001Okay. 2.1 call to order. I will call the Parishing High School District uh school district meeting to order at 2:04 p.m. I'm going to ask for a roll call to determine a quorum. Trusty Annayia >> here. >> Thank you. Trusty Stafford >> here. >> Thank you. Trusty Hall >> here. >> Thank you. Trusty Garcia >> here. >> Thank you. And Trusty Compost Me, I am here. We have had we we have established a quorum. 3.1 Invitation to address the board of trustees on close session items only. Are there any public comments on the close session items? >> There are no public comments. >> Thank you. 4.1 adjourn to close session. Do I have a motion to adjurnn to close session? >> So move. >> Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Do I have a second? >> Second.
002>> Thank you, Trusty Hall. CNL discussion, please vote. On a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. And we are journing to close session at 2:05 p.m. Okay. 5.1. The regular board meeting of the Parishian High School District is reconvening at 5:12 p.m. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Place your right hand over your heart. We're ready. Again 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. >> And so today, if you could just stand for a minute um on the invocation, uh number one, um if you could please pray for Adeline Valencia's family. Adeline was a junior at Liberty High School who recently passed. So, you know, if you if
003you if those of you who pray or have a moment of silence, we'll do that in a minute. Also, uh I want to pray for Charlie Kirk's family. We just we're living in a crazy world and things happen that just, you know, makes you shake your head. Another thing, uh pray for the young lady's family. Um the the young Ukrainian I think in North Carolina where we see a lot of this this senseless murder. You know, we understand that there's disagreements and we don't agree on things, but that's not the way that we should be moving forward. So, if you can just for few seconds Amen. Oh, thank you. 7.1 Recess the board. President will recess the meeting to conduct the regular board meeting of the California Military Institute Charter School. We are recessing the
004meeting at 5:14 p.m. The regular board meeting of the Paris Union High School District is reconvening at 6:00 p.m. [Applause] 8.1 Revision adoption ordering of agenda for September 10th, 2025. And before we adopt the agenda, I would like to request that the following items be removed from the board agenda. 14.5 Personnel approval of the ten tentative agreement between the Paris Union High School District and the California School Employees Association and its charter Paris Valley number 469 regarding the 2024 and 2025 reopener negotiations. Also 14.7 personnel approval of the memorandum of understanding between the Paris Union High School District and the California School Employees Association and its chapter Paris Valley's 469 regarding the bargaining method for negotiations. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Do I have a second? Second.
005>> Thank you, Trusty Hall. Seeing no discussion and no questions, please vote. Upon a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. Moving on to oral reports. 9.1 report out of close session. >> Yes, President Capus. In close session today, by vote of 520 to zero, the board of trustees approved the settlement agreement with employee 176283 with the Perish Union High School District. Trustee Annayia, yes. Trustee Campus, yes. Trustee Garcia, yes. Trustee Cole, yes. And trustee Stafford, yes. That would be it, sir. >> Okay. Thank you so much. Okay, so now 9.2 district update by superintendent. So Dr. Ross, >> thank you sir. First of all, I would like to invite the Heritage High School robotics program representatives to the podium to present on their program today. There are two advisors, Miss
006Eid and Mr. Santana. The two current students, Katherine Gordon and Abigail Gambboa and Guan Riley Mulan B. [Applause] Good evening, board of trustees. Um, President Kapos, Superintendent. Uh, my name is Richard Santana. I uh am the Heritage High School engineering teacher and I want to thank you guys for giving us the time to hear what some of the cool stuff that's going on at Heritage. Uh like you guys mentioned, I brought with me a couple students here. I um I have my one of my captains here who they're going to introduce themselves and I have um one of my my vice president as well and along with alumni. I'll let them introduce themselves. But before then, we have a couple duties for you guys. You guys mind if we share them with you? >> Sure.
007Officer, are you watching? No, I'm just kidding. >> She's all digging in her pocket. >> Y >> here. And then the board here. >> So, these are all uh little memorabilia that we created in house. So, those little laser cut items and um custom three um sorry, some custom speakers that we made in house as well with all of our equipment. >> Um so, I'm going to go ahead and let the students introduce themselves and then afterwards I'll I'll the microphone back. >> Hello everyone. Thank you for your time. I'm going to talk about robotics at Heritage High School. Um, my name is Katherine Gordon and I'm a captain of 7832 Gear Gurus. >> Hi, my name is Abigail Gamboa. I am the club vice president and a member of Gear Gurus. And hi, my
008name is Riley Medlam Bayan. I am the former co- captain of 7832 Gearus as well as an alumni and former vice president of the robotics club. Um our robotics club works with the organization called first tech challenge. Teams collect together to compete and win awards. Last season um was a theme into the deep which reflected real world problems including removing debris from the ocean. But aside from like design building and programming students also learned a lot of other um skills like teamwork, innovating and presentation skills and much more. Sorry. >> There we go. Um, so last year some of our main team highlights was we um did lots of outreach events um talking to various students about STEM education and robotics. We fundraised our own money through selling things at our school. And last year,
009out of over 8,000 teams worldwide, we were in the top 5 percentile of in game performance. >> Wow. To add on to that, um, last year was the first time a a robotics team from our entire school district has made it to a world level competition where we were also able to win the inspire award where the inspire award is basically um the highest level of honor, highest honor award where um the team exceeds in both game game competition and their teamwork and other skills. So last year we were able to go to um an event an event all the way in Massachusetts where we saw teams from 23 different states of from the United States. We saw teams from Canada and Kazakhstan. >> Wow. >> Yes. So >> at the beginning of our season,
010we weren't performing as well as we wanted to, but after lots and lots of time working together, um solving our problems and um innovating, we were able to make it all the way to that level where we we were able to make it all the way to that level where we won and we exceeded in so many different things. As someone who was a co- captain of the team when we were able to make it th this far, it was an extremely um proud and big achievement for not only me but also my um former co- captains who are currently have already left for university as well as the members that we were able to work with. Being able to connect with people all the way from Kazakhstan, Canada, and 23 states in the United
011States, all who had the same mission and same passion as us when it comes to innovation engineering was something that I believe truly opened our eyes as to what is what is in store for us in the engineering and robotics field. As someone who joined robotics my junior year and quickly became a co- captain and an officer for my senior year, being able to explore my interests and be exposed to engineering early on to have hands-on training was something that really helped me figure out what I truly wanted to do with my career, which led to me now majoring in mechanical engineering at University of California, Irvine, where I hope to later on pursue a career in the industry with my with a major in mechanical engineering. So that's all thanks to being a part
012of a program such as the robotics club which was really able to um enlighten me as long alongside other students were able to fully um realize their passion for STEM in the field. >> Um touching more on what Abigail said about outreach during last season we met with over 5,000 elementary, middle, and high school students. We did this by means of our own library visitation series called Gears in Motion alongside other outreach events with our robotics club. One example was a hallow steam event where we um mixed Halloween with STEM and educated children to be like innovative with designs and to touch more on our library visitation series called Gears of Motion. We talked about FPC STEM and then what kind of professional community you can go after that. Um these events were very successful
013with students even reappearing um at our high school to join our robotics club both as a team and as a club. We were able to do our own fundraising not only with our club but as a team as well where we were able to build not only our on our engineering and creative and in innovative side but we were also able to build upon our business side of build the business side of things to in order to fund for some of our um competition stuff as well as our own needs with our team. We were also even able to fund raise in order to um um donate money towards third country like the Philippines in order to help fund STEM education where we were able to help fund an entire department when it came to
014STEM. Alongside that, we're also able to build upon our relationships with um professionals in the industry such as Google, Northrup, Grumin, um Andural, Coherent, and other companies in order to learn from their engineers and experts in the field, what they took away from their careers and what we can apply and what could be in store for us in the future if we were to pursue a career in their respective fields. >> I think that's all I have for you. Thanks so much. >> Thank you. [Applause] Are you okay? >> I was just going to ask if you guys have any questions. >> Um, more of a comment that you guys are amazing. You guys are well spoken and I >> I don't even have to say it, but I know there's a bright future for
015all of you ladies. >> Absolutely. >> I'm very proud. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Good job. Oh, sorry. Oh, wait. Just want to go down the road. >> Just want to say thank you for your presentation. You guys are really growing. >> Absolutely. Thank you so much. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. Just your uh seeing a couple of your uh things that you're moving around and and with your robotics and stuff. I got to see some of you over at back to school night and watching you perform some stuff. So, it's uh it's what I want to see. I want to see you guys come up here and tell us what you guys are doing and where we're going as a as a district and that our our teachers are are doing what they're supposed
016to be doing and and getting our young students to grow. So, this is amazing. I appreciate it. Thank you. >> Awesome. We're we're really hoping this year comes out just as good. Um there was some statistics that I think we we weren't sure how much time we had. Um but uh there are eight world level events and um they were at different parts of the world. The Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, of course we went to the one in Massachusetts and um they hold the world record tied for um an aspect of the challenge. Um and uh they mentioned the f the inspire award that is first place overall and so they're amongst uh here in Roland it's amongst some of the top teams in the world which is pretty cool. On that note, if there's anything
017you need from us, let us know >> because one of our goals is take us to the future, right? And this is clearly a prime example. And and ladies, you all did an amazing job. Amazing job. And and I'm proud of how confident you are. You know, keep that confidence. You're really going to thrive in life. >> Great job. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. So, a couple things. Um Gear Guru, that's that's funny. I mean they're they're they're very impressive with all the things and obviously the the national recognition we saw last year the awards are coming in were funding but I I think what they mentioned is extremely important because that's I mean this is probably the best part of the board meeting. Um and you know when we get
018to see this in action it's just something that we know what to advocate for and and that we make sure that the funding is there. Um, I do know that, you know, reaching out and it looks like you guys are working with Google and other partners, but reach out to many philanthropic um, companies that are out there because I know the Bill and Meinda Gates Foundation, there's a lot of companies that are willing to donate, especially to STEM, something like that. That's like a huge thing because that's the future. And so, um, you know, whatever we can do to help out, we'd love to do that. Now, one thing I did have a question on, did you guys have any at your middle schools? Was any of this going on? Um I think it goes
019around in some middle schools but primarily for us it's mainly high school level. >> Okay. So you you're introduced to it in high school and then that's my other question. So I know that there's a club but is it a class as well? So is it >> so strictly a club? >> It's an after school club but a lot of my uh engineering students get funneled into the robotics club. So I'll try to you know if I see I mean I encourage everybody to of course but if I see some serious talent I'm just like look I could really use you in a team here. So consider it please. And I've even reached out to parents just to try to just to tell them like, hey, you know what? They they feel like maybe the
020they can't because of whatever chores. I'm just letting you know, here's an opportunity. >> And um so if they're you're willing to let them stay behind after school, I'd be happy to have them on the team. And so far, we have quite a bit of turnout right now. Um we have about 47 students in our robotics club. And uh we have some pretty promising like a lot of talent that's coming our way. Uh some of the the girls behind me um they already have established some contacts with MIT. Uh one of them participated in the MIT's program, the MIT summer program. That's Katherine back there and um she's already establishing her contact there and um someone a recent graduate from Berkeley and um we'll see. >> Well, thank you for that because you going above
021and beyond. I mean that's kind of the thing that you know for us it's like wow you know sometimes kids don't have the confidence and they don't see the talents they have and so coming from someone they respect and is in that field and can communicate that to them and especially their parents as well because you know a lot of times parents don't know you we our kids we love them and they're great but we just don't know how talented they are. So thank you for advocating for them and reaching out to the parents. We really appreciate it. Thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> All right you guys have a good night. [Applause] The second item to share in the update. I want to share with you that today we have the first student
022of the month for the 25 26 school year and thank you trusty trusty hall for being there. It was an amazing event. We were able to listen to our students the wonderful things that they have done and the challenges that they have faced. So not only recognizing the students but also learning from them about resilience about public service about giving back to the community and about that spirit of service that our students have. So it was it was great. Another thing that I would would like to share is our cabinet meetings instead of being here at the district office this year we go to the schools. We are there. We have been at Paloma Valley at Liberty High School and Heritage High School. We had the opportunity to eat lunch with our students to have
023conversations with them as well as we visited some classrooms at Paloma Valley. Yesterday also Dr. Regans and I had the opportunity to go to Paris High School and visit some classrooms and we were very pleased to see some of the common things that they are especially in the math department and it's my understanding that is expanding to the other departments on on the board the teachers have what you will you will learn today. What is the students expected to learn that day? Number two, the why. Why do you need to learn this? And number three, how do you know that you have learned it? So that is wonderful because that helped the students to see things in perspective. Also, the Paris Union High School District is pleased to announce the formation of a patent advisory
