001This meeting is being webcast live and recorded. The recording or webcast may capture images and sounds of those attending the meeting. Um, close session items are as follows. Did I do uh two where's 1.1? 2.1 recommended expulsions. 2.2 recommended reinstatements. 2.3 public employee assignment reassignment appointment. 2.4 4 public employee dismiss discipline dismissal release complaints 2.5 conference with labor negotiator 2.6 conference with legal counsel existing litigation 2.7 conference with real property negotiate 2.8 8 anticipated litigation. 2.9 employee evaluation. Public employee evaluation. Uh public comment on any close session item will be heard at this time. Pursuant to board policy, the board may limit individual comments to no more than 3 minutes and individual topics to 20 minutes. It is recommended you begin your comments by stating your name. And seeing as there is no public comment,
002the board will now adjourn to close session. Welcome. We will now convene the regular session. We're going to introduce Alandre Warren who will serve as a Spanish interpreter for this meeting. Meeting attendees who would like to listen to the Spanish interpretation of the proceedings, please pick up headphones from the table located in the back of the room. This announcement will now be shared in Spanish. Thank you. This meeting is being webcast live and recorded. The recording or webcast may capture images and sounds of those attending the meeting. Members of the public who would like to provide public comment on items listed on tonight's agenda, we recommend you fill out the public comment form, the green form located on the table at the northeast entrance of this room. Please hand the completed form to the acting
003board manager, Belisa Hana. She's here in back. Before the item comes up on the agenda, we recommend you complete a separate form for each agenda item on which you would like to comment. Miss Hannah is in the back of this meeting room. Members of the public providing public comment, please use a microphone located in the front of the room. I'm right here. Yeah. We'll now go to the pledge of allegiance led by Joy Aaylor. During close session, the board completed the superintendent evaluation with an overall rating of exceeds expectations consistent with the superintendent's contract. This rating meets the standard for a satisfactory employment evaluation. And at the July 22nd meeting, the board will bring forward a new contract for the superintendent. Also in close session, um on a motion by board member Kenneth D. Young
004and a second by board member Randy Viegas, the board agreed unanimously to appoint Taylor George to the position of director of special education. Taylor George currently serves as the coordinator of special education. He began his career as an education specialist, spending six years teaching within the Vicelia Unified and Lindsay Unified School District. Mr. George transitioned into a program manager position at Viceel Unified, where he served for two years before assuming his current leadership role as coordinator of special education, a position he has held for the past two years. Mr. George holds a bachelor of arts and liberal studies from California State University Fresno and two master of arts degrees, one in special education from Pointloma Nazarene University, Bakersfield and another in educational leadership and administration from Brandman University. He holds an education specialist mild moderate
005teaching credential and an administrative services credential. On behalf of the board of trustees, congratulations to Mr. Taylor George. Also in close session it moving on to 3.6 revisions to enclosure items on adoption of the board meeting. There are revised item enclosures number 5.1 7.14 7.15 7.25 11.5 and 11.7. Do I have a motion to adopt the board meeting agenda? So I'll move second on a motion by board member Belt, seconded by board member Gamoyan. Call for the vote. Motion carries. Um 6 with one abstension or one absent. Okay. Sorry. Moving right along. Student Athletic Achievement 4.1. Presenter, Director John Perez, athletic director. Good evening, board president Naylor, Superintendent Shrum, board members and community. Tonight, I have the honor of introducing Vice Unifi's outstanding spring sports teams and individual student athletes. We extend our sincere thanks
006to the parents and supporters who have stood by them every step of the way. Your continued support has been instrumental not only in their athletic success but in shaping them into remarkable individuals they are today. So again, thank you. First from El Diamonte and as I state your name, please step forward. Jaden Castillo diving EIL league and CIF Central section champion. He finished 14th at the state meet, three-time league and section champion over the past four years, and he currently holds the school record at 515 points for a single dive meet. And with him tonight is uh athletic director Dr. Watamura, Brooklyn Bahawan, track and field. CIF Central Section Division 2 Champion, runner up at the Masters in the 300 low hurdles, qualifying her for the CIF State Championships. She is a school record holder
007in the 400 meter, 300 low hurdles, the 4x100, the 4x4, and the 4x8. Head coaches are Kim Tucker, and Dr. Watermur is here from Golden West, Matteo Sanchez, Chavez, diving. runner up CIF Central section division 2 diving championships qualifying him for the state championships where he finished in 17th place. He is the first aquatics athlete in Golden West history to make it to the finals in his state meet and he is the six dive school record holder and head coaches Dustin Greg and principal Michael Lambert is here. Adrien Santa Cruz, track and field. CIF Central section Division 2 100 meter champion, runner up in the 200 meter and the long jump. He finished fifth at the Masters in the long jump. Qualified for the CIF State Championships. In addition, he qualified for the Nike Outdoor
008Nationals in the 100, 200, and the long jump. And he also broke the school 100 meter record with a time of 10.5. Head coach is Jennifer Marquez and Mr. Lambert is here. Also, head coach for Matteo is Dustin Greg. Sorry about that. from Mount Whitney. Tanner Lopez, boys swimming, finished fourth place in the 100yard free, the seventh place in the 50 free at the CIF Central Section Division 1 Championships, qualifying for the CIF State Championships held at Clovis West. He was also the EIL champion in the 50 and the 100 free, and he is the school record holder in both events. Head coach is Steven Chapman. Athletic director Luke Vitec. Ariana Diaz, track and field. She was the EIL champion in the 3200 meter. Runner up at the CIF Central Section Division 2 Championships in
009the 3200 meter. At the CIF Masters Championship, she qualified for the CIF State Championships where she broke a 43-year-old school record in the 3200 meter with a time of 104471 to finish in 18th place overall. Head coaches Isaac Gonzalez and athletic director Luke Videk and assistant coach Josh Escobido. And finally from Redwood, Wyatt Ruby, track and field, EIL champion in the 110 hurdles, second place overall at Masters, runner up at the CIF Central Section Division 1 Championships in the 110 hurdles, finished sixth place in the 110 meter hurdle at the CIF State Championships, and he qualified for the NA Nike Outdoor Nationals. Gracie Serpa, track and field. CIF Central section division 1 champion in the 400 meter dash. Third place overall at the Masters in the 400 dash. EIL champion in the 200 and the
010400. Qualified for the state championships and qualified for the Nike outdoor nationals. Jasmine Stewart, track and field. CIF Central Section Masters Champion in the long jump and triple jump. CIF in the long sorry, champion in the long jump and triple jump. Even more impressive at the CIF State Championships. She finished fifth in the long jump, sixth in the triple jump, and she qualified for the Nike Outdoor Nationals. Assistant coaches Jesse Ramirez, Stephen Adamson, Coach Lepic, and athletic director Michael Ryder here tonight. Again, one more round of applause for all these amazing individual athletes. Thank you. You guys are free to to leave or stay if you would like to. Oh, sorry. May have to pack it in a little bit for Thank you. Next we have the Redwood boys swim team. You can give him
011a round of applause. The Rangers captured the Division 2 CIF Central Section Championships for the 24-25 season held at Mission Oak on May 9th and 10th. In an outstanding display of talent and teamwork, the boys team left no doubt as to who ruled the pool, finishing more than 125 points ahead of runner up at Tascadero. Their dominant performance solidified the Rangers place at the top of the section. Again, congratulations. Team members are, and if you're here tonight and I say your name, please step forward. Keelin Anderson, Diego Brown, Cody Burton, Lincoln Cooper, Wyatt Dean, Dominic Dominguez, Samuel Firebach, Cole Masiel, Axel Maynard, Venton Maynard, Wyatt Mueller, Samuel Norumbbo, Blake Peterson, Brett Peterson, Tyson Phillips, Jackson Robuk Diver, Ivan Rodriguez, Jude Sears, Head coaches Eric Fuller and athletic director Michael Wright. Also, section champion relay teams
