001Uh, give it a Yeah, go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the Santa Union School District board meeting. I'd like to meet call this meeting to order at 5:00. If we can start with the roll call, please. Mr. Neil Patel, present. Miss Alvariano, Miss Sarah Turner, present. Mr. Jacob Sandaval, here. Miss Cindy Lopez is not present. Okay. Stand for the pledge of allegiance. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? I make a motion to approve the agenda. Second. All those in favor? I I. Motion 40. Okay. Today on close session, we have uh 2.1 potential litigation under government code section 54956.8 and 54956.9 2.2 public employee performance evaluation under government code section 54957. And we have conference of labor negotiators for item 2.3. Um 2.4 public employee appointments
002under section 54957. Uh can I get a motion to or I'm sorry. Is there any public any close public public comments on close session items? There are not. Okay. Can I get a motion to adjurnn to close session? Motion to adjourn to closed session. Second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. See afterwards. Hey, good afternoon everybody. We're going to reconnect back into open session. Uh during close session, the board took action to approve an additional uh nine weeks of unpaid leave absence for employee with ID number 160466. The board also took action to approve the employment to Rebecca Alleso as principal for McKinnon Elementary School. That's good. Would you like to say a few words? Okay. Before she starts, Miss Alicia has been assistant principal at McKinnon Elementary for three three years
003and you've been with the district prior to that as a math teacher at John Gutierre's middle school. So, she's going to take over the role of being principal at McKinnon Elementary. Now that Mr. much. Nick has moved over to um Washington Union School District and his new adventure. Great. Well, I would like to express how thankful I am to be here um for this opportunity. Um just as I was driving over here I was just thanking God, my family and um Miss Al A al Alderman, Miss Moore and uh Miss Summer Prather Smith along with Miss Arianiano, the whole cabinet team. Um I still remember the moment when Mr. Gutierrez asked me, "Have you ever thought about being an administrator?" And just started laughing. Um, and so I'm just sobered by the trust you have
004in me and I'm excited to lead our school with great care, vision, and conviction. Thank you. No, just congratulations and uh we're excited to have you take the lead and so we we know there's a lot of great things to come. So, thank you. Does anybody from the board want to say any few comments? Um, I was delighted when we found out and um I'm I'm excited for the future. Yay. I too am excited for you and I'm very happy that you are you are happy about the whole adventure that you're about to begin. Um, I saw you for the presentation or for the was it the the recent? Yeah, the promotion. Uh, and you I was watching you. You didn't know that I was watching you, but I was watching your leadership and um,
005it is you're you're ready. You're ready and you've been ready for the past three years. So, you know, congratulations and hopefully, you know, everything will be a great year for you. And if you need any anybody to help you out here, we're we're we're being very supportive. So, yes. Uh, congratulations. Um, but here's the thing. You've earned it through hard work, mentoring, being mentored, you know, and so I I wish John was here today. I'm sure I could see the joy in his eye knowing that, you know, a great teacher is now is following in his footsteps as well, you know, and um, so thank you. Thank you for choosing Santaita School District. You know, we owe you a debt of honor and uh, thank you for uh, choosing us in terms of leading that
006school. you know, it's a big deal to be a principal. You know, all eyes are on you and uh that takes a a great leader to assume that position, to want it, to run for it and get it, you know. So, please continue the great work you're doing there and um put in your vision, you know. I like to think of each principal as bringing in their own talents, their own vision, you know, on uh to a school. So, uh make it yours. Make it yours. Make it a family. Thank you. I want to acknowledge your husband. Oh, your brother. Okay. Okay. Oh, that's good. I'm Thank you for being here and being supportive. Everybody keeps My grandson, my son, my daughter Bye. Bye everybody. Have a good night. You too. Have a good dinner.
007Okay, we're going to uh move on to item 5.1 uh to 5.3. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? So motioned. Second. Second. All those in favor? I um Mr. President, anytime we have uh two people at the same time, I say we had let them arm wrestle. You know, I uh you know, I I think they for what? When they're both motioning at the same time. Oh, for a second. Got it. And you know I missed that. Wrestle. Yeah, I'm wrestle or or do one other. Okay. Um, moving on to 6.1. Is anybody here from SRTA? Any comments? No. Okay. Uh, 6.2. Uh, no. Okay. Um, 6.3. Superintendent's cabinet. Um, I think we are all foregoing our reports. We've got some um pretty substantial reports in our information items. Did anyone
008have anything real quick to add? No. Okay. Okay. We'll move on to the board and the superintendent. Uh, anything from Mr. Neil Patel? I'm good. Thank you. Okay. Uh, Miss Elvariano. Um, just a note, just saying that I went to the two promotion ceremonies, one at New Republic and the other one at McKinnon, and both had different themes, and both of them were just great. They it was just a nice adventure for me to be there early in the morning 8:30 and um but it was a it was a full day cuz from one New Republic I went straight to McKennon and then from there to my grandson's graduation. So it was a full day but these two gra uh promotion ceremonies were were very delightful. So Okay. Thank you for attending by the way
009too. Okay. Uh nothing to report. Okay. Just for myself, I attended both uh graduations. Um it's always exciting end of the year. See the staff, the students, you know, all the work they put in throughout the year. So just very thankful for all the staff across the board for making it a great school year for all of our students and parents and stuff. And uh congratulations to all the graduates. Okay. Um just a reminder to our community that our district office staff will not be operating out of the district office for the next approximately 3 weeks. Um, our voicemail will direct you where to um, direct your calls if you need assistance and then someone will call you back and schedule an appointment to meet with you if you need to meet with someone in
010person. We are having um, some renovation to our front entrance and the offices are being painted and so we needed to vacate for a short window of time but we're still here to serve the public. We'll just be doing it from a couple of different locations like the Gablin View office, the boardroom, and those spaces so that we're still accessible to our community. Okay. Thank you. And is that information going out or by too? Great. Thank you. That's going to be on the walls and stuff. It will. So, we'll have it posted out front in case anyone just arrives in person. Um, we've adjusted our voicemail for anyone calling the office. We've put it as an alert on our website and then we'll send it out via parent square as well. Okay, perfect. Uh, moving
011on to public comments. I believe we have a public comment from our city councilman, Mr. Andrew Sandoval. Hello. Feels like home. I I really I really miss this place. Um, a lot more friendly here. Um, Miss Yes. Uh, Miss Alis was my my kids math teacher. So, uh, uh, you have a great principal, somebody who really cares. Well, the reason I'm here to talk to you tonight, my name is Andrew Sandaval, Selena City Council member for district 5. And unfortunately, the city council has uh voted to repeal rent stabilization, tenant protections, and anti-harassment ordinances that we put in place. Um, and for the first time, the community had hoped that um the council would do something to assist with rents. And just to give you an example, this last year, if you paid $2,000 in
012rent, your rent only went up $60 $60 as opposed to $200 for those living in multif family residential, mostly the apartment complexes, and that amounts to about $1,700 a year in savings. Um there was also policies in place for uh to prevent harassment. When tenants complained about moldy, you know, moldy carpet or any of these issues, they could actually address those with the city of Selenus and the city of Selenus would then reach out to the landlord and get those issues addressed and if there was retaliation and the city could intervene. Um this is the first time that there's been an active jurisdiction willing to do that. Usually they have to go through the court system and find an attorney. And when you're being evicted or having issues, you really don't have money for that.
