001okay please join the meeting 2.1 call the order I will call the Paris unan High School District board meeting to order at 2:04 p.m. I'm going to ask for a roll call to determine a quorum trusty Ania here trusty Stafford here trusty Hall present trusty Garcia here trusty compos here thank you all and we have established a quorum 3.1 invitation to address the board of ches close session items only are there any public comments on close session items yes the president cus we have two speakers have two okay two speakers okay I'm going to read something really quick prior to the speakers coming up uh individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-agenda item the board shall limit the total time for public input on each item
002to 20 minutes with board consent the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public present 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 pres Campos the first speaker is Mr Steven Cass in the topic subject is lay off SL assignments thank you I get a timer in great okay uh again my name is Stephen Cass hello I've sent emails to everyone in front of me explaining some of my most of my situ ation here um I just want to start by saying this is only my second time ever speaking in front of a school
003board the first time was when I was 17 years old I spoke in front of the uh Lake Elenor School Board District I was a senior in high school I had lost all my sports to an injury and I was asking the school board to add at that time boys volleyball so I could continue my career um as an athlete uh they voted yes for me then um I'm now here asking you to vote tonight to save my position as a volleyball coach um I've been in Paloma I've been at Paloma Valley since 2003 I started as a health teacher and Coach uh this last year I got my 300th win um I've won multiple League titles um since nearly 50 well I will be over 50 uh athletes to colleges uh at the end
004of this this year um but more importantly I feel my role at Paloma Valley is valuable um I saw some of you this morning at the um at the student of the month presentation it was my second volleyball player out of what nine students two of them are volleyball players next month we'll make three um I've had multiple students there I'd encourage you to go back and listen to the speech that that my student wrot gate um it sums up the culture that I Foster at Paloma Valley um I believe these decisions are coming for layoffs because of our financial situation um it's my understanding again that students come to school because they live there but they also have a choice to go to some of our schools and we're seeing students leave I know
005the value I bring and that students come to Paloma Valley for Coach cast students that wouldn't be in our district right they're coming here students are staying in our district for Coach Cass for this program uh over the last 10 years since they got rid of H Health every every every administrator I've talked to has said I understand your value and we want you at Paloma Valley every every single one okay um again until this year something's changed um I would encourage you with my last 16 seconds to look when you get at to the uh budget items tonight and you're looking at that page 3 32 okay um it asks us we're in trouble and every answer is no so please please please do not vote for layoffs and leave me P Valley thank
006you I think that's it my three minutes are up thank you thank you next speaker president campus is Mr Jason Miller regarding item 4.4 thank you uh I usually don't speak before close session but I was hoping that the item I bring up right now uh is discussed in close session and maybe you know make decisions accordingly I want to point your attention to agenda item 13.1 uh 13.11 the second interim report most if not all years that action item traditionally is just a report that you approve as a school board this year there are two extra attachments that I do not feel need to be included there is a resolution 18- 2425 that basically asked the board to assert that the district finances are terrible and they will be terrible in the future there's
007a serious projection that the district will go from a $35 million ending balance right now to $2.6 million ending balance by 27 2027 2028 that is a big drop for even for projections the numbers do not support this as we see them um and and you are asserting in the report itself that everything will be fine so it's almost a mixed message between the resolution and the report as I see it I would like to request the board speak about this in close session and see if they can alter this in some way to Simply accept the vote on the report itself without the two attachments which you've always done you've always just had the report we vote on this report that's it thank you for this time speak thank you thank you I'd like
008to thank the speakers for for your commentary we appreciate it and I know it's not easy at times but thank you for that um 4.1 oh I'm sorry yeah yeah 4.1 adjourn to close session do I have a motion to adjourn to close session so move thank you trusty Garcia do I have a second right thank you trusty Stafford seeing no discussion please vote upon the vote being taken the vote was five in favor zero opposed and we are adjourning to close session at 21 uh we're at 5.1 the regular board meeting of the Paris Union High School District is reconvening at 514 please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance wouldn't mind just remove all hats and caps put your right hand over your heart ready to begin i al to the flag of the
009United States of America for stands one nation God indivisible Justice for All and our invocation will be given by Mr Garcia trusty Garcia 6.1 if you all don't mind either a moment of silence or a silent prayer for the direction of our district that would be appreciated thank you we're going to kind of make a couple of adjustment you''ve got some special guests here and so oh I'm sorry we're moving now to the oral reports and we'll report at a close session Dr Russ yes Mr President in close session by vot V vote of 5 5 to Z the bo of Trustees approved the settlement agreement for employee 219827 with the Paris Junior High School District the agreement includes the employees resignation which will be effective at the end of the day on June 2025
010the for vote on this item is as follow Jamie an yes Steve campus yes Edward Garcia yes Charles Hall yes Anthony staford yes okay thank you for that Dr Rous uh now we're going to move we have some special guests here so so I'd like to before we get to the student represent representation representatives to the Board of Trustees we're going to start with our special guest so it's my honor to announce the Palomo Valley High School njrc who will uh do a presentation for us [Applause] yeah good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the board my name is kadat Lieutenant Jackson and I am the proud company Commander officer of the mighty loat company today my fellow senior leaders and I will be giving you a little presentation of our company I would like to
011start off with a quick video of our competition team battlecast [Music] all so that was a little video showing of what our Battle Cats compete in at our field me competitions which consists of PT which is physical training academics and drill I would like to hand it over to my executive officer to introduce a little overview of our unit good afternoon I'm kette Lieutenant Junior grade agent Rodriguez and I'm the company XL RTC is a program spread across the nation it is a program that goes both middle school high school and all the way up to college RTC teaches students self-discipline scholarship and Leadership and there are many more great attributes that come along with it and I would now like to pass it back to the company seal thank you EXO so in RTC
012we we do a variety of events starting from Summer all the way up until now now some of our events in the summer we had 12 Cadets go to summer leadership development courses which is consist of our Leadership Academy our sale academy and our devil Puffs they've brought um attained great knowledge and brought it back to our unit we have also um performed our nation's colors and presented them 50 plus times throughout the school year at various sporting events various um school events and community events within our city we also done a couple few hybrid presentations which consists of our armed exhibition and our unarmed exhibition teams where they put on a little performance at any event that um other people might invite us to come perform at in our in our company of 112
013Cadets we have accumulated over 1,200 hours of community service throughout the school year and that is with the city that's with local elementary schools or right here in our school with a canned food drive um one of our biggest things about jrtc is competitions and as palom Valley Wildcats we are always eager hungry to compete in a lot of things in our academic competitions which are called brain BRS stem competitions which cons consists of drones um SE perch and everything um our drill competitions which are field meets and which consists of academics field uh drill and PT and we're trying to get into physical fitness competitions called Raider competitions one of um one of two events that our Cadets must go through as a grade in the unit is called annual military inspection and with
014our ad military inspection each of our Cadets stand in front of an active duty sailor and or marine and they get inspected just on basic knowledge and how they wear their uniform and everything at the very end we'd like to give a little pass and review ceremony to our friends teachers family parents and everyone else who invited I would like to hand it over to my company Senior Chief to present some of our future activities good afternoon ladies and gentlemen I'm Cadet stor Chief at off is and I'll be going over the future events that we have as a program so we are a very competitive program so much so that we have over like five teams okay uh we do a lot of competitions uh for drill and stem and academics but we always
015want to try and do more right so we're trying to start up multiple teams right uh for a stem we want to venture out on SE Bridge which is our underwater robotics competition um we want to venture out on making a PT organized team which would compete in like our Raider challenges or field meets around this area um and also have a team for musically uh musically inclined Cadets uh we also want to venture out in more opportunities for community service and color guards right now we have over 1,200 uh community service hours but we always want to do more whether it be like within the um within the city or even outside the city grounds right um same with the color we do color guards on campus and outside but we could also do
016more um Awards night Awards night is basically our celebratory event where we celebrate the leadership capabilities that the get that the cadets have from medals um we celebrate the accomplishments of the cadets we celebrate the outgoing seniors right and also reveal the promotees for next year's leadership which is held on April 17th which I do humbly invite uh you all to follow and yeah come uh for a military ball is basically our prom for RTC Cadets right uh it's it's to balance out first semester you have kind of a stressful scenario maybe they're maybe they're like a ns1 like a freshman trying to adapt to like high school or maybe it's like a Cadet in general who's taking harder classes right so we want to kind of ease them out a bit and have some
017fun it's our we have some food uh we do a little dancing um and for recruiting opportunities right uh last year we did pretty good uh we had significantly more Cadets to join this program but we could all at always do better from our like Medi our media efforts or maybe like venturing out to more middle schools and with a little bit of I candy we do hybrids which is basically our exhibition stuff which is flipping rifles and striking cool poses so I'd like to pass it over to Cadet Lieutenant eved Jackson thank C so as a program who subscribes to constant never ending Improvement we have a variety of goals that we like to attain each and every school year like Mar seran Chief was saying about our recruiting numbers we want to reach
018over 150 plus Cadets within our unit to raise it from a company level to a battalion level the Battalion level we can do much more have more kets involved in our variety of our teams and with continu success development we'll have more successful leaders team commanders Detachment command ERS for small unit roles um they can participate in community service our teams um platoon leadership which is our class period to we call them platoons and it's just to help develop our Cadets from a freshman to a senior to become a better leader in the program and also outside of school as professional citizen um one last thing is as our unit we'd like to achieve and attain the Covenant distinguished unit award distinguished unit award is award that each unit like to strive for that only
019a handful get at the end of each RC year which usually runs from April to April um last but not least attaining our PE credentials back and that was just to offer more students incoming a more option incentive to join RTC as of now we offer our elective and our Fine Arts Credit and we are looking to get back the PE credentials um if there are no further question I have any questions comments I'd be happy to answer TR no thank you everything good information trusty Stafford uh you guys really look good uniforms I really and you're so well thank you so much for your presentation thank you um what a great great thing to hear you guys are doing uh what I got out of it most which I hope everybody here listened to
020it they always said we can always do better so good job on that thank you sir just your since you spoke too quickly I couldn't write down all the dates but I want to ask if you guys could email us invitations oh yes abut thank you yeah you know what I kind of to pick it back off of uh trusty Hall um you guys that was phenomenal that's a great job uh you guys are young men that are just I'm sure your parents are proud and and I'm sure this blad is proud of you guys now if you guys could just because you guys were a little quick but your articulation of what you guys said in your mission was spot on it was that was actually fantastic but what I didn't catch I know
021your Cadet lieutenant what's your La first and last name Evan Jackson Evan Jackson okay and are you a senior I'm a senior okay and then I did not CU that Lieutenant J Adrian Rodriguez okay cette Lieutenant Adrien Rodriguez and that's why I kept looking up on the stage I saw yours because you giving your presentation it said Martinez and I know your petty officer Martinez Senior Chief senior CH oh Senior Chief okay I that's I didn't understand what that was for and then your first Justin Justin okay Justin and all three of your seniors yes yes sir okay um I mean that's pretty much it just thank you thank you for for being a great young man and for representing our district so we appreciate thank you very [Applause] much okay at this time we
022are going to recess to go into our CMI meeting and any students you are free to leave at this time if you would like or you can stay here for the rest of a more Mee thank you all for supporting them okay now we're moving 7.1 we're going to recess the board will recess the meeting to conduct the regular board meeting of the California Military Institute charger school and we are recessing the meeting at 527 the regular board meeting of the Paris Union High School District is reconvening at 643 8.1 the revision adoption ordering of agenda for March 12th 2025 do I do I have a motion move thank you trusty Hall have a second second thank you trusty Stafford please vote hold on one second I'm sorry there is some discussion it's 13.6 yeah
023okay before part of this discussion can I make a statement yes okay please is a collaborative team The District administration and the B and the Board of Education we recognize that addressing a reduction in force or RS is one of the most difficult responsibilities that we Face together bringing forward an agenda item that impacts the livelihoods of our valued educators is never taken likely this evening agenda this evening's agenda includes an action item recommending the reduction of our certificated certificated teing staff by six positions this recommendation is the result result of extensive collaboration between the Board of Trustees me as a superintendent and cabinet together we have worked diligently to explore new ways to save money and to bring in more attendance to save teachers jobs despite these efforts enrollment Trends [Music] still necessitate this
024difficult decision this year our enrollment decreased by 128 students and projections indicate an additional decline of 108 students for 220 to 2025 2026 school year these enrollments Shi significantly and they impact our staffing needs our Bard Tres our district leaders in our educational staff we are united in our shared commitment to providing the best possible education to our students none of us enter education to make these difficult decisions however tonight we have made a collaborative decision to recommend to the board to pull item 13.6 and continue to work together in collaboration with all the stakeholders with our unions with our teachers to look at how we will navigate the fiscal stability of our district we have that responsibility to our students and to our community because that is one of the five fundamental pillars to
025sustain our vision fiscal responsibility but once again together we are making the recommendation to pull item 13.6 and I'm confident that working together again all of our staff with our classified Union with our certificated Union we are going to be able to bring in more Revenue to our district and save more teacher jobs thank you thank you [Applause] thank you for that Dr so is I make the motion right now correct yes you make the motion officially on that note I Garcia would like to remove item 3.6 from the agenda 13 or 13.6 okay do I have a second second thank you trusty Hall so we are just just so we're understood we're only 13.6 as we move on to V okay great um please vote or if there's any other discussion any discussion okay
026oh Hall trusty Hall what does it second have more discussion seeing no discussion please vote it's fine it's fine I hold on let me back up real so I'll go down the line any discussion okay just wanted to make sure I didn't see anybody okay no can I yeah okay okay so I do want to agree with drous we've been talking about every strategy possible to preserve jobs and what we came up together is that we're going to work even harder to show you guys that we're being diligent with our words and we're going to follow through collectively with the unions cabinet we are going to preserve your jobs and uh we're going to find more money whatever it takes so I need you guys to be aware that we are going to be working
