001This hasn't been a nice get together. Um, good chance to see everyone for welcome everyone. We'll officially call to order the meeting of the Colon Unified School District Board of Education on what is today July 17th. Um, we won't count how many days are left till the start of school, but there aren't that many days left. So, it's hard to believe summer is moving along so quickly, but we are excited to be able to hold our meeting tonight and welcome you. We've got some great things on the agenda uh to go over today and of course some wonderful presentations. So, we're looking forward to that. We will begin this meeting as we do each meeting. Uh, first of all, let me make an announcement that we do have uh Spanish language interpretive services. Mrs. Bueno
002is I think assisting somebody right now, but if she has a quick minute, she would come up and make our announcement for translation of translation services language. Thank you board president Flores. Good evening. [Music] Thank you, Mr. Bueno. Uh, we'll begin with our pledge of allegiance, and I would like to ask Director Rob Pearson if he'll please lead lead us in the pledge of allegiance for today. Thank you for that. Director Pearson and Miss Medina, if you would please go ahead and call roll uh for those that are in attendance. Mrs. Haro, Mr. Fuentes, present. Mrs. Flores, present. Mr. Flores, present. Great. Thank you for that. The first item of business on the agenda is item 1.3. This is the adoption of our agenda. Uh currently I see that there are no require excuse me
003requested amendments to the agenda. Is that correct Dr. Miranda? Yeah, that's correct. All right. So we won't need to take any action uh then to amend the agenda. We'll go ahead and accept the as presented. That we'll jump right into our special presentations for today. We have a lot on uh the agenda today and some great presentations. We'll begin with item 2.1, which is a check presentation is always a great way to start. Check presentation. Um, and I'm going to call to the podium our assistant superintendent business services, Mr. From to please uh introduce this presentation. Good evening. I would like to uh invite Mr. Jay Kim up to introduce our friends from Iran. They're going to present us with a check back to the district. Good afternoon. In uh 2024 December, we did uh
004LED lighting retrofit at Job Baka Middle School. We uh upgraded over 10,000 lighting fixtures to improve our light quality and to promote sustainability and energy efficiency. And we also partner with the Inland Regional Energy Network for uh processing incentives and rebates. So with this lighting retrofit, we're providing better lighting for our students and saving energy. So, we are saving uh $40,000 a year in our utility costs. I know that's a lot, which is um 25% reduction in our electricity usage. So, with that um we are here to uh receive our first check, incentive check. Um would like to introduce uh Betty Pedo with Iron. Good evening. On behalf of the Iron team, I just wanted to add that it's been a pleasure working with the Colton Joint Unified School District in seeing this project move
005through completion. During this post construction phase, savings have been measured and verified through meter interval data at the three-month mark, allowing us to determine the actual savings and incentive amounts. We're thrilled to present you with this check in the amount of $88,348.99 which represents 40% of the incentive rebate coming back to the school district. At the conclusion of the 12 month uh post construction mark, the remaining incentive dollars uh estimated to be $132,52349 uh are scheduled to be dispersed in early 2026. And we forward to future collaborations with the district. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. We appreciate it. If we could take a a photo here in the well, that'd be great with the board. All right, thank you for that awesome presentation. Next item on our agenda is item 2.2, the introduction of new
006management. So I will call upon our assistant superintendent of human resources. Is Dr. here. You know what? All right. So, we have our directors uh pitching in. So, Dr. Cervantes, Mr. Enson, if you happen to have a check with you, we'll we'll take that too. So, first, Superintendent Dr. Miranda and members of the audience today, tonight we have the pleasure of introducing one of our new management um new persons to our new management position and um it is Selene Workman. So if we can give a round of applause to Selene and have her come up here. Okay, Selene has been with our district for 16 years. She spent five years as an elementary teacher at Bernie Elementary and six years as a TOA at McKlly Elementary. And since then, it says 2021, she's been an
007assistant principal at Grimes Elementary. So, some fun facts about Seline. I had to ask her um a couple things because I wasn't sure, but she said when she uses she still uses Fedco and Alburito as landmarks when she gives directions. So, I had to ask her uh where was Fedco? And um she said Um, the other fun fact is I got a pleas I got the pleasure to meet her family, her her mom and her dad. And uh, she says she's a third generation Colton High School graduate. And Mr. Workman is a second generation Colton High School um, graduate. Um, she won the prize of Right. And Seline, what did you win at the prices, right? I won knives and a big kitchen set, which is fantastic. Um she also shared that she grew up
008uh riding horses and um she grew up riding horses uh with the uh Reggie Canyon riders and during college she played rugby uh while she was at the Cal State University San Bernardino study abroad program in uh Madrid, Spain and that's where she and that's where she learned how to speak Spanish and um and she is super excited to be the new principal of Lincoln Elementary and at this time we want to sh to share a couple words. Uh so, good evening, board president Flores, board members, superintendent Dr. uh Miranda, and members of the audience. Um I am truly honored and um to be entrusted as a principal of Abraham Lincoln Elementary. So, as a third generation Coloulton uh high school grad, um I'm proud to work in the district that helped shape me. Uh,
009I believe leadership is rooted in service and I'm humbled by the chance to support our students, staff, and uh, community. I look forward to leading with heart, purpose, pride, and because at Lincoln uh, we're Lions. So, Lions take care of our pride. So, I'd like to take uh, I'd like to acknowledge a few people here. I have my family, my mom and my dad. I have uh some friends in the district who who you know I have free uh King and then I have Anime Smith and then I have a childhood friend at Tracy Mars who have come to to support me and I really couldn't be here without the support of these amazing people. So thank you at this time. Um you Mr. Workman and Miss Mo please stand up and so we can
010recognize you. So, let's give her a Round of applause for Miss Workman. All right, so moving along, we would like to now call up our brand new assistant principal of Bloomington High School, Dr. Laquenta Martin. So, Dr. Lquenta Martin is new to our district. Um, she is not new to the profession. She is has been a vice principal for over five years. She is the has been the dean of student affairs for over two years. And it seems like a generation of three is also over here. She's a third generation teacher. uh she misses being in the classroom, especially in the CTE business and finance pathway. You're soon going to find out that Colton is a CTE powerhouse. So, welcome. We als she also enjoys fitness and cultural foods. Uh she is a weekend warrior
011who serves in the Air Force National Guard and has prior America volunteer experience. She is a published author and podcaster. She loves tea, coffee, and books. And coffee and tea probably to get you through those weekends. Yeah, I could see. Amazing. Um, and then this was the the the creme de la creme. Her favorite colors happened to be golden blue. So, when we heard that, we said, "Okay, come on board." But I would like to have a round of applause and welcome Dr. Laquenta Martin to our district. give her give her a few minutes to speak. I didn't know about the part where we'll speak. However, um it is just a pleasure not only to be here in the district, but to continue serving students. That is my heart and that is where I lead
012from. Um yesterday I got a chance to meet all of my colleagues in the district and we talked about leading with love and serving with purpose and one of the books that I wrote about is passion and purpose. So I just feel like everything is right in alignment. I'm so glad to be here. Um my my colleague um I love that we're third generations of of not only you being in the district, but um I just feel like those kinds of things when you see them, those are signals. So I'm very grateful to have um the love of my life um Eugene in the audience. He's here. Um and all my friends are online. Um I just moved here like three weeks ago, so um a lot of my family and friends are out of
013the area. So, um, hello virtual family if you're listening. Um, and I'm just grateful and glad to be here. I couldn't feel more at home. So, thank you for the welcome. [Applause] A final round of applause for Dr. Martin. This will end our presentation of new management. Thank you. We appreciate it. And welcome to the new faces to the district and folks who aren't new to the district but new to their role in the district. And we are so excited to have uh both of you join us. And I think it's a strong indication of how great this district is that we have folks from both within and from outside wanting to be part of this family. So Dr. Miranda, we appreciate that. And yes, and for those of you who who don't know, Fedco
014was was Walmart, Target, and Costco before. There was a Walmart, Target, and Costco. It was awesome, by the way. So yeah, that's right. You had to have a membership card. It was a great Yeah. All right. Okay, our next item on the agenda is employee recognition of item 2.3. And again, an opportunity to recognize some amazing people who've been with the district and who are doing amazing things for our children. So, I will go ahead and turn it back over to our directors for that presentation. Thank you. Um, we're here to represent uh or present our um employee of the months for May. Um, unfortunately, they were not able to be here in June, so we want to take make sure we take the opportunity to um present them. Um, first up is our certificated
015um, um, employee of the um, month and that is Dr. Christine Whitmire. And so we would like to invite her up here and let's give her a round of applause. And presenting her is director of PPS Rob Pearson. Good evening, Board President Flores, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Miranda, executive cabinet, uh, district staff, and community. Um, I'll warn you in advance, this might be an emotional one tonight. So, uh, it is an honor to recognize Dr. Christine Whitmer, uh, lead nurse, who was, uh, recently named the May certificated employee of the month. This recognition comes also at a a significant moment. You probably see the glow on her face as Christine also enters retirement after 21 outstanding years of service to the students, families, and staff of Colton Joint Unified School District and an
016integral part of PPS. Uh Christine has been a steady and trusted leader across our school sites, showing unwavering dedication to each and every campus. She made it a priority to ensure that site administrators, school staff, and families always felt supported, informed, and cared for. Her service wasn't confined to just one location. She was everywhere she was needed. Um and always with the same professionalism, kindness, and warmth. She put students health needs first at all times and never compromise students health or safety. Her leadership was especially instrumental during the CO 19 pandemic. Um I think we called on you a million times during that that po moment. Uh at a time when information was constantly changing and uncertainty was high. Christine served as a critical bridge between public health and school site implementation. She kept district
017leadership, school administrators, and staff consistently updated and informed with calm, clarity, and care. Her tireless work ensured we made s sound, safe, and timely decisions to protect the well-being of our students and staff. Beyond her role in the district, uh Christine has also contributed to the field of school nursing through higher education. She has taught and mentored aspiring school nurses, sharing her deep knowledge of public health and modeling the importance of compassion and professionalism. She served as a mentor to our entire nursing team uh our entire nursing team here at uh Colton J Unified School District, shaping the next generation of school health professionals. She is among the most respected in her field both inside and outside of our district uh for her excellence. Christine holds herself to the highest professional standards and she does
018so while always keeping her values rooted in family. Her legacy continues in her children. Her daughter is also a school nurse and our lead nurse now in Colton J Unified School District and her son is proudly serving Colton as an RSP teacher. They also stay in PPS as well because we're the number one department in addition to the employee recognition tonight. We also wanted to uh give her something called a challenge coin. Dr. O um and the student services division presents a challenge coin to select individuals in our division that embody what we call the SSD way. That stands for sincere, supportive, and dedicated. Challenge coins originating from uh ancient Roman tokens of bravery and popularized during World War I have long symbolized honor, identity, and unity, especially within the military. Over time, they have
019evolved into a tradition where members challenge each other to show their coins, reinforcing belonging and pride. Today, they are used beyond the military in organizations and communities to recognize service, celebrate achievements, and foster a shared sense of purpose. Christine's work is being recognized with this coin from our department, the student services department, for exemplifying the values it represents. Lastly, I will close tonight's um celebration of Christine with the following poem. This is a poem written by a school nurse from Massachusetts um for National School Nurse Day. What's up, friend? Belly hurts, aching head, throat is sore, need my med. Lie down, please. Fix my shoe. Use the bathroom. Hurts to chew. Splinter here. Bug bite there. Ice on this. Life's in hair. Need some socks. Change of clothes. Borrow boots. Bloody nose. Forgot my snack.
