001Well, what years ago there were parts of it that I didn't like, but we're good. >> Okay. Good evening. Welcome everybody to the Sanita School Union um board meeting. Uh I'd like to call this meeting to order at 508. Can I get a roll call? >> Absolutely. Uh Mr. Neil Patel >> President Willing. >> Miss Alvariano >> right here. >> Miss Sarah Turner present. Miss Cindy Lopez >> present. >> Mr. Jacob Sandaval is not present this evening. Um, can you lead us with the pledge of allegiance, please? >> Ready? Begin. Ice 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. >> Okay, moving on to item 1.3, approval of board agenda. Can I get a motion?
002>> I make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I kept >> motion 40. >> Today in closed sessions, we have item 2.1 potential litigation. 2.2 public employee performance evaluation, 2.3 conference with labor negotiations, and 2.4 student matters settlement agreement. 26.02.01. Um, and then is there any public comment for close session items? >> We do not have any. >> Okay. Can I get a motion to adjourn to close session at 509? >> So motioned. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I will be back. Okay, welcome back. We're reconvening back into um open session at 611. Um in close session, the board approved settlement agreement number 26.02.01. 01 and the vote was four to zero. Okay. Um can 5.1. So moving on to approval of the consent agenda. 5.1
003through 5.3. Um, can I get a motion to approve? >> Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I. >> Motion 40. >> Uh, 6.1 reports and correspondence. Um, Senorita 6.1 Sanorita Teachers Association. >> Um, just let's give Becky a second to get logged in. I know we have um the sunshine letter from our labor partners at SRTA. If in the meantime, if we can skip down to 6.2, do we have anyone reporting for um California School Employees Association Chapter 503? >> And then we'll got it. Good evening, members of the board, superintendent Dr. Melissa Alderman and members of the district team. My name is Hana Casillas and I am the CACA president for chapter 503. Tonight we are pleased to present the tentative agreement reached between CSCA
004and the district for the 2025 2026 and 2026 2027 collective bargaining agreement. This agreement is the result of many hours of goodfaith negotiations between both teams. While the process was not without its challenges, we believe the final agreement reflects a balanced responsible and collaborative outcome on that that recognizes the essential work of classified employees while remaining mindful of the district's operational and fiscal responsibilities. We would also like to acknowledge the work of the district's bargainet team. We appreciate the professionalism and willingness to engage in productive dialogue throughout the negotiations process. Continued collaboration is critical to serving our schools and the Sanorita Union School District community effectively. CSDA members have reviewed this attentive agreement and voted to recommend it for approval. We respectfully request that the board do the same this evening. Thank you for your
005time, your continued support of the classified professionals who serve this district every day. Thank you. >> Okay. And uh we'll circle back to um the report for uh Sanorita Teachers Association. >> Thank you. I um have a letter from Ashley Trip representing SRTA. The union hereby notifies the district that we are opening the collective bargaining agreement in accordance with article 21 of the CBA term and reopeners. The association respectfully demands to bargain the following articles. Article 4, workday and article 13, professional learning. It is our goal to review and revise these articles to clarify gray areas as well as improve what already exists. In addition to these two articles, we demand to bargain article 8, health and welfare benefits. We are hopeful that we can work collaboratively to find a solution that will work for
006all bargaining members. In the interest of our students, parents, and community, we look forward to a mutually productive and positive negotiations process with the district. Students are the center of everything we do. Signed by Ashley Trip, SRTA negotiations lead. and we will make sure that this is agendaized at the next board meeting. >> Thank you. Moving on to 6.3, superintendent's cabinet. Debbie, do you have anything to report? >> Okay, I know we have our audit report, so I know we can move through quickly if you don't have anything. Uh Claudia, sorry, you were in order on my list. Um >> that's okay. Um I'll have a lot of things to say, but I'll just stick to one. Um, next week we will be uh announcing the employees of the year, classified employee of the year,
007teacher of the year. So if one of you, unfortunately I cannot take all of you along with us, but one of you would like to go, let us know. Uh, trustee Arianiano, I know you did it last year. Um, so that's what we're going to be doing next next next week. >> Thank you. >> If no if [clears throat] nobody else is available, I certainly will be. So, I mean, but if somebody else wants to do it, that's okay, too. >> Melanie, >> I just have two items that I'll mention. So, um, myself, my two program managers, and my behavior analyst will be going back through the trainer of trainer safety care reertification in a few weeks. And then we'll be coming back to district to train 92 of our employees that are currently safety
008care. So they'll be going through their reertification over four trainings. Um two of which we're hoping to have over spring break and then two on work days. And then the only other thing I want to mention is Special Olympics is coming up. This is our second year participating. Um Monterey Peninsula Unified School District hosts and they have it at MPC. um Monterey Peninsula College. Um it is my favorite day of the year. So if you have an opportunity to go on May 8th, um it's a fantastic day. It's just um so much happiness and just getting to see students achieve and and feel pushed and excited um is just awesome. So, we are actually we're last year we took our um mod severe populations as special day classes and then this year we're extending it
009to our mild mod special day elementary group as well. So, we're going to take two full buses of students and staff. So, be a great day. Let me know. I will as it gets closer bring a flyer and other information, but I just wanted to make sure it was on um people's calendars. >> Kisha, anything? Yeah, just um some fun excitement um in building the capacity of our team um who saw them attended a classified educational leaders institute last week um to help build the capacity as well. Um I attended a CDW event. They're one of our uh distributors and I was able to network with a wide range of other districts um from our area as well as learn about up and cominging technologies and a little bit more about the infrastructures. Our team
010is also going to be going through some Google Workspace trainings as well as building capacity for cabling and fiber to do some more in-house uh this spring as well. So, >> Dr. Summer Porther Smith, >> no. >> Good evening everybody. Um I have a little bit of an update from our town hall. I just wanted to make sure that I shared with you those outcomes that came forward at our third town hall. Um, we had over 200 people in attendance. It was a great turnout. Um, I already thanked some of our CSEA members who are here who were there with us that night and um, Playworks was going to join us. They didn't and they took charge and got the kids outside and I was really appreciative to all of them. So, um, the activity
011that we did with the families was really to look at three areas. Our focus was campus health and safety and so families engaged in an activity where they looked at it. We had to turn our mindset because it's the opposite of what we usually think of. So green were areas that needed attention that families felt were immediate need. And the reason that those are green instead of like a red is that we want them at the forefront, right? They're the go buttons. We looked at yellow which are areas like h we have a little bit of concern but we know the district's working hard at it. And then the red were like you're doing awesome. Great job. It was really orange and pink because none of the colors matched on my cards and on my
012paper. But um so just pretty quickly um some of those green areas that came up is supervision and campus safety and security. Um parents noted a strong association between visible adults on the campus and their students feeling safe and welcomed. Um they talked about um and I explained this to families but I'm going to share it anyway because it came up. So you know that we have the gates where it's like a push bar which is fire code but families do have concerns that students can push those and exit. they understand the fire code just said is one of those areas as well. Um playground and recess supervision, blind spots on cameras, walkie-talkies functioning, um substitute training around safety protocols, um concerns with students bringing weapons to school. We talked about threat assessment and our
013process for threat assessment as well. Vaping and substance abuse and then fights and escalating conflicts between students due to social media. These are all the same concerns that I think we all share as well. Um they also noted concerns around traffic and pedestrian safety. Specifically on Praau Street on Thursdays the church does a food distribution and it backs up all the way and that people are not adhering to safety protocols. Um I've already been working with the church and the city but that continues to be a challenge um students walking unsafeely middle schoolers um into the streets and crossing and non-crossing areas. And then during uh minimum days or walking incident increased traffic hazard because more families are picking up as well. And so there was some concerns around that. Um student behavior bullying continues
