001Yeah. Calling this meeting to order. Today is uh Tuesday, February 10th. It is uh 5:30 p.m. Could we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? >> Can you lead us? >> I pledge >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. >> Castillo, president. >> Present. >> Lorena delo, clerk, >> present. >> Christina Clark, member, >> present. >> Clare annaya, member, >> present. >> Louisa Areola, member, >> present. >> We have a quorum. >> Thank you, Mary. Moving on to uh 2.1. Do we have any comments from the audience? Yes, we do. >> Two. >> Okay. Um, under comments from the audience, the public may address the board on any subject not listed
002on the agenda. An individual may only address the board once under this item. Five minutes may be allotted to each speaker, but can be extended by a board member if so desired. The board cannot act on non-aggenda items and cannot respond to issues other than to provide general information or giving direction to the superintendent to add to a future agenda or or for the superintendent to follow up with speaker. The individual shall state his or her name and address before addressing the board. Good afternoon. My name is Alejandra Dwarte. I live here in Summerton at 22 East 12. Um, good evening members of the board and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you all today. We would like to introduce the exceptional student services or ESS booster club. A parent >> Yes. >>
003the a parent led organization created to support students with diverse learning needs, their teachers and their families while working collaboratively collaboratively with school and district leadership. The mission of the ESS booster club is to raise funds and provide support that directly benefits, exceptional student services through approved materials, adaptive resources, and inclusive initiatives and participation in schools and district events that promote a positive and welcoming school culture. One of our primary goals is support academic achievement by helping provide additional classroom supplies and instructional resources that enhance access to learning and support teachers in meeting individual student needs. At this time, we seek the strengthen to strengthen community climate by promoting inclusion, collaboration, and family engagement through community involvement and parent education. We aim to build a school environment where students, staff, and families feel valued, supported,
004and connected. By the ESS booster club is also committed to supporting educators and service providers by helping reduce resource gaps and reinforcing the strong partnership between families and the staff. When educators feel supported, job satisfaction and retention is also increased. We are committed to operating with transparency, accountability, and respect for district policies, and we value the board's guidance as we move forward. Our goal is to complete the district's work and help ensure equitable opportunities for all students. Thank you for your time and continued commitment with our schools. >> Thank you. Um again booster booster club. Exceptional student services. particip. Booster forch. Thank you. Thank you very much for for taking the time and and and doing this. Thank you so much. Moving on to a 3.1 report from Mr. Duron. >> Hello everyone. Welcome to
005It's nice to be here. Um lots of great things in our district. I I actually wanted to talk about uh this very special group of parents who are here and just present it to to you guys this year. Um through my cafesitos with the superintendent. Uh these amazing ladies have been part of every meeting uh really uh pushing and advocating for their children which is exactly what we want their parents to be the best advocates that they can be for for their kids. Um, and so through these meetings, we've had many conversations. Uh, and we've involved Miss GarcA since it's really regarding ESS, but it's also kind of expanded into other areas. Uh, one of the things that we're going to be starting next month is the parent adult workshops. We started promoting them today
006and that is due to the conversations that we've had. You know, they one time came up to me and said, you know, Mr. on there are certain skills that I would love to learn from specialized people within your district as a parent so that I can continue to support my my student or my kid at home. And so I started to think and that's what I tell them like my commitment is to listen and to try to figure out how to make it better for our entire community and district. And so I started thinking like where can we do this? How do we do this? And so we have 21st century a component of 21st century funds is to fund uh adult classes. And so I wanted to move away from GED style classes that
007sometimes the attendance is very low to more of like interestbased workshops. And so been working really closely with Maida Fonka. She's our 21st century coordinator for the district. And I and I kind of planted that idea based on the conversation that I had with these wonderful ladies. And so we sent out a survey last month and it came back with top five different topics that currently we're working to create workshops around that. So in March we'll be um delivering those. And so we're really excited because even though um 21st century funds are school-based, just the one school, we are able to figure out a way to make sure that whatever workshop we offer is for parents across the district. So I again it's my commitment. And I'm so happy that you guys are here is
