001Hey, good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the Sanita Union School District board meeting. I'd like to call this meeting to order at 5:00 PM. If you can please start off with the roll call. Miss Cindy Lopez, present. Miss Alvariano, present. Miss Sarah Turner, present. Mr. Jacob Sandal, present. Mr. Neil Patel is not present. Okay, let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the board agenda? Motion to approve the board agenda. Second. All those in favor? I. Motion 40. Okay. Today on close session, we have potential litigation of government code section 54956.8. 8 and 54956.9 2.2 public employee performance evaluation under government
002code section 54957 and we have conference with labor negotiators under government code section 54957.6. Any public comments regarding close session items? There are no public comments. Okay. Can I get a motion to adjurnn the close session? Motion to adjurnn close session. Second. All those in favor? I motion 40. Okay. See everybody afterwards. Hey, good afternoon everybody. We're going to reccoming back into open session. Um during close session, there was nothing that was voted on. So, we're going to move on to item 5.1, approval of consent agenda. And I got a motion to approve items 5.2 to 5.5. I motion to approve items 5.1 through 5.2. Second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. Item 6.1, Gablan View and Jongutas Middle School migrant speech and debate team. Started earlier. Yeah. Good evening everybody. Um
003I first want to start off by uh sending an apology from Esther Medina who's the program specialist for migrant ed. um she wanted to be here this evening, but um migrant ed is now going to be um in North County is now going to be operated by the county office of education. So, she's actually leading a migrant ed parent meeting in North Monterey County tonight, so she couldn't be here um with us. So, I'm going to uh present the certificates here on her behalf. So, as you know, each year um migrant education holds it holds a regional speech and debate tournament. Um and it's for all students between sixth and 12th grade. Um, one of the benefits of migrant speech and debate is, um, students can participate in either English or Spanish. They have to
004designate before, but it really gives our students whose primary language is Spanish an opportunity to show their educational prowess and their primary language. Um, so here at Gavalan View and John Gutierrez, we are able to have a team combined who participated in our uh, debate tournament this year. And so we're going to present them this evening with some certificates. So Monterey County. Um, I wonder if Lupita's waiting. I think there might be a couple more students coming. Let me make sure. No, I need a few minutes. Um, so let me give you a little bit of an overview of how it works while we do that. So, um, so, uh, students get to select if they want to do speech and speech is solo. So, they're doing it on their own. They're given a topic.
005Um, they research that topic. They create a 2.5 to four minute speech um that they can present and they do two rounds of that prepared speech. Then they do two additional rounds of extemporaneous speaking. So they get a topic um when they come into the room they have to prepare for that topic. And for middle school it's 1.5 to 2 minutes um for that extemporaneous speech. as they present their when the time comes they compete um at the regional level they compete against middle school so it could be sixth 7th or eighth um if they make it to the state they participate in their individual grade levels or students can choose to participate in debate and um if they're in debate they're working in a team of up to five students as few as three
006students they're given a single topic and they need to prepare both sides of that argument so they have to understand the pro side. So the affirmative, they also have to understand the negative. The challenge with debate is that you're given a topic that you may have a strong feeling about on one side, but you have to argue the other side of that argument as well. And so it takes a lot of skill to be able to understand the topic in a way that you can present both sides of that argument. So they come to the tournament, they compete against different schools throughout Monterey County of the same grade level. Um they do two rounds of pro. they don't know which side they're going to have and two rounds of con in each of that. And
007then those total scores for four rounds are tabulated to calculate our winners. The top um team goes on to the state tournament. Um the state tournament now is being hosted here in Monterey County every year. They've decided that Monterey County should just be the place to host it. So it'll be hosted here. The tournament itself happens at Monterey High School. Um the students stay at Embassy Suites for the weekend. Um, the reason I want to give you all of that is that they still need judges. So, anybody out there who's interested in being a state speech and debate judge, please let me know. Um, it's a really exciting day. We have several teachers um and some administrators who have done it before. Um, especially bilingual judges where needed. They have um the state tournament will
008be students from all over the state of California. And they have a total of I think over 400 people who will be here for that tournament. 268 or something Lupita um who will be participating in that tournament. So if you're available the weekend of May 3rd through the 5th, whatever that Friday, Saturday, Sunday, the tournaments on the Saturday, um please reach out to me and let me know. None of this work would be possible without our coach uh Lupita Aguilar Maldonado um who has worked for migrant ed for several years um as a teacher and then takes on the challenge the additional challenge of supporting our speech and debate teams. So she worked to prep all the students to get ready for the tournament and then supported them throughout that day as well. Okay. So
