MVUSD Regular Board Meeting Board of Education 6/16/26

001The board of education reconvened into open session at 5 a.m. >> Roll call, please. >> L Heing, student board member, present. >> Joanna Lea, present. >> Justin Jackson, present. >> RHS Williams, present. [clears throat] >> Sammy Luna, present. Brandy Clark, present. >> Alejandro Wava, present. >> Esparonza RSA, present. Robert Verie present. >> Susanna Lopez present. >> Thank you. The board of education met in close session to discuss board deliberations regarding public employee employment appointment and superintendent evaluation. The board gave further direction to district staff and took action on the following. The following new employees were approved in close session. A motion was made by trustee, excuse me, vice president Luna and seconded by trustee Lea and approved the new um high school principal Aurelia Cordova located to be determined location to be determined. Excuse me.

002>> Pardon? >> It will be Vista. >> So, let me just say that all over again. A motion was made by Vice President Luna and seconded by Trustee Leva and approved the new high school principal Orurelia Cordova to Vista Delago High School. The board of education approved [applause] by a 50 vote with Brandy Clark yes, Sammy Luna yes, Rose Williams yes, Trusty Jackson, excuse me, Justin Jackson yes, Jona yes. A motion was made by uh uh Vice President Luna and seconded by Trustee Williams and approved the new elementary school principal Sugjana Herrera location to be determined for a 50 vote. A motion was made by Trustee Lea and seconded by Vice President Luna and approved the new elementary school principal Anthony Gray location to be determined by a 5-0 vote. >> [applause] >> A motion

003was made by Trustee Leva and seconded by Trustee Jackson and approve the new elementary principal Steven Lush location to be determined by a 5-0 vote. Okay, thank you. [clears throat] Now we are moving actually I do. So, I'm so excited and we have a couple of our of our future principles here with us. Dr. Birdie, to the podium, please. >> Thank you, President Clark. Board members, as Miss Clark said, we are uh very excited to welcome two folks to the podium tonight, and we'll we'll be bringing forward the other two at a as a subsequent meeting. But uh tonight, first we want to welcome to the Marino Valley family, the new principal of Vista High School. A couple things just to share that that came out in her references and her interviews. Uh, Miss Cordova

004has strengths in building authentic relationships with students and families. Uh, she also has a natural ability to connect with all of her students. And uh, again, we we have just been really impressed with her throughout this whole process. So, at this moment, I'd like to bring to the podium the new principal of Vista High School. And again, welcoming her to our family, that's Mr. Reia Cordova. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. I am just so thrilled. Thank you to the entire board for the opportunity um to serve our families. I'm very grateful and I'm very excited um to support all of the goals here of Marino Valley Unified School District and I am very excited to see all of the amazing things that we're going to do. So, thank you again to the board. >> Thank

005you. Any comments from the board members at this time? >> Trustee, um I just wanted to say that I was very impressed, like I said to you, you know, your um knowledge of your experience. Um and I know you're going to be a great asset to our district. U I know, you know, the like I said, the knowledge by coming from different districts and being able to, you know, work with families. So, thank you for choosing us. Thank you. Thank you. I'm incredibly grateful. I um intentionally chose Moran No Valley Unified School District because of the population that we serve. Um because our students are exceptional and they deserve the absolute best and I I'm very committed to making sure that they have the most amazing opportunity so that they can be successful. >> Thank

006you, >> Trusty Jackson. >> Miss Cordova, that's exactly where I want to pick up. Um, I appreciate you're showing your gratitude towards us, but I want to say thank you for making Marina Valley your destination. Visa Delago High School is a school that is on track to have incredible, incredible momentum. So, thank you for steering that u for being able to steer the plane in the right direction. Thank you so much for choosing us. >> Thank you, >> Jessie Williams. >> Welcome to Marino Valley, Dr. Kova. >> And um you you talked about the diversity here and how students need to be reached >> and how you need to come to their level >> and we don't usually hear that and um we're we're just looking forward to see what can take place at Vista

007Deago when we have somebody truly invested in our students and yes our students are exceptional. Thank you very much. >> Thank you Mr. Williams. Miss Luna. >> We're so happy to have you. Welcome to the MBUSD family. Can't wait to see all the wonderful things that you do. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations again. >> Thank you. >> We obviously couldn't keep it that a secret that it was going to be Vista I mean, you're wearing the school colors. [laughter] So, I know the team is watching and they're super excited to welcome you to their family. >> Thank you so much. I'm incredibly excited. I already took a drive out to the campus. I have the lay of the land. I went to the neighborhood. I cannot wait. Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Thank

008you, Dr. Verie. >> Thanks, Miss Clark. And uh at this time, I want to bring forward to the podium already a member of our team and he's he's shown us shown us a lot during his short time with us already as an assistant principal. So excited for this gentleman to be taking this next step in his career journey with us. Just a couple of things again that we've gleaned from him during his time with us and from his references and and how well he navigated the competitive interview process. Uh Mr. Anthony Gray is someone who demonstrates sound judgment and adaptability and a presence that is required to manage any campus effectively and first and foremost. Even in the utmost of pressure-filled situations, he always exudes a positive attitude and we're excited to see him take

009the helm at one of our elementary schools, which we'll talk about incoming meetings. But at this time, meet the newest elementary principal to the district, Mr. Anthony Gray. Thank you. >> Good evening, President Clark, board members, uh Dr. Cabinet, family, friends, colleagues. Um first of all, I want to say thank you. Um it's an honor um and exciting to be able to serve our district in this capacity and continue to serve our students. Um I did write down a couple thank yous because I didn't want to miss anyone if that's [laughter] okay. Um so I'll read some of them here. Um first I want to thank the board of education and district leadership for the trust and confidence they have placed in me. Being selected to serve as a principal at one of our elementary

010schools is an incredible honor and I am grateful for the opportunity to continue serving students, families, and staff of Marino Valley Unified School District in this new role. I also want to thank the staff at Edgemont Elementary. This past year has been very rewarding. I have had the privilege of working alongside a dedicated team that constantly puts students first. I am grateful for everything they have taught me and for the support they have shown me throughout my time there. I want to thank my mentors, colleagues, and administrators who have invested in me throughout my career. Every opportunity, every piece of feedback, and every challenge has helped prepare me for this moment. My principal is here right now. [laughter] Um, and then, um, I would especially like to recognize my grandparents who are watching tonight's live

011stream from their home in Vegas. They they raised me and taught me the value of hard work, um, perseverance, and gratitude. As we get closer to Fourth of July, I find myself thinking about a memory from my childhood. Um, one year, money was tight. fireworks are not in the budget. Rather than let me miss out on the celebration, my grandma stood outside with a box of matches, lighting them one at a time so we could have something special to enjoy. Looking back, I don't feel sad about that memory. In fact, it w makes me happy because it was about creating joy and meaningful experiences and what we had. That lesson stayed with me throughout my life and throughout my career in education. No matter the resources available, I have always tried to find ways to

012create memorable experiences for students. Moments that help them feel connected, celebrated, and excited to come to school. That lesson started with my grandparents and it continues to guide the work I do every day. Okay, good. Um, all right. Um, I would also like to thank my in-laws who are watching from Dallas and Chicago for their encouragement and support. And most importantly, I would like to thank my husband, uh, Catch, who's sitting in the audience tonight. Um, educational leadership comes with early mornings, late nights, um, and sometimes weekends. and he gets up every morning to make my breakfast, pack my lunch, listen to me talk through challenges. Um, celebrates the ones with me and uh helps keep uh honestly just helps me keep my life together. Um, [laughter] so I wouldn't be standing here tonight without

013your love and support. So, thank you. Um, and then as I begin the next chapter, I'm excited to get started and I want to thank everyone again for this opportunity and your confidence in Thank you. [laughter] >> Thank you, Connie. Mr. J student [clears throat] board member El first I want to say congratulations on your new role. I love your like energy and your passion for your career. It's so evident and just by looking at you like as I was walking in I saw you outside taking pictures and you just look so excited [laughter] >> and I feel like your energy will be so perfect for your career and especially being in an elementary school. And congratulations again. >> Thank you so much. Trusty Lib um since I saw you walking into the office that's

014the one thing that I saw your energy and I you know I agree with for student l um but also you know one of the things um that you have shared with us it's like no matter you know your challenges in life you know difficulties you always have to come up with greatness out of it and that's really important when you're you know like um having that connection with students and one thing that I you know I saw in you is that you think out of the box >> and that you're uh something that you stated was that you are a continue learner like you try to see the positive in people that's what I you know I took out of the um interview that we had and and that is great it's good to

015recognize that we learn every day that now because you know um that you know everything. So thank you for sharing that with us and especially sharing that story about your grandparents and you it really you know it is important to remember you know not with sadness but as a learning experience so that we can be able um to understand others. So thank you. >> Thank you [clears throat] >> Trusty Jackson. >> Thank you President Clark. I won't belabor it. I'll just again reiterate their points um in my confidence of you serving here in our school district and just thank you for making Marino Valley Unified School District your choice. >> Trusty Williams. >> Thank you, M. Clark. Um we we had a chance to speak in close session and uh you told me the things

016that were a challenge for you this year and um one of the most important things, one of our three pillars we hang our hat on is attendance and that was the number one thing you brought up and we appreciate that and that focus. Thank you and welcome to Marino. Well, I'm not welcoming [laughter] you again, but welcome to your new position. >> Thank you. Thank you, >> Vice President Luna. >> Thank you. Um, just so so honored that you will be leading a staff and students at your own campus because we need your kind of energy in our district and I think that whatever happens at your school is going to be amazing. I look forward to to seeing all the great things that you do. >> Thank you. Thanks. [applause] >> Thank you, Dr.

017Woody. Now, we are moving on to the pledge of allegiance. Student Board Member Healing, please stand. Place your right hands over your heart. Ready? Begin. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible andice for all. >> You may be seated. And now we are going to do the land acknowledgement. Vice President Luna. >> Thank you, President Clark. The Marino Valley Unified School District acknowledges that our schools and districts sites are situated on the ancestrial homelands and traditional territories of indigenous peoples including the Kawia, Gabrielino Tangba, the Luceno, and the Serrano. We honor their connection to this region and sincerely appreciate the opportunity to educate our students on their traditional homeland. Their continued presence, resilience, and vital contributions remind us of

018our responsibility to honor and care for this land and its people. >> Thank you, Vice President Luna. We are moving on to agenda item E3, which are future board meeting dates. June 23rd, 2026, July 28th, 2026, August 25th, 2026, September 8th, 2026, and September 22nd, 2026. Um, this September 22nd, 2026 meeting is a special study session and it will open at 5:00 pm. Moving on to F, which is public comments on non-aggenda items. The board of education Excuse me. Excuse me. Two seconds to get this right. Okay. The board of education encourages public comments. During this section, staff may briefly respond to statements or questions or may ask questions for clarification. The board may refer to staff or other resources for factual information, direct staff to report back at back at a subsequent meeting and

019or direct staff to place the topic on future agenda items. If someone wants to lodge a complaint against an employee, the appropriate form may be obtained at any school or the community education center. Individual speakers shall be allowed to speak for a total of three minutes on non-aggenda items regardless of the number of issues to be addressed by the individual. The board of education shall limit the total time for public input on non-aggenda items to 21 minutes. Per board bylaw 9323 twice the allotted time will be provided for a member of the public utilizing a translator. With board of education consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard. The president may take a poll of speakers for

020or against a particular issue and may ask that additional people speak only if they have something new to add per board bylaw 9323B- C. Miss Claudia, do we have any public comments on non-aggenda items? >> President Clark, we do have a total of 11, one requiring six minutes. So, that will take us a little over our time with consensus. Do we want to allow for three minutes each or should we reduce time? >> Three sounds good. >> I'm having three minutes. >> Three minutes. All right. So I am going to call the first person up to the board followed by the second. Okay. So on standby we will have Elisio uh Öza and the first person to speak will be Anna Lee. I'm gonna provide accommodations by >> Oh, >> please adjust the time to

021six minutes. Thank you. >> Say hello. >> Hello. >> Okay. >> I'm going provide accommodations by participating in Annalie's individual public comment. Should not count towards my personal time for comment. >> [snorts] >> And do you like school? >> Yes. >> Okay. Do you feel safe at school? >> Sometimes. Okay. Would you want to return if it's safe for you to return? >> Yes. Good job. What do you miss about school? >> My friends. >> Your friends. And what do you like about school? drawing and and and playing with my friends and making new friends. >> Okay. And uh what do you remember about February 26th? I remember about that I bumped my head and a little boy bumped me and he didn't say excuse me. >> Okay. >> Thank you for listening to me.

