001to remind everybody that the meeting is being webcast live and recorded. The recording of webcasts may capture images and sounds of those attending the meeting. At this time, I would like to remind everyone of the procedures for the public participation in tonight's meeting. Members of the public are encouraged to attend and address the board of any agenda items or topic within the board's jurisdiction. Public comments will be allowed a maximum of five minutes per speaker with a total allowment time of 20 minutes. Speaker request forms are available at the entrance of the boardroom and can be handled to Mr. Cina or Gmail prior to the commencement regarding complaints. If a concern is raised about the employee, the complainant will be informed of the appropriate complaint procedure. The first step is for the complainant to submit
002the concern in writing to the district office after which the district will begin the investigation process to address the issue fairly and promptly. Complaints about child abuse or unlawful discrimination will be handled in accordance with specific legal protocols. Please note that any documents handed to the board during the meeting are subject to public record request in accordance with the California Public Request Act. The board prohibits retaliation against complainants and all complainants will be investigated promptly and impartial. Please be respectful of the meeting process. Destructive behavior will not be tolerated and may result in removal from the meeting. Thank you for your cooperation. Can I please have everybody stand for the pledge of allegiance? United States of America and to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Started. Do
003I have a motion to approve the the September 2425 regular meeting agenda? >> A motion to approve. [Music] Roll call. Sandra. Hi. >> Sammy. >> Hi. >> Patty. >> Hi. >> Valerie. >> Hi. >> And I presentations. We have Kings County Office of Education 2526 local control accountability plan by Mendoza. Good evening, Warren. I'm happy to share that Corkran Joint Unified School District's 202526 LCAP was approved by Kings County Office of Education on September 12th, 2026 25. Um, approval of the county is the final step in ensuring that our LCAP meets all the requirements that are set forth by California Department of Ed. and it was approved with a few changes or revisions which I'll give an overview um in regards and in the fiscal section the numbers in the budget overview for parents or
004bot were updated to match those reported in the expenditure table of the cap. Also a metric for California science test was added. Um we included the metric in the metric section. Um the LEBG funds um though we had already identified those in actions and increased services. Um they were also supposed to be in the metric section. So we just wrote LBG um next to those metrics. And um we also had to define and provide information about our work with KCOE under differentiated assistance. And finally, we removed just some blank rows that were in the template um that were showing. So, just to clean it up a bit. And those were the major um revisions made in the LCAP questions. Okay. Thank you. Reports. Superintendent. >> Yes. Good evening, uh board president Cisneros, members of the
005board. I'm going to yield my time actually and defer to I'm actually going to defer to our John Mir student Carolina Garcia who's going to come up and give a report on on my behalf on on the schools and afterwards we're going to have uh CHS students Jake Paul Fox and Jason Lee we're going to do the high school one. >> Good evening board members, district administrators, parents and community members. My name is Carolina Garcia Vasquez and I'm from the JMMS ASB class. It's a busy time of year and John Middle School would like to share what's going on at our campus. This school year has started off very smoothly with the arrival of the new sixth grade classes as well as our returning seventh and eighth graders. Parents and family members came to our
006back to school night to learn more about the students classes and teachers. Our first rally of the year was a welcome back rally and featured a dance performance from the JMS Trailers. Awesome rally games with musical chairs and Hungry Hungry Hippo being the two biggest hits. The seventh grade classes came away with the win for having the most school spirit. Great job, seventh grade. Next, our fall sports season is in full swing with our cross country team. Getting ready for its first of four meets that will lead up to the SAL championships on October 13th. Our flag football team currently has only one loss and was the second seed for today's SAL championship. Update. We won the championship, beating Pioneer 12 to zero. Our J our JV volleyball team is currently undefeated and our varsity
007team is 5 and2 and also preparing for a playoff run. Great job to all of our Wildcat sports teams. Mr. Hog Chin and the theater program are ramping up preparations for the latest edition of reindeer games and Mr. Gina is working hard with the JMS marching band. Mrs. Applebaker and the leadership class are spending every Wednesday morning welcoming students with hello Wednesdays to foster a positive school environment. Mrs. Pacheco and the ACT leadership class had their first meeting with over 40 students in attendance and has already taken students to the taller fairgrounds for a livestock show. And to and finally today we had our fall sports rally where the highlight of the day was the sumo ball competition and sixth grade coming away with the big spirit win. Thank you for letting me share all
