001It's four o'clock and we'll call the meeting to order. You want me to go today? Mr. B, would you please lead us? Yes, please. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Let it be known all five trustee members are present. Ms. Gibbons, Mr. Williams, Mr. Yeastless, Mr. Preah, and myself. We'll go to business from the floor. Business from the floor. The board meeting is a business meeting of the board held in a public forum to comply with the Brown Act. It is not a town hall meeting with the board. This is a time for citizens to present problems or questions they feel the board should discuss. Individuals
002are encouraged to address the full board, not individual board members. The law prohibits the board from taking action on items not on the agenda. Requests to speak cards should be filled out in advance and presented to the superintendent's executive assistant. Instructions for submitting remote public comments can be found on our website, busdk12.com, under the tab Board of Trustees. The board has a policy limiting any speaker to not more than three minutes. The board limits the total time for public input on each item or topic to 15 minutes or five individual requests to speak. The president may review the request to speak or take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons speak only if they have something new to add. Citizens who have comments on or against
003a particular issue may be asked to provide a written statement for the record or to sign an agreement with the written comments of another citizen. All names will be memorialized in minutes. With board consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation, depending on the topic and number of persons wishing to be heard. For the record, please state your name. Do we have any? All right. And it is 4.02, and we'll adjourn to closed session. It's a 511 and we will call the meeting back to order. In closed session, the board took action to approve the stipulated suspended expulsion recommendation. The board voted unanimously to approve the stipulated suspended expulsion recommendation of student number 2425064587074908. The vote was five ayes to zero nays. Next we'll move into presentations recognition. Crestline Elementary
004School. Good evening. I just want to say thank you to the board, the superintendent, and the cabinet for allowing us to be a part of this meeting tonight. Tonight we come to declare a war against illiteracy, also to declare war against low performance. And so tonight we have the Pacific Island Dam Group from Crestline Elementary. They're going to do the talk of dams for you. This has... February we had a multicultural day and they came and they shared their culture with us and so we would like to share that with you this evening. This time we present to you the Pacific Island Dancers from Crestline of Vancouver. Along with that, we have the cutest 4K program this side of the Mississippi. So they're going to come and they're going to sing a song for you
005at this time. Let's welcome CRE, Crestline's 4K program. be here with Miss Elena, Miss Albert, and our support staff. Thank you so much. Freshline Cobras are... Wait, Mr. Norman, they're going to repeat after me. Freshline Cobras are... Caring. Outstanding. Great. Respectful. And always striving for excellence. is a dance battle so we would like the board members to do the battle with them. You'll know what it's doing. Okay? If they can do it, you guys can do it. Alright guys, you ready? Yeah, let's do it. Ready. Spread out a little bit. Give yourself some space. Ready. Little egg. Let's pretend to be some famous dinosaurs. See if you know these names. Dinosaurious dance move you can think of. I'll start off, but then it's your turn, okay? Ready? Here I go. Alright, now let's see what
006you can do. Just pretend to be a wild dinosaur. Are you ready? And build. Your turn. Keep going. Oh, it's coming up. Good job. Good job. Thank you. I rehearsed with him. Just hold it. That's fine. That's good? Yeah, you guys are good. All right. Hello, everybody. I'm Eusebio Zavala, principal at Barstow System Academy. And we have Ms. DeAger here. She's going to present an acknowledgment here from our ASP. So we are presenting the Masamini family with a certificate of appreciation on behalf of STEM, Barstow STEM Academy, ASB, AVID, Yearbook, and Web programs for allowing us to use their pretty clean car wash service to do a fundraiser for our students. We raised well over $1,000 from this fundraiser with the help of the Massimini family, and we would just like to present them. We
007have thank you cards from our students as well as a certificate of appreciation. Thank you so much for providing us with supplies and the location and your dedication. to help us fundraise for our students. Thank you very much. It was a great experience for all of our students. Thank you. All right. Next, we'll move on to the approval of the minutes from regular board meeting of February 28, 2025. I get a motion. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Next, we'll move on to business from the floor. The board meeting is a business meeting of the board held in a public forum to comply with the Brown Act. It is not a town hall meeting with the board. This is the time for citizens to present problems or questions they feel the board should discuss.
008Individuals are encouraged to address the full board, not individual board members. The law prohibits the board from taking action on items not on the agenda. Requests to speak cards should be filled out in advance and presented to the superintendent's executive assistant. Instructions for submitting remote public comments can be found on our website, busdk12.com, under the tab Board of Trustees. The board has a policy limiting any speaker to not more than three minutes. The board limits the total time for public input on each item or topic to 15 minutes or five individual requests to speak. The president may review the submitted request to speak or take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons speak only if they have something new to add. Citizens who have comments on
009or against a particular issue may be asked to provide a written statement for the record or to sign an agreement with the written comments of another citizen. All names will be memorialized in minutes. With board consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and number of persons wishing to be heard. For the record, please state your name. First person is Leanne Wong in support of BEA. Good evening. My name is Leanne Wong. I'm the elementary director for BEA. I'm here to tell you the motive and confidence that BEA has been doing is not simply Stacia having a vendetta against our superintendent, like some might claim. I've personally taken the time to visit each elementary school this school year. I've met with the teachers of these schools.
010The overwhelming majority of the teachers at these elementary schools strongly support the vote of no confidence. At these meetings, there were two recurring major concerns. The first was safety. It was expressed time and again that the superintendent does not prioritize the safety of our students or the staff. The second thing these teachers have told me repeatedly is that they are terrified to speak out, fearing they will be retaliated against by our superintendent. In fact, just today, I spoke with two different BUA members who said they were afraid to attend in person tonight for fear of restitution from our superintendent. As the union president, it is Stacia's job to stand in the gap for our members. That is why you hear from her and not from our members most of the time. She is the voice
011of our union, but make no mistake, the words she speaks are the words of the teachers in our district. Now I'd like to leave you with something that our superintendent is fond of saying when she is faced with a problem. We need the right people in the right room. Well, tonight we're in the right room. And the right people are sitting at the table right in front of me. Thank you for your time. Rachel Hamm. In support of the president who speaks for the union membership. Hi, Rachel Hamm, Barstow High School, exec board membership chair. Again, I just want to reiterate what Leanne was saying, that our president speaks for. The majority or all of our union at any given time. She doesn't just talk out of hand. She runs things through the exec board.
