001mother's cooking too. So it sounds like your grandmother's famous for cauliflower and linguini pasta. I need evidence to test that out so that one day you know but is it is a popular dish in her home and uh it is slow cook um tri tip um in there. So um I'm hungry now. So, but uh other than that, um Cody um has also been on our leadership seminar journey at Gettsburg um and really impressed um our colonel and and generals that lead us in that capacity and just it's interesting story because the minute he uh spoke with one of them, they said he's a leader. Um they could feel his love for kids and for people and so so happy for you and congratulations Cody. Give you a chance to address the board. Good evening,
002board president Flores, members of the board, executive cabinet, superintendent Miranda, members of the audience. Um, thank you. Thank you for placing this trust in me. I know it's a big responsibility and I intend to treat it as such. Um, if you were to ask me just, you know, five years ago if I thought I'd be here, I'm not sure what I would have said, but I know what I can say is like everyone here, I didn't get here on my own. I had a lot of support. Um, and of course we alluded to my son who's in the audience, Brian, my wife, Mara, and we have some family friends, Miss Rilla and Mr. Howard, who at this point, they're family. They're not just friends. Um, so, uh, these folks have supported me, but obviously I've
003had a lot of professional support as well. You know, I've had some great principles guide me. I've had the leadership seminar experience, which was truly transformative and really speaks to like the forwardinkingness of this district. I can tell we're headed in some great directions with that. the design process, all of that. So, I'm truly honored, I'm proud, and grateful that you had placed this responsibility with me. And uh yeah, I look forward and I'm super excited wherever I get placed to serve the community to my best ability. Thank you. [Applause] One more round of applause for Cody, please. Next, I'd like to introduce our our new elementary principal, Jeffrey Curran. [Applause] So Jeffrey has a a very eclectic background. He's a secondary English teacher, drama, IB English teacher. Um he is a teacher on assignment
004for secondary ELA. Um teacher at um Citrus Valley High School, middle school English language arts, um history and exploratory teacher, middle school English department chair, and most recently assistant principal at Terrace View um elementary. He is a lifelong Grand Terrace resident. Um he's CJUSD alum. Went to Grand Terrace Elementary, Terrace Hills Middle School, and Cotton High School, class of 1993. I I you know, you you wrote it down. I got to say it. But all of his degrees and certific certifications have come from local colleges, Cal State uh San Bernardino, and University of Redlands. alumni right here too and he crochets about once a week. Awesome. Awesome. So great. Um one thing that I would say is uh Jeffrey is is is a born leader. Um he had a moment this year where um his
005principal uh needed to step away and it was a seamless transition um that we heard from the community and staff and just looking forward to him taking what he's learned from Mrs. Guer and his colleagues at Terrace View and into and to the next level. So, I'll give you an opportunity to address the board. Good evening. Thank you. Um, so I did want to thank everyone. Um, it will be brief. I only have about 45 minutes of comments. Um, those of you who know me, that's probably not a joke, but I'll keep it brief. Uh, so good evening, Mr. Board President Dan Flores, members of the board, and Superintendent Dr. Miranda, as well as everyone in the audience, guests, and family as well. Um, I want to humbly thank you all for the faith you
006have instilled in me as your newest elementary principal for Colton Joint Unified. Um, as a graduate of CJUSD, it is indeed an honor to come back uh home after working in Redlands for so long and be able to serve the community that I grew up in and who I serve now the uh grandchildren of the people that I grew up with and I look forward to many more years serving as well. Uh I look forward to helping all of our students and helping them achieve uh their full potential with your support and with all the support of my staff. I am and will always be eternally grateful for this opportunity. So thank you all very much. Uh I would like to introduce my family. So I have some extended family here. So as Dr. Da
007mentioned, Joan Greer is my uh mentor and former boss as of today. So all my new bosses are still in the room. Uh and then Dr. Judy Servin and Selene Workman who have been also very helpful. Um I do have my father here and my husband. So my father Ken and my husband King are joining me as well. My mom couldn't make it. She's uh in Atlanta doing U National Women's Club things. So but I'm sure she's watching somewhere screaming on the uh the teleprompter. So uh again, thank you very much and I appreciate the opportunity to serve. [Applause] One more round of applause for Jeffrey, please. And that concludes my presentation for this evening. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you, Dr. D. And again, congratulations to all of our new management. We have fantastic leadership
008and uh we look excited. The future is bright for Colton Joint. Next item on our agenda is item 2.4. This is our employee recognition. So, I will call uh director Dr. Kathy Cervantes and Mr. Eric Eniso to come forward and lead us in our employee recognition. Good evening, board president Flores, board members, s board members, superintendent Dr. Miranda, and members of the audience. My name is Eric Eniso. I'm director of human resources classified. And as always, I am proud and happy to be up here to recognize our employees for the month of May. Um, so first up, we're going to be recognizing a person who is very well known in the district as one of the hardest working um, individuals you'll find. If you ever have an event that needs to be evented, this is
009the person that does that so well. So to honor him is going to be principal neighbors for Mr. Lupe Montoya. [Applause] We have a lot of events at Grand Terrace. I don't know if we want to volunteer them out. Um, good evening, Board President Flores, board members, Superintendent Dr. Miranda, members of the audience, and all of our community. The first time I met Lupe was at the ACSEA MAC barbecue where he was helped setting up, grilling, and doing many other things. as we all know um for him it's pretty much doing everything between him Anthony and him I did get relegated to cooking the veggie patties but I'm promise I'm still not bitter uh to say I was impressed with his work ethic is an understatement everyone knows the saying when you know you know
010and when you see him work you know when and it was evident he was different he was the type of person you want at your school site because he's going to make a positive impact back. And luckily, fortunately, we were to have Lupe come to our school site this school year. And the change was immediate. Not only did he step up and become a leader at our school site, but his actions show that he was willing to do anything to make our school not only look, but truly feel great. Uh, I reached out to a few people and they mentioned his dedication to the job as a whole and his willingness to go above and beyond set him apart from others. Another person said, "Lupe is a perfectionist." I can vouch for that. Giving all
011he's got for a cause he believes in. That the minute he got hired to CJSG, every day for him was an interview. Giving 100% no matter the task. He takes care of the school as it's his. The staff as his people and the kids are his kids. Let me reread that. He takes care of the school as it's his school. The staff are his people and the kids are his kids. That's truly what we want all of our employees to treat. All of everybody at CJUSD. Not only is he a leader on campus, but he is also a site rep coordinator for CSEA chapter 244 and appreciated by ACE for his support. I've also heard that maybe he's an ACE honorary member. Don't know if he pays dues. Don't ask me. I stay out of
012that. We are grateful to have Lupe at our site. His selflessness and willingness to do what is right are traits we should all strive to emulate and be like Lupe. So, it's my honor, true honor to introduce Lupe Martinez or Mononttoya for uh everything he's done, not only for our school site, but our district as well. Thank you for special. [Laughter] You have you have a special guest here, Lup. You want if you want to make it home tonight, you better introduce a special guest. I got a very special guest, my wife. She's always behind me for everything I do. She's like, if I do something wrong, she's sit here and you're gonna do it right. So, I'm serious. Oh, and one thing too I I did learn a lot when I did my classified
013leadership academy. I learned a lot from that. And I do I do want to tell my class classified uh members to do the classified academy. You learned a lot from that from that class. And Eric, you learned a lot. I learned a lot from that class. Thank you, sir. Another round of applause for Lupe [Applause] Montoya. So, I want to recognize two categories. these two individuals couldn't be here tonight is our certificated staff member um is Dr. Christine Whitmire and she's at her son's graduation so she couldn't make it so we'll present her at the next board meeting. The other uh category that we want to um present but she's not here also is our certificate of management and that's Dr. Wendy Moore director of LSS. So we present her at the next board meeting
014as well in July. Our next category is our educational partner and that is Rotolo Chevrolet. And at this time we would like to invite Christy Padilla to uh introduce them and she's the student services coordinator. [Applause] Thank you. Good evening board president Flores, board members, superintendent Dr. Miranda, and members of the audience. It's my sincere honor to be able to recognize Mike Caposio and Ro Chevrolet as a educational partner for the Colton Joint Unified School District. Their consistent and generous support has left a lasting impact on our students, schools, and broader community. Now in its eighth year, Ro has donated a brand new vehicle as the grand prize for the district's tomorrow's leaders celebration, an event that honors high school students who have demonstrated excellence in attendance, behavior, and academic performance. The car donation serves
015as a powerful motivator and symbol of achievement for hundreds of students across the district. This tradition began in 2016 under the leadership of Mike Caposio, then general manager of Rotolo Chevrolet. When Mike later became the owner of the dealership, he continued the tradition with enthusiasm, reaffirming Rollo's commitment to giving back to the Colton community. His decision and that of the entire Ro team reflects the legacy of the dealer's founder, Mariano Roullo. A proud graduate of Colton High School, Ro's generosity has elevated the Tomorrow's Leaders program to new heights. Their involvement not only provides students with a tangible reward, but also sends a strong message that the business community believes in our students potential and their accomplishments. Thank you, Mike Caposio, for your impact is deeply felt and genuinely appreciated by the students, families, and educators
016of CJUSD. It's with sincere appreciation that we recognize you and Rotolo as an exceptional educational partner in our mission to support, inspire, and celebrate our students. Thank you. [Applause] And that concludes our presentation for this evening. Thank you. We appreciate it. Okay. Next item on our agenda is item 3.1. This is our public hearing. So at this time I'm going to go ahead and open the public hearing for item 3.1 which is a proposed local control accountability plan for 202526. And at this time uh I do not have any cards for this specific item. Does anyone wish to speak on this uh item this public hearing? All right. Hearing none then I will go ahead and close the public hearing for item 3.1. And that'll move us to item 3.2. This is the public hearing
017for the proposed budget for fiscal year 2526 and fund balances above the minimum recommended reserve for economic uncertainties. So I will open that hearing. I do not have any speaker slips at this time. Does anybody else wish to speak on this item? All right. Hearing none, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing for item 3.2. And this takes us to public comment. Um I do have a few speaker slips here with me. Again, just a reminder to folks, um, they're welcome to address the board on items that are either on the agenda or not on the agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the school district. Um, I would simply ask that they keep their comments to three minutes. And while we cannot respond or converse, um, if appropriate, we'll certainly recommend that our staff
018follow up with you to follow through on any concerns that you might have. And our first public speaker for this evening is Miss Melissa Rango. cabinet and members of the community. My name is Melissa Wrangle and I'm the school counselor from Sycamore Hills Elementary. I'm here tonight on behalf of the staff of Sycamore Hills. We were recently informed that our current administrator, Dr. Lisa Manz will be leaving her position as our principal. I want to acknowledge this transition with respect. As a staff, we agree that change can foster growth. And while this is not a call to retain Dr. Manis, it is also not a celebration of her departure. Rather, it's an opportunity, a critical one, for us to share what kind of leadership we believe our school truly needs moving forward. Shortly after the
019announcement, human resources met with our team to ask what we were looking for in our next principal. We appreciated the opportunity to speak candidly and later followed up with emails summarizing our shared vision. We're hoping the person selected to lead Sycamore embodies the following qualities. Someone who is student centered, prioritizing the academic, social, and emotional needs of all students. A strong communicator, clear, respectful, and genuinely listening to staff, students, and families. Someone who is visible and approachable, present in classrooms and on campus, not just in the office. A collaborative leader who values team input, supports professional development, and fosters a positive culture. A person who understands the importance of counseling and social emotional learning and backs it up with action. Someone who is empathetic, culturally responsive, instructionally knowledgeable, and ethically grounded. and above all someone
