001Those in favor? I. Motion 30. Okay. See everybody afterwards. Nice compliment. I'm turn I'm exhausted. I know. Well, like right now we're going to sit there. It's going to start hitting us. That's it. Okay, everybody. Uh, good afternoon. Welcome back to San Re School District meeting. We're going to call back uh from close session. Nothing was reported on, so there's nothing to report out. We're going to move on to item 5.1, approval of consent agenda. If I could, please get a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I I. Motion 40. And uh before we move forward, one of the items that we approved. Thank you. One of the items uh in the consent agenda is the appointment as Miss Brenda for our new assistant principal at McKinnon Elementary School. So
002I amum I am so excited and I told them I had so many different embarrassing stories to choose from that I had to think carefully about which one I wanted the most. But um this is now I'm going to get emotional. We were phone banking for the um to pass the bond offsite doing our uh good public work for the school district and I saw Brenda hang up the phone after talking to someone for a long time and she was shaking a little bit and I went over to see if she was okay and she had been she turned around to me with tears in her eyes and she said that was person who's a voter he's 25 and he just told me that I was the best teacher that he ever had and I
003said well of you were. And I wasn't surprised at all. And he, you know, many years removed from being a middle school student, but she shown like a star in his memory. So, congratulations. We're really excited. Just to give everyone a little bit of background, um, Miss Burrett was a student at Santaorita Elementary School and then here at Gavlin View Middle School as well. And I believe that Miss Bur is going into her 25th year in um, education here in the Sanantaorita Union School District. So, I think it's fair to say she doesn't just know our district, she is our district. Um, and um, so pleased. Uh, and Miss Burrett taught core, she taught math, and for the last three years, she's been an academic coach at John Gutierrez Middle School. Um, and Miss Burrett
004right now moving into um into administration is taking a leap that when I first took that leap from being an instructional facilitator and teacher and moving into administration, I asked one of my principles, I said, "I'm going to need you to talk me into or out of this decision." Mhm. And she said, "The only reason that a really great teacher should ever leave the classroom is because they have potential to make an impact on a greater number of students." She said, "And you have to do that the farther up you go because you don't get that immediate joy that you have in a classroom full of students." So, here you are about to make an impact on a whole school's worth of elementary students. I'm imagining also that you're going to have some former students
005in your office now as parents talking to you about the school and what's going on and and helping them navigate this future with their little ones at McKinnon Elementary School. I'm proud to announce that you are moving into leadership here in this district that clearly you love. Yeah, I was going to say when I came in as a board member, you were a teacher when I first came in. So I I appreciate the time you spend the district but also willingness to kind of step up into the different roles where our district needed. So So thank you. Miss Barrett, how special is this? You are loved by so many and I what Sarah just said I could attest to that because you were my teacher here at View. And did you make an impact? And
006I know personally you made an impact on me and you made an impact on a lot of us that year. We lost two students that year and I I was with them since we started here and both of them Darren and Danny they had made a change already. You I am so happy to see you move into this position. I know you're going to do great and yes you are. you do make an impact on a lot of us. Um, me sitting here today has a lot to do with you teaching us and um, showing us that you could pursue anything. So, thank you for your services and I know you're going to do great, Brenda. I'm I'm so I'm so glad. I've heard a lot of things good things about you. um your leadership
007skills, um your um with children, you know, you're you're compassionate and um I'm just I just hope that you have a I mean, you've been in the district for so long that um you're calling this your f this is your family and this is your home. So, um I wish you all the best. Did you want to say a few words? Yeah. Okay. I just want to say how honored I am to be able to continue my career in here in the Sanantaorita Union School District. There's no other place I'd rather be and I really do look forward to working with students, staff, parents of McKinnon Elementary. Um, I've got to see what it looks like on the adolescent side, the older adolescent, and now I get to be part of nourishing the younger student.