014to be an area of concern. We know that. Um but you'll see later that parents also appreciate the efforts we're putting in. Social media conflicts that spill onto our campuses. they understand we don't have a lot of control but um students resolving conflicts through violence, substance and vaping came up again and then bathroom supervision and cleanliness. Bathrooms are a a challenge overall. Um parents really expressed a desire for prevention-based approaches and increased supervision during unstructured times. Uh parents also noted that um there were several comments around um the use of punitive discipline um youth feeling silenced or intimidated, cultural responsive training for staff and then lots of fear around immigration related impacts to families as well. Um some of our yellow areas or areas of strengths were parents feel more confident around students walking home
015and they feel like there's some supervision and support there. um they are concerned about um cold weather in the mornings as well and that was our yellows. So not too many not too many in that yellow spot. And then I want to end us with the strong areas for that. So our strong areas where that they felt that uh a lot of positive praise around the digital check-in and ID verification and volunteer um protocol within our schools with our new systems, locked doors and monitoring access. Um they really appreciate the phone calls that they get for absences and letting them know that their child is absent early on. Um clear communication and communication not between only us but with our partners as well. They noted um appreciation for quick administrative responses, crossing guards that are
016supporting crossing our streets, our campus supervisors. They really appreciate the drill practices um that are happening around. Um cameras, vape sensors, big five training and safety dogs are an area of appreciation. They said that students are feeling safer. Staff described as attentive and supportive, gratitude for our mist program and the MuseCo support that we have as well. Families expressed feeling heard and the actions that have been taken in our town hall meetings as well. Um overall we saw that safety for parents equals supervision and communication. That was a common theme throughout. Um areas of us to focus on is PRATO traffic. I'll continue to focus on that. Mckennon traffic did not come up which that's amazing in itself. Um and then bullying, vaping, and social media which we've already been in contact and we had
017our first two vape uh workshops through Montage here at Gablin View and at uh JG and then McKennon is coming up. and then um continuing to build our big five and our safety protocols knowledge for our families overall. So um lots of really good information that came out from our families overall. We heard a lot of praise for the work that's happening and the work that our teams and our staff are doing. I want to just give a special thank you to the Sanorita team, Donna and Janette who came and helped us set up all the tables and chairs and then our teams that came from our site to help make sure that the night ran smooth. Uh Blanca getting our community resource fair set up. So, thank you. Thank you for all of that
018work. And then the last thing I'll just share with you is we have our destination imagination um trip coming up competition this weekend in Fresno. Uh the kids are super excited. I'm excited. I do need to share with you that I have to work as a judge as an appraiser. And this is my packet that I have to learn. Um somehow I got put in charge of the engineering uh competition. And so I gave this to my husband who is an engineer and asked him to give me the bullet points because I'm like I don't know what these words mean. Um, so we're really excited for our kiddos this weekend. Several of the parents of our students are going to be meeting us in Fresno to get to watch their kids compete in the competition
019as well. And like I shared, we're going to stop at Fresno and do a tour of Fresno State ex and then uh the engineering department specifically. So, um, I'm excited to bring that back to you all and share some of the pictures and images. And then the last thing is I put in there, but just a reminder, we have two really important things coming up tomorrow at um, starting at 4:00. We have four four two four five staff members or five um being recognized. Uh so Heather and Tanya from uh New Republic are being recognized for PBIS implementation at their school site and the work they're doing around school climate as school leaders. Miss Chelsea Emmery is being recognized for alternative to suspension program. And Pastor Smith and Chiron Smith are being recognized as community
020partners for their classroom presentations as well. And then on Friday at Northridge Mall, pink shirt day um also begins at 4:00 and we are the um uh art exhibit. Our district students created the art exhibit that will be on display there um throughout that event. So hopefully our community can come out and join us. Um everybody's also welcome at uh Spreckles. We also will have um three tables highlighting those services and supports here in our district at Spreckles. So thank you all very much. Beckymore, >> I have a report coming up so I will hold for that. >> Okay. Uh moving on to 6.4. Uh board and superintendent, Miss Elva Adiano. >> Nothing to report this time around. >> Miss Turner. >> Uh no report. Thank you. >> Mr. Neil Patel. >> Um just a
021quick uh thank you. uh we had our 2 by two uh meeting with our uh high school district and we were able to come together and talk about various issues. I really want to uh thank our superintendent and Becky, thank you very much, Melissa, uh for bringing us together. there is a lively discussion about what we can do to support our students as they move on to the high school level and what they can do with us in terms of building that bridge you know and so I I think it was a good start and I'm looking forward to the future of working together to to benefit our students you know from I used to say kindergarten through 12 now I got to say TK now I say pre like you know and so but
022you know I I the idea we never lose ownership, you know, wherever they go, they will still be Sanorita, you know, so whatever district they move on to afterwards. So, thank you for building that bridge >> and um as as Summer said, uh I did um go to the town hall um on Monday and it was such a good turnout. Thank you guys like always. um you know you guys did an awesome job and it was really nice to not only see a lot of parents there because it I mean it was full but there was a lot of you know the administrative team teachers I saw a lot of familiar faces and that was really really nice. Um it was nice to hear the presentations of our community um partners and um uh Kimble
023and Associates right had a nice little presentation which I thought was awesome because I have a a four-year-old and a teenager and so I thought it was so nice that they specifically have these learning videos for them to know, you know, be aware of danger and more importantly know safety, what to do, who to go to, how to, you know, um, and specifically age appropriate. I thought that was very, very awesome. Um, so yeah, and, uh, it was a great turnout and thank you guys for for that. Um, moving on to public comment. Uh, >> me real quick. >> Sorry. Just kidding. [laughter] >> Okay, that's fine. >> Just real quick, I I want to thank um, Dr. Dr. Summer Prather Smith and her team for putting together our third town hall. Um, each one
024has been somewhat different and it's amazing because we're seeing some of our families who are have gone to each of them and are bringing people with them which is the requests that Summer gives at at our um town halls. She's also doing amazing things like what are we raffling and getting some of our partners outside of us to be able to give um a a nice final raffle gift. But I want to thank um our Santaita administration and staff who were there um supporting uh throughout uh wrangling kiddos outside or inside, helping support those things and routing people where they needed to go and then helping the setup and the cleanup. um it went as as well as it could. Um getting everything out of that room and ready for breakfast the next day was
025pretty amazing and done quickly. So, I want to thank everybody for that effort that they put in on that. Um really quick, our 2 by 2 that we had, we focused in particular like the on the eighth grade transition uh for our students and uh with some particular emphasis emphasis on multilingual learners. Um, Miss Lopez had asked if in the future we could maybe touch on a little report about some of the highlights and and things and the information that Mr. Patel showed that like we'll share back and forth because it it will benefit our students as they transition to the high school. Um, that's it for me. >> Thank you, Dr. Alerman. Sorry about that. Moving on to public comment. Um, 7.1 non-aggenda items and 7.2 agenda items. Are there any public comments? >>
026We do not have any public comments submitted. >> Um, next item 8.1, information discussion items. Um, >> madame acting president, um, is it possible to rearrange um, we know we have CSA staff here. So, I was hoping maybe we could move 9.3 all the way to 9 point what is it six or seven ahead >> and before we do the LCAP with the board approval. >> So, um, what we what I would like to suggest that we do um is that we move items 9.3 and then the following 9.4 4, which is the AB1200 related to 9.3 if that's okay. And so we'll start with item 9.3. >> They don't want to hear that. >> I mean, it's great, but >> I agree. >> They bought lawn chairs, they got drinks, they're ready to go.
