001Call to order the board of trustees meeting April 10th, 2025. Uh roll call. Uh Miss Parker, will you please take role? Trusty Nem present. Trusty Sundi here. Trusty Hashida here. Trusty Periq here. President Tanaka present. Agenda item two. to approve the agenda for the regular meeting of the board of trustees on um February and sorry April 10th 2025. Do I motion to approve? So move 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. Agenda three, public comments. In accordance with government code section 54954.3, anyone who wishes to address the board on any closed session agenda item may be may be recognized this time. In accordance with board bylaw 9323, individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the
002board on each agenda item. The total time limit for public comment on each item is 20 minutes. Miss Parker, do we have any comment cards? No. Thank you. We'll recess to close session at 6:16 p.m. Uh, President Tanaka, just for the record, could you just please read the titles of the um close session agenda items? Oh, sure. Um recess to close session is conference with the League of Council existing litigation, conference with labor negotiators, and conference with labor negotiators. Thank you. Thank you. These kids, they really do a great job. And those are not easy to see. Well, they've been practicing for a while. So much [Music] Reconvene to open session at 7:02 p.m. Recess um close session report item 4.1 Coun conference with legal counsel existing litigation. The board has received information regarding a
003confidential student settlement agreement. No reportable action was taken in close session. Action will be taken during open session under agenda item 11.2. For item 4.2, conference with labor negotiators, CSSEA, the board received information from staff. No reportable action was taken. For item 4.3, conference with labor negotiators, ACT. The board has received information from staff. No reportable action was taken. 5.2. Pledge Allegiance um by King Elementary School. I pledge 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. 6.1 school presentation by King Elementary School. At this time, I'd like to uh invite Principal Jackie Teshi to the podium. Good evening, members of the board, superintendent Salavs, and guests. My name is Jackie Tesky, and I'm the
004principal of King Elementary School. And for the past 24 years, excluding the pandemic, which we try to forget about, King School has proudly presented a full spring musical featuring coral music, dancing, and speaking parts. This tradition has been made possible by the incredible talent and dedication of Mrs. Silva, who has led this initiative and since its inception. Long time. The Yeah. The opportunity to participate in a production that takes nearly six months to put on truly enriches the lives of our students. The magic they create each year is indescribable. Watching our students grow, shine, and find their voice on stage is one of the most meaningful parts of being a principal at King School. The production would not be possible without Mrs. Silva's amazing team and some of them are here tonight. I will read
005them all but if you're here you can put your hand up or stand up. Um they've been working um after school for the last four months working with these kids. So uh Mrs. Silva of course is our director. I was going to say producer too. So I don't know executive d producer Mrs. Silva. Jessica Cruz and Bridget Hassan are responsible for choreography. I know Miss Hassan's here too. Oh, she's in the hall. Okay. Daniel Malanie and Tanya Alvarez are responsible for sound and music. Mr. Elliott, Randy Elliott, who's not here, is responsible for backstage scenery and lighting. Denise Bergman and Kelly Frasier are props, costumes, choreography, and um they're the assistants. And Mrs. Hollerman or Nancy Hollowman, retired uh classified employee and Teresa Frankle, retired certificated employee, um are in charge of the costumes each
006year. Um I attend the Kennedy and uh Kennedy High School and Walker Junior High School uh presentations. They have many uh musicals and show choir and wonderful productions. And I attend those because I see so many students that attend these schools that are big hearts and stars of these productions. And it all started at King. It gave them that it planted that little seed that there's a big piece of uh something at the junior high and high schools that they can be a part of. In fact, just this afternoon before I was leaving, a parent came in and told me that her son, who happened to be part of the play, I haven't even had a chance to tell you guys. her son, who had a big part in the play last year, um just
007got accepted into honors or um advanced theater for this year, for next year, and it's because of what he did with Mrs. Silva and her team. So, um it's just so farreaching and longlasting um the opportunities and I want to thank the board for our their continued support in the arts. We really appreciate it. So, thank you very much. And Mrs. Silva is going to come up give you a few more details before the performers come out. I wrote it down because if I didn't, I'll talk to you about my show for like hours and that probably isn't what you want tonight. Um, good evening you guys. As Jackie said, we've been offering an after-school performing arts program for the last 24 years at King Elementary School. I would like it if you could please
008mark your calendars to intend to attend our show on the either the 15th or 16th of May, first thing in the morning if you can get away from work. We start between 8:15 and 8:30. It'll take roughly an hour to an hour and 15 minutes of your life. I promise it will be worth every single second of it. If you choose not to come during the day because you have work obligations and you're willing to give up a Thursday or a Friday night, which I know is really hard, especially those of us who have children, but I would love, we will give your kids tickets, too. Your spouse, we don't care. We would love to have you come. The shows are actually usually a little more exciting because the kids have less nerves. The 16th
009or 17th of May, so whatever fits in your calendar, it's before graduations and things, so hopefully you can make it. Um, as a bit of background on how this got started, I teach at a title one school and title one schools have different needs than a lot of other schools in Cyprus or in more affluent areas. Um, one of the things is kids in the lower socioeconomics don't have the opportunity to take dance classes, voice lessons, be in a performing arts. A lot of them have never even seen a live performance before and will go most of their entire life without seeing one because going to a theater isn't necessarily something you think of doing with your children, especially sometimes when they're young and don't sit still for that long. So, um, we have started
