CVUSD Special Board Meeting 05/20/2025

001Good evening everybody. Uh we're going to go ahead and get started. Um so we do have translation in the back. Um so we call this meeting to order. Special board meeting for Kachala Unified School District. Um, Trusty Werto, would you like to um lead us in the pledge of allegiance? Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Place your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. 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. Can we get roll call? President Joselyn Vargas here. Vice President Sylvia Pass. Valerie Garcia present. Joey Akuna Jr. Reondo present. Jesus Gonzalez Thomas Tortez student trustee Eric Werta here. Thank you. And we're going to go ahead and get started

002with 2.1 uh recognition of two gates uh scholarship recipients from the program at Desert Mirage High School. Good evening board president Vargas, board members Dr. Esparsa and cabinet. I'm Elizabeth Sautello, proud principal at Desarrage High School. And today I'm here to recognize and celebrate two amazing seniors who are an example of the great things that are happening at Desimarrage High School every day. So with me today, I have coordinator of the Poente program, Mr. Gonzalez, and our Poente counselor, Mr. Alvarez, who is a DM alumni. Please welcome them. Hello everybody. I hope everybody's doing well. It's good to see you all today. I did want to share a little bit about where we're at with our point program before I introduce these wonderful students and also our wonderful counselor. Uh this is our 10th year

003of our program at Desarrage High School. Um just to just talk a little bit about this particular cohort is really important to us. Uh we recruited this cohort um in little windows during COVID uh in 8th grade. We popped into all their classrooms and we were able to recruit them. And we have 59 graduating Pentes students. It's our smallest cohort since 2019. So just to kind of juxtapose this particular cohort to our incoming senior cohort, we have 120 students. So just to kind of share like you know we still went out, we recruited them but they did very well. This cohort um of the 59 students we had 387 university acceptances. uh we had 28 committed to UC's, 22 to Cal States, two to privates, four are going to COD, two are going to technical

004schools, and then one is entering um the Air Force. So, we're really really proud of them. Uh but I also want to thank the board um and of course district leadership for the investment into the Quenta program. This is the first year that we've had a fixed budget for a program for us and for CV High School. And to me, that's really helped kind of propel and leverage and support um our students. So, I'm really really thankful to you all because I feel like this is the investment and the decisions that are made in this room allow for us as educators to make, you know, positive and uplifting um actions for our students. And this is just an example of that. In addition to that, I also want to introduce our counselor. Um, you know,

005we worked hard on getting the counselor for Poente, working with Mr. Takuna here really really pushing and getting it and and he has a great story to share that he's going to introduce um the students but I just wanted to give you a brief introduction as to where we're at right now with our program. Thank you. And I present to you Mr. [Applause] Rogers everyone. It's a pleasure to be here. Um I graduated from Desert College in 2016. Um, so um, during that time I went off to UCLA, San Diego State, and now I'm at the University of Rollins. And I share this because I would not be here had it not been for Mr. Wonzales. Him and Miss Benno and Mr. Katz, they believed in my potential and they wrote letters of wreck for

006me and they pushed me to apply to the Gates Millennium Scholarship. Um, I was luckily selected as a recipient. And now that I'm back as a counselor, um, I really enjoy helping students apply to scholarships and really push themselves. And so it is with my pleasure that I um introduce two of our students. Um Yasmin Sawwan, she is going to be attending UC Berkeley. I'll let her share what she'll be studying there and her career goal. And we also have Yakalim Barasa. She'll be studying the univers at the University of California, San Diego. Um and again, we're really thankful for the support that you all provide to the Bua program. Just today, Johnny and I, Mr. Wales and I, we got back from um UC Santa Barbara and UCLA. we did an overnight field trip.

007Um, this year we're having five students go to UC Santa Barbara, five students going to UCLA. Um, and so next year when we have 120 point seniors, which is double the amount of what we have this year, um, we're really hoping to increase those numbers. And so again, we really appreciate your support. But if we can please have um, introduce Yasmin Safon if you want to come up here. Um, good afternoon everyone. My name is Yasmin Sahwan and I am going to be attending the um University of California, Berkeley and I just I'm also majoring in biology to ultimately become a diagnostic radiologist and I just want to say that thank you so much to the kids scholarship. I'm a recipient of it and I'm very grateful for this opportunity. [Applause] And now I will

008introduce Jacqualine Barasa. [Applause] Good afternoon everyone. My name is Jacqualene Barasa. I'll be attending University of California, San Diego and I majored in education sciences to become a teacher one day. And um I worked very hard for this scholarship and I'm very grateful that um that my hard work paid off. And just to wrap up again, the Gates Fellowship covers everything for their um bachelor's degree, so they do not have to worry about paying a single penny for the education. Thank you all. We have some certificates. We have certificates for the students or maybe we could take a picture. Good job. two. Uh next item uh 2.2 two we have recognition of our CVUSD student trustee um Lynette Roista Eric Wera Isabella Himenez and Roxana someone presenting the staff presenting oh sorry good evening everyone

009tonight I have the honor of recognizing our incredible Student trustees once again, Roxanna, Isabella, Eric, and Lynette, if you can please come up here. These remarkable young leaders have brought thoughtful insight, passion, and a strong student voice to our board this year. They've shown maturity beyond their years, and a deep commitment to representing their peers with honesty, integrity, and care. Whether sharing student perspectives, contributing to meaningful discussions, or simply showing up with dedication, they have reminded us the power and potential of student leadership. On behalf of CVUSD, thank you for your service. We are proud of all that you've accomplished and we can't wait to see what your future holds. Congratulations and thank you. [Applause] Isabella. Before we take pictures, can they say a few words? Um, well, hi. I'd like to say thank you

010for allowing me to serve another term. I've enjoyed the last two years serving my term, hearing from my peers, and hearing from outside of just my friends. Um, I've enjoyed just the overall time in giving what the students are saying and reporting back here and making sure that they know that there's some changes, even the small ones that we see dayto-day. Um, I just hope that moving forward, uh, this continues and the next trustees follow in the same path and excel even more. And I wish nothing but the best for every single individual here. Thank you. Well, my name is Sua. I'm from Desert Mar High School and serving as the student trustee was an honor and I'm really happy that I was able to be here and share my um my classmates thoughts and

011just be their voice. And I also want to thank the whole district for the amazing um growth we have we have in the schools. I feel like we've grown a lot in school lunches, transportation, and just the overall student experiences. and thank you for the opportunity. Hi, I'm Isabella. I'm from West Shores High School and I just want to say that this experience was more than I had ever imagined that it could be. I feel like it opened myself up to not only what the process of getting something approved or because you hear a lot in schools, oh this isn't happening and this isn't happening but you don't always hear the process behind it. So I feel like now I got to bring the process to wet shores and I got to tell the students

012over there, hey you do have a voice and they are working on it so be patient. What happens here at the district is spectacular and I can't wait to come back for it next year. Good afternoon. My name is Roxan O'Ha and I'm from La Familia High School and it's truly been an honor to be the first student trustee of La Familia. And I just loved hearing every single thought of the students, every single thing that um they wanted to see change. And it's just um and it's just been an honor. I'm I'm really shy, so like being able to be a student trustee has really um improved in my communication. Um and I didn't really think that I would become a student trustee. Everything was unexpected, but I wouldn't change it for anything because

013um I just loved being part of the seating in the district and yeah, thank you. Do any board members want to share a few words before we take a picture or Okay, good evening everyone. Um I want to thank these uh amazing students here and uh you know just to give a little bit of a a shout out Adonis Galarsa who was the board member who really spearheaded this uh before uh making sure that we got this all started. Um you know we we owe him a lot to keep pushing and and making sure uh that this happened. But it seems to me with all due respect to all the other trustees that every year um I don't want to say they're a little better, but they're a little more engaged. They know what you

014know what's what's they're expected of them and that you know the very first ones that started didn't want to kind of interact. They didn't want to say anything. Last year's was a little more vocal. This year's a little more vocal and that's what it's supposed to be. So I think you know the growth has been great in this program overall but this last group has very been exactly what we wanted them to be an advocate not only a voice but an advocate for their schools and if they disagreed with us you know they told us and and you know you know they they they were good about that and so thank you all for your honesty and that's the key. Some people think we know everything that happens everywhere all the time. we don't but

015hearing it from you on the ground from your peers has been of great help to us in making decisions uh and again especially now about what we have to cut and not cut or try to say these are tough decisions and your input has been very valuable so thank you very much for for this last year you guys have been great thank you just want to say you know thank you for participating and being a trustee, it's always good to sit here and um just kind of hear your feedback on some of the decisions that are being made and then and then also hearing your board reports, very thorough board reports. So, uh we're going to miss that for a few meetings, but but thank you for and we just wish you nothing but the

016best going forward. Thank you, [Music] Gonzalez. Yeah, I just want to echo what Mr. Kuna said I think when Mr. Delars brought it up uh he uh he had an idea right and it it's manifested in the most amazing way. I see the growth in all of you right uh you've been with us a couple years and your assertiveness right your thoroughess your your thinking and your understanding the process and I think we're here to serve students and what a better way when we can hear directly from you and just thank you for what you do. I know it takes a lot of time. I know you got to get up early in the morning, get the bus, you're you're uh you're going to bed at 11:00 at night and and you're probably not going

017to bed. You're probably going home and doing homework. But congratulations. Good job, kids. Garcia, it's been excellent to see you all kind of own your position and familiarize yourself, like you said, with the process. I'm so glad to see the growth. It's been excellent and so look forward to seeing you tell your friends so that they know that it's, you know, demystifies this whole process. Um, we so look forward to hearing from you in the future and you're so welcome back. Thank you all. Yes. Lynette, Eric, Isabella, and um Roxanna, I want to thank you for having put yourselves out there. Um this was a competitive process at your school sites. You came and you gave your opening statements and made a case for why you should be um the representative at the schools. And