012were the 200 meter relay of Phillips, Sears, Dean, and Anderson, 200 free relay of Burton, Dean, Brett Peterson, and Anderson, and 400 free relay of Phillips, Brett Peterson, Fmanard, and Burton. One final of applause for your division 2 central section champions. And you can see them representing their hats too with bride. Hold on. Is Christina gonna take a picture? Oh, she's taking individual picture. So, she'll probably take an individual. Well, let's just wait a couple seconds here. So, let me step outside. So again, thank you gentlemen. And last, we have the Redwood girls swimmer. Some of the girls are coaching. So, uh, the girls delivered a strong performance at the 24-25 Division 2 CIF Central Section Championships held at Mission Oak on May 9th and 10th. Pushing the competition to the wire, the Rangers finished
013as runner-ups, falling less than 15 points behind eventual champions at Tascadero. The grit, determination, and team spirit made for a close finish. And I definitely want to recognize Emily Dean, who is a part of that team tonight, and head coach Sophie Terry and athletic director Michael Wright. Again, congratulations to all the athletes tonight. Parents and athletes. You are more than welcome to stay for the remainder of the board meeting. However, if you'd like to take this time to celebrate your athlete, I encourage you to do so now. So, Mr. Otto, Miss Hannah is going to take a picture. Again, thank you board and thank you community. Thank you so much. So nice to see how many of our athletes move on to the next level and says a lot about um our coaches and our
014staff and just appreciate all that and and also the parents behind that. U moving on to 4.2 recognition of student achievement spelling be um superintendent Kirkum. Well, thank you, Madame President. And speaking of uh the next level, uh excited to bring back uh an individual who's no stranger uh to our board of education uh and that is Sarvana Kadam on his spelling journey. And Sana, if you don't mind standing up, we're going to make you uh stand in the awkward uh spot here in front of everybody and and uh give him a big round of applause. Now, Servana's spelling journey began in third grade inspired by a visit to the county spelling bee with his father who also serves as his coach. Both his parents are here tonight along with Chris Meyer, assistant superintendent from
015Tallery County. Uh, and so we welcome him, uh, who has supported this journey as well. Now, back in the olden days of elementary school, uh, he placed second in his school spelling B. The following year, he finished fifth at the county level and then it just went from there. From 6th through 8th grade, he qualified for the National Spelling Bee, placing 23rd in his first year, 60th in his second, and now achieving a remarkable second place in this final year of eligibility. That is out of the nation. And so, please join me in congratulating him for his remarkable journey. And I do just want to, you know, a couple of us had an opportunity to go out to his school last week. We had a great celebration. and he was surprised all the students had
016lined up. Uh thanks to the principal and the family for that surprise. And but was remarkable as I had an opportunity to to chat with him a little bit about what this took. And he talked about the perseverance getting up super early in the morning when almost all of us not not to pass assumptions including myself are asleep. He is up working on preparing his mind for this sort of uh an an opportunity. And so I know his future is going to be extremely bright and I certainly hope that he keeps us up to date on his journey uh and path as he moves forward. So we're just so proud of you uh on behalf of Vicela Unified and how you represented not only yourself and your family, but how you represented Vicelia and the
017county as well. And so we're so proud of you and wish you the best as you move into the high school world. So, we're going to pause for just a quick moment to do a a photo. Uh, and I'd invite our board to come down as well. And uh and that will conclude this item. So, congratulations Andrew in Washington. Well, you're fine. There was perfect. All right. So, Thank you. so proud. I just thank you one more time for making Vicel Unified so proud of you and and for putting us on the map. So, thank you again. Appreciate all your hard work. Uh moving right along to item five, focus on student learning spotlight on good things happening in the district. presenter is going to be Superintendent Kirkum. Thank you, Madam President, members of the
018board. Uh this is our final spotlight for this current school year. We'll pick this in student entertainment, of course, uh back up in the fall. So, looking forward to uh a little bit of a a summer opportunity for many of our our staff and our schools and our students in particular. And so, obviously, we have to begin with the end in mind, which was uh our graduations. And so over the course of several days last week, uh the weather mostly cooperated and we had some phenomenal uh graduations for all of our high schools and our students. And you'll see in these images just some uh pictures of things that occurred from graduates walking uh their elementary school campuses, performances uh showcasing VAPA. We had staff and student competitions to let out steam across all of
019our schools. Did so many things, dress up opportunities for the end of the year. Thank you to our educators and our district teams for putting students first uh and learning. And you'll see here again uh some of our graduations and the pictures of uh some of our sites as the students were getting ready and some additional as well our uh so for about a week and a half. This is where almost all of us have been and uh so much work and preparation goes into this not only from our facilities team to set up everything. Uh, so I want to give them a shout out, but also to our principles and really at the end of the day, it's the student and the family, right, for continuing that journey, making sure they put school first,
020making sure they came to school to get them to this. And this is just the beginning. I know we celebrate graduation, but our expectation and our strategic plan is aligned to make sure that our students pursue post-secary opportunities whether it's in the workforce, the military, technical school, a gra, you know, a four-year or two-year institution. We want every student of one of our students to graduate college and career ready. Uh and we see that as we see these kids uh over these past few days. Moving on to student success. Last month, KSE24 celebrated students profiled on the Your Character Matters program. This year, eight students were highlighted through the media for their character. Congratulations to these students and teachers who nominated them. And of course, we we recognize them throughout the year as they were
021uh nominated. We've talked a lot about the neighborhood church. Excited to see the community center uh taking root literally uh over the course of the summer. Uh but another event that this community partnership holds is each year they honor seniors who have been part of their program for their acceptance into college and the university. This year 11 high school seniors from their launch program were recognized. Students meet with a mentor who helped them through the application process, writing resumes, interviews uh to make sure they're prepared. This program now has a total of 45 students and 20 of them serve as volunteer interns at Houston Elementary and Greenacres Middle School. So, they're already giving back. We're proud of this partnership and it shows why building community engagement is so important. Our students continue to shine. We
022received news that our A team from that are from our A team that Addison Tyler from Golden West High School was elected to serve on the Tallery Kings sectional officer team as vice president. She'll serve FFA students in the five US uh VUSD a program CVC, Hanford, Lamore, Corkran, and uh of Aan Avanol. Aanol. Oh, okay. There we all right. Speaking of spelling, I could have had should have had him still in here. Congratulations to Addison on this incredible responsibility. We can't wait to see what comes out of our A teams next year. And again, speaking of our students giving back, we're incredibly excited to receive news that from SYCON that Golden West was selected to receive the Friends of Saon Award of Merit. For the past two years, Golden West has provided over 45
023student volunteers for the annual barbecue and wildflower festival. These students have contributed significantly to the uh to this beloved community event. In addition, Audrey Kusen from Redwood was awarded the Ray Burbank Leaf Scholarship Award. She receives this award for being an exemplary cabin counselor and displaying outstanding values and making a lasting impact on visiting students. Her name will be added to the plaque displayed in the lodge. Congratulations to all of these students. At TCOE's Pursuing Victory with Honor Program dinner, four student athletes were awarded $500 scholarships for their academic achievements and character on and off the field. I'm proud that three of those four were from Vicelia Unified Seniors. And we had a staff member uh named the PVW athletic director of the year, Dr. Kimberly Wamura. And I think she was she's still here.
