001progress meeting to order at 5 30 pm um before the roll call will go into the Pledge of Allegiance um we don't have student trustees oh Stephanie uh trustee De la Rosa would you like to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance please one last time hello okay um everyone placed their right hand over their heart and I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you thank you um money roll companies here vice president Jesus Gonzalez Clark Jocelyn Vargas yeah Junior present Valerie Garcia here Sylvia thank you um moving on to recognitions student trustee recognition um Stephanie De la Rosa you understand go go to the podium so Stephanie trustee
002De la Rosa thank you for uh your commitment um your countless hours of of being here listening to us uh debate Yap whatever you want to call it um but it's been a true honor to to have you serve on this board um I know that you will do great and succeed in in all your future Endeavor hours and I wish you nothing but luck and success no luck no because you you don't need like you'll make sure that it happens but I do wish you a lot of success uh do any of my colleagues want to share any words with with our student trustee before I give her the time to speak um um just wanted to thank my partner in Prime on this end of the dark side of the table over here
003it's been fun and um again uh some of the your thoughts and your insights uh things that maybe we don't see have been very valuable for us in making decisions and so and I want to thank you and also um you know being active not only here but at your own school and with other things and I'll give you a little shout out again you guys went crazy the other night at the Folklorico program down at Desert Mirage you guys did a great job so congratulations and as we said that night uh go off do well back and take one of our places here all right thank you everybody's just uh all the blessings in the world as you go forward right I think you're leaving now and four years won't go by and you'll
004come back and it'll all happen very very quickly enjoy your time in school sometimes it's uh it's challenging right being away from home and if you can manage that I'm sure everything else will just fall into place all the blessings in the world to what you do and in school and what you do after you you finish in school it's been great having you up here thank you for your time on the board with us Christy De la Rosa it's been good to just have these conversations and get your insights on some of the things that you you uh wanted to do and some of the things that you you uh suggested to us I know that you you had a conversation with several of us um but just congratulations on getting into UC Irvine
005and I wish you I mean I know you will have a lot of success there so we look forward to your return once you complete thank you yes thank you so much for your time here I feel like um I got to know you a little better because of the conference that we went to at the very beginning of December so um I'm so impressed by each of the trustees but so impressed with you Stephanie and wish you all the best um and please reach out if you need anything we're still here to support you um as far as that goes so please please um we hope that we've prepared you um but we're always here as a resource for you all right thank you so much good I also want to thank you for
006the time that you've dedicated um to us and to improving your own School your own community and I really look forward to those four years going by fast and having you back so thank you right yeah I think everybody you've already shared um you know how amazing you are and thank you so much for stepping up and I'm sure it's hard to be up here with us um um but yeah I think you you did a great job and um you had a lot of contributions um you know to our to the perspective of what we should be doing with the district so I really appreciate that and uh yeah wish you luck yeah thank you um before I pass it on to Dr Valentina I just uh remembered one thing I should say right
007I think um now that you've you know the purpose of this uh this student trustee position was was created uh to add value to the discussion of the board um and to uh get the student perspective on on this dice right but at the same time um there's there's other intents right that uh this position allows our students to develop a passion uh for public service a passion for representing a passion for uh the a greater good of our community right and I hope that uh this experience has has given you that I I really hope that uh and if you and if it didn't give you that it gave you the certainty that either you want to dedicate your life to public service or it's something that you want to stay away as far
008as far as possible Right but that it gave you that that experience to be able to make that decision and follow a path that uh that you will create as you navigate you know the next uh the next stage of your life so thank you for for everything uh thank you for your dedication to our school district and thank you for uh dedication to to your students and your colleagues uh Dr Valentino thank you so just very briefly I think what most people don't know is that not only did you attend the board meetings but you met with us planning the board meetings so you interacted with your peers at other schools gathering information and Leadership manifests itself in different ways and you definitely demonstrated it from the student perspective um and so there's a
009lot that a lot of your peers will learn from having interacted with you because not only were you engaged with us as a student trustee but you're also a dancer Athletics and many times when we were meeting on Mondays you were on your cell phone either at the studio or out on the track so you you bring the candles on both ends and so your dedication to the district is greatly appreciated and your impact will will live on long after you've left so thank you Stephen so with that being said um before I present this to you do you have anything you want to say yes they did um being able to sit with you guys in the diets I learned so much from it and yeah like you've said that public service you know
010um just watching you guys or you know being active in the discussions it's for the insightful you know you get I learned a lot and I think it helped also with my public speaking and just leadership as well as you mentioned and yeah I've learned a lot from it and I think this is was an amazing opportunity experience for me and uh definitely remembering and use it for when I come back thank you so much for everything yeah thank you um with that being said we have this beautiful plaque that we want to present to you okay oh yeah yeah of course would you like to uh recognize anybody in the audience your family or and of course like my mom who always came you know to the board meetings who brought me here and
011was my little support yeah thank you shout out to your mom with that being said uh Stephanie we have this beautiful plaque uh that we would like to present to you uh stating honoring student board trustee Stephanie De la Rosa in recognition and appreciation of your service leadership and commitment to our district thank you you have been an inspiration to all of us on behalf of the Coachella Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees and administration on June 20 23rd thank you okay all right Stephanie levels thank you and uh Dr Williams has a goodie bag for you awesome moving on to item 2.1 uh recognition of new administrator Academy participants uh Dr Ellis thanks so much and good evening uh superintendent Valentino word president Galarza and board members and my fellow cabinet members I'm
012here today to present our grow your own Leadership Academy that we did this year we have two separate academies that we did one of them was with our new administrators we had them go through five module Academy and then we had aspiring leaders that are current members of our department not excuse me Department our district and so we offered them a Academy to go through as a grow your own program they attended five different modules the first one Being Human Resources where we covered a framework of leadership competencies a leader Frisk monitoring and evaluation feedback difficult conversations and the discipline process they then went to student support services and this Support Services provided professional development for them on mental health so expansion expulsion requirements attendance special education best practices and family engagement module 3 was
013provided by Educational Services they covered El best practices reviewing the Core Curriculum and program expectations they did student grading criteria and board policies District state and federal assessments expectations and requirements and guidelines and then module 4 was provided by Business Services they reviewed their philosophical expectations facilities fiscal systems maintenance operations nutrition services purchasing and warehouse and Reprographics procedures and then finally module 5 was conducted by HR risk management where they went over conducting complaint investigations risk management and workman comp claims and how to handle and avoid those so I really want to acknowledge our our staff members certificate and classified that participated in our new administrators Academy we'd like to present them with a certificate tonight Dr Valentina would you mind coming up and helping me present and then maybe they can get a picture
014with everybody would be great so we have um 18 members that have completed all five modules and so they get a certificate tonight they also are guaranteed to be screened in for the next interview process and Leadership that they would be applying for we did have 20 Aid applicants that completed the program but may not have been able to attend all five modules so there are 28 participants and we're going to recognize 18 tonight come on up please Anna Alvarado she's our accounting manager currently I know some of them couldn't be here tonight but I would like to call all their names David Bachman director of facilities development and planning budget analyst Melissa box Transportation supervisor Boulder got stuck here Cindy Bradley coordinator of professional development Karina De La Pena Elementary School principal Virginia mayor
015High School assistant principal Jean Marie I'm gonna mess up your name Jean Marie dagarin did I say that correctly coordinative early Learners is there a name correctly get out here okay it's all right very sorry for my best ever name Jennifer Iyer Elementary assistant principal Victor lavastina and maintenance and operations supervisor Cindy Maldonado director of classified personnel Jessica Mendoza Elementary School principal Armando Ozuna transfer tape and supervisor Gustavo Pais director of security and safety Diana Salinas director of fiscal services Leticia Torres project manager facilities and planning Debbie Valencia coordinator of health and safety and Adam Warren Middle School principal congratulations to all of you thank you for completing this new administrator Academy with us we appreciate your hard work and dedication and congratulations on your leadership Journey this year we look forward to seeing you
