June 11 Board Meeting

001Good evening everyone. I would like to welcome you to this evening to our regularly scheduled meeting of June 11th. It is now 6:30 p.m. Uh the first item on our agenda is if I can get over there is actually I think roll call and I would ask Miss Parker to call the role. Trustee Hashida here. Trusty Nem present. >> Trusty Periq >> here. >> Trusty Sandi >> I'm here. >> Trusty Tanaka >> present. >> Item number two on the agenda is to approve the um uh to approve tonight's agenda. Uh is there a motion to do so? >> So moved. Second. >> Has been moved by trustee Hayashida and seconded by trustee Periq to approve the agenda. Any additions or corrections or anything else? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All

002oppose. Same sign. Okay. Then uh our agenda is approved. Item number three is public comments uh related to the close session. In accordance with government code section 54954.3. Anyone who wishes to address the board on any close session agenda item may be recognized at this time. In accordance with board bylaw 9323, individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda item. The total time limit for public comment on each item is 20 minutes. Miss Parker, do we have any public comment cards? >> We do not. >> Okay. Then um we will move on to item number four, which is our closed session. Item 4.1 is conference with legal counsel related to existing litigation. Item 4.2 is employment uh public employment related to elementary principle. We will now adjourn or we

003will now recess to close session and we will be back at 7 p.m. for a regular meeting. And good evening for those of you who weren't here when we first started and welcome. Um, we are just returning from close session and I would like to go ahead and report out our close session. You'll hold on just a second. and I'll get my agenda pulled up. We had two items on our close session. Both of them we received information and no decision was made at the time of uh the the uh during the close session. Um we are moving on to item 5.2 which is the pledge of allegiance and I've asked assistant superintendent perchaw to lead us in the pledge. >> Thank you. Please stand and place your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin.

004Iledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The next item on our agenda is uh special activities and we will um be entertaining a presentation on uh staff report for the 2026 27 local control and accountability plan and the and the budget. Um I believe then I'm turning it over to our interim superintendent and Mr. Fchaw for presentation. >> Go ahead and begin once we get the slides up. All right. >> Well, good evening um President Sonni, members of the board, uh cabinet and community. Uh we have a brief presentation to go over the uh proposed budget for the 2627 school year as well as the local control accountability plan. Um and about

005to get clicking. A lot of the information on the budget side we went over at our special board meeting on May 26. Um so things have changed a little bit as we've refined the numbers um over the last several weeks. So working with with David Himenez who's in the audience and and big thanks to him um for the tireless hours of putting together uh the budget over the last several weeks. Um but some of the themes that we talked about um just to kind of reiterate um that the state revenues um exceeded the projections um over the three-year budget window by about 16.5 billion dollars above what the governor had um anticipated at the time of his original budget back in January. Um which is increasing the uh Prop 98 which is the funding mechanism

006for TK through 14 education. Um increasing that uh guarantee by about 6.4 4 billion dollars more than in January. Um those funds are going to go towards funding uh the statutory cola of 2.87% as well as an additional LCFF investment that represents about 1.44% increase in the uh base grants and other funding uh through the state. Um there's also increases in special education funding and a proposed one-time discretionary block grant. Uh the legislature and the governor are still in the budget negotiation process, so we don't have a final state budget yet. Um and we likely won't until uh later this month. Uh in terms of the LCFF, um there's different grants that go into it. Uh this uh table is just meant to illustrate a little bit um how we determine our LCFF um estimated

007funding. First, it's based on our average daily attendance and we're funded based on the average of the prior three years. Um so next year it will be 2526 2425 and 2324 that go into funding us the average of those three years ADA. Um then it's the base grant which is the amount that every district gets um per ADA uh for each of those grade spans TK through three and four through six. Uh there's a TK add-on of $5,74 per ADA of TK that we get. There's also a grad span adjustment of about $1,100 that that the district receives. and then supplemental grants um for the 50.92% of our students who are unduplicated students uh meaning foster youth, English learners or um socioeconomically disadvantaged um we get a 20% bump on the grants um for those

008students. Um so that's about $3.6 million. That $3.6 million is what we're going to spend a lot of time talking about as part of the LCAP. Um but that's a total LCFF revenue of about $40.5 million projected for next year. that point I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Mlullen. >> Thank you, Larry. Um, LCFF was introduced to California in 2013 and it was introduced to bring equity to all the schools and and they all are funded the same way under the same formula. Um, in 2014 they realized they wanted to have more accountability. It's a local plan. This district creates a local plan as other districts do that meets its needs. Um the concern was our neediest kids and identifying who are neediest kids and having a plan that um meets that need

009and they and the monies that we received the supplemental and the concentration grants that you see uh in the in the latter columns >> shows how much this district is getting. It shows $3.6 6 million for Cyprus in the 26 27th school year. That's a very small um number as it relates to the total LCF funding. And that tells you that we don't have a lot of needy kids. Um that that um $3.6 million is really what the LCAP is about. What is this district doing with its $3.6 million to support its neediest kids? Um and so tonight we are just giving you um uh an overview of the report that's being presented. Tonight is just for um public view. Uh you'll be asked next week to approve the actual LCAP document. Um so we're

010going to talk a little bit about the requirements of an LCAP and its purpose. the stakeholders, our stakeholders are expected to be a part of this process and to um be part of what is in the LCAP. We'll share a little bit about data, achievement data and goals and actions in an overview. Let's see. Thank you. We thought we would break down that $3.6 million and show you in categories how that looks. 74% of that $3.6 million is going to direct instruction or interventions. And and while the LCAP is particularly focusing on our neediest kids, it's still a plan that has to help all kids. Um if you look down and break down that $3.6 million further, you can see that about 14% of it is going to be dedicated to professional development. You see

01110% of it will be dedicated to student support services and about 2% to ensure that families and communities are engaged in the process. It was um an LCAP is an established three-year plan and every year it within those three years it gets reviewed and and improved and we look at data, we look at achievement and then we we use the LCAP um report um that we bring to you every year to improve how we're working with all students, but most notably our English language learners, our lowincome and our foster youth. Uh it's important I think at this time I want to share that you know as it relates to our socioeconomically de um to our English language learners. We have about 350 students that are classified as English language learners and and and that's out

012of our about 3,200 students. So, this plan is is supposed to help make sure we're directing services to our 350 English language learners. Um, with um foster youth, it I'll point out that we have a population that's less than 1%. It's approximately 30 um students that we have identified as foster youth. I point that out because later on um you'll you'll see that there's um an area that we want to improve on particularly as it relates to our foster youth. Um but it's important that the LCAP align of course with our budget. That's why Larry and I are presenting this to you tonight. Um it's important that this LCAP engage parents, educators, staff, our community. And uh we do that through meetings. We do that through surveys. Um and then it's required by ED code

013to present this for public viewing which is happening tonight and and then for your final approval um next week. I'll also note that Tandy Taylor and her team, educational services department, along with Larry and David have been working with the county and we continue to work with the county um to make sure we're meeting all the requirements that and and that are are we're responsible for and then uh and then we'll make adjustments. It's a very fluid document and though we're presenting it right now to you um throughout the year, there are times where the county will call and and and pretty much ask us where we are on our LCAP goals. The engagement I talked to um these are the stakeholders. This slide shows you and and you'll note that even SULPA um which

014is in this building is part of that the achievement um we have California school dashboard which highlights our achievement. You can see the different areas that have been highlighted. You Cypress school district tells a good story in its achievement and that's being told in the LCAP report. Uh you'll note the chronic absenteeism and that chronic absenteeism um particularly speaks to our subgroup for foster youth and I we'll talk about it a little bit later but nice to see green and blue um for our state indicators that means as you see uh on the slide high performance very high performance and then there are local indicators And this report u assures and and notes that we're meeting our standards as it relates to the different areas that you see in the area of chronic absenteeism. This

