001Welcome to the uh regular meeting of the board of education for Temple City Unified School District on this day, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025. Uh we would like to call the meeting to order and we'll start with our roll call. Uh let's start with member Sneed. >> Uh member Georino >> here. >> Member Espinosa >> here. >> Member Smith >> here. >> And I am here. And our student board member Mr. Munoz >> here. >> All right. Okay. Um next uh our meeting tonight is being digitally recorded and uh this evening our pledge of allegiance is going to be led by none other than Dr. Stacy. Thank you very much. >> Will everyone please stand for the pledge? flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God
002indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. Next on our agenda, are there any changes to our agenda this evening? >> No changes. Excellent. Okay. Uh I will make a motion to approve the agenda. May I get a second, please? >> Second by member Munoz. Okay. Uh preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I. All those opposed? Motion carries. 5 Z. All right. The best part of the evening always is uh our special recognition and presentation portion of our meeting. And this evening we have uh uh the presence of our wonderful exchange students from our sister city uh in Hawkbury, Australia from our sister city ambassadors group. So please take the stage. [Applause] Usually my voice is real loud but um president of Temple City sister city. Um
003we have our sister city with Hawkberry Australia and recently five Temple City High School students spent about three and a half weeks over in Australia uh posted by them. introduce themselves. >> Hi everyone. Um my name is Isabelle um Trent. I'm part of this program. Um um I hosted Leilani Garcia. Um when she came to Australia for three weeks and that was like a really great experience. Um I live in Caron which is um it's in the Hawksbury area and that's like an hour outside of Sydney. Um I go to Langington College and I'm 16 years old. Um over here I've had like the best time so far. We've been here for 5 days. has been amazing. Um, yeah, I've really enjoyed it. So, thanks for having me. Hi everyone. Um, I'm Abby Vincent and
004I'm currently hosting, well, I'm being hosted by Olivia Castro. I am 17 and am I close to um about a 10 drive. I've enjoyed it so much and I'm so happy to have this amazing opportunity. >> Hi, I'm Sha and I'm 17 going into my senior year and I'm currently being hosted by Aaron Wong. It's been an absolute pleasure to be here. The last five days have been phenomenal and seeing just the differences and the not differences between Australia and America have been incredible to see and it's a pleasure to be a part of this um program. Thank you. Hi, I'm Simeon Wood. Um, I hosted Phoenix Grazic when he stayed with my family. I'm 17. I go to Col High School and I'm going to my senior year. I'm currently staying with family. So,
005just so Jing and um yeah, everything's been amazing. Looking forward to the rest of the visit. >> Hi everyone. My name is Macy. I'm being hosted at the moment by the Magar family. um when he came over in July, that was one of the best experiences ever. And I'm so glad to be over here, maybe even getting an even better experience. Um but yeah, we've only been here 5 days and it's already been the most amazing experience. So [Applause] like to thank you guys and the school board, T City Unifi, the whole school district, the high school are allowing the kids to go high school, be part of it, and they do they will be going to Oak Avenue and they go to several elementary schools. >> Did you guys have any questions for >>
006I believe that we do. Um I fellow board >> I've already met. What's been your favorite thing so far? Um my favorite thing so far is not only um meeting my family and being so close with my family. Um but we went up to we've hiked up to top of Hollywood sign. So that was very very cool. >> So that was the highlight so far and just yeah being in our big group together with the five Australians and five Americans definitely >> um >> go ahead. Go ahead. >> Um, so far I've really liked spending time with my family and getting to know them. It's been really great. And I've also really liked Studios, which we went to yesterday. >> Yeah. To follow on so far, um, I've loved being able to get to know
007my family and creating a funny banter with them. I was able to go to my first ever Dodgers game and I see that one of the first days I was here, I got to go to the mall and I thought that was really interesting because I would see the how different the stores are. So there's a lot of different brands. Some brands are like similar but look the same name. So I thought that was really cool and it's like forming a bond with my family has been very nice. My family's taking me to Little Tokyo. So, the food there was really, really amazing. I got to say the bombs that you make, it does become follow my Happy birthday and they always like >> Yeah, it is. And you know um I want to say
008that um I can kind of really I know you've only been here for about uh five days is it? Um so I first of all I hope you all are enjoying everything that uh you are experiencing here. Uh when I was in college I went to a school that had a lot of international students you know and you you form those bonds. It's very true and uh you know to this day still keep in contact with some of them and I certainly hope that uh the students that you u get sort of that you interact with that you form a bond with that you guys have a lifelong friendship. So and so this is a very common question. Is there any particular type of food or something like that that you were all really looking
009forward to try here and have you actually been able to try Okay. So, we've been to a lot of fast food so far, and I think that was what we're most excited about that and seeing what the difference between the supermarkets, but I think we're all feeling a bit, >> which I don't think we've had for the last five days, but that's okay. We'll make it up when we get home. >> Wow. All right. Well, you know what? I had a chance to meet them all yesterday when they came by their museum and it was a real pleasure to meet you well five on one yesterday when you came through and you saw our history and you were all so involved in really finding out about our town in I knew that was on your
010wish list in Walmart, I believe. >> But I just think it's such a wonderful program for our students to find out more about your country and your city and for you to find out more about Temple City and how our two communities are so similar. It's been a real pleasure. was a little. >> Oh, really? >> All right. Well, we we hope you continue to enjoy um everywhere you go and the people you meet, the experiences you have. Uh but before you leave, we would like to first of all take a picture with you, but we also have some little goodies for all of you this evening. So, It was a good day to go. Aussie. >> Aby. Aussie. Aussie Aussie >> Aussie This is the only That's crazy. >> All right. That was wonderful.
