001Okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the Santaita Union School District board meeting. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Uh if we can please start off with the roll call. >> Mr. Neil Patel present. >> Miss Alvariano present. Miss Sarah Turner present. Mr. Jacob Sandaval. Miss Cindy Lopez is not present this evening. >> Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Ready? Begin. >> I aliance 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 the board agenda. >> Uh, Mr. President, I need to ask for us to revise uh personnel consent agenda item 5.3 by removing um employee 125081 from that action for this evening. >>
002Okay. Can I get a motion to approve as amended? >> Motion to approve as amended. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> motion 40. >> Okay. Today on close session items, we have item 2.1 potential litigation. 2.2 Two, public and service public employee performance evaluation. Uh 2.3 conference with labor negotiators. Uh is there any public comments regarding close session items? >> There are not. >> Can I get a motion to adjourn the close session, please? >> So motion. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I >> Okay, we'll see afterwards. Okay, we're ready. You ready? Give me a countdown, please. Okay, good afternoon everybody. We're going to reconvene back into open session. Nothing was voted on in close session, so there's nothing to report out. We're going to move on to the
003consent agenda items. Can I get a motion to approve items 5.1 to 5.3, please? >> Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? >> I I Captain >> I. >> Okay, we're going to move on to reports and correspondence. Uh 6.1. Is there anybody here from SRTA or any comments that were submitted? >> Uh not from SRTA. >> Okay. Uh CSEA. Good evening uh members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Alderman and district administration. My name is Hana Casillas and I'm the chapter president of the Sanorita Union School District chapter of the California School Employee Association. In accordance with section 3547 of the government code, I'm here to formally present and submit CSA's initial sunshine proposal for negotiations with the district for the upcoming successor negotiations 2025 through 2028. The CSDA is committed to engaging in
004fair, transparent, and productive discussions to reach mutually beneficial agreements that will enhance the working conditions of classified employees and support the success of all students. Our goal is to work collaboratively and transer transparently with the district to ensure a fair and equitable agreement that reflects the hard work and dedication of our classified staff who are essential to the success of our students and schools. The CSEA looks forward to a collaborative pro process with the district negotiating negotiation team. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Appreciate your comments. Uh, superintendent cabinets. >> Okay. Uh, here with us this evening's director of nutritional services, Chuck Helm. Did you have anything? >> Um, yeah, just real quick, I did a director's orientation with the Chef Anne Foundation today. Um, I have an agenda item on there with the Chef
005Anne as well. But just some key things to take out of that. We had um eight of our internal staff sign on. We had one external. So, it's coming mid to late October. We'll get started on that. >> Uh, our chief business officer, Miss Rosa Zamurio, did you have anything? >> Good evening. I just want to mention that we finally closed the books for the districts and for the district and have a presentation coming up. >> Okay. And then we have um our director of engagement school climate, Dr. Summer Prader Smith. I have a whole list. Um, I'm going to have Gilbert queue up just a second. and I'll do a couple of the other ones before we get there. Um, first just a reminder to everybody, we have our community town hall coming up
006on October 1st at JGMS from 5:30 to 7:30. Um, I've been really excited to be planning with the team from building healthy communities. Um, we're really going to have an opportunity to highlight the work we're doing in the district through a poster activity and then lots of opportunities for small groupoup discussion. um migrant education as well as centro national will be there to support with um interpretation and supporting in those small groupoup conversations as well. So um we'll have food um and child care available for everybody as well. Um our first Saturday of this year sessions start this Saturday um at uh Sanorita Elementary and at Gavlan View Middle School. Our enrollment is a little lower than I would like it to be. Um so we're continuing to enroll students. We have about 90 students
007enrolled in our elementary program and around 50 students enrolled in our middle school program. We usually have about 35 more than that for this first session. Um so we've been doing some targeted recruitment. Uh we sent out the students who have at least one absence because we can use this for ADA recovery and our amazing office teams have been reaching out to families to get them enrolled as well. Um mate program started at our middle schools this past week before last. Um, so we're excited to see some of that production coming forward from McKate working with our middle school students. Um, next week is parent teacher conference week. So remember that it's minimum days and to all of our families to also just remember that this is an important opportunity to connect with your child's
008teacher. Um on a kind of sad announcement, um the swimming that we had planned for Saturdays is on hold because the pool um broke and so right now that facility is closed until the city is able to fund the repairs. Um so I just want to reassure our families that did sign up for swimming, as soon as the repairs are complete, we will be implementing those again. Um and we'll keep everybody posted as well. I want to thank um council member uh Aurelio Salesad and then uh Jose Areola with the city of Selenus. Um they came out this week to meet with us at Mckennon to walk the space and have some real collaborative conversations. I was really excited to see crossing support across Mckennon or across Veronda um after we had that conversation and
009then they have also put up caution tape and cones along the walkway to help keep students away from that space. Um, we were also able to confirm that our buses will have turning radius access beginning in November. Um, and then the paved walkway from Dartmouth from Lowe's will be black topped and not dirt. So, um, thank you to them. We continue to work directly to make sure that our students are safe as well. Um, okay. And then, um, last, we, uh, finished filming our next campaign with KSBW. There's a little bit of information in this packet around um what that will look like in terms of our threemonth uh enrollment. We really focused on our facilities upgrade and we just want to show you the current draft version of that. Across the Sanorita Union School
010District, schools are getting new upgrades. All of our elementary schools have exciting new playgrounds at New Republic and Mckennon. New shade structures mean safer spaces to play. Santaorita Elementary has new restrooms and La Hoya will receive their upgrade this winter. At Gablin View, 11 new classrooms and a flex lab are on the way. And this fall, John Gutierrez Middle will open six new classrooms. Santaita Union School District is creating lasting spaces where students learn and grow. >> So that campaign will start, I know, it turned out really nice. Uh that campaign will start. The kids were really excited. They're like, "When's it going to be on TV?" And I was like, "It's going to be on TV all the time for three months." So that campaign will start October 1st and we'll run October, November,
011and December. And then our goal would be after that to look at probably our after school and Saturday programming for our next campaign. I >> think that's everything on my list. >> Questions or comments from the board? >> Um, thank you for everything you do. Obviously, um going back to the traffic mitigation that the city came in with, I I understand tomorrow they're going to be shifting over to the temporary lights. And do you have any time frame of how long of those Okay, because I I'm just imagining way more traffic jam with that because I don't think they're radar based, are they? Or are they time based? >> They're time based. Um, one of the pieces that's kind of beneficial, not great for traffic, but great for our pedestrians, is that they'll also have
012like a a temporary crossing sign. When that's pushed, it stops all four lights. So, there'll be no traffic going. Not great for traffic, but better for our walkers. Um, right now, what they're looking at, those are going to start, but the intersection that they originally thought would be closed in October, it looks like it'll be more like November. Um so for everything we're looking at like March, April before kind of everything is back to a real functioning um space. >> We're looking at around five months >> at least >> of temporary lights because that is one of the major thorough affairs, you know, to get to East Solenus from >> Yes. And we were very clear about it and we talked about the positioning of that and again we said talked about how essential that
