001can I get a roll call please president joyaa Jr here vice president Joselyn Vargas here clerk syia passo present Valerie Garcia present Jesus Gonzalez here Thomas torz thank you thank you we're going to move into the uh number two o of office for the newly reelected uh members of the board if we can get that three board members would uh company the superintendent one by one yeah one by one I Josel and Vargas do solemnly swear I Josel and Vargas do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States that I support sorry support and defend support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of California constition of the State of California against enemy against all enemies foreign and domestic foreign and domestic
002that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith in allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of California and the constitution of the State of California that I take this obligation freely that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservations without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and Faithfully discharge the duties discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter upon which I'm am about to enter thank you thank you congratulations you could sign here please yes if you put your right hand I Trinidad Arondo I Trin Arondo do solemnly swear do Solly swear that I will
003support and defend the Constitution of the United States that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of California and the constitution of the State of California against all enemies against all enemies foreign and domestic foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and aliance I'm sorry can you repeat and Allegiance and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States to the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of California the constitution of the State of California that I take this obligation freely that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion and that
004I will well and faithfully and that I will well and Faithfully discharge the duties discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter upon which I'm about to ENT okay thank you congratulations I Jesus Gonzalez I Jesus Gonzalez do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support and defend that I'll support and defend the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of California and the constitution of the State of California against all enemies against all enemies foreign and domestic foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith that I'll bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of California and the constitution of the
005State of California that I take this obligation freely that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion and that I will well and Faithfully that I'll well and Faithfully discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter discharge the duties about which I am about to enter very good thank you Dr congratulations board members for another four years we going to take a couple of minutes if you guys want to take pictures I know some of your family members are here if you guys wanted to take a quick picture with them go ahead get a picture back [Music] get my door where's that perfect congratulations uh on that on your re-election and saring in okay moving on item three uh board member
006boss is going to be a little late so we're going to move um item three after we come back from close session so the full board can be here for that uh moving on item four close session public comments this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the governing board regarding any close 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 these are all Personnel items so we'll go ahead and do them all right now if you guys are good with that Alicia every week I mean when you have a board meeting I'm sorry I
007missed the other one it was uh sick but I'm here I don't understand I do understand but I'm surprised that my members are not here today I had experience in the library one member walked in and zoom she was very quiet and all a sudden she yell and I would turn around and he said she said I got my position here in her school I haven't slept for two weeks anxiety was so high and I go I'm sorry you you're not over there I'm over there okay so that's what we all feeling we took the majority okay now back to my again my position I still understand how come we became a 12 month eight hours and now to 105 somebody asked me where are you right now I don't know I did a book
008fair for eight days I made H I was surprised that I made what I the amount because I was close back and forth because we had a a read Across America I I was surprised that the kids were coming not only students but parents and say to me I remember when I was little and I had a book we we had a book for in our school and I went and buy stuff as an adult now there there are an adults and well the days go on we did good besides the rain the the wind the Wednesday I closed because we had the uh R Across America we did good at the end I was surprised when I was cleaning up I put a lot of hours that I don't get paid and I don't
009say anything to my my my the principal I just do it because of my heart at least six hours I did put into it but not getting pay when I did the last box I said to myself I look would I be able to do that at 10 five 10 months 5 hours and I said maybe this will be my last one there's no way we have proved to you in the past why we were 12 months and eight hours to give us 10 five yes I'm very disappointed because I'm hurting the students and the parents thank you thank you uh next up is um cesi cesia I pronounce it correctly uh K I apologize hello my name is sessia and I wrote something um so I'm here today as a concerned parent and an
010advocate for my son and his fellow peers um my son's name is Damon and he attends Miss Alvarado's combo class with first and kindergarten um I just want to take a moment to talk about something that I believe is incredibly important the value of dedicated School Aids in the classrooms and why combining lower and higher grade class was not the best interest of our students and should not be allowed in the future uh first of all I just want to share a little bit about my son he loves his teacher and his school aid Miss Jenny he looks forward to looking to seeing her every day and not just because she helps him with his lesson plans but because he Pro she provides consistent support and encouragement I believe that Damon's experience is not unique
011I believe most of our students feel the same way um poor children like Damon who benefit from personalized attention the presence of a school aid makes all the difference and I also believe that it helps minimize teacher burnout I understand that that decisions are made based on budgets and combining grades might feel like a solution to save resources however I feel like we must ask what's in the best interest of our students combining younger students with older ones might sound like a way to utilize resources efficiently but it can have unintended consequences um sorry when we mix grades we risk losing critical individualized support that students need to build solid foundations the students the younger students are different from those of the older students and are trying to to serve both at the same classroom
012especially without the dedicated AIDS we will likely dilute each support each student receives in conclusion I ask that you consider the long-term impact of combining grade levels could have on children's education I believe that our students need the individualized attention that the School Aids provide thank you thank you uh next up is uh Rachel K good evening Board of Trustees cabinet president COA and superintendent espara my name is Rachel quillin and I stand before you today as a teacher an instructional coach and a parent of a fourth grade fourth grader who is a student at cvd I've been a teacher with the district for 10 years and this will be my fourth time receiving a riff notice however I'm happy to say each time I have had my notice rescinded what leads to my point
013is why are there always more teachers Rift than necessary um this year the resolution stated 48 however 110 teachers were given riff notices not only is this bad for morale at the school site but also for student learning as you can imagine this process is overwhelmingly stressful and unnecessary and not just for certificated staff but also for the classified and support staff who are experiencing these riffs as well why does HR give out so many when the board only approved 48 Dr Esparza had said that coaches were safe and that cuts were not going to be made from the classroom including the coaches so I ask you Dr Esparza which is it because according to the actions taken with the distribution of the Riff notice is your word doesn't seem honest and I'm just I'm
014confused and I really want to know why thank you thank you next up is next up is Rosemary uh EST my name is Ros Mar Strada I'm a parent of three students at the Peter Peno in elementary move the microphone it'll thank you thank you sorry thank you um and I'm here to speak of the importance of teacher aids so um the reason that teacher Kinder teacher aids are important to have is because they provide individual attention such as classroom dynamics and relationships with our students parents and teachers they help create positive and effective learning and they help students who struggle with emotional and behavioral challenges by giving them one-on-one undivided attention as well as providing additional practice for students who struggle in Les with lessons that are being taught by the teachers um teachers
015teacher aids helped the teachers focus on planning and instructions and more my child is in um in a Kinder and first grade class and um in the beginning she was struggling a lot um and but if it wasn't for the teachers AIDS help she wouldn't be where she at where she is today so for the first trimester she got a Citizenship Award this one she's getting an honor role she has greatly improved in her grades and I do believe that it has a lot to do with the teachers's aid as well as the teacher what you know the help of the teacher's aid but the teacher really needs the help um so with this being said I I honestly feel that teacher aids do have a great impact in our students and as well in
016my child's life and I do hope that they are able to continue to play a big role in our students thank you thank you uh I have one more um just says Carlos um you can when you come up just for the record uh let us know your last name thank you hello can you hear me guess so how you doing so what I'm talking about is CV Elementary and year after year over 90% of the teachers keep getting fir this is absolutely unacceptable that the CV Elementary has endur endured the firing of 90% of its staff more than its staff year of a year for many consecutive years is Reckless and unjustifiable pattern is not only responsible but also unethical and blindly illegal your actions have severely hindered the education and development of our
017children not only is creating instability inconsistency and Chaos in the de in their Lear in their learning environment but as parents we refuse to allow this deliberately sabotage of our children's future to continue you're failing them and we will not suffer it any longer immediate legal action against the district can be prepared for this wrongful terminations of our teachers which violates not only state but also federal law this District belongs to the families and the students it serves not your corrupt officials playing dangerous political games with our children's future future we advise that you correct the series and alarming issue the entire Community is watching and we will not allow this unjustice to continue either do what is right and undo this this disastrous decision thanks thank you um I don't have any more is
018that it buddy it's all okay um before we go into close session I just do want to apologize I did not allow the new elected board members to say a few words after they were sworn in I was going to do it when they did the pictures after the pictures but uh I forgot so I'll go ahead and start board member ofo if you'd like to address have a few words yes thank you presidenta I just like to thank the community for trusting me for another four years um I I will continue to do my job as a board member I'll begin visiting schools talking to people on the ground that are doing the job and and are working with our students thank you to everybody that's here thank you to everybody that's on zoom
019and we'll just continue to work together I let forward to hearing your your concerns not only here at a board meeting but also out in the community and in our schools and I I just continue to hope to to serve you and and make sure and make sure that I keep my dedication to the community that did so much for me as as I as a graduate of this school district so thank you all for for those of you that are here thank you all for everything you've done and I look forward to working side by side with you thank you Mr President thank you board member Gonzalez J was gonna go next um thank you Mr COA um I'd like to be remissed if I didn't thank my wife right uh thank you Sandra
020for for um not always agreeing but but always supporting right I I thank my children have natala here and my son Jesus um I I you know again being being involved in as an elected official is a it's a difficult job it it uh as rewarding as it is it's it's it's heartbreaking we hear people here today complaining about the reality right that we have budgetary challenges that require us to make Cuts right um and it it it doesn't feel good because you know that you're affecting families and and and Lifestyles but uh it's the reality of the the public sector um I especially would also would like to thank the community for their continued support uh the community gave me an opportunity uh this was a a very uh well challenged election it was
021funded by by special interest I don't know why people in Rancher marage and pal Springs I don't know why they would give our teachers union over $200,000 to try to flip the board it doesn't make sense to me but the truth will definitely come out uh and even with all that resource right I think Mr Arondo I think he received $50,000 from that special interest group and I just want to tell the public that I don't work for any special interest group I don't work for the teachers union or Clarissa Klein I I work for the community and I'll continue to make sure that as an elected official I think our biggest responsibility is to defend the rights of those that can least defend themselves and that normally in communities like cars it's the children
022and the older people so um again thank you thank you for your support and your continued support uh and Trust right and so I'm going to continue to do what I do I'll continue to be an advocate for the community I'll continue to make sure that we're doing the best job we can and uh and again I just feel honored thank you thank you m president B uh thank you um I hope if I may speak in Spanish and then okay perfect allow me to translate for myself um I'll do my best um so it's probably that cry but um you know I'm like excited but I'm very humbled um um much I'm like go should I translate from um just want to say thank you I I feel very honored and and really grateful
023for everyone for the support um I want to thank my family my friends um and really the community who supported me the last several months um I uh feel really privileged and humble to have the opportunity to serve um our families through this um through this role right uh definitely don't take it for granted I know that um today we have a lot of work to do um our district is not not in the you know great position that we we were maybe a couple years with a lot of funding and so um you know as parents as community members as educational Advocates uh we wish we could give the world to our students right and so um for me I'm going to continue to to do that um I commit myself to continue to
