001Hey, good afternoon everybody. We're going to reconvene back into open session. Uh during close session, nothing was voted on, so there's nothing to uh report back on. We're going to move on to item 5.0, approval of consent agenda items 5.1 to 5.4. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Motion 40. >> Okay. Moving on to reports and correspondence. Is there any comments or hear from SRTA? >> We do not. >> Okay. Uh CSEA. >> We do not. >> Okay. We'll move on to the superintendent's cabinet. >> Um here with us this evening. Well, Victor and I will be going over our facilities report. Victor, did you have anything else or you're good? >> No. >> Okay. um our director
002of engagement in school climate, Dr. Summer Prather Smith. >> Um I have a couple of items to share. Um I am going to have Gilbert bring them up for us here. Trying to save paper. Actually, I forgot the copies at the office, but this is better anyway. Um so we have our upcoming Saturday Academy which will be starting on September 27th. parents in the audience. Um, if you want to scan that QR code, that's how you can sign up. We also sent flyers home with students and have sent it out through Parent Square. So, again, you'll see the first session of Saturday Academy is every Saturday, September 27th through November uh 1st. Saturday Academy will take place here for students in TK through fifth grade and at Gavalan View for middle school students. The hours
003will be 8:30 to 1:00 for the academic support and intervention and then 1 to uh 5:30 will be open for afterchool program as well. So sign up. Plenty of spaces available. Next one. Sorry, there's another. Um, we have scheduled our first of our four quarterly town hall meetings. So, it will be taking place on October the 1st at John Gutierrez Middle School um from 5:30 to 700 p.m. We will have our guest uh facilitators will come from building healthy communities to facilitate that conversation with our community as well. We will have child care and dinner available, but are asking that you RSVP for those parts so that we can make sure we have enough food um for all of our families and children who may be attending. This is really an opportunity for our community
004to come together um and share what's working well and where we can make growth. Um building healthy communities will use each of these sessions to build on the next session as well. Um, at the end of each of our town hall meetings, we'll leave with an action list of areas that we can take action right away and then those areas that will be moving forward. Um, just so you know, these have also been ordered in a banner that will be placed out so that families will see it as well. And then building healthy communities came by and picked up flyers today that they'll be distributing through their networks. Also >> for our trustees, I should clarify for a town hall, you're all um able to attend as well. Um just in case. >> Okay. And
005then one more. Um we recently sent out a survey to all of our families asking you to ask your children a couple of questions about what makes them feel safe and positive and loved at school. Um, we also sent this out to our classroom teachers asking them to work with our students. The benefit of this tool is that you can use voice, so you can record your um, answer in any language that you choose. Um, you can do it through text messaging or you can do a video entry. We love to see those videos. So, if any of you are interested in doing a video of your child um, sharing their responses to the questions, we would greatly appreciate it. We're using this survey as part of our ongoing data collection around positive interactions between
006adults and students on our campuses. And our goal is that every child on our campus has at least one positive connection each day with a meaningful adult in that space. And so part of what this survey is giving us is that baseline. It's showing us where we're starting. So if you haven't had an opportunity, please um respond to the survey. It will close on Friday. That's all for me. I have two questions. >> Um the Saturday academy that's open to all students, right? >> Open to all students. >> Okay. And then for the town hall, did you find out who the facilitators were out of curiosity? >> They haven't assigned the facilitators yet. Yeah, I'll let you know as soon as I know. Yes. >> Thank you. >> Our assistant superintendent of ed services, Miss
007Becky Moore. >> Thank you. Um just two things to report. Um, I mentioned at our previous board meeting when we looked at our data, um, that we would be conducting learning walks at the sites with our representative, our success partner with our math curriculum, Eureka Math Squared. Allison joined us for our first one yesterday here at Santaorita. And it was a very powerful opportunity for Donna and um Patricia as the coach and I to walk with her to classrooms where teachers had been prepared that we were going to be visiting to observe and then to reflect and provide both some praises and some pushes or next steps for teachers that Donna and um Patricia are delivering to those teachers. It's really helpful for us to see using um a tool for the success um factors
008that we want to look at for each section of the lesson to see how we can maximize our effectiveness of implementation. So our next one is tomorrow at New Republic and we will be visiting each of the school sites between this week and early October. Also, tomorrow we are beginning our teacher leader academy, our first session for our grade level reps and subject area representatives and really diving into what it means to be a teacher leader um in a school system and the importance of collective efficacy and our PLC plus work. So, I'm really excited to host that tomorrow afternoon with all of our teacher leaders and principles in the district. We're going to move on to the board and the superintendent, Miss Cindy Lopez. >> Yes. So, from last meeting, um I was actually
009able to attend a back to school night for here, Sanorita. And um want to shout out to our principal and vice principal for this site. They did a great job. It was a really good turnout. Um that cafeteria was packed. I mean, packed. Um, they were giving uh Girl Scout cookies. I took some home. They're delicious. Um, with the little maps for, you know, how to go around the school. Um, it was it was a really good turnout. So, I'm sure, you know, all the teachers, they did they did an amazing job. Um, I randomly went into a class just to go see and I actually was able to um observe Mrs. Uh, is it Genevia? Genevia. >> Okay. So, um, she um she's been with the district for 10 years. I believe she started
