Board of Education Meeting - June 18, 2024

001I'm calling the June 18th 2024 board meeting or meeting of the Board of Education order per government code section 54950 executor and Education Code section 35140 executor at 5:00 p.m. we will now be adjourning to close session for the purpose of discussing the following matters Public Employee discipline dismissal suspension release leave assignment non- reelection non- reappointment resignation reinstatement pursuant to government code 549 57 Personnel matters Public Employee appointments employment employment pursuant to government code section 54957 conference with labor negotiators Dr Alex chernes superintendent Gary Stein assistant superintendent administrative Services Dr isaah Gates assistant superintendent of Human Resources csca APLE Plum and we have a claim general liability number 6 38681 is there anyone present who would like to address any of these item anyone seeing none we will adjourn to close session at 51m all

002right welcome to the placenti or bind UniFi School District board meeting I'm going to reconvene to regular session at 6 pm and our report out of Clos session was the board took action to approve resolution number 23-31 to issue a notice to release and reassign certificated employee from their administrative position pursuant to Education Code section 44 951 effective at the end of the 2020 the 23 to 24 school year and direct the superintendent or designate to send out appropriate legal notices motion was made by Mr youngl the second was by Mr Frasier and the vote carried 3 to2 and now um Todd Frasier will you please lead us in the pledge would you please stand ready begin flag of the United States of America and the stand all right and so tonight for our inspirational

003message I it is my great honor to introduce your berinda high school's track coach Mr sterley Jones if you mind coming to the podium please right up here is perfect thank you so much for coming yeah whenever you're ready okay um first I want to thank you for having me here for having me speak um as you know I am getting ready for the 2024 um Paris Olympics and so um I definitely want to come out um not only give inspirational speech but more of just um more so solidify the USI um how it can benefit how it can help um the athletes uh as you know um good evening uh my name is um sterley Jones um as you said I am the head um coach for tracking Phil at yinda high school um

004today um I'm here to talk about how the sports institution Universal Sports institution how it will help um the athletes succeed um like myself um to begin um I am a current athlete um the USI can benefit students athletically because it provides them with personalized training at USI students will have the opportunity to have more structur personalized training by experts in the sport um that your student athlete practices for example if you have student athlete practices soccer there would be experts in that field that will provide your athlete with spec specified training that will help him or her to develop the particular skills some of these practices will include strength training strength and conditioner training recovery treatments yoga and Speed and Agility these are all the practices that are Central in all the sports as

005a current athlete I have continue practice in all of the above for the continuous growth in my sport um as you know I trained um four hours a day and um as I'm training four hours a day I get up I um start my workout at 5: in the morning and I um really um want to encourage um and like I encourage the kids the athletes that I coach that this is something that um is about stride and strength and persevere and furthermore um I feel like the USI can benefit students um because it provides them with additional time and the resources that coaches like myself uh do not have um that is I know as a coach I have a limited time to work on a variety of skills this takes up a lot

006of time especially when the athlete is missing foundational skills of the sport uh with the time spent at USI students learn these skills that learn these skills there and and grow even further in their home sport they will be much more developed when they get to work with their homeschool coach and as a result that coach can push them either further um example U we um when I say a very limit on time uh we only get an hour out of the day and I think um if we're looking um hour to two hours if we're um looking to push um individuals to the next level like the way I am I really think USI can benefit from that and in conclusion as a current athlete and a coach I see many benefits that students

007can get from attending the University of sports institution and so while I'm here today is um to solidify that the sports institution uh will help individuals um as athletes that come to me um I really feel like the foundation could be growing a lot better and I think with the extra time that they can get from the Universal Sports institution can get them further along in life stly I'm not going to let you go yet can you can you you have an unbelievable inspirational story and that's one of the reasons we wanted you to come can you just share your your story with us as you prepare for the Olympics yeah um I am from um Florida small town uh maybe 2,000 people three stop likees one high school one Elementary one Middle School everybody

008knows everybody um I moved out here I attend junior college for two years I went back home I came back and um I was getting heavy recruited for football um by Pete Carroll USC and um unfortunately I got in a really bad car accident that set me back and then um I went striving some more and I got into another car accident and my doctor told me that um the only way you're going to stay active if you start running so I never took track serious because in Florida it was almost say 100 degrees in Florida and so I really got out of um football just to run track and we did football constantly year round and so um I started running I went to a track I started running and um I was like

009you know what I want to take it serious I want to see where it's going to lead me at in life and from that point on from 201 um 13 and 14 I would say I broke on 25 records um I went to Olympic trials went to um USA Outdoors um I met numerous of people and led me to where I'm at today and so why um I'm here today I want to inspire the next uh not me but Inspire the next individual to uh keep moving forward in life and that's why I want to um reaffirm that like I say the USI will help that individual like myself um get to that point well thank you for thank you for representing our school district so now we have somebody to watch um with the

010Paris Olympics this coming summertime just gonna say good luck and we we'll be watching okay so let the record show that all board members including our graduated board member is present can I have a [Applause] can I have approval of the agenda please I'll make a motion to approve the June 18 2024 Board of Education agenda as presented I'll second I have a motion by Mr yumble a second by Mrs Anderson any comments all those in favor I I I I and I'm an i votee motion carries 5 to zero with an I from our graduated board member public comment cards are available on the foyer cards must be completed and turned in prior to the designated time for public comment you'll be provided a maximum of three minutes per person if translation is needed

011an additional three minutes will be given please let us know ahead of time if we can um sorry if translation is needed let us know ahead of time so we can ensure we are prepared we do have a civility policy per Education Code 220 prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability gender gender identity gender expression nationality race or ethnicity religion sexual orientation or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set forth in section 42255 of the penal code including immigration status and now can I have a motion to approve the minutes I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for the regular meeting of June 4th 2024 as amended second I have a motion by Mrs Anderson a second by Miss Mrs Buck is there any comments and Sean you

012are free to vote on this as long as you reviewed them yes all right all those in favor I I and I am an i motion carries 5 Z with a I from our graduated board member um I need a motion to approve the minutes of the special meeting of May 14th 2024 I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for the special meeting of May 14th 2024 is presented I'll second I'll go a second to Mr Frasier I have a motion by Mr youngl a second by Mr Frasier any comments all right all those in favor I I I I and I am an i and we also have a yay from our oh you you didn't get to vote sorry you were not at the meeting can I have a motion to approve

013the minutes of the regul May meeting of May 7th 2024 I'll make a motion we approve the minutes of the regular meeting of May 7th 2024 as amended second I have a motion by Mrs Buck I have a second by Mr Youngblood any comments all right you can vote this time all those in favor I I motion carries 5 Z with a vote for an I from our graduated board member all right now we're going to open up a public hearing this public hearing will be held relative to the annual budget and service plan of the Northeast Orange County selpa for the 2024 to 2025 school year I'm going to declare this public hearing open at 611 p.m. anybody here that would like to speak on this all right I'm going to close this at

0146:11 p.m. okay and now I'm going to give it over to Emily Sun for her final report good evening president blades trustees superintendent Dr chernes and executive cabinet members I'm excited to be here tonight for the final time to share recent happenings from a comprehensive high schools and alternative campuses at buav visal Academy they held its fourth annual graduation ceremony on Tuesday June 11th at the P LUSD Performing Arts Center in total the school awarded 57 students their High School diplomas including 17 seniors and 12 Juniors as early graduates at El Camino Real High School school on Tuesday June 11th El Camino held its 2024 commencement ceremony at Bradford Stadium located at Valena High School the event marked the the conclusion of the 2023 to 2024 school year celebrating the achievements of 90 graduating students

015as they received their High School diplomas at Eldorado High School on behalf of the entire Eldorado Hawk Golden Hawk Community happy summer edhs hopes everyone listening to this month's student board report is looking forward to Summer and enjoying time with friends and family family the Golden Hawks are thankful for for such a supportive community that surrounds Eldorado as the class of 2024 removed their tassels moved their tassels last week from right to left the school was reminded of all the accomplishments Joy success loss and sadness that can accompany a school year through it all Elda will always keep in mind that Spirit never sleeps at ESP bronza high school Thursday June 14th was their 2024 commencement ceremony at Nathan Chappelle Memorial Stadium where 311 seniors were awarded their High School diplomas among these seniors 88%

016have enrolled to continue their education at a two or foure college or university the EHS class of 2024 included 35 distinguished Scholars at George key inventure Academy May 31st was the rededication event of the school's Garden it was a heartwarming celebration of community spirit and Collective effort supported by the Del Norte Garden Club Home Depot UCI Master Gardeners REI construction and so many more the garden is an inclusive space where all students including those in wheelchairs can interact with nature on June 5th Venture Academy held its annual graduation ceremony in honor of the class of 2024 this significant event took place at the P USD Performing Arts Center in Placentia marking a momentous occasion for 23 graduates at Parkview School Parkview wrapped up the school year with a yearbook signing and a family picnic event

017for all attende that all attendees enjoyed the Parkview staff celebrated the retirement of Linda calber instructural Aid who dedicated 42 years of service to PUSD at Valencia High School Valencia competed competed in the American Chemical Society competition and earned second place in Orange County for both Advanced and first year chemistry 14 student athletes participated in the athletic Signing Day and will continue their athletic careers at Cal State San Bernardo Oso university champman university Westmont College and calply P among others at yinda high school yinda high school celebrated 15 years of running with the Stampede to commemorate their anniversary a time capsule in plaque will be placed in the school library in the Time Capsule students shared their favorite memories and advice for future must thingss finally yhs ended the year with the weeklong celebration for

018seniors including the senior breakfast cap and gown distribution and Senior Disney day thank you now that your time is the student board member has come to an end what would you say has been your biggest takeaway from the experience and would you like your follow-up question or you want me to wait give me the follow question okay and what advice would you offer the incoming student board member um I think the biggest takeaway was just holding responsibility for the amount of work that I have and the amount of like things that I have to do in order to properly represent my peers and um what they want to see with their future um and I think that the advice that I would offer for the future board member is to make sure that you talk

019to your peers about the current situations that are going on within your community um to ensure that you are making the right decision for your peers um and make sure that they agree which with what you're doing very good I'm going to turn over to Dr chis because we do have a um small token of our appreciation so Emily we're extremely proud of you um we'd like to take this moment to recognize you for your um exemplary representation of the students of this District um you always offered very insightful feedback you did your homework um we um we wish you success um uh as you've graduated from as bronza and um we want to show our appreciation to you so um we have a um uh a plaque for you we'd like to present to

020you and we'd also like to just um give her a round of applause for her amazing work thank you yeah where would you like her thank you so much okay um Sean just had a great idea we do have a whole row of chairs that it says Reserve but if you guys would like to come sit on this side we could just Reserve these four seats for speakers if you guys would like to sit down if you'd like to no pressure okay now we are going to uh turn it over to Dr chernes for his superintendence report all right uh we are very excited we have a lot of great um employees to introduce tonight um and many are here with their families so um at this time uh I'd like to first ask um

021Dr bilma Bermudez to come on up yay hey you can clap so Dr Bermudez um joins us from um Compton Unified School District uh she is going to be the new principal at topaz elementary school she has 21 years of educational experience with clampton USD um and she's been principal there the last four years uh her previous experience includes serving as an assistant principal at a dual imersion School an English language learner specialist and an element school teacher uh it also includes working at school sites that are Apple distinguished Project Lead the Way and Avid certified she has worked developing curriculum facilitating professional development and mentoring teachers and new principles BMA earned her educational leadership doctorate from Cal State Fullerton her master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Apu and her bachelor's degree from Cal

022State uh Los Angeles she and her husband Robert have three children they graduated from Sunny Hills in Fullerton Joint Unified School District Andrew is now serving in the US Navy Nicole's a registered nurse who graduated from Cal State Fullerton and Kristen's a high school math teacher currently working on her Masters um so bilma congratulations welcome to our district if you'd like to say a few words we'd love it thank you so much well good evening president blades trustees superintendent Dr shernice and executive cabinet I am honored and blessed for the opportunity to join the Placentia y balinda Unified School District as principal at top Pas Elementary I look forward to collaborating with the topaz team of students staff parents and Community to ensure we continue academic achievement and parental engagement today my family joins me

023as I begin this new and exciting my husband Robert and my daughters Nicole and Kristen once again I thank you for this wonderful opportunity to serve as principal and I'm very thrilled and excited to be part of this team thank you so much s we thank you so it's great to hire new people um it's say equally exciting to promote from within and so I'd like to ask Miss Christy Ken to come up Cohen to come up who is going to be our new principal of Mabel pay Elementary so chrisy uh we are thrilled to have you lead Mabel Payne um christe's been in education for 30 years she began early years in education as a teacher and then a principal of a local private school for 12 years she's worked in PUSD for 18

024years for the past year she served as the Fairmont Elementary School assistant principal before that most of her career was at Golden where she taught the gate program holding multiple leadership roles uh she truly feels at home in P ylusd in addition to her Teaching Ministry of credentials christe has a master's degree in teacher leadership with a graduate certificate in gifted education and when this position opened up you were the first call I made and without hesitation um you told me that that you were ready for um the task at hand so we couldn't be happier for you Christie um and congratulations thank you thank you so much thank you uh so good evening president blades trustees superintendent Dr chernes and uh executive cabinet members tonight I want to express my enthusiasm and gratitude for

025the board's approval of becoming the Mabel pay Elementary School principal Mabel Payne Elementary is an amazing school and it is an honor to serve the students the staff and the community I look forward to continuing the wonderful traditions and contributing to the many educational opportunities that are offered at Mabel pay I I also want to thank my family who was here tonight who are who are also so excited for this opportunity so thank you for entrusting me with this responsibility I am eager to start our work together and go Mustangs [Applause] at this time I'd like to introduce the new principal of Woodsboro Elementary Miss Rachel [Applause] Collins so Rachel joins Woodsboro Elementary as the principal as after serving as AP at Bernardo for the last two years um prior to her current position I

026she served as a teacher on special assignment for middle school for 11 years she attended Morse Kramer and lenia High School in 2011 Rachel returned back to Kramer as a history social science teacher where she also served as department chair and gear up teacher and led the school's development of the mtss multi-tiered system of supports in 2021 Rachel took on the role of tosa where she supported 6 through 12 um social science um districtwide uh and so Rachel and her husband Matt have two daughters Colette and Marin Marin uh and Rachel I couldn't be more happy for you uh part of your legacy will be the next principal obviously of Woodsboro but it will also be the Orange County School of computer science that you've worked so hard to develop with Dr Fischer so um

027a lot of the the success that we've had in developing that school is very much due to your leadership and your hard work so um it's a pleasure to promote you and to keep you here and I know you're going to do a great job at Woodsboro so congratulations thank you so much good evening president blades trustees superintendent Dr chernis and executive cabinet and to everyone for excusing uh three old separation anxiety um it is with so much happiness and excitement that I accept the honor of serving as your new principal at Woodsboro Elementary um as Dr chernes stated I have a great love for our schools as a proud graduate of the school district and a current parent and so I am just so eager to support all of our students and get to

028know their families at Woodsboro and to work alongside the team and learn alongside them and I think one of the most exciting thing about joining the Woodsboro team is that the great majority of students attend Bernardo Yorba our future Orange County School of computer science or Kramer middle school and those are the two schools that I have um spent my time here as a teacher and educator and I want to close just with thanking my incredibly supportive family and friends as I join the hive so thank you at this time I'd like to introduce the next principal of El Camino Real High School Gina agular Gina served our district for 29 years as director principal assistant principal counselor she's done it all she's really done it all um she shares her greatest love as working

029directly with kids her leader ERS ship experience at the secondary level is extensive which will be invaluable for fostering a supportive and enriching educational environment for high school kids uh she attended Wagner Brook Haven tuffrey and El Dorado High School um Gina and her husband have three children Austin Reese and Wyatt who attend Travis Ranch and they're in all kinds of sports all the time um uh it's really important as a school district to have people like Gina that um not just just have the experience but the talent to be able to jump into new positions um Gina was a a great principal for us at esparanza um we've had her we've been fortunate enough to have her at the district office when she found out this position was open she came to me and

