001Good evening. Good evening. We'll go ahead and uh call the meeting to order at 5:32. Coachella Valley Unified School District board meeting. Uh we'll start with uh uh Director Kamanes. Can you direct direct us in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge 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. >> Thank you, director. Can we uh start with the roll call? >> President Torres, >> here. Vice President Garcia, >> present. >> Clerk Ardondo, >> present. >> Trustee Pakuna. >> Trustee Kalimmanes, >> present. >> Trustee Gonzalez, >> Trusty Vargas. >> Student Trustee Eileen Garcia, >> present. >> Superintendent Dr. Francis Esparza, >> present. >> Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, Dr. Monica Makawitz, >> present. Assistant Superintendent
002of Education Services, Sokoro Sanchez, >> present. >> Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, Julie Vigil, >> present. >> Very good. A quorum is established and we've been notified that director Vargas and Akuna would be here uh a little bit later. Uh so with that, next on the agenda is approval of the agenda as submitted. >> Motion by Director Gonzalez. >> A second. Second by director Dundle. All those in favor? >> I I >> opposedain. Motion carries unanimous. Uh the next one is 2.1 recognition uh of 2026 agri art student winners. And who would be presenting that? It says okay. >> Is it on? >> Yeah, there it is. Good afternoon. Uh, good evening. Thank you board of trustees for allowing me to come here and um present this to these uh awards and certificates of recognition
003to the students that that earned them. Um my name is George Tutor um with Tutor Ranch. I'm also the chairman of Growing Coachilla Valley. Uh this is the third year that we've run this contest. Um we reach out to schools in Desert Sands and Coachilla Valley Unified School District and we um think of of some sort of theme uh relating to agriculture. This year's theme was 250 years of agriculture in the United States. And we had a number of wonderful wonderful submissions. the um the winning submissions are are here and if you guys didn't get to see them walking in, they're they're really good. It's always um kind of hard to choose which ones are winners because there's a lot of qualified candidates and it's uh one of our favorite things to do. Certainly, this
004is one of the things I like to do the most as as chairman of of growing valley. So, um that being said, um I'd like to get right to it here. So, we have um first place for elementary goes to Marlene Cisneros of Coral Mountain Academy. So, here is her artwork. This is for you, Marlene. And we also have a a significant of recognition and a oops sorry >> a prize of $200 for her. >> Yeah. There's certificates in there and the and the check is in there as well. >> Yes. Yes. Um, next up for the middle high school, uh, yeah, I should said we have we have a elementary and then middle and high school, two divisions, I guess you could say. Um, next third place, um, is Yasmine Reteria, seventh grader from
005West Shores Middle School. This one's really cool. Um, our second place award goes to Anna Garcia, also a seventh grader at West Shores Middle School. I should mention the third place winner, Yasm mean rece has a certificate and a $200 check and Anna has a certificate and a $500 check. >> Um, first place goes to Elda Mariscal, a ninth grader from CV High and She receives her certificate and a $700 check. Um yeah. Um, you got a picture. This year we were um lucky enough to have the California Table Grape Commission also pitch in in this contest and the teachers of the winning students um receive a certificate and then they will also receive $250 for their classroom to help with supplies for the year. We all know that teachers always go out of pocket
006for stuff they need. So, it's um great that the commission recognized that and contributed. So, I don't know if they're here, but Chris Pescador. Is Chris here? Mr. Pescador? >> No. Okay. Um, Miss Amy Daly. Is Daly here? >> Pardon me. >> She was not able. >> Okay. And then, um, Miss Angelica Aves. Okay, I can give them to >> Well, give Yeah, I'll be happy. >> Thank you so much. >> Oh, so yeah, congratulations you guys. Great job. Hey, my pleasure, man. That's awesome. Thank you. That's awesome. That's awesome. Okay. All right. Very good. Uh good job. Um next is the close session comments. First one we have we have a couple Alicia Valadi library update. Is it on? Yeah. Good afternoon. Good afternoon teachers and parents. Welcome to the board meeting of today.
007Uh today I'm giving the board members an update on the library. You cut our hours sadly, but uh two things came to my mind. Blanca Hall, drop everything and leave. Miss Pon, what you do to one, you do to all. If you wouldn't want last week to the library, it call it the choo choo train. from my library across all the way to the other side of textbooks to I have to check included um material from the teachers. I wasn't expecting that but somehow we made a schedule and then it worked out. I was packed. At the end of the day, Miss Hall, drop your stuff and go home. I knew if she was here, she would not allowed us to work 5 hours. Give us the eight hours. I knew that that it crossed
008my head and Miss Pon she was her principal and she was always telling me Alisa what you do to one you do to all and why I'm saying that because article 16.1 compared to 16.2 to look at it the difference between teachers and class and classify we're are the ones who are being more cut and affected and we affect the students because I'm not there when they're in in the beginning of school teachers want to talk to me I'm not there I leave and teachers want to talk to me I'm not there only in lunchtime and I don't have a lunch because they actually can I have this could you do this and all that stuff. I don't have a lunch. I was exhausted last week and today was my first day that I actually
009kind of like understanding what's going on and started working for next year. I only have two weeks to do this. But you say eight hours, it's five hours compared to last year I was eight hours 12 months. Count the hours that I'm missing. I'm not going to provide the services for the teachers as well as for the students. There is money there. They You said it. You had a plan for us. That plan was not shared to us. I am never share. You have the money. Compare 16.1 to 16.2 and you'll find out. We are classified. We're barely making it and cutting us the 40% on my check. But it's affecting the students and I still go and do my work no matter where I am. If they ask me for something, I'm there for
010the teachers. I'm there for the students. Where's the board members for students and teachers? What you do to one, you do to even it. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Um, next is Lorraine Salis. Good afternoon board members. I was going to speak on two issues, but IMA came up and I really echo what she says. We uh you're really cutting the heart and soul of education when you don't have full-time IMAS at the libraries. Heart and soul of education is books. They oversee the books and the curriculum. It's very disheartening. Um, anyhow, my first issue I've been really inspired by those who were present and spoke against the data center for the past couple months. It's been months since since April. Some of whom are college educated former CBUSD students who every year uh
011we encourage to attend state-of-the-art universities where cutting edge research is studied and mastered. They are our true leaders right now. I am disappointed in the long response time as if to say the organizers against these data centers may not be knowing what they're talking about, but they do. It's a simple internet search. Takes 30 seconds to type and one minute to read about. And if it if you read about it, um it shows there it guzzles up our water resources. And if it does that, it's a quick rejection for everyone. And we should be saying that. Do not pass off media opportunities, please, when it comes to threats to our existence, especially 2 miles from our school. Second issue, I'd like to take the time to thank uh Loretta Perez, our principal, Mr. Bera at
012Oasis Elementary, and Dr. Mechawitch for which uh for being responsive to my phone calls on June 5th um when we received a a school bus with no air conditioning for a field trip to Fantasy Lanes in India. It's our inaugural sixth grade trip that we take um students bowling. Um, but I'm just questioning why are buses without air conditioning in 105° heat and and higher. And yes, it gets hotter in a vehicle. So, speaking to more people, I come to find out that there are buses that could go months without air conditioning. So, Mr. Akuna, this is your answer about why there's such a worker shortage. Um, so please get these children and employees airond conditioned buses. Thank you. >> All right, that's it for the close session comments. Next is a motion to enter
013into close session. Motion by Director Gonzalez. >> Second by Director Ardondo. All those in favor? I >> I >> opposed. Abstain. Motion carries. We will be back at uh what is it? 7 o'clock. 7 o'clock. Thank you. All right. We We will reconvene. Welcome back. It's 7:03. We have a motion to return to open session. And now we will announce the actions taken in close session by uh the clerk. Harry Dondo. >> Thank you, Mr. President. There was a board took action to return to open session. Motion was made by Trusty Gonzalez, seconded by me, Trusty Ardondo. Motion carried. 7 6 Trusty Vargas absent. All right. The board took action during close session regarding stipulated expulsion recommendation case number 25-2616 with the Valley Unified School District effective this 11th day of June 2026. Motion was
014made by Trusty Gonzalez, second by Trustee Calamanis. Motion carried 6. The board took action during close session regarding expulsion clear reinstatement case number 24-25017 the Chel Valley Unified School District effective this 11th day of June 2026 motion was made by Trusty Gonzalez second by Trusty Calamanis motion carried 6 trusty Vargas absent the board took action during close session regarding expulsion clear reinstatement case number 24-25-08 with the Valley Unified School District effective this 11th day of June 2026. Motion was made by Trusty Gonzalez, second by Trustee Calamanes. Motion carried unanimous unanimously 6 with trusty Vargas absent. The board took action during close session regarding expulsion clear reinstatement case number 24- um 25-09 with the Catal Unified School District effective this 11th day of June. Motion was made by Trusty Gonzalez, second by Trusty Calamanes. Motion carried
0156. Trusty Vargas absent. The board took action during close session. Oh, make sure. Okay. The board took action during close session to appoint Israel Oliveros as chief technology officer at Coachella Valley Unified School District effective June 11th, June 20 uh 2026 on this 11th day of June. Motion Motion was made by Trusty Gonzalez, seconded by Trusty Calamanis. Uh, Trusty Vargas was absent. Valer, Trusty Garcia, no. Trusty Gonzalez, yes. Trusty Akunia, yes. Trustee Ordo, yes. President Tortois, yes. And Trusty Calamanis, yes. The board took action during close session to appoint Incarnation Bera as elementary school principal at Oasis Elementary School effective June 11th, 2026 on this 11th day of June. Uh motion was made by Trustee Gonzalez, seconded by Trustee Arando. Motion carried 51. Jocelyn Vargas is absent. Trusty Vargas is absent. D Garcia, nay. Trusty
016Gonzalez, yes. Trusty Aunia, yes. Trusty Ardondo, yes. The President Tortois, yes. And Trusty Calamanes, yes. The board took action during close session to appoint Michael T. Williams as director of transportation at Coachella Valley Unified School District effective June 11th, 2026. on this 11th day of June 2026. Motion was made by Trustee Calamanis, second by Trusty Gonzalez. Motion carried 4 to2. Valerie Garcia, no. Trusty Garcia, no. Trusty Gonzalez, yes. Trusty Akunia, yes. Trusty Ardano, no. President Tortois, yes. And Trusty Calamanis, yes. Motion carried. Thank you, >> President Toris. That's all we have to report from close session. Thank you. >> Very good. Thank you, Clerk Ariando. So, next is request to address the board through public comment. Uh the format is that comments and requests to address the board uh regarding items on the adopted agenda
017and even if you're talking about things are not on the agenda are accepted at this time when you complete these forms. Um so we just have to remind everyone that the individual speakers are limited to three minutes per person with a maximum of 20 minutes. So if it's one person and you're speaking speaking on different subjects, that's a little under seven seven different subjects that you can turn in and talk on. So that's the rule. So you and we know you say your name, you know the rules and the organization, but uh it is advised that the governing board is not at liberty to respond to the questions. state law prohibits the board from taking actions that are not on the agenda. So with that, uh the first person I have is Megan Chart Ramirez
018on due process and investigation uh students. Okay. Good evening. I'm here tonight to provide information to the members of the board as well as the families and staff present on students due process and how safety concerns are reported and basic basic investigations within the districts are held. As the district coordinator of child welfare, I have provided district PD as well as one-on-one support to site administrators on investigations and due process for the past four years. There are many ways that student safety concerns can be reported within our district. These um can be immediate concerns that are actually observed by staff members that can be reported to administration. Students may self-report to a staff member, including teachers, yard supervisors, security personnel, and additional staff throughout our district. In addition, our district has the Spreeio reporting app.
019This is available um to report any safety concerns regarding our students or sites. It is monitored by the site and district personnel 24/7. These are dated and timestamped and investigations are monitored at the district level to ensure that they are cleared within timely manners. This app is mandated well apps of this type are mandated through edode and they are on homepages of all of our school sites as well as school district. There are also flyers that are posted throughout every campus across the entire school district with a QR code where any student or staff member can scan the QR code to report any type of safety concerns on the site itself. Once a safety report is made, um it is the responsibility of the site administration to determine if an ED code has been violated.
020They must uphold every student's due process rights. However, during the investigation, an accusation or report must be investigated and evaluated to see if there is actually evidence to back up the claim. Witness statements are gathered, which includes the summary of the incident, who was involved, if there was injuries, and if there are additional witnesses to the incident. Each witness is asked to complete statements that either corroborate or refute the claim that was made. These could include things such as pictures, evidence, physical evidence, medical documentation. Once it has been collected, it is determined whether or not an ED code violation has occurred. That is the administrative decision made by the site administrator and they determine what happens after that. It could be other means of correction, suspension or recommendation for expulsion depending on the level of
021the violation. But not all ed codes warrant an automatic suspension. Under Assembly Bill 1729 and Assembly Bill 466, in order to suspend a student for ED code violations 48900F through T, you must show that other means of corrections have occurred first for that same offense before you are allowed to suspend if it happens a second time. Other means of correction are everything from counseling to restorative practices. We really in our district want to ensure that students learn from their mistakes and our ARIES reporting system is documented and then reports to kelpads um from our system itself and I've been training our admin for the last four years. Thank you. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Uh next it doesn't have a subject but it's Ash B. Hola, start. Gracias. much contamin. Fore much. Stronghold power.
022Prohibition. We got Thank Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next have Daisy Pasina, summer program. >> Hello. Good evening board members, Dr. Esparza and Director Jeff, I'm sorry, district staff. Today I want to speak about something that has deeply disappointed and offended me as a parent of two children on the autism spectrum. I recently earn learned that the students in our special education ESY program are being offered activities such as bowling and movies while general education students are being given the opportunity to attend Knottbury Farm. My question is simple. Why are children being given less? We constantly hear conversations about inclusion, equality, and access. Yet when it comes to time to provide meaningful experiences, our children once again being placed on a different track. I've heard the excuses. Transport transportation is harder. More support is
023needed. More restroom breaks may be required. The planning takes extra effort. But that extra effort is exactly what our children deserve. When it comes I'm sorry. When this concern was first brought up, Lydia immediately identified solutions. Shorter schedules, additional support, more frequent stops, and accommodations that would allow students with disabilities to participate safely. It may seem convenient, but for our families, those extra steps mean everything. My sons don't even enjoy bowling. They hate it. They want opportunities to experience the same things, all these exciting activities their peers talk about. They want to feel included, valued, and important. As an involved parent, I've waited for the opportunities that truly celebrate our children and encourage families to participate. Instead, I'm left feeling that her students continue to receive less because the expectations are just lower for them.
024If programs such as the DAS exist and major parks can successfully accommodate individuals with disabilities every single day, why can't our district do it? Inclusion cannot only exist when it's convenient. Inclusion means providing access to the same opportunities whenever possible and making reasonable accommodations so that all students can participate. It's time for parents to have a stronger voice in decisions that affect our children. We know their needs. We know their abilities. And we know when they are being excluded. Dr. Esparza, I saw you at the GR at at the graduation proudly celebrating FedE students as they cross the stage. I ask you that you show that same support now, not only when our children finish school, but throughout their whole education journey. For two years, many of us have attended meetings after meetings. We have
025sent emails. who spoken to board at sport I'm sorry at board meetings yet never been able to meet with you our superintendent our children matter today not someday disabilities do not limit our children their disability makes them a champion they deserve the same opportunities the same experiences and the same respect as every other children in this district thank you >> thank you Next I have um Leslie Angel Torres on uh keeping Michelle Alvarez with love. >> Good evening district board members and everyone who could join us today. My name is Leslie Torres. I am a current CVHS student advocating for the reconsideration of Michelle Aub's probation decision. With the first two years she was a teacher, she has made a great impact. She's not just an ordinary teacher. She is much more than that. She's
026a teacher that wants to see you succeed no matter what. She is there for you no matter what. Whether it's to give you advice or to just listen if you need someone to lean on. I am in her psychology and health academy class and I am a part of the health academy assessment team also known as hat. Miss Alvarez is the reason we really had a hat team because she stepped up when we didn't have an adviser half of the time. She fought for hat students to help the girls soccer varsity and junior varsity team. And she was advocating for other students to have a chance to participate. I understand that doing all of this might not make a difference, but we wouldn't be showing up if we didn't believe that we're saying what we're
027saying. I also know that it might not matter because of teacher seniority. But although some teachers have been there no long for longer than others, it doesn't mean they're still fit in doing so. I will talk about one of my teachers. For example, Trina Love is very inappropriate. She told one of my classmates, "You remind me of one of my old boyfriends." She also yells at students for no reason. She kicked me out of her class because I finally had enough. And I stood up to her. Although I have been respectful, she continued to yell at me. While standing up to her, she told me to shut my smart mouth and sit down. And that was not the first little comment she has made all year. This is not the first year students have had
028problems with her. It's been a constant problem. While I wrote reports, I gave up because nothing was being done. Miss Alver was there for me when Miss Love failed me with an F. The first F I have ever gotten in all my education. And you can check my record. She is the only teacher I have ever had a problem with. Miss Alvarez saw me crying hysterically hysterically and she calmed me down. She said, "Your grade doesn't define who you are and everything is going to be okay because when you're graduating college with an honor chord, you'll see that it will be it was all worth it. Miss Alvarez has been there for me through and through. I hope we change your minds and reconsider your final decision so we continue to have an outstanding teacher
029on campus. Thank you for your time." >> Very good. Thank you. Next is um Vanessa Garcia Selva. Good evening everyone and board members. My name is Vanessa Garcia, a student at Coachella Valley High School who is involved in the health academy, the girls varsity volleyball team and the goalie for the girls varsity soccer team. I want to talk about keeping Michelle at CBHS. You might think that she's just a teacher, but she's more than that. She's always doing more than what a teacher should be doing. She's always makes sure that her students mental health is well, that the student that the school is well taken care of, and make sure that the community comes together as one. Um, she helps the school a lot by helping and guarding the hat team that's in the health
030academy, providing free food for the girls soccer players after their games, and hosting the snack bars, which parents loved. You see, Miss Alvarez came to my event where I received the key to the city of Coachella. My parents couldn't come, so she was the only person. She lifted my head up, grabbed my hand, and took me. This made my day so special because uh especially because my parents couldn't be there. She means a lot to me and many more students. A lot of students wrote letters to Miss Alvarez on how she influenced a lot of people. All of these letters stated, "Out of all the adults I interacted with throughout my four years of school, I couldn't choose to write. I chose to write to you because your influence has gone beyond the classroom." This
031letter this letter also stated, "You didn't just teach psychology last year from a book. You made it come to life." This shows how a lot of teachers don't really show the same image as Miss Avers as her characterism, her self- involvement, and her kind heart. Now, to end it off, I really hope you guys understand me and my voice that I'm not just using for me, but for the the for the more than 100 students who signed the petition uh to the to keep a teacher like Miss Alvarez at CVHS. I would like to also leave uh the petition who that was signed with over 100 students who couldn't be here today. Thank you for listening and have an amazing rest of your day. >> Very good. Thank you very much. Next is Raquel Carlos.
