Regular Board Meeting March 16, 2022

001all right the time is now 3 30 we will call this   meeting of the paris union high school  district board meeting to order at 3 30. okay we'll start with the 3.1 invitation  to address the board of trustees on closed   session items only any takers do a roll call first  don't you oh i'm sorry didn't show up in my bed   my band we'll go back all right we will start  with a roll call and make sure we have a quorum   so uh when i call your name please tell me  if you're here or not dr arouse dr freeman   trustee vallejo trustee safford here and myself  trustee nellison are all here we do have a quorum   now we'll go to to there it is 3.1 invitation to  address the board of trustees on closed session   items

002do we have a motion and do we have  any takers no takers no takers thank you   my bad this is where we need the motion for an  enjoyment to close session do i have any takers   i see i see by a raised hand which doesn't  count so second okay we got dr freeman   i'm sorry who was the second doctor  uh so the second all right please vote all right and uh three 4.1 passes five in  favor zero opposed and we are adjourned to   closed session at 3 32 all right it is now  five o'clock we'll go ahead and reconvene hey we're reconvening reconvening  in public session at five o'clock   oh boy uh we're gonna start  with a pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united  states of america and to the

003republic for which   it stands one nation under god indivisible  with liberty and justice for all for all   the invocation mr stafford just a moment of  silence for anyone who has suffered a loss and   for all the losses in the world going on today thank you mr stafford all right it leads us to 7.1 where  we recess this board meeting to move   into the california military institute  charter meeting we are recess at 501. see how my meeting is up you guys can join if you  when you yeah just refresh i believe you're fine anna says you are so you're good all right  so we are uh we are calling the order the uh   uh california military institute  regular board meeting at 502. first up 3.1 revision adoption ordering  of the agenda do i have a motion  

004book second and dr freeman  with the second please vote all right 3.1 passes five in favor zero opposed next up 4.1 information items student  representative to the board of trustees   and i'm introducing cmi student  representative cadet colonel couture weeks members of the board mr bennett and members of the   cabinet for those who don't know me  my name is the ninth grade commander   and in this presentation i'll be going  over what's been happening here at cmi i want to start off by highlighting some of  the accomplishments of both cmi students and   our administrators our seniors have been doing  great this year starting the semester strong   with fafsa and college application submission  we've now submitted almost all of our financial   aid applications and in terms of our sports  and activities our boys volleyball team   and our track

005and field team have both officially  started their seasons with that thinker is going   to be doing fun activities with our freshmen and  our annual military ball is finally approaching moving on to our rotc related activities  we recently had an ncoa with a whopping 47   cadets in attendance these kids have been  working really hard with their promotion   even after the event regardless of  how difficult it's been for them   so on friday march 11th we have the pleasure of  promoting 22 more cadets in terms of our upcoming   events we have the california cadet corps extreme  team challenge from march to the 13th the link for   lunch events starting on march 18th the annual  military ball on march 26th our annual general   inspection for agi on march 30th and our  officer candidate school april 8th to april and

006i want to go a little more in depth about the  agi so just so you all have a better understanding   of what agi is the annual general inspection is a  formal inspection of our unit and our cadet staff   it's designed to assess our  unit's ability to perform   our professional conduct and our plan planning  and organization of the date events the image   is just a little preview of the presentation that  we'll present to our inspectors but with that i'd   like to conclude this presentation if you have  any questions comments or concerns about any   of the information that was presented in this  presentation please feel free to refer them to   the adult president representing cmi thank you so  much for listening and have a fantastic evening thank you cadet colonel weeks next one up is 4.2 cmita

007president angel  love barons i've been informed she is   not here today right she she sent an email  saying she wouldn't be here this evening okay all right 4.3 principles update i do not see the  principal is he the assistant principal from cmi   rebecca beagle's here absolutely by all means  come on up i have to share something afterwards happenings at cmi you heard a lot of it from  miss weeks we have we almost have 100 completion   of fafsa we are really excited about military  ball coming up because obviously we could not   have that last year so we're excited to see that  happen again in person and that's going to be at   march air reserve base so that's a new place  we haven't been to um at least since i've been   there for this four years now

008i am going to get  myself and dr milos who will be back on friday   um he's at a conference now but we will be getting  a pie in the face from some ninth grade students   for link crew offer length crew so just some fun  events happening we just we have lots of lots of   motivational academic things happening as well we  just had six week grades come out so students know   what their gpa should be i love fifth grade fifth  graders coming up to me and asking how they can   get their gpas up when i was an elementary teacher  my my little kids did not know what a gpa is was   what a gpa was but that's the beauty of being  at cmi is to um kind of focus on that kind of   thing along with

009uh upper grade students as well  since we're focused on college going so that's   the happenings i'm not sure if i'm staying up  here for the second part though okay sounds good thank you very much all right that leads us to 5.1 information  item the invitation to address the board of   trustees on non-agendized items um i do not  see any from cmi no takers no takers from cmi no problem all right that leaves a 6.1  consent calendar um do we have any emotion dr freeman dr arouse for  the second okay please vote and 6.1 has been approved  five in favor zero opposed and then an oral report information item 7.1 cmi  a through g completion improvement grant plan this one and who do we have miss  beagle's going to come up there's   coming up for this

010one all right  and then i'll need to present so i have the pleasure to present on our  uh on our a3g completion improvement grant   so this is just going to be some information to  present to you if i miss anything i know that i   have two people behind me that will gladly fill  in some of the gaps in case i miss anything but   just to get into the presentation where obviously  anything that we're adding to our programs um are   directly related to our lcap goals which we see  here i won't i won't go into the exact exactly   what they are because i'm sure you know them but  this does uh directly relate to our lcap goals   what it is um specifically is to increase  the number of california high school pupils   basically our graduation rate

011and our a  through g eligibility um our funds are   targeted to serve students in high school  grades 9 through 12 and then they will be   used for activities that directly support them in  successfully completing a through g requirements   in regards to the funding itself  the allocation will be based on   equal amounts per unduplicated pupils based on  cal pads the the numbers from the 2021 cal pads   and also the fall uh fiscal year fall one  submission funds are available um throughout   the 25 26 school year and you'll see the cmi  allocation there over 428 thousand dollars here's the breakdown of the many different  programs that have been implemented from the 21 20   2021 school year again i won't go through all  of them you probably know a lot of them but   you'll notice down that you'll

012notice down even  on the bottom of the a3g completion improvement   grant and how that is going to directly help  with the other programs that we do have and   then even leading into 25-26 school year i'll  leave that up there just for another moment so regarding how this is going to how we're going  to use the funding 25 of a there's a district   councilor that's going to be hired and then there  are two counselors that are rotating to different   sites 25 percent of our funding will go towards  um those those attainment of those counselors   for the district um and and so we'll get to  see them hopefully 25 of the time as well um   it'll also allow us to build more credit  recovery courses specifically related to   a through g credit recovery because sometimes  when we

013hear credit recovery it might just be   recovering credits just for graduation but this is  specifically related to a through g recovery rates   um and any other additional courses of rigor  related to a through g courses are getting   them even back on track let's say they've lost  their way because of pandemic or even the result   right now that we're dealing with of recovering  credits for a pandemic so any course revisions   any development of new courses or if courses are  outdated like ap courses money would be allocated   to increase the rigor of those courses and the  revisions of those courses also it'll give us some   funds to take a look do some transcript audits  that takes time so time people money to allow   us to ensure that we are actually providing the  correct a3g courses for them

014and then also data   tracking monitoring um using different multiple  means of data tracking to ensure that our ccgi   or our college going rate is um being impacted  correctly with the funds from this from this grant and then lastly this is just the  breakdown of how this money would   be used you'll notice that staffing is 45 000  every year throughout the 2025-26 school year   incentives and support so that would  be that that curriculum instruction   professional development for teachers for ap  things like that ap teachers dual enrollment   professional development that would be part of  that middle line that yellow line there the 62 000   and then you notice the totals there that's where  we get the 428 000 plus um in regards to our grant so that concludes my my presentation any questions  usually i don't want