022>> Thank you guys. >> Thank you. Thank you. We also have Elisio to the podium, please, followed by Miss Brenda. Hi. Good evening, board members. My name's Elisel and I'm Annalise's father. [snorts] I'm here tonight because more than three months after my daughter was injured at school on February 26th, our family still does not have clear answers. We were informed that a review of available video footage and a witness statement were relied upon in determination that was no evidence [snorts] that Annaly hit her head. Yet, as parents, we are still left with questions about what footage was reviewed, what exactly was captured, and how those conclusions were reached. What concerns me most is that despite multiple written requests over the past several months, we still do not have all the records related to the incident,

023including documentation that would help us understand exactly what occurred that day. As a parent, I should not have to spend months requesting records and searching for answers after my child's injured while under the school supervision. I'm not here to argue about what happened frame by frame. I'm here because when a child is injured at school, parents deserve clear, timely, and transparent information. Parents should not have to piece together the story months later through scattered emails and follow-up requests. Parents should not have to repeatedly ask for records that should help explain what happened to their child. The uncertainties surrounding the incident has made it difficult for our family to move forward with confidence and it has contributed to loss of trust that no family should experience when it comes to their child's safety. My concern is

024simple. If my daughter is injured while under the school's care, we should receive accurate information, timely communication, and complete documentation. More than three months later, we're still waiting. We're asking transparency. We're asking for accountability and we're asking for the a commitment that when student safety is involved, families receive the information they need without having to fight for it. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Miss Brenda. To the podium, please. Good evening board members. My name is Brenda Guzman and I am the mother of Annalie, an 8year-old student with cereable policy and autism. Since February 26 when my daughter reported hitting her head while at school and under this district supervision, our family has been trying to resolve concerns regarding her safety, accessibility, accommodations, and ability to safely access her education. Over the past several months,

025we have participated in meetings, submitted requests, and communicated extensively in an effort to address these concerns. I appreciate the efforts that have been made to continue communication and discuss possible solutions. However, because of the complexity Thank you. [snorts] of the issues involved, including safety concerns, accessibility needs, accommodations, and the educational impact on my daughter. I have sought advocate support and am currently awaiting assistance so that future discussions can be as predict productive and meaningful as possible. My goal is not conflict. My goal is collaboration resolution. At the heart of this issue is a child who wants to learn. [snorts] Annalie is a bright and resilient little girl who wants to be with her classmates, participate in school, and access the same educational opportunities as her peers. Instead, she has spent months caught in uncertainty while

026adults continue working through concerns that directly affect her ability to safely attend school. We continue to have unresolved concerns regarding safety, accessibility, accommodations, and the significant loss of instruction she has experienced. My daughter should not be losing months of her education while adults continue trying to figure out how to safely accommodate [snorts] her disability. I am asking for transparency, accountability, and a meaningful path forward that allows Annalie to safely return to school, receive the support she needs, and access her education with dignity and equal opportunity. [snorts] My hope is that we can move beyond unanswered questions and unresolved concerns and work together to ensure that Annalie and all students with disabilities can attend school safely, confidently, and with equal access to the opportunities they deserve. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you, Miss Brenda

027and Miss Lesley. So, the >> I did want to mention our no is not here because he's sick. However, we will need uh the same accommodations moving forward with >> Can you can you repeat that? I'm sorry. >> Our no he was going to be a public speaker as well. >> Public comment. >> Thank you, >> Miss Leslie. To the podium, >> Dr. So, Miss Guzman, you have an email from Miss Hargi on how to request those accommodations. Just submit those requests and then we will respond. I'm here tonight because what happened to my niece at your last boarding board meeting reflects exactly what our family has experienced throughout this entire process. Barriers instead of solutions. Annalie is an 8-year-old child with cerebopal palsy and autism. She has mobility limitations, communication accommodations, and physical disabilities

028that make it difficult for her to sit through extended periods of times. She came to your last board meeting prepared to speak directly to you all. She really wanted to tell you all how much she misses school, how scared she's been since her fall, and how badly she wants a safe place to learn alongside her peers. Before attending the meeting, our family attempted to locate information regarding disability accommodations. We searched the district website, Google, the board meeting page, and public information available online trying to determine how a disabled student could request accommodations to participate in a board meeting. In fact, I encourage every board meeting member sitting here tonight to pull out your phone and try it yourselves. Google Marino Valley Unified School District website board meeting ADA accommodations and locate the information explaining how

029a disabled student, parent, grandparent, or community member can request these ADA accommodations for board meetings. Find the contact person, find the process, find the instructions, then ask all yourselves whether that information is truly easy to locate and accessible to the public. Because our family tried, it was not easy. When we arrived at the meeting, it was explained to Claudia that Annalie could not reasonably be expected to sit through an entire meeting waiting for her opportunity to speak. We explained that we had attempted to make arrangements and had difficulty locating accommodation information beforehand. Instead of working to accommodate a disabled child who was physically present and asking to be heard, we were told accommodation should have been requested in advance. As a result, Annalise sat and waited and waited and waited. More than an hour passed

030and she still had not been called to speak. Eventually, because of her disabilities and physical limitations, she had no choice but to leave. Think about that. An 8-year-old disabled child came prepared to speak to her elected board of education and left without being heard. That should concern every person in this room. Unfortunately, this experience mirrors exactly what our family has experienced for months. Since since February 26, Annalie has not returned to school. She experienced a fall while under district supervision. And despite repeated written requests, our family is still seeking answers and records regarding what occurred that day. At the same time, the district continues proposing solutions that separate Annalie from her peers rather than accommodate her alongside them. Instead of ensuring she can safely access the same restroom facilities as her classmates with appropriate supports,

031our family has been repeatedly been presented with options that isolate her to separate facilities because of her disability. This is not the inclusion Annalie deserves. Annalie should not be missing school because adults can't resolve disability related barriers affecting her safety, dignity, and accessibility and access to commu to education. She deserves to be in school. She deserves to be safe and she deserves to be included. Most importantly, she deserves to be heard. Thank you, >> Miss Titha. Tithia or excuse me, Titha Hubard. I just want to make sure I pronounce your You did. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, Miss Hubard. >> Good evening, board members. My name is Tita Hubard and I am the behavioral therapist who has a privilege of working closely with Annalie and her family. I am here today. It's not

032only to advocate for Annalie, but also for every student with a disability who depends on an adult around them to provide a safe, accessible, and supportive environment. Students with disabilities often face added challenges that require schools to be proactive in ensuring their safety. Access accessibility is not limited to equipment accommodations just on paper. It includes in creating an environment where students can move throughout the school safely with their individuals the sorry the school safely with their individuals needs and are concerned in daily decision-makings and will remain vigilant and protected always to protect them. But concern but what concerns me most about their situation is not only that Annaly reportedly suffered a head injury while under the school supervision but that there are still unanswered questions surrounding what happened. Any incident involving a child hitting their

033head should be treated with the utmost seriousness. The safety of a child should never be underdetermined, overlooked or pushed to the side. one with when questions arise about an injury, transparency between the school and parent should be immediate throughout, thorough and qu and and I'm questionable and unquestionable. The fact that there is no reported footage available related to this incident raises concerns that deserve attention. Parents have the right to understand what happened to their child while their child was entrusted to the school. As a behavioral therapist, I also believe the accountabil account accountability must extend beyond the school. I was taking it upon myself to advocate with my own company on practices that affect the safety of children that we serve. In my professional opinion, we are working with a sorry, we are working with

034a child with cerebopal pausy amongst many other conditions and she requires hands-on attention, active engagement and constant awareness of her environment. My responsibility is to be fully present and attentive to her and my care. I do not believe in attempting to manage a device for virtual supervision sessions and it should never take precedence over a child's immediate safety. Sorry. One thing I have to admire about her parents is that they do not allow disabilities to define her, limit her potential. They advocate for her to take part in learning experiences just like any other child. They have worked hard to ensure that she is given opportunities [snorts] rather than restrictions because her family believes in her capabilities. Today I ask the board to ensure an elite safety. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Marin. to the

035podium, please. Good evening, board members. My name is Myin. I am a family friend of Anna Lee and her friend, her family. I am not here as an attorney, advocate, or employee of the district. I am simply someone who has watched this situation unfold for months and has become increasingly concerned by what I have seen. Analy is an 8-year-old child with cerebral palsy and autism. Like most children her age, she wants to go to school, spend time with friends, learn new things, and feel like she belongs. Instead, she has spent months out of school while her family continues trying to resolve concerns related to safety, accessibility, and basic accommodations necessary for her to access her education. As an outsider looking in, what concerns me the most is not the challenges exist. Every school district faces

036challenges. What concerns me is how difficult it appears to be for this family to obtain answers and solutions. For months, they have attended meetings, submitted requests, provided documentation, and advocated for Anali's needs. Yet, many of the same concerns remain unresolved. I have watched a family ask for accessibility. I have watched a family ask for safety. I have watched a family ask for dignity and inclusion. And I have watched an 8-year-old child remain at a school while those issues continue to be debated. One issue that particular particularly concerns me is that accommodations could not should not result in isolation. Disabled students deserve opportunities to participate along their peers whenever possible. When a child requires support to access school facilities, the goal should be inclusion, dignity, and equal participation, not separation simply because a disability makes accommodations

037necessary. I also attended um recent board meetings and observed concerns regarding accessibility there as well. When a child disabled child wants to address her elected board, the process should be welcoming and accessible, not so difficult that she ultimately leaves without being heard. At the end of the day, this is not about politics. It's not about personalities. It's about an 8-year-old child, a child who wants to feel safe, included, and a child who wants to go back to school. I hope this board will take a close look at the situation and ensure that the district actions reflect not only legal compliance but also compassion, transparency, accessibility, and common sense. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you, Miss Janelle Hayes to the podium, please. Janelle Hayes. >> Oh, my daughter. >> Okay, thank thank you Ka

038Hayes. Kalia Hayes or Kalia Tri, excuse me. [snorts] >> Thank you, Miss Kalia. >> Hi, my name is Kalia and I'm a representative of Marino Valley High School and I have a letter from our team captain team captain for volleyball. Um, my name is Ava White and I'm our girls volleyball team captain. I would have loved to be at the meeting today, but I also happen to be a member of our flag football team and I could not miss practice today. However, I wanted to share my thoughts and support my team to the second best way I could think of. I respectfully ask for your your reconsideration and allowing our team to travel to Hawaii for a tournament this season. As a student athlete, I have been blessed to be part of one of the

039most successful periods in our school's history. During my freshman year, I helped our team win the school's first CIF championship in volleyball. And I'm do and in doing so, break the school's CIF dry streak. This past season, as a junior, I was honored to be named CIF player of the year while helping lead our team to another championship. >> [snorts] >> This opportunity would allow our team to compete against strong programs, represent our school, continue building on the success we have wanted so hard to achieve, and prepare for another strong CIF run. The exper this experience would help us grow, not only as athletes, but also as students and leaders. Thank you for your time and consideration. We would be very grateful for the opportunity to represent our school and community in Hawaii. Thank you

040for your time. >> Thank you. Canel >> Hayes can I'm so sorry I am not doing good tonight. I do apologize. Can you Can you say that again, Mr. Hayes? >> Trail. >> Cantra Hayes. Thank you. I just wanted to correct it for public record. >> And I just want to apologize. I'm in full vacation mode. Um, I don't normally dress like this. All right. Good evening, board president, superintendent, Dr. Rubicaba, um, Dr. Arce, and members of the board. For the record, my name is Cantrell Hayes. As a school counselor at Landmark Middle School for over 10 years, I have I usually stand before this community as an educator. But tonight, my most important title is father. I'm here in full support of the Marino Valley High School girls varsity volleyball team. My daughter Janelle

041Hayes is on that team. She will be a returning junior, a dual sport scholar athlete who carries over a 4.0 GPA and CIF champion. Recently, this remarkable team was invited to compete in a tournament in Hawaii, a rare once-ina-lifetime opportunity. Yet this trip was denied. I am respectfully asking for for an explanation and more importantly for your reconsideration. These young women and their coaches are the exact type of ambassadors we should want representing Marino Valley Unified School District on a national stage. Having attended nearly every game last season, I can personally attest to their dedication. They didn't just win a championship. They modeled what it means to live out excellent on excellence on purpose. They lead with sportsmanship, handle adversity with resiliency, and play with incredible heart. to deny them this opportunity is I believe

042is a disservice to the culture of excellence we are trying to be build here at Marino Valley Unified School District and I urge you to recon reconsider this trip and let these young women show the rest of the community what Marino Valley High School is made of. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Hayes. refuse to mess up another name. This Kiana Pontina, thank you. Turn your mic on. There you go. Okay, we're good. Okay. Dear board members, my name is Kiana Fontino and I am the parent of Kalia Tric, a student athlete at Marino Valley High School. I am speaking today regarding the approval request for the Marino Valley High School girls volleyball team to travel to Hawaii. I would respectfully like to understand the reasoning behind the denial of this request, particularly when other

043high schools within the district have received approval on for similar trips. The Marino Valley High School volleyball program has demonstrated exceptional commitment, dedication, and success. Our athletes have worked incredibly hard to earn the opportunities that come with being a two-time CIF team. Their achievements reflect countless hours of practice, preserv perseverance, and teamwork, and they deserve the same consideration afforded to other student athletes throughout the district. The team has the full support of its parents, coaches, and community. We are committed to helping make this trip a success through fundraising and other efforts. However, the delay in approval significantly impacts our ability to plan, organize, and raise the necessary funds in a timely manner. While we understand that Marino Valley High School is currently without a principal, we respectfully ask the board to consider the effect this

044situation is having on our student athletes. We are seeking your support and approval so these young women can benefit from this valuable educational and athletic experience. Thank you for your time, consideration, and continued commitment to our students. We would appreciate any clarification you can provide regarding this decision and hope you will reconsider approving this opportunity for the Marino Valley High School girls volleyball team. >> Thank you, >> Miss Angela White. To the podium, please. Good evening board. Hi, my name is Angela. I am the mother of Ava White whose letter was read earlier today. I do apologize. She is a multiathlete um multiport athlete. She was not able to be here because she's at practice there. Um I 100% support everything that they said prior to me coming up here. Um, I want this board

045to understand that my daughter has been on this team since she was a freshman. She's been on this team for three years. She's about to be a senior. She is a scholar athlete that has put a lot of time and effort into [snorts] helping this team achieve the the things that they have achieved in a very short amount of time. Um, again, two-time CIF winning um team and on paper, nobody ever thought that we could do this. So, this team has worked really, really, really hard and they have overcome so much adversity. We would be here all night if I started listing off the things. Um, they play in an almost empty gym, which breaks my heart every single game because nobody supports this team in the way that their parents support this team. And

046as Mr. Cantrell mentioned earlier, this is a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity. once in a-lifetime opportunity for many of these girls. We don't understand why we were denied. I'm seriously questioning why we were denied because I know that Canyon Springs Wind Ensemble went to Carnegie Hall in New York earlier this year. I'm told I have no fact basis for this, but I am told that Valley View has gone to Alaska and to Canada in the past. So, I do not understand what the difference is between this team who has earned this trip um being denied this particular trip. If you guys are able to provide an explanation, I would love to hear it as I'm sure the rest of this team would love to hear it. This team looks like an underdog on paper. If anybody looked at

047them um their stats and what before you look at what they've done in the past, you would seriously think that this was the underdog team. Don't sleep on this team. Make no mistake. They work just as hard as everybody else. Were you saying excuse me? I'm sorry. >> Oh, okay. Don't sleep on this team. They work hard, if not harder, than everybody else. Almost every student on this team is a scholar athlete. They deserve this team, and we would love love love to be approved to be able to take this trip. As um um Kiki had mentioned, the sooner you approve it, the the sooner that we can start raising these funds. Make no mistake, the parents are 100% behind this team, and we're going to make it happen for our girls as soon as

