GJUESD Board of Education meeting: August 20, 2025

001I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. And there was no action taken in close session. So, we're going to go ahead with board meeting protocol. >> Nope. >> Hello. Okay. Thank you. So, tonight our session is being recorded, open to the public, and being broadcast live through Zoom teleconference for public comment. Comments are three minutes per agenda item, and they will be timed. Uh the board shall limit t um total time for public comments for each agenda item to 20 minutes. And with board consent, the board president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public comment. And to make a comment in person, there are comment cards at both doors there. And

002that would go to our board meeting assist assistant, Miss Boach. Email public comments are um to the superintendent 24 hours before the board meeting. Um we did not receive um written comments for our meeting tonight. Board vote connectivity. Each motion will be followed by roll call vote for action items should a board member attend the meeting remotely and lose connectivity. Um the meeting would be delayed by 5 minutes and regular board meetings will be adjourned by 10:30. Thank you. Public comments for topics not on the agenda. I have three. Um we're going to start with Omar if you want to come up and make your public comment. Okay. Good evening, Omar Anzaldua. Um, I want to make clear that my comments tonight are not as a teacher, but as a parent. Okay. So, um, I'm

003here to talk about the guidelines that were set out for the school connected organizations um, earlier this month. um they were taken um or I took them as a little bit of a surprise because we had never received anything like that before and I think I know where it's coming from and why the district is sending this out. But we do have some concerns over at Valley Oaks and as far as I know there are some um other PTOs or PTAs in the district that also have concerns and those concerns are with um some specific items about financial information. And so what I'm asking for tonight is for the district to consider and for the board to approve putting the deadline on hold while we consider a revision and that we actually get to meet

004with all the PTO's together to to work together to form a a new set of guidelines that we can agree with because there are some things that are a red line and my wife will speak to those things in just just a moment. There are a few things on there that are a red line that um if we are going to be forced to do these things, then we have already looked at each other and said, you know what, maybe we don't continue as an organization, which would be unfortunate because last year the district uh very specifically made the Valley Oaks PTO separate from the district and to become our own 501c3, which we are nearly complete with the process. And so the revision um I'm sorry, the guidelines now actually kind of go against

005some of the things that we had put in our charter and that would really mess up our application. We would have to change several things about it and start the process over again. So we really would appreciate if whenever we do these kinds of um guidelines, we'll call them guidelines um that we are not only notified farther in advance but actually are brought into the process as I feel like any good organization should do. You know have a meeting with the stakeholders. I think that makes a lot of sense. So, I'm asking that by the next meeting, we can either have that meeting and make those revisions or vote to put the deadline on hold while we work on this issue. Thank you. >> Thank you. I I can say normally we don't give feedback

006normally in public comment, but we started dealing with this issue today. And so I wanted to let Omar know um we've already made some big changes um to that application and we already told one parent group this afternoon that we are going to not hold to that October due date and we're going to schedule some meetings with the parent groups. And so that we just looked at that today and so we haven't I don't think business department has been able to push it out to you yet. But there are some things that are required um SIA is requiring some things of our parent groups when it's comes to collecting money and things like that. You can imagine why what's you know been going on. And so they are putting some more guidelines in place and

007we actually have board policy that we haven't been following related to collecting money and organizations and things like that. And so but I do agree that we need to revise some of the application requirements um and we need to pull the groups together and so we are not going to stick to that October due date. >> Thank you. Melissa, did you want to make a comment also? >> Okay. Hello. Uh I'm Melissa Lane analua and I'm president of the Valley Oaks PTO and I want to thank you for hearing our concerns and already making steps to taking steps to revising this process. So, that kind of changes what I'm going to say, but I will paraphrase a bit. Um, I I know where you guys are coming from. We totally understand the need for transparency

008and openness and how we allocate and use our funding and we we recognize that and we all agree with it. So, we're with you on that. Um, but what we feel like you're trying to do is make us um, well, not make us, but we're independent organizations and we're agreeing to hold you harmless and distance ourselves in our actions from the district, which makes sense, but we feel like you want to micromanage what we do, like getting approval for fundraisers, um, what we can call ourselves. Like I don't even know if I can technically wear this shirt anymore because I haven't got permission from you guys to call us our group the Valley Oaks PTO. So we need to get permission for that. And so we feel like there's micromanaging but you also want to

009distance us and we feel like those two things are contradictory. And so we would like to not disclose sensitive financial information like our bank account number. I personally spoke to our a banker where we bank and they called that a risky practice and recommended we don't do it because we could be opening up our bank account uh or making it more susceptible to fraud which of course we're trying to prevent through all these actions which we understand. So we're not okay with giving out our bank account number. Um we don't feel like as independent organizations we should have to get permission for every fundraiser we want to do. And I just want you guys to realize that I've been in PTO at Valley Oaks. This is my going on my eighth year. And in all

010this time, um, we haven't had a lot of parents participate. Currently, I think there's 553 students at Valley Oaks. We have nine nine steady parent and teacher volunteers. And that's the most we've had in eight years. Of those nine members, four, three or four of us would be doing the work to complete all the mandates that you are asking currently. And that is a lot of work for three people to do because we all have full-time jobs, children, households, and other responsibilities to manage. We're volunteers and we feel like we'll be asked a lot to be able to just volunteer to help our school to make it a a happier place and contribute to a positive school climate. So, we would like you to well, you already have agreed to u reach out to the

011PTO. So, thank you for that and we really look forward to discussing with you what we think would work with us and um maybe some policies that need to be revised. And in case you're interested, I happen to have a copy of the G Union High School District um school connected organization request for authorization to operate within the school district. I don't think that it's private. I don't know if I could share it, but I probably can. And you can see that their requirements are a lot less stringent than what is being asked at the elementary level. So, if you'd like to see that, I can leave one with you. >> I think we have it. I know that when we put together what we have right now, I think we looked at some other

012districts as well. I think we were kind of mirroring what Elkrove was doing, um, okay, with ours. But again, don't worry about this right now. Um, keep doing, you know, what you're doing. And, um, fundraisers do have to go to the board. That's board policy. That's annual that we have to take fundraisers to the board. We always do. Um, but some of the other requirements again, Ally and I looked at it today with the business department and we already took a lot of that off. >> Okay. >> So, well, thank you. >> We'll push it out to you and include you in a meeting. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. And finally, Megan Scarloin. Hello, I'm Megan Scarlockan. Um, I am representing Greer's Parent Club. We don't have our official name. We're

013still waiting for approval from the district. Um, I believe an email was sent two days ago and we've still yet to receive a response on a a simple name. um which is also an issue moving forward if we're not going to get swift responses that's going to to delay the process. The process itself isn't completely unreasonable. Um I do I can't remember your guys' names. I'm so sorry. I would love to meet with the other schools and inform a committee. I don't have a problem spearheading that so that we can all be on the same page doing exactly what we need to be doing so we don't end up like Liberty Ranch. And I mean that's why we're doing this. >> So um being part of the process would be great. Uh thank you for

014putting away or you know pausing the deadline if you will. Um, so my other question then, can we continue forward with fundraisers? Can we continue moving? I mean, what what are we looking at? I I don't know what that I don't know what that >> Yeah. No, we you can definitely think that was the message. You can continue as normal right now. And we take fundraisers to the board typically in September. >> Okay. So Kauaii reaches out to principles and we get the list of fundraisers for the year as to what the principles know at that time >> in September once >> we take it to the board in September. If they add fundraisers then we bring it back to the board. Um we typically put them in the consent calendar I believe the fundraisers

015but we've we've done that for years. Um okay and again that's board policy. >> Okay. Yeah. which is I don't necessarily have um a personal problem with with that. I do have a problem with the account numbers like I'm not going to give you my signature. On one of the documents I read it required the district to have my signature. Absolutely not. You are not going to have my my signature and account number and have like that's not okay. Um treasury reports. We have a wonderful treasurer. she's going to be keeping track of everything and have monthly reports. Well, absolutely we could provide those no problem as we should have been doing for the last however many years >> to be quite >> frank. Um and you know I have no problem with that but

016the account number signature I have a problem with that. Um so yeah we just like that the the deadline paused. >> No yeah thank you and nothing has changed. Yeah, thank you though. I appreciate it. >> Okay, so that's about it. But please keep my contact information. I don't have a problem having meetings and being involved. I ultimately just want the best for our kids, the best for our schools. Um, what's great about all of these organizations becoming a 550 501 3C is that we have a lot of businesses in town that need write offs. and they're going to be more likely to donate more money to these schools, right? It's going to be a tax write off. That's what we want. That's what we want for our kids. We want for our schools. We

017we want to be able to do to do more and we can. So, I like that we're we're going this direction. It's just >> Yeah, I definitely agree. >> Pushed out sucks. >> Yeah. No, thank you. I appreciate that. Um Yeah. No, your time's up. So, thank you so much for for commenting and I you know I um yeah, I appreciate this being brought to our attention. Anytime you change a process, which I totally understand why we're trying to to workshop it, we're going to have growing pains. Um so, we just appreciate everybody hanging in there and bringing things to our attention. And we want parent volunteers. We want people to come and be involved in their kids' school. So, I appreciate you guys working with everybody. Um, we don't have any other public comments,

018do we, Miss Spock? Okay. Um, so if we're ready to move on to L. Is there anything else you guys wanted to add about that? >> No, >> I think we pretty much said it. You guys are good. Okay. Um, we're going to move on to LCAP goal one and everything under that. >> Okay. So, um, I will start with, um, the report for new school year, enrollment updates, and then I'll turn it over to Mrs. Simonich for talking about our inservice days that we had with our teachers to start the school year. Um we've had a very very great smooth start to the year. I want to thank our staff, our our teachers, um our students, our families, our principles have done an amazing job. It's just it has felt really good and it's

019been a very very smooth positive start to the school year. So thank you very much. That's a big it's the leadership of our school sites from our principles and our assistant principles. It really is. So, thank you very much. Um, enrollment. Um, we have a a snapshot for you of what we look like as of I think this was as of last Wednesday. Hasn't really changed. Um, we're going in the right direction. We're up 11 students from ending the school year in June. We now have um 3,470 students. So, um we'll take any gains we get. Um you can see the enrollment is broken down for you by school. Um we still have um two school sites, two elementary sites that are under 500. Lake Canyon is at 473 and Morango Ranch is our smallest

020elementary school right now at 434. U McAffrey numbers are up by about 17 students. We have 797 students re close to that 800. We haven't been that high at Macaffrey in a long time, but again it's it's only about up 17 kids from last year. And then it's also broken down for you by grade level um for schools um for each school as well. Any questions on our enrollment? >> What is the reason for the increase at Valley Oaks? Is that the dual? >> It is. I would say it's our dual language immersion. We have quite a few families. Those programs are full and it's now at second grade. Um we have two classes at each grade level, kinder first and second. And so some of those students that are in that program, their home

021school is not Valley Oaks, but we allow them, we grandfather them in um to attend if they're in the DLI program. Thank you. And then um we will I'll turn it over to our curriculum director to talk about our new teacher welcome and then um some of the beginning year activities with our teaching staff. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh you have a copy of our new teacher welcome was a wonderful full day. Um we had 12 new teachers attend and um they were um provided with a really broad overview of all the wonderful things that our district offers, curriculum and um preparation for first day of school by two of our lead teachers in the district, Marlene Pancheeko and um Alicia Lopez. I would like to make sure to thank them. They did an amazing

022job. Um so you can see that we started with um curriculum overview and then um they were able to meet with the uh G elemental elementary faculty association. The leadership came in was able to spend some time with them and then um our special education services department Britney Summer was able to give them a program overview. um they returned to their sites and spent the next day um at their sites other than special education teachers continued to meet with Britney. So really nice day getting to meet them, getting to learn about them, welcoming welcoming them to our district. Yeah. And then we had um an an actually amazing welcome back um to school event. I I believe we had all staff present. Um so it was a full was a full day. It started with

023uh breakfast and uh would be remiss of us not to thank our food and nutrition um team. The services that they provided. We had uh delicious um burritos. I think those were the big hit. Um, so we immediately moved though after Lois's introduction, we immediately moved into our CMC math training. Um, teachers spent a good, you know, anybody that taught teaches math spent four hours in that training. It was a really broad overview of preparing to teach and also an introduction into the I Ready Diagnostic that's being administered currently. um teachers that did not teach mathematics. Other content areas uh had different agendas. So, for example, at Fairsight PreK worked with um training on be glad and um some of our middle school teachers worked on training in terms of um getting back together with

024their PLC, creating their um norms and um their agendas for the year. And of course, they have lots of things added to their agendas. Um middle school teachers met with Crystal. she had a rotation um for everyone and so they they got to start their PDSAs and um meet as PLC's with you and um so a nice rotation busy day as well. Um I think I included I included in there just an example of the middle school reflection um data was provided to them end of the year data um state data and um some of their school data. And so they spent time answering some of the questions um in terms of looking back instructional practices and then um looking at the class data that they have of students coming to them this year and

025um you know working with their PLC to decide what what strengths they're starting with, what area of need and um getting a good idea of where they're going to begin in their classrooms. So they're really good conversations. since I got to visit visit a lot of those and so um I think we have another professional development we'll talk about next time but it's when our elementary teachers will also start their reflections. >> Yeah. >> So moving on to 2025 summer programs. Turn that over to our >> Thank you. >> educational services director. >> Thanks Lois. Yes. So I'm you excited to share about our summer programs. We had a busy summer. Um, we have three different programs that we operate during the summer. We have our extended school year. This is our summer program for

026our students that are on an IEP and based on the IEP discussions, there is a need for students to to continue their instructional um programs during the summer. So, there's no regression. We had our academic summer program and then we had our expanded learning um after all day uh gel program. The dates have been provided there. Um we try our hardest to coordinate the dates between all three programs but each of these programs has their own requirements around attendance and days that need to be served. So there's a little bit of a a gap between the academic programs and the the gel program, but um you know, our efforts are always to kind of provide some continuity and consistency, but those are the dates. Um I do want to recognize our staff. Oh, thank you.