030said Dr churners I want this job um I think that we can do a lot of great things for these kids um the kids at El Camino are extremely important to all of us um many of them have had uh a lot of challenges along the way and um I couldn't be more excited for Gina to take on this role and to lead this school so congratulations thank you good evening president blades Board of Trustees Dr chernes and executive cabinet I'm excited to be here tonight as a new principal of elino real high school as an alumni and longtime employee as Dr trinis shared I'm passionate about providing opportunities for all students El Camino is a school based on Second Chances and I have always been drawn to work with students who demonstrate the resilience

031and perseverance necessary to overcome the barriers they face in their lives I look forward to working alongside the outstanding staff at the school to create an inclusive environment where students can Thrive academically socially and emotionally and I thank you for the opportunity last but not least um I'd like to introduce our new director of student services Dr Vanessa Landis findind Dr Landis fine has served as the Director of student services at the sentinela Valley Unified High School District for The Last 5 Years and is looking forward to the opportunity to continue to work with students at all grade levels in P prior to her District role Vanessa served as principal at two comprehensive high schools and assistant principal at three high schools she earned her doctorate in educational leadership from USC her master's I saw

032that her master's degree from California State uh her bachelor's degree from Cal State Long Beach and her masters from Long Beach um in addition to her K12 work um she's been a lecturer at Cal State Long Beach's um educational Administration program since 2009 and is proud to continue supporting future School leaders in the program she attended um uh the declining enrollment Statewide um is is really hard on districts but it's our benefit as sentinella shrinks we can steal people like you um so uh we're really really excited for you to bring your high school level experience um with a student population that has a lot of similarities to many of our kids um and so welcome to our district I know you will enjoy it as much as we all do thank you so much

033good evening president blades trustees superintendent Dr trinis and executive cabinet I'm very happy happy to be here and excited to join the team at placenti or Belinda and to work with Renee and the rest of the uh student services team um as Dr tra said I've uh recently have been the director of student services in sentinella Valley I'm very excited to come here and continue that work um and work with the full grade span from from uh prek to uh high school I'm bringing with me the experiences that I've had in many districts and as a district administrator and a strong commitment to the success of all students My ultimate goal is to see that every student leaves high school with a plan for what's next and the skills to implement it and I'm really

034looking forward to the next school year and starting to work here thank you so much [Applause] again all right um he's going to continue on with his uh report but if there's anybody with families who'd like to leave um feel free to do so now it's okay now is the time yeah he's walking oh pay attention [Laughter] okay okay at this time I'd like to review uh some of our successes and accomplishments this year um as we wrap up a fabulous school year um and so uh couldn't be more excited with um so many things we've done and so I think it's important that we acknowledge where we are and how far we've come as a school district as we talk about where we're going um in the future um so the first thing we

035did is um we've opened uh preschools and so two new ones this year both filled up almost right away um three more preschools opening next year and we anticipate um similar um results now let me just back up and say that the lifeblood of a school district is our enrollment and we have been as a school district we've been dropping enrollment about 400 students every year and so that um is huge um uh for the health of our district and what does the health means it means offering programs for kids keeping schools open keeping teachers and staff employed all that is dependent on enrollment and as we shrink enrollment um we have to let go of people and we have to let go of programs and it It ultimately impacts kids most school districts in

036California are in Decline we are not and so this year we turned around a trend over the last five years we've been losing upwards of 400 students every year this year that trend has turned around currently yes we are over 400 more students this year to date than we were last year it that is a huge turnaround especially as we talk about budget tonight and one of the things in our budget which um Mr Stein will get to is this projected Decline and so what the what is this mean for me for us and it means millions and millions of more dollars for our kids um upwards of8 to1 million a year um if these Trends continue so this is huge and this is something everybody should get behind in a appreciate um we've we've

037we've done all kinds of ways to to increase communication not just through our social media platforms um our superintendent roundtables we had the first ever state of the district event um this year save the date for our next one because we the last event we just invited kind of city folks and management but we're going to open this one up to the public it is in September do we have a date 17th September 17th uh Pac state of the district event 2024 so please mark that on your calendar um uh our executive team we go to Rotary weekly um we go to our we we've done a lot for reach Foundation trying to raise money for our school Foundation um looking at more innovative ways to raise money for our for our schools um engaging

038with our PTA Partners uh our Monday messages have been a real success 40,000 people are opening these these um uh messages with announcements we're sending out um previews of board meetings um uh we're doing all kinds of things superintendent advisory committees we had hundreds of volunteers take part in High School parent Community um uh special education parent Middle School Parent Elementary parent um uh so all all sorts of ways to improve how we're communicating which has been great the other piece that um uh I'm not sure that's on here is we moved our agendas to online agenda so prior to uh last year it was impossible to find anything online on on former meetings and if you go back it's very hard now everything's very accessible and attached to the online agendas um so we

039worked really hard on that as well um SRO so we have negotiated a contract with Anaheim Police Department to provide a school resource officer for esparanza um which is a huge thing we will now have full-time SRO at all of our Comprehensive High Schools um and that is something we haven't had in a long time so uh that is something that we can all be very proud of um and uh it's uh I think my staff I I think the the um um uh the administration at um at Anaheim PD um uh is it Sergeant Conklin Bob Conklin for his um partnership um it's been a a tremendous opportunity that we took advantage of and now our schools are going to be safer because of it Orange County school computer science our people are here

040we did it we are going to be opening the school in the fall and these kids that are coming to go through this school are going to come out with skills for the next generation and so I know I've spoken about this before but computer science is the one industry that our country cannot employ enough graduates and so we are addressing that and we're going to be one of the leaders in the state and in the country and getting kids ready so when they're done with high school they're going to be they're going to have high paying jobs whether they want to go to college or not well that'll be up to them but they're going to have high paying high skilled jobs coming out of our school so couldn't be more excited for Dr

041fiser her leadership this would not happen without you um I've seen a glimpse of our Innovation labs and what's going to be happening and the programming kids are going to be doing in there um I I just I'm so excited um and uh the whole team everybody from the computer science school please stand [Applause] another exciting program that our um future Olympian alluded to was the Universal Sports Institute uh we opened applications uh beginning of April we have over 110 applicants already um about 80% of the kids are from our district 20% are outside our district we're offering uh um a a new Innovative pathway for kids um that want to continue through Parkview doing homeschool but get highlevel specialized athletic training committed kids um and uh just a matter of weeks after we opened

042uh we saw Fullerton open a similar program um more and more um districts we the talk of Southern California where you go around people are very interested in what we're doing uh athletic High School programs are nervous about what we're doing are we going to lose kids um these kids grades 3 through 12 can participate in our high schools participate athletically in our schools we got a state Grant to link um this into a a um a CTE pathway kids will be coming out with certifications in areas like nutrition Physical Therapy um the state of California awarded us the Golden State pathway Grant of $200,000 we have an opportunity to apply for another $500,000 now because we received the first grant um so the excitement is just it's been unbelievable our partners um are amazing

043uh we have BC adaptive Fitness to help um uh our students with special needs throughout the district um we have a sports psychologist who's also a parent at esparanza um with access human uh potential who go goes around and and and works with teams um throughout Southern California we have the training lab which works with some of the top um athletes um that has an has their they um they're based in Placentia um and we have recode Fitness which is based in Brea which really focuses on athletic training for kids um I in different ways other than than free weights and so that's really good for younger kids as well so um between our community partners and um just the vision of the people willing to take a step out of their comfort zone and

044develop programs that will attract families and keep families here um couldn't be more excited for this program and going back to why are we up 400 more kids this year versus last year here's a great example of why and so um uh USI is coming this fall we created two special education programs this year um brand new students are getting diplomas that otherwise never would have and so in the P yes yes we graduated we graduated three in December we have another one I hear on the way these kids are getting diplomas all of our kids should have the goal of having a diploma and so that has changed with our district now and so our new program called the uh uh diploma bound program PUSD Advance um is to make sure that our goal

045for all kids is is to be diploma bound and we have our plus program and so we are if not the biggest employer in placenti Yorbalinda one of them I would assume we we are probably the biggest so why not employ our own students when they graduate and so the goal of the Venture program for many many many years is students that are 18 to 22 that are still um being educated through us um and we have job coaches and we have always been placing them in jobs throughout the community what we haven't done is we haven't placed them in jobs here and so we developed the plus program we have two date three students one is an instructional Aid one is working in Food Service um one is maybe another location um I know

046print shop we're we're looking at um and so we want these now young men and women to work in our schools it's not just good for them it's good for all of our kids to be able to see students around them that may act different look different but are still students um that they can relate to um is amazing so typical peers um all kids succeeding uh this is a an amazing program I hope we hire more and more of um these folks after school intervention and so this year we helped over 4,000 students reach grade level proficiency five 4-we intervention Cycles 200 dedicated teachers 8,670 hours of free instructional support for kids you can all clap to [Applause] that our Mouse scores are up and this is a reason why um there was someone

047who came and spoke at the last meeting um and he said Dr chernes uh I think he's here right now there's Sam myovich yeah there he is he said Dr chernis the the new US news world report rankings since you have been here have gone down and that's attribut attributable to your leadership well the US News and World Report rankings are based on scores from two years ago so I'm happy to take responsibility for the scores of our students while I'm here I'm happy to but I'm not going to be attributed to scores from 2 years ago and I think it's disingenuous to come here and put false lies out there for the community to hear and and that was unacceptable and so I do need to address that our Mass scores are up 3%

048this year that means hundreds and hundreds of kids are achieving at higher levels and that's something that we can compare versus prior years increase efforts so I've heard everybody's leaving everybody's leaving well that's not necessarily the case we have over 300 teacher applications right now to come here and teach here um so putting that kind of information out there is also very unfortunate um we developed a fentanyl awareness program I've seen some people people say well you know this is great um uh and some people try to take credit for that but the reality is this started this year because I had a conversation with Leandra about what we can do to support um our kids and educate them on this very very dangerous and serious issue we have in our schools and so this

049year for the first time we partnered with um the Orange County Sheriff's department and pentia police department and we had education assemblies for all of our high school kids about the dangers of Fentanyl and we also increased Narcan supplies at all our sites so critically important and you know these are the some of the things that you you you won't know you're really helping um um because you know you're just hoping you don't have accidents right so it's hard to quantify the benefits um but we all know the benefits and so um we're going to continue that um Middle School Sports so this year we we always had a middle school sports program it was a track program this year we expanded it to five sports thousands of kids participating in competing against each other

050um this is something we're going to continue and it is just amazing uh the the number of kids talking to parents about sports they they thought they'd never even get involved in and here they are now wanting to be a wrestler or wanting to run cross country um and it's because of this program that we we put in place this year free for kids after school also free for kids outdoor Science school and so we offer this to any family that needed support um and we made sure every Elementary School sent their kids to Outsource Science school and prior to this year only about half were even sending kids to these programs um that's an equity issue and so you want to talk about Equity that's Equity issue and so how do we address it

051well well we fix it and we fix it right away and that's what we did this year every school in our district now has an outdoor Science school there's some things on that aren't on here that I want to speak to as well one is our partnership with the Nixon Library we have a new Civics education course with the Nixon Library that we'll be writing next year um our students this will be an honor Civics course our students we're going to Pilot it at Yorbalinda High School our students will be traveling to the Nixon Library once a week to get Civics education um and the Nixon Library just approved the course framework and so it'll be written this year it'll be rolled out in uh fall of 20526 um and it's it's a very exciting

052program um we also passed a parental notification policy this year um if there are safety issues at school parents need to know about it and so that we put into policy this year and I'm very proud of that um and finally we got some books out of our libraries that were inappropriate and we didn't do it by agendize the book here we did it through my Authority for getting rid of books that are uh that have vulgarity and inap appropriate content and I'm happy to debate that with the governor or anybody else but but books like milk and honey are no longer in our [Applause] libraries that concludes my [Applause] report thank you we appreciate everything that you have done in just this short one year and so we're very proud of you we're very

053proud of our entire team and are just thankful for um all the programs that we are doing for students and that we're putting students first and so this will take us into our public comment session public comment is an opportunity for the public to provide input to the Board of Education during the public comment period board members do not dialogue with speakers or make comments regarding the information shared we have 20 people wishing to speak tonight and so each speaker Annette will have one one minute and 30 seconds and so I'm going to have the first four speakers come up to the front row um when you guys are up there just uh you wait till your name is called and then when you get to the podium please um state your name um before

054you start to speak and so our first four speakers are Ed gun Sue Sawyer Judy dejardine and Karen lexic good evening my name is Ed gun and I am a 47-year resident of your belenda I attended Maple Payne myself your Belinda Junior High and also was bust to Troy High School in Fullerton at the time I do want to say that teachers are good and the union is bad very very bad terrible Union chernis chernis on the other hand is so good that he should be governor absolutely I did want to give people an update uh on Mary Lan uh Anderson she was seeking the Republican Party endorsement last night but with a track record like hers sucking up to Karen Freeman and the Union by making her president the first year that she was

055on the board and then in the second year sucking up to Buck and the union to make her the president where of course Carrie Buck felt like she was a a dictator like Stalin or something that could unilaterally end meetings without without a vote for adjournment Marilyn even had can you pause the clock please there should be some civility here when how how am I not civil excuse me I'm I'm stating facts hold on per our attorney per our attorney he can speak about board members he he can speak about the union he can speak about teachers he can speak about all this excuse me it's been okay in the past to call people insurrectionists it's a Christian nationalist it's been okay if you're calling out from the audience you will be asked to leave

056let's have the guy in the corner leave can we escort him out please officer we'll wait AES speech a guy away forell that'll teach you to interrupt she even had a terrible city council woman named Janice Lim come up and lie to the Republican Party Central Committee on her behalf it was disgusting one of Marilyn's supporters that was there with her was also involved involved in the recall efforts of the conservative board in or at Orange Unified School District this is who Marilyn Anderson hangs out with this is who she represents terrible leftist Union hacks as well as PE uh and totally against conservatives with fellow Republicans like that who needs enemies I love what this board is doing and Ladies and Gentlemen please support conservative candidates in this next election cycle we need them

057not Union back candidates thank you very much Sue [Applause] Sawyer my name is Sue Sawyer I'm a teacher at esparanza high school the end of the school year is a time for celebration reflection and rest however this board's majority in the superintendent's actions Force attention investigation and action there are specul in the community about the loss of Administrators throughout the district the P education Community has lost good people institutional knowledge and a sense of trust and confidence then tonight action item 181 to approve Amendment one to Alex's Employment contract a superintendent evaluation before any contract change benefits our students staff and the entire Community by promoting accountability and transparency this process is key to building a trusting relationship between the superintendent the board and all stakeholders it ensures that we are working together to meet

058the district's goals and values has an evaluation been done how will this board guarantee transparency in decision-making will the board provide clear explanations and justifications for decisions affecting budgets Staffing and educational programs the community deserves the truth I will leave you with this Proverbs 11120 an honest person will be truthful in all their business dealings and John 8:32 and ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free thank you Judy Judy good evening I'm Judy de jardan and actually uh Dr chernes I uh made a copy of all your accomplishments and was going to read them but you've already done it uh but I do want to say that um my granddaughter benefited tremendously from the after after school um math program um and I'm um very um just very thankful and

059um I I want to give a praise to um the Dr chernis his staff every uh teacher that helped that helped uh get all these new programs it's it's just really amazing and you you've done an amazing job um so I guess I I don't have any but I would like um to address perhaps rumors and parents and anyone here tonight when you hear something that is negative please go to Dr chernis like he said before and get the facts no it's not funny and do not laugh thank you um and um I'm really uh pleased to hear about the new um principles and the ones that were promoted uh I'm already met uh the new one tonight um because I'm very involved with uh my granddaughters and um their education so I want to