015to have this but i just know   i noticed that your staffing remained flat for  the whole time uh that would have to be adjusted   annually but depending on how you negotiate the  salary for the following year um my understanding   and you can correct me um we're not there would  be no new staffing for cmi it's the staffing that   is a part of the 25 of funding that is being  used by district so we would be um we would be   getting the 25 of the district helping us with the  extra staffing so for instance if after a six-week   grading period we have many high school students  who've kind of gone off you know have f's or ffs   and we need to touch base with them we could  potentially reach out to the district say hey   can

016we get that can we get the extra counselors  that were that were funded through 25 percent of   our funding on these specific dates get them  maybe even to cover our counseling office so   then our counselors can go out reach out to  those students meet with them so just some   extra support from district level okay thank you  any others okay thank you very much thank you 8.1 information item discipline  february 2022 monthly suspension report 9.1 is an action item certificated  personnel action items do i have a motion trustee stafford trustee vallejo please vote 9.1 passes five in favor zero opposed nine point two is also an action item sir uh  so we're on to classified personnel action   items do i have a motion moved second  dr freeman and dr arouse please vote okay 9.2 passes five

017in favor zero opposed nine point three personnel this is uh 20 22 23 and  also 2324 and 2425 california military institute   student and teacher calendars do i have a motion trustee vallejo trustee fr uh  sorry stafford okay please vote 9.3 passes five in favor zero opposed 10.1 other items by the superintendent uh  nothing this evening thank you very much 11.1   other items by the board of trustees  we'll go down the line dr arouse   dr freeman trustee vallejo trustee stafford  and nothing for me for cmi today thank you 12.1 adjournment do i have a motion  second trustee stafford i think   trustee via he'll beat you just by  a little bit all right please vote all right 12.1 passes five in favor zero  opposed and we are adjourned for cmi at 5 16. the other meeting is

018up if  you guys would like to join you having trouble getting in okay if  you press the refresh button at the top   quite often you'll be able to re-log back in she's on now okay thank you  very much all right so we will   reconvene our normal parish union high  school district board meeting at 5 17.   and that leads us to 8.1 the revision adoption  ordering of the agenda do i have a motion   so move dr freeman and dr mr stafford and i  believe we have a change we need to be yes um   president nelson we uh i i made a mistake  and we have um one agenda item on there twice   so we're going to ask to pull  item 11.6 it's a duplicate okay   all right so when we vote we're voting for for the 

019adoption of the agenda without 11.6 so please vote okay 8.1 passes eight and five in  favor zero opposed and that moves us to   9.1 report out of closed session any report  today we do have a report on a closed session   this evening in closed session by a vote of 5-0  the board of trustees approved the appointment of   julie mendoza blide as athletic director  dean of paloma valley high school thank you very much and information i'm 9.2 district upright  by the update by the superintendent   i have a few things here i'd like to  share with the board and our public um   the western riverside county association of  school managers that's the organization for   our local area for um kind of like almost like  administrators union but it's not a union but   um it's a we represent

020administrators throughout  the state and we have a local charter which the   acronym is raxiom which covers 13 districts here  in riverside county and we're proud to announce   that we had three winners from wrexham for uh  employees of the year this year um juan santos was   selected as principal of the year for for raxiom  his assistant principal greg wise was selected as   assistant principal of the year for secondary  schools and then ms fetzner down here she's   shaking her head she doesn't like the accolades as  confidential employee of the year for the raxiom she's giving me a dirty look right now um coming up on april april 2nd we're holding  our annual puma golf tournament it's paris union   management association all the administrators in  the district put on we put on a golf tournament   to raise funds

021to give scholarships to kids  graduating from our schools so we're uh we're   having that on uh april 2nd it'll be a nice  event out there at uh seven hills in hemet   right now we're sitting at 88 golfers um so i have  three foursomes i could still fill so if anybody   knows somebody wants to play because we they kept  us at 100 so we'd love to be able to do more for   our kids um i was i was lucky enough to attend  down at cal state san marcos i was invited down   there to meet with the president of the university  uh dr ellen neufeld and we were talking about the   the collaboration we have with our district  and and and cal state san marcos where if our   kids earn a certain grade point average they get 

022automatic admission into the into the university   so we're glad that we can work with them and  work together to make it better for our kids   um last last week i'm part of the rotary club  of paris we every year we do a speech contest   and we had a student from paris lake  high school first time we've ever had   a student from a continuation school come named  ethan castro and he won the contest at the   at the event and he's going to move on to the  district 5330 event that'll come up in april   so we're really excited to see that and it's cool  to have a kid from a continuation school very   very well spoken young man then i have a couple  more that diane martin sent me so i'm giving her   credit for this the

023best awards bilingual  educators succeeding together recognition   celebrations coming up on friday bless you last  year april 8th at the riverside convention center   and we have a a long group of nominees there up  for awards there um brenda burgo from pinacate   middle school is up for administrator of the  year rosa herrera is up for teacher of the   year from pinacate para educator laura ortega  paris high is up up for a pr her educator there   support personnel veer elsa seraphine from  pinacate middle school is up for the award   parent nancy lopez lopez from cmi up for uh award  and our student essay winner from cmi michelle   hernandez who will be receiving a thousand  dollar scholarship so it's great to see the   the great work that they're doing with our kids  and thank you for sharing that with

024me diane um   parachute high school district in conjunction  with the city of paris will be hosting a 5k   fun color fun run on saturday april 23rd then the  event will be open to everyone pha puhsd students   employees and community uh the event registration  will open next week we look forward to all all of   us joining doing a 5k it doesn't mean you have to  run you can walk you can walk how about five z's   i usually say i run the 5k  because i run the clock for it it's april 22nd 23rd i'm sorry saturday  april 23rd uh phd um had the final   first tech challenge regional championship  in monrovia this past saturday   three teams from heritage performed very well  although they didn't make it to the next step so   but they did a great job

025but on a good note there  stacy mcpherson was named volunteer of the year   for ftc and we're so proud and thankful of  all the work she has done not only for the   heritage high school team but for the district  robotics program as a whole so we're glad to see   that and that would conclude my report for this  evening mr nelson okay thank you mr bennett okay leads us to 9.3 information items or  reports by the student representatives to   the board of trustees so i guess i am  starting out introducing heritage high   school student representatives  michaela jacobs and kayden olmos good good evening members of the board mr bennett  and members of the cabinet my name is michaela   jacobs we're excited to show you what has been  going on here at heritage in the month of

026march   last friday juan and his team from the new  project came on campus to offer some of our   students a leadership training it was an awesome  experience for these students as all of the   activities they brought had a meaning behind  it to help each student grow as an individual   we look forward to seeing them work with other  student groups in the future we also wanted   to recognize that outstanding season that our  girls varsity basketball week of them they had   completed the regular season and were heading to  cif our lady patriots advanced all the way to caf   semifinals and advanced to cif state regional  their season came to an end with a record and it was a huge turnout heritage high school  has the highest submission in riverside county   and we're currently number five in the

027state  we gave out a ton of prizes from food gift   cards all the way up to grand night tickets  a huge thanks to our counseling department   for putting together together the successful  event here are a few upcoming events open house   and eighth grade orientation march 24th spring  rally march 25th and annual olympics march 25th   prom tickets go on sale march 28th high attendance  event april 6th prom at san diego zoo april 30th   that concludes our presentation thank you so  much for the continued support of what we do   at heritage thank you for your time all right  thank you miss jacobs and trustee freeman well   i'm pleased to uh present the liberty high school  student representatives moena mu and samantha cena good evening members of the board mr  bennett and members of the cabinet my name  

028high school's is vice president  here are some of the things that   will be happening at liberty high  school during the month of march   on march 17th we are holding an open house for  parents to get to know liberty high school by   walking around the campus meeting teachers coaches  counselors and club advisors and learning about   our unique pathways at the school simultaneously  the 8th grade orientation will be held where 8th   graders from middle schools around the area will  have the opportunity to explore the campus as well   the week of march 14th through 18th will be our  spring fling spirit week spirit days will include   old versus young white lie day question  wednesday green and gold day and neon day   on march 18th liberty will have its  first pep rally located in the stadium   performances will be