010this program because many many families in our title one school struggle to find connections with their school and community and research shows that arts participation increases school engagement, attendance, and improves literacy. And if you look at the attendance of the students in my class from the second that we start auditions, you will see kids come to school so they can be in this show. It's a big part of what we do. And I am just straight up mean about them missing school and getting to come to practice. I just am I am I really I just I feel that's really important. Um because we recognize that the opportunity to participate in a musical could be a once in a-lifetime opportunity for our students. At King, we do auditions in October or November. Every single student
011who auditions gets a part in our show without exception. Every part will be on stage for at least two songs or at least the length of two songs. Um, and with ELOP funding, we've been able to provide some pre-classes to teach basic dance steps, acting basics, singing basics, and staging. So, students come to auditions more prepared and show preparation goes more smoothly. We practice at least twice a week for at least an hour each practice. At this point, we're up to an hour and a half for each practice. We'll go to two hours in a couple of weeks. The goal is to create a performance as close to Broadway as we can achieve. We do not charge students for costumes or props. And we feel we create a magical experience for the students who perform,
012for our entire school as they get to watch, and for our community who loves our shows. This year, our production of Shrek the Musical Junior has 75 students participating. And we only allow fourth, fifth, and sixth grade. So if you look at the percentage that's like high. We will be performing two songs for our from our upcoming production. Keep in mind we are not completely performance ready. So please do not judge. Um but this will give you an idea of what is to come. First we're going to introduce our three Fionas. We have young Fiona, Teen Fiona, and adult Fiona. And they are going to sing for us I know it's today. So ladies, why don't you come on walk up here. After they're finished, the rest of our students will come up to perform
013the finale song for you. Thank you so much. I hope you enjoy it. Let me cut that out. [Music] Great job. Thank you so much. Are there any questions or comments from the board? Of course. You know, I was just looking at everybody and I'm going, you know what? I wish I could adopt each of you. You are so precious. So, so fantastic. I really enjoyed that and I can't wait to see the whole 75 member group doing the complete show with all the background music and the sets and the all the full costumes and everything. You've just given us a wonderful preview of what we can expect when you are getting ready to do the real show. But right now you've done phenomenal. I have something. Um, first of all, I want to point
014out that I'm sure there was some nerves before you all started, but I'm very impressed with how all of you were looking at us. You had excellent facial expressions. I can tell how much hard work you all have put in. Um, but one of my favorite parts during any awards or anything where kids are performing is to look at parents and just to see the pride beaming from the audience and how proud your grown-ups are of you. Um, your your staff at at your school. Um, everybody who's here to support you, you know, phones up, big smiles. That's kind of my favorite part is watching your grown-ups. So, just know that they are very proud of you and so are we. Congratulations. I'm I was just absolutely captivated. Each one of you just your expressions,
015your style, your riz, is that what they is that what they the kids are saying these days? Just I don't even know if I'm using it correctly. It was just amazing. And if this was a preview of what's coming, I absolutely cannot wait to watch the musical. And I'm probably going to attend more than one show if if that's okay. No, this was just amazing. Great job. Your parents are so proud of you. We're proud of you. The community is is going to absolutely enjoy and love this. So great, great, great, fantastic job. Thank you. Everybody has said so much good things. Really, you guys did an amazing job. And I think somebody said you may not be performance ready, but I you are performance ready. You guys did excellent. And so, thank you for
016making the beginning of our board meeting just spectacular. We really appreciate it. And we will you'll see all of us definitely. Thank you. No, thank you so much, Principal Tas, Miss Silva, and you, your team, and all you students. The energy, the enthusiasm that each one of you came through this. You really lit up this room. I can't wait to see on May 15th, you're gonna Debbie's going to be busy because she's going to be making sure all of the board members are going to be putting in their requests to be able to come see you. um live performance because right now today it was such an amazing thing. You couldn't tell that you not even ready. But you each one you should be proud of yourself. Pat yourself on the back. Thank you. Like
017to turn this over to Superintendent Loss. Well, thank you, President Tanaka. I think we're going to do some certificates and pictures. So if you would join me at the podium as well as this uh team from King who's going to assist and we are going to give you all some certificates want me to read and then I'll hand it to you. Do you want to stand on this side or Okay. All right. I can just talk real. They're not in the order of the kids, but yeah. Okay, first up, the ginger man. Gingerbread man. Christian Bun. Direct Kellen Ki which Mia Maria Delgado the middle middle uh Fiona Irene Irene Lee are you the ugly duckling ugly duckling Ezra Masani I wasn't sure if that was your title. Fiona Jun Masanier brother sister the wolf
018Roxy Mclofflin. Hi Roxy. Tiny tiny Fiona Leah Rodriguez. Michael, are you the um Pinocchio? Oh, I couldn't tell without the nose. Pinocchio. Micah Romero and Shrek's best friend, the donkey. KJ Watson. Good job, KJ. How would you ever look at his team? [Music] We will now take a 10-minute recess to enable our students and family to go home and get ready for school tomorrow. We will reconvene this meeting at 7:37. Oh, but I Wait, it's green. It's on, right? And and don't go too close. Is that right, Teresa? Okay. All right. Good evening, esteemed board members, superintendent Salas, cabinet members, and guests. I am Cara Patton, the Association of Cypress Teachers President. What an incredible sneak peek we had at tonight's presentation. The Keem te team is so proud of our talented performers and the