008So, I'm really excited to use my skills in a bigger capacity. So, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Great picture. Oh, picture. longer. No, I know. We're close because Yeah, of course. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Go and celebrate. Okay, we're going to move on to reports and correspondence. Uh, is there any comments from me from SRTA? There are not. Okay. Uh, CSEA. No. Okay. Move on to superintendent's cabinet. Um, Dr. Summer Per Smith. Just really briefly, um, we did, as I shared last time, finished up our summer academy for this year with great success. Um, thank you to that team. We had lots of tears on the last day of kids asking why we weren't having it in July and we said because we're tired. Um, but we will be um continuing our ELOP
009in July. Our students have the option of attending Boys and Girls Club camp covered by the district as well so that we make sure that students have continuity of service throughout July. And then this coming Sunday um we'll be taking 200 students and families to see Honk at uh Hartnell Theater. um to make sure that we're kind of just keeping that connection throughout the month of July. And then I'm excited that I've been able to meet with all of our ELOP partners, Boys and Girls Club, um Centro National, everybody. And we're all set for day one um of the start of the school year. So, thank you. Thank you. I'm glad you're taking him to see Honk because I've seen it twice and it's a fabulous Well, Sarah can attest to that. It's fabulous. And
010I'm going again on Sunday. So, this is going to be number two for me. And then, uh, Miss Becky Moore, thank you. Um, as you know, July is the start of the new school year. So, we have just a couple of weeks before all our admin administrators return. We're getting everything ready for professional development sessions for admin, for teachers, for staff. Um, and also getting all those curriculum orders. They're rolling in. So, we're getting those sorted and delivered to the right spots. So, it's a busy time, but exciting as the new year is kicking off. Any questions, comments? No. Okay. Thank you. Okay. We're going to move on to the board and superintendent. Uh, Miss Any Lopez? I don't have anything to report tonight. Okay. Miss Alviano, I don't either this time. I just want
011to express my gratitude for the giving the kids the opportunity to to see live theater. They're they're absolutely going to love it and I'm going to come too and love it for a second time. I'll be there. Yeah. Okay. I don't have anything to report myself. Uh Dr. Alderman. Um Rosa Victor and I put together just a couple of slides to give an update on our solar systems and our cell towers. We had shared in April following a facilities committee meeting that the testing and the training at that had been done at Santaorita Elementary um proved that the new solution was working. They were able to test during the school day and after hours um and we used that opportunity to train all of our staff um districtwide so that when their um systems were
012up and running. So, as you may know, this project has been going on for the better part of the last 10 years. Um, and our solar systems and the backup battery never um they didn't work as had originally been planned. around um I believe 2022 uh Generate Capital took over as the owner of the project and they spent as much time as they could trying to make the systems work so that our solar energy is also offsetting our PG&E feeding into the grid but also that our backup batteries work so that should electricity um and services go down that we are able to keep our site running. um by having the the battery system working and that didn't they tried as many solutions as they could come up with to make the inverters work. Um
013and their final remedy was to say we need to just demolish the inverters and we need to put in new equipment. Um and so we selected Santaorita Elementary School. They did that um and that was completed in November. Then we were looking for starting the next projects it in a timeline that we were able to just do one site after the next. And so as you can see this is where we're at. So we're looking at started in June and um through July and you'll see some overlap because as sites are getting into the testing phase they can go ahead and begin the work in the next one because it's going back and just testing the system. And so demoing uh those inverters and prepping the um solars for the new system so that they
014can just go from site to site. Victor added how many inverters each of the sites have and it's just based on the positioning and the size of their arrays. Um and then the timeline so that what we're looking at is the completion uh with testing and everything to make sure um that they're all um as operable as Sanorita Elementaryaries is is looking at the end of December. So you'll see they have a little um time in there between the end of New Republic and the guarantee completion. that just gives that little bit of uh wiggle room in there and to allow them to test. Um, and just wanted to let everybody know, I know we had talked about it before, but we we have this um during the time, especially once generate capital came on
015board, we do receive true up for that loss of battery that we had been expecting with these systems, the the operation of those and the production of energy. And so that averages out to be approximately 35,000 each year. Um and then you can already see that now Santaas is operable and um going into the grid that will begin to decrease um headed up to the end of December as systems go online and are fully functioning. So we give a little bit of that energy back to the PG&E grid and so that will offset that bill and so that's what that um true up is is helping to do because we had been guaranteed a product um and it wasn't working and so um when the company shifted um to fall under generate capital they've been