009now I'm going to present the certificate. So Okay. You want to come up here? Okay. Uh Becky will take pictures for us. Okay. So, our first certificate is for Maria Jose Lasso Sanchez. Oh, she's not here, but we're going to clap for her anyway. Eligente Omar Salvador Vasquez. You can stand right here and then we're gonna have you go right into the front. We'll have you everybody come say uh Rashelle. Oh, she's not here. Okay, we'll do it. Katherine Viegas Viegas Katherine. No, Lasan. Uh, Oliver Martinez Mendes, Oliver, you can go right there in front of me. Hel Cruz Neestor, Gabriella Ari Sanchez, and and Ken Morales Rubio Ken. You guys can come right up here and then I'll turn it over to you guys if you want to. You can Okay, that's okay. Okay,
010we'll do a picture. and ask. Okay. with the mic. You guys are ready for this. You already know. Can you introduce your parents? Who's father? Just tell just in time. Who's here with you? Just tell who's here with you. My dad. Okay. What's his name? Anastasio. My dad is here. Who? Manuel. My mom. An uncle Mendes. Lopez is here with me. My mom is here with me. elementary school. Uh you guys should be very proud of yourselves. It takes a lot of uh courage to come and speak in front of folks, you know, to debate and stuff. So, I would just say just continue what you're doing. You know, you're doing an awesome job and just kind of keep at it. If you guys want to say anything. students be very very proud of your
011guys's houseelves like it's it's very very this is something I want to share a story I have a friend and this is just if you know the debate grew a little fire in you guys I want to give you guys hope I have a friend that is an alumni from here from Sanoria JV and um she was also um met um Ed sorry you see I'm having trouble at the migrant program and she is a successful attorney now and I mean anything is possible so you guys should be so proud of your guys's self and continue with this congratulations So, I'm very very proud. I'm a very proud board member to know that we have um these kids that really um have a good heart who actually not even a good heart but also a
012good um courage to stand up in front of of you. So all of you that was the debate um it was great. I'm I'm so happy and honored to know that you are in our district. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Gracias. Nice little group. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Let me screw. Okay, we're gonna move. I know. They didn't make it to state, but they tried hard in front of people. That made it super hard. Yeah. and in the studying and the practice they're I wasn't even there at that level at that age. Um moving on to 7.1. Any comments from SRTA? No. Okay. Um 7.2 CSEA. Okay. Uh superintendent cabinet. Um we're going to start at the end with our chief of human resources officer Claude Ariano. Good evening. I do have
013um a brief update for you. I will begin with the um district's uh benefits committee which has been uh it's made up of members from SRTA, CACA, the confidential unit and representation from the administration group. We had our very first um vendor presentation back in March uh 19th and that was done by CBT where the committee learned about what CBT has to offer the different um health partners that they have such as Delta Dental, Caremark and so on and so forth. and um they requested that the district provide them with demographic information about the employees because the rates that they will offer is based on the district um the demographics of district employees. Um we are scheduled to have another presentation by Kalpers that will be taking place on April 16th and uh from there
014hopefully the committee will be able to make a determination as to what direction to go with. Um I also have a brief update on the um county teachers of the year and the classified employee of the year. The district participated in that program. We nominated two teachers and six classified employees. So next week we will be announcing um our nominees that went to the county level. The uh county awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on May 9th. So that is going to take place at the embassy suits in Monterey Bay. Um that will begin at 5:15. So if you would like to appoint one or you or two, I don't think we can have more than two. Correct. So uh if you would like to attend that ceremony, just let us know by no
015later than next Friday. So, that's my app. Okay. Thank you for the update. Um, how are the uh how are we doing on staffing this year in general? I know we're towards the end of the year already, but just um Yes. So, um it is a challenge as you know, we have uh a lot of openings especially in special ed. Um we have made some offers but um it is a teachers market. they get to choose where they want to go. Um, so I can tell you that we have been in communication with agencies uh who recruit in the Philippines and we are contemplating J1 and H1B U visa employees especially for special ed which are very difficult to staff. So we're doing everything that we can but it's not unique to the district. Yeah,
016we're all hurting for the same. Yeah, we'll have our state of the district at our next meeting and so we'll make sure to include like the actual numbers for the different positions that we're still recruiting for at the end of April for that. Okay, perfect. Now, that's good at least a synopsis. I mean, I wasn't looking for specifics, but I do appreciate that. Um, as you guys are doing recruiting, um, I know you mentioned teachers market. Is part of it just not enough teachers have been, I guess, applying for the teaching profession in general as anidal evidence compared to who's retiring out? Is that I'd say that's a big part of it. um based on like what we hear from our educational partners and their push to try to get more students to enter uh