011Okay, let's >> go on and move on to the next item. >> Um, >> public comment on agenda and non-aggendaized items. Uh, I don't believe we have anything this evening. All right. Uh, community updates. Uh, well, we got Fall Fest this coming Saturday and, uh, our performing arts groups are going to be performing, I believe, throughout the whole entire time. So, we look forward to seeing them and we hope everybody can come out there and support them. Um, and of course, we have on October 4th, as another reminder, we have Bunko night at Temple City High School, room 601, and that's in support of our band and color guard. And I I believe that someone has tickets. Okay, cool. All right. I I got to get mine. So, um, and uh and I think that's
012our committee update for this evening. >> Next, we have bargaining unit comments. Uh, CSEA 823. All right, Jazz. Good evening. Nice to see you. Okay. Um, next we have Temple City Education Association. Awesome. I'm not supposed to say that anymore. So, >> oh, this is just going to land me in more hot water. Okay. Uh, next we have CSEA 105. Hi Denise, how are you? Good evening. Okay. All right. Well, thank you for being our audience this evening. We really appreciate it. Um, next we have district updates. Uh, first is business services. Miss W. Yeah. >> Good evening. Good evening everybody. This week Maro and I we follow up a group of parents regarding our meal program. And the feedback was very positive and the parents express their gratitude for the changes and improvement and
013district made for the new program and we also discuss the long strength line and at the secondary level. So um does the long line mean that our kids like our food and if that case that's definitely good sign but we will take a look at it and also we talk about the continue recruitment of our food service workers and um the process protocol and camp unified district system with with other district who are not assistant. So protocol different the guideline are a little bit difference and then we also um talk about the orders. So when we um introduce the subway because it's a try so we are very conservative because we don't want to uh waste the food. So there's possibility that some kids were in the line later will not get to one. So
014we are still exploring so that we make sure that we our order will be appropriate for number of students who enjoy meal and today Maro also attended the neighbor district to the consortion for the food service um all the professional and our neighbor and including the the statewide the distributor did experience the labor shortage in the industry. So which mean that there shortage for the food produ production there shortage for the logistic which is delivered. So this may impact down the road we have a standardized post manual because of the labor shortage because of the issue. We may not get our um items which is listed on the post manual. So uh if this happen we will try our best to feed feed the kids but uh we just apologize for the community advance that
015this will happen and it will happen that it will impact the the meal. So that's number two is I just want to keep the board posted our this week our still around 5,287. So it is closed at the um last year's level and then the first week of October which is our censor date that is enrollment will represent the official 25.6 enrollment. So in the next board meeting we will let the board know and then the number I share with the board did not include school. So when I report to the next board meeting we will including school which is a little bit over 10. So So at that time probably the 25 26 more may be close to 25. So we will definitely >> 2425 is the official the best day is 529. So
01687 so we are actually yeah 11 >> and that's my update. Very good. Thank you so much. Uh next we have services. >> Good evening. I just wanted to take a moment to thank our e coordinators in our district. Uh they work very hard throughout the first month of school, the first 30 days to assess all of our students who are new to our district, either from another state or another country. We had 234 new students this year. um that the EL coordinators tested with the initial ELPAC assessment. So, I just wanted to thank them for the time that they spend with the new students, getting to know them, making them feel comfortable with taking this assessment when they are in the midst of learning a new language as they they come to our schools
017and are um hoping to become fluent in English very quickly. So, thank you to our EL coordinators. We have one in the audience that looks like she stepped out. Also wanted to let everyone know that even though we just started the 25 26 school year. Um, in Ed services, we are gearing up for the 26 27 school year. Um, specifically in regards to our dual language immersion program in the month of October, we are starting to offer ourformational sessions. So, parents, if you have um children out there that are looking to enroll in kindergarten for the 2627 school year, um we invite you to apply to our dual language immersion program. We are going to have information sessions in the month of October. Um, two will be held on October 7th at 1:00 and 5:00
018and then again on October 15th at 9:00 and 4:00 and these will be held virtually. So if you are interested in joining, please visit our website or watch social media. I know um all of that information will be posted here um within the next few weeks and ongoing over the next few weeks. And then finally, just to keep you updated, we another Williams compiance visit today at Cloverly. Um, this one was for textbook sufficiency and Cloverly passed with flying colors. So, kudos to the Cloverly staff with all the preparation they did to get ready for the visits from the LEO staff and to ed. >> Thank you so much for sharing that. Um, let's see. students. Um, next we have uh human resources and believe we have an update this evening. Okay. All right. Uh,
