MVUSD Regular Board Meeting Board of Education 2/10/26

001The board of education reconvened into open session at 511 p.m. Roll call, please. >> Elwing, student board member, present. Joanna Olivia, present. >> Rose Williams, present. >> Sammy Luna, present. Brandy Clark, present. Alejandro Walda present virtually. >> Esparza Arce present. >> Robert Birdie present. >> Susanna Lopez present. The board of education met in close session to discuss board deliberations regarding public employee discipline, dismissal, release and non uh re-election. A conference with labor negotiator. a conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation, a conference with legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation, settlement of claims, and the superintendent's evaluation. The board gave further direction to district stra district staff and took action on the following. A motion was made by Trustee Luna and seconded by Trustee Rhodess and approved the denial of settlement of claims 667263. This is approved

002by the board of education by the following vote for yes zero no with Brandy Clark yes Sammy Luna yes Rose William yes John Leva yes motion pass 40. Now I'll turn it over to student board member El Hwing for the pledge of allegiance. Please stand. Put your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> You may be seated. Now moving forward to our land acknowledgement. The Marino Valley Unified School District acknowledges that our school and district sites are situated on the ancestral homelands and traditional territories of indigenous people including the Kawia, the Gabri Gabrielino, Tongo, the Loy Loeno, excuse me, and the Serrano. We

003honor 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 our responsibility to honor and care for the land and its people. Moving on to E3, future uh board meetings. As you all can see, we do have a new board meeting set for February 25th, 2026. A special trustee area 3 interviews in open session. March 10th, 2026, regular board meeting, close session starting at 3:00 and open session starting at 5. April 14th, special study session, open session starts at 5. April 28th, regular meeting, close sessions at 3 and open at 5:00 p. p.m. May 12th, May 26th, June 16th, and June 23rd, 2026 with the regular meetings um close session starting at 3 p.m. and open session

004starting at 5. And now we will move forward to the student um the school report. Trustee Huing or student board member Huing. >> Can I please have our student representative Ashley Guzman from Canyon Springs High School? >> Good evening, President Clark, board member, Superintendent Dr. Calra, cabinet members, community, fellow attendees. My name is Ashley Guzman and I'm at ASB President Kenyon Springs High School. and I am here to share all the all that is happening at our school where we consistently exemplify our cougar core values of responsibility, integrity, and grit. Cougars continue Cougars continue their success in this year's National History District competition. We have over 40 students whose projects are moving on to the country the county competition. We had three third place finishers, eight second place finishers, and nine first place finishers. Kenya

005Springs received the le Kenya Springs received at least one medal in every category at the district science and engineering fair. We had four students project four student project winners and are moving on to the county level competition this month. We wish our students competing at the college county level good luck. The academic decathlon just finished their first full year of competition competing in multiple events across different categories. Our team earned multiple silver and bronze medals. Ward Khan, Eric Sanchez, and Mercedes Bologanic won MVP medals for their divisions. Our mock trial team just competed their last competition of the season last Saturday. Celeste Delucia won a gold medal for the so sorry for the persecution attorney. We also had an MVP win in the mock trial for Kimiko Kayyama and Celeste. Our speech and debate students

006have been competing in multiple speech competitions and have three more than the rest of the school year. For the fourth year in a row, Kenya Springs has won first place in the Rotary competition. Celeste Lucia is now moving on the regional competition in March. Celeste and Atiki Anjum have performed their original poems for the RCE and will take part in this year's state of the district event. It is going to be featured at the RCC women's conference last meeting you were able to hear from one of our MLK scholarship essay winners J Rivie and both Jay and Celeste were winners of this scholarship. We will celebrate and recognize all of these groups with our spring sports student athletes in our upcoming spring assembly this March. Our Air Force Junior ROC program just underwent their annual

007inspection for the first time in unit history. A perfect score was achieved. Their exceed standards rating was due what inspector called strong cadet leadership, active cadet participation and selfless communic community involvement. We are proud of our cadetses. In another first, our ASB has its first our first student running for Castle California session of student leaders state board as a regional director. Elizabeth Ramirez, our ASB secretary, just completed the application process and will continue um will continue the candidate process at the state conference in April. This is also where we hope to we also hope to earn another outstanding leadership award. Please help us send good luck to Elizabeth at our ASB program. Since our last report, ASB has held a number of events. Our homecoming was one of the best yet. With outstanding teamwork from

008our assembly to the halftime to the dance, we also conducted our annual week of giving drive, which benefited our district wellness center, bringing just under a thousand food items. Coming up in April, we are hosting our first annual we are hosting so sorry, our annual inclusive prom. We are continuing to grow this event this year with even larger community sponsors for whom are incredibly grateful. Without them, we would not be able to provide this free experience to our district special needs students and their families. We would love for you all to come join us that evening. Our performing arts department is shining. This March, our wind enabled in assemble band will be performing at the current cares hall in New York City being one of the four bands in the nation selected for this honor.

009They were also chosen to work for the composer which will premiere original music performed live by our wind ensemble in at Carnage Hall. In addition, our band director Mr. Lozano, who is here today, was recognized as one of our two rep um recipients of the 2026 Outstanding High School Educator Award at the SCSBOA awards ceremony at the end of January. Again, this year we have performers who have been selected to to the California Honor Band and Honor Choir, Andrew Salgado and Sarah Jackson. Our choir and theater programs are collaborating on this spring's musical, Once on This Island, opening March 5th. theater competed in the Dtask, earning honorable mentions for our students in the categories of sound, sound design, graphics, publicity, and lighting design. We also have students take third place in the categories of costumes

010sewn from scratch and costumes assembled and altered in the CTA High School Theater Festival. Our fall play, Sense and Sense and Sensibility, earned two um educator awards. Our performing arts students are amazing. In just two weeks, Kenyon Springs is welcoming the class of 2030 to our annual high school preview day. We look forward to welcoming them and showing them a little bit of the Cougar life with a pep rally, a session with our uh our bar coordinator and counselor, a campus tour, a student panel discussion, and a club rush. We want our incoming class to be excited about getting involved positively at Kenyon Springs. The signature event not only brings our new class to campus, but it involves the collaboration of ASB, link crew, counseling, and administration, bar clubs, athletics, and all of our programs

011we are we are bringing at our current cougars to showcase at our school. This year, we have brought back a remage of Cougar Council. The purpose has this remained the same to provide students a voice on matters that impact them. It is led by a a group of ASB students who work in collaboration with our principal activities director MTSS coordinators. This group of of class representatives meet and discuss issues that students on campus feel are important and look to create solutions together. Career council met earlier today and we met with someone. I was there um with my ASB class and we were able to meet with someone who taught us that before we act negatively on something, we should take a step back and breathe and just reevaluate this situation before we move forward with

012it. And we did that through yoga today. And I seen that it positively impacted our class and other students that were there. Course our athletic department is currently undergoing the process of national assessment program for the NIA called the quality assessment program award. The QPA is one of the highest national honors for high school athletic programs focusing on continuous improvement safety educational a and educational athletics. Since its inhipation in 2008, only 158 high schools nationwide have earned the award with only two of them being from California. The program evaluates the areas of leadership, policy, safety, equity, eligibility, procedures, academic, sportsmanship, sports medicine, budget, and complence. Our athletic program is two months away from the completion of the assessment and has finished nine out of the 10 categories with the exemplary scores putting them on track

013to receive this award at National Athletic Director's Conference in December of 2026. We are excited at the positivity of this being the third award in California to be received. As you can see, there are lots of things going happening at Kenyon Springs. We are always welcome to visit. You guys are all welcome to visit any of our events at any time. This concludes my report. Are there any questions? Excellent job. And we're supposed to uh wish go Elizabeth because you told us to do that. And wow, class of 2030. Can you believe it? That's exciting. >> Student board member Huing, would you like to have them say any words? >> Yes. So, first I wanted to comment on high school preview day. Um, being as I am a student at Canyon Springs, I got to

014experience high school preview day not only as an eighth grader. I feel like that event really does help our students cuz I remember when I was in eighth grade, getting to visit my future campus and getting to like get to know all the students that already are attending that school really really helped me in my future um participation at the school. And then also Cougar Council. I feel like that's such a special like thing to have and being at as it is led by our students like that makes it even more special. So I just wanted to congratulate your school. Well, our school on your successes. Thank you. >> Thank you student board member Trusty Lea. Um, I just want to congratulate you for being here and being able to come and share with us

015the great news and I was listening to you and um and everything just it's it's amazing. But one thing that I heard you saying it's you know not only the mock trial that the student won um gold medal but also Air Force Junior ROC program just underwent their annual inspection and for the first time in history had a perfect score. And I know it's hard cuz my kids used to be in junior RTC when they were in Marino Elementary and I know how you know detail and everything that they check. So congratulations for that. >> Thank you. We are all really proud of our program at Kenyon. Thank you. >> Well, thank you for being here and thank you for coming and sharing these great news. >> Of course. Of course. Thank you for having

016me. >> Trusty Roads. >> Yes. I I applaud you on your uh presentation. And there's a lot going on at Canyon Springs High School. Um, what struck me was, uh, uh, Kenyon Springs is going to be performing at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Lozano, thank you very, very much. I worked with Mr. Lozano uh through another organization um KL RTA and he performed at our general meeting and uh we want to have you back after Carnegie Hall. How about that? Uh let's give him another hand. He's going to Carnegie Hall. That's all I have to say. Great presentation. >> Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Luna. >> Thank you. Um, Miss Guzman, thank you so much for your presentation. So many wonderful things going on at Canyon. Um, I'm so so proud of everything that's happening there under

017uh Mr. Robersonson's leadership and everyone else who contributes. Um, amazing students we have there, including yourself. I also want to give a shout out to uh band director, Mr. Lozano. uh because my daughter was under his direction when when she was there. So, congratulations on that. Um and then I wanted to ask you about the Cougar Council. That sounds like a really special program. >> Yes, >> I would I would love to participate or or visit or you know be a part of that. When did you guys start that? >> Um I'm not exactly too sure when we started. I know I'm pretty sure since my freshman year we have had it. I believe our next meeting, if I recall from today, is March 9th. >> Okay. >> Yes. March 9th. Okay. >> When we

018have the WA W wasp when we have Wasp come in and they're going to be there virtually. So, they'll be also be able to um >> just tag along into our meetings. I do think they're really impactful because it's really nice to hear from different students from different classrooms who come from just whether that's ROTC, health academy, business academy, band, everyone just kind of comes together during one of our class periods talks about issues that students personally feel that need to be addressed and we kind of come to a conclusion with help from our principal and it's really nice to be heard from students um all grade levels. >> Yes, it's wonderful to hear about that program. I look forward to hopefully visiting soon. >> Yes, look forward to seeing you. >> Thank you. Thank

019you for your presentation. >> Thank you, Miss Ashley, for your presentation. >> Thank you. >> Have a good day. >> Now we are moving on to item E5, the superintendence report. Dr. Arce, >> thank you very much, President Clark. Uh, and thank you, Dr. Ratava, for for watching it. I'll try to do my best to represent you. So our superintendent's update is as follows. Um everything that we do of course aligns to and thank you very much President Clark for reading the land acknowledgement. It aligns to our vision, mission and portrait of a graduate. Uh ultimately we want every single student to be future ready to positively impact the world. And today you're going to see examples of how they are already positively impacting the world. We have five distinct goals all the way from

020we want every student to be successful academically to have effective communication throughout our district. In addition to that, um we we see every single day moments of of greatness as we observe that this weekend in our soul fest and also what you heard from our student board member, our mock trial. Um we just have so much to celebrate. Today we like to do a special recognition for a very very special award. Uh this award is from the Riverside County Office of Education called the Spiderwoman Art Contest Award inspired by Louise Burggoy and hosted in collaboration with the SCAP Gallery. Uh this invites any student K12 to create a spider theme artwork. Two of our students were selected both from Vista Heights. So at this time I'd like to I see the leadership of Vista Heights

021but also our VAPA coordinator if she can come up before I introduce our students. Both of the students two out of 786 submissions were selected and they are being featured at Linta Museum. I mean it's it's amazing. So if you want to see it, please stop by. Our first student is Iana Campos. Um, unfortunately Elana, she's a seventh grader, but unfortunately her and her family could not be here today. Um, but we still want to give Elana a big round of applause. But our second student is here. His name is Noah Sea. No, congratulations, Noah. Noah is an eighth grade student at Vist. love for Noah to say a few words on how you what inspired you to create such an amazing artwork. >> I was inspired by I was inspired by the Spider-Man movie

022um Into the Spider-Verse and yeah, >> and you have to answer the million-dollar question. My my son is a big Spider-Man fan >> and they all kind of look the same to me, but he says there's the num the best movie. Which one's your best Spider-Man movie? >> Um, probably the original one. You know, Tom Holland. >> That's what he says. >> All right. So, this is our student. At this time, we'd love to take a picture with our board. Family can come up, too. Right. You guys can come on up. >> You can walk right around here. Go right there in front. And remember, you want to see Noah's artwork, go to Linta Art Museum. At this time, um, there's there's something that our district in partnership with the Optimus Club does, and we're

023very proud of this partnership. Uh, I'd like to bring up Dr. Gonzalez, who oversees this project as director of secondary education, to say a few words and kick us off on something that we want every student athlete to hear because by the time you get to your junior year, it may be you, the lucky winner of this amazing recognition. >> Good evening, board cabinet. Um, this is an amazing partnership that we have with um the Optimus Club. I have never heard of such a strong partnership. So, tonight we're here to honor 12 amazing students that are earning their Letterman's jacket through the generous donation of the Optimus Club. And so, to obtain this jacket, the students had to go through a rigorous process, apply for it, write some essays, make sure that that they had

024a minimum GPA, and also um we wanted to make sure that they gave back to the community. So they had community service hours. And so these 12 student athletes embody everything that we would want in our students, not only on and off the field and also part of the community. But before we bring up the students, I would love to bring up the president of the Optimus Club, Sarah. Good evening, school board, cabinet, everybody attending this evening. And so it is our pleasure to once again partner with the Marina Valley Unified School District. So if you've never heard of the Marina Valley Optimist Club, then I'm going to say where have you been since 1992. So um essentially we began this letterman's program because we are selfish and we are unselfish. And before my um

025fellow optimist members continue to bore their eyes into the back of my head, let me explain what this means. We are optimists because we choose to be. So we are selfish. We get something out of this. We get something out of this every time we get to attend a board meeting and give away all these wonderful jackets. We are selfish when we get to conduct a student welcome, which we do at your campuses at least once a month, and we've been doing that for several years. We are selfish when we volunteer at the library and we get to give up our time and our money and our resources because we get the warm and fuzzies out of this. So, if there's anybody in the audience or anybody watching from home who would like to be

026selfish and unselfish and join us anytime for any of these amazing projects, then we invite you to attend. So, with that, I'm going to thank some people as well before I give you a little bit more information about our club. So, we cannot do this project alone. These jackets are expensive. These students work really hard. Their parents and families are working really hard. But if you have children and you have had them letter such as I have, these jackets are expensive. If you have kids that letter more than once and you have multiple kids and they're all lettering, it's a big accomplishment. But man, it costs some money. So, we cannot do this alone. And with that, we thank our club because we do fundraise to provide these jackets in addition to Provident Bank has

