001Welcome to the September 11th, 2025 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. I do it now. >> Clerk Gangiano, please take role. >> Trustee Martinez Laura, >> present. >> Trusty Nales, >> present. >> Trustee Troutman. >> President Ruiz, >> present. >> And clerk Angiano is present. Please let the record reflect that we have a quorum. As we begin today's meeting, I would like to request a moment of silence to honor and remember the lives lost and the heroes of September 11th, 2001. On September >> on September 11th, 2001, now known as 911 or Patriot Day, there were several terrorists attacked that killed a total of 2,977
002people and injured thousands more at the World Trade Center, New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and Stony Creek Township in Virginia. These events forever changed our history and our future. Please take a moment of silence. Thank you. We now invite our cadet core to present the colors ahead of the pledge of allegiance. Left right left right left. M times left face and arms. Please place your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Order, colors, right, faith. For march, left, left, left, right, left. Oh no. Item 1.3 adopt agenda. Are there any changes to the agenda? >> No changes to the agenda.
003Are there any board requests to change the agenda? Do I have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda as posted? >> I move a second. >> I have a motion from Trusty Troutman and a second from Trusty Nollis. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. The agenda is adopted with a 50-0 vote. Item 1.4 4 student board member oath of office and report. We are excited to have this year's student board member with us today. Welcome Mary Adi. >> Defe Oh, Brto. >> That's going to take some practice. I'm sorry. >> Thanks, Mr. Davis. Before we get to hear from her, we will administer her oath of office >> if we can have you, Mary. and uh or president uh down below. Then we can take
004the oath and then we'll after we'll take pictures with the rest of the board. Okay. So, this is the student board member oath of office. You ready? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, repeat after me. I marry Adfeto. >> I Mary Ade Brito. >> Say it much better than I did. Pledge to fulfill my duties as the student representative. pledge to fulfill my duties as the student representative >> to the Banning Unified School District >> board of trustees >> serving as a liaison >> between the governing body of the school district >> between the governing body of the school district >> and all banning students during the 2526 school year >> and all banning students to during the 2526 school year >> to provide insight >> and assist the board with decision- making >> and assist
005the board with decision making >> on the items that impact our students. >> Good job. Congratulations. >> It's mine. Thank you. Item 1.5, student presentations. I would like to invite Dr. Kosy Bush to the podium to introduce this evening's student presentations. Good evening, President Ruiz, Clerk Angiano, and distinguished members of the Bannon Unified School District Board of Trustees, and to our newest student board member and our superintendent, U, Mr. Davis. It is my pleasure to invite some very special citizens um this evening to present some information on their respective school sites. And kicking off the year for elementary this evening, we have two students representing Central Elementary School, including Diego Garcia Sopa. Come on up. And Isabella Lada Martinez. Good evening, board president Buis, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Davis, and members of the
006banning community. Hello, my name is Diego Garcia, and I'm Isabella Lara Martinez. We are proud fifth grade ponies from Central Elementary. >> Great news. Our school earned a platinum PBIS award on the first day. We rocked the red carpet with smiles. Platino PBIS. Alra roaas. >> Our teachers are collaborating a lot. We also have fun activities coming up like Saturday Academy and our Hispanic heritage celebration. Erenia is we continue to focus on keeping our school positive and fun with attendance days students of the month lunches be PE art music and steamed classes all ponies completed all the first I ready And our principal is preparing an awesome I Ready party. grandest. Reading is also a big goal and we have already read over 7 million words so far. Thank you for supporting our amazing ponies.
007>> Do you have any questions? >> Thank you for the translation in Spanish. You did really well. All right. Wow. And you all were the first to open us up for this year. You should be very proud of yourselves. Very hard speaking in front of an audience. Representing our middle school this year is ASB president is Yoritzi Morales. Thank you. Good evening, board president Ruiz, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Davis, and members of the banning community. My name is Uditzi, and I am Nichollet Middle School's president, and I'm here to share highlights of this month's important events at our school. We started the year with back to school night on August 20th. The event was a lot of fun with games, activities, and even nothing but cakes. ASB was in charge of selling spirit
008gear, which helped bring out our Palomino pride. On September 4th and 5th, we held Club Rush. It was a great success with many students signing up for both new and returning clubs. Some of the new clubs include the ASL club, where students learn sign language, and the poetry club, where students can write and share creative poems. of our fall sports season is now underway. The softball team recently played their first game at Banning High School. Cheer held triyouts and announced their new team members. The golf team has already begun practicing and cross country had its first practice earlier this week. This week we are focusing on mental health awareness through a special spirit week. Looking ahead, we have several exciting events planned. Clubs will be participating in food day where they will sell food and
009drinks. We also have our AVID door decorating contest where advisory classes compete for a prize. Another fun event is our first color run where students will run laps while being splashed with colored powder. Finally, we are preparing for our Hispanic Heritage Celebration, an opportunity to honor and celebrate Mexican heritage and culture. Thank you for your time and support. We are excited for a great school year filled with learning, school spirit, and community. And representing our high school this evening, we have Jasmine Verdusco representing Kum's Alternative Education. Hello from Kum September 11, 2025 board presentation. Good evening, board president Ruiz, distinguished members of the board, um, Superintendent Davis, and members of the banning community. I am Jasmine Verusco from New Horizons High School, a proud member of the class of 2026. I am honored to be
010this year's Kum student speaker, sharing our district's message and some of our highlights. Kum's alt ed had an awesome turnout for our back to school night on August 6th. Students and family members enrolled, signed contracts, received schedules, and met their new teachers and saw their new classrooms. Congratulations are in order for New Horizon senior Elizabeth S. selected as banning Bulmont September student of the month. In audition, Elizabeth just completed all of her credits. She is New Horizon's first stu graduate for 202526. Graduating seniors complete a career readiness portfolio and read their very own winning attitude statements, reflecting on their time at New Horizons. Elizabeth wrote, "If something is difficult for me, I'll see my way through. That's my way of winning. When I see it as possible, I'll push through no matter what." Elizabeth's grades
011contribute contributations to new horizons and her goal to enlist in the military remind us we are banning kum's co-ed volleyball team seasons season has begun their first match was today and the team is off to a great start thank you coach AA coach Sanchez and coach Taylor for leading our team PBIS pride success New Horizons earned Our first conse consecutive platinum state recognition award from California PBIS. PBIS pride means improved academics and attendance. 20 29 students earned par one recognition a new record. Nine students earned perfect attendance for a for August. Great job students. Shout out to Mr. preventure and live stream. Together, they hosted our first KUS blood drive in over eight years. Students volunteered to help and donate earning community service credit hours and over $750 for ASB. Liveream said thanks to Kums
01284 84 people will have another tomorrow. In addition, the esports club with Mr. preventure has officially started this year. Now housed in the new and improved wellness center. If you are on campus, be sure to come by room 207 to check it out. Weekdays from 12 to 1 while on campus, stop by room 101 to see Miss Erica's Guzman's Glam Lab, home to the Kums cosmetology club, which meets daily before and after school. Finally, we are happy to say that Miss Delene, UC Riverside's Master's Gardener is back to help New Horizon School students with their fall garden feature, featuring new plants and a new garden design. Thank you for allowing me to share Kum's alternative report with you. And representing Banning High School asked the ASB president this evening is Lillian Andres. Good evening, board
013president Ruiz, distinguished members of the board, Superintender Davis, and members of the banning community. My name is Liliana Andere, and I am this year's ASB president. I am grateful for the opportunity to stand before you and provide you with the highlights from this high school. I'm excited to share a few highlights from student life at Banning High School. Our campus has been buzzing with energy as students have jumped right back into the school year. Tomorrow we kick off our very first food fest of the year, which is always a favorite tradition. It's not just about good food. It's an opportunity for our students clubs to raise funds for their activities and events. This year, I am proud to share that we now have over 25 clubs on campus. From academic honor societies to cultural groups,
014athletics, and special interests, our students have more opportunities than ever to get involved, build connections, and find their niche at BHS. We also started the year off strong with a welcome back pep rally. It was an enthusiastic celebration that brought our entire student body together. The energy was contagious. Students and staff alike were excited to see the tone for a year filled with school spirit, pride, and community. Looking ahead, we have a number of exciting events on the horizon. Senior night for fall sports are beginning next week where we will celebrate and honor the accomplishments of our senior athletes. And of course, the highly anticipated homecoming is right around the corner. Sorry, I lost where I was. Uh oh. Um, it was enthusiastic celebration and brought our entire student body together. The energy was contagious.