024do that impartially um and just really looking uh for the best way to serve our students right and our families um again just want to say thank you and um I I look forward to working with everybody and um yeah thank you all right thank you all thank you three for uh your service so before we move into close session I just want to thank all of those who came out to support the candidates and now re-election reelected members of the board thank you all for being here thank you for your support uh can I have a motion to go into close session please I have a motion do I hear a second second I have a motion to second second all those in favor I all those opposed motion carries we'll be back at
0258:00 thank you all right I want to call this meeting back to order there was a motion in a second to return from closed session the motion carried um we have a report of items uh approved in close session please good evening the board took the following action and close session approved expulsion case number 23 SL 24-7 for Clear reinstatement the motion was made by Mr Gonzalez second by Mr Arondo and the motion carried 60 thank you now we're going to go back to item 3.1 governing board officer election for the remainder of the 2025 uh governing board year um we will start with uh the president if I may president if I may I would like to um offer a slate I want to motion them in a slate can motion anyway you'd like
026so um this is one of the items that I've been thinking a lot praying a lot about and I I want to First acknowledge that everyone who's sitting on this di um cares deeply about the education of our children right like we all grew up here we all have deep ties and I want that to not go unnoticed um the other thing that I want to recognize is that the nature of the politics what is decided in The Ballot Box um is and again I think by nature and design very divisive so my putting together a slate is in an attempt to leave those politics out of this boardroom they are damaging um we need to focus on the policy that's what we were elected to do once we get here inside here our job
027is to do the policy so this is a call um for us right to not let whatever is happening outside to Define this di the things that do unite us because on the policy level I see that across the board we we agree on a lot more things than we disagree we may not like the hell but our job is not the hell that's the job of the superintendent so again this is a call for in in the Slate that I'm going to propose it's a call for us as a board to be United and to make a conscientious decision that we're going to focus on the policies the policies that are going to put forward our students and our community forward and it's also um it goes both ways right I'm pulling I'm going
028to suggest these candidates with the belief and the invitation that by accepting they will move in this direction and also a request from our unions that we do the same that when we're engaging when we're in this room that we're focused on the policies um so my um recommendation is to have Joselyn as the president um she's been the vice president I was hesitant I don't want to be the vice president but I will um I will take that and then um I'm going to recommend Valerie Garcia to be the clerk so that's my motion I I you know I I like the the idealism behind uh this statement that you made um I find it I I I like your first two candidates I will not be supporting the third candidate um and you
029can't you can't go raise $300,000 on an election that probably in the last 10 elections we haven't had $300,000 spent in this area for the purpose of of of maliciously turning this board unfortunately it didn't go the way they wanted it to so I you know again miss boss I like the idealism I I like the offer but uh I would I would support your slate if there was an amendment that Mr toris uh become the secretary I have a motion I am not amending it at this point I'll second your motion um Miss pass so that's a I'll second any other comments from the board I just have a final comment Miss Garcia represents the teachers union she works for the teachers union uh I it's even questionable how she's in close session to
030discuss teachers union uh issues when she actually eats from the teachers union she's been in negotiation very recently as a secretary running running in the while they're negotiating running copies and handing them to while they're negotiating I don't think that's ethical so I you know the idea that she would be the secretary for this board uh and work for the teachers union I I I can't I can't accept that okay so I do not work for Karissa Carrera I work for CTA correct and as far as that goes those are values those are not anything to do with what the work that we do here I know more the work that we do here because of here those are values my pay does not change one bit whether the unions do well or they don't
031on the other hand you do well when the union does well because your wife works for the union so so do others on this board that is not the case for me my pay does not change there is nothing um my boss doesn't even reside in the office that I work in my boss is completely outside of there and this is something that has been legally tested there are CTA employees across the state and you asked this question the moment I became on the board and our legal team stated there is not a conflict of interest so this is you pandering it's fine it's not pandering but I mean it's not real Miss Garcia we we leave close session the next morning cbta knows exactly what we talked about in close session and and somebody
032right somebody in the room is passing that information on and I know it's not me so so that's concerning to me he I don't know what to say about that I don't know anything about that of course you don't anybody else have any comments on that I I I I have a problem I I just got to tell you um you know um I do I I understand what you're trying to do but you know at a certain point you try not to make it personal but when they start suing you individually and start saying what it is and it's the same group of people I I'm sorry I have a problem with that I I can let a lot of things go I really can I have you know I have told Miss Garcia
033while I don't agree with her I got something from the attorneys that said there wasn't a conflict I've never brought it up again you know I asked that the beginning like we all did I got that I let that go but I'm sorry this is the same group that you know has been calling me a criminal has been attacking me my family my friends uh getting you know money from people who have been attacking us personally this is not this goes beyond the politics now you know and so I I I have a I know what you're trying to do but man I the person you picked really is a struggle for me you know and I don't know her personally I just know the politics unfortunately you know and so I I do I
034have a problem with that you know the president teachers union has been attacking me since almost the day I got elected go back and look at all the emails this nonsense that she was great with all of us until recent no been attacking me before she was the president and I let that go when I was the president I met with her you know but now she personally is suing me because for all kinds of fictional stuff that's in this lawsuit and her allies are out there going on TV shows agreeing with them and attacking them and and again both of you went on the show and said things that were not true about us agreeing with these fictitious things about conflict of interest and because you know somebody or you went to school with
035somebody or you're married your people are married I can everyone on this board I can do that to that that's just nothing I'm just I got to the point and you guys have heard me before I'm just so sick and tired of this right you want to fight with me that's fight I'm done I'm done you know it it's I've been trying to be quiet I purposely you all know I stay away from the media that's just my thing no more I'm done I'm tired this last this last attacks with the last straw for me right and so I I I agree with what you're doing but the one person you picked I I have a very hard time now you you may get the votes and and and that's fine I U that's the
036way it works right whatever the vote goes that's the way it goes but I got to tell you um you put me I don't I can't speak for Mr gon you put me in a hard spot there's two individuals here that I will absolutely not vote for because of of the past and what they've done and again I you know I wish in your mind I could be a bigger man but I think I've been doing that for way too long and I'm just tired I'm done with that so um that's just my comment again if if there's a majority to uh go with your slate it is what it is but again um that's a tough one for me just so you know and I can appreciate it um but we do have to
037be the bigger person violence does not combat violence attacks do not combat attacks nobody wins our students are not winning our community is not winning we decided to run this this is the people we have to work with and I hope that we're all committed to do that this is it this is until the next two years right and for us to continue to not be able to have a convers conversation with the person right next to us for us to continue to see each other here as the enemy we're not each other's enemies we are all from this community and that's what I'm asking for and I and I said very clearly when I nominated um Valerie is if she accepts this is a conscious decision of what it means to be a leader
038and that we are not going to continue to attack each other because we depend on each other to make this board work we depend on each other to make this District work and our kids are depending on us that's it if she doesn't want that because the other things are greater because her dislike of any one of you is greater then I hope that she doesn't accept it and she says the same thing that Mr Gonzalez told me you know I appreciate what you're trying to do but I cannot do it and then I and I just I couldn't nominate um Mr Thomas sort is not about anything but he just joined us so that was I mean that's why I just you know I I and again I appreciate what you're trying to do
039and it's uh you keep saying that we and us it seems like you're asking one side to kind of let down because they haven't stopped they haven't stopped on it's still so again I I I appreciate what you're trying to do um and I'll continue to do what I do try to support the kids in any way I can uh you know me and you don't always agree on things you know but you've never gone on TV and lied about me right you come and tell me I think you're wrong I believe you did this for this reason and I appreciate that that's not what happens that's not what has been happening for the last month and maybe it was political uh you know and again just just to let you know they're already out
040there on social media the guy on TV that they like to go to their shows already talking about oh I got great news the recall is getting ready to start that's set me they couldn't get him through the ballot box they're going to go ask Fred Noble and Herod Mater for another 180 90,000 whatever they gave the teachers union chrisa Carrera is the treasurer of their political action committee they gave them the money they can go back and ask and I'm not nominating Karissa Carrera I understand that but that's the group that they they work with and again it's I I know what you're trying to do you know but I think in my right now to me I I can't but again if the board majority of the board does that it is what
041it is and we go forward recall the question mrun go ahead Justin yes um it's hard to find the right words right in this conversation I I I've also struggled right with the thought of what's going to happen happen with our district right um uh we have a number of challenges that that we're really faced with right um it's like you said a disservice to our students or disservice to our staff who are sitting here listening to us having this conversation right um you know I I I also you know I appreciate what you're what you're sh sharing in terms of what we're trying to what you're trying to encourage us or asking us to step up and do right and I and I respect everyone's opinion right um I think as a board we
042have a lot of work to do uh We've uh you know I've been on this board for four years I've known a lot of you all personally for a really long time in terms of collaborating and doing the work right and I think um you know over the last four years I've seen a lot of like what good leadership is what poor leadership is what you know the areas we all need to work on at the end of the day it's really about advancing our students about supporting our superintendent who step Ste up at a time where we were probably I don't know how you got the courage to step up but you did yeah and for us to sit here and have this conversation right I think we all need to look at ourselves
043and like you said right and Joey I can as well right we all individually need to look at ourselves and look at what we've done to build the relationships or even contributed to fracturing those relationships because we've all done it we've all sat here and we've all talked we've all you know I think we really need to have those honest conversations right we're going out to the community saying that we want transparency that we want this and yet we're not doing that um you know and I and I'll speak for myself I do take a lot of time to reflect on the things I say the things I you know conversations I have with staff um and I do see a lot of things right and I don't comment I don't engage um and it
044is hard right cuz it's hurt it hurts um so I think I respect what's being said I'm not going to speak about individuals but I am going to say that you know if we're moving in that direction we all need to step into that work and do that work because we're not I I don't it's a disservice to each other to say so and so needs to work on this so and so needs to work you know like we we need to work on that ourselves too um and we need to model that for our staff we talk about accountability so how is it that we are sitting here asking our staff to hold each other accountable to do this work and yet we we won't do that for each other if we call each
045other to have a conversation you know let's be open to that right you don't have to like me we don't have to like each other we don't have to be best friends but we need to have those conversations because there's a lot of assumptions that are being made without knowing each other and where we're coming from um and so you know it's a lot and I'm sure that there's a lot that probably I should have pack before coming to the dice but you know like I I I mean let's be honest we we all need to have that conversation with ourselves like what have we done to create these fracture relationships on this board and the reality is it's a disservice to our students a disservice to the voters is a disservice the community or
046staff and um I don't know how we're GNA how are we going to move forward with our budget and all the challenges we're facing when we're we're not going to have those conversations yeah and I just want to challenge you Joselyn on the false narrative that there is a lack of transparency on this board because that is not the case this board is not hiding things and I had that conversation in the parking lot one night with Valerie and din right after a meeting so you may not see me here also going at it but I was like that is not true there are things that sometimes our staff does that we don't know right we're a big District and when we know then we talk about it and we address it and Dr espara