027provided two jackets this year. IMEG Corp provided two jackets this year. Dr. Martin Rex Katya donated a jacket. Club members Susan Aerys, Jennifer Cordova, Dave Knox, Lisa Smith, Michael Maynard, and Katherine Stevens are all members, and they gave extra, and they each donated a jacket, as well as fellow community member Lindsay Robinson, which I've been trying to twist her arm to join, but she is part of the Marina Valley Wind Symphony, as well as just being an amazing human being. So, that partnership where we're recognizing some of our fellow band leaders and band members in the district, she's got some pull and um some love and support for them as well. Sorry, my my mind is going to mine in a minute. This is what happens when you serve jury duty and then you're trying

028to catch up on emails. So, with that, let me tell you a little bit about our club. We have been here since 1992, but we have been here for far longer. We are parents in the community. We are grandparents in the community. We're aunts. We are uncles. Some of us are former students. Go Valley View. Sorry, I'll tell you right now. It's the best school in the district. But they're all good. I promise. Go Eagles. Okay. I can go. Go Mustangs. Go Panthers. Sorry with that. Really truly our club loves this project. Everything we do in the community is for the Marina Valley community. If you want to be an optimist, whether or not you're part of our club or just a member of the community, there are three key things. You are trying to

029bring out the best in yourself. You are trying to bring out the best in others. And you are trying to bring out the best in your community. So that is why we are optimists. That is why we are here today. That is why we have been doing this program for well over a decade. And it is our pleasure to be able to provide these 12 jackets this year. But it's also our extreme pleasure and honor to partner with the school district. And so with that, I'm sure I've missed a lot of other things. We fund raise. We meet a couple times a month. We are fun people. But with that, we volunteer a lot and we give what we can with what we have. So if you are interested in learning a little bit more

030about us, we're on social media. There's a bunch of us blondes sitting in the front. Go figure. We're not all blondes, I promise. And with that, I'm going to turn it back to our district representative. But it is truly our honor to be able to provide these jackets for these students because I'll tell you what, they are also selfishly unselfish because they got something out of this, too. They got to represent themselves well. They got to build skills that are going to make them amazing human beings. They don't just get good grades cuz they have to. I'm sure they want to, but they're getting something out of this as well. and their families are a part of that. Their community is a part of that. Their schools are a part of that. And every single

031one of you who are present today, whether or not you know these 12 students or not, you are a part of that because you represent the Marino Valley Unified community. And with that, there's positives and negatives. But if we're in the room tonight, we are here because they are here. And they are here because we are here. And so with that, Thank you, Sarah. We are going to start off with Canyon Springs. If I could please have the principal come up with his kiddos. We have Isaiah, Elizabeth, and Hannah. This is for you. >> Congratulations. Thank you so much. Next up, Marino Valley High School. Principal M. Mr. Kintterero. And our student athletes are right here, Daniela, Kiana, and Zimemena. Next up, Valley View High School. Principal Mr. Gilead with his student athletes. We have

032Stacy Admary and Nathan. And last but not least, Vista Delago, principal, Mr. McCain with students Matt and Chloe. Congratulations. One big round of applause not only for our student athletes but also our partners in the Optimus Club. So, thank you for this great partnership. Now we're going to take one big group picture as much as possible. Everybody ready? One, two, and three. One more. Ready? One, two, and three. Awesome. One, two, three. Thank you very much to our Optimus partners and Dr. Gonzalez for coordinating it and all your team. Thank you Liz for for your coordination. Our next um award is some is an award that I I had also the pleasure of being there myself and it was very very emotional. Um this award is called the heart of extraordinary service award. This was

033awarded on February 4th and I'm I'm going to read a little bit long but it's it's worth it. Uh we have a lot of teachers here that teach career technical education. Some of them are Marino Valley Unified School District CT teachers and others are um Riverside County Office of Education teachers. I'm going to speak specifically about a teacher named Adam Weber. Mr. Weber is a CTE teacher at Marino Valley High School. He was presented with the RCE Heart of Extraordinary Service Award. Uh similar to the Heart of Excellence Award. And at this time, is Mr. Weber here? Did he make it? Yes. All right. Can you please come up? because when you need to be embarrassed when we're reading this about you and if we could have Mr. Cantero the principal and also Miss Lindseay

034Huntsman our college and career coordinator up there with Dr. Gonzalez as well. It's a team effort, right? So, Mr. Weber, you're going to have to hear this again because you deserve it. This is uh presented by Riverside County Office of Education. And this award honors individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary service over time and who have embodied Riverside County Office commitment to extraordinary service. Mr. Weber exemplifies the very best of career technical education through rigorous hands-on instruction that leads to industry recognized certifications, realworld skills, and growing student confidence. His well-run safety focused lab and the consistent growth in student proficiency across multiple welding processes reflect this industrial instructional excellence. At the core of Mr. Weber's work is an unwavered commitment to students. He advocates for access, supports learners at all levels, and creates an inclusive classroom

035culture where every student can succeed through targeted feedback, peer mentorship, and extended lab opportunities. Mr. Weber ensures students develop not only technical expertise, but also the professional skills needed to the workplace. Mr. Weber is also a leader, an innovator. He he designates and it designs new product and innovation pathway expanded career readiness opportunities and guided students to continued success through the skills USA at the regional, state and national levels. Beyond his classroom, he strengthens programs through community partnerships, mentorships, and curriculum align alignment. For his dedication to students, innovation, and excellence in CTE, college career technical education, Mr. Adam Weber truly embodies the heart of extraordinary service, and his students love him. Mr. Weber, at this time, a few words from you. Yes. Um uh thank you, President Clark, board, and uh cabinet members. Um I'm

036greatly appreciative of this recognition. This award reflects the excellence of the students from Green Valley High School whose achievements are made possible with the unwavering support of our college and career department, CTE um leadership, administration, and staff. Their commitment allows us to do the meaningful work we're so proud of every day. Sorry. I mean, I talk all day. You think I'd be good at this, right? Um, I'm going skip some stuff. When it came to Reno Valley, I knew I was passion about welding, but the high school gave my purpose. Mr. Kinta, would you like to help him out? say some pretty cool words about him. >> Well, you could definitely see the passion and the love he has for not only uh Moreno Valley High School, but more importantly the students he serves each

037and every day. Um the welding program uh was already there at Moreno Valley High School, but it's only now with the leadership and guidance Mr. whoever provides that is being taken to new heights and new levels and RCOE was gracious enough to recognize the dedication and hard work. Mr. Weber Gibbs on a daily basis to our students in our community. So, we're very appreciative of having Mr. Weber part of the Marino Valley Viking family. >> Thank you very much. I I'd like to point out to the board that we have 23 districts in Riverside County and if we average, which there's probably more, a thousand educators per district, we're looking at over 20,000 educators and they only select one in the entire Riverside County. So, thank you. You'd like to take a picture. So, those

038are um our recognitions under the superintendent's report. We also have some district highlights that we'd love to share with our board. Commencing with the state communication award um that is going to be awarded on March 13th. This is through CLSPRA and this is the communications and community engagement department uh of our district will be receiving three awards from the California school public relations association. One I you know our communications department is like one like no others. There's other districts that probably have like 20 members and we only have like three and a helm of it and she does amazing work. like I'm talking Hollywood style and because of that um there were three areas that are especially being recognized. The first one we launched a campaign to expand our DLI program. So they included communication

039videos, logos, school banners and everything around that. So that was one that was recognized under DI communications campaign. Also the work that you all have seen under saluting educators uh the videos the work I mean coming together with the HR department to make that come to life is it takes special talent so they're being recognized for that and also the graduation highlight videos that we put together every year that is led by our communications director and her department. So we are very very excited about this highlight that's coming our way. So congratulations For those of you that were able to attend, we did have the National History Day Awards ceremony on January 31st. We are very proud of all the work. It's just growing every year for more students, more schools. This year we had

040119 students participate and we have 65 projects going to county. You rest assure that we will be going to state and probably national. So, we're very, very excited about that. We also had our long-term first ever long-term English learner summit. We had it on two different days, January 27th and January 29th. On the 27th, we had our Canyon Springs High School, Marino Valley High School, and Bayside attend. On January 29th, we had Valley View High School, Vista Lago High School, and March Mountain attend students. There was a student panel. We had a keynote. We had celebration. students and teachers were saying how amazing it was and how much they felt like a sense of belonging which is our our mission through these student summits um really exemplifying their voice. We also had our science and

041engineering fair award ceremony on January 23rd. This is an annual event as well where we had I I want you to really think about this how much Marno Valley is going to be represented across 205 projects submitted with almost 300 students participate. Out of those we have 30 projects going to the county. I am sure we will be representing there as well. So we're excited about that. And of course, the more we do things where our students have that sense of belonging and they are involved, it impacts our attendance is what we want our students to be here, be present. So, we like to share with our board our elementary percentages, middle school percentages, and high school with middle school leading. Our goal is to be at that 95% and middle schools are knocking on

042the door. So, um leading the middle schools is Vista Heights Middle School with they have surpassed 95%. Northridge Elementary School and Butterfield Language Academy are Northridge is over 95% and uh Butterfield Language Academy is close to that 95%. So huge thank you for everyone that's making attendance a priority, especially our student services department. We have so much to celebrate on the modernization projects across our district. Beginning with our elementary schools modernization projects, we are focusing on the increase in technology, furniture, new building, multi-use spaces at Bear Valley. For example, uh we are starting the groundbreaking on June 20, we started June 2025 with spring 2027 with a completion and for example, they're at we're adding um whiteboards or marker boards there. At Butterfield Elementary Language Academy, we're doing the modernization. For example, there we're adding

043an HVAC unit um installation and that's in progress right now at Cloverdale Elementary. An example is the demolition and over excavation of building A for a focus of a kitchen. So, yes, we're we're and there's multiple you're going to hear on kitchen being the priority. We have as well Creekide Elementary School modernization. We um an example for them is they are in the process of completing they they submitted the design and so we're reviewing and approving it for DSA and CDE um uh approval at Hendrickk Ranch Elementary School modernization. We are as an example um the interior framing and electrical and plumbing um roofing uh is complete or in the verge of complete at Hidden Springs Elementary School. We have um also building a kitchen as well at Honey Hollow Elementary School uh focusing on

044that fire lane um which includes other uh projects but with their fire lane gate posts that are set and surrounding um flat work has been poured and then at Midland Elementary School the modernization the design has been completed as well and is in that review process at Northridge Elementary School. Uh, it includes the final cleanup that's in progress, but also asphalt and the punchwalk are in progress. And please, I I'm saying all these words, but know that I probably don't know what the punchwalk is. I may learn, but thank you to Jake and his team for doing a great job with that. And then at um Richest Elementary School, modernization, there's light fixtures, crosswalks, and flooring delivery and installation that are in progress. at Senica Elementary School framing and insulation um as well as the

045complete ready completed and ready for drywall as well. At Serrano Elementary, we have the building e restroom in wall and above ceiling MPs are completed as well as drywall is hung and and I'm only highlighting a few things but you can see the list of all the great work that's happening at Sugar Hill Elementary School. The stuckle patching is in progress at Sunny Meadows Elementary School. We have the programming and design in progress. And then contractors have been awarded. And then um also in those projects, we have shade for play looking at um the design and approvals um going out for bidding so that we can have students especially in our hot summer months um be able to be safe as we know the sun could be brutal at times. We have a lot of

046save the dates. Um, just want to highlight, you know, those of you that were there in Soulfest this weekend, but also our honor choir did an amazing job. But please, please, we invite our community thank you board for all the support that you provide that includes uh a list of things that are coming up. We have the district honor band concert. We have the Steam Unity Expo. Over 2,000 families show up to that. Also, the reading challenge awards and celebration. We have the community connection for literacy day where we it used to be formerly known as read across America where community partners will come in and read to our students. We have a sports soccer tournament um there for elementary sports come. We're going to have hundreds if not probably over 2,000 families attend our

047extravaganza. This is our inclusion um vapa program with our special education department. And then we also have our spell our Spanish spelling bee. And we just had our English spelling bee yesterday. So, we do have those winners. Those we will share those updates at a future time. And then our big save the date as well. As you know, we have our state of the district. It is a huge event and we invite our community to see all the great things that have happened since January 2025 to December 2025. And that is on February 19th at the performing arts center. And that is all for the superintendent report. Thank you very much. Thank you kindly, Dr. Arce. Moving on to E6 recognitions, E6A and we have approval of resolution number 20 um 2025-26-60 recognizing March as

048professional social worker month. Can I get a motion, please? So move. >> Thank you, Miss Trusty Luna. Can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Trustee Lea. Please call for the vote. Student board member hearing >> I. >> Miss Lever I >> Mr. Williams >> I >> Miss Luna I >> Miss Clark >> I This motion has passed by yes zero no. Um Trusty Williams >> yes thank you um President >> Clark. Thank you. Uh, could I have Omar Marquez come to the uh, podium, please? Omar is the coordinator of child welfare and attendance and student services. He will be accepting this resolution. Marino Valley Unified School District is proud to have social workers who work as positive agents of change. They serve as a link between home, school, and our community

049and dedicate themselves to improving the lives of our students. Social workers promote and support academic and social success, provide crisis intervention, develop partnerships with community resources, lead prevention programs, and collaborate with other educators. We believe our social workers are critical to our commitment to eliminating achievement gaps because of their diligent work and focus on helping students overcome social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. We are proud to recognize March 2026 as National Professional Social Workers Month and encourage you to show deep appreciation for the honorable work that our social workers do every day. Thank you. Good evening, board president Clark, members of the board of education, superintendent Dr. Rubakaba, and distinguished guests. Uh, stated before, my name is Omar Marquez, child welfare tennis court for student services here at the Marino Valley Unified School District. Uh, thank

050you for the opportunity to accept this resolution this evening. Often we focus heavily on academic instruction, but we know learning cannot happen when a child's basic needs are not met. This is where our district social workers uh become the essential safety net of our educational system. They are the architects of our tier 2 and tier three interventions, stepping in to provide targeted and intensive support when standard measures aren't enough. They are the ones doing the heavy lifting for our most vulnerable populations, providing stability for our students facing homelessness and being a consistent advocate for our foster youth. But their impact goes beyond direct student contact. They are a force multiplier for our entire district, guiding staff and equipping teachers with the vital community resources families need to survive and thrive. District social workers don't just

051solve problems, they remove the barriers that keep students from succeeding. They bridge the gap between home and school ensuring no child falls through the cracks. Thank you. Thank you kindly. Moving on to item E6B. We have the approval of resolution recognizing March as arts education month. Can I get a motion, please? >> So move. >> Thank you, Trustee Luna. Can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Trusty Leva. Claudia, please call for the vote. Student member Huing. >> Miss Lever, >> I. >> Mr. Williams, >> I. >> Miss Luna, >> I. Miss Clark. >> I This motion has passed. Five. Yes. Miss Luna. Thank you, President Clark. May I please have Nick Sterns, Renee Rajinaro, and Christian Lozano to the podium, please? Arts education, which includes dance, music, theater, and the visual

052arts, is an essential and integral part of basic education for all students in all grade levels, including preK and kindergarten. One unique fact about our district is that it was the first district in California to adopt the Declaration of the Rights of all students to equity in arts learning, committing the district to bringing access to highquality public arts education, regardless of their background, culture, language, and geographic location. We know firsthand that our students benefit from arts learning and cultural understanding, readiness for learning and creative thinking, cognitive outcomes, emotional intelligence and expression, social interaction and collaboration and preparation for the workplace and lifelong learning. Therefore, we are very proud to designate March 2026 as arts education month. The podium is yours. >> Well, thank you, Board President Clark and Miss Luna for um that beautiful resolution.