032Teachers being released. Raquel Rachel Carlos. Raquel Carlos. We'll come back to that. Um, next is Marisol Wararez, West Shores. Marisol Wararez. Hello everyone. Um, my name is Maris Soluarees and the reason for me coming here today is because a parent um, sent me a couple of videos. They forward me a couple videos of an incident that happened yesterday. Um, based on the conversation that I had with the parent, um, she wasn't able to be here today due to work. She couldn't get out of work. Uh so she asked me to come and advocate for her. So based on what she said, her teenage daughter, she's 13 years old. In the morning, um when she was going to school, she heard rumors that somebody was going to be, you know, aggressive with her and you know,
033get in a fight with her. So the first thing she did as soon as she stepped into school campus, she appro she went to Mr. to Dr. DeFao. She explained the incident um and what she heard. Apparently, Dr. DeFao didn't really do much about it. Send her back to class. So, when she went back to class, then she went to the restroom. When she gets out of the restroom, she gets approached by seven girls in the bathroom where one of them automatically starts hitting her and trying to pound her head on the cement and on the on the bathroom sinks. Luckily, she grew up without boys, so she wrestles with her brothers, so that wasn't, you know, they weren't able to do that. Um, it took about 5 minutes of her yelling and screaming for
034somebody to walk into that bathroom and separate them from fighting. So, she automatically asked mom to be called. They didn't call mom until a few minutes later. Um, mom was really upset. Mom made a report to the sheriff department, which the sheriff department did say because she didn't have any physical like she wasn't bleeding or didn't have any broken bones or anything. It was internal. So, they stepped away. But mom is upset that the nobody from school has gotten back to her with this matter and she hasn't heard anything in regards to it. I do have her information readily available if you guys want to take it down. so somebody can get in contact with her and let her know what the process is going to be and what's going to be done in regards
035to this. Um, but that's what she wants. She wants somebody she wants to hear back from somebody on what it is that's happening. So, I really think it's really important that also these videos were pulled from the internet. The mom found the they got them from the internet. So, I really do think that also the people that are are posting these videos on the internet should have consequences as well. I also have a video from CV Elementary with a fight as well that I can also provide you guys with. Um, but that's pretty much it. Something must be done. >> Very good. Thank you. Uh, next is Loretta Perez on West Middle School. >> I just want to It's going to be quick. I just want to echo what she said. Um this is why
036we're having issues with bullying. As you can tell, there are more than just uh one instances that is happening where parents are not um there's no protocol. The protocol is there. No, let's get that right. There's protocol. Just protocol isn't being followed all the way through by admin at the site. And that's happening everywhere. And we need to see if there's any way that we can fix this, not just at West Shores, but all around the campuses. Yeah. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Next I have um Jesselle Aridondo and dual language program. >> Good morning. Uh good evening everyone. I'm here to talk about the dual language program especially in Cesar Chavez. My daughter is just uh uh she finished kinderg's going to first grade and we have this uh problem now that students
037are need to be in a combo class um because they like dual language is very important for our students because um living in Southern California they have the opportunity to speak English and Spanish but with this dual language programs now they have the opportunity to graduate from high school with a biliteracy seal which means there are they are bilingual Um, I had the opportunity of working in Pasadena Unified School District with the uh with the dual language program that established that it was established since kindergarten and it moved up to um high school. I was working at Blair High School with the students and most of the parents from the students were um their background was from as uh Asia, Europe um and and they saw the importance of our kids uh speaking Spanish and
038English, right? both of both of it. So now we I when I moved back from LA to here, I found Cesar Chavez, which has a great program in dual education. But now the program I'm starting to see is that my daughter might be in a combo class next year with uh she's a first grader with second graders. I don't think that it's a it's academically good for my daughter, for our teachers to be going into that. based on what I was um researching and doing um my um investigation on it. Uh we have this that um sorry teachers are teachers have to teach two curriculums, right? Because first grade is one class, second grade is another class. So they have to be teaching two curriculums. Now there is a a reduced direct instruction to our
039to our kids. There's difficulty managing students first grade, second grade. So um I'm asking to keep our teachers in this program and says Chavez Elementary to keep um now we have two teachers which is my daughters Miss Robo my niece's daughter uh Miss and my niece's teacher Miss Avala who are leaving Cesar Chavez and moving to another elementary school and then we're having the teachers that are in the program having to do combo classes which I don't think it's a it's good for our students and then we have low enrollment too because what am I going to do if my my daughter isn't uh in a combo class? I won't like that. So that was that's what I wanted to say today. Thank you. Thank you very much. And also on the dual language is
040Karina Pimeel. Karina Peel. No, Karina Pimeel. >> That's a good word. >> Oh, she had Oh, okay. So then on LCAP is Maria Louisa Rodriguez. >> Hello. Good evening. I am also um I'm a parent um also representing Caesar Chavez. Uh and I'm also here speaking in regards to the dual language and combo classes. Um the uh parent who spoke before me spoke about um one of the teachers in particular, Miss Savala. Um Cesar Chavez has an amazing program, a lot of great programming altogether. And my my I have two kids there. Um, I'm concerned about the impact that this is having not only for them academically to have to go into combo classes, but also uh I'm concerned about the emotional impact that this this is also having on my children. Um, because my
041daughter actually has a really great bond with one of these teachers and she's actually cried about this. Um, so I I'm looking for I guess I I was hoping to look for an avenue or uh if there was any sort of way that we can advocate to keep some of these teachers. I know that there's seniority and things like that, but it's such a great loss to us really to lose these teachers. and um and and uh my background is in mental health. So, I'm always looking at the the trauma-informed route, the um looking at the impact to the well-being of our kids and they are dealing with grief. So, um I don't know that there's anything that you can do. I I think I have a lot of homework myself to see how I
042can be more involved and and and be able to advocate um better. Um so if anything um I guess my ask is if there's any way to look into keeping our teachers and um and to avoid these uh combo classes because they do affect the teachers too. You are burning them out when you put them through combo classes. you affect the quality of the education that our children get. So, um that's all for >> Thank you. That is Daisy Baron Von Alcap Daisy. Good evening. My name is Daisy Baron. I am a school psych um president in Tessa Chavez. I am also here. I know budgeting is hard, but I am asking that we please do no changes to our schools. We're doing great with our academics. Um the kids do really well. Mrs. Zavala
043is a great teacher. So, Miss Roto, but I am pleased asking no changes because this will affect my children. I have a TK re I have TK kinder and first grade. I would hate to have to move them out of school because of the combo classes. I personally know it affects the children because my oldest child, I had to move her to Desert Sands. She was bored, not interested in school because um the combo classes didn't keep her interest. Once she was barely getting something, she quickly had to change somewhere else. She is now in honor world. She's doing AVID. She's doing great. In just a year, I see the difference. So, I do feel combo classes affect us extremely. and the teachers do get burned out, the children get bored, and they're not succeeding
044with this. Um, we are requesting that we please keep Sess Travis as it is in order to continue to have all the support that we have already with the teachers and the parents. If we could please focus on the budget and keeping our teachers. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next to have Laura Garcia, Dora Garcia, dual language combo class. >> Hello, good afternoon and I want to give you um thank you for giving us the opportunity to talk to you guys today. And yes, we had a lot of parents here that we have concerns about the sister Chavez dual program. My oldest son was the first generation in this program. He's now 25. He's a bilingual full kid. He has a business owner. And I asked him, "What about what do you think about that
045dual language?" He's like, "He's a great program." He's able to communicate when he goes to Mexico and speak with his grandparents. So, we know that Ces Chavez has a great dual language program and not because it's a great school. It's because it has great teachers. We're coming from Desert Sans. We have other options now. They have it at Jackson. We can go to Imagine. But why we want to stay at SSH is because we believe in the teachers and what they give to our children. And now we see all these changes. I know that you guys are having or the district has economic issues. We we know that it's public. We don't we don't asking for more. We're just asking you guys to leave the teachers as it is. They have managed so far to
046produce some kind of way to manage all these children. I have a fourth grader that is going to have to be in a combo class next year with the fifth graders and we know these girls are going with these hormones and these changes and I don't want that for my children. I had to go talk to Dr. Ram say hey I need my daughter in a non-combo class now he has to deal with these requests and be beyond everything else. So we asking it's not only the 20 people or parents that we're here today. It's hundreds of us that we have concerns and we don't want to leave that district. We believe in Cesar Chavez. We've been there for many many years. But if we have to, we're going to have to relocate and look
047for other options. So we're asking today to please leave all teachers and support our our dual language program as we know that it works. All of our children, they succeeded in high school. They get all these 4.5 GPS. They go to college. They graduate with the stamp on their certificate. So this is a great program for the district. It gives really good numbers for the standardized testing across the board. So please support our program. Leave a teachers and let us work what we what we have. Thank you. >> Thank you. Very good. Next on Lap Ray. Good evening board. My name is Ran Zua, vice president for CCA chapter 109. This LCAP has been stripped of any creativity, thoughtfulness, stripped of stakeholder input, and only serves management desires. This LCAP seems designed to wow you
048with some stats so that you just approve it before the July 1 deadline. What is the point of data MTSS coordinators, the data coaches, and now you also have an RCE uh data contract of some sort to review already uh set it and forget it California dashboard that pulls in all your assessment data. when your students are asking for more information on college and career options. This LCAP had plans and budgeted for um advisors but it said plans did not line up with implementation programs, materials, supplies budgeted but no execution. This LCAP has several lines that read like that. A bunch of budgeted plans but didn't match implementation expectations. What was management doing with these? Page 26 describes working through union tension. Which union is the district blaming fiscal and implementation on the bargaining units?
049How is that any excuse? There's common themes with stakeholder input requesting more transparency, explanation, decision processes, and how stakeholder input is being used. In technology, we're actually seven techs, not five as listed. We also have a stat of 2.5 days of completion per work order. It's a bit of a fantasy. IMAS had their jobs affected as otherwise stated. Elementary IMAS don't work with the technology. They don't do asset management per um our superintendent toward the beginning of the school year which has led to admin managing those assets causing confusion, device loss, and delayed service. months of delayed service. The LRBG I challenge the district to look at the allowable uses. I feel the district can use this money in better classroom staff, teacher and student support. So when you look at the LRBG allowable use
050of funds describes uh taking evidencebased action to increase or stabilize the amount of instructional time or services provided to pupils. Decreases or stabilizes staffto pupil ratios based on pupil learning needs. integrating evidence and pupil supports to address learning barriers or learning loss barriers, access to school meal programs, the help that some of our nutrition services need in the kitchens. So, all that's to address. I hope you guys do a study session, at least a greater study session on the larger portion of the LCAT. Thank you guys. Very good. Thank you. >> Next is Karina Vega. Can you get bigger and pulling? >> Good evening, board members, board president, trustees, superintendent, executive cabinet, and community members. My name is Karina Vega, and I've had the privilege of serving our district for nearly 20 years, supporting students,
051families, and schools. Currently, I serve as a district support counselor. I felt compelled to speak tonight after listening to previous public comments, especially around an important distinction, the difference between conflict and bullying. Bullying is a serious issue and one that should always be addressed promptly and appropriately. However, it is equally important that we accurately identify when a situation is bullying and when a student is in conflict. Conflict is a normal part of childhood and adolescent development. Students learn important social and emotional skills through navigating disagreements, repairing relationships, and resolving conflict. Our responsibility is to help students develop those skills while also recognizing when behavior rises to the level of bullying and requires a different response. This distinction matters because how we define a situation determines how we respond to it. Not every disagreement between students
052is bullying. Many conflicts present valuable opportunities to teach communication, empathy, accountability, problem solving, and healthy relationship skills. As a district, we have established policies, procedures, and protocols to guide this work. These protocols help ensure consistency, fairness, due process, and student safety across all schools. These policies are reviewed and updated in accordance with the law. I would also like to acknowledge the proactive work the district has done to support positive school climates and prevent bullying before it occurs. Over the years, CVUSD has placed a strong emphasis on social emotional learning along with restorative practices and teaching students the five castle competencies including mental health, healthy relationships and promote kindness through the district initiatives such as our kindness challenge. And we have worked intentionally to create cultures of belonging, connection, and respect throughout our schools. In addition,
053we have partnered with families through parent engagement opportunities. Collaborating with our parent engagement manager, Anna Garcia. We have provided lessons and resources that support parents as modeling, teaching, and reinforcing healthy conflict resolution, relationship building, empathy, and communication skills at home. Student safety remains our highest priority. We have continued evaluating our systems, listening to concerns, and seeking opportunities for improvement. It is also important to recognize the work already being done, the systems already in place, and the collective responsibility we share in helping young people learn how to build healthy relationships. Meaningful change begins through partnerships. Schools cannot do this alone. Parents, educators, and community members all play a vital role in modeling the behaviors we hope to see in our students. When adults demonstrate respectful communication, empathy, accountability, and healthy conflict, students learn by those examples.
054When we focus on facts, follow established protocols, strengthen partnerships with families, and continue the social and emotional skills need to our students need to thrive, we create safer schools and stronger communities for everyone. Thank you for your time and your comm continued commitment to our families at CVUSD. >> Very good. Thank you. I saved and compiled all these other ones uh from Loretta Paris and I think you have a few. So the first one is bullying. I'm not sure if you spoke on that one already or >> No, you have more. Okay. >> Yeah, just a little bit more. >> Bullying protocol. >> Sorry. >> Okay. So I saw the plants, the people that you had brought up that you already knew people were going to come talk about bullying. We saw this. This is
055kind of like bullying you when you create a environment where people have blind CCd all of you and then ask for the confidence of the superintendent and then you bring in people to tell you protocol that's supposed to happen and then is not happening to people on the ground to the children on the ground. That is a is bullying in a sense. the the levels of ma ma major and minor bullying shouldn't be only what someone an admin deems minor or major. What about the child? How what if the child is mentally affected by someone slapping them by someone hitting them one time by someone angrily being rude to them? Their levels are not the levels of children the admin. So holding our admin accountable at every level level, coming from every director, coming from
056our superintendent and coming from the board is where it starts. The way that I've seen in rooms where child children are interview or heard and are on on interviews, issues that have been brought up to your attention, Mr. Tortez, multiple times, they're still happening. asking for incident reports. It took 20 days to get the victim in an incident to have a connection in Aries to show her issues. 20 days. Then it took it's been years almost. It's the second year that we've requested incident reports or any type of report for a special education student to have in their areas and still nothing's there or even given to the parents. So yes, it's beautiful. The protocol is great. We can change things, update things because we need it. It's been five years. It's we're the last
057time was 2020, but we need to implement it. That issue is implementation at every level. That and it starts with the superintendent coming to special education meetings as well because that is a type of bullying when you actually export yourself out of meetings when people request you to be there. And it shows and it shows through the board as well. When we get Jesus Gonzalez screaming about Cararissa, it starts here. You're right. You're right. Adults should be not be bullies. Maybe we should start at the board and have that trickle down to make sure our children are actually being protected at all protocols that you scream that we have. 10 days is the is Sprigio um is supposed to give back information a follow through. Ask all these parents who have put it into sprig
058sprigio if they've ever received a follow through. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Next. The next subject. The next subject is advocacy. >> Advocacy. >> Mhm. So advocacy. So, we hear day in and day out that being an advocate or actually speaking up against the school board or being speaking up against what's wrong is a is a big big problem and it's so ugly and it's so our social media posts holding anybody accountable is so bad. But the problem here is is that those social media posts, Miss Colmanis, those social media posts made moves. How long did it take for Oasis to get that change in every maintenance request in when we posted that? I'll give you a hint. One day, 24 hours later, it was done. How many years and months was Oasis being treated
059as if they were nothing and they no maintenance requests were being listened to? Years. Stacks of maintenance requests. When you hear bad news about the Coachella Valley Unified School District, it's because it's bad news, not because we're looking for it. We don't want to look for it. It comes to us. It happens to us, to our children, to our teachers. It happens to us, not you on the board, because you don't have you don't sit on the ground unless you're asked to. We've seen it. you we've sat you we've seen people step on the grounds once the beautifification program happened once there was something happening with the maintenance crew and they wanted to see what they changed when it came to Oasis's trash cans and then you went back and you saw that those trash
060cans were gone and you realize that the girls are still had to go to the nurses station to change their pads and we didn't say anything about that that's still wrong. Our children shouldn't feel embarrassed and we shouldn't feel that the fact that we have to say anything on social media or advocate for our kids is a bad thing. It's okay for us to bring it to you. That's your job. That's our job as parents to tell you what's wrong. Stop making it look like we're horrible. The only reason that it looks frowned upon is cuz in in generations past it was frowned upon to speak up and it's better to brush everything under the rug. Well, I'm here to tell you this generation doesn't put up with that anymore. We don't do that anymore.