060just thank all of you for all of the hard work that you've done thank you very very much thank you Karen alexic hi my name is Karen alexic in the eloquent words of Taylor Swift Long Live all the magic we made the magic made for public schools in our state started when the California Teachers Association was founded in 1863 let us reminisce on the magic that the teachers and the unions create every day in our schools fostering an environment where students can flourish and thrive just like in Taylor's song Long Live teachers unions are the United teachers who stand up for educators rights ensuring they have the resources and support they need to provide the best best education possible for our children as Taylor reminds us in Fearless you're not scared to lose face if

061we want to make mistakes teachers unions provide a safety net for both teachers and students advocating fearlessly for policies that promote learning and growth they create an environment where Educators feel supported in taking risk s and trying new approaches ultimately benefiting the students they serve in Mean Taylor sings Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me teachers unions are the voice that stands up against bullying and unfair treatment both in in and out of the classroom they fight tirelessly to ensure that every student feels safe and valued creating a nurturing environment where learning can truly flourish in conclusion let us celebrate the invaluable contributions of teachers unions to our schools and communities they are the guardians of education the advocates for Change and the champions of Student Success I encourage you to check

062out cta.org for a more thorough history of cta's advocacy as Taylor Swift's music inspires us to shake off the challenges we face let us also draw inspiration from the tireless efforts of teachers unions to create a brighter future for all thank you okay our next our next four speakers Ando manino if I'm saying that right Sam myovich Steve sofka and Linda Manion and I'm not sure if Ando Ando was removed oh okay thank you my name is Sam movich I'm a retired P USD educator and I am speaking in support of assembly Bill 1955 we know that lgbtqia identities and behaviors permeate the order of Nature and are thereby part of human nature we know that variants of some world religions reject the notion that lgbtqia individuals are part of the natural order we know

063that there are parents who for religious or other reasons are unwilling to accept or even love a child who identifies or behaves as transgender or non-binary we know that many transgender and non-binary youth feel their homes are not gend affirming and that forced outing policies operating under the guise of Parental notification increase teen suicides we know that counselors in the PUSD may have to make excruciatingly difficult decisions about when and how to break the bond of trust and confidence placed in them by students when deciding whether to bring parents into a conversation about gender identity and sexual orientation we know that dishonest politicians promote the lie that there is a liberal conspiracy in the field of Education encouraging young people to question their gender identity and sexual orientation we know that this appeal to ignorance

064fear anger and hatred Can Be an Effective political tactic assembly Bill 1955 will make it more difficult for malicious School boards to play political games with the lives of non-conform of Youth that deserves the full support of people of conscience Steve good evening my name is Steve sofin I'm a 46y year resident of this District Dr chist to say that this has been an action-packed year would be a minor understatement I would guess huh but your end of year um dissertation was really important because in the activity of going on and doing all of these things a lot of times we we don't really get the impact of all that's been ACC lished until it's all stopped and we look at it in its entirety it's amazing what's been accomplished here this year I'm not

065going to be redundant go through all of it again but I do want to point out the two crown jewels ocscs and USI I I'm I'm amazed at these things and I can't wait to see the results of them in action next year to you members of the board Mrs blades Mr Frasier Mr Youngblood who have steadfast flyy supported the superintendent and these programs incurring the slings and arrows often from Anonymous sources kudos to you thank you for standing so steadfastly to those of you members who chose to get in the way and do all you could to block these student first accomplishments shame on you you now bear pun intended the burden of trying to explain yourself to a community that is obviously overwhelmingly in support of them it is great to see this

066District vividly showing again what a top-notch quality education system could look like I don't want to cut your summer short but I can't wait till next year thanks so much thank you Linda [Music] Manion Linda Manion thank you for the budget update um as an apple president my most important role is to advocate for our students and our Educators as my Apple team meets regularly with the district there are many obstacles to overcome we advocate for more funding for classroom teachers on the average according to our survey elementary teachers receive only about $10 per student to fund their entire class for the year for a class of 30 this equal equals $300 to purchase all supplies needed every teacher spends hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars of their own money for their classroom enrichment activities

067to enhance their classroom instruction we advocate for lower class sizes and additional support for special education special ed teachers are faced with ever increasing class sizes with hundreds of additional hours of reports to prepair and share at IEP meetings on their own time they take this on and continue to make it work because of their love for their students but it greatly impacts their families we advocate for reduction in excessive testing of students so that teachers can maximize their time for student instruction excessive testing reduces time for infective instruction and causes testing burnout in students we advocate for programs and instructional materials for our teachers Martin Luther King said our lives begin to end when we remain silent about things that matter these things matter and we will not remain silent thank you thank you

068Dave Peterson paa Powers Misty jansson and D Lawrence rler Dave I believe you're first hearing on with it might be my mic I feel like it's not on gotcha yeah it's low can you can we turn it up we good okay uh my first item is number 18.1 with the the extension of the contract for our PR superintendent um the idea is it's a four-year extension my thought on the matter is that perhaps a motion could come from the board uh to modify that to a two-year extension going to be have an election and things could change and that would give an opportunity for the new board to you know see how that a fit and uh if it's not then there's only like a a short time period perod if there is a change

069in the contractors for 4 years then the superintendent will receive his pay for four years at $400,000 a year which you know would be approximately 1.2 million that would otherwise be in the operational budget so something for consideration I'm a financial conservative and it seems like an appropriate way to work he was Dr CH has been here for the year go to a one-year extension I mean a two-year design and then a 4-year after that uh the second part is I figured out how to grow our district we need to have babies it's pretty simple uh placenta and your Belinda need more babies and the this the city has a requirement of adding more housing units within it uh and I think Placentia is already working on that too I think a joint venture between

070the school district in the city to become a familyfriendly uh area would help to bring the new people thank you thank you call po sorry I'm out on that one I can't help having more babies um my husband and I wanted to express our sincere gratitude to the staff at y Belinda middle school for taking great care of our son thank you Mr Kim for taking the time to build relationships with the kids in your care we're so sad to hear that you'll be leaving why why LMS because we loved your energy and witnessed you putting kids first every day you are respected by not only the Bobcats on campus but by numerous teachers on staff and countless parrots at home we wish you the very best on your new Endeavor and hope you keep

071in touch so we can meet your little bundle of joy that's coming this summer my husband and I also want to extend a thank you to Mr Lewis for being an amazing teacher and role model our son learned so much about history and we hope our district will be able to find a place for you we were heartbroken to hear that Mr lebel and Mr Fenton won't be coming back either ylm's music program is amazing because of their hard work and dedication their future students are lucky to have passionate teachers who will continue inspiring a love of Music in the hearts of the kids they teach great teachers are one in a million and P has the best our kids have been blessed with committed Educators who have gone the extra mile to make sure

072they they succeed thank you to each and every one of you that poured your hearts into our son and daughter We Are Forever grateful thank you good evening president blades board trustees Dr chis and executive members I'm Misty Jansen and I'm here to express my deep concern regarding the mismanagement of personnel and the fiscal irresponsibility displayed by the board majority as of late as a concerned member of this community I find it unacceptable that such irresponsibility is allowed to persist without recourse it undermines the Integrity of our district and it casts doubt on your ability to manage our schools on behalf of the families in this District we're asking you to be wise enough to seek counsel when you've made decisions outside of your scope and that are not in the best interest of our

073students and our district please please pause to recalibrate and ensure that your mission is aligned with those you've promised to serve except maybe that's exactly what you're doing I guess the question is who have you promised to serve I'll save the toilet papering advice for another day and instead conclude with this we want you to choose parents over politics and to choose our kids over your future political careers thank you Dave radlauer so the training lab is ineligible to do business in California because a vendor says it's an accounting error and the president of this body accepts that explanation and considers this issue cleared up in addition the USI must be exempt from DSA approval because there is a mysterious email from an unnamed thir party that says so is that the level of due

074diligence the majority of this board thinks is acceptable to the community that elected them it was represented to the public in the May board meeting that the FTB issue would be resolved in no more than two weeks it's been about six and the training lab status remains unchanged has it even occurred to the majority to ask for more details regarding why they are ineligible status and apparently have been so since 2018 I'm sorry but a Ender stating that it's a six-year accounting error defies credulity how about their IRS status is there any concern that cutting a full check to this group while the status is uncertain may cause our district funds to be levied by a state or federal agency multiple members of this community have raised compliance issues concerning the OSI and the need

075for DSA approval yet this mysterious email remains shred shielded from public scrutiny the gaslighting has got to stop the warning signs are there this Board needs to take a deep breath and do the sort of Deep dive they were elected to do please stop ignoring Community concerns stop blindly supporting projects F fraught with fiscal Peril if this project is righteous and there's truly an accounting error we might back it but as it stands shrouded in secrecy this Venture appears to be nothing more than a vanity project and a political boondoggle thank you Brian kard Barb Barbosa Andy Falco and Kathy Satchel Brian kurzbard barbar Bosa Andy Falco and Kathy Satchel who' you call first Brian I'm reading these remarks from several employees of the district uh due to their fear of retaliation in this hostile

076work environment that's been created by the superintendent and the board majority it's ironic that community that this community believes the mass departure of people in positions of leadership in our district is primarily due to alleged political ideology of the so-called majority board members it would seem that if that were the case we would expect the majority of those being demoted released or reassigned would be the most left-leaning Progressive administrators and District Personnel but somehow that tends not to be the exception I mean that seems to be the exception rather than the rule granted principles have certainly been targeted for their political ideology and yes District events have been targeted because they were somehow perceived as a threat to your political allies nevertheless to truly see the pattern and motivation you have to look Beyond politics

077and ideology what we have here is the elimination of people who challenge your unethical or illegal activities those who refuse to Simply look the other way and parrot your version of the truth leaders who dare to question your illegal or unethical practices are forced out either with the threat of losing their job being demoted embarrassed or by creating a hostile work environment until they seemingly leave on their own Barb hi there I'm Barb and I'm a teacher in the district first I want to give a big shout out to Brad BC Fitness my son is condo's program good program um but I'm here I'm here for more year reason I want to give a shout out to the seniors the class of 2024 um one tradition we Elementary School teachers love is when the graduating

078seniors come back to their elementary schools this year at Linda Vista we had a huge turnout every single one of those seniors was polite joyful and so happy to be back at their schools visit their teachers and take pictures every single those one of those students had a plan for After High School that was just right for them each one of these amazing seniors is a testament to their own strength the strength of their families and the strength of our school district since 2011 our teachers and administrators have partnered with their parents to nurture these students we have loved them from day one as we celebrate these graduates I'm going to ask that we don't be negative and fight about things but let's be positive let's work together honor the past while we look for

079the future thank you thank you Barb Andy I'm always amazed that uh people get up here and you can put a whole list of amazing things that actually happened the truth on the Whiteboard for them to see and they come up here and say what lies they are and how they were done dishonestly and how you're undermining the rule of law in the school district nothing could be further from the truth I respect you Dr Alex chernis more than anything in this world you brought more transparency to this District than I've ever witnessed in the 20 years that I've had kids here here um but um I love it when also they say that the union is an amazing place of of loving people but yet here I have social media posts from union members

080like uh and uh Advocates like Patricia Hansel that says a few School boards are attempting to weaken public schools with their nonsense policies board votes and actions white Comfort is something that is being used to justify book bands teacher gag orders and the blockage curriculum and School site programs or maybe this one sadly this just demonstrates how uneducated and illiterate the president of PUSD School Board Leander blades is of course these flyers the Flyers that they are handing out illegally to people's homes not knocking on doors putting QR codes is going to explo explo expose I'm sorry expose the horrible impact of the current board majority and in particular Leander blades and superintendent chernes or maybe this one um Ashley Abraham says uh because our school board is corrupt as all get out we have

081not seen that or maybe when your kid talking about my children are mediocre have bad grades and believe in Jesus maybe that'll put time's up one last one I just want to make sure that you see time up is that polar bear says Andy FAL menz would like to sleep with his daughter that is the school Union these are the words they all in social media than hand M now yes Kathy Satchel okay my name is Kathy Satchel I'm a 49e resident of your Belinda with 32 years of experience as a teacher eight of which are in the placenta y binda School District fear definition is an unpleasant emotion on belief that someone or something is dangerous and likely to cause pain or threat that when I started teaching here a a union member came

082and said oh you've got to join the union because these parents are going to sue you and you don't have enough money to protect yourself so on and so forth so I I did join the union and I'm very sorry I did the teachers union is not friends of our children look at what they've done during this cemic theyve let the teachers out of the classroom the children wearing masks that we find are not good for the children and so on other things that I have experienced when I was at Orchard Elementary School there was a Miss s that was teaching sixth grade the parents knew she was not doing well so I had 42 and I either might been 46 people in my classroom that were transferred to my class because the parents knew

083she was not doing her job this also has happened to someone else that I taught next door who taught current events constantly with a snake in his room and when he they came to my classroom to see to do social studies it took me 30 minutes to get them down from the ceiling so I could teach them thank you Kathy thank you our next four speakers are Shanny Murray John quacken Bush Maria leita stubs and Lupe Shanny you'll be first hi my name is Shanny Murray at the February board meeting during public comment I said quote I'm becoming increasingly concerned about the high turnover rate we're seeing in P unquote at the time I was shocked to learn that yet another administrator Shelley spard had left and rumors were circulating about my Eldorado principal Joey

084Davis Leandra brushed aside my concerns saying people had been bamed Boozled by misinformation and fear-mongering on social media yet here we are in June and it seems my fears were quite valid four out of five High School principles are gone including Mr Davis I believe more than 20 administrators have left in the last year or so it's safe to conclude that I wasn't being Bamboozled at least not by social media so I want to State here for the record that I don't appreciate being Gass about the tremendous loss for our schools and our students it is truly disheartening to see such a lack of appreciation for what these esteemed Educators have given to the P Community thank you thank you John thank you trustees and superintendent uh a couple of things I guess I'll start

085out with um since we've had a lot of stuff Anderson thank you for what you're doing um I appreciate listening uh I appreciate board members that listen to their constituents and listen and take it to heart and then make the decision rather than it being a political um ideology um I uh sorry also um on the uh I guess it's 181 um I ask that you vote no right now uh we're in a situation we do gentleman said we have voting coming up we might have a new board if we don't have a new board there's next year and you can always add two years then uh let's see some numbers more numbers come in on what's happening these these things a lot of these things the communication to me has been what it's been

086before and then added on just throw it down your throat kind of thing um U best way I can say so sometime without that community questionnaires in the past we've had questionnaires about things um uh couple of things um couple of Rec rhetorical questions that I know can't be answered it would be nice if paragraph 14 and 15 about the termination policy could be read so we understand if he does get the extension what if make sure we're not in for a huge financial um issue and also um uh I was going to talk about the milk and honey thank you Maria well good evening everyone super inter Dr chernes executive cabinet graduate member um trustees president blades my name is Maria Lupita STS I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you for

087obtaining the $200,000 State pathway grant for the Universal Sports Institute I encourage the district to continue going after grants and further bring Innovation programs or Innovative programs that entice the community such as the one you're mentioning another 500k as it pertains to the USI I would like to share the reality of the positive impact this program will bu bring um to the families um in our district let's take the example of a family in my area area two this is a family of a single mother of two children working two jobs one of them who has unfortunately been deeply and negatively affected by the covid lockdowns this student dreams he can be an athlete that he can play sports he knows money is tight and on top of that he has been discouraged before to

088pursue athletism as he does not yet possesses the skills as the USI opens up this coming school year this student is thrilled to be able to ride the school bus come into the USI after school hours and become the athlete he has been dreaming of and his mom does not have to worry about how to finance that this is what we call putting kids first I would also like to inquire about the 22 million um on the capital bonds can we please um have an update the community's concern can we revisit the topic we're going to be paying 280 million in the upcoming decades thank you Lupe uh I I want to First say thank you for letting me have the time to come and speak to you up in the front I'm a little

089nervous I'm a little excited and thank you uh Dr ches for doing your diligent job in removing books and stuff that are not uh professional in an education you know uh my standpoint as a parent you know none of the other schools have done their job in doing what you did so I applaud you for that and a lot of people hold a job and a title and they fail to do so so congrats to doing something that nobody has done before so thank you for that um I uh come I come to support Brad and he is um from the PC adapted fitness program and I want to share with you a little bit about um how my daughter became part of his uh program she graduated uh from Valencia back in June of

