MVUSD Regular Board Meeting of the Board of Education 05/27/2025

001Everyone, the board of education reconvene into open session at 5:14 p.m. Roll call, please. Angelie Balcon here. Rose Williams here. Cleveland Johnson present. Joanna Leva present. Brandy Clark present. Sammy Luna present. Alejandra Walaba present. Espironza RCS present. Robert Birdie present. Susanna Lopez present. Report out of close session. Uh the board of education met in close session to discuss board deliberation regarding student discipline cases. Public employee employment appointment public employee discipline dismissal release non-reelects conference labor negotiator conference with legal counsel existing litigation conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation settlement of claims and superend superintendent evaluation. The board gave further direction to district staff and took action on the following. A motion was made by Miss Clark and seconded by Miss Leva and approve the denial of settlement claim number AB218-97-1998- SD. This was approved by the

002board of education by the following vote. Five yes and zero no. A motion was made by Miss Clark and seconded by Miss Leva and approve the denial of settlement claim number 052725A. This was approved by the board of education by the following vote. Five yes and zero no. The following new employees were approved in close session. A motion was made by Miss Clark and seconded by Miss Lea and approved the new elementary school principal Michael Muting location to be determined. This was approved by the board of education by the following vote. Five yes and zero no. A motion was made by Miss Clark and seconded by Mr. Johnson and and approve the new elementary school principal Ty Nye Smith. Location to be determined. This was approved by the board of education by the following vote.

003Five yes, zero no. And a motion was made by Miss Clark and seconded by Miss Leva and approved the new middle school assistant principal Dr. Maia Labos location to be determined. This was approved by the board of education by the following vote. Five yes and zero no. And Dr. Verie, did you want to bring up the candidates so we can welcome them to our amazing family. Uh Mr. Muty, I see your family there, too. So bring them up. That's why we're here. [Applause] and thank you Dr. Labos. Tina, come on up. So, as Dr. Rvakava said, uh, President Luna, we are excited to welcome a couple of new members to our Marino Valley Unified family. Dr. Misha Labos is going to be a new middle school assistant principal with us. She has been in education

004since 1998. We are very blessed to have her expertise come over to Marino Valley Unified. Mr. Michael Muting is going to be a new elementary principal with us. uh he's been in education since 2015 also in a variety of roles. So we are glad that they are coming over from other districts which shall remain nameless. We're lucky to have them come to our family at this point. Right. And then last but not least, a longtime educator in Marino Valley Unified. She's celebrating 25 years in the district and that's Miss Tina Smith who's going to be an elementary principal with us. So let's welcome them all and have them say a few words. [Applause] Um, first of all, I just want to say uh thank you Dr. Birdie and um the board of education. I'm honored

005to be here. Um I want to say hello to the community. Um and I just want to say three three things. I'm here for students. I'm here for team and collaboration and vision and growth. And I am just honored to uh be on this team and in this new family. and um I can't wait to get started. Thank you. Good evening. I want to sincerely thank the school board members and cabinet for this incredible opportunity. Being chosen as the new principal is not only an honor is truly humbling. Our district has always stood for excellence. As someone who has been a part of it, I've seen firsthand the deep commitment to doing what's best for our students. That's one of the many reasons why I'm so proud to continue growing within this community. I'm stepping

006into this role with a deep respect for the work already being done and a commitment to listen, to learn, and to lead with integrity. I believe in the power of relationships, in the strength of collaboration, and in creating a school culture where everyone, students, staff, families feel seen, heard, and valued. I want to take this time to thank my current principal, Miss Cobian. Your guidance, love, and support. Thank you for believing in me. It's going to be a hard shoe to fill. You're amazing. But I promise you, I'm going to continue moving our students forward, helping them reach their full potential. And finally, a special thank you to my family and my husband for being my unsung heroes. Miss uh Principal Smith, did you did you want to introduce us formally to paparazzi who's over

007here, please? And my unsung hero, my husband, Matt. Very good. [Applause] Um, I just want to say thank you guys for this uh opportunity. It's incredible. Um, I'm honored to serve as a principal for Marina Valley Unified School District. Um, I appreciate your trust in my leadership and excited to work with staff, families, and the community. Um, ensuring that every student is going to thrive. That's my son, Luca, my wife. I'm thankful that they're here with us as well. Um, but overall just um I can't wait to help support the district's vision and just become a part of the family of Marino Valley. So, thank you very much for this opportunity. I really appreciate it. [Applause] Thank you, Dr. Verie. I don't know. Boardman, did you want to have any comments? Anything to share? Uh,

008could you? So like um assistant principles and principles have made such a big impact especially on my education. Um the relationship I've cultivated with my principles and assistant principles through elementary, middle school, and high school have made such an impact on me. So I'm excited to see what you guys do for students alike. uh when we were upstairs and we were going over your names and things like that, what we were going to do, everyone that we took a look at, man, we were very happy, very happy that you guys want to take that that other that next step. Uh and then those of you that are staying here, oh my gosh, we are so so very thrilled to keep you all here in a higher capacity. It means you're going to be teaching a

009lot of other people how to step into those well to try to step into your shoes that you're going to be leaving as you go to your new uh your new positions. So congratulations bottom my heart man. We have the ladies to we have the very best people and we appreciate you so much. Thank you. Now I'd like to speak up after the honorable uh Johnson Mr. Johnson, when we met you all upstairs, the the common theme was working with students and working with families, and that's what's needed at this particular point. So to hear that from all of you individually was a breath of fresh air. Thank you very much. Well, congratulations. Um, it was very impressive to see your resumes, but most of all the love that you have for teaching. And what

010I like the most, it was that the reason that you're here, the reason that you want to go into this different positions is because the love that you have for the kids and the willingness that you have to work with them. And that's the reason that we are here too. So, thank you. Welcome to our district. Thank you. It was an absolute pleasure meeting you all or seeing some of you again. The common theme that I heard a few people say was planting seeds with our kiddos, leading by example, invested in the community, I'm a relationship builder, I'm here to serve, I value our kids. I can go on and on and on. So, I just want to say thank you for choosing MBUSD to be your next step. I'm so grateful for you all.

011Our community is lucky to have you, but most importantly, our kiddos are lucky to have you. So, I say thank you to you. Yes, it it was a a great pleasure meeting you all. Um, part of the reason that, um, I was passionate about being on the school board was because I was, um, inspired by educators such as yourself and, um, hearing everything that that you're that you're passionate about, especially our students, and and how you want them to continue to grow and lead them. Um, that's exactly what we need. And, um, I'm I'm so happy and honored that you're here, um, in Marino Valley. Thank you so much for your passion and your dedication. So, I say this with no pressure whatsoever. Keep that in mind. But the second single most, aside from the

012teacher in the classroom, the second largest impact on student achievement in any school is a leadership. No pressure, but we trust you. Welcome to the [Applause] family. Thank you. We're now in open session. I would like to call on Miss Falcone to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Please rise. 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 it stands one nation under now be seated. Thank you Miss Falcon. Uh next we are on item two future board meeting dates. Uh, as stands we have June 17th, June 24th, July 22nd, August 26th, September 9th, and a special study session on September 23rd. Item E3, we have the school report. Uh, Miss Falconee and student uh, Marita Vidal from

013March Mountain High School, [Applause] please. Okay. Good evening board members, cabinet, and distinguished guests. My name is Marita Vidal. I'm currently a junior at Marsh Mountain High School. I transferred here at the beginning of the school year and from the moment I arrived, I was welcomed with open arms. The sense of community at March Mountain is something truly special. I've been able to connect with amazing classmates and I've had the support of teachers and staff who genuinely care about each student success and well-being. Since coming to March, I've been actively involved in school life. I've participated in multiple sports and joined the yearbook team. These experience have helped me stay focused on my academics as well as teaching me a valuable lessons about teamwork, leadership, and perseverance. Being part of March Mountain has been an

014incredibly positive and life-changing experience. I'm proud to be a student here, and I'm so excited for what's ahead. Thank you for giving me the chance to share my piece of story. Now, I'd like to highlight some of the amazing things happening at March Mountain. March Mountain Sports term two and three. Our boys basketball team gave it all their season and placed sixth overall. We launched our very first girls flag football team and it was a huge success. We came in third place and created a strong bond that turned teammates into family. Our girls soccer team made it to the first round of playoffs. Even though for many of the players it was their first time playing soccer. Our boys team had an incredible run, making it all the way to semi-finals and finishing fourth out

015of 13 teams. Popping into our future class of 2025 celebration. On May 2nd, we celebrated our seniors who have committed to their future. 41 students are heading to a community college. Four students are have enlisted in the military. Three students are committed to a trade school program. It was a powerful and inspiring event to see so many students take their next step forward. Marsh Mountain celebrations. We've reached a major milestone. Marsh Mountain has gone 74 days without a single off-campus suspension. To celebrate, everyone on campus is getting free ice cream on Friday, May 30th. We're proud to announce that 130 seniors will be graduating on June 10th. Our cosmetology CTE program will have 21 graduates who are ready to take their state board exam. A huge achievement art show at the performing arts center. Our

016art program led by the incredible Miss Hanks had a great year. Her students made her proud at the district art show. Max Escato won first place in ceramics and second place in best in show. Brenda Alicorn received first place in digital media. Brianna White took third place in ceramics. Earth and rally around fitness events. We held our annual Earth Day celebration with a petting zoo, rock painting, recycled bookmark marketing, I mean making and decorating flower pots with succulents for students to take home. We also had a high energy rally around fitness event where the entire school came together to cheer on and participate with our action students. Everyone got involved playing volleyball, basketball, street hockey, and more. It was a day full of fun, movement, and community spirit. In closing, I just want to say

017how grateful I am to be a part of a school that not only supports academic success, but also builds community, pride, and opportunity. Thank you again for your time and celebrating the amazing work happening at March Mountain High School. Any comments or questions, colleagues? two minutes. Yeah. Ma, you're a wonderful speaker and you're really making March Mountain like look really good and you I'm really proud of all the things you guys have been doing, especially the days you've been without off campus suspension and all the you guys seem really involved and you guys seem like you have a really good community which I'm really happy to hear. Thank you, Miss Fal. We really appreciate your presentation. That was a great job. Next we are on to item E4, superintendence report. Uh Dr. Vocala. Thank you,

018President Luna. Good evening everyone. Happy to share some of the amazing things that have been happening in our district since the last time we met. But as always, we start with our vision, our mission, and our portrait of a graduate. And just like trustee Falcom mentioned, I can't imagine that we have a better student to represent these ideals than Marissa at March Mountain. So, thank you for what you've done today in your presentation. You're up there. Each one of those items represents who you are and what you presented to us today. But as always, we want to make sure that we um emphasize the work that we're going to uh spotlight today. And today, we're going to really focus on portrait of graduate student. So with that, I want to invite our first student up

019who's accompanied by Principal Robertson. Principal Robertson, come on up. And please introduce Helen to the board. Absolutely. Um so this is Helen Rodriguez Garcia. She is a senior at Canyon Springs. And we are proud to say, as it says on the slide there, that Helen is uh the recipient of two state seals of biiteracy. and we're so proud of her because uh she earned those in French and Spanish and she is one of only 20 in the entire county. So this is Helen. I think she's going to share a couple words with you as well. Thank you for having me today. I just want to give my first thanks to my mom who would stay up with me late nights that had tests cuz coming into French I was scared. I was a freshman coming

020to high school, a whole new environment. And I just want I'm thankful that I had the opportunity to learn a whole new language. And I'm also thankful for my French teacher, Mr. Stryen, who made sure that all his students can learn his lessons and that they understand his lessons. He always made sure that his students like understood everything. And this wouldn't have been possible without my French teacher, Mr. Stryan, who made sure that I always understood everything that he taught me. And this also wouldn't have been possible without my mom and the support of my family. And I just want to thank my family for coming here and my boyfriend too. And this just wouldn't have been possible without them and all the support that I have around me on learning a new language. And

021I hope to continue this in college. [Applause] Oh, Helen. No, no, you can't can't get away yet. Come on. We got to we got to put some shine on you. We got to gloat on you a little bit more. So, I want to go back to the portrait of a graduate student. And this is something that we shared with our community when we did our DLI celebration um last week, which is learning one language is challenging. Learning two languages is even more difficult. Learning three languages is darn near impossible. But to do them well and to earn the seals of biiteracy really really I think represent the ideals that we have in our portrait of a graduate student. you think about how adaptable you have to be in order to code switch in each of

022those different languages. Um how much work it takes in terms of collaboration with your peers and like you mentioned your teacher. The communication obviously it's embedded in the language. Critical thinking where you actually have to start thinking in that foreign language in order to make sure that you're pronouncing it and speaking correctly. Uh the creativity I mean I'm sure that's blossomed in terms of the other opportunities and possibilities in your mind and obviously the perseverance. So, thank you for your hard work. Thank you for representing our district so well. Thank you. Hold on, Miss Miss. I told you. I have a question. I'm really impressed with what you've done. And you said you're going to continue in college. Do you plan to what do you plan to do? So, in the college, I plan to

023send uh to attend CBU to pursue nursing, but I also want to look into taking French at a community college since CBU does not offer French and I want to earn uh maybe a degree in French and just expand my learning in French cuz going into the health field, I want to make sure that I could communicate with as many people as I can and I want to make sure that I could help the as many people as I can. Excellent. Excellent. I uh I really applaud you in your accomplishment and uh you mentioned college so I just wanted to find out exactly how you wanted to use it in college because um there there are a lot of things you can do with language. Language is universal uh and it's international and uh I

024I thought for sure you were going to be a linguistics major. So that's why I asked the question. Thank you. We're all in suspense, but we won't ask. Thank you. Thank you, Helen. Congratulations again. Thank you for being here. So, a couple other things that we want to um spotlight this month. We had our Shine engagement celebration. This was the first year that we've done this and was an opportunity to thank all of our parents and community partners that give so much of their time, their talent, and our and their treasure to our school district. So, every site and departments were able to nominate a distinguished recipient that was honored red carpet treatment and it was fabulous. We had videos. We had um just a fabulous evening of celebrating uh our amazing parents and our