027together and you know what Ju Just to add to that just there's we know that when we come to these decisions it's very difficult um that there has been uh throughout the conversation a lot of different opportunities and options for us to to try to generate extra income and obviously I think earlier you know having our Cadets here from Paloma Valley those are one of the things um that we want to promote to the community that we have special programs out here and that we want students to enroll when they leave whatever feeder school they come to that they're coming to Paris Union uh at whatever school that we can we can provide them the best services and so obviously in that vein and that manner we want to continually uh move to improve programs
028we want to make sure that our Sports programs uh Mr Cass thank you for your your your words earlier that that we're having the best programs out there because good programs and everything that we do whether they're extracurricular they're Sports um whatever it is Arts um it tends to want to have kids Attract it attracts students to our sites and with that you know we know that right now fiscally you know we're hoping for the best the May Revis is coming up and instead of you know kind of spinning out um and worrying for the next few months I think we thought it was the the best cohesive and and collaborative decision to make sure that we move forward knowing that we're going to all work together uh to get a positive outlook and so
029at least for tonight people can go home and and and put some things to rest and and obviously we just look forward to the future and having a good May revise hopefully and you know Finding ways to generate funds to continue uh maintaining all of our staff as well as all of our programs so with that we'll we'll go ahead and vote so thank you for everyone who spoken for everything uh that you guys are doing we appreciate it please vote upon a vote being taken uh the vote was five in favor and zero opposed moving on to oral reports we have 9.1 report out of close session Dr r no report out of close session president G thank you sir and 9.2 District update by the superintendent thank you president campus first of all
030I would like to say that we are really happy for a fully inited 13.6 and how president Campos mentioned we are going to find ways right to reduce our deficit spending but we are going to need your help we are on this together classify Union certificated Union administrators students parents everybody working together right now we have 88.6% 8 we need to increase that attendance for two main reasons the first one students cannot learn if they are not in school and second that is going to help us reducing deficit spending and we have more funds to invest in all the other extracurricular activities and a lot of items that students share with me during the meeting that I have with the representatives of all the schools so I we are counting with the help of all
031of you working together we are going to be stronger and we are going to continue to move forward our district Parish Junior High School District to provide the best possible education to our students the students that they deserve the next item that I would like to include in this update I would like to share some very exciting news our ASV program at Liberty High School has won the outstanding leadership program award Ola congratulations to our ASB program at Li High [Music] [Applause] School Liberty High School also is been recognized for the gold level certification for the DECA program DEA stands for distributive education clubs of America this is a nonprofit Career and Technical student organization and our students will be recognize listen to this during the DECA International Career Development conference this April 26 29
0322025 in Orlando Florida [Applause] by V Enterprise is one of the 10 high schools in our state who earn the honors this is absolutely wonderful and congratulations again again to our extending Liberty High School students our extending Liberty High School teachers and our standing Liberty High School administrators I'm thrill to share also that Heritage High School robotics team 7832 to gear Gru has advance to the LA Regional championships to the world championship this event will bring together the top teams from across the US in 30 countries and our students they can earn a place through hard work team work and Engineering Excellence they competed against 42 teams throughout one of the most competitive region in the world in game in fourth place they are also awarded the prestigious first place think award for the portfolio
033and we have the privilege to meet some of them Miss Anaya and Hall last week when we visited herit high school and the robotics team we are very proud of our students at herit school per Junior High School District along with the work from school Services of California is working on the plan to transition what is currently in place with a traditional independent study to course based independent study also known as cbis the district will bring to the school board the documentation to get that done this include we are going to be revising board policies updating written agreements drafting a war resolution to certify cbis courses and a revised Master agreement for independent study we are aligning our district policies with the state requirements to provide a rigorous structur and compliant independent study program that
034also is going to help us with the funding for our school district the next next item that I want to share with you is our Online Academy course based independent study of cbis is one part of transitioning of scholar plus Online Academy known formerly known as Sola to a more comprehensive and engaging online high school program to be updated and implemented at the beginning of our next school year that is will we we will have this program ready the Online Academy for our students for our students this coming August 225 the adoption of cbis for Sola is moving beyond Credit Recovery to a more robust online learning experience Key Staffing updates are being worked on to ensure the program has the leadership and student support to ensure the Online Academy is an effective and highly
035engaging program so students in our community this coming up to support all of our students that for some reason right they cannot attend in person I want also to share with you our safe initiatives update we have about 27 specific a actions that we have taken since September to today in order to improve student safety is a long list that I'm going to email to our board members but I can tell you the outcomes we are very proud to report that we have a reductions in fights in order to address an issue we need to recognize that we have an issue and I can tell you we did that in September and then we develop a plan a laser focus addressing the problem that we were facing in some of our high schools and I
036want to say thank you to our classified Union to our certificated Union our teachers our administrators everybody working together because that was the result that team work that's what helped us reduce those fights and during my last uh every week I revised the lat the data during my cabinet meetings and our director of security who was sharing you know that numbers that before were the minimum number of incidents that we had right because they were so high now are becoming the highest numbers right but we are not satisfied that there are we still have issues we still have fights we still have areas that we need to address and we will address it because we want to provide and we will provide our students with a safe environment where they can really en enhance the
037education now we have a the r Awards and I want to ask our chief human resource officer Mr Andra that we he will be presenting that thank you thank you Dr AR board okay so for this month we are recognizing the outstanding front office team um yes from Liberty High School we are incredibly grateful for the dedication and hard work of our front office support staff Nancy quto Courtney inania Eileen SOS and Monica tea these exceptional ladies are the heartbeat of our front office ensuring that every parent student and commune member is met with outstanding customer service their teamwork efficiency and commitment to Excellence make a significant impact on the Daily Success of our schools no task is too large for them to handle with accuracy diligence and professionalism their unwavering dedication truly embodies the
038herd way and we are proud to have them as part of the Liberty High School family so thank you to Monica aen Nancy and Courtney for all that you do you are truly deserving of this recognition that we can have them please come [Applause] forward if you want to please St forward so we can take a picture [Laughter] watch the chin and I can do St little two one I don't bite another one one [Music] more thank you so much [Applause] thank you so much for that and congratulations uh ra winners ra Award winners uh n 9.3 student representative of the Board of Trustees trusty Hall will introduce Heritage High School oh there he is sorry uh from Heritage High School Rashad Anderson evening members of the board Dr R and members of the cabinet
039my name isad Anderson I'm Devon Sanders I'm and I'm Taylor grer we are thrill to talk about the events and activities been going around the school in the pastle month right before winter break the cheer team set up a camp for children to come and learn a routin all the kids came on Saturday and were taught a dance and stunt routine which they performed at the basketball game the following Tuesday this event was overall a huge success as it combined our community into a fundraiser for our cheer leaders after a break our students returned to our winter rally in the theme of men and black like before this rally was fully run by our students and our a were T SP together we had our cheer team perform our dance team performed and for the
040first time ouro dance team perform this was one of our most successful as we finally got most of the Freshman involved in our battle Pro our winter sports teams have been excellent this season with some C Sandy achievement the girl soccer team made an incredible run to the CIF finals and secured a spot in the state competition they went on to dominate their first state game with the 550 Victory the water po team made history by claiming the leag championship for the first time ever at harage and they Advanced all the way to CIF semi the girls wrestling team also finished first in League and headed to CIF to top it off the girls basketball team went on to CIF division one where they soon ended their season spring Sports have started practicing in beginning
041all of our Sports have done it very impressively and we can't wait to see how they excel at the end of the year this month our student of the month was Eileen Morales Eileen has been involved all around our campus being in Film Production all four years leading this year as the president of media arts she was chosen this year as the Riverside County representative for youth creating change a mental health and suicide prevention initiative that helps students across the state this past year and upcoming this spring break she was represented in our store Department as students have gone up to Cal Berkeley to create video promotional material for the campus along with multiple years in Avid NHS volunteering for rcoe iile has definitely shown what it means to be a patriot and leave their
042legacy here are a few of our upcoming events dance showcase begins on March 6 our Winter Dance is on March our open house is on March 18th Mr Heritage is on March 21st prom fashion show is on March 26th and P Olympics is on March 28th this concludes our presentation thank you so much for the continued support of what we do here at Heritage and thank you for your [Applause] time okay I have the honor to introduce the Liberty High School student Representatives um Philip Chu jar Malo and Alina zala good evening members of the board Dr R and the cabinet I'm Elena I'm Jeremy I'm Phil and this is our B recap for March through the month we have Alena zala she's one of our a president and she's actively participating in P Rico
043poan ADV CSF and a bunch more she's a dedicated and hard working student to exemplify what it means to be a v she's truly deserving of this soon month on March 7th Liberty hosted annual spring stampe a vibr event showcasing our spring student athletes Che leaders and band which highlighted their school spirit and talents spring athletes were cheered on by the student body we'd like to congratulate our Liberty decka for placing first in Sports Marketing and entertainment team decision making and earning a bid to ICDC in Orlando we are extremely proud of the hard work and dedication and we wish him luck in the next phase congrats to our ASD class for receiving the OPA award from California Association of student leaders they will be recognized at the student conference in April in honor of
044their dedication and hard work Liberty counsel and students had their middle school visit on March 4th and 5th they visited D middle school and harvest steam Academy 8th graders to give them an introduction of their transition to high school at Liberty sooning got to get involved with club and passway offer at Liberty we would like to congratulate our dence team for having a strong finish to the competition season they won first place for their Palm C category second place for contemporary and fourth place for the hip-hop category great job to the dance team for upcoming events we have open house on March 26th LS will be hosting a community event for incoming new students the py will be on April 17th we're going to host an Avatar theme rally to gr school spirit and moral
045cheers performances and activities we will have our dance teams sport recognition ASD election candidates and important announcements AC PR and hosted by our sophomore class our spring extravaganza April 4th this will be a fun Community event and that will have games food and an EG and as always have a great day [Applause] go from Palomo Valley High School I'd like to introduce student representative of Hannah R hello person scho I'm Hannah Ruff back again with the walk out updates from February to March let's start with a look ahead all next week is a spirit week with five very creative spirit days including wear your own Green Day on Monday for St Patrick's Day Tuesday is head to toe tie-dye day mismatch clo kacki Wednesday crazy soft day on Thursday and then finally Friday is a
046neon day where we'll also have a neon glow-in-the dark spring pep Ry then later that night for the first time in many years we are bringing back the Morp dance which will also be Neon everyone at Paloma is just completely a buzz in anticipation for these exciting events [Music] happening let's not forget our student of the month for March senior Brooklyn red she was chosen by a voted for staff and we are so proud of her congratulations booklyn next up for our sports updates we are officially merging into spring Sports which include baseball softball Lacross swimming boys golf tennis and volleyball Sun cheer and track and field let's give him very special shout out to Wildcat wrestler Javon majer for making top 12 in mistake wrestling great job at Paloma Valley we like to keep
047a very positive atmosphere here and who better to make that possible than our very own plus leadership group plus is with sending out Google forms to students so that they can share some kind words with their fellow students and friends at Paloma Valley we are working harder every day so that students can enjoy their High School experience once again for PL valy ASB I'm going to WRA and I'll see you in April [Applause] and next we have uh Paris is it Paris yes Paris High Valentina aosta and Linda corales good evening School Board my name is Linda and my name is Valentina welcome to another exciting edition of the Paris High School school board video February and March have impacted with school spirit achievements and celebration let's look at the [Music] highlights we kicked off
048February with a crowds favorite food frenzy on Valentine's Day our campus turned into a food lovers Paradise as clubs and organizations brought their best snacks and treats to share from M tacos to Sweet desserts our Panthers enjoys every bite while supporting students fundraisers food fun and F raising what could be better you [Music] history has been made our boys soccer team are the 2025 League champions through teamwork determination and pure talent our Panthers dominated the field bringing home the championship title congratulations to all of our athletes coaches for making us Panther proud from February 24th to the 28th we turned up the energy with a BSU Spirit Week each day brought a new theme celebration culture unity and school pride this week ended with an electrifying lunch buggy on Friday where students showed off their
049best dancs it was a celebration of Music community and panther Spirit history in the making join us in celebrating Aurora who has made Paris High School Proud by qualifying for the Fate competition as a first female athlete from our school to achieve the Milestone Aurora's journey is an inspiration to all her dedication hard work and perseverance have paid the way in the future gener congratulations Aurora we are cheering you on all the way during the month of February our Paris High culinary was cooking so food towards our teachers and [Music] staff at par High We love to recognize Excellence this month's student of the month is kahori Samora who has demonstrated outstanding dedications in academics leadership and community service your hard work doesn't go unnotice keep striving for greatness Co that's WRA on this month's
050highlights thank you for being part of our Panther family and making Paris High School a place of Excellence achievement and Unstoppable Spar stay tuned for more amazing moments ahead until next time [Applause] Panthers just gcia we introduce P middle school students yes Isabella duerte and CA poana good evening members of the board and superintendent Dr my name is Isabella and I'm your a here at P Middle School my name is and I'm your as at pinotti we are here to report what's been happening at P middle school for past in February we held a Black History Month schoolwide door decorating contest this at class one spring sports are in full screen Mr Galan is our boys soccer coach and Coach Patrick is advising for boys volleyball we have been working on promoting our spring Sports
051kick off today after school we're all supporting the sports teams by we blue and cheering on our athletes in other news Harris was chosen as a February teacher of the month she goes out of her way to show her care and in other news Miss Harris was chosen as our February teacher of the month she is a wonderful and caring teacher who goes out of her way for her students she goes above and beyond she created a crochet club and is an advis for the Esports Club as well that's all for this day thank you for watching and stay tuned [Music] [Applause] all the student representatives for great presentations uh moving on to 9.4 we have the president Jason Miller I've never been so happy to tear up a speech right now we should be
052celebrating right I now I have to Wing in yeah for somebody who likes to talk I'm the reason that cell phone cell phone carriers have unlimited plans okay so I'm I'm speechless um my heart is very very happy for one thing this is an investment in one of your greatest resources here that is the teachers and the staff you can have all the nice Shiny Toys you want programs and everything like that but if you don't have the people to operate them they just sit and do nothing um I I do want to thank some people for pulling uh item 13.6 I business services for whatever we disagree on about numbers does have a talent for numbers um HR you know I I know that they have all been exploring the Staffing and everything like