027>> So, real quick, if I can get an emo an emotion. Yeah, we're in our feelings. If I can get a motion to move items 9.3 and 9.4 um to come first and then a second and we can do that. >> Okay. >> A motion to move 9.3 9.4 up in agenda >> and then a second. >> Second >> and then all in favor? >> I Okay. 40. So we'll move on to item 9.3. >> Yes. So that is my item. This is the tentative agreement that the district reached with CSCA. Um we um have extended the life of the collective bargaining agreement from July 2025 through June 2028. The TA reflects multiple changes to multiple articles um including a 2% salary increase retro to July 2025 and also 2% for 2627 school year. This
028brings a total impact financial impact of 448,700. Just like Miss Casia, CSEA president indicated earlier, we also want to say thank you to the CSEA negotiating team. They're they are amazing. Um we had a lot of work to do, a lot of articles, long hours. Yes, there were uh disagreements, but it was everything would be um end goal to come up to a solution that was for the best interest of the district and I really appreciate that from a team. So, um, thank you to all of you. And this is what this TA represents. A lot of hard work. >> Yes. Thank you. We hear that you guys are awesome. So, thank you guys. So, um, can I get a motion for >> um, can we have a little discussion first? >> Oh, yeah, of
029course. >> Um, I I just want to say thank you to our staff, but especially CSEA. you know, um I've been teaching for 25 years and my first day on my job, I still remember and that was a senior teacher pulled me aside and he said, "Don't you ever forget who's the most important people here. It's not you." It's always been the classified staff. They keep the school running. They keep it organized. They keep it managed. You know, we have working facilities. You know, they are the intricate machine that makes all this possible. So I never forgot that, you know, and whether it's secretary, health technician, custodian, bus driver, I don't care who it is, you know, yes, teachers teach, but that's what we do, but we don't keep everything running, you know, and I
030never forgot that. So I just want to make that quick comment and I just want to thank our board and especially our negotiating teams for working together. Um, for the last what over a decade I've been on the board and I think Ela you probably agree, you know, we've had uh pretty good relationship with CSA and and SRTA, but especially with CSA. So, I just wanted to know you're valued. Um, you're loved and you're needed and wanted, you know, for so many reasons. And thank you for caring to do this job. You know, there many other jobs you could do. You know, we don't do it for the pay. So obviously you're doing it for another reason and that is to be part of our community and making sure that our future our children are
031well educated and provided for. So thank you Ariana. Uh yes. Um I also want to to tell you all that we appreciate you and Hana I don't know whether you remember or not but I started out as a classified employee and um so I was very fortunate to to be able to work with really great teachers who valued our work. And um I totally understand the work that you guys put in. I was there. I remember and I'll never forget you guys ever. So please um please accept our appreciation for for you guys. Okay. >> Miss Sarah Turner. >> Yeah. Thank you to all the work on both sides. I also started out on the classified side of the house. My first job in California schools was being a payroll tech at Hartnell College. Um,
032so I'm grateful every day for all the people that keep the lights on and everything running. >> Now I can call for a motion. Mr. [laughter] >> Second all those in favor I >> motion 40 and then we'll do 9.4. Okay, moving on to 9.4. Approval of public disclosure AB 1,200 for CSEA and Sanita Union School District for the 2025, 2026, and 2026, 2027 school year. Um, thank you. This accompanies the action item that just went before it. Um and as Miss Arianiano had indicated, um our financial impact is $448,479. Um and this is the certification that we are able to meet those needs. Um with our with our tenative agreement and the financial impact. >> Any comments from the board? Can I get a motion? >> So motioned. >> Can I get a second?
033>> Second. All those in favor? >> I I kept >> motion 40. So it's officially official. >> So you're welcome to stay for another three hours. [laughter] >> Thank you for being here and thank you for all you do. night. >> Your PowerPoint. >> Thank you. >> We're going to go back to item 8.1 for the LCAP. >> Okay. Circling back to um information and discussion items. 8.1 alcap midyear update. >> Thank you. Um it is part of our California ed code that each year a um midyear report is presented on the LCAP no later than February 28th of the year. And so I will be reviewing outcome data related to our metrics as well as um our midyear expenditures in this report. Oops, I went too far. And just as a reminder, we are
034in the middle of a three-year LCAP cycle. So, we are in year two, halfway through this year. Um, next year when we get into year three will be our final year, and then we will be writing a new three-year LCAP goes fast. So, I'm going to walk through each goal and show um some metrics with some successes and areas of focus. Um something that we were excited about for ELA on CASP from 2024 to last spring 2025 is that almost every school site did experience growth. So, we are moving in the right direction. We have a couple of schools that slid back slightly and so they are putting into place some very specific actions to target um improvement in those areas. But overall as a district it's exciting to finally see that trend starting to
035go in the direction that we are wanting it to. Um, additionally in goal one, we're measuring our CAST or our California science test results. And again, in grade five and grade 8, we saw growth um between 24 and 25. So that's exciting news for us. So you can take a glance here at the successes. I'm not going to read each one of them. Um but we do have several things to celebrate as well as some areas where we want to continue to prioritize and focus such as um ELA performance at Sanorita and New Republic and encouraging more teachers to utilize the optional professional development hours that are available to them. Goal two is focused on math and again we see um the same trend as we saw in ELA with growth at almost all of
036our sites. Um New Republic did have a slight backwards um trend and Sanorita stayed the same. So again, we've put in some focus and prioritization on math professional development this year and are expecting to see gains at all of our sites next year in math or I should say at the end of this year. And again looking at successes and areas of focus. Um something that [clears throat] we're celebrating is increase increases in parents reporting on our chicks survey that they see school as um encouraging them to be active partners with the school and also hearing from teachers how their child is doing between reporting periods. Um and areas for focus include continuing to increase our growth in math particularly at Sanorita and New Republic. Um, and we'll talk more about students with disabilities when
037we get to goal five. If I'm going too fast, slow me down. Goal three is um empowering educators to support multilingual students. And so this data is from again the endofyear um CASP data last year in ELA and math. We did see an increase um for current English learners, reclassified English learners, and English only um students, but the levels of those increases vary depending on the subgroup are um students who are performing the highest as we typically see are reclassified English learners. Um, and that's been a trend across our district and most districts for as long as I can recall because students who master um, bilingualism typically have activated parts of their brain that really help them to succeed in school. Um, our long-term English learners are improving their scores from year to year. Overall,
03869% um, and 77% of our students improved overall score from the prior year in ELA. Um looking at math again, current English learners maintained are reclassified and English only students increased their levels in their CASP on math. So we do want to focus on English learners. Um but we do see that 69% of our English learners did increase a level in math and long-term English learners um 64% improved from the prior year. So there's progress just not quite enough for it to really boost um our overall picture on the dashboard. So when we think about our successes and areas of focus, one of the things that we do want to continue to focus on is um our ELPAC summitive data and making sure that our English language development both during the designated time and integrated
039is helping our students to become more successful on that test so that they can reach reclassification. Um, and continuing to focus on strategies that will increase ELA and math for our English learners. Oops, too far. Goal four is about advancing instructional technology for our students. Here you can see different ways that that's utilized in classrooms. Um, and in our metrics, we have a lot more successes in this area than areas of focus. Um we have 100% of our classrooms regularly using edtech for instruction. Um our students have access to devices at home and at school as well as hotspots um where those are needed for families who don't have access to internet. An area of focus again is having more teachers utilize that paid optional PD um especially in the area of educational technology. Goal
040five is focused on students with disabilities um particularly within the groups that our LCAP serves. So English learners, foster youth, and low-income students. Um and here we can see that attendance rates, which is one of our metrics for this area, are increasing. Um our goal for the end of next year is 88%, we're currently at 84%. So we're working towards that and hopefully we will achieve it by the end of next year. Unfortunately, when we look overall for students with disabilities at their state testing data, they are not thriving in the way that we would hope. Um, and so this is something that our sped department and I have been coordinating um, and collaborating on particularly with our MTSS model and looking at what teachers are implementing inside their classrooms to give students access to
041grade level um, curriculum and standards. So again, lots of successes um, and also here several areas of focus. So continued focus on achievement in ELA and math for students with disabilities, science as well. And then GV had a particular um target for reducing the suspension of students with disabilities. Um and when we met with them yesterday for their data chat, we saw that they are working towards getting to the goal that we need them to meet. Goal six is about a enhancing academic success and college um readiness. Um the data that is presented here based on one of our metrics is school climate um results from the chick survey and we can see that we have 39% 40% and 46% in these metrics of positive student learning environment motivation to learn and parental involvement. So
042these are for strongly over sorry strongly agree and Summer and I were wondering why did we put the metric at only strongly agree and not both strongly agree and agree because once you add in the agree then that number goes up but when we were writing the LCAP um a couple of years ago we were real tired and we made a mistake I think in that metric um yeah they go they pretty much double when we add agree in there. So those numbers look a little bit low to us but they don't show the whole picture. Sorry for our delirium at that time. [laughter] Um some areas of focus for um this goal again focusing on ELA and math is going to be throughout the LCAP but also continuing to focus on parent engagement in
043school. We have a lot of positive um response from our parents on the chick survey. We want more parents to be able to engage meaningfully with our schools. Goal seven is focused on student attendance um and improving school climate. And when we look at our current attendance data compared to what our desired outcome is for the end of next year, we can see several subgroups who are already exceeding our goal for next year. So our intention is to maintain that where it's already hit the goal and to continue to increase where there is opportunity still for growth. Um but overall our attendance has been improving greatly. So some successes is that chronic absenteeism has decreased for several of our um subgroups and at particular schools that were targeted for this area. Um, our social media
044engagement has increased, attendance rates are increasing yearbyear, and we will continue to focus on chronic absenteeism for white and Hispanic subgroups, which is where we see that they're not quite where we want them to be yet. Goal eight is about um student well-being, mental health, and equity through extracurriculars and campus safety. Um, and we're looking here at our second step curriculum as well um as universal universal access to the curriculum as well as how many lessons are being completed. This data is from December. And so when I've been meeting with each school site for their midyear data chats, they've actually progressed quite a bit since then. And so we are um expecting to be close to our targets in this area. Again, lots of success in our chicks um survey data, but two areas for
045focus are continuing to promote parent engagement and also um reducing the number of middle middle [clears throat] school students who feel fear of getting beat up. That was what they reported on the chick survey and we know that's something that came up at the town hall on Monday. Um, and so Summer and her team especially are really continuing to work on that. Goal nine is about staff recruitment and retention. Um, some of the data that we pulled here is um, certificated staff attendance. We know when employees are happy at work, they are less likely to call out sick unless they really need to be out sick. Um we're looking like we're going to be at about the same number of absences this year as next as last year. So still some work to do in
046that area. Um we introduced our teacher leader academy this year for grade level and subject area reps to increase leadership capacity amongst our staff and that's been wellreceived as well as feedback on our teacher new teacher orientation both from teachers new to the profession and veteran teachers who are new to the district. Um, we do want to continue to focus on certificated staff retention and continue providing professional learning and recognition opportunities for staff. And goal 10 is our last one. Um, and this is about building school capacity to address racism, discrimination, and bias and also improve student well-being and success. Um, and when we look at our students and how they are reporting whether or not they feel like they've been harassed for different um, what are those called? Areas. I'm going to say areas.