027uh staff that coordinated the program and and it does take a village um to make sure all the pieces are in place. Our special education coordinator, our ESY coordinator is Gina Fuentes, summer school coordinator, Elaine Troll, expanded learning coordinator Lorie Flossy, and then we had our seven site coordinators. We had a combination of 31 teachers that taught. doesn't mean they each had one class each, but some of them were job sharing. Um, a large amount of classified staff. So, these are your IAS, your office assistants, your gelas, food and nutrition, um, all of the staff that support all of the programs across the district. We do contract every summer for a nurse and then we had two speech therapists that supported all of the programs as well. All right. And so when we look at

028attendance and enrollment, so on the left hand side is our gened programs and on the right hand side is our special education programs. And so for our summer school gened, uh, initially we did have about 20 224 students enrolled, but then we did have a few that did drop. And so we ended with about 189 total students that maintained that 4-week uh, session. And I've also highlighted there on the in the column on the right side um the uh the average daily attendance of those grade levels. So those that came you know we were sitting um a decent size in terms of how many students were attending and you know families were taking their vacations and so we anticipate that attendance is going to fluctuate because everybody has their own schedule for their attendances. On

029the right hand side is our special education students. And so these are broken down per grade level. And we had if we ran a report of how many students are actually eligible for summer school. Uh we we have it we had 224 of those only 140 enrolled. And so that is the breakdown per grade level. And most of these all all of these grade levels were um in combination classes. So we didn't have straight first, second, they were all a combination of kinder through second and then the inter intermediate and then the middle school was 678. So they had great attendance and as you can see lots of um 90% and higher and there's a couple of like 85s but overall it was good attendance for that group as well. So, a couple of, you

030know, pictures. I always love to see the kids kind of engage in different learning activities. Um, the teachers provide um instruction and access and resources to engage in art, writing, math, science, and readers theater and use those platforms to address kind of those literate literacy skills and those math skills. a lot of feedback from our um intermediate teachers that were really excited to be able to use our curriculum, benchmark curriculum and really be able to do those reader theater opportunities for the the kids really enjoyed that as well, acting out the stories and stuff like that. So really enjoyed doing that. And then um for our general education students, we always uh provide a pre and post test. And so this gives us some data around what percent of the kids made growth on those

031pre and post tests. Um we had um uh kinder different kindergarten combinations, different K1 combinations and then straight first, second, third, fourth and fifth, sixth combinations. And so that's why you you see kindergarten in a couple of different rows there. But um the uh the assessments were with our district reading assessments and so the teachers used their grade level district reading assessments to kind of get a a gauge on um what progress was made. So um you know we definitely saw some some you know some continued challenges with accuracy and rate for our fourth graders but then there was growth in other areas. So all right. So for our expanded learning summer programs, these are gel programs that operate during the summer. We had um approximately 289 students that were served throughout the summer program.

032We had the program at five campuses, all seven site coordinators supported, and we had 15 instructional assistants. We had community members volunteer uh through the the Gallup program and um as I mentioned we provided uh the summer program at five campuses and those campuses that did not have the program and a family requested transportation then we provided transportation to the site that was offered. Um and here's just a snapshot of our expanded learning programs. They completed field trips to the color wheel pottery painting studio, walking field trips to the library. There was walks to um the garden uh for our Lake Canyon jail program. They went to Morango to the garden, walks to the Greer Basin special, they did solar oven s'mores, they did Lego research projects, cooking week, um and then um they worked

033with the food and nutrition team for some farm to summer taste testing. So, water days and then summer program with the Gallup that was also um provided. So, this just kind of some pictures of our students enjoying the uh expanded learning opportunities that were offered during the summer as well. Do you have any questions? Yeah, it's a busy summer. Yeah, it I felt like it went by really quickly. So, yeah, it did. So, >> thank you, Cool Jeep. A little bit more on summer programs. Um, turn it over to our CBO to talk about the meal programs that we provided this summer. >> So, adding to what Colgate mentioned, we had busy summer and I want to thank Nick Sova, our food service supervisor, continuing to run an amazing program and he's going to share

034um all the information and meals that were provided this summer. Thank you. >> Hello. Good evening. Thank you for letting me present tonight. Uh I'm Nick Swa, the food nutrition services supervisor. Uh we had a busy summer. Uh unlike uh Colgate, we felt summer was long, but it was great. Uh the program here um has a lot of information in it. And I have to say that without the support and the hard work and the vision and the flexibility of the food nutrition staff, none of this would be possible. We start planning for summer in January. And one of the things we talked about this year was strategizing on how to help with uh food insecurity here within G, which is there is some u and our program really is now 12 months. It's not

035just the traditional school year. So, we really looked at that and say it and thought we're important. We need to make sure the students are out there getting food. We're out there. We're visible. So, you'll see a couple of strategies that we added this year. Uh we operate the seamless summer option program. We did it at Fairite, uh the learning center, Bernard Greer, River Oaks, Lake Canyon, Macaffrey. Uh our community sites were Gora, the Agora Aquatic Center. We also fed community at fair site. We traveled all the way out to Thornton at the McClly Manner uh development. We served meal boxes out there and we were feeding students every day at the school sites. Uh we were on the move during summer. Every day there was deliveries going, multiple vans, multiple staff um all over

036town. We served 10,987 breakfasts, 14,000 lunches, and suppers to all the jail kids, students. Uh they were a combination of hot meals, cold meals. Uh we served hot meals to supper, even to breakfast. We served uh lots of different lots of different food depending on the location. Uh some items went better than others, like always, and some items were way more popular than we thought. But, uh, it was we were we were going we were going and didn't matter it was hot, cold. Uh, it was a nice mild summer actually. So, that was good. Uh, McCollum Manor, we go out there to Thornton. Uh, on Tuesdays, we serve fiveday meal plans. We serve, uh, families can stop in, they pick up for students a meal box. Each kid had five breakfastes and five lunches. We

037added fresh fruit and vegetables and fresh milk. Um there was also extras like you can see that day they were giving out extra blueberries that we had. Um it was a good good program. Got a lot of students, a lot of families. Um it's important we get all the way out there. We also gave them some of our our new USDA items USDA items that we give out this year. Um and it's a dedicated uh team that goes out there uh every every week on Tuesday. So that's one of the places we did. And then we had, are we on the next slide? Okay. We had uh some modernization going on at Greer. They were working on the floor in the multi-purpose room. So we had to uh be flexible and go and serve out

038in the breezeway. So part of the school year, part of the summer, we were serving in the multi-purpose room. And then we switched and they were serving breakfast and lunch outside and the students were loving it. And you can see there it was just a a simple fresh fruit and um uh pancake day. One of the other activities we did was we participated in the summer um farm to summer program. Uh we promoted um you can see taste testings with peaches, nectarines, dried fruit, fresh fruits, veggie sticks. Uh it was a fun time of interaction outside of the normal school year where we actually do taste test of the year, but this was a fun time where they got to come in and be hands-on and give their opinion and see and experience a little

039different uh the fruits and vegetables and the food. The next slide you can see we gave education. We talked about all the different types of fruits and uh nutrition and and vitamins and minerals and then they got to come up and they actually got to pick what they wanted to taste. And then if you see on the next slide uh they gave us their opinions on what they liked, what they didn't like, how it was. Uh we we did comparative of nectarines versus peaches, white versus yellow. We did dried fruit versus fresh berries. We did veggie sticks with different different types of veggie sticks with different types of dips. Um on the nectarines and peaches, the winner was nectarines, yellow nectarines because they're not fuzzy and they're sweeter. So that was that was a fun

040thing. Uh fresh berries won hands down over any of the dried fruit. Uh and then the veggie sticks were just typical carrots, hikima, different things like that. We tried it with like ranch and ketchup and most of everybody liked it with ranch and of course there was a couple of boys that ketchup was their favorite and it was just because the other the girls were going, "Oh, it's that's horrible." So, it was fun. They had a fun time with that. And then we had our summer pantry partners, our summer pantry items. This is one of the ways that we wanted to combat uh food insecurity and we were able to get these bulk large USDA items and we were we gave them out to families as they came uh to pick up meals at um

041in McCome Manor and then we had a special day where families came and they got to you know you can see they walked up there and they could pick what they wanted. Uh we sold out everything uh within two days. The first day was quiet. We got the word out and then the other families were saying, "Hey, you got to go and oops." And that was uh that was a success. That was a that was one of our brainstorms and we'll try to figure out how to make it more streamlined. Um that was a learning curve for me. I forgot to check the because it was six case six pallets of USDA foods items came. We got it delivered to Valley Oaks and I forgot to check the facility use calendar and we had basketball.

042So, we had to go and we moved six pallets of food up onto the stage very quickly and I learned I remember I'll check that next year for sure. Facility use calendar. Um, and overall just again without my staff, this the food nutrition staff uh being dedicated every day and coming to work ready with a smile and they understand how important it is what they do and that there are students that this is the only meal that they're getting and so without them I wouldn't be here today and I thank them. Well, do you have any questions? I I do want to take a moment to recognize um today we had an inspection um sent a CD um a Williams inspection and one of the feedback was that the best kitchen cleanest kitchen she has

043ever seen and she inspects hundreds of school. >> Oh, which kitchen? >> Your Valley Oaks. >> Oh, Valley Oaks. Yeah. >> So they it was astonishing. She said you're this is amazing. So you have an amazing team. you you the standards you set them high and your team supports it and I see it and such an amazing job. So I thank you. We thank you for all you do for our community, our students. Thank you, Nick. >> You Thank you, Nick. So our last report for LCAP goal one will be related to um some preliminary uh state assessment data. I'll turn this over to Stephanie. Okay, we have our CAS and LPAC preliminary results. Uh final results we should have in October. They'll um be posted to the um dashboard for us. Say, do you

044just say next slide? All right. So um components of each that staff uh teachers and students have access to and we'll get right into um the next slide. We have administrators completing reflections um right now on not only the state data but also district data. Um, and then the next slide, we also have teachers beginning their reflections and starting to plan for instruction for this school year. Okay, that brings us to um, ESPback. We have two assessments that we take, one for English language arts and one for math. Um they have two sections, a computer adaptive section and a performance task section which is like on demand writing. So pretty pretty rigorous assessment. Um we administer them from grades 3 to 8 in our district and um there are four achievement levels. um the the

045goal in order to um ensure that students are ready for college or career is achievement level three or achievement level four met or exceeded the standards. And so I think our first slide is students who have met um a level three or a level four in our district. Um it's over time uh Cleo I know shared last year we had a a 1% growth as well and we're so proud of our growth. Um this is English language arts by grade level cohort same group of children um one year to the same group of children if you look diagonally to the next year. So you and see some highlighted areas in different grade levels of really looking at what students need, their areas of need and then um addressing those and and seeing results and progress