019amazing job they did. The excitement is building as we look ahead to the full performances on May 16th and 17th when our young stars will take the stage and truly shine. This music musical performance is not just about showcasing talent. It's also about growth. Through this experience, students are building valuable life skills like time management, teamwork, commitment, and that allimportant inner sense of accomplishment. A heartfelt thank you goes out to our dedicated teachers whose hard work behind the scenes has made all of this possible. From hours of rehearsal time to crafting backdrops, managing lighting, designing costumes, and even up even giving up their own lunch and recess breaks, their passion and commitment has been nothing but short of extraordinary. There's so much that goes into creating a successful play and it's clear that this production
020is a true labor of love. We can't wait for opening night and we will see you there or we hope to see you there. Please, please, please come. Um, this week we had the joy of experience in our spring musical performance and what an amazing show it was. Students from trans TK through sixth grade took the stage, each group performing two beautiful songs centered around the theme of nature. The performance was a mix of singing, movement, and instrumental talent. Our fourth and fifth graders brought the house down with the recorder performances. I have to say they were actually pretty good. Recorders, you're usually like, but h they did awesome. While our sixth graders impressed everyone with their skills on the drums, xylophones, and ukuleles. It was awesome to see. So proud. A huge thank you
021goes out to our music teachers whose hard work made this performance possible. King Elementary School is a class act school founded in 1994. The Freda Bellfonte class act partnership in Pacific Symphony's flagship youth education program. Celebrating its 20th year of participation, King is one of one of 30 Orange County schools to partner with two Pacific Symphony musicians. Students participated in class lessons featuring the composer of Beethoven. As a culminating activities, students in all grades will perform at our Bravo Assembly in June. All grades are busy preparing for yet another amazing performance. Wellness month at King is just around the corner. Throughout the month, students will be taking the lead on activities focused on four wellness themes: mindfulness, healthy habits, thankfulness, and fitness. It's a wonderful opportunity for our students to engage with these important aspects
022of well-being while promoting a positive and healthy school environment. As if that isn't enough, the full school is preparing for open house on April 17th. It's a wonderful opportunity for students to showcase their hard work and achievements throughout the year. We're excited to welcome families to see the creativity, growth, and dedication that went into every project project. Sixth grade is gearing up to head to Camp High Trails May 19th to the 23rd. It has definitely been a challenge to get the funds to go to camp, but fingers crossed we make it so the sixth graders will have a fantastic experience. Cypress School District partnered with um Tiger Woods Learning Center Learning Lab to provide an enriching and engaging experiments where experience where students receive an introduction to computer science with Raspberry Pi. This 3-day workship
023workshop which will start next week, this is new to me, so this is something we haven't done before. I'm excited. Will allow students to have a platform for hands-on learning and experimentation. We are super excited to see what this program is all about. And that's what's going on at King among many, many, many other things. It's been a busy last few weeks as we've had spring break. We had that fun lockdown which we did amazing with, by the way. Thank goodness. No babies, right? And um so that's what's going on at King. Thank you for your time and I appreciate it. Thank you. Agenda item 7.2, to California School Employees Association. Good evening, President Zavs, board members, and guests. I wasn't going to present tonight, but it's King night and I love my school. I
024love our kids and our families. And so, when I received an email last night that um showed that was just a great email, I felt like I had to share it with you. I hear about great things that classified staff does all the time. We get up, we come to work, we love our kids, and we do the best that we can. Um, but this email was really truly nice. It was actually sent to Paula Craiggo, and it also highlights the great work that Tracy's department does. So, I'm just going to read it. Thank you so much for your time, understanding, continued support, and your prompt approval. This is a family who um resided in Cyprus and attended one attended vessels and then came back to King and the others are so we have three
025at King but they moved out of the area and they wanted to stay um prompt approval of the transfer. It is truly an honor for our family to remain a part of the Clara King community and the Cypress School District. I have the deepest appreciation for the outstanding quality of education and the genuine care provided by the dedicated staff in the Cypress District. The commitment of the teachers along with the strong sense of community within the school is reflected in every aspect of my children's experience. As a parent, it brings me immense joy and peace of mind to see my children learning, growing, and thriving in an environment where they feel safe, supported, and values. Your efforts make a real difference in the lives of students and families, and I am sincerely grateful for all
026that you do. Clara King has been such a special place for my kids and seeing them happy and growing growing there means the world to me as a parent. I'm just really grateful to be part of the community. So, I just wanted to share that with you because we do have something special at King and I see it every day in our classified staff how much they give. And so, thank you. And that's all. Thank you. Uh, next is item 7.3, Cypress Council PTA. I don't see anybody from council PTA. Uh, we'll go to 7.4, which is board of trustees. Uh, Trustee Pi. Hi everyone. Um, thanks again to King Elementary for that fantastic um, show. Um, I always love all of the presentations we have, especially from from the the staff and teachers, but
027I I think I'm a little bit partial to to the ones from our students. And um, again, bad day to wear eyeliner, I think, because I always well up. Um, as far as a report out, I think I'm going to keep it pretty short this time. Uh, we're coming off of a very lengthy spring break um for for my kids. Um the first where I had two kids to entertain for for three weeks. Um so we took a little trip. Um very very excited to get back to school next week. Um was able to attend a a musical performance at Vessels which was just I mean all of these shows seem to be you know really production value is is extremely high. Um, I'm always looking around to see if there's someone scouting these kids