017teacher credentiing programs, it it's really difficult right now. Um it's not necessarily people's first choice of a of a field to study right now. And so they're doing what they can to recruit um students who want to get uh their teacher credential and their degrees. And I know we partner a lot with like CSUB and our our local community colleges and those conversations have been going on especially postco. Okay. I was I was just ahead. Oh, I was just going to add that we are also participating we're in partnership with Elder University for the teacher residency program and we will be bringing in two candidates into that program. So that is also with the goal that they will choose to stay with us once they complete their credential program. So yeah, I was just going
018to say as my second job teaching with CSUMB, we know that in education, our enrollment in CSUB overall is much lower and just kind of for um some of the meetings we've been having there has really been around since CSUMB is a local university and many of the the students that we recruit are local who come into local positions. as federal student aid, for example, comes into question, they're looking at even greater decline in those looking to seek that field. Yeah. Yeah. The reason I ask cuz I' I have been noticing that because I mean obviously I work in mortgages so I see different industries and stuff and I ask around as far as like where there shortages and I've also heard shortages of what they're doing recruiting other countries even within like the medical
019field. Um uh what's the field? There's a couple fields that they kind of mentioned that there's just a shortage of skilled, you know, people that are going to that level and stuff. So, it was just kind of interesting. Yeah, we we'll bring you an update on at the next board meeting just to like Dr. Alderman was um indicating. Yeah. And I I was noticing they're offering bonuses for other countries to bring in people to do jobs. So, that's that's crazy. Okay. Um um next up is our director of engagement and school climate, Dr. Summer Prather Smith. Of course, I have papers hand out. I want to start first with I was hoping Sophia was still going to be here, but she I know she had to step out to go to wrestling. But um we
020are starting um our mural projects over at JGMS. So there's two mural additional murals going in there um that are being funded through our Prop 28 funds. So Artist Inc. Inc. is working with our um afterchool program as well as students who choose to stay after school to report uh to report to participate in the mural program there. So we'll be bringing those to you soon as they finish them up. Um along with that on Prop 28 still um we also are starting on Monday a special education preschool art, music and movement class that'll happen two days a week. Uh it'll happen one day a week but it's offered twice. So there's a Monday class or a Friday class. Um it'll be held at uh New Republic Elementary and it's for our non-attending preschoolers. So
021our preschoolers who are coming to see us for supplemental services like speech and language or occupational therapy. Um we again partnered with Artist Inc. and their team who are specifically um have worked to design specific programs for students um receiving special education. So just some information that that you can share out. We've been making personal phone calls on those um and then mailed out those flyers as well. Um also just kind of a heads up uh summer school summer academy registration is going to be coming out. Um so we are starting our last so we had spring it's been a very condensed um expanded learning period of time. We had our spring camp which we had a good turnout very successful um move straight into our final series of Saturday which started last Saturday um
022and those will go for five weeks and so now we're finalizing summer um enrollment so um just again some information on summer enrollment will go June that's blank we'll go June must have done it two-sided um June 2nd to June 27th and there will be three program. Well, four programs operating if you count migrants. So, elementary will happen at New Republic. Uh, middle school will happen at John Gutierrez. Then at Santaorita, migrant ed will have their summer program happening um which is a full day summer program for migrant students as well as we'll offer an ELOP summer camp. So, that's really for those students that maybe don't need the academic intervention or parents are choosing a more enrichmentbased program. Um, we heard last year, this is based on our feedback from our last summer program,
023some families said they're kind of tired, right? So, we said, "Okay, how can we offer both pieces of it, um, the spring or excuse me, the summer camp will be uh based in the sciences, but it'll be a more camp-like program. So, they can families can choose from those programmings. We are going to specifically target students who need that academic intervention to enroll in the program at New Republic. Then we'll offer an afterschool camp for them as well. So students get both pieces of that. So that's coming up. And then the last um parts that I have to hand out to you are um as I think I shared at one of our previous meetings, Dr. Katis has taken over supporting with attendance in partnership with me. Um and so she's been working really hard
024to put together lots of attendance manuals and gather information and make sure we're really clear on attendance. as you know, it's really important since we're funded through ADA, right? So, we need students to be there because they need to be at school to learn, but we also know that it affects our funding. So, she's been working closely with the clerks at the school sites as well as the administrators, and she's put together a couple of pieces of information um that can go out in the front offices. So, one is just kind of an attendance guide book for families in English and Spanish kind of when to keep your students home, what are the impacts of not attending um school and then the second is um the truency abatement program through the district attorney's office so