013There was also policies put in place to prevent evictions. Um not for those who don't pay, but for those who are unjustly evicted. Um and unfortunately, we're losing, you know, we have the possibility of losing all those protections. And they are um things that will affect our most vulnerable population, not just students and families, but our seniors and people on fixed incomes. Um, and for the life of me, I can't I can't understand why they would want to remove those tenant protections. Um, but there's still hope. Uh, there is a community group that's coming together to uh they've drafted a petition to issue a referendum and if there's enough signatures collected, then we could stop this decision and put it to the voters. So, um, if anybody out there, teachers, staff, uh, I think we
014we all know how important stable housing is for our families and our community. And so we are looking for support to collect signatures from uh registered voters in the city of Selenas. And I know everybody knows at least 10 12 people in Selenus. So if we could do this as a community and everyone could just take a small piece of the lift uh I know we can get it done and we are under a deadline uh first couple days of July. Um but my goal is to get it done within the next two weeks. So um if you have any questions or want to assist, feel free to reach out. I'm going to leave some right there on the um on the area for you and uh feel free to reach out anytime and uh
015I appreciate the time and hopefully we can count on your support. Thank you. How many signatures do you need? We need uh we need uh about 70 I would say 7,200 are required, but we're going to get 10,000 because there needs to be a buffer in case some are not registered or some may be disqualified. So, but just think of it this way. If we can get a 100 people to collect 100 signatures, we got it. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. So, moving on to 8.1, uh, public hearing regarding the 2025 26 LCAP. At this time, it is 6:11 p.m. And I'd like to open up the hearing. Thank you. Um, so this is our annual LCAP report and our public hearing on the LCAP. Uh, Dr. Prather Smith and I are going
016to tag team this. The presentation is posted on our website to accompany the draft of our LCAP during this period between this board meeting and our next board meeting when the was would be brought back to the board for approval. Um it has over 50 slides. We're not going to go through 50 slides. We're going to summarize some points, but it really outlines the key points and the metrics um that align to our goals and actions. So, we ready? All right. So, just what our LCAP is, remember it's that three-year district level plan, our goals, actions, services, expenditures, and we're focused on supporting positive outcomes for our students to address our state and local priorities. And uh Miss Moore put this together so everyone knows where we're at on our new um LCAP cycle timeline.
017We are here. We are in year one implementation. We are at the point of reflection and revision heading into year two. Just a reminder that we're at my own protocol here. Uh just a reminder that a big part of the LCAP process is engaging with our educational partners. And as you could see, we really spent this last year making sure that we were engaging with all of these partners along the way. So at this point, we were bringing forward an LCAP that included all ideas A quick overview. You're going to hear a budget report, so we're not going to go through the whole thing, but um our LCAP allocation for the 2526 school year, 12,426,431. You'll see that our LCAP planned expenditures exceed that amount. That is because starting last year, we're required to budget
018any carryover funds into the current LCAP. So any money that wasn't spent in the prior year has to be reallocated within the that LCAP. So you'll see there that our uh planned expenditures are 12,952797 to account for any carryover. Okay. So real quick, our LCAP goal one to boost our student ELA achievement. We do that with teacher training, uh database teaching, personalized learning, and coaching. So we saw growth on our local formative assessments for most of our student groups. We're showing some early signs that those databased and personalized approaches are having an impact. Um, our CAST scores declined in some areas, particularly for our EL and sped students, and our team is responding with deeper intervention and coaching strategies. Uh, parent engagement is a continued area of focus moving forward, and we're encouraged by the
019gains that we did see for our homeless students. And, you know, working towards continuing to lift all of our student achievement through those aligned instructions and supports. And remember for several of our areas, this was year one of implementation. So we're hoping to see a greater impact of like our reading intervention programs that we started this year moving into next year and our EEL curriculum. And so when you go through our metrics, you can uh draw your eye to what those scores are. We're not going to spend a lot of time going through those. This is really for that update of where we are with our metrics on those. And um then heading into goal two, it's very similar, but it's focused on our math. And so our local I Ready formative math scores improved
020across nearly every group. And that really um aligns to our stronger instruction and intervention with our adopted curriculum in those programs and the scope and sequence work that was started for this school year being year 1. Um, our CAST performance on math was mixed, but we saw again gains for our homeless students. We saw um our sped students as a real highlight of those targeted supports that were implemented this year. Our um surveys indicated that parent confidence in supporting math at home remains high and we're just going to keep building on that momentum. We did a lot of math nights at our schools and things like that this year to keep that confidence going and building that capacity for our parents to support their students. And again, the following slides are going to be those
021metrics that we designated in our LCAP as what we're looking at to identify success in those areas. And oh, no, you don't need that one. All right. And then goal three similar this is focused on our multilingual students academic success uh providing that inclusive curriculum the targeted resources supportive learning environment for them and this was a major area of focus this year and it in terms of really wanting to focus on what we a big win for us is a sharp reduction in the number of long-term English learners especially at John Gutierrez Middle So, in our in our data chats that we've had with the board in our summer workshops, this has been an ongoing conversation about students who hit that plateau and just linger as a long-term English learner. And um so our reclassification
022rates declined and we're maintaining our LP our LPAC levels uh improved. The achievement gaps persist and our parent input we had some decrease in some of those areas. And so we're really working to be more inclusive in that outreach and our culturally responsive practices with getting our parents in to help bridge that gap that may be creating that um plateau for our students and the stagnation and growth. And so continuing to uh maintain language um proficiency growth and then reducing our number of um els or long-term English learners. And this was our first big push in implementing our English 3D curriculum across the board and focusing on our designated ELD time in all grade levels in the district. And so curriculum council had adopted that for implementation this year. So hoping moving forward into next
023year, we'll see the impact of that. And I'll just add real quick, one of the programs that we're bringing forward to support our parents is next year we'll be doing the Latino Family Literacy Project. Um, some of you may have known that from previous. We did it in this district many years ago and then brought that back. And what that does is really support language learning um through the use of literature at home and at school. So, we're excited to launch that across all of our sites for next year also. All right. No, it's fine. And those again are those metrics where you can see some of that the gap closing and then some of the numbers staying very similar. We put a lot of metrics. Uh, goal four really looks at the use of
024technology as a learning resource. And we made notes to make sure we stay on time because I always have a lot to say. So, we continue to ensure 100% access to technology across all of our sites. We're a one-to-one district, so all students and staff have access to technology and that's fully integrated across all of our sites. Um there was a slight dip in digital learning minutes, meaning I ready time. Um however, for this year, we know that we've added in additional support systems uh to mitigate that lost time and that we're positioned to deepen our use of technology as an instructional tool. You've seen some of those samples here in our um Vizio or not our Vizios, our um viewic TVs and we're seeing more and more usage of that across our sites as