024committee. This committee will play an important role in supporting transparency collaboration in the budget process. It work may include a some making recommendations to the budget priorities to align that budget with a district vision with the LCAP the local control accountability plan suggesting cost reduction strategies to improve efficiency. reviewing the clarity and effectiveness of budget documents and communications and present progress reports in a final set of recommendation to the superintendent and the board of trustees. Uh we are looking forward to the value valuable in input from this committee that they will provide and they will support and shape the district financial priorities. The budget advisory committee will include a diverse group of our stakeholders, representatives from across our whole district, including members of human resources from the business services department, educational services, principles, parents, students,
025our labor partners, and to board members. This broad representation ensures that multiple perspectives are considered and the development of the district budget. Board members, you will receive an email asking you if you are interested in being part of this uh of this committee. Those names are going to be forwarded to Mr. Capus and he is a president of the board will make the selection. He will select from the board members who are interested in being part of this committee. He will make the selection. He will let you know. Okay. Who who will be the two board members. This is a valuable opportunity for all members of our district to provide input and help shape the budget in alignment with our share goals and priorities. And lastly, we were in our cabinet meeting and then we
026received information about the issue that Paloma Valley High School was facing during dismissal to leave the parking lot. It was taken between 45 50 55 minutes because there is some of construction and the way that the system was was developed 45 to 50 55 minutes and our parents were facing those uh that challenge as well as our students and our staff. of working together. I call that the meeting of the minds right with all cabinet members and our our director of facilities Hector and Mr. Hannon we came up with a solution and the same day from 55 minute max of time to leave the school it was reduced to 20 minutes. So I want to say thank you to our staff for giving that approach problem solving approach. We identify the issue, we identify the
027challenge and there we are looking for potential solutions. So thank you on behalf of our community of the parents and our staff at Paloma Valley for focusing on solving that uh that problem that they were facing. We appreciate it. That's it for the update for the superintendent. >> Thank you Dr. Rouse appreciate the words. Um 9.3 student representatives to the board of trustees. Trusty Hall. >> Oh, you got Heritage High School. Yeah. I would like to introduce from Heritage High School student representative Karina Corve. I'm sorry. Ricardo Flores and Gio Limas. Hope I said that right. board members, members of our cabinet, and Dr. Ar. My name is Torres. I'm Jill Lamus. >> And I'm Karina Carp. It is such an honor to present many achievements and memories that have >> We're excited to share
028the hard work, dedication, and the spirit of our students, which have all shaped our campus into a much more spirited and united community. >> Per usual, we kicked off the school year with energy and spirit for our annual back to school rally. We started off by getting everyone pumped up with our traditional victory. Students were engaged and ready. Many participating in our popular head shoulders company competing for prizes and merch. Lightning and music was run by our ASB officer who made the rally look amazing and sound amazing as well. Huge thanks to them. Now this year was extra special because apart from our typical games and announcements, we introduced something new. Our new Patriot. We created an intriguing story line where a fictional boxing match took place. Our original Pat versus our new win. Of
029course, our new mascot won and was granted the spirit champion belt. The mascot reveal was a huge success. Our students were thrilled when the mascot made its first appearance. It created a moment of unity and excitement that set the tone for the year. We are so grateful for amazing up our rally. All all their hard work paid off and definitely left a lasting impression for their peers. We've already seen an increase in school pride. You can take pictures, cheering and showing off our map on social media. It's quickly becoming a central part of our campus, increasing engagement and participation in events as well as spirit. >> I want to start off by telling you about Legacy Launch Week, which happened just before school started. During this week, students had the opportunity to purchase brand new
030merchandise, including a variety of school gear to get ready for the school year. One of which was our new Patriot Pit shirt, which I'm excited to show you. This shirt is especially meaningful because it was student designed inspired by the iconic Santa Cruz brand combining bold energetic graphics with our school pride. The picture quickly became a favorite symbolizing student creativity and ownership of our school spirit. Another event I am pleased to showcase is Club Rush, which is always a big part of how we help students feel connected, and this year was no exception. Over 30 clubs participated ranging from academic and cultural groups to creative arts and volunteer groups. Students had opportunity to explore their interests, meet new people, and sign up for clubs that inspire them. We saw an amazing student turnout during lunch
031periods, and many clubs reported a big boost in membership, including a few new clubs that launched this year. It's been a to build community early on in the year. Last Friday, we host our first football game of the season against Kaiser High School. Bringing bright colors, beach vibes, and high energy to kick off the season of uh students came dressed in tropical shirts, plays, and all sorts of summer games, and the stands were packed with excitement and energy. Our cheer team and band brought the hype, and our new mascot made another appearance. Not only were all students involved, but also parents. We welcomed them in the pit, and they had a great time. The game was a huge success, not just because of the turnout, but because of the school spirit that we saw on
032full display. It was a great way to bring students together and start strong. >> Students are already getting awesome opportunities. Heritage is an unforgettable music student at America's Got Talent. From touring the set the show to meeting producers make this tech crew and directors take a look firstand what it takes to bring a live show to life twice a week in the first few weeks of school have been filled with enthusiasm, creativity and connection. These events are more than just fun. They help build a sense of belonging, leadership, and school spirit that carries through the entire school year. >> On behalf of our student body, we thank you for your continued support in helping us create a campus with heard and involved. We look forward to sharing more successes with you in the months ahead.
033Thank you again for your time and for cheering us on. [Applause] >> Okay. I'd like to introduce uh Liberty High School student representatives uh Julian Moika, Jaden, I think it's Marash and Naos. [Music] Good evening, esteemed members of the board, Dr. Oral and the cabinet. I'm Jaden. >> I'm Net. >> And I'm Julian. And we're the Liberty High School's ASB president. And this is our recap. >> To welcome the incoming class of 2029, Link Crew hosted its annual orientation to help the freshman class feel comfortable on their first day of school. We welcomed the students of Liberty High School on the first day of school with a pep featuring performances from cheer, dance, color guard and balance and musical rules to the students. >> Shortly after, all seniors in attendance joined the senior social for
034an opportunity for photos, crafts, and free ice cream. We kicked off our school year with our annual week of welcome where ASB and each grade level on campus hosted a game or activity to welcome back the bison. >> Our first official senior event for the class of 2026, the senior parking, our seniors got to create their own masterpieces to park on for the rest of the year. Shortly after, the senior class hosted the senior sunrise, which was a huge success. Nearly 75% of all seniors joined together to watch the sunrise, play games, and enjoy breakfast. ASB helped host our annual club rush to help promote clubs, sports, and organizations on campus. This year was a huge success as over half of the students on campus either showed interest in signed up for a club on
035our campus. Some events to look out for during the next recap video are homecoming spirit week, fall pest rally, and the homecoming dance, and a back to student school night. Thank you for your time, and as always, >> goes [Applause] high school student representatives Kyler Buard and Hannah R. [Music] Hello school boards. I'm Hannah Rup and I'm Kyler Drew. We're your hosts for this year's Paloma Valley Highlights. To kick off the 2025 2026 school year, ASB hosted our annual welcome back rally. Students had a fantastic time coming back from summer break celebrating and kicking off the new school year together. Speaking of kicking off the school year, on August 26th and 27th, we had our annual club rush where each school club set up a table in the amphitheater. Students were able to check out
036all the pool clubs during lunches and see if we were interested in joining any. >> We also had our back to school night so Paloma families could see what our school was all about. The event was held outdoors with food trucks, performances, and more. And we've had even more fun events happening at Paloma this past month. On August 22nd, we kicked off our first home football game of the year, which was neon themed. It was so amazing to see the Marine Platoon filled with all bright colors and loads of energy. Also competing in fall sports are girls volleyball, cross country, girls golf, girls tennis, boys water polo, and sideline cheer and song. And lastly, our most recent event was senior sunrise. Our class of 26 Wildcats had a fun and bittersweet time celebrating the start
037of their final year of high school while taking photos and watching the sports together. Looking ahead, this Friday is one of the biggest events of the year, the Menipool, which has our Wildcats hosting heritage tag for city bragging rights. The theme of the game is Marina and our home will be decked out in our best Bobcat fits. Hope to see you there. We've had quite an amazing start to our year so far and we can't wait to share with you the rest of what we have planned for Paloma Valley ASB. I'm Kyler Drer >> and I'm Hannah Rup. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next month. [Applause] I have the honor to introduce from Paris High School Valentina A Costa and Linda Kades. >> Good evening school board. My name is Valentina Costa >>
038and my name is Linda >> and we're here at Paris High School and we're your school board representatives and tonight we're going to be talking about all the exciting events from spirit games to football games. August has been full of Panther Pride. [Music] It all started before the first day of school with Panther Pep day and freshman orientation which was the first week of August. >> ASV and Marine Crew woke up class of 2029, showed them around campus and just showed them a little bit of our high school life. >> And the best part was that we had a mini pep rally just for the freshman. The gym was full of energy. here performed, band performed, and we just showed a little bit of our Panther spirit to the freshman. [Music] Just a few days
039later on August 15th, seniors woke up bright and early for senior sunrise. >> The class of 2026 met at 6:00 in the morning to watch the sunrise for their final year in Paris High. Starbucks drinks and donuts made the moment even What made it even better was spending the time as a class and it made it unforgettable. On first, Panthers show a big for her first football game of the season. >> The theme was green out and the stands are filled with green posters and face paint. Paris High battled Bington High and won 32 to 30 on a nailbiter. >> We also had nachos, snow cones, cotton candy, and t-shirt, which I think it was a win-win. >> Weekly, we were back for game two. >> The theme was team beach movie, and I went
040as a surfer >> and I went as a biker. >> And even though we didn't win against Redlands, we still had an amazing time. >> So that was August at Paris High School Panther Prep Days, football games, senior sunrise. It was an amazing start of the year full of happy pride and full of amazing memories. Thank you school for everything. Let's keep this series going all year long. [Music] [Applause] I'd like to introduce the Pentati Middle School student representatives, Melanie Gabetta and Armando Muriel [Music] and >> my name is Melanie >> and my name is Armano. We are your a student representatives at Penn College. >> We are here to report what have been happening at Penn College during the past month. >> We began the school year with orientation where students and families picked
041up schedules, met teachers, and prepared for a great year ahead. [Music] Booza was a big successful students learn about clubs and join fun activities and celebrate the start of the year of school spirit. [Music] We also host engaging lunch activities to bring students together, build communities, and make lunch fun and positive time on campus. [Music] athletes are also underway. We started Catholic football, flag football, cheer, and cross country. Our student athletes are working hard and we're excited to cheer on this season. and we're currently preparing for our first pep rally of the school scheduled for September 12th. >> Future games, performances, and plenty of school spirit as we come together to celebrate our students. >> Thank you for allowing us to share all these highlights. >> We are excited for all that's ahead at Pentacotti
042Middle School. [Applause] from Paris Lake High School. Student Representative Shen Chiella Gutterz Alandre Romero. I'm sorry if I messed up the first name. [Music] Good morning, Paris day falcons. My name is Graciella and I am Alandra. Par club rush is a success. Thank you to advisers, students, and staff for participating. Keep an eye out for club details coming soon. Seniors, our upcoming grads, do you need money for college? It's scholarship time. See Mr. Martinez counseling the counsel office for details and upcoming scholarship opportunities and deadlines. Make these are open to juniors and seniors. Look for flyers and use the QR code for details. Seniors, Mr. Miller will be closing senior meetings during lunch on Thursday. Grab your lunch and meet in room 2011. Join in on discussing plans for your senior events. A big thank
043you to nurse for sharing your nursing career and experiences with our students during our first conversation with the professional series. We truly appreciate your time and inspiration. [Music] >> What What do you like most about your job? You know what I like about my job is what I can do for my students, for my community. >> As a parent, how do you feel about your student attending at Paris? >> Um, I love her being here. I love the teachers and the staff. They're really nice. They're very helpful. >> As a parent, what do you feel like we can do to help support your student? Um, nothing. You're doing a great job. as a new student here at Paris like what is something you would like most? >> Um I like that you know the teachers
044are very involved with the students and um >> yeah and then what is something we can do to support you more. >> Um I feel like just the teachers that interact with students I feel like that makes the kids like more successful in their classes and stuff like that. >> Thank you. outcomes for the plug-in student body are so scholarly, organized, accountable, and respectful. Thank you and have a great day. See you next time, Falcons. [Applause] 9.4 PS, sorry. 9.4 PSA President Jason Miller. [Applause] Thank you. $45 million. What a number. It almost sounds like a Powerball prize. $45 million is the approximate amount of money burning a hole in the pocket for PUHSD right now. My message remains the same as it did several years ago. This district is financially healthy and has plenty
045of money to do it all and still have some leftover. This district is not in financial crisis and PSSEA is opposed to any doom and gloom or great depression type of messaging arising from inaccurate predictions and projections. The numbers in the financial reports do not reflect a true rendering that the district is in financial peril, nor will be anytime soon. The numbers show the opposite and that the district has been doing very well financially for a long time and will continue to do well financially in the foreseeable future. $45 million is the approximate amount of money PUSD had left over at the end of the 2024 2025 school year. It is item K on PDF page 9 of the audit unudited actuals that you will be approving tonight. Actually that is only the restricted category.
