001[Music] Huh? [Music] Everything. [Music] And Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Huh? Down. [Music] Follow [Music] me. Fall away. Yeah. [Music] Good evening everyone. I'd like to call this meeting to order, the special meeting to order on May 19th at 501. Uh we'll start with roll call and we'll start with trustee ftos present. Trustee Sandaval here. Trustee Rodriguez here and trustee Aoyo here. Is there a motion for approval of the agenda? Excuse me, Madam President. The pledge of allegiance comes first. Thank you. Yes. If we could all please rise and join me in the flag salute. Ready? Begin. Pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I'm so used to going to close session and
002then starting over. So, thank you. And now we'll try it again. Item D, approval of agenda. Motion. So moved. Thank you. I'll second it. It's been moved and second. All those in favor? I. Passes. Thank you. Item two, public comments. Do we have anything? Hearing none. We'll move on to item three, action items. Item A, superintendent. Item one, board seat vacancy, trustee area five, candidate application review and candidate interviews. And I'll have our superintendent move us along. So yeah, you'll bring in Hello. Feel at home. So, I'm just going to read a little script. So, we basically calling you up to the podium in alphabetical order. So, you're the first candidate. It's all alphabetical order. Um, there will be four interview questions. Um, when at the podium, please state your name and briefly tell us
003a little about yourself and then we will start with the questions. And we only have four, which I believe you saw on the agenda. So, at least you're prepared. Okay, just whenever you're ready. Well, good evening everyone to gracias. My name is Francisco Estrada. I am a native of Ventura County. was born in Oxnard um the old St. John's on F Street and um never left Ventura County, moved to Santa Paula 3 years ago. Have always worked in the corporate sector. I'm parents of immigrants um who came from Mexico. My dad was from my mom from Yucatan. Um my grandma 95 still here only speaks Spanish. I said um the most important thing that my grandparents gave us was education. there were field workers and they said in order for us you know to have
004a better life is through education and that is why I'm here to try to help out students who are a priority so that they can have a better life like I have great thank you and um Nathan has the first question yeah being on the school board requires a high level of dedication and commitment to serve all students attending our school sites how do plan on prioritizing the needs of said students while balancing the safety uh so sorry let me start over being on the school board requires a high level of dedication commitment to serve all students attending our schools how do you plan on balancing the priorities you'll have as as a board member and the important needs of our students um great question Nathan um most of you don't know like I said
005who I am but um I'll start before I answer the question a little bit more about myself um like I mentioned mentioned I've been in the corporate sector in banking for over 25 years. I was 20 years in consumer banking and I decided to move into business banking which I just had a sliver knowledge of it. I've never been on a board, haven't been in education since I was a first grade teacher in 2002. So I know a lot has changed since then. But I'm very knowledgeable now about business banking because I was able to work with my community. I was able to work with my staff. I was able to work with my clients so that I could learn the procedures in the process of business banking. Being on a board, like I mentioned,
006I have no experience on it, but I know that I would need to work with our faculty, with our administrators, and our community. so I can learn insight of what is happening and why um our students what's the need for our students what's the priority for our students and um I'm lucky enough that I my office is in Ventura so it's not that far from here so if we have special events I would want to be attending those events whether it be PTA meetings um any achievements that our students have any forums that we have for our parents and um that's how I will um priorityize you know, my time being if I'm chosen as a board trustee. Thank you. You're welcome. And now question to Dr. Sandal. All right. Hello. Um, given that the
007district's test scores are below expectation, how would you work as a board member to support academic improvement and student achievement? Well, I would first want to know what um area are these are our students who are below um expectation. What boundaries are these students facing that their test scores are not at what they supposed to be? And what resources is the school providing not only our teachers, our parents, but also our students? I know from a personal um by me speaking for myself, I'm not a very good test score taker. I'm not. If you were to rank me among my 68 peers in banking, I'm not low expectation, but I'm not the top 10 either. But if you were to rank my merits of what I've done in my center, whether it be low turnover
008rates, customer satisfaction, profitability and efficiency, um engagement with the associates, and positive feedback from my clients, I'm ranked number one in all this. Why? Because I believe that as a leader, you need to lead by example. I'm very passionate because like I said I'm not very good test scores. So I know that you know we need to have better areas so that we could become better test scores. But as a result of my hard work at work, I was honored with the 2023 Borba Cupup, the most high prestige award in my company because it's basically the employee of the year award. And I won this award and I was the first Latino in Ventura County to hold this award because again, not because of my test scores, but because of my merits. Thank you. Question
009number three, Tommy. All righty. Uh, Tommy Frutos. So, good to good to meet you, Francisco. So, serving on the board is a significant commitment. How will you manage your time to stay fully informed and engaged with the district's operations, especially during critical issues like our current budget crisis? I know right now we're going through critical times. I mean, I'm feeling in the corporate sector. It's it's not like it was. And for me, the most important thing is transparency. Being transparent with our faculty, being transparent with our community, being transparent with our our students, and working in our communities to again find out what is it that's um causing when we do our audit line by line, seeing what is it that you know is working, what is not working. I said that that's the main
010thing, you know, is working all together collaboratively so that we can find the solutions for these cuts. And sometimes we have to look ahead and see if our business partners, you know, if that's something that that we can, you know, help and all work together for that. Great. Um before I move on to question number four, um I just see that you know you were involved in the micro education program. You were in the Latino Townhouse scholarship committee. Yes. And there's a lot of things that you didn't say. So if people who are just listening didn't, you know, and didn't have the opportunity to read your application, I just wanted to share that that you you have you you've been involved in the three years you've lived here. That's correct. You know Anna I'm if
011you don't know me I'm very humble and for me this is very hard for me to talk about my achievements and you not many people know that I was you know in the corporate you know bindery or anything and that's just the way I am. I'm very you know when I highlight I highlight my team. They're the ones and I'm more in the background. But um thank you for bringing that because that is a weakness of mine that I really don't like. You know, I feel like I'm bragging of myself and that's something that I I know I need to work on. Well, today you get to do as much of that as you want. So, my question number four is, how will you define determined success for yourself in this position? Um, like I
012mentioned, you know, it's all working together. It's not just one board member who's doing it. There's no eye in team. It's all of us working together to see how can we improve our test scores. How can we get the state to award us those awards that they give? I believe it's called the blue ribbon award. Um how can we get our attendance a capacity? What will it take for our community to come and be involved in our PTA and all these if they're increasing graduation increasing then that makes us successful as a board but again it takes all of us working together as a team. It's not just one person doing this and that's what I bring. I've worked like you mentioned um I'm on the DEI committee. Well now they changed it. It's called