024Please stand and be recognized. Congratulations. And it's because of our athletic programs in our schools and athletic directors like him that our students are able to prosper. Congratulations to all of these individuals. Continuing with our civic community partnerships, we want to congratulate Isabella Flores from LDonte High School who emerged as the winner of the multiple district 4 California State Lions Club student speaker contest. She not only won the $10,000 state scholarship, but earned a coveted spot to ride on the Lions Club float in the Rose Parade. Altogether, Isabella has won an incredible $21,500 in scholarships from the Lions Club, spanning club, zone, district, and now state level. She wins this after speaking on the topic artificial intelligence, friend or foe. A lot of us are wondering, no, we'll have to read that. Congratulations, Isabella. I
025don't know if she I don't think she's here tonight, but we wish her the best. Over $400,000 were awarded to students during the annual scholarship night. Thank you to our community donors, PTA, uh our educational foundation, local organizations who helped make this event possible. Several of our board members also had the opportunity to participate in those events. We had an educator of the week. We're proud to recognize Isabelle Perez from Mount Whitney Elementary. Miss Perez teaches first grade dual language immersion and un immersion and understands that knowing two languages will have a big impact on the future of her students. We currently have two schools that offer dual language program and are proud to be extending this program now up into fourth grade. Congratulations to Miss Perez. Thank you for being here tonight and for
026your work. We wish you a well-deserved summer. Spotlight on our sites. Our elementary whiffle ball tournament uh just took place. The USD hosted its inaugural program at Royal Field. All 27 elementary schools participated. Each team uh guaranteed had two games. Uh in this competitive match, this time we had Golden Oak defeat Oakrove 7-4 to claim victory in this event. Uh both teams demonstrated outstanding sportsmanship and represented their community. Congratulations to Golden Oak for the win. As we mentioned earlier, we have incredible athletic programs. Recently, Redwood softball and baseball, and we saw some of our students tonight swept the top individual East Yose League awards this spring. Jaden Lopez was the East Yosimity League MVP for softball, and Cash Rico was the uh East Yose League MVP for baseball. Congratulations to these students. Moving on to
027our young people's concert held by the Tallery County of Office of Education. We had Redwood High School drum line and four teachers performed at this. Now, this event welcomes elementary students to participate in different music ensembles. Congratulations to these individuals involved in these performances. Also proud to host Congressman Costa for I came to Ivanho Elementary with members of the local boys and girls club. uh they had some student performances and he got to speak to I believe it was the third grade about the importance of regular school attendance uh and doing your best to be prepared for uh moving into high school. So a great opportunity for our students. Now continuing we've talked about college partnerships. This is our third year in partnership. Uh the board has approved several years ago a partnership with UC
028Merrced and Fresno State, Bulldog Bound, uh to get kids hooked into four-year institutions early, freshman, sophomore, junior year. Now, both of these programs give students guaranteed admissions and scholarship opportunities after graduation. Since its inception, we've had a 32% growth of students registering for the Bulldog Bound program, 160% increase in students registering for MAP. And while some students may not ultimately commit to those schools, the resources they and their families gain is invaluable. So, we're talking hundreds of kids that are now automatically guaranteed admission into these institutions, which by the way come with scholarship opportunities of several thousand dollars automatically. again for some of the students. So, just an amazing opportunity to connect our kids as we continue to work on advancing our strategic plan uh for post-secary and meet our board uh goals with our
029strategic plan. So, rounding out our observances during the month of Okay, it's time for glasses. During the month of June and July, we had Pride Month, Flag Day, Father's Day, Junth, and July 4th. I can see it there, but not here. Uh we have several spotlights on social media that are occurring over the course of the summer. Uh obviously not as much during the summer uh and we'll come back uh as we enter late July into early August with our countdown to the start of school which will contain all the information families will need to be able to have the best first day. And so I know they may not be looking forward to that. Some parents may already be looking forward to that. But uh for the students that will come soon and you
030can see a few more of uh the things that we did. And I'm just going to end with a little bit of a teaser. Each year at this time we we talk about our theme for the following year. Um and we're just in a minute going to hear from our student advisories, but that is part of what they do. They help us come up with some of the catchphrases and some of the uh things that we want for our um theme for the year. I think I did I have one more slide? got the suspense building and cut me off there. So, we'll get that back up. But, we're proud that this next year is going to be the 60th uh year of being a unified district. And so, we're going to use that as
031as part of the anchor for our theme. And there it goes. So, you see a little bit of an example there of what we're going to see. You see a prototype of our poster uh and our uh four themes that the student or our four um phrases that our students uh help come up with about staying focused. And uh there'll be posters for everybody to sign again. And that's just a little sampling. And we'll be introducing a new character that you see at the bottom there of the 60th uh pennant on the right. And so more to come on that. But we're excited to kick off this year. We're proud of uh you know the past, but we're embracing the future. And so this is going to give us an opportunity uh to do both
032of those things. And so Madame President, that concludes my report for tonight. Thank you, Superintendent Shum. Um moving on to 5.2, Student Advisory Report presenter, Assistant Superintendent Andy Deo. Well, hello there, um board members, President Naylor, Superintendent Trump. Thank you for giving me a little bit of your time tonight. What I wanted to talk to you this evening about is our student advisory group. Um, super excited to be able to share some of this information with you. Um, and I've got a few surprises planned for this evening as well that I think you guys will enjoy. So, let me just give us a couple reminders about the student advisory campaign. So, we've worked hard this year, as you know, to develop our Bicellia foundations, right? The work that we're doing in our district because you
033guys have set the vision for us that suggest we want our students to be empowered to achieve success. And in order to do that, that means every day our students have to be learning. Well, what better way to ensure that the work is taking place than to make sure we're talking to our students and finding out what their experiences, what it looks like, and to get them involved in the process of what the planning really, really looks like. So, to do that, I want to talk to you a little bit tonight about what actually is a student advisory. What does that look like? What's the point of it? Um, I wanted to explain a little bit about why student voice is important, why we value it as a district office, and why the school board
034has valued it, what we hope to accomplish this year, and most excitedly, what we have coming for the future. So, let's talk a little bit about what they are. So student advisories, as you know, are something that we felt was imperative for us to kind of allow us to see how are things going, what are the things we're working on as a school district. So the makeup of them was very intentional. We have all of our schools are representative. So whether it's a comprehensive school or alternative education sites, we wanted to make sure we had a very good robust sampling of all of our student population. So what that looks like is we have it broken into several different groups. So, my elementary groups have met six times this year. Sometimes we're in person, sometimes
035we're on virtual. We have four at least members from every one of our schools. Again, each school decided which students they were going to select from a w a wide range of their student population. So, we wanted to make sure we had that really broad experience. At our middle school level, we have 10 students from each of our middle schools. Again, they joined us both in person and um virtually. And then finally, our high school group. You guys may have heard the term USAV, United Students Advisory. In fact, you've established schoolboard policy that talks about that group. That group is a little bit more robust. We meet every month in person. And that group is the one we're really, really charged with helping us create the policies and the procedures and the programs for our
036school district. Together, these two systems that we're working with create our TK through 12 student advisory council that Mr. Shum oversees. So, why is student voice important? Now, obviously, we know that student opinion matters, but what's more important of is their opinion is what does their life experience look like? What does it look like on our school sites? What are they feeling? What are they seeing? What are they touching? What are they getting to go through each day? It's imperative that we know what that is so we know how to create our policies. Tonight, I've asked a member of that student policy group, our student advisory group to come and because I wanted him to talk to you a little bit about what he's experienced. So, I'm going to invite up one of my friends
037tonight. And this is a familiar face. He's helped us out in the past. Last year, you may may recall that wonderful event we did at the Fox Theater. You might remember him from there. So help me recognize my friend Afnan Hashmi, recent graduate from Golden West High School. Come on up, sir. Good evening board members. My name is Offn Hashmi and I'm here representing Golden West High School or more accurately the class of 2025 since apparently I'm a full-g grown adult now. But we decided that. But hey, even us adults cared deeply about what happens next for students coming up behind us. Over my four years at Golden West High School, I dove head first into everything. I founded the steam club, served as the FBA president and the science olympiad president, competed in science
038olympiad, managed the clothing closet for Excel, was a part of the business finance academy, served as a community relations officer and as the ASB club commissioner, and I even wrestled and played football. And no, I'm not listing all this to flex on you guys. Maybe just a little bit. But I'm sharing it because even with this level of involvement, there were moments where I sat in meetings in classes or walk throughout campus where I wish that someone would just ask or someone was just listen to me. That's why I'm here tonight to champion USAV. This year, USAV didn't just exist. It thrived. For the first time ever, we met consistently showed up even when life got in way and stayed commitment. And let's be real, getting a group of high schoolers to consistently show up
039for anything that doesn't involve food or extra credit, that isn't for everyone. I was lucky enough to speak at the state of the district event and that night I heard students share honest raw stories and it was powerful. But USV is bigger than just one night. It's the start of a cultural shift, a feedback loop where student voices aren't just included. It's integrated. Because we're always told, put yourself in someone else's shoe. Why not just include the people wearing the shoes? We live in the United States of America, a country built on government by the people. So why shouldn't students have a voice in decisions that directly impact their education and their daily lives? And this year we've seen what happens when voices are heard. It's not just ASB anymore. It's middle schoolers, elementary schoolers,
040athletes, artists, introverts, extroverts, real diverse student voices shaping real conversations. But here's the next step. If we want the student voices to keep growing, we have to think beyond just hearing students, we need to empower them to lead to every level. That starts with enhancing access and engagement in school-based activities. Because let's ask the big question. Who gets involved and who doesn't? And why? Some students join everything. Others never show up. Not because they don't care, but because it might be too expensive for them. Maybe they don't feel invited. Maybe they're afraid of being judged or they've never been told why it matters. We've got to redefine what access means. Access should be so clear, so visible, so inclusive that students don't have to search for it. It's just there, obvious, welcoming. Because more access
041will equal more engagement. But engagement isn't just about attendance. It's about purpose. So let's track what events work, what actually brings students together, build connection, and teach us something meaningful. Let's ask, are we doing this just because of tradition or are we going to do this because it's transformational? At Golden Weiss High School, we've learned that big tradition works, but only if people know about them. So, here's what we're suggesting. Build stronger feedback loops. Let students bring site level concerns and take USAV insights back to their schools. Give us the tools like merch, name badges, and even polos to give USAV leader real visibility and presence. Carve up time for real bonding with board members, students early in the year. Just a half day summit could transform the way that we collaborate. Surveying students and
