Banning USD Regular Board Meeting, March 11, 2026

001Welcome to the March 11th, 2026 regular board meeting of the Banning Unified School District Board of Trustees. The time is 5:30. Please be advised that a recording or broadcast of this meeting is being made at the direction of the board. Clerk Troutman, please take role. >> Trusty Angiano, >> present. >> Trusty Martinez Lara, >> present. Trusty Nollis >> present. >> President Ruiz >> present. And I, Clerk Troutman, and present. Please let the record reflect we have a quorum. >> Item 1.2, pledge of allegiance. We now invite our cadet core to present the colors. Forward arch. Please place your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. >> 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

002for all. left right left All right. Item 1.3, adopt agenda. Are there any changes to the agenda? >> No changes tonight. >> Are there any board requests to change the agenda? Do I have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda as posted? I'll move. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from Trusty Nollis and a second from Clerk Troutman. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. >> The agenda is adopted with a 5-0 vote. Item 1.4 schools to watch recognition. I would like to invite Dr. Kosy Bush to the podium to introduce this evening's special recognition. testing. Let's try that again. Good evening, President Ruiz, Clerk Troutman, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Davis, Executive Cabinet, and the Banning community. It is my pleasure to share

003with you this evening um an outstanding and very exciting honor for our middle school, Nichollet Middle School. um just oh a week ago last week on March 5th was named a school to watch officially by the California League of Middle Schools and I will share a little bit about that. Um but we can give them a round of applause. This is a very prestigious award that is only given to a certain number of schools. Um there are 22 states that participate um in this um as part of the national program. Um and Nichollet is now one of those distinguished schools. Um they have gone through a rigorous process which I will invite um Dr. Thomas up in just a moment. But essentially their application looks at four areas. Their academics which is critical. It also

004looks at the social emotional readiness of students. It looks at to what extent do students have access to highquality teachers with highquality instruction and intervention. And then last but certainly not least, the team looks at the impact of the instructional leadership which would be the principal and their ability to create an environment that is conducive to learning and one that bolsters student achievement. And so at this time I would like to invite our principal Dr. Thomas to briefly share with you a little bit about that process. Good evening everyone and thank you Dr. Cosy Bush. Uh so I'm very pleased that Nichollet Middle School was able to accomplish this distinguished honor uh among all of the California schools that applied. I'm so pleased that our leadership team was able to come together and write this

005application. I just want everyone to know that I was not part of writing the application. Our school's leadership team, we took a vote in the earlier part of this year and said team, are we ready to do this? We did this with PBIS for gold, PBIS for platinum and this was almost like a wasque for a middle school. So this was a huge undertaking for the entire Nichollet leadership team. So I thank all of them for their leadership and for the willingness to write this application which spoke to those four areas that Dr. Cosy Bush just described. So the leadership team did this was like review for our middle school and we were very happy that the visiting team who came from schools all across um this area under the direction of Dr. Dr. Kedora,

006they were able to come in and see our school in action and verify that everything that our site leadership had written about our school was in fact true. And I'm so thankful that we had our learning walks where you could also see this in action. Those of you that were there, thank you so much, board member Nalis. Um, so thank you everyone for your support of Nicolet and I'm excited for us to keep that designation where we will like was have to reapply for that in three years time. for the 2026 National Item 1.5, student presentations. I would like to invite Dr. Cosy Bush back up to the podium to introduce this evening's student presentations. All right. And since we're talking about Nichollet, let's going ahead and get started with our student representative from Nichollet

007Middle School, Eritzi Morales. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, Board President Ree, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Davis, and members of the banning community. My name is Uditi Morales and I'm proud to serve as Nichollet Middle School's ASB president. The past month has been full of exciting events and school spirit. We started with our first spirit mismatch day on February 13th with people having different socks and different shoes on. Our second spirit day was rock your spirit with kids dressing like their favorite artists. On February 6th was our Valentine's dance. The dirty soda truck was there along with ASB selling our heart-shaped pancakes and we also gave out wooden flower grams. It was a very successful event filled with love. In athletics, boys and girls basketball has ended with the boys making it to

008their championships. Girls flag football had their first game this past Tuesday. Boys volleyball also had their first game on Tuesday. And lastly, girls and boys soccer triyouts are starting next week. Looking ahead, we're excited to celebrate food day 3, pajama day, and bring your stuffed animal day. We'd love for you to join us at any of our events. Thank you for your continued support of ASB and our school community. Representing Kum's alternative this evening we have Jose Carbajal. Good evening board president Ruiz, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Davis and members of the banning community. I am Joseé Carbajal from Kums Alternative Education. I am honored to share our Kums district message and some of our recent highlights. Congratulations are in order for the March student of the month for New Horizons, Angel Valenuela. Graduating

009seniors complete a career readiness portfolio. And in his Angel wrote, "Always stay positive, push through challenges, and never give up easily. Success favors the p the persistent. His grades and contribution to kums truly remind us that we are banning. Kum staff and students joined in the fun at Leia Palooa literacy event. Happy to be a part of this extraordinary community event. Their face painting and snow cone booth was a fan favorite. Mark your calendars. M Kum's openhouse barbecue is Wednesday, March 25th from 4:30 to 6:30 p or 6 pm. Don't miss your chance to see firsthand the exciting things happening at Kums and to enjoy good food. Friday Night Live will stop by. Several hands-on activities will include painting, 3D paint, printed planners. Rumor has it that our talented face painters will be there, too.

010On March 26, Kums will head on over to Banning High School for a special advanced performance of the Broadway Broncos spring musical production, Lion King. Advent the adventures of the young lion Simba have captivated the im imagination of audiences around the world. And now, for the first time ever, Kum's students have the opportunity to see this one-of-a-kind musical live. Students might just be dancing in their aisles in the aisles to the classic songs Akuma Akuna Matata and I just can't wait to be king. After the show, students will have lunch with the cast and crew. Special thanks to the theater director Mr. Joshua Prrisk and technical director Miss Tamara Griffy for opening their doors to make this special event possible. Our English, math, and science classes continue to prepare for the upcoming SBAC. In addition,

011the third quarter final exams are next week. Good luck, Stallions. Thank you for allowing me to share our Kum's alternative report with you. And this evening representing Banning High School will be Mariah Gator. Thank you. >> Good evening, board president Ruiz, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Davis, and the members of the banning community. My name is Mariah Gator, and I'm speaking tonight on behalf of Liliana Andere, who is unable to attend due to a scheduling conflict and her commitment to the Banning High School softball team. I would like to take a moment and share some good news. I am proud to say I Mariah Gator have been accepted to Temple University in Philadelphia on a full ride scholarship. I am I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity and I want to thank Banning Unified

012and the amazing staff who have supported me and guided me through the my journey. I cannot take all the credit for getting this far because many teachers, counselors, and mentors have played a role in helping me reach this milestone. Spring sports are now in full swing at Benning High School. Our softball and baseball teams are working hard and continue to represent our school with dedication and pride. Boys golf and boys tennis are also in season and have been showing great effort and sportsmanship in their matches. In addition, our our boys volleyball team has been competing strongly and demonstrating great teamwork on the court. We are proud of all our athletes and all in the way they represent Benning High School both on and off the field. Speaking of sports, March is National Athletic Training Month.

013We would like to take a moment to thank Miss K, our athletic trainer and her sports medicine team for all their hard work and dedication. Lastly, we would like to thank well we would like to say thank you to the school district as well as Mr. Paws for helping with transportation for senior grad night. Your support and willingness will make this event possible truly means a lot to the senior class. Events like grad night create creates lasting memories for students as they celebrate the end of their high school journey and appreciate the effort that goes into making these opportunities available for us. Thank you again and thank you again for your time and continued support of Benny High School students. Thank you. That concludes our student presentations for the evening. On a very very high

014note, thank you. Congratulations. That is amazing. Item 1.6, Six. Student board member comments. Mary Adfeto. Good evening, board president Ruiz, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Davis, and of course, members of the banning community. My name is Mary Adberto and I am a proud member of the associate student body, the senior class, and so much more here at Banyan High School. I am truly grateful for the opportunity to stand here before you and to represent not only my senior class, but the student body as a whole. Before I begin, I first want to give a shout out to the Broadway Broncos. Their production of the musical Lion King Jr. is this month from March 27th to March 29th. You are all welcome to attend and we hope to see you there. And I am definitely

015biased by this because I am in the production. So I would really like all of you to come. Today I want to talk about the legacy leaders formerly known as junior honor escorts. These students are the top 20 juniors who escort seniors during their graduation. The role is meant to recognize academic dedication while also symbolizing a connection between graduating seniors and the next class of student leaders. Last year during my junior year, I had the honor of being selected as a legacy leader. When I first heard about it in March, I was truly excited. It felt like recognition for my hard work, my commitment, and my continuous work for my education. Being chosen as one of the top students in my class was something that I was proud of and I was truly grateful for

016the opportunity to take part in such a m meaningful tradition. However, as we got closer to senior graduation, the timing became more complicated for many of us. In May, when legacy leaders were expected to participate in graduation preparations, many of us had to take our final exams earlier than the rest of the student body. Taking finals ahead of schedule while also finishing the academic year was extremely stressful and demanding for many of my top 20 peers. Although we understood that being selected as a legacy leader was truly an honor, several of my peers showed that the experience felt more stressful than celebratory. Many of the top 2020 20 students that had already been working extremely hard throughout the year. During this time, it became difficult to fully appreciate the recognition when we were focused on

017completing final early and also finishing the school year strongly. Students from the class above me who had served as legacy leaders the year before also shared that they felt burnt out during the experience due to the timing and the academic workload. Hearing that students in previous years had all also felt stressed suggested that this may be an ongoing pattern that small changes could help ensure students feel recognized and supported in this new role. As a result of this, I would like to propose a few small ways we can make the legacy leader experience feel more celebratory and meaningful for the future students. First, providing certificates or formal recognition when students are selected as legacy leaders could go an extremely long way. Even a small token such as a certificate that students could include in their

018college applications would help them acknowledge the achievement and make students feel seen for their hard work. Furthermore, we can also consider some small celebratory gestures for the legacy leaders during graduation preparation. For example, something simple like a special recognition lunch, a small gathering, or even a moment of recognition could help them feel the honor that they are truly given. These small adjustments could make a meaningful difference. Legacy leaders represent students who have demonstrated dedication and academic excellence. Creating moments of recognition throughout the process would help ensure that the tradition feels as rewarding as it is intended to be. Thank you so much. Item 1.7, opportunity for community comments on close session items. Did we receive any community comments? >> Nothing for close session items. No. Okay. Um, at this time the board will now go

019into close session. The time is 5:52. We are back from close session. The time is 7:49. Clerk Troutman, please take role. Trusty Angiano >> present. >> Trusty Martinez Lara >> present. >> Trusty Nollis >> present. >> President Ruiz >> present. >> And I, Clerk Troutman and present. Please let the record reflect we have a quorum. >> Item 3.1 report from close session. Clerk Troutman please share. >> Item 2.1 in close session. The board received information and was updated. Item 2.2 in close session. The board received information and was updated. >> Thank you. Item 3.2, opportunity for community comments. Have we received any more community comments? >> No more, just the two. >> What? Individuals who wish to address the board on matters which affect the district and its programs are requested to complete a request