053I couldn't have said it better or added anything to it. I just want to humbly and gratefully accept the resolution on behalf of our educators and every student in the district that they serve. And um as we mentioned earlier, Christian Lozano with his award that he just received for outstanding high school educator. Um, we all know that arts education isn't just about visual and performing arts, but we integrate with the teachers and we are educators that support literacy and student learning and student success educationally. And I would like to turn the mic over to Christian to let him express his gratitude as well. >> Oh, it's all good. All right. Um, good evening board president, uh, members of the board of education and superintendent Dr. Rubulava and distinguished guests. Again, my name is Christian Lozano,

054the proud band director at Canyon Springs High School. Um, I've been at Canyon Springs for nine years, and this just tremendous growth of the music program and the arts on campus have been um, like tenfold in just in in this time. At Canyon Springs, the arts are really important to our students. It's it brings a community together. And our award-winning marching band and color guard programs, our concert ensembles, percussion groups, and color guard groups um reflect the dedication of our students and our community. And as mentioned previous, uh our we our students will be premiering our debut performance in Carnegie Hall this spring, just March 2026. So just in a month and a half. and just another testament how how important arts and music is important to our students and families. Um, I'd like to

055thank our principal, Mr. Shawn Robersonson, and uh, our VAPA coordinator, uh, M. Renee Virginiro, for their support. And I also want to thank the board for their support in Prop 28, the arts and music uh funding to help us as arts teachers hire staff, hire uh purchase equipment, and really have our students um be successful in in all the things that they do. So, thank you so much. And um yeah, that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to E6C, approval of resolution number 2025 2662 recognizing March as National Women's History Month and March 8th, 2026 as International Women's Day. Can I get a motion, please? I'd like to make a motion. Thank you, Trusty Lever. Can I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Trusty Williams. Miss Claudia, please call for the

056vote. Student member Hewing, >> I. >> Miss Lever, >> I. >> Mr. Williams, >> I. >> Miss Luna, >> I. >> Miss Clark, >> I. This motion is passed. 5 Z. Student board member Healing. Can I please have Rosemary, professional develop specialist and MVA vice president, Nora Pena, secretary and CSA secretary, and Priscilla Giron, clerk 3 from safety and security department come and accept this resolution. Women of every race, class, and ethnic background were early leaders at the forefront of every significant progressive social change movement. Women have been leaders not only in securing the rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement, the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement, and other movements, especially the peace movement. Despite these contributions, the woman of the role of women in

057history has been consistently overlooked and undervalued in the literature, teaching, and study of American history. That is why our district is proud to designate March 2026 as National Women's History Month and March 8th, 2026 as International Women's Day. A global day celebrating women's social, economic, cultural, and political achievements. We encourage all residents to become aware of the contributions and impacts made by all women throughout history. How about that? Oh, there we go. Good evening, uh, board president Clark, um, members of the school board, superintendent Dr. Rubikala, and distinguished guests. My name is Rosemary Nershel. I'm the SELPA literacy coach and I'm also the proud vice president of Marino Valley Educators Association. Thank you for the opportunity to accept this resolution this evening. I'm really accepting it on behalf of the incredible women and the people

058who support them all across our district. When we talk about Women's History Month, it's easy to focus on the past, but honestly, when I look around our district, I see history being made in real time. To my fellow educators, you are the heart of this. You're not just teaching history. You're showing students, especially our young women, that they have the power to write their own stories. You are the mentors and the role models who make everything possible. To our administrators, thank you for the behind-the-scenes work to build a culture where everyone has a seat at the table and the support they need to succeed. and most importantly to our students. You're the reason we're here. Whether you're excelling in academics, crushing it in sports, or standing up for what's right, you remind us every day

059that the future is in very good hands. This resolution is a great way to say we see you and we value you. But the real celebration is in the way women show up for women every single day. Not just in not just in March. Let's keep working together to make sure every single person in our district feels empowered to be a leader. Thank you. Good evening board president, members of the board of education, superintendent and distinguished guest. My name is Priscilla Heron. I'm clerk three um for safety and security department. Thank you for the opportunity to accept this resolution this evening. Tonight we celebrate more than a resolution. We celebrate strength, resilience, and the voice of women. Thank you. >> Thank you kindly. Moving on to item E6D, approval of resolution number 202526-63, recognizing National

060School Breakfast Week, March 2nd, 2026 through March 6, 2026. Can I get a motion, please? >> I would like to make a motion. >> Thank you, Trustee Leva. Can I get a second? I'll second. >> Thank you. Trustee um excuse me, board student board member Healing. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. Student board member Hewing. >> I. >> Miss Leva, >> I. >> Mr. Williams, >> I. >> Miss Luna, >> I. >> Miss Clark, >> I. This motion has passed. 50. And this will be presented by Trusty Leva. Um, if Miss Carla Leer, uh, director of nutrition services, Elizabeth Hernandez, assistant director of nutrition services, and Lee Inguain, I hope I said it correctly. Um, cafeteria elite person 2 from Came Middle School, please come to the front. The school breakfast program was permanently

061established in 1975 and is dedicated to the health and well-being of our nation's children. Breakfast as part of the school day improves children's diet, builds healthy, lifelong eating habits, and allows students to begin their days focused and ready to learn. It goes without saying that we are exceptionally proud of the work of our nutrition services department and our district's commitment to the health and nutrition of our students. Many of our nutritional staff work as early as 5 in the morning in order to be ready to serve our kids breakfast. On behalf of the board, we are happy to designate the week of March 2nd to the 6 as National School Breakfast Week. This week celebrates the importance of a nutritious school breakfast in fueling students for success and also celebrates the National School Breakfast Program.

062We also want to use this opportunity as a reminder that every um TK to 12th grade student in our district receives a free breakfast and lunch. We encourage all residents to be aware of and mindful of their children's and their own nutritional habits and to take advantage of these opportunities. Good evening board president, member of the board education, superintendent Dr. Rupa, uh, and distinguished guest. My name is Liing Wen, proud cafeteria lead person 2 at Sunnid Middle School in the nutrition services department. Thank you for the opportunity to accept this resolution this evening. The school breakfast program SBP is a critical USDA funded program that provided nutritious universal no charge morning meals to millions of student in California. Participating in the school breakfast program has been shown to significantly improve academic performance, reduce absentes, and

063support health. National School Breakfast Week celebrates the important role a nutritious school breakfast plays in helping student their days. Ready to learn? Breakfast is fun, important and tasty. We invite all student to enjoy a delicious, nutritious breakfast at the school every day and especially in March 2nd through 6, 2026 when we celebrate the quest for school breakfast. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to item F, 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 each agenda item to 21 minutes. Board bylaw 9323B section

0645. Per board bylaw 9323, twice the allotted time will be provided for a member of the um a member of the public utilizing a translator. Miss Claudia, do we have any public comments? >> One public speaker. >> Thank you. May I have please have Miss Dane Brooks to the podium. Hi Oh. Um, my name is DJ Jane Brooks. Um, come here on. I have three students up here um in the Marino Valley School District. I'm so nervous. I'm sorry I've never done this before, but um I'm speaking because um Elop has decided to contract with three after school programs. Think Together is not one of them. Um Think Together has been in MVUSD for 17 years. I think I have two nieces who are in their 20s who was highly impacted from Think Together. They

065still sing their Think Together songs to me. I have three kids and think Together um Cynica and Towngate. Um he's now at Visa Heights um where they have Alivo, but he doesn't attend Alivo anymore because it's not Think Together. But Think Together has impacted me and a lot of other parents. A lot of parents have come to me and tell me how they've gotten through nursing school, how their students behavior has changed, their program leaders are their inspiring. His He's autistic. His program leaders are inspiring. He never liked to do work. He does work now because of his program leaders. He's he's doing really good. And off the record, my daughter back there will be receiving a reward for the Steam Explore Reading Challenge because she does her reading uh and think Together program leaders

066encourages her. So, um, I got accepted into nursing school. I start this month because I was able to take extra classes because of Think Together. Think Together has provided field trips for these kids parents otherwise could not afford. Um, they're just they're impactful. Um, they're they're really they're I don't know. I'm I'm drawing a blank. I'm nervous again. But I ask that you please reconsider um keeping things together on programs. I have so many parents who who would prefer things together over anything else. And I believe if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Think together is not broken. We can implement active reform and um educate our program leaders, continuing education or train them if we need that. But please reconsider keeping think together in our schools. Thank you. >> Thank Thank you. >> Thank

067you. >> Moving on to public comments on non-aggenda items. The board of education encourages public comments during the 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 speak uh to report back at a subsequent meeting and or direct staff to place a topic on future uh um agenda. 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

068minutes per board. By law 9323, twice the allotted time will be provided for a member of the public utilizing a translator. With the board of education consent, with board of education consent, the president may increase or decrease the limit the time limit allowed for public um presentations. Just a second. Depending on the number of persons wishing to be heard, the president may take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional people speak only if they have something new to add per board bylaw 9323 B- C. Miss Claudia, do we have any public comments? >> No public comments on non-aggenda items. >> Thank you. Moving on to item 6F, employee association reports. We pardon >> item eight, excuse me, employee association reports. Starting with California School Employee Association, CSEA.

069President Taylor to the podium. Good evening, board of directors, superintendent, cabinet. Uh there's nothing new to report at this time. Um I am happy that we came to an agreement on theou and still is in the ratification process, but at least we have an agreement for spring interession and there is nothing else new to report at this time. Have a great evening. >> Thank you, President Taylor. Moving forward to association of Marino Valley. Oh, excuse me. I'm sorry. Moving forward to Marino Valley Educators Association. Mr. President Fes to the podium, please. Thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Uh, throw me off my game here. All right, here we go. All right. Well, good evening, President Clark, our board trustees, uh, Superintendent Rudakava, and members of the community. Uh, my name is Chris Vidius,

070and I'm the proud president of the Marino Valley Educators Association or MVA. And I'm here to speak about something that sits at the heart of our moral and legal responsibility to students. And that's the urgent need to reduce class sizes in our special education classrooms. and also the case loads of our educators in special education. This is not new. Last year we came here uh monthly. We brought uh and it wasn't just myself speaking. We brought stories straight from the schools sites. Our educators spoke from all levels from elementary, middle, high school and beyond. Right? And um and yet nothing has changed. Unfortunately, we when we talk about special education, we're not talking about a separate group of children. We're talking about our children, our kids, our students who deserve the same access to meaningful

071meaningful learning, the same chance to grow and the same opportunity to thrive as any other student in this district. But opportunity doesn't happen by accident. It happens when we create learning conditions for our students to meet their needs. Currently, our number of students qualifying for special education has increased by 1% over the last year. But in the same time frame, our district enrollment has dropped. Our special education class sizes are too large. And for the level of support our students require, and these are classrooms where students may need individ individualized instruction, behavior support, communication, scaffolding, sensory regulation, or medical accommodations, or all those things at once. When a teacher is responsible for too many students in high and diverse needs or with high and diverse needs, the individualized educational program or IEPs for our students

072with disabilities is impacted. Lower class sizes in our classrooms shouldn't be looked at as a luxury. They are a safety issue. They're an instructional issue. They're also a compliance issue. They are the difference between a teacher being able to deescalate a crisis safely or having to choose between two at the same time. They are the difference between students receiving the individualized instruction written into their IEPs or receiving a fraction of it because the attention needed in classroom is stretched beyond capacity. They are the difference between progress and regression. But special education teachers are not only responsible for teaching. Oh no. They are also responsible for um writing, updating, implementing, testing uh for those individualized u educational programs or IEPs. They coordinate with general ed teachers, specialists, therapists, and families. They collect data daily. They manage

073behavior plans, communication systems, sensory supports, and medical accommodations. I can tell you in the past two years, I feel like I've almost become an expert in special education with all that I've learned from our members. And I appreciate that opportunity to learn to be able to advocate on their behalf. Our educators also document progress, prepare, and facilitate IEP meetings, and ensure compliance with federal and state law. They do a lot. This is not extra paperwork. This is legally required student centered work that directly affects a child's access to their educational program. Research is clear that smaller class sizes in special education lead to stronger academic gains, better communication outcomes, fewer behavioral incidents, and more stable learning environments. When a special education teacher has a manageable case load, they can build relationships, deliver targeted instruction, collaborate

074IEPs with families, and create a classroom where every student is given the attention and support they deserve. Now, who wouldn't want to sign up for that? Large class sizes comi combined with oversized case loads create a perfect storm. Students receive less individualized instruction. Behavior escalations become harder to manage safely. Case load management becomes an impossible task. Legally required documentation for IEPs become rushed or delayed. And educator burnout increases. Turnover rises and the continuity for students disappears. So tonight I'm speaking to the school board because you have the opportunity and a responsibility to do better. Frankly, lowering class sizes and case loads and special education is not just an investment in staffing, it's an investment in safety, equity, and the legal promise we make to every family who entrusts their children to our schools. I'm asking

075the school board to start by prioritizing reduced class sizes and case loads in our special education classrooms and to make it a core commitment, not an optional enhancement. Our students deserve classrooms where their learning conditions allow their needs to be met each day. Our educators deserve working conditions where they can do the work they were trained to do. And our Marino Valley community deserves a school system that honors its obligations with transparency, integrity, and action. Now, thank you for your time and your commitment to what do what's right for all of our students. Thank you, President Prius. Moving on to item H3, the Association of Marino Valley Management Personnel, ANVAP, President Garcia. Uh, good evening, board president, board members, Dr. Cabinet. Uh on behalf of Avamp, I just want to announce we're very excited to

076have our um our scholarship applications being sent out to high schools today. So, we're looking forward to award uh a student from each of our comprehensive high schools a scholarship. Uh we also have facility scholarships uh that are um fairly new to us uh for those students that are planning to attend trade schools as well. So, those applications are being sent out now. Uh, and we're looking forward to reading those applications of our many wonderful students that we have here in Mona Valley Unified. Thank you all. Have a good night. >> Thank you. Moving on to item I, comments from the board. We will start with student board member Elhilling. >> No further comments. >> Thank you, Trustee Lea. Sorry. I have the honor and privilege of um attending different events. I was able to

077be at the history day event and at the science and engineering fair. Uh I was able to go to the UC San Bernardino with the students from March in Valley View. Um also I was yesterday I was able to be at the spell and be competition. It was nerve-wracking. I was like biting my nails. Um, also, you know, being able to attend the soul fest, it was amazing. Great performances. People, you know, were having a lot of fun. Um, I was able also to be at the, uh, welcoming and incoming freshman at um, Valley View. Also, I was able to be at the long-term English learners uh summit and it was um it was really good listening um you know from the students the things that they um feel that we need to we need

078to improve um and how happy they were that we have these uh events because they're able to speak up and understand that their voice matters and that's really really nice. Also, I have the privilege to be at the honor choir performance for elementary, middle, and high school. It was just out of this world just to hear them and see, you know, um the dedication that they put to to be able to perform. And um but um I just want to take the time to um to thank everyone that is involved so that our students and are able to participate in these different you know competitions, events and and the work they put so that we can provide our students these opportunities. Um so thank you to the coordinators, teachers, principals, parents and students, anyone that

079it's involved so that we can enjoy this wonderful events and um I want to take the time also to say thank you to the optimist club. I have seen them here for many many years and it is nice you know that they want to give back to their community and they take the time and I know how expensive those jackets were cuz when I was attending high school you know we did a lot of selling of chocolates so we could buy one so I cannot imagine how expensive they are right now and um so thank you to anyone who was able to donate a jacket and and make these students happy. So that's all I have to say. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Leva. Trusty Williams. >> Thank you, U President Clark. Um I

