001Good evening. Hope we'll go ahead and call the meeting order. It is 5:32. And if we could have uh Vice President Garcia lead us in the pledge. All right. Right hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, from one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, can we do roll call? President Tortez. >> Here. Vice President Garcia. Present. Clerk Arredondo. Present. Trustee Acuña. Here. Trustee Calimanes. Here. Trustee Gonzalez. Trustee Vargas. Student Trustee Mia Mesa. Here. Superintendent Dr. Esparza. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Macias. Present. Assistant Superintendent um Ms. Sanchez. Present. Assistant Superintendent Julie Vigil. Present. Very good. Quorum is established. We'll move on to 2.1 closed session public comments. Have we received any? All right, there
002are no comments. Moving on uh to section 2.2. Uh entertain a motion to enter into closed session. So moved. Huh? Oh, 1.4 approval of the agenda. Sorry, I skipped that. No point. Um Any changes? Comments, concerns? If not, can we entertain a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Motion by uh Trustee Arredondo. Seconded. Seconded by Trustee Calimanes. All those in favor? I. I. I. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. So our 2.1 closed session public comments aren't any. 2.2, uh we can entertain a motion into entering into closed session. So moved. Motion by Trustee Arredondo. Second. Seconded by Trustee Calimanes. All those in favor? I. I. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. We'll go into closed session and return at what time? 6:30. Oh, um It says 7:00 here, so It says 7:00 on the agenda, but we'll
003probably be back earlier. Probably what? What did you say? We might come back earlier. But then but if it's on this, we can't change it. Mhm. Come back Come back to the dais, but you just can't start the meeting. All right, welcome back. It's 7:00. The motion to return to open session was unanimous. Uh we will announce the actions taken in closed session by Clerk Arredondo. Yes, Mr. President. The board took action during closed session regarding stipulated expulsion recommendation case number 2526-014 with the Coachella Valley Unified School District effective the 16th day of April 2026. Motion was made by myself, Trustee Arredondo, seconded by Trustee Calimanes. The motion carried 6-0 with Trustee Gonzalez not in the room. Um The board took action during closed session to approve the district's recommendation for dismissal of employment regarding
004bus driver employee 2026 -10-795 with the Coachella Valley Unified School District effective the 16th day of April 2026. Motion was made by Trustee Gonzalez, seconded by Trustee Vargas, and this is how the vote carried. Trustee Vargas, I. About Trust Vice President Garcia, I. Trustee Gonzalez, I. Trustee Acuña, I. Trustee Arredondo, I. Trustee Tortez, I. Trustee Calimanes, I. Motion carried unanimously. Very good, thank you. Um next is 4.1 board notification requests to address the board. Uh I have two for public comment. Uh first one is uh Daisy Castaneda Nadi Nadi, sorry. Nadi, sorry. Is it Nadi? Castaneda. Castaneda. It's okay, it's Castaneda. >> Okay. Good afternoon. My name is Daisy Castaneda, and I'm a parent in the district. I'm here today because I'm deeply concerned about the proposal to combine the life skills program with the
005autism program. As a parent of children on the spectrum, I can tell you this. Autism is not one-size-fits-all. It's like a fingerprint. Every child is unique in how to and how they communicate, learn, and connect with the world. When you combine these programs, you're not only you're not creating inclusion. You're risking overlooking individual needs. Our children require specialized support, trained staff, and structured environments tailored to them. What may seem efficient on paper could take away the very supports that help our children succeed. And I want to be honest, be respectful. Being involved in this a parent in this district has not been easy. I've tried to show up, to speak, and to be a part of the conversation. And too often, it feels like our voices are not truly being heard. So let me be
006clear. The real issue is our children. They are the ones affected by this decision by these decisions. They are the ones who will lose critical support if these programs are combined. Primary education is the foundation for everything that comes next. And when we reduce individualized support, we're not helping our children. We are limiting them. And I want to say this from the heart. I believe in my children. I believe in their potential. And I believe that they can succeed with the right support in place. Please don't take that support away. Work with us. Listen to us. Partner with the parents and teachers who live this every day. Because no one knows our children better than we do. And to my community and to my teachers, please know this. I will continue to advocate hard and
007loud for our children. I am here to work with the district the right way. But if our voices continue to go unheard, we will continue to speak until we are heard. Because our children deserve nothing less. Thank you. Very good, thank you. Next I have Loretta Perez. I want to start by clearing up something I keep hearing. There have been repeated comments asking where their parent these parents come from and statements suggesting that these parents like us have never been seen before. The reality of these families have always been there. We are part of a community and we are always we have always been advocating for our children. What has changed is not the presence of family, but the access and communication and follow-through with our IEPs and services or when I our IEPs and
008services arise. In the last in the past, families had more direct access to district leadership, including the superintendent, to address these issues. That access feels more limited and that at the same time discussion decisions are being made that are directly impacting autism specific and life skills classrooms. Our concern is that the district is considering changes that could reduce and remove autism specific classrooms for students with moderate to severe needs and instead blend them into life skills classrooms at a primary level. For many of these students, including children as young as three, placement decisions like this could significantly significantly limit access to the structure support and instruction they require at a critical stage of development. Under IDEA, decisions about placements and services must be based on each student's individual need through their IEP. That plan is
009the legal foundation for services and it cannot be changed or limited because of staffing shortages, budget concerns, or administrative inconvenience. IDEA also guarantees student FAPE. That means schools must provide the services, supports, and instructions and students needs to make meaningful educational progress. Least restrictive environments is an important part of IDEA, but must always support FAPE. It cannot be used in a way that limits or places replaces specialized instruction a student needs to access their education and to make progress. We also want to be clear about the state guidance AB 560. It's is a state level law focused on improving special education staffing and structure. In AB 560 does not require districts to combine autism specific classrooms or eliminate specialized program models. That implementation decisions are main remain at district levels. There's a financial concern that
010cannot be ignored. Our district is frequently involved in legal cases related to special education services not being fully funded or provided, I'm sorry. According to the public agenda today, about $700,000 in is being spent on legal services. That is public's money that can instead be used for classroom services and supports. We're not asking for anything beyond what IDEA already guarantees, a free appropriate public education, appropriate service through each student individualized education program, and instruction that allows students to make meaningful progress in the least restrictive environment. Thank you. Thank you. Exit 4.2, written request to address the board and online. We don't have any on or there aren't any, okay. 5.1 written communications. Uh which we have Uh 5.2 student board member report. Um good afternoon, guys. Oh, can you hear? Okay. Um I will be
011talking for Coachella Valley High School, Desert Mirage High School, West Shores High School, and La Quinta. I'll start with Coachella Valley. Our school continues to demonstrate strong academic support and student engagement as the year progresses toward graduation. Counselors are working closely with students on recover or credit recovery while juniors have begun state testing. The College and Career Center is supporting post-secondary planning through financial aid guidance and application assistance in partnership with College of the Desert with commitment day approaching as an important milestone for the students. Career technical education programs remain a major highlight with students earning top recognition at the state level and advancing to national and international opportunities. As graduation approaches, students are staying focused and motivated to complete the requirements while also participating in ASB events like prom and elections. Moving on to
