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August 12, 2025 Board Meeting

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YouTube / Moreland School District
Date
2025-08-13
Location
Santa Clara County, CA
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1,725 words · about 10 min
Collected
2026-06-20

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001evening's hybrid board of trustees meeting being held both in person and virtually. >> Oh, he is virtual. Thank you. Plan B. >> Yay. This meeting has been made accessible to members of the public on the link at the Mormon School District website and on board docs. Any person who requires accommodations to access the meeting has been asked to contact the superintendent's office within 24 hours of this meeting. This meeting is being recorded and publish online at a later date. Let's do the flex. Please join me. >> Begin. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. will report out that there was no action taken this evening in close session and move to approval of

002the agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> Comments from the public. >> Members of the public may address the board on any subject of concern to you, including those not on tonight's agenda. However, provisions of the Brown Act could include any action as an unagendized item. No response is required or permitted from the board or district staff. And as already stated, no action can be taken. The board, however, may instruct the superintendent to follow up, which may or may not include placing the item on a future meeting's agenda. If you would like to address the board this evening, please complete the blue public comment card within the first 15 minutes of the board meeting being called to order in public session. On the

003card, please list the agenda items that you would like to speak to. If your comments do not pertain to an agenda item, please write public comment. When your name is called, please come to the podium and state your name and organization that you're representing. Comments are limited to three minutes for the board governance. And do we have public comments? >> All right, moving right along to the superintendent report. >> Okay. Well, we had a really amazing 30 second video that we wanted to show you with our leadership team getting ready for school. It had more than um 350 likes and 13,000 views. >> Wow. >> Social media, which is a really big deal. It's a really big deal. Um I just want to say hello to Michelle Edison. She's our MTA president teacher um over

004at Morland Middle School. And then Fran English, she is our new director of special education. Welcome. Um, she's got over 32 years of experience and comes to us from Fremont Unified School District, much bigger than us. She had 3,800 students with disabilities and a hundred million dollar budget. >> Bigger than our budget. >> Little bit. >> She did not. >> So, we're excited to have her. Welcome, Diane. Welcome to your new role, Michelle. Um, so we did kick off our two-day leadership retreat. Um, was that last week or the week? Last week before the second was the 31st and first two weeks ago. Um, and we are preparing for kids to return tomorrow. Oh no, Thursday. Thursday. Um, we This is much better when we have the PowerPoint because we're going to show you the

005summer projects, cleaning classs, landscaping. Uh the Latimer has their new playgrounds. Three new playgrounds. Perfect. Kinder for the one, two, and then the or one, two, three, and the four, five. It looks amazing. If you haven't had a chance to go by, they're beautiful. We had our new teacher orientation. Um that what do we had? I think we had over 30 people in the room on the set, I believe. And um I got to see some of today going around to schools and there's a lot of joy in the air. That's what I can say. People are excited. We had a welcome back practice yesterday. You all were there. That was fun. Um we are ready to celebrate the start of school. And then yesterday after the breakfast, we had over 250 certificated members engage

006in professional development uh districtwide. was kicked off with a really inspiring keynote from a former teacher, Beatatric Rowan. She used to teach in New Orleans. She's now at the county office of ed. She um really helping to just build a strong sense of belonging from the first day um children's um step on our campuses. It was inspiring and we had great reviews from the PD from yesterday. We had a lot of positive feedback from teachers. So, we're really proud of that. I just want to give a shout out to Ken and her team for putting that all a nice job. Uh, and then of course the first day of school is the 14th. We've got our back to school nights are already on the calendar. So check those out on our website. Um, and I

007think with that, I think I'll end the comments since we have no power and we want to make sure it's still light outside when we finish this. >> We should do that all the time. Is it possible for you to share this with us? >> Wonderful. >> Yes. Thank you. >> We'll post it for the public. >> Perfect. Uh board members communications >> in the spirit of keeping things quick and uh fast. New high orientation attended very well. Awesome. Welcome back. Sumptuous, fantastic, high energy. The end. I had the pleasure of going to the welcome back breakfast. Infectious energy. Really excited. Um, yeah, I'm glad to have this. >> I'll pass. that >> and I'll just say that what I do like what I did like about the welcome back ref breakfast it's one of

008the few times we see all the teachers all the schools and it's just uh it's a good energy when you can hear the schools kind of cheer for each other or against each other however you want to say it but then you call them out and to recognize um all the other teachers who've had their their long tenure here um really great feeling brings a lot of energy um it's a good way I agree with everything that's been said. Um just really felt very fortunate, very blessed to be a part of Morland, especially yesterday and at the new teacher orientation. Um just so much enthusiasm and really um you can tell that everyone's excited and it's going to be a good year. And so I'm very thankful. I know a lot of work goes into

