001Good evening. I'll go ahead and call us back here at 6.0 reconvene open session procedural business 530 p.m. 6.1. Call to order the board of trustees are here by reconvening open session at 536 p.m. 6.2, roll call. Trustees to identify themselves by first and last name to formally establish a forum. Jordan Girardi, Trustee Area 5, Brandon Springs, Arrow Bear Lake, Green Valley Lake. Tamara Midland, Trustee Area 2. Cindy Gardner, Trustee Area 3. Scott Kraft, Trustee Area 4. Dr. William Mellinger, Trustee Area 1. We have our forum. We'll move on to 6.3, Pledge of Allegiance, led by our outgoing interim superintendent, Dr. Gary Rutherford. Please join me in the salute to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
002God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to 7.0 closed session report 7.1 announcement of reportable actions taken during closed session. By a unanimous vote, the board appointed Dr. Paul Seviano as superintendent, effective March 1st, 2024, subject to the parties reaching a neutral agreement on an employment contract, which will be approved in open session at a regular meeting of the board. Are we allowed to clap? Yes, you can. Dr. Sebiano is here with his family, so we'll go ahead and take a brief five to ten minute recess for a little bit of meet and greet and congratulatory talk. So we'll come right back to it. Can I ask first, would you like to introduce your family to us? Do you want to do it one at a time? Yes.
003Do we want him to use the mic? No. I've got teachers. First of all, I want to thank the River World Unified School District Board of Education for approving, appointing me as superintendent. This is a momentous day for me and my family. So as well, I'd like to introduce my family. And first of all, I want to say I want to get to know each and every one of you, work with you, and provide the best possible education that we can for our students. So without further ado, my wife, Karen, 37 years. I'm sorry, I'm turning my back to everybody. Lucy, two years old, future FLAE student. For who's a first grader at LAD and who's a third grader. And I want to thank the Board of Education, Dr. Gary Bluthenberg, and also my three
004other children who are not here tonight. One of them is a paramedic for Crestline here at the Washington County office named Michael, my daughter Lauren, and my youngest, Rachel, who's studying to be a social worker in Oregon. So thank you so much for this opportunity and what a momentous day for our family. Thank you. We'll have a brief recess for a long meeting. Thank you, everyone. I'll go ahead and bring us back here at 549. We'll go ahead and move on to 8.0 public testimony, 8.1 public commentary for items listed on this agenda and non-agenda items that will be subject matter jurisdiction of the government board. The public comment period is administered by state law and is appointed in the meeting. Set aside for members of the public to share their opinions with the board.
005Open meeting laws do not permit the board to engage in dialogue or answer questions. Though it may not take action on non-agenda issues raised at the public comment period, the board may, for example, refer any matter to the superintendent for review or take action to direct staff to place a matter of business on a future agenda. For the speakers, any person who wishes to address the governing board on the agenda, on agenda and non-agenda items within the subject matter of their jurisdiction must complete a speaker's form and submit it to the executive secretary of the superintendent before the meeting is called to order. Individual speakers are allowed three minutes to address each agenda item. The board limits the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. Speakers who have complaints against board
006members or staff are encouraged to seek resolution. to those complaints by using the room the world unified school district written complaint procedure rather than orally addressing them at the meeting the board will not respond to such complaints until the uh until the applicable complaint procedure bpar 13 12.1 has been followed and has reached the void level where a complaint concerns just a district employee identifiable by name position or other facts the books cannot respond until proper written notice has been given to the employee for soon to government code section 54957 Decorum. The governing board is interested in the ideas and opinions of all stakeholders and endeavors to incorporate community views into its deliberations and decisions. At the same time, it must be able to hands out business in an organized and efficient manner, free from
007material disruption. Therefore, in accordance with Board By-law 9.3.2.3 and Government Code Section 549.57.9, audience members may not disrupt, disturb, or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of this meeting. Open reading laws do not confer any privilege or protection or discretion. Beyond that, otherwise provided by law, the public's understanding and cooperation are appreciated. We'll move on to 9.2, sorry, 8.2, public comments. First up, we have Elaine Moran. Topic, books in library. You're free to come up and use the microphone. Make sure you press it and see the red button, and your timer will be displayed right below. I have some more notes for the board members. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, you're being smart. Yes. Hello, my name is Elaine Horan. I first want to... There you go. Thank you. I first want
008to thank you for the time. I was here a few months ago to bring your attention to my concern about inappropriate books found in school libraries. At that time, I did not have specifics. These copies I have given to you are actual titles of books found in one of our elementary school libraries. The concern I have is that any student under the age of 18 shouldn't have access to transgender books, drag queen books, books including the N-word, or books about killing people, including killing a teacher. If parents want to talk to their children about these topics or allow their children to read such books, then they can go to the public library and check them out. As a concerned parent and grandparent, I am asking that the board meet during a workshop to discuss creating
009a board policy in regards to what books are appropriate. It would be nice to have clarification on the process involved in selecting books for our school libraries and a follow-up of results from your research. When we have book fairs, what process is involved in picking those books? Once again, our schools are trying to expose our children to subjects that should be left to the discretion of parents. Our schools need to focus on the academic side of education, which is declining in America. rather than teaching our kids progressive ways of thinking. Our children are entrusted to us by God. They deserve the very best. Thank you. We'll have another comment. This evening from Carol Kinzel, representing South Sash County, Topic Nature Center. Do I get her extra 54 minutes? No. It's running. It's running, Carol. No,
010it's not. I haven't sat down yet. So if I stand up and talk, then it's not on. Okay. I need to talk. I need to touch it. There it's red. Yes, you're on. Okay, I'm on. So I'm going to angle this to you guys and to our new gentleman over here too, because I will be talking with you in the next few weeks. To bring back on the table, the Nature Center. Prior to COVID, I had, for the last five years prior to COVID, Library and Environmental Education Nature Center down at the LOD. and have since then closed that thing to be the room for storage and then COVID came along. But I am bringing to the board, and I've brought it a couple of times, Jamie and I have looked at some rooms, to
011bring a nature center here. What room? 151 and 161? Yes, speaking to the microphone. 151 and 163? You turn to us. Around the corner there. down and around, bringing the Nature Center there. In addition to Dr. Jennifer Alford is the director of the new water system with the Cal State San Bernardino. She is doing water quality testing throughout our area and all of our lakes. This can incorporate our students. This can incorporate our Abbott, our CTE program, which was ROP for us old folks. Our CTE program and everything, a nature center for our community here on our site here. And I'll talk to you more about it and fill you in on my background and why I think this is a win-win situation for our community, for our citizen science, for our students, for all
012the folks sitting in this room, and for your friendship. So thank you very much. Thank you, Tara. That will go ahead and move on to 8.3. We're going to teachers association, our representative and California school employees association representative. We'll go ahead and start with our. This gentleman here said he filled out a form. Oh, I'm so sorry. Let me is that for the public hearing or for public comments? Is that for hearing or? The Grandview. Well, I'm responding to this public bid waiver. The bid waiver is at Grandview? Yeah, that's coupled now. So there'll be a public hearing opportunity, sir. You'll be invited to the mic at that time. Okay. All right. Thank you. Please, Amanda. Hello. Hello. I hope everyone's doing well. I'm going to keep it very brief today. I'm not going to
013talk about negotiations until the joint communique comes out. But thank you, Gary Rutherford, for serving us for this time. And welcome, Dr. Stedman-Yottle. Hopefully we'll start making some good changes in this district. Yeah. The only thing I want to bring up today besides welcoming and thanking is our teachers. Our new teachers need to get paid before October. They start working in August. They don't get paid until October. This is the only place that's happening. They need to get paid. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have a speaker for representing CSEA at this time? No speaker at this time. We'll go ahead and move forward through 9.0 procedures for public hearings. 9.1 public hearings are required on specific items such as the local control accountability plan budgets. Persons who
014wish to address the governing board on a matter set for a public hearing must complete a speaker's form and submit it to the executive secretary to the superintendent before the hearing is called to order. Once the board president opens the public hearing, individual speakers are then permitted up to five minutes to support votes or otherwise offer opinion on the issue. The board limits the total time for public input to 20 minutes. When public input has concluded, the Board President will close the public hearing. The Governing Board is interested in the ideas and opinions of the stakeholders and endeavors to incorporate community views into its deliberations and decisions. At the same time, it must be able to conduct its business in an organized and efficient manner, free from material disruption. Therefore, in accordance with Board Bylaw
0159.3.2.3 and Government Code Section 549.57.9, audience members may not disturb or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of this meeting. open meeting laws do not confer a privilege or protection for expressions beyond that otherwise provided by law so this understanding and cooperation are appreciated three minutes three minutes is there a time limit for can't hear you she said five minutes we have five minutes for that I'll go ahead and move on to 9.2 there. On October 20th, 2020, the Board of Trustees accepted the final report offered by the 711th District Advisory Committee and formally deemed the property to be surplus property with the intent to sell on January 20th. 2022 the waiver of certain procedures for sale of surplus real property at Grandview Elementary located at 180 Grandview Road, California, 92391 will be submitted to the
016State Board of Education for approval. Now we'll go ahead and move on to 923. Are you ready there? Call a public hearing to order. Do I have a motion for that? So moved. Second. Any discussion on 923? We'll go ahead and call for the vote. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We'll go ahead and call that public hearing to order at 6.01 p.m. And we do have a comment that was filled out here, a comment part from Wendell Wilson representing Mount Homeless Coalition. On the topic of the waiver of public bid auction requirements and intend to sell. What properties please you're welcome to come on up to the microphone and make sure you put it so it turns red. I only have a 10 unit, so we'll just start at 10
017minutes and go down. I didn't understand that. You have five minutes. You have plenty of time. Five minutes. Oh, wonderful. So, I am Wendell Wilson. I'm on the Board of Directors for the Mountain Homeless Coalition. And we have been interested in this property for a couple of years. I'm Jenny Haverland. We have a vision for it. The Homeless Coalition may be a little misnomer. We have... transitioned into helping low-income people because a lot of the homeless have become that way because they've been priced out of the rental market. So affordable housing is part of our program, and we believe that we have the ability to, by this one, this provision goes through and the bidding procedures are, or change, we will be part of that. The vision we have is that this is a terrific
018piece of property at Grandview. It's 12 acres, it has a lot of square footage. We believe that the sustainability of it will be through affordable housing. And there's 19 classrooms or places that, rooms that can be converted up to 40 units of affordable housing. which by the definition of having a state means people from 30, the incomes from 30 to 80% of the average median income. And for permanent housing, they could rent there forever. And so we would be converting that, which will involve a fair amount of conversion, but it's not a totally new idea. There's schools all over the country that are being converted to. housing and we feel that housing is a major need in the mountains. It is for the whole state, the whole country. And when I say we have a
019vision, it's more than just taking these classrooms and converting them to affordable housing, which is a big deal. The population that we really see to give preference to are the elderly and social security, SSI. the disabled, because they are the ones that their whole check couldn't rent a place. So by affordable housing, that will be 30% of their income, which is the guideline for affordable income. And we have a property right now up in Big Bear that we have six cabins that we own and have run for three years that we got a grant from the state. And we did partner with the San Bernardino Housing Authority, which has given us great credibility and guidance, and we hope to attract them as one of the partners. Well, again, the vision is that it would be
020more than that. The land has extra land that they have can be used for. a number of things. One of them would be community gardens for community activities. There's a lot of land that tiny homes can be put on there for interim housing or permanent housing. There's a cafeteria that can be used for feeding programs. We actually hope to attract the county of San Bernardino. with some free or low-rent offices that they would actually come up here to serve our clients, whether it's the Department of Aging, Behavioral Health, Workforce, or could easily be training. We would consider this to be a navigation center, much like the... $43 million project that Victorville just put called the Wellness Center, where they have a little bit of everything, including care. There's a word for the care that you
021get when you get out of the hospital that no one's providing. And that program that we're, the doctor that's providing the medical for that is writing a grant for the entire. county for the different regions and the mountains is considered one of the five regions so we have a certain standing with the county that we get eligible for certain grants and we have gotten them. The past five years the Mount Homeless Coalition has has achieved a certain amount of credibility and we have gotten hundreds of thousands to serve the area. community and this last year, I won't go into all the details of the binary report, but we helped 50 households achieve permanent housing from homelessness or no housing, which is basically about one a week. We did this with funds. We're just past the
022five minutes. Okay. Thank you for listening. And we hope to be seeing you later on the actual bill. Thank you very much. With that, we'll go ahead and call the public hearing to close at 6.07 p.m. We'll go ahead and call for the motion on that. I'll sign with that. Any discussion? I'll call and put a vote on paper. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? That vote is communicated unanimously. We do close out at 6.08 p.m. 10.0 announcements. 10.1 Superintendent. First meeting of revisions to the attached board policy, APs, administrative regulations, ARs, board bylaws, BPs, and exhibits E's. The revisions were provided by the California School Board Association, CSPA. 10.2 superintendent first meeting of provisions oh let's actually go ahead and pause it from point one there is there anything you'd like to know this is
023the opportunity for the board for the board to look at the revisions and updates as provided by gamut so we brought that for a second reading and thanks being at that time unless there are any revisions the board can approve those 10.2 Superintendent of the Revisions to the Academy Board Policies, Administrative Regulations for the Five Laws and Exhibits. The revisions were provided by the California School Board Association, CSBA. Anything here? We'll go ahead and move on to 10.3 Superintendent, New Board Policy 6173, and 4, Education for American Indian Studies, First Reading. Anything here from anyone? we'll go ahead and move forward to 11.0 reports and presentations 11.1 governing board members so let's go ahead and start uh i can go ahead and kick us off at So I would like to first start by thanking
024very much our interim superintendent, Dr. Gary Rutherford, for his steadfast hand in his tenure while we undertook a superintendent search. I would also like to thank Dr. Rutherford here for his expertise in executive searches and lending his expertise to us so that we could this time around, you know, conduct a new type of search. Last time we went through the county, it was a free service provided by the county of San Bernardino for small districts. And this time around, we were able to lean on Dr. Rutherford's executive search expertise that I think resulted in. A wonderful choice that was guided by the development of a leadership profile, which was able to spearhead and gather stakeholder input from our community and employees. So very much just want to take that moment to thank him for leading
025us through this time while we were looking for a new superintendent. I'll also mention I have more to share out, particularly around a bill that is being proposed in the state Senate based upon the storm that happened last year in 2023 as a result of the committee report brought forth by Don Rouse. It was a Storm Response Committee report in April of 2023. There were a list of recommendations in that report that Senator Troubeau's office took a look at and wanted to take some action on. And so he came to us and worked with us to get a bill introduced that would help us navigate storms a little bit easier, particularly on recovering revenue lost. to districts during these natural disasters. The current law does not specify snowstorms as a natural disaster. So it was
026an addition of a qualifying event that's been brought to us from Senator Ochoa's office. They are looking for us to sponsor that bill, and I could speak more to it under Cindy's legislative report. And I think she has some news to share on that as well. But definitely want to thank the senator's office for reaching out to us. We are often a forgotten district amongst our legislators because we are so small and so rural. And in the Senate district that we're in, for example, that covers a large swath of land, mostly the high desert portions of communities down below, like Highland. And we just sit often in the middle. And, you know, it's hard to sometimes get the attention I think our community deserves from legislators. So I'm very appreciative of her office on working
027with us on that. I will go ahead and end it there and pass it down the line. Danny, do you want to go ahead? Sure, you bet. Always a challenge to follow Jordan because he's so incredibly eloquent. So I'm going to keep my comments short. But of course, I wish to also convey appreciation to all of the work that Dr. Rutherford has done for us and all the ways that Jordan has already mentioned and to welcome Dr. Saviano on board. after we vote, of course. I enjoyed attending time with trustees at WIMPI and at BOE. I wanted to make sure everybody was aware that we have time with trustees scheduled for tomorrow at Hoffman at 5 o'clock. at MPH on February 27th at 4, and then at LAE at 3 o'clock on March 5th. So
028it's a great, everybody's invited. And it's a time to, two of us will be in attendance at each of those. And it's a time to, in an unstructured way, be able to share thoughts. When public comments are made, we aren't able to respond. And this is just a great opportunity for... staff, stakeholders, community members, anybody to come and have a chat with us. And we appreciate you taking the time to do it. On that same vein, I appreciate the fact that y'all are here. It's great to see folks in seats. It's been many a time that we've had our meetings with maybe one or two people sitting out there. So it's very gratifying that you're taking time, especially after long work days, to come and attend. So thank you. Let me see here. One other
029thing that I wanted to mention is a lot of you know our elementary and middle school band teacher, Emily Oseita, actually Emily Gregg Oseita, and she and Noah had their first baby, born February 15th. Nine pounds, 15 ounces, big baby. Their son is named Jamie. Mom, dad, baby are all doing well. Jamie was born more than two weeks early. which is due the first week of March. And he's a big baby, so we might have had that date a little bit wrong. But everybody is doing well, and I thought you all would want to know. So thank you. Awesome. Yeah, very nice. Thank you. Okay, so I'm going to also thank Dr. Rutherford for all of his help. We told them to dig for dirt. Thank you very much. Just putting it out there. Awesome.
