001All right. What do we got going there? Timer. No. Sounded like Okay. Okay. Casey Ben here. Lindsay. Yeah. Bobby. Yes. But you got your airplane. All right. Would you raise the flagship tonight? I remember to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Chris. So, the open session agenda motion. Mr. President, I move to interject. We have a item that's been brought to our attention which we would consider a subsequent need item which under the Brown is allowed allowable to be added to the agenda tonight. So we would have to do it during the motion. The item is for um our Central Valley High School football team to travel out of the area and overnight to football camps this
002summer. And we did not find out about I did Kyle and I did not find out about the information until just Monday of this week. So according to the Brown Act, we can add it to the agenda tonight if there's a um vote a twothirds to a unanimous vote on the item to add it to the motion has to include that subsequent need item. Yes. Do we have to lead with that? It has to be in the motion for the approval of the approve and add the subsequent need item. scoring. I have a second. All those in favor? I I uh if I go on to actions, you handle the subsequent item. Yes. Did you give me anything specific? I have it right information. I understand your need, but I'm going to say in the
00313 years I on the board, I've never had to do this. And so I hope that you very violently expect to admit your mistake. It's not like we all don't make mistakes, but uh I hope that you can pass the word around to the high school that more than likely this won't happen again. Oh, yes, of course. You know, because uh I just think it opens up the district to an arena that we don't want to go down. So, like I say, I So, uh does does anybody on the board have any comments about that? I'd just like to say the same thing. It needs to happen early. So, I don't know where the slip up was, but whoever did the slip up children has taken three weeks off work. So, um can you enlighten
004us as to what announced to us that has signed his group up for camp at Mard High School and it happens January one? This is now this is July 31st. This so there's two on there. The first one is and the second page I've got. Okay. So the one that we're referring to specifically is Jan 27th through the 29th and this one's in Rville. Is that correct? And any other any other specifics that you need other than those? How many days? the 27th through the 29th. Friday, Saturday night already covered in that as far as yeah donations or I mean a $20 cost for athletes. So the students are paying for it. Okay. So you just need to authorize like transport. Yeah, we have we have authorized driver through transportation. We don't need to vote
005on both these, do we? As as one item will cover one item will cover both of them or one of those trips. So, we'll just vote on it in the consent. Okay. Vote on it now if you prefer as Yeah, let's just go. We can handle it as a separate item. Wonder we just handle them as make a motion to approve. I'll second. Can you clarify what it is you you are asking for with the with the item? What's that? Like you said that things are just that it's approval. It has to the district has to approve anytime we do any kind of overnight visit or camp or things like that with our students. Okay. So, Bobby, the rules was that we should have had it last week, Wednesday or Thursday to have it on
006the agenda because it needs to be on the agenda legally, right? I think last year I got it in in April. So, got it in this week, they would have missed out. So, I mean, I get it not being a habit, but I get it. So, you're only asking for the authorization to do the trip. Everything's already taken care of. Got it. Okay. Thank you. And so, can we see anything from your point of view? All right. So, we are home on both of these at the same time. Do I have a motion to approve these two football camps? We did that. I just didn't write it down. Okay. I think I did. And then Lindsay seconded if I Yes. Okay. All those in favor? I I action item. The note moving forward action taken
007in close session. And with respect to any item of business discussed in close session pursuant, common code section 54 957.6 Six conference with legal negotiate labor negotiations. Board President Pillos unrepresented employee superintendent Kyle Turner. And at this point uh the board in close session voted to approve his contract for next year. And with that I am going to read that contract. This item is now the board's approval. of the second amendment to the contract of employment with superintendent Thomas Kyle Turner. The contract contains the following material items. The term is effective July 30, 2025. The terms of the contract shall extend by one additional year concluded on June 30th, 28. Compensation package is a base salary of $194,144.70. benefits health benefits for this billion follow same benefits as a non-represented unit management with the district
008contribution of 12,250 and that is the readout on Mr. Turners. All right. So that takes us to 12 which is public comment. This item, the public is invited to address the board regarding the items that are not listed on the agenda. Speakers are limited to three minutes each. By law, the board is not allowed to take action on matters that are not listed on the agenda. Mr. Phil Lewis, as you know, I was here at the last meeting I attended and I basically said something that somebody told me that you actually uh lost your license for a DUI. I just want to make this clear to you. I said it because somebody told me. But you know, it's pretty sad that you actually did me harm when you actually did write down something saying that
009I was convicted of election felony fraud. Okay. As I gave you that document and it does say that I was not convicted of election fraud. It was I was convicted of preparing false evidence. There's a big difference of that. So, and another thing, what bothers me is it's okay for public officials to lie and say things under oath when they're actually elected by the people. You actually violate violated my rights, my constitution rights when I was going door to door tried to remove you from office. But you didn't check at all to find out what Mike Mangus said was true. You just repeated it. So you actually caused me more harm by repeating something that somebody said without even checking the facts. But you you have no no knowledge of what it is the constitution
010rights of people because you violated mine. As we all know when you retaliate against people who exercise their rights, we have the people have a right to file lawsuits against those public officials. And you did do that to me. But I also want to know how in the world did you all actually participate in actually voting on to support and pay the lawsuit for to uh to defend this lawsuit when you never have this on the agenda to vote on it. You're supposed to and you didn't. So, how can you abuse the taxpayers's money thinking it's okay to take the taxpayers's money like if it's your money to defend your wrongdoing? So, are you going to continue to abuse the taxpayers's money? Because now it becomes criminal cuz you're taking money for the citizens. That's
011is you don't believe me, look it up. You have an attorney. But I know that you're not going to maybe even think about talking about to settle this, but you want to keep going, but you're building a bigger case for me to be able to show that you abuse the taxpayers's money because that, like I said, is criminal cuz you're robbing them of their money because it's not meant for you to abuse it and take it. If you look under your policy, there's a policy where it says the small claw that when you commit a crime, you cannot use the taxpayers's money to defend your wrongdoing. So, I just want to make it clear to all of you if you all support Mr. Bill Lewis to continue to abuse the taxpayers's money. And I I