018from the moment you decided to apply to today, I think you've um demonstrated great leadership skills. And I hope that those leadership skills will continue to go with you wherever you are next year um and into the future. I mean, I think many say that 90% is showing up and you've shown up and maybe the other 10% is the approach. And I've seen um how each of you individually have taken your own approach to resolving some um issues at your school and I really appreciate that about you that you're already exploring, developing those um problems, solving um skill sets and really stepping into your leadership already. So, thank you. feel like there's not much more to add, but um I'm always really impressed with, you know, our student leaders and I'm just really grateful for

019you all to uh really showing us how to lead as well. Um I think I, you know, for me, I think as a young adult, as a youth, I never thought, you know, I was always kind of that person in the background and still feel like I am. And so I feel like um you know seeing you all step up really encourages us to also step up and you know really uh voice the concerns of our community and our students and um I really appreciate you all bringing that perspective to to the table. So thank you all so much. So we'll take a picture. Oh yeah. Oh sorry. Yes. Thank you. Sorry. So, aside from board meetings, um I invited these four individuals uh almost every week to meet with all the staff that are

020outlined out in the in the uh in the audience there as well as our assistant superintendent for them to be able to have an actual dialogue on how things can be fixed or changed in their schools. And so, they stepped up to the plate. I know they were very surprised the first time that I brought them to a meeting and I said, "Okay, these are the directors. What are they doing wrong? What are they doing right? We we need to make sure that we have our warms and our cools." And that's what we we met on the warms and the cools. And so the directors actually got to know them and they got to know the directors and started having even some you know personal conversations about how to improve uh the work in certain

021departments because they are students. Um, I think sometimes people see them as as kids. Um, and they're actually, you know, growing into being very very strong and powerful adult advocates. And, uh, they did a great job here. And so, I congratulate you for that. And thank you for working with my staff. pretty good. Okay. Uh, moving on to 2.3. recognition of Dana Thornnehill Sanchez, Air and Space Force Association Cyber Security Teacher of the Year. Um, yeah. Okay. Thank you. Good evening, President Vargas, Board of Trustees, Dr. Sparsen, Cabinet. Each year, the local Air and Space Forces chapter um nominates an outstanding K12 STEM teacher who demonstrates a commitment to STEM education and positively impacts students. This year, that honor goes to CV High School cyber security teacher, Miss Dana Sanchez. Miss Sanchez has been with

022our district since 2020. Since that time, she has been growing the program, inspiring students to compete in the Cyber Cup competition. Her students entered their first event this year and won second place. Miss Sanchez was then um submitted to the state and she's also the state cyber security teacher of the year for California. [Applause] What sets what sets Miss Sanchez apart is her dedication and commitment to lifelong learning and she models self-efficacy for her students. She herself was a technology teacher but when she learned the assignment with cyber security and Cisco networking she made sure she got she went out there she did her own training just to make sure that she could deliver top quality instruction to our students. She's a dual enrollment teacher, so she's adjunct with College of the Desert. She teaches

023for our Coachella Valley Adult School, so she's going to be a little bit late. And then I just recently learned she also teaches a class in Riverside. She's a very busy lady and her whole soul is around providing what is best for students and ensuring that they prosper. Congratulations to Dana Sanchez. [Applause] I just want to say thank you so much. You are empowering our students tremendously. I have 180 students right now. Most of them are this year IT fundamental certified with CompTIA PC Pro certified. That's really tough to do. Office Pro certified. We're working on ethical hacker and just so much more. Amazon um business solutions just extra stuff anywhere we can get our hands in. There are any given day there's 450,000 jobs open in the US in cyber security and they're learning

024so much that they can go into the field as soon as they leave. So thank you for all that you do for us. Thank you. [Applause] We're going to move on to close session. Uh we have close session public comments. Um this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the governing board regarding any closed session items within the board's subject matter jurisdiction. Please complete a request to address the governing board form and hand it to the recording secretary. speakers will be limited to three minutes per person with a maximum of 20 minutes to each subject matter. Um, and I know that CSEA wanted to recognize also scholarship recipients. So, we have Megan Farley, um, CSEA scholarships. Thank you. Good evening, President Vargas, board members, Superintendent Esparza, and community members. Coachella Unified Chapter

025109 has allocated $10,000 for scholarships for our classified members, graduating seniors. This year, we have four students we would like to recognize. Isabelle Gomez from Xavier Prep High School. Her mom is an IMA at Salo Martinez. Savannah Mendenhal, Lintita High School. Her parent is an M. Luis Hernandez, Coachella Valley High School. His mom is a PAR educator. And Dayton Zabalza, his mom is an admin assistant at Wesor High School. They will be receiving $2,500 each. [Applause] Can I have them come up? Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yes. Oh, we have Savannah Manninghal. Isabelle Gomez and Luis Hernandez. Thank you. Would you like to take a picture too or Yes. Yes, please. With us. Yes. Good morning. All right. [Applause] Sure. Make sure Thank you. Um, next, uh, close session, public comment, uh, Victoria Montes, uh, regarding

026facilities for SPE. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Victoria Montes and I'm a teacher at John Kelly School. I work with severely handicapped life skills students and up until this year I have taught at the Coel School at John Kelly West. This year we've been told that we're going to have to move on to the regular John Kelly Elementary campus and I have a lot of concerns about this. Um, my students are their needs are well met at the Cohel campus because we have immediate access in our classrooms to toilets and to um changing tables. For those of you who aren't aware, my students um being life skills students are all intellectually disabled. Many of them need help toileting. Many of those who are able to toilet still need help um cleaning themselves. So

027access to toilets is a huge thing for us. If we are moved onto the regular campus, the students are going to have to leave the leave the room. They're going to have to go down to the nearest toilet. They're going to have to toilet themselves there and then come back. Now the reality for most of those students is that they are not going to be able to do that independently which means because of the school's rule about or the district's rule I should say um about two people toileting whenever a an aid or a teacher assists in a physical way with toileting two members of staff are required to be present with my situation. And it's the same with all of the life skills and now the autism teachers. We only have two aids and

028one teacher. So if an aid is absent or the teacher is absent, if we're understaffed in any way or during the two hours where students where the aids or the teacher are at lunch, if any child is soiled or needs a diaper change during that time, we simply don't have staff to do it. And when we do do it, we have to go to another building. What that means is if we need to toilet students when we don't have uh enough staff present, we have to gather up the entire class, we have to take the entire class to the restroom. We have to toilet the student in that toilet while we're keeping an eye on the rest of the students and then we have to get up and go back to the classroom. It's absolutely

029a ridiculous situation. I'm here to plead for my class. I'm here to plead for my students for the most vulnerable kids in CBUSD. Please, please allow the district to continue renting the Coal building so that these the most vulnerable students in our district will have the facilities that we need. Under IDA, under the ADA, our students are entitled to a free and appropriate public education. they won't be getting it if we have to exercise this kind of thing to toilet our kids. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time. Uh, next speaker we have Veronica, CSCA with classified school employee week. Okay, I that's okay. I thought it was going to be for public session, but that's [Music] okay. I can do it now. Uh, good evening. uh board president Vargas um board of

030trustees superintendent Dr. Bara cabinet and all the community here. Uh this evening I just want to say big shout out. This is classif class classified employee week from May 19th through the 23rd. Um so I want to say thank you and I've done this before and I've done it before here. Thank you to the pared educator family. Thank you to the lifeguard family. Thank you to the nurses family. Thank you to the office family. Thank you to the supervisor safety supervisor family. Thank you to the security family. Thank you for the maintenance and operations family. Thank you for the gardening groundskeeping family. Thank you for technology IT family. Thank you to the nutritional services family. Thank you to the custodian family. Thank you to transportation family and thank you to the business family. We are

031currently at [Music] 1,42 members in this district strong. I want to say as a leader and just an FYI, you see me who I am. I have been a bus driver. I am a custodian. I am a shoulder to cry on for a lot of my members. I was recently named activist of the year for CSCA of California. So, I want to just let you all know I appreciate everything that this board does, what extended cabinet does, what Dr. Sparsa does, what every single director and supervisor does in this district. We are all one. And I also want to give a shout out to the presidents, president of the certificated side, Cararissa, and my dear and sweet friend, Isadorah Menes. She is my guide, the one that taught me and that is who I am

032today. So I want to say thank you with great appreciation and love for all my classified brothers and sisters in this district. You have given your heart, your lives, your dedication to every student, every coworker in this district. Please stay tall, stand tall, and stay proud. Do not let what is recently going on, please burn the light that you have inside of you. And I am talking to all of you classified out there. We still have fight in this. The district will work with us and we will move forward like we always have done. And I say that now to you board members. Thank you and good evening. Thank you. Uh, next item, uh, Billy Franco, 3.5 negotiations. Good evening, President Vargas, board members, Superintendent Esparza, and community members. My name is Billy Franco, and

033I serve as a curriculum resource technician for CVUSD, overseeing core curriculum, school libraries, and pro providing support to our instructional media assistants. Tonight, I speak not just as a staff member, but as someone who deeply believes in the power of education and access, both of which are at risk if we eliminate our instructional media assistance. School libraries are more than rooms with books. They are hubs of learning, curiosity, and connection. California Education Code section 181000 clearly states that school districts shall provide school library services for the benefit of pupils and teachers. This is a state mandate grounded in the belief that access to information and literature is essential to each student's education. While not every school has a credentialed librarian, IMAS are the ones who make these spaces come alive. They circulate textbooks and devices,