012Desert Mirage High School, important events are currently taking place to support students in their future planning. The school recognized its top 10 students with a celebratory breakfast. Summer school applications are now open for students to make up the credits if needed. Parent conferences were held earlier today providing families with the chance to discuss student progress progress with teachers. Counselors are assisting seniors as they commit to colleges and universities while reviewing student financial aid award letters to help them better understand their options. DMHS hosted a career fair earlier today in the gym and the cosmetology program is preparing for its graduation on May 21st. At West Shores High School, the College and Career Center and Counseling Department are supporting students through college and career readiness activities including a visit to College of the Desert and preparation
013for the career for their career fair. Um senior post-secondary planning and the campus tours for incoming students. Counselors are also expanding advisory teams providing social emotional supports, assisting with summer school and promotion readiness, and also managing ongoing student academic and wellness needs. In the CTE computer science, students are progressing toward dual enrollment completion, preparing for the AP exam on May 15th, and working toward earning a Java industry certification. For La Quinta High School, for the 2025-2026 student cohort, 25 students have already successfully met the graduation requirements reflecting the hard work and dedication of both students and staff. To date, La Quinta students have completed an impressive 425 online classes earning a combined total of 2,125 credits toward their academic process. In addition, 30 students have completed and submitted their FAFSA and Dream Act applications while
014several others are in the process of finalizing their submissions to ensure they are prepared for post-secondary opportunities. As the school year continues, several important events are approaching to celebrate student achievement and community involvement. These include a blood blood drive on April 30th, prom, senior sunset, senior checkout, graduation, and grad night. That's all I have for you. Very good. Thank you. It's interesting. Uh board member reports. Uh start with Trustee Gonzales. Sure. I am Thank you, President Torres. I am I I wanted to talk a little bit about a conversation that I've had with our superintendent as it relates to uh our vocational education program. And I think generally we think vocational ed is is an alternative path to a university outcome, right? Uh for your university outcome. But I I remind I know we we
015have a great program that's very well funded. I think in my opinion, right? We've become pretty complacent in that we're really focused in on on things like hospitality with all due respect. Um I I I just believe that vocational ed uh is so much more than that, right? Um we I think at the center of what vocation vocational ed should be is is the possibility of creating a living wage job, a job that will allow you to buy a home, allow you to pay kids through college. And I And I think we're missing the mark on that. I'm challenging uh the superintendent and our staff to start looking at a lot of a lot of uh vocational ed type jobs that we could we could ramp up to teach our kids. I And I'm just
016I've listed a couple here. I We, you know, architecture. Not not so much like architecture that we did mechanical drawing that we did when we were in school, but but using a computer through CAD systems, right? And understanding how to use CAD. That's That's a very well-paid profession, right? Uh simple welding, right? Having a good welding program like we had when I was in school where you were you became a proficient welder by the time you graduated from high school if you were paying attention. Um wood shop, carpentry, maybe in alignment with the trade unions, right? In in in carpentry and teaching our children how to build a house, you know, from the ground up. Uh electrical as it relates to solar, right? Solar being a method of alternative energy that's real, it's happening. And
017uh and and again, a living wage job. Even auto shop. I mean, I don't know you take your car to an auto shop, you know, it's expensive. People that have auto shops, they make a good living and they're able to defend themselves, they're able to buy homes here. Um the big one, HVAC. You know, we're missing the mark. We have a a student trustee that was talking about needing to go to COD uh first 2 years to try to learn HVAC. I think HVAC is something that uh requires uh I I I believe kids can get out of school learning and knowing how to work on on HVAC. The other big one is, you know, just computer science uh AI, right? As we're as we're um as we're growing into AI, I think a lot
018of those types of jobs are going to be available. Those are jobs where people can work from home. And again, those are living wage jobs. So, the idea of of promoting a hospitality program that I I mean, promoting a vocational ed program that is very focused in on hospitality, I get it, but I think our kids can learn more than uh greeting patrons at a hotel or turning down beds, right? I I think we we we should challenge ourselves there. Um I also, changing the subject a little bit, um I I want to know sometime in today's meeting what's going on with the parent liaisons. Uh as I've said over and over again, the parent liaison position is very very important to our community. Uh it's important that that that communication is there with our
019our students, with our children, uh and and more important or as important with the parents, right? And they play a very critical role. Unfortunately, we had a union that didn't defend those positions, and I don't know if we have an alternative path or if there's something that we can do to ensure that we bring back the parent liaisons. So, I'm I'm again challenging staff to to look at that. We had a uh somebody get up on the dais today and talk about the legal bills that we have. I think it's important in in the in the spirit of transparency, uh we have a pending litigation against the school district uh with our union president, Clarissa Klein Carrera. And And that that lawsuit by itself, I understand is well over a half a million dollars that
020we've spent defending the school district against our union president. So, I think it's imperative in the spirit of transparency as the parent was concerned that we every meeting talk about where we're at and how much money we're spending fighting a lawsuit uh against the school district and board members and what what the what the financial impact is, right? And And I don't It doesn't feel good to have spent I understand it's well over a half a million and pushing 700,000 in one with with one person, right? So, again, in fairness to uh the concern that the parent had, I think it's imperative that we we notice the community that we have this type of litigation that's costing us a lot of money. I mean, that's just the fact. And so, I uh again, I I
021again I maybe we can do it in public or we can talk about it afterwards or get a report, but I do want to follow up with what the status of the parent liaison, which I think we have one here in the audience today, uh where we're at as a school district in trying to make sure that those parent liaisons come back to work. Um yesterday we had a negotiation session with CSEA. Um a few weeks ago, I gave them a proposal a counter proposal to one of their proposals regarding uh parent liaisons, the hours, the job description. Um, I am I am waiting for our counter proposal for them that I should get by this Friday. Wonderful. Thank you for that. Thank you, Trustee Gonzalez. Trustee Acuña. Good evening, everyone. Um, I would like
022to uh echo member Gonzalez's talk for we've been talking about vocational ed and alternative ed and other things for a long time and understanding that the budget situation kind of slows that down, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't continue to look for partnerships and things like you said. And again, just one of our great successes that people forget or they don't like to talk about successes in our district, you know, they go and say all the bad things uh is our cosmetology program. Uh, they'll be having a graduation soon again, their next cohort that's been graduating and those are jobs that the moment they get out from finish our program, they are able to go and the program will stay with them until they pass the the licensing test and they're ready to go.