025amazing community members that do um so much to help our students and help our community. So, thank you. Thank you to them and thank you to the team for put this on for putting this on as well. On Saturday, May 17th, we had Moachella. Again, this is a first of this kind of event for us. It was our multicultural fest, an opportunity to celebrate the diversity in our community, which we know is our strength. So, we had presenters and performances and we had booths from different organizations. We had activities for students, activities for adults. Um, it was just a really nice event and it was so well attended. I see Mr. Garcia back there. He gave me the number, but I don't want to mess this up. Did you say 2,000 families were served? 2,100

0262,100 families were served on that Saturday. That's amazing. So, thank you so much. [Applause] Uh that evening we also did our district honor band. It was an amazing performance. Again, we have so much talent in our district that it's difficult to showcase all of it, but there is an opportunity and a place for anyone um in our district in terms of what you're interested in. And so this was an opportunity to really broadcast to our community the amazing talent that we have in terms of our musicians. So very well attended and thank you to our parents and to our students for that as well. On May 20th, we celebrated Job Shadow Day. This was an opportunity for our administrators to work alongside with our classified team members. I know we had three of our trustees

027that wrote along with our transportation department and they were thoroughly impressed. I think they learned a lot about all the things that go into transporting students on a daily basis, but more than that, how much our team cares about kids that it starts, it's not about being a driver, and it's not about being a nutrition services assistant or a maintenance and operations individual or a campus security. It's about somebody who has a heart for kids. And that resonated in every interaction that our team members had with our amazing classified staff. So, we know that uh it's a little bit awkward to have us writing along with you, but we thank you for the opportunity to have you there because we learned a lot about the work that you do. On May 21st, uh this was

028an opportunity to celebrate our amazing educators. These were our um educators of the month, educators of the year, I'm sorry, our retirees, and our years of service. We've we've had, for example, three teachers that have more than 40 years of service in our district. That's amazing. But this was an amazing event that celebrated all of our educators and all of the work that they do for our kiddos in our community. Lastly, we always share some attendance data and we want to give some kudos to the schools that are leading the pack in terms of this endeavor. Um, as you can see, our attendance continues to remain pretty strong, which is really, really good. But we also want to um spotlight Northridge Elementary, Butterfield Language Academy, and Badger Springs Middle School for leading the pack in

029terms of those attendance rates. Look at that, over 94%. And at a middle school, that's pretty amazing. So kudos to them for that. Also want to broadcast some of the amazing work that we're doing in terms of our facilities. Thank you again to our community for their amazing support, not only of Measure M, but Measure X. We could not do these work, this work without those funds. So, thank you to our community for supporting us at that. So, if you Midland there is, you can see at the top the innovation center is starting to really look like what the end product is going to be. Amazing opportunity for our kiddos to expand their learning opportunities at L at Landmark Middle. And I see our principal here at L from Landmark. She's living the construction right

030now. So, that's what it looks like on the inside. you can see some of the conditions before and what the work that's going into to upgrade those facilities. So, we're very, very hopeful that this is going to be done by the fall of 2025. Over at Mountain View Middle, same thing is happening. So, you can see they're really getting down to the bones to make sure that everything gets re renovated from the inside and the outside. Uh we're hoping that this completion is going to be in the fall of 2026. Palm Middle School is starting to take shape as well. Um they've started to do some of the upgrades in that and at the Palm as well. You can see what it's starting to look like and we're hoping that's going to be completed by

031fall by July of 2027. Vista Heights, same. We're giving love to all our middle schools and you can see they're going again down to the bones um and rebuilding from scratch all of the areas. Um this is slated to be completed in the spring of 2027. Canyon Springs and we see again Principal Robersonson is here. Um the new pool or reconstructed pool is starting to take shape. You can see it on the right hand side. Um so we're going to actually be able to do competition now. So it's going to be fully um compliance with competition not only for swim but for water polo as well. Uh and sorry that's going to be completed this summer. So we're excited about that. Vista Delago, if you've driven by you can see the progress on Vista happening

032as well. And our career technical education classroom is going to include six spaces for emergency response, public health, and practicum rooms. So, you can see it's it's starting to really look uh amazing there as well. This one's also going to be completed in the summer of 2025. And at Valley View, we're modernizing the c the kitchen area. You can see the food prep area up on top and then the food service area on the bottom. I've shared this before, but uh Valley View is our highest enrolled high school, but has the smallest footprint for a cafeteria and food service line. So, this is really needed. So, I know our kiddos and our um community is going to be happy about that. And lastly, what we all expect to see for all of our renovations when

033they're all done, they're going to look as amazing as Valley View. This is the finished building over administration, the innovation center, and the corridor and the classrooms. Um that is an amazing space that is just beautiful. um not only in terms of fun of um features but also function highly functional classrooms and we know that when all of our schools are done they're going to look equally as incredible. A couple of save the dates just making sure that we you have these on your calendar. Uh this Saturday we have our end ofear tournament for esports. We hope that you're able to make it our spring 2025 graduation schedule. Uh we're very happy to and we're looking forward to the promotions and our graduations that are coming up at the beginning of June. Also, don't forget

034our summer programs are coming up. Our Safari Adventure and Accelerated Steam Academy. For those families are looking for something for our kiddos to do during the summer, we're here for you. Please make sure you register. Space is available, but it's starting to fill up pretty quickly. So, please make sure you submit those applications. Um, and that's all I have for this month. Thank you so much. [Applause] Thank you, Dr. Vivakava. Next, we are on item five, recognitions, communications, and events. Uh, letter A is resolution number 20204-25-98, LGBTQ Pride Month, June 2025. I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution number 20242598 as presented. Thank you. I'd like to second that. Thank you. Miss Clavy, can you please call for the vote? Mr. Board member Falcon. Hi. Mr. Williams. Hi. Mr. Johnson. Hi. Miss Lever.

035I. Miss Clark. I. Miss Luna. I. Motion carries. And Miss Clark, can you please make this presentation? Absolutely. Can I please have um Mrs. This is Aisha Smith, the principal of Landmark Middle School. Chris Faras, MBA president, and Juan Hurag, administrative assistant of the business services uh division, come to the podium to accept this award. Many thanks. The Marino Valley Unified School District models, advocates, and promotes the inclusive and respectful treatment of everyone. Our district is committed to school safety for all, including the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning community, more commonly known as LGBTQ or those that may be perceived as such. Sexual orientation and gender expressionbased bullying are among the most common forms of harassment in schools which leads to significantly significantly higher rates of school dropout, academic failure and school disengagement

036among LGBTQ youth across the country. We believe no one should ever be targeted or bullying or harassment or violence and we strive to ensure that schools are safe and affirming spaces for all students, staff and their families. The month of June is an opportunity to celebrate the identities and contributions of the LGBTQ community. We encourage everyone to join us join us in observing June as pride month to support and respect our LGBTQ students, staff, and their families. Thank you kindly for coming to accept this resolution. Any words? Thank you, board member Brandy Clark. Good evening, board president Sammy Luna, board of education, district cabinet, and the Reno Valley community. My name is Aisha Smith, the very proud principal of Landmark Middle School, and I stand before you today deeply honored and filled with immense gratitude

037to accept this resolution from our district in support of the LGBTQ community. This moment means so much not to me, but to every student, every educator, and every individual who believes in the transformative power of inclusion. I proudly accept this recognition because I believe with all my heart and I repeat with all my heart that every person no matter their race, their gender, their identity or their community, they belong to deserves they belong to they deserve to be seen to be heard to be valued and to feel safe. Discrimination, prejudice, and judgment have no place. Not on our campuses, not inside our classrooms, and certainly not in our hearts. We must remember much of the hate and exclusion we see in our world stems from fear of the unknown, of difference, and fear of change.

038But as educators, we are called to rise above fear. We're called to be bridges, bridges that connect, not divide. to foster understanding and to create environments where every student can thrive. So, thank you for recognizing and honoring pride not just as a month, it is a movement. It is a promise that every student can walk into our schools and know that everyone belongs, everyone matters, and everyone should be loved. Thank you. [Applause] set the stage up Miss Smith. Thank you. Um, good evening, uh, board president, members of the board, executive cabinet, uh, public, staff members. My name is Juan Re, and I'm a proud queer man. To stand here, say that out loud. Um, I want to thank the board for your commitment to diversity, acceptance, and inclusion of our beautiful community. Um, it shows

039that hate is not tolerated here at all. Every student, regardless of sexual orientation, gender expression, or identity, deserves to feel safe, respected, and heard on our campuses. And by passing this resolution, it does so. I challenge other districts to do the same because it is only through unity that we could move forward. Thank you. And happy Pride. [Applause] Well, very well said. I have to follow that, so I'm going do my best. So, um, as a president of Marino Valley Educators Association, uh, on behalf of our association, I want to thank our board of education in the district, uh, pro for providing safe schools and, uh, for our students, our educators, our community members, and our families. Um, we need to continue to have inclusive, welcoming environments and continue to practice uh having practice of

040acceptance of our cultures and and in our district. And um, you know, our district leads the way in promoting that and celebrating um, as as Juan stated this in another district nearby that that's not the case. And so we should take time to really uh to celebrate that and to be proud of that as well that we are very accepting of our families, of our students and um our staff members, our educators and our community that we serve each and every day. So I want to just be able to to thank the district for uh promoting and celebrating diversity of our schools and our community and taking time to recognize and celebrate the societal contributions of the LGBTQ plus community and celebrating Pride Month as well. So thank you very much and appreciate that. Thank

041[Applause] you. Thank you. Next resol or item B, resolution number 2024-25-99, Global Day of Parents, June 1st, 2025. Do I have a motion to approve this resolution? Motion move. Miss Leva second. Miss Clark second. Miss Clark, can you please call for the vote? Student board member Falcon. I. Mr. Williams, I. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Leva, I. Miss Clark I. Miss Luna I. Motion carries. Miss Lea, I understand you're presenting this resolution. Yes, Miss Luna. Angelique Carol and Katie Janisk. Okay. From the Marina Valley Unified School District, their parent ambassadors will be coming to accept this resolution. If you can please stand up and come to the podium. Thank you. In tw 2012, the United Nations General Assembly declared the first ever global day of parents. Global Day of Parents is celebrated on June 1st each

042year to honor parents and their commitment to children worldwide. Tonight, we would like to honor and thank all parents and guardians of our community who have partnered with us to create positive experiences for all students while building relationships through parent involvement and engagement. As you already know, parents are our first teachers. They lay the foundation for children. Being a parent is one of the most universal experiences. At the same time, it is also a challenging experience that comes with countless sacrifices. By declaring June 1st as a day to observe the global day of parents, we aim to increase awareness of the importance of parenthood and its role in providing protection and the tools necessary for positive child development. We encourage all community leaders, parents, children, teachers, and family organizations to celebrate this special day by

043recognizing and thanking parents for their tireless efforts every day. Good evening, madame board president Sami Luna, members of the board of education, and Dr. Rubel Cava. Uh, distinguished guest. Uh, my name is Lzette Nava. I'm the proud coordinator over at Marino Valley Unified School District's Wellness Center and thank you all for the opportunity to accept this resolution. Um, I would like to introduce our two phenomenal parent ambassadors here, Miss Anelie Carroll and Katie Janisk, who worked tirelessly to ensure that they demonstrate a strong commitment, dedication, compassion for our parents at at um school sites as well as our wellness center. Um, we couldn't do the work without them. So, we love them for everything they do to support us. Good evening board president, members of the board of education, superintendent Dr. Ruvakaba, and distinguished guests.

044My name is Anelie Carol, and I am the parent ambassador for Hidden Springs Elementary, Milan Elementary, and Canyon Springs High School through the Wellness Center and Mental Health Community Outreach Program. Thank you for this opportunity to accept this resolution this evening. At Midland, we celebrated this resolution while hosting a volunteer thank you lunchin for the parents. And at Hidden Springs this Friday, we are hosting a family movie night for the students and all of their families. [Applause] Good evening, board president, members of the board of education, superintendent, Dr. Rubikava, distinguished guests, my name is Katie Jennis. I'm the pride uh parent ambassador of Sugar Hill Elementary and Northridge Elementary School through the wellness mental health community outreach department. Thank you for the opportunity to accept this resolution this evening. I'm honored to share the importance

045of this resolution to our parents in celebrating during our upcoming parent volunteer TE's at both of our sites for their unwavering dedication and support. Thank you. We are on letter 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 agenda item to 21 minutes. Board bylaw 9323B section 5. Per board bylaw 9323, twice the allotted time will be provided for a member of the public utilizing a translator. Miss Claudia, do we have any comments? Miss Linda, we do have a total of five, but

046all wish to speak when the items being considered. Okay, thank you. On to letter G, public comments on non-aggenda items. The board of education encourages public comments. During this section, staff may briefly respond to statements or questions or may ask questions for clarification. The board may refer to staff or other resources for factual information. Direct staff to report back at a subsequent meeting and or direct staff to place the topic on a future 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

047public input on non-aggenda items to 21 minutes per board bylaw 9323. Twice the allotted time will be provided for a member of the public utilizing a translator. With board of education consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard. The president may take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional people speak only if they have something new to add. Board bylaw 9323 B through C section five. Uh, Miss Claudia, are there any speakers on non-aggenda items? We have one. Okay. Thank you. May I please have Mr. Roy Bcker to the podium? Is he not? I don't see him. Okay, he's not here. Next we are on letter H, employee association

048reports. Uh first up we have CSEA. I see Mr. Dwight Taylor coming down. Good evening, board president, board of directors, cabinet, community, CSA, just wanted to say thank you for job shadowing us. Um, some people were nervous. It it's nervous having management with you at times, right? You know, the way you go about things, but if you do it right all of the time, you don't have to get right, right? You're already right. So, it was it was it was good to have it was good to have them tag along and see what we do. Um, it was an honor to to travel with Mr. Johnson and Dr. Verie. It was cool. Nobody recognized him for sure, but he's a superstar everywhere. So, you know, rockstar out, but it was it was definitely fun. Wanted

049to say thank you for those who came to support us at the barbecue as well, uh, for supporting classified. It speaks volumes. Um, and of course to our classified staff, we just want to say thank you. Uh, we appreciate you. We love you. And, um, that's our report at this time. Thank you. Any any questions for me at all? Yes. When was the barbecue? I'm sorry. I wasn't invited. Sunday. No. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, you weren't invited. Oh, man. That's I'm just kidding. Okay. Okay. I I I wanted to attend, but I was out of town, so I'm sorry. No worries. Me, too. Oh, it just it just happened. Just happened that way. Okay. A serious question, though. Did you bring plates for education? There might have been a plate or two. We definitely

050have uh some goodies left over. Yeah. Anything else? Just last comment. I we had to Is it appropriate now? Am I doing too much for I feel really festive today. I just wanted to say that it was a pleasure to to shadow. I learned so much. I mean the hard work and dedication, the early risers, the the amazing things. I sh I had the opportunity and the pleasure of shadowing one of our transportation specialists and for the safety checks that they go through, the tiny U-turns that they do and ensure the safety bus. They can you they do a great job and I just want to say thank you. the heart that they have for kids. Um, being some of the first people they see in the morning to start their day off so great.