029done by stunt cheer band and  dance student athletes will also be recognized   it will be neon lights themed in accordance  with our dance which will occur the next day   on march 19th liberia will have its first  annual spring fling neon lights dance   the dance will be neon lights themed and  have a taco and ice cream truck available   on site backdrops a dance floor and photos taken  by a photography club will also be available   this month we are celebrating gabriel ladner  mejia who is a teacher here at liberty and   jaren halley who is a secretary here at  liberty this concludes our presentation   thank you so much for your support and  making liberty high school happen bryson thank you miss moo trustee stafford i'd  like to introduce from paloma valley high   school student representatives  megan candice and

030cassie madigro hello school board and superintendent  mr bennett and i'm megan i'm paula start things off we started off their very first tryouts of the year um it was a   great way for our students to come in  and get involved in our school spirit   speaking of our pv song and cheer teams they both  won first place in both their divisions during the   competition cheer competition a couple weeks  ago our rotc also hosted their ami which is   our annual military inspection we had visitors  like our own mayor our athletic director and our   firmware alumni also during this time their new  top nine leadership was announced a bunch of our   programs and clubs went out to the middle schools  to help recruit uh incoming eighth graders will   be ninth graders uh some of the middle schools  they

031visited were menifee valley and christian   some of the programs that were over there  were njrotc spiderman avid auto mechanics and last week our very own asb hosted their spirit   week on monday we have matt hatter's tea  party which is where anyone had a hat wednesday down the rabbit hole which was our  classic scene today where freshmen were green   sophomores purple juniors yellow and seniors blue   on thursday it was honor there were  cream so we were crowned and on friday we also had our very first spring pep rally and  the first full pep rally of the entire school year   we had performances asl the exclusive home song thank you so much for your time and  we hope to see you guys next month all right thank you ladies next trustee arouse i will introduce the paris

032high school student  rep nicole de la torre hernandez and daisy sanchez good evening superintendent bennett and cabinet  i'm nicole and i'm daisy and we are your school   board representatives for paris high let's take a  look at what we've been going on this past month on the 17th we had our very own bob  ross night in which our four asb   advisors came together and created this  amazing artistic night for our panthers   miss osuna led it and she gave  us directions on how to paint   super fun there was about 73 panthers  that came out and um here's some tips miracles um we had dance also do a little dance oh thank you pinacate pumas come out and see  what it's like in the panthers   uh there was about 200 family members that came  out that night and

033gave them a tour of the school   they were able to see culinary avid drama so check that out everybody i just wanted to uh to take a  second to say the uh penicati uh parent   showcase is such an awesome experience  we had several families come into our   theater space where we were actually  preparing for our high school musical   so they actually got to see some of the behind the  scenes stuff uh where we were painting flats and   building sets so anyways it was a real big success  and just as a little side note of shameless book   we do have our high school musical production  coming up next week which is thursday friday   and saturday march 24th through the 26th at  7 00 pm so i hope to see some of you there on   march 7th

034the main crew introduced something new  which is called those trans mondays yeah so last   monday we had playdate and we introduced a bunch  of childhood games like four squares young grove   a bunch of talk too we had a lot of participation  during both lunches it was really fun to see us   get back into the group and just enjoying each  other's presence so we have a few clips for that now the end of the year is coming along so  of course we have to introduce a little bit   of a shameless plug here um if you'd like  to support our seniors you can go ahead by   buying stuff buying our merch from our online  store and our senior hoodies they're really cute the link will be posted somewhere around feel  free to go on take a look

035and our seniors would   really appreciate it right that's all for us  today um we're social be social follow us on   our social medias and we hope you have a great  rest of your night thank you for listening to us bye all right thank you ladies and  that leads us to trustee vallejo   i like to introduce pinacate middle school  student reps belinda hayne and audrina leon middle school presentation 2022. what has happened  at pinacate middle school also known as pms   game truck the game truck was back on february  17th final county students had a great time   flight tuesday month pineapply middle school  acknowledged black history month by giving an   annual observance of accomplishments and  contributions african-americans had made   in honor of black history month miss herring and  asb students created a beautiful art gallery walk   also

036there was a virtual classroom created to  engage with students in the school of different   virtual activities including a scavenger  hunt matching name and spotify playlist motivational assembly on set february 17th  seventh grade students had a motivational   assembly this assembly was held by omar negative  and his great team on february 21st the 8th   grade student had their promotion requirements  assembly this assembly was held by our museum   vice principal mr murillo staff and some asb  members presidents day on february 21st it was   president's day peanut county middle school had  no school for from february 21st to the 25th a   street class and basketball game on february 9th  pinnacle from the eastern question basketball game   this basketball game was held at paris high school  both our girls team and boys team won this event valentine's day spirit week

037for the week of  february 14th peanut cutting middle school   had a valentine's day spirit week that  all students were able to participate in   upcoming events uno tournament pinacate  carnival saturday school leadership   day caught up gold spirit week and ram  sale outdoors achievements require time thank you ladies and with that we go to information item 9.4 csea  president josh rushing i don't see mr rushing   here this evening nobody else from csa okay  next item 9. 9.5 psea president jason miller teachers recently voted on bell schedules related  to the infamous 8 30 start time the 8 30 start   time was passed by the legislature a few years ago  that basically said students begin high school no   earlier than 8 30 a.m and middle school school  no earlier than 8 am the state may have been a   little

038short-sighted i'm not sure they fully grasp  that every district has their own individual needs   whether it is busing or morning programs and so  that policy seems contradictory to the idea of   local control while the intent of the legislature  may have been based on idealistic motives to give   students more time to get to school and sleep  in the unfortunate piece that did not seem to   factor in was a reality that you cannot mandate  earlier start times for working parents to be at   work so you may have a lot of students hanging  out on our campus for a time in the mornings   the district created the best schedules for  the 8 30 start times with input from psa   and that is fine because the buzz schedules  seem pretty good and we're very thoughtful   one of the elements

039that seem to resonate with  some members is that we do not have to say   terribly late in the day when i first  heard about the 8 30 start time i had   it in my head that it would shift our school day  45 minutes for everything and we wouldn't be out   or finished until about 3 50 p.m but the best  schedules were crafted in such a way that the neat   the end time for the comprehensive high schools  was pushed back only 20 minutes to about 3 30 p.m   we hope you understand that  from teacher perspectives   if a terrible bell schedule is implemented  teachers have to live with that daily and   hourly whereas an administrator is not  necessarily bound by a set daily schedule   these are not terrible bell schedules by any means  it seems that bus

040schedules are a hard topic to   deal with for psea teachers and administrators  because there are a lot of perspectives on what   teachers want especially since we have a wide  variety of programs throughout our district   the 8 30 start times were crafted with some  time for planning mostly in the morning   at the comprehensive high schools teachers really  like this idea and they definitely want that time   for planning lessons and developing their classes  teachers are hoping that this time in the mornings   is not filled with those types of meetings  that may not have a lot of value to teachers in the classroom have you ever been in an  educational meeting where you were like   really did why did we need this no offense to  anyone but i have been in some meetings like that   let's not have

041meetings just  for the sake of having a meeting   it should have some real reason that a meeting  needed to happen or don't have the meeting   ps that is not to say all meetings have no value  but i'm sure you know what i'm talking about   with all that being said psea stands behind the  idea that this planning time in the mornings   is for planning and working this time is not  for employees to waltz in at 8 25 a.m when their   workday started at 8 am just because they did not  have students thank you for this time to speak thank you mr miller and that leads us to 9.6 comments by the board of  trustees dr arouse thank you mr nelson president   nelson i i just want to comment on officially  mentioning about the resolution that our