019next we have board member comments. Uh, we will start this evening with member Espinosa. >> Thank you. All right. See here. Um, I wanted to start by uh saying congratulations to the Rose Courts top 28. We had two Temple City um high school students make it to the top 28 for the Rose Court, Rose Court, Livia and Lola. Congratulations. Hope you continue on. Um also wanted to recognize last time I did not do this um Hispanic Heritage Month and thinking about um different contributions that Latinos have made to this country. We like look at our own history in this town. Um Mr. Temple was according to my um my sources here from the historical society who have confirmed that both Mr. Temple and his wife were part Latin. So we have that here and without
020them we would not have this city. So um you know I'm just very proud of um our Hispanic uh contributions to this country. Uh, also, um, I did respond to a CSBA request to the, um, to the governor to sign AB1224, um, which is a bill that would allow would temporarily extend the time period a substitute teacher may serve in a classroom from 30 to 60 days when there is no credential teacher available. So, I did write a letter of support for that to the governor. They give you like this little link and you can easily off the letter. So, I did do that. Um, I think it gives flexibility when we need it and make sure that we have somebody to support our students um when we can't get a credential teacher right away.
021Uh, in terms of attendance, I attended the stadium soft opening on September 12th, uh, the girls flag football game on September 15th, and the teacher of the year event on September 19th for She's so welld deserved. It was such a nice event. Um it was nice meeting her family and celebrating her and hoping we'll have her here to celebrate her. And I think that is all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Next uh we will follow up with me. >> Thank you. I also attended the lunchon for teachers of the year and just what Lacy has done to add to the the experience that our students have. She's just it was so gratifying to see her up on the stage as one of the top 16 county be. Um we were a
022little surprised at the lunchon that one of our high school students was actually um is a member of the LA County Superintendent Student Advisory Council. Her name is Evelyn Lamb. She gave the most phenomenal speech. We were just we were looking through the program and we just noticed that one of our seniors is on this council and she spoke so beautifully in front of hundreds of people that day. Just a great representation. Um Thank for recognizing our students of the month last night and also to our two finalists Lola and Livia. They move on next week. Um this weekend I attended the welcome for our sister city students and then again I was able to host them in our museum. They're just a wonderful group and I'm glad we're we have this organization that where
023students can learn about people from across the the world realize how small the world is and how similar our our cities are. Um the opening for the new stadium was just absolutely phenomenal. It was a huge win that night. I don't think there was one empty stand one empty seat in those stands and I know the big our stands carried 2,000 people and I think there were 2,000 plus squeezed into those seats but it was just it was just a great evening. A lot of alumni there a lot of community people coming to see our new stadium just on how wonderful it looks. Then I went to the um game last Thursday where we had the junior cheer group there also. And before the game started though, there was a very touching um ceremony that
024the students organized to celebrate Mrs. who we just recently lost. And you could I could tell that the students were greatly have been greatly affected by her loss. And they gave they did a beautiful presentation before the game dedicating the evening to her memory. And speaking of her, uh, served our district for many years. Um, even while she was battling cancer, she showed up for work, she continued to serve our community. And I want to thank her for being such a great example of what a cancer warrior is. So, my condolences to her family and my condolences to the whole community at Temple City High School that work with her for many years. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Next, we have members. >> Thank you. Uh since our last meeting, I attended the
025Constitution assembly at Emperor and they received a civic learning award. I had the opportunity to look at their application and um right in front of me was everything that they've done in the past year that uh promotes civic learning and it's really impressive when you see it all in one place. So congratulations to them. Uh I also attended the football game last week and I'm looking forward to the air conditioning and the snack bar. It was it was so hot and humid last week. Um, it's going to be great when it's all finished. I attended the teacher of the year lunchon. Uh, congratulations to Lacy Scanland. She's such a great representative um for our district. And uh I hosted the sister city welcome dinner um which was really fun. Um it's always great to um
026meet the students um when they come to Temple City. Uh I participated in the Kuana student of the month. Thank you again, Kuanas. And I just got back from the girls flag football game. Unfortunately, we weren't winning, but I was sitting next to some parents from the other team and they were commenting that um they said, "We're going to be really good once we have a little bit more experience under our belts because we have some very athletic girls." So, that was fun to watch them. I want to congratulate um Livia Depala and Lola Lee who are finalists for the Tournament of Roses uh court. Um and also Evelyn Lamb who was the featured speaker at the teacher of the year uh lunch and boy she really um made Temple City proud and made us
027stand out. So congratulations to her. >> That's it. >> Okay. And um I am next. Uh and I want to echo the comments of my fellow board members regarding our two uh wonderful ladies that are currently competing as uh hopefully uh one of the princesses or queen for the upcoming uh Rose Court. Um also wanted to congratulate our five national merit semi finalist. Um and our stadium uh was opening was amazing. Uh I'm just glad I didn't screw up the coin toss. Uh and uh there was always a possibility with me. But um but uh again it was such a surreal moment. Um and uh you know one of my takeaways was I got to meet even more alumni that I didn't realize were former uh students of Temple City. So you know our community