023And not only does this program teach them how to actually do the part, the actual physical part of the uh of of the cosmetology, but it also teaches them how to run a business, how to, you know, do a spreadsheet, how to do all that so they can actually run a business and get started. And those are Again, those are successes that we've talked about that we have in the district, but nobody talks about them, obviously. But again, that is just one small and again, it's a small cohort. I wish we could expand it, but I know at the moment we probably can't. But those are the types of things that again, you know, I've had a lot of the the students where when they go out and I talk to them and, you know,
024um and they basically a lot of them say, "Look, man, I I don't want to go to college. I I want to go to trade schools. I want to go to this and that." And the advantage that they would have if they could get it started here. Right? Some of those other types of programs they could start it here and then move right into it and and almost become apprentices moving right into some of these other programs. So, I I think that's a really important and I'm glad um board member Gonzalez brought it up, but I I did want to mention that we do have successes in those programs, but you never hear about them, but that is a a great program. Um, it's been a while since we've had a board meeting, so I'm
025not really sure what has happened back and forth and I was able to attend a couple of um programs during the break. Um, one of them was the Coachella program over at uh These Farms. Uh, I was able to um uh speak with Mr. Tadros. He kind of gave us a tour of the area and kind of his vision and things and it was it was really funny. Um, as he was introducing us to the vendors, um I they're all local. We know some of them. Some of them have their kids in our district. I mean, they're they're here, they're local there and that's the way he said that's how he wants it. He wants to make sure that the same community that we're that is serving our kids are from the community. So, I
026thought that was a really good program. The day I went uh kids were having a blast and I think everybody enjoyed themselves. Um, I was also able to attend the performance of the of the dance program CVUS CV High School in Desert Mirage over at Disneyland. And it was it was great. I mean, they every time they go and they perform, they get better and better. Their confidence goes, you know, just grows and grows and there was a lot of parents. Every time I go, there's more and more parents that make the trek on their own dime to go see their kids and support their kids. And I thought it was and I thought it was great. Um, and again, before I get attacked for spending district money, I have a pass that I pay
027for it. I can go anytime I want. So, every time they go, I try to go support them. Uh also to note that they're going to be part of the open call program here at the McCallum Theatre in a few weeks. Uh again, things that we should be very proud of our district. Um, I also heard uh the trip that was uh up in San Francisco that I think went through the I believe it was through the ELOP program. Um, with uh Lydia and Karina there doing a great job. Um, was the kids had a great time. They saw things that many of our kids who don't get out of the valley were able to see. And so, I you know, the kids came back with the whole new vision of the world that's past
028these mountains. It's something to look forward to. So, when you're sitting in high school and bored in your class and you say, "Why am I here? What am I doing it for?" That's what you're doing it for. So, I think those programs are are just are great and uh continued uh success on that. Um, and again, all the other things that we've been happening uh during that time that we've been since our last board meeting. But in speaking about those programs and these trips, I it never fails to amaze me. There's people out there criticizing us taking our kids on these experiences. That somehow they're lavish, that they're, you know, why are we spending all this money on our kids? Why not? That's what the money's for. You know, the bloggers out there, the ones
029on TV and the ones on social media, "Well, we should just give all those money to the to the people that are getting laid off." Well, big shock, you can't use that money for that. Everybody knows that, but they say it anyway. It doesn't matter. Again, insinuating that somehow our kids shouldn't be able to go to nice things. That's insulting. That's insulting. All kids everywhere should have opportunities to go to some of these programs and I hope ELOP and some of our other programs in the district that are taking these kids to to all these experience. I hope they continue and and and add more and keep doing it. You know, if the money's there and that's what the money's for and that's only where we can spend it, I want to keep going. I
030want to hope this board supports that to give our kids who don't have the opportunities that other kids in other areas have to experience those things. You know, so but again, it never fails. Good things, somebody complains. Um, but again, you know, keep you guys keep doing what you're doing. Um, everybody's back, I guess. You know, everybody kind of came groggily back. I I talked to a few of the staff here and there and they're like, "We're all back. We're all ready to go." And, you know, we don't have a a lot left to go in this school year. Seems like it's kind of went right by. So, um hopefully we can all get through this year. Uh keep moving forward and um, you know, keep supporting our kids. That's it for me. Thank you,
031Trustee Acuña. Um, Trustee Vargas. Yes, good evening, everybody. Um, I just wanted to share a couple things I did in the last month or so. Um, it's been a while as well. Um, I was able to do a couple of site visits. Um, I think I I went to John Kelley sometime ago, maybe three three four weeks ago. I know what some of the challenges at the site. Um, so I know I know that there's uh still some work that needs to be done. Um, also had the opportunity to visit Oasis and I see that on the agenda today there's some projects that were done over spring break. So, it's really nice to see um some of that work being done. Um, I also got the opportunity to join the strategic plan at Northshore again
032a couple weeks ago. I think something that really kind of stayed with me that um just conversations around uh combo classes and I know today, you know, we're talking about special ed and just um the common made about um, you know, combining classes and I don't know too much about. Um, so maybe ask for some some more information, but um I think for me um I know a lot of parents are concerned about combination classes, especially with um our language immersion program. And so, I know we had a fairly extensive conversation here when we were looking at our cuts, but um you know, I think it's important for us to really think about how we're going to address um you know, the concerns our parents are having around um combo classes. Um, the comment around
033the activities um I definitely resonates with me, too. Um, I know today um students took a a tour of the Coachella Music and Art Festival installations in partnership with Raices. It's been an activity that they've done probably for the last I want to say at least uh at least 10 years, I believe, in partnership with the ELOP and EX um the Raices program. And so, um I agree. I think our our kids um they really deserve to have opportunities that really expand their creativity and and things like that. I mean, to be on the polo fields uh on their own experiencing um you know, these giant installations um and getting to hear from artists from all over the world that come to our communities. And for them to be able to experience that is just
034such a great opportunity. Um, along with that, I know that a lot of a number of students work with the organization as well to um you know, since January, I think they work pretty much over the course of 10 weeks to conceptualize a project. Uh they work with the the staff there and um they >> Um to be able to provide those emerging opportunities. I I know for me, the first time I was able to go to a museum uh was through the school district. The first time I was able to go on a uh trip uh was through the school district. And so, I think um you know, it really does open up the opportunities for us. And um if we can provide that, then that's great, right? Um so, yeah. I think that's
035it for me. Thank you, Trustee Vargas. Trustee Arredondo. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for coming. Thank you for uh you know, let us let um you know, sharing your thoughts with us and and wanting to collaborate with Coachella Valley Unified School District. I think it's important. Thank you to every all our staff here that that worked through spring break. Thank you for everything that you guys have done to continue to beautify and make our school district, you know, the beautiful district that it is. Thank you to all the staff, all the teachers who worked through their their um their spring break. Um I got a chance to go to the student of the month. Thank you to our our staff and students who attended. Um that was a great event, always put on
036by RCOE. Thank you to uh the county for putting that that on. I also got a chance to to visit Coachella. I think that's a great great event. Um I got to do some site I I've had I've had a chance to do some site visits and see some schools. As you guys know, I'm always um you know, just advocating. And I know there's a lot to do in our school district, but you know, little by little, hopefully we'll we'll get it done. Um so, yeah. I'm going to keep my comments short today. Um and and uh you know, get this meeting going. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Trustee Arredondo. Uh Vice President uh Garcia. Thank you. Um just wanted to make a comment about the potential changes for our autism combo {slash} life
037skills because I have heard about it. And I want to make sure that the changes that we're making, we ensure that the educators have the correct certification in place. It's already very difficult to fill special education openings. My understanding is right now we have a specialization that is not an industry standard, but it is something that families have really appreciated. It's definitely in the valley to have an autism specific program. Um to combine it with life skills, that means potentially students who are maybe not even be verbal, mixed with students who are moderate to severe. We want to make sure we have the right certifications in place. Um I think that it's a move in the wrong direction. Anytime we're losing our specializations, we potentially lose families who are going to look for services elsewhere.