013crossing support was going to be. The other part is come November when that other work starts that whole section is going to go down to two lanes, one lane in each direction. >> No, thank you. My main concern was for safety for our pedestrians and our students crossing safely. So, thank you very much. Good to see them. >> Thank you so much. >> No, thank you. >> Okay. Anybody else, sir? Um, just in regards to the ad, which I loved, um, is there a way that we can put like a banner or something that says like thank you measure our voters into it just to be able to get that out there directly? >> Oh, that's a good catch. Yeah, >> thank you. Um, just shared that with us earlier today, so we're like, let's
014just Yeah, >> I appreciate that. People to see what we're doing with our money. >> Yeah. um for the town hall meeting what's kind of the structure and then the kind of the goals that's hoping to kind of take get taken out of >> Yeah. So um it will start with just kind of a soft opening. Um there will be uh like I said an opportunity to talk about the spectrum of engagement. Um families will have an opportunity rather than taking the time with us talking where like I said we're creating a poster activity that shows what we're already doing. families will have the option to kind of go through those posters, note what they see, what they haven't seen um in effect in the district. Then there'll be a series of questions around what's
015working, where there's challenges, what families want to see more of, and they'll be put into small groups with a a scribe and a facilitator to help uh facilitate that conversation. They will then have the opportunity to share out around what's working um where they'd like to see change and then we'll put some action steps as to what we could put into place and what we'll be working on before the next uh town hall meeting. The next town hall meeting we're looking at December 2nd or 4th I think is what it is. We're going to confirm those dates. So, um really much more around giving opportunity for collaboration and um the community to come together versus kind of just somebody standing up there talking. >> Appreciate it. Um >> when the groups get split up into
016smaller, you're going to have translation, right? Is there >> they're going to be in language specific groups? Perfect. Appreciate that. So, we'll >> um No, definitely excited to kind of see what uh what comes out of it and kind of what the what the next steps are as well. >> Yeah. In our planning, what we really talked about is we want to give give the participants an opportunity to interact with each other as well and to share ideas. A lot of times that kind of larger forum can be intimidating for a lot of families, but those conversations that can happen at a table can really spur ideas. And so we wanted to make sure we provided that time for families as well. And then from the outcomes of that will determine kind of where we
017focus in the start of our next town hall. >> Okay. And then sorry again the way it'll go um New Republic will be the next one in December and then we'll go like Februaryish um at Sanorita and then we'll go at the end Aprilish here at and end with Gavlan View for the four quarters >> and the way they're being advertised is it because I know they're going different is it like you're only advertising a community from the whole district and come or >> everybody's Yeah. and building healthy communities as well as Centro are advertising they have their community workers also handing out flyers information and then it's also being sent through their social medias so it's going out across multiple >> Okay, perfect. That was all my questions. >> Okay. And then we have
018assistant superintendent of ed services, Miss Becky Moore. >> Thank you. I also have a list because it has been incredibly busy. Um, I'm happy to report that our initial LPAC is definitely more than 95% complete, probably closer to 100% at this point. Um, so we have that data and ready to go. Um, the embargoed dashboard preview has been shared with district leads. Um, I took a look at it and it does match very closely to what we previewed when we did our board workshop. Um, and so that's good to know where we stand. Um for math, we've had our partner from Eureka Math Squared at four of our sites so far along with me, the principal um assistant principles as available and academic coaches to visit classrooms for guided observations for instructional leaders, helping us
019to analyze is the curriculum being implemented as it is intended in order to maximize the results we get from instruction. and also checking in on the pacing to make sure that we are moving through in a way that's going to ensure students get access to their grade level standards throughout the year and don't run out of days to do so. We had our first teacher leadership academy. So, our grade level reps and subject area reps came together with principles, academic coaches and some of our leaders really dug into what is a teacher leader, what does it mean to be a teacher leader and beginning to get into the work of PLC plus and what does an activator do in those meetings, what data and different types of data can be used to analyze student success.
020That was an exciting start. Our next one will be held in October. Um we did our launch session for two days for instructional rounds. This year we'll have four schools participating in a it's a deeper level type of um learning walk where each school is individually um determining what their problem of practice is where they want us to look and gather evidence from classrooms to support next steps to address those issues. And so I was not able to get every school site to do that this year because of my like the the commitment on my time. I couldn't make it work. But we have both middle schools, Santaorita and New Republic participating this year. And then next year my goal is for all six schools to do that. The learning walks I have still haven't
021scheduled. I need to get to the calendar and do that, but I haven't had a lot of time in my office. Um, we had on Monday a follow-up for the coaching PD that we had brought in in September. We had done two days on the impact cycle with a representative or a consultant from the instructional coaching group. That was really powerful. The coaches said it is the most impactful training that they've had since they've been coaches. And so coming back to revisit that this Monday, they were able to share kind of where they are now in that instructional coaching cycle, what successes they've had, what questions they have, and get followup for support. So we're hoping to bring Britney back at least one more time in the spring. Um, and now that all those things
022are done yesterday and today, I got to sit in my office and work on the list of state reports that are now coming up due. So we've got the UPK report was submitted. Um Rosa's assistant Debbie Cample and I along with Donna and her team are working on the report for the LCR set grant. That's the literacy grant at Sanorita. Um we have the title three grant coming up. It's due in a couple of weeks and then we'll be working on the comprehensive school improvement grant for Santaorita that will be due after that. And then it'll be time to get back to LCAP for midyear reporting. Um and finally also working with our directors to plan for the October 13th PD day. >> Perfect. Any questions uh across to the board? >> Whenever you have
023the um learning walks, can you let me know? So I I went last year I participated >> and I really enjoyed looking and seeing the children plus the teachers >> um teaching. So can you let me know? I will definitely get those dates. I know Melissa's been asking me so that she can put them on the calendar for all of you. Um I I'm going to get to them as soon as I can to get them scheduled for our all six schools. >> Great. Thank you. >> Okay, now we're moving on to the board of the superintendent. We'll start off with Mr. New Patel. Um, I just want to share a little bit of information. You know, uh, on Saturday I woke up and, uh, got a phone call and, uh, there was a shootings
024in these Selenas. And often I always pray that it's no one from the school I teach at. And then later on the day, I find out it's one of my own students that was shot and killed. Um and um you know I've had him for three years and great student and um I w I wish I could say it was my first death of one of my students over the 25 years teaching. It is not. I pray that it is the last. Um it's been a very difficult week at Elisaw High School. Um, but the one good thing that I always remind myself and and to also my fellow teachers and fellow CSEA staff is that the reason we do what we do is not only to educate academics, but it's also to provide that
025emotional cultural bridge that provides a safety net for our students. We are the ones who trying to change behavior, change outcomes, change negativity into hope into a proper future. And for that reason, I went back to work on Monday and it was a tough day. You know, a lot of sad uh people, a lot of sad situation, a lot of sad students being affected. But once again, it's a reminder to us of how important our jobs are. I don't care whether you're a school board member, administrator, CSA, CSEA staff, IT providers, or teachers, is that we are the direct front line in trying to improve society. And it's in these times that it reminds us how important our jobs are. And so, um, I pray for his family. I pray for our community. I pray
026for better outcomes. But knowing that prayer is not enough, it's our hard work that we do every day in education that tries to make a difference in society. So even though it's a sad moment, it just I hope it's a reaffirmation of who we are and what we do and the purpose we serve. And for me, once again, it's been a sad story, but ultimately we stay for the hope. So, I just say thank you to all the educational staff for what we do. We, you know, we can't save everyone. We can do our best, but we keep on fighting for a better day. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Lariano. >> Um, I'm very sorry to hear about your student. Um, I've been in a similar situation in the past, but um, but my