008that we are here to work together and I'm I'm listening and I'm so happy that you guys are involved. And I love the fact that we're learning together and that we are acknowledging that sometimes there are certain things that their policies, their laws that we can't do anything about it, but I'm listening and we're trying to figure out how to make it better, not only for ESS, but our entire district. So, I want to thank you for for being here, for advocating for for everyone. All right. So, thank you so much. Um, on another note, um, just briefly because I don't want to take a lot of your time, um, SVS is about to finish their stage. We're in the final stage of your stage, huh, Mr. Yes. >> We're so excited. So, we have
009a, uh, ribbon cutting ceremony on February 25th. It's on a Wednesday. We will send you the formal invitation um, so that you have it in your calendar. But we are hoping that all of you guys can make it and really celebrate uh this beautiful donation done by Red Construction. Uh our final phase has been sending um the sound and lighting uh plan to the team. Hopefully they'll approve it and that way we can really complete the entire um project. But we are very um happy. We're very grateful and um and we're ready to start dancing and singing on top of it. So know that. All right. Um and I I you know there's many great things. Uh testing season is starting started actually. Um Azella has started in some of our schools. Um I just
010want to you know wish all of our kids um you know an amazing time. Uh I don't want to say luck because they've been working really hard. I think that now is their time to showcase what they've been working all this year. But I do want to acknowledge the work that goes behind it. everyone who supports not only from the district level which is Alysia Garcia. She's going to be sharing with us in a bit but you know the really the um the communication and just organization that happens behind it. It's it's uh huge. So thank you to the principles obviously to the instructional strategists who coordinate the testing and of course our our amazing teachers that are the ones really providing this. So thank you so much. Um I don't know if you guys
011have any questions. We don't have Do we have a time for the the ribbon cutting? >> It said five. Yes, five. And we'll send you the agenda and we'll send you um the formal invitation. I just want to make sure that I put it out there. Okay. Thank you. Moving on. Any other qu any questions or comments? No. Moving on to 3.2. Miss >> Good evening everyone. Um I just have a couple of updates on safety and what we're doing with our reunification and the programs there. We just conducted our staff um training and I want to thank all of our departments that all of the staff comes together. This is definitely a district initiative um to reunify students to their parents in a safe manner. And so we had a staff training on um
012last Friday on the 6th and went through the whole motion, had everyone practice the different roles so that they could see and got a lot of good feedback and debrief uh with the whole team. City of Summerton law enforcement was there, Mike Vila from the Cocaapo was there in safety. Um, and we just had a good team and so a lot of good debriefing information, what we could do better, little tweaks, little things, um, clarifying questions, but it went well and we're planning on our first goal to, uh, do the reunification on February 27th, and that'll be with Bravy Totto Elementary. And, um, we are also rolling out, so that's one layer. And then we're also rolling out the rave system. So, it's an app that we have on our phones and that's with the
013whole county and um we we are linked up. We've done the Mr. Dwarte has done all the geocynchronous whatever geo mapping to all of our schools and locations so that it works with the staff that are at that school. So, when they leave the school, it's they can't like butt dial it or anything like that. It's it's something um really neat. And so, we're going through the first phase. We've trained our administrators and then now we have to go out and train each collection of staff members. So, it'll take us this semester to get everybody on board. And then another layer to that is making sure their phone numbers are all updated in the system correctly. So you'll see different emails going out from the tech department asking staff to if they're going to get
014a text and if it they're not getting it to make sure that they get with their site secretary and get that those things uploaded so that we have good communication across the board. Um and I think that's about it. We're just a lot of details, a lot of behind the scenes, a lot of working with the community and different agencies to get things going and ensure we have good solid um plan and communication. Do you have any questions? questions or comments? >> I have a a question. There's nothing related to what you just said, Kim, and I'm sorry, but I'm just keeping in mind for the teacher of the year banquet. I know it's not until April, but if you can give us more information on what is in the day number, >> I know
015it's in April, but I don't know. >> It's April 30th. Thank you for bringing that up. April 30th. I know that whoever sent out uh the initial email from Rotary, they put the 20th on there. So, that was a an error. And so, we corrected that. They did send out a correction to everyone, but it is April 30th and um the tickets are $25 and it's going to be for educators and anyone outside of education because of the raise of things. We're asking for $30. So, they'll be able to um purchase those. We don't have the link live yet. Um we're going to get that going. It will be at the civic center this year and again and then we'll continue that. It starts at 5, dinner will kick off at 6 and the program
016will continue. Um, since this year we had our legacy gala and thank you for those of you who are able to come. It was really nice and we were able to induct our Hall of Fame nominees and inductees that evening. So, they had their own special evening and just like we have our own inductee here, Miss Vel was in the special uh category award. So, we really appreciate that and we're so honored to have one of our own inducted. So, that that was for them that evening and um and then we'll we'll have our keynote speaker that's the one that comes from the farthest away that evening for teacher of the year. >> Thank you so much. >> Yes. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Thank you, Miss E. >> Moving on to a