015has been identified as a particular area of need where we can improve. We have a 96% or 95% um uh attendance rate and a lot of that credit goes to our office staffs and our teachers and our parents that want their kids in school. Um we have um identified that within our foster youth, they're missing about 30 35 days um a year on average about at least 10%. And so it's been identified as an area that we want to improve. Um any child that misses that many days, whether they're foster youth or any other child, um that would be on our radar. But this is something that we would particularly going to start uh to zero in and look for supports to make sure they're at school. And this just shows you um over the

016last four years um our rate of absenteeism our star assessment data if you look at it from uh from 2020 2020 I'm sorry 2022 to 2026 you can see um how that how that how that looks um as it relates to our English language arts and our math. Um, something for us to be proud of, but something that we also want to improve on always. As we look at our goals and actions, we look at our, of course, our curriculum and instruction and and the multi-tered system of support that we provide. Um, all of our supports u systems that we have for our instructional program. um the that's within this LCAP. These are goals that we continue to want to improve upon and and not ignore. Um our communication and involvement of stakeholders is identified

017as continual goal and actions that we want to do to improve. Um we've worked um I think too this last year to ensure that um our stakeholders ACT and CSEA um will be part of that process in a better way. um in the year to come. And then of course we have the goal of wanting to be the safest place on earth and engage in and have our campuses be places where students engage in a learning environment that's that's as safe as can be. Areas of strength, lots of areas of strength have been identified in this LCAP. We're echoing that on this slide. And then recommendations for how we want to improve um have also been identified in the LCAP. Uh but I think one of them that's being recognized is building continually building connections

018with all of our stakeholders. That I toss it back to my counterpart Larry. Um so in addition to the public hearing that you'll conduct um on the LCAP, you'll conduct a public hearing on the district's budget as well. And so um just to provide kind of a refresh of what we shared on May 26 with again the numbers refined a little bit more um just highlighting you know our our funding driver is our enrollment and our attendance and so this chart captures um the actual um through 2526 and the projected starting in 2627 of enrollment. So you can see uh the number of students that we've we've gained or lost um in all cases lost over the last three years and then projections of continued enrollment decline um for the budget purposes of um about

019133 students next year 121 and 95 the following year. Uh the next um area is the funded average daily attendance. Um so you can see the projection for 3,134.44 next year. Um and that is a decline of about 1.8%. 8% and then the following years we see that declining uh accelerating a little bit um to about 3% almost to 4% in 2829. Again, these are estimates that we're building the budget on um as information changes as we see what the ADA looks like in 2627. That'll affect what our new three-year average looks like going into 2728. And so these numbers do get updated annually, but we want to build a budget um on assumptions and these are all um captured within the the text of the budget report that's within the board packet as well.

020Some of the other assumptions that go into the budget and we shared this um again at the workshop um is you know what our enrollment is. We talked about funded ADA. We talked about the cost of living adjustment. So the the 2.87 amount that is in the governor's uh May revise. um and the additional 1.44% investment that occurs this year for 2627. And then you can see what the further uh the outyear colas um look like of 3.3% and 3.09% um with no anticipation of any additional LCFF investment at this time. Those are pretty rare when we see um above cola um increases um in the LCFF. Uh the unduplicated count is roughly uh constant um you know a slight decline in 27 28 28 29 um but roughly about 50%. Um our contribution rates

021to calsters uh for employees uh stay constant at 19.1%. Um and then our Kalpers uh contributions for our classified employees um uh we're going to remain relatively flat to a little bit of a decline uh that we see in the 2829 year and our unemployment insurance rate contribution remains the same. So again all these assumptions are contained within the text of the budget uh booklet that you have uh so you can see and the public can see what uh those uh assumptions uh are as we develop the budget. So looking forward, uh the 2526 um is the estimated actuals that we think at this point we'll end the year with. Uh that's part of what we do is we make a an estimate of where we think we'll end the current year and we'll make

022a a final determination of where all those numbers landed by September. Um so estimating $ 58.3 million in revenue this year. Um going to 57 million uh the following two years and then dipping below 57 million to 56.8 8 in 2028 29 and you can see the different categories of LCFF federal other state and local revenues and then the line item that you see for 2526 are the transfers in this are the one-time transfers that we're doing from fund 14 for from the deferred maintenance fund and from fund 40 the special reserve for capital outlay of about $1.7 million this year in order to um ensure fiscal solveny. um and we're not projected to need to do um those transfers again um in 2627 through 2829. We talked about that at the last meeting and

023the good news that that represents is that we weren't having to do that um in order to meet our minimum reserves requirements. The next chart looks at expenditures um in the general funds fund one. So um in the different categories going down um certificated salaries of teachers and class and certificated administrators um classified salaries um employee benefits for both um classified and certificated books and supplies. So that's everything from textbooks to paper and ink that we buy for uh various things. Um services and other operating expenditures. That's um professional services from outside providers, lawyer fees, um electricity bills, um anything where we're paying for a service by non-employees, uh capital outlay um is anything that we buy that's over $5,000. And then other outgoing is just the transfers of money um that are expended. And

024so a total expenditures this year of about 60.5 million based on the work that we've done this year to identify spending reductions to bring our revenues in line with our expenditures. We're identifying about $55.9 million in expenditures uh next year and the following year. And then we see that goes up about a million dollars based on some of the cost factors as related to employee benefits um in terms of health and welfare insurance as well as step and column uh that we have to assume of about two and a half 2% uh per year increases that occur um in salary um as it relates to step and column without any assumptions of any across the board salary increases. So, uh, that's what the projected increases look like in terms of expenditures over the three-year window

025of the budget. And then looking at fund balance. So, we we focus on the unrestricted ending fund balance because this is how we determine whether or not we meet our minimum reserve for economic uncertainty. Um, so each of those years we look at what our beginning fund balance is, what our unrestricted revenues were, what our unrestricted expenditures are, any transfers in. We see that happens in 2526. Any contributions from the unrestricted side to the restricted side. So our contribution for example um from the unrestricted side to pay for special ed um services that are above what um our specific revenues that are specific to special ed as well as our routine restricted maintenance contribution. Those are the two biggest contributions there. So then you can see our ending unrestricted fund balance um how much are

026in unspendables and then what our reserve for economic uncertainty is and how much of a balance we have above that minimum. So you can see in this year we're projecting to end the year right about the 3% um but then based on the increased revenues and our um decreased expenditures um we see an increase in fund balance in 2627 that grows in 2728 um but then as you saw as expenditures increased again in 2829 we see that the amount of uh there's some deficit spending that occurs in 2829 reducing our um ending fund balance to just about half a million dollars above the minimum reserve. Um if we rewind to March when we were at second interim or December at first interim, these numbers are a lot more positive. Um we have the ability to

027meet our uh financial obligations and maintain um more than our 3% reserve. So, we um because of of the governor's the the positive revenue information and the governor's budget proposal um as well as the expenditure reductions that the district has has undertaken and planned um we are in a much better position um at budget adoption than we have been through the fiscal year. So, um that we'd be happy to take any questions um at this time. >> The board have any questions to ask of either Dr. McClone or Mr. Firchaw? I don't have any questions. I would just like to thank you for the clear and concise presentation. Appreciate it. >> Same. >> Thank you. >> I think it's across the board then to thank you both for the work you've done and um we're

