them on why and why that could come back later in the future um but of course overall our our number one is provide safety and security for the not only the students but students uh school administration staff and their parents that is our number one. Um, and I
076would hate for anything to happen to any kid on this district alone um, anywhere else. So, you guys have any questions for me? I appreciate everyone having me. >> Uh, yeah, I did two comments. Is one I was talking with a teacher recently at McCaffrey and she was informing me about we tip and you mentioned it earlier and how it can be used an anonymously for bullying as well. like if there's bullying going on but you don't want to tell the teacher you don't want to be the rat or whatever like you can put in we tip and it's anonymous and so that that was important and then also as far as all your outreach you've been doing with electric scooters and whatnot I think it's been really really good like my kids been coming
077home and schooling me on like that's illegal like you can't like you know so like it's it's actually had very good uh reach and impact and thank you for your service and I really love seeing you on campus thank you >> I appreciate thank you sir >> yeah I think it was I who asked for that safety report. So, I was very thorough and very helpful and informative and reminded me of things that I had forgotten or put to the back of my mind. So, thank you. And I also have noticed um a decline in the amount of ebikes since and well, it's not that ebikes are illegal, but the e- scooters are for kids under 16 who don't have a driver's license. And then, of course, the helmet issue, I've noticed a downgrade on
078that. It's not gone, but I think the involvement of the officers and the education piece is really important. I think parents buy their kids stuff. They don't always know, you know, what is right or or legal for their kids. And then, of course, we know kids just go and ride off without their helmets. And um yeah, I just appreciate what's being done because the injuries are so terrible. I mean, it's not like a regular bike or a scooter. Um it's faster and you got pedestrian versus that or whatever. I think someone was killed in Davis not too long ago. Um and I just would hate to see that happen here. And so I just appreciate the focus on that. I appreciate the city kind of fasttracking the uh ability for them to site or pull
079over and educate kids and potentially site people for repeat offenses and just for their speed on that. So um thank you. >> I appreciate it. Thank you. >> And then I just had one comment because I just learned this the other day because I crashed on my bike and had my helmet on otherwise it would have been really bad. But I just learned that if you crash on your helmet, you if you crash, you need to get a new helmet because it's compromised, >> which I never knew that. So, I have a new helmet now. >> Same with the child seat uh safety. But I do want to bring up that I I think the what the schools have done um to reach out to the parents as far as sending information because even first
080when ebikes, e- scooters all came out, um I was surprised is so much information, you know, class one, class 2, class 3, and then e- scooters and then e- motorcycles. I was kind of blown back. Um so that school that information that schools sent out to the each schools from the each schools I think really helped out. Um of course one or two you know slip through the cracks and uh we have to educate them but we I like going through the education side of things and hopefully educate the students and staff um before doing anything else. So I like that it's I have a close working relationship with uh the school sites and uh is able to get a hold of me um anytime. appreciate. >> Thank you, Matt. >> Thank you, Officer Walters.
081>> Okay. Other reports. Okay. Yes. I will start with um school of choice. So, our school of choice request were open um they were open for the whole month of February. We did receive 64 requests to go to a different school besides their home school. Um most of those are coming from kindergarten and the breakdown is um there for you by grade level. Um fewer requests this year. I think last year we had closer to 100. So not as many for school of choice. Um right now based on enrollment and based on numbers we could potentially um approve 48 of the applications. Um 16 would be on a wait list. Um although we are not ready to notify parents yet. We are going to wait until the end of the month because we are watching
082enrollment and and new registration before we accept school of choice. We want to make sure there's room for families that might be moving into the area. So, probably end of the month, beginning of April, we'll notify families. Um, currently enrollment for next year is down. We're down about 215 students for next year. It's primarily TK and Kinder that is down. We know we'll get some more students um registered. It's still March, but we are closely watching that before we make some final decisions on school of choice. >> Thank you. >> And school calendars. >> School calendars. I will report for Fairite. Mrs. Marquez is not with us tonight. Um we'd like to invite you to the family art night on April 22nd at 5:30 at Fairite Elementary. And then we'll move over to Lake Canyon.