020to address board of trustees card and submit it to the administrative assistant. Speakers are asked to limit comments to 3 minutes. While the board welcomes input from the community, they will not respond or take action during public comments. The board may decide to refer matters to the district staff or take under advicemen for a future meeting. All speakers are reminded to be respectful and courteous. Thank you. At this time, I'd like to call Ray Curtis to the podium. A pleasant long good evening. March is a busy time. Anyway, uh, President Ree, board members, and Superintendent Davis, I'm very impressed with Nichollet, a school to watch, and I'm very impressed with the students that come and share the positives that are happening in the district. The activities that the schools participate in are are very important

021for the total academic involvement and success of a district. I'm here tonight to talk about soccer. In the paper a couple of weeks ago, I saw first championship of the Banning High School soccer team and I had an opportunity to talk to a couple of the players and the first championship is kind of like their first kiss. They're never going to forget it. and talking to your athletic director Mason, uh, they had a tough battle at the CIF playoffs, but soccer along with the other athletics are important to a district. There's I've always thought it's a three. The academics are important. And by the way, I would be remiss if I have not stated that the improvement is noted at the county office by uh banning unified school district by the teamwork that's taking place

022in the advancement of the instruction achievements for their for this kids and it's board superintendent staff teachers that make this happen. So the soccer a little history of that back in the 70s when I was a teacher here and we had a team doctor on the football field with us and I was the athletic director at the time and Dr. Ngi from Hungary that is notorious for soccer. So back in the 70s after talking to Dr. Nai, he volunteered to come to our PE class and gave the coaches, the PE teachers instruction. So back in the 70s, Banning was first exposed to soccer. So that gave me a little bit more of excitement when I saw the headlines. So I'm here to congratulate uh the principal, Art. Please share that with your coaches and district

023Superintendent and board, please continue your preparing, inspiring, and educating our students for success. You're doing a great job. And as noted at the county, thank you and have a pleasant good evening. Thank you. And now I would like to call Jose Sanchez, Sarah McDermott, and Jasmine Flanigan. Good evening, board president Ree, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Davis, and members of the Banning community. My name is So Sanchez. I am a student at Banning High School. First, I would like to thank you all for the efforts to making our school safe. But for now, I would like to talk about the bathrooms, which unfortunately are not being used as restrooms by many of the students as there has been gross misuse of the restrooms. Many of the the students are smoking and doing drugs in

024the restrooms. This is this is of course something that is impacting the students, not even mentioning the secondhand smoking, but making the bathrooms an unsafe space to be used as is designated, which is a restroom. Now we have two students from Banning High School who would like to share their experience. >> Hello, my name is Sarah McDermott and I'm here to talk on the cleanliness of the Banding High School restrooms. It is overall a disgusting experience in the school restrooms because not only is it a safety hazard, especially with the toilets leaking and there being water all over the floor in the restrooms, it's just uncomfortable to be in there with, for example, the toilet paper all over the floor. It is just extremely unhygienic and I understand that there could be staffing problems and

025perhaps this isn't something that is prioritized, but I find that it needs to be. Um, my name is Jasmine Flanigan and I'm here to talk about this lack of supervision in the BHS bathrooms. I think that this year is by far the worst um year as far as supervision, at least for my time being here. Not only are girls occupying stalls unnecessarily, but they're very careless and persistent. It's getting to be absurd. There's seemingly no supervision or even attempt at it, which is confusing because I know that they uh installed new devices that are supposed to detect smoking in the bathroom, but I I they're not doing anything clearly. It's not very effective. I think part of the problem is there's hardly um ever a female security guard monitoring the bathroom. And not only is

026it unsafe for students, but it causes students who actually need to use the bathroom to be late. And sometimes we aren't even able to use the bathroom at all, which isn't fair. I hope you are all seen how serious the problems we have brought to your attention are for the use of illegal substance, a lack of cleanliness, and the lack of supervision. We would recommend having an online system that monitors when students leave the classroom along when students return. This would allow admins to see patterns in the time taken in the restroom. To also to have a female security officer to be checking the restrooms for the girls as well as recommending to security guards to be checking the bathrooms regularly to avoid having clusters of students and they're doing other activities. We appreciate your

027efforts and thank you for listening us today. Have a great afternoon. >> Thank you. >> Can I ask a clarifying question? >> Just clarifying. Is it all restrooms or specific restrooms? >> There's only one restroom. >> For the whole high school, only one restroom. >> Yeah. >> Can we get a followup, Mr. D? >> I agree. Item 3.3, BTA comments. I would like to welcome BTA President Anthony Garcia. Oh, okay. Um, item 3.4, CSEA comments. I would like to welcome CSEA Vice President Beverly Kenyon. Hello everyone. Good evening. I'm going to be spot uh speaking on behalf of Jennifer Serrano. Um our union had a revote and Jennifer is now the president and she has written a statement for me to read to you. So here it goes. Um she's um okay. Good evening uh

028board president Ruiz trustees superintendent Davis, cabinet and community members. I am Jennifer Serrano, newly reelected president for CSEA banning chapter 147. I am sorry I couldn't be here on this important day. I am attending the CSEA annual pareducator conference. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Mario Kadina Rico for his service for the past two months as president of this great chapter. He jumped in with his feet to conduct all the business of this chapter and did a fine job. Thank you, Mario. As I jump back into the role, I look forward to continuing chapter 147 relationship with the district as we begin negotiations and our collective bargaining agreement for the 26 27 years and beyond. Thank you. So that's from Jennifer. from me. I am so excited that we are back to

029being our team that we have worked so hard to get the relationship as with Mr. Davis, with all of the cabinet and with our board. So, I'm I'm just very happy that we are back and um thank you for your patience and your prayers. Those that prayed that our prayers were answered for me anyway. But thank you anyway. Okay. Oh, and what Mr. uh Curtis was talking about in the 70s. That's when I was in high school. I remember >> item four, superintendent comments. >> Okay. Good evening. I don't know where the energy is right now, but I'm not feeling it. So, we need to bring that back. So, Jose, is it There we go. All right. Jose, is it all right? Possu Sarah and Jasmine. So, thank you for coming to the board meeting

030tonight. There's probably a thousand other things you could be doing that you probably want to be doing, but you took your time to come and share your thoughts. And what I want to tell you is we hear you and we'll work with the site because we have to do a better job than that. Okay? But I will tell you, it takes courage and it takes bravery to get up and say that in front of people. So, thank you. And you did that very professionally. You did that with grace. So outstanding job. Next, I want to just talk about our student Mariah who was here that said some comments from ASB. A full ride scholarship to Temple University. Full ride scholarship. I don't know what the percentage of students that receive full ride scholarships or percentage

031that receive anything, but that is awesome from our community into the world. We have more students that do that uh than ever. And I just I'm I'm so proud of of what happens with our students. But I do want to congratulate I do want to congratulate our Nicollet Middle School staff, our students, their leadership teams, administration. Uh we were there last Monday, I believe, for a learning walk. And a learning walk is when you go through classrooms and you just look at practices and then you come back and talk about the things that are going well. How can we improve? And I will say being in this district for 6 years, and I know that's been echoed by several people. Where Nichollet was 3 years ago or so to where it is now, it's so

032much improvement. So much improvement. And that takes a lot of work. It takes a lot of dedication. So, thank you for your hard work in doing that. But I want to focus tonight on the lit a Palooa. And lit is literature. Okay? So, it was a literature family night last Wednesday. Mhm. And and I just have to tell you that the way this event started was it started with the principal and the librarian saying, "Hey, there's one author that we want to have for the Hoffer community to come out." that turned into almost a thousand people at Hoffer on a Wednesday night. And we had a meeting yesterday with our extended cabinet team, the directors and so forth. And I asked who was involved in in what was going on. Let's just say there were

03313 people in that room. There's probably two or three people that raised their hand. And someone said, "Well, let me tell you how that happened." That was Angel me. That was Kelly Andre, our district librarian. And that was Margarita RmIrez, the principal at Hoffer, and the AP Candace Traml. The amount of work that they did to have a thousand people in that school on the same day that they had reading for all of students and another 50 people or so in classrooms is amazing. You have to transform your school in amount of that time. Imagine you transforming your home in that amount of time and having a thousand people come through. I'm just so proud of what happened that night because what happened that night is we opened the doors to one of our schools

034and our community showed up. Our staff showed up. I am often here talking about when we have a crisis, when there's a fire, when there's a train derailment, when students walk out of class, and how administrative staff show up, how our teachers show up. I'm always talking about crisis. Last Wednesday wasn't a crisis. That was something that planned and got blown up and we had community partners there and our staff and our teachers and our family showed up. And I have to tell you, when I walk down the stairs at Hoffer, if you go to Hoffer, the outside looks much better than it used to. So does the inside in some spaces. Still a lot of work to be done. But you walk down these stairs. And as I walked down those stairs, I was

035blown away at what I saw. I saw our district show up. I saw our staff show up, our parents, and our students. And it was a feeling that I will never forget because we are banning. So I'm just proud of the work that we're doing to try to get better. Does that mean, and I'm going to say it again and I'm going to keep saying it, nothing is perfect. Perfect doesn't exist. But when you bring issues before us, we have to address them. We have to find out what's going on. That doesn't mean it's going to be a fixed tomorrow, but that means that we have to be dedicated to the work. And I know one thing, the staff here in Banning are dedicated to doing the work. So I'm just really proud for everyone

036involved in that event to bring our community to life. And that event is a precursor to August 1st. If you're listening out there and you're part of the banding community and you have school uh students that attend here, August 1st will be a Saturday and that is a district community welcome back. and we're already talking about how we can do a better job than we did the other night. So, I just want to thank everyone that was involved. Thank you for coming out. Thank you. Item five, consent calendar. >> The recommendation is to approve consent calendar agenda items 5.2 and 5.3 as provided. All matters listed under the consent calendar agenda are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to the time the

037board votes on the motion unless members of the board of trustees or staff request that specific items be removed for separate discussion and action. Do we have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar agenda as provided? >> I move. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from clerk Troutman and a second from Trusty Nales. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 5-0. Item 6.1, Banning High School presentation. I would like to invite Mr. Paws to share tonight's presentation. Forward back. Forward back. Good evening, President Ree, Clerk Troutman, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent, Superintendent Davis, and the Banning community. We will take care of that problem at the bathrooms. Plain and simple, we'll be on it. Uh it is a balance between supervision

038and privacy. Uh we do not have staff security staff inside the bathrooms, plain and simple. Uh but I am going to ask help from the student body because part of it is going to be hey we're adults now. We got to take care of our area. So I just want to say that let you know I I will take care of it. Okay. Uh good evening. All right. Our job at Banning High School is to prepare, inspire, and educate. And you saw this afternoon one of our graduates that is going to Temple and we're the staff takes very much pride in that of saying not just one but many kids are going to be very successful. Okay. Uh pretty much academic achievement safe and healthy climate including the bathrooms and community engagement. Uh I hope