048we get the thumbs up. >> Thank you. make a comment. I think you want to make [applause] a comment. Should you wait till the last speaker? Yes, please. Okay. Um, Miss Janelle Hayes. Oh, I just wanted to give her another chance. Okay, no problem. >> Dr. Rubo. >> Yes. So, during public comment, the board is usually not allowed to is not allowed to engage in a back and forth, especially as it relates to non-aggenda items, but I am. Um, so what I want to share is um, regarding Miss Guzman and your family, please know that the staff is following up regarding all the requests that you presented. I know that we've already engaged in some communication and some collaboration, but we will continue to reach out at the end of the meeting. We have staff

049waiting for you back there. They're going to help you or when you choose to walk over so we can identify some next steps. in terms of in terms of the request for Marina Valley High School, um that request has not come to us. So, we don't know why um there was a denial, but it's something that we will look into and if we can make it happen, we're going to make it happen. >> The trip is in September. >> Yep. Yep. So, Dr. RC will help you with that as well. >> Thank you. We are now moving on to >> President Clark, do you mind if we call for a fivem minute quick recess? >> Yes, please. We will have a rest recess at this time. The board will reconvene at, let's just say, 5:55

050p.m. Thank you. It's the The board of education reconvened back into open session at 5:57 p.m. Next, we are going on to public items on excuse me, public comments on agenda items. Any person requesting to speak to any item on the agenda may do so at this time or when the item is addressed by the board of education. Individual speakers shall be allowed to speak for three minutes on any agenda item. The board of education shall limit the total time for public input on each agenda item to 21 minutes. Board bylaw 9323B section 5 per board bylaw 9323 twice the allotted time will be provided for a member of the public utilizing a translator. Miss Claudia, do we have any um uh public comment on agenda items? No public speakers. >> Thank you. Moving on

051to item H, which is comments from the board members. I will start with student board member El Huing. >> Um I don't have much to say. Oh, sorry. [laughter] I don't have much to say. All I wanted to say was congratulations to the class of 2026. Um, it has been an honor to serve as one of your student board members and thank you for allowing me to have this role and yeah, we made it, guys. [laughter] >> Thank you. Moving on to Trustee Lea. Well, you made me cry because it has been a great experience, you know, having student board members, especially because we're able to hear, you know, um their voices and inputs and get ideas. You guys are have been amazing and have provided us with, you know, great conversations and the way

052that you ask questions. you know, you're like kids with adult minds and showed much experience. But anyways, thank you for being here. And to Isabella, even though she's not here, you know, thank you for the time that you guys serve here and the dedication because I know it's must have not been easy to do all those, you know, assignments, homeworks, and still come here and take care of all this. So, thank you. But anyways, I wanted to um celebrate graduations. I had the opportunity to attend, you know, graduations and see um the great achievement, but most of all, I'm grateful to um being sitting here. I have the opportunity to to be in this community since 95 96. And so I know a lot of people that have seen me grown and get old. Um

053cuz I'm 50 years old. [laughter] And um and I was able to see, you know, families um have their greeds and and see them grow um being connected with those families and see kids that they have challenges through life and you know they still do their best and I [snorts] was able to see them graduate. um you know like one of them not being able to have you know his mother here because she was sent to Mexico and um it is hard to see what our students go through and and they still making it you know or um and that's why it's so important that we're investing invested in our community and that um here as a board what we do is to to represent those parents, to represent those students, and we do our

054best. Um, and um, I'm just I'm just thankful and and grateful that even though you guys are so young and um, you are resilient and you work so hard and I'm more than grateful for that. So that's all my comments for today. Thank you, Trusty Jackson. >> Thank you, President Clark. Um, first and foremost, always want to start by thanking the superintendent and cabinet for consistently preparing us and um the several requests that I have in meeting with me when the time when the time permits. So, thank you all to the district team here. I want to start with saying uh I was able to attend a a a handful of events, but I want to highlight just a few here. First and foremost, Chapel Hill celebrated their 20th anniversary as a school. So, it

055was really great to go to shop rail hills and I've been able to visit that school quite some quite often. So, it feels like family being there with Dr. Mashuri and the team. In addition, I wanted to highlight our board governance workshop. As a new incoming trustee, it was really a wealth of knowledge that I got from that that board um governance workshop and just learning more a great deal about our role and responsibilities and also just getting more collegial with my colleagues here as well. So, I really appreciated that opportunity. There were several senior award nights and it just blows me away at the the the incredible ac not only academics but just athletics and all around wholesomeness of our students. Uh I just look back to 10 years ago when I was a

056student and we really thought a 4.5 was shooting for the stars. To hear folks have 4.8 4.886 like it's it's phenomenal. So just congratulations to our senior l congratulations to you. Congratulations to your son as well, Miss Leva, on reaching that milestone of graduation. Again, several award nights, several top scholar events. Also wanted to shout out Chappro Hills. They had their end of the year AP pack um student award and also parent awards. And it was really good to see Chapel Hills come around that student group and population and award them as well. There were several middle school promotions I was able to attend, which was really great. It was a hot week, but nonetheless, our students and families were out there and it was great to be on stage to congratulate them as well.

057Wanted to spotlight the retirement celebration for one of our own, Rosemary Nuriel. And it was really great to want hear from her. You know, a lot of folks were doing speeches that night, but I think hers was the most magnam magnaminous. So, um, hearing from her and seeing how she has fostered an entire, um, generation of educators in our school district was really heartwarming to see. An awesome event was going to Clover Elementary and seeing their BMX performance or assembly. They literally jumped over the principal which was iconic to see. >> Um, and I think that underscores the wealth of experiences that were able to bring to our students at the school side. So, it's incredible that this board provides for opportunities like that as well. It was great to attend Vista Delago and celebrate

058the teacher of the year, John Francis. the techniques that he's using with his students to make sure that his students are reaching reading proficiency are um are amazing and quite humbling as well. Several bachelorate events. It's I I just wanted to underscore that it's great that as a school district we support the IB program and we continue to support that pathway for our students and some of our youngest learners um promoted from TK. So, it was great to be at La Hoya Elementary and see the little ones. They were [laughter] they had incredible performances to see in their little sing along. So, um I it was a privilege to go to La Hoya quite some time uh last week. And so, thank you to Principal Kim Williams over there for always being welcoming. And lastly,

059as you mentioned, we had several district graduations at all of our high schools. Um it was a sprint, but we got through it and it was incredibly humbling to be a part of it as a board member this time around. specifically standing on stage um at at Valley View High School and seeing how I was um in those student seats about 11 years ago. So, congratulations to all of them and also congratulations to our middle college graduates as well. Those are all my comments. Thank you, President Clark. >> Thank you, Trusty Jackson. Trusty Williams. >> Thank you, Miss Clark. I had an opportunity to uh see my godson promote at Senica Elementary and I had never been to an elementary promotion since my own kids and uh I just couldn't believe the sizes of the

060kids. There was a kid there six feet tall. He was 11. My godson was 12 and he was half his size. So I I have to go to more elementary graduations. Um I also wanted to uh make note of uh we had a little conflict with uh the back laurette. Um evidently the Valley View grad night was Sunday night and those graduates I believe missed out on the B laurate because that was scheduled that night. So we really need to be conscientious about the B laurate. Um it's always the second Sunday in June and it it was the 16th annual back laurette and um I know it was the first time that you were there. Um but I think we need to show more support. I I I think this cabinet needs to be there

061and um so looking at that looking at the calendar uh forward uh we have to have to be mindful of that. Um also uh we had a presentation of our mentoring programs last uh board meeting and uh a lot of those programs I have had an opportunity to been to have seen a couple of them in operation and I I like community-based organizations and I think we need to embrace all of those organizations uh and bring them into the fold and support them wholeheartedly. Um, for example, uh, Communities for Children from April to June of this year has delivered services to Chaparel, Hidden Springs, Mountain View at no cost to the district uh, to finish out the school year. And that is what some of our new people who are coming into the district uh

062are echoing uh building communities, building around families and communities. And uh the last thing I want to bring up is the importance of our alternative education programs. There was a young lady who was struggling um with mental health and she was able to secure her diploma because of our alternative program in Mavoa and that I am thankful for and you know if it's one student then we have the program And so those are my comments. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trustee Williams, Vice President Luna. Thank you, President Clark. First of all, happy Pride Month, everyone. Um, also, happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there, especially my dad. I'm Sammy. He's Samuel. I got I was named after him. I was supposed to be a boy named Samuel, but I'm just Sammy. For those

063that think my name is legally Samantha, it's not. It's Sammy. >> That's right. >> Yes. Um, also I want to mention Junth. Uh, the city is hosting a Juneenth event this Friday, everyone. So, if you're in town, I won't be, but if you're in town, please come and celebrate. That's always a great event that the city hosts. It's from 6 pm to 10 p.m. Um, also something I would be remiss to not talk about, class of 2026, congratulations, especially to our student board member Ellen Isabella. So proud of you guys. Um, you have brought sunshine and insight and a whole new perception to this board. Thank you. Thank you for everything that you all have done for us. Um it's it's definitely, you know, we used to be kids, but and I know you're the

064closest one, Mr. Jackson, 11 years ago, but um sometimes when you grow up, you forget what it's like. and you all bring us some insights to that. But you you do it in such a mature professional manner that you know we sometimes for even forget that you're students because you all you all definitely uh do a great job. So we're going to miss you. Thank you for everything that you've done. Please keep in touch. Um and then I want to give a huge huge gratitude to Miss Claudia and Miss Robin. you all. They have the job of trying to get all board members to every graduation on time and that is not an easy task amongst making sure everything else is in place and you would never know all the hard work that goes behind

065all the graduations. So, a huge gratitude to both Miss Claudia and Miss Robin. Thank you so much. and and everybody else who had anything to do with the graduations. We just show up, walk and it's done and we're happy and the students are happy, but I know there's a lot of work that goes behind it and you would just never know it. It's just amazing. Every everything was beautiful and I think u Miss Brandy, I'm sorry I don't I know you're going to say this too, but it's my favorite time of year too. It's it's it's so beautiful. It's so beautiful to have all that positive, beautiful energy and celebrate all the achievements of our students. So, it's almost like, you know, that's that's what we're here for besides everything else, academic achievement, of course,

066um, and sense of belonging. But just to see them all graduate, that's just it's amazing. So, that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, Vice President Luna. And yes, it is my favorite time of the year. Congratulations to the class of 2026. I want to say a special shout out to student board member Elle Healing and student board member Isabella Carbio. Your leadership and service has been unmatched and I'm just so grateful that we had the opportunity to serve alongside you and we will be welcoming in our new our new trust uh student board members that are coming up soon and they are ready and ready and willing to work. We did attend our um governance workshop and that's the the time that we all come together as a governance team to establish

067new governance norms to understand each other's values, cultures and what trustee areas need. And it is a great experience and we get the opportunity to serve alongside each other not just on the dis but in that special form. And I just want to send a reminder that although there are governance norms or board policies that we have in place for years, we always can do a refresher depending on the climate, culture and times to change things. And that's our role. So, I just want to let everyone know that as the president, we are flexible. As a superintendent in the cabinet, they are flexible. We can change things. And just because we've always done it a certain way doesn't mean it always has to stay that way. We are evolving. We are open. And I just

068want to send that and shout it out to all of us. So, yeah. And that and that's okay, right? I wouldn't want to serve with any other board but this one, even you, Trusty Williams, because you're the best. [laughter] So, um I also want to talk about um uh our uh the calendar. This was something that was brought up and I just want to reiterate that we know that we have these items that go on year-over-year and they're very special and I want to be intentional about our communities and the people we serve. It may look like a little oversight to some people but it's very very important to our community. I even found out that we don't have a a um a tent or a place on Junth and we should always have that,

069right? Because in Marino Valley Unified, we we've always had it in years past. And I want to make sure that if we do, if we can't get there this year because it's too late, I want it to be known that it's very important that we do this year over year, time after time with no exceptions, right? Um happy Pride Month. Yay. Yes. I'm really excited about that. And I just want to share some positive leave on a positive note. Um, this district is a very special district. I am so excited about the new principles that are coming to our district, the new leadership, the new innovative ideas. I also want to encourage the community to keep coming to the board of education. That's why we're here. Sometimes you may think the board is aware or

070the superintendent is aware or even the cabinet is aware and we may not be. So, please reach out to us. Reach out to the superintendent. Reach out to the board of education. Come let your voices be heard. That's why we're here. We're all here to serve you. I think that one thing that we all have common ground is that this cabinet superintendent and this board of education is here to serve. So, please don't let rumors get in the way. Come here, speak to us. We are pro you. So, thank you and wishing everyone a good evening. Superintendent Rubikava, you're up. Thank you, President Clark. Uh, just a couple of things I want to share. Again, congratulations to the class of 2026. Uh, incredible work done by our team to get all the promotion and commencement

071ceremonies ready and prepared to carry them out. And everyone uniquely uh, beautiful and distinctly unique to each individual campus and site. And that was always great to see. L and Isabella, if you're watching, congratulations to you. Thank you for serving on the board. I echo what our trustees have said. Uh you have bright futures and we hope that you keep in touch because we want to see all the amazing things that you do. Also, as we end the year, want to uh send my sincerest thanks and appreciation to our amazing staff. You know, we're we're now on the verge of starting summer break. And I hope that you spend your time relaxing and rejuvenating and re and reflecting on the year that passed. our teachers and support staff and administrative team. The work we do

072could not be done without you. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all you do. I also want to give a special thank of you who go extra and stay with us during the summer and participate in our extended learning and our summer programs and our summer projects. Um, many of you have the option of taking the summer off completely, but you choose not to choose to stay and continue to work with our students. So, thank you for that additional effort that you do on behalf of our students and our communities. And then lastly, um I want to send a um just thoughts and prayers and positive energy. We have a lot of staff members that are currently being impacted by the fires um over in the Kamesa area, Bowmont area. Please know that

073we are with you and we're thinking of you. If there's anything we can do to support you, we are here. And also want to remind staff and anybody who's watching that Valley View High School is an evacuation center. So if you need somewhere to stay, uh Valley View is open for you. Those are my comments. >> Thank you kindly, Dr. Robocaba. Moving on to agenda item J1, public hearing of the draft local accountability uh plan, LCAP. Um I declare the public hearing open. Dr. Arce, please provide the presentation. Thank you very much, President Clark. Hello to our board of education and to our community. I'd like to um ask Miss Brown to come up, please. Come on. A as you know, every year uh the local control accountability plan is something that all of educational