034help students find books and do research, manage inventory, run book fairs, and offer support when students or teachers need it the most. They build lasting relationships with our students. The IMAS are not running the library. The IMAS not running the libraries means the students will not get their textbooks at the beginning of the year which results in a high possibility that our district will not pass the Williams Act inspection with RCE. I would urge our all students, parents, and employees who care about our students education to file a Williams Act complaint next school year if the students do not have their textbooks in their hands by September 1st. Cutting these roles is not just a staffing issue. It is a choice to limit student opportunity and it strikes hardest at those who need the school

035the most. I urge you to support staffing uh staffing all our libraries with instructional media assistance with reasonable hours per day and months a year to protect equity, protect literacy, protect our students, keep instructional media assistants in our libraries where they belong. Thank you. Thank you. Uh next comment, um Mary Meyer, general concern VAPA staffing elimination. Good evening. My name is Mariel Ernnandez, but I am um reading this comment on behalf of Mary um Mary Meyer, CBTA Elementary member at large, Mount Vista 4 through six Papa teacher and ticket steam lab coordinator. And this is what she has to say. With 14 instructional days left, I have one question. What is the plan? When when will the new school be staffed? There is conflicting information. If the campus will be open in August, is there

036an update? How many certificated and classified employees will be needed? Affected teachers will need time to pack and get ready for their new assignment. Who will they be? Where will they find out? What is the plan? With BA Papa teachers eliminated, what is the plan for the arts in the elementary? According to Prop 28, funds are to be used to enhance the current program. How does the district plan to go beyond the current program which provides 30 minutes of instructional uh instruction daily for fourth through sixth graders? According to the article 12.1 5.2, there is noa or PE program. The 30 minutes of preparation time will be decided by a third twothirds minority secret ballot at the school of the school faculty with with uh concurrence of the site administrator. What is the plan for

037supervision during this additional time? Is there a plan at Man Vista school? The VAPA teachers run the steam labs. Now the VAPA positions have been eliminated. What is the plan for the steam lab at Man Vista? With the elimination of Elsa, teachers are being tasked with makeup tests for absent students and students who require more time. Meanwhile, regular lessons stop. All the other students all the other students sit in silent losing hours of instruction. And while those who are testing, they feel the pressure of everyone waiting for them. Is that the plan? Principals are working to wrap up the year and get ready for next year. But not all the schools have a principal for next year. When will that happen? Is there a plan? With 14 instruction of days left, I have one question.

038What is the plan? But maybe my question should be, is there a plan? Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any other close session public comment? No. Okay. Uh, can I get a motion to enter into close session? So, move. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. Do we have a last minute not close session? You should have one for Alicia Vad. Is it for open? Um, I have an open agenda item 15.2. Sure. So, have it in open session. Public comment open session. Okay. Okay. Public comment open session. So, when we come back from close session, I'm sorry. Thank you. So, when we come back from close session, you're the first one up. Um, so can I get a motion uh going into close session? So, move a second. Second, second and uh all those in favor,

039what time? All right. Okay. Uh so we'll be coming back at 7:30 um or possibly 7:45. Okay. Thank you. And then um we are on can I get a motion to return to open session? A second. Second. Okay. Uh 4.2 announce action taken in close session. All right. So, the board took the following action in close session. Approved expulsion case number 24/25-017 for stipulated expulsion. Motion made by Trustee Aridondo, seconded by Trustee Gonzalez. Motion carried 6. Uh, no abstensions. Board took the following action in close session. Approved expulsion case number 24/25-018 for stipulated expulsion. Motion made by Trustee Aridondo, seconded by Trustee Vargas. Motion carried 6. Um the board also took action during close session. Um the board voted to approve on May 20th, 2025 a 10day settlement offer uh settlement agreement and general release

040resolving a matter for parents of OAH case number 2025030280 on the 20th day of May 2025. Motion carried by trustee Aondo, seconded by trustee pass. Motion carried 6. And finally, um, pursuant of advisory board arbiter, decision to deny a request for reinstatement is accepted by the CVUSD school board for employee ID number 2025/11683 on the 20th day of May, 2025 on the terms set forth in ARC 99 E1287 motion. First motion was by trustee Gonzalez. Second motion by trustee Arredondo 6 EAS uh zero no zero abstensions. Thank you. Uh moving on to 4.3. Approval of the agenda submitted. Do I have a motion? No second. Second. Um all those in favor? I opposed abstensions. Our motion passes. Uh moving on to public comments. Um we have a number of public comments. Um introductory comments and

041requests to address the board on items on the adopted agenda and items not on the adopted agenda will be considered from the audience at this time. Please complete a request to address the governing board form and hand it to the recording secretary. Speakers will be limited to three minutes per person with a maximum of 20 minutes to each subject matter. Additionally, the person making the request should state his or her name and the organization or group represented. Please be advised that the board is not always at liberty to answer any questions uh right away. State law prohibits the board from taking any action on items not listed on the agenda. Uh we have a number of requests. Uh first uh person, Alicia Velid. Um subject matter uh item number 15.2 IMAS. Hi, my name is

042Alisia. I work at for the school district. Uh, my position is the IMA. It's so sad, but I have to say it. You, we were hired for eight months and 12 months. I'm repeating myself over and over. 8 hours and 12 months. The district is proposing, I don't even want to say it, half. And it's the district. How many hours is close to 900 hours that we're not going to provide services for our students, our students, teachers, and parents and the district because the district ask us to do certain jobs is in a job description. We will not be able to do make up those hours at all. Now I see in the agenda article 15.2 item number seven and I gave you a copy. They're proposing to hire two supervisors two hours. That's 36

043hours. Why not us? You're cutting our hours. Actually you're transferring the job to the supervisors. The other paper it says that 95% the summer material that at one point we were going to do it overtime but they told me that I have to take the pallet to via the solo. I said no on my car. No, to work overtime. Guess what? If you look at the second page, they're working on it. That's a transfer of job. The other one is not there that I highlight boxes. We do the boxes. We transfer material to different schools during the summer because they don't have the workbooks in another school like Peter Palentin, Mountain Vista. We deliver it, but it's not in the job description. We did it at the kindness of our heart to do our job.

044You already started transferring jobs to others. You're not willing to give us the hours. IMAS won their hours back. That was a contract. I understand there's a budget crisis. I understand that. But to cut so many hours away from us, not provide services for the students, the teachers, our community, and the district when they ask us to do things, how could we do it at their m hours and months? It's impossible. We're at the beginning at the ending of the school year. We don't know we're coming back or not. But what I see this why not us give us the hours back and the months. Thank you for listening. Thank you. U next uh public comment we have uh CBTA uh Miss Carissa Carrera uh subject matter CBTA info and I think we have a

045number of um a number of other items as well. Good evening Carissa Carrera on behalf of CBTA and I will not take the three minutes on each item so but I did have to separate them because it'll be more than three minutes total. Um, okay. So, general information we wanted to share with you. Um, just some positive things from CBTA that, um, happen every year. But in speaking with VTO at a meeting last week, we realized we don't ever bring these to you guys. So, we also give $10,000 in scholarships um to the children of our members. We do it differently than they do, though. they pick four people to get the $10,000 and we give the money divided among whoever applies that qualifies. Um and this year we actually had to go over quite

046a bit because we guarantee a minimum of $200 and we had 57 applicants. Um so um that is 57 students of our members or children of our members who are either in community going to community college four-year universities and even vocational programs and that is the most we have ever had since we began the program. So that's exciting to see. Um we also every year give $1,000 out in human rights grants. uh 10 teachers can get $100 each to support a social justice project that they want to do with the students. And again, this year, this was our second or third year, I think third year doing this, and we had 18 applicants, which is the first we've ever had over 10, and had to narrow it down to the 10. And so, there are

047some great projects going on in some classrooms with social justice projects. And I can't remember, did I do a separate one for Prop 55? I can call them. Yeah, I can call them out of you. Okay. Just tell me when you're done. Okay. Um, we have a resolution um, Rep. Council, our representative council, which is our representatives from each school site, unanimously approved a resolution to work with CTA this fall to collect signatures to get an extension of Prop 55 on the ballot. And I don't know if you guys remember Prop 55, but that was a big push by CTA to get on the ballot to provide funding to the schools. Um, this would be an extension of current taxes, so not new taxes for the top earners that are already paying this tax without

048extending this Prop 55. Our district stands to lose $24 million in 2030. So, we hope that when our CBTA members are working this fall to collect those signatures at their school sites, that the board will support those actions and help us get that item on the ballot. Okay. Board item 7.1, transportation department restructuring. The description on the agenda states that the restructuring is aimed at enhancing operational and organizational efficiency, which is excellent. It's a good reason to restructure a department. The third slide mentions handwritten time cards as an identified core challenge, but nowhere in the rest of the presentation is there any solution offered or is it ever even addressed again. It's very concerning that someone would take the time to acknowledge that as a challenge in the transportation department but then ignore it completely

049in the plan for restructuring. And the next item is board item 8.3, new high school courses. You have 28 new special education life skills courses listed on there. Excellent courses and we understand the need for alignment. We CVTA would have appreciated the opportunity to have been part of this conversation to discuss teacher qualifications for these courses, whether or not we already have those teachers or if we're going to need to look for teachers. Um, and just a heads up that that was happening, but we did not get that. Um, board item 9.1, the financial audit report. According to the report um, on the agenda, the auditor identified two significant risks. The first is management override of controls. And I'm going to quote what they said. Professional standards require auditors to address the possibility of management

050overriding controls. Accordingly, we identified as a significant risk that management of the district may have the ability to override controls that the district has implemented. Management may override the district's controls in order to modify the financial records with the intent of manipulating the financial statements to overstate the district's financial performance or with the intent of concealing fraudulent transactions. I will note here, of course, that they did not state that you were doing that, just that there's a possibility that that could be done. We hope to see a plan in the near future addressing that risk. And the second item they identified was revenue recognition. And quoting again, we identified revenue recognition as a significant risk due to financial and operational incentives for the district to overstate their revenues. Again, not saying that you're doing it,