030Okay, so I just want to say that this time of year is really exciting for our seniors at the high schools. And they are waiting on pins and needles for their acceptances, which will start coming next month. At the end of this month, Lisa Mills, our college and career counselor, We'll be opening up the scholarships, the community scholarships, both at Mountain High School, RVA, and Rim High School. There are multiple organizations on this mountain that are so generous. And if you want to know how much was given out last year, it was almost $130,000. Miami Planet Rec Scholarship Council, we gave out 39 scholarships, totaling $39,000. So it's really exciting. I encourage parents to make sure that their little lovies are either going online to look at the scholarships and downloading them, or there'll be
031hard copies in the counseling office at Rome High School, in the front office at Mountain High School, and then I think RBA is getting theirs emailed out by Lisa. So that's exciting. Another exciting thing is that the PTAs are in the midst of their recruiting for their new boards for next year. Please, if you have any... ounce of volunteerism in you, please, please consider volunteering to be on a PTA. They do so much in conjunction with their schools. They work really hard in collaboration with their principals and their staffs. They bring such fun things to the campuses. I mean, the MPH PTA just... I feel like every week I'm getting, can you help with passing out ice cream sandwiches on Friday? Can you, there's an MPH PTA breakfast on Monday. And there's just so much
032stuff. I volunteered at the book fair at LAE. The TK class just, just busts me up. How to teach them how to manage money is a little challenging, and that TK class cost me about $15. I'm just saying because I can't say now. So anyways, I just, please, please consider PTA because there's so much, and you don't have to do a lot if you don't want to. If you only can spend a couple hours per year on one event, that's all we need. We just would love to see parents, and that includes the high school PTA. We have some really energetic parents that are interested. And Mr. Willemsey has some big plans, he says. So it's a great way to contribute to your child's educational environment. I'm also doing time with trustees. It's really great
033to sit and chitty chat. It was Scott and I had an almost two-hour conversation with one of our new math teachers at Brent High School. And we just chitty chatted for most of the time. And it was fun. Well, that's because Scott and I talked in the parking lot in the cold, in the rain. But it's just the fact that we just had a lovely conversation about everything under the sun. And it was just such a pleasure to really get to know one of our new math teachers. So anyways, please come because you can talk to us about anything and everything. I was prepared with a lot of budget questions and didn't really get a lot, but I was prepared, darn it. So come at me with budget because I have printouts for everybody. And
034I think that's it. All my legislative stuff will go under the other reports. So thanks a lot, everybody. I'm glad everybody stayed dry and wet and didn't get drowned. And I also thank Dr. Ruff for digging up the dirt. I didn't know you were going to give us all the extra time. And Cindy, I thought you would talk about others, but you gave us a lot of stuff about Cindy that I had no idea. I appreciate that. I'm going to hold some of that over her head. I want to also talk about CHE tomorrow at 5 o'clock. We did have a great time talking with the teacher. It was two hours, and everybody that knows me well knows my attention span is more like 30 minutes. But these teachers, it's funny because, you know, I
035taught here and went to school here and everything, but you learn so much about specifics that they need that you have no idea that. That can be done. And that's when it happens is that time that you can sit down and you talk. So I would encourage everybody to please go to those. And I know sometimes it's not, you don't have the time. I always ran into that situation where it was tough for me coaching and teaching and doing what I did, but also just reach out because we're willing to meet at other times as well. But it needs to, we need to have that open dialogue and conversation because I want to see things improve and get better. This community means a lot to me and I want to see everything, every school. And
036I think we're kind of set up right now. We had a rough start to this year. We had a rough few months and it was kind of a little bit on the crazy side. And I'm looking forward. I'm very hopeful for the future. I welcome Dr. Siviano and I think he's going to be a good part of that. And I would like to see us all. Try to move past what we had to deal with and put our best foot forward and welcoming him and working with him and trying to improve everything with the district. Everything. And I see some great things happening in our post session that I can't comment on right now. I think we're off to a great start for the end of this year, and hopefully we'll be off to a
037better start for the coming year. So I have high hopes, and I just want to see things keep improving. I also want to mention a couple things. Winter season's getting done for sports. Sports are a big part of my life. And I know the sports have done really well and doing well. The coaches that do this and everybody else in all other activities as well that have to do and work. hard hours. They have to put in so much time. And they have to raise extra funds as well. So here you have people that you're paying a certain amount of money and then they have to go above and beyond that and then they have to raise extra money to keep these programs and they do it. So with open arms and just... They don't
038love every minute of it. And the end result, they get to enjoy some really great things that happen there. So I want to say thank you to all the coaches and band and drama and everybody else that works hard to do those. We do, I have to mention, though, that we do have two students that are up at the state tournament right now. We have for wrestling. Roman Loya, who's 165 pounds. He won his first match, and then he lost to the number one ranked kid in the state tournament, but it was a close match. He was wrestling really well. And then we have Millie Thompson, who she's Roman's a senior, Millie's a junior, and she lost her first match. She wrestles again tomorrow, but I want to just wish them well. So they're doing
039great. And I want to also thank... We talked about scholarships and how the community steps up and just contributes. Every year it just seems like it increases and increases and they do such a great job. That also happens for all our activities that happen throughout the school. This high school is actually looking to do one booster program. So that because sometimes it's hard in the community, you get attacked from all these different sides. And you want to contribute, you want to give support to everybody, and it's hard to do that. So I'm hoping we can work this out and make it happen so that we can really support all our activities at the high school and throughout. our school district because there's a lot of other activities and things that happen in elementary schools and
040at the middle school and if we can come together as a community more and support that and we don't you know push too hard on that and it's understood i think we can make some positive strides there as well so i'm very hopeful for the rest of this year and excited for next year so thank you thank you scott So first, let's see. Rosalba's Mexican restaurant. And a lunch. And it's at that lunch that I learned that we would be having an interim superintendent who would be wise, caring, helpful, and healing people on our staff, respecting the value and the gifts of each person in leadership throughout our district. and that he would then provide a seamless transition from an incredible man, Mike Wiesman, who was our interim superintendent before him. So Gary, thank you.
041Thank you for the time that you've spent, for the willingness that you've been giving of yourself, coming and staying up here on the mountain. And really, I appreciate all of what you've done. And as others have said, I also appreciate the fact that Dr. Serviano, you know, gossip is all over the place in social media. And Gary made sure that he examined every aspect of gossip about you. And, but that was important to us, for us to have a very thorough process that would not just say here's a person, here's what their resume states, here's what references state, but let's look into this individual in a more personal way, in a more detailed way. Let's look behind the scenes. And Gary, I appreciate the fact that you took on that responsibility to do that and
042help us really to do a very sincere and careful process. And there may be people that might question as they will also find that gossip material out there. But the fact is, is that. Dr. Rutherford really led us in the process to examine all that and see the man behind it and to see the educator and the qualities that you bring to us. And so this is really an appreciation to both of you. for what you did in that process and for the man that you are too. And I look forward to working with you and seeing how you lead this district in the future and how you even probably follow some of the traits that Dr. Rutherford has utilized in trying to care about the people on our staff, which is really where it
043begins. We, number one, are concerned about students, but the way we meet the needs of students is through our staff. I appreciate and want to say this, and I appreciate that every member of the cabinet has given me information about something within the last week, and I appreciate that I can talk to you and I can get information and detailed answers from you, and I value that, and I value your knowledge and your expertise, and so thank you also because Dr. Rutherford has not been here every single day of the week. In fact, he's only been here a couple of days, which meant in order for this district to continue to run well, it took each of you and all of you. And so to our entire staff, a word of appreciation. With that, I
044also want to say that it's very important that we all work together. I know there's different opinions about this, but we need to improve our facilities. We need to deal with both the security issues across our campuses, the air conditioning and ventilation needs across our campuses. And Jim, I don't know, did you have to take water out of Rim High School with the last rain? Oh, thank goodness. I'm sorry you missed that opportunity this time. Wonderful. But we have very, very significant needs that are not going to be taken care of if we don't get our community to join with us in a bond. And to this wonderful staff, we all need to be together on this, realizing that every teacher, every administrator. Every staff person gains from what we can do if we can
045get a bond passed within our community. Our whole community really gains through that. And security needs to be at top, as well as then the educational environment for our students. So I'm just imploring you, please don't allow politics or anything else to be in the way of what we do to get a bond passed in this community. I think I have some other notes here, but the last thing that I want to say is it was a privilege to be again at Valley and Enchantment for our time with trustees. I value the opportunity to hear people's opinions and concerns and that staff and PTA, which by the way, I'm missing a PTA meeting right now at Valley and Enchantment Elementary. Well, see, I missed it because I had this board responsibility. Oh, my. But I
046also appreciated being with the principal there and getting to play Mario. So thank you all. Thank you. Let's go ahead and jump into 11.2 legislative update report. Okay, Jordan, we'll take the bill last. I'll do a lead-in to that so we can have discussion and direction. Okay, so last meeting, I told you I was super excited to go to my first California School Boards Association legislative committee meeting up in Sacramento. It was so exciting. I am really excited to work with former assembly member patrick o'donnell he and i he was the impetus of getting us involved in the late start bill which thank goodness we did not have to implement because it would have cost us a ton of money and a ton of problems but it was absolutely an exciting exciting day with um
047people from board members from all over the state of california um One thing that I was excited about, which I didn't think was on anybody's radar except for ours and slash mine, was the electronic bus bill that I... got on my soapbox about last time. Well, that is on CSBA's radar. They have written the language that would allow for districts of geographical challenges, which we would qualify, would be exempt unless certain technology and infrastructure was up to par. to meet the needs of those districts. I'm really excited. It's not going to probably be in this bill cycle, but they have a plan and a pathway to guide this forward so that the foundation is laid and we all may not be here to see the fruition, but I'm excited to lay foundational work that would
048save us so much money and so craziness in trying to implement this bill. So I'm really excited this was on. And of course, I talked a long time about our challenges. And so they were like, oh, we thought this was going to be a one minute discussion. And it was not. But it was really cool because other districts at the table also had the same concerns. Even though they were not challenged like we are, they did have their own concerns. So it was really great. And another district started to buy. The process of buying a bus. And I almost choked on how much one bus costs. I just wanted to pee my pants. So I'm just saying that it was awful. It was really awful. And then I just calculated times how many buses that
049would be. And I started having most heartfelt stuff. It's gone. Then we had, I had sandbags last week. Kevin Gordon from Capital Advisors, of course, gives a federal advocacy update that is in your board docs. I'm going to not go over it. Basically, it's the same thing. No movement on the budget. There is a deadline for education of, I think it's March 8th. The president makes his next year budget presentation. Is it March 11? Well, whatever. And so because it's so close, we may end up with status quo until September. We'll see, but you guys can read all of that. It's very disappointing. And yes, they're still talking about cuts, including that 80% to Title I, but at least a 1% across the board. I think special ed is flat. So anyways, I'm just letting
050you guys know. The biggest information that came out is we're starting to get monthly state revenue reports to see if the governor is correct in his estimations of the budget deficit or if the ALO is more in line with the $68 billion deficit. For January alone, we were $5.7 billion below the governor's projections for revenue in the month of January. So what came out yesterday was that the LAO's office is not projecting a $68 billion deficit, but a $73 billion deficit. The menu of options that the LAO's office is kind of putting out there as a way to balance this budget is, of course, hitting the Prop 98. That's where we're funded from education. I love Sherry. She knows what I'm talking about. Thank you, Sherry. to actually dig deeper into those reserves. Jenny don't
051have a heart attack, but eliminating some of this LCFF add-ons, such as the TIG and the minimum state aid. I know she's like, okay, I can handle that. I love you, you're so awesome. That they're also looking at... reducing the cost or even pulling back funds from the ELOP program, school nutrition, transitional kindergarten, school transportation, and the state preschool program. So the issue is that the May revise, we're going to be looking at some ugly numbers. It looks like the governor was way too optimistic in his proposed budget in January. The COLA, they're even LAO's manual options is getting rid of the COLA altogether, which was only going to be a 0.76%. The unfortunate part is May Revise is going to be an ugly event. We need to prepare for it. We know that we
052have our budget committee. They're going to have to be doing some hard work in looking at our future years to make responsible cuts. It's going to be difficult to agree to, but we've worked together, whether we called it the stakeholders group way back in the 2000s or our now budget committee. But we need to work together and collaborate on the budget cuts because they're going to happen. Every district is preparing for them. In one district in the legislative committee, their insurance, unfortunately, this year went up 18%. And I'm like, oh, okay, you're going back to the drawing board on your budget. So it's just, unfortunately, we're getting more dire news about our budget circumstances and how that hits education. We'll know more in May. But the governor was committed to not make cuts to education,
053but that's not going to happen. We have to have a realistic vision of what's going to happen. I know Mr. Williams, he says, that's your problem, Cindy, that's not mine. What I'm just saying is that it does give me a little bit. cause for concern. You mentioned transitional kindergarten, ELOP, in terms of reduced funding, and that's mandated. So we're still mandated to complete those programs? Well, we will see, because it all is about true language and what's going on in the main revise. So as of now, it's being negotiated, but it's very possible that those programs will be mandated to continue, which are great programs. Yeah, but there won't be funding for them. We'll have to figure out our own funding source. So they become a not unfunded mandate because there was money, but it
