001Good afternoon. I call this meeting to order uh on this Tuesday, September the 23rd, 2025 at 5:00 PM in the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District number 35, Governing Boardroom District Office, 570 Camino Leto Galindo, Rio Rico, Arizona. Can we please stand for the pledge? And Mr. Amo, will you lead us with the pledge? I pledge allegiance to >> 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. >> Thank you very much. >> I know that's what he does all the time. Okay. Um, roll call. Mr. Beach is absent. Mr. Rene Ramirez >> here. >> Uh, Mr. Ben Guerrero >> here. >> Miss Alma de Laiva >> here. and me. We have a quorum. Thank you
002much. Um adoption of the agenda, Mr. Blue. >> No recommended changes. Thank you. >> No recommended changes. Any >> Okay. Is there a motion? >> Motion to approve the agenda. Mr. Panda moved. >> Okay. Um is there any further discussion? Would anybody? >> No. Seeing none, all of those say all of you say I. >> All those in favor say I. All those opposed say nay. Okay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Okay. Moving on. Uh call to the public. >> Okay. None. Miss uh superintendence report. Mr. Verdugo. >> Thank you. Um like congratulating our uh newly formed uh flag football teams for starting out their season 2 and 0, which is awesome. I want to congratulate Kosan and all the the athletes that are are doing that and making history. Um I know they have
003some tough games coming up, but it's great to start uh two and 0. So congratulate them. Uh congratulate the cross country team who was uh very successful in their last few meets, especially going to California at the Woodbridge Invitational. Had a lot of medalists um both boys and girls sites. I want to congratulate them for all of their efforts and continue their success pursuing another state championship hopefully uh down the road for the the boy team. I know they have a really good opportunity. Um want to to thank um Meg and the in the TLA for the scheduling our first quarter reviews which are coming up. Um so we have meetings with uh site uh principal and staff reviewing our IEPs. U wanted to let the board know it's not on our agenda tonight, but
004we will usually have our data presentations and we're going to push those into November because we want to wait till the letter grades come out so that we can really discuss the letter grades. But I wanted you to know that the the sites are still pursuing uh improvement. And so we'll we our first step that we normally do is our first quarter review um working with u principles and teachers to check in to see how they're doing. Um and also you received uh the schedule uh for the site visits with the board for students and staff coming up in October. >> That's it. Thank you. >> All righty. Thank you very much. Uh moving on, we have our governing board uh report. Miss Dearo. >> Yes. Um I was able to attend the Rio Rico
005High School volleyball game against the water last week. Um congratulations to coach Benz and the whole team for the for their win. It was a very very exciting game to to watch. So congratulations to them and yes I agree with Miss Mr. Verdugo. Congratulations to the girls the flag ball the black football team and the cross country team. And also um thank you to the Algen School District for hosting the ASBA county meeting last night. And congratulations to our board president Miss Vasquez and uh Mr. Ben Guerrero for the recognition by SBA ASBA last night. That was nice to see. So, a big congratulations to you. Thank you to Mr. uh Jimmy Navaro for uh driving Miss Vasquez and I to the meeting. It was a pleasant drive. We conversed and it just made the
006drive so much uh more pleasant. >> So, that's it for me. >> All righty. Thank you very much. Uh Mr. Guerrero. >> Yeah, nothing to report. Uh you know, thank you. Thank you for that. It was uh went to the ASBA meeting yesterday. I was totally not expecting to go up there at all. You caught me by surprise. I'm like, I'm supposed to go up there. I'm not sure for what, but it was it was it was pretty cool. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, Mr. Ramirez. >> Yes. I just want to wish the football team good luck at homecoming this coming Friday and I look forward to being there. And I just want to wish all administrators, staff, and everyone, your administration, uh, you know, luck
007in finishing off the first nine weeks. It's always tough to you and people start getting burned out at around that time. So, just want to wish everybody well and finishing the nine weeks. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Um, well, I just everything that they said. Okay. because that's one of the things that I was congratulations to all of our teams especially you know cross country they did a really really good up in California and um you know my grandson got a he got a meal Lindo anyway and um and I know that there were uh well there was a lot of kids that that like beat their best right Mr. Um yeah like seven or eight kids huh that that beat you know their own list. So that tells you a lot you