042staff on what's working and then act upon it. And hey, we need a few more snacks, so please donate. We get hungry. Those are just some of the conversations that we have at USAV. This year was a big step forward, but we're just getting started. Some things didn't work. Unnecessary time reviewing old notes, moments where the meetings felt more like talk rather than actions, and we get that. But we also saw more consistency, more productive productive, and more diverse voices in rooms than ever before. So, let's keep growing. Let's keep asking better questions, listening deeper, and acting together. Board members, I'd like to leave you with this. Two of my favorite people always say, "Leadership starts with you, but it's not about you." USA students are already showing up. We're committed, we're invested, and we're
043ready to help lead USD into a future where the student voices aren't just heard, it's empowering, and it's expected. So believe in USAV, invest in USAV, and let's walk into a future together with USAV. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thanks, Offnot. I'm going to keep him here in case we have any questions for him when he's done. Um, and I'm going to highlight a couple of things he talked about as far as the feedback and those type of things. So, thank you for joining us tonight. Well, I mentioned earlier that this program involves students in TK through high school. You've heard from one of my high school students. Well, I've put together a video that will kind of share some insights from some of our other students that I think you're going to enjoy. The
044best part about the student advisory team was when we got to write down our thoughts on a big whiteboard and then walk around the room seeing everybody else's thoughts. And it was just really great to learn and grow from our past mistakes and learn to grow new ones. So, going back to that day where we split up, uh, Miss Tina, she was posing questions for us to try thinking about and solving in like the real world, which brought it back into our school world, if you would say. And so we'd work in groups and uh share our thoughts with new people every time which was really great not just from the teachers or the principal's point of view but from the students point of view. USAB for me at my school has been very influential
045because we got the chance to really connect as an officer team including with the reps and the executive board as in the president vice president and the treasur and secretary. It was a really good chance for us to all really get an understanding of what the district level conversations usually surround. And especially at our school, we come up with ideas in a way to remix it to make it our own. We usually like to inform the students and I find it as my goal to inform students of what happens around it or in our district, which is something I really hold dear and it is a value of mine. It was awesome to be part of this group and make sure that my voice was heard along with my peers. One thing that we can
046improve on is getting the information back to our school to have future generations look back on it and realize that those students can feel like they have a voice and they can be able to say what they want to say. Some advice that I have for the future participants of the student advisory meetings and the student advisory groups is don't be afraid to speak up and don't be afraid to use your voice to get your opinions and your thoughts heard and be able to share your ideas with each other and let other people express their ideas too, not just you. The meetings that I attended were really collaborative. I was paired up with students from other districts and we talked through different topics that the district wanted us to address such as the cell phone
047policy, making students more actively engaged in schools, making sure they feel accomplished. Every school, I think, has different needs. Same with the students. So, we were all able to come together as one to serve the district and to make sure that these different voices are heard, views on those topics are heard, and it was honestly, it was just a really great time. [Music] Wasn't that so awesome? It was such a great time working with those students throughout the year. Um, again, what I'm hoping that you noticed in that was just the diversity. That was very intentional on our part. We serve almost 30,000 students. Every child is unique. We wanted to make sure when we have these conversations, we've got that wide range of personalities, differences, different needs, so that we make sure we're really
048coming up with what our students are seeing and hearing. So, you heard of the best part about the student advisory team was when Sorry, there we go. Okay. So, a second ago, you heard Mr. Shrum allude to what's coming in the future. Last month when we were here, um, Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Garza spoke about the strategic plan, and you all know that the strategic plan is our five five-year roadmap. Every year, we've identified those action items that you're going to see living in the year. So in the coming year, there are some particular things that we really, really want to make sure we work towards and that we really desperately want to make sure our students are working with us on. So when I share those with you, I want you to reflect back
049on some of the things offn shared and some of the things that the students spoke about to make sure that we're on the right track. So, those action items we're going to be working on this next year are establishing student acknowledgement systems that honor and recognize a broad range of student achievement. We also want to expand opportunities for student voice across the district. We want to create a proactive process to support key transitions in students educational experience. We want to enhance student access and engagement in school-based activities. We want to strengthen our partnerships to connect students to community activities and we want to establish and implement a unified communication platform and protocols kind of that hometoschool communication piece. So again while everything is going to be important for us next year in particular we really
050want to focus on those things that our students are really going to see experience touch and feel. So all throughout the year we're going to be working with that group to ensure and you heard Opnon also mention the importance of that feedback loop. We learned a lot this year and one of the things we learned was how critical it was after we meet as a group. How do we create a system to go back and make sure that those activities, those conversations actually go back to the school site so the students are aware that their advocates, their representatives are speaking for them and it's really conversations with all 30,000 kids, not just the hundred or so that are part of advisory. So, we're super excited about that. So, in closing, I just want you to
051know that we are moving beyond just making sure our students have a voice to making sure we're creating that visible impact that's showing our students that not only are their ideas important, but their ideas are what's going to be moving us forward in the future. So, with that said, I welcome any questions you might have for myself or my friend Offn. Any comments or questions? I just wanted to say uh to Agnan you're an amazing young man. I just your your speech and the involvement just really appreciate it and I appreciate the fact that we're listening to kids and you know how do we get kids to to um access our school activities to research that because you guys know the students know what they like and what they don't like. And so I just
052think that is so powerful and thank you for your time that you've committed to this project. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Moving on to item six, general public comment. General public comment on any topic not on the agenda may be heard at this time. If you have public comment on an item listed on tonight's agenda, there will be an opportunity for you to share your comments at the time the item comes up for discussion by the board. Pursuant to board policy, the board will limit individual comments for general public comment to no more no more than 3 minutes and individual topics to no more than 20 minutes. To comply with the Brown Act, California's open public meeting law, board discussion is limited to items on the agenda. Therefore, when receiving public comment for
053items not on the agenda, the board's role is limited to receiving such comments and the board may not engage in dialogue with the public. The board thanks the public for participation in public comment and understanding of the board's responsibilities. It is recommended you begin your comments by stating your name. And I do have a couple Alicia Cortez. After hearing everything that is so beautiful with our students, it makes me very happy because our first son graduated from the eighth grade in the 70s. So, we have a longstanding with a unified school district being active. Anyway, I'm here today. My name is Alysia Cortez. I um attended the 8th grade graduation at Richwood Ridgeview. Our granddaughter a special needs class four of them one of them our granddaughter Ava Cortez 15 year old down syndrome a
054lot of medical issues for open heart surgeries the last one three and a half years so it's been an an ordeal with our parents and our youngest granddaughter as I sat there I was very thankful and the first thing I to open where their names are at their program. I have a head or whoever I'm going to go and see. First thing I do, I want to see their name. I was surprised that her name was not in it or the other three children. I looked and turned around and looked and read and turned around and the lady next to me, she says, "What was wrong?" I couldn't tell her. I kept saying, you know, and then finally I told her, she turned around and told her husband, asked me again for the names. And
055he looked, he got up and left. He came back immediately after a little bit. And he said they know about it. They talk about it. And she said, the lady in the back said that they would reprint prints for the parents and they will be getting in the mail with their names on it. I go and that's it. And he was very upset himself. I turn around, it was about 13 of us family members turn around and look at my daughter-in-law, my son, Ava's sister, high school student. Immediately I knew they already had read by the looks in their face. Soon after the four children come with the two wonderful teachers. They come and they put him under a tent up at 30 40 ft from the stand. And of course they're very loving children
056are aa you know waving to everybody not just us. After a while, poor ladies went to the stand and um I said, "Okay." So the procession started with the other students very happy like they should have been the parents very with the cameras, everything else, but our other four children that were supposed to be graduating sitting clapping for this group. It just broke my heart. They could have called them and be they were supposed to receive a diploma's first but they were not a part of it. So there was a second rejection. Then they go around and sit in the back which is wonderful and everybody really happy you know it should be but our kids sat there through the flag of America a lot of those kids didn't even put their hand our four
057little kids were standing with their hand real proud you know when the time came to get that diploma you know they woke up like nothing but when it was the other children came up every these four people in the stand usually are the ones that for the public to stand up and here there we going to so I told my son I can't hear no more I'm leaving I'm taking my husband of 59 years with me he says we all are okay so we got up all of us got up and left and I I'm I'm sorry but the We way way over the time. Um, if you can just leave your comments with us, I'd be more than happy to say thank you. I just want to say that it's the first time that
058these children, our granddaughter felt pain and rejection in her life. I'm sorry. Next, Stephanie Cortez. I appreciate that. Thank you. I'm gonna try to keep it to three. My name is Stephanie Cortez. I'm the parent of Ava Cortez, who is a TCOE student with Down syndrome. Um, she was just promoted from Ridge View this last Friday. I have several grievances about how the promotion was conducted. First of all, like my mother-in-law said, the names of the all all of the children of the TCOE were not on the program. Um, when we asked why, they said because they don't have power school charts, which we get where the list was originated from. Mrs. Hernandez was my daughter's teacher. She said she emailed the vice principal, the principal, and the secretary of all the names of the
059kids that were promoting. And this was because the year before she had an issue, same issue. Um, and she didn't want history to repeat itself. TCOE students are still VUSD students, but they are not treated as such. I don't know if you are aware of that. Um, but this is a this is a general theme. No one in the audience was aware that the ceremony had even started. We're all sitting there and all of a sudden we see Mrs. Hernandez with our with the four kids going in front of the stage. They walk to their popup. They sit down and then the three ladies, the president, I'm sorry, the vice pre the principal, PTA, and translators stand up, which prompts us audience to stand up. And then the typical kids come on stage and do
060their walk. I look over and my sweet little Ava is just smiling and clapping for the other students and giving them acknowledgement with a happy heart, which she never received. It was very disheartening. Um I called Bridge View Friday to I left a message with the secretary. I asked someone to call me back. Um 3 days later, um Mrs. um Joiner calls me today, actually 4 days later. So Monday after work, I went to the school and I spoke with Mrs. Terango. I told her that I was unhappy about the the names not being there, but that was not the biggest thing. The biggest thing is our children were we were not recognized. They did not stand up and we were not said. A phone call wasn't given to us to say, "Hey, I'm sorry.