046If you combine it with the uh excuse me actually that is only the unrestricted category. If you combine it with the restricted category, then the amount of money includes an additional $22 million for approximately approximate total of 66 million left over at the end of the last school year. $45 million and as an ending balance is a historical high for PUSD. There was an anticipated ending balance of approximately $31 million from item K on page 39 in the 2024 2025 adopted budget. So the district's projection was off and better by close to $14 million from its adopted budget. And even $31 million is a lot of money to estimate for the end of the year balance in an adopted budget. The prediction for the district's ending balance for 2024 2025 was inaccurate and better by
047approximately 44%. $45 million is approximately $9 million better than the ending balance from your second interim report which was released in March 2025. So what reports are telling me is that the district bank approximately $9 million in four to five months. That is impressive. You banked $45 million for the 2024 2025 school year with no real cuts to the classroom, a supposed loss in ADA, and some sense that we are overstaffed. PUHSD has had at least $35 million left over in their ending balance every year since the 2020 2021 school year. So, it is hard to believe every year when we are told there is no money. These numbers are true true numbers and not part of predictions or pro projections. I do not like messaging that we are deficit spending or that we will
048be broke in one, two or 3 years. This messaging is based on projections and predictions from LCFF calculators which quite frankly sometimes can have their calculation and assumptions tinkered with. This gloom and doom messaging is the same song and dance we hear every year and it never materializes nor does it even get close. Based on these numbers, we believe the district should not be making any cuts to the classroom or pretty much anywhere. Test my numbers. If you're not trusting what I'm putting forward, but you should not have to because these are the district numbers. If you do not believe the numbers that I'm putting forward, then you're not believing the district numbers. These numbers are coming directly from official public district reports. The district needs to settle reasonable deals with all the bargaining units.
049Now your reports show there is money and a money by a lot. When you give a salary increase to the bargaining units, you are investing in your talent, your employees and your district. We have a great collection of employees in this district. The non-administrative employees I work with every year are permanent and they are family. These people that I talk to every day have been here for years and decades, including classified staff. Administrators generally are just passing through and yet are making big decisions about the permanent family that will continue to stay here at PUHSD. New administrators need to become part of that family, not the other way around. Employees are not the ones that need to become part of temporary administrative p families that will pass through onto the next stage of their administrative
050careers or retirements because we the employees will be the ones that continue to be here for the district and the students for the years and decades to come. Turning to the dress code memo that was sent yesterday that delineated what was unprofessional for pro uh for employees to wear. We are talking to the district tomorrow in PRC about the details of this. So that's a good thing. But for now, we want to do in part that we believe this memo should be rescended as it was a unilateral change in working conditions subject to negotiations. We also believe that PUHSD has more important educational priorities than it should be focusing on. and we hope that the district decisions that are hindering student education and employees from doing their job more effectively will be resolved as soon
051as possible. Thank you for this time to speak. >> Thank you. >> 9.5 CSA President Cynthia Navaro. >> All right. Good evening, President Campos board of trustees to superintendent Dr. for our cabinet and guests. So, let me start with the negotiations update. There's no update and not because I feel I can't say anything and I say this given a comment that was made to me about my board update last month, but just there truly is no update. So, as Mr. Mr. Miller mentioned, we received a dress code and grooming memo yesterday at 3 p.m. So, if you cannot imagine what that looked like for CSE members, I will tell you frustration, genuine concerns, and fear of losing their jobs. Fear that if they showed up today because a memo that said effective today, less than
05224 hours notice, I cannot show up to work in what I have. I'm going to lose my job. I'm going to be disciplined. This is the real concerns and the fear of members calling me late at night yesterday. So CSVA is ready to send a cease and desist demand to bargain because this is a negotiable subject of bargaining, but we are willing to work with the district. I did get on the phone last night with Dr. Arral and Mr. and we just were awaiting to see what we can work together on. This members already feel a certain way about this leadership given the recent memos, the recent decisions. They're seeing it as dictatorship. I'm asking the board, cabinet leadership, please help us. you, our elected officials, help us. I don't want CSA to continue to
053feel this way about this district. We are here. Some of us have been here, you know, some have 30 plus years, 10 years. We love what we do. We have a passion for education to be with these kids. Whatever our classification is, we enjoy it. I was talking to an HVAC guy today just like, I can see the passion. And he told me all about air conditioning. I'm like, oh my god, I can see that. Please help me help my members feel like there's hope for the future and with this leadership. >> Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. [Applause] >> Invitation uh 10.1 invitation to address the board of trustees on non-aggenda items. >> Yes, we have one. >> Okay, thank you. And so I'm going to just read this really quickly. Um,
054individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-aggenda item. The board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. With board consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard. In addition, the president may take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that the additional person speak only if they have something new to add. Thank you. >> Good evening, President Campos, trustees, superintendent, Dr. Dao. Uh my name is Ricardo Guerrero. I'm district representative for Senator Sabrina Svantes. Tonight, I'm excited to announce the Senator's Johnny Legislators Program, a leadership and civic engagement program for local high school juniors and seniors.
055The objectives of this program are to empower young people to become informed, engaged in community leaders, gain an understanding of legislative process, strength to share communication and public policy skills, promote civic responsibilities and career readiness. We are now accepting applications for the students we who live and attend in school districts of Senate District 31. Uh the program will run from September 2025 through May 2026. We'll be meeting once a month. Uh roughly it'll be the third Wednesday of each month from 5:30 to 7:30. Applications are due September 19th, which will be next Friday by 5:00. Uh students can apply at our website at sd31.sate.ca.gov go or they can scan. I know my colleagues have been mailing out these out to everybody, but I do have extra uh uh um flyers and including the QR code
056where students can definitely scan the barcode to get more information and be able to apply online as well. Uh we respectfully ask for your help to spread the word about this amazing opportunity uh for our youth. Thank you for the opportunity to address the board and thank you for all you do on behalf of our community. >> Thank you. Can you be sure to leave those flyers with the >> in a point of order because I know normally we're not supposed to engage but I just want to ask do you have a business card that you can just leave with us that way we can we can communicate with you >> if there's any questions we have. >> Thank you. >> Can we clap? >> Y [Applause] >> 11.1 Consent calendar approval of consent calendar
057items. Do I have a motion? So move. >> Thank you, Trusty Hall. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Trusty Stafford. Seeing no discussion, please vote. Upon vote being taken, the vote was in five in favor, zero opposed. And moving on to oral reports 12.1 unudited actual financial report, Dr. Williams. Good evening again, board president Compost, board members, staff, student, and community. I am here to present to you the 2425 unodudited actuals for Paris Union High School District. The next slide I'm not going to spend a lot of time on because I think I um hopefully painted a picture of the budget financial cycle and how we continue to get new information in at each of our reporting periods. So um we we do expect to see changes uh due to those
058uh additional information that's coming in to the district. So again uh this is meeting the compliance of ed code u 421000 making sure that our actuals are sent to the county office by September 15th. I do just want to reiterate that this report reflects changes that occurred since estimated actuals report that was presented to the board on June 2nd. In this report, you'll see changes to the projected beginning balance for 2425. You'll also um identify actual restricted and unrestricted carryover balances for 2425. And this report provides the updated financial information to the board, superintendent, and stakeholders. And I just put these key terms here just for all of us to be on the same page as it relates to estimated actuals and what that means versus unodudited actuals because I'm using that term a lot
059throughout the presentation. So just to remind uh the board and community estimated actuals was taken to the board back in June and it's at that time when we look at uh available data historical trends uh and other factors to make the decision on what we believe u will be uh how we finish the end of the year. The unodudited actuals is that statement where now we have formally closed the books and this document will go to our auditors for their final review. Uh and we'll report out any changes or updates as a part of our uh audit. So that's the difference between estimated actuals and unodudited actuals. Two different reports. The next slide does show um some variances in our ADA of 33 students. So, we're really excited to see uh the district's uh enrollment
060and ADA continue to progress. Last year's uh combined budget, unrestricted and restricted, was $27.9 million. That is our combined budget with all of our LCFF resources, federal, other state and other local. So here we are looking at our general fund expenditures and if we look at um 207 in revenue, we're looking at about 202 in our general fund expenditures. Again, that's unrestricted and restricted. This slide is a comparison of what was shared with the board in June for estimated versus our unodudited. So on my left, you'll see the estimated numbers for unrestricted and restricted. In the middle you'll see the difference between the estimated actuals and the unodudited. And here you're seeing an increase in revenue approximately $2.3 million. And the increase in LCFF for uh sources is contributing to ADA increase of 33 students.
061You'll also see um another major jump in other local revenue. That increase has to do with the fair market adjustment. It's not revenue that the district can use. It is a fair market adjustment. So if we think about change in the market, that's that particular increase, but it's really not revenue that the district can use. So that's our revenue variances between estimated and unodudited. This particular side is doing the same type of comparison, but it's based on our expenditures. And what you're seeing here, bottom line, savings, $4 million approximately, uh, from what we estimated to what actually happened. So, we assumed that, uh, it would come in at the numbers that you're seeing there, but once we closed the books, paid all the bills, uh, we have a savings of 4 million approximately on the
062unrestricted side and 1.8 million on the restricted side. So here's a comparison of change uh from the revenue from estimated to an audited. We're seeing, as I shared in that other slide, $2.3 million additional. We're seeing adjustment for additional ADA of 33. And then we're seeing that large jump of the 1.5 in other local which has contributed to the fair market value increase. We're also seeing the $4 million in cost savings in the various areas. Uh calling your attention to our salaries uh for certificated almost um $700,000. Uh books and supplies, a savings of approximately 1.423 million. Uh services um $825,000. all contributing to that large cost savings of $4 million contributions. Um we are seeing here that we did have a slight uh increase to uh our contributions especially in the area where it
063related to our contributions for special education and routine restricted maintenance. We saw an increase there of um 412,000. We originally projected that it would be 25. So there's actually a savings there. We actually uh projected 25.9 million, but it came in at 25.5. So we're seeing a savings there back to the general fund. And here's um where we're seeing a very large variance. At estimated actuals, it was presented to the board and community that our ending fund balance would be $1.3 million. When we closed the books, um we realized that it was $8.1 million and that's a variance of 6.823 million. And I just want to add that of that variance of $6.8 million 2.1 million uh approximately belongs to the LCAP. It was carryover money from the previous year. That money is unrestricted restricted
064because it has to be spent to increase and improve uh services to a specific group of students. It's not um no strings attached. So 2.1 million of that 6.8 has to go to our LCAP and it has to be budgeted uh in as revenue and also we have to budget in expenses for that. In addition, the 1.1 million in fair market value is not just straight revenue to the district. And I know you know that question might come up. So I wanted to make sure that I share that it's not new money. So the district investment in the county treasury pool reflects the fair market value increase for this year. This is an accounting adjustment required by gas fee standards to show what our investment would be worth if sold today. So it is not
065new revenue. So 3.6 million of that number is all unrestricted. That is for the operation of our school district. We don't have uh guidelines on how we spend it. As long as it's legal and meeting the needs of our students, uh that is that is for the district to use. So, just wanted to kind of outline how did we get to that so that we're clear on where those dollars came from and requirements or strings related to that. So, here's our um components of our ending fund balance. You've kind of heard this all already, but I'll call your attention to the ending fund balance is going to increase for the 2526 by 6.82. 828 million and that's uh really important to point out there. That's one of the biggest changes. So most of everything I've
066talked about is fund one. So I wanted to bring to your attention the other funds that are in the district's uh financial statements. And I'm not going to read it all to you, but I'll just show you how it's laid out. So that first column is the different fund. The second column describes the fund. The third column gives you the beginning balance of the fund and again this is 2425. The next column is revenue that came into that particular fund throughout the year. The next column are any transfers in to that particular fund. Expenditures is what was spent during the fiscal year in that particular fund. And the last column is a pending fund balance for that particular fund. So that's fund 8 through 56. And as we look ahead, again, just reiterating some of
067the things I shared earlier, um, continuing to have that laser-like focus as it relates to average daily attendance. That's where we're going to see increases in our LCFF funding. So, that's going to be really important that we continue to do that. uh no doom and gloom, but it's important as we develop our um budget advisory committee that we use all of the great minds of our labor partners and all of the various groups that uh Dr. Arral mentioned to look at our budget uh and um identify areas where we can ensure that what we're doing is working and it's what we need to to be doing so that we can ensure the long-term financial health of the district. I'll be back in December to share with you the first interim budget and the multi-year projections.