012know Mr. Bobby, we've been in meetings before regarding civil rights and all that with the ACLU. I just wonder if you believe that's okay to take taxpayers money. You weren't here the last time. And just so you know, everybody's been saying I was convicted of felony election, but I was never. So there's more there's a lawsuit pending against Mike Mus for $10 million. He's taking care of that. And you repeated the same. Yes. Thank you. And I appreciate the fact that you apologized and your apology is accepted. I'm not apologizing. You were apologizing. No, I wanted to make a point to you. I wanted to make a point to you. Would you apologizing? I don't kiss anybody's ass when they're wrong. Okay. Is there anybody else that wants to speak publicly? Uh unless we add
013that later. Uh item of interest communication to the board. Uh item A is receive the citizens oversight committee report for the fiscal year ending June 7, 2024 as required by proposition 39 regarding the expenditures under major Gala obligation bonds of 2008. This is the major G bond. the audit report. The audit report for the 2008 audit report from the board. Uh received by the district to July 1st, 2024 to June 2025. Beth, anything to add on that? It's just an annual report of donations that we get throughout the year. We just keep track of them. We are thanking people throughout the years as we receive them, but it's just a word for the board. Any questions from the board? Yeah, there's in the back. Okay. Uh item C is presentation of 2526 LCAP local indicator
014overview. Terry, we're gonna have time. Put it aside for a while. Said turn on the timer. No, I'm teasing. Yeah, please do. Um, so one of what I'm bringing to you tonight is our uh an overview of our local indicators for this year. Um, so just a reminder the definition of our local indicators. Uh, California dashboard looks at 11 different indicators to measure a school's performance or district's performance. There are six state indicators as you can see there. These are college career graduation rate, academics, English learner progress, chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. The ones I'm going to report out on tonight are our five local indicators. These are ones that we self assess. They give us a rubric. We mark our progress on that. And then based on those rubrics, we are either uh we've
015either met the indicator or have not met the indicator. So that looks at our basic conditions, parent engagement, access to broad course of study, implementation of academic standards. So that's different from the test scores. It's how we're making sure um we have the materials that our teachers are um knowledgeable on these different standards. And then our school climate. So spoiler alert, we met all of our local indicators. Um but one of the things I'm required to do is kind of go through and let uh you know what evidence helped us gauge that we had met these standards. Yeah. Is this kind of based on average for all the schools or it's not down school is it's district overall. Okay. So our first indicator um they refer to it as priority one. These are basic conditions
016we met. We address this priority in goals four and five of our LCAP. Um, a piece of evidence uh that we look at is our Williams Act, which we were 100% Williams Act compliant. Um, that's our uh teachers, our facilities, our um access to uh textbooks and curriculum. Um, some of the things that we mentioned as our evidence to our ongoing investments with measure J. um the different pieces of staff development we've been focusing on both for certificated and classified and uh our ongoing investments in updating curriculum for teachers. Our next priority is two. Those are the academic standards. Um we met that as well. We focus on this within goals one and six of our LCAP. Um pieces of evidence for that were um our ongoing collaboration through our PLC's um the adoptions of
017uh standard aligned curriculum like our science um training for our teachers and admin in the new math framework as well as our science aligned reading instruction that we've been working on as a district. Um all of that is also in progress with our gateway priority standards. So, we're really working on district alignment um for our agreed upon focus standards. Our next priority is parent engagement. We also met that. Um this is our focus within LCAP goal 3. Uh pieces of evidence for that include our annual surveys, our ongoing and improved use of parent square, uh community night, which we've had the last two years, though we're looking to kind of revamp that this year. So stay tuned for more on that. Um all of our different site events from the traditional back to school open
018house plus some of the unique ones each site does whether it's the veterans performance or literacy nights pie social stuff like that. Um we've also really focused on transparent communication within the district. Uh the monthly groove uh the sites send out weekly emails to parents and to staff social media. Um, we have a great social media presence that's been happening in the last couple years and also on our our improvement with our online calendarers trying to communicate upcoming dates and events. Priority seven, I know it's weird that there isn't a priority four and priority five because those are the state indicators fall under that. Those aren't our um local ones. Priority six. Oh man, I was hopping to the end for you, Kyle. Priority six is our school climate. Also met that one. Focus is
019in the LCAP under goals two and six. Um and our staff, student, and community surveys show respondents feel safe and connected to our schools. Um we've really focused on um proactive supports in regards to behaviors on our various campuses. Um, and we've also continued to foster a number of community partnerships, whether it be Quanas or different support agencies. There is priority 7. Um, access to broad course of study also met this. I would even say if exceeded is a category, we could say exceeded. Um, it's LCAP goal one for us. Uh all of our students have access to standards aligned courses including electives and all of the sites including um the elementary sites have worked to build different elective offerings. Um and I'm going to hop around here a little bit. That includes um our
020various arts classes um that we've been able to bring to the campuses. Um the high schools continue to expand dual enrollment and CTE opportunities uh not only at CB but we're also able to expand some CTE opportunities for Mount Lake students. Uh so we're doing a lot there and um every year we are seeing an increase in our college career readiness indicator. We've been doing really well with that as a district. So, um, next steps I just I was I'm here to present this information to you. Um, we'll report it to the dashboard, California dashboard by July 1st. Um, and then the state updates the state and local indicators and make them public on November 15th of this year. Any questions for the board? Thanks, Gary. Um, I don't know if it it would tie