090of 20 222 and um Jasmine is autistic she will be turning 21 tomorrow and she's been in his program for six months uh my daughter's own word she has said it has helped her to stay more focused and I have seen some change physically and as well as her posture I do believe that Brad will be a great fit to uccii and um he has an amazing um way of working with the students with special needs so please give them that opportunity thank you thank you so much thank you okay we're going to move on to our action items with um ed services I need a motion please 16.1 I'll make the motion to adopt the local control and accountability plan lcap and federal uh addendum for the 2024 2025 fiscal year second I have

091a motion by Mr Young Blood and I have a second by Mr Frasier Dr Young thank you good evening president blades Board of Trustees Dr chernes executive cabinet and members of the community it is my pleasure to present to you this evening clena yor Belinda's local indicators as measured by the State Board of education's approved standards within each priority area California's accountability system is based on eight State priorities in order to measure each of these priorities the state has established both state measures and local indicators local indicators are the measures for some of the state priorities that are not collected and reported by the state the chart before you summarizes the state's eight priorities and shows the breakdown between what is measured by the state versus those that are measured by each district we are

092required to report our progress on five local indicators referred to as priorities Priority One which focuses on basic Services priority two which focuses on the implementation of the California state standards priority three which focuses on parent engagement priority six which focuses on school climate and measures student perceptions of Engagement and safety and priority seven which focuses on course access which measure student access to and enrollment in a broad course of study the information collected can be based on either qualitative or quantitative data and we use local surveys in-house reports State reflective tools and self assessments first we have Priority One which focuses on basic Services specifically appropriately assigned teachers access to curriculum aligned materials and clean and functional school facilities the results for the human resources report reported zero teacher misassignments and zero vacant teacher

093positions the Williams compliance report showed that all students have access to curriculum aligned materials and the overall rating from the facilities inspections tool which are fit reports indicated that all school facilities receed the highest rating of good next is priority two which focuses on the implementation of State Standards a self-analysis tool coupled with stakeholder survey data were used to quantify the progress in the implementation of State Standards the self-analysis tool is aligned to a rubric that contains the five metrics shown on the screen ranging from stage one research and investigation to stage five full implementation and sustainability the educational services staff has evaluated each content area in detail and reports full implementation for all subjects with curriculum and professional development offered in all areas in order to provide an additional metric to quantify progress for

094this local indicator we use our stakeholder survey data results reported by responding teachers parents support staff and students indicate satisfaction when responding to the questions pertaining to the communication of Standards High academic expectations for students effective classroom instruction as well we firmly believe that these favorable results are directly related to the priority that we place on seeking ongoing and frequent input from our educational Partners as a ways of ensuring that we continue to improve in these areas and now Mrs Gray will share about priorities three and six next are the results for priority three which focuses on Parental engagement to quantify progress the state requires us to use specific prompts to measure parental engagement thus we have embedded these prompts into our annual survey in order to rate our outcomes we created a crosswalk to

095correspond to the scale of the state self-reflection rating of a score from 1 to 5 five being the highest rating on the state's fivepoint scale survey responses showed in the areas involving building relationships building Partnerships for student outcomes and seeking input for decisionmaking the rating was a five out of five priority six focuses on school climate and ask asks us to measure student perceptions of school safety and connectedness again for this measure we utilized our student survey data to collect responses for three different different prompts on the annual survey from students in grades 5 8 and 10 and we also asked the same three questions of our 12th graders in the senior survey in the area of safety statistics were 83% at the fifth grade 71% at the 8th grade 73% at the 10th grade

096and 76% at the 12th grade responded positively to I feel safe in order to measure student belongingness students were asked if they feel they belong at their school 79% of fifth grade students 72% of 8th grade students 71% of 10th grade students and 68% of 12th grade students responded positively finally when students were asked if teachers and other adults care about me 87% of fifth grade students 75% of 8th grade students 70% of 10th grade students and 78% of 12th grade students responded positively site leaders also have access to the same data at the school site level allowing them to better identify their own students are areas of highest need pertaining to school climate for each of their campuses in order to plan for next year this will be an area of focus of the

097students Support Services Department as well and finally the last local indicator is for priority 7 which measures course access we are required to use our own measures to track the extent to which all students have access to and are enrolled in a broad course of study based on grade spans unduplicated student groups which includes our English Learners low-income students and Foster youth as well as individuals with exceptional needs starting at the elementary level we are pleased to report that all students receive a broad course of study including all of the six listed content areas with increased access to our Visual and Performing Arts this year through the Arts and Music funding for students in grades 7 through 12 a broad course of study includes courses in English social sciences World languages physical education science math

098matics Visual and Performing Arts applied arts and Career Technical education to analyze access for our secondary students we pulled enrollment and completion data in a broad range of classes among all significant student groups over the past two years results for the past two years show that we are increasing access and support for our unduplicated students in a tog course offer offerings that a gap still exists as such we will continue to engage and enhance planned actions to mitigate this concern some of the planned actions to address this need and are part of our lcap include continuing to implement our targeted Intervention Program both during and outside of the school day on each campus to enhance academic success in all core subjects a dist focus on first best instructional strategies and differentiation in the classroom to

099meet the needs of all of our students ensuring that cultures of College and Career Readiness are pervasive at all high schools continuing to refine the pl C practice and process to ensure student progress is consistently measured discussed and supported across all Sites focusing on algebra Readiness for freshmen who are entering high school and expanding our a tog offerings across all high schools including at El Camino as a result of measuring this data reporting the results to you and uploading the results to the California dashboard by July 1st which we have already done we have successfully met the local indicators requirements we thank you for your time this evening and would like to open up to any questions or feedback looks good I would like to thank you for um providing the opportunity for Mrs Anderson

100and I to come in and finish the last set of um of areas that we didn't get a chance to during our lcap presentation for the board so I appreciate that of course our pleasure yeah I was just going to um also bring that up and also um I'm really appreciative of the extra Matrix that are built in through the thing through the lcap because it makes it easier for us to have accurate data next year when we're evaluating everything so thank you to you and your team for all the hard work they've done on that um um and I also um would love to highlight um adding the extra um goals and things for bringing the CTA program initiatives more present to our parents thank you for adding that additional in there from our

101feedback and one last thing I noticed um the one thing I'm that we missing um that was brought up and I know it's um not going to happen this year so I'm not saying for this year and I'm not even recommending it but I really want us to look into the future as more kids go graduate in the Dual language program that there's more variety of offerings in the high school for them you know so that they can earn certifications and I know that it's been kind of problematic that there might not be ready for that yet um because of the pandemic and and we're changing our models but but I would love us to keep that focused so that these students are um placed well when they graduate and and being trained in certain

102things and somehow always keep that in our mind to work on it so thank you real quick Dr Young I just want to thank you and your team for U breaking it down making it simplistic uh easy enough for someone like me to understand so thank you again yeah of course and it's a team effort with all the Departments and especially the business department for all their help with the LC yeah the numbers would be uh possibly wrong if the business PR wasn't involved right um yeah a lot of work I like the new format I like the I like the Matrix because like you said it's it's really great to be able to just go through and you can compare and we can contrast for next year so um a lot of work great

103job looking forward to it Gary it's true you did the lcaps at OC Department of Education correct you had a a big part of that that I don't know if I'm going to claim credit for that but yes I I did elcap reviews with the county yes so I just I think everyone because we did do it differently this year but I think it was super effective and you know at first I think there was a little bit of a freak out about you know the change and stuff but I think it be did become more efficient I would just like to thank our team also because it looks like we are everything this year was positive um we improved in so many areas and um it's all do the hard work of our teachers

104and our staff and everybody working together so much appreciative we also saved $75,000 by doing it oursel and not hiring a consultant to assist with it yeah so we did save money so all all good nothing uh nothing but positives all right are we ready to vote okay um you have yep okay um all those in favor I I I and I'm an i the motion carries five Z with an I from our graduated board member could I could I pause just for a second um Emily needs to take a test tonight for college and so I told her she that she could leave any time but she wanted to make sure that she had the opportunity to say thank you and goodbye so thank you for being here Emily we really will miss you

105thank you keep in touch good luck Emily she's ready yeah all right can I have a motion please for 16.2 I'll make a motion to adopt a local control and accountability plan for the Orange County School of computer science for the 2425 fiscal year I'll second I have a motion by Mr Fraser have a second by Mrs Anderson is there any discussion on this or we going straight to a vote all right anything else to add anybody have anything Perfect all right all those in favor I and I an I motion carries 5 Z can I have a motion for 17.1 I'll make sorry I'll make a motion we adopt resolution 23.2 23-28 to approve the education protection account for the 2425 fiscal year second I have a motion by Mrs Buck I have a

106second by Mr Young Blood and Mr Stein thank you very much uh good evening president blades board trustees superintendent Dr chernes executive cabinet family friends staff members and community members um the so item 17.1 the education protection account was created with prop by proposition 30 approved by voters in November of 2012 uh proposition 30 imposed incremental taxes which were uh dispersed from the state general fund in order to offset the state's contribution from uh to prop 98 so really it's a kind of trading funds between prop 98 and the EPA account in November of 2016 voters approved uh prop 55 which extended the taxes through 2030 so we'll have this through 2030 uh the revenues that are that are generated are accounted for in what is called the education protection account or the EPA each

107year districts are required to determine how much the funds will be how much of those funds will be received and how they will be spent and then there's restrictions on that for 2425 staff is estimating that we will receive approximately $4.6 million from the state's EPA account and all of these funds will be spent on classroom teacher salaries we are recommending that the board adopt resolution 23-28 as included in the agenda thank you do we have any comments sounds like a good place to spend money will you um repeat the dollar amount 4.6 million thank you rounded okay if if everything looks good I'm thinking we're ready to vote yep all right all those in favor all right and I an I motion carries 5 can I have a motion for 17.2 I'll make go

108ahead go ahead you sure yep okay I'll make a motion to approve the 2024 2025 adopted budget I'll second I have a motion by Mrs Anderson I have a second by Mr Frasier and I'm G to go back to you Gary thank you again it's it's easier for me to stand up when I present so I I traded places on you um there are a lot of slides so I apologize for the length of this present ation tonight uh there's some of them that are in there for information so I might skip over those so that we're not uh I don't keep here too long so thank you again uh for for um having me speak um tonight we're going to go over our 2425 adopted budget uh the report is based on the latest

109financial information that we have available and the assumptions that we have available uh and it also contains our estimated actual sorry estimated expenditures for the current 2324 school year our topics for tonight we're going to talk about the state's fiscal Outlook we're going to talk about the proposal from the governor and as May Revis as well as a legislative plan our budget assumptions and considerations we're changing the format a little bit tonight so that we can talk about the enrollment uh that Dr chernes mentioned and also some of our Ada or our attendance uh rates that we're seeing as well and why that looks a little different this year as we prepare our 2425 budget we'll talk about our multi-year projection and budget challenges um as well so the state fiscal Outlook um according to

110the UCLA Anderson forecast this came out a week or so ago um the US economy is is slow right we're not in a decline we're not in a recession we are slowly growing um but it is slower than what we would like to see California in 2024 is uh actually growing slower than the rest of the nation and um but UCLA predicts that in 20 uh 2025 and 2026 California will actually grow faster than the rest of the US so we're looking forward to that the good news in the report really has to do with stabilization when we talk about inflation I know we all feel it I know that we all experience that every day um but it is uh going it's growing at a level that's stagnant so we're at about 2.2 to

1113% inflation and it's hovering in that area employment seems to hover around I'm sorry unemployment seems to hover around normal for California which is good and then the federal funds rates are are stabilizing as well so we're not expecting any huge increases or decreases all of that bodess well for the stock market um which is what a lot of California's income is based on we get that from people who sell um sell their stocks and have capital gains but that doesn't happen when the market is just keeps going right so we're not experiencing that right now the risks that are out there are you know them all right we have wars that are going on outside the US we have trade issues uh that we're discussing and then we also have in California the unique

112uh uh challenge of housing availability and affordability here in this area so I'm going to this just shows that stabilization on the far right and I'm going to skip this just because I I saved some time but it just shows you the stability between 202 2023 and 2024 that those rates and everything are are leveling off and they're hovering in that same area again stability is good when it comes to the economy so the May Revis there wasn't a lot of good news for school districts in the May Revis um and a lot of that has to do with the fact that um we have a budget shortfall of $45 billion and I'll show you the graph uh the next slide about that uh and this all ties back to when we delayed our tax

113receipts from from April all the way to to October and the state built a budget based on what it assumed it was going to get and what's happening we're still living with that because we have a budget shortfall from that as a result of the budget shortfall uh the governor proposed some some adjustments proposed what's called a prop position 98 maneuver I'm not going to get it too much into that because that was um Changed by by the efforts uh in the legislature to suspend prop 98 we'll talk a little bit about that um but so and we'll get into the details but we're trying to operate schools at a when funding is really kind of flat I'll say and so we have a low lcff Cola um and then the state is also proposing

114programs that are are going to be reduced delays and funding deferrals until the next year and those kind of things all of that package is what the state's using to balance the budget when we talk about a revenue shortfall this graph uh really highlights that so when you look at the uh 2021-22 year and then you look at 22 23 you see that $45 billion drop and that happened because of that again that delay in taxes and we assumed that that upward momentum we were seeing in 2020 was going to continue it didn't and so now we have a a huge revenue shortfall for that Year and sorry I should have mentioned the big three revenues are personal income tax corporate tax and sales and use tax those are the big three that fund uh

115the state I'm going to going to skip over this one because it gets into the minutia prop 98 I'll talk a little bit about the suspension in a second so statutory Cola let's talk about this for a second um when we met a year ago uh and the state had committed to or at least I'd say proposed a statutory Cola for the coming year of 3.94% um what has uh We've landed at is 1.07 okay that is a huge decrease that that the district is going to have to absorb and that drop of 2.87% alone is about $8 million in funding that we will not receive next year so it's a it's a huge drop that we're saying there the governor and the legislature are working uh to create a plan by way um that

116well and all the major points are here but the goal of this plan which we should be grateful for is to really avoid um creating a situation for public schools where they have to start taking money away so what the all in all of this proposal and suspending prop 98 what it does is it allows the state to balance the budget over a two-year period by withdrawing everything or nearly everything out of the rainy day Reserve that they've been building for the last several years in order to backfill what was lost and and balance the budget over a two-year period so that's where we're at uh statewise um that's why they can't afford to fund a h High Cola um and then I there's some programs on here that will be eliminated or delayed um

117most of those programs the last two placent your balla does not qualify for anyway based on our our demographics so it's just how they're using uh the F State funds to to back them um let's see suspending prop 98 I just want to touch on that just for a second what that means is that they're suspending it for last year or the current year 2023 24 what that does is it takes the year prior and makes that the base of how they're going to be measuring the state's progress in future years so it sets that as our funding level and then it creates an environment where now the state's going to fund us at a lower level this year and it creates what's called a um a maintenance factor a maintenance Factor what that means

118it's it's a state IOU right it's a it's a loan that there's making to themselves or making I guess we're making to them to say that they will pay us back at some point that's what happens when you when you suspend proposition 98 what I'll tell you is and and and I can hear the smirks even though they don't make noise but the state actually we've had this before this is not an uncommon thing we've had the maintenance factor and the state does pay it back I can't tell you when but it does get paid back over time because it's it's built into law it's built into our constitution so real and I'm going to try to make this as quick as possible and I I'm GNA apologize ahead of time but budget assumptions and

119considerations you're going to see this slide a couple more times um this is what some of the assumptions we use when we build our budget um and I highlighted in green our enrollment and in blue our attendance rates of what we're assuming for this year's budget that we're building out the enrollment that you're seeing we still build in a 400 student loss every year and the reason for that is because uh budgeting is a perfectly imperfect science in that we have to use what we've got the data what we've experienced up to this point to build the budget that's how you build a conservative budget so that if anything better happens great right it's it works out great for the district if we budgeted uh the opposite way and things didn't happen it could create