008know that that tells you all the improvements that are happening with them. So you know good luck to you. Uh I wanted to also congratulate the CTE program okay the law and public safety okay they were using uh the 911 simul simulators whatever okay which is designed okay to teach the students proper communication skills uh which is essential for emergency response and our stu students are gaining uh valuable practice you know in applying their communication skills and protocols and procedures like in simulating like real life situations And uh by learning all of this, okay, they are able to implement all of this and learning the 911, you know, communications and that is going to help them, you know, to succeed, you know, in that field, you know, when the time comes. So, I think that
009was like really, really cool. Um, I also read that the aquatic center wants to reopen. There's a lot of people that are asking, right, Mr. Vivo? Okay. And I also talked to Audra about that and she says that they they let out they they sent out a survey. Am I right? Okay. So, if all of you guys want the aquatic, okay, and want to do swimming, okay, fill out the fill that out. Okay. Uh the girls football again, also very very very very exciting, you know, that they're starting on the right path. Um principal reports. I love the principal reports, guys. Oh my god. Okay. I really like what um I think it was uh Mountain View. you guys did letters to the to the uh our first responders and you guys made books and
010stuff and handed it them to all of our first responders. I think that is really good. Okay, you know, this is the generation where our kids don't know what happened, you know, in 911. Okay. And uh and we need to not forget. So, you know, congratulations. I also saw Mr. uh Calabasas. They did something the same, you know, the student of the months. I love the pictures. Okay. Sankaano, the little ones. I want to take him home. But anyway, everybody's doing a really, really good job. Thank you. You know, Katimundi and Rio Rico High School, all of you guys are doing a fantastic job, you know, letting the public know because that's where we can go in and see what's happening in our schools. Okay? People ask me and I said, "Go into the go
011into the website. Everything is there. You guys have, you know, pictures and all this and you can tell what's going on. Visit your schools, you know." So, thank you very much for all of that. And I'm done. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh moving on, we've got the um fiscal year 25 annual finance financial report. Uh Mr. Verdugo, >> thank you. It is that that time of year where we present the AFR which is the annual financial report for the previous fiscal year 2425 and finalize that um >> thank you Mr. Redo. Good evening, Madame President and members of the board. As Mr. Robo mentioned, it is now time to come with the final report that summarizes our financial activity for last fiscal year. Um, when we go end the fiscal year ends on June 30th,
012then we have between July 1 and August 31st to actually finish any pending transaction for the final year. So once that's over, then we jump right into putting together the annual financial report. And that's the report that you have in front of you tonight. Uh highlights of the report. We will be going over our meter funds for MAP. Uh we will also review expenditures in the classroom site fund. And then we'll take a look at our bond override and uh take a look at grants and food service at the end. All righty. So, we'll start with our operating fund or M. Um, and our M or revenues. I skipped over one. I'm sorry. Here it is. So, revenues for our major funds. In the M, we came in at $30 million. And in our capital
013fund, also known as district additional assistance, a little bit over a million dollars. Um, total combined revenue represents an a 1% drop from the prior year. So I would say pretty stable. >> Um so you would say why why a drop. Uh we lost 33 students compared to the prior year. So that explains the the decrease there. I'm going to move away from revenues and now we're going to take a look at the expenditures in our operating fund. Um we had a total expenditures of 27.5 million. That represents a 10% increase over the prior year. And you can see um in the areas that we spend or funds the at the top we have with 45% being dedicated to general instruction and instructional support uh with a total of 12.4 million. Then you can find
014um maintenance and security services with 17% went towards that area at $4.6 million. Then you can see that um followed by a 15% with special ed and CTE and then we find 12% in administration and that is a combined administration school administration and central administration. Um then followed by a 7% in transportation services and then we have um 3% athletics and band and then we have at the end food service and bookstore. And in food service, the only reason why we have them in the M is because we have a requirement. Um the food service operation is 99.9% funded with the federal um funds. But we do have a requirement to spend a certain amount of dollars which is what I have indicated there towards the program. Another way to look at expenditures is on
015the not so much on the area but the type of expenditures. Um in the M expenditures we have 75% was dedicated to salaries and benefits and then 19% went towards purchase services. And although I I guess I must explain that in the area of purchase services that blue um section in the graph there's also staff in there. We have purchase services that are very expensive that are dedicated to our area of student services. and we just can't find them to bring them on board through payroll. So instead of bringing them on board through payroll, we actually issue purchase orders to them and and but that's in essence in reality they make part of the salaries and benefits. It's we hire them through appeal instead of pay. >> Okay. Um so in the in the purchase