038Um we're already under a strain with the stabilization plan. I feel like anytime we make big changes, we're just opening ourselves up again. Um those are my comments. I really just want to make sure that whatever changes end up being recommended, that we're in compliance because I know that right now we're in compliance with what we have. I was murky on the details of whether we would continue to be in compliance with the move that's being talked about. Um otherwise, I'm happy to see our families back on campus. Um 2 weeks was different. I don't I still have mixed feelings about it. I hope that our students were um able to get what they needed even though they were away from the school, which has safety net services, right? Um for our families. So, I
039want to hear about the interventions that um were supposed to happen as well for students. That's why we did the 2 weeks because it's just this It's so much time for students to be away. Um but yes, we are in the last stretch. Um so much that's going to happen and what's is going to feel very quick. Um but we still have a lot of people who are in a precarious situation with our riff notices for both unions. That's not an easy place to be. I really hope that our employees trust the process. And I know that feels difficult. Even saying it feels like uh oxymoron, but to trust the process, we need you, every single one of you, on our learning sites, our our learning communities. We need all of you. Every single one
040of you is important. We need your voices. So, every time you're here, we need to know that we're meeting the needs of our families um and our staff because our staff is part of that learning community. Um Thank you, Vice President uh Trustee Calaminos. Thank you. Um and thank you for everybody being here. Um I Those that don't know, Desert Sands is having their spring break next week. Can you imagine? It's like uh It wasn't even around any of the holidays. But um uh I also attended the student of the month breakfast. And that's amazing to see how wonderful these students are. It's just so inspiring. Uh I did go to Coachella. And I wanted to be a kid again. Uh Ferris wheels and the band and congratulations to you for doing such a wonderful
041job with Coachella. That was just wonderful. Um I uh had the opportunity to go to Oasis today and see the beautification project first hand. Oh my god, it's gorgeous. It is really really amazing in how wonderful the campus is and and um the morale of the kids and the teachers has got to be better. And so, I had an opportunity So, I got got the tour with Dr. Green. Um and uh so, I spoke to custodians uh Jesus and Tony. And they said just the amount of water less water they're using, they already found a difference because it was windy, you know, uh the amount of sand in the classrooms. It's amazing, you know, how that coverage is really helping the situation there. And there's a couple of spots where the teacher I mean, student
042and drop off and pick up is that doesn't have it. So, if there's an any little extra money, it'd be great if we could put put the uh put that turf there, too. So, um I mean, it was it's just beautiful. Uh we actually had a little bit of a conversation on the um girls' bathrooms. So, um you know, got a perspective from Jesus and and Tony. And it was very interesting because there were no bags in the containers. The containers were there, but there were no bags. And he said some of the kids go and and take the bags and you know, put their stuff in and then throw it into the toilet. Um you know, they had supplies and the supplies would be you know, also used to block the toilets. You know,
043so um so, you know, the discussion we talked about is probably education might be important. Uh there were some students who would take Okay, don't mean to be graphic, but when they wipe themselves, they put it into those containers. And that could be the way they have to do it based on the water situation at their houses, right? So, um so, Dr. Green was saying, all right. Let's put together an education program. Oh, so what they're doing there is actually putting the supplies for the girls into the nurses' room. So, they if they need it, they go over there because it was just being was gone once it was in the uh So, we don't know exactly what the the law is about that. But um they they found a workaround so that the stuff
044would be around. So, anyway. So, it was very interesting to hear the perspective of the custodians. And And Dr. Green said, well, we need to start doing education even from kids from younger grades and what the supplies are and what you should and shouldn't do and things like that. So, it was that was a very interesting perspective. So, um that's what I wanted to update every Oh, and I and I was at North Shore today. There were paper towels in everywhere. So, thank you very much. Thank you, Trustee Calaminos. And as for my report, I always am parent first. So, I just want to uh congratulate the school superintendent um this year. How many graduates we're going to have the projected this year? Uh it's going to be over a thousand. Over a thousand uh
045students graduating Coachella, you know, school district. And my son's going to be one of them. So, and it wasn't easy, you know, it it was hard. It was a long road. There's been a lot of concerns. And I will continue to bring up the concerns because they're still happening today. I hear from the parents and I hear from the teachers and the board a lot of the concerns that happened for these 12 years that, you know, he's been in school. But I appreciate the teachers that, you know, went out of their way, the principals, the staff, everyone uh that helped get all of these 1,000 students to where they are graduating this year. So, I I think it's something that we can positively look forward to even though we have a lot of baggage, right?
046That we need to take care of. But I think as we continue with this uh and and I just wanted to reiterate and say that we can't forget the marginalized. We have parents came in talking about the marginalized kids, right? The kids that that that need that special education, that special care, that compassion. Can't forget about all of the students. All of the students need this special care. Should be equal access to education for everyone, even even students that are that are in different types of marginalization. There's these types, you know, there's racial, there's handicap, there's orientation, there's all kinds of marginalization that happens even though we think we're in a community that is all united in one type type, but still it's separated and still we have the kids that each individual kid is
047different and we have to take care of each and every one of them the same. So I just want to, you know, thank the parents and the people that came up today to talk about this program. I want to hear more about, you know, how we can address that and I know we're we're talking about budget cuts. I've been going on the website and listening to the meetings of the past for instance in 2024, there was a woman that came and talked about financial crisis and how Inglewood school went bankrupt and the state took over their program and that was in 2012. So I was reading, they're recovering. It's been over 10 years, been like 14 years. They've recovered. They've, you know, come back to the status quo just like every other school, but we're