020Miss my mom. Cough drop, please. Need lip balm. Lost my glove. Lost my tooth. Lost my hat. Lost my youth. I can help. I am here. Door is open. Bend my ear. I will fix it. Lend a hand. Lend my heart. Take a stand. Make a phone call. Uh, give a band-aid. Give a hug when you are afraid. Check your temp. Check your eyes. Check your head. Talk to mom. Email dad. Write it all on my notepad. When it all seems adverse, I'm on your side. I'm your school nurse. Christine has left an extraordinary impact on our district and will be truly missed. She is irreplaceable and she will always have a home here in CJUSD and definitely with PPS. On behalf of all of us, thank you Christine for everything. [Applause] if you have
021folks here to acknowledge that would be nice. Yeah, I can do um I have I'll start at the front. I have my granddaughter who's sitting there with the red shirt. That was the reason I didn't make it in May. She graduated. Then I have She's a good friend of my best friend from kindergarten who's sitting next to her, her grandma, and Nicole, her daughter. So, they're family. Then I have my daughter who I leave with all of you. I have Christine, she's from Washington High School, my son-in-law, Brighton Williams, Jessica Hernandez, one of our other outstanding nurses in the district. And Christina, there she is. the baby. So, they all came to support me tonight and I thank you all very much. [Applause] Another round of applause for Dr. Whitmer [Applause] and for the best
022behaved baby I've ever met. Okay, moving along. Up next, we would like to um recognize Dr. Wendy Moore, our director of language support services. And to recognize her this evening is Dr. Peterson. [Applause] Uh, good evening board president Flores, board members, superintendent Dr. Miranda, members of the audience, and and community online. It is my great honor tonight to recognize Dr. Wendy Moore, our director of language support services as one of our May employees of the month. She was at Fred Steps to Freedom in June and so was not here to receive the award then. So, I've had the privilege of working closely with Dr. over the past few years and I can say without hesitation she is one of the most thoughtful, principled and quietly powerful leaders I've ever worked alongside. Dr. Moore doesn't seek
023the spotlight but her impact has been undeniable. Dr. Moore emphas exemplifies what it means to lead with both care and responsibility. Over the past two years, she's been a pivotal force in supporting our English learners and in strengthening the instructional and compliance systems across our district. As a primary liaison with the Department of Justice, she took on the responsibility of designing and implementing a district-wide plan that not only met legal obligations, but more importantly ensured a high quality, equitable instruction for our students. And for those of you that don't know, uh that ca that lawsuit came maybe a month and a half after she started. So, she was like, "Well, what did I what' you get me into? I didn't sign up for this." Uh but because of her leadership and her work, um our
024our district was able to successfully end the 11 years of oversight. And so what I admire most about her is how she balances high expectations with deep empathy. Whether she's mentoring her team, creating space for feedback, or helping site leaders strengthen their support for English learning learners, Wendy leads with heart. When I asked her team, uh they shared she never loses sight of our purpose and she leads with a sense of responsibility that keeps students at the center of everything we do. Another stated, "She has guided our teachers, support staff, and administrators with grace, humility, and intelligence." Others described her as a strong, supportive, and effective leader who fosters a team culture where people feel safe to share ideas and grow. Dr. Mo has also been instrumental in expanding and refining our dual immersion program.
025and she's in the midst of building a comprehensive multilingual multilingual learner plan to go along with our dual immersion plan that includes voices from students, families, and community leaders, which is exactly the kind of inclusive leadership we want to see in our leaders as a district that will impact our students and our district for years to come. Dr. Moore, thank you for your integrity, your vision, and the care you pour into every aspect of your work. You make us all better. And so, congratulations on this honor. It is welld deserved. [Applause] Okay, I'll be quick. So, thank you for the recognition. Um, those who know me know that I'm a person of little words and that uh public recognition is actually a little painful for me. Um, but I'm going to take this time to
026say thank you to everyone that contributed to the great work that LSS has had the privilege of leading over the last couple of years. Um, and first is to you, Dr. Peterson. So, I just want to say thank you for trusting me. Um, and I say trust because um, she always allows each of us directors to use our professional judgment um, and creativity. She never sees her way as the end- all beall. Um, and that's what helps us as directors be our best selves for each of our departments. Um the systems that were built over the last couple of years required a lot of work. Uh a lot of work. Um and so I just want to say thank you to the amazing teachers in our district for for doing the work. Um thank you
027to our administrators for guiding the work and thank you to my co-directors for supporting the work. Oh, you guys are so silly. You're so silly. Silly. Oh, that's not good. Okay. Um, and then thank you to our LSS team for creating the systems that allowed the work to be done well. Um, our CPS team, Aaron, Christy, Jeremiah, Sheila, and now Laura. They carried a tremendous load, and I'm so grateful to each one of them. Uh, lastly, I'm not sure if you know, but LSS actually has two directors, myself and Joda Murphy. In Ecclesiastes, it says that two people are better than one. Uh, so they can help each other succeed. So, if one person falls, the other one can reach out to help, but someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Um, and Miss
028Murphy has not only been the person that I've reached out to time and time again for help, but she picked me up when I felt overwhelmed and she encouraged me when I felt defeated. Uh, so the certificate that you have should actually read Woda Murphy Moore. Um, so just thank you again for the recognition. Um, I accept it on behalf of my circle and the people that we have the privilege of serving. So, thank you. [Music] [Applause] My family. I do have family. Um, I have my mom there. Mom, say wave. She's a little lady. She's a little powerhouse. Um, and I'm I'm her baby. I'm the youngest of seven. I'm her favorite. She finally got it right at the last one. And that's my um amazing son, Bryant. and all the people. Thank you.
029One last hearty round of applause for Dr. Moore. And that concludes our presentations for tonight. You appreciate that. And thank you to the cheering section. Usually when folks hold signs in public meetings, they're not nearly as friendly. So this we'll take this. This was awesome. We'll take it. We like this. Uh and again, congratulations um to Dr. Whitmire and Dr. Moore for all the hard work, the commitment, the dedication, the lives that you've touched um so many students and so many families. So all right, what we'll do is we'll just uh well, we've got public comment. We'll jump into that next. And I do have a couple of public comment speaker slips with us. I know that there's family here. So I'm just going to pause for about 30 seconds, Dr. Miranda, just to allow
030folks to work their way out that we're here for the special presentation. So we'll just take a 30 second pause. Awesome. Thank you for that. All right, folks are going off to celebrate, so that's awesome. Okay. Um, public comment. This takes us to public comment. our public comment board bylaws posted on the monitors. Just a reminder to speakers that are um going to speak at public comment, you're welcome to please address the board with any items or issues that you wish to discuss or share with us that are with under uh that are either on the agenda or not on the agenda but within the purview of the Colton Jo Unified School District. Uh just a reminder, there is a threeminut per person limit. And so I would just uh believe we have the time
031posted and there'll be a little buzzer to remind you when your time is up. So our first speaker today is Mr. Mr. Ben Pratt, uh, who is with IBW Local 477. Got it. All right. Come on up. Good evening, Dr. Miranda, President Flores, members of the board. Um, as President Flores said, my name is Ben Pratt. I'm the vice president of IBW Local 477. We are the electricians union that services Sanino, Ino, and Mono County. Um, I'm here tonight with good news. We've had a work in progress. Um, back in I want to say December, we uh first started having talks with the district about implementing our uh uh pre-apprenticeship electrician program with their CTE department. So, um I've already had meetings with Dr. Miranda about this and with the CTE department, including Mr. Lucero.
032Um our training staff informed me yesterday that we have been able to uh wrangle up all the funding. um to complete ourou and begin teaching class u in February, second semester, which is our our typical um our typical start time. Typically, we have uh up to 25 students. Um we depend heavily on on counseling staff to kind of vet these kids and and pick the best fits. um what they get if they um complete our program is they get a direct interview with our apprenticeship committee which circumvents about a year-long process that it normally takes. Um the reason why we believe this is so valuable is because it kind of bridges the gap between graduation and employment, you know, where where we lose so many of our our talented young folks. So, um this program
033is about results. We're already seeing them. We have this program up in some other districts in the region and we're already graduating students and having them uh be accepted into our ranks and uh start learning that or earning that uh living wage middle class income. And so we're really proud of the program and uh we already know that uh Colton Joint Unifi is just going to be a great partner with us going forward. And I always like coming here because everyone is always in a super good mood. So uh thank you guys for having us and we're looking forward to uh uh to getting the ball rolling here. Thanks so much. I appreciate it. Awesome. Thank you, Ben. Appreciate the update. All right. Our next speaker for this uh afternoon is Miss Sochil Pedrosa. Good
034evening members of the board. Uh my name is Soi Pedrasa. I am a grandmother of student at Simmerman um elementary and I would like to know if the board has any updates on the Simmerman uh elementary either construction uh remodeling or relocation um for the um school is soon to be started and the construction might be renewed around the area and I just want to know what is the district measures to protect student our students from dust noise and traffic. Um last year the houses were destroyed and the only barrier that our students had from the playground was just the chain link. For a couple days or weeks there were a lot of demolition going on. So um they were exposed to a lot of noise and contamination um machinery noise. Um parents we had
035a nightmare for traffic in the morning. we were allowed to have 15 minutes before the regular starting time so we can go and you know drop our kids before um our times to go to work. Um but that was not enough. It was still a nightmare. Uh at the moment everything around is I know that is not your um you know the public works is not in your um domain but um again it's uh still everything is closed off. we have to go around everywhere um to get to our houses or um the school for again it's not that long um before the school starts and we want to know I want to know how what the district is doing to advocate um uh for our students either is there any you know the warehouses
036are they still going to be built next to end or we're going to have the same scenario in the beginning of the year any you know word of the relocation anything. Thank you, Miss Padra. And what I will do is um we have your contact uh your card, but we don't have your contact number. If you wouldn't mind, I will I'll give this to Miss uh Medina. If you wouldn't mind putting a contact number down, we can follow up with you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jocelyn Torres. Hello good members of the board. I would like to bring up um I would like to add on to the com the previous comment about the construction near our schools like Bloomington High School, my school or the school I currently attend and Bloomington High I
037mean sorry and Walter Zimmerman Elementary, the schools my sister currently attends at. There's a lot of construction and plans for to build warehouses and factories that um we weren't made fully aware of until later. And because of this um the warehouses or the plan for the warehouses have caused a demolition of houses around our schools causing more traffic and um a lot of noise in our areas, a lot of pollution and I would like to add on a lot to the pollution part because due to um the demolition of these houses, there was a time where in our schools, my school, we got a notification saying that parents were allowed to not allow not let their students attend school because of how bad the air quality was. And this raises more questions and more worry
038for me because I would like to have more time to focus on my education. But if this continues, there's going to be times where I'm going to be missing my education and I won't be able to make it up later, even with Saturday schools or after school. Thank you, Joselyn. We appreciate that. We have your contact number as well, so we're going to make sure that folks reach out to you. Okay. All right. Our next speaker is is it Tama? I apologize. Tamia Gonzalez. Tanya Tan Tanya. Tanya. Yeah. Apologize. Um but yeah, my name is Tanya. I'm a community organizer with the People's Collective for Environmental Justice. Um I'm here supporting the Bloomington residents who currently spoke up um and those who couldn't make it to this meeting because of one reason or another. But
039um I'm here to ask you this a similar thing that Josen just did is protect the students of Bloomington. um like what are you doing to protect the students, right? Um you just heard from them. There is a lot of air pollution, a lot of contamination that came from the demolition of these homes, but it's not going to end there because the warehouses are going to bring even more contamination with the big great trucks. Um so I know I know this board doesn't take votes or makes decisions on what projects come in or not in Bloomington, but you do have the responsibility to protect these students as well. Um, so we're asking for transparency and communication between us, the residents, and yourselves to see how we can work together to to protect them, to protect
040the students, the teachers, and the community in general. Um, you know, in Bloomington because sadly last time it was on the table, you you didn't really do much to protect Zimmerman. Um, but you still have a chance. It's not built yet. Um, Zimmerman is still there. So, you still have a to do something for them and to do something for this community. So, we would really appreciate if you can communicate with us. I know uh one of my colleagues tried reaching out to you all to set up a meeting or something. I think she only received answers from Dan Flores, so thank you. But um yeah, we would really really appreciate you communicating with us and see how we can work together. Wonderful. Well, happy to do that. If you could include a phone number,