012We run things through our members. I know people at every site in this district. And there are people at every site who give us their voice and allow us to speak for them because they... They might be shy, they might be scared of being, you know, something happened to them because they speak out. Some of them are newer members, so they know that they don't have that safety net yet of permanent status. So we just need you to understand that we are a union strong. There is no one individual running this entire thing. The voices come from below, rise up through us, and Stacia is our voice. Thank you. Darren Adams, concern for the district support BPA. Hi everybody, my name is Darren Adams, and I've had a child in the Barstow Unified School District,
013at least one every year since 2010. And I hate to be the guy with a list of problems and no solutions, but the truth is, I don't know what the solutions are, but that's what the parents and the voters in this district elected you guys for. So the numbers elementary middle school students 78% of students tested below proficient or reading and 86% of students test below proficient for math and this is 2024 stats 91% of our schools in this district have a below average ranking We have 11 schools in this district That means 10 of them are below average and only one school ranks as average. So shout out the skyline north School Digger ranks our district as 1,471 out of 1,568 California districts. In order to find some sort of solutions to this, I
014sought out the teachers, and what I learned is that 80% of the BEA are not being supported by the current BUSD administration, and that this is a top-down problem that can only be addressed by this body. The safety of students, I don't feel, is taking a priority. I don't feel the safety of teachers is taking a priority by the current administration. And I know this from stories from my 11-year-old daughter who tells me about the fights and lockdowns that are taking place multiple times a week at BIS, sometimes daily. At this point, these numbers are what they are. They're bad. And I'm really not interested in whose fault it is or what the current board or administration inherited from the last board or administration. The thing about inheritance is you own it now. What we
015as parents are concerned with, and I think I speak for all of us, is holding this current board to do what you were elected or appointed to do, and that is addressing this elephant in the room immediately. Our children deserve the best chance they can get to get a good education, and right now they only have a 9% chance of getting an average education. I don't expect you all to wave a magic wand and fix all these problems. I know this is going to take time and a comprehensive plan, but what I do expect is for you elected officials to form that plan and begin its implementation immediately and get these teachers the support they need so that they can be the most effective and provide the safest learning environment possible for our children. You
016all are here tonight because you wanted this job. You convinced us, the parents and the voters, that you were the best people for the job. Now we expect you to do it. Listen to these teachers. They are on the front lines and they desperately need you to start taking drastic and immediate actions before it's too late. Because I'm sure none of you want to be known as the USB board that was in charge when the state stepped in and took over the district. Because that's where the road we're currently on leads to. Nine most terrifying words in the English language. Ronald Reagan said, I'm here for the government and I'm here to help. We don't want the state here. So let's get together. and get the teachers the support they need so they can help
017our kids. Thank you. Donna, support for BEA. Hi, my name is Donna and I have two grandkids, one at BIS and one at the junior high. I'm here to support the teachers for the no-go confidence because I feel the safety of our students and teachers are in jeopardy. So to take away programs like challenges and stuff that helps the behavioral students is... a negative for me. My grandson went through challenges when he was in first grade, and if it was not for that program, he would not be a principal honor roll right now at BIS. So that really hit me when I was told that. program was taken away. We need stuff to help our children and our teachers. Our teachers can't do it alone. They need the support of the board and the district.
018And if we have to go to the teachers and teachers have to go here and then nothing gets done, we get frustrated as parents or grandparents. So I'm just here to say, well, I vote for the no vote of confidence and the safety of our students and teachers. Diana Romero, nothing been done about bullying. There might have been a few in that other room. Yeah. My name is Diane Romero, and I'm a mom. I'm in the school, and nothing is being done. My nephew has been bullied since the beginning of the school year. And what are we in? March. And they protect the bully. They don't protect... The kids who are trying to do good and learn, they all have rights, I know that. But they keep protecting the bully. He should be at another
019school. This isn't even his home school because the school he's supposed to be in, they only don't want him. But they need to find somewhere to put him where he can get help. All kids need help. All kids need a chance. Not only the bully, but the kids who are being bullied. He has now said, my nephew stood up for himself last week, and now he's the problem. When the bully's been the problem the whole time since the beginning of the school year. You guys need to do something. Don't just sit here behind the desk. You guys need to go to the schools and see what's happening. The girls are afraid because they're afraid of him. They don't want to say nothing. Because he is a bully and he's taunting all the other kids. So
020you guys need to get up and go look. I talked to the superintendent. She won't know help. You know, so we need somebody to take care of our kids. Their safety. And I'm telling you right now, they crushed his spirit. He was in tap. He was in Rangers at church. And now he's in nothing because. They totally crushed his spirit. And he's not going to be a statistic just like the other kids are. So you guys need to step up your game. Step up to go see the kids in school. I'm sorry. I'm crying. But it's hard for me to speak in front of people. So I hope you guys listen. And I hope you guys do something. And if you guys can't do something, find somebody who can. Because they all need help. The
021bullier and the kids who they're bullying. Thank you. Shannon Anderson, BEA teacher support. Sorry, I do want to apologize. They're working on fixing the TV out there. The SDC is pretty full, so some of us can't hear what's going on. Sorry, I'm sure my time already started. I don't have a lot to say. I am a BEA teacher. I've been teaching nine years. There's been a lot of comment. Talk lately the consensus has been being told to us that the board's position is They feel that our board president speaks for herself alone and not the teachers and we want everybody here to know that is not the case Our teachers agree with everything our board president has been doing Stacia Lewis has been representing us to the fullest and while the weather may have prohibited
022a lot of people from coming here tonight even though it's getting better and there were some trainings maybe and stuff and you know family issues those of us that are here wanted to show the board that we all do support Stacia's message these are all the teachers that are just here tonight that agree with Stacia's message and everything she's been doing we all support our president and everything she's been here saying so we wanted to leave this here for you guys to know that vea stands behind our president and her message thank you Next, we'll move into reports. Superintendent's report. Yes, thank you. Good afternoon, board members, staff, and guests. Last night, I read an article titled, Embracing the Leader You Are Not, by Scott Borva in the March 10, 2025 Ed Kell periodical. I
023was intrigued by the title and curious about what Mr. Borva had to say. It didn't take me long before I reached a place in the article that spoke to me. Mr. Borba states, great leaders know their strengths, and more importantly, they know their limits. They delegate, collaborate, and create spaces where others can shine. As a school administrator, this might mean letting your tech-savvy teacher lead the digital transformation while you focus on inspiring the team. Or perhaps it's allowing your seasoned staff to mentor new hires rather than micromanaging every onboarding process. Leadership isn't about doing it all. It's about knowing when to step back and let others do what they do best. I mentioned this article to draw attention to the recent work of the BUSD and BEA negotiation teams. The two teams comprised of BUSD
024administrators and BEA teachers spent several days together over the last few weeks. I am told that the teams worked well together to compromise and reach tentative agreements for 2024-2025. I am especially excited for their collaborative work on Article 27, compensation and benefits that they reached agreement on before the end of February. This TA provides one of the largest salary increases in BUSC's history with a one-time stipend bonus equivalent to 8% of base pay this school year, an 11.25% on-schedule increase to step and column, and a 7% increase to health and welfare benefits beginning in 2025-2026. Thank you, BEA team members Shanda Borella, Andrea Yeager, Kimberly Sager, and Amanda McGuire-Wooley, and BUSD team members Jorge Gutierrez, Vinny Williams, Douglas Beaton, Eusebio Zavala, and Vince Williams. All tentative agreements reached through this year's negotiations will be presented