010in um JG, right? If I'm wrong, if I'm right, she did really good um she has this thing that it's a classroom economics. I really liked she went into detail with that. I think it was really good because she teaches fifth grade and they're about to hit elementary. go to show them, you know, she charges them rent, she has a little store for them, you know, they have little jobs, you know, cleaning, all of that. And she she expressed how some of the students were like, "$100 for this, you know, and it's like, yeah, start getting them used to, you know, what life is, right?" So, I thought that was really good. But um she also and I think most teachers nowadays do that which I think it's awesome has the parent conference signups early
011that way you know parents that work and want to have those evening classes but they did a really really good job. So um yeah I wanted to just shout out to our site principal and vice principal and um the whole teachers here they did a really good um turnout. There was also a lot of little um I believe our afterchool program um had yeah they had booths out there. So it it was really really good. Very informative and really good turnout. So yeah, that's all for me. >> My apologies. >> Miss Sarah Turner. >> Um yes, I've attended facilities committee uh which was very good last Thursday. We're going to talk about it a little later. I also uh spoke with Miss Conig and I've been spoke speaking to the city about just safety in
012our areas around Sanorita. So I would ask anybody who's listening, we uh they did put it in the Santaorita newsletter. if you notice things that are unsafe in the neighborhoods around the schools to please bring that information to us because we we want to work with the city to fix the problems that even that aren't on our campuses but that our children walk through and our families are walking through. So, um please just let us know and we're trying to get the city to be responsive in regards to that and and the people that I've talked to at the city have been very kind. Unfortunately, they do contract out some of the other services. So, sometimes they're getting told that things were fixed and I'm sending pictures saying if they told you they fixed it,
013they didn't fix it because here's the picture a week later and it looks the same. So, please please with the families let us know and we'd like to advocate on your behalf. >> Thank you. Uh I attended a facilities meeting. It was great to kind of get an update of everything else that's happening. Um, that's it for myself. >> I actually asked Miss Donna Kanigan to give the board and our community an update on some current activities that are taking place here at Santaorita Elementary School. I know our Santaorita families have been informed that we are going to change the mascot of Santaorita Elementary School and we are currently working with our third, fourth, and fifth graders to help uh generate some submissions for uh the board to select our winner. And so Donna Kanig
014is going to give us an a status update. >> Good evening. Yes, our mascot. The students are very excited. We have third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers working with each of their classes. Um they're doing presentations. They're build doing research projects, some group projects, and all their ideas and research and how um if it affects the community and so if this animal and how it works with the community and the indigenous population and and our our native um tribes. And so our students are doing a lot of research. Um some of the projects are going to be um completed by this week if not next week. Those um will enter the competition on by the by the end of next week. Once that competition is done, we will do a vote. The final three will
015then on October 8th come to the board for the final vote and um and then we'll roll forward with new swag and new gear. um update the marquee but also honor the history of um the Santaita Indians when we do a ribbon cutting too. So, thank you. >> Thank you. I had a question. Is it possible I know we're only the board's only going to see the final three, but is it possible for us to just view the the reports the students did? I'd be curious to kind of see. Yes, we'll do a little slides of some of the entries and things that um when we start building those in and make a little presentation for you so that you can see how it all evolved. >> Okay, appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you,
016Miss Kennan. >> Um is there any public comments regarding non-aggenda items? >> We do not have any. >> Okay. Is there any public comments from the public here in person? We'll wait a little bit for them to translate. Let's see. Can't get any cards. >> It's okay. >> No. >> Yeah, there's one. Yeah, there's one. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yes. >> Yeah. I want to test say very thank you very much. I'm really excited about the program here at [Music] We're very happy that you guys opened this program here at Sanorita because now when the childrens get at home, we don't help them with homework anymore. Yeah, I want to say one more one more time. Thank you very much because from the beginning when first we when we first started talking about this topic and
017now we see more change on the walk when students walk on the stop sign. I can see people taking the time and being there and helping the children's cross the road now. >> Yeah, that's it for now. But thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> No more comments. Okay. Okay. We'll move on and then there's no comments regarding agenda items either, right? >> Correct. Yeah. Okay. Uh move on to 8.1 uh presentation. Croal. Uh first I want to start saying um Beneo thank you for coming today and um by chance are you guys recording the meeting? I would like to be able to record their presentation. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> It'll be on our YouTube. >> Okay. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. >> So I want to welcome our CBDIO team um here
