001I'd like to call the meeting to order. Tuesday, May 20th, 2025, regular meeting of the Sanz Valley Union High School District Board of Education. Roll call, please. Terry. Um, please note that uh Miss Shehab is not present. Thank you. Uh, we'll stand for the flag salute. So at this time I'd ask for uh a motion to approve the agenda. I move to approve the agenda and a second. I second that motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Johnson. Hi. Miss Noble. Hi. Miss Grace Velasquez. Hi. Mr. Abara. I agenda approved. Now we'll move on to the superintendent's reports and presentations. Good evening. Welcome everyone. Um it's great to see a packed house. I would first like to call up our A teachers because we would like to recognize some of our AG students. So, um, represented here
002today is Miss Clement, Miss Brown, Miss Bray, and I think Miss Clement's going to speak for the group. You're going to tag team? Come on up. Great board. Thank you so much for this time to recognize some of the outstanding students that we have here at San Die High School, especially in the agriculture department. Um, I want to introduce my colleagues. We have Kylin Bray, a mechanics teacher, horiculture, a bio. We have Miss Brown teaching a chem and a bio. And I am Heather Clement, and I teach veterinary science and agriculture, earth science. Um, and we just wanted to recognize some of our students today. We're going to start with our outstanding seniors that were recognized at our senior award night, but we think that they deserve a little extra. Um, first I'm going to
003start with Jack Fischer. Come on, Jack. Come on down. All right. Um, Mr. Fischer has been enrolled in agriculture classes for his entire high school career. He is someone we can count on and trust to help students and teachers alike both inside and outside the classroom. He brings practical industry knowledge, experience, and a caring heart to our program. Though not always on the top of the honor role, he has always done what it takes to get the job done and support the agriculture program. Jack is headed straight out into the workforce as soon as he graduates, and he's one of the kids that we are really going to miss. So, congratulations, Jack. Our next outstanding senior we're going to award is Miss Micah Hardy Mino. Come on down. Miss Hardy Mino is a poised, prepared,
004commanding, and determined young lady. Micah has served our FFA chapter in several capacities, including as an FFA officer. Regardless of her position, she always puts the FFA members first and does what needs to get done without prompting. Micah is smart, caring, hardworking, and is a true leader that her peers and adults respect. She has grown in knowledge and experience and has served the standing as FFA chapter with integrity. She will be attending Texas Tech in the fall to major in prevet. And we are also going to miss her in our ACT program. [Applause] We have some other folks here to represent our chapter. So when I say your name, please stand up. Uh we are also honoring our outstanding or our on outgoing and incoming FFA officer team members for their outstanding commitment to our
005school and community. So, Miss Casey Kaplan, Glorian Rodriguez, Brie Jensen, Travis Ramirez, Micah Hardy, Mino, Louie Matthysse, Ransel Perez, Nunees in the back, and Anley Haw. [Applause] does. I will quickly share some of our accomplishments from this year. Our total FFA membership was 370 students, which makes up almost half of the high school campus. For the 2024 Santa Barbara County Fair, we had over $46,000 in gross income from student projects that all went back to those students that raised animals. There was seven lambs born at the farm this past fall. Uh we had a second place sectional job interview contest and that was Miss Micah Hardy Mino. Um Rancel Perez Nunes was elected to regional office as a vice president. Louis Matthysse was elected as sectional sentinel. We had 10 students earn their state FFA
006degree which is the highest honor that California FFA um can bestow upon a student. 26 a mechanic students received OSHA construction certifications this year. and we had over a 100 student certifications in the youth co coalition for quality assurance and animal science. We're really proud of our students and everything that they have accomplished this year and it's great to be part of this program. Thank you. I just want to wrap it up with the accomplishment that of course Miss Bray forgot. Um, we placed sixth overall in the state in the vine pruning contest which is held at Fresno State University with Louis Matthysse placing second overall in the state high individual. So, well done. Um, I also want to brag about how we get to offer honors agriculture chemistry next year. And we're going to
007be doing two more concurrent enrollment classes in horiculture as well as veterinary science. And a lot of that is thanks to you and your support and our community support and the awesome students that we have. So, thank you for this time to honor our program and the students that make all of these amazing accomplishments possible. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. If you want to stay till the end, we'll get a picture. But I understand if you don't want to stay till the end. Um, next up we'd like to call Mrs. Slowbig so she can honor her robotics students. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I am a math teacher here and we have been doing the robotics program here for 12 years. Um the mission of our robotics is to promote opportunities of learning
008for design, communications, problem solving, perseverance and experience in the field of science and technology. Um this is like I said our 12th year. We compete in a competition um once a year. We take 10 weeks at the beginning of January. We were given a new game and we have 10 weeks to build a robot to play the game. Um, it competes with 50 other teams across the world that come to Port Wine and we compete in a two-day competition. Um, the competition we build alliances. We play 10 to 12 matches of two and a half minutes using autonomous and human um, control of the robot. um our main goal is actually not winning. It is to build a and program and create a consistent, reliable and dependable robot to play the game. So, um, one
009of our biggest goals this year is to establish community relationships and we are planning on going into the grammar schools this year to promote STEM in the grammar schools with starting programs with the youngers so that they too can be um, motivated to be in the STEM programs. Um, we also have members that have gone out into the community. We have a company in in Buenon that comes to us. We have built a cutter wire cutter for them for their tool company. [Music] Um we let's see um we have 18 members on the team. Only two of them are seniors. We have five females and this year we created this robot. Um the I cannot be more prouder of this team. They are amazing. Just not yet. Thank you. Um they are amazing. They are