028for for a potential career in um in Broadway and and theater. Um, and uh looking forward to all of the musical performances coming up. I think April's gearing up to be a pretty busy month um with respect to meetings and special meetings. Uh we had um what was it called? A special board meeting last month which was also fantastic. Um we had a a potluck uh where people brought you know food that they made and um you know representatives from from ACT CSEA some of all the principles some of most of the principles were there and we talked about how to um you know improve the the district really and how to improve communication across the board. It was the first one that I had attended um and it was a fantastic experience. So look
029forward to doing those sort of uh um team building um initiatives more and uh getting to know everyone uh involved and um yeah continuing the the partnership that we have. So thank you trustee Aisha. Okay. Um so yeah it is getting busy. Um with regards to the leadership and educational partner workshop, I think for me the great takeaway was that we saw a shift from where uh there was collaboration and working on the in infrastructure or the um the internal relationship between the different peoples that were there. And now it's more of an external and communityoriented focus which to me it just shows that all of the work that has been done the past three years because I think this was the third um I'm grateful for all the work that everybody put into it
030and um thankful for um Superintendent Salavs for sort of starting the whole thing and I'm glad to see that uh it's it's continuing and you can see the growth. So that was fantastic. Um, April 2nd, uh, let's see, President Tanaka and Superintendent Salavs and I attended the Morris musical performance and it was, yeah, I mean, it was just great. It was more of what we saw today and just seeing all of the students um, just sing their hearts out. That baby beluga song has been in my head for the whole week now. Um, but it was just it started my day off right. So of course then uh the fourth I went to the vessel's music performance and um uh it was their musical musical performance. President Tanaka, Trusty Needam and I were there and
031um it was amazing to see all the parents come out and support and that was great. And then on the 8th I attended the musical performance at King. So now you really know why Baby Beluga is totally in my head. Um, but I just love it and seeing all the kids and their excitement and uh we do have an amazing uh musical staff and I'm just so thankful for all that they do to invest in our kids. It's fantastic. And then um let's see the last thing was the Frozen Kids at Vessels and it talent like this. It was just amazing. I'm so thankful for the arts really thriving in this in the school district and looking forward to the rest of the performances. And just one quick note, um I don't know how many
032of you in Cyprus um got to see the snowy owl when it was here, but it was almost I think it was two years ago now and it spent a couple of weeks in Cypress. They created a documentary and now it's on PBS for the month. So you can actually if you Google Cypress snowy owl PBS or PBS SoCal Snowy owl the link will come up and so I just encourage all the families and kids to really check it out because it's it's it's very cool and it happened here in Cypress. So thank you. Thank you Trusty Sundi. Well I don't have anything as cool as the snowy owl to show tonight but I did attend with the rest of my colleagues and some of the uh individuals in the audience. um the uh leadership
033and work uh workshop. Uh I don't I I never can remember what its total name is, but all I know is is that the process is what's important, not the title of what we call it. Um, again, I've been at all of the ones that we have had in the past and truly um noted the progression from our beginning talks of sort of uh sort of I don't know it's sort of like it was almost like a dating game initially and now we're not I won't say necessarily we're you know boyfriend and girlfriend but uh we are you know I do believe that we have a better relationship than we had um you know those first those first meetings and I think a lot of it has to do with just generally communication and a
034willingness and and the commitment to making sure that uh we are working together as a team to make this district to be the best district that we can possibly make it. So uh that is um my takeaway from uh this particular event was is that it was a growth uh we saw the growth from the previous years. Uh also wanted to thank um uh Lanne Rivera who is uh the consultant that we had from California State um um California School Boards Association. Can't even remember what association I'm a part of right now. Um and uh her leadership in facilitating that particular meeting. One of the things that I think that comes out of that is the um documentation that she provides at the end of each one of those meetings that has been shared out
035with uh uh the trustees and through superintendent Salavs and I believe all of the associations of the um things that we're talking about or we talked about that we wanted to try to work on for the next year and uh also uh a recap of where we've been in the previous two years to uh let us see the trajectory of this particular activity and seeing that there is value in us continuing this process. I think that the word I heard over and over again in a very positive way was transparency. We're working really hard and making sure that all of our communications are very transparent and that we don't rem if if if it doesn't feel like it's transparent, it's probably not because we aren't wanting it to be transparent, but because we haven't quite
036negotiated the the the dynamics of how to do complete and and and uh thorough communication. So again, uh the idea that we have the opportunity to do the communication part uh in these kinds of uh settings and again that food was a real highlight of that event too. So I'm hoping that's going to be a continued part of it um in the future events. So uh that was one activity. The next one was uh last evening where the greater Anaheim Sulpa met for its regular board meeting, but also uh it was an opportunity for the um let's see community advisory committee recognitions awards. Uh this is an opportunity for each of the six districts to have um acknowledged and um represented by uh the uh staff members that have been nominated to receive um recognition
037for their excellent work um in the special education arena. And I'm pleased to say that our two nominees uh our two award winners rather for the city of Cypress were uh Sandra Deming and Tracy Robinson. And so it was really uh exciting to be a part of being able to, you know, shake hand, hand flowers, give some hugs, give some love in general, and to recognize and acknowledge all of the wonderful work that so many different people um participate in in our Cypress community. Uh that community advisory committee, um uh I wasn't aware that there was a community advisory committee, and it's composed of community members, staff, and parents. Um and it um uh the uh person who is our Cypress member is Amy Buchanan. And I'm not familiar with the functioning of that committee,