016continue to grow in the district would you mind coming down and taking pictures with all of them thank you I would like to recognize there are spying aspiring leaders for our district these are our current employees that have also completed five modules at night for training they were here from 4 30 until seven we did feed them but they were here on their own time um so we're very proud of the the beginning of our grow your own program with our aspiring leaders so if I call your name would you please come on up budget specialist Leslie Dickinson teacher Sal Martinez Mary Felix accounting assistant one Doreen Vaccaro Morales teacher special education Lorena Pompa accounting assistant too Rogelio Mendez the parent educator behavior intervention we say it right right Elementary assistant principal Shane Reyes teacher
017Charles Canyon Middle School David and Rosales senior account clerk too Christine Tinsley special educate excuse me education specialist Consulting teacher Wendy Valdez teacher of Bobby digg Middle School Karina oh Karina Vega K-12 counselor Miriam veya Excuse Me Miriam Villas Sanchez teacher at Coachella Valley High School Cynthia Ronda Valenzuela teacher Coachella Valley High School Diana ariosa school psychologist Executive Administrative specialist Penelope de Leon accounting assistant too Arla Garcia associate marriage and family therapist Megan green intervention teacher leader specialist Mario Lara Jr I.T project analyst and Maria Aguilar teacher West Shores High School so all the names that I called tonight were people who have attended all five modules we did have 33 people enrolled in the program and so thank you for being here tonight we want to recognize your hard work we're excited to see
018your leadership Journey as you continue through your career in Coachella Valley Unified and thank you for coming with us every night I hope you enjoyed it was well worth your time so thank you so much congratulations okay okay moving on thank you to all of uh our Academy participants and I know that you will continue to grow in our school district so I think you are now moving on to uh closation can I get a motion to enter into closation go ahead sir yeah I'm sorry I just want to make a comment that it's exciting to since I've been on the board we've I think the entire board has pushed uh our superintendent to to grow from within right to to create leadership uh it always I don't know for me at the beginning it
019always seemed like the answers came from somewhere else and I think we have a lot of talent here within ourselves and I commend the leadership for uh creating this program possibility so that we can continue to incubate uh create leadership from within and obviously it takes a lot of time away from what you guys do daily and just a great job great job and it's it's uh I'm sure long term it'll allow you to move uh wherever you decide to move within the structure of the organization and we're just happy that we're here's from within and great job videos right I just want to say congratulations to everybody in the program and I hope that we continue to to uh maybe have the next level of getting to know how to do things in our
020district for for everybody to continue to grow in their position and continue to to be part of our homegrown leadership so thank you for everybody that took the time I know it's time away from your families away from your work but but it is important work so thank you all for for doing that seeing none can I get a motion by Mr Gonzalez is there a second second all those in favor any opposed abstain motion carries we will be back at 7 pm yes nope yes yes yes good Ness let me get a can I get a motion to enter closer into Open Session here motion by Mr Gonzalez second bye Mr I don't know all those in favor aye aye any opposed then motion carries um Madame Kirk any action taken in a closed
021session uh hello okay uh the board check action during closed session to a point uh Francis esparza's assistant superintendent of Educational Services effective on this eighth day of June 2023 motion was made by tracia Redondo seconded by trustee Gonzalez motion carried 7-0 um the board Tech action during closed session to a point Thomas Tucker as Middle School principal at Toro Canyon Middle School in fact for June 9th on this eighth day of June motion was made by tracia Redondo seconded by trustee Garcia motion was made 7-0 um motion was carried 7-0 the board took action during closed session to a point Bernardo Valenzuela director of certificate of Human Resources effective June 9th uh 2023 on this 8th day of June 2023. motion was made by Tracy Arizona seconded by trustee Gonzalez and the motion care
022870. the board check action during closed session to appoint Michael Boomer as Elementary principal at Coral Mountain Academy effective June 9 2023 on this eighth day of June 2023 motion was made by trustee Arredondo seconded by trustee banglades motion Kerry 870 the board took action during closed session to appoint Dr Melinda Gonzalez as Elementary principal of Westside Elementary effective June 9 2023 on this 8th day of June 2023 motion was made by trustee Arredondo seconded by Tracy Gonzalez motion carried70 the last item the board took action during closed session to approve a settlement agreement in a disciplinary matter with employee ID number 2022-11 backslash 474 motion was made by trustee Gonzalez seconded by Tracy Galarza and the motion carried 7-0 thank you um can I get a motion to approve agenda estimated is there a
023second second motion by Mr Gonzalez oh no nothing any opposed abstain motion carries um probably comment at this time we'll move into Open Session public comment uh this time is for any members of the public to address the uh governing board Please be aware that comments are limited at three minutes per comment 20 minutes per subject matter um so I do see that we have quite a few for uh the same uh the same the same topic so we'll make sure to cut it off after 20 minutes just uh FYI um moving on so uh Beatrice Felix oh and the board is not always at Liberty of taking action or responding uh to items not listed on the agenda go ahead okay well Martinez and coming soon um a head start foreign students estudiantes um
024Nosotros s a [Music] um yes um [Music] um really quick question for the next public comments I have Brandon uh Daniela are you guys going to comment on the lcap or is it just general comments okay okay um is it the same for a community Justice campaign folks yeah I'll come okay I'm gonna hold on to these for the public hearing um Peter sturgeon president galassa um board members Dr Valentino thank you for having me here tonight my name is Peter sturgeon and I'm the president of the John F Kennedy Memorial foundation and simply put our mission is to build strong families in the Coachella Valley we are here tonight to thank you for your support of a program that strengthens young women the Ophelia project the Ophelia project is a women's mentoring program for
025adolescent girls from 8th grade to 12th grade where our Ophelia volunteer female mentors go into the schools to come alongside girls in the Coachella Valley with a mission to empower and encourage these teen girls to increase their sense of self-worth and maximize their potential contribution to society session content in the past has covered things like Nutrition Fitness personal and Internet safety money management college and Vocational School awareness healthy relationships self-awareness goal setting and more and for the last 11 years see the USD has invited our Ophelia mentors into three of your schools Desert Mirage High School Coachella Valley High School in Toro Canyon Middle School and during that time we've enrolled 859 cbusd girls 44 have been awarded affiliate project scholarships totaling over forty thousand dollars Ophelia mentors are currently serving in 14 schools in
026the valley while mentoring 313 girls school counselors select girls who may have some challenges and obstacles but who show great promise our data reveals that as girls enter the program the average GPA is 1.88 upon graduation the average GPA for that cohort is 3.89 Ophelia girl high school graduation rate is 100 percent and we all know that the pandemic took a harsh toll on teen girls Health was recently cited in a CDC poll with dramatic increases in anxiety depression and despondency yet despite that all these obstacles and hurdles this year's graduating class of all senior Ophelia girls across the valley had the following success first of all continuing the tradition of 100 graduation that was true out of the 47 seniors in Ophelia throughout the nine high schools this year 36 applied for scholarship support
027the average GPA of these 36 girls 3.92 21 had a GPA of 4.0 or better one affiliate girl had the class rank of second that's second out of 462 students and I just five seconds left so I just wanted to thank you and I'm going to introduce my next uh important person here Aries come on up thank you so much for your support too long too windy thank you thank you Arius Ayala hi my name is Arya sayola and I would like to thank you for all your support and I have been an Ophelia girl for four years now and I am a recent graduate and I would like to say that this is an amazing program um I remember my counselors um calling me into her office and presenting me this and I was
028like wow this is something new and I found intrigued and as a shy girl I had never thought I'd be involved in something but being involved in this program has expanded me as a person and I learned so much and learning lots of things and I was able to learn things that I've like never been taught before and it like expanded my knowledge and I'm not so scared out in the real world now and I think other of other girls should be more involved in this program I've never felt like I was part of something and this made me part made me feel like I was part of something big and just being able to be in a rural field with other girls and being able to be heard and like in a small group
029is really great because you get to share all your different ideas and it was something special I remember leaving every meeting feeling amazing and um just excited and not afraid and um I didn't really know what I wanted to be when I was starting out in high school but being in this program has helped me so much and I feel like I can accomplish anything and I just hope that this program is able to stick around because it was amazing and I can see all the expansion it has causing the other girls um like they're no longer shy to speak of learning different things pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and I think it was really amazing and I hope that it stays around thank you very much for listening and thank you again
030for all your support thank you you're gonna have a need some help pronouncing your name my name is Virginia devorgia oh okay Virginia thank you yes my name is Virginia Dvorak it's been my pleasure to work with your girls at Coachella Valley High School since 2019. I have spent time with them during covid doing um sessions with zoom and it's really been a pleasure to meet these girls they're all very nice and respectful we create a safe space and we all have different experiences and different personalities what but we bring this to to the sessions and it's really been rewarding to see their confidence grow over this time and their maturity over the years and just see them come out of their shell and start to see what they can be we talk about different