051The care that they take. I just want to say thank you to all of them to you. So, great job. Thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you. Just just a minute. Before you leave, I've got to tell you, I mean, I've never been so so proud and lucky in my life to have to go with you. Oh, thank you. Everywhere we went, these kids just like stayed on him like like glue. I mean, you know what I mean? made my heart feel so good. And of course, those that couldn't get next to him came to me. I kind of like that, too. But I love being with you, man. But he had to keep telling me, "Look, we got to go. We got to go." Everywhere I went, I wanted to stay. But I appreciate

052riding with you. Thank you. Great job. Thank you so much. Thank you, Dwight. I just wanted to share with you um there's a um student with special needs in my neighborhood that gets picked up and I just got a letter from the mom and she just wanted to express um the growth that her son has had being in our district. She's in and out of the hospital over and over again. and she kind of taped the the letter to my my door, but indirectly she's she spoke about the the bus that comes and picks up her son every day and the people in the community that have worked with her. her um her meter blew up in the house that she was in and she was in the hospital and her son came to my

053house and uh we just we just kind of helped him out. But she she wrote this letter since she's been in and out of the hospital and came out. But she spoke about him getting picked up and and keeping things on even keel. So you never ever know uh what you do like when you have that first contact how important and consistency is when people go through things. So um my hats off to to the department. Thank you sir. Appreciate. Yes sir. I just want to say thank you for giving us the opportunity of the honor you know to be able to shadow you know Miss Claudia. She's a transportation specialist, too. And um she thought she didn't know who I was. And that was a good thing. Not because we want to, you know,

054like do anything bad or check on them. No. But, you know, she was like training me because I guess she thought that I was trying to get a position as a transportation specialist. She was very detailed, you know, and everything and making sure that I was understanding everything that needed to be done. But the one thing that it you know like um stay with me is the love and the dedication that they show you know to the students. Something that is really needed you know um that communication you know that um taking the time to make sure that the students are happy you know letting them know if they're not going to be able to pick them up you know who's going to pick them up making sure that they're okay. So, I just want

055to congratulate, you know, them for that and every single, you know, um, classified staff that works to make this district look, you know, the way it looks. Let me see. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. Yes. So, let me not be the only one not to say anything. Um, no. I I feel like um I was able to um to, you know, um shadow one of our bus drivers and unfortunately I was trying to fit it into my schedule because I had to go to work. So, um unfortunately I didn't get to spend as much time as I wanted to, but I definitely appreciate the time that I spent. Um, you know, it's just a great reminder that everybody in this district helps make our district thrive. You know, we have some very special people

056here and and you know, obviously CSEA members are no exception. You everyone is a very valuable important part of this district. So, thank you guys for everything you do and making us feel feel important. We appreciate that. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. We have uh one speaker on this item, Mr. Roy Blacker. Is he in? I don't see him. Okay. Next item. Uh we are on item I, comments from the board. I'll start with Miss Falcom. I have a couple things I want to bring up. Um I just want to say thank you to Dr. for allowing me to share the concerns from the round table and the proposed solutions and taking that into account and sharing that with the rest of the board and I'm excited to see the actions that

057will be taken from that. And second, we started the new student board member applications for the internship and the position and they're currently going through campaigning right now and it's exciting to see all the people um posting their campaigns on social media and hoping to get the position. And I'm excited to see who fills this spot and it's looking really promising. And I also wanted to bring up that um schools around the district, especially valley of View, are doing college application workshops. And I'm hoping to do that at Visit Lago where they take a panel of college accepted seniors um to share their experience with the whole application for underassmen. And I'm working with my administration and guidance at my school to hopefully do the same thing with like around five students who've gotten to

058various universities like Cal States and UC's and also community colleges and also people who went through the QuestBridge application process and I think it'll be really helpful especially considering how my experience with the college application process was so daunting and nerve-wracking and really stressful to me. I didn't I felt like I didn't have any support in that area or I didn't really reach out for support and just going into it seemed very daunting and I feel like if students knew how to even approach the college application process it'll show up in the results and in the if they start earlier because I started like the day of or like the week before. I know if they start earlier and they plan ahead and they know what colleges they want to go for, like what they

059want to do after their high school education, it'll be really helpful. And I'm excited to see how that how that'll process through next year and the application results. I um I just wanted to recognize the administrators that bring students forward each week uh that we meet and the preparation that goes into their presentations or recognitions uh thereof. um our administrators off the clock train our students on presentations and and public speaking. And so it's the end of the school year, but I wanted to congratulate all the site administrators who bring students to the board uh to uh um uh student of the month, student of the year uh and take that extra time and preparing the students to to accept um their accolades. So my hats off to the to all the administrators um uh

060throughout our district. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Raw. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the job shadow day. Uh I can remember back in few years ago we used to do that and all of a sudden we stopped. But please don't stop it. Continue it because I enjoyed myself so much. It's a good thing Dwight was with me because he had said look man we got to go because we had several stops to make. But it was just that enjoyable to be around uh the kids and and the and the wonderful teachers and staff that we have there. Uh I'm ready to go back. So when you're looking at your calendar, maybe you can put it down twice a year instead of just the once if you don't mind. Thank you. That's all I

061have. Well, I just want to say um that I feel very proud of a student board member Falcon. I see, you know, how she illuminates over here with all her questions, how smart and bright she is. and giving that opportunity to students to see how it works. You know, being a board member, it's it's it's it's a great thing to do. Um, we need we had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC and we start seeing a lot of young people, Miss Luna and I, you know, running for board members. Um, and see what is needed in our districts. Um, it's not an easy task. being here there's a lot of decision making there's a lot of learning to do and processes that you have to learn you know but um I'm happy that we

062have the opportunity to go to trainings this um um last week we were able to go like I said you know to Washington and and have a training at Howard University to learn how to evaluate the superintendent and um it was it was really amazing and getting to meet you know different board members from different states and areas and see that yes we have challenges over here on Marino Valley and we have things that we need to work on but there's alo there's also a lot of you know great things happening over here that is not happening in other places so we need to celebrate that if we have to recognize you know that that's all great things but also recognize is the amazing things that we're that we're having here. Um, so also um

063I feel really blessed that at this time I'm I'm able to participate and attend different events uh throughout the school district. Um and having that opportunity to meet you know um students, parents and see the growth that they have made you know and the dedication that they put to obtain the high school diplomas um scholarships and I cannot wait to be at the graduations. But um I just want to say thank you. Thank you for for this opportunity. Thank you. I don't have any comments today. Thank you so much. Um I'll just briefly uh kind of piggyback on what Miss Lea said. Um being a having the opportunity to speak to other board members and other districts definitely makes me um grateful to be in Marino Valley. Um like she said, yes, of course there's

064challenges, but there's there's a lot more challenges in going on in other districts. Um and um I'm just I'm so I feel so so much gratitude to be here and and be with uh this great leadership that we have and and um all of the all of the staff um that support our students. Um it's very inspiring. That's all. And we do have a um we have someone who wants to comment on this item. That would be Mr. Roy Buckard. So you mentioned the great and wondrous things you were discussing with the board members at your let's say retreat. I wonder if you and you the challenge is three out of four kids are not at grade level in the school district and you're seeing how great you're doing. What day do you come back

065after you've got three times the money that you had 10 years ago? Are you not going to teach these kids how to do reading, writing, and arithmetic? No, we're talking about closing schools, getting rid of the special ed kids. And I wonder, did you talk with the other board members about the uh nice little statement our esteemed president made today told the state of California, you either protect girls in sports and not let boys compete. Mr. Blacker, yes, we have to stay on topic. I am on topic. Want to have a discussion? None of our board members talked about Mr. Point of order. If you want to have Mr. Blacker, this is your warning. Please stay on topic. I am on topic. If you want to have a discussion about how this goes, we will

066have it on your time. Mr. Blacker, this item is on what the comments that came from the dis. So, please stay on top. me. Explain to me how I was not talking about what you guys mentioned. What you just said had nothing to do with what any of our comments were. You said you talked to other board members. Correct. Mr. Blacker, is that point of order? Are we going to move forward with the conversation or not? We don't have time to debate. He has 1 minute 43 uh seconds on the clock to continue. President Luna, would you like for him to move forward? Please move forward and please stay on topic. I am on topic. So, as I was rudely interrupted, I want to ask if you to if you I can ask that you

067guys make the comment. So, if you want to have discussions about this, let's have them because if you don't like it, there's something called the law just like that was laid down today and you saw the turnaround. So if you want to play, you want to start this from 1996, you know what it cost you? So let's let's get this straight. It's beyond frustrating to hear the comments that we just heard when it isn't even close to being accurate of what's going on. And we're not going to deal with that any of this until we start honestly talking about it and putting the facts out on the table or do you want to see this school district and this town and this state go down the drain? That is your comments and your elected positions

068to do that. And it is my constitutional right under the first amendment of the constitution of the n United States of free political speech and right to redress my government of grievances. You ought to teach that in school. One day maybe maybe you'll see a turnaround but I can see the attitude is not there yet. Thank you. Uh item J, comments from the superintendent. Thank you, President Luna. I do have one comment that uh I would like to share. So, over this last year, we've had an opportunity to meet two amazing young students. They've served on our board as student trustees and they've done so magnificently. And when I look at uh our students, I see the work and the effort not only of them, but all of our educators that goes into molding, shaping,

069and guiding them as future leaders of our district. So on behalf of our board, I would like to present Trustee Falcon with our appreciation for your service to our district and to our board. This is not your official last meeting, but our next meeting is going to be after you graduate. So you may not want to come back. So I gota I gotta get you when you're here. So on behalf of our board, this is for you. [Applause] Thank you to the board and Miss President Luda, the secretary of education for giving me this opportunity to really speak for the students and share our opinions and all the things that the students want to address through me. And it's been really a privilege to have this position. I know it's not easy. It's it hasn't

070been easy to be the voice of over 30,000 students. And I just want to thank you for the support you guys given me and all the opportunities, especially Miss Reggie and Miss Ray. I feel like they've given me that you guys have all given me the platform to feel like free and safe to share my opinions and be the voice for these students and it's really been a privilege and experience that I've never I've had the privilege to have and just the impact that the board of education has made to my colleagues and my classmates in class has been amazing and all the events and you guys showing up to every like every event, them seeing your support has really been a great thing and I'm just really happy to have this position. I know

071it's not easy being you guys. I couldn't imagine what it's like having it for a full term and doing it for more terms. I've been here for like half a term basically and I don't it's too much. Yeah. But it's a lot. But it's a really great opportunity experience that I'm glad to pass on to new students and see how this position will help the district thrive as a whole. Thank you. [Applause] Don't don't leave, Miss Falconee. I just want to say what you spoke about as far as students getting information on how to apply to schools. That's a quick turnaround for you because you're going to where next year, right? and you made it, but you quickly turned around to look behind you and you're pulling students with you. And a lot of people

072don't do that these days. And I just want to congratulate you for having the vision and and putting your vision into action so immediately because people are following your lead. you know, you you say we've allowed you to do this, but look what you just came up with after going through it. So, my hats off to you. Keep doing what you're doing. This won't be the last time you're at a podium speaking into a microphone. Don't be confused. Congratulations. Thank you. Before you sit, we'd like to shake your hand as well. All right. Then you can come back and have your seat. Okay, we want to congratulate you. You sharp tag. You sharp tag, young lady. Don't forget your stuff. We have a public speaker on this. Roy Blacker, please. Congrats to the student board

073member for her service and I don't blame you for ditching it for grad night if you do that. Uh just from the tirade, but this is the lesson I would say just from the little tirade you seen from the board. You know, it took about six or seven years of coming up to this board and finally John and Constants went out and got the signatures because this board and the former superintendent was dead set against having a student board member up there and fought us all the way. I can tell you this from parts of seven decades. And I started out at 13911 Paris Boulevard down the street when I was in grade school coming up to these schoolboard meetings. And you know what? We were like in the top 10% in the state at

074the time. And we thought we were going haywire comparatively to what's going on now. It pales into comparison. But what I want to give you is do not let authority pull the wool over your eyes, try to bully you. The words, the words they write, communication, collaboration on the superintendent's report. Did you see that just displayed here? This is what's been the problem or the concern. And what really pains me is you and things like this that go on here has beat the spirit out of this community. As you can see, what's been happening There was a day probably before if you go look at the archives, if they're still there, if you don't want to eliminate them, where this school board would be packed every meeting. Now, of course, everybody didn't agree just like

075you do on the board here, but we celebrated everyone's right to come up here and voice their opinion. And we had some really good discussions up on the school board back in the day. Sadly, that's gone away and you can see the results. And I hope you take that to UC Berserkley and keep that in mind because your future depends on it. Thank you. Presentations to the board. Item K is next. We have action item and presentation to the potential program transition of Alessandro School. Dr. Arce, please. Good evening. Thank you very much, President Luna, to our board. Um, and today we bring to at the request of the board, we bring uh the presentation um that will illustrate the plan. Um, as you recall, we had a a board study session on receiving input,