018with us tonight. As you know, we're really excited that we were able to expand this program um this year from Sanorita to Mckennon as well. Um I as Dr. Katisa stepped in. I've had to step back a little bit and I miss them. Like I feel like I don't see them enough anymore. Um unfortunately, but I'm so grateful. I mean, the the father who shared his gratefulness to us, I'm grateful for them and what they've been able to bring to our district. And I would encourage any district watching out there, um the benefit to your community is farreaching. um our students are reporting to us not just that they feel a greater sense of belonging in our space but the adults who are supporting our students have become part of our team that we turn
019to for support and I don't have all the answers um I never will but I am so grateful to have this team to go to and to be able to get that support we need so that we can address the concerns. So my thank you before they begin their presentation is to you. You guys have made our schools better places for us as the adults and for our families. So thank you so much and I turn it over to you for your presentation. >> Thank you. >> Uh I'm a shy guy so don't har. Uh so um uh good evening all of you. Uh I would like to acknowledge all the support that you guys have been giving us as well. That's something that we truly appreciate. Uh and yeah, so we just wanted to
020make uh like a little uh update of the program. Some of the as you some of you may may have seen uh we already have a name for for our program in MCO. We didn't have that during this last year and yeah we have learned so much. Uh so the name of the program is officially Betum that means like uh house of the language. So that's one of the main uh main elements that we focus on. Um and uh I would like to uh just make a little introduction to recognize the the the team that we have. Uh uh as some of you already know we have expanded to Mckennon as well. We also have like we know that Selenas the the Selenas district especially the San Santaita district it's a we have a big
021community of our uh our people. So we do uh want to recognize that uh we've been receiving a lot of support from our teams uh from you guys as well. And yeah uh I would like to uh I'm not using my glasses right now so I can't I can't clearly see but yeah so I just want to uh acknowledge my team team as well. they have been they have done a great great job dur during this uh journey. Uh and we want to make a little statement about this program uh before we begin. But before that I would like to uh have Miss Kate to say a few words. Uh I know she has a lot to say. Uh >> thank you Lionel and Leonardo and Andress and Abigail and Fabiola and everybody. Um I
022all of you I thank you so much and I will reiterate what Dr. Summer Prader Smith said is is what CBDIO has done and bridging our collaborative efforts has been amazing. Um our students are happy and it's it's prideful to talk to the students about being triilingual. So um really thank you so much. Um we've done our back to school nights in triilingual now. We did our fifth grade promotion in triilingual. um being able to translate tonight for this event. So, doc viendo >> uh so I will uh ask uh some of our students they're going to recite uh a little poem image take. So uh uh I would like to invite uh Julian Veronica uh Herman and Carlos uh to the front. Uh [Music] so just a little context for for these kids. Uh
023some of them uh I know they're a little shy. So uh this is this is what life is. So we're shy. Uh we're nervous but we got to do it right. So yeah, this is this is going to be uh an an experience for them as well. Uh but yeah, just to give you a little context, some of our kids like uh they started uh with us uh we met them since they were in TK. Uh they only spoke only Spanish. They could they were able to understand just a few words in Mistco just like following directions uh to uh to say just a few words. But uh we can proudly say that they have uh developed uh the language so much that it it's so amazing for even for us like uh I didn't
024think uh that this was something possible but yeah u just a big applause for them to so so they can cheer them up. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. [Music] No sh [Music] you. I'm so sorry. We thought the the next slide was uh going to be the the translation of the the poem. Uh but that's just basically uh what they said. uh need to practice this uh and it's hard for them because the as you may know uh tonabi it it's a tonal language so in Spanish or English we don't use tones in Spanish or English so they were like a uh they we introduced to to them like a a new way to speak like to move their tongues to articulate the words the sounds And we're so proud of them to be honest. Uh
025and yeah, that's our statement. That's our statement. It works. It works. Yeah. Yeah. Uh and we can move on. We learned so much from this from the exper uh from the experience that we uh we had like during this uh last last two years almost two years. Uh and we created recreated the our four pillars. Uh I I I can't see that. I don't have my glasses. I'm so sorry. But uh uh yeah, we have our uh the one of our four of uh we have four pillars, right? One is the language, one is gastronomy, uh the other is art and uh and culture. So those are like four uh the four fundamental uh elements that we have. We have created this because we have seen that it works. we uh using those elements like
026we can make our kids like feel proud of who they are. Uh we can teach them that that the importance of the the language that they speak and they that they can just embrace themselves and yeah we already have like a new generation of triilingual students. So that's so great for us to be honest. Uh we can move on to the next slide. Uh and I just want to talk a little bit about uh how how we did like uh when we started this program. Uh one of the main focuses that focuses that we did is that uh uh since it was uh a new program uh we uh one of the main goals that we had was to uh identify the needs of our uh of our parents uh what are the the the
027first things that they need. So uh uh and we identify those things. So we've been like doing work like to uh for example just translating documents just giving providing them with interpretation providing all the support just so they that they uh they can learn how the school system works if there's something that they need to ask us. Uh we're like so open to help in helping them understand how the the school system works and um we have uh we have also like uh make uh some uh we've been like providing some uh um monthly workshops to them as well to just like do a little uh training uh to on how to like uh how to manage this like the the online platforms that are being used within the school. Uh and yeah we have