038but it's great that there is a broader uh community-based uh input uh to the SULPA um um discourse, if you will. So, uh I'm looking forward to hearing more about um the um the ongoing input from that particular committee. Uh two things that are particularly interesting to note is Kathleen Thompson who is the director of business operations of um the SULPA uh has been um 25 years in that position. Um and the organization has only been around 30 years. So essentially she's the grandmother of this organization or she's been around for quite a few years. Uh Paul Lavine was uh his contract was extended for another two uh three years I believe until 2028. So we will be seeing more of him and have continued um stable input from him. One of the things that
039I thought was particularly interesting, and I'm sure that our staff who are involved in this arena are familiar with it, but I wasn't. And I thought it would be interesting for me to share this with um the board. Um we did approve a uh what was called uh SEIS um uh licensing agreement last night and uh this particular agreement uh comes out of the Sanwaqen County Office of Education. They have a division Substack that uh developed this particular piece of uh this web-based suite of tools that helps u special education um um uh activities including the writing of the individual IEPs and the reporting to the state. that this part was the part that I wasn't aware of and it was sort of a a little note in the um in the um discussion part
040where member districts will um have the ability for at a little extra fee to be able to have the SC um database uh communicate and wrap into Aries and I'm not sure whether we have that going on here or not. Okay. But that was news to me and so it was really um a great information for me to be able to note that information and share it with you all tonight. Um the um let's see there's one other thing that I wanted to say about the meeting last night. It was a little piece of trivia which I wasn't familiar with. Um there is a um a piece of legislation that is called IDA, IDEA, uh Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, um is celebrating its 50th year in existence. And um I was dumbfounded that we
041needed to have um you know u you know a special education uh piece of legislation. But um uh its basis is to make sure that um children who have disabilities have free and appropriate education and that special education services and uh um uh education activities are regularly uh provided to them. And um uh the the piece of trivia that really sort of blew my mind was uh Director Lavine said that 50 years ago prior to this piece of legislation, only one in five children who had disabilities actually were receiving a free and public education. That blows my mind. I can't imagine a time when we didn't have that. So, um, I'm thankful that we have an opportunity to work closely with the Greater Anaheim SULPA and that they provide services and we are working with
042in in terms of various relationships with them and have their personnel working with us on a regular basis as well. Uh there's a couple of pieces of legislation out there that are being monitored and I'm sure that uh if if they do pass there will be some things that will change but you know again things are being monitored and I will report out if um there is more information at another point in time but thank you for your time and the opportunity to give you a little bit of a report of what we were doing. Thank you Trust Nem. Thank you. Um, so I was also able to attend that special board meeting. Um, and everybody kind of shared about that already, but um, I was just impressed with everybody's kind of drive to really
043do what's best for students and make sure that we were student focused and student centered. Um, so that was great and I look forward to doing that again in the future. Um, we're coming off of spring break so hopefully all the staff teachers are all rested and geared up for the rest of the year. Um, I had the opportunity to attend the vessel's music performance last week. Um, and I'd like to give a shout out to those music teachers. Um, it just seems as if they are going above and beyond to spotlight students to, um, really tap into their individual talents. There was, um, one student who was featured and he whistled, um, which was really impressive and very cute. Um, and so they did an excellent job. Um, and I was just really proud
044to see all of them up there. Um, I also was able to attend the Vessels Frozen musical, um, which again was outstanding. Um, and I'd like to shout out the staff there for that and I'm looking forward to seeing Shrek in May. Um, what else did I do? I think that's about it. Personally, um, I went through open house already um, yesterday. So, good luck to all the Cypress teachers with that open house coming up. I know it's a long night. It's a lot of work. Um but I I know as a parent, as a board member, um it's very impressive. We're all excited to see what the kids have done this year. Um personally, I've been to PBIS training recently. Um and also AVID training and certification. Um and that was part of my
045openhouse showcase as well. Um, and again, I continue to be inspired by the Cypress teachers who were sharing the um, rise code that they're doing with the kids, and I was able to to talk about that in my district and talk about teachers who are doing that there as well. So, um, just really impressed with with all of that. So, that's about it for me. Thank you. Thank you. Well, hope everyone enjoyed spring break with the family as much as I did. It was such a nice time to be able to break up the school year, spend the quality time with family and friends. Uh I also with the rest of the fellow board members was fortunate enough to attend um the special board meeting on March 20th. Thank you, Superintendent Laws. This is the
046third meeting with our business partners and I think you know it gets better every year. You know, I don't see us getting complacent with this. The first year was great. The sec last year was great and I then because we brought in even our principles last year. They were able to see this and what made this year really special and stood out in my mind. The principles took a seat at the table with us to be part of the conversations to help increase those communications and better the working relationship with everybody. So, thank you superintendent that it's such a great thing to be able to continue to make sure we have the working relationship with our business partners. Um I also attended this musical performance with superintendent uh as well as trustee Hayashida and it