027condolences because I know having having a student in your class and then all of a sudden not being there is a big emptiness in there. Um, and with that, I have no other thing to report. Miss Sarah Turner. >> Um, I just I wanted to report I've been continuing to talk about to the to the city about safety issues, just things in regards to broken sidewalks and and other maintenance things in regards to our areas. And I still encourage people to um you know let principles know like what these are conditions that our children have to walk through you know and we want safe routes to school for all of our all of our kids. And I wanted to thank the people at the city who've been really kind and then also talking about other
028organizations that we partner with and make sure that the city's getting its money's worth in terms of you know if we have contracts we need them to be fulfilled. So, it just it it wasn't a a way that I expected to be spent spending this academic year, but I just, you know, walking my Santaorita neighborhood continually and seeing things and then finding out, hey, the city has a report that that got fixed two months ago, but it's still happening. So, just diving into things like that. So, please keep coming forward to the community with the the issues because our children and our families deserve safe neighborhoods. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. I don't have anything to report. Uh Dr. I am just going to hold because I have a presentation to give in a
029little bit. But I was wondering um we've got a couple of information and discussion items and uh related to our sunshine proposals back and forth with CSEA followed by um another presentation if the board would be willing to entertain moving item 9.1 um up to um be directly after 8.3 so that it follows our sunshine. in case anyone you're I would love to have you stay but just in case you can't um that way we can get the action item if that's okay. >> Okay. So just to clarify it' be 8.1 8.2 >> we would move 9 uh.1 up to directly follow um >> 8.3 if that's okay. >> I'm okay with that. Yeah. So move on to 8.1 is still the suggestion. >> Um we can go and do our public comments and then
030we'll do 8.1 as normal. Okay. Um, any public comments regarding non-aggenda items or agenda items? >> They are not. >> Okay. Moving on to 8.1formational LCAP updates in COE approval. >> Thank you. As attached um is a slightly revised LCAP. Um after MCOE's review, they had caught a couple of errors where our initial um can't think of the word. Nope. Baseline data. Initial data points had somehow gotten changed. Not sure how. So we got those corrected back to what they were meant to be. And then we needed to reflect our carryover into um budget into the actions where that was going to be allocated. So that's been corrected. Um, and we have our approval letter from MCOE. So everything is final for this year's LCAP. >> And part of that is because of the change,
031right? As far as having carryover has to be money that's being spent. >> Yes. So for instance, um, Kisha's team had ordered a bunch of new Chromebooks. There were um, delays in shipping and so they didn't arrive until after the fiscal year closed. So that expenditure has to move to this fiscal year. Any questions or comments from the board? No. Okay. So, this is just an information item. Does that have to get voted on or anything? Um 8.2 public hearing. At this time, it's 6:24. I'd like to open the public hearing regarding the disclosure of sens proposal from CSEA. >> Thank you. I can report on that. Um CSEA has submitted their prop sunshine um proposal which is attached. Um I had it open. Here it is. Um because the full contract is open this
032year, they are looking at opening um most of their articles as well as an interest in negotiating a new article, defining use of technology. Um much of their interest is in clarifying language, updating language to reflect current law. Um along with looking at some specific procedures and of course health and welfare and salary. >> Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? Any questions or comments from the public? No. Okay. So that Okay. At this time it 6:25 and I'm going to close the public hearing. Move on to 8.3. We're going to open up the public hearing at 6:25 regarding disclosure of session proposal from Santaorita Union School District. >> Thank you. So in return, our um district has provided to our CSCA president um our district sunshine and we have requested to open the
033c the classified salary schedule to update to include all current classifications as well as to review the evaluation form for classified employees and incorporate um an additional evaluation form for classroombased positions. Any questions or comments from the board? From the public? No. Okay. We're going to close public uh hearing at 6:26 and then we're going to move to 9.1, which is approval of sunshine proposal from Santa Union School District to CSEA chapter number 503 to open contract negotiations for successor agreements. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Captain. motion 40. >> Okay. Yeah. >> And I I do want to share that we have dates established already. So, we're beginning to meet next week. Although I personally won't be able to be at our first meeting, but I'll
034be joining following that. Um, of course, Claudia and Rosa will be there with our team. >> Yeah. And and thank you for joining us today was crazy. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, then we're going to go to 8.4. >> Yes. uh information discussion. Senorita Union Elementary School mascot change. >> Thank you. Um the our board asked for uh a brief um information um presentation about the history of our current Santaorita mascot. Just to kind of start the conversation, back in September 2024, uh Governor Nuomo signed Assembly Bill 3074 into law. And that bill prohibits California public schools from using the term Indian as a mascot, team name, or a nickname. And it requires schools to retire the designation and to transition to uh culturally respective alternatives by July 1st, 2026. As many of
035you know, our students at Santaorita Elementary School this fall have begun a research uh process into making suggestions uh for a new mascot that can be adopted. So, our students who are in grades three through five have been working on uh research projects to align their suggestions for finalist uh that will come to the board at our first meeting in October for a new mascot. And I can tell you that Miss Kanig and Miss Savala shared that students are really doing the work to identify a mascot that represents their school and community culture um as well as their core values and particularly their uh character counts pillars and um and those things as well as their shared identity as students uh in a modern school setting. So more to come on this. So, let's go
036backwards a little bit. So, um our Sanorita Union School District, as many of you know, uh was founded officially in 1871. If you were here when I went through the whole thing of a sesqua centennial, made everybody learn that word and we had a big celebration. Um and so just to kind of get us started is a recognition for our area of the indigenous origins here. Um, and I'll put this presentation online and the links uh for people to go and look at some of those sources as well. So, the indigenous peoples in the Selenus Valley in particular, the Remson speaking Aloney and that would include the Enen community lived in this region for thousands of years before Spanish contact. Uh and they also included and it's important to note because a lot of times
037there's some co-mingling there um of neighboring peoples that included the Amma, the Eselin, and the Selenan peoples. So this map kind of gives um an overview of Monterey Bay and you can sort of see where we're located right at the midst of where some of those communities may overlap. Uh then we enter in uh California into what's known as the Spanish period in the mid uh 1700s to the early 1800s. Uh in this area that's dominated of course with the establishment of the mission San Carlos Boromeo. Um and then that drew many of the local indigenous people into mission life. But for us and many of the surrounding areas um that supported agricultural communities, a lot of families uh continued to live in those traditional homelands. So, if you can click that link there for
038me. Um this is a um and make it as big as possible because it's kind of faint. It is a very old but um handdrawn map. Um can you zoom in like and showing the different um in the Spanish land grants for the area the designations um and so originally you can see Santa it makes can I I don't want to get up it's like to the middle to the right you can see um it's the Rancho Loscataros or Santaita and that's our particular area and we're bordering the Espinosa larger uh rancho at that time. And so what we know is that a lot of those families who didn't go and join mission life who stayed in the area to become workers at the ranch and and lived and and continued growing their families. And
