001welcome to the March 13 2025 regular board meeting of the Banning Unified School District Board of Trustees the time is 5:29 Clark angano please take roll than um Tristy Martinez laara present Tristy novales present Tristy Troutman present and then myself uh clerk andan is present and president Ruiz present please let the record reflect that we have a quorum okay you want me to see please be advised that a recording or broadcast of this meeting is being made at the direction of the board we now invite our Cadet cord to present the colors ahead of the Pledge of Allegiance right right left left left right right Mark Time March left face present colors please place your right hand over your heart ready begin I I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America
002and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all what colors right Face Forward March left left left right right right let face dis thank you kadet core item 1.3 adopt agenda are there any changes to the agenda so we're pulling item 6.3 and item 7.2 item 6.3 and item 7.2 all right are there any other changes to the agenda no other changes any board requests to change the agenda do I have a motion in a second to adopt the agenda as adjusted I move I have a motion from trusty nollis and a second from truste Troutman all of those in favor say I I I all of those oppos say nay hearing none the agenda is adopted with a 5-0 vote item 1.4 Banning High
003School solar boat team presentation I would like to invite Mr Klein to the podium to share this evening's solar boat presentation good evening members of the board Mr Davis executive councel uh the students are actually going to give the presentation so I'm sure I'll jump in at the end they're all prepared so um good evening board uh we are going to be giving you a short presentation on the solar boat program at Banning High School first we'll start some general value pointers in solar boat obviously you get to use a lot of uh science and math and being able to apply those subjects that you learn during school in a manner that isn't really um typical you get some experience with power tools you get a background in electrical mechanical engineering helping you with either
004the workforce or with uh future schooling it also um makes you particularly aware of of um water conservation habits we have a big thing about conserving water and um what that means for our community and as a broader kind of World um something especially important uh for me is uh problem solving and team building you get to work in a group uh unlike any school project or um similar uh uh you you have to really innovate and come up with things that you never really would have thought of and obviously we get direction from Klein but he um we have to come together and really meet about things and uh we're all learning at the same time that was a short video of last year's competition Us in the water which was recorded with the
005boat of last years run uh this was our boat from last year at our competition and you can see like our structure here inside of what was running in the video um this is where we worked at and and uh you can see on the left that that Justin's working on the solar panels and we're getting ready for um the big competition towards the end of the DAT so we actually took home first place at last year's competition so here's a photo of our group as you can see all smiles everyone is um definitely enjoying ourselves we definitely get a feel like a group and being able to take a home uh such an accomplishment really makes you feel like your effort is being poured into something uh important to everyone uh here's some schools
006that are going to be competing some highlights uh cat City Desert Hot Springs rev Uka everyone's there to win it's a very uh competitive uh comp competition of course we don't win every year I wish we could but uh you definitely get to meet new people in a different kind of manner than you usually would um everyone of course is there to win and we're all competing and we all have that in the back of our minds but um we talk uh to each other as individuals and we really get a learn of other people's schools and other people's work ethics and uh similar we start out with building the structure of the boat and make sure that everything is fine before we start um adding the like Motors and like how it makes the
007boat run and uh it was pretty messy but it was also like fun to learn to use these like big tools on like building the structure and yeah it was a fun experience um here we are building starting to attach the all the pieces together and you can see that we're all we're getting help by Mr Ellis which he makes sure he's the person that helps us understand more like how how to use our tools and just like to keep us in check when we're building and working on the boat this is a picture of most of our of the most of the solar boat team putting in the hall which is the rim of the boat it had to use a lot of coin coordination to put all the clamps in since it does
008use glue uh once we assembled the gunnels on the boat we started shaving it down to place the bottom uh as you can see we used a pulsar to um make sure all the pieces were cut down the size and that's actually something not a lot of us have done before so this was a new experience for most members of the group and then after sanding uh shaving down the boat to size and placing the bottom on we went on to sand the boat make sure it's it's all smooth um I've actually done sanding before but I know a lot of the people in Solo boo haven't done it before which was another new thing to learn just some more power tools um that we haven't done before and then after that it was moving
009on to stay in the boat and staying in the boat was quite a lot of fun we make the St in the boat basically means that we making sure the boat is waterproof and uh colored and it was something not a lot of us had done before um after that once the bow is stained sanded uh we was on to installing the motor of the boat which is actually where a lot of the things we learned in class were applied to because um we could actually read the diagrams on the motor and understand like what the pieces do such as the batteries or the capacitors or the diode um that's where a lot of the um application of what we learned in class went to uh putting the both together and working out the problems
010in it this is a picture of all the trophies that the solar boat competition has won over the years and all including all the ribbons which we which the program and Klein and Ellis had put a lot of work in we want to say special thanks to our sponsors and to the Banning UniFi District and for you to have us here and present for you guys so thank you they have spent time the last couple days in class working on that so um I'm Mr Klein I'm I'm the AP Physics one AP Physics 2 teacher uh Mr Ellis uh my colleague was my department chair and then has ever since he retired he come in and helped us so we we've been doing this program for about 16 years uh since we brought in AP
011Physics 1 AP Physics 2 and I just wanted to stress to you guys that uh how important it is that you support us in having these AP classes um you need opportunities like this for these high achieving students um I mean you have you have your valid dictorian and salutatorian up here right now so I won't tell you who's who yet and we're they're still duking it out but we'll we'll see um but you you have these these kid that are going to go on into engineering and medical fields and Science and so by having a class like AP1 AP Physics 2 and then having you know programs like this you you really give them a leg up because all those kids when they're applying to these top universities you know they all have great
012grades they're all involved in lots of different things you need something that separates yourself from everyone else so we really want to thank um the board and Mr Davis and the executive cabinet on on supporting us for for keeping this endeav going okay if anybody has any questions please we're we're mid-process we're not done with the boat so first of all I want to say I am so impressed I love AP Physics I think it's phenomenal and I'm so glad that we do have the AP uh physics one and two you guys are amazing um's hiding okay and all of you that are hiding um I do want to ask you when you put your boat together do you look at the Dynamics s like the aerodynamics every year do you do you kind of
013go back and analyze that and do some problem solving and say there's drag on this or how do you how do you do that or do you use the same it's just my own curiosity do you use the same model every year or do you go back and say okay we can get a little more time or we can do if we switch things up whoever usually there's like guidelines to how the structure the boat could be so a lot of us just like um like there's like a certain shape that the guideline wants it to be but uh we do like run over like why it's that certain shape and how it's efficient when we're trying to like go to the competition and uh what we're mostly like thinking about every year is how
014lightweight it could be that way it can go through the water like more efficiently thank you I appreciate that Madam president can I make a comment and I don't mean to embarrass anybody but it probably will not my intent but I just want to start by saying thank our students and I don't know if you guys have a name for yourself but the solar boat team crew Scholars do you have a name for yourself I think it's just solar boat okay just solar boat so thank you guys for coming and showing up but I want to uh point a few things out so the gentleman that started talking Mr Justin Smith uh this gentleman right here was just on uh episode 35 of the Banning talks podcast and this is his second time he was
015on last year and we didn't know that so he came back with like just fierceness so I I really want you to listen to that episode because it really shows what our young people are doing what they have the capability to do and how how invested they are in our community and what they do the other person I want to take note of is Mr Klein and Mr Ellis so Mr Klein was also on the show this year on episode number 27 back in November and if you want to geek out on this stuff listen to both of those episodes because Mr Klein really talk you've been here how long Mr Klein 30 you remember almost 30 years you remember I can't add right so almost 30 years he's been in this District in band
016Unified District committed to our students he's also our attendance coach he's around he gets help from Mr Ellis that comes back who was in our community who was in our community as well and I'm just proud of the work that you guys do because you represent for yourselves for our district in Banning High School so thank you very much so so if we can take a picture maybe Miss aano wants to get in the boat um but if we can take a picture with all the students if you can come up and we get a picture with the boat please find the window so that we can see your face all right just a right there good look right here one two three we're one more e all right we get the joy of keeping
017the boat until close session all right item 1.5 student presentations I would like to invite Dr Cy Bush to the podium to introduce this evening's student St presentations good evening president ree distinguished members of the board superintendent Davis executive cabinet and the Banning Community um we have some awesome students ready this evening to give some updates on what's going on at their respective sites and we are going to begin first um with Caitlyn Yang of Nicollet good evening board president Ruiz distinguished members of the board superintendent Davis and members of the Banning Community I'm excited to share the latest and upcoming events at Nicollet superintendent Davis rocked the house with his DJ skills at a heart of Wonderland dance thank you for bringing the energy on March 7th we hosted our School site Council Bingo
018night where families enjoyed fun prizes and quality time together looking ahead open house is rescheduled due to weather but on March 15th we have our third to last Saturday school a chance for students to make up absences and tardies on March 21st we have our Pack Track 3 featuring jumpers during lunch students who qualify will get to bounce around and celebrate their achievements soccer season is starting girls Childs were last week and boys Childs are this week so we encourage everyone to come out and support our teams both of our basketball teams have made playoffs with their final game away and we know they'll give it their all to close out March we're having an exciting spirit week from March 24th to March 28th Monday is denim day Tuesday is soccer mom versus barbecue dad
019Wednesday is bring stuff animal to school Thursday is rhyme without a reason and Friday is class colors with six grade wearing in Gray seventh wearing green and eighth grade wearing black we will be capturing all the fun so be sure to check out and follow our nms ASB Instagram for updates and pictures that wraps up our March events thank you for your time and support thank you Caitlyn representing kum's alternative Anna Phillips good evening board president Ruiz distinguished members of the board superintendent Davis and members of the Banning Community I am Anna Phillips from Banning independent studies school and a proud member of the class of 2025 here are some of our highlights congratulations to our New Horizon senior Oscar Ooa who was selected as our Banning Bulma March student of the month graduating seniors
020complete a career Readiness portfolio and and write their very own winning attitude statements reflecting on their time at New Horizon Oscar wrote I understand everything happens for a reason I say you can achieve anything I dream about helping the community and taking care of my family I try to make my family proud I hope to achieve all my goals Oscar's grades Oscar's grades contribute to New Horizon and his goal to graduate truly reminds us we are Banning kum's students traveled on a field trip to CSU Discovery days this event offered High School juniors and seniors an opportunity to explore and explore the distinctive program student life and resources available at California State University mark your calendars kum's openhouse barbecue is Wednesday March 19th from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. don't miss your chance to see firsthand