054will be a less funded mandate. I don't know what the technical term is, but. February 16th was the bill introduction of bill deadline. So we didn't have the full slate of bills. However, there are a couple of bills that Sandaps put forward in terms of taking position. One of them was really kind of heartfelt, which is which. In the county, we have a couple of military bases, so this was nice for them. It was a bill that would remove the requirement of the deployment. You know, kids get, military families, the kids get excused absence to be with their parent when they come back from deployment. And it used to be only those parents that were coming back from combat zone or combat support position. Well, now the bill would eliminate that requirement. military person comes
055back from deployment no matter what the designation that child gets time with their parent which is just so heartwarming um we took a support position of course because who wouldn't that would be anyways um sp 97 967 by 976 sorry by senator scanner and this is about social media And the whole conversation about what the effect of social media is on kids, and this would be called the social media youth addiction law, would make it unlawful for the operator of an addictive social media platform is defined to provide an addictive feed to a user. And it goes on. We took a watch because this is going to have a lot of conversation about social media and what does that mean? How do you determine the addiction and the use and all this other stuff? So
056it needs to be a little bit more defined. So and we want to see how the conversation plays out. in the hearings before we take a position. But I thought that was an interesting because we always hear about the influence of social media, how that contributes to cyber bullying, to going down the wrong paths on the dark internet of inappropriate places. So just saying is that that would be interesting. I did get elected to the San Bernardino County School Courts Association Executive Committee. And I was excited. We have our first meeting of this year on Monday night. And we're going to be just setting our board trainings and our board workshops for the county and also be working out our fall joint meeting with Riverside County. So I'm really excited. And I'm excited about being
057able to really work on what our boards need, what can. We bring to the table that is a little different one thing that was discussed There's a legislative chair on on the executive committee that we cross pollinate with sand apps We're going to develop a one pager or maybe two pager Synopsis of sand apps actions and the emerging issues of the county in education And we're going to develop a one pager that would go out to every single board in the county of San Bernardino that's very concise, easy to read, and the boards can, if they feel like, and it's important to them, take action on the bill that we're going to discuss in a minute. So I just think that's really exciting change to make sure that we're drawing in all school boards to
058have the same access to advocacy. And so that's one change we're going to make for this year in using legislative to drive. education advocacy. So super excited. All right, next, the last thing is Kevin Gordon, they work closely, capital advisors with all of our legislators, had a meeting with Senator Joe Bowe. As Jordan mentioned, she wants to propose language amendment to the education code. It's a really long one. It's 46392. And in your board docs, you guys, it's super easy. She's adding snowstorm to this section in regards to... emergencies and the biggest other component is an emergency and can be declared by the school district county office of education or charter school that's huge because right now an emergency can Be declared only by the state in terms of change affecting a school district. So
059this is this is also an important change is declaring the emergency at a local level because we're boots on the ground. As all of you have said during Snowmageddon, and this would be a huge, huge win in the legislative committee before we turn it over to discussion is that in the governor's proposed budget, there is one time money. going to be called back but there was one time money for school districts to put in place structures and infrastructure that after five days of an emergency you can pivot to online learning and then the other component is being able to actually pivot to online learning at very quickly and effectively or if your kiddos are displaced by like wildfire that they have the ability to to be to go to school to another lae lea sorry
060lae i'm just going to move them all to lae okay and so anyways the jordan take it away from the actual bill number that she's proposing and she wants our support on Oh, sorry. One thing is SAMDAPS took a position to support and gave because the senator wanted feedback and input from SAMDAPS and we were all in favor of adding this into the egg code. Thank you. That's really good to know. So yes, on Friday, Senator Ochoa introduced SB 1429. So that is the bill that I talked a little bit about and Cindy talked a little bit about. I've been working with the senator's office on this bill for a little bit now. They wanted a lot of our feedback because the recommendation that they're basing this change off of came out of Supervisor Don
061Rao's Storm Response Committee, which I believe Dr. Mellon was part of. It was wonderful that they actually read through that report, saw a need for change, and has worked with us to introduce that bill. So they would like Rim of the World Unified to be a sponsor of the bill. So that's what I would like to hear some direction on. And if it sounds like that's a direction that we want to go, I can report a resolution to formally support the bill and put it up for a vote on our March. board meeting coming up in just a couple weeks. So please, Jordan, please bring it. Same. Yeah, absolutely. And knowing also that Jenny oftentimes is put into a very challenging spot and making sure that we're able to get compensated for the additional snow
062days beyond what we have. And then last year with all the weather concerns, if there's ways to be able to codify it, I think it's important for us to do so. There's one other component of this bill that it might open the door to that I'm hopeful of, and that is how long it takes the CDE to process waivers, to review waiver applications. First of all, the submittal process is very hard to us for districts. I saw the report that Jenny put together, our application. It was a giant binder filled to the brim. So it takes a lot of administrative work to submit a waiver application to say, hey, we went over our allotted snow days because of a natural, you know, natural disasters that prevented us from having schools in a safe environment. The
063amount of work it takes to prove that is is a lot. So I'm hoping that this bill opens that opportunity to start talking about the process side that CDE goes through to to. process those waivers. They take so long now that we're, I mean, we have to seriously consider at some point, you know, if it doesn't happen, if we don't get it processed and they don't approve it, then we have to start adding days to the end of the school year because you have to make up those days then if they're not waived. So I'm hopeful that it opens that door. And it sounds like I've heard from a couple of you. I already gave my feedback to I was asked a lot of questions about this in the discussion. By the way, I told
064it about a waiver that still hasn't been approved for last year. And Kevin Gordon said that the excuse that is given is that the state is understaffed as well. And they said, well, we just went ahead and went with the county declaring a state of emergency. So we kept our graduation date the same. Good luck trying to get those seniors back from college to finish their high school education. And so Kevin recognized the process is not only arduous, but it's being held up supposedly by lack of staff, which we can't help, but which greatly affects us. So I agree. I already might do that. Yes. Yeah, thank you. And that's a really good point. It's not, you know, getting that waiver process in an ideal world. I'd like to see it simplified. If there is
065a declared federal disaster zone, I think that should count as sufficient for an application. But still, we have to prove, you know, and, you know, so I know Jenny's out there taking actual newspaper clippings to. you know, as proof and including it into that application process. So, yeah, less of a law change and more of a procedural process change on CVs. I also support it. I also just I know and we will do this, that we get teacher and staff and all stakeholders input because the ideas will be so helpful moving forward. So I know I know we'll do that, but I welcome that as well. Yeah, as you have the conversation, Jordan, and get back to her, I look forward to a resolution. But the whole idea, if you can have that conversation, obviously
066you'll send abscess, but it would be great for another voice to be entering right in your board president, is the whole idea of being able to have the ability to pivot to online. You just need to be able to after. we settle down or whatever and we're still out, be able to effectively go on to online learning. It's a really good point and I have broached that topic already with the senator's office. So we're working on that and they're also looking into and trying to seek more clarity on the governor's proposed learning continuity plan, I believe is what it's called, that would address some of that. But they're working to get some more, what do you mean? What do you want? So I will take this feedback back and I'll bring back the resolution. Thank
067you all. Anything else for legislative report? I think that was enough. I think so, too. So we'll go ahead and move on to 11.3, our interim superintendent, Dr. Gary Welch-Curdy. Thank you, President Zarate. Trustees, you've been very generous with your comments that I am humbled and honored by your kind words, but probably not that deserving. A day and a half a week, my job here has largely been... Karen feeding of the board education, which has been an honor and assisting you and facilitating your search. If things, if the wheels have stayed on the bus in this district and things have maintained positive momentum, it's because of the three people sitting to my right. They're outstanding leadership and many of the people in this room are education partners who did not allow themselves to be distracted.
068by things that are happening in the community and instead focus down and make sure kids were learning, schools were safe, schools were open, dealing with the weather. These guys are amazing. You have a great team. Paul, you're inheriting a great group of people here. I've kind of fallen in love with your community. However, I'll be very happy to come up here for recreation the next time I come up and I have a little more time to do that. I will tell you guys as individuals, I've come to respect and enjoy each of you. You're as different as the mountain villages you represent. You're kidding me. No, I am. Warning to the light. But when you come together and when we've done the hard work we've done in the last few months, you listen well to
069each other. You change your point of view if you hear new information that causes you to change your point of view, which I consider great governance. You ask the tough questions. You describe my search as digging for dirt, and there's a certain element when you're vetting candidates that you're doing that. But you're also digging for gold, and you found gold in Dr. Paul Celiano. I'm convinced he is the right person for the right time and you're going to have a great term of duty. I'm very happy Paul to turn those keys over to you. And I do, he gets a magic set of keys and I wish you all the very best in your assignments. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll go ahead and move forward to 11.4, student representative report from the World
070High School. Hello everyone. This is the February school reports. Sorry, one moment. All right, starting off with the elementary schools. VOE had a blast the last two weeks raising money in the Mario Kart Penny Wars for the PTA. We had great students, staff, and parent support. Everyone had a blast. Even one of our own board members joined in the fun. CP, recognize any familiar faces? And then we turned to video. Looks like it was a lot of fun. Also, CHU's enrollment increased by 12 students last week and a total of 19 students since returning from winter break. We are so happy to have more families moving up to our mountain and joining our small yet amazing school community. CHE PTA also celebrated Valentine's Day with student and parent purchase Valentine's grants. They appreciated our staff
071with wonderful spa gifts. We're so excited to welcome our new PTA president, Shannon Divert, as she is always positive, supportive, and willing to help our school in any way she can. LAE is doing their second trimester community service project, which is collecting Play-Doh for the patients at the Loma Linda Children's Hospital. If you'd like to donate, you can send to LAE via Amazon by the end of March. PTA also held an assembly recently that our students loved. We had Skydome come visit, and we'd never heard so many kids talk about the moon and stars. Next up, Mary Punganpeng Intermediate. On February 3rd, three of our staff members, Mrs. Pilkerton, Mr. Lowen, and Mr. Gomes, took the plunge and jumped in the lake to raise funds for the amazing Rimet Foundation. On February 8th, Mr. Gomes
072and Mrs. Roque attended the Eliminate Bowling Workshop. This workshop was insightful, and the MPH administration is ready to implement an anti-bowling program that has been proven successful in many districts. MPH also celebrated Kindness Week by participating in Spirit Days. Our students and staff enjoyed another week of fun activities spreading kindness along the way. Speaking of kindness, PTA has shown tremendous love and support to MPH. They helped us with snacks for students during CAS prep days and are also hosting our first family breakfast on Monday, February 26th. Students will get the opportunity to welcome their family and friends on campus to enjoy delicious breakfast. CAS preparations have started. Today, Thursday, February 22nd, and tomorrow, Friday, February 23rd, MPH students will take their IABs, giving students the opportunity to build stamina and familiarize themselves with modified schedules
073and testing protocols. In addition, it gives the staff the ability to refine these protocols in order to create the best testing environment. Mountain High School. MHS graduated another student for a total of 14 this school year. College-bound graduates are completing their college applications and FAFSA on campus. MHS students had another community service opportunity by helping RBA elementary students with this month's Valentine's Day activity. The MHS Science Book Pilot has come to an end. For the first time ever, to our knowledge, MHS ordered dissecting pigs lab materials. Big shout out to Missy William, who's bringing science to life for our students. In this month's earthquake drill, we discovered two of our PA speakers have stopped working since our December drill, which validates the importance of drills on a small campus like ours. The repair is in
074process. Rotary, Soroptimist, and ROTW Community Scholarship Council are working with our counselor to offer more scholarship opportunities for MHS students. We are grateful to these organizations and the community for including MHS. Up next from Virtual Academy, RBA enrollment is 123, with the three students accepted after today's intakes will be at 126 next week. We reached capacity in grades 9 through 12 and started a 9 through 12 waitlist. Because of our CIF multi-campus agreement and great working relationship with RHS, some RBA students enjoy extracurriculars such as Shred and the upcoming UCLA field trip. RBA recently applied to join the College Board. RBA elementary students enjoyed a fun Valentine's Day activity. Thank you to Mrs. Lewis, who does a wonderful job coordinating our elementary activities. The instructional team has been working on the WASP initial visit recommendations
075during PLC, even though our first full visit is three years out. Instructors have worked together to create and implement a uniform student orientation, which has created another effective layer of support setting up our new students for success, especially those who are new to virtual learning. Our bi-weekly one-to-one student meetings are going well and have allowed us to collect college and career goals from students, data we are excited to use in better informing the development of our VA. New SEL lessons delivered through Homeroom have been well received and are creating community. Lastly, we're in high school. RHS winter sports have almost wrapped up. After impressive seasons from all sports and also CIF appearances by both boys and girls soccer, we have two wrestlers competing in the state championship meet. Millie Thompson and Roman Loya will be
076representing RIM today and tomorrow in Bakersfield. This is our first appearance at the state meet in many years. The RWUSD Ethnic Studies Committee is in full swing. Input from the students, teachers, and community members is being used by the committee to build a course that meets RIMS needs. We are excited for this work and look forward to implementing this new graduation requirement for our students. Course selection has begun. RHS counselors are in the process of meeting with students to select courses for the 2024-25 school year. At RHS, we built a student-driven master's schedule to ensure we are meeting the needs of all of our students. On January 31st, RHS hosted the District Music Festival. Band students from all ROWUSD schools performed showcasing our amazing music program. Big thanks to Ms. Stebbing and Ms. Brick for
