001Good evening. Call to order the board of trustees meeting May 8th, 2025. Roll call. Miss Parker, will you please take roll call? Trusty Nem, present. Trusty Sandi, here. Trusty Hayashida, here. Trusty Periq here and President President Tanaka present. Uh agenda item two approved the agenda for the regular meeting of the board of trustees on May 8th, 2025. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Thank you. Second. Thank you. Any questions or discussions? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item three, public comments, close session. In accordance with government code section 54954.3, anyone who wishes to address the board on any closed session agenda item may be recognized at this time. In accordance with board bylaw 9323, individual speakers shall be allowed
002three 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 uh public comment cards? No. Thank you. Recess to close session. Item one, conference with legal counsel existing litigation. Number two is liability claim claim number 01-24-25. Number three is public employee performance evaluation superintendent recessed uh 531 Reconvene to open session at 7:01 p.m. Close session report 5.1 conference with legal counsel existing litigation. The board received information. No reportable action was taken in close session. Action will be taken during open session under agenda item 11.1. Approved settlement agreement for special education case number 2024250010 5.2 liability claim. The board received information no reportable action was taken in close session. Actions will be taken during open session under agenda
003item 11.12. Consider liability claim number 01-24-25. 5.3 public employee performance evaluation. The board continued working on the superintendent's annual performance evaluation. No reportable action was taken. 5.2 is a pledge of allegiance. Trustee Sandi, will you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance? Thank you. All stand over heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Trusty Sundi. 6.1 is recognition of 2024 25 retirees. Superintendent Salavs. Thank you, President Tanaka. I would like to invite our executive director of human resources, Mrs. Tracy Morren Lawren, up to the podium to make the presentation. Hi, can you hear me? Yes. Good evening, board of trustees, superintendent, silves, and guests. It is an
004honor to be presenting the 20 24-2 retiree bells to our wonderful retirees who gave us years of service. I would like to invite President Troy Tanaka and Superintendent Ansillos to come up to the front. Karen, the assistant in HR, will be handing out your certificates from Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk Silva. And I will be handing you your bell. and then you will shake their hands and stand over there for a photo. So, our first retiree is from ACT. She's a teacher and her name is Margie Sanchez Johnson. Margie, come on up. Margie. Margie started as a substitute teacher in January 1994 and quickly transitioned to a full-time teacher in the fall of 1994. She began her career at Luther as a third grade teacher. Margie spent her entire 31-year career at Luther, 29 years in sixth
005grade, 24 years in the same classroom, and worked for seven principles. Margie is here tonight with her husband Molly Chang and Elizabeth Elmine. Let's give Margie a round of applause. And she she um taught my son in summer school. Go ahead, shake hands and stand for a photo. Diane Cardinus, 38 years. Diane began her teaching career in Cyprus in 1986 at Dickerson. Diane worked at Dickerson as a first and second grade teacher before becoming a resource teacher, a learning specialist, and a site coordinator. When Dickerson closed in 2009, Diane moved to Vessels as a TOSA learning specialist. In 2013, Diane became a TOSA instructional learning coach and retired in June 2024, holding this position. Diane was named Cypress um school district teacher of the year in 2013. Congratulations, Diane. We miss you. And then Cameron
006Dazzo is not here tonight and um she worked for the district for 17 years. We're mailing her her bell. Now we have CSEA Guadalupe Lupe Carrera. Guadalupe started with Cypress as a substitute in November 2003. She transitioned to noon duty supervisor at Arnold in 2004. And Lupe worked her entire career at Arnold, retiring as a student activity supervisor. In February 2025, she worked for the district for 19 years. Thank you, Lupe. And Lupe is here with her husband, daughter, and grandchild. So, they're here to celebrate you. Brianna Harrison. Brianna started with Cypress as a substitute in January 2004. She transitioned to instructional aid special education at Luther in September 2006. Brianna worked her entire career at Luther, retiring as a pair educator instruction in March 2025. She's worked for the district for 19 years. Thank
007you, Brianna. Terry Walker, 19 years. Terry began her career in Cypress in May 2005 as a secretary for Mott. She became the administrative secretary for business services in October of 2013 and Terry retired as the administrative secretary for business in December 2024. 19 years she's here with her husband. We miss you. Marie Steel was unable to be here and she works at vessels 27 years she worked for vessels and we're going to be mailing her her bill. And then Joe Velasquez, who's probably in Puerto Rico, 26 years. He's not able to be with us tonight, but he retired from the tech maintenance u as a tech maintenance technician. So, yay to all of our retirees. Were you able to get a photo of everybody? We appreciate all of the work that you've done for Cypress
008School District. We'll take a quick uh 10-minute recess to reconvene at 7:19. reconvening uh meeting at 7:19 p.m. 7.1 reports. ACT is not going to have a report tonight. Um, CSEA. I don't see Oh, perfect. I was looking for Vicki and I didn't see Vicki. So, thank you. I'm sorry, Barbara. Barbara, can I ask you to use your microphone only because we're zooming and so they won't be able to hear you in the in the Netherlands out of there. It's a green. Barbara services and I'm here to let everybody know really good progress for us. So, um, in 2021 when the students came back, we've decided to transform our meal program. We're going back to scratchmade cooking. We are cooking on site now in our kitchens and um, it's doing really good, healthier meals. We
009are now introducing grass-fed beef, organic beef to our students. And with the support from uh California Department of Education, the kit funds, we've been able to buy a new tilt skillet. We got rid of our big kettle, which was basically obsolete. Tilt skillets are fantastic. They do everything for us. So, that helps shift a lot towards our scratch cooking. Um, next week we're starting a new pasta baked dish that's beyond beef, totally vegetarian, which is going to be really amazing for our kids. We introduced kimchi last week on the salad bars. Shocked me. Kids love it. So, um, we've gone back to partners partnership with Brigade. So, we'll have Brigade on campus. They'll help us, you know, tweak our our recipes that we have. Um, and also we have the Chef Foundation where we have