025to the Board of Trustees for approval once they pass ratification with BEA membership in San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools' acceptance of the AB 1200-2756. During last week's major windstorm, the United States flag, normally flown in front of the district office, became snagged and entangled at the top of the flagpole. An attempt to free the flag was made, but only worsened the entanglement and damaged the flag. The U.S. flag was eventually freed and the California state flag was retrieved for safe storage until we were able to have a steeplejack repair the phenyl at the top of the flagpole. We hope to have this work completed within the next week or two to proudly display old glory once again. It is hard to believe that we are in the 2025 state testing window. BUSD schools have
026either begun state testing or will begin testing within the next few weeks. It is important for students to regularly attend and be on time to school, but especially during state testing weeks. There are many rules that are followed during state testing, including not allowing students into their classroom if testing has begun. We ask parents to help ensure their children arrive to school on time so they may test with their classroom during their school's testing window. Please reach out to your child's school for their state testing schedule. As we look to the start of the 2025-26 school year, I am reminded it is time for open enrollment. Barstow Fine Arts Academy serves TK through 4th grade and is currently accepting applications through May 1st. STEM Academy serves 5th through 8th grade and is currently accepting applications
027through March 31st. Kindergarten Roundup begins on April 1st. And the window for families to provide their annual updates in Infinite Campus opens on July 1. Please reach out to Barstow Fine Arts Academy or STEM Academy if you have enrollment questions. Please reach out to the Central Enrollment Center if you have questions related to Kindergarten Roundup or annual updates. Although the work for the next school year has begun, our talented staff, classified, certificated, confidential, and management continue to ensure every student in Barstow Unified School District is provided a safe environment conducive to learning. Thank you. Next we have EA. Good evening. We are here tonight to reaffirm the results of a no-confidence vote conducted this school year by our membership regarding Superintendent Deanna Swearengen. The outcome was clear. The overwhelming majority of our members have expressed
028a lack of confidence in their leadership. This vote reflects serious concerns about Superintendent Swearengen and her ability to effectively lead the district and address the critical issues affecting our schools. Our most pressing concern remains to be safety. Our primary responsibility is to provide and secure learning environments for our students, yet this has been repeatedly compromised. There have been multiple instances where the safety of both staff and students has not been adequately addressed. We did the math, and according to Scott Godfrey's report from the last board meeting, only 43% of our student population feel safe, only 52% of our parents feel their students are safe at our schools, and only 54% of our staff feel safe at our schools. These numbers speak for themselves. Despite repeatedly calls for action, little to... No meaningful response has been
029made. This ongoing failure to prioritize safety has created an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty in our schools, putting everyone at risk. This issue is being raised again because in recent meetings, our membership has expressed a desire to continue the vote of no confidence, and we now have a newly seated full board. I understand that many of you want to hear from more members on these issues, but the reality is that they are afraid of retaliation, and for good reason. When BUSD staff members express their opinions in an open forum, some inevitably face some form of retaliation, creating a culture of silence. As BEA President, I want to clarify my role. According to our bylaws, I serve as the official spokesperson for the Association. It is my responsibility to address the concerns of our membership. It's
030my responsibility to bear the stress, endure the sleepless nights, and dedicate countless hours to ensuring the safety and well-being of our members. I take this responsibility with pride as it is a privilege to represent such dedicated and hardworking educators. I also have come to understand that our teachers' voice are in many ways also our students' voices. As educators, it is our duty to protect our students and keep them safe. However, This has become increasingly difficult due to the district's failure to provide adequate Tier 3 supports. Without these critical resources, ensuring a safe and supportive learning environment for all remains a constant challenge. We urge the board to take action and appoint a superintendent who will collaborate with us and value our voices. We need a leader who will ensure all students are treated equitably, maintain
031a safe environment, and foster a setting conducive to learning so every student can reach their full potential. We have made multiple attempts to resolve these issues directly with the superintendent, but unfortunately, these efforts have not resulted in any progress. We are asking the board to take our concerns seriously and to take swift action in response to the results of no vote, no confidence. We are here tonight because we value our students and prioritize their comfort and well-being, often at the expense of our own. We urge the board to reflect on its priorities and demonstrate a commitment. to valuing teachers for the sake of our students and the district as a whole. Make no mistake, we will not back down from this fight. We are here because we are passionate about doing what is best for
032our students. And we will remain the voice for our students and we will continue to stand strong as a union and support one another. We urge the board to reflect on this commitment to the district and demonstrate new actions that our teachers and our students matter. Thank you. CSEA. Thank you, everyone. So I would first like to start off to say that CSEA. Stand with our sister union in regards to them doing what they feel is necessary to support their members. In regards to CSEA, I'm going to let you know just some of the things we have going on right now. We have a positive movement forward with negotiations today, hoping to finish up the 24-25 school year negotiations tomorrow. We do have another date on the books in case it's needed, but we're hoping
033to close up tomorrow. We have our new leaders on our executive board have gone through some officer skills training, some. conversations with previous board members to try to just kind of get that new knowledge in there. I myself just came from a training, a leadership training this weekend in Ontario. So I'll be bringing that back to my membership. We have our next eboard meeting next week and then we will meet with our membership the following week. We do have three signed MOUs, two of which have already been approved at the field office we need to ratify with our membership one that was just signed today that we'll be moving forward through 610 once we get that back we're hoping to bring all three to our membership meeting at the end of the month and that's
034what we have for you tonight thank you uh personnel commission yes good evening board members uh staff and members of the community uh this is the classified um personnel report We currently have three interviews in progress. We have zero recruitments that are in the testing stage and zero recruitments that are open. We currently have 373 classified employees, 172 eight-hour full-time, 117 benefited part-time, and 84 non-benefited part-time. We, as always, carry 15 classified manager positions or employees. On the classifications on security, We have no vacancies. We held interviews last week and those positions have been filled. On campus safety, we have two vacancies that are posted for transfer them out. One of the closest on the 14th of this month and the other one closes at the end of the month. So they became vacant at
035different times. On custodial, we have no vacancies at this time. Paraeducators, those are the next group that we're hoping to fill. We have completed our vacancy list review. There was a lot of back and forth with the sites, the hiring managers, and the principals. We have identified now and adjusted our number. We have 43 para positions that are vacant. 23 regular para, which are, there's two subgroups, 10 that are TK and 10 that are the other para physicians. And we have 17 para SN physicians, nine that belong to people services and eight that are at the sites and three para ELL. We're currently... We had interviews today for the para-sans already, so we're moving to fill those. And we'll keep going. Some of our candidates sometimes decline the interview or they decline the position because
036they want to take another regular para position. So we're working with that to try to recruit some more out of the para list. We also have... The para-ELL interviews, we're going to interview them Friday. So those are going to be filmed on Friday. And then the big... which is what we call it, right? Because we have to fill a lot of vacancies at once. It is desirable to, when we have these many, to have these interviews all in one day, a full day, so that the first and the last candidate has the same chance, right? As opposed to having two separate dates. So we prefer one big day. We're coordinating, and the last of my notes here is that Friday, March 28th seemed to be the sweet spot to... called everybody. We had offered the
03720th and 21st, but there was too many of our hiring managers that were not available. When we begin to fill those vacancies, we start from the higher hours to the lowest hours to avoid having to do a lot of changes later if people want to make some switches. So it's better to start from high to low, and we hope people will stay in those positions and not have the secondary changes. Office assistant, we have a lot of applicants. We have 64 that are qualified on the list. We have held some interviews. We have an interview scheduled for Cameron for this week. The admin assistant, we held interviews for Henderson, Stanton, and Pressline. So those positions have been offered and filled. We are working on some nutrition services additional positions that they want to create it.