009each of those events. Thank you for all the work you did to make sure that not only were they a success, but they were beautiful and inviting and the campuses look amazing and all of that good stuff. And so, thank you to everyone who made that happen. All right, moving right along. Action and discussion items. A, approve certificated agreements based on ed code stips. and internships and emergency credentials. Did I say that right? >> Um we're just asking that the board approve these teachers who we did approve it through the um consent their consent on assignment. So they're able to teach these but from experience or they taught a different subject. part of electing wheel and so we're asking that you approve that they teach under these classes even though it doesn't match their specific

010credential but they are qualified to teach them and there's also a list of hired interns at the bottom that we ask questions comments a motion to approve motion to approve the certificate of basip and emergency credentials Second. >> I'll second it. >> Thank you. And all in favor? >> On to approval of nonpublic school contracts for the 25 26 school year. I cannot get used to that. 256. Um, so I'm doing this blind, but um I can't I can't get on my phone either. But um we're asking you to approve the non-public school contracts for the 2526 school year. This is an annual action uh that you take and and this is something that we um have our non public school contracts go through the county and so it's something that we do annually and

011so here they are. >> This is a continuation of these four students from last year into the upcoming school. >> Um yes is this is the one with the the actual student. So if I Right. There were three students at one student at um >> and um so the Yeah. So these are just renewals or continuence. They're not um >> any other questions, comments, a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve the nonpublic school contracts for 2025 2026. >> Seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Carries. Approval of the master contract general agreement of what's that say? >> Secretarian. Thank you. >> Non public schools and agencies. >> This was actually the one I was thinking it was. This is the one that's actually through the county. Um and it is also

012an annual um agreement that we make with our non public school agencies. So we ask your approval of this. It's basically the master contract that we have to have in order to make those other little agreements that we just curious >> if during the school year um for some reason we identify a need for another student to be part of that then come to the board. >> Yes. So and It has in the past what we have >> it is it is an public school placement that is over 120,000 will be in action discussion items >> any other questions none have a motion to approve contract agreement for schools and emergency Second favor say I to contract transportation services agreement. >> This is also um for special education. Uh we're asking that you approve the

013transportation service agreements. Uh we have two contractors that we're working with here at Joy and Everdriven. Um both contracts are not to exceed 200,000. If you look at the contracts, there's details about what what exactly is involved um that that they will charge us for. And we need to offer this because we have students um that have that require transportation that our transportation department is unable to provide. And so it is required and some of them it may be to uh avoid Are these like personal like one car student or yes both that style but we do um not here but we do work with the JPS and they sometimes car questions comments a motion motion to approve contract transportation and second. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> On to

014order number one for those landscaping and contract concrete. >> So, uh you may have heard there's a big fencing project. >> Uh we are getting to the end. So, they're doing punch list. So, this is should be the one and only change order. It is about 330,000 but in the grand scheme of the total project was about 8.5. It's about 3.8% which is normal within the scope of so um we ask you to approve this change order. One of the things too to note is um it did come in higher and you know our team did negotiate and get it down reasonable to make sure we do ask the improve the chamber. >> Just out of curiosity, what would an example of the change be? >> So certain things. So with any project, sometimes there's

015unforeseen things that come up. So we need them to do it just because they're digging whatever. Others are things that we ask. So for example, on some of the fencing there is cane bolts. So for like drop off, we can get the prop the gates open, which is important. And so we asked them to add those on. So that was an extra cost obviously to the project that wasn't anticipated. So there's a variety of things that we ask for and just came up in this building. >> A project of that size, >> it makes complete sense that we will not have thought of absolutely everything. >> Other than change though, it will come in in essence on budget. >> Absolutely. And we have a contingency built into it, right? >> Yeah, exactly. There's always that

016kind of 10% Awesome. Thank you all. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve? >> I'll make a motion to approve the change number one for Joe's land. >> Second. >> Say I. >> I. On to the consent. Any questions or comments on tonight's consent? >> Hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve? Make a motion to approve consent items. >> Second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Future meeting dates. Here we go. >> I will just say we will start doing the um school sitas on September 9th. That will be more middle school sites will be presented. We will be presenting the opening of school report. Yeah, >> that's all. Anything else on future meeting dates? Okay. Announcements, reminders, requests. >> Uh I did actually just

017give you Heather, but just for the full board, um fall just sit down. Perspective. >> Thank you for the heads up. That's always helpful. Anything else on our announcements request? >> I signed up for a couple of the back to school nights for next week. That's what I was going to point out is that the Friday report does have all of the the sheets for signing up. >> No, it's perfect. It's it's a lot easier to just sit down and plug it in. I just >> Anything else? Do you do we is there for those forms or are we just kind of trying to get it done as >> for the stuff? >> Just the night of the principal legend. >> Okay. Anything else? We're journal. Yeah.

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