120problems the same thing with attendance rate the 94% if you remember what you saw which none of you probably remember the presentation from March but um the attendance rate we were assuming back then was 93 and a. half% we had a conversation about what 1% attendance Improvement means and um I and so we've actually bumped that up a little bit and I'll tell you why so when we talk about enrollment this is our past practice or our pattern since 201617 we lost about 400 students a year what you'll notice is what's in blue down at the bottom is a potential increase compared to 2324 and I'm going to show you the numbers of of why that is and why we're we we're considering that we usually usually you lose 400 students or around 400 students

121this current year we lost 289 which is great I mean it's terrible but it's great as well it's less than than what we had planned but what I'm going to show you next uh kind of helps uh explain why we're in this situation where we need to really watch our enrollment because we feel like there's a changing Trend when we look we monitor enrollment all year long okay when we look at the data that we've been seeing this year but I'm taking you back to a couple of weeks ago in June 5th you look at our current enrollment 22576 and then you look at what our feeder pattern enrollment is it's just a couple hundred students off okay that's not usually the case Okay usually we're we're quite a bit further away um that has

122since gone up but what this factors in is all of our 12th graders leaving it includes everybody Shifting the grade moving up and these are uh students that have enrolled in our district okay these are students we who have said yes we're coming to the district the next line You'll see is it just says uh typical enrollment between June and August we have a huge amount of our population that does not enroll until the end of the summer and every year we get about 800 to 900 students that enroll between June and August and so we're expecting that do they all show up no they don't but a good portion of them do and they and they are are are um become our regular enrollment that and they show up every day so we have

123those students coming on top of that we have uh our preschool students who are aging out to where they are eligible for TK for transitional kindergarten we have around 300 or a little over 300 students who are en eligible for transitional kindergarten but who have not enrolled yet our statistics for that from the last few years is about 80 to 85% of those students will enroll that's where the 180 to 190 additional students are going to come from is that and we're expecting those students we just don't count them because they haven't enrolled yet right what that don't count your chickens before they're hatched this is what it's about so we have a lot of additional enrollments still coming to the district that we're anticipating between now in the beginning of the school year that's

124why our enrollment Trends are changing a little bit which is why you'll hear us talk a lot about that I'm not counting I'm the numbers guy I'm not going to count on that until they're here right but it looks like it's different this year and what I'll tell you is around the county it is different this year but it's it's we're seeing a bigger Trend here this takes you back to the last presentation like I mentioned 93 and a half% we bumped that up to 94 but I want to show you what we actually saw so when we finalize all of the reports and all of the data for 2324 we hit 94.9% attendance that's fantastic compared to what we've seen in the years past is it's absolutely far below our historical Norm for this

125District right especially on our elementaries you're talking more like high 96 97% our high schools and and middle schools are a little bit lower that's that's to be expected but 94.9 five means we're making progress we're still not going to assume 94.9 five next year we're going to assume 94 right to be conservative but we're hoping that we will go beyond this and so whatever you're doing keep doing it keep sending the kids to school it's working so I'm going to skip over this because we talked about the the cola that's really the only change since second interum is the cola they were giving us 76 and we're going to get 1.07 instead but I'm circling back to our assumptions so these are our final assumptions that we use to build to build our our

126budget and so again you'll see the 94% % you're also going to see 400 student loss every year so when we get to the number slide and you see that there there's a lot of red a lot of that has to do with the fact that we lost $8 million in state funding and we're still assuming that we're losing 400 students okay so when we get to our multi-year projection which is the next slide this is what you're going to see so we're expecting to end the year $3.2 million uh in Surplus which is good and that really came from a lot of payments that we were expecting to make that did not come yet so they are going to be made next year and so we we buil that into the Assumption the um

127you'll see we're expecting a deficit spending of $9.6 million again based on the fact that we have not increased our enrollment projections in there or our attendance those two factors alone could could make that not negative right so we are hoping to bring back or we will bring back obviously the budget as we get to the first inum and we're we expect to see that number change significantly our ending fund balance uh for the coming year is going to be uh $59 million 59.6 million this gives you the breakdown of where that's going um we still maintain a a 10% reserve for contingencies and for economic uncertainty um even with three years of projected deficits we still meet all of our reserve requirements for the state which means we are we are able to absorb

128this um I forgot to mention that with deficit spending you know you do that on I won't say on purpose but you do it when the school district is uh seeing a huge decrease in funding or and you do that also to make sure that you don't impact student programs right away that's why you deficit spend that's what we're doing here is making sure that we keep we have take our time to make sure that we're doing the right thing over the next year so that's the ending fund balance um as promised we've got our the rest of the funds Mr Stein can I stop here um this is also important for the board to see and the community to see that um these two slides represent um funds that were prior prior years never

129presented in a Public Presentation to the community or the board these are all funds not just the general fund this is makes up over $40 million of other funds the district has so when we talk about fiscal transparency this is fiscal transparency having conversations about our Child Development Fund our cafeteria fund our deferred maintenance fund our facilities funds none of this happened in public um during any of these budget presentations even though they were called all funds budget presentation so Mr Stein I appreciate this um this is what we need to do at every budget presentation is talk about all the funds the district has and so that's what we're doing today and that's what we'll continue to do I just want to clarify just you keep saying that but that's not true 2012 I

130have this one yes those are those are the saxs forms that's not what I all funds budgets that's that's not what I said present what I said was none of the presentations to the community and the board as we're watching now this is called a budget presentation none of those ever had all funds they all had all funds and we don't have a recording of it so you can't actually prove that that's not the case I can because on our website the PowerPoint presentations titled all funds never had all funds in them and I will send them all to you so you're assuming but these here all of them show we've had all funds budget I have seen them every year I'm not arguing that all funds are presented to the state what I'm saying

131is which is factual and true is that PowerPoint presentations by the business department to the board in the Last 5 Years never had all funds not true and I will provide those to the board to prove it just it all right those aren't PowerPoint presentations those aren't presentations about the those are not presentations those are sa forms uploaded budget is not true we've had it all this time the saxs forms uploaded to the state you're talking about the 250 page forms in that book have always been attached that is correct they have never been presented to the board of the community in public no no Public Presentation like this in the last 5 years has had all funds like this since the history of the district and now it's 5 years it's not true years

132worth of PowerPoint presentations on all budgets never had these funds on I'm I'm just cons I'm just confused then then why did we have to have a special board meeting to talk about the $43 million that we didn't know about if it had been presented and we knew where the money was it never was present it was presented it was presented since I've been here and the special board meeting we had was to come up with a 5-year plan to spend the money that we didn't know we had which is actually since changed yeah and we had a budet because we've we've changed it completely we had a budget study session to review all funds because all funds have never been presented in a presentation every at every budget interval the district has presented a

133presentation like this for the last 5 years they were titled all funds budget presentations none of them had all of these funds I think we can agree to disagree on this and we should move on [Applause] agreed it it's factual and I'll provide it to the board let's move on please 2425 adopted budget uh other District funds this shows you the the projections for I'm sorry excuse me who's who's talking keep going Mr Stein so the um this is what we're projecting for 2425 uh you'll notice there's significant differences in some of the funds like the County Schools fund which the majority of that is being used for the Eldorado lights um so that'll be spent uh before next year and uh you'll see other changes there as well um there was something pointed out

134in a in a previous session about or board meeting about the cafeteria fund being um having a high-end balance I one of the reasons or there's a few reasons for that number one is that the state's funding for our school lunch program has always been a little fickle and so they have at times uh not funded these lunch program and so we always strive to to maintain at least six months of of operating Revenue in there which is about six and a half to $7 million that allows us to continue feeding kids if the state uh ran out of money and couldn't fund that program on top of that there there's other um you know we have a lot of equipment replacement that we need to do at school sites that are planned and then

135we also have uh we're saving money for our potential larger projects such as kitchens and remodels those kind of things so um just wanted to make sure ask you a quick question about that sure um the kitchen fund um in in this you're you mentioned that it's going to come the kitchen at Valenta some of it will be coming out of the cafeteria Fund in the last or in a previous budget we had it was all coming out of um developer fees has that changed it would have still come out of this F fund either way so what the what cafeteria funds can't do is fund the building everything inside of that building can be can be paid for at a cafeteria funds and so that's either way we would have been using a chunk

136of this uh cafeteria fund to to uh populate you know equip the building okay okay and then so budget challenges um not a lot has changed on this other than we have a changing enrollment Trends usually I I talk to you about declining enrollment Trends now I have changing enrollment Trends because change like I told you before stability is great right even if you can count there things you can count on enrollment is is is changing and so we're really watching that we will obviously bring back as much information as we can to the board uh and the public um as we move forward last but not least I want to talk about our onetime fund so I know that this slide just calls out covid relief funding but it this actually includes all all

137of our one-time funds that uh we are that we have and we have Staffing attached to it and so as we as that funding starts uh ending uh we need to figure out how we're going to adjust and so as of September of this year all of the eser money which is the covid-19 the federal co9 money all needs to be spent by September 30th of this year meaning of 2024 and so that's going to require us and we've already made some adjustments uh to Staffing to to accommodate for that that which is why you'll see FTE changes between the two and so uh we just need to watch this because this is an area where districts get into trouble because um you know we have staff members attached to one type funds so finally

138the budget timeline um the state actually did pass their budgets before the June 15th deadline um it still hasn't been approved by the the governor so that's still there's still some negotiation going on we're meeting here tonight uh by June 30th the governor will approve a fin fin state budget and then uh we will be incorporating any changes if there are major shifts meaning a material change in budget between now and when the governor signs we would be back in 45 days to give you a a revise of our budget I can tell you based on and you saw with the slide about the the projected revenues the state is not going to have money to be able to do anything significant beyond what they're doing and so I don't anticipate that we'll have any

139major shifts in the funding um and so because of that we'll be back with estimated actuals in October and then we'll be back with our first interim in uh December and that so before I finish I just want to make sure that I thank my team who are amazing um the business services team for their amazing work this this year I'm blessed to have such a great team thank you for them by the way they're a great team but uh they did a lot of hard work uh diligent work building the budget building the presentation uh they gifted people really thankful for them and um thank you for your patience for this really really long presentation this is the longest one yet since I've been here in a year so uh I want to thank

140you for that and then ask if there's any [Applause] questions I actually I just wanted to clarify because we've received um some emails that we had um I know that we haven't laid off any teachers but we did have Staffing that was under the temp status and so since it was used under that onetime money that's the explanation as to why a week or two ago there were some slips that were sent out and the reason we got some emails um it was because it was used for the onetime fund and so those employees did know that they were there was going to be an end end to this correct so it wasn't surprised because of the one time money it's it's because of that and it's also because honestly the district has over the

141years not really adjusted um as as we we've had a lot of one-time money so yes you're right but it's been kind of a trickling off effect of of multiple years of one-time funding that's been used to kind of keep the budget of flat and so that that's what you're saying so first of all a lot of work this this is very uh in-depth and it's good um I appreciate how you used air quotes when you talked about State revenues because it's taxes did I do that yeah you did it's great I love it it wasn't on purpose um the one question I have well a couple different questions but first one with on the enrollment numbers the difference between the 2324 and the 2425 feeder pattern enrollment that's like a 400 around 396 that

142is the net difference between all of the graduates we had and then the kids moving up correct yes and everybody enrolled to this point yeah yeah and then we're saying that they're typically is between 8 and 900 more towards the end of the summer and then uh Young kids that aren't involved yet so we really have a a big potential well I'm not going to say that it's real I'm just say people enrolling don't show up right so we we need to keep that in mind but but it is understand it's not it's not like 100% don't show up it's a good still a good chunk so we are budgeting the loss but this could be a game Cher for us yeah especially when we're talking about the tune to 15 to $20,000 a kid

143depending yeah on how we average um you know 400 kids we're talking about six seven more million dollars on going a year M um if we just hit even not even go up but just not lose 400 kids yeah and just stay flat so this is a game changer and this is honestly why we are doing so many things we're trying to do to attract families absolutely yeah that was that that helps clarify I just want to make sure I understood that right so okay I went through the budget and um I have a couple questions um one on page 19 um there's budget highlights for programs and it says here outdoor education we've only budgeted looks like 227,000 but out of our Arts music constructional block grant we have budgeted and what we approved

144was 400,000 so I'm trying to I keep asking you know like how much did we spend because parents paid a lot of money to go to camp and we only subsidized um a small portion of those students so are we trying to help everybody or are we just helping certain students want to jump in help me that yeah I that's one of the questions that came in today so yeah yeah yeah absolutely we are still encouraging our schools and families to fund raise and provide funding for camp where possible because these are onetime funds that will expire in a few years and so we are providing supplemental funding for any family who cannot so that they can attend the outdoor Science school and and I know that that that money will expire but I'm just

145like you know let's help the families now since we have the $400,000 budgeted per year let's use it and even if we're just subsidizing everybody a little bit and then others you know that can't afford it um larger amounts but um before this money is let's spend this money on the kids if we if we budgeted 400,000 for this this year on on science camp then we should spend 400,000 on science camp this year if and you know this does not accurate this budget doesn't accurately reflect how much we approved for next year and and the and then the following year is also 400,000 so I just want to make sure we're spending our dollars that we budgeted on the kids as appropriate understood so um I'm not sure how we fix this but I

146would love to see that this adjusted to 400,000 is there a need higher than what we've budgeted because it's based on it dep from the understanding is that we pay from the parents no I understand that part yeah we get we get that yeah but if we're I mean if every sixth grader got a $100 off you know but what about the sixth grader that needs more than well that's what I'm saying you you I think this was I we should spend it on the kids this was the first year that we provided um science camp to everybody so I think this was kind of like our pilot year like how how is this all going to come out and how is this all going to you know so I think this discussion is good

147because this was kind of like our pilot year and then now like moving forward we'll know how to better budget the money right that's absolutely correct because it was it's impossible to guess how many students were going to participate each year but we do know the average cost per student and we did know the amount of students that would be coming out of our more impacted schools where they would be unable to fund and that's how we arrived at the 400,000 but that is why we couldn't say across the board we're going to Discount outdoor Science school we needed to see what the actuals are which will be in August from the business department I think your comment Gary of uh perfect budgets are perfectly imperfect which is exactly an example of this because I

148agree all kids should be able to go to science camp and we don't know what that exact need is so if we need to go over that number we should be able to facilitate that but at this point it seems like based on the first year of doing this we won't need to do that is that what we're understanding right I think that's fair yeah we don't know yet you know come come the fall we'll know how many six graders we have right and so right now we're we're guessing and so um but we'll have a better number in the fall yeah I've just seen a lot of um gifts gifts received for a lot of outdoor science camp and um I just want to make sure we're helping all the families I mean some

149families obviously need more help and other families so can we adjust this back up to the 400,000 should we wait till August it's a it's an estimate and I think I think if all of us agree that if we need to spend more money then we should spend more money well I I think this is a budget right so we can absolutely when we look at our estimated actuals in September and see the actuals we can adjust it for sure Absolut cuz that's what we approved was 400,000 so in a budget that's perfectly imp perfect totally agree agreed want to make sure that we don't miss kids I get it and I just and I I love every parent should love a little help I think we all agree with that nobody up here would

150disagree right so I just want to make sure we're doing that and then the other thing I noticed that was in here on with all the programs there was no budget for USI and that is a program and do we have a budget because I didn't find part of parkw but it's a program yeah we didn't split up we don't I'll let you answer that no yeah we don't break it up by by the sites so it's because there's also not the engineering program and all that we don't break it up by programs or sites okay because I've been asking for a budget for the Personnel cost for um USI for a very long time and I still haven't seen it um we're proving almost a half a million dollars tonight for personnel which we

151can talk at another time but we need we need to see a budget we need to know how much this program is costing us we need to be responsible back to our um taxpayers and our community totally agree and it's part of the park viiew budget so that's that's where it is okay because when you go to the Park View it's not really there um what's this so you're saying it's wrong well I'm just I when you go to the school budgets m on let's see that's Transportation let's see what pages the school budgets I think we're talking about site allocations is what you're site allocation funding that that's a different purpose yeah Park View so the only site allocation we have for park viw that's an allocation yeah that's not the budget that's how