038So we're collaborating with them We're also doing a lot of work for the summer and extend the school year postings So those went out and there's a lot of back and forth from that with those We have looked at our statistics and we've processed over 90 onboardings since July 1st. So there's been a lot of movement. Some of those are new hires. Some of those are people that are transferring or promoting. There's been a lot of movement this year. On our campus safety and security trainings, there's a training tomorrow. So we have tomorrow, March 12th, March 19th, and also April 12th as a possible date. Trainings are 1.30 to 4 p.m. And we're going to have that training here tomorrow. The SEC is not available. Our next PC meeting is this Thursday. As a reminder
039for everybody, you're all invited March 13th at 4.30 p.m. in this room. So we'll be here. And also, just as a side note, we put this in our website. Our office is going to be attending a training, CSPCA trainings and statewide conference. And we'll be out of the office Monday and Tuesday of next week, 17th and the 18th. But we'll be back at it on Wednesday the 19th. And obviously here for the training with the campus safety and security. And that is all that I have to report for tonight. Thank you. Next we have board reports. Hi, everyone. I don't have an official report. I want to give a shout out to Crestline. They did amazing. I noticed that we were moving around a little bit. Kind of need that. So that was really, really
040good. I did attend a BEA meeting recently and I heard a lot of concerns. So I want to make sure and I have spoken with the superintendent as well that we try to find some common ground. So I hope that moving forward, being newly appointed, not being elected, that I can actually be a bridge to communication and togetherness of kind of what. But that's all I have. Thank you. Mr. Williams? Yes, Leonard Williams. I did listen to and have attended some of the VA meetings. Very interesting. A lot to take in. I have spoken with the superintendent and the rest of the board and referenced this. One of the things I would hope and I want to see happen. as you know, both sides have to have an open mind to be able to talk
041to each other. If you can't talk, you're not going to ever get anything accomplished. So I'm hoping that's what we can get to at some point. That's enough on that. Tomorrow I will be visiting Barstow High School and they're going to give me a tour of the new library that they have. So I'm looking forward to that. That's all right. Mr. Eastes? Yeah, I'd like to congratulate Chris Lang School. Awesome, awesome, awesome. And it's getting close to graduation. And, you know, I was at the high school for almost four decades. And I know it's getting close. And there's going to be a few students who are going to be falling kind of short. And it's just a message to the students and to their parents, you know, get on the stick. You know, I mean,
042it's up to you now to get those last five credits. You know, and it always seems to be that last five, you know, and they all want to blame everybody else. You know, I wasn't a good student, you know, but my mother was there and pushed me and pushed me. And I had a couple of teachers that pushed me. And let's get on the ball with that. And stop pointing fingers because it's usually the kid that is on the wrong side of that situation there. And spring sports is here now, baseball, softball, track, and tennis. I went to watch the game at Silver Valley. We have an alumni from Barstow High School over there coaching the baseball team. Sure, Mr. Paria is well familiar with him. Good kid, Mr. Crank. It was awesome to see
043alumni out there. The field looks awesome. It's almost looks like a major league field out there. It was great to see. Also. I'd like to get a little more information on the, my acronyms aren't that good, but the CTE, you know, I think it's very important that our kids, we went to the conference in Anaheim and down there in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach, they combined theirs together and it seemed that they're really doing a good job. I was wondering. Maybe a couple of us board members could go down there with an instructor, the person that's running the program here for the school district, and see what they're doing. They really look like they're really on the stick. Not every kid here is going to go to a four-year university. Not every kid's going to
044Harvard, going to be a Rhodes Scholar, mostly here in Barstow. They need to be job ready. You know, I think we need to have a little more of the welding, computer repair, a small electronic shop, you know, wood shop. You know, we don't have any of that now. You know what I mean? Let's face it, this is a blue-collar town. Our kids need to be job-ready. You know what I mean? You know, we need to set them up to be successful. You know, like I said, you know. Heck, I don't know the difference between algebra and geometry, you know, and I'm almost 70 years old, you know what I mean? And I went through the school district. But, you know, I did pretty good for myself because I had a shop teacher there that showed
045me how to measure. My dad was a carpenter. He had me measure something. I said, 6'7". He goes, no, no, no, it's 78. You know, and it wasn't until that teacher showed me how to do it, you know, well. kind of threatened me and it showed me how to do it right you know what i mean and uh i i think we need to look at that if we can um also uh i had a little conversation with uh uh mr tex the uh tex williams about the restrooms on the uh Stringham Park, Fisher Park, whatever you want to call it, you know. I think that that's going to be going forward. And thank you, Diane, for getting with the city manager and getting that on the stick. Because, you know, when people come to
046Barstow and they go to that park and they see those restrooms and the condition there, I'm not talking about the cleanliness. I'm talking about it's been there since 1973 and nothing's been done to them. You know what I mean? You know, we need to put some toilets in there, some sinks. Us men will go in there and we can use the restroom, but the poor ladies, the ladies and their kids, they come here and they look at that restroom and that's what they think that's what Borschtel's all about. We're not. What else did I got here? And also... I think a couple of meetings ago, Stacia, we talked about visiting your class for PE and I was waiting for your call to invite me. It hasn't been the best. And, you know, so, you know,
047I'm waiting for that phone call. If you can have four footballs ready for me and a couple of softballs, I'll be, you know, more than happy to show up. And other than that, let's just be good to each other. You know, like I said last week, you know, we need to. Show these parents when they come to our schools, greet them with a smile, say hello. These kids, they know we're from the district office when we show up. You know what I mean? Pat them on the back, you know, and talk to the teachers in front of them and stuff. You know, I'm all ready. I enjoy going to schools. You know what I mean? And sometimes I get some feedback that, oh, I'm... I'm over here with just one kid and stuff. You know,
048I'm only human. You know, I'm learning this job every day. And I'm listening to everybody here. I was one of you guys. And I'll never forget that. And let's just, you know, not everything is great. Of course, you know, five years of school, not everything is good. You know what I mean? And I know that. And yes, I ran to make a difference. And that's what I'm here for. And I'm not going to, you know, not listen to people. Sometimes I need to take the cotton out of my mouth and stick in my ears. And that's what I'm going to do right now. Thank you for letting me share. Mr. Bray? I'd like to thank all of you for showing up and speaking up. Sometimes we need more input from you. And we got some
049tonight. And let's hope that we can move on it and help you. I want to comment on our presentations tonight. Weren't they fantastic? And not only am I happy that we had them here. But I had two of my great-grandchildren in the group, and so that made it especially even nicer. And Tony's correct when he says that we need input, and it's important to get it from you. And so at times, sometimes we don't hear every story. We don't hear what's going on at every campus. It's impossible for us. And sometimes we can't even get to the campus, like me. But so I appreciate people standing up and giving me information. And I want you to keep doing that because that's how we're going to make some moves after we're going to have things happen.