083I think Miss Gutierrez. >> Yes, thank you. Um, at Lake Canyon this next month, we have a lot of fun sports events and field trips happening. Girls volleyball will be starting. Then on Friday the 10th, our Bright Futures Learning Academy, which you heard a little bit about tonight, is going to the Aerospace Museum. Very exciting. sixth grade. On the 14th, we'll be going to the Stockton's ports. On the 20th, fifth grade will be going to the dairy. And on the 24th, 2nd grade will be going to Cal Waste. >> All right. Great. Thank you. Moringo Ranch, Miss Dunle, >> good evening. So, we have also have several field trips next month at Moringo. We've got third grade going to the B Street Theater. uh first grade going to Fog Willow and uh second grade also
084going to the theater. Uh we also have a on-site opportunity where fourth grade is going to have color wheel come and do some art on campus which is really fun. And then our PTKC our parent club is hosting an art and game night on April 15th. It should be a lot of fun. >> All right. Thank you River Oaks. Miss Rogers. >> Good evening. So at River Oaks we've got a lot going on. One of the ongoing things that we've been having for a while now is the hiphop club for the four uh for our students. Um it's been for the younger students and now it's going to be for the fourth through sixth graders and I've heard nothing but good things from them about it. They love it. Um on April 10th, our fourth
085grade uh that went to Sutter Fort is going to do their pioneer dancing. And so this is something that they've been working on and they learned. And so they're going to be showing off their skills at 1:00 on April 21st. We don't have a time yet. they're working on it. But the fourth grade group is also going to be doing their ancient artifact presentation. And so I know we have the um wax museum for fifth grade that already happened and that's an amazing event. So this is very similar where they display their artifacts that they've developed. And then on April 24th, uh PTO is putting on a movie night at 700 p.m. >> Great. And we'll just keep you going for Valley Oaks. >> Sounds good. Okay. So, Valley Oaks, um, April 14th, we will
086be having our 50% AR celebration. So, that is for students that have met their 50% of their AR goal. And so, that's like a little incentive and a little milestone to get them through that last push, which is the big 100% AR celebration. Valley Oaks always puts on a big show for that one over 100% at the end of the year. On April 24th, our PTO has their jogathon and color run. That will be at 12:30. And then the big event in April on April 30th is our Dia del Deos Nños. Um I know some of you have come out to that before. It's a huge event. Mr. Anzald Dua kind of gave us a small snippet. Every grade level puts on a on a song and or and then we have some some of
087our DI classes are going to do dancing. Um we it's every single grade level and it's a huge event for our families. We have a huge turnout for open house and then our our teachers open their classrooms for parents to visit. So, it's a lot of fun. Please come out. >> All right. Thank you, uh, Greer, Miss Dunle. Um, before I forget, next Tuesday, actually, Mingo's having their readers challenge. It's a tradition that goes back to when Mango first opened. I was actually one of the first participants. So, um, if you want to come out next Tuesday, it should be a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to being on the other side of it this year. Um and then also next week at uh Greer, we do have the music showcase for the
088district. So the whole district program will be at Greer um starting at 4:30. Um starts with band, then goes to bells and choir, I believe. So it should be a really fun night with lots of people in attendance. So um for next month, we have uh several field trips at Ger as well. Third grade going to be street theater. Um we have fourth grade also going to be street theater. We have fourth grade also going to the railroad museum. They have lots of field trips this year. And then kindergarten to 24th Street theater. Um our girls volleyball is really excited. They've been practicing on the playground for months now, so they're very eager for the season to start next month. And then um new this year, we had our school counselor had some um anti-bullying
089money. So we are getting uh Sammy Circuit. He's new to G. I don't think he's been out before, but he is a motivational speaker who comes out and pairs physical fitness with motivational powerful messages. So, we're really looking forward to it. One of our teachers um used to be an afterchool coordinator and she said her school did it had him out before and the kids loved him. So, we're really excited. If you want to come check him out, he'll be there Friday um April 24th and we're still working on the schedule, but it'll definitely be in the morning. So, probably starting around 8:15, 8:30. So, it should be fun. So, >> okay. Thank you very much, McAffrey. Miss Troll. All right, we have soccer. So, we had soccer triyouts. We have tons of soccer games.