041an email, something so we can actually contact you, that'd be great. And our final speaker slip for today is Miss Jim Montes. Hello. Oh, wow. I have to get I have had to kiss the mic practically over here. So, um good evening um members of the board. U my name is Jim Montes. I'm also with the People's Collective of Environmental Justice and I'm a Colton resident here. So, I do work with Colton, Bloomington, and San Bernardino residents. Uh, a big part of my job is doing air quality. But prior to getting hired, I did a study called the Air I Breathe where we put um air monitors on students for a week and we were able to see how much PM they were exposed to. And it would be really be great if we could
042work together and you could see some of the results. We did have monitors on students during the wildfires and those results were pretty incredible. So um again we are just extending at Olive Branch. We want to work with you and um see how we can work together to maybe get more air monitoring going on or maybe some kind of education for the students so they can learn how and and their families so they can learn how to better protect themselves. So thank you very much for this opportunity to speak. Thank you, Jen. We appreciate it and we we will reach out. We have your contact information. All right. Those are all the those are all the speaker slips that I have for this evening's meeting. Uh Miss Medina, any other slips? Okay. All right. We
043will go ahead and close public comment and that'll take us to our administrative presentations for this evening. So, I will turn it over to Mr. From uh to give us a presentation on measure BB project prioritization. Yes. Good evening. So, it was about a year ago we were standing up here to ask permission to go out for the our next bond measure BB and we did and it passed at the highest rate in the area and almost the highest rate in the state. Tonight, we're moving forward. We're going to have two quick presentations, not quick, but two presentations. Uh, first from Mike Williams who is not only a Colton alumni, owns a home in the area, but he also represents us as our financial analyst too as well with this financial adviser, excuse me. So,
044he's going to talk about the first series that we're going to be looking to go out for so we can start putting work out there, start redoing our facilities because as we've talked here before, our need is huge and we have a lot of work to be done. and then we're gonna pivot and Owen Chang and his team are going to talk about our recommendations for our projects and how we came to those recommendations. So, first I would like to welcome Mike Williams up to the mic. Uh good evening board president Dan Flores and uh board membersh Dr. Miranda, executive staff, and people in the audience here. My name is Mike Williams. I'm the financial adviser for the uh district and first of all I want to say congratulations on a great effort on the
045election very successful and uh so here we are with everything in place uh to do uh the first series of bonds. Okay. And uh just to show you the you know the uh parameters that that we have to u you know the hoops we have to jump through uh you know we had the geo bond election and so uh that uh it was approved by the voters uh education code limits the amount of outstanding general obligation bonds the district can have. That's a percentage of the district's assessed valuation and that works out to be $433 million. We still have some election of 2001 bonds outstanding about 40 million. Uh we have 163 million uh of bonds outstanding for election of 2008. So, you have a potential bonding capacity under the education code of $230 million.
046Uh, with the uh election of 2008, uh, the voters approved issuing $225 million worth of bonds. Of that amount, we have $44 million left. And that uh that election uh had a limitation per $100,000 of assist valuation. Uh the election that was just passed last year uh also had a $225 million authorization and uh there was a strategy to you know maybe uh help with the uh the vote on that about limiting the the levy to $40 per 100,000 and and that worked out uh very well. Next slide, please. So this is just a just a listing of the bonds that are uh outstanding for the election of 2001. We have no further authorization on that. The election of 2008, we can issue another $44.2 million. So there was actually uh six series of bonds.
047One of them was done February of last year. Okay. And so this uh slide shows what we're projecting for debt service debt service capacity at $40,000 per 100,000. Uh so we take the assessed valuation county uh makes us take a haircut of about 8% for delinquency factors uh for property tax payments and so uh for the current year that would allow about $6.4 million for debt service. So when you just go down the list, it uh it increases at about 4.9% each year. And you can see with the uh the chart on the uh right that we have a limitation in the early years of how much debt service we can pay. Um given what the current interest rates are for municipal bonds, uh we're fairly confident that u we could issue as much as
048$150 million on the first series of bonds. Um the uh the only limitation would be that uh the district's going to have to make a certification that they think they can spend uh that money uh either in three years or there can be stretch out of five years. The reason for that is uh when you issue municipal bonds uh you're paying a lower interest rate than if you were going out in the market and selling like a corporate bond. And what what happened uh like in the 1980s when interest rates were really high, governmental agencies were issuing municipal bonds and not doing anything with the money except investing it and earning arbitrage. So now there has to be limitations uh to that. Uh so I'm sure Owen and Randy will be talking about you know
049their capacity to handle uh the projects and uh spend that money. I know you have more more projects than $150 million but but there is this spend down requirement. Okay. As u as Greg mentioned I do own property in the in the district here and this is basically a snapshot uh of what my property tax bill looks like for the 24 25 tax year. Uh I bought the property a long time ago, so you can see it's got a low net valuation of $320,000. And down below it talks about, you know, what the general levy is and that uh all the taxing entities uh within, you know, my neighborhood, but the the city in general. at 1% it gets split up between the county, city of Colton, the water district, the school district and so
050forth. And on there you can see that um for the Colton unified uh bond issues that's for 2001 and 2008. Uh that'sund $190 is on my tax bill and uh of the 2008 election it's about $143. So, uh, for the the maximum tax on the measure BB would be $40. So, if you just take, you know, the $320,000 uh value of my property and divide that by $100,000, basically you take $40 times 3.2 and it works out to be about $130 a year at that maximum rate. Okay. So, that's that's a quick overview. you guys are in great shape. You can uh issue bonds and uh I think Owen and Randy have a presentation about project list unless there's any questions. I I don't know if folks have questions, but I'll just toss one out
051there. Obviously, uh we're hearing a lot about uh there's a lot of talk about um certainly the economy, um interest rates, what's going to happen there. Do you think any of that ultimately impacts our ability to issue bonds, you know, going forward? Um, you know, this I know it's like reading a, you know, a magic eightball here. It's, but we won't hold you to it, but what are you seeing over the next six to 12 months? Um, which is when we're really hoping to be able to roll out some of the bonds and projects that we may have on your first issue. Uh, normally, you know, uh, in prior years when interest rates weren't as high. Uh there was kind of a a staging where you'd maybe do three bond issues, you do your first
052series, wait three or four years, do your next series, and you know, do a final series. But there are compelling reasons why you should strongly consider issuing as much as you can in the first in this first series. And that is because of the increases uh in all the costs of construction, materials, labor, and everything else. So the sooner you get the money and you can get the projects completed, uh the cheaper probably in the long run it's going to be. Uh but your question was was really good uh Dan because uh what happens when you issue like as much as you can you put your tiptoes right up to that $40 per hundred. Uh especially if interest rates stay high. They're pretty much on the high side now. Uh I don't like to be
053a grave dancer but really for interest rates best thing that could happen would be for the economy to go in recession because people want to buy stocks. They would rather buy municipal bonds and be assured of what their investment returns are going to be. But um as you mentioned, I you know, I can't read the tea leaves. All I can tell you is we'll we'll do our very best to get as much money as we can for the district at the lowest cost. Appreciate that. Um and in fact, Dr. Miranda made another good point. Not only is there just sort of the natural escalation costs and materials, but tariffs and we're seeing that that will have a potential impact on um sourcing of materials. So, I know Owen will probably talk about those escalators and
054what we need to keep in mind because um we're just seeing an increase in the cost of construction uh at a level that really we haven't seen before. So, and it and it's so volatile with the tariffs. Yeah. Okay, good to know. Any other questions from board members? Mike, as always, thank you so much. We really appreciate your input. Good evening board, superintendent Miranda, executive cabinet, members of the public. Name is Owen Chang, facility director, Colton Joy School District. I'm both uh honored and excited tonight to have the opportunity to present to the board update on our measure BB priorization process. Next slide, please. So, over the past several months, um myself primarily and with the assistant of Randy Duncan with Elman Consulting, we've been working diligently in collecting and analyzing data with the goal
055of identifying a list of high priority projects to recommend to the board for consideration. As board is keenly aware, our needs greatly outweigh our available resources. our newest school already 13 year old with Joe Bach and Grand Cherish High School with existing uh infrastructure of such um advanced age as some of our schools over you know 70 80 years old our facility needs are significant hence it's important to develop a weighted scoring system that would serve to calculate and derive the highest priority project to invest our bond dollars as the board may recall during our May uh first board meeting um staff presented to the board our prioritization process So tonight's presentation is a continuation of pre previous presentation where staff will provide more details on the process that we've de developed. We'll start by
056um recapping some of the previous prioritization process scoring categories available points and uh followed by the uh project scores and the um we'll share with board uh each campus and all the list of projects identified as well as the one that recommended and then uh followed by a recap and by uh providing a summary of the recommended projects. Um there total 47 projects that we recommend for the next three years and then we're going to discuss the uh next steps. Next slide please. Again just a quick recap. Uh November 24 2024 was a really historic uh election with a passage of not just many local bonds. I believe the statistic were about 200 schools out of 260 schools that passed local bond. In addition to that, we have proposition two at the state level that
057pass uh had allocated $8.5 billion towards uh assisting the funding of the address the school facility needs place. So the successful um the measure bond election will really transform give the opportunity to transform our schools the community and positively impact the educational experience of our students. Again I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved particularly the community for their ongoing support and trusting us to continue to make impactful improvements to the learning environment for our students. Next slide please. Right. Um this is just again recap um Michael Williams uh his analysis. We are looking at the um possibility of issuing up to $150 million of bonds with our our uh initial issuance. Um as I mentioned earlier as board is also aware you know with significant amount of needs. I think that last
058present presentation we had about outstanding 1.2 2 billion of of our facility needs and you add the escalator from 2017 and 50 a little under 52% our identified needs are at $1.8 billion. Um so also just kind of point for point of reference about um just the strategy and trying to maximize our our our issuance just point of reference we're uh based you know with my conversation with some of the uh trade groups we're still looking at um you know about five or six% annual escalation with the $20 million project. If we're able to get project move up a year sooner, that's a million dollars of difference. And if you add that, it's becomes cumulative. So really from a financial standpoint, the sooner we can get it out the gate and get it constructed, the
059more purchasing power we would have. Again, I don't mean to interrupt, but I just for clarity sake, uh, the 150 million that could be transacted in series 1, that's BB, that's separate from the roughly $40 million that we still have in measure G. Correct? Yes, that is correct. All right, next slide, please. Again, so the next slides is just to recap some of the previous um presentation talks about prioritization, scoring category, and point system. uh that was previous previously presented. Next slide. Again, priorization. I know something that's that's important to the board is is making sure to to um get uh stakeholder engagement. I know some of the board members actually took walks and and looking at the status of our uh needs of our some of our aging facilities. Um as mentioned before, we
060staff conducted Google survey. We solicited input from classified certificated staff. We even solicit uh input from students and as well as the parents. Uh we also uh survey principles to identify uh their parties. Um and the other consideration or or factor that we took in consideration is looking at the long range facility master see if there's any alignments with what the projects are identified five years ago against the needs that we have identified today. And another important uh variable we looked at is looking at the expenditure from measure G. For example, some of the projects are are sites that receive a significant amount of funding in their scoring matrix. We gave less scores because we want again we want to make sure the equity in terms of the allocation of B bond fund expenditures. Next
061slide. Again, this is consolidation of some of the slides that presented some data showing uh some of the survey results. We have 561 uh responses from staff, over 1,700 from students, and 134 from the uh parents. At the bottom left are just a consolidation of the top 10 items that were identified from the surveys. Uh shade, shelter, restrooms, classroom, playground, security. So those are the frequency then the top 10 items. again right just a bar chart showing the participation at at all the schools and and the students uh participation in the facility survey next slide please again this is just a a snapshot as I mentioned earlier we also solicited uh responses and and inputs from the principal which we took that into consideration as well so this is just a snapshot of some of
062the uh response we received from the some of the principles administrators Next slide. As I mentioned earlier, the measure G funds, one of the things we analyzed, this is kind of a snapshot in time. Uh the right column showing the bond a measure G bond expenditure that were allocated. some of the campuses and for example Bloomington High School, Pton High School, those receive substantial amount receive less scoring where some of the sites like uh Pulley Ranch and and uh DRC and so forth they re will receive more in our analysis which we'll explain in a later presentation. All right, next slide please. And then again just the MA uh 2017 uh long range facility master plan again I mentioned earlier escalation uh factoring escalation from other outstanding projects. We have about $1.8 billion dollars of