047has been finding a lot more things that is not the same thing as us lacking transparency not the same thing as this board lacking transparency so I agree that our job as a board member we don't win when we repeat those false narratives and accuse each other of lacking I mean we are accusing each other without even like you said having the convers what really happened there so again um I mean Miss Garcia you responded to uh Mr Gonzalez comments but my question to you is can you work with Joey can you work with Joselyn can you work with Jesus with me with I know you work with Trini already um with Mr Tores and leave the politics outside can you bridge those relationships so yes I feel like that's what I've done so far
048is any time that we've had discussions it has been my feeling my opinion my skill set coming into any conversation that's happening I'm not a spokesperson for my job but I'm talking about relationship building I mean the way we move work the way we build trust is relational right and we need to learn like Mr akun said to talk to each other even when we feel that we disagreed and that we were placed in a box or what not right I think and it's going to take both sides right it's going to take both sides um so Mr K if I can if I can just add a little bit I honestly believe that that every member of this board right uh elected by the community right brings the best they can offer every every
049day they show up here I I I I believe it uh I believe that that all of us want the best for every child that comes uh to our school district I I I believe that too I I think that's a common ground as you're as you were we're trying as you're trying to do what you're trying to do Miss Boss um we just got served with with uh with a lawsuit right uh Furbulous lawsuit uh that that is packed with evidence according to them but all that information is all the things that we talked about in close session so so when I when you talk about this sense of idealism can can I get along with you can you get along with me I you know my personality I don't carry anything anywhere what
050I think I hear Mr aunia saying and the problem that I have is that as you're asking me to do that she represents uh a teachers union right who lost an election uh put in $300,000 into election gave Mr atondo 50,000 right of special interest money and and got their ass handed to him at the at the post and and and as and it wasn't enough instead of saying okay we lost no they filed a lawsuit to celebrate the appointment of the new board right and so as you're asking me to do this which is really believe me I'm that guy I I I love the idea of becoming her best friend right I love the idea of working together but I but I can't ignore the fact that we continue to be attacked uh
051that guy rotten Rogan that eventually will be run out of this community the way they ran out of ran them out of Los Angeles for uh spreading lies and false narratives and exaggerated uh if there's any truth to what he says the fact of the matter is is that that's not going to quit now if you could have said Hees seus we're we're starting new we're burying the story here and we're going to all start new together I I love the idea let's go well that's that's what I show up here to do every time I show up but but that's not what's fact so you're telling me do that but accept everything else that's being done against you it doesn't work God question anybody else huh um Miss B I command you for what
052you're doing right and that's why I second your your motion I think it's important that we work together and I think it's important that people realize even on this St as the person next to you continues to to say things right when I'm not here and I'm not saying anything but I could say a lot right but I know that there's the students that we need to focus on I know that the staff we need to focus on and and and some of these board members need have some growing up to do but I I I wholeheartedly wholeheartedly respect what you're trying to do I respect you as a person and I hope that you continue with your motions so we can get get this on get this going so thank you for what you're
053doing so you want us to work with the and he just told us to grow up that's the way we're going to start again I I I do I support what you're trying to do but I mean that just kind of proved my point what did you say about me Mr Been a discussion amongst yeah what did you say about me Mr okay hold on amongst who because I have not talked to anybody I I was hoping that you all would have decided before I came here I prayed about this I have not talked to anybody so again I it it's um disappointing Mr Gonzalez because I think you and I have developed a relationship and that you would think that I've talk to anybody about this before coming here this is not easy I
054don't have a solution but what I'm seeing happening to our community is wrong it's painful the the problem isn't here miss miss bus the problem are the outside attacks the problem is $300,000 of bad press the problem is 10 billboards going down the road you you need to stop that you're it's not here it's not here like you said nine times out of 10 nine and a half times out of 10 we all agree on the same thing the problem is there's an outside influence that we can't stop so even if we fix this our community is still being attacked I don't know why somebody in Rancho Mirage with all the money in the world I don't know what Li they told him right about us that that he would put out all this money
055to flip this I don't understand it I don't understand it it's beyond me I've never seen anything like it I don't I've never seen it and I don't know what happened in in the union president's life that makes her show up here and just spew nothing but hate miserable hate I don't understand it it's not true we're the highest paid school district of 23 school districts in Riverside County it's obviously not compensation and working conditions for teachers it has nothing to do with that and that's what I'm asking for that's what I'm asking for in my motion that we move away from that and focus on the policies and that's going to take and I hope um our president to be able to hold the conversations and to call us out when we're not and
056that you will not allow the type of comments that my colleague over here try just made and that you wouldn't allow me to make those comments about that doesn't get us anywhere so I I understand I just again this we are seven maybe Mr Tores is the Swing Vote here and you take us somewhere else and that's fine and that's fine and I would be fine too if Mr Tores was um the clerk I mean this is not a personal thing I'm just miss Garcia has been longer here and I think it would be disrespectful for me to try say that I'm trying to do this and jump her any other comments seeing none I call the question all those in favor I I all those opposed I motion carries 5 to2 um that's our
057new board one other thing that we do have and I have the thing here here for some reason it was uh neglected uh the next thing we also have to do is appoint the superintendent to be the secretary of the board we do this all the time do I hear a motion so Mo second a second all those in favor I I all those opposed motion quries uh we're going to take a break because we're going to be moving some people around um and then we'll get right back to it as soon as we move everybody up to the new positions congratulations congratulations J congratulations s and you too you're still here oh yeah I ain't going anywhere until they should have left me alone I would have l explain oh you were starting at
058the agenda okay I was in between those two so we're do no we did that we did all this already the only thing we're doing is uh I moved to middle of agenda it's right here this is where you start 5.3 okay and then you then you just go into the public comments so 5.3 but we have the motion back into open yes think so I'm a little nervous um okay so we're GNA go back into Open session so we have a motion we did that okay okay so we're gonna go uh 5.3 uh approval of the agenda submitted so we need a motion so move a second and uh trusty Roan roxan I okay and then we vote and we move for a vote i i i OPP post pass okay so um 6.1
059uh board notification request to address the board read the comments uh public comments Open Session introductory comments and request 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 uh form handed to the recording secretary uh speakers will be limited to 3 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 name or or of organization or group represented please be advised that the board is not always at Liberty to answer questions right away state law prohibits the board from taking any action on items not listed on the agenda uh the speaker we
060have one speaker um Alisia vit on IMA Library when you do the book fair you spend the whole week or nine days or eight days or whatever we have we work when I Clos the library and I said oh my God it's probably the last one and I go on to my right I have stacks of library books to put back to my left I have so many broken iPads do you understand what I'm saying that it doesn't it's just not the book fair it's the things that we don't do when we're doing the book fair that we have to go back and still do our library schedule for every student still do it I don't cancel I continue doing my my work the profit that I get from the book fair is for the
061students books my school does not provide books for our students every five years years they purchased maybe three or 4,000 to buy books the only books they get is for me from the book fair so not we're not just like I consider a slap in the face when I was 12 months eight hours now become 10 and five I feel like you I understand the budget I do understand what we're going through so that's a status part that you are hidden the imas you hurting the students okay and I understand the conversation that you guys are having everybody's looking at us and listening okay thank you thank you uh that's the only uh rank communication uh so we're going to move on to a 7.2 student board member report thank you um good evening starting
062with deser marage student trusty Eric wera counseling students are planning next year's classes with support from Puente and Avid pente seniors are receiving College decisions two seniors are gate scholarship finalists migr program students attended a career night with the LA Clippers and visited USC paid summer internships are available Academy job shadowing is complete prom it's this Saturday with prom court lunch games and a pep rally sports track did well in their first meet and softball season has started student perspective school lunches are improving with student input test scores are low more cast practice could help like help when the students practice rais their passing rate Saturday AP practice test were successful last year offering them again could help students prepare West sh student trusty is a Martinez counselors continue to provide social emotional learning groups
063by collaborating with Bess teachers and edman counselors continue to meet with students to review transcripts a through G and grad status as well as selecting courses for next year and adjusting academic plans as needed counselors are working with both seniors and eighth graders to make sure they meet their graduation and prom requirements today we start our AP pre-calculus mock test number one six and seven period and physical fitness testing hosted a career fair where we had 25 careers show up to talk to students working on our College of the Desert applications with seniors Coachella Valley High School student chusty Lynette Bautista students are beginning to plan for next year looking at their course options with the help of their programs like buente and Avid all sophomores have also finished their plan courses for next year
064Juniors should be finishing up plan courses for next year senior year ASB finished a successful week of activities ending with the winter glow in the dark rally where ASB executive board and senior class officers were recognized the Middle School visits including Imagine Schools were held on March 11 and 133 at the car Booth event on March 15 we are now entering the test SE testing season and will continue to host lunch activities during this time on Saturday March 22nd ASP will be volunteering at the valleywide VIP prom at the India Polo Grounds lastly La Familia high school on March 19 students were able to attend the universal Technical Institute many seniors will be graduating early in this quarter that will end on March 28th six students from the CTE class were able to attend El
065pasel 2025 fashion show in Palm Desert this is a new and amazing experience for most of the students Sports it's the beginning of softball season and students are joining and practices will be every day during lunch the first game of the season will be on Friday March 21st against msj student voice on Tuesday an incident occurred with with the student and this brought a lot of worry and fear to our principal staff and students who witnessed and helped the student out we are relieved to know that the student is doing okay and is out of danger recovering at home we are so fortunate that the worst did not happen this caused our principle to discuss the issue during fifth period to all students to raise awareness that we should never accept something that could potentially
066harm us or even cost Our Lives more than half of our schools signed a pledge to committing this elves to not consume drugs or offering pressuring someone to take them we also have our Latino Commission members that are available to students in any situation related to drug abuse thank you oh yeah I'm sorry um trusty should we start that way um yeah I think we pretty much wrapped it up at the last uh on that last discussion um we'll see we'll see what your experiment comes up with um I did want to mention that uh we have had a lot of uh things happening out in the schools out in our communities that we've been a part of uh I think the district continues even with all the other noise that the districts and the
067staff and the people continue to go out there and do what they're supposed to do um because that's what they've always done and um again we have a tournament coming up on Saturday which will be our drum line and our flags I think that's at CV High School I think it starts about 8 8:00 9 o'clock in the morning it'll run about till 1:30 um those are you know interesting ones as they were done in a professional way they bring in people to judge so you know that nobody's uh thing but it's it's really good I've been to many of them and I think it's uh we get lots of parents to go out there and appreciate the fact that you know the after school program uh continues to do all these great things with
068our kids and I know you guys know I brag about it all the time it is one of the best programs not only in Southern California but I think if you talk to the state they'll agree we do a lot of unique things with the resources that we have in our communities right so um we have that going on um other things that we were we've been at I think um different School sites were at the ribbon cutting or yeah the ribbon cutting for uh Valley View uh last weekend or last week uh which is great again wore down a whole bunch more to go but the fields are looking good uh I think the kids appreciate it the parents appreciate it the community appreciates it and like I said you know regardless of all