080I have a few things uh I want to comment on. Uh starting with the uh science fair and uh history day project, we total close to 100 kids going to the county and I want to see our kids go back to the nationals. our history uh group from I believe Kenyon Springs went to the nationals last year and uh I've just since I've been on the board I've seen the program grow and and see the kids come up with fantastic ideas um and again I am with Cal RTA and when these students are going to the state Krta supports as many of the programs economically so that they can go to the nationals and uh when I spoke uh with our representatives from uh History Day and Science uh they said kids you know had

081trouble uh improving their projects. So that's why the organization I work with uh steps in. So, we work not only with the science fair, but we also work with history day as well. Uh, that's that's one of my um comments. Um, I am so glad to hear that uh Kenyon Springs is going to Carnegie Hall to perform. That's a great honor. That puts that puts Marino Valley on the map. And this is what I've wanted to see from Marino Valley. See, we have so many talents here. We haven't hit we haven't hit the stride yet, but we keep inching our way forward with our students, putting our students out front and look what they can do. And then Mr. Weber, I was with Mr. Weber when he was working out of a closet at Marino

082Valley. And the most important thing to a CTE program is a Mr. Weber. See, you put somebody like that in there, you're going to get 199%. And that's a national CTE because his certificate speaks louder than words. out there in the work world. And finally, uh, think together. I I have to kind of echo what this parent said. Um, I got more information or more calls about Think Together uh this week than anything that I've been doing since I've been on the board. A lot of people are singing the praises of think together. So that's pretty much what I have to say. Thank you. >> Thank you kindly. Trustee Williams, Trusty Luna. >> Thank you, President Clark. Uh I I'm going not going to repeat everything everyone else just said, but do want to send

083gratitude. So grateful to be here in this district with amazing staff, students. Um, I went to I attended Soulfest this past weekend and uh, my heart is full. It was a great event. It was great seeing everyone there. Great seeing all of our families and students enjoying it and the student performances were amazing and uh, our MC, Miss Brown, was amazing as always. Thank you, Miss Brown, for doing that. You're always great. Always liven liven up the crowd and get everybody going. Um, and also I want to say happy Black History Month and uh let's continue to uh honor Black History all throughout the year as well as all other cultures and celebrate everybody and uh just uh be kind to each other. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Luna. Now we're moving on to

084item J, comments from the superintendent. >> Thank you, President Clark. If you could give me a thumbs up if the audio sounds good. Thank you so much. So, I want to start by thanking everyone who has reached out to offer their well-wishes, their prayers, and their support during uh my recovery. Uh it has been overwhelmingly um emotional to read um all of those well wishes and it really reminds me and resets my mind about how lucky I am to be part of this amazing community and to be part of an amazing team. So thank you, thank you, thank you. As you can tell from the screen and for those of you who saw me on Saturday at Sofest, I am on the mend and I will be in person very very very soon. So you

085will have enough of me in person. Um also want to thank Dr. RC for the superintendent report. Um great job last time and this time on really um celebrating all the amazing things that are happening in our district. I do want to highlight a couple things that stood out to me. We said often that we are a village and as a village we raise children, we raise a community and without the partnership of organizations like the Optimist, we wouldn't be able to do that. So, thank you to the Optimist Club organization and all the work that they do, especially for the Leman jackets. I was a high school senior. I was working full-time almost as a high school senior and I still couldn't afford a lemon jacket because part of what I earned had to

086go back to contributing to the family. So, the fact that we're taking that burden off of off of some of our families is really um rewarding that we were able to do that again with the support of the Optimus Club. And then I also want to just share some thoughts about Mr. Weber. We have a focus in our district about creating an environment of belonging and putting our kids in front of adults who care and show who compassion, show empathy, and really demonstrate that they love our kids. And just the demeanor of Mr. Weber as he accepted the recognition today really speaks to that. He mentioned the two words, passion and purpose, which I think he embodies, but I also want to add a third one, which is humbleness. And so I appreciate Mr. Weber

087and all the other Mr. Webers that we have in our district for everything that you do. And then I also want to thank everyone that had anything to do with Selfest from the Wellness Center to our parent ambassadors maintenance and operation Canyon Springs for hosting. It was an amazing event. It was my first official outing after two weeks of being confined to a home. Um, and it was nice that I got that as an opportunity to be out in the community. It was so rewarding. I echo what Vice President Luna shared. It filled my cup um about the possibility of we can do of what we can do when we unite as a community regardless of our backgrounds and regardless of our differences. And then lastly, I want to thank our IT department and our

088media PR team for helping make this possible that I'm able to participate virtually. They tried yesterday, we tested it today and so far I think it's going very well. So thank you Jessica, thank you Ana and all of the team for making it happen. That's all I have. >> Thank you Dr. Ovakava. Moving on to item K presentation to the board. We're going to start with item K1 which is which is presentation on multi-tered system of support MTSS data academic suspensions and chronic absenteeism. Dr. RSA. >> Thank you very much President Clark. At this time I'd like to uh welcome Dr. Price and our presenting principles. Please come on up. At the request of the board, we have our MTSS presentation where we highlight areas that glowed last year, but areas that based on the

089data also need to grow. And so today, you will hear from four principles, three elementary, and then our adult ed principal um where they're going to share uh part of the the claims, evidence, and reasoning and actions. And next step, I'm going to hand over the clicker to Dr. Price. Good evening, board president Clark, members of the board, Dr. Riilcaba and cabinet. Uh pleasure to be here and to showcase the amazing work that's going on across our school sites and across our district. Um I'd first like to introduce though our amazing principles um from Honey Hollow, Miss Air. We've got a Miss Sawad here. um Brittany Squalls from Midland and Sam Stagger from Northridge and Dr. Elsa Magna from our Marino Valley Community Adult School. So, a pleasure to be here. As always, we ground

090ourselves in our vision, mission, and portrait of a graduate in all of the things that we do. And today's focus is really solely based on um specifically goals one and four focusing on on our academic growth for every student and as well as providing a safe, welcoming and respectful and rigorous learning environment for every member of our school community. And as we have shared in the past, the focus of our presentation, we base on this model, the CER and A. We're going to focus on our claim, the evidence, the reasoning, and of course our actions and next steps. So, let's first talk about our claim. We really look at what our focus is on chronic absenteeism and suspension according to our state dashboard. And there is a specific focus to really support the growth in

091our area of mathematics for our specific elementary schools as well as our enrollment for adult education tonight. and we're going to talk about our evidence. As you're aware, our dashboard was released in 2025 in November. And we've seen a lot of great growth, a lot of greens and blues going from 24 to 2025 that we've been celebrating and really um excited about the progress that our district has made in many different state indicators. As you're aware, from 24 to 2025, we've increased in mathematics by 3.8 by 3.8 8 points. In suspension rates, we made we continued to decline and this year we declined by.7 points. We're going in the right direction. And in chronic absenteeism as well, we continue to make improvements and we declined by 1.4%. across our elementary schools. We're going to hear

092a little bit more about our areas of glows and grows in mathematics, suspension rates, and chronic absenteeism here for Honey Hollow as well as in Midland Northridge and at our adult education school. You'll see here students serve from 23 24 from 24 and to 2025. And also we're going to talk about our program hours. Um, as you can see the data 23 to 24 and again from year 24 to 2025. So just to focus for a minute, we want to talk about our evidence to the claim. So when we think about areas that we're growing and areas that we're going to hear from our principles on where we're glowing, we're going to take a look at at Honey Hollow and Midland and Northridge. There has been a decrease in mathematics, specifically in Honey Hollow, a

093decrease of 22.8 points. um at Midland 4.5 points and at Northridge a decrease in 5.1 points. And in our adult education school, we're looking at the number of students um that have been served that has remained stagnant. And of course, those are areas of growth. We're going to hear more from our principles in particular in those particular areas of focus. But of course, we have a lot to celebrate in their areas of glows and they're going to share more about that. But again, overall suspension rate is an area of glow for Honey Hollow. There's a decrease by.1%. Midland, there's a decrease in absenteeism by 5.9%. And Northridge, overall chronic absenteeism decrease by 4.2%. And our celebration in adult education is the amount of program hours that have increased. You're going to see from 98,237 hours

094to 219,332 hours. So, a lot of great things going on there as well. So, thinking about the reasoning and we're now going to pass our the mic on to Honey Hollow's principal, Miss Aira Wad to share about the areas of glowing. Good evening. So, we decreased our uh suspension rate last year by onetenth of 1%. And um I'll take it because we incorporated strategies that focused on students who were struggling. So the PBIS team intervened early, identified those students and were proactive rather than reactive in responding to the needs of the students such as check-in checkout, assigning them mentors, really helping those students make a connection and collectively working to help those students succeed and just remind them of the honey holo expectations. And we expect to continue that decrease to continue this school year.

095Good afternoon. Good evening. Um, at Midland, we decreased our chronic absenteeism by 5.9% and we implemented a new attendance policy which requires that students maintain 95% attendance to participate in any schoolwide activities, classroom parties, field trips, even fifth grade promotion. So, um, the new attendance policy um was an incentive for students to complete independent study um attend Saturday innovation camp and just come to school. And if they're not there, you know, complete the independent study so that they can maintain the 95% attendance to be eligible to participate in those events. Good evening. Okay. At Northridge Elementary School, to decrease chronic absentism, we created a pack uh program modeled after the uh successful and popular program that most of our all of our middle schools have. Uh a focus, renewed focus on community engagement. We have

096a robust uh parent community at Northridge uh both our our boosters and also our AP pack many uh community engagement activities in the evening time to kind of to foster a sense of a community and then of course early identification uh with weekly reports of students who um are on the verge of chronic absenteeism so that we could reach out to those families for support. >> Good evening. Uh first of all, thank you for wanting to um hear about the adult education. Uh what we've focused on is mainly on increasing our attendance hours. We have a lot of you know adults that life happens so they come and then they they stop attending. So we try to focus on um we have student awards every semester. Um we increased uh we have attendance incentives like

097during Thanksgiving week we have uh five Thanksgiving dinners that we give to the morning session and to the evening session and so they earn tickets for every day they attend and the more tickets they have the more chances they have of winning. Uh we also have at Christmas time our teachers donate a lot of um gift cards and so we have that again they earn tickets and then they're able to win um uh gift cards. Also at our school we focused a lot on the culture and climate of the school. Uh we want our students to feel welcome to feel like a community that they can come even before hours they can come they sit on our um in the hallway they mingle they uh one of the other things that we invited to is

098March Mountain's um action program during break they come in with their cafe so it's action um action cafe they call it and they come and they sell a dollar for a cup of coffee and a little pastries so that's going really well um and then we also celebr celebrate each high school or GED student and citizenship who the students who get their American citizenship, we celebrate them. We announce uh make an announcement during the school hours and they ring a bell and everybody comes out and congratulates them for their achievement. Um and so yeah, that's what we're we're focusing. And so as you can see, our attendance hours have more than doubled last year. So hopefully this year it's even more. Okay, now that we've heard all of the glows, um we definitely want to

099also dive into the grows in the areas of support and the work that the principles are doing currently at their sites. Just to clarify, um the the areas that grow are based on last year's data and they're going to provide reasoning on why they believe that there was a decrease in their data in these areas from last year. So, um being uh new to the school, I just there was um some inconsistent uh integration of math manipulatives uh schoolwide. And we noticed across all grade levels there were foundational gaps. Just those basics that numerousy sense uh that foundations of math that are essential no matter what grade the students are in in order for them to succeed and get to the more um abstract and more um complex math concepts. And quite honestly maybe there

100was a lack of integration between the math standards and mathematical practices. Um they must be integrated. they must work together and support each other to support the students mathematical thinking along with the building of that mathematical foundation. That's what our analysis was. So, so similar to Honey Hollow, the gap in foundational skills. So, a lot of our students are missing that number sense, place value, um those skills that, you know, they're supposed to learn over time and at the primary level and then they're getting to the, you know, upper grades and those gaps haven't been filled. Um, as well as um just being intentional about looking at our data and responding to it. So, we would be giving CFAs, but then when we look at the data, we're not responding appropriately. So we're not we

101weren't coming up with a plan for what we should do about the students who were not meeting standards and we weren't developing plans about moving forward. So not not looking at the data and um using the data to drive our instruction and then um just um not being consistent with implementing implementing math manipulatives. So using them not regularly or just on occasions but you know um not using them every day. the students weren't familiar with the math manipulatives or how to use them and you know to make the the lessons you know more hands-on for the students. >> Okay. At Northridge um we some adjustments in our math instructional practices that were new and needed to be developed and uh and refined and that's occurring and uh a little bit of lack of cohesion at

102our upper grades. Um and again that is that's being addressed. That's Northridge. >> Um, at Bueno Valley Community Adult School, we noticed that our enrollment has been pretty stagnant even before um the last two years data that you saw. And so, one of the things that we noticed is maybe lack of community um outreach. Uh we uh have needed to advertise our program more within the district. Um make sure we send the you know flyers to the secretaries. um when open enrollment is available and then of course um be more visible and present at district events like the Soulfest and all those districtwide events. So we're making um we need to be more present. >> Okay. So we've heard our glows, we've heard our grows, and now we definitely want to talk again about our

103next steps and our actions. And so, as you're aware, districtwide, we have a lot of work going on with our alliance task force that are focusing on specific areas to support the work at the sites. Under chronic absenteeism, we have our campaign of missing school is missing out, which is really echoing the importance of being at school and connecting with our families to help get that message out. We have an array of different um opportunities of professional development, hands-on learning um specifically geared towards the support that the principles need as well as the different staff members across the school sites. And when we look at the focus on math, it is our it is our key area of focus this year, especially in strengthening our guiding coalitions and understanding that cohesion and that common language

104that needs to take place. diving into the data, ensuring that those PLC's are effective, that they're highly effective, that the teachers are highly engaged, and they are knowing what to do when they look at that data, what are those next steps. So, we're supporting them in that. Um, we have our PLNs that focus on our full grade levels of third and fifth grade across the district where everyone comes together and we're calibrating and we're really diving in deep to ensure that there is support as well as in um in our secondary seventh grade as well. We are um focusing as a team all together making sure that we are ensuring that building thinking classrooms is a key focus as far as a high yield strategy to bring the results that we need. And it's a

105district-wide focus on the 15-day challenge which really strengthens our guiding coalitions as I said before and our PLC process to make sure everybody is on the same page and that it is we become a welloiled machine. I do want to focus on something that um that I'm very excited about personally and it's our math adoption which is coming up. Last year, um, the teachers voted on going from integrated mathematics to a traditional mathematics. And, um, based on our California framework that came out this past November, and there were recommendations from the state on all of the curriculum that could be considered, we definitely wanted to take our time and make sure that we have a set process to do that. We've created a math leadership team which incorporates PD specialists, district leaders, directors, um, and

106teachers who are going to dive into this work specifically this Thursday. We're coming together. We're going to lead this work and we're going to ensure that we have, um, voice in narrowing down the curriculum and moving forward with a pilot um, going into the next school year. So, we're very excited about that and really ensuring that the next curriculum that is adopted is going to help move our students and ensure the growth that we're that we're hoping for and expecting in this next selection process for the adoption. So, talking about our response to the reasoning um and the actions of next steps for our principles, I'd like for them to share what their steps are and what they're going to be focusing on as well. All right. So at Honey Hollow, as mentioned by other