047Um, we can see that there it is decreasing um, sixth grade to 7th grade to 8th grade. And so we are seeing um improvement in our chicks data yearbyear. Again, chicks results are showing a lot of our successes. Um an area that we want to continue to focus on is decreasing suspension rates for Hispanic students, particularly at our middle schools. This is a report of our spending as of December 2025, so midway through the school year. Um the top row um under each goal is how much was budgeted for that goal. Um beneath that is how much was spent and I did include in goals one and two our learning recovery block grant um because that those funds were allocated within those goals even though it's separate from the LCAP. Um, and we are about
048midway through spending in most areas. In a few areas, it's less, but there are certain things that are typically only paid at the end of the year. More field trips will be happening in the spring. Lots of stipens are paid in the spring. And so, those will account for um some of the goals where you see the spending looks a little bit low. Um, in general, we should be right on track with where we are um in the year. And I know I went through that really quickly. This will be posted on our website tomorrow. Um, and the full report will also be posted if anyone wanted to dig deeper into our midyear report. Um, but do you have any questions for me at this time? >> You want to go first or >> I'll
049go. >> All right. Um, thank you for your presentation. I I love the the the benefits in terms of seeing the data. I'm seeing improvement in vast areas, you know. um though, but I do have two concerns. One was having to do with goal one and goal two. I'm really concerned about New Republic and Sanorita, you know, um to see a decrease where all our other schools are increasing. Um you know, we need to get the bottom of that and find out what's going and what additional support they need. I'm not blaming anyone. I'm just saying, you know, we need to have a focus on that in terms of what's working, what's not working. maybe provide additional funding, additional support services to address those two schools, both in English and in math. Um, the other
050one I have a concern with is goal number eight. I received quite a few phone calls in the last few months regarding fights in middle schools, you know, um, and I'm not saying that's out of the ordinary. I remember going to high school, you know, that's, you know, emotional. Middle school's that weird age where, you know, you're still you're transitioning and you have a lot of emotional uh, things going on. But I I think we need to have a special focus on that in terms of bullying and the fights. Whatever we can do to provide additional services, maybe redispute some of the funding uh to address those and create programs or awareness, you know, um I am concerned about that. So, but overall, I'm I'm very pleased. You know, those are specific things I think
051that can be addressed, but the overall I'm seeing our district going in the right direction. You know, and bullying, by the way, I teach in high school district. You know that idea of fighting it's a constant. It's just not local to our own district. But I think we have a duty to try to do our best in terms of trying to rectify it the best we can. It is uh it is showing up on data. It is showing up in real life. So whatever we can do to uh put additional spotlight and maybe additional support services to try to alleviate it. I'm not saying miracles can happen overnight, you know, but overall I'm very pleased, very pleased. And I do want to reiterate with the math and ELA data that's from last spring. And so
052this year we've seen a lot of work that is being done specifically at those two sites to address this because they also um were not thrilled with that uh score dip. >> Thank you so much. And once again, I have nothing against those schools. You know, I I just want to make sure that, you know, once again, we're providing the services so we can all improve, you know, together. >> Absolutely. And I'll just add on goal eight. That was one of the areas that we focused on with our discussion with our parents is how much we need to work in partnership and that using our anonymous reporting system letting us know because a lot of this is brewing in the evenings over social media and we don't know what's going on until the time comes.
053And so um kind of along with the other part we saw that focus area is really engaging with our families to give us information as soon as they have it so that we can step in and support and intervene um early on because I would say 90% of what we're seeing in the physical altercations has to do with social media. We also shared with our parents at the town hall how important when we're addressing vaping that we have to work in partnership. me m most I was going to say most of our students are getting vapes from households right b taking them from the adults who legally can have them and so we really talked with our parents on Monday night around like we have to do this in partnership so yeah we agree >>
054and just one other comment you know um you know I I know we tabled the idea of pouches in middle schools but I think at some point we might want to re review that or revisit that in terms of what's working not working and looking at other districts. I know at Selenus Union, it has overall been beneficial. You know, especially with the social media climate, not having cell phones, students are more engaged. They talk during breaks. They talk during lunch. They're not staring at phones and and and scanning and constantly looking at other comments and what's like, what's not like, what so- and so's commenting during school time. You know, um this is one of the things I discussed at that time to try to alleiate. And um obviously, you know, we're seeing the bullying
055and fighting, it's just increasing in social media, but I uh when I talk to middle schools in Selenus Union District, I've talked to the teachers and overall it's been really welcomed and it has shown a definite decrease in tension in mental health. Wellness has increased, more communication between students rather than staring at screens during breaks and at lunchtime and before school and after school on campus. So something to consider. You know, I'm not saying it's a solution. I'm not saying we need to implement it. I am saying is we need to have a discussion and revisit it maybe in sometime in the future. >> And Mr. Pat, I can bring that forward. We we have seen a substantial decrease in anything related to phones. If you remember, we saw like a big issue with the
056bathrooms and phones. We're not getting those reports anymore as we kind of implement our board policy as well. Um the bigger challenge is the athome social. I mean, it's it's all of it. I agree with you. and it is the at-home social media where there's not anybody monitoring. Um, here at school we have staff monitoring, we have staff intervening. Um, what we're seeing is in the evenings when students get home this increased use of social media that then follows them to the school as well. So, um, but you'll see in those data as well, we have seen a huge decrease in any incidents being noted by staff or students related to phones as we've fully implemented our policy. So yeah, I appreciate that. >> I will also say at our town hall that was one
057of the things that like when at I can one of the tables were like >> can you give us some education on how to do that, right? Like cuz summer had said, you know, like about the vaping and things like that and so they were like we would like to know more about what we can do about that and how to do that, right? Um, and that gets harder, right, the older a student is. And and but it is that at home piece that then brings itself to school the next morning. And so getting parents to partner with us on that like if you see something, please say something so we're ready for it in the morning so we can be proactive about it in those pieces, right? And and making sure that they know
058all the pathways that they could get us that information and that we can help. >> And Dr. Shelderman reminded me that my proposal that I will bring, you know, kind of put out there for next year is that we do a parent conference um kind of instead of the four town halls cuz we have a lot of data from those, but that we host a parent conference that really focuses on educating our parents on these areas. Um we've done it really successfully in other programs I've worked in, but what we heard overwhelmingly is they're saying, "Teach us how to help you." Like, "We want to help you. We just don't know how to do it either." So, um for next year, that would be kind of for the board to start to consider. I would
059like to, you know, move forward with a parent conference. We're not gonna talk about now, but a parent conference um where we can bring these educational topics forward just really quick um right now that [clears throat] you mentioned about um the parents to get the parents more involved. I remember at one time at Gavalan View we had a um a grant and I think it was um I can't remember the name of the teacher. Robin is her first name. There you go. And she had the parent to parent and so I traveled with her to different I don't know whether you remember that or not. >> Yes. And that was so um it was a it was really successful. And then the grant, we didn't have any more grant money, so we couldn't continue it.