010pre-apprentices that are coming in who are also learning our techniques and learning how we work together and helping us prepare some of our granola and things like that. And another big thing is is that we have farmer market assemblies. We've partnered with Old Grove that's out in Reading, California. They provide us with so many fresh fruits and vegetables. literally farm-totable food and um it's totally amazing. Kids have not ever tried pimmens, they tried pimmens, crab apples, they've tried crab apples. So this year it's right now it's strawberries and we're going to be in a couple weeks introducing them to blackberries and blueberries and all kinds of we're going to have fresh avocados on our salad bars for the kids. So, um, also Paresa is extremely committed to data and feedback. We really like to hear
011from parents. She really likes to hear from us with how our kids have reacted to all of these recipes. So, we're looking at trying to keep our rise in meal production and participation because I know enrollments are going lower, but hey, I don't think we're going to drop very much. We've been uh approved again for the 2526 school year for free meals universal through California. And we are trying to introduce our kids to get more whole grains and veggies, fruits and veggies on our um snack on our our salad bars. Whole new salads, lots of pasta salads. We do whole grain street corn pasta salad. Um, we do scratch Greek yogurt. And what sounds really gross is last week we introduced a ranch dill pickle pasta salad which was amazing. I don't like dill pickles
012and this was a good salad. This was really good. and to end everything is that um without the support of Cypress School District and everything helping to push us forward, we're also helping kids push forward because we're doing our recycling all our organic waste. We're going to completely go to composite silverware trays and everything following next school year. So we're looking forward to build our program on innovation, sustainability, and student centered planning. So we have a really good future looking forward for us here in this in the child nutrition department. So thank you. Cypress Council PTA. I don't see anybody from Cypus council PTA go into board of trustees uh trustee par I will turn my mic on. There you go. Um so this was a a really a really great busy um intense month.
013Um we had some uh we had a whole slew of musical performances. I I tried to make it to as many as I could, but they showcased, you know, our students incredible talents and the energy, discipline, creativity were inspiring. Um, and I I think that, you know, it just reinforced to me how we need to support the arts in our schools and and what the outcome of that could be. Um I also participated in a city district uh school district meeting which was um my first time um doing that. And so the theme of the of the day was really collaboration and um with uh community community leaders and district stakeholders. We discussed ways to align um and strengthen our partnership to benefit our students. Um and then attended literacy night um at Landell as
014usual. I try to do that every um every month. I welcome you all to to attend with me. Um and uh last week we engaged in in two special meetings or was it one meeting split over two days? Um and that was focused on um the superintendent evaluation. Um, and the reason I want to call that out is I I'm not sure what I was really expecting going into that meeting, but I I think what we came out of that with was this sort of renewed feeling of togetherness um and unity as a board. Um because although we were talking about evaluating the superintendent, what we truly were discussing is the the status and the state of the school district. Um, so I just want to call out that, you know, the reflection and the
015conversation and the the partnership and the discussions that we have during those meetings were um very productive in, you know, getting to know my my fellow board members. And I I appreciate the the opportunity and the the structure that was provided um to be able to have that discussion. Um, I I think I think that'll be my report. So, thank you for the opportunity. Thank you, Trusty Hayashida. Thank you. Um, it's actually right around my one-year anniversary, so I remember doing the whole retireds last year and it was very cool. So, just uh thank you Superintendent Salav's uh Debbie um other you know. Yeah. So, executive board Tim. Okay. Just for all your support over the past year, I really do appreciate it as it was a steep learning curve. Um, as far as other
016things, um, three-pace graduation sh ceremonies, King, Arnold, and Morris, and just seeing the kids interact and and reflect on what they learned was really, um, outstanding. Uh, really appreciate that partnership in getting them prepared, uh, when they get to, uh, junior high and high school. and open house at King. Attended that and that was No, I went to Luther. You went to King, didn't sorry about that. Um uh but anyway, so open house at Luther and it was fun. It was neat. The kids were running everywhere. Um but got to visit the classrooms, got to visit the teachers and that was great too. Uh to see all the work that has been done over the year. Uh Cypress School District all music all school music performance. I got the last three schools in and uh
017Landell I think was the last one we went to and the ama amount of parents there was unbelievable. Um it would have been a good fundraiser but anyway um but it was good to see all the parents and then also just seeing their kids and the cheering and the kids did a great job. So really appreciate how we um are just promoting the arts and and music. And then I think lastly was the all area concert at Cypress Community Center, right? And u it was great to see that opportunity for the parents to get to see and the students to see what it's like to perform in front of um a a bigger audience. And uh we're very fortunate in Cyprus in with AUHSD to have big bands at Lexington, Walker, Kennedy, and Cypress. Um
018and so for the kids to be able to see what it could be like um when they get to the next level, I I truly hope that a lot of them do advance and go on. And that's my report. Thank you, Trustee Sundi. Thank you. I um really appreciated the opportunity to interact with our uh recent retirees or upcoming retirees because I think that some of them still have a few days left in the classroom. Uh but it was really good to have an opportunity to talk to uh several of the individuals and I um interacted with them and I said, you know, I'm really going to miss you because you were some of the first faces that I met and saw and got to know when I first came onto the board, you know,
01914 14 12 11 11 years ago. My goodness, time does fly. And so, um I really am going to miss those uh those those faces and those smiles. But I know that we have uh replacements for a lot of those individuals. They've got big steps to fill or the big shoes to fill. But uh I'm looking forward to getting to know new individuals that are coming into our Cypress um school district family. Um, as we go forward and look at um the activities that I engaged in this last month, I um I really got uh I really realized that I'm I'm I I'm I'm one of those individuals who is beginning to feel my age. Uh it was an action-packed month and there I found myself at times trying to figure out whether I was