020who is solutionoriented, emotionally intelligent, and ready to lead with both compassion and competence. As a dedicated staff, we are committed to continuing the progress and growth we have worked hard to achieve. Our current assistant principal, Tamara Moyers, has played a significant role in that development. We respectfully ask that our collective voice be considered as we advocate for what we believe is the best interest of our students and school community. We strongly believe that appointing Miss Moyers as our next principal would provide a seamless transition and ensure the continued momentum of our school's advancement. Her leadership has already proven effective in fostering student success and promoting community engagement. We are confident that her continued presence in a leadership role will support our mission to serve our students with excellence and strengthen our partnership with the broader
021community. Thank you for your time and consideration. and we want to leave a letter signed by several members of our staff with you as well. Thank you. We appreciate that. Our next uh speaker is Mr. Adam Angulo. Thank you. Uh good evening. Uh my name is Adam Mangulo and I proudly serve as community liaison at Zimmerman Elementary School this year. I'm here tonight because I believe in transparency, accountability, and the shared responsibility to create safe, respectful environments for both students and staff. Earlier this week, I submitted my formal resignation to human resources along with documentation outlining ongoing concerns related to a hostile work environment under the leadership at Zimmerman. I want to be clear, this isn't just about me. I stepped into this role to uplift families, build bridges between schoolers and home, and help
022children feel seen and supported. But instead, I found myself in an environment where I was yelled at, closely monitored, and made to feel unsafe while doing the very work I was hired to do. I documented everything. I submitted a detailed timeline of events, an incident report, and my year-end reflection. I followed district policy, sought union guidance, and took every professional step before deciding to speak publicly today. If you want to understand the true impact of my presence at Zimmerman, I invite you to ask the parents, ask the families who saw me every morning, who worked with me through workshops, programs, and events. They they know the heart I brought to this position, and how deeply I cared about serving their children. The truth is, I love this job. I saw myself doing this work for
023a very long time. But knowing the principal will return next year with the same unchecked authority and that I would be expected to return to a toxic environment, I had to make the difficult choice to leave. I'm not looking to be disrespected in the workplace. No one should be. This isn't about revenge. It's about responsibility. When good staff walk away, not because they're unwilling, but because they're unprotected, we lose something valuable. We lose trust. We lose community connection and we lose sight of what school should be about supporting the students. I urge this board to take serious look into the leadership climate at Zimmerman and across the district. Staff need safeguards. Families need reassurance and young scholars deserve adults who are allowed to do their jobs without fear or intimidation. I respectfully ask that my
024submitted documentation be thoroughly reviewed and that the board explore ways to strengthen staff protections going forward. I remain committed to this community and to the students we all serve. I look forward to the future where every school site is a place of safety, respect, and inspiration. Thank you for your time and for listening. And I hope this makes the beginning of a meaningful reflection and necessary change. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Angalo. And um uh I'm going to go ahead and defer to Dr. Miranda, Dr. Dade, and presume that we do have the information as well as his contact information. We'll follow uh follow through appropriately. Thank you. Our next speaker is Miss Lisa Via. Good evening everyone. My name is Lisa Via and I reside in Colton. I was off the topic. Um, I
025think it's funny that I never get addressed that my concerns mean anything. You just say thank you, but everybody else gets you're going to contact Dr. Miranda to contact me, get my phone number. I've never been asked to be talked to. So, I think that's highly disrespectful. As you know by now, I love my Colton community. I love them enough to leave the security jobs I truly love so that I can speak up even more. I recently attended your retirement dinner that you held for the retirees to hear how much you care about us. But your actions proved different for me. I wanted to believe that you cared about me and what I have done to help with student success. But you allowed me to be harassed to the point that I had to leave
026for the sake of my dignity. I did question when I paid the for the ticket for the retirey dinner as to why I was paying it towards the leaders of tomorrow foundation. Was it a fundraiser? is inappropriate to have a fundraiser for the retirement dinner. I also purchased raffle tickets, which baffled me because we had a whole football booster situation that ended up with me being the face of the dismantling of the football booster. Having raffles was apparently a big no no. Even though we had been buying raffle tickets from Coen football for decades, clearly there are standards for people and not for some people and not for others. As I navigate this journey that I'm on to heal the harassment that myself and my family received that you allowed, I will continue to shed
027light on many things that need to be fixed. Just as you had a job to do, I feel as me being someone that people in my community trust. So, I myself also have an obligation to continue to help my community to at least get the basics for us. I apologize if it is not what you want to hear. You should want to hear feedback. Instead, the leaders of our district get upset when we address something. You should be welcoming our feedback. You should serve the communities. I'm a very nice person, but that does not mean you should be mad at me for speaking up. I try to tell you privately as friends, as a co-orker, and an employee, and it went nowhere. I had endless meetings with Dr. Ortiz, endless meetings with John Saxs, with
028many concerns, and it went nowhere. So, this is where we're at. And no disrespect intended, but I have three decades of district experience. I have been on the front lines and I know how it all works. And what I bring to the table as a parent, as an employee, and as a community person, you should be using as an asset instead of a threat. All you're talking of how much you care about students and our staff does not match your actions. The unnecessary decisions that are made on a daily basis. Today, as we speak, I am appalled to know that our head of security is in beautiful Canada for a top-of-the-line conference that cost the district $182,000 to be a part of to be taking $182,000 away from the district's pocketbook that should be giving
029towards be going towards students. John Sachs should be demanding for $182,000 to go towards the purchase of new radios for the security department because communication is vital. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Sevilla. We appreciate your comments. Uh, next speaker is Juanita Moore. Miss Moore. Thank you. Good evening. Can you hear me? Good afternoon, board president Dan Flores, Superintendent Dr. Frank Miranda, esteemed members of the board and the community. Uh, I know you guys have seen me around if you don't know me. I'm pretty sure I've introduced myself, but I'm Jonita. Jonita Moore. I'm your pacer. I work for the California Schoolboard Association from which with which you are a member. Um, and I am essentially uh here to establish make sure you have a good communication and a good understanding of the policies that are
030going forward that are going to affect the local uh education communities. Um, I wanted to come here today. Uh, I try to visit every district of course and it's funny because I live closest to this district. Um, my graduated with Grant Terrace and the young man on the video montage at the very end who threw up all of his regalia, he was one one of my first students when I was a teacher. So, J, his name is Jaden and he has been that way since he was in kindergarten. Um, but I wanted to just come and make sure that you knew that what I was what I was here for and that I was available. Um, I want to make sure that you are connected to trainings, anything CSBA has to offer, but also legislative
031information. Um, most of the pacers, every region has a pacer. I'm region 16. You're region 16. I cover all of San Frernardino County and Inyo County. So, I have the largest square mileage, but the lowest, I would not say the second lowest density. So, I can make it. It take may take me six hours to get to Needles, but I can be there at least once a year. Um, so I serve both those communities, but I have been an advocate in my community for a long time. Like I said, I was a teacher for 10 years. Um, and right before I became your local lobbyist is what they would call me. Um, I was a um, campaign manager for a judge who was previously a schoolboard member. So, I have seen many campaigns. Um, I
032want to congratulate you on your new culinary building. I think that is awesome. Supporting your CTE pathway. Big advocate for that. Um, the outstanding work of your yearbook class at Joe Baka. That's a that was awesome to hear. I think I emailed you guys that about that too. That was great to see. um the influence and diligence of your input at Sandav. Uh Dr. Miranda and um for President Flores, I love seeing you guys there because it is a unique perspective that we don't always have. You know, we Sanino County is huge. So, we want to make sure that we're all heard. Um and of course for the California Department of Ed naming um Silver Mountain High School as a model continuation high school. I think that's amazing. Um, and yeah, I just wanted to
033say congratulations on a successful year, successful bond passing. Um, and thank you for all your hard work. Uh, even if personally just for Jaden and for my nephew, I appreciate you. Thank you, Donita. Thank you so much. Thank you for your advocacy and and the work that you do on behalf of us. So, we really appreciate it. Thank you. All right, those are all the public comment speaker slips I have for this evening's meeting. So, we will go ahead and close public comment. And that takes us to our administrative presentations. And our first administrative presentation uh of the evening is item 5.1. This is the 202526 local control and accountability plan and district budget. So our LCAP and budget. So I will call on our assistant superintendent, Mr. From and Dr. Peterson to u give
034this presentation. Sounds like we're going to start with the ed services side, right? So starting with LCAP. All right, we're going to do LCAP and then we'll roll into the budget. Okay, sounds good. And members of of the audience and and the executive cabinet, um it was my pleasure to be here tonight with Director Murphy and our business services team um to start with our local control and accountability plan, which I know is your favorite presentation every year. So, here we go. A lot of information here. We're going to try and go through this quickly. Uh we know you have a copy of this too. So um we're gonna go ahead and get started. I'm going to jump right in with changes this year. And so you can see um the learning recovery emergency block
035grant due to a lawsuit at the state is now included as a re basically being reported in the LCAP as a goal. Um even though it's technically not in the LCAP. And so um long-term English learners are accounted for separately. our LCFF equity multiplier schools based on um 70% low income and greater than a 25% non-stability uh which is a transitional rate. Um it makes you an equity multiplier school. We have some new schools this year um and then includes required actions to address the lowest performance. In this case it would have been red on our dashboard for any of the state indicators um for the all student group at a school level for the district for a student group level and then uh student group within a school. And so those are the the
036tweaks and changes that have happened because you know they have those every year. So um so I wanted to give you a little bit of history on the LCAP and I thought um they actually provided us these next couple slides at the county and I thought you you guys might appreciate this as well having been here all these years and seen this and so just wanted to give a brief uh brief history. So in 2013 the LCAP was introduced as part of the LCF. In 2014 was when we were required to adopt our first three-year LCAP. 2015 um they actually added the eight state priorities so that you had to make sure that you you um accounted for all of that. 2016 they added the requirement for unduplicated population. So the focus on English learners,
037foster youth, and low-income students. 2017 they added the California dashboard which then of course 2018 you add the CSI requirements um for those schools that that um did not do well on the dashboard. 2019 they added the budget overview for parents. Um they felt parents had a hard time understanding the budget pieces in there. I don't think they made it easier to understand with the budget overview for parents but they tried. But we're trying. um 20 2021 sorry the things in front of that right there um they revised the annual update that's the year the during the pandemic where we actually did kind of two LCAPS in one year with learning continuity plan and then 2022 they added specific goal requirements and action tables and then added additional requirements for the increased or improved services
0382023 they added a student advisory and then the ability to add specific goals um or broad goals to your your u work. And then in 2024, you have the um pile up on on the 10 and 2024, you notice the truck piece there. This is what that they added the major update, the annual update to the LCAP, uh new fields to goals, the equity multiplier goals. um they complete required us to complete the annual performance on the dashboard. Um technical assistance section and you can see all the different areas there which is when I started having a partner come up and do the presentation with us. Um and so you can see over the years um just the amount of um detail and information that goes into the into the LCAP as our district plan.