074services works on in partnership with business services. Huge partnership with business services and as well as human resources. But it takes someone to lead that work. And I always present this every year to you. Uh, and every year I we go through something called Fastpass where we work with Riverside County Office of Education. They tell us what we need to fix. We go and we fix it. I want to tell you that this is the first year we probably have record numbers of least number of meetings. And that couldn't have happened without the leadership and guidance from Miss Brown. So, at this time, I know I always present this, but I would like to turn it over to Miss Brown to present the local control accountability plan um so that the board can take action

075next week. And if you have any questions, um you are welcome to ask either one of us. But I want to thank you publicly for everything that you do and you've done and you will continue to do because this plan is amazing because you are a great leader with it. Thank you, Miss Brown. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. RCA for allowing me the opportunity to present the draft LCAP. Um I just want to say um uh thank you to our board president uh Dr. Ruvacaba uh board and cabinet and this is our draft present presentation of the draft of the LCAP. I'm going to go really quickly well not too quickly but in enough time so you can get an understanding of what this presentation is. So, um, every year

076we have to have the LCAP draft to be presented. Um, and then within, uh, a week of that, you have to present the final draft of the LCAP. And then you have 5 days to turn it over to present to the county for final approval. And also tonight, what is also going up is the draft of the budget as well. So, the 2427 LCAP, this is the we're presenting the last year of the three-year LCAP. I'm waiting on the screen that I have the clicker. All right. So, our vision and mission statement as always is to empower students to become future ready and positively impact the world. Um usually when we uh when our uh sites build their SIPs, we also use information from the SIPs to build the LCAP which is the vision and

077mission is the portrait of a graduate is the foundation of some of the key components of our LCAP and all of our sites uh the SIP are aligned to the LCAP and each component of the LCAP is aligned to the five district goals and the budget is also so there's a budget section for goal number one a budget section for goal number two and so forth. So the elements of the strategic plan at MVUSD if you look these are all the components that go into building the LCAP. you uh all of you have had some opportunity or participated in a meeting or two or an opportunity to collaborate with families as a part of these elements whether it was uh the uh looking at the SWAT analysis during student meetings or whether it was during

078our board study sessions or whether it was during our parent advisory committees. So if you look this is how the LCAP is broken down is broken down into five goals and actions and everything that we do must be connected to this plan. So at the district level as I shared is the LCAP and then we look at the grants we do a plan timeline we look at pro uh programs and then through the superintendence update and then on a site levels of course uh is the SYPA which is what you'll be presented with um next week. So as you can see the alignment between the goals and the connections to the priorities of the LCAP uh the state priorities of the LCAP. So LCAP services and supports action items to today I'm going to present

079year three of three. So, the LCAP is a three-year plan and just know uh and it and it includes goals, actions, services, and expenditures to support positive student outcomes that address state and local priorities. It provides the opportunity for the LEA and the county of office of education, school districts, and charter schools to share their stories of how, what, and why programs and services are selected to meet the local needs. So these are the components of the LCAP. There is the budget overview for parents. There is the annual update. There's the plan summary. There are engaging educational partners, goals and actions, increased or improved services for foster youth. And these are unduplicated pupil uh accounts counts, action tables, and instructions. And every component of this LCAP must be in place before the county uh accepts

080it as an approvable LCAP. if it's missing certain pieces of it, they'll send it back for corrections. And then Dr. Arce shared, I did like a data analysis. So my first year of the LCAP, we sent it back to the county about 12 times back and forth. Last year it was seven times. This year only twice. So, but it but it took a lot of work and I had the team of the ED services department because it really is a collaborative piece of work and then getting input from everything that the families put in to build this LCAP. So, it was a team effort to get this done. So, if you look this is our timeline from July to October and from February to March in um in January February I believe I presented the

081midyear LCAP. So we do have to give the update. So this is the timeline as you can see. And now what happens is we hold the public hearing and we must adopt the LCAP by June 30th. And then once it is adopted by June 30th, it goes to the county office of education and they send an approval letter around August 15th through the 18th. Okay. So this is the link. So, this is the opportunity for families to view our LCAP uh uh to make comments on it. And this is the link to the draft of the LCAP and it is still in its draft version. So, if everything is good, we'll present it next Tuesday for approval. And these are the components of the LCAP as we shared before especially the budget overview for parents

082the annual update and then you look at the plan summary and also introdu introduction and instructions and that the uh binder that we give you. It's about a 200page binder. Um I can't wait till we do the LCAP next year. Maybe we can reduce some of the pages. They're they're making some changes with the LCAP to to minimize the redundancy because they notice that there are some things that are repeated that should not. So, we'll see what that looks like as we get ready for the 2728 LCAP. So, here's the budget overview for parents. This is what our budget looked like this year, 2526. So, our total budget was $124,296,911. After we did second interim and our UPP count came back a little higher, the budget ended up being $128,11,999. So, there was an adjustment.

083So, here we are this year. There was an increase in our UP count, our unduplicated pupil count. So now our budget is $131 million for this year. Um if you notice, you can see the budget table. Uh that's total general funding expenditures with six o over 677 million. But if you look at the total total budgeted expenditures in the LCAP is 131 for the LCAP supplemental with the concentration grant. the remaining funds that 150 includes the LREBG which the state says now we have to include whatever is remaining for LREBG and that's learning recovery educational block grant into the LCAP and it's identified as other state funds. So the funding is still restricted to uh that type of spending but we have to include that amount in the LCAP. So, it's $30 million left in

084LREBG. And last night, I believe you saw that there was 15 million scheduled for this year, 15 million scheduled for next year. And I had to write that in the LCAP that we have 30 million remaining. And then on top of that, we get an equity multiplier uh amount. And that equity multiplier is for our alternative ed sites, Marge Mountain, Bayside, and Marino Valley Online Academy, which is about over $4 million a year. So you add the 131 plus equity multiplier plus L rebg and here you have the total that's budgeted in the LCAP for equity multiplier that amount comes from the students uh the mobility rate of the students who come in and out and the higher because it's alternative ed kids come in they leave and they base that on that number for

085equity multiplier. So, the site that gets the most money is Marino Valley Online Academy, which is over $2 million a year. All right. And so these this is how we engage our educational partners through weekly as services directors meetings, monthly meetings with business services, parent student LCAP advisory meetings, the alliance task force, staff advisory, DAXs, our uh uh meetings with our special education parents, weekly cabinet. So all of this information is collected as input for building the LCAP. And we want to say a huge thank you to our educational partners. This is information on if you would like to see what information was put as a result of the meetings that we held uh surveys, input from students, input from staff, what happened at the director panel. You can see links here to data dashboard

086data and uh engagement opportunities. So this is the money piece. So this is what where funds are allocated. So goal one 76 million that's how much is allocated for goal one college and career uh 20 over 23 million equitable opportunities over 22 million. So if you notice that amount 22 million remember goal three has the lbg in there so that accounts for that 15 million as well and uh rigorous learning environment over 6 million and effective communication 2 million and here are our goals for equity multiplier and you can see March Mountain and Bayside 727,000 uh ELA uh English and language arts for Marino Valley Online Academy, over $1 million uh dollars. And then mathematics at March Mountain and Marino Valley Online Academy, close to 2 million as well. And then suspension rates at March

087Mountain, $175,000. And for coronic absenteeism at Marino Valley Online Academy, over $200,000. And that is our total amount for equity multiplier. And then our next steps, continue to seek input from educational partners, seek board approval on the June 23rd meeting, and then also on the local indicators, which will also be presented next week, as well as the federal addendum and our SIPs and continue to impact student achievement through LREBG, concentration grant, community schools grant, and expanded learning opportunities. So after collecting data from all of our board meetings, looking at our LCAP indicators, these are some proposed actions for continuous improvement, safety and seal expanded anonymous reporting and restorative restorative frameworks um because student safety is optimum and then culture because that was a major concern is that staff needing that unconscious bias training and then

088in cultural sensitivity and then PBIS. Um, one of the things that we've included in the LCAP is a PBIS platform for all sites so we can be uniform. And then uh building those connections, having those intentional peer-to-peer family networking sessions. That was one of the suggestions that came from our uh culture and climate survey. Parents wanted to connect more with other parents to see what services and supports are available in our district and to raise that sense of belonging. And if we focus on these areas, it will raise student achievement, uh, math, literacy, and future readiness. Any questions? Uh, you can you can view the LCAP here at this, uh, QR code, and it's also linked to our website. Any questions? Thank you. >> Thank you. Any questions? Starting with student board member Huie. >>

089No questions, but thank you for your presentation. >> Thank you. Trusty [clears throat] Lea. >> Thank you, President Clark. Um, I have no questions, but I do have comments like, um, [clears throat] I just want to say thank you for the time and your dedication and, um, cuz I know it's a lot of work and a lot of information. Um, I know, you know, through parents that they're very grateful that, you know, their input and concerns have been taken into consideration. So, I really appreciate that. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty [clears throat] Lever. Trusty Jackson. >> Thank you, President Clark. Miss Brown, it's always a pleasure. Um I I appreciate how it's only been seven back and forths between the district and the county. Um in that back and forth, there were

090um or cumulatively in this draft, there were several proposals that will change the LCAP and some of the priorities. Correct. >> Uh yes. Uh so at Wait, explain to me changes. So I was at a state and federal director's meeting um and they shared that the total template for the LCAP they may change to decrease some redundancy or reduce the >> and redundancy. So I wish I had my LCAP guide in front of me. Um I have it at home but I the reason why I usually have it in my portfolio but I know it's some of those priorities listed there like 1.5 and some of those things um not specifically 1.5 but some of those were recommended to be taken out. Right. >> Yes. So if you look at the LCAP, there were a

091couple of the goals and actions. >> The goals and actions. Thank you. >> The goals and actions that were already consolidated. We just skipped the number uh for the sake of preserving the order of the LCAP. But next year we are going to look at it and there are some we did I talked about it with Dr. RSE and we did say that some of the actions could be combined and consolidated and that'll probably minimize the number of pages included. [laughter] That makes sense. There was a document I was reviewing. It was from our Friday memo somewhere in the weeds of there and it had all of the different the additions, deletions that were going to be in the LCAP. Yes. Um with some of those deletions, does that mean those line item funding um

092allocations are going to be gone as well? >> Um or like you said, it's going to be consolidated and we'll see that funding go somewhere else? >> No. What happened was because that particular goal and action uh really fell under another goal in action. Okay. The funds the goal just got consolidated into one particular goal and the funds went to that goal along with it. >> Thank you. And another question I had this actually kind of goes to our our special study session that we had yesterday. Unduplicated pupils. Um it's you know the word unduplicated speaks for itself. So, a student that has two identifiers or all three identifiers, who makes the decision which identifier they're they're qualified under? Like, if you're a low socioeconomic and also um a foster youth, which one are you

093counted as? >> So, I would defer to Mrs. Lopez. It's a cow pads, correct? >> Yes. So the determination of that is there's actually a report it's referred to as a 1.17 report which is one of the calpads report and in that report it's each one is reported in all of the categories that they fall under and then at the very end it just gives you the unduplicated. So they still remain in the categories. So, as a district, you can still see the number of students that qualify for lowinccome, that qualify for foster youth, um that qualify for English language learners. That information is not lost. Okay? >> The unduplicated simply comes into the funding, not necessarily by group, but just overall as a district. So, the information is still there. Okay. >> Um and

094summarized in that report. >> Okay. So, that that categorization is out of the district's hands essentially. Okay. >> Yes. And uh my one more time, >> you're only funded for that student once, but they stay in their category categorical buckets. >> Correct. 100%. Um and my last question was the LCAP being a three-year plan. Why overall every year is it updated? >> Well, one is the first interim changes the amount. >> Okay. So you have to go and reallocate those funds based on input. >> Another one is there's a goal analysis component to it. >> So when you do the goal analysis, they look was the goal effective, was it not effective? And then if it wasn't effective, you have to add information as to why it wasn't, why it worked. And then they like

095to look at overall implementation. What exactly did you do? Did you do what you said you were going to do with the money? And if you didn't, give a reason why. So that's why it's updated and then they talk about the funding which is material differences and then at the end they ask for what changes. So if the up amount changes the funding changes so we have to put in that component okay this goal increased by $100,000 and this will be applied to this particular goal and action and so forth. So that's why it has to be updated. Now the actual goal and action itself remains the same. There are some components of the goal that they those are like standing items but when you go into the actual goal the activity and what you're

096doing you may have to change some things like for example one I had to give a a further explanation on how LREBG is researchbased. So, I had to go in and tweak it. And there are some things the county they didn't catch for the last 10 years, but they caught it this year. And and of course, you know, me being I was like, well, why? Never mind. We'll fix it. And so sometimes it's based on recommendation and then definitely it's always based on the goal analysis piece. >> I think there's also recognition that conditions in a school district can change dramatically overnight. So that this document is often referred to as a living document. >> Okay. >> Um during the pandemic, everybody had to go back and change all their LCAPS to account for distance

097learning for example. So there is a recognition from the state level that it has to be responsive to the demands of the district which can change from day to day. >> Yeah, that's beautiful. Um are there any huge like top lines that you're super excited to see about the new updated um in the new updated draft of the LCAP? like anything that we'll see very topical like you know maybe expanded programs or anything. >> One area that we saw uh huge uh well one area that we're working on an increase is student technology and software programs um and then also the online tutoring piece and then providing those additional services and supports to uh for alternative uh CWA alternatives. So looking at student services and looking at the PBIS platform and looking at how we

098can support students for those restorative practices. Those are some of the areas that we saw some of the greatest additions. But then because of COLA increase mostly all the areas that has staff had to we had to add most of that funding to account for the increase in uh the the the increase in salaries and cost benefits. >> Thank you for mentioning that. I have no further questions. >> Thank you, Trusty Jackson. Trusty Williams. >> Thank you, Miss Clark. Um, Miss Brown, um, I'm I'm looking at the vision, mission, goals, outcomes, actions, progress monitoring, data, quantitative, and qualitative. What did you glean from that data as far as student engagement and client and climate? >> Uh, one of one of the areas was the culture and climate survey that we did. So, looking at that

099where we had most of our parents favorable as it relates to that sense of belonging, but looking at the area of culture where we saw it was a uh not as strong in elementary or middle. So that was a data point. Uh the number of Chromebooks that were sent out for onetoone devices that was a major component. Another piece of data that we highlighted was even though we our suspension rate is not zero, we still see a decline in suspension rate. Our chronic absenteeism rate is not where it should be, but we still saw a decline in chronic absenteeism rate. Another area where I really got excited is I saw the amount of growth that happened at our alternative ed sites as it relates to uh the student engagement piece. But one thing that I

