001for Wednesday, July 23rd to order. All board members are present with the exception of member Bill and our student members also here. Move down to public communications or comment on closed agenda items. We have no that I'd like to go ahead and about what items we're going to be discussing in close session. Uh we're going to have comments with labor negotiators. Government code section 54957.6 subdivision D also subdivision A designated representative Vincent Bill but he's not here so I'll be taking his place for that. Uh and the representative employee is our superintendent. So with that like to call for a motion to adjourn. We have a motion from member secondmber. All in favor, please say I. I. Okay. Motion carries. 40. And it's 531. Second, please. >> Motion from member Georgino and a second from
002>> from member Espanosa. And all in favor, please say I. I. >> I. The motion carries 40. back to open session at 5:45 p.m. With that, we're going to move on to item number seven. Tonight's meeting is being digitally recorded. Uh item eight is the pledge of allegiance and today it's going to be led by student board member Xavier Munz. Xavier To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Xavier. >> We are on to item number nine, announcement of actions taken in close session. If any There were no taken so we have none to share. Um that moving on to item 10 changes to the agenda. I don't believe we have any changes.
003No changes. So then we will move on to approval of the agenda. Have a motion and a second to approve the agenda. Please member second and yet. Okay. Ask for preferential for Xavier. Yes. Okay. And for this board, I hear the eyes. Okay. Motion carries zero. There are no names. Um we have no special recognition tonight. So with that, we're going to move on to public comment on agenda and non-aggendaized items. The board president limit the time limit presentation to three minutes per person per subject and a maximum of 20 minutes for each subject and I will hold the three minute so that we have two request from Irma that quickly address the board. Good evening, uh, board members, honorable board members. Um, my name is Irma Samurano and I'm here tonight to formally file
004the complaint against regarding the conduct of Marisol Cortez, an employee in your district who works directly with students. For the past two years, I have the I have been the target of ongoing and deeply harm harmful cyber bullying, uh harassment, body shaming, and public intimidation, not just towards me, but towards my family as well. The emotional troll has been devastating, and there has been times when I felt completely overwhelmed. even the point to struggling with suicide thoughts. The individual involved in includes city of public officials and employees including city manager Alma Martinez, chief of police Jake Fischer, Cindy Galan Martin Herrera, all council members and most concerning in this contact is council member Marisol Cortez. These individuals have either directly participated in a public support meant to shame me, silence me, and intimidate me with
005anyone who dares to speak out or question them. And this is just inappropriate. It's deliberate and it's targeted to endorse me, and it's harmful. I want to emphasize this that my Cortez works with children. As a school district employee, she has a responsibility to model respect, maturity, and integrity. When someone in her position engages in this kind of behavior, it sets a damaging example. Not just for students, but for entire school community. I'm here because this is just isn't just a personal issue anymore. It's a matter of public accountability. Our kids are watching. If we want safe schools, we can't allow bullying. Enough is enough. especially not from the adults who expect to protect and guide our students. Sorry. I urge the board to take actions to investigate this matter, this behavior seriously and to
006hold your employees to the standards that our students and our community deserve. Thank you for your time. And so the next request is from no last name. This is also regarding the same subject. >> Hello, my name is Genevie Vega and a resident of El Monte. I am not a parent, but I was once a youth leader for a company called Learn or better known as Aspire. Their focus is to provide resources for understanding or for underserved students and families to better navigate their educational journey. It came to my attention that Marisol Cortez, city council member in El Monte, liked and condoned a post via Instagram that was clearly bullying Zamano using her personal Instagram account. Ma is an active member in our community. So when she questioned why Marisol's house was raided in December
007of 2023 for illegal activities and drugs, she then became a target online. Ma has a long track record of being involved in Monte, including running for mayor, aside her extensive history within our education system. She also has an associate degree in early childhood education, not to mention her community involvement and service on boards, including superintendent advisory committee, school site budget committee, elected former Mountain View School District, school board member. Both and I are active in our community attending city council meetings to ensure our tax dollars are being put to good use and to hold those in office accountable. That is why when I found member of El Monte city council members, Maris liking a post that was clearly bullying IMA. I decided to email Tamar Katy Royan, education department personnel. I believe they are assistant
008superintendent of human resources via their email on June 18, 2025. That same day, I called the HR number per the website at 2:07 p.m., left a voicemail, but did not receive a call back. It wasn't until June 30th, 2025 I received an email uh or a receipt of email via Richard Lman. Today is July 23, 2025 and still no word about what is being done about this situation. I would like to know what is being done about this situation and is it is concerning that I did not receive a call back and the receipt of the original email was sent about eight business days later. As mentioned, I am not a parent, but was once an educator for children per my history as youth leader. And as someone who has been bullied before, it concerns