050And the information we get, we want it to be truthful because we're going to give you the true information back to the best of our knowledge. So let's keep up a positive communication. for all of us and I appreciate your input thank you very much I just like to echo it All the other board members have said I thought the presentations were amazing between the warriors and the dinosaurs. I always love the presentations and thank you everybody who's involved in that from the district, teachers, parents, everybody. It's always a great refocusing tool. I love having it here. So thank you to everybody who's involved in that. I would also like to say thank you for everyone for coming out. speak at least for myself. I don't want to totally speak for the whole board whenever
051I say this, but we do listen to everything that everyone says, whether that's a teacher, whether that's a parent, whoever that is. I listen to everyone who comes out here. I am constantly, whether that's either making myself available. whether that's coming here on my own time to be here for the union meetings, on the monthly meetings, on the quarterly meetings, the executive meetings, to come after hours to go to town hall meetings. If I'm ever invited, I make myself available at... I won't say all times, but extremely accessible if anybody would like to communicate with me. I'm fine as the general public and or teachers. If anybody wants to go through somebody, whether that's a union president or a site rep, if they want to come directly to me or they want to go through
052somebody else, that's fine. I don't limit anybody in any capacity and I am fully willing to listen to anybody. My biggest thing. is that what I would like to do is get us working on the issues at hand. That's where I would like to be. I would like to be focusing our conversations on curriculum right now. I would like to be focusing our conversations on getting the progress on where we need to be. That's where I would like for everyone to be at because any conversation that we're having outside of that. is ultimately, I feel, wasted time that we could be focusing on something that would be better serving the students. Okay. Well, yeah. Yeah. So I definitely say I look forward to anybody, if anybody would like to bring anything to me or to
053the board. And I thoroughly encourage anyone to bring up everything to us. I want to hear what everyone has to say. I know some things. I don't know everything. So I thank everyone for being here. I truly do listen to everything that everyone says. And I do look forward to working with all of you moving forward. I apologize for interrupting. I had something I forgot to mention. As far as meeting, I would like to see us probably meet at Fine Arts when we have an overflow of participants like we have tonight. You know, I feel kind of bad people sitting outside or sitting in the other room. I don't know. Maybe we can look into that. Maybe, you know, fine arts. It's a nice school over there. They've got an auditorium there, or the multipurpose
054room, whatever they want to call it. So we can look into it. I just feel bad for people sitting outside. I don't care if it's 78 degrees out, but we can look into that, please. And I apologize for interrupting you again. It's all right. We'll add it in there. Student representative report. Hi. Good evening. Wonderful presentation to Cressline. That was great. I personally really appreciate the Pacific Islanders group. I think cultural representation is very important. Our Mr. Aztec pageant will be the 21st in the boys' gym at 6 o'clock. If you guys would like to join, be lots of fun. It is Star Wars Eve this year. Spring sports are underway, like students mentioned. You're all invited to come watch our athletes, of course. Unfortunately, the track team does not have any home due to
055our track, but we do have Atalanta, Victorville, and Rowe. We're also still working on getting approval for digital payments at the high school for ASB, and we are also trying to raise money for senior activities due to low funds due to lack of interest this year. So we are having to raise prices on tickets. A little bit of a little challenge. There you go. A little challenge. That's about it. Thank you. I have forgotten a last meeting to say this, but you're more than welcome to stay if you would like. But if you would like to leave, then you're more than welcome to do so. Adoption of the agenda. I'll just give a second. A doctrine of the agenda. Can I get a motion? And a second. All in favor? Aye. Communications? No. Consent agenda.
056Does anybody have any items they'd like to pull? I'd like to pull from Ed Services, 821. Business Services K61. Oh, excuse me. K41. Sorry. Oh, I'm stuck on the 6th. And K6A7, the service agreement with San Diego County Superintendent. You have this? Yes. Okay. And can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda with items? So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. All right, so first we'll go into those items. K21, in-service education. Sure, we have a listing of our in-service that we are sending teachers and staff out to outside of district. The first two have to do with practical strategies for both I don't care students and improving behavior. In looking at the description of the training, it is meant specifically for behavior intervention specialists, which is who is going to this training
057from BIS. So that's definitely a very appropriate training for him to support increasing Tier 2 and Tier 3 strategies at their school. Next, we have something called the BARD workshop, and I had to write this down. A BARD is a wall-mount heat pump product. Basically, we have two employees that will be attending. They are both HVAC technicians, getting more information on how to support the facilities aspects of our buildings. Letter E is the CASBO payroll essentials. That is going to include all of our technicians in the payroll department, which is going to be a huge support with everything from payroll, obviously, and benefits and the like. Also, we have something called the TCAP. Courageous Creativity Conference, a large contingent coming from the Fine Arts Academy. And basically what they're doing is they're going to learn
058all there is to know about teaching art at the TK-4th grade level, the way that it is described as Courageous Creativity, an art education leadership conference grounded in the aspirations of the California Arts Education Framework, California Arts Standards, and the opportunities presented by the Arts and Music in School funding. And as you know, or may not know, what we've been trying to do for the last few years coming out of our LCAP is to create a fine arts pathway. Barstow Fine Arts School is obviously the entry level to that pathway. The next school is Barstow Intermediate School. They do have a music teacher there that supports that effort, which moves that into Barstow Junior High School and then eventually up to Barstow High. So it's a district-wide initiative. And finally, we have the Avid Summer
059Institute. This is the principal from Monterey Elementary. He attends every year. It's part of the certification process. I know that he is working on becoming an Avid model school, which he's very close to being able to do that. So we look forward to hopefully having him be a model school for our district and having other schools and school districts come and visit and see what we're doing that is great for our students. I had a couple questions. Can we go back to the top? With the one for the training for the first one, is there any plans or do we know as far as either expanding it potentially to not just being in the wellness maybe? As far as like, you know, future trainings and or if we have any like other requests from other
060teachers who would like the training? Yeah, and actually maybe a two-prong approach. Number one would be definitely being able to send teachers to trainings like this, but also as a district, we meet monthly to create training sessions for our teachers that are held on Wednesdays, early on Wednesday. Each of our various departments are in charge of creating slide decks with support from our consultants as it relates to the Office of Attorney General work that we're doing, along with the CCED work to improve instructional strategy. So yes, yes on both fronts. Okay. The other one, and I'm not sure if it would be slightly going over to Mr. Beaton's lane, but was on the, with the fiscal and the payroll side, is there anything in here as far as cross work as meaning with the The
061different positions, right? And so certain texts are in certain areas and know certain skills. Is any of this training? apply to any type of cross-training or learning more than just what their primary is and or is there training that would fall into that capacity that we could get? With Michelle Parrish, she's our accounts payable. Her main job is to pay all the bills. So with that, she'll be getting some information on how payable works and be able to cross-train there. I could read kind of the description of what they're going to engage in. payroll related computation from gross to net federal state and local statutes, rules and regulations, education code, labor law, and tax administration, and retirement systems requirements. So I think they're all going to be hearing the same message. It'll be how they
062decide to kind of divvy up the knowledge. So yeah, I think that's probably part of Mr. Beaton's plan. Jessica also is, Jessica and Ria are new to the payroll department, so if this was a good training. Robert's been to it, I think, three times now. Or this will be his third visit. So they do offer an online one. So it's actually earlier in April. Okay, I'm totally fine. I personally prefer, you know, actually physically being there. I learned better. I'm fine with that. I was just curious. I know in certain capacities, sometimes things can be held up if only certain people know certain things. So just if we have an opportunity to get the cross training, then hopefully. Caswell puts on a great, because the county used to do a training for payroll and they
063stopped doing that. So this is actually the. Probably one of the only opportunities for them to get the good training that they get from Caswell. It is a good training. Thank you. I firmly believe in Caswell. Anybody, do you guys have any? Can I get a motion? So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. The next was K41, intent to provide audits. Christy White. Yes, so every we have to send notice to the San Diego County that we're going to do that. We have an order in place. Otherwise they have to find they'll find one for us. Get around. So also with this, we have the contract for Christy White. And so I'd just like to let you know why we do an audit and why not. So all local agencies, school districts are required to
064have an annual audit completed by an independent auditor registered with the State Comptroller's Office pursuant to California Education Code. The audit shall fully comply with government auditing standards issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. The purpose of these annual audits is to promote accountability over public educational funding and encourage effective and efficient use of state funds for the education of children. for the children of California. Further, the annual audits are designed to encourage sound fiscal management and strengthen fiscal accountability at the LEA county and state level. Not later than the first day of May for each fiscal year, the governing board of each school district shall provide for an audit of the books and accounts, including an audit of income and expenditures by source of thoughts. What we have on tonight's agenda is
065Christy White for this year, 24-25. fee is $34,800 and then the next two years she'll do a 4% increase over those two years. For the next two years if we so decide to go with her. The audit is completed by the auditing firm with assistance from business services, site personnel and other departments. District staff provide all necessary documents as requested by the auditing firm to complete the audit following government guidelines. The audit report is then presented to the governing board by January 15th of that year. Basically, this is an account from an outside independent agency or individual who's looking into all of our finances and watching all of the dollars and cents and making sure that everything that we have stated has been spent in the different allocations have been made as to what we've
066said that they were being used for. That is absolutely correct. Okay. Thank you. I have a question. Is this a new auditing firm you're using or it's one that we've been using for a while? Christy White has been with us for 11 years. There is a requirement that after six years, you have to switch partners to oversee the thing. Otherwise, you can keep going with the same auditing firm. Thinking about doing a request for proposal to for the following years just to see if we can get a better deal or see what else is up there. Going forward. Yeah, she has been with us for 11. Yeah. Any other questions. Can I get a motion to approve. Move we approve. All favor aye. And next will be K6A7, a service agreement with San Diego County
067Superintendent of Schools. Yes, this is going to go. Mr. Gutierrez. Thank you, Ms. Farrington. So this is a renewal. We have MOUs with a lot of Carlow institutions. This is with the San Diego County of Education, actually Superintendent of Schools. A little bit interchangeable. We have also with Los Angeles County of Education as well. This specific specific MOU is in reference to we talked about designated subjects CTE classes. We have some employees who are intern eligible and in order for the county to work with our students, we have to have an MOU in place. I think we have a few teachers that are going to clear their credential through them. It's a renewal. They cannot provide any services or support them through their credentialing program until they have an agreement with us. And this item
068is presented to the board for approval. And so each of the different MOUs are through each of the different higher education institutes? Yes. Okay. So, for instance, we have one recently that for the first time, I remember which university it was. But during the first semester we had a student who was attending their university. We didn't have one in place, so we had to create an MOU and bring it to the board and you guys approved it in order for them to work with our teachers in order for them to get a career credential. So this is standard practice across districts. Thank you. I like any time we can get more opportunities for the kids. Thank you. Do you guys have any questions or comments? Can I get a motion? Second? Second. All in favor?