021the exciting things happening at kums and to enjoy grap food last year like last year um Cal soap will also be there to help parents with their part of the students fast fo applications happiness is a field trip on March 20th kum's Live Theater fans will head on over to Banning High for a special Advanced performance of the Broadway Broncos spring musical production your good man Charlie Brown based on the Beloved Charles Schultz comic strip Charlie Brown and the entire peanuts Bunch explore life's great questions and celebrate the joy of friendship special thanks to theater director Mr Joshua prisk and technical director Miss Tamara griffy for opening their doors and making their special making this special event possible our English and math science classes continue to practice and prepare for the upcoming sbac in the
022in addition the third quarter final exams are this week good luck students thank you for allowing me to share arum's alternative Report with you thank you Anna and last but certainly not least I'm representing Banning High School jazella Martin good evening board president Ruiz distinguished members of the board superintendent Davis and the members of the Banning Community my name is Jella and I am one of the student Representatives here to speak on behalf of Banning High School I'm excited to give you an update on the wonderful experiences we had so far this year in the month of February we celebrated the achievement of our wonderful students who made the Honor role each student was awarded a medal to recognize their hard work and dedication to Excellence it was a wonderful way to honor their accomplishments
023speaking of accomplishments our Valentine's Day theme pep rally was an absolute hit the atmosphere was electric filled with energy excitement and an overwhelming sense of school spirit from the Lively performances to the spirited cheers it was an unforgettable event that brought everyone together in celebration this month we're also eagerly anticipating you're a good man Charlie Brown a charming and heartwarming play being performed by our talented theater Department with its lovable characters and Timeless humor it's sure to be a fantastic show that will captivate the entire audience and leave everyone with a smile our spring sports teams have officially kicked off their preseason games and the performances so far have been impressive with the way they're playing we're feeling optimistic about their chances in the upcoming League games it's looking like it's going to be an
024exciting season ahead thank you for your time and focus today I'm eager to work together to find new ways to support and encourage the students of Banning High let's keep this energy going for an even more exciting school year ahead thank you thank you jazella and that concludes remarks from our amazing students for the evening thank you very informative good job guys item 1.6 student board member comments Brian Calderon we will now hear from our student board member good evening president R superintendent Davis distinguished members of the board and the community of banning I hope you're all having a great day I do want to take a moment to say how truly happy we are to be here there's something so special about this campus whether it's the beautiful spaces the positive energy the incredible
025Community we're surrounded by every day from the classrooms to student clubs to campus events everything here adds to an amazing experience that we're all proud to be a part of uh next I'd like to talk I'd like to celebrate the success of all our winter sports teams uh all of our winter seasons have officially wrapped up and wi run has been for all of them each team had an incredible season uh we're so proud of the hard work dedication and spirit our athletes showed they've made us proud and their achievements have brought us so much excitement and pride to our campus we're energized we're grateful and most of all we're proud to attend Banning High thank you for your time item 1.7 opportunity for Community comments close session items just the two at this time
026I would like to invite Katherine Kaiser to come forward she does one second again Miss Kaiser okay 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 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 advisement for a future meeting all speakers are reminded to be respectful and courteous good evening foror Mr Davis um and everyone else looking at me I'm public speaking without it being Kinders makes me nervous uh my name is kathern Kaiser and I teach kindergarten
027at cabison elementary I came here tonight to speak about Mr Baker I'm here in hopes of shedding some light on Mr Baker about Mr Baker and why he is an asset to this dist District in the role of assistant superintendent I do this for those that might be on the fence regarding keeping him in his position long term I can speak to only what I know what I hear and what I see I did have the privilege to work with him and for him over a period of 15 years I worked alongside him creating and building multiple successful programs at our school of the 10 years he was my administrator he was voted principal of the year four times what do I know about Mr Baker he is dedicated and loyal to this District he
028is a hard worker he is a thinker and never makes a decision without giving it a lot of thought he is an excellent listener people might not get the response that they were hoping for but I guarantee that he considered every word that they said he is a people person he can talk to any person you throw at him and by the end of the conversation with Mr Baker you leave with a feeling of comfort as if you've known him forever this is a gift that many leaders do not possess he never boasts or brags about himself and he is a genuine human being with a huge heart I know that when he has to make tough decisions he is fair I know that what you see is what you get he has no ulterior
029motives and is loyal for life these are just a few examples of what I know what I hear about Mr Baker I hear people say that he is a good listener I hear that people enjoy working with him I hear him say all the time that he does this job for the students of this district and the families of banning I hear him talk about how much he loves his job as assistant superintendent Mr Baker has high expectations of himself and others and believes that there is always room for improvement no matter who you are these are just a few things that I hear what I see in Mr Baker I see the love that he has for the kids families and employees of banning I see how well he is liked I see the
030long lasting effects he has had on this district and will continue to have as an assistant superintendent he is your biggest Ambassador because he is a powerful influence in this community and a face of this District that represents hope and success in the overall picture of the future of banning unified it should be evident that an asset that what an asset Mr Baker is to our district I hope that you see hear and know all of these things before making any final decisions the overall package he provides is special and unique and I hope you don't let this person slip through your fingers I saw a ballot with Mr Baker's name on it posted for many weeks I know he was announced winner of administrator of the year I heard Mrs troutman's speech about the
031award being rescinded and then I saw an email listing the persons of the year and noticed his name had been removed and a different name put in his place when the majority vote was given to Mr Baker as administrator of the year that was the District employees speaking loudly voters made their decision based on what they knew what they saw and what they heard taking that award away speaks more about the Integrity of the people who made the decision to resend it than it does about Mr Baker it also undermines the process and makes vot voting pointless I hope I have clearly related that Mr Baker's contributions and his many positive attributes as assistant superintendent helps bring success to our district thank you for your time now I'd like to call forward Casey cerling hello
032my name is Casey cerling I'm the mother of an eighth grader at Nicollet Middle School I'm here today to request again a change in your health and safety policy a change informing parents that this would subject their 10 to 13-year-old girls to a borderline strip search last month my daughter was falsely accused of having a vape pen she was escorted by security to vice principal Miss Williamson's office and was subjected to a health and safety check my daughter's backpack was searched and she was asked to empty her pockets and shake out her pants this is what my daughter and I expected of a health and safety check then my daughter was asked to grab her bra from over her shirt pull it away from her breasts to lean over and Shake she was instructed to
033do this two times at this time Miss Williamson and her assistant were in the office the door was partially open and my daughter cried cried and begged for me her advocate to be called and was denied this she was told we will call your mom when we are done I will never forget my daughter's face when I first saw her she was terrified embarrassed and felt violated since then my daughter has lost trust and faith in administration she's constantly paranoid and feels she's being targeted by staff she dreads going to school every day I filed a complaint with the district child protective services and the police department I understand that vaping is a huge problem I also understand that it's only a matter of time till fentol enters our schools the sad reality is these
034strip searches are not even effective these little girls can grab the these little girls can easily grab the Vape with their bra as they pull it away from their brace breasts holding the Vape in the hand the whole time do you really think these kids are not aware of these tactics if they are guilty they may have even practiced them there are some more effective and less demoralizing way of searching students you could use a metal detecting wand this would detect the batteries and the Vapes you could update the policy so the drug dogs can sniff the students or the most effective way would be hire me I have almost three years experience working at an alternative High School in Phoenix I was certified by the DEA to perform drug assessments and that is literally
035what I did all day long I more than willing to update my certification with the DEA and jump between all schools within the Banning District knowing my background maybe you can understand why I'm so upset by this issue so this is my second attempt to ask the district to update the policy to properly notify parents of the strip search that the health and safety check entails or to pick a different more effective option like the ones I previously mentioned thank you for your time thank you item two closed session the board will now go into close session the time is 6:05 we are back from closed session the time is 8:06 clerk angano please take roll Trustin Martinez Lara present trusty nales present trusty Troutman present Tristy angan was present and president Ru present please
036let the record reflect that we have a core item 3.1 report from closed session report from closed session clerk angano please share okay item 2.1 in close session the board received information and was updated item 2.2 in close session the board received information right item 2.3 in close session the board received information and was updated item 2.4 in close session the board received information and was updated item 2.5 in close session the Board of Trustees approved the appointment Marcia k faabi for the director instructional Services motion was B made by Myra angano seconded by Lucy Martinez Lara and carried on at 311 vote are are we on oh we are there sounds sounds like the audience pulled a Marcia kajabi no it's a good evening president ru clerk angano distinguished board members superintendent Davis cabinet
037and community on behalf of the Banning Unified School District Board of Trustees and superintendent Davis we are excited to announce Marcia CO faabi as the Director of instructional service for the Banning Unified School District Miss Cole faabi has been with Banning Unified School District for 16 years she is currently serving as the proud principal of Central Elementary the home of the ponies she has over 27 years in education serving various C capacities serving as a teacher a direct athletic director and dean of students she received her Bachelor's in interdisciplinary studies from Norfolk University and her Masters in Education Administration from the University of California at Riverside please join me in welcoming Miss Cole faabi as the Director of instructional services in the Banning Unified School District thank you so much for this opportunity and I
038really want to thank superintendent Davis and the executive cabinet for believing in me and trusting and supporting me that I can do this position and I really do have the heart for Banning and the students my older students are an alumni of Banning High School and the Banning UniFi school district and I currently have two more going through the Banning UniFi School District because I know that they can do a wonderful job here I know that you have a vision and a heart for our students and I want to support that as we go forward so again thank you very much congratulations item 3.2 Educational Services student matters readmission of student case number 2023-24 d11 this item is for the board to approve the readmission of expelled pupil for student discipline case number is there
039a motion on a second to open item 3.2 I move I'll second I have a motion from trusty novalis and a second from trusty Troutman to a i thing is there any discussion can you read what is actually going to happen yeah so um to allow the high school student to complete the 24 25 school year at their current school and begin New Horizons High School in August 2025 any discussion no all those in favor say I I I all those opposed say nay motion passes 5 item 3.3 opportunity for Community comments Open Session items have we received any more than the one 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 Trustees card and submit it to