028is so amazing and so strong. So you know I was kind of speechless the whole night. It was just a really really nice moment. Um, and yeah, it was great to see the girls with the flag football. That was first time. And and uh I I agree with member Georgina. I I think they've got what it takes and they just need a lot of experience and we see them continue as they play on. And uh you know, Miss Lacy Scan well um I don't know what is there to be said, especially in our community here. And you know, I I remember telling her parents uh right before we left that uh I don't always necessarily see her as like an educator. I think what she she she does she doesn't educate. I think she she
029creates magic with all of these kids. And um it's it's it's more about her love. And you can see it you can see it because the kids just catch on to those things so quickly. And you can you can see it with all the performance. No question. about it. So, we are incredibly fortunate to uh have Miss Gamlin as one of our 16 uh selected as one of the 16 finalists for um our uh state uh teacher of the year. Um and you know, we we we wish her the best. We look forward to having more opportunities to get them to come here and showcase uh all the things that they've done. And I just found she's not related to Shel, so I didn't know that. And of course, um, and Evelyn, uh, that was
030a really nice surprise. None of us really knew that she was going to be speaking at that that at that. She was outstanding, just outstanding. Um, and so proud for her to be there and represent Temple City in front of all of LA County. That was awesome. Um, and yeah, I wish the Aussie kids a lot of fun and hope to run into them before they leave. So that's it for me this evening. Finally, we have Thanks, Vincent. Um, I'm going to try to be real brief because everything I have to say has pretty much been said. I did want to add a couple things that uh first of all, the last two weeks have been very busy and it's been a great busy a lot of great things going on. So, anyway, I won't
031go into the detail, but I did want to mention the Emperor Patriots Day celebration on September 11th. That was very nice as well. And um I want to wish the Jewish community happyash which started yesterday and um I guess I'll leave it there. I I well I'll say one thing. It was really nice to sit down and and talk with Lacy and find out more about her and her family. Her father's a teacher in Burbank and her husband was there too and it was just a really nice event. Very well deserving. Oh, and brother. Sorry. Right. Whoops. Anyway, um but um I guess that's it. I'll leave it there. Thank you so much. Okay, next uh we've got student board member comments, Mr. >> Sorry. Good evening everyone. Um there was a lot of events
032that happened these past two weeks, so I'll try to be as brief as possible, but I did want to give a special shout out to our assembly committee at our state high school. They were working very because the day of our fall rally which was the same day as our opening um flower was still working on the stands as we were decorating so that may have caused some additional stress but they were just very flexible and yeah so I just wanted to give them a shout out and then we also had our home football game I did want to give a shout out to Mr. because he's um he was working all day on those um graphics for our new board especially with the replays and yeah so shout out to him and then I
033also attended the flag football games on September 15th and the 22nd and while we did not win unfortunately it was just a great way to kick off the season and then we did have a flag football game today and then we also have a um football game tomorrow night. The theme is western. So pull up in your cowboy boots. And then tomorrow we our dragonflake staging crew team will be playing on a talent show for anyone who signed up. And I believe it starts at 700 p.m. And this um sorry the tickets are available and they are $10 resale and $15 at the Oh, sorry. 6 PM 6 p.m. not seven. And then I also did want to give a special shout out to Olivia Dala and Li. I was actually there with Livia when
034she found out that she was a finalist. And I just remember she was being so excited and I hope they all get the results that they want, especially since they come out next Monday at 9:00 a.m. So, I'm wishing both of them the best of luck. And then, yeah, that's all for me. Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing. Um, next we have um our superintendent's comments, Dr. Thank you. Um, you know, I want to start by saying we we lost a good one in Patrice. She regardless of what whatever was happening in her life, she was always a smile for everybody that came in through that gate. She just had the most pleasant attitude. uh she cared about what she was doing. Um she was making a difference in the lives of students
035and the fact that they all knew that she knew who they were says a lot. And so uh I'm going to miss Patrice. Um and I will say that I think it is because of people like Patrice. One of the things I was going to acknowledge based off or kind of piggybacking on Conniey's enrollment numbers, uh, the high school's at over 1,800 kids. We haven't been over 1,800 in quite some time. And um we I I attribute that to the staff at the high school as well as the administrative team at the high school. Um and how they uh the culture they create at the school and how kids feel at the school. Um you know, we used to lose uh students to neighboring districts at times when they would go to high school. Um,
036and for us to be able to be over 1800, it just goes to show that I think students see what we're doing at the high school and they're proud of it and they want to be at Thank you to the Temple City High School team. Um, Xavier, the the stadium is causing a lot of stress for everybody. Um, so we're we're working on it. Air conditioning should be done. not tomorrow, but hopefully by the next home game. Um, and you know, one of the we're we're working on it right now, too, because we've received some concerns from the community about the PA system uh being loud, but we're we're doing our checks to see that we're within, you know, the regulations for sound and everything else. But I also think some of it might be