015Students and staff alike were excited to set the tone for a year filled with school spirit, pride, and community. Looking ahead, we have a number of exciting events on the horizon. Senior night for fall sports are beginning next week. We will celebrate and honor the highly anticipated homecoming is right around the corner. This year's is scary carnival and our students are already buzzing with creative ideas to make it a memorable memorable and spirited celebration for everyone to enjoy. At Banning High School, our goal is to make sure that every student feels connected. Whether through clubs, events, rallies, or traditions, it's been inspiring to see our students lead with excitement and enthusiasm. And I can't wait to see how this year continues to unfold. Thank you for your support of our students and their activities. That
016concludes our student reports for this evening. Thank you. Thank you. We're going to go back and do the student board members report. Good evening, President Ruiz, distinguished members of the board and superintendent Davis and members of the Banning community. My name is Mary Ade Ferbrto and I am a proud member of the associate student body, the senior class and so much more here at Banning High School. I am truly grateful for this opportunity to stand before you today and to represent not only my senior class but the student body as a whole. As a student representative, I view this role as both an honor and a responsibility. It is my duty to advocate for my peers, to share their voices, and to ensure that the student perspective is always included in the conversation. I take
017great pride in being entrusted with this position and I am committed to doing with doing it with sincerity and dedication. One of my goals for this school year is to improve the mental health of our students here at Banning. Creating a space where they feel safe and comfortable to share their struggles and gain the support that they deserve. The beginning of the school year has been filled with excitement, energy, and school spirit. And I could not be more thrilled about what lies ahead for campus events and from campus events to rallies to upcoming milestones for senior year and homecoming. Of course, it is a very special time for our student body. I am also looking forward to working alongside each one of you, our board members, administrators, and community leaders to make this school year
018one of growth, connection, opportunity for all students. Thank you again for welcoming me, for supporting the voices of students at Banning High School. Item 1.6, opportunity for community comments on close session items. Did we receive any comments? >> No comments. >> Item two, close session. The board will now go into close session. The time is 5:54. We are back from close session. The time is 7:48. Clerk Angiano, please take role. >> Trustee Martinez Lara, >> present. >> Trusty Nales, >> present. >> Trusty Troutman, >> present. >> President Ruiz, >> present. >> And clerk Angiano is present. Please let the record reflect that we have a quorum. >> Thank you. Item 3.1, report from close session. Clerk Angiano, please share. >> In close session, the board of trustees approved case cases number uh 2023-24-13, case number
0192023-24-14 and case number 2023-24-15. The students will be attending the long-term independent studies program. Item 2.2 in close session, the board received information and was updated. Item 2.3, in close session, the board received information and was updated. Item 2.4, in close session, the board received information. Item 3.2, opportunity for community comments, open session items. Have we received any more community comments? Just the two. Okay, go ahead. Good. Individuals who wish to address the board on matters which affect the district and its programs are requested to complete a request to address board of trust trustees card and submit it to the administrative assistant. Speakers are asked to limit comments to three 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
020matters to the district staff or take under adisement for a future meeting. All speakers are reminded to be respectful and courteous. At this time, I would like to ask Miosha Washington to please come forward. students staff, school staff have called the police on me or had officers waiting before I even had a chance to speak. Tuesday 99 2025. I came to the school calmly after being talked to unprofessionally and hung up on by assistant principal Williamson. I asked to speak with someone and immediately threatened with the rest for trespassing before the conversation even started. Let's be clear. I have never been aggressive nor have I caused a scene, nor have I been disrespectful to school staff. But it seems that my presence alone is being treated as a threat. This is just frustrating. It's frightening.
021And as a parent of a student receiving special education services, it feels as though it's retaliatory. Under the Individuals with Disability Act in section 504, I have the legal right to ad advocate for my child without fear of punishment, exclusion, or intimidation. The US Department of Education clearly states that retaliation for parent advocacy is a violation of federal law. No parent should be afraid to walk onto their child's campus. No parent should feel criminalized for asking questions or standing up for their child's needs. And no school should use police presence as a first response to communication. I am respectfully asking the board to number one investigate these incidences thoroughly for the past two school years. Number two, clarify the district's policies for parent school interactions. Number three, ensure that the parents of students with IEPs
022are protected for retaliation when exercising their rights. I'm also requesting a meeting with the superintendent or a district representative to address this matter in good faith as I've already went through the chain of command. Thank you for your time. You guys have a good night. Now I'd like to call Maria Lopez Torres. Hello, good evening um board, cabinet members and community. I am here uh regarding a followup from my my the time I came last month regarding the special education classes, life skills classes at the middle school high school. Um, I as of today have not had any followup regarding what is going to happen with life skills, whether they are going to get a kitchen setup, if they're going to get a laundry setup, anything. I haven't heard from anyone in the district. Haven't
023heard anything besides what the teacher is trying to do in the classroom. I have also yet to hear anything of having any of you the district cabinet members or board members go and show up and do a visit for the classroom. the teacher. I know the teacher is doing her best for the middle school with what she has and I am actually I love that she is able to do what she can with what she or the means that she has but it's not fair that that is what she has to do because any other classes any other gen ed classes need a computer they need something they right away have it and not in life skills. So again, I am here to see if I will get a follow-up. And again, I am here
024to invite you guys to please visit our life skills classes. I know to some of you it might not be as important as our gened, but they are they are to us as parents just as important as a genet or honor classes. Thank you. Thank you. Item 3.3, BTA comments. I would like to welcome BTA President Anthony Garcia. >> Good evening everyone. Um, just want to report things are still going pretty smoothly. Couple small issues around the district, but nothing we've been able not been able to handle. Um, look forward to getting somebody in HR soon and hopefully starting up negotiations to talk about spend and safety. Thank you. >> Item 3.4 CSEA comments. I would like to welcome CSSE President Jennifer Serrano. Good evening. I'm Jennifer Serrano, president of Banning Chapter 147. Um before
025you tonight, you guys will be approving hopefully um our negotiations that we just settled. Um we worked well with the district and I thank um Mr. Herrera for taking the lead on the negotiations. It went well and we're pretty pleased. And I'd just like to welcome um Kurt on and I hope to start a great relationship, working relationship with him. Thank you. >> Item four, superintendent comments. >> Good evening, Miss Ruiz. Uh members of the board, our community, just a few things to report. I think we're off to a really good start uh academically and with athletics uh and all of our programs. We're proud of the work that's being done. I know there's a lot of work that's being done in the summer and I don't think school has settled in yet. And maybe
026that's just my perspective. I'm seeing head shakes. No, but we're going to get there. Uh we have added a lot of classrooms given the growth that we've had. I think we're uh more than our projected student account uh student amount. So, that's positive news for our district. Um I really want you to take a listen to the last podcast. the last podcast, the Banning Real Talk podcast. Uh Mr. Pulsifer is on that episode. Um and oh, look, he's he's waving to the crowd there. Excellent. Uh but Mr. Pulfer talks about nutrition. He is a registered dietitionian. And we talked about how nutrition is the center of everything that we do, the center of everything. So, it's a really good podcast regarding students and your excitement for what we do for our students. So, thank you.
