001Okay. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the Saturday Union School District board meeting. Like to call this meeting to order. Please start off with roll calls. >> Mr. Neil Patel >> present. >> Miss Alvariano here. >> Mr. Jacob Sandaval here. Miss Cindy Lopez and Miss Sarah Turner are not here this evening. Okay. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Ready and begin. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay, moving on to item 1.3. Can I get a motion to approve the board agenda, please? >> So motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I motion 30. >> Okay. Okay, today on close session we have item 2.1 potential
002litigation under government code section 54956.8 and 54956.9. We have item 2.2 public employee performance valuation under government code section 54957. And then we have item 2.3 conference with labor negotiators under government code section 54957.6 2.4 public employee appointments uh/evaluation discipline under government code section 54957. Is there any public comments regarding close session items? >> There are not. >> Can I get a motion to adjurnn to close session? >> So motion >> second. >> All those in favor? >> I I >> motion 30 afterwards. I'm gonna get Let me give me a countdown. Sorry. Oh, no. >> That's fine. >> Oh, no. You say >> Oh, no. Okay. No, we're good. Can we give a countdown? >> Okay. >> I think we're live. Are we We're live. >> Okay. Uh, good afternoon everybody. Welcome back to
003the Center Union School District Board meeting. Uh, we're going to recommitting back into open session. Uh during close session, the board voted 3 to zero not to approve an additional 9-week unpaid leave of absence for employee ID 160826. And now we're going to move on to approval of consent agenda. Can I get a motion to approve items 5.1 and 5.3? >> Show motion. >> Second. All those in favor? I I motion 30. Uh >> is there anybody here or comments submitted from SRTA? There are not >> uh CSEA. >> No. >> Okay. We'll move on to superintendent's cabinets. >> All right. We have our director of engagement in the school climate, Dr. Pther Smith. >> I guess I'll go first. No. Um just a couple of announcements. I was hoping to bring you an update
004on our restorative practice grant that we applied for from the Department of Education, but unfortunately due to delays there, we have still have not received a respon response. So hopefully by our next board meeting um I'm optimistic just because of the communications I've received them from them but we haven't received information yet. Um I wanted to let you know that uh in our community know that we are holding a TEDP clinic as you know um there's been some changes that are affecting families who receive medical and we had a concern that that would impact our students getting their required vaccines for seventh grade. So, our nurse team was able to work with the visiting nurses association and through our funding, we'll be able to fund uh that vaccine clinic to make sure that all of
005our students are able to attend on day one. So, on July 30th, um we currently have 30 students who are missing their TEDP. We will have that clinic here and all students will be able to have that vaccination before they return to school. So, thank you to our nursing team for um putting that together and for our team for helping me find the money to fund that to make sure that our students have what they need. Um, I also just want to u make sure that our community knows that our hearts are with migrant ed right now as all of these changes occur and that though the program may not be there, the services will continue. We're committed to making sure that our families receive the supports and services that they need here. And so
006I'm working really closely with that team to make sure that there's continuity for our students um within that um the spaces here at our sites as well. Um along with that, part of what we were able to do is uh the last two days um our amazing community liaison um were able to hand out hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of backpacks at Sanorita Elementary. Um those backpacks were filled with all the needed school supplies for their first day of school along with over 75 pairs of new tennis shoes and um a plethora of socks that were donated by Bomba, which are like $50 a pair. There's like the best socks I've ever seen. I know. Um so yeah, they were really great. um along with those socks. And so um it was really nice to
007see our kids so excited to come and get their new shoes and get their backpacks and ask you know when's school starting. So um thank you to our community liaison um especially Blanca who went out and solicited all that was needed to get those backpacks and then put everything together so that our kids can have a great start to the school year. Um, I also just want to share with our Mckennon Street community that we are working really closely with the city around the road construction happening at McKennon Elementary. There's currently a sign posted that says that Mckennon North will be closed July 25th through August 1st. Um, two pieces we're working August 1st the road will be open. That is our first teacher day back and teachers will have access. We worked with the
008city today to make sure that they understood that they need um access to that road starting on the 1st. The other part that I just want to let the community know is that if you're needing to register or need support in registering for school and can't access the school site, they can come here to the district office and we've been communicating that out as well um and posting messaging, but you can register online. All of our registration materials are online, but also um reach out to us and our liaison or here at the district office we can support in registering. Um and then just my last thing um we were able to take over 200 families to see Honk at the theater at Hartell. Um it was really exciting to see our family show up