069the things going on everybody's still doing their job moving forward and working um so um um other than that we'll see trusty tort this thank you Mr President um yeah for the Oasis and Sal and sea District which I'm a representative I appreciate Mr Carlos coming up and talking about you know the staff and the concern for the salt and sea area it's the area that I live in where my kids went to school and like I said at at the last meeting you know I I think that the school has done a great te my kids have been through again I reiterate you know all the aches and pains of going through the school riding the buses not getting on the bus all this stuff but uh appreciate the uh Community speaking up and
070so now I know you know what to focus on when I'm out there in the area West Shore C viu and Oasis in my area uh there's still you know a lot of concern about you know the employees and the reduction in force um and I just wanted to say you know I'm still new on the board I was stated I so yeah that um you know I don't have any uh communication with the most of the board uh until this year so um that's why I voted the way I did I'm not sure normally in a board where you have the seats that are elected like we did uh was explaining me earlier normally they just step up if you have vice president they step up secretary steps up Treasurer steps up and all
071of that and that's how I was when I was on sueny Authority uh so it's it's pretty common to see that and I think that's I haven't heard anything you know in my short time that I've been here uh based on evidence you know of anything uh that was said by the public or the board members again so that was my justification voting the way that I did but other than that Mr President I don't have anything else to report thank you uh trondo Madam President congratulations to the Slate that was um to trusty BOS and uh Miss Garcia look forward to working with you three and the rest of the board um I just like to thank the public for coming out and uh just uh being here public comment talking about CW that's
072one of the biggest things that we heard out there in the community was the the reduction in force in see you and so I hope I concur with uh trusty toris that we we look at you know just I know that that happens a lot there in that area and I hope that we can our Valley View but very excited about the fields and how they're looking I think uh I think staff for making that happen and I you know I continue to I'll continue to press for the other schools that that need support um especially Peter penlon who has a concrete that needs to be replaced in very very bad shape and I hope that we we can get to that um as a board member for the next four years my focus is
073really going to be looking atomies for our school district I want every every student to have a pathway and make making sure that we don't miss any of our students and and every student feels like they can enter a pathway and complete it right so I'm I'm going to be working hard towards that I also want to make sure that our students are coming to our school district I know that we have declining enrollment we need to encourage our families to to and and we got to assure our families that we are a great district and our students should be coming to Kella Val Unified School District because we're a great district and we offer a lot of good things right never perfect but but it is a great district and as a proud graduate
074I I'll say that I definitely want to focus on that right I want to continue to to to look at the Dual language um I think it's important to strengthen our dual language across the district as as we continue to improve our our our math and literacy scores right um I I uh I visited a family that I know and this young man had a a very high uh legile score and so I'm glad that I'm able to understand what those Lexile score means and I know that you know like I said our school district is a good District but we just need to continue to work on that so uh my requests for future board meetings uh Dr sparza are are an update on the um we we heard today that um our Northshore
075Elementary is a little delayed but I'd like to to just share that with the public and share the plan and and I know that I know that you know staff knows that we're encouraged to there I staff has assured us that they're doing everything they can to definitely open it at you know uh during the new school year but I like I like a presentation on that um I'd also like to um look at our um what we're doing to encourage our attendance right uh to in to increase our attendance and then um you know uh sort of looking at what possible acmis would look like you know that's just my personal thing is not a priority but but I think that it's important that we look at ways that we support our students to
076make sure that that they feel they have a pathway that they can begin and end with by the time they graduate so those are kind of uh my comments thank you madam president again congratulations uh try Gonzalez president Vargas congratulations C AAS congratulations thank you Miss Garcia congratulations look forward to working with you um as we take on uh the challenges that we have before us obviously um during covid we had uh an excess amount of money uh for a lot of things unfortunately prior Administration didn't plan on on that money that was going to go away and that's why we're up against the financial condition that we're in but look forward to to working with everybody I think uh you know it's not going to be easy but life has never been easy right
077so we have to continue to do the best thing we can do um I agree to disagree on stuff um I I want to make it clear that Northshore as a school we just had a facilities committee meeting today Mr Arondo said it's delayed it's not delayed uh we're having some offsite construction that has been delayed but in terms of the vertical structure uh and as a school it'll be ready to open on time um I uh you know again here's another example just challenge uh uh our superintendent to make sure that our kids are that they have a dream right that they're not put into an academy and and learn how to turn down beds and believe that that's the only thing they're going to do but but that they look at that as
078maybe a way of working while they're getting their four-year education and that we challenge our kids to make sure that they can do everything that they can dream of um I wanted to share I had a interesting experience here uh this is the enena this was the arena on Saturday there was a uh quite an event R Rubik's Cube event uh I was blown away right with how fast uh you know a little five-year-old six-year-old could could move that Rubik's Cube around and I I asked somebody I don't know in passing like uh you know this boardroom is whatever and somebody corrected me and says no this isn't a boardroom this is an arena I was like okay it's the arena but they had a whole uh people traveled from other school districts to compete
079I want to believe the winning score was I don't know 10 12 15 seconds I don't know how they could possibly do it but it was a very rigid well um uh judged uh very formal uh event that turned this into the arena but uh and again real quick president Vargas I want to thank the community for um the trust right many years of trust in what I do as an elected official to make sure that we're watching out for uh the people who can least defend themselves and like I said as an elected official the weakest in our communities is always the youth and and it and it's always the seniors right so making sure that that we voice for those families and those students that don't have a voice and making sure that
080they have the same dream and possibility that uh children that might have a little more resources have but again congratulations Miss Vargas and look forward to working with you as a president um and look forward to doing the best we can thank you Tristy Garcia thank you thank you to everyone who came and spoke to us today um we don't ever want to forget that everything that you tell us is so important we need to hear it um thank you for the employee who felt like she needed to speak to us twice in one in one meeting um to get her point across to us as far as um the decisions we're making and making sure what I'm hearing from that is making sure that there's a plan for it um because the workload is
081going to be there and as long as we have the transition plan for that um we're not letting anyone down we're not letting any of the the pieces fall um as far as our employees I know that letters have gone out and that there's a lot of um feelings we've we've had it for several meetings the the discomfort about um having to go through the rift process please talk to your unions go through that process they have updates for you they should be um working hard on your behalf um as far as the parents I do hear you as far as the combo classes and combo classes for dual language that is very difficult um I recognize that I would say that is four classes in one because it is English and Spanish in both
082languages in in both levels and a teacher has to choose whether they're going to Veer towards the higher level or the lower level um depending on the makeup of the students that is not easy and I don't think that that is ideal especially in those classes um the the dual immersion where it's already a heavier lift for everyone involved but the the rewards for our students to become linguistically gifted and hone in on that is is too much for us to drop off in and leave leave um stranded so we do need to find ways to support our programs and support our programs in every site we've heard that excuse me even the site that we've slated to pull dual immersion there is an interest with parents as long as we can have a discussion
083with them maybe Town Halls maybe info sessions so that more know about our amazing programs my nephew and my own son are in the program and the strides and beautiful beautiful um work that they have already achieved is amazing to see um reading in English and Spanish math in English and Spanish it's really amazing and I'm so proud that they will know better than I do as far as that goes and that's what I want for them for their future for our community um thank you to um the board in entrusting of the board to us women I feel like it was an interesting turn of events um I know that we are seven indiv indviduals and we all have our own ideas we all have things that we bring to the table I do
084think it's important and I agree what others have said Miss Boss um that ultimately it's about our community it's about our students it's about our staff and making sure that everything we're doing is pushing us forward there is already so much unrest unfortunately unrest within our district and then unrest within our country and we know that we know that the things looming that we're not even sure about with um possible dismantling of um Department of Education all these things we need to be strategizing to protect our students as much as possible um in working with the policy committee we were trying to do just that trying to mitigate as much as we can um making sure that we are protecting our students and families not making it easier for anyone to be targeted in the
085future because we are unsure what's going to happen in this Administration um so making sure that we are getting the services to our families no one is going to be left in the cold we want our community to feel like this is a safe haven every student has the right to an education every family has the right to the resources here um and just continue to push forward this is not easy but all we can do is work with what we have in front of us and work with each other as best we can so that we can move our district forward um thank you and I look forward to working with you all just bu yes good evening um thank you everyone for being here and I apologize I arrived late today I just
086arrived into the close session um my I don't know I have two very requests not a long speech but I I think these two things are important one um that we bring uh at least once a month so during one of the meetings that report that it's listing all of our accounts our grants where we are with um spending it so that we can be tracking those along the year and there's no surprises about how much money is or is not there I think it's really important that we're tracking all of our accounts um particularly those accounts that have deadlines um for reporting and to be spent um and my other request is that uh for a board agenda item um I would like to bring forward to the board that we um that we
087do a um Financial audit of the Latino Commission um based on the $8 million that we have given them in the past and I know that we're still Contracting with them so it's important that we feel comfortable about that that amount of money is being well managed um the other thing I want to bring to um the board or maybe it's just a question um Dr Spa we so you um as part of your stabilization plan you created a um reor right like you're reorganizing various things um there's positions that were eliminated as part of that and then there are new job descriptions that you are going to be bringing um towards us but my question is um clarification on the hiring process because essentially those positions are eliminated these are new job descriptions and
088I want to make sure again that we have an open process and that everybody knows what to expect so can you give us I don't know what your thoughts are on how that's all going to work so with the new job descriptions what we do is we bring them to the board so the board can review them to make sure that they're acceptable um and they're basically going to be new job descriptions that are going to outline the new duties that everyone is going to take on from Transportation uh to the music and art program as well as to the after school programs and who's filling those positions or how is that being determined we have to fly the positions and people need to apply and they're going to do the full interview process okay
089thank you um um well first of all I just want to thank uh trusty Akuna I know over the last we spent a lot of time the last year or so um and I really appreciate your mentorship and just kind of showing me the ropes right um so you know as vice president I got to join Joey and um putting together our so I feel like you know it is new and um you know I'll definitely probably make some mistakes and rely on on you all to kind of um I told Dr espara I hold my hand a little um but just um you know as we get used to the new transition but I really appreciate um you know Joey I've gotten to know you over the last you know year or so um
090and just uh just wanted to say that I really appreciate you for kind of showing me how to um you know look at our agendas putting them together um I do look forward to working with drsa um and um you know trusty bass and Garcia um and just being able to move um you know our priorities forward for the district um you know I think for me I've always tried my best to work collaboratively with everyone and so I'm really hopeful that um you know us three can work together to really um Advance what we need to do for the for the district and for the good of the students um and I'm hopeful that as a board we can engage on doing some professional development I know that it takes some time right but
091I'm committed in doing the work and so I'm really hopeful that my colleagues will also do that and support support that to improve the way in which we work together um so I look forward to serve being the community in this capacity um as I've always said I'm I'm human um so please bear with me as we um as I learned through the process but um you know I I hope to be able to do justice to the work and and to to you all um so yes I'll leave it at that um superintendent report thank you I'd like to thank the Assistance League uh for a recent donation that they uh provided uh was water and snacks and they are going to all of our wellness centers for students who visit our wellness centers