042board   took some time ago that is the   equity resolution and have a presentation and i  know that the district has been addressing this   element for quite some time but it is important  to be aware of the specific specific actions   that are being taken by the district that is  that are going to benefit our students and ensure   the equity for all right in every war meeting  we turn to our flag and at the end we talk about   liberty and justice for all so that is reflected  in we would like just to have the specifics   of what is what we are doing in that in that  respect my other comment is as all of you know last october governor newsome a sign into law   i believe is ab101 101 is sponsored by our local  legislator mr jose

043medina the state legislator   to require a high school graduation requirement  it's redundant right requires ethnic studies   but that is going to be starting according  to this legislation with the class of 20 30.   so it is required the first year to be what  would be 25 26 right we are in the 22-23 so i was   wondering and i would like to ask the board in the  district to look into a white waiting until 25 26   if our students based on the demographics that we  have in our district i think is a must that they   are aware they are aware of all the contributions  that latinos african-american indian-americans   asian-americans minority groups have done to our  country that they are aware of the legacy that   has been brought to this to this society to things  that make our

044students proud and that they can   learn a curriculum that is reflecting people  like them and they can say i can do that too   right so that's a and i mentioned in this because  i think that is an important element to foster the   equity to foster a the the achievement of our  students and that this brings me to the third   comment that i would like to mention that is  on research on anti-stereotype threat pedagogy   we're using neuroscience specifically  neurobiology to address the different   the differential and the learning outcomes of our  students all of our students are capable enough   to learn we just need to provide the resources and  the ways and guide them and motivate them in order   for them to achieve and reduce to the minimum  that differential on the learning outcomes i'm not   calling

045the achievement gap that is a differential  in the learning outcomes and we can address that   so i'm not i say board we cannot tell you exactly  what to do right or how to do it but it's just a   recommendation something that i aware of that  i learned about this research through ucla and   that definitely it will benefit tremendously our  students and i'm sure our teachers are going to be   happy to embrace that i have heard comments from  teachers that they are really happy and excited   to look into something that is going to allow them  to support the students in a better way addressing   that from how i'm saying a neuroscience and the  neurobiology applied to minimize the effects   of the stereotype threat so those are the  three comments that i wanted to make sir   thank

046you okay thank you dr arouse dr freeman  thank you mr president i'm very glad that   mr miller brought up what he did because over  the last 20 years i've been able to look at some   research projects that were conducted on the when  high school students should be coming to school   and they they not only all agreed that they  needed to start later but they wanted they said   the ideal time would be 10 o'clock and i think  both wouldn't that be something one but on the   other hand you got they think all right how are  we gonna deal with students who are working late   how are you gonna work with students who are  doing their homework in the early hours i mean   these are the types of things that i think  brought toward that along with

047the idea that   that these uh young people really need more  sleep but you know i remember being a teenager   and i don't think that was something that was  high on my list so yeah i agree you know i   think that you're right because we were being  treated by like teenagers they give you local   control until they figure that dad needs to step  in and of course you know there's the right way   the wrong way and then there's a political way  so uh that's that's something we're gonna have   to live with and i'm glad that we have a good  rep good communication about that thank you   thank you dr freeman trustee vallejo uh i just  wanted to congratulate mr santos mr wise and   anna you guys are doing fantastic you guys are  doing amazing uh obviously

048your efforts do not go   unnoticed but i appreciate you guys a lot  um i also want to just touch base on how   uh the world's not going great right now it's  not going good right now and i just wanted to   let everyone here know staff faculty parents  that uh we are a district that we are very   adamant and proud that we are aware of mental  health issues and mental illness and if you   guys don't know what to do always reach out to  us because we do have many resources available   here and especially during times like this it's  really hard to even ask what to do what to say   but we i can tell that we  are a great district where we   want to hear from you guys all of you guys because  it's been really

049really rough for all of us   and also uh i can't wait to go for the i can't  wait to go to the paris high school musical   it's on the 24th 25th 26th at 7. if you guys  want to come come it's a really great drama   club i was in it when i was in high school so it  was pretty cool and i hope to see you guys there excuse me thank you trustee  vallejo trustee stafford   i just want to say a few words about unity  and what has gotten us to this point um well we tried to unify on that one but it's  really fantastic we we're beginning to exhale   a little bit and get back to normal get some of  the things done that we we've all envisioned it's   amazing how we're getting through

050this school  year so fast it's almost done just thank you to   all of the staff and to everyone that's doing  things in the best interests of the students   that's what we're here for the students and and  we're here to over see but participate support   and show some care and understanding so i think  we're communicating so so well and we're used to   dealing with the difficult subjects we  have to and really it's a strong point and   it really feels as though it's going to  work for us so let's keep at it thank you thank you mr stafford and for me i'd like to just  at least bring up the fact that we don't have to   have masks in schools anymore for the students  unless they feel like it's necessary which is   perfectly fine but i know

051it's been a hot button  topic and i would also like to thank both the lion   ladies who who showed up the last couple months  to give your your comments we really do appreciate   you coming in and giving us the information you  have unfortunately we are sometimes our hands   are tied into certain things that we'd like to do  not that we don't agree with you on a lot of stuff   that you were saying but we are we are required  to do certain things and that's just part of   the job we have to do but uh it is nice not  having to have mass on in in schools i know   i'm a teacher in a different district and it's  nice to be able to see kids faces and be able   to understand what they're saying and do

052all  that stuff so so i um i just have to bring that   up it's it's nice that we're finally getting to  that point where we can do that type of thing so   all right and that would be all my comments  and that leads us to the next point uh 10.1 invitation to address the  board of trustees on non-agendized   items and we do have a few takers  so i do have to read something out okay 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

053addition the president may take a poll of  speakers for or against a particular issue   particular issue and may ask that the additional  persons speak only if they have something   new to add and that being said we have  jadeline about mandates and school climate good evening board it's nice to see all of your  faces um and actually know what you guys fully   look like besides just pictures on the wall over  there if you guys could maybe give me a smile no   you don't fully hate me that would be great um  okay i want to start by saying you have no idea   how many students and staff members i heard saying  they were so happy they did not have to wear masks   anymore one kid said and i quote not wearing a  mask is fire on monday

054i was sitting in class and   it was like the whole atmosphere the school had  changed everyone was such in a great happy mood   and also on monday there were about seven to ten  kids in each class still wearing the mask which is   totally fine in their choice but as of today the  numbers have slowly gone down one of my teachers   said it is comforting to see full faces which is  goes to show how dehumanizing the mass have been   for all of us and the negative mental and  physical effects it has been having on so   many people besides just myself and mr nelson  thank you for your comment about us being here   my mom felt it was really important for  us to come and really voice our opinions   um now on to the fun stuff first

055we had to take  a survey last friday on the school's climate and   in the climate oh geez and in the survey there  were a couple questionable things number one   was the question about if our school was holding  diversity equity and inclusion related workshops   and one of the examples was white privilege this  is problematic for many reasons first of all it's   taking a term that is being used in a negative  way and putting it into the school environment   that term in itself is racist because it  is targeting a certain group of people   based on appearance alone also i'd like to  urge you guys on possibly writing a letter   getting considering writing a letter to the  california congress which is advocating for   medical freedom of choice to choose the backs to  take the vaccine or not for

056students and staff   also with the whole survey thing most of the  survey was fine it didn't it was talking about   just how how much homework do we have is it enough  or too little stuff like that but when you bring   that white privilege in that just means to me that  it's turning starting to make it a political thing   because white privilege has now become such  a political term used in many ways and i feel   like using that term it's drawing attention  to the fact that i i am clearly white i mean   why this can be i wish i could get nice  skin color but i don't have that look but um   i feel like it's really just drawing attention  and creating that divide between different races   and it shouldn't be we should just be students 

057we should be students at paloma valley high   school or heritage high school and we should be  humans and people in the united states of america   i feel like that is really just causing the divide  and it doesn't need to be there so thank you thank you jade our next speaker on mandates is emily lyon good evening board and cabinet members i know  some of you may have been hoping when the masks   went away so did we but you're not that lucky um  i'm here tonight because there's there's more to   this obviously than the mask thing there but  there are a lot of concerns for me as a parent   um i just received the email a couple  days ago regarding the masks and   at the bottom of the email the thing that really  caught my attention