051but it is a possibility. We hope that these two significant risks will be addressed and shared with the public soon. Board item 9.9, the online bidding system. The district's current method of bidding, has been a topic of discussion for many years. To date, it seems no one on this board has been interested in making that move to a more transparent process for the spending of millions of district dollars at a time. In fact, the topic has been shut down at the facilities committee more than once and was recently removed from a previous board agenda. The facilities committee meeting scheduled for last week was rescheduled due to someone's conflict, so there was no discussion to be had that day regarding that item. We agree with the proposal that is on the agenda tonight and CBTA suggests

052that it be approved with the option A addition. Board item 10.2. I only have two more. The need for qualified educators. Last year you rifted 57 teachers. A good amount of them were brought back this year but then let go again. You also non-reelected 10 certified certificated bargaining unit members. You released dozens of temps and rift an additional 42 bargaining unit members. You have now eliminated more than 109 certificated bargaining unit positions in two years. Why am I sharing this? Because last week at the LCAP meeting, we heard the common refrain that we hear every year that cuts were being made as far away from classes as possible. Yet 109 or more classroom positions have been eliminated in two years. Tonight on this agenda item, HR is stating that they have a need for some

053very specific positions. That's not an issue. We agree with those ones. But then to state that you actually have a need for 30 interns in the coming year, that does not make sense. You have more than 100 people on a rehire list after being rifted. Is it possible that you over rift? You have positions available for 30 interns. I would think you would have 30 positions that can be filled by the people on the rehire list. It's time to start bringing them back. And finally, board item 14.1, the March expenditures. Page five in the March expenditures attachment shows $60,000 paid to deal consulting. We question whether the district needed Fikmat, RCE, and Deal Consulting all working on your budgets at the same time. Was this $60,000 a payout for a previously approved consulting contract or

054is it for a new contract? Deal Consulting does offer great service, but is it still necessary? And if we need three outside entities to continue helping with our budget, maybe we need a fourth. Not sure when these contracts will end, especially since you are allegedly cutting as far away from the classroom as possible. Thank you. Thank you. Um, next public comment we have Luis Ayella portable buildings. Catholica. ECU. Australian. Gracias. Are there are there uh public comments? Two were submitted electronically. Okay. Ready? Uh yes, please go ahead. a concerned parent regarding layoffs. There are many things that our teachers need to consider when receiving layoff, like for example, gathering letters of recommendation, applying to new jobs, and possibly considering moving to a new district. It saddens me to see that every other year our district

055has to go through the same process over and over. Our communities are being left out, but mostly our students are being impacted with teacher turnover rates. The teachers that you've spent so much money on professional development and training are leaving to other districts because of the economically economic instability within our district. Recent news indicate that we will be spending $2.8 million on a new director for visual and performing arts. But what happens when the 2.8 8 million are exhausted. More layoffs. Please don't uh please don't do this to our community again before having plans of hiring and creating new positions. Please ensure that things will be stable and not have to go to the same situation over and over again. Thank you for your time. Loretta Pis regarding autism program. I am writing to express

056my concerns regarding the recent restructuring of the autism program in the Coachella Valley Unified School District. As a parent of the child with autism, I am deeply invested in ensuring that the district provides a safe and supportive learning environment for all students. The restructuring plan, which includes changes to transportation and classroom assignments, raises several concerns. I would appreciate it if you could provide more information on the following. the reduction in pareducator support and its potential impact on students with significant needs, including those with toilet toileting requirements. The district's plan for ensuring student safety, including measures to prevent elopement and ensure adequate supervision, the training provided to staff who interact with students with autism and other disabilities. I am particularly concerned about the district's appro approach to safety which seems to be reactive rather than proactive.

057I would like to know what safety precautions have been have already been planned and implemented to ensure that students are protected. Furthermore, I am disappointed to hear that bilingual technicians who assisted with IEP meetings have been let go. The change may impact the ability of bilingual parents to effectively participate in the IEP process. I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss these concerns with you and the board in more detail. I look forward to hearing from you soon. That was all. Thank you. Uh moving on to 6.2 student board member report. from CBU CV High School, Lin Bautista. On May 13th, CB CBH proudly celebrated senior scholars recognizing the academic achievements of students across the senior class. It was a wonderful evening to honor their hard work and dedication. The commitment day social was a big

058success celebrating over 130 seniors who committed to UC CSU community colleges or military branch. Counselors are actively meeting with students to update graduation plans and enroll those who need support into summer schools for credit recovery. Recruitment efforts are going for AVID and AP courses. and we are working closely with Imperial Bali College to provide support through our college and career center and parent center. Thank you to the board and district for supporting our students academic journeys and helping us continue this important work. Serving for two years and being the voice of CV High School was an honor. La Familia High School Roxana Medina. Um, Lafa has continued to focus on college and career with support from the district and cood for student registration and post-secary planning. Counselors are working with school leaders to track students

059graduation process and keep families well informed. Students have finished cast testing and final coursework ahead of May 28th deadline. Thank you to the district and board for helping us create opportunities for our students and supporting their academic success. West High School is aa Himenez Martinez. West Shores continues to support students well-being with access to therapy, wellness services, and academic counseling. These re resources help create a safe, positive learning environment. Our ASB has been working hard organizing events like teacher appreciation week, prom, senior sunset, and students elections for 2025 2026 school year. Counselors are collecting A throughG competition data and are working with students to help them stay on track for graduation and life after high school. Thank you to the CBZ board and the district for always putting students first and making sure we have

060what we need to succeed. That's Maranch High School. Erica commitment day was sought on May 8th and celebrated seniors who committed to four-year universities, community colleges, vocational programs, the military or future paths. Our senior awards night is coming up on May 22nd to recognize academic achievements, scholarships, and special honors. The Poente program has has had an amazing year. Out of 59 seniors, 52 committed to four-year universities, including top schools like UCLA and UC Berkeley. Two students were awarded the prestigious Gate scholarship, making this our third in a year gate scholars. Several juniors were accepted into summer programs including Cosmos, USC Worth Scholars, Questbridge Prep Scholars, and Bank of America student leaders. We also celebrated a historic event win. Our swim team became league champions for the first time in history. Thank you board members for

061choosing me for the this year's student trustee. I'm really thankful for this amazing experience. It's been such a great opportunity and I've learned so much throughout the year. I've seen how much hard work goes into making decisions and I've been proud to be part of it. To everyone in this board, please keep working hard and always keep students on as your top priority. I know your job is not easy. You have to make big choices that affect many people, but I want you to know that your efforts matter. I've seen this district continue to grow in a positive direction. Thank you again for letting me be part of this journey. I'm so proud of what we've done, and I always be grateful for the support, the trust, and the space to grow. Thank you. Thank

062you. Uh 6.3 um board member reports board requests for future board meetings. Uh trustee Aunua. Yeah. Um first of all I want to thank um congratulate again our students, our two gate scholar students. Um I think it's um it's a commitment to uh a testament to the commitment of the Pente program. the the staff that had an idea a long time ago to to start this program and really worked it and and now it it is expanded and as you saw one of our former point kids was a gate scholar from there and now he's the counselor. So I mean that that's a great recognition to the program but also to those two students who work very hard to to do that. Um, also want to thank all of our trustees, our student trustees for

063this year, as I mentioned, they seem to get more active, more, you know, every year, you know, they get have a better idea of what their role is and everything. And I think this year they've been really good, very interactive, not only a voice, but as I mentioned, an advocate for the schools. And I think that's something to hopefully uh you can share that with some of the other incoming people hopefully for next year and remind them that their job is not just to give a report but to actually interact and and advocate and and and bring up issues that maybe we don't know or things like that. So that that's great. And then finally to uh to our teacher you know Dana Sanchez. I mean obviously a great honor uh someone doing a great

064job out there and um uh you know we need to uh recognize uh the good that also comes from uh from our district. Uh I happened to be able to go to CV high schools um uh their recognition for scholarships and saw all the kids that are 4.0 and above. There was a lot of them. A lot of them. uh the top 10 obviously were there as well, but uh all the other kids that were getting awards and and doing very well. Uh nobody ever talks about those as well. Um unfortunately, I think our uh Thursday, we're probably not going to be able to attend as a Mirage. We also have the retirement dinner for some of our our retiring people. So, I don't know, maybe get out there for a few minutes, but we're

065not going to be able to probably go to that one. Uh you can send our apologies to the principal there. Um but yeah, a lot of good things, a lot of good time at the end of the year. Um some tough budget decisions, but again, a lot of good celebrations with uh kids really doing well, going out there and um moving forward. And then obviously the graduation ceremonies uh coming up are going to always exciting, always good to see the community out there taking care of their kids. So thank you. That concludes my report. Trust. Thank you, Madam President. I'd like to thank everybody here. Thank you for the public comments. Um it's always good to to just just hear people giving us the feedback that we need to hear. Um I'd like to first

066thank all the senior I mean congratulate all the senior scholars who are doing well and off to college and also just like to thank all the organizations that are funding all the scholarships to support our students. That's very very well noted and thank you for everything that you guys are doing. I'd also like to congratulate the gate scholars uh from Desert Mrage High School. Uh I mean the the you know the teachers that are putting the effort, the counselors that are putting the effort for our students to to make sure uh that's a it's one of the great scholarships that you know provides support for our students. So So thank you. And I'd like to also congratulate our student trustees and and just say that um today uh thank you Dr. Sparza for for meeting