046and performance and the same for mathematics. I know um we're looking forward to our new adoption and how that can impact our student growth as well. um noticed I think in math we had um one really big jump in um fifth to sixth grade. We know that sixth grade had really strong scores last year as well on MAP assessments. So again cohort to cohort um yeartoear year-to-year growth we had 2% growth as a district. So we're happy about that. And then um we're going to have schools just share um a highlight from their school and u maybe a plan moving forward as they get ready to to move into the school year and um start with career. >> Good evening folks. Thank you for allowing us to speak on these topics that we're so passionate

047about which is of course student performance. Um and so we have our chart up there. I have my notes in front of me. So, if I'm looking down here, I'm looking at my notes. So, at Greer, we're very proud of that 1% growth in ELA uh and the 3% growth uh in math. We're very happy to see that and that's in trend with the growth across the district. Uh but that 3% growth we also like to see as well when we're uh performing kind of right right at that cusp. we are I I I cheat a little bit sometimes and I'm sorry to say that but I also like to look at vertical uh growth uh because then we can identify instructional growth. Now again it's not comparing apples to apples always with the exception

048of typically we have a teacher in that classroom and that grade level. It doesn't change from year to year always. And so at Greer, yes, we're looking at the, you know, you can see the third to fourth uh growth between um 37% to 43% is some really strong growth in third grade. We also see that uh in uh math there, right? 40 to 44%. So, our work is investigating what's going really well and really right in third grade because we're seeing cohort growth, but we're also seeing year-to-year growth with 24 to 25, 30, 37%, excuse me, to 42% year-to-year, and then 40 to 53. So, we're really proud that our third grade team is doing some really great work. And I think Canyon Right. Can you guys hear me? All right. Um, before I get

049into the data, I just want to introduce myself. Um, yeah, >> my name is my name is John Lyman and I am so proud to be the principal of Lake Canyon. So, um, I live in G and we moved to G in 2014 and I've been a principal in Elkrove and it's always been the dream when I my daughters go to Lake Canyon and it was wouldn't it just be amazing to be the principal at Lake Canyon. So, when Judy Hayes retired, it was a door opened and so I'm I'm just beyond thrilled to be here. Um, moving on to our data, just amazing things happening at Lake Canyon. So you can see in um in English language arts overall a 5% growth from 2024 50% of students meeting and exceeding standards uh to 2025

05055%. Um so we're very proud of that. And then I'd like to draw attention specifically to our fourth grade cohort in 2024 um at 47% and then moving forward to 2025 to 63%. So that was a 16% gain. Um so very proud of that. And then um down with math um the same not overall um from 2024 46% um meeting and exceeding standards. And then in 2025 48% so just a 2% not not um a huge jump but still growth. And then looking at that same cohort, the fourth grade in 2024 um was at 44% and then in 2025 they were 53% proficient which is a 9% growth. So um lots of good growth there and we are very excited um with the new I Ready math adoption. Um, I've had experience with I Ready

051language arts adoption um when I was with Twin Rivers and it was um very wellreceived and so I'm excited for the math adoption. >> All right. Thank you. And Moringo Ranchua, >> good evening cabinet members, board members. It is so nice to see you. I'm still getting used to my role now as the Mingo principal. I still find myself calling myself the assistant principal at McAffrey. So it I I answer the phone sometimes that way. I'd have to correct myself, but um it's very nice. Um it's wonderful to work at Mingo Ranch. Um it's a great group of teachers. So some of the data that I wanted to highlight um a strength that we can see in the data with Mingo is that um our fifth grade cohort from 2025 saw a 7% increase in

052their ELA scores. Sixth grade cohort saw a 10% increase in their ELA scores. So just really nice growth there um as they're starting to make their way to the middle school. An area of focus for Moringo is that um in spite of our great teachers, we did see that our math scores did remain stagnant. Um and so that is something that we're going to focus on. So some of our plans for this is that um we're going to focus on our continuous improvement cycle. So, our PDSAs, um, and really what we're going to get down to is, you know, what we need to do using evidence-based strategies that teachers know how to use that we just need to potentially go with, um, additional fidelity, consistency, result tracking um, to really focus on those areas of

053need. Another area that we're going to focus on is our behavior management for classrooms. Um, and so what we're going to do with that is we're going to have some opportunities for teachers to visit other classrooms where we're seeing even more success and where things are working well just for ideas, right? Sometimes teaching can be a very lonely profession. You're just by yourself and sometimes you need new ideas, some fresh thinking. Um, we're also going to be working on um schoolwide norms, incentives, behavior tracking and monitoring. And a lot of this is just going to be best practices related to positive behaviors, interventions, and supports, PBIS. So, just all those ways to to move our kids forward with a great teaching team and staff. So, thank you. >> On good evening. Welcome back. It's been

054quite the start of a school year. Amazing times are happening. I am very proud of River Oaks and the hard work that they've done. You'll see over the past year there's been improvement across the board for all students. So, I'd like to focus there. There was a 3% increase for ELA and then the 7% increase for math. So, it it looks like it's just growing and getting better every year, which is great. We're starting to see that uptick from COVID, which is great. Um, I know it's not up there, but I believe it's a slide. I do want to do a huge shout out for the cast at River Oaks. They had a 17% increase for the cast this year for fifth grade. So, I'm very proud of their efforts. Um, we will be jumping

055into our PDSA PDSA cycles next week and looking at data closely on teacher reflection and then making new goals for the trimester and moving forward. Hopefully, we'll just keep seeing it grow. Thank you. Get cozy. >> Hi everybody. Um, first off, I just want to say how how great it is to be part of administrative team. Um, I know there's a lot of new faces, new people. Um, but it's so nice to to be working with a great group of administrators and and welcoming our our new administrators uh as well and those who have come up uh from uh from the district and then those who are new to the district. Great teams. Good to work with them. Um I want to uh talk about a few things. There's a few things that really pop

056out uh for Valley Oaks. Uh first is that our LCAP goal is to increase by 5% uh in number of students meeting proficiency in both language arts and math. And Valley Oaks did it. We rocked it. We got uh 5% growth in both language arts and in math. Uh and that's a huge thing. Uh we are uh approaching and in some areas at or above the district average in some grades, which is uh something that has not happened in in a very long time. Uh we have a a very uh uh strong teaching team. Um many who are uh collaborating with each other across grade levels to talk about successful practices, what has been working um and helping um especially in our upper grades. We I I I can't not point out the the growth

057uh from fifth to sixth. Uh we had a 28% growth right in in in language arts. And that and that sounds really good until you see the 30% growth in that cohort in math. Uh just a great team. Absolutely determined to not accept any excuses. Uh and just absolutely killing it. And it's not up here, but I keep track. Uh interesting note for sixth grade in particular, and it's different teachers. Um but every single year since 2014, every year there's been an improvement in number of students uh reaching proficiency, which is hard to do if you know data and statistics to be able to continually show a year-to-year growth over the previous year. Very difficult. And they've done it for 10 years in a row. We used to be I want to say like at

05812, I could give you the number. And now we're at 45% proficient. And that's in a manner of 10 years. So, uh just wonderful things happening. Um and really it is due to our staff um getting together and talking about um good teaching practices, getting additional trainings, sharing the information from those trainings with each other. Um so really really good things happening in terms of improvement. We we still have areas to improve across the board. Um, fifth grade is still an area, especially in math. Um, while they improved, um, 6% over the previous year, which is great, right? We want that 5% growth. Uh, still a little bit lower than than where we want it to be overall. Uh, but will point out that the cohort growth from fourth to fifth uh, was a 12%

059growth. So, they killed it in in in language arts, improved in math, and then we're still on our way to to continual improvement. really proud. >> One more. Yeah. All right. That leaves us last but not least, I guess. Um, as we look at the data for us, the the big thing that shows on the ESBAC as a highlight is that improvement in seventh grade of 4% um of the same cohorted students. But what you don't see in this data, but that I see in the data that I look at, is that for our long-term English learners, 53% of them were scoring force. And so that just really is a testament to how hard our English language learner students and teachers are working to get them redesated before they hit high school because once they

060hit high school, it's so hard for them to redesate. So that population is working so so hard to um reach proficiency there. Then we have a lot of work to do especially in the area of math. Um the I Ready curriculum is off off to a good start already. Looking at our preliminary data from the diagnostic that we've started giving um this year this week. Um we're seeing gaps from about four years ago. Our seventh graders are scoring at about a third grade level which kind of tracks with that being the time of COVID. So, we're going to implement a schoolwide um system of using that I Ready math path during home room to fill those gaps and build that knowledge so that they can relearn or learn for the first time the things that

061they miss during that time and then get them up to speed on grade level. So, we're really hopeful that that um path will fill those holes for them. Okay, thank you. We have our preliminary test science data as well. Again, four achievement levels three and four um being the goal. Set of discrete test questions and then also performance task um taken in grades five and eight in our district. And you can see uh this just lists the grades by site and um their overall score met or exceeded. Okay, thanks. We also have data from our ELPAC assessment. This is measures English language proficiency. It's administered to all grade levels in our district. K8 performance levels change slightly. um really want to get students to moderately developed and then of course well-developed so we can reclassify

062them. Um right now we're taking initial ELPAC assessments. kindergarteners are diligently working to finish their four domain assessment. And then um we have uh throughout the year goals for students who have uh a level four and are able to reclassify with some other district assessments. So we'll be talking about uh those students as soon as the other assessments are getting ready to be administered and hoping to reclassify as many students as possible. And um and then at the end of the year of course we have our summitive summitive assessment. I think the next slide has yeah number of students who scored level three number of students who scored level four overall K8. Um okay again lots of those are the state assessments we take. We have a lot of district assessments as well. teachers do

063an amazing job in their classroom with their formative assessments, um, observational assessments too. All plays into really whole child and what the whole child needs, not just academically, but it could be social, emotionally as well. So, just a glimpse a glimpse into what a great job everyone's doing. >> Questions or comments? >> Okay, finally question. Do all these numbers come from the state? Is that how you get all these is from the state testing? They come and tell you exactly what all these numbers are. >> Yes, they're downloaded and so we're pulling them from state. Um we actually pull them from a database. Again, they're preliminary so it's possible they could be slightly changed. Doesn't happen very often. Once final data comes out, then they'll publish that on our dashboard. That's where we get our

064colors, our grid, how many students are moving over and moving up um by student group. So, of course, administration, administrators, we're looking at the data much more in depth in terms of specific student groups, equity, um, you know, specific areas of need. I had some questions. Um, thank you for the information and welcome to everybody if you haven't heard already. I'm the one that asks a lot of questions. So, um, anyway, so I wanted to say I know that there were gains in different areas. Um, I just I'm going to pick a number that says 40, you know, say 40% are meeting to me. Um, when I look at that and I kind of what jumps out to me is that means 60 kids are not. And so, um, I just don't think we know

065we can know a problem and understand it and solve it until we really know what those root cause causes are. And sometimes those conversations are very uncomfortable. So I have, you know, several questions. What are the three, you know, top three root causes that, and not to be answered right now. I'm just throwing these out there and then you can kind of think about them. What are the top three root causes why scores are going down? What are the top three why the students the 60 are not meeting? Um what are the top three that the students are improving? And then also um have we ever followed them? How many are not meeting both? That's another question. And then I know absenteeism has been cited before, but I know when you pull that out, there's

066still some low scores in some areas. It does make some improvements. So I I and then my concern is that if they leave our district and then they go to the high school like have we ever like really mapped out that trajectory between when they leave the students you know the students that leave at those lower schools of 60 have we ever mapped out their trajectory worked with the high school. though um I'm not like sort of doing some journey mapping where you you take different students and you know this is how they come into the district and then this is their whole educational career this is the different touch points we have them these are the challenges that we see or where they things can go ary and then they move to the high

067school and then we have that conversation with them almost like a real collaborative effort to kind of say what are those different things because to me I know that we have growth but to me it those 60 that aren't meeting. I just it just breaks my heart to know that those kids may move forward out of our district and what is it that we can do for them. >> And so, um, like I said, I know the ones that are meeting, that's great. And the growth that have been made, you know, that's great, too. But I'm more worried I'm not more worried. I'm also worried about the the 60 who are not meeting and what we can do what we can do for them. So that's just sort of my you know general comment but