058was um it was quoted that you   know we are committed to facilitating an optimal  learning experience ensuring the safety of our   students and staff and that caught me a little  bit off guard because it sounds while it sounds   really good it's a little alarming because i don't  know if you're aware but communism uses safety   as a means to facilitate control and that's  what we're starting to see in our society that's   supposed to be free is this element of we're  doing it in the name of safety we're doing it   to keep you safe but when you really delve  into things and you really research things   you'll really your eyes will be opened at the fact  of how little it really has to do with safety um   the other part of the followed following that  statement was

059that coveted vaccination remains   one of the best ways to protect against the  spread of the virus and against severe disease   that right there way the best ways to protect  against the spread that's misinformation i   mean the medical world has come out and said  that's not true it does not prevent the spread   so while we're labeling other people  like myself as spreading misinformation   that's being spread in an email  to all uh people in the district there are many medical experts that are speaking  out against vaccinating children and i know some   of you are thinking why are you speaking about  this it hasn't been mandated yet but as i'm sure   most of you are aware there is a bill that's being  going through the legislation right now ab or sb   871 that is to add the vaccine

060mandate to the list  of required vaccines for students but not only   does it add it it removes all personal exemptions  the only exemption would be medical which are of   course impossible to get or near impossible i  should say um there are many many experts that   are telling us that it's dangerous for children  that there's there's more risk for them with   the vaccine than there is for the actual disease  that we're claiming to want to protect them from   there are school districts in fact i think  orange county is the most local one i've   heard of that are now requiring ekgs and extra  blood work for sports physicals to be cleared   because more and more students are having heart  related issues this is not coincidental so i beg   you like the mask thing things changed because  parents

061were putting pressure we had brave   students that apparently not many in our district  but in other districts they were standing up and   they didn't know what to do with students so what  did districts do they started sending letters to   the governor i know you guys have said your hands  are tied but you could send letters of concern   you could advocate for all students not just  some students i understand you don't make the   laws but you do have more influence than  you think and if you send letters to our   governor saying we're concerned about losing good  students to this vaccine mandate they will listen   or at least they may consider it further so i do  i urge you please please don't wait until it's a   crisis don't wait until you lose a whole group  of students

062like my daughter make an effort now   to allow all students to continue  getting a free public education thank you thank you emily and our last speaker on the topic  of safety is myra ariana arellano good afternoon um to start with i just want to  let you guys know i'm nervous this is my very   first time standing you know in front of a board  regarding anything but i thought it was important   to come in today to make sure that i kind of got a  feel for what went on during these board meetings   um i see that there is a lot of you know  recognition padding in the back going on um   right before starting which i think it's great um  everybody should be recognized for their efforts   um we have the students doing videos of all

063the  great things that we have going on in our schools   but who is bringing light to the issues  that are really going on in our schools   like uh fighting these these fights  that are being posted on social media   these these kids that believe by by  posting these videos they're they're not   the next star at school to the drug issue  that we are having in our schools um to to uh   i i can really i would need more time to get into  it but um i really wanted to be here to shed light   on on the real issues that we're having and and  that nobody's shedding light in i don't know why   um the whole time i've been here nobody has  spoke on it not in the audience not not the   staff members i refuse to

064believe that you guys  do not know what's going on because i've spoken   to many different people mr santos principal of  the year that was unable to help me his assistant   principal the counselors at the school i actually  met with this sir in the morning and dr garcia   and everybody tells me the same thing we are  aware and we're trying to do something about it   a lot of resources a lot of funds were removed  um from the school other than that i haven't had   much help um i was told if if your student feels  unsafe always have him come to an adult at school   and and you know speak on on why he feels  unsafe and somebody will help him he doesn't   have to go through what he went through again  unfortunately me as a parent

065have not been able   to this this has been going on since last week on  wednesday and until today literally a week later   i kind of felt like okay let's take this a  little bit more serious because everybody   was just letting me speak on it and letting  me vent and letting me just talk and okay i'm   very sorry you and your family are going through  this um other than that something has to be done   to to help these children to go to school  and feel safe and actually be safe i don't   know if that would be programs i don't know i  mentioned to him i contacted several news stations   i have contacted the mayor of the city of paris  i have went above and beyond to try to get help   and it's been very difficult for

066me to do  that as a parent now imagine my kid trying   to get that help imagine your kid imagine your  your grandchild whoever you have in within the   school district you guys sit here and talk  about how wonderful this school district is   i'm sorry it's not it's not and somebody needs  to address the issues that are really going on   and shed light into them and if it has to start  with me unfortunately as a parent we don't take   these we hear about it but we don't take these  issues seriously until it affects you directly   and it's unfortunate and that's including myself  i knew these reports about kids doing the drugs   in the bathroom i knew about these reports  about kids doing the tick tock challenge   to get attention on social media i knew about  these

067fights but i never took it as important   until i was in that situation and my son  had to get a cat scan with a broken nose thank you miss ariana ariano sorry okay that takes us to 11.1 the consent calendar   approval of consent calendar items do i  have a motion second dr arouse dr freeman please vote 11.1 passes five in favor zero opposed 12.1 information item cobit 19 update let's see i know it's going to make me mad as soon as you  do because i've got it look i'm getting it joe   i'm hitting my butt it might have  been it might have not released when oh he's the sneak the secret weapon   right there oh you need to update your  bro you need it you need to be updated   you need an update do you

068seriously it's this  one dancing yeah you need to update big time is it the right one yeah it's just he doesn't  even have the updated that's not the right one no   that's not the that's the dac board conferencing  you want that board one yeah there we go cancel   that one that's still for coming but the staying  still does apply you need an update oh yeah there   you go don't cancel that one don't cancel  this one we'll send somebody over to you yeah i can help you out there okay good lord there you go there we go okay well it is um wonderful um just  like we've heard from many of you today and um   our families that it's such a joy to have the  masking gone and and to you know see our students   face

069again and all of the things it's also a joy  to present to you a covet update that has such   good news the cases total cases for california  now is 8 million 439 000 if we look back on 215   that was eight two five nine or eight  million two hundred fifty nine thousand   our average daily now for the state is 3 306  but if we look back a month ago it was 22   890. look at the staggering amount that  it's come down from 22 000 cases plus a day   to just over 3 000 cases a day in terms of  new cases per 100 000 a month ago was 51 today 7.6 per 100 thousand so 7.6 people  per 100 000. so a huge increase um sadly   we do have to always look at the amount of 

070people that we've lost that number has you   know increased since last month but it is going  down the daily average a month ago was 166 people   we're down to 104 now and um when we look at the  test positivity rate of 5.7 a month ago on 1.5   today we hope to see a stark increase or decrease  in the amount of deaths when we report out to you   next month so these are all great indicators that  you know things are moving in a much more positive   positive direction for riverside county we have  103 people hospitalized currently a month ago   that was 86 but if you remember last month i  said we're always lagging in that one criteria   when we had that big spike in numbers we will  see an increase in deaths and hospitalizations   so we're

071anticipating that next month we  report out to you we will finally see yes sir i'm sorry i'm looking at here 103  currently hospitalized last month the icu is 86. oh you're absolutely right i'm sorry  it's 486 so it's gone down significantly   yeah i was looking down here at 215. thank you  so much so yes it was 486 so it has gone down   significantly um it's it's all just such good  news that as a county um 2.9 percent thank you   mr nelson um and we're now at 5.9 our daily case  rate in the county we added this slide this time   particularly in in light of some of the things  that you were talking about dr raux that we always   have to be thinking in terms of equity and the  the students and the people we serve

