001You all look a very excited. I know. Thank you. We stand. Thank you. Right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin to the flag of the United States of America and to the stand. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. These incredible students are part of the pain leadership program. Fabulous. Um, why don't you each take a turn introducing yourself? Tell us your name and what you do in the leadership program. Wonderful. Leadership. I was a part of the belonging group and in belonging we uh discussed about how we felt belonged in pain and of how um we feel comfortable and safe at pain. And we also like decorated posters all around school and made some kind of rulesish. Mhm. um for new things like our lunch and how if
002we get like the free um perfect uh uh things did at lunch, we get to have free seating because we usually sit with our um class. Fabulous. Thank you. My name is Ro and leadership. I'm part of the special occasions group. We talked about we talked about making posters for like things like the spring lang and the play and just posters that make people feel good and posters about as bad. And we also talked about organizing like groups and stuff, doing stuff for like days and stuff. Thank you so much. Hello, my name is Ben and I worked in the special occasion with leadership. We I designed like posters for special occasions uh for like events like the spring flame and holidays and the aspect. Right. Awesome. Thank you for that. Hi, my name is
003Sen and um I'm part of a playground pop playground. We uh just do do teach kids different game like um some people did like uh four or chalk bean bag toss and basketball and some other stuff too. That sounds terrific. Hello, my name is I'm not in leadership club. I'm just doing the Oh, nice. Dora, can you tell us what grade you're in? Thank you so much for joining us tonight, all of you. Um, Sham, did you have any questions for this fabulous group of students? I just like first of all, we wanted to say thank you. That's incredible what you're doing for uh for your school and for all your fellow students. I think that's uh that's amazing. Um when when did the leadership uh programs start? Is this the first year or second
004year? It is one of our new initiatives. Um they have something similar but Miss Flanigan and Mrs. career and Mrs. Wilkins who are teachers on staff um saw a need to obviously highlight these wonderful students and so she started our leadership program and the students have really self-directed a lot of the work as well. So thank you so much for for stepping up and uh and being such a huge part of uh your own community. Thank you. That's all I have. Yeah. Um you guys are very brave being up here and like very um confident in in sharing your ideas with us. Um my I mean I do have one question. I'm curious to know what motivated you guys to be a part of leadership like just one day you're like I'm going to do
005it. Yeah. Like why? What's the start? What motivated me was so my teacher sent this piece of paper like okay there were clubs do you guys want to join a club right out the name of club like leadership club I'm like that sounds cool okay and then I went to the first meeting and they're like okay we need to change step on game that sounds cool I want to because I want to be like I'm an author when I go but I want to be an office I want influenced um so I thought that this would be good practice for this would just be fun. Yeah. Yeah, that's amazing. Great reasons. Thank you. Anyone else? Uh just like I just did it uh because uh like I missed out on junior co c coach coach
006for like I was like two years or something like that and I I thought uh maybe there was going to be like how I'm in uh playground house. So So I uh did did it and there was some other stuff but I decided to make playground house. Nice. Thank you. Well, um I'd like to say thank you. You guys have uh shown I've heard a couple things here about wanting to be able to teach and discuss things and how to improve your campus at Payne, how to make people feel inclusive. Um those are all great traits that I'm I'm sure you guys have all thought of as how you're going to pull people together and this leadership. I'm I'm we're very happy to hear uh you guys getting stepping up and getting involved. Um I
007would like to know what would you tell a friend who is thinking about whether or not they should join? Is it a hard thing? Do you think it's easy or what? How would you convince a friend or someone to to join? [Laughter] say it's a bit hard but mostly when cuz for the meetings it's mostly lunch time so sometimes I was like oh dang it didn't go visas today I'm like wait I have to go to leadership so I want to stay and no wait I committed so that's a good way to like say like I made a commitment to this. I stay very good. That is a life lesson. Yes. Very impressive that you have figured that out. Dr. Wow. I am so impressed with each of you. Um, first of all, everyone standing