039then we can just go to the next slide. Um so I wanted to like give as many of the sources because there's so much information. And I don't want to go too far into that because I I I'm a nerd like that, but um and so then of course we enter into the Mexican period. So after independence from Spain, um a lot of our indigenous peoples were then displaced from mission lands as those became more secularized by the Mexican government. And so they ended up remaining and then being incorporated back into those local ranch as labors through intermarriage and of course in small dispersed communities in the Selenus Valley. We know that we have some folks who are descendants that um of families that they can trace back to the original ranch. Um and then
040as we enter the American period in 1846, uh when the US first annexed California and then went into statehood, our indigenous populations um declined sharply. disease, displacements, violence. Um, and then the survivors of those remained in the area and again maintaining those small communities, incorporating um themselves and their families into life on those ranches and in the local agricultural industries. So, at the bottom, go back. So, at the bottom, you have a couple of photos. Um, and these are both uh I want to point out the Selenus Public Library archive has a huge collection of photos. Um, and one of the caches of photos that are really significant for our Sanorita area were donated by Miss Leverne Wilcox. Um, and so that's known as her collection, though there are many families that um, and the
041Selena's public library gives you information about which family donated those photos. And if the photos uh, like back in the day when people would write information on the back of it, they do what they can to incorporate that in descriptions. So, if you're ever interested in learning not just about Sanorita, but the Selenus area um as a whole um and going down that and into photographic um information, that is an amazing um archive of photos with the Selenus Public Library. It's my public service announcement. Um and so getting into the Santaorita Indian as a mascot. So the idea of Santaorita Indians has been in our community for nearly a century that we see via newspapers in particular. So um the a newspaper that existed from the late 1800s to the 1920s was the Selenus Daily
042Journal where you might get a reporter talking about everybody he talked to on his drive through town. Um and so it was truly like a daily journal. And uh and then the Selenus Californian in particular starting in the early 1900s and going current uh because the Selenus Californian eventually um incorporates the Daily Journal. So um early uses included in the late 1800s through the 1900s in the newspaper we see that there was a group that identified themselves as the Sanorita Indians and they were associated with the Selenus Elks Club and they would do novelty performances. And then shifting into the 1930s and 40s, you have the Santaita Indians adult baseball team. And that is another photo from uh Miss Wil Cox's collection with the Selenus Public Library. And um if you go into the presentation
043and look and follow that link, he has um a jersey on that says Sanorita. And um on the left is a list of names of who's in the photo. And so that they're a baseball team. The local baseball team would play neighboring teams. Sometime sometimes they were like a business, but um I know Castroville had the Castroville Giants. And so it was really like local teams and they would um put it in the sports pages in the Selenus, California newspaper. That picture there, Little Bear Creek, I put in was really interesting. The bridge that's over it, that's circa n 1910. um and they had had some flooding. I went I also looked at a whole bunch of pictures that had been taken around this time where um we had heavy rains back then and a
044lot of the same areas flooded that we experienced in the last couple of years. Um and then we'll go to the next one. So by the midentury you still see the local baseball team using the Sanorita Indian mascot through the 40s. But in the 40s, you also see a transition over to the YMCA, Friendly Indians. Now, this was actually a national program focused on father-son bonding, sort of like Boy Scouts. Um and so it's that was a youth program that they get a lot of mention of their activities um in the local newspaper for fathers and sons and they met at Santaorita school and there is another group like in Selenus that and they have their own affiliation and sometimes the groups would come together for larger events but um so that was a nationwide
045program later that was rebranded in the starting in the 70s in particular as people felt felt that original brand was problematic, so they changed it to adventure guides, but keeping a lot of the same kind of um structures in place to bring father and son bonding um to the forefront. And also in the 1950s, there's no official establishment or adoption date that can be identified in public records, but that's when you do start to see it used as like an official mascot that's associated with Santaorita school. Uh you start to see it oral histories where former students would say, "No, I knew that." Or our items said that we were the Sanorita Indians. Then you start to see it in some local yearbooks and then then in newspapers of course in use as a school
046mascot. Um and then I just want to point out that so the name the Sanorita Indians of course reflected the community traditions of its time and for us to recognize that it has been part of the school's identity for decades. And so there are many former students of Sanorita who identify um as a Sanorita Indian with a very positive feeling even though now we know that that's problematic and can create um negative feelings for others. And so in being sensitive to that um is kind of where we're at. Also um I I put this photo on. This is um again in that collection um at this Selenus Public Library archive. I just selected one of them. There's an incredible collection of aerial photos that were done not just of Sanorita but then the other areas
047around Selenas. So I am going to walk up because I am going to point at something. Um, so this photo >> like like I'm famous. Okay. This photo is 1953. And so, um, at back at the earlier photos, 1910, Sanorita had been in, uh, what we think of as like a a home, it looks like. So, by 1953, Santaorita is at the location that it currently exists at, but, this school building has been replaced with the one that we use now. This is Main Street, also Highway 101. At the time, they were not separate. So, this here is Main Street. This is Santaorita Creek, which has now been put into boundaries and straightened out. Um, so this area here is like a triangular wedge where there's still a home. This is what is going to
048become Boloulevard all the way down to San Juan grade. So, we know all of this um is true because over here is where Mr. George Maddox who is the father of Miss Becky Moore lived and he attended school in the 1950s here at San Rita Elementary. So, so part of our oral history also came from giving Mr. Maddox a call. So, what Becky mentioned today when I showed her this photo, she said, "Wow." So, when my grandparents said they used to have to travel into town, really make it a day, they really had to travel into town. So, um, also in the area where I did point out where Mr. Maddox grew up is the very start of Russell Road. You see some homes that face this way and that's actually um the start of
049this road here and you know where the farm area is there that there's still um a structure and then we start to to change those. That was mostly just for entertainment and I thought it was really interesting photo for us. Um, so all of this to say, our students are working really hard at um giving suggestions for what their future mascot should be. And in doing so, we are preparing to retire the current mascot. And um the board considering whether or not we would like to have a plaque also to honor the past. um really highlighting the fact that we do live on lands here um that our indigenous peoples inhabited long before anyone else came and explored and discovered it um as it were. So, um, recognizing that this is just a draft, a
050suggestion of something that we might do as part of our ceremony when we announce the new mascot at Sanorita. Okay, questions or comments? Start off with the board. Um, I kind of find it ironic that I'm sitting here as an Indian American with Indian ethnicity from a country halfway around the world having to debate changing our name, our mascot. Um, having said that, um, you know, I'm not for tearing down statues. I think history is history. I think we need to acknowledge it both in its beauty and sometimes negativity. But as times move forward, you know, we cannot stop the pace of change and acknowledgement of negativity that has been thrust upon a certain ethnicity. Um, so for me, you know, it's not like we're correcting a wrong. We're evolving. You know, I don't want
051to have any negative feelings towards all those people along the way who did use the mascot of Indians. But at the same time, you know, we evolve as humans. We evolve with understanding. We evolve with with knowledge. So with that, you know, I'm glad that uh we are moving forward with the edict coming from the state. And I think the greatest joy for me is knowing that the new mascot will be created by the current students and the current community while acknowledging the past but moving forward with a brighter better day. So, you know, that's that's my position on it. And um I'm I'm just, you know, perplexed sometimes, but once again, this is history. This is time. This is evolution. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions or comments from the board? Sure.