028done so great. uh we have a long way to go but we're there. So we're going to still hopefully we can still like keep working with our families. We can uh keep providing this them with these services and they have been so supportive with us as you may know uh we only gave them uh short notice and they showed up and yeah we truly appreciate that as well and uh I can uh we can move on to the next slide. Uh so this mapping uh as you may have seen uh it's like a mapping uh of the variance that we have in MECO. I also want to acknowledge the all the support that we have uh we've been receiving from the uh San Sanorita uh Union School District when it comes to variance. Uh I
029haven't seen this like in other places that uh uh for example if if someone needs interpretation the school uh the school that the the staff asked us and tells that tells us something like um uh we have a person from MCO from Coacha uh it is important for us to recognize that because we want to make sure that if we're providing interpretation we want to make sure that the un that the information that we're going to be providing they receive that information. So that's something that we do recognize that with your support we have identified like all these uh different variants uh so we can make sure that when when a parent needs assistance we can uh provide those assistance within their v bar variant right and I also want to acknowledge that we have
030a uh a whole team that speaks like different variants we have people from a hutla we have people from uh uh uh sartin pas uh from kotapa and yeah it's uh like a multi- variant team. So it's a it's the the how what's it called? The the dream team, right? >> The dream team. >> So moving on with the uh the next slide. Uh yeah, as as I was telling you, um we provided some uh training for our parents as well. We have given them capacitations when it comes to how to manage those platforms. If there's something that they need, they they uh they feel so open to coming to us and ask us. But we don't want to just like we want to uh make sure that they get involved within the the staff
031as well. We want to uh make sure that they get in communication with the teachers. So we get like somewhere in the middle, but we also want to make sure that the they create that relationship with the school, with the teachers, and with we're all a community here. So that's something that we also want to make sure that that it happens, right? Um and yeah, we have uh we can move on to the next slide. That's the the main thing that I wanted to share with you guys. Uh I don't have my glasses, but I can't see it. I'm so sorry. Yeah, but yeah, that's as you may see the uh that's one of the the main goals that we've been uh trying to to reach uh reach uh during this last uh last uh
032school year uh was to uh to present to the kids to present to the families their culture that is being represented within the school. Uh so starting from uh for example we have the the in collaboration with the with the uh Santaita uh elementary school we had the first year uh our first year like doing the the boni which is the translation for uh the muertos and that was like the the way that we do it that the way that we like uh we have the fasuchi uh iton that's how we call it and it's so beautiful uh this is something that I haven't seen here like within the the states. Uh it's a like something that we hold so deeply that tradition like uh it's so it goes back to like thousands and thousands
033of years and still going. So we wanted to make sure that the that that our parents our community feels represented when it comes to like those traditions that are so important to them. And we also have like the uh vikotum which is like a carnival. Um that's something that we also wanted to do uh mainly because um that's something that we kind of have like uh during like around the month of um February like in the middle of February. Uh and uh it's like a community event like uh the kids have the chance to make jokes like uh make jokes to interact with the people and in order for them to not be recognized they have to use a mask. So you can make a joke, you can like interact with the people, make them
034laugh. So one of the translations for uh bottom oriki means like uh the um it's like a carnival to make uh to make jokes something like that. But it goes back like so long. Uh so many um different communities have like like a different variation of how this is being done. So we wanted to be inclusive with all our communities. So we uh we also like um we did a lot of things like during that that uh that uh that event. I really hold that that that um specifically that mom like uh uh pretty like inside of me because that that's something that I haven't seen like someone doing like here doing here within the states. And at the end we had the our big event that we uh when we uh were like closing
035the school year uh was uh KBCA or like the other las madres and we have like we receive like so much like a nice feedback when it comes to the las madres. Uh uh we have a small group of uh in WhatsApp uh we have like a group with our parents and we received like so many nice comments. Thank you for doing this. It was so fun. like uh so we want to make sure that our parents also like uh that they can they can have fun so they can feel like uh involved in this that it's it's a program that not only uh focuses on the students but also on the parents. So we want to make sure that whatever is going on within the school uh that they can come up and they
036can be uh during those activities as well. And moving on to the next slide. Um and that's like a the like a whole picture of the mosaic picture of like all the things that we done we have done during like this uh this almost two years of our program and we want to make uh thank all of you guys for this like this happened because of you guys and we uh want to acknowledge that our parents have been involved in this like uh during this uh this journey and thank you so much and this is uh we want to leave uh on the next section for uh if you have any comments, any questions regarding this program. Uh and again, thank you so much. Thank you, Miss K. Uh thank you, school board. And thank