061We've changed and we bring things to light. We hold everybody accountable, even people who are corrupt here. And we will continue to do so. So, please start bringing up people who t who bring out corruption, who bring out who bring out what's really happening in these schools to you so that you can do your job instead of bringing how bad it and telling us how bad it is. Thank you. >> Very good, Nick. Next subject is uh special ed summer school. >> Yes. So let me echo what Daisy said. Daisy spoke about how our summer school program instantaneously we thought that bowling was going to be the best result for our children on the spectrum. That is discrimination. Discrimination is a civil rights issue. You keep screaming off the top of your lungs that we
062have issues when it comes to legal problems. Right? That's what you say. And what the issue is is why do you keep doing it? Why do we keep allowing the school to cause in discrimination, sexual harassment issues, bullying issues, policing issues? How are we allowing this to keep happening? Our children are going to only be allowed to go bowling. My kid even hates bowling. It's too overstimulating. But you throw him at Universal and he will be in that stroller having a blast for eight hours. A blast. And he's on the spectrum. You cannot choose to have children with special education needs or special needs to be opted out because you assume or the director assumes that they can't handle it or they don't have the right people to be there for them. Ask the parents.
063We have parents who are willing to go. We have parents who are willing to help. We have parents who are willing to be part of the the the solving of everything. And we and bring it to our table. We meet every month. Every month. And we sit around talking about I know there's quorum. I know I get that. But we sit around talking about the issues that we face every single day. Director Wilson can only do so much. Only do so much. He needs somebody to back him up on making changes that will keep you guys in compliance. And that that's a huge issue. Discrimination is big. Happened at John Kelly at our at our school for our uh promotion for our preschoolers. We had told them um two months in advance we needed chairs
064and then the general education needed the chairs that same day because they requested it maybe like a week before and they got the chairs not us. We were sitting in little kid chairs. It was horrible. Our our pres our principal didn't even show up until an hour. No, 45 minutes later and he started presenting towards the end. Our teachers had to get involved and do their thing which I really appreciate. Miss Miss Hec and Miss Kintenar. I appreciate them. I appreciate all my par educators. I have to tell you, we have a community and you keep screaming inclusion. And I tell you over and over again, and I've told you this before, inclusion doesn't mean what community you put us in. We have our own community. If you want us to be part of your
065community, let us in and treat us as humans, not as second best. Thank you. >> Very good. The next subject is uh inclusion and John Kelly Elementary. >> Say one more time. >> Uh inclusion and JP. >> Oh, I already kind of I Okay. Uh then um air conditioning buses. >> Yeah. So I do want to echo what Lorraine said earlier. Uh the air conditioning and the buses. I did speak with Julie Vigil when you were in charge of the transportation and you did tell me there was a maintenance log that was happening and you were working on all of the uh the the maintenance happening with the AC's. My question is is why do the ACs keep breaking down? Is it because our buses are not up to standard? Or is it because the
066tools or the people we're using are not up to standard? What can we do to provide complete not even perfection, at least cooling for our children? Our children are going all the way to Northshore and our our staff, our bus drivers, all the way to Northshore and back with no AC every single day. Even just to sess chavis to salt and sea to anywhere even a small Have you gotten in your car even just putting it leaving it in the sun for 15 minutes in this heat. The buses are like ovens. They are literally ovens. They are made out of metal. And even if you put a window down, it does not help. Please fix these buses for these children, for your staff, for every aid that steps on that bus. Please. It's if you
067guys keep screaming safety and health and and accountability, whatever you guys keep screaming, safety. Safety. It's not a safety. It's It's not safe when a child is literally in a 110 degree bus. Their health is at risk when they're in that kind of bus. When a when a staff member is in that bus, please, it's a very big issue. We just appointed a new department head. Let's put that on his plate to make sure that those ACs are running all the time. Thank you. >> Thank you. And the last subject I have for you is the VR prisms. >> I do want to speak on the fact that we're spending $312,000 on a Prism VR programming. That programming, I understand, has been here since Dr. Valentino 2023 and and uh Miss Francis Esparza. Dr. Dr.
068Francis Sparza actually had to marry into it, which I understand. But we can stop the buck here. VR headsets are not a necessity. We are in a deficit of what? $65 million. And you have it on your agenda today board to stop a $312,000 output for a program to put on virtual reality headsets. We spent too much money already. We're that if we do that, we have spent almost a million dollars on these VR headsets. Please stop it at this point now. Thank you. >> Very good. Thank you. That's all I have. All right. Thank you for all the requests to address the board. Uh we don't have any written. Uh so next is the student board member report. So my report is short and sweet. Good evening everyone. My name is Eileen Kio Garcia
069and this is my last report I have on Desert Mirage High School. Serving as student trustee this year has allowed me to truly see the opportunities given to students. All year long at Desert Mirage High School, students have been given the meaningful opportunities to grow, succeed, and prepare for their futures. Desert Mirage. At Desert Mirage High School, we are supported by dedicated teachers, staff, and programs that encourage us to reach our full potential, whether that is academically, through leadership, or career pathways. I'd like to acknowledge the graduation at Des of Desert Mirage High School and Coachella Valley High School. Beautiful ceremonies. Thank you to Dr. Esparza, board of education for making it happen. And at the acer, I speak for Desert Mirage when I say as we walked across the stage at graduation, we also
070took our first steps into the real world. While we are excited for the opportunities ahead, we will never forget where we came from. Now, I speak for myself. Desert Mirage has shaped me into who I am today, taught me valuable lessons, and has given me experiences that will stay with me forever. As this is my last board meeting, I just want to say thank you for the opportunity to sit here throughout the year. This experience has given me the confidence I will need as I succeed I will need to succeed as I head into a 4-year university at UCLA. Being here has opened so many opportunities for me including scholarships, connections, and and so much more. I am truly grateful. Thank you to again Dr. Sparta, the CVUSD board of education and the entire Coachella
071Valley community for your support and for investing in students like me. It has been an honor to serve as a student trustee for Desirage High School. Thank you. >> Very good. Thank you, student um trustee. Uh next is board member reports. Uh we can start with uh director Gonzalez. Okay. Thank you, uh, Director Okuna. >> Yes. Um, first of all, I want to say thank you for being a trustee this year. Um, I kind of say it every year as the program continues. as our trustees become more and more engaged, uh more and more confident, um more active, which is is great from the initial uh program that was uh really pushed by uh Adon Galarsa. I'll give him credit. He was the one that really pushed this thing. The board uh obviously supported that.
072But from those initial ones, they keep getting better. uh not individually better but as people but indiv understanding their role and and not being afraid to tell us when they have issues or or say things that maybe are unpopular. So thank you very much for for all that. It was a great year. So thank you and your colleagues on the board and that came. So thank you for that. Um quickly again I myself fellow board members most of us were all at the graduations. I think it's a great time. We get to see a lot of friends and family and people that we know over the years. Uh, as I get older, I notice that it's not my friends kids that are graduating anymore. It's my friends grandkids that are graduating now. So, it's getting
073a little makes me feel a little old, but um, but that's okay. It's still always a really wonderful um, celebration. And as myself and as I know many of you had individuals who uh graduated this year, family members um President Tortois, congratulations to your son uh who also graduated. Uh it's a special feeling giving uh your uh son or your your son or daughter their diploma. Many of us have had that uh privilege in the past. So congratulations on that. Um in general, a couple of things. my my normal report on uh you know for we haven't had a meeting basically in in a month. Um three of those Fridays obviously over 400 people didn't show up again. Um last Friday we were at 380 and change so got a little better I guess. um
074to the issue with the buses. Um you know, uh Misala has made a comment about maybe that's why, but um we were all told last year, as I recall, that all our buses had air conditioning installed. Now the situation is about maintaining them and keeping them fixed. If we need new buses, hopefully our new transportation director will send us a list and say we need new buses as they did in the past. when we replaced all the buses that didn't have air conditioning. Um, if we need another vendor to fix our ACs or if our mechanics need training or whatever we need, well, yeah, uh, let's do it. But again, um, we live where we live. Um, these things happen, we need to repair them. Kind of common sense. Uh but again the the thought
075that somehow this board hasn't done anything about it. I think we've approved everything they've sent us. We've uh again bought new buses when they asked us. So again um but if you want us to go to transportation and be on top of them well I guess we can do that too. Um couple of other things too. Um in regards to uh some of you have spoken about the data center. I really haven't said anything publicly a lot other than my private conversations with a few council members and some community members. Um, for the record, uh, I'm opposed to the data center location in the city of Coachella. Um, I think it's a it's a bad idea. Although I have had conversations with people and I mentioned that I think sometimes we miss the point. Uh,
076many people were going down there complaining about the evil corporation that invaded Coachella. uh to put this data center there. That isn't actually the case. When the city council members say that there's no project, that they haven't voted on or they haven't done anything, they're actually telling the truth. The problem is what they're omitting is that they, the city council, all five of them at the time, voted to hire a company to go find the evil data center to bring it to our community. And if one of those council members who certain people here seem to support even after the fact tell you that they didn't know what they were voting on or they didn't understand, then I have to question, do they really belong on the city council? Uh, and for those who knew
077what they were doing, I have to question why they snuck it in a contract that had a bunch of other things in it which clearly stated that they were putting this thing there. So I I'm very concerned with the judgment of our current city council and some who are friends of mine. I've shared shared that with them like that doesn't make any sense. So I think for me yeah I I I'm a resident of the city of Coachella. I'm not happy either. Um and again what doesn't make what makes me angry in some ways is that somehow they created this crisis and now because they've decided that oh we're going to put a moratorium we're going to do this all is forgiven. No that was a serious lapse of judgment and either they knew they
078were doing it or they didn't know which is just as concerning. So um for the record if that's what you were looking for I do oppose the data center. Um, but what I oppose more is that the city council did it in the way they did it. Uh, and I'm concerned now that how many more contracts have they done that we don't know about. I have not been a big supporter of their municipal um independent municipal uh utility program for a long time. They've spent thousands and thousands of dollars on that over the years, which I, you know, I happen to understand a little bit about it as I am involved in other areas. Uh, it's really expensive. it's going to affect the infrastructure which the which the taxpayers which I am one of are
079going to have to pay for. Um so that really concerns me that we're talking about an evil company that never actually came. The people who were the city council members hired a company to go find that group. And I think that's what we're missing sometimes when we're having these debates and these discussions. people just kind of say stuff or they listen to something or they see something on social media that isn't actually accurate or correct. The issue is the contract that now we're going to get out of and we're going to have to probably pay someone to get out of that contract, which infuriates me as a taxpayer as well. So, just so for those of you who came to ask about the data centers, um other than that, um I'm looking forward to summer
080school. I always enjoy it. It'll be a little different this year. So, we'll see how that goes. Uh and um that starts next, huh? >> Monday, right? Yeah. Starts on Monday. So, we'll welcome back all those who are who are there. Hopefully, transportation, Mr. Williams, they'll all have AC's working properly. Um but, uh so that's my report. >> Thank you, Director Akuna. Yeah, Director Edando. Thank you, President Tortois. Uh, first of all, would like to say thank you to everybody that came out here to um, you know, for your public comment. We definitely hear you. We hear what, you know, we hear your concerns and, you know, we all have individual meetings with superintendent and and ask her to follow up on certain things and I know that we've had many conversations about the things
081that are brought up. So, I know that that we are working on a lot of the things. I I'd like to just say thank you to those to the to to everybody who came to talk about combo classes. We know we we hear you. Um we're trying to find a solution to to you know how do we offer the best programming especially with our dual language program. Um you know thank you. Thank you for that. Um and I'd like to just ask that we have signage in our schools Dr. Sparza so the community knows that we offer dual language because I know that I've seen other districts have a whole campaign around dual language and and I know that one of our you know our we have great programs we just don't advertise them as
082well. So, and I know that we have a great dual language program as as we here today. We just need to know how to, you know, encourage others to bring their students to our schools and and and and be there. And I and I've heard through some of the educators that some of our val Victorians were dual language students in the past. You know, I think Mr. Gonzalez's daughter was a dual language student, you know, uh valictorian for Coachell Valley High School. And I I very very u just appreciate the program. I just need to hopefully we can provide some signage that says this is a dual language school. Um like my like like a lot of my colleagues, we all attended a lot of the graduations. I like to say President Tortois, thank you
083for your leadership as we uh as a lot of us were at most of the graduations and it's the first time it's happened in six years. So I I that was that was good to see. Um, I like to, um, I know that there's a lot of things in, uh, with budget constraints, but I'll, you know, I'll ask and, you know, and I know that there are budget constraints, but, uh, I was asked by, uh, some teachers at CB High School about parking lot repayment. So, I wanted to bring that up today. Um, and I know that I'm always asking for uh, uh, marquees so we can communicate with our parents, right? I know and I know we have budget constraints but you know hopefully at some point we'll we'll be able to to offer
084that but um um and you know a lot of concerns were brought up today. I myself I'm also opposed to the data centers near our schools and near anywhere where our our schools I mean our our kids are present. We know that data centers bring heat, they use our water, they use our resources and just alto together I am opposed to data centers but um you know that that's where I stand and the city council of Coachella will will uh continue to work on that but myself I I just I know that things are massive and they just use a lot of resources and and I am definitely opposed to data centers um with With that being said, I'd like to just thank those that come up and give public comment. We hear you. We're
085taking notes up here. It it's it just sometimes takes take things take time to address and and we are working, you know. Um uh and and lastly, I want to thank the the people that we approved today that that you know uh Mr. Bera at Oasis, right? our our transportation director, right? Um, everybody that was that was hired today, thank you and welcome to our district al although you've been here but now you're in the your leadership role. So we wish you a lot of success and with that being said that's all I have President Torres. >> Thank you um Director Kaman. >> Uh thank you. What I first want to say is um thank you to everyone who speaks. we really do listen to you and I know these things will come up in
086the discussions we have. Um the other thing I want to say is uh I really was excited to attend the all the sixth grade graduations and the high school graduations. Um just the smiles on the kids of the faces as they came across the stage. It was just it was probably the best part of my job right up to now. Um but uh and I want to thank the schools for the amount of effort and the district that helped too for all the ceremonies. It was incredible what they did and it was just you know the kids all appreciated the students all appreciated everything that was done for them for these graduations. It just makes such a special day. Um the the uh last thing I wanted to talk about um probably a little parochial
087here but a lot of you know that I'm I'm with the read with me program and I wanted to thank Tara Henchin and Lydia Rodriguez. We're excited about a pilot that we're doing starting Monday. It's a pro it's a new thing called Wordnuts. And you're not going to be able to see what I have here, but basically it's to help children who really need the extra help with phonics. So really excited. So what you can see here is that we're going to have our read with me volunteers working with with kids who need the extra support. And they're right here are three cubes. And I'll I'll just tell you we're going to help them with the correct pronunciation of that letter, that sound. And like right now it shows fan. You rotate this and it
088shows M for man. And then you rotate it again and it shows C for can and B for ban. And um so we're actually working with the person who developed this for their own child who had trouble reading. And we've used it at Northshore and we've used it at Van Beern at Mountain Vista just you know just to test it out. and the kids loved it because it's a a different different thing to use. So, it's very very exciting. So, we're going to be starting that and thank you for the opportunity for doing this, you know, we'll probably do uh eight minutes with a child every day, five days a week, you know, and then rotate one-on-one so that the children have that opportunity. So, I'm really excited about doing this pilot project over the
089summer school. Thank you. That's it. >> Thank you. Um, Director Vargas. >> Yes. Uh, good evening everybody. Uh, thank you for your comments, the ones I caught. Um, I also joined a number of graduations, promotions. Um, I got to I think one of the ones I I mean, I enjoyed all of them, but um, I did get a chance to go to the C view kindergarten one. And so, it's just great to kind of see, you know, so little and eager and just ready to learn and, uh, I don't know, eat the world alive. So, um it was just really great to kind of see the families join their their young ones, um the little ones there. Um I caught a couple of the comments around dual language. Um I know from one of some
090of the listening sessions that I attended um with Dr. Esparza, she was doing her tour around the district. Um combo classes are a big concern for for parents. Um, so I think if we um can I and I know staff have been working on some suggestions in the past to address those things. So, um, you know, open to kind of hearing a little bit more of like what those ideas are. I don't know that we quite fleshed them out here. Um, so I think for me trying to listen a little bit more about what those ideas were to kind of address some of those challenges because it's clearly a big concern for families. Um, and I think it's also going to help us be more efficient, right, with our budgetary challenges possibly. Um, I didn't
091catch the comment around the data centers, but I can assume the conversations, the discussions. Um, you know, I think for me, I'm also concerned about uh this project and the impact it'll have on the surrounding community. Um, I live in thermal, but I know that it's still going to have an impact um, especially for our schools, right? the comment was made around the AC. Um so I can just think about you know the impact on our AC's within our or you know the schools right directly within that that area. Um I think for me one of the things that kind of what reminded me um as well beyond just my position right I'm not in in support of it. Um, but I think it just kind of reminded me that as a board we should
092be uh paying attention to some of these projects that are happening within our boundaries and really being critical about um really thinking about the impact. I know sometimes we think about it, okay, what are the partnership opportunities, but sometimes it does impact us in other ways. Um and um just thinking about, you know, oftentimes we're having to address the fact that our communities don't have water, right? We serve our district facilities are serving as um you know um what do you call it like disaster um emergency um shelter, right? Um so I think it just kind of reminded me of that you know that importance of us just being aware of like some of the projects that are happening in our community. Um the last thing I'll say um to our student trustee, I'm very
093uh thankful for you being on the board. I know I caught you at a couple like community service events and so it was really great to see you out in the community. I know you're going to be a great leader in whatever you do and I'm very excited for you as a former Bruin um to have you uh go to UCLA. I'm very proud of you and um yeah, excited to see you see where you end up. So congratulations. Thank you. >> Very good. Uh Vice President Gart, >> thank you. Thank you to everyone who is here and has come and talked with us. Um it's a full house this time. We don't always have a full house, but um we know that there's a lot on your mind and we hear you. Um just