072in our county   and so we added some of this demographic data  and if you look on on the right side here it just   shows that overall the number of cases that um as  you break it down by ethnic groups and uh that we   are very aware that the largest impact has been on  our hispanic latino communities 222 thousand cases   our african-american community  23 627 and we we just always want   the board to know that as we serve students it's  important to realize the economic or the medical   or the all the things that are factors that impact  our students lives because as you spoke with some   of the research we know that the challenges that  our various communities face have a direct impact   on their ability to access their education and and  their success so part

073of diversity and equity is   recognizing challenges within the community um  of course the biggest news is that we we have   good news we don't have the mass mandate  anymore and that began on monday march 14th   and uh as many of you have said mr nelson  said we're so happy to see our students   faces again and i can take any questions  that you may have regarding uh covet update   or any thoughts or yes i i don't have a question  it's just a comment or a thought i respectfully   disagree with you that the biggest new news is  the that we are not wearing masks yes i think   the biggest news is the decrease in people who are  dying yes sir because for people who die there is   no tomorrow yes the mask is an inconvenience and  for

074some people might create some health issues   sure but they can go to the doctor or make a  specific arrangement or something but for somebody   who died that's it yes so for me looking at that  data of the number of people who are not dying   that's the best the most wonderful news that we  can that we can go back to because unfortunate   fortunately i have not experienced that at the  family level but i have really close friends today   i was talking with a close friend at the district  level in the other district she lost her husband   he was hospitalized on december 22  january 14 i believe he passed away   she her kids they are suffering so having the  inconvenience and i respect the opinion of   everybody because all of us we have the right to  express

075our opinions it's our constitutional right   based on the first amendment right of freedom  of speech but i think the reduction in in that   that's that's the great thing that you are sharing  with us well i think i i think i agree with you   and i i think it's great to point that out that  that is the most important thing obviously i think   as educators when we see the students every  day the the excitement i will say this week   was to to always the mess on a day to day our  schools but that does correlate to the larger   point the most important point you're saying  that we care about the health and the wellness   of the families that we serve yeah and and i'm not  dismissing the excitement i i wasn't excited also   i agree with

076nothing it's a good it's a  good note right it's a great great thing   but i think the most important one at least for  me is that and i want to publicly agree absolutely okay thank you mr bruff i'm gonna  pull up the next one for me zeroed   so i'm connected here while you're doing that  i will introduce it okay 12.2 is an information   item paris union high school district a  to g completion improvement grant plan   miss zero all right good evening president nelson  and board superintendent mr bennett and cabinet   members i will be brief this is a very similar to  the presentation that we heard with cmi and this   is a grant that we have received as a district um  giving us some additional money and also requiring   an additional plan for us to put

077together so  you'll get to hear about the plan today as always   we want to align our plans with our lcap goals  and this is particularly focused around goal two the a to g completion improvement  grant is to really focus on the a to g   completion and the eligibility of our  students in grades nine through 12.   the funds should be specifically used to increase  that a-g course completion for our students when looking at the funding it's  based on our unduplicated pupils   i'm looking at um money through 25 26 and  the total amount of money that will be   allocated to us as a district is 2  million 523 dollars and 432 dollars and just continuing to keep all of our plans  aligned we have talked about several of our   plans over the course of this year the

078a to  g completion improvement grant is the next   grant that we'll be receiving you'll see that it  is for the next five years we will be using the   money starting in the beginning of the 2022-23  school year so working on the plan as we move   into the preparations for next year so we will be  looking to hire one district counselor two site   counselors these counselors will be rotated from  school to school to help support the current site   counselors with um g completion conversations with  students they'll be working on credit recovery   implementing interventions really trying to allow  our site counselors that have case loads of 500   students an additional support for the a to g  conversations with our students and what that   looks like through professional development  implementation of additional courses of rigor   those are ap

079classes dual enrollment classes we're  continuing to look at additional opportunities for   our students to take those courses going into  next school year we've been able to work with   msjc in having online dual enrollment classes so  that students across the district have access to   courses that might not be offered on their campus  for example we have a class at paris high that   will be offered district-wide as opposed to just  on campus for paris high students so we're excited   about that that'll allow us to continue to offer  classes even if they have lower enrollment we   get to offer them across the district so that  should increase the number of dual enrollment   classes that we're offering to our students  working on course revisions and development any   new courses dr arau mentioned the ethnic  studies that's a conversation that

080we are having   we're working through our history social science  adoption this school year and the ethnic studies   is on the next docket for next school year to  really start those conversations with a committee   we want to make sure that it is incorporating  all of our ethnic backgrounds as well as   just including that diversity that's really  important for all of our students to have   access to and then adg transcript audits  we've done these for several years   i think really with the pandemic we've seen some  challenges with students staying on track so we   really want to get back to looking at those a to  g audits not just starting in the junior year but   looking at that every single year so ninth grade  students complete their ninth grade school year   we really want to audit those transcripts

081and  get those kids into a remediation immediately   after their ninth grade year rather than a lot of  times they like to push down and wait till their   junior or senior year to make up those classes we  want to get a hold of them right in their ninth   grade year to make up those courses and then the  last item is data tracking and monitoring this is   working with our course management portal which it  used to be uc doorways making sure that all of the   courses that are in our doorways are aligned with  all of our schools as well as ccgi and monitoring   the courses and the completion the students  that are on track through the ccgi dashboard this is the breakdown of just the financials over  the course of those five years um the staffing is  

082for those three counselors and then the  incentives and supports those would be   materials and supplies any type of incentives that  we would be working with students on as well as   just materials that we might need to  implement for the support of the students   so again totaling the 2 million  523 dollars and 523 432 dollars any questions all right thank you all right moving on to 13.1 information item  discipline february 2022 monthly suspension report uh 14.1 is an action item personnel certificated  personnel action items do i have a motion   some hope dr arouse second dr freeman please vote it says you haven't voted yet have you is it up on your screen okay okay all right  14.1 passes five in favor zero opposed   14.2 is also an action item personnel classified  personnel action items do i

083have a motion   mr stafford i think dr arouse beats  him trusty all right feliz vote and 14.2 also passes five in favor zero opposed 14.3 personnel memorandum of understanding between  the parish union high school district and the   california school employees association  and its chapter paris valley number 469   regarding the juneteenth  holiday do i have a motion   ah she got you on that one dr freeman also  got you on that one all right this is for   the juneteenth holiday can you please elaborate  a little bit it's time to ask mr scorpanic to   share what we've done with our classified union  on so brief summary of what this is so during the   last school year the 2021 school year the day  before the holiday the president designated   june 19th as a federal holiday and in so doing 

084that since june 19th fell on a saturday the actual   holiday was observed on friday the 18th and the  proclamation came out the evening of thursday the   17th which made it very difficult to identify  a work holiday immediately the following day   because it was a federal holiday and not  necessarily designated as a state holiday   there's ambiguity between whether the states  would recognize it or not federal holidays   automatically get recognized by federal workers  but in schools and school districts where state   employees and state workers and so there  was some ambiguity as a result of that now   um fast fast forward several months and that  acne beauty has provided more clarity where um   where the june 18th of last year should have been  treated as a holiday in fact there's legislation   right now to make juneteenth a state

085holiday  moving forward so there's no longer any confusion   about this but in the meantime we've worked out  with the classified school employees association   uh mou that would go and go kind of back in time  and recognize june 18th for the 2021 school year   as a holiday to provide either a floating holiday  for those individuals that were in paid status on   that day or provide payment for additional payment  for those employees that were paid on a time card   and worked on june 18th 2021 and then moving  forward we've placed on our calendars juneteenth   as a holiday for this year and subsequent  years in anticipation of the legislation   but this year is sunday right it is yeah for those who do not know what we're  talking about necessarily could you describe what   juneteenth is yeah absolutely so

086what  is is it's listed in the summary right   here but it is uh it commemorates  the end of slavery in the united st and this is not with related it's  at the end of the civil war right   not the proclamation of the end of slavery  but it's actually it's when it's emancipation   proclamation was yeah not like what they were  it's actually the end of the last um yeah   i believe it was technically we  said yeah it started as a texas okay okay any other questions  comments no okay please vote 14.3 passes five in favor zero opposed 14.4 action item resolution number colon 21-22  resolution authorizing piggyback for purchase   of school furnishings office furniture and  accessories this will be funded through various   facilities funds and not the general fund at  an estimated amount of 815 do