037that we haven't had sound coming out of that system. good sound for quite some time and then we haven't had sound period for over a year. So it could just be adjusting again to the fact that we have a stadium and there is going to be nights where the PA system is going to be used. But all that to say, we are going to do our due diligence to make sure that uh we are at least being good neighbors and within the regulations that Um, I wanted to share a a positive note. I received an email from a parent at Emperor um just talking about how good uh she feels, her kids feel. There were some hesitations for from her children at the beginning of the school year. There were some fears about immigration, everything
038else. And in talking to uh Myra and in talking with the teachers over there, the kids feel good. They're going to school. They know there's a plan. Um and we don't always get the positive notes. And so whenever I get those, I do like to share that. So thank you to the Emperor team for caring for our kids. Um and then speaking of our kids, um I I need to ask our parents again just go over the safety rules and and and everything with regards to ebikes. Um we had we've had a couple of accidents this uh year so far on uh scooters uh e scooters. Um we had one today where we were told that a child was hit by a car but she was not. She just fell off her ebike but it
039twisted her ankle and she ended up transported by an ambulance to Arcadia. And we had another young lady who was just blinded by the sunlight early in the morning and ran into a parked vehicle on her scooter. Um, and so I'm I'm thankful that they're not accidents that were caused by drivers, but still at the rate of speed that our kids are traveling on these ebikes and e scooters, it can be dangerous. Um, so please just follow up with your students on the proper way to control these these bikes that are much faster than I think anybody. Thank you very much. Um, okay. Next, uh, I don't believe that we have any written communications. Um, so let's go ahead and, uh, go to the discussion information item portion of our meeting. Items that the board
040would like to discuss or information presented to the board. And these items do not require board action. And on at service, we uh, we're going to hear about a new course, our CTE musical theater pathway. Second semester. Yes, we are excited to invite Ela Lee up to uh the podium so that she can share a little bit about a course proposal um that we are hoping to offer here in the second semester of this school year. Uh so this particular course didn't make it into the academic handbook that is posted online. So we wanted to make sure that everybody knew about it and that you have the opportunity to approve this after the Good evening. I'm here to introduce Elias who's gonna talk about it more. Um, while he's while he's talking though, I will
041I will do some, you know, double rainbow hands and sing from Little Mermaid. Okay. Um, however, I do want to tout that we I think this class is a great idea. um just on the heels of Lacy Scanlin and honoring her and what she's done. Um I think is this is a is a good pathway for us to add in our CTE program. Um, this involves not just our performers but everybody involved in the musical. And prior to this, this was an extracurricular activity. And I think this provides our students with getting credit for all the work they put into um what goes into theater production. And so here here you are, Elias. >> All right. Thank you everybody. >> She's singing now. Thank you everybody uh for uh your time today. Um we've been
042kind of talking about this idea of creating a class uh for the musical uh not only to house all of the students but to give them credit for everything they do um and open up um some additional resources to help us um create a more complete portfolio for our performing arts department. Uh I look at this as like a capstone class. We have a lot of uh students who take either one or two of our performing arts classes, but really in musical theater and theater in general kind of brings everything all together uh all at once. Um that was a movie um and uh and really presents a fantastic product uh that our district has had a tradition of presenting for a very long time now. Um so the rationale for this uh again as
043Elena has said um is to offer um elective credits to students, which is fantastic. It doesn't mean that our elementary students can't participate. They just don't get the credit yet. Um, it helps keep our students a little bit more accountable um and and helps us keep track of our students. It opens up additional grant funding through the CIC grant and potentially working on some other money which um it's a program programming expansion uh as we mentioned from what Lacy is doing. and then expanding it at Oak and then of course we want to have something that we can really show off our district um and all the great things we do in performing arts at our high school. So there hopefully a lot of synergy that can happen between uh when our kiddos get to
044our district and when they graduate an amazing portfolio that they can provide to a potential future employer or just in the industry. Um the theater arts course over expectations. Um the course is going to focus on all production aspects. So it's not just like a backstage classes that already exist. It's not just a dance class because our dance classes exist. Like I said before, it's kind of a culmination. How does one play into the other and how do how do these individual aspects of the program uh create this product? And so it's really trying to make sure that the students understand a global perspective of production musical the and all the things that come along with live events. Um, so >> encompasses the acting, the dancing, costumeuming, the makeup, all of that. So, and technical