0174.1 board member report and board attendance. Mola. >> Uh, good afternoon. Um, I want to just say that I've been supervising the the stage at SPS and I've been it's huge. It's huge and it's beautiful. So just to see that generous donation from Miss Anzel is working with our community partners so we can get those especially for the booster club now that if you can give me more information afterwards and I can see what kind of donations that we can provide for you as well because that's what it's all about getting those um community partners to be part of you know our district. So that was a nice thing to see. And when you see the little kids come up and they're like, "Wow." Or they hear the drill. It's like everybody goes in in
018awe. So it's a really nice um project to see from the beginning to the end. Actually, I've been taking footage of it. So eventually I'm going to do the last one. But that's a a nice project because it's close to my heart. Even though I'm out of teaching, but just being there and advocating for our schools, it's been a blessing. So thank you. Thank you, Miss Aella. Miss Annaya. >> Um, good evening everybody. I think the only thing I have to report is that I was in attendance at the legacy dinner. I actually was there. I'm not going to lie and say that I was there for the school board because I had to be there for my work with AWC. But when I read the invitation, I saw who the inductees were. I'm like,
019absolutely 10,000% I want to go because Maria was going to be there. So, it was cool to see her there. I still have her in my cell phone. I still bother her um from when I used to work here. >> Um so that's it. I'm just I it was exciting to see and I know that a lot of you in here I know that legacy dinner it's for um a little bit different than teacher of the year but >> it was cool. I hope to see somebody else from Summerton next year recognized. >> Thank you Miss Hay Miss Park. >> Um hello everyone. Um I also wanted to thank you guys for you know making it happen for me to attend the legacy gala as well. such a awesome experience um my first time there.
020So, thank you so much. And Maria, your bright green dress was beautiful and everybody was like, "Who's who's that in the green dress?" It was amazing. So, >> um I'm so I was so proud to see you up there on stage. Thank you. Um and really nothing much. Um, the thriving achievers guys. Um, I've been going to quite a few of them and I love to see, you know, the kids with their principles and their parents and they're just so proud to be there. Um, you know, you get a little teary. I've seen some of these reactions because, you know, who wouldn't want to be there with their principal and their nominating teacher? I mean, so whenever you get a chance, if you can attend at least one of them, that would be awesome. I'm
021still going to keep going. I mean, I love it. Thank you so much. The breakfast is good. Thank you. That's all I have. >> Thank you, Miss M. >> I do want to congratulate Maria's recognition and an award and so welld deserved so many years of dedication to our district and you know without you I don't know what transportation would be but you know thank you so much for everything you do. you know, sometimes, you know, we I know our pay and and that's just a long story, but you know that we value you. You are a wonderful person to have inside and out. And so, thank you so much. I sorry I couldn't be there um at the gala but I know my boss was also um >> there and you know I was
022supposed to go with the team for my work but I guess we only had certain amount and so I was out of luck. So uh thank you so much for everything you do Maria. Thank you. That's all I have. >> Thank you Miss Leo and well congratulations Maria. You know I also want to congratulate the wrestling team. I believe they they won, right? >> Yes, they placed >> third third place. >> Yeah, third place in the state. >> I mean, congratulations on that. I mean, >> it's a great accomplishment. >> It's awesome. Um, I also want to, you know, commend our our board. Um, just looking at the board attendance and everything. I mean, it's I appreciate everyone taking the time and and coming here. So, it's it's great to see this uh you know,
023the our attendance. Other than that, I mean, that's that's really all I have. Um, we're going to go ahead and move on to 5.1. Grant writer, Patricia Peterson. >> President, I add to it is that there's a lot of grant writers in the district for grants title one title two title three let's see from also helped me out with me how he gets you know funding for all of those um improvements that he has to make there wasn't I missed anybody all the teachers that write for those donors. There's there are a lot of writers. So, I'm part of a great >> Thank you so much for for that. Um, you know, we we always need someone and of course, you know, with your team to go out and search for those monies because, you
024know, obviously the state with all the cuts and and ongoing and and you know, we thank you for what you do. Um, but I do see neighboring districts that get all these millions of dollars and so I'm hoping to see our name in the paper as well receiving these millions of dollars. And it's no pressure, but it is a pressure. you know, you know, I I want to I want you to stand there soon >> and and for us to thank you and tell you, you know, for all these millions of dollars that we will be receiving >> and so um I'm going to manifest it and and good job and and good luck with that. >> I'll consider that a positive >> for sure. >> And like I tell you, I I thank Mr.