039you see my staff at all the activities. Uh that's part of when a parent has a question, we're there for you. You don't have to give us a call. We're there at the activities for that engagement part. Okay. Uh let's start off with the good stuff. Uh suspension rate, we declined 3.4% and again that's visibility. Graduation rate we maintained at 88%. Hopefully we will maintain it or improved. academic performance. Uh I tell a lot of people that uh if you notice on all the areas we have increased. We're not stopping there. This is the beginning. I try to remind people this is only my third year at the high school. I've not been there 10 years. So this is my third year. And in the last two years, one of the things that I remind

040everybody is if I don't feel safe, I don't learn. So my my ground level is safety for students. Yeah. So, college and career indicator. Uh, the last one, CSU direct admissions. 95 of 250 prepared students have been admitted already to colleges. I'm telling you, we're we're going in a different direction. Our students know that when you go to high school at Banning, it is academics first. And we say we challenge the students. If you walk around the campus, kids walk away from me because they know I'm gonna ask you, "How was your grades?" And I put my dad hat on and some kids will come up to me and say, "I'm trying." Which is a good thing. And the other part is, you know what? We're here for you. Wherever you want to go to

041community college or CSU or Temple, special population, we have I want to bring your attention to special ed. Right now we have we have 210 special ed students. 20% of our population at Banning High School is special ed. That means we have to focus on them for academics behavior but also what is the next transition for them. And then foster youth I can't see this uh 1%. So for our foster youth it's very important that we know who they are. We need to identify them and if they move be prepared for the next school for their transcripts. And the same thing is when au foster foster youth student comes to us making sure we request transcripts on time. Uh and my last slide is think together program. Uh a couple years ago we kids were

042saying hey how come you don't have driver's ed at school? So guess what? Now we have driver's ed. We also have cooking and forensic science. As of yesterday, we had 50 kids staying after school for the think together program. So, I'm going to thank Dr. Mlo and student services of saying we hit a home run on this one. Mr. Mason, good evening, President Ruiz, Clerk Troutman, members of the board, Superintendent Davis. It's a pleasure to be here and serve every day. Uh just recently marked three years of being here at Banning. Uh and I absolutely love it. So, thank you. Um couple highlights at a glance. We've uh won three league championships this year, which is really exciting. Girls cross country, football, and boys soccer. Um have added up since uh spring season is here.

043We have a number. number obviously fluctuates here or there because a few kids may still join a couple of our sports that are still open to accepting athletes, but as of right now, we're at 379 athletes, which marks 34%, which is really, really good. The goal is to be around a third of your school. That's pretty healthy. And last year, we were at 32%. So, that marks a 2% growth. Um, one highlight is our track team is up to uh slightly over 90 athletes, which is close to 10% and is uh really impressive. And then another thing I want to highlight is just uh all of the classified staff. Athletics doesn't happen without classified staff. Um can't get to away games without them. We can't be safe with uh security staff at games. Our custodial

044staff does an amazing job of keeping the spaces clean and uh making athletics happen. Um 213 away trips, not counting spring playoffs, which are hopefully two months away for many of our programs. Uh that's a huge number, and they're responsible, safe, um on time, and getting our kids from point A to being home. Uh and doing a great job of that. Uh we have 21 sport offerings throughout the fall, winter, and spring. Um which is great. And one other thing I'll highlight is next year we are moving into the Desert Athletic Conference. There we go. Um, so looking ahead, starting next year, we start the Desert Athletic Conference or what people are already referring to it as the DACK. And, um, I think for a lot of people that aren't living in the world of

045high school sports, that might be a little confusing, but to summarize it, um, historically, you're with the same couple of four, five or six schools for every single sport. And with this conference banning along with the entire low desert uh those 14 schools and all of these sports will be uh paired appropriately based on the previous level previous season success that you had so you're competing in the appropriate appropriate group. um that'll set all of our student athletes and teams up to continue having more and more success and um hopefully continue driving up our participation numbers and yeah, very excited about all the good things that are happening. Thank you. >> Good evening. I'm Dr. Palis. Um, I'm here to talk about special education. I love it. I've been over it for the past three

046years. So, as Mr. P said, uh, we have 210 special ed students. So, that's about 20% of our population. So, that equals out to about at least one IEP per day. Um, and I would say since I go to the majority IEPs, it's probably more like three. Sometimes I had like four today. Uh we have 212 mild moderate, 11 mod severe and students can earn either depending on their track either a diploma or a certificate. We have 16 students that are involved in the T TPP program and that is through RCE. Great program. I had the opportunity a few years ago to go to their celebration and it's it's really a really nice event. Uh another thing that um I'm very proud to bring to Banning High is we have a new IEP room. something

047that I've always kind of envisioned since I got there. And this is a place that I want parents and the community and students to feel like they belong. So, I um one of the things I did is I have pictures that the special ed students made. I went to the art teacher and asked if I could put them up in the room. Um I'm slowly kind of working on it. Going to get a coffee maker in there for parents. And it's just it's a very warm kind of inviting atmosphere and I love it. So, we're slowly kind of rolling that out and it's an opportunity for parents to go there instead of kind of trapesing all the way across the classroom into someone's classroom. So, it's a place that they can feel like they belong

048and feel like they're part of the Banning Broncos. >> There's questions. >> Oh, no, that's not me. >> Okay, I'm good. Thank you. >> Good evening, members of the board and the banning community. I have the uh proud privilege of being able to speak with you this evening about some of the exciting things that are happening with curriculum and instruction at Bending High School. Um to start with in our ELA classes um we have a focus on something called FABS which is a common assessment. It stands for um formative focus interim assessment blocks. Thank you ma'am. That's the chat GPTs. That's something else. Uh but um the exciting thing is that this is a new shift uh in the last couple of years that's allowing all of our teachers in ELA and math as we'll

049hear about in just a second uh to glean data that's happening that were uh give us good assessment data from students on a very regular basis so that teachers can have very highly focused highquality conversations about how to address the needs of our students. Um you're going to see AVID and Wicker strategies uh slowly moving across the board, but certainly in English language arts and uh each department is starting to lead um all staff collaboration and our uh smart Thursday I'm getting over bronchitis sorry uh and our smart Thursday meetings and uh so we're very excited to see where that's going to take us. Um, in math, we're in year three of the Irvine math project implementation and we're also using FIABs in math as well. Um, the math department has seen incredible growth and

050this is something that I'm my probably the most exciting thing that I think is um on the slide. 11% growth in math last year and that is truly exceptional. Um, just for comparison, that place is banning high school in the 92nd percentile of all schools in California for growth. There are 9,986 schools in California, public schools in California. That means that Banning High School performed better than 91% of the schools on the CAF math assessment. And that is absolutely truly exceptional. That's one in 13 one in 13 schools. um English learners. Um we're we're getting there. Also using FABS and data chats with every student and also implementing AVID strategies and um looking forward to to great things to come in curriculum assessment at Benning High School. Thank you. I I saw the >> I

051I'd like to uh It's okay. We're almost done. Um so I just we we have a movie star among us. class is here at Benning High and they are promoting the AP readiness class which starts on January 24th of this month at UCR and there's several sessions after that. So go ahead and give your attention to them and um they're going to talk about how it's helpful and encourages them to do well in their AP exam. Thank you. >> Hello, I am Zyra King Spears. Hi, my name is Alexander Alvarez. Hi, my name is Albert Gutieres. >> Hi, my name is Eastme. I'm a junior and I'm an AP USS. >> How was the AP readiness class helpful for your current AP class? >> Um, I'm the AP readiness uh helped me see a different

052perspective of teaching. It helped me see a different way of teaching than my current AP teacher uh a Mr. Smith. It was cool to see how one teacher just teaches another subject rather than just Mr. Smith. >> How might the AP readiness help you avoid being overwhelmed later? >> Um, I think that the AP readiness course helped me by helping me um sort of have a good format on how to break down everything that's in the class as compared to being overwhelmed by the large amount of material. >> What topics did they cover in the AP seminar? They talk about black death and how disease caused job wages to go up instead of keeping it at a minimum. And since there was less people, the wages had to go up and the job were more

053wanted. >> In what ways did AP readiness prepare you for the format, expectations, or the rigor of the class? >> Um, of the exam. I mean, >> it showed us that it was hard, but that we could do it because um they showed us how like different styles of how to write a DBQ, not just like I said, not just one. So, it helped us like um just do everything that we can do everything. >> How did participating in AP readiness impact your confidence going into the exam? For me, >> in the beginning, I was a little bit worried. I was like anxious about the exam cuz our teacher would mention it quite often and there's a lot of things to cover on the exam but it showed us like to um to how to

054manage our time better. >> Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> That was uh student everything in there was student driven from the camera work to the questions. So, I want to give my, you know, Bronco media team a kudos because that's all it's all with students. So, thank you very much on behalf of Banny High School. >> Any questions, ladies? Any questions? No. >> Item Thank you, Mr. Pros. Item 6.2, child nutrition services presentation. I would like to invite Mr. Pulsifer to share tonight's presentation. Good evening, President Ruiz, uh, board of trustees, um, Superintendent Davis, cabinet, and community members. I'm Craig Pollford, director of nutrition services, and I'm excited to be here tonight. And, uh, so let's go ahead and get started. So, what we're going to be going over is how

055school nutrition impacts our mission to help students achieve their full full potential. And so, the objectives of this presentation are to kind of show you what we have done, where we're going, and how that has impacted uh students thus far. So, let's start out with what is clean label. All right. So when I say clean clean label or clean eating, most people will think of fresh produce, fresh fruits and veggies, which is uh fantastic. That's the best way to go all always. Um but it's a lot more than that. Uh what clean label foods are is keeping foods in their most natural state. Okay? Um, so minimizing processing, uh, minimizing, um, human-made ingredients and sticking to to fresh because fresh is is best. And so, uh, when we're when we're thinking about these types of

056foods, then, uh, I want you to think about what you cook in your own kitchens. All right? You're probably using fresh ingredients and you're making this food, uh, ready to be consumed today. All right? You're not saving it for for a month from now. You're not putting it in the freezer. Uh it's ready to go today. So, you're making a fresh meal with fresh ingredients and uh in that form that's going to provide you the most nutrition. All right? Uh so, home home-cooked meals are are the best way to go. Um that doesn't mean that other packaged foods can't be clean label as well. So, the way that you would kind of identify those foods is by looking at the package uh under the nutrition facts label, going down to the ingredients and looking through

057the ingredients. If you can read and identify all the ingredients on that list, then you're probably in a pretty good place. If you're reading those ingredients and it's sounding like you're studying for a chemistry exam, then that's that's not clean label. Okay. Um, so I I want to go over what clean label can do for you and for our students. So I want you to think about anytime that you have ever eaten a bag of chips. Did you ever finish that bag of chips and you're like, "Oh man, I I feel good, man. I I feel pumped after those chips." No, you didn't do that. But I would bet that if you ever had a big slice of watermelon on a warm hot summer day, like that just feels good, right? It re it really

058does. Or a smoothie, nutritious uh healthy foods, they they just uh rejuvenate you. They make you feel good. And that's what what I what I want people to think of when they think of clean label foods or clean eating. Um, so now for our our students specifically, I like to think of our students um with a a fun little analogy of race cars. Okay, so think of NASCAR or Formula 1. Those cars are extremely finely tuned. All right, they are precise and they require require uh the best fuel possible in order for them to perform at that level. And so, um, if you know anything about racing, they use a very high octane fuel, um, up near 100. Okay? You know, at the Chevron, we get 87 up to 91. U, they're using way higher.