039And so want to touch on our reflect a little bit on our successes this year. Uh I think one of the things I'm most proud of uh across the district for everyone is that on the dashboard all indicators showed improvement. Um the continued design plan implementation BHS and Slover M had successful was visits. We had the revalidation of AVID the national demonstration school for Bloomington High School. The early college program is now in in process at all of our schools. our focus on English learners and the tell process and our mental health supports and down on down the list there you can see I think it's been a really um successful year that we've had and looking forward to continuing that in our next in the next year and so identified needs um we have
040our four um subgroups that are in that were in differentiated assistance that we're working hard um to support our English learners students with disabilities African-American and foster youth um our continued focus on e and u English learners and our differentiation. And then the last four, English, math, chronic absentee, and graduation rate. Those are our um dashboard categories. I think those will always be there because we always want to um continue to do better. And so we're looking to continue growing there. And so just to give you a quick look at the LCAP budget, the total LCAP supplemental and concentration grants this year for for next year total 76.1 million. And then we have new equity multiplier funds that Director Murphy will review with you for the three three new schools of $1.2 million. And so
041I'm going to turn it over to Director Murphy right now to go through our our uh goals and actions and then we'll we'll go from there. I think you can see when my boss refers to something as a truck wreck on the highway, you can understand why uh writing the LCAP does not fill my bucket um every time I sit down to do it. But when we get to work with the different groups who look at the data, who give their feedback, who say their desired wants and needs and what they want to see continue, like that fills my bucket, especially when I see those words are brought to life in this document. Uh we work with our staff members through our steering committee and our writing committee. Uh we meet with our parents so
042we can hear them and what they are feeling like needs to continue, what needs to be improved. And then obviously we meet with our students at the secondary level and so they can talk with us also about what's working well and what is not. And so what I want to do is to walk us through the different uh LCAP goals um so you can see the metrics and the metrics have not changed at all since last year but you can see what we've done is started adding in uh the outcomes that we have and equitable access for all is really about what we can do to close that achievement gap. And you can see in here that we've increased um in all of our metrics after one year in all but one. Um we also
043want to talk about the funding that we're doing for these different uh goals. And you see here we're highlighting when we're closing the achievement gap of really looking at what type of support are we giving for our EL students AVID and for our CTE and pathways which all are things which keep coming out from our community and from our students and staff as these are things important they want to see continue and they know that that goes and it contributes to all of their success. And so we feel that like showing you maybe a 260 page document is not the most thrilling thing to go through and read, but we wanted to go through and to bring this to life. And so you can see here is last year's Bloomington High School validictorian. And you
044can see obviously she's gone through and she's met all the requirements for A throughG completion. and our Colton High School students at an honor assembly and our Grand Terrace High School students and they were um I love this display of what they're doing to prepare for the um for their honor role. Uh we have our AVID uh our AVID people who are going and being celebrated for moving AVID to school and districtwide implementation. Our Jobaka Middle School students on a college field trip. Uh these are Bloomington High School graduates who have come back to a Job Baka Middle School classroom to recruit for AVID and also to talk about what it leads to in success. Our Colton High School students going on their college road trip uh spring break. Uh you see here we have
045our steam expo going on. Uh this is co um I'm sorry, Terrace Hills Middle School where we have our CTE pathway with the students at lunchtime and we see EL instruction going on at various elementary uh schools. Our dual immersion program is heavily funded through the LCAP. Um and these are our dual immersion teachers being trained in GLAD. And while we did provide them with chairs to sit in at this training, you can see their passion like they're getting down on the floor uh developing their posters to take back to their students. Uh you can see our Colton High School pathway students. And what I think is exciting is when I look closely at this, I'm like, those are strategies uh they're doing there with our students, our GTS GTHS uh engineering pathway students. Uh
046this I think is super cool. Um this is uh obviously principal neighbors over at Grant Terrace High School. Uh if you notice um and Kari Harvey also, but if you notice that they're holding up a sign that has been cut out by Coloulton High School welding students in a joint uh pathway activity that is going to be put on display at the battery uh plant that's close by in Grand Terrace. Uh we have our heels students hard at work. uh this 2,000 students um together brought together in our district with instruments funded by the LCAP. Uh this is also from the LCAP where you see our high school students, they've gone to the Pantageous Theater to see a Harry Potter um play. So goal number two is really talking about student achievement and making sure
047that our students are prepared for college and career. Um, and what we're really doing is is if you see here in the metrics, you see that we've increased the performance already in most of the areas and the bulk of the funded items are going towards math, science, and ELA achievement. And so to bring this to life so you can see this in action and see that we really do believe in this work, we have our gate family night where we have only over 150 parents in attendance learning about the gate program and seeing playing participating in different educational games. At Grant Elementary School, we have students participating in gate activities. our induction program. Uh these teachers uh who are part of our induction program mentoring others, they went through an eight-day cognitive coaching training and
048you can see here that they graduated from the program ready to serve and as as Christina Parachchi says like offer the best induction program in the area. A lot of our money also goes towards the library where you can see that we have uh books in different languages in different formats for our students uh to read in. Uh this is Colton Middle School. Uh their Mesa students are preparing for the balloon uh activity. Our science fair that I know you all go to. Uh technology support and their onetoone devices which is all funded from the LCAP. Uh we have teachers on assignment and you see some of our teachers on assignment are in the classroom working with students but you also see them participating in professional development with other teachers and you see Miss Rodriguez
049at Crestmore Elementary working with a small group of students. Uh goal number three. I always I think our parents probably love this the most um because they see how much we believe in the whole child and how we're building up on that. And you see here that the metrics also are showing improvement in all but one area. And in the wellness area, we're really focusing on physical and mental wellness, PBIS support, and busing, which is so important to our Slover and Bloomington high school students. And you can see here the focus on attendance because we know our kids need to be at school in order to learn. Our elementary school counselors, our students participating in uh PBIS rewards. Uh this is Colton Middle School where they're engaging in a boys's empowerment project. Cresmore pizza with
050the principal celebrating PBIS and our students at Colton High School redeeming their PBIS points and our busing which is so essential to our students. Uh this is Colton High School wellness fair as well as Coloulton Middle School students participating in wellness activities at lunchtime. Goal number four is focusing on family and community engagement. And you see that most of these metrics um our baseline and we're just establishing uh the criteria for that. But if you really take notice at the numbers of the attendance at our parents events, you can see that there's been an increase in all of those areas, which we're really pleased about. And you see in these areas, we're really focusing on what are we doing to support our families and how we're communicating and interacting with our families as well as
051um obviously our district community liaison. And you'll see Mr. Perez as he's working with our ROC students. Uh we have Maria Christina interpreting at a San Bernardino Valley College workshop. We have our parents engaged in a suicide prevention workshop as well as um a a dreamer and immigrant uh support workshop for our families over at San Bernardino Valley College. Uh these are dual immersion parents. Um they take a tour of the different dual immersion schools so they can see what's going on in the classrooms. And as Dr. um Peterson talked about before, we have our equity multiplier schools. And as a reminder, these schools went into equity multiplier status because of their social mobility rate um Dr. Peterson uh and their transiency rate. I'm sorry that I needed to phone a friend briefly on that
052and she telepathically sent me the answer for that. Um, but I really want to highlight with this these schools did they did nothing to get them into trouble. And I think they feel when I make give them a call and explain to them their status, they feel like they did something wrong and they didn't do anything wrong. The money was given to us and and to to really look at our data to see what we can support the students who are in these different groups. Um, and so like in no way do I want anyone to think that that they're in any type of difficulty. In fact, we had one principal who came to an LCAP meeting who realized how much money they were getting and they were like, "How do I become one?" I'm
053like, "You don't really want to become one." Uh, but Slover Mountain High School is one of these and the county has advised us that what we need to do is to focus on the areas of red. That's what we need to be setting our goals for. Um, and so like this is the first year that they've gone through and they've worked on this. Um, they've had a learning specialist at their school. They've had a wellness center uh person. They've had a community liaison and this year they're adding in science lab supplies. Um but they're really pleased when when we've looked at the data um in I think it was in April I met with them and seeing the internal data of what has happened at their school so far has been very impressive. Uh Washington
054High School is also an equity multiplier school and again they're really focusing on that wellness center at their school, a community liaison. um their staff uh when they looked at their data, their educational partners uh felt that multilingual instructional support as well as PD activities were really going to support the students in those areas and you see their community um the wellness center when they were presenting at community cabinet which has really been a benefit to the school and to our students. Uh last year our African-American students uh qualified through this. It was kind of a little number discrepancy there. Uh we do keep them in this year in the LCAP only because they didn't expend all of their money yet. I think they have about $7,000 left. So they're no longer receiving money in
055moving forward, but we are expected to report on this until the money is gone. Uh Wilson Elementary School also no longer qualifies for equity multiplier status. They did last year um and they really focused on uh toas to really focus on interventions in ELA and math. And again, uh, when Dr. Koa went through the data as to what has happened with these students reading and math levels, very impressed with what's happening with their, um, with their work. Kulie Ranch Elementary School has just entered equity multiplier status and what they are doing after a close look with all of their staff at their data is really focusing on restorative practices and that support for teachers um and really that that first best instruction in math and ELA and contracting with a behavior technician to help out