094from the consensus that I'm hearing, it sounds like most of us I haven't heard anyone who's for the data center projects, right? So I would like to request a letter of opposition from this school district um against any data centers in our district zones. Right? So I know it's city of Coachella but we span two um two counties and we don't want anyone in our any of our communities that we serve to deal with data centers. We know the health implications. We know the environmental implications. I feel like even the lack of safeguards in the industry for students, for our families, it's moving faster than we are regulating and that's very scary. Um, our students and our community deserves better than that. And I think us having that position, it sounds like none of us
095are for them for a myriad of reasons. So, if we could have that as a position for our school district zone, that would be powerful. Beyond that, um I do hear you about I feel like since before I was even on the board, we've heard about transportation issues and unfortunately we have yet to fully figure them out. Our first student trustees when they came and spoke to us, you know, they were still talking to us about late buses and the busing systems. We've had families come and talk to us about the busing systems and it's up to us for that implementation. We do do our part with voting on things, but if it's not being implemented, that's still on us to see on the agenda that we have a new bus routing system. And I'm
096like, wait a second. Didn't we just spend two years ago over $100,000 on a busing system? Like, I really hope that this one works because my goodness, we're just throwing money at something that has yet to work. And that's on us. our implementation. Those are things that happen to us. Um management for transportation, we've gone through how many transportation directors is it too big? Like I don't understand why we can't retain someone. Um these are issues that us as a district need to figure out. That is our job. That is our charge. Um, I would like more information about the summer school field trips thing. It does sound like an equity issue for our sped students who are not even given an opportunity for accommodation. I know that we have field trips with sped students
097in the past. I understand that if they have a one-on-one care and that person needs to also be allowed to go, um, I want to better understand why it's not happening and if it can truly be accommodated. It doesn't sound like it has fully gone through that process. It's just been a kind of no from the beginning. So, better understand that. Um, our parents who are coming to us for dual language, I hear you. Um, I definitely do not like the dual language combo classes because it's more than two curriculums. It's four curriculums. It's a curriculum in English and Spanish in both grade levels. And we're trying to teach students who may be a highlevel first grader and a lowlevel second grader or high, you know, that's a lot to juggle for any teacher. they
098are given a choice within their within their um grade levels, but it's kind of like who who draws the short straw this year and then they have to change it up because it's so much work. Um my son has definitely had the combo classes with dual language and it's it's not easy and you can tell that the teachers are more stressed than a usual year. Um, and yet I've seen how beautiful our dual language program is. I have a nephew that's going to be a junior at CV High School and has done beautifully in our dual language program since kindergarten. Um, my own son has done beautifully in dual immersion so far. He's the only grandchild who can talk to his grandparents in Espanol, which is beautiful. I don't want to lose that and I
099don't want to lose the effectiveness of the program. We have programming, but are we supporting the programming that we have? That's my issue with that. Um, combo classes and dual immersion are newer to our district. It's only been two years that I've seen that we've had it at the level that we've had, and that's a district decision. Are we supporting our programming properly? Are we effectively getting the word out? Um, I hear about other programming that we have, but we need to really get the word out to families and and really educate them on how dual immersion is important and necessary versus EL. Some parents think, well, we want them only to speak English so that they know English, whereas really we know that the dual language, they'll do both and and do beautifully in
100their reading and their testing. Um, but we want to make sure that parents understand that so that they can take advantage of our beautiful programming. I also have I mean I also noted and I dislike every time we do this because this isn't the first time we've done it, but when district staff takes public comment time away from our community. So that was six minutes. Two district speakers came in to talk to us during open session. that six minutes that we took away from our community to talk about bullying and it really did feel like gaslighting our parents like a parent giving their experience and then we have district staff who is basically trying to negate I understand that there are protocols in place and if we're in compliance excellent but if a parent isn't
101experiencing that and they're telling us their experience I don't understand why district staff is also taking that time away from Each subject only gets 20 minutes. Six minutes were taken from that 20 minutes. That bothers me every single time we do something like that. It's not our first time. Um it was beautiful to look at our graduations and see our parents be so proud. Um first time at Accasher. That was a pretty neat experience. It was a little cold and we had to be ready for the cold. um later in the day. But I think for our parents, it was so much better to be cold than hot and uncomfortable. And it seemed like we had excellent capacity for our families, which was so neat to see. Um the energy in those rooms was so
102electric. I mean, we were talking about it the entire time. It was like a any sporting event because the parents were so excited for all that the students had accomplished. And that was excellent. Um, we'll see where it is next year, but I think it really did go well and I was so happy to see that it went very smoothly. Um, and we were also blessed with very mild weather at West Shores, which was awesome. Um, because that, you know, we never know what it's going to be, but that was also beautiful, a beautiful night and so special to see. It's it's a more intimate experience, but so special. Um the student speakers this year just got me every single time is just beautiful to hear. Um all that they accomplished and the recognition that
103it took a village and them thanking their village was beautiful to hear. Um got through a year and we still have a lot of work to do. But we're we want to make sure that we set up next year so that it runs more smoothly cuz we do see you all here and we see a lot of parents here that have concerns and we don't want that to be the case. Um so we do hear you. We're asking for things. We want to make sure we understand. Thank you. >> President Tortoise. >> Yes. >> I asked Yeah, I asked to be recognized. Um, President Tortois, I think, uh, right now would be an appropriate opportunity for for us to to follow the recommendation of of Miss Garcia. I I believe that that the data center
104impact to our environment is not worth the benefit that it brings regardless of of how they want to sell it. I do also want to say that Mr. Akuna brings up a very valid point. I don't believe I don't condemn the data center proponent, right? The guy that's trying to do it from a business perspective. What is troubling to me is that you have a city council who we depend on to protect the children, to protect our community, to protect our schools, and in a backroom deal, these people agreed contractually bound the city of Coachella to a data center project before doing an environmental impact report. having a little bit of background in environmental science, uh that is just blatantly irresponsible. We have processes in place to make sure that no project, whether it be
105a shopping center or an energy project, that it would have any type of detrimental impact to the environment, to the community, those boxes need to be checked. But I think it's important to remind ourselves that those elected officials in a backroom deal, all of them, all of them uh contractually bound the residents of Coachella. Because at the end of the day, when this when this company stronghold comes at uh at this breach of contract angle, the community is going to have to pay for it. And and I think it's a reminder that when we elect officials that we elect officials that are going to be truly compassionate and caring uh uh to our community. And to Miss Garcia's point, I think it's a good opportunity for us not only to to look for a moratorum,
106which is a great first step, but there needs to be a band in place. And I think the position I've heard every my colleagues on this board. I think that's the sentiment, right? and and I would challenge uh the board, I would challenge uh our leadership to to put together a document, you know, obviously confirming with the rest of the board that we not only support a moratorum for 45 days or 60 days, but that we want a ban in our general area and we don't want that impact uh in our community. So, I think it's that opportunity that we have right now. I think we should move forward with that. I think it's a great recommendation, Miss Garcia. And Dr. Dr. Francis, I ask you to to see what we can do about that.
107>> Very good. Yes. Uh, thank you, Director Gonzalez. I think we if we did, we would be the first school district, I think, on record that I know of that would put a moratorium or ban on data centers, right? So, that would I think school district might have passed something. >> Yeah. Okay. So, it's it's something that's new and upcoming and I think I think there's no objection on the board to doing that. So, yeah. Thank you directors for bringing that to everyone's in attention and listening to the community on that right uh uh data centers anywhere everyone knows just by googling how bad they are outweighing the benefit and it's just a the marketing that they tell you know cuz I'm from the reservation and they tell us it's a fast way to make
108fast money right and so the people are trying to be sold you know where I'm from on the reservation but it's the same thing the community uses is too much water which we're scarce here in the Coachella Valley. We're all on the same aquifer. So anywhere it's going to affect the water within this entire valley. So with that um I just want to you know reiterate what has been said by the board appreciating people who come up and talk about the concerns that that have been happening I I believe for years and years. I'm glad that some of the progress has been made. I remember when I first got on last year, I I brought on one of my reports how late the buses were. And I read, you know, verbatim how uh many buses
109were late based on the superintendent's text, right? And there was like week after week I was saying bus is late, buses late, buses late, buses late. And and I think that kind of made headway because now we don't get those reports so much anymore. They're late once in a while, but I think we made some kind of difference backing the superintendent to hold people accountable and get the buses on time. I know they're still late sometimes, but not as much as they were last year when when I first came on. Um, the other part was the transportation was uh, you know, when my son started kindergarten in in Salt City and there I I just thought the buses didn't have air conditioning cuz he went to kindergarten and came out and his face was red.
110He was sick from heat exhaustion. the bus didn't have air conditioning and he went every day in kindergarten on that bus uh cuz we didn't have the transportation to take him. I had to work but I just thought, you know, we were so poor that the buses didn't have air conditioning. I wasn't aware that they were supposed to, but that was just something that we lived through, you know, now that my son's graduated and went through school through all the aches and pains of of being, you know, in this district. Uh, so I'm glad that you know when when when parents come up last year and were saying that you don't know what it's like if your kid is lost on the bus and I, you know, answered the next meeting and say, "Well, I
111know what it's like cuz my my kids were lost on the bus, too. They were dropped off miles down the road at some unknown bus stop and we didn't know where he was." So, you know, it's a panic that happens and, you know, I mentioned that at a meeting. So, I'm glad those reports aren't coming like they were last year. We had many kids that were being dropped off or lost on the bus and I'm glad that we've made headway and progress on that. So, progress on buses being late and progress on kids being uh you know mis transported on the bus. So, I think we've made some progress on that. So, if we continue to back the management superintendent on holding uh departments accountable uh I think we're going to make progress more progress
112and I think that's that's what needs to be done. And the same goes as far as u we're hearing the discrimination and the bullying and the reports about bullying because I've have I said before my son right went through bullying all through school and and I believe it's it was and I said before it was a racial thing it's a cultural thing and I think if there's more education on cultural aspects and I think we're working on that now um that it brings respect to different cultures right I know we had the graduation at shorts. We had mariachi's right cultural. Then we had graduation aquacure for desert mirage and the principal there put mural respecting the tribal uh the tribal community there and we had bird singers that were there right so that's respect for
113having the different cultures but there are still minorities when what this we think that you know Hispanic or Latino whatever you you call it is is minority but like what was said here tonight the minority is special education kids that need to have equity The minority is the tribal kids that need to have equity. The minority are other races in this school district that need to have equity in every access of education. And I'm hearing you know what about this dual language. I want to share something that you know dual language it's a positive thing. I hear everybody talking about it. But when my son started school in kindergarten and first grade and second grade um dual language really didn't affect him. he didn't speak Spanish. So, uh, you know, my, uh, one of the
114things that that affected us in the very beginning, you know, my son coming home not speaking Spanish and asking, you know, he he asked us, you know, dad, what does pandeo mean, right? So, that was the label that he got because he didn't speak Spanish, right? And so, and he didn't know what it was. So, they, you know, he was ostracized. So, the dual language for him didn't work. So I remember back in 2013 asking board members, does the dual language, is it actually accessible and equity for everyone? Do you teach the non- Spanish speaker Spanish? And the board members said, no, we don't do that. So it's not equally accessible. There is no equity as far as I can see. Until that's done, it's not really dual language. We call it dual language, but
115it's one way as far as I see it. And my son finally merged and made friends with other uh Hispanic kids who don't speak Spanish and were ostracized the same way, right? And they weren't afforded the opportunity to learn the language until we got to high school. We had to take Spanish, right? And then learn it. But uh yeah, how would you teach somebody something that their family doesn't know anyways? But uh that's just, you know, a small spectrum of what my son went through uh as growing up, right? and uh just being ostracized all through school. Uh that doesn't say that there was a lot of positive aspects or teachers that you know spoke up for him that helped him. There were friends that helped him. There were counselors. Uh even some of the
116board members, you know, helped uh with the fights that were going on at the school at the time. Um so when we're talking about discrimination, that's a form of discrimination that I still see today. Something needs to be done. uh I know there's protocol but again I hear we we somebody needs to follow those and you know with with my son graduating now and he you know relayed to me that yeah bullying still happens to him in the 12th grade he said I reported nothing gets done he goes when I report bullying they go tell the person who's bullying that they said something so that just makes it worse right and he said so he said I'm going to stop saying anything because nothing gets done and that's what he said so that's how my
117child felt with bullying. So, you're right. I hear what you're saying. I'm a parent and I went through this. So, no one can tell me. I don't know what bullying does since kindergarten. My son was called that. And and another fact that I said at another meeting when he was in third grade, right? I'm part of like like I said, I got on because I'm part of the community of Sultan City, not because I'm a tribal member from the tour Martinez desert Kua. So, and I'm proud of my culture and we're proud of where we're from. But when my son again comes home with different words that they're calling him because he has long hair and in third grade we had to cut his hair because he had to fit in because he was being
118called a girl all the time. So, that's what I'm saying. Discrimination is not fair when you're talking about all races and all minorities, special education, and everything that goes with minorities within a minority. So again, no one can tell me I do not know what bullying is like with my son went through this. Now that he's graduated, he's a better person. He knows what not to do as far as bullying. He knows how to recognize it. He knows I think maybe it's a part of the way uh the universe is now he can be a counselor for somebody who's been bullied right because he knows everything about ins and outs of bullying and how to deal with it right and and so I you know there's other kids that we have in school that may
119go through the same thing but I think there something that truly needs to be addressed bullying I think is is still there um like I said we've made progress with the buses we made progress with kids being lost and I'd like to see progress with the bullying on the kids within the district. Right. So we we will work on that definitely and yeah no data centers. Thank you superintendent. >> Thank you. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Good evening to everyone who is watching and everyone that's with us in the audience. Thank you for your public comment. Um, I want to start by saying thank you, Ailen, for all of your work and your leadership and your commitment to being a student trustee. We know that we kept you late sometimes even though you had homework
120to do and finals the next day or things happening in your in your own personal life. I want to thank you, Mia, Juan, and Isabella for everything that you have done and you have brought to uh the board here. And so, we truly appreciate you and good luck at UCLA. I'm a Trojan. I'm USC, but you know, I it's okay. It's okay. Uh, congratulations again. Congratulations. Thank you. Um, I want to just thank everyone on the board. Uh, Mr. Gonzalez as well who really helped Miss Sautello um, seal the deal at Acer for graduation. And so that truly helped. And our parents were so excited. Um, it was uh, ridiculously crowded. Uh it was such a beautiful uh event uh for Desert Mirage and for uh CV High School. We need to get West Shores
121in there as well. We need to be able to do some things so that we're not sitting out even though the weather was uh decent at West Shores for graduation. I think they need a venue as well for us to be able to celebrate their graduation, their top 10 and and everyone in that community as well. So, um we're looking into that for next year already. Um, I did want to, um, identify that special ed students, uh, and I've stated it here, need to be treated equally. And so I'll look into that about the field trips because I know that, um, there may be some concerns with staff about if the student is is not able to, you know, uh, take care of themselves or or just be with their one-on-one and the parent is
122needed or somebody's needed or they have seizures. Um, so we want to make sure that we're fully prepared. So I want to bring the team together to find out what's going on and why are some being sent to um to fantasy for bowling. I love bowling, so I'd probably prefer bowling over knots. But um but they should have that option. They should have that choice. And so I'll look into that. Um I'll also look into the um updating the policy, the bullying policy because I did not notice that it was from 2020. So, we'll be working with our staff here to make sure that we're identifying and that we're putting um protocols into place. 2020 was a long time ago. Uh it seems like it was just around the corner, but it really was a
123long time ago. So, we'll look into that as well. Um I do want to thank our ED services staff and our EXLP and the LOP staff for everything that they did to put an amazing summer school PD together today. Hundreds of teachers and staff were brought to CV High School to be trained. Um, and from my listen and learn tour and uh going out and talking to people about what do you need in a strategic plan, what do you need? Some of the things that came up is like everybody needs to be CPI trained. Um, not just one person, not just this person, but everybody. And so they've included that in the trainings. And so I'm so happy that everybody, all those hundreds of people that were there today are actually going to participate in
124CPI trainings from our paras to our teachers as well. So thank you for that. Thank you for making that happen uh to the team. In regards to um dual language, I know that um we did bring it up for us to be able to, you know, have some solidmies and that was part of the plan. RCOE is sitting here. There's three of them here with us. there's always our COE in the room and they they watch us and you know they they make sure that we're going to stay on task and part of that was writing a fiscal stabilization plan that included options and one of the options was to create uhmies and thosemies for us to be able to transport students who wanted to be at a dual language school and weren't going to
125have that option at their neighborhood school to be able to be transported there to be given that fair opportunity equity and access that was not approved And so we need to have a workshop on dual language and on combos because that's what creates combos. The fact that we're so spread out. We're,200 square miles, 22 schools and 15 elementary schools. That spreading out of all of those dual language programs is really making it difficult not to create those combo classes. And so we need to work hard to not have those combo classes and not remove dual language. Um, I'm a a proponent for dual language. I come from a family where I'm the first of 146 grandchildren. I'm the first and only five of us have been able to speak to our grandparents and our great-grandparents
126and our great great-grandparents. And so, I'm proud of that. And I know that Cesar Chavez, that school was like the focal point. That was the the start. You guys were the frontiers to the dual language program. So really making that uh one of thosemies was uh on on the on the plan and making sure that you know we continue to support ensuring that our students have the opportunity and the right to speak their native language. Um and it's uh I want to just address it's unfortunate that you know some students are treated the way that our board president has stated that they're treated because they should also be offered to be in a dual language program. um learning you know two languages or three languages is what happens in every other country except for here.