031life skills we try to have fun and we talk about what is of interest to them there are leadership opportunities and communication relationships emotional intelligence um money management of course and as well as other topics that we that we do cover it's really been a pleasure for me to spend time with your girls as I said they're very nice girls and I really appreciate the support of the counselors at the school as well as Dr Meyer there who has helped us in in the program this last year and I thank you and I thank you for more support I'll just give you one example I asked the girls one time to share a success story because it's a safe space it's a place that you can say something good without bragging and one girl said
032oh I'm not a success and I said we'll have you ever studied for a test and done well and she said yes I said you are a success and then later on I asked tell us something you've done creative and the girl said I'm not creative well have you ever done this so these are we're trying to get them to know how valuable they are and what opportunities are out there for them in in their life so I thank you for your support and and in advance thank you thank you Virginia uh hi my name is thank you for having me today I graduated from Coachella Valley High School and I'm currently a student at Cal State San Bernardino where I'm majoring in liberal studies I was fortunate to receive a scholarship through Ophelia which
033helped me complete my first year and was an Ophelia girl all my four years of high school not only does the program help financially but the Ophelia project is a remarkable program that allows young women like myself the opportunity to find their voices and provides them with the tools necessary to strive allows us to hear from women from different career paths to share their stories which is not only empowering but inspiring motivating Girls by letting them know that anything is possible I am proud to say that the Ophelia project left an everlasting mark on who I am as a person when I first started I was also a shy and timid girl which is something I still am working on but without Ophelia I would have never been able to become one of the first
034cvhs ambassadors a leadership role I would have never thought possible the program helped me in ways unimaginable and has really allowed me to explore connections and become more comfortable Within Myself and others in addition to teaching the importance of self-worth and empowerment the program grants girls with a secure space for expression I always looked forward to meeting with my mentors and the girls as it was a place of constant reassurance and gave me an overall sense of community I was able to learn how to build a healthy environment set intentions and how to empathize with others which is something I still carry on with me throughout my everyday life thanks to Ophelia only help but uplift young women by instilling confidence and self-determination which is crucial for girls especially within today's society I'm eternally grateful
035for the role Ophelia has played in my life and hope many other girls like me get the opportunity of being an Ophelia girl thank you for your time thank you are there any other public comments that are not related to alcap or any of the public hearing no thank you we'll move on um Communications no written Communications buddy thank you we don't have a student trustee tonight in order to report dear tear uh board member reports uh Mr Acuna good evening everyone um being here not a whole lot going on other than our graduations which were great they've been you know you always get see a lot of people that you know especially if you've grown up in the valley you get to see a lot of friends and family that you haven't seen and
036and seen all their kids graduate and the hope and the promise and we've had some great kids that are going all over the place all kinds of colleges careers some to the military and I think it's it's a uh we do a good job regardless of what the media or others might want to say about our district we do a good job and these kids are are succeeding we can always do better obviously but I think that's a testament to all the kids that have been promoting uh we have one more left which is the adult ed which is usually one of my favorite ones because those are the people who had struggles and found a way to come back and and and make it through um I did want to give out a quick
037shout out uh well and I also wanted to say the filo projects has been a really great project that I've seen well my time on the board and even in the district it's been one of those um I don't want to say under the radar programs but you don't hear a lot about them but they do a great job they just do the job and parents when you talk to parents they appreciate it and you talk to the students and it's so they're one of those groups not too loud not too flashy but they do a really really good job with with our young girls and I wanted to thank them and then lastly I just wanted to do a shout out to um all those that was responsible for the Desert Mirage folk political
038program that happened last week it was an amazing program um I kind of kid it's Stephanie that she was one of the dancers as a senior they had a whole program just with some of the seniors that are graduating or graduated this year it was an amazing program and it hadn't been around for a couple of years due to covid and they finally got it all back we got answers from across the valley I think I believe UCR and some of their dancers there as well and it was just one of those amazing programs so again I wanted to you know didn't want them to get lost in between all the graduations but they did a really really good job and that's pretty much my report thank you sir trustee Garcia um yes so I
039was able to go to the evening with the Stars which was amazing to see all of our employees getting recognized we recognized employees who were retiring employees who had received Awards it was so much fun to give prizes so it seemed like everyone was having a really good time it was so much fun we were people powered as a district so it was really excellent to celebrate all of the staff that was there um so that was really really excellent um I've also been able to go to the graduation circuit and it's such a meaningful time to see our community come together all of the parents everyone you know it's it's a village getting our students through whatever part of their journey in their in their student career that they're in and it was just
040so touching to see the parent support the family support all of that so it was really excellent we are almost done but um really really amazing so um beautiful to see that's my report thank you so much thank you uh good evening everybody thank you for being here it's always good to see the uh public uh the support staff everybody that helps our district succeed uh just real quick I got to attend all the graduations this year was very happy to attend them and a couple of things that I've sort of we've talked about today in facilities that I'm really excited about Palmview phase five district wide fencing North Shore Elementary School and uh projects going on at various School sites throughout the summer so I'm really excited just to see you know everything come
041come full circle um I want to give a shout out to the migrant yellow program as they invited me to their awards ceremony and I was able to comment and just great job to all the staff that that we're here and uh yeah just looking forward to continue to keep keep hearing these updates so um with the other planning report president thank you sir um trustee pass good evening everyone welcome I look forward to the meeting and I have nothing to report thank you thank you ma'am trustee Vargas uh the only thing I'll report well I also attended graduation ceremonies they were great um the only other thing I wanted to share um for the residents um but the committee um the North Shore committee uh application is available on our web page so uh
042really highly encourage residents to apply it's fairly simple application but this committee will be you know providing feedback and input um around the mascot I think the colors of the school so I know that there were a lot of parents that were really interested so the deadline was extended to June 30th so please apply we want to make sure that parents are engaged and other part of the process um as we um you know get ready to open our school thank you thank you Mr Gonzalez yes I just want to welcome everybody here um thank you sir um can I say one more thing go ahead sir um just one more thing I want to congratulate um from Cesar Chavez he was my second grade teacher and he did he is retiring this year so
043I'm definitely going to miss you Mr said thank you for everything you did for me as a second grader that's it good stuff um as far as for me I'd like to take a moment to uh really congratulate and thank you all as as we just wrapped up another Academic Year and and head into uh summer vacation um I know that um it was a tough year for for all of us it's been the last last tough couple last years right um but as we continue to learn and continue to grow from from the situations that we've been the pandemic um I think we've only become stronger and stronger as a school district and as a community um I too attended the graduations it's it was my you know as much as I kind of
044just didn't want to sit for long hours I really enjoyed uh the end of every ceremony when each student walked through that aisle through that stage and shook her hands with a great smile but even even better was uh walking out and seeing parents and and our students uh celebrate right with joy and and and happiness and and pride right so I'm very very very proud of each and every one of our students very proud of our staff who made it happy who made it possible um that concludes my report thank you Dr Valentino yeah thank you uh president just briefly I want to thank the teachers and staff at each one of our schools for moving the work forward and supporting our students it it was a tough year but you all leaned in
045and ensured that each one of our students received what they needed so thank you for that to The District staff and Leadership thank you for supporting those at our sites to make sure that that happened moving forward there is a great deal of Hope and expectation that we will continue to leverage what we've done well and build off of that and have an even better year next year and thank you for all you do there as the school traditional school year ends summer school is underway um today and tomorrow our teachers uh will be spending time with professional development uh preparing for the students to arrive on Monday so um so Gracie and her team have been at this B and her team have been at it and the month-long PD will be full day
