001My sister's going to ask she goes ever. That's a good one. Oh my god. I've heard that's very we calling this meeting to order. Today is Tuesday, June 24th, 2025. And uh we're going to go uh directly to our uh public hearing. Can we just do a roll call, please? Juan Castillo, president. Present. Lorena Degalio, clerk present. Christina Clark, member present. Loren Laores, member present. Louisa Areola, member present. We have a call. Thank you, Mary. So, we're going to uh go ahead to 1.4. for adoption of FY25-26 budget. This is just a public hearing. If you have any um comments from the public, but you guys will adopt it in the next section. Okay. And pretty much uh nothing changed as two weeks ago when it was presented. Right. Correct. It has to adopt whatever
002was proposed. Otherwise, we have to go and repropose. Oh, okay. So, are there any uh comments from the audience for this public hearing regarding our adoption of FY25-26? No comments. Thank you, Rosider. We're going to move on to 1.5 truth and taxation. This is our um tax levy for our adjacent ways funding. So, that's just um the amount that we have and that's have a copy of that. The levy is going to be 94,4926 which is going to be $7.38 for homeowners um at $100,000 for Is that per month or is that per year? That's the whole entire year. Okay. So, if your house is assessed at 300,000 then it's three times the $7.38. Okay. Thank you. Any comments from board members? No comments. Any comments from the audience? No comments. Moving on to 1.6
003adjournment. A following adjournment of a public hearing. So motion was made by Miss Dadio. Second. Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Okay. We're out of the public hearing at 5:32. Calling this meeting to order. It is a Tuesday, June 24th, 20 uh 24, I'm sorry, 25. Can we stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance 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. We're going to do another quick roll call. Mary Juan Castillo, President Present. Lorena Degado, clerk present. Christina Clark, member present. Laores, member present. Louisa Areola, member present. We have a call. Thank you, Mary. So, right now, uh, we have no reports from
004our superintendent. Uh so we're going to move on to a 4.1 uh board members report and board attendance. Miss Areola, um no report. No report. Thank you, Miss Torres. Um I just wanted to say thank you. I'm glad um that all the faces that were going to make me cry are not here today. Um but no, a lot of faces still um that are going to Yeah, I'm I said it last time. I'm not I'm not great at goodbyes. Um, but I'm really excited about what's to come for the district and um, just the leadership and everybody who's here. Um, I'm I'm just I'm hopeful that you guys are going to have somebody great that's going to fill this role and um, that's going to be a great addition to the team and um, and
005I'm just grateful and I'll I'm only a phone call away and I'll still be at Compascino so I'll still get to come and visit and so I hope um, those doors are open for me to come say hi. Um but just grateful um for the experience overall and there's a lot of work to do everywhere that we go. So I'm excited to get to work um where I go and just you know thankful for the opportunity for me. Thank you Miss Torres Miss Clark. Um no nothing to report but la I wish you all the best. We've already spoken and we will continue to speak. Um, but thank you for your service here on our board and we wish you well on your on your new venture. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Clark. Maddio, I
006too um would like to congratulate you for taking that step. You know, I I gosh, every time I I leave on vacation, I'm like, "Oh man, we're leaving." But when you come back to Summerton and you see that water tower, it's just like it sucks you in and you you know, and and I guess in by my age, if I never left when I was younger, I guess I'll be here forever now. And so, so I applaud you for taking that leap of faith and you're going to do wonderful no matter where you go. And please know that we're on YouTube and you can log on and and text us and say, "Hey, ask this question." And you know, we will. But thank you for your service and and we're always wanting to to do
007good in our community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all that you do. Thank you. And uh you know, Morris, I mean, I'm going to echo what everyone said. You know, we're you're extremely you're going to be missed. Uh we thank you for your service uh here. Um you know, we all know we do it for the big bucks, you know, but uh but really, thank you and and uh the I I appreciate everything you you've done and contributed to our district. So, thank you. Thank you. So, um, moving on to, uh, consent agenda. Does anyone wish to pull something from consent agenda? Have a question or comment? You know what? I do have um, I do have a comment just on 5.6. Um, I want to acknowledge, you know, staff that moving our