027And there were some good posts out there from parents about it as well. So that was pretty awesome. Um I can clearly see the dedication, hard work of all of our staff, all of our staff. Um our administrators, our board, there's things that our board does that people don't see, but obviously we all put in the time and effort and uh care about our community and our students. And I'm really pr proud of that uh to that dedication. Uh I clearly also see this year the shift to instruction. It is about time. It is about time. School districts are supposed to be about academics. They're supposed to be about how we develop students. And it's taken us a while to fully get into that. And it's clear in my mind over the past 20 years
028or so uh that we've had dedicated staff that try to do the best that they're doing. But I'm not sure the guidance and support has always been there in all honesty. There's been a lot of labor issues in the past. I think we're beyond all of that as both Anthony and Jennifer have come up here to talk about where we're at. Those are all positive things. So yes, we're moving in the right direction, but until our scores drastically improve, that's when we were known we were well on our way. And I think you will see that this year when we do our learning walks and when we have other information that we share. Finally, I do want to thank uh personally Anthony Garcia and Jennifer Serrano for your patience and your grace during this time
029and you know what that means. Um and I know that you work really really hard on trying to keep the labor peace because when we have those conversations that's what you share with me. these are the issues that come up. How do we resolve them? And things go south when they're not resolved or you're not heard or people aren't heard. But I just really want to thank you for your dedication and your time to keep things moving forward. And again, thank you for your grace and your patience. Thank you. >> Item five, consent calendar. >> The recommendation is to approve consent calendar agenda items 5.2 2 through 5.4 as provided. All matters listed under the consent calendar agenda are considered to be routine and enacted by one motion and vote. There is no separate discussion
030of these items prior to the time the board of trustees considers the motion unless a member of the board or administrative staff request that specific items be discussed and or removed. >> 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 Trusty Nollis and a second from Trusty Troutman. All those in favor say I. I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 5-0. Item 6.1 Central Elementary School presentation. I would like to invite Dr. Gutierrez and team to share tonight's presentation. Good evening, President Board President Ruiz, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Davis, and members of the community. I'm Gutierrez and I am the new and very proud new principal at Central Elementary, the home of the
031ponies. Thank you so much. Thank you for that. And today I have our wonderful new full-time assistant principal. >> Good evening board. Hi, mania the assistant principal. and to together we're super excited to share you know this is a celebratory presentation because every year that we begin is always exciting. So our purpose continues to be to prepare inspire and educate and everything that we do at Central revolves around the school board's priorities which is to serve our students the best and yeah we'll smile for Angel there. Um well, okay. So, adds um Oh, okay. Uh we just revisited our central vision as a staff and our new vision is building strong foundations one pony step at a time. Unanimous decision. And we're currently serving uh as the great dual immersion school that we are. We're
032currently serving this year 720 students from kinder through fifth. Uh 80% of them are considered soioeconomically disadvantaged and 24 English language learners. In our dual immersion, we have 368 students. We're very popular and it is we're doing great with Spanish as you can see by our presenters, English and Mandarin. So, we began back to school the central way. And as you can see, all of our staff here in the cafeteria, we managed to fit together, but we welcome our ponies with a red carpet, uh, lots of pictures, lots of smiles, and we wanted to make sure that they felt welcome and that we're happy to see them again. And of course, we introduce ourselves to them. and with our staff as you could see our NPR changed quite a lot, right? Uh but right here
033we welcome we took a little a little break from our busy agenda to um to give uh gratitude for each other to recognize each other's efforts and all the positive things. So, we had a a team building activity called the gratitude ponchos, you know, and the gratitude ponchos are, you know, everybody writes on on their poncho positive things on what they're why they're grateful for each other and at the end they take their ponchos for a rainy day so that they remember that we are one banning family, one central family and we have each other to look forward. So, that that was very exciting. So we started the year off with gratitude. Uh our central goals and priorities continue to be in alignment with our board. Of course, academic achievement, narrowing the achievement gaps, culture
034and climate, positive school culture and climate, and community and family engagement. For academic achievement, we now have our learning center and it is designed to close the achievement gaps uh by providing interventions that are data driven. Everything we do revolves around data. So data drives instructions and interventions. There's our new intervention teachers, Mr. Estraa and Miss Kindred. And of course we, you know, we're all about literacy. So we are launching a literacy initiative. It's already there, but we are rebooting it at Central. It remains, literacy remains at the forefront of our priorities. Um, and as you could see by just our AR alone, it's been, I think, a month barely, right? And we're reading over 7 million words in counting. The students are reading lots of books. They've already taken 2,943 uh uh AR quizzes
035with 85% or above and that was like u a few days before. So the children are into reading and that's what we want. We want to foster that love of learning, the love of reading. So professional development is at the forefront. Uh professional learning communities as well. Uh so we our our staff is on board. They are excited. We're collaborating. We've had already great uh professional developments and trainings. One of them being the Irvine math project, you know. Um and we are getting ready to engage in our data chats and goal setting. Um our teachers are collaborating dur during our level PE planning, lesson planning, looking at data and all for the ponies. And of course we continue to be an avid school. Um so we already held one uh week walkthroughs to went to
036see some classrooms. We got some feedback from RCOE and it's so great. We're on a good start. And the focus of course is on writing and inquiry. That's the focus for this year. But um as a dual immersion school, we're holding our dual immersion meetings and we are collaborating with Nichollet. You know, they're coming to our site. we're going to their site. So, um it's exciting. Um so, lots of collaboration, lots of planning, lots of data chats, and all for our ponies. For the first trimester, we completed our diagnostic for I Ready with 97% uh in reading and 99% math. This is really good. That means the kids came to school and they took the test. And our instructional groupings are determined based on the data from our assessment. And now we'll talk about climate
037and culture. And I pass it on to Mr. Annayia. >> All right. Good evening. So um here at Central, uh we are a PBIS school and um something that we actually inherited. So I can't take credit for this but for the teachers >> we'll keep >> but we we will keep it and keep it going. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um but uh we were recognized as a California PBIS platinum IM implementation award uh which is the highest California PBIS recognition. So that is great. Um like I said something that the previous um administration and staff teacher and obviously the current teachers and staff um worked really hard to provide the data input the work and so that's something that we are excited to say hey as the new administration this is awesome they've already had something
038great so we're just going to keep it going as a reminder California PBIS partners with schools and communities to implement evidence-based culturally relevant practices through a multi-tered system. So, it's just a way of how we address um getting kids excited about school behavior, social, and emotional and behavioral outcomes. So, it's really a planned way of addressing students with a multi-tered system of support of creating tier 1, two, and three um groups. and as far as our our groups and our staff to make sure that we address those students and and give them the help they need. Um especially those at the tier 2 and tier three um grouping. Uh continuing on with our climate and and our culture, we have the central wellness room. If you see these pictures, uh it's basically what our counselor
039and the district has was able to help provide for this first year of the wellness room. The primary purpose of the wellness room is to serve tier 2 and three students as well as any student in immediate need of deescalation or counseling support. Uh the room aligns with our schoolwide AVID and PBIS and social emotional learning initiatives that the teachers through the guidance of the counselor implement lessons in the classrooms to ensure that students experience a safe, calming and restorative environment. If you notice, the environment looks very uh welcoming um with the you know wobble chairs, flexible seating, uh the you know the flooring on the carpet, a lot of activity kind of spaces, pillows, just things, colors. So it really has helped out, right? Cuz when a student is wanting to calm down or
040something, maybe our administrative offices aren't the most welcoming, right? So this really provides that along working with the counselor for them to be able to calm themsel calm themselves down and just be ready to return to the classroom. Uh student celebration. So things that uh we actually already started with student of the month we had last week lunch with the principles. You'll see a picture after this slide. Students were recognized right chosen by their teachers as far as for the student of the month. Um and we recognized them by having um them have a a special lunch that was on the stage in the NPR. Uh we had table and chairs decorated nicely. Um and the students were able to be seen by their classmates who were having their lunch and so they felt really