046and there will be incredible both academic and enrichment activities interacting with each other that will provide our students a really rich summer summer school experience so thank you for all of all that you're doing for that and that is my report thank you Mr speaker thank you sir um moving into uh action item 7.1 informational item 7.1 uh public hearing I opened this public hearing at 7 51 pm oh yes before I open the public hearing I take this back we'll hear from uh while they put up the presentation have Gracie she doesn't have a professional since we've just um she presented last time she's just gonna review it before we go into the presentation we have a lot of uh public comments so yeah okay we can do that so as soon as okay
047that's one so good evening um president Galarza uh vice president Mr Gonzalez who remembers Miss Vargas Mr kuya Miss past Mr Redondo cabinet and staff that are here and that are watching and our community thank you for being here we're presenting the 23-24 proposed budget for this year and while it goes up we're going to talk a little bit about what the changes that happened with Mary advice the proposed budget what it looks like in the three years our combined general fund um our board designations and are all other funds which includes our developer fees our Redevelopment funds um everything outside of the general fund and then we can have questions throughout where we can wait till the end so during from the January to the May revision um they there was a few changes
048the governor actually is um keeping education uh we he's continuing to run the cola it increased from 8.13 to 8.22 um there was a decrease so the way he funded it was to decrease our one time so part of the decrease was the Arts music and Industrial instructional material discretionary block grant which was decreased by about half about 50 percent and the learning recovery emergency block rent reduction so for us what that meant is where we were expecting about 32 million dollars and about a third of it we're going to be losing 10 million dollars that we won't be able to plan for again it's just one time um for the Arts music and instructional material it was about 9.7 million dollars now where we are expected to only keep a four and a half
049million dollars well we get it up they're putting the outcome um it's in the information section um so be part of the the May revise the governor continues uh to be optimistic even though there's economic uncertainty so the the way the reasons that that the state is saying okay are we getting the funding that we should be receiving so that we can fund all or all expenses for the state what we don't know is how much in-state taxes we would be receiving because of that deferral that's moving it to October so keep in mind a lot of our funds come that way um he continues to to be optimistic but we're trying to sort of plan to see how what if we don't get it right um in the 2023 so 23 24 he's funding
050Arcola the 8.22 with one-time funding which means our call is ongoing that's Revenue that we are increased every year based on our Ada if it's one time that he's funding it for this year from those dollars that means that in the 24-25 year you will have to fund that ongoing cost before he gives us an increase to the cola so we need to keep that in mind it's kind of like the State deficit funding where they're using their one-time dollars to fund our call and then next year they're going to have to catch up so we'll see that as as the the year progresses with um our budget in July are adopted but you'll once the adopted actually becomes adopted and then we'll see what kind of revisions we're gonna have to do uh throughout
051the year we don't know if we would be getting deferrals or if we um would he actually reduce our Cola so one of the things that we also need to consider is our 8.22 Cola to our base dollars that we receive funding for each student not our total revenue that decreases for us that's over seven million dollars in so what I what I try to look at is okay if right now we have 8.22 that we're planning for in the 23 24 year this upcoming year if he was to cut it and let's say he gives us only he says okay we're gonna you're gonna get five percent we're gonna reduce it however he does it a three percent reduction is seven million dollars that is every single year so if he does one and
052a half it would be 3.5 every year so we just need to consider that depending on hopefully he'll keep the call as he has and our funding will continue ongoing if not we need to consider what that percentage would mean this year and the ongoing years once we have it up in our um multi-year projections you will see that well we'll begin with our assumptions our assumptions um we continue to see an enrollment decline we continue to um watch our ABA right now we are still in that old harmless period where we are averaging out the years in um in the three years for attendance which means that we are getting funded at a higher Ada than this year remember how before we would get funded on higher of ADA of this year or last
053year right now we're getting that um sort of that exemption check for the three years so it's averaging out so we're being funded on a higher Ada than our actual current um Ada we're also looking at our Sr fund the one time that we're spending so part of our deficit spending in every year is that one-time dollars that we're spending for Esther so all the projects that we're doing keep in mind we actually have um the HVAC project at Desert Mirage at the K-12 it's uh over a 9 million dollar project that we're using as our funds so that's been in the works for a while so that's going to happen next summer so we know that those nine million dollars will continue to carry over until we have that project done um the other
054thing is we also consider our stirs our stirs and our purse our calstrs is actually consistent at 19.10 um and our hers has been increasing every year so that's part of fixed spots with all of our payroll our payments okay so we can go back to a couple okay so this is our our multi-year this these are the assumptions that we use if our Ada changes then our projections or our Revenue will also change our increase in Arcola from uh 8.13 to 8.22 is on a per student so the increase that we receive per student increases for the following year by that coal increase if we're seeing an enrollment decline then we would still see the increase on that per student but now we have less students that are attending so then it's less Revenue
055so that's where you won't see a straight across Revenue increase by the amount of the cola it's actually to the amount that we multiply by the attendance numbers um what you also find here is our Lottery uh that we set aside for instructional supplies and the um workers comp and our unemployment which are continued to be the fixed costs for each of our payroll um our employment compensation cost now our proposed budget for the three years is this includes the 8.22 in um in the 23-24 it includes the what the governor revised for May revised used as the cola that's our total revenue keep in mind these are general fund dollars that are combined between unrestricted and restricted so this includes our answer funding it includes our Al cap dollars it includes all of the
056funding so right now what we want to change what we also the total undesignated amount which is the ending fund balance we want to change that name to reflect on what are the board designations are we going to designate those funds do we have projects planned is that once we close a year are those amounts in a project for example the Esser we should be seeing the Esser funds there in that amount so we can break them out from that 20 million to say part of it is the 9 million dollars that we have for HVAC units for the next summer so we will do tell it out for our noted actual so you'll see those details next time you'll see that we are also deficit spending as I mentioned as long as we have
057those one-time dollars that we have to use now we're going to use more we're going to have more expenses in our Revenue but the revenue here includes our current May revision Arcola that we are um the 8.22 doesn't include any um anything less let me see what else I wanted to make sure to mention so this is where if we get any reduction whatever the amount of the cola is if you notice in the 25-26 year the 11 million dollars whatever the amount of the equivalent decreases our Revenue that gets taken out every single year so whatever it is three million dollars seven million dollars would go away every single year just simply by the revenue projections everything the same so if our attendance increases what we're using to calculate our Revenue would increase slightly
058on on that percentage now our board designations are reserves this is where we um we'll be detailing out what we have at the end of the year um we have shown this but I don't think we have shown the Special Reserve fund uh fund 17 which is another fund where we would set aside projects that we are working on that are general fund dollars that are designated to something so if we for example the HVAC units that we're using for Messer funding should we have designated general fund dollars for that this is where we would put them in a different fund so that they don't show up in the general fund and give us the impression that the funds are available um you would always see it um it would be part of what we've
059designated it would just be in a different fund um you also see the three percent if our expenses increase every year or three percent also increases um we have revolving Cash Money uh that sits in the bank for our revolving accounts which are the local uh checks that we issue on an emergency basis and um and our inventory so it's both the fifty thousand dollars in revolving and our stores Reserves okay here are the other funds um I realized as I was reading this that the building Bond um was misspelled um so these are different funds fund 11 for adult education so these are outside our general fund we report these every on detour financials these are funds that are set aside for those that specific use so nutrition services receives funding from the state
060to serve students on a participation basis so those are not general fund dollars they're fund 13. um here is also where it says Special Reserve it's missing the world Redevelopment these are special projects facilities projects that we would be funding there are there are very few um I think David just is planning one this is where we would plan on on major projects these dollars we received this fund specifically is to pay our Co pay payments and then to plan for projects we haven't planned any projects our self-insurance fund is also here this is where we pay our vision and our Dental that we're self-insured and that's it any questions I can go back questions uh no questions from our board members yeah so no given no questions I just one question only because I
061heard you mention it you said the HVAC unit the nine minute isn't that ongoing now yes it's in a planning phase but it hasn't been spent so until they install them then we would be paying them yeah thank you um I opened this public hearing at 806. we have caressa Correa good evening Carissa Carrera with Coachella Valley Teachers Association and I'm not sure how this process works I usually speak in public comments so am I limited to three minutes uh yes okay and do I get to ask questions that will be answered or I'm just making statements just making statements okay um so my questions that I know will not get answered tonight um are on the document that you have attached to your report um the specifically the proposed budget general fund summary and