076additional input. Um we had already visited actually the SEPA team had visited um the site Alessandro uh obtained input from parents and from staff there and then at the request of the board um we had a board study session where we received additional input where you all engaged and then we brought those uh the results of that in our last board meeting or a couple board meetings ago and then here is the the presentation that will illustrate that plan. And so, um, we believe that this presentation aligns with the vision and mission and portrait of a graduate of our district. We believe that our students, um, will obtain that mission, hopefully get that that vision where we want every student to positively impact the world and have an opportunity in the continuum to to be

077in the least restrictive environment as the based on each individual students needs. Uh this presentation will be aligned specific with all goals but specifically with goal three and four. We want to ensure equitable opportunities for every student and we want to provide a safe welcoming learning environment for every member of the school community. And with that I am going to turn it over to Mr. Jason Ramirez, our executive director of our SULPA. Thank you Jason. Thank you Dr. and uh happy birthday. We're so glad to celebrate your birthday together today. Um good evening, President Luna, members of the board, uh superintendent Dr. Rubakava, cabinet um community and of course my wonderful self administrative team. So uh per the board requests, I will be sharing a comprehensive plan outlining the um Alessandro program transition. So taking

078a look at our uh the students that we project for next year uh we can start we can start the transition with low teacher case loads. So if you look on the right there somewhere between uh six to seven uh students per teacher case load. Uh and when we include the instructional assistance uh we'll have a closer to about a 2:1 uh ratio for studentto staff ratio. Uh the gray area on that chart right there is Mountain View and Vista and we'll be monitoring uh their numbers but they'll be staying there for next year. They will not be included in the transition. All right. So we will consolidate the Allesandro classes into three traditional campuses. Uh two classes from Alessandro will be added to each of the uh campuses. Uh and each of them already

079have an existing social emotional uh classroom on campus. Our Alesandro students will now become uh chaparel cheetahs, uh landmark knights, and mount Marino Valley Vikings. Uh ele as far as the transition goes, elementary uh will transition the beginning of the school year, the first day of school for the 2526 school year. Uh the middle school will transition somewhere around the quarter or semester uh when we have a focused support from the staff and they're not busy with the hustle and bustle of the beginning of the school year. And our high school will transition at this semester. So um the students can adjust without uh the pressure of the entire school year. All right, taking a look. Here's an aerial shot of Chapperel. Uh we'll be utilizing the northeast building there circled in blue. Um all

080of the classes will be uh on in one building and we'll have a deescalation room included in that building and as you can see from the picture it's really close to transportation as well as the front office and uh it's a perfect location to have controlled access um being out there on the corner. Uh zooming in a little bit, our our five classes uh will be uh right there in that building. So here's a floor map. Um the five classrooms as well as a deescalation room, which is room 23 where uh we have somebody um deescalating there. And I'll show you a picture of what a deescalation room looks like in a second. The resource center right there in the middle of all the classrooms. And one of the great things about this particular building

081is that uh all of the classes are accessible to each other from within. So they don't even have to go outside. And really nice large classrooms. I'll show you a picture of that as well. So here's some uh photos taken from the ground. You can see that there's a large uh spacious play area that already has perimeter fencing. Uh we will need to add fencing to the west side of the building to create that single point of ingress and egress. Um and not unfamiliar to the school site as you can see the kinder fencing there on the right um is already in place. So here's a look at the deescalation room. You can see there's flexible furniture already. This is a room we already have established. Uh creates a nice calming space. will have highly

082trained staff and um you know calming music and other strategies will be utilized to support the students. Uh there is large classrooms provide room for movement and uh small group activity as you can see on the right. Uh moving on to Landmark Middle School. Um there's an aerial shot of Landmark. We'll be utilizing the D building which is circled in blue. Uh all classes will also be together in one building. uh close access to busing as you can see there uh picks up right out front on the street as well as close access to the office and controlled access uh to the remainder of the campus. Uh zooming in a little bit uh there's the floor plan of the building. Uh the three classes are highlighted in blue. Uh deescalation room there in red. And

083um it's this is unique because there's close access to the schoolwide wellness room right there on the bottom. Uh again, all uh classrooms are accessible from the interior, so they don't need to go outside. And nice, beautiful, large classrooms. Uh here's a look from the outside. They are were under construction, so I had to get special escort behind the construction fences to go look in there, but I wanted to give you guys a sneak peek. All fencing um we'll have to add some fencing to create that single point of ingress and egress just to limit the movement. Uh here's uh inside the classroom. So familiar to Dr. Ruvo's picture of lots of insulation and piping. But uh you can see large classrooms uh create perfect for creating movement, small group activities and so forth. Uh

084the deescalation room there on the right. You can see all of those doors are access the access to the other three classrooms. Uh it can all be accessed from the interior and uh the deescalation room will have that similar support and structure as the chapperel one that I showed you earlier. All right. Marina Valley High School. So, aerial view of Marina Valley High School. You can see the building in blue. We'll be utilizing that's the D and the E building. All classes again will be nice and close together. Um, close access to busing right there as well as a front office and uh controlled access to the rest of the campus. Here's a floor plan. You'll see the three classes highlighted in blue, the deescalation room there in pink. Um, all classes are accessible from

085that interior breezeway that it's not interior, but there is a a breezeway between those two rooms. And again, a large classroom. So, here's a look from the outside. You'd probably be familiar with that building looking from the lunch area. And the interior breezeway there on the right creates that natural point of ingress and egress without really having to add any fencing or anything. All right. Again some pictures of those beautiful large classrooms which uh provide that room for movement and small group activities. A deescalation room will be one of those rooms. Uh and uh it is easily accessible from that center breezeway and that uh deescalation room will be set up similar to chaparel and landmark. So again our goal is to ensure a successful transition uh of students from Alessandro and we are going

086to do that by focusing on six core areas. Uh as I shared our classes will have that low student teacher ratio and the facilities will be laid out to provide the best opportunity for collaboration support uh deescalation and of course safety. uh staffing. Uh once approved, if this plan is approved, uh HR will offer transitions to classroom staff and we want to make sure that we'll bring all of the amazing staff over with us to support the students. We'll have uh expert behavioral staff to support the transition. And once students arrive, we'll provide appropriate level of administrative support, including the current Alessandro principal will help with the transition. All right. Training and professional development will be provided to all staff on campus. We'll have some specific to the social emotional classes and even um training

087for students who are currently on the campus um to help create that soft landing space for our students transitioning from Alessandro. Um I'm going to share with you a short clip from the crisis prevention institute. Uh we have several certified trainers that are available to train our staff. And this is a world uh renowned program. Hopefully it'll play automatically. Let's see. There we go. Notice that this is up here. There are those four words. Care, welfare, safety, and security. really critical to our understanding of how we go about applying this training model, right? Because we need to do it with the best care, welfare, safety, and security in mind for our clients and for all of us as well. [Music] Knowing the difference between verbal situations, verbally acting out behavior, and physically acting out behavior

088helps us because we know there are different intervention strategies that work better for verbally acting out behavior versus physically acting out behavior. And if we know which ones to use in those right situations, it can help us to prevent and deescalate those crises. [Music] Guys, everyone over here facing the door, you guys will be the ones standing your ground. Anyone facing the window, you'll be the ones walking when I cue you. All right. Again, make sure to keep ma uh maintain eye contact and keep your hands exposed as well. All right, ready and walk. Good. Okay, guys. Why are the lines so crooked now? Why are they not quite as evened out as they were a moment ago? Everyone has a different uh level of comfort for personal space, different range. Good. Everyone has a

089different comfort zone, right? Different level of uh confidence with their personal space. So, size and height might be a factor, gender, culture. There's a number of different things that we'll talk about. All right. I just wanted to share a little snippet. I was a trainer for over a decade, so I get excited when we start uh presenting the training. Oh, nope. We don't want that. All right. Uh targeted supports. Uh targeted supports will provided will be provided by uh specialists in the areas of behavior, mental health, trauma-informed care and as well as social skills. Uh ongoing support will be provided by ensuring that we have professional development, uh coaching, training for our instructional aids. They're a key part of student success. and uh collaboration time built in to really create those uh cohesive teams. Uh

090key to safety will be creating we'll be creating and practicing routines for escalated situations. So make sure the staff understand how to respond when when to respond and that they respond in a team um format. And of course we're going to monitor student progress and review data to make adjustments as needed. All right. As much as possible, we want to include student voice and parent input in the transition. Uh making sure we have time to do that. Uh this will include a customized transition plan and uh gradual integration of the students onto campus. Uh some s some examples are up there. Uh parents will remain um informed through workshop as well as regular communication. All right. Should be familiar to you. Here's a timeline of what uh we've done so far and where we propose

091to go. Uh and if approved, we will move forward with the transition and give an update to the board in December on what we'll call the RISE program, which is uh relationships, intensive intervention, structure, and empowerment or RISE. All right. at this time like to entertain any questions. Um, what provisions have been made for growth in in in our population that are at the three schools? Um, yeah. Okay. I can answer that. Uh, so one of the things that we did, we collaborated with business services. As the board is aware, we are declining enrollment. The schools that were selected were based on also looking at the enrollment numbers and so there is opportunity for growth if our numbers were to be impacted in this program. Have we heard from our parents you know like have

092you presented this to the parents already or this is the first time that it's Yeah, this is the first time presenting the information. I did I did talk share some of the pictures of the facilities so the staff would understand uh what it would look like, what the classrooms look like and where where they'd be going. Okay. So to the staff but not to the parents yet? No. So this is the first time because our direction was to give the board of education the presentation without sh getting we re we received input through the board study session. Um but this is the first time because this is what the board directed us to do. President Lun, if I may. So based on uh the board direction, it would be inappropriate for us to present a

093plan to the community that hasn't been presented to the board and vetted by them first. So this is that that process. Okay. So I would like um I would like to hear from the parents to you know their opinion about you know what is being presented before making any decision. So the parents were made aware that the presentation and the recommendation was going to come to board today. U we have parents here. We al they also had an opportunity to provide input. Um, and we have no speaker cards for them. But again, based on the direction from the board, depending on what the board direction the board gives tonight in terms of action, we can then go forward and present the information to the community, get more input, and then come back. But again, it

094just depends on the board's direction. Right now, we're following what the board asked us to do. Bring a recommendation. That's what's here before you. Didn't we meet with the parents? I thought we had a really great I mean, am I missing something? Do I have it mixed up? I thought we met with the parents, the parents of Alessandro, a great study session and we we had their input and then we That is absolutely correct. So everything that's in the plan is a direct reflection of the input that we received from the study session. So the the the detail of the classroom space, getting all the kids together, making sure that we had we looked at safety, we looked at training, we looked at professional development, uh down to adding potential fencing, looking at ingress and

095egress, proximity of the buses to the classrooms. All of that input is included in the presentation. And for full transparency, oh, I'm sorry. Okay. For full transparency, I I believe this is mandated by the state or not. You know, it's it's very important that we we do we make this move for our students. I know we sometimes uh get comfortable and change is hard, but when we're given directives from the state, you know, and we look into these things and we I think uh we've called you back several times and we've asked for several changes and we've met with the parents and we we value everyone's input. I think it's it's it's time to move forward opinion whether it passes or not but I think you know from my just personal opinion. Mr. RmIrez can

096you speak on um what Vice President Clark shared about the fact that we have to meet that metric and that because we have Alesandro we are not going to be able to meet that metric. Yeah. Correct. So we're referring to the state performance plan indicator 5C on separate schools. Uh every year we have not met that requirement which which which is we have too many kids uh in a separate school. So every year we have to create a plan on how we're going to decrease that and so far we haven't been able to and we have a large number of students at Alessandro which is um counting towards that indicator. I now have a comment. I'm I'm very grateful for what you have done thus far. I mean to try to make it even I

097know that they're used to Alessandro and they're used to we want to make it as comfortable as possible but even the care from going to the bus to the area that they that the students will you know have I I think that's really good. So if you want to speak a little to that. Thank you very much, Miss Clark. And that is something I commend the team. Uh they actually were very careful. They included uh business services. We had our director of M walk each one of the sites to selective to be to be very thoughtful and intentional of the sites where they would be. The principles were very collaborative. um they walked with the team and the intentionality was exactly what you're mentioning is to be able to get our students in a place

098where they are comfortable and then also we we're going to have students that are going to be able to mainstream during the day now and instead of taking a bus and going and coming it's going to be right there at a at a traditional school so they can mainstream and again going back to that least restrictive environment. So I want to commend the team for that. Thank you. Thank you team. Um, one of the things that I remember hearing at the at the parent presentation was that some of the parents wanted the um, classrooms to mimic I know they're a little bit more modern, but mimic some of the um, classrooms already at Aleandro to make it more comfortable for some of the kiddos. Have we thought about that? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, obviously the

099physical um structure of the classroom is going to be different, but all of the supports, services, staff, everything we can possibly take from Alessandro, we're going to pick that right up and put it right back into um the new classroom. I just know, you know, I'm just still concerned because what I heard from the parents is like they want to keep their students at Alandro and I know you guys have been done a great job, you know, preparing for the presentation. and you know you guys haven't had that much time and I appreciate the work that you put on but my my concern are you know the students and and and like I asked in the previous uh you know like um meeting that we had with the parents when um I asked if it

100was um something that it was mandated by Dr. Hernandez and um the answer was no. So my concern is like once something is closed and it's gone, it's gone. It doesn't come back, you know. I just don't feel, you know, I just don't feel um ready to make any decision. At least I'm talking for myself, you know. I I don't feel that I can make a decision right now. say yes, you know, I can. I I I I'm a mom and I'm a mom of four kids that have are part of the special education program. And I know how it feels, you know, when your child doesn't feel part of a program, of a class, and when you as a parent finally um feel safe. Not you as a mother, but your child finds a

101place where that child feels safe, feels that it does fit in. you're the happiest mother or father, you know, and that's my concern. And as a mom, like I said, that's that's what I think about. I know I don't have nothing against, you know, you or anyone. It's just that's my biggest biggest concern. Like I said, as a mother, you know, when I heard my child say, "I'm finally," that's what my baby said to me. I'm finally in a class where kids are like me, that nobody, you know, uh, judges me because, you know, I'm not like them. I'm different. That's my biggest concern, you know, like a kid feeling safe, a kid's um self-esteem, you know, being built because they surrounded, you know, with kids where they feel, you know, that they're not going