008up here is a leader and leaders are influencers and you have influenced your school community for the positive to help students feel a sense of belonging whether that's on the playground pals or the belonging part or I love that ESPback's a special occasion got a special occasion to my ears. But I just want to say how proud I am just you just standing up in front of us. By the way, you're on camera. Um, not to scare you, but but leadership matters and it is extra work and you do have to give up your recess or sometimes the fun things when other people are doing fun things so that you can do work to make your school better. So, I just want to say thank you for that extra time and I really appreciate your
009the teachers that were involved, the principal and assistant principal that were involved. So, just thank you so much for being here all of you. Yes. Well done tonight. Thank you so much. Keep up the great work. Thank you, moms and dads, for bringing them, sharing them with us tonight. Byebye. Hard sometimes. Leadership's hard. Commitments follow up there. just goodness hadn't admitted so I have to do it. I know the feeling. She was clearly the spokesperson for the Oh my goodness. So cute. I just I love that we start every meeting this way. It really does such a fabulous job of reminding us what we're here and who we serve. and um it's just such a unique opportunity to see the precious kiddos in action. So, thank you. I know that takes work on principal's parts,
010too. Please let them know how grateful we are. Um I will move to tonight's agenda. Do we have any questions on tonight's agenda or do I have a motion to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. Thank you. Second it. All right. All in favor? I. Comments from the public? All right. 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 preclude 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
011address 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 card, please list the agenda items 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. State your name and the organization that you're representing. Comments are limited to 3 minutes per board governance manual. I don't think we have any blue cards today. No public comments. Thank you, Sham. Thank you. All right. On to the superintendent report. Dr. Okay. Thank you so much. So, um, we are wrapping up May and which is Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. It's a time where we honor the vibrant cultures and
012significant contributions of individuals with roots across the vast Asian continent and Pacific Islands. So, I just wanted to point that out. Um, we did wrap up negotiations um, a little over a week ago. The MTA is presenting that um tenative agreement is in the hands now of the members who have uh about two weeks or so to review it before they take a vote which I believe is on starts on the 29th. Vote starts on May 29th at at 5:00 pm to be exact to be exact. Um and so um the contours of that ten tenative agreement will be sent out in a joint communication either tonight or tomorrow morning. Um so we don't want to announce that before the joint communication goes out. We are really proud of uh the work that was completed
013by both teams. It only took us four sessions to get to that tenative agreement which is pretty much record time and we did that collaboratively. Um, so I'm excited to be able to present that to the public. Um, tomorrow we did receive the governor's May revised budget. It was announced. The budget is pretty similar to what he presented in the January proposal. The funded cola is at a 2.3% versus the 2.43% which was presented in January. Um, he is still proposing fully funding TK at the 10:1 ratio. Right now it's at a 12:1 ratio. So, that would be some additional revenue for us. Um, and he has budgeted $1.7 billion for the discretionary block grant, which is down from the 1.8 billion that he originally had in the governor's uh proposal in January. Um, pretty
014much everything else stayed intact from the governor's proposal. There are still some tweaks that could be made around the edges as the legislators go into their four corners over the month of June to or when is it's due June 15. June June. Yeah, end of June. End of June. Um and that's when we really find out our final final final numbers for revenue. Um, usually there's not much of a change between May revise and the June budget, but just technically so everybody knows, there still could be some shifts around the edges um by the time we get to the beginning of July. And then we are wrapping up open house season. We've got two more this week. Um, you can see that the I believe it's the Prospect Robotics Club has been going around to
015the different school sites. That picture on the left would be a picture of me. I'm glad you don't see my face because I was scared of that robot. You you like throw a little container at it and it grabs it. And so I just wasn't quite sure what was going to happen if I moved. Um it did not eat me thankfully, but it was a very cool um robot. And so um I think I saw it both at Baker and at Latimer. I don't know if it'll be at Country Lane and Pain this week. It may be. And then Latimer and EDS had their international night. such wonderful, wonderful events and celebration of just the many, many cultures that we have in this district is really an amazing site to see. So, I wanted to