061We acknowledged that we made an error. This is how we're going to rectify it." It was nothing. And um Mrs. Tango was great. She apologized. Mrs. Joiner called me today. Um kind of made some excuses. She said, "I didn't have your number." I said, "We're very resilient. if you want to find something these days, it's not that hard. She did apologize. Um um basically all in all, all kids, kids with special needs, they try their hardest. They do their best to the best of their ability. And then when they're not acknowledged for their efforts, it's hurtful and heartbreaking, not just for the child, but for the parents and the family. It's not about the stupid missing names on the program. It's about being disregarded and segregated. And this is this has got to change. Thank
062you. Next up, Chelsea Chavez Gonzalez. Good evening, President Naylor and Board of Education. My name is Chelsea Chavez Gonzalez. I come before you today wearing several hats. First, as a proud community member, born and raised in Vicelia. Second, as a graduate of Redwood High School, class of 2001. And finally, as a current president of CSA Chapter 83, and dedicated employee with nearly 15 years of service to VUSD. I am a product of VUSD. A few months ago, I addressed this board during our initial sunshine proposal for negotiations. At that time, I expressed hope and commitment towards building a positive and collaborative process. Tonight, I returned to express my gratitude for the partnership we've cultivated. Specifically, I want to thank the board of education members who I resp who who responded when I reached out with
063a very clarifying question, one that any stakeholder, community member or union representative have the right to ask of their duty elected officials. Your openness meant a great deal to me. I also want to extend my deepest appreciation to Dr. Judy Burgess and Director Eric Herrer over the past several months. Their professionalism, communication, and mutual respect have helped to foster a meaningful and productive working relationship between VUSD and CSK. While we know that labor and management will always face challenges, the respectful tone of our recent efforts has played a key role in our success. That said, I feel a responsibility to speak up. It must be stated for the record. A district leader recently claimed that my clarifying question to the board con constituated a violation of labor law, calling it illegal. That is simply not
064true. Asking questions of elected officials is not a violation of law. It is a cornerstone of public engagement and transparent governance. I say this not to create conflict but to stand firm in the values of open dialogue and respectful collaboration. I want to make it clear to this individual, to you, my board, my to my members, to our community, that one person's mischaracterization will not undo that which B USD and CSEA have worked hard to build over the past five months. We've done a lot in five months. Given the current climate where the issues of benefits and salaries directly impact those of us working behind the scenes to support students every day, these conversations matter. Our voices deserve to be heard and respected. And looking ahead to the next school year, I remain hopeful and
065committed. I trust that VUSD and CACA will continue to move forward in a spirit of cooperation, mutual respect, and shared purpose. Thank you for your time and continued partnership. Thank you. Okay, moving on to consent agenda number seven. Would any board member like to pull an item from the consent agenda? With that, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? A motion to approve. I'll second motion by board member Gabby, seconded by board member Viegas. Call for the vote. Motion passes 70. Item. Moving on to item 10, administrative panel recommendation and actions. 10.1 recommended expulsions. May I have a motion to approve the recommended expulsions? I'll motion. I'll second. Am I on? We did turn one right there. I I'll continue. I'll go back. Can I I'm sorry. I skipped over. Um I'm
066sorry. We have a motion by Jackie G uh board member Gabby, seconded by Thank you. by board member President Young. Uh I just wanted to clarify just to make sure we're we're sticking on agenda. Um we are. I just skipped two, but I'll go back. I was going to finish this one item. Perfect. Thank you. Call for the vote on that one. Motion passes 70. Okay, we're going to go back. I turned too many pages. I'm sorry. We're going to go back to item number eight, board member reports. And we'll start with a board member of Viegas. Thank you, President Naylor. Um, just wanted to say, you know, congratulations to all our graduates, our class of 2025. Congratulations to all our staff, our faculty, everybody who worked so hard to make sure graduation was a
067smooth success. I'm very proud to see so many students uh going off to do amazing things whether they're off to join the military, a 4-year university, community college, or enter the workforce right away. Really excited to see them have the tools and resources needed to be successful. Um also wanted to highlight um unfortunately a lot of what's been happening in Los Angeles and throughout the state with many immigration rates throughout the country. So, I just wanted to reiterate our board policy, especially we have students, you know, getting ready to prepare for summer school, wanting to ensure that they feel safe within our schools to know that we're not sharing any data uh or unnecessary information uh with agencies to ensure that no ICE agent is allowed to enter into our school without a signed and
068dated warrant by a judge. And just reaffirming our commitment to serve all students regardless of status. um and also making sure that we're doing everything we can to provide information to our families about resources in the community um with respect to immigration services. So, I wanted to highlight that to make sure that all students are welcome, our families are welcome at all of our events on campus uh to make sure that our campuses continue to be a safe and inclusive space for all students. Thank you. Board member Camoyed. I have I have no report. Uh board member Belt. Thank you, President Joy. Uh this one I've said it so many different times that I was on track to visit all 42 schools and I made 40 instead of 42 but um uh well worth seeing
069every one of them that we could. The attendance to VTEC and Mount Whitney scholarship nights was quite remarkable because of the types of students we constantly are trying to engage and make sure that students are engaged. uh we saw a an amazing array of different kinds of students, different um focus uh for their futures, but if we add it all together, I believe it was close to a half a million dollars of gra of scholarships were presented to stu graduating students of Vicel Unifi, which is absolutely remarkable. the neighborhood degree program. If you've not seen that, to see 20 students, 22 actually, I think, uh, receive a laptop after completing a mentoring program. It wasn't just a mentoring program. It's the opportunity for them to know how to apply to college, what kind of college
070to go to, whether it's a technical school or a two-year college or a four-year college. Um, one of them actually is on their way to Stanford. And these are all students from Houston Elementary who have been tracked all the way through high school. And this church continues to amaze all of us that they've adopted these students and want to help them uh succeed. Not more than that. They want to help them actually to thrive. And so that was an amazing event. The medical class ceremony, the pinning ceremony we call it. again, students who are completing certifications to actually be in the workforce before they finish high school. A highlight for me too of all of the graduations, I only made it to eight cuz I was sick or too busy for one of them anyway,
071um is that we do have several students that not only finished high school, we have one who actually had two AA degrees before she graduated from high school last week. Um those are the kinds of uh early college we want to encourage students. I don't know how she does that. It doesn't make any sense to me. But um and the number of students that are 4 point plus again that was a goal for all of us sitting in this room is just to have as close to 4.0 as possible but yeah 4.5 and 4.6 because of their weighted GPA. The shaking all the 460 hands at Valley Oak Middle School was well worth it. I understand that some of my colleagues didn't have to do that. They sat in the shade, but um our largest
072middle school did a tremendous job in acknowledging all the students there at Valley Oak. Sun or no sun at parking or no parking. And the last thing I want to just encourage everyone is the Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. One more thing. Mount Whitney Choir, I sent them an email. I'm going to send Redwood Choir an email as well. Two of the most outstanding national anthems I've ever heard vocally done. they were not only um intonation wise but also blended and balanced. And so I let them know that we um we're seeing our music programs really develop in a very very healthy way. But I want to encourage there's not too many left in the room, but all of our teachers and staff um I want you a restorative summer vacation. Thank you for all
073your work. board member Dang. Thank you, President Naylor. Uh I have to ditto on the choir U performances. Uh definitely um what a great school year this was. Uh for all you watching online, um y'all did it. Uh give yourself a pat on the bat if you're an admin, principal, teacher. Uh really way to go. We could not have done it without you and uh you are very much appreciated truly. Um, I wanted to sum up this last school year by saying thank you to all the great student vapa performances like the choir. Um, especially the ones that I was able to attend. I'm I'm looking forward to next year. Uh, and so are my kiddos. I also want to say thank you to all the school sites and programs that let me visit who