016service categories you'll find that um as well as some travel and uh maintenance agreements for some of our equipment. Um then we have 6% dedicated to supplies. And then on the other which it says 0% but it's actually um you'll find their dues and fees and some student travel. Moving on of away from the operating fund into our capital fund. In our capital fund, total expenditures came in at $2.3 million. That represents a 43% increase um from the prior year. And then we find um instruction once again at the top with 41% dedicated to um the area of instruction followed with the 24% dedicated to facilities and then um 18% dedicated to transportation. Um as part of that number um we did two vehicle purchases. We've replaced one of yellow buses and one of our
017white buses and that is part of the rotation schedule that I know that we shared with you in in in the previous board meeting. Um then we have athletics and band and then at the end you see administration. So those were the areas. Now let's look at the type of expenditures. Um you can see that 28% was dedicated to curriculum materials and then we have 11% dedicated to software subscription. A lot of those software subscriptions are actually dedicated to curriculum. Um we have a lot of tools that we bring to our classrooms now in the form of softwares. Um and then we have uh vehicles 19% construction 17% and then furniture equipment and technology at 25%. We're going to move away from our main funds and now we're going to take a look at the
018classroom site fund. Total expenditures for this program came in at 3.7%. Um that represents a 12% increase from the prior year. Um so now let's take a look at the base pay. The base pay for those employees that participated in um in this program last year was $12,215.50. And then those that accomplished their performance, then they got on top of that 3,917 with 36. And then we have a section dedicated to district initiatives. Total expenditures in that area came in at 468,839. I mentioned some of the highlights and in that area of the program, but I I want to um communicate to the board that all of the expenditures were aligned to the plan that the board approved. And we do have two class size reduction positions that are linked unfunded out of the classroom
019site. >> Ju just real quick with with that just to so the board knows that that is additional pay for teachers. Um so that's $16,000 additional >> on top of their base salary as well as other benefits. So, it's something that we're very proud that we make sure that we try to compensate teachers as much as possible through the the classrooms 51 or 301. >> That's the 301. That's what I was going to ask. >> That's what people know it as. >> At $16,000 very significant >> for our our staff, our teachers. So the 12 the 12,215 goes into the base pay or do they get it you know like as a lump sum or you know >> that is runs parallel to their contract. >> So they do get it with their >> every
020single paycheck. Okay. And just just so the the board is aware, I know that uh with our new members, um historically um it was kind of flipped where performance pay was actually more um where teachers had to do other and through the process working with our maybe they've always teachers have been asking can we just have it as part of our basic. So the the performance part of it is they don't have to actually take an additional class if they don't want to. Now it's it's pretty much in their in their base pay which is what they've been asking for for many years. And I know Miss Vosquez knows that as a teacher Mr. knows that as well that the teachers have always don't want to jump through hoops or whatever but really it's not
021hoops. It's it's just additional requirements to add it pay to their salary. But uh now it's more in the in the base pay >> performance is it's a required component on the on the Prop 301 statute. >> What was removed used to be that the state would dictate how much money goes into the base >> and then how much money was in performance then how much money was for the rest of the of the initiatives. >> Um and the split went something like 2020. >> Yeah. So now they went ahead and removed that and that's why and when the district redirected was able to redirect how much money went towards the base pay. Um and but the performance component it is a requirement we must have has to do with performance >> and that's the
022one that gets split up in like you get one in December and one in March or something like that. Is that the one? >> Performance gets paid at the end of the year. >> At the end of the year. Okay. All right. Okay. All righty. Thank you. >> We're approaching the end of our bond proceeds and uh last year total expenditures was 843,604. Currently, we have a balance of 534,161. I know that Dr. Lenderbell is working on um on a scope of work to see if we need more um surveillance cameras and what is it that we need so we can deplete the money. >> They have to go as a reminder they have to go to the same fund categories that went into information pack. On the other hand, we have our 9% override