102to be, you know, bully or they're not going to feel any in in any way disrespected or not understand it, you know. I don't know if I don't know how to explain myself, you know, but I'm thinking as as a mom, I'm sorry. I cannot help it. Thank you, Miss Leva. And if I can just um I I want to be able to reassure and anything that our board of education needs from us to reassure. I know that in looking at the history of Alessandro, it was opened, you know, 20 20 years ago and um things have changed and we've evolved. And if I use that sentiment that you're expressing where every child that doesn't feel like they belong and if I remove those students and created a separate school for each one of those

103students, we'd have too many separate schools. If the problem is the environment, we have to change the environment. and we're only asking for the opportunity to do that. And we have a new team that wasn't here 20 years ago. And we will be closely monitoring this because we want all of our students to feel safe. It's unfortunate that the decision was made a long time ago that just because a child did not feel safe in this school, in that school, in that school, the solution was to remove them from their environment. That's not fair to the child. And so if it's a if it's a problem that we adults have created, the kids should not pay for it. So we are only asking for the opportunity, we want to hear you and want to hear

104our board, but we would like the opportunity to be able to implement this plan and demonstrate that our students can thrive because we have changed. We have transformed our schools and this team is the heart is there and we will be monitoring this. So, I I do appreciate that and we just want an opportunity to demonstrate that. Okay, I have two questions. Um, the first one is before the students are actually attending their new schools, will they have an opportunity to uh see the space with their families so they know what to expect before they actually are attending? Absolutely. Absolutely. We um will work with the team to create an orientation day so that it could be open to the students. They can and it will be for them and their families. They can meet

105and greet and feel that sense of belonging um even before school begins. So we will put that on the calendar and we will share that with the board. Perfect. And uh the other thing um going back to our mission, we will provide an equitable education for all students to be prepared for college andor a viable career path for a successful life. Do you believe that our kids at Aleandro are going to meet our mission if they stay at Aleandro? Miss Luna, I as a chief academic officer and entrusted by the superintendent and his guidance and received from you, I believe that if this is not something that was going to allow our students the opportunity to do that, then, you know, we wouldn't do it. And I believe that our students, given the environment with

106trusting, loving adults, they're going to thrive. And so this is a way to demonstrate um our mission and vision in action. Thank you. Um I just in uh in sharing personal feelings the way I see Alisandra School is segregation and I don't think it's fair to those students because when they go out into the real world they're not going to be able to segregate themselves. They're gonna they're gonna have to be in in an environment that may or may not be accepting and we need to teach them how to deal with that. Um I too being a mom, you know, and I know we've had this conversation. I want my kids to be okay when I'm not here, when I'm not in this world anymore. And I kind of see this the same way when

107these kids when we're that we're we're no longer responsible for them. I want them to be out there and be able to thrive. And I don't feel like segregating them at Alessandro is in their best interest. And I trust that this very detailed plan that you all have worked so hard on will be successful. And thank you for working so hard on it. I appreciate it. Anything else from my colleagues? I'd like to move to approve the potential a program transition of Alisandra School as presented. Okay. No worries. I do have a motion. Okay. I'll withdraw my motion. I withdraw my motion. Thank you. Oh, Miss Falcom, go ahead. You can go first. Or Mr. Okay. I agree with Miss Lea and saying how this seems like a good plan, a support plan for the

108transition from Alisandra to comprehensive schools, but I have some small concerns um with the nuances that could appear. you guys seem to have uh your guys's whole team seems to have good measurements in place to support students who aren't thriving in the new environment. And I would want to know if we have a clear plan of the vision for measures that will be taken especially cuz from a student's perspective I I know students in comprehensive schools they can be really mean. Even with training and um awareness protocols taken people people are still going to be mean. they are inherently like some people are just closed-minded and I don't know how much training can fix that and with them being in a whole new environment with students that are so maybe different from them from what

109they have been experiencing at Alandro. I'm concerned with the level of sense of belonging they're going to have and I know it's a big concern with the board that how are they going to transition into adulthood if they can't if we're not putting them in these situations in youth but as a student I just think a sense of belonging in their youth and in these vulnerable and very inhabit ages where students are getting information and taking it to their adulthood. I feel like it's important for students to have a sense of belonging in their youth to in order to thrive in their adulthood. And I feel if we throw these students into a whole new environment where they might not be comfortable, it can be important for adulthood. But there's these are still children. And

110I feel if we're just putting them, we're to take them out of their place where they feel comfortable, they feel seen, they feel supported, I don't know how beneficial it would be to their adult adulthood as much as we think it might be. Yeah. And I wouldn't feel comfortable making any motions or comments on them. Thank you. Mr. Williams, did you have something? Yes. Um it's it's very very difficult when you have a special needs student and they can't assimilate into the environment and uh I've experienced that and it took a while for my nephew to get have a breakthrough. through, but it was it was a concerted effort. And that's what I'm torn about because I know some students it's it's they just need a separate environment for a while. And I know at

111the end when they move forward they have to be able to become part of society and in in a very viable way. So that's that's the catch 22 for me in this whole process. What if we don't have a student that can go to one of these three sites? What what's the plan? What are we going to do? How are we going to support the family? That's that's where I'm at. That's a great question. And I think it always goes back to the IEP team. The reason that the IEP team is there is to look at all supports and and scaffolds and strategies that are in place to support those students. And if something's not working, you go back and you work the plan. And if it doesn't work, you go back and you work

112the plan. And if it doesn't work, you go back and you work the plan. but always with the focus on what's in the best interest of our students. It's very very difficult and all of this comes down to the right people working with the right students. That's what it really really comes down to. That's how you have breakthroughs. And if I were a parent and I had a student at Aleandro, I wouldn't want the place to close. I wouldn't because that's been my sanctuary. So, Miss Liv, I I I understand. It's hard for me. My nephew did not interact with people for a year. when we had a family outing, he would sit in the car the whole time. So, I know what that feels like. And I wasn't the parent. It's it's it's I

113think we need to come up with some answers for a plan A, a plan B, and a plan C for our kids and making this transition. Cuz we're going to have to take some extra steps to make sure every kid can transition. That's what we're here for. I've said what I have to say. You know, one of the biggest reasons that I'm here is because I have always said that parents that have kids in the special education program, we have always felt like second class. Um, and I'm not criticizing the self team because they have, you know, worked really hard, especially when Jason came along, we finally were able to do the CAC, something that we fought so much to have that. Um, as a parent, you know, representing many parents that have their kids

114in the special education program, I understand there's troubles. It's not easy. It's not easy not to know, you know, what to expect, how to navigate this the school system, how to know the different laws and and and and um and the rights that you have as a parent, but mainly the rights that your child has. Um once we had the CAC being able to see that we needed a a support group and we had the help from Sela to finally have that support group, you know, for Spanish speaking parents and for English speaking parents and um we all want our kids to thrive. We all want our kids to be independent. That's our main goal. Especially, you know, when you have a a child who is in the special education program, that's you dream of

115it, you pray for it, is something that you really want, but then reality hits and then you understand that your kid learns differently and that you have to teach your kid. And did you know that you have a bright smart kid, but this world is not ready for them? And when you finally find that peace of mind, a place where you feel that your child can drive and be that independent person that you dream of, I cannot imagine how hard, you know, how these parents feel. It is hard for us as parents to accept, you know, that your child learns differently. It's not an easy decision and all I want is the well-being of the students and the safety of them. And many of the students that are in Alessandro are students that already, you

116know, went through different schools. My child, he had already been in three different elementary schools. And talking with the parents, they have, you know, been at different schools already and finally they found a place where their kid, you know, it's safe, fits in with people that knows how to um work with them. Yes. Our main goal should be that every site provides that, but sadly we don't have it. and our many of our students are not are not prepared to interact with our students. It's a difficult decision and I'm not ready to make a decision and take it lightly right now. I know you know Jason and his team has worked so hard Dr. ours to not, you know, beliting their work because I know the great people that they are. But my the biggest

117fear that I have is the stability of these kids emotionally, how impacted they're going to be. I have heard my child say, "I don't want to go to school. I don't want to go to school." And finally now at the school that he's attending, he wants to go to school. He gets up. He he does his homework. He's becoming that independent person that I have been looking for. Are the students from Alisandro? Um, is the plan to bring them with other uh like are they going to say see the same students and staff in the new spaces that they're at? Yes, they are. Okay. So, I just want to clarify because this came up at the study session as well and I know we have some members of the community that maybe do not attend

118the study session. Every classroom the way that it is now at Aleandro is being picked up and moved over to Chaparo Hills to Landmark and to Martin Valley High School with all the systems, the support and the personnel that's there now the exact same thing. So I just want to clarify because I know that was a point of confusion at the study session. The second part which is uh speaking to what uh student trustee Falcom mentioned and clerk leva if if we are admitting that their students and our comprehensive sites don't accept tolerance or or are not tolerant yet we're not willing to lean into that and challenge that then we're failing. We're failing our kids. We're failing as a system. We just had a resolution on tolerance. And so our actions need to match

119the messaging that we put out to our community. Our our schools need to be places of tolerance, places of acceptance, places of welcoming and belonging. And my experience has been that when we've done this at other schools, you would be surprised by how protective students are. of students who are in these types of situations and IEPs, they will stand up to the bullies on behalf of our kiddos because they recognize that they need extra support. I've seen that time and time again. And I don't doubt that that's a that's a dynamic that we're going to encounter at our comprehensive sites that they're by default people are going to come to the service and to the rescue of our kiddos. That's how Best Buddies programs have developed. That's how all of these types of support programs

120have developed because students recognize that I need to be a champion for somebody who needs some support. I think I might have missed it, but did we elaborate on the mandate and why we chose Allesandre as a school to transition to schools. Absolutely. We Allessandro is the only separate school that we have in our district. Um prior to Alisandro, we had um our preschool program called Rainbow Springs and we transitioned that program. It's now Ella, the Early Learning Academy, and students are thriving. They're in inclusion classrooms when they were told they weren't going to thrive. So, we already transitioned our preschool program and this is our last um and only separate school. And in our board study session, out of the surrounding districts in our county, we were the only district that still had a

121separate school. And so, the mandate was to have no separate schools. The mandate is that our separate stu students attending a separate school is higher than the percentage that we are given. There's going to get to a point where our percentage is going to be so small and as long as that school remains separate, we will not be able to to meet the metrics from the state where other districts are meeting it. We are not because in addition to Alessandro, we do have students on non non-public schools for example. So combine Alisandro to the non-public, we are double triple the the state requirement. Um and so every year we have to submit a plan. The only way to meet the plan is by dissolving the only separate school that we have. Thank you. By by

122having the separate school, does that impact our special education budget by being out of compliance with the state is what I'm asking. It doesn't impact the special education. We are contributing district which means that we get an allocation for special education but in addition we have an obligation because our students with disability are all of our students. So we have to um we are a contributing district so it won't negatively impact um I won't know what the impact will be until we actually transition. Okay, we have a public comment on this item. Mr. Roy Blicker to the podium, please. Every human being in the history of the world has different and unique talents and abilities. To say that just because one is in one environment that may work for them is segregation is chopping that

123word right to the bone. I almost can't believe I heard that. Every plan or every education thing should have major options. Not one plan is going to fits all. We're not junking one and then starting with another one unless you can show and we can talk about I just heard there's no deal on the budget. You're going to get the same amount of money. So what's the deal? Maybe you should pass a resolution to the state saying, you know, you have a bunch of stupid regulations that are hurting our students. Somebody suggested that you don't act. This is why we're sitting here talking about this today. Mr. Williams brought it up. Where are you going to prepare for the growth? Because we've had an explosive growth in special needs students even though we've had declining

124and will continue to have declining enrollments. So this this situation is not going to go away. In fact, it's going to get bigger unless we start dealing with the factors that are making it. Why don't we have discussions about why this is going and how to prevent it in the first place? So then maybe you won't hear the heartbreak of parents and grandparents coming up here and dealing with the situations that we have today. the student board member pro brought up and this has been a big problem. You never deal hardly ever with the metrics of the situation and even though this plan is where's the plan going to be boom boom boom where's the improvement by changing this not well we're changing this and we're moving them you're moving the same classroom but you're

125moving it in a different environment that's going to have a lot of different impacts. Those should be addressed put before the board because they're going to have to make a decision on this. That's what staff's job from the superintendent on down is supposed to be. So we So the board has a clear understanding because it's going to be three votes that decides what goes on. Maybe one day we'll start making the right decisions for everyone. Thank you colleagues. This is an action item. Do I have a motion to to um the potential program transition of Alisandro School? So moved as presented. Miss Clark, do I have a second? Mr. Johnson seconds. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. Student board member Falcon. Name. Mr. Williams. Uh name. I. Mr. Johnson. I'm sorry, Mr. Williams. Was

126that a nay? Yes. Thank you, sir. Mr. Johnson, hi. Miss Leila, nay. Miss Clark, I. Miss Luna, I So that was three, three, three and three. Oh, the motion passes. Uh, student trustees vote is ceremony only. Exactly. Okay, motion carries. Um before we proceed uh to lighten the mood, I do want to officially wish Dr. RC a happy birthday. Dr. RC for me. You were really trying to pick take those away from me. I don't believe I got flowers for my birthday. But do do you want to sing, Miss Hako? Okay, let's go. Ready? Three, two, one. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday Dr. R. Happy birthday to you. And and also Miss Clark, happy birthday to you too. [Applause] Next we are on item two budget pres presentation. Miss Lopez.