063needs and growing. Next, please. All right. Um next we slide again are just recap of the 10 prioritization categories that were presented in May first board presentation. So um later on the presentation we'll have slide for each of the 10 categories along with the weighted scoring which Randy will present to the board and go into a little more more detail. um trying to consolidate some of these slides and against these are top one of the the four of the 10 the security and safety uh stakeholder engagement uh parody and equity by the elementary secondary school and we also have the par uh equity uh between the various trustee areas. Next slide. The other important factor we we look into is maximizing uh state funding. Again, you know, we want to um leverage our our local
064resources and try to take advantage of the Prop 2 uh fund and and and stretch our dollar. We also look at um uh the goal is to try to replace a lease. So, we have less reliance on both lease portable as well as the the old aging portables. Also look at capacity. some of the uh particularly with the dual immersion program with additional grade levels that rolling out there's a immediate need to uh provide um or start planning for some of the needs at those campuses. Um also aging uh schools and uh looking at the age of the the the campuses obviously with the older schools will yield higher uh scores. Next slide please. And again I mentioned earlier about the measure G looking at the allocation as well as long range of facility master
065plan. So um at this time I'd like to turn over the presentation to my um partner in crime Mr. Randy Duncan. He he'll uh go into a little more detail on some of the in the scoring uh explanation on the matrix for our priorization uh effort. Thanks Owen. Uh next slide. So here yeah more details on each of the categories and the and the weighted points uh that were that each of the the campuses and each of the projects could could avail themselves of based on the circumstances at each of the school sites. So if the projects were addressing a safety and security issue, a significant one like a public address system, fire alarm, CO2 sensors, security surveillance cameras, perimeter fences, improved sight lighting, or even actually we didn't put it on here, but we
066could have playground equipment. uh very old play unsafe playground equipment would would actually uh uh avail that that particular project would get 45 points if we needed to replace playground equipment at a particular school. So if it's a severe uh safety and security issue that we want to address, they get 45 points the project would if it isn't it that significant but it is there is a safety concern 30 points then 15 points and zero points. The next next slide. Uh stakeholder engagement. So, as Owen said, if if principles weighed in and identified the project, projects were also identified potentially as a result of the site tours, they if it if it was concurrently uh identified in the Google surveys or archival stakeholder engagements from this preparation of the 2017 long range facilities master plan,
067then those projects got 25 points. And if they aren't on any of those lists, it gets zero. Next slide. Uh again, establishing and wanting to achieve uh equity through from elementary schools, uh middle schools and high schools so that there's there's comparable uh teaching environments and facilities at each of those schools. Um there are points of uh four projects that are awarded 30 points, 15 or zero. If we identified that there was a a significant disparity between an elementary school and and maybe the average of all other elementary schools, if there if there's significant deficiency in parking at a particular elementary school, they get 30 points. Um, and interestingly that throughout the the district, there are some uh schools that have uh significantly more uh parking spaces than they need and others that that that
068um are they fall well short of of the needs just to have staff park there. uh as well uh gymnasiums, multi-purpose rooms, uh CTE facilities, and just the new standard classroom or new specialty classrooms andor admin offices. Uh so points are are awarded uh based on that criteria. Next slide. Number four is par and equity uh between the cities. So if there's for example programmatically let's take look for example at the culinary arts at Colton High School if there isn't a comparable facility at the other high schools then if those projects if they are identified those are going to get 30 points for equity of between the cities. Um, additionally, if if the projects are uh well, just otherwise programmatically, if we see a a deficiency, it could even be I I want to say
069u numbers of shade shelters u or or the the capacity of shade shelters at a particular school site that we we absolutely need to address. um it it may get some parody and equity points um for this uh in in this category as well. Uh next slide. Um maximizing the state match funds. As you're aware, modernization projects are eligible for 60% match. And the one way to counter tariffs and an escalation is to to do projects that are eligible for 60% match because then your bond dollars you're only needing to put forth 40% of the the funding to to make that project to go. Um these points are 45 30 and zero. So if if the project would would you would be um eligible for a 60% match, you get 45 points. If it's based
070on each school site's eligibility that those funds may be limited. So if there's if you can only if the project can only receive between 40 and 60% it gets 30 points and between 20 and 40% gets 15 points. And if there is no or under 20% of state match, you get zero points. Next slide. If again new classrooms have been identified and we brought it forward in May that you have a significant number of portables, 480 106 of which are leased and we're we're planning to move move out uh and and aggressively address those leased portables. Uh but if if uh the project is a new classroom, a replacement of a leased or old owned portable gets 35 points. If it isn't, it gets zero points. Next slide. Uh in terms of capacity, the the
071category seven is the the dual immersion program, for example, is a is a growth uh program. And uh so there's there's two fifth grade classrooms that are needed in 2026 and two sixth grade classes needed in 27 2027 2028 and uh similarly at at the other school and so those get 50 points. We needed those to rise to the top in terms of points uh for growth programs. Next slide. And then you you saw this slide before. We we evaluated each of the schools by their age. And we actually did analysis of of the um percentage of portables at each of those schools. And and that's actually found on a different slide. But but just by the the actual age of the school, if it's between 70 and well over 70 years, it get 45
072points. between 50 and 69 years old, it gets 30 points. Uh the projects get 30 points. If it's between um uh 24 and and 49, it gets 15 points. If it's newer than 24 years old, it gets zero points th those particular projects. Next slide. As as Owen pointed out, if we have spent over $2 million on that campus and or are planning and and are currently bidding or going to encumber over $2 million, then those school sites would get zero points. The other school sites that have not had $2 million of measure G dollars spent, they they get 25 points. And then the last category, and then we'll get on to the actual scores. Next slide. the long-range facilities master plan. I I'll just point it out again and and everyone's aware that your
0731.275 need um escalated less the work that's been put in place is escalated to 1.8 8 billion of 50 just shy of six um 52% and uh it certainly lends itself to to uh selling is whatever capacity you have to sell bonds and then to move out so that you put that into a brick and mortar construction instead of losing it through escalation. But um if if the projects are in the long range facilities master plan, they get 25 points. Means they were identified as a need eight years ago means that they we we should uh give give those 25 points and and uh if they're not in there, it's a zero. Now we'll get to the actual scores on a school by school basis. Next slide. Oh, this is a summary of all the
074points by the 10 categories. the the maximum total points eligible I mean available to for each of the projects to score is 355 points but you won't actually see any projects that come close to that but that's if if there was a particular project that got the maximum points on every on all 10 weighted uh categories that's what uh that project would get. Okay, now we're going to move on to the actual scores by by school and the identification of what are what are the highest priority projects that are recommended. And as Owen pointed out, we have 20 we have 247 projects and they all were scored and uh when we did all the analysis, we also separately just did a data sort. You're going to see it school by school, but we did a
075data sort um with all 247 projects and that you you actually saw all the highest priority projects with the most points in in in highlighted in yellow as you'll see in the next number of slides. Next slide. So, Alice Bernie Elementary School built in 1953. There are nine prioritized projects at Alice Bernie and we are recommending two of those projects. You'll see the top two lines over to the left. You see it's project one and two. Uh these are the two that are recommended. You see the 10 categories to the right. And you see the points that those two and I won't go into this much detail unless somebody asked for it, but I'm I'm giving you the uh the basically the details of what you're looking at. You'll see the scores over to the
076right and you'll see that uh we are recommending um basically 10 new classrooms at Alice Bernie Elementary School. And that's representative of two projects out of the nine. And what you see down below is the estimated project cost. And so the estimated project cost for for those two projects is you'll see on column C over to the right, it's actually highlighted in blue. It's it's the top line is $21.8 million. Now, one of those projects is eligible for some state match. There isn't that much eligibility at Alice Bernie, but $1.585 million of state match um can be appended to that project. Next slide. Kulie Ranch Elementary School built in 1993. Uh there are six priority projects. Uh you will see that uh we are rec we are not recommending any projects with bond sale uh
077series one at Kulie Ranch Elementary School. Uh that none of their projects received enough points uh that that lent itself to a recommendation. Next next school, next slide. Crestmore Elementary School built in 1959. They have 11 prioritized projects. Uh we are recommending one and that is new restrooms. Um, and that is a million dollar uh budget project of which it's eligible for the full state match of 600,000. Uh, so that's what you see over on the right hand side. Next slide. Michael the RC Elementary School built in 1996. You'll see a trend. the the school sites that are newer um they they uh because they don't get the points u or at least significant points in the age of school that does impact their score. So uh there are nine prioritized projects and we are
078not recommending any of the projects for this initial bond sale. Number one, uh next slide. Uh Grand Terrace Elementary School built in 1950. There are nine also nine prioritized projects of which we are recommending four and those four projects are two classroom buildings um a new public address system, shade shelter, secured entrance to the office. Uh the total budget is $1.75 million of which a million50 is um available well can be appended uh for um that's the state match eligibility on those projects. Next slide. Ulysus Srant Elementary School built in 1954. There are nine prioritized projects. We're recommending two. Um you'll see the points over to the right. 190 points each for those two projects. Secured entrance to the front office, new public address system. Uh the cost the budget for those two projects 600,000
079of which both both of those projects are eligible for the state match of total of $360,000. Next slide. Ruth Grimes Elementary School built in 1957. There are 11 prioritized projects. We are recommending one. Um you see it has a score of 200 over to the right. That's a new public address system and uh the cost of that is $400,000 eligible for the state match of $240,000. Next slide. Jerupa Vista Elementary School built in 1988. There are 12 prioritized projects. We are recommending one uh with a budget of $750,000. um eligible for a state match of $450,000. Next slide. Mary B. Lewis Elementary School built in 1952 has 13 prioritized projects. We are recommending three of those. Um five new classrooms. A replacement of five portables. Those happen to be five least portables. Will be good
080to move those move those off the um the uh school site. uh staff office expansion. This happens to be I just wanted to point out this is the one elementary school that their administrative offices are significantly um smaller than the average of elementary schools uh throughout the district. And and so this office expansion actually qualifies as a a modernization because we're expanding it just to bring it up to like a OPSC minimum minimum requirement. Um anyway, also to improve the drop off area and parking is the third project. The total budget is is $10.4 4 million and the total state match eligibility that the that you have for that school site is 5.149 million and and we can append uh those funds to the five classroom building uh project. Uh next slide. Abraham Lincoln Elementary
081School built in 1953. There are 11 prioritized projects of which we're recommending two with both have scores of 190 points. A secured entrance to the front office to be the principal's priority number one and a new public address system. The total budget for those two projects is $600,000 which are um eligible for the full state match of of um $360,000. Next slide. William McKinley Elementary School built in 1953. There are five prior prioritized projects of which we're recommending two. A bus drop off area accessible ramp to the lower field. That was principal's priority one and two. We've combined those. And the new playground equipment. You see the points over to the right. 215 and 230 points respectively. The budget for those two projects is $2,450,000. With the the entirety of the state match that you
082have that you're eligible for, um we're able to um append that to that that project. Uh next slide. Uh Richade Canyon Elementary School built in 1987. Uh there are eight prioritized projects. Um we're recommending one. It's a shade shelter for the lunch area. That's the principal's priority number one. Has 185 points. A budget of $750,000 is our recommendation. Um, let's see. Trying to figure out why that state match number isn't there. I may we may be eligible for another. Yeah. So, that We will adjust that. Next slide. Uh Paul Rogers Elementary School built in 1967. There there are eight prioritized projects and we are recommending three. A new public address system, 11 new classrooms, a replacement of 11 leased portables, and additional parking as principal's priority number two. Those three projects 200 had points of
083200, 190, and 230. A total budget of $17,600,000 of which the the entirety of the state match that you have in terms of eligibility we can append to those top two projects. Next slide. Gerald A. Smith Elementary School. Um there are seven prioritized projects of which we're recommending uh three and those three projects are new public address system, six new classroom replacement of six lease portables, new classroom buildings, new playground equipment area for primary um level. The scores over to the right you'll see 215, 235, and 230. The total budget for these three projects is 11,190,000 of which we are going to append or or be eligible for and apply for um the state match of of um 4,287,000 dollars. Next slide. Uh Sycamore Hill Elementary School built in 2002. There are eight prioritized projects.