008of the great things going on at JMS and I look forward to coming back and sharing again. Thank you. Any question? >> Thank you, Miss J. Mr. Jason. Good evening, governing board. My name is Jason Lee. >> My name is Jade Palifox. Uh we are here to give you the Corkran High School report and we are excited to share some of the wonderful things happening at Corkran High School. >> We've kicked off the year with great energy, multiple pep rallies. We we we have already brought our students together in school spirit. We recently celebrated our baseball team with a constitutional assembly last Friday and a special ring ceremony to honor them as valley champions. Academically, we have just sent out our first progress reports. It's been inspiring to see students, especially our seniors, taking accountability
009and preparing for the next steps towards colleges and scholarships. >> Our students are also showing strong community pride. Many have already signed up for volunteer opportunities, including this weekend's citywide cleanup, the upcoming calling festival, skate jam, and later this month, the trunk or treat event. And of course, October is almost here, which means homecoming is right around the corner. ASB is preparing to announce candidates and plan all the festivities, creating those core high school memories that will last a lifetime. On campus, our health occupation class is partnering with the local blood bank to host our annual blood drive next Friday. Athletics and activities are also in full swing. We have a home game this Friday with a fun camo themed rally. And our band is starting its busy season with a competition in Kurthers for
010a parade this weekend. And finally, we are proud to continue celebrating positive behavior at CHS thanks to the success success of our PBIS program. We're looking forward to welcoming another food truck vendor on campus as an incentive incentives incentive sorry for our students. >> It's been an exciting year to start at Corkran High School and we can't wait to keep the momentum growing. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. >> Great job. I like I like the enthusiasm and it really makes us want to gear up this year. Good job for both of you guys. Thank you. All right, board of trustees. Is there any report to the trustees today? >> You failed a comparison to the students. Great job. Okay. Corporate MFA. Um, California School Employees Association. >> She wasn't here. Okay. Very good. Were
011there any public comments, Miss Gina? No. Okay. All right. Action items. Consent agenda. >> Make a motion approved. I'll >> second. >> Roll call. Sandra >> I. >> Sammy. >> I. >> Patty. >> I. >> Valerie. >> I. >> And I. >> Business and operations. Presenting the items are business. Alvarez. I did the actual report. Good evening. >> So the 2024 2025 unodudited actuals report is a review of the expenditures in the prior fiscal year. That is something that was developed in May and June of 2024 and then had some revisions throughout. And now we look back at the current month of September 2025 of what actually occurred in the fiscal year. So the two major highlights, does the district have sufficient reserves? The answer to that is yes. Our required minimum reserve amount is
012roughly $2 million being 3%. We have actual reserves of 14.2 million and that is encompassing the 2 million that is required. Additionally, 11.3 million that we have assigned locally for various um earmarked items in addition to 930,000 that is unassigned for any intended purpose presently. Uh outside of the reserves, the other budget highlight is that while we don't have to have a certification or projection of our certification during the unodited actuals process, we do just take a a forward look out into the future and we do um would have a positive certification in the upcoming 2526 budget year. Meaning that we would be able to satisfy all of our financial obligations and all of our fund balances would be ending positive. A little bit further of a deep dive into the unodudited actuals process is
013that during that process, we look at the actual expenditures that happened in addition to also looking at our projected expenditures. So, we still have some things that we've committed with vendors, but we haven't received those final invoices. But we still make our best um estimates. Once we get those invoices, we pay those out, but we book those expenditures during this process. We also look at our revenue and recognize revenue due in the 245 fiscal year. So part of that process is that some of the revenue we receive. We recognize all of it. Some of it stays within our fund balance and we might spend that in future year for certain grants or um funding streams. other funding streams, we only recognize the amount of revenue that we have expenditures for in this current year. So,
014we go through that whole process by each grant type to decide which revenue is recognized in this current year. And then finally, now that we've done this process, the books are officially closed, but we have not been audited. So, we're taking the preparations over the next few months to be ready for that audit visit with the final report coming in December. And just an overview, we see this at each interim report, but this is just a review of our current enrollment is the in the actuals box. That's the 2425 fiscal year. The column on the left is enrollment. So number of students enrolled in our campuses that is based on the number of students in October, the first Wednesday in October. The middle column is our average daily attendance, the amount of students that are