127Good evening, President Luna, members of the board, superintendent Dr. Rel Cava, cabinet, members of the audience. I'm Susanna Lopez, chief business official, and this evening we're going to go over a brief budget update. Um, this will be focusing on the May revision or the May reise. We've shared um during other budget presentations that as we start to get closer to the new fiscal year, in this case July 1st, um there's a number of uh presentations or information that is released by our governor. And so the May revision, which was initially released on May 7th, was sort of an updated snapshot of what the governor is proposing for the 2526 fiscal year. Um, one of the most things of of just biggest importance and what people always look to is that cost of living, right? What

128is COLA going to be? Um, and so the cost of living for 2526 is a proposed fully funded 2.3%. Um, a couple of things to note about this percentage. Um, in January the percentage was higher. Um, and so it is a number that has been decreasing as the months go by. It really is a formula and and so it it is something that is easier to project once you get closer to that time period. But of things of importance for this cola is the fact that part of the will be funded at the state level with one-time dollars. And so I know that we have had several conversations with the board when we discuss our budget about how you want to use one-time dollars and ongoing commitments is probably not something that would be recommended

129but yet is going to be done at the state level. The second thing is that in this 2526 state budget, they are fully utilizing the rainy day fund. And so that rainy day fund or reserve is projected to be zero at the end of 2526. Again, something that is probably not um something that would be recommended is to use up all of your reserves, right? Um but in order to fully fund this cola that is what needs to take place at the state level. In addition to that there's introduction of new deferrals for 2526. So what are deferrals? Deferrals are simply the state saying even though we owe you this money it will not be paid until a later date which could have impacts to district's cash flows. Um, in this particular case, it looks

130like the deferral being proposed would be about two to three week delay, which is not significant, but uh, those of us that lived through those times of deferrals know that sometimes deferrals, um, that money could be delayed up to months, um, sometimes even longer. And so deferrals are just not something that we like to see. So, what does the May revision mean to the district? um our business department is working through um incorporating all of this updated information um at so that we have a 2526 budget to present to you in June. Um also know that again this is a proposed budget. This is still a May revision and we know that this is just now the beginning of a lot of negotiating and a lot of deliberations taking place at the state level. Right?

131The governor presents his plan, but we've got legislators that probably have ideas of their own. And so, um, now it's up to them. So legislature has until June 15th to adopt a budget bill and then the governor would need to sign that bill um by June 30th. Uh typically we will see a um a budget presented by the deadline because if you recall a couple years ago um legislators will not get paid if there's a a late budget and so now you know we see an on-time budget. However, uh there have been changes later in the year. Also know that because we are working on this budget and it's a very lengthy process, um we will be wrapped up with our budget probably a week or so prior to the public hearing on June 17th.

132And so at that time, if there's any significant changes that are material, we might not have enough time to capture it in that budget that will be presented to you on June 24th because of the time that it takes to incorporate some of these items. And so, as in the past, sometimes we do come back to the board in July um or August with a 45day budget update if needed uh for any material um differences. This is a slide that um we just took from the school services presentation and it has to do with the risk to the economy and to the state budget. Um I think we are all very in tune to all of the different things that we're hearing that come out from not only California but more in u from the

133federal government about potential things that could impact our budget. specifically for California, um the stock market. So, if you're following the stocks, you can see that it's been sort of a roller coaster and there's good days and there's bad days. And when you have a state that is heavily dependent on things like capital gains, that volatility has an impact and could jeopardize state funding. In addition to that, California right now is projected to see the unemployment rate uh continue to increase. I think we are all in tune and and are seeing what is happening with inflation and how it's just costing more to do things. Um in addition to that um California continually continuously being threatened right in regards to loss of federal programs, federal revenues. Um, and so a lot of those things are

134still unknown and it's just very difficult to say that you have a stable budget when there's so much uncertainty. And then there at the bottom of this slide, you can see probably um, what just makes folks that, you know, do things like I do in in the business world about projections is the fact that the revenues since January, again, at the state level, are $4.8 8 billion dollar lower when you're looking at the budget and the two subsequent years. So that's a big dollar amount. And this is why you understand the fact that um the governor is having to tap into that rainy day fund as well as utilizing one-time funds because the revenues aren't there right and so we are um just proceeding and I think one of the overall themes in many of

135the budget discussions whether it's with folks um here locally or at the state level is that th this is a budget of uncertainty, right? There's just a lot of moving factors. Um, just taking a look at Proposition 98 and student attendance over time. Yes, we know that funding has continued to increase, but again, when you take a look at the fact that we're receiving more funds, but just to be able to accomplish and meet the same services with rising expenditures, um, we're not receiving enough. a 2.3% cola is not enough when inflation alone is projected um to be like 5%, right? Um also the fact that we are a declining enrollment district is not something that is unique to Marino Valley or to most of Riverside County as well. When you take a look at

136this graph, you can see that the population and and that's that dotted line. This is the the TK12 ADA. And keep in mind that TK is a new grade level that was just introduced a couple of years ago. Uh we've gone from having six million students in the state of California to about 5.5 million. So as a state we're also declining in enrollment. Um so I just wanted to to point that out. Uh another slide that is coming um right from the school services presentation just talking about property liability and workers compensation. This is something that we've mentioned before. Again, all of these three types of insurance are things that as as a district we need to budget for. Uh when it comes to property and liability, we saw earlier this year all of the

137wildfires, right? And so what does that mean to the insurance companies? So just like homeowners are having to deal with the skyrocketing insurance prices, uh, school districts are not any different. There was actually a number of schools that were directly impacted um by those fires. Um, so that's on the property and liability side. And probably even uh uh just something that has even greater implications uh would be the aftermath or the results of Assembly Bill 218 or AB218 and the fact that that window was extended. Um so based on those two items alone um again this is information that was provided by Keenan which is a JPA that provides insurance services to districts statewide. They're projecting and are forecasting that districts should expect at least a 20% premium increase um because of all the pending

138legislation and the changes in coverages just related to property and liability alone. When you take a look at the workers compensation and and for us again it's it's an additional cost that the district will budget for. The claims continue to increase in severity. uh continuous trauma claims are on the rise again due to medical wage and medical inflation. Uh the cost of prescriptions, all of that factored in, uh they're forecasting again a 5 to 10% premium increase um for workers compensation. So when we present a budget to you and we talk about what happens in the outy years, these are some of the percentages that we need to use to project what those expenses might be because it's pretty unrealistic to say that our expenditures would not be increasing in the out years. And then

139federal education budget. I feel that this is a a slide or a theme that is just changing every day um because there's different programs um being introduced every day about being potentially reduced or eliminated. Um just a a key thing what makes it a little bit difficult fiscal year for California is July to June. The federal budget year begins October 1st. And so we're starting to see some of these proposals, but it's going to take some time um for them to actually be finalized. The second piece is even though California now has a pretty much on on time state budget by July 1st, that trend um does not apply to the federal government or the um budget many times is delayed by possibly months. Um but the last information we had um for president's proposed

1402026 budget would be a u maintaining title one and special education funding intact which would be good. It would be nice to see an increase to special education because we've had a lot of conversations about how that is a program that is underfunded and will continue to be underfunded. Um it it looks like there's going to be some com um consolidation of some of the competitive grants, but right now we are hearing that programs such as adult education, uh title three and migrant education could possibly be significantly reduced if not eliminated. Um, there's also discussions about changing criteria to programs that would directly have an impact on uh programs such as nutrition services, a a program that is heavily reliant on federal funding. And if they were to change the criteria on what the determination

141is of the this provision for some of our schools, that too could have significant impact on our funding, which are all things that we don't want to see. Um but it's very difficult to plan when when you don't know and and right now you don't know. So when we take a look at our 2526 budget and this is the budget that we will be presenting to you in a couple of weeks. We will be presenting a uh preliminary estimated actuals how we think we're going to end the 2425 fiscal year. Uh we do this because we need a number to begin working on our 2526 budget which will become our budget year. And then you're going to see what we've circled there is a brand new year because AB1200 requires districts to present along with

142their budget u multi-year projections. And remember when we issue our certification we have to issue this certification based on those three years. So 2526 budget year and then multi-year projections for 2627 and then for the very first time you will be seeing information for the 2728 fiscal year. Um we are going to continue with our practice of using the 0% colas in the outy years which is something that has helped us as we've come out of um some difficult years right where we had to go through reductions and at the recommendation of the board is we want to plan for that worst case scenario and so we will budget for the cola for 2526 and then go back to the 0% for the outy years and our next steps um as As I mentioned at

143the June 17th board meeting, we will have a public hearing for our estimated actuals as well as our 2526 budget. This will all go in handinand with the LCAP that will also be presented that evening. At the June 24th board meeting, we will be recommending the adoption of the estimated actuals and 2526 budget. And then we should know sometime in late June or early July um about a state budget being adopted. And then if there's any need to make any changes, we would come back to the board either in July or August. Any questions? Um so just just to clarify, there's just too many unknowns at this point. There are a lot of unknowns. Yes. Um I know that during the um governor's presentation um he was gave a number of programs ideas that he

144has looking at most of them were one-time funding uh but the recommendation from school services you don't budget any of that they were only comfortable with the budgeting of cola because so much will probably be used in negotiations with legislators. Okay, thank you. Colleagues, no questions. When will be our next budget presentation to us? I just want the next one. June 17th. Okay. Just making sure. So, June 17th. And that one will be a more lengthy one. We'll we'll go into a lot more detail. I know you were talking about, you know, the different budgets, but the one that I hear that you talk about too was the title three funding for adult education. So, yes. So when you go back to and that is on slide number seven. Uh right now the proposed budget

145that was received by the that was presented by the president um for the federal budget for the 2526 fiscal year which for them would be uh would begin in on October 1st actually has adult ed and title three as programs that will be eliminated at the federal level. Um so again I know that um in cabinet we've had just a lot of discussions about at at this point because things don't align right. Um, so we as a district have already gone through a a March 15th. And so at this point, um, coming up with backup plans of what do you need to do to fund these programs with different revenue streams in case, um, the the federal revenue is not there for adulthood or title three. Thank you. Um, Suzanne, how much federal money goes

146into adult education and title three versus what we put in. I know that the title three budget is a little under a million dollars for the year. I don't have the adult education revenue with me right now, but I can provide that to you u for Friday memo and give you the breakdown of the adult education revenues. Thank you. Anybody else? Thank you, Miss Lopez. All right. Next, we are on item L, consent agenda. Oh, sorry. Roy Bler to the podium, please. You just heard a report. Your coal is only 2.3% and that's just because they're digging into reserves. Yours truly came up here and you got the emails. I got the emails to prove it to a CP come up here and said Gomez and Price down at the county this board the staff

147the recommended a five to 7% increase in pay which is what twothirds of your total budget. Then you hear how expenses are outpacing revenues. That's because the actions that go on at all levels levels of our government and have and that's why you're seeing the train wreck coming. California unemployment rising, gross domestic product going down. The fact that you're not dealing with this and there's not a point plan. You should have been dealing with this two years ago. You were told from this very podium what was going to go down and now you're seeing it and it's going to continue until the day everybody starts honestly dealing with what's going on. Three times 300% more revenue in 10 years going to these schools. It's not a money problem. It's a spending problem. plain and simple.

148It's an economics problem. It's a simple math problem. A simple math problem a third grader could figure out or should be able to higher health care costs going through the roof. Remember when Pelosi said, "Oh, you get to read the bill after we pass it." Remember we said, "Oh, we're going to make all the expense. We're going to put more people in. It's going to cost less. Where's the result?" It's all circled around when you come to it. Are you listening to the ones that told you the truth? Or are you listening or taking the advice or following those that have been lying to you for decades? You're seeing the results. The only reason we weren't dealing with this three years ago was because of the COVID con dollars. And you know they're gone now.

149now because you're trying to live up is going to be three times as worse when it finally comes to fruition. I really hate to see that day, but it's coming and you know it. Thank you. Now on to item L consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve? Okay, Mr. Johnson and do I have a second? A second. Miss Clark. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. Student board member Falcon. Hi. Mr. Williams, hi. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Lever, I. Miss Clark, I. Miss Luna, I. Motion carries. On to item M, discussion,formational items. Uh, number one, superintendent discussionformational items. Thank you, President Luna. So uh this is a first reading of board policy and administrative regulation 1340 access to district records. So various changes here. One is um transitioning some of the regulations from

150the board policy to the AR where it makes more sense since the AR basically outlines how the district is going to carry out the board policy. In addition to that, it updates to clarify that the public may have access to public records unless otherwise exempt from disclosure. Um, including initial proposals of inclus that are exclusive employee representatives of the district. In addition to that, it's updated to include executed contracts for the purchases of goods. Even contracts that contain specific information that may be confidential or proprietary, we still have to make those records accessible to the P request. obviously with some redactions in place. It also includes um the provisions of new uh law AB1785 from 2024 which prohibits a district from publicly posting the home address, telephone number, or both of a address of a

151public official without first obtaining their permission. Thank you. Are there any questions, colleagues? I have one. The only thing that I see is in the board policy. So, we're updating the board policy as well, right? I see the AR has a a lot of great information, but I'm concerned about the update on the board policy simply because it just says the board of education is now changing to the governing board, and I'm confused by that when all our other policies say the board of education. So, can you clarify the difference? Of course. So uh it's not uncommon for the board policy to be b to be brief because it basically outlines the idea behind the policy. The AR is always going to be more detailed because it again it actually the step by step in

152terms of how the district is going to implement that in place in terms of the changes from um governing board to board of trustees. CL do you remember that piece? I think we've always been going with that direction. Right. Yes. Most of our policies are board of education. So this one is changing it to the governing board recognizes the right of the members. Not even the they cross out citizens and they amend it to say members. They cross out board of education to say governing board. I appreciate the in accordance with the law for the copies, but I'm not sure why we're even making that change. I think the only changes in this should be in the in accordance of the law and the company administrative regulation. Sure. So it's it's not uncommon for CSBA

153to recommend to recommend the language governing board, but I'm looking at CSBA at the last policy on CSBI to have a side by side up and the CSBA didn't change it. So we'll look at that and then bring it back for second reading. Of course, this is just the first reading. Any other questions? Okay, thank you. Now we are on to item 2A. First reading of administrative regulation 5125.3 challenging student records. Miss Axe. Good evening President Luna and esteemed members of the board. I'm here to do the initial reading of board sorry AR 5125.3 challenging student records. And essentially this is to update and align with the California School Board Association um verbiage and to add timelines for challenging student records. So essentially we need clear timelines so that there if there is a grade

154challenge it happens within a particular window of time and this is only the first reading. It'll come back next time. Any questions on this? Yes. So currently the timeline or with the new updates the the timeline says within this semester or the next semester or next trimester. Right. Okay. So is that sufficient board? I'm worried about that. I don't think we should um I don't think it should be a huge amount of time, but I'm not necessarily sure if it should be the within the semester. So, let me frame it this way. Let's say they're going to challenge their second semester grades. They have until the fall, right? When they return to say, "Hey, we're back in school." Okay. They would have until the the end of the fall semester. The end of the fall.