084Uh we are not recommending any projects at Sycamore Hills uh for this initial bond sale. Number one, next slide. Uh Terrace View Elementary School built in 1968. There are five prioritized projects. We are recommending one which is uh two new TK classrooms. uh that scored 235 points and the total budget for that project is $2 million. Um and uh you're eligible for the state match of 1.2 million, the 60%. Next slide. Woodrow Wilson Elementary School. I'm almost to the middle school, right? Woodrow uh Wilson Elementary School built in 1935. There are nine prioritized projects. We are recommending three new public address system, new playground equipment and and area including swings and a bus drop off area. Principal's priority number three. Uh scores over to the right 215 straight across the board there. The total budget
085is $3,350,000 of which you're eligible for state match to append to those three projects. Next slide. Zimmerman Elementary. There are five prioritized projects. We are recommending is the principal here? We are recommending two of those projects. Uh student and staff restroom renovations principal's priority one and new class new play uh ground structure principal's priority two with uh 190 points for each of those projects. Total budget for Zimmerman is $1,450,000 and you're eligible for the the state match on those two projects. Next slide. Colton Middle School built in 1953. There are nine prioritized projects of which we're recommending two. Um the student restroom renovations and library renovations. Principal's priority number two. Um the respective points to the right two 215 and 185. And uh I will say you'll note you'll see the third line is all
086of the restrooms in the facilities for students and staff. And the reason that was left there is because we aren't able to do or we we're recommending the student restroom renovations. Um it just happens to have the same points. Um the total budget is $1.5 million and the total state match eligibility that you you have for Colton Middle School can be appended. It isn't 60% but uh that's um that's available the 422,000. Next slide. Jobaka Middle School built in 2012. There are four prioritized projects. Uh you will see that the points over to the right didn't uh didn't um didn't lend itself to us recommending any projects at Joe Baka Middle School. Um next slide. Uh Ruth O'H Harris Middle School built in 1993. There are nine prioritized projects. We are recommending one project at
087Ruth O'Haris and that is the upgrade front office to be more secure. That's principal's priority number four. And the total budget for that is $200,000 and el eligible for the state match of $120,000. Uh, next slide. Terrace Hills Middle School built in 1964. There are nine prioritized projects, two of which we're recommending, new public address system and library renovations. Principal's priority number three. Um, you see the points over to the right, 215 and 200. Uh total budget for those two projects is $1.4 million and we can append the uh 60% state match. Um or at least you're eligible for those projects. I mean that state match, sorry. Next slide. Bloomington High School. There are 10 prioritized projects. We are recommending three of those projects. Uh the new humanities wing classroom principles. That's principal's priority number
088one, the new gymnasium, dance floor included, principal's priority number two, and turf replacement. I I you know what we're missing on I should point out that under the new humanities wing and classroom that is design only as well. It just got cut off there, I think. Um but anyway, those three projects 220, 200, and 230 are the points to the right. The total budget for those three projects, oh, I see it says design only down below, are $7,250,000. And um we can uh Oh, I I know we're we are going to uh I think we're know I'm going to need to figure out why we have 8.3 million over there. Yeah, that should going to need to amend that. Uh, next slide. Uh, Colton High School has 15 prioritized projects. Uh, we are recommending six.
089Um, auditorium renovation project, music building renovation project, baseball softball field lighting project, heel path program, uh, turf replacement and additional parking design only. uh you'll see the points to the right. Uh they're these are the uh the ones recommended. On the next slide, you'll see the the the total budget identified. Total budget is 11,950,000 of which um I see that that anyway there there's there's state match for for all of those projects. Uh next slide. Grant Terrace High School. There are seven prioritized projects, two of which are recommended. The career technical education uh building uh principles priority number four and shade structure principles priority number three. Um the total budget for those two projects are $5.5 million. And uh the we're looking to uh well the applications for um for CTE path funding those uh
090grant applications go in in December and there are two paths identified um engineering and construction and if we're successful with those applications then then $6 million can be appended to that project. And there's a shade shelter project. Next slide. Uh Slover Mountain High School, there are 10 prioritized projects. We are not recommending any projects at Sllover Mountain for the initial bond sale. Next slide. Washington High School Alternative. It's built in 1935. There are seven prioritized projects. We're not recommending any any projects uh at this time. Next slide. San Salvador Preschool built in 1960. There are nine prioritized projects and uh zero. We're not recommending any for this initial bond sale at San Salvador Preschool. Next slide. The uh total the total of the 47 projects at at all campuses is $103,890,000. And uh those are
091that's the school site specific budgets. And then the the district-wide projects, if you will, is a five-year facilities master plan update. Um, one of the requirements of DSA is for you to be eligible to apply for state match funding, you have to have a long range facility master plan. Uh, that's current within the last five years. And because 2017 is eight years ago, one of the first initiatives we have to move forward on is is putting out an RFQ to to identify a um facilities master plan um architect to update your update this document. Um and I'm going to turn it over to Owen and uh he was he's going to finish out the presentation. All right. Thank you, Randy. Um, apologies. There's a lot of information here. So, to to So, before I I
092move on, I want to see if the board have any questions and or do you want to wait till the end? We're almost to towards the end. Let's wait. There will be questions. I've got a lot of questions just because I've been keeping notes on on every one. But, let's go through the end because I think we're going to end up going back um and identifying specific schools, projects, and then get some clarity on those. But, let's is that okay with the board that we kind of let's finish presentation and then we'll dive back into the projects and sites. Okay. Please. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Summary. Okay. So next series of slides are are basically the same kind of compilation of all the projects that are recommended in a single document. We pulled out the ones
093that we are not recommending and then we also broke a different format too. So a little bit easier for board to kind of digest and understand the the types of projects that we're recommending. Next slide please. All right. So this is again mentioned there two slides. This is project one through 28 showing all the the project school sites. Uh there are two sections that we can um just like to bring the board attention to. Uh what we did was we we did a analysis of this is the second slide showing uh projects 29 through 47. So at the bottom it gives the total of the how the project is distributed between the different um uh schools between the elementary uh the middle and the high school. You can see at the under the elementary the
094green cell uh column B we have 73.2% of the project out for elementary school with 3% middle school and uh 23.8% for the high school. do want to bring to the board attention that while the the middle school seems disproportionately low for the allocation of measure uh BB um we are uh actually have projects are active planning actually some of our bidding and and uh some which are are scheduled to start construction uh some substantial improvements at both Terrace Hill Middle School and Coloulson Middle School where we're either renovating or adding administration building and pavilions and as well as new locker building. So that's one of the reasons why you see kind of low percentage because we always have um uh measure B funds allocated for some significant improvements at those uh elementary or the
095middle school campuses. And also on the right of that we also took the same information divvy up into the various trustees area. So, so the board can see the allocation of of the funding budget based on the different area with 31% Bloomington area, 58% uh at Colton and and and 10% for Grand Terrace. Next slide, please. All right, this is just another same information but format different way. What we did was categorize by different uh project types. You can see the first section would be the new public address system. We have total of eight schools that we're recommending. Uh we have security uh followed by second section the security entrances. We're recommending four schools. Uh same with the new playground structure. We have four campuses that recommending for improvements. Uh we have bus dropout area
096at five campuses. And then restroom uh renovations and new restrooms at three schools. Uh next slide. All right. Um continuing that we have four uh sites that we're recommending with new uh SHA shelters. Uh then we have uh below that a new classroom. We have nine CLA uh new classroom proposed. They're either new or replacing existing portables uh at uh that totals in the number needs update about it's about 54 classroom I believe. Then we're also adding a heel pathway, a lab at Colton High School. Uh then next series are the the pro project types of the library renovations at Colton Middle School and Terasill Middle School. Uh we also have the auditorium uh gymnasium auditorium, Bloomington and and Coloulton High School. Um and then also administration building one campus at Mary Lewis and then
097the last uh group is the athletic field at Bloomington and Colton High School. Next slide. Right. Again this is just again some different formats show some allocation of percentage of of different um project types from security to new uh shade shelters to uh new classrooms. Just another um way to illustrate some of the the data that we have. Next slide, please. All right. Oh, just uh one thing I do want to mention. Could sorry, can you go back to one slide? Um okay. There there's actually um one thing I want to address uh with board with the you know we have a a pretty robust contingency you can see of 43 uh million really uh the reason for that is you know the the project contingency has been um especially due to to various considerations
098uh one thing we do not in the project budget cell we do not consider or account for escalation as I mentioned earlier escalation we're looking at five to six% a year so um you know depending on when those projects are designed and executed uh those you know numbers could be vary quite a bit. Um just on some of the larger projects you know if we were to start from tomorrow it usually take about you know 12 to 18 month to get it designed and approved and another probably 18 month to get it built. So depending on when we start the timeline and and start the you know commencing the the project and and uh you know that will make a difference. What we want to do is allocate a a a conservative amount to address
099those and once we have approval from the board on the list of project then we can develop a project schedule we can better define uh the allocate the uh the escalation costs the other um you know consideration we um we we factor in are the tariffs board president Flores mentioned you know there's wish we have crystal ball you know things are kind of news change every day we're not sure where things are and how it impacts construction but we knew know that there will be some impact So we kept kept for some um funding to uh address some of the impacts that terrorists have. Um and there there are also some projects that were um uh recommending design only like the CTE building and and and uh some of the the the humanities building at
100Bloomington High School. there's um there's a lot of kind of variables in in in this point and I think one of the things we'd like to do is start the design on those projects and and once we have a little bit more information we can better define those uh project and once we have better defined the scope we can then allocate the the contingency funding to the the project as we also mentioned uh Randy mentioned the CTE program we're also applying uh for about $6 million CTE grant so we want to see how um you know fingers crossed we get those grants and that that will also determine how much we need to allocate from the contingency funding for the project. Um so again there's also we also want to you know with all projects