068And it this really gives us an opportunity to now to begin to look at historical data over the last um few years when we make decisions about how we're analyzing each of our interim budget reports. So, thank you for your time and again, I just want to appreciate uh fiscal services and the work that everyone does there to contribute to ensuring that we're reporting out uh our numbers with integrity and in transport and transparency uh each uh time of our reporting. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] >> 12.2 two, district marketing and student recruitment and services. >> Hi, good evening everyone. >> Good evening. >> I am excited to share about our marketing and enrollment recovery efforts. um really being able to highlight um some intentionality behind sharing our story.
069um and really leveraging um our marketing in order to uh well the result is we're bringing students back that live in our areas that were not um attending our schools and we're having a really strong engagement um based on some of the the data I'll share with you uh with our stakeholders um and stakeholders including our our students our families we are being um tagged in stories even um today from the um student of the month. We had a picture of a mother who was with her daughter from Paris High School who got um recognized and apparently she's also an alumni. So she tagged us KHS alumni, her daughter's basketball team and and so it just shows like the overall connection. So I'm excited to talk about that. Um one of the goals um in
070this journey. And mind you, um what I'm going to show you on some of the the data is just what's been happening since June, July, and August. Just the last three months where we've really um hit hard. So, we have uh started telling our story and um we've had social media. It's just um it just wasn't very active if you looked at it. I mean, we did our standard. we had our flyers, but um when you look now, I'll be able to show you the difference. So, we're just telling our story a little differently. Um we're finding the voice and not just the voice from the district uh voice, but the voice of of everyone, our student voice, our staff voice, our teachers voice, right? Um the impact. So, I'll be able to share um
071some data. I'm intentionally going to use um our inland online academy because I want to show you some key data um that has happened since with the rebranding and just talking about the future and and and what's to come. Um so you know with our social media sorry we go between far classes and close classes. Um so one of the the goals so there's two main things um with our marketing we are looking to basically enhance our district brand awareness um increase community engagement and and strengthen our communication channels. Um I find myself um responding to parents that have sent messages through Instagram. um they may see a story for example um CMI's flag football for the girls team and they'll say hey when are we getting this over here across town and so you
072know we're we're responding and so it's just opening um lines of communication that are not typical from obviously like when I was in school my mother had to call for an office but we are making ourselves flexible and available through these different platforms um we are focused on three main platforms. We have Facebook which um we use mostly for the community reach. Uh my kids say like like the adults are on Facebook apparently. Um so but um we use Instagram for the visual engagements with our students and families. Um Instagram is um over 77% of how our um community is interacting with us when I show you the numbers. And then we use LinkedIn um for professional networking and educational leadership. So those are our three platforms and that's what we've been focusing on. Um
073the second uh outcome that we've been and want to see is we want to see attendance and enrollment recovery efforts. And so we've seen the uh the enrollment recovery just with what has happened with uh the start of the school year. But what we're also seeing is um that student engagement and things that I've learned on how um at every school site they have their like school let's say Instagram page but then all the clubs and the sports and they all have a social media page and now they're tagging the main page and it's all just collaboration and so when they post um we're collaborators so it reposts on the main page and it's just um broadening everyone's exposure. So I I have a few slides just to um also just bring the awareness. So
074stories create culture, culture creates community and community creates legacy and we've been talking about you know building our legacy. We started that um as a theme um with our admin and what we're really um talking about is those things that we do that that build the memories when our students graduate and what are those solid memories but now it's not only their memories they're sharing the memories and so it becomes memories of of the community and it it does it creates a vibe and it's it seems to be working and I'll show you the data. I I love to talk about the data. So what I have here first is um a legacy worth telling. And so I took a few screenshots because these are the things that we're seeing. We have you know um
075I just took these from Pinnacotti and it is you know attendance works and focusing on attendance. It is our instruments and our band teacher um and and there that group. It's our our parent advisory committee and advertising our packs. Um, and then it's our our our ads. I mean, we have ads that um right now we're running. We have ads in Many 247. We right now are having quotes um from the local movie theaters and there's a billboard that's right off the digital billboard that um has some really decent um pricing that uh we're looking at right now. And so again, it is um it's sometimes amazing that we're getting input from families that right here like live on the same street as the student services center but never knew that oh you have that
076there in the district and and whose kids were going outside the district for a program that we had in house. So it's it's bringing an awareness um the connection. So again, uh there are so many um groups on every single campus and they have requested to be collaborators with the main page. And so now the main page is advertising what's happening and showing, you know, just all those amazing things that it's hard to say, oh, how did Paloma Valley volleyball do today? Well, now we don't have to worry about it because it's right there on the story because what they're posting, we're posting. And so it is really really highlighting. Um a neighboring superintendent said, "Hey, what's going on with their social media?" I was like, "What do you mean?" >> It's it's it's really,
077you know, they just noticed it and whereas they didn't notice it before, but they noticed it. And so, uh, it's all good. And what one of the nice things is that we're showing up for our community. And that in itself if you've sat and just you know every day people are saying hey I watched the story it's like it's like a movie and it's very true. So, as an example, uh on the community right now on our story in Instagram, we have 21 um stories going 21 and they are uh varying from our uh FFA to here I have it right here. So right now 21 stories and out of these stories and there some have various posts but we have Paris uh high school girls golf which I had never you know seen uh
078video of but you watch the story it's there uh Paris High School uh ASB in collaboration with the class of 2028 CMI Paris which has been their flag football is killing and all of our families are so we're moving forward on that because all the other the parents, they are like, "When is it coming?" So, we're moving forward on that. Uh PB athletics, uh LHS environmental justice club. >> Yes. I opened that post cuz I was like, "What is an environmental justice club?" Um the alumni association, uh PHS College and Career Center. Um, we had a collab which I love which was um, uh, Paris High School ASB and it was #PUHSD leads. So I thought that was nice. Liberty water polo, PBHS volleyball, um, the girls basketball, Liberty Bison ASB, Paloma Valley Abid, and
079Paloma Valley just like just the original Paloma Valley, which is the main the school's main page. So all of that I mean across our district um with various sports, various activities I mean that is um showing that we are showing up for our community and we're highlighting um maybe things that had gone invisible, right? And so it's a difference from when you're posting maybe just like just the flyer for the parent advisory committee, but we're posting like what it's like to be a part of this district and the students and what it feels like and and the videos highlighting their principles and it's it's just been really uh amazing to watch and it's only been three months. Um, so our impact, so I I wanted to use Emmen online academy as an example because with
080the data right now, um, you you're actually going to see the numbers of students that live in our district, were not attending our schools, and have now are now attending our schools. And so on this chart it shows you um 2425 uh enrollment of 19 um and that was you know when it was called solless so now we've rebranded it as inland online academy. Um day one we had 64 students. Um right now we have 142 applications um uh enrolled in some pending which number that was the number when we made it. Right now a little closer to 160. Um and right now we have a a projected enrollment by the end of September of 200. and and and here is really where where the impact is helping. Um you have you know 69.6 six
081that that uh previously um attended schools. But look at a third a third almost 30% of the students right now and this has been consistent even when we were down to when we started with 64. A third are students that live in our families but were never attending our schools. And so these are students that um are coming back or I'm just gonna say coming back. They live here. Um and so that uh that number that that third has been consistent and I and we monitor it. Um we have a small percentage of inner district transfers but um that is huge because we saw and we knew the students were leaving. We were losing students. Um and now we can show hard like be able to show you that they are coming back and that
082is just one part of it. I mean when you look at our enrollment we're seeing increases in our comprehensive sites as well. Um and our engagement numbers um I'm going to share with you as well. So part of how we're doing we have this tell me something good and this was shared with our admin with our sites. Um so you can upload content right we have teachers that are doing amazing things are doing amazing labs you can upload content um here but also you know you can follow us so everyone can take their phone and scan and you can follow the district and we on our various social media pages. So right now as I'm going to read for you the data for our um our engagement sorry so when you look at June, July
083and August in total here it is um our total views okay um across Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn our total views for three months was 384,828 >> views. Okay. Um on Facebook uh our average I'm sorry on Facebook so out of that 384 828 72,996 which is about 19% were were through Facebook. 296,922 were from Instagram. So Instagram is our main platform. 77% of all of our interactions are through Instagram. And then on le on on LinkedIn, which actually I thought was pretty impressive. Um we've done 14,910 impressions, which is 4% of our overall number, but it's really um good engagement for a school district on LinkedIn. Um, so, uh, on average, so our monthly average is, um, 24,000 views on Facebook, 98,000 on Instagram, and 4,500, like close to 5,000 for LinkedIn is our monthly
084average. Um, I just got sent um, for the last 30 days, just 30 days right now on Instagram, we've done over 158,000 views. And so it is uh definitely sparking interest and curiosity and I like to be able to see that with the data of involvement. It doesn't mean it's the only thing but the fact that we're able to tell so many um of our community, our neighbors, our surrounding about all the great things that are happening and want to feel safe. I mean right now alone 21 different stories of things happening across the district. It is making an impact. So that is make sure that was the last one. Yes. Um so I wanted to just really take this moment because this doesn't happen alone uh at all. Um we have uh it's a
085collaboration between our school sites um our principles the teachers when they're so excited to share um what they're doing and their students are excited. Um I wanted to make sure I really highlight the work of our community liaison and um under um Miss Chavez and the department they uh have really helped set the groundwork and are adding to because they're there. They're there with our community. Um and so they help collect content, they help create the flyers, they help get the messages out to the families. Um and also uh Dr. Tamasian um and our TOSA, Miss Allison King. As you know, um Dr. Tomasian does in online, but she also is doing our marketing and ADA recovery programs. um with the support of Miss Allison King which is a a TOSA who's helping with the
086communications and als [Music] really really is taking a village and I'm I'm just making oh and all the clubs and the teachers and and the leaders and the the student um that they watch they tag us they comment um their parents are now commenting even more they're sharing pictures and so that is the biggest um that's the win, right? That's the narrative and that that shows um who we are and all the amazing things we have to offer. And so it's it's been good. >> That's what I got. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Any questions? >> Just more of a comment question. >> The the seniors is the area that I represent. I'm going to have to speak for them. Um just some sort of can we do some sort of invitation to them
087to attend something or maybe uh I don't know man if nothing out of the way something we're already doing already but maybe just to recognize them because the seniors pay taxes in these bonds and you know of course they had kids and now they're paying forward for the next group but just to see if we get any reaction or if there's any interest >> seniors not Not not 12th graders. >> No, no, no. >> Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I had to follow you for a moment. >> Senior citizens. Yes. Okay. I'm sorry. >> I don't like to refer to myself. >> Okay. Okay. Like our our alumni. >> No, but Sun City Menipe and Sun City was Menipe and of course Menip City. >> It was a 55 and up community. >> Still is. >>
088Okay. >> But it's your red little piece there on the map there. area too. >> Okay. Yeah. Chunk in mind too. >> So it's um yeah, you got a little some senior who who knows they may want to participate in something. And what brought that? A friend of mine goes to uh in LA. He started going to the pool over there, Will Rogers. And I said that's been there all the time. He's my age and saying, but he's using the facility and and swimming and they do a senior swim. So, anything we could do understand senior Sun City has the senior area. >> Okay. >> Uh but then there's areas area above that that's not 55 and up, but it's still part of Sun City. >> So, you have some people in regular homes that