048not even close to I looked at the history of that. We're not even close to that. We've been taking care of what we need to take care of. You know, I've heard Joey speak back in 2018 in the meetings about how we need to take care of the budget and all these things. So I'm learning through the research and the history what's happening in the board of Coachella and there's a lot that's been happening. A lot is still the same, but a lot of has a lot has been come, you know, coming up because the board different boards that have been here have been taking care of business. But again, I just want to thank everyone that was involved in getting these students here. Appreciate There's, you know, there's no words I can express the
049appreciation of everyone that's involved in getting these kids to graduate this year. There thousands and thousands of employees that do their part right to get them to where they are today. And I think that's all I have for my report. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone at home and those that are with us in the audience. Thank you for bringing some of these concerns to to our attention and I will be putting some of that information from the special ed director in this week's board update that you'll receive over this weekend. I wanted to highlight some of our students as they are completing their their high school with us their their education with us this year and so it's going to be more than a top 10 at some schools, but I'm going to
050read off the top 10 for our three comprehensive high schools. So be patient with me and just know that these are not just our scholars and people call them scholars, but again the champions, the champions that we have. All our students are champions and these champions have risen to the top and so we'd like to highlight them. Coachella Valley High School Giovanni Lopez Ramirez, he will be attending UCLA for accounting. Matthew Sanchez, UC Irvine mathematics. Arias Ardina Ortiz, Berkeley University pre-nursing. Yareli Ortiz Arenas, Berkeley computer and electrical engineering. Zamelia Macias, either UC Irvine or Cal State San Bernardino for biology. Maite Cervantes, COD or Cal State San Bernardino for nursing. Melanie Rodriguez, UC Berkeley or UC San Diego for biology. Jacob Gonzalez, Biola University music. Abdelia Ortega Rodriguez, Berkeley public health. Jesus Gonzalez, another Jesus
051Gonzalez. CSUN Cal State San Ber Cal State Northridge business management. Priscilla Navarro, UC San Diego or UC Irvine public health. Now Desert Mirage. Eric Huerta, Columbia University biology and neuroscience. Sinai Beltran, UCLA psychology. Kenya Reynoso Ibarra, UC Irvine pre-med biological sciences. Maria Basilio Gonzalez, Cal State San Bernardino education. UC Irvine Natalia Vargas Paulino, aerospace engineering. Samantha Martinez Urbina, UC Santa Barbara biology. Paola Miranda, Vassar College biology. Humberto Dominguez, UC San Diego psychology. Diana Ramos Tenorio, UC Irvine public health. Ivan Izar, UCLA political science. Miguel Cruz Gonzalez, UC Riverside chemistry. Jonas Duarte, Cal State San Bernardino finance. Alan Flores, University of Hawaii microbiology. Now West Shores. Larry Posar, UC San Diego mechanical engineering. Saide Sanchez, UCLA political science. Amy Castro Vasquez, UC Irvine mathematics. Montserrat Barbosa, Cal State San Diego nursing. Jose Aguilar, UC Irvine biological
052science. Valerie Rivera, UC Santa Barbara biology. Areli Mendoza, Cal State San Diego nursing. Gabriella Esteban, COD or Cal State San Bernardino undeclared at this time. Veronica Flores, Cal State Fullerton undeclared at this time. Jacqueline Sarabia, UCLA biology. Fernando Sanchez, Cal State San Bernardino nursing. Jacqueline Bao, Cal State LA public health. These are our top 10 for our three schools and our hats off to them for the great work that they've been doing to get to the top 10. So we want to congratulate them. But I would be remiss if I didn't highlight some of our students who left us and went into the armed services and going to Desert Mirage this week and going to the college and career fair finding out about some of our students who left us last year. Karen Mosqueda Vallejo,
053she's a combat medic. Um Anna Caracen Munoz Hernandez, electronic warfare specialist from CV High School. Kimberly Mercado Alvarado, combat medic. Joshua Metosino, infantry recruit. Eduardo Miguel Gonzalez, electronic warfare specialist. George Garcia, infantry recruit. Daniel Hernandez, signal support specialist airborne ranger. Mario Flores, infantry recruit with airborne ranger option. Junior Jimenez, a training recruit. And so just so proud of all these students who have taken on these opportunities and they've challenged themselves. They they've done great in representing the Coachella Valley. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Suarez. Dr. Suarez, I just want to comment how powerful that was. I mean, President Torres, I give you my little line, but just very, very powerful. Thank you for that. Yes, thank you, Dr. All right, 6.1 presentations. Teacher Torres, presentation on 2026 beautification spring break projects. Welcome, board trustees, superintendent.
054Good evening, board trustees, superintendent, cabinet. Uh We were very, very busy during spring break. Facilities and maintenance were able to achieve several projects just within 2 weeks. The bidding process that we used for this was C mass contracts, piggyback bids, uh Cupca unit price bids and we were able to contract six different contractors. We use this procurement process in order to be able to finish within 2 weeks. Okay, so over spring break facilities and maintenance implemented a series of targeted beautification projects designed to refresh campus environments and prepare sites for the remainder of the academic year. These projects focused on enhancing aesthetic, addressing deferred maintenance and improving the overall condition of shared spaces. Work was strategically scheduled during the academic break to minimize disruptions while delivering visible high impact improvements. The result is a cleaner,
055safer, and more welcoming campus environment that supports students, staff, and the community. The funding sources that we used was deferred maintenance and redevelopment funds. So, at our Oasis playground, we had our old damaged rubberized fall zone materials, which was the pouring place was replaced around the play structures in the play area. Here you can see there's the the before and after pictures. Go ahead. This was a trip hazard. You can see it was missing and it had holes in. So, we replaced it with concrete, added some trees, and add new rubberized surfacing. The existing planters around the interior of the campus was causing dust to enter into the classrooms. The decision was made to replace the landscaping with artificial turf at our Oasis campus. So, also at Oasis, we replaced the carpet with uh LVT
056flooring. This project consists of removing all existing classroom carpeting and replacing it with new LVT luxury vinyl tile or district standard equivalent throughout all design classrooms and pods at Oasis Elementary School. We also have some before and after pictures there. Okay, at our CDA uh campus, we had a uh portable restroom that was not being used for several years because it was uh very deteriorated and it had um damaged areas. So, here you can see also our before and after pictures. The scope of work here was to remove and replace damaged partition, toilet, sinks, and plumbing fixtures, removed and replaced damaged flooring, remove and replace damaged exterior skirting, painted and did some touch-ups. Our CDA library was also had some uh wallpaper that was peeling and it needed a painting a painting job as well.