025that families understand kind of what that process is going to look like if you end up in truency process overall. So, these are out at our school sites and just information for you in case any questions come up. That's it. Okay. Thank you. Um, is it all the same? Okay, perfect. Yeah. Um, this is great. One thing I had been kind of thinking about just have been busy with scheduling. I wanted to kind of discuss with the board is um I know we've been more promoting on social media and that kind of stuff is um if there's a lot of this information where I know we talked about videos where we can start maybe shooting out through social media some of the stuff because I know um I mean this is great information but we
026do know that the parents that are or students that are at highest need sometimes parents aren't as involved or take the time to maybe look up a brochure or anything but I think getting to the point where it's like we can do a quick video on like Hey, you know, 15 seconds, hey, your students are turned. That's where you learn to grow. Kind of like kind of increasing that engagement because I know a lot of times um through parents where a lot of information gets sent out. Um and if you're an engaged person, you'll read it, but sometimes some parents are not. Yeah. Um so I don't know if that's been any part of the conversation. So that's that's the that's next year's plan. So this year has been just to get our uh social
027media following increased by like posting a lot of shorter pieces. Mhm. Um I actually reached out I think it's been like two weeks so I don't know at MCE there's Made which is what does all of their videos. It's a like a production programming that can come through through there. Um so I had run into the person who does Mccade to talk about because you can actually like in migrant we bring students in and students would also help us record videos and such for upcoming programming and then they have a full production team. So um it's on my next year to work with them around getting yeah some videos together. So, what we talked about doing is really highlighting programming at that point. So, ELOP, spring, summer, some of those pieces. Um, I didn't have
028this on there yet, but I mean, if we get done faster than we plan, I think we could do some of that as well. Yeah. Yeah. Just kind of more getting people more informed of how it all and Micada is just a more fiscally um reasonable way to go about it than some of the others because it can be really expensive to do production. But through the county office with Micada, it can be a much more reasonable cost to do that also. So, yeah. Okay. No, I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. Because I started thinking about like like a lot of the stuff we're going here is great, but a lot of parents are not going to pick it up and and read and stuff. And I was even thinking how you were mentioning you have
029to make phone calls and in order to get people engaged to show up, right? Because you know, a lot of times like the the the resources and the programs are there. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and a lot of times what the with the phone calls, I mean, it's it's the phone calls, even I think with the videos, we would do that. What the phone call does oftentimes is that when we're sending out anything in mass to families, it's not a personal invite. So, what it says is if this is going out to everybody and you don't come, everybody else is going to come, so you're not going to notice that I'm not there. And what we what we know is that when we make that personal phone call and it feels like a personal invitation,
030it feels like if I don't show up, there's an impact to you as well. So, I think it's always with family engagement. I think it's that comprehensive approach. It's printed materials, it's ongoing messaging, it's videos, it's phone calls, right? It's all of those pieces together. And I see us working towards it. So, yeah, I appreciate it's that that full spectrum of support. Perfect. I think for me, I just want to make sure we're going in that direction even though it takes time, you know, for us to get there. So, so this one is this pamphlet, it's great, but um it's geared for children and adults. No, this is attendance for students. So, this is student attendance because it has do and it has excused absences like jury duty. Yeah, because those are just things. So,
031for example, one of the things that an excused absence for a student could be especially students who are being transported could be if there was a jury duty for the parent um and the parent couldn't seek out or the child care provider that picks up. There's actually an excuse absence process for students if there's a parent Yeah. impacted by jury duty. Mhm. Yeah. Because it says jury duty, the ones that I court appearances, um attending a naturalization ceremony. Yeah. So that a child can those are for the children. Yeah. Really? Okay. And again, those are a set because it can also be if a student is 18 and at the high school and they have jury duty, they could be excused from school. I mean, most of the time they won't call them, but could
032be. But yeah, also there's a there's a piece in there around jury duty and impact on students if a parent has jury duty. Was there two pamphlets or one? Spanish and English. Oh, but it's the same. And that one is different, correct? Yes. Okay. Thank Um, the only other thing I would recommend in regards to to attendance, sometimes it really helps to monetize the information to people and included in back to school night, including school site council, included in conferences, and just being able to say to people, hey, we lose $80 every time your child doesn't come to school. We lose $40 when they take them out at lunchtime. You know, and some people are like, what? And it's like it and they're like, well, what if they're sick? I'm like this state does like