100really and Dr. Arce is that when you look at when you look at uh uh B bridges learning center let's do it as a whole. So, one of the things that they highlighted because I looked at their distance from standard in ELA and math and it was really really like high if you look at below C level. So, when they they talked to me, they said, "Well, really their distance from standard is really not that high. They're like in the 80s, but the data reflects over 180." And I was like, "Well, why?" They said, "We want you to note that it was because of the participation rate penalty." And the way that works is that the school is penalized for if the student participation rate is 90 less than 95%. So however many percentage points

101below that 95% the score is penalized and so the school site takes a larger hit if you don't get a 95% participation rate. >> So that was one data point. And then of course the uh one thing I did notice too uh giving credit to Dr. Verie is that our number of teachers who are unassigned has definitely decreased over a three-year period. So I wanted to share that. So those were some of the points that when you know you're typing and you get excited you know and those are some of the points that's all. >> Well thank you. >> Thank you. You had a lot of one time what I'm really excited about. I'm sorry. I really appreciate that trustee. Thank you, Trusty Williams. Vice President Luna, >> Miss Brown, thank you as always. Wonderful

102presentation. Uh, one of the things that I want to see, but I'm maybe you can clarify this. I know Dr. Dr. Ruokava kind of said we can't spell this out necessarily, but one of our student groups that is not acknowledged in here is the LGBTQ plus students. So, I just want to either if maybe you can tell me uh if there's a way for us to include them or um there's a specific group that that we we we're focusing on that that they're included or I just want us to have oversight on those students because um I think we all know um that they are susceptible um as are other groups to um you know um not not succeeding sometimes because of that. So I don't know if you if you have any feedback on

103that or >> uh absolutely actually being the director over equity I think I've spoken uh and e and I have talked on how can we focus on all significant student groups and get additional resources whether we're supporting our LGBTQ whether we're supporting our American Indians and that's really my goal. um this year is to do what I can to provide those resources to make all groups in our community feel welcome. So, we actually we looked at um our communications component and adding a little more funding to increase that student engagement piece. And we do have a a PD with all of our team on the 7th of August to talk about what the student engagement look like in our district and plan activities and events that will focus on improving that sense of belonging. So,

104uh, and we do hope to give you some feedback later on what we're doing and give you a list of activities and events and conferences that we could share with our staff and students to attend. So I also want to share a little bit of the conversation that Vice President Luna and I had. So when we think about the LCAP, it's meant to serve specifically the students that are on duplicated count students, right? And right now this the state does not recognize our LGBTQ plus students as a student group. >> So actually adding action specific to those in the LCAP is challenging because we wouldn't be able to one identify the students. There's no way in our systems and the state to tag a student as that. And so writing goals and developing uh actions

105and then measuring those actions make it difficult. I think the other part of it is just the pragmatics of it as we look at our students. How do we have a conversation with students so that they can say yes I am or I'm not and then tag them into a system. And with the new Supreme Court or um order that just came out where we have to notify parents, are we then potentially putting students at risk by asking those questions where then we now are obligated to report to families once they've let us know? So there so we run a fine line between providing support but also not and I'm sorry I can't think of a better word but outing students who maybe are not ready to be outed or come forward and or are

106still struggling with that dynamic. And I think the last part which to me is kind of the most important is there's a lot of research nationally that talks about how vulnerable our LGBTQ plus population is. But on a at a district level we don't have enough data to make the onetoone correspondence to say just because they are LGBTQ plus means that they're struggling. We we don't want to make that assumption because a lot of our LGBTQ plus students are actually doing extremely well, exceptionally well and we don't have the data to that tells us otherwise. So, so one of the things that we talked about is exactly what um Miss Brown just mentioned. How do we call them out as students that we want to make sure we keep an eye out in a plan,

107but not call them out in terms of, oh, yes, Alex is or isn't and put me at risk of potentially making myself vulnerable to, you know, society. >> Yeah. >> I hope that makes sense. >> Yes, it does. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Brown. on one more thing. Um, and if I'm off here, let me know. But when I was going through um some of our plans for um improving some of our actions, some of the things that I didn't see, like what are our targeted metrics or anticipated results on some of our solutions to the issues that we're addressing? Um, I don't know if that's I don't know if we specifically put that in here, but I kind of like to see what we're hoping to achieve. And then so when we look

108at this again, okay, did we achieve that, you know, or are we setting up realist realistic expectations for oursel, I just feel like we should have like a goal and we should be able to at least try to reach that. I don't know if that's does that make sense? >> It does make sense. Um, and and thank you for sharing that because as we get ready to build the I know it's a year out, but as we go into the next cycle of the LCAP, then we can get more information on specific metrics that you're looking for. I know we're focusing on sense of belonging and we do have a metrics in for this culture and climate survey and then we are focusing on communication with parents. how many of them are opening the newsletters

109that are going out. So those metrics are in there and we are measuring uh using that as a metric for some of our goals and actions. >> Yes. And I just like to add every single goal is divided into two parts. One is metrics. So there's a list of metrics that we use. We've updated that from the last rendition to this one. Um and then the second part are the actions. How are we going to meet those metrics? I just want to give a quick highlight. This is very preliminary. We don't it's not for sure. Uh but for example, we've had a metric of meeting A through G 65% or higher for years and we were at 29%. Then at 40%, then we were at 45 and then the COVID hit and we're back to

11029%. Um I I don't want to get very excited. I don't want to get too excited, but we will probably have some school sites over that 65%. So if we meet that goal then we adjust the metric but in the next three years if we don't meet that goal then we need to readjust to determine what is realistic to meet within three goal three years. So um as you go through the through the LCAP please look at the two-part metrics uh followed by actions. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you Miss Brown. >> Thank you. I don't have any questions or comments. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Yeah, Miss Claudia, do we have any public speakers for the hearing? No public speakers. Thank you. Colleagues, are there any questions or comments

111or additional questions or comments? I would just note um is there an opport has there been an opportunity for us to as a board review the edits to the LCAP from last rendition to this rendition for us to kind of go through it peacemail or is our opportunity during next meeting June 23rd to walk through those edits. >> So that process is now presenting you're presenting the first draft. Gotcha. >> And so there's an opportunity for you to ask questions, suggest edits. But also the other piece I want to reiterate is what Miss Brown mentioned. This is also an opportunity for our community. Yeah. To ask questions and we're required by law to respond to those questions in writing and actually publicize those questions and answers on our website. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

112>> Any any additional? >> Okay. I declare the public hearing closed. On to item agenda item J2, public hearing and presentation on the proposed 2026-2027 budget. I declare the public hearing open. Mrs. Lopez, please provide the presentation. Thank you, President Clark. Um, we've got more budget information. [laughter] Um, so this evening we're presenting the public hearing on the budget presentation. We're hoping it is a brief presentation because yesterday uh during our stabilization plan presentation, we did incorporate a lot of the information regarding the 2627 budget, but we want to make sure that we still go through the process of this. So, I'm going to go ahead and um as we mentioned yesterday, our vision to empower students and uh to become future ready and positively impact the world and having a fiscal uh a solvent

113fiscally solvent school district is something that is needed to make sure that we encompass and are able to meet all of our goals. So, what is a public hearing and what is the requirement? Very similar to the LCAP. Um, a public hearing is required prior to the adoption of a school district budget and there's actually ED code that goes along with it. Uh, the requirements for the budget are a little bit different. It's still almost a old school way of doing things. The actual notice is still published in a a general circulation newspaper. Our COE does the publication for us and our budget forms are physically available and they have been uh between June 9th and June 12th and that's the opportunity that the public has to review the budget and so I do want

114to report that we are in compliance with all of that and when we checked earlier today there's actually there was no comments on any of the forms. Uh just a couple of slides that are review slides from yesterday evening. uh looking at our enrollment and our attendance. And the reason we still focus on enrollment and attendance is that this is really uh the foundation of building a budget, right? As we've shared many many times, the majority of our revenues are dependent on our actual attendance and that's why that's a key component. And so obviously enrollment projections are are very significant and a key assumption that needs to be closely monitored. So you can see that here on our enrollment and then our 10-year attendance history. Uh this slide is uh one that we did not

115go over yesterday. So I'll spend a little bit more time on this. And this is actually our assumptions. Uh we had discussion on it, but here is a table that again will indicate what the assumptions were in building the budget. And if you recall, we shared that it really is up to the district um for the assumptions that can be controlled at the district level on things like the attendance and the enrollment and so forth. And then there's assumptions provided to us by the state. And so on this table, you can see the three-year assumptions that are used for statutory cola. Statutory cola is again what the governor is projecting today. And we had a lot of discussion yesterday about why you would or would not include that number and being consistent to our practice

116thus far. We are including the actual cola of the 2.87 for 2627 because that is information that we know. And then for 2728 you can see what the projected colas are 3.3 and 3.09%. However, for our planning purposes and for our multi-year projections, we are utilizing 0% cola in the outy years. Okay. Our unduplicated pupil percentage, as we previously shared, uh we utilize a three-year rolling average, and that three-year rolling average has now stabilized. And so, you can see that there's very little changes in that percentage. Uh you can see our enrollment, our attendance, um and then our mandated block grant and our lottery assumptions that we also reviewed last night. And again, these two are amounts funded amounts that are given provided to us by the state. So when you take a look at

117the breakdown of our revenues and again another visual that should be very familiar to you 95 over 95% of our revenues are tied to local control funding formula on the unrestricted side and very little um when it comes to state revenues and local revenues. And just like we have assumptions on the revenues, we also have assumptions for our expenditures and you can see them outlined here. Uh the first one and a very significant one that impacts our budget is what we refer to as step and column. And so there is a cost to a salary schedule. So if we give you an example um the way that salary schedules work is that typically you will start at a beginning step or sell on the salary schedule and then as the years go by you are

118advancing. So the cost of maintaining the same employees would increase year after year. Now, once you've reached the top of the salary schedule, there isn't a cost associated with that, but the exercise that we do in our office to try to estimate that dollar amount is we go through and run scenarios on how many employees will be advancing on a salary schedule on each given year. That amounts to approximately for our district about 1.56% which translates to about a $6 million amount for 2627. So remember when we were showing the multi-year projections and we were showing that expenditures were escalating. That's one of the reasons why step and column is a very significant um cost to that and you need to keep in mind that this is also a dollar amount that's going to change

119right as you hire new employees. You might be hiring employees that you might say we might have savings up front because we might be replacing a teacher and that's they're least expensive today but over time they're going to have that cost built into step and column. So, just wanted to make sure because we that's something we didn't touch on yesterday. Um, when it comes to our retirement plans, we have the state teachers retirement system, which is the stirs, which most certificated employees belong to. And you can see that percentage hasn't changed, which is good because we're not seeing additional increases. But what this means is that when you have an employee, you would take the dollar amount of whatever their salary might be and for retirement alone, if it's a certificated employee, you need to

120calculate an additional 19.1% in retirement cost and if it's a classified employee, which most classified employees fall under the public employee retirement system, it's 26.4%. So, that's something that um when when Miss Brown was here talking about the escalating salary cost and having to make adjustments, that would be a reason why the budgets have to be adjusted because as these percentages fluctuate and usually they're increasing, um you need to account for that in your budget. Uh this is the visual that shows the breakdown of our salary of our total expenditures on the unrestricted side. And again, just like we shared yesterday, on the unrestricted side, it's about 88% that we spend on salaries and benefits. You do see the percentage breakdown between certificated, management, and classified. We do lump all employee benefits together. Um but

121again that's one of the reason why it's difficult to make adjustments to a budget without impacting personnel. So, if we take a a look at our multi-year projections, and this is what we reviewed yesterday, but I'll quickly go through it today because one thing that uh was not included in yesterday's presentation was a request um that we've added for that bottom line on the bottom that just indicates how many one-time expenditures we have in the budget. Now, at the beginning of the of the budget year, it's a little bit more difficult because it's going to be few instances that we know of. Usually, it's during the year where we will encounter different situations where we might need to allocate more funds for one-time expenditures. But for 2627 again uh projecting revenues of 500 million expenditures

122of 400 million other sources and uses this is that contribution to our special education programs as well as the required 3% reserve for routine repair maintenance program. uh those two programs uh 112 million and that means that we are projected to deficit spend as was shared yesterday for next year 12.3 million and so our beginning balance goes from 113 million to a h 100red million but we are including uh just a little over $800,000 in one-time expenditures in next year's budget in 2728 again uh not including any colas because we are not changing that practice. So there's zero cola reflected in those revenues projected to deficit spend 29 million and in 282942 but by that third year out that ending fund balance would be 28.4 million which still would meet the required 3% reserve. So

123we still would be submitting an approved budget. Again, just like we shared yesterday, whatever changes, whatever updates are made, adjustments are made as we present financial information to you, we would be making updates to this because it is again just a a living document. So, when we take a look at the restricted revenues, again, just um you're not seeing anything tied to local control funding formula, but many of our grants are still tied to ADA and enrollment. And so just want to make sure we mention that uh over 76% of the revenues are are state. Um and in yesterday's exercise we went through the various examples of what some state revenues might be as well as federal revenues of 22% and local revenues of 1.1. And then again, as a review to last night, the

124um classification of expenditures looks very different on the restricted side with only about 57 58% being spent on salaries and benefits. And that's because a lot of the one-time monies don't allow you to to utilize it for salaries and benefits. So, this is the breakdown on the restricted side. And then this slide is new. This is our multi-year projections for the restricted funds. And if you think about it, um, as we shared, we received the money upfront for many of these one-time grants. And so, you're seeing high balances. And you can see that our local, even though our total revenues are projected to stay the same, you can see that the expenditures are are pretty high. And and the reason for is we are spending these one-time funds. Um yesterday there was a question about

125if we're seeing the negatives on the unrestricted what would we see on the restricted side and you could see that you have uh positive amounts here under other sources and uses and so that's something that yesterday um we didn't share because we did not have the restricted at the time but you can see here that other sources and uses here is a positive figure And um you see that in all three years. And then our net increase and decrease you can see um again we continue to deficit spend on the restricted side looking taking our beginning balance from 131 to 55. If we are looking at just to summarize and again this is just sort of a visual um to what is happening to our reserves. Um we had shared that as a district we