090Um, and then I wanted to make you aware of a change. We had our Renaissance celebration, which is for our Bulldog scholars, our honor roll. It's a huge celebration at the end of the year for trimester 2 grades, is going to be changed from the 22nd to Friday the 10th. So, if you want to come out, come out on the 10th. Um and we also have um FFA having their chapter meeting. >> Okay, great. Thank you. And I wanted to add one last report that um we didn't get to the agenda because we were notified late last week. We had already had the agenda posted, but we received notice that Macaffrey Middle School received California Distinguished School. um they um significantly improved what they call um closing the achievement gap. And so they're measuring this
091by your dashboard performance in language arts and math. And we significantly increased for English learners in math and ELA and significantly increased in ELA for students with disabilities. And so McCaffrey was awarded and we will send a team to Anaheim in April to receive the award. There were only five schools in Sacramento County that received this award. Liberty Ranch was one of them. So two out of the five are from G. And this was the year they are recognizing middle school and high schools. Next year they will recognize elementaryaries. So just congratulations to Macaffrey and the staff. Great work. um went over to the staff meeting yesterday and um principal grooms had a little um bunt is it buntinis? Those little buntinis and um apple cider little toast to congratulate the staff for their hard
092work. They're definitely on the right track and looking forward to some some really positive um changes possibly with some work with PLC's and some interventions these next few years. So, we're really excited to continue to see Macaffrey grow. Thank you. >> The consent calendar is next. Do you have anything there that you need to highlight? >> I do. I have a few that I need to highlight. Um first I'll start with donations. Lake Canyon Family Life Christian Church donated $3,100 to support sixth graders to Sly Park. And then we also we have an out ofstate conference. Meno, our technology coordinator, will be attending an annual conference in Nevada, Vegas. And then and then we have um sale or disposal of some food and nutrition equipment because of all of the great upgrades that you heard
093about tonight. We have some old equipment to get rid of. Great. Can I get a motion to approve 242.694? 694. >> I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. I have a motion from Annette Kunzie to approve item number 242.694, the consent calendar. Seconded by Wesley Kaggel, Katherine Flores, Catherine Harper, sorry. That's right. Um Casey Ra. >> Matthew Ward. I >> thank you. The motion carries unanimously. 242.695 I'm sorry 696 uh consideration of approval of the 2526 transportation plan. >> This is an annual item. Um in um 2022 the state budget established a transportation allowance beginning in the 2324 school year which they begin to allow 60% of the school district's prior year's home to school transportation expenditures be provided. Um it's an additional funding and the transportation budget is about 1.8 million. Um
094being able to get that at least 60% does help. The rest is um made up through our general fund as a condition to receive these funds. We have to develop a transportation plan and continue to update it. Um and this plan it was um provided. It's a routine item. Um compared to last year, the only change that we added is number eight is um we have we provide transportation in out outside our district due to specialized programs. We've been doing this, but I just um didn't get a chance to up update it last year, but we um opened position for class C driver to be able to transport our students that are outside our boundaries. Um and then we were required to provide services and we continue to provide services for field trips, after school
095programs, ex expanded learning programs, even our summer school program. So, our transportation continues to expand and we are projected to receive our two other new buses this uh in April coming up soon. Any questions? >> Can I get a motion to approve 242.696? >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. Thank you. Have a motion from Matthew Ward to approve item number 242.696. Seconded by Casey Ra. Katherine Harper. Hi, Annette Kunzie. >> Hi, >> Wesley Kaggel. >> Hi. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. 242.697. Um the second it interim report 2526. >> Okay. So, this is our regular routine um financial report that we PowerPoint. She'll bring it up. And just just to provide some background on second interim. So second interim is another update we provided in December. Um first interim that's expenditures
096from the beginning of the year to October. Second interim is from the beginning of the year up to January 31st. Alli let me make sure it's I think it's out of order in your packet. The PowerPoint is behind the actual 100page book. >> Oh yeah. So, if you scroll through the book, you'll get to the 2526 actual PowerPoint that we'll be referencing. So, Hawaii, maybe that's why you're not finding it. >> It's in the back of the budget book. >> Yeah. So, it's just at the very end of this. We could probably go ahead and start if the if the board you have you found it. Okay, we'll start with Kai's trying to find it there. >> Um, so >> many more. Our second interim is reporting expenditures up to January 31st and based on
097new information provided from January's governor's budget. We use that information to do our projections because in every interim we have to provide a multi-year projection for the three years. Um, there we go. Our second interim summary. So um for this year a lot hasn't really changed but we did get new projections for the new year that does change our multi-year projections which change our reserves amount. Um the cola for 26 27 and 27 28 did decrease and it it is impacting um ongoing revenue. Our employee retirement system for stirs did not change but for purse it did change. It decreased by 041 for one year but then it goes back up the other subsequent years. um enrollment projections. At the time when we built um second interim, we used um our conservative numbers based on
098what we had in our CalPAD certification and what we know. Our enrollment projections at that time was 3,481. Um and we use that number for out years because the demographer study showed that it was very um flat enrollment. However, we are monitoring very closely right now as Lois mentioned, we are down 200 students. That will change our budget that we present for you in June. So, these numbers can even um be much more less even than we think. Um average daily attendance again we projected based on P2 annual of last year. P2 is not due until April. So, it's a very conservative approach. We always take that approach just in case we don't want to over project. Since first interim that we presented in December, our unduplicated pupil percentage did increase slight increase to 61.84.