060But I do remember the parentto parent, that conversation that you have with the parent. Um, and then like you said, they brought up issues, certain issues. At that time there was no vaping, but I mean there was um issues with uh what do they how can they help their child when they're out in the field working all day? What is it that we can how do you get them out of gangs or how do you prevent them from getting into gangs? It was a very very successful program and um Robin and I worked together on that. So, thank you for >> and I'll be bringing you a proposal about that because we have a program that we're going to be doing. I just had didn't put it on this agenda. So, >> um the only
061comment that I had was just in regards to the science and uh Becky and Melissa and I have talked about this a little bit. I teach that same curriculum. It is. There's a lot of great things in there, but it's it's just this huge overwhelming amount of information and it's hard to pick out what it is that you need to do. There's also huge sections of it that are very dry and do not engage the children at all. So, um, some positive things I've been involved with is like bringing more trainers in from the company to do. We did an optional couple of paid days in the summer for teachers to have more time and then more planning time together because um I when we first adopted the curriculum, I absolutely tried as hard as
062I could to do it with fidelity and the kids hated it. Um, so it really does need to be picked apart to make it really me engaging for the kids because then they'll use it, then they'll remember it, and then teachers will do it. Because as written, if you want to teach all the standards, it requires your kindergarten through third grade teachers to do two science lessons per week. And it requires your fourth and fifth grade teachers to do three science lessons per week, which is a big time chunk uh if you're not adapting it to figure out, hey, this is repetitive or hey, this is the hands-on part that we need. And it also has an overwhelming amount of vocabulary for every single lesson. And so that's another thing to be able to go
063through and be able to say, "Hey, what's our real high ticket, you know, words here?" So just an encouragement that it if we want better science scores, we're going to have to do a really deep dive into a good resource that we already have but needs a huge amount of tweaking to make it work. >> Thank you. Made a note of that. >> I'm sorry. Can I add something else in there on the positive note? Um what I did notice on the presentation that there was a reclassified in 2024 there were there were 84 students and in 2025 there was 137 which I was like yay that's where we want to go. >> Yeah. >> Um but overall it was a great presentation. >> Thank you. >> Yeah great presentation. You guys touched on everything
064that I had also um questioned. You know, those numbers um of course we've always talked about it, right? Um we're doing what we can and we know there's certain areas back many different things of why those outcomes might be, but what can we do like Mr. Patel said to to get them there, right? Um but I've always said, right, parents need to be involved. Like that's the reason why I joined. That's I I'm strong believer you have to be involved because these amazing teachers and administrators can't do it alone. They're just one piece. So I am very happy to see that that's a feedback that you guys are getting on that uh checks that parents are recognizing the importance of being involved and how they feel more connected with their child, you know. Um, and
065because nobody should be fearful coming to school, right? Nobody should be thinking, "Oh, I'm going to get beat up or what not." Um, yet we live it. When I went to school, when like Mr. Patel said, it's something that happens no matter what. It's not, you know, that we are not paying attention of it or something like that. Yeah, of course. Um but knowing that key that they said in the town hall of the parents like how can you educate us right that is so important that parents want to get that education and be educated on how do I prevent this how kids are smart you know kids sometimes know more than these parents at home you know they are clueless about some of the stuff so um that's really important and I'm um eager
066to see what you guys come up with getting, you know, parent conference and whatnot, what what partners we could come into get in here and get them those parents educated on these topics that are very they're they're a hard topic. So, but yeah, thank you. >> Well, one additional comment, Cindy, um there was one item quite a few times I saw was how do we get more buyin from the teachers for the optional PD days? you know, um, obviously if it's something well received by teachers and we, you know, there's they're being compensated, I I I can see more of a demand for it, but, you know, as a teacher, I I think most of us would agree that if it's not something worthwhile that we believe in that will benefit us, you know, we're
067we're probably not going to do it. I don't care how much you offer. So I think you know there has to be that bridge to be built you know um working with with our union and teachers and saying you know what kind of PDS can we do to encourage you to come you know the compensation's one element but that's not what's driving it you know so whatever more productive PDS we can create with their buyin you know um it's a it's it's hard to do I understand otherwise we've already done it but continue to keep searching for that >> you know I would love to see more increase participation of voluntary PD. These um professional development hours in particular are 15 hours of optional PD available to each teacher for the school year where they
068can self- select from a catalog of options that include both um well a multitude of sources from our induction um coach additional trainings MCE trainings um curriculum um type of webinars but also they can propose if they find a a PD that they're interested in they have a request form that can be approved so that they can self-identify the things that are going to be meaningful for them within these hours. Um there are teachers a consistent core group of teachers who complete their hours every year and some who don't participate in any of the hours. Um, and so that's where we're hoping that we can get more teachers to identify the things that will support them, um, and participate in those hours, taking advantage of those hours. >> Yeah. And the only um the recommendation
069that I have in regards to that obviously I mean there's certain conferences that I know are outstanding all the time. The kinder conference is always you know amazing. But the other thing I was thinking specifically um I've had great I Ready trainers you know consistently and um as I mentioned the science trainers that came from the the program who were sciencetosis from other districts were amazing. If we can pull some teachers to for with subs towards the end of the year, do some training in the spring, then they if they have a great experience can sort of sell it to other people if we're offering some training in the summer to be able to say, "Hey, this particular trainer was great. This is really worth going to because as you as we all know, the
070difference between a great trainer or or not." If if it's someone in your grade level is telling you, "Hey, I had a really positive experience." then it'll may get people to buy in who otherwise wouldn't. Any other comments? Okay, moving on to item 9.1, approval of annual audit report for the year of 2024 2025. >> Thank you. Um, tonight we have Adam from Moss Lee and hard time [laughter] um um via Zoom to present our annual audit for June 30th, 2025, which would be um for July 1st, 2024 through June 30th, 2025. Um he's going to present and um if you have any questions, discussions, he can go a little bit further with that for us. Thank you. >> Hi, can you guys hear me? >> Yes. Yes. Okay, good. Um, so yeah, as introduced,
071um, I am the partner from Moss, Levby, and Hartzim, um, that was in charge of of the audit this last year. Um, this was not our first year as a company doing the audit, but it was my first year as the partner in charge. Um, so while it was not new to the company, it we did switch our uh our partners out on the audit um and were able to maintain the the audit rotation so we get fresh eyes on the district every so often. Um so what you have in front of you is the final uh financial statements issued this year for um the fiscal year ended June 30 of 2025. Um, just wanted to kind of walk through and and point out a couple highlights. Um, and then I'll I'll open it back
072up to you guys if you guys have any questions. Uh, so the first thing I wanted to point out is the first page. Um, page one and two is the auditor's report audit opinion. Um, and what I want to point out here is we issued an unmodified audit opinion. Um, which is the best kind of audit opinion. Um, basically it means that we were able to get all the documentation, support, explanations, all that kind of stuff that we needed. Um, and that we agree with all the numbers that are presented here in the financial statements. Um, so again uh we issued a clean unmodified opinion on the uh financial statements. Um, the next section in here, pages 3 through 14, um, I just wanted to highlight this. Um this is the management's discussion and analysis.