107principles, uh math manipulatives, it is not an option. It is a necessity to again ensure students have that foundation um in filling in those gaps of numerousy. We also have a schoolwide emphasis and commitment already to students answering using complete sentences and using the racist method which is respond uh to the prompt, address the prompt or answer the answer the question, cite evidence, explain your reasoning and summarize. And that is essential integral uh to implementing the mathematical practices. Whereas one of my teachers always says tell me why tell me why justify. You know the kids are getting sick of hearing that but that's okay because they're need to explain their reasoning and especially on the cast testing how did you get the answer what approach did you use and explain your reasoning and they must

108have that solid foundation in order to do that and we also have um been fortunate to have high impact quality tutoring which has made an impact uh with our students in the certain tiers u they've been here with us since October and the teachers are telling me it is making a difference for grades three four and five students at that tier level and um I'm can't wait to compare the data the pre and post in the results. So this year our PLC's are um structured around our CFAs. So we administer CFAs to our students. We look at the data and we bring it to our flex day meetings on Wednesdays and the teachers work in their grade levels and what they're doing is looking at the data, you know, across the grade level. And if

109there's a teacher that's outperforming another teacher, they're working together to figure out what that teacher is doing that everybody else is not doing because we're pulling the students from the same, you know, pool of students. So, what are you doing? What can I be doing differently? And then in that same meeting, we're developing a plan for what we're going to do for the students who didn't meet the standard. And so, we develop that plan and then they're given another five days. we have a calendar that they reference and they're given another five days to go back and retach those students. So they're using targeted strategies, they're retaching, working in small groups and then after that 5 days they reassess those students again and just the students who didn't meet the standard the first time. Um

110we're also using high impact tutoring which we're seeing a difference in the classroom um more often than uh last year. the tutors are reaching out to say, "Hey, there was a student that was in the program. They've, you know, um reach reached the max. They're testing out. You know, we did a post assessment. They are now where they're supposed to be. So, we're ready to take two more students who are eligible for tutoring. So, we're able to, you know, move students along and add more students in for the high impact tutoring. And then we're having SST data chats and it's a collaborative conversation between myself and the teachers. So, every teacher is monitoring their lowest three performing students at the beginning of the year and then um I'm working with them to make sure that

111they're providing those interventions. I'm in the classroom at the time that they're saying that they're monitoring, you know, the students the time that they're pulling the small groups. And then, you know, we're keeping an eye and closely monitoring those students that are struggling. Okay. At Northridge Elementary, we have a an absolutely fantastic professional development specialist and he's working very closely with our upper grade uh teams who the teams are comprised everyone. I have everybody where I need them to be this year. And so we're refining those practices and really honing in on those strategies. Um, another thing that we've done is kind of do a little reallocation of our categorical uh, monies and we have two um, categorically funded intervention providers uh, that are working with our students four days a week. Um and one

112of them a very very recently retired um instructional math whiz um from our district and um so they are working with students pushing into the classroom occasionally and also in pull out as well um doing some targeted intervention. So we're very very um uh happy about that and optimistic. And at the Marine Valley Community Adult School, we started advertising with Radio Lasser this year. It's a Spanish radio station that services the area. And so they have a Spanish and announcement for um our for us for the school. And then uh we started, of course, uh we're participating more with district-wide events, make oursel press out our information more. I'm working really closely with the wellness center with Miss Nava. she makes sure that she calls me and says, "Hey, we're having this event. Can you

113have a table with us?" Um, and then as you can see, our data as of last semester, our attend our program hours, we have already passed last year's, we're at 249,000 hours plus. So, we are I think it's making a difference. Thank you. So, we've heard some great responses and reasoning and the work that they're about to do next. And we're now open to questions. >> Thank you. I will start with student board member Huing. Do you have any questions or comments? >> Yes, I have a comment for Midland. Um, I really appreciate how you mentioned that your your teachers are looking at the student, the three students who are not understanding the most. I really appreciate that cuz it's really important to pull those specific students and not just group them with the whole

114entire class to really dive deep into what they're not understanding, how you can help them. And maybe that will like what helps them, you can eventually move on to the bigger group of students. So, I just wanted to say I really appreciate that and I admire your presentation. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Leila. >> Thank you. Um, thank you for being here. Thank you for taking the time and and preparing to present to us what are you guys uh doing at your schools and also um sharing with us the areas where you need to improve. Uh it is very important for us but also I I really admire that part that you are so vulnerable to come and share those you know um um sorry to share with us you know that is important

115to me and um the one common thing that I hear from all of you most of you it's uh the support that you guys create for it is um how has been helping your school sites and um the one thing that stood out with me was what um you share from Midland saying that the you're um the teachers are collaborating with each other and sharing the techniques that they work with them you know at their classes and that is really you know like really important to me um because it benefits the students you know um also you um what um pra the refining practices that you share from Northreach also you know and um relocating the money for the touring support. So that's what I'm saying. That's the the the main thing that I that

116I hear also from Honey Hollow, the great tutoring um you know services that you're providing to to the students. And also one thing that I admire, you know, from adult school is that sense of belonging that the students have and especially by having been uh a student there and talking with many of our adult um students, you know, some of them didn't have the opportunity to go to school. Some of them maybe only did elementary or not even finish elementary and they didn't have that opportunity, you know, to to have that that experience of like having clubs, having field trips, having um celebrations, being recognized. Something that always is will stay in my head and in my mind. It's seeing adults being recognized and how happy and and proud they they are and how they

117will so excited that they you know brought their families and you know acting like little kids saying you know to the teacher tell them tell them how good I am how good I am and you know I I I want to say thank you for for doing that for bringing that experience to our adults learners so thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Leva. Trusty Williams. >> Thank you. Um I I I love the presentation and uh Mr. Watt. You you have uh you you said something. This is not negotiable. >> It's not an option. >> It's not Could you repeat that again? >> I said math manipulatives are not an option. That's it's not >> okay. And and what's your reasoning? >> My reasoning is it's integral. I can't uh leave it to chance and

118wait to see if some teachers will decide to implement them and some teachers will not. I as I walk through rooms through um different classrooms, even at different schools, sometimes they're all packaged and sitting on um in the back in a tub. I want them available and accessible. When students are working out problems, doing math problems, why not have them with them to help them to solidify the foundations that they need? It's an integral tool for them. And it's starting as starting on Mondays, but and beyond, you know, not just Mondays, it's whenever the kids need them. >> Yeah. When you said that, it resonated with me. Miss Squalls, can can you say what you said about those three students again because I'm on the same page as as Ellie. >> So at the beginning

119of the year, every teacher identifies their three lowest performing students and then we monitor those students. So they identify the students by beginning of the year data. We use STAR. Um we give a phonics and decoding. um we use math fact fluency and then they monitor those students and sometimes and you hopefully throughout the year the lowest three that they're monitoring they show growth and that's no longer the lowest performing student. you know, they're making strides. We have them in tutoring. So then we can identify another student or sometimes we get a new student that is now, you know, one of the lower performing students and we're able to progress monitor those students. And essentially um we're progress monitoring the students and providing all the interventions we can and then deciding at a 6 week

1206 to 12 week mark. You know if we've done everything we can using math manipulatives pulling them in small groups um taking it to the tier three level where we're pulling them one-on-one and they're still not making progress then we're looking at the idea that you know maybe there's something else going on. They may need to be tested. But that's only if we've done everything we can do at the tier one, tier 2 level before we're even considering, you know, special education assessments or anything like that. And at that point, we've already involved the parent. They're doing tutoring during the day. If they're in the afterchool program, they're doing tutoring at think together. So, you know, we're monitoring those students. But every teacher has to monitor at least three students. And I have a lot

121of teachers who take on the responsibility to monitor monitor more than that. But it can be you know a lot doing that for eight or nine students at a time. So we just start with three and then we see how they progress and then you know we make the decision. >> Is there any correlation with attendance and those three students that you're working with? Is there uh a similarity and kids not being at school versus >> well well we definitely know that there's a you know a correlation between students who are you know chronically absent. they're just missing instruction. So, um, typically this the students that are chronically absent, you know, as far as our engagement, we you we work on our engagement so that students want to come to school, but the ones that,

122you know, I I I try to focus on the ones that are there. And so, um, the ones that are in the small group are not typically the ones that are not coming to school every day because if we're providing tutoring and we're having small groups and you're out two or three times a week, then you're not even benefiting from the small group or benefiting from the tutoring. So, we do the students who are not at school, we do want them to be here. And, you know, again, we work with the families to do what we can, but we make sure that those students that, you know, we're going to be monitoring are going to be there every day. And have you kind of tracked the outcomes of kids that you've worked with that are

123no longer the three that are now coming to school every day because they can compete at grade level. Is there any kind of follow through that way? >> Well, yes. We have a system where if a student, you know, is SSTD, it that information is in their So whether they go to another school or whether they go to the next grade level when we're doing class placements at the end of the year, the new teacher the next year can go into that and see, you know, all the work that the teacher the year before has done. And hopefully they don't need to be, you know, SST again, closely monitored, but you know, we we try to make sure that we hone we hone in when we're doing the SST process so that they're not being

124SST their whole entire elementary, you know, experience. So, at the end of that pro at the end of that process, we're making the decision to see if we're going to if they might be a candidate for special education or not, but typically um they shouldn't need to be SSTD over and over. You know, again, that that that's not ideal. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> That's it. >> Thank you, Trusty Luna. >> Thank you all for being here. Uh thank you all for being vulnerable. I know it's not easy. Uh, thank you for sharing your best practices. Um, I share the same sentiment as Miss Huing and Mr. Williams for Midland. Uh, I I the whole time was thinking what are we doing at the teacher level, at the classroom level when our kids aren't,

125you know, succeeding in math. And I I feel like we have to, you know, ask our teachers, uh, you know, when our students are not doing well, what are they doing? what action steps are they taking? So, you answered that at Midland. Thank you for that. I also love how you shared the best practices uh that your high performing math teachers are sharing with the other ones. I think that's great. That's always a a bonus I think throughout the district when we share best practices. Um, one thing I wanted to ask uh Northridge, Mr. Stagger, you have the you have quite a um high parent engagement there. What is the secret to that? How do you how do we get parents involved? You do you have the secret sauce? >> I don't know if I

126have the secret sauce. Um but uh you know I personally and and I encourage my staff. We're just always visible and always trying to be warming warm and engaging to the parent community at all times. I tell my parents at the beginning of the year I'm always in a predictable location in the morning and in the afternoon if I'm if I'm not there um usually that means I'm not on the campus um because I'm almost almost there. So if they need to find me, if they need to see me, they just come up and come talk to me. They know they can um speak to me. Uh and I try to, you know, emphasize that everywhere. And then just trying to with the boosters, we just we just have fun and we try to make

127sure that we include um a variety of activities and a variety of things in um events in the evening time that um will encourage get as many folks as we can get on on campus. And then what was a difference last year when I I kind of um mentioned it with the slides was the APAC is doing their own events as well. not just partnering with booster but also um doing a couple of events on their on their own uh in the evening time and those are well attended as well and so we know we're just trying to make sure that everyone knows that Northridge is a cool place to be and um and I do always tell my parents that exact same message as well. I at every assembly and things like that I

128say your students your children are exactly where they need to be and um and hope and I think that they believe that. So yeah, >> sounds like they do. Thank you so much. Thank you all for your presentation. >> Hi, steal me. Just one more. I promise I'll go fast. So, I always like to say thank you so much for being vulnerable. Thank you for caring enough for the students to come up with your action plans to review your data and and and then, you know, decide what you're going to do and how you're going to impact it impact the students. it looks different across the board because you all have different students and we recognize that. So, um again, thank you for that. I do have a couple of questions and I'll start off

129with you um from Midland. Hi, Miss Claus. Um I just have a quick question. I noticed that you were recognized in the superintendent report too for the best uh like Lauren chronic absenteeism. So, yay. And I see that you set a precedence with the 95%. This is a tough question. >> Okay. Okay. >> What happens? Do we have um exceptions if a student gets ill of some sort, can't do the ISP and they fall below the 95%, can those students still participate in activities or do you have like a special circumstance exception? >> Yes. If the students are out ill and they have a doctor's note and you like you said they fall ill or you know um break their leg or something like that then you know or you know something extreme they're out

130sick that that is a different situation. Okay. >> Um we do encourage any student that is um out or miss school to make up the independent study. So it's not about you know what if they're on a family vacation or they're out sick. We just want them to make up the work that they missed. you know, they're still missing instruction because they're just not there. So, if they do if they have to go to therapy or something that, you know, where they're under a medical physician's um care, then that's a different situation, but outside of that, we do ask that they make up the work that they missed. >> Fantastic. So, there is an alternative plan. There is a plan B. So, thank you for that. And then because I I love it, but I

131just worry about those just special one-offs and I just wanted to be known that there's always an alternative methodology to that. Thank you for that. You're welcome. >> I would pardon. >> Oh yeah. Okay. So um thank you for that. And then um Mrs. I would keep I want to say President Magna, but Mrs. Ma I don't know why it just sounds really good. Miss Magna. So I just want to say thank you as well. I did see you at the soul fest and for advertise advertising what we have here in the district that's greatly appreciated and again I just wanted to say because um I like that the fact that the program hours are increasing and thank you >> very brief >> thank you >> honey holo great work um I'm very grateful that

132you took a look at your math scores and you made a plan right and you that we're not settling for less, right? >> I don't shy away from challenges. >> That's lean into it. So, I I'm very grateful for that and I appreciate how your suspension rate decreased. So, >> thank you. Um, Northridge, your your data kind of speaks for itself. You don't really say too much, do you? >> Um, >> you just let you know. Yeah. Well, yeah. >> Just let the data a few words while it's sorted. I understand. Look at the numbers. >> You've known me for a while. >> Yes. Valley. Thank you so much. So, overall, good job. Thank you for your vulnerability. Thank you for your presentation. Good job, all of you. And we really appreciate you. Keep up

133the good work. And I look forward to seeing your scores next year. Great job. Thank you. Moving on to action item. Excuse me. Moving on to presentation. Presentation. This is an action item. K2 uh presentation and approval of the review of the midyear local control accountability plan LCAP midyear report and budget overview for parents. Dr. Arce. Thank you very much, President Clark. I did ask um Mrs. Brown to present this item. Usually I do it, but I have to say that she is someone that works around the clock and she deserves to present this because she oversees our LCAP amongst many other things. She's just an amazing director. I must say that I have to emphasize that. Um, but no, seriously, she she really works around the clock with so many departments and divisions to

134bring the numbers together. And so this is an annual mandatory action item. Not only is it before February 28th, we have to present to the board our midyear alcap review and then take action on that review and it has to be a presentation followed by an action. So today you will hear the presentation and then follow um hopefully with board approval on that action item. Mrs. Brown, >> thank you Dr. RSA. Uh thank you uh board president, school board, uh superintendent Ruvacaba and cabinet members. Uh so the presentation that I'm presenting is the midyear LCAP. So what it is is how are we doing so far? Like how is my driving? So what you're going to see is I'm going to go over the five LCAP. I'm going to go briefly. So I'm going to

135run through it quickly because if you can imagine the entire LCAP document is over 200 pages, right? So, um, I'm going to take these slides and try to condense them with what I'm saying. So, by February 28th of each year, according to Senate Bill 114, we have to bring the midyear LCAP before the board for approval. So, what you're going to hear about are our metrics, our outcomes, and then also about how we doing with our spending according to the actions and the outcomes. Okay. All right. So, starting here. So uh which what was adopted uh and this is our uh budget overview for our parents. So our adopted budget which is the total LCFF funds because you this is what you really want to look at because this is the budget that is overseen

136prim all of them are overseen by Miss uh Lopez uh the business office. So the adopted budget was over $458 million and as a first interim it was 400 over 466 million. So the budget that we're going to really look at today is the actual LCAP budget in the plan which is about $124 million and then as of first interim 127. So most of the money you're going to see is not going to be as of first interim. It's going to be reflected as of January 31st because we wanted to try to show as much of the spending after we have implemented some of the salary increases um with the sites. So we know our five goals because those are a part of our strategic plan. But then we have 10 goals in the LCAP.