041special in the sense that they got a special lunch different from everybody else. At the same time they were just able to be seen from others. So, it just really made it a lot more special for them. So, we took pictures with them and shared it with their families. So, they were really excited about that. Um, we're going to be having our rock trimester awards right once we get to the end of that celebrating students with perfect attendance and achievement awards as well as also with AVID and PBIS. Um, as mentioned, right, I Ready growth celebrations we will have, right? they took the first diagnostic and then we're going to look at obviously when they make their growth hopefully from the first to the second diagnostic test in both ELA and math and of course
042attendance growth celebrations making sure that we recognize those students that come to school every day on time don't leave early and realize the importance of being at school on a daily basis and how that empowers them to be successful in school when they're there So, here's a picture of uh as far as the lunch with the principles. As you can see, our wonderful front office staff helped to decorate. You see the smiles uh with the balloons and just the decorations on the back. And so, we had that from every from every grade level starting from kindergarten at our first lunch all the way to fifth grade. Um you would think maybe the fifth graders ah I feel awkward. know they were loving it being up there and you know provided them with their beverage and
043their food and so they really felt special. I had told them I said hey you know you can go to after your lunch is over you can go off to recess. The majority of them decided to stay. They they forego their recess because I think they really enjoyed just staying there and kind of having that spotlight uh in front of their classmates. So we will continue to do that uh every month until the end of the school year recognizing those students for their hard work and dedication in academics and um you know positive behavior. Continuing on as far as attendance matters. So this is our uh as we said data driven right. So our average daily attendance for uh summary for August of this year uh we have from kindergarten all the way to fifth
044grade. If you notice, and I'm sure you're probably maybe familiar with the California Department of Education, they kind of always they state good education, I'm sorry, good attendance is marked at usually 95% or above. So, if you notice, every grade level is at 95 or 96 with the school total of 95.8%. So, we're in the right direction of making sure kids come to school. And I will pass it on back to Dr. So, of course, community and family engagement continues to be at the forefront because we couldn't do anything, you know, without our partners, our district partners, our school partners, and our community. So, we are working very hard to recruit volunteers and to and to invite our community to join our school. uh you know our ELAC and our booster club, our school site
045council and we are forming we continue to build that parent volunteer list. So all parents are welcome to stop by central. We have work for everyone. It takes a village to raise and educate all of our students. And at this time we're open to any questions, comments. I I want to say welcome to Central. I was very excited about your program and I'm sorry I haven't been over there yet. Just wanted to give you a little bit of time to settle in, but I can't wait to come and see it. Um the attendance is amazing. I love your plan. I always love your enthusiasm. Um welcome, Mr. Naya. And you >> Thank you. have an absolutely wonderful um partner in in education. Um I think I think you're the perfect person to take over the
046the beautiful um the beautiful standard that has been set for you. Um this is very exciting. This is such good news and thank you so much for sharing it. >> Thank you. We appreciate it. I would also like to say thank you for stepping into that role. It it's it's extremely appreciated and um hearing good things. So I thank you very much for bringing your wonderful bubbly happy energy to the school. I I I personally love that. I I I love that about you. And Mr. Annayia, welcome and thank you for, you know, helping and doing everything you do. I I can't even begin where to list where everything you do, but we are extremely grateful for everything you both are doing and continue to do. So, please keep up the good work. Thank you
047very much. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Thank you for your ongoing trust, support, and collaboration. Good night. Item 6.2, student services presentation. I would like to invite Dr. Merlos and team to share tonight's presentation. Or just Dr. Merlo. >> Yes, just me. I am the team. >> All right. Right. Well, good evening, uh, board president Ree, uh, board of trustees, Superintendent Davis, and of course the community that's here tonight. Uh, it's a pleasure to be here. Uh, I made it through my first year and it's been a great year. Uh, learned a lot, and now we're continuing to, uh, improve our supports. So, um, my office, the Office of Student Services, our main goal is to really support our mission statement, uh, our vision, our values, and of course, our district goals
048and our board priorities. Now, that's a lot, and Mr. Davis mentioned earlier, uh, our focus is instruction. So, we do focus on instruction and I will speak on that in a little bit, but I want to start with one of the, uh, the major components that come out of my office and that's centralized uh, registration. Um, this is actually the first office that anyone who's new to the district sees. They come in, they're registered. So, we definitely try to put a good face. We definitely try to point them in the right direction. And we've learned quite a bit of things that have improved our system. So, this first chart and and please, there's not going to be a quiz on this. This is just for visualisation. But what I like to show you is that
049within our district, our enrollment fluctuates and it fluctuates quite a bit throughout the year. That's why you see those up and downs. These are snapshots about every two weeks or so. Um, you also see a big drop from the first bar to the next one. And this is one of the systems that we needed to fix moving forward. Um, our data looks a lot better now. And what that does is that it helps us on the instructional side because now we're able to provide the proper staffing, uh, the instructional materials, the proper training, and so forth. So you can see on the graph on the right that there's no huge drop off now. There's still a little bit of up and down and that's normal. Uh any given week we can gain 20 students, lose
05020 students. That's just fairly normal. But what we love about the trends right now is that we are actually with more kids than we were expecting this school year, which is a good thing. Uh and it's not something that most districts in our area are experiencing. So we were expecting um 4,243 kids. We have about 36 more kids than we were expecting and three schools actually stand out. So at Hemorling they actually right now as of Monday they have 21 more students that they were expecting and that prompted us to actually open one more class within that um school. At Hoffer they also have 21 more kids than they were expecting and we actually opened two classes at that school. And then Florida Street Discovery Center has been the big winner. uh 24 new kiddos
051than we were expecting and we actually have opened three classes there and even as of earlier this week we're actually looking at opening one more class. Um we don't know where exactly yet but keep in mind that we are definitely keeping um track of these numbers and we're keeping our commitment to a not have combo classes but also have our classes where our teachers can really do their job. So that's very important. Now the other thing that comes out of my office is our community relations as well and we have our district community liaison that works under me. Uh one of our big events that we do every year is a backpack distribution. Uh because of facilities issues we did a little bit different this year. We actually held an entire week where parents could
052come in and get a backpack get instructional resources and it actually worked out better than we expected. Uh we distributed over 900 backpacks this year. uh which was more a lot more than what we've done the last couple of years. So, we're very proud of that. Uh there's a lot more things coming out of our community liaison. Uh we're going to start with some parenting classes as well and we're going to start rolling that out over the next couple of weeks. Now, uh going back to the instructional piece when it comes to the programmatic portion of what we focus on now, we all support the academics. Uh but in the world of MTSS, uh multi-ter systems of support, we know that it's divided into four realms. the academics, the attendance, the behavior, and the social
053emotional learning. So, my office, although we support the academics, our focus is the attendance, the behavior, and the social emotional supports. Now, there's quite a bit of programs there, and in order to be able to support these programs and support our staff and our kids, uh we need funding. Uh my office gets quite a bit of funding from Title One. We also get funding through LCFF. But one of the things that I learned a long time ago is that there's a lot of funding in the form of grants and it's not necessarily easy, but technically you write a proposal and they give you money to be able to execute that proposal. So in the spring we wrote quite a few grants and these are five that we were actually able to secure. Now some have
054very uh interesting names like the first one, learning communities for school success program. So when you first read that you're thinking what is this for? But once you read the actual grant, this grant specifically to mitigate chronic absentism, which again, it's part of what my focus is. So, we were able to secure that grant. That's actually a three-year grant with uh over $213,000. Uh I will be speaking about how we're going to be spending that money in in the future slides, but you can see the other grants are, you know, the title tells you what for like the second one, restorative practice grant. That's to provide professional development and support to bring in restorative practices. and that's a $100,000 grant that we can spend over the next couple of years. So all in all, we
055were able to secure a little bit over $800,000 that we'll be able to spend over the next three years to support these initiatives. So it's it's again it's a good problem to have. Now I'm going to start with the attendance supports because that is one of our biggest um uh focus this year. uh we did start the work last year and we made some strides but again to remind you is that attendance is extremely important because if the kids are in our classrooms then we can teach them and that's the goal. Uh it also increases school connectedness and we talked about kids being comfortable being able to really seek out the school as the place to be and that's what we want them in there and then of course we want to reduce chronic absentism.