015actually present in school, and that's based on our reporting in April. And the last column over is the amount we are funded on. So, while we have enrollment of roughly 3,176, our actual attendance rate is 2,900, we're funded at about 3,50 almost there. And that funding is because of the average ADA from the prior three years. If any one year we have a higher attendance rate in the current year, we would jump up to that amount. We would take whatever the highest rate would be. And here we just have a graph for overview of total revenue that we've received in the current year or recognize the total revenue in the general fund is $64.7 million. primarily coming from the local control funding formula that comes from the state. So that's the the bulk of our
016funding. Outside of that main funding source, we have state revenue being the next highest portion. That's special grants such as the expanded learning opportunity program, after school program, arts and music, and various other ones outside of the state. The next largest chunk by one whole percent is our other local that is largely from interest earnings having funds available in the county treasury. We do generate interest. So we do receive that um in revenue in addition to medical billing and other smaller grants. And outside of that then is our federal. Of the 64.7 million in revenue, our actual expenditures came to $61.8 million. 74% of which was salary and benefits and the remaining 26% non salary and benefits. So like materials, supplies, services, things of that nature. If we look at it in terms of what
017type of expenditures a little bit more refined or diving into that a little bit further. This is showing us how our expenditures by type. So for instruction pupil related services where 78 of our expenditures are for that reason. 11% of it is for maintenance and operation. 7% for administration and then 4% for other um services like our county self. So on this slide we just take a overview of both those together. Our total revenue of roughly 64.5 million expenditures of almost 62 million has an increase to the fund balance of 2.8 million. If we dive into that again and look at the two different branches of our general fund, we have the unrestricted funding and restricted funding. Restricted funding is going to be again those special projects or grants received from the state. Unrestricted are
018just areas that we spend within our regular local control funding formula. So changes that we have re had happened between the last interim and then the current end of fiscal year is that we did have an additional roughly $400,000 in interest that we didn't have um projected initially. We do take that amount looking back at the prior year um at the beginning May June time take the a review of each quarterly interest that we receive in between and then we never know where that's really going to land at the end but to our benefit we did have a an increased amount of interest there. Um, some other areas that were a benefit to us is that we have other grant funding sources that we were able to use or assign expenditures to those areas that
019we were able to see some relief from. Some of those are short-term, meaning it might be the current year next year and year out that we'll be able to earmark those expenditures towards. Others were just the current year one time expenditures that we saw that reduction that we won't see that again in the next year. On the restricted side, we do have um part of that increase to fund balance are again from grants where that amount will be spent within the next fiscal year or next two fiscal years. So we're seeing that increase to our fund balance now, but in the next two years, we'll see us actively spending those dollars. In addition to that, we did have some just general lower expenditures in our materials and supplies within our various um grants that we
020didn't spend by about 400,000. And then we did make some additional tech and facility investments into those uh earmarked funding sources that we didn't have the expenditure for yet. So we did set funds aside for those purposes. So next steps related to that we want to make sure that our plans are matching our funding. So we are currently involved or taking steps with creating um key performance indicators or key KPIs that will help us drive some plans and have intentional spending and not have any like reactionary spending. In addition to that, we're doing some quarterly check-ins with sites and department managers. We have the first quarter for our current this whole year scheduled already and we'll be doing the other quarter two and quarter three in January and April just to make sure we can
021have really good progress checkpoints on our spending. And then lastly, we have 26 27 planning. We're going to be looking at what we think would be appropriate for staffing and other program review having a good view of what the projections the needed expenditures would be in those areas around January. so that we can have the plan ready for the next f fiscal year 2627. Outside of that specific planning, this is just a summary of the district funding by all of our funds, not just the general fund. So we have general fund on the left hand side, which we kind of already went over. The ending fund balance being 35.5 million roughly. Of that 35 1.5 million, 17.3 is unrestricted. So just kind of if you were flipping back to that 14 million that was referenced
022earlier, it's that 14 million plus an additional 3.9 million for committed dollars that the board has already assigned for facilities projects. So those are those two together. Um in addition to the unrestricted technically unrestricted dollars, we have the restricted fund balance being $18 million and again those are for those special projects and grant revenue. Other than the general fund, we have our student activity fund and that's just where we record activity for the high school and John ASB accounts. They do have their own bank accounts, but we are required to just report that activity on our site as well. The adult ed fund that did um spend into the fund balance, but that was a planned and needed element. We do have a maximum um carryover amount that we can have from year to year