127So us offering that opportunity we should offer it to any everybody every single race uh and every person or parent that wants their child in a dual language program. And so, um, I just wanted to to make sure that we identify why this is happening and it shouldn't be happening because language is culture, culture is language. We should be proud of that and we should always accept anybody that wants to be a part of that as well. In regards to some of the facility concerns that came up, um, Oasis, we did ask our our director uh, at the time she was the interim back in January. And so that took some time uh, to get done. it it wasn't done overnight. I know that parents did make some um some concerns brought some concerns to
128the board. Um and we made sure that we were able to take care of that. Uh and so we're still working on a lot of other schools and other things that in my two years as a superintendent now that we've been trying really hard to take care of. And I know that um many of you have seen some of the the uh items that have been taken care of in our community report that we just put out. Um, and in regards to I know board uh, member Adelondo has talked about mares and we are looking to get a grant from Mares. I know that our director of facilities has been working with an organization for us because I find it hard when I'm in front of a school to know what's going on. And I
129go to other school districts nearby and I could be passing by in the evening or on the weekend and they're celebrating a kid's birthday on there and that means a lot. That recognition means a lot. And for it it's something small but for parents to be able to get information but to actually you know celebrate our students and our staff it it can go a long way. And so having those things aside from social media or sending things out by paper, um it just really enhances the the neighborhood, it enhances that school and the community. And so we'll be working on that as one of the next projects. So every single school has a new marquee that I can promise you that we are working on. And that's all that I have. >> Thank you,
130Dr. Esparza. Oops. Sorry. Okay. Um, next is the information and presentation section. And first we have Tara Hitchen, the overview of the summer school 26 program plan. Good evening, Dr. Esparza, President Tortez, members of the board and executive cabinet. My name is Tara Henchin, director of MTSS Academics Elementary. And tonight, the EXLP, ELOP, and Ed Services teams will present our Future Innovators and Fearless Achievers summer program. So to give you an overview of the program, these are just kind of the logistics. It will run for 20 days. Oh, I'm sorry. This is not mine. I'm going to move give it to the next person. Sorry. Sorry. Uh to go over the overview, the program for elementary and secondary will be 20 days. There will be two holidays during the summer session, June 19th and July
1313rd. The first day of the program is June 15th. The last day will be July 14th. The teacher work day will be 4 hours starting at 7:45 and and ending at 11:45. The student day will be 6 hours and 45 minutes. EXLP and ELOP sunrise will start at 6:30 and after school the after school program will start at 2:45 and conclude at 5:00 p.m. >> Okay. Well, today started our professional development and we trained over 600 staff members today. Um, our training today and over the next two days um includes our unique learning systems for our special ed uh educators as well as our SEAL lessons um given by Miss Kadga. Um 95% group corrective reading moss for our dual language teachers that are teaching dual language in our summer school program this year. Legos
132robotics, UCI math, and our newest component, our language arts component, which is a cultural component that revolves around the FIFA World Cup and in uh learning about our players and the countries that are um our FIFA World Cup is uh inclusive of. Additionally, we trained our staff members are being trained on our CPI, which is our crisis prevention intervention systems, which includes verbal desele uh dees escalation, traumainformed care, and safe physical disengagement. >> It's me, too. Sorry. This is just an example of our lower grade um elementary schedule where the students will be coming in starting at 8:00 um getting their lessons, digging into some language arts, getting a small break, then digging into Legos and mathematics, and then they'll go into their EXLP rotations, similarly to what our upper grade elementary students will also
133be doing. Uh and that's just an example of that schedule. Okay. So, for secondary, um we have programs at our middle schools and our high schools. Um and so, um our our schedule's the same. Uh we had PD today for our teachers, which I'll go over in a a second. Um and then our first day as well, June 15 to uh July 14th. Um we have at the middle school our our school day is from 7:45 to 11:45 uh for uh for four hours total. Um we also have at the high school we actually have three programs. We have high school online learning. Uh we also have high school brick and mortar credit recovery as well. Uh online learning is also credit recovery. And then we have a summer bridge program for incoming 9th graders
134to help them transition into high school. Um so our high school brick and mortar um will run from 8 to 2:45. Our online um learning also runs from 8:00 to 2:45. Uh and then is same thing for middle school. Um we do have for PD today um we had our secondary teachers kind of spread out around uh the campus a little bit. Uh we had um our online teachers working and receiving training on Apex and Subject uh which are two online learning platforms. Uh we had our middle school teachers in the library uh learning about our custom summer school curriculum we designed just for summer school around uh cultural themes and and World Cup. Uh we had a custom ELA uh curriculum built. Um we had a custom curriculum built by Karina Vega. Um a
135couple of our MTSS coaches built the ELA curriculum. Uh we have Prism's math uh available for um our middle school teachers. Uh and then we have uh Lego science uh for middle school as well. Um switching over into the summer bridge for our incoming 9th graders. Uh we have a novel study uh that's a age appropriate uh uh book study uh for our 9th graders. Uh for ELA we have um a college and career uh readiness course. Uh we're using our same curriculum that our middle school team's using. Um and then our last piece is um ELA college career. Oh, and Prisms math. Um, and so just to kind of briefly share a little bit about Prisms and and why we're for sure uh incorporating that into our science. Um, looking at some of our
136top Prisms users across the district uh and and some of their student performance data. Um, right now our seventh grade top Prisms classes that use it uh consistently are scoring 36% proficient than the overall district average. uh eighth grade uh we see an increase of 27% um in in proficiency. Uh for 11th grade math 11% increase in proficiency. Uh for eighth grade science we're seeing a 3% increase in proficiency and for 11th grade science an 8% increase in proficiency. Uh so our top users of prisms are are teachers using that incorporating that with their students. Uh those classrooms we are seeing uh some increases in in overall uh proficiency data there. uh so far with our preliminary data. Um so we talked about middle school PD, we talked about summerbridge PD, we talked about online
137learning PD, we also had our brickandmortar credit recovery teachers uh together at CV as well uh planning their curriculum for summer school. It's a really condensed abbreviated version of the courses that students are taking during the school year. But again, it's rec it's credit recovery, so they've seen it before. Um and so that's going to um help them recover those credits, too. our our sample schedule and this is a sample of the middle school schedule. Um we have our sunrise program that actually starts at 6:30. Uh teacher prep starts 7:45, students arrive, uh classes start at 8:00. Um a typical period might be first period would be the lessons and leadership. Um we have Lego science uh would be the next period. Then they would go into ELA uh for their third period and then
138fourth period might be math. So that's just a sample schedule. Students go to lunch at 11:45 to 12:15 and after that they have our EXLP team coming in to do those enrichment uh rotations. Dismissal is at 2:45. Uh and then students have a chance to participate in EXLP after school uh rotations as well with dismissal out at 5. Next, >> the timeline started back in March in March on March 20th when all the applications went out to all teachers. The notification selection was done late April. All the teachers that are or have been selected to work in the summer school program will be required to attend one all day field trip. And at this point, all the field trips have been established. All the locations have been established and uh we are ready with all
139the field trips that will take place during summer school session. Okay. Program is available at the sites listed um on the screen. We have um Steve View Elementary. We have Mount Vista Elementary that will be hosting Coral Mountain Academy and Westside. We have Valley View that will be hosting Palm View and ESY. We also have Cesar Chavez hosting Peter Pendleton and Vasol. We have Oasis hosting Lasas and John Kelly and Northshore hosting S Martinez and Mecca. In middle school we have West Shores Middle School running with concurrent with uh West Shores High School. We have CDA hosting Bobby Duke and Toro Canyon. At the high school we have CB High School hosting ESY um secondary and Lafia and we have West Shores High School and Desert Mirage High School. So our student flyers were sent
140out um via um an online every school had its own um poster as you can see here with QR codes that um linked to an online form. But elementary students also had the option to get a paper application and they could turn in a paper application as well. When we got paper applications, then we utilized our parent leaison to input those um into the form so that we had an accurate accounting of all the students. Um and so that system was actually really helpful and um I know middle school only did the QR code and they only and and high school also. So, um, we provided multiple ways and then we also had posters created for each site where you could, um, scan the QR code from outside of the school if parents were coming
141by um, and they were able to fill out the application there as well. And then um, for the elementary program, so we have a variety of things happening. So for academics we have like we kind of discussed already with the professional development we have um SEAL ELA um math science and geography are our academic areas. We have differentiated support um for special education via our ESY. We also have um any type of support that students need with IEPs. We have that um still going on through the summer. we have our uh supports for English learners and then we have um some dual language classes at every single site um for K3. So, we've wanted to make sure that we continue that um through line for the summer. And then with our EXLP enrichment, we're offering
142a variety of things. So, each school kind of has their own different things. They're not all going to have some of the same classes, but a lot of them are very similar. Um and so that is kind of a variety depending on the site. Um, and then again we have the field trips, the local Anaway field trips, hands-on learning, and then um an end of the program showcase, which Ru will talk to you about at the end of this. Our number one goal with curriculum is that the students have fun while they're learning. We will embed uh Lego science discovery education, which also includes reading and writing, um mathematics, and social emotional lessons as well. So for the secondary, I kind of went through that uh in quite a bit of detail previously, but again
143uh the areas that we're focusing on for middle school, legal science, uh for engineering, uh discovery education as well, uh with a custom curriculum, prisms for math, uh lessons and leadership. Uh at the high school level, um we like I said, we have brick and mortar credit recovery, online learning, credit recovery, um summer bridge for 9th graders, and actually forgot to mention earlier, we actually have dual enrollment um taking place at Desarrage and CV. Um so at CV, we have our early childhood education course happening. Uh we have students from Desarrage and CV High School attending that. Um we also have our health and LVN program at CV and then there's also a health and LVN uh program at Desarrage as well. Um and and we actually recognized some of our completers uh earlier this
144year at a previous board meeting. So uh we're continuing those programs to provide those opportunities for students for dual enrollment as well. Um for exelp enrichment, a lot of it's supporting some of the curriculum that we're building uh within uh the day. Uh so things and activities center around art, dance, cooking, gaming, music, sports, and really just all those cultural pieces. Uh and then there's also field trips uh that they'll be taking uh throughout the summer as well. Um, this is honestly a lot of repeat of what I just mentioned, but um, it's there. >> Okay. I'm really proud of this year's um, summer program. I I do want to mention that this is the first year we have summer school for our dual language students. So, we wanted to ensure that we implemented that.
145I also want to say that we've been working really hard to advertise summer school. We have over 4,000 students registered. This is um higher than the last three years that we've had summer school. So, I hope they all show up on on Monday and we add more teachers. Um this summer program is staffed to ensure effective site management, high quality instruction and student support services and a safe learning environment. I want to point out that we do have an administrator and coordinator to oversee all sites. We have site administrators, principles at every site. We have office support personnel, health clerical, summer custodians. Uh we have our two EXLP site leads at every site to support the principal and the program that goes up to 5:00 from sunrise to 5:00. We have teacher based on enrollment
146and we keep on adding every day which is really good. EXLP line stop based on enrollment, safety supervisors at all sites, TKGs, campus security and secondary and high school career recovery support for software. And as this amazing team said, on Monday we will kick off our FIFA themed summer school program. So we're very excited. uh our students are going to be able to participate in a variety of different activities during the academic piece and during the enrichment. We will have a end of the program showcase. Our showcase will incorporate different uh countries that have been learned throughout summer. Um we'll showcase what the students have been learning through their academics. We'll showcase any skills developed through any of the Richmond components, demonstrating art, dance, cooking, film, culture. Uh we are very excited to have a
147fun-filled summer plan for our students and we hope that we have continued enrollment. We have the kids participating. So our showcase will be held at all of our sites. We will have dates uh determined soon and we invite all of you to come and see what a wonderful program these students will be participating in. So, we hope that our board members, our staff, our families, our our parents are able to come and see all the great work and fun they've had throughout the summer. I think that's it. Thank you so much. >> Do we have any questions? >> Any questions? >> Yes. Um, so what do the numbers look like for the credit recovery program at the high school? Do we have >> um looking at some of the numbers today um we're looking at
148close to 500 students at CV, a good 400 students at Desert Mirage. I think Laaf Familia is up to about 200. Uh and then we're getting upwards to about a 100red at at West Shores. Um so we're we're closing on over a thousand students for credit recovery. Um, and and also the brick and mortar as well, which is bumps that up a little bit. So, probably around 1,100. >> Cool. >> And then I I just have a question cuz my daughter's going to turn four and I know she's coming to school year next year, right? Um, can she attend summer school now or does she have to wait till next summer? I did ask that question at student support services and it was for a student to attend school they have to be already in
149our Aries program already a student at the school. >> Oh, thank you. >> Any other questions? Just wanted to clarify a little bit because I did hear it and I was wondering about it because I had heard that the first half would be a certificated educator and then the second half is ASUS programming. So the field trips will all have at least one educator or more than one for each group, right? Cuz I'm imagining that it's several buses of kids, right? So >> yes. And >> what's that ratio look like for the still do the 20 to1 ratio and for TK Kendra I believe it's 10 to1 >> okay >> and we have today I did when we talked to the teachers all teachers are invited to the all the field trip as well it
150was during their time so the nospay far one I believe the bowling one the Aziz for water day and there's another one that I might be missing movies a story >> um anything that's after like 1:00 the teachers are already gone which I believe we're taking them ice skating that will be with the line staff but Just so you know, in our line staff, we also have certificated teachers. >> Excellent. Okay. And classified. Love to hear it. It seems like a really fun programming day. So, I'm really excited. I know that the kids hearing the kids say, "Oh, FIFA, FIFA." So, it did seem like it did have a different level of interest with the students. So, I'm really excited to hear. Yeah, we're really excited. Secondary did an amazing job. Um, they're studying um
151stadiums. Oh, >> they are studying comparing and contrasting players. >> So, uh >> yeah, I'm really excited to see I was able to talk my son into it this year. It's the first time we're doing summer school and he was just like, "No homework. Okay, fine. >> No homework." >> So, I'm hoping that it'll be really good for him. So, yeah. I'm very excited. Very excited. >> Yeah. Thank you very much. >> Are we providing jerseys for students? I mean it's I mean >> that that was just a >> with the cricket machine. We'll have them with the cricket machine. They'll be doing that. >> I have to say this is really amazing and it's proven by the number of people that are going and no other district does stuff like this. This is just
152truly amazing. And I think about the support that the parents need because of jobs they have and things like this. You're providing them an invaluable service so they can continue to work or whatever they need to do. >> So it's Thank you very much. This is just amazing. Thank you. >> And I will be remiss if I didn't mention only because I love migrant program, but the migrant students also are getting supportive for the ones that move up north or move to Mexico. They're getting uh tutoring and online learning support and language arts for 1 hour and 1 hour in math. >> Very good. Any questions? Right. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Next uh presentation is Karen Pentany, public hearing the local control and accountability plan. >> Yes. Good evening. Um President Tortez,
153board members, Dr. Sparza Executive Cabinet and our uh families, community and staff that are with us in person or on Zoom. Um you do have this presentation in your green folders that were provided for you as well as detailed list of each action in the five LCAP goals and a list of LCAP acronyms that are most commonly found. Would you like me to go through the presentation or >> have you reviewed it and you have questions? I'm happy to do anything. >> Any questions from the board >> on the presentation? >> I just I don't know. Should we open up the hearing since we have parents still here that want to speak or >> Yeah. Or there's any questions from the board? If not, we'll go through the hearing. >> Okay. Okay. Any questions from
154the public? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> So, we're opening the public hearing at 9:05. >> At 9:05. Yes. >> Okay. Okay. She's asking if she can come to the podium. >> Yes. >> Yeah. is restortuction. Um, I have uh I have my headphones here. Okay, perfect. Um, California school dashboard. CBUSD Fore CBUSD faudes in California. Forego signal Foreioch. personific. administr proportionary inform speedo. Restorch. Gracias. No, me high school. for Thank you. Is there any more comment on the LCAP, local control and accountability plan? I just have a quick comment, Dr. Francis. I think uh I think the message from the first speaker is very profound and very powerful and I I think we need to pay attention uh that needs to be considered in how we go forward. Please, >> any other questions or comments?