010dedicated. I couldn't be more proud of what they've accomplished. The students with this with our mentors create this robot from scratch. There's no kits, there's no nothing. They create, they design, they build it, and it is them, which is an amazing accomplishment for the members of this team. Um we have sorry um they're hardworking they're dedicated is all after school program in the 10 weeks that we do it and um I'd like to welcome the team to come up here to see who they are. I only have a few members with us because it is going into finals week and you know how that goes. So I have presidents, I have vice presidents and why don't you guys come over here and they are going to run this robot. Before they do that, can I
011just emphasize that this is not a class. This is a club. And so these stu dedicated students, they come on Saturday all day and work really hard and they work after school and it's all outside of class time. So it's really remarkable for them for the for the 18 dedicated students that are participating in this program. Okay. So, it's kind of uh complicated to explain, but this year essentially the goal um we have a different game piece every year. So, this year it's PVC pipe, but it's supposed to represent coral. Um and then And then you have a structure that has [Music] See, it goes up and down for the different levels. So there's some I wouldn't advise that. I would think I'd advise that. [Music] [Applause] So, one last thing I want to say,
012um, we thank you for the buildroom that you allow us to use. We have a buildroom area. It's on the other side of the art building. We could not do this program without it. Um, it's an expensive program overall. Our annual budget is between 12 and $15,000 a year. It costs us $6,000 to enter the competition. That's about $4,000 worth of parts and really fun things right there. But we could not do this program. We do funding. We do fundraising. We light rotts. I gravel. I beg for money everywhere I go. Um but it is our our our students go on to be engineers and programmers in this community. So it's it's an amazing just amazing team. Couldn't do it without you. Thank you. And thank you for the students. I'm gonna have to get
013it out of here. I'd also like to thank Mrs. Sloig for the amount of time she spends. She goes well and be well above and beyond what club advisor hours are. Um, but she is the reason that they continue to thrive is because of her dedication to all the kids and the robotics team and the robotics program. So, thank you, Mrs. Slovic. [Applause] I I have a a quick question. So, are the uh stickers that are on the robot, are those sponsors that have helped you out? That's wonderful. Great job, you guys. It's awesome. Okay. Oh, I'm gonna wait for Mr. Okay. So, continuing on with my um superintendent report. Um we um mentioned the transition house and that we were um moving our transition house across campus. We have gotten final approval for that.
014We will be moving it to room EP3 and 4. Um, we're in the process of purchasing a washing machine and dryer and a dishwasher and some other critical things that will help those students transition into life skills and learn really valuable life skills. Um, so it's exciting to see how the program is going to evolve over the next year there. Um, oh, I know. Yeah, my my own kids could have learned how to wash clothes. Um, so this program serves our um 19 to 22 year olds. Okay. I also wanted to make sure that everybody knew that graduation is coming up. We have 28 graduating seniors. So, that's pretty exciting. I wanted to announce that we have a freshman, JC Dingman, um who is a rower and she rose for um the Valley and she's
015on um one of the teams, but she is headed to the national championships in Florida and she's a remarkable freshman. So, although rowing isn't a high school sport for us, she's very dedicated and very accomplished. So, I wanted to make sure that she was recognized. if you were here last night, she was also the one that was the vocals for the band. So, she's very talented. Um, for athletics, we'll have a full athletic report in June, but I wanted to let everybody know that our boys volleyball team did win CIF and pretty great. They're playing right now in our gym. Um, we got to host the first round of state. So, they're over in our gym playing the first round right now. Um, our girls 4x100 team broke the school record. And we've had a
016lot of record breakers. I think, um, we're going to recognize one of our athletes here tonight. She just won CIF in the pole vault over the weekend, too. So, some incredible athletes. And I'll have the full report in June because it's a lot of accomplishments of our students and our athletic programs this year. Um, our YFL board, which is our youth football league board, um, sent everyone a thank you note for allowing them to use the facilities for a football clinic. So, I thought I just wanted to mention that for the YFL. Um, we appreciate that partnership. I really wanted to thank um, also while we're here, Cheryl Lee, our yearbook advisor. I think our yearbook. Oh, our yearbook is here. Um, she just countless hours into that yearbook and our yearbook students and it's
017just one of the most beautiful yearbooks I've ever seen. So, it's it's really amazing. So, I just wanted to thank them. The kids can still purchase yearbooks and they've been picking them up. Um we also had our senior scholarship night and that is organized all year collecting schol scholarships, making um community connections. Alejandro um Rojos in our counseling department does that and we the community came together and $180,000 was was um awarded to our seniors on scholarship night which is just huge, amazing. and she does countless hours of work for that. And we have a remarkable senior class, our pirate showcase and our retirement recognition and the list goes on and on, but um Alexa Thomasini arranges all that. And before I talk about our students of the month, we wanted to just really recognize