057This project includes the complete removal of existing interior finishes and the installation of new material to refresh the modernize the designated spaces. Work will included the demolition, surface preparation, application of new finishes, and proper disposal of removal and material. Here we also have our before and after pictures. At our Toro Canyon, our common areas were really bad. It looked like a like an very old school even though it's very like 20 years old. We have um the scope of work was the site preparation, cabinetry cabinetry work, surface preparing walls, interior painting, plumbing work. We also replaced uh the cabinets there. We also had some emergency work done at CV High School, which was the electrical switchgear. The old existing electrical switchgear was overloaded and damaged. This caused multiple breaker trips resulting with loss of power
058in some areas. Keep on going? At Desert Mirage uh High School, we had our H14 and A1 buildings that also received new flooring. This uh project includes the removal of wallpaper, preparation and texturing of wall surfaces, interior painting, replacement of carpet, and new flooring. So, the A1 building received floors. We had our walls painted both the floors bottom and and top. It also included the library. We had our La Familia concrete. We had an area where there was uh uneven areas and uh it was a trip hazard. So, we have our before and after pictures there. We removed the ramps, raised uh the uh uneven areas, and created a new hardscape there. Damaged and uneven concrete at La Familia High School was identified creating the slip, trips, and fall hazards. Um then after we had
059our um a retaining wall that was falling apart. We don't know what happened there, but with years somebody must have been removing it or we will also replace that. We have our maintenance crew did our HVAC. Uh Tim wants to talk on this. So, our HVAC team um we did HVAC installations at various sites. Um so, these are units that meet the criteria for replacement. They're either uh 18 years old or no longer can be repaired. Uh typically, if the cost to repair them exceeds 50% of the value, we'll go ahead and replace them. This one here in this photo is Oasis admin building. Uh so, it's an original unit that can no longer be repaired. So, we went ahead and replaced that. Um we also did a district-wide service of our HVAC units. Uh
060so, this is phase one of three before we get ready for the severe heat. So, we go through, we change belts, uh filters, um check for refrigerant levels, stuff like that. Anything that can can give us any trouble when it gets very hot. Um so, we did that district-wide. We replaced the package units at other school sites including um CV High School room 403. Uh we serviced all our units um at La Familia High School as well. Uh we did a lot of refrigeration repairs. So, these are um for our walk-in refrigerator or freezer units including Bobby Duke, uh La Familia, I'm not La Familia, we are Desert Academy. Uh Plumbing, uh district-wide, we perform service on our fountains, fixtures, um our urinals, new fixtures at different sites. Uh we had several sites where we
061upgraded our water heaters to tankless water heaters working with SoCal Gas um and Synergy. It's another contractor that we use um for our kitchens. So, these are um kitchens that met the criteria for that replacement. Our communications team, so our communication staff work on our intrusion and our firearms. Um so, we conducted all of our annual fire sprinkler, fire alarms, and uh now um with the updated building code standards, we have to do our 5-year hydrant testing. So, that's a requirement that wasn't required at uh our school sites. Now it is, so we performed that uh district-wide at all of our sites. Our electrical, um district-wide, we're replacing our fluorescent light bulbs with LED. So, the fluorescent light bulb is obsolete now. So, those are the three you see in the classroom. So, we've been
062going through and replacing those with new LED fixtures. Um they last longer, they they look brighter, so we've been going through doing that. We did uh various installations in the kitchens for some of the new equipment um working with nutrition services. Um some of our restrooms, for example, San Martinez, we went through and retrofitted their restrooms with new LED fixtures to remove the the bulbs, it's actual fixture. Our custodial, we had a our quarterly custodial training. This is all that Coral Mountain Academy. So, the goal of this training was to uh get some of the staff familiar with some of the equipment they're already using. We have uh Solstice dispensers at every school site, so it's a um there's four different products that they can use in the dispenser. Um we found out that some
063school sites were still eyeballing their chemicals, you know, mixing stuff by hand. So, um this is a cost savings that we can get from all of our school sites, and it leaves a uh cleaner surface, so you're not just running sweeping with a thick film. Uh so, we went over some of the cleaning process, uh the left-to-right cleaning process, sweeping before mopping, you know, best practices, what to use. Uh we also covered equipment maintenance with the auto scrubbers, the shampooers, what to do before you use them, after you use them. Uh we also have uh we also receive uh topics of concern that they want to cover in our next uh in our next training, so we'll be doing that in the summer 2026. That was it. So, uh Wait. I wanted I before we
064wrap this up, I wanted to make a comment on our bidding uh process. I have presented to the board our procurement and bidding process on public works contracts. And with that being said, I wanted to say that as uh there's a mandatory in order for prospective bidders to bid on our projects, there's a mandatory pre-construction meeting that they must all attend. So, if staff sees contractors on site measuring or walking the site, does that mean that they already received the contract? It means that it's mandated in order for them to bid to actually visualize the scope of work, and this allows them to submit RFIs, which is request for information, so that they can properly bid the project. Those contractors that do not attend this mandatory meeting are not allowed to bid on our projects.
065I just wanted to make that clarification. All right, thank you. President Torres, if I may, I just Leticia, I want to thank you for the work that you do. I've I've been here for some time and we've had, I think, three different people in your position. I've been I've watched the building of Palmview. When we we got here, they awarded this contract in an emergency meeting to build this place. I believe the money from this building should have been put in CV, but that's neither here nor there at this point. And and the bidding style that I've seen at Palmview, right? I wrote a letter very early on. This school is going to be way over budget, right? 30 40 million dollars over budget. I said the same thing about this facility because of the
066way they bid it. And and I just want to acknowledge that the work that you're doing for the first time since I've been here, we built the school, Northshore school, on time and on budget, right? So, I want to thank you for your professionalism, your staff. You guys are doing an amazing job. You've also taken on the responsibility of maintenance, I believe. Mhm. So, I think that's kind of a natural, but it's more work. So, I want to commend you for the work that you're doing and doing this kind of work on this scale in 2 weeks, it's pretty crazy. But, thank you guys. You are welcome. Very good. Next, 6.2, Julia Vijo, presentation on the audit findings corrective action plan. All right, good evening, Board of Trustees. >> Good good evening and and I
067just want to make a point that our former our former executive CBO is joining you with the presentation. Yes, thank you. So, yes, Ms. Daniela is adjoining us tonight. >> Yes. And um so, good evening, Board of Trustees, President um Torres, community members, staff. So, tonight I'm just going to go over the corrective action plans that we had with our 24-25 audit. So, as you know, at our last board meeting, we went ahead, we reviewed that, we approved it. So, I just want to go through each one of the findings. We did have six findings. So, the number of the first finding had to do with our fixed assets. So, as Trustee Gonzalez had mentioned, one of the things that we did, which was a really large project, was Northshore. And um for finding number
068one, it really had to do with the way that we had coded all of that and closed out that project. And within our system, there's like this little caveat that we didn't fully recognize all of the pieces to that asset. And so, when our auditors came in, we were having a hard time pulling that information out. We actually had to work with the county to locate some of that documentation. So, it did change our balances on there. However, moving forward, now that we know that there's these different pieces within there, then we're going to be able to train our new person. Um I've already um spoken with our new fiscal director, who is here tonight, Ms. Erica Flores, on how we're going to proceed um proceed and moving forward, especially for the 25-26 year to
069stave off any type of repeat findings. So, the second finding that we had was also related to capital assets. So, it's not just recognizing the balances that we have and what we purchase, but it's also how we code them. So, for each asset that we purchase, it's either a land, a property, or a piece of equipment. And so, having our due diligence and working also with our purchasing team to make sure that we're looking over those coding pieces and this way at the end of the year, we're recognizing them correctly. On item number finding number three, which had to do with our bank reconciliation process, uh as you know, last year we had a number of different pieces and turnover and stuff. And so, what ended up happening is this particular piece wasn't necessarily it
070was assigned, but it was dropped. And so, we're moving forward as far as making sure that it's done on a timely basis, which is supposed to be monthly. So, item number four that we had a finding on, which was child and adult care food program, it's our monitoring compliance. Actually, this just had to do with the difference of interpretation on what monitoring is. So, our our federal program came in and said that you have to go, you have to view the actual serving and disbursement of food and it was understood that it was any one to three times, but it has to be more than three times. And so, that's where we actually worked with our auditors. We've corrected this issue and now our nutrition services director will be making sure that we have a