033obviously we don't want you to send them sick but we need you to you know so that was eye opening for some parents when we started actually having conversations about it because most of them have no idea that there's a monetary cost to their child not being at school even if it's small. We did that last year with Rosa around our overall. We did it a little bit of the opposite, but we sent a message that said because we had increased our overall attendance from whatever the thing was 93% to 98% that that gave the district an additional like this amount of revenue to families. And um yeah, I mean I didn't hear anything from families, but yeah, I think that's a great way as well. Okay, thank you. me. Oh, I'm sorry. Wait on
034me. Yep. Sorry. Had a blink. Um, our assistant superintendent of educational services, Miss Becky Moore. Thank you. I'd love to share. Um today I got to go and visit three school sites working with our library media specialists and principles to look at our curriculum inventory really make sure that um they know what I'm looking for, what information I need to gather for orders for next year. So working on that and it was also nice just to have some check-in time with principles, answer any questions that they had and visit some classrooms. My favorite is seeing students, so that was really fun. And I love it when they recognize me and they're like baby. Um we have LCAP engagement happening right now. So we have a parent survey out regarding family engagement. Um students are taking
035some parseek real surveys as early as TK to share us share with us their input on their learning. So this week we're focusing on EL next week will be ELA and the following week on math. Um and then staff members are participating in LCAP engagement at their staff meetings. um their principles have been through with me how to introduce that and go through it with them so that we're getting lots of feedback. Next week I'll also have a community um LCAP engagement session Thursday evening at 6 right here. Um summitive LPAC is complete with the exception of those new students who have transferred in. Um, and so we're working on those as they come. If they're enrolling in a California school for the first time and need to take LPAC, then these poor babies between
036now and May have to take both the initial ELPAC to get a placement and then a summitive ELPAC to see if they grew in a week or two. So, um, we're doing it because that's what the legislation says we need to do. Um, but for the most part, we're done. We're hoping that we'll have scores in May so that we can look at reclassification, particularly for fifth graders and eighth graders who will be moving on to different schools next year if they can reclassify first. That offers them different opportunities in middle and high school. Um, and next Monday, our district curriculum council will meet here um to continue our discussion about the reading difficulty screener. We've looked at three options. They are the three options that are available in both English and Spanish. And we're
037going to um hopefully decide which tool we would like to adopt because these need to be implemented beginning in August. Any questions or comments? No. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to uh the board and the superintendent. U Lopez. Um I don't have much just besides um we had our workshop this past Tuesday. Tuesday, right? Monday. Monday. Monday. Sorry. Monday. Um with for our governor's handbook. Um thank you to Lou that came out, our superintendent, Dr. Alderman, and our board members that were here. Um it was a really nice workshop that um I could say as the newest trustee it's it's good to have and you know be all of us and have the guidance of um our attorneys and whatnot. So it was a a really good um workshop for us to make sure
038that we're all in agreement with what we're saying that we're committed to for our district and our students. Um and uh I believe we do have a good team here that that is our goal our students and the best interest in them. So other than that I don't have much else to report. Okay. Miss Aliano I also attended the governance um or the meeting for the governance handbook and um I I thought it went very well. I think uh we have one of the best board members in North Monterey County. Um we seemed to work together very well and um and it went smoothly and we started on time and we ended on time. So, um, but thank you board members because sometimes, you know, we go through line like Lou had line by line
039and we were in agreement for we had a few questions and um and revisions revisions but um all went well. So, thank you. Thank you, Miss Sarah Turner. Um, I also appreciated everyone's hard work at the workshop on Wednesday and everyone's kindness to each other, which is something I really appreciate in this district. Um, I attended the facilities committee meeting last week. Really still excited about all the amazing things. I'm just incredibly grateful that we've we've really taken that as a goal in this district that children deserve to learn in beautiful spaces and we're trying to hold on to that. So, um I'm looking forward to the facilities uh meeting tonight and wishing Victor a speedy recovery. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Again, myself, I also attended the the workshop and I appreciate everybody for his
040input and stuff and just be able to talk through it. I I appreciate that we work well as a team. Um and that's it for myself. I have a couple of things I'm presenting on behalf of Victor. So, I'll just hold and and get into that. Okay. Do we have any public comments regarding agenda items or non-aggenda items? We do not have public comment for non-aggenda or agenda items. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to 9.1formational facilities committee updates. So, um, we had our facilities committee meeting on April 3rd. Our main topics were the cell phone tower status. We have a tower at operated by T-Mobile at GB and JG between JG and the MOT. Um, our solar panel status and um, then our upcoming major projects. And so, Victor put together um, a presentation.