018some of our retirees tonight. So, um, Miss Sloig, do you want to come up first and, um, speak about Mr. Tad Bixler, who is a long time, um, fabulous mathematics teacher here, and he will be missed. Tad can't be here tonight, but um, I still wanted to recognize him. Um, he is a dedicated, intelligent, and gifted individual and teacher. Um he has spent his last 23 years of teaching here with us and it's been a pleasure to work alongside of him. Um I love my department. I truly love my department. Um we all get along. We um have lunch together. We um discuss algebra and calculus together. I mean how could it get any better than that? Um Tad has been an integral part of that. his well-rounded knowledge about everything has been um in
019his willingness to explain everything to us. It's been very appreciated. Um he was validictorian of his high school class. He became an engineer and then decided to be a teacher. Um his dedication to teaching math in all of its wonder was a joy to both him and his students. his dedication. Um he has an ability to make things sound easy even when they're hard and his his um students really appreciated that. Um he is the fastest grader I have ever known. He will have a test graded that night if it's not graded by the time the last test comes in. um um he always never wanted his his students to wait and I wish I actually had that trait. So he is witty and a wonderful sense of humor. He displays in his corny but
020funny uh math shirts that he would wear every day. He loves math and knowing how things work and he loves the why and the how. But he loved teaching others to do the same. Um he is kind and he is considered a good friend with all sadness we see him go but an overjoy to see what he has to do in the future. I I also wanted to um add that Mr. Bixler was one of the math teachers that stepped up to tutor in our pirate academic center and that was huge for our students that had those higher level courses to have somebody that would step up and help them with calculus or algebra 2. I know he also tried to really help some of our physics kids that were taking online physics and he's
021just like willing to pitch in and do whatever it takes to make kids successful. So, we really appreciate him. Thank you. [Applause] Um Alisia is going to speak about Mrs. Melanie Dicki. So, Miss Dicky, come on. Come on, Miss Dicky. Yeah, but she should come up. Yes, most definitely. Yes, you should come up. Okay. It is my absolute honor to speak about Mrs. Dicki, who has spent the last 29 years bravely navigating classrooms full of feisty teenagers armed with only red pens, classic literature, and a truly heroic level of patience. Mrs. Dicki and I go way back to 2004 when I strolled into her honors English one class with just a little too much pep in my step and a generous dose of freshman sass. Mrs. Dicki guided our class through Shakespeare, poetry, and the
022tragic flaws of Greek heroes, all while enduring my sarcasm and knowit all attitude. Looking back, I am pretty sure she deserved hazard pay. No matter how much attitude she got, she never lost her cool. She met every eye roll with grace and every sarcastic comment with an even better one. Her ability to push back with her signature blend of wit and warmth made her classroom genuinely fun, even for students like myself who thought they had better places to be than high school English. I left high school with great memories of Mrs. Dicki and a deep respect for her as a teacher. But it wasn't until I returned almost 12 years later as the district's then business manager that I came to admire her even more as a person. When I came back, there were definitely
023a few people on campus who remembered me more for my Saturday school detentions and ditching class than for any academic brilliance. Let's be honest, it was probably math that I ditched, which is funny now considering numbers are literally my job. At the start of the school year, Mrs. Dicki walked into my office with a beaming smile and said she was proud of me. She told me that she always knew the sass would serve me well and that moment meant a lot to me. But that's just who Mrs. Dicki is and I am and I know that that is just one of the many ways she's touched students over the years. So while I'm definitely bummed that my kids won't get the Mrs. Dicki experience, I'm grateful that I had it both as a student and
024as a colleague. I know I'm far from alone in that. So many students and co-workers have the pleasure of learning from you, working with you, and being better because of working with you. Enjoy your retirement, Mrs. Dicki. You've more than earned the peaceful mornings in your garden, reading books that you actually choose without stacks of essays waiting for feedback or a sassy freshman trying to outwit you. Congratulations [Applause] I'm so lucky I got to spend a year getting to know Mrs. Dicki. She's a treasure. Um, Augustine, would you Mr. Viscay, would you like to come up and speak about Rosa Australia? Yes. Thank you. Come up, Rosa. Yes. Yes, ma'am. Good afternoon. On behalf of Senora Saragoa, Senor Bailey and I, we would like to wish Seenor Estas a very happy retirement. There are many
025spectacular things that we have to say about Senor Estes, but knowing we have to be brief, we narrow it down to two words. Much gracias. Thank you for bringing a multicultural deep multicultural perspective. Thank you for thoughtfulness, cookies, coffee, Christmas cards, and kind words that have reminded that we are more than just teachers. We're a community. We're a family. Thank you for your collaboration and exchange of observations. Through them, we have noticed uh your courage and your drive to empower students to acquire Spanish. One of your students projects that we all admire the most is your Hispanic cultural heritage window display that your students research about a wide range of Spanish-sp speakaking role models that have made a big impact in the world through which our students are learning how to positively make a big
026difference for those around them at this moment and in the future. You have been more than a teacher. You have been a voice, a voice of knowledge, encouragement, humor, and cultural understanding. Through your teaching, students didn't just learn Spanish. They lived it. They felt it. And thanks to you, they're finding their own voice. Spain, here we come. your daughter Rosa Estas. I can already hear and visualize her saying oh Christina Veronica Roberto we're going to miss you to say the least. Enjoy such a well-deserved retirement. [Applause] Miss Australius is moving to Spain. [Laughter] Lucky. Mr. Mr. Goodman, are you here? Mr. Goodman, come on down. Is Miss Lee here? Where's Miss Lee? Okay. Well, you can speak about the fabulous Miss Lee. I already talked about the wonderful yearbook. So, she was by prop. That's