040the 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 advisement for a future meeting all speakers are reminded to be respectful and courteous at this time I would like to call hanana Lopez down good evening board members trustees um I'm hanana Lopez bu driver I was here in September I was hoping not to be here again other than to say thank you for giving me the opportunity then better okay um let me start by saying that unfortunately there's been a violation from the Union contract through theou use of the technology by Mr Paige uh there has been several occasions I personally
041witnessed one of them where he's pulling video out of the buses and he's not supposed to do that unless there's a complaint a concern and so forth and I know for a fact I haven't had any so there was a witness driver stating that they also witnessed Diana uh pulling the videos um I'm trying to keep it real short 3 minutes so also uh things have gotten from bad to worst um and like I said I I was hoping not to be here again and sometimes I feel like it's I got to run to Mom and Dad so something could be done uh you know I make mistakes I'm not I've been doing this for over 20 years um try to be very cautious as to what I do and you know uh my driving
042so again this continues um the harassment the intimidation um I asked around because I had suspicion the videos were being pulled uh somebody confirmed it and they stated that Mr Paige asked them for extra video boxes and not to ask questions he's on a personal Vendetta with me don't understand why um so let me go into a couple of matters that situ uh that happened and that led me to be here last week um last Thursday as a matter of fact there was a driver who speaks English and um it's a little broken but she does her best her efforts uh anyways there was a ESL students that wanted to know what bus to get on to be transported they were new uh security was asking me for information I stopped her before she uh
043left gets a little touchy with me because I'm passionate about what I do and I try to help everybody so anyways I proceeded to ask the driver in English and um she wasn't quite understanding and um so I thought you know what let me say it in Spanish I said it in Spanish I asked her and she said oh yes I go there okay fine Diana Lara gets on the radio and tells me you cannot speak Spanish on the radio only English it made me very upset and the security that was standing by the par educator as well then I doed let me Google see what the percentage rate is for Banning unified Latinos 73% that wouldn't be very good if the 73% got wind of what Miss Lara was saying and it's sad because
044Mr Paige he almost as if he condones her behavior she has no rep Commendation um I've been tolerable patient and understanding as to hoping that things get better and like I said they've gone from bad to worse and it shouldn't have to be that way I love what I do I love the people I work with mind you we all have our differences but we at the end of the day we do this for the students um all right uh let me see where was I am sorry you know um we're glad I'm glad myself that the district gives uh the opportunity for people who don't have the experience as Mr Paige uh as we say or I've said it myself how are we supposed to get experience if we don't get the opportunity he's
045been given that opportunity but he's abused it as management uh the like I said the harassment continues the uh toxic environment there was an incident that happened in uh November I know myself and other drivers had said the same thing had I said it I would have been terminated there was a meeting I went and I spoke to Diana Lara stating hey you know what I'm not picking on you because she takes everything literal she verbally threatened me to jump over the table and beat me up okay she left me shocked I just walked away I debated of doing a title n figured maybe she was heated because I called her out on something um trip wise cuz she'll she'll what she does is um she doesn't communicate she'll give me a a a time
046when it should have gone to the other driver so the times are are are not communicated right or the size of vehicles we need for trips there was two occasions that the wrestling team um had to be in for weighing if they would have missed that deadline they had would have had to Forfeit and I think about the students as if they were my own children um and it's sad like I said that this is where it's led me to be back here again um she has no accountability and Mr Pig continues to let her get away with it um I spoke with Mr Mero I hope I said it right um after I filed the Title Nine he gave me instructions on the complaint that I made it was a it's not civil it's
047a classified to classified I still haven't got any information um Miss Lopez yes sir I hate to uh interject but we're going to give you about one more minute it's been seven minutes okay okay so again I'm just asking for the board to please please is there any way for something to help transport hold Mr paig accountable um we're being micromanaged we ask for tissues uh disinfectant wipes we have to sign out for these products uh somebody asked for a second box of tissues and they were questioned as to why well it's flu season tissues are a two- ply you can go through two and still not uh you know have a child clean themselves up well like I said I there's more I wanted to say but not enough time but I do appreciate
048everybody uh who hears what I have to say um I was told by a wise man a few months back that hopefully I'm the voice that helps everybody speak up I speak for myself but I speak for my work colleagues and those that are be um unjust of being unjustly done which is myself as well thank you ladies and gentlemen have a good night item 3.4 BTA comments I would like to welcome BTA president Anthony Garcia he is not here but he did send me his comments good evening everyone sorry I was not able to attend the meeting tonight but I had previously scheduled plans I just have a brief a few brief comments tonight we started negotiations and have met for 2 days so far it has been slow but we have had good
049conversations about some of the challenges our members have had this year particularly our sped teachers I am hopeful that we can improve the working conditions to prevent burnout and at the same time ensure that our students are getting the services that they need I also hope that we will be able to remain competitive with our neighboring districts in salary and finish before the school year ends second I would like to thank Mr Davis for starting our listening tour yesterday I know how difficult it can be to listen to criticism and not take it personally but it is also very valuable for any leader to be able to hear the unfiltered truth from the boots on the ground it will only make our district stronger and continue to build the trust that he has built item
0503.5 csca comments I would like to welcome csca president Jennifer Serrano uh good evening um Jennifer S president of banning chapter 147 um first of all I just like to say congratulations Marcia welcome aboard um I think it's always great when we grow from within um as you know we are Banning and she's one of our own so um I I like that feel um the second thing is we keep having to have Wana come back here and speak about what's going on in transportation and I usually don't I try not to speak bad about my colleagues or or have that's just not my style but I think at this point that the Board needs to really step in and see what's going on down in transportation um I've had many conversations um with Mr
051Baker um Mr Davis um with Mr Paige and nothing has changed none of the you know we sit and we brainstorm how we can make make it a better working conditions down in in transportation it's just not going anywhere um at this point um his management style is not what Banning is about um and so I'm coming to the board to ask for you guys to listen to the drivers not just W there's many more um that don't feel comfortable coming because of the retaliation that they may get when they go back to the yard um but at some point something needs to be done because like I said us as um leaders we have to say the hard things we have to be the ones that that say the hard things and the hard
052truth is is that his management style does not represent banning at all the way he talks to employees that's not representation of banning and we really need to look at um maybe you know a change so um that's probably coming soon we'll be asking for a change in manip U management down there um it's time to turn the page I think it's time thank you thank you item 4.1 superintendent's comments well good evening president Ruiz members of the board um I'll start by saying I am really excited but I know it doesn't look like it so I'll say that first but I am really excited I just got to get there it's been a long night already but I am excited about our pathway forward our pathway forward of looking at how do we improve
053the success of our students that's what I'm really really excited about last month I talked to the board we've talked in uh superintendent evaluation we've had a lot of conversation as I start to share kind of how I see our instructional program and folding and when I start to talk to teachers I really see excitement I see excitement in their eyes and it's almost like yes let's go however we need these things and that's what we need to work on uh we've been embarking upon some work with the national center for the education and economy we met a couple weeks ago and we're developing what's called a learner profile meaning that what should our students look like what skills competencies what should they have when they leave us that's not necessarily academic foundational skills how
054they behave we're talking about things that create success in life as human beings we're just about done with that and that plan has been developed by our team teachers parents administrators a lot of teachers in other in all of our school sites and I'm really proud of that work and it's almost to the finish line so I just want to share that the other two things Anthony mentioned the listen tour and I I forgot how challenging those things are so I want to thank the kazon staff I will be at every School site in the next coming months and my job is just to share kind of what's on my head and just listen I'll be taking inventory of those things creating what we call um themes on what we need to improve and to
055utilize that to start us next year so I'm really excited about that um I was able through a translator uh Mr Baker able to talk to Jennifer about we're going to do the same thing with CCA so we'll set some dates up where we meet with CCA employees uh to just for again for me to listen about what's going on those things are not easy to do however they're really important and what it does for me personally is I hear firsthand I hear firsthand what people are saying and most of the time people don't lie about that stuff they're telling what they feel inside and what they're dealing with and it's key to listen to that and as I shared with the team yesterday the overall goal there's going to be some things that we
056can fix right away 100 100% but there's some things that are challenging it's a challenging complex system however when I hear from staff about the challenges when we have decision making it goes wait a second this is a theme across the district no we don't do that we need to do this and that's my commitment that's my commitment to our students to our parents to our staff in our community to be better so I just want to share that with the board tonight thank you item five consent calendar the recommendation is to approve consent calendar agenda items 5.2 through 5.5 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 of these items prior to the time the
057Board of Trustees considers the motion unless a member of the board or administrative staff request that specific items be discussed Andor removed do we have a motion in a second to approve the consent calendar agenda as provided I move I second I have a motion from trustee trumman and a second from trusty angano all those in favor say I I I all those opposed say nay motion passes 0 item 6.1 Central Elementary School presentation I would like to invite Central Elementary School principal Mrs Cole faabi to share tonight's presentation Miss Cole before you get started I have to say something so every board meeting is different uh the things on the board agenda may seem like simple routine but they impact each and every person when they when they have to speak when they have
058to do things and I knew this was going to be uh an impactful night especially for Mrs Cole and so I talked to Miss Cole on Friday and you should know the central staff I'm gonna share it that's what I do um and I said Miss Cole we can we can push Central to another time to present it's a heavy night there's going to be some things going on and you know what she told me this was late Friday night she says no we're on the schedule we're on the list I'm ready and regardless of what happened we're going to be there ready so I have a lot of respect for you for that because as I would say um no I'm not gonna say that I it's gonna be taken but you're strong I
059was gonna use another word you're you're super strong and I really appreciate that about you so thank you I appreciate that thank you so much I thank thank you so while he's setting up good evening for president Ruiz clerk agano to all of our board members to superintendent Davis and executive cabinet and to our directors and to my fellow principls and of course to cro Elementary that's here and those that are online so I'm super duper proud to be the principal and I'm so happy to really present about Central Elementary I really do love Central this is my 10th year at Central Elementary as the principal so they've been stuck with me for a very long time and I really really love the students and the families and the community um I love the Dual
060emersion program so I'm super duper excited again to be a part of that and to have been a part about a part of that for such a long time so we're going to go forth with our presentation as you know as I said before that I am Marcia Cole Pabi I'm the principal of Central Elementary School 1928 so we're coming up on a hundred years so as we start every presentation with our mission statement because this is our purpose this is something that you as the board want us to focus on and we want to be a team collectively and make sure that we're following your vision and our superintendent vision and one of the things that always stick out to us is the pie prepare Inspire and educate and that's what we want to