155Okay. Correct. for the pre I just want to give them that gap that window of opportunity to make sure it's not too and then they the only thing I didn't see in this board policy that mimic the CSBA was the opportunity for hearings you mentioned it but in the CSBA it's outlined the hearing and hold on it was hearings and one more other thing but I think it was the opportunity I want the parents to know they have opportunity to have a hearing correct so there's always an appeal process and it goes to site level district and then ultimately the board and so we're not outlining it and I think it's important that we do add that language that way the appeal process is very clear who's on the panel because it says a principal

156a C csea person etc. I think we should outline that and not leave it for a room uh room for interpretation we can definitely bring that back with those additions for a second reading and see if the board's comfortable with that. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss H. Next, we are on item 3A, uh, discussion on the recommended boundary adjustments from the attendance boundary committee. Miss Lopez, please. Thank you, President Luna. Um at the last board meeting uh the team presented uh the recommended attendance boundary committee recommendations. Um thank you to the board for approving that um at the last board meeting. However, I know that there was some follow-up questions and so I wanted to make sure that I just drew you to that information. At the last two Friday memos, um,

157information was presented regarding the question was if we could identify what the actual new mileage would be from the new to the new school to the current residences. Um, and so we included that information and as well as the matrix that shows the number of students that were impacted. And so we've added this as a discussion item in case there were any additional questions. I can speak to one of the questions that I received and this is just for the rest of the board. So, one of the one of our trustees asked about um allowing for some grace for some of the families that are in transition and that's absolutely going to happen on a case-byase basis. We will allow families who would like to stay to have their kiddos continue um with their class

158and stay at their uh district residence. But in some cases, we may have parents who say, "Oh, that's a school I wanted to go anyway. So, can I go now instead of having to wait? We would do that as well. Any other questions on that? You good, Miss Lever? No. Okay. Okay. Uh, on to item 4 A, first reading of board policy and administrative regulation 4030, non-discrimination and employment. Board policy 4144 complaints and new administrative regulation 4144 complaints. Dr. Verie, please. Thank you, uh, board president Luna. So, this evening in this item, we are bringing, as you mentioned, two administrative regulations and their corresponding, uh, board policies. Board policy 4030 speaks primarily to the employment process including uh CSBA recommended language regarding just uh vetting practices and how long we can hold on to applications

159and just the whole process being updated. And then the second piece uh is about complaints for that board policy and administrative regulation which is uh new and gets us up to specs with the changes that have happened along with some uh title n language and catching us up with who is responsible for certain elements of the complaint process. And again these are both based on our uh usual CSBA guidelines. Thank you. Any questions colleagues? only when I hear it's based on CSBA guidelines, I think it's mimicking the CSB SBA guidelines. Like we're almost not necessarily word for word, but extremely close. And I see that we leave out a few things. Nothing um major on this one, but I you know, if we say that we're basing it off CSBA, I think we should be

160clear about that. Yeah. But nothing further. for me. Anyone else? Miss Lea, so what is the recommended time frame to keep, you know, the the applications submitted for that one? Miss Leva, I'm going to find it for you. It is a recommendation for an applicant or a terminated employee for four years after the date the employment action was taken place. So, four years. And so, just as a side note, Miss Lever, we're actually most of our our processes are stored on the uh edoin system for applications, but we're also in the process of transferring all of our old records to an electronic file. So, that will help us make sure that we're maintaining in most cases probably longer than four years because we'll have it on a drive. Just to piggy back off what you

161said, Dr. Verde, are there any other HR management systems that we're thinking of to maintain records as well? So beyond just the um transference of all those records, Miss Clark, to an electronic file, we are looking around and kind of I guess you might say we're we're timing it, trying to coincide with what's happening with our return to the county with the Galaxy system with business and some of our neighboring districts in the county have recommended a couple of HR systems that complement Galaxy. And so we're just right now kind of in the stages of talking to other districts and we do have uh some communication with EMTT in particular. They have a system that they're pretty happy with. So we might meet with some of their folks to see. But uh we want to

162make sure that if we do get an HR system, it's going to be very compatible with the county. Thank you. What what system does the county use just off hand? Do you know? Well, Galaxy is primarily uh for business functions, but for HR. Not for HR. I'm not sure about what they use for HR. I know that for example the way we track credentiing and that kind of thing that's going to change a little bit because that's going to fall primarily under their purview. Uh but there'll still be some employment processes that will be strictly under our purview. And so as we've had our meetings with the county, those things have been started to to get delineated. Um and so like I said, we we've had some recommendations from them as to systems that other

163districts have used that work well with them. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you, Dr. Ry. We're on to item N1A, approval of student discipline case number 037-24-25. We already uh had discussion in close session, so I'm looking for a motion to approve. So moved, Miss Clark. And a second, please. I'll second. Mr. Williams, seconds. Miss Clauddio, please call for the vote. Mr. Williams, I. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Lever, I. Miss Clark, I. Miss Luna, I. Motion carries. Item N1B, approval to adopt a K through two reading screener. Um, Miss Axe, please. Thank you. All right. So, this one is um a request for approval to adopt a K2 reading screener. Recent legislation requires that each LEA adopt a state approved reading screening instrument. The purpose is to screen pupils in grades K2 for

164risk of reading difficulties. On or before June 30th, 2025, the governing board or body of an LEA serving pupils in kindergarten or grades one or two must adopt at a public meeting one or more screening instruments from the list adopted by the reading difficulties risk screener selection panel. Education code 530008D. This is part of the Governor Nuomo's dyslexia program. So the K2 screener tool that we are looking at was piloted, discussed, and evaluated by committee and recommended to the elementary subject advisory council for approval. And the elementary subject advisory council requests that the board of education approve the MClass Dibbles screening tool for Marina Valley Unified School District. Um I have a question, right? Um Is this just one instrument? I'm just trying to I'm a visual person. I'm just trying to picture it. Yes,

165it's actually um it's a it's a battery of different um parts to it's a single screener, but there are several different pieces to that. So, part of it is they read aloud, part of it is they are recognizing letters. So, it's all different sorts of pieces to that, but it makes one single screener that then gives um the instructor information on whether or not that student is at risk for reading difficulties in the future. Okay, great. Thank you. Any other questions? Are we looking at one screener or I mean, how many stu students do we need to service? So it's it's one assessment tool that it will be for all of our students in kindergarten, first and second grade. They all have to do it yearly. So do they get screened by recommendation of the

166classroom teacher or No, every student every student must be screened for the new law. And how long does it take for each student? Um, you know, I would have to find out exactly the amount of time that it takes for each student. um because it's going to be they give an average amount of time but it's going to take a different amount of time for each each kiddo because they're you know it depends on how far they get in the assessment and because there's a there's a threshold at which you pause the assessment things like that so it's dependent on each kiddo I have a question are we thinking of implementing this system you know with other students that are in you know higher grade um we actually have a pretty comprehensive assessment set of

167tools for our kiddos in all grade levels. Um, but knowing what I know about our assessment systems, if we have it for our kids in K2, if we had a student that needed to be screened, it shouldn't be a problem to screen them. We clearly want to do what's best for kids. So, it would make sense. Any other questions? How how much time does it take to I guess it varies, right? It varies per student. Do we have support for those teachers um for this program? Cuz I know um one of the things I hear a lot is is them having to take time away to assess their students. And um I'm just wondering if we're offering more support during throughout. We are. That's part of what came out of the recommendation. And so those

168going to be put into place. for example, at Kinder. It's going to be done once a year. That's it. Okay, that's all I have. Anything else? Okay, so uh I'm looking for a motion to approve. Motion. Okay, Miss Lea and second. Mr. Johnson seconds. Miss Claudia, if you could please call for the vote. Stand by. Member Falcon. I. Mr. Williams. Hi. Mr. Johnson. Hi. Miss Lea. Hi. Miss Clark. Hi. Miss Luna. I. Motion carries. And it looks like we have another action item. Approval of the second reading and adoption of board policy and administrative regulation 6112 school day board policy 6142.92 mathematical instruction and board policy and administrative regulation 6146.1 high school graduation requirements. Mrs. Axe. Right. So, as a reminder, the 6112 school day, um, this one was modeled on a CSBA sample, updated

169to more clear and thorough. Um, added language to reflect current California Senate Bill 328, California Education Code 46100, and current CDE guidance, which states middle schools cannot start before 8:00 a.m., and high schools cannot start before 8:30 a.m. Elementary sites shall be shall include at least one or more periods of recess, of at least 30 minutes on regular instructional days, and 15 minutes on early release days. Any questions? Would you like me to outline the others as well? Yes, please. Um, I think the next one was 6142.92 mathematics instruction. Yes. Um, that one is modeled after the CSBA sample updated to reflect common core state standards and new 2024 California mathematics frameworks. The old board policy reflected the old California mathematics frameworks and new language breaks the expectations down by K8 and high school. And

170then the last one is um 6146.1 high school graduation requirements. This added language to reflect the addition of an alternate pathway diploma per AB 181 and the district um does not have an existing AR6146.1. Any questions? All right. Do I have a motion? So move. Okay. Mr. Johnson and a second. I'll second. Miss Lever. Miss Claudia, can you please call for the vote? Mr. Denver, member Falcon. I. Mr. Williams. Hi. Mr. Johnson. Hi. Miss Leva. Hi. Miss Clark. Hi. Miss Luna. I. Motion carries. Uh, next we have item 2A, approval of the authorization of the parent community booster club, Canyon Springs High School Baseball Booster. Miss Lopez. Thank you, President Luna. So, this evening we are recommending approval of the Canyon Springs High School Baseball Booster Club. Uh this is actually a booster club that

171had sub attended the training, submitted their paperwork, but they were awaiting uh that letter from the IRS and usually around tax season it gets a bit delayed. So they have now since received that letter and have met all of the requirements um to be in operation for the 2025 calendar year. Any questions, colleagues? Do I have a motion to approve? Motion move. Miss Lever and second and Mr. Williams seconds and Miss Clott, please call for the vote. Student member Falcon. I Mr. Williams. Hi. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Lever, I Miss Clark, hi. Miss Luna, I. Motion carries. Item B, approval of the second reading and adoption of board policy 1330.1, joint use agreement board policy 3580 and administrative regulation 3580. District Records, Miss Lopez. Yes. Thank you, President Luna. So, the first second reading we

172have this evening for approval is the update to 1330.1, which is the joint use agreement. Um, back in uh April, we the board approved the updated um joint use facilities agreement with the city of Marino Valley. And so, at this time, we took that information to incorporate it and update it. This was a policy that had not been updated. It was since 2010, I believe. Um, yes, last updated in 2010. And so, we've taken that uh to update. Uh, and then the second one would be the board policy and administrative regulation 3580. This is in regards to district records. And there was new language that was presented by CSBA of things that districts need to do in case of cyber security attacks, notifications, processes that need to be followed. And so we have again taken

173that updated language and have incorporated that into um 3580 board policy and administrative regulations. Um we've sent this information to our bargaining units and received no feedback. Thank you. Any questions, colleagues? Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Miss Clark and a second. I I mean second. Mr. Johnson seconds. Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. Student board member Falcon. I. Mr. Williams. I. Mr. Johnson. I. Miss Lea. I. Miss. Clark. I. Miss Loa. I. Motion carries. On to item C, approval of resolution number 2024-25-94, resolution of the board of education of the Marino Valley Unified School District approving the guaranteed maximum price for the Hendrickk Ranch Elementary School, Hidden Springs Elementary School and Senica Elementary School modern modernization projects and amendment number two to group one segment one modernization project lease lease

174back agreements. Miss Lopez, that's a mouthful. I know. It sure was. Um, thank you, President Luna. Um, just want to give you a little bit of history that applies to the next three resolutions. um because originally they all started as resolution 2022-23-99 and at the time that those were presented um it incorporated three different segments and what each segment was is it took a couple of our schools and put them together sort of as a package as we're working to modernize these schools here. And so this evening what we've done is that we are separating the resolutions because they were worked on a little bit differently. So the first two are very similar um 2024-25-94 and again this was part of the group one segment one that was um originally presented under the resolution 2223-99

175and this is specific to Hendrickk Ranch Hidden Springs and Senica elementary schools and this was a lease lease back project that was awarded to NAF and um after that approval initial approval of the lease lease back agreements. The next step of what needs to be completed is that they work together to bring forward this guaranteed maximum price and that is what we are presenting this evening uh for our approval recommended approval with this resolution and uh district staff and Nef have come up with the dollar amounts of $9.9 million for the Hendrickk Ranch guaranteed maximum price. Hidden Springs guaranteed maximum price of 13.4 million and then Senica Elementary guaranteed maximum price of 10.4 million. In addition to that, we are also recommending district contingencies 600,000 for the Hendrickk Ranch Elementary project, 810,000 uh for the

176um Hidden Springs project, and 630,000 for the Senica Elementary project. um that is about 6% and that is well below the modernization standards. I know that is something that have been has been asked in the past. So that is below that percentage. Um and again just as a reminder um you're starting to see a lot of these contracts because with the u passage of me measure X we're able to move forward um now that we have the local bond funding to match those state grants for these school sites. Thank you. Any questions, colleagues? All right. Do I have a motion to approve? Mr. Johnson and a second. I'll second. Mr. Williams, seconds. And Miss Clott, please call for the vote. Student. Bo member Falcon. I. Mr. Williams. Hi. Mr. Johnson. I. Miss Lever. I. Miss.