099Um that increased our average rolling. Um while the district experienced a decrease of 127, it was originally over 200. So we did do some movement. Um and the percentage increase helps mitigate some of the lost revenue. plans are in place for the new year to start as early in the summer to get those application earlier and try to um see how we can do better outreach to try to obtain at least close to the two um 2100 if we do lose that enrollment. Um at least 2,000 would be a reasonable um unduplicated percentage. our revenue um projected declined by 110,000 for the 26 27 school year and then 20 the 2728 126 due to that COLA projection um I will show you a slide of the cola what that looks like and again we did
100receive the block grant and we are anticipating to receive more and um we have set aside for the science adoption development training that continues to be going out throughout the here. So our cost of living adjustment um in first syndrome we presented 2526 2.30 nothing has changed for the current year but for the outyear we presented in December it was originally 3.02 it dropped to 2.41 and for 2728 um it was 3.42 and now it dropped to 3.06. So that does impact our revenue and our projections and we did reflect that into our multi-year projection, but we did anticipate flat enrollment. This this budget does not include any loss of enrollment. So where does most of our revenue come from? Um this is I really like this visual because it gives you a picture of
101how majority of our funding is. We get about $42 million in state funding. Um it's different components. um majority of is our base grant um grades span adjustments 1.5 base grants 33 million our supplemental and concentration is um about close to the 6 billion it is due to having that unduplicated percentage that I presented earlier has to be over that 55% to receive that concentration portion so it's very key to maintain um our uppduplicated people count at an average higher than 55 at least we want it to much higher, closer to what our normal um percentage is. Uh we do have a TK add-on. Um it helps with some cost um because to meet that ratio um it's very small and then the um but it does help. The home to school transportation is that
102additional 300,000 um that we receive from the state. So, this gives you a a good visual of what a majority of funding and then I'll show a pie chart of where this um state revenue is um provided. So, our district enrollment in ADA um our our district has grown since COVID. I've not um we've noticed an increase and then we just noticed very small increases. uh as I've shared we project flat enrollment due to um information we have and then our ADA which is what we get how we get funded not it's not just an having an enrollment in the district we also have to have some attendance so it's we it's a formula using your average daily attendance to your enrollment to get that percentage of how we're going to get funded um we'll
103just continue to monitor this very closely and uh in May we'll have to make a decision um to see what our projections are going to be for our budget development in June. Revenue. So the um this is a pie of additional funding in revenue that we do get. So the LCFS sources is that 70% that the visual that I showed you in the first slide that 42 million is the blue area. So majority of our fund majority of our funding is um our LCFF state funding. We do receive other state revenues, local revenues, and federal revenues is about 3%. Um, so we get about $60 million in total and but this includes the onetime grant, too. So that can fluctuate based on one time money. Our expenditures are about 65 million. Um, $48 million is
104our salaries and benefits. that represents about 75% of budget being on our staff. And so unrestricted reserve levels. This is a slide um to give a visual from what happened in first syndrome and where we're at now. For the 2520 school 26 school year due to that decrease in cola um we are projecting uh we're currently at 12.97 for the next school year. Again, there was a drop and due to the cola is at 12.46 and then for the 2728 it's a 10.71. This does not include any current negotiation items that we are working on. Um that will be shared in hopefully in the next board meeting and that will I will provide an update of what the reserves will look like. Um again that's stayed in that stays in negotiations until we're able to
105bring it to public. We'll share what that looks like for next month. So for second interim, the district is able to meet all their financial obligations for the multi-year period for our current year and the two years out. Um we have the onetime funds helping us, the property tax revenue and um the higher cola for this year. We continue as we shared with Cole G and the officer Walters to maintain safe and secure learning environments. um investing in um in our um curriculum adoption, enhancing security measures and ongoing facility maintenance and upgrades. You'll see that going around throughout the year because we continue to invest time and have f funds set aside for that. So overall we did we are positive certifying positive um and we will present more information as uh becomes available. Any
106questions? No question, but just one comment I'll make is I know that at the CSBA conference and the forum for talking about superintendent public instruction, one of the items they talked about was the possibility of instead of having your funds based off average daily attendance based off of enrollment, which would seem more logical because like well you already have to pay for those kids, you've got them enrolled. And so like I think if that comes to fruition, that could simplify things. >> That that would be something great because we have to staff. if they're enrolled, we have to staff for them. And um it's not like we can't tell a teacher we're not paying you because students are not coming. And being able to pass some legisl I know this has been something we all