053that psea is committed to working if that means um contract language orus within reason of course um on helping with the attendance issues we do recognize that there are uh both capture rates and enrollment issues and that's happening everywhere right um and so some of it is a little more acute here at Parish Union High School District simply because the people here are knew this wasn't created um with the with the administrators and cabinet here but now we have some very talented people coming on um there you know there was a vacuum there were people not even in a thing um Joe did a great job of holding it all together while those come together I've I've only met Dr eagens once but I'm told she's an expert in attendance and that's exactly what we
054need at this point um and so if that means programs if that means um coming together to uh uh increase clubs and sports those things that bring us here but here's the thing I've been here for a really long time I call this place home I love working at the parach high school district it has become one of the best districts in this County for a lot of reasons and here's the thing you guys have a lot of great programs you know what we really need to push forward and I've told you this before you need to tell people what you're doing you have a lot of great programs I think it would be great to start letting the communities know you have biom Med stuff you have bio sustainability stuff uh a few years
055ago even the union put 20 grand towards that uh Greenhouse over at Paloma Valley do people know about that the people at Paloma do the students diploma does does the communities and so um so I think that's a good starting place for that and so again thank you very much thank you business services thank you HR thank you cabinet and thank you School [Applause] Board 9.5 csca president cynth Naro this is not centered I just good evening president g bo of Trustees superintendent Dr R cabinet and guests so I share the joy that Mr Miller just expressed we are as as thrilled as that you guys pulled that you know that that item even though you know there was no talk with classified um layouts which we are grateful we share the pain that our
056certificated staff were going through because we work with them and so thank you thank you for that so I'm two months in and I've been just working since day one so I've been doing what I call meet and greet so I've been going to the different School sites meeting with the members just letting them know like who I am what the union is there for and this has brought great conversations members have come out and expressed some concerns that they've been holding on to which I was very grateful because they felt comfortable with me which I then addressed with some of the administrators so I'm just being proactive um with these meet and greets and I can already tell you Miss shakan Jones took care of some stuff Miss Chavez like I've had conversations with
057Hector Gonzalez as well like we are taking care of business so I'm just so appreciative of the collaboration that we're having and I'd like to um also recognize the district's recent efforts in promoting from within it's truly encouraging to see CSA members being recognized and given opportunities for growth when they apply for a position which we just had two of our raave recipients monicaa and N quto they also promoted from you know to their current position so it's just wonderful we have incredible Talent uh within our district and it is our hope that this continues to be the trend moving forward whenever possible so this week I've had the privilege of attending the annual par educator conference which I just drove back from so I'm very tired and tomorrow morning I'm back there for the
058final date so the district generously you know sent five of us CSA members and we're just incredibly grateful for this investment in our professional development and some of the sessions covered were a variety of valuable topics topics um no taking strategies fidgets for self-regulation and collaborative communication my personal favorite was overcoming burnout I was just like that doesn't happen here but it it was just I I just can't wait to share the insights with with our members and bring back what I've learned to benefit our district and to wrap up this busy and productive week we will be returning to the negotiations table on Friday and I look forward to continuing the positive and collaborative work we've been doing together additionally tonight we are seeking your support for one of our mlus regarding the community
059services job family this has been a challenged item in the past but I want to assure you that it was negotiated in good faith and with all parties involved so we appreciate your consideration and support in moving this forward I also want to acknowledge the ongoing relationship I am building with Mr Alfredo andr and Miss marel escco while we may have had hicup along the way I believe in moving forward with professionalism and mutual respect at the end of the day we all have a job to do and to represent our entities but beyond the business side of things I value the opportunity to build an honest and productive working relationship thank you for your [Applause] time moving on to 10.1 invitation to address the Board of Trustees on non agendized items and are there
060any public comments on the agenda's items yes there are okay thank you before we get to those I'm just going to quickly read a quick statement and um there's a few of them three different okay um so individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non agenda 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 now since we do have um more
061than one speaker uh like earlier we do ask that you please stay on the the three minutes that are allotted for our speakers Elder evening Bo my name is ELD th I'm a monary parent this is regarding to Lake Paris of having uh principal Albert and um Mrs rbl there I think it's really crucial they stay there they've been such a a crucial and important movement for our kids um I had two students who graduated from there um and they created a foundation of trust a foundation of a sanctioned place for them um the way that they conducted and their way involving with the kids not just mine but all of them were super important for us super important for the relationship they built not only with the students but with us as parents kind
062of giving us a different mindset opening the way that did things with the utmost respect and giving us that family loving environment um I just you know hope that they continue to continue to be there because I think it's important for the community for our kids for our students um I just really would hate to see that move um I think it's super super important that they said it because I've seen dramatic change in the last couple years they've been there that's pretty much all I got to say thank you thank you thank you Vanessa hello good evening Board of trustee and Dr arous I hope your day is going well my name is Vanessa Vias and I'm C student leader at CH Lake High School and I like to thank Dr arous for giving
063me the courage to speak here this evening I've had the privilege to serve my school by being a voice at the superintendent meetings in those meetings something stood out to me from Dr Rouse he kept telling us students that your voice matters in the superintendent meeetings we are encouraged to speak about school related issues I and other students who represented P Lake High School talk talk about the school's funding and how the counselors from other school sites would discourage us from coming to Paris Lake I was one of those students I came to Paris Lake High School in January 2024 of my junior year with about 15 credits I was a student who had FS didn't have courage to come to school or do my work I had no idea what I wanted to do
064after high school I didn't go to class or get to school on time so my only choice was a continuation school that I only ever heard bad things about I had no hope of graduating until I met Miss Ramos and Mr Alfred they encouraged me to come to school and work hard to get things done for myself I'm now a student who has A and B's and has caught up in credits and on track to graduate in June they brought out the best to me and have pushed me to be the best every day not only me but the hundreds of other students that attend the school they are supportive of everything I do and have believed in me when I didn't even believe in myself from experience I can say that Paris Lake High
065School by far has the most encouraging staff Miss Raina was a secretary of ours who had been sent to another school site for no reason at all she was the type of person you would want to see in the morning when you first walk up to campus she always had a smile the biggest smile on her face no matter what she was the most genuine and caring person that I knew and down to the teachers like Miss pente who got the district teacher of the year award but for some reason Miss pente is not on the PSD website all the other staff members are recognized for receiving Awards I don't understand why she is not there is because she is a teacher at a continuation school if she had worked at a regular school and
066got that award would she be on that front page or down to another teacher like Mr Bryant who teaches kids how to get a job or prepare for interviews he's another key staff member every individual staff member has an important role on this campus and a daily impact in our lives I feel like I have gotten more help and resources from Paris Lake than any other school when you made the decision to remove M Ros and Mr Alfred from my campus I was devastated they what makes the school feel like a home yes I'm graduating in June yes this might not affect me but it will affect the students later down the line who will attend this school I went on the PSD website and listened to the according of the meeting from February 25th
067you had brought up 12.5 personnal resolution number 1324 d25 release and SL or reassignment of administrative certified employees and voted yes on removing them without discussing why or stating their name I have never seen you guys step foot on Paris Lake campus but the mayor of Paris Riverside Office of Education visits our campus on a regular basis so I invite you to come visit our campus and talk to our staff and students and to reconsider your decision on the of Miss Ramos and Mr [Music] [Applause] off Amanda Alvarez good evening everyone my name is Amanda Alvarez and I was one of the students that attended the the superintendent listening meeting I'm from Paris Lake High School and our school discussed Financial St stability along with transportation and how other schools would discourage our school there
068should be no reason for counselors to be telling students that attending our school would give them less benefits in school and isn't a good look onest I was one of the students that they discarded this information to when I attended the school it made me made me become the best version of myself not only the work is easy to understand but the teachers and staff have made me feel like I genuinely F understood and didn't make it seem like I wasn't so behind I've seen that our admin is getting transferred to a different site and it didn't stay the reason why Miss Ramos is a great resource for students in need many students visit her office to have someone they're comfortable with to talk to now that you're transferring her who else would take that
069spot would students feel comfortable going to their new AP room and having any type of conversation with them after already getting trust with Miss Ramos also Mr Alfred he has supported students and gives many students great opportunities and makes us feel welcome he has made major changes to our school and for it better he made the school look look and be very inviting for students and parents joining the school I'm very concerned about how the students would feel when their most cherish staff members are taken from them our family these staff have given me a role in school and made me feel like my voice matters and needs to be heard I fear that the students wouldn't have I feel that the student that wouldn't have them wouldn't get as many as opportunities as I
070did along with other students I have over a 100 student signatures saying that they disagree with the school board taking our admin from our school site I really hope these signatures mean something to you and I mean this from the bottom of our heart that taking our admin would make a dramatic change with our students like me and our staff members dealing with the changes it has also come to our attention Paris High School has been experiencing exclusion exclusion from any type of accomplishment recognition one of our teachers Miss buente was celebrated as District teacher of the year as you know it is a great accomplishment anyone the learning anyone in the learning profession can receive but when we take a look at the Paris Union High School District website She's nowhere to be recognized
071and appreciated like the other staff members that have received an award as students we notice these things and they hang on to us quickly and we feel like this is nothing anyone should experience another thing with the phsd website I notic that there are student graduates from Paris High Pala High Liberty High Heritage High and CMI but there are no student graduates from our school now that makes me wonder why our school is being excluded from the website I thank you for giving me the privilege of speaking on the behalf of Paris Lake High School as Dr Aral said our voice matters and we need to be heard I would really love to see some changes and prevent these things from happening we know it is your job to look after a student thank you
072all right I'm a teacher first before a counselor so I'm going to hand these out all right all right I got three minutes on my shot clock um good evening board members superintendant and community members my name is IA and here tonight as the school counselor for Paris Lake High School but also a project men and parents constituent and a single father of two children that are coming from a Peter site um as a parent I rely on the School faculty as an extension of my parenting for many of us teachers security staff and school counselors are not just Educators and supervisors they are part of the village that help us raise our school uh our children they this is why the having the right leadership at our school site is critical especially for students
073who are the most vulnerable Paris Lake High School stands at Crossroads of equity and opportun it is a place where students have faced challenges find support guidance Pathway to success the handout I provided offers a small glimpse of the incredible progress happening at the school site from increased attendance to significant rise in school culture the data shows that that undeniable impact that each team member has made however despite these successes our students who are already considered at promise are now struggling to understand the board's recent decision in reassigning our school administrators two staff members were already taken away before win her break and that was already a difficult decision and now the removal of both principal Le Alfred and principal Cindy Ramos our students are feeling left feeling left abandoned yet once again many of
074our students have experienced trauma with inconsistent adult figures in their lives and sudden administrative changes only reinforces those feelings the decision is not only affects the student it has left the entire staff feeling anxious uncertainty of what's going on next year we don't understand why the principles uh who a principal where he just got recognized for being the exceptional options administrator of the year is suddenly being replaced without justification it sends a confusing message not just to our team but to the students who have built the trust in our leadership I won't lie I myself feel uncertainty uh presenting here tonight advocating for my student in front of you all comes with real fear and negative ramifications but I know with their voice I want them to be heard instead of protesting acting frustration or
075defyant the students here at Paris Lake High School are choosing to make their voices known in a positive and peaceful way and that is through the petitions that they took up the most heartbreaking thing about this whole decision is how it has impacted our school culture Paris Lake was once the place where it's the best school culture in the district where students felt safe valued and powered but now the same school is suffering from the lowest morale for both students and staff the feeling of in security and Trust we have worked so hard to build is unraveling and everyone is uncertain about their future I want to acknowledge why we may we are why that there's not many staffs here tonight the reality is is the culture that is being cultivated in District is no
076longer of camaraderie and transparency it is one led by fear many staff members are afraid to speak up and worry about the consequences of advocating for their students and school when Educators feel silence it is not to create consequence uh it's not creating a thrival uh environment for students it creates an atmosphere of distress hesitation and low morale that is not the kind of culture that Fosters success for anyone especially for schools like parisite that depend on relationship building whether the decision was made due to miscommunication misunderstanding or misinformation I urge you to recognize that it is not too late to make this wrong or right what makes this what makes you all a great leader is the ability to step up acknowledge that something isn't right investigate whether or not this Injustice is happening
077especially when parents students and community members are all speaking up about the incredible things that happening at Paris Lake this comes back to the simple truth our students are losing the constant support system that guidance that that they depend on changing change when necessary should be made in and inputs are directly affected by us as both community members and a member of the Paris Union team I invite you to visit our schools speak to our students and faculty see for yourselves and pro and see the progress we made over the years if you truly are a district that values data then let's consider the growth that we achieved and voice those directly impacted before making the decision that significantly affects the students I urge you to first uh firsthand knowledge of your community and school
078the qualitative data and the stories of resilience Domin uh determinations and transformation will speak volumes about the work being done at Paris Lake High School um I attached my information in there so if you guys ever want to come and talk to me I'm always open the thing is we're talking about ADA we're talking about capturing students there are hundreds of students that are credit deficient from uh sophomore and up we have no we don't have no um corals of bringing more students into our site I just hope that you see that will take in anyone and we want to make sure we have students like the ones that just presented to be our uh our students in the at Paris Lake High School so thank you Maron I was taking her time because I