023uh which generated $2.3 million for the district and that increases our operating fund by that amount. And you can see that we are benefiting from fully funding their kinder uh teachers. We have uh funding dedicated for elementary and middle school band teachers. um the K8 media center technicians, one media center specialist, six art teachers, one dance teacher, 1.4 CTE teachers, one alternative pathways teachers, one network administrator, one community outreach and community communications coordinator, 27 longevity stipens, um only for teachers, and then support for athletics and obviously our new athletic center. skip one, I think. >> All right. Federal grants, um, federal grants, total revenue came in at $3.3 million. Federal expenditures 3.2. Within those figures, you'll find the CO 19 relief funds. And uh we received a total revenue of 97,815 because they were including
024in that was prior year reimbursement. There's always a time lag in reimbursements with grants. And then total expenditures and those were the final expenditures. At this point we do not have any dollars left for any of the ers co related funding. We are done. Um and the expenditures was 50,416. Um so I mentioned as I was going through the uh M and the capital fund that both funds increased in these benefits. >> Um one of the reasons that we see an increase in both of the of the funds, it's not only like we did a 5% increase in salaries and and absorbing the benefits and all the stuff that we're doing for the staff. Um but also we had transferred some of the positions from M into the co funds remember. >> Um so we
025we took advantage of those funds. So now that we are done with those funds now we bring them we brought them back to M. >> So they're reimbursed but they go back into M. So we essentially we do have this money though this 97,000. No, we >> we're expending it. So, we it was it was just um we were able to to um keep M funds and so then what we did >> we put out our M funds until they gave us back the ESSER this money from >> so this so while we were spending er dollars Mr. We identified some of the positions and we some positions we transfer that were were normally paid out of M. We went ahead and we transferred them to this one-time funding, but we kept those funds in
026our operating fund knowing that eventually we're going to transfer them. >> Yeah. So, so we can make that our M funds last longer and so it's more of a just a savings account. And another thing that you did was that you did not have to fire or you know the people that you that you were that you hired. Okay. They kind of you we kind of kept them on. Am I right? >> With the exception of some of the positions we did miss. Um we did introduce some temporary initiatives and or things that were not meant to be for the long term. Those positions that are key to the operation like for instance let's just take a counselor. We transfer a counselor from our M to our SR. >> Right. And we saved that M.
027>> Yes. >> We saved it. We made sure that we did not spend it at some other initiative. >> Why? Because we knew at some point we were going to bring that counselor back to >> Exactly. Okay. >> Just a question about that. When they did give us ESR funds, we we we used all of them. Right. >> In other words, so we found a clever way to do this and Correct. >> Yes. And and and I would say that um we were very strategic with it. So the positions that we did add were like, okay, we want to try this and we'd never had the funds to do it. And then if we found that it worked, then we were going to then find M fund to maintain it. >> Um or it was
028a nice to try, but oh, it didn't meet the needs that we wanted, so we pulled it back. Um the issue that many districts ran into is putting this and believing that it was going to continue and be an endless flow. >> They didn't use it. So they lost it. >> Yeah. >> They lost it or they overexpended >> and now they have to pull back and they had to cut you hundreds >> positions because because they added positions that were not there before. And so it was um again we wanted to make sure we were very conservative and strategic like we always are with our funds. Use them in the right way such as buying uh the the food truck. You know things that we knew were going to be something that we want
029for the long term. And the issue is that other again districts made some poor decisions and not to disparage them but they overexpended thinking this money was going to continue to be there. now have the funding and they have either they're going into debt or they're trying to pull back and have to release a lot of staff. And so we didn't want to do any of that. So we were very strategic with it. >> We wanted we really wanted to make sure that not all the funding went to towards positions. So we were able to accelerate the the rotation schedule of technology for a district. Um, so we we look at other areas, not just at FTEEs, not just of positions because we love that school districts, everybody wants that. >> Surprised it's such a
030late date, you know, after co I mean it's been year five years and we're getting this money back. >> So we're done, Mr. Dominus. Fiscal 25 was the last uh fiscal year that we had funds to spend and we did. We spend them all and um we we no longer have any funds left out of >> Can we tell them we still got some people are sick? >> People are still getting >> rather not have that kind of >> Yes, definitely. I'll get you. >> Yeah. >> On the other hand, state grants, um we had a beginning fund balance of 900,000, a little bit over 900,000. Revenues came in at 474,000 and expenditures were at $1.3 million. School facilities for our ongoing behavior part. Um so on the uh left hand side of the screen