025well. And so just some of the data around our use of technology as a learning tool. In goal five, we were really looking um to focus on our special education students. If you remember, we shared last year with the new LCAP requirements. One of those is that we're writing goals and actions for any areas of identified need on the dashboard. Special education was one of those. However, as you heard Dr. Alderman share, special education did make some growth this year. Um, outside of that academic growth, uh, two additional areas were a reduction in suspension rates and an increase in attendance, which we know that when our special education students are at school, we're going to see those growth areas in there as well. Um, academic performance remains a challenge for those students, but our data
026gives us a clear direction and focus for the upcoming year. Um this was the first year of implementation of teachtown curriculum in our mod severe classrooms and so we're expecting to see growth from that in those coming years as well. Um we really looked at differentiating uh the instruction across our special education classrooms including within our RSP classrooms offering more push-in support so that we can make sure our students are accessing the learning that's happening in their classrooms. And you can see some of that data um associated with that. Uh special education attendance was definitely a special heart focus for Dr. Katis this year as she took over attendance and we really saw that as well. So for our goal six providing a challenging instruing challenging instruction and support especially for our underserved students and
027to improve academic success and college readiness. So, a big focus of our actions on this were um how are families feeling about those meaningful opportunities to engage with our schools and for from our survey and engagement data. Our families feel like they've had more meaningful opportunities um to participate and that's a huge step forward for us. and where we spoke about our cast scores dipping slightly in some areas and the perceptions about rigor for different groups um feeling like it's gone down for some spots. That goal helps us focus on building deeper trust and those challenges and engaging across all of our student populations. Um, and so the progress that we've made with our parent participation in coming into school sites, engaging in that, getting on our reels and our our our surveys and giving
028us the feedback, participating in our listening circles with us, giving us that genuine um in real time um conversations about what makes them feel welcome or not at their school site so that they are engaged with us in making that more meaningful connection and what that looks like um gives us a real strong foundation to grow from. And I'll add sorry one more thing. Um one of the areas you'll see when you're in there is we really have put an active plan into place to increase our parent volunteers within our classrooms for next year. And that includes the implementation of the Raptor visitor and volunteer system that'll allow parents to kind of pre-register, be ready to check in, um go to that school site, be able to go into the classroom and start providing that
029support in addition to additional field trips um that are required. This system was really important to us because unlike other system where an clear identification card for example is required, this system does not require us to have that. We're able to bypass that system and use our own SIS system to do that verification process. So we're excited to launch that volunteer support as well and and know probably as far as user friendliness for like Spanish speaking parents. Yep. Very very simple. Yeah, very simple usage and it's being used across multiple districts here as well for that system. So we waited for them to kind of implement and try it out. Um but yeah it's the good part about it is once a family registers they don't have to do it each and every time. So
030yeah our liaison will be able to help at the beginning of the year. And that raptor system is something that we've discussed um in first in like facilities. it came up and then we brought it moved it over to our district um safety and wellness committee as a conversation piece of not just the security aspect of having the badge identification that's printed out with the picture and we know where someone's going and the ease of knowing who's on your campus but also the ease of parents being able to pre-register connect and they're already vetted when they come in and it just speeds that process up for us for actually getting parents to be on campus and volunteering quickly and our community liaison's going to lead that. So Blanca will be the one who's kind of
031supporting and checking and doing all that. So our families have a direct connection to her as it is. And then here's some of the metrics related to goal six. You'll notice that a lot of them are from the California Healthy Kids Survey. In goal seven, um this is my goal. And so maybe that's why it starts out with this is one of our strongest areas of growth. But no, no, I didn't write that. I didn't write that part. But um this is one of our strongest areas of growth. chronic absenteeism rates dropped across nearly all student groups and attendance rates significantly improved um especially for our foster and special education students as I mentioned previously. Also, social media engagement also saw a dramatic increase. While we're continuing to monitor um our students perception there's a
032of school boredom which is a report we get through the California Healthy Kids survey. Um, we're proud that district-wide commitment that help students show up and connect each day have had visible impact and we're seeing our students want to be here. And so some of the data related to that, a lot around absenteeism, chronic absenteeism and attendance, um, our social media outreach and then California healthy kids as a large part of that. Goal eight, which is also um a goal focus for me, really looks at creating a supportive inclusive school environment that prioritizes the well-being. This is where um this is where we have a lot of our partnerships with our with our mental health providers um as well as our school-based mental health teams. Um, so what our student mental health data and I
033shared with you a little bit previously is showing us is that rates of social emotional dist distress compared to the state are lower for us whereas before we were higher. So we're seeing a a nice decrease which is what we want to see overall. We've seen um lessons implemented across our school site using our tier 1 second step curriculum as well. Um although there's still a slight perception around middle school safety, we know that that's an area of growth. Um we saw fewer suspensions, less threat assessments, and less suicide risk assessments overall across all of our sites. Um it's letting us know that some of those protective and intervention supports that we put into place have been effective. Um we know that investing in the wellness of our students is an important aspect of investing
034in them academically as well. And so we're really seeing um the efforts that were put forward in year one start to show that as well. Um well, goal nine uh could be Claudia's goal, but I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and talk about it. So improving our staff recruitment and retention within our district. Um because that ultimately enhances our student achievement. Um a a real win for us is a reduction in teacher absences this year. We know that's uh continuity in instruction and student learning. Um we had a little bit of a drop in our certificated retention this year with our focus um is on improving working conditions and recognition for the upcoming school year to really keep that positive momentum going. Um and then we're pairing that with strong partnerships, strategic hiring
035and um sustaining that growth and to create a committed and diverse team of educators. So when we go out, we are identifying um what we're looking for when we're going and recruiting. Miss Aiano and her team have already begun this year putting in some strategic actions um in year one that we're going to build on in year two for that strategic hiring. And then those activities that help boost morale and um let people know that we remain committed to their success. And you can see some of the metrics associated that would really which really look at staff absenteeism and hiring rates. Goal number 10 um is really looking at building our community's capacity to address racism, discrimination, and bias um which we know leads to improved student well-being. We're really excited this year to continue
036our partnerships with building healthy communities as well as Croin National um in providing support services to for us as well. Um, we're seeing early progress, including more staff acknowledging the district's efforts to examine cultural bias and the inclusion of equity topics in curriculum council. Um, parent perception data shows we still have some work to do around building inclusive, respectful school communities for every family, though we've seen a substantial um, improvement in those scores on our California Healthy Kids survey. uh the positive momentum in staff development and reduce suspension disparities provide a foundation for for us to expand on and continue to work on for the upcoming year as well. And so again, most of this data coming out of the California Healthy Kids Survey as well as our student uh listening circles and our family