021into this part or not, but like as far as discrepancies with our do you see discrepancies between our elementary schools like between like and Chesta Lake? Do you see a a big discrepancy there in in our in our where they where we're ranking academically, staffing, education? you know, I think each safety I think each site has its, you know, areas of strength and areas of focus. Um, but I wouldn't say there's a glaring discrepancy between our different sites. And I think each site has leadership and programs and pieces in place that are working to build up those areas of need. I was that's what I was hoping to see if we're getting Buckeye continuously ranks like one of our lowest, our bottom. Mhm. So I would I'm and I know I mean it's difficult. There's
022probably lots of reasons why, but hoping that we can really focus and work work through that to do to do something with that getting one of the one of the we had a bunch of bright spots in our cast testing, but probably our brightest spot was Buckeye this year and their assessment and how they did. So proud of the work that they did like safety and just all over type stuff. I got to drive by Shasta Lake school in the mornings and you'll see the officers out front and stuff and then Okay. You know, I just just I'm just making sure that our schools are kind of being Yeah, we're always here. No, we don't want anyone. We have a middle school. We want them all right up there. So, all right. Thank you. Any
023other questions from the board? uh item is a presentation and discussion of school site organization survey data. Sure. And actually Lindsay segueed this teed it up nicely for me. They've actually went this is just in response to a lot of conversations and ideas that have come up through the years and back in April we put out a survey I think it was in April but to the site just to get some feedback and wanted to just report out on that. I'd sent just a brief summary in terms of uh some of the topics out to the board and the next I present today at Debbie will email out to you just so you can have it on your fingertips um tomorrow and then if you need it and then we'll post it as well for
024um all of the data but I wanted the board to be able to have an idea um some talk about as Lindsay had talked about having a middle school and then we talked about there's plenty of TK5s out there and then we looked at potential spaces and a new trend is TK4 and 58 uh to kind of even that out a little bit. And so we wanted to get some feedback from our constituents. So we sent that out. You can go to the next one or scroll down I guess. And um the response were like 320 responses. Pretty good feedback um from mostly uh students, parents and um staff. As you can see there, there's a few community members there, but district employees 159 and 189 parents and guardians. And then we also wanted to
025know what schools they were connected to. And Shasta Lake School is was leading the charge, but they also have probably the most students. And so 149 there, but also the other sites were represented about relatively um in line with their enrollment. So it was it was a good percentage. So we felt good about that. Um going to the next one. Um, one of the bearing errors that I made is when I said I'm I'm a mirrorsided, so I can read a lot better. And then I have a color graph on a black and white sheet here. So that doesn't help me. So if you see me glancing up, I'm just going to be vulnerable and tell you, "Yeah, I messed up on that one." He's trying to save color. But uh, yeah, thank you. This
026is much better. But, uh, so we wanted to know just some basics and how open are people to exploring changes in school grade spans and campus locations if it meant, you know, better use of resources, stronger student programs, because that would be the reason we would do it. um to try to build enrollment, increase help our budget and help our programs and overall needs. Uh we saw some good feedback there uh with 76% that were somewhat or very open and we had about 18% that were neutral. Unsure probably wanting more information. Very few were opposed and strongly opposed to that. So that was good feedback to have. Uh the next one uh what are the biggest priorities when uh considering how schools are organized? And so we had them select up to three. So you
027can see there down here we're getting seasick. Yeah. Um so the academic experience which was good to see was was first and then as you can see there um you know wellness needs of students u facilities and um also things like uh collaboration and retention. I'm sure our staff had something to say about that. Class sizes are always a factor. Um, you know, we're looking at also other things, you know, in terms of the overall budget, but also school location and commute and how does that impact um parents and does our transportation, can we work that to where we obviously can um meet the needs of all of our students? And so, uh those were some of the priorities that you saw there um that that our respondees had. Um how open were they to
028the idea of having two or more elementary schools? So like a a TK4 or a K4 beating into one middle school. Uh as you can see there in terms of um somewhat open or very open it was u about 70% uh that were open to that and then uh very small amount that were opposed or strongly opposed and then about 21% that were neutral um on it right now. Um and then in terms of how open to relo uh school relocating to a different campus camp if the campus had better facilities or space for the appropriate grades. Um and that would be uh that would take some time in terms of planning and things but as you can see there those are the numbers we you know had about 74% there that were open or
029very open and 16 unsure. I think the encouraging thing on this was that people were very open to it. There weren't any that were like no don't do it. you know, it was very open to explore and to look at that need. Um, one of the So, getting into, we wanted to know both sides. Anytime you're doing a survey and it's just qualitative data, you're really looking to hear not what you want to hear, but what are concerns and what are some things that we could see um about the school reconfiguration? What are you afraid might happen that might be negative? Um but safety was repeatedly cited and so what happens is there's a place for them to put comments you know and so to put all the comments here would been would have been
030dizzying. So we did a summary of all the the uh comments from our respondees. Uh the top concern is usually safety when we're talking about parents when they talk about their kids. That's a that's obviously something that everybody's concerned about. um anytime there's a school in action and then also maintaining a supportive nurturing school climate um particularly in a new middle school setting and behavioral management. So worried about increased behavior issues in a larger middle school without uh without strong leadership. That's a big without because I think our leadership is very strong right now especially in our administration. But again, these are whatifs and if this were to happen, you know, the sky is falling and that what could what could be what could go wrong. So, moving on to the next slide. These are
031more uh concerns about school reconfiguration. I think I did we jump one or did I not? Okay. Oh, that was number two. Thank you. Uh teacher retention concerns that location changes may lead to staff turnover. So, if we move to class, maybe, you know, I might want I like where I am right now. I'm going to look for greener pastures. um qualified educators, um staff transition. So, anytime staff potentially is moving, you there's some anxiousness there over classroom and personnel relocation and logistics and all of that part of making a change. Um that is one thing I know about educators. We're all creatures of habit and we are somewhat territorial about our spaces and a lot of people have been in the same ring for 25 plus years and that's like this is my home.