079knew you guys had so thank you Sarah Pier good evening members of of the board Dr AR government members and community members my name is Sarah Pier I am I am one of the substance interventionists in our district I currently support four schools one of which is Paris Lake High School I want to share a little bit about my experience at that campus when you arrive at Paris Lake you are warmly greeted by campus supervisors front office staff administrators teachers and supportive staff the strong sense of community is immediate a culture of acceptance and support extends from staff to students making this campus more than just a school it's a place where students find stability hope and encouragement that's why I was shocked and heartbroken to learn of the board's decision to release principal Lee
080Alfred and assistant principal Sydney Ramos from their positions at the end of the school year the administrators at Paris Lake are a critical part of what makes the school work their leadership provides consistency for students who have often struggled in Traditional High School settings many of the students I work with came to Paris Lake feeling disconnected be unsure of their future and in some cases ready to give up but because of the support they receive here I've seen them regain their motivation set goals and work towards graduation this school offers more than just an education it provides a place where students feel safe supported and valued the administrators have an open door policy and it's common to see students in their offices not for discipline but because they trust them students know they can walk
081into the office share what's on their minds and receive guidance I've often passed by Miss Ramos's office and seen students choosing to sit with her during lunch finding a sense of belonging in her presence that kind of connection matters losing this administrative Team without a clear explanation has left many of us with questions and uncertainty not just staff but the students who depend on them such is what you've heard these students thrive on consistency and of trusted leadership makes a real difference in their success I have hope and faith in this board and that whatever transition is being made will continue to uphold the culture that has been so effective and beneficial to the students at Paris Lake My Hope Is that as these decisions are made the unique support system and sense of belonging
082that have helped so many students succeed will remain a priority before making any further changes that could impact this campus I invite you to visit Paris Lake spend time there and see firsthand the impact these amazing individuals have on the students Paris lake is more than just a school it's a place of hope where students feel safe and reminded that their stories are still being written at the end of the day as the final bell rings you'll see staff outside sending students off with words of encouragement and a simple reminder that they are seen valued and supported thank you for your time thank [Applause] you Robert Bryant good evening Dr R president C board members Paris lake is a special place that requires a special care I've been very fortunate to work at Parish Lake
083proudly serving the school in my eighth year we have special students that most may have challenging lives in the past s and a half years I've attended four funerals of students students who have committed suicide all the way to being murdered I've also attended seven graduations and have celebrated with hundreds of students and Families all with similar stories of thinking that they would never reach their goal of graduation I love Paris Lake high scho I love the school so much being at Paris lake has motivated me to search Within Myself to see how I can further enrich our students lives with that desire I transition from school support to being a teacher I am so thankful to God that I currently in my role for our kiddos with that that said Paris Lake requires all
084the support guidance and resources possible to keep our students motivated to reach their goal of graduation it takes a special heart to work at Paris Lake it is not a place to serve if you don't have a heart for the most challenging students my dear board superintendent and board members cabinet members when you think of the future of Paris Lake please think consider providing the best that is available to serve our students whether in staff resources and opportunities we needed but more importantly our students deserve thank you for your time Jonathan Bosa hell board uh before my time just quick question I don't know who can answer that for me is there a reason why the cards are removed even though you know ahead of time you know you're allowed to submit a card up
085to the point of public comments does anybody have that answer for me I was just curious before my time started oh it has been the standard has been notified it has been the standard practice to they remove they are removed when Once the meeting starts we will talk about it today consideration thank you I just want to make sure everything is the way it should be I know in city council they don't do that in other board meetings that's not the standard procedure but no just thank you for the clarification sure um okay so so much to say uh so little time but I do want to start on a good note thank you because there's two solid decisions I saw be made by this board today one you helped uh a lady keep her
086job she was shaken up I couldn't keep her breath in uh with how emotional she was it meant a lot to her so thank you for doing that thank you for removing that line item that you know potentially could affect a lot of jobs in this District um I haven't exactly seen eye to eye with everyone here at this District some I don't even know you um but I just want to say thank you for showing that love but I want to know where that love is for Paris Lake you know I had the pleasure uh Dr was there it was a great event you know visiting Paris Lake and it touched my heart in more ways than I can mention um I comeing from a background of a nonprofit director I work with kids
087like that who go to that school and it affects me because wow I wish we could operate on that level I was almost jealous with like how much love this staff does or this leadership does because that's what we're trying to do we we do it on much smaller scale but the love is there and I see it so I'm asking you to please reconsider please look at the facts please listen to the students because they said it best please listen that's all we're asking you to do I don't know why other schools get more time and attention you know I get it if there's a lot of things to balance out a lot of people to keep happy but why is it that this type A demographic is the one that's always the most
088ignored why can we look into that please can we not even omit them uh from the websites can we not do that they're a part of us they're a part of this community there are future citizens so please I ask you to reconsider them and as my time runs out I just want to again ask for transpar Arcy and accountability from this board some of you I can kind of pin which way you vote on which way you lean on based on previous actions but if it's a fiscal thing then fire that consulting company that we can't seem to shake that's taking up funds give it to our students instead and um I'm sorry if I could please have a little bit more time I know there's some that didn't use are fulltime yeah if
089you can just yeah wrap it up show after that I will and fortunately I don't mean to single anyone out I do not know you at all uh trusty Hall um but I want to say congratulations to Jamie anayah she won the board seat I did not and that's okay I will feel the comfort that she's there knowing that she represents the best interest for the staff and students but one thing that was not clear to me throughout your campaign was what your three priorities were throughout the campaign aside from one that you did mention kind of was that you're a mother who wants to focus on keeping these schools safe for the children I can get behind that so I ask you why are we voting in favor of pepper spray and handcuffs and
090other things in these schools it doesn't say right with me I have a friend who was a school cop over here in Valverde who is a ashamed of that decision so I don't get it are we focused or are we not focused so we're doing this for the kids we're not for the kids okay so wrap it up please thank you for giving me the extra time but with that I conclude if there's one thing that we're going to see eye to eye especially to board president compos board vice president Edward Garcia Anthony Stafford who I've You Know spoken up here in the past for if there's one thing I hope we see eye to eye on is please reconsider your decision when it comes to the change of leadership at Paris Lake I beg
091you of that listen to the students listen to the staff who work with them and understand the sacrifice thank [Applause] you Dory train um good evening Board of Trustees and superintendent uh I'm here speaking an application for Mr Anthony Bennett Liberty High School excuse me one second let me just check something really quick oh no worries I apologize for that disruption just wanted to clarify one thing on the on the agenda thank you so please go ahead and can you the three minutes again there you go sorry about that no worries okay um growing up in shy stutters is a trait held by many adolescents staring at the floor between passing periods sticking to the back of classroom in avoidance of attention this had been the life I thought I would stick to all those
092years ago that Meek and mousy self of mine changed with the welcoming of Mr Bennett to Liberty High School the moment ink hit paper and he became art clips advisor I knew we were in good hands Mr Bennett has this unwavering faith in humanity that would Advance students forward it's to believe in people that spreads like laughter it's a push to trust one another I was never once be moved by benefits of authority it had always become a matter of fear I wouldn't be able to voice booms with benom I found no honesty and goodness propelled by fear of punishment but in raw Shameless trust and hope in one another Mr benett has consistently propelled students forward to reach their best with kindness patience and humility he provides students but with one of the joys
093that makes life beautiful art um in all in all its oh my God sorry in all of its evolving forms art exist in everything striking the source of wonder that burns the soul like sunburns it's a subject so full of life deserving a passionate teacher like Mr Bennett to teach it as art as Liberty Art Club previous vice president I've seen students timid as I was split into their most comfortable selves there is nothing more to do with their sudden shape and character other than the space provided for them the space that Mr Bennett provided for them I truly cannot stress enough how greatly Mr Bennett impacts and inspires each and every one of these kids with who he is as a person even though I'm no longer a student at Liberty High School my
094memories of those days can not Wain I speak with confidence when I say Mr Bennett has made my high school experience Priceless he teaches what it means to be human to make mistakes To Live and Let Live to care growing up in shy stutters is a trait held by many adolesence it's one I no longer hold and I have my time with art club and Mr Bennett to thank for that the students of Liberty deserve to grow with Mr Bennett's teaching just as I have they look up to him just as I have I truly think Mr Bennett is is an incredible to Liberty High School and with that um I ask that you guys think about his his position um that that's it thank [Applause] you for sh okay I apologize for that we
095just wanted to clarify um that we were discussing that a different topic so we'll continue on Josiah is donating um his time to J Kristoff Vista good evening Board of Tres um I'm here tonight on behalf of Mr Bennett and Mr Anthony Bennett my name is j sop Vista and I am a student attending Liberty High School um there was a PTI there was a petition made where around actually exactly 108 185 people have signed in wanting to keep Mr Bennett at the school and I'm going to read some quotes from this form one of them State the following quot Mr Bennett has sorry sorry I a junior when I first entered AR club and freshman year I immediately knew it was a safe space not just for me but a whole community of people
096he helped me connect with people I was too anxious to meet and helped me through a lot of stages throughout my high school career um there are more quotes from the 185 submissions from students and curtain curent students and lumni and other quotes include that testified that he did not just care about his their grades and that he cared about them as people um another one stated another student stated that one of the few that he was one of the few teachers to teach him things that he felt that stick with them for a long time and lastly that Liberty High School needs teachers like Mr benett because he makes a big difference on their lives as students overall he is a very impactful teacher for the school and he's a very important piece that
097makes students feel safe and welcome to this school he prepares students for their futures for their like General careers and he boosts them through um his teachings of both literal content for the school and just general life lessons he's an incredibly credible and kind person as both a teacher and a person and By definition most could consider him essentially the perfect teacher um opportunities and things that he has helped support include this art show that he um hosts every year where students can submit art and get seen by offic professional art professional artists where they can be seen heard and just overall boosted another thing that they're planning to do this year is this field trip where they're going to go to baloa park in which they will learn more about art and I haven't
098personally had him but in the few interactions that I have had with him he has helped support me as a person and really boosted my confidence which is why I'm here today I'd love to haveen next year and I can promise you that any students that are going to attend Liberty will also enjoy him a lot so thank you for your time thank [Applause] you El um hi before I start I want toy something um uh someone Don need time to me so does that mean I get you know what if if if can just for the sake of time if you could just carry on if they would like to speak and go ahead they can speak on behalf of themselves but right now we just we'll allot you the three minutes please thank
099you good evening Board of Trustees my name is elonis I am representing a community the our community of Liberty as well as the 185 people who have signed a petition regarding their want of allowing Mr Ben to stay as a teacher at the high school we believe that Mr Bennett is an integral part of the school who cannot be replaced and not being able to have him here at Liberty would be really disheartening for people and artists like me who are aspired to be to have an art career in the future Mr Bennett proves to be an essential staff member through his devotion and commitment to Liberty he's an art teacher soccer coach art Club adviser and a teacher who facilitates school spirit by participating and assisting in many events his extreme dedication demonstrates his
100passion through these extracurriculars for the sake of bettering the school experience he doesn't and Mr Ben is an example of teachers we need more of people who are eager and put passion into the work by not re-electing Mr Bennett Liberty High School would be taking away a valuable staff M along with all the time and effort he puts after school he is also one of Liberty's Prime encouragement of the Arts Mr Bennett is notorious for being a patron of the art of the art programs at schools namely through the art show he has even worked toward jump a district art show for this year and and successfully ensure that artists representing Liberty will be able to participate in it he highlights artists on campus encouraging their passions either as Hobbies or even careers including myself
101due to his considered de demeanor as well as his love for the Arts our programs are often underappreciated and sorry and often overlooked by Sports and stem while these attributes are very viable for the education in high school the Arts also also play an important role in society the humanities are needed to reflect modern times through culture it facilitates creativity critical thinking and human expression if Mr Bennett is not present our programs and their core values would in a massive recession of presents on campus proving that he is an integral part of the school along with playing such an important role for Li High School Mr also Mr benett also builds safe communities on campus one of the core values of Art Club is to to provide a safe and nonmental environment where artists are
102free to create art and express themselves authentically as an art Club adviser Mr Bennett's values perfectly align with the with the representatives and hopes of this community making him a crucial figure for our club that we cannot afford to lose the AR Club Representatives cannot see any other teacher supervising this club since he truly embodies the AR community on campus Mr Bennett is a rare gen that cannot be replaced and by taking away his ability to advise our club this community will lose individual and it's hard to find teachers who Express extreme care and consideration for their students thank you so much thank [Applause] you hello I am haly oconnell of Liberty High School I'm here on behalf of M Mr Anthony Bennett uh he's a very pivotal part of our school and I'm here
103to explain the logic behind why it would be I'm sorry um is non-re Mr Bennett has played a pivotal role in so many students lives and education I myself my freshman year of high school I was very very antisocial and I had sever social anxiety Mr Bennett like helped me learn that it would be better and more beneficial for me to put myself outside of my comfort zone and that's when I learned a lot of things about myself like I love photography I love Color Guard I dance it's a lot of different parts of my life now that I wouldn't have discovered if it wasn't for Mr Bennett Mr Bennett even encouraged me into taking AP classes which I'm actually doing really well in now with ap L mist of adding on to Eloise and
104Jr statements we have 185 students we stared to form online and saying that they would quite like to have Mr Bennett say and last year due to our lack of teachers and hiring at Liberty High School I didn't have a teacher in one of my classes for half a semester and to rehire a teacher especially one like Mr benett would help us it would just be a terrible process a lot of paperwork and it would leave students without a teacher uh all the staff love him the students love him he's been a great influence on all of us he has an open classroom all the time he helps host the mental health club he's a soccer coach uh he hosts literature Club he hosts Art Club um he's just overall a great teacher and great