027okay. You can pretend. It's okay. Mine's short and sweet. Um, so I first started here 2018, and I had three teachers that really took me under the wing, too. Uh, Jen Rasmusson, still here, PE teacher. Miss Peg Kelly, she retired that year after too. And then of course, Shirley. Um, these ladies were always so welcoming. Um, always answering my phone call. I'm calling in a panic. I I don't know what to do. I'm a first year teacher, not even to this valley, so there's a lot to learn. Um, but a colleague really um became a friend and we had late conversations. Sometimes it was out of frustration. And then it's like, "Okay, hey, put the work aside. Let's just talk and check on each other." You know, we both had dogs. Make sure that our
028families are okay. Um, and then we'd always kind of share food and I always had hummus in the fridge and she hated my hummus. I don't know what it was. So, it was always kind of I'd forget about it. And I'd offer the hummus. I was just always offering. Um, so then it kind of came the joke of, "Hey, would you like some hummus?" And I was like, "No, Nick, I don't want your hummus." Okay. Um, but she became a great support. um just borrow lending equipment, you know, I borrow it for um track, you know, just the season two big 200 lens came beautiful photos, too. So, she's always willing to help out. Um she helped organize the studio. Her and Candy one one summer just went in there the whole time and just
029started throwing out all the other stuff like you need this. No, I don't. You know, got some back issues. So, um I'm really going to miss her. It's it's hard. So, I was She was my proper supposed to give her that big, too. But, um thank you. I appreciate that lady and I appreciate you guys. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Um, Miss Pena, how about you come on up with the wonderful Miranda Buford. Miranda. All right. So, I have the pleasure of speaking about my friend and colleague Miranda Berford, who's been a school nurse here for seven years. um with the consortium of course, but at the high school. Um so, fun fact, Miranda actually attended Sanz High School in 1983. She already had a high school diploma from the Netherlands, but came here her
030senior year and attended the last 11 weeks of school just to develop her English and make friends. Another fun fact, she was actually here with Scott Corey, who was a former superintendent. They were Oh, and Oh my gosh, I didn't know that. Yeah, really cool. Um, so if you're not aware of all her accolades, let me fill you in. So after attending Sanz High School, Miranda worked as at the recovery residence in Salvang and began what would be a lifelong career in the medical field. Um, 1984 she entered the United States Army and served as a combat medic. And then in 1987, she transferred to the Army Reserves and continued to serve as a combat medic and licensed vocational nurse. In 1983, she started uh 1993, she started working as a registered nurse at the
031LMP hospital in the emergency room uh medical surgical floor, postpartum, telemetry, and critical care. In 1994, she became a commissioned officer in the army as an army nurse. Um and in 1997, she attained her bachelor's of science in nursing and started working at the Aoyal Grande Hospital as a night house supervisor and critical care nurse. In 1999, she was officially employed as a school nurse at Lampoke Unified where she remained for 15 years. She was deployed and served in active duty from 2004 to 2005 in Germany. Right. Um and then in 2007, she earned her master's degree in public health. And then in 200 from 2008 to 2012, she was the director and the instructor of the vocational nursing program in Loke. Um she's been with the consortium for seven years serving as a lead
032nurse and the focus is on training and mentoring um staff as well. Um she's worked tirelessly to support special education and general education students here at Senas High School and managing their health and their well-being. Probably the biggest accomplishment I would say is when COVID hit in 2020 and I said, "My goodness, how did you even deal with that?" So she goes, "Ask everybody there." So I said, "Okay." So, I asked Alisia and Alisia said, "Oh my goodness." She said, "Every day was different and changing so rapidly. Miranda continued to roll with the punches and helped us to be compliant. She was level-headed, reasonable, and always maintaining her downto-earth personality. Even now, she's always willing to lend a hand in things she doesn't even even need to be involved with, such as caring for staff
033with minor medical needs." That was from Elisia. Um, Miranda is not only retiring from the school system, but also officially retiring from the US military after 21 [Applause] years. Miranda will enjoy retirement by spending time with her grandkids here and in South Carolina. um traveling in her trailer with her husband who is also here and retired just in December from LMO Unified um gardening and most of all just like a nurse staying physically active. She loves to walk um and really enjoys taking her dogs on strolls. Um Miranda, I want to say I will miss walking the track with you. I will miss all of our talks. I felt like we were in the trenches together during sped. I mean, we we met every day and I felt like she was one of the only
034people that could really understand me and what we were going through. It was just a really incredible time working with you and I really appreciate you. Um, and I just want to thank you for all your hard work serving not only our district but our country. Um, and I truly feel like you really deserve to be honored and recognized at this board meeting. And I'm so glad that you showed up and I wish you the best and best of luck on your next chapter. Yeah. I would like to say one word. I want to say thank everybody for letting me be a part of Sanz High School. Again, I think I want to apprehend Vicki, I would not have been able to get through all of this and get through co because we did it
035together as a team. We showed resilience. We got up and kept moving. Thank you. [Applause] Maria, you're up. Maria Liz, come on [Music] up. Hi. Good evening. Uh my name is Maria Garcia and I'm the lead student services technician in the student services office where Liz Brumfield worked with me as the uh attendance attendance assistant. Sorry, I'm a little nervous. Um tonight I'm here to celebrate Liz. I had the pleasure of working with her for over 10 years. It is not every day that you come across someone who truly embodies the spirit of collaboration, professionalism, and humor. From the very from the very first day, she made an impact with her positive attitude and relentless dedication. Her love, humor, and sass made coming to work fun. Liz has achieved some remarkable milestones during her life.