107have advocated even on the business sites in our in our conferences. This is something being at least funded in enrollment provides some some security measure for the district for staff and feel that it's going to be okay just going by by um student average daily. P1 and P2 periods, student periods. Um, just like, okay, what is it going to look like next in the next three months? Is it going to be what are we doing? What can we do better? And, um, I hope I hope I would be I would advocate for that, too. >> Thank you. And then I just had a comment. So, this is the governor's budget. My understanding is the legislative analyst office, they're sort of miles apart right now. Um, legislative analyst office having a much more conservative approach to
108the budget. Um, so I guess we'll see how that plays out in May as well. Yes. >> And then the other thing is um they're also talking about the uh Prop 98 maneuvers and they'll hold back on that. So kind of keeping that in. So borrowing previously paying some of that back but then borrowing again is my understanding of how >> and it's going on. We received notification if um it was a deadline this coming this month in a few weeks. Um the state is doing a deferral for June and asking if basically do you have enough money to process your payroll for June, your cash flow, um and your reserves to maintain that because we probably will pay around July or August depending and we're at a place where okay, we didn't have to
109ask for a waiver or exception. Um but I know the county was pushing, hey, make sure you have enough money to meet your jun your summer payroll. They already told us they're not giving us the money. So, it's happening. We're seeing it because they're doing that movement saying, "I'll pay you back right now. Let me see how the year ends." >> Right? >> But what are the effects if districts don't have the reserves that we have right now? >> Right. >> And then the long-term effects of all of this. >> Okay. >> That was going to be my question was actually if deferrals if they had mentioned that again to you and it sounds like they have. It's actually real. >> Yes. >> Yeah. It's it happens. So, yeah. So the reserve slide that we
110saw is really not accurate really at all because like you said it does >> uh does not count negotiations and that is something that we can talk about when everything's done but then >> um how like how much if we had to cover June payroll >> what is I'm I'm sorry I'm like giving you this question just sort I didn't give you heads up but how like how what is the percentage of our reserve that would be taken up by that >> we if we need if we had to covered two months of payroll. I had we needed over 9% close to the um 9.5 9.7%. We don't have that because payroll runs about close to 3 million and that's without the raise. And so once that raise kicks in, not even our 9% will
111cover that ongoing amount we need in case there is deferrals and borrow it would require some borrowing to meet that. And um I know you mentioned something else right right before payroll. You said something um >> just that they're actually saying prepare. They're telling you to prepare. I can't remember what it was. That was my main point was just trying to figure out like what does that translate to because we're looking at percentages which don't tell the whole story >> correct >> all the time. Um and then yeah and then just kind of trying to understand what that would mean. >> Yeah. and oh that's now I remember the AB1200 which is something we present to the board um once we settle negotiations and everything is they vote on the union um that will indicate
112um our reserve amounts and I'll share that publicly how that affects so that slide will be changing it looks high right now but it's not once I've I already projected numbers and what once we pres present that publicly >> and that's not including um that lost in enrollment 200 students It's a big impact to our budget. It would it would be a drastic drop to not our reserves but >> um meeting the ongoing obligations for our outy years will impact us a lot. So >> I hope we get those students. We will be trying to do our end of it and see where we're at in May. I have to make that decision of what number it's going to be for projections to present to you. Yeah, >> it would be great if they all
113show up in >> August that I mean ideally at least the same amount, but >> it's something we'll we'll continue to update the board and keep everybody informed. >> There's a lot of math that has to be done to that before it's final. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's recommended to have three months payroll in cash. >> We don't even have that point. >> Yeah. 9% is about two and a half months. >> 9% is about two and a half months. >> So, >> yeah. Okay. >> And that's just payroll. >> That's just not anything else. not expend other supplies >> other expenditures. So, >> okay. Anything additional on that report? >> Can I get a motion to approve 242.697? I'll make the motion actually. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Have a motion from Katherine Harper
114to approve item number 242.697. Seconded by Matthew Ward. Annette Kunzie I Casey Ra Boy I Wesley Kaggel >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. >> I have 242.698 board consideration of approval of resolution number 12 calling the general election. All right. So yes. So, we need to have a resolution approved in order to hold an election on November 3rd to nominate candidates um to serve on the board. We will have three seats that will be open. Come November, it'll be President Harper, Vice President Kunzie, and Trustee Kaggel. So, this is a required step to have a ballot in November. >> Can I get a motion to approve 242.698? >> We did approve it. I don't know. I don't want to find out though. Really? I I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >>
115Thank you. Have a motion from Casey Raoy to approve item number 242.698. Seconded by Annette Kunzie. Katherine Harper. >> I. >> Matthew Ward. >> I. >> Wesley Kaggel. >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. 242.699. board consideration of approval for an electric vehicle charging installation. >> Okay. So, um as we shared previously, we received several grants for new school buses. As part of that transition transition, the district must also upgrade the electrical infrastructure to accommodate five new buses. Um of the 53 elementary and to our high school, um we house all the buses together, but we don't have the infrastructure or the charges to be able to do this. So now we have to do the other end of the piece. So the district has received additional grant funding through the Sacramento Metropolitan