031we have the expansion of Rico High School. The total award for that expansion out of the SFP came in at $10.8 million. Um last fiscal year we spent the final final um dollars out of that award $1.3 million that introduced 26 close to 27,000 square footage for Rio Rico High School. This gives us the capacity for 200 more students. >> Great. That's amazing. >> Um on the other hand, the building renewal grants uh we were able to capture $1.2 2 million and as a result we were able to renovate the boys locker rooms at Rio Rico High School as well as a replacement of an HBAC for Quatundi's NPR. Uh we're currently um working on replacing the main breaker for Rico High School. That project started last year and and and >> continuing with us
032this year. Um we're hoping that we'll be done here in the fall. And then I don't know what to tell you about Calabases. >> Cool. >> I've been fighting with this one for the last two going on three years. >> I'm not going to drop it. We will continue to work with them. We're supposed to get an award letter in October. >> We'll see. >> Just so the board is aware, it's been approved. >> It's been approved >> because it but we get keep getting it pushed to say it's not a priority. And so because there is only a finite amount of funds that the state gives for additional assistance or for school facilities board >> annually and so they prioritize and for whatever reason Calabasa starts up here and then gets to the bottom
033>> push down for the last three years even though again the project has been approved and and actually it's just three years that it's been approved and we were working on it probably five years prior to that >> before that. So, it's probably been an eight-year project that we've been working to try to get this done with the school facilities board >> that you're mentioning at ASBA. >> Yeah. >> I was talking about that. >> Yeah. And so, it's a unfortunate, but Miss Brown has done a great job of keeping it on the radar for them >> and it's still alive. It's still there. >> It's on their agenda. The last I heard is that we to expect an award letter for October. But I really don't want to get my hopes because >> how
034much was it worth? >> Um >> over $2 million million for a lot of those >> and the weatherization. >> Yeah. >> With Calabasas is that it's just not the weatherization that we do not address the problem that we have with drainage. >> Yep. >> It's just not a true solution for the school. And just so and also the for the the board's history um we've already spent a few million dollars trying to correct this issue from a previous bond and and we corrected some of it >> but it still the civil engineering that has happened there has been very poor from when it was built and so it still floods and there's um so now we're hoping that with this project that they'll correct that before they do the weatherization and so that the
035whole project is together. >> Yeah. Mr. Ver is are we having issues with insurance because of it? I know insurance companies are are being very difficult right now. Is that something that >> No. As a matter of fact, our insurance has covered um multiple claims. Mr. Guerrero, every time water gets into our buildings and we lose carpet and we have to go to mitigation, they have been great with and they know we have an application with them. I sit on the board with the insurance. So, I I keep them well aware of where we are. >> So, >> yeah. And again, it's it's been an ongoing I mean, when I was the principal there, we had to deal with it numerous times um losing our front office because of flooding and having to move it
036to different spaces. I mean, it's um at least I don't know, Mr. child. We have the the lower lake or Mr. Fanny used to call him the sixth grade lake. >> Seventh grade lake because it's >> the pond. Seventh grade. >> Whenever it rains, it it becomes a a lake, little river down there, >> little river. >> Yeah. >> But it's it's been something that we've been really pursuing because we want to get that especially the weatherization because um Kelbas is now over 20 years old >> and has not been painted or weatherized. their eyes or anything. Yeah. >> So, so it's well past due >> and some of the classrooms also had like mold and stuff and I you know I know because they one of my classroom had mold and they were had
037to fix it too and stuff and that was but I was still there. So yeah and I think it still continues to the water continues to seep in you know at certain you know some some of the rooms. So yes sorry Okay. Um the food service fund uh we operate 12 months because we do have a summer feeding program which is very popular and very successful because of the food truck that Mr. Vu. Um the beginning fund balance we always try to make sure that we have um an operation that is self-sufficient and that we have enough funds um in their account. The beginning fund balance is 1.1 $1.2 million. We brought in a total revenue of $2.4 million. Um the expenditures came in at 2.6, leaving us with a fund balance again of 1.2.