016say thank you to those schools for hosting such an inclusive event. Um, and then, believe it or not, promotion ceremonies are next week. So, I know believe that. So, Latimer will be on Thursday, June 5th, and then that will be followed by on Friday, EDS will be um I can't read from here. I believe it's 9:00 in the morning. Um, and then Morland Middle School will be at 10:30 10:30. We try to get over here really quickly, transition in between and get started. Um, and we also have senior walks where seniors that used to go to Morland schools go back to their elementary schools and say hi to the students and do a walk through and we celebrate our our graduating high school seniors. Um, and then we also, next slide, have our retirement celebration
017is also next week on June 3. And these are all of the people that are retiring from the Morland School District. And so we will celebrate them next uh Tuesday, I believe that is, and that is at 3:30 p.m. Um, we will have a a special close session um at 5:30 um to evaluate the superintendent, which would be me. Um, and so that will be happening as well on that day and that will be noticed because it is it's it's not open to the public but it is a closed session so we will still have to notice and make sure the public is aware. Um, let's see concerts. Moving on to concerts. So, uh, it is concert season. Spring is in the air. So, um, we had our student musicians um with their culminating concerts
018last couple of weeks. Um this is the fifth grade honors band concert and orchestra strings concert um was held on May 15th. Uh right over here in the me room. Um that is um every elementary school in Morland, every elementary and K8 we have honors band and honors orchestra for fifth graders. Um and then this Thursday at 7 pm we have Morland Middle Schools. No, Marlin Middle Schools was last week and EDS's spring concert is this week. So, we had Disneyland, we had, you know, Great America, we've had individual school spring concerts, we've had multiple school spring concerts. So, we're coming to an end here, folks. Um, but we do want to congratulate um all of our student musicians. thank our Morland Education Foundation for the constant support volunteer that they do to help us
019have such a robust um music program in Morland. And so it's just when you're there in the room, it's a really the feeling of celebration and just the proud look on the family faces even when the kids are out of tune. Very very proud. You do not know what you're talking about. Uh yes. Um next uh next slide please. So, we wanted to congratulate um Jon um Soma Sheper. He is a Morland Middle School student who recently competed in the Super Nationals chess tournament in Florida. Wow. Um he is an eighth grader, had a commendable performance, achieving a score of four out of seven rounds, which included four draws, two wins, and only one loss. So, national tournament, congratulations. What a wonderful opportunity for him. and we just want to kind of highlight that for
020you. And then uh last slide. Um our sports update. Congratulations to our Morland track and field athletes. All three middle schools were represented at the recent county track meet held about a week ago at Westmont High School. Um we want to say thank you to our dedicated coaches, our staff, our families, and board trustee Ryan Sol up there with his daughters. um and just they had a great showing and so we just wanted to make sure we highlighted them um for you this evening. And then that concludes uh my remarks for this portion of the agenda. Great. Thank you. Um board members communications. Uh I'll make it very quick. I had an opportunity to attend the open house at Latimer. It was uh it was fun to see all of the energy on campus and
021to um see what all the students had been working on throughout the year. Um lots of excitement from the parents also to kind of come in and see that and many of the parents were also obviously looking ahead to what they would be expecting in uh in higher grades as they come back. So all in all fantastic. Got to see the robot also. Yeah. Um but yeah, that was it. Um, I had the pleasure of attending EDS's international fair and art showcase along with Trusty Sutton and Trusty Salis and Dr. Con. Um, and again, it was just an it was a beautiful way to showcase all the diversity that is not only within Morland but also within EDS. Um, the different country tables that were represented, all the beautiful cultural wares. I saw instruments like
022I've never seen before. And so a huge shout out to um you know Sherry teacher staff but also the to the parents and the students who performed. Um it takes so much courage to go out there in front of your friends and it was really really amazing and yeah so I just want to say it was such a great way to um just see what see the beauty of EDS. Yeah. Um yeah, uh just to add on, it's always impressive to see uh the families just getting involved, the excitement how quickly, you know, everyone wants to show off their uh culture and it's it it shows. I think I heard 47 different languages. 42 languages this year, I think. You know, which is impressive, obviously. And I've also got to see uh I also went