037you so much to our parents as well. >> I'll start off. Well, it's great to see you again. I know we had first started, it was kind of initiating, so it's great to see how it's kind of flourished and kind of moved forward. Would you mind uh introducing your team and staff as well that are here? Yeah. Thank you so much. >> Their names. >> So, we have uh Daniela Maldonado. They can present themselves. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Hello everyone. My name is Daniela Maldonado. Um I was a student here when I went in fourth grade then transferred to Gab. I have been in the district. All my three brothers went to the district too. I'm the coordinator for the same program here that opens at McKinnon. Yeah, it's nice meeting you
038all. >> Uh Abigail Martinez. [Music] Thank you. Okay. [Music] Vivo. Um hello everyone. My name is Cecilena Perez. Uh I am with the team um at McKinnon School. I am one of the instructor and I'm so happy to start work uh with the mixed deco program. I start at July 16 I think. So, so I'm the new one. I still learning and thank you so much um for to make this possible. Thank you. They're doing like double job right now. Yeah. >> Uh, hi everyone. Uh, my name is Leonardo Galves. I'm from Guerero, Mexico. I speak uh, Mistco. Uh, Mistco was my first language and, uh, I learn Spanish here in the United States and I, I try to speak English. So, uh, um, I'm the coordinator here at the Sundarita. So I'm trying to
039do my best. So I I'm very happy uh with all you to uh give us the opportunity to be here with tonight. Uh and uh thank you so much. Hello everybody. My name is Adrian Reyes. I am part of the Santaita team. Uh I am an instructor for second and first grade. And I don't know what to say. I'm just really happy to be here. I'm just really happy to uh be able to help the kids and you know give them some of my the way I work and then the way I think and you know just really something I don't know how to say. It's just really somethingful, something really um deep that, you know, I'm just happy to be here, you know, and I speak uh Spanish, MCO, and English. So, thanks to
040everybody for being here. >> Hi everybody. Uh my name is Andrea Dia Sakino. I am the senior programs manager for Centro V National. Um, I support the team by overseeing all our programs in Monterey County, but um, they do all the hard work. They do all the amazing work. And so, it's very incredible to see, you know, uh, going to school and seeing people that look like us, that speak like us, and that makes a great impact. So, I'm very happy. I'm new to the team, but I'm very happy to hear everything they're doing and learning everything and how wonderful the children are um, participating. and I got a chance to come into the classrooms and see what they're doing and so the impact that they're really having and seeing what their children are learning
041is really wonderful. So happy to be here. Thank you. Uh yeah, and that was our whole team. Um and thank you guys so much like for like giving us this space. Um um I'll still be here. I'll still be here if you guys have any more questions. >> You guys have board have questions or comments. Yeah. I just uh want to say that um I see a lot of beautiful faces out there, children's faces, and I'll tell you your culture your culture is just beautiful from all the that we seen on on the monitor here. It it was it's just amazing how how wonderful the cultures of Mexico and um the Mistco um culture has come together and and and it's just a really nice thing to see. I just hope that we can continue
042this um for as long as we have to um and as long as you guys are all here. So, and then to bring more people and um more um uh support for for this program, it's just amazing. Um this was not something that I've seen um since I've been a board member or a teacher. And um it's just a beautiful thing to see and I am going to tell a lot of my other former colleagues from other districts to get online and look at our our community. Um, I'm gonna really advocate for all of you. So, thank you very, very much. This was our dream, you know, for the board and the administration. This was our dream to better serve the community. So, to have you here, we are so grateful. We are so grateful
043to have the schools be places of safety for all of the children and places of learning for all of the children. We want our families to continue to be involved in all the things that we do, all the the elac committees, the schools site council. when we're planning to how we're spending our money next year, we want your voice because we want our money to be spent on the programs that our families want and will better serve our students. So, please keep showing up and we are so delighted with everything that's happening. >> Just want to say thank you Andrea to continue again and your to your organization to everything that's done because that's a big component. We couldn't offer this program unless your organization existed. So we want to say thank you and then
044if you guys would be so kind to >> Oh sorry Cindy sorry. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um definitely it's very nice to see the growth that you guys have uh brought and it's awesome to know that these kids are getting to know their culture and experience all that. But I want to encourage um the staff and parents too, you know, don't be embarrassed to speak English and you know I mean we all sometimes don't know like sometimes I I my first language is Spanish and sometimes I feel that hey how do you say this in English and then some like how do you say this in Spanish? You know don't don't be discouraged. I think the end goal is always you know being triilingual that's awesome. um we all have accents. I think it's a beautiful
045thing. But um I encourage you know um parents, all of you guys to try to also learn that language, you know, that way you guys um know it and feel comfortable and all of that. Don't be discouraged just because you know there's an accent involved. I think that's a beautiful thing. So with that being said, thank you. >> I just want I wanted to add when we started want to add one last thing. But when we started this program, I think I shared with you that when I was in migrant ed, I knew that we had been successful in migrant ed when it was no longer used as a point of bullying, but a point of of um want. So we had students who wanted to come to our program who couldn't, right? When we