105for our entire Community almost everybody at Liberty that's had an experience with him will tell you how kind he is how like caring compassionate just how all around he is an awesome person and I just think it would be beneficial for our education for our pursuit of the Arts and for freedom of expression that we have him today at the school thank you thank you [Applause] Sten Cass nicku okay moving on 11.1 consent calendar approval of consent calendar item do I have a motion so Some Mo second second thank you trusty Garcia and trusty trusty and I and trusty Garcia see no discussion please vote on the V being taken the vote was five in favor zero opposed and thank you all for coming and hope you have a great night dri safe home uh
106written reports 12.1 dis plan February 2025 monthly suspension report and moving on to action items 13.1 General functions 2025 csba delegate Assembly Election do I have a motion some thank you trusty Stafford have a second second uh trusty an second okay sorry uh some discussion right yes okay trusty and I so looks like there are six positions um and we can go ahead and try to have a discussion as to who we would like to elect now it's up to six doesn't have to be six but um we can just have that discussion and who we decide to agree to select and then vote move forward and then it kind of goes as a collective uh vote so if there's anybody who'd like to start the conversation I mean I I guess I'll I'll start
107with um number one um let me take a look that I don't know if some of you remember that Kenny pra or Kenneth prao came by and kind of gave us his his uh Speech announcement of why he wanted to be delegate and so he's one that I would I would recommend he's he's a trustee at Hemet in Hemet and one that I would like to see on that list uh there there's several that I do know um and so personally I would recommend um Nick parue Nicholas parue from maretta Valley Joseph kamasi from Tula Valley and Kenneth PR from hen and Phil pra and add in uh as a wri in trusty Edward Garcia from our own Paris Union we can we can do it right in yeah yeah oh okay yeah so I
108don't know if uh there's any other discussion if someone would like to add somebody or we can agree if there's a disagreement on any of those candidates we can go ahead and have that conversation and ultimately just collabora collabor collaboratively um select our slate and move it forward I would also like to see Corona you like to add him yeah okay I I have a quick question I know it says notes to incumbent so that means they're on their second year yeah well they're they're ending their second year and they're moving on for a new term but they are currently um one of the representatives for the district well I kind of want to replace Nancy Young with Elanor CS for maretta Valley so you want to do another writing candidate yes okay so okay
109so we have so you have Douglas Corona okay Douglas Corona Jose Koski kroski Nicholas Kenne yes Edward Garcia and and then rep elor Briggs yeah replace n again with Elanor Briggs well it it's so we wouldn't be replacing we would just be adding El as okay as a candidate so two writings the two writings would be Edward Garcia Elanor Briggs um j i has recommended uh dougas Corona we have Joseph Koski Nick parue Kenneth PR um so now it's just a matter of I mean those are six so unless there's any discussion to add or remove someone that could be our our group of six and then we can take a vote from there on whether we forward so uh let's see on the discussion side I guess we'll start I'm okay with those okay
110okay so we will move on and have so we have a motion to select the six Elanor Briggs is a wri in Douglas Corona Joseph kroski Nicholas parue Kenneth pra and another right in Edward Garcia do I have a motion to move thank you trusty Hall do I have a second second please vote Hall trusty Hall and trusty n second you oh yes yeah that's correct if it's wrong no it's not which one's in question Elanor Briggs how to spell it no that's it sure pretty positive look on the website yeah okay so now that we have our our six selected there please vote vote being taken we have five in favor and zero opposed cool next we're moving on to 13.2 Personnel certificated Personnel action items back no we just voted on and they'll
111submit that to csba oh okay got you um so on the Personnel action items do I have a motion so move thank you trusty Garcia do have a second second thank you trusty call any discussion stand please vote on a vote being taken we have five in favor favor and zero opposed and moving on to 13.3 personnel class classified Personnel action items do I have a motion some thank you trusty gar second thank you trusty Stafford see no discussion can I make a comment oh yes sir can I request the board to pull 2.9 on the C classifi person sure we're pulling what number 2.9 2.9 from 133 yeah from 133 oh okay I'll make that motion or are you we need the motion yeah I'll make I'll make that motion can so we're pulling
1122.9 from 13.3 correct on on motion 2.9 okay we ready okay so just for clarification we are approving the classified Personnel action items with the PLL of 2.9 from 13.3 I was there a second was it Stafford on the second yeah I'll second no but on the original one it was trusty Garcia and then was it trusty Stafford second so now we are voting with the one 2.9 being P from 13.3 okay now seen any discussion please vote and now we could go to the regular upon the vote being taken we've got five in favor zero opposed wait okay so I want to make sure hold on we're pulling 2.9 from 133 we know we just voted but we're still voting on 13.3 right no we just voted on 13 voted because we pulled one
113but we 2 yeah but we're still voting on 13.3 correct yeah we just did we vot no we voted on the amendment oh is that was on oh okay I apologize so is that correct for the poll and now we're now we're voting for 13.3 correct because we pulled one item which was 2.9 from classif personel action item fallowing correction full item 2.9 which is still J yeah we're pulling 2.9 from 13.3 but we're still voting on 13.3 correct okay so that's next yeah it together the motion was made to approve 1.3 to okay that's why I wanted to confirm yeah okay that's that's good thank okay now we're moving on to 13.4 okay 13.4 memorandum of understanding between the Paris Union High School District and the California School Employees Association and its chapter Paris
114Valley number 469 regarding the community services job family and authorization to recruit I have a motion so move thank you trusty Hall have a second second thank you trusty see no discussion any discussion please vote the vote being taken the vote was five in favor zero I'm sorry the vote was four in favor and one opposed 13 .5 Personnel memorandum of understanding between the Paris High School District and the Paris secondary Association regarding the 2025 retirement bonus extension do I have a motion so Mo thank you trusty Garcia second second thank you trusty Hall seeing no discussion please vote upon a vote being taken the vote was five in favor and zero opposed now moving on to 13.6 uh Personnel re revised job description for school social worker do I have a motion so thank
115you trusty Hall do I have a second second thank you trusty Ana and seeing no discussion please vote upon the vote being taken the vote was for in favor one opposed and moving on to 13.8 revised job description of director of of pupil Services I'm sorry 13.7 cross that do I have a motion no motion Mo trusty Garcia second trusty Stafford see no discussion please vote upon a vote being taken we have four in favor and one extension moving on to 13.8 Personnel consideration approval of job description for directive learn and services support state and federal programs and authorization to recruit do I have a motion move thank you trusty have second second trusty Stafford trusty Hall got a second trusty Hall first trusty and and see no discussion please vote on vot being taken
116we have four in favor one opposed moving on to n agreement with cwdl for audit Services funded through the general fund and an estimated amount of $61,500 trust was that saer yeah on the second any discussion it's a presentation no you know what I would like to add that now that as we're approving our um auditing firm uh that if they can please kind of look into um what where we deficit spending kind of to uh make sure that um that they're digging around to find out whether it's restricted funds unrestricted funds just to make sure that they're going through and bringing back information as to how we can make Improvement until T you you like complete audit under every preves yes and just make sure it's so since they're new we just want to
117make sure that they're very thorough and they're they're um targeting the the areas where we're falling short in terms of the financials um and just to make sure that they know that you know if they can bring back a report where it is that we could use cut some spending uh figure out what it is uh so we know how to move forward in the future and guiding us with their decision making and finances to see what recommendations they'll have for us to to make decisions on in the future so please if there's no other conversation no discussion please vote on a vote being taken the vote was five in favor and zero opposed [Music] 13.10 business uh approval of the 20124 25 second interm financial report with positive certification of the parish High School
118District's Financial condition and adoption resolution number 18- 24-25 which is a resolution of the Board of Trustees par of the Paris High High School District recognizing deficit spending to ensure fiscal sovy with no fiscal impact and have a presentation but they can't do it until after we okay do I have a motion thank you trusty Stafford thank you trusty Ania then M Reign you could go ahead all right sorry I cut you off good evening Board of truste superintendent Sarah you could go doesn't appear this is working for you I mean okay all right so to start off with this is a slide we've seen before this is just to show us where we are uh tonight with second interim in terms of our budget and financial cycle we'll be updating you with a second
119interim with information from the governor's January uh budget proposal um as well as some other District specific factors um that I'll update you on in future slides so in our financial reporting Education Code requires that school districts file interim reports at least two times a year uh we have first interum presented to you in December that was with our actuals that we know we knew to to that date as of October 31st we're here tonight to talk about second interim which is all of our actuals through January 31st and then that report is due by March 15th on of a weekend and um third interim is only required um when we have a qualified uh certification as second inter negative of course um so interim financial reporting provides all of our uh stakeholders um including
120you as the board with a snapshot in time as of the district's financial status uh what it does is it projects our financial and our budgetary status through June 30th obviously we know more about this fiscal year you know today than we did when that budget was adopted at the beginning of that cycle that I showed you um in June it does assume that all funds are appropriated and spent you know as planned uh sometimes things have to be moved um as as an expenditure as an example from one fiscal to the next if a purchase doesn't come in or a service isn't a project isn't completed but um it is right now it's assuming that everything goes you know as planned uh so for multi-year projections I want to talk a little bit about
121this multi-year projections are required by assembly Bill uh 1200 and AD 2756 um we are not permitted to look only at the current year that we're in we have to look at the current year plus two subsequent fiscal years and make those projections uh very important those projections are anchored in reliable information as of the date of the projection um so we're using Cola as an example from the May Revis when we adopt our um June budget uh that changes with the January Governor's budget so we're going to change um our projections based on those underlying um factors anytime the underlying factors change so too will our projections U moving forward so that's why we're constantly looking at and revising the budget to be as accurate as possible based on what we know as at
122that moment in time those projections then have to be well documented and again because they will change so um you've seen this slide before it remains mostly the same as it was for first interim um as a reminder when we build a budget we do it on a set of assumptions some of those assumptions are State factors like Cola the factors that go into build our lcff calculator um as an example uh stirs and Pur rates others are district specific spe ific factors like what is our enrollment projection what is our Ada capture rate or our Ada as a percentage of enrollment um and so the only changes between first and second interim when it as it relates to these things here um is our um our Cola for next year because that changed with
123the governor's uh budget proposal um that's going down to 2.43% I will tell you that the legislative analyst office Lao is Now tracking that to be about 2 .26 so we do expect another downward change but we don't know that yet so we're using the projection that we have as of this moment in time um on the good news front our unduplicated pupil percentage changed it went up uh slightly with our certified calad so we are adjusting our lcfl funding Factor as a result of that this is the slide I showed you at first interim and is Jason still here no Jason left I'm really excited uh to hear what Dr Rous said on our Collective behalf and some of Jason's comments uh because of this this is where the money is everybody th this
124is where we have to focus um our enrollment to our to Ada historical Trends are low we have not come back in terms of when a student comes to school on an average basis our Ada divided into our enrollment or our capture rate um we are still well below our prepandemic uh levels after you you practically did this slide for me in your speech and you did a great job of at that but our ada82 enrollment is 89 .86 we were in the 93% range pre pandemic and so I think um actually I don't think I know we can do better and when we do better we will bring in more Revenue uh to the district the reason that I know we can do better is because we have data that shows us we can
125do better from pre pandemic we also have statewide data countywide uh data that show us other districts across the state and in the county have been able maybe not all the way up to pre-pandemic levels but they are better than the years right after the pandemic I'm so glad that you're here Dr egens to take the hel um in in this mission that we have to accomplish and and as Dr Aral said that's important because our students learn when they're here more often and we have more Revenue coming into the district when they're here more often so um I want to remind us of our PSD lcff calculation and how that works and then I've got a couple of follow-up slides um just for illustrative uh purposes so um this also has not changed since
126first interim other than that small change of increase in the unduplicated pupil percentage that's calculated based on a three-year rolling average so that's up to 74.1 3% it's not a lot of change but we count every dollar so the seven through eight um total lcff funding per Ada is up by $9 and the 9 through 12 uh funding funded Ada on a per student basis is up by $10 I know that's not a lot but again we have to count all of that so just real quick let's review how do we get um these calculations if we could focus on the far right column the 9 through 12 we start with last year's base Grant per ada8 which was $1,115 that number is then increased by Cola 1.07% % which is $129 we then get
127our base grant for Ada for this year that we're in $2,144 so we should be getting an additional $129 per student um over the amount we got last year for every student now there's some other factors that are added on there that you can see we get a grade span adjustment of $316 that gives us an adjusted basr and then we add on our supplemental dollars we add on our concentration dollars for that total lcf funding you know for Ada so we can go to the next slide um this is a new slide for you um I stole this from SCH schools this concept for school Services of California um because so many districts ours included are in the declining enrollment status announc so I wanted to illustrate for you what happens with Cola when
128we're in a declining enrollment status because often times most people think we're getting a 1.07% cola we have 1.07% more than we had last year and that's that's not true not um so if we if you remember those calculations in 2324 our base Grant per Ada started off at $ 12,15 we got the $129 more for the 1.07% cola bringing us to 12,144 for the base Grant when you take last year's base Grant amount and this year's base Grant amount you can see that going across in the rows there multiplied by the Ada remembering we have less Ada this year than last year that's why that number is lower there 8762 is lower than 8,871 um consequently the revenue for last year in in this scenario $ 106.58146801 [Music] prior year guarantee or the average
129of of three years but then that serves as our base so then our base for the next year is lower again all the more reason we've got to get um both our enrollment up and our Ada as a percentage of enrollment um up but I wanted to show you that for illustrative purposes so that we know that in 2425 while the statutory Cola is 1.07% our PSD specific Cola using our funding factors with declining enrollment is actually a ne16 those types of things are important to understand because that contributes to our deficit spending and then I've done the same calculation based on the estimated Cola uh for next year now that is actually an increase in funding because Cola is a little bit higher estimated 2.43% but when you go through and you do those
130same calculations are increase on a per student basis in the calculation it only increases by 1.41% so that's just important to keep in mind that we can't just take all of our revenue and multiply it by Cola it actually that goes into the funding formula and there's a specific calculation that we have to do um in order to get those numbers so it's just important to keep in mind all right so this is the slide that summarizes the many many pages that are attached to your board agenda the standardized account code structure uh document um it's about 100 pages is long um this is a snapshot um of that for you to see and so um what I want to point out for you here this is our unrestricted general fund um and so you
131can see last year's un audited actuals we ended last year at 37.6 million this year we are based on the current projections we're projecting to end at $ 35.9 million next year that would decrease to $ 28.3 million and again that's because of the decline enrollment that we've got worked in uh to the budget um but maintaining the same Staffing maintaining the same programs and so the expenditures rise or as the expend sorry the revenues go down that decreases again in 2006 2627 to $16.5 million um I want to highlight also in the current year we're projecting that the deficit factor that number highlighted in red there and red bold is almost $1.7 million the good news is though that number is down from first interim where we were at $4 million and I've got