023and we were close to exceeding that. So we needed to be sure and spend down to be within our maximum carryover. Our child development fund has a slight decrease of fund balance, but that's just spending down some interest and other revenue. So they're pretty much balanced. cafeteria fund is looking good except for that we actually do need to be intentional in our spending there as well and make sure that we don't have an excess of um fund balance there because we are limited to only have a maximum of our 6 months worth of expenditures as our fund balance um but they're healthy overall deferred maintenance fun that's where we have u funding set aside for larger projects larger repairs like roofs air conditioners, things of that nature. So, we will be well suited for upcoming
024project and projects in the summertime this coming summer. Developer fees, that's funding that comes in from community development like housing and other developmental projects in our boundaries. We had one expenditure in there and that was our um oh my goodness, the developer fee study. Other than that, we didn't have any other expenditures. And the last fund that we have available to us is the capital outlay fund. That is where we recognize some revenue in the previous year from a reimbursement from the state on a facility project. And now in the current year, we had expenditures for the high school science modernization, a few expenditures for the Kings Lake food modular, but we will see some more expenditures in the coming year, the 2526 fiscal year. That is everything I have. Any questions? >> Thank you.
025Let's see. Do I have a motion to approve? >> I'm not sure. >> Yeah. Okay. And then that's the subsequent uh resolutions and whatnot that go along with the actual actions of it, but it would be approved uh in the agenda. >> I will second. Roll call. Sandra >> I. >> Sammy. >> Hi. >> Patty. >> I. >> Valerie. >> Hi. >> And I the CA exception. >> Yes. The CAA exemption is something that is part of the calculations in our unodited actuals process. There is a calculation that says that we need to spend 55% of our um expenditures on classroom compensation. The funding structure for schools changed a while back with the level control funding formula. When that changed, they didn't go about changing the calculation for that classroom compensation. So, we used to
026have a lot of funds that were earmarked for categoricals. No longer are they there. They're now part of like our general funding. With that, it's become increasingly more difficult for districts to meet that. The school services group sends out a report every year of how many more districts aren't meeting that threshold. If you don't meet it, you do have to um there is a penalty where you would have to have the deficiency amount spent on classroom expenditure related um compensation. However, if you meet one of the exemptions, then you don't have to. So, Corker Unified, we do meet one of the exemptions, and that is that our salary is higher than others in our area. So, included in the packet is a comparison of our salary as compared to a few other districts, and we
027do meet that exemption. So, this is being presented to submit for the exemption with the county. >> Question. >> Do I have a motion to um approve? >> I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Roll call. Sandra I >> Sammy >> hi. >> Patty I >> Valerie >> I >> and I and then resolution number 1406 budget revision. >> This is a long group of pages that shows the budget changes between the last interim report and the unodudited actuals. Um so this is presented just to approve those actual budget changes required by the county. I >> motion to approve. Roll call. Sandra. >> Hi. >> Demi. >> Hi. >> Patty. >> Hi. >> Valerie. >> Hi. >> And I. >> Now we go to resolution 1407. Resolution. >> Sorry me again. So this calculation is
028another required calculation um from the state. Our reporting software does do the calculation automatically for us. It is something that is geared more towards the state to help them know their spending limits as well. Um as part of the process we are requiring to submit this for it to be adopted that calculation. So this is presented to be adopted. >> Motion to approve. >> I move to approve a second. >> Roll call. Sandra >> I semi >> I >> Patty I >> Valerie >> I again 1408 D. This resolution is being presented to approve the committed fund balances. So part of our accounting guidelines state that if we use a particular object code or accounting code when we commit our fund balance, those dollars need to be um presented to the board for approval in
029order for them to be committed. The enclosed resolution does outline which funds have been committed using this account code. I do want to just make sure and highlight that the 3.9 million was already brought to the board before. This isn't an additional 3.9. I just wanted to be sure to be clear and have every all dollars that are committed using this code included in this resolution. So the other ones I'm bringing are ones that we have historically been committing with that same code, but we should just follow the same process. So all of the funds using this commitment is the 3.9 million in our general fund for future facility projects within our deferred maintenance fund. All of the funds in that um technical fund of 1400 are being committed for deferred maintenance projects 1.9 million.