069Aye. Next we'll go to discussion items. General L11 Memorandum of Understanding. It's back program in Barstow Unified School District and Mojave Valley United Way. Best opportunities. Yes, so you may be very familiar with this more so than me, if you like. No? Okay. I don't know. This is a program that we used to have in Fort Smith High School District where the United Way provides... food packs for students to take home with them and so since COVID the program went on hiatus and it's back and we've been approached to go ahead and re-institute the program so our students can have meals as they go home. We're excited to have this. One of my biggest platforms that I've been on since being a CBO is to make sure we always feed kids and that's every day
070that we've got to make sure that we're feeding kids and so I'm inspired by this and really happy to bring this to the board back to the board for re-approval so we can re-institute this program at varsity vice school district and so kids can have food I think it's a great program. I don't know if I want to add to that. So right now, the long and short of how it runs is to provide the students with food for being over the weekend. So obviously being Title I, food being provided at the school during the week, but this is to provide that for Saturday and for Sunday. So they're able to, the school sites, whether that's either through teachers, counselors, administrators. can put the list of the students together, be in contact with our executive
071director at United Way. And then we can then distribute the meals are put together through best opportunities. And then we give them the packs on Friday. They will have basically a backpack. They'll have the food. They can take it home, bring it back on Monday, and then we can get them refilled and get them all back out there. if any of the teachers school side administrators anybody who knows any kids particularly that would fall into the program by all means please if approved reach out and and we're trying to get as many kids fed as possible so excellent What are the numbers we're looking at? I mean, from our last time we did this, what were the numbers we're looking at? The last time was a lot smaller because we were not able to fund
072nearly as high. We've since been, I don't know the exact numbers, but United Way was historically ranging in around the $8,000 to $10,000 range to fund the program work. hoping to have a boost this time from both Southern California Edison as well as who else are we? Oh man, they're going to kill me now. We're looking, I don't even want to say it. We're hoping to have an additional $25,000 to add to the $8,000 that we have. So we should be able to push it out for basically 30 something weeks, which would be the entirety. For the most part, given all the holidays for the whole school year, that's what the goal is. So we should know fairly soon exactly how long we can do it. OK, because I was thinking, what are the numbers
073of kids? What are we talking about? I would imagine it would be based on the number of eligible students per the amount of money they have. The more money that United Way can secure. Then a hundred for every single dollar that goes into that program is going to go straight into food. That's going to go to be children, a hundred percent. So the more money that comes in and the more kids will be fed historic. Like I said, it was at eight to $10,000 was the budget, but we're hoping to push that to 35,000 for this year coming up. Yes, amazing. That's really, really amazing. It's a big deal being able to make sure we close that gap on the weekends. It's really major. I just want to make sure I understood you correctly. How
074do we sign up the kids? Are we going to be guiding the teachers to kind of keep an eye out and see which kids may be in need? Or what is the actual enrollment process to connect the children to the service? So it's not an official, I wouldn't say enrollment, but it's basically going through each of the school sites will have a lead. Sometimes that's a counselor, sometimes that's a teacher. And they provide that list going back to Rebecca, who's the United Way. She's the executive officer there. So then she'll handle, you know, connecting the dots on all those people. But whoever the most designated individuals will be at the school sites, then them. just basically contacting that interviewer whoever's you know wherever that it is going to that school and then they'll contact rebecca
075the contact here for the district is going to be ruth our homeless liaison and so she'll be organizing that with rebecca and then they'll coordinate how we get that date that information from the school sites back to the organization thank you okay there you go and that's it yeah and it's presented to the board for approval time I'll move. Second. All in favor? Aye. Is there something else? No. Okay. Is she covered what he was going to do? Okay. Sorry, Dr. Williams. Gotcha. Just make sure I wasn't missing anything. All right. Okay. Business services, L4-1 purchase order, board report, February 18th, 2025, March 3rd, 2025. Tonight we have a board report before you. We have 106 POs totaling $2 million. $2,593.88. And they are from February 18th to March 3rd. Any questions? We do have
076the large PO board there for you. It's for Apple Valley Communications. This is for our service surveillance cameras. It's in the amount of $1,109,999. It was board approved on February 11th. The bid includes, so we have 308 total devices. There'll be 28 vape detectors and 280 video devices at 12 sites and two district departments. Those departments being facilities, maintenance, and operations, and up here at the district office, including purchasing people services and essential elements. I have the full list here if you want to know which sites get which cameras. I can get you that. If you're interested. Yes, we're excited to get that going. Nice. And they're here for a year. Does anyone have any questions, comments? Yeah, I wanted to ask about, I think it's called a privacy grass walking track. Yes, so it's
077actually the first section has been installed tonight or right before the board meeting. That is the there's a fencing privacy fence between Barstow Fine Arts, the nutritional services and the walking track. So anybody walking on the track will not be able to look into the elementary school. That's why it's. But I've been that first section it looks great. The first section is already up There is a front and a back to it. So the front will be toward the community walking track site It's gonna be a fire track even more expensive Yeah, well it's so it's guaranteed and for 20 years this career, yep, it's supposed to guard against fading and And no rust. So it is a little higher. And wind. It is wind rated. We need that here. Yes. The other option was
078a screen. But those winds, they'll just, you know, push right there and the screen will be up. I have to go out and get some sleep. It did cost a little bit more, but I can tell you. Any other questions? All in favor? Aye. All right. Next is L42, second interim report. That's me. I think I'm going to stand for this one. All right. Good evening, Superintendent Swarrington, Board President Hilton, members of the board, staff, guests, teachers. I wanted to start out with sharing the second interim with you tonight. Since we are a new board, I thought we would go over the budget cycling report. Okay. So at the first of the year, we... It was Josh. We're working on the budget. It'll be fine. So our... We start off the year in July 1st
079and 634th, our budget adoption in El Paso. That is due to the county on the June 30th. The first interim happens, that is a period between July 1st through October 31st, and that's due December 15th. Tonight we're going to be talking about the second interim and that is the period through July 1st, 24 through January 31st, 25 and that is due March 17th to the accountant. After that we have the unaudited actuals and that takes, you know, the first three are projections and the fourth one is on it. So that's what our actual finances are at that time. So that takes all the guesswork out and it's just the numbers, which is for an accountant. That's the best part of the job, right? Knowing no more guesses, you know the answer. So that's due September
08015th. In between the second interim and audit redactuals, we also then start the budget adoption cycle again for the next current year. So we're opening the books and closing the books all in that time. I just wanted to share that with you. That's what their financial reporting is doing. And so that you guys have a good understanding of what's going on. So what is the second in the report? The interim report provides a picture of the district's financial condition during the fiscal year, July 1st through June 30th. Pardon me. We were negotiating all day. The governing board certifies the district financial condition to the county of office education through these reports. So the second interim is the period to July 1st through January 31st and contains detailed budget reports, multi-year projections, and estimated cash flows.