013the engagement committee for my work. I am in the HR you know hiring because like I mentioned have very low turnover with my staff. So um and it's all of us you know working together you know with our faculty teachers community so that we can be successful in all this and when all in all Santa Paul is successful and I was reading your mission where it says that you know Santa Paula school district is here not only to be social excuse me academic and social but it's also emotional in their college in their career being global citizenship and lifelong learning That's what I want and that's what I believe in and that's what has brought me being a successful citizen and resident of Santa Pa. Thank you so much. You're welcome. And then from here,
014do you have anything else to add? Oh, sorry. Francisco, do you have anything else to add? Come on, Michael. Um the only thing I think it's really important like I've gone to these um like you mentioned you know what Latino town hall and I know our majority here of Santa Paula is 80% Latino and I mean I just get for me when I see a Latino in that position that they have is just so um an honor for me. It really really is you know an honor and what dream it is for our students to see that you know to see that success is there and how can we achieve success. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you everyone. Muchas gracias. Thank you. Okay, I'm just going to read a little script and then
015we can begin. So, you're at the podium. We're doing a alphabetical order. Um, there's four interview questions. Um, when at the podium, please state your name and briefly tell us a little about yourself and then we will start with the questions. Uh, good evening board president, board members. Uh, thank you for the opportunity to be here. My name is Matt Kleinfelter. I live at 1029 Royal Oaks Place here in Santa Paula. And, um, just a little about myself, I um, I was uh, an educator for 20 years. I'm thinking about uh, growing up. Um, I had a difficult childhood growing up. I lost a parent when I was 12 and uh created a very difficult financial situation as a child and uh we were impoverished and um caused me to learn a lot of respect
016for life and experiences and so but I'll weave that into the to the questions as you ask them. So go ahead. So, first question will be Nathan. Being on the school board requires a high level of dedication and commitment to serve all students attending our schools. How do you plan on balancing the priorities you will have as a board member and the important needs of our students? Well, as I stated um before um I we were basically a middle-ass family and my father passed away when I was 12, tragically. And um so we moved to a kind of an area that was lower socioeconomic, higher poverty. And so it changed my perspective on life. And the friends that I developed, I was a good kid, um were kids that were from different backgrounds, right? So
017they um came from different places and had different struggles. And one thing that stood out for me as a child and as it ties into the question um they were not treated as well as other kids and that always bothered me. So that propelled me uh as in middle school and high school to get involved in student government and to advocate uh for kids. And I was a student board member um as you have three student board members which I'm very pleased to see because a lot of districts don't have that. But I was a student rep for two years on the school board. And um so it gave me a perspective in terms of advocacy for the for my friends that were um one was especially from Hanovato and um you know he he
018wasn't treated very well in the school and uh so it it caused me to want to do more advocacy. Um, so my commitment, as I'm sure you all read, uh, my prior experience, I was on the board for the Rio School District. Um, starting, I think it was in 2011. Um, but through that experience being on the board, um, you're right, you have to balance things. And one priority that I had in the term that I was on was to visit every school and to visit every school each semester. So, it required me as I mean I was a principal at the time in Los Angeles and it required me to um take leave and to really focus on um visiting our schools, not just the administrators but the teachers and the children and then
019of course reaching out to the families. So, that was a a big a big thing of mine. Um, one thing that I've noticed in just researching things, um, each of your schools has wonderful themes and concepts, which I really like. Um, that was something that we pushed and propelled in the Rio district. Um, we had a dual two dual immersion programs that I helped to set up as a board member. Um, we built a school there. Uh, we had two bond measures that we passed. Um, so I I see these programs and I think there's a lot of good groundwork that's happened here in Santa Paula and it would be interesting to support and advocate uh for those programs to develop. Um, so I, you know, in terms of balancing my time, um, I'm involved
020in a couple of other boards now, but I'm kind of suns setting those with Catholic Charities and, um, uh, an HOA board that I'm on and, uh, to focus more time and to be, uh, more focused, uh, here in Santa Paula in the community. So, okay, thank you. Uh, question number two, Daniel, given that the district's test scores are below expectations, how would you work as a board member to support academic improvement and student achievement? Well, that was something that was very important to me, uh, Dr. Sundal, uh, as a principal in running schools. Um, but it also gave me a perspective as as a board member. And um I always look at um you have a a strong cadray of teachers here that I'm sure that you all respect and appreciate. Um but uh
021a lot of times uh teachers have great ideas and sometimes it doesn't necessarily filter up to the to the board members um who kind of hold the financial strings and encouragement. like in your board meeting last week, you know, you did the textbook approval, right, for science and the textbook adoption. And you brought up great questions in relationship to, well, what if you adopted this, but the teachers I I could kind of read the teachers as you were speaking to them. I I think they they shared STEM scopes and then the two other programs, right? And you said, "Well, why don't you adopt physics? Why isn't everything the same, universal?" And I thought the teachers did a very good job at answering that question um in terms of recognizing we have to sometimes differentiate things
022out. So it might mean that we as as a board we have to spend a little bit more money but if we're giving the teachers a resource that they bought into and they like um and they utilize that holds a lot of weight and a lot of value. So I think a as being on the board um recognizing that because you'll see improvements if if you have teacher buy in you'll get improvements. Um, two things that I did, uh, as a board member in Rio, uh, we helped pass, uh, accelerated reader AR, which is you guys have it instituted here, I believe, at some of your schools. And, um, we did read 180, and the read 180 program that we started in Rio was focused on our English learners. And we had substantial redesignation amongst
023our English learners and uh reading level improvement. And the focus area that I kind of was listening to the teachers in terms of what they had to say was middle school because middle school you lose, you know, that's where you you your reading scores are going up, but then when you get to middle school they plateau or they drop sometimes. And so our focus was middle school continuing the trajectory of grade level reading or higher um throughout uh uh to to high school. And of course that was an elementary district. But I I think it's important to again listen to your teachers, hear what they have to say, listen to your classified staff uh and see what they have to say in terms of what benefits kids. All right. So Matami Fruttos. Yes. So serving
024on the board is a significant commitment. How will you manage your time to stay fully informed and engaged with the district's operations, especially during critical issues like our current budget crisis? Yes. Um, so I've always been sort of civically active and part of that was kind of through my intro. Um, I think it's important to be involved to have a voice. um especially have a voice for those um that maybe don't aren't able to stand up for themselves or don't stand up for themselves. And I think it's important to listen to all stakeholders. Um and I I've served on a number of boards um not just uh school district board but um other community boards like I said the Catholic Charities of Ventur County. So, I'm I'm familiar with the operational process of boards, uh,