068those really those root root root causes and really diving into that I think is is huge. So with administrators will start doing that at their academic conferences students by name. Um we have quite a big group in level two achievement and um those are those are the students that teachers spend a lot of time and provide tier 2 instruction um in their areas of need to move them toward a level three. So some could be close um some could be far but um they are broken down by scale scores and and by domain. So, um, teachers are able to look at that in academic conference and set and set set goals for them. Yeah. >> Yeah. We'll start to do that. And again, this is just one assessment. I think one what teachers and administrators

069do too is they look at multiple assessments. So, they look at students that are not meeting standards on ESPback and maybe also not meeting on MAP as well. Those are the students you're more worried about when scores are lower in both areas. Grades are also low. attendance, um things like that. Typically, um those you see that and then you know there are some students that are very close to reaching a three at high level two and maybe they were proficient on math and maybe they're getting good grades and didn't do very well on this one assessment. So it's you have to look at a lot of lot of different factors and I know our >> and I also recognize that I mean tests are test I mean scores are scores we also don't want to

070like just make that the measure right like once that you do that then >> then it is not good either so yes thank you >> I don't want you to think the teachers aren't working diligently to help students gain the skills and the knowledge they need to move you know even if in within a level to move and that is tracked by um by the state as well. Our learner supports MTSS teams. Um if we have students that are struggling in multiple areas um you know they're referred to the MTSS team for support for additional tier 2 strategies could be academic or behavior as well that could could be impeding impeding learning. So multiple factors. >> Any other questions on this topic or comments? >> No. >> Well, no. I'm just trying to decide. I'm

071trying to form my question. I think >> uh I know it's preliminary data. >> So I will be curious to see how we compare with state scores. Um, and I don't know how the state does this if they compare us to districts of similar size and and uh just a similar district. I don't Do you know or are we they just slap us up with everybody else or are we compared to a like district? >> Well, our county actually did a pretty good job with a tool last year for us. They compared they only compared us with other um districts in our county, but they did rate us based on similar similar demographics um >> similar school rankings. And so we were actually >> like number two. I I think I think >> wow was

072higher than a little bit. We might have been like a little more than average. We were higher than average when comparing like districts. Um, we were higher. We were, I think, number two and three. >> We did really well. >> Mhm. Compared to >> I mean, I think context is important. You're looking at percentages. You're looking at groups of different kids. >> Yeah. >> You can't It's hard to compare a Wow. Especially now, it's hard to comp compare a fourth grade >> four years ago to a fourth grade now. Yeah. I guess I'm I'm just a little bit interested in how just like the this the data string of like how this I mean co was a literal black hole of test score data and so but I'm just curious where things were then because

073I wasn't paying attention to that stuff 5 years ago and where kind of where we are now and maybe the I mean the assessment might have changed there's so many things out of our control but I would be interested to put it in bigger context just for my own understanding. Mhm. So, do you want to see these scores compared to where we where scores were at precoid? >> Yeah, I mean, I'll leave that up to your discretion because if the assessment changed a whole bunch, that would be a really difficult that may not even be a good >> I know it did change. They reduced the requirements actually. They shortened the assessment. The assessment was longer. >> Yeah. um precoid >> and so when we got back into taking state assessments it was kind of

074baby steps getting back into it um and I I still don't think it's the same as as precoid no we did we stopped comparing to the assessment pre-COVID because of the changes >> and the and the on demand performance task part of this is different than the scaffolding that's provided in classrooms we're not able to provide any supports during the assessment. So, >> right. Yeah. >> Yeah. And I understand that. Yeah. >> Very different than >> Okay. No. Does that do my questions make sense though? Kind of what I'm asking for. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. Because I'm It's kind It feels vague to me of what I'm asking for, but I think I just want to see it in broader context. >> Yeah. and we'll bring um probably October is when dashboard will be public

075and so that will be more data to bring to you and that's when they give you your rankings of um you know how many students moved and and all of that. They give you your colors. >> Yeah. >> Um the 5x5 grid will give you a really great look at um student group growth student group growth as well. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> U moving on to LCAP goal number two. >> Yes. So, I will give the board a brief update on um where we are at with um getting approval um from the state to determine if the 10 acres that has been kind of outlined or designated for a potential school site in the East View development or the Liberty Ranch development is what it's called now. Um

076it is quite a process to get CDE state approval to have um a location for a school site. We've talked about some of what we have already done. Um we back in October of 2024, there were some areas that were kind of at risk. There was a high volume water pipeline risk analysis that needed to be done. There was a railroad safety study that needed to be done. And then there was the airport that is approximately 2 miles from the site that needed to be assessed as well. Um we did we have reported to the board that Cal Calrans indicated that the site proposed a low risk of accident due to air traffic at the um airport. So that was good. We passed that. And then as well, we also passed the study um indicating

077that there's low probability of derailment of an accident on the rail line that is close to the property and also a low level of risk for flooding from the pipelines. So that's good. We're passing all of those tests. Um on August 8th, we had a CDE representative come out and do an initial school site evaluation. They gave us tenative approval to move forward with the next steps. um in this process which was also a good thing. Um what we have to do next is go through SQA which is the California Environmental Quality Act. Um there's a series of assessments that need to be done and we'll talk more about that as an action item because there is an action item for that. But we still so far we're getting green lights that the pro that

078the property will be okay to house a school one day. Um, but there's still technical studies that need to be done on the air quality, the energy, the emissions analysis, noise and vibration analysis, transportation technical analysis as well. And so, um, we'll talk more about that as an action item, but so far, um, we are getting the green light from the consultants and the state to continue to pursue this as a potential school site. Probably the other part that we're waiting for that we probably won't be able to start till spring of 2026, um, a final step before we can get CDE approval is soil testing. And um we took the developers took us out to the property on a what the Can-Am was that took us out there and when we on the ETH

079um and there is when they told me there was dirt piles I was envisioning just little piles of dirt and I was thinking why can't they move those so we could test the soil. Oh no it's a huge mound that you can only get up with a four-wheel drive and the four-wheel truck didn't even go up it. We had to take this canam. So now I see why they say it's going to take a while for them to excavate that and again they're not anticipating that until spring of 2026 for once they start phase three. Um so and hopefully that will be the case. All those sales home sales are slow. So um they might not get if it continues in this pattern they might not get to phase three by spring. >> Okay. And

080then other reports. >> So, Williams uniform complaint process. Um, no reports uh or no complaints to report. And then we have um a report on OPED. Turn that over to Alejandra. Okay. So um recently the end of last fiscal year we went back even December as we talked about OPIB our um other postemployment benefit plan to eventually we we decided to open one in May and um what this is um basically I'd like to share with the board um that part of our strategy is to begin to deposit funds and like I mentioned in May that I would communicate that with the board Um what we would be depositing from our fund 20 which is a special reserve postemployment benefits fund. There is funds sitting there and we don't want to touch general fund but

081we'd like to make their our first initial deposit of $100,000 from there to our what we would call our trust ops and trying something we're sharing with you guys because I I'd like keep you informed on all all the way and then eventually um once we get the investment statements to share with you so you could see um how the account works. So, it's just some a strategy we've been working together and to share. >> Thank you. >> I'll move on to cast our um cities and schools together. We had a meeting last Monday night. Um thank um Casey Boy for attending that meeting for us. Um we had quite a discussion at least 30 minutes maybe longer about safety with bikes and electric scooters. It is a very big topic right now in our

082city. Um there has been an um at least even just in our district, we've had a couple accidents the last few months um with students on bikes and we talked about um can the police department can they enforce helmets um things like that. Right now they are warning they're stopping students and if see them if they see them and giving them a warning they are not citing students for um not wearing a helmet. Um, our SRO's are going to help us with some bike safety presentations at our school sites. Um, we are also trying to figure out, um, I want to get a pulse kind of some numbers on how many students are actually riding a a bike or scooter to school and how many of those students are not wearing a helmet and surveying

083these students as they're getting off their bike or on their bike and asking them, "Do you have a helmet at home?" is, you know, is this a case that they're just they have a helmet and they're just choosing not to wear it or do they really not have helmets? And so if we find that students just need them, I want to we've already reached out to Walmart and asked them to help donation donations. Um I might reach out to some of the the Lions or the Kowanas Club, even maybe using some student council funds. But if cost or financial, you know, if that's a barrier to why students are not wearing helmets, I want to try to help in that area. Um, I kind of have a feeling, especially at the middle school level, that

084it's probably that they don't want to wear them. Um, but until we really ask the kids and and see, um, we don't know, but we want to help in that in that area. The police department wants to as well. Um, I don't think we have many students really riding bikes or scooters at the elementary. Um, I think those numbers are going to be pretty low, although I think we have a lot at the middle school. Um, Mayor Sean Farmer also shared that he is doing a podcast. Um, maybe he already did it or maybe it's coming up. Um, maybe it was last Wednesday, but he's planning a podcast um, related to bike and scooter safety. And so, I think you'll probably be hearing um, information about this at city council meetings, too. They're trying to

085figure out um you know, are they going to site scooters, you know, for students or for kids that are riding scooters under 16? There's different levels of scooters. I guess if you're at the level three scooter or it's called class three ebikes or scooters, if they're over 750 watts, you should be 16 or older to ride those. And so they're trying to figure out if they can enforce. Um it's just it's really difficult. They don't want to chase down kids on scooters. Um but it's it's a growing concern in the in the community and that there's a lot of even adults out there too riding either the um electric scooters or the bikes um without helmets and so they're hearing it at city council too. Um the high school shared um some areas they're focusing

086on is u PBIS this year, positive behavior intervention and supports. You've heard a lot about that in our district. Um they're also going to provide a training that's um called breaking down the walls that's um geared towards building empathy and safe environments. And they shared that their enrollment is up by 166 students districtwide. And the city shared um they are getting ready pretty soon here we'll be starting they will be starting street construction on Curillion to increase bike lanes and they shared out some information about the developments that growth is slow and um currently right now they're at about approximately 200 residential permits per year that are being pulled and they said that is that's low. they would like that higher and um just they're they're hoping homes are going to we're seeing them go

087up but they're not really selling um at the rate that they thought were they were going to. Um Trusty Rboy, anything else that highlight from our our meeting? >> Um no, I think you covered it really well. Um just you know just the usual um the high school working about the bridge. >> Um you know that's I don't know if that's going to be a community access bridge though and I don't think I don't think students would use that to go to Macaffrey from that neighborhood. Would they? >> No. We um actually saw the bridge. The developers took us over to the bridge. Um it goes right into the back of the Liberty Ranch A area, the garden they have out there. And um Superintendent um Anna Trrenell, she did mention at the meeting that

088the developers, they're having a good working relationship on um figuring out how to secure that area. Um because it is direct access to get right over almost right into that garden from that bridge. It will probably end up being nice for high schoolers that live in that community in that development because it will be very easy access to get over to Liberty Ranch. Um, but it it it doesn't cross over to Macaffrey. >> They wouldn't go they wouldn't take that route and then there isn't a path that goes forward to the street because I'm thinking that Macaffrey is like right across the street if you're from going but you would be going that way. >> Yeah. I don't do you recall I don't think the bridge was that close to the street >> back and

089did the houses behind the school at all. >> Yeah. >> And the bridge runs north and south and and they need to go >> east. Yeah. >> Mhm. Yeah. >> No. And there's no student access on the back side of >> McCaffrey. Do you think that would be an issue one day? >> I don't know. I don't know. >> Students are coming from >> right now. They'd have to go down. >> Is it Currillion? >> They'd have to go down Curillion, which is very close to the main ent or the the entrance to where the homes are right now. The front end of a development. You could go down Curillion and turn on Park Terrace pretty easily if you were a Macaffrey student. >> You could go down Walnut. >> Yeah. But or Lake Park.