009me how you are handling this situation. Do you handle all your cases like this? If so, I worry for the children who are slash have reported bullying because this is about Maris Cortez who you employ. Per your website, it states you have a zero tolerance policy and have done nothing to inform me about this situation, let alone address the victim of the bullying, Zamorano. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> Okay, so with that we are moving on to item 14 which is a community update. I have some information. I have too many pieces of paper. Thank you. Sorry. Okay. Um, so I have three updates I'd like to share. Dr. will be speaking at the legislative lunchon for the chamber this Friday, July 25th. He will be speaking about some of the
010challenges we face and our partnerships with the chamber, PCC, city of Temple City, and the sheriff's department. He'll also be talking about the stadium and future projects to remain attractive to families uh and the IU schools bring to the community. Next item is on August 6th, the city of Temple City will be hosting National Night Out at Temple City Park, which includes free hot dogs beginning at 6 p.m. and the record summer concert will start at 7 p.m. And then lastly, TCUSD will be hosting the grand opening of our new football field starting at 4:30 on September 12th, followed by our first home football game starting at 7 p.m. More details regarding this last topic will be shared as available. Okay, with that we're going to move on to item number 15 marketing unit presentations
011California CSA number 105. I didn't know that was. Um, so the next item would be CSA 823 J Thomas. I don't see her present. And then lastly, TCA Shel and she's not here either. So Okay, that we're going to move on to district updates starting with business services first. Good evening board member and member is a great time for the facility while the staff and students are on campus. So in addition to the TC campus project we have some other project one of the major one is the replacement fund by the township. So this week the project starting at um as well as oak. So if the project will not be able to finish, we will work with council make sure that there's less impact for the instructions. The other things is contractor name. more
012safe for the kids to play. So tomorrow we first and we invite the parents the kitchen staff the administrator including the cabin member and this effort we try to introduce more food manufacturing So this is just the first and then one more. That's my >> great thank you. Moving on to ED services. >> Good evening members. It was exciting and also very energized time for me to hit the ground running this month as we transition from Richard. want to give a thanks to Richard for making this transition as seamless as possible as we get started for this school. Also wanted to thank Amy for the coordination that she has done to create a professional development electronic book professional development book for teachers. We have about 70 teachers that are participating in professional development opportunities this
013summer. Um, and thanks to Amy, she was able to tailor those offerings based on their input from the survey that we did at the end of the school year. Also want to give a shout out and appreciation for our principles and our district administrators who are coming back next week. Many of them have been here all summer long, but next week we will kick off with our administrative retreat. participate for gearing up. >> Thank you, Stacy. And then the next item under district updates is human resource services. Richard, what do you have? >> Good evening, everybody. Um, I want to thank my old team for the for the support they gave me as I trans transition to my new position and I also want to thank um the HR department. So Jurus and Darene and
014Lily and Lucy, I didn't realize how much they do each day. And so the behind the scenes work they do in order to have the teachers and the classified um staff in place for the start of the school year, it is just an ongoing mountainous everyday experience with them. So um I don't think we thank our HR team enough. Um so thank you to those for it. They do amazing work. Um and I also want to welcome Stacey. So, it has been a long time without a counterpart up here. So, Stacy, welcome. >> Great. Thank you, Richard. With that, we are going to move on to board member comments. And tonight, we're going to start with member. >> Thank you. members. Um, first I want to congratulate our two students from our adult education program
015who they earned their diplomas a couple of weeks ago. They put in the hard work over several years. In fact, one of them, I think, has been working on it for about 11 years. But after all those years, they they finished. They got their diplomas and I could just you could just see the pride in their families and it was such a good example for their families to see them work towards their goal. They were they really gave some very heartwarming comments. Uh congratulations to our skills USA teams who played so well in their national competition. continue to make Temple City very proud. really appreciate when I was teaching here. many different cultures. I think we need to feel safe. We should reassure them. I just got back from the car last night. It was
016really a lot of together. But I did want to give a special shout out to every project. very grateful to all of them. dinner. Our students are in Australia right now and students from Australia. I worked the fireworks for both night and football. I also attended the adult school graduation and I found out that graduated Um, I attended the chamber with PCC Alton Wang and it was really interesting because he was talking about different programs. Correct me if I'm wrong, but every time I also attended school and I attended the meeting our committee meeting with the city and to a good part of the meeting is talking about it. This is my I don't have a lot to say. One other thing I'd like to mention organizations participation I wanted I want to certain I
017wrote a letter and ask them. So, I want to thank She administration about us. usenators. So I put those out there as well. We're moving on a couple things. You know, one app to share of I can't obviously especially students. The other thing might still We are still students right now. students. You know, obviously Good problem. I wanted to give you a little update on everything. reason. talking about the hopefully the grand opening reality meetings There's still a lot of work. We still working. We'll keep you posted on that. Yes, that is what we I just wanted to give you a little update on Nice. Move on to the discussion portion of our Item 21 policies 31.2 Moving on to services. We might be So much. everything. So really things everybody love. How much different?
018years. Resolution 256. They don't think about online. Now, This is 27. You know, access Superintendent Change of June 30th, 201 something super Moving on to item number 29.