155>> I'll definitely say that this is the first LCAP hearing since I've been on the board that was before 11:00 at night and open for more than 1 minute. So, I'm glad to actually hear parents have the ability to speak. It's still 9:00, which is late for you, and I'm sorry for that, but I'm glad that we've actually been able to hear parents at a hearing like this because it's always so late at night. We've literally opened it for 1 minute in the 11:00 hour every year I've been here except for this year. So, I'm glad to at least hear parents. Thank you. >> Any other comments? I just want to also thank the >> thank the speakers for coming tonight and and just providing their comments on the LCP. >> Yes. Very good. >>
156Uh director. >> Yeah. I just want to say thank you for the the the parents that did stay. I know it's 9:00 and we need to just work on having the hearing earlier in the day for the parents in the community come out and share their concerns. But um you know I I do I do hear the concerns that we need to outline and clearly define what our plan is for restorative justice as we move forward. We talk about it all the time. I think the messaging, you know, it it's uh yeah, if you total the numbers, the the investment is on in wellness centers for one staff per wellness center and that much more services. So, if we were truly going to, you know, support and move forward with with uh more restorative practices,
157we need to invest the dollars into it. Um, and I know partly uh we are investing in mental health services that support restorative practices, but we also just need to to, you know, like they're requesting a calendar, right, of what is what is the actual plan, right? And as somebody who focuses and does this every day, I I definitely understand what the community is asking. So, um, but I know every year and and so my my goal will be to just keep an eye on, you know, how how we move forward and offer suggestions as as I can, but thank you. I know a lot of work went into gathering information and and talking to CBOS's and getting the information that we need to put together this cell. So just need to uh tighten up
158a few things but thank you President Torres. That's it. >> All right. Thank you. >> One one final comment. Uh Dr. Francis, as we heard uh the very compelling position of of the community, I don't know if our cabinet I don't know if um u if everybody here is bilingual. I noticed that if they're not, they didn't have headphones on and >> 99% of them are. >> Okay. So I just I just wanted to make sure of that. >> Yeah. Very good. All right. Any comments? All right. Yeah. I I believe you know the first speaker touching on restorative justice and mentioning the the the uh statistics on the English learner suspension rates and excessive absenteeism because that is a minority. But you know it it also mimics the minority that I talked about earlier.
159the Native American minority has more uh we have a a higher suspension rate and we have a higher excessive absenteeism because of the minorism. So it's you know I guess it's parallel to what she was talking about. But I'm grateful that you know I I work with the Native American parent committee, right? Lauraai Seahha and Lydia Rodriguez, uh, Gwendel and Dixon are all helping the community to address this uh, excess of absenteeism and the suspension rates, but I think with this LCAP, we can address this problem at the same time. So, is there any other comments? Uh, yes. Yes. >> Yeah. So, I want to go to the podium, please. >> Podium, please. Yes. I just wanted to mention that we were looking for documents online and they were not in Spanish. They were only
160English forms. Um so we didn't really have enough time to look at the LCAP. Um and it was like in English and it was 300 pages. So we really wanted more time to look at them and obviously help our parents um to read through them because they're very interested in that as well. Thank you. >> All right. Um, so when you review those, you can still submit them to the board to superintendent for our review before we adopt it on on July June 25th. Right. >> Yeah. All right. Any other comments, suggestions? All right. >> Uh, sorry. >> Well, you got to close the hearing first. >> The issue wasn't responses. They're not in Spanish. >> They're in Spanish. >> Not in Spanish. So we need to make sure there's always mentions can't find stuff
161and I'm told yeah just sign up on your board. Yeah, that's not the one I'm mentioning. We have to be able to see what the community can see. >> So the issue is that we need to get them in Spanish, not simply that they are able to come and and and comment. That's the whole point I think you're trying to make. Correct. Yeah. All right. So, if we could >> make it dual language, right? In English and Spanish. >> Get them get them. >> Yeah. Not just in English or not just in Spanish. It needs to be in both. >> Yeah. >> So, yeah. Okay. Um, any other comments? Is there anyone? All right. We need to close the hearing. Uh, what do we have? That was Karen. and I will um prior to our
162offering for adoption >> the cap on the 25th we will have it um all of the actions in each of our goals in Spanish on our on our website. >> Very good. >> We'll work on that this week. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Thank you very much. All right. Um next on our presentation list is >> I apologize. Will the comments also be posted in English? Because there are sometimes where it just got a little lower volume. So there might have been a sentence or two I missed. >> Well, the public hearing the comments have to be published. Yeah. >> So it will be both languages. >> Not acted on published. Yeah. >> Right. >> Not acted. No, I'm saying will be >> translated is what? >> Spanish and
163English. Yes. Okay. So the comments will be translated. Great. Thank you. >> Okay. Any comments on that? Next is uh the public hearing for the proposed budget go fiscal year 2627. All right. Good evening, President Torres, members of the board, cabinet, superintendent, community. What? Okay. So, each year the district is required to present an adopted budget that aligns to your um local control and accountability plan which is known as your LCAP in June for the public to for for the in June for the public to review and the board to approve at the second board meeting of the month. The adopted budget reflects the district's investments in the goals and actions identified within the three-year LCAP, as well as the operational costs necessary to support student programs and district operations. The budget also includes the
164latest fiscal assumptions and funding updates included in the governor's May revise. So, currently for June, we are in the first cycle of our um adopted budget. Key takeaways from the governor's may revise. The governor's May revise reflects significant improvements to state to the state fiscal outlook with higher than anticipated revenues driven primarily by growth in the one-time technology investment in the financial sectors as well as strong consumer spending. These factors resulted in an additional 6.4 4 billion in Prop 98, which funds K through 12. Increased in Prop 2 uh 98 funding allows the state to avoid significant reductions to K through2 education funding while continuing to make deposits into the state state's rainy day fund. The May revise also includes notable investments in student support programs, literacy, mathematics, professional development, and especially special ed. and
165their base funding along with community school initiatives in special education receives an ongoing increase in their base funding. This continues with the state's effort to improve funding levels for students with disabilities. A significant new proposal requires all K through2 districts to provide up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy disability leave beginning in 2627 as well. While the fiscal outlook may have may be improved, there is still caution that economic uncertainties remains due to inflationary pressures, federal policy changes, tariffs, reduced tourism to the state of California, potential impacts from immigration and policy changes. Additionally, California still has an outgoing migration and um in the last 20 years, this has been the highest that it has ever seen. Additionally, although the state provides new investments in special education, it has not fully restored prior year funding shifts
166and currently has no identified plan to fully repay those money, those obligations created in ongoing concerns regarding long-term special education funding and sustainability. So last for the last two years, the governor has also been doing a U maneuver with a Prop 98, meaning that they're not funding schools at the highest level for the monies that they receive. Again, he has done the same thing for this current budget. Although there are many, many promises in this budget, there is still gaps in funding for K through 12. Now, we do have a new governor that's going to be coming in, and the gap that sits out there is not guaranteed to us. So, what we're working with is currently what is out there. Um, and hopefully the new governor that we have in will fully fund K
167through 12. Okay. So many of the the revise and updates to the assumptions reflected in this um budget assumptions doesn't differ significantly from our third interim. The only difference is is that you might have heard the term super colola and it's not technically a super cola. The statutory cola is 2.87 just as it was in the governor's workshop. However, there was a cola augmentation for one time at a 1.44. That is where some people are designating it as a super cola. Technically is not a super cola. That does affect the base funding that is for all the years out. The additional things that are noted in here is that the mandated block grant is slightly higher than anticipated and the cassuber price index which is um the taxes and stuff on the goods that we
168buy is slightly down. Now, in comparison from our third interim to now, we have not changed any of our average funding as far as our daily attendance because those um projections still are in line with what we've already projected. So again I did present our average daily of fund uh ADA for the past for the current upcoming 3 years for 2627 2728 and 2829. We're currently still going um with these projections and these projections will be updated at our first interim after uh our enrollment has come in and we get to see what type of um attendance that we have. There are no significant changes to the district's projected um funded ADA and there's no changes to the local control funding formula assumptions from the third interim. The only difference is the incorporation of the
1691.44 ongoing augmentation to the COLA from the governor's may revised as reflected in the table. The cost of living adjustment, COLA, has increased since the third interim report. However, federal and state revenues have decreased primarily due to the use of the one-time student support professional development block grant that was recognized earlier and incorporated into the district's fiscal stabilization plan as well as the adjustments to funding related to literacy um grants that we had received in the prior year. Additionally, transfers have decreased because of the one-time redevelopment fund transfer recognized in the prior year and not included in the current year's revenue projections. These changes reflected in the expiration of the one-time funding sources rather than reductions to ongoing revenue streams. So, what what it means in a nutshell is we recognize those in the current
170year and so as we move forward, it's already embedded in it. So we can't recognize it again. So you will see the decrease. The district's projected budget totals is approximately 300 um 336 million. LCFS funding remains the primary revenue source representing 74.6% 6% of the total revenue. While state and federal federal categorical revenues um are the second largest funding source supporting a variety of targeted educational programs and services. Several changes in the district's unrestricted expenditures are the result of the implementation to the fiscal stabilization plan. These reductions are primary primarily reflected in the salaries and benefits as well as the capital outlay expenditures. At the same time, expenditures for book supplies and services have increased due to the firstear costs associated with the curriculum adoption pilot program, the implementation of upgraded service platforms for student
171data information, as well as what you see tonight, which is the transportation routing system and investment in training for our um for all of our staff. The district's projected expenditure budget totals 361 million. The largest portion of the expenditures reflects the do the district's investment in its employees with salaries and benefits accounting accounting for 80.67 of the total expenditures. The remaining approximate 19.33 supports book supplies, programs, services, capital outlay, and any other operational costs necessary to maintain programs and the district operations. Multi-year projections are not predictions of the future, financial conditions. Rather, they are mathematical calculations based on decisions that have already been made, reasonable assumptions that were presented earlier, as well as projected enrollment, attendance, revenues, and expenditures, and all other known fiscal factors. The proposed MYP is to provide planning tool that helps
172districts evaluate the long-term fiscal impact of current decisions and assumptions. This is where the the board has the opportunity to look into three years and or two years into the future and basically have an idea of where they can um align additional programming or shift something. The district's multi-year budget for both unrestricted and restricted funds incorporates the board approved updated fiscal stabilization plan. While the PAL provides a foundation for long-term fiscal sustainability, the district remains committed to addressing its ongoing structural deficit through continued program evaluations, operational efficiencies, and alignment of staffing levels with enrollment trends. These efforts will help ensure that resources are strategically allocated to student support um to support student achievement while maintaining fiscal stabil uh stability. The components of the district's ending fund balance include the board approved fiscal stabilization commitment, the
173updated commitment um currently that was approved as well as the reserve for economic uncertainties. These components reflect the district's strategic plan efforts and commitment to maintaining fiscal stability while meeting its financial obligations and reserve requirements. The table summarizes all other funds included in the district's adopted budget, providing an overview of revenues, expenditures, and ending balance associated with each account. Currently, tonight in the next steps is the public hearing. You guys have the opportunity to review all of the documents in front of you and then on the next board meeting on the 25th, you will take action on the adopted budget presented. Lastly, the Riverside County Office of Ed once approved by the board will then review your our adopted budget. Again, I want to thank all of our fiscal services, our county advisor, and all
174those that have participated in assisting with the development of our adopted budget. Are there I want to make sure it's open for public hearing. >> I have a question >> and that there are any questions. >> Just want to thank the staff for the hard work. >> I have a question. >> Um, Can we ask our question? >> Well, I don't I don't think they opened the public hearing, but I'm not part of the public hearing. >> I was going to ask a question. >> Oh, >> you assume I don't want I'm assuming you want. >> Yeah. I don't have a question. I have a question on the on the presentation if I can ask it out. >> Okay. >> Um on the slide that says multi-year projections general fund, can you help me understand
175a little bit more um in just trying to read this table, right? So, uh we're looking at our budget 3 years out >> with all the reductions or fiscal stabilization plan. I'm looking that it says the decrease in fund balance. So this is what we're eating at our fund balance. Right. >> Correct. >> Help me understand how we're still kind of in the red basically or or how am I misreading that? >> Okay. So you still have a positive ending fund balance. However, there still is an ongoing structural deficit. meaning year after year you're still bringing in less revenue than what you have going out in expenditures. Right? So unless you completely reduce all of your expenditures to make sure that it matches the revenue that's coming in, you will always be in a structural
176deficit. >> Okay? So you can have your fiscal stabilization plan that addresses large chunks of that which you see which is a negative 24 million right there or 24 million and >> then what it does is it goes and it helps reduce that structural deficit in those years out but until you completely match your revenues to your expenditures you will continue to have a structural deficit. >> Okay. um in year 2028 29 are we meeting our is it 3% our obligation on the g on what we're supposed to have in the general fund yes we are meeting our obligation as far as our 3% reserves which is noted here in our components of ending fund balance so right where it says 10 million 11 million and 11.5 million where it says reserve for economic uncertainties
177>> that is the 3% reserve reserve balance that is required. So everything above that shows our stabilization plan from 2425 the commitment that the board has taken as well as the updated stabilization and the other commitments and then if there was any money that was not assigned to any of those activities it would be listed and unassigned or unappropriated. >> Okay, thank you. So, um, the 11 million that's noted here, that's the minimum required. That doesn't mean that that's, um, like if we were to have the 11 million in our pocket, that doesn't pay all of our bills. What it does is every district is required to set that aside, it's a 3% reserve of your total expenditures listed on your budget. >> Okay. Yeah. So what I'm saying that so in that year that
1782828 it says we our ending fund balance has 25 million that doesn't cover all of our expenses right that's what like >> no it does cover your expenses for that current year that would be the ending fund balance that for the um upcoming year after that which would be your 2930 budget would become your beginning balance >> okay so it's basically like I've spent everything and this This is the ending in my checking my checking account and now like the next month comes and that's my beginning balance. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Are there any other comments questions? >> Yeah. My question is um did we have any uh leftovers this year on the LCAP funding? Did do we have any unspent dollars there? No, we fully expended LCAP funding and that
179is um actually a proponent of our general fund. So when we look at general fund, think of it as like this large circle and then there's components of like little pockets of money that sit in that that is unrestricted and then you have the same on your restricted side. And then just I'm going to ask the question again like we've spent out we we're 3 weeks away from the year our fiscal year ending correct >> and we've spent down all our dollars up to this point up to the June 30 deadline >> currently when it comes to LCAP we are um projected to spend all of that >> and any special funds we meaning we we are not we don't we're not holding any funds we're spending everything, you know, any even special dollars that
180are categorical dollars, like we wouldn't have to spend anything back to the state is what I'm saying. So, we're 3 weeks away from June 30th. We're we're pretty much on track to expand what we have and we won't have to send anything back. Correct. >> Currently, we are on track with everything that is um encumbered. The only difference would be um trusto is if something came in slightly lower than what our purchase order our our incumbrance that was set aside for that purchase. >> Okay. >> So if I had set aside um a purchase order for $5 million and for some reason they couldn't um meet that requirement and the vendor said, "I'm sorry, whatever you bought was only $4 million." That would be like an unencumbered balance at the end of the year that
181we recognize in our unodudited actuals. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? >> Yeah, just quick bringing up the previous years. We've not we spent all the money, but we didn't actually spend it on what the LCAP said. >> We moved it to do other things. In the past, we've requested two things. one we requested to know what money wasn't spent on what program and where did we spend it and then that the board was able to approve that stuff before it got sent out this year. Did that happen this year? >> So that would be listed within your LCAP document that details each one of those goals and actions and how they spent that and the reason why it was possibly not implemented. >> I understand that. I saw that. What I'm saying is,
182does it tell me where I spent $100 on X program? We budgeted $100 for X program. We only spent 80. It reflects that we only spent 80, but it doesn't tell me where we spent the other 20. >> So, that would be a deeper dive into the LCAP bud um the LCAP piece of it because it would be a shift in another expenditure listed within the LCA. I understand that. But in the past years, we've requested that we know where that money was allocated to or how it was allocated. Um, move to over here to cover whatever in the general fund x program. We've asked that for that in the past and I think in the past we've gotten >> Mr. I just >> but not all of it. >> Yeah. I I mean I
183I get your point, but but the document shows where the money's spent, right? I I don't remember us getting detailed information about where we finally invested the OKCAP money, right, to meet the outcome that we were looking for. Um, and I think to your point, if we wanted detailed information on on final spending, it's in the document, right? And it would be for us. >> It was it was generalized, but it wasn't like dime for dime for penny. It was generalized. Okay. We we we didn't we didn't fill a position like that was a example of some of the programs we had. We we were going to hire three people and we only hired two. Then that money was shifted and you said well we moved that bulk of that money to fund this XY
184program over here. It wasn't dollar for dollar but it was how we moved it. And I think part of that was when we were doing the other ALCAP stuff when we were saying well how come we didn't spend it for this? We didn't even know that it was getting moved and they weren't running they weren't hiring the programs. they just weren't doing the program cuz they didn't want to do the program and they used that money to do something else. That was the whole point. I think that was what about 3 or 4 years ago, right? Right around the CO time. We were doing it right around the CO time before that. >> So, um >> so we had asked for that. Now, again, when we came back from CO, everything was all all scrambled.