071number of reviews and monitoring for this to make sure that this doesn't happen in the future. So, for audit finding number five, which was federal reporting and documentation, so as we know, we all love all those SR reports and I I have to admit I'm a little jealous of all the trustees that never had to do those because they are very very tedious. And so, we did have at the end of every year, so some of our reports are 18 months, sometimes they're a year, they're quarterly. And what our auditors come back and do is they verify the documentation that we're submitting as far as the amounts and the balances. So, what ended up happening on this is that we did have change in staff and we were unable to locate the supporting documents for
072the balances that were reported on. However, moving forward, one of the directives that the team has now is that all of those reports are being put into a location where all of the other team members have access to it instead of just saving it to their personal drive. So, in the event that maybe there's an employee that's out on leave for whatever reason, anybody is able to go in and access them and locate them immediately. And then also making sure that we have them identified correctly and not just report one, report two. And really making sure that we're communicating with all of the rest of our staff members on what those reports are for. So, our last finding, which is our federal program expenditure oversight, and what this had to do was with our preschool
073program. At the end of every year and at the beginning of the year, we go through and we're basically like moving stuff that had been booked in the prior year. And what ended up happening here is that there was an expense, it was an oversight where it was moved into a restricted account that should not have been sitting there. It did not get picked up in the review. And so, when it came back for our auditors to actually look at that documentation, they gave us a finding based on that because it was not corrected at that time. So, there are additional steps that are being taken place as far as having management oversight and doing periodic reviews into those pieces. And so, our last one was just a letter in regards to our ASB and
074our internal controls. So, um recently in this past year, we've done some extensive training not only with our administrators, but also with our sites themselves. I can tell you that in the last 2 weeks, there have been over four sites that have had one-on-ones with our team to make sure that all of the training that's in place or any questions that they had in regards to ASB is taking place. Not only that, but we also offer annual training to all of our staff members that are involved with our ASB internal controls. The other thing that we did is we also provided an allowable and prohibited list that's also located on our website and the updated ASB manual. So, this way all of our administrators have access to those resources. And they were reminded of that
075today at the principals' meeting. It was also reviewed. So, the summary and next steps. One of the things I also want to point out is that every year what our auditors do on each one of these findings, they come back and they look at that. They revisit that. And so, they want to see have you put put systems in place to ensure that these items don't happen again. So, there are two items up here that were repeat findings, which happened to do with our fixed assets, which we're addressing now. And then the other piece is making sure that we're not doing that again. So, when you're looking at the back of our audit report, you'll see items that say 25-1 and you'll see other ones that say like 24-1. So, anything that's like 24, that's
076a prior year item that they've come back, they've reviewed, and they want to ensure that systems are in place and it'll say, you know, has met or is satisfied, basically stating that yes, we've implemented processes to that. And then if it hasn't been met on that audit finding, it'll say repeat finding in 25. Is there any questions that any of the trustees have in regards to these audits? How many How many uh All right, how many repeat? So, we had two repeat. >> Okay. All right, thank you. Any other questions? I I just was wondering if we needed any information from Daniela being that she was in your position before. Maybe she could add to maybe some of the concerns that we think might arise. Hi, good evening. Um so, most of the findings that
077were identified they're tied back to internal controls and and putting uh processes and streamline processes into place. As you remember last year, I came into the role around December. Um we received our audit in April, which is when these deficiencies were identified and then I left the district in in June. So, as far as records and everything, I I work very closely with Julie. I I keep supporting her when she has questions. Thank you. Uh she has all of the access of the files that I had, but there were files from prior um persons holding the positions that those were the ones that we were not able to access. All right, any other questions? So, much of this was from the year prior. Yeah. So, not last December, but the year prior. Mhm. All right,
078very good. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. All right, thank you. Thank you, ladies. All right, next is 7.1 action item approval to increase Alvarez Madruga Law Organization LLP contract amount to provide counsel and other legal services for 2025, 2026. Motion. Motion by Trustee Gonzalez. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Trustee Calamanes. Any discussion? Can we get roll call? President Torres. Yes. Vice President Garcia. No. Clerk Arredondo. No. Board Trustee Acuna. Board Trustee Calamanes. Yes. Board Trustee Gonzalez. I. Board Trustee Vargas. Yes. Student Trustee Mia Mesa. We need confident through the night. President Torres, is it Yes, uh well, I just stated uh the motion does carry, but go ahead. Uh Trustee Gonzalez and then Trustee Gannett. Thank you, President Torres. I I just want to uh tell the community that this bill
079is from our lawyers and we had a parent here was here earlier talking about how uh we're we're spending uh on on protecting the school district from people that are suing us like our union president. And and the idea that a board member would sit here and say don't pay our legal bill, who is defending our financial interest, is just blatantly irresponsible. And I want I want that to go down in the record. Thank you, Superintendent. I do want to add that the um this part of the agenda for legal bill is actually uh precautionary as we are going into layoff hearings. And so, we need to hire our lawyers. Um none of us are are our lawyers, although Monica did go to school to be a lawyer. She's not a practicing lawyer right now,
080but has that lawyer hat on. And but we need to have a certified lawyer at all the hearings. Thank you. Thank you, Trustee Acuna. Yeah, I I you know, it I go along with board member Gonzalez. We need to pay our bills and we need to hire an attorney. And instead of voting against paying our bills, if you have a problem with this law firm, then ask the board to request that we put it out for an RFP or do something else. Cuz I think it's irresponsible cuz the community's out there looking at us like, well, how come they don't want to pay their bills? What's wrong? How you know, what's what's the deal? Yeah, we're getting sued. If you don't like this law firm, ask the president to put it on the agenda, do
081an RFP for a new one. So, cuz I think this is the one issue for the most part that we should all like vote yes on to pay our bills to make sure that this district is safe, that we're protected from all our lawsuits and the things that happen. Whether they're frivolous or they're not, it doesn't matter. We should pay it. But again, if you don't like this particular law firm, which I believe is the problem, then step up, ask them to put it on the agenda, do an RFP, and get a new one or have the board vote. But again, it just you know, we talk about transparency and we talk about supporting and stuff and then we don't want to pay our bills. So, that that is just annoying. Thank you. All right,
082any other comments? Uh not, we'll move on. 7.2, Julie Video, adopt board resolution 2634 designating district representatives to sign applications and associated documents for the school facility program. President Torres, I I motion the same. All right, we have motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second? Yes. All right, sorry. Uh Trustee Vargas. Uh any discussion? Can we get the roll call? President Torres. Yes. President Vice President Garcia. I. Clerk Arredondo. I. Board Trustee Acuna. I. Board Trustee Calamanes. I. Board Trustee Gonzalez. I. Board Trustee Vargas. Yes. Motion is unanimous. Motion carries. 7.3, Julie Video, acceptance of facility and support services agreement number C1008560, modification number four from Riverside County Superintendent of Schools. Do we have a motion? Motion. Motion by Trustee Gonzalez. I'll second. Second by Trustee Arredondo. Uh any discussion? Can we get
083roll call? President Torres. I. Vice President Garcia. I. Clerk Arredondo. I. Board Trustee Acuna. I. Board Trustee Calamanes. I. Board Trustee Gonzalez. I. Board Trustee Vargas. Yes. Student Trustee Mia Mesa. The motion carries. It's unanimous. Uh 7.4, acceptance of Anderson Children's Foundation grant for a wellness center garden at La Familia High School. Motion. I'll second. Motion by uh Trustee Gonzalez, second by Trustee Arredondo. Any discussion? Can we get the roll call? President Torres. I. Vice President Garcia. I. Clerk Arredondo. I. Board Trustee Acuna. I. Board Trustee Calamanes. I. Board Trustee Gonzalez. Yes. Board Trustee Vargas. Yes. Student Trustee Mia Mesa. The motion carries. It's unanimous. Uh 7.5, approval to increase nutrition service purchase agreement for United Refrigeration Inc. for emergency repairs for the remainder of 2025-2026 school year. So move. Motion by Director Arredondo. Second.