046were turning students away and if you remember when we first started, we knew that our community was facing bullying within this community. And this can make me emotional. And what this team has been able to do is change that paradigm. And so now instead of speaking misco as something to be bullied for, it's something that's honored and our students want to come to the club, instead of it being something that's looked down upon. And when we started this and when we came together as a team, that was our goal. We said, we know we'll make it when we see that this that this community is held up in honor and others want to be part of it. And this team's hard work has made that happen. What we see now is kids who say, "I
047want to speak Mistco. I want to be MCO." what is that? And they want to join this. So that's the work of this team that they've done and in one and a half years they've changed a community and that's a powerful powerful role you guys have had. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> And I know it's a small room, but if maybe with your team we can take a picture in the front. Yeah. >> Uh can we do it with the whole family? Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. >> You're gonna go in front right here. Wait till everybody doesn't go. You just have to squish together. One, two, three. >> Don't fall off. Don't watch. So, the rest of the meeting is pretty boring, so you're welcome to stay, but if anybody wants to
048go, they're welcome to also leave. >> Thank you guys so much. We'll do a couple minute break in case people want to leave or recess. >> Yeah, we'll take a little recess. Yeah. Take a break. Or they can say one is [Music] speech. Speech. Speech. [Music] Okay. So, uh, moving on to the next item, 8.2,formational item, facilities committee updates. >> Thank you. Uh, Victor and I are going to handle this one. And, um, so we have our facilities committee meets regularly throughout the year and, um, I know you guys are pulling up my slideshow. So, we had our first meeting of the school year um, last week on the 4th. You can go ahead to the next one. So just to give go back one. Thank you. So, just to give everyone sort of an
049idea of what the facilities committee does, it's a district level team with representatives from all of our school sites. And they really assist to review the district facilities projects regularly and then at least annually review the district's facility phasing plan and then recommend any substantial changes for the board to consider um at their annual um re-evaluation and reapproval of the of the phasing plan for our large projects. And so we had a couple of new members. We are going to talk about the district office front entrance which you may have noticed appears to be boarded up and a review of our school site summer and the projects continuing from the summer break at uh JGMS GV uh MS and La Hoya in particular. And then I'll give Rosa's update on our bond um sales. And
050then that's pretty much our our main topics that we went over. So go to the next one. All right. So our district office front entrance change. Now this the district office uh work is not funded from our measure R bond. What we did over the last couple of years is looked for one-time savings that we could have in our facilities fund so that we could do a couple of main things. One thing that we did do, we focused here on a change that we needed um with our facilities committee, but we also repainted on the inside. There was some old damaged wallpaper that we took down and then they um sanded those walls so that we could have consistent paint for the walls and the trim throughout the office. And then um our issue that
051we discovered about two weeks ago, I think actually two weeks today, is that our contractor and his workers discovered that our old front entrance, which had a full window wall, didn't have adequate um structural supports. And so we needed to do a a a change in design in order to be able to allow that. So very quickly um the team that was uh doing the construction work they added some temporary supports to ensure the safety while we met with our architect our team um talked to the engineers the contractors and and the board. So, our solution is that we needed to delete the planned replacement of the upper gable glass that we had planned to just simply replace and instead we are framing that wall. Well, we frame that wall and um and after installing
052appropriate horizontal and vertical support beams and actually that's the stage we were at last week. Um, and I believe Sarah took a peek and you can see the beams going across and that are coming down now. And then, um, we just had an inspection today. So, then we can move on to the next step, which will be finishing those walls. So, our design will still maintain the double glass doorway entrance and the originally planned side panel windows that are directly adjacent to the entryway. What you'll notice now is there'll be just a little bit of space in between them and that's actually to allow for another vertical support between our doorway entrance and the window. On the outside it'll look like part of the framing but um internally it ensures that we we meet those
053safety standards that we should for a loadbearing wall in the front. And um really appreciate everyone, our community as well as our district office team for bearing with all of the noise and the construction and the plastic sheeting and having to answer a door in the back with the doorbell. It's really a team effort to get it done. But um our contractor being very forward thinking and his team reaching out to Victor immediately when they notice a problem so that we could handle it pretty quickly. Um and again, so while that's not a bondf funded project, it's one that we saved up over time to be able to do, um it's still important for our community to know why our our our operations and entrance way is a bit disrupted right now. And it it's
054it'll be for a good cause. a parent comes to the office, >> we have signs routing them to our side door and we have a doorbell set up and so we're and a seating area in the back. And so we're able to walk down, let them in, have them um either walk the escort to another office if they have an appointment or wait there and we're able to do reception down by that door and everyone's getting their steps in. Um and and we're kind of like we're we're close we're close-knit enough to be like I'll get the door. Um if we're already walking down the hallway. Um and so this shows uh like that very early uh where they're framing out and you can see that they're putting in those uh structural beams across the