116Air Quality Management District under the contract with Phil um Electric. Um they have indicated that they will fund the project covering up to 100% of it. So this is great. That way we don't have to pay for it. Um of the cost when combined with the Sacramento Sacramento Municipal Utility District rebate. through SMUD, it's going to be funded in two ways to be able to um cover the full amount. Um so we seek approval to enter into contract with PH Inc. to complete the necessary infrastructure upgrades under the agreement. The scope includes construction, electrical infrastructure improvements, engineering, installation of electrical ve um EVs, charging stations. The proposal includes three dual handle charger chargers which is six handles and one single handle charger which is it's a seventh handle total. Each charger will have the 100
117a breaker and three dual chargers will have the split and the power will be shared between um between them um the buses. The total cost of the project's 183,000 107 um 158,000 will be funded through the Sacramento air quality and SMUD is going to be funding the actual chargers the machine piece of it about 24,000 that's a rebate that I'll we'll have to submit to get reimbured back. But this is a great it's a great opportunity for the district that way we don't have to pay for the infrastructure piece of it. So I I keep trying for grants for this one. I've been trying for the last six seven months and finally one stick questions. I just wanted to say thank you. I don't know who's we seem to have a lot of grants. So
118I just want to thank you whoever is doing that work because I know that's not easy. So um yeah thank you for all of that. >> Thank you. >> Board approval is recommended. Please. >> Anything else additional? No. >> I'll make the motion to approve 242.699. >> I'll second it. >> Thank you. I have a motion from Katherine Harper to approve item number 242.699. Seconded by Wesley Kaggel. Annette Kunzie. >> I. >> Casey Ra Boy. >> I. >> Matthew Ward. >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. Item 242.700. Board consideration of approval of the resolution number 13 accepting final completion of the contract with MCOR services Mesa Energy Systems for the Cowshape HVAC project. Yes. So this was also a grant that the district received um in 2023 received a district of 510,000
119cowshaped grant. It was to provide upgrades to heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and HVAC systems. It's not to give new ones. It's only to upgrade our existing. I tried but they wouldn't they wouldn't give us new ones. Um the district enter entered a contract with MCOR to provide these services. Um it included filter replacements, HVAC assessments, um installation of monitors, general maintenance on our school sites. All the projects were completed by January 5th and with board approval, the notice uh will be sent to Sacramento Countyy's records u records office and board approval is recommended. Any questions? I'll make the motion to approve 242.700. I'll second. >> Thank you. Have a motion from Katherine Harper to approve item number 242.700. Seconded by Casey Rabo. Annette Kunzie. >> I. >> Matthew Ward. >> I. >> Wesley Kaggel. >>
120Hi. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. 242.71. First reading of board policies. All right. Thank you. This was with the recent recent release of some updated policies. This will be a team effort. Um cabinet taking different um policies to give you a brief summary of what has changed. I think the first one is me is Ellie. So the new um administrative regulation for inventories 3440 there was a change. Um previously we kept inventory and tagged and documented anything over 500. Well the cost of goods and everything have increased. So they have been evaluating the amount. Um we've been doing this because we received the notice. I know um CSBA just updated this but they provided us a notice at the beginning of the year. county did the county office said, "Hey, it's switching from
121500 to,500." Um, I know even our capital um items assets are increased from 5,000 to 10,000. So, some changes have occurred. It looks like this one was just updated for the 500 to 1500. It's just an routine thing to for audit reasons and how we track. All right, the next two policies have been updated because of a new law SB848. This first one, professional standards. The policy has been updated to reflect the new law which prohibits inappropriate conduct between district employees, adults, volunteers, contractors, um any adult that's employed, volunteering, or under contract with the district. And also with this update, we are to be able to make you have to make these policies available to the public and in our parent information guide. So that will take place next year. There is a brand new
122policy uh maintaining appropriate adult student interaction and the purpose of this policy is to include various employee groups. It's now interns, volunteers, contractors, any person who has an employment relationship with the district. And it outlines a very detailed list of what is considered an appropriate conduct between adult and students. So I think Oh, I have one more. Sorry. Sorry. All right. This is a quick update on here. We are going to recommend option one. This is related to employee property reimbursement that we would not reimburse employees for personal property that may be stolen or destroyed or damaged while bringing it to work. And that's currently pretty much what we have in policy as well. >> All right, I'm up next. So the next policy, board policy and administrative regulations that we're bringing for updates are