074shared with me the things that they hold near and dear uh about their own little piece of our district uh and about the mating amazing students that they serve. To the FFA chapters for having me at their banquetss and for being able to witness our future leaders in action uh learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live, and living to serve. to chapter 83 and classified staff of Vice Unified. Uh thank you for inviting me to the CSW uh classified appreciation barbecue. Uh we don't always say it, but classified staff are the backbone of this district and uh sometimes we forget it. All the high five Fridays and kiddos with big smiles on their faces coming to school and sometimes frowns too. Lastly, to all the students in the end of the year recognitions,
075completion ceremonies, music festivals, orchestra festivals, middle school promotions, and the oh so fun high school commencements that we many of the board members were able to attend. Uh thank you all for making this job so worth it. I look forward to seeing and hearing about what y'all are doing uh now that you've uh checked that high school box. Uh like uh our superintendent Kirk Sum Shrum uh mentioned earlier, I am very proud and eager to see uh and to look forward to what our students have in store for us next year. So with that, it concludes my board report. Thank you. Board member Gabby. No report. Board member clerk. Did you forget my name? It's cuz I stepped out. Dr. Hodo. Yeah. So, couple quick comments here. First, I apologize for having to step out
076for some personal business there, but I'm back and we're good to go. Um, thank you, uh, and congratulations are in order. Congratulations to the students and parents who completed the year. We had a good year. Uh, thank you to the, uh, certificated, classified, and management folks who made school happen every day throughout the course of the year. And they'll work through summer to prepare us for next year. It's important work. We're a big part of the community and it makes a difference. Uh I got a chance to end the school year on two really great notes. First, as Mr. Belt said, the ceremonies at the end of the year, the commencements and the promotions, I had a chance to attend 10 of those, and they are a highlight of the year. Seeing the kids cross
077the line, whether it's to promote to the next grade or to graduate from high school, is something that's truly special. Each one of those kids packs many many years of school experiences, interactions with adults and and brings much promise to the world and we're excited about that when we see it and it represents really the end result of the work that we do. And then on a on a similar note, I attended uh an orchestra event at the end there and I saw the sixth grade orchestra which was great. It's amazing how quickly those kids come along to produce music that's really wonderful. Uh, also the middle school kids. This was the best of the middle school orchestra and they were fantastic. But the most inspiring thing was the high school, I think it was
078the intermediate group. It wasn't the top end group because they were later that night. The quality of the music that they produced was phenomenal. We have kids at every level that out that perform as well as the best kids anywhere in the state or around. But we got lots of them. Two things make us special. Number one, we we have kids that perform. And number two, we have mass. We have large numbers of kids who prod produce a very distinctive sound whether it's orchestra, vocal, whatever. So, it's something we can be proud of. I know we invest in it uh heavily, but it's for that reason because kids when brought together can produce something that brings value to themselves and certainly value to the community. So, thanks for the district for providing those two opportunities
079for me to to finish out a great school year. Done. Yeah. I I just want to say too, the commencement ceremonies at the end of the school year are just amazing and um the presentation and the singing and it's like the whole package is just uh amazing. Um I do want to give a shout out to Mount Whitney's Choir. I did attend the choir spring show which was Disney themed which was really nice. Um they did an excellent job. It's just it's always amazing to see our kids performing and they some of it's like wow it feels like it's the real thing up there, the professional. And so, um, just have some really, really talented, um, students. So, anyway, that's my report. Thank you. I'm just kind of out of tonight. Uh, superintendent report. Thank
080you. Thank you, Madam President. Uh, also again, we've concluded another exceptional school year. Thank you to this board uh, for your evaluation and feedback. I certainly take that to heart and appreciate uh the the continued employment as well. Um but looking forward to uh building our strategic plan and working to implement uh those pieces of that which are so important to the future of the district and you heard you know again tonight in a couple of reports just a little bit about what that direction is going to take us and so we're thrilled about that. I also echo all of the end of the year events that in fact the music festivals and those things uh orchestra and ch and you know uh the fourth graders all of were one of the first things I
081remember seeing when I was here uh in May when I very first joined the district and I had never seen anything like that. uh and it speaks to the investment uh this board and community has not just in VAPA programming but sports in clubs and everything else and and again is a big part of our strategic plan. So uh looking forward to uh the rest of our presentations tonight. A lot of work to set us up for success next year. Uh and then uh we know that uh our staff will be taking some well-deserved time this summer uh as well and as our teachers and our summer programming is already underway. So it never really stops in a school system. Uh and so a lot of our summer work projects and and our maintenance and
082facilities teams kick into high gear. Uh and so we appreciate the work that they're going to do to get us ready for the best first day ever, which will be just around the corner. But before that, we'll take a little bit of time to recharge uh and refresh and be ready to come back uh to start the next school year. So that concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you, Superintendent Shum. Okay, so I'm going to go back because obviously I skipped a page and so we're going to go back and just redo everything so that we're on course with our agenda here. So let's go back to 10.1 recommended expulsions. May I have a motion to approve the recommended expulsions? Uh President Aaylor, those are recommended reinstatements. 10.1 usually they're in the other. I'm going
083to start back at the first one. Yeah, I'm I'm going back and starting all over again because I I jumped the gun there. So, the first one is recommended expulsions on on my agenda. It says 10.1 is recommended reinstatements. That's why I just want to flag. I'm sorry. Yours says Sorry, I didn't want to throw anything off. I just want you. What are you talking? You're reading off the president notes and the president notes do say recommended expulsions first. So So I'm glad you said that. Thank you. Um so we're going to go with 10.1 recommended reinstatements. Okay. So may I have a a motion to approve the recommended reinstatements? I'll make a motion. I'll second. Okay. On a motion by board member Vieasa, second by board member Gaby. Call for the vote or motion
084passes 70. I see what you're saying. Okay. So, moving on to 10.2 recommended expulsions. May I have a motion to approve the recommended expulsions? So moved. So, there you go. Okay. Hang on. I just got to make some notes here on a motion by board member Odto, second by board member Gamoyan. Call for the vote. Waiting on me. Motion passes 70. Okay, moving right along. Item 11, general agenda. I just want to make sure I'm matching. Oops. We have 11.1, public hearing, request for special education summer school. I will now open the public hearing to allow for public comment on this item. Thank you, President Naylor. Um, Superintendent Shrum board members, I just wanted to give you a quick reminder about what we're here for tonight. You may recall back in January, we first came
085to you asking for this waiver for our special education services over the summer. This is an annual thing that we always do. And and simply what it is is, as you know, some of our students in special education who receive that level of support require summer school to make sure that they don't have learning loss before the next year starts. We want to continue doing that. However, in Vicelia, our SC summer school program is 4 days instead of five. So, the waiver just asks the state to allow us to provide the same amount of time just in 4 days as opposed to five. So, we asked for the waiver in January. You were gracious enough to approve it. Since then, the state has asked for some additional evidence to support that we worked with our
086community to ensure they were comfortable with the ask. meaning did we talk to our families? Did we talk to our labor partners? And we did so. So today's ask is just asking you to reapprove. And we will also be including um the evidence that we included the community and our teachers union as part of that. So if you would so do, I would entertain the idea of an approval tonight for this. Any comment or questions? And Mr. Deo, it looks like it's for two years. Is that what it is? We have to renew it each year, but it's a two-year program. Yes. Okay. Okay. Any others? I'm going to now close the public hearing and reconvene the regular session. So, may I have a motion to approve the request for special education summer school waiver?