041And so I'll walk through that and then there were a couple of items that we discussed outside of the presentation and I'll I'll give you a bit of that. So if we can get into the next one. So the cell phone towers the they are operated right now by T-Mobile and we had been notified that our towers were not DSA compliance through the division of state architects and um so we were extremely transparent with them about everything that was going on um that we were demanding that T-Mobile uh remove the equipment or and the structures if they were not DSA compliant and those pieces is um so DSA was really pleased uh that we were just forthcoming with that and any issues and so they said okay we'll treat those as separate from the other
042projects at both of those sites because when you have a project at a site it can impact any others if you're still trying to work out a compliance issue and so they treated those separate. They also provided what would need to be done to those structures for remedy. Um, a lot of it is really going in, checking, verifying, and not a a lot of structural changes so much as verification work with some minor changes. And so, um, as oddly enough, it was the day before. Um, so as of 42 where our current status is, so DSA had outlined exactly what would need to be done by T-Mobile. And so our legal counsel reached out to T-Mobile's legal counsel and uh talked that out because T-Mobile really had a request of being able to remedy that
043at their own cost and full um they do all the work as well as the paperwork and compliance things with DSA to asssure that they do meet that compliance. The district gains about $50,000 of revenue per year and we're able to put that back into our telecommunication cost and so it helps offset that. That's the benefit of having them there. The fact that DSA clearly outlined what would need to be done for compliance. So T-Mobile um sent a draft and they're working it out with legal uh for a written agreement that would include the following. Um, so T-Mobile would complete all DSA requirements as listed by DSA, bear all the cost. And also, this was the caveat that I said I would like that in there that they would agree to fully remove the equipment
044and the structures should they not reach DSA compliance. Now, what we are still working on is that the contractor that they are hiring needs to come on site to review in order to give us an estimate of how long it would take them. Um and what DSA is looking for us is um whether or not we're moving forward with the remedy once we have that timeline. And so again, DSA agreed to treat those separately and give that window of opportunity because part of what T-Mobile would do for the initial compliance with DSA is to outline the timeline and that they are going to meet all of those um all of those requirements that DSA had given. So that's where we're at with our our cell phone towers, the solar systems. And I'm sorry Mr. Patel
045isn't here because this is like an on when I say ongoing. I'm headed towards my 10y year anniversary as an employee of the Sanorita district and this has been going on for at least 10 years. Um, and Victor will tell you that when he was first hired by my predecessor, Tim Ryan, um, he was told, "Fix this thing, um, because it was already a thing by then." And so, Generate Capital, remember, Generate Capital actually owns the structures and the equipment. And so, Generate Capital proposed uh, repairs and designs with uh, using Santaorita Elementary School as a test site. And you might remember earlier in the year we had let you know that they were going to do some testing during the school day because it was really important you needed activity and lights on and
046what that looked like. And so um Donna Kanig at Santaita Elementary went full in. The students knew what they were being part of and they were really excited. So, um, the installation of the new systems went in around June to the end of August with a live site test for September 4th, this past fall. The um, our SRUSD STRA staff and so Victor pointed out it's like MOTF staff would go deploy to the site to turn the system on. So they went over and received training on the 15th and then a little bit later the inspection by Generate Capital on the 22nd confirmed that the equipment and those tests were still successful. So now Generate Capital is working on new contracts for our five remaining sites to get that fully operable. So, we're looking forward
047to bringing you the the information and the timing once we know those contracts are in place to install the new equipment that makes them work as they should. So, so basically Santaita is working now. Is that Santaita is working? Um, and so generate capital, we were, and the reality is 10 years ago, we were one of the first sites that put in that particular a battery backup system with our with our solar panels, and it just never worked the way it was supposed to work. Now, um, at the meeting, Sarah had asked a really good question about the billing offset and those things. And so we true up with Generate Capital at the end of each year and right now they're basically paying a fee because they haven't been working because we're supposed to be
048able to get a larger offset with PG&E and as long as that's not quite where it should be, we do that end of year true up with them with the goal that once the six systems are up and running fully that we don't need to continue with a true up with them because it's actually functioning. and it's impacting um by decreasing our our bills of PG&. Thank you for that question. Um and then so our major projects um so these are the ones that are are going to have some movement um either before summer and leading into summer or happening for summer. So, um, we've got our major project at JGMS and we're bring actually bringing contract to you, um, for that work. Uh, Victor has been working with, uh, Miss Ramos, the principal at
049John Gutierrez Middle School, and they're going to start some initial, uh, they started some initial pieces around March 25th to get in there. What you might remember is that um the grading for the initial design had been done, but because we decided we were going to turn the buildings internally, they needed to be a little farther apart to develop that courtyard and a little farther back. So, they're going to have to come in and grade a little farther out to get ready for that foundation to be just a little bit farther out and a little bit farther apart. the infrastructure and things, the lines and everything had already been run and they're stubbed out ready for connection there. And so getting in, putting your fence, doing the delineation, doing the grading and those things. So,
