001Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call this meeting to order at 536. Do we have any public comments for a closed session? Hearing none, we will adjourn to closed session at 536. Thank you. My name is Nailini Magana, and I am a senior and cheerleader here at Santa Paula High School, as well as a student board member. What led me to being a student board member is honestly being a cheerleader because being a cheerleader it helps me bring like my school spirit out which I love. I want everybody to have school spirit here at Santa Paula as well as all everybody in the district. And it helps me see what everybody wants, what everybody's needs are, because in a way, cheerleaders are kind of like the foundation of what we want. We want everybody to
002have school spirit and to build a community. So I wanted to make it my task to make sure that everybody, not just at Santa Paula High School, but everybody in the district knows that they can come to me. and tell me any of their concerns so that we can make sure that this district is a community and everybody is just bonding well together. As a school board member, I am in charge of representing some schools and I meet with them and discuss any concerns that they have or just any events or what they want to be brought up to the community. I also meet every morning with the superintendent before the school board meetings, before school, and we discuss what I'm going to report at the meetings as well as just what's going to be
003talked about at the meetings. and every other Wednesday I go to the school board meetings and I sit there and I bring in my thoughts and ideas and talk about what the school wants or what everybody wants in the district from the students point of view as well as sometimes the staff and I also give a report as to what the schools that I represent have told me what they want to discuss at the meetings. I encourage every Santa Paula High School student, if you have any concerns, come talk to me. I am happy to hear and I will bring it up to the board. Anything that you want, like a change or anything that you want to see happen at Santa Paula High School, I will make sure that that gets brought up so
004we can make that change happen so that we can have this school be the community that we want it to be. Hello. My name is Angela Borrego Chavez. I was a teacher at Barbara Webster School for 36 wonderful years. I have no regrets, and I'm happy to invite you to our 100th... anniversary of Barbara Webster School. We're going to have a lot of wonderful things happening on October 10th from 5 to 8 at the school. There's going to be activities for the kids, correct? And there's going to be snacks maybe? And there's going to be a wonderful video show where many of the teachers that worked here will give comments about what their time was like when they were teaching here. and we were looking forward to the whole community coming to visit. You don't
005have to stay the whole time, but you're welcome to come and keep put right that on your calendar, please. Hey fellow Bobcats, I just want to say, well, 100 years of Barbara Webster making an impact in this amazing community. For those who don't know, my name is Tommy Frutos. I'm born and raised in this awesome, amazing city. I love it. I'll die for it. I was a student here. I worked here in the 90s. I'm a trustee now for the Santa Paula Unified School District. And I just want everyone to be aware that on October 10th, we are going to be celebrating all the accomplishments and all the accolades of what this school has to offer and how it has shaped the amazing lives of so many people like myself in this community. I think
006about all my friends that we're still connected and we're doing the good fight. We're doing the good work in our community. And I know it started right here. So all you Bobcats, if you have the time, please come out October the 10th and come celebrate with us. Come celebrate you. Come celebrate your family, your history. We love to hear your stories. We deserve it. You deserve it. I think Barbara Webster School deserves to be honored on October 10th. My name is Nailini Magana. I'm a senior and cheerleader here at Santa Paula High School, as well as a student board member. What led me to being a student board member is honestly being a cheerleader because being a cheerleader, it helps me bring like my school spirit out, which I love. I want everybody to have
007school spirit here at Santa Paula, as well as everybody in the district. And it helps me see what everybody wants, what everybody's needs are, because in a way, cheerleaders are kind of like the foundation of what we want. We want everybody to have school spirit and to build a community. So I wanted to make it my task to make sure that everybody, not just at Santa Paula High School, but everybody in the district knows that they can come to me. and tell me any of their concerns so that we can make sure that this district is a community and everybody is just bonding well together. As a school board member, I am in charge of representing some schools and I meet with them and discuss any concerns that they have or just any events or
008what they want to be brought up to the community. I also meet every morning with the superintendent before the school board meetings, before school, and we discuss what I'm going to report at the meetings as well as just what's going to be talked about at the meetings. and every other Wednesday I go to the school board meetings and I sit there and I bring in my thoughts and ideas and talk about what the school wants or what everybody wants in the district from the students point of view as well as sometimes the staff and I also give a report as to what the schools that I represent have told me what they want to discuss at the meetings. I encourage every Santa Paula High School student, if you have any concerns, come talk to me.