089are up in age two. And if you know of um uh like so I don't know like right we we know Instagram is like one of our highest but if there's another um where place where we could be advertising and right where >> the the community center you off flyers or something. Yeah, that would probably be the best way to uh contact the community center. It it's funny. I live above the senior area so I can't go to the pool in the senior >> because I don't pay to do all that but and and I'm not eligible because I live in that court but there's some ideas you you you know Sun City has gone through change. The golf course is closed down and there's a lot of open space. >> I don't know that
090that can ever be an idea for us but just >> there's there's whole two whole golf courses >> Oh yeah. sitting empty. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> And and of course the seniors have to decide what along with the owners of what they're going to do with that. But seniors don't stick around that long for a 10year plan. So >> Right. >> So anyway, that's the real the realities of it. But just implementation. >> No, absolutely. and in any of your areas, right? If there's some other like >> uh places and then where we can be able to get um engagement >> with different facets of your community and the areas you're seeing. Absolutely. So, thank you for >> Okay. Thank you. >> I have a quick comment. Um so, these are updates that we
091get from the students here. Can we do something like that on the school's main social media? maybe just summarize it, but I love seeing the student like what's going on as a parent. If I was following on social media, I would like to see that. >> Yes. All of the So those 21 stories that's on our district main page. >> Oh, and then for the schools hearing the students actually talking. I follow most of them and I I don't remember seeing much. I see a lot of flyers. >> Oh yeah. No, look at it today. So, and on each one of the stories like it gives a highlight and if you press it, you can go straight to that post. Got it. Um and so what and it's you know kids are um students are
092a little more savvy so they're like oh yeah no let's be collaborators and their club advisors or coaches so what they post it'll come to us so that's how it ends up on our story. >> Yeah. So, you look at the district story. That's where you'll see the >> Okay. >> And then I'm a little biased because my daughter goes to Parai, but I've really seen um maybe they need a little media room update. They're kind of a I'm just I'm you know, it's it's the new centers, but our eyes they want to see nice things. So, I think both maybe looking to aesthetically a little more pleasing. Actually, the other schools were amazing. Their their media room. what I'm just looking at right now. I think from when we first when I first came
093on board the it's it's a lot better. I I remember the first couple ones where like it wasn't much love put into the media and I see a big big shift. So that's that's awesome. It's it's nice to see that. >> Perfect. Okay. >> Great. >> So I'd like to call up I have two more. Um, Dr. Mary >> and so >> yeah. So, we're moving now into 12.3, the summer school update. >> So, uh, we are, uh, pleased to be able to give a summer school update and Dr. Marian is our director of curriculum and instruction. And so she'll be going through the slides. Um I just want to say that I, you know, as being new to the district, seeing the summer graduation, um was really impactful. It's the first time I had
094seen it in a district and to see the families and the students um be able to get that same experience um was amazing. And so I did want to be sure and there's a there's a picture from our summer graduation and our overall graduations um were amazing. Um so in this uh we're going to do just a short update on graduation and summer school and looking ahead of of how we anticipate being able to support the classroom but also still um be able to have an impactful summer school for our students that need it. Okay. So with that, I'm going to transfer it over to Dr. Mary. Good evening. Thank you, Dr. Egan. So, um, as Dr. Egan shared, this is a, um, presentation that basically gives some basic data about our graduation numbers and
095our summer school numbers. And of course, that is aligned with our goal two of our LCAP where our students are thoroughly prepared for their post-secary and career options. And of course the first step is successfully getting them that diploma and helping them reach their graduation goals. So um in this chart there are two different columns. One is graduates with exemptions and one is stu the number of students who met all graduation requirements and then the numbers are broken down by subgroup. So, you can see that we had 2,123 students meet the PHSD graduation requirements, the 225. Um, and then graduates with exemptions means we have some students that um have a credit reduction based on attending Paris Lake um qualifying under Mckin Vento or um foster youth. some c some uh instances for our English
096learner population. Um and so altogether that number equals 2388 students who successfully graduated from PUSD. That also includes our summer school graduates which we had 20 29 students. Many of you were there which is amazing, right? Um 29 students who participated in the summer ceremony. For summer school enrollment, we had a total number of students participate, 1,1 and they earned a total of 9,955 credits, which is a huge accomplishment. That's a lot of credits that were recovered in summer school. They also completed 1,991 courses. And we did have some students who um were enrolled in our summer school but were taking some external classes like um our graduation alliance program and that's the 214 down at the bottom. Um so overall a lot of a very successful summer school program. A lot of credits recovered
097a lot of students helping to get back on track. And I will tell you that right now we're already starting to plan for summer school for next year. I met with the lead counselors today and kind of talked about um having them gather their biggest needs, their wish list, if we could find out, you know, where do you really see that you need these classes? Um how many teachers, how many sections are we looking at so that we can start to prepare now because that really helps them if we're planned ahead of time, that really helps them um work with their students. um because we're looking at how our students are recovering credits. We're looking at best practices. We're looking at all of those things right now to make sure that our students are getting
098the best learning possible and they're um accomplishing all that they need to get to graduation. So, um we will continue to work on that. So, my goal is to have that plan in place in the fall so our counselors know exactly what to expect as they're coming into summer school next year. And then finally, you can see some of the pictures from our summer school graduation. We've got Mr. Chapete there giving a diploma and our kids. Um, you know, our students, our families are always so proud when they see their students in capping down and crossing the stage and really getting that experience. So, um, I'm really proud that we have this tradition here and I think it's really impactful. That's it for us. Do you have any questions. >> Thank you so much. >>
099Welcome. [Applause] >> Okay, moving on to 12.4. We have an >> Hello again. So, uh, now I am honored to bring up our director of people's services, Dr. Sha Pong. Um, we have had a lot of fun looking at attendance, which I'm biased because I I love the attendance uh component. Um, the awareness uh being able to say happy attendance awareness month, which is this month right now um for the month of September. and um being able to just start to bring that awareness and the importance consistently um across the district and looking at um all the great work they're doing with not only just student engagement but teacher engagement and because it's our teachers that actually get our students um in the chairs. And so just really having um a whole district picture on
100on everything that impacts attendance. So um we take care of each other and we take care of the kids. So with that I wanted to pass it over to Dr. Sha and she will show uh what we are intentions uh for our attendance this year. >> Good evening. Hello doc. I'm president on compost board of trustees. Thank you. Um, superintendent Aralo, Dr. Arrow, I'm sorry. And cabinet members and fellow community members as I'm as Chaan and I'm proud to be here. Thank you. This is the first time I get to be before the board. So, I'm very excited about that. Um, Dr. Eaggan, thank you for that wonderful introduction. We are focusing on attendance and that has not been just for the month of September. the intentionality the district has brought forward is present not
101only in Dr. Arrow's pillars of focusing on attendance. We know that if students are not present then they can't reach those academic goals. So it bleeds into every little um part of our um progress as a district. Um as Dr. um Egan mentioned September is attendance awareness month. We as a district do have a campaign um pushing forward where attendance every period every day. If we ensure that attendance is taken um appropriately and correctly then we are actually working with correct data. And that's something that we're really focusing on and making sure that attendance is taken every period and every day so we can have accurate data. We know how to move forward to make better decisions as a district. Um, so we're going to be going on where we were focusing on our LCAP
102data, a little bit of what we're looking forward in the future and things that are um have been presented to us as a as a district and opportunities. Um, the local control accountability accountability plan allows us some fundings and opportunities to focus for um people service and attendance. I focus on goal number three. However, like I mentioned, everything bleeds into everything. If students are not here, it's going to affect the proficiency levels in progress in English and math or also as well as preparedness for graduation colleges and so on and so forth. So it does all bleed bleed together um where we were so currently for the first um four weeks of school. This is the data that we have there. I do have a link down below so you can see where this information
103is coming from if you if you have access to the presentation. I did not put CMI's data there. I wanted them to share that. I didn't want to take their thunder. So that's their their progress. I did put NA, but that is there for them. However, I did include them in the overall just so you could see the overall attendance. We have 93.63% the first four weeks of school. And then you can tell where they are for um based on grade levels from that point forward. Okay. I know that um Miss Dr. Arel has a clear expectation set forward. wants improvement in in attendance. Um the goal is to make progress towards the attendance but the goal is 94% or higher. Okay, that is something that we are striving for and working towards which aligns
104to his pillar um that focuses on attendance as well. Um chronic absenteeism, I'm not going to read that big old dissertation there. Basically, it's saying that if students are absent more than 10% of their amount of days that, for example, if they're we 20 days and they're already absent two days, within those 20 days, they're already considered chronically absent. And that target keeps moving moving forward as the year progresses, right? So, we have a total of 180 days with academic school days for our students. If they're already absent at that point, 18 days or moving, they're already considered chronically absent. And as much as we try to hold Saturday school to help recoup all of that, it helps with the ADA. However, that the distinction of chronic absenteeism remains. It's not something that can be
105easily taken away. We have to address it as a district. And so that's just a quick definition of it. Um here this one, the my source, I did quote my source where I received got this information is from the California school um dashboard. It is for the 2425. I know that it's older information, but I want to explain that that's important. We have to know where we were, where we're at in order to make informed decisions. And in this case, the decline is a good thing. Typically, when we see decline, we're saying, "Oh, no. We're we're going Yes. In this case, when it comes to absenteeism and attendance, decline means we made progress. That means we want to lower that even further to make um continued gain." And this was done not just there was
106a complete focus um by the district um toward last year and it helped these metrics. There were initiatives that were done before I came into this position and was appointed. These are efforts that were made in that we've got to celebrate those efforts because it's evident there. Um one area that we are focusing on being truly um laser focused and intentional is our homeless. There was an increase. So I'm very happy to announce that I have been um assigned a coordinator and that I'm very fortunate to that and she is a coordinator of of mental health. However, she is a social worker and so she I I she's working on improving our systems and processes and ensuring that our foster youth, our McKini Vento, our juvenile youth as well as a military families and we
107have a complete system of support um where she's meets with the social workers and there's intentionality in the progress that we're making. So, I'm very happy she's taken this and is running with it. We've connected with our COE. We've met with the liaison from RCOE. In fact, on September 4th, we had our first regional meeting at PHSD at SSC. I have pictures that I shared with Dr. Eans and and just bringing awareness. And so, I was happy and I let them know that if you guys want to have it in a month, we don't have to travel to your places. I welcome it. Come on over. We'll do it. And this is a part of branding ourselves and and bringing this here to our district. And so we are focusing on the homeless um homeless
108and McKinto students. So addressing attendance is important. We have to have focus. We have to continue supporting our sites and our and our and our staff. So focus on sorry on training maximizing the systems and um you know being um explaining how um infinite campus which is our student information system and how um letters are being sent out and understanding running um running the reports what we discovered is that we need um alignment we need to calibrate how we are running those reports the smallest nuance in infinite campus can shift that data so we've been working collect collaboratively with business services with our SIS coordinator um over um technology and supports making sure that we are running the reports to make sure that we're all speaking the same language and gathering the information as needed.