092so thank you to the assistance leag for that uh the ailia project awarded two of our Scholars from CV high school and that money goes to their uh College tuition so we're very very uh thankful that the ailia project recognized two of our Arabs I want to identify that on March 26th at 4M we're going to have some of our students recognized at the Palm Springs police station for doing the right thing these are students who do good deeds and are um are provided the teacher provides uh uh information to do the right thing the application goes in and then they choose student students from Palm Springs unified Desert Sands Unified and this is the first time Coachella Valley Unified will be a part of that so please make sure March 26 at 400 PM
093you're watching television I can't tell you the channel now but we will put it out there in our uh public information officer will blast it everywhere to make sure you're able to see our Champions on that evening I want to thank uh Ellen s who uh supported La Familia high school with Quantum Leap it really is is a highly Advanced Financial literacy uh program that is free to us uh from Quantum Leap which is also part of Keller Williams uh and so we are very very thankful that he's gone around to all the high schools to be able to support him and some of his colleagues who are all high I would say high-profile Realtors here in the desert who take the time to work with students to teach them how to manage their money
094how to make money and how to make money make money so that's something that he did teach us make money make money for you so um and and he talks to them about the best investment for them is real estate never sell your parents home your grandparents home it's very hard for you to be able to afford it as an adult and so to make sure that you make those wise Investments uh first part of financial literacy 101 um I want to recognize 41 students from our independent studies program who just completed all of their classes so congratulations to them uh they are new graduates of CVUSD um I also want to wish Alexa mag good luck as she competes uh for the Riverside County Spelling be it's coming up soon so good luck to
095Alexa um I also want to uh inform that summer school applications for all students are being distributed via invitation as well as online uh so parents are going to be able to find the registrations links on parents square and on social media we will also have a a hard copy application at our school site for parents who uh prefer to fill it out a hard copy um I want to uh thank the fiscal crisis management team who is here and is going to present in a few minutes uh I know they've been waiting patiently and when I became the superintendent here in CVUSD I did uh contact rcoe and I said I need to know what's going on I need a financial audit can you help me and they said well fmat can help you
096so I contacted fmat and then fmat said well you know we have to know this we need to do that it costs so much so I came back to rcoe and they said I think you're going to end up getting on soon so it saved us about 25 $30,000 so I really appreciate the fact that rcoe partnered with vicm to be able to come here to tell us what it is that we need to do to improve our District finances so thank you for being here I do want to um ask uh the assistant superintendent of HR Dr MTZ uh to please uh provide the correct information on um the coaches and the seniority list because I think there's a misconception that we're laying off or rifting too many people so can you just take
097a few thank you Dr Esparza um I I first want to say we all are committed it is a large reduction in force and we are working very hard to meet everyone's needs and walk them through the process but there are a few issues that came up during um public comments that I would like to address the first is Dr Esparza has worked to ensure that every site will have a coach um as for the reduction in force we are not exceeding what the board allowed in the resolution terms of the number of layoffs what everyone needs to know is that we have a hard legal deadline of March 15 to be able to uh send out notifications for reduction and force and um there were positions listed on the resolution and those those positions
098there is a group of people that are directly impacted and there is a precautionary number of people who will also re who also receive letters to account for the seniority and bumping of people who um who have been here longer um or or have our hire up on the seniority list for certificate and classified it's a little different um certificated there is uh not only senority list but there's bumping and skipping criteria and for uh classified staff we are new to following Ed code in terms of working um with not only their current classification but uh seniority and a higher classification so they get a an adjusted um seniority date I know that is a lot to take um but I know that my team has uh been trying to answer questions um I also
099have to thank um the last a week and a half um the uh director Maldonado as well as the CCA um board have been working very hard they've been trapped in a room meeting with employees um doing the bumping process and trying to fill as many positions as we can and um walking employees through it we are not done we are about uh doc director Maldonado will be sending out an email clarifying we need a few more days um but I also would like to thank um director Martinez on The certificated side her and her team um have been working with the certificated staff moving through that seniority list and please I know it's a lot of information I know it's a lot to process but if you if you have a specific individual question
100just email or call us and we will get you the answer as quickly as we can am I forgetting anything Dr Esparza no that's it thank you thank you I appreciate that and last but not least um in regards to theems I know you said you're you're going to really push for the academies that's what I interviewed on that was uh what I think got me the assistant superintendent position um we need to make sure that we're going to be able to put out theems and what I had um advised was a few dual language acmy a few uh engineering acmy a few stemies and a few music and Artmy and we could also have a a Technology Academy but when you have an academy sometimes other schools Say Hey I want that too and
101then they want a double Academy or a triple Academy and so I've seen what the board has done in spreading the wealth with dual language across the board and it's great because we're one of the only School districts that has that throughout the entire you know state where every single elementary school has the opportunity for dual language so it is going to take a lot of planning because it is costly to have those types ofmy so that's something that we're going to have to work on uh really hard to make sure that we can do throughout this next year thank you item eight information presentations we have 8.1 danela Tavarez presentation Madam president are we doing board committee assignments oh that's right we're going back it's nine okay thank you uh we'll get to it
102hold your horses uh pres presentation of the fiscal health risk analysis report by the fiscal crisis and management assistance team uh fman um my name is Jennifer narit and I'm here tonight can you hear me I'm here tonight with my colleague Robbie Mel in the audience um we are intervention Specialists with um the fiscal crisis management assistance team or fmat as we are known by um we want to thank the board for the opportunity to be here tonight to present the findings um from our recent work with the district on a fiscal health risk analysis and also want to thank the board um and District administrators and staff for their cooperation with us throughout this process and let me see if I can get this to okay there we go all right so we have
103a lot of topics um to go over tonight but I want to ensure you that my report will be brief and concise I know that you have a copy of the report um and you've had the presentation in advance and a lot of what you're going to hear tonight is not new to you it's not going to be news to you it's echoing a lot of what your County Office of Education has been working with you and the work that you've been engaged in and so we'll go over the reports so the fiscal Health go over the results of the fiscal health risk analysis but I'll also provide you with some background um on um indicators of risk and just some other foundational topics that may be of interest to you fmat um as I
104mentioned the fiscal crisis and management assistance team was created um by the legislature in response to um districts districts that were experiencing fiscal solvency issues we're an independent external agency of the state um and we were created to support districts as they are facing solvency issues in the form of management assistance and fiscal crisis the goal really of our unit is to prevent a fiscal insolvency and we do that work um a lot of preventative work largely with management assistance going out to districts at their request as Dr espara was describing um we have districts reach out to us um for specific areas operational areas then we assist with that as well we do a lot of professional um development for um District staff um we do fiscal crisis that's not the majority of our
105work and we also are engaged with fraud investigations so assembly Bill 1200 you may be fam familiar with but it is Landmark legislation that um was created to strengthen fiscal oversite of schools by establishing a framework for um local fiscal procedures and accountability and really it's meant to be more collaborative between the county superintendent and school districts to work together on fiscal stability I want to remind you though that the first level of fiscal oversight rests solely with this governing board this board in this District every District's governing board is that first level of oversight and so it's on your shoulders as to um maintaining that fiscal stability within the district as well your county superintendent provides a secondary layer of oversight ensuring that um all the schools within all the school districts in their
106County are working um diligently to maintain sound fiscal operations and they would then work with us um and the at the state level as an intermediary so indicators of risk or potential let me back up actually one second because something I didn't mention about your county superintendent is um just you know you have your interim reporting periods you have your adopted budget and those reports the board will make a certification you just did your second interim financial report that is then forwarded to your County Office of Education for their review and um there you know there's concurrence or not in terms of what you are working on at that point in time um and in your financial picture so some of the that mechanism for working with your county is is part of that secondary
107layer of ight so I just wanted to make sure that I mentioned that so you understand kind of that connect between what you just did probably at your last board meeting in your County Office of Ed so indicators of risk or potential insolvency um we at fmat have identified 20 key areas that have been present in districts that were facing insolvency issues and so we created this tool um the fiscal health risk analysis based on these indicators of risk um I'm not going to go through everyone you can read the bullets but one of the ones I want to bring to your attention is independ is the in attention to the annual independent audit the district hasn't completed theirs yet for the 23 24 school year and I know that's forthcoming but that's an area
108that we um that we it's the the first section of our fiscal health risk analysis tool so we look at all of these areas and adequate budget development and adoption um budget monitoring cash management um oversight of charter schools bargaining unit agreements collective bargaining unit agreements as you know are have a big fiscal impact so those have to be managed well and um increasing or uncontrolled contributions and transfers a contribution is money that the district gives to a restricted program from the unrestricted general fund um that can can pull from that unrestricted general fund um as well as deficit spending employee benefits one more slide with the indicators of risk um of course we have to close closely monitor enrollment and attendance especially if we're in a declining enrollment situation um facilities fund balance um
109all of these things are areas that we look at when we are going through the fiscal health risk analysis so the tool itself um we develop this tool to assess the district's um risk of Financial insolvency in the current year we're looking at and we're looking at what that could look like for you in the following two years um there's an automatic engagement process that's kind of an early warning system that came about in the 201819 um state budget act and there are some triggering events that can happen where we will we will come in Uninvited um to perform this this tool for you it's at no cost to the districts but the situations that would trigger um an FH for a district is a disapproved budget a negative interim report certification three qualified interim
110certification a downgrade of an interim certification by the county superintendent or a lack of goinging concern designation so we're here because of a lack of goinging concern designation by the county superintendent that was issued in the fall so our tool has 138 yes no questions it's just a big long um list of of questions and like I said those are based on the indicators of risk now each of those um areas also has awaiting um and if you score a high score on the fysical health risk analysis that means you're high risk it's kind of like golf we say you want a low score um to determine your risk level um and then all of the questions are based on really our industry best practices for the processes with with the areas that we're looking
111at so we were here before in 2019 about 5 and a half years ago and at that time the district was assigned a high risk rating of 44.7% remember anything over 40% is high risk so at that time um we were here because there were consecutive qualified interum that was the trigger unlike the trigger this time is the lack of goinging concern designation and so the themes during that time were declining enrollment ongoing deficit spending erosion of the unrestricted general fund balance and inadequate reserves um we can look back then and as I share the results of tonight the themes are very similar not much has changed what did change from that time there was a structural deficit then just like there is now but covid happened right and you talked about it earlier I
112heard you all of the money that came in all the infusion of resources for our students masked that structural deficit and you know what we were just busy trying to make sure that everyone was okay during that time right we were trying to keep school going and all of that and so a lot of districts like Coachella Valley were facing similar situations of a structural deficit before covid happened but that infusion of dollars masked it so also when we don't have um when there's instability and Leadership and I know the district's had a couple of superintendents over the last five and a half years then also it's hard to implement some big changes those are that's some heavy lifting and when you have people at the at the higher level leaving um and making a
113transition it's hard to enact some of those big changes that you're in the process of doing now so the current conditions um is I mentioned earlier your county superintendent of schools the Riverside County Superintendent of Schools designated the district a lack ofg goinging concern and you've been assigned a fiscal adviser you're all aware of that um also since um the time that um we were engaged Vic the district's um first interim financial report certification The District certified positive and the county um downgraded it to a qualified certification and your county superintendent's been requiring a detailed fiscal stabilization plan to address the shortfalls that you have within your budget I know that you've been working toward resolving that remember our report was a snapshot in time at first interim so you may say well you know