047was such a great thing to see every year different songs they no one's they don't do the same songs every year to keep the kids interested and so thank you Mrs. Chung Miss Young Mr. Fernandez, it's just such a great thing to be able to see these and keep how important it is just to hear my own son saying, "Dad, you got to listen to the songs that we're going to do this year. It's even better than last year." So, just to see how exciting and look the kids looking forward to it. So, thank you so much for that. Uh I also on uh April 2nd was able to attend the dedication ceremony uh to Anna Piery for Anaheim Union for at Lexington. They dedicated a classroom to Anna Pierce, the arts and education building
048and it also followed up with the open house. So they dedicated her old classroom as an arts and education thing as tribute to Anna and her family which is such a great thing. She was a positive influence within the community. But was really special is being able to see all the Cypress parents from sixth grade from across the district coming out there to see, you know, hey, this is what my kids are going to be doing. Showing that part of the community um with that. So, it was great to see all those parents um from the Cypress Elementary School that are sixth grade going to now be moving on to seventh grade in a couple months. um the vessel's music performance very fortunate enough to attend that with trusty neam and trustee hayashida it was
049it's so different to be able to see this at all the schools that's why I highly recommend you know just go it's not like you're just seeing and hearing the songs and saying hey it's the same song it's different as trusty edam said is to hear the little things and the spins that the staff puts on this is such a great thing to have a student come up there and whistle I can't whistle myself, but to hear a student whistle these songs is such a great thing and it showed the enthusiasm with this. So, you know, just thank you so much for everything that everybody does to make these performances happy. Uh, also attended the our capstone at Lexington last Friday and this goes to all our staff and teachers. you the way you make
050prepare these kids is such a great thing like tonight's performance principal and Miss Silva such a great thing just to be able to see the kids their energy okay their confidence that they can and just be going just through music and the arts how they're able to put this together be able to speak to articulate those words is only going to help these kids when they get to seventh grade because the seventh graders are starting to get ready to see this for by the time the eighth graders are going to be doing this. And this is goes these are these lifelong things that are going to be with these kids the rest of their life, you know, and this I reported on this last month as well. What a great job the staff did over
051at Vessels with the ortorial. These are the types of things that are so important that help our kids get through this and make them even better kids in middle school. So, thank you. Um, then I was also fortunate enough to be able to see uh the vessels Frozen. Uh, I thought it was amazing to be able to see Lion King the first time I got on the board because it was such a great performance. Then I saw Finding Nemo, which to me was it was over the top. I was going, "Geez, this continues to get better." And then even last night with Frozen, I'm just going this is such a great thing. You know that Mr. Costa, Principal Homeman, Miss Burke, Miss Fernandez, Miss Becca, the entire cast, they did such a great job. just
052like tonight principles with all your students you just thank you for enabling and providing these opportunities for the children. Thank you superintendent loves. Thank you President Tanaka. Um as everyone has mentioned it is event season. It's a very busy time but a very fun time. Um but it's also we're also rolling into state testing. So yes, our staff has been very busy um with all of these special events, but also um preparing students to show all that they have um accomplished during the year in terms of their knowledge and skills. And so that will be occurring at the end of April and beginning of May. So by the time we meet again for a board meeting, they will be wrapping up that process. So we wish them the best of luck. I know they're going
053to do a fantastic job because they've worked really hard for that. So um I know it will go well. Um, also I just wanted one little sort of um, housekeeping issue I wanted to bring up to the board. Um, we have a ad hoc committee meeting with the city of Cypress coming up on April 21st. Our board representatives on that committee who will be attending with me are um, Trusty Periq and Trusty Needm. Um, but nonetheless um, Trusty Periq and Trusty Needm are representing the entire board on that committee and so they are calling now for agenda items. Uh I do recollect from our last board meeting that we um during a a discussion and information item there was an interest to add workforce housing as a topic of discussion for the agenda. So I
054will send that in. But I wanted to make sure I wanted to check with the board to see if there were any other topics that you would like for us to um to talk about during that upcoming meeting. So any suggestions? I'm interested in uh having a discussion about um a bus stop for where the bus picks up. Maybe something covered um or at least a red curb for the bus. Um those kinds of things just make it a little bit more and that's in the Cypress Park area, right? So there's two bus pickups and drop offs that I know of. Um I'm not sure if there's a others. So just in general. In general. Yeah. Any other topics? Um yeah, I'd like to discuss the availability of uh programs for for um our kids
055at the community center and how um maybe there could be some sort of a a communication if not collaboration between, you know, what's required and needed at the school within the the community and how maybe the city could um supplement some of that by offering certain programs at the community center, for example. um that may not be available at the schools. Any other agenda items? I would like to see if we can get an update on that measure S and working with make sure that we're in communication with the city. So, from a planning perspective, Got it. Anything else? Okay. Very good. Then I will send those topics in. Thank you. Thank you. Can I get the time for that meeting? Sorry. Can we get the time for the meeting? Thank you. Agenda item 8,
056public 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 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 comment on each item is 20 minutes. Miss Parker, I think we have one card, correct? Thank you. Anthony Mai, I'd like to call you to the podium, please.