038We served over 180,000 breakfast, um over 454,000 lunches, and over $10,000. >> Any questions? >> Uh does anybody have a question? Miss >> none. Thank you. >> Mr. Guerrero, >> no questions. Thank you, >> Mr. Yes, I have a few. So, uh, when you were first starting this out, you were talking about your your presentation. You're talking about major funds review and you said that we had spent a million 911,5 beginning right there. I think it's there. It's been one more back. I think >> there we go. >> Those are revenues. >> Oh, okay. Those are revenues. All right. I got you. Because then later I saw the other ones. I got you. The expenditures. The ones that said 2.3 million. >> So, let's just compare for giggles. If we look at district additional assistance,
039we brought a revenue of $1 million. And let's look at the expenditures in capital, >> right? Which is 2.3. >> And you're like, how did that So we shelled out the extra then for that >> carryover. >> It's a carryover. >> That's what I was wondering. I was like, where did that come from? That's a hell of a discrepancy. >> Just a million dollars inchange. >> How was it that we were able to have a carryover of a million dollars? We mentioned how we were able to capitalize on having those. >> That's how we were able to have a reserve of a million dollars. >> Okay. Yeah. And and also we we always make sure when we talk about additional assistance that one of the important things that we always share with the board is
040that we do not move additional assistance into salaries. It's very important to because we want to maintain our facility as much as we can be able to purchase buses or whatever it may be u technology on that side. And again, not to compare us to other districts, but many districts move their additional assistance into salaries and then now you're compromising your buildings and your technology and books because then they can't buy new materials. Um, and we always make sure that our additional assistance stays in additional assistance unless it's like a one-time purchase or something that we will will be able to but we never put it into salaries. Um so and then the other part of it is we're very u strategic year by year. We meet with staff. We look at what our priorities
041are and then we say this is what we're going to spend and then we always have that reserve. And that's one of the things that we want to make sure we maintain because if there is something that does happen and we need to buy say three buses blow up >> and we need to buy three new buses, we want to be able to have those additional funds to to do something like that. Okay. Um, had some other questions. The cracks and that you brought this kind of reminded me of this with your question. The cracks that we had in the equipment room, whatever became of that and who took to when they were building it. Remember the cracks that we saw that we saw cracks on the floor mitigated? Yeah, they >> before we post
042>> Yeah. before we um that was part of the new construction >> and so that was um they they mitigated that before we approved the final >> by mitigating they fixed it. >> They fixed it. >> Okay. >> All right. Another thing um oh you recall when we went to meeting years ago and two back and that gentleman is challenging us with regard to maintenance and operation maintenance mainly of the pool. So what's our plan to maintain the pool in the future? >> So so it's still part of the override. Um so currently that that is part of the override and I think his question was what happens if the override doesn't pass. Um, so again, that's why we have contingency funds. And then we're also exploring opportunities. Um, for instance, this year, uh, the
043county paid uh, >> $30,000, uh, for summer help. So, so that's the we're continuing to work with that partnership uh, to look at other funding sources to maintain that, but a lot of it is coming through the the override. >> Where else are the contingency funds coming from? carry forward and they're very carry forward to main carry as well. >> Yeah. In our in our M. So So again, we've tried to to keep I don't know what what our percent it's not a percentage anymore. We >> uh we have let me tell you everything's within the same fund, Mr. Jesus. We do not keep anything outside of her of her funds. We have $7 million in contingency >> which is healthy. I mean that's and that's something that we want to >> especially now with