050Victor um is working around the testing schedule and those pieces at JG so that they can come in and do some of the preliminary things um that need to be there before they get into the heavy work just to try to get ahead of it. And remember, um so the mobilization kind of lays out in those bullet points what it is. And um so the fencing, the civil work underground, tie into that infrastructure, relocate the small garden that they do have with irrigation, put in the foundations, set the buildings, which we signed off on. They have our buildings, they are coming off the line, they are on time, and uh all the finishes. And so those are the pieces that for the contract that I'm bringing you with Premier Builders. And so our target for
051construction completion is August 5th for six additional classrooms to be up and running for um JGMs. And um so we'll work around uh student time on campus and those pieces to minimize noise when it needs to be minimized. And so they'll do some after after noon and evening things to to get ahead of that. And um not included in this, but we've talked about it before. Our black top um solution work is also going to be happening this summer simultaneously. So our prior contractor is coming in to remedy the blacktop issues that we still have with that project. And so we'll have two simultaneous projects going on. We'll have ours for the new building and they'll have their entrance to get to that site and do that work. And then the black top repair will
052have their own entrance and ability to complete that work at the same time in the summer. So they are set to start as soon as school is out on that black top because that is loud and it does have a smell and all of those things. Um what's the first day of school for next year? Yeah. Okay. So So the building they'll be there but we will not have actual kids in them at the beginning. That is correct. We are estimating we'll probably end up being able to have kids in them for the opening of September. So site with furniture and everything installed in it and ready to go. All right. So our major projects for GV long time coming. Um and this one is a bigger scope, right? Because it has more infrastructure work
053and repair that needed to happen than one would have wished, but we're good. So for them June 6 through August 3rd we're doing all of the infrastructure out to the work zone which includes we need to run trenches through the current blacktop and um so to do all of our lines so electrical fiber all of those pieces they actually feed I'm pointing here like everyone can see what I'm talking about. Um, and it it is out here uh near the district office. So, they're going to have to go across the black top. So, we needed to wait till school is out because they're going to have to cut into the black top, create a trench, put that, and they'll have to repair that before the start of the school year so students can access the
054black top. But everything will be out and stubbed and ready for connection. So, um, we also have a, um, uh, our electrical connection box out there is basically located right in the middle of where we would want to put buildings. And so, what we're trying to do is do the work that we need to get that moved over while maintaining power to the current rooms that are still in use. And so that also takes some timing and those things to have that ready to go. So that the power to that is still there even once school starts and they're doing some of the getting the area ready and building the foundation that we're not disrupting the power. And so then that's one of the reasons why so for them August 4th through October 3rd it's
055that earthworks utilities connection laying those foundations for the new buildings and then our confirmation right now is that we for those buildings we are in line for the buildings with the manufacturer and we should have a firmer timing of actual deliveries for each of the buildings as we head towards June. So, we are in line with everyone else. We were pleased when we found out that we were ready to sign off because ours at JG, they will be coming off the line and be ready actually um right before the end of the school year. So, as they're laying foundations and everything, our buildings are ready. So, Victor found that out just earlier this week. But if you go to the next one, Victor has some renderings. So, he's got an overview. So that is overlaid
056on a uh Google uh Google map. So you can see the three existing portables to the right. So it's a little bit older. It doesn't show the four temporary portables. So this was the the latest overhead map that was available for them to overlay. And so that's where our new will go in. And remember, we'll probably put them in the uh the first building. If you look to the left, the one closest to the current brick building and the next smaller one, they may go in ahead of the next two. We'll know more on that as we head into June or if all four of them might be ready at the same time. So, we'll know a little bit later this spring on that. So, if you go to the next one, really exciting. So
057you have that like slightly overhead view of how that will look. The idea being that so the library has a little bit of a seat wall already so that the courtyard can be established with some seat walls so students can sit in this newly formed courtyard. And remember that will have the um the IT room for the infrastructure that needs to go out there, a custodial closet um as well as a boys and girls restroom facility out there also. And the next one is a walking into it view. Victor called it something else and I can't remember that term, but he's very excited on this one. So you can kind of see and get a feeling for walking in. And he let everyone at facilities know that he would be working to place strongly wellestablished
058correct age trees so that they can't easily be pulled down because he discovered that went really well at McKinnon getting a a tree that was already a little bit better established than a sapling. And so this this has smaller trees so you can see the visual a little bit better than what he's thinking he'll put in. Looks good. Okay. And then the next one, very exciting. Uh that was a late in the day piece of news that Victor came in and said we did find a restroom. So um for our La Hoya restroom and the MCE demolition, remember they have two portables. They're vacant and ready for demo this summer. So between June 2nd and July 18th, MCOE intends to go ahead and demolish and remove those structures. That's the area where we'll be putting
059our new modernized buildings in. And so you can see in red um at the end of the the buildings where we call the village um is where our new restrooms are going to go. And so the infrastructure and the plumbing is already there for the tie-in and um TBD on when we're going to um actually get that. But we did get confirmation that day. We didn't change our slide, but I signed up on that because the manufacturer of the modular restroom, and it's going to be like the one we put in at Sanorita Elementary, um it they're able to change and reconfigure what we needed, uh which is a girls restroom, custodial plumbed closet, and a boy's restroom, and with student appropriate toilet heights. And so when we get that or the existing restroom we're