025and say frequently about the opportunity to dedicate myself to researching and writing. I've done grants management and I respect everybody who's managing a grant and uh so I do appreciate the opportunity to have that dedicated time to do that. I try to do it monthly where I run through um and see what's available. I have written for some small ones. I will tell you that the ones I receive and um but I really the notes that I gave you about what we're trying to look for that it goes with the initiative and support. >> Thank you, Miss Peterson. >> Moving on to a 5.2, test coordinator, Alicia Garcia. So, I just presentation. I wanted to give you a little bit of information like what is coming up and I do have a team and I
026wanted to give you all of the year starting with currently reassessment and moving on ending on the 24th. So, our schools are very busy. Our principal here a little bit of our numbers. We currently have 21% of our students are you can see how the schools are separated students and our eighth graders. We will be getting our results. We will have the assessment on the 15th grade. You get to see how our password >> any qu >> I have a question a couple. So the AELA um I see that the toll I was looking at your numbers earlier today and this year compared to last year did you see an increase in Aella testers? >> No we were about 40% >> at 40% less or 40% more. >> No our number was 40. So this
027year we had 41% of our students. Last year we were at >> So you increased the percent about 13 last January about 13. >> And have you exited a a large number of students from the Aella? >> I believe 10%. I know >> and I'm very familiar with Galileo and um I I remember when um a few years ago that Galileo was not really ma not necessarily matching but wasn't correlating with the state test. Um, are they now I mean the teachers that are focused and and everybody that's working with Galileo feel comfortable that we're using Galileo to its fullest to meet what the standards are being measured during the state test? Are they >> there is a strong correlation and we've seen this throughout the years. Um there is a process that we're going
028through right now because we probably won't have yellow trying to see what's out there but at the same time the needs of the district. So definitely there'll be some changes. there was a strong correlation across the grades with the exception of two grades and I think it was like fifth and seventh that was really missing a tighter correlation but for the most part there was but unfortunately well fortunately um Gala is going out of business so we have to look for another for another assessment platform >> that's currently in the >> have you looked at the neighboring um districts will be using >> yes and we have actually several meetings lined up with these systems to start um comparing what they're offering and what decision we would be making to move forward. >> Thank you
029so much. >> Any other questions? >> I have a comment. Um when I was teaching one of the the things that the trainings that the state offers and this is something when I went there, of course, I don't like testing, but I decided to take like a it's called an items review. So, you actually get to see all the test questions, go through the process, especially if we live in rural areas. You're able to advocate for the non uh the first year uh non-English speakers. So, that was a it's a they pay for your travel, they pay for your um stay and you get to analyze the questions on the test >> for like the state level, >> the state levels test. So, you have different components that the state offers. So that's an something
030to look forward to and I agree with Miss Delgado with the Galileo when I was teaching those questions were not aligned to the to the AASA. It was so stressful especially because our money depended on it. So yes, I'm glad that it's going out of business. Sorry. It was so stressful. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Thank you, Alisia. >> Thank you. Moving on to a 5.3. Director of federal programs Rodriguez V. and the ladies will name. I'm one of the migraine advocates and teachers for the program and Um, we also submitted a report. I don't know if you have questions for us, but um, this is good afternoon everybody. I'm one of the advocates as mentioned to you talking about the different areas that we work and you can see there are three
031main components. The the parent advisory council advisory council impact and also parents. >> I have a comment. >> Yes. Um, you know, after look looking at the instructional services that you provide, I mean, I really want to commend you for offering, you know, the Aella test prep focus for for the kids right before the the the Aella testing. You know, I see that you guys also did the uh the ASA prep focus, too. So, I mean, I think any any supplemental and uh opportunities that we give our our our students is is phenomenal. So, thank you for for including that uh you know with within your your your grant and everything because I mean I know that that makes a difference. So, I really wanted to kind of just highlight that. >> Thank you. >>