077putting on this fun night. RHS Abbott is gearing up for their junior trip. March 4-8, our Abbott juniors will take their statewide trip, visiting over a dozen college campuses. Thanks to Rimette Foundation for continuing to support this amazing opportunity for our students. And that concludes the February school reports. Thank you so much. We'll go ahead and move forward to 11.5, Educational Services, Presentation of the California School Dashboard. If it's going to pass, done. All right. Good evening, trustees. Thank you for giving us the opportunity. Okay. Well, good evening again. Thank you for the opportunity. I want to echo again a thank you to Dr. Rutherford for all of his expertise and working through all his time with us and supporting us through so much. Also, thanking our board members, thanking our staff, our administrators, our
078teachers, our bus drivers, our instructional aides. I have to make sure that I'm including everyone in there and hope I don't miss anyone because as we start looking at the California School Dashboard and where in the world is, that's essentially our report card, right? It's what the state of California gives us in terms of information for academic performance, academic engagement, and conditions and climate. And so when we look at that information and we see that report card, we also take the opportunity to get to know and welcome our new superintendent that we are thankful to have joining us, that we have an opportunity to hear from our public speakers. I want to thank Mr. Wellington, Ms. Kinzel, and Ms. Horan for speaking and sharing because it's so important that our educational partners take that opportunity
079to share and feel like their voice is valued. Also, thank you to our students. As we're looking at our student board rep who helps us out here, Diane also is on our LCAP student focus group. And so she gave me some great feedback at our last meeting and our next one is tomorrow. So I love hearing the student voices. I hate to say that sometimes they are my favorite, not that I favor anyone, but it's really cool to hear what the students have to say and their feedback and their voice. So essentially, we're going to look at the dashboard today. We're right after that. I'm going to jump into the LCAP. Who's excited? Me too. And I'm going to give you the highlights, right? So there's a lot of slides there. Don't you worry. We're
080not going to read them all verbatim. We're going to give you the status, the updates, the things that you're looking for. Again, because as we look at the data and what are we as Remember the World Unified, and you look at that next slide, that might work. but might not. There it is. We think about who is RIM, right? Who is the RIM family? And if you Google us, that's what you see. If you go a little deeper, you might find the dashboard. If you open up the dashboard, you're going to see our indicators, both state and local. But if you come to our schools in our district, you see who the people are and the family that we are and how much we genuinely care about the family every day in our schools. With
081that further ado there, let's jump into our dashboard. Day breakdown for you, the academic performance, academic engagement, and conditions and climate that are broken down. I know we're familiar with these indicators, but your next couple of slides are going to give you kind of a breakdown of what has changed for 2023. I thought that might be the more interesting data to take a look at. And so kind of a breakdown. If you get to the point of googling RIM and you get to the California dashboard then you're going to see this beautiful page and then you can put in RIM and start dialing it down to our school sites. You do have a packet in front of you and there are more details on getting to know the state measures and I'm excited about that
082me too getting to know the local measures. Right. Then there is the breakdown of our color changes. We'll talk about what the color and status changes look like. And then we have a slide that we've been sharing with the local educational partners that breaks down all of our schools within our district. Our district as a whole, San Bernardino County and the state of California. So just sharing with you. the wonderful provisions you have with this presentation today. And then again, breaking down what do the colors mean? How do you get those colors? What it looks like when you get the dashboard colors versus status, which I think they kept calling the purple cell phone bars. And we are only the college and career indicators still with the purple cell phone bars, but we will get
083there. And then a breakdown here of... what do you see in terms of student population and the overall if you started to print the district or each of the schools presentations. So colors are all about the improvement which is exciting. So when you take a look at let's say one of your slides that shows you the color changes you might look and see when you compare it to your other slide with the data that some schools have a different color But yet they have a similar percentage. And that really gives you an idea of what it means to have that status and change in terms of growth. Right. And so when we're looking at that growth, when we look at students, right, as teachers, we are looking at how do we look at where they
084currently are, where their current capacity is, meet them at their point of their need, and then build that confidence to grow and improve. And so we want to celebrate those growths and improvements along the way. And so that in 2023, change in colors return to the dashboard and just that one purple area is the status of the change. In terms of the local measures, that's the area where you're going to see things like priority 1, 2, 3, 4, which I thought I would give you a meaningful rim slide on. Now, I know this slide's kind of small to look at, but of course, I always want to highlight our wonderful teachers. And of course, we saw at the last board meeting that Mrs. Daniels was honored by the IECSS. which is the Inland Empire Council
085for Social Studies. So I thought, who's got that picture handy in terms of teachers? But priority one essentially is looking at, do we have appropriate teacher assignments, sufficient textbooks, and so forth? And then our facilities are in good repair. You'll see in our LCAP metrics update, as of October in CVEDS, we have 97% of teachers fully credentialed at the October date. And I know Personoff will give you more of an update in terms of where we're at. we've gone since October. Zero volume complaints about textbook sufficiency and a 97% rate, which is our facilities rate. Priority two, when you look at that, that's our academic content standards and performance. And so we want to make sure that we're giving access to all of our students, making sure that they have access to their grade level
086and content standards. And so I want to highlight our instructional coaches right now, Chris Longtoe, Steve Wallace, who have been doing some amazing work around a guaranteed and viable curriculum. We have been able to pull together our teachers across the grade levels so that they have an opportunity. to collaborate on our Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum and our Pacing Guides in Development and continuously improving so that we can continue to look at assessment platforms, look at our instructional platforms, our supplemental resources, and make the decisions that are best for RIM as a team as we collaborate and bring our teachers together as our educational partners. When you look through Priority 2, you see our implementation levels. So if you clicked in the dashboard and looked at where are we in implementation, with professional development, instructional materials,
087policy and program, implementation of standards, we range between a three or a four, which is partial implementation or full implementation. as we're continuing that work. Priority three is our parental involvement and parent engagement. That's effective and authentic partnerships and engagements. And that's looking at like your school site councils, your PTAs, your ELACs, your DLACs, our educational partners. And so again, making sure that we have all of our engagement involved there. Pupil achievement is going to look at your state measures, but also some of our local measures. Things you may have heard of is like your student may come home and talk about how they're doing on I-Ready, on STAR. I heard MTH talking about their IEBs, talking about some of those local assessments that we're giving, but also looking at your A-G completion, CTE pathways,
088our LP, our English language, our English learner proficiency. indicator, AP exams. And I know you know a lot of these, but I tried to throw a couple of data pieces in there as well to make it relevant to where is RIM in terms of some of these local measures. When you look at priority five and six, pupil engagement and school climate, you can see our chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, dropout rate. And again, we are looking really good. And I'm going to save that for the LCAP metrics in terms of us going into more detail there. But this is where I also like to highlight the Kelvin survey. So if you've ever gotten that email with the little dog that pops up, he has a name. His name is Baxter. Please don't tell him to go
089away. Be him. Answer the survey. Right. And give us information about the different areas of school climate and pupil engagement. This does go out to our students, our staff and our community. And we look at every bit of that. We do share those Kelvin results with our site administrators so that they can take that back to our their MTSS or PBIS teams to continue looking at opportunities for growth based on the feedback that we get from our families. Course access, that's again making sure that we have a broad course of study there with course descriptions and accreditation, enrollment, AP classes, A through G. Again, making sure that broad course of study is there and you'll see in the LCAP metrics that we continue to be at 100% in terms of our broad course access. So
090that dashboard was released. It was late. It was December 15th, right? So we're a little behind the time. But this is also something that you can look up online. If you go into San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools and find that open data portal, you can click in there and find any district. So if you wanted to look at our results or you're excited to move to RIM because that's where the best place to be is and the best district on the mountain. See how I'm changing my rhetoric. It used to be the best middle school on the mountain, but now it's the best district on the mountain. Okay. But if you want to take a look at... that dashboard report and see why you should come to RIM and bring your kids here. Please
091feel free. So that dashboard release, we talked about color status and change, kind of those updates for 23. But ultimately, when we look at the LCAP, which will be next, let me get ahead of myself. We look at three years and we're going to be ending a three year cycle that then becomes our base and that we continue to look at our needs as a district. We look at our metrics and we start planning. So this is that great time of year when we look at our SPSAs. We look at our LCAP and we start planning for 24-25 and looking at things like our professional development, our GVC, our instructional platforms and our commitments as we go into the next school year. So when we look at our English and math scores and we look
092at that color and change there, you can see that academic performance indicators improvement of three points from 2022 would get you to orange, yellow, green or blue based on where your improvement was. When you look at our English Learner Progress, the progress made by current English learners, this is going to include things like our elite reclassification rate. which is up 14 to 14% up 3% from last year. And again, we've got to give a great kudos to our EL coordinators, our EL Tosa slash AP now, Mrs. Roque with her data checks that the county recognized as an example of how to support our English learners with their language acquisition. And I do want to highlight also AP, Mrs. Roque, I know she stepped out already, but MPH had the highest percentage of improvement in terms
093of the LP score. So great job on that. Looking at chronic absenteeism, interestingly, I just read an EdSource article that indicated that one in four students across California in 21-22 were chronically absent. And that across the state and our county, that percentage is continuing to improve in terms of decrease. But that is something that we're looking at across the state and across our county and looking at what our support systems for chronic absenteeism. Suspension rate, again, another area you'll see in the LCAP metrics has improved. And so you'll see in our suspension rate that we have gone down 1%. So we were about 6.4% last year. This year we're at 5.4% district-wide. And so that's a great component to our climate engagement in our schools. And then graduation rates. So we are at about 93%
094for the high school and then district-wide down to 84%. But we're continuing. Our graduation rate is doing well. Down just a little bit this year, but there's a lot of factors that go into looking at their graduation rate. Overall, pretty close to maintaining there. I did throw these two slides in here just to see college and career readiness and what that looks like. This one is the college slide looking at A through G and how we get the college and career indicator, as well as what is the career indicator. So one is the college indicator, the other is the career. And looking at how we get scored on that, because it is a little complex. And there are multiple ways that you can increase that college and career indicator. It's not just one measure. So
095I encourage you to take a look at that. If you have questions about more details, we can. Oh, I've looked at it. And I appreciate that. You know that's my evidence. Yes, yes, yes. And we appreciate that. And also want to thank you for your work with the legislative committee. Truly, you know that that's something on our hearts and to advocate for our district. San Bernardino County is about, I think that's a slide coming up, is about 363, we'll see if I got that right, 397,000 students. And we are 2,800. We are 0.7% of the entire county. And so having people advocate for us is huge. And to speak to the unique needs of the room of the world is so important. So I very much thank you for that. and that ongoing effort and
096dedication, and as well to our LCAP educational partners who come to our meetings. The next one's March 7th, just throwing that out there, that we would like to hear your voice as you advocate. I kind of skipped ahead a little bit, going a little quick, but you can see our student population. And again, the data is going to be based on your 22-23, right? So this is not 23-24, but this is 22-23. And an enrollment at about 28.90, 58.9% socioeconomically disadvantaged, English learner percentage 9.5%, and our foster youth at 0.7. And again, kind of seeing what our district picture is next to San Bernardino County, which is the size of West Virginia. I'm sure you guys have seen that slide before from the county. So what are we looking at as Rim of the World?
097We are looking at a chronic absenteeism rate of yellow. You know, I shared a data source in terms of EdSource and what that looks like. Our suspension rate has gone to yellow. Again, going down 1%. English learner progress at yellow, graduation rate at orange. Down just a little, but we're going to jump that right back up. So don't you worry. We're not even, that's a capacity that we're going to go ahead and continue to increase. College and career indicators currently indicating at low, but there's been so much progress towards those indicators. And again, because there's such a large list, I'm not going into too much detail, but always happy to answer questions. And then English language arts is at an orange and math is at a red. So it's important that when we look at
098the dashboard that we recognize that that's a capacity, right? And what are the steps that we are going to take in terms of building that capacity? And quite a few of the things that we're seeing in terms of building our guaranteed and viable curriculum, bringing our teachers together for that collaboration, looking at our assessment platforms so that we look at How are we preparing for CASP, right, as the state requirement of our assessments in English, math, science? And then what are we doing in the interim? What tests are we taking along the way in terms of our diagnostics like I-Ready? And then what are those curriculum assessments that we're taking in four to six week approximate units to identify where our students are in terms of their standards mastery along the way? And so that's
099a major process. We're really excited to see what the 23-24 scores will be because there has been such great work from our teachers and our instructional coaches. So again, this kind of breaks down that same component in multiple slides, but then if you take a look at across our district, you can see where we stand in terms of percentages across our schools. I want to definitely highlight Rim definitely, rim high, getting to that green at 54.55% and getting up to yellow with their math at exceeding standard, or meeting our exceeding standard, 18%. But if you look to the bottom, if you can see that well in a little light share screen bars at the bottom, you can compare to what are we seeing in San Bernardino County. And what are we seeing in the state
100of California? And we're pretty close to our state and county averages. We're really not too far off. But again, we're continuing to work on improving those percentages. So I talked a lot. I'm pausing. I'm good. I love it. We're good. Okay, we're all having a great time. Yeah. I was standing around. All right. So based on these outcomes, what needs can we identify in each of the priority areas? Well, we would love to give you an opportunity to share that with us. Let me come back to that slide in a moment. There is a QR code if you'd like to scan it and share your feedback on how we can improve. Or you'd like to join us at an LCAP educational partners meeting. This one is March 7th. We would love to have you there.