057Thank you. Good evening, board, and all in attendance. My name is Anthony Mai and I am currently a master's in social work student studying at USC and I also serve as a social uh school social work intern with Garden Grove Unified School District. Lastly, I am a community member working with local youth through the Boys and Girls Club in Cypress, which I had the opportunity of seeing their performance here today and I was very glad to see that. I've had a positive experience working with youth, but some of the things I see also cause me concern. I see peer conflict, emotional outbursts, bullying, stress, anxiety, and more. About 6 million youth receive treatment for emotional, behavioral or mental health problems. And just as efforts were made in the past to promote well-being among youth through
058increased investments in health and medicine, I believe our focus should also now shift to addressing behavioral and mental health concerns. In many communities, mental health and behavioral struggles are often hidden due to stigma or misunderstandings. Additionally, cultural beliefs may also treat these things as something shameful or unworthy of discussion. And as a result, people often suffer until the situation becomes overwhelming. After reflecting on the way to address my concerns, I chose education as the solution. As a social work intern and student, I've engaged with the community through my internship. And during my internship with Garden Grove Unified School District, I saw firsthand the impact of providing mental health interventions in schools. Interventions such as individual counseling, group counseling make a great difference. But one another intervention that stands out for me is social emotional learning
059or lessons. So early intervention through education can make a significant difference and programs that teach social emotional learning like second step teach students about mental health, resilience, emotional awareness, problem solving, and other essential skills to help with the problems that I listed before. And studies have shown that SEAL lessons in classrooms help students reduce depression, anxiety, and stress. They also improve academic academic um improvements and social performance to equip students with the tools and skills to recognize their own emotional well-being from a young age. I've heard from students that I've spoke with at the Boys and Girls Club and at other locations that they've had lessons in schools, but sometimes they forget about what they learn, which is the nature, you know, children at a young age. And so by incorporating and reinforcing these lessons
060early on in the students academic uh curriculum, we can help prevent issues from escalating and support students long-term and mental health. And by focusing on education and also family involvement, we can also create community that treats mental health with the same importance as physical health. And that is all. I'd like to thank everyone for their time and opportunity this evening to speak with you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mike. Agenda item 9.1, approve minutes from the regular meeting of the board of trustees um held on March 13, 2025. Do I have a motion to um approve? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any corrections, questions, or discussion items? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item 9.2. Approve
061the minutes from the special meeting of the board of trustees held on March 20th, 2025. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any corre uh corrections, questions, or discussions? 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 by from consent to be acted on individually at any board member's request. Do have a motion to approve consent items 10.1 through 10.7. So moved. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions or discussions? I just have one item on the gifts report. Thank you. I want to say thank you so much to the community and all the parents support on this. You know, we already
062received 20K already year to date in April on gifts. So, thank you so much. And one of the great things I really like on this is seeing the support for the sixth grade camp. How the two items on there with all the donations um on the sixth grade camp is such a great thing and it's such a great thing for the kids. I know how much my son last year appreciate it and I know even my little one now is just can't wait in a couple years for him to be able to see that. So, thank you. Um hearing no questions, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh action item 11. Uh approve settlement uh agreement for special case number 202 4250010. uh approve
063entering into the special education agreement for case total cost not to exceed 14,000. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. 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. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Can we record the absent? Okay. Thank you. Agenda item 11.2 adopt resolution number 2425-8 day of teacher and resolution number 24-25-9 classified school employee week. Do I have a motion to approve? Move approval. Do I have to separate those? Oh, I'm good. Okay. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Uh any questions or discussions on that? Just that it's great to be able to formally acknowledge our um our teachers and um classified school employees um in a
064formal fashion. But I want to say that I hope that we show that appreciation year round and not just on the one one time that we sign the resolution, but just to let everyone know that we do totally appreciate all of our staff. Thank you. Any other questions, discussions? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item 11.3, hold a public hearing to accept the bargaining proposal for 2526 negotiation from the Association of Cypress Teachers um to the Cypress School District. I will now open the public hearing to allow comments from the community prior to the board consideration for the proposal. Opening the meeting uh for hearing. Any comments? I will close the public hearing by um do I have a motion to accept
065the bargaining proposal for 2526 negotiations from the Association of Cypress Teachers to the Cypress School District? So move. 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. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item 11.4. Hold a public hearing to adopt Cypress School District's bargaining proposal for 2025/26 negotiation with the association of Cypress teachers. I'll now open the public hearing to allow comments from the community prior to the board consideration for proposal. Opening for the hearing. Any comments? I will now close the public hearing. Do I have a motion to adopt the Cypress School District's bargaining proposal for 2526 negotiations with the CY Association of Cypress Teachers? So move. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you.