087i have a motion does it say did you say not the  general fund not the general fund oh and the general fund i'm sorry did i say  not the journal i'm sorry and the general fund   thank you my man thank you very for clarifying  that for me do i do do i have a motion though dr freeman and dr arouse any  questions on this no okay please vote all right 14.4 passes five in favor zero opposed 14.5 action item resolution number 20 colon  21-22 resolution for establishing fund 40   special reserve fund for capital outlay projects  this has no fiscal impact do i have a motion   so move dr freeman trustee vallejo please vote i'm sorry do you have a question by all means  yeah then check your microphone so we can the the funds do

088exist at this point but  just have not been put into these various um speak accounts they're currently held within  fund 06 which is the restricted general fund   to fund 40 which is a new both not  a new fund they've had it before   but we're sort of re-establishing it so  we can more appropriately account for so it's strictly facilities okay  they don't they don't want people   thinking that that's uh that's general  fund use okay yes okay okay thank you uh no i'll leave that to you  you're more than welcome to it   any other questions no okay  now go ahead and please vote all right 14.5 passes of  five in favor zero opposed 14.6 resolution number 21 calling 21-22  resolution of the board of trustees   of the paris union high school district  adopting fund balance policies as

089required   by governmental accounting standards board  54. do i have a motion somewhat dr arouse   second dr freeman anybody need clarification  on this one no okay please vote 14.6 also passes five in favor zero opposed are they not sure they didn't show up okay   fourteen point seven approval of the twenty one  sorry twenty twenty one twenty two second interim   financial report with a positive certification of  the paris union high school district's financial   condition with no physical  impact do i have a motion dr freeman trustee vallejo i'm sure we're going  to have a little presentation for this one   just to give us a reason why we should  vote this way oh all good this time   so good evening president nielsen board  superintendent bennett and cabinet   i'm going to go over the second interim  today so i guess

090i can select do it right so we'll start with the governor's proposals  for 22 23 and i just want to take you back   a couple of years doesn't seem like it it seems  actually longer than a couple years but a couple   years when we first started this pandemic the  state budget was looking at a 54 million dollar   deficit as a result of the covid pandemic  and districts were looking at having to cut   you know millions of dollars and have state  deferred cash payments and colas were suspended   so it's a lot different environment  than what we're looking at right now   the governor's 2223 budget is built on a solid  foundation with an estimated 45.7 billion dollar budget and 95 of that comes from the three big  taxes which is of course personal income tax   sales and

091use tax and then capital um gains so  we find ourselves in a positive economic economic   environment within the state of california  with their revenues however californians are   experiencing very daunting daily challenges  with the increase in services and goods due   to the surplus um i or inflation i should say  i did hear on a podcast on my lunch today with   the federal chairman powell stating that they  recognize that the inflation is extremely high   i think it's as high as it's been since 1982  at 7.5 percent and their goal is to bring it   down to 2 percent but of course i'm sure that will  take some time and that's a whole different topic so there are several things that were thankful  in the governor's proposal there is a cost   of living adjustment of 5.33 percent which is 

092significantly higher than what we've projected   or what was projected in the state budgets in  the past and you'll see that in a little bit   there are definitely things that are  not addressed in the proposed budget   such as the rising pension cost they are  increasing at least two percent pers will be   at least three percent you'll see that in a  little bit and it does not address the impact of   the universal meals that have on the unduplicated  pupil count you'll see that also in a few minutes so the 2022-23 budget is at an all-time  high but there are many strings attached so   for the first time most school districts  will have to spend down their reserves or   be prepared to commit anything over the 10 percent  cap i believe i mentioned that to you at the

093first   interim you may or not remember because you  know i try to go through these super fast and then of course and you'll see this in a very  um tell-telling slide here in a few minutes that   the lion's share of the prop 98 funding is  categoricals which has additional strings so this is just a chart of the prop  98 guarantee over time and you can   kind of see the ebbs and flows and the  ups and downs of of the prop 98 over time but this is the chart that i was talking about  where you can see the lion's share of our funding   is coming through with categorical funding you  may or may not recall that when lcff was developed   it was to collapse a lot of that categorical  funding to give districts more local control

094but   as time is moving on we're seeing more and more  category funding and less and less core funding this slide i think is very telling and one of  the reasons why you know projections change so   rapidly from you know one reporting period  to the next when you look at two years ago   when we brought second interim we were we were  estimating a two point eight percent two point   eight two percent cola at second interim  and then last year it was two point 2.98   this year right now it's 5.33 and i've heard  that it's estimated to be over six percent   by the time the budget is actually adopted  so you can see that's quite a significant   change and you'll see how that affects  our projected ending fund balance so this slide is just a slide to

095remind us that  while the cola is higher and we do appreciate that   that districts are still facing those  ongoing costs that you know would mostly   come from unrestricted funds and not so much  categoricals of the increases in stirs and pers   and as i mentioned before stirs will increase  by over 2 percent and pers over 3 percent and   then unemployment stays pretty high compared  to what we were used to before the pandemic so special ed has been getting increases in their  base rate which we greatly appreciate they are   getting cola funded there's been years in the  past where cola was not funded for special ed   but unfortunately we're still in an environment  where special ed costs greatly outpace the   revenues so that does still then require quite the  contribution from the unrestricted general fund so the

096ada cliff i'm sure many of you have heard  about this this has been an ongoing topic since   the beginning of the pandemic and you'll kind of  get a clearer picture of that in a future slide   but basically it's become known as the two-headed  monster one being a decrease in enrollment which   we fortunately are not facing at this time for our   specific district but it is statewide and then  of course the other ugly monster of the ada to   enrollment ratio which statewide and in paris we  are seeing significant decreases in our actual ada   and a lot of that i believe is due  mainly to the covid and independent study so these are some of the proposed solutions  to help districts not go like nose dive like   wild e coyote down the cliff but maybe a little 

097softer landing you know how the road runner just   you know automatically ended up there  maybe it'd be something like that so um and then i also talked before about the  cap on the reserve so um that's also known   as the rainy day fund and so there were four  elements that had to be met in order for this   to be triggered and so those elements have been  met and so this will be effective for our 22-23   budget year so commitments will be coming forth  coming to you and you'll see the ending fund   balance and what those will look like so for  our specific information i thought i would   just kind of remind everybody what the lcff was  comprised of it the greatest pot obviously is our   p2 ada and then you add on to that the

098grade span  adjustment for us we get the 9 through 12 for cte   and then our upp has a big impact for  our supplemental concentration dollars so speaking of upp um our single year this year  is 65.51 or that may not sound horrible um just   a reminder last year we were at 75.25  so it's a decline of almost 10 percent   670 students from prior year less are  identified in that upp category in dollars   this equates to about a 1.6 million dollar loss in  categorical and supplemental concentration funds so in comparison to what we're projecting for 22  23 we're increasing the single year upp um hoping   that this was just kind of an anomaly with you  know still people so um in into the coveted mode   and not filling out those applications and you  know with the

099universal mail program thinking that   maybe they didn't need to do that and you know  it didn't really affect anything but it does have   an overall effect on our three-year average  which is what we're ultimately funded off of   but it's important to see what the single  year is doing because it does affect   the average and then um going back so if you see  what we're funded out now for nine through 12   which is the 12 283 next year is projected for  the 13104 so that's like a 821 dollar increase   but if our attendance um stays low  and there's not an initiative to   make that landing softer that's going to be  quite um quite a a hit for us if you will   so this is kind of more tell-telling where you  can kind of see the ada