028really very appreciative of um all of the efforts you've made to bring us back to um a little bit more fiscal stability. And I know we've still got work to do, but um it looks like we're on the right trajectory. So again, thank you for all the hard work you're doing and the work with the county to help us to get back to a bid place. The next item on our agenda is public comments. In accordance with government code section 54954.3, anyone who wishes to address the board on any item of interest to the public that is within the jurisdiction of the board may be recognized at this time. Matters not on the agenda may not be acted on by the board of trustees, but may be received and referred to staff or be placed

029on a subsequent board agenda for consideration. Items on the agenda may be addressed at the time agendaized. In accordance with board bylaw 9323, individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-aggenda item. The total time limit for public comment on each item is 20 minutes. We do have three speaker cards and I'm going to um uh indicate each one and as um each individual card uh group comes forward, I would like the other two to remain in the wings to come expeditiously to the podium. The first one is Elizabeth Silva and Len Lindsay, followed by Donna McDougall, followed by Gina Martinez. You want to start? You want me to? Um, wanted to say thank you very much for coming to see Peter Pan. It meant a lot to

030the kids and um Trustee Hayesa, I appreciate it also that you came multiple times and to practices and got to see the whole experience and it meant a lot to our students. So I wanted to thank the board members who were able to make it. I know you'll make it next time. Stuff came up say these things happen when we have children. I get it. Um also our our administration who came we appreciated having you also Dr. Dr. Mlen saw all in part of it almost as many times as trustee did. Um, and we really do appreciate that. >> And on that behalf, Landelle would also like to thank the board members who were able to come see their play, which we just did this last um, Tuesday. It was actually our first time doing

031it for second grade. So, we were happy that you could come. We apologize that there was only one performance to attend which didn't give you much options to step back in, but we hope as the play grows that next year we will have more members join us. And thank you Mr. Mlen for also coming out to our encore performance because our audience was so full. We did a second act for some of our classrooms and he was able to come in for that. So it was great. And a special thanks to Magna tonight for also helping with our costumes and gathering and helping to organize. That was also awesome. So, the support was just overwhelming and we loved seeing it and hope to keep seeing it. >> And then one last thing to thank you

032for working on the assumption that you're going to actually ratify. Um, thank you for a much better negotiation session for our last two or three sessions than we've had in the past, oh, I don't know, five, six, eight, 10 years. It was absolutely lovely and very enjoyable to feel like ACT and the district were really working together to make sure that things were smooth sailing and setting in the right track. and um with your presentations, we're very confident that we have someone excellent helping us with our budget now. So, that's fantastic, too. Is that it? >> I was just going to add on it was great to end that way and also look forward to going back to our tables next year and continuing working on some of the things we've been working on long

033term and making more progress. So, that was really nice. >> Yeah. So, thank you for your support and thank you all for what you do. some This is Donna McDougall. There she is in the wings. Yes. The first thing I'd like to say is I appreciate you uh appointing me to the education foundation. I know that when it was created by Mr. Calton many many years ago. It was great for the reasons that it was created and it did great work, but times have changed and the education foundation needs to change and be more up to-date with what things are going on today. So hopefully um I'll be able to work on that. And um the other thing I'd like to mention and this is the third year in a row that I've come up

034here about the end of the year retirement celebration. Um, I went to the teacher celebration again this year and I hope next year it can be a district-wide thing that's more inclusive for maintenance, uh, classified principles, everybody when it was uh, like it was before. It was a wonderful event and felt more, I guess you'd say, family. And uh, I hope that we can get back to that feeling. Thank you. Miss Jenna. >> Good evening board members, superintendent and cabinet. My name is Gina Martinez and I have proudly served students in the Cypress School District since 2006. Over the last two decades, I have taught hundreds of children, worked alongside dedicated educators, and two years ago, I was recognized as your district teacher of the year. I am speaking tonight because I care deeply about

035our students, our staff, and the future of this district. This past year and a half has led me to reflect on an important question. How can we best support students if the educators who work with them face systemic isolation and fear of negative professional consequences for advocating for their needs and establishing boundaries? In order for students to receive support, educators must feel safe, communicating openly with administrators without fear of professional impact. Unfortunately, that safety did not exist for me. After involving my union to address concerns regarding classroom support and after stepping back from an intensive extracurricular commitment that would be considered a full-time job in other districts, my professional experience changed significantly. I spent the last year and a half managing a classroom with unusually high demands and inconsistent to no support. I repeatedly communicated

036that I was struggling and asked for help. Instead of feeling heard, I felt increasingly isolated, unsupportive, and ultimately completely burned out. The impact on my mental, emotional, and physical health became significant enough that I sought medical intervention. I attempted to follow proper protocols to get help only to find that because of our current policies regarding principal's discretion, there was no objective avenue of recourse when I believed my concerns were not being adequately addressed. I was subsequently reassigned to a different grade level without a choice. Based on what I observed at my site, I did not feel that my circumstances, well-being, or expressed concerns were given the same level of consideration that appeared to be afforded to other staffing decisions. In addition, for the first time that I can remember, I was not approached regarding hosting

037a student teacher for the upcoming year, and my interest form to substitute for summer school went completely unagnowledged. Together, these events contributed to a growing sense that my voice, my experience, and contributions were no longer valued. I am sharing my experience because I believe it reflects a larger issue. A healthy organization should not depend on whether an employee has a good relationship with a particular administrator in order to feel heard, supported, or protected. Our value should not be diminished if we do not take on extra volunteer duties. This applies to all staff who at some time or another have found themselves in a similar a similar situation to mine. When staff feel safe, students benefit. When they do not, morale and student outcomes suffer. As the district select its next superintendent, I urge you to

038prioritize a leader who values transparency and systemwide accountability. Our district needs a leader who will establish a former a formal process for objective mediation or recourse when staff experience any level of administration uh administrative reprisal ensuring that serious concerns are not simply waved off under administrative destruction. We need a superintendent who actively listens, protects educators, and ensures that staff are treated as respected parts of a team. Dr. McLaren, could I ask that you reach out to her to have a conversation? >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to our uh next item on the agenda, our reports. Our first um category is uh item number eight, our reports. 8.1 is Association of Cypress Teachers. Is there a report from the teachers tonight? then we might have gotten part of a report from a couple

039of our speakers. So, thank you from that. Do we have anyone from CSEA who would like to speak tonight? Okay. >> Hi. Hi. Good evening, board of trustees, interim superintendent MLEN, administrators, and guests. This month has been a crazy busy month. On May 22nd, a potentially catastrophic event happened in nearby Garden Grove, which ultimately out of an abundance of caution affected two of our schools, Morris and Vessels. Our interim superintendent and governing board decided to move the pickup to an earlier time in the day to allow worried parents and faculty know that their ch their children are safe and with them. To make this happen, classified staff at both schools and the classified staff at Mott and technology and administrators and cabinet all stepped in together to make these events happen smoothly and easily with

040as little fear as possible. Bus drivers moved kids from place to place. Child nutrition services helped guide the littles and bring everybody together to make this unprecedented event happen. Then we had numerous end of the year activities. We had the annual musical at King showcasing our fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students in Peter Pan with the many King classified and certificated staff working hand in hand for our kids. At each school's sixth grade awards and pres awards and promotion, two students at each school were awarded the CSCA Ango Award, recognizing character traits of kids who always do the right thing, even when no one is watching. Classified continued supporting our Cypress families with a food distribution just today at King, which is a partnership between the Cypress School District and Second Harvest Food Bank. This