020juggling tin balls or 19 and many times they were all on the floor as opposed to up in the air. But uh we had uh multiple school site visits during the course of the month. I think I attended um school site visits at Arnold, Vessels and King. Um attended three pace graduations as uh others have indicated at King, Arnold and Morris. And the theme of visiting the schools during this particular month and going to Pace and uh doing openhouse and things like this is that this is the culmination of all the efforts that the students have engaged in across the year. And so it is with great um joy that I had the opportunity to be able to go to not only the site visits but to do the pace graduations and then to do
021open house at Arnold uh where the energy of the teachers were still was still very high for this time of the year. Um, one of the things that I thought was particularly, uh, exciting and interesting, um, Trustee Tanaka, um, encouraged me to participate with him at the Cypress High School Capstone, uh, events, um, on the 28th of April and on the 2nd of May. And, um, it was very it was very interesting. All senior high school members have to go through this capstone event. And what they do is they do a reflection uh presentation as to uh what was their letter to themselves the first day that they attended the high school. Now they're opening it up at the end of their high school career to say did you follow your did you follow your
022advice from freshman year. Uh how did you do and what were the guides the guiding light uh guiding points that you followed during the course of the uh of your four years? Uh what were the lessons learned? uh did it help you um did were there special memories in terms of uh collaboration or special teachers that you engage with during your time here? Were there were there things that um were opportunities there for you? So, we had some really very thoughtful presentations by many students and that was really a very um a very interesting um uh opportunity for it to be on a panel. And I know that um we talked to um uh Miss Tandy Taylor uh after one of those sessions indicating that we thought that that might be something that our sixth
023grade students could do and talk in terms of what was their what was their story about going through the Cypress School District. Uh I think a reflection point for individuals is always good at different stages in your life and as our students as sixth grade students transition to going into middle school uh a reflection moment might be something as an opportunity to expand upon. As many of you know, I'm also a member of the Kowanas Club of our uh local community and every year we do a uh partnership with uh summer harvest, which is a organization that provides um food uh distribution to um families within our Cypress community. And so we partner with them for book distribution. And we again are partnering this year and our distribution of books to our Cypress community uh
024is going to be on June 28th. So if you were interested in seeing how out of school activities continue to engage our families, you might show up on the 28th at King's School in the morning to see uh what that looks like. Um and that ends my report for tonight. Thank you, Trusty Needam. Thank you. Um so I would like to start by congratulating all of the retirees and thanking them for their service. Um I also had a very busy month this month. I started off um with a school visit at Arnold and it was very um impressive to see the engagement of all the students across all the classrooms. They were collaborating with each other. They were being respectful to one another and it was just really awesome to see that. Um I also
025attended the King, the Arnold, and the Morris Pace graduations. Um, and just like some of the other trustees mentioned, it was just really great to hear um, some of the presentations that the sixth graders did, whether it was a poster or poem or an essay. Um, just kind of getting a little glimpse into their thought process was really amazing. Um, on the 16th I was able to do a visit at Vessels. um and they had a lot of emphasis on thinking maps and the gate icons that was across all the classrooms and that was really neat to see. I was also able to attend the vessels open house and you could just tell all the teachers, the students, the staff, they were all very excited to show off all of the hard work that they
026had done over the year. Um, fifth grade was especially exciting because they were um, what do you call the the fifth graders dressed up as as a a person and then um, they did little performances which was amazing. Um on the 21st um I also was at our community meeting um and we did have some discussion around studying workforce housing um and looking at bigger districts and um the fact that they're not doing that currently. Um, we also spoke about having designated bus stops um at the parks where the kids get picked up so that um cars can't park there and the buses are able to access um those areas at given times throughout the day. So, I think that's something that uh we're continuing to look into. Um, we talked about some of the
027new, um, housing that's planned and and what that would look like for Cypress School District and potentially bringing um, some more kids back into the district. Um on the 25th I was able to attend the Vessels STEM night um where different parents and teachers um community organizations they offer different STEM projects um to the Vessels families and that was just amazing. All the kids were very engaged and super excited to be there. Um, I also attended the music performance, uh, the choir performance at the Cypress Community Center. And aside from the performance, um, it was just really great to see how the kids were supporting one another. Um, we noticed from sitting in the audience just how they were kind of reaching out and giving each other high fives or really congratulating each other. Um,
028which was just really amazing to see. And then um I know that this week and the upcoming weeks or the past weeks um the school sites have been celebrating the certificated and the classified staff um and thanking them for all their hard work um this year. So I would also like to point that out and and say thank you for everything that the certificate and classified staff has done for our students. Um, and then I'm looking forward to attending the Mother's Day breakfast at vessels tomorrow. And that's it for me. Thank you. Thank you. It was been a very busy month as our fellow trustees have been saying and but this is the best time for me, you know, especially having the kid in this system, but first off, I'd like to congratulate all the
029retirees. Thank you for your service for the to the Cypress School District. Barbara, thank you so much for the everything that you do. I hear if you would hear the conversations from my son telling my older son, "You missed out. This the lunches now are way better than they were last year." He talks about, you know, the chicken tacos, all the different things. So, thank you for really making the kids happy. They'd rather go get the lunch than have us make something. So, thank you for everything you do. Um, as I mentioned, it was a very busy month. started off with the Arnold Pace graduation. Thank you. It was such a great event. I've attended with Trusty Needam, Superintendent Law, Trustee Nayashida. This is such a great thing with from the Cypress Police Department, Officer