009on a Sunday and have that experience and we're really looking forward to sharing those kinds of opportunities with our community through our ELOP grant. Um so we're working with Hartnell to see which other family appropriate plays are coming up, but we're also going to partner with Selena's High School. Selena's High School does several plays throughout the year and we're really working to get our students into a space where they can see that as a pathway for themselves as they go into high school and for their families. So, um, I'll be working with the heart or with the Selenus High theater team to make sure that we take our students to see that as well. >> I think that's it. Thank you. >> Um, I have a question. I'm uh, thank you for all the work
010you're doing, especially with the McKinnon issue going on. Um, my concern is when does when school does open, uh, over the summer, I've just seen the ability of barely two cars going either direction. What do we do with parents bringing the kids to school by walking? What safeguards are in place? What is the city going to do to ensure the safety of our parents walking their kids to school? >> Yeah. So, I've been in direct communication with several of the the city folk in charge and then Victor's been talking directly with the foremen on site. Um there's a weekly meeting that's happening where there's connection and Victor's starting to attend that as well to make sure for safe routes to school for our busing. Um I don't have an answer for you. I would say
011we are concerned as well and working really closely with them to help mitigate any of that. Um we have some commitments on their side around support and we're just hopeful that that comes through and we'll continue to have that direct line of communication as we work to get school started. Um but for our families, we're going to have to put some um um I say supports, but like we know that students may show up a few minutes late, right? like we're going to kind of have to see how those first few days go to really make adjustments as needed. >> Yeah. I just, you know, that that concerns me because that's that that crossing of of Barondo over there. You know, maybe we can find alternative ways for students walking, maybe providing a quick shuttle
012or something for the initial few days or some type of workound >> before school opens, you know, um whatever you can do to talk to city officials and the contractor. >> But this is a vital concern of safety and making sure our students get there, you know, with their parents. And right now I think the crossing for me in reality is a little safer because the lights are still working. So there's still that crossing. So there's some more like I feel a little bit safer there. What I'm concerned about right now is the traffic congestion because of the number of cars going in. Um once that traffic light starts to come down, you know, we're going to see more crossing challenges. But what you know I'm predicting is some backup around that McKinnon area because
013like you said only fair if you have a bus going in another car cannot fit next to them currently. So we'll have increased support out there. The city's committed to having increased support and supervision. Um, but we are anticipating there to be some challenges those first couple weeks >> since I know we can't are they as part of the commitments uh supervision are they having like it's not the correct word like crossing guard or somebody just directing traffic or >> that's what we've been told but we heard that also a little bit before and we didn't necessarily see that. So I'm continuing to work and advocate to have that. The the reason I'm saying that is with the Castable project when you go down Merit Street, they did they created a special sidewalk, you know,
014uh to make sure that people walking have that ability, you know, so I'm kind of concerned that we don't have that here. >> Yeah. And right now the side that our families walk on, the sidewalk isn't disrupted because on the on that street there's only sidewalk on one side. So right now this the the crossing sidewalk isn't disrupted through it. It's that because there wasn't um there wasn't even a crossing. Yes, that part's not disrupted currently. Um and there's not predicted to be road work onto that sidewalk is my understanding. So, there won't be an impact to the sidewalk. It's really just the crossing of the lanes that will be a challenge. And like I said, right now I'm not predicting that to be our biggest issue. We're actually are going to be better if
015there's more walkers kind of crossing across. It's the drivers that are going to cause a challenge. and and they might drive because they think walking is is an issue even though it's not, right? So, they might choose to drive their kid there to >> and then with Harden kind of at the same time. So, you know, even like I had talked to some parents who were ask talking about concerns about like parking on that street and then walking their kids across because the the parents get really frustrated in the amount of time it takes. Um the challenges with hard and drop off happening, I mean, they're later, but families go early to drop off. It backs up as Elden does, it backs up that whole road as well. So, um, we'll be, you know, modifying