030The capital facilities that's our developer fees $797,000 roughly. And then lastly, the capital facilities fund where we have the modernization happening. The fund balance there of 2.8 million is also committed using that code. So this is presented to approve that commitment. >> Do I have a motion to approve? >> A motion to approve. >> Roll call. Sandra. >> Immi. >> I. >> Valerie. >> I. >> And I teaching and learning prescended examiner. Dr. part of this. Okay. The first uh contract that we would like approved today is for JDT consultants and so they are an external group who has expertise on managing challenging student behaviors. So this contract would encompass three different types of services. Coaching for three behavior support aids so that they can continue to build their capacity of working with students with
031challenging behaviors. The second piece is providing direct services to some of our students who have the most um intensive behaviors displayed and they are the most trained in their field to be able to work with these students. And lastly, there is a professional learning element where they would provide to general um staff such as our pair of professionals, our yard duty, our teachers, our admin um around trauma-informed care as well as CPI, which is crisis prevention. So everything from verbal deescalation techniques to certain individuals on campus being trained in holds so that if a student is being physically aggressive to protect themselves or staff or other students that there would be certain members of staff who are trained to help that student relocate and be in a safer space. So we were um we have
032used JDT in the past and so this is a continuation and an expansion of their services and so we're just looking for approval on that. Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve. >> I'm sorry. Question before. >> You can >> I I can clarify. Question. Yeah. >> You said this is a continuing contract that we've had. >> So, yes, we've used JBT in the past. >> And what's the difference between the last contract and this contract? >> Yeah. So previously they did a lot of direct services but with the addition of the three behavior support aids they are now coaching them because the goal would be eventually we would not need them as much because we would have the internal ability to handle these students with challenging behaviors. So this is like a bridge until
033we get to that point in addition to the workshops that they would do for the yard duties paras teachers and so forth. That would be a new element of the contract. >> And what's the difference in the price of the contract from the previous contract to this contract? >> I would have to get that number for you. >> I'm sorry. >> I would have to get that number. I don't have that off the top of my head. >> It's Helen is also the one who manages this contract and she has been out so I'm presenting on her behalf, but we have talked about the expansion of services based off the needs that we've seen on our campuses. I understand that, but I I'm also wanting to know what the difference in the price is because
034figures that I saw on this contract quite expensive >> to me. >> Yeah. So, I can I can look that up. Go ahead. >> I'll make a motion to take it back. Okay, we'll go ahead and table it. Um, we'll do roll call for the table. >> Sandra, >> hi. >> Sammy, >> hi. >> Patty, >> hi. >> Valerie, >> hi. >> And I um and I would like some kind of a quick response because we have been seeing a lot of concerns with with the students. So, please, thank you. Prop 28 annual report in Spares. So this is one of our revenue sources to add to our arts and music programming. So annually we have to report out how many students were served um what additional staff was added and so this was just
035to certify the report for the previous school year and we will have funds as well for Prop 28 this year. So this is just part of our compliance procedures. >> Do I have a motion to approve? >> A motion to approve. >> I second roll call. Sandra >> I >> Sammy >> hi >> Patty >> I Valerie >> I >> and I future agenda items identify close session topics. The following close session topics have been identified. Conference with labor negotiators and student maners. Any public comment on close session items? Okay. We adjourn to close session at 6:33. Thank you everyone.