056with the behaviors at the school. Uh Dr. Peterson also talked before about now we're bringing in the uh learning recovery emergency block grant into the LCAP to report on and the funded items for this really are focusing on that that counseling and mental health support which we felt like so is so essential um ELA literacy and math support really again working as a district of what we're doing for first best initial instruction and also focusing on credit recovery Great. All right. Next is our local indicator information. And so these are the kind of the priorities instate priorities that are not necessarily in the LCAP. And so priority one um discusses the teachers instruction materials and facilities. So those are our Williams compliance issues that we that we we talk about in that. Priority two is
057imple implementation of state and academic standards. Um this was done through a survey of our um curriculum councils. Priority three, the parent involvement and family engagement. We provided a survey um to our parents that reported out information for this. Our school climate which was focused on our school climate survey and then access to a broad course of study. Um just the fact that we have open access to um sites and courses across the district. And so the local indicators um if you remember from last year this will come into the next uh the next board meeting as an administrative report. And so we report it as we report it separately from the LCAP as an administrative report and then we submit it separately um in in July. And then finally um we did have some
058budget reductions this year. And so I want to kind of go through uh when we started the year due to some declining enrollment and not knowing what the cola was going to be and at the state the state level um we knew that there was going with increases in salaries and benefits and the raises we gave the last two years um the LCAP is 80 to 90% 80 to 85 or more percent um people and so we were worried when we started the year um what it was going to look like and so um so it was not enough the increase in the cola was not enough to offset the increase in salaries and benefits. Um, so the budget this year was decreased from 76.8 million to 76.1. Um, I worked with the LCAP steering
059committee. We worked with the LCAP steering committee the first semester outlining possible reductions. And as I said, we did not know what it was going to look like. Um, I thought it could be anywhere up to several million dollars to $10 million. And so we acted with that in mind in the in our meetings and said if we had to do this, what would we do? So, we wor spent all first semester working on a plan for that if if that came to fruition. Um and and and worked with that. Um luckily it did not. And when we came out of it, it was just over a million dollars and then we found out a few weeks ago u we got 300,000 of that back. So the total reduction this year was only 7880,000. Um
060the good news most of that is um doesn't touch doesn't affect people and we were really able to make this reduction without hurting um programs as well. And so the activity centers um that we had which is our playgrounds actually are no longer able to be funded through the LCAP. They're not contributing. So that was an easy um easy reduction to make. Uh middle school inter murals we found new funding and expanded learning funds. So $130,000 there. And then our visual and performing arts. The past two years we've added um $500,000 to that fund um prior to Prop 28 knowing that um we wanted them to go really attack the art plan. And so then as the Prop 28 funds came in in the arts, music and instructional instruction grant um we could decrease those
061funds as as needed at that point. Originally we had pulled 300,000 out. Um we were going to leave leave 200. um we were able to put 200 back in when it when the numbers drop. So, we're happy that it's only a $100,000 reduction. So, they'll have another year with those with that $300,000 of funding. Um and again, 3.4 million is still in the LCAP for arts for visual and performing arts, 2.2 million in the arts, music, and instructional grant, and 3.2 um for Prop 28 funds that they'll that they continue to use. And then finally, uh professional development without subs was $50,000. And this can be funded through other grants and titles and even within the within other LCAP areas um that we have. And so all total very happy that um the reductions were
062pretty minimal this year and we're looking forward to um hopefully some better better outcomes next year. But we'll start the year the same way the first semester looking at at ways to reduce um do those things without without touching positions. And so the this just in closing, this year's LCAP will be or next year's LCAP will be year two of the three-year plan. Um we are always as always committed to continue implementing it and providing those services to our students. Really proud of the work that's been done this year and the results we've gotten across the board and just want to thank everybody. Um this really does take a village to do all this and so um really want to thank everybody that played a part in that. our our LCAP email address is there
063in case anyone wants to send us an email that way. And then just as always, I like this love this slide at the end because this is why we do what we do and so um we can answer any questions the board may have. Now a lot packed into that presentation. I know there are some questions and comments. So let me go ahead and kick it to my colleagues first. uh questions, comments about uh the LCAP board member Bertha Flores. Y that was that was a lot that was a lot of information and um thank you because 168 pages of this um I had a chance to go through it uh and uh it's I know hey I do keep that on my bedside. Um so I just want to Thank you because there's um
064ev there's evidence it's evident that you took a lot of time and I'm sure you had a team working and and Dr. Peterson with your leadership um I think this LCAP should be a model for for the county and for the state. That's my opinion. So um but I I did have some questions about the African-American goal seven and that I just had a question about It says um it deals with suspension rates and it says it went the baseline was 9.0 to 9.4. So that's an area that we need to differentiate assistance with with with our African-American subgroup. It's one of the reasons um this year we did a lot of professional development on site. We did the empathy interviews. Um what was the presentation? The um Dr. Clark has been Yeah. continuing to
065to do that work. Okay. Now, the next slide it says no longer receiving funding. What What does that mean? Kind of the the oneoff last year. They they found a student at the district office that and they did this at a couple couple districts where the state actually assigned one student to the district office and gave us $50,000 and we were like what do we do with this because it's not and they said pick us pick a group and so because we knew we were doing that they were in in different assistance and we knew we were doing the work with our African-American students um this allowed us to do a lot of the field trips and things that that we were able to do with our students this year. And so that's what we
066that's what we we selected with that. Okay. Thank you for that. And um also I just um want to just been you know call you know I really think that you've focused on the actual needs of our students. You've been able to identify those students and um I'm sure that starting this new school year we are going to be focusing on those groups. the eels, the African-American, the the foster youth, those that are are need the most help. And uh through the document, I see that over and over again, you have uh allocated funding and you have strategies to address those. And so we're hoping to see growth in those, you know, with those kids that need it the most. Director Murphy is leading the coordination of the summer institute with Dr. Moore and so
067a lot of uh cultural and character building pieces and knowing your students, understanding your students and things like that are being um discussed in that summer institute. So, it should be a really um really exciting, really fun um couple of days to um provide some professional learning to our students so that we understand the needs of our students and are able to support them. Graduation rate is 86. It was 86. It went up to 87.3. Is that correct? Last year's number. So, we're hoping, fingers crossed, in the next we get some good news that we're we're getting close to that at least 90% and then then we'll go from there to 95. Okay. And um the summer school, you know, I read that that due to the summer school that was offered, we were able
068to get our graduation rates up. Uh you there's an example Colton High School, the ELS increased by uh from 6 64.6 to 84.8. The homeless youth um 66.7 to 85. Um the foster 7 oh they went down from 75 to 64. And students with disabilities 53.3 to 72.3. Uh so that's uh that's a good sign. We're going in the right direction. It's it's a lot. And I thank you so much for your work that you put in into this. very exciting to me. Very well written. I was um it it shows where we're at and it shows clearly where we're going and where we're what what we're f you know focusing on. So thank you you board member Berth floors board member Ibar did you have questions please? Okay. Um, just want to say thank
069you again. That that was very uh informative and I did get the opportunity to read it and go through it. Um, though it looked like uh in many of the areas we start showing improvement, which is what we're looking for. Um, I did pick up uh where you uh mentioned that uh we were going to be minus $780,000 in funding. And though it looked like we could offset that uh that funding in some of the areas that you know they uh we would lose uh funding for like inter murals, theater and so forth. Uh you did mention the fact that you were anticipating maybe something a little bit higher as far as the amount of money that we may be minus. Now, you know, when you mentioned that, it just came to my mind that
070are we anticipating in the years to come that we may continue losing funding uh uh every year uh for the LCAP factors that go into that. And so, I can't say for sure that that we're we anticipate it, but we definitely want to prepare for it. just in case um so that we're being proact we're trying to be proactive as well um to make sure that again it's not gonna it's not going to touch people and so um that's the the work that we're doing with with that. So, and when you talk about t touching people, we're talking about positions, employee positions. Um, what about uh affecting the students? Uh, I know that uh in Colton inner murals, theater, music programs, all those that we're going to be trying to figure out how we're going
071to fund um because we're losing that money. uh affects our students and uh and that's where my concern is with this if it's going to be something that what is our plan if say next year it does fall into the categories that you were mentioning because I if I recall you were saying that you're looking at maybe being minus you know a little bit more than 780,000. Yeah. I look at like worst case beyond worst case scenario so that I'm I'm one that prepares for the the cliff had the state gone off the cliff of of everything and not funded anything. So that's what I tend to prepare like in the hopes that we don't have to do that. And luckily this year, you know, and I don't expect I expect us to be okay
072for the next few years, but I also have to plan as if that's a possibility. So Okay. That's a good question. So inter mural sports we fund that through ELOP which is extended learning opportunities. The state funds that at the highest level right now of $1.8 billion and the VAPA is through Prop 28 as well. So those are restricted programs that drive different dollars in outside of the normal LCAP dollars of LCF. Uh, with that being said, uh, you know, taking a look at, and I hate to always looking at this, but, you know, it's right in front of us. Um, I would anticipate that, uh, our district's going to lose or potentially lose up to about 16% of federal funding for our district. And uh I think that uh you know as as the
073time goes on uh this board this body is going to have to be in a position to have to make some very tough decisions of what programs that we're going to have to keep special ed etc versus those that we're going to have to eliminate in order to fund those. So, uh, what I'm looking for right now is just what what are some of the strategies are we going to use in order for us to anticipate if the years that come in the next two, three years are a little bit leaner as far as funding and how we going to approach that. our end, one of the things we we look at is is and one of the things we're starting to look at is evaluation of what we are spending money on. And so,