061do starting from TK which is at my school that we're preparing our students and that we want to inspire them to keep going and that we're Ed educating them to look beyond for being career and college ready so here's some fun fast facts about Central Elementary we are now at a 791 students School TK through 5 there is 271 English Learners we have 17 dual immersion classes and one IBI class and 16 English only classes so this was one of the first years that we had more di than we did English only and that's because we added another TK class we now have two TKS so yes we have more Di and we are going to focus on the three Banning UniFi School District district goals the first one is to accelerate student academic achievement
062cultivate a safe and healthy learning environment increase parent and Community engagement these are not only are Banning UniFi School District goals these are also our lcap goals and this is also what we as principles use for our um sipsa goals so this is all of our goals that we combine together to create consistency amongst the district so we're going to break each one of those down and how it looks at Central Elementary School so we're going to start with our accelerate student academic achievement this is actually majority of our leadership team and some of my people here today and this is at an avid conference so let's look at what it looks like at Central so first and foremost we focus on District curriculum so mavas is what you see now but in English it's
063Wonders that is our language arts curriculum and math at this time we're using go maath but I know we're going to be looking at a pilot of a new math soon and then we' use science which is Elevate or elevar in Spanish and then we have Studies Weekly which is also comes in Spanish so all of our curriculum that's something that we have to look at when we do adopt is to make sure that it comes in Spanish because of our dual emerging students we want to make sure that they get that curriculum because in TK through two second second excuse me first grade it is 9010 so all of their curriculum is in Spanish and then as they get into second grade it's 80 20 70 30 60 40 and then 5050 and we
064have a lot of supplemental materials that we buy to make sure that we continue to enhance our accelerating of student achievement so this is actually guiding principles of dual immersion so there's actually a book that um Jose Medina has written that we kind of follow all of those that have dual immersion on their campus and we look through the book and we make sure that we're following the strands and this is a lot of those different activities that we use in the Dual Merion process and program to make sure that our students are getting everything that they need to be bilingual by the time they leave Central Elementary School and that's the thinking maps that's closed reading and one of the trainings that we had it was entos so entos was teaching our students how
065and when to add accents to the words so I do have a quick video that I want to show you of that and it's actually from M mfin Class Mr B do I just press it oh the mouse right there yes turn I'm move it back because the AIO [Music] any speee for foree like so they ask questions okay now they're looking at another [Music] for okay okay questions they realize that no that word did not deserve good okay all right there we go so now we're looking at some of our instructional strategies that we have so we have full Avid implementation and one thing that we have is uniform color so from the time that they come into TK they start to learn the colors so that they know what subject we're on so
066they have red they know if we say pull out the red folders it's writing if we say pull out the blue folders it's reading if we say pull out the green it is math and they have those colors from TK through fifth grade so in the younger grades that we use something called Nikki folders and it stays in the classroom but once they hit third grade it's a folder and it goes into their white B binder that they carry back and forth to school every day and the reason why that is is so that they can have those notes at home because they take three column notes and I know some's like it's heavy it's that but it actually gives them that chance that to look at the notes that the teachers taught that day
067so in case they get stuck on their homework they have it it's also a great tool for parents to say what did you learn from school today we get that I don't know I don't remember well take out your binder the binder will remind you of what you learned today so it also gives that opportunity and we teach organization it's the Owen wicker so it's letting them know that we have to stay organized these items stay at home you can take home we finish them these go back to school we also do weekly college tours because again we're career and college ready so we have a um PowerPoint that every week our teachers show our students how what a virtual tour of a college is we always start with my college as Mr Baker mentioned
068norol State University that's the first one they go on a college tour we also have instate and out of States because we want to let them know that there's more colleges than Woods in California so we also look at things that they can be exposed to so they're excited about that and they have the whole week because we focused on that college the week to make sure that Stu that teachers teach it so we don't want to rush the teachers you have a whole week to show them that and we say it over the announcements as well another piece is that we connect Avid to PBIS so there's one that's AV Advance via individual determination which is our Avid piece but we also have Avid as our PBIS which is our school Behavior expectations and
069that's we want them always prepared very respectful intentionally safe and determined and responsible and that's the Avid and we also have that in Spanish as well another thing we focus on is our district common assessments so we have 25 priority standards in both Ela and it's a 5x5 they teach five standards in five weeks and then we give them assessment of 25 questions uh we have matrices that were developed by teachers and they continue to monitor those uh matrices and look and see if they need to be changed according to the standards and we also have data review sessions of how our students did on those tests that we're giving during our Wednesday meetings or sometimes it's during our ELO time which is a PLC time for our teachers to meet so that's a time
070for them to have that time to collab elaborate and to see if we need to rete or look your teacher your students did something better than my students what did you do so maybe I can bring that same strategy into my classroom uh another piece is we have now the Irvine math project so for math we have a scope and sequence that was developed through the math um Irvine P project and it looks a little different than the 5x5 that we used to have um so here's our Avid strategies I mentioned wicker wicker is really B with writing inquiry collaboration organization and reading this is every grade level in our hallway is represented and our AVID coordinator she lets the team know look we're showing evidence of this letter and so they added to their
071wall showing what they're doing in their classroom to show um what that strategy or what that letter looks like and one of the hardest ones is inquiry and that's where we show our our rigor rigor excuse me so this is a example of Fifth and first so we have a guided reading book room we know that everybody is not going to learn whole group we need to have that small group instruction we need to have that differentiation so we have a book room where we purchase and it's in Spanish and English which I wanted to show you and each um bag that you see the teachers can just grab that bag based on the level and it had provides books it provides provides a lesson plan and they're ready to go with small group and
072that's something that we purchase through Scholastic and it goes from prepay level all the way to eighth grade and so any level that you have that you're working with the teachers can grab that and give them what they need we also are big on Accelerated Reader that's that independent reading and we have every teacher is required in their classroom to show their students where they are every great level expectation is different red is great level expectation so when they get to Red that means they have met their great level goal blue is going beyond the gry level goal and then of course we have million word readers and we're excited to say we have six million word readers at this time and we had one reader make mill a million word made her red shirt
073in one day after the first day of school I'm like what did you do read all summer so that was very very exciting and so I love her theme because it's the sports thing so everything in our classroom is sports related this is also in the library so when they re reach that red goal everyone gets a red star shirt when they reach the blue go they get the blue star shirt and then the million word shirt they come from me with a bag of uh goodies of their favorites and we also looked at our data from last year and we struggled in writing as a team as a school and also as a district as I look at our district data and so we decided what are we we going to do to help
074our students well there's a retired teacher that lives locally in one of our retirement communities here and she was really strong in writing and she said that she will come and help our students do a writing intervention class so the teachers were able to pull those students that they felt that can really benefit from writing so they are um having their weekly we have two days a week that they come in and they have about 30 minutes to work with her on writing as she prepares them for the state test because we know the state test is really big on performance tasks which is expecting three to five paragraphs so she works with them on that to prepare them for that writing process which can be really hard we also have another differentiation which is
075gate we have a gate coordinator and she had meets with them every other week during our um teacher prep time and but they just recently had a field trip and this is them being very creative so now we're on goal two which is cultivate a safe and healthy learning environment and our first graders have to learn to count to 120 not 100 so this is our first grade team wearing their 120th shirt to remind them that they can count to 120 so again going back to our PBIS trait Avid always prepared very respectful intentionally safe and determined and responsible we use this monthly we focus on on one and the one that we focus on after that month the teacher decides which student displayed that characteristic the most and they get to have lunch with
076the principal which we had today I put those pictures already on Facebook so today's um focus was intentionally safe and those students were really happy also we make sure that we speak in a restorative language and that's I will make sure I have my binder I will bring my pencil pouch so that's all about making sure we say it in a positive manner instead of saying bring your homework it's making sure that we say it in a positive way we also have consequences and of course every classroom has their own classroom system which is turn your C to Red turn your C to Blue but we also needed something that's schoolwide and that's something that's called pink tickets because we wanted to make sure that when our yard Duties are at recess that they have
077some power no you're not called a Robocop no I'm going to tell your teacher no I can have authority to tell you that you need to follow schoolwide expectations as well and that's what the pink ticket is and that's why it's called recess incident so that the teacher the excuse me the yard duties can give it to the teacher and let them know that they were not following school expectations and when they get to four pink tickets it becomes an office referral and they have to come see Miss Carlson and not which is the assistant principal at Central and Council and they don't want to come see us and I so a high level referral is if they break a um a uh went totally blank code and also for PBIS of course it's not
078always negative we talked about as positive and this is PBIS reward something that we purchase and they get points so if and we do three points a day for attendance for um behavior and then one is teacher Choice why they feel they should get a point so here's all the students dressed in their cap and gowns and these are first graders and they have if you can see the number on the top that's how many points they've earned and every 6 weeks my PBIS coordinator says okay it's time to go shop it's like Amazon they get to go to the PBIS store and it's on their Chromebook in the clever app and they get to see what they can afford and purchase the items I bag the items and make sure it's delivered to them
079and so it will also tell them if it's out of stock so it's nice for us to let them know if we have to re refill so it's really nice for them to get excited about um saving as well because some of the items which you can't see is like a school shirt also gift cards I'm like if you want that you can't hurry up and spend it with the little bitty ball you have to keep your point so you can get to the gift card so we're trying to teach them that savings um as well which is hard for even some of us adults and we also have assemblies so we had the magic show that just recently came we also also have our Hispanic heritage assembly because we also are big on culture
080we had our lunar assembly we had our black history assembly and then we soon will be having our CCO Deo assembly and we also will be having our um rock Awards which is also consider assembly which is acknowledge how well they're doing in the classroom we're also big on attendance under this and that's making sure that the students are in school they have to be in school so that we can be able to teach them we need them in the seat so this shows Saturday school or Saturday Academy excuse me where they can recoup a day of absence and then also in the beginning of every school year we send this flyer home we also put it on our Facebook page which is important attendance information it tells them um what an excused absence is