152much we all like I haven't seen a Parkview budget you haven't seen any of the sites we don't split them up by sites well I I got to see Bernardi y a charter school so that was good but the charter school is a different situation yeah cuz USI is not a Char is not a charter but Parkview it still has staff yeah yeah they all the schools have staff we don't break that down in the budget none they also get an allocation here as well on this Berard yba yeah because they're a charter that allocation is not the budget that's how much that's the the allocation do you want to explain Gary what the site allocation means Gary's he's standing my legs hurt um okay so the site allocations are really for site U um

153the needs of the site they're for you know purchasing materials or for uh we have an allocation for extra transportation for uh uh custodial supplies all of that so it's really meant to be for the site to maintain that that actual they're not operating budgets with Staffing cost correct I get that they're from the lcff and the supplement so I'm just I know there's yeah okay yeah do you know when we're going to get a budget for USI for the for the Personnel it's separate so what else there there's contracts in that are going to be approved tonight that you know so that's a half a million right and then there's 11 other coaches we're definitely looking at um uh putting Personnel together we won't know the cost for personnel yet because we're still Staffing

154it um but I will tell you that it'll be significant iFly less than um the Staffing cost for boy invest of Virtual Academy which was losing over million a year and we are talking about the budget we are talking about excuse me please don't yell out the entire budget for USI is we're talking about 3% of our overall operating budget so to single this out when we have programs losing money um it it's it's I I find it um I find it interesting that we're talking so much about 3% of our operating budget when we have the 99.7% of our budget allocated to other schools and programs it's just a question so that we're clear and we understand where all the money is going that's our job is the Assumption of the budget Gary the

155Assumption of the budget that is balanced that we're looking at here does include all of the funding that would be for USI like that that's not outside of the overall budget would that be correct that's correct yes okay so then the numbers that we're seeing here are all the numbers it's just not maybe broken down to a granular level that no we don't have we haven't broken down other Pathways um at all of our sites we haven't even broken down School sites that's not how these operating budgets work and I think the comment that was yelled from the back was that we got rid of BBVA which is not true okay anything else all right let's move for a vote all those in favor I I I I and I an I motion carries five

156to zero can I have a motion please for 17.3 I'll make a motion to approve the Orange County School of computer science Charter School 2425 preliminary budget second I have a motion by Mr Frasier and I have a second by Mr Young Blood Mr Stein thank you once again um under Education Code 476433 charter schools are required to submit a preliminary budget to their authorizing School District by July 1 of each year uh as a conversion Charter with the placen Orinda Unified School District board to education the Board of Education functions both as the governing board and the authorizer for Orange County School of computer science science with cscs uh as it will be included in the P ylusd budget um the preliminary budget provides an estimate of the funding sources and expenditures for the

157Char of schools that have been extracted from the uh the overall P USD budget so we'll be updating this uh and bringing this budget forward at each budget iter iteration so you'll see this again updated uh based on what we're experiencing throughout the year um but but this is the first uh version of that I have a question on this one um I thank you I appreciate being able to see all the different um income and expenses going in and out um I the section at the bottom the reserves fees and transfers can you talk a little bit about what that is and what that means yes so um as a as a school within the Blen yinda Unified School District um all of the uh administrative costs uh associated with the District uh including

158the district office staff maintenance and operations all of that those are built into to the costs of this charter school so that the while the revenue is ALS is going to the or being we're extracting that saying this is how much revenue is generated we're also including all the expenses expenses as well including uh contributions to special education and um the facilities and maintenance the share of costs associated with maintaining sites uh basically it covers everything uh to make sure that um you know all of the all of the site costs are included there um all of the the funds that we've put invested into um the charter school at this point this year including the lab and various programs and all of that where is that going to ultimately settle or is that going

159to be identified somewhere um in a in a in a charter school budget um like as we wrap up this year is all of that going to be attributed to that school or when will that be no because those were District expenses in the 23 24 school so the whole buildout including the the lab and all of that additional stuff anything spent in this current year will not be part of this be part of the operating it's like when we do if we put in a science lab at a school it's onetime money that we're using for the science lab right there's difference between one-time exp Capital expenses and operating expenses so we won't actually see what the total cost of capital expenses or anything to build it AB absolutely we can we can that

160would be I would love to see that the question of whether it'll be in next year's budget it wouldn't be well I doesn't matter if it's in next year's budget it wouldn't because it's already being done for this year's budget but I would love to see a comprehensive list of what that cost to build all that out you were asking if it was going to be in here though I knew it wouldn't be in here okay um I was wondering where it's going to ultimately for this year yeah so thank you cool I'm just really grateful that we we see a budget and we see how the money is going to be spent and and this is kind of what I've been asking for for a long time so thank you very much yeah because

161it's because it's a charter and this is how it's required to be done that's good yeah we knew it was coming we just had to be patient are we ready for a vote y all those in favor I I and I'm in I motion carries 5 zer all right next we go to action items human is it possible to take a quick break yeah no absolutely not and you might have to yes let's take five five minute break all right we're gonna go into our human resources um 18.1 can I have a motion please I'll make a motion to approve amendment number one to the employment contract for Dr Alex chernes a second okay I have a motion by Mr Young Blood I have a second by Mr Frasier and before we go into any

162comments um I think it was important to just clear up for a community that this is an extension of one year because as we've seen people have come up and thank you to your binda moms um for putting out that this is an additional four-year contract till 2031 and that if something happens and the board flips in November they're going to pay him out for for 4 years and it's going to be 1 Point whatever million dollars as somebody said that is absolutely not true it's actually I think it's state law that says that Ed code state law that you can only be paid out for 12 months at the end of your contract um and or termination um and so also we did um part of Dr tris's contract is that um there doesn't

163have to be um a superintendent evaluation to you know relook at his contract give any type of extensions um and what else was I missing here it was also um we did do a superintendent evaluation in March of this year it was agendized and um I consulted with our district attorney today and he did um state that Mrs Anderson had asked for a um superintendent evaluation and he was in excuse me and he was was in our meeting on zoom in March of 2024 um to do so I'd also like to say that um that was my first superintendent evaluation that we had ever been a part of because we didn't do one for Dr L saster and I know uh Mike Matthews was just an interim and I believe he did about 11 months

164so um and also too as part of the evaluation uh part of his contract I'm just going to read it for you guys it says the board May evaluate Dr chis each year Dr chis shall cooperate with all the reasonable requests of the board in the evaluation process including for example providing the board with proposed goals and objectives for the ensuing year the failure of any of the board to evaluate Dr chernes shall be of no legal Consequence the district's policy or regulations of any governing admin administrative evaluations shall not apply to Dr chernis and so I just wanted to get all of this out of the way before we go on to discuss this because it was I I did see I got a ton of questions from people from that were listening to

165your Belinda moms and um reached out and they wouldn't change the post so then of course you have to go and you have to make a post yourself and explain that this is not for additional years you know this is just a a year and so another thing that we need to also let everybody know is that superintendent can only have the maximum of fouryear contracts so there was no way that we could even legally have tried to extend it if had it gone to seven or eight years and so what has been practiced um around the state of California and other districts is that when the contracts get opened up you'll just you can add another year and so this is kind of a standard practice so I just wanted to make sure everything

166was clear that there's no $1.2 million payout if something happens if he leaves resigns um anything termination um none of that and then also two there is no uh we don't have to do any evaluation but according to our attorney David we did do an evaluation and he was a part of it in close session in March of this year Dr Gates take it away thank you um good evening president blae board members superintendent Dr chis my executive um cabinet members um tonight we bring forward an amendment to an employment contract for the board's consideration it is common practice for employment contracts for the superintendent of schools to be extended um at the end of the school year this extension is for one additional year Additionally the amended contract also affords the superintendent the same

167vacation payout options as all other management this amended contract has been vetted by Council and is being presented to the board for approval thank you very much any comments I have comments um so in March I was the one that requested that we discuss superintendent evaluation and it was just to discuss it there was no evaluation done there were no notes taken there were no goals written there were no no report out to anything so um that's not accurate um per our board bylaw which is separate from the contract the board has a responsibility to evaluate the superintendent board bylaw 21111 States we shall evaluate the superintendent annually sha makes the evaluation required and not optional this can be done through special meetings over the summer as it typically is with a final report out

168at a regular meeting which could be done in August here's specifically what the bylaw says the board shall annually conduct a formal evaluation of the superintendent's performance to assess his or her Effectiveness in leading the district toward established goals evaluation criteria shall be agreed upon by the board and superintendent prior to the evalu evaluation and shall include but not limited to District goals success indicators educational management and Community leadership skills and the superintendent's professional relationship with the board the evaluation shall provide commendations in areas of strengths and achievement provide recommendations for improving Effectiveness in areas of concern or unsatisfactory performance and serve as a basis for making decisions about salary increases Andor contract extension the use of the word May in the superintendent's contract stating uh does not supersede the by bylaw it works in

169alignment with the board by law the board by law dictates what the board does not what the superintendent does you are incorrect regarding former superintendent evaluation saying that they haven't been done past superintendents have all been evaluated except for the two previous um because their employment did not s um succeed the next year uh Jim L Sasser who announced his departure and as a result did not need an evaluation Mike Matthews was an interim for one we one year and didn't need an evaluation Greg plco Doug Domin and Dennis Smith all had annual evaluations except the year that they retired which would have been unnecessary so I will be voting no on this because we did not do an evaluation and it needs to be done by the board to um extend a contract so

170once again his contract I spoke to you've received the email from DAV I did receive that but that's his contract and not the board bylaw okay so the contract actually super needs a board bylaw because a bylaw or a policy is not law and so the contract is over the superintendent the board bylaw dictates our responsibilities and our responsibility is to evaluate the superintendent which we did not do okay well according to our attorney our very good our attorney was in March of 2024 and he did say right here I believe the board did evaluate Dr turnis in the March time frame and I was in there and so also you can't sit here and say about elsasser because elsasser started in 2021 January 2021 we did not do Karen Freeman was a board President

171we did not do a superintendent evaluation in 2021 you were board president in 2022 El Sasser was here until July we did not do an evaluation in that six-month period that elaser was here he was saying he was leaving there was no point no that's not true because if you're going to say each year then we are held accountable for that year and that's exactly why we did ours in March we didn't do ours in March it was a discussion leading up to it we did not have an evaluation show me the goals show me any document that we provided or we did in that meeting there there's no definition of what I've seen of what the evaluation must be it says it needs to be an evaluation it says it can have all those

172things I don't know about you but I've been evaluating have those things I've been evaluating the entire time that he's been here I think there's a pretty good result of evaluation based on what he read at the superintendent uh his report today so no formal evaluation by the board is what you're saying we got together just so you all hear it yeah and when we got together we were trying to come up with goals and ways to evaluate them so we would have a system but um the majority of the board did not want to do that so because you wanted to just evaluate as you went so we left that meeting doesn't me evaluation that doesn't mean that negates an a an official never did an evaluation we were trying to come up with

173goals and things we actually did there was a statement in the meeting M where uh Mr Huff said would you like this to just be his evaluation and I believe it was you that said yes no no I would have never I would have never said that okay point of order rather than discussing closed session which we should not be doing um we do have an opinion from our lawyer yes and let me read it it says even even if the board evalu or the board evaluation did not occur I do not see any legal prohibition to the board considering Dr tris's contract at this time in my view the policy is not so strict as to inhibit the power of the board from taking any action on the contract and this is from our

174legal council but as a board it is our responsibility and we should be doing it then why didn't we do it for elsasser because he left the about year between why aren't we doing it now that's irrelevant why are we not you're the one that's walking away from the evaluation we can't hold we can't hold stuff accountable for you can't hold one person accountable for something elter was here for 18 months say we don't need to do an evaluation anymore because it wasn't done at that point app orang I can't reveal what happened in close session but I know what was said what I said and I know what he said and I know what what they said and so we all know what we said and we all know that what happened back there

175and we've never been given any I mean we've never done a superintendent evaluation exactly and so with in the past as in ever so if we're sitting in here and we do it differently and if we're just having this conversation and there's an agreeance amongst the board or there's agreeance amongst ones that the this is all you know what what the goals are that he shared with us and what everything is happening it's fine like like Huff has said that is and that can be considered evalu to us and we should agendize this we should postpone this and agendize it so we can actually have a conversation and closed session yes second all right you're seconding I'm seconding that that's not that's not even a thing um yeah I I I hear what you're saying

176and I like Marilyn said earlier I think we should agree to disagree on this because we have a contract that says May evaluate I don't know about you guys but I've been paying attention to what's going on so they that's not what his contract contct contract says shall the contract does not play Shout say May and our attorney says that the contract is what would be the binding thing so I will go with councel on this I'm not really yeah I mean we could do both we could have an evaluation and come back a approve this for an extra year and it wouldn't make any difference in Timeline sure that and if that how you want to vote is that's totally fine and we have the right to vote the way that we're going to

177vote so all right let's call for a vote calling for a vote all those in favor I I I no no motion carries three to two I don't think we take the audience's votes into consideration consent calendar actions proposed for the consent excuse me can we have the guy in the Hat sorted out please all right moving along the actions proposed for the consent calendar items are consistent with approved practices of the district and are deemed routine in nature the trustees receive board agenda backup information advance of the scheduled meetings and are prepared to vote with knowledge on the Block items is there any items that need to be pulled yes all right take it away 20.1 21.4 4 21.5 2144 and 2222 okay 2144 and 20 2.22 so it's safe to say that there's

178no Taco Tuesday in our future tonight correct all right Marilyn okay I'd like to pull 20.2 21.12 12 21.9 and I think Mrs Buck got the rest 2119 yeah 21.9 okay so I need a motion to approve the remaining it to approve the consent calendar as amended I second I have a motion by Mr Frasier second by Mr Young Blood all those in favor I I and I am an i motion carries 5 and we'll start with 20.1 um I'll make a motion for 21 20.1 to approve ratify purchase orders in the following amounts um gosh that's a long one to read okay so here we go 23 24 general fund 0101 7,532 66255 can I just say can I move for this entire section and you're good with all of that 20.1 I'll make

179a motion get to be R please I'll second thank you okay so the one that I am pulling is the warrant listing um 52624 to 6124 and it's for the full payment of the training lab for 1. 1228 536 million on 53024 um in the contract that we agreed to in May um article two 1B says consultant shall provide invoice costs for the services provided all costs must be supported by an invoice receipt and acceptable do documentation article two section two uh consultant shall submit one invoice monthly to the district for fees incurred during the previous billing period and reimbursable expenses if any uh invoices for fees paid must be must reflect hours worked rate charged Services performed with attached re receipts and proof of expenses invoices for reimbursements for reimbursable expenses encour must clearly

180list items for which reimbursement is being requested and being accompanied by proper documentation receipts and invoices I am um incredibly concerned that we have paid the training lab in one lum sum and didn't follow any of these responsibilities through our um our contract that was signed less than a month ago so I'll be voting no on this amount clarify what exact which warrant or which P was it a PO or warrant it was the warrant listing sorry warrant listing 52624 to I I think that's in the 20.2 26 is it in the is it in the top one it looks like like it was duplicated in both okay did we pay them twice thanks for that clarification okay I will be voting no on this one as well because that it's a lot of work

181to be done in one month and I calculated it out to there's only like um $2,900 left in their entire contract and um there's you know Consulting was $80,000 and they should be billing us I don't think they did $8,000 worth of Consulting in a month especially since we haven't even according to Dr turnis hired all of our personnel there so um I'll be voting no as well when does the equipment get delivered it's already coming in right now and we and we made the payment in full to get it here quickly so we could open in the fall that's correct right we we could have put that in the consultant agreement yes thank you and Gary I think that you do a phenomenal job and so I thank you very much for all of