041provides food and supplies to any family in the Cypress community. We're ending our year, our school year, and beginning our summer with a strong force of classified employees, cleaning our schools, preparing for ESY, enrolling lots of kids, and taking care of all of our technology needs. While we are still concerned with the cuts to technology staff and the reduction of our department secretaries and our other important classified staff, we are hopeful that we are turning the corner to a strong 2627 school year. Thank you. Do we have anyone from the Cypress uh PTA Council? Seeing no one, we'll move on to the board of trustees reports. I'll start um to my right with uh Trustee Tanaka. >> Good evening. It's been another busy month and such a great time of the year with all the

042events, the invitations for the board to partake in. So, thank you so much. Uh special thank you to Dr. McAllen. Really appreciate your leadership, all your hard work, the long hours. It means a lot, you know, and I think the community, the staff, they see that, right? And it's a big step in the healing process to help us get back on track. So, really appreciate everything you've done leading our district forward. What you've accomplished in the last two months is more rebuilding this trust in the community with our business partners is simply amazing. So, I can't say thank you enough. Um, one of the things is five of our schools are out. So, it's a great thing that our kids are on vacation u enjoying summer break. Our last school will be out next week

043on uh which is a great thing and then all our kids will be enjoying summer vacation. So, it's really special. Thank you to all the teachers and staff for such a great amazing year. uh attended uh we've been working had a lot of special meetings for the superintendent search on 57 I had a meeting with ELS the search firm to provide input on what I felt would would be the next steps in help building that profile for the superintendent uh on 58 attended the Anaheim Union High School paw print presentation it was for outgoing eighth graders on their journey from Lexington what they've accomplished what they how they grew from being in seventh grade, eighth grade, and then allowed them to do u a presentation in front of the class, which is such a great

044thing, and it helps prepare them for when they get to high school next year with their capstone project, which is the journey through Cypress High School. So, it's such a great thing and I've been blessed to be always in included with Anaheim Union, such an amazing program. uh on 58 after the morning thing with the paw print I was able to attend the Pacific Symphony uh for Morris. It was in King School was there as well. It that right there trustee Hayashida had an invitation but she was out of state for that. When I first saw it over at King School, this is something that all our schools need to be able to include. I was so happy to see that uh the PTA worked so hard to bring it into Morris. Um this presentation

045teaches them the instruments, how to play the music and then does a concert at the local school and then takes the schools to Sigum Center and does a concert over there. It's not just a musical concert. They had ballet for dance. Then they had acting. So, it really kept the kids engaged. Such a great program. And working with Pacific Symphony, I contacted some of the PTAs. I know I sent it over to Jamie for uh vessels. I know I sent it over to uh Britney for Landell. Hopefully, we even council PTA. This is something that we should be able to do to bring in. It's $6 a kid. That's nothing, you know, and this is such a great opportunity to ex give these kids that kind of an experience. Um, let's see. On 518 attended

046the virtual CSBA revised U May budget call. It was great news from CSBA on the budget. I know u Larry did a great job in our last meeting detailing out how um the changes to those adjustments has helped us out with our um budget going forward as well. So, thank you Larry and and Tim such a great job on the all cap. Uh let's see on 519 attended the Cypress Education Foundation meeting for the first time. I think this was a great thing that board members were invited to attend us. I attended it with trustee Hayashida. Um we introduced our new board member, Donna McDougall was on there. We had Janette James who's also on the Cypress High School Education Foundation. And then we had a longtime board member Christine Barnes. She's been on since

047inception of that foundation. Having that breath of knowledge and experience of the people on that, I can't wait to see what comes out of the future of the foundation. uh 5:20 we had a Cypress uh meeting with the joint um city council members uh attended that with uh Dr. Mcllen, it was a great meeting. They're very, very open to the partnership in helping working towards this. Got a chance to meet with the new city manager. Amazing. So, I think this is a great thing that we can continue to help build that relationship with the school district. Um, see on 5:26 we had a special meeting on this assistant superintendent uh with the business services provided the summary of the May budget revision with the Orange County Department of Education person that was help that helped

048sponsor working with you. Thank you, Larry. That was such a great presentation on how the budget's coming back, what you've been able to work with to help get us back on track and get this thing healthy again. um on 529 attended uh the amazing Peter Pan performance. Thank you so much for accommodating me and sorry I had to change the schedule, but I wanted to be be part of the principal um interviews as well. So, thank you for adjusting my schedule, letting me attend Friday night. It was such a great thing and I think it was even better for me because I got to see the closing last shows. It was such a great experience. um attended on 62 the Luther uh sixth grade promotion with trustee Hayesa. Such a great thing that we able

049to get invited to these promotions from all the schools. Hopefully next year we can work a little bit on this calendar scheduling so we're not having to pick and choose which ones we go to. But it was such a great thing to be able to see how each of the schools are different in their own ways. Um then uh the next day attended on 63 the vessels sixth grade promotion um which was such a great thing as well. And then unfortunately trustee Hayashida and myself had to rush over to because we went over to Kings school to get to Kings. So we're leaving one rushing to the other but it was such a great thing to and be able to attend those promotion ceremonies. 64 attended the Landell open house. Thank you so much, Principal

050Freriedman. It was such a great open house. Uh 69 attended the Landell second grade character matters performance. It was amazing. You couldn't think that these kids are only in second grade. Did they did such an amazing job then just to see that and I can't wait to see how this continues to grow. It was such a thing the community support that the chairs set up there was not even close. They set up all so many chairs and they had to go set up probably another 50 chairs just to meet all the parents needs in being able to come there. So it was such a great uh performance. Thank you. And then last night we had a special meeting in which the board has identified uh six candidates to move over to the next phase of

051the recruitment process. And that recruits my report. >> Well, since he said most of my stuff, mine will be even shorter. So, thank you. Appreciate that. Um, so I did um I was able to attend um the I guess it was probably the last literacy night for this year. My first in the two years that I've been here and I was really glad to be able to attend that. Um just walking with Dr. Mullen um and Principal Freriedman from class to class to see all of the things that were going on in the different rooms was really great. And I think the the like the cherry on top, the icing on the cake was seeing Mr. Gary play his guitar and sing leading the whole room in song. That was pretty cool. Um and so

052I do appreciate being invited this year. So thank you for all the accommodations that you made for the board to attend the different um events. And then um I did on the 21st I missed the preschool farm end of year celebration um but I did touch base with uh the project manager for Pam Glacell for the state preschool program. She invited all the families that were on the waiting list and she said that there were probably 60 to 80 people that attended and because of that we've got more enrollments and so it's just it's looking really good for uh the state preschool. So I was real happy for that. Um and then it was bittersweet to um attend Vessel's uh promotion as it was principal Hman's last promotion. Um but uh it was great to

053be there with trustees Nem and Tanaka and to be able to um have that 15minute gap to get from one school to the other. So yeah, hopefully next year we can expand that little gap so that we can get there without having to rush. That'd be great. Um, and it was it was just nice to be able to attend more than one or two promotions. Um, and then beer band was amazing. And one of the reasons that I did see it three times was that um I had met um one of Marie Chance who's with FOA which is um Friends of Cyprus Cultural Arts. Okay. and um she wanted to see and I've heard that they do some donations too. So um she was able to attend and it was great to be able to

054bring her so that she could see. So thank you Miss Silva and Principal Tesky. Um um just to be able to have her there to see and she was thrilled she Yeah. So hopefully that's a new partnership that will be forming and uh I just really appreciated being able So thank you Dr. Mlullen for allowing for letting me take her like that too. So you were also you were my first stop to get that approval. Um Landell's open house. It was really great. Got to see um Miss Lindsay and that's how I found out about your character play. I'm so glad we had that conversation because I was laughing so hard through the entire thing. My I was just tearing the entire time. It was hilarious and I just loved uh the play on all