109So those are some efforts that we we've been working towards as well as ensuring common practices across the district. And then moving on to training in other areas in regards to student success teams, attendance um addressing attendance during those student success teams, ensuring that we the students are making progress in their gains. Addressing whatever barrier may be that is um prohibiting the students to coming in attendance. uh attending school behaviors may it be social emotional and making sure that we have uh we connect the students with the resources that are needed in order to ensure that they're coming to school. Um it's same thing with providing um attendance connectedness for our administrators. Um we've had our very first meeting with the assistant principles over attendance letting them know some of the new initiatives that are
110coming forward. Dr. Egan did share in regards to some of the the allocations of fundings and things that are coming and so we are just aligning things um and so as well as our community liaison providing um information to our families as they meet together as a group when they're addressing with our um families and um parents at large. So all together with attendance we have it's not a it's not a we can't work in silos in order to address attendance. We need to work as a community and so we do invite our attendance clerks, our attendance specialists, um our techs, our business services, as I said, community leaison, our counselors. It takes us all in order to address this. It cannot be done by one department, one person. We're not it's going to work
111as a community. Um we do have MTSS attendance framework that gives um parameters and this information is placed in our um attendance student hub where the school sites are able to see um this information. It's in one place, one location. We're not like where's this, where's that, it's all in one entire hub where they see the letters that are being sent out, potential letters. We have not started our first cycle. Our first cycle actually starts September 10th when um we're sending out the very first letters to our families letting them know. But before behind the scenes before that first letter is going on we have the district working um calling our family families and finding out why or what's going on? What is prohibiting them coming in? Have they moved out or they enrolled somewhere
112else? So we're doing that behind the scenes in conjunction with the school sites, their community leaison, their attendance works. So, we're working all together to ensure that we are working towards and and getting our students back in back in school. Um, here are our tiers of interventions. As I said, we do are running campaigns and initiatives. We talked about that with the assistant principles over attendance last week and it provided some ideas of how we can get our students and using um um our resources in order to get our students in and I talking about our campaign of attendance every day. So here are different tiers depending on where the students percentage of absence ab absenteeism. So we have our tiered system of support and our goal is to ensure that we are reaching out
113to our families before it gets to the more the tier two where we are meeting as a a school attendance review board. We're trying to minimize that. So we are having initiatives to having systems in place to ensure that we are minimizing and the amount of sar referrals coming moving forward. But these are our tiers of intervention. um where we are. So here you see uh in regards to the first month's district daily attendance, there is um an incline um in our percentage rates and those previous year's data um were there last year. I left those there because that's data I don't want I want for clear transparency. I don't want oh we had last year's data and it looks different. So I kept it there. I just only included the 2526. I put the
114dates at it and also the resource where I found it. So where we calculated the 94% but that way you can see where um the the the the progression that we're making towards our attendance. Um also here we are in regards to school sites um their percentage rates. Um um I like I said the previous years I remained um the same as last year and only updated the 2526 school year. I also put my data my res my source where I got my information. The inland online academy has NA. We cannot calculate that right now because that is based on engagement and that's not calculated until the end of the semester. So more information to come on that. And then here are some highlights. I'm happy to celebrate the good news here. We have a
115community schools parent advisory. Through that community school's parent advisory, it used to be aka known as the PY. Is that correct? P. So because of our advisor premiering with our parents, Pure HSD was avo um awarded an award of $1,000 to use as incentives for our for our students that are making improvements in attendance. And so um we received it's not in dollar forms, it's actually in gift cards. So they gave it for different restaurants like Starbucks, McDonald's, and a variety in different quantities. $5, $10. But then here comes even the better part. We did also receive another incentive um program in regards to the healthy kids where we got another $1,000 of a 10 $100 um gift cards. So we have things that when we do meet with our families and provide to the
116school. That's news. I just received them last week and so we're we're putting an accountability sheet where we're able to keep accountability who we're giving it to. It's a tracking because when it comes to money, you don't mess with anybody. So we're putting that in place so we were able to roll it out to the schools of how we're going to roll this out. If if it's during their start meetings at the meetings that happen at the sites or if we're going to be doing it at the SAR but I want to get input. It can't just be a one. I want to reach out to our our site administration and see how they want to move forward with that. But we do have those gift cards. So that's a celebration. Then we have our
117short-term independent study. Um currently we have about 50 um students on contract. We still having 217 um proc pending. Um but that is something that um you know we're rolling out to ensure that when students do have to go out for whatever reason we have um the short-term independent study to ensure that we're still able to the students are still access their education and we can still um um count that towards your attendance and we're not losing out on the ad on that part. So we do have the attendance the short time study and here's some information that we can provide our families that are community leaison are able to hand out and there's our campaign every attendance every period and every day. So these are some resources that our community leaison we do we
118are working currently we have started these monthly attendance meetings and um these are the things that I work with in order to um push out our initiatives and that's it. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Any questions? You actually answered my question, so we're good. >> Oh, awesome. >> All right. Thank you. >> Oh, excuse me. >> Oh, yes, sir. >> Um, I lost it. >> Well, I was going to ask about something here. >> The the online academy, the shortterm um students, what does that mean? they're out sick and they're going to come back. >> For well, for the in for the short-term independent study, it could be not precisely that they're sick, but um let's just say if there's a a death and family, they're bereavement because they've got to go
119out of state or out of the country, there's that availability of 15 days or less to receive that independent study. So it allows the families to take care of their business while the students are still accessing their education and there now with um through Dr. Tamasian's office with Alison and Kim somebody's going to be there to monitor that and making sure that the work is being inputed in and that way we're able to ensure that the work is completely turned in in order to get credit for the ADA. >> That kind of leads me to my it's just a question. I don't know whether we still have it or not. I know we do have home hospital. Yes. Are we still doing home visits? >> A home um for um teachers or >> Yeah. >>
120for home hospital. Um what we do is we assign a uh a teacher a home hospital teacher to be able to support the students while they're in home hospital and they do sign they the parents do sign in order to get that showing that they were they received their academic instruction. But um the other piece in regards to home visits the community lays on that's one of the things that they can do is go out and visit but what we've asked um in order to be sensitive of our you know making sure that our families know who is coming. So calling the families wearing that we're Paris Union High School letting them know ahead of time that we're who's at my door and so we're making we've asked them to ensure that they let them
121know schedule an appointment and so they are going to the home. That way there's no surprise and they're not worried about anything else maybe of who's at the door especially our current um climate. Yes, that's what I was thinking. That seems to be well, thank our leaison. That's an incredibly yes >> difficult position to go into those >> homes. But they I thought positive feedback, but this is great scheduling appointments for families. I've also let them know that we can schedule Google meet appointments if needed and that we have to be thinking outside the box in order to meet the needs of our families. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay, moving on to written report 13.1 discipline August 2025 monthly suspension report and then uh action items 14.1 general functions a revised
122board meeting schedule do I have a motion so move >> uh thank you trusty do I have a second >> second thank you trusty hall any discussion questions Okay, please vote. Upon a vote being taken, the vote was three in favor, two opposed. And then moving on to 14.2, general functions, monthly compensation increase for board of trustee members. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Do I have a second? I'll go ahead and second that. And any discussion or questions? [Music] Uh for me, yes, I know this has been on a on the table before uh for a vote. Um I feel that uh I know you three have been here for a while waiting for this. I guess um I would like to wait until after negotiations with
123our union. Um, and that's just my opinion. So, um, that's >> your opinion. Are you making an amendment? >> Okay. I I would like to make a motion that we just put it off until after. >> Let's make an amendment. >> Amendment that we put it off till after uh negotiations with our unions. >> Sure. So, there's the motion. Do we have a second? Okay. So now we go back to the original motion which is to increase the the the salary to the board of trustees. Sorry. >> Any other questions or comments? Okay. Please vote. Okay. Okay. Upon a vote being taken, uh the vote was two in favor and three opposed. So that motion does not pass. Moving on to 14.3 personnel certificated personnel action items. Do I have a motion? Some thank you.
124Uh trusty go. Do you have a second? Second. Thank you, Trusty Hall. And seeing if there are any questions or no discussion, please vote. Upon vote maintaining the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. Moving on to 14.4 personnel classified uh personnel action items. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Thank you, Trusty Goce. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Trusty Stafford. and see if there's no discussion or questions. Please vote. Upon a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. Then moving on to 14.5 which is personnel approval of memorandum of understanding between the Parish High School District and the California School Employees Association and its chapter Paris Valley number 469 regarding association leave of absent for Adam Wayneberger. Do I have a motion? >>
125Thank you Trusty Hall. Do I have a second? Uh second. >> Thank you Trusty Garcia. See if there's any questions or discussion. See none, please vote. >> Is the loading screen up for you guys? Okay. my pros and just >> I just put it at home. >> Oh, there we go. Sorry. It's freezing. thought about being taken. The vote was side in favor, zero opposed. Moving on to 14.6, approval of revised job description, educationally related mental health services to therapists. Do I have a motion? So move. Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Do I have a second? Second. >> Thank you, Trusty Stafford. Seeing no questions or discussion, please vote. Upon a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. Moving on to 14 Seven, personnel approval of revised job description behavior specialist. Do
126I have a motion? >> Thank you, Trusty Hall. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trustee Stafford. Any questions or discussion? Seeing none, please vote. Upon a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor and zero opposed. 14.8 personnel resolution number 05-2526 week of the school administrator. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Do I have a second? >> Second. Thank you. Trust all seeing no questions or discussion. Please vote. Upon the vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. And moving on to 14.9, personnel, a proclamation honoring the life and service of Carl Wesley Coleman. Do I have a motion? >> So move. Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Thank you, Trusty Stafford. And seeing no questions or discussion, he's up. >> Is there anyone
127here from Mr. Westy's family? >> I think his daughter's here. >> Yeah, he's not here. >> Okay. proclamation proclamation. >> I if you would like to say some words or something. >> Thank you for the proclamation. My name is Tanya Coleman. I'm actually a school psychologist in the district. My father is Carl Coleman. My father passed away on 8:25. Um, we are having his services. The wake is tomorrow. The funeral is Friday. And because he's a military veteran on Monday, they will be celebrating doing the burial at the military base in Mir Mesa with honor. So, thank you guys so much. I appreciate it >> from the family. Thank you. Absolutely. We're sorry for your loss. >> Yes, for your loss. >> Okay. Upon the vote being taken, the vote was 5 minutes. >> Oh,
128sorry. >> She didn't know the results. >> Oh, >> well, she she accepted. >> Yeah. >> Never mind. Yeah. >> She was Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. 14. >> Moving on. 1410. Curriculum approval of the 2024 2025 uh Proposition 28 annual report. Do I have a motion? So move. >> Thank you. Trusty Gar have a second. Second. Thank you, Trusty Hall. Any questions or discussion? Seeing none, please vote. Upon a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor and zero opposed. 14.11 business 2-year agreement with Hazard Yangia and Associates DVAH HYA Corporation planned through the general fund at a cost of 12,500 per month 150 yearly for consulting services including strategic planning, board governance, training, superintendent, and cabinet searches. Do I have a motion? So move. Thank you, Trusty Hal. I have a second. >>
129I'll second it. >> Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Any questions for discussion? um discussion. Did anyone do anything for me? >> Um we've talked about this a few times. So I just think this money could be better used for the staff or students. We're talking $150,000 a year, $300,000 in total for consultants. We're trying to save money. To me, I've explained my point several times. This is a waste of money and should not be done. I was open to the fact that even we could open up when we needed the necessary services, but here you're committing $300,000 to um a company. I have nothing against this company. Very good. He's doing his job. He's a salesman. I just don't think we should be committing $300,000 to a consultant. I just think it's unconscionable. I mean this
130this money should go to the students. This is money that we are saying is there and give it to the students. don't use it for another consultant. That um there's reasons I have that I just so I don't go too long on this. I I've argued this point. I've watched this company in action. I went to one of their um services. We we we patronized their conferences. We we must have sent 30 teachers down to a conference. Um, they had issues. Maybe you guys don't know. They had a fight in the bar. They went to a club afterwards. And the music music is about as vulgar as you could possibly get. But these are the educators that are telling us in these rooms that we attend, oh, we don't want to use these words anymore.