067with me and um it it's just know that we have challenging times ahead but uh we are meeting uh as a board member we'll always schedule meetings with Dr. Sparza to make sure that that uh sort of my voice is heard, but collectively that that we're putting in the work as a board to make sure that, you know, we continue to work on things to to better our district and that that that uh our district continues to thrive and that we we make sure that our students have the supports that they need. So, I'll continue to to to just have those conversations. Thank you, Dr. Sparzo, for for meeting with me. Um and with that, that's my board report. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Trusty Gonzalez, I have no board report. Uh cler Garcia, 14

068days left of school. I know that it's been a wild year um with a lot of ups and downs. It was nice to hear so much positivity that still is occurring within our district. Our students are still able to achieve such great heights and we're so proud of them. Um, but we still know that we have a lot of business to tie up, right? Um, we've made a lot of decisions and now we just need to really nail down what that looks like moving forward in several of our um, plan changes, right, for different programming. Um, for the interest of time, I just hope that if we need a special board meeting specifically for those different transformations, because we have several transportation um, and then several others that are programs that we're we're um considering

069changing, make sure that we have time because we don't want these to be so long. So, if it needs to be a special board meeting for that, I'm certainly think that we it's important enough that that we may need to do that. Uh, so I'm suggesting that um because there's still so much to to do for this summer, for next year. Um, I know that there's we're going to have a new school even and I haven't heard enough about what that looks like on the staffing end and all of that, right? So, um that would be my request is to make sure that we have enough time. If it needs to be its own board meeting, please let's look into that. Um otherwise, um our time will wind down with students. Hopefully, anyone who is

070not working summer school has time to rest. I know it's been a crazy year. Uh we're so thankful for everyone who keeps this community of learning going. You're all important. If we could, we would keep you all. We can't. So, these very important decisions have been made. And yes, it's our responsibility to make sure that they're done in good faith so that we're not here in the future. Um, and that's that's where we're going with this. Um, always with the intent of having the most information so that we're making the best decisions moving forward. Um hopefully we all can have a smooth last two weeks. Uh well, a little over three weeks left and we'll feel better about what next year will look like because we're working through that. We work through the summer. Um

071we still meet with board meetings and we'll do the work that we need to so that we can make sure next year is not like this. Um thank you. Vice President Bus. Good evening everyone. Um so I have a few meetings that I stepped into. Um so I was able to step in for Mr. Ardan the 2 by two with Linta. It was a good meeting. So thank you for inviting me. And I I think uh those types of conversations that are being started in the 2 by twos are really an opportunity to identify the areas of commonality between um the jurisdictions that are part of our 2 by twos and the district. And I mean let you had a lot of information. So thank you for coming prepared to the meeting and sharing like

072what the plans and where we're moving forward. Appreciate that. It's a good meeting. Um I also attended the um foundation meeting and this was sort of the first meeting that was required in order for us to adopt certain decisions to send back to the department of justice before we are active. So, that information um I believe has been sent to the um Department of Justice and we're moving forward with filing our um statement of information with the state. As soon as the Department of Justice um reviews and gives us the go-ahhead, then um we will have an active foundation. One of the um things that we need to sort of clean up is our board process when we are appointing the representative from the board. I think there needs to be sort of like that

073transition from the previously appointed to resign and then the person who was now appointed you know to be formally I guess ratified into that foundation which again I was appointed two years ago I think and that process never sort of happened so it's a good learning and for us to not repeat that. So, I was ratified in this one, but I think we need to just figure out what the next step. So, maybe that's an agenda item to figure out what's going to happen. Am I going to resign now that somebody else has been? But for purposes of starting, I needed to be there because that was the information needed for the Department of Justice. just on our end as the board when we're making those appointments. I think it's making sure that we can

074clear all that up um um in time for when the um the foundation becomes active again. And uh what else? Um communication. So, I know um we've either received emails or heard questions during comments about plans. Um what are the plans? Is there a plan for the um impact of the layoffs? And I know there has been already beginning thoughts and conversations at least in my check-ins with Dr. respa um and there's uh stuff or things being placed um so that we can get ready for that. Um but my comment here is about communication. So I guess it's not enough that you know what you're doing and whoever you're working with knows. Um so if other people don't know, it's like it's not happening. So, I think that's just the gap. And I know there's

075a lot of things and sometimes communication is not um one of the things that comes up like the first thing we're going to think about um with all the changes. But I think that's just an observation and a I don't know how to do it. So, but I'm just putting it out there. I think that we just need to improve like how we're communicating some of these plans so that people feel assured that we understand what these layoffs mean and that we are looking for the best steps so that we can start the next year you know smoothly. Um and those oh in terms of request as well I have asked um several times for um I might misuse like accounting not in the maybe technical sense but an accounting of our open funds our

076um grants that need to be spent how much has been spent the deadline. So, um that hasn't come up in any of our um meetings, but as we get closer to like the budget, maybe just making pairing it with every time we discuss budget, having them that way there's that consistency of okay, we're going to see this when a budget presentation comes up so it doesn't get lost. Thank you. Thank you. Um for my report um I also had the opportunity to listen into the board foundation meeting. I think one thing that I like to request um you know as there are benchmarks and there are quarterly meetings that we have more consistent reporting out um you know I I think there will be you know we have our um like our audit our audits

077or our uh financials that need to be uh submitted. So, just making sure that the board is informed on, you know, we're maintaining compliance and things like that for the future. Um, just wanted to thank everybody for public comment tonight. Um, really appreciate, um, I want to congratulate all the students that got scholarships from the different um, uh, organizations, our CSEA as well as CBTA. Um, I think, you know, having that financial support really means a lot to students and it does go a long way. Um I did want to mention this Thursday um this Thursday there will be a presentation in Northshore uh to provide an update. I think this update is more around the facility. So it doesn't necessarily speak to like our plan for staffing and things like that unless uh someone

078if I'm wrong, but um I believe it's more so like an update on the on the building and facilities itself. But it will be held um at the yach club uh this Thursday at 6 from 6:00 to 7:30. And um that's it for my Wow. Okay. So Dr. Spars is sharing that she'll also be there to provide maybe an update on the Northshore as well. And I think that's it for me. Oh, maybe just last thing just thank you uh Trusty Weta for you know all their you know always being engaged in your informative um reports and um yeah just continue to do great things. Thank you. Um so superintendent report Miss Vargas before uh can I just make a comment? I I um I want to speak on the foundation. I uh I believe

079the problem that we've had with the foundation is that we've given the task u to our staff uh to to govern govern uh the daily function of the foundation. I I honestly and and I can't say it enough that the success of this foundation is is going to be predicated on the foundation taking on an autonomous existence right away from this board that board members serve uh the two appointed whoever wants to attend meetings that were there almost for ceremonial purposes. I think it's imperative that we include the business community. Uh I ran into a gentleman yesterday uh who's a former coach. I played baseball with him in high school. Uh a co he's coached for many many years. Uh he has been involved in this community. He grew up here in Thermal. And I

080started thinking this individual needs to be invited to participate in the board. And it's going to be personalities like that that are vested that sometimes may live in the community or have moved on maybe live in uh India or maybe even somewhere else. But I truly believe that the foundation uh is going to start functioning in its best form when we really allow this foundation to start operating as an autonomous organization. And I I challenged Dr. Esparo with that and I said it yesterday at the meeting that we we understand that that we're not the foundation. The board is not the foundation. It has to be a communitydriven organization that has the best uh desire to improve the educational system uh here at CBUSD. I think that the the the money that was given by

081Golden Voice um I believe in the spirit of when we negotiated that myself and Mr. Kuna, we we understood that that that that money be used for art, music, culture, sports, and athletics. And it's imperative that we don't lose sight of that, that we really put money into those programs that oftent times uh fall short of of being funded. I thank you, young man, Huerta, for the work that you've done. Also, I want to thank uh the unions, right, for the scholarship uh program that they have in place. It's it's never enough. Um but I can tell you that my daughter uh that went to UCLA graduated some time ago. She was a recipient of the CBTA contract uh scholarship and and it's less money that we as parents have to reach into our pocket

082for. So, thank you CBTA for that. Um, and you know, and I also want to, now that I'm speaking, uh, congratulate the graduating classes, whether they be elementary going, uh, to junior high or junior high going to the high school or graduating from one of our high schools. Congratulations to the families and the children and and again, the work that's being done in programs like Quente is a a true indicator of how we're winning in education uh, here at CBUSD. Thank you. Thank you. You're sparse. Thank you for that. And and I do want to um piggyback on what uh Mr. Gonzalez has stated that the education foundation is its own 501c3 that is separate from this board. So this board is not responsible for that foundation. It's autonomous and um I am not responsible

083for it either. I am a member on there and so we need to vote to ensure that we have a secretary who is responsible who's going to be working on the finances. Of course, Daniela is currently with us now, but we know that she'll be departing with us. And so, we'll be having to vote somebody else in. Will it be the next CBO? Possibly. It might be somebody else from the community who has a finance background. So, I don't want to give the impression that it's going to just be all of us. exactly what you said that it's actually an autonomous uh uh uh entity that uh we're going to be able some of us to be on and to be able to bring those opportunities to the district from the monies from Golden Voice

084and to our students especially. So, thank you for that. Uh I want to thank all the teachers and the staff who've supported our students with CASP cast and alpac testing. We have high participation rates this year and completion rates at all our schools and so we're really excited about that. Thank you for that. Uh AP testing at CV High School has been extremely strong. Over 800 students participated in AP testing this year. Uh that's that's one of the all-time highs. I would like to thank Riverside County Health uh for visiting Bobby Duke and promoting uh student helmet safety. Uh I also want to um congratulate Dana Thornnehill Sanchez who was with us in regards to receiving the teacher of the year uh here uh in in the district as well as in the state for