101Our students will be also. They've already done the QR code. But that's again where we can go into the next steps with our needs assessment based on our LCAP metrics. I believe I shared quite a few of the things that we're working on right now in terms of our GDC, working on our Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum. We have trainings galore that either we're bringing to our teachers or teachers are going down to the county for. We have, as you've heard, our Ethnic Studies Committee. It reconvenes next week. We're working on our California College's Guidance Initiative Partnership for that transcript functionality. Please keep in mind and share with your friends, neighbors, and parents that the opt-out window is going to close at the end of February. And the opportunity to opt out of CCGI is to
102ensure that we are FERPA compliant. You have an opportunity to not share your data. The great part of CCGI, please see the parents for an indication for full details. But there's some great A through G opportunities and collaborations with Cal State and UC Doorways to create ease of access for applying for college. So more to come on that later. And our added teams are working on partnering with them. CTGI coming in 24-25. But if you want to opt out, I wouldn't recommend it, but you can if you want. And then we are working on our library plan. Our library techs and our district library are doing their CEE annual audit of our library capacities and are looking at our instructional materials and working with our site administrators on that. And then NGSS pilot adoption concludes
103at the end of the week. That's tomorrow. And our community will be meeting this next Wednesday to vote on their pilot or their adoption of choice for the secondary things. Again, thank you for your time. Please share your thoughts, your interests, your feedback. Feel free to get up and scan the QR code. We welcome you on that. So I know I'm next, but can I take a moment and have some water? Yeah, of course. All right. Did you say water? No. You said you thought she said why? Well, I think, you know, I'm equal opportunity. What is the next meeting? Oh, okay. Any other questions, thoughts? I tried to bring us through that. I hope I was right. Speaking at the speed of light there. Well done. Just not just a comment. I'm back. And
104so as Diana mentioned, it's happening at MPH with. Kind of having the IEVs, but kind of practicing the process of testing. Cindy and I were like, oh, so cool. Yeah. Knowing what, you know, the efforts that RIMHIGH went through last year, and I'm sure is continuing to be able to familiarize students with the process, because I suspect we know a lot more than what we test. And so, and WIMS scores indicated that, you know, in my eyes last year in terms of moving in that direction, at the high school level, you don't suddenly make up years of progress without that being just so incredibly profound. I don't know. I just, I do appreciate what was mentioned in Diane's report with what's going on at FPH, what's happening in high schools. And I know that the
105elementary schools are having to do so much to make up for what's happened in recent history. So I'm behind on that. And a great point and something I will share that all of our school sites are looking at. And in fact, our site administrators are working with their leadership teams to review our current assessment calendar and looking at when they're incorporating CAS prep into the fall and in the spring. And that opportunity to build confidence, right? To feel like, okay, it's not the access to the test that is being scored here. It's, you know, their content knowledge. Like, for example, in the fall, we found some glitches, right? We found some things with the Chromebooks that we needed to address in terms of secure browsers and everything. But when we do those practice opportunities, then
106it makes, you know, when we go to take CASP, not as much of a scary thing, if you will. What would be interesting is somehow making it more of a high-stakes test for the students. you know, having them motivated. And I think at the elementary level, it's more like, oh, I want to do my best. But that's where it was brilliant what happened secondary last year, creating kind of a challenge with Big Bear. But continuing to build on, hey, you really want to do well for reasons that will then also help the district, but being able to build on that. Absolutely. the feedback from students over the years at least from high school they haven't seen the test for several years then they suddenly take it they have no skin in the game because there's
107no grade it doesn't do anything for them i mean they're out they're out in one year so what's the point so for them to get practice on the test at least then allows them to approach to the test like you said with more confidence i think the other part is that the the juniors don't understand that that test for them becomes the early assessment program the eap score and that if they just doodle on the test and not take it seriously that they could take remedial classes in college and cost them time and money so messaging to the parents Because the parents don't know that either. And then it becomes, I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me? So it's a messaging part, at least for the 11th graders, as to why to take this
108seriously. Especially if you're going on to even community college. There will be repercussions if you just doodle on the test. Right. And I know Mr. Gomes and Mrs. Roque are also doing another Steps for Success night where they speak to the idea that eighth grade is the last time you see it until 11th. Right. And so looking at that and also talking about, you know, the entrance exam and that proficiency that they can demonstrate in 11th grade. I just having some of those conversations. Sometimes there's just misunderstandings. Or they don't listen to the bulletin. Okay, yes. All right. Go ahead, please. It was good to see some positive scores and it's good to see the dashboard again finally. But it's and especially in those several of our scores actually at RIM are better than the
109county. I do notice that we continue to have a weakness in the area of math that seems to be district wide. So it'll be interesting to see what we continue to do to develop strategies district wide to improve math understanding. Absolutely. And that's been a topic of conversation in our GDC release days where our teachers are talking about that math component. Mr. Longtail, an expert in the math department, if you will, is having those conversations and the connections to the reading comprehension, right, in terms of being able to access what the question is asking to disaggregate the data with regard to what is it actually saying? And even starting that at third grade. when they're seeing it for the first time and we're looking at our reading comprehension of our third grade students to access
110that and so if i can also plug there are practice tests online for if you want to try at home please feel free um but did you say there are practice tests online there are you can check out those practice tests and um put your I will say that I am that mom and I did put my own sons on there just to see. And when my youngest was jumping into third grade, being able to see, and I would say he's more of an expert in the math department than he is in the reading comprehension. And it was like pulling it apart for him and looking at the process he was going through as a third grader, right? Seeing it for the first time. Even just practicing once, right? I'm plugging that big time. you
111know, for our parents and guardians at home. It's eye-opening to see what your students are experiencing with assessment. I took one of those practice tests. When you told us about it, I think a few years ago, they didn't give you your results, but at least you can go through it. So, yeah, it was really, really helpful. Oh, it's frustrating from a math perspective is how language heavy it is. So students who have problems with language arts may not be getting a true evaluation of their mathematical abilities. No, I'm sorry. The thing that I noticed is that the culture's changed. And that's really the key component there. The kids are starting to change. Everything's starting to change from within. And that's going to be the biggest thing that's happening. We've seen it at the junior high
112and high school, middle school, sorry. And it's great to see that. And it's going to be a positive thing moving forward. I also did enjoy my remedial classes in college. Oh, Jesus Christ. So thank you for all your help. I appreciate that. I think with that, anything else? Let's go ahead and move forward to 11.6, Educational Services, Presentation of the Local Control and Accountability Plan, LCAP, Mid-Year Update for the 2023-2024 School Year Fiscal Impact Announcement. Please take a look. All right. Why is that back again? All right. So you have two things in your folder there. The Mid-Year Update, this lovely one, looks like it comes directly from DTS, our document tracking services there. And this is going to give you very similar data that you're seeing in the slides. So if you look at
113the slides and think to yourself, oh my Jen, that's tiny. It's also here. I'm going to focus in on the highlights, right? And so if there are questions along the way, please stop me. But again, to make sure that we're making the best use of our time as well. All right. So the LCAP mid-year review has been gone for a couple years and back this year where we're looking at, in accordance with Section 61 of Senate Bill 114, I will not read every slide like that, I promise you. But they do require now that we do do a presentation to the board before February 28th. So we're early. by a few days on our mid-year outcome data related to the metrics as well as our expenditures and our actions as they align to the goals.
114So that's our background on that. But I would say focus in when we look at metrics. Look at that mid-year outcome. The desired outcome that we have set for the three years and our status, essentially for zeroing in on those. When we go to look at actions and expenditures, where are we in implementation level? Are we partially? Are we fully? Mid-year outcome data in terms of like where we are with that action and then where we are budget to date. So, all right. So that's the picture version of what I just did. And then again, kind of showing you we're going to look at pending, in progress, and not yet. There are going to be a few things in there that we're not at the end of the story yet. So first of all, I'm
115looking at our ELPAC, English Learner Progress and Data for Grades K-12, as reported by the dashboard, kind of bringing it over to the mid-year outcome data. That's where we're at 51% previous year. Was that 50%? 50.7? So our goal is to get to 70, and we're going to. And again, I want to highlight RBA and MPH for getting into the sixth percentile, getting that much closer to that 70%. And again, if you want to take a deeper dive into the English learner progress towards provision, so you can jump into your other documents there. District reclassification rate, I think I did some spoiler alerts on some of these already, but we went from 11% to 14%, so an increase by 3%, and we are above our desired outcome of 10%. Looking at our DF rate, this
116was something for the mid-year outcome data that I could have left as an unknown, but the high school was amazing. Some other wonderful people were amazing in helping me with some data. And we went ahead and pulled it for first semester as well, not just for the end of the year. And so looking at that, RHS DF rate has decreased in all core areas. Yay, RHS. I think we're seeing that wonderful progress. MTHDF rate has increased in English and math, but has decreased in science and social studies. And they're again continuing their great work and alignment. So I see that going up by the end of the second semester. Our third grade proficiency, we normally look at that at the end of third trimester. So that is one that we didn't pull just yet. I
117did want to note that in terms of the metric, we are transitioning to the use of I-Ready, which is in terms of county predictors is the best predictor of CAST. And so as we're transitioning and going through training with I-Ready, we'll be looking at those proficiency scores when we do the annual update in June. For graduation rate, that's where, again, I spoiler alerted that one as well, 93% for rim high, 41% for mountain and district wide at 84%. So RHS maintaining, MHS declined a little bit there, and district wide. The cool part, though, is that mountain high school is... this year on top to greatly exceed what they did last year. So we have to give some props over the effort of Lisa Mills and the staff at Mountain High School for really, really working
118one-on-one with those kids and getting them that lasting courage. Come on, you only have 10 more credits. You only have 30 more credits. Let's get it together. You can make it at the end. Mr. Whiteside over there. He is truly a cheerleader. He cracks me up. Yeah, I don't know him. Scott Whiteside, who is that? I have to give props to Mountain High School for really putting a lot of focus this year. And I know these things made a difference with those one-on-one. If you want to call them data chats, whatever you want to do, I think it's just made, it's already making a difference. Oh, absolutely. And something I know Mr. Hansen and I have been going to every school site at least once a month to walk classrooms, talk with our principals. And
119I think one of the times Mr. Hansen and I were there, we were able to see the data chats that were going on with the students. And if you haven't had a chance to see a senior portfolio presentation. that he has. But if you haven't, please talk to Mountain. Go see one of those portfolio presentations when they're graduating. It is so heartfelt what Mountain does to really celebrate their graduates and the pride that goes into what the students present. It's really awesome. I got to see one last year. It's really, really cool to see. And I think there was a picture of it in the student update. earlier. I think Mr. White's probably using those pictures. Really? That's shocking. Yeah, go ahead. All right, so we've got a graduation right there. So looking at CASP
120now, our English language arts, this is what we were talking about with EAP in 11th grade. So if you look at our mid-year outcome data, we're at 50.47%, which is an increase at 5.58, getting that much closer to our goal of 70%. Our math EAP, maybe your data, 16.9% also increased by almost 2%, working that much closer to getting to our 50. I know we're working. And then now looking at your college and career indicator of A through G course completion rates, percent completing A through G classes with a C or better. Looking at your mid-year update there, we have 31%, which has increased by 13% on that A through G completion. So great job again, getting that much closer to our 50% goal. College and career indicator, as we indicated, is quite a, if
121you look at the prepared components from the last presentation, showing you how you get to that level. But our mid-year data at 62.28%, an increase of 12.84%. I got to tell you the time that it takes to kind of go through all these metrics and look at the status and change and continuing to see positive results for so many metrics. I'm going to just keep making your night. Okay. So you're welcome. College and career indicator and the percent of students reaching that prepared status. That is looking at 30.1% of students prepared, 28.4% approaching prepared, and then 41.5%. This wasn't reported in the last two years, so you're looking at the baseline for the comparison, in which case we're similar to that 19-20. And then seal of biliteracy. We don't currently have the data available for
12223-24, but we maintain from 21-22 to 23-23. All right, percent of avid students going on to four-year universities. That data and then also the evaluation of our professional learning survey, we don't have that information available at this point in the year. But I do want to highlight that avid sections have increased at both the high school and middle school. And so at sixth grade, we have three sections, one in seven from the one in eight, that five sections total. And at the high school, we have two sections at ninth grade and then one section for 10th, 11th, and 12th. So increasing those opportunities to engage in that and hopefully verify a trip is coming pretty soon. March, early March. This is a slide that you can only read with a magnifying glass. So if you
123brought yours, this is the time. So looking at, sorry about that, but that's where I'd say you go to this one, right? The English language arts academic indicator is broken down for all states. And then for our English learners in the middle and then disability, students with disabilities at the bottom. So if we look at our major outcome data for our English performance, you're going to see increased through all of those status bars. For all students as a whole, increased by 7.3%. And our English learners up, 32.2%, and then our students with disabilities increased by 10.7%. So that's a huge jump in all three of those areas. Now going to math again, you're still with your magnifying glass out. You're seeing that increase for all students by about 5.2%. If you look at your mid-year
124data from the 22-23. And then we're also increasing for our English learners. Our students with disabilities did see a slight decrease, but it's 1.1%. So essentially we're about maintaining in the math section. Looking at the Williams Act reporting of textbook sufficiency, no Williams complaints were received in 23-24. As I shared in the previous presentation, 97% of our teachers appropriately assigned based on their credential as of the October CVETS. Our CTE completion rate decreased by 1%, but essentially it's pretty close, 20.4% to 19.4%. And so we're maintaining there. And then our broad course of study maintains, as you saw from the last presentation as well, at 100%. Goal one done, right? Yay! Okay, now we get to move on to the expenditures for goal one. So action one is all about professional learning communities. So what
125do you see in terms of the PLC implementation? Partially implemented with regard to not all the PLC days are done yet. Our PLC days are September to March, and you can see the total budgeted costs there next to the mid-year expenditures. We have 25 total days district-wide, one additional for elementary and five additional for the intermediate school. And the number of PLC days and hours is multiplied to get an average hourly rate to identify your expenditure. A lot of great work happening there. I know I've already plugged our Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum, looking at assessments, the vertical and horizontal articulations. There's been a lot of work in that realm. Just recently shared that. I'm going to 1.2 instructional technology. Yes, and partially implemented. We have our instructional technology continues to be maintained and replaced. That
126is something that we take into account as you see natural attrition, if you will, of screens, keys, things like that. Keeping that in our budget. Put partially implemented on this one, we don't currently still have site technology coordinators. That was something we implemented during TOADS that is not continued at this point, but we did do that during the shutdown, which was very helpful to our teachers to have our tech guru teachers available to help. But that is one area that was in the original action that we have not continued. I have a question about that slide. Yeah. Just the total funds budgeted versus the major expenditures? Yes. Tire. Yeah, we had some Chromebooks that we had to replace. So we found during CASPREP in October at MPH that some of our Chromebooks did not meet