032Um and so any move like that sometimes does cause some trepidation. Um go ahead the school site like on our personnel reports it seems like there's there's quite I mean like yeah there people to no around to the different schools. We've had teachers do that as well and uh yeah that's part of the deal. Uh class size is always an issue. Of course, shockingly, smaller classes are preferred, but um that's always a fan favorite. And then, of course, I think one of the the nice parts is uh really preserving the program quality of what we already offer, making sure that we don't splinter off and lesser programs in a move because uh um the one thing that extracurricular access during and after schools is is important and the transition to middle school. One of the
033areas that a middle school, we'll get into this a little bit later, but you know, right now you have one middle school that has more numbers and so they tend to maybe have a little more opportunity to have stronger teams because Buckeye has a lesser amount of students. And it's just no field. It's a numbers game. And so when you have not as many people, your chances of competing aren't quite as high. And so merging those together, you tend to have stronger numbers, more success. And when you energy, you know, success is always a little bit contagious and it's one of those things when you start wearing, hey, let's stay together. Let's do this at the high school. And so that is potentially one uh benefit of that. Uh so going to the next one
034here, which is another community. So communication and transparency just what they were wanting is just consistent updates about when and how changes would happen if they were to happen. Let's just say we were looking at moving a campus or um changing a school configuration. As a parent myself, I really would want to know, okay, what's this going to look like? Um, when is this going to happen? What's going to be the process? How can we communicate um, you know, kind of the the path of the district to our parents so that they're aware of what's going on? And then the families emphasize, yeah, they emphasize the need for updates. And so that would also wanting to be a part of some of the decision- making process if possible because there's many decisions that we have
035to make as a district budget wise and personnel wise, but we always want feedback. hint just like this survey, you know, trying to get ideas and feedback from them. Um, logistics, another concern, transportation and commute. And this is always something that comes up anytime you talk about schools potentially changing grades. How does this impact my current situation? Do I have all of my kids at a K8? So, it's easier for me to do a drop off or now do I have one that has to be at this site and then one has to go to the middle school? Ultimately, if they stay in the district, they always do have to leave because if they're going to Central Valley, that's a 912. So, this bumps that back a little bit. And so, um, but again, without
036knowing where we would go, issues that we raised were neighborhood safety, drop off, pickup, logistics, all the things that parents should be concerned about. And so, um, side note, if we were to do this, all of this would be to improve all of these, you know, if we were to make a move like this, it would be to improve all of these things to make them better. We wouldn't want to go in any way backward. Um one with the transportation with we we have Kristen here. Is that I mean is it something that you see as being usable? I mean the site's expectations would be because right now we do stagger you know we have drivers going to multiple sites. Um but it's you know not something I would be closed off to. We could
037make it happen. Absolutely. Uh but that would just take us meeting and looking more at details to see what that would actually look like if we go in that direction. Well, the the key takeaway point is we're not like adding a campus or campuses. We're just kind of we're getting they're building new stuff. Yeah. One thing that is I do know about and Yeah. What I do know about Kristen is that anytime we presented her with a challenge or task, she's always so she'll save the flag. No. No, no, you find me hope. This is the Yeah. So, and so again, it kind of stems from the last one. Just always concerns about disrupting the relationship with students, families, and staff because of the closeness schools. This is where I am and I like where
038I am. And if this is changed in any way, I'm not going to be around, you know, Mr. Lewis or Miss Haynes or all these people that I've gotten to know for so long and I might have to leave that couple years earlier than I thought. And that again is we know it's a part of life, but that doesn't make it any less easier when you've got your angel there that's 9 years old and loves where they are and might have to go to a new place. So, we understand that. Um, next one. I think we're getting down to the um ideas or suggestions of how district can best use its uh campuses and resources to support our students and staff. Uh so a lot of the respondents suggested the consolidating elementary schools to a
039tier four or five onto one or two campuses and middle schools um onto a separate single campus often proposing SLS at the middle school site. So that was a common theme from people again as you saw by the the pie chart. Uh several responses highlight the need for more staff especially in special education and smaller class sizes. uh increased resources for student behavioral issues, which has been a theme throughout the state. Um and we continue to work on that with student services and our site admin academic program improvements, more STEM and arts opportunities, which is important with our CTE focus and a lot of the grants that we've been getting and uh we know we're really pushing hard with that and expanding our afterchool programs was something else uh that was mentioned. And then the
040parent community involvement. That was an area in our strategic plan that I really feel like we're making strong gains in two-way communication. Um, but that's always a challenge in any district in any city in the United States. How do we get more parents involved? Um, you know, you've always heard the adage of, you know, 10% of the parents doing 90% of the work because you have generally the same group that likes to do a lot, but we really feel like we've made some some gains there. Uh, facility upgrades. So mentioning the need for facility improvements and that is encouraging for us because we you know measure JJ came just in time and we're able to do that a lot in the hopper right now. It's exciting time to be here with all the planning and
041things that we're able to do to fulfill our student needs and uh it's exciting. And then I think as we get near the last couple of slides here, um the last piece, the very top of it, I want to make sure I get the what benefits um do we see that would come from reconfiguring? And so this is what do we think it would be really good that would come from something like this? And many people believed it was important to separate elementary and middle school students to protect younger children from inappropriate behaviors and language of older students. Maybe that's a way of oversimplifying it, but there are stages of discipline, the stages of learning and things that you know you were around and you're used to. Um, having experienced both models. I have some
042thoughts on that. But, um, improving the academic and social environment, a dedicated middle school campus could offer more age appropriate opportunities and, uh, a focus on academic programs and extracurriculars. And then resource management and efficiency uh consolidating resources potentially leading to smaller class sizes. Well, for me, I want to have an add-on. One of the main reason we do we talked about budget last week. We talked about the budget and the challenges in terms of staffing and know budgets around $50 million, you know, is right 48, you know. Um Beth, I don't like to mess with Beth. I'm in the ballpark. I'm not Yeah. ish, but you know, I know that you're 80 plus% in salaries and benefits, right? And and it that's a thing. Uh, you know, potentially more. So, we've talked about it.