030Marquez for leading this incredible program for our sixth grade sixth graders. Uh also attended the Morris open house with Miss Taylor as well as Miss Chung. It was great to see so many parents there. The amount of parents coming back to these open houses and the events is sh is impressive to show how much they're into and there for the teachers, the staff and the kids. Um, this open house was a huge success. The rooms were packed, you know, and one thing I like about, you know, looking at the progression of this, and I think Trusty Sundi mentioned this as well, beginning of the year, you have back to school night. The walls are bare. You go to now open house, you see the progression of all the kids. Everything through the year is out
031there on the walls and you see the kids showing their parents. Such a great thing. So, thank you to all showing this, showcasing what Cypress has the best teachers and staff. Uh, also attending uh King School visit with Trusty Sandi, Principal Teshi, as well as Superintendent Slavs. Thank you teachers and staff for everything you do is such an amazing visit. same went followed on to the Morris school visit with Miss Chung um and superintendent Law. Thank you so much for everything you do to the teachers and staff. Uh I also attended the Cypress School District, the um joint musical with the Anaheim Union which included Lexington as well as Cypress High School over at Cypress High School. Thank you, Miss Taylor. That was amazing. It's truly spectacular when you see the kids practicing, but they've
032never practiced with Lexington. They've never practiced with Cypress High School for choir and band to see that how they were able to pull this off. You couldn't tell it was they haven't practiced together. It was such a great event. Um, also as Trusty Sandi mentioned, I was able to attend the Cypress High School Capstone uh on U 428 and 52. It's so great to see the students learn from reflection, right? They're able to reflect on their journey through high school and then find out what's important to them. So when they're ready to graduate high school, they were able to articulate what they've learned and from reflection, right? and it also helps them with their problem solving school. So, I really appreciated that and it was great to see uh Miss Taylor there as well um
033participating in that capstone. Uh also attended the last musical performance and as I mentioned this before is it's such an amazing group that we have here of teachers for their music program. Every school, granted they sing the same songs, but they have different little spins on this vessels. They had I mentioned previously had a student whistle, you know, to humming to the songs, which is crazy, right? Little spins. And then Landell, they had third grade teacher, Mr. Ller. He played the guitar through it. So, it's such a great event to be able to see all these kids, the staff, the teachers getting involved with it. Um I also um attended the AUHD AI learning meeting that they had on 56. This was amazing presentation on how far advanced AUHD is with leading the charge with
034AI. Um giving the parents the tools to get involved, okay, and to help make education work for the student. I think this was such a great thing to see the parents support and seeing, oh, look at what this means. how can I see instantly how this works for my kid? So, I think that was a really great thing on that. Um, that concludes my report. So, Superintendent Salafs, thank you, President Tanaka. Um, I want to congratulate our retirees and I would like to share two things. I'm going to keep my comments a little brief this evening because I know we have a lengthy agenda, but I wanted to um mention to Barbara um since she was so kind to give the um update today for um child nutrition services. wanted to share with the board
035and with Barbara that the district is submitting an application for the Golden Bell award for our scratch cooking initiative in Cypress School District because we are so proud of the incredible um menus and fresh foods and um all of the education around nutrition and organic recycling that we're doing with our students. So, I'm very hopeful that we will bring home a Golden Bell, but even if we don't, we are a Golden Bell school district when it comes to our child nutrition services um program. And then also, I just wanted to point out um that on the classified HR report under consent this evening, um it does include the retirement of our assistant superintendent of business services, Dr. Tim Mlullen. [Music] um which sort of marks the end of an era. Um Tim has been our
036assistant superintendent of business for 15 years providing outstanding leadership and I know thankfully he's going to still be with us through about mid July. So we're going to have lots of opportunity to celebrate him. But um I could not let the evening go by without pointing that out tonight. It's a bittersweet moment. But I know we all are very excited for Tim and happy for him because he's worked hard and deserves this. So congratulations. Thank you. Public comments. In accordance with government code 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
037or placed on a subsequent board agenda for consideration. Items on the agenda may be addressed at this 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 comments on each item is 20 minutes. Miss Parker, I have one public comment card. Is there any other? Perfect. I have uh Zora Cronin. Yes, I have to put this one in green. Uh my name is Zora Cronin and I am here tonight despite having a terrible migraine because this really is dear and close to my heart. I am here to speak directly to Superintendent Silav and to demand accountability and cons for her conscious and shameful decision to dismiss the urgent needs of the Landell Elementary School
038and the families and children that attend it. Shame on you. You have knowingly and willingly turned your back on working families who cannot afford before or after school programs while sitting comfortably on a sixf figureure position funded by who? By these very families that are struggling. Let me give you just three examples. Three families among the many at Lendell. a widowed mother with three children, two of whom attend Lendell. And they walk from Moody and and and um Moody and Myra all the way to school on foot because she can afford the daycare that is at Landelle. I have attached the pricing. It takes 1,700 for one child. A maid who cannot afford the 1,700 a month. Guess what? She takes her child to work with her. A single mom, a supervisor at AT&T who
039has to go at dawn to go to work. Guess what? Her daughter works by herself to school. And during spring break and winter break who watches her, nobody stays at home alone because there's no care. These moms cannot afford the shameless prices that OC Care is is offering while another family all they have to afford is 400 at Boys and Girls Club. Where's the equity in that? These are real families, real children. And what did you do, superintendent? You forward me to PTA, a volunteer group of parents, as if they have the power to change the very systemic issues that we have at Landell that you and your leadership have created by ignoring Landell and deeming it wealthy. I ask you now publicly and directly, Superintendent, how do you expect these mothers to pay for