036She served in the Air Force, worked as a 911 dispatcher, was a police officer, and she sings in a band. I admit I was a bit intimidated by her, but as I got to know Liz, I was drawn to her personality. For example, those who know me know that I'm a huge fan of Halloween. Of course, I was excited that she shared the same passion and enthusiasm for dressing up and just going above and beyond with the decor and bringing our theme to life. She was also always ready to participate in homecoming parades, school dressup days, and help at football games. Liz was well-liked by the students and staff. She had a special way of connecting with them, making them feel seen and appreciated. She built strong bonds with many, earning her a special place
037in their hearts. Together, we navigated many challenges, but through it all, it was nice to have a support system and someone with a bubbly personality that could find the positive on any gloomy day. She was an incredible colleague, friend, confidant, and partner in crime. I want to take I want I want to thank Liz for all her years of service and dedication to the students, the staff, and community. Liz, I want to wish you happiness, lots of relaxation, and fulfillment. Congratulations on your retirement. You deserve [Applause] it. Thank you, Liz. And as everyone can hear, we are losing six amazing individuals that their roles are going to be very diff difficult to fill. just six amazing human beings that are lifelong pirates that have dedicated so much time to our students and ensuring that everyone
038around them is also successful. So, thank you to all of them. You're going to be truly missed. I have the pleasure of recognizing some students tonight. So, the first student I would like to recognize is um on behalf of the board is a student athletic recognition. So, Malia, will you Malia Ortiz, will you please come up? So, although I'm going to be we are going to be recognizing Malia for her ac for her athletics, when you hear about her, you're going to see what a well-rounded human being she is. Um, academically, Malia has a 4.4 weighted GPA. She has taken four honors classes, two dual enrollment classes, and six AP classes. I would also like to introduce you to the Santa Barbara County Athlete of the [Applause] Year. Um, her athletic accomplishments at Sanz are
039so vast, so I'm just going to be able to highlight a few here tonight. In wrestling, Malia is a three-time league champion. She's a league runner up. She's a CIF runner up in 2023, but she's also a CIF division 2 champion in 24 and 25. So, she just Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm thinking pull vault cuz she's accomplished in who wins CIF in two different sports. Um, she was awarded outstanding CIF lower wrestler in 2024 and she's a four times M's qualifier. Malia is part of our first girls wrestling team. the first female team in school history. She's the first female to wrestle for four years and I believe a huge reason why girls want to wrestle. She is a role model. She she is a role model. She demonstrates hard work and
040dedication in wrestling. Now in track, Malia has been on varsity track for four years. She's a two-time que um CIF qualifier in high jump, fourtime CIF qualifier in pole vault, league runner up in pole vault in 2024, the CIF division 2 champion in pole vault in 24 and 25. So a CIF champion in two sports. Um, Sanz High School record vault record holder in pole vault at what, Malia? What's your 11 feet 3 in? Look at this. Just if you could imagine 11' 3 in, it's just huge. Um, and she's a two times master or master's qualifier in pole vault. I want to talk a little bit about her extracurricular activities in clubs. She's an FFA. She's in our FFA chapter. She's a member of CSF. She's a member of Rotary Interact Club, a member
041of our film club and our art club. She's a member of our environmental club. And um she participates in a lot of community service, including walk the plank wrestling tournament. She volunteers at our invitational varsity tournament. She helps with the um final queen event for San Nez Youth Wreck and Tribal Inn Chum Mash intertribal pow-wow. Um in the Sanz FFA charter, she volunteers helping. If you've ever been to a football game and had one of those amazing tri tip sandwiches, she's on the pit crew and helps with the tri tip sandwiches. Um, and she's part of the farm team where she volunteered to feed the school sheep once once a week. But I don't want to forget to add that Malia is also an accomplished artist. Her pottery work is beautiful. I was secretly hoping
042she would forget to pick it up so that I could keep it in my office. She won a $3,000 scholarship from the Santa Barbara Foundation for her artwork. So, um, Malia will be enrolling in Cowpoly Slow and dual enroll in Qua so she can continue to compete in track and field. She will be an animal science major and wants to become a veterinary veterinarian specializing in smaller exotic animals. It is her dream to have a career caring for and helping animals. and she I'm quoting her, I have worked hard throughout my high school career to make sure that I have the grades to achieve this for myself. So, congratulations to Malia for being our athletic recognition for the month of [Applause] May. We'll take Malia in just a minute. We'll take pictures up here. I
043also wanted to say we waited until May because every month I would hear like how accomplished she is, but we kind of had to wait till the end of the year because we knew she was going to even accomplish more. So, it's so fitting that we waited till May to to because she just won CIF on was I there Friday? Friday. I didn't get to see her win, but I did get to see her first couple just super impressive. So, um, next I would like to bring up Addison Bonnke. So, Addison, come on [Applause] up. Um, student of the month is a program sponsored by the Sanz Valley's local Edward Jones franchise. It is an opportunity for the faculty to nominate a senior with outstanding characteristics both as a student and a community citizen. Students
044are recognized for their grades, school, and community involvement. Edward Jones donates $100 to each student and submits their picture to the local newspaper. So, we're excited to have Addison Bunky as our Edward Jones May Student of the Month. Addison will be attending Scripps College, one of the Claremont Colleges that are known for being the Ivy's of the West. If any of you know about the Claremont Colleges, very impressive place to go to school. She will be majoring in psychology and hopes to attend graduate school and practice clinical psychology. I'm exhausted reading this next part. Addison has a 4.65 65 weighted GPA while taking three honors C courses, five dual enrollment classes, and 10 AP courses, including AP European history, AP Language and Composition, AP US History, AP Psychology, AP Literature and Composition, AP Calculus AB,