084Second by Director Calamanes. Who? Right? Okay. Uh discussion? All those in uh can we get roll call? President Torres. I. Vice President Garcia. I. Clerk Arredondo. I. Board Trustee Acuna. I. Board Trustee Calamanes. I. Board Trustee Gonzalez. Yes. Board Trustee Vargas. Yes. All right, motion carries. It's unanimous. 8.1, uh request to approve amended costs at the risk counselor position. Motion. Motion by Gonzalez, second by Trustee Arredondo. Any discussion? Yes. All right. Um I saw that it talked about dual language being Why is it not mandatory to have somebody who in this position to be dual language? It said it was like I can't remember the exact word you recommended, but not um mandatory. This is for the secondary at counselor at Promise Counselor position at La Familia. Uh not the dual language program. >> No,
085no, no. It was It was the It was the qualifications that were required. Right. Why isn't it say that it's required to be bilingual? >> make that You can't make it? Can't make that Thank you. It could be preferred. Preferred. Okay, that was the word. >> Sorry. Okay. All right. Now, the other question is is it you know, they say what kind of licenses are required? Is driver's license ever something that's required? No, there were lots of other licenses required, but I mean, it's So, when you go through the process of being hired, you do a DOJ background, which requests um all of your information like your driver's license or your passport or your I-9 information. So, that's that's that calls them All that all comes after right before you're being hired, right? Through the
086whole processing at the Thank you. All right, any other questions? Can we get the roll call? President Torres. I. Vice President Garcia. I. Clerk Arredondo. I. Board Trustee Acuña. I. Board Trustee Calimanis. I. Board Trustee Gonzalez. I. Board Board Trustee Vargas. Yes. Student Trustee Mia Mesa. The vote is unanimous. The motion carries. Uh consent calendar 9.1 approval consent calendar So move. Motion by uh Director Arredondo. I'll second. I have some things I'd like to pull for just discussion. Is that possible? Okay. Okay. I'll motion to approve the consent calendar respecting any board member wanting to pull an item. Okay, we have Dr. Calimanis and then Vice President. Do you have some you want to pull? Me. Yes. You have a second? I I motion Yeah. Trustee Gonzalez second. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Yeah. It wasn't
087Gonzalez. Oh, it's fine. It's it's fine so we can move. So we had a motion and a second. I'm sorry. So okay. So who made the Vargas made the motion? Sure. Yeah, I have three at but then the second was okay. And then you wanted items to pull? Well, I would like some discussion on some of them. Yes, so I guess that means pulling. Okay. All right. 11 11.3 uh 11.8 uh 11.11 and 11.13. 11. what? 13. 17. 13. 13. Oh, 13. Well, except one. Okay. 11.11. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I have 11.3, 11.8, 11.11, 11.13. Yeah. This could be very simple. So do we talk about it and then maybe I'll just approve everything? Yeah. Yeah. Do you have a comment or do you have a a concern on each one of them? All right.
088Well, what it is is Okay, we can do that then. Yeah. So we get the roll call? Yes. Or do you want to talk about them? I don't know enough about >> let's vote for the the rest of the consent calendar first. All right. Roll call. President Torres. I. Vice President Garcia. I. Clerk Arredondo. I. Board Trustee Acuña. I. Board Trustee Calimanis. I. I. Board Trustee Gonzalez. >> I. Board Trustee Vargas. >> Yes. I motion carries unanimous uh 11.3. So that's all together with 11.3 um 11.8 and 11.13. And this could be So these are three schools that need supplies. I mean, is there any chance we can look at other schools to see if they could source the supplies we don't have to pay for more? That might have extra. So I I don't
089know enough about the process to say is that a viable alternative? Okay, so um first I want to recognize that every custodian reports to the principal, okay? And at each site they have their own budget for the custodial supplies. So that's why you're seeing a number of them. And then two, when it comes to sourcing them, what ends up happening is we have our warehouse and facilities and they make a large purchase and they have them out there and then typically they'll um supply the sites as they need them. Okay. And so that's the reason why they're here is because each one of these sites is requesting those items specifically for their site. Okay. So it's if it's already in the warehouse, isn't it paid for? Yes, but we still have to charge um the
090site just like if a site goes to buy different supplies like that site is being charged for it. Each one of them receives an allotment based on their enrollment on what they can spend. >> Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. And then the the other the other one was 11.11. Should that be saying it says new program instructors should not say 26-27 school year? But I mean it's talking about when I read it all, it seemed like it was talking about uh upcoming expenses. Oh, wait. Wait. Wait. I'm sorry. Uh independent contractor services for expanded learning contractors are new program instructors for 25-26. Now, isn't summer start 26-27? It actually starts 2025 and Well, no, it's 2026. Um sorry, fiscal year 2025. I got confused. >> It still is through the summer. But this is
091to support um that uh through the summer program. Okay. So I do I I'd always assumed that when June 1 or as soon as um the school year ends, the fiscal year so it doesn't in this case is what you're saying. Okay, thank you. So that clears up the questions I have. And 11.13 also? You had 11.13 same thing? That was supplies again. That was supplies again. Oh, okay. President Torres, could I could I be recognized on something before we adjourn? I don't know if you want to do it now or maybe after the vote on the >> on the vote on the ones that she pulled first. Okay. So Do we have a motion to Do you want to vote on them? Right, we have Yeah, so I'm asking for motion now to vote
092on those that I'll motion. Okay. I'll second. All of them. All of them together or one at a time? And you're satisfied, right? So where is your motion? Well, I thought we approved the other ones so we have to do this separately, don't we? Yes. Yes. Yes. So So we have to vote on the these four that you pulled. Right. All together or is that your motion? Did you make All all together, the four. Separate? I'm sorry. No, the four together. Yeah. Okay. Do we have a second? I second it. I'm President Torres. Vote all together? Please. All right. So She Her motion is to approve all the items she pulled. I second. Uh there's a second. I call the question. Uh no question. Can we get the roll call? President Torres. I. Vice President
093Garcia. I. Clerk Arredondo. I. Board Trustee Acuña. I. Board Trustee Calimanis. I. Board Trustee Gonzalez. I. Board Trustee Vargas. We're voting on all of them just to clarify everything. >> Yes. Uh fine. Yes, sure. We already vote motion pass. And you had something? Yes, President Torres, before we adjourn, I I just I got to again say that it's imperative that we bring back the parent liaisons. I couldn't rebut uh what our HR department said that we were expecting a counter proposal from CSEA tomorrow. Uh I believe that they don't produce a counter proposal tomorrow. Uh we it's been I think a month and a half that we gave them a proposal. They're not giving us a proposal. I think it's a political game for them and I'm asking this board to find a method a
094legal method if we don't get a proposal from them tomorrow to bring the parent liaisons back. So we can enter it as for the record. Then uh next is adjournment. Motion by Trustee Gonzalez second by Trustee Arredondo. All those in favor? I. I. Opposed? Abstain? Motion carries. Our meeting will adjourn at 8:24. Thank everyone. Have a good evening. First time. Yes. Yes. First time what?