090>> Or is it? It's Walnut, right? >> Yeah. Walnut or Lake Park. May you know if I don't know. Do the houses in East View, do they go behind the high school? >> Yes. Yes. And the school the proposed school site is almost in the backyard of the football field >> at Liberty Ranch. It is very close. >> Do they have a proposed start or construction date or is this all just in the planning for for the bridge? The bridge is there. >> Oh, I got to go look at it. >> Yeah, the bridge is there. You need to look at it. >> I haven't seen it >> or noticed it, I guess. >> Yeah, you have to drive back in the development. >> You cannot I don't think you see the bridge for the

091street. Do you? >> Okay. >> But if you're not looking like you would never know, right? >> Yeah. We were on again, we were on a canam going in the dirt. Um but they did take us right to the It's very nice. It's actually looks >> living right >> if you're in that development >> and obviously going to Liberty but the back side of Macaffrey >> as opposed to having to go >> oh yeah >> down Moringo then go down Walnut and then come into the front side of McAffrey it I mean that would be kind of nice logistically There's probably a lot more to it than that, but that would be kind of nice. A short shortcut. >> I could see that being a request if that development really grows out to the,400 homes

092that they project. >> I I could see quite a few students, maybe middle school students, living there that would want easier access to Macaffrey >> or they'll make their own access. >> Make their own. >> Yeah. >> Be hard on them, too. >> Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. >> Did they say why the increase did for the high school district? Did they have a reason for that? >> Well, yes, we gave them a pretty large eighth grade class. >> Oh, okay. >> And they do have an increase in of out of district students coming in. >> I think they said El Grove. The students were coming from >> Ela. Yeah, I think Elkrove Loi. So, they've had an a larger um freshman class and then more um out of district. Okay. So, we will move into our

093school calendars and we have Fair Sight with us. I believe Laura Marquez was going to be online, but I'm not sure if she is. Okay, she is. All right, Principal Marquez. >> Yes, I'm here. Good evening, everybody. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Okay. Next month at FSE, we have two fun events planned. uh kalidansa will be coming back for a second performance. They are a balefocllorico group. They perform traditional Mexican dances and there is an educational component with their performance. They explain to the children a little bit about the Mexican culture and the dances that they're seeing and even um give some brave little fireflies a chance to practice some of the steps in front of everybody. So that's always very enjoyable. And then we also have our first family reading day planned.

094And on family reading day, families are invited to their child's classroom during the first 30 minutes of class to read with their children. So they can bring books from home or borrow books from the classroom and just spend time reading with their children. So we always get a good get a good turnout for that and have several of those family reading days scheduled throughout the year. So that's what's going on at Fairsite in September. >> Thank you. Then we have Greer Elementary Principal McLaren. >> Yes, thank you. September is a bit of a light month for us with the busyiness of August and October that those fall seasons. Uh but I have two new items for you that are purposely chosen for tonight. Uh first and foremost, we had a assembly scheduled for this Friday,

095but with the perspective heat that we have uh on the forecast that we thought it would be prudent to move that to September and hopefully the weather will cooperate with us. Uh seeing as how it is scheduled for 1 to 2:00 in the afternoon on this Friday. Uh not not good for anybody. uh we discussed what could we do instead and we didn't have enough umbrellas to to protect everybody. So we decided to move that to September 19th. So if you folks wanted to make a note of that it is the go green BMX assembly. Uh it is from 1 to 2:00 p.m. uh on that Friday. There uh and we chose an anti-bullying program uh as that is a salient issue not only at elementary but just in our uh society as a whole.

096uh and they build that program based on some really entertaining uh bike tricks for the kiddos. They bring out ramps. They're doing things uh you know in the air that we wonder, right? How how do they even do those things with physics? Uh but all throughout there is a program and a message of anti-bullying through these uh five secrets to success uh that they use in all of their programs, but then they tailor depending on the need of the school about staying drug-free. uh living one's dreams, being motivated, respecting others, and staying in school. And so, we're very much looking forward uh to that program. Uh and I'm also happy to report that a brand new item that we put onto the calendar this morning is uh chiefly speaking to our superintendent and our board's

097concern about bike safety. So, we met with Officer Walters, our SRO, this morning uh and we scheduled the first uh Gul PD uh seminar for bike safety at uh Greer Elementary. And that is happening on Monday, May 8th. Uh we're going to have two sessions. Uh it's going to reach fourth through 6th grades to make sure that we can hit uh the majority of the kiddos that do ride to school. Uh and we have noticed that we do have quite a few kiddos at Greer that do uh just because of where it's situated in the community. it's it's fairly accessible by bike. Um and I have noticed anecdotally the need for helmets for sure. Um and so that's going to be really important for our community. Uh Officer Walters was excited to partner with us

098uh and described what's going to happen at as many schools that will participate it. Uh they're going to be creating a mock traffic scenario out on our blacktop using chalk. Uh patrol officers are going to be there with their bikes as well. Uh they're going to be talking about just general bike safety in our community. Uh the importance of course of wearing helmets, uh traffic law, uh what we were talking a little bit about those ebikes and scooters and the laws concerning that. Uh it's going to have visuals, demonstrations, uh and there may be some cantalopes wearing helmets at one point. So uh stay tuned for that. Uh and so we're really proud at Greer to to be the vanguard on that because it is something we're very passionate about. Uh and also very important

099to our school because we did have a student in a traffic related incident last year that was hugely impactful not only to that student who is still feeling the effects of that but also the family and also the school community and so we wanted to be uh first in that. >> You said May September. >> I did. I just, you know, I liked the month of May and I meant September. Thank you for that correction and I even wrote it as May 8th. I think it was that Monday May 8th, that illiterative quality >> for the cantaloupe. Are you going to have one are you going to drop one with helmet, one without a helmet? >> We are. That was Officer Walter's idea, but it's going to be hugely impactful because our youngest kiddos or

100even oldest kiddos like adults like ourselves, uh it's really those visuals that will make that impact on us. uh kids will hear what we say uh you know we say over and over till we're blue in the face but it's really that visual of what's going to happen to that cantaloupe even from a low distance uh that they're going to see the importance of that helmet >> is the person who got in the bike accident would he be willing to talk to his peers I don't know if that's something to consider but >> it's not something we've explored >> can I sorry can I just interrupt and ask a question before I forget about this um once we sort of survey our students, can we uh make sure that we send a communication out to

101parents just kind of depending on what we find because I think for some of these because I have noticed driving around town like I grew up and if like if you weren't wearing a helmet it was bad news right for you like you were going to get cited you were going to get a ticket it just doesn't seem to be the same and it really does concern me like I've noticed it really severely so depending on what we find we need to communicate with parents and it might just be a simple hey like maybe they don't know it's the law. I mean, that could be too that they just don't know. Um, I wonder and I know this is like extra work, but if I know principles often are out um greeting kids and if

102you are able to ask, you know, talk to them or talk to the parents like, "Hey, did you know it might that might be all it takes for some like families, oh yeah, you know, I I'm got you get busy. You forget about stuff." So, but >> no, no, definitely we will. We were thinking about surveying parents too, asking if they needed a helmet, if their children needed a helmet to kind of get a pulse on how many we might need to get. >> Okay, sorry about that. >> If I add one other thing, so Officer Walters also came up with a really great idea of uh tagging flyers on the bikes themselves. Uh just, you know, with a little masking tape uh with information not only about traffic laws and accessibility. Um, and should

103we be able to partner with some of our local businesses about providing some some helmets, we would be providing them a little coupon of how to redeem that through our offices. It'll really depend on those funding sources and how we do that. Um, but we as a site were discussing, well, if if we're not able to, you know, Officer Walters was talking about some grants that might be uh possible, but if we can't do that in time for this, we were willing to flip the bill for those helmets for those kiddos as well that were interested. Well, and I think the important part is that even if you get them for them that they are wearing them, right? >> Especially at the middle school. >> Yeah. If you need it and are willing to >>

104if you're willing to wear it, right? I don't want to, you know, ask the community and >> get this money and or use district funds and then we find out kids still aren't going to wear them. >> So, that's so want to just really ask um you know, will you wear it if we give you a helmet? We'll see. Okay. Sorry. Continue. No, it's okay. So, uh, Lake Canyon, Principal Lyman. >> All right. Lots of stuff going on in September at Lake Canyon. So, Officer Walters and Sergeant Slater are coming on the 30th um to do the same bike safety. Um, so I won't repeat, but that's happening at Lake at at Lake Canyon on the 30th. Um, and then actually not in September, but this is happening tomorrow, but I need to give it

105a plug. Um, anyone is welcome to stop by tomorrow. motivational speaker Kevin Bracie is coming to um Lake Canyon and if you haven't experienced him, I highly recommend it. He is just so powerful. He's got a lot of charisma and he gets um he gets just out there with the kids and he looks them in the eye and he says, "You're brilliant. I believe in you." And he just really you you walk away from those assemblies feeling empowered. Um so he's coming tomorrow. Um the other thing that um is happening in September is we following in the tradition of um Judy Hayes with the after school clubs um that Lake Canyon is known for. Um we're going to get those rolling in September. Um our you know some of the usual usual ones are chess

106club, Warrior Cats Book Club. Um the the new one we're partnering with um it's um oh Young Rembrandt the art it's a Young Rembrandt art uh program and they provide um it's kind of a one-stop shop. They come and do all kinds of great art uh with the students and that's going to be one of the after school clubs. >> Great. Thank you. >> Um 1:45. >> All right. All right. So, we have Moringo Ranch principal Salad. >> So, in September, um we started right away to get sixth graders off to science camp. So, September uh 2nd through September 5th, they are very excited. We're boosting that, getting more kids, you know, going. Um you know, just promoting with families. You know, people are nervous. Kids are nervous at times, and we just want to

107maximize that. It's such a wonderful opportunity, something they'll never forget. So, we're we're we're increasing the numbers right now. We started our cookie dough fundraiser. A lot of families already started. Um it's going into September and it's just great to see um how much interest people have in making a difference at Morango so we can do all the fun activities. Um also we love bike safety at Morango and on the 24th is when we're doing our bike safety. Um in the morning um there's not much to add other than to say um Officer Walters there's some discussion. The police department is going to put together some flyers for the schools um not just for the bikes but to get so we can get them uh to parents um about this event. It's really going to

108help too with talking points for families kind of like was mentioned um by board members just to just to promote with them and check in and say, "Oh yeah, I saw you without a helmet. Wow, we just had a presentation. Let's promote this and help each other." So um that's great. And we also have our Friday sing on September 26th. So just a tradition at Moringo. So we're excited. That's in the morning on um the 26th. >> Thank you. So, we have McCaffrey, principal grooms. >> Hi. So, starting out September, we have our first bulldog Senate meeting. And this is really important to me um because I think at the middle school level, student voice and choice is super important. So, this is where our home room elects a couple of students to serve as

109representatives. And that's where we as an administration get team get to hear from the students about what they like, what they'd like to see changed, and how we can make their experience at high school or at middle school better. Sorry, come from a high school, so I'm still adjusting. Um, we also have our first parent lunch day in September, followed by our first dance on September 19th. So, that one's going to be a very, very, very busy day. And we also are doing bike safety, but at middle school, we didn't think an assembly would get it through to them, so we're doing it in small groups, small class sizes, a little bit more serious. Thank you, River Oaks, Principal Wheeler. All right, so I got lucky because BMX is coming in the morning at River

110Oaks. We didn't have to cancel due to the heat. >> Sorry, Adam. Oh, we are stoked to watch these bikes go off these ramps. >> You're going to warm them up. >> We're warm. I am. Yep. They're coming your way. So, they're coming out on Friday and the kids are very excited. Again, it's similar to what you already shared, but it's a very cool assembly. Valley Oaks had it. Um, and I wanted to bring it over to River Oaks as well in September. Uh, we also have bike safety. It's a trend here in G. We are wanting our bike bikers to be safe. Um, but on the 19th is our color run. So, it's similar to a jogathon, but it's a color run and that is taking place in the afternoon. We had to coordinate

111times away from um recesses and such because we have no field to run in right now because we are getting a new one, which is exciting. So, we are starting that and that starts at 12:30 on the 19th. So, please come out and join us. The kids do get colored in a lot of paint. It's fun. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Valley Oaks, Principal Nelson. >> On uh September 8th and 9th, we have what's called Safe School Ambassadors training where students who are in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade are trained over two full days um by uh the Safe School Ambassadors group. Uh trainers come out and they work with these students who then um work uh on the playground and with friend groups and and h how to be um an ambassador for

112a safe school. Not necessarily the tattletail, not the snitch, but the one who helps situations before they uh become big. um words, key words to say, phrases to say, things to do so that uh social situations um don't become something worse. And we've had it for a number of years. It's uh headed by our our school counselor uh Hector Reyes and um the kids really look forward to it. We have many repeat ambassadors and uh we're really looking forward to it. We we believe there's hard to make a a onetoone correlation, but we believe that that along with many of the other things that we do has had a a very positive impact on uh student behaviors uh at the school over time. And so we're going to continue it. So we're looking forward to

113that on the 8th and 9th. On Thursday, uh September 4th, um we have plans to have our our family science night, which is always a fun night. Um, did I say the wrong date? >> Yes. >> September 11th. Did I say >> back to being your assistant? >> Sorry. Thank you, Leah. >> Gota watch. >> Leah will always be there to help correct me. Um, on the on the science night, we're uh looking at bringing in Mad Science. Um, and they do some crazy fun things. Uh, hands-on activities as well as demonstrations. Um, we do the family science night every year. mix it up a little bit and uh kids love it. So, uh another family event that that that we're looking forward to continuing uh this year and in in September. >> All right.