016working diligently to try to make it work to the extent that they said we're going to have to take these out and put in new. So that's it for that. Um and then in June I had shared um to the next slide for me. I had shared a little update um at facilities in April and then a further update in June. So the district houses two cell phone towers that are currently owned by T-Mobile. So one here at Gablin View. It's actually sort of between um the old riff warehouse and the multi-purpose room on the parking lot facing side and with the actual tower on the MPR and one that is in the MOTF yard but adjacent to John Gutierrez. And so those were non-compliant with DSA regulations and we worked with T-Mobile to come
017up with a written agreement um that T-Mobile will complete all of the DSA requirements. DSA, the Division of State Architects had laid out exactly what would need to be done by T-Mobile and a lot of it is following up on paperwork and that piece um and some physical adjustment of the site to bring it into compliance with current regulations. Um and that T-Mobile would bear all of the cost and they would agree to remove it if they do not get DSA approval. And um so T-Mobile in June I was able to share that T-Mobile has contracted with um architecture from uh Sigurfini on the project and uh we work often with Sigurfini as our architects and that firm is fully aware of the scope and the prescribed remedy needed and um the site reviews have
018been carried out and T-Mobile has confirmed that they are now in the phase of reviewing the proposal by the architect to begin the site work And so also, I think we've shared before Rosa has, but we receive approximately $25,000 um per tower from T-Mobile and that just goes back into our telecommunications just like the true up for the um solar systems that goes back into our our um funds needed for our PG& bills across the district. So, that's where we're at there. and when work does begin on the sites, um I'll bring you that update as well. Great. The only question I had on the solar system with Sanorita, um it doesn't have to be right away, but are just being able to compare how much savings we're seeing pre- solar and post solar. We're
019at the point that we should be able to start to see that now. Um they just sent us the information about the current true rep running from July through December. So we should be able to identify that offset in the next month or two. Okay. Yeah. And probably it'll probably take a while before we actually see the full cycle annually of the for sure. We should have an idea of what that got us at the one site just to stay ahead of that. And I just thank you for all this information and I just want to let the public know that um one of the reasons that we wanted the batteries in the first place was even though we don't ever want to have a natural disaster that it was a a way to supply
020electricity to the area if all of our homes were down that this could be a place that someone could go and um we would have light and power, the ability for refrigeration and other things. So obviously we hope that that's not necessary, but it it was one of the ideas about saying, "Hey, how can we better serve the community and and these solar panels were not put up with district money. They were put up with the um from the outside company paying for them just so the public's aware." And so the batteries would be able to do that kind of Yeah. What we're able to do is it feeds the battery so that it it stores enough energy. Um, and then if all the power goes out and we find out it's going to be
021a long term, we can go and turn the systems over to draw on the battery. Um, and so it it's not enough to run everything like we won't be running the air conditioning and the heating and and those things, but we can keep the lights on in the multi-purpose room. We can keep our refrigeration on. We can keep um access to those essential services. So, like Sarah said, should a natural disaster occur and we need to be a community hub, our multi-purpose rooms would be that center that we would open for families to come in, you know, to get that relief that they need if we need to shift into into that space. and also for our students to be able to go and have what they need while we're working on getting them home
022in the event that something lesser than a disaster happens, but we lose power and we need to facilitate getting our students and staff home. Just gives us that little backup. And then Chuck will tell you it's great for making sure that the refrigeration is um is staying running so that we're not losing our food products. Okay, perfect. Thank you for clarifying that. Okay. Anybody else from the board? No. Okay. Thank you for the update. Uh moving on to public comment. Is there a public comment regarding non-aggenda or agenda items? We do not. Okay. 9.1 is approval of the resolution 25.06.11 providing for the issuance of sale and sale of 2025 bond anticipation notes to the school facilities improvement district number 2022-1. Thank you. We brought this resolution forward as a first reading at our prior
023meeting in November 2022. District voters uh approved our measure R uh authorizing the sale of $24.9 million in general um organization bonds obligation bonds. And in 2023, we sold series A bonds for approximately $9 million. And we have um a remaining balance of about $15.9 million in authorized measure R bonds. And we sold our or we passed our resolution to uh pursue the sale of our 2025 series B bonds at our prior meeting, issuing approximately 7 million um $7 million. And in working with our financial consultants and the current market, we saw the need to potentially issue the other approximate $7 million remaining in bond anticipatory notes. Going ahead and doing that now ahead of waiting till 2030 for our series C sale allows us to lock in our pricing, keep projects going right now