043When you have class size ratios that you have to meet, it really does limit you in terms of having sometimes hire an extra two teachers in this grade where if they were on one campus, you could do it a lot more efficiently and maximize it. you would have a lot more alignment in terms of curriculum and being able to get everybody on the same page. Um that would be a huge factor. Um and also in terms of budget wise um there have been challenges at certain campuses and um and we I mentioned it. I think we had lost 200 plus interd district transfers at the Buckeye campus which equates to a few million dollars. And so once they enter our schools, they like to stay. You know, they they like our schools for the most
044part. You can't please everybody, but we always do our best for everybody to stay. The trick is getting them in the door, you know, and so how do we make it as attractive as possible at the TK level to be able to get them to uh want to come to Gateway? And then uh again, campus facilities and safety, reconfiguring the campus could lead to better maintained facilities, more space, safer environments. And then behavior management. So separating the grade levels could lead to better behavior management of student behavior. That is a little bit easier for administrators because you know I was fortunate because I just did high school and I dealt with high school. I was always 14 to 18 is my sweet spot. You get me to an 8-year-old I felt like I don't know
045what I'm doing here. My own kids I was okay. But um it's different. You know in one hand you're dealing with a nineyear-old and then you've got a 13year-old or 14y old in eighth grade. So there's some differences there and it allows for maybe a little more specialization. So ju the purpose of this is not any decisions or anything like this. It was just to report out on what we heard back and we were pretty pleased with the amount of responses we had. So I just wanted to kind of report out on those things and u you know potentially at the board's um advisement to follow up and just seek more information in terms of how it would look, what facilities could we explore, what would the budget look like? uh numbers in terms of
046like transportation and some of the things that were brought up and uh essentially a task force if you will on how this would look and the timelines and things cuz for us it would have to be something that we felt we feel would really grow the district in a positive manner so meet the needs. What I'm seeing is that from the survey it sounds like most people are on board or in somewhat in favor of it. So I would like to ask Phil That's something we can really, like you said, start some kind of a committee or task force to look into doing this cuz having kids in the school I do know and you know it even just sports type stuff or kids from Buckeye and Ches Lake, it's it does seem different. Then
047they get up into high school and I think if we could get to the middle school together, those kids, and then they go on to high school and they've been together, it's a little bit easier. It's a little less like they're not Yeah. instead of having like two different eighth grade that are coming together that don't know each other like this, you know, look, I did it like this here. Just I mean, and all kind there's a lot of different reasons. One thing I I'll say regardless of what you'd like to see happen, there's still a lot of unknowns, you know, and then I think for us to make a calculated decision on what's best for the district, we need to cross our tees, dot our eyes, and make sure we've really looked at how
048is this going to I mean, I think about it a lot. So, I think it okay, could we is there a location change potential move and is that an option? Would that draw people? Yes. Now, do we have another challenge of once they're at fourth grade, could they leave us and go somewhere else? you know that I think well a 5'8 would be better cuz there's not that many 58 choices out there even though they have one in Mountain View and I think they've had it added a couple but that's the new trend but then it's you usually don't leave fourth to go to fifth somewhere else and then jump to another school that's a 68 so it might benefit us in that regard so um there's a lot of things that you'd have to
049look at in terms of staffing and then at the end of the day how many teachers would we potentially when I say save I mean employ to be able to reach all of our students the most efficiently um in the most efficient manner possible while being able to also provide the great services that we want to have. So it's that balancing act. So we would bring on board of course Beth, you know, in terms of business and instructional services, student services and um people within the community to make sure that we're looking at the whole piece. I I definitely see a lot of you know benefits to it but yes there's a lot of unknowns and the logistics especially transportation don't envy you um yeah there's definitely a lot of questions still student achievement part
050of it and what's best for the kids in the long run that is a big focus cuz we all we can do to keep them engaged and keep them involved cuz there's a lot of kids from Buckeye that are in seventh grade that are going over to chass late for their eighth grade year. So, yeah. Casey Dale, any other comments that you would like to bring forward to see us do some I was I was really excited about I'm with Casey or Dale, but I'm really excited to see how people are open to either excited about change or, you know, would consider it. But I was wondering on your uh grayscale pie chart there if you go for people that were opposed to changes. Yeah. So, I'd have to go back on the other one.
051I can get it for you. it was opposed to change was within the teens if that on everyone like 16% if it was both strongly opposed or somewhat opposed it was normally around 15 to 17 on those two areas. Um it's definitely from the feedback worth exploring. You know I again I I my personal point of view is that if we're losing that many students in one site uh we have to do something because I really believe in our schools. I believe in our teachers once they get here and we can't sustain um a model that I think is going to have continuous that growth mindset without the opportunity to build it. And so that's an area for me that I would like to at least explore. Um you know in terms of being able
052to look at things from a different lens to see if it would benefit our community and draw more students. We have a new housing subdivision coming being built in the process and then I don't know if that and the apartment complex that are being built too. So there's going to be some influx of kids too. So that's why I was saying is that something we can actively start looking into for us. We're going to continue to look and bring information back to the board as needed and we'll continue that process. But I'd like to but I wanted to get the board's thoughts on it as well. One thought I had on the percentages of strongly opposed and opposed. Were they the same people? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, I I didn't look at the actual
053respondents because they come in and it's just what they get, you know, they get curious. It was just Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, potentially that that's sometimes a theme, you know, but then it might balance out the ones that like everything too. So, all right, moving on. We'll go to the consent agenda. Uh, are there anything within the consent agenda items that need to be brought forth or can we handle them as a whole? As far as I'm concerned, you can handle them as a whole. I'd make sure to approve somebody who's got a different opinion. Any other Lindsay? Thanks. Anything specifically that we need to pull out of the consent agenda or discuss ahead of time? Um, you know, there's there's not really anything that I saw. I wasn't quite sure about the 14.