045support, all of which we have done, but it wasn't an official class. >> All right. So, the essential standards overview, uh, the standards are going to guide the curriculum and assessments. The assessment ultimately is the production. Um there's no real tests or anything like that, but the test is do you remember your lines? Do you remember where this prop goes? Do you remember when to take your cues? Uh things like that. Um but we want to really push the uh the historic so we can really get a global perspective on these things. So like historic and cultural um choices that we make uh during our productions, uh artistic perceptions um and how we can read a script and interpret it and things like that. And so it really kind of dives deeper into like critical
046thinking aspect of things where we're not just giving student memorize your lines, say your lines when they're supposed to go, but really making them understand what is this, what would this character have, what would this character have experienced in the time period, what would have been appropriate for them to do and how would they have acted. Um, this year it's Little Mermaid, so we get to make all that No one really knows. But you know, all right. Oh, she's singing again. Uh the course text uh is going to vary every year. You know, we're going to have a different script. Every show we're going to have a different script. It's going to need different things. And so it gives us a fantastic uh array of opportunities to um give students new curriculum and new text
047every single year. Um which also challenges me and and our advisers uh into making sure that we actually know what we're talking about when we get things from the 1920s, 1960s, 1940s. Uh those were all out of order. Um and so yeah, it kind of keeps everybody on their toes. So the course text is going to vary significantly uh from one year to the next. Um the material assignments um they're all going to be uh to enhance uh learning. So our students doing technical theater will potentially get like a technical theater handbook uh that exists. Our cast may get their scripts and character analysis. Our orchestra members may get new new music every year and potentially opportunities for one-on-one engagement with support systems like coach or something like that. can help them play things that
048are not in typical classic classical music or not march or something kind of outside of the realm of what they're normally playing for their class. >> Uh Elena came up with this great quote and she didn't want to take credit for it. >> Anonymous theater is the only way to escape reality and I couldn't agree more with that. It's amazing. Um, so this year, uh, as Stacey mentioned, we're going to, we're planning on doing just a second semester class, um, for our students who are participating in this year's musical. And like we said, this is going to be for everyone. So from Dragon Flex orchestra, hair, makeup, costumeuming, everyone who participates in the musical will be part of this class this year. Um, unless they have another there's some logistics, but um, by and large
04995% participants will be part of this class. Um, and then next year we're hoping to expand the programming, expand what we're able to offer. And Stacy and I had a great conversation earlier this afternoon about things that we could offer like puppeteering classes and uh tap classes and things like that where students who really want to focus in on something will have that opportunity once we get >> and in terms of CTE course. Um so they have different sectors and so um this would fall under the arts, media and entertainment sector. If you have all these different parts, this sounds like it's not just one teacher doing this. This sounds like a whole staff of >> It sure is. >> So they So they this would be another class on their schedule that they would
050have. or it would be an extension of what they're already doing. >> Correct. Yeah, they're already on on the staff as musical staff. So, this would just now they would have a t-shirt. >> So, there's going to be one-shirt. I'm just I think I love the way that our staff steps up and says we want to create a class because the kids have a need for a class and this is very exciting that you that you're creating something that our students can benefit from. They're definitely going to benefit from this. So, thank you for the work you put into It's definitely support. >> He's not here. We don't say Richard. Does anybody else have I mean I mean they should have been here a while ago. That's that's great. I'm excited for this. you know,
051it's such an open type of program and it, as you mentioned, can branch up into many different subd disciplines within the theater program. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm not a theater guy, but I >> You said all the right words. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> It's amazing stuff. Amazing stuff. Yeah. Yeah. We're looking forward to this. Thank you so much for sharing. >> Thank you. everyone's hard work. So, all right. Okay. Next, let's move on to our discussion action agenda of our meeting. Items that may require discussion but upon which the board is expected to take action during the meeting. First, in sight of administration, uh we have item 17, adoption of resolution 2526-09, proclaiming and observing the month of October 2025 as character education month. Yes, we we recognize this annually,
052but I I think you know in relation to some of the success we've had with PBIS awards that we've received, a lot of it has to do with the character of our students. So, character education building, we are in the people business and you know, character education is nice to be able to celebrate for a month. Can I get a motion on this? Okay. All right. Motion by member Espinosa and we'll give it to member Georino. Okay. There are no other comments. Go ahead and vote. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> All right. All those in favor? Oh, hold on. Roll call. Okay. Nope. I didn't screw up yet. Okay. But there's a few more opportunities. I just want to let everyone know. Okay. All right. First, we have Member Espinosa. Okay. Uh, yes.