132slides that will show you what that variance is a result of so it's good when the deficit goes down um in this case and I'll explain that in just a moment um actually before you read my mind you didn't go quite yet to the next slide I also want to point out our contributions here you can see that negative number up in the as it affects Revenue contribution are not Revenue technically but they do reduce your uh Revenue into the district when you make that contribution into the restricted general fund and so you can see we are projecting that to be 27.1 million doar this year going up to 29.7 uh the ne next year and then up to 34.8 and I've got a slide that's going to break those contributions down just a little
133bit too because there's a pretty big increase um between 2526 and 2627 this is our restricted general fund um summary and U again you have all of this um in your report this is just a summary snapshot for you um I want to point out the contributions you can see the exact opposite entry on the restricted side because that's a contribution from the unrestricted general fund into the restricted general fund all right so a quick summary of the contributions you've seen this um slide before and in fact we had a detailed presentation on it at the last uh board meeting um but you can see for 2425 our total special education contribution is almost $24 million I'm going to show you in a minute why that's going down the projection just a little bit uh
1346.1 million uh to routine restricted maintenance that's formula driven um and then we another thing I want to point out to you and part of the reason why the contributions overall increase between 2526 and 2627 is that very last line of contributions is our Co Ada relief dollars um back from uh Co when we um were able to have have $6.2 million placed in our restricted account until we went through the audit probably three of you anyway may recall us talking about that and so we're contributing that from the restricted general fund back to the unrestricted uh general fund $3 million this year and then the remainder um of about just over $3 million next year and so once that runs out then the overall contributions um increase okay all right so now what we
135want to do is talk about what has changed on at the big picture level for between first interim and second interim um and so you can see we've got this broken down into the categories there you see a a column for first and second interim as well as the variance so U the revenues have increased by $1.4 million I'm going to go into the detail of that on the next slide our contributions have decreased by $48,000 our expenditures were projecting to decrease by $493 ,000 meaning that there is an increase to our net increase or decrease of the ending fund balance by $2.3 million so so it's helping our financial position by $2.3 million therefore there's a change in the ending fund balance to the positive of $2.3 million the next slide Sarah I'm going
136to break down what that looks like on the revenue side so what are those Revenue variances so um as it relates to the Revenue the primary source of that is our interest Revenue um interest revenue is proving to be as a good thing it's proving to be higher than we projected um if you're not aware all school districts or all leas um in the state they're required to hold their cash in the County Treasury um all all school districts in the state are those those funds are held there along with all of the other money in the county so like when we pay our property taxes that gets held in the in the county treasury they manage the investment pool so it's very hard for us to know what the total value of those assets
137are or what their portfolio looks like we do get reports of course from the um the treasurer's office um but we received um a higher payment than expected in January and of course we didn't know that when we did the first interim report we're making that adjustment for second interim um I mentioned the next line there with our unduplicated pup percentage our lcff Revenue went up it's a small number but we're still going to count it um our Lottery Revenue went up those projection that's a prior year um adjustment and then um a number of other other Revenue sources Cas e rate donations and some other local Revenue all for a total revenue increase of $1.4 million so that variance in the revenue um it's not much it's 0 89% of of the increase in
138Revenue um but we wanted to detail that out for you now contributions um as an adjustment to revenue are decreasing by $48,000 which increases our revenue is one way to look at it and that's because um there was a reduction in special education expenditures that reduction is due to costs that we were previously charging to special education we transfer that to the learning recovery emergency block grant because we always want to use our most restricted dollars first and of course save that contribution from uh the general fund into special education uh so total revenue variance ad Ed for contributions 1.37% uh change there our expenditure variance uh salaries and benefits we're projecting will come in $953,000 less than we projected at first interim um that is a savings for vacancies we've had a number um
139of vacancies that have maybe taken a little bit longer um uh to fill um we had we had a a long vacancy here in in this position um there'll be there's other payroll and health benefit costs that have come in lower um employees new employees are maybe starting at a lower range or taking a less expensive health benefit plan so those are the kinds of things that Mimi and her team look at um pretty extensively to make sure that we're doing an accurate projection um the the rest of that is when um when there are Savings in salaries and benefits um then specific programs will do budget realignments so when they're saving them salaries and benefits they might move that over to books and supplies or services and operating expenditures um so with that let's
140go to the books and supplies line uh we're actually increasing the projection there uh by 141,000 and again those are budget adjustments and budget realignments between the object codes object codes are the different uh categories salaries and benefits books and supplies and so forth um increases to services and operating expenditures um that's an increase to Consultants also the budget adjustments and budg of alignments between the object codes that I talked about small decrease in capital outlay and a small decrease in other outgo for a total reduction in expenditures um as it relates to the projections of 493 th000 or a 36% um change so um in terms of the percentage change the variance is not that great um but but as I mentioned it does change our financial picture um by that $2.3 million um
141to the good so so that is good news um and we're almost to the end here I showed you this slide has just been updated for a second um interim um so you know like we discussed at first interim um there was substantial one-time revenues and higher colas um and that temporarily um helped reduce our operating deficits we're just about done with the large majority of those funds that came in as onetime dollars and so what you see happen here is our ending fund balance um drastically uh declined Mr Miller mentioned this in his speech before close session um he of course had those numbers right uh we have to at second interim as I mentioned in the beginning do a projection for the current year and two subsequent fiscal years so that puts us
142through through through 20 the end of 2627 and so we do meet our obligations through 2627 but we will have to be presenting to you a budget to uh to consider and approve in June which will then include the 2728 this school year and you can see based on the projections with the assumptions that we have we will fall below the minimum reserve requirement of 3% at that time so there is still some work to do uh we've talked about much of that work in terms of increasing enrollment and increasing our Ada uh capture rate okay so what are our next steps we are recommending a positive certification that certifies that based on the current projections the district will meet our financial obligations for the current to subsequent fiscal years um we're asking you and
143this this is new Mr Miller is right we're asking you to adopt a res resolution 18425 that's a resolution of the Board of Trustees recognizing deficit spending to ensure fiscal solvency um the reason for that and I attached this in there as well is the county office always sends their guidance on how to prepare first interim second interim adopted budget and they included a new section in that which I attached for your reference but you'll notice when it talked about deficit spending in there um it said must you know the board must include a clear plan to address and reduce deficit spending ensure that the governing board acknowledges the stabilization measures required based on the current Financial condition and then they provided sample fiscal solvency statement um language that if the board had already recognized
144Cuts let's say to be included that were not that we were not including in those multi-year projections they would have wanted those outlined as well um in that resolution ution obviously you have not done that so the way that um I wrote that resolution was just to essentially Define what I told you in the presentation this is the projected deficit by fiscal year this is the projected ending fund balance by fiscal year so just a little bit more explanation I know that was in your agenda summary so the next state budget checkpoint will be the May revision that's what we will ultimately build um our final Budget on um based on that may revision and then the 2425 budget will be presented to the board um in June on June 3rd with public hearings for
145the budget and for the lcap budget coming from Business Services the lcap coming from Ed services and then final adoption on June 12th okay and the next slide I think just says any questions any questions I hope you enjoyed some of the new slides in terms of having some different illustrations yes so I I have a few questions okay absolutely in our weekly report you had sent out a monthly uh for each month of our spending yes on special education yes yeah so I'm looking to kind of pull it up here I'm looking at uh direct and indirect cost and then if you look at December okay there it is sorry I forgot my it's at 342,000 make sure I'm looking at what you're looking at okay it's just a lot larger than the rest
146of the months and then we got what two weeks off in in December so why is that in indirect and direct I don't even know what it is well let's let's start with that let me pull up what you're pulling up first of all so I can be looking at the same thing my computer just went up oh did your computer shut down is that what I heard yeah you're rebooted help while Anna and James are helping with that is it okay if I go on okay so an indirect cost is um uh if you actually look in all of the Soxs document there's a form that's done um you know each year calculate what calculates a percentage it's the indirect cost rate calculation so um it's a formula that establishes I think we're at
1476.75 6 35 uh this year and so um indirect is charged on all of the restricted programs um as a way to capture um th those restricted programs share of all the operational expenses you know within the district now in terms of and this is all restricted programs not just special education be te maintenance it'll be Title One um lcap those I think Mr humos had a similar question during dian's elcap presentation last month so in terms of um why indirect was a higher amount in January not looking at the detail I can see the indirect was not charged in November indirect is not required to be charged on a monthly basis I know you asked to look at the revenue and expenditures on a monthly basis and that's that's fine I I we can
148break it down that way that's not a problem at all but um our budgets are annual budgets um sometimes indirect is only charged at the end of the fif school year um other in other programs we might charge it monthly so that they may get an accurate picture so that's my speculation without looking in the details because I actually don't see a charge there in November so it was probably a culmination of November and December but that's a great question all right yeah just kind of I'm I'm a toddler trying to run so okay I'm just learning and trying to figure it out um now last year at this time were we in in a deficit spending yes that was the projection when we look at um our multi-year projection that I showed you that
149was like the snapshot of the whole report that you have we ultimately did not deficit spend um and that's because we were you we were reutilizing the tail end of all of those onetime funds that we had that expired September 30th of this year and so we trained transferred a lot of expenditures from the unrestricted general fund into the restricted general fund so that we could utilize you know all of those dollars there as well so interesting okay um but we finished off with you know almost 38000 3 38 million 38 million so are we looking the same way this year I mean yeah so Sarah would you mind putting up the multie it's just easier to keep going I'm sorry everybody I'm just asking questions okay that's what we're here for this one I'm
150sorry one more go to the unrestricted so yeah so you can see the total ending balance last year and this is our um audited uh financials $ 37.6 million or 18.28% is what we ended with ultimately um last year you are right though at one this is even what you're saying but at one point in time during the fiscal year we had thought we would be deficit spending because but then as I mentioned uh we wanted to make sure we're using up all of those restricted funds we also have some reclassification of expenditures um so when we have expenditures that we planning remember I said I think it was on that first slide this is assuming that all of the um programs spend the money the way that we've budgeted you know the money all
151of the programs at the district level that sort of thing so we have some of our school sites that didn't spend all of their money so those expenditures are reduced in one year they're reclassified to the next year so their budget essentially is moved from one year to the other um the school buses that we ordered at the beginning of last year that were supposed to be here last year that's $1.4 million those did not come in by June 30th so we cannot classify that as an expenditure in 23 24 so then that reduces the expenditures it increases um the net increase or decrease or changes the deficit spending amount to your point it moves it over to the next year my next question I'm sorry but um I direct this one down how do
152we ensure that our spending priorities align with our long-term Financial sustainability while continuing to meet our needs for our students and staff well that's that's all of us you know here and so a I I will say this any budget that I present to you it is not me sitting alone just putting numbers on the paper that's we don't do a budget in a vacuum we we we have a whole process with stakeholders we work with ed services we work at the cabinet level we work with I don't know maybe you guys get tired of all the budget meetings but we have a lot of budget meetings um there's the um lcap stakeholder process there's the sip of processes at the school site so that's when when not just me it can't be just meting
153feedback from others and so we so the budget is a reflection of the district priorities and so we take as cabinet we take that Direction you know ultimately from you but we also have our responsibility um to you to provide you the information um you may remember at the last presentation or the last board meeting I did a presentation on the different roles and responsibilities of all of us in the budget process and the board of course has a very important role in that as just the COO and services the superintendent the principles and our stakeholders look like what uh Mr compos was talking earlier is how do we find out where we're over spending what categories you know and we talked about that earlier we did we had a conversationist that's what he's refering
154it's just you know I'm looking at it going we should be able to see that you know are we buying too many paper clips I don't know you know no and and um I did hear what Mr compo said about asking the Auditors to do that unfortunately the Auditors are doing a compliance audit in terms of where we're deficit and and they may be able to do that work um I know that's part of the work that you had hya specifically Lon um doe in her fiscal solvency report but the short answer of that is that's my job and that's my it's it's my job to do the work and to have the answers but more importantly it's my job to make sure that you all have the information that you need and if you
155want to look down to the paperclip level I know you're actually I know you're just using that in fun then that's my job to provide that um for you um we have been because of some of the questions that have been asked not just by the board but by you know our Union stakeholders and others that's why we're incorporating new types of slides into these interim presentations so you can have the in information um that you need um in so that others have the benefit of our conversation uh this morning um it's not as easy as you might think to just say where are you deficit spending and may just say oh that line right there it's just not that I wish that it was it would be easier to answer the question uh the
156reason we are deficit spending on the most simplistic level is because we have less Revenue than we have expenditures we have more expenditures than we have revenue and so then we have to look at the two sides of the equation Revenue well how do we increase our Revenue because if we increase our Revenue to higher than our expenditures then we will no longer be deficit spending similarly if we decrease our expenditure so that they are lower than our revenues we will no longer be deficit spending you can also see here that though we are deficit spending we still meet our reserves we still have a 7.74% Reserve at the end of the second subsequent fiscal year 2627 and that's because we're starting with with healthy reserves so to get down to your not to the
157paper clip level of we I'm teasing you um but to get down to that question we we have to we have to look at the the major categories part of the reason where deficit spending is the cola illustration that I gave you and the 1.07 is really negative .16 um so we have when are expenditures on the natural so we go to bed every every year on June 30th and our financials are what they are we every salary that we pay in the district there's you know a certain amount for purs and a certain amount for stirs and workers comp and all of these things many of those factors that we charge automatically to every salary on June 30th or through June 30th come July 1 those go up um our utility rates go up