126have committed reserves and last night we reviewed the five different categories that we have committed reserves to. You see that reflected here on this chart in gray. Um the yellow, the goldish color is our restricted balance. And you can see that our restricted balances are higher, but they are decreasing. And that's because you are utilizing your restricted funds. You're utilizing your one-time funds. And I know that I've shared um with the board um previously that if you look at 1920, that gold was very small. And that's because the pandemic really brought back a lot of these restricted or categorical programs which the purpose of local control funding formula was to consolidate everything and you saw that reflected in very low restricted balances. And then the last couple of years it seems that we have brought

127back a lot of the one-time and and categorical programs. So you see that reflected there with the large dollar amounts under the gold and we are projecting that by 2829 we would still have a reserve that meets the 3% 5.32 probably not in a situation where we want to be but again all the things that are put in place are going to help make that number look better and um in 2829 we we won't be at 5.32 unless nothing is done between now and then. So our next steps are to um come back at the next board meeting and present a budget for approval. Um and then at the same time the budget documents are work a little bit different in the sense that we are also providing what we estimate the 25 26 figures

128to be. Um and so that's what we refer to as estimated actuals for 2526, a budget for 2627. We are hoping that um we might even have a state budget that is approved by this time next week. I did read an email earlier that last night the legislator legislative side of the house approved their recommendations of what they want the budget to look like. That document has been sent to uh Governor Nuomo who now has 12 days to act. And and if you do the the math, that'll be just a couple of days before July 1st, which is the deadline. And so I really think that by either late this week or early next week, we are going to have an idea as to what what is it that they agreed on, right? because there

129are some similarities um between the legislative recommendations and the the governor's recommendations, but there's going to be some changes and and so that's why yesterday we cautioned about you can't simply take the May revise and assume that everything's going to happen because then you're building a budget based on whatifs. And so we need to make sure that we wait that we have concrete information. As we shared, if the differences are material enough, we will present a 45day budget update and at the July board meeting um in order to to meet those requirements of the 45 days if it's material enough and if needed. In September, we would come back to you to present our unodudited actuals, which is once we close the books, finalize our report. And then in December is our first update to

130our 2627 budget which is known as the first interim report. Wasn't as brief as I thought it would be but thank you student board member who do you have any questions or comments? >> I don't have any questions or comments but thank you so much for your presentation. >> Thank you Trusty Leva. Thank you, Miss Lopez. I feel that it was very helpful that we had a study session yesterday. We were able to to ask questions and have more details of the budget and how it is important, you know, not to base our budget on, like you said, what if if this money is given to us, but on real facts. And um so I don't have any questions at this moment. I just want to say thank you for yesterday's presentation, how detailed it

131was and more able to understand and explain everything and you know so thank you. Thank you Trusty Leva. Trusty Jackson, >> I truly thought I'd have no questions. Um but as you were going through it, so pardon my inquisitiveness. Overall, I'm I'm struggling with something. Do we have a separate reserve budget for unrestricted and restricted funds? Yes. So when you are looking at the multi-year projections and when you're seeing the ending fund balance, we always will present it an unrestricted and restricted. The reason why is that the restricted it that is all money that we refer to as money with strings attached. Right. Correct. We don't have as much flexibility with that. There's plans that were approved. Um and but we do report a separate ending fund balance for that. So if you look at

132the at the last slide, >> um we try to capture everything here, but we color code it. And so you can see that >> um the blue and the gray is what you would find on the unrestricted ending fund balance. Um the gray being the committed and then the yellow gold color would be your restricted fund balance. >> Yes. Okay. I need to pay attention more to this slide. Um so again there we do we have two separate reserve accounts and one reserve serves the unrestricted and the other serves the restricted budget. >> We classify them by funds. So fund 03 is unrestricted fund 06 is restricted. >> Okay. >> And each one would have their ending fund balance. >> Okay. And then just to make it more complicated because it's budget after all. Um

133when you add unrestricted and restricted there it's creative. It's a combined general fund. >> Okay. Okay. >> So you might hear unrestricted, you might hear restricted, but you might hear combined general fund. That's the distinction. Unrestricted plus restricted is combined general fund just like we referred to it on on this slide because it's including both sides. >> Correct? Okay. I think there's more after you chew on there. Um I I'm curious also our reserves right now look pretty healthy as we look at 2627. How did we get to such a large reserve? What measures were taken leading up to the 100 million plus we see in reserves right now. >> So if you look at 2526 again it's a a big dollar amount right 100 plus million. It's about a 17% average. Um and so

134a couple of things have led to that. First of all, knowing that we are continuing to project deficit spending, you need to take opportunities to build the reserve because if you don't have a high reserve in one year, >> then you're going to fall below the 3%. So even with a 17% reserve and 2526, we're we're getting to a 5% in 2829 because of the deficit spending. So that is one thing. The second thing is that when we were nearing the expiration of the COVID funds, the pandemic funds, what they referred to as ESSER monies, um we were very strategic about utilizing the ESSER funds to cover current expenditures. So for example, um it was allowed to be used for things that were health related. So strategically, we had to free up money on the

135unrestricted side. >> Okay. um nurse nurses salaries, health technicians, uh things associated with um um um hygiene, cleanliness, custodian salaries instead of hiring things um once we knew how much money was there, we would transfer some to again purposely. So if you look at 2223, >> we were at 13%. >> Okay? and see how we strategically built up that reserve. >> Yes. >> Knowing that we had an opportunity to utilize funds that we hadn't accounted for. >> Thank you. Okay. >> And um again, different districts took different approaches, but we utilized it to free up unrestricted knowing that we had an opportunity to build up the reserve. >> Gotcha. Very prudent. That's what I was that's exactly what I was u you gave me the answer or you got me to the point which I

136was asking the question for and stepping column. This is my last question on the stepping column. I think that's um maybe it was slide eight. Could you explain could you walk me through how the percentage stays the same over the three-year projection but the expenditure increases. I think you had mentioned it but if you could just walk me through that. >> Yes. So, there's actually um in in our financial system, and I know that Johnny's back there, so if I say something that's wrong, he's he's going to probably raise his hand or come up here. Um in our financial system, you have a budget module to where you are going to use a simulation and you're going to move current year employees to next year. Okay? >> And so, you're looking at what your salary

137is this year, 25 26. Now I'm doing a simulation of tell me what my salaries look like in 2627. It gives you a dollar amount and you're dividing that by all your total salaries to to come up with a percentage. >> Okay. >> We don't have the ability to project what it will look like in 27 or 28 and 28 29. So we keep the percentage but we know that our salaries are higher now. And so you're able to recalculate the dollar amount. The the reality is that uh something like step and column we also recalculate with every interim report a cost of a 1% um the cost of an average teacher salary uh the cost of just different average salaries for different categories because as folks are you know there's different needs and and

138working with Miss Brown especially um what would it cost if we were to add exposition? >> Sure. We don't know because the person's not here and I don't know if it's somebody experienced, somebody that's new and where they're going to fall on the salary schedule, but we can come up with an average. And so these numbers are really averages, but that percent is exact for current year. And it's our best reasonable guess for the future, but we will update with future as the year progresses. and and maybe I'm hiring a bunch of new teachers or I'm going to hire a bunch of teachers at the top of the salary schedule. It will be reflected when we recalculate it. >> Okay. >> At at first interim and second interim and so forth. >> Thank you very

139much. Thank you, President Clark. >> Thank you, Trustee Jackson. Trusty Williams, do you have any questions, comments, or concerns? >> I just have a comment. Susanna, thank you for being patient with us and um walking us through the budget. You you make it very simple and um I always remember your example. If you have one left over and you take it to the next year, see I remembered. But no, thank you again uh for your reoccurring explanation and and and going over it and making it very clear for us. Thank you again, >> Vice President. >> Yes, Miss Lopez. Thank you. Thank you again, especially for yesterday. Um very helpful. I think um I don't know, I'll speak for myself. I think I could use one of those be before every financial presentation because then

140today it's definitely more clear. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you. Great presentation, but I do have something to share. >> So, I I I've said this over and over again and I'm not sure, you know, I do financials every day and I'm still struggling. Uh but I do not like deficit spending. I I I I really don't think we should be building a budget with deficit spending in it. I've been very vocal about it. I understand the projection for 2026 27. I could even give you 2027 28 with grace because it's it's forthcoming. But 2829, I don't think there's any reason whatsoever we should have deficit spending. Our budget should we should live within our means, right? So if we have a budget of $100, that's what we need to spend. And if

141we don't have that money, we can't overdraw our bank accounts, right? So, that's really concerning to me. It stays an issue with me and I would like to see that change. >> I know that you have to be realistic and you have to look at the overarching things that we have in district and we talk about um we talked about um priorities last night. So, I'm so grateful for that presentation. I think what that meeting or that study session represented is something we can go back and look at and maybe reo this budget at a later time. >> But it is something I want to stay heavy on our radar. >> So thank you with love. >> Of course. And I think that is the purpose is that once we put all that information together,

142we know that what is presented to you at first interim is going to look very different because we'll be able to incorporate all of that. Um, again, just thank you to the team, everybody. Business services, you saw a sample of them here last night. There's a bunch more that weren't able to attend. And then of course, Mr. Leuda in the back. So, thank you. >> Thank you. So now we are moving on to item. Oh, excuse me. Please, Miss Claudia, are there any public speakers? No speakers. Thank you. And I declare the public hearing closed. Thank you. We're now moving on to agenda item K, which is the consent agenda. So, first we have K1A, which is the minutes of the special governor's workshop meeting. Oh, actually, can I get a motion? No, I'm just

143going to actually go approve it all the way. Uhhuh. Approve it in one. So, can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented or does anyone have anything they need to pull? Anybody else? >> Okay, >> I would like to make a motion to consent. >> Thank you. >> To consent again. >> That was trustee Lea. Can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Vice President Luna. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. >> Student board member hearing. >> I miss Lever. >> I. >> Mr. Jackson, >> I. >> Mr. Williams, >> I. >> Miss Luna, >> I. >> Miss Clark, >> I. This motion is passed. 6. Moving on to L. Discussion items. Um, we're going to go to L1A is the uh superintendent discussion items. The first

144reading of update to board bylaw 9005 governance standards and new board bylaw 9320.1 remote meetings and attendance. Dr. >> Thank you, President Clark. So being revised or considered for revision as a first reading is BB9005 and BB9320.1 and these are following our May 30th governance workshop. Um the the policies are being aligned also with CSBA's updates and new legislation for BB905. It streamlines the language regarding ethical conduct, trust, civility, institutional accountability to maximize board effectiveness and student achievement. for 9320.1. It establishes a new framework for remote board meetings and individual member participation. It reflects a new law SB7707 from 2025 that allows remote attendance for just cause accommodations and duraame proclaimed students of um states of emergency. Uh this is just the first reading. It will be brought forward next week formal approval. >> Thank

145you Dr.ava. Any questions concerns on this item? Any comments? Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Muocabo. We'll now move on to L1B, which is the first reading of resolution number 2025-26101- SOS for student achievement uh campaign. Dr. >> Thank you, President Clark. So, this is again a first reading. It's a resolution supporting our the statewide SOS for student achievement campaign. So despite our tireless efforts to accelerate learning, persistent statewide achievement gaps remain hindered by a fragmented and reactive state level system. So this is in in coordination and collaboration with CSBA a call to action which urges the governor, the legislature, and the state education agencies like CDE, SPE, and CCE to create one unified long-term state level operation and support plan. As evidenced by tonight and next week, we're going to be bringing forth at least

146five separate plans that I'll speak to one thing, which is student achievement. So, asking the state to consider one plan would maximize efficiencies and better concentrate our efforts in one plan. So, the next steps would be um asking for a board for input and then bringing it forward next week for formal adoption. >> Thank you. Any comments, questions or concerns, colleagues? Thank you so much, Dr. Moving on to item agenda item L2A which is the uh first reading of new board policy 5141.75 weather safety board policy and administrative regulation 5142 safety board policy and administrative regulation 5144 discipline board policy and administrative regulation 5145.2 Regulation 5148, Child Care and Development, New Board Policy and Administration Regulation 5148.3, Preschool Early Childhood Education, New Exhibit 6163.4E 1 and student use of technology deletion of administration administrative regulation

14761634. Dr. RCA, >> thank you very much, Miss Clark. Uh just beginning with board policy on 41 5141.75. This one regarding safety adds language that we also have to consider UV. Um it's more detailed than that and I urge the board to go through each one. We can uh answer any questions as needed for board policy 5142 on safety. There's significant changes that include um well all of these are aligned to CSBA. I do want to point out that this one we had to delete some language from CSBA. Uh Dr. Verie will be working with our associations because it does include language that relates to legislation um where teachers have to be in the classrooms 30 minutes before. But our collective bargaining agreement says that they have to be there at a reasonable time. So

148because they're not congruent, we need to uh have further conversations and Dr. Verie will be leading that. But most of these have to be submitted and approved before July 1st and we just got the uh we got the guidance in May. So um with the exception of that one all of them are aligned to CSBA when it comes to uh student discipline. Um looking at the framework and taking more of a restorative approach and not a punitive approach. So language updated in that as well as administrative regulation. When it comes to um board policy 5145.12 search and seizure, as you know, we've been working with our um office of independent monitor, when should we be able to what what's legally uh applicable for us to search a student? Um when can we retain a student,

149especially a student disability? Um when it comes to um 5148 child care and development, we do have a preschool program here, a state preschool program. So, we're adding language that applies to like um uh immigration um just aligning to the rest of our um of our board policies. I will say that this one is brand new. So, you'll see it all in red for both BP and AR. Um uh 5148 preschool and early childhood education. Um this one, same thing. Establishes district committee. My apologies. This one's the one that's new. District commitment to providing highquality pres um preschool and early childhood education. Just everything that we've been doing, we have not had board policy when it comes to preschool and early learning. So, we have AR for that one. Um when it talks, the last

150one is on use of technology. So CSBA had AR that goes with use of technology and uh looking at expectations and responsibility of student use for district technology and digital digital resources. They are removing the AR and they've replaced it replaced it with an exhibit. So again all these are aligned with CSBA with the exception of that one. Thank you. >> Thank you Dr. Arce. Any comments, questions or concerns? I do encourage all of us to make sure that we do read these because they are it's a it's a yeah it's a lot of updates. >> On that point, President Clark, >> would it be possible in the future for be because they are so dense and there are so many of them in this one, would it be possible in the future for us