053Member Georgina. >> Member Sne. >> Member Smith. Yes. >> Okay. All right. Motion carries. 5 Z. Next, we have item 18, adoption of resolution 2526-10, proclaiming the week of October 12th through the 18, 2025 as the week of the school administrator. Um, You know, I've shared this with all of our administrators. I think our school administrators hardest job in the district, but also I think the most rewarding job in the district. Just like I talked about with the culture at the high school, our schools go as our administrators go. Okay. May I get a motion, please? Member get a second. Second by Smith. Um, all right. If there are no comments, let's go ahead and vote on this item. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> All right. And I am a yes. Member Georino.
054>> Yes. >> Member Smith. >> Yes. >> Member Espinosa. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. 50. Um, next we have item 19, adoption of resolution 2526-11, proclaiming October 23rd through 31st, 2025 as Red Ribbon Week. character another annual piece. But I think all of those things that just kids are exposed to. I think it is very important that we continue to recognize educate our students on those things that are used. This is an opportunity for us to continue. >> All right. I will make a motion for this. May I get a second, please? >> Second. >> All right. by member Munoz. Okay. Um there are no other comments regarding this and yeah the good stuff across all the school sites all the um well done. Um okay let's go ahead and vote for vote. Member Munoz
055>> yes. >> All right. Uh member Georino. >> Yes. >> member Smith. >> Yes. >> Member Espinosa. >> Yes. >> And I a yes. So that motion carries 5 Z. All right, let's move on to add services. Uh we are here to receive uh board policies for first reading. Uh A sorry BP 5125 that involves student records. Uh BP 5125.1 release of directory information. Uh and finally BP 5145 uh.13 response to immigration enforcement. So these are updates that are recommended by CSBA and essentially wanted to make sure that our families truly are feeling safe as indicated in uh the email that he received from the emperor and wanted to make sure that our policies are reflective of the fact that we are not collecting information about citizenship and immigration status and there are very rules
056They'll probably have another update soon. Okay. May I get a motion, please? Motion by member Espinosa, second by member Georgino. No other questions. Let's go ahead and vote on this comments. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Motion carries. 5 Z. All right. So, we just presented with this item 21 um approval of the new course, the CT musical theater pathway uh during the second semester at Temple City High School. Um I don't know that there's anything else that we need. So, um I will make a motion second by member Espinosa. Okay. All right. Exciting stuff. Um Okay. Preferial vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh all those in favor? >> All those opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. >> All right. Now let's move on to
057business services approval of 2024 2025 carryover ending balances and remaining grant award balances to the 2025 2026 fiscal year. >> Yes, this is a routine item and every year when we close book we will calculate carryover. This is actually true balance and during the year we look at our work reclassify those expenditure coding initial coding. So make sure that we will follow the program compliance make sure that the most restrictive funding will spend first and least fun last. >> Thank you very much for sharing that information. 23. >> Oh, 23. Sorry. Okay. All right. Thank you. Appreciate that. Okay. See, thank you for helping me. >> All right. But let's make a motion first. Okay. Can I get a motion? >> Moved by member Smith, second by member Sne. Okay. Um All right. I don't
058know that we're going to have any questions or comments regarding this. So, let's go ahead and vote on this. A preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. And all those in favor? >> All those opposed? Motion carries 5. All right. Okay. Now, now this is item 23. Uh adoption of resolution 2526-12 declaring volunteers to be deemed as employees for purposes of workers compensation pursuant to labor code section 3364.5. Labor code section 3364.5 allow the volunteer those volunteer who are uncompensated if the um the district um approved they be volunteer on the district and the board adopt this resolution if they were injured during the course of volunteer work on the district and then they will be treated as a district employee so this is complex over the years and I'm pretty confident that the
059the district did adopt the resolution but recently our insurance carrier they are very strict require the district in compliance with labor code so over the years the um works compensation rule regulation has changed so I think it's been practice to have the board adop new resolution to make sure that our process also updated >> thank you for sharing that uh first let's uh make a motion I'll make a motion for that may get a second by Smith. Um, are there any questions or comments regarding this? I I believe this is just you're just kind of revitalizing something that exists, right? >> Yes, this a common practice. We just make sure our district compliant just in case insurance wants the documentation. So, we have >> Okay, sounds good. Sounds good. Okay. Um, well, let's go ahead