081As far as the certifications for the interim report, we have to certify whether we're positive, qualified, or negative. Positive means that we can meet its financial obligations for the current and two subsequent fiscal years. Qualified. Means we may not meet its final financial conditions obligations for the current two for the current and the two subsequent fiscal years and negative means that we are not able to me so we never want to get to Negative I just recently went on the website. There are seven districts in the state right now that are negative and there's about 33 that are qualified Only one being in our County But so Tonight we're going to be issuing a positive certification for our district. And then we're able to meet his financial obligations for the current year and the two
082subsequent two fiscal years. So at first interim, we have our we have four sources of revenue. They are the LCFF, federal, we have state income, and then we have local income. I put up the first interim and second interim for you so you can see the differences from period to period. We had some slight adjustments in the LSFF just based on actual numbers compared to what we thought by the first interim. So just minor adjustments there. On the federal, we had some awards, letters that had to be updated, meaning we... We first thought what our federal income was going to be. At second interim, we actually know what they're going to be. So that's the adjustment you see there. Under state income, we added the equity multiplier. And that's the difference. We didn't have it
083in at first interim, and now you see it there at second interim. As far as local income, the biggest part of that is the interest that we're earning from all the income that we have in our bank right now. And that's what you see there. So I wanted you to be able to see this in a pie chart. We have a total of $129,627,677 in revenue for this year. You can see that the largest piece of that pie is from the LCAF and that's a lot of the work that we're identifying in our LCAP and making sure that we're getting the money we need. You can see that federal piece there. If you follow the pie chart around. Basically about 20 million there, $20 million there. That's all our title programs and all the programs
084that the federal government is allowing us to do with special aid and child nutrition. So for the second report, we also have our expenditures. For the differences, we're just getting classified and benefits. We created some new positions. We have seven new teacher positions. Plus also the difference there is we paid out that $3,000 stipend last month, or last year, sorry. And for classified, we added some exam positions, some new clerical positions, new custodial positions, new paraeducator positions, and we also paid out that stipend. So when you see that difference column, that's accounting for that. As far as our supplies and services, you'll see the big jump between supplies going down and services. We're budgeting for services that we've included and supplies that we... There's a little one here. So our supplies are, we've budgeted, we've
085decreased our budget in supplies and increased our services. And that's mostly in the restricted programs. And so we're making adjustments for our spending in those. With that, if we have a little bit of a lull, whenever we have those redistributions, so say we're going from 15 to 8 and you have 7-ish, let's call it, left over, when we're seeing this year, is that 7 accounted for into anything else into the budget now that we're looking at or that then get reallocated after? Right. So if we don't spend those... proposed budget. If we don't get those things that we're planning on getting, that budget then will be put into next year's carryover. Is that what you're asking? So like right now, so I'm looking at the seven number 6.9 that I'm looking at right now as
086the difference. But what I'm saying is so, but that money isn't basically put anywhere else right now as I'm looking at all the documents. And then if everything were to stay the same, then that would be reallocated or repurposed later if everything stays exactly as it is. Just making sure I'm correct because well, you see we've included the money in services. So we've actually moved move that six. That's a spot that moves that 7Million from supplies and actually put it in the service. So we're planning on spending on our services this year. But if you don't spend those. Yeah. This year, and that happens typically a lot in the restricted program, because it's the hardest money to spend. So as long as we're. Focused in the end. spending our money where it needs to be
087spent. Everything works out. Makes sense. I just want to make sure I'm tracking on lower. You got it. Thank you, Josh. So another pie chart, going from the top and then going around to the smaller pie, you see most of our expenditures are spent on our people, certificated, classified, and then it makes up the first half of the slide. Normally, I spend a little bit more, but we've been spending a lot on capital projects issues, as you're well aware of, fixing the stuff that we need to get fixed. So once that money is depleted, that prime charge will switch a little bit, and you'll see that more expenditures are then charged to our people as a percentage. So that brings us to our beginning fund balance. This year we started out with $84,332,296. Our revenues
088for this year are 1.3. I'll just round up. Our expenditures are 1.4. You see our budget deficit. We're actually spending more money than we're actually, for this current year, we're spending into our reserves, the money that we put there for fixing our roofs. the cameras and all the other extra stuff we've been doing. And so that's gonna, if we're projecting our ending fund balance will be $71,726,546. That's what we're planning on. And so of that. Indian Fund Balances are components. You'll see that our stores and our revolving cash is $525,000. That's our little piece right there. Working your way around to the right, you have our restricted balance, $28,494,662. I'll be defining that for you a little later on. We have our special reserve of $5.4 million. 17 years back. And then our unrestricted or
089unassigned is $33,039,851. So that makes up that total $71,000 that I was talking about. So part of the second interim is making sure that we do a multi-year projection so we can prove to the county and the state that we are financially sound in our expenditures in our plan. In the need to build a multi-year projection, you have to have some assumptions, and so they are there. Our projected enrollment, that is Seabed's day, October 5th. It's always my favorite day because that's when I know a couple days before my birthday also. I digress. But that's the day we know which trades are ours, right? And we get paid for them regardless if they move on or not. That is a good solid number that we recognize by the county and the state. And we have
090our estimated P2 ADA. Right now we're tracking about not quite 90%, so we're a little bit down from last year with our number being 55. 07 and 0.48. I didn't remember that 0.48 because that's just worked a little bit more too. Our COLA for this year is 1.07. The lottery that we get per ADA is 273. And then our step and column is usually projected at 2% and 1% for the multi-year side. So that brings us to our summary of our multi-year report. You'll notice in the... last year out where our revenues are pretty much tracking our expenditures. So by that time we plan on spending all of the most of the money that we've kept aside for our projects. So by that third year out, we're tracking really close to where revenues are meeting
091the expenditures. Mr. Beaton, can you let us know the most current BEA TA that we just reached and settled on? Are those numbers budgeted in this current financial report? They are not. This report is only as of January 31st, and then projections going outward. We had not completed negotiations or didn't have that information available, so it would not be in this report. I'd like to keep you guys abreast on our retirement costs going forward. As you can see, the storage rate is 19.1%. That's what the employer pays into the retirement accounts. That is in statutory, so it takes an act of legislature to actually move that number. FERS is a little bit different. That's for the classified side. They look at it every year and they look to see if they need to adjust it.