023to Vladimer's international fair to also see the it it's enjoyable to see the food, the dancing, just the sharing of the culture and the diversity um and just seeing the families come together and being able to appreciate that. Um and I would also like to say I did my board visit uh with at um EDS and mostly had a very robust discussion with uh Sherry and just the the ongoings of uh EDS and it was it was a great talk spent about an hour and a half. Beautiful. Thank you. Um I too attended the EDS um international fair and as it's already been said was a fabulous um community gathering. I was walking up the aisle first when I first arrived and the first thing that I was struck by was the smell of amazing
024food efforts put forward by all of the families, the staff that supports that. Um and obviously the kiddos. So really um there's so much to celebrate um but it's also a lot of work and so I want to acknowledge those efforts too. That's it for me. Uh NPA is not here. Sorry NTA is not here. Okay. Action and discussion items. award contract to G guerrera uh construction group for the Latimer play area improvement project. Yeah. So the um contract we're asking you to approve is for the actual groundwork. If you remember a couple board meetings back we had a a contract that was for the actual equipment and installation. We need to prepare the ground. So that's what this we needed to wait for DSA approval before we brought it to you for approval. So
025we went through the process advertising. We got 15 potential biders. Um 16 seal bids came in after um going through them. Guerrero was the apparent low bidder. So we did our interviews and we were recommending that we the board approves contract. It's a lot of bids. Is it a lot of bits? More the better. Any questions, comments? We've we've done work with Guard in the past, right? Yeah, we have. Not a question. And sorry, so just because we had our measure on this is separate from that. Yeah, we kept it separate from the bond because we needed to make sure we got on it so it could get done during the summer time. And so with bonds, you just have to be careful. Thank you. Any other questions? I'll make a motion to approve contract
026to Ger Construction Group area. Thank you, Ryan. Second it. Thank you, Shel. All in favor? I. On to the contract for Sanchez Electric, Inc. Okay. So, this contract is to install transfer switches. Um, if you recall, we purchased a few generators um for basically EDS and MMS, the two big freezers, and then one for the district office as well because it controls the internet. So, power were to go out and keep the internet going at the school sites. Um so this is to install those to make it an easy easier connection uh when we need them. Do we have existing generators already or does this we already have purchased the generators? Now this is to install the switches to make it um to to do the transfers. So we still need an electrician to come
027and hook it up. But it's just a do the plug. No, you're not doing it right. No, no. The reason the reason I'm asking is because I got one put in my house uh to um when power goes out. Do the generators automatically kick in or is it like No, we need to So what'll happen is we store them here for safety reasons. We don't want someone to walk off of them. They're not cheap. In the event of a power outage, we'll get them, take them to where they're needed. Got it. The switch makes it a little bit easier to connect. Yes. Okay. Okay. But a little different than a house gener. Yeah. A little bit. Um, I'll make a motion to approve um this contract to Sanchez Electric, Inc. for the transfer switches at
028the DOE, EDS, and MMS. Second. Sorry. I'll second. Thank you. All in favor? I. Resolution 092024 2025. Thank you. Uh, tonight we're bringing before you a resolution to change the name of Anderson Village State Preschool. Um we are beginning the process of integrating um our students between the two preschools and so in order to do that uh officially we actually need a name change so that our lensure um reflects one school and so we are um asking you or it's recommended that the board of education authorize the name change of Anderson Village State Preschool to Morland Child Development Center. Any questions? Other than the name change, is there anything else that is it just to kind of make it easier for us to manage? Uh it it's lenture with the state. So that that's we
029have to be under one license. So that that is why we're doing this here. We are beginning this process of bringing our students together from the state preschool and um our pain preschool which is actually their license currently is the Morland Child Development Center. So we're going under that. Okay. That heading. Got it. Okay. That'll be the formal name on paper, but we will call it the Morland Preschool. So when we advertise market, it's just Morland Preschool. Okay. But for the lensure, we'll just keep it under the Morland Child Development Center. If you've ever really w looked at the sign in front of Payne, it actually says Morland Childhood Development Center. So, um, so that will be the formal on paper name, but it will just be called Morland Preschool. Got it. Any other questions