060going to retrofit to be adult restrooms, so staff restrooms. And then he also wanted to include this. So our district office uh window wall system and the timing on that. So we're looking to start that construction for June 16th and we're going to need to temporarily relocate our office staff June 16 to 27. They're going to demolish the entryway and do the rough carpentry um and the painting of the offices and the communal space. And the reason we want to relocate staff is we have to take everything off the walls. We're going to put protective sheeting up on like things we aren't going to move, but move them into the center of the room to clear space because they're going to do some sanding. They've got some old wallpaper they need to remove. And so
061we just we don't need people working in there while that's going on. It's going to be pretty dusty, pretty loud and smelly, right? So, um, and then they're going to place the the windows and partitions June 28th and then add the finishings looking at completion for August 15th. So, we're going to designate a temporary um, access path into the district office so that we can resume operations and go back into working in person as they finish those pieces and the stucco and all of that. um probably the boardroom and designate a couple classrooms at um GV or another site and so we'll be able to be out here still have access to restrooms and those pieces. Yes, Hawaii. Um I'm in on that and we have our board meeting out there if we need and
062u yes but um I like it. So, um, just looking at where we're going to have access and things like that. And, you know, as you know, the district office has functioned in a temporary space once before, uh, when we had some, uh, mold abatement in the building. We ended up using the GV library and a couple of portables out back right as we transitioned into online learning during CO. And so some of us were here for that magical time where we were running um on the back 40, but kept it going. People still had access to us and and could get their needs met for like registration and all of those pieces. So once we have a firm um grasp on where we're going to be and what we're going to do temporarily, we'll
063communicate that out to our community to make sure they know where to where to go, where we're going to be at. And that was it. Perfect. Thank you. All right. Any questions, comments? No. All right. Thank you. So, okay. 9.2 is a public hearing uh samp proposal from Santa Teacher Association to Santa Union School District for the 2526 bargaining negotiations. At this time, I'm open up the hearing at 7:02 p.m. Um, has there any public public comments being submitted or anything come online? We do not. Okay. Is there anything from the the board? Then I will close the public hearing. Um, moving on to 9.3. Uh I'm going to public hearing sunshine proposal from Santa Region School District to the Santaita teachers association SRTA for the 2526 bargaining negotiations and that's a letter that was
064included in there. We're going to open up the hearing at 7:02. Any public comments that were submitted or anything? We do not. Okay. Anything from the board? Okay. And there's nobody in the public either. So at this time I'm going to close uh the public hearing at 7:03. Moving uh to 10.1 approval of the sunshine proposal letter from Sanian School District to Sanita Teacher Association regarding the 2526 bargaining negotiations. Motion to approve. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. 10.2 Two is approval of the university agency agreement between CSUMB and our and center district for service learners. There I am. Um so yes, this is uh a normal agreement that districts typically enter with uh universities and CSGMB is wishing to continue the partnership that we currently have uh with them for placement
065of students for the uh service learning opportunity. It's a requirement, graduation requirement. So, we want to continue that partnership. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? Make a motion to approve. Okay. Can I get a second? Second. All those in favor? I I motion 40. Okay. 10.3 approval of between Concordia University Irvine and Sanin School District for educational field experiences. So this is similar to CSUMBBS but this is what the University of Concordia University and Irvine and this is for the placement of um um students to do their practicum hours and that is like for counselor school psychologist so we're wanting to continue that partnership as well. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. Second. All those in favor? I motion 40. Okay. Item 2 10.4 for approval of
0662025 2026 district calendar. So in collaboration with uh the neighbor neighboring districts Selena Junan High School District, we also looked at uh Alis Union School District collaboration with SRTA CSEA. Um we are bringing the 2526 um calendar with a starting date of August 5th and ending date of May 5th. May 29th. May 29th and uh you'll see the major breaks are just uh they're in in alignment with what uh Selena's Junan High School has adopted. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? I motion to approve. I just want to say um thank you for you guys putting this out there because I know a lot of parents like to plan and you know all of that and attend is very important. So thanks for getting that out there as soon as possible. Second. Others
067in favor? I I 40 Z 10.5 is approval of the contract with Yoli Arts after school projects for Gavlan View Middle School. Thank you. Um Artist Inc. Yoli is going to assist students at Gavlan View um in creating some murals. The program will be held in the afterchool program for nine weeks. Um and three murals will be produced on the campus. Yeah, thank you. I was looking through it. It looks really exciting. Really cool. Can I get a motion to approve? A motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I. Motion 40. Okay. 10.6. Approval of the contract with Premier Builders Incorporated. Awesome. I am representing our um director of MOTF, Victor Sandaval, who is not here with us this evening, but did all the work to make this happen. And so this is our
068first contract uh that will fall under our PLA and it is for the installation of six new classrooms at John Gutierrez Middle School and our responsive bidder is Premier Builders Incorporated. Okay, thank you. It's exciting. Can I get a motion to approve? I make a motion to approve. Okay. Second. All those in favor? I I I. Motion 40. Okay, perfect. Our next regular boarding meeting will be April 23rd, um, 2025. Is there any suggested future board items? I do not have suggested future board items, but I will be unable to attend because it is the open house night at my place of employment. Um, so I just wanted everybody to, you know, have that in their mind. Okay, perfect. Okay, nothing else. Uh, if I can get a motion to adjurnn at 7:07 p.m. A
069motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor? I. Motion 40. Okay. Have a nice evening everyone. That will also be two days before Becky's 50th birthday.