059And those cars have to have that level of fuel in order to uh to function. And so, I think of our students the same way. We're wanting them them to perform at that high level, at that elite level. And so by providing them with clean label foods um top quality high nutrition nutritious foods, they're going to perform both phys both physically and mentally. Um and the the byproduct of serving good healthy foods is usually it's fresh and it tastes better and uh so students like it better, participation goes up because of it and everybody wins. So I want you to take a look at the picture that I've got on the screen there. So this is our fresh fruit and vegetable program at Hammerling Elementary. And so three days a week during recess, we set

060up this cart out there in the quad area and we serve a fresh fruit or vegetable as a snack. And so this particular day, we are serving rambutans. And what rambutans are are they're a bright red fruit with spikes all over it. Okay? It's a very funl looking fruit. Um, it looks a lot like a like a sea urchent. Tastes a lot better than a sea urchent. Um, and uh and the kids had a lot of fun with it. So, I snapped this picture. These two students particularly, they uh they get bonus aura points for sticking around and reading the nutrition education that we had on the card. You can see it on the front there. And so, they they wanted to know all the nutrition facts and all the history of of the fruit.

061Um, so that really stood out to me. And uh this is just a fun program overall that students, teachers, and everybody seems to enjoy. All right, so let's go over some things that we have implement implemented so far in our school district to kind of encourage clean eating. And so one of my favorite things that we started this year was we partnered with two local farmers um to uh bring in fresh produce. And the benefit here is fresh local produce um it eliminates the need for two things. So if produce is being transported in from very far away then one thing is that it's got to be processed so that it can so that it doesn't ripen too quickly. Okay. The second thing is that when it's transported in wooden crates like it's going to

062get banged up a little bit so it needs a thicker skin. So, uh, fresh stuff from the farm isn't like that. This stuff is bred, uh, for flavor, for, um, for good taste, for good texture, and, uh, consumer acceptance. So, if you ever go to the grocery store, um, go ahead and feel the the tomatoes on there, feel it, and think about this, okay? Was this piece of fruit prepared for consumption today or was this prepared for long-term storage? You could probably figure it out just by by feeling the the fruit. And so that's the uh the benefit of working with these local farmers. We get stuff that's ready to eat today. Um and it's a it's very very sweet and and delicious. Um, another thing that we try to do is uh well, we

063work with a lot of vendors and manufacturers that um that want us to put their foods on the menu and sometimes they have minimally processed foods or clean label foods and uh and so we try to focus a little bit more on those and get those products on the menu if they pass our student taste tests. And so on the next slide, I'm going to show you an example of that because that's uh that's something fun that we get to do. Um but I want to point out the picture on this slide. So this is our team of uh of nutrition staff. We invited all of the kitchen leads to go tour this this farm that we uh started working with, Old Grove. And it was a it was a fun outing. Um and we

064learned a lot. Got to taste some some good stuff. And uh it was a a great experience overall. All right, so this is at Central Elementary and this is all of the fifth graders. Okay, so we had all the fifth graders there in the cafeteria. And this is a clean label granola that we are taste testing with them. And uh this particular one is actually very high in omega-3 fats, which is the healthy fat that our brains need. Don't get me going on omega-3 because I I love this topic. Hit me up later if you want to talk about it. Uh because we we could go go for a long time. But anyway, this clean label product, the students loved it. It was very popular. They all got to vote on that board up there

065and the results were were very positive and we actually ended up um using this on our menu. So this granola is going in all of our parfets now um across the district. So just one example of a clean label food that we implemented. Next thing here, so this is a bunch of our serving numbers from the last four years. And so I've got it broken down by breakfast, lunch, supper, and snack. You could take a look at that on your own, but the meal equivalents are what I want to focus on. And that bar graph at the bottom kind of reflects uh the amount of meal equivalents that we have served over the last four years. And you can see that there has been a progression every year. Every year we have served a little

066bit more. And I like to attribute some of that growth at least to our focus on uh on serving high quality foods, nutritious foods. And there's always room for for more growth. There's always more that we can do. Which brings me to what I call the cyclical effect. And so, uh, what this is is the more meals that we serve, the better our program funding is. And with that additional funding, we're able to invest more in high-quality, nutritious ingredients and make better foods and bring in more students to the cafeteria who eat more meals, resulting in higher program funding. And then the cycle repeats. And so, it's a continuous quality improvement. There is no end. We always seek to uh to be progressing and uh that's our our method and uh thank you very much.

067Times to perfection. >> Okay. Wait, I have a question. >> All we're going to give him a second. You good? >> No, I'm good. >> Okay. >> Um are we seeing less waste from the students? Like are we having less food being less food being thrown away? Yeah. Um, so actually we haven't we haven't measure measured so I can't say that we have less food uh being thrown away but we have really focused on on our um food reuse policy. So at most of the schools we have uh share tables >> share bin >> and we have done studies on on the on the share bin and so we we tried a few different things and I was thinking that if we set up more share bins at the elementary levels at least that we

068would collect more food and possibly have more to reuse or to donate if we couldn't use it ourselves type of thing. Uh but with the increased share bins at the end of the day we we were noticing that it was just increasing the amount that other students were were taking u as part of their lunch and uh home. >> So the the good thing there is that the food was not being thrown away. It was being reused by students who wanted it. >> I love that. Any other questions? >> Um I like that you did this taste testing with the students. How often do you do something like that? >> So, we several times a year. Um, we actually did one today at Banning High. And so, uh, I would say probably at least five

069per per year. And I always try to choose a different school. Um, sometimes we'll do it in the classroom with a specific class. Sometimes we'll, today at Banning High, we did it out in the quad. As kids were getting out of school, we had samples set up and on their way leaving campus, they were able to taste test and vote on the board. Um, >> would you say you get good feedback there? Students aren't just walking past. >> Anytime you're giving free food, they will stop. >> I I should I should say they're not getting their sample and then leaving. They're they're giving their input. >> Right. We we got a lot of votes. Yeah. and students like to have a a voice in that. So, uh I didn't see any kids really walking away.

070It's possible that some did, but we got a lot of voters. >> That's good. >> So, yeah. >> And then >> do we know about how many students are are getting their meals at each site, so there's not much waste. >> Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I've I've got data tracked on on that um that I kind of report on every month. So, I I do have that broken down by site. >> I'd like to see that if >> Okay. >> You don't mind? >> Yeah, >> definitely. Would you like it by meal? >> Have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. >> Oh, um >> I don't know. Yes. Let's see who's eating more breakfast. >> Okay, >> sounds great. That's actually part of how we evaluate uh where we need to focus our efforts on. >> I'm curious

071about lunch specifically, me personally, just because I know a lot of kids don't eat the breakfast. They but they're always there for lunch. So that that's where my focus is. But yes, if we can see >> Mhm. >> definitely. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> I I do want to thank you for your efforts. Um, this has been an exciting program to watch over the last three years. I think I spoke to you the even before I became a board member. >> Yes. Yes. >> That was one of my focuses was your cafeteria. Mhm. >> Um I I want to say that in in this situation when we are focusing on food and and energizing our our children, you're also educating them uh to be future consumers and to um bring more health into

072their into their lives. Um, I saw an interesting um, news article today about Campbell and the stocks are going down because people are not eating processed foods as much as they were. People are not consuming uh, and buying those processed foods. And it's really thanks to people like you um, educating our children. So, it's very exciting to see that kind of I guess we don't monitor that or test that, but they are being tested and it's exciting. Thank you. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. >> Thank you, Mr. Pifer. >> Item 6.3, Business Services 2026 27 annual transportation plan. This item is for the board to approve the 2026-27 annual transportation plan. Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 6.3? >> I'll move. >> I second. >> Are you two

073sleeping down there? Okay. I would like to invite Mr. Herrera to the podium to share a brief presentation on this item. Hey, good evening, President Ree, Routman, the student board members, members of the Benning Unified School District leadership team, and the Bannon community. Today, I'm presenting on the annual transportation plan. and it is a requirement to move forward with some additional funding. But before getting to that, I I do want to thank the uh folks over at the Department of Transportation for working through some of the various challenges throughout the last few years and working through about a 25% average vacancy rate. Also, the patients of the district community in terms of just transportation services in general. And so, we're continue to work towards uh improving those services. And this is really a plan to

074help us move forward in that direction. In terms of our organizational statements, the transportation department definitely does support um making sure that we're abiding by our mission statement, values, and our vision. Overall background, the focus is usually home to school transportation as it relates to the transportation plan. However, there are some components as it relates to field trips and exposing our students to educational opportunities. the uh changes here in law go back to uh 2023 u and so we are receiving additional funding which would be at a 60% reimbursement rate from the state um as of 2023 before that it was strictly flat funding and so we are seeing some more resources to help us u move that needle in terms of additional services the plannings to be approved by April 1st and the prioritization

075within the plan is for students with individualized educational plans known as IEPs special education students students um homeless students also known as McKin Vento students and prioritizing services for preschool transition kindergarten and kindergarten students also duplicated pupils are part of the priority list and then all other students as well also part of the planning requirements is to have consultations. So we did have various consultations with our educational partners as you see listed here and this here is a map showing the breath of the services that are provided uh visually. So all in total it's about 317 stops with most of the stops being within our city banning limits. However, we do have additional routes known as outbound for non-public school services. is those non-public school services are for students that do um attend here or

076reside within the Bannon Unified School District boundaries. However, those services are usually in other areas such as um Retlands, Hemet also Valverde and uh various other cities in the area. In terms of the infrastructure itself, uh we are working with a very aging um infrastructure as it relates to our buses. We do have nine assigned buses at the at the moment uh with a few spares and most of those already at the end of the life cycle. In addition to that, working through replacing a few vents and we have replaced a few in the last few years with the latest three being delivered in the last few uh weeks to make sure that we get those ready for the rotation and remove some of the older infrastructure in terms of vehicles out of our fleet.