037forums. Um and that is uh recap here with what are our main successes. So looking at those um district benchmark assessments and the increases that we saw there um really highlighting that reduction in our number of long-term eelss particularly at John Gutierre's middle school 100% of our classroom uh using their technology tools parent participation in the California healthy kids survey more than doubled this year um and then our number of threat assessments conducted did uh decline this year and so we've been reporting that data and keeping the board informed about that as an ongoing part of our um school climate and so focusing on that. Do you want to speak to that? So our focus, we're going to continue to focus on our reclassification rates of our English language learner, looking at our district adopted
038curriculum with fidelity and doing that through those continued learning walks and look being in classrooms to see what's going on and um where we can support uh tier one behavioral support interventions. We've created some additional tools that can be used during our cost meetings to really help address that tier one so that we're not using our um tier 2 because we know that that's minimal um and reserving that for the students who really need it. Really looking at decreasing our suspension rates especially at our middle schools um by providing those early supports and intervention. working on continuing to develop our MTSS models and then looking at our CASP scores overall and making those improvements that we know are going to happen with all the other pieces that we have in place. Thank you. Okay. Uh
039any questions or comments from the board? No. Okay. We're looking to definitely for summer workshop and then we can probably discuss more there. Okay. All right. At this time there it is 6:31 we're going to close the hearing for the LCAP and then moving on to 8.2 public hearing guard district proposed budget for the it is 631 and I'll open up the hearing. Good evening. So, thank you Summer and Melissa for going over the ELCA budget which covers a lot of most of the programs in our um overall general fund. As you know, the LCFF funding covers about 80% for salaries and benefits. Then we have uh contract services and um other expenses like facilities, maintenance and oops, can you hear me? And uh materials and supplies, books and all of that. And then we
040have the programming which goes through um the LCAP and now ELOP. So I'm going to go ahead and um start the presentation. I have the control here so I can move to the next slide. This is the July 1 U budget. This is the first draft of the budget based on the May reise. Uh these are the chart that you see up there is pretty much based on the assumptions. Um we might have most likely we will be having the 45day budget revision. There's a lot of information that was not included on the May reise due to um not having the specific dollar amounts. There is um proposals that are still pending for approval. So once the state uh budget is approved, which is going to happen before July 1st, then we're going to go
041ahead and add that that information into the 45 um day budget revision. some of the information that is not included in here. It was part of the proposal like I mentioned before elimination on of some of the title grants federal funding which the one that they specifically mentioned was title three which is or e um entitlement um they talk about cash deferrals that one uh they're saying that it's for sure happening cash deferral between June and July uh for 24 24% of our principal aortionment which is about $1 million for district. There's also a proposal for additional funding on discretionary a PY grant which again is not included but will be coming up on the 45day uh budget revision and another um mandated block grant which again they haven't given us the amount and literacy
042uh grant as well which we don't have the dollar amount yet. So, um that's coming in the future if um the state approves those u proposals on the next budget. And there's a go back. Yeah, I think already caught it too, but they circled it. Yeah, I think it's on the on our 2526 average daily attendance ADA line. That should be 2814. Okay, that's probably a typo. Thank you. Yeah, I know. That's At first I was like, what? Oh, that's right. Thank you for checking that tun. Yeah, and that is correct on the one. Oh, no, it's not correct on this one, too. Okay, thank you for noting that. Um, quick question. Um, yeah, the can you go back one slide? I apologize. On the uh projected state cola for 26, 27, and 2728, is
043that this guidance from the state? Yes, that's a proposal for the mate revice as of now. Well, every year they they adopt just the current year. So, right now that's just an estimate. We're not going to know until they actually adopt the budget on 2627 and 2728. So, right now they're just it's just a proposal and estimate. Yeah. I'm just surprised they're being so overly optimistic, you know, uh considering the last few years and then to jump from one to two to three to three and a half almost is ridiculous. Um, you know, I always sight on being conservative. So, yes. So, we're going to be revising these numbers as we move forward. And, um, this is included in the multi-year projection for the current year and two years out. But again, we we will
044be revising as we move forward. And as you um notice on the on this the 2425 budget, we keep revising the the cola for the next year every quarter as it was very overestimated and then it kept decreasing and decreasing. So, so just for my clarification, um when we do these budgets and gets approval from MCOE, the uh the projected colas as they used to forward forecast for three years, do we have to go with that set number that's uh given by the state or can we use an arbitrarily lower number to justify being a little bit more conservative? The recommendation is to go with the proposal and if it's overly optimistic, we can we can do that on a 45day budget revision if we feel that it's way overestimated and reduce it. As of
045now, uh most of the districts in California do follow the school services um and the county as well. This is the recommendation that they do. Yeah, I would like to get clarification from the county. if you can ask them say do we have to go with that number or can each district choose to uh justify a lower or higher number based on what they believe to be projected numbers. I don't trust state numbers very much at all. So yeah, it's it there has been a lot of changes. So I totally understand that. Um we also what we can do as well uh working with the numbers on on ADA as well that also affects whether we're very um uh conservative on those numbers as well. So that help us so that our revenue or revenue
046overall it it won't be overestimated. We're always being very conservative in our ADA. However, like you mentioned, there's a lot of uncertainty and a lot of things that are happening and and we're going to be revising those numbers as we move forward. So this is just a picture of um student enrollment history like I mentioned before um declining enrollment starting 2020 2021 right during COVID and it's been declining um for our 2526 we are projecting um continue to decline enrollment as well going to our general fund as you know even though we call it the July 1 budget we're always working on two budgets, two years at the same time. So, we're revising or last year budget, which is our estimated actuals and or July 1st budget. So, I'm going to go over some of
047the difference comparing the closing year budget versus the new um the new July 1st budget. So, as you can see, the LCFF revenue slightly decreased. This is due to even though the the COLA is higher or ADA is estimated to be lower um due to um lower enrollment. So you can see a decline on on the LCFF revenue. In regards to the federal revenue, we did have some one-time funds specifically um one for um the CUPS grant. It is a federal funding which is not going to be available on this new year. We reduced that by very close to half a million dollars. We were using that fund um to pay for the camera system um districtwide. So, we removed that expense as well. And you're going to see that on the expense side on
048other state revenue. We also got one-time grants which included Calshape um one-time grant as well as um decreases on the ASUS program as well. As you know, the program is now um under the ELOP program where we're re getting additional funds in there. We also receive a one-time grant for the universal prek which is not going to be available in the next year. We reduce the revenue as well for local reloc. We receive one credit this closing year for the merma uh dividend. As you know, it was a one-time deal. We're not rolling that over to the next year. So, that's why you see a reduction in our local revenue. Overall reduction in $1.2 million. As you can see, most of it comes from one-time funding, not available on the new year with certificated salaries.