040the care? How do you expect him to pay? And I put here the pricing. Numbers don't lie. $10,000. And plus, if it's two children, $18,000 just the school year, no spring break. How do you expect them to pay this? Do you honestly think these ladies are wealthy? And these are just among many examples at Lendell. You talk about safety. Where's the safety in having children walk alone on the street? You justify uh how do you justify your generous salary and these ladies, you know, they're struggling. I'm disappointed in you, Miss Caro, if you could please wrap up. Okay. Thank you. Now to the board that I I urge you to look deeper. Injustice of Landelle is not limited to the child care child care. It is neglected facilities. It is no on-site programs, no enrichment
041programs, no reasonable daycare. And while the homes at near Landell are big and large, um some of them, one, mine is one of them, and I say that that with pride, the needs in this community are no less real. Lendell is bordered by apartment complexes, mobile homes, superintendent, mobile homes, and um and modest town homes. These families are in deep limited meals. means families who have been falsely labeled as wealthy and deemed not um not fit to have some of the you know funds that go to other schools. The same superintendent who collects a wealthy salary paid by who? By these struggling families yet refuses to lift a finger, a pinky to these children and to help their families. How dare the district treat these struggling families as invisible and ignore their cries for support
042because of zip code because it's Landelle snobbish culture. These families are not invisible and neither is the failure of the district to support him and to act. I urge you board members, I urge urge you to act. Landel is not wealthy. Their families are hurting. while Miss Salaf sends me an email sending me to PTA because I asked for simple show me the numbers. How can what can we do? As a parent, I was ready ready to meet the superintendent and the leadership. I was forwarded to to PTA. Oh, let us let us, you know, see what how we can help your family. I did not come here for my family only. This is a systemic issue, an inequity. A maid has to fork up $17,000 a year and another family gets boys and girls
043club subsidy zero dollars. Where's the equity in this superintendent? I'm disappointed in you. I always thought highly of you. You the way you handled my request to look into it merely to look into it is disappointing. I hope that this problem gets fixed. Fix it. Thank you, President Tanaka. I will point out that the district has an expanded learning opportunities program for families that need extra assistance for afterchool care and during intercession. Additionally, the Boys and Girls Club does pick up at Landell and their rates are much more reasonable than OC Kids. So, there are some options. Excuse me. U excuse me, Mrs. Cronin, you're out of order. Could you cut the mic? She's not on the mic. She's not on the mic. Just go ahead and override her. Okay. Miss Cronin, will you please
044we Miss Cronin? Miss Cronin, we have your attachments and we will read these um on our time as well. Okay. Thank you. Agenda 9.1 which is approved the um minutes 9.1 is regular meeting April 10th 20125. Approve the minutes uh for the regular meeting of the board of trustees held on um April 10th 2025. Do I have a motion uh to approve? So moved. Second. Thank you. Any corrections, questions, or discussion? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item 9.2. Approve the minutes from the special meeting of the board of trustees held on April 30th, 2025. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any corrections, questions, or discussions? Hearing
045none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Approve uh minutes for the special meeting of board of trustees held on May 1st, 2025. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any corrections, questions, or discussion? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item 10. Consent items require one motion only. Items may be removed uh from consent or acted on individually at any board member's requests. Do I have a motion to approve consent items 10.1 through 10.7? So moved. So thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any questions or discussions? I I have a question. I'm not sure if the item
046is in here or evidence about the studio fix studio plus I think that's studio plus is an action item. Okay, I I'll hold Thank you. Any other questions? I don't have any questions but I just wanted to make a comment that um it is much appreciated of all the efforts of both uh staff and um um um the executive um department heads uh for engaging in uh extra monetary contributions to our school district. And note that we've had sizable uh both grants and donations over this last month. And uh also looking at our totals for the year to date looks pretty looks pretty pretty good. And uh just thank everyone for all the efforts to go out and look for that extra uh money that might be hiding underneath um you know what is it
047the bushel um and uh trying to bring it home to our school district. Thank you so much. Perfect. Any other questions or discussion hearing? None. I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Going down to 11 uh.1 uh proof settlement agreement for special education case number 2024 2550 010. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any questions or discussion? I just uh want to record an absention from this vote. Thank you. I will now call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. 11.2 is ratify contracting with uh educators cooperative for the professional development related to career readiness. Do I have a motion to ratify contracting with Educators
048Cooperative? So moved. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any questions or discussions? Yeah, I just wanted to ask if we could have just a little bit of elaboration as to how um this particular pathways grant funding will work at the elementary school level. Uh we have been working with educators cooperative for um a few years now because of our involvement with the OC pathways grant. Primarily it's been our STEMtosis up until this point but now we have the opportunity to apply some grant funds and some district money to do some uh broader professional development with our uh teachers at each of the school sites. U Mrs. Taylor, anything further to add? Um as part of the agreement with them, it included also materials and such. So as we had had our
049parent workshop recently, the items and such that were provided to our families to be able to also understand the ryk and such was also part of the full agreement includive inclusive of the professional development as part of the package. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, I'll now call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Approve uh 11.3 approve contract agreement with California School Employees Association and it's chapter 325 CSEA. Do I have a motion to approve? Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any questions or discussions? Hearing none, I'll now call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.4. Approve management and confidential employee salary schedules. Do I have a motion to approve? So