073Um this is not written by us. Um this is written by the district management. Um and allows the district to both uh summarize the financial statements and provide some analysis for why numbers um might have changed from the prior fiscal year. Um because when you go later on in the statements um there's no uh year-to-year comparison presented. Um, and then it allows the the management to kind of explain why some of the things happened during the year, why some of the numbers changed, um, and provide that analysis. Um, the rest of the financial statements kind of get into the details of all the the numbers. Um, a couple things that I wanted to point out. Um there was an overall decrease in fund balance um including the general fund which had a decrease of about
074$6.5 million in fund balance in 2425. Um but what I also wanted to point out is this was budgeted for um the original budget for the fiscal year had about the same decrease in fund balance. Um and then when compared with the final budget it was the expenditures were about $3.8 $8 million under um the final budgeted expenditures. Um overall um the page 15 um kind of gives an overview of the entire district um as a snapshot as of June 30 of 2025. Um, as you can see, uh, the total assets and deferred outflows exceeded the liabilities and deferred inflows of the district, um, by about $49 million. Um, a large portion of this uh, ending net position is in the capital assets of the district. That is everything from land, construction in progress, buildings,
075equipment, um, and does include the depreciation and the, uh, accounting for the outstanding bonds payable. Um, that totaled about 38.6 million at the end of the year. Um, you will see on page 15 there is a negative unrestricted net position of about 5.8 million. Um the one thing that I wanted to point out here is there is a negative unrestricted net position but a large portion or a large reason for why that happened is because there is um the net pension liability and net OP which is retirey health benefits uh liabilities um that totaled almost 37 million for the year. Um both of those numbers are significant to keep track of and and keep in mind when you're looking at the district as a whole. Um but they are not a liability of what might
076need to be paid in the very next year. Um those are based off of long-term calculations. Um basically over time um how much the district might owe in its pension and retirey health benefits. Um so while those liabilities added up to almost 37 million um it is reflected later on in the financial statements um that the actual cash payments in 2425 for um pension was about 6.5 million um and about 157,000 for the retirey health benefits. Um, so again, you know, the total liability was about 37 million. Um, but about 6.7 million or so um was actually spent during the year on those two items. Um, a couple other things I wanted to point out. Uh there is a subsequent event listed at the end of the financial statement notes on page 47 um to
077discuss the bond issuance in August of 2025 of 7 million. Um but other than disclosing that in the note there is no accounting for it in these financial statements um because that occurred after the year end. Um finally, uh and a big piece of the audit is when we come out to the district, um we're required to look at the district's internal controls. um meaning we review how the district writes its checks, pays its vendors, um processes payroll, takes in receipts, um and also the state wants us to look at a whole list of state compliance items regarding attendance um and a whole list of other things that they want us to look at. And finally, uh the federal government wants us to look at the total federal expenditures and test some of those federal
078expenditures. And I am happy to report um that we had no findings in the year. Um so all of the work and all the stuff that we looked at for the financials, the state compliance, federal compliance, um everything was clean. Um no findings to report here. So, um I really want to thank um district staff for working with us to get us all the numbers that we need in the two different weeks that we came out to the district to work on the audit. Um you know, we we know it's a lot of work to keep everything going as usual, plus get all the documentation that we need to look at, um including a few of the school sites that we visited to do attendance testing. Um, so anyway, uh, that's kind of my summary
079of the of what you have here. Um, I'll open it back up to you guys if you have any questions for me. >> Questions, comments from the board? >> I don't have a question about the audit in general. I did want to ask uh, Dr. Alderman, are we still waiting from the state for the difference in the land price that we paid for the new school site? We are still waiting. >> Okay. You I thought so. >> Oh, no. Thank you. I'm glad we we cleared the audit. Um you know my concern is always internal controls and what we have in place you know and uh when an outside agency comes to verify them you know gives us additional um trust in our systems to make sure that whatever number choices we're making based on
080budgeting you know is actually real numbers and not just made up in space numbers. So thank you for that you know motion to approve. >> Okay. Um, [clears throat] no other comment from the board. Okay. Uh, can I get a motion to approve 9.1? >> Show a motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> motion 40. Thank you, Adam. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh, moving on to 9.2, approval of appointment of acting chief business officer Debbie Campo. >> Thank you. Um our chief business officer uh Rosas Moody is currently on a personal leave. Um and in order to ensure the continuity of operations and then facilitate our ongoing functions including um being an authorized signatory on our financial documents related to business matters. Um we are seeking the approval of appointing
081Debbie Campbell to be acting chief business officer. Mr. Campbell, you have a lot of support within this district office. You know, I I I wish you well on this endeavor. >> Thank you. >> I just want a clarification that she's going to be paid as the Yes. Thank you. >> Sorry, down I I I should have gone back to clarify that that appointment dates back to December 10th. Um, previously the board had agreed to pay out of class as interim. This is sort of a next level with that signatory authorization as well. So, she is being paid out of class as chief business officer. >> And I forgot one more thing. Thank you for stepping up. >> Thank you for u giving me the opportunity um to support our district because it's really important to
082me. Thank you, Miss Ela. just thank you so much and um I've known you for so many years and I know that your work has always been very true to the district and um so um welcome aboard until until further notice. >> Thank you. >> We're extremely grateful for everything that you're doing. >> Yes. Um, you know, Mr. Patel said something right now that's very important. Um, [clears throat] sitting here, it's not an easy job, right? We lean on our administrators, on our teachers, on our experts to guide us and give us those informations and then we come and we question. So, when we were told like, hey, this is happening and you were brought up and you stepped up, I mean, that's grateful. We need everything we can. We need the best here in
083every district, right? And so when an administrator says, "I have trust in this individual," I as a trustee have full faith that you will. They have told us, "You need support. You need anything, they'll have it." So, thank you. Thank you so much for stepping up to the plate. Really appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> I motion. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I I captain >> motion 40. >> Okay. And moving on to approval of tent of agreement for we've already >> we did 9.32 >> going to 9.5 >> 9.5 approval of salary schedule increases unrepresented classified confidential and classified licensed professional supervery units. Yes, that item is mine. And now that we have concluded negotiations with both SRTA and CSCA, uh, and as the district has done in the past, we are
084mirroring the CSE8 agreement, proposing it to present salary increase for the 2526 and 2627 respectively for the classified confidential and licensed professional salary schedules. Um, this item has a fiscal impact of 260,940. So motioned second. >> All those in favor? >> I motion 40 >> 9.6 approval of salary schedule increases classified management senior classified management certified management. >> Thank you. So um this is for our management uh groups who are on salary schedules. This does not include the superintendent. Um, and we have a verbal summary requirement that needs to be read into the record before you ask for um, an action. >> Can I interrupt for a second? Um, just the previous item just for clarification purposes, we had the $260,000 number at the end, which is the correct number up at the top. We
085had a $41,000 number. So, just if anybody was looking at the agenda to know that we did um acknowledge the $260,000 number, which is the correct number. >> Yes. Okay. Sorry. So the board will consider approval of a 2% salary increase for classified management, senior classified management and certified management salary schedules effective. The estimated ongoing fiscal impact is with uh 51 which is incorporated into the adopted budget. Can I call for a motion? So motion >> second. >> All those in favor. >> Motion 40. >> Okay. Moving on to 9.7 of approval of public disclosure AB 1200 for unrepresented and Sanita Union School District for 2025 2026 and 2026 2027 school year. >> Thank you. Um, so this is the AB1200 for both our unrepresented and our management groups. >> Yeah. >> So motioned. >>
086Second. >> All those in favor? >> I kept motion 4. >> No. Nope. another >> because it doesn't add. >> Say that one more time. >> So if we if 9.5 is 260,000. >> So I I think I'm catching the mistake and Claudia can correct. Originally we had these grouped into one item and we pulled it out. So the AB1200 that total number for both groups is what we should have indicated on that prior item and Claudia correct? >> That is correct. >> We are wrong. >> You got it right. >> Okay. So we can go I would like to go back to um item >> 9.5 to make a correction to the total cost for those groups. So the total cost for the salary schedule increase on 9.5 the unrepresented classified confidential and classified
087licensed professional supervisory units. That amount is 41,587.76. >> I would motion to approve 9.5 is the amended amount. >> I get a second. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. Motion passes 40. So then if we can go back to 9.6 Y 9.6 the fiscal impact of that item I believe was read correctly into the record as $26,51. So just to clarify that I don't think we need to amend that item. I believe it was read correctly. So that when we come over to 9.7 for approval, the total dollar amount of both of those groups together for the AB1200 purposes as one AB1200 is 260,940. Yeah, that was when I voted no because of Mike. So, if if we want to vote again, >> if if we would like to