077I do have some exciting news and this is a huge update from the last annual presentation of what is known as a ZESB grant um and also the Southern Cal Coast Air Quality Management District Incentive Program. These are two grants that the district has made it already into a four out of fifth um five-step process. Uh we are in line to receive $4.1 million to improve our infrastructure as it relates to electric vehicles. So within the plan, it's the replacement of the 13 spares that we have. Six of those are going to be turned in or traded in, if you will, for six new electric buses and charging station infrastructure. Uh we were going through some um numbers just today. And it does appear that this will be at a zero cost to the district

078given the grant amount and the estimated cost at the moment. In terms of the logistics, looking at overall wrership, the wrership uh in total in terms of total students about 732 students uh per day. average daily wrership mean to and from school where we see about 55% of our students only taking a PM route it's about 1100 students in terms of just vacancies overall like I mentioned at a 25% rate over the last few years has been the bit of a challenge and uh we we continue to move forward and push our driver training program but we do have one that's completed another one that will be completed in the next uh month and the three new traineees coming into the program as as well. Additional logistics information is focusing on exposing our students to

079the extracurricular activities and field trips as well as part of the education experience. So, we do have that offered to our staff uh in-house staff that do mostly take and we'll see some information on that in a second do take on those additional assignments. However, we have secured two additional contractors. So, we have now total of five uh charter services to provide those opportunities for students. Um overall uh there has been a a huge push in the Traversa system implementation and so the latest update here is that the implementation went into effect about a week ago or so. Uh the system is currently being used for pre and post inspections. Also it is very uh useful in submitting work orders and getting those uh repairs on buses as well and including vans. Um this is

080primarily the softation is focused on the data collection itself. um and the data collection is really going to be critical in terms of just the reports that are available and also the analytics that will be utilized for the full implementation in 2026. I will say that we did have some challenges in this soft implementation as it relates to the um the bus passes bus passes linking with the system itself. But I I am happy to report that as of yesterday, those passers have all been um all activated and u ready to move forward. And there are still some little things that we're working through and that's why this is really the soft implementation uh within our um with our IT department. And a huge uh thanks here to Mr. Berria because for the first time

081ever, we do have information in terms of writership in our area system, our student information system. And so we're continuing to refine our practices and ensuring that we have that information available um which at some point we we we did not have the information as we do today. Looking into a full implementation in 2026. This is the fall um into the new school year and we will have a full registration process. It would help with u the efficiency of our routes and it will also have the capability through a parent application known as my K12 to be able to communicate directly to parents and be able to uh track our students as well. In terms of the um data collection through the process and this has been a a long process here. We do have

082some key information that is very um worthy of mentioning. We do have about 40% excuse me 19% 40 students or so that are receiving services that are outside of what would be you know the their residence area. So for example uh we have 11 students who live in Banning but are attending Kabazon Elementary and then we have about 29 students who live in Kabazon in Whitewater that are attending other schools in Kabazon. digging in even deeper to our elementary school boundaries that was just approved back in February. 56% of our students are receiving transportation services that do not live in their current school of residence. And I'll get to that in just a second. So, just keep that number in mind. Here we have extracurricular and field trip activities. As you see, there has been

083an upward trend in terms of the amount of field trips uh provided. Also, the amount of field trips had that have been filled. Uh, as we can see, we do have the support of charter services and estimating for this fiscal year about 32,000 miles traveled. I'm also happy to report that uh no uh trips have been cancelled uh because of the availability of not only our staff but also charter services. And so, making sure that uh we we provide those opportunities for students is important. In terms of funding, which is a a critical component of being able to provide services, we are receiving through this 60% reimbursement about $842,000 additional funding. Total budget for the year is about $1.6 million that is focused on making sure that we're focusing on the operational improvements. Uh we

084can check off the first one on the list in terms of the attendance boundary. And so really one of the concerns was the efficiency of our routes. And that's one of the main driving factors behind the elementary school boundaries implementation. And so when we have 56% of our students not uh will receiving transportation services that are outside of their actual school of residence, then then there's definitely an efficiency that can be maximized through the implementation and and that is going to then move forward and hopefully get better in the very near future. And I'll talk about that also in just a second. Uh we are also in the process of leasing vehicles to uh be able to take some of our existing infrastructure out of rotation and do major repairs, drive train and other uh

085major components so that we can make making them sure that they're back on the road and safe for students and our staff as well. Uh we already talked about the student tracking system and uh continuing to work with CSCA. We we did uh provide a uh again in collaboration with TSCA and by way of of the board an increase to our transportation bus drivers uh given that we need to continue to be competitive to fill those vacancies. also in collaboration with the human resources department is relaunching two different programs continuing to do our driver training program which is anyone from the outside even within our district to participate in this program and also the our current part-time employees uh do have the opportunity to go through the program as well and be able to pick

086up some additional assignments long as they get all the certifications and so thank you to to Mr. for kind of helping us move through that and we're going to make sure that uh we put uh that information out to our um our staff. In terms of changes for next year, uh we have been talking quite a bit about maximizing again the efficiency of the routes. Walking distance is one of the administrative regulations 3541 that we're looking into revising at an upcoming board meeting adjusting the walking distance from the students residence to the school of residence. And uh that is going to be recommended at a 3/4 of a mile for TK through fifth grade keeping 6th through 8th at the same one mile range and then 9 through 12 at a 2-m range. Um so

087anyone outside of those walking distances would qualify for transportation services. anyone within those uh walking distance will not be qualifying. Uh the attendance school attendance boundary policy 5116 uh which allows us to make these boundaries and implement those boundaries by way of course the board was approved back in February. And so there are some provisions that we're working through in terms of transportation that is provided in terms of grandfathering those students that are currently uh residing outside of their school of residence. Also, specialized programs such as dual emerging, homeless, foster youth, special education, and transition kindergarten will continue to receive those services given that they're specialized programs. For example, transition kindergarten only available at Florida Street. Also, those receiving services be those students that are known as overflow students that when there is no availability

088at a school site and they have to then attend a different school site, those will be receiving transportation. And um last but not least, here's administrative transfers. Whenever there are certain transfers that would put a student outside of those walking distances, then transportation services will be provided. Um, and those that will ser those students that may not u get transportation services are interdist transfers. Meaning if I'm a student and I want to attend a different school that's outside of my home or resident school, I got to be very careful with terminology. I learned that from Dr. um Merllo's that uh transportation services will not be provided and so it will go through a workflow process. There may be requests given on availability of of stops and the proximity and they may be evaluated on a

089case- by case basis. And so with that, are there any questions? >> I have a question. >> Sorry. >> Can you go back to the extracurricular and field trips um slide? So I was doing math >> and it didn't add up, but you said that no trips were cancelled. So it says total trip requests 438 trips filled 388 trips chartered 30. >> I added 388 and 30 and I came up with 418. So what happened to the other 20? >> So 20 were cancelled. Uh they were not part of the arithmetic here. They were cancelled by for other reasons meaning that it's not because of the availability of the of the service. it was because either last minute cancellation with the trip um sometimes you know things happen where dates changed as well and so

090there were not necessarily missed opportunities by students it was just changes within the field trip itself. >> Okay. So on that note of field trips first I want to thank our bus drivers for making field trips happen for our kids. Um my question is are we taking note of field trips that once the students arrive their time at that location is shortened because they need to get back before traffic hits and then the bus driver needs to go do other routes after school. for those type of situations. Are we keeping da d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d da on that? And

091are we looking at alternatives so that our students are actually spending a good chunk of time at these locations and enjoying themselves versus rushing through it because they have to get back on the bus to beat the traffic >> and unfortunately that's been one of the challenges to answer your question. There is no data related to those type of trips. However, we do track every single trip. So based on that feedback, I would work with the team to ensure that we're tracking those those um those situations. Uh part of the challenge is scheduling those field trips within the midday, if you will, the midday shift and is having to make sure that we're available with our home and school transportation routes in the morning and also in the afternoon. So yes, in some cases it

092does shorten that amount of time. Also, there's been confusion within the actual process uh of what's known as the field trip request form whether student uh in terms of the return time versus the time that they have to be back on the bus. So, it's being at the district or within the proximity district versus the time they have to leave the the um their field trip itself. >> So, are those is that information being clarified with our staff when they're submitting these requests for field trips? And >> and usually that is a part of the process in approving a field trip request is working with validating times. And so, for the most part there there are um agreements in terms of the times given the constraints that we've had. And so what what happens usually

093is that uh it may be that they're running behind for whatever reason or again we have to cut the short the trip short because we have to get back for the home to school routes. >> So for those trips that have to be cut short due to the back to home school runs after school. Why are we not looking into other options where the students are able to be at the location longer? Why is that not an option? >> That's a great question. Um and so in terms of uh one of what we focus on is to ensure we of course uh provide the extra opportunities for students and so and simply said that the department is being stretched very very thinly to ensure >> we have these charters and you just put in more

094>> absolutely and that has been brought to my attention that's something I'll be discussing with the team to make sure that we don't impact the homeless school transportation routes which does seem to happen quite often and saying okay now let's go ahead and charter out and so there there a delicate balance there in the first right of refusal as it relates to making sure we offer those opportunities to our CSA staff, but also in understanding the impacts to home to school and saying, "Okay, let's just go ahead and shorter this out." >> But it's also the impact that you're causing the students. They're excited to go to a field trip, but they can only be there for an hour, an hour and a half or two. That's not really making it worthwhile in the experience.

095Yes, they got out. they got to ride the bus, be on the freeway, land, walk a little bit, get back on the bus. Like, that's not fair for them either. And I hope that you are able to look into the data as to the trips, the number of trips that are shortened because of that and what our options could have been and how to maximize the experience for our students. >> Well, we'll get to that. Thank you. To piggy back off of what Miss Angiano said, sometimes it feels like our teachers are picking locations based on that, like they're not picking something further past certain areas because they know, hey, the students are only going to have this much amount of time to do what they got to do because this bus has to be

096back to bust these babies back home. So they're not even getting good options either for their field trips and they're just like booking them sometimes it feels sometimes just to give these babies that field trip basically like they go on a field trip once a year and so they're booking for instance I went on the fifth grade field trip just recently they took them to the March air field >> in Paris >> space and yeah of course they were excited to get out of the classroom but most of these babies were like why is this our field trip. >> What is this? Like not all kids are into airplanes. And so most of the kiddos that I was with were complaining because they were like, "This isn't even something we would want to do." But

097of course, like Miss Andiano said, they're more than ecstatic to get out of the classroom setting. But sometimes it feels like our teachers are choosing locations based on the fact that they have to have those buses back for the after school busing. Understood. >> Oh, and one more. So, sorry, Leslie. Um, on your page on home to school transportation services on your number of stop stops, is that daily or what's the time frame or where are you where are these numbers coming from? >> Yes, they're daily stops. >> So, the these are the number of total daily stops our bus drivers have every single school day. >> Correct. And that is usually inflated by 141 students that receive curb recurs transportation. every residence is counted as a stop. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Can I

098just add this? So, and I'm glad we brought this page back up. So, the challenge is given the amount of drivers that we have, given our home to school, it's at this point extremely complicated to do all of that. So, what we've tried to do and what we've talked about is making access for students to go out a priority. And we're doing that to the best of our ability. But to go back and say, "Oh, we need more time." That's understandable, but we have to figure that out within the budget constraint and given the routes because the school district's first responsibility is make sure students get to and from school. The other piece in terms of field trips, I'm very clear about what the board would like to do is how do we do that

099given we don't have enough bus drivers. So, it's really drivers, then it's vehicles. I think we have enough vehicles. I think >> we do have enough vehicles and working through the process of replacing some of those or leasing out >> and we have three vacancies right now when it >> have threeies which is it's hear you but it's it's it's ch we're challenged with that and so going back to what solutions do we have to be a little bit more creative about it that's what we have to continue to look at thank you though >> okay >> um one of the questions I have is how are we saving how are we going to be saving money um with the increased walking boundaries? Are are we because you're asking for another 842,000. >> So are