158the cost of goods um and supplies they go up and that that range is about four and a half to 5% for all school districts in the state of California um I was at a meeting on Friday with the legislative analysts office and they were sharing in terms of the whole state budget that number is actually 6.3% uh the higher number coming from Health and Human Services and so even if we were in a grilling district and we got 1.07% Cola so we actually received that full 1.07 but expenditures are growing upwards of 5% you can see the disconnect there so some of it it's not is not that we're deficit spending meaning we're doing something wrong we're charging too much to a certain category it's just a function of we have less Revenue coming
159in and it's not matching the pace of our Rising expenditure so what it causes us to have to do is look at our expenditures and really many of you have heard me say you can have anything you want you just may not be able to have everything you want um and that's true both when we're trying to incorporate new expenses into the budget it's just as true when we're having to look at where can we cut things from the budget um we obviously want to cut things that are farthest away um from the classroom I don't have the ability to go to Southern California Edison and say this is just unmanageable I can't I can't pay these utility increases similarly we can't tell our employees look I know that you're you are um do a
160step increase we can't afford to pay it we have to look at other things so I know that was a a long explanation but and I wish it was a short explanation but um I offered to you to sit down and have as many one-on-one conversations as you'd like um that extends to all of you in groups of two um but continue asking the questions and we'll continue answering and providing um information that you need as a board I'm just trying to learn I I I really app appreciate I can't tell you I mean I've been here almost 19 years giving budget presentations and um most of the time there aren't a lot of questions so I appreciate the questions I'm good and it's the resolution 1824 25 yes um I don't know if I'm
161looking at this incorrectly let me see if I can this is kind of like a I Told You So letter here are you talking about the letter or the resolution the resolution no I I would you want this resolution that we this is basically whereas you're saying you told us all these things right well I me personally or well or the county count from somebody so the county the county sent the letter okay no no no are we on the right day yeah 18 24 yeah the county sent the letter requesting that the board acknowledge the deficit spending and their obligation to ensure fiscal solvency we wrote The Resolution you know with that language it's got the numbers in it that are in in this presentation okay so as you get down to 2728 which
162is not showing up there that's where we going into we're trying for 3% said well 3% is the state minimum yeah right so that's are we over 3% at that 2728 no we're under 3% there so how much uh money are we looking for well I mean I know you can't be exact but I I can't be exact because it also depends on what year you make the cut in so you you could I'm not suggesting this I want to be very clear when we are preparing and presenting the budget that we'll prepare for June for you to adopt for next year we could have a budget that looks exactly like this making no cuts no change in Revenue Dr Eagan wasn't able to work any magic all of that and then we could show
163uh 2728 and we could put a number in there and we could say you agree to cut this number you know by by the state but then that number is going to be much bigger let's say that number is $4 million yeah if you instead cut a million in you know next year and then another million you know it's it's a it's a not as deep of a of a number yeah that kind of explains why most districts wait till the they shouldn't and then they uh then it's in the paper and everywhere else right and so that's why I said that would not be my recommendation okay so so this by by approving this is what I want to know what does that mean we okay we've told the county we've seen all the
164facts in PR usly that's essentially what it's telling you I I will tell you I mean if it gives you heartburn or lack of a better term to approve the resolution um I think you have a motion in a second on the floor um I think if I remember right I'm going to make an amendment but okay so you you can make an amendment to the motion the I did talk with the county after hearing Jason's comment the county has asked that we do this they don't have the right to to mandate that you pass this resolution they've asked so we've prepared it as they've asked it's now up to you for the board you can simply do Jason actually said it very well you can approve the report just like you always approve the
165report they're not going to flip our designation and say oh the board said you were positive Candace said you were positive but they didn't do this resolution we're going to change you to negative they're not going to do that they don't have that Authority so if that makes you feel better that's an option so the the only thing if mine's not necessarily a question um but just in the future um kind of a recommendation um so when we're bringing forward and we know we're deficit spending and and we're bringing forward Cuts can can we please get the the full picture because it's always that we're bringing forward classified usually see from what I've seen it's we bringing forward certificated and classified and I don't think it's fair that we don't include Management in that uh
166and administration just because we need to make sure that we have some kind of I mean I think right now we have a fiscal stabilization plan with all the different things online stuff everything that's going on U that is positive but at the same time um we want to have ongoing kind of conversations throughout the year so that we don't get hit with something in February and that we have to now make drastic decisions or you know it come up in January and then we're at that point we're we're sending Panic out because the reality is is that that somehow the Panic the word is getting out before we get to it because people will mention things and those things tend to materialize and so my concern is well why are we the last to
167know and so as we meet regularly I just want to make sure that when we're bringing forward these plans that you lay everything out that we have you have a plan and that plan is covering every Department every area so that we can then make a decision with all the information that we have so that's all that I would ask but now I'll move on and go ahead and we can work on that right Dr yes I have a question taking the opportunity that Mr campus expanded on this 2425 current year yes the deficit spending of $1.7 million is a projected it is projected yes it's projected does that mean that July 1st once we close the fiscal year we can analyze what happened and determine where we spend more money this year yes and
168we can do that before we can always be analyzing where our expenditures are um you're you're correct though we could know the expenditures when we're overspending the deficit spend well that's that's a function of over spend expenditures are a function of why you why you over so so yes is the answer and and in all honesty you know when Mimi gets a third quarter report from the county investment pool I mean if she is projecting that we'll going to increase interest Revenue I mean we could wipe out that deficit spending for this year but unfortunately that won't change you know next year and going into the future but what it does change for next year and going into the future is it by increasing our ending fund balance this year it increases our beginning fund
169balance next year so it starts us off in a little bit better position but I think M Miss Reign and I understand you said we reduce that because we have in right but we shouldn't count on that we get some amount of money per student in order to function as a school not depending on some interest anything like that that extra money should go to our students in different ways like when I met with them they were talking about the needs on the wrestling team that they don't even have the mats where where there will to be wrestling and a lot of needs that are still need so that can be there but we should have a that with what we receive during this year right just counting the 8 we should be able and
170we understand we need to increase the yes that 88.6 but with that money can we we want to identify in I want to be looking that to get to the bottom this fiscal year where do we over spend why was the deficit what we could have done different so we can apply that for 25 26 absolutely right so we can learn about that and one thing that in I know that this is not a good good topic right that we want to talk about it but whenever we have an issue we need to take the Bard by the horns and address it you mention when I was reading the speech about ping 13 13.6 we talk about a a decrease of students for this year of 128 I believe yeah about 128 and last year
171it was a difficult decision that means that we didn't have 128 students but that was a projection we don't know are we at this time March of 2025 able to say that projection we really had 128 students less and we were over staff because that's a reality if we have less students and we continue to and I understand is a difficult decision to affect the livelihood of our staff but the reality is if we have less students and we give the teachers and find something else that they can do besides teaching that is going to happen that is that is going to happen so we want to find out in June 30 starting July 1st let's get there find out out if really that projection of 12 students or even was 90 in weend that
172I can answer today because that that 128 students is a decline from last year's census day thir third Wednesday in October to this year's October of 2024 that difference on our certified cats is 128 students okay now the question is did we keep the teachers that we didn't give students and how many it would be the equivalent to three or four right uh about four yeah about four yeah and it's it's actually Amplified even from there because I think it was the first intern presentation I talked in detail about this so not only did we decline from last year this year I'm sorry I just want to make it simple to to to our board right we have 120 students less yes we keep the teachers that we didn't keep students yes because we planned
173to we actually planned to grow so we started this fiscal year off knowing we were seven teachers over staff over staff and then we projected to grow so that's part of how that calculation was done but instead we declined um so that put us I I think at about 12 teachers you know over staff but how are you saying that we were projected to grow we were projected 128 L not at the beginning of the year not at the beginning of the year when we did our adopted budget we had growth projected matching the trends from the previous years okay so when did we make the projection of 128 L that wasn't a projection that's actuals that's an actual number that's not a projection okay so actually so there was no way to know correct
174that we were going to have 128 less no because all of the data the factual data which is indicating that we were going to grow yeah all of our feeder excuse me am me correct three of our four feeder districts okay um grew this year and one stayed flat so that data alone you know everybody coming into US is getting more and more each year we should continue getting more and more okay now for for the board to to know and for me too it is my understanding that at some point in time the district decided let's find something for these extra teachers this over staff of teachers and they are they became what this year they are being the Lea teachers correct that's part of the seven I was mentioning yeah that was a
175result of what if we were not a projecting a decrease so how come we were over staff this year with those teachers so that was Mr Garcia's giving you the ey no I'm not no I'm not so that was a result of we um during the covid years with all of the extra money we added addition section allocations to each of the sites you guys use that for your learning uh recovery uh programs and so when that money went away those sections had to be absorbed uh differ so that that's why they were overstaffed and using them that way to to your exact point okay okay so June 30 we are going to go in depth find out what happened this year and exactly what try to identify what Mr Hall was saying where we
176always spending to learn for the 25th 26 for this coming school year and take action start taking action in in in July are we spending too much in this area this other area and B pictures yeah that's a good point but I do I want to keep laboring it but we we can do that now but to your point on June 30th and in July when we're closing the books we have all of the information then but but we should never wait until the end of the year to analyze the year we need to be doing that now and we have month okay so when do you think we can the First Data of what we are well we have that data here so because it's not remember it's and maybe I'm not just not
177doing a good job of explain is is it possible that you guys have this conversation tomorrow and that way we can go ahead because obviously there pres I mean we can go ahead that way because I want to make the motion to amend and approve this that we can push the the interim report forward thank you greatly appreciate it okay okay so I would like to make a motion to amend and approve the second indim report uh removing um the second inter the letter from rcoe as well as the resolution do I have the second second uh thank you trusty Hall so now when we approve uh the vote we are only approving the second interm financial report that's what we will be voting for no or removing I'm sorry removing the two which would
178then and then we vote on okay so it's two separate votes we two separ votes he's doing an amendment to remove two items and then he wants to vote on the budget discussion keep after we first and second we have disc after we okay yeah okay so it is recommended the Board of Trustees authorize a positive certification of the 2024 2025 interm financial report which certifies that based on current projections the district will meet its Financial Obligations for the current and subsequent uh two fiscal years are you okay with that yeah so then but that's removing the other two okay yes then that's so that would basically just be um the first the first DOC that you gave see there that's that's what the second internal financial report yes okay so I do have a
179second did we get that or TR trust okay please vote oh I'm sorry my question was this mandatory cansas from County one this right the county not I don't not I like it but we're not legally obligated we're not legally obligated they requested it and that's all they can do is request it so I prepared it and put it for your um consideration it's not going to hurt our relationships no I as I mentioned I did call Dr Price and let him know you know what was going on and I want to make sure I understood you know as well so I could give you good advice no it won't it won't hurt our relationship okay I would tell you if it would any other discussion um no pleas vot being taken it was five
180five in favor zero opposed and now moving on 1311 business res revolving cash report for February 2025 do I have a motion some move thank you trusty G have a second second thank you trusty Stafford see there discussion please vote on a vote being taken the vote was five in favor zero opposed moving on to 1312 business authorization for purchase orders above 50,000 for March 2025 do I have a motion some move thank you trusty Garcia do I have a second second thank you trusty Hall any discussion see none please vote okay you want call I don't I got a question um Hector yes can you um give me a little bit of here on this authorization purchases the description it says um Vector resources is company installation of vector door maybe ECT the contract
181yeah vector contractor they will be they will be installing a a keyless card access system at the front entrances to all the Comprehensive High Schools the four high schools in PTI uh it's a card access system uh they'll be able to uh people will be able to access the facility to be able to check out a master key because our new key system we don't issue master keys in the district anymore we're very controlled on the district grand master keys so anyone that needs to access a campus when it's closed is able to come in with a park check out key we know who took the key when they took it when they brought it back and uh they're able to um you know access access the keys at anytime oh okay good yeah it's
182it's a it's it's a it's a factor for heat control because we don't want grand master keys out you know I think this was brought up quite a while back by trusty Garcia it was a different company though and um you know Ric's uh the the system uh that will be installed by Vector VOR there's a contractors putting in but verata is a system where where it's uh being put in it's it's got capability to grow if we decide to add more doors to it so it's a little expensive because it has that capability it can grow um but uh this this gets us our foot in the door for keyless card access okay that's I think the preferred method now so we can do some tracking of who's coming and going we need to
183you know yeah uh it can integrate with cameras I mean it can expand we can grow the system but this puts us uh as at least gets us card access to the front lobbies at the schools okay the other key for their area yeah once once they can check out a key and again you know we don't give out grand master keys but people can check out a site master and we know who took it matter of fact we even have a picture if we took it when they took it and when they yeah I I don't want to harp on the schools about how they track their keys I know how that works so yeah and this is a good B so that's good yes okay thank you oh you're w okay okay on
184the vote being taken vote was five in favor zero opposed moving out of 13 or 13.13 business authorization for purchase of Capital Equipment above $10,000 for March 2025 by motion so move thank you trusty G you have a second second thank you trusty Anda see no discussion but I'll give it a second please vote on a vote being taken the vote was five in favor zero opposed moving on to 134 technology Award of RFP number 021 425 e rate Category 2 access point installation and equipment purchase funded through the general fund in the amount of 200 excuse me 205,000 205 OHA gosh 25,45 77 I apologize uh do I have a motion second thank you trusty Stafford on First and trusty Garcia on the second seeing no discussion please vote upon the vote being taken
185there are five in favor zero opposed moving on informational items 14 14.1 or I'm sorry yeah 14.1 uh curriculum new supplemental English novel adoption and there's a list for the 9th through 12th grade novel adoptions for our review moving on to 14.2 business information regarding the home to school transportation plan beginning July 1st 2025 with revenue and and 15.1 close session if necessary not necess Mr thank you Dr Ross and 16.1 reconvening session we don't need it sorry moving on 17.1 other items by the superintendent nothing at this time com thank you Dr 18.1 other items by the Board of Trustees truste um I just wanted to say thank you I know those students and parents and teachers are G but but um if they hear audio thank you for coming it really helps us