085the support that she's giving our students with cyber security and making them marketable in our future. And so I really want to thank her for that. Um we have the state of the district happening on May 30th. And the state of the district is when the district puts on um information for our dignitaries. And that means the surrounding uh cities as well as our own city, Coachella. And we put out information for them to be able to see uh everything that we've been doing uh to ensure that we're providing a highquality uh educational program for our students. That we're working on uh making sure that uh we are balancing our books, that we have strong finances, and that we are promoting, you know, supports and leadership in the district. And so we're going to highlight

086our district on May 30th here in this boardroom with several dignitaries from around the Coachella Valley. Uh and uh we have several people here in the room who are also being invited. Our unions have been invited as well. uh our board members uh of course will be there and several of our students that we will be highlighting especially our top 10 students are students who have participated in all the different uh award ceremonies all the different um competitions throughout the county and the state and have won. We're going to be celebrating them on that day as well. So I wanted to put that out there. Um I'd like to thank all of our employees who will be retiring this year. We'll be celebrating them like Mr. Akuna said Thursday here in the boardroom. So, thank

087you to all of them. I especially like to thank Valerie Perez who's been the principal uh at Mountain Vista. She's been with the district for 34 years. I've worked closely with Valerie in the time that I've been here. She's done amazing things and so I just want to uh thank her and we'll be celebrating her as well as well as a lot of other people on Thursday. Um I uh we will have our next board meeting after graduation. So, I'd like to congratulate all our graduates. You know, continue to fight on class of 2025. And I want to thank Lynette, Roxanne, Eric, of course, who's with us right now, and Isabella for their great work and advocacy. So, thank you. Thank you. Um, moving on to information presentations 7.1, Cindy Maldonado, uh, transportation department restructuring.

088this on. There we go. Good evening, board president Vargas, board trustees, superintendent Dr. Esparza, executive cabinet, and members of the public. I am here to present the transportation department restructuring plan. I'm trying to move this. Let's see. Am I able to control it from here? Oh. Oh, there we go. Okay. So, on this slide, you will see the five-year trajectory. It's a financial overview of the past five years. And as you can see, the department budget has consistently increased over the past five years despite there being a district-wide decline in student enrollment. In the fiscal year 2020-21, you'll see that the expenses are over 10 million and our enrollment is at 17,369. And in our current year of 202425, you'll see that the expenses are over 17 million while our enrollment has declined to 15,891.

089So this trajectory is showing an unsustainable uh trend and calls for a department restructuring. On this next slide, you will see some of the identified core challenges. These are operational inefficiencies that directly impact service reliability, cost, and safety. Currently, there is a manual handwritten payroll system that requires a significant amount of time from the management team to process and review the records for accuracy for over 130 employees. The district must ensure compliance with DOT regulations and create internal auditing measures to safeguard district assets. There is an evident need to reduce staffing and this isn't just about cutting. It's about realigning how we work so that the team that we do have in place can be more effective and efficient without sacrificing safety or service. So, some of the core benefits of the restructuring is that

090the restructuring will create a more efficient and effective workflow, bridge communication gaps between our dispatch, fleet, and routing, and the restructuring will allow for accuracy and payroll accountability. The restructuring, which includes positions that have been have been eliminated, such as the 13 bus drivers and the lead mechanic, will save the district over $1 million in comparison to the current uh department costs. On this last slide, you will see the reorganizational chart and um this chart shows our uh proposed restructuring plan. So you will notice the addition of the routing coordinator. This position is primarily responsible for creating effective and efficient routes to ensure our buses are always on time. This includes overseeing field trips and a total of 141 routes. There are 83 routes during the school year and 58 during the summer. and the

091the routing coordinator will also be responsible for the oversight of the new busology app. In the restructuring plan, you'll notice a removal of the lead mechanic. And we have added two fleet coordinators, one for the AM shift and one for the PM shift to be able to provide real-time support and supervision, ensuring there is no loss of time on work that is desperately needed to bring up almost half of our fleet that is currently down. The current lead mechanic position has not been performing mechanic work or issuing work orders which has contributed to delays in the workflow and our ability to get the buses back on the road. In addition to that, currently our parts inventory system is not accurate accurate which causes a disconnect on the parts that I are needed for our mechanics

092to be able to get to be able to get our buses back up and running. The restructure is designed to create direct lines of communication to the fleet coordinator for better oversight and reduce downtime in the shop so that safety, efficiency, and reliability are elevated. On the chart, you will also see see the addition of the accounting assistant, which is a designated individual to review and audit all the payroll and daily logs for our department staff. Our students deserve a safe and timely transportation and our staff deserve clear direction and support and this reorganization sets up sets us up to deliver on both fronts. Any questions? Thank you. Um do we have any questions? Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. I Yes. I I I understand that I mean I appreciate the work that you're doing. Obviously,

093this is a this is a very uh it's a very difficult department. um we're we're investing millions of dollars every year into this program and I I just don't you know I hear rumors of you know overtime um strategic methods of getting overtime um route assignments uh and recently heard of of the misuse of fuel and how fuel is accounted for and I think it's imperative that as you do this hard work right that we immediately put in a system in place so that we're we're holding how and who has the right to fuel a car uh a vehicle. Um and I I believe that I have reason to believe that as we as we put systems in place I I I think this year alone we've spent uh a million five million 7 1.8

0948 $1.8 million in fuel. And and I and I and I also understand that that you could I could go fuel and punch in 1 2 3 4 and and I could leave with fuel. Yeah. Whatever. I mean, it's just a code. It's whatever it is. And and I also understand that we haven't had camera systems in place until recently uh to look at who is fueling and what they're fueling. And and I I'm I'm saddened to say that when now we have cameras in, I understand we might be putting in uh pretty sophisticated systems on how and what vehicles we could actually fuel. But I think it's going to be very interesting knowing that we've already spent 1.8. By the time we're done before summer, we'll probably be at at 2 million. And it's

095going to be interesting to see what's going to happen next year and what type of fuel uh expenditures or investments we're making and and and it it it's heartbreaking to me that that there might be a a big difference between now that the systems are in place, there might be a big difference in how much we're spending in fuel. And then the question of accountability and I understand that this has been going on for years. This is it. This isn't even a 5-year-old story. This has been part for the course for 20 years. and and looking at these types of systems and holding people accountable is how we're going to create a better school district because as we're faced with the tough challenge of laying off employees and and I'm I'm riddled by the fact

096that we could be losing, you know, or have lost millions of dollars in fuel uh because we're not watching a simple system and how we're delivering fuel uh to our vehicles. So, I challenge you with that on top of this and and hopefully we can get a report uh as to where we're at with that and how we're moving forward and putting those measures in to to mitigate what might potentially being lost. Well, I I'll definitely continue to work on that. I know uh Dr. Sparza and Daniela have been informed of some of the issues that you just touched on and they are working on um implementing systems, putting systems in place, checks and balances, limiting access and then just putting in preventative measures to ensure that you know we are safeguarding the district's assets.

097Thank you. Uh are there any questions from other trust you and then just for the sake of tiny we could just make sure that we're providing questions and maybe some guidance on what was presented. Um just just I know that this wasn't on there but I know we're implementing busology. Yes. Do we have a timeline for that? Uh so the interim director Armando has been working with the company in getting uh training for staff. We're we are looking at trying to make sure that the summer routes are already in the system so we can start um utilizing it like kind of you know as a as a testing phase. So that's one of the things that the team is working on is adding the bus routes in there for the summer so that way parents

098can see where the bus is at on on the route and the expected arrival time. And then what's the total number of students that we transport? I do not know that off the top of my head, but I can get that information from uh the department. Thank you. Yeah. Nothing further, Madam President. Thank Queen well question comment. I guess I think one of the important things in there that you were talking about was um the um how we do our tank carts, right? I mean, I know that was a big issue um in general. That's not just an issue in transportation. That's an issue across our district. Some of our departments have hundreds more than transportation has and we're doing doing it by pen and pencil. I mean, that's something that I believe will also

099go back to what the bottom line is is the accountability of holding people accountable, not only for their actions, but for their hours and for everything else. And then again, none of that matters unless our supervisors and our directors are on top of that, which holds accountability. Many of you have heard me say this over and over. I never blame the people cutting the grass for the job they do. I always blame the supervisors because they're the ones that are either directing or allowing. All right? You can't blame the people that are doing a job that nobody's telling them they're doing wrong. And so I I believe this whole change is great, but there has to be built in there either through job descriptions or through evaluations or through something the accountability process. And again,

100the I've said this a few times this year, many of our problems this year have not been on the front lines. they have been more in the admin area of holding people accountable. Um, I can't blame people for doing their jobs when their supervisors are not on top of them. So, I think that to me is my only concern. We can move the players around, we can give them new names, but if nobody holds them accountable in less than six months, we'll be right back where we started. So my concern is as we're doing this that that accountability um those checks and balances and how we do that. The again the the time card issue I think goes across the district not just here. If this is where you want to start and test it

101out fine but I think that is an issue that can help us across the district. But yeah, I I would just recommend that when we again moving them around and it might flow better, might look good on a chart, we don't hold people accountable or have those provisions in there to be able to hold accountable to evaluate them, hold them accountable starting obviously from the director of the department on down. That's how it has to work, not the other way around. Correct. and we'll make note of that and continue to offer support from an HR standpoint in terms of supporting our admin team in guiding them in terms of what the steps are in the progressive discipline process and to hold everyone accountable from the top down. Thank you. Uh Trusty Garcia, any comments, questions?