114Thank you. Lots going on. >> Okay. >> Uh consent calendar. >> Um I just would like to highlight a couple of retirees. Um we have two employees of course Judy Hayes. this um 12 years uh as principal. We appreciate her years of service and wish her the best in retirement. And then we have Deanna Sanders after 19 years in the district. Um she's worked many different positions um and she's most recently retiring as a fiscal analyst in the business department. So um we wish both of them the best as they move into retirement. Sorry, give me a second here to get sorted. Okay, moving to 242.623 board consideration of approval to add John Lyman to the 2526 expulsion. >> Did I skip too far? What did I do? >> Consent calendar. >> Oh my gosh,

115we didn't even vote on that. I'm sorry. Okay. Can I get a motion? >> I'll make the motion to approve. Thank you. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. I have a motion from Annette Kunzie to approve item number 242621, the consent calendar. Seconded by Casey Rao, Katherine Harper, >> I. >> Matthew Ward, >> I. >> Wesley Kaggel, >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. >> All right. And then I wanted to just propose if it was okay with the board. Um we normally don't do this, but I know our principles have had many late nights the last couple of weeks, especially starting school and especially with back to school nights. Um if it would be okay if we excuse them for the evening before we really get into our action items. And I

116know we have a back to school night tomorrow night. We had them yesterday and we've we've just we've had a lot. So if if you're okay with that, >> I'm with it. I get it. >> Dave. Yeah, I was trying to I was trying to speed things along there anyway. >> I know >> it'll probably go pretty quick, but I I know beginning of the year um a lot of extra hours right now and so go ahead and scaddle home. >> Yeah, that's fine. Good night. >> I get it. Good night. >> Bye. >> Thank you. >> All right. So, now we're moving on to 242.623. >> That's right. Yep. Can I do that? Okay. Can I get a motion? >> I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Have a motion from Matthew

117Ward to approve item number 242623. Seconded by Wesley Kaggel. Katherine Harper. >> I. >> Casey Ra boy. >> I. >> Annette Kunzie. >> I you. The motion carries unanimously. 242.624. Board consideration of approval of the county office of ed Sanwin County Office of Eding services agreement. Yeah, thank you. So, we are bringing thisou for board approval. Our district works with the Sanwaqin County Office of Education and their special education information system. This uh platform allows us to have a um web-based uh database for our students that are on an IEP. But additionally um the thisou covers our ability to be able to bill for um services that are provided through the IEP that can be reimbursed through medical. And so they serve as our vendor for the um records that then are submitted to DHCS

118for reimbursement. So um we've been doing this for many many many many years. This is the first time we're actually bringing theou to the board for full transparency and um so that that we can show all of the um operational procedures that are put into place for safe uh transfer of student information. What is additional this year is the fee schedule. It's the multi-payer fee schedule that is going to be that is going to be implemented. And since we have worked with Samwoken safe for gosh, I don't know maybe 20 years, we're very confident in their ability to to have secure safe data transfer um uh systems and portals. And so we are asking for board approval for thisou. >> Can I get a motion to approve? I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >>

119Thank you. Have a motion from Matthew Ward to approve item number 242624 seconded by Casey Rabo. Katherine Harper >> I. >> Annette Kunzie >> I. >> Wesley Kaggel >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. 242.625. Consideration of approval of PBK architects uh for Fair Sight Elementary the Early Learning Center. new TK classroom building. >> All right. So, this is a proposal to plan for a new classroom building for TK at Fairite Elementary. Um, we first would need to contract with an architect for these services. It would be removing three portable classrooms, modern uh modernization of two current student bathrooms, redesign the parking area for better traffic flow, and increased parking. And then also to design a 5,400 square ft building that would contain four classrooms, um shared restrooms for adults and students, and

120a shared teacher workspace. And so PBK is one of our architects in our pool. We have a total of three. Um their proposal is attached for you. Their scope of services um is there as well. We would be using general obligation bond funds measure H and it is approximately $663,000 for the architectural fees. And they have an estimate that the scope of work um would be about $9.3 million. Um, of course we'd have to wait to see when you go out to bid and and that to see what the cost really would come to for a general contractor, but it is quite a big project. >> Yeah. >> Can I get a motion? >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> I'm sorry, who seconded? Annette. >> Oh, Annette. Thank you. I have a

121motion from Matthew Ward to approve item number seconded by Annette Kunzie. Katherine Harper I. Casey Ra boy >> I. >> Wesley Kaggel >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. 242.626 board consideration of approval of PBK to do an HVAC replacement at Macaffrey Middle School. Yes. So our HVACs and Macaffrey have reached their live capacity. So um recently um one of the things we we continue to see is a lot of issues with the HVAC um we also realized not only because the end of their service life is it also requires significant repairs and it no longer complies with energy efficiency because it's been very long time. Um, so what we would like to do, um, the district applied for a SMUD rebate last year and, um, they we got we got it. They

122were giving us about 245,000 to replace 39 units. So the building units in Macaffrey um the whole buying the units itself about 357,000. So that would mean the district would pay 111,000 um out out of pocket which that is a savings compared to what we spend in the summer to just replace a few units. It it is a huge savings. Um and we will be using our like our maintenance um deferred maintenance fund to pay for the 111. But the one thing that we identified that the new the new units require architectural oversight and this requires um us hiring a architect team like PBK to be able to prepare documentations for DSA. And um what this looks like for D for our architect team, it would be about 233,000 that we would use measure H

123funds to pay for that. Um, but we would pay a portion of it out of our maintenance funds and then a portion of it being rebate back to us from SMUD. So, we're trying to optimize our funds and be able to provide new updated units for our school. >> Can I get a motion to approve? >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second it. >> Thank you. You have a motion from Casey Raoy to approve item number 242626 seconded by Wesley Kaggel. Katherine Harper I. Annette Kunzie >> I. >> Matthew Ward >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously 242.627 board consideration approval of PBK exterior walk-in cold storage units at River Oaks Greer and Fair Site. >> Yeah. So, this is another project we'd like to be working on. Um, so what we

124noticed recently, um, especially during an audit last year, um, they identified there's surplus funds and fund 13 that we'd have we have to spend by a certain day. Um, Nick did an observation of what priorities our food nutrition department needs, and one of the things they identified was expanding capacity for storing our fresh um, produce and our USDA frozen commodities. The current milk boxes are being used and it's insufficient to meet storage demands. Um, specifically Greer and River require require the expansion to be able to put their frozen proteins or brown boxes. So, what we identified a need is ex expanding our walk-in cold storage for three of our sites and be able to use fund 13 which is a specific food service food services fund to cover the expense of this. Um we had

125a walk walk through um to identify where it would be and our architect team PBK would be helping us through this project because it has to go through DSA. There's department of health involved in through the whole process as well >> questions. I'll make the motion to approve 242.627. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Have a motion from Katherine Harper to approve item number 242627. Seconded by Matthew Ward. Casey Rabo >> I. >> Annette Kunzie >> I. >> Wesley Kaggel. >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. >> 242.628 board consideration of approval of resolution number one of the district in support of applications for eligibility determination and funding in the school facility program when bond authority is exhausted. >> Yes. Thank you. The Office of Public School Construction acknowledged January of 2025 that

126Prop 2, the modernization bond authority has been exhausted. And so when that happens and a district wants to continue to try to apply for re kind of a rebate or refunds for modernization, you have to adopt a resolution basically stating that you understand that you're getting on a list um that and you might not be funded. They want to make sure you understand that if you go forward with your modernization projects, you have the complete district funds to cover it because they cannot guarantee there's any money that will come from the state. And so you end up when the bond when the the funds are exhausted, you end up on a list that's called applications received beyond bond authority list known as acknowledged. So they will acknowledge our application. Um the application we're submitting is

127for the current Valley Oaks modernization project. Um we have thankfully over the last I would say five, six, seven years we have received about $10 million in modernization funds um from the state by submitting these applications. Um so there is a chance we could get some get some relief. Um but as of now they are saying that um the money is accounted for. >> I don't have um any concerns with the resolution but I wanted to give some additional background because when I saw this Prop 2 >> um and I said oh it was up to10 billion and I was already gone in January. So I started to do some research and found some interesting things. Um and so it sounds like and and feel free to correct me um if you talk to the

128consultant. >> So it sounds like 3 to four billion of that was based on Prop 51 projects that were not funded approximately. So then what happens is they they do an additional issuance and then you get on a list. So when I was looking at the list, so I got the list of um all the people who have been approved and it looks like a lot of the larger districts and the bond I mean the proposition is first come first served. So what happens is looking at the districts that have received it, a very large portion goes to like LA Unified because they're probably in a position to have all the paperwork ready in order to be able to go. So, I just thought that was an interesting observation that when it's first come first

129serve like that naturally the larger districts with the most resources and and they have a lot of um you know >> students as well but like they ended up and these are rough numbers like I just you know added it on a calculator but they're about of student body in California about you know 9% uh LA school district for all school districts but they ended up getting like 14% of the funds here. So, there was a spattering among California, which was my, you know, that was nice to see like I wanted to see that at least other schools were getting some stuff, but I don't know if there's anything we can do to be on that front end if there's another bond that comes through. I mean, another proposition. Don't know if that's going to

130happen or not, but just what can we do to be ready in order to be able to jump on that, especially if it's first come, first served. I don't know if there's any prep work and maybe the consultant would know that, but like I said, naturally the larger districts have the resources. Sacramento, San Diego, Los Angeles. Yeah. And to jump on this one, we did not have the modernization project in place yet because before you can apply to get on these list, you have to have all your contracts approved by the board. Um, and we just started this last modernization project. When was that? that was approved maybe 3 4 months ago. We started that. We started it right when did we start? April. We started in about April. So, we weren't even eligible yet

131to apply. So, um but we've we have been very successful um over the last few years. Again, I think over $10 million I've shared some in some reports that we have received because we have been on the list right away and and and gotten some money. um don't know if we're going to get any of this, but um we have we have been able to get some. Can I get a motion to approve? >> I'll make the motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. I have a motion from Annette Kunzie to approve item number 242628, seconded by Matthew Ward, Katherine Harper. I >> Casey Rabo boy >> I >> Wesley Kaggel >> I >> thank you. The motion carries unanimously. >> Item 242.629 board consideration of approval of agricultural career technical education incentive

132grant application. So recently in the last fiscal year um we we've been establishing a well-rounded ACT program. Um once you have an established program then there's grants that we could apply for. Um so our our former um ACT teacher before she she left I know um started the process on this to be able to qualify. She had all the documentation and what we we did together is um apply for the grant and identify areas and how much we can get. This grant um is 12,910. It provides a dis it requires a district match which we do have a built into our LCAP that we'll that we able to meet that 12,910. Um it can't be used for salaries. It's used for equipment, conferences, um supplies for the program as it continues to expand and we

133know it it will it's I've seen it firsthand going to the campus. It's incredible. So being able to get these grants um would be it's going to be great for the program and it requires the C CD requires to bring it to the board for approval as we apply for it every year. So hopefully it's a routine item and we get the grant. If you haven't been out to see the egg program at Macaffrey, it's really cool, very impressive, great opportunity. So um I'll make the motion to approve 242.629. I'll second. >> Thank you. I have a motion from Katherine Harper to approve item number 242-629 seconded by Matthew Ward. Casey Ra Boy >> I. >> Annette Kunzie >> I. >> Wesley Kaggel >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. >> 242.630 630