074um, is it having the desired it's why the each metric lines up to each action is it having the desired effect and is it being effective? And at that point, if it's not, then we're actually required by the county to remove it if it's not. So, we have that in the LCAP for that. Um, as we said, we have ELOP and then we had um um some other the other funding that was we're finding in other for inter murals we're finding other funding sources that are able to take care of that through whether it's grants um things like that. And so we're we're looking at that's what we look for is what can we do that has the least amount of impact on students and PE and and our employees so that we can continue
075to do the great things that we're doing. Yes, we what what I'll add to that and as Greg will come up and talk about the budget and see how uh healthy it is at this time. Uh what we talk about because uh and Greg will show the decline in enrollment that we've been talking about for years. It's making sure that uh ADA goes up because we get funded based on enrollment only. A lot of what's driven by the LCAP is driven by uh what's called our unduplicated pupil percentage. That's that's what funds us. We're high uh high percentage district for for that. We're 86 87%. In fact, that's increased significantly over the years. Uh so here's the deal though. As long as we continue to adjust the when we decline enrollment for staffing and for
076those of what we've been doing over the last several years, we've offered a employee uh retirement incentive. Uh we've brought resolutions to the board for alignment of those the staffing. We've worked with our unions uh rigorously uh to bring those items to the board which we will continue to do so uh this next year. Our strategy is is really uh that that alignment uh and you know the items that are mentioned the LCAP here uh a lot of these items get placed in the LCAP to help offset some expenditures within the general fund. Well that's uh because we need to spend down some of as Tina looks pretty serious there. It's and and so those things get uh we we move them back to the general fund when necessary. So it's a fluid process going
077back and forth. uh cabinet uh in fact one of our priorities that we just identified cabinet retreat is for sure the budget and during good times is when you prepare for uh winter the clouds w with what's happening uh you know uh you'll see again the the budget coming up here it's healthy however uh you know the LCFF which is the the main uh source uh revenue generator for for for our our uh district. Uh we've seen drops in colas that you know the state projects 2.9 and then they drop it down uh and so we we certainly have to adjust for for those uh in in tying up our our budgets. Uh, you know, our district staffing ratios are pretty healthy, too. Uh, 80% around there. Uh, you know, when you start getting to
07890% is when you start having issues. 80 85% is kind of where we're at with well, 85% in the alcap. So, uh, but like you said, Mr. Bar, we got we we we have prepared uh for that. I've had asked Greg who's leads our budget obviously uh to uh we we are we have a plan uh the budget plus the LCAP. However, we also have uh a plan that that he's developing over the summer. We closed the books in September and so then or August rather and so then we look at the fall out there to see where we're at. So it's just fluid. It's just constant monitoring adjusting. So, and the reason why I asked the question is also has a lot to do with the progress we're making. You know, I mean, it's
079really good progress, but uh when I take a look at what what uh programs we're looking to have difficulty funding, you know, uh I I'm I'm thinking that these particular programs help that progress. It it motivates our students, you know, because our students get motivated in a variety of different ways. And you know, what can we do to continue providing these type of services to our students so that the progress that we're seeing could continue to move forward and so forth. And uh that's why I asked that question. Mr. I will when I'm done presenting ask me that question again because I can have a detailed explanation of how how we handle that situation and and that but once I I don't want to hijack the end of her presentation but I can ask me
080that one at the end way to approach that yeah process. No it's just about us as a district being totally prepared. Uh and that's what I'm getting at that we want to be prepared you know and I'm I always mention it. I don't want to go back to what we experienced in ' 07 and and be in that type of boat. And I just want to make sure that we're going to be solvent and we're going to continue to provide the services that are helping our students uh improve on every aspect of their education. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bar. Other questions or comments from from board members? Just two two quick questions on on my part or I guess one comment and and one question. First, u I love the parent participation, parent engagement
081piece. Obviously, that's critical to the success of our students. Um, and what I see is is fantastic when it comes to focusing on mental health. Um, and and engaging our parents in a way that they understand how their participation supports the students. But uh as of late uh I'm spending a lot more time trying to just read and understand some of the challenges that we're facing both here I think as our community and of course nationally you know the other indicator of success uh of students is not you know yes parent engagement but so is economic upward mobility right so as you go up and up the economic ladder you tend to see better outcomes u in terms of students right so poverty we're in a battle against poverty and beginning to think about ways
082to engage our parents about their own economic upward mobility. We have a number of parents in our district, a lot of parents, maybe a majority of our parents that are undermployed, meaning they're in jobs that pay insufficient wages. They're having to work longer hours, maybe take multiple jobs, and that is why they're not able to be engaged in more of their students education. Again, um not to get into the details of what's on the news these days, but we are seeing huge gaps between the halves and have nots and our the spending power that we have as working families is not what it once was. So, um I guess this is just more of a policy conversation that I'd like to have as we start to formulate conversations around what topics we're going to really
083focus on with our parents. the fact that we have a burgeoning adult program and we graduated not only folks with high school diplomas but CNAs at the same time just a few weeks ago and their stories were literally I had a job as a sub with the district. I couldn't become a full-time employee with benefits because I didn't have a high school diploma. Now I do and now I can. That's transformative. Right now you're a full-time employee, benefits, retirement, uh time off when you when you have holidays and vacation. So that equ uh economic mobility is going to be key if we're really serious about helping our families succeed and our students. So um again, Dr. Miranda, that's I know it's a big topic and a big thing to address, but I I really hope
084as we look at engaging our parents that we we make that we not be afraid to talk about that, that we understand that we can help them with all of the it's great to help your kid with homework. It's great to to have to go to the parent teacher conference, but how many of our parents can't go because they're working uh at a warehouse till midnight and then they're sleep for a few hours and get up and do another shift at some other place at 6:00 in the morning. So, you know, we need to that's a reality and so we're going to have to um find a way to help change that. So, that's my thought on that. The question I did have though, shifting gears different direction, VAPA visual performing arts, obviously we have
085some funding there. What I'm noticing in my tour of school sites is VAPA is unique because the environment is so important to the success of that program. Whatever whether it's, you know, theater and having enough space uh to practice uh music, practice rooms, art rooms, you know, unfortunately a lot of our spaces are inadequate. Um are we able to use some of these vapid dollars and for things like improving spaces? Obviously, we need equipment, instruments, and the things that go along with our visual and performing arts programs, but how do we start to tackle that? And I know we've got a separate plan in part, but there the facility piece is kind of an inbetweener, right? Traditionally, that falls under, you know, we go in and we have to fix the building, but in this
086case, the facility piece is also the program piece. Like, if you don't have a proper practice room, if you don't have space to store instruments, a place to perform, then you can't really teach. Our teachers do amazing things with some really tough spaces. So where does that fall in this conversation? Whoever wants to take it. Yeah. So we do do that. So I do know in Prop 28 Owen has gotten some dollars there to help upgrade some facilities, but there's not a lot there. But in the el in ELA, we do too as well. We've been replacing portables, doing things along the line with that because that's the afterchool program and we're using our facilities to do the afterchool pro program. So we do we we we're using a lot more in the ELOP we
087get funding there to use that but we also with Prop 28 as well we try to do the best we can but there's more dollars in ELOP to do that and we have been doing that specifically to improve the physical spaces that that our students are in and the teachers. Okay. Yes. Correct. Well, again, and I think that's going to be an integral part of of our success with the visual and performing arts is giving the appropriate space and equitable. So, you know, newer schools tend to have a little more space. Older schools, it's a little tough, but it also speaks to the safety. Um, you know, I've seen spaces where you've got practice rooms and spaces where, you know, they're off in a corner down a dark hallway and you don't you can't see
088what's going on. So, well lit windows installed indoors so that we can see what's going on and that it's a layout that's appropriate for for our students and our school sites. So, lots lots of work to do. So, I appreciate that. Yeah. And it also helps us stretch our bond dollars, right? When we can catch a little bit of ELOP or Prop 28 onto a project that has our bond dollars go a lot further, too. So, we always look to get alternative funding, matching funding to try to extend those dollars as well. Thank you. Appreciate it. That's all I have. So, I think Are we ready to jump into the budget portion? All right. All right. Mr. From, you're up. I have to say um I'm feeling a little bit better about myself because it's
089usually when I start to present the room clears out. This time it was when Dr. Peterson came up. So that's once a year when she goes before me that I get to feel good about myself because it's not me clearing out the room and that. So here we are starting a new budget cycle 2526 school year is upon us in a few weeks. So we need to first start off how we're ending this year. So in this budget we have a column for estimated actuals. So here are some key things that are put in there that help drive the outy years in our multiple year projections. It includes in there the 2.5 off schedule bonus that all employees are going to get. We updated our estimates for how we're going to close with revenue and
090expenditures. final report on enrollment for 18414 students and our P2 attendance at 17,079 and we have 1/4 of a child too in there at 0.25. So when we go to build our multi-year projections, it's based off assumptions and that um and and where we are in time. So this is the main assumptions this is built off of. There's there's a couple I really want to point out to you. Our cola came in at 2.3%. Next year in 2627 fiscal year, it's projected at 30 3% 3.02 and 2728 at 3.42. Now, financial experts in in the state, some of them are saying that's a projection that's too high and could come in lower and that's an at risk there in that. Just wanted to point that out. In fact, school servicees do their own projections and