062I understand that you were saying that um because attendance is going down and that's what the cola is based on that's why the percent change in the proposed budget will not match however your attendance proposal of how you anticipate it going down is a 1.2 percent reduction but you're only showing a 3.5.1 percent increase in your lcff funding so that does not correlate at all I understand it's not going to be a direct correlation but you're missing about 20 million dollars on your lcff proposed budget so I'd like to have an explanation at some point about why you're severely under proposing um what that lcf of funding should be um it concerns me because we expect the school board to make educationally sound decisions but when they are not provided with accurate budgeting that makes
063it almost impossible to do um our district is consistently increasing their reserves when they should be spending it on the students this year's money should be spent on this year's students since we always are saving more than we should because we get the unaudited actuals back later and we find out that we ended up saving millions of dollars and it's gone into the reserves and then at some point we start spending those reserves we are always deficit spending but the intention of using that phrase always seems to be that we don't have enough money and I don't know if you guys look at the estimated actuals of the 2022-2023 416 billion and a half I mean million sorry 416 and a half million dollars in total revenues is unheard of in this District we have
064never had that much money before and not that long ago we were in the 200 Millions so this whole thing about we are deficit spending constantly when we have more money than we've ever had before I think that we need to really spend some time looking at what we are spending our money on I know it that I sit on the budget committee and the LC and the lcap committee and we never really get a full picture in either committee about what we are spending the money on um I do know in this District we have a habit of adopting programs and then throwing them out and adopting a different program the next year and spending money on training and then again spending money on training with the new programs um let's see I had
065something else in here um okay one other thing I just want to say real quickly then since I'm out of time that please remember certificated salaries and classified salaries also includes admin moving on um there are no more public hearing comments so I close this public hearing ad 8 10 am moving on to item 7.2 public hearing for local control alcap good evening board members Dr Valentino and cabinet members and audience members so tonight we present for public hearing the local control accountability plan as you know this is a three-year plan we are about to enter into year three so this plan covers from years 2021 through 2024. draft number one was presented back on May 11th which was the last board meeting and at that time I also engaged in a presentation where we
066highlighted what we were proposing what was new um and so today as mayella mentioned earlier I do not have a presentation for you rather I'm just going to briefly talk about some of the changes that are included or noted within draft 2 that we are bringing forward to you today please note that draft number two is already posted on our website in both English and in Spanish as well as the overview lcap which is a condensed version a lot easier to read and follow so some of the changes that are noted in draft number two is under the goal analysis section in this section um there's been further evaluation of actions um there's also some changes made in the increased and improved Services section where there was additional descriptive language added to really have a
067thorough understanding of the services being provided and then metrics were also updated metrics are important so that we're able to again progress monitor our services and our actions another change is that draft number two already does include the salary increases and that was not something that was included as part of draft number one so again um you know if we have any um questions I welcome them um just as a reminder that the draft 2 is posted on our website and the final lcap will be brought back to the June 22nd board meeting thank you thank you um I opened this public hearing at 5 12 8 12 I'm sorry starting with Brandon Oya good evening superintendent Valentino and members of the board uh my name is Brandon and I'm here as a community uh
068part of the community Justice campaign with Alianza I'm present today uh with parents and some awesome parents and some awesome students and it stands for the plan for the upcoming school year uh throughout the year we saw significant glimmers that our district was heading in the correct Direction with professional development sessions around restorative justice what we would like to see next is the implementation plan for restorative justice with the lead at every school and that doesn't include the combining PBIS and restorative justice uh we would also like to see school climate committees come back so that parents uh community members and students have a manner of giving their input to the schools directly setting up what the wellness centers was an awesome first step some students have the great opportunity of visiting the wellness centers
069and we got mostly um positive experiences however we should not stop at step one we should continue moving forward and adding resources and spreading the exposure that these wellness centers have that way we can make them open to the community members and the teachers themselves civil students and teachers can get the help they need and require at all the schools our community deserves a plan that won't just consist of input from top level uh folks but folks from all of our community uh that way succeeding um succeeding not just vocalizes the voices of our students and Community but actually elevates them and presents them in a way where they get their voices heard and they see that action being placed into our schools thank you and after Daniela we'll have uh so you can be
070ready good evening and we still aren't seeing the needs of school climate addressed I am happy to hear there are professional development sessions for restorative justice to support transformational justice but there is still a lot to do to recap my comment from the last board meeting we are asking to have more support and place for the implementation and practice of restorative justice this spring Alianza hosted training sessions receive USD students around conflict resolution trauma-informed dialogue Circle keeping and restorative justice our youth organizers also surveyed over 400 of their fellow classmates across West Shores Coachella Valley and Desert Mirage High School when asked if they knew what a Wellness Center was 77 answered yes when asked if they knew where to find the wellness center 63 answered yes and when asked if they knew how to
071access the wellness centers 51 answered yes I'm following then you'll notice that the percentages have gone down when asked if they knew about resources offered in their schools wellness centers only 44 answered yes throughout the school year we heard how wellness centers were not accessible this open door policy you claimed to have was really by appointment only now on to the action we have several ideas that we have shared so I'm going to reshare them here again we need to we need a restart of the school climate committee this time it should include parents teachers and Community organizations creation of uniform discipline policies to address student maladaptive behaviors and treat them as students develop a plan of implementation for restorative justice this will support our staff parents teachers and everyone in our district restorative justice
072is practiced at all levels to create community and togetherness thank you um foreign [Music] Valley High School I just finished my freshman year and I am here with the community Justice campaign with Alianza I want to start off by saying that although it is my first year in the Coachella Valley High School there have been so many problems but I'm going to focus on one and that is the mental health resources that such as the wellness center that need easier access for our students in our survey from earlier this year only 29 of students in the Coachella Valley High School said they know how to access the wellness center that means 795 students in the Coachella Valley High School know how to access it out of 3 000. and even those few people that know
073about it there are still referral processes that take a long time and are sometimes too long of a way for students to receive that help and imagine the longer wait if you've been more students knew about it these waiting lists can last days or even longer than a month and talking about these wellness centers there are counselors that are supposed to be the one students reach out to but there are always available to help because they are wrapped up in their own work and they don't even put their full attention onto the students this is why we need therapists and counselors in different areas the counselors are mostly used for school stress but depression and low self-esteem or different needs that students may need help with but don't have anyone to reach out to because
074they aren't specialized in those situations and yes there is Latino Commission but again it has a wait list these resources that we have available are just not enough for these students who are in need and are struggling this just leads us to the questions why can't they offer help to students outside referrals do they follow up with kids as often as they need if we can only help offer help to students that are sent to the counselors what about the ones that are need help in more serious situations like abuse and suicide but can't get help early because of the weight do they actually reach help to all the students who meet her or just a few students they catch here and there who decides which students needs are more important students that get straight
075A's and are involved in extracurricular activities still have mental health needs our students need to be supported early and not after a breakdown this just shows that we need to increase the access and awareness of Mental Health Resources the main solution would be to have licensed therapists that will allow people to have more access to them at any given time so no wait list and not only that but it will offer more access to more coping skills conflict resolution and Mental Health Training thank you yeah and afterwards [Music] um foreign [Music] I know hi um foreign Productions gracias is foreign Los Padres is necessary Guadalupe Lopez [Music] um aggressives [Music] Sandra Ramirez is um Los Padres Stephen is commodities um a uh foreign Commerce representation Ramirez is expressed Sonia Rodriguez implements [Music] Espanol processes [Music]