134board consideration of approval of place works proposal following the SQA guidelines for a potential school site in the East View specific plan. Right. Thank you. So we mentioned this in the report on this item. Um districts um would need to contract with specialists to complete the studies the SQA studies. Um we've listed the studies and we did speak to some of those at the report. Um place works has been recommended. um they are kind of the experts in this area to perform perform this work. Um their proposal is attached. Um it would take them approximately 5 months to complete the studies and the reports and also get community feedback and input. Um they the fee is a little over $76,000 for this work. We would use developer fees that we have specifically collected um for

135this development to fund this. >> Can I get a motion to approve it? >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Have a motion from Wesley Kaggel to approve item number 242630. Seconded by Annette Kunzie. Katherine Harper. >> I. >> Casey Rabo. >> Hi. >> Matthew Ward. I >> thank you. The motion carries unanimously. >> 242.631 board consideration of approval to increase adult school lunch prices. Um so this is a routine item. Um we'll bring it into bring it to you guys every year. What we do is review our CD requirements and costs. um how much they give us per meal and they have us they have a calculation for us at minimum what we need to charge for adult meals to be in compliance and to meet our audit reviews. So

136in that calculation that CD provides um our current meal price is $625 for the new fiscal year will be for $6.60 and for breakfast it's $4.25 25 and it'll be $4.70 for this new fiscal year. >> I'll make the motion to approve 242.631. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. I have a motion from Katherine Harper to approve item number seconded by Casey Rabo. Annette Kunzie. >> I. >> Matthew Ward. >> I. >> Wesley Kaggel. >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. Agenda item 242.632, board consideration to nominate CSVA directors at large, African-American, American Indian, and county. So, this is an item that we bring to the board annually. Uh, you don't have to take action on this. If um you do not wish to nominate um a director at large to represent these

137groups um we have until they taking applications until October 2nd. So is something that if you want to consider we can bring it back to you in September as well if you might know somebody that you want to elect or recommend for this position. anything who So, we're not going to vote on this cuz >> if >> unless there would be a nomination, it doesn't look like there is. So, >> okay. >> Um, if anyone did want to nominate, I guess we'll just put it back on the agenda. >> Yes. Just let me know if you come up. If you give a nomination, we'll bring it to the September board meeting. >> Okay. Agenda item 242.633, 633 board consideration of approval of resolution number two recognizing September as National Suicide Awareness Month. Yes, this came

138up at a CAST meeting um a while a few months back um encouraging the city and both school districts to consider um a resolution recognizing um September as awareness month. Um what we wanted to do with this was just highlight what we currently have in place to promote safety and student well-being. We already have a lot in place and we already have board policy um related to um what we should do for students. Um we have annual staff training through public school work suicide prevention and response training. We have resources for staff. Um, we have posters displayed in the school offices or other locations. We have counselors, we have social workers, mental health clinicians that provide risk assessment services. We provide resources on our district website. Um, counseling. We establish and maintain positive school cultures

139and climate. That is our goal. Um, we teach social social emotional curriculum second step at all of our schools. And we are required and we follow this. We print the national suicide hotline number on the back of the middle school students identif identification cards that's required starting in seventh grade. Um and we um just are committed still going on ongoing commitment to supporting mental health and student safety and well-being and continue to train our staff to look for look for signs and and provide resources and support to students and families as needed. >> Anything additional on that? >> I'll just say I read through it and I 100% support it and I love it. The one thing I'm going to just emphasize is in the multiple times it mentions age appropriateness and so I know

140that's something I spoke with you about and so that's just something I just want to highlight is age obviously it's a heavy emotionally charged subject and so I just want to highlight that. >> Yeah. Thank you. I had some comments too. Um and I know Katherine and Casey are the professionals in the room that have a lot of more experience probably than I do. So I'm just going to kind of talk from my gut. But um I'm glad we highlighted what we do. I'm normally not a fan of months because I think they're tend to be performative and not necessarily substantive. So, I was glad that you highlighted some of the substantive things, but I also wanted to make sure that we're sort of keeping in mind the balance. Um I know that it says

141suicide is a leading cause for children of death for children. However, um that makes sense because they're not because the thankfully they're not dying of other things that older people are like stroke, heart disease, and things like that. So, it is one of the reasons that individuals um children are potentially dying. It's about uh 0.005%. So, I just want to be really careful about how much that we uber focus on it too much because then you run the risk of perhaps um having that I call it the meline effect or the contagious where people start to think there should be something wrong with me when all the people around me are getting the attention because there's something wrong. They say that there's something wrong with them. So, I just want to be really careful about

142that. Um I also think that the message should be joy and despite the things you know we all have struggles we all have things that some days we just don't even want to go out go out of the house but we figure out how can we despite those challenges that we face continue to um succeed and move on and you know a lot of times those things will pass. So, I just want to be really careful that we're not wallowing and having students I mean obviously there's really you know uh real needs for mental health assistance but I just want to be really careful that we're not focusing too much on it that it's creating another whole issue. Um and then the one the probably the biggest thing that I h issue I had with

143this is you know there's um probably three to four remedies that are free and that are given to us that we can actually uh reduce tremendously a lot of the mental health and that's you know physical exercise eating healthy I mean we as a United States eat a tremendously toxic diet um and that can just cause mental health issues as you know, mental wellness issues, um a lack of, you know, a spiritual practice, you know, that whatever that is for for people, those have shown tremendous benefits. And then service and purpose. And so, you know, to me, those should be like step one, some combination of those for people. And then we start going into, okay, those don't work. Now, what do we need to do for people? So I don't know if there's a

144way to somehow acknowledge those elements into this resolution if we can add a sentence that you know significant benefits have been sh I mean it's it's undeniable and it's it's demonstrated supported that those things can significantly impact in a positive way mental health and mental wellness and again I'm just really concerned about going you know if we start to recognize months are we going to start will we have to start recognizing other months you know, this month, that month, there's, you know, every day something pops up on my calendar, it's National Flamingo Day. So, I mean, I just want to be really careful that that's then now not becoming a distraction either. So, um, from our academics and all of that. So again, that's I don't know what you want to do with that, but

145I just wanted to share that because I really think that, you know, if we focus more on what we can do um with regards to, you know, mental health and wellness, just the the natural things that we've been given as as a human being. turn this over to president to >> um I mean I uh yeah I mean I would hate to to not vote on it now just because we are you know we wouldn't see it again until September's almost over. Um I your comments are you know definitely valid and I mean the way I see this is this is this is an acknowledgement and I and that's pretty much what it is and my understanding is that everything listed here has already been in place for a long time. Um and we do

146such a great job of supporting students in this district. You know, and I I think when we think about suicide prevention, it's really like a Hail Mary at the last minute trying to convince someone not to make a decision that has etern like consequences forever for them and their family. Um, but that's not I don't I mean that's not really what this is. This is these steps are here to prevent that and so you know prevent people from even kids from even getting to that point hopefully. And so I I I would like to vote on it the way it is and just, you know, if we want to modify it for next year, you know, maybe we can do that. But, um, I'm pretty satisfied with it. So, with that being said, um, I'll

147make a motion to approve 242.633. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Have a motion from Katherine Harper to approve item number 242633 seconded by Matthew Ward. Casey Rabo >> I. >> Annette Kunzie >> for the reasons I expressed before. No. >> Wesley Kaggel >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries 41. Um item 242.634 634 board consideration of um district public notice sunshine statement to the GFA regarding article one and two. >> Yes. So a public hearing was held at the June 18th board meeting and um now this is up for um an action a roll call that we would like to negotiate hours and work year um with our teachers union. >> Can I get a motion to approve 242.6 634. >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. I have

148a motion from Wesley Kaggel to approve item number 242634. Seconded by Casey Rabo. Katherine Harper. >> I. >> Annette Kunzie. >> I. >> Matthew Ward. >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. >> Agenda item 242.635. Um, notice to Sunshine for CESA. Um this isformational only all of these articles. >> Yes. So it is an opener year meaning our contract is open every 3 years with our classified union. And so there's no limit on how many articles they can suggest for negotiations. And so um this is the list of articles that they would like to negotiate with the district this year. Okay. 242.636 636 board consideration of approval of provisional internship permits for newly hired educators. >> Did I skip? >> So, this is also a routine board item and uh your mic. >>

149Oh gosh, I'm sorry. Is it on? Okay, I'll get better. Okay. uh routine board item that we're bringing to you. We have one uh teacher who is on a permit while working on requirements to um get an intern program credential. So, we're looking for approval. >> Can I get a motion to approve? >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Have a motion from Matthew Ward to approve item number 242636 seconded by Casey Ra boy. Katherine Harper >> I. >> Annette Kunzie >> I. >> Wesley Kaggel >> I. >> Thank you. The motion carries unanimously. 242.637 first reading of a lot of policies. Yes, we have a lot of policies for you this month. This is a first reading, so no action required. This is an opportunity um just to give you

150a brief summary of some of the changes or the highlights and then an opportunity for you to ask questions and we'll bring it back to you for action next month. Um I will go ahead and start with the first um policy non-discrimination and district um programs and activities. Um not a whole lot has changed here. Um, district programs, activities, and practices shall be free from unlawful discrimination against an individual or group based on one or a combination of two or more protected characteristics. And I'm not going to read all of the protected characteristics, but there is quite a list um, paragraph three um, of what is defined as a protected characteristic. They also added that um district programs and activities shall be free of racially um derogatory or discriminatory school or athletic team names, mascots

151or nicknames. And they added a list of Native American terms that would fit this criteria and they are are not allowed. Um, moving on to charter school authorization. Um, on page three of this policy, what they added was, um, a section on material revisions to a charter. And basically, this just outlines when a board may deny a proposed material revision of a charter. This section, this last section in this policy is new and it outlines when you can deny. There's also an administrative regulation. Um, very minor changes to this AR for school, uh, charter school. Um, they've added that long-term English learners are a significant subgroup and they they've also added requirements for school safety plans for charter schools. um they have to have in their plan adaptations for students with disabilities. That is new.

152And then moving on to a policy related to artificial intelligence. This is a new policy. Um and CSBA is just providing principles for using AI. We can add to these principles. we can delete. Um but these are just their recommendations related to student and staff um centered use, ethical use and transparency, accountability, equity and access, secure and privacy. Um professional development related to AI, community engagement and continuous improvement are their principles that they recommend. Again, we do not have this policy right now. And I think we're moving on to Fulg. All right. So the first one is the comprehensive uh safety plans and we bring these to the board in February. And so both the board policy and regulation was updated to um to uh note that there are high expectations for staff as well

153as students and also language was added to make sure there's training that is provided on the plans. The uh regulations were also updated to to include language around instructional continuity plans and these are um plans that need to be in place in the event the uh school site or district has to close for an emergency. Um, additionally, there were uh requirements to include responses for cardiac arrest and we already have those in our plans um already. Um, other areas of the new law that were not relevant to our districts or not included are um procedures in place if you are designated a high fire risk area and we are not. um certain things that have to be in the safety plan if you fall within that uh categorization. And additionally, we do not conduct active

154shooter drills. And so if there are districts that do conduct these, there are certain procedures that have to be put into place. The second policy is the uh board policy on regulations on uh district and site websites. This is just a minor edit to the board policy and regulations language was added that references the governing board recognizes the importance of communication and it being accessible on the website very minor. The third policy in my department was the uniform compliant procedures. These uh this bo board policy regulations and exhibits were updated to um to include the prohibit prohibit prohibition of discrimination um not just because of one protected class but also to include a combination of two or more protected class uh classes and that is listed in the board policy. Um it also uh was

155updated to um include complaints alleging from discrimination in adoption, approval and use of textbooks and that these can be brought through the the UCP process. Um, as Lois mentioned, um, it is also included in, uh, the UCP process, any complaints related to school or district names or mascots or nicknames. And additionally, uh, there was some language around any uh, complaints related to sexual harassment um, are to be addressed through title N procedures. So, Alejandra, >> the business department. >> Okay. So, we're going to be doing equipment first. Um, some updates on the equipment. Um, they updated the formality of the form. I just made some quick changes to um district ID number. That's how we identify our um that's how we identify our our technology or furniture that cost a certain amount. Um and then