100we going to be increasing when we're increasing the walking boundaries? How is that going to save us money? >> So So quite the opposite. We're we're reducing the walking distance for TK5. The current policy does have fourth and fifth graders at a mile. Um, and so what this would allow us to do is to again be able to condense some of the stops, some of the routes. And it's not necessarily a saving effort here, a a cost um effort here. It is a matter of being able to provide all of the services from homeless school to the field trips without limiting their time out on field trips. And so the reimbursement comes by way of just total expenditures, not necessarily the amount of services that we're providing. There is a direct correlation. However, again the

101focus is not to reduce the amount of services but to be able to expand the the services by finding out and balancing act right efficiency in our home to school so that we can do homeless school not have minimal delays and also be able to provide the field trips without any time constraints. >> Okay. Um to piggyback on what uh Mrs. Zangiano said um it's really counterproductive and very cost u costly to have a field trip for three or four hours because we we are actually providing the transportation and the gas and our students are not getting anything out of it. So we really need to rethink all of that y >> uh very seriously because it's counterproductive for our students. Um the other question I have is um the EV can we go back

102to the EV um slide? >> Yes. Okay. Right there. >> We have 4.1 million in grants if we if we get that for six electric buses and charging stations. Okay. Are we buying or leasing those? >> They will be purchased. >> Okay. We're purchasing those with a promise from California State that the infrastructure that is not here right now is going to be here. And from what I'm reading um a lot of these um EV bus uh companies are a lot of things are readjusting. EV is not as popular as it was when California had this great idea of doing this. So my question is how are we going to ensure in the future if we've already made these purchases that these companies are going to be around um to provide service? How are we

103going to ensure that the infrastructure is going to be there? I mean are we going to buy six Deloreans and you know and bite the bullet afterwards? And so we we will be having our own infrastructure within our actual yard within the actual grant. So it comes with these six new electric buses and the charging stations as well. >> I'm going to stop you there because all of those charging stations are funded by oil. I mean everything that we get as far as electricity is oil based. So my question is how are we going to be funding these uh or even providing the infrastructure? How are we going to maintain these things? Because our our infrastructure in California is not there with the increase in AI and the increase in um and the lack of

104uh infrastructure in California. How are we going to ensure that that the energy the electricity is even going to be there? >> And we don't have a guarantee. >> You're absolutely right. I'm a little concerned about us. You know, if we have a possible $4.1 million, that's great. We buy these things and and they sit there and that is definitely not the goal. The goal is to have the infrastructure installed at our yard, right? Not depending on any other infrastructure. As a matter of fact, I bring I'm glad you bring up the concerns about the overall infrastructure statewide. We're looking at leasing some vehicles and going through then having EVs to get a test for it to be able to see if they can make it up the mountain and how far that we can

105last on a charge. And we were looking around and the only charging stations that we have available over at Cabazone and that's because it's a charging station for me RV slots and RV uh bay and so definitely understand the concern. So that's why we have to build the infrastructure at our yard there. Um in terms of any promises there there are no guarantees but we are going through the process of vetting though u multiple uh dealers and also um providers manufacturers um banning is a little bit behind when it comes to EV because we didn't get on that first wave if you will from some years back. So at this point there has been the opportunity to learn from you know other challenges that other districts have had. And so there there is a bit

106of a benefit there in waiting a little bit and and in working through this process of vetting not only the manufacturers but also being able to have our own infrastructure. >> Okay. Our I guess I'm not being clear. Our infrastructure is great. if you're charging up the, you know, that's fine, but that electricity has to come from someplace. And there is going to be a huge electric um drag on on California as far as AI goes. Um being able to go from where we are to someplace else on a field trip or wherever, you know, I'm I'm concerned, seriously, and I want to go on record saying I'm deeply concerned about us investing in heavily investing in six, you know, and and the amount of waste that we are incurring because of poor planning. So,

107I'm a little concerned about this >> and I'm I'm with you in terms of just uh being concerned overall because we can no longer purchase any CNG engine vehicle. Uh we can no longer purchase any diesel powered vehicle. The only option right now available for us to re to be able to um improve the age of our fleet is through EV. Um we are again looking at a few options in terms of leasing um some current buses right now to be able to rebuild our CNG um powered buses as well. So there is still going to be a high dependence on CNG. We're not going to do away with it. But these six new buses here that are EV would only help improve our overall aging fleet because we do have significant mechanical challenges with

108their buses. And uh I I will say in working with the various districts and just even gathering information, we're we're not alone. We we we all have the similar challenges. We're even looking into and in in different ways to lease vehicles that may not be CNG and or EV. Um and there may be some opportunity there as long as we don't own them. However, that is highly highly costly. And so I do want to just make sure that uh we understand that the grant amount is really driven by the the life for life. So they're going to take six of our buses that are no longer operating. We're going to then receive six new electric buses and and there is no additional cost to the district. So it is of availability of resources by way

109of these agencies so that we can get on the forefront of electric vehicles. >> Okay. But I'll say uh Trusty Novalis, I I I think it's a very valid point and I want to use the solar panels as an example. Several years ago, there was money that came out from the state. Here are the solar panels. When you look at solar solar panels and what school districts have been through, it's been millions of dollars that have been spent and have not been uh it didn't live up to what it was supposed to be, the amount of challenges. So, that's that's a given. But the dilemma that we get in as a school district is based upon what you're saying and I believe we we cannot purchase any other there are no other buses to purchase.

110So we get in this situation where we have a need that we have to serve students and that's the only avenue. So it's looking at what's available. But I think your point is well taken in terms of us using our critical thinking skills. Just because the state says does do X doesn't mean we just go do X. We need to use our brains and look at the big picture to see is there anything else we can do. And that's why you talk about possibly leasing buses in the midterm instead of the EV. So I think it does require a little bit more uh broadcasting, maybe that's not the word, looking at the the long-term end result as the state goes through changes of what it's going to do that impacts all of us, >> right?

111>> Yes, that was my question. if we could lease something in the interim, >> right, >> until we find out exactly where they're really going because we have a we have a train a $ 38 billion train to nowhere in the in the state. So, it's very this is a very, you know, important question >> and one of those I would just like to add and thank you very much Mr. Davis for clarifying and he he is known as the victor translator by the way. Um and so the the um the effort was there in trying to secure six buses a couple of years back and at that point we only received two. So there was a little bit of anticipation with this change. At this point our options are very very limited. >> Thank

112you. >> My turn. Um mine is more my questions are more geared toward boundaries and uh I I I asked Dr. Merlo to uh address them. >> Um so two of them were already addressed in the presentation so I won't bother you with those Dr. Merlo but um so who can parents go to with questions regarding the boundary changes? This is the person's contact. >> Hi good evening. So you know the boundaries are are pretty complex and one of the things that we wanted to do was simplify it as much as we could for our parents. So we created a series of letters that are targeting specific situations. So we they're basically personalized. So every student who is from are currently enrolled from preschool through fourth grade which are the kids that the boundaries impact

113are going to be receiving a letter. We're hoping by this Friday. We finished stuffing them yesterday. We're processing them today and I'm thinking by Friday, Saturday they should be getting them. And basically what those letters say is this is your situation. So Timmy is being grandfathered into this particular school and if you don't want to attend that school then you can do this, you can do that. Uh and in that letter it explains that process but it also asks them to contact the attendance office at their school. And part of the reason why we're pointing them to the school is because parents are very comfortable with their school. Now we didn't just send a letter out. We actually prepped our attendance clerks two weeks ago about the process, all these different letters, all the different

114scenario, but the the common theme that you're going to hear is the grandfathering. So, if you're enrolled at Hemerling, you are going to be automatically enrolled at Hemerling next year unless you tell us that you don't want to attend there and you can submit an intra district transfer. Then we go through that process. So at that time then my office takes over and then we contact the parent give them uh you know this is how it works this is the these are the priorities uh these are the timelines and so forth. So the goal is to be able to provide that really really good customer service to our parents. What we don't want to do is say well you need to contact this office or you need to contact that office. Uh, so we've trained

115our staff to be able to say, "Hey, if your question is very complex and I don't have the answer, let me get back to you or someone will get back to you soon as well." So, we're taking every scenario as its own ecosystem because it's going to be that complex. So, our district staff has been trained as well because we also get a lot of calls. Obviously, the the staff at centralized registration is trained as well. So, we're ready Monday for a lot of these calls to make sure that we lower that anxiety that a lot of our families are feeling right now. And um the whole point I want to make with grandfathering is that it's essential because our current staff is designed for the current students that we have. So, the movement is

116very complex because take for example at Hemorling, we can't place any more future third graders in that class. It's already maxed out. So, the only way we're going to be able to move anyone is if we have some of those kids that are requesting transfer someplace else. And then it's a huge puzzle that my office will handle to make sure that we uh stick to our priorities. >> So, I know you said letters are going out, but did we inform parents beforehand of this change that was coming and how did we inform them? So this is for the parents that um outside the parent meetings that we had regarding the boundaries, we haven't sent anything out to everyone regarding the boundaries because after it was board approved at the last board meeting, we wanted to

117make sure that we sent information specifically to those parents. So this will be the first true communication saying, "Hey, we have new boundaries, but again, you're being grandfathered and if you don't want to attend that school, you can request an intra." So, this will be the first true communication that's going out. >> Okay. Um because I when I was there at the town hall, I know there was a few parents there and um I was just under the impression that we had more community input on the project. So, I I'm just concerned. I don't want a lot of parents, you know, coming in with pitchforks, you know, why weren't we informed? Why, you know, things like that. And I think, you know, us representing our constituents, that's a fair question. >> Yeah. >> And we

118and like I said, from my office to every school's office, especially at the elementary uh at Florida Street, we will have some parent meetings as well to clear some of those questions. So, that's the goal over the next few weeks is to again ease down anxiety and make sure that parents understand that we're going to take care of them and really give them the answer that's specific to their student. That's the key. And I know there's going to be a lot of case by case as well as the generalized population. I just want to make sure everyone's properly informed of the process things the changes that are happening when it's happening things like that. So I I I just don't want chaos. I >> Okay. And we're hoping that these letters will definitely ease the

119larger part of our population and then we'll be ready to be able to speak to individual cases as well. >> Sounds good. Thank you. Any other questions? >> No. >> All right. I have a motion from Trusty Nollis and a second from Clerk Troutman to approve item 6.3. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. >> Motion passes. 5-0. >> Item 6.4 business services second interim financial report for 2025 2026. This item is for the board to approve the 202526 second interim financial report. >> Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 6.4? >> I'll move. >> I second. >> Thank you, lady. I would like to invite Mr. Herrera to the podium to share a brief presentation on this item. All right. Well, good evening

120again. Today I do have the pleasure of providing an update on financial reporting. At this juncture in time, it is known as the second in. Uh before getting started, I do want to put a visualization to what Mr. Davis mentioned earlier. Walking up to the event at Little Palooa last Wednesday, I had the exact same just impact where I had to stop and take a photo. And that's what it was. It was a drum line receiving parents. You see the flood of our community coming into the schoolside with the backdrop that and the Batting High School stadium. Two of my most favorite backdrops in terms of our community. So definitely proud of a very proud moment that day and looking forward to other opportunities. Also would like to thank uh the collaboration between sites and