076gracias social medias Rodriguez companies [Music] foreign bus monitor United Familia de Paso El Paso Jesus monitor is English learners is necessities gracias thank you do you know other comments I close uh public hearing at 8 35 um moving on I'd like to make a motion to move item 8.1 to the end of the agenda for a second for the public hearing um that was before that no before the hearing that was before the hearing yeah okay go ahead no now my thoughts are all over the place but I can start and maybe I'll get it back together um I did meet with the team mayela um Lorelei to discuss the the lcap that was proposed to us and better understand the thinking right because I do see that we are spending a lot of dollars
077in positions and I understand that you know we if we have programs we need to have the people that run the programs and and do them but I also know that like some of these positions at least haven't been so clearly tied to me so how much is it so that we can Implement right the restorative um practices the wellness centers like making those ties and one of the takeaways from me from that meeting is that there are positions here um that were put into the original Al cap way before I was on this board before some of other my colleagues were here on the board that are still there so we still haven't done back to assess okay are these the positions are these the programs is this the match is this working why
078are they still here my understanding and again this is just history that I don't have but my understanding was that at that time it was a way to not um let go a lot of people and so they found the AL cap dollar says the ability right it gave the district the ability to not let go the people but we are I mean years after the first style cup and I think we need to do a better job at matching those positions that we're choosing to find from the alcat to the programs that we've prioritized that can be matched from the lcat um so that's when the the question around um one of the positions that they're proposing would be to support I believe at from the district level right the implementation of the restorative
079practices and I agree with that but we don't have like the ground support so we're almost sort of studying this person to fail and struggle because we don't have the designated support at the sites that this person can then work with to do the implementation so again we're going to assign one person for the entire District that's going to have to be running around and that we're going to be holding it responsible for whether you know um our Blended model is implemented or not I I don't think we're setting that person to succeed um I did ask about brainstorming for different ways in which this could be done um and I know I mean they were gonna go in and look back by thinking about whether going back to when we approved the wellness centers
080and those positions my understanding and maybe I should have clarified then but my understanding was that the wellness center I don't remember the titles but the persons in the wellness centers they were going to be instrumental in supporting the sites because wellness centers was not separate from our Blended model approach right it was an integration um so I don't know whether based on all the information and all the activities that happen in the wellness centers that that ever connected that the implementation was right I mean I'm not saying that they're not doing a lot they are and it's been presented to us but I think it's that alignment that I just don't see and I wanted to see it better reflected in how we're using resources in the outcome so those are a few of
081the things um that I remember having a conversation um with the team and that I look forward that we can get it right before we approve it on June winning second yeah thank you any other comments I think um in me understanding the the yellow Cafe and how we've been doing this every year there's always things that we we feel that our ongoing projects but there's different pots of money right so for me it's it's I know that we're we're doing a lot I know that but when we get the lcat document it sort of looks like we're missing stuff but it's because and I I could be wrong but it's because some of it is coming from different parts of money right where the outpat is not stated in the outcome am I correct
082in saying that may Allah or am I wrong I just want to no yes so the lcap is built by um supplemental concentration dollars and title IV anything that supports our El services our migrant programs anything that we consider supplemental and concentration so above and beyond the core program we've tried and capture it in the l cap so yes you're right it's other fundings also it's not just supplemental and concentration it's just for example our mental health dollars aren't here but I know that we're investing significantly in mental health but if somebody was to look at the lcap it's not all here so right and I so I get the I get the questions and sort of trying to understand the outcome in my in my three years here as a board member I'm still
083trying to understand where we put everything in and sometimes why it's there and not somewhere else but um definitely you know I think hopefully we can get um you know I and I know it's tough It's a lot of work to to do this thank you for staff for putting this work together it's not easy it doesn't happen overnight um but hopefully in in my opinion and this is me is that this is done with restorative practice lens to say hey this is kind of what the board is is is looking at and and is that is that here is there equity and Justice here and it's okay and that's where we rely on staff to to sort of do that for us uh as you guys hear the different things that were that we
084are so um I just want to say that um I think the mentor I think the the wellness centers have done really well it's a good concept um but what I want to see is and this is me um really quick and then I'll stop but if there is a teacher or staff in the wellness center that does not fit to the student needs that we can pivot and we can provide the correct staff in the Wellness Center because I think a lot of times we say oh well we got a teacher we got a mental health therapist we got a substance abuse oh we got it but I think what I think what we're hearing is is it really offering the services that we need in terms of student support and maybe it is
085but I'm hoping that there's somebody that could at least analyze that and see if we're doing it correctly so those are my common sink yeah um yeah I had some of the same thoughts as as board member Abbas on some of this stuff I think um the important I mean the thing that I keep hearing again and again is what we've been advocating obviously and um you know I support a lot of the statements that were made today if we had enough money I I what I've been ordered to push the wellness centers into the elementary schools as the next step to augment the the secondary programs with more resources figure out a way to better inform the students I mean that's been a struggle um you know we tell them anyway we think we
086can and they still sometimes don't um how do we get more parents we get some parents but we don't get all the parents but what ideas do we have to bring more of them in and again I think it's a you know we have to balance it and again the lcap is a plan and the lcff is a funding model so that we have to understand that point um but again I think you know In fairness to the wellness centers this year this is the first year that I believe we had them generally fully fully staffed and I'm hoping what's going to happen and and I'm and I the people that are in charge I have the faith that they're going to go back and say this work just didn't work and then come back
087and tweak the program or tweak the needs or how we need it and again one of the things that I and others have been supportive of is something that's also happening later on tonight we're going to be increasing some of the the staff that's going to be at the sites um to make it more proportional representation of you know if a school has 300 students they have certain needs but if a school has a thousand students it's not just one-on-one it's based on the the need and the and the and the enrollment of the students because I think that only it's only fair right if we have more students and and how to access that I mean I think we're in the right again it's like a lot of our programs I think the the
088their sound programs we just need to do better we need to implement it we need to tighten it up we need to do more of the changes the Wellness Center is a great example but there's a lot of examples out there for different things and again I would love not think more than to be able to to push more monies in that way but again I I agree with board member basa we have to be specific on how that's being used and what staff we're using to do what um I know we're going to get some changes with our student support services and hopefully is going to help that and and you know give us a good plan to show how we're going to implement that stuff but you know I I you know we
089have facilities needs we have materials needs we have staffing needs we have a lot of needs but but if we can't get our kids in our community kind of there a lot of that you know doesn't you know it's like that'll say if the kids are not eating breakfast in the morning I don't care how good a teacher you are that that's not going to work that kid needs to eat and the same thing with mental health and restorative justice and and these practices that we need they need that as well that is part of their education that's not it's not just math and English and that this has now become unfortunately in general Society this has been a part of our education I think something else that we need to do and I know
090we did this we talked about this the other day at our two by two at the city of Coachella we need to work with our cities and our counties and some of our other jurisdictions we I think the the district's willing to open up kind of our doors but it's their Community too um and and again while I as a board member and I know I know my colleagues are more than supportive of doing this this is not just a school issue these these issues are Community issues and we need help from everyone we need help from you know the water district the IIT the rec district the county the you know all the all the other governmental agencies all the non-profits and even some of the businesses these are their employees as well so
091we need a broader overview of that more resources in but I agree with board member boss we have to be very direct as how we're doing this and again you know I we need to provide the services that we need and not just have positions because there's someone there and you know I I don't like getting rid of anyone but we are not a jobs program we are a service program and our program is for our kids so the services that we need to provide are the ones that are geared to our kids and again going back to how we spend money I'll reiterate it again I know I get a lot of crap for it but this is why I refuse to spend a million dollars for Sheriff's Department to come in here and