050moved. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any questions or discussions? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.5. Approve amendment to superintendent's contract for employment govern uh employment. President Tanaka, I'm sorry, Mrs. Parker's just having a little trouble keeping up with her with her laptop. Could just slow down just a just a pace. I'm sorry. Do you need me to go back on something? Got it. Uh uh approve the amendment to superintendent's contract for employment. Government code section 532 62 mandates the employee contract for local agency executives to be approved in open session. In addition, California Government Code section 54953 requires an oral summary of a recommendation for a final action on the salaries, salary schedules, and compensation to be
051paid in the form of fringe benefits to be paid to a local agency executive. A copy of the proposed amendment to the superintendent's contract is attached to the agenda for this meeting. The following is an oral summary of the salary and compensation terms contained in the proposed amendment to the superintendent's contract. The amendment will increase the superintendent's salary schedule by 2% effective July 1st, 2024. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Thank you, Trusty Pri. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trusty Needm. Any questions or discussions? Hearing none, I'll now call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.6 is hold a public hearing and adopt bargaining proposal for 2025 26 negotiations from Cypress School District. the California School Employees Association CSEA Chapter
052325. I will now open a public hearing to allow comments from the community prior to board consideration for the proposal. I will now open the hearing. Any comments? Hearing none, I'll now close the public hearing. Do I have a motion to accept the bargaining proposal for the 2025/2026 negotiations from the Cypress School District to California School Employees Association CSCA chapter 325? So move. Thank you Trustee Sandi. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trustee Hayashida. Any questions or discussions hearing? None. I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.7 approve affiliation agreement with Marywood University for clinical expertise for dietetics students. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Thank you, Trusty Sundi. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trusty Needam. any questions
053or discussions? I just have a a general question. Um, have we had uh dietetic interns in the past and um how frequently do we have we had them? We have had dietetic interns in the past. Um, I don't know the exact number, but I would say it's not unusual to maybe have one once a year or maybe every other year. So with a relative degree of frequency. Anything else. See? Okay. If she's done I was just checking. Okay. Um so I noticed that this university is based out of I think Pennsylvania. Yeah. And I was just wondering is there did they reach out to us? Can we I mean or and has any other university that's more local reached out to us to do the same? It's not unusual to have some universities from outside
054the state because there's so many online programs. Um Tracy uh Mrs. Morren Lawrence, can you share do you know anything in terms of who initiated the contact? I know that Besa is always cultivating relationships with all of the university. She's really good at it and we've been very fortunate to have many interns probably like one a year that you were saying and they come from all over the states. Thank you. Well, I just wanted to uh make a further comment and just say that um coming from um a university program, a department that had um dietetic students in it, I know how valuable um having and and sat on some of the um excuse my my voice um sitting on some of the um the committees and review of uh graduate students um thesis and
055um approval uh panels for the dietetic interns. It is um it's indeed a um it's indeed a great opportunity for us to have someone who has had you know the postbalorate um education uh and training to uh get that additional experience in a uh department like we have in our child nutrition services and I know underneath Teresa's leadership we are indeed fortunate as we get these interns as well as uh us being fortunate to have the staff that we have and child nutrition services to carry the the the the what do you want to call it the baton forward to uh come up with innovative programs and to engage the students in part of the process to make sure that um they are enjoying the fruits of and the vegetables of the efforts that are
056taking place. um the fact that uh and I don't know that uh we would have an assessment but I would I would anticipate that our waste our solid waste is way down since we've initiated these programs. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.8 approve contracting with MM South for the 2025 districtwide summer deferred maintenance project. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Thank you, Trusty Needm. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trusty Hayashida. Any questions or discussion? I have a question. Um, uh, Super Dennis Lav were we able to get a breakdown of cost for the projects? Uh, yes. I did speak with our director, Teresa Lennox, um, who can't be here
057this evening and let her know that you had an interest in that and I believe Dr. Mlullen is, uh, ready to provide you some information. Perfect. Thank you. We have answers. Great. As you can see, Teresa and her team are are are revving up for another um hacked summer with deferred maintenance projects. Um tonight, uh before you are um several projects throughout the district and for $835,000 approximately. Breaking that down, um we're looking at about for the plumbing project at vessels, uh it'll be 83,000. About 10% of this is going to be um for the plumbing project at vessels, approximately 83,000. For the demolition and fencing at Arnold, we're looking at about 167,000 of that total or approximately 20% of that. And that's the demolition of building H and the installation and additional of an
058additional fencing to expand kindergarten playground area. Uh the roofing um at King and uh the the replacement of the building K roof gutters, you're looking at approximately $41,000 of this uh being that or approximately 5%. and uh the L the Luther repair replacement of building D roof. That one we've highlighted as pretty urgent, about 15% of this total or $125,000. And then the remaining amount about $292,000 or 35% will be spent on this corporate office, district office building, which we're still, you know, working through the kinks. A big portion of that will be the main doors themselves and getting them better ADA um compliant um replacement of the main building uh CSD our Cypress School District lobby window door and then in suite 190 um we'll be working on a window system um and that
059is about $125,000 of that total. Thank you. Um, for the suite 190, is that already rented or have a tenant already in line for that? No, the district has uh taken that propert that portion of the building back and will be used for professional development. Um, and is already been used for many professional developments. Um we also allow our partner uh in the building our lease um GELPA to utilize that too for um SP um trainings with our special ed team and other school districts. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much for all the details because it makes it easier to see where all the things are. So thank you. I appreciate all the It's going to be quite a busy summer and uh short short amount of time to do it. Perfect. Thank you.