049So, there has been a lot of going up and down and and I'm going to try to explain it the easiest way possible. As you remember during the um second interim we found savings due to um reduction in uh teacher absentee. So reduction in substitute teachers. We found savings in there. So we reduced the budget and then we got into negotiations which it is um it is included on the board agenda. You're going to see more details on that. It is a 2% increase uh proposal to the salary schedule for SRTA. It's included in here that um brought an increase by almost half a million dollars. And then again, if you remember, we were working on decreasing the overall expenses. We found some savings in the overall salaries for teachers and um that was pretty
050close to $1 million due to attrition uh vacancies that we had for the end of year and um positions that are not going to be filled on the next year and then we had a stepping column. So overall with those ups and downs um we still managed to have a reduction of 223,601 as you can see. We also reduced that one-time payment that we provided last year. We took that out of the books this year. Um classified salaries slightly increase due to stepping column. On benefit side, you're going to see a significant increase. This is due to um we have a high number of vacancies during this time of the year. So whenever we have a vacancies, we do set it up as if they're going to have a family plan to be conservative. And
051that's part of it. But we also have a journal entry for um CERS on behalf. It's just a journal entur that we have to do every year. It doesn't really affect the books, but it does seems an increase from last year to this year that we have to book in there when we close the books. And the other increase is due to the 10% on the benefit cap. As you remember last year we budgeted that but it was only from half a year from January through June. Now going to the new year um that increase is budgeted for the whole year and that's why you see um a greater increase on the benefit sites. books and supplies. Uh most of it is a reduction due to the book adoption which it was pretty close to
052$1 million and then other um materials and supplies um that we had under one-time funds as well. Other services we had a lot of uh one project this closing year including the new camera system from the one-time grant, the cow shape grant as well as as the expenses. Um, we have the district office project painting. Uh, the new alarm system um that we got this year, the upgrade, that was another increase. The tree removal, the plumbing work, the water leaks. Um, we had also savings on sped uh legal fees compared to this new year. We removed those. We have settlement fees with sped as well. The they expire this closing year. we removed those. Uh we also had other contract services exiting middle school for special ed that we don't have that liability or that
053expense. So we remove those. Keep in mind that we're starting a new year. Like I said, this is the first draft of the budget. And as we get new students in coming into the district with new needs for special ed, you're most likely going to see an increase as well as the bottom line. um which there is a reduction by 830 that's mainly due to the sped uh program we have through MCOE there is a reduction in there again once the students start enrolling and depending on what type of needs they they need you're going to be seeing increases hopefully not but this is most likely it is going to happen every year it happens so overall um deficits or actually the difference between the closer year and the the new year a 3.9 overall
054reduction compared to prior year and we are um projecting still a deficit spending of $4.5 million for this uh July 1st budget. Right? So this is our unrestricted ending fund balance. As you can see, for this new year, we're still able to maintain our our 17% reserves. And we have set aside money for, like I mentioned, most likely we're going to have increases on special ed. Um, safety is also something that we put as our priority. So, anything related with safety that we need to address right away. and anything that uh we still need that some of the onetime funds are not covering, we might be able to to use those um funds from the ending fund balance. All right, so this is the multi-year pro um projection. Again, this is the first draft. Um
055I'm going to be updating the numbers as we move forward. Just to give you a recap, when I presented the first entrum in uh the first entrum budget, we talked about recognizing some sometime during 2425 that we needed to decrease a $2 million budget. Um like I mentioned before, we worked through the first half a million which was due to the absences on and savings on the substitute teachers. We also work on about half a million dollar savings on contract services which we multifunded through ELOP LCAP and other um restricted programs. So we were able to reduce that $1 million. The other $1 million that we um that we recognized at the end of this year, which is now effective on the 2526 was those vacancies that we had for teachers that were not filled,
056teachers moving away, retirees, etc. Um that's the savings. And then on the 2627, we have about $2.2 million of one-time funds that are included in the budget. And now there is a proposal that we're going to get more funding on that. So you are going to see a change once the 45day budget revision once they sign the budget. They're they're talking about more learning recovery grants. So hopefully we can continue and we don't have to cut those um to uh $2.2 million. Um, and then in addition with that, we are we we also need an additional additional $1 million out of the unrestricted to be able to meet that 17%. And then on the third year out, we need an another $1.5 million of unrestricted. The reason why we keep on needing to cut is
057is to is because of decline enrollment because of the cola and again because everything is going up special ed um benefits salaries stepping column and um just services overall they're they keep going up. So for us to be able to maintain the budget and maintain that 17% we have to be making cuts every year unless we get more funding. So, so on there it's for example 2728 you're projecting that we need to make $4.7 million in cuts. Is that what's Yeah. So that is including the 3.2 from the prior year. It is on the multi-year projection. Um I didn't put it on the top because we know we have to make cuts but we haven't recognized where are we going to make the cuts if it's going to be books and supplies salaries. So if
058we don't recognize it in one specific line, then we put it as a lumpsum at the bottom of the multi-year production. That's why it's a lump sum and it's not specifically somewhere in the expenditure of the multi-year agreement. It's just to acknowledge that we know we have to make the cut and we're going to work on it and identify where in what areas. Just like we did on the 2425, we knew we have to do a $2 million cut. We didn't know where. We work it out. We found savings. We work through the contract services. We look into positions. So once we identify those, then they're going to be um reduced on this those specific lines. Okay. But when you're saying that, for example, the $4.7 million cut includes the prior year cut. Is that
059because it's carrying over the same? It's already red a reduction in cost for the next year. Yeah. So the reason why it's included on the 27th 28th is because it's not reduced on that expenditure line. is not included there. It's just a line below. So, if I would have moved that number, it's just the way that the the the form in the my works. That's just the the way that the county does it. But it's not an Yeah, it's just like a what? It's not a what? Because we haven't done it yet. So, it's assuming that it continues on that it wasn't made up in that year because you're projecting, right? So, the next year, the 2728 is assuming it wasn't cut in the 267. Okay, that makes sense. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. So, okay.
060That's Do you guys catch that? Easier way. So, essentially, we didn't make the in we didn't make a $3.2 million cut in the 2627. Is that what I understand? Yeah. So, Okay. So, so we didn't make it in 2627. If we don't make it that year, then we have to make it 1.7. So, is it the same thing happened? Okay. Okay. Right. It's 2 million. Okay. All right. That makes that makes a lot more sense because that was like that's a big cut and then the the cost goes down as well. Yeah. Yeah. and and a like I said a big part of it is due to the one-time funds that we have. However, we are estimating to receive more based on the proposal budget. So hopefully by the most likely but the 45day budget
061revision it's not going to look like 4.7. It's going to look differently based on the allocation that we get. Right. So fund 08 um we're not making any changes in there. We're um projecting same revenue as uh we're closing the years. Again, this is when they do fundraising and uh the numbers can really vary depending on uh the number of sales that they do. So for right now, this is the best estimate. We haven't started the year, so it's just the first, like I said, the first draft of the budget for the year. uh our cafeteria fund as well. We're projecting about uh pretty similar revenue increases on stepping and column for our classified employees and increases on benefits as well. question on that projected reduction of staff and various other federal programs coming um
062how much of that is going to be touching there the so the cafeteria fund is uh so the proposal from the cuts uh for federal funding it was specifically for e and migrant it wouldn't didn't affect the our cafeteria fund. We get a large portion um as well from state funding as you can see. Um so since we've been getting funding for the universal uh meal reimbursement um we've been doing pretty good as you can see every year we end up with a surplus. We have, if you see at the ending fund balance, we have a pretty healthy reserve in there that can last few years if cuts. Um, but yeah, there's not proposal for for this specific grant. In the contrary, they they want to give more funding for that. They're really focused on
063making sure there's a lot of um PD for employees to ensure that they make healthy and in-house meals. So you might see um items in the board coming up for PD for those specific employees that they're going to conferences and getting training um in the state or probably out of state. They have um really good funding for that. Okay, this is our uh fund 14 or this is these are the funds that were set aside to help with the verification of the district. As you know, um they've been using these funds to do painting um to fix um anything that looks um kind of damaged or old and and making sure like it's it's just clean, it looks better. Um they've been patching and and painting and just doing um removing old equipment um or
064or things like that. We are expecting to finish the funds. Last time I met with Victor, he's projecting to um utilize all the funds. Um they've been working a lot on it. So going forward to the next year, um there's no funds available for this for this fund. This is a one-time funds that we put aside specifically for that purpose or fund 21. So this is our bond fund. And as you know, we've been working a lot. Victor's been working a lot on this uh facility projects on the closing year. The projects that we budgeted in there uh mainly was for a portion of the new republic and McKinnon shade structure as you as you know that happened during last summer and also the three additional portables at La Hoya which happened on the last
065summer the beginning of the closing school year. uh GV project as well, the relocation of the portables, the demolition expense as well. And right now under that side, they're working on the underground and preliminary work for the 11 classrooms and one flex lock building again for GV. Uh we also have budgeted in there the four play structures at each elementary school multifunded from fund 21 and ELOP funds and as well as the uh preliminary underground work for the jungle terrace six classrooms with the courtyard. So that's for this closing year. That's what we have in there. We are budgeting to spend all of the funds and then going into the July 1st budget, we are anticipating receiving series B funding for $7.1 million and then additional funding for series C through a bond anticipation act.