032Any other questions or comments? >> I have a question. So, on the family um what services do you provide the families? >> Uh we offer uh a lot of service a lot of uh services to the families. Um our main goal is we're with the students but we extend the services to to the parents. Um as part of uh the workshops that we offer is we divide in services in uh math ELA and also we are working with uh study skills. that this semester we are going to introduce um a report where we going to present all the data from each of the student is going to be one uh file or one report per student but what we're going to do in this uh parent uh student workshops we are going to help to
033the parents to understand what means each of the scores each of the test because one of the questions uh the parents have the way that our meetings work and I'm going to just explain that to give you an idea. Uh when we have our uh impact meetings, parents are the ones who decide what are going to be the presentation of the topics and they say you know um we always receive recognition for our kids but sometimes we don't understand what that means. So uh we shared that uh with Lydia and with the rest of the team and Lydia said well let's start working in a report where we can show to the parents every single score the story uh the instructional academic story of their kids and explain to the parents what that means. So
034we wants to present in a in a friendly way so parents when they receive the next report of aella they can see wow my kids improving or well we need to work more with my kid or and you know and uh the standardized test that we do every year with the with the state the parents can say oh yes my kid is improving or we need to uh help him more in math or in uh reading or writing. information that is friendly to the parents. So, but also um we are three advocates. So, what we did is uh for example, Sandra can tell you a little bit more. She worked a lot in reading and writing and gave a lot of simple fun ideas to parents about how they can support their kids with their
035homework with assignments and also the same thing as well in math that Miss Martinez uh present that with parents and I do the part about learning skills the study skill organization of the time things that are also very important for parents to know and the kids work with their parents and activities and is fun see working uh together in that evening. We do four uh workshops during the school year and we go to different sites and it's in the evenings. >> Thank you. Yeah. I I would like to make a comment on on you know what you're doing with the parents. I think it's really wonderful that you do that and that's to be for them to be able to see a a good bird's eyee what the student needs to know and what the
036expectation is. You know, I want to make a comment. I um I have a friend that um her her daughter was a kindergartener student um last year and she was just freaking out because you know she didn't understand that the state requires kindergarteners to know all of this you know so many words and numbers and I mean >> to her it was like oh you know learning how to play maybe the ABC song and a few colors. And I'm like, uh, no, you learned that at birth, you know. Um, the state requires, you know, schools to make sure that in kinder they must know this. In first they must know this. It's not something that the school district just invented and said, "Oh, well, they have to know their numbers from 1 to 100 in
037kinder." Um, actually, it is requirement by the state, you know, it's just an example. But um it was very amaz she was amazed at that because she thought totally different and um as as just a recommendation I don't know if you do that now but maybe if we could kind of include that in your parents uh classes just so the parents know what their child in fifth grade is required to learn and what they're going to be tested on. So maybe the parents are able to find that additional help and help you help the teachers and and so forth. >> Well, actually I I want to commend the ladies because that's precisely the reason that's what the Azella prep is. We found that there's um sometimes our students don't get enough practice in the format
038of the test such as what you're saying. So in kinder there's a lot of scaffolds, right? and um you're the teachers keep queuing them to sit down to do this and when it comes to the Azela it they're expected to be very independent. So we wanted to provide that opportunity for them to have more of the format of the test to help them be successful. We currently have 430 out of our migrant students which is about 50% of our students that are e and that's why we decided that it was critical that we focus one of our Saturday schools on that. So, um there, uh workshops, that's precisely what they'll be doing. They'll have um a student profile that says this is what your kid is doing in the state assessments in ELA and math.