185But again, going back to the point, people are looking at the ELCAP and they're going to come back and say, well, you said you were going to do this. you know, restorative justice is always a one that comes up. We didn't exactly spend the money that we said we're going to do for that program. I'm just using that as an example. Okay. So, I'm assuming that's one of them that you bring up. >> So, I want to make sure that I provide clarification which one is any monies that come in specifically under our SNC, which is our LCAP, is spent within all of those goals. Secondly, when it comes to um progress as far as where we have spent it and any shifts, there is a midyear uh bop that we present in January that
186already starts to dictate some of those changes and fluctuations. And then again when we start having the open forums um with Miss Pettany as far as like here um for all of our families to attend that's also where they have an availability to voice where those changes have been made. But yes, to your point, if you said that, hey, I wanted to spend um three for three positions in restorative justice and I could only hire two and maybe they were slightly lower than what was projected, then what they would do is they would still look within that particular goal and that action and see if they can continue to invest those monies in that particular program. But yes, during the times that we have at in January, that would also be in um availability for
187you to bring up those questions too and as well as our public. >> All right. Any other questions? So, when we're talking about those changes and the details, um, have you known in the past any board member or Julie that revisions have been made to the LCAP because we've done policy says the board can adopt revisions to the alcap at any time during the period in which the plan is in effect. >> Well, we get the we get the midyear, right? So, staff is doing the best. Now, it's on us to to direct them in the middle of it where we might we find a new priority. something's eminent. We need to do it now. But to to look at that and to to be asking these questions right now, I don't think is relevant.
188>> Very good. >> So, if I might add implemented. Describe the effectiveness of those actions that were implemented. What were the material differences? Did you spend what you anticipated? And finally, what were any changes to the goal either in this year or will you make going into the next LCAP? So, anything that um you know questions we have about implementation It is allowable to adopt revisions at any time during the period. So we are allowed to and revisions. You we just need to go through a similar process as we are right now. >> We would hold a public hearing. We would get um stakeholder >> input and feedback and then we would we would bring any changes to the board. >> Right. All right. Very good. So yeah, we'll just keep an eye on the
189performance indicators. Any other questions? >> Seeing none. Uh yeah. So we'll open the uh hearing >> 9:45. Any comments, questions from the public? >> Yes. Yes. We approach podium. Transparences. Gracias. Yes. >> All right. Any other comments from the public? >> Read none. We can close the hearing. >> 9:48. >> All right. Um after that is administrative actions 8.1 Dr. Francis Farza adopting resolution 20 2643 for Riverside County order of election ordering an election and requesting to register voters of Riverside uh to conduct an election and requesting consolidation of the election. >> I I motion I just want to comment that we want to make sure that Imperial's on the same page um and we don't have the problem we had last time. Please >> definitely. >> Okay. Any >> a second >> second by
190>> same thing >> do we have to notify Imperial some sort >> any discussion >> yeah I think I'm assuming that we made the correction to whatever issue was that resulted into >> what happened last >> we have spoken to Riverside County and Imperial to make sure that Imperial doesn't make that mistake again >> yes thank you >> okay you comment we get the roll call >> I'm thinking Oh. >> Oh, yeah. No, this is uh for a vote. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Can we get the roll call? >> President President Torres, >> please. >> Can we get the roll call? >> President Torres. >> What's that? >> The roll call. >> Roll call. >> Oh, yes. I not that. >> Nice. >> Yes. Yes. >> That was funny. How can I help you? >>
191Vice President Garcia. >> I. >> Clerk Ardondo. >> Hi. >> Trustee Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kalimmanes. >> I. >> Trustee Gonzalez. >> I. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Student Trustee Eileen Garcia. >> Vote is unanimous. Motion carries. Uh, President Torres, before we go on, I just want to let you know that we're going to have another opportunity at the next board meeting to make a comment uh, as it relates to our fiscal plan. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you for that. Um, 9.1 Choro Sanchez requesting approval attend California Department of Education. Doc, >> um, Mr. President Toris, I I I want to make a comment about these action items. I I don't I don't know when, but it seems to me like most of this should be on the consent calendar.
192We're talking about renewal of facilities dollars that happen every year. We're talking about buying groceries. We're talking about buying fresh bread. We're talking about paying our lawyers. I don't know how we became gunshy. And we're taking these action items on people needing to go to conferences. and all of a sudden we have it's 10 o'clock at night and we have another 20 action items that we need to take on individually when this in my opinion should be in the consent calendar >> and if board members and if board members want to pull items uh they're happy to do it and I think >> I think staff is being very cautious because I think certain board members have have been pretty critical but these are expenditures that we need to make and I'm going to trust
193that our professional staff is is doing the right Thank you. >> Right. Uh duly noted and that could be uh that could be addressed the next time we have an agenda approval. Someone could say okay well let's uh strike all of these and put them under consent calendar or something like that. But okay uh request approval to attend California Department of Education. >> I motion to approve. >> We'll second. >> Motion and second. Do we have discussion? >> I'll second. Yes. Oh yeah, take it. Yeah. >> Okay, we need roll call. >> Do we need a roll call? >> Heisa. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Hi. >> Garedo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Calimmanes. >> Hi. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Hi. >>
194Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Unanimous. >> Chairman Tortois. just think in the spirit of time again uh calling the question I and and nay right and anybody abstain is a lot faster than taking a roll call vote on these procedural items. I I just I it it it this is unreal to me to be going through that process of individual voting asking people to vote on these types of things uh in the spirit of time. >> Right? So what I'm doing is following the protocol that was established to us when we came to the training. Right? And they said that we had to do a roll call vote for every item that's on the agenda. So I go back again to the board members when we look at approval of the agenda. it is your
195responsibility to say okay these items shouldn't be on the agenda and I motion to put these under the consent action that would be the time to do >> no I understand the recommendation of the training but I'm saying in in the legal the legality of it there's no reason to take on these type this type of procedural voting I don't think you have to individually vote on this and and obviously you can run the meeting however you want it's just my recommendation my opinion >> yeah so next time we can put these all under Right. >> I'm just going to be all together. >> Yeah, that's why >> I was I wasn't aware of that >> with what that's what they said at the training. >> Yeah, but they're saying we should all be under
196>> we can look at I would suggest that we go through the criteria. Whoever puts these things together look criteria. what should be an action item and what should be doesn't say calendar but my understanding was from the training is that the action items have to be done roll call there's certain things that can be done um by just consent or just by calling it out but action items were the ones that they were very critical of saying that we needed to do those by roll call because I believe we asked that a few times >> Mr. Thank you for that. I wasn't aware. >> All right. Very good. Um requesting approval agreement. Tonnie Bahama Maramonte Resort and Spa Indian Wells for 2026 29 workbased learning job shadowing program. >> So move. >> Motion by
197director. >> Second by director Almanz. Discussion. Roll call. >> President Torres. >> I. >> Vice President Garcia. >> I. >> Clerk Arondo. >> Hi. Trusty Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kalmanz. >> Hi. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> I. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Unanimous. Motion carries. Question approval. Teacher summer extra service contract. Riverside County Education Agreement number IN20560. >> Motion to approve. >> Second by Aridondo. Discussion. Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> I. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Hi. >> Clerk Arondo. >> I. Trusty Auna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kimmanes. >> Hi. >> Trusty Gonzalez. Hi. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Unanimous. Requesting approval consin lawyer uh professional corporation. >> So move. >> Should we have second? >> Second by Vargas. All those in favor? >> I. >> Can I make a comment before?
198So, I know that we're working with these attorney, this attorney group for several different things. It's just frustrating that we need a supplemental when they're capable of doing everything we need. We have two different lawyer groups that we're paying for. It's just very frustrating. I understand special education needs this and I'm going to vote for it. But it's very frustrating to understand that they have a primary lawyer group and then I still need this one because they're specialized and our others either aren't or are too busy. >> Well, that's frustating. >> I just have a comment on that. Obviously, these are billable hours and these services are built separately. I don't believe any one law firm uh this this law firm used to provide us services and we had five different lawyers and these were
199our primary groups, our primary group. And so I believe that the law firm we have now does a lot more work than these people did for us when they were our primary lawyer. Yeah. And so I mean you could look at it, but there I we're a large school district with a lot of issues and and I think we do need these services. We do use both um law firms for special ed. So there is someone from OMLO who is working closely with the director and then uh we use AALR for some of those special cases. >> Call for the question. >> Roll call. >> President Torres. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Hi. >> Clerk Arondo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Auna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kimman. >> Hi. >> Trusty Gonzalez. I >>
200trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Motion carries unanimous requesting approval AP49. >> Plan motion. >> Second. >> Discussion. Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> I. >> Clerk Arondo. >> I. >> Trustee Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kalimmanes. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Hi. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Uh unanimous. Motion carries. Amendment resolution 2629. delegation awarding emergency contracts. >> A motion. We >> have a second. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Hi. >> Dr. Redondo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kalimmanes. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Hi. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> All right. Unanimous. Adoption. Board resolution 2642, Education Protection Act, spending determination 2627. So move. >> Second. >> I'll second.
201>> Discussion. Roll call. >> President Torres. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> I. >> Clerondo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kimmanes. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Hi. Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> The unanimous motion carries award of RFP NS-2701. >> So move. >> Second. >> Well, uh discussion. >> Just a quick >> Oh, sorry. >> I I was wondering if ever somebody like for instance Newport Farms, would a minimum threshold be changed if we found out that the type of food was, you know, organic or specialized or something like that? Or once we choose that, that's it. We can't go below the minimum. >> Sorry. >> You know, as he's coming, I also have a further comment um maybe for consideration. I I I don't I I know that
202these contracts were we're picking one guy who who goes and sources from a lot of different people and he sells us uh stuff from different row crop providers. And I'm just wondering if building a relationship uh and holding, you know, a more competitive type of uh of of purchase uh would would save us money instead of just becoming complacent and buying from the same. >> You're totally wrong on that. Um I think you need to read the item. Uh just >> I I I I know I know what the item says. Mr. Mr. >> Please read it. >> Let him finish. Go ahead. >> Go ahead. I'm done. >> Okay. All right. You got a comment? >> I don't have a comment. >> All right. Okay. Can we get the answer? >> Sure. >> Good
203evening board. My name is Carlos Morta, nutrition services. >> Yes. >> For the question on the line items, line items are the same from every single vendor. So if it would, we do have a separate RFP or procurement if there are specific organic items and we take consideration for that. But each one of these line items from the four vendors is should be the exact same product. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Any discussion? Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Hi. >> Clerkondo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Auna. >> I. >> Trusty Calimmanes. >> Hi. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Hi. >> Trusty V. >> Yes. Motion carries unanimous. uh notice of bids received RFP NS-2702 >> President Tortoise I I don't want to be the devil's advocate but it's
20410 o'clock at night and with all due respect to the staff that's been here some of them since 6:00 in the morning uh we do need to by law right we need to motion to extend the meeting >> at 10:30 the policy says uh we're just looking at that it can be a burden to staff like you said the board the policy says regular board meeting shall be adjourned at 10:30 unless uh extended to a specific time determined by a majority of the board. So we go to 10:30, we adjourn and if we have to extend, someone will make a motion to extend at 10:30. >> Okay. All right. Um >> I motion. >> I'll second. >> Are we are we on the fresh baked bread? >> Yes. >> Sorry. Quick question. something like Bria
205that has taken bake. Could that be considered as part of this? >> I'm sorry. I think so. >> You know, Labria has taken baked breads that are freshly baked. >> Uhhuh. >> So, would that be considered like fresh baked bread and we could consider that as an option? >> So, we consider fresh bread um bread that has never been frozen and is delivered to us within 72 hours of uh coming out of the distribution center. >> But you said I think it said you can't get that. >> Uh we there's certain some of the challenges that we're having is with specific to the Sultan Sea school sites uh with the increase of fuel and uh the limited um orders that we have in that area. That was a disadvantage for some of the vendors just
206to retract their bid. >> Okay. Thank you. >> My pleasure. >> All right. Can we get roll call? >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Hi. >> Clerkondo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Akuna. >> I. >> Trusty Calimmanes. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> I. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Unanimous. Motion carries. Authorization to issue fiscal year annual open purchase orders. >> So move. >> A second. >> Discussion. Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> I. >> Vice President Garcia. >> I. Karedo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Auna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kimmanz. >> Hi. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Hi. >> Trusty Ves. >> Yes. >> Motion carries unanimous presentation of education session on associated student body. >> So move. >> A second. >> Question. Yes. Um just trying to understand the difference between
20710.6 and 10.7. Is the presentation for different audience or what's the the difference? Yes, actually the 10.6 is um the ASD funds and that's primarily for our staff and 10.7 will be uh training for the booster clubs which is all the outside organizations. >> Thank you. >> All right. The question I had is for the ASB is will the will it be recorded and is it something that whoseever the ASB coordinator at each school is going to be >> listening to? >> Good point. >> So all of our principles and APS as well as any um staff that's associated with um overseeing ASB funds will be invited into this training. Typically your training is conducted by your CBO. However, I think that at this time with some of the concerns that have come up, there
208definitely needs to be a uh training provided and then we will continue that and it is not recorded because it is provided by our auditor. >> I'm trying to understand why wouldn't it be recorded? Because we're talking about you >> auditor. It's not us giving the training to the auditing company might not want to provide >> a recording recorded. So we have to take the training and then we have to give that training. >> You give that training. Okay. >> Anybody else? That's >> great. Thank you. >> We'll steal their thunder. >> Nothing. I afraid we'll steal their thunder. Get their information. >> We get roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Use it next year again. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Hi. >> Clerkondo. >> Trusty Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Calimmanes. >> Hi. >>
209Trusty Gonzalez. >> Hi. Trusty Bar. >> Yes. >> Motion six. Uh Duro carries presentation education session of booster organization internal controls for Challo Valley School District. >> A motion. >> Second. >> Uh discussion. Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Iondo. >> Trusty Auna. Hi. >> Trusty Calimmanes. Hi. >> Trusty Gonzalez. Hi. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. Uh motion the majority and it carries. Yes. Uh 6 0 approval of threeyear contract with P pathway transportation routing system. Give it to friends. A motion. >> A motion. A second. >> A second. >> Everybody's falling asleep. >> Yeah. principled question. We're almost there. >> So, this isn't the second, it's the fourth since I've been here that we've been doing it over and over and over. Um, I hate to ask after
210the fact since it's right in front of us, but is this one actually going to work? Because the other ones we got, we actually changed not only the routing system, but the whole system for transportation. We've done it for different things for I mean, and again, now we're getting another one. And I know one of the companies not the company anymore and that helped change, but uh going back to kind of what we were talking about earlier. Got a new transportation director here. Uh >> I want to see this again for a while. >> You know, Mr. That's a point well taken. >> It isn't the second. It's the fourth since I've been here. So, >> but I guess part of this is also that it's being discontinued. So, we have no choice. Correct. But
211the the question I have is um what kind of safeguards do have we or have we built in place so that if it doesn't work smoothly that we don't have to pay more for changes or upgrades or things like that because I would like to see that this company for the amount of money that we're giving them is going to be committed to make sure all of this is integrated and all of this works together and I don't want us to have to pay come back here and say well we need to add this or we need to add that in order to I want this company to say we're going to take care of any changes that you need to do without a cost. I would love to see >> Miss Kellanis I I
212mean that I mean that's a great point but to Mr. Kuna's uh comment. I remember when many years ago when when we we bought a service and there was hardware that was mounted underneath the dash and we got reports that people were kicking it off the dashboard because they didn't want to be followed or they didn't want to know where their bus was and and almost defeating the purpose. So I think it's uh now it's uh the responsibility of our our leader in that department to make sure that that those things are answered that we're buying a service that is working that our staff buys in to the service right and that we actually receive the benefit of the investment right we could buy a brand new Mercedes and throw it away and never never
213wash it right but I think this is an opportunity for us to do things right and I think Mr. Kuna's point is very valid, right? That that we need to do things right and when we're making this type of commitment to a technology to and spend this kind of money, invest this kind of money that we receive maximum benefit and a good service for what we're buying. Right. >> So I just want to answer a couple and questions that I had heard. So, a couple of things with Pathwise is some of the products that we already had installed from Basology as far as the GPS, the VIFI system that also allows the parents to track them. This company integrates with those two products that are already on our bus. And so, therefore, we don't have
214to purchase those additional pieces. They do use the um the barcode scanning as well as RFDI cards um which is a part of what we were promised with B bus Bology which Bology still wasn't able to completely implement all of those pieces. So this works along the lines of the other initiatives that we have as far as safety and security having um IDs for all of our students. So this does integrate those pieces as well as we um confirmed with uh Irvine Unified that has already implemented this plan. Um it is actually being implemented I believe also in Englewood if I can remember correctly. Um so I know that Irvine is pretty happy with it. So this particular one has bought up other companies to make it a much larger robust platform. Has somebody gone
215out there to watch what goes on? I guess it's too late now. >> Yeah, >> for sure. When you say watch what's going going on our I would just want a clarification or like watching what our staff is doing with >> I was like somebody being on the bus and seeing that the you know that it's the RFID or whatever they're using is working and >> and all integrated together. >> Yes, that is what our new transportation director that's what he has been tasked with. I call for the question. Uh, >> roll call. >> President Torres. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> I sondo. >> I. >> Trusty Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kimmanes. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> I. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Unanimous. Motion carries. uh risk management management
216requesting approval to increase contract C00658 vision group self-funded participation Alama County Schools Insurance Group for the remainder of 2526 >> I motion >> a second >> discussion roll call >> President Tortez >> I vice president Garcia >> I clerko >> I >> trusty auna >> I >> trusty kimmanzi I >> trusty Gonzalez I >> trusty Vargas Yes. >> Motion carries. Approval of revised job description district teacher librarian. >> Motion. >> A second. >> Discussion. >> Yes. >> Go ahead. >> So, it's just one position at the district level and I saw that it's like a manager of our systems. We are required to have one district-wide librarian. Okay. Our district-wide librarian is retiring. So this is to replace. Got it. >> Thank you. >> And it it said supervision was students, but they wouldn't be
217that's not their role in this districtwide thing. >> She she goes out to sites and works with students. So that's part of it. >> She used to be the librarian at CV High School, >> right? And then would the librarians in the schools report any mandated reporter things or anything like that to this person or is this because it seemed like this person was required to to in the job description be the person who is >> or anyone that works in the school. >> But it just seemed like it was only >> her responsibility was the librarian. That's the school. >> You're just >> on mandated reporting. >> Well, on everything, >> a lot of students, >> employees, >> all of our employees are mandated reporters. >> It's not just mandated reporting. I can't find
218it, so it >> director. Um, my only I mean, I know we have to have this now because it's a new um mandate that we have to have. My only concern is in the past when we've had these mandates, um, these people didn't do anything constructive. I mean, they did stuff because we were mandated to have them. And I saw the description, the job description, but my only hope is that we actually utilize them to actually go out and do some of the things we're supposed to do. And it isn't anything about the individual who may or may not get this job. It's about the way when we're mandated, we just kind of put something together and we have somebody sitting there because we have to have someone. So, let's actually use this person to
219actually work and help some of the we've heard some of the librarians talk about some of their issues. Let's actually help hopefully help this person help them do their jobs and actually be proactive in doing things as well. So, >> that is one reason we made we had the position come to the district office and is uh under ed services. >> No, I No, I understand that's what we have to do. I get that. I'm just saying in the past when we've done this, we haven't really utilized the individual uh to the full extent that we could have. >> Any other questions? >> Call the question. >> Roll call. >> President Torres. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Iondo. >> Thanks. >> Hi. >> Trusty Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kalmanz. >> Hi. >>
220Trusty Gonzalez. >> Hi. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Unanimous motion carries. Approval. Declaration of need qualified education educators for 2627. >> So move a second >> discussion. >> Well just that I mean we let go of educators. We let go of classified but we still have a need. It's just kind of funny that we let go of people but we still have a need and we absolutely do and I understand that. It's just very frustrating to see it. Right. Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Hi. >> Clerk Arondo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Akuna. >> I. >> Trusty Kimmanes. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Hi. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Unanimous. Motion carries. Consent calendar. >> A motion. >> A second. But I want to pull something.