127the secure browser requirements. We purchased over a thousand Chromebooks. Mark's back there. There we go. There it is. The exact one. And so it's interesting because we got, I don't know, maybe a couple of weeks notice on the secure components. we no longer met that requirement with some of our Chromebooks that were out of date. So a little higher, but we were able to. All right. Establishing the formative assessment practices. Again, this is where we're partially implemented. Elementary schools and RBA have implemented I-Ready in English and math. In fact, our high school RBA component has also been piloting some I-Ready assessments. because we went ahead and purchased iReady for all of RVA so that we could see what it looked like at the middle and high school level. Currently we have iReady across TV5 and
128we're doing some piloting in the middle and high school through RVA. Great, same question for that slide. Yes, so when we're looking at that increase We had to add some components on. We had RBA on as well. And then including the capacity for middle and high school. We're also adding, we added some training on because, so I-Ready is essentially taking the place of STAR. STAR has the diagnostics, but as we look at the research, I-Ready is a better local indicator and predictor of how our students are going to perform on tasks. The test is, There's more to the diagnostic than also gives you a plan, right? STAR would give you a diagnostic score. You got information and you have information. I-Ready has the adaptive components to the MyPath, which again, I get him paying on
129my little one, who then based on the diagnostic can go into his path. Based on the diagnostic being adaptive, he can do these lesson plans along the way to increase his competencies in the areas that he even grows in. So there's quite a bit more to I-Ready and the cost is definitely a little bit of a difference than you'd see with STAR. But there's a lot more offered with iReady. And again, quite a few of our districts across the county are using iReady as well. I got to see iReady a little bit when I was helping out at BOE and the math, and it was super cool. So it's just in terms of, I imagine we're moving monies around to be able to accommodate the difference budgeted to actuals, but iReady seems like it's a
130pretty awesome tool. And I guess I have a question. Are we going to drop star? So great, great question. We're still in that collaboration component because there are things with Star like AR, right? That we haven't totally identified an alignment at iReady. They've offered some things that look similar, but not quite. So this year we've had some flexibility with the use of iReady and Star because, you know, when you're rolling out a new platform, especially one that has a lot of robust opportunities and a lot of training behind it, We gave both, right? Ideally, if we're looking at cost effectiveness and intentionality, right, when students see a very similar platform along the grade levels, we're not creating test anxiety, we're creating test confidence, right, when we maintain a similar platform. But we are also trying
131to make sure that we're cognizant of the logistics that pop up when we look at a new platform. So do I have a concrete answer for you through my randomness? No, yeah. Yeah, we're looking to transition. So we might still be using the two platforms for a little bit. And that's okay. Because I understand the AR components of STAR. Because, I mean, hello, accelerated reader. But it's just that as the teachers are more trained, more comfortable, integrating it more and more. Is that the end kind of the vision and goal? That's what I just wanted to know. We're looking in that direction. And we also keep looking at that fiscal responsibility. And Mark has been wonderful with pulling together some of our data usage on all of our platforms, not just I-Ready and STAR. But
132when we look at usage of things like Lexia, Alex, Mobimax, Raz, I mean, you pick a name. We're looking at what are we using with intentionality across our district that we can say the variables are similar, right? that we can say, okay, proficiency across third grade, if they're all using the same platform, they're all given the same opportunity, that data is going to be more helpful for informing the future. So that's where we've even looked at that we used to purchase something through Renaissance, which is the parent company of Star, that we looked at, well, you know, we haven't really been fully using MyOn. The usage was very low and the cost was pretty high for the intentionality of what it was for. Question about Lexia and iReady in TK. My understanding, iReady isn't used
133at the TK. That's why they supplemented. They went with Lexia. In some instances, is that true? So in some instances, there are still some site costs because we're still in the immediate cost meeting. They pay for that at their site dollars as opposed to something across the district. While we're in that transition of identifying, well, what is it in Lexia that is pulling data for a learning outcome that is going to inform the future? Is there something comparable with iReady? And we have always invited, we're very inclusive, all of our friends to come and see all of the... data and come to the trainings. But again, we're trying to make sure that that rollout process isn't something where you say, always been using this platform and it's now not available. You're not creating a figure
134shop. Right, right, right. Pulling a bad data can be not the best option for rollout, but looking at how we can transition and say, well, we still have this available. What similarities do we see in our vendors that have been helpful with? with identifying some of those comparisons like a sort of similar some comparisons to leftia against that usability and for our staff and our students. All right. Credit recovery fully implemented. We continue to offer RHS as five sections, including a variety of courses utilized by approximately 70 students for credit recovery. Mountain, of course, continues to offer credit recovery with a current student population of about 39 students. When I looked yesterday, it might be 40. And then, yeah, that data was as of yesterday. And then the number of sections at RHS, as well
135as the credit recovery. So when you see 0124, that's Mountain. So essentially your costs for credit recovery at the mid-year expenditure. Extracurricular activities and elective classes, that's going to include secondary sports, that's going to include electives. I did give another breakdown on AVID this year. Two sections of drama were expanded to MPH. And again, we have a meeting tomorrow on arts and music in Doc 28. And I'm really thankful to our teachers that were able to join me at the county on a snow day. for a workshop on our arts and music prop 28 and the process to build a baseline and to look at that through schedules. English Learner Goal Setting Meetings, like we had talked about those data chats that were county renowned that I want to give Mrs. Roque some amazing credit
136for. She still gets talked about, about what Room of the World Unified does and with the data chats. And it's really looking at what is the reclassification criteria and creating that student buy-in where students are able to look at okay, I can do this. I am doing an amazing job. Where am I at with my ELPAC? Where am I at with my writing sample? And, you know, increasing that student buy-in and ownership in terms of their data chats. We haven't continued with the ELL toast. We are so grateful that we have Mrs. Roque, Assistant Principal. We still continue to have two general TOSAs or instructional coaches, and we're looking at whether we will again expand to another TOSA, but we're also looking at how we fund that with regard to Title I and what our
137future looks like. But we'll leave that there because we're still looking at that. And our final trustees, what did we map? We mapped TOSA. Big snaps. Like, it's making a huge difference and really knowledgeable and creates a great environment for the collaboration. So I just want to give that feedback from time to time with Christine. That math toast is high. High on the list of blah, blah, blah. Absolutely. When I walked over here for the 530, you were still... Still in there. Him and Mr. Wallace, our English focus, worked really hard with our fifth grade team today. And they didn't stop because the time stops. Once the teachers left, they kept going. So thank you. I'll pass on that feedback if they don't get a chance to hear it. Site language assistance, we're very grateful
138for the language assistance and I want to give great credit to our site administrators with their EL coordinators and their EL teams and their ELACs and the E2DLAC to build EL site plans to look at how we utilize our language assistance, how we utilize our EL resources so that we're intentional with that and looking at even how we master schedule to make sure that we make the best use of our resources there. Secondary counselors, we continue to have three RHS counselors, one MPH counselor, so that is fully implemented. We also have our NHS counselor, but that one comes in a different slide, but I think it's a 0.5 with RHS. She does our college and career through Rem High, so very grateful to our secondary counselors and our itinerant counselors. Abbot sections, I know we
139talked about already fully implemented additional sections this year and really excited about our student progress and our five day trip that's coming up for our high schoolers. We continue to get amazing feedback. I believe our eighth grade Abbot went to, did a college field trip today. This is I think their second or third this year. And so giving exposure to our middle school students to see our various colleges in our local area and give them those opportunities is really awesome. We're bringing that to a major increase. Just wondering for the AVID trip, will Big Bear students also be accompanying our red students for this? Is that actually happening? I know it was being discussed a lot. That's a really great question. I'm shaking his head. No. Okay. Okay. Yes. Remember the world unified best as
140you come out. So teachers on special assignment there. Again, I know we just talked about them and our appreciation for what all the work that they are doing. So I will. Keep going there. 1.11 is our professional development opportunities and cost there is based on our TV days. And that is fully implemented. Both of those days have been completed. That was August 8th and October 13th. Again, I want to give a huge shout out again to our instructional coaches who supported the vertical articulation across our secondary schools for our professional development days. And our elementary schools were able to get amplify and I ready training on those days. And so being intentional and responsive to what our teachers. are looking for and continuing those opportunities. It's really awesome. And I guess that's why I'm kind
141of nerdy about ed services, right? When I see them with their standards sprawled out and the textbooks and their curriculum, I get kind of pumped. I've taken a lot of pictures. But it's really exciting to see the great people doing the great work. Our school libraries are maintained to support a variety of learning environments and our library media specialist, she supports all of our site libraries and supports like our NGSS textbook adoptions. So she'll be at our committee meeting next week and is very helpful with that. And then also we're currently collaborating with Between Ed Services, our library specialists and our library techs, and we're working on an annual CDE library evaluation tool. And so we're looking at our libraries, we're looking at our instructional materials, we're looking at the books in our libraries, and
142we are creating opportunities for us to really look at the process. So as we had shared some thoughts on acquisition review, we are working on that. Our understanding in terms of the state is that guidelines are coming in 2025, but we're trying to be ahead of the game on that. to look at different ways that we recognize all of our educational partners and all of those perspectives, but make sure that there's a process in place for both acquisition and review. That would include an opportunity to complete a form based on something that you have a question for review. Then it goes to a site committee that is comprised of the site administrator, library tech. a teacher of about the same grade level, a parent of the same grade level, so that that is a committee
143opportunity to review. And this is based on a review of other library plans within our county. It's not done, but we are in that review process. And again, we do welcome our educational partners to March 7th, right? Come and share because we want to know what your thoughts and perspectives are. So, thinking back to public comments, if there is something where there might be a question about an item in the library, what you're referring to is that we're developing a process for a question to be asked to trigger that evaluation. Right. And absolutely. And for that voice to be heard and for that to be reviewed, because as we're looking at age and developmental developmental appropriateness, even as we look at health classes, we look at different components of our standards and curriculum. We want
144to make sure that we look at the idea, the area that's being identified for review and that that team has an opportunity to review that. And we do look forward to additional guidelines coming in 2025. But we just we want to be ahead of the game. responsive to our parents and families who have questions about that and we want to value their feedback in terms of developing that. So we're not there yet, but definitely working on it. So I would share an update and be responsive to our public comment. RBA listed on 1.13, so we continue to fully implement RBA. 123 students as of yesterday. 1.14, summer school. So fully implemented for the 23 summer. We actually had a meeting for summer school today. I'm Mr. Hanson, Ms. Vanier with ELOC, Mr. Willemse with the
145high school, and Ms. Kalayo in ed services along with myself as we're looking at our planning process for credit recovery, credit advancement, and grade recovery. Can I get all of those? I'll be, I'll be. She just likes to know. Right. Did I miss one? Great advancement for PE. Great advancement for PE. There we go. Thank you. And what that might look like. So we're in that planning process, right? Side note, I remember a time with trustees a couple of years ago where I was asked if we could start planning for summer school before spring break. And this is, this is fantastic. That discussions are already happening. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you to the team. It's a group effort there. All right. So 1.15 is that English language TOSA. Again, as I mentioned, we
146have not implemented that. We are so grateful to have Mrs. Roque in another capacity, but we have not re-implemented that ELF. 1.16, 17, and 18 are all areas that have not been implemented, so we did not continue with paper. As I shared last year, Mr. Malone similarly provided us data usage and costs for a lot of our platforms, and we did not see as a team that the data and usage was there for paper, so we are not currently implementing that for 23-24. 1.17 similarly those office and virtual hours for extended learning that had started during I believe our hybrid when we came back from the shutdown has not been continued either and again that was identified I believe in the June update to the LCAP so all three of these 16 17 and 18
147did not be anything like that and then 1.18 similar And that is a student intervention, acceleration and extended in-person learning opportunities. Although I will share that some of our sites have developed their own tutoring plan and we've been using our S-Serve funds for that and those are in-person. All right, CTE continues strong, doing a wonderful job. We continue to be offered at RHS including 16 sections and five CTE teachers. wonderful, wonderful program. If you haven't gotten out to see our CTE program, I encourage you to do that and see. We got to walk that, Mr. Hansen and I, earlier this school year and it's really impressive. So great job to Stephanie Phillips and our CTE teams. Truly, it's cool to see the kids get excited like, Ms. Whiteside, look, I can drive a diesel. And
148you showed me how to do it in the simulator. Really awesome. Anyways, District English Learner Specialist, we continue to be grateful for Liz Pazama as our English Learner Specialist and supporting. She's been all over our district supporting ELPAC and making sure that our ELPAC assessments are being taken care of. But she also organizes DLAC, the ELAC coordination and monthly EL coordinator meetings. And so, again, we see our reclassification rate went up 3%. So the interesting part is that we're the senior class. 2023 exit survey that what are you going to do after one of the questions about post-secondary? one kid is going to be a trash man and I realized that he had been taking CTE class and I was like oh he's going to drive the trash truck because birthday went there you had
149conversations with the kids and he realized how much money he could be making so I started laughing because I did a double take when I read that I was like that's your goal is to be a trash guy okay first time ever it was pretty funny Right. I do believe Ms. Phillips had shared that. I believe it was Burtek that had reached out to say, can we use your facility for training of our drivers? Yeah. I was like, yes. That's going to catch on. Yeah, yeah. Mountain High School Continuation School Coordinator fully implemented that continuous fair on 1.21. And we're done with goal one. I can assure you goal two and three are much shorter. I'm looking at 801 here. So we're going to keep rolling. Goal two, safe and positive school climate, the Kelvin
150climate. Can I just share with you to focus on the mid-year outcome data? and our status. Our participation rate and our favorability rate have gone up in all areas. Students, staff, and our community. And that is as measured by the Kelvin data. Those questions do remain the same over multiple years. So the data that you're seeing is based on the same questions. So and we do report that as part of our local indicators. Our district-wide annual attendance rate, based on the LCFF calculator, we are at 92.1% as a district at the mid-year point at the end of semester one. So we are up from last year, and that's an improvement of 4.59%. Care Solace, if you're not familiar with that, Care Solace is our vendor that we work with to ensure that we have counseling
151supports and services available outside of just our services. That is all that is to ensure that it's appropriate, but it matches up our families. And you might see if you emailed an administrator, let's say during a winter break or a spring break, that their out-of-office reply includes how you can also contact Care Solace and make sure that their social emotional supports are met. But you can see status-wise how many inquiries we've had, which means people reaching out, and then total communications based on a back and forth would be at 621. So we're continuing to see that usage and really appreciate the partnership with Parasolus. PBIS, we have not implemented the TFI, that's the tiered fidelity inventory for PBIS. We've been doing some transitions into MTSS, which is the multi-tiered systems of support, which if you're