055top as well as uh vertically. So it'll it'll withstand many many more years doing this. And then um I know we're losing that top gable glass, but it was really important for the integrity of our structure. And then Victor. >> All right. So at JGMS, uh our updates are we planned six new portable buildings out there. However, the portable buildings are on concrete permit foundation up to grade. No, there's not going to be any ramps or anything like that right now. The updated schedule is that we are at brown coat for the stuckle system. The stuckle system is a three-part system. The scratch already went last week. This week, we finished the brown. And now we're going to have to wait 7 days. So by Monday, we'll start up the uh the finish coat. And
056then once that's done, then you get all the pretty stuff around here like the quad area, the concrete and the quad, the irrigation, the synthetic grass and stuff like that. So, we're doing very well on that. Uh, all of the infrastructure is in. Uh, been working with it on getting what they want on it. Um, so everything's everything's going uh as we planned. The black top um unfortunately um I do have to let you know that it's been rejected for the second time. So, we actually met with uh the owner of the general contractor's company and he walked the site since we had this small rain. It was a precise moment for him to come and see what the quality was and um we're still waiting to hear from him on the recommended uh fixes
057and um going from there. So, I'll keep you I'll keep you posted. Next one. So these are pictures of the concrete perimeter pier slab. Now as you can see just they're not just concrete perimeter and pier. There's also what we call a rat slab. So if there's any moisture because we're in an area with high moisture. There's drains underneath those buildings. So you'll never get any rot in the future. And for excess we actually have more than an 18inch wall going on there. So we can get in there and we have to keep up like with it, you know, run new cables, run new something, new pipe. We could actually do that. Next one. This is uh the start of the stucco. This is the uh paper and L and as you can see on
058the left hand side, it's the building bear just but it is treated uh plywood for moisture barrier. And then we add the uh black paper, the tar paper. And then of course the chicken wire right after that. But right now all of that's covered. It's looks like a big old concrete building because we're down we're up to the brown coat on on a three-stage system. Next update at Gavlin M uh view. Um over the summer we did the directional boring which was quite impressive and it saved us time and it basically cost more but it was means and methods from the contractor because they couldn't meet the timeline. They were too busy. They did directional boring which is um if if you see it I I I guess it's a guessing game that but they
059guide everything with oh as you can see that uh the machine is on the bottom left the windows what we call a window is where they start and where they aim to get into. So on the left top, that's where they were going through and they're aiming for the middle window. >> So now what we're doing is we did some potholeing, making sure we found all the utilities that we thought they were there. Some are there, some are not. Uh but we're we're also finding the connections from other from other projects and so we need to reroute them around our our um foundations because our foundations are roughly 6 ft deep of treatment so that earthwork basically gets treated and amended and compacted to a certain point so that the building doesn't shift or anything
060like that. But we're going to have the same kind of concrete perimeter pier foundations as what we showed you on JGMS. All right, next slide. La Hoya, uh we're still on track to install a new portable restroom out there um during Christmas. So, we have contracts and everything for the building. We have plans going to DSA, I believe, in a couple of weeks. So, in DSA with one restroom, it's going to be a little easier because it's over the counter. However, they're checking for seismic values. And this is the restroom that we couldn't justify last year, or else I would have installed it during the time that we installed the three additional portables. So, we finally found one that justifies GSA's, you know, seismic values and for the area. So, we're on track. And once
061we install that one there, the existing portable restroom is going to be a staff restroom. And believe it or not, it's at the perfect heights for adults. It's not at the kid level. So, um, it's going to work out really well for everybody. Next slide. >> Um, uh, Rosa Zimurio shared at facilities committee just to give our community sort of an update with our measure R. Um, in 2023, our our um, our voters approved our measure R bond authorizing $24.9 million. and um the the out the outpouring of support for that from our voters um we can't thank them enough. And so in 2023 24 our series A bond sold for $9 million. And then in 2425 we went ahead and started the process for our bond sale of series B and series C in
062May. And one of the reasons why we did in the 2526 um sell the series B and then the bond anticipation notes at this time against series C early is so that we can lock in current prices for construction because just in the time from when our voters approve that bond to now um the price of construction not just in uh you know our our sector but I'm sure private builders ers have seen the same thing have just um continued to rise and so being able to access um the rest of the bond to keep our projects just rolling as quickly as we can um at the most current rates were essential. And so over the summer we had left at the end of last school year letting our facilities committee know that that's what
063we would be working on. uh Miss Zamoodio and myself um we went through a series of interviews um with the company who were taking our bond out to for sale. Um we received our credit rating based on that information. Um and our consultants and our team were with us throughout the way, but we talked about things like our district history, um our initiatives that we have, our population, our our growth patterns and those things. um as well as how we handle our finances and where we are with our reserves and and all all of those things and the questions that they had to help make a decision to still give us such a positive uh rating. And then our bonds were put out for sale. And to say that we had um some great luck