025Robert's rules, Brown Act, things of that sort. Um, so I I think I'll be fully engaged. I understand, um, district operations. Um, because I've run school facilities, you know, uh, I've I've been principal of two different schools and then I supervised uh, two schools before that as an assistant principal over their facilities. Um, one of the measures that I passed, uh, that I helped pass in Rio was the, um, the bond measure, which really made, as as you're going through now with spending your bond money, um, really utilizing that money to the best of your ability to make sure you get the most bang for your buck, you know, and whether it's replacing or in putting in HVAC units or or things of that sort. So I I think um having an inform board who
026understands you know the granular I mean you you guys have a pretty diverse experience it seems like on the board right now but having someone that has a a background in in administration I think can be a good thing because you only have a window of opportunity in that board meeting to have conversations and ask questions and sometimes you don't know what you don't know but if you have someone who has experience um with operating when they have that ad point those questions at your superintendent, you know, it can get more clarity and answers. So, um I I think um when I got on the RIO board, we were in the deficit and by the time I got off the board, we were in the positive and some of that was through creative measures of
027how to gain more students. You have a lot of students, I'm sure, in the Santa Paul unified boundaries that send their kids to Buena or send their kids to St. Bonaventure or where what have you. So, how do you earn their business? How do you market? How do you bring people back to the community um to to use our schools? So, question number four, how will you define determined success for yourself in this position? Um, you know, I think I think it's very significant being a board member. Uh, um, I look at, uh, we had, uh, an undeveloped piece of land uh, in the Rio district, kind of like I think you used to have in the Lemana development. And the developer wanted to buy that, you know, they just wanted to pay the district
028out, take that back. And I worked with the superintendent to say, "No, let's let's build something great for our community and our kids and have a a a magnet school that everyone can apply to." And, you know, they let kids in and it's one of the best schools in terms of um opportunities for the kids and we built an amazing school there that has benefited the community. But I think um being on the board and having that understanding of how on the on the school side of things and explaining it to my fellow board members in open session, no, no, this is this will be good for the district. Um it helped to continue improve enrollment in the district and and at a time when enrollment was declining in every other district pretty much in
029the county. I believe at that time uh Rio was the only one that was on the on the upward swing but really working being creative empowering teachers and then marketing uh the good things that are going on. I I saw a lot of great things just looking at the websites of that our schools in Santa Paula were doing but I didn't know it until I really started investigating it. So how do we get it out there and and share with people? So, I determine my success based on, you know, what my contribution is and how how I can help move the district forward, improving test scores and finding the money that's needed, right? Thank you. Those are our four questions. And thank you. Is there anything else you'd like to add? Um, you know, I
030think I I know I I think I have something to offer. One thing I noticed just in the two board meetings that um I was here um you guys have a very cohesive, you know, um good working unit, you know, with your superintendent. It would appear, at least in open session, it appear that you guys have a very good mix of working together. And I think um if I if I were selected uh to be on the board, I could help contribute to that and help contribute to the betterment of the community and uh especially for our students and our families. So, and it's it's not an easy choice. I had to I was a part of a board that had to select someone like yourselves and uh it's not an easy decision, but I
031think you made the right fiscal decision because it would cost a lot of money for the district to run an election. So I think that you know thank goodness you know our policy allows us to entrust the board to do that. So thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Sorry, I don't have my mic on. Hello. So, I'm just going to read a small script and then we'll begin. So, we've already called you the podium. You get to sit, not stand. Um, we'll have four interview questions. Uh, please state your name and briefly tell us a little about yourself and then we will start with the questions. Sure. So, uh, this is a little deja vu with the the day job. So, I'm used to doing this all the time in my my job
032at the county. So, board, superintendent Weinstein, staff, audience, those may be watching at home, uh, Mike Kumazawa. Um yeah, I mean I work at the county of Ventura in the county executive office uh budget and finance division. Um moved to Santa Paula about five years ago um from Ventura. Moved to Ventura about 12 years ago um when I met my my wonderful wife. Uh born and raised in Castic so not too far from here. Um public schools all my life. My mom spent probably 25 to 30 years of her career working in various capacities at some of the districts in Santa Clarita um as administrative staff. Um and then yeah, going back to myself and and what I do uh like I said, I work in the budget and finance division uh for the CEO's
033office and in that role we have operational and fiscal oversight uh of the county agency. So, I'm part of a team of roughly a dozen people work for the CFO directly. Um, and yeah, we we are responsible for the budget of the county. I mean, obviously each department has their own staff and puts together their own operational um budgets, but you know, our role is to bring that budget together um and to and to make it work for the for the county as a whole. You know, each department has their own priorities and and wants and needs. um the asks are are almost always more than you know what the revenues allow for and and making that puzzle and putting that that you know that that puzzle together is what we do and then outside
034of that you know act as obviously an extension of of our CEO you know whether that's working with you know various nonprofits working with with the cities obviously partnering with the cities um you know trying to make sure that you know we're doing and and carrying out what uh you know is the priority for the board of supervisors. Um, and so yeah, that that's what I do. Thank you. Um, Nathan will do question number one. Yeah. Being on the school board requires a high level of dedication and commitment to serve all students attending our schools. How do you plan on balancing the priorities you will have as a board member and the important needs of our students? Yeah. So, so first off, and I don't know if this was the the intent of the question,
035but I'm I'm going to answer it how I understand it. I'll just come out and say my priorities as a board member would be the needs of the students. I I um I have no no uh agenda. Um this isn't a stepping stone for me for some other personal um thing that I want to do um or professional. Um, I'm interested in this for one reason and one reason only, and that's because I now live in Santa Paula. Um, my wife is expecting our first child in the fall. So, I guess you could say I've got a new interest in the district. Um, and I want to make the district a place where I would be proud as a parent and proud as a board member to say that's where my children goes to school,
036or my child goes to school. Um, yeah. So I mean my priorities as a board member are to make the school district and provide the best education for the students as possible. Make that experience for them the best that it can be and that's my only reason for for being here. Thank you. uh given that the district's test scores are below expectations, how would you work as a board member to support academic improvement and student achievement? Yeah. So, I think the very first thing that I would do as a board member and I this goes back to, you know, I think my role and what I do at the county is I I would want to understand the data. would want to, you know, meet with staff, you know, talk to the fellow board members,