156just added within se 60 days um they'll pay in case something happens to the equipment. That was the largest change for that section. The next section is number eight. Um transportation for school related trips. Um the reason we're updating this one because of our school insurance organization um forms and requirements for insurance u our forms state 100,000 per person and 300,000 per incident in the private vehicles when we have parents transport students from one school to another for it's like a volleyball or soccer um we want to ensure that they have the minimum requirement insurance that our school organization requires. So we were just updating that. Um the next one is bus drivers. So just some some major changes for the school bus driver. Um which we have we have been doing is our student

157transportation. They the qualifications we we already meet all of this with CHP inspection and requirements. It's more of the formality and updates on it. Um that was the main thing for the school bus drivers. It changes um adding to the school bus driver. One of the things that was required because we have a uh what we call white fleet a regular vehicle transporting our student. It requires now a specific language employee drug testing. And in that it means that in order for them to be in the testing group, we have to have a board policy so they could even be part of the rotation. We had them review the board policy if it meets compliance and they they they agreed and they would add us to their testing schedule for our all our drivers that

158um drive a white fleet which is a vehicle or um and we we usually use it for transporting students to Oakrove or if needed to loai. We just want to make sure they're meeting the compliance as our bus drivers. >> I think that was it. >> Drug testing. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, I will move on to non-discrimination in employment which is very similar to the first board policy non-discrimination and district programs. In paragraph two, they've extended the list of protected characteristics. And they also added that it is unlawful for a district to advertise or post a job that requires an applicant to have a driver's license unless the district reasonably expects driving to be one of the job functions for the position. Um there is an AR for this as well and this AR

159really reflects the vacated nationwide Title 9 regulations um as of August 2024 and that the Office of Civil Rights will enforce Title 9 based on regulations as they existed prior to August 2024. Um number 12, lactation accommodation. Very minor here. They have just added a time frame um for how long an employer or the district should provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate um the lactation. Now for at least one year after the birth of a child, we need to provide these accommodations. And moving on to um employee notifications. There's no changes to the policy, but they did there's exhibits that have been updated um to identify some of the many employee notifications that we required whether it's pushing it out um to employees electronically or posting them on our website. Um we

160are recommending to take out a couple that are not related to us. um uh about year round school and then alternative schedules for secondary grades that's related to high school. Um we've reviewed the rest of these and um we we pretty much already do these in one for one way or the other. And then um number 14 is rel is a policy related to sexual harassment. Um they've really just added some exhibits. They added number three. Um they publicized um specified exhibits related to Title 9 sexual harassment complaint procedures and that were required notifications related to Title 9 to employees. So the exhibits attached are are what we use to notify employees about the sexual harassment complaint process and what sexual harassment is. So there's quite a few ARs there for each employee group. Um,

161and also with the ARS, they added some they updated some of the basic requirements when implementing Title N grievance procedures on how the district has to respond to complaints, sexual harassment complaints. And then I I think that is moving on to educational services. Cool. Jeet has the last few. >> All right. So, um, let's see. Number 16 is release of directory information. So there was edits to the uh policy and regulations around requiring districts that receive the elementary and secondary education act funds to provide directory information to military recruiters upon request unless the parent or 18-year-old request information not to be released. So that was um updated policy otherwise that that was the only update to that policy number 17 the use of seclusion and restraint restraint this uh polic uh I'm sorry this administrative

162regulation was updated to include ED code 49005.8 8 which prohibits the use of prone restraints and prone containment. Next we have um number 18 is parent and guardian notifications. No changes to the board policy uh regulations. There was um an addition to requiring a notice on the dangers of synthetic drug use and the risk of social media being used to market the drugs. This is a beginning of the year notification. That was a uh an additional requirement. All right. So, number 19 is board policy and administrative regulations, sexual harassment. There were um minor updates to the policy and uh the additional language that added that the district does not discriminate on the basis of sex in its programs and complies with title 9. There were some additional actions that would be protected under retaliation behavior.

163Uh requirements for new training for an additional requirement was training for staff related to Title 9 and sexual harassment. the regulations. Um the definition of sexual harassment um does uh outline what uh what is prohibited discrimination based on one protected class but also contains a protect a combination of protected classes which we've talked about before. And um the uh the language in the regulation is around providing um uh information about who the compliance officer is, the notifications that we provide for students and families and the complaint procedures. All right. And the last oops, sorry. All right. So number 20 is the title 9 sexual harassment complaint procedures. This is um the the language has been added around the complaints that would have been filed for an incident that occurred between August 1st, 2024 and January

1649th, 2025. um to uh to advise districts to seek legal counsel on which pol which title N regulations should be applied if there's an incident during that time frame. Um the uh additional items is the same language we've had in our title N uh uh policies before around reporting allegations, filing a complaint, supportive measures. when a complaint is dismissed, the resolution process and the written notices and investigation procedures. So, there was no changes there. Um, and the exhibit was updated with uh my contact information as the title N coordinator for the district. >> All right. I'm sorry, there are a few more. >> I was going to say I think there's no more. >> So, yes. So um the board policy related to reading and language arts instruction. This is really to reflect the new

165screener for risk of reading difficulties which we have shared with the board and I believe we gave a presentation on that and we are going to be using multitudes and that will be starting when do we have to give that by? >> Um we're waiting until um after about the eighth week of school. >> Okay. and longer for Kinder. So, we're working with the company now. We have we have everything ready to go. We're waiting for a professional development opportunity. >> Okay. All right. And then there's athletic competition. Um we're just recommending taking out the language related to CIF because we are not a high school. We don't have the competitive competitive sports. Um again some more language on sportsmanship but it is related to um code of conduct following CIF. Um not a whole

166lot of changes there. And then I believe Cool Jeet has one more. I do have one more. Okay. So the last one is the behavioral interventions for special education students. So the regulation is being updated. Um the language is being updated to indicate student and parent and guardian instead of his or her. Additional language uh as I mentioned previously prohibiting prone restraints and language on data collection requirements and reporting restraints and seclusion uh which is reported to CD already CDE already but being accessible for um district as well. How to uh push that information out. All right. And this is the last one. So they've updated disclosure of confidential privileged information. Um they did add some new requirements um or additional information on what is confidential information um for board and especially related to um

167confidential information discussed in close session and consequences for breaching confidentiality. Any questions or comments followup to prepare this for our our next meeting? >> I got a couple of things. Um couple number one, the the 8US will be here in September. >> Start teaming. Remember the AU also? Oh, yes. Yes. >> Yeah. Yeah. They're going to come in September. They're doing very well right now. Their bracket play starts tomorrow and they're like a number one seed. >> That's awesome. >> That update. So, well, hopefully it goes really well. Now, um the other thing is uh the floor at Greer looks awesome. If you haven't got a chance to see it, >> yes, >> whoever did that, great job. >> Um couple things, uh I'd like to know about though, can we get an update like

168on the bond >> as in what that committee has decided are the important things >> because I saw that we're we >> um voted on a couple of things on Yes. about the board funds. >> Yep, we can do that. if we'd like to get a update on that. >> The other one I don't know, did I miss a email or something about like the PTA PTO's >> because what that whole thing caught me off figured it out real quick what was going on. >> Yeah, it was brought it was brought to my attention today >> that um I will we didn't rule it out. will I I agree but we we started to we're trying to well we have to we have to put some more systems in place um to prevent fraud fraud

169and um increase security um SIA's reached out there's some information insurance information they want us to collect from these organizations that are coming on our campus um but looking back we should have pulled them together um as a group and discussed some of these changes before just pushing it out. It's a lot. And so, um, we did meet today. I met with the business team and we went through the application. Um, I had not seen the application before it went out to the parent groups. And so, um, one of the parents reached out to me today from Morango um, and asked me to review it and if she can meet with me about some of the requirements. And so, I started looking into it and said, "Okay, yeah, this is this is too much for

170our parent groups." And so, um, we do need to we will schedule a meeting with them, have them come in. There's some things that are we will be required to request from them. Um, so I agree already with some of the things they spoke about. We don't need to require to give get their bank information, their account number. We don't need to ask for their signatures. Um, but there are some things they're going to have to follow through on. And we will be flexible with them. We will extend the the deadlines. We're not asking them, we haven't asked them to stop any of their fundraising or any of their planning for the year or anything like that, but um I could see their concern and why they were caught off guard just getting this packet

171and they have to complete. It was a lot. >> And I'll add to that. We sent it out at the beginning of the month um and it included instructions and the goal was really to provide them the background as to why and board policy. We also provide him the resources that SI gave us which provides samples for bylaw samples for everything the direct person to get the insurance p the forms everything is provided that there um like I said we were just the questions didn't come to us until today and um the moment that they asked those questions we addressed it immediately when they came to us so I I totally understand and I agree we are going to do workshops allow them to come in and if they need help um to come and

172like 1 hour or 3 to 4. Um, Alicia will be sending the emails and have the forms there available and we could guide them through the process. Um, now we know that they they'd like some support and helpful. We're happy to help. And we included that in the email like let us know if you need any help, but now that we know, we just are going to create the workshops, invite them to come in or invite them to come oneon-one if they feel more comfortable doing that, whatever works for them. fair to say all the schools have >> no four of the four of the schools do. >> Yeah. >> Any other Do you have any public comments? Anything additional? >> No, there are no public comments at this time. >> And then other pending

173agenda items. It sounds like we're due to hear from the A program. >> Yes, they plan on being here at the September board meeting. Anything else? >> I had a few items to share and then also pending potential board um board agenda items. So, I know they're sort of reinstating the president's physical fitness and so I wanted to see if can we get an update on that and maybe in addition to that um what are we doing just districtwide with regards to physical fitness and um healthy eating, you know, our commitments there. what are we doing? Different activities. Um, and then also I just had a couple updates. So last Monday, uh, the 11th, I was invited to a meeting in my delegate role to assembly member Heath Flores. So I went down there. There

174was about 20 of us um, superintendent and delegates and board members. And so we got together, shared some thoughts. I reached out to Los beforehand and said, "Hey, can you, you know, is there anything I should include?" So thank you for the suggestions. Um I did suggest uh one of the suggestions I made was um it would be nice that if some of the state requirements, you know, if we had that local control versus having things mandated statewide with regards to some of the items because maybe the local community's values might be a little bit different or things like that. So some of the other things that came up were like the um ADA and LCFF. Um sounds like some of the counties have live scan challenges. those. I talked to Louisis. We do not,

175but I guess for some of the smaller districts, they it's a real challenge for them. So, they're going to be looking into that. So, it was a really nice opportunity to get together and share some thoughts and ideas and things like that. So, um I don't know, you know, if the if that happens a lot, it was um but it was a a nice opportunity. And then on this last um is it Monday? Yeah. I went to our COE and I had reached out to them to ask if I could get on, you know, come visit them at one of their board meetings to let them know I'm a delegate and kind of see, you know, open that dialogue and see if there's things that they would like to share with me to take forward

176and things like that. Um, and then the last thing I just wanted to highlight was there's an assembly bill 495 that's going through the legislature right now. It's gotten a lot of media attention. Um, basically it's the intentions are good, but it's a little bit like curing a headache with a hammer. And so there's um they've changed the they've really opened up what who can fill out a caregivers's authorization affidavit. Um, and so it's really sort of that's where the potential risk is. There's no requirement for signature. Um, they've expanded it to a non-relative family member. So you can look at the bill. There's a it's a very broad definition. So, where it's at right now. Um, and then it would allow them to enroll in school. It would allow them to get medical treatment,

177things like that. Um, and then it also warns um eleas that uh parent signature seal is not required or seal from court is not required. So, there's a lot of elements to it. Um, where it's at right now is it's in the suspense file. So what happens um some of you may know this but what happens is when a bill goes through the process and then it has a price tag associated with it then it goes into the suspense file and then what happens there is they have a suspense hearing near the end of the legislative session where they decide okay which ones are we going to pull out of suspense and then move to the um you know to the larger floor and then on to the governor. So this one um is in

178suspense. a lot of bills do go to suspense and sort of die a slow death because they're never pulled out and that's one way that bills do not move forward. Um, so we'll see. I think the suspense hearing is on August 29th. Um, and it's I it's the Senate suspense hearing. I don't know if I have that date right. So it'll be interesting to see what happens with that bill or doesn't happen. I mean it's going to kind of time will tell. And there's also um a couple other bills that are very have gotten a lot of attention that are also in that particular status. So, anything else? Seeing nothing. Meeting adjourned. >> Thank you. >> Oh, no. Not not for us. of the district's report that they were having. Some of the smaller districts,

179they were having a hard time getting due to the location and not getting live.