054She gets took on another role with the injury. It looks like that that's going to be on you. Is that is that part of your normal? Is that like all the time the responsible for a person of That's that's normal for you. So it's not something okay. So he was gone and now you're gonna Well, thank you for stepping up and taking and that's all that's all I had. So motion by Bill, second by Bobby. All those in favor? I taking December 15 minutes. Item A is student services. Uh number one, action to approve the proposition 28 arts and music and schools annual report 2425. Melanie, maybe I should uh this is just a annual report that we're required with the funding that we received for Prop 28. Um with the report is posted on
055our website and so it's a report of how we spent the funds. Um 80% of the funding that or the allocation that we receive is meant to be spent on um personnel in which case we did budget that. However, the one shortfall was that unfortunately the art position at Buckeye was unable to be filled this last school year. Um, always it's odd that it's a challenge to fill some of those um you like music and art, drama, those kind of things. Um, so that was unfortunately unfilled, but the report basically is something we need to post. Um, and it does report out that we employ X number of FTE, which is 3.1. Um, and that we've served a total of 747 students um through that program. Last year we served over 1,200 students because we
056did have a Buckeye teacher um in that position but we were un like I said unable to fill it. So are we still looking? We've been looking. Yeah, we don't give up. It's a continue continual um cycle. The other thing is is the one a little bit of adjustment. Last year we had three FTE. This year we've budgeted for 3.10 because um music was being provided at the high school um in a in one period and I know next year it'll be increased. So don't don't think it's less, but that was out of this particular pot of funds that we we allocate a little bit for the music. Um music's covered in other departments as well for funding. But questions for the board. Do I have a motion? Motion. A second. All those in favor?
057I Thank you. Uh the second is the approval of a revised eighth grade promotion policy. So initially in this me again um initially in I want to say 2013 14 something like that when I entered the district we proposed a eighth grade promotion policy which included um categories that monitored or held kids accountable for an academic piece, a behavior piece and attendance piece. All of which culminated at the end of the year with participation in the activities that are offered for promotion. And so that policy was written or created and then approved by the the board. Uh we had one revision in 2019 because of course we had been carrying it out for about 5 years and thought you know it's time to look at this and update it. So we updated it brought it
058to the board approved. this is now in a next phase where it's time to update and so the changes um academically it's still requirement of having a 2.0 uh but we dropped the idea of having an F in any particular core subject because in high school to be eligible for activities and such it's a 2.0. Um if you have FS you're not going to get the 2.0. So it was kind of you know not necessary. Um the other piece was that uh in behavior we've been trying to use alternative means of discipline or correction. Um a lot of restorative activities and things and so uh we use uh a lot of the refocus and intervention where we keep the students on campus rather than suspending them at home. But it's still uh behaviors that are
059concerning if you're going to take a a student out on a long field trip to the Bay Area to go to the park or whatever, you know, cuz we do go to the Leo a lot of times, Six Flags. Um and so you're looking for students that, you know, aren't going to be a a safety hazard to themselves and others. Uh and so a lot of times the the discipline is important to keep an eye on. And so uh in this particular situation, we've updated the days. It used to be um 3, five, and six and it's now 3, seven, and 9. And we've also included the verbiage that um the refocus and interventions will be considered in that behavior um monitoring and restorative justice. Yeah, restorative practices are part well that's part of our
060refocus and intervention is trying to and when we talk about restorative um practices we're talking about students just learning to be accountable for their own behavior understanding the consequences of when they choose this this is what you know this isn't good and if they're having a conflict with someone else then we want to restore that and make it right and hopefully teach them to be better little humans and so that's part of what we're talking about when we say re refocus an intervention that we're utilizing So it's not full on adopting like the actual full scale model of restorative. No restorative assistance. Yeah. And one of the things we're doing this year I don't want to take up too much time Kyle. I'm probably getting in trouble for using too many words. Um, no, I
061just want to explain that at the one of the PDs that we are offering at the beginning of the year, um, when everyone comes back is, uh, a model that is going to teach have our our staff learn how to help kids identify kind of their, um, areas they need to improve and their wrongdoing and take responsibility for it. So, it's more about responsibility, which I think is creating good little citizens. Um and so them being responsible for their behavior and understanding the consequences and moving forward hopefully making better choices. And so we are you know as much as restorative stuff that we can do we are trying to hold kids accountable but also hold them accountable so they learn to make better decisions as humans moving forward. So that's really thing I think it
062was well done well put together. Yeah. And it's going to be uniform for most sites. So that's good. And that's key. That's key is that I want you to know that the administrators from Buckeye as well as Shasta Lake School and the counselors um have all been a part of this revision. Okay? And then it was brought to me just to put it in form to bring it to you. Um I may have had my own opinion about it as well because I'm a you know ex-principal from a middle school setting and I also helped create this and so um it was hard to let go of some things but I felt like it was necessary. Kyle and I went round and round. Um, and so, uh, he had some good points to make, I
063had better points to make. Um, but the last part is the last part is attendance and and you know, and it's it's a it it fluctuates because some people believe that, you know, there's a lot of things that happen in kids' lives that we shouldn't hold that, you know, hold it against them. And there is a part in here you have to remember that is administrative discretion. So, when there are hardships for students and causes their attendance to to falter a little bit. Administrators can take that into account and they can adjust part of this policy so that they can see because if there's situations of extreme hardship or something, there's room. This is not a confining policy that's going to just be applied to someone without any, you know, consideration for what what's best
064for them. So, um anyway, that's the question for Monique from the board. Wondering you guys find a middle ground or you just agree to disagree? Well, yeah, it's there's stages. Agree. Then there's that. There's a walking out and almost slamming the door. Then we have Okay, I see your part. You walk through office. That's true. I don't blame her. Thank you. I'll make a motion to approve. I'd like to second. They don't. And who was a second? Uh Bobby Bobby. Bobby. Thank you. All those in favor? I think of it. Item D falls under human services. Number one is the approval of an NLU between Gateway Unified School District and the CSA A chapter 696 regarding the proposed bus driver training position. Yes. So, um, we negotiated an MLOU with CSEA to, um, increase the
065salary for a bus driver trainer because it used to be the same as the bus driver and there was no incentive for one of our own drivers to step up and be a trainer. And so, we um increased the salary. And we're looking at it also increasing the calendar work year from 182 days to 191 days. Um, and we're also the district is um going to be paying for the training for that bus driver trainer. Um, and we're going to be entering a contract with that employee. Um, that basically they're going to stay with the district for two years. Um if they leave before that then they if they leave a year out after the training they pay 50% back. Um so it's kind of an incentive to to get them training and keep them.