037obviously not in violation of the Brown Act, but um and really trying to understand, you know, what everybody feels like, you know, the root cause of some of that underperformance is. Um, you know, I I know just as a relative outsider looking in, you know, I maybe what some of the problems are. Um, I know that there's been a lot of studies done, you know, recently in the last 10 years, um, about education in the county and specifically about Santa Paula. You know, the Isabella project, I think, is a perfect example of that. Um, you know, there's a lot of data and an and a lot of analysis that was done and and my first question I think to you all would be, do you agree with the conclusions in that study? You know, data
038you can make data say anything you want. Um, but I would want to know, you know, do the data points and the analysis in those studies tie to what you all believe, you know, are the the conclusions and do you align with those conclusions? Um, I'm I'm sure some of the socio uh demographic, socioeconomic challenges facing a lot of the population in the city um play into a part of that. Um, I'm sure a lot of the, you know, English learning, um, you know, which was ESL when when I was a student, probably plays into some of that. And I, and honestly, just anecdotally thinking about it, I I can relate. So, I'm uh, grew up in a multi-racial family. My dad's 100% Japanese. My mom is American. My dad came here when he was
039a kid um, with his mom and they met in high school. Um, and I remember distinctly when I was younger being able to speak pretty fluent Japanese, you know, because I was home a lot with my grandma and and all of that. And um, I remember there would be a time where like my mom would say something and I would yell at her in Japanese just because I knew she could understand it. But my my grandma would also, you know, very strong Japanese woman wanted her first and only grandson at the time, you know, to go to Japanese school. And I they tried that when I was younger before kindergarten. So here I was, you know, learning, you know, what you do as a child kind of being force-fed Japanese, you know, not even the
040language, but the culture by going to this Japanese school, but then I would go home and my dad would kind of speak Japanese to me, but my mom didn't speak it. So I would speak English. And so, you know, I'm going to school learning one thing and in one way and I'm not using it at home. And you know that whole dynamic lasted maybe a semester because it just it wasn't going anywhere. And I and I felt it. It's a distinct memory that I have as a kid. I remember going to those classes, you know, full of Japanese students and them learning and being, you know, taught and being tested in Japanese and it was not my first language and just how much, you know, of an outsider and how how hard it was. Um,
041I I can imagine, you know, what that means for the Latino community or or any international, you know, person that goes to school and raises a child in the US. You know, you have these standards, these standard, you know, tests that are taught in English and tested in English. And if that's not your dynamic at home, you know, you're going to have a disadvantage of be and have an additional barrier that maybe someone that, you know, only speaks English, you know, that they don't have. And so yeah, I I know I'm rambling here, but you can kind of see where mine goes, where my mind is going and and you know, trying to understand that trying to understand that from a data perspective. Um I I think that's kind of would be my my plan
042and how I would try to attack it and and work with staff to to come up with those solutions. Thank you. Amos, so serving on the board is a significant commitment. How will you manage your time to stay fully informed and engaged with the district operations, especially during critical issues like our current budget crisis? So, I I you know, I think this is one thing where I I I think I'm just fortunate um working at the county and specifically working at the county executive office. um you know at at my level and what we do this type of participation in the community is at at a minimum encou encouraged um it it I I would say that's understating it um you know I I don't want to say ex expected um I will I will
043say strongly encouraged to be in the community and so um you know making time to to be present making time on campus to be present at the district office to be present is something that you know with obviously within the limitations of my I'll call it a 9 to5 but it's it's not a 9 to5. Um you know I will be there and and you know if I need to to do something during the day or if there's a need at the at at the district and and my work schedule allows I'm going to be able to to to be present. Um, you know, again, not to go keep going back to it, but as you know, my role at as staff in the CEO's office at the county and working with the board, I
044fully know what it takes to present and prepare those board packets. I mean, we provide board letters, you know, aka staff reports. Um, and I know that the work is not at the board meeting. the work the work is out all that work is behind the scenes and the nights and and and you know whatever time it takes to prepare that information to read it you're exp I have a would be I would have a responsibility as a board member to show up to these meetings educated with what's on the agenda I'm not I'm not going to be educated at the meeting by staff hearing it for the first time um and so yeah you know just having I think that perspective doing what I do at the county and and all of that Um
045yeah, I I will make the time for sure. Okay. Um so I get question number four. How will you define determine success for yourself in this position? Um so just to be I think short and sweet I I success is going to be defined by the students and and how they succeed and if they succeed. So if there are areas where the board and the district feels there's improvement and improvement can be had. If we as a board um you know agree and and come up with a plan of attack to address that and we're successful then then I would consider it a a success. If the students succeed then I succeed and we succeed. Thank you very much. Would you like to add anything else? Yeah. No, I I think I just want to
046say thanks for the opportunity. Obviously, thanks for having a special meeting to do this. Um, thanks for having it on a at an evening so I can come right after work. Um, but yeah, I you know, again, I just want to emphasize I I I think that I bring maybe a I don't want to say unique, but a unique skill set maybe to the board. um you know, having that experience at the county, um having especially that finance and budget experience at the county, knowing what's facing uh the district. I I did I did look at the past few budgets. I did watch the budget presentation from last year, but I didn't need to watch that to know the challenges that are facing the district. It's no secret. you could read the newspaper that, you
047know, funding and and budgets, declining enrollment, aging infrastructure, you know, not to mention all of the, you know, educational and program challenges, achievement challenges, um, that are there. And that is what I do at the county. you know, we look at the limited resources that are available, try and do what we can to make sure that we're providing those core services first and if there happens to be anything extra, you know, then then we prioritize it. But, you know, I think having that skill set and having that experience in my day job and being able to bring that and translate that to this board and to the into the school district, I I hope would be an asset. So, I'll conclude with that. Thank you. So board, we have one of the candidates, Cameron, is
048running late. She said she she said to me, he said 15 minutes or something like that. All right. I'm trying to get her. I said, "Call me." And she hasn't called me. Okay. Isn't it? Okay. So, what I'd like to suggest? Yeah. Yeah. is what I'd like to suggest is that we do the appointments and then see if's here yet. Sure. You need a motion for that. Um it's a change in the agenda. So yes, sir. Thank you for reminding me of that. Uh I'll move that we u um table the rest of this item and move to uh 3A2. We'll come back to to number one. I'll second it. It's been moved and second. All those in favor? I I passes. Great. Okay. Item three, action items. Item A, superintendent. Item one, port. So,