052>> Um, I have a request and it's a long kind of long-term request. I think it would be really helpful for our teachers of all grades if we could sort of assemble a district website with all of the local resources in the area that for teachers to have access to and different field trips that that teachers can take students on to see the rich history that we have here. I mean, personally, I've taken students to um to see um you know, along along the ocean where you can there's holes there where you can still see where Native American people like mashed acorns like hundreds of years ago, like when you're hiking, you can see, oh, they sat out here, you know. And um Toro Park does the nature center there does amazing um information talking
053about um local vegetables like hunting different things you know um obviously the um the state parks in Monterey have amazing things but it's just a lot of it as a teacher I had to discover for myself and I think it would be great if we had some centralized resources is for people to know, hey, oh my gosh, I didn't know that that was right here to to take the kids to. And there's also a lot of amazing nonprofits in the area that do um that subsidize those field trips for that. It's either free or they c they like 80% of the cost. So, be able to say, "Oh gosh, I didn't know I could take the kids on a field trip to Carmel and have somebody else come in and pay for it." and we
054as a as a school district are committed to paying for field trips for our our students, but it's also amazing to be able to stretch our money because we have these partnerships with all these other people. So, you know, as when I taught fourth grade, which is California history, like I took my students on five different field trips that year just to be able to, you know, people come from all over the world to see this. Like, we should make sure that our kids who live here know these things. Perfect. Thank you. Um, well, I was a student at Sanita School. I started off as a second grade with uh Miss Rob, but uh I'm excited about the change. It's a long time coming and uh excited to see what the students doing. They're doing
055their research, exciting to see what they bring forward and and uh it's a new beginning. So, thank you for the presentation and uh forward to the next item. >> 9.2. Thank you. Uh, approval of the 202425 unodudited actuals background. >> That is my item. I'm gonna go ahead and I emailed the presentation. Thank you so much. And do I have a clicker or can you guys switch the slides? You do it. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. So, I just realized that my presentation has bunch of numbers and I don't have any pictures or nice videos like summer. Thank you, Summer. Always making me look bad. >> One story. >> Yes. >> So, if you need coffee or water, please stay awake. Um, okay. So, let's go ahead and start. We are going to try to move
056quick. I know we're all >> that lets all those things happen. >> I love the video though. That that's one of my slides. I'm going to reference back to it. All right. So, we go in here into fun one. So, I usually what I do is take the last uh board approved budget and compare it to our actuals. Again, this is the report where we finally closed the books. This we're not doing um and I have it right here in front of me. It's like over 200 pages that we need to work on. It's not a budget. These are the actual numbers, the actual money that we receive from the state, federal, and local. So, I'm going to go over the differences between my last um board approved budget and what we actually received. So,
057I'll go over it um just talking about the big differences. As you can see, LCFF, we end up with an increase. This is due to the final enrollment and final ADA. Again, we still getting uh funded on the three-year average. The difference is mainly due to the students that uh MCOE served for us. Um when we got the final numbers that increased or it made a change to our LCF uh final funding, our federal revenue increase, we got um a last grant for about $40,000 for mental health for sped mental health. So we wouldn't go ahead and uh move some expenditures, use that grant, spend it all out. We also got an increase on title one for about 10,000 in there and that reflects the um with a total of over 53k more than what
058we budgeted. Now you're going to see a big difference here for other state income. This is due to the ELOP. There were funds that we received from 21223 when it was before we had opened the ELOP program. As you remember, we run a full the first full year of the ELOP on 2425. So these were funds that the state um came this year on this aortionment that we received for the 2425 and took that money back. Remember, we have in your in our books already a penalty as well that we are we did put an appeal. Um we asked for the status on several emails and we're waiting to hear back from them. Uh we're hoping that maybe we can get a waiver on the penalty. If that that is the case, if we get
059good news and they said yes, we're going to reduce the penalty or we're going to wave it. you are going to see that on the next budget or whenever that gets approved as a as a as a credit to that specific grant. So for now those monies um have been recuperated by the state and then other local income um this was a little bit surprising. we get a quarterly interest rate on our overall funds and depending on the market how it goes sometimes we get negative numbers if we don't have the cash in there or we get um or we get uh positive interest so on the last quarter we got a little bit over half a million dollars that's why there's a big increase of 1.1 this is something that I don't necessarily budget
060for we are very conservative in regards to that again the interest rate can go very very low like 200k and in this K it came in pretty pretty high uh meaning the interest rates were just pretty good um on at the county level and and we got a surplus there in regards to salaries uh for certificated classify and benefits you see savings in there this is due to the vacancies that we have a year end also savings when we budget for extra hours or overtime if they're not used it creates a savings overall with the district uh books and supplies. Sometimes we order items and departments directors wait until the last minute and they start like, "Oh my god, I have money left." And then they start ordering supplies and and items like that, which
061is okay. They're trying to spend their funds. Now, if for some reason the order gets delayed, like they were mentioning, there was a delay on the Chromebooks. Um, and if the item arrived here as of July 1st, then it becomes on the next year um, budget already. So, some of those got delayed, that's why you get um, you see a savings, not necessarily a savings, meaning that it's a savings this year, but we're reallocating those expenses for next year because they probably arrive after July 1st. Um, other services that is mainly due to um, part of it was due to savings. uh we have set aside money for the Sanorita Elementary roof repairs. So again, that project was for the s for the summer and again any work that happens between June and July, we