177Clark. I. Miss Luna. I. Motion carries. And on to item D. Since she already explained it, would it be okay if I made a motion? Sure. I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution 20242596 as presented. You don't want me to say that title? Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay. And Miss CL, please call for the vote. Student Board member Falcon. Hi. Mr. Williams. Hi. Mr. Johnson. Hi. Miss Lea. Hi. Miss Clark. Hi. Miss Luna. Hi. Motion carries. I'm waiting for you. Okay. Would it be possible to um approve with unless the colleagues have any questions on item E? We're looking at item E. Great. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution 202425-97 as presented. Do I have a second? I'll second. Miss Lever. Okay. Miss Claudia, please

178call for the vote. Student member Falcon. Hi. Mr. Williams. I. Mr. Johnson. I. Miss Lea. I. I. Miss Leva. I. Thank you, Miss Clark. I. Miss Luna. I. Motion carries. All right. Now we are on to number 3A. Approval of resolution 24-25-92, elimination of vacant classified positions for the 2425 school year effective May 28, 2025. Dr. Birdie, thank you. Uh, President Luna, this is a periodic item we we bring before the board to eliminate vacant positions that are on the books. as we say uh no employees have been adversely affected by this particular recommended action and we always sit down with CSA to assure them of that that no adverse effects take place. Uh some of these are due to funding or changes in enrollment at sites. Of course it doesn't uh prevent us from

179revisiting should the need arise to have these positions come back in the future but this does allow us to get them out of the budget. questions, colleagues. So, no one is um occupying those positions there. Those are vacant positions. That's correct. These are vacant positions. Nobody's losing their job or anything like that. That's correct. No adverse effects. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve, Mr. Johnson? And do I have a second? I'll second. Miss Clark seconds. And Miss Claudia, please call for the vote. Student member Falcon. I. Mr. Williams. Hi. Mr. Johnson. Hi. Miss Lever. I. Miss. Clerk. Hi. Miss Luna. I. Motion carries. Item 3B. Approval of the second reading and adoption of new administrative regulation 4032 reasonable accommodation. Dr. Birdie. This uh particular administrative regulation, President Luna, we had brought uh for

180a first reading and this deals primarily with the accommodation process and making sure we are following updated ADA guidelines for reasonable accommodations. And so we're bringing it forward this evening for final approvals. Any questions, colleagues? I'd like to approve the second I'd like to make a motion to approve the second reading and adoption of new administrative regulation. the reasonable accommodation as presented. Thank you, Miss Clark. Do I have a second? I'll second. Miss Lea seconds. Miss Clark, please call for the vote. Student board member Falcon. I. Mr. Williams, I. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Lever, hi. Miss Clark, hi. Miss Luna, I. Motion carries. We are now on item O, acknowledgement items. Uh number one, acknowledgement of the certificated and classified management job description updates for elementary school assistant principal, middle school assistant principal, high school

181assistant principal, alternative education assistant principal, elementary school principal, middle school principal, high school principal, alternative education school principal, and K through2 online learning and educational support principal. Director 3, Elementary Education and Supervisor 3, Nutrition Services Field Supervisor, Dr. Verie. Yes, that's all of the positions. Uh, board president Luna. So, uh, it's an acknowledgement item because there are no salaries or major update changes to these job descriptions. But what we have updated in conjunction with getting some feedback from educational services and the principles themselves is getting some responsibilities updated and also uh updating how they communicate with us via cell phone, etc. Just clarifying those items in their current job descriptions to make sure that we're all on the same page. So that's why you see this big group of them all at once, but the

182changes are all in those areas. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions on this? Do I have a motion to approve? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Acknowledgement. I apologize. No motion needed. All right. We are now on item P, future agenda topics. Um, let me go ahead and start with uh, Miss Fakong. For now, what I have is for my teacher, from our government teacher, he also runs the esports program at my school. And since I know esports is becoming a really big um an integrated sport in high schools and middle schools and also elementary schools, he I always hear his grievances about how he doesn't have enough funding to adequately support the students and all the members of his his team. I'm not sure exactly what parts exactly he has. he thinks he needs more funding

183and I think it might be the support and coaching staff within the sport because I know it's just him and another per another person from Valley View volunteering his time to help coach these students and I just think adequate support and um coaching and funding for esports programs would be vital for the success for these students who have are in these programs And it is becoming a big thing especially with like college applications. I know colleges are recognizing the this sport as a real sport and a real time time like time students put their time into this and they're giving out scholarships for this. So it's becoming more serious in the real world especially college and I think we need to as a district take it more seriously as well. Mr. Williams you have any

184future agenda topics? Miss Falconee really led me to uh my agenda topic, which is a district athletic director. It it it's something that would hopefully address the question you have uh districtwide. And so when we solve the problem at your school with a district athletic director, we solve it for all the other schools that have the same thing. and that district athletic director sits at this level. That's what I think we need to to look at to help coordinate. And you just heard from our student, this girl's sharp. They're getting scholarships for for esports. That's amazing. I didn't know that. So, um, I've had an opportunity to look at what Dr. Verde is is is looking at, and I think if we get the right person in there to to look at and survey our

185landscape, market our district, look at our young lady who is by biliterate in French and Spanish. Who would have known? We have so many talents here, but we have to support the teachers. We have to support the coaches. We have to support the programs that support our students. So, that's why I think we really, really need to bring this district athletic director on board. It's a critical position at this point in time with technology. It's it's not about hiring coaches. It's about how our district is is is viewed because most parents move to where there's education for their children, where they feel their children will be educated. And we have some of the brightest and best students in this district. We have a history day group that's going to international competition. That's no joke. But

186we need to keep supporting them. We'll find some more kids to go international. That is why I come here. That's the reason I come here. Support kids. You know, if they want to go to the moon, I'll get them the freaking rockets. To go to the moon. Let's go. Thank you. Sorry, I turned myself off. Um, we are working on a proposal that would do several things. one, organize all of our athletic enrichment, performing arts programs, and ELAW programs under one director. And then so that director would have a title something like director, director of extended day programs, athletics, enrichment, arts, and ELOP, something like that. And there so that would give that director the ability to like you've mentioned before propose um regulations, protocols, procedures, things of that nature. And then under that director

187would be coordinators that would be in charge of each one of those programs. And the reason we're looking at that way is because we want to make it costneutral uh to the general fund. And so all of those positions would be eligible for ELAW funding. So it maintains the integrity of our general fund. So that'll be presented to the board in the coming session. Mr. Johnson, do you have any future agenda topics? I think I have a short one. Uh I think we're doing a wonderful job talking about the different schools. Uh but I I would like to see us talk more about the uh the continuation schools if we don't. And the reason I say that is because uh I mean I picture myself if I'm going to continuation. Yeah, I like it but

188I mean I mean I love it. But if I hear more and more about what we're doing, I begin to love it now. Maybe the kids love it now. I don't know that. But I want to be able to see them when they when they're talking about their school or when they're reading about their school. I want to see that enthusiasm just like we do when we talk about one of the the other uh schools down the street. You know what I mean? Um, I hope I'm making sense by that. But I I just want to see them, those kids that have a continuation, be as proud, and I know they're proud, but be as proud as everyone else uh about their high schools. Uh because they're going to they're going to graduate from that.

189They're going to be a member of that school for the rest of their lives. But I want them to be able to tell their children, "Hey, look, I went there because, you know, maybe I had some little problems here, but I enjoyed it immensely and I learned a lot. I want I want to I want to hear and see that if you don't mind and it don't have to be next next meeting just take you do some research. No point taken. I mean look at today we heard from that fabulous young lady Marge. Yes. Absolutely. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. I I just want to hear more of that because other I mean if I were if I were a student I was going there I'd be like I don't want nobody to know

190what I do. But but I think they they need to want to be able to talk about that because one day they're going to have children and they they need to explain to their their child why I went to that school and not this one. You know that type of thing. I think you understand what I'm talking about. Thank you. you know, to to pick up on your comment, I think alternative ed allows our students to be who they really are in a smaller environment. and my experience working around alternative education. You'll have a kid that's trouble behind credits in comprehensive. They'll go to an alternative and then they're they're the model student. Yeah. Yeah. They're the model student at that alternative and don't want to go back to the comprehensive. Yes. And then there

191are kids that come and get their credits caught up and go back and graduate with their class. So, uh, I'm right behind you on on that experience, but that's been what I've seen and the pride that kids show with regard to where they are educated. Yeah. And we always want to foster that that process. It's so so Dr. Yaba, I I thank you for having those kids to come up and and speak and tell us about their schools, but I want to see more enthusiasm. But I think the the more we we highlight them the better they're going to feel about it. You know what I mean? Miss Lea, any future agenda topics? Um, well, you know, I was thinking, um, I was thinking about the esports. I brought it last time that if we

192could have, you know, the the kids from middle school presenting. Um I just would like uh like I said before you know for other parents and students to see uh the many different opportunities they have not just to play you know a game it involves more than that. Um and also um I was thinking too about the alternative schools. I wanted to see how many of our kids from each, you know, high school end up going to that to the alternative schools. Um, and something I think it was left out or maybe I didn't catch it. Uh, the no rule were at the status of that last board meeting. to talk about you know bringing u more information regarding that so that we can make a decision so that like Mr. Johnson was saying, you

193know, the kids that are attending the alternate school, they can have the same opportunity of, you know, participating in sports, um, you know, regardless of, you know, temporarily having left just like the other high schools, they have the same opportunity. And um one last thing um I know that we offer um CPR training of our um adult location school um and I was thinking if there's any way that we can take advantage so that um any you know personnel can take advantage of taking you know that training and maybe be offered, you know, to to them. So, absolutely. I'll start with the last one. I'll have uh Dr. Ver look at what are the options for CPR training for our staff so we can provide more on the data for the no F rule. We

194provided that data in your Friday memo. So, in your Friday memo, it had all the students that would be impacted or that are impacted impacted. you saw that and the data was actually very very small. Less than a handful of students actually have an F that would be impacted. But what I'll do is I'll add it to we'll add it to the next agenda item as a discussion item just like we did the ABC so we can bring that topic back up as a formal discussion for the board. Okay. So, we'll add it to the 617. That was about it. Miss Clark, any future agenda topics? I'll just say it over and over. I'd like to uh have um driver's ed education brought back to our district. I know it's getting worked on, but I'd

195like to see it on the agenda. You're going to see it as an action item for the contract as soon as we finalize the contract with the company. I know. I just keep bringing it up. Thank you. Nothing for me. I have one item for the board to consider. So, we've talked um about doing um an AI presentation to the board. So, we have a study session on September 23rd and the study session starts at five o'clock right now and it's basically reviewing the data, the dashboard data um from this year once we have the final reports in. We were able to secure the gentleman that's doing the training for the team on that same day. He's actually going to be on site doing training for our administrators and our staff. So we can schedule

196him to be join the board at 3:00. So we would have AI from 3 to 5 and then go into the LCAT into the dashboard presentation from 5 to 7. But we want to make sure that the board is comfortable because that's extending that meeting from a two-hour meeting to a 4-hour meeting. trust me that the two hours are going to be very interactive because he's going to have us actually going through and doing some activities with artificial intelligence so that we get comfortable to it. So it's it's not going to feel like two hours. Cabinet did the presentation and actually went by super quick because we were engaged in activities at the time. So with if the board's comfortable then we would extend the September 23rd meeting from 5 to 7 to 3 to

1977. I'm on board with that. I I agree too. And perfect. Thank you so much. So, we'll move forward with the AI presentation on um 9:23 starting at 3:00. I do want to also respond to um Clerk Leva, you brought this up last time. I talked to the team about this. So, they remember that uh Dr. Dr. Ver, you might remember this, not last year, but the year before that we actually did a an esports workshop for the board and they had um the students actually lead facilitate the esports presentation where the board was able to play and announce and podcast and do all that. We can do that again, but we could focus on actually having the middle school students facilitate that since you wanted to focus on middle school. So if that's something

198you want, we can work on that. Yes, Dr. Roa. Yes. It was work, right? Yes. It's hard work. Yes. So we can definitely do that again. We We're all going to be embarrassed. You need to get over that. Trust me. Of course. Uh and Trusty Johnson. Yes. Okay. Sounds good. So, we will move forward with an esports presentation for the board. We'll make it a study session and it's going to be facilitated by our middle school students. This should be fun. Did you see the big old smile on Miss Ax's face over there when I mentioned that? She's she's so excited. Because she's going to help the team. So, awesome. We'll move forward. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Oh, yeah. I know. All right. Can I add something to this? Yes. future

199talks. I'm sorry. I know like it's the earliest we've ever been, but um I wanted to bring up how other schools have ASB POS. I don't know if it's the place for the district to input, but um I know other schools have ASB positions like for just for spirit coordination and I've seen my ASB director relentlessly like try to get students involved in spirit week activities and like going to games and supporting games. And I feel as though if we have a position in ASB just for spirit coordination and coordinating the spirit events, spirit weeks and bringing students together at these sporting events and various events, rallies as well. I feel like it'll be very beneficial to the students well-being. They want to these schools I've seen, they want to go to school. They're proud

200of where they go. They're proud to not be embarrassed at at their schools and just really embody their school, mascot, their spirit, and their like where they're from. And I feel like if our school had that cuz I've seen my school, even though our ASB as a whole tries to get students involved, I feel as they're not connecting to these students enough, these students don't have incentives to want to participate in these events. And other schools I've seen, they offer like a point system where they get rewarded if they dress up for spirit weeks and they attend different sporting events. And if we give out more incentives, like I know Valley View, they used to give out like merch and mask like merch and spirit wear. If they attended, if they're like the first 50

201people to attend sporting events, I feel like it'll bring the spirit up tremendously. It'll bring it'll want students to come to school. They'll want to get good grades in order to participate in these type of events. And I'll feel like it'll contribute to a bigger idea and hole as well if we invest into a new position like that. If that's something we can do, I will definitely bring that up to Dr. Black who um supports the high schools on that. I think it's a great idea. Um but obviously we want to make sure that we leave it up to that student body because as a student body they're legislators, they have minutes and agendas and topics, but that's definitely an item we can recommend to them. All right. Anybody else? With no further business to

202come before the board of education, the meeting is adjourned at 8:28 p.m. Have a good night, everyone. Is that a record?