121department and by leadership of the fiscal services department led by Mr. Ramos here. We'll be on in just a second. It does take a lot of work in working through the budget adjustment process and making sure that these reports are completed. Um the fiscal framework if you will uh what we're talking about today is definitely supporting our organ organizational statements. And so this diagram here something that we've seen every time that we talk about our financial reporting. Currently, we're at the 6:00 hour here where the assumptions are a lot more concrete. We have a lot more data to be able to um be able to have these budget projections not only for the current but the two subsequent fiscal years enrollment. We we have a lot more information on attendance and staffing overall. Second interim

122background providing expenditure reporting as of January 31st. Also looking at a three-year outlook and happy to report that yet again we're filing a positive certification which means and I read district will meet his financial obligations for the current fiscal year and subsequent two fiscal years and it needs to be approved by the board by March 15. With that I'll hand it over to Mr. Ramos director of fiscal services. Good evening board president Ruiz, clerk Troutman, esteemed board of trustees, superintendent Davis, cabinet, and the banning community. So talking about enrollment projections, the district's enrollment is or can be considered the number of students that are enrolled in our schools and average daily attendance is the rate that they attend our schools. Now in the graph on the left hand side you'll see the 2425 school year

123and that's actually how we ended the year. We had 4,238 students. Now moving over to the right, we are projecting our enrollment to be 4,266 and we're noticing that our enrollment is stable with a gradual increase of students enrolling. So next school year in 26 2026 27 we're projecting an increase of 12 students and then in the following year we're expecting an increase of nine students which is a positive thing for the district. Now in terms of average daily attendance historically our students have attended 93% um but we've passed that. So, our students are showing up. Um, our attendance recovery initiatives are actually kicking in. And so, we're effectively seeing a 94% rate and taking a a slight conservative approach. We're budgeting at 93.8% average daily attendance. Now, thank you, Mr. Pulsifer, for talking about

124all this delicious watermelons. And now when I think of the general fund, and I had a ton of examples, but um when I think of the general fund, we have the unrestricted general fund, which you can think is like an apple, just ready to eat, ready to bite into it. But then you think of the restricted general fund, which is like a rambutan. It has um all of those spikes on it. And let's think of those as requirements. Now, those two together are the combined general fund. We have unrestricted and restricted. Now, in the table on the left hand side, you'll see the district's revenues are 92 million. And you'll see on the right hand side, total expenditures are 100 million. And you think, okay, we're taking in 92 million, but we're spending 100 million.

125What does that mean? Now, the district is spending down carryover funds. Those funds were received in prior years, and now we're actually spending them down to propel student achievement. A couple of things that I would like to highlight is the second interim process. When we presented first interim in December, we had data as of October, but now we have updated grant award information, salaries and benefits as of January. And then we incorporate all of the latest information into second interim. Now, we are spending down those carryover funds. When we isolate the unrestricted general fund, we have $1.1 million in one-time expenditures. That includes things like IT infrastructure projects. Um, but they're not ongoing. They're onetime in nature. When we look at the deficit in the unrestricted general fund and we take out those one-time expenditures,

126it reduces that deficit, which makes the district's financial position look better. um and we take that into consideration and we closely moni mon monitor that deficit spending. So taking out those one-time expenditures in the unrestricted general fund, our structural deficit in the general fund decreases down to 1.2 million. Okay. So let's look at the general fund unrestricted and restricted as a whole and we compared to first interim to see what changed. What are our changes by category? We categorize that into revenues, expenditures, and how that affects the district's fund balance. Now, total revenues increase by 1.5 million, and that includes we have some updated information. Some of our grants have increased and our interest increased as well. And so, we bring that all into consideration. And so, revenues increased 1.5 million. Moving down a little

127bit more, our expenditures, we take projections, include any positions that uh may have been vacant for a couple of months. We include that savings. Now, in the outy years, we do build that back in anticipating that the vacancies are going to be filled, but for the current year, we're recognizing that savings of positions. We take the updated expenditure information and we're seeing a slight decrease of expenditures by 136,000. Now, moving down our reserve for economic uncertainties, which we also consider like the district savings account, and we like to keep that as stable as possible. And so, you'll notice that we've had a change, a slight increase of 563,000, which is just a little bit over a half%, but our reserve is staying stable and with a slight increase. Okay, back to the rambutans, and I

128hope I got that word right. So, our one-time funding that the district is receiving is highly restricted and it's intended to help us um it infuses some resource into the district to help us propel our student achievement and it fund is it funds things like our coaching and intervention programs. Now, one of the programs that I want to highlight is the learning recovery block grant. You'll notice that in 2526 we are using the arts music instructional materials block grant to fund some of the salaries and benefits. And then in 2627 because that funding source expires this year, we're fully spending it and then we're shifting the salaries over into learning recovery. Now the learning recovery block grant, it does have sufficient funds to carry um all of those expenses over the term of the three-year

129projection. Okay. And now moving on to Mr. Herrera to cover multi-year projection assumptions. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Ramos. I always like to go back to this slide here for just a second and talk a little bit about the uh state proposal for the new year budget. And other than special education, no additional ongoing funding at the moment is proposed. Most of it is coming by way of one-time funding. And so this here just illustrates the onetime funding commitments that we have that are supporting some of our ongoing expenditures. And it's going to continue to be that way in order to make sure that we're building the programs for our students given the influx of resources uh through these periods of one-time fundings. Multi-year projection assumptions. So I do want to highlight a few

130of these items on here. One of which is the improvement in enrollment. Also the improvement in average dailya attendance did change our funding methodology to it be based on the current year. We have three options either prior year current year or the average of the three years. When you see improvements in the average daily attendance and enrollment then we're funded on that year. Um also another uh figure worth mentioning is for fiscal year 2627 is a slight downward adjustment to the cost of living adjustment from 2.51 to 2.41. and in the third year out from 3.7 to 3.06. So this is all built into the projections and uh we'll go ahead and get into that in just a second as it relates to our combined balances. On this next table here, we do see a

131a consistent um uh utilization of district funds as it relates to uh reserves and we do we do see a downward trend from 7.76% down to 4.72 in 2728. I do want to share that this does meet the 4.5% reserve requirement and again this is by way of just utilizing those resources to be able to support our educational initiatives. Um we're also meeting the reserve cap maximum of 10% and 2526 just a little bit below that at 9.82 at the moment. Um there is no requirement for the current year but there is a requirement in the subsequent years based on the latest proposals and information. And as you can see, we are also meeting that requirement. But digging deeper into the undersity general fund, which really really is how we are measured um as a

132district in our finances. Uh Mr. Ramos did speak about the one-time expenditures that are in the current year budget. Uh and also we do see some uh deficits been in the sub three subsequent years. However, again, we're still maintaining our reserve levels at this point. the further we go out in time, the more uh possibilities of changes going on. And so we're valuing our budget on an annual basis to make sure that we're maximizing our resources, utilizing restricted funding as much as possible, leveraging onetime funding to be able to build these programs. One of the uh largest programs that was rebuilt just recently was the intervention program. And that's how it's funded. We we get the influx of dollars. We make sure we spend and keep those dollars in banning. And we continue to then

133evaluate next year. What are we doing next year? because again that's the re the way that we are receiving resources by way of the state as of now we do see a slight increase in overall um our overall reserve for economic uncertainties in terms of dollar amount however as the expenditures increase even though dollar amount may increase as compared to first interim I would say as compared to first interim um it it is a factor of total expenditures um in terms of digging into the fund balance components uh we do see here a a very unique um kind of methodology of tracking and identifying expenditures. For example, we'll see under the commitments technology infrastructure. The fiscal team moved over expenditures from this line item and brought it up as an expenditure given some of the

134projects that are going on in Mr. Bera's department. Uh and so another line item that was adjusted was a set aside that we had for labor relations. And so that was all cleared up and then then is freed up. um as part of the overall balances. With that, next steps are the approval of today's interim report. The May revise uh as provided by the governor will be in May. Uh this is LCAP season. Uh we're look at the graphic and carve it off. We're looking at uh almost 50% uh happening in the next few months. And so a lot is going to be uh discussed and as we develop the LCAP and also develop the uh fiscal projections for the new year. Uh with that are there any questions? >> Nobody. Everyone's so stunned by

135your presentation. We're good. >> Thank you, Mr. Herrera. >> Thank you very much. >> All right. All right. I have a motion from Trusty Martinez Lara and a second from Trusty Angiano to approve item 6.4. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 5-0. Item 6.5 2026 California School Board Association Delegate Assembly Election Ballot for Delegate Assembly Subregion 18- A. This item is for the board to elect delegates to the 2026 California School Board Association Delegate Assembly Subregion 18- A. Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 6.5? >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from Trusty Nollis and a second from Trusty Martinez Laura to approve item 6.5. Is there any discussion? We did have a discussion in close

136session just so everyone knows we came to an agreement. Um all those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 5-0. Item 7.1, human resources, notice of public hearing to adopt the sunshine proposals for banning unified school district to the California School Employees Association, CSEA, Chapter 147, for the 2027 2030 successor agreement. The board of trustees will now conduct a public hearing to adopt the sunshine proposals for banning unified school district to the California school employees association chapter 147 for the 2027 through 2030 successor agreement. Now is the time and place for the hearing. I declare that the hearing is now open. The time is 9:29 and 39 seconds. At this time, were there any public comments received reading this item? >> No comments >> regarding I said reading. It's

137getting late. Sorry. Uh, is there anyone here and now that would like to make a comment? I think all right. At this time, hearing that there are no comments, I declare that the public hearing is now closed. The time is 9:30. Uh we are going to take a quick bio break. Item 7.2 Two, human resources. Adopt the sunshine proposals for Banning Unified School District to the classified school employees association for the 2027 2030 successor agreement. This item is for the board to adopt the sunshine proposals for Banning Unified School District to the classified school employees association for the 202730 successor agreement. >> Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 7.2? >> I move. I second. Any discussion or questions? No. I have a motion from Trusty Yango and a second

138from Clerk Troutman to approve item 7.2. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. >> Motion passes. 5-0. Item 7.3 Human Resources California Baptist University Memorandum of Understanding. This item is for the board to approve the memorandum of understanding between Bannon Unified School District and California Baptist University for tuition reimbursements for district employees. Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 7.3? >> I move I second. >> Any discussion or question? I have a motion from clerk Tropman and a second from Trusty Angiano to approve item 7.3. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 5-0. Item 7.4 human resources ISUsa unified school district memorandum of understanding. This item is for the board to approve the memorandum of understanding

139between Bannon Unified School District and ASUSA Unified School District for participation in the bilingual teacher professional development program grant. >> Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 7.4? I'll move. >> I'll second. Any discussion or questions? Yeah, I just have a quick question. Is this for like the bill the billa? >> Yeah, that's exactly what it's for. And what this does is it provides it provides the opportunity for us to ensure that Banning Unified School District teachers can obtain their their bilingual authorization without any charge to the district, >> but through ISUsa. No. >> Yes. Right. >> Yeah. They're actually it's actually a collaborative between the ISUSA Unified School District and Riverside County Office of Education. So the CL program is actually um monitored through ISUsa Unified School District where