186to hear both sides and to see the impact that teachers and principles are making um so I really appreciate them being here um Paris Lake seems to be really left out and I would love to see a change that we scheduled to be there Friday so um I don't want them to think that we're going just because they here we were already going to go but I'm happy I'm now excited to be there on Friday and maybe we can add them to the the key lock so it just seem like oh that's true we're not there so um I'm just thankful for everyone that came and and voice their opinion and voice their concerns thank you trusty Stafford um I have so many items written down here I'm not going to go through this things
187I have things I have to do but um with the attendance that we committed ourselves now to pounding the payment and finding these students and getting them back so let's keep a focus on that keep a focus on the uh cutting of money I I I agree with can don't wait till the end let's start doing what we know we can do now if you have something that is your favorite item think about it and say well you know what do I really need this can I get by without it um even the board we have to look at ourselves so um I just encourage everybody to look it's fending rep purchases it's all there so um decide for yourself okay that's it thank you thank you trusty St trusty all uh first off just
188you know thank you all for spending your Wednesday night here with us um appreciate it um principal you know you guys are doing a great job out there I got to visit the Heritage High School um got to feed a goat or no sheep lamb thing you know baby sheep uh uh your new uh turntable stuff for your uh your uh what's it called sorry yeah just your dances and stuff great uh doing a lot of good things out there got to go to the so soccer game you know we lost by one point but it was a great game um got to meet the uh Elijah with the Robotics and then we got to see that work that was really cool and and just blowing my mind on that so um then went out
189to Liberty got to run around run around there you know and uh the uh one lady who a student Olivia you know we walked into that and she just missa uh asked her to explain and she come running right up to us and it's like oh my gosh you can't can't get this girl quiet down but just full of energy and uh she's the one looking we're trying to go to uh Florida and uh just you know want to get behind behind these students and and support them um and then the uh ASD Club all wearing their Light blues and it was just a great uh adventure for both schools and it's nothing like what I grew up in you know it's totally different you go through this door and then you end up on
190the other side of the campus it was like holy cow you know we just didn't have that stuff that we have now and we need to promote it what are we waiting for why is it you know wait till the last minute uh let's speak positive stuff out there in our community for our students and everything that they're doing uh you know today I got to go to the uh student of the month and to hear these these you know students but these young adults you know T story and you can see that they're going to make changes um not just their life but whatever they do they're going to give it 110% and just seeing the the love that's in these school systems you know uh with the students and the way the teachers
191interact I'm just I'm I'm proud to be here and to be able to be part of it it's nothing like what I thought so I'm constantly learning I'm constantly going to ask questions and you know I'm the Y guy so uh thank you all again for for spending the evening night with us so thank you thank you try H yeah um I'd like to address the principles so last month or last meeting I did say a statement I own it I definitely own it I say a lot sometimes it's things we don't want to hear but we're all in a business where we get critiqued and criticized and slandered but I tell you if you guys are offended I'm sorry I'm apologizing because I treat you like family here when we make decisions when your
192livelihood is on the line we have to make tough decisions you're placed in a position where you have to make tough decisions and there's always debate sometimes there's heated debate sometimes there's more conversation and then when we're up here where our minds are going and we're thinking about the conversation we had prior and so sometimes we react with the knee-jerk reaction and I own it but I made a strong comment and I know it affects you guys but at the same time I struggle because we're all trying to go in a specific Direction and it just doesn't seem like everybody's on the same page I encourage you to keep doing what you're doing we value you we say it we say it not only do we say it we prove by our actions I think
193today's the voting how it went down was amazing because we spoke from the Heart by our voting and so there are many areas to look at for cutting and I want you to know we're all here because we're a family and we're trying our hardest to take care of each other so thank you principles um I want to thank everybody else too it doesn't matter what position you are in this District your family we value you it's very very tough because we have to live with the decisions we have to go out in public and face the people who are critiquing us criticizing us threatening us we take a lot of heat and sometimes we take it on behalf of other members of the district but that's what family does so I want you to
194know again I'm sorry if I offended you but thank you thank you for your service we appreciate you and I know there's there's a lot more I want to say but I did hear somewhere on this side it's getting late so thank you again uh yeah you know thank you Jess um number one you know for those of you guys who are behind the scenes who maybe have never met or been introduced to number one thank you because you're kind of like the the unspoken hero that we just don't get to see and and for those of you administrators um you know for running those little cities that you guys have out there thank you I mean you know I think what I've learned today is that I have to reconsider a lot of things
195and a lot of the decision- making that I make because and and for me personally you know I think today was probably one of the most difficult days for me um for for separate reasons um but you know I think there was a lot of good done today I think uh the fact that we're communicating is probably that everybody will always tell you communication is key um but yet we can neglect that you know there's so many simple things in life that um we should follow um but we don't and so for me I just want to know hey just continue to communicate the more information that we have good or B I mean you know like trusty gar said we get negative stuff oh by the way you are the goat trusty Hall so
196want to say I didn't want to forget they said you're the goat so I might as well you know you're the greatest of all time thank you anyways um so you know I just hope that that there's an understanding that you know from us in this seat in this position we want to hear it all good bad ugly because the only way we can make the right decisions is if we know it all and we know that it's difficult to go up to the podium and to say something it's it's it's intimidating it's difficult um the one thing I will say uh to all the administrators here and anybody who's been a teacher and who's impacted students you guys are doing a great job because I think the student Representatives that came up here were
197articulate they were passionate and they they told us you know what it was and so you know some decisions we take in and and it might not go in their favor and you know some decisions we make uh you know we'll get egg on our face for the decisions we make and we make mistakes you know I can tell you I've made a few I'm sure many others would agree with that um but I just want you to know that I think the more that we communicate and we collaborate I think we're moving in the right direction um obviously we're going to have those tough days um you know to make decisions and do whatever but I honestly think that um that as a group that we're pulling on the same rope and there's that
198Synergy when we're all pulling on the same rope we're not going to lose we're going to come out on top and hopefully you know that's what we see for the future now we just got to hope and pray that you know that may Revis is is positive and you know send Governor news whatever ever you got to do send them some communication just to let them know that hey you know what um we need some support down here to make sure that we can continue to fund the programs and staff the people that we have and and provide the best opportunity for our students and we know that you know down the road there'll be some more difficult decisions um I hope I I never feel like the way I felt today but anyways that's
199pretty much it so thank you all so much for all that you do and we're moving on to 19.1 future board topics that's a newbie by the way so if there's anything you guys would like to add to discuss in the future or a presentation that you would like us to provide to you something that you would like to know because sometimes I hear oh we have been asking for that we haven't been provided with that info this is the right place and is going to be documented so it's going to be on the minutes it's in the agenda so any kind of information I can one you have the opportunity to formally officially make any request of information that you would like to see oh well and so this is going to be a
200regular thing that we do and what we'll be able to do is we'll be able to take a look and see what the topic is and the priority and that way you know if it's something that's immediate then we can move it immediately to the next meeting and if not if it's something that's just kind of like hey we need some time to gather it then we can kind of push it down to the side if it's something that's not a front burner issue but we just want to make sure that that you guys because there's a lot of times I think that we get to a point where we don't get to communicate about different topics different things that are going on and so isn't that supposed to covered isn't that supposed to be
201covered in other items by the board members for the Board of Trustees I would agree yes uh and no in the sense that a lot of times that's kind of the the hey this is what we've been doing you know I mean we went here did this but there's um the topic so I mean I I don't have anything but if there's anybody tonight you don't have to have something we just want you to know that we kind of you know Dr Ross kind of mentioned we agreed at the gender review that it'd be something maybe worthy of of adding to the agenda so that we can have that discussion obviously everybody else can leave once you know that's pretty much like their adjournment if they want to go because then that could you know
202extend our night but you know what I think it's it's an important item to have if there are things that are that you know prompting uh conversation I think the only thing I could think about tonight that um I was kind of still resonate um if maybe uh you know the students were they came on their own will but I'm sure there was a that was planted if you guys can plant that seat earlier maybe when it's on the agenda um in future for whenever they want to speak about anything um encourage them to come as soon as possible so we can hear it early on and not have to hear it after the decision has been made that's probably I can think about thank you I I was thinking about um risk management I
203I just haven't seen much of them lately I know they're always busy but there you go you know you might have been herey hide back I don't know what your schedule is um because I know you have a schedule for presentations but I have some questions um and we talked about a night of insurance so kind of looking forward to hearing from them one for the other thing is um in the future when we visit a high school personally this it just for me I want to see the plant supervisor uh because I have some questions so let's let them you know explain because unfortunately I know exactly what I want to ask them and it's nothing anybody else is trying to blame anybody but you need to do it this way maybe they just
204weren't told and instead of I don't know I I feel like I I have no line of communication with with some of them some of them they're like they one for the year he's he's great when when when you've been to a site for multiple times and you never see a guy you know he's hiding so kind stop hiding that's just a suggestion and not an order I can't order any okay but those little things we like I like to hear from people so it gets to the point rather than glossing over everything okay that's let them know trusty Stafford is on you do that so just to clarify this would you like a presentation for risk management is that what you're saying when when he's ready there's no pressure okay um because I don't
205get to the the Safety Committee like I used to attend and maybe I could come back at some point and even see you in in that area instead of here um you know whatever works best I don't want to be in the way okay so I I just clarifying right because I want to be responsive to what I hear from some of you because I have heard that some of you have told me I we have asked for this presentation for this information and we have not received so that way look on the agenda of the bo meeting on March 12 2025 we ask for this information to be brought to the board and so far we haven't received it but it is there there is a a record of of that of that request
206that that was that is the intent of this board topics presentation it was an accountability piece accountability piece for for myself we can say right for me it can be solved easy I can go attend a safety meeting or something it doesn't happen okay we don't very thank you um after hearing uh the one young lady talk about uh the lakes and shame on me because I didn't know it that they're not on our website I mean I'm shocked why why are we leaving them out they're they're you know all students exactly and I and I completely agree and I going to personally look into who is putting that in the website and when it should have been done and find out and ensure that doesn't happen again it's similar to some situations also Mr
207Hall that we have a few months ago right that the board make a decision about uh it was a job description Mr Mr C mention but in the website it was updated after two weeks right so that was brought up to my attention so we look into that and we found out what happened right if we address it so we need to make sure that all of our schools receive the same treatment and that is something unacceptable I as a superintended even though I'm been checking the website every day but I can tell you I take responsibility for that because I need to ensure that whoever was supposed to be doing that that they did I need to have systems in place in order to avoid that from from happening again and that is that
208is on me right I would love to uh invite that young lady back and I mean send her a letter all of the sign it that you know she was heard yes she taught us something absolutely and and I would like to address that tomorrow Mr H so when we go on Friday that situation is addressed and we can share right I you're not going to be able for the Comm but miss and I we can shared on behalf of the board that we took action on that and that's what we are going to be doing to put it in in the website Garcia I'm not at this time here still my topic um I only have two things but one is is uh for you trusty and I so when you guys go back
209on Friday please um if you guys are able to meet with those young ladies and and uh that spoke um just as long as they understand that we can't respond when they make their comments because I know sometimes you know not knowing they say something and we're just sitting here silently you know what I mean so just if you can just express our thank you for them you know their courage to come up here their articulation of their message and then also just to to let them know that you know we we we cannot respond you know but obviously you being on campus you can you can share our kind of thanks you know for what they what she said and that we did listen and kind of like trusty Hall said that it you
210can see that there was an impact there so if you could just share that with them and then and me personally the only thing I would like to see in the future doesn't have to be um right away but just is is a is a different format for lcap I would like to see it broken down on a sight to- sight basis so that we understand total hey you know lcap is 37 million uh this is how it's broken up in terms of the cost you know at at Liberty at Pals at Paris Lake and just kind of a breakdown um kind of like in boxes so that we can we can see hey these are the services that are being provided and I know we mentioned earlier that you can find that in the
211sipa it's just I know some of the trustees and me me being involved in elcap for you know 2003 when it was created it's gotten more and more complicated and so um a simple and it's so important on the decision- making that we make that you know we need it to be simplified we need to understand this is how this money is being spent and then that way we could be a little bit more targeted and say well hey you know we're spending you know x amount of dollars here um let's just say everybody has the same service um we can at least identify hey is that a service that is providing us uh great bang for our buck and we want to increase that or maybe there's a program that that isn't working and
212that maybe we need to scale down and decrease so um that would be helpful I know for me I know when people start looking at the uh the tutors for Abid you know it's a huge cost but those of you guys you know administrators you know the importance of the Abit tutors and what goes on and the effect and impact it has on on the student population that's there that's getting those services within those classes so you know that would be a big ask I know I don't expect it to be next month but at the same time you know at some point when it's presented to us that way we could look at it in in a kind of like a spreadsheet type you know analysis and just instead of it being 15 20
213Pages just however you know as few as Pages as possible so that we can look at it aggregate the information and then just kind of ask questions as to hey how's this going so that we can specifically Target maybe a future topic on what what's going on within the lcap and the funding there so that's pretty much it I know I said a lot and I appreciate all you guys' patience so that's all that I have and we're moving on to 19.2 adjournment regular meeting at the board juses for March 12 2025 I have a motion with trusty Stafford second second trusty Garcia thank you very much and please vote see no discussion upon the vote being taken the vote was five in favor and zero opposed and the meeting is adjourned at 9:40