008full-time instructional assistance to part-time, you know, I I know that it was a difficult decision. Um, I s I sincerely want to thank our staff for their hard work and thoughtful consideration throughout this process. Um, while I know that it wasn't easy, uh, you know, we must continue to make those, uh, decisions that serve the best interest of our students, you know, uh, and our community. So, I mean, I know it wasn't easy, uh, uh, but I mean, I this is where funding really does become an issue, you know. So, I really want to thank you all for your hard work and and you know, being able to make that tough decision and that recommendation because I I I know it wasn't easy. So, so thank you for that. Just wanted you guys to know
009that we we know as a board. Miss Delio, I also wanted to say the same thing. um you know sometimes it is kind of difficult to make these decisions and and especially the person that has to live with that decision and and I know that um it's going to be a struggle pro possibly for them but I appreciate those that did remain with us since their work here is valuable and we appreciate them and they're they're needed. Um, I did notice that some of the instructional strategists were um I don't know if they were moved to interventionist because it h because the situation is the same thing with the part-time and the full-time. Um, I should have emailed you guys and and asked that um separately, but I wanted to put it on the record
010um that I I will be addressing that with both of you. I'll send you an email regarding that. So if you guys can give me an explanation as to why is it, you know, something that that those individuals decided to do or was it something that we needed to do? And so um I just wanted to put it on the record that I was going to ask that question. Okay. Any other question or comments? If not, I need a motion. So move. Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second. Second by Miss Torres. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to action items. Uh 6.1, approval of of adopted FY25-26 budget as proposed. Yep. So, nothing has changed. Um the budget has stayed the same. So, we're adopting exactly
011what we proposed two weeks ago. Any questions or comments? Nope. Need a motion? So, move. Motion was made by Miss Delgado. Second. Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to a 6.2. Approval of the proposed tax increase. This is the proposed tax increase for the adjacent ways fund project. So you would just be approving the um $7.38 per 100,000 household per year. Per year. Great. Any questions or comments? Need a motion. Make a motion to approve the proposed tax increase as stated. Okay. Motion was made by uh Miss Torres. Second. Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to uh 7.1. Um any recommendations from the board for future agenda items? Um, I do have
012I do have a couple of uh of uh recommendations for our board. Um, the first one is um I want to propose that we consider establishing a policy requiring board members to have their cameras on when attending virtual meetings. Uh, this practice is widely recognized as a best practice for virtual governance. Um, you know, as it helps ensure active engagement. It fosters uh transparent communication and supports more productive discussions amongst us. You know, with so many important decisions that we take that we make here as a board, you know, um I think it's essential, you know, for our community and staff to to uh to to see us. Um so that that's one, Mr. Don. Um, and I also want to propose a policy that prohibits uh board members from sharing any student photos on
013their personal social media uh platform. I know for a fact that we as a that we uh cannot share any photos as a district without a signed waiver uh by the student's parent or guardian. Um you know this I mean this is a best practice. Um this policy would reinforce our commitment to student privacy. Um again, this is totally different than sharing a post from one of our school. So if one of our schools shares a post uh or our district shares a post and we want to share with you know that's to me that's that's allowable. But for us to post something within our per our social media, you know, without knowing if we have a parent waiver or consent, um, you know, I think it's important that we that we uh, you know,
014that that we have something in place for that. And lastly, Mr. Don, I know in the past we we we discussed about revising our field trip policy. I know we briefly discussed about you wanting to make some changes. I do think that this is a time uh to revisit that so that we can kind of tackle them um uh once we come back. Noted. I don't know if you can hear me, but yes, acknowledged. Got it. I will be emailing you some policies myself. Okay. Is there something that you want to I'll email him then. Okay. We'll go from there. Okay. Make sure to include me on that email. Definitely. Thank you, Mr. Now, uh, moving on to, uh, 7.2, the welcome back reopening event on July 28th. Yes. Um, can you guys hear me?