009I am happy to hear and I will bring it up to the board. Anything that you want, like a change or anything that you want to see happen at Santa Paula High School, I will make sure that that gets brought up so we can make that change happen so that we can have this school be the community that we want it to be. Hello. My name is Angela Borrego Chavez. I was a teacher at Barbara Webster School for 36 wonderful years. I have no regrets, and I'm happy to invite you to our 100th... anniversary of Barbara Webster School. We're going to have a lot of wonderful things happening on October 10th from 5 to 8 at the school. There's going to be activities for the kids, correct? And there's going to be snacks maybe? And
010there's going to be a wonderful video show where many of the teachers that worked here will give comments about what their time was like when they were teaching here. and we were looking forward to the whole community coming to visit. You don't have to stay the whole time, but you're welcome to come and keep put right that on your calendar, please. Hey fellow Bobcats, I just want to say, wow, 100 years of Barbara Webster making an impact in this amazing community. For those who don't know, my name is Tommy Frutos. I'm born and raised in this awesome, amazing city. I love it. I'll die for it. I was a student here. I worked here in the 90s. I'm a trustee now for the Santa Paula Unified School District. And I just want everyone to be
011aware that on October 10th we are going to be celebrating all the accomplishments and all the accolades of what this school has to offer and how it has shaped the amazing lives of so many people like myself in this community. I think about all my friends that we're still connected and we're doing the good fight. We're doing the good work in our community and I know it started right here. So all you Bobcats, if you have the time, please come out October the 10th and come celebrate with us. Come celebrate you. Come celebrate your family, your history. We love to hear your stories. We deserve it. You deserve it. I think Barbara Webster School deserves to be honored on October 10th. My name is Nailini Magana, and I am a senior and cheerleader here at
012Santa Paula High School, as well as a student board member. What led me to being a student board member is honestly being a cheerleader because being a cheerleader, it helps me bring like my school spirit out, which I love. I want everybody to have school spirit here at Santa Paula, as well as everybody in the district. And it helps me see like what everybody wants, what everybody's needs are, because in a way, cheerleaders are kind of like the foundation of what we want. Like we want everybody to have school spirit and to build a community. So I wanted to make it like my task to make sure that everybody, not just at Santa Paula High School, but everybody in the district knows that they can come to me and tell me any of their concerns
013so that we can make sure that this district is a community and everybody is just bonding well together. As a school board member, I am in charge of representing some schools and I meet with them and discuss any concerns that they have or just any events or what they want to be brought up to the community. I also meet every morning with the superintendent before the school board meetings, before school, and we discuss what I'm going to report at the meetings as well as just what's going to be talked about at the meetings. and every other Wednesday I go to the school board meetings and I sit there and I bring in my thoughts and ideas and talk about what the school wants or what everybody wants in the district from the students point of
014view as well as sometimes the staff and I also give a report as to what the schools that I represent have told me what they want to discuss at the meetings. I encourage every Santa Paula High School student, if you have any concerns, come talk to me. I'm happy to hear. And I will bring it up to the board. Anything that you want, like a change or anything that you want to see happen at Santa Paula High School, I will make sure that that gets brought up so we can make that change happen so that we can have this school be the community that we want it to be. Hello. My name is Angela Borrego Chavez. I was a teacher at Barbara Webster School for 36 wonderful years. I have no regrets. And I'm happy
015to invite you to our 100th... anniversary of Barbara Webster School. We're going to have a lot of wonderful things happening on October 10th from 5 to 8 at the school. There's going to be activities for the kids, correct? And there's going to be snacks maybe? And there's going to be a wonderful video show where many of the teachers that worked here will give comments about what their time was like when they were teaching here. and we were looking forward to the whole community coming to visit. You don't have to stay the whole time, but you're welcome to come and keep put right that on your calendar, please. Hey fellow Bobcats, I just want to say, wow, 100 years of Barbara Webster making an impact in this amazing community. For those who don't know, my name
016is Tommy Frutos. I'm born and raised in this awesome, amazing city. I love it. I'll die for it. I was a student here. I worked here in the 90s. I'm a trustee now for the Santa Paula Unified School District. And I just want everyone to be aware that on October 10th, we are going to be celebrating all the accomplishments and all the accolades of what this school has to offer and how it has shaped the amazing lives of so many people like myself in this community. I think about all my friends that we're still connected and we're doing the good fight. We're doing the good work in our community. And I know it started right here. So all you Bobcats, if you have the time, please come out October the 10th and come celebrate with
017us. Come celebrate you. Come celebrate your family, your history. We love to hear your stories. We deserve it. You deserve it. I think Barbara Webster School deserves to be honored on October 10th. I'm a senior and cheerleader here at Santa Paula High School, as well as a student board member. What led me to being a student board member is honestly being a cheerleader because being a cheerleader, it helps me bring like my school spirit out, which I love. I want everybody to have school spirit here at Santa Paula, as well as everybody in the district. And it helps me see like what everybody wants, what everybody's needs are, because in a way, cheerleaders are kind of like the foundation of what we want. Like we want everybody to have school spirit and to build a