049sorry. Two, public employee appointment. So, we are recommending two public employee appointments tonight. Um both candidates being presented by myself h were number one on both the pad community panel interview which included staff and parents and and also um was number one in the executive interview too. Clearly number one um for the director of early childhood and elementary education. We recommend Julie Bergman to receive that appointment. to vote separately. We need to vote separately. Okay. So, start with go to the go to that end trustee Rodriguez. Yay. There's no motion on the floor. Can I make a motion to um to uh to uh to approve to approve uh Julie Bergman as director of instructional um I don't remember the title yes so mentioned by uh Mr. Weinstein. I second. Okay. Trustee Rodriguez. Yay. Trustee
050Sandival. Yay. Trusty Brutos. Yes. And Trusty Aoyo. Yes. Congratulations, Julie. Our second appointment tonight um is for the elementary school position at Bedell. As you all know, Laxman is is retiring and leaving us. And so we did an internal um posting of the job position because we felt it was very important that the person who takes over there knows um what we're doing in our programming. So um again the first panel had uh staff as well as parents on it and the second panel was the executive team and um was ranked one on both. Uh and we are presenting Nancy Nazer or Dr. Nancy Nazer as um the next principal of the Okay. Do I have a motion to appoint Miss Nasher as elementary principal epidel? So move. And do I have a second? I'll
051second. It's been moved and second. And I will start with trustee. Yes. Trustee Sandival. Yes. Trustee Trusty Rodriguez. Yes. And trustee Aoyo. Yes. passes. Congratulations, Dr. No, we have one more appointment. Oh, there's only If you click on the second one, you'll see it's a the classified appointment. So, we separated certificated and classified. Oh. the paper. Yeah. Yeah. The paper and this one doesn't Okay. It's been a while since I looked at the agenda online, so I apologize and it doesn't show. So, tonight, uh, administration is recommending the appointment of or the approval of the CBO contract for Lori Toms. Lori's been a longtime member of our team and over the last few months being the interim CBO, she's done a fabulous job and so we want to make sure we keep her and um
052you know have her run our business services department. Great. And with that said, do I have a motion? I would like to move to um make Lori Toms our chief business officer. And I'd like to second that. So, it's been moved and second and we'll do roll call. And we will start with Trustee Plutos. Yes. Trustee Sandival. No hesitation. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez. Yes. And myself. Trustee Aoyo. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you all very much. So now if the board would like we can take a few minute recess waiting for the final candidate to show. That sounds wonderful. So we will we'll take a five minute break at 5:49. [Music] Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello everyone. Um, we are returning back from our little break at 5:55. So, yeah, wait
053for just a second for Tommy to come. here. So, I'm just going to read a smart a small little Okay, we'll begin. Um, so, welcome. Today, you get to sit at our podium. Um, there's going to be four interview questions. Um, please state your name and briefly tell us a little about yourself and then we will start with the questions. Sure. All right. Good evening everybody. Hi, my name is Cameron Salley. I've been in public education for about 23 years. I have done everything from being a reading specialist, a um adult school teacher to a high school teacher. Um, I've been in administration for I think this is my 11th or 12th year now. It's all gone by so fast. I've been a site admin administrator for about seven years. I've now completed my fourth
054or fifth year at the district office. I know I I I came in as we were returning from COVID. So, however many years it's been, it's been a blur for sure, 110%. I'm the director of the instructional support services department at the Oxern Union High School District where I'm in charge of everything from the LCAP itself to new teacher induction, professional development, everything that goes into ed services. So, it's a huge job. I've learned a lot in the last four years. Thank you. So, we'll move on to question number one with Nathan. Yeah. Being on the school board requires a high level of dedication and commitment to serve all students attending our schools. How do you plan on balancing the priorities you'll have as a board member and the important needs of our students? Well,
055um I believe that it's a couple of nights a month. There's also a huge commitment about knowing the district and the ed partners and the constituents within the district. Good news. Um, I'm available after 5 every day and I will make sure to make sure that that is a priority and that this district and my community where I've been for the last five years is a priority for me. So, I will show up and I'll make sure that what I I bring to the table is a value and um has an impact on the students within this district. Thank you. Um, question number two, Daniel. Given that the district's test scores are below expectations, how would you work as a board member to support academic improvement and student achievement? Okay, student test scores are very
056interesting. So, within my department, I oversee those and I know that they're a hot topic within the California dashboard. Um, I think it's all about the growth that you see. It's not just about looking at the raw score itself. Um we know that the scores if you look across the state of California if you look at the demographics scores seem to settle within a certain demographic. All right. So we need to look at well why is that right? And why is that happening also here in Santa Paula in all similar demographics within the state of California. Is there something inherently wrong with the test itself? Maybe we need to look at it in a different way. All right. And we also have to celebrate the successes that we have within the test. All right. If
057within our LCAP we set a 5% increase within this year and we need it or we exceed it, we need to celebrate that and be okay with that. That's okay. Growth is okay. We need to look at with our subgroups, right? Our students with disabilities, our English learners, we call them multilingual learners. Um, how are they doing? And as a board, we set the vision, right? And we set the board goals, all right, on how our students are going to succeed. And we trust that our ed partners and our community, our teachers and our administrators are doing the job at the sites and and we're here to celebrate the success with them. Thank you. Welcome. My name is Tommy. Hi, Tommy. So, serving on the school board, pardon me. Serving on the school board is
058a significant commitment. How will you manage your time to stay fully informed and engaged with the district's operations, especially during critical issues like our current budget crisis? Okay. Um, it sounds a lot like question one, but there's some different elements to it. So, I'm available after 5:00. I will be here. Um, 100% committed. I think that to this question, I think it's about the ED partner groups. As a board, we should be having focus group meetings with our constituents, within our um within our schools and the different layers. And we need to hear them, right, as a board. And if there are meetings that are happening, we're there. We're invited. We should be there. All right? As we're serving to represent our areas, if they can't be there, we're going to be there for them.
059We're going to learn everything that we need to know about this district. And if there is a fiscal crisis, I want to be there. in the in the budget um LCAT meetings. I want to hear about what's going on. I'm going to be here at the the board meeting where the budgets are presented and I'm going to have my questions ready for my constituents. Thank you. You're welcome. Question number four. How will you define determined success for yourself in this position? I think it's not about me. I think it's about serving the constituents in my area. Um, and truly knowing what their needs are. I know that there is a big area out there. Um, I've been there for 5 years. I think I was the very first house built out there in Harvest. I
060bought out in a dirt field and everyone was kind of questioning me at the time. It's gorgeous out there now. I've gotten to know a lot of the people there and I'm hearing what are their concerns and I I totally get it. And it's about conversing with them, right, about their concerns and bringing it here to the board, to the room to discuss it as a group. Um, but it's also about those board goals that we set, right? Do we have measurable, actionable goals, all right, as a board, right? How are we measuring those? How are we reporting those? How are we progress monitoring those? All right, and at the end of the school year, we should be looking at that data together. And it should be iterative. It shouldn't just be one time. Right?