151to be provided with an executive summary? >> Yeah. >> So, we try to do that with the cover sheet, but we can make it more detailed if needed. In this case, we apologize. This was just a huge batch that we literally got in May and they said, "Oh, by the way, you got to get it approved by July 1." >> Who said that? >> CSBA. >> There's timelines that we have to >> Yeah. Yeah. But but that's that's forcing. So what if CSBA said we had to So I'm struggling with this one a little bit. So CSBA said we have to have it by July 1. I would like to have it by July 1, but what if I don't like these policies as board member? What are the What are the What happens if

152we don't approve them by July 1? So there are some um legal mandates that have to be incorporated into our board policy. >> So all >> not all of them but not all of them. >> So which can you tell me which ones? >> Sure. We can spell those out Dr. RC. >> Yes. So we have um 50 here. I'm going to go from the top. >> The weather safety one that's a mandate by and there's Senate bills and assembly bills that are attached to this one. >> Uh so we also have 5142 safety. That one has to be updated by July 1st. Um when it comes to discipline 5144 5145.12 surge and seizure and discipline those are a requirement of our OIM and he wanted them established by July of the following year. Um

153the next one BP 40 5148 childcare and development that is an mandate as of July 1 for both AR and BP. When it comes to 5148.3 preschool and early child education, that is also a mandate of July 1st because of the immigration language that's added there. Um, and when it comes to the use of technology, that one was not a mandate for July 1. We wanted to establish it so that we can update it in our student handbook for July 1. So, this is my concern. I'm I'm sure we are going to do our homework and work very hard and read these policies and come back with questions through our superintendent. But my question, and this is rhetorical, when was this assembly bill passed? So to give it to me two weeks before, you know,

154and I know graduations, I know a calendar, but this is just I mean it's a lot of language. We want to do our due diligence. I just think the timeline is very tight and if we could be we had this during our board governance and we're really big on this respectful of everyone's time with love. Uh that would be really helpful because we know you're all busy but we don't want to rush it right. We want to get it right and we want to make sure that we have that time to ask Dr. Rubakawa those follow-up questions and you know but I'm sure but you know we're great students. We're gonna get it done. So thank you but for on the go for it. Thank you. I will say that um I want to just

155stick up for Claudia. She's a really good um kind of gatekeeper of what must go and what can wait. So we did try as much as possible. This was just a a tough batch, but we will be more mindful going forward of what we bring and don't bring. Um and what we could do is we can actually start being a little bit more proactive and bring them a little bit farther apart. So that gives you some more time to to look them over. >> Try throw the wonderful Claudia under the bus. >> I'm not throwing her under the bus. I'm giving her kudos. [laughter] >> It's all good. All right, moving on. Thank you, Dr. All right, so moving on to business services agenda items L3A. Our first reading of the updates to the administrative

156regulation 3517 facilities inspection and exhibit 1. 3517 facilities inspection and new exhibit 2 3517 facilities inspections. Miss Lopez. >> Yes. Thank you, President Clark. So, this administrative regulation has to do with our facilities inspection and there was a couple of changes um that um assembly bill um AB 927 um that enacted and and so you can see the changes there in red. But where I want to point your attention is that this new law actually requires a brand new exhibit. So that would be exhibit 2, 3517. And this is a notice um regarding the allgender restroom. And so that entire exhibit is brand new. And again, it is would be needed to comply and be put in place before July 1st, 2026. So, minimal changes to the wording in the actual administrative regulation, but a

157brand new exhibit 3517 regarding the all gender restrooms. This is to be in compliance with ED code 35292.6 and we utilize the recommended language provided by CSVA. >> Thank you. Any questions, comments, or concerns? >> Mr. Williams. Trusty Williams, >> I know we've been working on this compliance um as far as restrooms. So, what is different about this as opposed to what we were >> so >> doing, you know, six years ago? >> Yes. So, the administrative rig is what we have been working towards and that's why the language there's very minimal changes to the language. The only change there is that if the county superintendent issues the district a report um stating that we're out of compliance, it would need to be discussed during a public board meeting. But if you look at the

158actual notice, and this is something that started a couple years ago when you had to put um the notice in the restrooms for like the menstrual products and now there's a notice regarding the all gender restrooms. And so this is something that you need to have like the person that they contact. In this case, if you look at the bottom of the page, our director of maintenance and operations, Mr. Anthony Pipkins, is the actual contact. So this is that added requirement, this this notice um and that it's required that it's an exhibit um in in our policy. >> Okay. >> So what we've been working towards h that hasn't changed. It's the the notice that's different. the notice already. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other Thank you. Moving on to L4A, which is the

159first reading of board policy 4100, certificated personnel board policy and administrative regulation 4200, classified personnel and board policy 4300, administrative as supervisory personnel. Dr. Birdie. >> Thank you, President Clark. I I'll take these in each grouping as you uh said the title of the item. So board policy 4100 and again these are all based on CSBA updates and recommendations specifically to language and some definitions in each of these. Uh this first one is for certificated and classified personnel talks about uh just again definitions [snorts] and different employee responsibilities updates that basically get us caught up to the other uh CSBA defined areas of policies and regulations. Similarly 4,200 the next set is for classified personnel uh specifically in supervisory roles so management and the the last one 4300 would also be for uh supervisory roles

160as it pertains to the certificated managers. Again similar language being updated as uh advised by CSBA to just get us up to CSBA current standards in those areas. >> Thank you. Any questions or concerns? >> I do have a comment. I just want to say thank you. I know I just said it's a lot of reading, but that's what we're here for. And I know I have been an advocate of updating board policies. So, thank you. I appreciate you very much. >> Welcome. [laughter] >> Now, we're moving on to action items. M. The first is their superintendent action items. The approval of the readoption of the governance handbook. Can I get a motion to approve the readoption of the governance handbook as presented? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Vice President Luna. May I get

161a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Superintendent Rubikava. >> Thank you, President Clark. So at our workshop on May 30th uh that Saturday we spent um we made some changes to the governance work um work sorry governance handbook uh specifically pages nine and 14 were updated to reflect you remember we wanted to prioritize students being first. So we moved that to number one and we added an item 16 at the bottom. >> Those are the changes on the handbook. >> Thank you. Any comments, questions or concerns? Thank you. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. Student number Hearing >> I >> Miss Lever >> I >> Mr. Jackson >> I >> Mr. Williams >> I >> Miss Luna >> I >> Miss Clark clerk >> I This motion is passed 6. Moving on to

162item M1 B the approval of resolution number 202526-98 the order of election for trustee area 1 3 and trustee area 4 meaning should we have an election for these seats. Can I get a motion to approve please? I move to approve the um the agenda item as stated. >> Thank you, Trustee Jackson. Can I get a second? >> I'll second that. >> Thank you, Trustee Lea. Dr. Ajandra Vuvakaba. >> Thank you, President Clark. Um as you so succinctly put it, basically this is do we want to order the election for trustees area one, three, and four. So by the board taking action then it would give us direction so we can work with the elections office to order the election. >> What would happen if we refused? >> We would would not have a >>

163not have a board because we wouldn't be able to start the meeting. We wouldn't have a majority. >> Thank you for that. Any comments, questions or concerns? [laughter] >> I'll just add um we appreciate democracy so we can move forward. Thank you. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. >> Student member Hewing. >> Hi. >> Miss Lever. >> I. >> Mr. Jackson. >> I. >> Mr. Williams. >> I. [clears throat] >> Miss Luna. >> I. >> Miss Clark. >> I. This motion does pass 6. Thank you. Moving on to superintendent's action items M1 C. The approval of second reading and adoption for board policy and administrative regulation and new exhibit 113 district and school websites. May I get a motion to approve as presented? So moved. >> I can withdraw. >> No, go ahead. >>

164So moved. >> Thank you. Second. >> I'll second it. Thank you, Dr. Rubikava. >> Thank you, President Clark. So, there was a few changes to this one, so I'll go um in order by each one. So, um, policy update AB1785 in 2024 added some language that prohibits a district from publicly posting specific online information regarding our elected or appointed officials without their prior permission. So, this updates that >> we also have a regulation update that establishes explicit technical and accessibility standards to ensure that our web content is fully access accessible to students with disabilities. We also have some updates to title 9 compliance and we have some updates to required spec to that requires us specified neurodiversity resources to be prominently located and easily accessible on the website. The last two changes for um are

165based on AD AB2690 in 2024 which mandates the posting of information regarding the risk of social media being used to market synthetic drugs. And then lastly, uh we have a new um notification that began in 2027 that requires us to post public hearing dates and locations for proposed budgets on the homepage for at least three days prior to the public prior for public inspection. >> Any comments, questions, or concerns? >> Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. >> Student member Huy. >> I. >> Miss Lever, >> I. >> Mr. Jackson, >> I. >> Mr. Williams. >> I, >> Miss Luna. >> I, >> Miss Clerk. >> I This motion has passed 6. Moving on to M1D, the approval of the first reading slash second reading and adoption of up, excuse me, let me repeat that.

166Approval of the first reading slash, second reading and adoption of update to board policy bylaw 9320 meeting and notices. May I get a motion to approve? >> Some moved. >> Thank you, Vice President Luna. May I please get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Trustee Williams. Um, Dr. Rubakawa. >> Thank you, President Clark. Um, so this is a first, a second, and adoption. Again, based on the conversation we had at our Saturday retreat, but also took the opportunity to update the language based on CSBA recommendations. And this is what's clarified or it's updated. One, we're clarifying that the governing board may meet in open or close session starting at 3:15. That's a shift from 3:00. Second, it uh clarifies that the board meetings include electronic and remote gatherings and all applicable Brown Act

167rules apply. Third, it allows remote meetings during proclaimed emergencies without posting physical locations of board members. So, this requires that emergency meeting notices to all local media be sent via telephone or email. And then third, the last piece is it deletes order redundant language regarding teleconferencing protocols that basically are now obsolete. >> Does anyone have any questions, concerns or need clarification? >> Yes, just a quick point of clarification. Under what circumstances are we able to have um a first reading, second reading, and adoption all in once? Is it based on discretion? >> It's based on discretion, and sometimes it's based on need. There are situations where we have to get something approved um to meet a deadline especially specifically something regarding to a new law or new regulation but in this case because we want

168to start at 3:15 as soon as possible and then we brought it forward and the changes are very minimal. >> Yeah. Thank you for the question. >> And the changes were made on site at the governance workshop. Remember Claudia was making them right then and there. >> Yes. Yeah. It was just for my point of clarification and for future uh future actions if needed. >> Fantastic. Any other questions, comments, or concerns? Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. Student member hearing. Hi. >> Miss Lea. >> I. >> Mr. Jackson. >> I. >> Mr. Williams. >> Hi. >> Miss Luna. >> Hi. >> Miss clerk. >> I. This motion is passed 6. Moving on to item M2A. The approval of the second reading and adoption of a um of administrative regulation 33113 design build contracts and

169administrative regula uh regulation 3440 for inventories. Miss Lopez. >> Yes. Thank you, President Clark. So this is uh a second reading of the administrative regulations. I will first start with 3311.3 that required us to update due to a new law um Senate Bill 956 and there's language um regarding design build contracts for public works project that is being incorporated into that. In addition to that we had an administrative reggg 3440 that required an update. There was a new law that was assembly bill 629. This one has to do with inventory and that inventory threshold um has increased to 1,500 and so we needed to update language in our administrative regulation to be in compliance with that new amount. U both of these were shared with both of our bargaining groups and no feedback was received.

170>> Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Trusty Jackson. Can I get a second? >> A second. >> Thank you, Trusty Williams. Does anyone have any questions, concerns, or no comments? Thank you so much. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. >> Mr. Member Hewing, I >> Miss Lever, I >> Mr. Jackson, I >> Mr. Williams, I >> Miss Luna, I >> Miss Clark, >> I. This motion is passed 6. Moving on to item M3A, the approval of the new certificated job description kindergarten general education inclusion inclusion teacher and kindergarten special education inclusion inclusion teacher. May I get a motion, please? >> I would like to make a motion. >> Thank you, Trusty Leva. Can I get a second? >> I'm happy to second. >> Thank you,

171Trusty Jackson. Uh Dr. Birdie, >> thank you, Miss Clark. So, uh, really excited to bring these forward after working with MVA in in partnership and with our, um, ed services team. As the board knows, in both of these areas, they're they're developing areas or important programs in our district. And what we've identified are really specialty areas that needed to be broken out into their own job descriptions to accurately reflect the duties of the teachers in these areas. So, we're happy to bring these to the board tonight for approval. And again, thank you to Ed Services and to MVA for their collaboration. Thank you. Any comments, questions, or concerns on these job descriptions? Very good. All right. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. >> Member Huing. >> I. >> Miss Lever. >> I. >> Mr.

172Jackson. >> Hi. >> Mr. Williams. >> Hi. >> Miss Luna. >> I. >> Miss Clark. >> I. This motion has passed. 6. Thank you. We're now moving on to item N, future agenda topics. Student board member Healing, do you have any future agenda topics that you'd like for us to discuss? I have no future agenda topics. >> Thank you, Trusty Lea. >> I don't have any at this moment. Thank you, Trusty Jackson. >> I wanted to approach the conversation of procurement policy for the school board and see if maybe if it's appropriate for maybe a discussion item or perhaps in our Friday memo if we could look at doing an analysis of all of our procurement and the dollars that we spend as a district. I believe we're the third largest employer in the city.