018community. So I wanted to make it like my task to make sure that everybody, not just at Santa Paula High School, but everybody in the district knows that they can come to me and tell me any of their concerns so that we can make sure that this district is a community and everybody is just bonding well together. As a school board member, I am in charge of representing some schools and I meet with them and discuss any concerns that they have or just any events or what they want to be brought up to the community. I also meet every morning with the superintendent before the school board meetings, before school, and we discuss what I'm going to report at the meetings as well as just what's going to be talked about at the meetings. and
019every other Wednesday I go to the school board meetings and I sit there and I bring in my thoughts and ideas and talk about what the school wants or what everybody wants in the district from the students point of view as well as sometimes the staff and I also give a report as to what the schools that I represent have told me what they want to discuss at the meetings. I encourage every Santa Paula High School student, if you have any concerns, come talk to me. I am happy to hear and I will bring it up to the board. Anything that you want, like a change or anything that you want to see happen at Santa Paula High School, I will make sure that that gets brought up so we can make that change happen
020so that we can have this school be the community that we want it to be. My name is Angela Borrego Chavez. I was a teacher at Barbara Webster School for 36 wonderful years. I have no regrets, and I'm happy to invite you to our 100th... anniversary of Barbara Webster School. We're going to have a lot of wonderful things happening on October 10th from 5 to 8 at the school. There's going to be activities for the kids, correct? And there's going to be snacks maybe? And there's going to be a wonderful video show where many of the teachers that worked here will give comments about what their time was like when they were teaching here. and we were looking forward to the whole community coming to visit. You don't have to stay the whole time, but
021you're welcome to come and keep put right that on your calendar, please. Hey fellow Bobcats, I just want to say, wow, 100 years of Barbara Webster making an impact in this amazing community. For those who don't know, my name is Tommy Frutos. I'm born and raised in this awesome, amazing city. I love it. I'll die for it. I was a student here. I worked here in the 90s. I'm a trustee now for the Santa Paula Unified School District. And I just want everyone to be aware that on October 10th, we are going to be celebrating all the accomplishments and all the accolades of what this school has to offer and how it has shaped the amazing lives of so many people like myself in this community. I think about all my friends that we're still
022connected and we're doing the good fight. We're doing the good work in our community. And I know it started right here. So all you Bobcats, if you have the time, please come out October the 10th and come celebrate with us. Come celebrate you. Come celebrate your family, your history. We love to hear your stories. We deserve it. You deserve it. I think Barbara Webster School deserves to be honored on October 10th. Good evening, everyone. I would like to reconvene from closed session at 6.04 p.m. We will start with roll call. We'll start with our student trustees. Trustee Gonzalez. Present. Trustee Magana. Here. Trustee Torres. Present. Great. Board. Trustee Kumazawa. Here. Trustee Rodriguez. Present. Trustee Sandoval. Here. Trustee Frutos is absent. And Trustee Arroyo, I'm here. So moving on to item B, report of closed session,
023and we have nothing to report at this time. And now we will move on to Pledge of Allegiance. You can please join us. Begin. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of America. To the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. You and I. and we just need now we're going to do the approval of the agenda by moving this so we are moving on to item d approval of the agenda but with a modification we're going to move item four which is our staff reports and um student board member report and committee updates to after item eight so just fyi everyone do i have a motion for approval of the agenda as amended so moved second it's been moved in second uh preferential vote all those
024in favor aye passes board vote all those in favor aye aye passes thank you so i'd just like to let everybody know online that we are at barbara webster this friday at five o'clock barbara webster elementary school will be celebrating its 100th year anniversary so in honor of that we decided to have the board meeting here thank you and we will move on to item five public comments do we have any and i believe we have okay so bear with me it's a little lengthy good evening board members as superintendent weinstein i am writing tonight to continue to show great support for McKevitt Elementary. Last year was an incredibly hard year for everyone, staff, parents, and most importantly the students. You as the Board of Trustees and the Superintendent have been working to close our
025beloved school. We continue to see how you are still trying to close our school. Your first step was the reduction of our classrooms. We used to have two of each grade. Now we are down to one class of kinder, one class of first graders, one class of fifth graders, and one class of sixth graders. I, as a parent, do not understand why you made the choices you did. We have... empty classrooms now that used to house our teachers and students. Reducing classrooms didn't just affect staff, it has greatly affected our students. My children in particular have been heavily impacted by your choices. Considering classrooms were reduced, all of those students had to go somewhere else. You completely removed students who belong to McKevitt. My daughter's best friend was one of the ones who was removed.