092Every year they've been adjusting it. It has gotten better. At this time, or a few years back, they were projecting 26 to 27 to be like 30%. So we've not quite reached that, but we're still edging toward that. 23, 24, you can actually see those are actuals and then every year after that there's projections. And so that's why you see the large increase because it is a projection, but that's the max we could be paying if all our positions were filed, filled and whatnot. So just wanted to keep you guys on an idea of what retirement costs are. The state has always said that they would kind of help, but they've been lacking in that. You know, they stopped helping, if that makes any sense. Okay. So we do not receive any funding from the
093state for retirement costs? Not in addition, not like they used to. There was, you know, we had the perjury reduction years ago, and we also had, they would, Governor Brown was a proponent of retirement costs, and we know that there was, you can see the increasing, but so we haven't had any help since then. They've left it up to us to manage it. I have a couple options we can do, but we'll get to that later. So there's just a graph for you to illustrate how the differences. We're actually about $13 million in retirement costs. That's a good portion of the budget. As I mentioned earlier, we talked about the restricted balance detail, that balance of $28 million. So I wanted to know let you know where the money was we have an expended learning
094opportunity program that the big bulk of it We have the special education early intervention preschool grant a million for Lottery instructional materials that's actually come down quite a bit. We were at a million and a half a year ago So we've been getting the books we need We have our learning recovery emergency block grant. We've been spending 2.7. There you see the LCFF equity multiplier. That's the amount that will be. Next year's money, the budget's been given to us this year. And so that's why you see that there. We're projecting to have that balance for next year. And so we have ongoing major maintenance account, our RMA. We have a little savings. and our other restricted local. I also wanted to illustrate our committed and assigned detail for you. So you'll see our special reserve
095fund 17 that was put there a couple years back when we needed cash for the building of the school support center. We also have a so I've designated this assign these dollars to deferred maintenance We had some a DA improvements that we have to do as we're improving our schools There's the American and we have an emergency infrastructure repair account equipment replacement extraordinary and then the heating, venting, air conditioning, mechanical systems. That money will be as we're fixing the first five schools. That's where that money is coming from right there. Retirement cost increases. I've looked a little there because you can see as you know the retirement costs are always increasing. They put it on us. We have a vacation payout to classify that we have to get done and we have some uninsured claims
096that are sitting out there. So I put some under that. This is the last time that you will see the coronavirus relief because we have spent, we have allocated, received, and spent all of our money. And the blue signifies that. So this is the last time you'll be seeing this slide. We have one more. We did a great job, right? We spent every dime they gave us. We're very proud of that. I think that concludes my report. You'll be informed if anybody changes after the second interim. So when we do budget development, or I'm sorry, budget adoption, we'll also be doing estimated actuals. And that time you'll see budget changes on that report. And roughly when are we looking at that time frame? For the budget adoption? So we'll be starting here. shortly. It's already
097budget season, so Scott's already been working on the LCAP getting input and survey. And then so by the second meeting in June, I think we'll bring it to you for approval. Now the LCAP has to be approved before the budget gets approved. And so it takes a little time. Every year we hope for a little bit better. Yeah. So we'll see you in June for the budget. or stop a review because I don't know. So that work starts now. Now. I have a question. How are we looking at all this stuff going on in the country, the funding we get from the Department of Education, even at the gate? So right now we receive about $20 million from the federal government. If that were to go away, we would. Sure, they have to make some
098adjustments or changes. Are we thinking about that? It's what keeps me up at night. Yeah. Yeah. You know, any time you're going to adjust the budget, you're going to have to need a plan to make money. Money's got to come from somewhere, right? Yeah. We do have a reserve, and that's why that's there for those kinds of things. I truly believe that. They may close the department, but the money stream would still have to go. You have all 50 states relying on this money and for it to just dry up overnight, that wouldn't be good for anything. So they may cancel the regulations and whatnot, but I don't see the money actually. And if they do, they still have to have a plan. And if it does, then we need to have a plan in
099back of it. That's what I'm asking. What is our contingency in case that happens? But we don't know. I understand it's an in case. A good portion of the federal money pays for our aides, the classroom aides. I mean, that's a good portion of where that money goes. So we'd have to either restructure. As far as the age go or. We have no fund balance to get us through a year. Yeah. So we would take that year to have conversations and restructure and plan it out. Scary thought. You know, there's a. I think the state of California would have to get involved. It's going to be a lot of states and a lot of school districts. Hang on. It's going to be across the country. I will say for this, I think we probably should
100put a pin in it. I don't want to suppress anybody, but as far as staying on to this agenda, but I do think it would be a good thing to bring up as far as items for future board meetings. It's a great question. We should address it and look into it. So that we can put it on that section. I just don't want to go into next year. But when I open, when I close, I'll be. Fingers crossed. I agree. It's a good question. Is that reserved four years worth? Does anybody have any questions as far as for this budget or this report? okay and is this this is needing to be voted this is correct can i get a motion to move second all in favor all right all right uh next personnel services
101oh thank you uh classified l6b1 resolution 16 in the matter of reduction of classified school services for the 24-25 school year Thank you. What a nice segue to my... So what we have before you is we have four positions that we are freeing to the board to approve to abolish. If you look at the amount of $102,000, these four actually, yeah, they are vacant. The members in each position, most of them actually move to higher... The position that require more hours. So we benefited the certified employees and we're bringing this item for your approval. Mr. Gutierrez, these positions are currently vacant. Yes. Your point is any additional questions, comments, anything? It's just what I do. Approval. Can I get a motion? Second. All in favor? Aye. And items for future board meetings. Mr. Williams. We
102talked about the. Yes, there you go. Thank you. Just in case. I think we need to have something written down. So if we do have to quickly adjust, we have to quickly adjust. And that would also let them know that, you know, what they're doing to us. Yeah. Just pause for a minute. Yeah. We don't want to get blindsided. Yeah, good thing. Yeah, exactly. Does anybody have any other items they'd like to bring up? Just the CTE and the overhaul for future meetings. I'll bring that up. Two important things, I think. Yeah, we had talked about I think I've talked to you about it and yeah revamping the serum to that room the other one changing things around updating it or you're talking about the SEC yeah for Board for board meetings to give up
103bigger space Because you know, it's a very small space. You can't get everybody in there. That's a lot bigger But I know it has to be updated. That's something we should discuss and look at. I think it's going in with the same thing. Yes. We'll take a very small field trip tonight during our second bullet session. Cool. Any other items anybody would like to... Alright. Then it is 7 o'clock on the dot. Yes, we'll adjourn the closed session. Not adjourning, just the closed session. singing in the sycamore tree dream a little dreamer say nighty night and kiss me just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me while I'm alone and blue as can be Dream a little dream of me. Stars fading, but I linger on dear. Oh, how you linger on. Still
104craving your kiss. How you crave my kiss. Now I'm longing to linger till dawn dear. Just. Send this. Give me a little kiss. Sweet dreams. Till sunbeams find you. Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you. But in your dreams, whatever they be. Dream a little dream of me. Fading, but I linger on dear. Still craving your kiss. Yeah, I'm longing to linger till dawn dear. Just saying this. Sweet dreams. Dreaming. Gotta keep dreaming. That's what you are. We're back from closed session. No items to report from closed session. Do I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. I have.