101there also always some unforeseen conditions or um things that new regulations right there's code changes every year um there um for example you know couple ago when we did build master plan um either code or or or legislative changes for you know back in 2017 we didn't have the TK mandatory TK uh uh class and and and that we do right now. So I want to have a little bit of of of some um some funding in there to allocate in case other needs arise and the board has the flexibility to app project as um as we you know progress. Um so anyway those are some of the main reason we want to have some some you know robust and and some decent amount of contingency to address all those uh some of those uh
102variables some of which are unknown at this time. So next slide please. So next steps um next slide please. So um we want to um obviously want to present a lot of information. We want to the feedback from the board and make adjustments and and whatnot. And so the goal is to to get a um ultimately get consensus from the board to move forward with party projects and then based on approval we will work with u Mr. Mike Williams to do uh the bond issue uh series and uh to go market to conduct bond sales and then meantime we will work and uh in developing RPQs to uh work on the master as well as a new group of architects and professional services to um work on the board uh approved bond projects. Right. With
103that, um I'll open questions. So, all right. Thank you, Owen. That's um that actually that's a that's an impressive and uh detailed presentation that that was actually very helpful. There's a lot of information you've thrown at us. So, let let's let me jump into questions folks may have because I think we're we're going to need some time to digest this, but let me open it up right now for initial questions or thoughts or feedback for Owen. It's a lot. It's drinking from a fire hose, but let me let me start I'll I'll start dissecting a little bit here. So, first, let me let me make a request. Um, if we could get the some of these need to be updated. Looks like there may have been some some figures there around either the bond match
104or number. So, we need the most accurate up-to-date numbers. So, if you could provide that to us and send it back. The format I think is is okay. Um there's a these are spreadsheets clearly. I would love to see these in a spreadsheet uh format and Excel spread. You can lock them. We don't we won't mess with them. But at least for me personally, in fact, I actually spent my entire time now while we're going creating a spreadsheet because it's just easier for me to digest for all of us, it's searchable, then we can kind of look, okay, compare and see. So, if we could get particularly some of those macro where you talk about, you know, up and down the projects, that would be really helpful to be able to see. Um, but most
105importantly, just the updated figures wherever there might have been a tweak on on the bond uh on the bond match, for example. Let me let me ask some detailed questions because I was making some uh notes here. Uh Lewis Elementary uh made a note. There was um five new classrooms staff office expansion. Can we clarify? Are we referring to um the the reception area when you walk in or are we talking about the staff area that is in the middle of the school where they essentially enclosed probably with or without permits that area. Is that what we're referring to when we say stop? Exactly. Actually, they they had a work room that was um say it was uncertified construction. There was from DSA. So we were kind of forced to to um you know make
106that unexel. So we want to there the need is still there. So we want to make sure we we replace that with a um go through the appropriate process and provide the facility that they need. Okay. So that is that is that space that we're referring to. Great. So an actual permitted yes appropriately built uh space for the staff. Okay. Gotcha. Um, McKinley Elementary, bus drop off, ADA, new playground. So, McKinley is an interesting site. Uh, it's immediately adjacent to the T-ball field, which we own, but but it's it's terrorists. So, is this going to include having to encroach onto the T-ball field side or we talking about building up there? It's a it's a tough as you know well, Dr. Miranda, McKinley is a tough site because it kind of drops off there immediately
107on the east side of the school. So, right. So the the plan is actually to utilize the kind of existing parking area without encroaching any of the existing field because I think there's enough real estate to provide some of the the needs that we have you know be because there there a couple things we want to address because I think we all know the challenging with with the parking situation particularly with staff. So I think by um by necessity and code requirement we have to uh improve the the ramp to be accessible in order to allow be able to make that uh parking lot available for staff. So that's why we kind of combine that into a single project. So that project uh includes the upgrade of the existing ramp to make it uh uh
108co- compliant and then the parking drop off. I think just based on preliminary layout, we should have enough stuff to create a drop off area and also some additional parking space to kind of help address some of the the issues and safety and and drop off and and some of the various concerns that they have over the past several years. And and I know this is all conceptual because we haven't gone into great detail into design, but where will the drop off roughly be located? We're talking about on the east side of the school because that school also fronts the street. There's not a lot of room, a lot of space between the street and the school. Once you get off, you're there. here at the front of the school. So, right. So, so we're
109actually the the initial idea is actually have the drop off area inside the kind of the parking area within the park not off the street. So, we would bring the vehicle inside inside. Hence, that's the also the need to bring make it accessible for so students and have accessible path to get to the upper level of campus. And then I had a question um Zimmerman obviously and and there were some comments made earlier today reference to the the future of Zimmerman, what may or may not happen. I mean there's obviously we're all aware of the potential at least uh for that school to to be relocated. So it raises an interesting question for me in terms of um investing close to $1.5 million into a school that we may be relocating altogether. Uh Dr. you
110alluded to the fact though that the timeline for that and maybe Owen if you could talk to that. Um even if that project moves forward as as as planned if you will with with the development how long will Zimmerman likely need to be oper in operation before we relocate or build the new Zimmerman school question. I know we we we started on the the design process but because you know there's some legal challenges so forth um but let's say if we were to to start today it's still going to be um probably uh you know 12 months at least to 18 month just to get permitted uh from DSA approval to finish the design. Okay. Then um obtain approval from TSA where you can bid out the project and then the actual construction itself is
111going to be about another you know 18 to 24 months at least especially with you know some of the challenges we have with electrical gears. Um you know even though we're kind of out of the co but we're still some of the electrical gear we're still seeing 12 to 18 months delay. So even if we have the construction ready those electrical equipment also has impact on some of the construction timeline as well. So we're looking at minimum you know minimally probably three four years uh even if we start tomorrow to have a school ready to to move in. So I think that's one of the logic because three or four year I think so that's why we thought you know we still invest in try to address some of the needs that they have at
112the campus and plus there's some eligibility as well that true you're right significant portion of that to be fair a good portion of that is eligible for reimbursement through the state. So in the restrooms that they're referring to those are the restrooms that the are they the portable ones or the ones that were in a portable structure that's now sort of semi-permanent. All of our portables are permanent by the way. So Joe, there nothing more permanent than portables, right? Funny we're looking at is looking at permanent making something. Right. So we'd be replacing what is there currently, which is that are we just in terms of the restroom that we're referencing. It's that portable restroom that's in the middle of the uh sort of standalone. Is that the one that we're replacing or we're actually
113looking at making the some of the restrooms compliant, new finishes, tiles, and Oh, okay. existing the existing existing. Got it. Okay. Restrooms kind of dispersed out the campus for the students. Um and then last item I wanted to note. So excited to hear 16 new classrooms at BHS, but obviously this is looking at design only. So the question then is what's what would be construction costs associated with the 16 new classrooms? And if we go through design through this series, when do we think we'll be able to actually build those 16 classrooms? Because Bloomington High is in desperate need of new classroom space to remove portables. Right. Right. So, so based on the the current construction costs, there are different solution. There are some some modular solutions that are kind of like permanent buildings and
114they're kind of stick built um buildings uh that are like woodframe construction. But we're looking at probably about $800 $850 per square foot. That's construction cost for a modular construction um versus possibly about $1,200 for a stick built wood frame building per square foot. So for a 16 classroom building I would probably look you know CD has recommendation about a th00and square foot per classroom. So if you factor in all the restroom support facility we're looking at 20,000 square foot building. So 20,000 square foot depending on we do a modular building and you know So it can vary, you know. Yeah. You got to give me a number though. I got I'm started right and you lost me. So I mean I'm not going to hold you to it. 25 million. Okay. Sold. Good. All
115right. Um Okay. So that's that seems attainable in the next in in the next issuance, but I think timing on that is going to be important because once we we um well again I I that's up the board full discussion, but those classrooms I think are a high priority and um All right. 25 million then. Okay. a modular. What do you as opposed to the stick build? Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, so modular building, they they have um these buildings that are called pre-engineered that they already have. It's it's kind of like a a standard design you kind of pick off the shelf. Now, it's it's not ready made. It's they still custom build it, but it's already designed. So, there's savings and you know you don't have to pay the architect as much because
116somebody else kind of designed already. You do have some options to pick in terms of exterior finishes where you want plaster or metal cladding. Um but those are still considered as permanent buildings. They have, you know, permanent foundations and and concrete foundation, concrete floors. They're they're just as robust. There's pros and cons to each. Some of the architects don't like it because, you know, the architect can't design their their um you know what what they want to design. So there's some limited in terms of of of some design from a design standpoint, but um but they're, you know, they they do last quite long. They have um these modular that are built of like concrete um the tiltup concrete constructions um and and those are, you know, very um you know, sturdy and robust and
117they should have at least a 50-year lifespan. Are these like buildings that are like one floor? At Bloomington, we would actually recommend twotory building and then there's like modular building. So, it's kind of like K parts that you can put together and um but it's already pre-esigned. So, there's kind of different options that you can pick from versus a custom building. Um you know, a woodframe building um you know, you can design to whatever the architects or the boards win, you know, in terms of design. So um so the pros and cons there pros and cons to each and the module building because it's already designed. So there's a little it's you save money because it's you know in in the design process and also the construction because some of the activ some of the
118construction can occur in a factory and they they just ship it out on site. Um so that's where you kind of capture some of the savings where you know some of the the production can be done in factory versus a stick built everything has to build built on site. Oh and do we know I add to that too? So, um, you can go visit schools that are built this way. In my past place that I worked, we were starting to build a new high school. We had to rebuild and we went we went and toured a school and walk through it. It was two stories. This type of stuff, you can't tell the difference, meaning walking through the classrooms and tell that it was it was built in a factory and brought there and that.