060and vote on this uh preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. And Okay. Member Sne. >> Okay. Member Smith. >> Yes. >> Member Spinosa. >> Yes. >> A. Yes. Member Georgina. >> Yes. >> All right. Motion carries. 5 Z. Okay. Next we have item 24. Approval of notice of completion for the synthetic track surfacing at Temple City High School uh renovation stadium project. >> Good evening. President, members of the board, Dr. Executive Government, with tonight's approval, we will be able to file the notice of completion with the county reporters office. Um, this is a important step in noting that the project is complete and reducing a timeline that any supplier or subcontractor can place. Binding Sports has completed the track surfacing. We've conducted a punch. We've conducted a training on maintenance and turn over
061and they have turned over all of our necessary documents with regards to warranty maintenance um and best practices. Um okay. Um can I get a motion please? >> Okay. Okay. Does anyone have any comments or questions regarding this? >> Looks awesome. I mean, you know, it's so nice to walk on there. I'm gonna say I miss the dirt track sometimes, but you know what? >> You haven't you haven't ran on the new one yet. Wait till you run on the new one. >> Just really good job you guys. Thank you so much. Everything you guys have done so far with the speed of completion is just outstanding, you know, and that includes it. So, thank you so much for all. Appreciate it. >> Okay. Uh let's go ahead and vote on this item. Uh preferential
062vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. And all those in favor? >> I. All those opposed. Thank you. All right. Motion carries 5 and uh there's one more item. All right. Um item 25, approval to accept an award of uh RFP number 2526- 001P uh Temple City High School's fencing replacement project. So with the approval tonight, um well, let me backtrack. On September 11th, myself and a representative from Little Architecture hosted a Jawa for replacement of the wind damage fence lines that occurred on January 7th. Um we've been working really hard with the JPA to get this approved and process going. Um as you know, there's tall fence fence lines that had to go. So we had to get some drawings, drafted submitted, approved. Um on September 11th, we had about five or six show
063up. So, we had a good turnout. We received the bids back and design was the lowest responsibility. We've also conducted Oh, um the contractor subduments. Can I just add Thank you to Connie and Anthony for working on this because on Friday we were going to pull this because we were having some difficulty with the insurance company and everything else. working with the insurance company because this project impacts the soft part of you know it's just something that it didn't get done we ran the risk of pushing that project back to them so I was glad we Okay. Get a motion. >> Uh move by member Smith, second by member Sne. Okay. All right. Um so yeah, I'm glad to see this. I think it's great there, but um this is this is great. I'm glad
064to see some of these things start getting right back where they were. So, thank you for all the hard work again to make sure that you know students have a safe place to practice and everything else. So, um let's go ahead and have a have a vote if no one else has any comments. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um All right. All those in favor? I. >> All those opposed? Motion carries. 5. Thank you very much. All right. Next, we move on to the consent uh agenda portion of our meeting. Routine items approved by one motion and one vote unless a member of the board or audience request that any item be reviewed and voted upon separately. Anybody asking for that? So, let's go ahead and uh make a motion for that.
065Uh I'll make a motion for that. Uh may get a second, please. Second by member Georgino and preferential vote member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I I all those opposed? Motion carries. 5 Z and item 32. Are there any uh comments? Okay. So, um you know, I kind of do and this is really more involves a German um but you know um I didn't get to really spend that much time with Patrice Sturden, but I've come across with her many, many times over the years as a parent and as a volunteer. And you know, she brings a light, you know, this light that when you come in through the door, it's such such a welcoming spirit and and that's what I remember the most about her. Um, and sometimes she'll
066joke with me, you know, she'll look at me and say, this guy again. All right, come on in. Um, you know, that personal touch, those are amazing things. That's that's what helps people remember. So, um, I would like to be able to adjourn on her behalf, uh, another item here, too. Um, and that's really what I wanted to share this evening with this. Um, >> We have 33. Yes, correct. Uh, we still have, uh, one feature agenda item. Uh, I'm sure that uh will uh come our way at some point soon and that would be a presentation and update on uh our security practices in and around the district. So um now we move on to uh the last item on our agenda which is adjournment. And uh I would like to make a motion
067to adjourn in memory of Miss Patrice Duran. >> Second by member Smith. All right. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> All those in favor? >> All those opposed. Thank you very much. We are adjourned at 6:30.