026She is absolutely devastated and gutted. My daughter has always been the type who would jump out of bed each morning excited to go to school. She has always been top of her class and generally wanted to be there. Knowing her best friend was forcibly removed from our school completely. rocked her world. I found a note she had written to herself about how sad she is going to school, how much she needs her friend, how she can't do it without him, and that she is feeling depressed. This is a 10-year-old. My amazing little girl no longer jumps out of bed in the morning and she no longer wants to go to school each morning. She now tells me how much she dreads going, which is absolutely heartbreaking for a mother to hear. You all did this
027to her. I am positive she isn't the only one who has been affected by your choices. Then we lost our beloved Mrs. Pacheco. Our poor community cannot handle any more disappointment and stress. I ask that you all please stop and look inside yourselves. This shouldn't be about money for the district. This shouldn't be about politics. This should be about the students and what is best for them. And what is best for them is to have consistency with their peers, their teachers, and all of the staff they interact with. Leave our school alone, please. Signed, a mother who will not give up this fight. So the next item are presentations, and we have a Grupo Folklorico to present tonight. Yes. Will you please come up? And the group we have tonight is Proyecto Esperanza Folklorico, and
028it's led by Julissa Dorado. Welcome. foreign foreign When the horse touches it. Thank you, thank you so much, Proyecto Esperanza Flucorico. Well, now we have to move on. That was a wonderful presentation. So the next is our item seven, action items, and the first item is under our superintendent. And item one is director of child nutrition services salary study. So classified management, which is nonrepresented by a union, can request to the HR department of classified to have a salary study done on their job, basically comparing to like districts so that we have equity. It has been requested. and we would like the board to approve the salary study this is not approving the raise or approving the change in salary guidelines but it will let us know whether or not we are properly compensating our
029director of child nutrition services and then once the board approves it goes to the personnel commission for approval and then the salary study can be conducted swing for a motion for approval Do we have any comments, questions, or do we have a motion for approval? I move to approve the salary study for the director of Child Nutrition Services. Real quick before we have a vote, Jeff, was there any sort of like extenuating circumstance that prompted this request? Like did something change like in the industry for directors of Child Nutrition Services or? No. You know, the director herself, obviously she interacts with all the child nutrition service directors around Ventura County. And she... probably in discussions realize that maybe she's not being compensated equally to those and so she actually when she requested the study she
030presented us with the salary schedules for every other district now obviously some of those districts are very large like oxnard union high school district but comparatively like wyanemi and other districts um it does look like she might be underpaid i appreciate that thank you I had the same questions one-on-one I asked, so I'm glad you brought it up again. Do we have a second? I'll second. So it's been moved and seconded. Board vote, all those in favor? Yes. Aye. Passes 4-0. So now we have Item B, Educational Services, Quarterly Report on Williams Uniform Complaints from July 1st to September 30th. Again, my exercise and good evening everyone. Um, so I'm happy to report that we have no complaints for that, uh, timeframe. So we're asking for your approval of a no complaint report. Is there
031a motion? I'll move to approve. Do you have a second? I'll second. Okay. It's been moved and second. And we'll start with our preferential votes. All those in favor? Aye. Passes 3-0. Board vote. All those in favor? all right passes four zero thank you so moving on to item three no two approval of service agreement with the University of California Santa Barbara UCSB Early Academic Outreach Program for Isabel Middle School and Santa Paula High School for the 25-26 school year. Good evening. We're requesting approval for the Early Academic Outreach Program site coordinators at Isabel Middle School and Santa Paula High School. They assist our counseling staff in transcript evaluations, academic achievement receptions, financial aid assistance, college application process, career exploration, and other school-wide activities. Do we have any questions, comments, or is there a motion
032for approval? Just one con or a couple questions right the it says this is funded through the a through g access grant. Yes, and is that time limited? That's good. That's expiring, right? It is expiring at the end of this year. Okay. Is anything else? Is any of these grants paid outside of that grant? Any of these programs paid outside of that grant? I don't know how it was paid in previous years, but I know that this year we purposely shifted funding into that particular grant because it was expiring. Right, okay. And to pre-up funds elsewhere. Okay. Do we have any leads on, is that a renewable grant, something we can apply for again, or is this money going to disappear? And then if we want to continue the services, it would have to come