114we're doing we're doing other things now yes you are and we commend you for that um but at the time of our work here we reflect what was going on at first the first interim financial report um and also um the audit for the 2324 school year was not presented to the board by the statutory timeline of January 31st so that's that's a big deal in terms of if you have not had your beginning and ending fund balances validated through the audit process if there is any sort of large material finding it could affect your fiscal Health with regard to your balances that you would have so um I know you're in the process you had requested an extension for that audit there's been a lot going on with leadership changes I understand and so
115I know you're working with your county superintendent of schools on that extension process so this um current FH um also had a high risk rating not quite as high last time but still designated as high risk at 42.6% um we were here in the district um Robbie and I were the ones that conducted the study um last month February 4th through the 6th we interviewed roughly 40 folks um we went through numerous documents about 300 I believe and um that's where we get our information um we don't look at One Source we collect multiple sources for um our determin ations and our findings um and we really focus on systems and processes that are going to you know be areas where you can improve because you may say well we already know everything you're telling
116us Jennifer so why are you here and really our tool is for you to really hone in on those specific areas and you can really say okay these are areas where we might need to improve our systems and processes things that are going well for you we don't normally comment on in in any of our reports um we say that if we do that it'll be a 500 report because there's so many good things that our school districts are doing um and we report from more of a deficit model it's kind of a little bit of a bummer but um that's just how our reports will read um if if you have questions about that all right so again I know you've seen the report um I just want to focus on these six areas
117that were kind of the highest waiting um for no answers and it was budget monitoring collective bargaining agreements deficit spending enrollment and attendance fund balance reserves and of reserves for economic uncertainties and Leadership and stability similar areas like I said from last time when we were here um these were the questions in the section that had no answers I'm not going to read through them all but just so you know um you know you can we're gonna have time for questions at the end so if you do have any questions I'll be glad to take them but um with every no question that is answered we have a narrative as to why we indicated that it was a no answer so you can refer to that um I do want to point out on this
118one this is just a continuation of the budget monitoring as I mentioned your county superintendent of schools has been working with you over the years and pointing out some of these areas of deficiencies um we we answered no in the oversight letter um in terms of you know the detailed fiscal stabilization plan again I know you have one now but at first interim at the time it it wasn't a detailed plan um and so you hadn't fully you hadn't fully implemented the things that they were working with you on within those letters so that's just an example um with collective bargaining unit agreements um you know there's some timely things here you have to have things completed um be there's processes with this and you can read that in the report as well in terms
119of when um the board approves a disclosure or bargaining unit agreement through the disclosure process and um when that disclosure is brought forward so there's a few um procedural things within the section um and in some cases if the district did not provide evidence to us that they were doing something we couldn't answer it yes we have to answer no if we don't have enough information so um while for example um let me see the accurate quantification of the effects of bargaining agreements it may well have been known we just didn't see evidence of like document that had that and with deficit spending this is self-explanatory you are in a situation where your deficit spending in the current year by I believe it's about 12 million the second year 19 the third year 29 that's
120as of first interim I know that's changed somewhat um but the deficit spending is a situation that it's going to get you in big trouble with your solvency so um it's good that you're working to address that in the form of your um implementation of your stabilization plan enrollment and attendance is also very self-explanatory you've been in a declining enrollment um pattern for the last several years I it's been about 1,800 students and because lcff funding is so closely tied to enrollment um anytime you have losses there it creates that loss of Revenue and unfortunately even when you do make budget reductions it's harder to um it the LW you can't keep the same Pace with the loss of Revenue and reducing expenditures at that same one to one um thing so anytime you have
121declining enrollment that's an issue enrollment losses to Charter Schools we just didn't see evidence of that um and same with the limiting outgoing in District transfers that students leaving the districts um we didn't we didn't see any kind of procedure or policy um that was being followed with that same with this one we didn't have evidence for for it um so with deficit spending in ER roads your unrestricted general fund balance you know you have to have that minimum 3% Reserve in all years um and um you know you just continue to erode that as your deficit spending and you're right on the cusp right now you know 3% in each year um and so you're right at that minimum that's really difficult um position to be in because if things change change um like
122you know there's not a lot of time to shift um if there's going to be any material change to your situation and finally leadership and stability is the the last area and um you know whenever again we talked about this already when you have change in leadership at the CBO and the superintendent level um it just creates instability for the district um and that change um and it just it just makes everything a little bit harder you know to work with um an area I want to point out to the board is about your board policies and administrative regulations they are not occurring as frequently as we would like to see and we understand that you have a district policy committee and you work collaboratively District leadership does with the policy committee and perhaps you
123can look at the how that is working in terms of process so it could be more efficient so that the board is getting more timely um recommendations to update or adopt new policies that just seem to from what we were Hearing in interviews take a little bit of time for that policy to work through it's great that you have that collaboration um just like to see them happen more timely and then um training for the board I understand that it's it's not Co like a cohesive plan for you all to have training annually on um Budget Finance and governance and so I we would strongly encourage the board to have a plan to ensure that you all have that training um at Le at least every two years actually so current conditions we know you
124approved a stabilization plan in February and of second interim the board approved a positive interim report certification and your an unrestricted general fund deficit spending is still you know you're still deficit spending and you're meeting those minimum reserves 3% in um this year and next and 4.37 in 26 27 but what I want to point out is the state budget Outlook doesn't offer you any relief and um the solutions have to be here locally and I know you're working on that we know you're working on that and we commend the district for the work that you're doing on that um that's what's going to turn this around for you but you have to stick with that plan you have to implement the plan um I know you've had plans in the past maybe they haven't
125all come to fruition but it's very important that you completely Implement your plans if you want to stay financially solvent so um continue to commit and follow through on those items in the county superintendent letter in from January um including implementing your plan and um continue that collaboration that you have with your county superintendent of schools your county office and I with your fisal advisor um continue your transparency and cooperation that's half the battle is just the collaboration there are a lot of fiscal experts um out there um there's a lot of people that can help you you just have to ask ask for the help um continue to work on that deficit um continue to implement your fi fiscal solvency plan I know you're still recruiting for a CBO make sure that it's someone
126that's highly qualified to do the job it's not an easy job um and continue to provide um trading opportunities and support for your business office staff who are supporting the functions in the office um prepare put procedures in place for a timely 2425 audit um if you're using the same audit firm they generally have the same procedures and so develop a system to make sure that you have a timely audit and use our FH tool to PRI prioritize the areas that um you will address in terms of the systems that that need Improvement so when we talk about fiscal distress um there's a couple of things here when you compare a district that's going to make a success F turnaround with one that won't successful districts um recognize they have a problem they don't hide
127the problem they take advantage of the help and they work collaboratively they're part of the solution fmat has faith that this board this district will make a successful turnaround based on the actions you're already taking and we as I said we commend you for that work it's hard work um listening from the audience with all the the the challenges that you face including things going on right now with your reductions Force they're not easy um we want to put our kids you know first and it's hard to do that when we're in in a situation that's requiring such drastic measures but it must be done for you to um retain your local control of your District because we're here as part of an intervention process right and um if you don't follow through on this
128then it will essentially land you in a position where you lose your local control which means that the board is no longer seated um there's some changes and you don't want that that's not what's best for kids so do your work continue to do your work um and we are here for you um what questions can I answer if any we'll open it up for questions I yeah if I Madam president if I my I I just want to thank you for being here I think uh it comes at a perfect time right because as difficult as these decisions are we become complacent right we obviously didn't get here because our prior Administration was doing a good job right uh we had a real issue I seen this happening back uh July 2023 I seen
129the pattern I knew I I many times brought it to the board's attention that we were we were off in the doldrum and and it was going to come back to roost and I I want to thank you for being here because it's a reminder of the seriousness of where we're at uh obviously you hear the community that that was a very small amount of people here today concerned about how we're delivering services to children and and and obviously it doesn't feel good when you're letting employees go uh they have kids in school they got mortgages they got car payments it's very very difficult and and so the final comment of the fact that we could lose control if we don't uh act and and act correctly um is obviously where we don't want to
130be and I believe as painful as it is we're going to be better at the end uh we're going to learn that you know we can't depend on onetime money uh to run a school district and that's what we failed to do we had a bunch of money during covid uh we didn't plan when it was going to leave we hired a bunch of people on permanent in permanent positions with one-time money and it was absolutely Reckless uh obviously hindsight is 2020 us being aware of of of what goes on on the day-to-day here is unrealistic we all have work we do this part-time we depend on the superintendent we depend on our finance department to know what's going on and many times what we seen at least what I experienced is they were holding
131information we weren't getting information we would ask for information and it wasn't being disseminated so it was The Perfect Storm but I truly believe that we're going to be a better school district uh after taking on this very serious Challenge and we absolutely you know believe that superintendent espara is heading in the right direction with with all of that and the information that they're providing to you all um I want to reiterate that when we talk about um Mis like there's some things on our um indicators of risk like mismanagement of general fund we're not implying that that's happening right now just to be clear no of course other questions thank you for the presentation thank you for the information I read I read the report and uh you know my my only question is
132so fig Matt's here now will fig matat you know be here you know three months from now to just make sure that we're still in everything is still inet compliance or no you'll be working directly with your county superintendent on that um like I said earlier there's some there's certain triggering events where we will come in um and so we're here now we won't be back unless your situation worsens and you'll be working directly with your county but we don't want to see you back yeah I mean hey we love you guys but we don't want to be back here either weather's great but we don't want to see you back yes other questions uh um just want to thank you um I know we spent some time together when we're going through this um
133I think at the end of the day though uh you've done your job now we have to do ours I mean that's the end of the day we saw the same report back I was here some some of us were here and we didn't listen you know uh again uh I've said this many times it gets misconstrued out there by how I say it but at the end of the day as you mentioned the board is responsible for everything I'm responsible as a board member for everything that happens and I think the most frustrating thing it's been alluded to a little bit though is that uh we had that conversation about that is the board you go back and you see the board made decisions but they weren't implemented and a lot of that is
134very frustrating because while we are still responsible it's kind of hard to tell someone to do their job uh and then then we we let them go and then everybody's like why you let go people they not doing their job so I think uh again another warning we have one back then we're having another warning but at the end of the day you've done your job and we we need to do ours now and then as hard as it is uh with the communities many of the programs and the things that we're cutting are things that all of us myself included have championed over the years um but we are where we are and you know if you want people to just go along and do whatever then I mean I don't I don't believe