137We have over 50 actions and over 40 indicators. So just to highlight if you see a little bit of the purple, those are the areas that we have shown increase. So what you'll see is the metric which is what we're measuring by. You'll see the baseline. So this is a three-year LCAP plan. We are now in our second year and we're giving an overview of the second year of the third year of the plan. So you can look at the midyear update according to the baseline and then also what is our desired outcome. So this is according to our dashboard indicators and you can see that we've shown increase in math and ELA and then also this is for our English learners making progress. uh we declined a little bit but we're still hoping to

138reach that 56% by the end of the third year. And this also has and this has to do with how are our teachers doing what's being implemented in the classrooms and we are at 100%. And the only area we're still working on is that facilities did usually every year we get all exemplary but this year we had one site that was fair that dropped us down to 96% for facilities and we're working on that. Um, and this also has to do with our credentiing. 100% of our teachers as of the fall audit are looking good. And same with walkthroughs 100% effective in the classroom. So now goal one, this is the money part. So you can see what our budgeted expenditures are and how are our departments doing. Now all of these actions are spreaded

139out across departments, across uh directors and also across the school sites. So, everyone gets a little bit of the LLC funds and you can see most of our funds are we are in progress or we're fully implemented or we fully expended those funds. So you can see the dollar amounts here, goal one and then you can see here uh also part of goal one and uh you see our summer learning our sight specific interventions reading by third grade progress and then we're going to go ahead and move to goal two. All right so these are and this is goal two college and career readiness and you saw Mr. Weber was highlighted. I just wanted to share that most of our college career career readiness goals have definitely increased or some of them have already exceeded

140our outcome for the three years. So A throughG rates man we have definitely grown from the baseline to 42% AP passage rate from 38% to 52%. College readiness EAP you can see district exceeded standard uh from 3 to 4% and then college readiness from 15 to over 16%. And then also uh CTE course completion rate we got to highlight that because initially it was 15% look at it 25%. But you know who we should see? Look at our students with disabilities 9% and at 14%. Our goal is 24%. So we're headed there. Okay. And then A throughG NCTE increase as well. And then college and career readiness indicator, that's our CCI indicator. You can see we went from 33 to 46%. And we're still working on our HSRI, our high school readiness, but it's only

141one point down, but we're still working on getting that up. Okay. And this is CTE um in course course enrollment. You can see our enrollment for CTE students is increasing every year. And then here is where our dollars are going. We are spending our money in goal two. All of our funds are in progress or fully implemented in goal two. All right, goal three has to do with equitable opportunities and that deals with our reclassification rate, our FASA completion rate. And you can see from the we took a dip uh in in 24 in in 23 24, but we came back up and we exceeded we went past our baseline to 71% in five FAFSA completion rate. And then also you can see where our money is being spent. And if you can see in

142red, athletics and counseling staff, we have already expended those funds. And goal four, safe and welcoming environment, and that's to decrease the dropout rate for high school and middle school. And we're on target um in improving every year and the suspension rate. And I know that's a focus area for our district. So you can see we're still working on that, but we have shown improvement in that area. District went from 5.1% suspension rate to 2.9%. And for our foster youth, it was at 14% and it went down to 7.6. And for African-American, it was at 10% and it went down to 7.7. But we know there is still work to do. And same with facilities. And then our 95% attendance rate, we were at 87% and we're gradually getting back up towards that 95 at

14391%. And chronic absenteeism has decreased from 32 to 25%. And the same with our graduation rate. We know that we keep on climbing with our graduation rates. Okay. All right. So, goal four is provide a safe and welcoming environment. And you can see where our monies are being spent. social workers and our behavior support specialists. We are spending those dollars and I know Miss Lopez loves to hear that. And goal five has to do with communication and this a lot of this has to do with Anna E's area and some wellness and thanks Anna E has worked with me on some of those metrics. So these are fairly new metrics. So if you can see the goal is to increase the open rate for district-wide news and to increase the number of partnerships. partnerships has

144always been there, but the open rate on news is new, a new uh metric that we've added. So, this is the data as of the end of the year last year. So, we'll get new data next midyear for the end of the year. And then parent ambassadors, we have 18. We went up one from last year, but the goal is 27 parent ambassadors. And then this has to do with our meetings, our engagement meetings. We're on target with those. And this is where our money is going and we are spending our dollars. And the last five goals have to do with equity multipliers. So just to share with you equity multiplier that's funding to sites whose students are there less than 25% of the school year. That means the transit the transit the mobility rate

145that the students weren't there the whole entire year. So they get a lot of money. So, our three equity multiplier schools were Aleandro, was four, Aleandro, which they will not get funding because they're closed, Marino Valley Online Academy, March Mountain High School, and Bridges Learning Center. So, they get a lot of money. They get over two million all together. So you can see this this particular metric targets Bayside and you can see where they were on the dashboard and we're still working on getting those numbers down. And then March Mountain as it relates to their ELA distance from standard, you can see they've shown some tremendous improvement. Um but we still have work to do. And then Bayside Community Day School and then also this is where the money is geared towards for those equity

146multiplier schools. And that's goal six, seven. And this is the metric for goal seven for Mavoa. And then goal eight is Mavoa as well for math. And then also uh this is where the money is going. Professional development and they're in progress of spending money. The challenge is and I do have to share is when it comes to our online school is they get more they get about 1.2 million every year but because students are online it could be a challenge and getting them to the sites to access the resources. So we're being uh we're being really uh strategic now and how uh B not uh uh Mavoa will be spending their money. So we have some plans in place to get them to spend their money. And then goal nine, the same for suspension

147rates. And then goal 10 has to do with chronic absenteeism for Mavoa. Um you can see there have been some decreases and some increases. And then this is the money that they received for that. And then the midyear summary. And this is where we are with our total spending. for our primary goals one through five of the 124 million we have spent 86% of our funds that have been allocated and I'm believing that once payroll hits at the end of the month that that number is going to go up a little higher and then go 6 through 10 you can see allocated to them was 1.2 2 million for our equity multiplier schools and they've spent 355,000 so far. >> I would like to add that the equity multiplier uh monies is also rollover and

148so they they do allow them to to spend it in in the next years that come. >> Yes. Thank you. Any questions? >> I'd like to make a comment first. I've never seen anyone get through 73 slides that fast. So, and I understood everything. So, thank you. That's amazing. >> I will um start with student board member healing. >> Um I don't have any questions, more of a comment. Um I just wanted to say that it's very admiring to see that I'm a part of a school district that has such a clear plan for for all students. And that's really it. Just thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Leila. No, when I look at the um amount of slice, I'm like, I need to run to the rest because I don't it's going to take

149longer than what I expect, but you you're you're awesome, Miss Brown. Like, seriously. And you know very clear very to the point you know in a way that we can understand everything and and especially you know hearing from a student that she likes and she feels proud to be you know part of this district and that's thank to the work that you guys you guys do you know I have attended the um the meetings where you know take um into consideration you know the the points and and and um suggestions that parents give. So, thank you for this presentation, Miss Brown, and for like doing it so quick. >> Oh, you're welcome. >> Trusty Williams. >> That that was that that was very interesting. And everything was highlighted. Everything was colorcoded. >> You could get

150it at a glance. Um but it it really as the other uh board members have alluded to uh it it puts the dollars make sense. That's as easy as I can put it. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Brown. No, I don't have to read this. Just kidding. Actually, this is very detailed as well. So, if we if we need, you know, we probably should all go through this. Um not probably we we will go through all this uh very important but yes that was a very clear uh clear presentation and uh I don't have any questions. Thank you. >> Thank you Trusty Luna. Yes we should all read this great book. It's a deep dive. I do have one question or comment or maybe you can help me understand a little more. There were

151some times when we had exhausted all funds and it would say the services would continue to happen even though we met the budget. Can you talk a little bit more about that? >> So what happens is some of the funds are encumbered for example salaries right so we've we know that the staff members are going to get paid no matter what. So the staff are still here to provide the services and uh as my mom used to say back in the day, what doesn't come out in the rents will come out in the wash. So wherever a department may have under uh expended their funds, we will make up that with whatever is left to cover those funds that have been expended. >> That is great to hear and I just wanted to make sure

152we highlighted that because no matter what our services will continue. Okay, I don't have any questions. I thank you for your presentation. >> Yes. Is it a vote? No vote. >> Yep. We're now going to go into an action item. >> So, can I get a motion to approve the midyear LCAP uh report as presented? >> I would like to make a motion to move the LCAP as presented. >> Thank you, Miss Leva. Can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Miss Luna. Miss Claudia, call for the vote. Student board member Huing. I >> Miss Lever >> I >> Mr. Williams >> I >> Miss Luna >> I >> Miss Clark >> I This motion is passed 5-0. >> Moving on to our final presentation K3. This is the presentation on the

1532025 2026 enrollment update. Miss Lopez. Okay, that's a hard act to follow. And I'm looking at my slides. I'm like, I got to get through this quick. Good evening. Um, President Clark, board members, cabinet, superintendent, Dr. Valava, Susanna Lopez, chief business official. Um, and I'm here to present an enrollment update. Uh, we're going to focus on the secondary level. If you recall, at the last board meeting, we presented the elementary information to you. Uh we did that strategically because the decline at the elementary level is where it's being felt the most obviously and and we know that it you could see it's a trend that was going to continue but as we received questions and just studied that information we felt it would just be very transparent present the secondary information as well. I do

154want to point out at the secondary level sometimes it's a little bit different because we do have a couple of alternative school sites for example and most of the enrollment for example at uh Bridges Learning Center as well as March Mountain are students that would otherwise be at the high school level. We don't typically monitor the enrollment at those two sites because the enrollment pretty much stays the same, but it fluctuates throughout the year. Um, and so I just wanted to to point that out because uh for the alternative sites, the enrollment typically starts low and then it it increases throughout the year and that does have an impact on our comprehensive sites. So, wanted to point that out. The second piece that I want to point out is that I'm going to show just

155the enrollment information. If you recall with the enrollment at the elementary um sites, we went through some of the specific programs, right? Whether the school site um had a TK, DLI program, and so forth. There's so many more programs that are secondary schools that I would need the time of 70 slides if if we were going to highlight all of the amazing programs at our schools. So we're just going to focus on enrollment. So it's not to to take any credit away from the programs, but do know that sometimes that in itself also creates the challenges because if programs are offered at at one school versus the other, you could see shift in in enrollment as well. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and and jump through the slides and get to our

156enrollment. I'll start on slide number five with the enrollment history, a slide that we're used to seeing and we're going to update this for our second interim which will be presented to you at the next board meeting. Um, but our numbers are are still pretty consistent. And then this next slide, slide number six, at the last meeting we highlighted the elementary. And again, just want to point out that the elementary is where we're seeing the biggest decline, but we know that as years go by, that trend will um continue to our middle and high schools. Um but you can see the breakdown there by grade. It's a little difficult to see on this slide, but um it shows you how the numbers progress from year to year. So, we're going to start with our middle

157schools, and we have six of our middle schools. And we're going to start off with Badger Springs Middle School. Again, we are also looking at a 10-year snapshot. And the last column you see is current year 2526. This enrollment is as of the beginning of the month. But you can see that in the case of Badger Springs Middle School. It's again a school that for the last 5 years or so has had pretty consistent enrollment. Um, and so what you're going to realize with a lot of the secondary schools is that there will be shifts, but not as significant as at the elementary level. However, we do anticipate that to change in the next couple of years. When you take a look at Landmark Middle School, again, you can see very consistent for the last

1585 years. The enrollment hasn't fluctuated very much. It's still um in that 800 range. Then we take a look at Mountain View Middle School. So Mountain View Middle School um is one of the schools that has been impacted by the sixth grade enrollment at the elementaryaries. And so you can see that as schools have lost sixth grade at the elementary level. Um for example, for current year, you see that Mountain View has benefited from that. And so that is something that we consider as we build and work on our enrollment projections is that anytime there's a shift of program such as that sixth grade um offered at elementary level, it's going to have an impact on our middle schools. Palm Middle School, you can see again for the last five years has been pretty consistent.

159Um has been right around that 1,00 student mark. And then Sunnymede Middle School again for the last five years or so um has been just under the 1,200 mark. Our largest of the middle schools um has been Vista Heights. Again, this is a school that was impacted by the sixth grade. There was a time where sixth grade was offered at both Senica and um Box Springs. Um but Vista Heights is very popular and and so the enrollment numbers were very small at those two elementary sites which led to the program sixth grade program going away. Um and you can see that folks um are still continuing to choose Vista Heights. So still at the 1400 mark. Now as we take a look at our high schools you can see that again there's a little bit

160more fluctuation. And this is where it gets a little bit difficult because there's direct correlation with what's happening at our alternative schools. But Canyon Springs High School um at 2164 uh we have seen the decline impact Canyon Springs uh particularly this year. Uh so not sure if that's going to be a new trend moving forward, but it typically has been a school that has a 2200 enrollment. So we will monitor that uh for this upcoming year. Uh Marino Valley High School uh you can see that overall has been a a school that has been in decline. Again the location right you have less of the high schools where they're situated. Marino Valley High Schools more in an established area. And if you were to look at the feeder schools, the elementary feeder schools that lead

161to MNO Valley, this is the group of schools where you were seeing the biggest decline, right? Um and so that you can see not as significant as at the elementary level, but overall um right around the 2100 student mark for Marino Valley High School, Valley View High School. Um again, a school that last year took a dip. We were surprised because it had consistently been uh right around almost the 2,800 student mark and you can see that uh last year was just right under um but has rebounded and again we anticipate it's a school that will continue to maintain uh 2800 student enrollment. And then the smallest of our high schools uh Vista Delago High School uh you can see that it peaked at about 2,000 students. Um it's a little under 1,900 at this

162time. Um but one that we are hoping to project to keep right around that 2,000 mark. So again, not an emphasis on programs this time. That would be quite a bit, but um happy to answer any questions regarding enrollment. And then just letting you know that at the next board meeting, we do have our second interim presentation. Any questions? >> Fantastic. Thank you so much, Miss Lopez. Student board member healing. >> I have no questions. Thank you for your presentation. >> Trustee Leila. >> Thank you, Miss Lopez for the presentation. Um I'm seeing um the decline and I'm not going to ask you why is this happening because we have talked about it before but um and um I'm thinking you know it's um is there any programs or anything in a specific that um

163that you feel that is impacting I I can say that is because you know like you said before you know some of the programs that are offer at certain high schools you know that's why we see like you know more a higher enrollment in certain schools. Are we thinking about doing anything you know like to provide more programs so that we can retain some of the students? So if if you um you know some of the things that we've talked about um you know like expansion of the CTE program so like um Vista Dalago comes to mind right with the health academy. Um so I think yes um I can have Dr. Arce give you a lot more information on the programs but I know that as we work on that that would be one