033out of the general fund. I'd have to defer to Lori on that question. I'm not sure if it's renewable. Okay, so it was one-time funding. So, okay. Yeah, and it's a year-long contract, so we can spend some time this year looking at other potential funding sources. Yeah, or alternatives. Okay. Oh, and are they offering services that our counselors don't offer at this point? No, I mean, our counselors are doing a lot of the work as well, but they are supplementing that work. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Hearing none, is there a motion for approval? All motion. Do we have a second? I second. It's been moved and second. And we'll start with our preferential vote. All those in favor? Aye. Passes 3-0. Board vote. All those in favor? Aye. Passes 4-0. Thank you.
034Item 3, approval of service agreements with Casa Pacifica for the 25-26 school year. Good evening. This is asking for approval for placement student placement at Casa Pacifica, which is a non-public school that serves students with individualized education programs. The service agreement is for three students, $264,000, which includes their specialized academic instruction, transportation, all related services, and their mental health services. Again, it's for one year for the 25-26 school year. Any questions, comments, or would someone like to make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve. And I will second that. Let's start with our preferential votes. All those in favor? Aye. Passes 3-0. Board vote. All those in favor? Yes. Aye. Passes 4-0. Thank you. Moving on to item C, business services. Adopt resolution number 2526.08, approving the calculations for the 2425 appropriations limitation and
035establishing the 2526 estimated appropriations limitations calculating establishing a GAN limit per government code section 7906F. This is an annual resolution. This brought forward, obviously, a year. It's for estimated spending limits for the current fiscal year and the actual spending limits for the preceding fiscal year. Do we have any questions or comments? There's so much more to it than that. Sorry, that's just a bad joke. I do have just a question. What is that percentage? Is it 4% or what? This is a little different than that. This tells us what our actual spending could be. So for current year, it's $39,858,000. For current year and last year, it was $39,147,650. Okay, no, I just I looked at the numbers and then I went into the law and then there's like a percentage of how much you
036can pull to reserves or am I confusing it? Okay, I'm confusing it. Yeah, Mike's like there's more to it. There's a lot to it. Yeah, it's broken down to many different sections. Okay. Does anyone have any other questions, comments? Have we ever hit our GAN limit? Have we come close to hitting our GAN limit? That's a good question. I need to go back and look, but I've been doing things that we have not. Okay. So I move to approve this resolution. Is there a second? Yeah, I'll second. It's been moved and second. Preferential vote, all those in favor? Aye. Passes 3-0. Board vote, all those in favor? Aye. Passes 4-0. Thank you. Item 2, donations. And we have several. Sorry, we have some. abbreviations here but the first one we have Fresca Produce International for
037the Santa Paula High School boys basketball program in the amount of $350 House Farm Workers for FFA program from field to fork in the amount of $250 Pachuco Car Club for a school mascot for Glen City in the amount of $2,177.32 FLUENAN MOODY INC. FOR THE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP EVENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $500. ARAMSCO FOR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP EVENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,718.05. FOR THE GRAND TOTAL OF $4,995.37. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DONATIONS? SO MOVED. DO YOU HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND. Uh, preferential vote. All those in favor? Aye. Passes 3-0. Board vote. All those in favor? Aye. Passes 4-0. Thank you. So moving on to item eight, consent calendar action items. Item A, education. Okay, so Consent items are considered routine and will be enacted by a single motion None of
038the items will be discussed unless a board member requests discussion prior to the vote of the motion to adopt the consent calendar Do we have a motion? so moved Second second. It's been moved in second preferential vote all those in favor aye Pass 3-0 board vote all those in favor SPEAKER 2. Aye. Yes. SPEAKER 3. Aye. Passes 4-0. Thank you. SPEAKER 2. Madam President I just wanted to be excused so I can go and teach class now that all the action items are done. SPEAKER 3. So excused. Runoff. So we're going back to the beginning to I'm sorry the wrong sheet. Staff reports which we will start with our student board member reports. SPEAKER 2. May I be in. Good evening, everybody. Tonight, I will start with Glen City. Mr. Guzman would like to invite