039This is if they're eelss, this is where they're doing. And they will get the opportunity to have conversation with parents about how their kids are doing, how can they support them at home, um what does that mean when they when these testing windows come up. So, we are really excited. They are amazing team and if you get a chance to go to one of our workshops you'll see just how uh tremendous they are at work and I know Sandra had an additional comment. Uh yes, I just wanted to add it. Thank you for that comment. In addition to the skills that we teach parents and how to support their their child home and not only academically well yes academically but not on paper and pencil, you know, we talk to them, you know, when you
040go to the grocery store, when you doing this, when you going when you doing your family budget, talk to them. Uh in addition to that, we also provide them with academic standards per grade level and we were able to translate them so they're in Spanish and English and then we explain what that means. Also for school readiness, we have a program for school readiness. So we bring the little ones uh three-year-old to 5-year-old not enrolled in school and we work with the child and the parent three times out of the week and uh that's to prepare them for kinder. So uh Mr. Thank you. They provide even uh breakfast for them and they learning even how to open the milk. Little things like that that make a big difference when they start uh kinder, you
041know, how to line up and all those things. And parents are trying to open the, you know, the milk carton and they giving the know the cell phone to the kids. Oh, because they can't eat without watching TV or a video. No, give me the phone. Uh so, yeah, we're trying to cover all of that before they start school or during school. provide more more skills and parents welcome that everything that we provide to them, resources, uh materials, ideas, very very grateful. >> Thank you so much for doing that for our community. >> Thank you. Any any other questions or comments? >> Those milk cartons can be a little tricky on those little >> Thank you, ladies. >> And we had just a short video for you guys. If you want to land on Mars
042dream and roll superstar finance like a Fancy dream. It's time to sing loud jump. We're going to sing loud jump. >> Very nice. Pretty cool. >> Thank you. >> Great. >> Moving on to a consent agenda. Does anyone have a question, comment, or wish to remove something from consent agenda? >> Need a motion. >> Motion was made by Miss Gadio. >> Second by uh Miss Areola. >> All those in favor say I. >> I'd like to abstain from 6.2. >> Okay. Miss Clark abstains. Uh motion carries. Uh 40. Moving on to um 7.1. Approval of ASBA 2026 calendar of recom recommended and required actions for the governing board's administrator administrations review and use. So every year we receive the ASBA's calendar of recommended and required actions. It is broken down and spelled out by month
043uh so we to make sure we don't miss any. Uh so the recommendation is for you to approve the ASB 2026 calendar of recommended and required actions as presented. and you'll find the actual calendar on executive content. >> Any questions or comments? >> Need a motion? >> So move. >> Motion was made by Miss Clark. >> Second by uh Miss Annayia. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to a 7.2. Approval of school parent support organization FY26. Well, this is the recommendation to approve the school parent support organization which is our ESS booster club as presented. >> Does anybody have a question or comment? >> Need a motion? >> A motion to approve school parent support organization FY26. >> Motion was made by Miss Areola. >> Second by
044Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Congratulations. >> Yes. Moving on to uh 7.3, accept the audit for FY24-25. >> Good evening. Um these are the annual audit documents that you all approve every year. There's three attachments. Um if you have any questions on them, they get sent up to school finance and AD and also the superintendent's office. So >> any questions or comments? and everything came out. >> Everything comes out good. We always get um awards for our excellence. But I did want to point out um I know that these documents can be a little overwhelming. If you really want to get an overall picture of how we're doing, you can refer to the um USFR compliance questionnaire. And that document outlines for you the areas that
045we were compliant and where we weren't and if we weren't, why we weren't. So, it's kind of like a summary. >> Questions or comments? >> And all the deficiencies were taken care of. >> Yes. >> And they were minimal. >> Very minimal. We went over the whole report and I asked a fix. We're doing it. So, we're good. Need a motion. >> So move. >> Motion was made by Miss Clark. >> Second by Miss Annayia. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Anyone opposed. Motion carries. Moving on to a 7.4 discussion and possible action regarding our work re regarding a board work study. So, so we're proposing a board uh work study to have finance. Miss Laura Rosario present the budget for next school year. Uh we are selecting March 23rd at 5:30