061We should be looking at our B our board goals and how we're doing probably minimum twice a year, multiple times a year. All right? How is the district doing in meeting our board goals? Right? We should be celebrating that at the end of every fiscal year. We should be also revising them together at the end of every uh school year. All right. And meeting those goals are going to find success. Thank you. You're welcome, Cameron. Thank you. Well, I appreciate you making the effort to get here when you were running a little late. I apologize. We were deep into the LCAP budgeting. Yeah. Is there anything else you'd like to add for the board to hear? Um, it's my first time interviewing for a board position. It's a little different being on this side of
062the seat. Um, a little nervous. Um, I'm also excited to represent my community and get that experience. Um, I have a lot of years of experience both in teaching but also in the admin side, both at the site and at the district office. And I think that there's tremendous value there that I can contribute here to this community and I'm excited to do so. Look forward to doing it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. It was good seeing you again, Jeff. Yeah. All right. Bye, everyone. Okay. So, at this time, we'll open up for discussion. Um, no particular order. Can Can we get just two minutes to fill in our ranking? Just so the public knows, we have a a ranking sheet. There is one for the application um and then one for the
063interview. So, and then an overall um Yes. Take as much time as you need. Okay. So for discussion, I'll start unless anyone else wants to take it. But um first I just want to say uh thank you to our four candidates. uh this is a challenging uh time and and I know it's it's got to be equally challenging for for them to have to sit in front of a board and and and try to position themselves. Um I you know just hearing many of the comments you know I keep thinking what what's going through my mind is uh who would be a good fit who would fit into our current board um you know situation the the the personalities here but also knowing a little bit about the complexity of our of our situation with
064new buildings coming up budgets uh developing um you know new new positions and and just basically trying to overcome some challenging but also celebrating many of the things that we're doing right. So again I look at who would be a good fit. So uh do do we want to get into rankings right now or do you want to hear just comment or do we want to just everyone chime in and make comments first? So go ahead go ahead. No, go ahead and say what you Yeah, I if if everyone had the opportunity to look at their applications and um all their qualifications and their background and having um trustees well applicants for trustee area five with so much uh background in education or even in the in the private sector. I believe all candidates were
065are great candidates. Um, and I think they would all really bring something to the table. um is so different being on the side and having to to just pick one person, but the knowledge and I see several of them would all of them actually can just you know be on the board and and pick up where we started. they seem to all have done their homework and have experience whether as teaching or administrators or or budget. So, I just wanted to say how how impressed I was with all of the applications. Thank you very much for the applicants. uh you know it's not a fun thing to have to go through publicly. Uh this is my third time selecting a board member unfortunately. Um so this side's never never easy. You know one thing I
066might want to suggest because this everything does have to be in the open. Um we are using these rankings as a tool, right? There's nothing that mandates that we have to you know shout out what our our rankings were. Um, what I might suggest, right, is that maybe just to get a temperature of the room, um, we say who, um, our top two were, no particular order, just to see kind of where we're at and we can narrow down the discussion if that's if there's some sort of consensus um, coming out there. Um, yeah, does I mean, and let me get feedback from that. I mean, I think that's a great idea. I just want to highlight and thank the candidates that applied. Um I know everyone has busy lives or some people are just
067too nervous to put themselves out there. Um but thank you to those have applied. All of you were wonderful people and would bring something great to this board. But unfortunately in this instance we can only choose one person. Um every board member here is different. Every board member has different priorities or views different um different things what those people have presented to us. Um I looked at just openness. Um I looked at willingness to learn. Um, and honestly just dedication to this board because be um, being someone from my age, being like in my mid20s now, I can say that now. Um, I didn't expect there to be a lot of commitments and dedication, but you know, I'm willing to dedicate the time, the hours to be on the board and be present in my
068community. So again, thank you to those. And again, just to reiterate, I do like your idea, Dr. Sandival, to just mention our top two. Um, it's kind of awkward to talk about all four and just say, you know, um, last pick was last pick. So, I like I like top two. Yeah. I mean, because it's like the last pick isn't necessarily the last pick. It's not, you know, it's just, you know, uh I don't want it to be this, you know, beauty pageant kind of con thing, you know, it's it's it's not about that because I do think, you know, that that any one of them could be on this board, you know. Um each one brings different things, you know. For me, it's about what do I think we need to prioritize, you know,
069um, as a board member, what are the things that that resonate with me when I'm looking for someone, right, to join us? Uh, and what skills could could complement um what we do. So, you know, availability, right, because it is a time commitment and all of those things. So, um I don't know if you two are okay with the the doing it that way, but no, I I completely agree u because it is difficult and I had some ties, so I had to go back to my notes and and eliminate my tie. So, yeah, I mean, and I'll I'll I can be the first to go ahead. I'll I'll I'll start either way. Sure. Sure. So, my first is Matt and my second is Mike. Those are my top two. Th those are my uh
070top two as well. Um Matt and Mike. Um are those in any particular order? No, we're just just Yeah. Yeah. Uh I would agree those are those two are in my top two. I agree too. Oh my gosh. That was, you know, one step and I'll say it because of the time commitment and their experience for me. And I think Nathan said it very well, just the willingness and the time commitment and and wanting to engage in this community. I mean, they all did, but it's it's it's it's a great time commitment. Okay. So, what do we do now? Do we start with what is our one and our two? Do you guys want to go there? Do you want to talk a little bit more? So, I I can start or I can be
071the last one. Oh, I can start. Nathan, go ahead. It was your one. Yeah. Uh, my one was Mike. Do we want to talk about why at all at this point? Let's start right now. Let's do it this way. This way. Okay. My top was Mike. My top was Matt and my top was Matt. And it's right here. It's like and the deadlock happens. I can. So, who wants Who wants to go first? Why they're one and two? Yeah, I can go with uh I can start first uh with why I chose Mike for number one. For me particular, it was just experience with public budgeting and just understanding the general idea of that revenue does not meet the needs of the wants. Um and it has to meet the needs of what has to
072be paid basically. Um and I enjoyed hearing that philosophy and I enjoyed hearing that he can say no. Um that he has experience working with outside nonprofit groups and government agencies. um that he just has a background that's just so relatable to students in our district as well. Um and there's just like an eagerness that just came off of him, willing to learn and his disclosure of what his priorities are. Um and how in reality he's willing to exchange them for the needs of our students, especially when it came to the immediate needs of our budget. Um it it was just refreshing to hear that um from my perspective. Oh, go ahead. Um, yeah, you know, very much, you know, along the same lines. Um, but to add to that, like I I do like
073the county connections, um, and that experience with, you know, a broad set of different agencies across. I know one of the things that I've tried to do as a board member is to create that networking because we do need to be working with our partners um from around the county to shore up what we can't do. Um and that's a very important thing for me, right? Especially since, you know, with given our time constraints, you know, that's that's normally following has been following on me um over the last four years, which I've gladly taken on. Um, but it'd be nice to have a little bit of of of help in that area, too. Um, I like that he's about to be a parent. Um, I like the skin in the game. Um, you know, that's
074that's I think is is is important to me. And it can work it can work both ways, right? You know, you can have a parent on the board and that's just focused on their parent, right? But but not having parent perspective either, you know. I mean, I'm I'm getting away from that what it felt like, you know. Um so I think that that's was a draw. Um I think that well the way he talked about data, right, resonated with me. I'm very much a data guy, right? Um and and I liked what he said about it, too, right? Because it's like, well, do you agree with the data? You know, and I think that that was spot on because, you know, I've seen presentations on this is what Santa Paula is via the data and
075I'm like, well, that's not the Santa Paula I know. Um, you know, so there was that that that really kind of um signal signal to me um uh someone I could work with. Finally, I think that the his question his answer to number four was the thing that stuck with me the most most. Um where he said, you know, when you asked, you know, how do we determine success for yourself in this position? He goes, success is determined by the students. Um that's spoton. Um you know, and and it's and Matt is a very highly qualified person. you know, this isn't about that. Um, you know, the but I I do like the diversity of perspectives on the board. You know, I do like that, you know, Tommy's in public education. I'm in higher education.