055of the nursery rhymes and fairy fairy tales. So, that was great. And your kids did an amazing job. And I love that it's for the lower grades because the other two schools um are for the upper grades. So, it's nice that one we've expanded to a third school now. So, three of our six schools have plays and just the opportunity. So, I just can't wait to support you guys going forward and hopefully we can share that and spread that to the other schools as well. And let's see. And that's it for me. So, lots of fun and lots of running. I'm glad Cypress is only 6 point whatever square miles. Thank you, >> Trusty Periq. >> Hi everyone. Thanks for being here. Um, so just a shout out to to Larry and and Tim for

056the presentation today and also to the governor, I guess, for giving us a bit more positive news than we expected. I mean, it's welcome news, but, you know, we still have to be thoughtful and cautious because it's one, it's not final, but we also have some sort of long-term structural deficits to to evaluate and look at. But, um, for now, we're going into the summer a little bit happier than we thought we would in March. So, that's good. Um, so as everyone's indicated, it's been a a busy and joyful month with sixth grade promotions, plays, carnivals, end of year celebrations, and just so many special events. Um, I had one of those moments picking up my kids um this week from school. And as I drove in, and you know, the parking lot was just

057covered in like bubbles that were coming up for some kind of event they were having for the last couple weeks of school. And that's like the perfect snapshot of, you know, the fun that they're having right now. And it was fantastic. Um, just the energy and the joy in the air right now is is is great. They every morning they'll wake up and my daughter will ask me, "What day is it today?" And I'll say, "Wednesday." And she'll be like, "No, no, like what special day is it today?" It's like, "Oh, you need to dress up like your teacher, I guess, or what whatever the day is." Um, and you know, the the plays I'm, you know, again, very bummed about not being able to go to Peter Pan. Um, my wild child had an

058accident that night, but um, the Blendell play was just so fantastic. Congratulations on an amazing first show really. Um, and you know, this is the the music programs, the plays, these performances. Um, they're not just like extra activities, right? They're really they build confidence, connection, creativity, belonging, and even if we can't make it to every single show, you know, I think the board echoes the sentiment is that we know the work that goes into it, we support the the importance of arts at every single every single school. Um, also had the chance to attend open house where my kids go. It was a very special evening. Um, just a great reminder of um how much the kids grow. And I feel like I've I've said this about every open house, but my one of my

059favorite things to do is to to go to the walls where they have all of their assignments like sort of taped together and you can like leaf through them and you can see like the change in handwriting from the beginning of the year to the to the end and how they're writing better and to actually like see the progress. It's one of my favorite things to to look at. Um so yeah, um hopefully it'll be calmer now over the summer. It's been quite a crazy May and and part of June. Um, I want to uh just quickly talk about the superintendent search process. So, you know, I just want to communicate to our community that the board is meeting very frequently um listening thoughtfully considering all the information that's being provided to us from staff,

060families, community members, and our consultants. And this is um the most important decision um we will make for the future of this district. Um it's not about you know one person's preference or politics or assumptions or whatever. Um or even about the future composition of the board. It's about selecting a leader who can work effectively for this district. Um support our staff, communicate well u with the community and move the district forward. Um so I take that responsibility very very seriously and I understand how much stability and trust and collaboration matter in this moment and you know the the rest of the board. um uh should approach it with the same level of seriousness, openness, and focus on what's best for the district as a whole. Um I also want to take a moment to

061um and this came up in one of the public comments, commend um Dr. Tim, as we like to call him, um for the communication leadership that he provided during the Garden Grove incident. Um it was very fastm moving and stressful. I think you and I were texting at 6:00 in the morning that day. Um and for especially for Morris and and vessels communities and the board received very timely information the the schools received timely information um coordination with emergency officials and outreach to labor partners PTA um I couldn't think of a single thing that had been sort of that I would have done different anyone could have done differently like you had checked every single box and thought of things that you know I didn't think of um and so the followup the communication all

062that was was excellent and I hope um you know I think the community feels the same way. So um grateful to you for that. Thank you. Um that concludes my report. Happy summer. >> Okay. Thank you. Um all right. Well, I'm going to keep mine short, although I feel like everybody said that. Um I just want to start by thanking everybody who is out of school already and everybody who is getting close to being out of school for a really great year. Um, I hope everybody takes the time to enjoy your summer and for everybody who's still in school, you're almost there. I'm almost there. Tomorrow is my last day as well. Um, I was able to attend me and my gal at Vessels um, as a mom and we had our interim superintendent there

063serving up pancakes to all of us, which was awesome. Um, and so we enjoyed that. Um, I was able to attend the awards assembly at Vessels as a mom and attend SummerJam. Um, which is their end of year celebration with all the families out there. I think we had Vessels had more families than they had ever had previously. So, it was really awesome. Um, as a teacher over the past month, I attended another P3C home team meeting, which is the preschool through third grade connection. Um, I'm part of the travel team. So, we traveled um up north to get more training and bring that back to my district. Um we're doing all of our end of the year field trips and hosted my end of the year staff party. I was able to attend the

064performance at King and um one of my favorite things is always just watching the parents and watching the audience and just see their faces and just how much they light up and how just the pride that they have in their students and principles and teachers and everybody just sitting there just beaming with pride. So, you know, congratulations on a an excellent show. Um, I was able to attend the vessel's graduation and um, the tearjerker for me was when Dr. Holman called up the last of the pack. So, the youngest child in a in a grade um, and they were able to um, acknowledge that those families were moving on from Cyprus onto the middle school. So, that was very um, sweet and we wish Dr. Holman well as he continues on. Um, and then just

065touching on the evacuation, I was evacuating my school while my kids were also trying to be evacuated. And I know that Vessels was a crazy place at that time. I can imagine Morris was as well. So, thank you so much to the staff for everybody for being so flexible, so quick, um, and and giving us all the information. And I think that's about it. I am looking forward to 11:15 tomorrow when I will be done for the year. Thank you. Well, I think none of us who are um or all of us who are not educators don't necessarily understand what that end of the year experience really is all about. Uh but again, I am joyful on your behalf that you are going to have those days off and uh unfortunately it seems like summer

066keeps getting shorter every year. Um that we're but go away and have fun. Uh that that that's important. That's important for uh for for a lot of reasons. mental health otherwise you know just physical physical health. Um so I wanted just to comment that uh uh Trusty Periq mentioned a little bit about the uh superintendent search and I do want to thank everybody in this room as well as the whole community uh teachers who aren't here staff who aren't here uh just to say thank you so much for being uh participants in this process with us. Uh I was really very very excited about the fact that we had over 200 people uh providing uh input on the online surveys. Uh that there were uh I believe that there were 9 I if I'm wrong

067um you know somebody can correct me but I believe there was at least 95 individuals that um uh ELS had an opportunity to talk to at the individual school sites. So, I'm really thankful that people decided to stop by when the ELS uh personnel were present at the campuses so that you had an opportunity to uh let them know the kinds of things that you were looking for in the next superintendent. And uh we got a big packet at the first part of this week which was very uh very uh helpful. It's going to be very helpful to us as we begin to process all of the information as we begun the selection process of who we're going to be interviewing for the next superintendent. Uh we will be looking at all of that material

068very very closely. We um are just very thankful that we have a really tight um and and and very um what uh participatory community here that uh everyone did choose to uh be a part of this process along with us. And we are taking very seriously all of the comments that people have made in either the written comments in the surveys or the oral comments that you made to the uh uh to the respective u uh uh consultants that um uh came to your schools. Uh with regard to my activities during this uh this uh last month, I've got to say that I've never had so many meetings with uh my fellow colleagues. Um it's not that I'm getting sick and tired of meeting with them. It's just that we've seen a lot of each