173Where well what what's the how um what I'm trying to say is how much dollars are we spending locally here in Reno Valley, Riverside County um and just where some of those dollars are since we are spending tens of millions of dollars looking to see where is appropriate to maybe start having that discussion or look at that analysis. >> Thank you. Any questions? Dr. follow clarification board. >> I'm I'm processing. >> That's a that's a tough ask. Um Susanna Johnny, how would we go about I mean we could get an estimate, but it's not going to be 100% because we're not necessarily going to know where those dollars are spent. I guess we could probably start with some uh vendors that are local, employees that live within the city, that kind of thing. >> Maybe

174looking at things by zip code. I don't know if by zip code might be a a start. I think the only because I I think we can do that. I right now I'm looking over at the purchasing team because we are converting financial systems and so we are >> entering Rex in one system and then transferring it over to another. And I just make sure we don't that that I'm not familiar enough with the Galaxy to know how you can query or sort there. But I I think we can do something by zip code. can with the board's consensus, we can um first look at what we can do and then we'll report back. >> Perfect. >> Thank you to my fellow board members. Appreciate it. And the purpose of is seeing economic development here

175in Rita Valley. >> We agree that's super important. So yeah. >> Any other Trusty Jackson? >> No other topics. >> Thank you so much. Trustee Williams. >> I have no uh topics at this time. >> Thank you. Trustee Vice President Mona. >> Yes, I have a few. Y >> first one, uh, Myar Balloons. >> Myar balloons. >> So, as some of you may know, I work for a utility company in Riverside, and some of the top things that cause power outages are squirrels and Myar balloons. So, I would like to explore uh maybe possibly banning those on our campuses. And the the whole reason I even thought about it was I was on a campus and watched a couple Myar balloons go up in the air during graduation and I was like, "Oh, I hope

176that doesn't hit a power line." Um, and just to give you guys a rough estimate, in 2025, 515 power outages in Southern California Edison territory were caused by Myar balloons. So, not necessarily Marino Valley, but we do have SoCal Edison here and then we have Marino Valley Unifi or uh utilities. So, possibly I could get um some information from them on power outages in our area, but I just I don't I didn't I don't want to be a killjoy on balloons because I know kids like balloons, but Myar balloons are definitely um dangerous when it comes to power outages and nobody likes our electricity out. >> So, anyway, I wanted to bring that forth. That's one thing. Um, also it's good for the environment by the way. Um, the other thing, oh, uh, in the

177Friday memo, thank you for this. Um, I had asked for the student groups with enrollment by school. So, thank you to technology innovation for that. Um, I know that was that was uh a big ask because we maybe aren't tracking that as well as we want to and I'm I'm understand that we're going to be. Um, but I did notice some student groups missing that I thought we would I would see. Um, which would be uh Latino, Black, Asian, Middle Eastern, Pacific Islander, LGBTQ. I didn't see any of those represented. So, I wanted to kind of start that conversation and maybe even ask um our student board members to help us lead that conversation to get how do we get those groups going at our high schools. >> So, we'll start um one item by

178item. So, with consensus of the board, we can look at where we would put a myar balloon kind of board policy or update. We can definitely look at that. So I I saw a lot of shaking heads when um Vice President Luna brought it up. So can we move forward with we'll bring some proposed language first, do research and then share that? >> As far as I know, I know that the miler balloons are not allowed at schools like the parents cannot bring it into schools. >> That does I can actually I was doing the same thing that vice president I can tell you by high school how many myar balloons I saw. Yeah, I saw them a lot and that was cuz I know they're not you're not allowed to bring them like that's

179something that >> I don't think we have anything explicit like that but it sounds like we want to put something that's a good idea. >> So with consensus of the board we'll research that and move forward. >> I think it's a good idea. Um as an avid hiker myar balloons go to die in our in our hills. Um I would just like to see some research on it as well. >> Sure. So we'll bring obviously research on on where to incorporate it, what it would work, reach out to legal in terms of what we can and can't do and then we'll bring back some feedback on that. And then on the student groups, I'm going to ask Dr. RC to speak on that a little bit. >> Thank you. Uh so in meeting with our

180technology innovation assessment, um they are their responsible their responsibility that they bring is to really track that data uh and be able to extract that from their student information system. It is the responsibility of the sites to enter that data. So there are a lot of clubs on our campuses. Uh, for example, I'll give you an example. Our athletic directors do a great job of putting that data in. So, we can track students that are involved in baseball, in football, and because they've been in the practice of that, we have not engaged in that practice for our club adviserss. So, we do have a lot of clubs out there. We need an opportunity to give them additional time. We have to train them. What that was one of the biggest things that some of our

181club adviserss were not trained on doing that. So, it's a it's a matter of training them on pulling them up, looking at the student, tagging the student, connecting them to a club, do a drop down. We have the drop down. We just have to have them manually enter that. Uh so once we do that, we'll have a better indication of what student groups are not represented. So, for example, um I am I I am very aware that a lot of our middle school and high schools have BSUs, but for example, in that report, you only see one school. So that tells me that they're not entering it. So we've already worked on communication plan uh training follow up with professional development so that all of our club adviserss can enter that. we'd like our board

182uh to give us probably until September to give them time to not only create it and add the students and then bring you back that data and then from there maybe you you provide a a guidance on what clubs you don't see represented there that then my team will go and and determine next steps. And just a real quick thing on next steps, a club can be formed. There's conditions that have to be met. Student body has to request it. You have to have at least four members. You have to have a voting president, vice president. Number one thing is you have to have an adviser. You have to have a willing adviser. If you don't have a certificated staff, we cannot have that club. So, uh, once those conditions, they have to have a

183constitution. They vote on that constitution. I mean, those of you part of a club, you understand. So, although we may want to see some of these clubs, we do have to have those conditions met. So give us until September, then we'll bring it back and then we'll try as much as possible and provide steps that we've done to do that. Thank you. >> Sounds great. Thank you, Dr. Arce. >> I will agree that the advocacy has to be on the students, right? And they're the ones that drive a lot of the culture. We have to just set the tone and the kind of the um set the parameters and obviously provide the resources. But I think engaging um Andrew and Andrea and their first assignment in terms of being ambassadors to go back to the

184high schools and say, "Hey, what are we doing to bring more clubs on our campuses? What are we doing?" Because we don't have a you know a BSU that's recognized or so that we can make sure that we're getting those that commitment out there. >> Awesome. Thank you. And the final thing I have um so I've heard from families and students about the importance of filling scene. obviously all of us have um and feeling represented. So just like our mariachi and ballet folklorico celebrate important cultural traditions, I believe there's an opportunity for us to explore programs that highlight our African and African-American culture contributions through music, dance, and storytelling or or the arts. They are our second largest demographic in this district. So I would like to explore maybe some programs to offer to those

185students um that they would feel Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pop. You said >> a shared hip-hop step. Yeah. >> A lot of different things. >> Step. >> Yeah. So, I I think that would be um something that would be awesome to to help them feel seen and heard >> and if needed to look at other folks outside of our district that can provide that cultural competency to do just that. >> It sounds like we have consensus from the board already. Uh but definitely we start internally, right? Provide the resources because we have a lot of talent and then whatever we can't do internally, then we seek out community partners to help us with that. Dr. >> Yeah. and all that falls under Prop 28. So that is that we can do that. We could actually offer

186it during the day. Again, it goes to student needs that we're doing master schedules. So we're um I'm I'm going to I know we're in transition of hiring our VAPA coordinator. So I'm going to that's going to be the first order of business because I'm sure that there is the desire out there and and we could build that. We are working on that already at Vista Lago because of the H.B.CU pathway. So we're excited about that. >> Wonderful. Thank you. That's all I have. President Clark, thank you so much, Vice President Luna. Um, they took all my ideas. I'm just kidding. Uh, I I will share that we've been doing so much better with balloons. [laughter] There was a time when we were spending over 100K a year annually on balloons. We were bringing our

187own Myar balloons to the district. So, I'm excited to hear some uh uh um some ideas and I will share that yeah, we've been doing a good job on salary savings or not even salary savings, just savings, budget savings on balloons. So, anyway, I do have a future agenda topic and I'm not very sure how to advocate for this, but let's just let let me process it. So, it's my understanding and please provide clarification if I misspeak that if a CSEA employee applies for a promotion and they are granted this promotion, they get that promotion, but they are automatically going to step one. So, let's just say I'm promoted to, I don't know, a a typist and then they go to step one. But we have an outside candidate who come to the district. They're

188not budgeted at step one. They can come in and go to step three, four or five. Now, even if that CA employee has experience at a previous job, maybe they just wanted to get their foot inside of the district, but they have a plethora of experience. I don't necessarily think that we should put them at a step one. I think it should be based on um uh your education and experience, right? And we place them where we would place an outside person coming into the district with their same experience and education level. And I think that's something that we should look at. I'm not sure if that's something that is accurate, but it has been brought to my attention that it happens. And I want to make sure that we have clearer pathways and promotional

189opportunities for our employee, our existing employees that are fair. And that's all I have to say about that. Dr. Verie, >> can you speak on that? Dr. >> Sure. So, u two things. When we do hire from outside, Miss Clark, we are looking at pertinent uh related experiences on the candidates's resume. And sometimes that can be in in you know other school districts, public sector or private sector. When we have an in-house candidate who might be applying uh from maybe one classification to another, if they do have some experiences that relate to the new classification that they're trying to promote into or transfer into, we will take that into account when we do place. Uh sometimes the outside experience may not translate. So, my team will reach out to the candidate, whether they're inside or

190outside candidates, to try and clarify that, ask for resumeumés, ask even for like a reference letter to clarify roles and responsibilities that they may have had. Maybe it's a clerical position. Maybe they worked in an office, but they came to us as an instructional assistant, but they have that clerical expertise that that is relatable to our job descriptions here. So, we do try and take that into consideration. Um, and sometimes there is a dispute, there is a question about it and myself or the directors will then get involved and try and and and compare and and and check to see. Um, I mean sometimes, you know, we've had folks from the outside that might even come in and they're taking a a loss in pay to get a foot in the door, but they're trying,

191we know, to eventually promote, and we don't want to hold them back from doing that. But we can we can look into that. If there's specific instances where maybe an employee had a question about that, we'll always take a look at it on an individual individual basis to see if they have some past experiences that that really work with the job description that they're trying to promote into. >> Thank you for that. So just for clarity, I'm not from aware of any policy that says we have to um promote um I'm not aware of any policy that we have to promote and automatically put someone in a step one. Does anyone else know if there's a policy like that? Because if it is, we need >> There's there's not. But in our CBA, if there

192is a promotion, the CBA for classified does have language that says they are entitled to at least a 10% increase. So they're not They're not going to promote and just get, you know, a small increase right off the bat, right when they're placed. The CBA does guarantee them that. And then we can also again look at experience. There's not anything in the contract. There's not any type of board policy that says they must start at step one. In fact, there CSA contract guarantees them that that automatic >> 10%. >> That's right. >> Thank you. >> On that point, President Clark, um, and Dr. Very I know some organizations they suffer from what is called like a legacy penalty or a loyalty penalty. The longer you are with an organization you aren't catching up in salary

193to someone that may jump in immediately. Do you know if we experience that here? here because I know oftent times large organizations if you've been on the job for 15 years due to just you know maybe I I don't know if it's just increase of cola but you're probably catching up to someone that is fresh in the gate and starting already at like you know a specific salary >> on the classified side of the the house Mr. Jackson there there are um opportunities for longevity and there's a there's a longevity stipend in there C CBA that that sort of safeguards against that. Uh same with with management personnel. There's longevity percentages for for managers and for cabinet level personnel to to help balance that out. on the certificated side with the way the the teaching

194salary schedule works with the the steps, you know, as as folks go across and down the column, so to speak, when they increase their education, they get, you know, master's degrees and and so forth, and then their years of experience, they're they're entitled to those steps automatically. That's what Miss Lopez was talking about with like step and column increases that they have to anticipate each year. the the area where sometimes folks might earn a little bit more or less would be like in areas that are not nec necessarily contractually guaranteed on the classified side of the house, for example, their hourly employees. So folks can can decide they want to work a lot of overtime and make up some gaps that way. Um that's that's their decision to be, you know, to put their their

195hat in the ring for overtime. On the certificated side, you can decide you want to be a club adviser, you want to do extracurriculars, and there's a whole section in the in the contract for stipens that account for that as well. So, uh you will see sometimes folks that that are able to >> to kind of bridge that gap even if they don't have the years of experience, but the years of experience generally speaks towards paying more experienced folks uh higher higher wage. >> That's great to have that loyalty percentage in there because that exactly fixes that problem. Would we be able to see that step column in a Friday memo to see >> the the years, you know, if you've been a fivey year employee, seven year employee, what that looks like, >> the

196longevity. We can put that in the HR section for you. >> Perfect. >> Any other comments on that? >> Thank you, Dr. Any future agenda items? >> I do. Just one a couple comments. So, this is the last Friday memo that we're going to send out before we go on summer break. So, after that, any updates that come out, we'll send them on a case-by case basis. So, if you have any other information that you want, please email us right away so we can make sure we put it on this Friday memo. Um, one uh two items that I want to bring up is just an uh FYI to our community. Um, next Tuesday is our last board meeting in this room for the next few months. We're going to be doing some retrofitting for

197ADA accessibility and reconfiguring the boardroom to give us some more space and better visibility. So our future board our board meetings in the short term are going to be at the PAC. So just heads up to our community on that. Um and then I do have one new business item which is several trustees have asked me about um if we have had if we have any plans on modifying or limiting technology technology usage especially for our younger students. Um, you've probably seen in the news that some big districts, specifically LAUSD, have started to implement some real um real um strict guidelines on technology usage in the classroom and including the amount of technology homework that's assigned to students. So, I know that that's come up. Some of the trisses have asked. We haven't considered that,

198but if that's something that the board wants to look at, we obviously would start with first putting out a survey to our parents, putting out a survey to our students to see what they think and, you know, get some feedback from that and then based on the survey and the desire of our community, then we would engage on modifications to that if necessary. So, I see some nodding heads on that. Yeah. >> Yes. We don't. All we need is consensus. But we we're I promise no modifications are going to happen until we first seek input from our community. And that's staff, students, and parents. >> And is that all-encompassing when you speak technology? Are you talking, you know, cell phones, what we see at March, or are you talking, you know, less Chromebooks, less reading?

199Is it all encompassing? >> It would be the the cell phone policy we already have in place that was required that we do that. So that's already there. >> Okay. I think this we're looking at more of a um on the instructional side of the house. >> Okay. >> How much of our instruction is dedicated to technology um driven by technology? How much homework is is dependent on technology driven by technology? >> So we would look at some of those practices. >> Are you talking about you're talking about specific grades or across the board? I think we would do a survey across the board and then based on the feedback >> I would imagine that the feedback is going to come back with probably limiting limiting it more at the early ages and then more

200flexibility and more use at the higher at the upper grades. I'm just that's just kind of a gut of what I think the feedback's going to come back as. Okay, perfect. So, we will proceed with the input process first. >> Thank you. >> Of course, those are all the items I have. President Cart Thank you. Um, the board of education at this time is going to reconvene into close session at 8:07 p.m. The board of education reconvened into open session at 9:41 p.m. The board of education reconvened in closed session to discuss board deliberations regarding the superintendent evaluation. The board gave further direction to district staff district staff and no further action was taken. the board. With no further business to come before the board of education, the meeting is adjourned at 9:41 p.m.