015I just want to make sure that you guys can. Yes. Okay. So, uh, in the thick of planning summer and obviously July 28th is going to come pretty soon. We are organizing uh the you know the uh annual event to welcoming back all of our teachers and staff members on July 28th at TDS. Uh we are keeping the structure pretty much um the same with a couple of little surprises there. Nothing too bad. Uh Miss Torres of course you're absolutely welcome to join us. um you know I have to extend the invitation and more details obviously to come but um as I've been mentioning in the past uh there's some you know uh trainings and um events like this that I would love the board members to be part of so I I want to
016put it on record right that that welcome back is is it's planned it's scheduled and we're soon to uh develop more details about it awesome missio Isn't the 28th the same day as a ribbon cutting at SVS? Yes, ma'am. It's uh we have it at different times. So, the welcome back, it'll be early in the morning. Uh and then the ribbon cutting would be I believe at 3:30, 4:30 in the afternoon. Okay, thank you, Mr. Don. Yes. And if you guys want to look at your calendars and hopefully um you guys can make the welcome back, I'll I'll be there. And uh moving on to a 7.3, you know, uh a farewell to uh board member Miss Laara Torres. Can I can I interject? I haven't been able to express my gratitude to Miss Torres.
017Uh this is the day, right, when I miss being in person, when I want to say, you know, beautiful words to a beautiful person that's been very supportive not only to the school district, but our community in overall. So a lot of the times uh the work that the board members do pretty go I don't want to say go unnoticed but it's a lot of background a lot of behind the scenes and so I just want to reiterate the work that all of you guys do uh is is seen it's valued and is really well thought out and uh Miss Torres you've been part of major changes this past year uh not only p this past year you've been with with Summerton School District for over two years and so it's it's really important to
018acknowledge the work that you were part of and and the changes that um you positively created over these years. It's it has to be acknowledged. You're going to be greatly missed. Uh but overall, we're we're excited for your next steps. We're excited for, you know, what's to come for you and and I know knowing your background and um you know, in community and and education, you're going to be doing great things where you go. So, not only do we want to wish you the best of luck, uh we are hugely grateful for everything that you do. Um we also got you some flowers. I'm gonna do this. I don't know if that's gonna you and Miss Kim is gonna say some words as well. Hi, Miss Torres. I just wanted to say I remember you
019as a parent when your twins were at Orange Grove and I was the principal and you're an amazing person and I was proud of your journey and what you've contributed to our school district and um what you're doing in the community uh with compassinos and everything and how you're really supporting all students not only in our district but the whole community with the programs that you have. So, I've enjoyed watching you grow as a leader and someone in the community from way back then. So, um you know, you're going to do amazing things continued. So, thank you. Thank you. And enjoy the journey. Yes. Visit just to visit us. And and Miss Torres, I mean, I I didn't want to say everything in my board report, but I saved it for this for this spot
020right here, you know. Uh seriously, I mean, what what what can we say? You know, uh on behalf of our district, we extend our heartfelt thanks, you know, for your dedicated service on our school board. You know, um it was a true pleasure serving alongside you. Um your commitment to our students and community has made a meaningful difference. Um you will be deeply deep deeply deeply missed, you know. Um the doors are always going to be open for you here. Um so feel free to come back uh whenever you want, you know. Um and uh you know we we wish you the very best. We wish you the very best. And we there was this plaque. I'll open it up for any board members right now if you guys want to. Can we have all
021of us here with Morris? Can we come out of the picture? Yeah, we can have them on the Let's put the screen up. That way they can show up to you gave me that idea. It was Miss Lena. Yeah, she Miss gave us that idea. Make sure they So amazing beautiful. And with that um need a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Motion was made by Miss Deladio. Second. Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? I think we have a new record. 19 minutes. Meeting adjourned. Okay. Mm.