069other and we've spent a lot of hours together and we do anticipate spending a lot more hours over the next few weeks doing the same thing that we've been doing and that is being very very thoughtful about the uh interview process and uh the selection of the next superintendent. Uh I like all the other um uh board members here just like you were given the opportunity to uh uh be interviewed by our consultants as to what we felt were what our top criteria were for a new superintendent. So that was something that I did on the 7th of May as well as uh other board members. Uh I've got to mention again just like uh Trusty Periq mentioned the Garden Grove crisis and uh recognize that there were many of our teachers who were impacted

070by and our students who were impacted by that crisis and I've just have to say that I've just have strong admiration for Dr. Mlullen's response to that and the accommodation to uh the overall staffing of our schools for the responsiveness to the needs that families and uh families and staff had in terms of being able to redress and address what were they going to do in terms of being evacuated as well as what were they going to do about their jobs. So that was very important and that was a very important element and I say kudos to the way in which you handled that uh situation. It was it was much needed and uh much uh much and well thought through. So, thank you. Um I also um had great joy in attending the Peter

071Pan play at King's School. Um the kids were just phenomenal. I mean, I was just looking at them and I'm thinking, how do they remember all those all those parts and all of those, you know, all of those different steps across the uh the actual play? Because I've often thought about that. I was thinking if I were ever in a play, could I remember my lines through several acts? These kids were phenomenal. They delivered uh they delivered in aces. They were really phenomenal. And uh I um I heard what you said with regard to the fact that you had to go out and seek uh uh sponsors this year. I would like to say, Miss Silva, that there are probably a lot of nonprofits out there in the community who would be willing to hear

072an application or a presentation for um support for that. I would say that to any one of the schools. If you need support at Landell, if vessels need support, if any of our schools need support, I would suggest that if you might take a moment, look at who are your nonprofits are in the community. see if they uh have a regular investment in the community and you'll find that most most of those nonprofits do invest back in their community and would be very responsive to if not um the um the ultimate of underwriting the whole thing at least supporting at some level. So I would just ask you to think about that twice the next year. Um I heard uh the comment with regard to um the open house at Landell. I unfortunately was not

073able to go to the open house for the night that um was my selected school, my assigned school for the year and trustee Periq was uh great and gracious to attend on my behalf so that we had a board member at that school. So I decided that I would do a turnaround fair play and go to her school at Landell only to but lo and behold to find that practically all of our board members were present that night as well. um we didn't have to compete with other schools to go to an open house. And so it was really great for us to go around and to see all of the uh strong efforts that the students have um gone through during the course of the year underneath the leadership of the fantastic uh uh

074teachers that we have in our school district and uh the joy that you saw on the kids' faces that were present on the campus. Um, one of the things with regard to the um, uh, something that happened, uh, we also had the opportunity to have, uh, principal, new principal interviews and, uh, Trusty Tanaka and I were fortunate enough to, uh, be allowed to participate in the interviewing process and I believe that that was a really, uh, strong process for us to be a participant in and really appreciated the opportunity to uh, engage in the interview process. So, um I think that uh you will be very very pleased with the selections that have been made. Of course, the individuals, myself and Trusty Tanaka had some say, but we didn't get the ultimate say in who

075was actually going to be appointed. So, um you will uh probably already know who was being appointed, but uh tonight we're going to officially we're going to officially look at that and uh approve the new principles for our two open schools that have openings for principles. I'm going to end my uh my comments. Um there was um what is it? Um the comment of a breakfast, not breakfast, but food being distributed through summer harvest at King's School just recently. Well, King, our summer harvest is beginning its summer dist food distribution. And if you have heard me over the past several years, you know that I, as a member of Kowanas, um have also worked with summer harvest in developing a book distribution program. And so that is this Saturday. Um we are going to have

076369 book bags available. And uh they have anywhere from four to five brand new in many instances hardback books in them for the kids who come through. And uh if you have an opportunity to reach out to families who you think will have children who will not have access to books over the summer, I would encourage you to touch bases with them and say, "Hey, show up on Saturday morning, get your book bag, go and enjoy reading for the summer." Uh we uh we we have had our numbers grow over the years and we continue to want to see that program grow because we know that it benefits the kids and um you know in terms of the summer the summer gap in terms of their reading loss and so forth that's so critical for

077the young kids to have the exposure. We do give bags between I bags out to kids between zero and 18 years of age. So we're not relegating ourselves just to the elementary school district. So, um I'm I'm pleased to be affiliated with an organization that reinvests back into our community. So, thank you very much. And that concludes my uh events for the month. I may have left one or two out, but you know, we've been busy. We've all been busy. Um I'm going to move on to the next item on our agenda is 8.5, the superintendence report. >> Thank you, President Sandi. What a month. Um exciting. I have to give kudos to this board. Um, you establish goals every year and one of the biggest goals that we have is making sure this we

078have a safe environment for our kids and and really our our staff and community. um through that goal. It was awesome to see how your staff, your teachers, your staff, as as President uh Olman pointed out with our our classified troops, came together with parents to to to reassure that we're a safe community. I thought it was just an awesome time for our city of Cypress and our community for Cypress School District. um beyond what we were able to do with parents and students um with the schools, we saw our community really come together and and do things for those that were displaced during that time and and all the organizations that helped. Um we were we were proud to be able to do our part. Um from when I've talked to the teach I

079got to give the schools vessels and um Morris big kudos and a big shout out because you never really know what's going to happen in the moment and we do our training and we do our drills but they came through and it evolved where um everything was going as best possible to meet that need. and behind the scenes um one central person uh our our fabulous director who sits behind me um Terresa Lennox. So much she did in working with the um emergency units and the um and the the police department and the cities. Uh it was a team effort and we were happy to meet that. We're very fortunate that it wasn't more than it was. Um, so thank you for all the praise, but your goal sets the tone um that safety is

080important and and we were proud to show you that we do take that that goal very seriously. Um beyond that students and what has been going on the last last month of school um from the performing arts that we're seeing uh Peter Pan was awesome and what's going on I have to say vessels they that was one of the first things I had when when I got here the um jungle um >> jungle book um uh play that they put on um we're seeing students achieve and do wonderful things not not only academically, but in the arts and it's not by accident. There's a there's a outstanding teacher core group out there that are facilitating these opportunities and and that it's been a great um last month in seeing our student achievement. And then as

081it as and I'll the last thing I'll end with is um giving uh praise to this board and how it's reaching out to all of its stakeholders to hear what the next superintendent the qualities and and and the traits that we want in that next superintendent. um you you shared it is the the biggest decision that you can make and and you're putting your trust in this community and listening to everything in the engagement process and ELS is doing a great job of engaging everyone from the teachers to the parents um to the administrative team but the board is listening to that and I am confident you're going to find that next leader and it's going to be awesome for the next chapter um for Cypress school districts. So kudos to you and it's been

082a great um end of the school year which isn't quite done yet. Landel's not done yet. So we still have some excitement going on with achievement happening. Um so principal Freriedman you're looking forward to that summer too but thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight and uh that concludes my remarks. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. Well, then uh moving on on our agenda, the next item is item number nine, which is approving minutes. And um you know, we have become used to having multiple meetings during the course of a month uh in recent months. So this month was no exception. We had three meet we've had three meetings since our last general meeting. So uh 9.1 is special meeting of May 4th, 2026. Uh is there a motion to approve the special