182this let's move for a vote all those in favor I I I'm an i no no motion carries three to two I think uh Mrs Anderson you have 20.2 correct I'll make a motion to approve the warrant listing in the following amounts as seen in the agenda second okay I have a motion by Mrs Anderson I was second by Mr Young Blood okay um I'm pulling the warrant listing from 5262 24 to 61 page 11 um payment to the training lab same reasons as before so I I pulled it from this one and um Mrs Buck pulled it from the previous one so I don't think we have to have a lot of discussion I think we already kind of know where we stand okay so we're ready for vote all right all those in

183favor I no I no motion carries three to two 21.4 um I can do 21.4 and 1.5 together if that's acceptable please 21.4 okay um so this is the first one is to approve the independent contractor agreement between strategic kids LLC and expanded learning for programs and Staffing during 2425 school year the second one is approved the independent contractor agreement with C I'm sorry about the name c c um Sports and expanded learning for the 24 25 school year I'll second the motion I have a motion by Mrs Buck I have a second by Mr Young Blood I pulled these because um these are typical contracts that we would have um with agencies and and organizations that come in and do work on site they do training programs they do workshops um and neither of

184these have licensing fees um and I app appreciate that and I will approve as a result so should we vote we can vote all right I was confused I was waiting for something else all right all those in favor I I hi I and I an I motion carries z uh 21.4 did you have one before Oh what about 2112 2112 okay I'd like to uh make a motion to approve the agreement with Emerald Cove outdoor Science Institute for students to attend overnight camps during the 2024 2025 year second sorry okay I'm gonna give that to Young Blood okay just because he's been really trying hard okay I pulled this um just to bring again the attention to the outdoor science camps um that we have budgeted 400,000 a year for our outdoor education programs

185for our kids and um as this has kind of been a highlight with uh Dr ches I want parents are still paying for camp and we're only paying for um certain kids to go to Camp which I totally agree with and I am for it but um I think that we can do a better job subsidizing as I've explained previous in this meeting and so that's why I pulled it and um I don't have any problem with Emerald Cove I just want to make sure that um we're spending our money for our kids for this year's so vote v y feel like we already talked about that but okay all right let's vote all those in favor I motion carries 5 Z I believe it's 21.4 Z Now okay I would like to make a

186motion to the approve the use of e achieve Inc English language development curriculum and Associated professional development for the Orange County School of computer science second all right I have a motion by Mrs Anderson I have a second by Mrs Buck okay I pulled this um because there's been a lot of talk um about that I am against funding for the charter schools and I'm not really against funding for the charter school I've actually voted in favor of the Charter Schools but what I have voted against is using funds that were directed for other programs to fund the charter school that's where I that's where the difference and this is a perfect example of that the money is coming out of instructional materials and paid out of site funds this is how programs should be

187funded they we should not take funds to fund a program at the detriment of another program and so that's why I pulled it because this is how we should be spending our money and this is a perfect example of that and I just wanted to bring attention to that okay all those in favor I motion carries 5 Z the next one will be 40 right yeah 21.4 Z okay this one is for 21.4 approve the agreement with access human potential to provide mental performance training for students at Parkview Sports Universal Sports Institute during or schools Universal Sports Institute during the 2425 school year I need a second I'll second okay my um my concern is with this one is that we have a $20,000 name and Training System addition on this total um the total

188contract amount is $51,000 so we're paying 45 40% of the total amount just to use the name uh access human potential I don't think we should be spending money on sponsorships or um or licensing fees um and this one is certainly way outrageous when you look at 40% um and then when you calculate up the number of hours that will be worked there's um 3 hours for a parent Workshop 5 hours for training um for staff training 5,000 for idual coaching but it doesn't really identify how many hours or number of students that will be coached um and then 20 hours total for um to for each for the eight week sessions um the total cost is $410 per suit per student if you break it all down um it identifies no staff member so

189assuming one staff member that's $1,833 per hour that they'll be um they'll be gaining from this um I'm really concerned about the licensing fee the $20,000 for a $50,000 contract is exorbitant so I I believe that's actually curriculum it says the the training system it's a curriculum part of that I'd like to see more on it because it says licensing and it's licensing name and Training System it doesn't say licensing name name and Training System the other two coming up will be licensing um so it's the same amount so it seems the same to me um so I'd like to clarification on that then um if it's going to be Beyond just the licensing um for $20,000 but I'm going to vote no this is way too much um and just because we have the

190licensing fee in there at all um negates it for me yeah usually when we get contracts if there is curriculum then it's separate it listed as a separate item and it's in the contract this is how much curriculum cost there's no separate and I don't know when we got into the business a pain for someone's name to be at our schools um I'm against that and we should take this back and renegotiate it because this is a if all it said was training system and not it didn't say name you'd be okay with it we shouldn't be paying licensing fees for to use anybody's names it it it does it says name right doesn't and if it's if it's curriculum like you suggest then it should be listed in the C in the agenda like

191this is how much it is for the curriculum shouldn't be separate it shouldn't be lumped in with that this is like a licensing fee that's what I see it as the training lab licensing fee was $80,000 and that was 7% of what their total amount was still I don't agree with the licensing fee we shouldn't be paying that but this is 40% so part of the reason that we are licensing and using the names of our partners is to um make our program reputable and we're partnering with companies like BC adaptive Fitness like access human potential like recode um uh Fitness like training lab so when we open USI we're just not starting from scratch we're actually partnering with people that are worldclass at what they do so I think it's a great strategy and

192it's going to make our brand that much stronger and just like hopefully we'll partner with um Special Olympics is is our goal is to partner with with them as well um the more reputable companies in this space the better for our program will we be paying a a licensing fee to Special Olympics I don't know if they necessar charge a licensing fee I honestly don't know how they work I would love to for them to partner with us however that works out um if and when we'll discuss it I think that we should I love the partnership I think that having somebody to talk about the mental Fitness and and strength training in that sense for our students is good um I'm against the licensing of the name okay um the access of human just

193so we know they are um very very qualified and they've been in a lot of lot of high schools and um the feedback and the research of programs when they walk in and then also when they come out is just phenomenal and so I will be voting yes on this all those in favor I I no no all right motion carries three to two Okay the 40 or 2141 recode Fitness to provide strength and conditioning training for students at Parkview School Universal Sports Institute during the 2425 school year I'll second I pulled this one as well because we have a licensing fee here um the total amount is $283,000 the licensing fee here is $20,000 which is 7% um if you calculate uh well first of all it doesn't ever give us a number of

194students served um so I'm not exactly sure how many that will be um assuming 100 students the cost is 28,000 or $2,830 a student um the calculated hours for year um is $80 an hour that we would be using which is much more reasonable um again the licensing fee um should be renegotiated and removed so I'm voting no on that and this is um bringing a seven additional coaches versus the 11 that we already have is that correct the these are part-time these are not necessarily um these are um physical fitness trainers yes not like basketball coach these are trainers and their um hourly rates are in there um this this this strengthening conditioning coach will develop individual um programs for all the kids so hopefully we get a couple hundred kids it would be

195a couple hundred um in addition um we believe that this this position can help devel V training programs for our comprehensive high school teams so it's it's um a great opportunity for us to partner with again a reputable company that does this for a living okay I'm now I'm really confused because I thought we paid $250,000 to the training lab to do individual we bought the programming so that they every kid could have an individual strength training and then this is an additional you bought the you're talking about the program we was technology technology this is actually people okay um I'm going to be voting no on this because it's first the licensing fee I'm not sure I this is bad business for a district to get involved in and it's a lot of disagree

196and it's just stating that okay are you guys done disagreeing so I can finish my statement yeah go ahead okay thank you um these three um contracts that are coming up tonight come out to half a million dollars for 100 kids and that's a lot of money when our average Ada by the time you um remove the special education the district fees we only get about $10,000 and we still have to educate these kids we're still responsible for getting them textbooks we're still responsible for getting them a teacher even though they're homeschooled there's still people over them and there's still facilities that need to be mainted so I will be voting no on this I love the outside the box thinking I think this is a great program I think the things that are going

197to be happening here we setting the tone for I think a lot of districts specifically even Fullerton that almost followed right behind us doing it differently um but I think we're this is a big part of why it's going to be successful in my opinion yeah and just as a reminder Fullerton is charging $110,000 per students to participate in their program and they're not paying the district they're paying the actual company would you rather it be that way well would you rather these kids pay they're Char they're charging kids they don't have the money to put in the equipment that we we do they're I love how you guys no that's not it because this it's about Equity correct it's about Equity we are not charging kids that's a good thing okay can I finish

198my statement because you guys all three have interrupted me now they charged the kids because $10,000 is pretty much their whole Ada that they have after they spend for their facilities or special education and that's why they can't do it so by doing these programs and spending all this money we're really taking away money from other children I took this program and I divided it by the amount of students we have in our district and it cost $25 I mean not that it's a lot but $25 per student in our district total amount and if you divide it up I did a lot of reverse math because I keep waiting for a budget but we don't get it um it cost just this amount is about $3,400 per student at USI so I have did

199you do the same for BBVA did you do the same for engineering did you do the same for I've asked for the budget for bva and I've asked to to see that but I haven't seen it yet my point is if you start looking at that we have to be consistent and you're doing at that every program which means every program based on your logic is taken away from other students the budget up we're losing over a million a year on which I keep saying we need to look at and El Camino is losing over two million a year so BYO we Mand okay I'm talking now so if we have $3 million that we're losing how much are we taking away from every student be for keeping these programs open and so are we

200looking at the medical services Academy are we losing there how about culinary like all these things do we start just looking and then the media absolutely do we start looking because I know that that I know that over at esparon because my son was involved with it that was an empty room and so doing something similar you know their media room it was empty in like 2018 and they purchased a bunch of equipment for that and now the room is full and they're fully op you know operating but we have to be able to yeah it's it's amazing but we have to be able to spend some money to make these programs like we can't open a computer science school and say oh well we don't want to do a million dollars for the Innovation

201lab because why would anybody want to come if if you're not offering anything different we have to offer different things just like in USI we're offering all of these really really cool things and I just want to point out too and I don't think I think this has slipped like a lot of people like the credentials of our superintendent he was LA County Board of Education he was in charge of a $4 billion budget and 80 something 81 one 81 school districts and so that is the biggest in the United States and so I think sometimes when we're sitting here we have Gary Stein so we have a lot of um we have a lot of good Finance people and we just keep questioning and questioning and questioning and they're saying that this is going

202to work and so either anyway it's going to work it's it's a good idea and just want to see the amounts I just want then then let's see you know for the next board meeting the August board meeting let's see the amount of how much money we're losing in every program every single program let's see what we're losing every single Academy and then let's let's bring it all in and let's see like how much is taking away from every student like do we really want to start going there or do we want to just start saying this is going to be what's good for kids and again the USI budget which we will bring the operating Cass we're talking about maybe 3% of our overall operating budget and it's making up and it's taking up

20399% of the attention because of I don't know political reasons no it's because that's what we're voting on right now just right now it's really unfortunate and the misinformation out there about USI intentionally being put out on social media is is it's troubling and there's so much misinformation out there and people put it out and most people don't have time to fact check so they believe it and so um it's just it's really unfortunate that um a district where we're actually increasing enrollment we never hear that from the same people that uh don't want USI they don't want our Charter Schools well what do you what do you want we want more kids to come here we want a healthy District where we can offer a lot of programs this is one of them the

204cost is minimal compared to the operations of our district and it actually may be helping because our our enrollment is going up I think what's dis pointing is that we're not listening to the community I can't tell you how many of my neighbors have come did not interrupt just listen I'm listening I can't tell you how neous statement that is not true cuz I get community members all the time us great idea I was talking so I let me finish my statement it's just not true I've had Neighbors come to me because they've heard about this USI they've come to the board meetings and they listen and they're like Marilyn why are you against it and then they've come to the meetings and then they've come back to me and said Marilyn tell those people

205I want you to vote no and that's what my contingents are saying and that's what they're doing and so I am listening to my constituents and we have had people come at this board meeting many many people bringing up the same questions and we still don't have a budget we still don't know how much um it's going to cost to maintain this we still don't have a total amount of the build it's all very hearsay and and we're all trying to put it together because we can't get it together so we I think we have it together I will be voting now okay we we can use anecdotes all we want I mean that's really what we're talking about because I've heard things from several people that are very excited about this and they can't

206believe that we're doing something so great so we're we're hearing things that we could all use anecdotes but realistically at the end of the day depending on how we vote and at the results of what we get from what we've been doing we will know exactly how we did but we don't have a crystal ball right now based on everything that we've seen the financial Minds that we have involved in this this is the plan that seems to make the most logical sense to move forward to make our district continue to thrive in a world where districts are dying so I'm going to vote Yes and I think too I think we need to stop with just the only a 100 students or we're actually like at 110 but however there's going to be the

207after school program you know you can have your high school athletes come in and you can train after school we've been saying that so that opens it up to a ton more students and we're talking about applicants we hope to have 200 by the time the year starts but again even if we open a school with 200 kids even if it serves thousands of kids after school even if it's profitable it's not the point it's not the point it's about opportunity for students yeah I mean you have somebody like sterley Jones who AG you have somebody like sterley Jones who going to the rest and it's not at the expense of the rest so then is a medical services program at the expense I don't know that because I have not seen a dollar amount

208going into all of this but is the medical services program is the medical services program at the expense of the rest is El Camino at the expense of the rest is BBVA at the expense of the rest is culinary losing over million I put that on the screen you saw that budget saw do you support that program yes okay even though saying that I would not support this program I want more information that I'm not getting for example uh any of the budgets here um the and and we don't pay licensing fees anywhere else I do not agree with licensing fees even if this was the greatest thing ever I still would disagree with it because we should not be paying licensing fees even if it draws in students and draw in students we don't

209do that we shouldn't do it public money it's public money that we're using to serve kids and if it serves kids better because we have these Partnerships that money is not serving the kids it's paying them for their name we pay licensing fees when we when we order books so we've been paying licensing fees the whole time forever every curriculum you buy you pay a licensing fee that's a license it's different than the licensing fee to lease their name not that is not it it's not different you're getting you're getting a textbook yes it is it's different we're getting all kinds of stuff like this is this is a little bit of semantics that's just pointless there's licensing fees in so many hundreds and hundreds SP to other board members and other superintendents and other

210districts around and they would not agree to this they agreed with me that we shouldn't be doing this so they're probably upset we'll just agree to disag we thought of it first yeah I we agree to disagree Carri Perfect all right let's go for a vote all those in favor I I I no no three to two next one please3 I believe so 21.43% again this is a $20,000 licensing fee at this total amount of $136,000 this one accounts to 15% of the total amount um 84 students will be served with this at a cost of um 16 $619 per student 2,400 hours a year according to their contract which is a reasonable $57 an hour um minus the licensing fee I would I would accept this I think it needs to be renegotiated without

211the licensing fee I'll vote no if that's still in yeah I think we should go back and renegotiate and pull the licensing fee I think this would be great for students I think this is a great program are we ready to vote yep all right all those in favor I I I no all right motion carries three to two 2144 I'll make a motion we accept gifts as listed such action being in compliance with Ed code section 41032 and direct the super superintendent to send letters of appreciation I'll second um I brought this because I wanted to um thank the UR binda Sunrise Rotary uh for the 80 rubber balls and 60 jump ropes that they provided to Melrose Elementary School to have for recess um it's a great School in our one of our

212lowincome communities the fact that y blinda rotary is going from y blinda over to placenta to do that I just wanted to say thank you so much and uh very much appreciated and I would like to thank Dr chernis and his staff for going to the rotaries so they're aware of what our needs are and can facilitate this and and I do think too and let's take the vote first all those in favor oh do you want to talk you have to talk about it before we take the vote if you're going to still talk about this you have to wait talk about it before the vote the rotary no I was just saying thank you yeah was good yeah okay thank you thank you rotary thank you all right can we take the vote

213all those in favor I [Music] 2222 oh yeah okay um we got to make a motion I'll make a motion to approve the contact with the Anaheim PD second SRO oh sorry that was too soon I'm still flipping pages yes a make a motion to approve theou with the city of Anaheim for the provision of one school resource officer effective July 1st 2024 through 202 to June 30th 2025 second okay I pulled this because um the contract here is was actually signed September 12th of this year and I wanted to um bring attention that um Anaheim PD was not able to provide us an SRO specific for esparanza high school and I wanted to bring it to attention um I checked and no invoices were paid um sent Anaheim did not pay anything um this