066Um, you're going to get more information about this. Like I said before, this is just the first draft. So, as we move forward and we get more um information about those numbers, those numbers can really change depending on the market. So, we're going to be updating you and revising those numbers as we move forward. See, so something I didn't mention for it, but for the July 1st budget for that $13.3 million that you see that most of the expense that we have in there, it is to pay for the for the 11 classrooms at GV and the one flex flex lab. again the finished the project for the six classrooms at jungle terrace and the garden delocation and la hoya portable um for the restroom. So going to fund 21 uh 25 this is the
067developer fees. This is how much we received this year and we are anticipating to spend about 25,000. Uh we are anticipating hopefully similar if not more. But as of now these are pretty much um the fees that residents pay whenever they're building in their homes. So we are going to be updating these numbers as we move forward. Again, this is just an estimate estimate based on last year's numbers. Uh or fund 35. No activity on the new budget on the new um year. As you know, um this is where we purchased the land for Sabrana. And that's all we have there as expenditures and nothing for next year. And that's pretty much it. uh fund 40 it's it has no activity but just as a reminder that's where we had set aside the $3 million
068uh 1.5 for GV and one and 1.5 for jungle terrace we did borrow a half a million dollars to uh fund 35 to purchase the subrano land and with the resolution we said that we're going to return it back once we get the money from the state so just in case you see the budget report that is showing a 2.5. Um it it is because of the inner fund transferring and these are the forms that we have in there. Um same forms for all the budgets cash form uh transfers and or multi-year projection which is pretty much a summary of the whole budget and that's about it. you have any questions? And the the last comment and I'm sure we haven't heard any update as far as like the state reimbursement or if that's approved
069or not yet. Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? Just to clarify your question that was the state reimbursement for the Sabrana site that you were asking about given us. Thank you. Um, you know, although maybe you have a better perspective than I do, but uh I've seen never seen projection of three negative years in a row. You know, that concerns me um for uh for well funding or funding. Yeah. And and the growth in expenses. But um I think these are the critical years. Yeah. these next three. Um, I meant what I said regarding maybe being a little bit more conservative than the state guidance if possible. I would like to get clarification if that is possible with MCE. Um, beyond Elvive 15 years, whatever. I've never seen you been there. We've been
070there where they we had the negative on on these and it was pretty grim. But hopefully, I mean, I want to be hopeful and I want to make sure that we are we're going to be um we're going to be looking okay, you know, but it is a little concerning. it is of the sorry a large part of the negatives, you know, carrying forward is recognizing the elimination of those one-time funds. And so helping our community and folks to understand we've been preparing for that cliff because we were these are going to expire, then these are going to expire. And so recognizing that as a negative to our budget and recognizing that some of those great services that we were able to offer, no matter how much we describe them as temporary and letting people
071know, um those are going to impact what we're able to offer our students. And so being hopeful that the state will, you know, give districts an influx because a lot of those one-time dollars, not just our district, but across the state were used to help in some of the mental health crisis that we saw with students coming back to us after CO. And so thinking we just need to all of a sudden not have those services uh without those dollars. And so hopefully the state will recognize the need to continue some of that funding for us because we along with other our neighboring districts were able to put in some really important and um effective measures to help our students and our learning community as a whole. And so um it's difficult when you show
072that negative repeatedly and having to articulate that a big chunk of it is that lack of the the one-time funds being recognized. And ideally early on we would have maybe had less one-time funds and more of an ongoing so that we could have known exactly what could be sustained with that but that's not how that occurred in the last 5 years. And I think even with the LCAP funding because even we had half a million dollars left over from the previous year and it's like you need to spend it this year versus you know kind of changes it and stuff. Yeah. The other thing that's kind of interesting about um so I know there has been declining uh birth rates but what I've been noticing too is um the lack of development. Hollsters has crazy
073amount of building and if you look at their enrollment and stuff. So it'd be interesting to see how much students or families are leaving in that direction because that's what the development is, you know, at their time because I know they're bursting at the seams with I mean they need a new high school forever, but they're really bad position now. Say it again. Housing, especially within our district. Yeah, it's it's a lot of potential at the moment for Yeah, cuz I they um for California there was a couple years where we had they had declining population, but actually in the last couple years it's been increasing again, you know, but we the challenges we've have been having declining birth rates and then in our city locally is we haven't had any developments. Yeah. Versus everybody
074around us has had developments. So, it's like it kind of and and unfortunately, we've gotten no indication or news that the development in the West area specific plan is moving forward or if there's a new timeline or if any of the plans have actually been approved and that the developers are moving forward with that project that they promised our community years ago. Yeah. And there's nothing holding us holding them back on our end anymore either. It's like it's ready to go. her student enrollment is going down down down and so yeah you're right as far as the development we need to start well they need to start building so we can yeah and there's no hindrance I think just so the public knows like on any other part besides whatever is going on in there
075and you know back in the day 15 years ago like you said it was a whole different world then you know um we almost didn't open up um JG, you know, and it was uh it was a very scary time at the time, too. But um we got over it. And that's why I'm saying I'm going to I'm I'm just trying to be hopeful. I was just going to add that um I just want to say thank you to a lot of our community partners who were willing to really sit down at the table with us and find creative ways using the funding we had to continue services. So um between multifunding with ELOP and adjusting hours so that staff are serving students till 6 p.m. provided the opportunity to multifund that so that there
076was during the day services as well as those after school services which allowed us to continue that. So many of our mental health and some of our other community partnerships we've been able to adjust the way that looks so that we can make sure that those services continue for our students as well. So thank you to Rosa and to our community partners for really looking at where funds are and how we can make that happen. And yeah, and Rosa, you've been very conservative with our with the district money. So, I mean, with the funding and stuff, so thank you for that. Okay. So, there's another questions. I'm going to close the hearing at 7:04. I'm sorry. Apologies. It's okay. Um, have you looked at the TK data for our incoming kids to see if the
077age expansion if we're actually having children enroll in the that that new cohort? So, you know, for us because of the September 1st, it means that we would have some three-year-olds for a month. We aren't seeing those three-year-olds. We've had two enrolled districtwide so far. Um overall TK enrollment um has been as it's kind of as usual a couple sites really high and really fast and our other sites continue to remain low but the we haven't seen a big impact from the expansion. Um we're really watching for those three-year-olds to make sure that we're prepared for them and as of right now we haven't noticed an increase. And just to clarify, the the age range has now changed so that you would need to be five by um I'm pardon me, four by September 1st.