083meeting of May 4th? >> So moved. Second. >> It's been moved by Trusty Tanaka and seconded by Trustee Hayashida uh to approve the minutes of the May 4th meeting. Uh all in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. >> Okay. Motion carried. 9.2 the regular meeting of May 6, 2026. Is there a motion to approve the regular meeting? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> It's been moved by Trusty Tanaka and seconded by Trustee Needam. Um all in favor say I. >> I. All opposed. Motion carried. 9.3 special meeting of May 26, 2026. All um is there a motion to approve that meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Moved by trustee uh um and seconded by trustee Hayashida. Uh all in favor say I. >> I. >> All

084oppose. >> Motion carried. Our next item on the agenda is our consent items. Items 10.1 to 10.12. Uh consent items require one motion only. Items may be removed from the consent to be acted individually at any board member's request. Is there any desire to pull any of these uh items at this time? >> I move to approve the 12 consent items. >> Okay. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Trusty Tanaka and seconded by Trusty Nem. Is there any discussion on any of the consent items? Well, I think that one thing that we uh sometimes point out is the the gifts and the grants and things like that. And I would like to recognize that uh one on here is from um Oh my gosh, I just lost it. What's the teacher funding one? >>

085Donor donor's shoes. Thank you. Um so just kudos to that teacher who went out to seek that funding and I'm assuming it's being put to use in the classroom. So, that's a really awesome uh resource to get donations. So, that's it for me. >> You're absolutely right. Um I wanted to ask about um I I just wanted um to do a validation of those totals. Are those accurate totals for this this point in the end at this point in the year? >> Yes. And there's some trailing donations um for science camp that will be coming and reported in the July meeting. >> Okay. That was that was kind of the thing that I was concerned about or wondering about because I thought that I remember seeing you know in previous um in previous years we

086might have seen a higher total under those and didn't know where those funds had gone or why we didn't see them yet. Okay. So, thank you on that one. I also um wanted to note underneath 10.7 which was approve the contract report. I noted the uh one item that was uh $1.5 million from the Orange County Department of Education Connections, which was the Empowering Every Learner program. Uh I was just wondering, could you tell us a little bit about that program and how long we've been participating in using that program and is this about the uh typical um amount that we uh we sort of incur on an annual basis for this program? >> Yeah. So this is to serve um students with disabilities that we can't serve in our district schools. Um and Orange

087County Department of Education runs a deaf and heart of hearing program at Man Elementary School. And so we have four students that are placed there currently. Uh and this goes to uh provide their education at that particular school. This is the same amount that we had in the contract report last year for this program. Uh as of this point in the year, we've used about half a million dollars um in expenditures towards this contract. But again, it's a not to exceed to cover all potential expenses. Uh we don't uh at at one point in time, looking back at the history on this one, it was up to $2 and a half million dollars. Uh we had placed more students um in programs previously. Um but we've been able to pull those students back into our

088uh programs um in the last several years. And I just wanted, you know, just wanted clarity because, you know, when you look at just a title um and um the consent calendar doesn't always give you detail, then uh you kind of say, well, have I seen this before? And if I did, did I know what it was at that time or not? So, I know I noticed that it said not to exceed, but I didn't have any idea what the track record was on that. And that is helpful for clarification. I just wanted to uh make another couple of comments, not questions on this, but I wanted to recognize 10.8 8 and 10.9 which had to do with the insurance rates and to just say a recognition that you know we don't have much control

089over what those interest rates are going to be but the combined two extra interest rate uh increases are going to cost in our budget about $200,000. So, I just wanted to put that out there as a recognition that this is where some of the cost rises uh are occurring and why we're going to have to continue to be very uh very thoughtful about how we work with the budget and we appreciate um all the work that you're doing on that. Uh any other questions or comments on the consent items? >> I just want to say congratulations to our two newly appointed principles now that that's official. So, congratulations. >> Yes. Well, you haven't approved. >> Well, we haven't voted on that. >> You haven't approved consent yet. >> Once we once we vote, >> hold

090your breath. >> You should you should be up. Well, then then just just to be just to be um uh not contrary but just to recognize the fact that uh this is an item as a consent item in our calendar showing that we have so much confidence in this passing that it is going to be a foregone conclusion that we're going to approve this. So if there are no other comments, I would like to call for the vote on this item. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Okay. Then now you can congratulate Congratulations, >> super new new principles. >> I'll add with that with that approval, you did approve um Mrs. Nicole Peterson. She will be um rec she has been recommended to be the principal at Arnold's school and also with your

091approval. You um also approved a second principal. She's not here tonight but will be here at the next meeting. Audrey Jeans. She'll be appointed to Bessel's school. But back to Nicole. Nicole's here tonight with her husband Bob and her two children, uh, twins, ninth grade. Ninth grade, Chris and Edward. Christopher. So happy to have Nicole join our team. She has quite the background. Um, she's coming to us from Adalanto where she's been a principal for several years. She's got over 26 years of experience in public education. Um, she's also served as a board uh member in a Hisperia school district. She's also been a union teachers pres uh teachers union president um association president. Um we're feel very lucky to have her join our ranks and I'm excited um to have her be at Arnold's

092school next year. >> Could we have you stand up and turn around and let everybody see you? And I'm going to lead the crowd and and say welcome, welcome, welcome. >> Tomorrow morning, Debbie Parker has created a press release and it will um talk to both the principles that you've approved tonight and we'll be sharing the good news with the community. >> Thank you so much on that. I'm glad we've got ahead of that and they're going to get that out immediately. The next item on our agenda is our uh action line item number 11. Uh 11.1 is approved a settlement agreement for special education case number 2025260016. Is there a motion to approve that settlement agreement for special education? >> So move >> second. It's a move by trustee um Hayashida and seconded by

093trustee Periq to approve this settlement agreement. Uh all in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Same sign. >> Okay. The next item on our agenda is 11.2 2 approve adoption of the science curriculum. Is there a motion to approve this? >> So moved. >> I second. >> It's been seconded by trustee Periq and moved by trustee Needm to approve the adoption of the science curriculum. Is there any discussion on this item? >> Yeah, I just want to thank the district teachers for collaborating and developing this for the students. I think this is such an amazing thing that we can roll this out and it's such a minimal cost of 5K for consumables every year for all six schools. Th this is such a great thing then and towards the students learning. So, thank

094you. I was just going to say that um I wanted to say also that um kudos to the district for seeing this as an opportunity to build on our um our STEM TTOS's work over the last several years in terms of putting together the um science modules to now roll out it as the science curriculum and that collaboration and work effort. Again, we can't discount in a in a um uh a difficult economic uh period the idea that we're doing something for for for such a limited amount of u money that uh but that so therefore it it definitely see I'm speechless right now. It's definitely worthy of um appreciation for all the work effort that has gone into collaborating and uh synthesizing what we already have and figuring out what we need to build

095on and to develop this overall curriculum. So again uh just want to thank um staff uh overall and generally uh for this process. Any more discussion on this item? >> Then all in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All opposed. Then the motion's carried. Item 11.3 approve memorandums of understanding with ABC development preschool and carousel carousel preschool for expanded learning opportunities program service. Is there a motion to approve of these memorandums of understanding? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Trusty Needam and seconded by Trusty Periq to approve these memoranda. Um is there any discussion on this? >> I have a couple of questions. >> Okay. Um, is is thisou what you were refer one of one of you may have referred to as like a renegotiation of certain terms. Could