119So, if that's the route we go, there are sites we can go walk to see if that's the course we want to take. In that really, you cannot tell the difference at all. So would that also work for the CTE building? That type of construction that that potentially could work as CTE building as well. That could be a a possible solution as well. Yes. Do we have do you know what the estimated savings would be to go modular than regular construction? Is there something we can get just an idea an estimated number of savings? the savings some of it is because um the construction duration is shorter so you pay less what is called general conditions for the contract to be on the site so it's not just the building itself but also the less
120time that the contractor has to spend on site probably estimate you know 20 20% I would say roughly you said the difference between 800 and 1200 you know square foot so yeah that could be as much as a third I mean that's we won't estimate because you have other other fixed costs but yeah that's pretty substantial 20% 2020 how complex it it is you know may not be able to like for example that Bloomington MPR building there's no modular building that can gives you that type of architecture so this is what I'm talking about you may sacrifice the design you know for efficiency and cost savings so but there are some like um you know Greg mentioned there are some good product and we can include some example in board correspondents to show for the
121board to see what some of the options and available um you know the solution design solution some of the the projects um we can share with the board. Awesome. Thank you. You have a question? Yeah, please. the questions. Uh you mentioned replacing or adding new buildings to several sites and um for example at Bernie um there's not much room to add because I it's probably the smallest playground in the district. Uh is the plan to replace them or because it's a DI score you adding new buildings to the playground. It would really eliminate a lot of the playground projects that were recommending of burning. One is to uh four classroom for the dual immersion growth. So that's needed. Um and then there are six portables that we're recommending. Part of reason is we again we
122want to try to have reduce the reliance on the portable building. And also secondly, um uh you know, we want to take advantage of of the um the modernization funding because um not sure if I I I probably didn't mention it here, but um under Proposition 2, there are two categories of or two of the main categories, new construction funding and modernization. Because just like many school districts, we are experiencing declining enrollment. So most likely won't be eligible for the new construction. So we're trying to do is trying to replace existing portables and that will also that will allow us to kind of strategic wise allow us to at least capture some of the state matching funding for the replacement portable. As far as the location, we actually kind of work a little bit with
123the principal on sighting of the building. So, the idea is to um to build uh I forgot the the name of the street adjacent to the existing uh parking drop. That's the other challenge that they have. We're looking at possibly expanding the the parking and drop off area and have this um the kinder the sixth building would be like a kinder uh classroom area and and so right now the kinder classroom it's kind of at the rear of the campus. We're going to look at relocating opposite us. So uh once we replace those building that'll free up some additional real estate. So in in net we're going to we're not really going to lose much space. Actually open up some of the corners there that's actually unused. Um there's corner just have some nice actually
124shade area. So some of the principal by relocating the kindergarten core it will actually allow them to do some maybe some planting and other things for activities with the students. Does the state have a requirement as to how much space the kids need as in playground u versus you know the you know according to the size of the school and how many students are yeah that yes they they do have a recommendation especially if you're adding new classrooms so we'll have to go through CDE and get approval on the title five and the uh they're going to be looking at um you know playground spaces the building itself and for example like kindergarten lower grade level. They require 1350 square feet versus a 960 for upper higher grade level. They're also going to be looking
125at parking drop off areas to make sure the kids have a safe way to get to access or get dropped off and then picked up and so forth. So, those are all be reviewed by CDE and that's a requirement in order to be eligible to apply for state match. Thank you so much, Owen. Um, the last question I have is the air conditioners. Um, is that under a different budget or or the replacement of, you know, because they're going to get old and they're going to be needing play to be replaced. Is that included or is that not a priority or some of the uh HVAC projects? Um, and based on the the scoring that we apply, it didn't make it to the list, but there were some HVAC at some of the sites. But
126I know working with David Bell, he's using for maint to address some of the the older HBAC replacement and then also we're working with J Kim to see if there's any some funding available that can allow us to to maybe supplement or the funding for Mino to replace the HAC as well. Thank you and thank you for the presentation. There's a lot a lot in here and I really appreciate all the work that went into it. Thank you. Owen, uh, uh, is the plan to replace the portables, the replacement of portables to modular or are we going to build? We we actually looking at some of the budget that we allocated are are looking at some modular uh, construction and those are permanent. Um, actually a good example are some of the new classroom that
127we're building at at Grimes. Yes. So the board you have time would love to to give a board. Oh, I've seen them. They're fairly nice. But that so that would be the plan then. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. All right. Uh just a followup. Uh Bloomington High School, just so we're clear, the new gym for BHS, is that a construction of a brand new gym or is that a renovation of the existing gym? Oh, so sorry. We we that's one of the things we need to correct. So what that for the gymnasium, we're actually uh going to be recommending uh for design only. So we're The plan is actually to add existing gym because again um just looking at one of the analysis that we done is looking at the the the the equity right
128in parody against all the other campuses. Um I think we all know Colton High School has two gyms Macintosh and the uh the hub gym Grant Terrace has you know 60,000 foot facility where Bloomington has have one basketball court with seats of only So again this is attempt to address the equity uh by providing additional gym not only for gym but also multi-purpose and a place to you know shelter kids when there's inclement weather and so forth. So there's multiple purposes but would be design which and I asked the question because quite frankly 7.2 I didn't think would be enough to pay for a new gym. So, what would the cost as I asked before for the classrooms? What would the estimated cost be for the new gym? Estimating just um assuming we'll have to
129kind of work on designing the program. Assuming like a 10,000 foot gym, we're probably looking at um probably in the neighborhood of 156 million in addition to the 25 million needed for the classrooms. Okay. strategy is is again, you know, the the timing component. So, I know we have, you know, many needs and and one of the things we like to do is address those high needs and and at least get the design approved because the design has a shelf life of four years with DSA that we can get ready so in case we're ready for a next bond issuance that we have projects that are shovel ready that can get right out of the gate and kind of hedge against any uh additional escalation inflation. So, that's some of the strategy that we have
130employed. Again, this is a difficult question and and Mike probably more geared towards you. Do we have any rough estimate of when we think a subsequent issuance could happen? Because if we're going to go through the process of expending the money to do the design and then we're on the clock for those uh classrooms and that gym and we need $40 million to complete those, we have any idea how far out we might be before we can issue another series? Yeah, I talked to u Owen and Randy a couple days ago and one of the things that we're going to do when we start uh preparing to do the first series of bonds is we're going to take a look. We'll get the new tax roll out probably next month. So, we'll see what the
131growth is and um you know, we'll we'll give you some sense of of uh when the next bond issue will be there. And understandably, gentlemen, those are massive projects. I mean, 16 high school classrooms, an entire new high school gym. So, understandable, but I I those are things that we'd like to see, I think, come to fruition, particularly if we're going to invest in the design. Um, and for all that you shared, equity is is certainly a big part of that and those the school that high school in particular needs needs the investments. And you know, one of the strategies that Owen is uh as you see is the state matching funds. It's a big part of this. So replenishes the those funds that are being used and hopefully we can use those funds then
132to finish up those projects and uh I know has done a great job uh he did that with measure G uh and I think it was like 30 $40 million that we were able to get back from the state. So correct me if I'm wrong, Owen, you know, don't don't uh and so I think that's a big part of the strategy. That's the we'll correct some of the figures there, but uh so that again uh uh you know I'm under budget that money becomes available. That's right. Yeah. To put towards other projects which which have done a fantastic job. Uh absolutely. Yeah. I I would just again and this is not anything that we have to give direction or vote on with respect to what happens after this but again I I I would want
133us to make a commitment then that the subsequent issuance that Bloomington High School becomes the priority of actually building those projects that we're designing they need to be at the front of the line um so that our kids in the community know that we're are we're serious about investing in equities. Okay. So I I know that there's some things that you're looking for us today Dr. Miranda next steps. Um could we go to that slide and maybe go back just a couple maybe even one. So are you looking for any action from us today or is it simply direction to proceed with the um bulleted items that you have here. Initial goal is to to um you know present to the board and and you know if the board is um uh those projects are
134acceptable that that give the half a direction to move forward. But um board needs more time. We can certainly come back with some more information and we can continue the the discussion that will determine you know how how much bond issuance we'll need to to uh do with the first issuance. Yeah. And that's correct. I mean consensus direction so that we can Mike can proceed and uh with the bond issuance one and then with this list here. I mean it, you know, we get to start the process on that and and Owen, you know, that takes a lot of work, but it but it it it's uh flex flexible and and adaptable. If the board, you know, wants us to bring it back to at some point down the road to reook at it, we'd
135be more than happy to do that. Uh and you know, things change. So, it's not uh we're not going to put in concrete and this is it. It can't be because uh there going to be changes but we do uh before we can do any of this we obviously need to uh secure the funds. So so item that's no I appreciate that Dr. Miranda and I think yeah so items one and three seem pretty straightforward. Those are related. That's giving the direction to proceed on the bond the issuance to sale. I mean I think hey we all we're all about doing that. We want to get the bonds out there and get the money. So I don't think there's any hesitation. So let me let me pull those two out Dr. Marin and just ask
136if uh if there's any questions on that. If not, can we give direction to at least with respect to um excuse me, I should say items two and three. Those are the uh the bond sales series one and obviously working with consultant go to market. So proceeding on that is there consensus to go ahead and proceed with the bonds. Yes, let's let's move forward series uh item item one which is the priority list and thank you Dr. Miranda for for identifying this is sort of a living document. uh if unless somebody has something that is you know urgent that that really sticks out. Hey, this is what's missing. This is what's up. I think it's a good list. I a little more time to digest it as you can send it to us Owen so
137we can review it will be helpful. I didn't see anything glaring. Of course, there were projects that in my head I'm thinking well I know the school needs this and I know we there's there's 10 projects at any school site at any given time. We can't do them all. So, uh it's a good list and it's what I appreciate is it done systematically, right? you really put a lot of effort and energy that we can uh substantiate why we selected these projects and I and I appreciate that. And then lastly uh number four which is the facilities energy management proceed with development of phasing master plan so that will that Dr. and Owen, will that be based on the priority list of projects that we have to then create that uh updated plan that's required?
138Is that what's that's referencing that you talked about? Some of the activities would would would definitely help. For example, we're going to um one of the goals is to to solicit um the um a new pool of architects. So, it would be um best if we have a list of projects so we can know what to analyze and what to look at. Right. Right. Especially when we evaluate the criteria. If they want to do a gym, we want to see if the architect had done a gym before. Got it. Okay. That would be helpful in our evaluation process to know what projects we're going to be the board would want to move forward with. So, with that being the case, let me let me toss it back to the board then. Are we comfortable giving
139direction to proceed with the list as presented knowing that there is the opportunity to to bring back? And I'll note we've got three members who aren't here. So they'll need an opportunity to look at it and but I don't imagine that things will be added that aren't already within the same project type, right? We're not talking about doing something way out of left field that's not already presented. So that you can then look at the criteria and the experience of architects for example or engineers. So if we're comfortable with with that number one, which would be yes, as presented, we're comfortable with Owen uh having this as the working list. And then number four, moving forward with your process to bring on board the consultants and engineers and architects that you need. So is the
140board comfortable with that? Those that are here? Yes. Okay. All right. So again, all I would ask if you could send that information back out to us via email, Dr. Miranda, and let us work through it and again the other board members have a chance to see it and we'll talk about when we need to schedule maybe a follow-up, just an update on that. But thank you. Thank you for everyone that put the work into this and it's this is exciting. Yeah. very well done, very systematic. Um, and and thanks to everybody. They're probably not here and probably not watching the meeting, but everybody that was part of the committee that made this happen. This was only possible because the community stepped up and said that we believe in what the school district is doing.