078In other words, be so in August when the children would start, some of them could theoretically be three. Um so it this is a new cohort of children, a new expanded age that has not been eligible for TK in our district in the past. Um, I'm I'm curious in terms of um obviously I would like those children to be in school and if they're not enrolled in one of our preschool programs or one of our um community partner preschool programs um that we would take this would helpfully the the idea is a better service to the child but also the fact that we do have declining enrollment then we have you know several months worth of children who would be eligible for school that um potentially could help with that problem. And with that, I'll
079just add I did talk with the new director of early learning. So Sophia Harmo has retired. There's a new director um there, Annabelle. And I did talk to her and what they're seeing so far is those three-year-olds, especially our three-year-olds that were in program staying in program because they're still eligible for Head Start at that age, they're not required to come into a TK program. So, because there it's it's um subsidized, so their families aren't paying for them to continue there. Um they're seeing right now, especially those earlier three-year-olds stay put. So, her and I continue to stay in communication. No, good to know. Okay. Uh at this time, it is 7:06 and I'll close the hearing. Uh thank you, Rosa. Um 8.3 information first reading of resolution 25.0. 06.10. Okay. Thank you. So, this
080is basically our information item. Um, it serves as a notification that for our next board meeting, we would be bringing this back to the board for approval of our resolution to go ahead and seek the sale of our seriesB bond. Um, and so that would be come back to you as a resolution. And um originally we were um when we passed our our bond back in um November of 2022, we estimated that we would seek series B approximately 2026. And so in looking at the market, working with Miguel Rodriguez, um in in searching out and making sure that our timing, um Rosa did a great job explaining this with our bron committee that you look to have drawn down on your series A right in the right timeline for when you are going to acquire
081your series B so that your projects have continuity. Um, luckily the way that we have staged our projects and the funding with the lease lease back potential and being able to do lump sums over time allow for that um to work really effectively. So Miguel put together the package for us to pursue this sale instead in um 2025. And so series B um originally scheduled 2026 are estimated now to be sold in early August 2025. Um and we're looking for the amount of around $7 million um as originally um planned. And then as we go forward um the possible maximization of our avenue to do a um a bond anticipation note ahead of series C to be able to access those funds. Um it is a great method without um a huge amount of cost
082for the district to access those funds earlier as needed so that we can keep our projects going. Um and so that would be brought back as um a BA or a ban um for you for the bond um anticipation note uh to bring it forward from a 2030 series C bond to come back to us um a little early so that we can um access that fund to keep our projects going. And so, um, that would allow us to preserve that future issuance, um, for the series C, maintain that total required tax rate that we have under the Prop 39, uh, which is our limit that we set of $30 per $100,000 of assessed property value. And, um, so the series B would be structured as the current interest bonds with a repayment of 35
083years. and then that tentative if we're if we're going to access it. Um, and we wouldn't necessarily need to pursue the entire seven million. What we want to do is get a better picture of our estimates for our ongoing construction once we have those contracts in place. And so, um, our anticipation, it might come in lower than that, but just going ahead and frontloading in the event that we do want to do that early. But we will be bringing forward the resolution for our series B bond sale um at our upcoming meeting. Okay. So this is just the first reading. Nothing to approve. No questions. Okay. Uh 9.1 approval of certificated AB1200 certificated public disclosure. That is my item as well. And as you know, we're required to have a public disclosure which is the
084AB1200 um filling out the budget information and the uh the total cost um for the agreement with SRTA. So this is pretty much increasing the 2425 certificated salary schedule by 2% uh for SRTA effective July 1st, 2025 and increasing the 2526 certificated salary schedule by another 2% across the board effective July 1st, 2026, as well as increasing the class size stipen for $350 to $400 effective July July 1st, 2025 and also increasing the certificated hourly from $48 an hour to $50 an hour for a overall total cost of 928 826 for the two um years. As you um remember when I was doing the presentation, this cost is already included in the budget. Um, and I talk a little bit during my budget hearing. Um, it is included in there. And if if this is
085um approved, it will go for um adoption on the next sport meeting, which is the 25th, I believe. Uh, June 25th. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? So motioned. Second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. 9.2. approval of the tenative agreement for the 2025 2026 negotiations between the Sanita Union Teachers Association and the Sanita Union School District. Yes. So we met with SRTA um over the months of May uh April and May and uh we came up to uh this TA which Rosa already explained uh agreeing to a 2% for the 2526 and then another 2% salary increase for the 2627. Um and um you get to see there the the summary of everything else that has been negotiated. I'm not going to go over all of it all over
086again. Um but I do want to say that we are very grateful and we want to thank SRTA negotiating team for the uh collaborative um relationship that we have and the amazing work that they do. They're very aware of the constraints that we have and uh we appreciate the relationship that we have with them. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? Motion. I'm wrestling later in the I'm scared now. A second. Okay. All those in favor? I I 4 Z. Okay. Congratulations. One step closer. So, uh 9.3 approval of updated job description for executive assistant to the superintendent. Uh yes, we have revised the job description for this position and we have changed the title from administrative assistant to executive assistant. The new job descript uh job description um reflects the new responsibilities added
087responsibilities and you get to see the um required um qualifications and skills needed to succeed in this assignment. Make it a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I motion 40. Okay. Approval of the revised classified man management salary schedule. So after revising the job description for the executive assistant to the superintendent, we also conducted a salary study and uh we are uh proposing here 10% salary increase. So you see the salary schedule reflecting that um as well as we have changed the the ranges from numeric to alphabetic uh instead of having numbers go in both directions. It's easier to have letters in one direction and numbers in the other. We also um updated the salary, not the salary, but the uh benefit increases that were approved by the board back
088in March of 2025. So, um are we done with fixing the issues regarding reclassification terms, fixing the salary schedule? I mean, this has been an ongoing process for a few years. So, are we finally done with this or do we have more updates to do? We do. We have more. And uh so as we see the need and the positions rise to the top um we look at them and we review them. It's a process. Um it's impossible to do all of them at once. So we're taking it slowly and uh as we identify those positions that are in great need. I will tell you that there are some job descriptions that have not been updated for a long time. Um so as we identify those then we bring them forward. So you will see
089more coming in the future. I mean for me it's it's you know if you're going to clean it up I mean you know shorter the time frame the better that at least we have fixed cost but we we can trust and work on rather than having to fix things and have incurring cost in order to fix stuff that we could have done in the past. I you know so I I'm not criti critiquing the process. What I'm critiquing is trying to squeeze the time period down a little bit so we can get it set now. I mean, I've been here god knows how many years and we've been fixing this for, you know, 10 years or more or so. And so, um, it's just an additional hit that it's hard to project, right? So, if
090we could get all the stuff done, then we know we have fixed costs that are relatively going to be unchanged over the future. We can count on numbers. Right now, I can't count on numbers, you know, because I don't know what's going to come next. So, um, my suggestion or hope is that the sooner we clean it up finally permanently, and then do yearly adjustments as needed, you know, that's what I would like to see. Sure. I I'm just tired of having so many years of of trying to update, fix, reclassify. This was not supposed to be here. The terms have changed here. So whatever we can do to shorten the process so we can get a a finality in terms of trusting that the systems and the classifications and the pay are equitable and
091are set and um we can just do yearly adjustments rather than the reclassify or redo this or that, you know. So I'm glad we're in the process. The sooner we get it done, the better is what I'm trying to say. Absolutely. We will try to pace ourselves. I you know I know that Rosa being right here next to me, she's going to tell me slow down. Uh so we have to be cognizant of that as well. Yeah. No, I understand that the additional cost is sooner rather than later and dragging it out is cheaper in the long run. I understand that. Yes. So so part of it is capacity because you got to work together with with Rosa as far as we do and we have to work also with the union groups depending on
092the classifications that are being impacted and affected. So we identify the needs collaboratively and we bring that forward. So it's a process. Does that typically happen around the times the negotiations occur or is that how's it can happen outside of negotiations when it kind of when it's identified and then correct trying to figure out a way to bring that as a solution? Yes. Yeah. And how does um it get typically get identified? Is it some like either the unions are bringing it forward or just coming across it and then you just a combination? There are some positions that will evolve quicker than others. Um so it's you know it can be sometimes the employees sometimes the union sometimes us we see that we have you know given more responsibilities higher responsibilities to the individuals which
093then calls for a reclassification. So yes, you will see more coming through. Okay. So, oh sorry, go ahead. I just wanted to add to what Claudia was mentioning since CO there has been a lot of changes especially for example in my um office we are switching from the unrestricted as you know we're getting less of that money but then we keep getting this one-time funds and this like for example the ELB is a huge grant now that we have to manage um so a lot of things are changing around there's a lot of way new compliance a lot of work, a lot of reporting um not only for my department but for other departments, special ed department as well, other positions. So as we move forward once we think like okay this is when I
094remember when I came to the district that was the first thing we did looking making sure that the job descriptions match to what we were actually doing and now after almost six year things have changed slowly slowly they keep changing so um it's always a good time to go back and say like hey looking at those job description does this even match we don't have this grant anymore but we have this one so we need to take this out we need to include this or we have new compliance, we have new reporting. A lot of it it's new compliance, new reporting, more paperwork that we've been doing a lot, especially in in my office and other offices just because we want to have a fixated target. It's a constant moving target just like the budget.