076You're just coming out of that. You know, you're, you know, in the city. Um, I and a parent, right? You know, I like and a parent like I like having those different flavors, you know. Um, so and definitely not disagreeing with my two colleagues. Um, when I thought about Mr. Kleinfelter, uh, he to to coin the phrase, he's turnkey ready. He's got public education experience. Uh, he talks about a personal resiliency that I think resonates with me in knowing our community. He's got experience being on a dis like where we're at right now. Um what what I think I was most impressed was how he cited our school district which means that he did some homework on the school district at least 10 times. He referenced our LCAP. He referenced the textbook. He referenced um
077just the the accelerated reader. I know they were they were you know we're not going in in too much in depth and maybe it's a time but I I look at u Mr. Klein Felter and I know that he's got the experience that we can just pick up and go and I think he can just kind of carry on with what he knows. Now this isn't to say anything in negative towards um Mike because I also agree I think about the the fact that he's a future parent. So his advocacy lens is it's a little bit different from that of of us that that are no longer have kids in the in the district. The um our students need that advocacy. You know, sometimes um we we miss it and and I want to make
078sure that our students are are always first and I can see Mike bringing that uh and then also a budget uh just having that budget um background. But uh but that's kind of why I still feel like Matt was our was my number one. So I'm probably going to repeat some of the same things, but um just looking at my notes and I mean I wrote so much about Matt and same thing when he would reference our mission statement and everything he's done in his 20 years in education. um just things that resonate to me, you know, the dual immersion programs, you know, the test scores, the bonds, um his experience as principal, admin, just, you know, when he said something about you only know what you know, and I don't have that school background,
079the admin, so how it all works. and you know he he understands and I believe he'll bring to the table questions that I probably wouldn't ask because I don't know that I I can ask the questions on construction and parent involvement and things that I've been involved throughout you know my years as as a parent and then um as a grandmother too who will have a kinder you know next year I will also be engaged in in going to events and and seeing the differences and um and both of them are great. I mean, like everyone said, Mike will, you know, he's the budget background that's that's wonderful, but there's just things from Matt that I believe he brings something that none of us have completely. And I just feel that Matt will make us
080a more diverse board with his knowledge and then everyone else's knowledge as as you mentioned Sandival with you know higher education, elementary in your 20s just coming right out. So but they're both great. So that's that's where I come from. Uh, I guess I'll start off. Um, for y'all, um, I'm curious to know, was the DI experience a plus for y'all for Matt's resume or background? Uh, when he talked about dual immersion in the Rio school district, it was for me. I just when I read all the applications and that's the his application and all his qualifications resonated to me more as what we may be lacking on our board as a group. But at the same time, I the budget and that background is is very important as well. But I just, you know,
081the other items that I made that I commented on, you know, his experience with bonds and um just his his all his background, his knowledge. Anyone else? No. So, you know, the fact that he understands what dual immersion is is a plus. Um because as in in in the audience today we have our our principal who's who's leading now we're dual immersion a dual im e im e im e im e im e im e im e im e im e im e immersion program and we know that there's some gaps there and and how can we backfill those those gaps so that we can continue to move forward because we are moving forward. Uh, I think that that has to be noted and and maybe he can add to that and that's that was
082definitely um I don't want to say a key, but it was it can help him. In my opinion, I think there's a a couple things um a couple other things I I uh thought about, right? first is that you know I do think that we for me personally like I feel like you know we need to cultivate leadership you know um this is an opportunity to to bring someone who who you know can kind of get their feet wet right on that you know but having a serious set of skills especially with the budget challenges which is the number one challenge we have right now. Um, you know, also like, you know, there's a bit of me that's like, you know, we're this district is is in a lot of ways set up to break
083the mold of what came before. you know, I don't necessarily, you know, want to hear about, well, you know, the way we used to do it or the way it has been done. It's like, okay, you know, for 40 years, nothing's changed in this district. Doing the same old things over and over again are not going to change it, you know, and I'm very serious about that. you know, I go to um I go to CSBA and I see the board members that have been on for 30 years and I'm like, how can you look yourself in the face when, you know, your students are still achieving the way that they have? You know, to me, I really take that seriously. Um, which is why I think, you know, sometimes we do need those voices
084outside of education, right, to say, hey, like what are you guys doing? you know, um, so I I have to agree with Dr. Sandival. I've been through the entire K through2 um, system and it feels like a repeat of what's what has happened when I was coming here. you know, the board um back then made a lot of budgeting decisions that bit the board right after um and those poor decisions stalled future projects or stalled projects that were more long-term. Um my biggest fear is again um that we repeat the same mistake which is why I would like a fresh pair of eyes that may have not interacted with our institutions before but can offer us a new perspective on on how to avoid that in a sustainable manner. Um I'm not saying that this
085can um that Mike is the end all beall candidate for our budgeting issues. I mean it would be great if he was. Um, but he's just a new perspective for our team um to just take his opinion and hopefully he can aid our exact team in terms of what his questions are because his questions were new. His questions were new to me when he um imposed them on us. Um, and just, you know, from my, you know, I'm not just like a 20-year-old. Um, the other thing I bring to this board, I I'm not sure if you all know, but I do a lot for the employment sector. I work with our current workforce development board in this county and six additional counties across the coast. Um and so yeah, and so I understand what
086happens in the job market and what are the needs of the current job market in this county. And we can't offer um these future job training programs without understanding what our budget is and how we can pay for it in the future because there are going to be increasing demands in healthcare um in our trades. But if we can't pay for it, how are we going to help our students find that path to success? Um, I'm going to take I'm going to take a small little piece why I believe Matt will kind of can help us lead us in in in that similar direction. Um, I do believe you need historical points of views to to reflect on to make future decisions. You you have to know where you've been in order to know where