030or comments? Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve uh the Let me go back and read it actually to uh approve the resolution to change the name of the Anderson Village State Preschool. I'll second it. All in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries. On to the consent. Any questions or comments on tonight's consent? I'll make a motion to approve the consent items in aggregate. I'll second. All in favor say I. I. I. Right on to closing items. Future meeting dates. Um I would just um ask everyone to just block your calendar. We'll make sure it gets on your calendar for the facts of school breakfast on Monday, August 11th. I mean, I know I know you're talking about promotion ceremonies at the time, right? But you might as well just
031get it on your calendar. We will send out an invitation that just kind of blocks it on your calendar, but that will be the morning. Monday the 11th. Monday. Monday. August 11th. August 11th. Yeah. August. Oh my goodness. Be as early as 7:30. We We usually start serving breakfast around 7:30. I think we start at 8. I can't remember if we started at 8:30 or 8 for the discussion. Now, we'll put it on we'll put it in the agenda. Okay. I'm getting my ears mixed up. For future meeting dates, just from a procedural perspective, should we add the June 3rd to the list? Yes. Yeah. I put it on the website, too, but I'll add it to our list. Thank you. So, it's not a five or 5:30 I hope. Is it? Well, we were
032waiting, I thought, on Ryan. I should be able to make it. I'm gonna So, retirement is from like 3:30 to 4:30. So, and then we were waiting for Ryan to see what time you could get here. So, I thought 5:30 was a better option for Ryan. I was looking out for you. They were I didn't get it approved by my manager, but Okay, I can work on that. work on my it was it was submitted. It just wasn't approved. Anything else? Um under future meeting dates. No. All right. Announcements, reminders, requests. Has everybody um filled out the promotions ceremony signup sheet? Oh, is there a signup sheet? Yeah. I'm going to I'll be there for all three. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Muri did it. Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did it for you. I was looking
033for you, too. Thank you. We had a meeting and you told me. I was like, well, I'm just going to put it on here. Yeah, it's done. I was well and told. Yes. Uh, no changes. I'll be there. Using your electrical from your house back generator. I'll tell you a story when we're not in public. So my goodness. So I actually have a request um from the board um all this talk with district facilities and again amazing work being done. Um I feel like the district's being covered um corner to corner and I'm I'm truly like very excited about the work that's going to be happening. Um, but it's also got me thinking that one of the spaces that the board has not talked about in several years is the Morland Woods. And so we
034haven't actually um talked about it really since the beautiful day project was done in 2019. And so I know between then and now, EDS has done a tremendous amount of work over there. Um, MEF has done a tremendous amount of work over there. And um in fact that space comes up at MEF meetings as they plan for host and debrief the pumpkin patch. Most recently they've been talking about um investing in that space to make it more user more user friendly or usable for them in the pumpkin patch. Um, and so I was hoping, um, obviously it takes the board to, um, give 15 plus minutes worth of guidance to staff to check in with the associated groups using the woods and and just see if there are any opportunities um, for us to support
035their efforts. Okay. I'm um so I I do have Carlos and Anning out um what it would take the to make the woods more usable based on a plan that MEF had kind of put forward to staff to see if they could invest more to make it more usable specifically mostly for the pumpkin patch but not completely. What else are we asking for? Oh, so you're already ahead of the ask. Okay. Okay. Okay. So that's the ask. That is the ask is to connect primarily with MEF but obviously very respectfully EDS as well um about the use of the woods and um you know what what we thought it might serve the way we thought it might serve the district years ago I think has changed. And so I just think it's um a good
036opportunity for us to to hear and talk about. So I just want to be clear on be clear on what I'm being asked to do. Sure. Um cost of the proposal that was given to us. Is that what you're asking for? Okay. Anything else? Do you want us as board trustees? Well, I have I have to ask the board for your support and my request. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Got it. Yeah. Yes. For our board governance manual. Yeah. I'm supportable. Yes. Thank you. Okay. All right. Anything else under announcements, reminders, requests? No. All right. We will adjourn to meeting to close session then. Thank you everybody. the certain donuts about