088um redo our vote just to make sure that now that we've clarified those numbers and that we're voting correctly, >> we motion for 9.7 approval. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I motion 40. Thank you, Sarah. >> Okay. 9.8 A approval of MOU between SRUSD and SRTA for early retirement notice. >> That item is also mine. So that is an MOU entered into with Sanorita Union Sanorita teachers association to offer an early retirement notice incentive for the 2526 school year and that is for $3,000. So motion >> a second. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> motion 40. >> Okay. Uh 9.9 approval of MLUS between SRUSD and CSEA for bus driver hour rotation special education interpreter training incentive work year reduction for two positions early retirement notice incentive. >>
089That is correct. Um so this is a series of multipleus that we have entered into with CASCA. Uh one of them as you have identified with the title is for the rotation of bus drivers taking on long-term assignments that is a month or longer during the school year. We have also extended the special education interpreter incentive for those individuals wishing to go through a training um offering the $2,500 stipen and the rate at range 34. We had also um discussed and agreed to uh reduction of the um work year for the central kitchen assistant. There's only one position remaining at that and the reduction of the warehouse delivery driver from 12 month to 10 months and that is due to uh the elimination of the preschool program which was eliminated previously. We just didn't catch
090those positions at that time. So that is just a cleanup. And then the extension of the retirement incentive also for 3,000 for this school year. Um just like we are extending it to SRTA for those individuals who give us notice by March 6th of this year. >> So motion >> second. >> All those in favor? >> I I captain >> motion 40. >> 9.10 approval ofou with digital promise global. >> That one's mine. Um, thisou is set to establish a partnership agreement between uh our school district and digital promise global to launch our Verizon innovative learning schools initiative with Gavalan View and John Gutierre's middle schools. And so a part of this uhou is that every student and educator at um both of our middle school sites will receive a dedicated device that's equipped with
091um a monthly data plan. So that allows for digital equity for both our 1:1 initiative within our schools for inschool and at home learning. Um we will also receive some financial support from them in terms of a $35,000 annual per school support for the salary for our instructional coaches along with an additional stipen for sitebased supports and contacts. Our professional growth is a partnership with digital promise that will be working with our initiatives to provide professional learning on-site visits and some webinars to help um build our capacity for our learning with our uh technology and integrations. Um comment comment. >> I want to thank our team our admin team Chrisa especially uh to have a anou that takes into cons consideration our needs at Sanorita and make sure that our students and staff are protected
092and provided for and uh we were at the table you know rather than just uh willy-nilly signing anything. So thank you for theou with that motion. >> Second. All those in favor? I >> motion 40. >> Uh 9.1 approval of resolution 26.02.01 to receive donations for the advancement of the third grade literacy program. Thank you. This item is for the approval of resolution 26.02.01 01 um to receive donations for the golden ticket program um providing an incentive to third grade students who meet or exceed standard on the CASP ELA. Um and Sanorita is one of more than 10 neighboring districts participating in this program. >> Comments? >> Quick comment. Um, I want to say thank you to the board especially and our admin team to making sure that uh this um uh incentive is make
093sure it's equitably and equally distributed based on performance without any um um prejudice of any type or sighting of one sub subgroup or not. And so with that, you know, I'm I'm very pleased that we're we're going back with it and providing additional funds to our needy families in our district so that have earned it. Miss Alba. >> No, Sarah. >> Um, I've already let the superintendent know that I will not be voting for this because there's been extensive research in this area to show that this is not supported by research. If anybody Googles it, um, there's no research supporting financial incentives for passing ELA state tests. Um, and I would love to partner with a group that was interested in doing something to help our children that was researchbased, but this absolutely is not.
094>> I motion to approve. >> I was just going to make a comment. >> Oh, sorry. Go ahead. >> Um, I um just want to say like Mr. tell to the admin. Thank you. Because um when uh Miss Sarah did bring this up, I mean I as a parent, I wanted to make sure that you know this was aligned and whatnot. You and um from the information that you guys gave us. Personally, I feel that you know it's transparent and kids are going to benefit from this. Um, I know that I had parents reaching out about, you know, hey, my kid is struggling with reading. What can you guys do at the school? You know, um, they're in this age group and whatnot. So, I think, um, I mean, if we this is not costing
095us anything and, you know, it's something that's going to benefit the students. I I um I am actually very thankful that this is something. So, thank you for taking the time and clearing those questions up that I had in my head. Um, so then now can I get a motion to >> comment? >> No. >> Motion to approve. >> All those in favor? >> I >> Do we have opposition or >> I would like I'm going to vote no. >> Okay. Motion passes 31. >> Moving on to 9.12. approval of overnight student travel for destination imagination regional competition in Fresno. >> Oh, dream. >> That's that's me >> engineer. The information with you a little bit earlier um in that handout, but this is just because this will be an overnight trip. We will be
096leaving here um Friday morning at 9:00 a.m. uh doing the tour at Fresno State, staying overnight at a hotel. You see the volunteers that are listed there as well. We have a parent traveling with us um as well who will be part of that and then several parents who will be meeting us there. >> I want to thank our resident engineer Dr. Pther Smith for bringing this to the board. Um you know I >> way more pressure than I need there Mr. tell >> you know I'm I'm a I I love engineering so you know um but the idea of the students getting creative building courage you know leaving the city I I always find that fascinating when I have students leaving and they find courage to go out and pursue their passions you know
097and uh I wish we had funding for everyone you know to do that but I think it's a big growth spurt you know and so that's my comment >> and I will say we're hoping to extend so thank you to Mr. Dr. Grant Howton who took on this pilot project for us. We did open it up to all of our sites and we're hoping to expand next year. We have funding under ELOP. So, anybody listening, if you're interested for next year, you know, we're hoping to take a school bus full of students. >> Miss, >> I did a walk through um and I saw some of the projects that some of the kids were doing and I was so excited. I wanted to even do the projects with the kids as they were explaining to
098me how how inventive they they were creating stuff. It it was just great and it was just so organized. I mean, you walk into that room and it's like, wow, there's just so much stuff. I wanted to touch everything that was in there. But yeah, thank you. I think it's going to be a really great thing for the kids. Thank you, Miss Sarah. Um, I always say it, you're great, Summer, what you bring to the district, you know, the whole team. But honestly, I think these programs are fundamental for the growth of our youth. Um, a lot of kids don't get this exposure. They don't know what's out there. Personally, I'm a first generation and at my daughter's age, I didn't know things existed. So these type of programs are so important to make sure
099that kids get out there. They they get to like Mr. um Tel said [clears throat] experience and see like hey there's something else and learn like hey there's options. This is something because a lot of children don't have that. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm very excited. I can't wait for you to report back and um that's awesome. So, >> oh, and also Becky and I are hoping to partner a little bit more next year because remember that Destination Imagination includes five challenges. We did the technical challenge, but there is also fine arts improv. So, our future, you know, we have a play that'll be happening soon at uh New Republic. Maybe we'll have some inspired thespians out there. So, um we give students our opportunities in lots of different areas. So, yeah,
100I'm excited to report back to you, not on my judging, but on the event. >> Uh can I get a motion? So motion >> second. >> All those in favor >> motion 40 >> uh 9.13 approval of emerges. >> Yeah. The contract for behavior aids and paraprofessionals. >> Perfect. That's my item tonight. So it's just like it sounds. It's four um aids. Two instructional paraprofessionals and two behavioral um aids. um two are to support um two of our students with some pretty significant behavior needs that were in the middle of referral process. So we need that behavioral support and then the other two are paraprofessionals that are helping cover services. We have two elementary sites that are pretty high in um resource services. So, some of our program managers and myself are case managing and
101we're um hoping to bring on these additional pair of professionals to make sure our students continue to receive quality services. >> Any comments? >> I >> required by AP. So motioned. >> Just have a quick question. Melanie, clarification. Um so it is uh for total behavior to Paris and it's for the >> fiscal year 2025 202. >> Yeah. for the remainder of this year unless obviously students move or things change. But I did budget it for the remainder of the year just not knowing the exact time frame. >> No. Um can I get a motion? >> Mr. Patel motion. >> I think Sarah has a >> Oh, no. I thought that Mr. Patel already made a motion. >> He made a motion. We're looking for a second. >> All those in favor? >> I motion
10240. Uh 9.14 ratify approval of Val's plumbing quote. >> Thank you. Um I am representing this item for Mr. Chuck Helm who unfortunately could not be here with us tonight. Um you may recall at our very first town hall um we had a student we had a student who brought it up at the town hall about um that we had water fountains and bottle filling stations. the water was not chilled. Um, and it met like city water standards, but didn't taste great. >> Um, and so Summer, a self-p profofessed water snob, as she mentioned at this town hall. Um, we went in um, full boore with Chuck's department on how could we make this happen. He found out that, you know, based on the placement, if it's especially accessible for students during breakfast and lunch,