123the suspension expulsions/due process. Both the board policy and administrative regulations are being updated. Um, what has been added is off-campus behavior may result in disciplinary action if it disrupts district programs. On a case-byase basis, board may recommend restorative justice recommendations specific to exposure matters. There is new law requirement that requires a rehabilitative plan at the time of an exposion with very specific components including a periodic review and preliminary assessment for readmission 45 days uh prior to the end of the exportion term. That is a new requirement. also amends conditions on when a board may deny readmission and uh deny deniable cannot be based on lack of opportunities, financial or transportation issues for the student and or family. All right. Number six, freedom of speech and expression has been updated to state the board's committed to
124providing a welcoming, safe, and supportive school environment that protects students from discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying, or other types of expression prohibited by law. Um, students shall have the right to exercise freedom of speech. And then there's a list, a suggested list of some restrictions that could be included for freedom of speech. Um basically things that could be um obscene, slanderous, things that could incite um disruption, discrimin discriminatory or harassing um substantially disrupts the orderly operations of the district. Um things like that that that would not be considered freedom of speech. >> Okay. I have >> and then I think it's >> curriculum director. So we have physical education. Yeah, physical education and activity. It's uh board policy 6142.7. Um both um the policy and the administrative regulations have been updated. Um the policy has
125been updated to reflect that districts are required to grant students an accommodation in connection with physical activity um during PE um uh during um periods of religious fasting and that students receive um an alternative activity or an assignment during this time. Um, also superintendent uh now can offer an alternate term schedule for middle school PE choices and they did attach regulation for the components of that schedule. And then uh the policy is updated to reflect uh the requirement that districts implement extreme weather protocols um that incorporate the California Department of um education standards and um that we have to review those annually. The regul regulation includes the definition of the extreme weather. >> All right. Sorry about that, Stephanie. >> No, it's okay. I don't mind. >> Okay. Um, board policy and ad administrative regulations
1266146.3 re re I'm going to totally butcher how to say this. R respon >> reciprocity. I did try to practice saying that of academic credit. We have deleted language that is related to transfer of coursework. The language that was written in the recommendation and in previous policies was related to high school. So both board policy and administrative regulations have been updated for that purpose. The next policy and administrative regulations is 6173 education of homeless children. The board policy has some minor grammatical edits. The administrative regulations we have removed the language relative to high school and transfer of credits or coursework. And the uh exhibit has been updated. Again, a minor gra grammatical update to change the word uh change oral to verbally. Just minor edits to that policy. The education for foster youth uh board
127policy uh and administrative regulations 6173.1. Again, the board policy is minor grammatical edits. The administrative regulations have been updated with a definition of student in foster care, which also includes a child who is detained in a county operated juvenile detention facility or the sh subject of a juvenile court petition and has been identified by the child welfare agency, probation department, and is at imminent risk of removal and imp placement in foster care. Also, um if a foster youth is attending a non-public school, that placement is considered the school of origin and they would be uh able to continue in that placement if they were relocated to a different foster placement. Also, there is updated language in the administrative regulations. Any interession type programs, foster youth are given priority. The last board policy and administrative regulation
128that I have to report on is 6173.2. This is education of military families. Um this language update it's the rec uh board recognition of the challenges that are present for military families when they have and students and on their academic success with the relocation. Therefore, it grants districts discretion on the enrollment, graduation, and extracurricular requirements to put some waiverss in place for students of military families. In addition, it requires the district to collaborate to facilitate smooth transitions for students that have to uh relocate and a requirement for for the district to report to the board on the outcomes of military families, for example, attendance or achievement results. The regulations have been updated to reflect that. So, additional guidance for families to meet residency enrollment requirements. Also for districts, if we if there is a family
129moving in that has a child on an IEP, ensuring prompt measures to obtain records so that students can have continue to have uh seamless access to their services. >> All right. Thank you. The last four are related to board meetings and updated to reflect new law SB707. First one, meetings and notices. Um, permits a remote board meeting based on a proclaimed state of emergency or local emergency without the requirement to post the physical location of board members. Also updated to delete material related to traditional teleconferencing, teleconferencing by individual board members due to just cause. All of that has been moved to the next bylaw, which is remote meetings and attendance. This is a brand new um bylaw that we do we currently do not have. And it discusses it outlines when you can have a