060Mhm. Does anybody else have any questions, comments? Uh, yeah, just a question I suppose. Um, and this may have been covered when we discussed the facilities master plan, but in terms of priority, um, how how are the locations decided? Like I'm curious as to how 35% of this budget was allocated to the corporate building. Was that like a regulatory concern because you mentioned ADA? It was absolutely um it re rose to a priority um especially for individuals that might be in a wheelchair or handicap um though as much as the glass window doors are aesthetically appealing um they're not user friendly. And so being proactive I mean we we technically are compliant. We want to be better ADA compliant. And so that naturally is a priority any for any business or organization. Um in relationship
061to how we prioritize each of our sites are inspected annually. We actually have um for like playground equipment prioritized how we would go in a particular order and create a calendar or a systematic way of um going at our facilities. Um a lot of it is come from our modernizations that we did from 2010 to about 2015. Um where Teresa was a part of that and so um looking at routine maintenance and looking at how she tackles that a lot of it is done by annual inspections but also from what we didn't complete when we did our modernizations of our school sites. In July, we will be presenting um next year's facilities plan uh facilities master plan and rep prioritizing or showing you new priorities that relate to our facilities or our aging facilities and
062the needs that we have. Um and thank you for the explanation. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.9. Hold on a second. Sorry. Let me get back. Is contracting um approve contracting with Ben's Asphalt for the 2025 district-wide summer asphalt maintenance project. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Thank you, Trusty Needm. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trusty Sundi. Any questions or discussions? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. I got a question. Um, Miss Parker, is that good tempo? Okay, thank you. Uh, 11.10, 10 which is approved master agreement with studio plus for districtwide on call architecture and planning
063services. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Thank you. Trusty Needam. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Trusty Sundi. Any questions or discussion? I have a question. Um, and you know, maybe um maybe the um well, how did how did we how did we arrive at um coming up with this master agreement with this particular entity as opposed to continuing with the uh entity that we had actually used before, Hickinson Architects? Uh Dr. McCullen, would you like to speak to that? We were dissatisfied with Higginson Architects, which we did an RFP for in um 2023, late 2023. And so, while we did utilize them um as planned to help with the Landell master plan and the Arnold transitional kindergarten restroom project, um they were they they weren't satisfactory. Um they were
064slow and uh hard to work with. Um, if I could be blunt, a new request for proposal was u done this last March and Studio Plus uh who also participated back in 2023 um gave us a good bid. Um and so that's why we're presenting them to you to for a master agreement. Um, as we get closer to the facilities master plan and our our presentation of next year's facilities master plan, um, they may or may not be utilized. We want to be proactive in having um, an architect ready to can be utilized. And the next, um, board item also speaks to studio plus. Thank you. Is there any more questions or comments? I had the same question that Lydia did. So, thank you for asking that. I just could I could I I was
065trying to figure out how to phrase it. Um, do we have any requirement or obligation to hold an RFP open for a longer period of time if we have a limited number of uh respondents? We established the parameters for when we'll accept RFPs. And so that would be a self-imposed um requirement. And so it was put out there and uh and so we cast our net who puts forth and wants to participate um can be a challenge um especially for a smaller school district. But uh uh and I'll I'll also add with other districts having um recently passed bonds, they might be, you know, the the architect business might be quite uh busy right now. Um I can tell you that Teresa has vetted Studio Plus um and found them and their past projects. I
066believe they've done projects in Yorbalinda, Placentia Yorbalinda, and so she's had an opportunity to to do her reference checking. she feels very comfortable and confident with what they can perform much like we did with Higginson Higginson architects but until we actually um utilize them and get to experience the relationship with them and how they do or don't do um their their fee structure is within industry standard and when I say that they industry standard can be anywhere between about a 100red bucks an hour to about 200 220 bucks an hour and I I believe in this attachment you see their fee structure. Um they'll be utilized. Uh we will control how the board actually will will see how much is utilized uh they're utilized or not utilized um as the projects are approved or not
067approved. Thank you. I have one question. So when do we use an RFI process or does it go straight to RFP? RFP. Okay. And because the only reason I'm asking this is because trusty Sundi's question about is there enough participation there? You know do do you feel that you know since we are smaller if we cast the nets out wider to ask for you know request for information from different vendors that would increase the participation rate? Yeah, we could we we're always could cast a bigger net and get more participants. I think uh that can be a good thing or it can be a counterproductive thing um given our needs. Um right now we don't have a lot of established needs and so maybe the uh bigger architect firms um which can be more bureaucratic
068or more difficult to work with um may not want to come to um us because you can look on our website and you can see in our facilities master plans projects that we're lining up um that may or may not by itself be an attractor um to people out there. Um, they do their homework on us just as much as we try to do our homework on them. Perfect. Thank you. Any more questions or comments? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Approve agreement with Studio Plus for the 2026 preschool expansion project at King. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Thank you, Trusty Sundi. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trusty Hayashida. Any questions or discussion? I'll now
069call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.12 Consider liability claim number 01-2425. Um, do I have a motion to reject the claim? So moved. Thank you, Trusty Needam. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trusty Pere. Do anybody have any questions or discussions? Hearing uh none, I'll now call for a vote to reject the claim. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.13 is approve uh amendment two to the license and use agreement for Damron Elementary School facilities with Dell Soul School. Do I have a motion to approve amendment number two? So move. Thank you Trusty Sundi. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you Trusty Nem. Any questions or discussion? I have one question. Um, and it probably relate