102Um Dr. comment. So this is part of the restructuring the having an accounting person there uh to make sure that we don't have the supervisors managing accounting as well because they're not accounting managers and that's what they've been doing. They've been managing the payroll for every single employee in that department. And they need to focus on supervising transportation, which is working with the bus driver, supervising the routing, and making sure that we implement this routing system that we've invested in and that we've promised our parents and that we also have a a highly effective mechanic shop. And so part of this restructuring, if you do see it, and if you could put that back up, that slide back up, you will see that uh an accounting uh assistant is going to be there to be

103able to support with payroll as well as with the accounting for fuel and all invoices and things of that nature. Thank Vice President, thank you. Uh Vice President, I have a question around the supervisor. So you just mentioned Dr. Spata supervisors here and I don't see such a title on the chart. Um is the green classified management is those are the supervisors. Okay. Yes. So all the green uh boxes are the classified management and blue boxes would be uh positions that are within the bargaining unit. Okay. So, we're going to have one supervisor for 80 bus drivers. Is that the Yes. So, with the transportation coordinator, they would be overseeing uh the training um and the drivers and monitors. Um, and realigning some of the duties would give them more time to be able to

104be more hands-on on like evaluating and, you know, dealing with any issues that are arising, any complaints, anything of that nature. And then allow other management to be able to focus on the other areas such as uh the routing, scheduling of field trips, and then the fleet coordinator would then be more um involved in the mechanic shop. Is that the standard to have one person supervise 80 like the rat one supervisor for 80 bus drivers and then 15 bus monitors and three driving instructors. So for the most part everyone kind of is the expert in key areas and oversees that type of work. This individual would not u be the one evaluating all those individuals. they would be the primary uh contact or the primary supervisor and then get that support from the other coordinators.

105In addition to that, there's also the the director that would still remain in place. And it's like the director report. Yes. And this is less this is uh almost 20 less bus drivers uh from before. And I I think I know why. Um and so the duties of the transportation coordinator, we have supervisors right now. So, we're moving to coordinators, which is where they are again not going to handle payroll. They are not going to handle routing. And that's where they've spent a lot of their supervision time. And so, it's solely going to be focused on our bus drivers, our bus monitors, and making sure that we have everyone trained because they have to continuously have trainings. And so, that's why we have three trainers on. Um, we did consult with PTI about how many

106based on the ratio of bus drivers that we're going to have next year and they advised us to keep all three trainers on. Any questions? Yeah, the only other comment I was going to mention or ask um was how would we consult the report by PTI with this? So yes, and they were part of uh the conversations and the these are the recommendations that they've provided to us as a district in terms of what the reorganization structure should be. Thank you. There's no other questions. We can move on to 8.1 uh action items. Thank you, Cindy. Uh educational services. Um we have 8.1. Uh, Sakoro Sanchez requesting approval to replace batteries for Eden uninterruptible power supply uh, unit in the technology data center by Eden Corporation. Do I have a motion? Second. All those uh,

107questions. Uh, all those in favor? I I All those opposed abstensions motion passes. 8.2 two. Um, Sooo Sanchez requesting approval of acceptance of grant funding from Menllo Education Research Factors Forum to increase understanding of the math framework to improve math instruction. Do I have a motion? Motion, a second. Uh, any questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. Motion passes. Uh 8.3 So Sanchez requesting approval of new high new high school courses for 2025 2026 school year. Second um any questions? All those in favor? I oppose. Uh abstensions. Motion passes. We have 8.4. Uh, Sakoro Sanchez requesting approval of memorandum of understanding with trustees of the California State University San Bernardino to offer the high school university dual enrollment program. Do I have a motion? Second. I'll second. Any questions? All those in favor? I

108uh post. Uh motion passes. Um, uh, business services action items, uh, 9.1, Daniela Tavarees, approval of the fiscal year 2023 24 fiscal audit report. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? Trusty Garcia seconds. Uh, open it up for questions. Anyone have questions, comments? Okay. Uh, all those in favor? I opposed abstensions. Um 9.2 uh Daniela Tavarees approval of the 2425 fiscal year third interim report. Do I have a motion? Second. Second. Uh any questions? All those in favor? I oppose. Abstensions. Uh 9.3 uh Daniela Tavarez authorization to renew a 5-year agreement with Quadia Leasing USA uh Inc. for equipment software and web tracking system for the warehouse. Do I have a motion? A motion. A second. Second. Do we have questions? Just a quick question. We've worked with this company, it says

109since 2013. Was that Did I read that correctly or did I 9.3. The analysis it says since 2013 we have partnered with to manage this. I I guess my only question is if we're going to do another five-year contract, did we do a RFP or did we just automatically go with them? We have staff coming to the podium. Randy, we did get quotes and we did uh look at this vendor and it wasn't cost effective and we switch vendors because our our systems and our processes are with this with this vendor and with this equipment. Okay, any other questions? Um we have a motion, a second. Uh all those in favor? I oppose abstensions. Uh moving on 9.4 uh Daniela Tavarez approval to open a purchase order with Coachella Auto Body. Do I have a

110motion? Second. Um questions. All those in favor? I oppose. Abstain. Moving on to 9.5. Uh Daniela Tavades, authorization to proceed with the playfield improvement project for Peter Pendleton uh elementary school and authorization to solicit bids. Do I have a a second? Second. Trusty Garcia, do I have any questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. Motion passes. We're on 9.6. Uh, Lanella Tavades, authorization to proceed with Pellefield improvement project and parking lot expansion at Westside Elementary School and authorization to solicit bids. Do I have a motion? Second. Any questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Abstension 9.7. Uh, Davis, authorization to purchase and install surveillance cameras and the districtwide expanded learning program storage buildings. Uh, do we have a motion? A motion. A second. Second. Do we have Okay. So, are we are we actually

111putting 20 camera systems in We're putting a camera system in each storage building or we're putting a camera system in the G? I'm I'm thinking of Palia right in the general area maybe down the row in certain angles or we're actually putting an individual camera in every building. Will each storage container have its own camera? And I believe it's my Can you tell me why we're doing that? Oh, should we go to the podium just to make sure it's heard on I'm sorry I made you come up here. The storage buildings are located out in the field. Uh DSA required that they were 20 ft away from all the buildings in order to be exempt and used for storage. So uh therefore we do it is necessary to put a camera outside the building which

112will be a 360. It will capture the all that area and um we need to run fiber to from the nearest uh network uh in uh infrastructure from the nearest building. Yeah. So, but but what I'm trying to understand is if I have a general area, and I'm not a I'm not the guy that that you hire to put in cameras, but but my logic tells me that that if we're going to put in cameras, and knowing how expensive this is going to be, why would we put a camera in the front of every building, wouldn't we put cameras that do 360 and you would try to umbrella the entire area with some type of a strategic plan? Who came up with this plan? Did we have a professional tell us how we could best

113police this area with cameras or are we just because there might be resources available? Are we just going and putting in a camera on every building? There is an assessment for that uh Mr. Gus did for uh districtwide for I'm not talking about Mr. Gus. He's No, no. saying that we but right now we're doing the same system with that building. It's so the infrastructure is so expensive that we want to do, you know, we want to do state-of-the-art security cameras instead of the Ring cameras and there is no some the building may be sitting alone and we can't attach it to another building. It's too far. But Laticia, I understand. But what I'm saying is that maybe not a ring camera, but but what we're doing right here, I think is just this is

114a lot of money. And and what I'm saying is that did we maybe and with all due respect to our security team, did did we contact maybe this identify this area? We want to secure this area with cameras. Did we go to a professional? They could design a camera system and and this is what they recommended. This is what they recommended. Are they also providing the service? Because it sounds to me like they might because we're doing it through the through mass and they had they have their own engineers. I Let me ask you again. The people that designed the system, are they the same people that are going to install the cameras? I have I mean that's maybe the problem, right? The more cameras I put in, the more complex system, the more I

115can charge it. I mean, if you want to go ahead and pull the item and we can Well, how many sites is this? 20 sites. Okay. Do we want to do I have each camera? Every storage unit has its own camera at 20 sites, right? That's ridiculous. Uh, trustee. No, that's only my opinion. I mean, I have some questions, too. But my I'm done with my questions. I Thank you. Well, I mean, my comment is we we did discuss this a little bit as well. When we originally put these in, we knew that they needed to have security because we have a lot of expensive gear. These aren't these aren't the vagonas. These are actual portable right instead. So, when we put them in, we paid money to put them in, to put tower, to

116put the fire alarms, to put everything in there. Yet, we didn't do this. They asked that they put originally to put just the little cameras in and and now we're going back to it's just like there hasn't been an actual sit down plan and now it sounds to me anyway it's a lot of money. I I just I looked at the price tag and even if we were doing one camera in each of the thing and bringing that's still a lot of money. 600 grand for 20 site for 20 sites. It seems like to me, and again I may be wrong, is that the district has an idea of what they want to do at the district. Right. Right. And they're going to use this to help pay for that because there's money in the

117LLP. Right. And again, I've been complaining about that. You know what I'm saying? Mr. Akuno, can I just interject real quick with you? With all due respect, look, to me, I believe that if we went out and got an independent company and did an audit of the sites and designed a system and we paid them 30 grand, we paid it out of pocket, by the time we get done securing with proficient, efficient camera systems to surveillance the area, we're going to save half the money. It's going to cost us 300. and and that 30 to put a plan together. I just don't understand the way this is being set up and the way it's being sold to us. I'm not going to support this. I would recommend that we table this discussion uh table this

118item, bring it back maybe back to facilities where we can look at it and come up with a better plan. It's being it's like it's being peacemeal, right? Yeah. sections. But again, Miss Garcia just said they're they're just they're just it's an overkill. I mean, we need security in those buildings obviously like we do everyone else, but it just it just seems that we spent to put him up, spent to we already wired it. I mean, originally we have fire we have fire alarms in there. We have all that other stuff. The only thing Sorry, the only thing we don't have is internet. So to get the internet to those buildings is the expensive part cuz we can even if I we buy a cheap camera you know the Ring cameras or just anything you