081what an unexcused absence is the sub serup process and then how to excuse an absence so that is something that we make sure parents are aware of right away excuse me another piece on attendance is we have a sheet that spells out the word attendance which is 10 letters every classroom gets it they gets every time somebody every time the group is there at on time they get to color in a letter so when they get to 10 letters they turn it into Miss Lupita and the entire class gets surprised so they work really hard in coloring in that attendance some can make it in 10 days we have some classes that's still working from the beginning of the year to get to that so so we are working on that we also have um
082a percentage we have to turn into the district every month the percentage of every grade level so we look and see who had the highest percentage by grade level and we have a bulletin board we highlight them and they get a pizza party we talk to nutrition services and they get pizza um for that day we make sure we choose it on a day that everybody would want pizza instead of what's being served and we also have our field trips and this is our fifth grade field trip they were able to go on the field where the Chargers play for the Sofi Stadium they were able to throw the ball and run out on the field they were super duper excited to get that and then also we just had a field trip on Tuesday
083at M high and they receive snow so a lot of them have never seen snow so they were able to play in the snow this time so they're that was a great experience for them there was also a snake in one of the activities and they were holding snakes I said that's why I didn't go but they were excited to hold the snake the Rams that's not the charges well okay all right goal three our last goal which is increase parent and Community engagement this is our own Miss Maria Torres she loves to be at all the schools no she does not have any children at our school but she has nieces and nephews and she went through our Academy so Central Ponies are B are Avid and we are Banning so we do parent
084workshops parent engagement parent communication Student Success and coffee sessions and here we have our monthly calendar so at the first of every month is sent out parents are aware of what's happening what's going on so they are not um lost about I didn't know that was going to happen no we have sent it out but we also send reminders because we all know that we sometimes forget because that's what we teach our students that forgetting happens soon as it's taught so we have to have repetition so we do send more and more um reminders we also have par and coffee sessions as you know some of our safety switch this year so we had our own district coordinator safety coordinator Dr I was making him a doctor Mr Sheriff come and teach your students about
085the different um new safety loss and of course we have a strong booster club and this is our daddy daughter dance for our booster club we soon have our mother son we also had a family fun event for um booster and we have also um other activities that our parents come as such as parent volunteers and we also have where parents are alen field trip so we do have a par a lot of our parents coming in to be a part of what we have going on at C and thank you we are Banning any questions definitely have a lot going on at Central oh thank you just a comment Miss Cole just so you know the kids absolutely love your PBI system PBIS system that you have going where they get to go shopping
086yes and they're learning how to save the points for the bigger they might kiddos absolutely loved it oh well thank you thank you so yes I I just have a comment not a question um I guess as a former teacher I love your organizational and study skills the color coordinating um to help ADD and ADHD and any kind of learning you know students that have issues like that I love your um behavior modification and the Irvine math um program s uh I think all of these things give the and your Scholastic resources I was very impressed with all of those thank you oh I appreciate that thank you thank you item 6.2 Business Services 2025 26 annual Transportation plan this item is for the board to approve the annual Transportation plan for the 2025 26
087fiscal year is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 6.2 I'll move a second I have a first from myself and a second from Miss Martinez laara we would like to welcome Mr Herrera to the podium for tonight's presentation good evening president ree clerk Gano distinguished board members members of the ban UniFi School District leadership those here attending in person and over the wavel today I have the pleasure of providing the board an update on what is known as our annual transportation plan and so here always like to start with the feature of our students getting off the bus over nickolet Middle School the new striping new approach here and busway to maintain the safety of our students and our staff as well and before getting started I also want to
088go ahead and give a big thank you to the transportation department we've been meeting on a fairly routine basis and I've been learning so much alongside with the rest of the team of just a daily struggles and challenges that we're enduring not only because of the driver challenges and shortages overall but also because it is a very very tough job as we all continue to support our students in our educational programs also a huge thank you to students teachers and administrators as we continue to work through some challenges and continue to improve on a day-to-day basis uh and provide those opportunities for our student stents not only transportation from home to school but also the additional extracurricular and field trip opportunities and so a little bit of background in terms of the transportation plan it
089is U Been a relatively new requirement by the state given that flat funding had been the case for uh Transportation always had to be backfilled by the understat general fund however now we're able to Claim about 60% of total expenditures as additional funding to the district uh the plan needs to be provided to the board by April 1st on an annual basis and requires the prioritization of Transportation Services in this order students with an i AP which is individualized education plan specializ education students homeless students also known as mck mckin vental students preschool TK kindergarten under complete unduplicated pupils um and all other students we do provide transportation to all students therefore meeting these requirements another one of the key components is the consultation with the various educational partners including our parent advisory committee the
090Banning Unified School District transportation department including CAC leadership uh also was consulted on this plan the Banning Teachers Association negotiates team and the district leadership including principal and all Department leads um and so a little bit about just what we currently have in policy today as it relates to transportation is board policy 3541 which stipulates the Transportation Route and operation parameters of how the distance of a student living from their their home school to their home stop and so there may be some revisions that we encounter as we continue to look at different ways to maximize the efficiency of the routes that are run on a day run on a day-to-day basis board policy 5116 is uh one of School attendance boundaries which none are currently established however there is a contracted service in a
091future item tonight that would allow to begin the study to determine whether it is best to move forward with School attendance boundaries and so a little bit more information on that to come also again provided uh to all students is the tra the opportunity for transportation which includes curve to curve for special education students and also on nonpublic schools that are generally outside of the district boundaries and of course all general education stops as well and so with that give you a little bit background of the plan we'll hand it over to Mr Ken Pig director for Li trans to provide a little bit more operational background here as well thank you good evening distinguished board members superintendent Davis extended C executive cabinet and Bandon Community as a whole the slide you have before you
092is an aerial map of the service or the area that we actually Service as you can see it includes White Water Cabazon the poppet Flats Twin Pine areas Banning city as well as four private schools within the Riverside County area okay how do I get to the next slide just hit the button I'm going to talk a little bit about Transportation operations infrastructure we have 21 buses and seven Vans we are currently right now have applied for grants for Ev and the infrastructure needed for that and we are looking into other grants as well and how they can benefit the district those are listed there the logistic side of the house has to do with the ridership your general education uh stock your curb to curb special Edge stops and then your outer District non-public
093schools uh the real number to look at that is total average daily ridership that differs from the number of students because the ridership is how many times a student rides a bus throughout the day Staffing is another logistic portion of it we have 12 positions four vacant for bus drivers we have four FTE for Vans and they'll completely all positions are full we have one bus substitute one van driver and we are currently operating a recruitment training program for bus drivers Logistics as we all know extracurricular field trips is a very important part of the educational process we support this through not only in-house but through Charter contract Service and later this evening you'll be looking at a contract uh trying to bring on two additional Charter services so we can fulfill more of those
094field trips St um we're in the process of transitioning from our current uh student tracking and routing software to a new one we did do a partial implementation of transfinder which was the original one in that implementation we found out that there was additional training issues needed equipment added cost and it was difficult for the end users our new system is Travers traversa it has been brought to us through some of our uh co-ops that we have joined and we find that this is now a better service and it's allowing us to build those co-ops but to give you we'll what's I'm sorry we're on schedule for a u spring break Hardware installation for it a soft pilot in May a hard pilot over the summer program so we can work out all the Kinks
095the bugs and a full implementation in the fall additional support and incentives uh as Mr R mentioned we are meeting on a regular basis with our staff we have joined numerous co-ops through sadino and Riverside County and along with casos so we can bring those better uh best business practices back to our department and Implement them our driver training contract Service to help us build a better training program and to retain those uh a logistic contract Service as well for professional development software implementation uh help us create a operation standard standard operations procedures and to help us research Grant policies as well and other applications we may to put I'd like to thank the board for the um suggestion that we meet with Morango band Mion of indes Mr herera and I recently did that
096that actually went very well thank you meeting with their Administration team we learned that they face a lot of the same challenges we do there's a high interest in building that co-op with us and more important not only do we drive the same streets but we're serving a lot of the same students so there was a lot of interest by both parties to develop that this slide is about extracurricular and field trips this is the one that really I'm the proudest of and helps shine we finally finalized the 2023 24 data we completed a total of 344 trips uh trips filled well I'm sorry total requests were 344 fi trips filled were 324 trip cancellations were were 20 Trip's Charters were four and total miles traveled was 28,000 that speaks a testimony to all staff
097and their dedication to doing this 2425 is an estimate in number while we have completed a good portion of that school year we took what we did last year and estimated what we expect to have for the remainder of the year as you can see there's been quite a bit of an increase in trip requests we expect 370 completing a total of 361 trip cancellations were estim 9 with Charter trips of 17 and a total mileage of 30,500 the staff has worked really hard to give that experience to the students and as you can see we have cut over 50% of the trip cancellations and we project a fourfold quadruple increase in the Charter services one of the reasons we're bringing forward this evening two additional charter service companies to help us even cut that
098number down more and to provide all opport ities that we can to the field trips quick question yes uh do we have an idea why so many trips were cancelled in 23 24 there was various reasons it would be could be due to last minute call out by the driver things beyond the control sometimes the site canceled it for various reasons there's numerous reasons why thank you I have one more question since we're on this slide in regards to trips chartered um where did we find the funding for them oh refer that to Mr her great and that is a great question and a segue to our next slide and so in terms of the funding we did um notice that there was a significant shift here in the cost of transportation services that were
099contract out we currently have two drivers available for I believe inbound um trips and three for outbound or maybe the opposite right three inbound to outbound and so we have to then go to the next resource available which is contracted services and so part of this plan is the additional funding that we're receiving for the transportation department operations but also uh all School sites are receiving an allocation it was a $50,000 allocation distributed based on a per pup basis across the district but because there was this Challenge and having various conversations with various um educational Partners throughout the uh last few months is that was increased by 70,000 so a total of $20,000 across the district and so again we continue to have some challenges in terms of just the cost um and we are