064and watching that process was really interesting because you can actually see it live as people are interested in purchasing our bonds. And we um had several who were interested in in purchasing our bond notes. And so we got a really good interest rate on that partly because of our district profile and and how we operate and how our how our finances are in order as well as what we laid out as what we're spending the funds on and keeping track of those things. So it left a high level of confidence for us on that market exchange. And then a note about our future meetings and when and when they're upcoming throughout the year. And so uh and then our representatives from the school site because it's also really important that we have representatives from the
065district from facilities. We have two board trustees who sit on facilities committee um and then each school site. So our principles and then interested and we have a mix of classified and certificated folks who um sit on the facilities committee as well. And so when they review the the phasing plan, it's not necessarily just specific to their site. Though we go through line by line that what is next at each school site, but also looking holistically at the district plan. And then um the board committed last January that um that we would annually bring that plan back to the board. we would do a January workshop just a here's where we are with our facilities and then a phasing plan and make sure that we're staying on top of that and sort of readopting that
066each year as things change or our priorities change or we something crops up and is such of such a profound need that we need to adjust our plan. That's it. Only question I have is um the district office projected date for completion you think >> assuming nothing else comes up you make don't worry >> the the next big lead item is because we had to change the size of the windows the sightlights those are it's like we started over right so those submitts that we had 3 weeks ago that kind of puts us behind. So I would say the delays are probably going to be 3 weeks and then we have the stuckco again 21 days right so you're looking at at least at a couple of months in order to start seeing the closures
067and everything on that so I would say a couple months >> any questions or comments from the board? >> No. Okay. Thank you. I I just it was a comment and to all the people on the facilities committee I just so appreciate their dedication and I also appreciate that real things happen at the meeting. In other words, people are like oh that's happening here. Hey, I think that should have happened at our school or, you know, I I appreciate that people bring things and and problems bubble up there and it's a real the people that are on the committee have been on it a long time and they really care about what they're doing. Also, real quick, we've got our um we have our KSBW team coming out actually to do some filming next Wednesday.
068The weather's going to be great. um at all of our sites and we want to focus our next round on those bond projects and so we'll start um and and we'll just go school to school so that they can get that footage and um to see like at GV for instance they're seeing a lot of work in progress right so they've got the bulldozers out back and things like that and then transitioning over to see the new classrooms even at the stage that they're in at JG and then those projects that were finished at our elementary school and are upcoming. And so that way our community knows these these dollars are currently at work right now. and um and that they see what is happening and like using some of our sites where it's a
069lot of groundwork and infrastructure but it for people to know oh so that work is still moving forward and that and that my dollars are being put to good use by the school district. So um they're going to come out and film next Wednesday. we were waiting for a stretch of good weather. So, we were like, that's going to be a good time and um to get that footage and so we'll share that with um our community as soon as we have that uh polished and finished for them. >> Can we also incorporate and clarify that is a a separate set of money? Can we include the new playgrounds in >> there? Um the playgrounds are split funded and so we'll we'll include those as well. >> Thank you. and the shade structures at um
070at our sites >> because foundations are exciting but playgrounds are awesome. >> Perfect. Thank you. So that was just anformational item. Uh action item 9.1 approval of one-year extension of superintendent employment contract. Do I need to read the summary points? I think is it on your contract? Usually >> there's no financial. Okay. Okay. So um >> motion to approve. Second. >> Second. Okay. >> All those in favor? >> I vote passes 300. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Um, our next regular board meeting will be September 24th, 2025. Is there any suggested future board items? >> Um, Mr. Sandival reached out today to talk about could we get a little bit of a presentation and so I may do it at this one instead of the October since the October we'll be choosing the mascot
071>> um about the sort of the history of the of the current and where we're at because when we talk about like having a plaque to just the history of it and moving forward also considering that what we want to do really is honor as well the um indigenous cultures that we're here and that it's time for a change. Though we have many many community members who fondly remember being um Sanorita Elementary School with an Indian mascot um that moving forward with the change and just sort of recognizing that also on the same evening. So I have a lot of the historical research that I found whenever that's how I discovered that um we were going to have a susquentennial and I made everyone learn that word. Um and so just bring that forward and
072sort of um refresh our knowledge on that and then at our October meeting we'll Donna and her team will bring forward the the student submissions. >> Yeah, definitely that works. Yeah, perfect. Thank you. Yeah, know it was really great um seeing the community in that in that program and the space here and I think it's one of the cool things about the rotating meeting. Sometimes sometimes we don't have people show up but today was great because people who live close by like they were just able to walk over just a short drive away. So just thank you. So at this time it's 7:21. Um can I get a motion to approve? I mean motion to adjurnn. Sorry. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> All those in favor? I I motion 30. >> Okay. Have a nice
073>> I lived in