152familiar with PBIS, positive behavior intervention support, MTSS will include behavior and academic and climate and culture. And so we have not gone forward with that one. The heads up, we're not going to be doing that check-in. Suspension rate, as I shared, has decreased by 1% district-wide, but if you look at your slides from the previous presentation, you can even decide who gave it out by site. And essentially, we've gone down in almost every school, which is great. All right. And then suspension rate for our English learners has also decreased by 9% there, which is great. And then this one breaks down our foster youth students, our students experiencing homelessness and our low SES. Again, all rates went down. I just want to make a point. I saw some data regarding MPH, which has sometimes, there's
153a view of it's not favorable. Kids are running them up or that's not true. And in fact, their suspension rate this year for the 2020-2023 was less than pre-COVID suspension rate. They went down by 2%. And yes, it's still at 12%, but the fact is, is that they are lower than pre-COVID. So the stuff that's going on on the campus is working, even though the perception is still. not matching reality. So I just want to point that out because I want to give props to MPH. Absolutely. And I also want to point out, I think you saw on the slide from our student representative that Mr. Gomes and Mrs. Roque have attended an eliminate bullying training. They have gone to trainings that they look for and they're looking at their data. They're looking at their
154MTSS and they're continuing to bring things in. I'm so excited about all the wonderful things I see with PTA and the family breakfast. I'm a parent of an MPH student, so I might have to go get a donut and be late on Tuesday. OK, but but yeah, very exciting. I love to see all the wonderful things happening in our schools. So and that our suspension rate is decreasing. Pranic absenteeism overall for all of our students is reduced by four percent. The area where we have seen an increase by about 10% is our students experiencing homelessness. And that's where I'm just going to put a plug in here. If your family is experiencing a unique need with attendance, please reach out to our schools. We have short-term independent study. We have home hospital. We have long-term
155independent study. We have RVA for longer-term needs. Reach out to us. We want to come alongside and support our families. In short-term independent study, went from five to three three fourteen yeah and i believe that might be going down next year even lower they're talking about there's a proposal and it's still one time a year i'm just saying is that i i was in the front office of i was in the front office of room high school when a parent was talking about um a student was was going to actually the las vegas i'm not i don't know why but um applying for three days for and was going to be gone in three days and I was like oh I didn't know that apparently I missed that Friday update opportunities available there um I
156think we I kind of alluded to the high school and middle school dropout rates um very low very very low and um slightly increased for mountain maintained about the same district wide um and mph very low so 0.5 percent Expulsion rate, again, DataQuest reports 0.03% on our expulsion rate. Again, I have to give a great thank you to our site administrators who, across our district, look at opportunities for other means of correction and restorative justice and are really trying to meet students at the point of their need. I really have to give them a lot of credit for the work that they do. They genuinely put their heart and soul into it. So thank you to our site administrators. All right. Facilities are in good repair. Thanks, Jim. High five. It's amazing. We greatly appreciate
157our maintenance department and all they do to support our sites. So going into the actions for 2.1, cause and behavior intervention supports, like I shared, that's your PDIS or MTSS meeting. So you might see it used interchangeably. And our Kelvin pulses are our indicator for how our QEIS is going. And you might know that as like Rafi Rewards, Lion Loot, kind of coupons, trying to think of what they all are, all the names, but very cool incentive base there. Monthly PBIS meetings. Our sites take care of their MTSS or PBIS monthly meetings and you can see our calendar data which again are restated participation and favorability. So doing great work there. We did not continue with a teacher on special assignment for PBIS and I believe that was reported at the June LCAP. And then
158transportation is fully implemented. District continues to support student attendance and parent community support through district-wide transportation. Cluster youth and low-income liaison continues to be supported by our district, making sure that we're meeting the needs, food supply, emotional health needs, and that's looking at a variety of components. There's a lot of factors that go into supporting our students. Child Nutrition fully implemented and that contribution is from Fund 01. Jenny might have more better information on explaining that better than I do. The reason why it's zero expenditures is because this is fund one and it's part of the LCFF of base and supplemental concentration and partially due to universal meals and us going into the CEP community eligibility provision with child nutrition. Our meal participation, you know, we've been talking over the last six months has just,
159you know, doubled and tripled in some cases. So Fund 13 is not only running at a break even, it's running, which is the Child Nutrition Fund, is running at a surplus. And so, of course, I'm supporting the Guidework program. And, you know, we're able with a lot of one-time monies to introduce, like, the farms to the table. options for kids and so the zero just represents the contribution from our base not necessarily what we're spending on the program so it's not supplemental concentration or base funding But we do have a large budget. We've got 13, and they're writing them at a surplus. And there's less complaints on the senior exit survey about the cafeteria food. There was only three things about the boot socks. But usually there's more than that. So you have to, that's
160some data right there about how well the CNS is doing. I love our food and meals. It's top tier. I mean, it sits by far and away, way above what I had when I was in school back in my day. Three years ago. Great to hear. Great to hear. So thankful for our CMS department. 2.9 is the High School Wellness Center that is supported with mountain counseling and training, and our school site counseling staff oversees that to ensure we have certificated staff available as well. In terms of the budget, total funds budgeted and the mid-year expenditures, similarly, we're showing $0 in terms of expenditure, but we did cover a PO for about $47,000 out of $32,400, which is our best-seller funds, to support. the wellness center. I realize this isn't listed on the LCAP, but
161extending wellness centers to other school sites, is that somehow possibly a possibility? It's a conversation to look at and collaborate on in terms of the logistics and the how. So for example, quite a few districts, I've actually talked to other people about how they operate their wellness centers in other districts. And looking at the logistics of having our certificated personnel available as well. I know our counselors like rotate. overseeing the wellness center. So having the support of Mountain Counseling and Training is also wonderful, but we also need our team in there. So there's some logistics with how we can make that happen and how we can stagger people to make sure that that's a possibility. But we're also very grateful to Mountain Counseling and Training and Rand Family Services. Anytime we have a unique need,
162they always come to our side, all of our sites. We're grateful. Thank you. So mental health support through Care Solace, I know we had shared that already based on first semester data, 120 inquiries and 621 communications saved. So our continued support from Care Solace. Saturday school has been partially implemented. There's been some logistics on that one. So there's been a little bit of a temporary hold on some aspects of Saturday school. And there's a lot of pieces to that puzzle in terms of interest. And for example, you might put out, hey, we have Saturday school. It's going to be this Saturday. And your interest level is two. And we asked for that RSVP because we want to make sure we have the staff available for that Saturday. And so we're looking at other ways to
163maximize the Saturday school, but we're not totally there yet. So Kelvin Climate Survey, again, that gives you that same information. On the Saturday school, we'll be ramping up the AP prep on Saturdays, which is another thing we did last year. So we'll get more of the Saturday school. volunteers or I can't think of the word, but classes start coming around Saturdays. All right. So parent engagement and progress is reported on the local indicator rubric. So if you're on the dashboard at the bottom, it has local indicators and you can click on that and see how we do on our surveys. And that's where I shared some of that data. We typically range between a three and a four in terms of partially implemented to fully implemented in terms of like where our scores from parents
164are on those. surveys. So you can see kind of a commonality between Kelvin, our LCAP surveys, and then PTA data is usually for later in the year. We'll have more information about membership. And debate. Yeah, and debate. It's going to be amazing. All right. Percent of parents who are contactable in ARIES. I don't know why this makes me so excited, but I guess I just remember years back when you could run the data and it was like 60%, 70%. And for us to be at 97%, it just brings me joy because we used to, in our front offices, sit there and call and say, hey, we don't have this information for you, or we're missing this, or you're not getting our parent calls. And so a huge thank you also to Mr. Malone for helping
165with the data confirmation process and making sure we have updated information for the safety of our students and staff. Parent square messages. We get a weekly email on this, and it's kind of cool to see all the posts that the schools do and our teachers doing even direct messages, but our parent square is highly used, 560 posts at this point in the year, 2,953 direct messages, and that could mean like a teacher is reaching out to their fourth period, right? They have something coming up tomorrow. That might be in the direct message section, whereas a post is... something that might be for a more whole group. Like, hey, buy a yearbook. You should do that. Check out our yearbook. So going to 3.1, parent engagement surveys and workshops. We look at our Calvin participation data,
166but we also look at our sign-in sheets at our LCAP parent educational partners meetings. Please come, Marcia. 3.2 resources for parents, students, and special needs. I want to give a huge shout out to Tori Burke and working on our SIM plan. and partnering with us to develop parent support and a mentor program and parent university. So she continues to do that great work and continues to work with us and congratulations to her and her little one, Nixon. She's doing a great job for us. And again, connecting some of those puzzle pieces with inclusion and getting at the voice of our students and our parents. Wow, I'll leave that to Dorothy. Use your hands if you have anything else to add. Yeah, we met a couple days ago. The Board of Directors approved SACE. So what
167have we said is changing from Web IEP to SACE at the beginning of next quarter? This is one. And I want to plug SACE, but SACE has a component of Beyond SST that basically streamlines the SST or student study team process. And it allows someone to initiate an SST and then the emails go out to all the features to input their data. It's going to really streamline our SST process and make sure we're getting the data and following up on those. So we're really excited about SACE and it's included. So, very excited. Communication with families, again, we're seeing that with ParentSquare, and I think that brings us to a close there. So, we are a district of our three priorities there, in line with our LCAP, but we're a district of relationships. So, thank you
168for the opportunity to... take a lot of your time today and I appreciate you going through those slides with me. Please come to an educational partner meeting. There's all your dates. And again, thank you. A huge thank you is satisfied. We really do appreciate the work of our entire district as a random family. Thank you. I think you said it correctly. You said to all of everybody, it seems like everybody more and I touched on this earlier, but from elementary schools and RDA and not high school all the way through, but also. Everything from busing to maintenance. It seems like everybody's working together more collaboratively than they've ever done before. And it's neat to see that. And there's slight improvements now, but it seems like we're going to just continue to go down this path
169with everybody focused on leadership and everybody just doing a great job. And it seems like there's just a genuine effort there. And I think we have all the right people in the right places. So it's going to be great to see what happens this next year. Thank you so much. With that, we'll go ahead and move on to 11.7, Business Services, Measure W Report and Financial Audit Report. Thank you so much for sticking around and really looking forward to your presentation. I think you learned a lot about our health advocacy. I'm going to introduce Mr. Royce Townsend from iBailey. He's a partner in the firm. And just a little bit of the audit process. We have two or three different meeting dates, a site visit, spring visit, and then a fall visit, along with work
170through their portal and through email and just off-site communication. And probably, I don't know, five to... thousand hours of man time going to an audit. I'd say, yeah, there's a lot of hours that go into it. Yeah. So, and it doesn't, and a little bit bittersweet because Royce is retiring and he's leaving the partnership firm and I've really enjoyed getting to know you and working with you the last few years. So, and I've appreciated your guidance because, you know, we also lean on saying, are we doing this right? So, With that, I'll do. I'll turn it over to you. Well, I will also say that Jenny reaches out, which is always a good indicator from an audit perspective. So, any event, let me. I can be your planner. Okay. We'll move to the next slide.
171Now, this, these reports are as of June 30th, 2023. So, I understand that we are in the new year. And I always like to just to point out a couple things, what we're presenting this evening. We are presenting the audited financial statements for the district as a whole. And there's three specific areas that we're looking at. And that would be. The financial statements, the federal awards, and state compliance. Each of these areas are going to have an opinion. And what I always like to say is everything in this audit report is your information. The only part of this that is the auditor's is the opinions that we're offering on these three respective areas. I want you to move forward. Also, we are going to present you the outcome of Measure W. And that relates to
172both financial statements and performance. Next slide, please. Just a recap. If you don't remember what an audit is, an audit is intended to provide you reasonable assurance about whether the financial statement is a free and material statement, and that's reasonable versus total. Total assurance means that we're looking at every single transaction, and that just does not happen. There's just too many transactions. I mentioned to you the auditor's opinion. The highest level of assurance that the audit can provide you is an unmodified opinion. So with that said, if you ever receive anything other than unmodified, you want to ask why that is. But I also like to think that from a board perspective, what you gain from this is that it is providing you some assurance that the information that you're receiving from your business management
173is information that you can rely on as you make your decisions. There's a risk assessment that we go through, and we want to indicate to you that there are inherent risks in every single audit. It doesn't matter how large or small. The two is management overrides of controls, meaning that if management puts controls into place, then they know how to circumvent those controls. And lastly, revenue recognition. This is where oftentimes what you're trying to do is make your bottom line look better. And so revenue recognition is a task that we have to look at. Again, we don't look at everything, so we utilize the sampling methodology. So moving forward. Next slide, please. There are two pages in this 99-page document with all the information you had to receive this evening. I'm sure you didn't get
174a chance to look through every single page of the audit report. But I always like to point out that there's two specific pages that I think are important. The first is the summary of auditor's results. And that's just a snapshot of it there. And if you move to the next slide, I'll point out to you that it's page 93 of your hard copy audit report. And if you're viewing it on your computer, it would be PDF page 100. Thank you. Now, pause there as you disseminate those reports there. Page 93. Oh, we've got a couple of different things going on. So this is the MOW. Sorry, my computer is just spinning and working, and it's annoying because I'm not understanding what you're saying. All right. Sorry. That's all right. So as to the outcome of
175the three specific areas, as it relates to the financial statements, we are offering you an unmodified opinion. We did not identify any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies related to the internal controls that support those tolls. As it relates to the federal awards, again, an unmodified opinion. This year we had to look at two major federal programs. including the number of COVID-19 programs that you're still expending monies. There were no material weaknesses identified, although we did identify a significant deficiency. Next slide. State compliance and unmodified opinion. And I'll just point out that there's possibly 39 state programs that we have to look at. And for those for your district, for every program we tested, we did not identify any issues. Next slide. I did mention two pages. This is the second page, the schedule of financial
176trends. I like this page because it's the only page where historical information is provided. You have three years' worth of information, and as you see there, I'd like to say that it provides you a picture of where you've been and where you're going. As a governing board member, I think you look at trends to identify where you are and where you're going. So here's some trends that I noticed when I look at it. You've been fortunate to incur operating surplus. You are projected to have a deficit in the current year right now. You are maintaining reserves, although they are starting to dwindle a little bit. Probably the most favorable item I see on here is your ADA is increasing, and that's really your lifeline. That's what funds you as a district. So that is an
177important one to see. And the truth is I don't see that very often anymore in the state of California. It's a trend of migration out, not increases in ADA. So that's a good one. So that really kind of summarizes the outcome of your financial statements. And as it relates to Measure W. Financial statements portion of that unmodified opinion, no material weaknesses, no significant deficiencies as it relates to the performance. You were this bond and the expenditures, the proceeds from it are dwindling down. There weren't that many expenditures. We looked at all 100% of them. We did not identify anything that did not align with Article 13a of the state constitution or the bond measure itself and how you were going to expend funds. So with that said, that's a quick synopsis of the outcomes of