092sit around and arrest our kids from that money we should be spending and how we're spending it into these programs continuing moving forward and trying to do that it ain't perfect I think we've come a long way with your all your support as well over the years um but going back to the point we just need to get better at it and figure out where we're not doing it right and change don't be afraid to say okay that didn't work let's do it differently so um that's kind of thank you sir just one other question I did notice that some of the positions include tosas and we had in the past I don't remember how long ago a robust conversation entosas and we made a decision at the time and to me having positions like
093that here it's kind of doesn't give me the opportunity to vote on whether I want more toses or not because it's embedded in the in the outcome right so I'm either adopting the l cap or I'm not adopting the l cap so I was I just had a question about that because I don't know that my mind has changed from when we had that conversation about how effectively we've been um utilizing the ptosas so I just wanted to make that as a comment too because I know there are ptosis embedded in this plan thank you um seeing none we're gonna move on I'd like to make a motion to move 8.1 to the bottom of the of the agenda after consent calendar oh second um all those in favor all right any opposed I've seen
094motion carries um action item 9.1 approval for receiving USD trustees to attend the Hispanic Association of college universities International Symposium in Guadalajara Mexico events under action items couldn't this be put in the consent calendar and if a board member decides that it's important enough to discuss these matters to bring It Forward is there a reason we do this oh yeah um I think I think because I'm just maybe it's a legal question but I I'll call the question okay um all those in favor aye any opposed abstain motion carries uh six zero Mr aradonda stepped out um action item 9.2 adopt or resolution for number 23. my motion uh is there a second I've seen 9.2 9.2 okay uh motion carries five zero with one abstention again Mr arelondo stepped out action item 10.1 uh
095and requesting approval to open a purchase order with BSN sports for 50 000 to purchase all those in favor aye any opposed any have seen motion carries 6-0 action item 10.2 requesting approval of expansion of contract agreement of for the 2023-24 fiscal year with Riverside County Latino Commission motion by Mr Gonzalez taken by Mr okunya all those in favor on the uh and the agreement um where it stated something about either hiring or um getting a crisis counseling Crisis crisis like that I think my comment is really um you know there's positions um within the district um I want to make sure that we're not um Contracting additional services that we already hire people to do I'm just going to ask for clarification the that you're speaking about on the extension or expansion of the
096contract is ah yes I know I just didn't catch it was it crisis sorry yes it says how does a contract agreement submitted being expanded and there's a crisis counselor new and I from my understanding is to correct me do we have staff that do this position within our district no we currently do not have a staff member who handles crisis under a job District just uh under a job description the one noted in the expansion is one who could assist at the Times um currently we're sending out our therapists that we have in our district offices that support us with uh therapy to students in our independent studies or students found on home visits that therapist is assisting at sites when therapists are not on because it's after the school day or early before
097that there is a crisis previously we have had a crisis therapist here with us who tends to all the sites for example for those 5150 assessments or any other crisis pieces so it's almost like a wraparound additional person who will assist in any assessments for crisis thank you there's a motion and a second on the floor all those in favor any opposed abstain motion carries 6-0 again Mr radondo stepped out action item 10.3 a requesting a preschool sub award agreement with California Department of Education there's a motion picture Gonzalez any questions comments concerns seeing none all those in favor any opposed any obscene motion carry 6-0 uh action item 10.4 requesting agreement of approval of agreement with Camp of Champions a m for drone technology camps motioned by Mr Gonzalez second by Mr cunha questions
098comments constraints the fiscal impact that we could just just uh no one we just know uh S3 but not the specific amount so they could just note it um do we have the specific amount for this fiscal impact I'd say for the future the future perfect um all those in favor aye any opposed abstain motion carries 6-0 action item 10.5 for requesting approval of mou with Riverside County superintendents of schools for a read with me program motion by Mr Gonzalez uh second by Mr yeah but I had some changes um I think some of you saw some of my comments about this and I didn't know if we changed them or not or if I was to make amendments to change it to them I believe they're generally important amendments that we should have uh
099to protect us as well as them you know again the program has you know been working in line but with our commitments and then go back and find them um so but it was already when the agenda was already posted so they have to be done here but also some of your amendments required um so get back from the attorney yeah those are my so did we get feedback from the training no it was it was what they sent us so we had to change it to send it back to them and I think I so I would ask if most of you saw the comments right do you generally agree with them and if you do I would ask the table and send that back to the county and say if that's okay with
100them are you taking the table yes sir okay all those in favor aye any opposed same machine carry six zero action item 10.5 is tabled uh I shot an item 11.1 authorization to install Access Control to the reception area of the district office motion by Mr Gonzalez second by Mr Acuna uh any questions comments concerns seeing none all those in favor aye any opposed any abstain motion carries six zero welcome back um action item 11.22 authorization to award contract bid uh number 163 2023 North Shore Elementary school project it's almost awesome second motion by Mr Arredondo second by Mr any questions comments concerns I think we have a question by Mr welcome you have a question are you just ready to answer questions I'm sorry I think Mr welcome thank you and then I think
101you were going to bring the contractor forward yes thank you good evening uh I just wanted to let the board know uh how thankful uh the facilities team and business services is for their support and guidance um working through this project uh it's been years in the making way before my arrival and uh we're very excited and proud to bring this bid before the board and I did want to let the board know that two members from Pro West Constructors are here joining us tonight um Michael D Marie and Jeff Rising with Pro West so they're excited to get started and again I wanted to thank you for your patience and any questions I'm available thank you seeing no questions yeah I just I I want to thank the contractors for waiting patiently and it's
102been a long meeting and uh we look forward to to bringing in the project uh uh on under schedule and under budget thanks guys about speed uh all those in favor aye any opposed any abstain motion carry 7-0 action item 11.3 authorization to award contract bid uh 162 2023 Palm View Elementary School per minute campus and Playfield project so move we'll Ship by Mr Gonzalez second prime minister any questions comments concerns seeing none all those in favor all right any opposed any abstain motion carry 7-0 action item 11.4 authorization to increase contract c003001 with the LR group Architects for added services to the North Shore Elementary school project second second by Miss Garcia any questions comments concerns seeing none all those in favor aye aye any opposed any abstain motion carries action item 11.5 authorization
103to proceed with La Familia High School site improvements project foreign any questions comments concerns seeing none all those in favor aye any opposed any abstain motion carry 7-0 election action item 11.6 or authorization to proceed with Coachella Valley High School weight room glazing replacement project any questions comments concerns seeing none all those in favor aye any uh posts any abstain motion carry 7-0 action item 11.7 requesting for allowance of attendance due to emergency conditions don't move worshiped by Mr Hernando second by Mr Gonzalez any questions comments concerns seeing none all those in favor aye any opposed any abstain motion carries 7-0 action item 12.1 approval board resolution number 2023 proposed salary schedule increase for confidential management employees motion motion by Mr Gonzalez any questions comments concerns seeing none all those in favor aye aye any
104opposed any abstain motion carries 7-0 action item alert 12.2 approval of the Declaration of Need for qualified Educators for the 2023-2024 school year by Michigan any questions comments concerns all those in favor all right opposed stay in motion carry 7-0 action item 12.3 uh memorandum of understanding between cbsd and cvta regarding the pay structure for Head Start by Mr Gonzalez second second by Miss Garcia any questions comments concerns seeing none other people any opposed abstain motion carry 7-0 action item 12.4 approval first reading for cave uh through 12 independent study program board policy um if it's a it's a it's a first reading we don't need to approve right okay um so this is the first reading uh moving on to consent calendar all matters listed under the consent calendar are considered by the board
105to be routine and will be acted upon in one motion there will be no discussion of these items prior to the time the board considers a motion and as members of the Border staff I 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 HR recommend the approval of all consent calendars uh is there an action an item a motion to approve a consent calendar oh motion respect in any is that a it's a motion second there's a motion by Mr Gonzalez there's a second all those in favor aye all right any opposed any of the same motion carries uh we're gonna go back to 12.4
106I'm being told to approve just for the purpose of process um approval of action item 12.4 first reading for K-12 independent study program board policy if this is we're approving the first reading we're so moving the public second uh motion by Mr Arredondo second by Mr Gonzalez I was in favor motion carries in just to clarify for the record again we're approving the first reading not the policy itself uh thank you uh from now on I will be handing over the gavel to Mr Gonzalez as I need to step out I hope you all have a great weekend we're gonna go back to item 9.1 um we have a cbusd upk plan update 0.1 good evening vice president Gonzalez Dr Valentino and members of the board I'm here today to present our Universal Pre-K otherwise
107known as upk update and next steps I want to begin by providing everyone with a quick overview of the purpose of upk the title California's Great start is what defines upk upk provides three and four-year-old children with access to high quality education through a mixed delivery system The Experience may be through preschool Head Start or from a private sector by the year 2526 all four-year-old students will have access to a high quality education regardless of their income race or zip code families won't have access to before and after school care making it easier for families to choose a program that best fits their needs the mixed delivery system will ensure that all four-year-old students will have a great start to their education prior to entering kindergarten in order to provide students with a great start