095But yes, we will aim at doing what we can. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for the just one other comment, Claudia, and I don't know if this has come to you, but it was a process that I feel like was started and not not finished. We had conversations in terms of and this is especially in regards to classified staff in terms of people being having the same job description and then what they actually have to do being very different and sometimes just because of numbers. And we talked about it in regards to custodial staff. We talked about it in regards to to clerical staff in in terms of you're feeding 450 kids, you're feeding 650 kids, but somehow you're being paid the same. And those conversations got started and I never felt like there was
096a resolution in terms of talking about, you know, what's what's equitable across the different school sites. Planning it out. I can tell you that uh we will have we we have started that conversation with CSEA because it's planning it out right I mean we want to be able to get to all the positions but the reality is that it's difficult it's challenging uh because there's different things that we have to consider including the budget okay having said that I I you know motion to approve is needed necessary okay second all those in favor I captain motion 40. Okay. 9.5 approval revised school calendar. Yeah, we have revised this calendar just to reflect a few a few changes. Uh we're reflecting now the optional certificate of PD days for July 30th and the 31st and then
097the mandatory classified professional development day for October 13th. And also we changed the last day for 11 month employees just to capture the correct number of days work days for them. Okay, main question as always. How are aligned are we with the other school districts, especially high school? We are very fortunate. I have to say that I've been in other districts and we are very well aligned with both of the districts. We kind of wait for them to see especially the high school to see where they're going and then we just follow suit. Thank you. Because you know to me it's loss of revenue. You know when we have half the well they're not going there so they're not going there. So, you know, the closely aligned we are the better. I I just wish
098the districts the high school would do it earlier. You know, there doesn't seem to be imperative and I'm part of that district. So, I've been complaining about it as well. So, but yeah, there needs to be earlier set of uh calendaring. Having said that, motion to approve or is it a motion? Yes. Yes. Motion second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. The approval of - consulting contract services. Thank you. This is just approval of our ongoing and continuing um consulting contract services with David Sonder Surereger um who assist us with our um -ray applications. I got a motion to approve. Motion so approved. Second. All those in favor? I motion 40. Okay. Approval of contract with Premier Builders Incorporated. Okay. Thank you. Um uh we put our project out to bid um and
099conducted our mandatory pre-bid walk uh on May 7th for our district office front lobby modernization. That's the um the removal and replacement of the front window uh storefront um to be more secure and safe as well as a um entrance way redo with a service window. and two general contractors attended that bidwalk. And on May 20th, two bids were submitted. Premier Builders Incorporated were the responsible low bidder at 266,992. Motion. Can I get a motion? Second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. Approve with Marlene Baz Bazan. Um so this one um I've brought to you the last couple years clinical supervision for our social workers. I'm really excited that one of our school counselors is now also seeking her clinical lensure which always benefits us to have uh staff trained at that
100clinical level. So um our counselor at New Republic Elementary will be working with Marlene to do the required hours to seek her clinical lensure. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. Approval of a contract with Animal Damage Management. Thank you. This is our um this is our annual contract for our central kitchen um representing for Chuck Helm. It is at a monthly service fee of $100 per site for a total estimate of 8,400 for the school year. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I I 4 Z. Wow. What's going on with that? No, Ela. They used to call it pest control. Can I approve item 9.10 approval SLP contract for the 2025 26 school year? Jeez. So, I'll present
101this um item for Melanie. So, this is just a continuation of a contract for speech therapists. Again, our goal is always to recruit um and have a speech therapist hired through the district. Um and that will continue while this uh person is in service as well. Um these services will be in person. Okay. A motion to approve. Make a motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. And our last item 9 1 911 an approval of CSBA board policy manual maintenance for 2025. We are always catching up with our board policy manual maintenance. These are our spring policies and uh want to thank our trustee Sarah Turner for reviewing um these manual maintenance policies. I did want to highlight the updated language in the um student mobile device policy that
102has come out from the state. And if selected, we opted for the more prohibitive option in that board policy. And so that was also the recommendation of our district safety and wellness committee and the subcommittee that reviewed policy asking for clarification that if we could just add and adjust any language so that it's prohibited use allowing for those um legal uses that we are obligated to allow um per law and ed code. So, um under certain circumstances or under provision for certain student um need based on things like IEP um that they must have access to those devices. Um I just I'm sure that you all read through all of those hundreds of pages like I did with due diligence. Um it was interesting to me. It's always interesting. Um, I would just ask the
103um all of the cabinet to make sure then all of our things going forward that we make sure to use the correct uh phrases in regards to our special education department. That was a big that was a law change just so that you guys are aware of that. Um, some of the laws were sad to me that, you know, in terms of you don't have to have a law unless somebody's doing something inappropriate. And there was a huge section of law, uh, banning school districts from adopting books that discriminate against people. And it's sad to me that that has to be a law in the state of California. Um but I I understood why that was the case and there was a large section of law around that. Um my thanks to all of the
104people who did all the pre-work before me for uh making it an easy thing for me to um review. Although I do take it take it very seriously and and I appreciate all the consideration that's that's put into it. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? I make a motion to approve. Okay. Can I get a second? I'll second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. Our next regular board meeting is uh June 25th, 2025. Is there any suggested future board items? Yeah, I would uh love to visit our ongoing uh issues with our solar and battery and like to know where we are with that and are you know are we able to go at each site how long what's the capacity how much uh they're charging us per watt did
105we get any type of consideration considering batteries Mr. Patel, we had some updates on that um this spring and so I can make sure that we get you that information. Thank you very very much. Thank you. Okay, it's uh 7:29. Can I get a motion to adjurnn, please? Motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor? I I Okay, motion carries. Okay, have a nice evening everyone.