087I'll make a motion and I'll second it. On a motion by board member Gabby, seconded by board member Belt. Do I call for the vote? Motion passes 70. Thank you. 11.2 Local Indicators and Performance Levels. Presenter is the administrator of business services, Mr. Jim Sullivan to New Fancy. Good evening, board president Naylor. My name is Jim Sullivan. I'm the administrator of business services. I'm here to share with you first our local indicators and this really goes into our foundations of um learning environments as well as student achievement. So the dashboard, if you remember, has uh has seven different metrics for student performance and then it has five other metrics the state uses to evaluate the effectiveness of our programs. But unlike the first, you know, chronic absenteeism, the academics as well as college and career
088um those are all measured by the state assessments and by different score um reports through CalPADS. These are self assessed. The last five are self assess assessed and e and are either listed as standards met or not met. Remember that to achieve standards met we must show we are working to address each area and not whether each area is fully completed. So I'm going to share briefly which each one of those areas are. Um the first standard is we met basic services and this is the number of teachers we evaluated number of teachers out of field internships and ineffective. Now, ineffective teachers are this is the state has several different um ways of measuring different evaluating teachers performances. And this one is just basically is is if they have internships, short-term staff permits and variable
089team or waiverss is what considers the state is considered ineffective. It also talks about through um how our facilities are addressed through our FIT report. The next one is is academic standards. How we're implementing academic standards. And the scale goes from exploration and research phrase all the way to full implementation. And again, this was made by our curriculum department. And you can tell we're in full implementation except for beginning standard development with history and social studies because again, they're waiting to adopt the new standards. These are the standards for English learners or um EL science again in history, CTE, health, education and visual performing arts. And then we also evaluate um our staff development in these areas as well. And you can see um we met all those standards. The parent engagement, the parent engagement
090goes again from ex exploration all the way to full implementation and sustainability. We it's about developing capacity so that we have a way of working with our staff and our staff has a way of working with our parents. So we provide professional development for those. Um again it's about professional development providing opportunities for parents to have two-way communication. We seek input for decision-making. We use Mr. Shrum's reports. We seek our DAC reports, our um DAC, all of those different committees that we use to for decision- making as well as school site council and ELAC. School climate, we pre we we administer the report and you will be receiving those um later on in the school year. The re the results from that broad course of study. Again, it's about evaluations. And when we evaluated, we've
091noticed that students with IEPs, English learners, and students who failed courses have a less likely chance of having a broad course of study. Um, they're not able to enroll in different classes, traditional school schedule and creates an opportunity for us. And students are enrolled in interventions or makeup classes. So, that that eliminates them to be able to take additional electives. So, we've changed some of the special ed schedules, as you know, the models. We're focusing on tier one support next year, supporting CT and link learning in the middle schools. Um, we're offering that next year. And we're providing professional development ongoing to help explore alternatives through current different scheduling practices. And that is it for that report. That was an information report. Thank you. Any um public comment or board discussion? I I have a
092question. Go ahead, President Naylor. Uh Mr. Sullivan, um the basic services. Yes, we we have 22 of the 42 school sites are deemed not in good repair. Correct. That means that so it goes from there's below fair and good. So the other ones are fair, they're not necessarily scored as good. So it doesn't mean they're falling apart. It just means they're fair and not good reports. Okay. It just that's amazing to me that I didn't realize we had half of our school sites would be in that classification. So I'm I'm kind of surprised by that. I'll just add I think you know one thing to remember this is a compliance report and so it's scored against you know different standards. Our facilities are in very good shape. They meet the Williams Act. This is and
093keep in mind like you know fair and good fair you know again this is this is a state measuring I'll also remind the board I mean you know we did a facilities assessment we have over $300 million worth of facilities upgrades you know that ultimately need to happen and so not to be confused fair doesn't mean our kids are going to school in a in any type of unsafe condition or anything like that I don't know Mr. care if you want to uh add anything to that but there are other additional measures we have to meet of course our sites get supervised for safety violations any of those things this is not that yeah so I definitely want to clarify that because I think you bring up a good point a good point right remember
094that report uh that Mr. Sullivan reported that's a that's a moment in time. So remember we've got ongoing projects, ongoing maintenance, ongoing we've got you you approved a shortterm plan. We are working on a long-range plan. So lots of things are kind of in motion. So that is just a a one snapshot moment in time. Any other comments? Just a reminder, this is anformational item no only and no actions required at this time. Thank you, Mr. Sullivan. Appreciate it. Um, moving on to 11.3 public hearing and first read on 2025 2026 local control accountability plan, the LCAP review. Um, again, I will now open the public hearing to allow for the public comment on this item. The presenter is Mr. Jim Sullivan. So the local control accountability plan addresses all three of our core beliefs
095and address and also addresses commitment for student learning. Uh if we remember that it's a three-year plan and we will be beginning our second year of that plan. The components of the plan range from overview for parents, a budget, um plan summary, engaging our educational partners, all the way through the action tables where you can identify which actions actually address our um students who are unduplicated. The committee partner input we ranged from student advisory committee. We used Mr. Shrums as well as I went to some school sites and met with students. Um we went we have our bargaining units. So I met with each one of them as well as staff and our English learner advisory committee. The funds that are in our LCAP range from title one, two, three and four are supplemental which
096are all federal funds. Our supplemental concentration funds are again students um we receive those funds because of undup are number of students who are unduplicated which are either English learners, lowincome or foster youth students in our district. Um and then this year we had to add our learning recovery block grant. Those are one-time funds and next year we plan on um spending all those funds, but we had to add that into the LCAP as well. So, the total amount of the funds is around $80 million. In goal one, um this should be um this is the same goal that we had last year. Um it's about student proficiency in every subject. Um our metrics was the CASP I Ready local measures um English learner rep progress reclassification and college and career options. And in those
097we pay for uh CTE classes, we pay for intervention teachers, teachers at each sites we pay for um and we pay for the assessment team and different programs in there. Goal two is about um the the environment. Um so then we talk about suspension rates, graduation rates and dropout rates, chronic absenteeism and surveys for students and parents. We take all those into account in there. We pay for social workers, school counselors, um behavior intervention technicians, um kindergarten paras, all of those are in that goal. Goal three is about family and community engagement. This is really we focus on the family community resource center. Goal four and five is um these are kind of new goals that we have. We've had them last year as well as this year. It's because they receive additional equity multiplier
098funds um Sequoia and Creekide and those funds are given to us because they are over 80% of their students are free and reduced lunch as well as they are considered um high mobility rate meaning they move from school to school. um those metrics that those for those are graduation rates for SEOA um school suspension rates for both as well as English learner progress and then surveys we provided we and the last goal is a new goal and it's the goal because we have um learning recovery block grant funds and in there we um we pay for and we're using the metrics for graduation rate suspensions English learners and again surveys and those are we pay for uh counselors at the elementary school, our academic uh teachers uh coaches as well as some um APS at
099Creekide and also some BITS at the secondary level and we will ask for your approval June 12th. Thank you very much. Any questions? Thank you. Any um public comment or board discussion? Okay. Um, I'm going to close the public hearing and we'll reconvene the regular session. Again, that was an action item. Uh, first read or not an action item, sorry. 11.4 public hearing and first read 2025 2026 B USD proposed budget. Again, I will now open the public hearing to allow for public comment on this item. Presenter is finance director Johnson. Good evening, board president Naylor, members of the board, and superintendent Shrum. My name is Kyla Johnson, finance director, and I'm here tonight to um do the first reading of the 2526 budget. Our budget is the tool that the board has to ensure
100we are meeting our core beliefs and commitments. This budget provides us with the resources that allow us to ensure that all students can achieve at high levels and demonstrate continuous growth. The board's role in that is approving our budget and what sets the conditions for student learning in our district and also aligns our budget to our strategic plan. Tonight, we're going to go through our budget process and timeline, some of the assumptions that were made to um put together the budget. We'll do an overall um review of the general fund, go through our multi-year projections, and then touch on our other restricted funds, and then go over reserves, and then discuss next steps. So our budget process and timeline um we are always in the cycle of either developing a budget or closing out a
101year. Currently right now we are at the item number seven which is our LCAP and budget adoption. Um we started this process back in the fall in October of 2024 and then we will officially um close this year out 2526 in January of 2027 when we bring our audit report to the board. some of the assumptions that we used um to build this budget for 2526. We have our cost of living adjustment or a cola of 2.3%. Um there are lots of state budget proposals that are out there right now. We do not have those in this budget. Um and we will not do that until the governor signs the budget. Um our ADA does show a very slight decrease from 2425. Our pensions are stable. Um we did see a very slight increase in
102in our CalPERS retirement. Um and then also our step and column costs are included in this budget. We also do have our one-time funds for the learning recovery emergency block grant that is in here as we are still funding spending down that fund balance. And then we also have our contributions to special ed and um routine restricted maintenance which is a required 3% reserve. We do have a pause on some additional contributions for our textbooks and facilities. And the reason that we have those on pause right now is because some of the um onetime monies we received for instructional materials and also the money for measure A for facilities. Those other sources have allowed us to maintain supporting those priorities. Our general fund overall budget, this is our revenues. As you can see, our LCFS
103sources um make up the majority of the revenue we receive. Our total revenue is 498 million, a little over that. Um, this budget actually represents a more normalized budget for us, which was what we saw pre- pandemic. Um, we do not have any one-time funds budgeted in our revenues for this year, and there are no major differences um, in our overall revenue. We also have our district reserve um, in this budget of 9.84% which is under our board policy of 15%. This next slide shows the breakdown of our general fund revenues. As I had mentioned, LCFF sources makes up the majority of that, which is about 78% of our budget. Um, federal is 5%, our other state revenue is 12, and those include things such as our expanding learning opportunities program, our CTE programs, Prop