119know a lot cheaper it's going to be the expense is bringing the internet to that building. I understand that too but you said those buildings are 20 ft away. I'll second the most of them are right. They're 20 feet away. Our IT guy can't figure out a way to get line 20. Yeah. And you know, we're not in a I mean, I remember. Should I pull out the gabble? I'm sorry. Just my final question. See? Okay. Yeah. But we just need to make it in an order. In a different time, right? I I turn on my my Wi-Fi at home. I have satellite cable. I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's no more hardwire. I was driving by and I was watching this guy from the phone company like fixing the phone thing

120on the corner that was falling over. those days are over. It it cannot be this expensive to get internet to these sites. I mean, there's got to be a way to do it via satellite. Um, again, I don't know. I I And I just one final comment from me. I only would like to impress the fact and I'll second your motion. I we need to impress on the fact that we can't take our sweet time about this because those buildings are needed to be able to move things that are in classrooms that the principles desperately need to move that equipment. That's the whole point that we started this thing a long time ago. And again, we just seem to be delaying the things and we need to move that those equipment in there as soon

121as possible. But again, you don't want to put the thousands and thousands of dollars that we bought in equipment into a portable that's not secured because they're going to break into them because people know, they all seem to know where to go, which classroom to go to to get to the good stuff. So, we can't just like say, okay, another board meeting, another board meeting, and here we are in September and we don't I mean, we need a solution. Mr. Maybe that could be an amendment to Mrs. Fa's motion that we do it on a timely manner, right? That staff just get on it and maybe take a different approach. It doesn't have to come back to us. I I have all the confidence in the world. You can figure this out and make a

122good recommendation. But but basically buying the the card like everything they're selling us. I don't think so. They're the same person that's designing the system is overdesigning to sell us more more crap. I don't know. Well, just just my comment in in light of what's being said, I I I'd like to think that staff took a time to to look at this and to say this is a long-term investment into securing our buildings and to make sure that this is probably a timely thing that needs, you know, we don't have the time on it, but but I would say time to table it, but I I would say that I fully support that you guys took the time to to really look at this and to say that this is this is a long-term investment

123for all the equipment. that we're doing at 20 sites and no matter what happens and you know I'm sure that it started out with ring cameras and we bought those and all over and it didn't work right and that was probably 100,000 that was just thrown away right and this is a big price tag but I think that we could probably you know it's probably something we so we can table it and if it's pressed for time though Dr. part of the I would say that we consider it. There's a there's a motion. I could I can bring him back next month and then with a different option if you want, but this is something I want to do in the summer. Can you Somebody needs to to pull their motion. So, we have a

124motion to approve the item. So, what do we There was a motion to second. A motion second. So, on the motion, I'm sorry. So I would go I sorry so let's talk before before the discussion there was a motion to second Mr. the president second his motion I don't think we second it it wasn't a second it was just a motion and then you asked Mr. to go ahead and cut. Okay. So, then the motion dies, right? Okay. So, then I'd like to make I'd like to make a motion. Okay. Uh because I thought Miss B made a motion, but I'll make a motion that we table this. Maybe Leticia, we could have a conversation. Maybe you can engage with Dr. Esparsa and we come back with maybe a second plan uh for the next

125board meeting. Understanding and respecting what Mr. Akuna says, we have a lot of valuables. It's going to be the end of the school year and we need something ASAP. Do we have a second? I second. Okay. Uh so the motion is to table the item. Um so all those in favor to table I I I uh all those opposed uh abstension. So we're tableabling 9.7 for future. Thank you. Okay. Uh 9.8 8are authorization to issue a p purchase order to PQ bids for pre-qualification services of prospective biders and online bidding system for the fiscal year 2025. Do I have a motion? I motion second. Uh any questions? All those in favor? I I oppose. I just have a final comment. I think you know I I I believe that this is a real good idea.

126We just got and I'm gonna ask staff and I think I brought it up in facilities that we got to be mindful of the fact that this is going to open up somebody that might be in Orange County or somebody far away and and and they're going to have to understand the fact that they're going to come out here and maybe deal in a little different climate in the summer, right? And and understand what it is to work on PDM and this will this will allow us to get more bids, but I think we got to be mindful of how they're bidding, making sure that they're not base bidding and then leaving it open for a lot of change orders, right? And so, you know, it's going to create a new challenge, but I think

127this is a good way to get more good participation. Thank you. Uh 9 9.9 Sorry, I'm confusing this with so another discussion that happened. I'm sorry. Yes, I got you. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Uh 9.9 Daniel adopt resolution number 2025-58 authorization and direction for the purchase of information technology goods and services with EKC Enterprises, Inc. uh CE calvary and multiple award schedules. Do I have a motion? Motion second. Uh any questions? I just have one question. It basically says that per project specific, but where's the funding coming from? Are you going to bring back each project every time you do it? Is that how we're going to approve them? I I'm just curious. 9.9. You understand what I'm saying? Yes. It just says it's these are resolutions per the contract with this group, but every

128time we do one, they're going to bring it back and you're going to tell us where it's the funding sources. I'm sorry. Or did I miss because it doesn't have a funding source? Do you want to come to the Can you come? Sorry. Sorry. Thank you. I don't think we can hear uh 9.9 does have an for Yes, that's correct. So, this is just to approve like all the other resolutions we've been approving, they're priceless. So, anytime we do any uh purchase order or contract that exceeds 10,000 will come back to the board. My my concern is that many of these are not going to exceed 10,000 because they're going to be smaller projects, right? But they won't come back, Troy. They won't come back, but the funding source would be just out of technology

129or is it going to come out of I mean it'll come out of different places, right? Right. So, I mean that was just my question. we get to see it. But if it's under 10, you're going to pick a funding source and that's just where it's coming from. Right. Right. That was my question. Yeah, that's other question. Uh other questions? Um just a standard method, right? Okay. Yeah, but I like to see where the money is coming. I mean, what what is he getting charged to? Yeah, I understand. We do have parameters in place that if it's under 10,000 they have the discussion question was because they said it's perspect are they all coming back to us to over 10,000. Yes. Okay. My question and the funding might be a different funding method every time.

130Okay. Right. Uh thank you. Uh all those in favor I opposed abstensions. No. Uh 9.10 10. Um, Daniela Davis, adopt uh resolution number 2025-59, authorization direction to contract for facilities repairs and improvement projects with SERPro uh by piggyback bid number 2023 RFP 2011 uh with City of Palm Desert. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. I'll second. Um questions? No. Uh all those in favor? I opposed. Extensions. Motion passes. Um action items. Human resources. Uh we have 10.1 Dr. Monica Mowitz uh approval of first reading for update of uh board policy uh.1 high school graduation requirements. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second. Trusty Garcia second. Uh all those in uh questions? None. All those in favor? I I opposed abstensions. Motion passes. Uh 10.2 uh Dr. Monica Mawwood's approval of declaration of need

131for qualified educators for the 2526 school year. Do I have a motion? A motion to second. I'll second. Uh any questions? All those in favor? I I I uh opposed abstensions. Moving on to 10.3. Uh Dr. Monica Makawitz, approval of first reading for policy revision um for BP5127 graduation ceremony ceremonies and activities. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Any equal questions? No questions? No. Okay. Uh all those in favor? I oppose. Abstensions. Uh 10.4 uh Dr. Monica Mowitz approval of resolution number 2025-60 proposed decision uh regarding reduction and force for classified employees and order of decision. Do I have motion? Second. Second. Uh any questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Extensions. Uh consent calendar. All matters. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered by the board to be routine and

132will be acted upon in one motion. There will be no discussion of these items prior to the time uh the board considers the motion unless prior to the time the board considers the motion. Unless members of the board or staff request specific items to be discussed and or removed from the consent calendar, in which event the items will be considered separately. The superintendent uh assistant superintendent of educational services, assistant superintendent of business and finance, and assistant superintendent of human resources recommend the approval of all consent calendar items. Uh do I have a a motion to approve the consent calendar respecting any board member wanting to pull an item? Second. Uh any items to be pulled? I'd like 14.17 to be pulled separately. 14.17 added separately. Any other items. Uh so we have a motion on

133a second. Yes. Uh all those in favor? I I Any opposed abstensions? Uh 14.17. Um so 17 is Oh, sorry. 14.17. Uh Danielle Tavarez Northshore Elementary School acceptance of added scope of work and extension of construction timeline. Um I have a motion to approve. Okay. Oh wait, what's your concern? Yeah. Do you have a motion? Just want it voted separately. Okay. What? Because of a potential conflict. Uh she just we we're just voting uh something motion. Okay. So, Trusty Gonzalez's motion to approve. Yes. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a second, but I just comment. Okay, I'll second. Okay, so I won't second. Um, Trusty Arona will second and questions. Any questions? Trusty had questions. So, um, just to just to confirm that, um, this is not adding any any funding to

134Northshore, but it's within the project budget. Just want to make sure that I'm I'm clear on that. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. Thank you, Mr. P. I did. I did. I just wanted to make sure that I said that publicly because I know that we've been doing really good with the the school and the project has been within budget and I just want to make sure that we're not exceeding the budget. That's correct. Thank you, Miss Torres. This been an eventful meeting for you, Lisa. I'm sorry. Uh if there are no other questions, uh do we have um all those in favor? I I uh all those opposed abstensions. One abstension. Uh motion passes. Um 16 adjournment. Close session. We don't have close session. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? So second. Uh

135all those in favor? I oppose and extension. I don't want to. Thank you. radio. Please.