062have to go in there and separate it by year. So you're going to see these differences on the other funds as well because we said it's happening in the summer, but we don't know if it's happening in June or July. As you know, some of these construction projects got delayed. So, they got pushed to July. That's why you're going to see um not necessarily savings, but savings is this year and then reallocating it again on the following year. So, overall, as you can see on the difference after revenue and expenses, 238,000 difference and um that is our ending fund balance, which is both unrestricted and restricted. As you know, restricted is already set aside um is restricted for specific per purposes. I'm going to go to the next slide to go over the ending fund
063balance. >> Before we go into the next you mentioned, um >> I know there was unused funds we didn't use from the state, but did they actually charge us a penalty like where not only was they took back funds that we didn't use, but they charge us something extra >> for the ELOB? Yeah. >> Yes. So, there's two different things. there is the penalty for not um having the program running on when they told us to to run the program and then the other part was since we give you that funding you didn't have a program we're going to take that funding back so there's two different ones and that's what we summer and I were talking about it we send emails I don't know if you want to talk a little bit more about
064that >> so filled in on that I reached out to our state uh consultants at CDE because there seems to be some confusion your your combined returning of ex of unspent funds and your penalty should never exceed your allocation. Right? So if you um if you didn't spend x amount of dollars, your penalty should be based on that and it should never exceed what you received from the state. Right? Now there seems to be what they took doesn't match what they're telling us happened. And they acknowledge that. They said when we spoke to our consultant, she said yes, it should never exceed the amount that you were allocated. Um, so they're working through, we've now had to send an email to like three additional people. But there is, so what could happen is if you
065have unexpended funds, you could still keep a portion of it. So if you were working your program, but you just didn't expend funds, you may not get a penalty, but they may take back those funds. >> If you did nothing in programming, you get both a return of funds and there's a penalty, but that penalty is part of those funds. Does that make sense? So, um, what is the estimated fine that could be that could be recoverable? >> Yeah. So, we send them the calculation. Um, it's $4.4 million for the penalty. What they took this year was $3.7 million. So, all >> the net would be. >> So, altogether it's like around $8.2 million that they're taking back. >> But the but the appeal the appeals for the penalty itself, right? >> Yeah. So, the
066the >> what's the estimate on that? >> 4 million. little million. So the allocation was just so we can recap. So allocation was how much then? >> So we had three different allocations. We had one for 2122 and then another one for 22 23 23 24 and 2425. So when they they went out and said we're going to do the the penalty, they're doing that on which it was last year which it was already booked. It was done. I put it in the books. the auditor review it and that that is included in the books. The difference for this year what that I was not expecting they were going to take so soon because I thought like summer said it wasn't going to exceed it wasn't going to be that that big of a penalty.
067It was the unspent funds for those three years that we didn't have a program which it was the the $3.7 million that they um came and took uh from our revenue this year. So now the question is um you took this much we have this much of penalty alto together seems like you guys are penalizing us too much for what we received and that those are the emails that are going back and forward so we're waiting for a response we're hoping that they can wave our penalty because I know uh summer attended two conferences saying that there is a chance that they can wave that penalty. We did have expenses in 23 24 we um for just preliminary expenses to start and to run the program for 2425. So I send them all the proof
068and the calculator and the aortionments and all of it. We're waiting to hear back and see if there's going to be a waiver. They did email me back and they said that the penalties they're not going to they're not going to process those until 2526. So, those are happening in 2526. Um, and that's when we're going to hear from them. So, as soon as we hear a response back, we're going to go ahead and update you with that. With that being said, the funds that we have right now, um, as we were closing the books and the funds that we have left right now for this new year, we're not deficit spending. We still have a surplus. We are doing good in budgeting. Um, we're not worried about that, but we would like to get
069that extra funding if we can. >> Okay. Sure. I'm still kind of just confused on the amounts. I just want to clarify just make sure. So 3.7 was the unspent funds, right? So obviously >> 2122 >> you want to know the dollar amount. So for 2122 it was around $1.2 million. >> Okay. The full amount though, you know. Yeah. The summary was about 3.7 is what you're saying. >> Yeah. The the funds that we they took back. >> Yeah. And just so I clarify and um since we didn't spend those 3.7, the way I hear it, I could be wrong. That's why I want to clarify. Um because we didn't spend the 3.7 are they penalizing an additional 4.1 >> no total. Okay. That's why I wanted to clarify. Okay. Okay. So can you clarify?
070Okay. >> Yes. So last year um it was the first 2324 when we closed the books. Um even though the state didn't took any penalties they said you are required to book in your actuals the penalty based on the number of days that you were opened. um for um the yellow program. So when we entered the the days in the calculator, I sent it to the auditor. I said, "Look, this is what I'm doing on closing the books. This is the days that we were open. Please review it. I'm booking $4 million." He review it. He said, "It's fine. It's good. It's good to go." So I went go ahead and did that. Now in this year when because after I do this presentation, then the auditor comes again and then they review my numbers.