039everybody in the room and the board to their first annual Trunk or Treat. So they are thrilled to announce their first annual Trunk or Treat, and they would love for us to be a part of this fun and festive event. It's going to be at Glen City's parking lot. It's going to be Monday, October 27th from 6 to 7.30 p.m. They are asking for candy bag donations. So if anybody would like to donate candy if you did If you guys are able to make it, you guys can dress up and walk around, enjoy the fun. You can hand out candy or even you could decorate the trunk of your car and line up to pass out treats from your car. Join in on the Trunk or Treat. Any help is truly appreciated. They're also going
040to be having their annual jog-a-thon with a splash of color this Friday. TK through second grade will be running first between the hours of... 130 and 145 the third and sixth graders students will be running between 150 and 220. board members can help with the splash of color portion of the event using bottles filled with color powder to spray students during the jog or cheer on the students. For Blanchard Elementary School, they would love to bring in a guest speaker to talk about disability awareness. They are talking with Dr. Lawrence about that. They are also hoping to celebrate their 44 students who scored a 3 or better on the CASP and any support or funding would be graciously appreciated for them. They are also continuing to build their library. Last year was a big push
041for 6th grade books, and this year they will continue this request, but also preschool books. For Isbell Middle School, they have multiple fall sports coming up, and they also have some seasons coming up. They have more information on that next week. And last week, athletics had a homecoming, which had a very big turnout. The high school had a parade, the first glow-in-the-dark rally. I remember seeing Mr. Weinstein and Dr. Cesar Morales there. And they also had their homecoming football game. That is all I had to report for this week. Thank you. Good evening. I will be beginning with Webster. So Webster, as you know, is having their 100th year anniversary this Friday from 5 to 8, and I hope to see you all there. A message from Mr. Madrigal. He would like to thank everybody
042who helped put together the 100th year celebration. The maintenance department, Delisa Carrillo, Jessica Limon, the Barbara Webster PTA, and all of the hardworking staff at Barbara Webster. We hope to see everybody on Friday night. For Bedell, they are currently getting ready for the annual Color Run fundraiser for this Friday, October 10th, and they are continuing to work on their new wellness center and finalizing their logo. The Santa Paula High School Performing Arts is working on their fall production of Real Housewives of Shakespeare and holding auditions for their musical Cinderella every day starting this Tuesday the 7th until Friday, October 10th from 6 10 to 8 20 p.m. in the auditorium. And that is all I have. Thank you. Good evening. Starting with Grace Thill. Grace Thill will be hosting their first PTA Association meeting at
0433.30 in the cafeteria, October 15th. Parents, look out. Parent-teacher conferences are Tuesday, October 21st through Friday, October 24th. Moving on to Renaissance. Renaissance High School will be starting its first PBL project of the school, titled Bridging Generations. This project connects students with both Isabel Middle School's SOAR recovery program and residents at local retirement homes. Renaissance High School is hosting a Panda Express fundraiser on October 28th at the Santa Paula location. Steady progress for credit recovery. Teachers continue to provide support after school night success tutoring and our outreach specialist Mr. Garcia continues to collab with staff to reduce chronic absences and reengage students. That is all I have for you. Thank you. We are moving on to committee updates. Trustee Kumazawa anything to report? Board of Trustees Meeting, it was my first budget committee meeting. Um,
044just over 2 weeks ago on the on the 25th of September. Um, it was really good to see just everybody's, um, you know, participation and the committee's, you know, commitment to, uh, you know, I guess sound fiscalness. of the district um and yeah very much looking forward to you know the future meetings we have a another one scheduled for tomorrow evening um i i think one comment that i would make and and you know i i don't know if it needs to be said but i think it does You know, I know that there's a lot of stress about the fiscal position of the district and and you know what the district might be facing in the future and obviously You know the those things are going to be discussed in this committee and I
045would just stress that you know if folks do hear you know things and you know the rumor mill happens and you know, we try to you know keep things as close to as we can that you know, really anything that's discussed I think in that committee is i would just say ideas right and nothing is ever going to be decided in that committee that wouldn't ultimately come to this board and have the final decision be made here and so you know if if staff and the community does happen to hear things that you know are discussed in that committee i would just say you know that committee needs to talk about things they need to talk about ideas you know even even difficult ones but um I would if you do hear something that's discussed