016as the days go on in those first couple days to make sure that our students and families are safe. It's hard for me to predict right now exactly what it's going to look like, but yeah, >> thank you for that question. I think that um what I'm more concerned about is the I rate parents and that's oh my god I've been I've been cussed at I've been oh it it's that's >> when I come to the board for hazardous job pay you'll know. >> Yeah. So, if I could do something to I mean, if maybe we can get a group of parents to kind of help out, you know, >> I I mean, again, it truthfully is my job. There will be people who are frustrated. I'm prepared to help and support them. It really
017is the work that I do. So, um I'm I'm in the mindset for it. It's going to be okay. Um I tend to be successful at that. So, it's it's you know, we're gonna have some parents who are going to be upset and they have a right to be upset and that's kind of how I approach it with them. You have the right to be upset. We're working to make it better. Um, so yeah, I'll take care I'll take care of it. >> I'll be there on the first date. >> Okay. >> Uh, Miss Becky Moore, assistant superintendent. >> Thank you. We are officially in back to school PD mode. So, we've had our administrators here, all of our site administrators, district administrators um yesterday, today, and tomorrow for full days of professional development and
018collaboration in preparation for the upcoming school year. On Monday and Tuesday, we will have all of our new teachers here in this room um where they will receive professional development on curriculum, technology, the things they need to know to have a successful start with us. Um and they will also have monthly professional development meetings here with me and the academic coaches. Um Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday we have some optional PD sessions. Um we have currently 75 teachers signed up for at least one session. Um and they're continuing to email me every day saying, "Is it too late? I missed I missed it. I would really like to attend these things. Is that possible? And so, as long as there's space, we're welcoming them. CPR has limits. You can only have 12 person 12 people in
019a session. Um, and a couple of our other ones have limits based on the presenters, but we will have um the Gemini AI pilot training for the advanced um Gemini um tools within Google. will have various curricular um professional developments that teachers have been requesting. Um second step is our SEAL curriculum and restorative practices. Um big five active crisis. So a lot of variety in what's being offered based on the input and feedback we've heard from teachers. So I'm excited about the number of people who are taking advantage of this. On Friday is our first mandatory professional development day. As Summer said, it's the first day back with all teachers. So, we will be doing um some training with them for K through six. It will be focused on the implementation of the new reading
020screener that California has required. Um, it's required in the state only for kindergarten, but because we know we have some deficits in reading for our students, we're opting to do K through six, which is available, so that we can identify where the specific gaps are and address closing those. Um, we're going to have for middle school teachers. Um, this is Summer's job. she gets to do the new state required prism for LGBTQ plus students training. Um it's a brand new requirement. It's pretty intense from what Summer has shared in her like research and planning. So that's for grades 7 through 12 required in the state that training is um and so our middle school teachers will have that and then the afternoon for all of our um teachers will be grade levelwide collaboration and planning
021focused on the new CSTPs and what that's going to look like in their classroom. So all of the administrators and academic coaches will be helping to facil facilitate those conversations and leave the teachers um walking away that day with something they can actionably implement in their classroom. So we're excited about all of that and after that they have one work day and then the school year starts. So we're here, we're busy and it's exciting. I'm really excited for this year. >> Okay. Thank you for the updates. Uh move on to the board. Uh Mr. Neil Patel. >> Um I just want to thank Congresswoman uh Zoe Lofrren. Uh she arranged for a tour of Washington when I was out there and I also conveyed to her office uh my concern. I hope that district's concern
022about funding being withheld. Um our minority programs, you know, funding being decimated. Um, also with thank you um to Congressman Le uh Jimmy Panetta. He's been very vocal on making sure we get our funding back. You know um you know this is vital uh for our education. you know, we have a mix of dollars coming in, but to withhold funds that have already been approved by Congress and uh you know, it just hurts us as educators uh not to provide those things that have been promised, you know, uh to our various con constituent groups. So, um thank you, uh Congresswoman Lran, and thank you, uh Congresswoman, uh Panetta for all you're doing for the state. Uh Godspeed, and hopefully this will be resolved soon. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Laurian. >> Um, also thank you to
023Congressman Lrren. I think we got a uh email from from CSBA and um I went ahead and uh submitted my um my request as to why those funds are being held. So hope and and you know she did uh she did um text back. So and it was a really good response that she had. I'm sure it was the same response for everybody, but I mean it was it was good that she did at least respond. So thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you both for for advocating and just kind of reminding our elected officials and stuff. Um just excited for the new school year. Um, I appreciate our district and how welcoming it looks to be. Um, just I I know I drive by a La Hoya school. So, just reminding Victor, you know, it's