071It goes to the county office. when the auditor came again last year, he said um there was something new in the calculation that we forgot to add. So there's like an additional 400k that you need to book. Those 400k are part of this um a part of this booking of 2425. So is the 3.7 plus the 400 and something that was left from the other penalty. >> Okay. So potentially the penalty is ballpark $400,000. >> 4.4 >> huh? >> $4.4 million. >> Okay. Which >> penalty just the penalty >> with that is include that includes the unused funds. >> No. Okay. That's why that's the part that >> Okay. >> isn't that from everything we've um heard um and from my conversations with the state director of AOP is wrong. So when Rosa got the
072initial So when they they took out the unspent funds that was three point Yeah. It's >> 3.7. >> When Rosa reached out to them and said, "Is that inclusive of the penalty?" They said, "No, we haven't taken out the penalties yet. We're not doing that till 2526." That's when she talked to me and I said, "That can't be right. They can't because it cannot be greater than the allocation that we received." Pulled that information up, showed that it can't be greater. This would be greater than our allocation that we >> So, they're trying to say that our penalty is $4.3 million. >> Correct. and they gave us 3.7. So we want to >> So what so what I reached out to our state consultant to say based on this what what Rosa received back that
073says no penalties have not yet been taken are what you're saying is you're going to take out the penalties from this threepoint blah blah blah that you already took and then return to us whatever the penalty isn't but then that doesn't seem like enough. Um and she said she reiterated your your total amount returned and penalty cannot be more than your allocation. And I said, "But right now with because you're saying you're not taking out the penalties. We've used the penalty calculator. This is the penalty, but you've already taken out these funds. That would be substantially more than our allocation." And she said, "I agree that's incorrect. You need to send the information to these folks." At the same time, we said we filed an appeal because, as you know, Madonna and I came in
074and took over ELOP 23, the summer of 2324. And so when we came in at that time, we tried to book as much as we could in June to show that service had been rendered. So when I met with Michael Funk, who's the state director of ELOP, I said, I understand that program hadn't been started there for whatever reasons we've started program. Here's where we are to move forward. He said, file the appeal. You know, we're reading through the appeals and we were told like, yes, that's been almost a year since we filed the appeal without that response. So, we're predicting two things. One, that our appeal will be approved. And two, that the amount that we're looking at with penalties and what they've already taken will not be anywhere close to what we have
075to put into the books right now. Because until we get that confirmation from them, we have to assume that that's what it is knowing that that based on regulation, it can't be that. >> Sure. right now in in the books. Um, for example, with these, >> you're only calculating the 3.7 currently. >> The 4346. >> It's because it it summarizes all the the state income for just for ELOP. Um, is the $3.7 million, the 400 of additional penalty that got left last year, and that's for this year. Overall, between last year and this year, everything is in the books. As of now, everything is is the unspent funds and the penalty, which it would be the worst scenario. In case that they the state comes back and say, "Here, we're going to wave the penalty
076and all of that." Then we have backup that we can use and say, "Hey, we're going to get this money back and we can or we can keep the money because they haven't taken the penalty. We can put that as a part of of our revenue." Right now, the penalty is putting it into account as a payable saying we're going to that's not our money. We're not going to touch it because the state is going to take it which is the worst scenario which is the information in the backup that I have which is the emails that I have saying like yeah they still have to review the penalty. Yeah, the 3.7 is correct. That's the money that that they were supposed to be taking. So based on my backup documentation, the emails from CDE,
077I'm doing and booking based on that backup. And again, if the state comes back and say we're going to give you a waiver or we're going to adjust the penalty because yeah, it is too much of what you receive, then we can go ahead and credit on the 25 26. >> So 3.7 has already been taken out. >> Yes. >> But not the penalties yet because the penalties >> which is the the different the difference between the 4.3. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> So that's why you're not seeing that here yet. Right. So the in the next one is where you'll see the four the penalties, right? In 2526. >> Yeah. So, so like I said, the penalties >> here. This is cuz they only have taken out the unspent fund so far. >> Okay.
078Yeah. >> So then she's booking the penalties in 2526. So you'll see that on the next one. >> Okay. >> So So the penalties are already they were part of last year. Like I mentioned, they're part of last year. Whenever the state is going to take money out, but they haven't really come out and take like actually take the cash, we have to do um an accounting transaction and put it into the accounts payable. It's pretty much putting the account aside where we're not going to see it in the books and say this we're going to pay for it, but it's not available there for us to use. So right now the penalty is into an special account where we don't see it here where it's like we're going to pay for it. So it's
079not part of this revenue. is not part of of this the penalty. >> It's it's confusing. So I I thank for the for the question because it was confusing. I mean we were like working on it and I mean I do this all the time. So um great questions. >> Um we were going to go to the next one. Okay. Thank you. So after um closing the books uh part of our unrestricted ending fund balance we have our 17% reserves. We put aside some money for um as you know we have one-time funds that are going to be expiring on 2526. Um so we go ahead and put some money aside for that. We have some prior year LCAP um ending fund balance. And then we set aside some money for the increases for special
080ed. As you know they're increasing significantly every year. And then as you know we are getting um cash deferrals this year 2526 for the month of um in our LCFF a portionment in the month of June which is about $3.6 million around there. Um the amount is going to be um recalculated as we get final enrollment numbers for 2526 and go to the next one. So this is our ASB. Um not much difference there. They we got last deposits towards the end of the year. As you know, these are the the account that the school sites use whenever they do fundraising to um to do events like movie nights. Um they sometimes they do potato sales where they get tickets and um they do events um for for their students like field trips. They go
081to great America. they do um student incentives um or events for promotion or music activities or bowling trips and stuff like that. So not not a lot of changes there. We can move um to the next one. This is our cafeteria fund. We end up with a surplus um in our in our total revenues more than what we were expecting. And um as you can see on classified salaries, we did spend a little bit more in the last budget. It wasn't reflected left out the one-time payment that it was sketched to be paid for our classified employees as part of NE negotiations. It was included on the prior budget. Some somehow it got left off. So that's why it seems like we spended more of what we budgeted some savings on um I know it
082says books and supplies but it's really food um food purchases that we do. So some um savings in there as well as other services um sometimes we have contract services as well that we plan to do it at towards the end of the year. Sometimes we don't end up doing it until the next year. So we see overall savings overall we still have a surplus um of 890,000 and our ending fund balance um is increasing every year. Um as you know there was a big sh if a big shift of funding um now um the different way that we get funded versus the participation now we we get funded for all of our students. So which is great and um it's going very good for this fund. we can move to the next one. So
083this is the fund that we set aside for the beautifification of the district. Um they did projects for just to improve the school district's um appeal. Uh they did the GB paving, painting, they did a lot of patching. Uh they removed all equipment. They also paid um classified hourly to work on those assignments. everything um or yeah everything was inhouse or most of it was inhouse. Uh we had some savings on um you know most of that was overtime um extra hours for employees so those not necessarily again a lot of those were summer projects so those are going to be moved to the to the following year so they already use some of those hours in in July and August so you're going to see that on the next budget. So overall, we still
084had an end up um balance of 62,000 which again is going to be rolled forward to to the 2526 and they're going to keep using it to maintain our schools and the verification projects. So we can go ahead and move to the next slide. Pretty straightforward local in uh local income. It's pretty much um interest that we received and then um we have some expenses in here. Um remember this was Oh, this is fun 21 it is. Yeah. So this one it's pretty much the video that Summer was showing. Um it is the uh expenditures for the shade structures uh two over school sites um the additional portables al Hoya the Sanorita restroom and um demolition for GV as well as preliminary work for the 11 classroom and one flex lab for um GV. You