066Yeah. And um this you know we need to help Kristen out here. This this is some kind of alleviate some of the workloads and um so off your back. We recommend that you approve that. Thank you very much. I move. Oh, sorry. Do I have a motion? Motion to second. All those in favor? Hey, come on. No, let's see it. [Music] Item two is an action to approve the proposed 2526 employment contract for the director of student services, Melanie Sanderson. You do, huh? I do. I approve. Do I have a second? I'll second. Let's see. All those in favor? I Okay. All right. I guess that my responsibility to rule this contract if you want to retract your vote at a later date. Do you really slam doors? She does. It's really hard. It's difficult
067on the entire office. No. All right. This item of the board's discussion, approval of a new contract of employment with director of student services, Melanie Sanderson. This contract contains the following things. Term term of the contract is July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Uh the compensation package includes a base salary of 149,930 and with a 9% growth and longevity increase. in accordance with the NRU management salary schedule and a cell phone allowance of $60 a month. The French benefits are that her health benefits will be set at $12,250. District membership paid to the Association of California School Administrators. And that is the end of that contract. So, all right. That being said, we'll move on to item three, which has to do with our director of special education, Nate Solless. It's not here. Not
068here to accept her tonight. I'd make a motion to approve it. Nate's also Dale. A second. Second. Second. Okay. All those in favor? I. All right. We now this contract uh the term of Nate's contract goes from July 1st 2025 to June 30th 2026. The compensation package includes a base salary of 14949,930 9% professional growth longevity increase in accordance with the niu a master's degree statement and a cell phone allowance of $60 per month. uh health benefits are as the others at $12,250. The district paid membership in the association of California school administrators and that is the end of his contract. So I have a question. Yes. Um so directors what what about um Carrie? She doesn't have to have We don't have an assistant. Oh, well, you need to start slamming some doors and
069get a promotion, I guess. Assist yours. I'll get you now. Okay. Thank you for clarifying. Certificated directors. We have to read out. All right. Business services is item C. First to add is the approval of the presence learning service code agreement 2425. So um presence learning is um they provide speech services for our students that we don't have speech teachers for. We have had three open um three FTE open positions for speech pathologists and we just can't fill them. They're open. We've offered signing bonuses, all kinds of things. So, at the moment, the budget is built with three full-time positions and about $300,000 for contracting speech services. So, those two together cover this contract. And then if we cannot find, we can reduce this contract within the next month or two. So, if we don't
070find any speech pathologists in the next month or two, we will stop budgeting for those and withhold those. positions until we start posting per 26 27. So have we not hired any anybody no interest in the last year at all to help for in the speech in the speech department. We haven't hired anybody to tell the teacher doing that. We've had we hire aids to sit with the students while they're working with presence learning online. But as far as speech pathologists know, even like district office to help coordinate services or nothing nothing else to do with speech. Okay. And we use other programs other than just presence learning. Um, at one point we were using CAB and I can't remember what that stands for, but um, Nate has decided that he does not want to
071proceed with them. They did not. Okay, that's what I was wondering how many other because I know this is a expensive contract, so we're not going to be using the other. Okay, thank you. within those services. I think I've alluded to this once before, but do these teachers have to be in district physically present or can you hire outside the district? And with everything that's done on computers these days, I'm just curious if if we could if we'd looked at extending that outreach. We currently have one position that is a remote position and they and they are our staff member and we pay them as a a speech pathologist. Um we just haven't had any other interest come in. I don't know that we've advertised it that way. I don't know it for us it
072would require we would have to have hire more aids to come to support them because you can't have a student online with an adult teacher without having another adult in the room. So it would raise that curious if we had looked at that. I mean so much is extension these days that that if we we failed seems to to fill these positions that we ought to be thinking about alternatives. Yeah. And I do know and there are some other districts within the county that have had leads on speech pathologists and then other districts within the county have bargained and paid more to get them. So there are just very few out there and the ones that are out there pretty much can write their own contract at some spots. Do I have a motion on
073item one? Motion to approve. A second. Second. All those in favor? I. Is that all four? Yes. Plus me. Thank you. Uh second item on the services action to approve a proposal by Nicholls Melberg and Rosettto as the architect for the Mountain Lakes modernization toyon bond project. So this is just taking another um architect from the pool of architects that you guys approved a couple months ago. Um, these would be specifically assigned to that project at the toy on campus. Goes along with the three weeds last week. Correct. Correct. Make a motion to approve. Second. Was that? All those in favor? I I thank you. Item three is action to approve the draft of the 2526 cap. We have had no changes to what was presented last week. This is just the action. Yeah. Okay.