100uh engaging actively with our side administrators to make sure that we don't uh limit our students because of the cost restrictions so there are various different funding resources including supplemental concentration funding that we're leveraging uh in terms of some of even just the vehicles that we're purchasing that is also an item coming up on tonight's agenda is using the extended learning opportunity program and so it's leveraging all resources available to can that are allowable to support uh the increased cost in transportation and so in terms of next steps do like to categorize it into three different um main areas one is improving student safety two achieving staffy needs and also operational improvements and so as Mr Paige mentioned uh there was that transition from two systems now into a unified system known as traversa uh
101there's significant benefits from it I know tomorrow they're going to be busy on their final training so that we can move forward with the implementation uh the last about week or so they've been working to gather student information to improve the safety be able to uh have accurate account for all the students on any of our vehicles at any given time and the end goal later on in the fall would be then the user and aspect of it for parents to be able to easily identify which um routes their students are at um where they're at within the route and also push notifications for example this morning we expected um a snowfall up in at a while the roads were closed um in some um areas there and there are a few students that we
102do transfer from that area and um and so that would allow us to go through the application and send a notification to parents in addition of course to notifying folks through uh apptg and other platforms as well um so definitely excited about that and getting to a point where we have a system it has taken some time uh and again the challenges we experienced with the previous one now this uh solution is one that uh we are actively engaged in and ensuring that we have a full implementation by the fall of 25 um in terms of achieving that staffy needs has continued to work with the labor Partners csca as you may recall and with the support of the board was additional hours for drivers also included Health and Welfare and incentive program as well
103and so looking forward to engaging those conversations in our upcoming negotiation sessions with CCA relaunching the driver training program with the support of our Communications Department Mr me I'm very uh excited about that as well and leveraging his expertise to really tap into our community and see how can we get the support and um additional resources in terms of Labor so that we can build a cohesive um pool for van drivers also a training program then for our bus um driving certification program additional Charter services are also a key component here even though our drivers have the first right of refusal uh the important thing here is that there is also Bur burned out uh and from the lens of having to drive having to um work through the challenges that may happen in terms
104of behavior on buses and so that is also a support that can help out the Staffing but again we continue to want to promote our vacancies that we currently have so that we can get fully staffed and optimize our operations other improvements uh like mentioned it was the School attendance boundary study um that uh we're working through demographic study which is really the first stop and that was already in the works now this is the additional component to evaluate if it feasible to implement any School attendance boundaries that would maximize the efficiency and reduce the amount of cross traffic as it relates to in town out of town and what I mean by that is really Cabazon into City Banning and so forth and so on so um also evaluating our curve to curve um
105student ridership conducting audits working with the special Department as well and looking at what are the true requirements and following the decision tree when new I APS do come about and transportation services are requested um the uh Fleet is also going through upgrades as Mr Paige mentioned working on various grant opportunities uh we are uh going through the process tonight as well and asking the board for additional support to leverage uh that cost to maximize the return to the district as it relates to the requirements by the air quality management agency to go electric vehicle along s with the actual um infrastructure necessary for that yes ma'am this mandates going to change I'm sorry what was the question those mandates going to change would you want to answer that Mr paage because I know there
106are mandates coming down federally so are they going to change yes those mandates are already be wasting money no we are not wasting money the reality is those mandates are going to get stricter as time goes on uh right now we are in comp we are just slightly out of compliance before you this evening is uh to approve five new van leases two of them VI an EV to bring us into compliance because we're out of compliance that will only take us so far until 2028 at that point larger portion of our F will have to become into compliance well is that going to be because I know I just listened to the new EPA secretary the federal Secretary of the EPA and they were talking about changing the regulations so I'm just wondering is
107that going to be just a local thing or is it the well we fall under Southern California AQMD so we are under the most restrictive air quality District why EPA may be discussing that right now AQMD has not and there has been no official word if there's going to be any changes at this point I only predict the changes to become more restrictive to us and become more required okay okay thank you thank you for that Mr paig and last but not least like Mr paig mentioned earlier is that inter agency collaboration not just with the Morango um band of mission Indians but also with the city of banning also with um Bulma Unified School District uh um as harsh as this may sound I I think there's a common denominator here and we all
108have the same cargo the same Precious Cargo and making sure that our students are getting not only from home school but exposure to those engaging activities outside the school district um and so there is actually a meeting that will be set up next week just letting you know Mr pach as of now I just heard that earlier today uh with our our neighbors so that we can engage in those conversations to see how we can help each other out again just pull re pulling resources benefits all of us and so with that thank you very much for your time today that concludes the transportation presentation here we have our staff working on ensuring that our buses are back online as soon as possible I do have a question in regards to the curb to curb
109um transportation are we keeping track of like how many parent request we have for that uh for students with IEPs and 504 plans to see if there is a shift now that we have a new special education director I don't believe we have data in terms of showing the shift however if I recall correctly from Mr Worthing's presentation a few weeks back there was roughly about 260 requests we're only providing Transportation at the moment to9 students let me say that differently there's 260 eligible students for curve to curve Transportation not all of them requested at this point we're providing 159 student transportation to the front of their home that is an increase from about 112 earlier this year so even within the year we've seen a significant surgent and and and those numbers so again
110eligibility versus actually taking the service or utilizing the service and so part of one of the Opera insur improvements that we will be focusing on is conducting an audit of what is in the I AP and through that process identify whether it's something that's required or not and so and a great question from the lens of the operational efficiency of the department one making sure that we're providing the service as required by the ib2 determining if it's even necessary to provide the service I'm glad you guys are considering that and looking into it um when can we expect updates as to the changes or the things that we've noted that would be beneficial for both the students and the department uh very very soon hopefully and as soon as we do get that going and
111knowing that it's one of the priorities we'll will be providing the board an update on that thank you I know you said Morango was experiencing the same thing um but I'm going to ask anyways were they able to help us at all with our issues that we're having I know they um Morango it it's the reservation that they serve where and which there's the kids that live on the reservation do come to our schools as well and I know they're understanding of that so was there anything any way they were going to be able to help at all immediately the answer is no given the fact that they have to follow a process and so this is what we learned through that conversation that there was some level of Engagement between the district and Morango
112um years past we uh they asked to look for documentation because it would be very difficult on their end given that there may be different layers to search and gather that information we found no record of any kind of joint agreement and or memorandum of understanding however understanding the challenges understanding that there is uh again same cargo right same Precious Cargo is that um we we are excited about having those conversations within organization and we're in the process of setting up a secondary um meaning with their um and I may be not saying this correctly their Educational Department if you will so that we can continue to engage in what could be a partnership in a very near future and so again at this point there is no support that on either end but there
113is high interest and of course I think that um we have a common goal thank you any other questions okay I kind of skipped ahead a little bit let me go back um I have a motion from myself and a second from trusty Martinez laara to approve item 6.2 all those in favor say I I all those oppos sorry all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5 Z Item 6.4 Business Services 242242 second interim financial report this item is for the board to approve positive certification for second second interim financial reporting for fiscal year 20242 is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 6.4 I move I'll second we would like to invite Mr Herrera to stay where he is and do tonight's presentation great well thank you very
114much good evening again I now have the pleasure providing and starting off the presentation on second interim and so our feature this budget cycle is the sping be here that was held over at Banning High School and so just wanted to always start with a thank you here to the fiscal Services Department in collaborating with all the school sites and the Departments uh We've made significant progress in that area in terms of the ongoing conversations and collaborations ensuring that school Siz and Department are spending today's dollars on today's students and so definitely it is a testament to the work from um Mr Mr Ramos that's presenting we here today uh miss m shuk and of course the rest of the fiscal Services Department team so in terms of the budget cycle this illustration here is
115one that I always like to bring up to give us an illustration of where we at in time and so we did get an update from the governor's budget uh that was known as the governor the January Governor's proposal um we're currently at about the 6:00 hour at second inun where we're providing our expenditures as of January 31st which includes projections for the current and two subsequent years with a more refined um set of assumptions that includes enrollment average daily attendance staff is Staffing and focus is really on our yearend projections the there is a certification on interal reports we are happy to announce that there is a positive certification uh meaning that the district would meet its Financial Obligations for the current and to subsequent fiscal years so what is going on over at
116the state level here and so the information received and these are all proposals at the moment as the budget cycle at the state level leads into the made revision and thereafter the enacted budget and so the latest assumptions in which are included in the projections today is a cola for next year at 2.43% then normalizing to 3 and a half and then 3.6% in the two years out uh that is now normalizing as compared to the current year Cola of 1.07% other proposals also do include increased revenues expected at the state level um for the year which is going to create additional one-time funding and as of uh the last few years we have seen this pattern where any additional funding is released to the k14 community including Community College in the form of some
117ongoing dollars but various funding sources that are one time in nature one of the ones that are proposed is the student support professional development discretionary block rent and it almost seems like every day they're getting longer and longer here and also the restoration of the learning recovery emergency block rent which was reduced last year and so there will be um additional dollars coming in that form as well one of the other exciting initiatives that the community is very um looking forward to in the new fiscal year is the new instructional continuity initiative allowing for the recovery of lost Ada in addition to what we're already currently doing so the potential is there to really continue to engage our students and of course the byproduct being the academic achiev the social emotional aspect of their learning