178your audits. And I'm here for any questions you may have. I love the silence. It's good news. I mean, there's nothing else to say. This is awesome. So I'm giving snaps. I think she's talking to you. I just prepared you. Exactly. This is awesome. Well, we appreciate it. And there's a lot that goes into it with the team at the sites, Royce's team at the district office. Like I said, just the hours and hours of. his employees manpower, our employees manpower. And we do try to reassure sites, especially when they're going to, you know, an attendance office or an ASB office that they're here for us, you know, and there's nothing to, you know, if there was, if there was ever a mistake or if there's something wrong, we'll fix it. And that they're here
179for us as much as we're here for them. And of course, this is compliance. So that it's that, you know, and when I do have a problem, I don't hesitate to reach out. And usually my voice is a little elevated, but that's okay. But that is okay. That is exactly the scenario that we want. Yeah. Better to recognize it and fix it if we can. I don't mean so. Royce, thank you. It has been a pleasure to know you over the last couple of years. I appreciate you working with us. Thank you. I see you have a new board president, so I would have had an opportunity to speak to you. Someone else will, but I've had a chance to speak to you the last couple of years, so it's been nice. And Jenny, just
180thank you so much for all you do. Your leadership is much appreciated. Thank you. Jenny, Danny, let's go. What's the plans for the $4,400 for Measure W? What's left? I was like, we just need to spend it and get rid of it. So I'll tell Jim, pick something. Yeah, let's talk about that. We'll talk about that. I was thinking about that as I was sitting back and thinking, maybe we can figure out a way to do that. The truth is, as long as you have funds, you have to have those audited. Well, that makes no sense at this point. Yeah, at this point, we need to cope with something that lasts a little bit. And we actually ended last year thinking we were going to spend every dime and how that was going to be
181our last year. And then, you know, as you're closing your books and things fall out or liabilities you set up don't always materialize. And it falls out to the next year. And it's like, darn it, we have a couple thousand dollars left to spend. So I have some thoughts. Well, now it will have to be audited again next year because we're going to expend it. I have to tell April 30th to call Royce. Oh, yes. So call me. Like I said, I have some thoughts on that. OK, good. Please. Well, drive safe. I'm actually going to stay here because I'm on the next as well. I will bid you all a happy retirement. Thank you so much for having me. Drive safe. We wish you a happy retirement. Yes. We'll go ahead and move on
182to a 11.8 business services update of the budget enrollment report by Jenny Haverland, business official. This is going to be really quick. I don't have a PowerPoint. We have a couple slides that were printed out, but also put in your board folder. And it's just a snapshot that we like to do every month to see how our enrollment's doing and how our ADA is doing. This is as of a month 6th, which is the month ending January 20th, January 26th, 2024, of course. But so you can see by some of the other presentations that we have since the end of January, we have had some enrollments into our district. So we'll capture that when we audit and we want to thank Dr. Saviano for that enrollment boost. So, and so in our month seven report,
183and if it's ready by the time we're working on second interim and report to you in March, we'll have the updated numbers on how the net. increases district wide because we want to make sure, you know, that there wasn't just some trading amongst schools as well. But we do know that we had and we did have children up from that were new to the district. So that's always great to see. I wasn't new to the district after after winter break is when my mom and I moved up here when I was in ninth grade. So, I mean, we do tend to see that in in January, you know, as. end of the semester. So just real quick, we are going to be spending a lot of time on budget next month at the March meeting
184when we report on our second interim financial report. And then our current enrollment as of, like I said, month six district wise is 22,852 students. And then with a corresponding attendance of 2,616.88. And I do want to say in the. In your packet, you'll see a total for all of the school district. We are running at a 91.76% attendance rate. And I appreciate that Royce mentioned that we have increased in our attendance rate because at this point last year, we were looking at 89. We went down. I mean, like statewide did post COVID. We were at an 88, 89% attendance rate. So we are at a 91. We do want to. um you know strive for that 95 and even maybe strive for higher once we once things maybe just settle down with um with
185absences and maybe some opportunities to recoup absences such as saturday school and with that a new legislation if the attendance and continuity plan does come too fresh in there that some components of it is being able to recoup ADA in increments of 15 minutes. I don't know the logistics how that will happen. And so being able to have some processes in place, not only to get addressed chronic asthmatism, but that helps with monetarily for our budget if we can recoup that ADA. So I will have for you our Stryker 95. We do have RVA. Our virtual program is at 95.01%. But brick and mortar, he schools A, RVA, our highest attendance rate at a brick and mortar is 92.94 as of month six, and that's LAE. So excited for LAE there. So, district wide, we
186have most schools are in the low 90s, you know that, but overall on an entire district level, we're just over 91%. So it's a little bit below the state average right now as of our first period attendance report. But we've seen in January get reported that we can start working on that. I'm going to be sending you in your next board update just some little snapshots that I created. I'm not going to go over it tonight because we knew we had a lot of discussions. But I went to our virtually attended a attendance seminar by school services and just talking about statewide trends. I don't think it's any new information about the net migration out of California. what to expect over the next 10 to 20 years in that enrollment decline, where enrollment decline that
187is still projected statewide and how do we address it? How we address it is mostly to is working on our attendance rate. So if we have less students, but higher attendance, that is a way that we can address the revenue shortfall for. For that, but I'll be, I'll be sending that to me. I don't want to go over every slide, but we do have the declining enrollment by counties and state. There's a slide that over the last 3 years, most counties were seeing a 5% enrollment decline. Okay. And so we're real typical in there. And I went ahead just kind of for fun. I did look at what our comparative numbers from school services, their average to ours, and we were about seven during that period of time. So, and so we were actually a
188little bit more of a decline than some of the counties. And so, you know, we can just look at maybe the whys and how to address that in a future meeting. With that said, Jenny, does that include the last two years? Because it doesn't seem like we're at that same decline. Yeah, it was from 2019. Oh, okay. So, but we did see a drop that first year. And then we've kind of steadied out. So one thing I've been listening to people talk tonight, and we mentioned it a little bit when I was able to cut into Jim's presentation, is that the universal meals and the fresh farm just kind of table, but to the schools and to hear that that's an option that might be cut. We've been at the state level. That's helped REM
189so much. And yeah, that makes me, that's really disappointing. It makes me sad, especially when you see about how many students. what is it, one in five have food insecurity at their, you know, at home. And so that is something that, you know, and it's helped our, Universal Meals has helped our financials very much too. So because we are able to capitalize on it, it just, the stars aligned with us going into CEP and Universal Meals and some changes we've made. And Lisa's been, you know, kind of helping with the menu. So the stars aligned really well for our food service program. over the last two years and to see some of that maybe get taken away, you know, is going to be a tough one. So we'll see. On that note, I didn't mention
190it during the legislative report, but I am meeting with Senator Acobo's office next week specifically to talk about the budget negotiations that are happening at the state level right now. So that could be something that I bring up. And then on that note, too, you were talking about attendance. I'm assuming average daily membership isn't going anywhere this legislative session, Cindy? No. Well, yeah, I mean, there are what they call stop bills, you know, as placeholders. So we'll see how language develops in place as we pull the language out of the stop bill. So we'll see. Jordan, I was going to... Once I have the next Santa's meeting, I'll send you guys the full bill to report so you have all the bills in front of you. But that hasn't even been discussed. Thank you so
191much. Thank you. We'll go ahead and move on to our 12.0 discussion and action. 12.1, Superintendent. Consideration and approval of employment contract for Superintendent fiscal impact can be determined. Agenda item 12.1 is consider and approve the proposed contract for employment of Superintendent. The proposed contract is for Dr. Paul Saviano and is part of the agenda backup material, which was posted with the agenda on February 22nd, 2024. May I have a motion and second to open up discussion on this item? So moved. First, we have Scott. Bill? Second? Second. Scott? Second. Second. Prior to discussion and vote on the contract, I will read a statement required by law. Pursuant to Government Code Section 54953C3, before taking final action on an employment agreement for a local agency executive, the Board must provide an oral summary of the
192salary and or fringe benefits. Following are the financial terms of the contract. The term of the contract is March 1st, 2024 through June 30th, 2027. The superintendent shall be placed on step four of the superintendent's salary schedule. The superintendent's starting salary shall be $241,708. The superintendent shall receive the following fringe benefits, health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits as provided to other senior management employees, 24 paid vacation days, and 12 days of annual sick leave. Annual dues for participation in the Association of California School Administrators, AXA, and the School Superintendents Association, ASA. And all expenses for participation in a local Rotary Club. A local Rotary Club. Yeah, that's going to be fun. Oh, sorry. Just because they're all going to want you to be at all the roadways. Yeah, Gary, she said it's already advocating
193for you. Bill's already advocating. So just saying. So we will go ahead and open it up for discussion as we have here. Is there any discussion? I just wanted to clarify on the salary amount. It's the same, including the car, as we would be paying currently with the pass, right? Is that correct, Jordan? I'm sorry, can you repeat that? The salary amount is the same as we would have been paying previously. Yes, it's the same salary schedule that we had prior, essentially. It's the same salary schedule and there is no longer a car allowance that the board is putting for. That's included as part of the salary. So it looks like we already had our motion to approve here. So, and we have our second. So if there's no further discussion, I'll go ahead and
194call for the vote. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Well, that would have been a good one. The motion carries unanimously. Now, now. Thank you. We'll go ahead and move forward to our, we'll go ahead and move forward to the rest of our items here. 12.2, Superintendent, approval to vote for up to six candidates for the 2023 California School Board Association, CSBA, delegate assembly for sub-region 16B. This will impact none. Do I have a motion? So moved. I think he's our first. Second? Oh, screw you. Second. Got it. Are we left in second? We'll open it up for discussion here. I think we've all received the candidate slates. Aren't there seven names, Jordan? Only both were six. Yes, correct. Only six. So we should probably take Cindy off of the group. You know, I'm going
195to smack you all tonight. Except for Jordan and she's the one. I need to go to the Intel Delane train. Right, that's maybe the best way to go about it. Cindy, you probably know all this. Let's say Cindy, any thoughts on these? My problem is I've worked with all of them and I can't even, I don't want to be. The back advocates, they are all really great. They bring such amazing viewpoints to conversations when we caucus at the delegate assembly. Heather Allgood is from Hellendale. Clayton Moore is from the High Desert. Tom Courtney, he's such a character from Lucerne Valley. He's a huge advocate for small schools. Scott is from San Bernardino City. So you see the diversity that they all bring. Amanda's from, I believe, shoot, I forgot. And Barbara Dew, of course, is
196from Apple Valley. Thank you. And Barbara Dew is from Victor Valley. So, I mean, I know them all. So if you guys have bread and you feel like a candidate, except for me, is needing to be pulled, it's not going to... They're all so great representatives to the delegate assembly and to the conversation of our area in the caucuses that we have. Now, that was not helpful at all. It wasn't. I mean, you said you work with all of them. You're talking about yourself. Well, I have great conversations with myself. You know, it's the one person she didn't talk about was herself. I mean, I think I can give us something. Come on. I think I've contributed well to the conversations. Yeah, absolutely. You got to give us. Okay. She just pumped six people. What
197would happen if there are only states to vote for one candidate and put one name forward so that we're not like putting one above the other if there isn't any anything to vote for? Well, I would say, yay, yay me. I mean, there's heavy representation from the high desert. So if you want to pick and choose, like, let's keep Scott in the mix because he's San Bernardino. keep Tom in the mix because he really is fierce. He holds CSBA's feet to the fire in terms of small school voice. And even though we're not technically small school, oh, you are killing me. So I would say if I had to pull one, I might say Amanda. Although I might throw up now. Because this is recorded. It did. I would say pull them in. And then
198they're sick. I think we should just vote for Cindy, period. I'm going to put forth. There you go. You can read them out. Okay, so Heather Allgood, Clayton Moore, Tommy Courtney, Cindy Gardner, Scott Wyatt, and Barbara Duke. Are you making your motion to that? I need that motion as presented by Scott. Yeah, Burr is amazing. Scott, do you second that? I second that. Okay. With the amended motion in mind with those six candidates, do we have any further discussion? Let's go ahead and call for that vote. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? The motion is nay. Oh, sorry. Did you say nay? Okay. Let me revise that. Apologies. The motion carries four to one with Dr. William Mellon voting nay. We'll go ahead and move forward to 12.3, Business Services, Resolution No. 23-4-3,
199Defined Vacant Pest Line Property as Exempt Surplus Property, Assessor Parcel No. 810343-111-030343-111-04-0343- So moved. I love you. Now, I'm going to spec it back. So, I think you can preempt it. I think I have. So with that 12.3 as the text reads in full, we have a motion from William Mellion and from Aylor's. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and call for that vote. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 12.4, business services. Feel free to cut me off. Resolution number 23 slash 24 dash 8. So moved. Second. So we have our first and second for 12.4 as the text reads in full. Any discussion? None. We'll call for that vote. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 12.5, business services, approval of the agreement with Albert A. Webb Associates for
200the planning of future use of Grandview Elementary. Fiscal impact to be determined. Second. Scott, go ahead. Just in the contract itself, it does have a fiscal impact. The contract was for, I think it was up to $20,000. And not to exceed. Yes, it was up to, yeah. Thank you for noting that the budget source will would also come from unrestricted general fund just doesn't FYI. I'm sorry. I see you have anything. Sorry. No, he's all right. We'll go ahead and call for the vote on that. All in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 13.0 consent calendar. Would anyone like to pull any items for consideration on the plan? We don't have access to our district, our group, our drive. Are the school safety plans on there? Yeah, of course. But they're not available for
201public. They're not available for public. They can be by an appointment and following the guidelines. And I have them all in a binder in my office too. They're really awesome reading for school sites. Just saying. I just thought it's important to point out that they're not available because you don't want a safety plan out there where everyone can read it. It's got to be private. And where the students congregate for evacuation. Are there any items to pull? Seeing none. Let's go ahead and look for a motion on so moved 13.1 all the way through 13.14. We have a motion from Bill and any other discussion. We'll go ahead and call for the vote on this all in favor. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We'll go ahead and move forward to 15.0, governance team future agenda
202items planning. 15.1, time allotted for the board of trustees to request agenda items for future meetings. I think we've already discussed that I'll bring forward a resolution on SB 1429. Anything else that anyone wants to add? So on our governance calendar, we usually have the high schools present. Are we going to do that this year, or are we going to just go? for next year. Does that make sense? I'm just putting it out there. That's a conversation. Because usually the high schools have a presentation that includes some of the data, what they're doing on their campus, blah, blah, blah. It's been in our governance calendar. I think it was moved to January to be after all the data. So just have a conversation in cabinet and then see where we go. I don't want to
203put you on the spot, is what I'm saying. But it has been part of our governance calendar. Yeah, we'll make that happen. I'm sure Mr. Walensky will love me for throwing him under the bus. He just texted me. He said, shut her up. If there's nothing else. Let's go and report to 16 point out future meeting dates regular board meeting mark 14 2020 530 p.m. At 2 4 7 boys here at Sandburg's Wake wrestling, California 19 3 2 5 a board meeting workshop March 28 20 24 at 4 o'clock p.m. At our district office here at the same address And the room of the world meeting, a regular board meeting, April 18th, 2024, 5.30 p.m. here at the district office, same address. 17.0 recessed or closed session if necessary. That is not necessary this evening,
204so we'll move on to 18.0 adjournment, 18.1 fair meeting. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Let's go ahead and call for the vote. All in favor? Aye. And he opposed.