056That is one of the uh items that's measured in our California dashboard. And then of course we want to increase our daily attendance. We do all that our academics are going to improve. Now new this year is a district-wide attendance incentive program. Now we're going to be sending information out to the community shortly. We wanted to make sure that we secure the funding to be able to sustain this program. But basically, we're going to go into a system where every trimester, every semester, we're going to be recognizing kids that have perfect attendance. We're going to be recognizing kids that have 98 through 99.9% and also kids that have 95% and above. 95% is what we consider really good attendance. So, that's what we try to incentivize kids to be at school. Now, the other reason
057why we're doing this program is because we also want to intent uh incentivize kids recovering when they're not here. And that comes through the whole purpose of school connectedness that when you're not there, you're getting the work, you're coming into uh you know, Saturday Academy. And we have a new program called expanded learning program attendance recovery which means that kids will be able to come in to tutoring earn hours that will recover an absence and that will get them to again earn this awards. Now you saw the stats from uh central right now and the stats districtwide are actually really good right now. So I ran some numbers this morning and about 3,000 of our kids will qualify for one of these awards right now. Now, mind you, that's that might change, but as soon
058as we start getting this uh information out to the community, I can tell you that the attendance recoveries are going to go up. We're going to have more kids attending Saturday Academy. And those are all opportunities for us to instruct kids, which again, attendance is directly related to our success in the academics as well. And then of course, we still run our start and start program, which again, we work with our kids that have the work the worst attendance per se, but the goal isn't punitive. It really is to really find out their story so we can find out how we can better support them. So, we're very proud of this. Now, to give you a few more numbers, this is data from last school year. Districtwide, we improved our ADA quite high. Uh 1.15%
059to 93%. I know it doesn't seem like a huge increase, but it is a huge increase because what that means is that 93% of our kids were at school any given time. Now, we want to get it higher. 95 96 97 which I think we will and we have three schools that really did an outstanding job this last year. Uh Banning High School increased theirs almost 3 percentage point. BIS increased theirs almost 4 percentage point and Hoffer increased uh quite a bit as well too. So we have uh some really really good momentum district-wide that we're going to carry on this year to uh once again increase student achievement. And then chronic absenteeism which is our our other big uh data point. We didn't increase it district-wide as much decrease it as much as we
060wanted to, but we did have some standout schools uh specifically Hoffer Elementary, they dropped their chronic absentism 12 percentage points, which is huge. Uh so again, you will see those dividends on the instructional side and if you look at the data, uh kids are in school, they will learn. Now, the next two items, I tend to put them together because they're even more interrelated. These are the behavioral and social emotional supports that we provide. Um, you saw once again Central talk about their MTSS room or wellness center. Uh, this is one of those items that has been funded with one of those grants. And basically what we wanted to do is provide a room for our staff, mainly our counselors, to be able to work with our kids, uh, to be able to find out
061uh, you know, why is it that you're absent? To be able to find out why those behaviors are happening. And you can see that we wanted it to look different than just the regular classroom. So this picture is from what it looked like at Hemorling Elementary School. So every single one of our sites has a room like this. Now some are still being set up, but uh as you're walking classrooms, as you uh visit our schools, we want to make sure that you visit this classroom because uh it is providing some groundbreaking supports for our kids. Uh again, it's going to look a little different at every school, but with the secure funding that we have, uh it's going to be something that's going to really support that instructional piece. Now, the other item, and
062this is more of a uh professional development and PLC system for our schools. So, this year with the additional funding, we are able to contract with RCOE to provide comprehensive PBIS training for all of our schools. So every school has a PBIS team with up to eight individuals and you can see that some of the trainings are called tier one year one and you can see the schools that are going into that training. We have a tier one year two which is banning high school participating and then tier 2 year 1 uh where Nicolet and New Horizons are actually participating. So part of what we try to do is target these trainings to better support our schools. And it doesn't mean that tier one schools um have deficiencies. It just means that they may have
063a lot of new team members and we want to make sure that we're all on the same page and that way we continue to provide these really really good support systems for our kids. So that's a major component of what we're definitely leading uh this school year. The other support is that we are beginning to um assemble these PLC's and again the goal is to increase the capacity within our school sites but we're working with our assistant principles for example and training them on suspensions, expulsions, ed code, uh the SAR SAR process, attendance, 504 plans. Uh already this year we've had three very long meetings. They probably don't want to see me anymore. Um, but we're going to continue to have meetings throughout the year that aren't just going to be part of the student
064services, but they're also going to get a lot from the instructional side as well, too. Uh, we're also continuing our work with our counselors again to work on how to better support our kids, uh, especially with the social emotional supports. And then we are starting a new PC with our site PBIS coordinators. And again, the goal is to make sure that we have a well machine at every school sites to be able to provide uh, supports to our kids. Now, I'm a data person. I'm always looking at numbers because that's what tells me whether we're headed in the right direction or not. Uh when you look at the two major data points for behavioral uh suspension and expulsions, we're doing very very well. On the suspension side, our district has a very low suspension rate,
065uh 4.5. And you see two standout schools, Nichollet and Banning High. They reduce their suspension rate quite a bit. And this is very rare. very rarely do you have secondary schools make this kind of uh you know commitment to supporting kids in this way because they're just so large for the most part and so many things can happen but again we're moving in the right direction and then with the expulsion rate uh very few kids were expelled last year as a matter of fact seven of our school sites did not have an expulsion last year. Uh, so these are great numbers and what this means is that kids are actually in school and if they're in school again they're learning and I think that's it. Thank you. >> Oh no questions. Excellent. Thank you. >>
066Could I sorry a little enthusiastic here. Um, could I say that I am very very delighted to hear about the grants. uh when I first came that's one of the first things that I that I said that you know about grant writing and I think it's a I think it's an integral part of of success in um school districts and I I know that you had mentioned this but to see it come about and this is very exciting. I mean I'm going to have to be pulled down off the ceiling so but thank you very much. >> Thank you. I have um a couple questions. Um first, I I asked this last time. It wasn't to you. It was to a couple different people, and I'm hoping I get a different answer this time. Um
067so, regarding um I apologize, it's not Saturday school anymore. Um >> So, Academy, >> Saturday Academy. Thank you. Um are we providing work for the students for say the high school or middle school? Uh and let me give you an example of why I ask. Um so my children in the past um they don't most of the work was online through Google Google classroom and when they stay home I'm I have them do their homework on Google Classroom so they don't get behind. So when they go in for Saturday school, there's no work for them to do. So I don't like the idea of the thought that these kids just go into Saturday school to make up an absence, but they're sitting there like nothing to do. So are we going to have something for
068them to do at the secondary level? >> Yes, we will. Yes. And the intent of Saturday Academy is to provide enrichment as well. So yes, there will be opportunities for kids to make up their work because again that's going to help their learning. But what we're asking schools to do is to also uh work within their PLC's to make sure that we have work within the PLC so that way they can reinforce the learning that's already happening. And again uh every schools are going to be a little bit different. It may be extra credit. It may be uh additional, you know, just learning for the kids. But we're trying to make Saturday Academy so it's really engaging as well. And uh we're working again with some of our providers as well to make sure that
069we bring some of those, you know, great strategies of whether they're going to keep kids engaged because coming to the Saturday Academy isn't the funnest thing to do. I'm sure there's better things to do on Saturday. Uh and it's not even fun for the parents, too. There's practices, there's games, there's all kinds of stuff. So, it's a it's a bit of a sacrifice to get there. So, we want to make sure that we make it engagement. So, the goal is for our schools to provide enrichment opportunities that will encompass really the learning of all kids. Great. Great. And then my second question was in your slide for the 2024 uh 202425 behavioral data, you have the suspension rate and the expulsion rates. We pinpointed what exactly the change was that we did so we can
070continue to monitor that to make sure it stays decreasing. >> Yeah. Or at least maintain. >> Well, so every school has their own story. Every school has um you know their challenges uh their support systems as well. Our our schools are even our four elementaryaries are all very very different. Uh but I think what's happening now is that we're providing a lot more what we call other means of correction and we're not so reactive. It's not a you know a kid did a we're going to now suspend. Now it's a kid did a let's figure out why that happened so that way it doesn't happen again. And at our secondaries, there's just a lot of different options. Take for example the alternative to suspension at the middle school. Um, I know it still has the