221>> 15.1. >> Okay. >> 15.1. >> Okay. >> I'd also like to pull 14.10, 14.13, and 14.16. >> Motion to approve with the excluding those items. 13. Is your second? >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Uh, you have another bunch. So, >> okay. >> Uh, 14.7 >> 16.1 part 7 items 10, 22, 24, 28, 52, 53, 54, and 55. And then 16.2 part 7 item three. And then item 29 to35. 29. >> All right. Any other roll call? >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> I. >> Clerk Ardondo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kimmanz. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> I. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Unanimous motion carries. >> Um, car 14. 14.7 then 14.10 10 14.7 >> that's mine. Um I need a clarification this
222item to attend this training. Is it the first time that it's come to the board? Right. So the reason I ask is I believe we all got an email last Friday, Thursday or Friday uh criticizing the board for not voting for this uh saying that no that's what it says. >> No, this is not the same one. This is This is the anatomy one. The other one was the wholesale one. >> Is that the one that's on the other one? >> That That's >> the extra services one. >> Yes. >> This isn't It says >> it's a health academy one, isn't it? >> This is a different one. >> Huh? >> This is a different one. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, then it'll be on the other one. >> Okay. >> My mistake. I thought
223they were both the same. >> 14.10. >> Mhm. >> For the 14.7. Should we are we going to take them individually or? >> Yeah. Yeah. Take this vote on or motion. So, so move. >> I'll second. >> Welcome. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> I. >> Sirondo. >> I. >> Trusty Akuna. >> I. >> Trusty Kimmanes. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Supposed to carry 14.10. >> 14. >> Yes. 14.10. >> 14. >> Oh, okay. >> Oh, it didn't go. Okay. So, who had 14.10? Okay. >> I just want to pull it so I can vote on it separately. So, if anyone wants to discuss, that's fine. I just want to vote on it separately. >> All right. On 14.10. There a motion? So moved. >>
224A second. >> Uh roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Nay. >> Clerk Ardondo. >> No. >> Trusty Auna. >> I. >> Trusty Kimmanz. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vote is 520. Motion carries. 14. >> 420. Oh, okay. Uh 1413 >> 1413 >> 143. >> Yes. >> Do we have motion? >> 1413. >> Yes. >> So for this one, I just I had issues with being hacked. Um I've been really frustrated with them with protecting student information. And so for me, I'm just I wish we'd move away from them. Um I know I've heard teachers that were wary of using it after the hack with our students. So I just was sad to see it come back again. Has a vendor address the issue
225or like what's There we go. Uh, currently Curriculum Associates, um, there's a lawsuit filed against them, but nothing's been formally finalized. Nothing's come out of it yet. Um, so I mean, until that litigation's complete, um, right now it's it's it's allegations against >> Do we need Ready for summer school? We we use we use the diagnostic assessment for all of our students, kinder through 12th grade, so we can see year-to-year um growth of how our students are doing um for all of our students versus like our CASP assessment, you only see certain grade levels every year. >> Yeah. The So what I Ready allows us to do um it's a diagnostic that is completed three times a year. So, it's the only system that we have within our testing environment that allows us to measure
226growth throughout the year. Um, as opposed to waiting an entire year to see performance data. >> Yeah. No, I I completely understand what I Ready does. I just um I know that there's been a lot of bad press around I Ready. So, um I'll support it today as if we need to move forward with this if this is something we need. But, you know, maybe we got to look into it. Superintendent uh Sparza for >> and this is a so the district was out of compliance by the state several years ago because you didn't have a diagnostic and this was the diagnostic that was brought in. It's elevated and it's it's improved but yes we do know that there's some litigation right now in regards to uh uh information. >> Thank you. >> They were
227hacked. So all the student information is taken. We don't know what they've done with it. >> Like personal identifiers or >> Yeah. >> All their information >> our students like it's not nothing. >> Well, I I think we do need to go with it this year. It's too late to change that. I think >> so. Good point. >> So, if I may, um curriculum socials, they actually haven't experienced a cyber attack. Um there there's a company they're facing a a federal class action lawsuit that was filed in December of 2025 over student data privacy concerns. There's actually no evidence of them being hacked or or attacked uh through cyber attack. >> Uh you can call for the question. >> Um 1413. >> So we got to vote for it. Yeah, we have we we need
228a motion. >> Oh god. Do we have a motion? >> Oh, a motion. >> I'll second. >> Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Nay. >> Cleredondo. >> I. >> Trusty Akuna. >> Trusty Kimmanes. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. >> Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> 510. Motion carries. All right. Um 1416 >> for this one. I just I know that we have the VRs and we have a lot of them. I just and looking at that technology versus others like I've even heard you talk about drones and things like that. I don't know if there is as much of this industry that I'd like our students to be in versus other tech um that we have. I know it's only really secondary level that is using it versus um other
229investments that we could do that could bring up more um start our students off earlier, right? Even coding and things like that. We could start students off at the elementary level, but this one it really does have to be older students. So for me it's just continuing the investment to the level that it is versus diversifying a little more. >> There we go. Uh so the virtual reality um this is actually kind of an upand cominging um sort of technology use case. Uh I know I've seen other platforms out there for example that heavily utilize virtuality for even some certain CTE components uh because it gives them that hands-on experience without having to invest more costly investments into actual physical materials. Um so for example I've seen a program that will do welding through virtual
230reality. Um so v virtual reality is sort of an upand cominging space uh within the educ educational technology sort of sector. Um, and so with Prisms, um, because we have that science and math curriculum, um, as we saw in the state of the district event, um, that really allows students to be hands-on and really explore sort of those real world applications with how they can use math and science, uh, beyond just what they see within their textbook and things like that. >> Test scores. Yeah. So, as I as I was saying earlier, um during during the uh presentation, um so our usage um is is up across uh prison usage, but with particular regard to our test scores. Um, looking at our preliminary data, um, our seventh grade math scores amongst the teachers who, uh,
231utilize Prisms consistently within their classrooms, uh, we're seeing an increase of 36% proficiency for seventh grade math. Uh, 27% increase in proficiency amongst those uh, eighth grade classrooms in math utilizing Prisms uh, by 27%. our 11th grade proficiency percentage for those prisms classrooms are 11% higher uh than the district average uh 3% higher for eighth grade science um and then eighth grade or 11th grade science is 8% higher. So amongst those classrooms that are heavily and consistently using prisms, we are seeing uh an increase in in proficiency scores that are outpacing our district averages. >> And this is a pilot for our fifth and sixth graders. So that we started uh start working in elementary with them because it's not a a foundational piece where you go like from kindergarten up. It's really to go
232from your high schools down. >> And the company's creating um new lessons for just those grade levels. So, I'm assuming as soon as the, you know, the fifth and sixth grade level um lessons are available, then we can maybe start even they'll probably start moving down to lower grades, too. >> And for the fifth and sixth pilot, we'll be one of the first districts in the nation to pilot this. >> I just want to say that, you know, I appreciate kind of hearing the data because I I do sometimes, you know, I'm skeptical of like, oh, we're adopting this new program, we're going to try this thing. Um, but I think really trying to, you know, implement it consistently. Um, I know it's hard to isolate, you know, is it the teacher, is it the
233prisms, is it the, you know, book. Um, and so I think the more that we can track and document and use data to justify these things, it's really helpful. So, thank you. >> Question. There was no motion made on that. We were just in discussing it. There was no motion made on 14. >> So, I'm sorry. So, and then uh as was said earlier, according to the policy and the bylaw 92 9323 meeting conduct, it says regular board meeting shall be adjourned at 10:30. So, we have to adjourn unless this board unless this board extends this time to a determined time >> to be determined. >> Okay. Motion by director Auna. >> Second. Second by director Argus. All those in favor? >> I >> oppose abstain. All right. 1416. We need a >> I'll motion
234to approve. >> All right. >> I'll second. >> Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> I. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Nay. >> Clerk Arondo. >> I. >> Trusty Akuna. Hi. >> Trusty Calimmanes. >> Hi. Trusty Gonzalez. Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> It is 510. Motion carries. Uh 14. We did 147 >> 15.1. >> I just like to pull it because um the RAP Foundation, the agreement, the organization. Um I'm currently uh they're currently a fiscal sponsor for my for my nonprofits. So, um, I don't I don't receive any funding from them. I'm an unpaid CEO, but I just want it for the record. So, you guys can go ahead and vote on it. I'll just abstain from it. >> Do I have a motion? >> Um, motion. >> Motion. >> Yes. >> Second. >> Roll
235call. >> President Tortez. >> I. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Iondo. Trusty Akuna. >> Trusty Kalimmanes. >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Uh 54. One extension and one no vote. Motion carries. Um what was the next one? 161. >> Yeah. section 7 10 22 24 28 52 >> sorry criticizing us for not voting for this that we didn't understand it um calling it unethical not to pay people um I just found it interesting Interesting. It turns out my understanding is that they submitted it incorrectly with the wrong I'm hoping that the stipen is correct now and what they approve. But going back to people just say things without even bothering to do their homework. And yes, it's annoying and yes, we can I'd probably be accused of bullying someone for for
236pointing it out. But this is where it all starts. Then we get frustrated. I get frustrated. We all get frustrated. We say we say things that we probably wouldn't normally say. But it is annoying when someone accuses us basically of not doing illegal things because we're not voting to give them money. Something that we've never even seen on the board. They would have complained that the staff didn't let them do it or whatever. All right. Well, you tell us why and whatever. But that's not what this individual did. This individual took the time to rate to write us a very long email in many areas telling us how unethical we were, how illegal it was, and that, you know, we better do the right thing. Well, again, we had never seen it before. So, just
237wanted to point that out, which it is pretty damn annoying. Is there is there a process um where and I only ask because at and I at my institution that I work at, you know, I take students on trips and things like that and and yes, you know, to take 58 students on a full day and pay out of pocket for the meals can be a lot, right? But there are processes that can support these types of events. So I think just for me it's informing our staff like what those processes are and what is possible right within the guidelines of >> that wasn't see that wasn't the point. The point is that this is a stipen program that they already know generally what they get as a stipen >> they didn't like it and
238they said we need more that could have been that could have been resolved. I think there was a comment in addition to like what you're bringing up about >> paying out of pocket for people's meals and I think that's that's part of Yeah. Are teachers paying out of pocket for student meals? >> Paid out of pocket for student meals? No. >> Dr. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. >> I just wanted to know. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. because they pre-plan it and if it if it if it's ever an emergency, the last resort is that they send it to FISCO and FISCO will probably use an emergency credit card to get things paid for, which we don't like to do because we don't like to, you know, have people used to that process. It's
239done maybe once a year, but um yeah, we don't they they should not be paying out of pocket. And I think Mr. Trusty Akuna has brought this up repeatedly, the fact that we turn things in late. And so I think we we need to get in the habit of submitting things on time and and I understand, you know, our timelines can be rough. Um, but it really puts the onus on us when we're planning these activities, right? And I and I do think staff does their job, but I I think just trying to get into that habit. But yeah. >> All right. So this is 16 16.1. They cover section 10 seven. >> No >> subsection 10. We vote on 10 first. >> You want to do them separate? >> Yep. >> Okay. Uh 16
240710. Right. >> We haven't done item 10. Correct. >> Is there a motion? I'll >> motion. Second. >> I'll second. Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> Hi. >> Clerk Ardondo. >> Hi. >> Trusty Akuna. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kalimmanes. >> Hi. >> Trusty Gonzalez. Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> Uh motion is 500 and it carries. So 16. Where am I? 6 6 >> Oh, 6. Okay. So, it's 16 722. So, 22 24 28 52 53 54 55 can all be done in one motion. We don't need to go through them one by one. U they're all late and some of them are from last August, November, August, November, November of 25. Um, and again, this this isn't an issue of of the people because those people are going to
241get paid because they have to get paid by law because they did the work. Again, my concern is this. We have a lot of them from last August and November. And that's just getting a little bad. And again, the reasoning that they're putting in here now, or let me find one here, is um was it 22? Retroactive pay is requested for extra services completed by employees that were not processed in the original payroll cycle due to delayed submission of supporting documentation. So, somebody didn't do their job right and here we are at the end of the year trying to clean up all the stuff that we didn't do all year. Again, that also gets a little bit of annoying. I understand if it's a month late, they missed the last board meeting because we did
242something. I I can I can excuse those, but this stuff is from last August. Okay. My vote against this is not towards the individuals who did the work because they did the work. It's so either the processing at the site or the processing at the district office of why this wasn't processed in time. And again, we talked about holding people accountable and they may be great people whoever was doing this, but this is part of their job to make sure these things get put in on time. So, >> any other discussion? There a motion? >> I'll motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> Roll call. >> President Torres. >> I. Vice President Garcia, >> I. >> Clerk Arondo, >> hi. >> Trusty Akuna, >> no. >> Trusty Kimmanz, >> I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. Trusty Vargas,
243>> yes. >> It's um 510. The motion carries. Uh 16.2. >> Did we? >> Item three. I simply need to abstain on that item. You need to what? Abstain. >> Abstain. Okay. So, is there a motion? >> Second. >> Who made the motion? >> Okay. And the second by Almanes. Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> I. >> Vice President Garcia. >> I. Clerk Arondo. I. >> Trusty Akuna. Abstain. >> Trusty Calimmanes. I. >> Trusty Gonzalez. Trusty Vargas. Yes. It is five when abstension and one no vote. Motion carries and 29 through 35. You can do them all in one motion as well. Same thing. They're all late. Same reasoning. It's all the same. So again, the vote is not to the employees who will get paid who need to get paid. It's for the process
244that we're cleaning up after the fact at the end of the year. A >> motion to approve. We have a >> second. Second. Roll call. >> President Tortez. >> Hi. >> Vice President Garcia. >> I claro. >> Hi. >> Trusty Auna. >> No. >> Trusty Calimmanes. >> Hi. >> Trusty Gonzalez. Trusty Vargas. >> Yes. >> 510. Motion carries. And that leaves us to the German. There a motion. >> Motion to adjurnn. There >> a second. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> Motion carries. It is 10:40. Ow. >> Thank you everyone. 1040.