045AP Stats, AP Chemistry, and AP Government. She is taking right now AP Calc and AP Stats at the same time. like unbelievable. She is receiving the Golden State merit diploma and will wear a gold stole stole at graduation. I hope it's solid gold because that's what she deserves. Her school activities, she's an AP scholar. She's been in CSF for four years, a GSA member, member of the environmental, she's president of the environmental club. One of the things I found most interesting about her was she did an internship with YouthWell where she helped create a campaign that promoted mental awareness by coming up with messages, reaching out to businesses to promote it, and receiving lots of mental health education, including receiving training on how to deal with mental health crisis. that turned into being um a
046position where she serves on the youth advisory board for youth where where she plans campus outreach activities to provide resources for mental health. Planned countywide summits by reaching out to organizations and coming up with activities and leading activities that promote advocacy and mental health awareness among our county youth. She helps lead the message for the group and receives monthly mental health education. She um previously worked at the I don't know how she has time to work, but she previously worked at the Spice Merchant, but she's currently working at Gany. Um Addison loves to read, crochet, and hike. She hopes to travel someday to Greece. Her favorite book is Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson and her favorite subject in school is math. Shocking statistics in um I is if Mrs. Slobig was still here, she'd probably
047be giving her a standing ovation. Um, she loves living in the valley because of the connections and the small town and that and that she has teachers who care and are accessible to help her at all times. I'm just honored to introduce our April student of the month nominated and voted by on our staff by our staff members, Addison Bunky. And we will take your picture in just a second. Okay. Um, last but not least, I'm gonna hold this up or maybe Alisia will hold it up. Um, this is Ben Stewman. Ben cannot be here tonight and you'll find out and why in just a second. Tonight we celebrate our ex Elks Club sponsored student of the month program which honors students who excel academically and serve their communities. The San Nez Elks Club uplifts
048local youth by fostering a commitment to community service and core value of Elk Scholars. We are proud to support the Elks mission knowing that today's scholars can be tomorrow's leaders in their communities. So, it's a privilege to let you all know that Ben Stewman is our May Elk student of the month. Ben cannot be here tonight because he is currently in our gym as a team captain of our CIF winning volleyball team and they are playing in the first round of the state championships right now. And we are missing it. But um Ben is one of the kindest, most positive people on campus. He is planning on attending Simpson University where he will be playing volleyball and majoring in chinesiology with plans to become a firefighter, EMT, paramedic, possibly working for Calire one day. Ben
049loves living in the valley because of the close community. I think every student I ask says that same thing, which is amazing. And great friends. He loves that everywhere he goes, he knows someone. If Ben could give his 10-year-old self some advice, he said he would say, "Stay involved in everything. Be well-rounded, stay humble, and find a balance between school, sports, family, and your community." This summer, when Ben has free time, for the first time ever, he may have a few weeks of free time before college, he hopes to camp, hike, hike, and climb Halfdme. He also loves to mountain bike. He's been on water polo for four years, serving as the team captain his senior year. Volleyball for four years, the team captain. He played basketball for two years. He's been in our FS
050FCA club for three years. He's been in our yearbook class editor his senior year, and the yearbook is beautiful. And he's um a scholar athlete his senior year. Ben has done two service trips to Mexico in high school, both building and helping people in in a damaged community, helping set up a senior facility for events. He also helps his church locally to plan and set up many events and outreach programs. He also has a job. He works at Vega Vineyard. Um his extracurricular um he's part of a volleyball team based out of St. Louis Abyspo called Flight Academy. He's in leadership for his church youth group and one of its senior members and he loves he's part of a mountain biking team in the Sanz Valley. This is a quote from Ben. Community is very
051important to me and I value strong bonds within it. I have done many trips down to Mexico and those have consistently been a huge part of my life seeing how third world countries function and get by with what they have. I'm someone who values faith, family, and personal growth. As a son and an only child, I value the time I spend with my parents, whether we're traveling, playing volleyball, working out, or taking care of our dog and chickens. Growing up in a small town where everyone knows each other, has been a blessing, and our church community feels like part of our family. My faith is at the core of who I am. weekly Sunday morning church, youth group, and mission trips have shaped me and my deepest connection to God. I would like to congratulate
052Ben on being the Santine Valley Elks Club April Student of the Month. And thank you for being a great representative of Sanzore values, missions, visions, and expectations. And that goes for all of our students that were recognized here tonight. [Applause] So, we're just going to take a really quick break so that we can get pictures with the students and then um we will continue our board meeting and then after pictures. Okay. Yeah. You're good. You don't have to talk. And we have one more student recognition and Miss Kelly Carter will be recognizing um our Ariana. Yes, we call her Ari, but um she goes by a few. Yes, different names. So, I'm Kelly Carter. I'm one of our assistant principles and I get the opportunity to work at Rafuio every day. And we are going
053to recognize one of our Rafuio students, Ari. She's a junior this year and she has diligently been working on earning her credits. So Ari um has earned eight or more credits every month during the entire second semester. This past month she earned 11 credits in one month. So that deserves recognition for sure in itself. Yes. [Applause] Um, I also wanted to commend Ari on her consistent effort to make progress and earn credits. She is a skilled artist. She's been working on our school mural that's going up as we speak and she should be completed in the next week or so, hopefully by graduation. Um, she's a patient gardener and she works with our chickens and our chicks every day, all day taking care of them. um she has a lot of responsibilities and she takes