118and also the funding so an opportunity for many districts to cover the Gap as we continue as a state to work on average daily attendance upcoming key data we'll be waiting on one more economic Factor so that we can uh get to the final Cola and there's always a difference between the cola as it calculated versus what is actually funded and we'll learn a lot more in May known as the governor's revision with that I'll hand it over to Mr Ramos to provide information on the budget assumptions thank you good evening so as part of the second interim process we take a look at the enrollment and the average daily attendance of our students so over on the right hand side you'll notice that in June 2024 we Pro projected for the current fiscal year
119that our enrollment would be 4,275 I'm happy to report that as of February the actual enrollment exceeded that projection by two but wait there's more so as of as of last week we're actually at 4,290 so um what it looks like is our our enrollments actually coming in higher than originally projected and this is a great thing showing that students are coming to the bny Unified School they want to be part of it they want to be part of it so um one of the other things that we keep an eye on is the transition of our students from fifth grade to sixth grade traditionally there's been a 9% decline going from fifth to sixth but that decline is actually um going smaller so we're actually at a - 2.9% which is an improvement our
120average daily attendance rate last fiscal year was 91.5% and it's up to 92.4% now you may have heard us say that in the past pre pandemic the Ada for our district was 93% well now we're at 92.4 so we're inching our way we're making Headway back up to that 93% so a lot of good news to share and one more thing to highlight the transitional kindergart uh kindergarten uh age requirement it will be fully implemented in the 2526 fiscal year so it's a four year four of four um implementation so let's take a a look at the general fund revenues and expenditures on the left hand side we have the combined general fund revenues which includes our unrestricted programs as well as restricted we had total revenues of 88 million and over on the right
121hand side we had total expenditures of 96 million now the expenditures are outpacing the revenues and that's because we're continuing with the trend of spending down dollars that we receed receiv received in Prior years that have carried over the majority of them are restricted and we're spending down those carryover balances a couple of things to knowe is that the revenues include $2.6 million in one-time revenues um mostly made up of interest and so as you may be aware the interest rates are really high and so we're benefiting off of high interest rates from our cash balances with the County Treasury in addition there are some one-time expenditures totaling six .4 million when we isolate the unrestricted general fund and we exclude all of those one-time expenditures and revenues because they're one time in nature they're
122not ongoing we actually see a surplus in the unrestricted general fund of 700,000 which is a really great thing yes where can we can we spend the interest anywhere or is it does it have to be spent at a certain place so the the interest received in the unrestricted general fund is is onetime funds and can it's unrestricted so there are no restriction require requirements on it however the district did do a couple of things um uh settle negotiations with labor partners and so some of those funds did go towards those labor negotiations okay thank you okay as part of the second interim process we do a comparison of first interim to Second interim and we take a look and see what are the difference what are we changing within our financials so over on
123the right hand side you'll see total revenues um there's a column for first interim as well as a a column for second interim and then there's a difference the revenue changes total 2.0 million with the majority being in in in interest as well as updating we get up-to-date information on our federal and state Awards so we bring that into the budgets now moving down a little bit you'll notice that the expenditure changes are 492,000 and so some of this includes a shifting of originally we thought we were going to buy 9 154,000 in books and supplies but it turned out we ended up um increasing contracts that could be software subscriptions um and we have recent most recently had some increase in special ed contracts as well so it was just a shifting of those
124budgets between major objects one of the things that's important to note at the bottom is our reserve for economic uncertainty changed only a fraction of a percent of. 21% um so meaning that our reserve for economic uncertainty increased a little bit but mostly keeping it intact okay and I'll be handing over to Mr Herrera for some assumptions well thank you very much Mr Ros for really digging into the current year assumptions and overall projections now I have the opportunity of providing a cohesive look at our three-year budgetary assumptions we spoke about enrollment and some of the great successes that we've had as of late um we are really going through a transition from having decreased in enrollment that led to about 101 loss over two years down to about 51 students lost over a two-year
125period from the current enrollment also average daily attendance is coming up higher at 92.4% unduplicated pupil count another significant to key performance indicators as it relates to duplicated pup counts also increased from 91% to uh 92.4% and last but not least one other uh figure worthy of mentioning again it's the cola at 1.07 in the current year they're normalizing um into a about 3% at the end of the third year out in terms of the overall projections in terms of funding um and dollars and cents we're looking at the combined multi-year projection which includes unrestricted and restricted balances this here uh is a indication showing that our revenues are are not um excuse me our expenditures are exceeding our revenues but that is because of just the mechanics of spending carryover spending um dollars that
126are no revenues are associated with it because of that carryover phenomenon also onetime funding that Mr R Express here so would like to carry forward the conversation to the next slide which isolates the unrestricted general fund this is really the litmus of the health of our district financially and so looking at the current of sequent year want to draw your attention to the deficit currently there're at 3.2 that is not a structural deficit when we remove those one time revenues and those remove those one-time expenditures we're operating at a surplus of 700,000 in year one which is the current year next year even though it does say a negative 739 th000 we also have one-time expenditures as it relates to negotiations and impact with our labor partners and so that is a smaller number at
127a negative $150,000 and by the time we look at the third year we are in a place where we're looking at a positive small but yet positive um ex net excess of revenues over expenditures alog together our reserves for economic uncertainties there towards the bottom remains fairly constant in the 6.4 to excuse me 6.2 to 6.8 million range meeting all reserve requirements and so the positive here is that the financial Outlook has shifted significantly and I just want to take us back to uh last year when we were talking about a shift from a 3.94 cola to 1.07 which made a significant impact to many district across the state Manning Banning it it represented a deficit of $4.3 million through the support of the board working through our district Partners here we were able to
128develop a budget stabilization plan reducing $3 million in total expenditures still leaving at that point back in June of 2024 for this current fiscal year a $1.3 million deficit because of the enrollment increase because of the adverse daily attendance because of the endup people count increases we have been able to eliminate that deficit and really shift in terms of a more um positive outlook financially and I'm just very very excited and it is the comment denominator tonight that excitement and yes I may not look like I'm excited but it is really a turning uh Point here as we continue to build programs and systems for our students to benefit from deeper look into the budget trans transparency report which includes the components on the fund badage is a significant component of our overall financials and
129the question in terms of interest uh income it does can fall to the bottom line there's no restrictions and we have been able to increase our technology infrastructure components meaning those expenditures that we're expecting in the future as we continue to improve our technology infrastructure also uh a textbook math adoption is something that we're expecting in the Horizon and giv the of cost also went through uh increasing that by half a million and so there is some of the uh increase in revenues that we uh experienced earlier in the conversation so next step second inim approval for tonight is recommended waiting for the May revice which is in May the elcap development process is fully underway with the support of the educational services department and the next time we'll hear from us in terms of
130budget projections would be in June where will be providing the preliminary budget and also the current year estimated acts and with that are there any questions and yes this is the honor R um event at the high school and as excited as the student is so are we so thank you very much no further questions ladies no all right l so I have a motion from trusty Troutman and a second from myself to approve item 6.4 all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5 item 6.5 2025 California School Board Association delegate Assembly Election ballot for delegate assembly sub region 18-a this item is for the board to elect delegates to the 2025 California School Board Association delegate assembly sub region 18-a okay I'm I'm not sure
131on the wording so can I change the wording a little bit okay so I myself would like a m like to make a motion that the board V votes for Douglas Corona Madonna jell Steven Schwarz and Nancy Young do I have a second I second did you get that Miss Edith okay all right any discussion or questions I thought we were going to vote for one more person on there can I nominate one Nick Perdue any other questions or discussion so I have a motion from myself and a second from trusty angano all those in favor say I I I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes stuck item 7.1 Educational Services School accountability report card this item is for the board to approve the school accountability report cards is there a
132motion and a second to open and discuss item 7.1 Mo I'll second any discussion or questions I have a motion from truste nollis and a second from trustee Troutman to approve item 7.1 all those in favor say I I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5-0 item 7.3 Educational Services award bid number 25-1 eate category 2 internal connections and installation this item is for the board to award bid number 25-1 for eate category 2 internal connections uninterruptable power supply to Shi international corporation it is also recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the award bid number 25-1 eate c Category 2 internal connections Network electronics to Vector USA is there a motion in a second to open and discuss item 7.3 I move I'll second any questions or discussion I have
133a motion from truste Troutman and a second from trustee Martinez laara to approve item 7.3 all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5- Z Item 8.1 Human Resources notice of public hearing the Board of Trustees will now conduct a public hearing to adopt the sunshine proposals for Banning Unified School District to the the California School Employees Association chapter number 147 for the 2526 negotiation year now is the time and place for the hearing I declare that the hearing is now open the time is 9:39 p.m. and 5 Seconds at this time were there any public comments received regarding this item no comments were received is there anyone here now that wants to make a comment seeing as there are no comments at this time the hearing
134I declare that the public hearing is now closed the time is 9:39 p.m. and 48 seconds item 8.2 Human Resources adopt the sunshine proposals for Banning Unified School District to the California School employee Association chapter number 147 for the 20 School Employees Association chapter 147 for the 2025 26 negotiation year is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 8.2 I'll move I'll second sorry is thatman Martinez laa okay I have a motion from trusty nolles and a second from trusty Martinez laara to approve item 8.2 all those in favor say I I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5 item 9.1 district and community relations 2025 national school public relations Association National seminar this item is for the board to approve the attendance of the district and
135community relations coordinator to the 2025 National school public relations Association National seminar in Washington DC from July 20th through the 23rd 2025 is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 9.1 I'll move I'll second any discussion or questions I have a motion from trusty nollis and a second from trusty Troutman to approve item 9.1 all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5 item 9.2 District school safety 2025 campus safety conference this item is for the board to approve the attendance of the district school safety coordinator to the 2025 campus safety conference from July 21st through the 23rd 2025 in Austin Texas is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 9.2 I'll move I'll second any discussion or questions
136I have a motion from trusty novales and a second from trusty Martinez laara to approve item 9.2 all those in favor say I I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5-0 item 9.3 Business Services piggyback bid Xerox copier systems upgrade project this item is for the board to approve a piggyback bid contract with Xerox copier systems upgrade project RF q- i-212 60099 D1 contract ma-- 1-4 County of Los Angeles is there a motion and second to open and discuss item 9.3 I'll move I second any discussion or questions I have a motion from trusty nollis and a second from trusty Troutman to approve item 9.3 all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes item 9.4 business services Enterprise long-term lease of five new