100to enrollment so you   may remember that because of the pandemic well  districts are already afforded the prior year   guarantee right so if our attendance is lower in  one year in comparison to the prior year we'll   get funded off the prior year we did not collect  ada for 2021 um so for 2021 we were funded off of   1920. so for 2122 we would still be guaranteed  that prior year funding so we're estimating   that we're still going to get the prior year  funding our p1 attendance was actually at 88.67 so that's quite historically low for our  district we normally average around 93 percent   so as an example going into talking about the  cliff if something was not resolved and we   didn't make that 91.83 we would not get funded  the 93.04 right which is what we've been

101funded   off of we would get funded off of the 88 whatever  that ends up being now typically from p1 to p2   ada goes down not up there are things that  you can do to mitigate that with saturday   schools and whatnot but you know the increase  is still not generally significant so generally   kids come to school more at the beginning of  school than they do towards the end of school so you may notice and i don't know if you remember  but in first interim we were projecting deficit   spending um even through our out years and we're  not projecting that anymore and that's mostly due   to the increase in the cola um going from that  2.82 i believe was the last one to the 5.33 and   then each year also went up so we will be bringing 

102forth for you to commit anything above the 10 cap so we are recommending a positive certification  we will obviously be able to meet our current year   financial obligations as well as our two out years  and hopefully we'll get an early budget again and   be able to have better better estimates but our  next checkpoint of course is the may revision and   then we will be presenting the adopted budget of  public hearing on june 6 and then formal adoption   on the 15th with the lcap so any questions yes sir  cup alumni related this cap on reserves uh how are   we able to know how to spend down to ten percent  when they didn't told us what the actual budget is   well it's all estimated all right okay yeah  that's yeah i guess so that's what i thought  

103okay the other thing is that how are we able to  identify for them what is our end ending balance   rather than reserves because they're not  the same thing well but the total percentage   so our our minimum reserve that three percent is  included in there right so really we could so we   could have the 10 percent so if you look back if  we're looking at 22 23 we're looking at being 18.5   4 percent so 8.5 4 of that we're going  to need to bring to you and commitments   in order and then that's all going to change when  they gave you the real money yes yes and then they   take it back yes but i was informed by our county  at riverside county and we'll double check with   the auditors that we won't have to bring it

104back  to you every time there's a little bit of a change   if there's a significant change obviously we would  want to bring it back to you but um you know every   projections are going to change budgets  are breathing living documents and   they're they're constantly going to change i'm glad i don't have that job okay as long  as you understand we could get opening for you you said 18. whatever percent no at 18 point whatever percent actual reserves  or is that what our ending balance is that's   what our ending balance um is projected to be the  total percentage so 10 of that we can just leave   in the ending fund balance for economic  reserves or whatever the other 8.54 we need   to commit to something and it can be more  economic reserves if you remember you

105know   the the state recommendation that we have  to have is three percent right and you guys   just approved to have that be greater which is  great because three percent only covers about 10   days of payroll so that won't even make a full  month okay so now we're i'm getting a headache   i'm sorry no it's okay i'm  just glad i don't have that business without interrupting no no but you know  this is new right this is becoming effective   um next year so districts throughout the state and  throughout the county we're all strategizing and   what is the best way to to you know do this so  we're not bringing you know every time there's   a dollar change because you're right dr green  and these are estimates and so i think we'll   have a little bit better you

106know i tell him  i was estimating that 9.95 even if it was 18.   probably why you wouldn't want me in charge  of okay thank you any other questions no okay   thank you miss fogerty all right we already have  a first and second so i'm going to call for a vote and 14.7 passes five in favor zero opposed 14.8 sy 2022 23 annual new renewal of  services for membership in the super co-op   for the united states department of agriculture  foods this is funded through the nutrition   services fund and the amount not to exceed  420 000 not the general fund this one is not   the general fund i read that correctly this  time all right and you might have a motion so   uh mr stafford had it and i believe that  would give dr freeman a second

107any questions   no allow us to buy food  that's always good please vote 14.8 passes five in favor zero opposed 14.9 authorization for purchase order action  authorization for purchase orders above 50   000. this is from march 2022 this is what we've  talked about before but i do need a motion so   move dr arouse joshie stafford  anybody have any questions on this   i think we've talked about adonisium okay  we're good good all right please vote all right 14.9 passes five in favor zero opposed   leaves it brings us to 14.10 this is a hearing  on a bid protest submitted by exact technology   solutions considering concerning the rfp  number zero two two eight two two dash nash   that's puhsd structured cabling services  do i have a motion second trustee stafford i i still need to get a motion to

108open this  up correct yes okay okay i'm sorry uh trustee   stafford had the motion i'm sorry who had a  second dr arouse okay all right and with that   i have a scripture reading all right we  will now consider item 14.10 hearing of   bid protests by exact technology solutions  incorporated concerning the rfp number zero   two two eight two two this is puhsd structured  cabling services if exact wishes to comment on   the matter they will be provided ten minutes  to address the board regarding the bid protest   if any other member of the public who submitted  a public comment card wishes to comment on the   matter they will be they will excuse me they  will be provided the standard three minutes   to address the board at the conclusion of all  public comments the district's legal counsel   gretchen shipley

109will provide the board with  information on the bid protest and will be   available to answer any questions the board may  have following comments by the district's legal   counsel exact will be permitted an additional  three minutes to make any rebuttal statement   does any representative of exact  wish to comment on this matter seeing none it appears that exact has opted out   opted not to pursue their protest by failing  to appear at this hearing that they requested did any members of the public submit a comment  card no no comments from the public okay at this   time the district's legal counsel gretchen shipley  will provide information on the bid protest good evening and thank you um seeing that  the protester has not followed through with   their appeal i am happy in the interest of  time to cut it short

110and simply recommend   that you all reject the protests that they  filed on the other hand i am prepared and   happy to provide an explanation and answer  any questions regarding the underlying matter no it doesn't look like there were any for  you okay thank you and and i regret that they   wasted their time they specifically um  requested a hearing this evening and we   wanted to honor the procedures and their wishes  and thank you for your time okay thank you all right okay so this hearing is now closed was  i supposed to uh give it time for the   uh the start of the public hearing it  didn't there wasn't listed one here so well let's say we said we opened at 6 45 and  we are closing in at 6 47. okay the board will   now consider

111a motion to reject or accept the  protest by exact do i have a um do i have a   motion to reject or accept i make a motion okay  that's right make a motion to react okay so dr   araus had the motion i'm sorry i i would jump  the gun on that to reject do i have a second   okay trustee staffer in seconds okay we have a  motion to reject the bid protest so please vote okay so that passes five in favor zero post so the   bid protest is rejected the next item  for consideration is for number fourteen   point eleven it's resolution number twenty three  colon twenty one to twenty two resolution of the   board of trustees of the perishing high school  district author authorizing pro procurement   of structured cabling services this  is funded through the

112general fund in   the amount of two hundred forty eight thousand  seven hundred twenty dollars do i have a motion mr stafford ms vallejo please vote and 14.11 passes five in favor zero opposed  that takes us to information item 15.1   curriculum revised science course advanced  biology this does meet a g requirements 15.2 is another information item new career  technical education course under the rcoe   entrepreneurship self-employment sector rcoe  advanced business management this is a course   course is in the process to  meet a g requirements approval 15.3 is also an information item  revolving cash report february 2022 15.4 is an action item these are board policies   for students series five thousand  do i have a motion sum dr arouse is it okay it says action and it gives me an option  for a movement motion this is just

113first   the first street okay okay so this was an  information i'm sorry so oh there's a pre-motion okay 15.5 is also an information item this  is board policies for instruction series 6000   series 6000 and 16.1 is a next item for closed session if  necessary not necessarily that is a very good   dancer do not need to reconvene i better be i've  already gone past it 18.1 is an information item   other items by the superintendent uh nothing okay  another good answer all right 19.1 other items by   the board of trustees dr arouse nothing said dr  freeman nada trustee vallejo trustee stafford   nothing from me all good answers across the  board and we've got a motion for adjournment   20.1 do i have a motion second all right  trustee vallejo dr arouse please vote and 20.1 passes five in

114favor zero  opposed and we are adjourned 651