054care of our Rafuio responsibilities also. She's a friendly face and friend with all students at Rafuio. She is very personable with everyone that comes on campus and we want to thank Ari for being a contributed member of our Rafuio community and campus. [Applause] And it doesn't get any better than recognizing uh students and at an event like this for so many accomplished students. So, thank you for indulging us. Okay. So, we'll move on to uh board comments and correspondence. I would start with uh thanking the dedication and to our community and our school and our service to our country. Um the people that we're actually going to miss obviously and and then the students are always amazing. So, I this is the the best time of every board meeting. I look forward to it every
055every month. So, thank you for that. I'll go next. Um, it's it is hard to follow up with. I'm a little choked up. Um, because it's it's very encouraging to be a part of this and to get to kind of slide in there and experience what you guys all get to see. Um, but I I had the privilege of going to the pirate showcase last night and I really had a good time and from the someone mentioned chicks and I did not buy one. Um, my granddaughter really wanted me to buy one but my Labradors would not like them. Well, they would like them. Um, and so I just I love the the chalk, the art at the beginning. I just I have pictures of it all and I was showing you know everybody all
056the pictures and you know just the excitement from just faculty, staff, the students um the band. Yes, the band um was amazing and the robotics everything was it just was so um it was hard to even stay focused because there were so many different things going on and the students wanted to talk. I mean who wants to talk about AP chemistry but you walk right up to the chemistry table and there you go. and um it's just it's just very encouraging and that's that's all I just am so so proud to be part you know of this school and to hear the accomplishments I I'd like to uh thank the students who are still here I just want you to know that you make our work relevant uh you are the reason why we are
057all here as volunteers and I'm moved by your creativity and dedication in particular those uh who give up their Saturdays because uh your average teenager would rather be elsewhere and I think that's true dedication and it's uh speaks to your passion for doing something different. Uh so keep it keep it going. I really also appreciate the legacy uh having uh pirates be here and contribute in meaningful ways uh in different in their own profession, their own craft. And hopefully that'll be a mirror so that uh some of you can come back and take some of these positions and roles in the classrooms and administration uh to keep this pirate uh spirit going. I'm not a pirate, but I am an educator at heart and I am a community member and I care a lot for
058this place as well. And there's not there's not much more to say. So everything everybody said here um I've been just driving around the last week just seeing all the cars with the graduation um paints on and the balloons and congratulations and then just coming here like Chris had said it's just such a treat and I hope well I think everybody knows that Sanz High School is just a gift and I think it's you kids and um I read something today it was a 99year-old Japanese sushi man he has like this little nine seat Peter sushi restaurant in a subway in Japan and you can't get in like it's thou it's like like people people pay him money like let us in they won't end and he works on perfection and the thing that got
059me today that he talked about was what it it's do what you love. So every time he creates a piece of sushi it's a new piece and a new creation. So your robotics because I love robots and all the computers and all that stuff. So to me and creation and art and all of that is um what we see exemplified here. So I guess sushi on. Thank you guys. That's awesome. Okay. So now we'll move on to the public comment time period and the first up would be Maya Lenovot. Lenovote. Okay. Good evening board members. My name is Maya Lambo. My son is Mitchell Landboat. Go ahead. Stand up, kiddo. He is a sophomore at Sanz High School and a member of the wrestling team. I am here this evening to appeal the recent dismissal
060of coach Sandival as the head coach of the Sanas High School wrestling program. I believe a great injustice has occurred with his with his dismissal. I met Kim Sheihin for the first time in the parking lot last week. I wanted to put a face to the name and and informed her that I would be sending an email to appeal the dismissal of coach Sandival. Kim stated that I didn't know everything. I grant her that. But on the same token, there are things that she is unaware of. First and foremost, Coach Sandal is a great coach. He is passionate about the sport of wrestling and cares about the student athletes. He has coached both my daughter and my son in the sport of wrestling. I first heard about coach Sandal from my friend Mason Hamill, a
061former graduate of Sanz High School. I was looking for a club coach and he recommended Sandvall as Mason had wrestled under him in high school. As an eighth grader, my son took sixth in state at the Sealand Arena in Fresno under the toutelage of Coach Sandival. My son is a good wrestler. Fast forward to high school. My son wrestled for Cababrio High School his freshman year. He had a terrible experience. He was bullied by other wrestlers when he contracted ringworm and skaties from the sport. The coaching staff never addressed this poor behavior from the other student athletes. Violations of FURPA and HIPPA ensued when the Cababrio coach contacted my son's doctor. Suffices to say, my son deteriorated under the Cababrio head coach. Long story short, I chose to move to Solving. In fact, I moved
062my dad from Orange County to the city of Salvang. We are thankful that this community has embraced us. My son Mitchell is happy with the move to San High School. He has thrived under coach Sandival. He is once again the con he is once again the confident young man he was prior to his freshman year. I credit coach Sandival for this incredible turnaround. He took my son under his wing. He is teaching him about respect, hard work, and team cohesion. According to Coach McCclur, my son had to wrestle at the JB level this past year. I don't understand this decision as I was honest about our history with coach Sandival. Anyhow, Mitchell wrestled junior varsity this year and took first place in league. I'm proud of my son. I'm Jeremiah, but the three minutes is