074Do I have motion? Second. All those in favor? I item four is an action to approve adoption of the 2526 LCF. And I surmise this is the action that is coming out of last week also. Yeah. Any questions or do I have a motion? A motion. K. A second. Follow me. All those in favor? I I five action to adoption of the 2526 uh local control accountability plan federal addendum. I don't remember this one from last week, but it was there. Yeah, this is the one we talked about where um Carrie and I have been working on going through the titles like title one, title two, title four, the funds we get on the federal level, but we have had no changes since last week. So, so you guys are making sure we're following all
075of the federal guidelines and how those monies can be spent. Motion Casey second. Hail. All those in favor? I I item six, an action to approve the adoption of the 2526 preliminary budget and reserve disclosure. I know we covered this last week. We did. However, today the governor and the legislature did come to an agreement and it should be signed. Uh they're assuming Friday. So, it does look like those additional dollars that we talked about last week are going to be approved. So, we will have a 45day re revise in August. 45day revis. And is it is there conditions with that that are with the new funds? Um, the only one that is like a block grant type funds, it's discretionary. So, that's something that we can do. I don't know if there's time frames
076on them. I have no details on it. If there's something we're going to implement as far as conditional, is that something that you would bring forth to so we could see? When we do the 45day revise, I'll have more information. I just Okay. I know the titles of them. I don't know anything, right? But it entails specific. Yeah. Okay. Do I have a motion? Casey. Second. A second. Thank you, Bobby. All those in favor I lastly car instructional service an action to approve the waiver request to adjust gateway CVS bus schedule for minimum minimum day Mondays. Yeah. So Ed uh ED code requires that community day schools uh go for 360 minutes per day. And so for the last several years that has kind of um handcuffed us in allowing our CDS teachers to participate
077in PLC Mondays. Um, but we went to that uh alternative education conference, made some great connections, and learned about a waiver that we can apply for that would allow us to create a minimum day Monday and then adjust the schedules for Tuesday through Friday so that the students by the end of the week actually average 361 minutes. Um, it doesn't have any impact on the teachers contracted times. Um, so that's a benefit. The waiver application opens in July and so we currently have taken it to site council uh at Toyon Learning Center. Um they've approved it. The um we would like your board approval to apply for this waiver. Um and then we're also reaching out to um GTA and CSEA. Um we will need to speak with CSEA before we move forward with it.
078uh their schedules would be modified slightly but nothing to do with their actual contract just placement during the day. So busing is not affected. Busing not. Yeah. These are always the challenge. Yeah. So it has a lot of potential for positive impact. So there sounds like there's we're approving it under some conditional things being clarified. Yeah. You're basically approving. You're giving me permission to submit the application. Right. Any other questions from the board? No. Do I have a motion? I'll second. Lindsay Bobby. All those in favor? I that takes us item 16, district reports. Uh Kyle, so wanted to uh first I felt bad because Shalen had to dip out a couple months ago at her first board meeting and then we got going uh the last one I realized I don't know if I
079ever formally introduced Shalen Dawson as our food services supervisor, but I know you she came up over how to spell your C H A Got it. Thank you. Now, would you like to tell them how many uh variations of that you've heard since you've come in? Okay. I heard a few already and I'm asking because I wouldn't want a variation. Right. Yeah. Still it. But she's done a great job and come in. We're so excited to have her thrilled. She's been amazing and uh I know everybody's excited to um see the work that she's going to be doing and uh hopefully she's enjoying it as much as we're enjoying her. So, I just wanted to officially welcome uh her and uh wanted to thank the the board uh for all of their work. And um
080you know, it's a a lot of lot of work throughout the year, you know, and a lot of time, even if it's once or twice a month between the activities and the events, it takes a lot of sacrifice. and we appreciate all that you do. Um, for sure. Um, Debbie, um, is always there to catch me when I'm falling and falling a lot. No, but she, uh, she does an amazing job of keeping things, uh, in order for us and, uh, the entire district. So, I want to thank you, Debbie, as we end the year for everything. Yeah, we have some amazing parents, you know, that support our kids. And, uh, I've been very lucky. I had a great dad for 53 years. I lost him last night. And um you know he was a
081big man with a big voice and a gentle heart and a warrior's spirit, warrior's heart. And uh he was an educator who served thousands and thousands of people and gave this his own time. And uh I miss him a lot. And um one thing he used to tell his people and sometimes it's appropriate is don't let the turkeys get you down. And uh you know keep doing the right thing. And um like I said, I'm going to miss him a lot. And uh it was great to have him while I had him. So that's all I have. Thank you. Thanks, Bobby. Um a lot going on with us in school this right now. All right, Casey. Um we got to go to the U. It was nice our new skateboard park that opened up here
082in the city. Um, I was able to go to the grand opening of that and I saw a bunch of our kids from the schools there and there were some also u some gateway uh folks there. One of our drivers who helped some students out you might remember last year she was there. Um, but yeah, no it was it was good and one of my good random too ran into a good friend from where I grew up in Ventura. a buddy of mine, Alan Snanwick, uh, helped design it and, uh, so it was fun and, uh, just want to say, uh, hope everyone enjoys the summer off and recharges batteries and we'll see you all again in August. My condolences to you. Thank you. Um, everybody, I'm sorry that I haven't been present much. Been
083having some family family stuff going on. My mom's very sick at the moment, too. I'm living with her, taking care of her. So, sorry I haven't been as present, but um trying to keep up on everything and um excited for the summer and didn't get to see a lot of the kids out at Shastadam Little League this year and we had we got to host all stars out there. So, got to see a lot of our kids. My daughter finally is the age group she my youngest made allst star this year so that was pretty cool for softball and yeah Kyle was a pleasure and if I knew where the belt was I would give it to you tonight not just because I'm glad that contract and keep you Thank you. And I appreciate all
084your hard work. And as I I've mentioned before, it's really awesome how hands-on you are. And it's really awesome how the kids at the campus know who the superintendent is cuz having kids that my son graduated, he's 21 now. And you know before he had no idea he was superintendent was and kids now they you know my daughter thinks that you're some kind of star or something. She's like oh like are you going to go get a dog? But thank you everybody and I hope you guys have a good Thank you. Um my condolences also thank you having been through it myself a number of years ago it's really hard to do. Yeah. So, other than that, um I hope everybody out here that's got time to take, now's the time to do it if
085you can. So, enjoy the summer if you get to do it. If you don't, stick around. Somebody will find something for you to do. Other than that, have a good summer everybody. All right. It's right there. I am going to bring by saying my apology goes out to you today and coming back and retracting her statement with an apology obviously I shouldn't go and so appreciate your tolerance tonight and can step in if you sit on my open my mouth and respond to again. So, you guys have a good summer. Thank you very much. With that, we'll agend at 6:15. AB