024it's great to welcome our students and our parents to just the trimming of the trees and washing and the weeds. Just making it look really good for our students as they kind of come back a clean environment as as kind of we come back. Um, and just looking forward to the back to school nights and just getting to see everybody back in action. Um, moving on to Dr. Alderman. For us, the school year's already started. Um, and so it this is a lot of the behind the-scenes work and things like that. And I know Victor's crew is like going around and we have pictures of them painting the curb. So I'm like, "Oh, actual curb appeal." Um, and then like the mowing and the trimming and the cobwebs and all of those things that happen
025over summer to try to get that done because they're doing the internal deep cleaning in classrooms and then the all the outside touches. And I know they were painting repainting some of the picnic benches and tables and you know as we were walking through last week and so just getting to each next thing and making sure that that's all done. And so looking forward to welcoming our students back trying to get some of those videos out so people know what kind of action has been happening in the summer because school business uh doesn't stop. Um in fact the summertime you know when people are hopefully idealing vacation uh you know enjoying vacations relaxing in those things is when we start putting in new classrooms infrastructure for future growth and and those pieces and making sure
026that our community knows that those things are going on. And then when it's time to showcase and be ready to welcome students that we go out and we have those events so that our community can come help open those facilities with us. We've got some murals at GV that the crews have been working on uh diligently throughout the summer. That's going to be a great unveiling when they're ready to go. And those other pieces um new playground structures for our all of our elementary schools are up and running. Um and getting everything ready for our students. And it feels like like a quick rush now, but um we all know how much goes on um through every day uh just to get it ready. So when they they walk in, it's got that fresh school
027year smell. Um they've got that feel, that excitement to be back at school with their new teachers and start a new school year. So we're excited. >> Perfect. Thank you for the update. Um is there any public comments uh regarding non-aggenda or agenda items? >> Uh we have no public comments. >> Okay. Uh 8.1 is a public hearing a resolution in school facilities needs analysis for level two and level three fees. At this time, do I have to open up the hearing? Yeah. Okay. It's uh 6:25 and I'm going to open up the hearing now. >> Thank you. Um I am representing our CBO and her diligent work in making sure that we have um our updated draft uh SFNA for uh leveraging uh level two and level three developer fees. And so you have
028to do a regular update and the analysis of growth um student projection and those pieces that go in for a formula to determine what the statutory developer fees are for residential and commercial. And so these have been posted um publicly announced in the newspaper on our timeline. We've received no questions, no feedback um on our developer fees um or sorry on our draft SFNA. And um so what we're looking for is for our um collection for residential development pursuant to our um government code is going to go up to $727 per square foot. And then for our uh commercial is um 1454 per square foot. >> Is there any questions or comments from the board? Okay, it's a 626. So I'm going to close this public hearing. We're going to move on to item 9.1
029which is action item approval of board resolution school facility needs analysis for level two and level three fees. >> Thank you. It's the action item that comes following that public hearing. >> Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? >> So motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I captain. >> Motion 30. >> Okay. Um item 9.2 approval of contract with learning Genie. This year, our transitional kindergarten will begin um of the pilot year of administrating the DRDP, which is a common assessment for ECE programs. Um this is recommended by the state. Um we anticipate it potentially could become a requirement. So, we thought it's a good time to start easing our teachers into it because it's very different than the type of assessment they've done previously. there is a tool that makes
030the administration much more streamlined um and also provides an opportunity for them to easily pull reports, data, lesson plans that align with the standards. And so that is learning Genie and I'm here to recommend that we approve this program for implementation this year. We have a UPK grant that will cover the fee for that at least this year, if not for a few more years. going to get a motion to approve. So motion >> second. >> All those in favor? >> I I >> motion 30. >> Elva. >> Oh yeah. >> Sorry. I was looking at the second one. I Oh, >> second. I Yes. 30. >> That's okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh advanced planning. Our next regular board of meeting would be August 13, 2025. Is there any suggested future board items? I
031want to know how many do we know now maybe how many TKs are enrolled. >> I just was having that conversation. Um so um this number hasn't been updated because they're finishing importing but currently all of our TKs look like they are full with a wait list. >> Oh nice. >> Great news. >> So I'm actually going to meet with them right after this. >> Great. Okay. Thank you. Can I get a motion to adjurnn at 629? >> I make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I captain. >> Motion 30. >> Okay. Have a nice evening everyone.