164of the examples would be like the expansion of CTE as as well as middle college for Vista High School. Dr. RC did do you want to add anything? >> Sure. for Vista Lago High School. Um the board probably recalls that we there was a priority to expand dual enrollment and so that is the future early college high school program uh officially called the Raven uh early college academy. And so we have a launch of applications this spring. Incoming freshmen will be able to take two college classes, sophomores two, juniors three, and seniors four. And so we project that that's going to attract a lot of students from surrounding areas and if you recall it has the H.B.CU pathway in there as well. So um we're very excited about that launch. We think that that's going

165to impact us significantly in addition to what Susanna has mentioned the CTEMISE um that have flourished at advisago. >> Thank you. Great presentation. >> Thank you Trusty Williams. >> Yeah. Um, Miss Arsier, what are the outcomes of the students taking two college classes 9th grade when they graduate? Um, they can take up to 27 credits, right? >> They will be >> of college credit in high school. the the chancellor for the state of California there his um initiative is 12 college units um which equals about or 12 college classes I'm sorry which equals about 12 times three units you're looking at about 36 units um that could be anywhere from 1 to two years of college if students don't have two years they can do an agetti or calgetti certificate which is equal to um

166almost an associates but they can transfer to a four-year so if the earlier they start, the more opportunities they have to complete the first two years of college. >> Right. Right. And and Susanna, thank you again. And um I'm going to come up with some more questions for you. We talk about this a lot and uh the most revealing thing about um what you're saying about enrollment, uh we have some new housing coming in and uh Dr. will recover. You alluded to this. Uh we can no longer depend on new housing bringing in students. And so it behooves us to start to look at um how we can how we can help special ed. I mean, and across the board uh reducing class size um with all of that. So um thank you again >>

167Dr. >> President Clark if I may. >> Oh Dr. Rubakava. >> So I want to I want to share a couple of thoughts regarding the question that Miss Leva presented because I think it's very important. So as we look at our instructional program and what we offer, we have to create a balance between making our schools competitive within so that we have choice for students who are either interested in a pathway or IB or they want to go to dual enrollment, but balancing that choice so that we're not taking too much from one school at the expense of another. So as we look at creating a destination district, it's really about how do we retain kids who are going to to private, who are going to charter, who are going to out of district. That's

168one. And how do then we then turn that tide? So we're recruiting from Berde and Riverside and Herupa and our neighboring districts because they find a program with us that they don't have in their districts. And so as we build this this um program as a whole, that's kind of the thinking that's going into it because if we put too much or invest too much at one of their high schools, for example, then we run the risk of really decimating another one. So there's a balance there that we have to create. >> Thank you, Dr. Trusty Luna. >> Thank you, Miss Lopez, for your presentation. And I appreciate um us continuously getting these enrollment presentations. I feel like we're being proactive um so that you know if down the line something changes that's going to

169significantly impact us that has to do with this you know we know you're you're you're presenting this but this is also not something that isn't happening around us. We all know declining enrollment throughout the different districts is happening. So, I do appreciate that that we would try to recruit some students from other districts, but in the event that doesn't happen, we we understand that this is a trend all over. But thank you so much for your presentation. >> Thank you, Miss Lopez. And you did an excellent job and you went fairly quickly with them on the slide you had. It was very clear. We do appreciate you. Look forward to next meeting. We are moving on to item L, the consent agenda. We are going to need to pull item A25-260357 for a future meeting.

170And at this time, I'd like to know if anyone would like to pull anything further. I know that Mr. Williams mentioned something about the elab after school and intersection services for the district sites. Would you like to pull that for a separate vote? >> Yes, I would. >> So, can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda as amended? >> So moved. >> I get a second. I'll second. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. Student board member Hewing. >> I, >> Miss Lever, >> I, >> Mr. Williams, >> I, >> Miss Luna, >> I, >> Miss Clark, >> I. The consent agenda has, um, passed. Um, five. >> Yes. Right. Did you say yes? I was trying to think of Lea. Excuse me. Five. Yes. Thank you. Um, now we are going for

171a separate vote on L3H and that is for the 252605 ELOP after school and intersection uh services for the district sites. Can I get a motion? Do we engage in discussion? Can we engage in discussion before we do that? >> Yes. >> And then we can have >> Okay. Okay. So, can I get a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Okay. >> Mr. If I may, >> Miss Dr. Rubakava. >> Thank you so much. So, we have a team uh who's ready to speak on the item. So, I'm going to ask Nick and our business office team and then we also have representatives from Woodcraft Rangers um who I'd like to invite us up as well to ask to answer any questions that you may have. So, as they come up

172to the podium, I want to share a little bit about the background. So, one of the things that's beneficial to just improvement in general is competition. So whenever we have a contract or we're looking at a vendor, we want to see what's out there. There's always opportunities to improve. And so when we looked at renewing the contract for our ELOP providers for this following year, one of the things that we kept in mind was a presentation that Mr. Sterns um shared at the last board meeting, which is how do we support a program that's independent of a vendor? That the vendors are here to kind of support our program. it's not their program. And so when we went out for an RFP process, we had 32 different uh vendors request and submit applications. The team

173did a great job of vetting those and scoring them with Woodcraft Rangers coming out at the very top of those. Mr. Sterns and his team did a fabulous job of visiting districts to look at their program, looking at reference checks, which all came back glowing. So, the recommendation that we're making is that we go with Woodcraft Rangers as our base and an EVO as our supplementary for um sports and then Woodcraft Rangers for intercession programs. But I also want to speak on the conversation that we had with think together. It's very important that we acknowledge and respect and appreciate the work of our partners. They were involved throughout the process and informed that we were going to do this up until and including a debrief meeting that we had with them last week. They wanted

174to know why we wanted why we went in a different direction with the recommendation and it was a very very productive conversation, a very professional conversation and it was not about anything that they did wrong. It was about listening to our families and through the survey that that Nick provided Mr. Sterns really hearing that our families wanted innovative programs. One of the data points that stands out to me is that about a third of our families shared with us that they're not participating in the program because the course offerings are not relevant to their kids or to our families. And that speaks volumes to us. When we shared this data point with Think together, one, they appreciated that we shared it because it's a learning opportunity for them and they better understood why we were

175choosing to go in a different direction. The last thing that I'll say before I turn it over to the team for any questions that you have or or they can share as well is I also want to speak to a misperception that's out there in the community. A lot of the calls and the reaching out that we received is families who feel that we're doing away with the program and that is not the case. The program is staying. It's alive. It's well and we're very confident that we're going to have an amazing program for our kids. So for any families who felt that, oh, we're not going to have those opportunities for our kids to stay beyond the day to support working families, families who are still seeking um extended education and things like that.

176That's absolutely not the case. We are going to not only have a program, but it's going to be a more rigorous and relevant program to support our families. So with that, I want to turn it over to the team sure a few thoughts and then if you have any questions of the team and if you have any questions of woodcraft rangers, they're here for you. >> Nick, before you go, if we could have um So if you can talk about the process and then um that way if the board has any questions about that process, that would be great. >> Hi, good evening board of trustees, members of the cabinet, and guests. U my name is Sylvia Nos. director of the purchasing and um I want to walk you through the bidding process that we

177conducted for the ELO. So there's uh federal and state regulations as well as board policy that govern the way our district um conducts a competitive bidding uh process, a fair competitive bidding process. And there's also multiple factors that determine when we go out for a formal bid. But the main factor is cost, right? So the state does provide guidelines as to when we reach a certain cost um we should formally bid to make it a competitive and fair process. There's also different types of bids that we can utilize just depending on the type of service or the commodity that we're going to procure. In this case for ELOP we use the request for proposals um which uh under ED code it allows the district to award based on uh best value of the proposal and

178not just cost the loan. Okay. So that said, uh we did go out for a formal bid which just means that we published it on the newspaper for two weeks uh consecutively. Um and that just gives an opportunity for multiple uh vendors. As you could see, we received 32, which is personally more than I expected. And then it provides them the information of where to gather the bid documents. And so the bid documents consist of so much language uh from instructions to biders, how to submit your proposal, what the district's going to be looking for, what to submit with your proposal, deadlines. It just provides them all the information. Uh deadlines including when to uh submit all your questions so that we can review and then we issue an addendum with the responses to the

179questions. Um things like that and also the bid deadline. In this time as well um in the bid documents we provide the evaluation criteria for this type of request for proposals. The biders are given the evaluation criteria what the district's going to be looking for how it's going to be scored the scoring mechanism. So it's very transparent. They know going in what's going to be looked at um to keep us in compliance. Our bidding portal does not allow us to view or download any any bids until the bid deadline. So once we receive that, we go ahead and download those bids. Like I said, we did receive so many that it took a little bit longer to review because um the team wanted to be very detailed and thorough. So they did. This is the

180time the evaluation period is a time where they check for references, do their research, f uh send follow-up questions. They probably reach out to the vendors asking clarification questions about their proposals. And so all of this information is being gathered at this time. And then the district submits a notice of intent to award which is that's the all biders know we are recommending to the board that these contractors be this contractor or contractors be awarded based on these scores and the scores are also uploaded. So the evaluation panel consisted of two uh a couple evaluators and then the averages gets average the scores get averaged and that's the score that goes up um for the biders. And um I also wanted to make sure I mentioned that the bid documents do contend contain um bid

181protest language. So if a bidder and it provides some guideline guidelines on how to submit a bid protest and what what are the guidelines, what consists of a valid bid protest. And so typically when we get those those are from biders that believe that um maybe the process wasn't conducted fairly. um or if we were not in compliance with the law um or if we violated regulations or were not in uh in accordance with the bid documents, things like that. Um and so I wanted to make sure to point out that the district did not receive a bid protest for this bidding process for the ELOP. So, and so that's just pretty much in a nutshell kind of the process. There's so many nuances to it, but if you have any um if you want

182me to elaborate on any steps or have any questions on the process, I'd be happy to answer that. Thank you. >> All right. And good evening, President Clark and Board of Education, Superintendent Dr. Ruvakaba and cabinet. Uh, just to reiterate the process, it was a a very thorough process with 32 vendors applying. So, it did take some time to kind of go through and and vet everything that we received. um part of the RFP process too, we wrote it where we were we had some flexibility and uh we wanted to make sure we had flexibility so that we had an opportunity to provide the best programming and options for our students. U so we wrote it in a way where we could award one vendor or we could award 50,000 vendors if if that's what

183we needed to do uh to meet the needs of our students. Right? So when we went through the scoring rubric, what we identified early on is Woodcraft Rangers was number one and a big component for that is because how they construct their program. They have uh club options so that so they have multiple activities that are based off student interest that students have an opportunity to sign up for and they they enter six to eightweek sessions on those activities of interest. uh best part of that at the end is they have an opportunity to showcase from from those events. So that that was very enticing. Uh I know one of our needs in our district is also accessibility for all of our students and uh you know especially our students with special needs and with

184Woodcraft Rangers they were the only RF uh person who uh company that submitted an RFP that had inclusion specialists built within their program. So they have people that train all all the staff that are working with the students on those best practices, inclusion practices, and they also have people on site for quality control that they they walk through. Uh they'll provide uh intervention strategies and they actually hold their own uh SST type system for after school, right? So if there's any any struggles or supports, they work in partnership with the district, the parents, the students on finding strategies to keep students engaged um within our reference checks. That was a big part of it, especially when you're reading RFPs on on paper. You know, we wanted to do our due diligence with reference checks. And

185that's not only phone calls, but district visits as well, too. So, um I I did um best way to say, I guess, is cold call um or show up uh some districts. I got approval with, you know, a director in a surrounding district that has Woodcraft rangers and uh had an opportunity to kind of uh visit some sites that they weren't expecting uh me to show up at. So, I had a chance to visit uh four sites in a a nearby district and I was blown away with what I wrote what we reviewed on paper. I was seeing it in action. I was seeing clubs. I was seeing quick transitions from point A to point B. I think there one school I walked into, it was 5:30 p.m. near the end of programming. walked into

186a TK classroom, those kids were still engaged doing some art and movement project and they were articulating what they were doing uh when when I was walking through. So what what that demonstrated to me is the training from the top, you know, was was taking effect with the staff that was working with the students. U so ultimately our goal is to provide, you know, the maximum amount of opportunities for our students. Um, oh, one one other uh point I want to mention before I conclude kind of um some of the findings is one of the other districts when talking to someone too. They were they were telling me that people were lining up at midnight to sign up for these activities, you know, for for their district with Woodcraft Rangers just because that was the

187reputation that they built. The parents were excited, the families were excited, students were excited to get into some of the programming options. Um so with that it really isn't a it really was a difficult process and um you know we've had a a good partner right for the last 17 years and I know Dr. Rukavo mentioned that we've had a couple meetings. We we've talked to them about it too. Um but you know through the RFP process, what we identified is potentially a company that we can partner together to enhance what we're currently doing. >> Thank you so much, Mr. Sterns. Um any questions or comments? >> Yeah, I have a few questions. um in the scoring, how how many questions did you have for each each vendor, you know, when you were looking at

188the bids and and so forth, you know, cuz you got to do it with 32 of them. And what was your timeline? >> You want to take that? Go ahead. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So when we go through the RFP process, we wrote up a scope of work and really that's a big narrative of really what we're expecting. >> Um you know the entire process, the RFP process, but also what we're looking into for the programming and how we award it. >> U within that scope of work, there was a rubric in there and I I apologize I don't have all all the areas memorized, but there was about six or seven components on there and each component was weighted a little differently. Um, you know, price was a factor on there too that was

189weighted a little higher, but there's other components of program quality, program offerings, references, uh, things like that that all the vendors had had access to and that's how we were scoring under that lens. >> Okay. Um, so if I'm in a uh camping program, it's six to eight weeks and everybody wants to do it. What do you do with the kids who can't sign up and didn't get in? >> Yeah, that that is a great question. We and we have members of Woodcraft Rangers here that could probably answer some of the strategic things. The one thing I will say on the district end is uh the system that we're utilizing for students to sign up for activities in our after school programming with after school HQ, we can track the numbers of people signing up.