091they currently have theirs a little bit lower than than that, but those aren't set yet. It's a projection based where we are are today. So, I just wanted to point that piece out as well. And we have our enrollment which is going down. Um, our ADA is going down with enroll enrollment. But I have a little bit good news on a couple slides in. I'll point to that. And our three-year funded average for ADA. Our upp like Dr. Mang just said was about 87 right around there. That means we have a lot of need. When that number is higher, the higher amount of that number is meets our need. We have a lot of need in this district which drives the LCFF dollars that we get stepping and column stirs has been locked into that
092rate for years and in the out years as well. PERS as you can see in 2728 it's up to 28.5 but if I could project 10 more years out it's projected to go down a little bit in the way more out out years in that. So but I didn't think we wanted to have a current plus five or six years on this slide to show just that. The next the next thing I this is a really important slide. So cola came in at 2.3% for us. So that's why when we we don't want to talk percentages, we want to talk dollars. So if you look in column 2425, that is our revenue that we receive for LCFF for this current school year. Even with a 2.3 cola projected, our revenue is going down because we're
093it's on less students and that. So even though we're getting a cola 2.3, it's actually almost $3.8 million less coming into the district than this year. Now the next slide is important too. So at second interm projected at 2.43 43 and it came out at 2.3 and we increased money from that point. And that is up that is part of our schools doing a great job getting kids to come to school. Our you you as a board setting that 10 10 95 focusing on that that made it so it was kind of a wash where we didn't receive less. We actually received more with a 2.3 cola at adoption here than we were projecting with a 2.3. Dr. Ortiz and his team really hammers home, kids going to school that brings more money in. And
094this is an example that shows the hard work doing that because without that it could have been a lot worse of the less money that we're getting based on declining enrollment. I'm going to turn it over to Maria Amanda. Okay, so this slide breaks down our LCFF funding and shows the changes between the current fiscal year and the upcoming budget year. So our base changes um is a decrease of 2.5 million and then our supplemental and concentration which is what makes up our LCAP funding that is going down by 1.2 million. So our total projected LCFF revenue is 278.8 million. Underneath that we see the breakdown of what makes up that 27 278.8 million. So our base funding uh for the coming year is projected to be 202.6 million while our um LCAP funding is
095projected to be 76.1 million. Uh this slide shows our enrollment and ADA history and as we can see it is continuing to decrease. Um the top line shows enrollment um in the black line and the orange line is projections for the budget year and the three outy years. Uh the blue line is ADA and they're continuing to decrease together. Um, our 88% is currently at 93% and we're projecting that it'll stay the same in the outy years. Uh, this slide shows the unrestricted MYP with current year estimated actuals, the budget year and the two outy years. Um, our revenues are staying pretty stable with uh slight increases in the outy years. Our expenditures are increasing in the outy years mostly due to salary and benefit increases. Uh we are projecting that we will deficit spend
096in all years but we still maintain a positive ending fund balance and we're able to meet our 3% reserve. Next slide. This slide shows our combined my so this brings in our restricted um expenditures and revenues. Uh and the same we are projecting that we will deficit spend but we will still maintain a positive ending fund balance be able to meet our 3% reserve and our obligations. Next steps. June 15th is the deadline for the legislature to send the budget to the governor and June 30th is the deadline for the governor to sign the budget. June 17th, the board will consider and approve the 2526 LCAP and budget. August 29th is when we would bring any 45day budget revisions to the board for consideration. And September 4th is when we will bring unodudited actuals. Any
097questions? Questions? You know, the big question is how, you know, how likely is this to change, right? So, we did get our May revise from the governor, which actually was more promising than what we thought initially going into that. The state of California is obviously in a deficit. However, it appears that he's trying to hold uh hold the line, if you will, and fund these education initiatives. But again, um we're still waiting for a substantial uh volume of Los Angeles County tax return or uh taxes to come in the tax revenues because they were deferred. Property taxes were deferred. Um income taxes may have been referred to for LA County. I'm not sure for at least their deadline was put to October 17th, I believe. Right. Right. You can imagine that's a huge portion of
098of of California. So anyway, yeah. What to what degree do we expect there to be changes? There will be some changes because there are certain things that we we were um instructed to by the county not to include in this adopted and one of the big things is the discretionary block grant that's sitting out there because it's a risky it's a risky thing. So, in in the May revise, it was it didn't change from the original when the governor put out his in January. Um, it is supposed to be be able to be spent on anything, right? But it was really put out there to help districts pay any AB218 claims, but they're not going to write that into the language of that. But there's still talks at the state level of how they're going
099to fund that. Right now, as it has been presented, it's based on your ADA number. And for us that would bring in $5.8 million that we would add to our budget. Um, but it could change to up account, right? So if they do that, that will bring more dollars in because you saw from our slides, we're at a high 87%. So I'm hoping that happens. So it could increase revenues in and give us discretionary money to spend where we need to spend to tackle some expenses as as well. So those are the main area that it could fluctuate there. Um, they also had us not put in there the change to TK funding. In the beginning of the year, it was around $6,000. They increased it, but then in May revised, they cut it back
100to around 5,000 per um so we're still not knowing what's going on. From what we were told at our meeting last week, there conflict at the state level when they're negotiating. They canled hearings about the TK as well. So, we're not knowing. But we'll know in a few weeks once it gets to governor then once it gets signed. So that we haven't put in there that could go back to the 6,000 level. Who knows? Or if it goes lower than that then that will adjust just down in that. So those two things are two key things we didn't put in there and all the districts around were instructed not to as as well just to be safe because you don't want to put something in that comes out lower than expected. you'd rather have to
101add to it and that because those were identified as risky things that could change in the negotiation process which is going on this month at the legisl office of Sacramento. Any other questions, comments? No. All right. Thank you. We appreciate the presentation. This brings us to our action items for this evening. We have uh several action items. Items 6.1 through 6.83. So, at this time, I'll ask if there are any items that folks uh board members wish to defer for um separate consideration. I'm going to go ahead and pull item 6.2. This is our uh district governance handbook. just for a comment and consideration, separate consideration. Um, if there are no others, then what we'll do is I will call then for a motion to approve the action session items 6.1 through 6 uh 83
102with the exception of 6.2. Is there a motion? Motion by board member Thorinoa. Is there a second? Second by board member Sandaval. Quick question, please. Mr. on um the think together contract. Um I'm noticing that every year it continues to go up. I um I believe the first time we approve something was at $1 million. Now we're looking at close to $3 million. Um, what has changed? What are we getting for our money? How is it monitored? Are as far as I I read it, you know, that they're they're indicating that they're going to provide X number of employees. They're going to do uh I believe well one to 10. Um what else is it that all sudden we're starting to every year go up and up? I know that things are starting to cost
103more. There's no doubt about that. But we're looking at $3 million. Um and and and yeah, I was going to say for the record, this is 6.17, which is the high dosage tutoring. U Yes. So So you know the amount and and and you know, how are we monitoring what's occurring in at every site? And as far as the district personnel, who's responsible to make sure that they're complying with their end of or the deal? Director Murphy is in charge of this program along with uh Ron Perez is a manager for this program. And so the high dosage tutoring is a new program this year. And so we actually offer it to our teachers first at the school sites and then um we have classified staff as well that are participating, but it wasn't enough
104to fill the need. And so uh we're working with think together to provide the extra ones that we can't provide from within. And so they are they go through training with our with our team in order to to become tutors and then we have pre-post tests things like that that that oversee that and then the school sites oversee it as well as director Murphy and um Ron Perez. Is it similar to CAPS? CAPS is uh CAPS is the program that uh Sanrio City Unified School District uses. You're not familiar with it. Okay. That's fair enough. Well, uh what Mr. Bar is referring to is uh th the this item here is the tutoring piece for high dosage. Correct. Yeah. This is so the ASUS program which is funding uh the afterchool programs of think together
105is a different item than this. There's different so there's different things. So we have one of the things that occurred a couple of years ago is the for the ELOP program expanded learning you had to provide 30 extra days of support and so think together provides during during breaks and during um the June month and and um 30 extra days throughout the year where kids are not in school and so that's the increase in those um the ACES is only for do you know how many schools under ACES six to nine schools for ACES. We have increased that to do it across the district. So that's also where we have a huge increase in funding to when it used to be a million dollars to do the whole program. Um that was only for about
106six schools. And so we've increased it over the last 10 years or five years to to meet every school. So you'll notice a lot of um when we do those contracts, there's two or three that come at the same time because they're for each of the different schools that were adding and then the high dosage tutoring was implemented last year. So, uh just for clarification, the high dosage tutoring is separate from their normal program. So, are we actually just for my knowledge, are we actually paying them for the high dosage and the regular program? So, it's a different set of employees. They actually come into the classrooms and work with um like like a like a teacher would after school or that. So, it's a So, we're looking at credentialed teachers. They're not credentialed. We
107have um we have uh classified staff that are doing it as well. And so, they're trained though by our credentialed teachers and they're trained by our CPS's and our school improvement office. And we're actually seeing some positive results of So the curriculum is developed by Cohen Joint Unified School District. Yes. Okay. because I've seen their curriculum and uh you know anyway I won't make a comment on what I think about their curriculum but uh uh if if it's a curriculum that we're developed and we're training you know it's just that you know with us taking a look at increased you know cost and funding and lack of funding you know we start seeing one particular program every year going up $500,000 $500,000 you know next year you know they're going to come with a 400
108$4 million uh ticket so I think that's something we just as a district need to just be aware of yeah before you know so just just it just uh caught my eye thank you thank you Mr. tomorrow. Any other other questions? Yes. Board member Thorino, I had some similar questions about thing together. It seems like they're doing a lot for us or I hope a lot for us for a lot of money. Is it possible that we could have kind of a report on how many schools each program each each different program they're providing and how many schools and what that involves. So it gives us a clearer picture of what we're really paying for. I would like that. Could we have a consensus to do that? Absolutely. I think is there consensus for that?