214so this is just um hoping that next year um es Bron and and Anaheim PD will be able to have another officer to do the the SRO program um the um Anaheim Police Department provided esparanza with two phone numbers um for SRO assigned to other schools that if there was an need that they could come um but there was nobody assigned specifically to esparanza high school so um as you you guys know have a relationship with Anaheim PD I know Sergeant Conklin personally and um this did he used to work at Downey PD that I don't know think he did there's a lot of conents there are a lot of conents in law enforcement yes so I just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention and to be clear about it so so I I

215think too when we were talking about this um because it was what in the middle of the year in the negotiation for the SRO um we didn't like start at the beginning of the year and get this contract so it sounds like the contract is going but I really did appreciate from Anaheim PD that they did give us two part-time ones and they did actually have a presence on campus Because I was asking about it once we were told hey anaheim's going to take you know a couple of the officers and have them go by and so having a student at esparanza it was nice that there was an officer on campus you know they would walk the campuses they would park there for a while I did drive by a few times and I

216saw them taking reports in the parking lot and so they did provide a presence and then they didn't charge us anything for it so I think that was like really great initiative on Anaheim PD's part because it showed like okay we've heard you we care like we're coming with our full-time people but we have heard your concern and we're listening and so I I am very appreciative of Anaheim PD for going out of their way to uh do they've been amazing and they've been trying as hard as they can to get somebody full-time on board and I believe Renee you want to fill us in on that yeah so in talking with Sergeant Conlin he said his desire is for sure to get a full-time SRO for next year and knowing that they didn't have

217the two that they thought they would because what had happened was that they thought that they would um there were two Patrol officers because they don't want to put newly um graduated um officers from the academy and he said that we deserved ones that were more experienced so as a result of that he's already identified two potential and as soon as they finish the Academy I think it's mid June then um like probably any time now they'll identify who will start for next year so he apologized this was a situation that was that was difficult but they did provide presence as much as they could they were there every time we called them they've been like very very supportive they've been coming to me to talk about how we can collaborate and partner once we

218get the SRO um it's it's been a very positive relationship you if I just um recap um you said that in June they'll have two that they that will be coming out of their well they've identified two Patrol men because they want experienced so the two Patrol will then go to s s training once they get people out of the academy they'll back fill the patrolman and the the more experienced will just wanted to confirm that yeah I wanted to clarify that that's a good question because it did sound like out of the academy and then we just said we don't want that I figured it could not be happening out of the academy like that would and the the hours too that is way too good for rookie to be able to jump in

219on a school just daytime Monday through Friday uhuh yeah look at yeah he knows all right so we're ready to vote all right all those in favor I motion carries 5- Z and I think that's the end of it so one thought one thought that was had is it is 9:30 and so if we want to skip our communication and board reports for tonight and move to adjournment if we do that we won't um be reporting back till August so I say we go through it because we've had quite a busy month I agree Longs this down to three minutes yeah are we going to I'll read fast let's well let's give ourselves let's go fast okay I'll just give highlights of what we're doing yeah we were all kind of there together all the

220graduations um well going back to May since that was the last time we had a meeting um just a few highlights uh attended the Middle School track night or track meet which was the same night as the Roop um board meeting followed by the Avid scholar award so that was quite a busy hopping around night um but fun to do all that um mention the elcap thank you for the extra time and um Mr Stein thank you for the extra time with the budget as well um that we spent going over a little little bit um congratulations again to the community honor Community honores which we all saw in May but didn't get to um say thank you here uh attended a few Awards nights um fiscal seminar with ocba and um The Rose Drive

221graduates coming back the seniors coming back was awesome it was we had the biggest class that had come back so that was fun um attended three different promotions uh five different gradu uations and the Highlight for sure was being able to give my daughter her diploma uh my youngest daughter her diploma for graduating from high school this year so that was very awesome um and then just one last note at the um just wanted to clarify uh Marilyn had been accused of contacting the DSA uh regarding the USI project um at our um on email and sent out to lots of people and then on social media that wasn't correct um I was actually the one that called the DSA and asked them about what was happening I was getting conflicting reports from staff and

222from the community about what was real and what wasn't uh when I called the person told me that with a simple 700 form and $400 they could sign off on that project but that had not been requested um so it wasn't Marilyn um I contacted them to confirm and it's within my right to do that um projects with DSA and those type of things board members can be held personally liable for any of that stuff so um it was important for me to call and find out where where we were on it um I don't know where we are on it um he told me that um the only way that I would know that we were signed off was at 700 form um so if we have that great and if they've signed off

223on our project wonderful I'd like to see that if we're still in process I'd like to see that too that's it for me okay um first I'd like to address the accusations made against me there was actually three one um Mrs Buck just clarified that I did not call Dak DSA and another one I contact AQMD I never contacted AQMD I've NE I didn't know about a cement planner being removed because I've never been able to tour USI to know what's been happening and I'm hoping someday I get to um also so I was accused of calling a bird Conservatory about Avery habitat um that is just hilarious thank you Mrs blades um for that because I didn't start these rumors I was laughing because of a bir these are these are things that Dr

224turnus accused me of and then sent the email out to 20 community members I never accused you of that there's a great letter of that it doesn't accuse you of that so um to be very clear I did contact David Huff because I was seeking advice on how to proceed to gain Insight on the DSA approval and um and how this exception process works as you guys are aware which Mrs blades has demonstrated when we hired this company oahh allows board members to call and seek for free counsel um so I did that and my call didn't cost the district a dime um but I did learn two things one there is something called a DSA publication ra22 construction projects and items exempt from DSA review and according to Mr Huff our project does need

225DSA and if anyone would like to see that I have it saved on my desktop and you send me an email I'll happy to put it on there and send it and you can look for yourself also um it's been repeatedly represented it to me and to um the community that there's a letter from DSA um exempting us from this and I have not received it I've requested this letter twice and I didn't get it then I did a public records request on May 17th and because I was didn't get my answers and I'm still waiting for a response I've gotten two um emails um from Mrs Gray saying that it's in process so um she's keeping me updated um but I think the most disturbing thing I Learned was from Mr Huff is that

226without DSA approval each one of us are personally liable this is the one thing that people can sue us personally for and so I really think we need to make sure that we are following the rules and doing things in order um because I'm my husband's entering retirement and I want my finances to be secure so um so here's some events that I attended I attended 8th grade Avid standout at Angel Stadium your Belinda prayer breakfast Community honores um induction ceremony Valena High School Memorial Day celebration um I attended a Rotary meeting um and I was there for love placenta but it was a bonus because there was two placenta of Valena students that shared their um experiences that rotary sponsored them to go to a um a leadership conference I attended the Valdez end

227of the year band and Orchestra conent the Ruby Drive Color Run um I attended the lot 318 good life celebration and um I just wanted to bring note to one of the students there um had collected shoes and sporting equipment and she had cleaned it all and made it wonderful and she was giving it out free to to the community there and so I love seeing our students in action I attended valentia and ESP bronza High School senior Awards nights our kids are outstanding um I went to the tuffrey Middle School outso outside band concert and In-N-Out fundraiser and was such a lovely evening I'm ready for concerts in the park um I went to the George key Garden dedication Valencia High School and Kramer Middle School um vocal spring Choir concerts and I'm always

228so impressed and I also um just yesterday attended the end of the year administrative lunch in um schools v visits I went to Valencia High School El Dorado High School esparanza High School y Belinda high school and it was so fun um to see our kids in action and our teachers and I I learned a little bit about um lots of things that I'm definitely not ready to go to Spanish for and um about our trade deficit and sat in an economics class about gross domestic product and how it's calculated and I took pictures because I'll never remember um I went to um Kramer Middle School promotion and then um graduations Venture El Camino George key and Valencia High School and congratulations to all of our graduates you guys are amazing and um I wish

229you all the best and um I wish all of our staff that have the summer off a chance to relax and work on your Tans and and decompress and happy summer everybody wow okay that is a lot um I too have uh been slightly busy not necessarily like uh Miss Anderson however I did uh get to attend a couple of the uh High School um uh honory senior honors Awards so I got to see uh scholarship Awards as well as uh um High School honor awards for that particular school one for esparon uh and uh then I got got to go do the uh graduation for wab Vista Virtual Academy um it never ceases to amaze me uh kids who are driven on their own to graduate high school early um they had uh about

23012 12 or 14 kids that were Juniors that were already graduating and it it was truly amazing to me um then I also got to go to the Valencia High School um and that was an incredible event uh amazing um just amazing performance with the the the setup the grounds people um just uh being able to put on such a large uh uh graduation like that took a lot of networking uh principal uh herzell was um awesome um and uh to see him kind of go through that uh uh again I think what was it his uh how many times was that for him like his fourth time right he's he look he does it like a pro so I I really appreciated uh him being there helping coordinate that as well but uh U

231as far as uh summer things I I'm looking forward to um hopefully the summer will be a little more mellow otherwise it keeps U me pretty busy on my my side job so um hopefully that will be mellow but uh the way it's been looking it's uh it's getting pretty crazy out there so if I were to use the words of uh Smokey the Bear only you can prevent forest fires so um please take heed of that if you're out there camping and so forth uh for the summer but otherwise guys um enjoy your your summer we'll see I'll see you in August all right well as we've all said we' we've been to a lot of the same things a lot of the uh end ofe parties and the um Awards nights and obviously

232the graduations it's just such an awesome thing to get to watch these kids that have been here working hard staying up late studying on weekends working on their Sports get to the end and shake their hand and get to say congratulations I got to I got to shake Emily's hand as she went across the stage at graduation I also got to shake my daughter's hand which that was the crowning achievement for me this last well this year my wife's like my best achievement but you know but this it was it was amazing to be able to be there stand celebrate all these kids celebrate my daughter and see what they're doing and just the possibilities of these kids that are coming out of this District I I mean we've got some amazing kids that are

233going to do some absolutely fantastic things and I'm just so glad regardless of whether we all agree on one thing or another um you can't deny that we all want the best for the kids I think we have different views on how that gets done but based on the things that we've done over the past year the things that are about ready to kick off the things that we're excited to start and to Pioneer at this District I just think it's a great time to be at PUSD so I'm glad to be here I'm glad to be a part of this and um I'm excited for summer so I also so there's three of us that had um kids graduated so it was amazing to give you know my middle son his pluma um and

234all of the friends and the you know the football players and the wrestlers and you know baseball anything that they've been been playing but not only that too you find people coming across that you know you coach little league you know when they were in first second grade you can't you and one one was so tall I didn't re like you know just from freshman year to senior year I hadn't really seen him he just like shot up and so it's super exciting um for all of them and they're so they're they're so happy and they're so excited when they're up there and so that's really um you know that it's just it's such a cool thing and so we were at esparanza and then your y Belinda and then um all three of my

235kids went through Bernardo so that's kind of like their Alma so I so I went over there and the only thing I would ask is that for us to be able to be able to attend more we can't keep putting all the middle schools at 9:30 in the morning we got to like space it out a little bit so you can yeah um so that would be my only my only thought on that um the George key Garden ceremony it was amazing um they sang the song uh again that they sing up here and they keep just getting better and better every single time um and then so one thing I was going to hit on that was has been brought up this whole thing the whole rumors and stuff um I I was I

236was kind of confused that the last board meeting when or the the fourth I think it was when we had people coming up and they were complaining that we had too much money in our reserves and we weren't spending enough and so I'm just kind of confused as to what this message is but if that's the case then we have money in our reserves and thank you Gary um also too I you know people continue to come up here and say um they they come up and they keep saying people are leaving and people are leaving and um one thing that I would say is that like we've been aware of like some of the people who did leave and they left for promotions and they've been telling us like for the last year or

237two that they are looking and so a lot of these aren't surprises to us because we just know what personal circumstances are um but I also would say too like um somebody mentioned shy like I'm friends with her and we talk to each other and so I know that she would probably be disappointed if people were coming up here saying that there was like a nefarious reason when we know what she's actually doing right now and she is having an amazing time um Richard Den took a promotion in Garden Grove obviously he you know he started his he went to school in Garden Grove he started his career in Garden Grove his family's in Garden Grove um you know for his personal reasons as he shared with all of us you know he has a

238second kid on the way and to easier for babysitting so we have a lot of those things and I think we have a lot of life that happens and so I'm not quite understanding why um like in other job opportunities sometimes you take a higher Pace somewhere or they have better benefits or you're closer to home or you can get a different position that's not going to be opening up here and I don't know why we are like demonizing that or saying oh well it's just a board it's superintendent or it's this place or it's this it's political or it's this because I really feel like we haven't been trying to we just trying to do what's best for kids it's not political yes like everybody knows what my political party is but do I

239bring that in here no I just try to do its best for kids and so that's kind of one of the things that um that is a little bit bothersome when somebody comes out you're just playing politics well no we're not just playing politics we're just trying to do what's best for kids we're just trying to keep the curriculum strong keep them in Good Sports have all these opportunities and so I don't think USI is political I don't think a charter school you know a district Charter School using our staff and our students and all of our faculty is political it's just opportunity it's just seeing what the future is holding for these kids and so if if that's political and then then fine it's political to give opportunities to kids um I wanted to

240point out that in Long Beach Unified just principles alone there were 13 principles who left or were moved or did whatever and so we're not talking about long be unified being on fire and this was just principles alone this wasn't even all of their administrators just principles 13 of them and so yeah we're not hearing any complaints we're not hear you know Long Beach is this and Long Beach is that and then I also say too like there's six like Claremont is a very small school district and you had six administrators you know leaving as well or openings for them but nobody's saying anything about that but suddenly here when we have people leaving I mean we had a list go out the other day and they were oh oh my gosh people are leaving

241there's people actually like on this list that were taking promotions to our district office and so like I think we just need to be real about things and real about life because I know too for a fact like I took a position I started off somewhere and I thought I'd be there forever and then I went to a different department only because the pay was better it was closer to home I just had my first son and so it was better for me so people make a lot of choices um you know and and to think that people like the principles that came up here that were promoted tonight how many places did they say that they had worked and so maybe moving around maybe asking somebody to spend 40 Years of their career in

242one place is that a feasible thing and so I also too there was uh I got a question to because I guess P Buzz went on Twitter and our ex now and they said that you know if you want to be endorsed by the Orange County Board of Education just open charter schools and they said that we've had 0 23 24 and then 2425 that there's two and just so I'm that's Mis information again because there is just one USI is not a charter school and it is just the Orange County School of computer science and it is a district Charter and so it is our own people um our own staff and whatever and so I think we should just start thinking of things like this and so we could talk about politics like

243we're just trying to do us best for students and putting students first and we're super excited about what the future holds but I think when we start to talk about when when we are hold to held to a different standard about what our employees are doing and we're not holding other districts to the same standard or making the same accusations when you have 13 principles in Long Beach all leaving and then they have to hire 13 more why are we not saying that their District's on fire like I asked that question to somebody because they were asking me that they said well I don't well I'm sure everything is okay there but but here is this so I just think we need to put some of these things in perspectives that we we work long

244careers law enforcement firefighter you know you you spend 30 something years 40 years in a career and to stay in one spot when there's other opportunities available pay raises and just things happen I just think it's I I just think we need to look at it from that aspect why are we holding the you know the world of teaching to this type of I mean how many places have have you been Dr Gates you've been many places to take promotions and so I mean it's just kind of how it is so anyways I hope everybody has a good summer um I hope everybody stays safe and then I also did want to point out I I had to text inette a minute ago because it said on our next board meeting that it's August 8th

245and so I did not want to spend two um birthdays on a board meeting and I knew my birthday was not on Tuesday again so it is actually August 13th is our next board meeting and so um everybody have a safe and happy July and we'll see you back on August 13th and I'd like a motion for adjournment I motion for an adjournment second yeah can somebody second it please all right all those in favor I have a great summer