135we are those people uh but as you just saw in the election the community said these are the people we want on there and it's our job to kind of get it done now but thank you for all your work and again uh not personal but I hope I don't see you for a long long time likewise okay any other questions uh I do have a question um so you mentioned um that we the structural deficit can you just elaborate a little bit more what does that mean and that's a good question I'm glad you as it break it down sometimes we we talk in our our little um jargon that we have in our our industry um a structural deficit is when um you are continuing to spend more than you're taking in and
136there is an imbalance between that Revenue that you're bringing in and the things that you're spending it on and so like I mentioned with declining enrollment your Revenue has shrunk but maybe you haven't shrunk expenditures to meet that change and so instead of instead of making those reductions you've continued to spend more than you're receiving and so without some action that's what we call a structural deficit yeah thank you I just real quick I just want to remind you that just because you have money there doesn't mean that you can use certain Monies to cover that structural deficit and I think that part of it is what as you said mased it during the co time is that if you have a grant that has millions of dollars in you use it one time that
137doesn't fix your structural deficit it kicks the can down the road for a year maybe right and sometimes those monies can't even be used for general purposes so when we say structural deficit let me elaborate a little bit more and say it's in your unrestricted side so monies that are you're free to spend in any discretionary way that you choose as a board depending on your priorities but there are legally restricted programs that you cannot use that money a lot of Grants are like that for regular classroom teacher salaries for example so there's restrict when we say restricted is exactly that you have to use it for a certain purpose so the structural deficit is in the unrestricted side and when that's happening that's what we call the structural deficit so we might not necessarily
138see the impact to grant-funded restricted programs uh per se that depends that just largely depends on what the program is for the allowable uses for that and you know what are commitments the district's made right anything else just going to add and there is there in L's another program because a lot of what's happening and what actually our assistant soup just mentioned the funding for the grants are there but the individuals that are currently there might not be there you know so they're saying well they're eliminating no they're not the program is still there it's just because of the bumping that different people are going to be in there and so they're thinking that we're getting rid of programs which we're actually not getting rid of programs and so it's it's a it's a balancing
139actor right but again it's it's what happened during covid part of it was that we were using monies that we knew was going to eventually end to continue to run and that's why like you said it mased our structural deficit right and and that is something that we have to I know if you see a line item and there's a lot of money that doesn't mean that moneyyy is coming every single year that means it's a temporary time and you can't that's right going back to your point it has to be that unrestricted fund where it's just our base money that comes in and that's where you get in trouble so even though you look like you have a lot of money in that year you actually don't have it every year absolutely thank you
140thank you so for this we'll just get the report but um I think the fiscal manager will still be with us for some time correct so to we the fiscal advisor okay AJ yes so AJ will still be with us for a couple more months until we follow through with our plan um okay so now moving on to action item 9.1 appointment of board representatives to the various boards so we do have a number of board committee assignments um would we just go down the line not too sure how we okay uh so I think everyone should have the the form in front of them for the Committees um so we have the audit committee and I have my trusty Akuna myself and trusty Garcia don't know what are we so trusty Garcia is fine
141to stay and and and yeah board member G okay that was here initially it was simply at the time to move board member ttis into those empty ones but now if there's something I would just encourage you if there's something in there that youd like maybe you speak up about it there was just a kind of a move until we got back to this point to just kind of assigning where board member gar was at that doesn't mean that that's say there's other want uh so audit committee do we want to keep the Tre three trustees or do we want to is there anyone who wants to like yeah okay um budget committee uh we have trusty uh kuna so it's it says here president officer required so I think that'll be yes and and
142then vice president so Sylvia and and is Trusty Garcia is able to stay as well or doesn't it's just a general person so is that fine with folks okay uh the Ed foundation so it says here president officer required um and then we have trusty B um well I was never called to meet as part of this uh foundation and um but I'm okay I'll step down I don't have the time right now okay position I'd like to to get it going one of the projects that we're potentially talking about is a project the golf tournament know a little bit about it and probably could help uh have an effective event okay are folks okay with that and um it looks like we had uh trusty gonal as an alternate should we select just going
143to mention based on some other conversations we had there is having an alternate is not really necessary okay so unless the board has any objections I would think it's just the assigned person and the board president as as it is and then we don't really need an alternate because the way the structure is there there really no is no need for an alternate okay so I would recommend that we just eliminate that one and just keep the two that are there okay so it'll be myself and uh trusty Gonzalez if that's fine with it everybody um culture and climate committee we have trusty Garcia trusty pass and Arondo objection to okay uh moving on uh curriculum committee uh myself uh trusty Akuna and Arondo okay in place of a little too quick okay no oh
144I did already uh I'm sorry anyone did you so um trusty Tores will be in place of trusty auna um TR are you okay with staying or you okay or did someone someone else want to I actually wanted to go back to um culture and climate because I'm looking we don't have a lot with um U Mr Tores if you wanted to be part of the culture and climate that's fine I can step up yeah okay okay okay um D committee trusty Garcia Rondo you okay yeah yeah okay okay uh Head Start advisory committee so we have trusty Gara so would T trusty Tores would be okay withone s like it um l cap leadership committee I would recommend that you be on the committee as a president for the out cap and unless somebody
145else wants to be the alternate I can just switch with you as alternate but have you on the the president okay uh trusty Garcia okay so it'll be myself uh trusty Garcia and then uh trusty Akuna as the alternate uh facilities committee trusty Gonzalez akun Arondo we okay with saying or anyone good saying okay anybody else I'd like to make a recommendation to start a maintenance and operations committee they all necessary are they all meeting yeah I think u mean we have a fight under I I think what we can maybe do within facilities is have a line item of discussion on on maintenance and operation and rather than starting a whole new meeting a whole new committee it's it's the same personalities we have our maintenance and operation people in the same meeting so
146maybe we need to highlight uh specific items of of need within the agenda of the facil was there a particular reason why you felt it was necessary to have a committee I've had some board members ask me I was the one that brought that up after especially seeing our high schools and again it wasn't about uh going back and seeing what's happening but that we we have to have a plan I think to get back to where we need to be uh I know some of our elementaries are looking better now that they're doing some some things but our high schools our middle some of our middle schools I mean I think it it's just a big job and again I think we need to have a plan and again more of my concerns was
147more of do we have a plan to get where we need to be and what does that plan look like when do we start how how do we function and part of that is what we've been talking about just you know accountability of getting you know from a point A to point B you know I agree and you know we were having a discussion ear in close session talking about a potential amount of money that we would get every year that we could use to do upgrades uh I've always said it it doesn't matter it almost seems when we have schools that are over a hundred years old you know Mr Arondo was announcing that we need work at Peter Pendleton we're just celebrating all this great work at six schools we're all proud of
148it and it almost like when we get done we got to start again right and it's just I think I challenge our facilities director uh that we have and I know they're doing a a great job of of paying attention to the grass making sure that that the schools look as best possible but do we need Improvement absolutely do we use more money absolutely I just don't know if it's a a situation where I think it's more of an assertive calculated uh initiative by our staff and making sure that we're paying attention more so than us reminding ourselves that we need because we need everyone like a beautification projects okay is there a way to sorry sorry no is there a way to implement like a ranking program I don't know how that works a
149rankings for safety because I feel like we just had AER I mean that's the facilities we've done that for facilities and and again they're two different things obviously and so I think an emphasis on again more of a maintenance plan about kind of implementing even if it's a long-term plan I'm not expecting everything to be done tomorrow but I think a long-term plan of how we get from point A to point B and some of it is easier than others uh some of it may be overtime right I mean just not to you know not that we want to do that right now in our per in our current state but some of it may just be they just need more time uh some of them may need financing because we're going to have to
150fix certain things drains don't work right and every time it rains or doesn't even rain when the sprinklers go on there's puddles right and again these are challenges for them but we have to have a plan of how we're going to address some of these things and it and it just seems that it's more at the high schools just because they're larg your campuses they have more things that are going on uh so Mr you remember we actually paid right for a stud that turned out to be uh an accounting a facility study that turned out to be a maintenance and operation study that turned out to be a report of wish needed right wish and I don't know we spent 20 $30,000 this is years ago but it it it is challenging everywhere we
151we look there's need when we get done with everything needed it's now needed at the beginning right and it's just it's really challenging stuff and and them bringing what they feel are priority projects which I know they have right and and then us making sure that we can pay attention and make sure that we can find money to try to do something about it well to to your point the figat report and one of the questions was do we have a um 5 10 year facilities plan uh and the answer was no we've done them but they weren't as you mentioned actual facilities plans they turned into wish lists they turned into you know we started the um program and not to get off because I know we're doing this but we we started the
152process about boundaries and then we stopped and now we have to start over again because now we have to spread it across the whole district and so these are the things that are all part of those facilities plans where is the where's the new construction coming where the kids coming and it was all part of that yet we technically do not have an actual plan even though we probably paid for three since I've been on the board maybe four um trusty I don't know if you trusty Garcia you finished your thought or had anything else to add well it just feels like I mean cuz you're both on the facilities committee and you're still having discourse so so I we don't talk but we don't talk about mainten the facilties right and and I certainly
153don't know how that works so is there a need or or is this like a special I know we just talked about spending money but is this a special board meeting to look into that or what do we need to do to because I I look at this further and get a plan the fiveyear plan 10e plan um what I was going to recommend we we do have a number of committees but it looks like maybe the audit committee and budget committee maybe could be merged um I don't know where the thoughts are on that and maybe the curriculum and programs committee yeah as well um and then that way there's an opportunity for that maintenance committee and maybe um maybe we need to work on delineating a little bit more clear what that would
154look like and at least differentiate like what it what would fall with within facilities committee and what would fall with within the maintenance committee and again my original concern was do we have how do we come up with the plan to do that is it through a committee is it through facilities that was to be brought back to the board about how do we address that particular issue so an idea on that because I recall that report it was presented to us and the cost was huge when we looked at everything that is needed and more now is probably needed but I think the maybe the missing link there is that we take that plan whoever not we but the facilities or the new committee starts with that plan we don't start from scratch and
155then we developed okay given now that we know all of this and maybe new information that you all might have let's create a plan how are we going to tackle this how is it going to be funded where do we need I me sense but what we got in the report was a list of the schools a description of the schools the location of the schools but and and and everywhere needs right so really where do you start exact I think that's going to be put on the the onus of that is going to be put on on the gentleman that does that every day right that pays attention to where and and I know they do that now they have a list of priority projects that are that are emminent that need to be
156addressed um I don't know how you do it and and then you got to understand too guys is that this is moving right what's important today it might not be important tomorrow there might be something Emer tomorrow and so I don't know I I I really believe that it's a challenge for our facilities director and obviously we can pay attention to it in facilities we're already doing it um but I don't know how often this maintenance committee would meet I don't know what the maintenance committee would talk about I don't know what they would be reporting to the maintenance committee but but maybe there is a need I just don't know yeah maybe that first request for the maintenance committee and it's not the members obviously but the staff is to look at what's out
157there what they have and to come up with the plan and then they present it to the committee right like that's May yeah maybe that's what it is really getting an audit from from our maintenance and operation gentlemen right and I know he has reports already if he doesn't have finish he hasn't started u but like I said the the tough one about this is that you know we got to do work here at John C we we need work at Peter Pendleton we and when we get done there we got to go back to Palm viw and it's been mik we're a fast School District separated over a large geographical area with a lot of old schools right and that's the reality so in looking at this the possibility like I mentioned the beautification