103um that we could fund this with our fund 13 um central kitchen funds. We um installed the first two at Santaorita Elementary School. So, it's a ratification. We went ahead and moved forward. Originally, we were going to install one, but in visiting it with the plumber and the installation crew, they determined that they could fit two. So, we have a high and a low. And it's both a bottle filling station and a traditional water fountain. Um, I believe Summer also made Becky drink some water at the town hall directly from it. >> Made Becky drink the water. I was like, "Taste the water. It's so delicious." >> And, um, as of Monday, we'd already saved almost 700 bottles of water. It has a has a note on it that counts a counter on on how
104well that's doing. Uh Donna and Janette were saying that uh students and staff were really really pleased with this and so we're moving forward with installation of these um at all of our other sites and it it takes about a week or two. If they need some plumbing or electrical run that may take a little bit more work, but um we wanted to go ahead and get this on for that first one that we had already done. Um, and I just want to clarify for anybody who's listening, I'm so glad the water tastes good. But just so that people know that schools have a much higher standard of cleanliness of their water than even like the house that's next door. So nobody needs to ever be worried about the water that their children are having
105access to at school. The state monitors that really really carefully. And it is cleaner than the water at your house, but now it also tastes better than the water at your house. >> And it's so Yes. >> Uh, >> and it looks really nice. >> Yeah. So it with that I'm motion to approve. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I I >> motion 40. Thank you. >> Uh 9.15 approval of 20 26 2027 comprehensive school safety plan. >> Thank you. Um this is our annual update of our school safety plans. Uh just quickly a couple of the we we updated the usual when our safety drills are going to be happening, our safety teams. Um, a couple of the other areas that have been added this year is, um, adding the location and
106the use of our, uh, automatic defibrillator. So, I worked with our nurses around that to add it in, um, to our plans this year, as well as, um, a response to immigration enforcement around our schools or in our area. So, that was added in as well. Um, that re enforcement procedures and protocols. Um, all plans went through our checks as well and met compliance. Um once approved tonight, we'll send those over to the county office. >> Um I just wanted to comment. Um when we um the presentation was going on on Monday, something caught my eye. Verbage changes, things change, right? So something that was brought up was what the meanings are when >> lockdown kids might reach out or or we hear it whatever, you know? um and how compared to when maybe a
107parent that was in school here sees or whatnot. So, um maybe sharing that like you know in in our uh social media but also like in our actual district page stuff like that so parents are aware hey if you hear this this is what it actually means >> you know because you get alerted and you're like wait what what's going on you know so um that's the only thing that I wanted to see because I know that in the safety plans like we had you know on them but yeah it's in there but um I just thought maybe we share them around. >> I think it's a great idea. We started sharing we did that when we first implemented the big five, but it's been a little bit of time. So, I think it's a
108really good idea to keep getting that back out there to our parents. Um, we are also working really closely with uh dispatch for the it's the city and the county because they are not always using the right terminology and it causes confusion for families who may be or people who may be listening to um the radio to post or the what do you call it? >> Scanner to post on social media. So we often see social media posts related that don't match what we've called and so um I think it's a really good messaging to we started there but I think yeah we keep getting that out. >> I agree with Cindy. I think the big five needs you know we need to get more information out there. Make sure we have the common big
109five with all the other school districts and make sure it's a common uh format and uh multiple dispersion uh distribution points online internets uh call outs you know whatever it may be. But I think every parent should know those five and maybe provide even a a kitchen sticker, you know, something that just reminds them, you know, to put a magnet or whatever on their fridge. But something just everyone has on the same page of what each one of those alerts are. >> Yeah. >> And it's a good point. We are in alignment with all other districts surrounding districts have adopted the big five as well. So that's follow through. >> Um any other comments or questions from the board? Can I get an motion for >> motion to approve? >> Second. >> All those in
110favor? >> I [clears throat] >> motion 40. >> Okay. Um, moving on to 10.1. Uh, for attendance. >> You just say our next regular scheduled meeting. >> Next regular board meeting will be March 11, 2026. Um, uh, any suggestion future board items? M. I I I have one um you know I would like for our IT department to look into as anformational item. You know the idea we talked about this many years ago and that is providing uh free Wi-Fi services based out of each school like antennas that would provide free Wi-Fi to our communities our neighborhoods. I know certain cities have done it citywide with grants and other funding mechanisms. So, if we could somehow see if there are grants out there that would provide this uh I think increasingly vital uh necessary component
111of education especially to our low-income neighborhoods surrounding our elementary schools and middle schools. I I think it'll provide a great uh service. Um and it fits directly with, you know, our our educational goals, you know, of making sure our students have uh ability to connect, learn, uh you know, work on homework, access online databases, online uh programs and websites, you know, at a very uh free cost, you know. So it uh it eliminates that financial barrier and can provide a little bit of uh financial assistance to our families, you know, uh less less of a burden. So, you know, I hope the board can support and I'm not saying we need to approve it or provide funding from our own district, but I would love to see if uh what's out there um you know,
112what are the opportunities if there is grant available and long-term sustainability. You know, often we get grants, but they don't sustain us for maybe one or two, three years, and then we end up absorbing the cost after that. And also the updating of technology and maintenance of of set uh set equipment, whether it be antennas or or highbeam, Wi-Fi, signal, generators, I don't know what you want to call them, you know. Uh but I would love to see our district um maybe be the first, you know, in Monterey County to provide those services. We've been the first many times in many different areas. So, um, I hope that's possible. I I hope there are grants out there and I hope we can come back with anformational item just to explore. Thank you very much. >>
113Thank you, Mr. Patel. Any other >> um last um the last board meeting we had um uh proposed that we recognize Mary Kaiser. So, um I'm not sure whether we're going to do that soon or if we're going to wait till January to because I know that every January this is something new that we're going to be doing. So, yes. Um we can we can go ahead and add her to our current immemoriam and bring that back in March. We were hoping to like connect, but we had to cancel our meeting, our last meeting about how we wanted to do that because we she passed. Um, and I know the board held a moment of silence for her during the board meeting. Um, but I believe Mr. Ryan had promised that we would bring um
114like a recognition back um or a res, sorry, a resolution back recognizing her years of service for the district. So, I feel like that would be a good thing for us to do to read into our record. >> And I think we also discussed as we I think Dr. Alderman shared with you that Susan Fischer, the longterm principal of McKinnon who opened that school, passed away in um in February. And so, we are have also been talking about how we'll be recognizing her both here within the board and at that school site. Um what Summer and I um had talked about, staff had asked about is there a way because she was the founding principal for McKinnon Elementary School when it opened that we could maybe make a plaque recognizing her as the founding principal
115there. Um and we could use like our company, our local company here um who made our Sanorita plaque recognizing their prior um mascot if that were amunable to the board. >> Good. Okay. Good. Thank you. >> Yes. And I'd be interested in um talking about um at the county level services for our students from 0 to three that are being offered since we're not running our own preschool program anymore. And then also, you know, notifications that we're what's available in the district and then what's available locally. I was looking at um a preschool program at the adult school today and just sort of saying, "Hey, you know, what's available literally within our district, what's available to families like adjacent to us?" And just trying to get that information out there. >> Definitely. And the only
116thing I would um if it's something um possible and um obviously parents uh would be in agreement when this program kicks in and you know we we see kids that meet and they get this recognition for us to be able hopefully the board want to see that for um the golden ticket program and have them come to one of our board meetings to recognize Just a quick comment, Madame President. Um, I just want to commend our board. You know, as I look around and and I watch meetings from various uh other boards, you know, it reminds me of uh how to be a professional. You know, we can disagree and still be professional. We can have different opinions and still be professional. We can have different perspectives, different votes, but ultimately it's what we bring
117to the table and we keep this um modest yet collegial atmosphere. And that's what I really appreciate about this board. So, I just want to say thank you. >> I I agree. And just because we were talking about Mary Kaiser, that was one of the first things that Mary Kaiser ever said to me. She said, "We don't always agree politically. we don't always have the same idea, but we're a team and it um literally that was maybe the second sentence that she ever said to me. So, I appreciated it. Any other questions, comments? Okay, with that, can I have a motion to adjourn at 7:53? >> So, motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> I motion 40. Thank you. >> Thank you.