046um for your approval. >> What time? >> 5:30. Does 5:30 work for everyone on that day? >> We'll have dinner. >> Yeah, that works for me. >> That works for me. >> Perfect. Works for everyone. >> We'll schedule it for March 23rd at 5:30, >> right? >> Yes. We don't need to take an action on this, right? >> I believe so. >> We need to take an action on this. >> Yes. >> Need a motion. >> Motion was made by uh Misso. >> Second by uh Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to 7.5. Discussion and possible action to approve the school calendar for the school year FY26-27. So last week we submitted a survey to the district. Uh we took the feedback from administration prior
047to submitting the this survey. We presented two options to our to the district and uh plan A was the one that had the most votes. Some of the changes um in the um new calendar that we're proposing is uh starting new teachers on July 9th versus July 10th. Um and then one of the PD days um that we have scheduled for the summer, we moved one of them to January so that they have the one day of PD prior to having the students come back. And then the other change was making March 26, which is Friday, uh a non-school day, which is prior to um the spring break. >> Yes. And we had a 279 staff members that voted, right? That's correct. >> Out of uh how many >> is it? >> 400 450. >>
048About 400. So at least more than half, right? >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Um I don't the end date on on the calendar. Is it May 21st? >> Yes. >> Okay. and and uh the gray that's 19 20 21st that means they're going to be released. It's like a half day, right? >> Yeah, it's minimum. It's half days. >> Mad, you have a comment? >> Yes, I have a comment. I did send an email out to admin and and um just wanting to know more and more and more and more we're were leaning, you know, to a sooner date. Not that I don't want school to start, but um just July 9th for new teachers was just amazing. You know, I was just really shocked. And you know, next year is going to be all
049year round. We're never going to end school. To me, that's what it seems like, you know. And um what what was the reasoning of bringing back the entire staff in July? >> So the new teachers start on the 9th and I understand that. So yeah, so um for preparation of the next school year, right? So when we compare our calendar to neighboring districts, we do have several weeks, full weeks of either holidays, fall festivals that expand our our year a little more uh versus having uh us start in August that pushes us to start mid July. And I know that it's really nice to have those full weeks in fall break and I know that we have obviously in spring break and I think I believe that we also have um additional days in the
050Christmas break if we compare it to our neighboring districts. >> Yeah. And the way the way it's you know it is right right now. Yeah. It's an it's a earlier start date but like Mr. their own state. They have a fall break in October, a full weekend for Thanksgiving, >> three weeks in Christmas, um, um, spring break. It's a full week. So, I I think that those days are more spread out within this calendar. Um, so I mean, I I love this calendar. I mean, I mean, I look at this and I'm like, "Oh, this is per I mean, it's perfect." But um >> and also the the 26 which is the additional no school day. Um it's one it's a student day. So we went from 180 to 179. Again looking at the other
051districts we are in the same range of school days for our students. So we were 180. We were okay coming to a 179. Uh >> so no student day but it means staff has to come. >> No it's it's uh it's no for staff and also no for our students. >> Okay. >> For the 26. Right. for the 26 versus the PD date that we moved to January. That's students are not there but staff would be there for PD. >> I I you know what I I'll make a comment on this on on this calendar. I think it gives us I think it gives our staff that self-care balance >> um throughout the year. Um I I I'm a fan of it. I mean I I love it. I mean this is one thing I
052envy from this district, the calendar. Well, then that's the recommendation for you guys' approval. >> Uh, any other questions or comments? Need a motion. >> So, move. >> So, motion was made by Miss Annaya, second by, uh, Miss Delado. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to a 7.6 discussion and possible action to approve gym membership reimbursement for wellness programs. So last month we brought this to you as uh an opportunity for us to promote health. And so as you know we started our gym membership reimbursement uh this past month. However, because it it's a fringe benefit, we do need a board approval. So we're bringing it to you. Any questions or comments? No. And I just have one that maybe it's here in the notes. The reimbursement,