087you're going. And correct, we've made a lot of mistakes, but my goodness, we've done so many so much more amazing things. Um, yes, the budget crisis has been given or dealt to us, but we've also made some poor decisions that put us in in that situations, but and it it absolutely is a priority, but we're we're doing some great things in this district. And I think someone like Matt who understands what it what ALCAP entails, what it means to to look at mental health in our in our district. He understands I believe he worked for a continuation of high school. Uh that's important because that tells us that he's looking at our district from a lens of of of many, you know, from an ele from an elementary point of view all the way up
088to an administration point of view because we don't have someone on our dis that has administration uh point of view and I think he can he can help us with that. Um, I think what resonated with me was that he talked a little bit about bond measures. And when you are thinking bonds, I'm not saying that's the direction we're going in, but you're you're thinking budget. So, I think he can understand the the, you know, I think he can understand budget, but uh but you know, again, I'm I'm not I am not against Mike because again, I see the positives with it, but I just feel like uh Mr. Klein filter could could really be an asset to us right right away. Uh and and I understand where you're going, Dr. Sandabal, with the idea
089of of coaching down to coach them up because that's important to me as a as a CHO advocate and leader in this community. Those are things that absolutely has to matter in our community. And I believe that's kind of our role as board members is to want to keep our students at at the forefront. they're they're the center of of why we do what we why and how can we become bigger and better advocates for them. But again, knowing the budget, knowing ALC CAP, knowing uh grants and and and all of that. So, that's kind of why I'm really pushing to see Mr. uh Kleinfelter as as our trustee. So, So, does anyone want to add anything else or we'll start with the vote again? The starter game of chicken. No, this is this is
090this is very hard because everyone brings, you know, something to the table and um I guess just we'll just start and you mean a motion to start. Okay. So maybe I'm hearing it differently. So then let me see if I'm out of line. So I'd like to make a motion that we accept Matt Kleinfelter as our appointee. Is that is that where you want to make that motion? Okay. And then and then we can take it from there. Okay. Take it from there. So I I made the motion and I will second the motion. So roll call. So, we'll start with Trusty Rodriguez. No. Trustee Sandival. No. Trusty Fru. Yes. Trusty Aoyo. Yes. Thai. Look it. Either one of them. And it really isn't. It's it's either one of them. I know I can work
091with like either either one of them, right? You know, and I'm not going to belabor, you know, my points, right? Because I've already made them. Um, you know, so yeah, like Yeah. So I'll So let's go through the exercise. Let's Why not, you know? I'll make the motion to um nominate U. Mike as our trustee. And I second. Okay. Trustee Rodriguez. Yes. Trustee Sandoval. Yes. Trustee Frutos. It's not going on. Yeah. There it goes. Maybe there was something. That was it. So I get it. Yes. Trusty Aoyo, we got three yeses. So, yes. No, because they're both great. So, I I don't want to say I don't want to say no. It's just, you know, we we brought our our points and and we work as a team. So, like I said, they're they're both
092great. They were all great. And so good. So it passes 4 Z. Congratulations, Mike. Careful. Okay, so this is not the end of the meeting. Let's move on to item four, board member comments and request for future agenda items. Trustee Rodriguez. Uh, no comments. Trusty Sandaval, again, thank you to the candidates. You know, at first when I saw four applicants, I was like, "Oh, no." Like, "What are we going to do?" And then I read them, I was like, "Oh, good position to be in." Um, so, and it takes a lot to say, "Hey, I'm going to do it." And remember, this is a short-term appointment, right? Uh there's an election coming up next year and so people are going to have to decide, you know, what they want to do and and we can
093let the voters decide. I mean, I think that's the toughest thing about this is that we're taking away the power of the voter, right, to save $50,000, which 50,000 bucks is a lot, right? And I get that and that's with the situation we're in. But at the same time, I I I understand the gravity of the decision that we make. Um so, you know, just thank you to them. Um and thank you to you guys, all four of us, because I think that we have had a a really good board. Um and uh yeah, so thanks, Trustee Futs. No, agreed. I it's I think it's awesome when you see people step up out of their comfort zone and be vulnerable to want to make a difference in our community. That that's that's admirable and I
094appreciate that. Being a lifelong resident of Santa Paula, it's awesome when someone steps up to say, "Hey, I'll take a I'll take a chance." and to the four candidates, you you took a chance and I hope it doesn't stop there. Um there's always opportunities, right? And so again, I just want to say thank you to to the four and congratulations uh to Mike. Um and and again, Dr. Sano, I can't say it enough, but Nathan, all starting with you, former student at Barbara Webster, you've stepped up and you're doing a a great job. You're not a just a mid20 hero to us. you know that we value you as a board member. Trustee Sanavo, thank you for for your your strong advocacy and and really you know the numbers and you help us with that.
095Uh Trusty Aoyo, we go way back long ways as as parents and uh uh but I can see this board growing in a way of having Mike on and uh again so thank you all candidates. So, well, I've said it. I was very impressed by all our candidates. And um Tommy, you said it well. We all come back from different backgrounds and Nathan, I only said 20s because you said it. I guess I'm in my 20s now. You graduated with my middle son and he's a leader just like you are. and what you guys have done in just a few years. You guys were always involved in ASB, you know, advocacy groups and, you know, I appreciate that you share what you do, you know, in in your daytime and then you find time to
096do all of this. So, starting at this age, I mean, you're you're you're going to go so far. So again, I appreciate all your comments and yes, Sandival, you are our number persons and we can always, you know, rely on you to give us numbers and bring questions and make us think a little bit more. And um yes, Tommy, we go way back to years just flat from our kids in kinder, catechism, everything, baseball. So it's it's you know we we've been in this community for quite some time and and still involved in a lot of things. So with that said um I will move on to item five future meetings which we will meet on May 28th. And uh we're not bringing Mike back. It'll just all the candidates left. We are texting each
097candidate to let them know the outcome and asking Mike to be present on the 28th to be sworn in. Perfect. And then link to the agenda and so forth before then. Okay. Okay. So, with that said, I will adjourn this meeting at 6:37. Thank you everyone. Heat. Heat. [Music]