131But not a couple hours later, it don't make no difference. It it I mean I watched this for myself. I went to all these things. I I really think we got what we wanted from HIV HYA as far as getting our positions filled, getting organized. Um but now we're past them. We we've got issues that we need to work on directly. We don't need outside influences telling us how to run our district. If you can't make decisions, you shouldn't be on this board. I've been attacked. We We had a board member here before. She's still attackless. So what? It doesn't matter. What's right is right. And And the other thing here, I mean, I have to go back and say, you need to bring three uh three companies in here and let them compete because
132I'm hearing we could save a lot of money. Number one, we can get it free from RCE. Uh, number two, the other companies are substantially cheaper. And I don't quite understand why the reluctance to remain professional and get rid of agreements that we don't that we don't need. And I can just tell you from my heart, this is a no. and I can't say anything. >> Okay. >> Any other discussion? >> Yeah. So, I' I've used HYA quite a bit and it helps me with um learning the process of the school uh district, uh what questions to ask, what questions to not to ask, and it it helps with checks and balances. Uh so in my uh assessment of looking at it, it it does help the students because I'm asking questions that's going to
133benefit our district and our students. That's what I'm here for. So I can make decisions on my own, but I don't know the ins and outs of everything. So, it's good to have a consultant that I can go to just as much as I can go to uh the superintendent and ask questions, which we have. So, but it gives me checks and balances. Um, so that's that's where I'm going to leave it. Any discussion? Okay. So, I'll throw in a couple things. Um, I think a couple things on on the 2-year agreement. Um, I think people don't understand what the proposal was. Um, it was the staff that wanted the two-year agreement. Uh, none of us on the board had recommended that, not staff that did that. So, um, on the other thing, too, the
134the proposal and the agreement is monthtomonth. So, it we can cancel at any time. And so, I think that's another misunderstanding of the contract. Uh, on another note, I think we need to be very careful when we say something publicly that is misinformation. What you just addressed are two completely separate organizations. HYA had nothing to do with the Cabsy conference. Have nothing to do with it. They're two completely different organizations. And so you are now roping uh a consulting firm with a conference that is not accurate. And so I just think we need to be careful with that because we need to understand what it is that we're the services that providing and who's providing it when we're going to make a public statement. On top of that, um you know, a lot of us
135are are new to this position. We have new cabinet members. We have new principles. We have a lot of new staff. Um, for me to say that I know everything would be probably a little pompous, a little arrogant. Um, I don't and I rely heavily on on the consultants because there's a lot of different things that are going on on a daily basis. The role of us as a board, the role um, and understand this, I I understand that there are other agencies, you have CSBA, you have different things, but it doesn't necessarily mean that we have to align. They give a lot of recommendation that we pay money to all these different organizations and it doesn't mean that they're always looking out for our personal best interest here locally. As a matter of fact,
136we have a bill, you know, uh AB1955 that actually wants to take away local control. And so for me, in in navigating uh the numbers, the large numbers that we have, the programs that we have, um I need help. I mean, I I need there are certain things that I need to know. There are certain things that I know being in education 30 years, there are certain things that I do know. I know how a lot of committees work and a lot of different things work. I've been involved in that. I I understand uh the negotiation process. I've been on a union uh leadership team. So, I understand all those things. Um and it's not to say that, you know, that this isn't a large number. It is, but at the same time, it's not
137something I think you're looking at it in in a macro and it could be a micro because if I honestly felt that we didn't need the services, then we can cut them in 30 days and I might even be the one to bring up the motion for it. But the reality is I think at where we're at and all the all the different things that we have found um within kind of the organization and you know in my terms here um on the board there's been a lot of things that I was told that aren't necessarily true. And so I always try to check it with the consulting company and make sure if it's something that I have to look into with legal then I look into it with legal because I want to make
138sure that we're making informed decisions. We're making the right decisions that ultimately affect student and staff. And so for me, I, you know, I've I've gotten plenty of value and worth out of it. Now, if people aren't accessing the service, there's nothing I can do about that. He's here for all of us. And so, you know, I have a lot of questions about a lot of things. Um, and so I take advantage of that. If there are people who have questions and you're not using that the service, I don't know what to tell you. I would say for your own personal e education, contact them. Find out find out what it's going what's going on there. Um I think you know uh the representative that we have uh is is a president of a large
139school district with similar demographics who's doing great things in their community which is similar to ours obviously it's a big urban it's a K12 a little different but there are a lot of things that we can glean and learn from and for me to think that just hey I've got it figured out I know how to do all the all the connections I don't and so that's why I weigh heavily on this service. So with that, I mean, I think everybody has kind of said what they have to say, so we can just bring it to a vote and and go from there. >> Are you calling for a vote? >> Yeah. Okay. Upon upon a vote being taken, uh the vote was three in favor, two opposed. And moving on to 1412 business approval
140of retired annuent employment employment Arthur Fritz extra help assignment uh funded through the maintenance and operations budget in an amount not to exceed $952 per hour not of the general fund. So do I have a motion? >> Thank you Trusty Stafford. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you Trusty Hall. Seeing no discussion or questions, please vote. Upon a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. And moving on to 1413, business approval and authorization to file the 2024 2025 unudited actual financial report. Do I have a motion? So move. >> Thank you, Trusty Hall. Do I have a second? Second. >> Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Seeing no discussion questions, please vote. What's that? Under discussion. Oh, there we go. There it is. >> It's like frozen. Oh, never mind.
141I just went Mhm. Yeah. I need some music in the background. [Music] Oh no. Excuse me. I'm sorry. We need to use it. Get the robotic. >> Yeah. Something just wait for her to come back inside. Almost there. drive. >> I would. >> Oh, upon a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. Big C >> 14.14 business adoption of resolution number 07-2526 resolution for adopting the GAN limit. Do I have a motion? So moved. Thank you. Trusty G. Second. Second. Thank you. Trusty Hall. See no questions or discussion. Please vote. Not a vote being taken. The vote was five in favor, zero opposed. Uh 14:15, business authorization for purchase of capital equipment above 10,000 for September 2025. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Thank you, Trusty Stafford. Do
142I have a second? >> Second it. >> Thank you, Trusty Hall. And uh seeing no discussion, please vote. On a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. 14.16, business authorization for purchase orders above 50,000 for September 2025. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Do I have a second? Sorry. Thank you, Trusty Stafford. See no question or discussion. Please vote. On a vote being taken, the vote was four in favor, uh, one opposed. And moving on to 1417, board policies, uh, personnel series. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Thank you, Trust. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Now, on this one, I would like to have a discussion. I don't know. um if uh any anybody else read some
143of these. So what I would like to propose uh for this that there's some of the language um that are included in some of these these board policies uh instead of us kind of securing them now. Um I'd like to table them so that we can kind of review and discuss them together as a board. Um, I know that in in the reviewing, um, there are some of them that some of the language is just a little I don't want to say a concern, but I think is worthy of more of a discussion on our part because obviously the the writing is coming from CSBA and uh, you know, sometimes they can have how they want it written, but again, you know, we're it's up to us to locally control what's actually in there and
144we can edit it, remove stuff, add stuff. And in in reviewing some of these, I know the one that I had a concern and I didn't write my notes and I apologize. Uh on this particular one was 4030. Um and again, so I would like to table this so that we can um move forward to kind of print them out. I'm sorry. I have to make a motion. >> Okay. So to make a motion to table um 1417 board policies for the 4,000 series uh for further review and discussion. >> I'll second that. um do the next board meeting or is there a specific timeline? >> Um I I if if possible I would like to do it in October um or maybe November because there's uh we're trying to plan um a workshop study
145session and so it would and I wanted to include some of that in October and it'll be an October workshop. to please open session >> to vote on it. Yeah. >> No, when we talk about it, will it be close session or >> No, he said in the workshop. >> In the workshop, which >> right? >> Yeah. Okay. So kind like the editing process and then we'll bring it back for and put up coping. Okay. If there's any other discussion, if not, please vote. Now, we voting to table. Correct. To table. Correct. Uh upon a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. Moving on to 1418, board policies under student series 5000. Do I have a motion? So move. Uh thank you, Trusty Hall. Do I have a second? I'll second.
146Thank you, Trusty Garcia. And so now again, any questions or discussion? I have one in case anybody else has another. >> No, go ahead. >> Okay. So, I again I would like to make an amendment to this one to table motion. >> Uh so, I'd like to make a motion to amend this uh just like the 4,000s and move it to the November date. Um so, so that we can table it and discuss it. Do you guys want a couple reasons or do you care? If we're going to study, if it's a similar answer, then I'll >> This will be at the same study session. >> Yes. >> Yeah. I'm cool with that. >> All right. >> I like when we get a review on that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, I'll second. >> Okay.
147So, we got a second on from Trusty Garcia. Couple Upon a vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. And moving on informationational items. Uh 15.1 personnel approval of new job description for coordinator of human services. Human resources. Is that what did I say? You said services. Oh, sorry. Human resources. I apologize. Good evening board. Um, so this is so we're hoping that we can get approved to bring it to act as an action item for the next board meeting on the job description. So any questions on the job description? >> Yeah. So the the position that we're bringing forward is because right now in HR we don't have someone dedicated to do our title N investigations. So we need someone to do all title N investigation. We're trying to combine that
148with student and with staff title N complaints. We also don't have someone dedicated to just do that the first level complaints that we want someone to do streamlined. And then we also don't have someone to do training to create these robust trainings for our staff. uh we always have to reach out to consultants to bring trainings to our staff and we would really like to have that in-house. So whenever we want to train, we can train at any time without having to pay additional costs. >> Do you have any data on how many complaints we've had for title N? >> Uh for title N we this year we've already had two. >> Two. >> Yeah. >> Any other um >> uh we have uh last year we had 58 district complaints. Um I don't know
149the number of UCP complaints but I think it was around between 10 and 15. I can get that number for the board. Um so there is a lot of complaints coming into to the HR office. >> Okay. And so do we have um someone that does classified complaints, certificated complaints >> right now? We don't. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other >> Okay. Thank you so much. 15.2 >> personnel uh approval of new job description database administrator. >> Uh this I want to bring up Mr. Headmond from technology to make explain to the board as to why we need this position. >> Good evening cabinet. uh not cam that I'm sorry for uh this position has been identified to augment some of our data not data reporting as in cow heads
150but uh we've identified some deficiencies and areas uh especially relating to special ed data reporting as well as other areas of reporting for school sites so that way we can get timely and accurate information out of data requests to the school site we're requesting an additional position database administration to help support both the SIS state reporting as well as custom data reporting for the school sites Don't we have somebody in the what is it SIS? >> We have an SIS coordinator whose primary responsibilities are reporting Cowpad's data as well as managing the SIS. This would be in assistance to that to handle the safe side of Calpad's reporting as well as providing nonstate reporting reports uh actionable datadriven reports to the school sites during the school year. So they could make requests for you know
151particular uh a subset of grades a subset of students looking at grades and tracking information like that. This would make those kinds of data requests against our student information system possible and hoping that these datadriven areas will help us in our drive to increase uh student population as well as drive down costs. >> So you're saying there's enough work for a 40-hour work week or a full-time position? >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. Any other discussion, questions? Thank you. Thank you. 15.3 Business Revolving Cash Report August 2025. 15.4 Board Policies Personnel Series U 4,000 series status report on board policy 411 update draft to be presented at the October board meeting. 15.5 board policy student series 5000 and 16.1 close session. Yes. >> Yes. >> I'll make the motion. Do >> I have a motion to
152Yeah. To adjourn the close session. Trust. Thank you for the first. I have a second. Second. >> Thank you, Trusty Hall. Any discussion, questions, please vote. Upon vote being taken, the vote was five in favor, zero opposed. And we are journeying to close session at 9:27 p.m. or 8:27, sorry. >> Okay. >> 17.1. >> We're reconvening in public session. The regular board meeting of the Paris Union High School District is reconvening at 9:14 p.m. 18.1 curriculum. Uh, student physical education exemptions for the 2025-2026 school year. Do I have a motion? >> So move. Thank you. Do have a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Trusty Stafford. >> Seeing no, >> sorry, I was upating. >> Please vote. >> Um, and staff. >> Please vote. [Music] How up vote being taken? Four in favor. Zero opposed.
153And we are moving on to 19.1 other items by the superintendent. Dr. Ross, >> just real quick, Mr. Campus, I just want to emphasize the direction that we are going with the ultimate goal of reaching 94% in attendance. >> Wow. >> That's an increases of about 3 almost 3.5. So, it's it's going to be great. We were able to do 2%. >> During the whole year, I think we're going to be able to do the 3.5%. >> Oh, wow. that that is going to be huge. The other thing is yesterday we work on with state sanu to be able to offer classes similar to mountain sanin but but with more flexibility for our students. So once we sign theou we are going to be able to offer all the classes for the students to meet
154the calc all the courses and that is I'm telling you this because in the next one meeting in October that is going to be brought up to you for approval. >> Where will the campus be or is it online? >> Oh no it's going to be our own teachers. Yeah, the beauty here, the big difference is that mountainsto community colleges, RCC, they require the teachers to have a master's degree in the subject pattern. So to teach math, they need to have a master's math. To teach English, master English. >> So the standard has been raised. >> Well, no, actually it's even better here because Bernardino said, "Hey, you don't need a master's degree. You can have a major in the in the subject. as long as you follow our curriculum and our resources. If you
155show me that you are doing that and that the students are learning the same thing that they are going to learn here in the lower division courses. >> Yeah, >> we're okay with that. >> Yeah. >> So, we have a lot of teachers who have been major. >> I'm summarizing that >> and that's only open to our students. >> Yes. at this time. Well, we can operate into outside of the district through the IOA because we are looking to offer the Ketti through IO >> and that is going to attract more more students. And the last one that I was really proud of this as you know we are monitoring fights on a weekly basis every cabinet meeting. This last week Mr. Hannah reported to us that last week we had zero fights at all.