046in that community it doesn't mean it's going to happen is what I think ultimately my message would be and so um yeah you know I think I'll just end with that and again you know just looking forward to the work and um it it it's going to be good so that's it thanks thank you Mike well said because it's very true I I also attend my first meeting of budget I almost forgot it because I have two other committees in um Yeah, you're just brainstorming. And at the end, I believe you're, we're looking for myself. I'm looking at, you know, the principal's staff to come up with ideas and figuring out things that can be paid through grants and not general funds. So coming up, you know, with ways of where we can tighten our
047belts and serve all our students. So sorry, Nathan. Oh, so sorry. So in addition to the budget committee, which was. Was right after our last meeting I also attended the LCAP meeting in our emergent bilingual committee the LCAP it's been a while I've been in the LCAP since Gosh, since my kids were in school and things have changed and laws have changed, but it's nice to see that we really have to report and show where we're doing, where the progress is happening. And I think the group who's there is really looking at what should be funded through LCAP and what is going to be the best for the students who need that extra assistance. And for emergent bilingual, it was my first meeting. So it was a lot to learn of how we're testing students
048out of being English learners. So I'm looking forward to that. And other than that, that's my update for committees. So now we're going to move back. I mean, we're moving down on the agenda to item nine, which is our board member comments and requests for future agenda items. I'll just start with Trustee Komizawa. Yeah, just brief comments again. So obviously very cool to be here. to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Barbara Webster. I personally went to a school that had been around a long time when I was attending school at Castaic. Brings back a lot of memories. Totally unrelated, but we had to do dam drills, not fire drills, just in case the dam broke. And it was really funny because the drill was you basically just walked along the... the riverbed, so we all
049knew that we weren't really going to get saved. But anyway, I digress. But no, very cool. We do have a monument when the dam did break in Santa Paula. No, I know. I drive by it every day. But no. Yeah, I mean, just very cool to be here, and I'm really glad that we had the meeting here tonight. The dancers were great. I suggest we have them come and perform. We could decide either before or after. We have a really difficult thing to discuss, but I think that'd be awesome. But, no, they did great, and they looked great. It was really cool. But, yeah, but, no, nothing really to comment other than that. Yeah, just appreciate getting to be even just a small part of the celebration tonight. And I think I jumped. Can I
050go back to our? You can go back to your student board. I'm going to go back to our student board members. Do you guys have any comments? No comments. No comments. No comments. Okay. Thank you, Nathan. 100 years, something to celebrate, something to be happy about. I'm an alumni from this school and to my other alumni, yes, you can come. Yes, you can show up, show your Bobcat pride. We're all happy to have you here. To those alumni who are keep. Asking me questions about it. Again, our Webster office is open. Our district office is open, too, in case I can't get a hold of you or I can't reach back out. I just want to give a big shout out to our Webster community. Our surrounding community is so happy, so prideful. There's so
051much joy in the air for this event. I will be there. I know a lot of other people will be there. So, again, if you're too shy or if you're interested or if you just want to pass by, please come visit our Webster school. A lot of great things are happening. A lot of great things will continue to happen. happen and just continue the momentum for our other schools. Isabel is going to hit 100 years next year. I can't wait to see the energy for that from the Santa Paula community. Thank you all said yes congratulations to Barbara Webster in a hundred years I was fortunate enough to celebrate like McKevitt's when they did a hundred when my kids were there. So Hopefully they have merchandise that says a hundred years Barbara Webster So for
052the celebration on Saturday, if not, it's never too late to order order later again congrats to Barbara Webster and Like Trustee Kimizawa, yes, I think it's a need to have performers come and it's more of a wellness feeling. I'm not sure if any of our schools offer those classes for after school programs, but that would be nice for our students to learn that in after school, especially just the cultural. And I mean, I know I always wanted to learn, but just never found the time to do it. Okay. So with that said, we're moving on to item 10, which is just announcing our next board meeting would be October 22nd. And with that, I will adjourn this meeting at 6.53. Record time.