096we briefly just summarize what the the that renegotiation was? >> Absolutely. I'm going to pass it off to Larry with first giving great credit to him and to ABC and to Carousel. Um they've both been partners with this district for quite some time, but Larry um did have to talk to them about their pricing and and through his successful negotiations um we have something good to offer. So Larry, >> yeah. So, um, thank you for the the based on the the amount of, uh, funding available to the district under ELOP and and the need to continue to serve as many students as we can within that funding, we were able to renegotiate, uh, the amount that we pay per student um, with ABC and Carousel um, to be uh, about $63 per week per student

097during the school year and $102 per uh, week during the non-school year weeks when it's a full day. Um so that uh lines up with an amount that is in line with the other provider um of our ELOP services um so that we can continue to serve the same number of students within the funding allocation that we have next year. >> Those are the the terms were mostly financial um in terms of what we agreed to. We also agreed to a little bit of an amount for some supplemental services and um and supplies that those providers might need um especially during the summertime to enrich the the program. Any other comments? >> I have a question. Um I know this is um renegotiating for this, but do we have other business partners that participate in

098this elop and we're we going to be looking at renegotiating with them as well? >> So this um negotiation with with these two entities brought them in line with the pricing of Boys and Girls Club, which is the third entity that we utilize for these services. So now uh we're paying the same amount for each for students across the whole district regardless of which service provider and we're you know constantly looking at the program and analyzing what we're doing and and that'll be part of of the next year is is looking at the program and what changes we may want to make um for now kind of stabilized the rate um to be equal among all the providers. >> So I want to return to pre trusty Periq. She wasn't quite finished and I cut

099her off. >> That's okay. Um so my followup to that was um it the May budget allocates a little bit more per student is it for the ELO program? So does that does this negotiation and sort of the additional monies allow us to expand our offering a little bit more? How would how would that play out? >> The the $1,800 per student that was part of the May revise was also in the January original budget from the governor. So we were already in kind of budgeting based on that $1,800. So, um, the amount that is in theseUS allows us to continue to serve the number of students we're serving this year, um, in in the out years. Um, you know, as the year goes on, we'll see if we're able to expand it, if there's

100additional funding that becomes available, but right now, this stabilizes the number of students we can serve. >> Got it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other comments? >> Well, I just want to commend you for aligning the uh aligning the cost across the partners in this ELOP um process. So yes, great great work. Thank you. If there is no further discussion, all in favor of this motion say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Then the motion is carried. Item 11.4 is to approve the another word baited breath. Approve the contract agreement with Association of Cypress Teachers. Is there a motion to approve the contract? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. It's been moved by trustee Hayashida and seconded by trustee Nem. Is there any discussion on this item? I would just

101like to make a comment to thank and commend all parties for reaching successfully the contract that is before us tonight. And um um if there is no other comments, are there other comments? >> No, just thank you. I appreciate >> Thank you. >> I would throw an extension to what you've just said. um Tracy Morren Lawrence and her leadership and Larry too. But uh thank you to ACT for working with us in a challenging year. Um it's it's neat to see this come every year when it does happen and I want to give um special thanks to the all involved. >> Thank you Tracy. >> Thank you. >> Then if there are no further comments, all in favor say I. I. >> All opposed. Then this motion is carried. Item 11.5, adopt declaration of need

102for fully qualified educators. Is there a motion to adopt this declaration? >> To adopt. >> It's a move by trustee Nem. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Oh, go ahead. >> Let's all jump in. >> Trustee uh it's been seconded by trustee Hayashida. Uh is there any comments about um this particular um item? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. >> All opposed. Motion carried. Item 11.6. Adopt resolution number 2526-20 26 informal bidding procedures pursuant to the uniform public construction cost accounting act. Is there a motion to adopt this resolution? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved by trustee Hayashid and seconded by trustee Needam. Is there any discussion on this item hearing? None. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Motion carried. >> At 11.7, adopt

103resolution number 25/26-25, establish temporary interfund transfers of special or restricted fund monies. Is there a motion to adopt this resolution? >> So moved. Second. >> Moved by Trusty Nem and seconded by trustee Hayashida. Um, is there any discussion on this item? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All opposed. Motion carried. Item 11.8, adopt board policy and board bylaw. Is there a motion to adopt the following new board policy and update board bylaws effective June 11th, 2026? Board policy 3112.1 special reserve fund and board bylaw uh agenda/meing materials. >> So moved second >> trust moved by trusty nem and seconded by trusty peri. >> No, it wasn't me. >> It was me. >> I'm sorry it was you. >> No, it was trusty. It was not me. >> I thought I

104said trusty Periq. Maybe I didn't. >> She moved. >> Okay. I'm sorry. Trust. It's late >> and my last name is very long. I'm sorry. >> We're just going to start calling it >> two initials. >> So now we have it on the floor, right? And we have the right people who've moved and seconded. Okay. And is that and you've got that? >> Yes. >> Okay. Very good. I won't repeat that. Is there any discussion on this? I would like to uh comment on the board policy 3112.1 special reserve fund and I would like to thank staff particularly you Mr. Fchaw for bringing this back to the board in a timely fashion and recognizing that uh the board asked for um this and approve you know thankful that you uh are looking at and have

105created the safeguards that the district needs to uh protect our ability to continue capital maintenance improvements and new projects. So, thank you very much for that work. Is there any further discussion on this item? Hearing none, all in favor say I. I. >> All opposed. >> Motion carried. Uh we're moving on now to item number 12, which is our information discussion area. 12.1 is to hold a public hearing on proposed 2026 27 local control and accountability plan. I now open the public hearing on this proposed uh local control and accountability plan. Any member of the public may make comments at this time. Are there any comments from the public on this item? We have no cards for this either. Right. Okay. Seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing and bring it back to

106the board for discussion. Is there any discussion that the board would like to make on the um uh LCAP at this point? I know that it's coming back up next uh next meeting. next meeting >> next week. If there is no discussion, then we'll move on to item 12.2, which is hold a public hearing on the proposed 2026/27 budget. I now open the public hearing on this uh on the proposed budget. Any member of the public may make comments at this time. Are there any comments on this item in this public hearing? Seeing none, I will close the public hearing and bring it back to the board for any discussion that the board may have at this time. Do we have any questions or comments? >> I'll add one. I thought you had a good

107comment when we review our agenda do our agenda reviews and you did make a a a point of why are they so far away from the presentation? And so, right, I want to I I I thought that was a wonderful observation and and something that the community might appreciate it in holding that public hearing um closer to when the presentation is. So, >> I I agree with you and I think logistically we'd have to look at how that would work best. Um obviously, I understand wanting to have the presentations at the front end of the meeting so people who don't want to stay for the entirety of the meeting have the ability to hear what might be the critical information coming out of the board meeting. But by the same token, uh we also want

108them to have the the uh the audience to have that opportunity to give the input to and moving it. Yes. Stretching it to uh wide apart. So let's look at that for the next time around when it comes up. We don't have that many public hearings, but when we do, let's look at that the next time around. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you for bringing that up again. Uh bringing that bringing up that that was my comment. Okay. >> Okay. Item 12.3 is the Williams settlement legislation monitoring for Clara J. King Elementary School. This is the third quarter report. Um I think that we had a um uh a clear report on that. I would just ask is there any discussion that anybody would like to have on this item hearing? None. Oh my

109gosh. Nothing has >> Don't jinx it. >> Is your cough a comment? Okay, a little bit of levity. Then the um then item number 13 is adjournment and um uh is it appropriate to say that our next meeting the board is a special meeting on June 15th which our agenda says June 18th which is uh our regular general meeting but our next special meeting is June 15th where we are actually going to be interviewing superintendent applicants. So um we will see what happens. Meeting adjourned at 8:35.