001[Music] We're done after that. Yeah, we can tell them. Yeah. Yeah. Call the Liberty Elementary School District governing board meeting to order today, July 9th, 2025. The time is 5:30. We're at the Jerry Roby District facility. Four board members present. It's board member Schmidt, Vice President Kenyon, board member Stencion, myself, Michael Todd. Next item on the agenda is item 1.2, pledge of allegiance. I'm going to call an audible young man. Would you like to lead us in the pledge? Come on up to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Item 1.3 will be the approval of the special meeting agenda. Mr. President, I make a motion. Go ahead. Motion to approve the regular agenda
002form consistent with board policy 1-302 and temporarily suspend governing board policy with which this agenda may be inconsistent. Have a second. Second. Have a motion. Second. If there's no discussion, we'll call the vote. Board member Schmidt, I. Vice President Kenyon, I. Board member Shinsion, I. I'm also and I will show that proof. Four, yes, zero, no. Next on the agenda is item 2.1, discussion, consideration, and possibly approve the interim superintendent contract of Trevor McDonald as the interim superintendent for Liberty Elementary School District for the 202526 fiscal year. Members, are there any questions? Mr. President, I just would like to make comment. Okay. Um over looking at these interim superintendent candidates, uh I was very pleased that we had over a dozen dozen plus candidates interested in this district. Um and so that that really kind
003of highlights this district Liberty in in this area. We're very excited of what going on um in our district and all the positive things that are happening. And so I just wanted to throw that out there that we we're in people's eyes. That's good. Thank you. Any more comments? K. I'll just take a moment as well. I'd like to uh say I think the process went well. Obviously, we were on a a rather short timeline for this, but we did have um over a dozen candidates who put their names forward. Uh the candidates can probably vouch for this better than us, but I think the questions were challenging that we asked. We looked for questions that were were very um appropriate to our district. And I really appreciate each of the board members that took
004part in taking lots of notes. Um it was very nice to see everybody engaged and and really taking it uh uh in the discussion. So I I thank you all for that. I also thank all the candidates that applied and and of course Mr. McDonald, you're uh you're our selection and and we're excited to have you. Um we'll talk a little bit more at the next meeting. This was kind of quick, but uh um your expertise is great. California Superintendent of the Year, numerous awards. uh we killed more trees on your resume than most and and that was okay because it was exciting and we see that. So um you bring forth a lot of energy and uh I think afterwards we were all ready to go to the pep rally and and uh former
005football player uh a nice thing and and that somebody may ask what does that have to do with the classroom? Well, a lot as you're rallying the our crews and our our staff and and uh being a cheerleader for the district as well. Um, so we really appreciate all you've gone through and uh at this time if there's no discussion uh we can take a motion. Miss Schmidt, would you like to make a motion? I will. Uh, Mr. President, I motion to approve the interimm superintendent contract effective date of Monday, July 14th, 2025 and the performance play pay plan resolution. Sorry. A second. Okay, we have a motion, a second. If there's no further discussion, we'll call for the vote. Board member Schmidt, I. President Kenyon, I. Board member Shinsioni, I. I also I will
006show that approved for Yes. Zero. No. Mr. McDonald, would you like to say a few words tonight? We are streaming on our YouTube channel, so we'll give you time at the next meeting as well. Uh, well, camera's going to be here. There's one uh there's one here that'll look at you, too. So, you're you can even sit at your new seat if you want. Whatever you want to go. I'll just stand here. First of all, I want to say thank you to the board members. I uh for uh showing faith in me and um uh appreciate the uh appreciate the show of faith and I'm going to I'm going to return that twofold or tenfold or whatever we can. We're going to um I too did a lot of research on the district and I
007like I said in the interview, this feels comfortable to me. It feels very comfortable to me. So, um, I'm looking forward to doing the work and and more importantly, I think everybody in here, I want I'm I want to work with you. We need to work together. So, when we say when you said what does football or teams have to do with it, I I would say it has everything to do with it. That we need to if on a football field example, one person doesn't do their job, that could be a touchdown. Everybody else does. 10 people do their job, one person doesn't. That's a touchdown. It doesn't mean then it doesn't look good on TV, but it was one slight breakdown. Same thing in a district. We just all need to do our
008jobs, right? And we need to be we need to hold each other accountable in a real positive way. And I think, and I said it before and I just I'm going to continue to say it the whole time, we must focus on kids. And I know that and that was a that was a positive here. We must focus on kids and continue to work together, right? Will we always agree? know that's we're adults, right? That's the way it works. But we will disagree in a um civil manner and then continue to push forward for kids. And I think the last thing I'll say is it's when at a school site, if kids win, teacher wins. Teacher wins, principal wins. Principal wins, we win. We win, you win. And it can go the other way, right?
009So, um, when kids are winning, we're all winning. And when when kids are when kids are struggling, I think we're all struggling. And I'm not saying they are. I'm saying in general. So, and and we need to, I think, accept that sometimes, like take that that burden on to say when kids are struggling, so are we. And we need to do something about it and continue to move forward. So, I'm I'm looking forward to working with everybody. I'm going to I'm going to be in the community. I want to really try to help use the skill set that I have acquired, let's say, and always again going through stuff helps you be better on the other end, right? So use I want to use the skill set to help just continue to push us forward.
010And um Chris, you said it's some really I was able to go with my family to a couple of these schools just now. We got here a little early. awesome facilities, great setting, and just really excited. I was able to meet a lot of staff members, and I'm excited, and I'm excited to work with all of you and just continue the great work. So, I appreciate it. I uh I thank you on behalf of my family. We thank you, and we're going to we're going to do a good job and move forward. Great. Thank you. And we'd be remiss to not thank your family as well. We're excited to have them be involved. It's great to see them here tonight. And uh bring them around. You're right. a daughter that just two days ago my
011wife flew to um the Coastg Guard Academy and she my daughter was a senior last year and accepted her appointment at the US Coastg Guard Academy and was sworn in. So now we have nine weeks of no no contact and she's in nine weeks of the training. So I think for all of us if you if you wake up in the morning and you're tired and you're not feeling good, you think, h there's a there's about a thousand 18 year olds that are they also they wake them up in the middle of the night. Nothing other than to kind of prepare them to be ready to go at the drop of a dime. So I feel like for nine weeks we should like get out of bed pretty quickly because other people are doing it
012doing doing it twofold. The board will sign up take rotations call you at 2 am every day. Who wants to go first? Well, we thank your daughter for her service, too. It's exciting. Coast Guard's quite an honor, and the Coastg Guard Academy is definitely not uh not an easy one. So, appreciate that. Okay, members, we'll now move on to uh item 3.1, board comments on agenda topics and items for future consideration. Is there anything for the order? All right, hearing none, we'll move to item 4.1, our upcoming meetings. We have one on Monday, July 14th, 2025. We will turn the hot feet up there for Mr. McDonald. So, you'll be sitting up here with us at the at the next goround. So, we look forward to that. All right, members. This brings us up to
0135.1, the adjournment of the special meeting. Before we adjourn, I just want to invite the the members of the public and you and your family. We're going to take a little walk. I know it's a little warm, but we're going to go down to the 1910 building, which is one of the oldest school houses in the state, and take some pictures down there and and let you see the museum and and uh uh go from there. So, okay. With that being done, 5.1, the adjourment of the meeting. We've concluded our meeting at 5:39. Meeting adjourned [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music]