071word suspension, but what that system does now is that instead of sending a kid home where they're going to come back with the same behaviors, now you spend one or two or however many days and that'll turn to a suspension room reflecting on why this happened and being able to provide counseling and so forth. So, I think that's what's made the biggest different. Uh at the high school for example, we they do restorative circles which is kind of unheard at the high school and as a former high school principal I can tell you that I have we never did it. It's just one of those things that you just don't do. But we are providing those other means of correction. At the elementary school I can tell you that our elementary principles bend over backwards
072to not suspend and really try to get the students to understand why that behavior isn't acceptable. And it's also working with our parents too, which is something new that we're going to be providing. uh not sure what we're going to call it, but we're going to have a series of courses for parents and some they're going to be mandated depending on on the situation, but it's going to be to provide parents with those skills to be able to help their kid reflect, help their kid uh be successful in school. So, it's it's a plethora of things, but I can tell you that our our our schools are working very hard at really getting to the root cause of the issue so that way they can target that instead of just sending kids home and then
073dealing with the same behavior, you know, the next week. >> Great. And then one more. I'm sorry. >> Can I just add to that one? Staying on that topic. I think a concern that the board has uh that we all have that teachers have is that students are being held accountable for their behaviors because we've had the conversation about yes the laws have changed. Yes, we should be providing some guidance to students and other means of correction but that still does not excuse student behavior to continue to happen. And that's come up a few times about I've heard you know we've heard students continue to have these behaviors and nothing happens. So it's just ensuring that and all the principles are in this room right now. And so it's just making it very clear that
074we hold people and students accountable for behavior even with all of the uh things in place. So I just wanted to say that. >> Thank you. Um, and I apologize. You might not be the right person to ask, but I'm going to ask anyways. Um, for restorative circle, do you know, are we talking to the student and the other person individually first before you come together? Because if the student is not comfortable doing restorative circle with the administrator, teacher, whatever it may be, that could be a problem. >> Yeah. So, I'm not an expert on restorative circles. I'm again a secondary guy. I'm really not. But I do know the answer to that. So, before we do a restorative circles, all the parties need to agree to be part of that restorative circle. And they
075need to be comfortable with each other, with the person who's leading it. So, yes. And if there's a party that says, "No, I don't want to do this," then we wouldn't do it because then that that'll be counterproductive. But that's part of the training that we're going to be bringing in as well. So that way our capacity districtwide increases. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Yeah. So we don't force kids to go in there. That that will be >> good. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> What if I skip him? just to see if he's on his game. Item 6.3, Business Services 202425 un audited actuals financial report. >> This item is for the board to approve the 202425 unudited actuals financial report. >> Is there a motion and a second
076to open and discuss item 6.3? >> I'll move. I'll second. >> I have a motion from Trusty Nollis and a second from Trusty Martinez Lara to approve item 6.3. Don't we need to listen to his report before we vote? >> Do we want to hear his report before we vote? Are we Are you sure? Good evening, President Ree, Clerk Angago Ananu, Sweeners board members, Superintendent Davis, and members of the banning unified school leadership team and also the Banning Unified community joining us here in person and those through the wavelengths or fiber optics as well. And so today I have the privilege of presenting the 202425 anod actuals financial report. And so in this report's feature with our students is the September student of the month students. So definitely proud of our students and their successes.
077We'd like to give a thank you to our school sites and departments in particular our secretaries who received a lot of phone calls from fiscal services in terms of purchase orders, invoices and also payroll because this is the culmination of the year in terms of all the financial transactions and then especially Mr. Ramos and Miss Shook as leaders of the fiscal services team. This is by far the best closing that we've had thus far in the last 5 years. So extremely proud of the progress. many challenges still working through that of course but definitely highlighting the successes of the team. So in terms of an overview of the in audited actuals and requirements it does report our financial decision as of June 30th it's a reconciliation of revenues expenditures and fund balances as well obligation
078is to have the report approved by September 15th. It does the balances do carry over into the adopted budget and term here keyword is unodudited. It will still go through an audit process by the district's external auditors and that report will be completed in December and presented in January. So here we have an illustration which we like to reference every reporting period to get an idea and a visualization of where we're at in time. So currently we're at the 2 o'clock hour. One of the interesting facts of this particular report, it's the only one that looks in a rears. It looks at the past actual information as compared to the adopted budget estimated actuals that came forth for approval back in May. First interim, second inter based on assumptions. Um and so just wanted to
079again understand and portray here the the the mechanics of just how the adopted budget does have estimated fund balances. The in auditor actual then actualizes those balances and carries them forward. Our true budget for the year if you will will be our first interim report in December. And so now I'll hand it over to director of fiscal services Mr. Ramos to go through the details. Okay. And just to back it up a little bit, um throughout the budget cycle in the first interim and second interim reporting periods, that's the opportunity for district to tighten up salaries and benefits and expenditures. Um make some projections and say this is how it looks like we're going to end the year. Now, with the estimated actuals, which is prepared in May, presented to the board in June, those
080are our best targets for that snapshot in time. Now, as we come to the unodudited actuals, we actually do a final accounting and say, okay, we expected based on estimated actuals to land at this point and here's where we landed. Then we do an analysis to see what those changes are, what makes them up, and what we can do better to tighten up those gaps. Now, I do have to thank Dr. Merllo's a little bit because he explained some of the changes that we have in our budget. uh he actually secured some of those uh revenue sources and we kind of scrambled just to um receive that money and spend some of them and some of that includes the wellness centers. So um I want to point your attention to local revenues. We did have
081an increase and as a result of receiving some of those new funding sources um we do have a difference. So we expected and unodited actuals not to receive those funding sources but we actually got a little bit more. So that kind of just to give a little bit of detail about some of those changes. Now other changes in revenues I'd like to highlight include restricted programs. So if we receive some additional funds for restricted programs um a little bit more funds for special ed as well as the medical uh programs which includes the medical billing options as well as medical administrative activities. Now within expenditure so in the change of revenues we actually received 1.8 $8 million increased in revenues and that's comparison of estimated actuals to our unodituded actuals. Now in expenditures we did
082have a change of 574,000 and that includes uh salaries and benefits any materials and expected services. Now the reserve for economic uncertainty which Mr. Herrera will dig into in a in a subsequent slide. Our reserve at the bottom for economic uncertainty actually had a small change of44% and it actually increased. And so I'll go ahead and hand it over to Mr. Herrera to dig into the fund balance components and commitments. Thank you very much, Mr. Ramos. And I just again wanted to highlight the reserve for economic uncertainties and the district's position improving from what was estimated back in June. And so Dr. Gutterius, Dr. Melo, we also have great news tonight. Terms of the fund balance, assignments and commitments. Assignments is really made up of a few items here including lottery carryover, Medicare administrative activities
083which are programs reside in the unrestricted general fund that are in nature restrictive. also fair market value which is a transaction uh that is recognized on an annual basis and again it's just in a way reserving those dollars for those particular items there in terms of commitments I would like to go ahead and explain a little bit of the mechanics here again going back to the budget cycle and having estimated actions back in June but closing the books now in September there is a reconciliation and really a updating of balances and so we do see significant differences from estimated actuals to an audited actuals, but that's because the in audited actuals were updated to reflect the budget commitments and so it's always staying true to the budget and ensuring that we have the resources allocated
084in these commitments for those line items. Some of the highlight supplemental concentration carryover there was a change of about a quarter of a million. Also, the unforeseeable mitigating operational factors is a line item for ongoing expenditures such as salaries that are currently funded from onetime dollars is a bit of a savings account, if you will, to help the district do a soft landing when those resources expire in the absence of additional resources. And last but not least is the line item for universal transition kindergarten facilities. uh that was the contingency build into the under city general fund for the expansion of Florida Street. And so I'm happy to announce that the project was able to close out and working through a final pieces as it relates to the Department of State Architecture and solar panels