130board member attend remote and participate as an accommodation due to just cause. That can be twice a year. And then also when a board member can um attend remotely during a state of an emergency without posting location. And then we have bylaw for agenda um meeting materials. Um updated to state that public comment includes clarification that the agenda provides members of the public the opportunity to address the board on any agenda item including items to be considered in close session or items on the consent calendar. also has a new section for disability related accommodations or modifications and also updated to add material related to a board member's request to add a specific matter of um subject to the board to be placed on the agenda. And meeting conduct is the last bylaw clarifies the chair
131um governing board which is our president shall conduct the meetings. If the board member board president is absent, it would be another board member, which in our case is vice president. It also adds a new section on board meeting disruptions. Uh new court case requires that the the board the legislative body clear the meeting room when a meeting is willfully disrupted and order cannot be restored by removing the disruptive individuals and does not permit the board to relocate the meeting to a different room in lie of clearing the meeting room due to a disruption. Any questions on those? It's just the first reading. Okay. >> We'll bring these back to the board next month for action. >> Okay. Um, next we have public comments for topics not on the agenda. Do we have any public
132comments? >> Okay. Veronica Calfman. >> All right. No motive stories about my kiddo this time, so no tissue needed. Um, I understand that there is a form that I'll need to fill out online and I will email that in tomorrow. Um, I do want to get this on the public record though. I am requesting an item be added to the agenda for the regularly scheduled April board meeting. I would like a presentation on all PE and music teacher schedules for the 2627 school year. I would like to know the financial impact of not hiring a PE teacher to backfill retirement from Mr. Glennet McAffrey. I would like to hear every single board member go on record where they stand in regards to this. And I would like the board to vote if they approve on
133PE teachers rotating their schedules on music programs such as music production being cut from Macaffrey as well as music teachers continuing their rotation schedules. This is important for all teachers, all community members. Um, as was mentioned earlier, there are three positions up for the board in November. Thank you. >> Thank you. Do we have any other pending agenda items? >> We do. We have one, the wellness parent workshop. We have the last one, I think, tomorrow. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Anything else from the board? >> Uh, I was just going to give an update. Um, first I just want to say I attended Valley Oak's art night and that was super cute and there was a lot of fun crafts and some beautiful artwork and it was neat to see the different styles and
134really real great variety. And then I just wanted to u mention that uh this week I participated in CSBA's legislative action week. And so yesterday we met with Senator Neo and then today Senator uh Mcernney and so the goal of that is to just share CSBA's sort of statewide priorities with regards to education and sort of build those relationships with the legislators. So that's good. We did it on Zoom so it was I didn't have to travel. I just had two items I wanted to mention. First, and I'm making a note to myself also, the California Healthy Kids Survey, I believe, is still open. Is that correct? Okay, still open. We are actually going to extend it one more week to try to get some more parent participation. Couple of our sites have almost 200
135parents that have already >> um completed the survey. Couple of sites are a little bit lower, so we will extend it for one more week. >> Okay. So, we should I'm hoping that we'll that still gives us enough time to report out the next board meeting. If not, the reports would be um shared in May. >> Okay. Thank you. And then I just wanted to mention before we adjourn that I was a chaperone on the Sutter Sport field trip on February the 19th. It was a 10-hour day. Um yeah. Um it was at uh let's see, what was where was I going with that? It was 10 hours. Yeah, it was a 10-hour day. It was very fun. Um, it was raining the first part of the day, but then thankfully the rain cleared up
136and um, if you're not familiar with it, there's different stations around the fort that are all parentrun for the kids to actually experience the jobs that different people did at the fort. And there were at least nine stations. Again, parent volunteers come and run all those stations. There are dosent there from the state park system to like help with the oven and all of the situations involving fire. But it I just I talked to at least to one mom who actually worked a night shift at the hospital and then came right over to Sutters Fort just because she wanted to be involved and just had done it with her older son and loved it. And I was just I mean I you know I figured it would be fun but I was blown away just
137by the education that happened. um and how they were so considerate with telling the kids the history not only of the fort but like who was there before the fort was built and then how the fort was built and as someone who was not raised in California I didn't get any of that history and so I learned a lot about California history and Sacramento Valley history in particular but I loved seeing the kids learn through doing and just hearing their thoughts and reflections after each station as to you know this was fun or I didn't like this or and um Big shout out to the moms who were running the bakery because they kept that bakery going all day and this is like a clay oven in the middle of the fort and they're mixing
138they have very primitive kitchen and they're mixing all the dough by hand and they're letting the kids mix the dough by hand. So amazing experience. I wish all of our schools would go and do I think most of them do. I'm not sure if all of them do. Hopefully they all do because um history come to life and tremendous educational experience for our kids. So I was glad that I that I did it and toughed it out for 10 hours. So thank you. Um if we have no other items then I will adjourn us. Thank you.