109And I think what's helpful, if I may, is the the sources of funds are also different and unique. And so that's helpful to know too. So the ACES, for example, is different than what we're using for some of these other um and so it may be the same organization, but they're doing different things with different colors of money, if you will. Okay, that would be helpful. Yeah, absolutely. It's a good it's a good question because you're right, it has grown quite a bit over the years and they are doing multiple things and I know in the past um Randy Barth who's their CEO has been here to talk with us present but it's it's good to keep track on that uh track of that. Okay, absolutely. Great. All right. Any other questions or comments? If
110not, I will call for um I'll call for the vote for items 6.1 through item 6.83 83 with the exception of item 6.2 the governance handbook. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Any abstensions? Hearing none. So order unanimously. Item 6.2 is our board governance handbook. I'll go ahead and make the motion to actually Well, I'll make a mo. Well, this is going to be interesting because we've run into this before. We've been make the motion bar. Is there a second? President should a second. Okay. I'm gonna uh we're familiar with the handbook and again I want to appreciate uh and thank all the board members for participating in this process. During the conversation uh and the handbook itself Dr. Miranda is is great and thank you Miss Medina for working on the amendments.
111There was a topic that came up in our conversation um around uh board members when they're participating in activities and events uh directly with students. what I'm referring to is chaperoning or going on field trips and doing things I would say above and beyond the normal board member activities where of course we we have supervised visits uh on so Dr. Miranda, for example, or assistant superintendents or directors may tour us uh facilities, campus sites, etc. going to graduations. Those are all things that we do as board members. But a question came up because we have a number of us who like to do other activities and events and we're around the kids. And uh I made the comment that, you know, it's interesting. We're the only folks that don't go through the screening process that
112are on campus with our kids. Um every volunteer has to be screened. Of course, every employee does. We do not or at least we have not historically. Uh, and so the question that I'd like to pose is whether or not we want to generate some kind of, and I'll be clear, this is self-imposed, number one, and number two, it's voluntary because we cannot legally require elected, duly elected board members to take uh the Livcan background check um as a function of being a board member. It's simply not something we can do. But this is a self-imposed voluntary recommendation that if board members are going to chaperone events, go on field trips, and be involved with students at that level that we highly recommend that board members go through that same live scan screening process. Um,
113it's something again we can uh choose to impose on ourselves, put it in the handbook, have the language drafted, Dr. Miranda, with with our appropriate staff, but I wanted to put that out there to see if there's feedback, thoughts, do we think that's a good idea? Do we want them to generate some language to include in the handbook? Yes, please. Board member Thora. I think since we make so many decisions, all of the decisions of what our students are going to be doing, what we do in our school schools for our staff, that is just good leadership to let them know that we are we can be trustworthy. And again, if you don't have to do it, I understand that. But I just think that it's it's showing um that we do care and that
114it matters. And by doing that, I think it's really an important message we're sending to the community because there have been instances where neglected people shouldn't be doing the things that they're doing. And we wouldn't find that out if not everybody did it. However, it's a safeguard and I think it's a good idea. I support that and and I would agree. Speaking as a parent, my expectation is any any adult that's on a campus, any adult that's um involved, whether it's the school dance or or you know that's engaged with the kids, um there's oversight. There's they've been vetted. They've gone through the application, the background check process. They've been approved as a volunteer. No, no parent, no other parent, no other volunteer can do those things h without going through the background. So you're
115right, it's a safeguard, it's accountability. It shows that we're not asking anybody to do anything that we ourselves aren't willing to do. The only only thing that I have uh any concerns relative to that is the fact that there's only five of us here. You know, we are missing two board members for their input. You know, even if we do a consensus, it would be minus these extra two board members. So, that's something we might want to consider maybe bringing that that question back when we're all here as a whole body. And I think I think we can do that. And I think maybe the most efficient way to do it, Dr. Miranda, is um because this would have to come back for adoption. We'd have to draft some language, find where it fits in
116the handbook. Um if if there's a consensus for them uh for staff to do that work, then maybe we bring back, you know, sort of two versions, if you will. the current version that's been recommended for adoption and then we have the language that should we choose to include it we can we can have that conversation with the full board. Um if everybody would like to we can if not we can certainly keep it as is but that way we've got some the work being done and the language being put together and ready ready to go. Does that make sense? Y is that is that a is that a good alternative? That way everybody has input and we can make amendments even at that time. Okay. All right. Um, so at this time, uh, what
117we won't we won't approve the, uh, handbook as is, but, there's consensus from the board to request that staff generate language around that screening process, if you will, the the background check, the live scan background check for board members as a voluntary and, you know, strongly recommended, but obviously voluntary, um, if they are to participate in events and activities involving students, comparable to what our volunteers do. Okay. Okay. Excellent. All right. Sounds good. appreciate that. All right, this takes us to our uh CFD hearing. So, we have a number of CFD hearings that we'll need to run through, folks. So, if you'll bear with me, um some language that we'll need to ensure that we get on the record. So, we're going to go ahead and start um by closing the regular meeting of the
118Colton Joint Unified School District Board of Education and opening the meeting of the governing board for uh CFD number two. So, we're now at item 7.1. And I will close the meeting uh regular meeting if you will and open the governing board meeting for CFD number two. Item 7.1 adoption of resolution number 25 uh 1110. CFD2 establishing the annual special tax levy for fiscal year 202526 for uh CFD district number two. Sorry, I want to make sure I have all this correct for Miss Fedina. Okay. Um at this time, I'm going to go ahead and ask if there is a motion to approve item 7.1, which is for CFD number two. Uh is there a motion to approve the item? Okay. Is there a second? I'll second. I have a motion by board member Thorino,
119second by board member uh Ibara. And again, um this is item uh 7.1 and it is establishing the uh special levy for CFD number two. Any comments or questions? Hearing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Hearing none, it is approved. So I will go ahead and close the governance board meeting for CFD number two and open the governance board meeting for CFD number three. And this is item 8.1, the adoption of resolution number 25-11, CFD3, establishing the uh the annual special tax levy for fiscal year 2526 for the community facilities district number three. And I will ask if there is a motion to approve special tax levy. Motion. A motion by board member Flores. Is there a second? Second. Second by board member Sandaval.
120Okay. Second by board member Sandaval. Any comments or questions? Hearing none. I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Hearing none. It is so ordered. So I will close the governing meeting for CFD number three and open the governance uh board meeting for CFD number 20 2024-1. And this is item 9.1, the adoption of resolution number 25-112 establishing the annual special tax levy for fiscal year 2526 for community facilities district number 2024-1. Is there a motion to approve the special tax levy for CFD 2024-1? Okay. Motion by board member Thor Noa. Is there a second? A second by board member Ibara. Any comments or questions? Hearing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Hearing none. It is
121so ordered. And I will go ahead and close CFD the hearing for CFD 2024-1 and open the hearing for CFD number 2024-2. And this is item 10.1. This is the adoption of resolution 25-113 establishing the annual special tax levy for fiscal year 2526 for community facilities district number 2024-2. At this time, I'll ask if there is a motion to approve the special tax levy for CFD 2024-2. Motion by board member Ibara. Is there a second? A second by board member Flores. Uh, any questions or comments? Okay. Hearing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Hearing none. It is so ordered. All right. And that will officially close CFD number 20 24-2 and I'll reopen the regular meeting of the C5 School District Board of Education.
122Thank you for that. That takes us to administrative reports uh at this time. Any questions on our approved dispersements or uh item 11.2 the change uh approved change order for Joe Baka Middle School lighting project which I understand the lights are in Dr. Miranda. I don't know if they're working. We have to wait till about 9:00 at night to see if they work. All right. Um, if there are none, I'll uh There is no facilities update. Correct. Okay. So, I don't know if we have folks here from ACE. I'll ask though. Is there a representative from ACE? Going once, going twice. All right. CSEA, anyone that wishes to present? Okay. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate that. Mac. All right. Good evening, Board President Flores, uh, board members, Superintendent Dr. Miranda, and members of the audience.