066Any questions or discussions? Hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item 11.5, approve contracting with Dave Bank Associates Associates, Inc. for the purchase and installation of play playground equipment and rubber playground servicing at King at a total cost of 182,72544. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any questions or discussions? I just have one general question. Um, are we in a rotation cycle to replace playground equipment across this the district? You're going to steal my thunder from a facilities master plan that's coming. Um, no. Yes. So, uh, we do, uh, do an analysis of the playground equipment. Um, and so we actually just got one done and it rates each of
067the playgrounds in, um, each of our facilities. Um, and so based off of that rating, I am working on kind of a five to eight-year plan depending on budget for how we will start kind of rolling and fixing um the playgrounds. And so King was obviously rated the lowest and so that's why King is um before you guys tonight. Thank you. And King I have another another question. Um so this cost is just the equipment and the shipping itself. It doesn't include um the resurfacing or the installation because the the contract excludes a whole bunch of stuff. It does. So, this includes um removing the old equipment. It installs a curb because we're actually going to reduce the size of the playground because there's a huge sand area compared to what the new play equipment
068is going to be. Um it does exclude certain things, but not for the project of taking out the old equipment and installing the new equipment and putting rubber surfacing. All of that's included on the quote and for this price. Okay. Thank you. Since we know we're going to be replacing others, is there was there talks with this particular company or like a group discount? So, because we have to use the CMASS contract, which is um obviously saves us money already because we don't have to go out to a public bid. Plus, we're also able to use certain vendors that we know um through an RFP process. We actually already get a discount. And if you looked at the quote, it kind of said CMASS discount. Um and so we I do feel we get the
069best because I have uh compared it to other vendors. Um because of and I'm going to you're going to hear this a lot because unfortunately because of tariffs and those types of things, the fluctuation of prices right now, um they can't do as much as they probably would want to do because of those limitations. One last thing I noticed on the Playworld website that they have a grant section. Is there any um research or into that as well? Yes. So, unfortunately um most of those grants we don't qualify due to our economic status as a district as a whole. Um, but that is something and that's one of the great things about this vendor and um some other vendors that I'm working with um is they are also always looking out for grants for us
070to try and help reduce um the cost. But yes, I that is the one thing that I'm because I know all these playgrounds are coming um to see if we can qualify for any grants. But as of right now, we don't qualify. And I kind of figured that. But I appreciate your research. Thank you. Thank you. I have one question. And I think you probably answered this already about your facilities master plan. Um what is the refresh rate? Is it the eight years you mentioned? Is that so actually um most equipment actually lasts longer than that? It usually asked sorry lasts 10 to 15 years. Um that's changing a little bit because if you remember old older playgrounds were all metal. Newer playgrounds have more components that are wood and um plastic. um so they're
071not lasting as long. But the reason why we're having to do this in the eight years is when we did go for the bond um we did not do a lot of playgrounds during the modernization. So most of our playground equipment is actually older than that 8 years. We're more towards the 15 to 20 um type of uh age range for playground equipment. But typically we would expect the equipment to last anywhere from 10 to 15 years the new equipment that's getting put in. 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. Agenda item 11.6 Six has authorized the purchase of staff chairs for Landell from Culver News using the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools piggyback bid
0722324-00005 a total cost not to exceed 35,000. Do I have a motion to approve? Thank you. Second. Thank you. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none, I'll now call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Information discussion. Uh Williams legislation uniform complaints third quarter 2425. Education code uh 35186 mandates the district establish policies and procedures to help identify and resolve any deficiencies related to instructional materials emergency or urgent facility conditions that pose a threat to the health safety of pupils or staff and teacher vacancy or misalignment. Additionally, it requires the district to report summarized data on the nature and resolution of all complaints on a quarterly basis to the governing board of the school district at a highly at a regular scheduled board meeting. The district received no
073complaints during the third quarter of 2425 school year. Item 12.2, first reading of the updated board policies, administrative regulations, and board bylaws. The California School Board Association CSBA released board policy, administrative regulation or bylaws four times a year. These updates are presented to the board for first reading and final adoption at two subsequential uh board meetings. The following 40 updated board policy, administrative regul uh regulations and board bylaws are presented for first reading by the board. Item 13. This concludes um our meeting at 8:26