141And I'm convinced because I've heard it. It's because they've seen what we've done with our previous bond dollars. And when they can see the improvements and how so many of our sites have just been improved. We were just at Bloomington NPR the other day for your management retreat and that is architecturally that is one of the most beautiful buildings that that that is in the area of that size and scope. It's a gorgeous building and so I appreciate the work that district has done. So kudos. All right you best in the business on budget and on time right Owen. Awesome. Okay, thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you for the presentation. Yeah. Okay. So, we're gonna have to pause then because we can't take any action. We just lost our quum. So, we'll just pause for
142a minute. Uh she uh then return. So, that's not a problem. We'll just take a minute. is ready. No, you're okay. Need a little break. All right, we'll go ahead and we'll go ahead and reconvene. We have our quorum back. So, if I may, we're going to be quick. So, we'll jump to our action section. Action session items. We have quite a few. These are all consent items. Uh items 5.1 through uh 5 102. So over 100 consent items. Um what I will do is I'm going to ask that we will need to pull an item and uh continue until our next meeting and that is 5.3. Thank you Mr. 5.3 uh resolution. We're going to go ahead and pull that uh unless there's an objection from anybody on the board. We're going to pull
143that and continue that to our subsequent meeting. So I don't see any any objections to that. So we'll go ahead and do that. So with the exception of 5.3 which has been pulled for later meeting. Do I have a motion to approve the balance of the consent calendar? So moved. Have a motion by board member Fentes, a second by board member Haro. Any questions, comments? Hearing none. I'll call for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Hearing none. It is approved for zero. Thank you for that. All right, that takes us to our administrative reports. Um, any questions or comments with respect to items uh 6.1 through 6.7? None. All right. Uh, no facilities update, I take it today, Owen, I think you've you reached your time limit. Uh,
144do we have an ACE update today? Oh, yes. Vice President Townsen. Thank you, Miranda, and members of the audience. Thanks for the button pushing. Um, I just wanted to um first thank you for including um all of your bargaining units in the leadership retreat yesterday. I think it's um super important for all of us to be on the same page. The aloha theme, I was confused for a minute. Old ears, I thought we were surfing with a purpose for a minute, which I was really excited about, but you know, serving made a lot more sense as we as we moved on. Um I would go for either one, though. Um, but I just want to um encourage that we have a renewed commitment to um the kind of work that we do together collaboratively, really
145listening to each other and being partners both as a board, as bargaining units, and as an executive committee. And I thank you for the work that we've done. I think this I'm embarking on year 33 or 34. I've lost count. And somehow it feels the same. you know, those first years, those first days. Somehow I still have that crazy dream the night before of that classroom that's just going to be, oh my goodness. Um, but um it is our work becomes I don't know if it becomes increasingly important. The difficulty of our work and the complexity of our work seems to continue to evolve. And I guess I'm just looking for us to all be super open. Um, we talked about professionalism, um, which is incredibly important and the job of the educator and finding
146the right words and what was okay at one time is so different than what is okay today. and um just looking really seriously as we go throughout the year of student behaviors and giving teachers the tools that we really need for those behaviors that are evolving and changing because I think that that is what's on the mind of most teachers as we return is that that safety and that um giving each student what they need. So I ask you to implore you to continue to work with us as we go through that. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. CSEA update. Seen anyone? All right. Uh, MAC update. RO O update. I just have a couple of things really quickly. Um, we had our Wasp visit, but as you know, they don't uh come through till
147they don't meet until uh the summertime. and they met and Kryrot received their six-year accreditation through June 30th of 2031. So, which is really awesome. And then just a couple of facts. We got a facts at a glance for 2425. Uh enrollment was up for from 2024 2025 uh but uh to 7,065 students overall through the three districts which is up from 6480. Um 11. We have 2,090 industry certifications that were given out to students. Overall, we had 148 students earn just shy we had $24,950 in scholarships this year. Um, and we had uh 1,080 students, which is a 286% increase in student enrollment this year. So, I just wanted to share some quick facts about Priy. Then, board member Fentes, you have an update on Yeah. Priy, right? And I think uh Miss Harl
148already uh said the amount of scholarships that we did uh pass out, almost $25,000 in scholarships were given to students. I think we had four that were $1,000. And I also want to present a small video. It's about two minutes real quick. And it's one of our uh pathways that we have at Bloomington Eye. Go ahead. This month on Pathways of the Future, we're highlighting the criminal investigation classes at Bloomington High School. Hi, my name is Noria Maral. I'm a senior here at Bloomington High School and I'm in the criminal investigation class. My favorite part about taking this class is when we make fake crime scenes and we go out and investigate them and then interview people from different classrooms like if there were our witnesses. One of the challenges I encountered in this class
149was when we were making our resumes. It was really hard to find things to add but um our teacher really helped us. So a lot of credit to her. So, working on our resumes and the mock interviews definitely helped me a lot to practice with like confidence and be able to speak out and they let us know that it's okay to take a deep breath if you don't know what to say yet so it can come out properly. And I think that's important for a future job. It's really fun and like you said, it's a hands-on experience. So, I feel like you learn more being able to do stuff like this instead of just being in a classroom the whole time. But it's still fun because inside the class we do uh we do same
150things out here like collecting fingerprints. We've uh we've messed with uh some fluid where we could take off shoe prints from dirt. Oh yeah, we got a driving simulator in there. That was really cool. That was a cool experience. Hello, my name is Junk Carilla and I am a high school senior. I'm 18 and I'm part of the VHS cops pathway. Honestly, I love all the crime scenes. We done a lot, like a lot of stuff, but they did do judges, um, juries, trials, and all that. But I think it's pretty fun. So, that's my take away. My name is Cindy Goule, and I recently retired from Kryro. I was a teacher for over eight years at Bloomington High School. The first week of school, we talk about integrity. I tell him, if you can
151live a with integrity, everything else is going to fall in place. Everything. I don't care what job you have, where your career takes you, what you do. But if you can lead a life with integrity, and I guess um be a good person, be a good human being. I hope they took away from the lessons that I had in my classroom about integrity and Miranda, I hope that it helped them or helped somebody else. Uh you know, that's what we're supposed to be about, helping others and that's it. So, and what we talked about today about bringing all these new buildings to Bloomington High School and stuff. This is why we do what we do. Thank you everyone. Awesome. Thank you for that. Dr. Miranda, superintendent communicate. I'll be pretty quick here. Uh do want
152to highlight a couple of things or three things actually. First, we'll start with the back to school resource fair. This is the annual uh resource fair uh that uh is hosted by student services. Uh we're going to it's going to be at Joe Middle School Saturday, July 19th. So this weekend coming up from May 30 to 11. Again, attendees uh can look forward to receiving brand new backpacks, bus passes, health screenings, and access to handle uh mental health services. So thank you to assistant uh Dr. Ortiz and his team uh for organizing this incredible event uh for students and families. Uh just an awesome event. Okay. So, our CUSD uh kickoff. U this is it's been a long time since I think u I I've been here for a while and can't remember a district-wide
153kickoff. So, I I'm just uh extremely excited to announce that uh we are going to have a kickoff for all our employees. All it's about 2400 of them in our district. Uh we'll be uh so on July 30th uh coming up here in a couple weeks or so at Grand Tours High School Gymnasium. Uh we're going to have continental breakfast starting at 8 o'clock for our employees and then followed by the event at 8:30 a.m. So really uh the intent and purpose of this is to uh kick off our theme for the year serving with purpose together as one district. It really marks the beginning of an exciting 2526 school year. Uh it's going to be a giant uh pep rally, high school pep rally uh and a lot of energy bringing everybody together and
154it's just going to be incredible. So serving with purpose as you heard even Pavlo talk about that. So, thank you for mentioning that uh is our theme and so uh it's it was crafted by our district leadership uh through a process starting in January of this year and really reflects our collective mission and values for our district. Serving with purpose uh it just means approaching every day with uh intention, pride, and commitment to uplift our students and our community. So, we're excited uh to raise that level uh to be professionals, to serve our community, and just honestly have fun. You know, a lot of times as leaders, as educators, and you we forget to have fun and play games. Marco, uh Marco's Ree ASP director over at Grand High School, Leilani Bautista, Jamal. Uh so
155many fun people are just going to be energizing Dr. A. Uh, so a lot of people are going to be just energizing the crowd and it's just going to be a fun day. So, so get ready for that. Get ready to dance. Get ready to have some fun. All right. So, that's July 30th and graduates high school. Your time's up. Apparently, [Music] I love it. Can I get an extension? They gave you three minutes. [Music] All right. And that's our it's our exit music. The uh it's like the Oscars. It's when you're done, right? Your speech is up. All right. Well, uh there we go. They're gonna get the hook. Board member comments. So, we'll go. We'll just go down the line. Pat, go ahead. No comment. All right. Is no comment. Bertha. All right.
156No comment here either. Thank you so much, everybody. We appreciate it. We're going to jump into a close session. We'll catch you guys after if you want to stick around. If not, get home safe. Enjoy your uh enjoy the rest of your week. says okay. All right. We'll reconvene from close session meeting of the colony high school district board of education. We have a number of items to report out to take action on here. So uh I will go ahead and begin with item 10.1. There was one student uh interd district application appeal item presented in close session. Is there a motion to either uphold the previous appeal decision as presented or to overturn the decision as presented? I'll move to uphold. All right. We have a motion by board member Fuentes, a second by
157board member Bertha Flores to uphold the previous appeal decision as presented. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose. All right. Hearing none. It is so ordered. 40. And student number for the record is 10452548. Thank you for that. Next item 10.2. There was one student discipline item presented in close session. Is there a motion to hold the expulsion order as presented? Motion by board. Is there a second? Second by board member Haro. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Uh motion carries 40 and student discipline excuse me student number is 10458090. Item 10.3 and a motion by board member Fuentes and seconded by board member Bertha Flores and carried on a 40 vote. Uh the board approved the personnel public employees appointment discipline dismissal release items as presented.
158Item 10.3. All right. 10.4 personal public employee appointments on a motion by board member Fuentes and seconded by board member Haro and carried on a 40 vote. The board appointed Alejandra Valencia, assistant principal elementary school to be determined. Item 10.5. On a motion by board member Fuentes and seconded by board member Bertha of Flores and carried on a 40 vote, the board appointed Timothy Nuin, assistant principal elementary school to be determined on item 10.6. On a motion by board member Fuentes and seconded by board member Haro and carried on a 40 vote, the board voted to appoint Joel Joel Gordio, assistant principal high school to be determined. Item 10.7 on a motion by board member Haro and seconded by board member Fuentes and carried on a 40 vote. The board appointed Rusana Hernand, Dr. Rusana
159Hernandez, principal middle school to be determined. And item 10.8 on a motion by board member Haro and seconded by board member Bertha Flores carried on a 40 vote. The board appointed Lori Walton, principal middle school. Tight to be determined. All right. Uh with that we'll go ahead and adjourn. Thank you everybody for for hanging out this late. I'm