085which we're about to finalize in the next month or so. Um what the good news here is is that the district was able to meet its district match with funding outside of the unrestricted general fund by way of developer fees and um also other facilities funding that we have again outside of the general fund. So the difference here in the $2.2 million was really for measure O. And if the board may recall here, uh, a few months ago, there was a resolution approved to, uh, be able to initiate measure O projects by refunding from the general fund. And we missed the mark by about 15 17 days. Again, the mechanics of closing the books as the June 30th. The money came in on July 17th. And so again, this is a temporary borrowing of cash,
086if you will, in order to close the books on a positive. And so some of the activity and the other funds because we do have funds outside of the general fund include ASB fund 08. The reason why we have a material difference here from estimated actuals to an audited actual is because it's generally recognized at the end of the year only. uh for nutritional services there is an increase in revenues and also there are some capital projects that are carrying over into the new year. So that creates a carryover balance. Same thing for deferred maintenance as it relates to projects and also with the building fund again projects that were initiated did not materialize 100%. With progressive billing we only pay for what's been done through June 30th. The remaining balances carry over. Last but
087not least, fund 25 capital facilities. Um that is the the um developer fee um excuse me fund and also fund 44 facilities funding. The difference there in is material and nature at 1.7 million. Uh that was to cover and close out most of the financial aspect of the Florida Street Discovery Center project. And so in terms of next steps uh is the recommendation for approval of the audited actuals for 202425. Also there are three sub subsequent board items 9.2 9.3 and 9.4 that are related to the unodudited actions and so hopefully seeing approval of those. Also again going through the audit process which will be filed with the state controllers's office by December and the presentation brought forth here to the board on January of 2026. rolling forward all balances and in December being able
088to present our latest and greatest information as it relates to latest enrollment information, average daily attendance information which we're really excited about and rolling forward all the balances as we've closed the books. And with that concludes the financial report for 202425. >> I do have a question. Can you help uh clarify again what deadline did we miss by 15 days? >> I'm sorry. Can you repeat the one the question one more time? >> What deadline did we miss by 15 days? >> We did not miss a deadline for uh per se. Is that the receding of cash occurred 15 days after? Meaning that series A of measure O at $17.2 million didn't come in before June 30th. Therefore, we then went through an accounting transaction to transfer the dollars temporarily into the building fund, fund
08921. Monies have already been received. And again, that's the confusing party, if you will, of the timing of working in the rears, right? June 30th, but yet we're working in August and closing those books. So, again, a deadline wasn't missed. It was just the timing of the dollars coming into Banning Unified. So is there a way for to ensure that the timing of funds received is within the time frame and >> and that was a goal working through our financial advisor. Um however working through the different market conditions, working through the timing um also with rating agencies. It did get extended a little bit into the new year. So there was no set timeline and also there was no real requirement to have it done by June 30th. It was just more of the sequence
090of events that led to it being on July versus it being in June. And so really what it becomes is just a financial transaction just to close out the books. But that is all going to not be an issue moving into the new year because again the revenues for or the proceeds for series A measure O funding have been received. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Any other discussion or questions? Thank you. >> All right. Now, I have a motion from Trusty Novales and a second from Trusty Martinez Lara to approve item 6.3. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. >> Motion passes. 5-0. Item 7.1, expanded learning opportunity program plan. This item is for the board to approve the expanded learning opportunities grant expenditure plan. >> Is there a
091motion and a second to open and discuss item 7.1? >> I move. >> I'll second. Any discussion or questions? I have a motion from Trusty Troutman and a second from Trusty Noales to approve item 7.1. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 50. Item 8.1, human resources, tentative agreement and memorandum of understandings. This item is for the board to approve the tentative agreement and memorandum of understandings for the 202526 bargaining negotiations with the California School Employee Associations chapter 147. Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 8.1? I move. >> I'll second. Any discussion or questions? >> I have a motion from Trusty Yango and a second from Trusty Martinez Lara to approve item 8.1. All those in favor say I. >> I.
092>> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. 5-0. Item 8.2 Two, human resources employment contract assistant superintendent human resources. >> This item is for the board to approve the employment contract for the assistant superintendent of human resources. Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 8.2? >> I move. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion or questions? I have a motion from Trusty Yangu and a second from Trusty Nollis to approve item 8.2. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. 5. So good evening members of the board, our community that's still here and thank you for being here. On behalf of the Banning Unified School District of Trustees and Superintendent Davis, we are excited to announce Kirk Scorpanich as the assistant superintendent for
093human resources. Kirk Scorpanage brings over 30 years of experience in education beginning as a classroom teacher in 1996 and advancing through multiple leadership roles including principal, director, and assistant superintendent of human resources. Kirk Scorpanic has been recognized as AX's statewide human resources administrator of the year for 2024 and previously honored as the principal of the year in 2011 and teacher of the year in 1999. He holds advanced certifications and negotiation strategies, labor relations, diversity and inclusion, and employee relations and investigations. He holds a master's of arts and educational leadership from California State University uh San Bernardino and a bachelor of arts in diversified education from the University of Leverne. Please join us in welcoming Kirk Scorpanage to the Banning Unified School District. Well, gosh, I'm I was wondering who that guy was that Mr. Davis
094was talking about. So, it was nice. You you hear that you kind of your resume read out. Um it's kind of humbling. So, uh President Ruiz and uh members of the board of trust uh board of trustees and superintendent Davis, I I truly am honored to be here this evening and and um to stand before you. I'm really excited about joining the uh the amazing team that's here in the Banning Unified School District and I I'm excited about the uh the mission of the district to prepare, inspire, and educate the students that are here. The work that I've seen in um being done here in the district is just exemplary and I'm excited to be part of that work. Um um one of the things that drew me to the Banning Unified School District is
095the culture of collaboration, professional growth, and shared dedication for student success. and and I just want to be part of that team and I'm excited about joining that team and being part of that team. Earlier this evening, uh Dr. Gutierrez had talked about the importance of partnerships and and Mr. Davis had talked about that as well when he had his uh comments up there and I had the opportunity of meeting of of excuse me of meeting uh Anthony Garcia through this process who's the president of the Banning Teachers Association as well of Jenn as well as Jennifer Serrano who's the president of the uh CSEA chapter 147. And one of the things that blew me away about both of these individuals is their long tenure in their roles in their leadership roles with the associations.
096And I think that speaks volumes in terms of the trust that they have of their membership and the good work that they've been doing here and and I'm just looking forward to collaborating with them really closely and developing a strong working relationship. So um and lastly, I think I just one last thing I want to say is you know I'm I'm a firm believer in a comment that uh Mr. Davis made at this year's kickoff and he made the comment our successes measured by individual roles. Excuse me. success is not measured by individual roles, but how we come together to serve our students. And I think that's just really powerful. And and I'm looking to come together with everybody that's here, the board, the administrative team, the educators that are here, the both the staff,
097um, and just make a huge difference in the lives of our students. So with that, I'm proud to say we are banning. So thank you. Item 9.1 business services public disclosure AB1200 CSEA chapter 147 tentative agreements for 202526. This item is for the board to approve the public disclosure AB1200 CSEA chapter 147 tentative agreements for 202526. Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 9.1? >> I move I'll second. >> Any discussion or questions? I have a motion from Trusty Troutman and a second from Trusty Martinez Lara to approve item 9.1. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 5-0. Item 9.2, business services resolution number 26-005, GAN limit. This item is for the board to adopt the GAN limit resolution number 26-005 establishing
098the maximum appropriation limitations for public agencies. >> Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 9.2? >> I move. A second. Any discussion or question? >> I have a motion from clerk Angiano and a second from Trusty Nollas to approve item 9.2. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. >> Motion passes 5-0. Item 9.3, business services resolution number 26-006 regarding the Education Protection Account, EPA. This item is for the board to approve the annual annual fiscal resolution number 26-006 regarding the Education Protection Account. >> Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 9.3? >> I'll move. >> I'll second. Any discussion or questions? I have a motion from Trusty March Tennis Laura and a second from Trusty Nollas to
099approve item 9.3. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. 5-0. Item 9.4 business services 202425 annual developer fee report. This item is for the board to review and approve the annual developer fee report for fiscal year 202425. Is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 9.4? >> I move. I second. >> Any discussion or questions? >> I do have one real quick question. Um, do I see that it's gone up from 479 uh 479 to 517. Is that um is there a reason for that? >> 479 to 47517 I believe in terms of the Okay, I see the developer fee itself. Yes. And so on a bianual basis the state allocation board does approve the increase of the developer fee uh collection.