123Mac has not presented before you for a few months now, but um we wanted to give you an update as we close out the school year. Oops. Okay. Thank you. All right. We wanted to just as everybody heads off into their summer vacation, we wanted to um help our members keep this in mind um as they plan for the 24, sorry, 25 26 school year and um start making plans for their SIPA um budget use and things of that nature. We want to remind them and encourage them to continue to um to attend professional development trainings for themselves um if possible. And so there's a great opportunity through our AXA Lead Loudly conference that's coming up in November um on the 6th through the 8th in San Francisco. There's going to be a lot of
124great opportunities for them to learn and grow from other educators and leaders across the country. And so we encourage them to um register for this if they're interested. In addition, we would like to um make sure that we notify them about the opportunity to um to submit a proposal. Uh we have a lot of great things that are happening in CJUSD as you heard from our um Alcat presentation this evening. There's a lot of great things that um our leaders are doing on their campuses and a lot of in um innovative things. So, we want to um encourage them to try to share their sto their stories, sorry, and build bridges um for our future. So, thank you very much. Please make sure you submit your proposals if you're interested by June 30th. And most
125recently, our AXA region 12 uh celebrated educational excellence of its leaders as well as some of the students. Um, MAC recognizes that we would like to set a goal of recognizing and nominating our CJUSD management members for the 2526 school year. So, we're making a commitment um to ensure that we are going to submit some nominations for next school year. And now I would like to introduce Tiffany Davis. She'll be sharing uh portions of the next few slides. Good evening, Board President Flores, board members, Superintendent Dr. Miranda, um, and members of the audience. Um, so I was able to go to the AXA conference in Palm Springs and I actually won a, uh, free enrollment to the leadership summit, so I will be going. Um, you guys don't have to pay for it. Yay. Um,
126but one of the things that they did talk about too was the AXAmies. And for any of our individuals that are members of AXA, they get to enjoy half off pricing for this. Now, we are part of region 12 and one of our specialties here in region 12 is equity. Uh so they do want to make sure that anybody within that us please look uh at our equity uh seminars but also look at the other things that we have as well. Themies are specifically designed for our different leaders in management for those that are within a position or those that are looking to move up. Uh these are approximately 70 to 100 hours. So they do limit us to only one cohort each year. If you are interested in signing up, please make sure that
127you scan that QR code. It'll take you directly to the catalog. Um, Axel will also help with putting some of the money um towards your fee. Uh, just make sure you fill out their grant or their scholarship funds. Next, please. We had the opportunity at the AXA conference to hear from our own Ted Alejandre and also Dr. Gomez who is the superintendent of Riverside. Um, and they both talked about leading with passion. Um, but Mr. floor is they did also speak to the economic well-being of our students and looking at the poverty line and how we can increase their overall well-being within our school year. One of the other things that they did push on greatly was the graduation rates. We're looking at how AVID is a huge impact towards our students and we want
128to see how we can bring that to the middle schools and even all the way down to the elementary schools. Next slide. One of the things that we are a few things that we are looking at are the prop 98 funding which is our how we get our LCFF. We know that the funding does appear to be stable. Um but we are looking and watching that as we kind of move forward in the next few years. One of the things that they are also looking into is ABA 959 which was brought to uh the floor by Hadwick to see if we could offer admin internial pathways for our members. Another thing is looking at the White House's common sense school disciplinary policies. Um we know that this will have a direct impact on behaviors and
129our our academics. Um such things as attendance suspension rates, right? And looking at our uh subgroups that we are in differential service with. So we're looking to see how that's going to impact and how um us as a community and us as an organization can ensure that we minimize anything that happens to those students. And lastly, one of the ones that I think a lot of us are are looking into is ABA uh 1224 brought to the floor by Valencia, which is increasing the substitute service from 30-day to 60-day. And I know that many of us right it would definitely be good and we're hoping that that makes it um all the way through. Next, here are some of the seminars that we did get to attend um which totally align with everything that we're
130talking about with LCAP. Um we're looking at Ax's influence. The other thing that AXA really wants us to focus in on is membership and utilizing our voice. We know that we are the largest umbrella organization for management in the entire country. So, we need to make sure that we are are loud and we are are serving our students properly. The next piece which was um by our former Lynette White um and Dr. Bryant was looking at branding. So it's about taking the pieces within our community, seeing what they do well, seeing what they want, and then making sure the community serves that piece. So looking at how we can brand ourselves as leaders, but also the schools. Uh we know that AI is a big piece. So we're also thinking about how do we demystify
131AI and education, uh put it to good use. So um different leaders and different administrators had the opportunity to share what they are seeing. One of the things that I thought was fabulous and I already took it to my fifth grade team was they had um they asked AI to pretend to be a historical figure and then they had conversations with that said historical figure um to allow them insight and perspective. So where we see as AI as something that might be uh scary, right? How can we harness it to help broaden our children's mindsets? It's something really beautiful and it was cool to listen to all of those uh different viewpoints. The next thing we're looking at was student strengths and reduction in student suspensions. Um so we definitely ensured how are we looking
132at our subgroups that are the most impacted by these things, our students with disabilities, our African-American students, and our EL students. How are we going to fix those? How are we going to address them? We talked specifically about looking at um student strengths and how we can implement their student strengths and build that within our disciplinary practices to help mitigate some of those suspension rates. And then the last one we're already here is talking about our emotional intelligence. All of us here in uh the management went through all of that training with our emotional intelligence. So um we're kind of already ahead of the game. So those are some great seminars that we were able to be a part of. Next. All right. We'd like to uh close out our presentation tonight with um thanking
133um all of our dedicated staff members, our classified staff members, our teachers, and our management site leaders for your unwavering commitment to our students during the 2425 school year. your efforts in organizing and supporting a wide range of events from welcome back activities, science fairs, award nights, parent engagement activities, dressup days, read AC across America activities, staff appreciation days, field trips, schedule pickups and checkouts, career days, senior celebrations, and activities that um there's an exhaustive list that I can go on and on with. Uh, you truly make the difference for CJUSD students and community members. Each event that you plan and every moment that you dedicate helps create meaningful experiences, fosters school spirit, and builds a stronger, more connected community for our families. To our management team members, your leadership and passion does not go
134unnoticed. And we are deeply grateful for all that you do. We want to wish everyone a wonderful and restful summer break. Thank you very much. presentation. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome presentation. All right. That takes us to RO update. Do we have an RO update, Mr. Bar? Okay. Great. We'll have one at our next meeting. All right. Superintendent's communicate. Dr. Miranda. All right. Thank you, President Flores. So, just a couple slides here. Actually, three. Uh, first I wanted to highlight and start with our 2425 leadership seminar. Uh this is led by our human resource department and they proudly have facilitated a what we call a dynamic leadership seminar. It's designed for aspiring leaders throughout the district. Uh participants and I've seen that happen are engaged in a powerful curriculum centered on key leadership stand strands such as
135valuesdriven leadership personal mastery and team building. The seminar emphasizes both theory and application with particip participants exploring professional readings participating in collaborative discussions and developing their own leadership capacity. So this begins in starts in January and then is held or started in January and is held throughout the whole school year and then it culminates in this very powerful reflective journey to Gettysburg uh p and and also Washington DC where participants uh will walk uh the Civil War uh battlegrounds and engage in just uh experential leadership learning and bringing history to life. It's an incredible uh experience for our folks and people that participate. Uh and it's actually transformative too because I've attended that. It's pretty awesome. We we commend our staff who have committed and you've heard some people already highlight that this evening uh
136committed themselves to this professional growth journey and again thank you to HR and and Dr. A for his team putting together uh summer enrollment center. Uh excited about this. uh we want to support our families uh in uh we want to increase obviously our student enrollment uh and so student services department is hosting a summer enrollment center and it's in fact it's here uh former operation department down here in this building got to check it out uh yesterday or a couple of days ago during our cabinet retreat so the uh summer enrollment center is open from uh was open June 2nd uh it'll be open till June 27th uh from 8 to 3:30 p.m. it's here sweet suite 155. Uh so again the center provides inperson uh in-person assistance to parents, guardians with pre-enrollment support
137for new students. We want to ensure that uh they feel welcome and uh they get a great experience there. Uh so any questions or need any need additional information, please contact our student services team directly. I can give you Dr. Ortiz's cell phone number. Uh, okay. No, I won't do that. But we we can help you with that. Go online, too. It's up there on our website. But I was very excited to see the enrollment center here. Uh, that's pretty cool there. Okay, last one. Uh, our summer meals program is back. Uh, this started uh June 3rd. Uh, and it's going to go on to through June 30th. So, our nutrition services team once again will provide free summer meals to all students across all our sites as well as uh public meal service at
13811 community locations including the Gonzalez Community Center. And so, uh we're excited about that. At the school sites, the hours for breakfast are 8:05 to 8:30 a.m. and then lunch will be served from 10 to 10:30 a.m. At the Gonzalez Community Center, bre breakfast will be served from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m. Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Flyers have been distributed. Uh social media, it's been sent out uh to our community. Uh they're all over the school offices and they've been shared. Uh again, all our social media plat platforms. Again, just a special thank you to uh Director Robertson and her outstanding outstanding nutrition services team that puts this together to ensure that our students and families continue to receive nutrition meals during the summer months. We've talked about poverty, the impact. Uh this is
139one way the district is serving our community. The and we're more than proud to do it. Uh and so thank you again nutrition services. So with that uh that is my communicate this uh evening. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Miranda. Just if I may since you were on this slide just a point of clarification so we understand that we can share um obviously these are the sites so parents know that it doesn't have to be your school your kids school site. It could be any of the sites. Correct. Yeah absolutely 100% correct uh board president any site. So, it's available to anybody um that wants to go. The kids, of course. Just a note, parents, not the parents. The kids get to eat and that's okay. Um but no, I want to make that clear
140because some folks were under the impression I'd heard that that they had to go to their school site and that's not necessarily the case because not all our school sites obviously have them. So, yeah, absolutely. They can go to any of the any of the sites and get uh the meals there. Yeah. Great question. Yeah. Yeah. Not for adults, parents. the first. Bring your toiso burrito if you're mom or dad, but kids can eat. All right. Very cool. Thank you. All right. Board member comments. Uh we'll start with board member Bertha Flores. No comment. Just wishing everyone a happy summer vacation. board member Ibara. Well, I just just want to say uh thank you to all the the school sites. Uh it was a wonderful graduations everywhere and for all those who worked really really
141hard to make a very memorable day for all our students and our families and our communities. Just want to say thank you to everybody there. Um, I know this is a little bit belated, but uh to all the mothers, I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day. And to the fathers, hopefully uh next week, Father's Day, hopefully you all have a wonderful Father's Day and enjoy your families and uh get treated, you know, whatever that that means to you. So, with that being said, uh just want to wish everybody a wonderful summer. Uh try to stay cool and uh don't overdo the barbecues. So, with that, thank you. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, board member Bar. Again, I'll just echo what board member Bar said about the promotions and graduations. Thank everyone that was involved
142in planning, setting up, cleaning up, organizing. Uh I I shared to a lot of folks, we don't realize what goes on behind the scenes to make those events as special as they are. And this year they just felt incredibly well organized, well-run. Families were so proud to be there. Uh it's amazing. It's a it's a fun fun event. So thank you for everything you do to make our kids and families feel special. And again, enjoy enjoy the summer. It it'll be over before you know it. All right. So that concludes our uh open session for today. So we'll go ahead and adjourn open session and jump into close session. out the back. Excellent. Okay, we'll reconvene our open session here with the board and we'll begin with item 15.1. There were two student discipline items
143presented in close session. Is there a motion to uphold the expulsion orders as presented? Okay, I have a motion by board member Ibara. Is there a sec? Second by board member Thorino. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? All right. Hearing none. Um the motion is carried. Uh and the board uh will uphold the expulsion orders of two student the two student discipline items presented for students number 1085614 and 10463155. Item 15.2. This is our personnel public employee appointment discipline dismissal release item. On a motion by board member Bertha Flores and seconded by board member Thorino Noa and carried on a 50 vote with board members Fuentes and Haro absent. Uh the board approved uh the personnel public appointments as presented on the agenda. Item 15.3 on a motion by
144board member Frankbara and seconded by board member Thorinoa and carried on a 50 vote. Uh the board approved Laquenta Martin assistant principal high school to be determined and item 15.4 on a motion by board member Bertha Flores and seconded by board member Ibara and carried on a 50 vote approval. Uh the board approved Selene Workman, principal elementary to be determined. And that is all that we have for this evening.