044the the AEAL has been lifted and that's what we usually also save >> for that which is the the expenditure limit um because we have to prepare for that but now it's been I think two years this year and next year it's approved so we feel comfortable with that 7 million being fully contingent. Yeah, I think it would be wise of us as a district to to somehow I know this is extra work. I realize it, but somehow or another put something together just as something you know concise just to let the public know what our plan is so that we don't have these people coming back and telling us later on told you so or see look they're not being transparent and all that other nonsense. Yeah, we we we have a presentation. Uh
045we started the schedule. So we are we have the two back citizens council which is where those questions head. Um we're we're scheduled for the November meeting >> to present and we'll we'll bring up we always have a tax rates um what our funds are and and and be able to explain. >> You'll let us know in that meeting. >> I'll let you know. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And one last thing funny you mentioned buses. Whatever happened to the buses that we had, they ran like half a million miles. It wasn't even a joke. >> I'm sure we still have some of those because they're still running. Um, but we are little by little working on the rotation schedule to rein. And believe it or not, Mr. Dom, sometimes the recommendation from our transportation directors
046is to keep some of those buses with half a million miles. And you're having more trouble with some of the buses that have less miles. >> the newer ones. Um, but we that's why we have that rotation schedule and we follow. >> Yeah. The only reason I mention is once we were I was going with John on a on a trip, a basketball trip and we were just pulling out, you know, maybe miles from here and the bus broke down and we're all sitting there packed, you know. And then another time we're coming back from the chess tournament and the bus just conked out and we were in between those in the construction where they have the cement stuff. So we couldn't even get off the highway. I just don't like to see that kind
047of stuff happen with buses that have half a million miles. So what do we do to how long do we go before we say, "Hey, time to buy a new one." >> We rotate those out. And again, just depends on what the mechanics and the transportation director recommend. I mean, we we trust their expertise with that. And so, they know what buses are on the cycle to be transitioned out. And and again, we have that uh plan to make sure we put new buses in and old buses as much as we can. >> Okay. Thank you. >> No more questions, Mr. Okay. I just want to say thank you for the presentation. I always, you know, enjoy it because I know that it's very I like that you guys um, you know, look at the
048biggest bigger picture and you kind of, you know, foresee things that might happen. Okay. And we are prepared for those, you know, for those event uneventful things that, you know, that always come up. Thank God that there hasn't been anything that bad for us, but thank you so much for all your work. We really appreciate it. >> Yeah. And just just before again, thank her for all of her work, but also this information is used by the auditor general to create a report that we generally share with the board that uh compares us to other districts like districts of what our expenditures whether they're high, low. Um and for instance, we're always low in administration, which is we're something we're we're proud of means that we're doing what we do um with a lot of
049efficiency. So, and we'll share that once they that report comes out. But this is the information that they used to create that report. >> Okay. >> I'd like to echo Miss Vosquez what she said. I echo her >> her compliments because I do hear from a lot of different people different places about how solid we are and how I remember when I first got on the board and asked about the rainy day. No, Miss R. We don't do that anymore. >> It just seems like we do it automatically. We seem to be very welcome. I like that we always are concerned about making sure that we don't lose people because of some mistakes. So >> did a really good job. Thank you. >> Their vision I really, you know, admire the vision and all that.
050So yeah, thank you for very well job. Very well done. I have >> and it is an action item. >> All righty. So is there a motion >> motion? Motion to approve the fiscal year 2025 annual financial report as presented. >> So move. >> Okay. Um Second. Yeah, you did. You second it. Okay. Where am I? >> Uh, no. I'm just Yeah. Okay. Um, is there any more? Uh, is there any further discussion? No. All righty. All those in favor say I. >> I. Uh. All those opposed say nay. Uh, eyes have it. Motion passes. Moving on. Uh, these are the B Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District policies. Uh, Mr. Verdugo. No policy updates. Um unless there's questions for the board if there's any policies that they would like to ask in the future.