070relates to the next item as well. What do we what do we use the um income from uh our leasing out these school sites for? Does it go into our general account general account or what do we use it for maintenance or what do we use it for? monies that we receive from our leases of our closed school sites go right to the board's special reserve for capital outlay fund 40. Thank you. Any other questions? Discuss. I have a I have a question. Um I'm guessing for you. [Music] Um, I see that there was a was it a 3.1% cost of living increase? Not enough. I was good. Yeah, I was I mean that's sort of what you know how has that kept up with like through the years have we done besides the annual
071increases have we done some sort of analysis to sort of you know make sure that the the license fee is appropriate. Yeah. I I joke jokingly say it's not enough. It's actually the consumer price index that's established by the US labor statistics or you got um US Yeah, US labor statistics um and we use specific language in these license to use agreements um that um identifies what part of the consumer price index that will be used and what month. We established March um the Santa Ana, Long Beach, uh Riverside areas particularly and so they establish the um percent of cost of living increase that we will use with them by agreement. Um there's been times that the uh consu the CPI has been ridiculously high. A couple years back, this board um understanding that that
072was maybe high and hard on the uh folks at least our closed schools took their took action to reduce that amount. Um this year we're not doing that. 3.1 is is what uh the CPI says. It's, you know, a CBO like me will say 10% and or more and the con and our lease agreement actually talks about nothing greater than 10% but using the US labor um US Bureau of Labor Statistics and uh CPI through that. We're sort of tied to that CPI for an annual increase. We're not necessarily tied to it if we want to change our language. Um but at this time for I would say the last um five years we have used that as our our barometer. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Thank you Trusty Spray because that was a question that
073I wrote to superintendent law. So she sent me over the CPI showing that's where so we are in line with that. So thank you that I had the same question. Rent control. Have we thought about going market value? Um that's something that um this board and and management team can consider. Uh but what's before you right now is based on um our agreement that we currently have and continuing that agreement. Uh the other thing I would um share with the board at this time is uh they don't have a lot of security. This is a yearto-year license to use agreement. This isn't a long-term lease agreement. and they run educational programs and don't have the security of a long-term uh lease agreement. And so raising their cost of living yeartoyear um I would recommend putting
074lots of thought into that. We asked them to um or we stopped their long-term leases so that this board could have flexibility with closed school sites depending on what may or may not ever happen with construction um in our town for new housing. Um and so we appreciate that they are there utilizing a closed school site and uh work harmoniously with our community um both Deloul and um Grace Christian. And so uh that's I just think that's important to to remember when considering their annual um lease increase or lease agreement renewal. I I I appreciate you um providing that little back uh backend um uh information because obviously um we have members on the board who weren't present when we made the decision to um uh to do a year-to-year agreement with Dell Soul. So,
075um that is an important um important element in the um the the relationship if you will in terms of our being sensitive to their their um their insecurity if you will because they don't have the long-term lease. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.14 is approve amendment five to license to use agreement for Cawthorne Elementary Schools with Grace Christian School. Do I have a motion to approve amendment five? So moved. Thank you, Trusty Hayashida. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trusty Needam. any questions or discussion? I did want to ask a question because you kind of alluded or made it sound like uh we had the same kind of year-to-year and not long-term contract
076with um uh Grace Christian. I didn't remember that Grace Christian didn't have a long-term contract. Am I wrong? They did have at one time a um long-term lease and they would I would have to go back and research when we actually made them a license to use agreement. It was uh at a time there were two groups that utilized that school. Um, and I would be going back to 201 10 or 2011, but they very much would like a long-term lease. They would actually like to buy the property. They have shared that interest to me several times in the past. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.15. Adopt resolution number 24/25-10, spending determination of the education protection
077account for 2024. Do I have a motion to adopt the resolution number 24/25? Second. Thank you, trustee. Great. Uh, thank you, Trusty Sundi. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.16 Approve agreement with California School Board's Association for Governance Consulting Services during the 2025 SL26 school year. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Thank you, Trusty Needam. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Trust Brie. Any questions or discussions? Hearing none, I'll now call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.17 adopt updated board policies, administrative regulations, and board bylaws. Wait, President Takadoi, Miss Did you get 116? Okay. Did I miss one? Sorry. No, I just I was confused
078for a moment. No, you're good. Oh, okay. So, I'm on 17, right? Okay. Thank you. Uh 1117 adopt updated board policies, administrative regulations and board bylaws. Do I have a motion to adopt the updated board policies? So moved. Thank you, Trustee Hayashida. Do I have a second? Second. Second. Thank you, Trusty Pere. Any questions or discussions? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11.12 recess to close session. Uh 12.1 is public employee performance evaluation. We'll reconvene to close session at 8:30 Yeah. Yeah. Reconvene to open session at 9:30 p.m. Public employee performance evaluation. The board is continuing to work on the superintendent's annual performance evaluation. No reportable action was taken. 11 uh number 13 with adjournment. Adjournment time is 9:31 p.m. 30 30
079minutes I think we said. Right. 30 minutes. Yeah. Um,