053would the district pay for it or would it be the insurance? >> No, it's district. >> The district. >> Okay. >> So, I have a question. So, if the district is covering that cost, where is it coming from? Like, what's getting cut if we're doing this? >> There's there's no cuts. >> There's nothing at all. >> No, anywhere. >> That's that's a really good that's a really good question. And sometimes that's I have to sit down with my staff and explain it because yes, we have, you know, um some of our IAS are reducing some of their hours and you know there's funding uh that's you know lower in certain schools or whatnot. Um but it's they're different pots of money and so unfortunately some of the funds for let's say um our instructional assistance
054that's where our funding is lowering and in the case of the money that we're using to cover this expense is from >> M >> and um one of the things that we saw and we've seen is that the carryover has been more than the 4% uh recommendation and so when Laura and the team spoke about this as a possibility. We did the calculations and it was a very much doable uh plan >> and and I think it also I think uh encourages um you know staff to you know to to go to the gym and hopefully that kind of >> equals to savings in our health coverage. >> Well, that's that's the plan, right? we wouldn't we weren't able to tie it to our insurance yet, but we're working to ensure that that is hopefully
055in the future with some of the plans that we're coming up with that that's something that's covered through insurance. >> So question it just sparked me that you said that the the pot of money that's what's called diming it's like for IA >> like t because they come from our title title monies and so that really is depending on the um the number of students that you have per school. So it it really varies from school to school. >> Okay. So I remember when I was teaching I know it was a long time ago but man that second that the I came in it was just like I can >> Thank you. Yeah. >> Maybe go to the bathroom. >> Yeah. So I'm just >> of course >> curious about Okay. >> Will there be
056um requirements as far as like how many times you go a week and things like that? Don't see it in the >> Yeah. So we we set the plan in motion last last uh month and so ideally would be that they have to attend I said I said it wrong the other day is at least three times a week and so um by the end of the week or by the end of the month because um HR created a a particular schedule to be reimbursed. So it could be at the end of the month you go to the gym and say can I get my attendance report and so they submit it to our district and that's how it starts for the reimbursement process. They have to check to ensure that they did at least
057their three days. It's good stuff. Need a motion if there's no more questions or comments. >> So move. >> Motion was made by Miss Clark. >> Second by Miss Annaya. All those in favor say I. I >> I anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to uh 7.7 approval to offer a notice of appointment to Leticia Uri as custodian/ground Groundskeeper returning from Education Service Inc. ESI on February 4th, 2026. >> Uh so um Leticia is returning from ESI and so the recommendation is to approve the contract for Leticia Udoart Uri as stated. Questions or comments? Need a motion. >> Motion to approve contract for Lisio Verte as stated. >> Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second, >> second by Miss Elgario. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to
058a 7.8. Approval to offer a notice of appointment to Jorge Kano as director of food services returning from Education Service Inc. ESI on March 4th, 2026. >> Mr. Mr. Ko is also coming back from ESI and so the uh recommendation is to approve a contract for Horge Kano, director of food service as stated. >> Questions or comments? Need a motion? >> Motion was made by Miss Gadio. >> Second by Miss Areola. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to a 7.9. approval to offer a notice of appointment to Jose Valdez as lead custodian returning from Education Service Inc. ESI on May 11th, 2026. Uh same, right? So we have Jose Valdles coming back from ESI. And so the the uh recommendation is to approve a contract for
059Jose Valdez, lead custodian as stated. >> Questions or comments? >> Need a motion. >> Motion was made by Miss Anaya. >> Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to 8.1. Any recommendations from the board for future agenda items? >> No. But I do have just a quick announcement. I want to congratulate Miss Mason from Orange Grove School who became nationally certified. That's a huge accomplishment for every teacher who tries to go that route. It's huge. And I just wanted to congratulate her. Thank you for that. >> Thank you, Missola. Moving on to 8.2 ESS Special Olympics. Miss >> Masons, I'm sorry. Oh, yes. Um, we have Miss Gap. >> Um, inviting us. >> I just want to invite you, everybody, including the audience, parents
060will be joining us, our teachers and students. It is their summer school district special Olympics. It is on March 13th from 9 to 1. Middle School and Mary has a formal invitation to hand to you. Okay. Thank hope to see you there. >> Thank you. >> Need a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion was made by Miss Gadio. >> Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. It is at 6:26. We're ajourned.