140the opportunity of obtaining that BIA is going to be through RCOE. >> Interesting. >> And it's a great benefit to our students and to our district um again because there's no cost to us for this which we would normally have to pay for that. >> Very nice. Thank you. Any other questions or discussion? No. I have a motion from Trusty Martinez Lara and a second from Clerk Troutman to approve item 7.4. All those in favor say I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. 5-0. Item 8.1, business services notices of completion. >> This item is for the board to approve the notices of completion as provided. >> Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 8.1? I'll move. I'll second. >> Any discussion or questions? >> So, this just covers

141the girls uh locker room at Nicolet. And then did I read somewhere about the boys locker room? >> Yes, I believe so. I'm almost certain that that was already completed and notice of completion was already filed as well, but I'll definitely follow up on it. >> Okay. Thank you. I have a motion from Trusty Martinez Lara and a second from clerk Tropman to approve item 8.1. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 50. Item 8.2 business services memorandum of commencement. >> This item is for the board to approve the memorandum of commencement as provided. >> Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 8.2? I'll move. >> I'll second. Any discussion or questions? I have a motion from Trusty Martinez Lara and a

142second from Trusty Nollas to approve item 8.2. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. 50-0. Item 8.3 business services resolution number 26-010 to accept agreement for termination of leases and quit claim deed. This item is for the board to approve resolution number 26-010 to accept agreement for termination of leases and quit claim deed. Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 8.3? >> I move >> a second. >> Any discussion or questions? >> So, does this cancel the 8.2 because it's similar, right? >> That is a great question. And so, these are three closeout items. Uh so because the delivery model for the construction project over at Florida Street Discovery Center expansion uh it was to at least lease back. So we

143have to commence the lease and then close it as part of the the legal requirement. And so in doing this uh there would be a savings in terms of interest uh within those lease payments. I have a motion from Trusty Angiano and a second from Trusty Nollas to approve item 8.3. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 5-0. Item 8.4 business services contractual agreements. >> This item is for the board to approve and or ratify contractual agreements as provided. >> Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 8.4? >> I'll move. >> I'll second. Any discussion or questions? I have a motion from Trusty Martinez Lara and a second from Clerk Troutman to approve item 8.4. All those in favor say I. >>

144I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. >> Motion passes. 5-0. Item 8.5 business services monthly fiscal services reports. This item is for the board to approve monthly fiscal services reports, bank reconciliations, purchase orders, warrant summary, and commercial warrant registers. Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 8.5? >> I move. I'll second. >> Any discussion or questions? >> Yes, ma'am. Um, a while back we requested a little more detail in the reports. For example, there was the ASB one and it only shows like purchase and with the ASB card, but it doesn't say who's per who's doing the purchase or what we're purchasing. And then I had a couple questions on the contracts and purchases as well. >> Um, >> may I ask just to clarify which report are we

145talking about? The ASB bank reconciliation or the commercial warrants? the bank reconciliation if I recall correctly. Um if we or is there a document somewhere that states what we're purchasing, who's purchasing it? >> There are expenditure reports reported uh within the actual ASB works uh system. This is just a bank recolation. Therefore, the information is very limited. But we can uh >> is there a way we can like on our end like a little attachment so that board can see the details of >> we we could definitely look into that. >> And then I had a couple questions on the contracts and purchases. I saw a professional photo shoot for $1,277 and I was just wondering whose professional photo shoot it was. Who was it for? This is a great question. Let me see if

146I can open up document. >> E0025776. >> And then I saw cultural book on there for $768. Sounds real cool. Who's it for? What does it do? Book. A book. A cultural book for $768.13. It sounds cool. I love reading. What is it for? What does it do? Who got it? I'm sorry. Purchase order 776 right now. And I'm looking at the accounting here. Location 502. >> It would be um under Oh, yes. Under human resources. This is for the um >> the employee of the year event. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And that's what I meant by like can we get a little extra detail in there just so we're not asking follow-up questions. If we had a little detail in there, I I wouldn't have even brought up the question.

147Um, >> wait, I want to hear about the cultural book. >> Oh, okay. >> And what was the other one? I'm sorry. >> Cultural books 768 with 13 cents P 0025807. >> 807. Thank you. Cultural books. That seems to be expenditure under the um title that was Indian ed. Okay. It was Indian education as it relates to the instructional services department. Um I don't know if we have the information now but we can follow up >> specifically for >> Thank you. Um we've we were informed that that some of our athletes don't haven't had an update in their uniform for like five years. I saw a couple purchases for uniforms on there. P0025763 uh for the amount of $5,62546. A couple of lines down there's another purchase for 6542. Also says athlete uniforms. Can we

148just get a detail like, oh, we bought baseball uniforms, cheerleader uniforms, or whatever the case may be. So that I mean, I hope someone's keeping track. That way when uniforms need to be replaced, we know we bought these that day and they're at their lifespan. Like we've used them up, we can get new ones type of thing. >> Absolutely. Mr. Mason has done a great job in working with the fiscal team of developing a document to track those uniforms and having replacement cycles. Um and so there there are systems in place and we can definitely pull that information that's requested. >> Awesome. Thank you, Mr. Eera. Um, I saw a knots PBIS incentive field trip on there. Doesn't say who it's for. >> Well, there's a charge on there for $2375 for a field trip

149to Knottberry Farm PBIS incentive. >> That looks like it is a um under the supplemental concentration for positive learning environment under uh new horizons and all. >> They get the cool field trips, huh? It is a field trip entrance fee based on the object code. Correct. >> Um, quick question. I saw a field trip to the Angel Stadium. It said for steam purposes and I was just wondering how the baseball game or going to the stadium falls under steam. >> It is. Um, I I did look at this one at some point and I recall seeing the uh the framework behind that and there's a lot of just physics behind it. I don't know if uh Dr. Cosy Bush would like to uh provide a little bit more information because it was very detailed in

150terms of what they were doing out in the field as it related to some of the scene activities. >> Oh, so they didn't just go watch a baseball game like they got more to it. >> It's an educational field trip based on what my record >> Oh, that sounds really cool. And all right, >> I think that was all of them. I'll continue to go through my list and I'll email everybody because I did have quite a few, but I don't want to keep everybody. Thank you though. >> Absolutely. Thank you very much. >> I do have one question about that. Um, baseball uniforms. If we haven't uh fixed our baseball ball uniforms for three or four, five years, um why are we not doing that? >> That's not not my understanding in terms of

151the uh the uniforms um having that type of life cycle. They're usually replaced on a three-year life cycle, but we can follow up with uh the athletics department over at the high school to see what is it that the latest purchase was on the baseball team's uniforms. >> Okay. Thank you. I have a motion from Trusty Angiano and a second from Trusty Martinez Lara to approve item 8.5. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. 5 Z. Item 9.1. Board members comments. Who wants to go first? >> I'll do it. Okay. Um recently, um I've been on several educational walks. I think those were discussed tonight. But one thing stands out very clearly is um that AVID is alive and well in our classrooms. I was

152very excited to see that. So, thank you administrators and teachers for creating learning environments that um ask the essential questions that peak inquiry and um actively engage students in the learning process. It's encouraging to see the implementation of the organizational skills as well and the study techniques that help uh students of all levels access learning. This was something that we were discussing um uh for uh all of our special education students. And so I'm glad to see that that's happening uh because you've connected also uh classroom learning to real world situations to further engage our students which I I think is very exciting. Um all of your professional development and open communication with each other is evident and commendable. Um these incredible changes are vital to the development developmental success of our students now and

153well into their futures. I'm really excited to see where we're going to go as these changes uh become the standard practice in every student uh every classroom throughout our district. So, I thank you for your consistent dedication and professionalism. our students do deserve the very best and I'm happy to see um at Banning High School and also at Nicollet um the improvement um I think through this rigor and through uh planned communication that we can look forward to seeing even more. Thank you. >> Can I go? Yeah. All right. So, first of all, I want to apologize for not being here last month for the board meeting. Um however, we all need to practice self-care, right? So, just as we need to do it, I hope that you guys are doing it, too, because burnt

154out is real and I know we all carry a lot on our plates. Um, I hope everyone enjoyed the president's week off. Um, and I haven't been to many school events. However, um, I did participate in the lip palooa and that was an amazing event. It really felt um, you felt it. I felt it inside of me like the excitement of seeing the community, seeing so many people, the booths. Um, our student performances were amazing and just seeing so much participation. My daughter loved the pet therapy section with all the puppies and dogs. Um, so it really did tailor to our students and our community. And so thank you to everyone who was part of that. Um, and I look forward to hopefully participating in more of our district events. But I'm really excited and

155looking forward to our spring season and then the the end in June. So I hope you guys have a great night. Thank you. L Palooa was really lit. I saw kids coming out of there crying, begging for their parents not to take them away because you know the event was ending at 7:00 and some of these parents were taking them away at 600. These babies were out there throwing tantrums about getting pulled away from the school site. That was a sight to see. So, that was amazing. Thank you to everyone who participated, who worked so hard cuz I'm very sure that that had a lot of planning behind it. My babies had so much fun from the kindergartener all the way to the 12th grader. They had so much fun running around getting the little

156stamps on all in all the booths. Even if it wasn't for the prize at the end, they just had so much fun running around there getting their face painted by the students from um Kums. So much fun. So much fun. Um I'm guessing and betting that these babies will want something like that sometime soon again cuz it was it was so much fun even for me as an adult. I want to congratulate all of our seniors that are um about to graduate and I want to congratulate them specifically for all of their acceptances that they are receiving to all the colleges because it is amazing to see the excitement when they receive their acceptances. Um it's the culmination of all their hard work and their parents' hard work. So, congratulations to all of our seniors

157that are graduating and in special my baby Nia. She's graduated and got accepted to Cal State San uh San Diego. So, I'm so excited for her. Um, so I'll keep it short. I I'm sorry I couldn't make it to Lit a Palooa. That was my self-care. Um, but I I did I did I missed out. Um but uh I appreciate the presentations that took place tonight. I know that it takes time and energy to put those together and thank you for uh the information provided and the followup questions to come. Um I hope everyone has a great night and a safe drive home. Make me go last. Um I actually attended two literature events. I attended the one at Heimmer which um I loved. I love going and just seeing like the small community feel

158and then comparing it to the Lip Palooa at Hoffer. A much different feel, but still you saw the same excitement and happiness on the students and the parents' faces. Um, I appreciate all of you who come here every month. Stick with us till late at night, do your presentations. Um, I want to echo a lot of what that end of the day said. um exciting time of year, all the kids getting their acceptance letters, getting ready for graduation, fears of moving on, and all the great things that life will hold for them. Um I want to thank each and every one of you and everyone who's not here that is involved in their lives daily and who have taught them and encouraged them and support them. And I just I love our community and I

159love our district. So, thank you. Item 10, future board items. Anybody have a future board item? All right. I would actually like to I don't know if this is for a board item, but um to see uh what we're planning as far as our projects go. Is that something that we can put on the board or is that >> I'll leave that up to you, but it's okay. a mic, but we have asked for that a couple times. All right. Item 13.1, adjourn meeting. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> I I'll move. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from Trusty Nollas and a second from Trusty Martinez Lara to adjurnn this meeting. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. 50. This meeting is adjourned

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