085saw the video. Um there's some construction going on. Uh we got the place structures as well and uh there was also preliminary work for the six uh modular classrooms and guardian relocation for GV um JG sorry and um the difference that you see there for the $2.3 million again this was some projects that um most of it happened during the year but then some of the work was going to happen during the summer. The big difference there was um the JG portables that were going to happen during the summer. It we didn't get them um before June. So that got moved to the next uh year and also part of the construction work that got also moved for next year. Um overall we're rolling that fund 21 to the next year. Uh fund 21 that
086one's pretty straightforward. This is the funds that we received from developer fees. Um that's the actual money that we received 72,325. Not a lot of expenses there. We still have an ending fund balance. Um those are funds that we can um in prior years it was very low this fund. Um so we didn't have anything big expenditures there. as we roll forward on the new year. This is something that can also be utilized for our schools um facilities as well. We can move to the next fund. So this is fund 35 and as you remember this is where we purchase or as Soprano land purchase and there's some other expenditures that we had for um initial fees like testing um and architect fees and um we spend most of the funds in there. We still
087have an ending fund balance um in there but again that was set aside specifically for the purchase. Pretty much the funds that we have there is basically keeping the money there to make sure that we don't get charged any negative interest. We can go to the next slide. And no activity here on the expenses uh revenue side is only um interest that we earned this year. And we end up with an ending fund balance of $2.6 million. And we can move to the next one. Oh, this is the gant limit. and it's part of the of of this um on attitude actuals report. Um this is a form that we have a board resolution which you're going to see coming forward and it's pretty much a form. It does a calculation once we put all
088of the numbers in here. This is to make sure that based on the ADA um that we have for our district, based on the revenue that we have and inflation and it does all these calculations to make sure that we're not um overspending or what they call it that we're not like um government waste spending. Um so it's just like a calculation that we have to do. We pass the test. we are not um overspending based on the AD and the revenue and all of that. So, we are in compliance. Just wanted to talk about it because it's coming up in one of my action items and it's part of the United Actuals forms. So, we can go ahead and move to the next one. Fund 51. This is part of the county treasury. This
089is where we keep the bun funds. Um form a funded ADA. Um I think the interesting form here is going to be form CA which is how much did we spend on classroom compensation which is pretty much on teacher salaries most of it. Um, we are off. We We needed to be a 60%. I do have a form here, a waiver, and I know this is a problem. Um, everything was in compliance, but this was this is on my part of my TRC. Um, and this is happening all over the state is, as you know, and probably heard it is a problem that a lot of districts is having. So, we have the waiverss pretty much showing that based on where we're located and we need to compare um other districts that are in our
090same area or have the same ADA to ensure that our salaries for teachers are and benefits are competitive. So, I do have the backup the the paperwork here for your review and I'm going to submit it with my report to the county. We are not the lowest. um we are offering competitive um salaries. So last year I did the same and it got approved and you might um question like why why a lot of districts are having such a big trouble with the form and as you know the forms that we do here for for the state they don't get updated often. So back in the days where um schools only had their biggest expense was teacher salaries obviously 60% it would make sense that they would spend it out of their total budget but
091now things have changed now especially now after co we're not only paying for teacher salaries we're paying for mental health services we have nurses we have health aids we have counselors we have um other services for safety like this last year, resource officer. Um, we have construction. Um, like again, we have safety. We have so much that we're offering and that we're doing for our students that now the percentage of the teacher salary might look smaller. It is not necessarily that is smaller. It is that we have all of the all these other expenses that it looks like we're spending less. And not necessarily the case. Like I said, we do have a waiver. So just to keep something in mind is that there has been a shift and there's so many other uh expenses
092that we have not only teachers and that's that's one of the main reasons why not only our district but statewide they're having such a hard time uh meeting that percentage >> pretty much is an outdated calculation but nobody's taken the time to really >> adjust it or update it. >> I'm example of governmental red tape that entire list. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So they they do need to update. I mean like I said after co we had so much of that one time funds everything it was restricted and it was like you get so many uh millions of dollars but you can only use it on for example uh co testing or health items and things like that. And now it seems like when you take because this calculation, you take your overall expenditures and
093out of all your expenditures, you're going to take the percentage of your teacher salaries and it looks like it's small, but you have all these other expenses that you're covering. Before we didn't have um you know, so much counseling, so much health um mental health, um construction, um you know, like safety, all of those additional expenses are not taken in. of the legislation was good in terms of you wanted to spend your money directly on kids, but a more reasonable update now would be your lunch staff should count as part of it. Your psychologist should count as part of it. Your yard duty should count as part of it. Your teacher librarian should count, you know, basically everybody who's providing your custodian, anybody who's providing direct service to a child should be included in in
094what we're spending our money on. >> That's right. That's correct. >> Perfect. Thank you. That's all for for me today. >> Okay. Any final questions? Can I get a motion to Oh, go ahead. Yeah. Going back to the first slide, even despite all the uh changes or penalties, we were within what less than 1% of projections. I think that's pretty good. >> Amazing. It's amazing, you know, despite what I'm hearing, um, you know, with the penalty from the state, when I go back to that very first slide, when I look at the net difference between actuals and estimated, we're less than, I think what 0.0 8%, you know, I'm sorry, yeah, 8% uh difference out of a $60 million budget, we came over what, 351,000. So, you know, great projections, great conservative estimates. Keep up
095the good work. >> Thank you. >> Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I huge appreciation, Rosa, of you personally and your staff in general. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh item 9.3, approve resolution number 25.09.16 09.16 regarding the proposition 4 GAN amendment for the 2024 25 and the projected 25-26 fiscal year >> since we just discussed this uh motion to approve. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I I captain >> motion for >> with a note to the state please adjust as appropriate. >> Okay. 9.4 approval of contract with speech therapy link for licensed vocational nurse. >> Thank you. This is Melany's item. I told her um one of us would represent her. So, this contract um is
096for a licensed vocational nurse who will provide dedicated health services to multiple students um with some complex and intensive medical needs. And so, they'll they'll be here to deliver those healthcare interventions um for those designated students. >> Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? >> So, motion second. >> All those in favor? I I Kevin >> motion 40. >> Okay. Item 9.5, approval of career catalyst work site agreement with chef and founding. >> Yeah, >> I'm excited. >> Yeah, so am I. Um, I forgot to mention my report earlier today that or tonight that uh I think we are the only and first insolenus to be partnering with Chef Anne. There are like North County and Gonzalez and maybe MPUSD, but in Selenus were the only ones. Um, so this document is just an
097agreement for those staff members or external participants to get paid through the career catalyst. So not a cost to us. Um, if they don't do extra hours in our district, we can pay them or the career catalyst can and there's a a max that they can work. >> Thank you. And thank you for all the extra work that you put into providing the best for our students. I really appreciate it. Motion to approve. >> Got a second. >> All those in favor? I >> I captain. >> Motion. >> Great work. >> Our next regular board meeting will be October 8th, 2025. Any suggested future board items? If not, can I get a motion to adjourn at 7:21? Some >> I second that motion. >> All those in favor? I motion. Okay. Have a nice evening
098everyone.