158plan or prevented preventative maintenance plan within the facilities committee like at that point you do lot of the facility stuff we talk about like The Architects buildings where we're going like Northshore but for them to have an opportunity during that meeting I guess I think we should have a maybe it's just a line item they give us an update at every monthly meeting of what they're working on what's important and is there such a thing as a subcommittee of the like where it hard for everybody to meet I mean I am we get a report for maintenance religiously at every facilities meeting and then we can start there and if you think we need to expand it or if you think you need your own committee if you don't have enough to do we can
159we can give you your owne wow m [Music] when you get done with the last one you got to go back to [Music] the okay so would we be uh since trusty AA brought it up would that be okay to add it just is a standing item on the agenda okay and I would still support the the merging of the other committees so budget and audit being one committee okay and the programs and curriculum being another one so that obviously changes the composition uh particularly for budget and audit because it has two required I'll get up okay okay so we're merging audit and budget um it says in the budget so does that mean that the President and Vice President would be required yeah okay just and then the third person oh trusty Garcia so
160okay is that okay she just switches with me and okay we're good um are we okay with also merging the curriculum and program committee okay so huh uh so we have just you so then okay so then it doesn't change anything yeah am I ready on the C change yes okay so it be myself Tores and Arondo okay curriculum varas switch yeah I don't know that this once another yeah that's what I'm saying yes I can come off that comedian can take it I just come off too it's Vargas tauris and me on the curriculum that's what I had yeah oh because we had already done we no I'm good um what was Happ to M so just to be clear uh we're merging curriculum committee and program committee so together um it says it
161was myself Tores and Arondo and the program committee we had Akuna and what would have been Tores so then trusty akun is just steing eliminate M yeah okay yes I was already off of it okay yes just eliminating the program and moving responsibilities okay and policy legislative committee we have trusty Gonzalez Garcia and Tores is that okay okay uh two by twos uh city of kachala we have uh CH auna and Gonzalez uh city of India 2 by two we have Garcia and Akuna okay uh city of lint we have TR Rondo and aun nobody wanted them so I got them all I the County of Riverside Board of Supervisors we have um GSA so I'm assuming trusty Tores would you be okay with that and I have myself I don't know if anybody else
162wanted to no we haven't no so I mean there were some concerns that were brought up in Northshore recently and I was thinking that it might be a good idea to schedule something um and have a conversation and especially yeah we I've never I don't know when the last time they met so what I have asked um I know U Mar Works closely with Anita Anita's a sub in our office and she's been setting up uh they've been setting up these two by tws because I asked because the only one I've been to is the linta one and so I asked when are we doing it with coella when are we doing it with d who else do we do it with and so now they've been setting up these meetings okay uh desert Recreation
163Center we have trusty Garcia is it right should be desert Recreation District Jessie Garcia nondo is that okay yeah oh yeah uh County Imperial we have trusty gon trusty tortes and uh trusty gze is that okay sure yeah uh College of the Desert we have traa and Garcia okay and uh cbwd uh try Gonzalez tras if somebody else wants it I can M what trying to get off the stuff yeah that's fine I'm okay so trusty replaces trusty B uh Riv County committee School District organization how does uh we have trusty Gara and trusty Arondo as the alternate do you wanna I I can come off of that I'm on there oh oh I see are youa did both of them for last it was both the things so is require the president has to
164do that or oh huh don't have oh I don't yeah I mean that's why I'm asking if it's like a like his name was on there because he was the presis kep we just kept them because he like going to the meetings I mean I mean if someone would like to get the experience yeah oh great um which one yeah yeah okay great different thank you Tores I love this okay okay um I think that's it right okay okay great that's a lot um okay I motion I make I make motion that we accept all the changes for the Committees all in favor I I I'll oppose uh motion carried and uh moving on to item action item 10.1 Tara hinin uh requesting approval memorandum between University of Southern California behalf of the USC at
165policy Hub at USC Rosier School of Education and CB unified I'm second all in favor post motion Carri uh item 10.2 uh Soro Sanchez requesting approval of adoption of mclass Dibbles and leura as the state mandated K2 literacy screener I'll second all those in favor I opposed and motion carried action item Business Services uh 11.1 Aruna approval of fiscal year 20242 and 2025 26 trans transportation services plan no second all those uh any questions sorry I've been skipping the questions part no questions uh all those in favor I I oppos the motion carried 11.2 Armando sunna approval for bus frame repair and velocity Truck Centers second uh questions all this in favor a post and motion carried um 11.3 Armando sunna approval to purchase two rolling Jacks and Napa Auto Parts oh second second any
166questions I just comment we talked about this during the agenda review it is actually to fix the rotary lift and that's these are the parts that are help us we can't use the rotary lift currently because the Jacks so we're B basically fixing the rotary list by getting this equipment to do it so I had just a little particular about what the causes for not just getting Two Jacks to lift up something it's so the whole process will work good just comment on that anything else you don't need okay uh where were all those in favor all right a post uh motion passes um action uh Human Resources action item 12.1 Dr Monica Mack's approval of second reading of BP 6158 independent study and uh AR 6158 independent studies a second uh trusty Garcia second
167uh questions all those in favor I post uh motion carries um action item 12.2 uh Dr Monica mood's approval of first reading for BP 5145 do uh3 and AR 5145 uh3 response to immigration enforcement do you have a motion a second uh questions I had a question um this I had a question about if um within this policy it included staff as well yes it did it's a new policy okay it's brand new so we don't have students it's like we're also um keeping staff information confidential yes and it's actually immigration training is required like uh California Ed code for us okay um any other questions um all in favor all right I opposed motion carries um 12.3 Dr Monica Mart's approval of resolution 202- 38 regarding a settlement and Public Employee Relations Board case
168number la- CE 6923 do we have a motion so move second uh any questions no uh all those in favor I opposed motion carries um 12.4 Dr Monica MTZ approval of CVUSD school calendars for 2025 and 2026 school year so I think those were provided to us um um from the calendar committee I want to thank them for working on this the biggest thing that came through was students would like their finals before winter break um so that was the biggest concern um and then counting and then we gave you options um winter break being two weeks bring break bring one and then um the other options same thing with the finals before break but two weeks and two weeks and then um and two weeks for winter break um so you have a few
169options there there's multiple years it's a 2-year calendar um so but when you're doing that I have to uh thank uh director Martinez for making and my secretary Lauren GTH for making sure that the dates and the the number of dates are equal on both sides and doing the counting and the math and making sure the conferences and finals are all in there how about the College Testing challenges that we have that is why the students are asking for the for finals to be before winter break and all these plans address yes okay that's the common theme between all of them okay and so what is the difference or can you go over like I'm looking at the two weeks two weeks um so you have two weeks at winter two weeks at Spring break
170oh and that's one year and another so it's the exact same thing okay I'm going to go with whatever you guys want my last one graduated so I used select three weeks during the I think it doesn't matter anymore so so I'm GNA to support whatever you two weeks two weeks two weeks two weeks which one is that draft two so draft [Music] two yeah like two week spring break two weeks of winter no I'm just asking which ones are you recommending yeah what are we recomending Wass but yeah I think two weeks two weeks once weeks for spring break what do you think Mr tortes two weeks two weeks dra number two number draft number two so which one is two weeks two weeks number three um actually I think it's draft number three
171would be two weeks two weeks draft number three which is actually one two three four fourth on the list on the yeah I just mixed up one of them is for 25 26 and the so the blue ones are 26 27 okay but it's the same so graph three is oh I think your mic is off your mic was off so I okay so draft one is three weeks for winter break and one week for spring break draft two is two weeks for winter break one week for spring break draft three is two weeks for winter break two weeks for spring break I like draft two because I think it's hard for our families to figure out two weeks for spring break that's me any thoughts hi always for two and one but I've always
172done that so but I know I got out voted with the three and then the other stuff so I don't have any kids so again my kids are my kids are gone and I don't expect grandkids anytime soon so I'm I'm good with uh whatever you guys I'm going to do two one but that's a so that's draft so trusty Garcia recommend draft two yeah that's yeah I don't mind either one of those have two or three weeks the win I think that the one you like two weeks two weeks I think because weeks in Winter they do need a break in the springtime you know like all that energy and it's the weather's still nice the kids enjoy it versus being in the sou maity I'll support you a trusty pass can I make
173a comment in regards to that this is a perfect opportunity for our students to have intervention during the winter and during the spring because a week is not enough yeah we talked about that's why I was we talked about that last time that's why we were recommending doing an intervention during this amen there we go so that would support the parents who yeah okay so then what you're saying is students would have could have the option for programming during that time oh okay then that is different because CU them just figuring it out at home our parents work I don't want them alone by themselves and then the food if our students have their their um meals here so if that is different so that's draft two oh three draft three yeah draft three wait
174yes the one I do have to point out the one reason we left the three-week one on there the three and one is because our attendance that week that we usually come back is is gets hit by the the H the holidays so my staff members pointed that out to remind you that sometimes our attendance takes a hit we do two weeks they take three weeks if we do three weeks they take four weeks so I mean yeah so do we do we need a motion for draft three I'll make a motion to accept well to accept uh calendar draft three second okay uh all those in favor I I there's no oppos I oh oh okay uh motion Carri okay okay motion carried uh draft three um moving on to consent calendar and I
175read this correct um okay uh item 13 consent calendar all matters listed under the consent calendar are considered by the board to be routine and will be acted upon in one motion there will be no discussion of these items prior to the prior to the time the board considers a motion unless board members uh 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 assistant superintendent of Educational Services assistant superintendent of business and finance and assistant superintendent of Human Resources recommend the approval of consent all consent calendar items um do I have a motion president Vargas I I'll motion to approve the consent calendar uh respecting any board member wanting to pull an individual item
176do we have a second a second item P item 16.1 just to vote separately on 16.1 any other items yeah I have a comment or before I pull them we discuss uh assistant superintendent meitz we discussed a bunch of those items when we're doing agenda review did you get answers and resolve from those questions that we had asked in terms of um the ones for the extra Services correct they are separated from their workday for those specific people um we do have administrators tracking that and making sure it's not double dipping okay correct okay I'm good I need pull anything else to pull no so um we have a motion in a second all those um's the word all those in favor uh post uh motion carries and we now have item 16.1 I just
177have to um I take campaign donation from a person connected to Seas Farms so I just wanted to disclose that for the public and have this um this item voted on separately okay yes in the area to maybe make sure that we're getting compe good evening Bo my name is Carlos Mora I'm the nutrition services director uh to answer your question uh Mr Gonzalez uh this year I did not uh being my first year I went with whatever recommendations we have from previous ones we do have it in the plans to expand for the following years uh we do know that uh a Seas Farms operates a food Hub which represents 50 local farmers in the area uh those 50 local farmers um definitely is a highlight for our program as it is um supporting
178our Market but uh for next year we definitely do want to go over and expand the list of is gentleman buys produce from 15 other farmers in the area and then he resells them to us that what we pay him that is that is correct basically is is providing you request you know 50 boxes of green beans he basically sources them and then he sells them to us that is correct and there's a big benefit to that as well the big a big benefit for uh the procurement process that we have to do for every 50 farmer separately it would be a quite a load for our department to go through that work uh instead of doing 50 procurement or 50 bits we can only do one bit which that would be represent I'm not
179mention I have a bu of on my mind people that Source a bunch of different Road crops that are larger purveyors that can could maybe give us you know 5 10 different Goods throughout the year maybe at a competitive price also right I do recognize that opportunity so may maybe maybe something to look at in the future and I think this model works for now but but I think it's just making sure that that we keep people accountable is really what it comes down to thank you Mr consus thank you sir we had um any other question okay we had a motion and a second all those in favor I I uh abstain so one abstention and the motion carries um item 18 close uh we don't have close session items um motion to adjourn
180second okay all in favor I