108to Early Education we must ensure that the following elements are implemented School Readiness includes ready children ready schools and ready community ready schools meet every child where they are and support all adults to engage every children in meaningful learning our youngest Learners Thrive when Thrive more but not all of their time is spent engaged and child directed and educator guided activities that can occur in centers or intentional strategies rather than learning experience that are solely directed by an educator next time we'll review CBU is Pathways to kindergarten the first step is our head start and preschool program we're very fortunate to have a long-standing head start and preschool program that provides services to over 400 students in our community the second step is our TK program in the school year 23-24 children born between September
1092nd 2018 and April 2nd 2019 will be eligible to enrolled in rtk program our next step is kindergarten evidence must be fine by September 1st and they will be eligible for our Kinder program we're very excited to expand our head start and preschool program in our district in 2122 our Early Education was available in 11 of our 14 Elementary School sites this last school year we were able to service we've ever we were able to expand into the cvu community by adding one additional Head Start into our district in the school year 23-24 we look forward to providing education education to families in the North Shore and make a community by adding a preschool classroom at Salu Martinez as we prepare for the full implementation of TK we have been analyzing TK growth and Trends
110among our departments in 2122 we had 200 students enrolled in our TK programs and were placed in combination classrooms that included TK and Kinder students in 2223 we ended our school year with 290 TK students which included 18 classrooms 16 of those classrooms worse excuse me 12 of those classrooms to a standalone TK classrooms while six classrooms were TK Kinder classes in 22 23 24 we anticipate having 350 TK students district-wide the majority of the classrooms will be Standalone classrooms while four classrooms will be TK Kinder combos the continuing The Continuous increase in student enrollment has also led us to analyze our elementary school facility needs big classrooms will benefit from having a restroom in the classroom but it is not a requirement by the state in the 23-20 23 24 school year 72 percent
111of our TK students will be in classrooms that contain a restroom while 28 of our students will be in a classroom that do not have a restroom we are exploring options to support our students to ensure that they have frequent access to restrooms in the in that 20 28 of those classrooms as we continue with the gradual implementation of TK we have made some facility adjustments at some of our school sites in addition of two portable classrooms with restrooms will be at violent in the next school year in addition of upk portable restrooms is are currently being added to Peter Pendleton Elementary in addition to a student dismissal area designated for Kinder and TK in addition we have provided portable classrooms at cvu elementary to support the implementation of TK ready skulls equates to ready
112playgrounds many of our heads are students share their playground space with TK and kindergarten students we are very fortunate that this year we received a one-time funding to support playground upgrade this year ground space will allow our preschool Head Start TK and in some cases tender students to so to benefit from the new equipment we will have new playground structures and rubber surface um surfaces installed at Peter Pendleton Valley View and west side we will also provide play structure repairs at Las palmitas we will also provide playground surface repairs at John Kelly and Oasis we're excited to bring some playhouses and gas stations to Cesar Chavez um John Kelly and Oasis an awesome musical congas to John Kelly Oasis Las palmitas Valley View and Peter Pendleton ready schools also means engaging students in meaningful learning
113activities I will not go through the whole list because it's quite a bit and I know it's getting late but you can see that we have done a lot when it comes to cons to the curriculum and instruction alignment the most that has been impactful is really aligning our District calendars with our head start and preschool families it has really made an impact in our families ready skulls also means preparing our staff with the instructional tools and strategies to meet the needs to meet the needs of the student Head Start teachers now like our elementary and secondary teachers are now benefiting from professional development twice a month and also engage in PLC process with TK teachers our teachers have been receiving training and really understanding the cognitive development of three and four-year-old students in August
114of 2023 we are excited to bring the transformational model into our upk classrooms which includes head start preschool and TK not only are we going to train them on the transformational model but what should it look like and what should it sound like in a upk classroom in addition we will also provide training for playful learning to all our upk staff and administration following that playful learning training we will also provide our staff with three additional sessions during the school year in efforts to provide our students with a sense of belonging that inspires joy and a love for learning we have purchased classroom furniture and material to support our instruction through the Early Education funding and upk planning and implementation Grant we were able to upgrade many of our classrooms head started preschool classrooms will
115now include a calming area we have also purchased natural wood furniture to create a more relaxing and age-appropriate environment we have also purchased age-appropriate books to service our Young Learners of the Young Learners of the age of three our TK classrooms are going to mirror our head start and preschool classrooms to help students transition from one program to the other our TK classrooms will also include a calming area natural look furniture natural wood tables and chairs and also manipulatives to help develop fine and grow smarter skills we're excited also to bring a dramatic play area into our TK classrooms we have been working closely with our Community Partners to build opportunities for our city USD employees we have two informational meetings where employees throughout the district learned about the professional growth opportunities in early childhood
116at those meetings we informed attendees of the Early Education Grant provided by rcoe between the two meetings we had over 80 attendees of those 80 attendees 39 applied and were granted up to nine thousand dollars in Grants to continue their education cbusd is leading the district's in Grant award recipients in Riverside in the Riverside County the partnership with Cod has opened the doors to our employees to enroll in hybrid early education classes the most recent addition is our partnership with UCR beginning in late June actually in two weeks we will have our first CVUSD employee core that will begin their journey in earning their multiple subject credential and master's degree in one year we have been working with we have also been working with all our school communities to communicate our upk expansions we have
117been holding informational meetings at all our elementary school we continue to advertise and on social media food for less and DMV and be engaged in community events to help spread the word of our TK expansion in late June and in August we will hold a registration fair for our parents here at the district which parents will have the opportunity to have on-site and on-site mental dental and mental screening for their students looking ahead for the next two years we anticipate that in 2425 we will have 500 TK students enrolled in our district and in 2526 we anticipate that we will have 800 TK students in our district in order to prepare for the next two school years we will continue with our strategic planning we will continue to be meeting with our focus groups we
118will continue to monitor our student enrollment with our departments and really looking into our classrooms restrooms and playgrounds we will continue working with human resources to ensure that we have the adequate Personnel to support the implementation in August we also realize that we need to support our teachers with instructional support so we are looking into having holding lesson studies with our instructional coaches for rtk teachers and here's some more strategy planning that I will go into detail because I know it's late that way I can provide everyone with the opportunity for any questions if there are any Mr Murio thank you for your very thorough uh update on our on our upk program um at this time we'll open it up for board comments a question but comment thank you for the presentation my one
119concern and just to make sure that we stay on top of the enrollments as we are you know that's my my only one concern but I think the rest of it you know looks good and you know find all those staff I think we talked about that earlier Staffing is going to be also another issue but yeah but good job awesome thank you I think uh just going to jump into it I I think uh commissioner get right to you just kind of think that this might be an opportunity as we see declining enrollment and maybe really disseminated information into the community about about what we're offering and taking advantage of building uh and and grabbing a young Community children uh into these programs so that we continue to build um our our student body
120but uh good job Mr Orlando yeah good job on the presentation thank you for your work and as this talked before I hope we get creative in how we run some of the upgrades to the buildings and especially some of the restroom needs because they know that some of our buildings are really really old and and the restroom inside of the classroom for our T cases is to me is is really important as a safety concern so hopefully I know that you got a lot of work ahead of you so thank you for your work thank you the small comment night I really appreciate the kind of the mindfulness of identifying those Partners Who start creating that pipeline to hire staff um I think one thing we definitely have to start thinking think about in
121terms of budget um you know how do we attract those teachers to come to our district um so I know we've been doing that across the board but something to keep in mind for the future thank you great thank you Miss plus you have anything anybody else have anything okay that thank you Mr Murio um that ends our agenda I'll entertain a motion to adjourn don't move do I have a second I'll second all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye We Stand adjourning yes ma'am