063up. Is that is that in I was crying. I know. I I'm sorry. Um is that in the email that was sent? It is. And so I just let me go ahead and get the and I I do have to uh have you be done. Three. It's three. It's three minutes. Yes. Okay. Thank Thank you. Oh, so the only thing I have to say is for all of the people who are here in support of Coach Sandal, please stand. He's a great coach. Thank you. [Applause] So, we'll move on to Brian Robinson. Uh, thank you, Chair Johnson, members of the board. Brian Robinson with the PTO. Just a quick update, but I kind of forgot what I was going to say. I mean, this is so impressive. You, you all should be really proud of
064the students that you're turning out at the school. Um, real quick, uh, great year, tons of incredible support from our school community, both generously and volunteering. Um, we had a really wonderful, I hope, I think, uh, staff appreciation lunchon. Um, again, a lot of really generous support from the community and and volunteers. And then next week, food for finals. Uh, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We're on track for another successful one of those. I really um want to thank staff um for the kind of organized chaos that happens when we set up these events, but you know, today was the real incredible reminder why we, you know, do what little we do here for students and and the staff. And I just want to thank you all for that. So, have a wonderful uh summer, I
065guess, soon. So, thank you again for allowing us to be able to do this. We really appreciate it. Thank you, Ryan. Uh, next up will be Joshua Jones. I guess uh Joshua's not here. So now we will close the public comment time and we'll move on to uh consent. Is there a motion for approval of the consent agenda? I move to um motion to approve the consent agenda in a second. I will second that motion. Roll call, please. Terry. Mr. Johnson. I. Miss Noble. Hi. Miss Grace Velasquez. Hi. Mr. Abara. Hi. Consent passes. Uh now we'll move on to the action items. Uh the first is declaration of need for fully qualified educators. Uh CL500 school year 2025 2026. Okay. Thank you. The declaration of need is an annual housekeeping item where we have to
066tell the state how many emergency permits andor limited assignment permits we may need in any given year. We do not currently need any of these permits for any of our teachers, but we don't know what our needs may be throughout the year. We don't know what situations may arise. So, in order to ensure that we are covered in the event that there is, say a teacher gets sick and is out for half a year and we have to hire someone who doesn't have everything that they need as a sub or something like that. This allows us by listing every position the flexibility should the need arise for some some unforeseen circumstance to be issued said permit um or what is the other word permit or limited assign yeah emergency or limited assignment permit. So it
067gives us the flexibility it gives us the uh ability to have these issued should we need them but we do not currently need any. Thank you. Great. So now we'll move on to uh we need to approve that. Yes, we do. Do you is there any discussion to approve the um declaration of need for fully qualified educators? I'll second that. Roll call, please. Mr. Johnson, I Miss Noble. Hi. Miss Grace Velasquez. Hi. Mr. Abara. Hi. Motion approved. Now we'll move on to the resolution 202425-10 locker room notice of completion. Okay. The modernization locker room project which began with our RFP process in 2022 encompassed comprehensive upgrades to the existing locker room facilities aiming to enhance functionality and increase student capacity. This resol resolution I cannot speak tonight formally acknowledges the completion of this project and
068approving this resolution signifies that all contractual obligations have been fulfilled and the project is officially concluded. The project was delivered on time and within budget despite numerous supply chain issues and complications along the way. So special thanks goes out to Diani Construction Corporation for ensuring that the b that the project maintained its budget and its timeline despite all of these issues with the co supply chain. Any discussion questions? Okay. Uh is there a motion for approval of the resolution 2425-10 locker room notice of completion? I motion to approve the locker room resolution of completion or notice of completion. Perfect. I second. Thank you, Jose. Roll call, please. Mr. Johnson. Hi, Miss Noble. Hi. Miss Grace Velasquez. Hi, Mr. Abara. Motion approved. Gotcha. Sorry. You read your mind. I read your mind. Uh, let's see. Discussion
069items. We'll move on to that. Is are there any discussion items that anybody would like to bring up? Well, I didn't come prepared with anything, but I do um want us to think a little bit about whether it's in policy or practice. Uh when we have a board member who is absent as many times as we have, I think we ought to have a conversation about how we move forward. Obviously uh if privates can be matters can be private and so forth but there is a need to have a full board and there is a process in the time that I've been a board member over the last few years uh there have been times when we have had to uh replace um a board member and if that's a direction we need to go
070in um not knowing much more uh I think we need to take action on that. Thank you. Um because this isn't an agenda item, it can be brought up, but there can't be a discussion about the item. Thank you for clarifying that. Yeah, no problem. But you can bring it up. We just can't discuss at this point. Absolutely. I just want to um say something. Um, I want to thank Kim and Alicia for always taking my phone calls before the board meeting because I go through all the little uh checks that are written and all the things and I ask all my questions and get clarification. So before we come to the board meeting, we're not spending an exorbitant amount of time answering questions that they so easily and brilliantly um let me know what's
071going on. So I want to thank them for always being able to answer me my questions and taking my call. So, thank you ladies. You're doing it brilliantly by the way. Thank you. Uh any other discussion items? Okay. So, uh the board matters. Any any issue with the upcoming uh dates for our I think we've got two next month, right? Yes. And and 3:45 on Friday for graduation because it's four o'clock graduation. Okay. You might you might want to arrive a little early for parking and there's 10 o'clock if you can make it for Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'll be there. I really enjoyed it. I would love to see the mural that the young girl um painted all may have to go by and look. Thank you. Uh and any any problems with the
072June dates? No. Okay. So, I think we can uh move on to close session at 6:44 and take a little little break in between. Okay.