10428, lottery funds. And then our other local revenue represents 5% and that's comprised of local grants, interest earnings, and our SULPA revenue. The next slide is our general fund overall budget for our expenditures. Our total expenditures for 2526 are currently budgeted at a little over $55 million. We do have more expenditures in our budget um than we do revenue and that goes um back to us using fund balance um to balance with the last of our learning recovery um block grant funds. And again, this is working on bringing our budget back into line with our historical budget which was pre- pandemic. Um also want to point out as you know we are in the people business our salary and benefits um total just under 806% of our total budget. Um and then these expenditures here
105represent where we are right now. As I mentioned before it does include our step and column costs but it does not include um the settlement agreements that we have um brought to the board um tonight. Um we are required by education code to bring back a revised budget no um no later than 45 days after our governor signs the annual budget act. This is a routine budget practice that we do in August which is called the 45day revise. So in August or 45 days after the governor signs the budget. We will be bringing back that budget that has um the state um enacted budget and then also our negotiated salary agreements. And then this um this represents the amount um in each category. So as I mentioned just under 86% goes to um our salaries
106and benefits. Books and supplies is about 4%, services is 9% and then our capital outlay and other transfers is 1%. This next slide is our multi-year projection. This is for our unrestricted general fund. We do mainly focus on our general fund unrestricted as this is more of our operational budget. We are showing a site deficit for 2526 of $1.1 million. And as I had previously mentioned, we will be using our reserves to balance our budget for this next year. And then in the um out years, you can see that we do we are currently showing a surplus based on our current assumptions. This is our multi-year projection for our restricted general fund. This is where we have our learning recovery block grant funds and we are um utilizing those funds for this year and then
107we will begin phasing out those remaining salaries and benefits through our LCAP development process this next year regular attrition and retirements. And by by saying that, that doesn't mean that we're going to have these positions go away, but it's more about um prioritizing ser services to students with the funding that we have. And it may be requiring us to um to move some of those funding sources so it could be moved over to um general fund unrestricted, but we are working on balancing bringing that budget back to be balanced. This next slide is our other restricted funds. All of our funds right now um are fiscally solvent and they are able to maintain a positive ending fund balance. Um the total revenues for those funds is 115.6 million and our total expenditures is 110.3. Um
108this next slide is our excess of minimum reserves. Each year we are required to present our minimum reserve requirement and our ending fund balance. Our ending fund balance for 2526 is $46.77 million with our minimum reserve being 3% which equates to about $15.2 million. So right now we have about 31.5 million that is considered in excess of that reserve and the reason that we have that is because our board policy is 15% which um is above the state cap but that is our goal to be within um line with the board policy. Next steps at the state level, we're hoping that the legislature adopts the budget um by June 15th and then um the governor will sign by the end of the month. Um that has to be done in order for them to receive
109pay in June. And then um we will be we are conducting the public hearing tonight and then we will be coming back on Thursday for the second read and the budget adoption on June 12th. And then as I had previously mentioned in August, we will be bringing back a 45day revision which we're required to by EDC code um with the state budget adoption. And then um we will start working in the fall um in September to work on what we identifying actions that we need to um begin balancing the budget for 2627. And that's all I have. Thank you, Kyla. Any um public comment or or discussion? I have one question. Um President Naylor Kyla the on slide 11 and actually it comes up every now and then. I I always go past it without
110thinking. What is other outgo? Um that has to do with um transfers that we have going out to either other funds or some of our indirect costs that we are allowed to charge for programs such as admin support and that type of thing. Okay. Excellent. Because actually this is considered I would think a balanced budget. Is that correct? I mean we have to juggle monies but uh unlike the state's budget which is massively deficit we we live within our means as well as constantly setting yeah I will constantly setting aside reserves which we also have reserves in various other niches if I can if I can say that restricted um we've we put reserves on maintenance and we put reserves in specific things so that um the uh replacement of the roof right now at
111uh Sierra View School, the old global learning is coming out of those kind of funds. The monies that we've set aside. So, I want to just say again, we've said it probably not enough. The fiscal accountability at Vice Unified is pretty tremendous that we have literally lived within our budget through this whole crazy season of the last four years of learning recovery and all this massive monies and the and you saw these numbers go crazy and they go I appreciate you keep saying this is back to more reasonable of what we live with and I applaud that we've done very very well to make sure we we haven't sacrificed being realistic because We had a flood of monies. We used it well. We stay within our budget and we're even though we can project over
112the next few years, it's going to get tighter. Um we're not in dire straits. So, thank you so much, Kyla. Trusty. Good morning. Kyla. I just got an email from CSBA that uh Governor Nuome wants to hold back 1.9 billion from Prop 98. And if that happens, do you have to like redo the budget or how does that affect us? Um, we won't do anything until he officially signs the budget. So once he signs the budget, then we'll have guidance on where we go and what we need to adjust and that will happen as um part of that 45day revise. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's all proposals and so until something is official, we don't act on that. Trusty. Yeah. Just a real quick capstone comment to to follow on what board member Belt just said.
113So the school district has long had good fiscal processes and procedures. We've never been in trouble in in memory. Um and that's something that allows us to have the confidence of the community. That's vastly vastly important. We don't argue over those issues here in this room because we have good competent management of funds. and to have a Robert Greyber moment here calling attention to the fact I think against restricted and unrestricted. It's $55 million is the budget. That's a half a billion dollars folks. Five or seven years ago it was 333 million. We've we've grown a lot in terms of monies. That's a fluid kind of thing, but that's a huge chunk of change and we manage that competently. So, thank you to you folks for doing that as we all would say. um and
114to let the community know that we're we're doing their work in the best manner possible. Thank you, Kyla. I appreciate all your hard work. Any other comments? Okay, I'm going to close the public hearing and reconvene the regular session. Again, reminder, this is not an action item. This is just the first read. So we're going to move on to 11.5 public hearing collective bargaining agreement between Viceel Unified School District and the classified school employees association chapter 83 CSEA for 25 2025 and 2026. And I will now again open the public hearing to allow for public comment on this item. Uh our presenter is administrative human resources development Judy Burgess. Good evening uh madame president Naylor board members and superintendent Schwam. My name is Judy Burgess, administrator in human resources development. And this evening, I'm pleased
115to share the tenative agreement reached by the district and CSEA for the collective bargaining agreement for the 2526 school year. This agreement reflects a shared commitment to supporting the essential contributions of our classified employees while being mindful of our fiscal responsibilities. Throughout the process, both teams remain focused on collaboration, problem solving, and mutual respect. We want to thank the CSEA negotiations team for engaging in thoughtful solutionoriented discussions that prioritize the well-being of our staff and the needs of our students. I'd also like to thank our district negotiations team for their engagement and leadership. This agreement represents meaningful progress and underscores the value we place on our classified employees. Their dedication and hard work are foundational to the success of our schools. We look forward to moving ahead together with a continued partnership and a shared
116vision for serving our community. At this time, following government code section 3547.5, prior to entering into a negotiated agreement, the board shall disclose at a public meeting the major provisions of the agreement, including the costs that would be incurred by the district under the agreement for the current and subsequent years. So, I turn it back over to you if there are any comments or questions. any um public comment or board discussion? As there is none, I'm going to close the public hearing and reconvene the regular session. Um may I have a motion to approve the collective baring agreement between Vicelia Unified School District and Classified School Employees Association chapter 83 CSEA for 25 2025 and 2026. So moved. I'll second it. Thank you. I have a motion by board member Gamoryan, seconded by board member
117Belt. Call for the vote. Motion passes 70. Thank you. Moving on uh to 11.6 resolution to establish salary for the classified chief, classified district managers, and confidential employees effective July 1, 2025. um administrator of human resource development, Judy Burgess. Again, thank you. Tonight, I'm bringing forward a resolution to establish salary for the classified chief, classified district managers, and confidential employees effective July 1st, 2025. This resolution includes a cost of living adjustment of 1.5% for the 2526 school year, step advancement, and the district contribution to health benefit costs. The recommended action is approval of this resolution. Any board discussion or public comment? Seeing as there is none, may I have a motion to approve the resolution to establish salary for the classified chief, classified district managers, and confidential employees effective July 1, 2025. Second. Who said
118that? Malta. Thank you. A motion by board member Odo, seconded by board member Goroan. Call for the vote. Motion passes 70. Thank you everyone. Moving on to 11.7. Resolution to established salary for certificate district managers effective July 1, 2025. Again, administrator of human resources development Judy Burgess. Thank you. Tonight I'm bringing forward a resolution to establish salary for certificated district managers effective July 1st, 2025. This resolution includes a cost of living adjustment of 2.5% for the 2526 school year and step advancement. The recommended action is approval of this resolution. Thank you, Ch. U. May I have a I'm sorry, public comment or board discussion? Seeing as there is none, may I have a motion to approve the resolution to establish salary for the certificated district managers effective July 1, 2025? I'll motion. I'll second. I
119got it this time. Um, on a motion by board member D. Young, seconded by board member Gabby. Call for the vote. Motion passes 70. Moving on to 11.8, declaration of need for fully qualified educators. Presenter, administrator of human resource development, Judy Burgess. Thank you again. Last one. Tonight, I'm bringing forward a declaration of need for fully qualified educators. The district makes every effort to employ only fully qualified and credentialed certificated staff. However, each year we must hire some teachers under internships uh permits and cred uh credential waiverss to fill vacant positions. The declaration of need is submitted to the California Commission on Teacher Credentiing and it is used to estimate the number of emergency permits and limited assignment teachers that will be employed for the next school year. The recommended action is approval of this
120declaration. Thank you. Any board discussion? Okay, seeing as none, may I have a mo motion to approve the declaration of need for fully qualified educators? I'll make a motion and I'll second it. Um motion by board member Viegas, second by board member Belt. Call for the vote. Motion passes 70. And moving right along to 11.9 warrant list April 26, 2025 to May 30th, 2025. May I have a motion to approve the warrant list from April 26, 2025 through May 30th, 2025. Some moved. All second on a motion by board member Gamyan, seconded by board member Gabby. Call for the vote. Motion passes. Six yes, one abstension. And with that, I adjourn this meeting. Thank you everyone.