100And so what the district does is go through a process known as a developer fee justification that uh report that allows us to increase those rates. So at this point the district is um or has the latest highest rates approved for the collection of these developer fees also known as school fees as it relates to the impact of construction in the community. >> No, I understand the reason for it. I was wondering why it's increased. Is was that cost of living increased or? >> Yes. So, so there are many many factors that the state allocation board takes into consideration in adopting an increase to the rate. And so, yes, cost of living adjustment in addition to other factors um economically do impact the increases at the state level. >> Is that going to affect development,
101residential development in within Benning? It does not ex affect existing residential development. It will impact future development um in terms of any new development and or expansion of development of over 500 square ft per unit. >> So is this going to is this pretty standard um per square foot or will this um negatively impact any residential um developments? So it is very typical for school districts to have approved the highest rate possible through the standard allocation board approval um in terms of the impact to the community. It could impact folks that want to build in banning um in terms of an increase of cost for the developer fee. >> Right? But what I'm I guess what I'm asking and maybe I'm not making myself clear this particular rate is this pretty standard. So let's say
102is this rate in banning pretty um competitive with Bowmont or is this going to negatively impact growth in banning residential? I >> I would say it without having the information here available is that this is a standard rate in terms of most districts always are looking forward to increasing the rate to maximize the collection of the developer fees. >> Yeah. So let me let me see if I can answer this way. Yes, any agency is going to try to bring that rate to the highest rate possible which will definitely impact people in terms of uh building or adding in any city in any area because it costs more per the square feet. >> No, I Okay. >> Okay. So maybe Yeah, >> I understand all of that. I >> I'm asking if this is going
103to be competitive or will this negatively impact growth in residential growth in banning. >> This is the standard across the board everywhere. Yeah. Okay. >> Everyone's going to raise the rate to the maximum amount. >> So the answer is no. Okay. The answer is it's not going to impede growth anymore in banning than it would anywhere else. >> Correct. >> That's what I was asking. >> Yes. So the rate is going to be everyone wants the highest rate but it's going to be the same impact across the board. >> That was my question. Okay. Thank you. >> Got it. >> Any other questions or discussion? >> I have a motion from Trusty Troutman and a second from Clerk Angiano to approve item 9.4. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed
104say nay. Motion passes 5. Item 9.5, 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 9.5? >> I'll move. I second. >> Any discussion or questions? I have a motion from Trusty Martinez Laura and a second from Clerk Gango to approve item 9.5. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 5-0. Item 9.6, 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 in a second to open and discuss item 9.6? >> I move. A second. >> Any discussion or
105questions? I have a motion from Trusty Troutman and a second from Trusty Novalis to approve item 9.6. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. 5-0. Item 10, board member comments. Who would like to go first? I will if no one else does. Okay. Um, I it has been a strong rough start to the school year and I just want to say that I appreciate every single one of you for showing up every single day for our kids. Um, it's not an easy job, but you're all doing an amazing job at it. Um, I was able to attend a back to school night and I attended the first football game and we won. Woo. I'm hoping to attend some more. I definitely want to I hope I
106haven't missed it already. The girls flag football. I need to check the schedule. It's coming up. Okay, I'm good. Um it is my goal to get to every school this year if possible. Um and I just want to say I truly appreciate all of you. Thank you. Um I had a couple of things that I wanted to say. First of all, um for um our middle school, I love the fact that we have the poetry club and the sign language. I think that's amazing. I really enjoy seeing um the number of students that are increasing at our middle school. That is such great news. And um that we didn't see a a drop this year that there's actually an increase. Um, I like the fact that the busing, um, Mr. Herrera, and I don't know
107who I would talk to about the maintenance or even say that, but the field trips and busing, I love the problem solving that we're trying to make field trips, um, a cost-effective priority for our students. I think that's very important. Um, as far as child nutrition services, Mr. Bzer, thank you for that taste around the world. I love the idea of the fresh peaches. I I think it's great. look forward to the video that's coming. Um, and I like the fact that we're using cost-effective to piggyback off of other people and so that other people, you know, we're getting that benefit. Um, it fabulous job with getting the sites up and running, especially given all the outdated and deferred issues that we've had. Um, you guys are all doing such a great job. I mean,
108it's these are just a few, but I really want you to know that that looking and appreciating every single thing. Um, welcome. Um, Mr. I don't know how to pronounce your last name. Kurt. Mr. Kurt. Yes. I I had it down, but I I Sorry, I'm really bad at it. >> Scorpan. Yes, I'll definitely remember that. Um but um but thank you all and thank you uh Dr. Kazzy Bush um for um really making our education, you know, of our students a priority. There's so many things going on here. Thank you all. I really appreciate all of your hard work. >> Well, hello again. Um, I just wanted to share that today on 911, I feel like a really heavy heart with everything that's going on. Um, with remembering that event and having, at least
109for me, my kids asking me about it, where were you? What were you doing? What do you remember? And then them learning about it now. Um, and then it's really heartbreaking with the shootings that have been occurring, especially in our schools. And so I just want to say thank you for keeping our kids safe. And I get sentimental when I drop off my kids in the morning and I see them walk away because as a parent I'm entrusting them to our schools, to our staff. And I I appreciate all the hard work that you do to keep them safe and to educate them. And I love picking them up in the afternoons and seeing their smiles and hearing about their day. And I feel for those parents that aren't able to do that. And I
110believe every parent should be able to drop off their babies and pick them up and hug them. And I hope that in this world we're able to change that so that it can happen and we can have our our kids safe with us at home as well. Um, and I just want to say thank you for all that you do and I look forward uh to participating in more of our upcoming events, our Hispanic Heritage Month uh at Central as well as at Nicollet. our sports are going. It's exciting to see our kids happy and excited to go to school. So, thank you for all your hard work. Okay, let's see. There is a lot going on, a lot of positive data coming out of all of our schools and sites and departments. Thank you
111everyone for all the hard work that you've been putting in over the last few years because it definitely shows. We are extremely happy and grateful as a board. Um, congratulations to Kums and Central for their PBIS platinum awards. Welcome, Mr. Kirk. Congratulations to our new stu student board member, Miss Mary. I'm not going to try for her last name either. Congratulations to Hammerling for turning around that attendance. Um, it's amazing how quickly the school year is going by. It's exciting to see all the great accomplishments so far and I can't wait like the rest of my colleagues said to get out there and see these kiddos in the heritage celebration in the senior award nights for all the sports that are coming up and honest honest honest from the bottom of my heart. Thank you
112guys for everything you do and showing up every single day and giving it your all for these kiddos. >> I apologize. It's It's been a very somber day today with 9/11 and school shootings and other events. And my only comment tonight is congratulations, Mr. Kirk. I'm going to call you Mr. Kirk. I I'll get it. I promise. But everyone have a good night. All right. Item 11.1, future board items. Anyone have any future board items? Um, I just can I just say what I um I just requested an update for all of us in the weekly communication about the two parents that spoke so that we can get a followup and update on that. Item 14.1, adjourn meeting. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> I'll move. >> I second. Any discussion or I'm
113just kidding. I have a motion from Trusty Nales and a second from Clerk Gangana to adjourn this meeting. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. Motion passes. 50-0. This meeting is adjourned at 9:12