156>> Hey, good job. Yes, but there is a caveat there. It was an excellent job, right? But not perfect because I talked to Mr. Garcia on Monday, Dr. and I, we went there. They said, "Dr. Garcia, congratulations. You have zero fights." He said, "Really?" On Friday after school is there was an issue and two girls be so we had one. So, >> does it count the street though? >> Oh, it was across the street. Okay. >> It was not on campus, but it counts for for us. It's >> still It's an improvement, right? >> Yeah. Oh, it's a huge improvement. >> Only one. And it was after school. But if it was in front and after school hours, we can say that during school hours in our sites, we have >> zero on campus during
157school. >> Good job. >> Okay, that's what I wanted to share with you guys. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. So, now we are at other items by the board of trustees. Trusty and I >> thank you. Trusty Stafford. >> Nothing. >> Thank you. Trusty Hall is vacated and trusty. Um, real quick, uh, I do love the fact that we have an SRO here. Um, I'm only bringing this up right now because of the event that happened today. I would ask that the SRO stays. If we leave at a reasonable time, let's say our caps at 9:30, the SRO stays until the majority of us, the board especially, leave considering what happened today, you know, in another state. >> He's here. He he actually just left. >> No, no. Well, I'm okay. I'm just saying
158visible. >> Yeah. No, no, no. I I totally understand the circumstances. I'm just saying in the future. That's why in the past I've requested campus supervisors and an SRO, you know, but I know money was an issue, but that's all I wanted to say. Oh, no. I lied. You all are fantastic. I'm thoroughly impressed with all of the hard work you've all done. Everybody in this room, everybody, plus everybody who's listening. Like, you guys are amazing. We wouldn't be here today if we all didn't come together. And I know everybody's talking about attendance. We're covering ADA. We're talking about the curriculum. We're talking about every everything. We're talking about mental awareness, mental illnesses, everything. What am I missing? Everything. We're even talking about the food we're providing the kids. This is huge. We're we're making
159true momentum, and I'd like to get uh honestly, I'd like to get the media involved in some real public attention. We need to capture that Paris is back on the map, and Paris is the place to be. >> Thank you, Trusty Garcia. I do have a few couple things. Um and so kind one of them I'll do the kind of the financial situation. So, um I know like in the past, um we had always gotten like negative stuff and and you know, when I look back now, I I think because we took a positive outlook as to how the year was going to end up, uh we were able to save jobs because the recommendation before was to let go of staff, you know, that that we had reached. And I think we when we
160made the decision to not do that, I think it was a tough decision. Um obviously some people might say, you know, fiscally speaking, financially speaking, it might have been a gamble. Um, but I I think I honestly felt that we had what we needed to do to make sure that the the finances were going to be okay. And then now knowing what we know, you know, I'm I'm grateful that we made that decision because we we could have affected a lot of people um that we we would have unnecessarily had to do so. And it's not to say that that didn't and I learned that that's what happened the year before, which is why I was kind of like, wait a minute, I'm going to be a little more um positive on the outlook on
161that. Uh, another thing, and I know that that we've kind of discussed this, um, but I think one of the things that puts, you know, how you mentioned, you know, Paris on the map, the best recruitment tool that we have as a school district are a couple things. Uh, for teachers and staff, it's well, I know I can say for for certificate, um, our best recruitment and retainment is our we take all the years. That's huge. Not only that, we're the top paying school district in the area. That's huge. And so um you know teachers a lot of times you know they'll they'll simplify things and I can't speak for classified only because I I'm just speaking as a teacher but I know you know at the end of the day compensation and benefits it's
162huge and the fact that we offer we'll take anybody if we want to hire a coach that's you know a 15ear coach or 20-year coach but he's a legitimate top-notch coach who's going to do his job we can hire him because we're going to take all their years. all the other school districts around here, they can't hire him unless he's willing to take a pay cut. And that's with any coach for any any program. And so I think that's just something that we need to think about. Um I think now that we have and the the the explanation of the funding, uh thank you for that. I think one of the things um that I think we should do and consider and look into is increase the principal budgets. And I'll explain why. um in
163having conversations with staff back to school nights, different things, uh seeing the FFA kids, seeing the robotics kids, um you know, we can't have not just their programs, but we can't, you know, those are programs that we want to make sure that are funded and and I was going to ask something a little later about um the funding because I have a question. I don't completely understand it, but it's one of those things where we need to continue to do that and I think we should advertise it. I think we should add, you know, Liberty has their their DECA program nationally known. Uh we had a wrestler a couple years ago who you know made the the finals. Um FFA we had um the actually FFA with with Heritage and Paris. We had the HH
164uh Heritage Robotics. I think those are things that not only we blast them on social media, but I think we should put them up on those those sites and those boards so that people can see that these are programs that are impacting kids that a lot of school districts don't have. And I think that's something positive that we can do. Um uh and and I'll say this for a little later. I'm not going to go into too much of it. Um, ethnic studies curriculum, I know Dr. Ross, I think, sent it to everybody. Take a look at it. There's a lot of information, a lot. Um, a lot of videos, a lot of different things. Uh, but just review it to to see what your thoughts are. You know, good, bad, and different, whatever. Um,
165because as I was looking through stuff on my way, I got to spend a lot more time on it to dig in a little deeper. But it's one of those things that's there. And again, like you mentioned, we don't get to talk about a lot of these things. And so, um, my encouragement is to take a look at that. Um, break it down, look at the questions. A lot of them are the same questions, different unit, but a lot of links that you can click to get access to other information. And the one thing I know that, um, it was mentioned, I don't know if it was by Cynthia or Jason, um, and I I I've always said that, you know, we want to be an organization that works bottom up as opposed to top
166down. And I know that some of the sentiments have been that we're we're to a certain degree micromanaging and at every level. It could be at the board level, the cabinet level, um at the principal level, at every level. And I think ultimately, you know, we have um we like uh President Miller said, we have a lot of uh experienced staff who've been here for a long time. They've done a lot of things. And I think it's just and we have new principles. And so I I think just making sure that everybody is kind of working to see what they need. You know, at the start of the year, I know that there's, you know, different things that were going on and we had a crazy summer with all the transition going on, but I
167think it's one of those things where we have to look at things and make sure that we're constantly in communication with each other at this level, you guys at that level, and then all the way down and hearing what the staff wants because obviously today, you know, hearing that and I understand the the um the whole dress code. It's it's a sticky subject that we know we need to figure out, but I think we'll figure it out and rewriting that policy. Um, and that I think is pretty much it. >> So, thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> And then we're moving on to >> a lot of information. >> What that was a lot of information. >> I've been taking a lot of notes. >> Good. >> Uh, 21.1 future board topics. Uh,
168are there any future board topic requests? Trusty and >> Trusty Stafford. >> Um, I do, but I don't want to start a long conversation. We'll talk about it later. >> Okay. Nothing from >> Trusty Garcia. >> Yes. Um, oh, wait. We I'm sorry. I was supposed to Oh, do I have a motion then? I guess that's Do I have a motion to request the topics? We need a motion for that. >> Well, that's what I have right now. >> We have to change it to action. >> We change it to action. >> Okay, then I'll make the motion. >> Okay. Second. >> Oh, I trusty Staffford. Second. Thank you. >> Okay. So, now >> now Sorry. >> So, in the past, we've talked about renovating the boardroom and the back room. We would like to
169make that a little bit better for soundproof. And so I guess what I'm asking as a topic if we could get a cost analysis, a potential change to modernize the boardroom and the back room to soundproof it or new building, new location, whatever you guys come up with, but something to move us forward. >> Thank you. >> In in every area in including technology, he he knows what I'm talking. That's my topic. >> Thank you. Um, so I have a couple. Um, and one came up today and in the differentiation of club funding versus program funding. So we can just kind of because you know how like when he said that his robotics was a club >> and then they're kind of like selfunded. So I just don't know like can we earmark or allocate
170funds to or does it have to be like a self-running business? So, if you could just, you know, in the future if you guys could just kind of give us a brief uh explanation of how club funding works and the program funding or if there's any differentiation between the two. Um, another one and you kind of mentioned it on this one. So, I would like to take a look um at the staffing at ESS physical bodies um PALS and uh Parish Lake High School and and the only reason why I'm asking is because kind of what you said. If we're thinking about the property that we have, who how many staff can we house people in other buildings so that we can then maybe use another site for a different purpose, whether it be, you
171know, whatever, sell it, rent it, whatever. So, I I cuz I've never been to ESS, I don't know how many people are housed there, but you know, when we look at uh the property size, and again, I don't just know a lot of the stuff. So if we can get information on that so that we can kind of figure out okay this is the property we have the staff and if we can condense and consolidate that would be great or if need be find a new building to accommodate you know more people under one roof I don't know >> can you clarify what you mean with ESS >> oh uh services >> yeah ed services >> SSC >> oh SSC services >> yes >> I know what he was talking No, I I educational services.
172Okay. >> I mean the offices. >> Yes. >> Oh, okay. >> Yes. I just have never been there and and but you know but thinking you know we have all these separate parts everywhere and it's just like well maybe if we can condense and then we have another asset that we can do something else with to generate some kind of funding or whatever. Um >> maybe we consider about centralizing the whole district office. Well, I I mean, you know, we've got to start somewhere. Um, and see what what what we can do and and what's functional and not functional. Um, and then last thing, um, uh, oh, you know what? Actually, I'm going to Oh, that's what it was. um the re-entry and exiting for students and they had mentioned it when it was the
173IIO if you guys can just um let us know if like there's a survey taken you know when when why are kids coming back why they left >> just so we kind of have an idea of why they're leaving and what sites you know is it are they leaving you know on the south part of town north part of town is it middle school is it CMI we have no idea so just to add that and I think that's pretty much Oh, um in in no inter interd district transfers um incoming I guess kind of both ways incoming exiting because then we can kind of see what >> are we in the positive we in the negative um and and what's going on there >> and that I believe is all I've Uh, so >>
174last chance. >> Okay. Well, one one thing, but it's a comment. >> I knew it. >> Well, I had a a conversation with a staff member, and one of the things that they had mentioned was that they they they love their job. Um, but they they they're they're starting to see that they're calling in a lot more in sick, a lot more. And some of it had to do with kind of just um they're dealing with a lot more things of behavior and it's kind of like a stress. And I know like like for me as an employee it's one of those things where you know I'm of the mind of like hey if you need a mental health day take a mental health day. You know what I mean? Because you don't want to
175come to work be stressed come the next day stressed stressed stressed stressed. And so anyways, the staff member shared that it's like a record number at certain sites where they're calling in and it's never been that way. And so just to kind of throw it out there, I don't know if it's statistic that's um you know happening at one particular other sites >> teachers or public. >> Yeah, it was just yeah teacher staff member. Okay. And so anyways, it was just and I should probably share that not um in there in this section, but it was just kind of one of those things where it's like, okay, well, you know, let's try to figure out how we can make it so that, you know, they're they're feeling, hey, you know what? I'm supported. I'm here.
176I love what I do. Um because they're entitled to take the time, but obviously, you know, if you have a lot of that, then it creates other problems with the instructional day. So, >> okay, now that's it for sure. >> Next time >> and that's it. You just got to vote. Upon a vote being taken, the vote was four in favor, zero opposed. And moving on to 12 point or 21.2 adjournment, regular meeting of the board of trustees for September 10th, 2025. Do I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, Trusty Garcia. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Trusty Stafford. Seeing no questions or discussion, please vote. about being taken. It's four in favor. Oh, I'm sorry. One absent. I haven't been apologic, but you had that written. Thank you, Anna.
177You're you're a lifesaver. Um, and that is it. The meeting is adjourned at 9:33 p.m.