190It includes a weight list. So a lot of the programs that have high interest, you know, we would be working with those partners to increase those offerings. >> Yeah, I would just be thinking, you know, you rotate that program because so many kids want to uh uh join and I I think that's great. And uh to your point uh Dr. Wukava and to everybody here uh I was getting emails and people didn't know if we were getting rid of think together or who was coming in and and there was an information gap um that that the public couldn't fill and uh I didn't have any answers. So that's why I'm coming up with what I have now. And um so we started this November 18th because that's what I have down here um for the

191bids and the and then >> I I believe that the authorization to go out to bid came in November and then soon after we published it in in the newspaper. >> Okay. Okay. And um what's the parent engagement piece for uh Woodcraft Rangers? You know, because the kids, they generate the interest and that's the program. Uh how are the parents included in that? >> Yeah. And would it be okay to invite Woodcraft Rangers up? They can kind of add some clarity to some of the programmatic stuff. >> And before before they answer, um Mr. Williams, just to clarify, the afterchool program, the ELOVE program is a district program. So, it's our responsibility to engage the parents and we send out annual surveys um that we've provided on the results. We have um several hundred parents

192that respond on the quality of the program that they have. So at any time if the parent response is not favorable to the partners that we have, we have every right to go back and and determine going in a different direction. So we engage the parents after school for the after school program. >> Okay. So just to clarify, excuse me, just to clarify, Dr. RC, we did this board of education did receive a copy of that as well as we have had the information on RFP for weeks. >> Yeah. Right. >> so my my question isn't, you know, how we uh survey the parents. I'm I'm just looking for an example of do we have programs with Woodcraft Rangers that engage the parents as well as the students? That's all I was asking. >> Can

193we speak to that? >> Yes. >> I'm Julie Brooks. I'm CEO of Woodcraft Rangers. Thank you so much for having us this evening. >> Hi everyone. Good evening. Danny Salas, chief program officer, uh at Woodcraft Rangers. Um >> I'm Will Wong, uh senior director of partnerships with Woodcraft and formerly a school district uh teacher administrator and assistant. >> I'd love to first speak to your first question if I could around um participation and demand. Um we are really proud to at Woodcraft Ranger. So we are we are already serving about 150 sites throughout Southern California. We are really proud that we actually have zero weight lists at any of those sites. So we are not only accessible to every child that wants to participate and we have within our program model a dynamic rotation to

194be able to address those things that you talked about. Right. So for example if a club is very popular we can offer a Tuesday Thursday offering and a Monday Wednesday Friday offering to maximize. Right. And then every six weeks we rotate those offerings. We have the deepest curriculum enrichment catalog of any provider as well with over a hundred different options from which to choose. And we actually make a promise to all of our students and our partners that if we don't have an offering that is of interest of young people, we will create it with our learning and development team. It's only happened once in my eight years at Woodcraft Rangers, by the way. Um it was a um RC racing, right? We had a we had kids that wanted an RC racing club and

195we combined some of our curriculum from uh from Yep. from robotic. Yeah. Danny, do you want to speak to it? >> Yeah. We combined it from robotics to be able to create this new curriculum for students and now it's flourishing and now it's having its own competitions as well. >> So, so that that illustrates kind of the dynamic nature of it and that we can respond um in almost immediate fashion, right, to be able to meet those needs. I would love for Danny to talk more about parent engagement. I think specifically we have a lot of showcasing and culmination and family engagement events that will answer will speak to that. >> Yeah. Um we host traditional parent meetings at the beginning of every cycle. We average about seven cycles throughout the school year that average

196between six to seven weeks introducing parents to the activities that are going to be offered during that session. At the end of that cycle, students participate in showcasing that could be a sports competition, dance showcase, STEM project. Um that then at that point leads into regional. We group many schools to allow for students who are showcasing their talent at the site level to then be able to uh showcase that at the regional level. And that allows for more parent engagement, more level of community and also exposure. Uh the beauty about some of our uh agency and regional events is that if that program or club isn't being offered at that school, families get to see it at from another school and it creates an inspiration for us to be able to uh provide or showcase

197more opportunities at that school. Um >> yeah, I would also just add embedded in our model is a community liaison at every site which also is a dedicated individual um doing daily interaction with parents, right? So to be able to work with school administration with district district um administration and with parents directly, right? So to be able to provide a constant stream of communication, right? updating on events, um, addressing concerns, um, discussing, right, just the program in general with parents. So, that's embedded in our program as well to make sure that we have constant and consistent communication with parents, too. >> Thank you very much. And, uh, I had a chance to look up, you know, uh, your program online and, uh, you referenced a lot of that and so as I read it, these

198were the questions I came up with. Um um and I'm glad you were here to to answer those questions. I appreciate that. Thank you all from uh from the board from all of you for being here. >> Thank you all for the opportunity. >> Thank you. I would echo uh Mr. RH's uh comments about reviewing the website to look take a look at it. I didn't get to go do pop-up visits like you, Mr. Sterns, but how exciting. But the the programs are great. I love the inclusion piece. >> And one of the things I really appreciate is the work for on the breaks. So the summer breaks and other district breaks. That is huge because some parents don't have that time off and it's very important. >> The last piece I'll say that I

199thought was just exceptional is the um the I guess I'll call it report outs. I forgot what you call it, but when they showcase showcase that's exciting, right? So we get to see what our kiddos are doing when in the program and we can see the impact firsthand that that you guys have on the kids. So with that being said, um Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. >> So I just want to remind that a motion was made by Miss Luna and second by Mr. Williams. Miss Student Board member Huing >> I. >> Miss Lever >> I. >> Mr. Williams >> I. >> Miss Luna >> I. >> Miss Clark >> I. This motion has passed unanimously. 5-0. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I just like to say thank you. We are so

200excited about this potential partnership and being in service to um the entire Marina Valley School District. So, thank you for the opportunity. We look forward to a really um incredible partnership with you. >> Thank you. Moving on to M1, action items for educational uh services. Uh action item uh to approve of the second readings an adoption of board policy and administrative regulation 0450 comprehensive safety plan board policy and administrative regulation 1340 access to district records new board policy and new administrative regulations 1445 response to immigration enforcement board policy and administrative regulation 5125 student records board policy administrative regulation and exhibit 5125.1 release of directory information deletion of board policy administrative regulation 514 5.13 response to immigration enforcement board policy 6164.2 guidance counseling services Dr. are saying. >> Thank you, President Clark. At this time, I'd

201like to reassure the board that these board policies, whether they are new, deleted, or updated, they are in align in alignment with CSBA in addition with u new law, whether it's assembly bills or um Senate bills. So, at this time, we are asking the board if unless they have any questions that they approve these board policies and ARs. >> Do you have any questions? I took a brief look at them again last night. I read every single word. Um, so can I have a motion to approve as presented? >> So moved. >> Second, please. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Miss Claudia. Call for the vote. >> Student board member Hewing. >> I, >> Miss Lea, >> I. >> Mr. Williams, >> I. >> Miss Luna, I >> Miss Clerk, >> I. This motion has

202passed. 5-0. Moving on to item M2, um business services action item. The A is approval of authorization of parent and community booster clubs for the period from February 11th, 2026 to December 31st, 2026. Miss Lopez. Yes. Thank you, President Clark. Uh this evening we have four more booster clubs that have met all of the requirements um and have submitted all of the require paperwork uh to be in compliance with our board policy. And so this evening we are recommending approval of the Canyon Springs boys basketball booster, the Canyon Springs High School Pep Squad, the Roadrunner Booster Club from Northridge Elementary, and the Valley View High School Football Booster Club. Do you all have any questions, concerns? Can I get a motion to approve as presented? >> I'd like to make a motion. >> Thank you.

203Student board member Hewing, can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Trustee Lea. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. >> Student board member Huing. >> I. >> Miss Lever. >> Hi. >> Mr. Williams. >> Hi. >> Miss Luna. >> I. >> Miss Clark. >> I. This motion is passed. 5-0. Moving on to M2B, the approval of resolution number 2 and E25-26-59 of the board of education of the Marino Valley Unified School District approving approving amendment number one to the lease leaseback agreements for Paris Operation Center electric bus upgrades phase three project. Miss Lopez. >> Yes, thank you, President Clark. Um, this is the resolution that is seeking to pull a piece of the project that has already been approved, which is the lease lease back agreement for the electric bus upgrades

204at our Paris operation center. The reason that we are looking to pull out this separate phase is that we are now faced with having to purchase some equipment that has some really long lead times. And so, uh, the 2.3 million that is outlined in this, um, GMP or guaranteed maximum price would be specific to equipment such as the battery energy storage system as well as the switch gear, which has the longer um, lead times that we would need to pull out so that we can make sure that the entire project as a whole is not held up because of the lead times for this particular equipment. Thank you. Any questions? Great. Can I have a motion to approve as presented? >> So move. >> Thank you. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. It was motioned

205by Trustee Luna and seconded by Trustee Williams. Please call for the vote. >> Student board member Huing. >> I. >> Miss Lever. >> Hi. >> Mr. Williams. I >> Miss Lona. >> Hi. >> Miss Clark. >> I. This motion is passed. 5-0. Moving on to human resources action items. Um M3A is the approval resolution 2025-2657 elimination of certain vacant classified positions for the 20252026 school year effective February 11th 2026. Dr. Verde, >> thank you. President Clark, this is our regular position control item that we bring before our board. And again, we always review this with our partners with CSCA. No one has lost a a job with us as an action for this, but there were some uh transfers that took place to make sure everyone landed where they needed to to provide current services

206for our students. And we are asking for the board to approve it. >> Thank you, Dr. Birdie. Any questions or concerns? >> No, he already answered my question. I will always make sure that no one loses their job. >> Fantastic. Can I get a motion to approve as presented? >> I would like to make a motion. Thank you, Trustee Leva. Can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Trustee Williams. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. >> Mr. Bo, member Hewing, >> I. >> Miss Leila, >> I. >> Mr. Williams, >> I. >> Miss Luna, >> I. >> Miss Clark, >> I. This motion is passed. 5-0. Moving on to item 3 M32, approval of the second reading and adoption of administrative regulation 13121, excuse me, 1312.1. Complaints concerning district employees and

207board policy. Administrative regulation 4118, dismissal, suspension, disciplinary action. Administrative regulation 4218, dismissal, suspension, disciplinary action. and new board policy 4218 dismissal suspension and disciplinary action. Dr. Birdie. >> Thank you, President Clark. We are asking the board to approve these new andor updated human resources and personnel related items this evening. Uh again, they are all standardized based on changes in current law or based on CSBA policies. and they do clarify response and appeal times for our complaint process as well as updating and making uh very clear dismissal and disciplinary action as it relates to our administrative regulations uh in 4118 and 4218 and again we are asking for the board to approve this evening. >> Thank you. Any questions or concerns? >> Fantastic. Can I get a motion to approve as presented? So move. >> Thank

208you, Trustee Luna. Can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Trusty Lea. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. >> Student board member Huin. I. >> Miss Lever, >> I. >> Mr. Williams, >> I. >> Miss Luna, >> I. >> Miss Clark, >> I. This motion has passed 50. And for our final action item M3 C, the approval of new management job description for supervisor 3, behavior data supervisor and the new certificated job description specialist community schools. Dr. Birdie, >> thanks Miss Clark. We are happy to bring forward both of these positions. As you mentioned, the supervisor 3 is a management level position that will report to the director of technology innovation and assessment and will be overseeing the accurate and timely collection, submission and maintenance of student behavior and disciplinary data

209including CalPADS. Key responsibilities for this position include behavior data analysts and generating various reports and monitoring data for disegregation. And they'll be working again with it and our sites as well. And then the specialist position is a certificated position. And again, we're excited to bring this one forward so that we can move forward on our uh community schools project. And so these positions will be working really with the the school sites involved in that program, two high schools, two middle schools, and the five elementary schools to provide support as we move forward with the California Community Schools Partnership Program. And we are recommending approval this evening. >> Thank you, Dr. Verde. Any questions, comments, or concerns? Fantastic. Can I get a a motion to approve as presented? >> I would like to make a motion

210to approve as presented. >> Thank you. Trustee Leva, can I get a second? >> I would like to second. >> Thank you. Uh, student board member Huing. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. Student board member Huing. >> I, Miss Leva, >> sorry. I, >> Mr. Williams, >> I. >> Miss Luna, >> I. >> Miss Clark, >> I. This motion has passed. 50. Moving on to the next item which is n future agenda topics. I will start with you student board member hearing. >> No future agenda topics. >> Thank you. Trustee Lea. >> No future agenda topics at ma. >> Thank you trusty Williams. >> Uh I have a topic uh I'd like to have discussion bring forward. Um we are asking our students to uh engage adults uh work with teachers. They have to

211work with their parents. But I'm seeing a gap in their ability to interact with the the the the parents, the school, the district. Um, I see a lot of our kids who have fixed mindsets and uh I'd like for us to bring forward uh mindset uh Carol Dwek and see if that can help us help our students to have a an open mindset uh instead of a fixed mindset. And I think all of the things that we're trying to work with our students on uh when their mindset is opened up, uh the possibilities are great. And I I I've had firsthand experience with that. And just as an example, I had uh the growth mindset poster up in my office and I would have students come in and uh a junior would come in and

212he's missed a couple of days and he blew up in the class. We talk about it and I said, "How many times you read that poster? It's that size right there." He says, "Mr. Williams. I read it three times, four times a week and I'll never see the guy again or that young lady again. The students I work with more often have never read it. So that indicated to me that we have to look at mindset if we want to frontload our kids to be able to interact and be global in their interaction. That's it. Thank you, Dr. Rubakaba. >> Yes. Thank you, President Clark. Uh, thank you, um, Clerk Williams. One of the things that we're actually working on now is looking at an SCCL curriculum districtwide. I know our student services team led

213by Cody has actually started looking at things like second step, character counts, capturing kids hearts. So as we look at that we can actually look at whether the component one of the components of these programs is that growth mindset um component because I do agree with you that it is extremely valuable not just for our kiddos but also for our adults as well and we know that when we engage in anCCL curriculum it's it's targeted towards kids but by osmosis it benefits our parent or adults as well. So if it's okay with the board, we can give that direction to our student services. >> I have >> I think we have consensus. Dr. Robocava. >> See if we can talk to you student services around including that. >> Thank you kindly trusty Luna. >> Thank

214you President Clark. I don't have any future agenda topics, but I do just briefly want to send so much gratitude to our superintendent who throughout this time that he wasn't able to be here. He's been non-stop like you wouldn't even know that he's went through what he went through. He's been available to us um still leading this district in spite of what happened to him. And so, um, you're a true leader, Dr. Wuvakaba. You you you definitely have heart and compassion for this district and and leading us in in the direction that we need to go. And you're not stopping. You don't let anything stop you. Thank you. Thank you for your leadership. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Thank you. I don't have any future agenda topics. And with that said, this

215meeting is adjourned. >> No, no, no, no, no. I have one a topic. I have one topic, please. >> Oh, >> sorry, >> Dr. Rubakava. >> Thank you, President Clark. Uh, everybody was ready to grab their bags and run out, but sorry, I'm going to keep you here for five minutes. I promise. Okay. So many years ago, the district in in partnership with the city engaged in a sister city program with um a a town in Mexico called San Juan de Ros Lagos. And the partnership included adults visiting and an exchange program with adults, but also students visiting an exchange program with students. Once we got through the pandemic, the program kind of dissipated, right? All of that. We had to adhere to all of that and we're now in a position where we want

216to potentially bring that back. We've talked to um the Ree family who was really spearheading this. I know a couple of uh council meetings ago, the council the city council passed a resolution wanting to re initiate that sister city partnership. So we want to get the the board's comfort level with starting the discussion with it. And I will share some of the concerns that have been brought up because we brought them up before. Obviously the current political climate in our country is such that we are probably going to have families that are not going to want to engage in having their kids go visit Mexico and vice versa having kids from Mexico come visit here. We understand there's still some fear about the climate uh in terms of safety in Mexico as well. So, one

217of the things that we talked about with engaging with this partnership um Dr. RC and I actually spoke to some of the dignitaries from San Deagos is maybe starting with adults and seeing if we wanted to do something with that. So, I just want to get this answer and we want to get this answer from the board in terms of how comfortable are you if we move forward with beginning some kind of um initiation of the sister city program and starting with adults first and then depending how that goes then engaging with kids uh in the future. >> Uh I'm for it. Absolutely. I think it's an excellent idea. And do we have consensus? Yes, I support that. >> Yes, I feel it's important that we continue with that partnership, you know, especially because of

218the times that we're living, we need to understand and learn, you know, that we can get along regardless of and this will help us and it's a great idea that we're starting with adults. So, does that mean that Miss Luna, Miss Clark, and Mr. Williams will be visiting over there? >> Retreat in San Juan Lago. >> Fantastic. Student member, >> thank you so much. >> Board member Elhilling. Well, you he said yes. Okay. And student board member agree agrees. Thank you so much, Dr. Rubakala. >> Any other comments? >> I promised five minutes and it was 5 minutes. >> Fantastic. With no further business to come before the board of education, this meeting is adjourned at 8:35 p.m. Have a great evening.