024at today's construction rate. um which as you know have have swelled repeatedly each year. And doing this allows us to have access to those funds earlier and complete those projects as soon as possible and lock in those rates. Um and it will be repaid under our obligation for our bonds. Um and it allows us to access those funds in advance. So, I know there was a timeline for as far as when projects will be completed. So, does that move certain projects around now that there's going to be more? It doesn't really move projects around so much. It allows us to stay on that timeline and get projects going as soon as possible instead of a potential delay in waiting. So if we because you don't want to sell your next series of bonds until you
025are drawing down on the current one that you are accessing. For example, our series A is twilighting this summer as projects and and we're making our our payments to our contractors and keeping the continuity of the project bringing forward the series B so that that funding is available. you'll see another um resolution to allow the possibility of interf borrowing if there's a time gap in between when the bond sale is complete for series B coming to the district and it's really that part is making sure the continuity of funding going after the bands early allows us to make sure that we're able to keep projects going sooner because um as much as project costs have escalated did anticipating that we would be priced out of the market well before we would reach 2030 and then
026not be able to complete the scale of projects that we were hoping to complete as just our our bare needed projects um allows us to get ahead of that. So, some projects would be done sooner potentially then. Um, thank you. On our facilities timing, what you saw us doing was potentially pushing projects farther out and a lot of those had to do with our state funded projects. And because that's an unknown, those will remain farther out. And what we're looking at is making sure that our bun our bond funded projects are still staying in that next few year timeline. um and being able to get those done as much as possible with the uncertainty of state funded projects being farther out and being able to keep that last facilities uh plan that we had in
027January as tight to that as possible for those bond funded projects remaining where they are in our current plan and keeping those going. We are in line for state funding for like matching funds and those things, but with the current economic uncertainty, we don't want to rely on that coming to us when we need it. And so if we do our bans early, that allows us that access of funds and then that additional state funding can be gathered in that later timeline that we're currently anticipating just with the economic situation at the state. Any other questions or comments? Can I get a Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. 9.2 is approval of resolution number 25.07.12 for interfund borrowing and resolution number 25.07.13 for reimbursement of funds. Thank you.
028Um the district has done something similar when we needed to offset our funding for the purchase of the land and then we were able to move it back. Um, this is our CBO being very diligent and proactive and wanting to ensure that our as we get into the fall because, you know, it takes time to get our bond sales done and those things and for that if you think like a check coming to us and if there's any kind of a gap, if we're able to go ahead and just um borrow this money from one fund into the other, it's there. If we don't need it, that's great. And if we do need it when we do get our bond sales, that is what we will use to move the funds back into their original
029um source. Approximately $1.8 million would move from fund 40 um which is our capital funds facilities over to um fund 21 and that is our bond fund. So we would just be loaning ourselves that 1.8 8 million to use in the event we end up with a funding gap. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve unless there's questions or comments? No. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. Our next regular board meeting will be July 23rd, 2025. Um and a couple of future I guess board items is um if it's possible to do tours of the school. Um possibly. I mean because we're kind of tight before school starts. if not along the way just to kind of get an update on facilities. And then if you can
030kind of calendar in um just so some board members have more time uh learning walks um I guess at least if if possible more of a heads up for learning walks you're already doing just so that we could potentially attend. We just need more lead time. Yeah. Yeah. And then um it doesn't have to be right away but sometime in the first couple board meetings for next school year. Is this kind of update on the central program just to see how that's uh going? Sounds good. Anything else from the board? No. Okay. Mr. Sunel, did you want us to do that? You know, we're beginning the McKenna program. Did you want us to do it kind of once that gets started? Yes. A couple weeks into the year then. Okay. Just so I can schedule
031with them. So, I'll schedule maybe September time frame. Is that Yeah. So, it gives them enough time they know. Yeah. Yeah. Because that program will just be starting. Okay. Okay. Uh, can I get a motion to adjurnn at 6:30? Motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor? I. Motion 40. Okay. Have a nice evening everyone. Good evening.