137Vans for student transportation services this item is for the board to approve the long-term lease of five new Vans for transportation services from from Enterprise through the source well award contract solicitation number RFP 0122 is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item 9.4 I'll move I second any discussion or questions yes I have some questions um I don't know who I would address these to oh okay thank you sorry to put you down there again Mr Paige not a problem grateful to be here I see that this is 43,800 74 with the final payment it looks is that final payment $111,000 for the um for I guess the depreciation of that would be if we actually chose to purchase the vehicle these are at least to own option right and but
138the limit is 100,000 and this is over um a fiveyear period I believe correct okay and the but the limit for our Fleet for each one of them is 100,000 miles is that correct that's what it says in the contract anyway I'm trying to remember I believe so we we do have extended mileage on it because we know we're going to be using for curb to curb and for extracurricular as well okay so I guess I didn't see that in the contract the mileage the mileage I see is 100,000 per vehicle yes so that's only 20,000 miles a year I don't believe that's for the total contract um what it says okay I would have to review that I'm sorry I'm not recalling that okay oh that's fine um I guess I was kind of
139wondering looking at the price of the vehicles it says that it includes maintenance um and that's a charge that we're paid we charge we're charged hundred th $100 a month for each of those correct that takes care of all the maintenance except for Tires and Brakes okay so we would have to pay for those ourselves that is correct okay so given that um a breakdown for that is um 82,000 per vehicle also that includes a $1,500 delivery charge um is that delivery from the factory or is that delivery from someplace around here that is actually delivery from a around here what that is is a cargo van that comes in and then they build it out as a passenger vehicle and then it's delivered from the uh Source One or Enterprise okay so they're charging
140us $1,500 per vehicle to drive it to our location is that correct it's correct because it's coming from the factory to the location where they have to build it out and then they bring it to us that is correct okay so the 1500 is just for the delivery charge if I recall correctly yes that is just the delivery charge that is to deliver it to Enterprise to to a source one to have it built out and then brought to us okay so looking at a purchase of it um with no you know no extra funds at the end um the total purchase would be $365,000 for those uh Vehicles we are paying for lease with you know and and we would own those Vehicles we would we are paying uh $43,000 and we're still paying
141the maintenance on them every month plus the tires and all of that so I guess I'm kind of wondering um did we do a cost analysis on this um Mr her to see which would be better so do you want to talk about the EV aspect of it in terms of the lease program that maybe would help understand as to why we went with this option um and then I can definitely follow with answering the are these EVS two of these vehicles are EVs and one of the options of leasing is being able to turn those Vehicles over at the end of the five years so we will not be stuck with a vehicle that it's in of its Lifey the replacement of the batteries would be almost 70% of the cost of the vehicle
142okay so two of them are that is correct I didn't see that in the contract okay so the 35,000 or 38,000 is basically so that we don't have to pay for that that is correct okay all right thank you all question any other questions or discussion I have a motion from trusty nalis and a second from trusty angano to approve item 9.4 all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5 item 9.5 Business Services resolution 25-17 authorizing filing of applications for State allocation board administered programs under proposition two this item is for the board to adopt resolution number 25-17 resol res olution authorizing filing of applications for State allocation board administered programs under proposition two is there a motion and a second to open and discuss item
1439.5 I'll move I'll second any discussion or questions I do have one real quick question um are when we talked about this before we said that we didn't know if we were going to get any funds for prop two are we planning on getting any of those funds we are going through the process of ensuring that we're meeting all of the requirements that have come up in the last month as uh the state allocation board is defining what is necessary by district for prop two and so this is one of the components we brought a resolution a few months ago as well uh that it's again going through the checklist if you will um and so the final piece is doing the five-year master plan and that's also under work should be having it to
144the before the board in the next couple of months as well and so to answer your question it is not guaranteed for the district to receive any this funding however there is a contract in an upcoming item here to work with experts in the field to maximize the potential for grant funding from the state through prop two by looking at the age of a building's eligibility based on uh interim housing also known as modular housing for students and uh permanent housing and so again there a long answers to say that this is one of the steps here to move forward with the application process and get a line for the facilities funding that could potentially extend our current Bond of $74 million to potentially 100 as an example and so and nothing's guaranteed until we
145follow the application get in line meet all the requirements and go through the process of those allocation Cycles at the state level so that's the 45 ,000 we were discussing correct so we spend $45,000 we have no idea if we're going to be able to that is correct it is an investment in terms of with the potential of not seeing a whole lot of return however it is highly likely given the demographic of our district um there's ranking that is involved too and that's currently what they're working through at the state level to determine how is it that they're going to prioritize districts in terms of funding and this is again it it's it's a process that should have started some years ago um and what happens is once we put in applications for say
146modernization of the Central Elementary school because of the age of certain buildings it's in line for peetu until they look at it and then determine whether they're going to fund it or not meaning that after we've complete all this work whether it's proposition 2 or any additional funding in the future we have placed Banning in that list for various projects across the district and so I cannot guarantee that those $60,000 or those $45,000 are going to generate any grant funding however there is a significant potential that we will extend those $74 million to additional U funding for our facilities okay thank you any further questions or discussion I have a motion from trusty nollis and a second from trusty Martinez laara to approve item 9.5 all those in favor say I I all those opposed
147say nay hearing none motion passes 5 item 9.6 Business Services approval of independent external auditor for financial audit reports this item is for the board to approve rfp-tagged I'll second any discussion or questions I have a motion from trusty novales and a second from trusty Martinez Laura to approve item 9.6 all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5 item 9.7 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 9.7 I'll move I second any discussion or questions I have a creatively focused $30,000 proposal um this one is from January 1st 202 5 to um so I guess I'm assuming that we've already are using
148those Services is that correct that is correct we had um an original agreement that um expired um earlier in the fall um and the company worked with us to um continue to provide support um anticipating that we would want to continue and to realign the agreement so that it fits within the fiscal year okay okay um I guess one of my concerns on that was um we're taking we're spending $30,000 and aligning it was my understanding that we're aligning um the this particular one we're aligning our standards or our reporting for California but we're doing it with an out ofate consultant so they Prov provide professional development um online professional development um for our teachers and parents On and On Demand basis um and they liked it so much they requested that we continue with
149it um it gives them the flexibility to pull up information um and to also um do searches um as well as to receive some training and they are um not local but the information and the training they provide is Rel relevant to the work that is needed here in Banning working with our students so there wasn't anyone in California that could do this and how many teachers are we uh paying this for it's so it's available to all teachers who to want to log in to it and I can get the information in terms of the specific number um of teachers I know that every state has specific reporting laws so I'm just kind of curious about that thank you any other discussion or questions I have a motion from trusty nalis and a second
150from trusty angano to approve item 9.7 all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5-0 item 9.8 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 9.8 move I'll move second Lucy any discussion or questions I have a motion from trusty novalis and a second from Martinez laara to approve item 9.8 all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay hearing none motion passes 5-0 item 10 board member comments anyone who wants to go first I'll go that's fine um I was very excited about the solar boats um and and about our students
151taking responsibility taking ownership of their own learning and um and being um I guess cooperating with facilitators I talked to the students afterwards and I asked them which they preferred um did they prefer facilitating that that approach or you know direct teaching and they said they liked the combination of both and I thought that was really interesting so um it's it's a great team building I love the Innovation I love the competition I I think it it opens up so many avenues for our students and I would like to see more um of this type of learning it you know so because we are going in that direction uh in Community Learning and cohort groups when they get older so I really enjoyed that I really enjoyed the uh student presentations uh from all of
152our our uh different um sites I I just think they're doing such a beautiful job and you are all doing such an amazing job so I appreciate that the um solar boat I can go next uh to begin with I want to congratulate all of our fall sports teams um it's exciting to see pictures online as well as to hear all the games that they've won where they've they've gotten to as far as with the season I know that we have a lot of amazing events coming up and that have recently occurred from our clubs from our performances at the elementary sites um and I'm excited to be able to see a few more I was able to do the Lunar New Year um celebration at Central and it's always impressive to see our kids
153with a coordination their dance and just the parent involvement excited to see see their children there um I participated recently in the learning walk at Central as well and I love going into the classrooms and seeing our our teachers in action and our students just being on point learning and I just want to thank everybody for your time your dedication to our district to our sta to our students and to our families um you are appreciated and thank you um I would also like to congratulate our students for the fall Sports um I know they they worked hard they did well we are extremely proud of them um and I'll keep mine short and sweet uh I'd also like to thank everyone here for their ongoing hard work and dedication to our students to our
154future and your all your hard work is extremely appreciated and we appreciate each and every one of you and thank you to to my fellow board members for your time and dedication to this I hope everyone has a great night just want to reiterate um congratulations to all our fall Sports they definitely killed the season they all went to CIF first second round some of them even third round so congratulations to all our Sports they are definitely raising the pride at Benning high school and for our district it's amazing to feel that Pride coming back to my schools it is it's a it's amazing to watch all these students thrive in their environment and with their skills um I've been sitting in on a lot of like um leadership online meetings and um legislation week
155and a bunch of things that I'm trying to do for our district politically wise and basically what I've learned from all of these meetings and all of these um books that I've been reading lately is have Grace with everyone you never know what anyone is going through but most of all have Grace with yourself if you have Grace with yourself you will be able to give Grace to others you cannot pour into someone if you don't have your own cup full so I definitely as always appreciate each and every one of my employees of my students thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication thank you for bringing Banning the light and the and the shine that it deserves these students deserve the best and you definitely give it to them thank
156you um I agree with everything they all said I love when the students get up there and speak whatever they're speaking about you can just see it the pride the positivity the words they use to describe their schools um I remember feeling that when I went to Banning schools and when Sports were doing great and academics were doing great and I think thanks to all of you we are definitely on that path to Greatness again and that makes me very happy and very proud of where I'm from um I know you all know this week has been really rough with uh Daylight Savings Time beginning and uh getting up when it's dark now to get to work so I truly appreciate each and every one of you and all that you do every day for
157our kids thank you item 11.1 future board items any ladies no right now okay yay 12.1 we will now reconvene into Clos session the time is 10:03 you feel excited but you don't look excited