051>> Okay. Miss Dear, you have a policy. Anything you want to discuss? Mr. Guerrero, >> no. Mr. Ramirez, >> I have none either. So, um do we have to make a No. Okay. Nothing. Okay. We move on then. Uh subject C, propose and prioritize topics and possible dates and times for further uh for future board meetings. Mr. River Doo >> I think just some highlights there. The again uh this Friday, Hall of Fame on Saturday. >> Oh yeah, Hall of Fame on Saturday. >> Uh the mayor, Mr. Fanning. >> Yes. >> The highlight of the the induction. >> Um and then our next board meeting on October 7th. I just wanted to to note um it says the trust law conference. Again, that is not a board item. That is an administrator item. that is
052uh where principal, assistant principles and district administration will be um training. Um so it's it's not a a board u conference. >> Um and then just a also a reminder that our school emergency response review will be at an executive session on October 28th. >> Okay. So we will have an executive session. >> Any any other future topics that are not listed the board would like >> any future topics, Miss? None. Mr. Guerrero. Uh Mr. Ramirez. Ma'am, >> Mr. Ramita, I just want to ask you, will you be attending the homecoming? >> Yes, I plan on it. >> Yes. Okay. Because that's what Miss uh Angie was asking us. Okay. So, Okay. Thank you. I don't have anything either. So, um we move on. >> Yep. >> Subject approval of the consent agenda. It says
053any member any matter on the consent agenda will be removed from the consent agenda and discussed as regular agenda item or items upon the request of any board member. Does anyone want to remove anything removed? Mr. Larviva. >> No. Mr. Aggeredo. >> No. Mr. Ramirez. >> Yes. Number seven. >> Number seven. Okay. Hold on. Anything else? Oh. All righty. Okay. Is there a uh motion? >> Motion to approve the consent agenda with a removal of number seven. >> Second. Okay. Um all those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed? Nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Number seven. Mr. >> Yeah, it's kind of on me. I'm sorry. I should have really read it more thoroughly, but I just wanted somebody to shed some light on this $75 fee for a half credit of
054Saturday's school. >> Yeah, Mr. Lopez. >> Yeah. >> So, the we're going through all of our fees to make sure that the fees are there. As you guys know, um, Madam President and members of the board, you guys approve those. Um, we didn't see it on the on the list. A few years back there was a a review of the fees that we had >> and it was given the guidance that was given by the by OCR >> civil rights was to not charge during the school hours. However, Saturday school is something that is offered outside of the regular school hours. So at that point there is a fee that helps us sustain you know covering for the the cost associated with it especially or particularly the supervision with the teacher who serves as the
055teacher of our Saturday school. when we have a Saturday school coordinator who promotes the program. Um because we don't just offer credit recovery, it also offers some opportunity for initial credit. Some of our students who take um for for example a dual enrollment with our band students too um jazz and some of the advanced level for for band they may not be able to take maybe a course that they would need for eligibility to be admitted at aiversities. So this gives them an opportunity to during Saturday school come in and take maybe that fine arts course to be able but we be because of the funding you know that's a fee that we wanted to have in there before we started um charging that fee to our families and our students >> and how long
056uh how many weeks do they have to participate you know let's say to get the half a credit >> we have so it depends on the student in the some classes depends on the content right some courses if they're are credit long versus half a credit that dictates how long the course is because it dictates how many units and how many lessons Okay. Uhhuh. >> But typically it it takes students about four to six weeks per half credit. >> Per half credit. Right. >> Students are able weeks per credit. >> Yes. And but we there's not it's not time bound because if they're moving at their pace and students are dedicating time outside of the Saturday school sessions which are four hours on Saturdays, some students may be able to move at a faster pace.
057>> Yeah. I got you. I got you. So it's kind of like the more they the more they do the the faster they they get it. Right. And the goal is to offer as many opportunities for students that >> absolutely district. We're always offering the expansion of dual enrollment as well as you know students who really want to be doing four years of a foreign language or four years of you know that's important. So sometimes they might not be able to take that other course they need for. So that's a way that we can offer that. >> Okay. >> It's not sustainable to offer for free all the time. So we do have to have that fee. >> How many hours is it on the weekend on Saturday? >> Four hours. >> Four. Okay. in
058the morning. >> It's in the morning 8 to 12 >> and actually they can learn more. I mean if they're taking multiple classes >> absolutely for some students this is if they have a zero hour they already have eight this might be their eighth class. You know students who are really going above and beyond and really want to >> how long does it take them to earn their half credit semester? >> Four to six weeks for per per half a credit >> for half a credit. So they got you know 8 to 12 weeks to get one full credit. I think it's pretty good that they have it also for people who want to get ahead. >> I had for both >> wants to check out earlier. >> We keep hearing good things. I mean,
059I keep hearing good things about dual enrollment. >> The dual enrollment is doing really, really good. >> We really need to keep tooting our horn on that one. >> Oh, yeah. >> We will. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Thank you, sir. >> So, um, does anybody have a motion? We have to do that, right? The motion. Is there a motion >> to pass number seven? >> Number seven, >> consent agenda. >> Uh second. >> Okay. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. And we are adjourned.